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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warmy18:
Thanks to kluzik1 guidance I have fixed my Desire which had the exclamation marks in all 4 corners and would not boot, it was a brick!!

Steps to fix.

Download tool to make your sd card a gold card. Link on this page http://android.modaco.com/content/software/308798/pc-application-goldcardtool/

Download the latest WWE RRU you can find currently this is 2.29.405.5 from here http://www.filefactory.com/file/b4a4...811_signed.exe

Ensure you have the SDK tools installed download here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

installation guide here http://www.talkandroid.com/android-sdk-install-guide/

HTC sync drivers available here http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-and-Shell/Windows/HTC-Sync-81096.shtml

When you have both the files and SDK tools, htc sync drivers installed lets get started.

1, Connect your phone to pc with usb cable.

the screen will be black with htc in the middle and an exclamation mark in each corner

2, open a cmd prompt to your android sdk tools prompt.

Example

cd c:\program files

cd android

cd android-sdk-windows

cd tools

then type this command

fastboot oem boot

This will boot the phone into the currently installed rom.

you can now create your gold card.

Follow this guide

Format the microSD card to FAT32 format.

Put the microSD card in your device and boot it.

Launch GoldCard Tool (Right Click and run as Admin if needed)

Connect Android device to USB (USB Debugging must be enabled on the device)

Click 'Get CID' (If MMC1 fails try MMC0)

Click the link to open revskills.de, enter the CID number from Goldcard Tool and create your goldcard image, which will be e-mailed to you.

Enable USB Mass Storage on the device.

Click 'Refresh' and select your microSD card in the drop down menu.

Click 'Load GoldCard.img' and open the .img file you got by email.

Click 'Patch MMC'

You now have a goldcard!

Now all you have to do is run the downloaded WWE RUU you downloaded earlier and it will fix your device even after a root gone bad!!!

Hope this helps some others
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kluzik1:
perfect :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] excelpass:
ok,i use the same step but is error 152 image update error,,how to solve?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniGT:
Hi me and doomlord on here have just been testing a new xrecovery and we need the firmware for a UK VODAFONE BRANDED FIRMWARE, we have both tried searching the forum but to no avail. this will HELP all those with broken USB connectors flash back to stock so they can send there phones off to repair. through there service provider. if anyone has anything please let me or doomlord know via pm and well sort something out (beer money perhaps)

Any help greatly appreciated.

miniGT and DoomLord
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cka3:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=872298&highlight=Companion
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pato66:
You can download from omnius
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniGT:
This is what were testing a new way to flash with out usb.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DooMLoRD:
got it... d/ling now... will make a backup and keep
[Atrix 4G General] tonton_fred:
Hi everybody

Just a question i removed this stickers from my atrix and now i can see perhaps aluminum do you think it's a matter???
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
Why would you do that? :confused:

It's not like anybody is going to look inside the battery cover anyway.
[Atrix 4G General] tonton_fred:
the sticker make me crazy :mad:

i already did it i hope it s not a problem i don't think so but i want to know if another user did it as well...

Because i never expected something like that under.

Like i said a stupid question, but i m wondering about my phone.

No motorola warranty in switzerland... :(
[Atrix 4G General] FLAC Vest:
Aluminum? In terms of a sticker or built into the plastic? If it is the former it might just be a security thing if the stores implement it to keep people from walking out on a busy day or something.

Don't think about it though, it won't affect anything.
[Atrix 4G General] Gabbosgreats:
I took my sticker off and like you I wasn't sure if I should. I was wondering if it make it a little cooler (for some reason). I don't think it hurts anything but now that I think of it, maybe the extra tiny amount of space gone is contributing to my creeky back cover.
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
Maybe try putting some electrical tape on it? It will look fugly but like I said, who is going to see it under the battery cover?
[Atrix 4G General] brian2220:
i took some pictures of what i just did

just pick and peel at it and it will come off

hope this helps someone :D
[Atrix 4G General] squarejp:
Haha, it looks like a heat sink to me. I bet you did the wrong move because the battery does get hot and the sticker should be able to dissipate the heat. It's nothing to do with antenna reception I think because there is no metal connector directly connecting to the battery cover.
[Atrix 4G General] eallan:
There is a contact id get its part of the antenna array.
[Atrix 4G General] tonton_fred:
I don't know if it s really efficient for the cooling...

But i think it's perhaps something like that.

To be more specific i don't want this aluminum or whatever it is stick on my battery the only way to find out is trying :D

Thanks for the reply
[Atrix 4G General] Evil.Bonsai:
Probably an interference shield.
[Atrix 4G General] tonton_fred:
ah why not i don't think about this posibility
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mantu13:
My phone died today and decided that it would like to perform a boot loop upon being turned on again. I'm just wondering if there's a way to save all my phone numbers and pictures off of it before using Odin to wipe.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
The odin one click will just reformat the /data, /cache , and /system partitions leaving your sdcard alone.master clear I'd what wipes the sdcard. But if you have clockwork recovery you can go to mounts and storage and mount usb storage and copy it all to your computer before you odin

you might be able to mount usb storage with stock recovery as well, idk I never run stock so am unfamiliar with its options. Check though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frank the Funkasaurus Rex:
+1 to what studacris said. Using odin won't delete files. As far as phone numbers go, I would just sync them with google contacts.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo009:
If u have data backed up in recovery, I would recommend formatting boot and system partitions, and restoring only those partitions under advanced restore options. Worth a try before u went ahead with a cleanup process. This could help u get ur phone up so u can backup ur contacts.

Like people said above, pics would be on SD card and would be safe.
[Nook Color General] ieAnd:
TL;DR == I'm trying to dual-boot Honeycomb v4 2nd edition overclocked off my SD card. Someone throw this noob a link.

Hey there. Been poking around for what seems like forever now, and maybe I've found the right thread but I'm just too confused to see it.

The goal is to put some derivative of CM7 on my eMMC, Honeycomb v4 2nd Ed. on my SD card and then dual-boot between the two (don't care which method). That could also be reversed, don't really care too much. I've nailed down how to tame my eMMC, but I'm new to the whole running things off of my SD thing. I've found this, but this seems to be telling me how to flash CM7/HC to the card, then dual-boot between eMMC and CWM... that's not what I need.

Someone just point me in the right direction and I can figure it out from there.
[EVO 4G General] massivebasset:
I find myself in a decent 4g area, with nothing to do, so I decided to see if there was any reason to run PDA.net (which I paid for a while ago) now that I am on CM7.

My phone was connected to 4G, and the same USB spot on my laptop. I even rested on my table at the exact same spot for each test. I used Speedtest.net to hit the nearest server. I ran 6 tests first wirelessly tethered, then through PDAnet tether, then wired CM7 tether. Then I ran two tests each back through the list, to make sure time was not a factor on the speeds, then one test each again.

Here are my results, tossing out the highest and lowest test for each one. Upload appeared to be capped, as on many tests it would be climbing high and then hover right around 1mbit.

CM7 Wireless: Ping = 95.67; DL = 3.77 mbit; UL = 1.05 mbit

PDAnet: Ping = 98; DL = 4.40 mbit; UL = 1.07 mbit

CM7 Wired: Ping = 96.14; DL = 6.19 mbit; UL = 1.00 mbit

Conclusion: For some reason, wired CM7 crushed the other two on download. Even when going back and forth between tethering methods, CM7 Wired produced better results. In fact, after all the tests, even the lowest outlier for CM7 Wired (5.17mbit) was higher than every other test for the other two methods. Upload as I said appeared to be capped, and have negligible difference. Ping as well seemed to be within error for all three methods, though the lowest I recorded (83) was on CM7 wired.

Thats it, thought I might share, and hope that someone else has done their own experiments. If so, what did you find?
[EVO 4G General] rstuckmaier:
Nice work. Makes me wish even more than I was in a 4g area so I could tether and get rid of Comcast... but then I wouldn't be able to use my phone and computer online separately.
[EVO 4G General] massivebasset:
You can use both when you tether. It just is using the same stream of bits, so you cant do intensive stuffs on both.
[EVO 4G General] Jazzek:
I tether 4g for my internet connection. I also share the tether to my 360 so I can play xbox live. I can take a phone call, play words with friends, and load a web page on my pc, all while in a game of halo or CoD.

This phone is just awesome.

-Just warming up!
[Droid X General] DroidXmod4lyfe:
I have bootloader 30.04 after using liberty 1.5 I wanted to try out Rubix Focused. Everything was going well till my I tried to flash the watermarkd theme. Went through all the steps rebooted using Koush bootstrapper rocovery and when it restarted stuck at splash screen. After searching around I found out I could get into bootloader menu and reflash. My phone said low batteery cannot program. After cutting a USB in half and jump starting my battery I was able to get it into bootloader and it said battery ok, okay to program. Connect data cable. Make a long story short RSD lite will not recognize my phone I was using 4.9 and was later recommended to use 4.8 as a lot of people had trouble with 4.9 Any advice on this and how I can bring my phone back to life? I can get into boostrap recovery on the Android Recovery system which we all know is kinda useless for the purpose. Am I going to have to SBF Flash my phone? What if it wont recognize the phone after using 4.8 What are my options?! I need to get my phone up and running asap and i've been working on this for like 3 days now. Can anyone give me detailed instructions that could help me restore my phone? I did make a nandroid backup too, I just cant get to the bootstrap recovery for some reason. Only bootloader or Android Recovery. Please Help!!
[Droid X General] joebob296:
Make sure you have the latest drivers installed. What OS are you using? If using Windows 7 you have to run as administrator(by holding shift + right click then click run as administrator . Also I had to rename my sbf file to C:/abc.sbf my computer would only recognize the sbf on the root of my C drive.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshentrails:
Going through all the steps for the easy root and eveything is working fine until the last step. it stopped after..

This process may take some time

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

starting final root process

1591 KB/s (585731 bytes in 0.359s)

1545 KB/s (1062992 bytes in 0.671s)

820 KB/s (26264 bytes in 0.031s)

property service neutered

killing adbd. (should restart in a second or two)

*server not running*

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

adb is out of date. killing ...

Been sitting there for about 20 mins without moving.. any suggestions?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fireminion:
Kill ADB in taskmanager and restart it
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshentrails:
Thanks dude.. did that and got root but with s-on.. should I just redo it again?
[Desire General] Cristian.CT46:
hi everybody! I try various Rom for this phone but I realise I cannot live without sense and the the most stable and fastest Rom with sense I've ever try is the stock Rom only... but it has only one problem... the Apps space... can I install a script like a2sd+ or data2ext directly on the stock Rom rooted?
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
Leedroid or the pre rooted stock rom are not stable for you?
[Desire General] Cristian.CT46:
I'd like to stay with the stock Rom applying only the mod I want... I want to do this way also to learning how apply script or mod. is it possible?
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
Yes, search for init.d or the htc kitchen.
[Desire General] bobsie41:
If you have the android sdk installed on your computer and you are familiar with adb,

pm ModInstallLocation 2

will set the sd card as the default install location.
[Desire General] dgattenb:
I stick to sence to matter what the ROM i'm using.. I'm on Leedriod now .. very stable, wonderful... and I have not " cut up" the SD card .. only got a 8GB card ... ( class 6 ) mainly down to cost ... but I have loads of room free.. with this fix as well .. be careful.. widgets etc .. that you use at start up .. must be on the phone
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Perotin:
Running FRX05 or FRX06 leads to a wrong time.

WinMobile uses GMT+1 with no sign of summer or winter time.

XDAndroid uses GMT+2, but is 2 hours ahead.

I am using manual time settings.

When I reboot to WinMobile, time is correct.

When I correct the time in XDAndroid, WinMobile has the wrong value.

What can I do?

Thank you

Thomas

GB0XA starts and uses the correct time, after rebooting to WinMobile, it is 2 hours behind ...

What can I do to use both and not to have to set the clock at every change?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjonnyrock:
so as the title says i am looking for an sms app, something better then the stock google app that is in CM7.

What is a good one?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiral.v:
Try Handcent SMS, available through the market, very nice app.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] equlizer:
GoSMS

10char
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazaddict:
+1 handcent
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suchevent:
I've used both gosms and handcent. As far as looks go, gosms looks more polished. However, if you are having time stamp issues, go with handcent. Functionally, the two are very similar.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legasus233:
My two favorite roms are Fresh and CM6. I would like to be able to jump between the two whenever the spirit moves me. However, whenever I try to nandroid restore to a Fresh backup from any AOSP rom, i get stuck in a bootloop and have to rewipe and flash everything in order to get back, therefore making my Fresh backup useless. Before flashing any new rom, I always do a full data, cache, and dalvik wipe. I am I missing something here?? Shouldn't I be able to flash a rom (aosp or sense), get it setup with programs the way I want them, screens setup, etc. Then make nandroid backups and jump back and forth restoring them whenever I want?? Please help
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deviouskater:
After nandroid make sure to re wipe cache and dalvik
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirkyd3rk:
You might be having the same issue I was; what recovery are you on? It happened to me when I was amon ra 2.2.1 so I switched to 2.3.1 amon and I stopped getting tons of bootloops. P.S I never have to wipe anything when flashing nandroids and never had an issue. My issue was the recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legasus233:
I am currently running RA-supersonic-v2.3. Yesterday I did another backup of my most current Fresh setup but this time I also backed up the cache and sd-ext options in the recovery menu and I didn't have a problem nandroid restoring back after flashing an AOSP rom. I don't know, I think my phone is possessed!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iitreatedii:
This is unnecessary...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gpz1100:
In most cases I would agree, but if the OP is running any sort of ext a2sd, contents of cache/dalvik cache are not entirely restored, and clearing them after restore, but before reboot is a good idea.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottspa74:
I just ran aosp rom for the first time for a few days. When I nanded back to airborne (sense), I flashed a sense kernel before the nand restore just out of fear of remnants. Dont know if its necessary.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patches152:
i see people here and other places talking about rooting their thunderbolt (and dinc, before i upgraded) to get rid of sense. well why did you buy the phone then? to me, sense is a dealbreaker. i don't like vanilla android and sense doesn't "muck" stuff up as long as the hardware is decent (cougheriscough). so to you who don't like sense, maybe provide some insight to your perspective? is there something that vanilla offers that sense doesn't and i just don't know about it? please, explain.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Odinist:
For me it's just a personal preference. Sense runs fine on the TBolt, sure. But, I prefer the layouts/customizing I can do with LauncherPro, so that's what I use instead.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjlangen:
I don't care for sense myself. Maybe it's because I started out on a Moto Droid, but I prefer the basic Android applications by far. I can live with Sense, but when vanilla ROMs come out, I'll switch. For now, LauncherPro is close enough. The only thing I really can't stand is the text messaging app, but that's why they make 3rd party!

I've had the Incredible and Droid X, and didn't care for Sense or MotoBlur much on those, either. I'm just happy that there are so many options to keep everyone happy!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WilliamStern:
I have no clue, and would like to know this as well? I love the look, and feel of sense myself personally.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwirked:
Short answer because sense sucks, real answer because I started out on the original droid I got use to vanilla android. I don't really like the way sense is laid out just doesn't work as well for me.

I bought the phone because it's great hardware and I was reasonably certain I would be able to dump sense. If I was stuck with the phone bone stock... Ugh.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m00nshake:
I like Sense but I like the customization of ADW EX better. Also I'm beta testing SPB Mobile 3D and running it on top of Sense drains the battery. Other than that, Sense is pretty cool.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosympathy:
yeah for me i use launcher pro, have five icons at the very bottom of the screen at 185 DPI that open 5 different apps, and then if you swipe those icons they open 5 more apps. very clean look.

then WP Clock wallpaper and it is clean and totally awesome.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craighwk:
I guess some people like having an unmolested version of Android, the way Google wants it to be.

I personally love Sense. I love the dialer, the widgets, and some of the social aspects of it. I really don't have any negatives about it at all.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yamaha83:
i dont mind sense, but i like the customization with other launchers that sense doesnt offer. and if its not going to offer it and im going to use something else then there is no reason for it to take up space and recourses. its not that its bad it just that some people are more anal about removing stuff from their phone they are not going to use. same with bloat apps. if im not going to use them i want the option to delete them.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolfedude88:
Well to me sense slows the phone down a little bit more than stock vanilla android. Also having sense instead of stock android slows getting updates, if we had a stock vanilla android phone, we would get gingerbread faster.

Luckily that is one of the reason I root and put other roms on the phone like CM7.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sygnous:
I personally like SenseUI. I had it on a Hero before, and it ran like crap, but the Thunderbolt runs it really nicely. I like the way things integrate with the contact list, etc. I haven't really had a vanilla Android device, but I'm guessing soon I'll be trying one out ;) Oh yeah, and CM7 too :D

laters
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FP5241:
Sense is one of the main reasons I'm an HTC fan.

I had it... (sort of..:rolleyes:) on my old VZW TP2. Ran like a slug. Now that I have an actually functioning version, it is great! I also like how many people hate Sense, but still want the HTC flip clock.. lol.. best of both worlds? :D

*EDIT*

I do have to add... thank God for 3rd party SMS apps.... :D
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmcclure937:
Sense runs fine on TB hardware and the "new" Sense has made improvements over "old" Sense... but I still prefer AOSP.

I like CM7 particularly (among other AOSP-based ROMs) because of speed and I like the vanilla look and feel. I find it to be more appealing... and I use LPP or ADW whether I am on CM7 or stock Sense.

I also hate the crappy DPI of Sense. Everything looks blown up and pixelated on such a big display. I also hate the Sense dialer and contacts app... along with SMS. I much prefer stock (or third-party like GoSMS and GoContacts).
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sygnous:
Need to figure out how to change the DPI. Looks like you can do it with Launcher Pro... any other way to do it?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaddix2:
It looks like fischer price. The friend stream widget you can only see like 1 or 2 peoples status per page. The launcher pro version of this is much better. There's a huge ass phone button in the middle of the dock. Launcher pro is much better with the ability, as someone earlier mentioned, to do 5 icons. You can swipe those 5 and get 10, then you can have up to 3 docks you can rotate between for even more. I use all 15 icons, with the swipe gesture on all of them for a total of 30 apps that I don't need to clutter up my homescreen to get.

The clock is massive and a waste of screen real estate. There's already a clock in the top right of appropriate size, why do I need a gigantic flip clock that does nothing but drain my battery.

The stuff where you can flip it over to silence it or turn on speakerphone is nice though, I like that. But the launcher and the widgets really suck.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamaredwingsfan:
This is my first sense phone, and i must say that i really like sense. Unless it really starts to be a liability to the phone, i will always use it or keep it around.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spursrchamps2007:
I actually dont mind sense at all, and i think it is a huge improvement over motoblur (from what ive seen on my friends phones) but i was running a rooted launcher pro OG droid, so in the end ill probably switch (already rooted).

To people that havent really been on android though I can see the love they have for sense (at least on the T bolt).

I personally have already gotten used to the launcher tray and I am a fan, but the messaging app on the droid was better, and while i like the dial pad itself, the way the contacts and call log are i have to go + to droid as well.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Awisefew:
I love Sense. I mean all the others (Blur, Touchwiz) they all SUCK, but I think sense actually adds to the android experience.