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[Milestone XT720 General] spiderx_mm:
dude,

the phone is made of really strong casing. I'm wondering how did u do it to be beaten up.

I think no one has gone thus far till taking the phone apart. Just my two cents here, beware that the body has 6 screws, 2 totally hidden and 2 partially hidden.

the top two screws are hidden under the rubber bud beside the camera lens and under "8.0 Xenon" label.

the middle row of 2 screws are visible just above the battery.

the bottom row of screws are partially hidden underneath the loud-speaker grills. The grill might be damage in the process of removing these screws. but since you're replacing the whole housing, it won't be a problem for you.
[Milestone XT720 General] Hahutzy:
Can you link me to that source?

Because the housing I got has an HDMI port on the other side of the power button, and the USB port is on the left side of the phone, just like my current housing.

Firstly, thanks for the heads up about the screw locations!

I carry my phone in my keys pocket, and it banged up the chrome bezel a lot... After I swap it I'll put it in another pocket.

The grill actually doesn't come with the replacement housing, so thanks for the warning about potentially damaging it!
[Milestone XT720 General] Hahutzy:
Ok so I finally decided to try putting on that XT701 casing on my XT720.

==== Step 1

I used a T5 screwdriver. And as explained, there's 6 screws:

- 2 of them are openly accessible after you take off the battery cover.

- 2 of them are under the speaker grill - simply run your fingers under it to pry it out

- 2 of them are at the top:

1 under the "8.0 Xenon" label - use a push pin and run it along the edge to pry it open

1 under the top left tiny rubber cover - again, use a push pin, dig into it and pry it out

==== Step 2

Run your fingers along the egde of the blue plastic (where the blue and silver meet) and dig your fingers in to unhook the mechanism. The blue back cover should come right off after you run your fingers around the contour 1-3 times.

==== Step 3

Here's where I'm stuck. I'm trying to separate the electronics from the front silver part. There's some screws that I believe attach the screen to the front cover. But those screws are even smaller and my T5 did not work on them. I just ordered a set of T4 and T3 screwdrivers from China. So I'll get back to this in maybe 3-4 weeks.
[Milestone XT720 General] sohrab.naushad:
Wow, black looks sexy. Post some pictures when youre done.
[Milestone XT720 General] c_urbanek:
You got as far as I did

Dude, you got as far as I did... I got the smaller torx bits & started my attempt to separte the electronics from the face plate... found my fingers were too large to manipulate & figured I'd do more harm than good... I still have the replacement housing... phunny thing, a few months after giving up, my 3g radio stopped working.. Cinci Bell tech couldn't fix (go figure!)... so I ended up buying the phone insurance for 6 bucks a month & got a free replacement.... Housing fixed! Bouyaaah!... If anyone wants the housing I have, you pay shipping & I'll send it to you... it is missing the USB door (i used it on my old XT720). Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. :D
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilaf0106:
Oops typo I meant to say rom so which is the most stable n fully functioning 2.2.1 base rom with sense
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darinmc:
Royal Glacier or Orange Glacier. Can't go wrong with either.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xboxnightfallx:
are both of those fully working? im on CM 7 rc3, right now and everything works out of box no modifying.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeeJay3800:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878320

100% functinoal, 100% stable, fast

Remember that almost any ROM with "Glacier" in the name will not be real Sense, but instead the T-Mobile customized version that the stock ROM has (Iced Glacier, RoyalGlacier, etc).
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilaf0106:
Yeah I want HTC sense not T-Mobile sense
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeeJay3800:
The Desire HD port I linked to is real Sense.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilaf0106:
Koo thank you very much gonna check when I get out of work
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darinmc:
sorry misread the op.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chukis13:
Orange sense hands down
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rkalas:
Hi,

is there a way to make the compass callibration permanent?

When I start any app, the compass points to south instead of to north. The calibration using 8-figure works, but as soon as I exit the app and start it anew, the compass points again in the opposite direction.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rkalas:
Is there a sollution?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XthelordinatorX:
this might sounds weird but do you live on the top half of the world (america europe asia) or the bottom half (afrika south amerika australia)

and i really don't know if this is true but if you're on the botton side of the world then is could probably be working good but is it calibrated for the top half of the world.

maybe this is not true but if you do navigation with like a spoon (sounds stupid but i've seen it) then it works the same way ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warhammer1966:
So i`ve been reading all these threads about people having bootloops while running CM7,and its pretty darn scary to think your EVO can turn into a paper weight out of the blue. So heres my question, i am running Bloodykillers CM7 for Metropcs and im really worried about it doing the bootloop even though i`ve been using it for two weeks with no problem. Is there any othe roms besides Bloodys that work with Metro? Any advice as always is greatly appreciated.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mazda:
I don't know if there's any other rom that works for Metro but here's what I would do because I'm on Boost and this has work for me. I would go to the market, download APNBackup or something like that.....back up your APNs.....boot into recovery, back up your ROM completely and flash a rom that doesn't update your PRL, Radio or anything crazy like that. If it boots up the new rom then just go into the market, download the APNBackup app again and restore your APNs. Once you do that, do a reboot and check your things out like MMS, SMS and talk.

Now keep in mind that I did this with Boost so I don't know if it would be successful with metro so do this at your own risk!

GOOD LUCK dude!

Oh and I'm on CM7 RC2 and I haven't got any random bootloop or anything crazy at all soooo...I don't know what you were talking about dude!
[Windows Phone 7 General] clmbngbkng:
I was just wondering if there were any drawbacks to debranding a phone just to get the update?

I have done some searches and nothing has come up so far for this question.

Thanks!

Oh and as you know that the big plus for debranding is that you can get NoDo.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
Eh, I dont know what version you get when you update officially but it may be different... I really doubt there's any drawbacks though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] clmbngbkng:
That's what I am gathering and it makes sense if Microsoft wants to keep the WP7 together as a whole.

Thank you!
[Windows Phone 7 General] ryude:
The drawback is you don't get updated apps from your carrier + phone manufacturer. But all you have to do is rebrand it and just download the apps from the market, if you really want them.
[Windows Phone 7 General] clmbngbkng:
Now that is what I was expecting. I have my phone unlocked with the Chevron tool and if in the future I can't add back that string then I am hosed?

Will I at least keep the registry editor on the phone through the update process so I can then change it back?

Thanks for the response!
[Windows Phone 7 General] bkaul:
If you do the little hack to prevent re-locking (via Samsung Tools or the registry edit), the unlocked state should persist across the NoDo update as long as you don't do a hard reset. You won't, however, be able to use Chevron to unlock if you hard-reset the phone or otherwise manage to re-lock it after installing NoDo.

As for carrier apps, I can still access the AT&T AppCenter, useless as their stuff may be. That's either based on a different registry entry or on your SIM card, not on this update branding entry. I haven't been able to discern any effects other than whether the update servers will give you the updates or not.

---

Brian

Samsung Focus, AT&T (unbranded, unlocked, NoDo)
[Windows Phone 7 General] ryude:
All of your information will be backed up and carry over to the new update, don't worry about that.
[Windows Phone 7 General] clmbngbkng:
Do you know where that regedit is off the top of your head? I never applied it in the past so I have always had my Chevron unlocked phone relock after a week or two.

I will also look around here but thought I would ask you first.

Thanks for helping out everyone!

EDIT: And yes AT&T doesn't have many apps that I care about but I do like their account login app to check on how many minutes and texts that I have used.

EDIT 2: I found the Samsung Tools that you were talking about. Here is a link to the page for anyone. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=924497
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
MyAT&T runs on any phone, as long as you have a network connection.

I think there is no drawback to unbrand. AT&T provides nothing other than update delay.
[Windows Phone 7 General] clmbngbkng:
Does anyone know of the exact registry value that gets changed to prevent the relocking?

I know that the Samsung Tools will write the value but I can't find out what it changes.

I'm just trying to find it so it can be posted here and we can get it out to others before they update to NoDo.

EDIT: Found the string to keep it from relocking.

From here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=938106
[General Questions and Answers] Rogach:
Hello

I just installed ROM maneger on my HTC hero. And i was able to flash the recovery. And the first time i was able to boot it into recovery also. But the problem is, that every time after the first boot, i only get that warning triangle. But if i flash the image again, i can go to recovery just once.

I hope you get what i mean. Is this normal? Should i only have to flash the recovery onca and i'm good to go to recovery mode for life? Or is it normal that i have to flash it every time i want to enter the recovery mode?

Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] MaBlo:
No it shouldn't be necessary, when you flash CWM through Rom Manager it downloads a file called update.zip(fake flash) to your SD card. As long as you have this file in SD card root you should be able to enter recovery. Have you tried pressing volume up + power at the triangle?
[General Questions and Answers] Rogach:
I've tried volume up + power now, but it only takes me to the stock android recovery. And on the bottom there is a message:

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] Dirk:
It's normal behaviour. As long as you are on a stock ROM the stock Recovery will reassert itself on every reboot. There are a couple of files that can be deleted that will stop this from happening, but i can't name them from memory.
[G Tablet General] toadleyb:
I am running Caulkins Rom 1.1 with Clemsyns kernel version 5. I was continually having problems with the tablet not waking from sleep. I have searched and read till I was blue in the face.

I decided to try the long tedious method to troubleshoot this. I did a complete wipe and reinstall without installing any other apps and lo and behold no problems with sleep. I then began installing my 30 or 40 apps one at a time to see if any of them would affect the wake from sleep as I had read on other threads.

The very first app I installed was Fancy Widget. I put the tablet to sleep waited about 10 minutes and it would not wake up without a reboot. So I uninstalled Fancy Widget and sure enough no problems.

Next I tried an app called Gizmo for streaming music from my home PC. It would play one or two songs and then stop and sure enough not wake from sleep. I then tried changing the setting to keep the wifi on at all times in settings. This did not help. I am now trying Wifi Keep Alive but that just quit also and had to reboot.

It appears with just the first two apps that I tried that the tablet is actually locking up when an app tries to access the wifi during sleep. It is not actually shutting down but rather just freezing as it continues to use battery and you have to do a long press on the power button to force a reboot.

Without these apps the sleep function works great. The streaming apps are kind of a pisser though since I would really like to listen to music.

Is there a way to disable sleep completely? Can anyone test out Fancy Widgets and see if it causes them the same problem?

Todd
[G Tablet General] okstranger:
I can second this wifi sleep theory. I haven't had any sleep of death issues since I changed the wifi sleep policy to "never". I honestly didn't connect it since I did so after flashing a new rom. But now that you say that, I'm remembering if I had Pandora playing when the screen shut off, I couldn't wake the screen up unless I reset it, but the music would continue playing until I rebooted. Maybe some other folks would be willing to set their wifi sleep to never and report back? I'm on Calkulins ROM btw.

EDIT: In case you aren't sure how to change this. Settings>wireless and networks>wifi settings>advanced settings>wifi sleep policy
[G Tablet General] toadleyb:
After further testing here is what I have come up with.

Fancy Widget definitely causes a freeze.

Streaming music seems to only freeze when I am streaming to my bluetooth speaker. I have had Gizmo running for almost an hour now playing just through the Gtab speakers and it is fine. I even tried streaming to the bluetooth speaker with the screen set to never shut off and it completely froze the Gtab. I had to hard reboot with the power button.

So I am back to trying to troubleshoot bluetooth problems which I have had no success in doing. I have posted bluetooth questions a couple of times and gotten no responses.

Any bluetooth gurus out there?
[G Tablet General] goodintentions:
Vegan 5.1.1 + Clemsyn's kernel v7 here. No sleep of death or anything. The gtab now runs incredibly fast.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
TNT Lite 4.4.0 just got Clem's v7 - so far, so good.
[G Tablet General] wwcenturion:
Wooter here.

Clem's 7 fixed the sleep issue on my new gtab. Oh yeah, using you're (roebeet) TnT 4.3 mod (thanks), when did you release 4.4?
[G Tablet General] toadleyb:
I have no sleep issues now except for the above mentioned. My battery life is awesome now as well.

I solved my streaming problem by buying a 6 foot 1/8 to 1/8 cord and plugging in my speaker. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying a wireless speaker but it works
[G Tablet General] bso44:
Interesting. Not positive but I think my sleep issues started after I installed Fancy Widget. I'll uninstall and report back.
[G Tablet General] bso44:
No Fancy Widget and so far so good.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
ive got a samsung omnia 7 and carrier is orange UK, i was sent a message to the phone saying the update is available but when i try to update it, it fails saying the timer ran out. error code 800705b4. any ideas or should i find my hammer? and wait for iphone 5?
[Windows Phone 7 General] clmbngbkng:
I haven't had that problem, only cause AT&T is dragging, but I was able to find this on the error code.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2518812

Hope it helps!
[Windows Phone 7 General] comeradealexi:
ive got a samsung omnia 7 and carrier is orange UK and i just updated to the pre-nodo no problem - i didnt get a message about the nodo yet. just try again at least your phone isnt bricked
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
I got that on one of my devices, switched USB ports and it worked perfect. Apparently that one wasn't a high speed port.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
ill try changing ports then, i think its must be the pre Nodo update now. i was told they would be installed into one update but maybe not.....
[Windows Phone 7 General] Freypal:
I got the Pre-NoDo update about an hour ago on Orange UK. Went through ok on my Omnia 7.

In preperation i deleted all the music off it to make sure there was plenty of free space. Thought it best be on the safe side! Only took about 5 minutes
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
Nah, it's separate. They can't really subsidize the updates like that and if they did it'd likely take forever.
[Windows Phone 7 General] foxbat121:
If that doesn't work, try free up some storage space on your phone to below 3GB mark. At least that's how some Focus owners have to do.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
deleting music now, why do i get the feeling the pre update is going to make me reset my phone to factory settings before it will work???
[Windows Phone 7 General] bkaul:
I had that problem with the pre-NoDo update, and ended up just hard-resetting the phone to get it to work. No problems at all with NoDo though, once the February update had already been installed and I had reinstalled all my apps, re-unlocked and unbranded it, etc. Backed up and installed perfectly once February update was in place.

It seems (from perusing other threads here and elsewhere) that the issue is one of the software timing out during the backup process when there's too much data on the phone. It's not a lack of free space, but a matter of the data taking too long to enumerate or transfer. Having < 3 GB total in use seems to work for a lot of people.

It also seems that the February update to fix the updating process corrects this issue - so if you have to hard-reset the phone to get it to update, go to the February update (but not March), then re-do your unlocking and customizations, reinstall your software, content, etc. and then the March NoDo update should back up the phone successfully and install fine without timing out. At least it did for me ...
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
despite wiping all of my music and lots of apps it still dosnt work. pre nodo sucks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] foxbat121:
No, Samsung Sucks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Yea, I think Samsung flashed firmware to some of their phones which isn't what they were supposed to, so it was borking up some updates. That's why only their phones have been messing up with the Pre-NoDo.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
I solved this issue by updating on another PC.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FishFaceMcGee:
Did you specifically erase all content using Zune? It wipes out everything but apps. I did that and the pre-update worked.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
i used aune to delete the music, and the i unistalled some apps using my device, i have at least 3.5 gb free now and it still dosnt work, i really dont want to have to wipe my phone completely, im beginning to ask myself if i really need copy and paste.
[Windows Phone 7 General] foxbat121:
I believe the threshold is 3GB used, not 3GB free space. So, you need to keep deleting stuff.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Reflexx1:
I'm at 2.7 gb used and I still get error 800705B4.

I don't know if I have a PC in the house with faster USB ports.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
I had 6 gigs full on my 8 gig device and it worked fine... Are your USB ports high speed ports? How new is your computer?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Reflexx1:
My computer is pretty old. 4 yrs.

I think it may be because I have all 4 USB ports in the front being used. I imagine that they're all just ports using the same controller. So that might be slowing down things in general.

When I get back home tonight, I'm going to try unplugging the devices on the other USB ports and see if that helps.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Freypal:
I had about 2.5gb of data on my device and updated through a USB2 port last night and took around 5mins on my Omnia.

As has been said i'd try the USB ports
[Windows Phone 7 General] foxbat121:
The free space problem is specific to Samsung, the one manufacturer who never can get firmware right on any phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
im now down to 2.5gb freespace and it still dosnt work. ive been using my laptop for zune and will have to try on my pc now. ive never plugged my phone into it before so all sort of stuff is gonna happen. by the way, does this mean that if a person has an old pc without the fast usb prots that they will not be able to update samsung windows phones????? absurd?
[Windows Phone 7 General] spliffmonkey187:
I am also in the same boat as davidbanks. I own a samsung omnia 7 on orange UK. Got the notification this morning and tried the update. It did not work so first thing i did was clear all the caches that MS said need to be cleared and try the update again, that did not work.

Next thing i did was remove afew apps to get me down to total used space of 3.86 Gb (this was with all my music, pics and videos deleted as well). That did not work.

I finally pushed my luck and decided to get it below the 3Gb total used space threshold that some people claim worked for them (samsung specific issue) and i have to say in my case it proved to make no difference. I got it down to 2Gb and the update still failed.

I am at a cross roads now, I either just leave my phone on the current windows phone 7 OS for the rest of my contract lifetime (ends next year march lmao) or i hard reset and lose everything (which if that does not work means its a wasted effort).

Does anyone have any advice on getting around the pre nodo update and fixing this issue? Or is it an absolute requirement in order to get nodo itself?
[Windows Phone 7 General] spliffmonkey187:
Ok I took the plunge and did a hard reset on my phone. Luckily it got the feb pre-nodo with success this time :) I have also taken the time unlock my phone with chevron again and used samsung tools to make sure it prevents relock. I will be trying to get the Nodo update next via Zune later and hopefully my unlocked status will remain.

Davidbanks let me know if you tried the hard reset. I was looking for hours for a solution but i could not find one.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
well i tried changing pcs and it still didnt work so i had no choice but to perform the hard reset, wiping my phone in the process ( although strangly when it started up again some app remained) the pre nodo update updated ok! so now im waiting for the official nodo update like most other people, hope i dont have to go through all this again.
[Windows Phone 7 General] spliffmonkey187:
Ah glad to hear you got it sorted out David. I updated to NoDo unoffcially myself so i am done with updates until mango later this year. Heh i was not waiting on orange to get nodo out to me, though the rumour mill says it may be out next week for orange uk phones but i would not hold my breathe.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
quick tip for anyone deleting stuff to get the required gb used space, Try increasing the reserve space using zune. it give you back lots more used space to play with. so if you can. dont delete, increase reserve. you can always decrease it when the update is sucessful.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Overloaded:
Why do you post this??

Should everybody make new threads with some apps they use?? :\
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] karanx:
I added only use programs.

Does everyone know that I do not know these programs.

will update more later. would need to be

There are many programs I use. I do not know legal. I'll look at them.

if there are somebody interested i will add.

sory bad english
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] rockafella813:
Sorry, this thread ought to be deleted
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icase81:
All I want is the ability to delete home screens. Its possible in the Galaxy Tab, but on the Nexus S no such luck. Why would Google FORCE having 5 home screens on us?

Is there any modded launcher.apk with just 1 or the ability to create and delete them?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MYPaT:
try advanced launcher ex
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
- ADW Launcher EX

- ADW Launcher

- LauncherPro

- GO Launcher