yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synman:
This is a stretch but perhaps its tied to your actual google account. An easy enough test would be for a US xoom owner to fudge a non-us address on their google account or a non US one fudge a US address. I believe this is how Amazon is filtering purchases in their new store.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salahag:
You're right it must be tied to the google checkout account. Does anybody know if it's possible to buy using Gift Cards?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synman:
I've had customers purchase AR.Pro with a gift card, certainly.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SS2006:
well have you tried proving this theory..

by changing locaotin to USA on a google account and sign in with it
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burden010:
I might give this a go, would be interested to know if anyone else has tried it though?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kas206:
I got it to work! (sort of)

You have to be rooted

Download paid apps enabler http://www.cohortor.org/paidappsenabler/PaidAppsEnabler_v1.1.apk

Set the country as Us T-mobile

Got to Application settings and and clear data

Restart Market

I can now see Books

But Not featured tablet apps.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SS2006:
Ya thats one thing

but the features tablet apps is another, i dotn get why canadians cant see this wtf.

why cant we see apps that are meant for a TABLET in Canada

Ive thought long and hard about any sense in this, maybe laws etc.. but nothing made sense

this is plain STUPID
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poisike:
Featured tablet apps are not showed in Europe also, not even on a US Xoom.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SS2006:
Yup.same here but in Canada

Anyone know how to contact Google or petition
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epinox:
Hi,

I think my situation can show a little light on the subject.

I live in TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus). And when I go to my office near the border, the market instantly changes to Euro, enabling me to buy the apps (not all of them shows on the market); and when I go to my home away from the border, the market changes to TL and I cannot buy anymore (Turkey and Google has a little catfight about tax so purchases are disabled)

What I am thinking is maybe the device staples your location by wifi (approx) and then it uses the location (not the provider details) to detemine in which country you are?

I don't know if this might help anyone but, wanted to share; hoping someone solves thes pain in the a.s problem. I am longing for books, youtube, earth and tegra games...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epinox:
People you do not need anything. No root, no prop files...

I just solved the problem yesterday...

---> Go to Google Maps

---> Settings Tab

---> Latitude

---> Settings Tab

---> Settings

---> Select "Set Your Location/Manually Select a location on the map"

---> "Point on map"

---> Go to anywhere in america tab and hold a point

---> Tap to select this point

Taddaaa, everthing is now open... Books, Earth paid apps everything... As long as you keep your latitude there ( only latitude app cannot be used, It will show you in us(mine is currently in nebraska) ) you can buy and use any app.

After that, just change it back to "Select your location..." (Be aware that when you select back to this option you may lose books and youtube)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfernandes29:
Still doesnt work.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epinox:
Well I tried again, switch back to automatic and then again to manual...

When I first changed it went back to TL and wouldn't switch back to USD... So I cleared the Google Partner Setup Application's cache first. Then I tried paid apps enabler [I don't know if paidappsenablerhelps I am scared to try back again] and after that I did the manual again.

First it didn't change so, I was tired and went to sleep. But in the morning it was changed to USD again..

My advice is set your location manually as I described and give it some time, like half a day or so... Mine worked 2 times I tried...

Let me know if it worked, if not, I will try and find out if paid apps enabler helped...

Hope it solves yours as well,

Sincerely,

Onur
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorhater73:
Bit of a noob question here, as my ADB proficiency is a bit lacking... In the sticky titled "Return to stock properly and safely" the instructions refer to pushing a file called "misc.img," however, when I attempt this, it obviously finds no file with that title. I've downloaded the two files from the post and tried them both on the root of my drive and in the tools folder of the SDK, but with no luck. I'd like to unroot for the time being to compare rooted performance to stock performance (i'm sure I'll end up rooting again before long... I bore easily!) Any input from the pros would be welcome! Thanks!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royolpunk:
I'm pretty sure you can just slap on the pg05 img onto your sd card, reboot into stock recovery and let it load..
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevessvt:
Yes you can, did it, done it, it worked.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 52brandon:
sounds like you dont have your path set correctly if you placed it in the tools folder and it didn't push You could manually cd your sdcard or whichever location the misc.img file is placed in to push it if your path IS set correctly and I'm overlooking something...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1234567188:
you have to extract the misc file to your tools file
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] blitz13:
I’ve flashed my phone many times before, but this was my first time using MTTY and I’ve ****ED UP. I don't think the problem is from MTTY, that’s why I’m posting this under general section, so please keep reading.

From The DEFINITIVE MTTY Thread (Flashing From USB):

5c: type "task 29" to get your device formatted

5d: type "task 8" to ask your device reboot

6: Immediately DISCONNECT your device then Press and Hold Vol Down to bring the device back to bootloader and connect to USB.

7: Run ROM Flasher and flash via USB. After rom flash is completed Hard-reset (Pen Reset, then Press and Hold Vol Down and Circle) then allow the ROM to boot.

I have successfully completed step 6 but I got confused at step 7, so I decided to read some more documentation. As far as I know, keeping the device in bootloader mode does not charge the battery (the light circle does not blink) so I removed the battery in order to keep it from discharging (power button did not work), thinking I could power on the device later and connect it in bootloader mode again. Boy was I wrong. The phone is completely dead now.

Do i have a new piece of furniture? Thanks and sorry for my english.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Hakim Rahman:
make sure the battery is fully charged after that put the batteries in the device, then make the device go to bootloader with Press + Hold Vol Down and connect to USB so you can resume back to Flash ROM

Good luck blitz13 :p
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] blitz13:
Thanks for your answer Hakim. I left the battery in the fridge overnight and managed to bring the phone back to life just enough to do a quick flash.

Phew
[XPERIA X8 General] josip-k:
if i flash it,and i want to return to original rom,what do i need to do?
[XPERIA X8 General] MatWoj:
Flash with SEUS

Swype i X8
[XPERIA X8 General] josip-k:
what is seus,and where to download it?
[XPERIA X8 General] Mattix724:
You should have been smart enough to BACKUP your stock rom so you wouldn't be asking this question.
[XPERIA X8 General] josip-k:
well i backuped ti in xrecovery,but how to acess it again?
[XPERIA X8 General] josip-k:
cmon help me,i really want to try this....
[XPERIA X8 General] kuyagaol:
why it can't go back to 2.1.1. from xrecovery .

(stuck on sony ericsson text .. always)

flash it doesn't help too..

and why only SEUS can help.
[XPERIA X8 General] josip-k:
so i cant go to xrecovery>backup and restore>restore?it wont work?
[XPERIA X8 General] kuyagaol:
it is in the sdcard..

so u must be know howto boot to xrecovery

there u go.. just restore the file if u need it.
[XPERIA X8 General] josip-k:
thanks!ill flash mini CM right now!
[XPERIA X8 General] kuyagaol:
happen to me tonight... back from racht cm7,

but cant use me 2.1.1 back up.. but other rom can (2.2 and 2.3)
[XPERIA X8 General] aldee_s:
i can restore my Eclair backup. It should be fine, and if your backup doesnt work, try to factory reset.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nirslsk:
Well, I've bricked my three week old Verizon galaxy tab trying to flash the stock firmware back to the device to try and get the recent Verizon update working, which has been failing consistently. I've thoroughly read through every thread on the forum I could about the black screen of death, so I understand there's a good chance I'm pretty screwed here. I have a couple more questions on the subject, but I understand that I might not be able to get answers for them past the information that's already available.

I'll start by describing my setup and how the flashing process went wrong. I was using the stock Verizon ROM with Boushh's Voodoo Plus kernel v3, converted to ext4 of course. After the recent Verizon update failed to install on my Tab I followed through all the suggestions on the CDMA VZW Tab update thread, downloaded the update zip, put it on the sdcard, ran from rescue manager, unrooted, reflashed stock, wiped data and cache, re-ran from rescue manager at first boot... nothing worked. Things went really wrong when I tried flashing the entire ROTO backup of the Verizon stock ROM. I had the bright idea of setting up Heimdall to flash every file of the backup it had a slot for, including the pit file, zImage in kernel and recovery, factoryfs, param.lfs, cache.rfs, dbdata.rfs, modem.bin, boot.bin in primary bootloader slot and sbl.bin in secondary bootloader slot. When I pressed the start button it grayed out and nothing was happening. I waited a few minutes and finally turned the tab off. When I turned it back on again and tried to put it in download mode, the phone -x- computer logo showed up which freaked me out as I've never seen it before. Still, the computer did recognize the tab as composite USB device and so, unwittingly, I tried flashing with heimdall again. The flash went along perfectly well, but when it was finished both heimdall and the tab just hung there. I waited a few more minutes and turned off the tab again. After that it never turned on again. My questions, based on what I've read about the black screen of death so far are these:

* I've seen it suggested that the tab be left to drain for days or weeks, but not many reports that this worked out in the end. My battery was at about 45% percent when this whole thing went down. Should I even bother waiting? My only alternative at this point is to send the thing to Samsung for repairs which breaks my heart. Verizon won't replace it as I've had it for over two weeks.

* Could a homemade USB jig help me in this situation? I have some soldering experience but I heard that it won't help if the screen won't turn on. Ideally I'd buy it online, but I couldn't find one for the Galaxy Tab on ebay.

That's it I guess, but any information you can offer pertaining to this problem would be appreciated. Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] litania72:
to be honest, i do not know why people think they can brick the tab.......the only way is to throw it from a building.

Just go to overcome forum and follow this (i 'bricked' my tab a 1000 times):

IF your Tab does not boot after flashing the kernel and hangs at the Samsung Galaxy Tab screen, you must follow the following procedure

1.Get a stock rom package (any of Rotohammer's firmwares will work)

2.Get P1_add_hidden.zip attached to this post and extract the P1_add_hidden.pit file

3.Using Odin 1.7, put stock rom (Roto-JME-Full-v4.tar for example) in PDA slot.

4.Put P1_add_hidden.pit in Pit slot

5.Check repartition box

6.Put Tab in download mode by holding Volume Down and Power, connect to the computer, and press start.

7.After this, the Tab will reboot normally. Shut it down and return to download mode.

you also get the link for the p1 file you need.......easy
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nirslsk:
This sounds like very useful information, thank you. I'll definitely do this if I can get the Tab to respond to anything I do, which I can't so far. It won't turn on regardless of what volume button I press or not press. I'm pretty sure I had it connected to the PC while trying to put it in download mode just to see if it would be recognized as USB device despite the screen not turning on, but I'll try again to make sure when I get home.

Edit: Yeah, no luck. Not recognized as a USB device, which makes sense seeing as the screen doesn't even turn on.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danwanna:
I am having the same issue... My daughter put my computer to sleep while I was flashing back to stock using heimdall. Any luck getting your Tab to power on?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asishaker:
same problem
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robdotcomus:
If your tab is showing any sign of life then you are not bricked and just need to keep at it until you find a solution. When you have exhausted all other resources you can send it off to get it fixed. I ended up bricking my tab when a flash was interrupted to the point that there was no sign of life at all. I found someone here who could fix it for $50 and had it back within the week working as it should. I highly recommend his service as a last resort.

His screen name is connexion2005 and here is a link to his profile.

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=1602851
[Nook Color General] migrax:
I have been trying to install CM7 on my NC, but I keep getting assert failed error. I can install Nookie Froyo without issue and restoring stock. I am guessing that I am doing install from CWR/SDCard all wrong, as when I use SDCards that I write with Win32Diskimg it always works fine. My guess is that this is because when istalling from this method, you don't need to worry about the state of your /data and /system.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

migrax
[Nook Color General] pmilford:
hi,

Not sure what you are doing wrong, but I found this post very detailed,

a bit dated now, but should still work:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=960542&page=16

From your comments below: you do have to reformat several partitions,

CM7 uses a different file system, EXT4. This also requires more recent

CWM versions and different kernel on the recovery boot (follow instructions

in one of the links in the thread above)

Hope this helps,

Peter
[Nook Color General] migrax:
Oh for Pete's sake!! I had no idea the install was that involved. I thought you could install directly from CWM 3.0.0.5, I had no idea you had to prepare your SDCard in this manner... and that you had to install market separately. I am glad I asked because I would not have figured this out for myself, especially with the instruction set 16 pages into the thread, I'd have given up long before getting that far.

Thank you very much for your help... I am in the process of doing this... cross your fingers.

migrax
[Nook Color General] migrax:
Ok! Installed CM7 without a hitch...

I must say, very nice... once I was able to get the instructions for the install and do it the right way it worked first time out. I didn't install the OC Kernel, but I may in the near future.

Does the CM7 Still have issues when going to sleep? Guess I'll find out for myself.

migrax
[Nook Color General] tablo:
CM7 doesn't sleep so you will see the battery drop much quicker. Get an app/widget to toggle wifi and this will help preserve your battery while it is "sleeping".

I would also recommend getting one to toggle brightness as well so you can easily set it to whatever is appropriate for your lighting situation at the time.
[Nook Color General] migrax:
Wow, I love Playon and Audiogalaxy.

This is the reason I wanted an Android Tablet. I wanted to be able to read books and use video and audio on demand. After I installed Flash 10.2 this thing has become the multimedia machine I wanted.

I am watching Hulu!!!!

Now if I can get some really cool games to run, I will be a happy camper.

Can you recommed an app to toggle wifi? Also I notice that while watching Hulu that the audio is kind of chirping in my headphones. I'll have to see if aI can adjust the audio properties.

Thanks to all for helping me get this far.

migrax
[Nook Color General] dalingrin:
Wifi will automatically be disabled when you turn the screen off. This is controlled under the advanced wifi settings(have to hit the menu key)
[Nook Color General] pmilford:
HI,

Sounds like you have everything running well!

One tool that I really like is an open source eBook library management

program that runs on PC/MAC - Calibre. It downloads covers, reviews, and will

convert to different ebook formats. There is a paid app in the app store

to access it directly: Calibre Library, or you use Calibre along with Nook as

an external disk drive (or via Dropbox even)

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Peter
[Nook Color General] bonega:
So I am reading the link posted here.

If I have no need to ever return to stock Nook, do I have to do a "nand backup"?

[RECOVERY] EXT4 Compatible Bootable Clockwork SD Card 0.1 (+ tasty treats)

Should I still use this one as recovery? It seems a bit dated?

Thanks for any help.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nanobutter:
Please Help! Thanks!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nanobutter:
sorry using clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habitat22:
Originally Posted by: nanobutter

sorry using clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
​

Its easier with RA 1.7.0 Recovery :

You can easily install it with "Rom Manger" from the Market!

Then boot in recovery and select "partition sdcard".

Click on "partition sdcard" and then you can select the size and swap.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
:confused:

I understand that he needs a *system* partition which is bigger than 86MB, not a partition on sd-card.

Having the 1.33.0013(d) or 1.33.2005 SPL installed, system partition size should be already sufficient. But to be more flexible you could try to use Custom MTD. With this method, you are flexible in defining your mtd partition sizes, i.e. the size of /system, /cache and /data can be defined individually. But before trying this, you should first learn something more about the different SPLs, radios and how to install them. Especially a base knowledge of fastboot is a must!

Note: mtd partitions and sd-card partitions are two different things.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nanobutter:
Thanks habitat22 for the info. Will definitely check it out.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nanobutter:
Thanks AndDiSa. I will check this out as well.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calbruc:
I'm noticing that I'm pretty consistently losing a bar of signal (cell & wifi) when I'm holding my Thunderbolt. Also, streaming music to a bluetooth receiver across the room, it cuts out a lot more than my OG Droid did when I'm holding/messing with it.

Anybody else? Is this normal?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blusgtone:
I notice it. Drops from 4g, 2 bars, down to 3g almost all the time when i pick it up. Happens mostly inside buildings.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r68camaro:
During antenna gate, it was shown that almost every phone has some effect when being held.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turbodrew:
I haven't really noticed it behaving that way. When I pick mine up the cell signal bars will drop a little, but then they go right back where they were a few seconds later. 3G and 4G so far have been unaffected.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
Most recent phones have the antenna in the bottom, so you have to leave it exposed to not block the signal and cause attenuation. My nexus one I can drop all the bars covering the bottom.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azturbomini:
I'm 99% positive the antenna is placed about an inch and a half from the top of the phone. Hold the phone on the bottom half and all is good. While holding at the bottom with one hand put your other hand around the top and you'll get an instant signal fade...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calbruc:
Hmm. Thanks for the feedback guys. Good to know it's not a huge problem. And my issue doesn't seem nearly as bad as blusgtone's.

It does seem to occur when I touch the sides of the phone though, not really the bottom, or even the back. I can make the bars go up and down by switching back and forth between holding it at the top and bottom with my thumb and middle finger, to the sides with the thumb and middle finger.

Oh well. It still kicks ass.
[Android Themes] androidrockz:
i Have a samsung transform and my friend has a cliq 2, and those motoblur widgets are beeeeeeeeeeeeautiful! anyway i can get them with apks, and not completely turning my phone into a cliq?
[Android Themes] sunder74:
They're launcher(blur home I think) specific just like touchwiz widgets don't work with Launcher2 or Sense vice versa.
[HTC Aria General] bella92108:
Hi All

I have a HTC Inspire 4G, and to unlock it I rooted and it removed the SIM Lock. I'm curious if that's the case with the Aria as well.

I'm looking for a smaller\less expensive phone to use when I travel internationally so I don't have to carry my expensive Inspire 4G, and the Aria seems like a great option for me.

I'm just curious if there's a way to unlock it via root like the Inspire 4G, or if I'll have to pay for a code. :-(
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
I have my Aria rooted using the Unrevoked method and it does not SIM unlock the phone. As far as I know, I haven't seen anyone publish a way to SIM unlock a rooted phone like the Inspire has.
[HTC Aria General] bella92108:
Cool, good to know, thanks.

Do the cheap sites have unlock codes yet, or is it still the $10-$40 unlock code sites?
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
The Aria has been out for 10 months, so I would think that most sites should be able to get you an unlock code.
[HTC Aria General] bella92108:
How you like it? I'm looking for a phone to use when I go international so I don't have to carry the big expensive HTC Inspire, but still have fully functional device that I can just restore my backups from the Inspire and not have to worry about managing 2 devices. Good choice?
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
I love the size of the Aria, especially for pocket-ability and travel. It would be a good choice. You might also want to look at the Desire with a 3.7 inch screen compared to the Aria 3.2. It's still smaller than the Inspire.
[HTC Aria General] bella92108:
yeah my #1 is size. was going to do the iphone 3GS, but going back to iOS now that I have android is like going back in time... I'll find an Aria on Craigslist.

Thanks for all your help.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegaflare:
I want to be able to have my Xoom mifi over droid X - is it possible? Thanks!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegaflare:
It works

Using PDANET! :)

Im so gleeful! Bluetooth tethering a SUCCESS!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jondwillis:
Honestly it depends on the Droid X ROM you're using. I use Liberty, and it doesn't have built in wireless hotspot or (last I checked) a functioning bluetooth tether. So I use apps. I've had a lot of success with Wireless Tether (root required)

But PDANet would work like the above poster mentioned.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aronslusa:
I tried setting up bluetooth tether with PDAnet (Sprint Hero and Xoom WiFi) but had no success. Paired, but devices won't connect.

Am I doing something wrong?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrokenPixel:
Just to add my 2 cents on transfer speed, bluetooth has a transfer speed of 800kbps to 2.1Mbps, Wifi has up to 11Mbps to 54+Mbps, if you have anything above 2.1Mbit on your phone your xoom won't be using it because of the bluetooth limitations.

On another note (I might be wrong) I beleive that the total draw power of the bluetooth chipset is almost identical to Wi-fi so there is no "battery saving" using bluetooth.