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[HD2 General] rustybob:
So tonight I was replacing a broken digitizer for my HD2, it was anything but easy, but it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Anyways, in the middle of reassembling, I hit the point where I need to reconnect the keypad. I was fighting with it for a good 10 minutes trying to get it connected. I grabbed a small flathead screwdriver to push the ribbon while my other hand guided the ribbon into the connector. In the process I broke the ribbon cable.

Of course, for the good of the phone, I've ordered up a new keypad. My question is, is there anything I can do in the interim? Can one say, line up the contacts on the ribbon and electrical tape it together? Or anything else?
[HD2 General] T-Macgnolia:
Man just wait for the replacement keypad. Cause as thin and delicate as the ribbons are you will probably do more damage than good to the ribbon. I mean even if you got the ribbon aligned and tapped bake together. One you probably will not get a good connection between the two pieces of ribbon, and two the little copper strips are so thin you will probably cause micro cracks in them while you are fiddling with the two half's of the ribbon.
[Desire HD Android Development] TurkXtreme:
whats the best rom for DHD? what do you suggest? i am confused, there are too much roms...
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Check all the first posts of ROM threads, and just read. It is down to personal preference. Some ROMs are experimental beta builds, some are rock solid for daily use. Some have Sense, some don't. Only you decide which is the best ROM for you.

By the way, not a dev thread.
[Desire HD Android Development] TurkXtreme:
ok my friend. i will try to read all. :) also i will check them on youtube as visual.
[Desire HD Android Development] NeoS:
Just to make this point clear:

In general, we don't like threads like this, asking "which rom is best?" or "Which device is best?" etc.

So, this thread is closed.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rob116:
Hi everyone. I've searched for an answer to my problem, but haven't found anyone with exactly the same issues I've been having loading a custom splash screen onto my phone. I'm currently running the Revolution 4G ROM. I've tried the "flasher" program, I've used the appropriate adb commands, and I've even tried an alternative method of loading the splash1 image file into the data folder of the flasher program before using, all to no avail. Flasher says its working, but on reboot, the same old white HTC screen pops up. When I go the command prompt route, I get the following message: FAILED <remote not allowed>. I am 100% certain that I am rooted and S-off, I have full access to all of my programs requiring root and I'm getting the appropriate notifications re: S-off. So what does this mean, and what should I do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aca85:
Are you 101% certain that you have s-off? Cuz you can check it by powering down the phone ,then going into Hboot via holding Volume Down+Power ,and at the top it should say "s-off".

You might also try the method i used,go here > http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=823315

Read how to start the program etc...and flash the Splash image with it.(also check the Splash1.img that it's in the correct form,if you custom made it,it has to be a 24bit bmp file,that's later converted to *.img via "Nbimg" - at least ,that's how i did it)

Before you connect your phone make sure u have USB debbuging enabled.
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
i use the latest release, 3.3 version and my battery drains in like 10 hrs of normal usage...

the worst part is that upto 95% of battery is consumed just by display?

i used to get 2 days of battery backup previously on the official Rom.

i tried re flashing kyrillos Rom yesterday and i still get the same problem :’(

is there something i am missing?

or should i wait for atleast 1 week after flashing?
[Galaxy 3 General] Markie16:
I don't know, but you can also install Juice devender from the market

I like that app. Now the battery has a longer life: 2 days.
[Galaxy 3 General] Bubble-be:
The battery seems to be a problem indeed with our devices. Mine was on 5% for 12hrs yesterday.

I've read advice from Lestat, I think, to charge the battery completely before flashing.

I've yet to test it though.
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
k will try....
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
thanks for the advice will test it too...
[Galaxy 3 General] Bubble-be:
Just found an app specific for this purpose here on the board : [APP] Battery Calibration - EASIEST WAY!
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
awesome bro, will reply here with the results soon......
[Galaxy 3 General] werker123:
does some1 know a fix to show my battery in units in stead of dozens? srry for my english^^
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
boom....battery at 60%, 25 hours and still.running ( but can only say its because of this when i get home....because right now my cell phone is in airplane mode)
[Galaxy 3 General] mcd_legend:
thanks

i think i know why i am loosing battery very fast
[Galaxy 3 General] mpbm23:
It may have to do with cpu scaling also.I installed cpu master and saw that the cpu is always on 667mhz and not down-scaling when not in use.

Kyrillos 3.3 rom
[Galaxy 3 General] Dharam_Maniar:
try using SetCPU...
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
Thanks, mine is set to GSM only, since i don't use 3G..

I tested my phone again now for the past two days and found out that it comes for like 20-24 hrs in moderate (daily usage), which is ok for me....

the battery first reduces to 80% in the first 1 hour (even with minimum usage, don't know why this happens), and then it stays at 80-60% for like 15-16 hrs...
[Galaxy 3 General] OrrPenn18:
I got this problem in Kyrillos 3.0beta version...but now in 3.3 its fine...i can use mine till 2.5 days...widout task manager!!! :-/ i dunno...!!! Juicedefender works cool for sum ppl!!!! the oder solution try Indroid 3.0 - it has better battery backup! :)
[Galaxy 3 General] reddead66:
I installed the calibration app. It said i have to charge it till 100 % and then click calibrate....

I did and now iam 50% in just 7 hours....

So should i let the phone discharge completely?

By the way i flashed with jpm earlier with half battery left....
[Galaxy 3 General] kiran86:
Guys, all in all i blv its rom specific problem..i m tryin the battery calibration app...meanwhile have a look at this article...

VVV.androidpolice.com/2010/12/14/your-battery-gauge-is-lying-to-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bump-charging-and-inconsistent-battery-drain/
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
true , true, true :) thanks for confirming
[Galaxy 3 General] baicunko:
still 30 hours isnt enough, its roughly a day.

With 2.1 original firmware and data activated all day i could get 50hrs minimum of battery life.

I'm done with this phone, done trying different roms, calibrating batteries, charging and discharges in less than a day.

i think this phone rocks, except its battery life sucks!

im selling it to change for something with better battery, maybe bb?
[Galaxy 3 General] kyrillos13:
Battery problems is from ext4! You can convert all partitions to ext2 with normal battery life but with more chances for data to lost if you remove the battery!
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
thanks for your reply, do you mean this battery problem doesn't occur in stock 2.2 recently released ?
[Galaxy 3 General] kyrillos13:
I mean that the battery last longer with rfs/ext2 instead of ext4...
[Galaxy 3 General] YanOri:
ok thanks for the info
[Galaxy 3 General] mpbm23:
When on a call battery drains very fast.I dont think that for this the problem is the partitions filesystem.
[Galaxy 3 General] kyrillos13:
Yeah sure... When on call is a firmware issue.
[Galaxy 3 General] mpbm23:
thought so.maybe antenna power usage or something like that.
[Android Themes] polarwhiteseal:
Hey everyone.

Didn't see any custom boot animations for zelda so I decided to make my own. My first time doing anything custom myself so this is gonna look a little rough. I might smoothen it out when I have time. As of now, after 2 hours of work, I got this.

I might have to slow down the fps. I am having it at 30. Perhaps 24 would do? Any input would be nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12QUCdenVFA

Maybe I will even throw in the Nintendo 64 logo as a little intro to add to the nostalgia.
[Android Themes] vegasdgk:
That looks really good I would slow it down just a little bit but not much
[Android Themes] TheSkepticalGuy:
Awesome animation, 24 should be fine cos it's going alittle to fast on 30fps.
[Android Themes] djtar:
yea it needs to be slowed down but zelda ftw
[Android Themes] vegasdgk:
I would add the Nintendo sign too : )
[Android Themes] polarwhiteseal:
thanks for the responses guys. I will rework on it next week.
[HTC Inspire 4G] EtherealRemnant:
I bought a phone with specifications that say there exists 768MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, yet I can only access 1GB of that ROM.

http://www.htc.com/us/products/inspire-att#tech-specs

What's going on here? I read an explanation about SLC and MLC but that would cut the ROM in half, not into a quarter, of what it should be.

I really hate HTC sometimes - they promise so much and then you get the thing and it doesn't even come close to living up to expectations!
[HTC Inspire 4G] buddy17:
its the same way with ANY company, not just HTC. I don't understand why everyone gets in a bunch with phone memory. Go buy a 500 gb hdd from any other brand and tell me how much you can access. No one *****es about that though??

you are close on the formatting issues though. The ROM is originally 4gb, but is formatted for speed since the system files are stored on it. This cuts the storage space in HALF (like you said) since it becomes single layer. So we are down to 2gb, but the OS is also installed on this space. This takes up nearly 1 gb, which leaves us at ~1 gb usable space.

There is another thread around here that goes into quite a bit a of detail, and really makes for a funny read with one dude claiming this 4gb chip is not even installed in our phones and that the OS is SOMEHOW installed on the 768mb RAM chip. Hopefully someone posts the link because it really was quite entertaining.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Krisbo:
Not true, you buy a 500GB HDD and you get a 500GB HDD, it just depends on how you calculate it.

Let's look at a 16GB micro SD card for example. You start out with 16GB, which is 16,000 MB, or 16,000,000 KB, or 16,000,000,000 Bytes. So to get from 16,000,000,000 Bytes to Gigabytes, you divide by 1000 3 times. Unfortunately, this is not how an OS will compute the size of a drive. It will divide by 1024, thus:

16,000,000,000 Bytes/1024

=15,625,000 KB/1024

=15,258.79 MB/1024

=14.9 GB which should be roughly the amount of storage space that your OS will tell you you have.

Hope this helps :)

EDIT:

Thought I would include a calculation for a 500GB HDD just for reference:

=500,000,000,000 B/1024

=488,281,250 KB/1024

=476,837.16 MB/1024

=465.66 GB which should be very roughly what the size of your drive will be reported as by your OS.
[HTC Inspire 4G] buddy17:
that doesn't help at all....because i was just using it as a reference. The specifics don't matter. You buy a 500gb hdd, you hook it up to your computer, it shows 465gb that you can store stuff on.

We are told we have a 4gb ROM chip (like buying a 500gb hdd), it gets installed in our phone, formatted a certain way, and OS installed along with a few other things, and we end up with 1gb we can store stuff on.

same difference. the hdd is misadvertised because of how the OS calculates the space, our ROM is misadvertised by the way it is formatted.
[HTC Inspire 4G] kofrad:
Exactly this. When I buy a hard drive I expect the discrepancy and factor it into my purchase if needed. With something like a phone, I see 4gb of storage and unless told otherwise am assuming that is usable space.
[HTC Inspire 4G] alex4lex:
The simple fact of the matter is, a company is going to advertise the highest possible spec and number of their product they can represent. How much you actually can use varies, but it's all there in the hardware. The amount available to us is still plenty.
[HTC Inspire 4G] buddy17:
exactly THIS!! especially with an 8gb external card included. if you plan to use the thing as a music machine then sure, invest in a bigger card. Even without apps2sd, it would be a challenge for 90% of people to fill up that 1gb internal
[HTC Inspire 4G] homeslice976:
Just another example - anyone check their free space on a freshly formatted XBox360 Drive? A 20GB drive you'll only see about 10-12GB of. My 250GB drive I'm pretty sure started out with 196GB free.

And, for the 3rd or 4th time (as this thread has shown up plenty of times before), here is the response I got from HTC regarding the the memory, showing they clearly don't see this as an 'issue':
[HTC Inspire 4G] di11igaf:
This is 100% correct This is the link your talking about, explains what happens to the internal storage.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000094&page=2

I was told I was wrong though, and apparently I should take a class to learn how how these things work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] matt310:
Close...but 16GB = 16,384MB and 500GB = 512,000MB.

1GB = 1024MB
[HTC Inspire 4G] shotta35:
Not so close, he was correct but yours would be 16GiB = 16,384MiB.

16GB = 16,000MB

(sorry, don't kill me :D I didn't make the rules!)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Mustang302LX:
LMAO wow that Bella guy/girl whatever is a COMPLETE moron!
[HTC Inspire 4G] buddy17:
LOL thats the one! This should be nominated for Thread of the Year
[HTC Inspire 4G] EtherealRemnant:
I understand what people are saying about the formatting, the OS, etc., however, coming from a Captivate and actually getting my 16GB of storage PLUS my external storage, it is a bit ****ty on HTC's part to advertise 4GB when you can only use 1GB - I might as well still have my EVO if I wanted 1GB of internal storage - at least the EVO held on to a signal...

With HTC, its always SOMETHING. First with the Windows Mobile phones, they didn't give us graphics drivers for the Imageon chip in the phones. With the EVO, they started cheaping out on the display type and some of them were noticeably yellow. The Mogul had overheating issues (I personally went through 7 of them before they finally gave me the Touch Pro 2). Now they're misrepresenting device specifications.

The only ***** I had about Samsung was their total lack of providing updates for their devices. Hell I dropped my Captivate I don't know how many times and the screen doesn't have a single chip in it, even the time it fell on the ground face-first.

I'm just saying that instead of sitting here and saying "it is how it is formatted," we should be writing letters to HTC letting them know that the behavior is unacceptable. Yeah we have external storage through our microSD cards but internal storage tends to be quite a bit faster, at least that's how it was with my Captivate.
[HTC Inspire 4G] buddy17:
If you are that worried about it, then seriously, just go grab another captivate and hang out over there. I'm so tired of everyone getting their panties in a wad over this. It sounds like you don't like the inspire nearly as much as the captivate if you have only one complaint on the captivate vs 5 for HTC. Or quit complaining, buy a bigger sd card and get over it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Krisbo:
I hated my Captivate...

Battery life was rubbish, screen was oversaturated and hard ot the eyes after extended periods, it was laggy, buggy, no updates, a pain to unlock, vibrate was too weak, the entire time I owned it I didn't once get a GPS lock (no matter how long I waited) and I often had market issues.

My $0.02, only a real jack of clubs would prefer the Captivate.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] leorogue85:
Hi to all boys, sorry for my bad english, I' m italian, lol.

I wanted an information. I installed on my HD2 Android finally, I wanted to know which version should I install on ClockworkMod Rom Manager? which phone should I choose? thank you all, you' re the best!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Eelkede:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=898913

This is the HD2 CWM, it depends on what build you are using which layout partition you need.

You can find this in the thread of the Build.

Have fun!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
Rom manager doesn't work yet for hd2. Perhaps it does with clk but not with magldr.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] T-Macgnolia:
I have been studying up on cLK for the past couple of days and I can tell you from what I have seen so far ROM manager does not work on cLK yet. But cLK is still very much a work ion progress and they are working on getting everything fully functional. If they can get it all together we may even be able to do away with our original bootloader but this is still if I think.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mattfmartin:
Wrong. It does work on clk
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gofmass:
Since I received the Gingerbread OTA I have seen that when run gMaps it takes long time (minutes) to fix GPS. I think that is only for cold start, coz after fix if I close an restart the GPS it fixes in few seconds as normal.

I have tried with GPS Status but it seems everything OK.

Before Gingerbread it was really fast fixing both in cold and warm start.

Thx
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeyboy0076:
I've also noticed the same problem. GPS seems to be much slower getting a fix on my position - even with a clear sky and at places it worked well before. Don't know if there's much I can do about it but hope for a patch from Google.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gofmass:
Seems that it's a very common issue, try to google " gingerbread slow gps fix"
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S14kings:
Stock 2.3.3 ROM after OTA update, GPS only locked 1 out of 10 tries, and took a long time to do so. It is not even stable, and lost signal after a few minutes. I had looked everywhere including google forum, and there is no joy.

Finally read it somewhere to try GpsFix in the market and now GPS fixes in <10 seconds!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skrogmann:
GPS-Fix Problem with Gingerbread

Hello,

i have the same problem after upgrading to Gingerbread 2.3.3. I have found this thread in the Google support forum (Search after this with Google):

GPS Navigation problems after Gingerbread update

and the issue is known aswell at Google issue tracking list (Search after this with Google):

NMEA Listener no longer working after upgrade to Gingerbread Issue ID 15500

The issue has been assigned medium priority over there. Maybe if more people can go there and star the issue, it will get up voted.

Sorry that i doesn't post the links directly, but its not permitted for me (not enough post so far)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
The issue hasn't been assigned anything yet, the priority is 'medium' by default, once someone takes ownership of it, it should get a proper priority.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iron@ss:
In the meantime you might like to try this:-

http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/09/09/gps-fix-for-cyanogenmod-6-on-the-nexus-one/

It works for me.

Hope it helps. :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S14kings:
Yes, the GpsFix only worked for a few days, then the same problem surfaced again. So I followed the link and voila! now fast GPS fix again! Thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gofmass:
Seems that 2.3.4 update fixed it...

:-)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frozst:
I had the same problem on 2.3.4 and I fixed with the GPS Status, there is an option to clear all gps data. That worked for me, now the gps fix my position in a few seconds.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wind0zer:
i used this

i have been using this [APP][ROOT] FasterFix [V1.5] - xda-developers. It needs root and also needs to be run once everytime i flash a nightly.

I get a fix in "seconds" rather than instantly. But i'm going to try that link posted above. You guys should check it out since nobody has mentioned it.

edit: on a second thought, i'd rather not try anything else because of the golden saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it" : )
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
That app will do nothing for the O2X, as it doesn't use the gps.conf file.

Anything it does is a placebo. CM7 now comes with a couple of GPS fixes, and that is probably the difference you're seeing.
[Xperia Arc General] sausalito:
Hello

Apparently some apps from android are missing : Car home, gingerbread keyboard...

Is it exact? (why SE would do less than basic android?)

Is it possible to find the compatible apk?

Thanks
[Xperia Arc General] commodoor:
Gingerbread keyboard - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=875202 didn't try it i'm using smart keyboard. but i think it should work.

--Edit

Just tested it and it works, first you have to enable it from keyboard settings.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Soundify:
Hi

I recently replaced my G2 with a new one. Before this one, I was able to install the engineering hboot using gfree v.5 with no issues. However, now with this phone, it gives me the "error reading hboot input file" error and I am unable to continue.

I'm on the most recent update: 1.33.531.8 and my hboot version is 0.82.0000.

Should I go for the alternative gfree 0.2 and use rage? Or am I doing something absolutely wrong here?

Edit: I went the rage method and everything went fine.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acnnacnn:
Hi all, I am very new here and actually I have never used Android before. I am planning to get a HTC wildfire cos I find a good deal in Australia, I want to confirm the below questions before making purchase. Please help and thank you so much!

1/ I will purchase a HTC wildfire in Australialocal shop so that means it's in English version. I don't need Chinese interface & menu but I want to read / type Traditional Chinese in sms and browse the web etc. Can I just use android apps MoreLocale2 to read Chinese? and download to type Chinese? OR I have to download specific ROM to enable me to have those function? If so, where can I download?

2/ I've heard if I download HTC sync then I can also use my USB to browse the web without wifi, is that true??

I am really appreciated if someone can help. Thank you very much!
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
1. You can check with the shop. If it is built in, you can disable the keyboard. The Chinese language's file is just small, It doesn't use up a lot of space.

2. Yea, you can tether your mobile internet to your computer by using usb tether or WiFi tether.. usb tether drivers is provided by HTC in sd card.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hack_LOL:
Try the Google pinyin app?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acnnacnn:
Thank you guys! will get the phone this week and try it! :)
[XPERIA X10 General] streamnlnl:
Hi, I'm trying something done for the topicstarters in a dev tread. Please read and tell me your thought.

The response.

My answer.

Please tell your thought about this if you think this is a good idea. And please don't quote this message compete in this tread (Most of the time I read the forums trough the xda app)

Thanks.
[XPERIA X10 General] Windst:
No, rules are fine as is. And this is in the wrong section
[XPERIA X10 General] pngface:
Yeah I think this is a good idea