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[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
I did ask why it is Google and Samsung's Fault. The rep responded with the make the os and build the harware we just sell the phone. I said it is Verizons responsibility to make sure all of their phones are up to date as possible. I also said that if it is Google or Sammy's fault, then why is it that almost every other galaxy released has got the update? The rep replied with saying that I was wrong and that only a few galaxys have gotten the update.
[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
I absolutely love my phone, espescially the screen. I would defineatly consider the thunderbolt though.
[Fascinate General] aviationrey:
To be honest, asthetically I like the fascinate but not having froyo after waiting all this time has turned me off. I've used some rom's available on the forums but I feel like I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get an update that should have been out months ago.
[Fascinate General] y0brando:
thats how i ended up with my fascinate. my dad got tired of not having froyo, so he gave the option for me to inherit his fascinate or keep my OG droid.
[Fascinate General] smdion:
As a VZW Tech rep. The care reps know less than me and we have absolutely no resources/explanation on why some devices get updates and some don't.
[Fascinate General] Legato525:
The problem is when you have 3 huge companies and their crack legal departments putting conditions on everything. Companies can't agree to play golf together without a 300 page legal agreement.
[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
:mad:So no return call from VZW at all yesterday. If I dont recieve a call from them by 7pm. I am calling and it will be an escalated call, I guarantee it. :mad:
[Fascinate General] cam815:
If you're gonna get a "Froyo Replacement", maybe you can get a Droid Charge out of the deal ;) Yay SuperAMOLED+
[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
Oh good call on that, didnt even think about that phone as a possibility
[Fascinate General] tyvallely:
Thats strange because I wanted to get a Thunderbolt for a replacement and they said you can only get a replacement thunderbolt if you have a defective thunderbolt. The Incredible 2 comes out April 28th as well.
[Fascinate General] nitsuj17:
and probably no roms or kernels either...given that no one is gonna buy it
[Fascinate General] aviationrey:
Good Luck.

They wouldn't budge with me from the offer of signing another 2 year contract with a Droid X
[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
They already offered to just swap me to the DX. My roommate has that phone and I really dont like it. Well, at least not compared to the Fascinate
[Fascinate General] Syn Ack:
It's hard to get away from a damn good looking slim phone that has an amazing screen isn't it?
[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
Alright so Update

I Spoke to VZW last night, and after alot of "venting" on my end they were willing to get me a new phone......... The Thunderbolt! :eek::D

The only catch is that I had to renew my contract for 2 years, which is okay because I was 4 months into this one. Once I get I will either give the phone to a family member for super cheap or just sell it and recoop the cost.

The rep who I spoke with was not willing/able to do anything for me. I just asked for a supervisor, and miraculously the rep came back after a short hold time and said the supervisor is in a good mood so they will let you upgrade as long as you reup your 2 year. So i guess long story short just start escalating the call if you get any push back
[Fascinate General] Kevin Gossett:
I just don't understand giving up on such a great device because of a lack of an update. I understand the principle of a company supporting it's hardware, be it Samsung or Verizon, but I still think it is silly to go to all this trouble just on principle. What does the Thunderbolt have that the Fascinate doesn't (besides the obvious, 2.2 and 4G)? To each his own, I guess.
[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
Well look at it this way I got a new phone for a great price as well as I am still able to keep my Fascinate or sell it. When/if Froyo ever comes out and I still have the Phone I can always switch back to it.

I want to make it clear I love my Fascinate, if for nothing else the screen is amazing. I have never really had any issues with it, except for the usual gps taking a while to connect, and it freezing which attribute to sftware not hardware.
[Fascinate General] thornbe:
You can switch it out tomorrow, because Verizon announced via Twitter the Fascinate gets Froyo on April 21st. :)

#Froyo update for #Samsung Fascinate begins tomorrow! Get all the froyo info here! Software Update: Samsung Fascinate #verizonwireless #android

- Tim
[Fascinate General] chikmagnet:
Just saw it!
[Fascinate General] Jeremiah56088:
Ill be honest, you have no idea what you do to yourself with demanding another phone. You pretty much screw yourself out of other early options in the future. Also, vzw actually has little control over the software release schedule, but what control they do have is used to make sure the device works and doesnt have issues once the.software has been released to the general public. Why in the hell do you think they wait? Just to be mean? Oh and just wait, you are going to enjoy the tbolt until a gingerbread update comes out for the other phones and htc takes forever.to get it to the.device....lol
[Nexus One General] fl13dl1c3:
Hey guys, currently have a gingerbreak stock N1 that's been getting really low upload speeds. Averages about 200kb/s over 3g, even with really good signal. 2-3mb/s download speeds with 125 ping and I still get such low upload speeds.

I wouldn't be making such a fuss over this if it wasn't for the fact that I had 1+mb/s upload speeds just a month ago. The last time I used speedtest.net app I had over 1mb/s upload speed, but now it won't go over 200kb/s.

Anyone else experiencing this? I think I have a reasoning, but not sure if there's much merit behind it.

So when the Motorola Atrix came out, I bought it on contract, used it for a bit, and returned it since I was unsatisfied. When I returned the phone, the sales associate asked me what phone I was using now, after I returned the Atrix. I told him it was the N1 and that was it. Previous to signing the contract for the Atrix, AT&T had no idea what phone I had. But now that they do, I'm afraid they might be doing something on their end to affect my upload speeds like they do to all of their Android phones.

So that just leaves me to ask you guys, is anyone else experiencing this? Do you think AT&T is behind this garbage? Or do you think this is a hardware problem? Thanks guys.
[Nexus One General] player911:
Didnt they just get caught limiting the upload on the atrix and others just recently? They said they were gonna put out "patches" to fix the problems. Sounds like they are just limiting it all-around
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
What ROM are you using? Cause sometimes the ROM will change your build.prop from hsxpa=3 back to 2. Check your build prop and make sure that line is correct, cause if not upload will be capped at 384kbps.
[Nexus One General] khaytsus:
He's using "gingerbreak stock N1" ;)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flhotboiocala:
my windows phone has a voicemail icon to hit to goto voicemail and it also has a number in it that tells you how many voicemails you have. anyway the developers could configure this into the roms that the make. this would be very much appreciated by many people....
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WiredPirate:
Try Google Voice, its awesome.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emcp422:
does any one know where i can find a stock PC36IMG.zip that is rooted for the latest ota
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
http://goo-inside.me/evo/stock/ruu/ download the 3.70 .zip one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kd0axs:
Aren't those completely stock and not rooted?

If you want a stock rooted PC36IMG, your best bet would be the Sprint Lovers ROM. It's about 99.9% stock and comes as a PC36IMG.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
I know for a fact that these are rooted versions of the 3.70 OTA because I have personally flashed both the ODEXED and DEODEXED versions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=874251

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=874251

or Sprint Lovers or Ricism78s Stock Turbo.

Edit: Beat me to it and I have flashed both too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
oh didn't see 'rooted' my bad.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
lol....It's all good, my friend.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
I'm usually the one guilty of missing something....lol....Whew! I feel better now....:)....I'm just having fun, my friend.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
lol. yea i should read better man so dissapointed...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emcp422:
thanks for the help, sprint lover rom it is :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
I highly recommend you download and flash the stock ODEXED 3.70 rom listed in the link I provided earlier if you want "exactly" the rom you had when you purchased your EVO (rooted, of course).

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artie-chimney:
Do I need to install one of these to complete an OTA update?

I am totally new to xda, though fairly technically adept with years of Linux experience, which is to say, I am not clueless, but I'm totally lost with this.:o

I rooted my evo with unrevoked3. I installed unrevoked-forever. I did not install a custom ROM (unless one of the above processes installed one for me). I tried to install the 4.22.651.2 update OTA, but after the progress bar got a third of the way, the package on the screen turned into a warning symbol + android, and just stayed there until I did a battery pull.

I am clueless as to what to do next to allow the OTA update to install. Do I need to install one of the above? Do I need to S-on?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
you need s-on and to unroot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artie-chimney:
Thanks

I suppose I unroot by installing the stock PC36IMG.zip?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
yep. but make sure to flash the unrevoked s-on tool first. otherwise, you will be stuck with no recovery and an unrooted rom but with s-off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
...but if you want to be rooted, just flash the rooted version of the stock rom. You can keep s-off, that way if you change your mind and want to go back to root, you can just flash recovery and then flash a rom. If you don't want to be rooted anymore, or don't mind waiting for a root exploit, go ahead and flash the s-on zip. At the moment Unrevoked, or anything else for that matter, can not root the OTA if you're s-on.

(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artie-chimney:
A few more questions

Ahhh... So I won't be able to be rooted and use the OTA update for now? I thought I could unroot, install the update, and root again.

I don't use any custom ROMs. Heck, I haven't even changed the original wallpaper. I rooted just for Wireless Tether, Titanium Backup and to use the Root Uninstaller to get rid of the pre-installed apps I didn't want.

I really appreciate the help. I am less confused about the process now, but more confused about aligning my technical goals with what I want to do with my phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
No. If you unroot and install the OTA, you cannot root again. There is no method yet.

You're best bet is to stay rooted and flash the Stock/Rooted ROM
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ren McCourtey:
Hello everybody..I have weirdest question, weirdest because it seems nobody asked it before, which means I'm blind or dumb or both not to know. I just gave away new Archos 70 after ten days, not being happy with speed and such and exchange it for Galaxy Tab. So my only experience with Android comes from those 10 day with Archos, still it seems so intuitive. How do I get the Tab online?

I mean, I have one of those without 3G module and public wifi sux so it's obvious to have your tablet/PDA connected to your mobile phone over bluetooth, isn't it? Where is this tethering option which I used on Archos?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ren McCourtey:
Nothing, really? Do you all have a 3G module equiped model..? Maybe I should exchange it one more time.:-/
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StarLog:
Not sure why ppl get the wifi version, when it is so much fun to use the SGT as a phone and tab.

The only option you have with current tab is to run with wifi thru AP's or hotspots.

I would exchange for the 3G version if you have the banana's
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ren McCourtey:
Thanks, StarLog. Well, honestly, wifi version is way cheaper here, but that's not the only reason. I definitely do not plan to use it as a phone, I have my phone already and this is tablet. I am not going to carry it with me on every step as I do with my phone. Also, I already have data plan with my provider, why should I buy a second one especially when providers here do not mind at all? And bluetooth data connection is very common thing, I just can't believe it is not available with Galaxy.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aibo:
Why bluetooth and not wifi ? Tethering is working fine. All you have to do is activate the mobile hotspot on your phone then connect the tab to it. I tried with a gsm gtab and a htc hd2 with android.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pendevous:
Actually, I don't use my tab as a phone, bt I do want the always on experience, opting me to go after the 3G one. For the hotspot, you can root your tab, and then grab the wifi tether app.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
Doesn't your Tab have the standard WiFi Hotspot?

Regards,

Dave
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slagdude76:
I really need help on 2 questions.... I Have searched the forums but can't find what I need.#1.Do I need to unroot before calling in to activate?

#2. My USB port works, except for charging....Help..:o
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
No but you need to be on a sense rom.

ok what troubleshooting steps have you done? Have you tried a new charger? A new cable? Does it work with the AC charger? Does it charge on usb?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slagdude76:
Sorry bout the wait... I am running Kings R3...

My battery, in the notification bar has an exclamation point, in the battery stats, however, it shows around 40%?? I think i should be fine to call in to get service, but I'll wait on your response.... I tried charging via computer, then wall, then car charger. Depleted evry time. I reflashed current rom in recovery, clockwork... Same thing in notification bar.....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slagdude76:
OK, so I think I found the problem with the whole battery thing... I went to a Verison store today, B/C there is no Sprint store around. I bought a Battery for an HTC verison phone thinking it would be compatable.WRONG. Had my wife try Battery in her phone and it did not charge, and showed the exact same Symble in her notifification bar... Ordered one off of ebay yesterday, wont be in for a couple of days....Her phone isn't rooted and I use her battery just fine.. Kinda Panicked on that one, I guess.Anyone know comp. Bat? Att, Ver?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
You should only use htc evo batteries in the htc evo...
[Samsung Mesmerize] jpaulwaite:
THESE ROMS ARE FASCINATE ROMS. DO NOT USE THEM UNLESS YOU ARE RUNNING THE FOLLOWING:

EC01 (ED01) Fascinate Radio

Fascinate Kernel

IF YOU ARE NOT USING ALL OF THE ABOVE DO NOT FLASH THESE ROMS

See dfgas' post here for getting ec01 set up intially

Now that you've been properly warned, here's my intro:

I am not the creator of these roms. I merely edited the necessary files to make them work for mesmerize users running ec01 setup. These rom's have been bug tested and are being developed by the fascinate guys, they will get issues resolved as they are able. Since we are using their firmware, we may have bugs or issues that they may not be experiencing and those should be kept to this forum.

Any and all risk and liability is on you. If your phone breaks, call the wahmbulance. I've tested all these roms on my phone so they worked when I upped them.

These roms are for USCC users only, on mesmerize phones running TW kernels.

See original fascinate threads for installation methods.

***DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE ROMS FROM THE ORIGINAL THREAD LINKS. THEY ARE NOT EDITED FOR THIS SETUP. THESE LINKS ARE PROVIDED FOR INSTRUCTION ONLY.

DOWNLOAD FILES MARKED "DOWNLOAD FIXED ROM HERE" ONLY****

***DISABLE LAGFIX BEFORE DOING ANYTHING AND DON'T RESTART IT UNTIL YOU ARE FINISHED***

First up, Blackhole 4.4 (Original Fascinate Thread), courtesy of sonofskywalker3

Thank/smack him for what does/does not work

Download Fixed Rom Here

Next we have Nameless V3 (Original Fascinate Thread), courtesy of navenedrob

Lick/Punch him for what does/does not work

Download Fixed Rom Here

And lastly for now, we have Evil Fascination EC01 Debloated (will get the release up today) (Original Fascinate Thread), courtesy of nitoglycerine33 via adrynalyne

Tickle/*****slap them for what does/does not work

Download Fixed Rom Here

That's all for today. Have fun with them, as always :-)

Thanks to dfgas for pointing me in the right direction, and all the devs who made these great roms.
[Samsung Mesmerize] XsBones:
Thanks great job
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
Any fascinate roms will work as long as we make the edits noted in the post by dfgas correct? I ask because I noticed one of the roms in this post was updated today.

*evil fascination was updated since this post.
[Samsung Mesmerize] jpaulwaite:
This is true as long as you keep your rom release/kernel in mind. Make sure any roms you use matche your kernel. I simply got these up here for folks that didn't feel comfortable editing the build.prop or moving apps on their own.
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
Okay. Thought I would check. Thanks for putting these up here.

I did one and it seems I didn't mess anything up. beginners luck I think.
[Samsung Mesmerize] shakeyourmatt:
Great work!
[Samsung Mesmerize] jpaulwaite:
Great. :-) We encourage people to dig in and try stuff. You should upload anything you do for the rest of the community as well.
[Samsung Mesmerize] shakeyourmatt:
so I got the EC01 installed....checked my regular USCell setup and everything worked still....So i went ahead and installed the OTB-Reloaded TouchWiz ver 1.1 Kernal.....everything's good......but when I tried to install the fixed Rom (evil) for Mesmerize....it just didn't work.....it said install aborted (bad)

any pointers? I'm downloading Blackhole 4.4 and am going to give that a go...

and yes, lagfix was disabled!
[Samsung Mesmerize] Cythrawl:
I tried the Evil one as well, and I got constant bootloops... I redid everything from scratch (Stock) and tried again, it got into the ROM but many FC's... Then I wipe Cache and Dalvik, and it went back to Bootloops... Tried at least 4 times..

However Blackhole works just fine using the same procedure ...:confused:

Shame because the last ROM on that list seems like the best... Oh well will try out Blackhole..

EDIT::: In fact after all that messing to get the Radio files on etc, it made no difference whatsoever on my 3G Speeds... The ping went down, but everything else is the same speed wise...still averaging out at 1mb a sec tops... :(

Well back to Stock EC10 and Mesmerize SuperClean ROM for me for now.... Was fun trying tho
[Samsung Mesmerize] jpaulwaite:
I have the same issues with otb-reloaded kernal. The original OTB worked great. My suggestion is to use jt's 4/15 release to get things going. Once you get to ec01 installed and working, then try going to a different kernel.

leave jt's kernel in place until you get your rom of choice loaded.

If all else fails, goto #samsung-mesmerize irc chat and ask those guys. :-)
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
I would, but you posted it already. I did it before I found this post.
[Samsung Mesmerize] jpaulwaite:
hey, yours may work better than mine, you never know. don't feel like you're limited by what other people have done. At least thats my perspective. :-)
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
the Evil Fascination rom has been updated. If I have time today I will try to edit it for the mez. That is unless someone does it first.

How would I go about getting it on here once it's ready for others to use?
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
Got changes made. Will test and if all goes well will put it here for others.

It is Evil Fascination ver 3.1

Version 3.2 uses CWM3 so not going to worry about it yet.
[Samsung Mesmerize] jpaulwaite:
Well, you can get yourself some webspace, like, mediafire or megaupload, upload to one of those sites, then make a thread.

You can send it to me and I can host it on my peronal server.

Or you can come up with option three on your own, lol.
[Samsung Mesmerize] davidbruington:
I'm on the mesmerize MIUI rom right now... I'd LOVE to switch to the EC01 radio if there was a MIUI rom for it... is there MIUI for the fascinate? If so maybe ill try tackling the necessary edits to use it on ec01 mesmerize.
[Samsung Mesmerize] Cythrawl:
I tried using the 4/15 release kernel with the EC01 Radio.

This is what I did:

1) Reflashed the Stock EC10 onto the mesmerize (fresh no data on it.. like out of the box)

2) Flashed Clockwork Mod and EC01 Radio to phone.. Checked it booted. Booted ok

3) Installed the JT Kernel (disabled Lagfix so it would not do any of that)

4) using CWM installed the Evil Fixed ROM from the OP

Booted, and it comes up with the boot logo.. Then does the Vibrate followed by three more Vibrates.. and reboots. keeps doing this till battery is pulled..

Then I tried wiping Cache and Dalvik, get the same thing...

Thats when I gave up.. :) after trying it three times.... :D
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
I've heard others have issues with the evil rom. I have fixed the 3.1 update and will upload it shortly. You could try that one and see if the issue is fixed.
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
Fixed version of Evil Fascination 3.1 is up.
[Samsung Mesmerize] davidbruington:
SO, I am running the EC01 radio with the fascinate MIUI ROM. all is working (to the extent of the MIUI abilities), and so far I'm happy as a clam. Ill upload the zip to megaupload as soon as I can.

EDIT: Zip file uploaded. CRAP. At first the changes I made to build.prop didnt stick, and it actually worked just fine. After making the changes and making them stick, now every time the phone boots it's sluggish and the "system" force closes. It only does it once, when you first boot. Any thoughts, anyone? It may be worth mentioning, near the bottom of the build.prop file, there was this line: "net.cdma.pppd.user=user VerizonWireless" i did not change it to anything different, like uscc or whatever... it wasnt mentioned in the needed changes.
[Samsung Mesmerize] Circlel05:
Better check dfgas's post. It says " anywhere verizon change to uscc."

This could be causing your problem.
[Samsung Mesmerize] davidbruington:
The problems I was having were related to an MIUI backup from the mesmerize version... I reflashed and didn't restore the backup, no system fc!So, the correct ZIP file for the MIUI fascinate rom for the mesmerize is RIGHT HERE
[Samsung Mesmerize] jpaulwaite:
Very nice. I finally took the kick to MIUI. it's nice, but way too much like apples mobile os for my comfort level. It's so close it's almost a rip off. It's beautifully done and the dev's are amazing...just not very original in some areas, lol.
[Samsung Mesmerize] davidbruington:
Yeah I agree, it is awfully similar to iOS. I don't know why I like it so much, but something keeps bringing me back to it. (It is with noting, I'm not much of an apple fan, I always recommend android)
[Samsung Mesmerize] ssgtrod:
So if I taught myself how to do the mes fix, would cm7 work on this radio?

sent from my SFC+FIX, EC01, voodoo enabled, Samsung Mesminate.