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[HD2 General] backlashsid:
to your surprise 50AUD = 53.48USD :D
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
Because at the moment it's a $20 paperweight. Black screen, no charging light, won't even go to the software failed screen. I don't know anyone else with another HD2 I can use to check the battery or to use to charge it if it is dead. If worse comes to worse I'll send it off to HTC.
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
I read the tutorial a couple times and I'm guessing the phone would have to have power to do this. This puppy is dead at the moment. For all I know it was Raptured during the night.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
check the battery pins carefully for bent pins, and also, just to check, when you did the bare usb cable charging, you put neg to neg, live to live, right?(black to - red to +, , + being the outer one)

Id probably try a phone shop, see if they'l let you put a battery in for a few seconds, just to confirm if its the battery that has died, and if theyre really nice maybe theyl let you try your battery in their hd2.

If it IS the battery and you get it working, its dead simple, no goldcard or anything like that needed,, , the exclamation screen you got is from flashing an incorrect (wrong carrier/region) stock rom via sd card whilst hspl was installed, (its been removed now, by the start of teh sd card flash, thats why it gave rom update fail) and simply entering bootloader and reflashing using a rom correct for your serial will fix that.

(or indeed entering bootloader, applying hspl then flashing your chosen cooked rom and radio, , , or radio and magldr, whatever you want to do. Its a scary screen the exclamation one, but its one of the easiest to get past)
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
Yeah a phone shop is probably a good idea. There's a T-Mobile pretty close. I had an HD2 I sold last year that I had put some different ROMs on and Android so I figured if this one was stuck at the software failed screen it would be a pretty easy fix. I used it in the Yucatan for the GSM signal plus it doubles as a pretty good camera and bought this one because I'm going back. But reading the threads about it just being dead and not booting to anything makes me think it might be trashed. If it is I'm only out $20. If it's to pricey for HTC to fix it there are a couple on craigslist cheap with broken LCD's. Might try piecing 2 together.
[HD2 General] rudy173:
unfortunately looks like you've bricked the unit, you can actually resurect it by using JTAG software/hardware http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroEPU4qyuM
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
That's what I was thinking. But I didn't do it, all I did was pull the battery. If it is it's only $20
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Its not the famous tmous radio brick, unless you didnt mention something you did in your first post.

the only way it gets that kind of brick is flashing a radio from a regular HD2, the fact that the flash failed (exclamation screen) and you say you didnt try to flash anything else would point to a different problem. If the radio HAD flashed, the phone wouldnt have booted even to the excl screen.

You see, when you flash a stock rom via sd card, if hspl is installed it will allow the flash to start, but step 1 is first changing the spl(removing hspl) then the phone restarts into the new spl, and flashing continues. But because hspl is no longer there, cid checks fail and the flashing stops, so no radio gets flashed, so no radio brick.

radio bricks happen when you flash a non tmous stock rom via Goldcard or via usb whilst hspl is installed, because over USB, hspl is NOT removed at step 1 so the flashing is allowed to continue, the radio gets flashed, the phone dies.
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
You see the problem is I don't know what this guy did to it. All he said was he tried to load Android. When I picked it up in would power on and stop at the Software Failed screen. After I pulled the battery it does absolutely nothing.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
exactly, which is why im suspecting battery/battery pins/power issue, because it DID come on for you, meaning it isnt a radio brick, and the pins are very easily bent when the battery is pulled, one slight twist to the angle of rotation and the casing on the battery around the flat connectors catches the pins on the way up and out.

If he was installing android, he most likely installed magldr, which prevents teh battery from charging when the phone is off, hence me wanting to double check you were doing the USB bare wire charger correctly, because a totally dead battery won't charge in the phone, if magldr is there. And so, back to testing if its teh battery, thats what you need to confirm before you can move on,,,,, is the battery alive but flat? ten seconds with a known good battery, or a HD2 running winmo (can charge when off with winmo installed) will answer it for you.
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
Yes I made sure it was hooked up correctly. I held the wires on the terminals for what I thought would be long enough. Maybe the battery is junk? Thanks for the pointers though. I do appreciate the help.
[HD2 General] T-Macgnolia:
In my first post last night I took it you were having a issue with getting a ROM to flash. I see now your issue is not this so I do apologize.

Samsamuel has givin you some great advice. Have you tried connecting your wall charger to the HD2 and then power it on? This is how I would get my HD2 to boot back up so I could charge if I accidentally let the battery drain all the way down and I was using MAGLDR. (Not a problem anymore thanks to cLK)

Now seeing as you do not have a ROM to boot into this will not charge your battery but just maybe prove the HD2 is not dead. I agree with Samamuel about it not being bricked, I think you just have battery/power issues right now, namely the lack of power.

Go to this thread that just sprung up last Tuesday in the HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A and General forum. Read the first post as it gives a method of charging your battery when dead using MAGLDR. I have not personally tested this cause I no longer use MAGLDR. I can not promise you it works but it is worth a shot. Let us know if this worked for you and post in the thread I linked as well if it works. That thread needs a confirmation post.
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
I tried 2 different wall chargers and just tried to tip in the thread you suggested. Nothing. Even tried a PowerMat for 3 hours.
[HD2 General] backlashsid:
Does this conclude that the battery is dead ??? and you might need a new battery ?
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
It might be.
[HD2 General] backlashsid:
Then go for it :P
[HD2 General] jmac1968:
Well I put a new fully charged battery in it today and it's still dead. Tried powering on with it plugged in to a wall charger. Power button volume down, power button volume up and down, plugged into the usb on my computer. No lights, no screens. Guess I'll spend $50 and send it to Mobile Tech.
[HD2 General] T-Macgnolia:
Good choice to go wih Mobile Tech, senior member connexion2005 runs that and he is ver good. If I I ever have a problem wih my HD2(wich I hope will not) that is where I am sending mine.
[HD2 General] backlashsid:
what's that ???? :confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brd912:
I have had soo many android phones and usually i have them rooted and running the best (my opinion) rom on it within an hour. This htc evo is F'n stubborn lol i been trying to flash a rom and every time it boot loops. ive been at it for hours. any ideas?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigJohn89:
Yes, re-partition and wipe your SD card. That's been the culprit in the few cases I've seen recently...

BigJohn
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingdazy:
curious what you are flashing, first of all?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brd912:
weirdest thing. somehow i got downgraded to 2.1 and all ive done lately is root and flash recovery. i was trying to flash the 2.3 virus rom
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
you need to wipe....

if that doesn't work, then yes, repartition your sd.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] RollerCoasting:
Has anyone tried porting the camera app from a Samsung phone onto the MT3GS? I think that we could try porting the one from the Behold II, as I'm certain that they have the same screen resolution.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] NexusSlide:
it its in a .apk form it should work, i got the miui mdpi camera app working on the slide so in theory it should be doable
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] RollerCoasting:
That's what I thought.

I'm going to try to find a Behold ii stock rom and if I can figure it out, I'll extract it and post it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] SKAm69:
Does anyone know which camera app would record 800x480 video? Our proccessor is able to record 800x480 @ 30 fps. Sense 2.1 camera records 720x480.
[General Questions and Answers] SlimDan22:
I normally dont post threads asking for help, but i am at a lost on what i am doing wrong.

[BackGround]

Im stupid and forgot to use SMS Backup and Restore

I have a MyTouch 3G Slide, i had custom MTD partitions, CM 6.1.1, Switched to CM7, removed custom MTD partitions..didnt want, Went back to CM 6.1.1, reinstated MTD partitions (same size as before), Nandrod bootlooped, didnt feel like troubleshooting, because i only needed SMS's

Anyways..

So i extracted the MMSSMS.DB from my data.img

I have tried these following methods, all result in crashing the messaging program when starting and creates a new mmssms database

Tried in Recovery & While Booted

adb push mmssms.db /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/

Then i restored permissions

adb shell chown 1001 /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
adb shell chgrp 1001 /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
adb shell chmod 660 /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

I also used RootExplorer, mounted R/W, repeated the basic steps in RootExplorer

Also tried all this on a fresh install of CM 6.1.1

Also tried the above with the addition to Fixing Permissions in RomManager after pushing the file and changing permissions

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!!
[General Questions and Answers] jvassbo:
Did you ever solve this? I'm having the same problem as you're describing.. :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] catastrat:
Hi,

I couldn't find any build with Gingerbread and the new Sense 3.0. Is there any plan to have something like that for the European version?

Thanks for all the great work here!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Krendelrus:
First of all, use search.

Second, you dont have rights to make threads like this in Development section

but i'll help you

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075703
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] confar:
maybe he have mental problems... or is a blind man
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TheGeorgiaSwagger:
No, you should most likely sell your hd2. :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] casemandan:
Retard LOL
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Six6Sicks:
I hope this thread is part of tomorrow's rapture.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dianaroelofs:
If he hasnt got the rights, CLOSE/DELETE the thread, dont make fun of him....so childish

@ Krendelrus, BUT thank you for answering his question.

@ Catastrat, Good luck with youre HTC HD2, its the best phone i ever had.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] criszz:
+1 . Maybe is a kid with new toy.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] CB620:
nope not at all. only windows 6.1
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] theslam08:
They probably should put a post count limit like 50 or 100 to post in here. I think 95% of LEGIT (none of these 'posters' posting threads with OTHER devs work in it stating ohh Im doing it for him...for what reason is that?? then the actual dev cant update o.O.) devs have usually over 100, but maybe make it 50? idk I think 100 but I think 'atleast' 50.

That could help with this type situations, and should be possible with vb im sure. because they just [for whatever reason] get lost/confused and its hard on the mods.

/end speal

Mods!?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bigtall10:
FEED HIM TO THE LIONS!!!!!!!....lol...

Use search kid.....and oh yeah,,,people will eat you alive here if you don't even know where to post your material....lol
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] harrystone33:
make that me too +2 now good post man! :D lol

but yeah they roast on here for a not really great reason.. I bet you really had no idea or just ACTUALLY wanted your question answered sometimes stuff gets REALLY LOST in the Q&A forum.. but I came in here to actually help you and it seems as though somebody has pointed you in the right direction... just don't post here ever again like this I suppose? *shrugs*
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] catastrat:
Great thread, great community, great help!!!!

+1 to this thread, thank you fellas!!!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jaba_cz:
Nice provocation :-)

I suppose SOMEONE is laughing under table how HE/SHE made the community react.

:-)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] legrand29:
hey

don't blame him, he might be new in here.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] larryjr927:
Is there a hack to allow your clock to be seen on all screens. Tired of having to flip back to see time.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GuestK00306:
No, this must be done from within the applications. Ask the developer of whatever app you use to switch this on, because unless they're using a Panorama there is no need for it.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] chvybeatsford:
Any one have a working apk.....love that launcher
[Samsung Infuse 4G] pingouinfictif:
Not sure if it is the one you are looking for, but there is one here and it works on infuse
[Samsung Infuse 4G] chvybeatsford:
Is close enough... the one I liked is in continuum 5.5 from captivate..
[Samsung Infuse 4G] chvybeatsford:
It's actually called Sony arc ...

sent from Infuse but miss my captivate on cont. 5.5.... One day this can be as good...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] chvybeatsford:
Scratch that...seems this is arc to but maybe themed diff them what cont. Has.

sent from Infuse but miss my captivate on cont. 5.5.... One day this can be as good...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] samsungcaptivates:
download sgs tools from the market navigate to other apps and download arc launcher i just tested and works fine also the market fix and some other things from sgs tools work on the infuse
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rblankman:
same here, launchers from SGS tools works fine on Infuse
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jtguf87:
just wanted to say this works perfectly on my infuse. Thanks!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] VtHondaGuy08:
So i downloaded this to try and was wondering how to change the setting for it.
[Android Software Development] AlexRamallo:
Hi everyone

I have an irritating dilemma. Whenever the screen goes to sleep/locks, SOMETHING happens and then it crashes when you turn it on again.

let me clarify a bit.

My app is an opengl game. Textures are loaded on the game(logic) thread. the game thread is started by the main thread in the onCreate method.

However,

when the screen wakes up from sleep or 'unlocks' the main threads onCreate gets called again, and therefore textures are loaded again and this make the app run out of memory and crash.

and this ONLY happens when the screen locks, switching between applications works just fine.

----

my question is this:

what happens when the screen goes to sleep or locks? Why does onCreate get called multiple times, and why the hell is there like no information about this specific thing in the Android docs?

EDIT:

also, what happens to threads when the screen is off. Are they terminated or frozen or something?

THANKS!
[Android Software Development] alostpacket:
I would assume your activity is being destroyed/torn down, threads continue to run but become eligible for GC AFAIK.

You should really plan for this in your life-cycle. Do cleanup in onPause, onStop and onDestroy. And check to see if threads/ textures exist in onCreate() onResume() and onStart()

This is actually a generally good habit to be in when writing methods. If you design them in such a way that if they get called multiple times your app will react correctly anyways.

hth
[Android Software Development] killersnowman:
definitely is a good practice to assume nothing and always check for pre-existing textures, values, threads and to either decide to destroy and recreate them or to use the pre-existing values. its a good way to minimize memory leakage and values without pointers, though the vm does a good job of cleanup.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] qhinton:
I have had the Acer and Asus and honeycomb is weak. It's just too unstable, and the Transformer has too many quality problems. I tried to make the most of it, but today my Asus wouldn't boot up got stuck at the Asus screen. It's over, and as I look in this forum there are more complaints then then anything. Honeycomb is not ready and the Asus has serious quality issues. I'm waiting for webos now.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] freeza:
Quite the opposite for me. Honeycomb has been very stable and no crashes. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Itaintrite:
That's because people who are happy with their tablets don't flood the forums with new threads. Honeycomb has been anything but unstable for me. No crashes. Sure, still has video problems but that's not Honeycomb's fault.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] cowballz69:
Honeycomb FTW!!!!!!!!! sucks these forums are a good spot for crybabies lol . * just bustin blz*
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Asadroid:
yes i ****ed up my TF, yes i bought another one that i will have the next tuesday, but i never had problems with HC.... ok i lied i had my FC and other stuff, but im a CE and im so USED to computers crashing and doing weird stuff, plus i only screwed up HC when i was trying to do some anime playback :P
[Eee Pad Transformer General] husker91:
I love honeycomb as well, not one crash so far. These threads are getting really annoying.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] quietas:
While I am liking it mostly, i think the iPad is much more polished. Things like txyping on this forum are painful. Typing with two fingers is faster than the tablet can display. Then there are the apps, even things like the XDA app consistently crash. I found many which work fine and seem to cover my needs nicely, I still find my self wishing for a more polished product. And that is just honey comb.

As for the hardware I think it is lacking optimizations massivley. Againg this is a look and feel issue, the damned TF has friggin sharp edges. Mine actually gave me a small aluminum splinter. Also the sharp edged holes at the bottom make it uncomfortable to hold sometimes.

There are good things though. The battery seems to be great. I really like the screen. The fact that there is a micro sd slot is wonderful. Overall the tablet is light and durable.

I told myself i'd give it a wek like i did for the Iconia. I like things about both but i think the iPad is a better product overall.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] krighton:
not seeing any instability...works fine here.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Srikar_NBK:
HC was stable for me. I would't say HC is not ready, I would say the HC ecosystem is not ready yet. Too little apps for HC tablets :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Asadroid:
google its.... a bit bold on its modus operandi, they are developing hardware and hardware related software (AKA OS android) as if they were developing Gmail,and other aplications of google (and those are good), if you think about those you know what its comming its GOOOD

Ios its not bad, but... its simple and that helps a lot on the polishing part and its 4 year old too, its not bad i repeat nor old, its just more mature

EDIT: dont let the tablet fall, mine did hitting one corner and bye bye LCD, im still waitng for asus RMA
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dbiggss:
True. I am one of the non posters who is thrilled with the Transformer.

No doubt Honeycomb has a little ways to go, but this is the first time that I have used a tab that, to me, beats out the iPad. Since I have had the TF my IPAD has just collected dust.

The quality issues are minimal and the benefits greatly outweigh them.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] quietas:
Somethings are great. Most of what isn't will be fixed over time. Build quality issues will be resolved as different manufacturers get involved or TF 2 =)

Honeycomb apps overall can be slow though. Things like typing in this quick reply box are slow and stuttering, the halting cursor movement is very erratic. No netflix yet is annoying, but might be here eventually. In my mind I want the iPad polish on Android, but that will be in time. I'm 50/50 atm as to whether this goes back next week, if so I'll end up waiting to see what comes out this summer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Lani Kai:
Honeycomb is awesome. I was slightly worried when I read all the initial reviews bashing the XOOM, but I've had almost no issues with it. In fact the Froyo and Gingerbread that I've had running on my phone is less stable than Honeycomb on my Transformer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] droidx1978z4:
I would say that honeycomb and the transformer have both surpassed my expectations. I expected HC to have a lot more bugs than I have experienced. My first android experience was with an og droid on eclair, and until I started using what the dev community had developed, I would have killed to have my iPhone back.

I also purchased the original ipad when it came out and quickly returned it because it operated exactly the same as a big version of my iphone/iPod touch, which made it boring and usuless to me. The transformer, on the other hand, has been able to do anything that I have needed it to while also being fun. The transformer has really gotten more use than any other new gadget that I can remember, in the few weeks that I have had it. I also have not exprienced any of the quality control issues that are constantly talked about on here, other than some limited light bleed, which in my book can't really even be considered a defect.

I believe HC itself to be quite stable, as I have never had a crash/reboot. Many apps, even the supposed HC optimised apps, need some real attention to run well on HC but I don't blame the OS for that.

In short, I am very happy with HC and the quality of the transformer. The one thing that may bring me to ditch the transformer in the future is the lack of any way to use nvflash. I have partially bricked many phones and have had to use this method to restore them. Without it I don't really feel comfortable rooting and romming the thing, so for now I'm choosing to stay stock, at least until 3.1 and the constant FOTA updates are pushed out.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gadgetfann:
I'm enjoying my TF and HC more than I ever thought. I probably wouldn't have been as enthusiastic if I didn't have the keyboard dock, since typing on screen (on any tablet) is awkward. I spend more time with my TF now than I do with my laptops.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jms_uk:
The typing issue on this site and others built using the same base platform is due to how the stock browser handles it.. try switching to the classic skin or use Firefox.. works much faster IMHO :) this 'lag' issue has been mentioned here and explained many times now, and whilst its not ideal.. its a pretty isolated issue and not a real reason to generalize that 'the TF is laggy/HC is laggy' (IMHO of course - but then, I'm biased and love me my TF :) )
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Magnesus:
No crashes to me. Very stable OS. With 3.1 should be perfect.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] checkbox111:
Goodbye, have a nice life!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] qhinton:
People need to get real. You read the post just like me, I see complaint after complaint. It's a 400 dollar half baked product.70 % bad 20% good 10% don't know what to do with this thing. Good luck with the light bleed, Sharp edges, bad speakers, unresponsive screen, gaps in the corner of screen, vibrating plastic back when volume is full blast, buggy OS, no accessories available, really I want to like it too.