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[myTouch 4G General] 3p4145:
new avenue?

Well I am in no way an expert or have enough knowledge to find an answer.. but I have some basic idea... so here it goes...

If I understand correctly, the problem is that the eMMC driver chip gets corrupt...

This chip controls the MMC0 which is (part of the chip) the actual flash upon which the phone relies to store its stuff...

No Since the issue is seen with rooted phones more often, I would imagine something that was written to the mmc0 is causing issues.. Using root explorer, i found this file on my /proc/emmc

This file seems to have the some sort of memory locations for various directories on the mmc... a corruption of this file could be a bad thing... I am not saying that this is the cause.. but if anyone with a bricked phone could get into their FS (i have no clue how) and check this file.. we could look into coming up with a generic file with memory address that are common....

Mine seems to have locations address for:

misc

recovery

boot

system

cache

userdata

devlog

pdata

There are enough smart people here... some can help me out on this..

I have a bad chip but the phone is not dead yet.. I feel like a time-bomb waiting to explode in my pocket..a nd not the first time I have had this feeling.. at least last time it felt good :P
[myTouch 4G General] saranhai:
i was able to view this through adb..

so it might work.
[myTouch 4G General] Tsassin:
I am in the same boat right now and seems to be sailing the unfriendly seas.

So I have tried all of the above and a few more things: Details here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17466262#post17466262

I also tried to push the flash in adb shell

flash_image system system

I get this error:

flash_image system system.img

Can't read device: "/dev/block/mmcblk0"

Error in reading mbr!

Now the key here is that it says error in MBR. I wonder if there is a way to rebuild the MBR? Does anyone have experience in this? Is there a utility that might do this or any other way? Would recreating the file system on this partition possibly fix it? Since you cannot mount /system or /data that might be another reason.

Any other thought or ideas....I'm open since it looks like I have a nice paper weight :P
[myTouch 4G General] Jack_sun:
I have the same issue
[myTouch 4G General] ahmadmalik88:
Any solution yet?

I'm having the same problem.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axeandink:
im trying blueputdroid and im getting an instant fc. im running a rooted epic with ACS, trying to link with my ps3. im wondering if its my rom, or the fact that playstation is undergoing extreme security messures at the moment. this app would be perfect if i could get it to work, any help would be greatly appreciated.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsmith970:
I have had a half a dozen totally stock mytouch 4gs that will run perfectly fine but about 4-6 times a day I will pull the phone out of my pocket and it will be totally unresponsive to the power and trackpad buttons. No led no button lights or anything. To get it back to normal I have to pull the battery and reboot. I just loaded virtuous fusion 1.0.6 and the problem persists.

I've tried factory resets, formatting the sd card, new sim card, turning off screen animations, clocking the cpu higher when the screen is off, and running with no apps and no google account set and none of that has helped. The only common thing between all the phones is my number and google account and it still happened after a factory reset without signing into google.

Has anyone else had this issue? Am I just extremely unlucky?

I just loaded loaded the 26.08.04.30 radio we'll see if that helps...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kimbernator:
Have you run a logcat?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsmith970:
No I'm kind of a noob at this stuff. I'm not familiar with logcat at all. Where should I start?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smatthew45:
i've had this problem as well, usually only once a day tho, the led does still work and the buttons do light up as well button the screen just wont turn back on unless the battery is pulled

i posted this in another similar thread but still no answer, i want to know whats wrong! lol :p
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewdoessuck:
I have seen this but not that bad, are you checking your phone constantly cause thats what happens to me. Lock, unlock, then the lcd doesn't light up but led, and buttons do, try loading the newest radio 26.09

Sent from my 3.0 sense Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmdmilitia13:
This happened to me once,just battery pulled & all is well.. I wanna knw what causes this too??

Mytouch 4g-white

Permrooted s-off

Root Method-gfree

CWR-3.0.2.4

Rom-Royalginger v2.1

Kernel-Ckisgen~smartass~v1.2
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
I feel like if it happened on 6 phones that often, it must be the user...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shehrammajid:
It also happened to me all the time, but ONLY on gorilla sense HD rom .....
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsmith970:
At one point I thought that too. I thought "theres no way they sent me SIX dud phones in a row." So I wiped my sd card and did a factory reset without signing into google or anything and loaded no apps and it still did it.

I noticed though that when I pull my sim card out and use it in my other mytouch 4g(which works perfectly fine with that sim) this phone will not show this issue without the sim in it. So I started thinking it might be the radio as I've tried a different sim card and that didn't work.

This is my first day with the new radio so I will report back with my results.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsmith970:
Well that didn't work. It just SODed on me twice in a half an hour.

Should I try flashing the other radios or CM7 or something? I'm wary of flashing too much as I have the dreaded M4G2E emmc serial.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smatthew45:
i also have the latest radio but still get this problem every once in a while, i almost wanna say i started noticing this after i started flashing different radios tho, first the 26.08.04.30 radio then the newest 26.09.04.26 radio
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsmith970:
Maybe I'll try the oldest one then.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsmith970:
I noticed today that if my phone becomes unresponsive and I plug it in the charging light will come on and I can boot the phone without pulling the battery. It does a full boot too not a fastboot. For some reason though if I do this it will SOD on me way quicker than usual.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcwiker05:
I think that is the issue your EMMC. I had this problem with my phone, then one time it happened when I pulled the battery it bootlooped and CWR showed me that lovely error... :( be careful. Wish we would know if your other phones had the M4G2E as well. My current phone has the other chip and I have never once had the SOD like I did on my old chip.
[Windows Mobile Themes] tmessy:
is there anyway to do this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunny03:
I have noticed that the lockscreen brightness on my SGS II is less compared to my homescreen. Is anyone else having this problem?

I have tried almost everything but haven't found any possible way to correct this.

Any help would would be highly appreciated :)

PS: My SGS II is on stock rom KE1 (Non - Rooted).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aussiebum:
I think that's a feature. Which personally I didn't notice until you mentioned but am quite happy with anyways.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunny03:
thanks for your reply. I am quite relieved so to speak. Was a little worried that my device is malfunctioning. Even I was assuming that it might be a feature of the device's UI. Just needed a confirmation :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
When you go to settings, you see an option about image analysing or something. (My phone is in Dutch, so I'm not sure if it's called like that.)

The phone adjusts brightness according to the displayed image. I notice it a lot when opening the keyboard on a page with a white background.

Edit: turning this off has no effect. I thought it had to do with this.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII with XDA Premium
[General Questions and Answers] tmessy:
anyway to do this? i have a good program i want as my default so when i press on the text link it opens up this program and not the normal windows text program...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffy2walgreens:
So I'm not sure where this setting is or how to disable it, but when I slide the slider to answer a call, then a woman's voice says there there is a call from some one and to press 1 to answer or 2 send them a message or something. Is there way to disable it? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wiley_11:
This may help. :)

If you'd like to answer calls to your Google number without pressing any numbers, simply disable call screening in your Google Voice settings. Here's how:

1. Click the gear icon at the top right of any Google Voice page, click the Voice settings link, and select the Calls tab.

2. Select the 'Off' radio button option in the Call Screening section.

3. Click Save Changes.

With call screening turned off, the first phone that picks up will get the call if you have several forwarding phones.

If a voicemail system picks up the call, any message left by the caller will not appear in your Google Voice inbox, and instead appear on the voicemail system that picked up the call (i.e. your home answering machine, your work voicemail system, etc.). You can turn off call screening on a per contact basis in your Contacts list.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffy2walgreens:
Awesome! It worked great! Thank you!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wiley_11:
Glad to help. :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Noobixide:
EDIT: I'm an idiot.
[HTC Inspire 4G] kimtyson:
Ooooooook. Good knowing this exciting news. Thanks for that.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bestofrhcp:
i have this very weird problem that happened to me a couple hours ago. i was checking a GV text and when i closed the keyboard, it seemed like the screen just died. i thought it bricked, but fastboot worked. i found out that it would do the "screen death" when i closed the keyboard. so basically, it only works when it is landscape; keyboard open so to speak. when i go back to portrait it "dies". can anyone help? is maybe because the lines inside are messed up? HELP!!!

*****solved. BAD SCREEN RIBBON*******
[Thunderbolt Accessories] Breezer23:
I purchased the Silver Metallic "Barely There Case" last week. Shipping was great - arrived in one piece.

The first thing I noticed is the color. The picture shown is nothing like the color you get. I personally am actually okay with that. The color you get is more of a black chrome finish. It's shiny/glossy but NOT a chrome like finish as the pictures would suggest.

Here are some pictures. (Pictures of case ON phone were taken with Droid Charge the ones off the phone were with the Thunderbolt)

The overall fit of the case is great. The case fits all the curves of the phone. The problem I've noticed is the left side of the case "bows" out. Maybe this is a simple defect, who knows. Regardless. If you hold it from both sides you can feel it move which also causes it to make a very slight, yet annoying noise.

Overall, it seems like a decent case. Not sure if I'd recommend it at this point however.

Sorry if this isn't that helpful as I can't say I've ever done a case review before. I will admit I am a complete case whore though. I hope vajacases makes a Thunderbolt case!

-Travis
[Thunderbolt Accessories] TBolt4Now:
I just ordered one of these off ebay in black. I hope it's not bowed, so that the phone doesn't move around inside the case. That would definitely annoy me.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] Breezer23:
Well let me clarify... The phone doesn't move around in the case. The case itself just isn't a tight enough fit so you can actual feel the case change shape.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] heffe2001:
I've got the black one at work, don't remember it moving around in the case, or it being loose, but I'll try to remember to check it tomorrow and report back.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] buickgsking:
thats pimpin'
[Thunderbolt Accessories] heffe2001:
I noticed that when the Barely There case was on, the fit wasn't perfect around the volume buttons, and it did make a tiny bit of a noise when it was gripped around that area.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] brandnewsimmy:
I grabbed a black one and love it. Sure, it doesn't provide full protection that some cases do, but the 'barely there' name is totally legit. I can't stand cases and I barely notice this one. Case is pretty good but the seam was coming apart on one corner, emailed Case-Mate and they are sending me out a new one. Great customer support! I would recommend this case to anyone who is looking for a little extra protection without making an already large phone, giant... Check out the pics I tried to show just how thin it really is. Oh and ignore all that lint... :eek:
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
... i've come to the conclusion that im the oldest one here

36

someone please make me feel young

on another note... can we just call k0's new group INC? that latin crap is too damn long
[Epic 4G General] Shoulon:
I think the mods are getting mad at us in the epic community now lol.... we've had over 5 threads locked in under 2 days. And 3 in 3 hours.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
i'm just looking to feel young again :mad:
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
INC is perfectly acceptable. Look for our tags. ;)

Here's more information, from the SRF thread.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
i just saw that lol... good to know. i love SRF and am fully behind you guys. you guys seem to support your work as much as we support you

Edit: although u may lose me to a working CM7... after all the build up i need to try it at least once
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
Good news indeed kOnane...

And 30 here...
[Epic 4G General] Shoulon:
Yes u can call it INC. Look at the video tutorials sticky. Its [INC]
[Epic 4G General] shabbypenguin:
24 this saturday :P
[Epic 4G General] CrfEpic4g:
So what's the new boot up animation. Gonna be :D lol

Sent from my Urban Legend
[Epic 4G General] Monkey Pox:
I am 40. I have employees working for me that have parents younger than me. I feel like a grandpa.
[Epic 4G General] pixlz:
happy early birthday! :D
[Epic 4G General] shabbypenguin:
gracias :D
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
I think we came to the conclusion in irc that the average age of epic users here is 17, while the mental age is more like 14.

I never would have thought that myself, at 23, am actually on the older side of members (not that 23 is old. Or 36 for that matter)

Sorry that doesn't make you feel any younger:(
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
stealing that.

i used to tell people when they asked how old i was that when i was in HS i had to break up with this girl that lived in manhatten (i live in queens for the nyers) because i wasn't allowed to call her because it was a long distance call. this is within the same city mind you. this even before pagers became popular (the ones that you would call the # and key in your phone number... no alphanumeric or any of that)

PS before any of you young wise asses ask why we just didn't IM... there was no internet back then. at least not that anyone had
[Epic 4G General] pixlz:
i remember when AOL was "cool" to have. back in 1997... was that like a thousand years ago? one song took me over an hour to download. i even dial-up dukematched with a friend for Duke Nukem 3d. i remember knowing some lucky kids who had that internet thing even earlier and they had to pay by the minute!

and before that? i read books. i remember books... they looked like these words i'm typing now, but i could flip the pages instead of sliding my finger on the screen. ;_; i miss books.

::goes to find a book::

and i'm only 30. :rolleyes:
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
from what i hear they've stopped teaching cursive writing in school now. there's kids that can't even read letters their parents wrote years ago
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
books huh? im gonna have to look that up :) sounds interesting though no finger sliding you say?
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
what happened to ACS? INC? now i have to change my signature... *sighs* and my boot ani??
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
Anyone remeber Prodigy?
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
See the link in my signature.
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
yes.. i did... okay... so... then... no new boot ani or signature banners?...
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Signature banners are to come. Boot animation's not much of a priority - it'll come with SRF's successor.

You can use this as your boot animation if you wish to change it. It matches the shutdown animation, and if you used the 2.1 SyndicateROM series you'll recognize it. Just drop it in /system/media.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
pft.. prodigy... i remember when techo was born!
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
You also fail really, really hard by calling electronic music "techno". ;)
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
too bad i dont know how to do that. lol. ill just wait for 1.1.1 or 1.2.... which will come when again :)?
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Just use something like Root Explorer. Put it on your SD card and move it.
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
can i use astro? ... lol
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Not if it doesn't do root. You can put it on your SD card and just do, in adb shell:

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
busybox mv /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
will do thanks.
[Epic 4G General] Krazy_P@:
Dude I remeber all the "cool" kids I hug out with flippin out when I talked 2 the "nerds" @ my skool, none of the "cool" kids could understand how to connect dial-up style over doomII for the first multiplayer style gaming I did... the cool kids stfu the first time they were @ my pad and saw how badass launching rockets @ someone you knew could be! Within a week of finding out that why super smart kids talked to me (and vise versa) a bunch of ppl at skool had new friends, todate I have never seen acceptance like that ina skool, Funny how videogames bring us all closer?

I'm 28 gonna be 30 in 17ish months. Yeah I still read whole books, belive it or not. I hate E-readers they give me migrains :( my dad loves his e-reader, but strangely refuses to accept texting, he uses e-mail off his Iphone like it's mms. Strange I know, even stranger my 21 year old gf's Grandma is only ~2 years older then my dad... he's 60. All these stats lately...
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
hate to tell you this but it was called techno before it was house/electronic/drum and bass/dub step etc.

dammit i can't link a youtube video
[Epic 4G General] pixlz:
Woot. Works like a charm. Thankies.

And I totally remember prodigys. The played games like chess! On boards and not websites. ;)
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
you said thanks, but did you really thank him?

Been helped? use the thanks button.
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
It's like I have an army of groupies... ;)
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
:eek:LOL:eek:
[Epic 4G General] bricky23:
50 here! First time I downloaded Linux, it took a day and ahalf. And no, I never rode a dinosaur!

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] s9ortner:
I remember when techno was born also, I was about 7 or 8 and my dad and I went to see a concert @ hart plaza in detroit. A young Juan Atkins was the opening act and everyone hated his new "tecnology music". Now, many years later Juan is hailed as grandfather of the genre. I feel older and older every year when I go to the detroit electronic music festival and see all of the little kids running around lol.
[Epic 4G General] s9ortner:
Correct, short for technology music, coined by Juan Atkins.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
39 here and the only thing that keeps me from feeling ancient is that all of my coworkers are at least 10 years older than me :)

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] daddymikey1975:
but you had one as a pet though, right ??

(I'm gonna be 36 this year)
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
I am 44 with 5 grandkids :cool:
[Epic 4G General] DexterDawg:
Sweat shop? Your not that old!
[Epic 4G General] bricky23:
His name was Bruno.

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] DexterDawg:
Absolutely, 2400bps! Wow it was cool though.

Around the same time I ran a BBS in my basement, near the end I had over 2500 users. Doesn't sound like a lot, but this is when computers were $3,000 (probably $5,000 in todays money) I remember when I subscribed to some larger usenet type servers and people could suddenly talk nationwide. Ahh the memories!

Dex
[Epic 4G General] DexterDawg:
Facepalm
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
Yah, I ran TriBBS, and one month Sprint gave me $100 in free long distance.

Connected to BBS boards all over Europe, on Sprint's dime! :D
[Epic 4G General] DexterDawg:
I had WWiV for my bbs. Long distance was so expensive back then, had USWest (Qwest now) for local and switched LD providers all the time to save money.
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG4UDR1dci0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Epic 4G General] pixlz:
i was on xda phone app, didn't have the option. corrected! thanks for reminding me! yes, i totally hit it for you too. ;)
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
My comment is not meant at the poster of this image, but more to the webhost of the image.

The webhost hijacked an xkcd comic and then modified the bottom of the original image with their unaffiliated micro banner. lol talk about lame.

On topic: Glad to see progress still being made for the future of Epic development. Makes me a happy camper. Rom/theme/add-on variety is always nice. :)
[Epic 4G General] silver03wrx:
Also used to play duke nukem 3d on dial up against friends. Lol first pc was 48.6 mhz with 8mb ram. Good times.
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
47 here - not a grandpa yet (thankfully) - still new to android/rooting/ROMing ( heck , for the past 4 years I kept telling my kids that texting takes longer than actually TALKING to someone ) - STILL enjoy reading real books and listening to what is now considered Classic Rock ( my youngest daughter who just turned 9 last month says I always tell them "that's when music was music" ... LOL ) Heck , some of my favorite bands are still jamming ; Journey / Foreigner / Styx / RUSH / Scorpions / Judas Priest / Iron Maiden and even KISS !
[Epic 4G General] austin420:
i think im 29. could be 28 though. im not sure. i forgot to count a few years ago and it got me all effed up.
[Epic 4G General] digiblur:
I miss the days of playing Battleship against my friend on the Commodore 64. You had to dial into his C64. It even had a chat screen! Awesome stuff!
[Epic 4G General] Shoulon:
Was it like day time for all of you? caue over here in california it was bed time. 5 pages over night
[Epic 4G General] Neckberg:
Maybe I just feel old. I love some Journey / Foreigner / Styx / RUSH / Scorpions / Judas Priest / Iron Maiden and even KISS. and I am only 27.
[Epic 4G General] Elite11b:
31 two kids married and a mortgage. As I read all this stuff over the past couple of day I'm leaving this morning to take my wife to the oncologist. I just say it because as soon as you get a dose of real life all the bickering over software leaks and links seems petty.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
Packard Bell 486-SX-33 4MB of Ram was the first computer I purchased. I remember paying $275 to go up to 8MB so I could run Windows 95. I had a commadore before that but my parents bought it. I started playing Wolfenstein and Doom on a Zenith 286 monochrome monitor laptop, more like table top, computer with a 2400 modem that I was using in the Army. I can barely remember using procomm for gopher, usenet, wildcat and whatever the other boards were back then.