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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bojanmil:
Hay mate, where did you find this CSC file? I need it!

Thanks in advance!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
I search and don't see anyone else complaining...

But my P500h is new and the battery is tight and I'm continuing to have "adventure" I don't want to have when removing it.

Originally I tried a thin blade screwdriver in the holes to left and right of battery to pry the battery up. But plastic was getting chewed and at one point I had a SPARK ! LOL.

So I wrapped electrical tape around battery to help pull it out but it threatens to break the tape with the force needed.

So now I use my screwdriver carefully just under the SDCard and it works but I worry about slipping and messing something up.

So am I alone with this problem ? Any good way to "grease" the battery, but not too much ?

Thanks !
[Optimus One, P500, V General] 4silvertooth:
No problem as such. I press hard with my nail near sdcard (bottom) downword I see there's a slit on battery at that place. Press down and pull up.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
Thanks 4silvertooth; I seem to recognise your username. :)

My SDCard is at the top to left of the camera when looking from the back with Android buttons down and headphone jack up.

I don't see any slits on the battery, just a tiny ledge at the top that I guess my screwdriver catches on. But sooner or later I will wear that off.

I just removed the tape, and it might be a bit easier to remove now, although there is some dangerous battery metal showing.

Perhaps I could wrap the battery with something stronger than electrical tape... Like those fabric like things used to pop AA etc batteries out of devices.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
Well, huh... Are you sure you have the right battery inserted the right way? Because, there should not be any trouble getting it out at all. Let alone screwdrivers or anything like that needed. Goes out pretty easily with a fingernail.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
It's the battery I got with the phone, and that the sales dude installed for me, and the phone works, so yes.

I get the impression my Canadian Telus P500h (Note the 'h') is different than the P500 most of you have.

This is the phone with battery installed. To the left is the phone top, and the thin blade screwdriver is over the SDCard and pointing to where I am prying the battery out. The pens at top and bottom of the pic are where I originally pried and now have broken plastic and some semi-exposed battery metal. At top of the pic (right of the phone) is where I got the sparks.

http://img20.imageshack.us/i/img20110529053155.jpg/

This is the phone with battery removed and on it's side.

http://img225.imageshack.us/i/img20110529053318.jpg/

So I'm guessing from your descriptions of how easy it is, that there must be one or more things different on my phone.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
Looks pretty much the same except for the red piece of nonsense right below the SD card which is causing all this. Stupid design.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
You think ? It's an integral part of the back body and can't be removed without breaking stuff. Right now I can't even tell if it's the up and down or left and right that are most tight. Maybe both.

And even if it was removed, the battery has no slot at the end for a fingernail. Just a slight indentation over most of the end. With the force I need to remove the battery, I think lots of people would break their fingernail.

I've just marked this down as one of the engineering shortcuts that LG made to make a phone like this for $200. Having to pull that stupid battery out every SIM change or new ROM boot freeze is getting old fast.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
Actually, now that I opened the phone - it is exactly the same, it is just that your photo has some weird shade so the red nonsense looks like it is lifted up to the battery edge. So, not really getting what it your problem except perhaps for being clumsy. :p
[Optimus One, P500, V General] 4silvertooth:
well my battery not giving any such trouble. We have different disign here I think that's why the trouble.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
I blew up your pic and it's hard to see, but I think I see a fingernail slot in your battery by the SDCard. Mine has no slot, just a very subtle indentation.

And my battery makes a very clear SNAP sound when I push it in. Perhaps my battery is slightly different and a bit larger than P500 batteries.

My battery part # is LGIP-400N . It also says 1500 mAh 5.6 Wh 3.7v

and at bottom it says:

(T)SBPL0102301 LLL DC101203
[Optimus One, P500, V General] 4silvertooth:
Even your camera says 3.2 mine it says 3.0 so anybody with same specification would be helpfully.

The battery details are exact identical to mine.

So P500h is slightly different from P500.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] drakull:
OMG!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Stop doing this, bro! You are raping your battery!!! Seriously, this stuff is fragile! God...

I have a p500h, just like yours (3.2mp camera) and all you have to do is put you finger on the spot right below the SD Card, push your battery downwards then pull it towards you.

Please tell me this is a joke! Damn... now I'll have nightmares because of those photos.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
Just because it's easy for you doesn't make me an idiot.

No I'm afraid this is not a joke. And I've been working "seriously" with electronics/computer since I was a teen in the mid 1970's building everything from a vacuum tube transmitter to micros with the first generation of micros: SCMP, 8080...

And I've rebuilt automotive turbochargers and transmissions so I'm no mechanical klutz either.

Yes I know this is slowly wrecking the battery which I why I posted. In primary school I was the "smart kid" who was the only one to question something weird or incomplete the teacher said because everyone else didn't want to look "dumb" by asking. Same here.

My personal history aside I do exactly what you say: "put you finger on the spot right below the SD Card, push your battery downwards then pull it towards you."

It doesn't work on my phone. The battery doesn't move down that I can notice. When I try to pull it towards me it just won't budge and threatens to break my fingernail.

I note that there are two little tabs at the bottom. These seem to require the bottom to be placed first, then the top gets pushed in last. That's when I get a loud SNAP. I think whatever is making this SNAP is also what makes it so hard to remove the battery. The same SNAP was also made by the sales dude in the store when he installed the battery and I'm sure he does that hundreds of times a week.

The instructions in the manual are quite bad, IMO. They didn't even mention all the little film things that should be removed. Perhaps there is something else that needs to be removed that the manual didn't mention or that I overlooked. Just stabs in the dark here now.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
Well, PEBKAC case excluded, since noone apparently has similar problem, then either your phone is faulty or the battery is faulty. This simply is not normal, there is absolutely no need to use screwdrivers and excessive force to do this.

Would suggest to RMA the thing.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] drakull:
Well, I did not called you an idiot but your words and your need to show your electronic and mechanic knowledge tells me you felt I did so I'm sorry if my words offended you in any way, that was not my intent.

Maybe doktornotor is right and you should RMA your phone.

Best of luck!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
No problem. :) No you didn't. Just wanted to clarify my capabilities/knowledge.

>Well, PEBKAC case excluded, since noone apparently has similar problem, then either your phone is faulty or the battery is faulty. This simply is not normal, there is absolutely no need to use screwdrivers and excessive force to do this.

Yes doktornotor, I suspect you are right. I suspect it might have been a bad or out of tolerance phone/battery or perhaps excessive temps or humidity or whatever during storage and shipping.

I returned another phone to get this and they already told me I can't return this one, LOL. As defective I'm sure I could, although I'd bet they'd give me a very hard time, especially considering the damage to the battery now..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] 4silvertooth:
Well i never doubt your capabilities u are the one who made spirit fm. And have been followimg u since.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
Well, I have seen quite a bunch of phones almost impossible to even open. I recall one Nokia which I felt I will crush completely trying to remove the back cover. Tremendous force required. So trust me when I am saying that this one is about the most easy one to remove the back cover and the battery.

If it really bothers you since you are changing SIM cards frequently, would suggest going to some shop and test with another battery or two. If it is the battery, those are relatively cheap to get a replacement. If it is the phone, well... your screwdriver-scratched battery has nothing to do with that defect so you should not have any trouble trying to RMA it.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mikereidis:
Yes, some good ideas.

SIMs are not the major issue. Trying ROMs that result in boot freezes are the main reason to keep popping the battery.

I wish there was a hidden hardware reset switch on these phones somewhere.

Heck, it wouldn't be hard for the designers to make such a feature that triggered by holding power, or some combinations down for 10+ seconds.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] fratermus:
I'd buy a replacement battery off eBay for cheap. At worst you end up with the same situation and a spare battery for 5 USD or so (+ VAT or whatever y'all call it). At best you have a better-fitting battery on the cheap.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] :
This should be implementable in the bootloader image. (No, I have not had a look at the code :p however it is no different than say trigger recovery/emergency mode via a key combo.) Maybe ask @ the development sections and see what the guys can do.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
Hey XDA, been away for a while and just finished my first semester of college. Checked up on my old thread to find alot of positive things. A while back I wanted to do more with this and never got around to it, but figured it was about time I did...

The new animation starts somewhat similarly to the old one with added transition between the HTC logo and the vortex. Also after the vortex, instead of a static image at the end I've thrown together a completely new piece that will loop until the phone finally decides to start.

This version also uses JPGs rather than PNGs. I just found out JPGs could be used the other day... After optimizing the PNGs, (something that wasn't considered for the old one) this new one comes out to a total of 234MB... (one of those things that happen when you only use AfterFX for the project...) If anyone would like this anyway... Let me know and I'll put it up somewhere.

I also made a basic splash screen, something that was misadvertised with the old version. It is the first image in the attachments and can be installed thru bootloader. (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?37e8as4f4m68cwu)

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?w1ci9p2ugk7271d

If you would like the stock sound to use with this download it from the attachments below, extract the mp3 and add it to /system/media.

GIFs were 4-5MB each so heres a video instead...

[YOUTUBE]OyZsQtNX2tQ[/YOUTUBE]

Old version has been moved to http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20568970 if anyone wants to check it out.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
Thanks for the link, and if you get a chance to try it out let me know how you like it :)
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] superchilpil:
This is bad@$$! Way better then the stock bootanimation

Great work!

>--The Game--<
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Bigwidge:
How to I install this? HBoot or Recovery? I know sometimes you need to rename it to the PG0059 thing (I know it's not right) and I'm just curious before I go screwing anything up
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
I personally used clockwork recovery and did install sdcard/update.zip

Place the update.zip from the download onto the root of the sd card, then in ROM manager, reboot into recovery and install the update.

There are alternatives to this such as just putting the bootanimation.zip into the right folder using root explorer, but I ran into permission problems so I did it this way.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Bigwidge:
Thanks alot bud! Thats what I thaught but I figured I would ask before doing anything. Looks sick- thanks for posting!

EDIT: Just flashed it and it looks amazing! Definitley a keeper! I like how fast it spells "quietly brilliant" (I hate slow screens) and the animations on the boot animation is just plain awesome. ++++1
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
DUDE this is sweeet! Thanks!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
Glad you guys like it. Are you using the stock sound with it. Seems like it would work good with this, but I lost it when I flashed to the ROM I'm on >.>
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
yes stock sound and it is perfect!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Bigwidge:
Yeah same here, the stock sound works great with it
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Asmodeus6:
Is this new boot animation really 24MB? Like, I yanked it out of the update .zip because I normally move them with Root Explorer. I find easier, and I have a system to doing this where I save the old ones in the folder and just rename them. Allowing me to swap them out at will by simply altering the name of the bootanimation . zip back to that.

-Edit- NVM. I see why it's 24MB now.

Holy effing sh!t cakes! That's a lot of graphical content to run through there in the beginning. Looks awesome though!

Again, just to anyone reading this that hasn't tried this boot animation yet.

T

HIS BOOT ANIMATION IS AWESOME!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
Glad you like it. I would have done the same using root explorer, but I ran into read only and permission problems for anything i tried to use it with. And I really tryed to lower the size the best I could... It was originally 165mb, then found out it was rendering w/o compression (lossless), changed render settings managed to get to 95mb... to get it to 24mb I lowered the quality a little more and it skips every other frame. After uploading it I attempted to make it smaller but all i can do is lower the quality even more, and at 17mb it looked pretty bad.

PS- could someone link me to the stock FinalThunder.mp3 I haven't had it since I flashed my ROM
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Asmodeus6:
No I wasn't *****ing about the size. I was checking to make sure I didn't bork something up extracting it. I was just verifying as most of them are 2-6MB.

Here's the Final Thunder .mp3

I ripped it right from the system folder with RE so it should be good. Make sure you check the permissions though. As they may need to be altered to get it to jive with the way it gets read. It should be;

X-X-[0]

X-[0]-[0]

X-[0]-[0]

I think.

X meaning checked.

I had to rar it to post it.

Edit: Yes, that's the way the permissions need to be above, but when it gets extracted it changes them to;

[0]-[0]-[0]

X-X-X

X-[0]-X

So if you just drop it in there it probably WON'T WORK. Make sure you change the permissions!

Again, thanks for the awesome boot animation!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
Thanks, I just now noticed the mount r/w button at the top of root explorer >.>

I also did all of this before I saw the post edit, so I did just throw it in there, but it still worked =o

Now I can see the bootscreen everyones been thanking me for lol... Thanks again for the sound clip =)
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Asmodeus6:
Hardly a fair trade for the kick ass boot animation. :D But no problem.

Yeah, many moons ago RE owned me until I found that little mount r/w button. After finding it however it's been an extremely useful tool.

I'm surprised the MP3 worked for you actually w/o changing permissions. :shrugs: I'm leaving the warning there in case someone else downloads it for the same purpose and it doesn't.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
Which file or folder do i drop this into to make sound work. I am on gingeritis and had to delete the VZW_bootanimation and there is no sound once i swapped that boot animation out with this one?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Asmodeus6:
It's either system/media

or

system/customize/resource

But I think it's system/media

Find the bootanimation .zip and that's where the sound file should go.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
I tried putting it system/customize/resource and that didnt do anything so i will try system media I guess just put in the main file or any one of the sbu files I have

audio

GPU

weather

folders in there will try a few i guess?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
If anyone wants to try this, it is a zip of the vortex boot animation hopefully with the sound. It is for anyone running a rom that has a boot animation in the system/customize/resource folder and the boot animation is labeled VZW_bootanimation.

Let me know how it goes please

My apologies if the OP does not want this and will take down if asked

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9663029/VortexBootAnimation.zip
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] dopediculous:
I got the animation to work, but no thunder. Tried everything! I think it may be my current set up (gingeritits and imosyons 2.5.4.test.4 kernel) since day one, there's been no sound. It came with the old school PC looking bootanimation and I read somewhere that, that boot ani is supposed to sound like a disc drive spooling up with clicks n what not, but it never did. I remember on the virus Rom I had, it DID have sound and the .mp3 was called VRsound.mp3. I made my own, fixed permissions, renamed it to VRsound.mp3 and replaced it. That worked. I could be wrong, but because this ROM didn't come with sound in the first place, I just can't get it.... Oh well. Still a tight boot! sound or not! :)

4Geezy ON DopeDiculous's ROOTED TBeezy!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
I don't mind the link but my question is toward whether it would work or not.

My setup has both bootanimation.zip and FinalThunder.mp3 in /system/media.

Will it find either in your zip?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
I renamed the boot animation so it will replace a boot animation titled VZW_bootanimation.zip that is in system/customize/resource as well placed the audio file in both that location and system/media/audio/notification so in theory it should replace any like titled boot animation in the system/customize/resource and hopefully apply the sound as well.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] tumbleweed65:
Yea Ive never gotten the sound to work either on perfect storm 1.3,1.4,and now ginderitis so i just gave up....lol
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bobz1993:
I guess the use of boot sounds is dependent on your ROM. Try asking around the thread for your ROM about what the name of the sound should be and where it should be located.

Also finally got 8 posts... time to update the first post =o
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] racinwarrior:
GUYS---

IF YOU ARE ON GINGERITIS

put your mp3 sound file in /system/media and name it Noaudio.mp3

working great
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] WhiteRabbit22:
I'm on Tesla 1.7 and can't seem to get this to work. I applied it through CWM, and checked the system/media and resource/customize folders, and everything seems to be where it should be, but I still get the stock splash and animation.

I'm not worried about getting the sound working, I'd rather have it silent.

Any ideas?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] racinwarrior:
It has to be renamed VZW_bootanimation.mp3
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] racinwarrior:
hey guys----

made a boot up sound for this

just download and remove the .zip filename

place it in whatever folder and enjoy
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] WhiteRabbit22:
I tried naming it that in both places, and I tried bootanimation.zip in both places, and I've set the permissions correctly on everything. For some reason, this phone doesn't want to do custom boot animations.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] MattCropley:
i cant get this bootanimation to work.

i flash from clockworld and i cant get it to work. any ideas? im on gingeritis .
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] topcattroy:
I put this on my sd card and use clockwork to install.

It says it mounts and says it install complete.

But when i reboot its the stock boot animation.

Any ideas.

I used the one click root methode and kept my stock kernal.

help please :mad:
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] madshad:
Thanks a ton for this, I've tried many boot animations and your simple instructions made it easy for me to get the SOUND working again, looks great also.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
for this particular rom extract the boot animation from the zip then rename it to VZW_bootanimation then place it in system/customize/resource and then rename the audio to Noaudio.mp3 and place in system/media and it should all work with sound, hope this helps
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sublimaze:
@bob1993

Thanks for this sweet bootani. I was at verizon store and the rep was checking out my phone skin. I showed him your bootani and his jaw dropped :cool:
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] zodder:
This is freaking awesome! Thanks man :)
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Kc0r8y:
Nice work - Thanks for sharing
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] topcattroy:
Finally got it fwork i used camblues download with the audio already in the file

Renamed it update put it on the root of sd card and installed it with rom manager \

after rebooting into CW recovery. Installed update from sd card.:D
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
awesome, glad it worked out for you!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] thunderman98:
sound question

i have installed the update zip..and it boots up great now how do i get the sound to work? do i just place the final thunder mp3 in system/media folder? or do i have to add it to update.zip folder? and if so how do i do it .BTW great thunderbolt bootup
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] dieselhomey:
did you guys' get this working on cm7 1.4? I placed the FinalThunder.mp3 in the system\media folder and I didn't hear anything.

am I doing something wrong?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Ma1r1k2us:
I have the same thing going on.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] rayjr13:
twss

man it's so big...might have to give it a try though animation looks sweet
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sqlmotoq:
Worked great on my TBolt, sound and all..Much better than the stock animation...
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Angldvl81:
Oh my goodness...... It's sooooo pretty! Renamed Update.zip, placed in SD root and flashed cw recovery. Worked like a champ! Thx for the awesome creation!

sent using my TB and thumbs
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] rladkins25:
Can't get sound to work
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Elite Precision:
2nd Screen shot - Wallpaper

OP Great work, do you happen to have a version of that 2nd screen shot without the 4G lte lettering? I would like to use this as a wallpaper.

Thanks!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Archangel:
To the OP with your permission I would like to make this into a live wallpaper? Let me know
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] xxVAGRANTxx:
Cant get sound to work as well :confused:
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] brizey:
To get sound to work on AOSP:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1048231&highlight=cm7+boot+sound

Edit: This worked for me. I set permissions to 0644 (rw-r--r--).