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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AgoeZ:
Maybe the first released of HTC Sensation had locked bootloader (but with genius devs in xda I think it eventually will be unlocked no matter how it does to works :D) that will make the phone couldn't installed with custom rom. :)

And you're absolutely right about HTC Sense. You can't leave that easily too. ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] renehd2:
Maybe i will buy the Samsung Infuse 4G and will install it LP SenseUI to get the looks like HTC sense and some of the widgets!!

what do you guys think?

or i should go fot the inspire 4G? it is a really hard decision!! :eek:

it is even more difficult than when i picked my university career xD
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AgoeZ:
If I'm not wrong Inspire 4G is Desire HD with 4G support, isn't it?

Well, this device is top of the line product from HTC before their next gen device arrive. It's great device and it was supported with a lot of devs. I think it would be enough for you. With a lot of talented devs, any new rom on HTC next gen device maybe can be ported into it. In other words, this device has a long future. :)

Regarding the option to choose between Infuse 4G or Inspire 4G:

For me Sense rom offers more feature than any other rom didn't have and the beauty of it can't be replaced, so I'll definetily pick Inspire 4G. ;)
[Thunderbolt General] mhawk71:
does anyone know how to disable the cpu settings in the bamf toolkit so i can use setcpu
[Thunderbolt General] cstrife999:
No, but I'd recommend you use bamf it's better anyways.
[Thunderbolt General] brian0488:
I just unchecked "set on boot" in the bamf toolkit and then used setcpu as normal. It seems to be working just fine.
[Thunderbolt General] mhawk71:
thanks ill try it
[Thunderbolt General] DeTard:
Just a note, if you use leankernel, I'd also suggest not using SetCPU nor the BAMF Toolkit. The speedtweak.sh script is better suited for setting the CPU speed, voltage, and governor. Also, those tools can conflict with it. If you still would prefer to use the an app, and you are using leankernel, make sure you disable CPU and voltage settings in the script (it's an option in the script's menu).
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubbamade:
Do i need to be on an Eng Bootloader (85.0.0 or whatever) to flash custom ROMS?

I followed the steps to TRUE root and s=off with no issues...but before i start flashing ROMS i wanted to know if i need to install the Engineering bootloader or can i use the normal bootloader....

is there any real benefit of a Engineering bootloader if i dont need to use it?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vabeach454:
The eng. Bootloader will save your ass when you get in a jam. You can flash roms with either though.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmdmilitia13:
Its highly recommended to take the extra steps & install the eng. Bootloader : )

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] tjlawson09:
get the engineering bootloader. nuff said.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sproket123:
Did you check your boot loader after rooting? When i rooted with visionary it change my boot loader to eng. one. :)
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kimbernator:
The visionary method basically is just flashing the eng hboot which spoofs your radio as s-off.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vabeach454:
The ROOT.SHzip is what contains the Eng Bootloader. The G-Free Method does not have the EB.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fionalindberg:
http://www.teamroyal.net/engboot.html

Yes, worth getting engineering bootloader. May save your phone more than once. Instructions at Team Royal's site.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoren:
Engineering bootloader does two things:

1. Spoofs S-OFF (as kimbernator put it)

2. Let's you use a tool called fastboot from the Android SDK to flash partitions via USB.

As stated before, root.sh script will flash engineering bootloader, whereas gfree will not, but gfree will actually turn S-OFF in the radio (as well as unlock SIM and CID if you want to) so you can flash ROMs with the stock bootloader. I recommend using gfree and then flashing engineering bootloader manually.

If you're flashing it manually, make sure you run an md5sum on that file before you flash it. If it somehow gets corrupted and you flash it, you could brick your phone (hard brick, unrecoverable).
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crawrj:
Can someone please tell me what file controls the ringer/media bar color? Some how I have gotten mine white and can't figure out how to get it back to green.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoenix-Lead:
Framework/drawable/progress_horizontal.XML. recompile and enjoy! At least that is the file in the Captivate and Inspire:)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crawrj:
Perfect! Thank you for the quick response.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crawrj:
OK so who can tell me how to figure out the color codes? The contents of that file are below. I have googled all of the #codes but can't find any of them. Can someone direct me to a place that will make sense of this?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<layer-list

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<item android:id="@id/background">

<shape>

<corners android:radius="4.659973dip" />

<gradient android:startColor="#ff989898" android:endColor="#ff686868" android:angle="270.0" android:centerColor="#ff686868" />

</shape>

</item>

<item android:id="@id/secondaryProgress">

<clip>

<shape>

<corners android:radius="4.659973dip" />

<gradient android:startColor="#5053ff53" android:endColor="#80029d02" android:angle="270.0" android:centerColor="#8030a030" />

</shape>

</clip>

</item>

<item android:id="@id/progress">

<clip>

<shape>

<corners android:radius="4.659973dip" />

<gradient android:startColor="#ff53ff53" android:endColor="#ff029d02" android:angle="270.0" android:centerColor="#ff30a030" />

</shape>

</clip>

</item>

</layer-list>
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoungBloodTheKing:
Look where it says secondary progress and progress. You got 3 color codes after them. Those 3 color codes make up the volume bar. Start, end, middle. Its self explanatory. The #ffrrggbb Ff is the transparency. Rrggbb is the actual color code and you can get the code from any photo editing software or by googling color charts.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spcking:
Exactly right that is actually some straight forward coding

Sent using my Evo 4g with Cyanogen 7 nighty 87
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crawrj:
Yeah I figured it out. I was forgetting the first two letters being transparency. Thanks for all of the help.
[Captivate General] Vettesfan:
NY sisters captivate wont receive texts she can send them but not receive. AT&T told her to download something called kaies mini (sp) to her computer and I'm not sure she was confused explaining it. Does anybody have any clue about this?

Also is there any speculation about when the update to allow sideloading is going to come for captivate?
[Captivate General] NascarFastcar:
Samsung kies mini is to update the phones firmware. Is she still running eclair? Still not being able to receive messages shouldn't be because she is running eclair. But nonetheless the phone should be updated. Heres instructions how.

http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa...ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=558&AT_ID=368733
[Captivate General] Vettesfan:
Thank you I emailed her the link and ya she is still on eclair
[Captivate General] NascarFastcar:
Glad I could be somewhat of a help. If the problem still exist I'm sure someone will come around to help you out further.
[Captivate General] Boraltis:
My Cappy did this twice before. The first one was fixed by pulling the battery while the phone was on. Powered back on and got flooded with all my missed texts. Second time, I had to put my SIM in another phone, got the flood, put it back and everything was normal.
[Captivate General] Vettesfan:
Thanks I told her to try the battery trick and it didn't work and unfortunately she dont have another att phone around yo stick the Sim in so she will go to the store and try it tomorrow
[Captivate General] bp787:
she can call the carrier up and have them basically re-activate the phone. I've done this 3 times to fix the same problem.
[Captivate General] Boraltis:
When I had to do it, I just put the SIM in a buddy at work's P.O.S. RAZR. Worked like a charm. She must know SOMEONE who has AT&T. Just borrow theirs for a minute. :)

Sent from parts unknown.
[Captivate General] sanderswm:
Check the "Message Centre" section on the SMS settings. When I left the country and came back it wiped this number from my phone making everything fail. Probably not the issue but might be a good idea to check.
[Captivate General] boborone:
Did you try searching?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824213

Next time please post in Q&A
[Vibrant General] symbit:
Title explains it all, basically there is no audio in or out with CM7 nightly #11 on my vibrant. Calls still do go through however.

Would I be better off flashing back to an older nightly, or is there a fix for this problem. Searching the CM7 for Vibrant thread on the Android Development section didn't turn anything up, or I might have missed it.

Thanks guys!
[Vibrant General] geoffcorey:
You didn't search the vibrant CM7 section enough, nor have you searched the CM7 q&a section nearly enough. This is a onown issue on nightly builds #9-11, and there isn't a new official nightly yet, (I'm talking about a nightly built by the cm buildbot, not the one atinm has posted to sourceforge for the time being).

But yeah, there is no reason for this thread to exist.
[Vibrant General] treyvaporizer:
+1

I have seen this soooo many times. Geezus
[Vibrant General] movieaddict:
No words for how funny this is.
[Vibrant General] imitebewrong:
I really hate to troll..... But this is ridiculous. You really couldn't have put much effort into searching the cm7 thread. Its repeated so many times it practically slaps you in the face when you open the thread.

Please delete this thread.
[Vibrant General] Moped_Ryder:
To quote the great Whitehawkx...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scroach:
Hey guys I'm really desperate right now...

I don't know what to to, I can't boot my Desire, I can't get into recovery, just fastboot is working. I'm always stuck on the splashscreen.

To begin with the story, I rooted my Desire months ago, flashed a new rom from time to time and everything worked fine. So yesterday I wanted to try out RCMix S CM7 where the FAQ said i need S-OFF.

So this also worked quite fine. But then I got problems partitioning my SDCard (dont know what why or so, my Desire didnt recognize it anymore)

Today I tried again but I made it even worse, now I can't boot my Rom anymore and I can't get into Recovery. So what should I do? I searched the internet for hours now and tried nearly everything.

I tried to flash an official RUU, in fact this one: RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe

Becaus the others were too "old". But when I tried starting this one it couldnt detect my desire. USB connecion error.

But still it seems it flashed a new hboot because now I am S-ON again.

Then I tried to flash a Stock ROM via fastboot, which first failed because it wasn't signed and the second one failed because android-info.txt and android-product.txt were missing.

I tried to flash the recovery again but it's still stuck on the splashcreen.

I don't know what to do anymore... could you PLS help me? Or is my Desire now bricked?? :(

What can I do, or try...?

greets patrick
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul.c:
If fastboot is working you should be pretty much safe. It seems like you got an usb brick. Try this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=691187
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhonybravo4u:
My Suggestion ... Create a Goldcard beofre doing anything.. once done you can put PB99IMG.zip into ur SD card and it will flash automatic once you goto fastboot... but Goldcard is a must for this.. if you dont knw search how to create goldcard.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhonybravo4u:
For Goldcard

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...gold-card-for-htc-desire-without-hex-editing/

or

http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul.c:
Pat, is your phone branded ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dennis.l:
Flash the correct RUU for your phone (one that came with your phone originally), it does not really matter how old it is. after you done that your should get back to stock you can re-root it and then load the firmware you want.

if you don't know what your phone came with originally. then you will need a goldcard to get back to stock
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scroach:
@paul.c: nope it isn't branded

@dennis.l: I can't! I tried some of this list: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695667

The old ones with 1.15 and 1.21 started, but didn't work because it said they are too old or something like that.

RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4. 05.00.11_release_122704.exe

RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe

Then I tried the newer one with FroYo, but this one throw and error saying it can't even find or connect to my phone.

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release

So what I've read so far I definitely need a goldcard right?

But all those manuals say I have to boot up and activate USB Debugging Mode... but I cant boot up a rom. The only thing that is working right now is fastboot.

Is it possible to make a goldcard without booting up? Or do I have to get a working Desire to make the goldcard?

I haven't got a cardreader either but seems I've got to get one.

Right now I'm not at home so can just try it in the evening.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul.c:
You don't need goldcard for unbranded phones.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhonybravo4u:
Even Unbranded phone requires goldcard to be able to flash any RUU...

So I prefer you create goldcard.. and yehs you can create goldcard without booting..

If you have anyone with android mobile.. goto market and search for goldcard helper.. and insert you memory card in that phone.. and run the goldcard helper.. it will give you the reverse CID .. whcih you can use to create goldcard... but you will require a card reader for sure..... just try your luck with your current phone.. just plug in the phone and run the Goldcard tool.. and check if your phone is detecting
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scroach:
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!

You saved my life! xD

I made a goldcard as you said with the help of a friend and his desire. Then I put it my phone and suddenly I could flash the newest Stock ROM :)

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release

So everything went great, I've got root again, a working stock rom and I'm able to start recovery mode again.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! :D:D:D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul.c:
I'm glad to hear that. Sorry, it seems that I have to learn more.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhonybravo4u:
Anytime Bro:)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
I recently experienced a similar problem. And all the stuff you described wrong with your phone is the same on mine.

What I want to know is how to get back to stock and all that? A step by step guide would be very much apreciated..

I tried following this guide:http: //xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=691639

but as I try to enable my sdcard it get an error:

"The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem".

I recently installed the JDK and just downloaded the newest android SDK to work with.

Besides I'm considering whether I'm doing this right. I do have to use the CMDprompt right? and direct it to my androidsdk/tools directory?

I'm pretty much new to messing around with my phone through the CMD though. Please be gentle when you describe any methods that might work..?

Regards,

Me
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rageypeep:
Adbwinapi.dll was moved to the platform-tools dir in the android sdk and the sdk path in Windows hasn't be updated. In win xp right click my computer, go to system then click the system variables button. Find "path" and change it to point in to the "platform-tools" folder... Note I'm not at my pc so I can't remember 100% what tab the system variables button is on :-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul.c:
Stumbled into the same problem. Just download it from the internet.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fragargon:
hi,

rage is right, better declare environnement variable, right click comupter - select properties - windows select advanced and you should see variable environnement. just add the path where adb is installed... mine is the following defaut path(C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools) + (C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools) should add the in the user environ... name = path variable= the 2 path separated by a ;

;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
Well I got desperate and I think that I've totally bricked my phone. I was going to a family arrangement and I didn't know the way so I was hoping that flashing the original RUU, would make me able to use the phone and the navigation in it, while starting the phone in fastboot would help. Seems it didn't. The RUU I tried to install seems it was a wrong one (here to say that I tried flashing it through the installer on my pc), but this was stated pretty late in the installation process.. where the guide told me to install a proper one.

My phone is now totally unresponsive. It won't even charge. When I hold the power button it just vibrates once and then nothing else happens.

Is it bricked? If so, does anyone know what my chances are with my warranty? Now that I've had it rooted and stuff, does my warrenty then expire and can they "track" the rooting part if I hand in it to their support?

Best of regards,

Me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rageypeep:
only guessing but if NOTHING turns on or boots, as in you just see a black screen then there is not going to be a way for any one to know the phone was rooted ;)

try taking it back on warranty :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
I thought the same thing myself. Since it's unable to boot into the "recovery" menu by holding down "power + volume down" I guess it's not rooted anymore anyhow. During the RUU installation I noticed that it was installing a new "image-something" which I'm guessing means that it was writing over the root and recovery after which the installation failed.

Anyhow I'll try that and hope for the best. Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] status_six:
Are you able to recognise the phone in adb at all?

From what I know it's very rare to completely brick unless you are flashing hboots or radios.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
@scroach:

You do this so: Connect phone in usb debugging and in mode only charge to computer, start abd and type

and enter.

Now there should appear a line with your desire's serial number.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
Well I have just changed the path of my tools directory in Windows but it doesn't seem to change the fact that I get this stupid Adb-error thingy.

First of all I can't boot up my phone so it's hard to connect it in usb debugging mode..

How do you start adb in details.. detailed description please..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
First question: If you don't boot the rom (so maybe you are in hboot or fastboot mode) you cannot put the phone in debug mode, so there is no need for this.

Second question: SUroot has written a very good faq about adb here:

http://androidforums.com/desire-all...fastboot-windows-updated-1st-june-2011-a.html
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
Thank you sooooo much. That was really helpfull!

Well as a result my pc can't even find my phone.

Running "adb shell" gives "error: device not found", and "adb devices" gives "List of devices attached" after which there's just an empty line..

Does this mean that fastboot is not enabled and that there is no more hope for my desire than to hand it in to the tech support at my HTC store?

EDIT: Somehow something new has happened. I don't know why and when, but when I woke this morning trying to do the above I plugged in my phone to my PC and now suddently the LED started to light up. Seems like the phone is charging now, which it wasn't even able to do before. Just thought you ought to know.

I'll let it charge for now and see if it could be the battery that has something wrong with it though I think not.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Open another thread for your problem, where you exactly describe whats your problem.

I can only tell you, if you boot your phone into fastboot, going into android sdk folder and typing

fastboot should see your phone (in windows should be so).

adb does not seem to work if not in rom.

But i do not guarantee for any knowledge about this given here! Ask/google/search here before you do anything!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parva4:
Having gone through the pain of a USB brick and learning ADB and stuff I also came across the device not recognised issue. You can totally ignore that! I have even documented what I did to ensure that I can remember how I fixed it if I break the phone again! Here you go :-

The reason for the 'path' command is that it isn't (or wasn't on my PC) automatically set so running fastboot from the directory failed to find adb which ran from another directory.

That should at least have your SD card up and running and with luck you won't have a USB brick too.

EDIT: Change the dir's I've used to reflect where yours are. Report back if you need further instructions on flashing the unbricking stuff.

EDIT 2:

If you can't get into fastboot via the back button + power then all of my advice is a moot point, it's dead. :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parva4:
Ignore this. adb devices also gave me a blank line, aka no devices connected. Follow my instructions above.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
Yeah. This is exactly my problem. I can in no way boot the phone. Fastboot doesn't work. Normal boot doesn't work. Nothing at all.

I'll try and run (install) a new RUU while the phone is connected when I get home, but other than that I'm all out of options as far as I can see on behalf of surfing the internet for a couple of hours..

EDIT 1:

I'll create a new (fresh) thread meanwhile which I will link to this thread as soon as I have time.

EDIT 2:

link: [Q] Did I brick my desire?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cam123:
Running stock, with installed music player. Everything works fine when using just the phone. It works when I run a line-out to my car stereo. When I use earbuds, multiple ones now, I will eventually encounter this problem.

It may take more than an hour but, eventually, the player starts skipping around. It will play 1-5 seconds of anything and then repeat or skip. Also, I only use earbuds (one, really) is when I ride my bike. The ride with the handset in the front pocket of my shorts. At first, I thought there might be an issue with the contacts but this will occur even if I'm standing still.

I've read some threads in other folders but have not found the solution. Has anyone else experienced this?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burtcom:
Hard to say what might be causing this. I don't use the stock player -- can it be set to skip forwards or backwards when the hardware volume buttons are pressed? Could these or some other button be pressed while you are riding? Is something touching the Dpad while you are riding?

On some audio players, it can be made to automatically pause if the jack is removed -- does the stock player do this?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cam123:
No buttons pushed and the phone is locked.