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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] volumnus:
I have a Tilt2. Tonight the screen went black. The phone still works except the screen is dead. I have insurance. I am still five months from an upgrade.

I figure I will flash the rom back to stock and notify AT&T. I had the old Tilt before this phone. It was a tank. It survived being dropped in a pitcher of beer. I've never had to use my insurance before. Will they send me another Tilt2? Any chance they would let me upgrade early? I know they will negotiate if you are persistent. I was just wondering what you guys with more experience would try to do. Also, what phone should I press for? The Motorola Atrix looks cool, but I prefer having a keyboard.

Thanks for your help

Update:

The first customer service rep said no go on an early upgrade. It was after hours. I may try my luck with another rep tomorrow. She said the best she could do for an early upgrade would be September, which is only one month early. I will probably have to use the insurance policy. I guess I could sell the replacement phone on ebay in September when I'm eligible for a new phone. I watched a youtube video on replacing the digitizer, lcd, and screen. I wouldn't want to tackle that, and it will be just as cheap to pay the 50$ deductible for a replacement phone. At one time, the Tilt2 had a 125$ tier 2 deductible, but now, since it's old, it's a tier 1 50$ deductible phone. It still sucks though because the phone was in perfect condition when the screen went out. It's had a boxwave cover and an invisible shield screen protector from day one. It looks new.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] dirty_johnny:
May have started a slow corrosion process that poisoned the connectors on your lcd screen, slowly killing the bright life of your tilt 2 until an agonizing death months later. AND YOU DID NOTHING!!!!

*cough*

You can buy a go (prepaid) phone or find someone who has an old go phone. Pop your sim in there and you'll be functional. Assuming you tried doing a battery reset, etc.

Rumors are that ATT will be coming out with an android + keyboard phone sometime in the "near" future. You will, of course, wait as long as you can to get a new phone until giving in and selecting the Atrix. ATT will release the new android keyboard phone(s) 1 day after your 30 day return window expires. This will suck.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] volumnus:
I ordered an Inspire...

However, I think I will return to sender. I called tonight, and they told me they would let me go back to my old plan once they receive the phone. I currently have unlimited data, and they wouldn't grandfather me in.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] SpinalRemains:
I believe he was referring to the old tilt being dropped into the pitcher, not the current one that is broken. Why would he call a broken device a tank?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] redpoint73:
They will give you the unlimited plan on the Inspire, if you are persistant. Other AT&T customers have had it done, so call them again and tell them that. Ask to talk to a supervisor or escalate it. Or hang up and call again until you get a rep that will give you the unlimited plan back.

They cannot force you into a tiered/limited plan just because you upgraded your device. But they may try to make it hard for you, so you give up and eat the crap they are shoveling. Or screw people that don't know any better. Just don't give up.

They may also give you some BS about how you can't get 4G (HSPA+) and still stay on the unlimited plan. This is also garbage, as I am still on the old unlimited plan, and get HSPA+. It might be coded as a unlimited 4G plan, so ask about that. Its the exact same thing as the old unlimited plan, they are just coding it different.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Westfire:
Has anyone else had issues with the XDA App FCing when trying to post from it? I don't have the paid version although I am not sure that would make a difference? So, instead, I just view the XDA forums using the browser.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] 5[Strogino]:
I don't have Flyer, but at my eLocity A7 it forceclosed too (from february till now). It seems that developer forgot about this app.

I'm using Tapatalk instead...
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Stuke00:
I have the same problem. As long as I don't login, I can view topics. If I log in, I get force close...
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] blowntitan:
Not saying its a real fix but I did switch to the premium app and it did take care of it no more crashing for me
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Ryno_666:
Same here, only on login
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] SciFlyer:
Same here - fc after login

Switched to tapatalk

Sent from HTC Flyer using Tapatalk
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] amf:
Same here regarding XDA app FCs with Flyer...
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] trees812:
Yeap, I had the same problem but I tried it multiple times and on my 5th or 6th try its working now
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] sookieball:
Yup use tapatalk. Obviously by my Sig.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] aostl:
It's why I always post from my phone lol
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Flyer.michael:
Same here...

FCs as soon as I log in. Doesnt even save my login credentials
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] liaobp1983:
I know this issue, that's why my software number is still 1.38.xx. I encounter this issue with 2.xx software no. also dolphin browser always in medium zoom on 2.xx. So I just revert to 1.38 build. no bugs, and I don't need phone functionality.
[HTC Inspire 4G] oneonembrey:
I have a inspire 4g but I'm getting confuse about the 4g part.. I have used this hack..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=952352

-using the Rom Android revolution 4g Rom..

My question is am I getting true 4g network with these gingerbread sense Roms.. all I get is "H" and 3g.. I notice during the hack that it kept saying downgrade.. is this what they are talking about?!?!. Is it because of a lack of icons for the status bar that indicate if its 4g or not??.. if so what Rom or theme that can do the job?

Note: I really like gingerbread period. I really like very fast roms with eye candy or something that I can trick out
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
Technically none of us are. LTE is true 4 g. Best you can do is speed tests across several days with full signal and compare the speeds to full HSPA +.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ranklepup:
Also try not to pay attention to the status bar too mcuh, often times it is incorect.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mattmiller:
H+ is cosmetics. H+ is just hsdpa. That's all
[EVO 4G General] dahlinc:
pretty sweet if you are a portal fan

http://www.thinkwithportals.com/music.php
[EVO 4G General] tech7:
Nice find thanks

Sent from SprintBeaner
[EVO 4G General] dahlinc:
haha thanks to stumbleupon.com
[EVO 4G General] FicTioN_v3:
These are awesome an I'm not a fan of the game however I'm always looking for good ringtones and notification tones.

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parafly:
Does the APK for Gingerbread / Froyo work on Honeycomb? I don't mind the pattern lock but the PIN lock is so irritating.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parafly:
Bump! Still wondering if I can just install the other APK from Gingerbread... I'm assuming not.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parafly:
Nevermind, I think I found it here... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=947380

Although on install attempt I get "error parsing package"
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiredmonkey:
So you are trying to bypass security policies that your company has put in place?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bullet2300:
I am my companies sys admin and I do it lol. The stupid security is soo damn annoying on my phone and I refuse to put my work email on my tab cause of it. I couldnt handle it on my phone as I use it all day all the time... having to put it in everytime I unlock my phone drove me nuts :P

Anyhow, I fully support finding a hack for this on the TF. I would consider putting my work email on there lol.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frosty5689:
What is annoying? The inputting of a 4 digit pin? I use a 16 digit password with symbols and caps FYI
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] miomiguel:
I did a full restore on my SGA. Then I did a root. As to keep all my apps, I used Appmonster to backup and restore my apps. Problem is now, all my apps are gone from the market list, thus I cannot update my applications. Any ideas on how to fix this?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] villemann:
That's weird. After restoring the apps they should reappear in Market. I haven't used Appmonster, but I use Titanium all the time for this purpose and it always work.

Have you tried installing something new? Maybe the list in market wasn't refreshed properly?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] casiocas:
Try to install Titanium Backup from Market. There is option in menu to FIX market links to apps. Its worked for me! Try it and let me know if it worked. ;)

Like villemann sayed: I haven't used Appmonster, but I use Titanium all the time for this purpose and it always work.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] miomiguel:
I tried this exactly. and it said "Market Doctor has found no recoverable market link". :confused:

I think the reason for this is, appmonster, when it recovered my apps installed them from backup apk files it placed on my sd card. And as such the market had no idea they were being installed. but I was half expecting from posts for market to remember which apps I previously installed - only to find it remembered none.

This is such a hassle not being bale to update any of my apps. All regret

The only reason I used appmonster was because I was not yet rooted at the time.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] shadow_empire1:
try to delete your sd-card...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] casiocas:
If you see your apps in Titanium B.., try to back up them in Titanium B.. Then try to restore them with Titanium again and after that, try MARKET DOCTOR. I dont know is it helping, but you can try it. It want cost you nothing. If it not helping then... NO IDEAS from me right now!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] miomiguel:
I tried fiddling with titanium backup. I haven't gotten it to fix my market links.

But i did find a solution!

All i did was force stop the market application from the settings and cleared it's data. once i reset the Market and accept the terms. All my apps are back! YEHEY!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] casiocas:
Good to know that you fixed the problem! ;) That can maybe help others too, with similar problem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steph2:
Well i have an HTC inspire and also HD2 and a few other phones. i take care of.

Well i came across this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=982082#

I was looking at our cappys build prop and i see a few of the same lines of code.

I was wondering if any one has messed with it to gain faster data speeds. I know it works on the Inspire epic speeds.

Was hopeing to do this on our cappys. I can follow an op well but i do not know enough about the code to mess with any of it was hoping someone who knows these phone could look into it or point me to the right lines and i can give it a try.

Thanks to any who help BTW i did search forums and found nothing on this. here or on I9000 forums.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] little8020:
I do believe all that does is enable HSPA which most custom roms do, but usefull if on stock
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steph2:
No the HTC inspire comes with 4g out of the box but changeing those few lines of code gets those phones download speeds as fast if not faster the must peoples home internet. (not high speed dsl)

i have got 3200 kbps with that phone and on must peoples home wifi they see about 2800 to 3000 kbps. i would love to see those type of download speeds from my cappy

BTW both phones are on ATnT i speed test both phones side by side and it gets 1.2k higher download speeds then my cappy 1/3 better download speeds.

Be worth it for many.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
What do you think of these? And there are a lot of people here getting 5Mbps down.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigblue95z:
Is this after editing the build.prop file?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
No. This is flashing ZSJPG, running SpeedTest. Nothing Else. I used to get a little beyer with jq1 on froyo, but I can't find the pic to upload. Best I ever had was 3.50Mbps down, at noon on a saturday.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigblue95z:
Where can I find the JQ1 modem? See some places on google search, but none really look like they're from a credible source.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustinUhhh:
Right now I'm getting almost 4 down and 1.2 up running paragon rc6.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjknight9:
You can get the JQ1 modem in the Modems thread at the top of the Android Development sub-forum for the Captivate. Has a lot of Modems there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jusrertiner:
I download pretty fast
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BigHeadDog:
I own a TW Transformer but flash to US 3.1 so how to flash back to TW so that i can OTA the TW 3.1???
[Eee Pad Transformer General] VoXHTC:
What is TW?

Taiwan?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BigHeadDog:
yes taiwan...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] VoXHTC:
Srsly? I was guessing.

And you put three dots after Taiwan...

Are you srs?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BigHeadDog:
yes very serious
[Eee Pad Transformer General] frosty5689:
Downgrade using recovery by renaming the TW .13 FOTA update with the same filename described in flashing the leaked 3.1 and you should be good, keep in mind that you might need to do a factory reset or FCs will repeatedly happen.

To the guy who's obviously trolling, don't say anything if you have nothing useful to say.

Sent from my Transformer TF101
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BigHeadDog:
thanks for yr help
[Eee Pad Transformer General] avoncliff:
I have similar problem, should be ww (UK version), but flashed the 3.1 US version.

I understand the response about downgrading, but can not find the file I need.

I assume I am looking for EP101_SUPDATE.zip with a ww version in it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] frosty5689:
Just unzip the WW 3.1 update and rename the zip inside /ASUS/Update/ to EP101_SDUPDATE.zip and use the method I described above.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] avoncliff:
Thanks for quick reply.

That worked fine.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kovla:
I have a TB SKU, although I am not sure what a SKU is exactly, but it has something to do with your region, alright.

TB SKU is for Belgium, and Belgium has some weird regulations, so that Android upgrades come out later than for the rest of Europe. Now, is it safe to just take the WW SKU, rename it to EP101_SDUPDATE.zip, put it on the SD card, go into regular recovery mode and flash it?

Rooting is a good alternative of course (got su on my HTC Hero, easy stuff), but I don't have the urge to achieve root unless I actually need to. Thanks in advance, and maybe any of my country mates would share their experience.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] frosty5689:
Yes it should be fine. I would however try to locate a TB region FOTA update before doing anything just to make sure you have something to fall back on in case you need RMA (since I'm pretty sure they would consider your warranty void if you flash a different region firmware too)

It is not confirmed though as to how this will affect OTA updates pushed by ASUS later on. If they push according to MAC address, then it can be assumed they have a record of which MAC address is which SKU, so it might push the Belgium OTA update which won't let you update if you're on WW, but that is just speculation. If it comes to that point, just use nvflash method and root. You can easily unroot it too.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
As I went through the steps of rooting my phone, and reflected on the preliminary steps (specifically that of disabling the anti virus and the reason for it) it occurred to me that temp root is gained by way of a fork bomb. Can anyone explain to me how that works without just crashing the phone?
[HTC Inspire 4G] willwalk93:
If I had to guess I would say very similar to the way a brute force cryptanalysis attack functions, just much, much faster (otherwise your phone may be outdated by the time you use it!)

But since guesses aren't all that technical, here is a source. Not sure if I can post outside links on xda but I didn't see anything saying not to, just not to promote outside sites similar to xda. So... Well sorry if this is against the rules moderators. Please advise as to its acceptability.

http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2010/09/android-root-source-code-looking-at-the-c-skills/
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
No, it is simply that "rage" is a fork bomb, but it is a smart one. It forks just enough processes to fill the process table minus one. That leaves one process available and with this one open slot, it launches a shell (which runs with root privileges by default). It then tries to reduce its privilege level by running a process that lowers its privilege, but there's no available slot for this to run in so the shell ends up running as root. Rage then ends all its forks so the system doesn't crash but leaves you with a root shell.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
So, it would seem as though that the rage exploit forks the terminal app enough times that one of the instances is run as root. I'm not able to confirm this as rage is a binary rather than a script.

Maybe one of the devs will pop in and confirm or deny.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
No. Read up on what "fork" means from a C programming perspective. Fork simply duplicates the current process into two identical processes. This is how unix performed multiple tasks before threading was standardized. The processes forked by rage do nothing but fill the process table (minus 1) so that no other processes can run (well, 1 more in the case of rage) and that one available process runs a shell.

Oh, and I am a 20+ year C/C++ developer and have seen the source code for "rage" (it's remarkably simple).

Edit: Found the link to the source

http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/RageAgainstTheCage.tgz
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
I understand what a fork is, I just wasn't sure what was being forked.... but knowing what a fork bomb is, I now feel stupid.

Thanks for the link.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound condescending. And naturally, I messed that description up a little (it's been awhile since I analysed "rage"). It's actually adbd (the daemon that handles adb connections as well as handling the spawning of shells) that gets run in the one remaining slot. It ends up with root privileges so the next shell spawned by adbd is a root shell.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
Meh, I have a thick skin (I'd stay away from internet forums otherwise). And I did make a stupid statement.

I thought that the adbd exploit ran entirely from the client machine's console, that's why I thought this was a different (slightly) exploit.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
Can someone explain to me why we can't just sideload the terminal app and the rage exploit and run it against the stock ROM to gain temp root without downgrading?

I'm sure the devs did their homework, I'm just curious.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
I would like to see a rom made by you (meaning are you planning on making one).. any chance?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I actually have a custom ROM for just me on the Inspire, but I'm the maintainer of an Aria ROM over on that forum.

I was shocked, shocked I say, to see how many ROMs there are for the Inspire after I upgraded from my Aria. I don't really see much of a point as there's pretty much something for everyone already for the Inspire.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Rage will probably work on the current stock ROM (or any other ROM you might have installed) but gfree is the brains of the outfit. Gfree actually has a kernel module in its code (in binary) that it inserts into the currently running kernel to do its dirty work and it is specific to the one in the downgraded ROM. You could conceivably use a different kernel if you knew the right offsets and whatnot, but the guts of the gfree exploit rely on a specific radio version (the S-OFF code is part of the radio image). I'm sure the author of gfree could probably port it to the current Inspire setup, but since downgrading is relatively simple, I wouldn't bother if I were him.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
That is exactly the answer I was looking for. I thought that gfree was a system command specific to Android Linux.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
From what I recall, that was one of the first things attn1 tried to do, but since the radio was signed, the easiest route to go was downgrade.
[General Questions and Answers] Viamonte:
I swear to god i tried every search tool in xda and google before posting, but sometimes I cant find the pen I'm holding, so dont kill me.

I tried installing ubuntu for webtop on my Atrix, DL'd the file on the thread, ran ubuntu.exe from my PC with the Atrix on all four USB modes, debugging ON, and, of course, rooted, and here is what I get:

psneuter failed to execute properly

HALP!
[General Questions and Answers] Viamonte:
Bump!

Cmon folks, can anyone give me a hand? Its the first linux instalation I'm doing, and the first android sideloading.
[General Questions and Answers] Viamonte:
I just discovered the automated Ubuntu script needs a build much higher than my own to work (4.0.50), and there are no updates yet on my country, so... what do I do to install it?
[General Questions and Answers] glynlucas:
Hi,

I've also been trying to complete the install with the same problem... I'm using the UK version of the Atrix on Orange.

I'm trying to do the install by hand and it's not straight-forward. Once I've managed it, I'll post some instructions. In the meantime, we can wait for Orange to release a ROM update (don't hold your breath though as it takes them ages to take a perfectly good ROM and turn it into something quite so horrible as the Orange version - still keeps all those France Telecom employees in work!)
[General Questions and Answers] Viamonte:
The brazilian retail ROM has been updated, so it shouldnt be long until our operators release theirs. Nonetheless, I wouldnt be quite so sure it would hit the mark of ROM versions that Ubuntu installation needs to be automated.

My problem was right in the begining... I dont have 1GB udnerthe "used" column, rather, 500mb. And I have no idea how to change that value.
[General Questions and Answers] glynlucas:
If you the manual steps outlined by sogarth in post #4

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000316

you should get to where I currently am! The problem seems to be in getting the new disk image mounted.
[General Questions and Answers] Viamonte:
I did, but as I said, IO ran into lack of space right in the begining
[General Questions and Answers] Viamonte:
Ok so, no problem on space, but I'm really lost here. Running the first command after space check gets me several kinds of errors, one of them being that the damn ubundu.disk doesnt exist, or that I dont have acess because it is mouted as read only.

Can someone please walk me through that? I know nothing about linux =(
[General Questions and Answers] Viamonte:
Am trying the secodnary script for version .1.83, since thats what I have, but when I run adb shell from my pc, it asks for a password i have no idea what it is. =(
[General Questions and Answers] arvati:
Just to make sure: are you on a rooted device?
[HTC Inspire 4G] oneonembrey:
I loved the hyperdroid Rom.. most because of the lcd density it is set to.. can I do it to the gingerbread sense roms.. apps don't seem to work
[HTC Inspire 4G] ranklepup:
I can change my density through an app called Root Tools, I use it all the time ;)
[HTC Inspire 4G] henrybravo:
Or you can just edit /system/build.prop. The relevant line is:

ro.sf.lcd_density=xxx (240 is default)
[HTC Inspire 4G] oneonembrey:
I tried that (changing build.prop) I get bad scaling problem and some force closing on some apps
[HTC Inspire 4G] henrybravo:
I believe all that those apps do is change the build.prop setting.