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[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
afaik Vodafone's exclusivity will end in mid July. ENG H-BOOT is useless for S-ON users is just a little extra after we s-off to save us some trouble, but with my limited knowledge a leaked eng h-boot.img will help only if we are able to s-off 1st
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
It's useless for S-ON users unless someone can find an eMMC exploit to flash it. Then it might be useful.
[HTC Sensation] i900frenchaddict:
I hope we'll have quick feedback from the 10 lucky ones.

I also wish their names could be displayed in the 1st post...
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
Me is one of them :)

I will definitely post feedback about it when Raskal releases a software update that works for the Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] boostedb16b:
tmo usa sensation s-on

well no luck in getting a tmousa sensation with s-off so i have to wait on htc or raskal
[HTC Sensation] atticus182:
Well I'm also one of the lucky ones.

Haven't received a tracking number or anything though...
[HTC Sensation] MiKA7:
I am one too :)

Hope I can bring some good news soon..

But now we know 3.. who could the rest be :p
[HTC Sensation] capychimp:
does it really matter who it is?

man what matters is if it works, who cares who is who, be on topic it's about the work not who is what, when you know who it is, does it unlock your device by that info? no who it is matters for the dev lol
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
Same here, but I'm sure I saw him post somewhere that it was a public holiday for him on monday
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
Does anyone know when he will ship the clips? He didn't respond yet to the email I sent him with my address etc. ...
[HTC Sensation] ugrubni:
I am also one of the lucky guys. If we get it to work i can help some austrian xda users with my credits.
[HTC Sensation] EnhancerFIN:
Neither did on my email, let him take his time :). I'll be handling Finnish xtc clip testing and taking the message to local enthusiast.
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
I totally agree :). We just thought we would find each other and share if we got our tracking numbers etc.. The most important thing is to get it working of course.
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Not had a tracking number yet, but I'm sure he will send it soon. Only emailed my address this morning!
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
Re: XTC

Me Too.

im one of the lucky ones too. still no tracking number
[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
i think raskal will send the clips when is close to finish the update for sensation, there is no point in sending them now.
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
I think the idea was to have us to test the beta software releases so we can tell him if they work correctly and what works / doesn't work so he can improve the software and finally release the final update.
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Yeah, we are beta testing the Sensation unlocking to check it works with more than one device :)

While also testing the functions of the PayG XTC Clip
[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
ok then, my understanding was incorrect. Waiting for the clip :)
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
me too. im waiting for a clip too.
[HTC Sensation] jerrylzy:
Just a real picture..Who knows how to do it..

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[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
you're telling us you s-offed your phone ?
[HTC Sensation] jerrylzy:
Not me:( But it is definately we can s-off it..
[HTC Sensation] ClydeB1:
Not yet, some people have just been lucky enough to get an s-off device.
[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
i've thought you hit the jackpot. where did you find that pic. i'm interested if the phone was s-on and that user s-off it somehow, if he bought it already s-off no much use to us
[HTC Sensation] xboarder56:
just wanted to let everyone know im also one of the testers for raskle and the payg clip
[HTC Sensation] jerrylzy:
somebody uses white card to s-off it..And i can't find it anywhere.

I think no possible to buy an s-off phone from htc
[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
where did you find that pic and reference about "white card" :)
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
"White card" is kind of what the XTC Clip does as far as I know. It acts like a "super SIM" from HTC, and can do anything to the phone.

That's my understanding of how raskal gets it to work :)
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
Wanna know this too :)

"white card" on Google doesn't return anything relevant either. I know that's somehow related to the way XTC Clip works but more info is always welcome. ;)
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Where did you find the pic mate? That's important.
[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
is the 1st time i hear about that :) ,where do we find one ?
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
I just read that it's also known as "HTC Factory Card", "HTC Mega Card" and "HTC Mega SIM". With this card inserted into the sim slot you can start a diagnostic mode where you are able to run commands at a very low level of the system and achieve S-OFF, sim-unlock, super cid and everything else the XTC Clip does by simulating a white card. That's what I understood from a little Googling on the different names of this card :).

And @jerrylzy, please tell us where you found the pic you posted before.
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
It's called an XTC Clip ;)

XTC Clip basically "creates" an HTC Mega SIM, white card, whatever you want to call it :)
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
Here's an original white card in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFqGKzrtyg

Found this on youtube :D The XTC basically simulates a white card and of course it's easier to get one because real ones like these seem to be very rare.
[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
probably they are just issued to htc services thats why they are so rare, now only i knew someone who works in a htc service :D
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
Oh, and they are white too :p
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Yup, that's what I meant to say.

The XTC Clip simulates a white card, allowing a hardware unlock :)
[HTC Sensation] xboarder56:
just recived tracking number from raskle will have it towmarrow by 12:00pm :) cant wait to test when i get my sensation on friday :D
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Ah nice mate. Not received mine yet :(
[HTC Sensation] eXceed:
I offered to pay for the shipping as I didn't think it fair to pay for shipping from soo far away. Will of course do my best to help!
[HTC Sensation] xboarder56:
he emailed me and said

i emailed him back and asked if it would eventually be supported waiting for reply
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
My understanding was, he was going to try and work on it a bit...
[HTC Sensation] xboarder56:
yes i hope so for now i will test on of my credits on another htc device like hand out a free unlock on craigslist or something
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Aye. I will look and see what I can unlock ;)
[HTC Sensation] jerrylzy:
+1 super sim
[HTC Sensation] raskal:
@ all testers

all parcels has been sent out yesterday by fedex, the tracking number you have in your email

please do not expect too much from xtc clip to work with sensation, because it don't work for now, but it works fine with all other from XTC clip supported htc. also XTC clip is the most simple way to create gold gards.

however, i hope you all have fun with it :)
[HTC Sensation] xboarder56:
Thanks alot raskal for all that you do for us
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
Thanks Raskal. It says 10th June for me.
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
Got my email. Very grateful to you raskal

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e with my finger using telepathy
[HTC Sensation] ugrubni:
Thank you raskal, already tracking the parcel
[HTC Sensation] EnhancerFIN:
Tracking too, thank you!
[HTC Sensation] jonata:
Tks Raskal, received email ...
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
Received my tracking number too! Estimated delivery is 14 June! :D

But my Sensation is not here yet and I'm starting to worry a lot. It's 9 days since the guy I bought from sent it (with International Signed For from UK) :(
[HTC Sensation] ancola66:
Thank you very much raskal. I have received today to XTC Clip, I'll test it, if it does not work with HTC Sensation, I will still be very excited that can help my friends with other HTC phones. Again thank very much:)
[HTC Sensation] ClydeB1:
8 of the 10 present and accounted for LOL
[HTC Sensation] Inquitus:
I'll step out of the shadows and confess to being #9. Thanks to Rascal for this opportunity. :)
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Well, I certainly thought I was #10 from the PM I received from raskal, but I haven't received a tracking number via email...

So unless he sent the PM to the wrong person, I may not be #10 as I thought :(
[HTC Sensation] MiKA7:
Yeah thanks Rascal, received my tracking aswell.. bound to be here the 14th..

@baadnewz, got your sensation already?? Travelling to adam around 22june, if the clip supports sensation by then maybe I can help with unlock :)
[HTC Sensation] baadnewz:
yes i have my sensation :). i'll take all the help i can get :)
[HTC Sensation] jerrylzy:
I heard that htc now is developing a new tool for unlocking the bootloader :)
[HTC Sensation] Moleculinary:
If you would search, u would see, this have been poste a million times already
[HTC Sensation] override182:
and I am no 10 reporting in :)
[HTC Sensation] raskal:
is there any one with sensation hboot 1.18.1000 ?

thank you
[HTC Sensation] jerrylzy:
Not unlocked bootload,it is a tool for unlocking and users can use it by themselves
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
And how do you know? I'm getting suspicious. First that image you posted with an S-OFF Sensation and you wouldn't tell us where you found it, then, you telling us that HTC doesn't ship out S-OFF phones and that someone unlocks them with a whitecard and still not telling us your source and now your giving info about how we will be able to unlock the bootloader. :confused:

Seriously, are you working for HTC? If you do, tell us more!
[HTC Sensation] kevinniven:
Im ready

Count me in please.
[HTC Sensation] ClydeB1:
The 10 devices were snapped up quickly and have already been dispatched to the lucky 10.
[HTC Sensation] boostedb16b:
raskal what is in update 1.4.2?
[HTC Sensation] EnhancerFIN:
could it be some s-off magic? :O
[HTC Sensation] boostedb16b:
i dont know i recieved my xtc today and updated it and it said 1.4.2 instead of 1.4.1 so i had to ask the questions
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Yeah, I know mate. I received a PM from raskal a day or two ago, asking me to send my address to him, as he was happy for me to beta test. So that's why I'm confused mate!
[HTC Sensation] ClydeB1:
PM him back, maybe he made a mistake and will make you the lucky 11th tester ;)
[HTC Sensation] jonata:
1.17.1.0008

:(
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
Haha maybe ;) Well, I sent a PM back, but no reply as of yet :(
[HTC Sensation] Moleculinary:
Atfer update of XTC the Hboot Version didn't changed for HTC Sensation.

So no chance without 1.18.XXXXX

I still need to wait...
[HTC Sensation] ClydeB1:
Well it is still the wee hours of the morning in China ;)
[HTC Sensation] madindehead:
True true. But I did message him a day ago as well. Was 3 days ago I sent him the shipping details. Oh well. We shall see!
[HTC Sensation] ancola66:
Me too (1.17.1.0008). I see that almost all of Sensation:(
[HTC Sensation] xl DIGITAL lx:
Just got a door tag from FedEx didn't know what it was until I checked my email. Thanks raskal! Will pick it up from the FedEx station later on or have them redeliver it on Saturday.
[HTC Sensation] Flippy125:
I received my Clip this morning via FedEx. Thanks Raskal. Hopefully we can find an exploit to get S-OFF for everyone. I'll report back when i have my sensation this weekend

Sent from my HTC Vision
[HTC Sensation] override182:
what does this mean?

"online update feature before recharge"

and

"online update feature after recharge"

Does recharge mean topping up credit or perhaps charging up the clip?

What ive done now is updated the clip, detects 1.4.2 update and updated the clip, but there r no option to make a gold card for 1.17 hboot..
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
It means if you're able to update the software before and after you have topped up your credits. Raskal haven't found a way to unlock 1.17 hboot yet. We will have to wait for another software update ;).
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
Mine as just arrived at home. Will have a play around when ive finished work.

Thanks Raskal.
[HTC Sensation] override182:
it still have 1 unused topup credit left.. is it considered as update before or after topup? lol thx for ur answer mate.. ive just been wondering the jargon used.. hehe
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] PewLaserBeam:
Just bought this phone, its awesome but where can I get new theme's for the standard sms app?

Cheers
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sexyd2006:
Same here I wud like to know if there are any more...searched google but nuffin came up
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] TvBTvB:
You could use Go SMS which has some nice themes. You can find it here.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Riverriz:
There are 5 themes pre installed. Open messaging app, press menu button, click setting and choose skin.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] harjybarjy:
Does anyone know if we can download more themes/skins for the messaging app? and if so, where to get them?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaolanren:
Hi guys, my capitvate just always disconnect with my car's bluetooth randomly.

I have to restart the phone each time becuase to reconnect doesn't work somehow.

is there any fix? anybody on the same table?

please advise.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyydynasty:
i have the same problem as some other people do as well. There's no actual fix, afaik, although the gingerbread roms seemed to have fixed it for me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bravomail:
You can ask in the appropriate Q&A for your ROM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyydynasty:
in his defense - although I could be wrong, I found that it has nothing to do with one particular rom. I had this problem on stock eclair and many of the custom froyo roms. Once I ran GB, the bluetooth was more reliable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaintJohnShawn:
I'm having the same issue with stock 2.2.

I found a quicker method to fix it.

I downloaded a Bluetooth widget that toggles Bluetooth on and off - this seems to reconnect with my Jeep after the toggle:

com.curvefish.widgets.bluetoothonoff

I'm sure there are a ton of widgets out there; but, you may want to give that a try!

Thanks,

Shawn
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
I also ran into this as after chatting with Samsung support it turns out that the Galaxy line is set to never auto connect to any bt device even if the connection was already there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mechanical tool:
I had trouble with disconnections from my car deck (jvc kw-xr810) when it was trying to share contacts. Once I set the phone to deny contact sharing and set up a separate phone book in the deck, it connects perfectly and never drops.

It's not a perfect solution if you want your whole address book access accessible from the car however.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyydynasty:
I use tasker for this. I have a task setup that as soon as I turn my car off and BT disconnects, toggle BT off and back on. I noticed that as long as BT is toggled off and back on, it will connect and hold it the next time I use it.

although, I have since turned that task off because GB roms seemed to have fixed the BT issues with my car. I rarely have this problem since switching to gingerbread.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EVaterlaus:
Captivate stock 2.2 intermittent bluetooth problems

I have a stock Captivate with 2.2 android and I'm using a Motorola S10-HD headset to listen to music while I'm at work.

The bluetooth will randomly disconnect causing the music to pause. Sometimes it will reconnect on it's own several seconds later and I am able to continue listening by clicking the play button on the headset. If it doesn't reconnect on it's own then I have to turn off bluetooth on the phone and turn it back on. This will cause it to reconnect but the problem may occur again.

I have switched to listening to music on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and haven't had any problems so it must be the phone.

Is there anything that will correct the problem?

Is this a defect with my phone or just a design problem with all Captivate phones?
[G Tablet General] pr_capone:
http://www.woot.com/

New wave of n00bs?
[G Tablet General] Spazmogen:
Jump on this people!

That is a great price.
[G Tablet General] xxosynrgoxx:
Just saw this and started browsing the gTablet forums (Nook color guy here)

I kinda wanna sell my nook now :/
[G Tablet General] housry23:
I bought one and I will be a noob to the GTablet, but not to Android. I can't wait to get it rooted and jump in to trying different Roms and getting this thing the way I want it. Great deal for a Tablet with great specs. Hopefully the devs can take advantage of the hardware because it seems like Viewsonic doesn't. That's too bad because with specs like that they should be upgrading it to Honeycomb without a doubt. See y'all when it gets here.
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
I think I feel for the worst for the people posting here trying to sell their used gTabs for the same price :D
[Defy General] owim:
I'm an Android novice, never had an Android phone before. I like Motorola Defy but have some concerns, before considering buying it, as follows.

First thing: Getting rid of MotoBlur

Second: dealing with locked bootloader (maybe a huge problem)

However, I've seen custom ROMs here, such as Defy: How to install Custom ROM, BlueGinger 2.3 UI ROM for Defy, etc.

A friend wrote me this:

I found this on the forum:

And this:

Does it change something? :confused:

Correct me if I'm wrong, these custom ROMs are not really custom, since kernel part can not be changed. Does that affect speed & other customizations -- really do not know. Am I wrong?

Thank you for reading this. If you think Defy is too complicated you may suggest another phone in that price range (GSM, not CDMA, unlocked). :cool:
[Defy General] owim:
Is there a way to bypass dootloader?
[Defy General] SWAT AXEL:
according to my habits it doesn't bother me to see moto logo every time , but living in android world (2.1) before getting the second update for a long time it's nasty.

so i think in case u wanna buy something real cool try to check htc daulboot which never has loader problem.

that's my personal opinion but comparing it's features (defy) to other similar releases (sony ericsson) or etc it's really cool , plus all add the reality of power of combining the processor requirement . 800 mhz to 1.2 ghz

so enjoy whith moto logo.
[Defy General] gladius999:
reply

these are some really good questions. I am in the same boat as the OP. Any replies to his questions would be great :)
[Defy General] geseeker:
moto says they are going to unlock the bootloader by year's end... hope they keep their promise.
[Defy General] Japro:
Will they unlock all models or just the new ones? I am afraid i already know the answer to that question - "we dont know yet" :( .
[Defy General] owim:
I guess the answer is that customizing Defy everything would be more complicated than HTC Desire or Samsung Galaxy S.

I don't wanna spend days in playing with the phone, trying to get off Motoblur and put nice custom ROM.

So, I would move to Desire or Galaxy... even though I don't want to. Would you agree? ;)
[Defy General] Mikis89:
I'm on CM7, it's fast and stable, with good battery life, themes and much more.

As soon as camera gets completely fixed i will be able not to care at all about a locked bootloader!
[Defy General] menonino:
well..if you think customizing Defy is complicated so galaxy s will also be.

Desire has more stable roms an it is the right choose for who is interested in hard modding and for sure you will spend a whole day too :)
[Defy General] owim:
So, you did find a way to bypass locked bootloader and all other stuff I don't really get, and have CM7 is up and running? Is it complicated? Is there a downside?

What's wrong with camera?

But Galaxy S does not have locked bootloader. I'm a total novice. Defy with CM7 sounds great, but how to get from standard Defy with Motoblur to CM7? As s novice? ;) I am sure you can understand my perspective. ;)

My final choice would be one of these: Defy, Desire or Galaxy S. I like Defy since is smaller and rigged. Knowing all that, care to share an advice? :) I'm a novice, never used Android before.
[Defy General] Mikis89:
Bootloader is still locked, but take a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1033654

I made it without problems, but i see many reports of bootloops etc...

Camera preview doesn't always match with the picture taken, at least in widescreen mode.

Just tried to use the "defy camera hack":

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1064124

Lost widescreen mode but pictures look much better.

Beside this no problems at all, it's stable, fast and battery last more than a single day with average use.
[Defy General] reaperzero:
well the thing is for our phones *motorola* our boot loaders are locked but we are using pseudo roms. so mostly we have partial roms. no change in the kernel which have extra functions. all our roms are based on a leak or some official release from motorola. boot loops are mostly due to incorrect versions flashed on non down gradable versions or just a simple thing like a step over looked * most of our roms require a wipe, so dalvik and a factory restore is needed as some apps are incompatible when you flash*
[Defy General] gladius999:
So what exactly "extra functions" does having an unlocked bootloader give you? from what I've seen I can't tell the difference
[Defy General] reaperzero:
what i meant was that we dont get the extra functions. what we get is more or less cosmetic changes and some mods
[Defy General] stefa_vr6:
My advice: Buy Defy and enjoy it! (trust me, you will enjoy it)

Keep it stock for few days to make sure that everything is ok with it and to reach max battery potential (3-4 times 0-100% & 100-0%) and after go for any ROM you want, they all are great (I am using barebones and i can tell you that this is 120% working)
[Defy General] reaperzero:
well said. also barebones is really bare. so have fun customizing and installing your apps to your preference
[Defy General] gladius999:
lol what i meant to ask was what cool functions do we miss out on which unlocked bootloaders have?
[LG Revolution] majorpay:
OK, so I have been at this for a while now, trying to figure out how to pull boot.img. We need this in order to get a custom recovery image made.

The problem is that most of the help that's out there refers to doing a dump based on identifying the proper /proc/MTD. It's never that simple though. This phone doesn't have it (and we don't have a map of where to go from here).

Here is the partition info:

major minor #blocks name

7 0 13545 loop0
7 1 202829 loop1
7 2 31217 loop2
7 3 18743 loop3
7 4 13545 loop4
179 0 15679488 mmcblk0
179 1 2048 mmcblk0p1
179 2 2048 mmcblk0p2
179 3 7168 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4
179 5 28672 mmcblk0p5
179 6 204800 mmcblk0p6
179 7 4096 mmcblk0p7
179 8 24576 mmcblk0p8
179 9 8192 mmcblk0p9
179 10 4096 mmcblk0p10
179 11 4096 mmcblk0p11
179 12 1024000 mmcblk0p12
179 13 1572864 mmcblk0p13
179 14 12288 mmcblk0p14
179 15 12599296 mmcblk0p15
179 16 15622144 mmcblk1
179 17 15621120 mmcblk1p1
254 0 13545 dm-0
254 1 202828 dm-1
254 2 31216 dm-2
254 3 18742 dm-3
254 4 13545 dm-4

Can anyone with a few more years on me in this racket give me a heads up on this? Perhaps a mapping for us to get started? Yeah, I know I'm totally wet behind the ears, but someone has to get this thing rolling. Hopefully that doesn't mean I'll be the first to brick my phone (had a close call tonight).
[LG Revolution] thecubed:
See what's mounted by typing "mount" first. It'll show you what mmcblk0pX maps to what (mounted, that is).