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[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
Have the S490 Car Kit and plugged it in. The car came up (top of the phone), like it is supposed to but nothing else. So I downloaded the Car Panel that was posted earlier in this thread. Now I plug my Sensation in and the Car Panel automatically shows up. Only problem is when I have the navigation "ON" the phone gets REALLY REALLY hot!!! I called T-Mobil and they said that this "can be common." Yeah right. SO I called HTC and they immediately told me that this is NOT normal and that I have a defective phone and I need to get it replaced.

Can this be a result of the Car Panel installation? Since it was not there to begin with?

Anyone else happen to feel their Sensation after Navigation has been on for a while?

Is your getting hot to the touch "like you can fry eggs on it?"
[HTC Sensation] pedrohp:
Hi there,

I'm new to this phone and the whole android world, and i gotta say:

1- VERY disapointed that HTC/T-Mo Removed Car Home app. Seems nice and configurable. The removed the app and used nothing to replace-it.

2- My Sensation 4G has SO MANY of map-like applications that i get conffused: Places, Latitude, Google Maps, GPS Navigation and TeleNav GPS Navigatior. Can't find one called HTC Locations. Can't find any Car Home replacement
[HTC Sensation] artymarty:
It's not a result of the software directly.

Things that make your phone hot:

Processor intensive tasks.

Quick drains on battery

Using the radio in the phone for gps

Using radio for data

Charging the battery

Having it in a warm environment

When you use the gps in your car, you are doing all of them at once.

I try and do things properly, so I would be listening to a podcast or mp3 as well. Haha...

You can try rebooting, sometime an app goes nuts and takes a lot of cpu time...

If the heat is excessive and often, might be the hardware, dud battery or the charger on the car kit is faulty. Try it without that and see if it still gets hot. Also check your car is only putting out 12volts (it might be up to 18v) but over that and you might have issue with the alternator on the car. Important you test it with engine off, AND while driving... (obviously someone else behind the wheel at the time)

Hope this helps..

Warmly, Marty

Sent from the future using a sensational Z710a size rip in the space-time continuum
[HTC Sensation] artymarty:
HTC have made it that way on new versions of sense. Sometimes it works if you uninstall or delete or freeze locations (there are three apk's in the set though.) or use "select other map for htc" from the market. First time you nav it asks, after that, auto google maps!

Sent from the future using a sensational Z710a size rip in the space-time continuum
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
Marty,

Thank you SOOO much for the info. I just got a replacement phone and it has not gotten too hot as of yet. I still have yet to try the car dock.

I am afraid to download the HTC Car Panel and Circular Battery indicator to the phone at this time. Maybe after I test the phone for a bit. Either way I will post my results afterward.
[HTC Sensation] artymarty:
Not a problem :) feel free to click the thanks button.

On more thought, from what you just said, your phone is obviously rooted, so another thing to think about is do you have the right combination of radio, ril, settings etc. If your phone is set up wrong, it might be for example, 'busting its nuts' keeping a lock on the gps or downloading data. This it gets hot.

You said all the right things though, (about waiting a bit) test it a bit, change one thing, and repeat.... The number of people who change 6 things and then never know what made a difference to what...

Marty

Sent from the future using a sensational Z710a size rip in the space-time continuum
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
Actually I do not know the first thing on how to root the phone!! :confused:

The Circular Battery, according to this thread does not require a rooted phone to work. :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8639993#post8639993

And the HTC Car Panel was a .apk that I also got from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1114510&page=2

Is it possible that I NEED to root the phone?
[HTC Sensation] artymarty:
No one NEEDS to root their phone, but it's FUN. :)

there is a version of the battery mod that needs a rooted phone, sorry I thought that was what you had.

OK, so you are not rooted, that's good for you, because it eliminates about 100 reasons why your phone might get hot and overheat. (don't let this put you off if you were thinking of rooting though! - but I wouldn't do it just yet )

Warmly, Marty

Sent from the future using a sensational Z710a size rip in the space-time continuum
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
So I let the phone charge all night and put it on the car dock this morning and turned on Navigation. It got hot but not as hot as it was before. So I was temporarily relieved. Well at lunch time I put the phone on the car dock again, this time it actually needed to charge unlike the situation this morning where it had been charging all night. This time I did NOT turn the navigation on. It got hot. WAY WAY HOT!!! So I did the test that Marty suggested to see what my cigarette lighter was actually outputting with engine off and with it turned on. I was getting about 13 amps even when I was revving up the engine. So I am thinking that this is a defective charger or car dock. Reasoning: when I charged the phone at home using the supplied micro USB with the wall plug it got warm but not HOT like it was at lunch time.

Off to the t-mobil store again to make the exchange. Will post results later.

Anyone have these same heat related issues with the car dock?
[HTC Sensation] artymarty:
(assuming you mean volts not amps above ;) )

Before you take it back, try one more thing for me if you can. Have it in the charger dock tomorrow not fully charged (so the doc is charging it) but DON'T use NAVIGATION.

See how hot that gets. If it gets hot, it's your charger doc for sure, as that should only make it warm.

Even if you use it for playing mp3's in the car dock it should only get warm while charging.

Oh, just a note: those $1.50 usb socket car chargers from ebay are a pile of **** too, so don't be tempted haha. Your phone won't get hot, but won't even charge fast enough to keep up with the gps drain either...

Personally I use a cheap $2 plastic phone holder and a genuine htc car usb dual port charger. (htc car chargers are great and work as fast as charging from AC wall adapter.) Only issue is it does not automatically activate dock mode.

You can hack it to do that, but I can't be bothered.

Marty

Sent from the future using a sensational Z710a size rip in the space-time continuum
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
I had it in the car dock with the Navigation off and it got really hot.

Now I need to test the cigarette lighter adapter alone: bypassing the car dock, to see if the problem is the cigarette adapter or the car dock.
[HTC Sensation] Rumball:
Thanks Marty! Wasn't aware of this app. Now all we need is for that developer to figure out how to prevent HTC Locations from auto-launching when Car Mode is enabled.
[HTC Sensation] artymarty:
Send the Dev an email, most of them are quick to respond..
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
Will I have problems if I download the .apk in the beginning of the thread and install on a stock non-rooted out of the box HTC Sensation?
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
[HTC Sensation] pakraider:
The Car Panel app will work just fine on a stock non-rooted Sensation. (I was using it on mine)

As for auto-launching Locations.. I was able to get Car Panel to auto-launch in my car dock on InsertCoin. I removed the DockMode.apk from system/app and replaced it with DockMode.apk from a T-Mobile based ROM. Now, the car icon shows up in the taskbar when plugged into the dock, and the Car Panel comes up.

The reason it gets hot is because the Car Panel app keeps a GPS fix as long as it's open.. no clue why. I got around the issue by setting a Tasker profile to turn GPS off when Car Panel is running. It naturally switches GPS back on when exiting the profile (i.e. when exiting Car Panel or running another app), so Maps and Navigation still work just fine. Now it stays cool and charges rapidly as it should with a proper car charger plugged into the dock.
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
Thanks pakraider!!

Con you please post or pm me a step by step process on how you did this?:

As I said earlier in the thread I and an Android Newbie, I have a non rooted stock Sensation and have no idea on how to do what you stated above.

Thanks again,

xwing
[HTC Sensation] pakraider:
Instructions:

Firstly, you'll need an app called Tasker to do this. I think it's about $6 in the Market. Trust me, it's MORE THAN WORTH the money! Don't hesitate about the price. It lets you automate almost everything on your phone and customize it as much as you want.

Once you have Tasker installed, you'll need to setup profiles. A profile is like a trigger that lets you program Tasker to do something when certain conditions are met.

In our case, we need a profile that runs when the Car Panel app is launched. The action performed in this profile will be to turn off GPS. This way, whenever the Car Panel pops open after docking the phone, the profile will be triggered and GPS will turn off. By default, any changes to settings will return to their previous state afterwards, so GPS will turn back on whenever we leave Car Panel.

This works great, except the Navigation app doesn't play nicely. Tasker takes some milliseconds to turn GPS back on, and the Navigation app complains right away that GPS is off (even though it is on by the time the app actually loads up). The fix is another profile that will dismiss the notification from Navigation, quickly flip back to Car Panel, turn GPS on again, and return to Navigation. All of this takes less than half a second, so it's no big deal.

Tasker lets you import profiles that people have already made. I've attached mine to this post. Unzip, and copy the files to the Tasker/profiles folder on your SD card. Then, run Tasker, hit the menu button on your phone, and hit Profile Data. Choose Import One Profile, and choose Car_Dock. Repeat this to import Maps and Navigation.

Hope this helps!
[HTC Sensation] spoks:
Do You have any information how to do that?
[HTC Sensation] artymarty:
Do a Google on 'home made htc car doc'

I am not sure where I saw it, or what it was.

I decided I couldn't be bothered to do it in the end as I am too busy with uni.

I know if you short out the middle two pins of the usb it it forces the phone to see a "wall charger " not a car charger, and with a car kit I think it was that but with a resistor.

I read so many for so many phones its all a blur now...

I also know some phones use magnets in different positions for different modes.. It's actually fascinating stuff to research..

Warmly, Marty

Sent from the future using a sensational Z710a size rip in the space-time continuum
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
I installed Tasker, followed your instructions and installed the profiles that you attached in the .zip file. Everything seems to work, although I only tested it for about 5 minutes in the car. Usually in that amount of time the phone got really really hot without your work around. This time it only got warm, which still kind of bugs me, but I did try the navigation for about 30m seconds to make sure that it worked. That may be the reason why it is warm.

Now that I have Tasker I will also add a profile to turn on Blue-Tooth while in the car dock. Should I just add it to your car dock profile or create a new one?

The ultimate profile would be to create a task that remembers where your last location was when you turned the blue tooth off and then automatically turn it back on once you get back there!!
[HTC Sensation] pakraider:
It will still get warm because it's charging. :) Once it's fully charged though, it will cool down, just as it would if you were charging it on your desk.

Also, if your dock is exposed to sunlight, remember that the sun will warm it up a bit too. The getting hot was due to the GPS fix always being on, which is bad software on HTC's part. Perhaps a smart dev can mod the Car Panel app to stop that.

Yep, you can just add it to the existing profile.

And nothing is stopping you from making that bluetooth profile you're talking about. :) That's the beauty of Tasker, you really can do almost anything you want!

p.s. Tasker has built-in location capability (i.e. you can use location to trigger a profile)
[HTC Sensation] Golubev:
Choose app when insert phone in cradle

Could you provide me with app or possibility to tune up wich application will run automatically when i insert phone in car dock? I Hate HTC Navigation and want to have a choice which program will run immediately after car docking?

So I find a method through Gemini App Man how to disable autorun Location in Car Mode. Now nothing start after cardocking, but how to tell to system to run something i want?
[HTC Sensation] davemazo:
Think a paid for App called Tasker should be able to do what you want. Apparently it can automate virtually anything, don`t ask me how though it is far too complicated for me
[HTC Sensation] Golubev:
Already had Tasker, but his do not have some kind event like - cardocking! (Docking - is different)
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
Tasker is not the easiest program to use but CarDock is there somewhere, you just need to do a lot of fiddling around to find it.

I want to use the CarDock to automatically turn on Bluetooth with the use of Tasker. With Tasker I found the CarDock app(dont ask me to repeat the process: just dumb luck I guess), then I try to set a "task" and found "Blutooth settings" however I do not know how to tell "blutooth settings" to turn on bluetooth", then turn off when unplugged from the CarDock. Right now the bluetooth settings menu comes up when i use the car dock. I click turn on, it turns on and then stays on the bluetooth settings screen and does not go back to the HTC Navigation Panel.

Still fiddling with it.

Looks to be a good app but there are no decent instructions, at least none that I have been able to find, in order to use it. The developers instructions are greatly lacking:

http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide/en/index.html
[HTC Sensation] xwing_5:
So Tasker has been great for the last few days until recently. Well I should say I "THINK" it is because of Tasker.

Here is the scenario: yesterday I had my phone with me the whole day, plugging into the car dock, taking out of car dock etc. . . and kept checking the top left to see if I had any incoming emails. . . no mail notification. So the day turned into the evening and I started to use my camera on the phone (HTC SENSATION). The application came up and within the application you have the ability to change from photo camera to video camera. I switched to video. I was recording some action when at the 45 second mark the screen dimmed and then went black: the phone went to sleep while I was filming!! I could not get it back on so I had to take the battery out in order to re-start the phone.

I repeated the steps a few times and got the same result: 45 seconds then it goes to sleep.

Getting back to my email: the next day I see that I still have no new emails in the upper left notification area of the phone. So I decide to go to the mail app, click it and see that I have about 7 new emails!!!!!

None of this happened before I installed Tasker.

I went into the email settings and see that it is set to check every 20 minutes. I went into the camera/video app and do not see a menu to change the sleep settings.

I do not think that I changed any other settings on the phone, it may be possible but not very likely.

Any suggestions?

I already uninstalled tasker and the same thing happens.

I did however find out that if I click the camcorder/video app directly(instead of opening up photo and then within the photo app, clicking camcorder/video) the 45 second sleep is no longer happening but still happens when I switch over from photo to video.

Instant email notification is still not happening.

HELP!! Anyone!!
[HTC Sensation] rosedog:
After upgrading to ARHD 4.x with Sense 3.5 I now notice that car panel starts up without any questions asked and I'd like to kill that and get the option to start (Google) Car Home as the default...

BUT there in lies the problem. I happen to like what htc car panel does to the phone dialer when launched. It turns the dialer to a landscape view and I can clearly read my contacts (Think what BSB Tweeks did for the HD2). This I would like to see happen in Car Home but the only way I found to achieve this is to:

1. Let Car Panel launch.

2. Select the Home button - DO NOT EXIT or else it will screw the landscape view in phone dialer.

3. (must have shortcut for Car Home already) launch Car Home from screen.

Now the phone dialer will display in landscape mode any time - as long as car panel is running. Is there another way to achieve this then what I mentioned?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Hi

Ive bricked my Tab from updating to Gingerbread through ODIN, I knocked the USB lead out by accident. The bootloader froze and couldn't get it to flash again, so I turned it off (BIG MISTAKE) and now it wont turn on. It won't boot in to bootloader mode either.

BUT

If I plug it in to my PC, it is recognised as 'SEC S5PC110 Test B/D'. The drivers wont install, if I hold the power button while plugged in to the PC then it disappears from Device Manager.

Ive searched the forums and found nobody with the same 'SEC S5PC110 Test B/D' detection.

Could somebody please help me, I cant find my receipt for it and im worried about the price of the repair.

Many Thanks

Ryan
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0sh:
does odin recognize it ? if does , flash again gingerbread and this time be more careful
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Thanks for the reply, I cant seem to get odin to recognize it. Only each time when I plug it in, 'SEC S5PC110 Test B/D' pops up trying to install drivers. I've left it to charge on the mains for the rest of the day and going to see if that helps.

Ive found a bank statement with my purchase on it, so I might be able to use that as a proof of purchase. Do you think I could get this repaired under warranty even though Ive bricked it?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucian777:
Go ahead and do a RMA with Samsung, i'm sure they will send you a new device, or at least they can try to repair the broken one. Good luck!

PS. don't tell that you've bricked the tab!
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Thanks,

what should I say in the description of fault, should I just say that the Tab wont turn on?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0sh:
go ahead dude , they will fix it for u , in 20mins :) u don't leave without your tab :)
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Cheers, Just got my Tab back today all working. I will never leave without my tab
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0sh:
Keep It Safe

nice .. we should have a party now :) ... just be more careful next time and do NOT do anything without reading\understanding every step you going through

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhavin.bhatt:
Hi All,

i have upgraded my samsung glaxy S to the latest firmware version 2.3.3

kernel 2.6.35.7I900XWJVH

On android 2.2 i could use vpnc and tun.ko to connect to a cisco ASA, using insmod tun.ko

but the tun.kp that i have doesnt work for android 2.3.3, i get the below error

insmod: can't insert '/../tun.ko' : invalid module format

I would highly appreciate it if someone could help me with troubleshooting this, or maybe provide me with the correct tun.ko to make vpnc widget work, i highly rely on this to get working, and have no plans of moving to iphone which has a dedicated cisco vpn client..

Please help, am in desparate need.

cheers

Bhav
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shoulon:
So I was browsing the Nexus S forums and I saw a ROM suggest clearing system update data to improve battery (IN SOME CASES DOES)

any input? im testing this theory atm.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funktron:
I don't see how, exactly - but worth checking, as the one thing that sucks about every smartphone ever made is... the battery life!

Good luck, I'll be checking back!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shoulon:
Finished my day and uh... let's let this thread die =P only thing it gave me was texting never sending lol.... reboot fixed that.
[Acer Iconia A500] El Philou:
When I use bubble or for exemple aTilt 3D labyrinthe, axies is not good :-(

Where is the problème ?

For information, it's same in portrait or landscape !!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] El Philou:
I'm alone ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
games are for mobiles, or developer needs to update and fix the application..

only count on games or apps made for tablets.. old android 2.2 accelerator based will probably not work well.
[Acer Iconia A500] El Philou:
True !!!!

I tested with GPS Status... and they axis working well
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Animated Notification Pulldowns Coming To A ROM And Theme Near You?

Chevyy SSv5 4 Matrix AnimatedPulldown
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
I love Android! Also the devs!!!
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
This could be fun
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
I cant wait to see what devs do with this :)
[EVO 4G General] jayharper08:
Is there anything that isn't possible? :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Hattori_Hanso:
How can I change the dial tone, something else. I would like to replace with other sound. Where and what to look for... thaks for help
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
The dial tone is generated by your network operator, not your phone.

Did you mean the ringtone? If yes, then put ringtones on your sd card in

media/audio/ringtones

and then they will show up in your ringtones settings.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Hattori_Hanso:
Bad formulated in the first post, sorry

The numbers sound when you press the numeric button in dial pad. This can not be replaced?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jose makalolot:
I believe the tones are inside phone.apk.

Sent from my HD2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mohd Aadil Malik:
Bro Phone.apk does not contains any dial pad Sound
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myself310863:
i have a acer p300 with wm6.5 french ,but i would like to put it in dutch

can somebody tell me if thats possible and how i can do this

thanks
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxPatlick:
I use the timer when I'm cooking and recently*, it doesn't play a sound when the timer ends. Is there a way to change it? Could I have accidentally deleted or .nomedia'd the folder where the sound file resides?

Possibly related, my calculator is missing.

*I think since I updated to EC05, not sure..
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris41g:
Is it my rom?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxPatlick:
oh, yes it is.. Also, i figured out why the calculator wasn't working.. some fool went and removed it

(it was me.. i removed it.. clearly I'm not that smart so please take that into consideration when replying)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris41g:
Timer I possibly broke when deodexing but I fixed in the update that will be released this weekend...

Calculator, that's allll u
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Annie the Eagle:
I don't know if I'm just useless at this or if I've missed the obvious 'Oh yes, thats where it is' setting, but for some reason, every wallpaper I set (no matter the resolution) turns a bit rubbishy and pixelated after being set, I don't know but it seems to be after I installed the 1.504 GHz Mod, it also seems that Gallery 3D is running overspeed at times, I am not sure if its just my imagination.

Phone Status :

Rooted : Of course

How? : CF-Root v3.6

Kernel? : 1.504 GHz Mod by coolbho3000 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075061)

Launcher : ADWLauncher EX

Images tried : All from 1024x768 up to 6041 x 5129