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[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcm2a:
I am going to pick up a Nook Touch tomorrow as it looks like an amazing upgrade from my Kindle 3rd Generation especially once rooted. Reading some RSS feeds (preloaded via wifi) out in the sun will be great.

My question is, once you install an alternate launcher like ADW, does it stay the launcher even after rebooting? All the videos show launching apps via a PC which is not feasible in a real work scenario.

Also, how do you then run the stock B&N reader app? Does this just show up as an app that you can launch?

Thanks!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjupille:
After I installed ADW. On reboot, the Nook asks which launcher you want to start in. Choose ADW. The problem is that once you go to the default Home screen, you can't get back to ADW.

A fix for this (which is what I did) was to install SoftKeys. Set up SoftKeys so that the SoftKeys Home screen goes to ADW. Then make sure that SoftKeys is accessible in the notification bar.

Now, whenever I'm back to B&N's crappy default home screen, I just click on the SoftKeys link in the notification bar, then use SofKeys Home button to take me back to ADW.

There is probably an easier way, but this works.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chibucks:
set ADW as your default launcher. also, using softkeys, set it up so that a hard press of the "n" button will just bring you to your home screen (adw).

you can access the nook's native files by pressing the 'arrow' button underneath your launcher.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeokie:
AW Launcher

Install SoftKey, Under settings select run as service, and place it in the notification bar. this way even if you are in the B&N default screen you push the softkey home button and it allows you to go the AW launcher without the need to reboot.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] statultra:
I accidently posted this in the ROM forum.

Ok i have been trying to get this GPS to work on the mogul for days now, I previously got my GPS working on my verizon xv6800 before and i thought this would be easier since its on Sprint.

Under DEBUG everything under GPS says N/A, No satellites are being picked up although it can open the COM4 under GPS Viewer, I also tried Google Maps, and Tomtom

Any help would be appreciated.

Current specs:

Rom version: dcd 4.1.2

Radio Version : 3.42.50

PRI 2.03_003

Under HKLM/HTC/SUPL AGPS

EnableAGPS =1

EnableGPSSmart 1

GPSMode 4

NumberFixes 999999999
[Mogul, XV6800 General] LargePrime:
try flashing tinkerbells titan rom at ppckitchen.org
[HD7 General] R1ryda14:
Hello to all!!

I have been here for sometime. Love the site and everyones input.

But here is my situation.

I'd like to personalize my ringtones. How do I do that? I'd like to use the music that I have thru my zune.

Is this possible? I am not as experienced as some. So that's to say I dont have anything sideloaded or broken. Just a regular ole phone.

My next question is this, I'd like to have the picture saved in my contacts associated with my texts. Is this possible?

Hey to make this easier(for me atleast), if you want to call please do. six uno 2\nine 7 eight-tre 1 2 eight.

Thanks in advance for the help. :)
[HD7 General] Dragon Queen:
Custom ringtones will come with Mango in the fall, no Idea about the the images though.
[HD7 General] R1ryda14:
DQ,

Thanks for the help.

I have seen/heard the mango and other sideloaded or broken os's.

Can anyone tell me how mango or the others are different?
[HD7 General] PanNet:
Frankly, no one knows. There are only declarations/wishes. I think that Nokia will force Microsoft serious modifications.

Regards
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DLeeHarley:
My G2x has been relatively problem free compared some some of you, it's only rebooted 2-3 times since 4-21-11 and it just froze up for the 2nd time a couple of days ago. I have Battery Monitor Widget loaded and noticed this. Notice the free fall of the available power. Does this mean anything to someone who knows a lot more about these things? Any help will be greatly appreciated I assure you.

Dennis/Idaho

G1 Retired

G2x Hard at work
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jcbofkc:
Bad battery?

Tmo has been great working with me. Have you tried to get a battery from them? They gave me new batteries for both of my phones and freezing and locking issues have vanished. Still not the best life, but not horrible. I lose about 3% an hour with light to medium use.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lannister80:
Contacted TMo and they said they'd send me a new battery ASAP. Rep said they have an internal service bulletin to replace anyone's G2x battery that mentions random rebooting/overheating/shutdowns requiring battery pull to reboot.

Hope this does the trick, for us anyway.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DLeeHarley:
This was with a replacement battery! LOL
[T-Mobile LG G2x] wbales:
I haven't had any reboot problems WHEN

1) I plug the phone into the wall charger to charge and not the computer....

2) When i do have it plugged into the computer I have SetCPU change the MAX CPU to 816 MHz
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Rldowney:
Im looking for a green clock that I can flash with cwm. Anyone know where I might find one?

Sent from my latest creation, Thanks Devs!

Sent from my latest creation, Thanks Devs!
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrtne:
i wan't updates rom chinese but i can't search link download anywhere...! who has sent to me...thanks
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsu_golfer:
I have a CDMA tablet that I bought off ebay for $250. I can return it up through the end of this week with no penalty. Should I consider returning it and purchasing a GSM tablet from the same seller (would cost ~$20 extra)?

There is basically zero development for the CDMA versions (save the new Honeycomb efforts) which makes me think I'd have more fun with the GSM version. However, (I could be wrong, but....) I think the CDMA tabs will have the first daily driver Honeycomb ROM.

If you were in my shoes, what would you do?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
Do you like to play now or wait....

I have 2 GSM tabs and love the fact I can chop and change roms (almost daily on my test Tab) trying out different things. I'm waiting for Honeycomb but am prepared to wait a little longer as I can play with a lot more things now....

Cheers...:D
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
I hope someone can help, I think my Xoom is fully bricked and there's no way out, please tell me if otherwise.

I initially flashed the Tiamat ROM on my UK WiFi Xoom, the flash was successful, I flashed the ROM from SD Card using ClockworkMod 3.2.0.0 (R4c) (followed all instructions) and then when turning the device on it was in a bootloop, it went past the Motorola Dual core screen and the boot animation would keep looping.

I hard reset the xoom using vol up and power button then when it started up again I pressed volume down and then I was only able to select through nvflash, RSD and fastboot, this made me happy as I realised it was only a partial brick but things went very wrong after that (due to my stupidity).

Anyways, there was no recovery option, so I then tried to do adb reboot recovery, nothing happened, so I thought I would reflash ClockworkMod 3.2.0.0 (R4c) using fastboot, but this is the part where I went awfully wrong.

I knew I'm not supposed to flash the zip image, as warned in the ClockworkMod Recovery thread:

"Make sure you download the correct version depending on how you want to flash. I have seen at least two xooms bricked now because they have tried to flash the zip file through fastboot."

but like a stupid idiot I decided to type fastboot flash recovery recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.zip

yep, I typed zip, I was supposed to type .img, and unfortunatly I had both the zip and img files of CWM in the platform-tools folder, so it flashed the zip image.

Now I have a Xoom that's stuck in Motorola Logo screen with "Starting RSD mode 3", when plugging in the USB cable I don't get any sound from the PC that it's detected the device, and trying to run fastboot in that mode brings up "waiting for device"

I know I've gone wrong, like a fool, and I'm assuming I have a real full brick now, or is there anyway round this?

Thanks for reading my extremely long post, please can you help a guy with a £479 paperweight, thanks again. :(
[Xoom General] Kippui:
Worst case scenario: You troubleshoot all options but still can't get your pc to recognize the xoom. You can buy a motorola programming cable or you can make your own to fix your device.
[Xoom General] AFAngryWarrior:
after restarting the xoom, when it gets to the motorola screen can you use the volume doen at all to force it into fastboot or kIs the only option the starting rsd mode 3?
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Damn, so this programming cable is the only option then, will this cable let me use fastboot even though the only option now is, well it's not even an option, it just says "Starting RSD mode 3".

Isn't there any other way for me to somehow get it to fastboot? :confused:

Thanks for helping. :)
[Xoom General] okantomi:
Seriously, bigrushdog also offered to unbrick anyone's Xoom for $100. If you can't buy or make that programming cable, you might consider taking him up on his offer.
[Xoom General] Kippui:
Or just buy one for $50

http://shop.teamblackhat.info/Factory-style-programming-cable-for-Motorola-FactCable.htm
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Hmm, that might be my only option, I'm going to go back to PC World tomorrow and see if they exchange it for me, hopefully they do, if they don't I might have to take him up on his offer. Problem is I'm in the uk, and since you said $100, I'm assuming he's in the US.
[Xoom General] okantomi:
Don't feel too bad...we all make mistakes. It does feel worse when you know better.

This thread below is about how someone got out of your situation by making the programming cable. If you're not handy with a soldering iron you might just buy the cable as a previous poster suggested.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1108518

And yes, brd lives in California.

Goood luck!
[Xoom General] Sistum Id:
I had this problem the other day. I kept reading post of people saying do vol + and power and push vol - to get into fastboot. I tried and it wouldn't work. Finally I tried it with-out the usb cable in. I was finally able to get into fastboot, plugged my usb cable up and fixed my issues.

Worth a shot.
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Unfortunately that doesn't work for me, been trying it all day, thank you for the suggestion though.

Any one want to sell me an Engineering cable for slightly cheaper than the official price? I'll pay you for it through paypal, or is there anyone here in London, that can unbrick it? Will pay you of course.
[Xoom General] iammodo:
I used fastboot to restore mine didn't come up in a adb devices but used the comand. And it worked worth a shot. If your in blackpool I'll give it a shot for you.

Sent from my Tablet
[Xoom General] solarnz:
Edit:

This might be relevant:

Yesterday while I was mucking around, I erased the recovery partition to see what would happen, and what would you know! It wouldn't boot and I could only get it into RSD Lite. So here's what I did to fix it.

1. Ensure the xoom is plugged in to your pc that has fastboot on it.

2. Reboot your xoom with power + vol up.

3. Hold volume down while booting your xoom. Only do this for about 5 seconds.

4. Your device should now show in fastboot, even though it won't say so on screen.

5. Flash back a valid recovery image

6. Profit!!?!?!

Let me know if this works :)
[Xoom General] Kippui:
OP, I hope you fix your xoom because I don't want you paying anyone $50 to type some fastboot/

adb commands with a special cable.
[Xoom General] cam30era:
Or you could try this > http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Fastboot commands don’t work because the PC doesn’t recognise the Xoom when plugged in.

I done exactly as you said and your right, RSD mode 3 didn’t appear this time and fastboot didn’t show up either, but the PC still didn’t recognise the Xoom, and when I tried typing in the fastboot command it just says “waiting for device”.

Yeh, you’re right but I may not have a choice.

I’m going to try and see if one of those small electronic shops will make me a Motorola Factory Cable. Will let everyone know how I get on. :)

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone that has tried to help me.
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
The electronic shops wont make me a Factory cable even though I know they probably can, I guess they're not bothered.

I guess the only thing I can do now is send it back to Motorola, I wonder how much they are going to charge me. :(
[Xoom General] cam30era:
Maybe a radio and TV repair business would make one for you?
[Xoom General] e.mote:
You don't need a custom cable. You just need a USB breakout box.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dual-Female-USB-Port-Breakout-Board-/380345584629

Get this, a USB-A M-M cable, and a USB-A to micro-USB M-M cable (make sure that pin 4 is pinned and not empty). Get a Y-wire jumper to jump pin 1 of the USB-A cable to both pins 1 & 4 of the cable w/ micro-USB, per the pinout below. Jumper the rest (2-2, 3-3, 4-5).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1077414
[Xoom General] solarnz:
Woah easy there. We've still got a few more things to try.

I'm certain that your xoom is going into fastboot, and it's just your computer not picking it up.

Could you try using a different USB port, or perhaps a different computer for fastboot?
[Xoom General] jerich007:
I can vouch for solarnz technique. Thought I had bricked too, but you just have to keep trying to reboot until you get the timing right. Also you could try booting up with a Ubuntu boot CD and see if it can detect the Xoom. I do my flashing and rooting with Ubuntu. Good luck...
[Xoom General] alex1019:
I bricked my Xoom a while back by doing the same thing as xdaman85. This thread has given me some hope that my Xoom might be salvageable; living in Australia, the idea of sending it to the States is not one I would like to entertain.

I'm going to try and see if Ubuntu can see the Xoom. If that fails, I guess I’ll buy the Factory cable (or try and make one).

I'll report back on how everything goes.

Thanks all
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
I have tried other electronic shops and they wont make me the cable, I've got a soldering iron at home but from what I remember I was really bad at soldering so I'm not going to attempt and make a cable myself. :o

I'm installing a fresh version of the Android SDK on another computer, I've installed the drivers already and the Java JDK, so will let you lot know how that goes. :( I'm not too optimistic though.
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Didn't work on a another computer either :(

Anyone want to borrow/sell me their factory cable? :D

If not I have no choice but to send it back to Moto and pay what ever they ask :(
[Xoom General] LIV2:
It'd be cheaper and easier to just buy the factory cable...

Do you think Motorola will fix your bricked Xoom for free?
[Xoom General] e.mote:
It's a bit surreal when you offer a solution that costs all of $6, only to be blithely ignored. Meanwhile, the kvetching and beseeching goes on about one's sad fate.

I'm thinking, it's probably a language thing, may be dude doesn't understand Anglais all that well. Then again, dude's location sez UK, so may be the Queen's English has devolved as of late.

Hey, kannst du Deutsch? Else, có nói tiếng Việt được không? :)

But yes, I think you should definitely send it back to Moto. Your problem is way beyond our help. ;)
[Xoom General] ydaraishy:
I don't think the breakout box will work anyway. Pin 4 needs to be high, and normal USB A to micro B cables will have it pulled to ground even if it's not "empty". Wiring pin 4 high needs to be done in the cable -- the USB A to micro B cable isn't 1-to-1, obviously.
[Xoom General] dwho18:
im not a real tecky and im a noob...

but if it makes you feel any better everyone makes stupid mistakes which is y i wudnt even bother hacking valuables in the 1st place just use them as theyre meant 2 b used until a software update comes out.

p.s. I hope you get it fixed and I honestly do feel really bad for you;)
[Xoom General] e.mote:
Oops, you're right! The breakout board needs to be at the micro-B end, not the USB-A end.

Redo. Get these two:

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10031 (USB Micro-B Plug Breakout Board) USD$4

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9966 (USB Mini-B Plug Breakout Board) USD$2

Have along a regular USB-A male to mini-B male cable, some jumper wire, and a soldering iron (sorry! but it's really easy!). You know the deal, pin 1 (mini) to 1 & 4 (micro), 2/3/5 are straight-through.

Final cost: still $6! (plus shipping)
[Xoom General] e.mote:
>I honestly do feel really bad for you

Never feel bad! Feel challenged! And heed the hacker's credo: Do It Yourself.
[Xoom General] TX2000:
There are acouple of guides to make a otg cable.. its practically the same. Instead of grounding pin 4 just connect it to pin 1(+5v). And if you cant make one i think i got the spare parts to make one.
[Xoom General] spirit32:
i have the same problem before, i made exactly the same mistake as you and got the. rsd mode 3. but i forgot what i did to fix it but i didnt use any special cable...i cant fastboot too. the only thing i remember i press something i thing volume down+power while i'm in rsdmode3 then it rebooted in Starting Fastboot protocol support" from there ur pc can now detect your xoom and adb reboot bootloader. am not sure though :P but this threads should help http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=973355 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1077353&page=2
[Xoom General] alex1019:
Hey everyone - i tried to see if Ubuntu could see the xoom, and I believe it can. I could browse a 4 gig partition. Not sure if that means anything, as I have no idea about Linux.

Xdaman85, have you tried seeing if Ubuntu can see the xoom? Hope this might help =]
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Firstly I just want to thank everyone for their input, if it wasn't for you lot I wouldn't have been able to get this far.

I managed to make a factory cable using the cable from my Motorola Flipout.

I plugged it in, and what do you know the PC detected the Xoom and Installed some drivers :). I then flashed the stock European WiFi image, all went well but now my device doesn't go beyond "Starting RSD mode 2", At least I've made some progress. Before it was on RSD mode 3 now it's on RSD mode 2. Main thing is the PC detects it, just not sure why it wont go beyond "Starting RSD mode 2" now, I done everything right as far as I assume.

As always I appreciate everyone's help and thank you for helping me get this far :).

The problem might be that I flashed the Build H.6.2-24 for Retail Europe as I can't find a build for the UK, but I think I read somewhere the Build H.6.2-24 for Retail Other International includes the UK, so I'll give that a try and get back to you lot.
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Just wanted to say THANKYOU to everyone again, my Xoom is now up, running and happy. :D
[Xoom General] cam30era:
Huray! We are all happy for you.

Now that you are an expert at this, maybe you could write a tutorial? :-)
[Xoom General] TX2000:
i am glad you finally fixed it.. welcome back to the land of the living :D
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
Trust me that diagram for "Active Power USB A Male to Micro B Male" is more then enough information, there's no need for a tutorial lol

My soldering skills are very bad so I had to use black electric tape on the Micro USB end to stop it all from falling apart.

Lol yeh now I can enjoy playing with my Xoom again, I was using my Galaxy S2 all this time, but nothing beats a bigger screen for watching movies and browsing the web.
[Xoom General] tonyb15re:
And now you have the cable for the next time you brick it ;)

What did you do to get past your second blocker (mode 2)?
[Xoom General] okantomi:
Yes, please let us know what you did. I had a scare myself today...resulting from incompatible busybox update. Managed to make it back to android recovery and reflashed my nandroid backup but I saw that RSD Mode 3 and started freaking when my PC couldn't see the Xoom. I just kept pressing up,down/power til something worked. I think I will order that developer's cable now. It's just not worth this stress.
[Xoom General] cam30era:
I just made a Factory Cable, just-in-case. Figured it would be a lot easier if I wasn't under the stress of a bricked Xoom.

I also second okantomi's request. Most of us have never used RSD lite, nor had to try to "wake " a bricked device. Anything you can share with us, XDAman85 will be much appreciated.
[Xoom General] xdaman85:
The reason I got the second blocker (RSD mode 2) is because I flashed the wrong Build, I flashed the "Build H.6.2-24 for Retail Europe" as I couldn't find a build for the UK on here:

http://developer.motorola.com/produ...utm_source=supportforums&utm_term=unlockboard

Now if you look at this link:

https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/50967?start=0&tstart=0

You'll notice Matt mentions the "Build H.6.2-24 for Retail Other International" includes the UK, so after reading that I decided to flash that build and all went well.

Yes, that is a great idea mate, it's better to make one before you need it.

Any ways just to share how I did this.

My Xoom would start up on Dual Core Moto screen with a "Starting RSD mode 3" on the top left and that was it, it wouldn't do anything else.

Holding Volume + and power would reboot it and then it would automatically restart again and go back into the Dual Core Moto screen with a "Starting RSD mode 3" again. Plugging it into the PC didn't do anything, the PC wouldn't even detect it.

I then restarted the device by holding Volume up and power and before it started up, I pressed the Volume down button. This took it into the Dual Core Moto screen again, but this time the "Starting RSD mode 3" wasn't on the top left, it was in fastboot mode, but the problem was the PC wasn't detecting the Xoom. When I plugged the Xoom onto the PC using the Factory cable instead, it made the ding ding sound or what ever you want to call it and installed 2 different drivers:

Motorola Flash Interface driver and Mot Single ADB Interface driver.

I placed all four of my files, Boot.img, system.img, recovery.img and userdata.img into the platform-tools folder in the Android SDK folder and then typed the following commands into cmd:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

fastboot erase cache

fastboot oem lock

after doing the "fastboot oem lock", it restarted the Xoom, and all was working as normal.
[Xoom General] cam30era:
Thank you XDAman85. I have filed this on my PC for future recovery reference.
[Xoom General] Kippui:
Can you make a few and sell for $25? You might be comfortable soldering things but I'm not.
[Xoom General] cam30era:
If you want to buy a factory cable, you'd best go here > http://shop.teamblackhat.info/Factory-style-programming-cable-for-Motorola-FactCable.htm