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[Eee Pad Transformer General] degeneration:
Well during the day I barely notice it. If I didn't know it was there I wouldn't ever know it was, so it doesn't bother me. However at night I can see it when stuff gets darker, plus if things are really dark (pretty much black) I can see what looks like a finger smudge under the glass. Not really sure what it is, no definite finger like evidence, but there is some sort of smudge under the screen.

I really don't want to not have my tablet for a while, but sighhhh... I am thinking I will get a return label from amazon on friday and send it out monday for an exchange. That way I can maybe have it back by the following weekend (Any one know off hand their shipping speed? Does it matter if I have a prime account?)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] skeeterpro:
Guess I can count myself as one of the fortunate ones also. Have had my TF for coming up on a couple month now (just got a dock) and have not had one lick of trouble. Hmmm...take that back. One boot loop with the dock when I had to reflash Prime and remove the OC kernal.

Other than that a quality machine. Better than I would expect being first generation.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jadesse:
I just received mine yesterday & have noticed dried glue along the bottom part of the bezel. Also about a 3/4" of the rubber on the right side has been rubbed smooth. That little section is light in color.

I don't now if this problem has been reported or not. I have to push my power button 2 or 3 times before my transformer wakes up. If there is a defect then I want to return it. Six months down the road I don't want to find that the power button doesn't work at all.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pisugtooq:
I received my replacement from Newegg today. I spent my morning awaiting delivery in dread that #2 would be in even worse shape than the original. Fortunately that anxiety was baseless - my second unit is drastically superior to the first one I received. Absolutely no creakiness, no dead pixels and no dust under the screen. The screen looks completely level and entirely up against the black trimming. On my original, there was a bit of separation (enough to stick my fingernail through).

The only issues I've noticed are minor light bleed and, of course, the left speaker being much quieter than the right. Ubiquitous defects common to all Transformers it seems. The light bleed is only noticeable in a dark room with the brightness around 75% or higher. I believe there are already fixes for the speaker issue.

Overall, I'm extremely happy I decided upon returning the first. I'm a tad obsessive and knew I would immediately focus on the faults every time I picked it up (especially since it audibly expressed them to me in the irritating language of creaks). Perhaps #2 isn't perfect but you can find fault with anything if you are determined enough. I am satisfied that the build quality meets a reasonable expectation of what a $400 device like this should be held to.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ria_drizzt:
Pisugtooq, that gives me hope. My Newegg replacement should ship tomorrow morning. Hopefully this new batch they got (as well as all future batches) will be of much better quality.

I took a trip to American TV here in St. Louis (stores all closing) to see what kind of deals they had on furniture. They still had their Transformer on display (32g version). Let me just say after thoroughly examining this particular unit I am VERY happy I refused the last one I had and sent it back. The screen separation is completely non-existent on the demo model. The glass is flush with bezel, and the black interior ring is not sticking up (or in) at all. The light bleed is so minimum I wouldn't even call it bleed. It's a display model that has been on display for several months, and the wear and tear of being on all day and being messed with incessantly did nothing to the unit. Also, the speaker problem is not there.

So, does the perfect Transformer exist? Probably not, but there are certainly models that are damn close, and mine was NOT one of them!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pisugtooq:
Unfortunately, upon closer inspection I did detect a dead pixel. It isn't that visible during normal use but, after running a dead pixel test app, I definitely notice there is a tiny dot that remains a gray/light black regardless of screen color. At least it is located near the top of the screen where it is often black and hence invisible.

It is an irritant to know it is there but I will still likely stick with this Transformer - for me, the screen separation and creakiness were the most worrisome issues and this one is free of both. I'll only consider another RMA if it sounds like a new batch has been received within my 30 day return window. Especially if the speaker issue is fixed.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] psijac:
I have no idea what light bleeding. My tf could be bleeding out like a hemophiliac in a mash pit and I wouldn't know. Its probably better off I didn't know. The case has slight creaking on the left hand side in landscape view so its still not perfect. But I don't mind it. The price makes it a perfect hold over until a 4G tegra 3 tablet is out
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Thremix:
im sorry. But with all the trouble my unit has, I ordered a Toshiba, can't wait to have it... I love the tf but qa and qc is terrible.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ria_drizzt:
Well I received my 2nd Transformer from Newegg about an hour ago (3rd total, as my first one came from Amazon).

Very sad to say that this one is worse than the second one which was worse than the first one. I think someone is purposely having fun at my expense, because the last two tablets I received have not suffered from the speaker issue that my first one suffered from. Heh.

At any rate, the screen separation on this current one is horrible. I can take a sheet of paper and fold it in half, then fold it in half again and can slide it in the gap between the glass and the case. The gap runs about 2 inches along the bottom left of the unit (when held in landscape mode).

The light bleed is worse in this one than either of the other two units, but like I said with the second one I could live with it if not for the screen separation.

I have to hand it to Newegg. They have been champs through this entire process. I told them I wasn't looking forward to another 10 day cycle before getting a replacement and they responded by telling me they would send me out a replacement today and would upgrade the shipping to next-day air at no cost to me. I was very impressed, and have to admit to feeling sorry for them. It's not their fault that ASUS rushed so many of these units out in this kind of shape.

Here's to hoping FOURTH time is a charm! ;-)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] UKseagull:
Please do report back on how you get on with the Toshiba.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sstephen17:
I got mine from Fry's about a month ago. No noticeabe issues. One random reboot prior to patch 3.1 but nothing since then. I did run a light bleed test using a YouTube video and might have seen some bleed. I googled "light bleed" for some picture examples and mine are nothing like some of the examples shown. I don't notice it at all really and I use my Transformer several hours each day as I take the train to work.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Freelancerx:
just got my second TF the lightbleed is a little rough and i have the left speaker not as loud, but i do notice that the right speaker does distort at the highest volume, im going to keep this for 30 days then get return and get a new one....
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pisugtooq:
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Yikes, how frustrating. After noticing my second does have what appears to be a dead pixel, I am considering trying one more exchange. Especially since you have received two with no speaker issues - the comparative lack of volume on the left side of already lackluster speakers is a big defect. I just assumed it was a flaw common to all Transformers.

However since my current one has no screen separation at all, I am reluctant to give it up lest I receive a worse replacement. Since Newegg will ship an exchange before they have received the original, I may do an RMA but hold off sending mine back until I have inspected the replacement. If the new one is worse, I will send it as the return instead. Is that feasible or do they check the serial numbers? I am simply trying to get a tablet with the fewest number of defects possible.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] lostsoulktash:
My left speaker just died yesterday, and I'm past my 30 day return plus TigerDirect won't accept returns so I'll have to resort to Asus. Anyone have any experience with Asus warranty?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ria_drizzt:
Pisugtooq,

I think if you just tell Newegg that the new one is worse than the one you were replacing they would be fine with you sending whichever one back you want. I would probably do that rather than sending back the new one without saying anything. They will likely cancel your original RMA and issue you a new one in order to better track what's going on.

My order should go out today and arrive tomorrow, so I'll update once again when I get it. I think I have until July 10th with Newegg. At that point if I still have one with these case defects I am likely going to RMA to ASUS. I have used ASUS products for almost 2 decades and have full faith that they can fix it. I just don't want to deal with the 2 - 4 weeks downtime.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Imperticus:
I'm trying to compile a ROM from CM7 sources, but when I try it I keep getting this error. :(

sed: illegal option -- r
usage: sed script [-Ealn] [-i extension] [file ...]
sed [-Ealn] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
build/core/combo/HOST_darwin-x86.mk:31: *****************************************************
build/core/combo/HOST_darwin-x86.mk:32: * You are building on Mac OSX 10.6.
build/core/combo/HOST_darwin-x86.mk:33: * Can not find SDK 10.5 at /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk
build/core/combo/HOST_darwin-x86.mk:34: * Falling back to 10.6 SDK.
build/core/combo/HOST_darwin-x86.mk:35: *****************************************************

I'm using SDK 10.6, as it says on CM Wiki.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong please? :)
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
Many users may find their phone gets quite hot, thankfully Aluminium is a heat conductor and dissipates the heat in the cold air but Sensation owners may find the phone can feel quite hot at the back and possible the screen feeling hot too.!

So far while gaming for about 10-15 minutes, I have had my temperature reach 46 degrees celsius.(~115 Fahrenheit)

I think the failsafe temperature maybe around 52 degrees Celsius(~125 Fahrenheight)

Anyone know what the failsafe temperature is or what should be the highest safe temperature?

how hot has your device gone?
[HTC Sensation] sausje85:
Highest temps i got was around 41 degrees Celsius, this was while playing gameloft games (heavy 3d graphics).
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
could be charging and gaming same ime causing 45.9 degrees celsius
[HTC Sensation] abuserkadayf:
1 hour gaming (galaxy on fire :P) and at the same time charging and i guess wifi was also enabled and the highest which I saw was about 45.8
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
Spoke to HTC

normal operating temperature is 30°c to 40 °c

Anything upto 50°c is safe and erl not harm the device
[HTC Sensation] phi11ip:
I managed 46.4 last week.

Anyone think they can beat that? If not, what do I win? :p
[HTC Sensation] novacatz:
was charging the battery and concurrently doing a large file copy (about 5Gb) to the SD card - on my widget monitor - temp went up to about 50C, phone body was getting noticably hot and there was some distortion on the screen (multicolour "snow" on some of the widgets).

finished the xfer - shutdown phone for about 15 mins to let it cool down - haven't had the same problem since (altho I haven't done such a large file xfer again either)
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Well, i'd like to keep it below 37 at all times. After having mobo in Desire replaced which had heat issues (just look up desire overheating and rebooting), i'm very cautious regarding temperatures.
[HTC Sensation] eden1988:
Had mine up to 48 degrees while it was in my pocket, best thing is I didn't feel a thing till I took it out and damn... way too hot =S
[HTC Sensation] eXceed:
Mine was at 55oc whilst charging overnight once. Still fine though, although I suspect there is something wrong with my battery. 4/5hrs mild use took me down to 55%!
[HTC Sensation] xdmds:
You should check battery information in spare parts. Check if it says battery health overheated instead of good.

Sent from my G2X running Bionix 2
[HTC Sensation] eXceed:
That was a few days ago, battery health now says good but at the time it said overheated :S.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steelechamp:
Okay, now thats a simplistic version of my question. An expanded version:

What modifications have to be made to a ROM base for it to be a totally new ROM? And what sets apart the ROM from its base upon completion? And what are the limits of what you can use as a ROM base?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystalhand:
A rom has a lot of tweaks and changes made to the code. These can be evening from changing the way ram is handled to enabling tethering. The rom base can be anything but the more different the hardware is the harder it will be to make it compatible
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaNaRkI:
My stab at answering

To be technical, what makes a ROM a ROM is that it is software that gets wirtten into the "read only" section of the phone's memory. In its simplest form a ROM is changes made to the OS software that are beyond what a user can do wile unrooted.

I've seen some ROMs that are little more then glorified themes, and we've had a few here that were changes to everything but.

I would say that any changes that make a noticeable difference in how the phone functions or what can be done with the phone are enough to consider it a different ROM. For our phone these typically include: Mobile AP/tethering enabled, "lag fix" -ext- file system support, lock screen changes, minor tweaks to things like memory management / CPU management, and a few smaller changes like different notification bar icons.

What really makes one ROM different the next is the dev who mods it.

As for what can be used as a base, well anything really. You can use any source you'ed like or even no source as all, as one dev here has done. One problem is that if you use an already existing ROM without getting the original dev's permission it may lead to a conflicts over "stolen code". Another problem is that if the base is not written to work on a specific phone a lot of modding will be needed to get it to run, and even more will be needed to further work out changes in hardware so it runs w/o crashing, freezing, FC'n all over the place.

One last thing to note: there is a big difference between the improvements in performance (speed, battery life, etc) that can be made with a ROM, as compared to a kernel. And much of what we really notice as improvements from one ROM to the next is actually related to the kernel the dev has chosen to include with the ROM and tweaks made to optimize it for the kernel.
[HTC Sensation] azsl1326:
Picked mine up on Wednesday from Walmart and has S-ON. Just curious if anyone who bought their Sensation today from other retailers (Costco,Target,Radio Shack) found that they have S-OFF.
[HTC Sensation] Liestman:
How do you know? What do I have to do to see what I have?
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
Switch off your Sensation completely, to make sure of this Take out your battery and put it back in.

then keep hold of Volume down and press the power button once still keeping hold of the volume button, dont let go till you see a white screen

It will boot up with a white screen.

The very top line will read

Pyramid PVT Ship S-ON RL

it means you dont have S - OFF
[HTC Sensation] Liestman:
Okay will try that. Thanks for your help.
[HTC Sensation] stepinmyworld:
cant boot into recovery

SOLUTION: FAST BOOT MUCH BE TURNED OFF IN SETTINGS UNDER POWER IN ORDER TO GET INTO HBOOT

how come i cant see if I have S-Off... i cant get to the hboot screen... I pressed the volume down and then held power.. nothing happens so i let go power only while still holding the volume down button and it just boots up regular... can someone let me know if Im doing something wrong?
[HTC Sensation] Scoop24:
Go into setting and turn off fastboot.
[HTC Sensation] stepinmyworld:
thanks so much. Mine is s-on ;/ blah lol
[HTC Sensation] p0xer:
does those retailers have OEM phones or T-Mobile branded ones?
[HTC Sensation] nccu_eagles:
Those stores are in the US so they will be T-Mobile branded phones....
[HTC Sensation] p0xer:
thought so..

GSMNation ships OEM..

http://www.gsmnation.com/htc-sensation.html
[HTC Sensation] bfspider:
Has anyone ordered and tested the phone from this site yet? If so, is the phone unbranded like the images/titles show/say?
[HTC Sensation] Darnell_Chat_TN:
If it is unbranded, it won't work with T-Mobile "4G", just 3G. (HSPA, not HSPA+)
[HTC Sensation] nitrogen618:
Wait... I thought 3G and 4G on T-Mobile has the same frequency?
[HTC Sensation] bfspider:
That is what I thought, too... looking at the specs: 3G Bandwidth: 900/AWS/2100 MHz - is the 3G a typo?
[HTC Sensation] nitrogen618:
I rather buy an unbrand than a branded Tmobile.

I don't really like the T-Mobile logo on my phone. ;/
[HTC Sensation] Darnell_Chat_TN:
Sorry my mistake. The unbranded version works just as well as the T-Mobile branded version.
[HTC Sensation] cmstlist:
The unbranded (Euro version) phone is 900/1700/2100. I think the T-mobile version is 1700/1900/2100. Both should work equally on T-mobile's 3G+ network. I still refuse to call it 4G! But both should get the same speeds.

The difference is, if the T&A - Mobile merger goes through, it'll be an asset to have that 1900 band on your phone because they'll be refarming some of T-mobile's PCS spectrum from GSM to 3G, and eventually taking AWS 3G offline.

But of course this is ask completely aside from the question of S-OFF.

Sent from my Nook Color!
[HTC Sensation] ajftl:
wrong... not gonna display the 4g logo but it would connect to hspa+
[HTC Sensation] Darnell_Chat_TN:
Yea, just look a couple comments up from your own :D .
[General Questions and Answers] cypher49:
Hi,

I came across a video of running ubuntu on the tegra 2 powered AC100 a while back and today I was just thinking if it would be possible to run pc games such as mass effect 2 on the AC100 / other tegra 2 devices using the wine or crossover games applications.

I just had the idea today where you can use something like a lg g2x (or future tegra 3 devices) as a complete all in one device where you dual boot android and ubuntu and maybe even play pc games.

I know it's super crazy but I was wondering about it and got curious enough to ask a question on here. So apologies if it's dumb question.
[General Questions and Answers] Gusar321:
The only possibility would be if Windows 8 will work on ARM and game publishers would then release games compiled for that. Then an ARM version of wine could be capable of running those. But right now all released Windows binaries are x86 or x86-64, it's impossible to run those on an ARM processor, except in an emulator. Which wine is not.
[General Questions and Answers] cypher49:
What about the following youtube users?

youtube.com/user/paranpi7#p/u

youtube.com/user/DamionYates2

They seem to be running windows (x86) programs on ARM devices (n900 runs on an old OMAP and AC100 on tegra 2)
[General Questions and Answers] Gusar321:
The second video mentions qemu, which is an emulator. The first video mentions winegcc and compiling source. So it's not an x86 binary, but Windows code compiled into an ARM binary. It seems winegcc makes this possible. But that won't help you for apps where you don't have the source code.
[HTC Wildfire S] Tricky-Design:
My girlfriend has downloaded an image from internet by long pressing the image and then selecting "save image" on her Wildfire S with stock Android 2.3.3.

The problem is that the phone keeps downloading this image over and over again even when it is already downloaded. It tries to download the image about every sync action for over a week already.

Before i just delete the whole history i thought maybe someone here knows the answer to this problem, so she can avoid it in the future.

Many thanks for your help!
[HTC Wildfire S] wipeer:
Hi, I have similar problem, but with applications. Sometimes phone starts downloading already installed app. Even if I set all apps to manual update only.

This behavior is really killing my data plan limit!

My friend with the same phone has this problem too.

Anyone have similar problem or solution to fix it?
[HTC Wildfire S] sk8citizen:
The same with me. Does anybody know how to fix it?
[HTC Wildfire S] jean001luc:
Same here. Must be something specific to the wildfire S
[HTC Wildfire S] LeeCHeSSS:
I've got the same issue. I guess it'll go away once I can flash a CyanogenMod or MIUI ROM :)
[HTC Wildfire S] mars83:
Works for me alright
[HTC Wildfire S] jean001luc:
It's worth completely removing the offending application and then reinstalling it. I had the download issue with 'LED Light'. Removed it and reinstalled it and problem resolved.

I now have the same issue with another appl - will try the same solutoin

It seems to happen when you do an update which is interrupted partway
[HTC Wildfire S] R2D2_SW:
We ported this rom on the Aria and had the same issue. I replaced the DownloadProvider.apk and DownloadProviderUI.apk with the ones in CM7 and it now works fine.
[HTC Wildfire S] old.splatterhand:
Can you offer this for us?
[HTC Wildfire S] R2D2_SW:
Here are the apps. You need to delete them from your current rom and replace them for these.
[HTC Wildfire S] jean001luc:
How do I delete them without root access? My Wildfire S is not and can not be rooted at the moment
[HTC Wildfire S] R2D2_SW:
I assumed the Wildfire S was "rootable". That's a very goo question. You can try something but I have absolutely no guaranties it is going to work because I personally never tried it. Either way, it's your call.

**Make sure you back-up your phone to the Google Server because this will wipe all the data in your phone.**

1- Run the RUU for your phone. This will extract the rom to the temp folder of your computer. For me it's under C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp\. An easy way to find it is to clear that folder prior to running the RUU. This way, it should be the only thing in there.

2- Enter the folder and look for a zip file called rom.zip

3- Open the zip file using 7-zip or Winzip. DO NO EXTRACT THE FILES ON YOUR COMPUTER TO REPACKAGE AFTER. THIS WILL SCREW UP THE ROM. You really want to make any addition or subtraction from the archiving utility.

4- Extract the system.img file. Now the challenge is to find a way to edit the content of that file. I personally have no idea how to but I'm sure there must be some tools to do that.

5- Once you've managed to open the .img file, under system/app, there should be DownloadProvider.apk and DownloadProviderUI.apk. Delete those and replace them with the ones I sent in my previous post.

6- Close the .img file.

7- From 7-zip, delete the system.img file and replace it with the one you edited.

8- Close 7-zip and follow the rest of the instructions from the RUU.

Again, no idea if any of this will work because I've never been in the situation to make changes on an unrooted phone. Your biggest challenge is step 4. If you cannot get in that .img file, then I guess you'll have to wait to get root access to your phone. My guess is that it shouldn't be too long since HTC agreed to unlock the HBoot.

Good Luck!
[HTC Wildfire S] old.splatterhand:
And is it possible to change this files in a "running" ROM Image (rooted, without flashing)?