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[Acer Iconia A500] lipovskyc1:
I had a tablet that had a problem with the microphone. It worked ok for voice searches and recordings at the beginning, it never worked for skype or google talk video chats. The finger over the microphone thing worked for skype, not so much for google talk. After about a month it stopped working for everything and gave me an "audio connection" problem. Called acer, they said it was hardware related...they offered to fix it, but instead I brought it back to best buy and got a new one. The microphone works spectacularly now. If you can, bring it back and get a new one....
[Acer Iconia A500] Johnny0906:
This is a BIG EPIC failure for Acer... I mean its such a small thing that they could have done better, nearly ALL tablets have decent mics...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roman5:
My google calendar and outlook 2007 both have calendar events going back to february, but my phone has only been updated from May. So none of my past events are on the phone for february, march and april. Can I fix that? :confused:

I've already done a clear data in application management and it resynced, but still didn't give me the full amount of previous events.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohanlon07:
I searched for an option to sync past events but don't see it. Someone else may be able to point the option out if it exists.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batzaya:
Hey guys. I've got an interesting case :). Few days ago I was going to work and it started raining suddenly and my Samsung Vibrant got wet. I removed battery immediately and dried for 3 days and started my phone but the screen was blurry.

So I went to a local mobile repair service and they said we don't have screen for Samsung Vibrant but they have screen for Samsung Galaxy S I9000 (the one with the button ).

So I told'em to change it. Now my Vibrant got the look i9000. I attached the photo. I9000 screen on Vibrant. But the only problem is everything's working nice except home button is not working. I9000 got a big middle button but it's not working. Options and Back buttons are okay.

Is it possible to make I9000 home button to work on Vibrant?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
they changed the actual screen under the glass aswell ??

why didnt they just put the vibrant glass back :confused:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batzaya:
They changed everything except the main chip thing.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
the vibrant and i9000 screens are exactly the same, both 4 inch super amoled so dont see why they didnt just put the vibrant glass back on :confused:

they only had to unscrew the screen from the bracket and put the new screen back in i think, if there wasnt anything wrong with your glass that made them have to change it aswell

but im going to guess at no because its a hard key and it was a soft key before so they wont be anything on the board underneath to push down when you push the hard key, if thats how it works

if thats not how it works then maybe there is a way :)
[LG Optimus 2x] kalpak2021:
Hey,

Is it only me or are other people having trouble with taking macro shots too (even at a distance of like 20cms.), the images are very overexposed and there is no detail what-so-ever. The camera focuses correctly, but the image is overexposed due to the flash.

Regards,

Kalpak Khemka
[LG Optimus 2x] xxdoggyxx:
Hi, in that case, off your flash. Set your iso to around 200-400. Set exposure to +3.

My best advice and i always been using is: No flash, ISO 200, Exposure +2/3.
[LG Optimus 2x] Optimus2XPrime:
Same here, when you take a picture from that close, you can only see the flash!
[LG Optimus 2x] kalpak2021:
No.. I want to use the flash otherwise the images are really noisy in the dark at least! And, o hope LG fixes this in future! They need a better post processing system! :-\!
[Ideos S7 General] nelsonekos:
please any one have the build.prop file for the huawei s7 tablet, preferably the mtn Nigeria firmware. thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] umanko:
Android manager apps says this device has max of 728 mb ram , will 3.1 honeycomb update gona use full 1 gm ram like 2.2 froyo did with phones ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
remember its 1GB shared memory.. rest if for OS and graphic (video) memory.
[Acer Iconia A500] muqali:
Why don't they just go ahead and make a stinking tablet with 4gb of ram. I'd pay an extra $150 for it, especially considering the multitasking power it'd have.
[Acer Iconia A500] Johnny0906:
The answer to that is simple but long...

I'll give you one guess....

PS: I'd pay extra for too
[Acer Iconia A500] Fluffbutt:
They WILL.. it's just this way you buy a $500 tablet, and next year or 18 months you buy another $600 tablet with 2 or 4 G ram.

Better* for them then selling one $700 tablet now and nothing for another 2 years or so..

(* better from their point of vies)
[Acer Iconia A500] zeuslee:
I think current honeycomb OS only support 1GB ram. My running apps only occupied max 400+ MB. I think extra ram is not necessary.
[Acer Iconia A500] BrianDigital:
yes hopefully when vizio comes to the market it forces other companies to lower prices mwhahahahaha
[Acer Iconia A500] CrArc:
What on Earth would you use more than 1GB of RAM for on these tablets?

I'm loving the amount of memory - coming from the Advent Vega on Honeycomb (a whopping 380ish megabyte available there) 1GB feels positively cavernous.

I don't know that you'd notice a difference between 1GB and 4GB, certainly.
[Acer Iconia A500] Fluffbutt:
Well, the A500 only has about 480 of the 1G available for you to use anyway, based on mine after startup (and i only have a clock and weather widget running).

By the way - I also feel there's WAY too much auto starting on the A500 - it seems like, after about 2 mins, there's some two dozen things running!!.
[Acer Iconia A500] sp3dev:
Given that Iconia has a usb port and we can connect a keyboard.. Well, if kernel source is released we can make it run a full-blown desktop distro like ubuntu and it'll be one of the lightest and long-living netbooks..

RAM never hurts. Some guys are using ubuntu on Toshiba AC100. Tegra2 itself seems to outperform intel atom in computing tasks like archiving/compression but 512 Mb ram they have there makes using modern apps like chromium painful and nearly impossible without heavy swapping.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
see here if you want ubuntu/linux on tegra2

also check the xoom section, i think they got a ubuntu 10.x running.
[Acer Iconia A500] sp3dev:
You got me soooo wrongly.. Take a look - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1091081. I have done that a month ago. Now I want to run GNU/Linux with X11 natively, without android since that will allow me to enjoy opengl acceleration, alsa and other cool stuff. And obviously it makes no sense to start working without kernel source
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
i think atrix got your tegra2 GL driver already, just look at the Motorola website for the source for the driver. Maybe it can be ported to other tegra2 platforms..

they use it in combination with the dual display function for mobile display + lcd display output (i seen it 99% working on folio100)
[Acer Iconia A500] entropy.of.avarice:
I agree! So root it and take care of that - my a500 is on fire ever since I got rid of some of the stock crapware that ships with it - thanks to the modded version of Ginerbreak posted in the dev section it literally takes less then 5 mins to permaroot (at least till you OTA update) to get rid of some of that factory installed bloat.
[Acer Iconia A500] Fluffbutt:
Except you can;t get rid of it - you have to rename it (and rename it back before an update, else you have a $500 brick) which means it's STILL on the tablet.

OK, it might not be running, but it's still there wasting space (like all those crap facebook/twitter things! And the stupid demo games).

Then, all you have to do is forget to name them back, just one small forgetful episode.. brick time!
[Acer Iconia A500] bpivk:
Unless you just make a custom rom without the bloatware and with a custom recovery.

Custom roms don't get OTA updates (well you disable them) and I'm not expecting an update in the near future so in the meantime I'm waiting with my crapfree rom and waiting for Icecream sandwich if it ever comes for A500. :)

Besides I can always cook another rom if new versions show up.
[Acer Iconia A500] entropy.of.avarice:
Nah. No where as complicated as that. I use a app called "root toolbox" - pretty similar to titanium backup. It will automatically remove any system apk and back it up for you - if you want to be safe you can just keep

a backup of any removed apk's on a USB stick or somewhere off your droid - i rooted and removed a bunch of system apps before I noticed I could apply a OTA update.

Simply restored my default apk's, ran ota upgrade, ran gingerbreak again to regain root - removed annoying system software again. Very little risk of bricking your device unless you really do something silly - and now that we know thanks to xda how to wipe all data and factory restore - it's a pretty low risk process.
[HTC Sensation] adamtheindien:
I already have a Tmobile contract that I get a great deal on, and I am getting the sensation one way or another, but I just want to ask more people's opinions who know what they are talking about. My original plan was this:

I recently got married and got about 300 in best buy gift cards and I was just going to sign a new 2-year contract, then use my current sim in my sensation and put a basic phone on the new line with the low 39.99 dollar plan (which to my knowledge is the lowest price plan.)

But I'm starting to think it may be a good idea to just find a way to get it outright?

The thing is, I just got married and I don't have extra cash. But I do have a perfect condition HTC G2 and almost 300 in best buy gift cards haha.

Any suggestions anyone? Anyone sold a G2 recently? How much did you get for it? Sold gift cards before? Is there a lower price plan? Want to trade me? Haha. Whatever, just give me information!
[HTC Sensation] henryr934:
U can get like $300 on craigslist
[HTC Sensation] id242:
I hope the attached image can help
[Galaxy S II General] sumeshd:
Flashed whiskey theme on my stock ke8 firmware..

But settings fcs after that..cannot open settings..plz help..

Anyway to get back on stock theme..

(flashed stock firmware this morning and tired of installation over and over again)..

Plz help

Thnx in advance..

Sorry had to start a thread..
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
Hi,

This will fix your unlocked Phones which got bricked through OTA update and are dead now!

Please download this package:

http://www.multiupload.com/Q103V01CV1 [Corrected Package; thanks blagus for finding the problem]

Let it extract to a destination of your choice.

After that run Flashtool.exe.

Now hit the button FLASH and select the package which is included.

Follow the steps and connect your phone in flashmode. This is the same mode Pc Companion and SEUS uses to flash your phone to newer firmare (Indicated by green LED), if you got BLUE LED you are in the wrong mode!

Flashtool will now detect your phone and start the repair.

After all is done your phone should be up and running again, if not please reflash with original firmware and WIPE userdata!

ADVICE:

PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OTA'S ! If you receive a OTA message just decline, if you accept it you will end with a brick AGAIN! So please do NOT accept them until SonyEricsson provides a OTA solution for unlocked Bootloaders!

Best Regards

Team FreeXperia
[Xperia Play Android Development] mrassol:
does it fix the radio ?
[Xperia Play Android Development] thomassafca:
I think it does :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] mrassol:
I'll test it tonight
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
Flashtool seems to have a problem, Androxyde will look this evening into the problem.

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] soudara:
hi

thank you

fastboot working again ?
[Xperia Play Android Development] baaa3:
Flashing Error -----> Aborted

Unplugged the USB started the play with same result (No Radio)
[Xperia Play Android Development] mrassol:
If you got Flashing Error -----> Aborted your phone won't be flashed ... so radio will not be modified ...
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
Did you guys not read what binary said? Flashtool has a problem flashing this package, it is prob to do with the modified trim area, the flashtool dev will look at it tonight :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
This should be correct preset.ta:

// [Brick fix]
02

000008FD 0002 00 00

Try with this one: http://www.mediafire.com/file/838ar7vbur358l4/Play_v1.01_TA brick fix UPDATE.ftf

After flashing, reflash phone fully with generic FW, make sure you select wipe userdata.
[Xperia Play Android Development] mrassol:
still no network for me

my phone is simfree

if you need, I can test for you ;-)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
Updated first post!

Regards

Bin4ry
[Xperia Play Android Development] soudara:
fastboot ???

hi i have xplay fix with flashtool and fatgsm, now my bootloader is relocked and fastboot not work

first post can repair my phone ?

ty
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
I'm not sure, you have to try.

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] crispyduckling:
not sure if it was supposed to fix my broken radio?

but i can say if it was supposed to it didnt work for me

thnx devs tho
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
well,its supposed to unbrick.but it only unbricks yout phonr full if you havent used another patch!

the other patch corrupts the simlock,i can not fix this sorry. so i advice NOT use the patch from other thread!

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Hmm, I got an idea... Vodafone phones with fastboot capability are sim-locked, and after bl unlock they're sim-unlocked too. What if we manage to enable fastboot, then re-run oem unlock to try to rebuild simlock?
[Xperia Play Android Development] baaa3:
1 - Flashed with the Fix

2 - Flashed with Generic UK

3 - Turned on the play and still no radio :(

I am getting no signal and insert sim card msg

Good Luck Guys ;/ and thanks for your effort on making this work.
[Xperia Play Android Development] ebsglobal789:
Thanks guys, I know you wrote a wonderful tool to save our phone, but it still no signal and simcard not found. my arc became a "iTouch" now. only the music and wif internet.:(

Thanks once again
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
It's stated in first post, the Fix cannot only Fix your phone if you are in DEAD STATE.

If you already tryied the other trick it's too late sorry!

Now you have to use a payserver to remove simlock, there is no other way.

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] ebsglobal789:
like fastgsm??
[Xperia Play Android Development] ebsglobal789:
any pay server to remove simlock prefer??

Thanks
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
I have nothing to do with this services so i'm not an expert there. In my country this services are illegal, so i will not tell you which are good and which are bad ones, simply because i don't know and i don't want to know :)

But a quick google search has shown me some reports about this ;)

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] Waqas:
Ok. so lets get this straight. I did an OTA update on a bootloader unlocked phone and it bricked. i gave it to a local retailer to repair. i believe he flashed the fix that breaks the radio cos phone is booting but its not picking any network. it shows the available networks but can not latch on to any. so effectively, radio is broken. now the question is, if i am to use this patch, will it have any effect, like i use this patch then use fastgsm and upload a new rom on it, could it possibly repair the radio? else i'm gonna go smash in the head of the guy who uploaded the radio breaking patch on the phone...
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
This won't work on your phone. You need FastGSM or any other via-cable unlocking tool (right now, but we're working on a free solution).
[Xperia Play Android Development] Waqas:
Mine was sim free. so don't need an unlocking tool i think. so a breakdown of my problem.

got xpreia play R800i simfree. unlocked bootloader and rooted the phone. got notification of OTA update and did that. bricked my phone. tried flashing generic UK rom from This forum. didn't work. took it to a local retailer. he, in an attempt to impress me and rip me off, flashed the fix that breaks the radio but unbricks the phone. now i got a phone that boots but only wifi works. does not latch on to any network. it picked the networks when scanning manually but cannot not latch on them. so anyone with any ideas how i can get this fixed. can i try this patch then do a firmware update from fastgsm? will it work? any other solution to get the radio back in working order?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Let's switch to PM-s... I think I'm close to the solution ;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] mrassol:
If you need I can help ;-)
[Xperia Play Android Development] starbearer:
so I bricked my unlocked play couple of days back, sent it to sony service centre, hope fully they will repair it for me...havent heard from them, maybe in this week...

(On restart the phone kept on vibrating, green light blinked when i first touched the start button and then again blinks but doesnt restart the fone)

Now im pretty sure why it goes of dead....bcoz of incorrect partitions on the phone are written while you are processing the update from sony(F**k them) and your partitions dont match...

So unlike some phones where you can manually write partitions on memory card you cant do that here...as for now changing the simlock.ta into preset.ta is good but confuses me anyways.....

Some phones had an advantage of first processing the bootloader only (motorola) thru their flash tool and then flash the complete package...what if you first flash say bootloader file and preset.ta and then flash a complete package with the simlock.ta file in it(the new UK release)..this mite first allow the device to flash a package and then offcourse we all know that the UK release had no issue with the radio.....wil this work..I cant try at the moment, but could have....?

*** A locked bootloader has locked partitions when we unlock the play those keys to partition gets overridden, when we flash anything else it just write incorrectly......I think...***

Also I remember that Motorola's P2K tools/commander etc did have an option of changing the hex values...that could be done either to create the lock bootloader file or even edit the simlock.ta..........any possibilities(p2k wont work here, but something like dat mite)?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
No, it's not partition table mess up. What happens is that Trim Area is damaged.
[Xperia Play Android Development] starbearer:
You know what Blagus...i kinda like you..lol... I like prompt responses specially ppl who can help!! good job done so far bro..

So if its not partition..it needs more research, il dig whatever i can salvage....

Why I said on partition was bcoz of the Omnia winmob I had when i ported Android into it...so even if a slight mistake with partition table building you do, you cant boot the device..that made me think on the partition thingy, but il take your word...could be thr trim area in the phone memory.... ;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] haydarm:
So starbearer, you gonna share with us your solution for the radioless phones or no!?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Waqas:
Well I had a bricked R800i and unlocked bootloader and did ota update and bricked my phone. Used the radio break fix. Now phone boots but not accepting sim. I even used SEUS to install latest firmware successfully but no luck. Any idea what to do next. If I put a sim with pin inside it detects that and asks for unlock code but once I put that, the phone doesn't boot properly. No home screen and using pull down menu I can only see 'emergency calls' . So any ideas guys. Please, in standing one one leg here waiting for it reply. Legs hurting now so please respond someone.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Waqas:
One more thing. Once phone boots up it tells me to insert sim and reboot phone. This is with sims that do not have pin security on it.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Waqas:
Any ideas as to what payserver we could use to get rid of the insert sim message. radio is broken and although SEUS updates the phone, it doesn't fix the radio. so anyone have any success with any payservers. $50-100 is not much compared to replacing the play... so any success stories??

Mine is the same as others. bootloader unlocked ota and bricked. used bin4ry's patch to restart the phone and now radio is broken. tried everything currently available on this forum but no luck with anything. comeon guys... we're looking up to you to come up with a solution. you know we're noobs here.. can't do much more than just play with our phones... help us out guys... Bin4ry, Blagus, Waz and others i forgot to mention... please guys... u got us this far.. now take us all the way..
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
Well i just want to make clear that it was not "my" patch =) I deleted that faulty patch after a few hours of testing and 2 dead phones :/ Then i stated that NOBODY should ever use it again. Some ignored this warning and reuploaded the patch again and again and again.

@ALL: PLEASE DELETED ALL THE POSTS WITH THIS "PATCH" NOW!!!!!

The best thing you can do is connect the FastGSM or Omnius guys and ask if they can simunlock your phone again. This is what is needed for you.

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] haydarm:
Don't worry Bin4ry, nobody's blaming you... you were just looking for a solution. Frankly, I'm happy I'm at least able to partly use my phone now.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Waqas:
Bro, Apologies. Its just that you are amongst the top developers here and your name pops up almost everywhere and with the post deleted, my memory failed me there... But atleast with the help of all the devs i can atleast use my phone with wifi at home and for gaming. i just wonder if anyone is working on this problem. I know Blagus said he was near a solution but no reply to PMs from him.

PS. Anyone have any luck with using Omnius to repair radio? I'll buy the 1 year licence and give to anyone who needs it if it can unbrick my radio... its the least i can do if my play can start making calls...
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
:-)

I don't think that this is easy to do. Problem is that the Simlock is protected by same encryption strength which is used for ROMs at all by SE. I don't think that this will be cracked.

Only option is to use a payserver to remove simlock. Which payservers CAN remove simlock via s1 signature server : I don't know!

If you have omnius account write them a E-Mail via support. Maybe they can help you ;)

What i've heard is that some users have unlocked via FastGSM, but as i said before: I'm not related to any of them and i don't know what they can and what not. Here simunlocking is illegal, so i don't want to get involved too deep in simunlocking.

Hope that helps a little :)

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] mav3:
this firmware was great, tested on my xplay after the unlock bl n ota tat bricked my phone.
[Xperia Play Android Development] baaa3:
So Guys Still there is no solution for the bricked radio? and still all the pay server unlock are down :(

I am really suffering with my old mobile and thinking to get a new one if it is going to take more time :(

Thanks for the endless effort though.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jassired:
Sony Ericsson working on the fix

Check this link...Sony has acknowledged this issue and mentioned that they are working on it..

Good to know they have mentioned about the forums too

http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/
[Xperia Play Android Development] crono141:
I'm trying to use this to fix an R800x which automatically bricked itself via OTA from verizon. I keep getting "Error flashing - aborted".

The only thing I've done to it was unlock the bootloader and remove apps. No other fancy flashing. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

EDIT: Nevermind. Fixed it. Phone wasn't in flash mode.