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[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
ahh such a breath of fresh air from all the trolls. . . lol yes and i am trusting HTC history thats why I am picking mine up next week :P
[HTC EVO 3D] lzlaxhacker:
Well thought out post. I think the Evo 3D will be the phone to beat this summer. I think the GS2's screen, camera, and battery life will be superior. However, I think the Evo 3D will performance-wise be on par, it will get faster official updates from HTC/Sprint (just look at how fast the Evo got official updates to Froyo and Gingerbread), and it will have better dev support.
[HTC EVO 3D] cniels01:
I too have loved my HTC devices.
[HTC EVO 3D] toxicfumes22:
Someone had some time on their hands, good write up though.
[HTC EVO 3D] phatmanxxl:
The point i have been.making all year when.people want to talk about specs, you just put in a nice detailed post. Thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] srb7215:
Good to rehash the past. The Hero has been amazing for what little went into it and while I have never owned a Evo, it is still running with the best of them. Can't imagine that the Evo3d will be any different. Top notch specs and a hope of full root. Loving the thought of running CyanogenMod on this thing or a trimmed down Sense 3.0/
[HTC EVO 3D] Bostonfin:
i think gingerbread has messed up sprints signal
[HTC EVO 3D] mike21pr:
something i should point out: this is the first year that HTC's main competitor by Sammy drops (or it seems) to drop the keyboard. So its two slate phones duking it out, and also the Galaxy S line built up a name for itself as well

Not trolling or anything, but this year it should be that much more interesting since things balance out better
[HTC EVO 3D] mbh87:
The Galaxy S 2 is a much sexier phone, and probably even nicer when it comes down to the hardware but for those of us that love AOSP, its a deal breaker on the Sammy.
[HTC EVO 3D] jxr94:
Good point! It would seem hardware keyboards are almost obselete at this point.
[HTC EVO 3D] mike21pr:
not quite bro.

Sammy personally sent the CM7 development team a free GS2 for them to work their magic. If anyone gets Cyanogen, its the GS2 (as weird as it is to say it)

but HTC is a sure thing also when the bootloader is unlocked
[HTC EVO 3D] lzlaxhacker:
Another reason I believe the Evo3D will be the phone to beat(and don't kill me here AOSP people): Sense 3.0. Sense, IMO, is the best and most complete UI available for Android...definitely something to keep in mind.
[HTC EVO 3D] mike21pr:
^^^ this :D

i dunno why so many people want it gone... :confused:

IMHO we should work on making even better and faster while maintaining the beauty that is Sense!!! but thats just me

AOSP while fast as is, is bland
[HTC EVO 3D] jessejames111981:
we all know e3d will have a bootloader unlocked at some point, so will sammy.

wonder about having a bootloader unlocked is e3d owners can pick either to have a sense rom or aosp. With a sammy you have a choice with touchwiz or aosp. Aosp lovers can use either phone but people who prefer a skinned version of android the choice isn't as easy.
[HTC EVO 3D] jessejames111981:
I admit I'm an HTC fanboy. I just will not buy a gs2 and half the reason is the fact that Samsung makes it and not HTC. With that said I wouldn't try to talk anyone out of getting one nor if someone asked me my opinion on it I wouldn't bash it. Truth is the phone is a beast. The differences people are arguing are really so small and people are acting like its the difference between a Hero and an Evo.

OMG my phone can open up this game 0.25 seconds faster than yours!!!!!

Seriously unless you did a side by side test does it matter which phone?
[HTC EVO 3D] jxr94:
Hopefully dual booting will gget figured out soon. CM7 + Sense 3.0 would be awesome.
[HTC EVO 3D] Riff76:
My words exactly

Thank you, OP! Great post! The Moment really sucked some serious ass
[HTC EVO 3D] dresr82:
This my friend would be AWESOME!!!!:D
[HD2 General] DeriquedeCoux:
So i'm thinking of getting a new phone next month.

I'd be buying it off contract so paying full price.

I can't deal with my HD2s always needing replacing.

So i just wanted your guys input on which i should get.

I would obviously putting a custom ROM on it so i'm wondering which would be best in terms of speed with a custom ROM and support.
[HD2 General] johnerz:
What makes you think Samsung are any more reliable than HTC?

The sensation is locked down so no routing there - for now anyway
[HD2 General] backlashsid:
I cant understand why these kinda questions are posted in the HD2 forums !! for other phones !!
[HD2 General] Kailkti:
I'd say sensation as it's more of the future proofer there. Root will come eventually. I'd suggest a sgs 2, but you only want t-mobile 3g compatible phones.
[HTC Sensation] alex6137:
So I've been trying to figure out what all the holes on the back are for. I'm sure one is a Mic but what about the rest? Thanks
[HTC Sensation] broken89:
The one at the very bottom is a mic hole The 2 towards the bottom and the 3 one the top are rivet holes for the antenna connections holes but the one on the very top also acts as a hole for the stereo mic and noise cancellation. .
[HTC Sensation] alex6137:
Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] Louer Adun:
The 2 holes towards the bottom of the case seem unnecessary, leading me to believe that they could potentially be a water detection system. In the event that the phone gets dropped in water, these two holes would be some of the first areas to get wet, it would be pretty easy to detect a short between the two pins and disable the electronics inside if such a situation is detected, possibly saving your device from permanent damage.

Now I haven't tested this theory, mainly because I wouldn't want the device to log such a situation if that is how it works, but it would be relatively simple to test if anyone is willing to give it a go :D.
[HTC Sensation] smashpunks:
Most holes on back are where the copper connectors are under the cover..

Breathing holes I assume..
[HTC Sensation] dbirdflyshi:
this topic has been covered a plethora of times!
[HTC Sensation] Hoggles:
Exactly...

I contacted HTC the day I got this phone....

Straight from the horses mouth....they are antenna rivets AND vent holes.
[HTC Sensation] B-Man2005:
why is that ??? why holes ?? i havnt seen this sh*t on any other phone!!!!

thats ugly
[HTC Sensation] Louer Adun:
And this is why I suggested that perhaps they may be specifically designed for water detection, it would be trivial to have the hardware shut itself off if there is no resistance between the two leads to prevent permanent water damage... Just my two cents.
[HTC Sensation] Barff1984:
so, couldn't someone put a paper clip or needle in there whilst the cover is on the phone to see if it turns it off?
[Off-topic] Jusrertiner:
Post info n helpful advice about the game here!
[General Questions and Answers] Mohdoo:
Hello everyone~

I am still rocking a moto droid 1, and it is a painful experience. As you may have guessed, I prefer to keep my phones for a long time. I have been doing extensive research as I get closer to replacing my droid 1.

So far, the Droid x 2 has seemed like a great choice. Good battery life, good screen, dual core, but not LTE. I have read a lot of reviews of the various choices, such as the thunderbolt and the charge, but they all seem to have deal breaking flaws for me.

Both the thunderbolt and the charge are single-core, which feels silly to me. The Droid x 2 is presumably plain and simply faster. Sure, no LTE, but I live in Corvallis, Oregon, and I am left wondering when LTE will even be in my area. Additionally, the thunderbolt has terrible battery life from what I hear. The charge seems like a good in between, but it is still single-core. Buying a single core phone when there is a dual-core phone with good battery life is a hard choice to justify.

And yet even still, when I read reviews of the x 2, such as on phonearena, they still say that it would be better to get a thunderbolt or a charge.

Forgive my ignorance or if I am missing something obvious, but WHY? How can the x 2 not be the obvious choice? I am not concerned with custom roms. I just want to be able to root and clean up a bit of the bloat.

Can someone enlighten me? I really, really, really do not want to play the waiting game for the galaxy s 2, which I would buy if given the choice.
[General Questions and Answers] k_nivesout:
If you're due for an upgrade, I'd check in to when your area will be getting LTE. I understand wanting to get a dual core phone but the truth is, most apps aren't optimized for dual core, and probably won't run any differently. Also, its likely that Verizon will be moving to tiered data plans (maybe higher prices for 4G?) soon, so if you can upgrade to an LTE device, you'll be locked into unlimited $30 data for when you do get 4G service.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
method, what else could I do?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
You can run a RUU from your computer.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=884060

(.exe)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocnbrze:
what are you trying to do? more info would be helpful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
Probably have his phone boot past the white screen.

:P
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
im trying to get past the white title screen so i can flash back to factory, i flashed the wrong rom for another phone by accident and it stuck at the white screen. I did a factory reset and put the ruu file on sd and rebooted but it did nothing
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
Yeah that could be pretty serious.

Try running a RUU like I said.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
whats the process?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
Download a .exe from that link.

Plug phone in and run it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
put it in hboot when im doing this or at the white screen?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrandWorks:
What did you do to get it in that condition?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
flash rom for wrong phone
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
I hope I'm wrong, but flashing a different phone's rom is probably not something you can fix

Swyped From The Hippest Phone Using XDA Premium
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
You know what I'm not sure there's a difference.

Try in hboot first and if that doesn't work try on the white screen.

Best of luck.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
bump this........
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
The RUU didn't work?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
so i go to h boot usb, click it, and then hit the exe file?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
If the RUU isn't detecting the phone, try running it while in fastboot usb. To do that, boot to your bootloader. Select the 'fastboot' option. Then plug your evo in to the USB. It should say 'fastboot usb' now. At this point, try running the RUU. It should detect the phone and run from fastboot usb. When you tried the PC36IMG.zip, and it failed, what happened? Did it give you any errors? Did it not detect the PC36IMG? The more detail you leave here, the better help we'll all be able to give you. What hboot version are you on? We could try using fastboot to erase EVERYTHING in your phone, then try the RUU from a clean slate.

EDIT: Also, for the RUU to work, you do need to have HTC Sync installed on your computer. It contains the required drivers for the RUU to work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
i got the pcimg file installed, and was about to get it to power up factory, but my problem is when im trying to get into recover it hangs and goes to a black screen with a triangle and exclamation mark, what is causing this? also i know im s off
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
Go to a on recovery thread and download the pc36img.zip to flash recovery. Once done go into your nandroids and restore if hopefully you have some and you did nandroids with A on. If not go to the clockwork thread and look for their recovery and see if there is an boot method to flash it. Then you can try and wipe all or run caulkins wipe all and flash thru recovery

Edit: that Amon and not A on
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
That is stock recovery. When you ran the RUU, it would have taken your phone back to Stock, out of the box.

Are you still S-Off?? (Check in Bootloader, at the top of the screen)

If you are, search Amon Ra Recovery, get the PC36IMG and put it on the root of your SDCard, and then reboot to Hboot (Vol-Dwn & Pwr at the same time)

It should discover the file, ask you to update, say yes, then it will flash recovery on your phone. Once it's done flashing, it will restart hboot, find the file again, ask you to upgrade, this time say no, then scroll to recovery and hit power button to enter. Now, you're in recovery, you can clear your caches and flash a ROM, IF you didn't screw things up by flashing the ROM from the other phone.

Matter of fact, since you have RUU flashed, you may want to just try to boot up normally before anything else, just to see what happens.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexLuger82:
thanks it worked when i flashed that ra recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevenFox:
Hi all, new here and first post. As we hear on the radio first time caller, long time listener :)

My problem is similar if not very close to this one.

My situation was I have a rooted Evo, wanted to unroot to get the updates then maybe root again.

I put PC36IMG.zip on my sd card, actually the latest file was named something else and we're to rename it to PC36IMG.zip. I think I got it from one of your threads.

Anyway I went through that process but it said PC36diag.zip wasn't found, then PC36diag.xxx not sure what extension wasn't found.

It went through the process still but showed "failed" at one of the prompts (can't think of it and don't have the phone with me here at work).

So it completed but then when it reboots it hangs on the white HTC Evo 4G screen.

I have tried many fixes. I do have an SD adapter which I have been trying to use to put files on it then I put it back in the phone and try again.

Any help is appreciated, I will be able to edit when I am home with the phone in hand (if there aren't edit time restrictions), otherwise I'll reply to this with more information.

Edit: Just remembered too that if I try to choose Recovery it restarts and goes back to that boot screen
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevenFox:
More info (specifics):

PC36DIAG.zip "No image!"

PC36DIAG.nbh "No image or wrong image!"

Then after running PC36IMG.zip:

1 Bootloader - Bypassed

3 Radio_VZ - Fail-PU

Everything else was fine but then at the end:

"Can not roll back hboot version"

After that it continues, "Partition Update fail!" then "Update Fail!"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevenFox:
Saw some posts about s off should be s-on? Once I figure out how to do that I will try it again

- Sent from my SPH-M820-BST using XDA App
[Acer Iconia A500] Brash47:
I bought a 32g card for my tablet today. I inserted it and it doesn't show in external SD storage. I've read that the card has to be fat32 formatted. Forgive me for being slow, but after searching through these forums, I can't find where

1. How do I format the card...on my computer? Or

2. Should the tab auto format it?

Thanks in advance.

Brash
[Acer Iconia A500] Brash47:
Uhoh, I think the problem is solved. I plugged my phone card into the tab and it worked fine, so I thought, i'll format the card on my phone. I put it in the new card in the phone...the phone said the card is damaged. Its said I should reformat, it didn't. I think I bought a damaged card. Oh well.

Brash
[Acer Iconia A500] Fluffbutt:
First off, where did you buy it? If it was EBay or similar, you might ahve been scammed with a 4g re-rommed to read 32G, it happens.

I suggest, eitehr way, you plug it into a computer and format it from there, Fat32, default cluster sizes. (just right click it and format, select Fat32 in drop down box).
[Acer Iconia A500] Brash47:
I bought the card at Fry's. Its a Patriot 32gb, class 10. I put it in the computer to format, keep getting the "Windows was unable to complete the format" pop-up....so this is a bad card?

brash
[Acer Iconia A500] iCurmudgeon:
Uh, Patriot? Return it and get a refund. They have had more faulty 32 gb micro-SD cards than any other company I know -- so much so that they removed the tech support and RMA links from their website. I have one of those cards too, and it's crap, period. If you can get a refund from Frys, buy a Kingston, Transcend or Lexar card instead. And don't sweat the "class 10" business. Class 4 and Class 6 work just as well.
[Acer Iconia A500] Fluffbutt:
I agree with him - it's probably fubar, take it back for refund. Go for C6 or C8 rather than C10, the extra speed makes them more likely to die or be dead on arrival.
[Acer Iconia A500] Brash47:
I got the class 10 patriot because it had a good price on it...was on sale. I'm going to return it today. I'm actually considering going with a 16gb now. I keep reading forums and such where people have much better luck with smaller cards than the larger ones. I wonder is this is a problem that has to do with size....no pun intended.

brash
[Acer Iconia A500] Bec07:
I suggest you get some cheap crap until some light on SDXC is shed.

The minimum size will be 32gb and minimum speed will be class 10. We should have microSDXC this summer. Dunno if the compatibility will change though.
[Acer Iconia A500] Brash47:
So, took the card back, they checked on their system, it was bad like we all thought. They were out of kingston and sandisk, so we did an even exchange. We formatted it right there at fry's and its working fine. I'll let you guys know if it takes a dump.

Brash
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbyyyyyyy:
I searched and found that Sense widgets only work under sense roms, but is there like a vanilla gingerbread theme that i can flash?

I love the simplicity of gingerbread, especially the all black notification bar and app drawer, hate the look of sense but i love it's widgets and apps.

Or am I going to have to wait till a theme is released
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
I believe there is a theme.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
try myn's warm twopointtwo. it's based on the old ota (but not many are on the new one yet) but it's very nice. if you're on the new ota, i think you're sol.
[Defy General] drdreww:
while trying to install android wireless tether 2.0.7 (so that he can use the AP mode) my brother in laws defy always gives him a out of space error. i have read a brief discussion that it might be because of having the "open garden" tether app installed. they had said that deleting the android.tether file from data/data would take care of it but can not find it in astro. he is using stock froyo that is rooted. i would be able to help him more if i wasnt 700miles away.

thanks for your help
[Defy General] drdreww:
No help for a brother?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thailmore:
Hey all.

Got a rooted stock rom. Using the old flip-style clock with weather widget. Had it set to display "current" location, but it keeps sticking me in either africa it bahrain (i'm on east coast, in nc)

This throw the clock display way off. Any ideas on what coukd be causing this? Gps and google cell-based location both have me in the right place... Where is it getting these other spots from?

I set the time zone manually, which fixed the sysyem clock, but the widget keeps showing the wrong time... Arg.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GMoGoody:
I was having the same problem and did a quick search. Prior to MR1 HTC agreed there was a SW bug in the Tbolt. VZW on the other hand denied anything was wrong. There are reports of tons of owners on the east coast and their location putting them in CA. Others had the location putting them in Iceland.

Supposedly MR1 was to fix the issue. People prior to the fix were recommending setting the time manually and when your location changed to turn on the GPS and everything should revert back to your current location.

Now I was still having the issue after MR1 but I found it was caused by the battery app Juice defender. This app was disabling the radios to save battery but due to this the location could not update.

Others have also mentioned that overly aggressive task killers that auto kill can kill the necessary system apps that do these updates.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thailmore:
Looks like i need to track down that update. I don't use task killers, so hopefully thats the fix.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] LukeYonge:
I bought the NC about a week ago, it came as version 1.2 and I used manual rooter 4.5.6 to root it. I installed a few apps including all of the ClearView RC heli sims (Three in all) and all worked fine. I couldn't get any angry birds to work, after I DLed and tried to install them it just said app not installed. I understand this is due to a SMS problem the nook is missing..

So I decided to buy Angry Birds HD from the nook market, I did this on my computer with the wrong account and had to deregister then register and re-root my nook color exactly how I did before. However, this time the three ClearView apps would not install.

I got the Angry Birds HD installed and a few other nonmarket apps and everything works the same, minus those three apps. I have no idea why I cant install them, they worked before, why not now? Any ideas? I download the apk file, use app installer, click install then it says app not installed. Thanks in advance!
[Nook Color General] LukeYonge:
Does anyone know if ungrading the the newest manual nooter will help? Also, in the nooter there is an app folder with ten or fifteen apk files. If I add a few more apk files will they install?

EDIT: The newer manual nooter worked like a charm and I now have full Android Market! One last question if anyone is reading my post, my nook color wont like me view full sites if they have a mobile version. Is this a setting?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] cesarramsan:
I was developing a game and while checking the logs i found that the sensor service is constantly showing "dropping X events on the floor", were X is usually 2 or 16. I was curious if this happen to other people and if this may be some third-party application that is draining cpu.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Willis111:
As the name of the thread suggests, I'm looking for the xperia play ext4 module. If any kernel dev could compile one and post it here I would be eternally greatful.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
It'll be ready in an hour or two ;) based on .145 kernel.

Update: as promised... built from .145 sources, with minimal config because otherwise it's unable to compile. http://www.mediafire.com/file/dkjilue29an2u2k/ext4.ko.zip

Make sure you're on .145 FW.

chmod 777, insmod.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Willis111:
Thank you sir, will test it shortly and post back results.

Results :-( init_module 'ext4.mo' failed ( Exec format error )

I moved it to system/lib/modules, chmod 777, insmod ext4.ko and no dice. I am on .145 firmware and rooted . Thanks for giving it a shot, very much appreciate it.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
It's possible that there are different basebands on .145 FW, therefore giving error when on incompatible one.

ext4 support is, however, included in my kernel. Currently the bugs are camera and Wi-Fi, you may want to give it a try if you need ext4 support urgently ;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Willis111:
Just curious, my baseband version is 7X30A-AAABQMAZM-1290_12-22.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Willis111:
I built the ext4 module using the same firmware version

I flashed but I'm getting the same error when I try to insmod. :( Think it will be working once we have a working recovery and custom kernel
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
It's already included in my custom kernel, as I already said...