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[Thunderbolt General] Rngrrymd:
Good thing I switched back from AT&T when I did! Splurged on my daughter and let her get data - she used 2GB last month, and is already up to 5GB this month. :D
[Thunderbolt General] CanesDrew:
Hate to say I told ya so, but I told ya so. :p
[Thunderbolt General] eraursls1984:
You act like you know exactly what they are going to do, and unless your high enough up in Verizon to make the decision you don't know. All I'm saying is that they have always grandfathered to this point, and hope they continue to do so, but they have been changing a lot of their policies lately which screw over their customers and I hope the grandfather policy isn't the next in line to get the axe.
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
What have they changed aside from data?
[Thunderbolt General] eraursls1984:
Two huge things they changed were NE2 and 1 year contracts. They said they got rid of 1 year contracts to "help the consumers with a difficult choice" haha
[Thunderbolt General] Bluecat.NYC:
I was wondering the same. When you change/upgrade secondary phones VZ gives you a list of options to add. Today you can choose a smartphone and the unlimited plan for your secondary phone. Not sure what happens after 7/7. I hope they will allow family plan participants to share data as they do minutes. Haven't seen any indication of that in recent batch of rumors.
[Thunderbolt General] bamaredwingsfan:
Yea, as in the difficult choice between vasoline an ky :D
[Thunderbolt General] Dangerous Dave:
You're right, I don't know beyond a shadow of a doubt what they will or won't do. I do know what they've done over the last 15 years that I've been a customer. It just irritates me a little when people start complaining about something they're sure is going to happen, even when there's no compelling reason to believe it will.Verizon has grandfathered their plans for as long as they've been Verizon. As far as them making changes that "screw over their customers", I'm sure you've noticed that the economy is in the toidey and even big companies have had to make changes so they can keep their doors open. Verizon is certainly no different in that respect. If/when Verizon turns the light switch off on us current customers, feel free to say "I told you so". Until then, why get all in a huff about something that hasn't happened? I think they call that being a "doomsday sayer". Why go there?
[HTC EVO 3D] aimbdd:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Nokia-N9-A-savior-or-delusion_id19742

Such a good looking phone... has a real camera lens ;)

Also can run android apps.

Thoughts? If it came to sprint i think i would sell my evo 3d for it.
[HTC EVO 3D] chlehqls:
Definitely a nice looking phone. This will probably benefit Nokia greatly, since they are slowly dying.

If it's polished up more along with more app support, I'm sure we could have another choice as consumers in the smartphone market.
[HTC EVO 3D] 063_XOBX:
To anyone who actually buys it:

Enjoy the new hardware with dead in the water software!
[HTC EVO 3D] Harfainx:
All I could think of when I read that was:

"Phenominal COSMIC POOOOOOWER! Iiiiiiitttttty-bitty living space."

Not sure why, but it just popped into my head.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] missinglink111:
holy cow!! I think I just bricked my phone... I hope someone can help me.

Here's the situation. I was on the latest MIUI 1.6.17 demonSPEED v.1.2. Everything was awesome! Then today I went to my dentist and there was a sign that said that they are not in today and to call a number. I was about to call, then everything got stuck. I needed to call them, so I just did a flash in front of the dentist's office with the ROM I had on my SD card.

re-flashed v1.2 with no problem and I was about to select "reboot my phone", then I was like, oh i'll re-flash Swype as well... the swype zip got stuck for like 5 minutes during the flash (and I still needed to call the dentist). So I was like, ok I'll just pull off the battery and restart the flashing procedures...

That's when I put the battery back and the phone won't even boot up now. I'm now home (didn't even get to call my dentist yet after all that), and plugged in the charger and it won't even charge now (orange LED not turning on)... Can't even boot it in recovery. Phone is unresponsive to any buttons...

Does anyone know of any other way to even turn the phone on?

Geez, that was the Noobiest mistake ever!! All that because I had to make a call... WOw, I'm speechless thinking of my stupidity! I hope someone can help...

Thanks in advance guys!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
Quite honestly dude i dont think you have much to hope for except to call tmo and tell them its broken. If its truly bricked even they cant confirm it since they cant turn it on. Only thing i think you could try is pluging it into your pc and trying to see if the pc recognizes it and lets you run adb commands or something similar. Hope this helps.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] missinglink111:
I don't know how that's gonna turn out with the replacement... Oh man, I'm so stupid!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vqt:
Here is the thread on emmc chip...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081243
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
I doubt you'll have problems. Everyone I've ever heard of sending in the truly bricked phone has gotten it replaced for free but that's my experience. Most don't have a second thought about it because they know there's nothing t mo can do.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] missinglink111:
yup, the thing is that I'm not a T-Mobile customer anymore. I wonder how I'm even gonna get in contact with them to get a replacement. I remember from being their customer, that the first thing they ask you is your phone number with them. If you didn't have one, they just said they can't help you... Does that sound about right?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lakeshow423:
Send it back to HTC. It sounds like you got hardware issues not software. I don't think you even bricked your device.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] missinglink111:
yeah man, that was the analysis of the customer service rep that was helping me. He thinks that the battery somehow is knocked out... That's why he's shipped out a battery. Just waiting for that to confirm that it's the battery or something else! If that doesn't solve it, I'll have to send it back to HTC for repairs. Probably won't be able to get a replacement with T-Mobile since I cancelled my account with them like 4 months ago already... but thanks for the input!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
keep us posted eh.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] missinglink111:
took quite some time, but i should be receiving my repaired phone back next tuesday... HTC said that somehow the main board was the problem, so they replaced it... hopefully for a better one! haha
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] adam1890:
Hi ! I wonder if there is an app to read arabic since now one have managed to open sensation yet...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kristova86:
i have rom without arabic can you please help me,the rom in the following link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=825551&page=22
[Galaxy S II General] Roman5:
Is this the definitive way to do it?

http://hemorrdroids.net/battery-calibration/

Those steps came from here, xda devs.

1. Run the device down until it turns itself off.

2. Turn it back on and wait for it to turn itself off again.

3. Remove the battery for 10 seconds.

4. Replace the battery, but leave the device off.

5. Charge the device until full and then for another hour.

6 **Root users only** Using a Terminal Emulator, type “su” enter, followed by “rm /data/system/batterystats.bin”

7. Run the device’s battery down until it turns itself off.

8 .Turn the device on and charge for at least 8 hours.

9. Unplug the device, turn off, then charge for another hour.

10. Unplug the device, turn on, wait 2 minutes.

11.Turn off again and charge for another hour.

12. Restart and use as normal.

Quite a performance! Does it preserve battery lifespan, or is it more to do with slowing down battery drain and does it really work?

He mentions 2 interesting things:

"Generally charge them before they get lower than 50%". I didn't know that, so it's actually better to charge more often and not let it drain down?

"USB charging is actually better for the battery and you may get up to 1 hours more standby time." So you gain an hour standby but it takes twice as long to charge the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] w4yn3s:
Nice manual

Will try it
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Some will say that its complete nonsense .

Overcharge for 8 hours ??? how does the battery not turn charging off at 100%

Recharge 50% the accepted figure is not to go below 20% to often .

They may be right or wrong their are so many contrasting views on battery charging .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] XpLoDWilD:
Discharging battery and then reloading it fully, it's the normal procedure for battery calibration for almost all the devices in the world (including computers, etc.).

Step 8 to 11 seems quite a bit strange however.
[Galaxy S II General] Eclap78:
hm, just seen a different way to calibrate the battery. basically, you drain the battery, take it out for a couple of minutes, put back in, then try to turn it on to make sure it's completely flat.

then you charge it fully, then boot to recovery and wipe battery stats then drain and fully charge. so... which one is more likely to be the better?
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
that guy also advises to repeat that 12 step, 1-2 day long tedious procedure "every month or so".

it is lunacy honestly speaking :)
[Galaxy S II General] (•.•):
does it work? did he died ? :p
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
LOL I dont understand .... I just read in another day that NEVER LET BATTERY GO LOWER THAN 15% and know I read "drain drain drain" :D Oh welll ...

I also thought that at 100% the charging process stops.
[Galaxy S II General] m2smoe:
Spin three times in clockwise direction with left middle finger on your nose while blinking your eyes with the phone plugged in.

Jump in the air 3 times.

Unplug phone.
[Galaxy S II General] CamoGeko:
Thats some messed up instructions.

Do you have any idea what kind of strain you're putting on the battery while doing all that?

All you're gonna get is some extra minutes, maybe an hour but is it really worth it because you're just reducing overall battery lifespan by doing that procedure over and over.

Specially when you constantly keep the battery at 4200mV (full charge) for a long time. You're practically killing it by overcharging.

Transmitted from a Galaxy far far away via XDA telepathy.
[Galaxy S II General] :
that made me chuckle:D
[Galaxy S II General] Universeal:
Never done a calibration on a battery and most of the time i even didn't let battery to discarge very much and then load it again. Never had a problem with battery life it last how long it should last every time and i've used that battery for years. So the battery "calibration" are kinda useless.
[Galaxy S II General] m2smoe:
Well then, my job here is done :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
it is indeed...i should follow you just to have more laughs like that:D cheers
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
You should post the source for your info, cause I am seeing a lot of incorrect information in here.

If you guys want to learn about your battery, visit the site Battery University
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
The OEM replacement battery is worth about $10.

Save yourself the stress....use it...charge it when you need to...if the battery ever fails cough up $10.
[Galaxy S II General] ziggyboy:
The way I would calibrate my batteries is a bit different. Lithium ion batteries don't need to be drained then charged to full AFAIK, and I even remember reading somewhere that draining it is actually only for NiCad batteries. It used to be relevant when phones were using NiCad but not anymore.

Read: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

As such I have read that the universal way to 'calibrate' batteries is by charging to full, using for a couple of mins and charging again.

What I have been doing is:

1. Charge to full when phone is switched off (doesn't matter if it's from 0% or 99%).

2. Switch on the phone, use for 5 mins.

3. Switch off then charge until full.

4. Repeat step 2 once more

That's it! It seems pretty simple but it seems to have worked for me.
[Galaxy S II General] :
The way i do it is different. Firstly i have the battery calibration app from the market by Nema..then i fully charge my phone and when it says its fully charge i go into the app. There it gives me the instructions on how to calibrate...First i wait till i charge the phone without any interruptions. then click on the app and wait til the battery goes to 4200MV and then i press the calibrate button and then the app does it for me. Then i drain the battery again without any interuptions or breaks during that time and then charge it again once battery dies down and thats it.

there are so many ways being touted on the forums you really dont know which one to go for...but whatever works for each person then who are we to tell someone different:) just thought i share that
[Galaxy S II General] Hilari0:
If my battery dies, or gets significally lower capacity after 1 or 2 years of usage, I'll just buy a new one if I plan to keep the phone longer.. Going through these rituals and painstakenly monitor my battery % so that it never goes below 20 % or above 95 % is just not worth it.. Doesn't increase the life THAT much anyway.. I use the phone until I hear the beep for low batt, and from there until I have a charger available.. Most of the time it's before it reaches 10 %, thats good enough for me.. Once in a while it might even go so far that it dies.. Then I charge it till it says 100 %.. Most of the times I plug it when going to bed, and let it charge over night.. This is normal usage and what the battery should be designed to handle, and so far it does.. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] h20rat:
Morning all,

Has anyone found an 'itunes' style program that will successfully sync music and video to this great little unit? Miro wants the USB storage to be mass, which won't work due to the whole mounting as a device not a drive thing. Doubletwist actually sees it, and will sync, but won't sync podcasts and when you go to DT on the tablet it opens ok but says there is no media there, but going into the stock music player there it is. Is there anything that I can use? Or we're all still waaay ahead of our time? :p

Thx for any tips/help
[Acer Iconia A500] Vereynn:
i've never really big synch fan myself, I prefer manual copy for the limited amount of video I've moved over, and used Windows Media player (gasp! I know...) to synch my 4-5 rated songs over.

Notalotta help I know, sorry :\
[Acer Iconia A500] h20rat:
That's ok...I'm sure something will catch up, i guess i'm just resigned to the fact I can't hook this thing up the way I'm used to with my galaxy s and just drop everything on my external so i figure i'll just forget it's there for the time being....such a pain copying gigs of video over then having to copy again....ahhhhhhhh!

I'm assuming an update to Doubletwist will make this easier and more workable....but tbh i'm not that big a fan lol
[Acer Iconia A500] nytrojen:
You can always use windows media player or mediamonkey to sync with it. I use mediamonkey to sync my audio. I don't see the point of syncing video, personally, since I change them often, and manually changing them is quicker than syncing
[Acer Iconia A500] bhageman:
I use J. River Media Center. It sees the A500 as a drive when connected via USB and will sync audio and video to it.
[Acer Iconia A500] he_stheone64:
There are many options, they all depend what you really prefer. Just to give you an option from a different angle, which is nice if you don`t have a collection larger then 5GB.

Install SugarSync from Market and on your PC.

Move your music to a sugarsync folder

That`s it - now your Iconia or Android phone can stream the music from the server and you don`t need to worry about sync and cable, since it will sync automatically.

You can even sync music for offline access. This is great, if you want a hassle free solution for multiple devices. Sugarsync offers 5GB free - so for most guys that could work. On top you can enjoy all the sharing and backup options, the service offers. It basically is a dropbox meets Google Music Beta service.
[Acer Iconia A500] entropy.of.avarice:
Prolly a million apps that support auto sync to your a500 - windows media center, windows media player, winamp, foobar, mediamonkey - pretty simple to set up,
[Desire General] electric29:
Is it possible to find a nice case, that will protect my phone without making it look like a house brick?

Any thoughts?

:)
[Desire General] bigdan35:
Check out a "Barely there" case from Case-Mate, its beautiful and my Desire doesn't feel the same without it now!

Dan.

Swyped from my Oxygenated HTC Desire
[Desire General] samhiggs1988:
I believe the above case is only £5 on Play.com and includes a screen protector and cloth!

Excellent finish and highly recommended
[Desire General] electric29:
Cheers! will definitley check it out, i've got two cases, but both of them make my phone look huge! :)
[Desire General] gthe:
In my opinion the best case for a desire is the genuine HTC Pouch PO S520.

It fits the desire perfectly when it stored in your bag but leave its in its physical size when used
[Desire General] Ipoodulz:
istyles are nice, give it a Google, might not be as protective tho...
[Desire General] mistaliu:
Otterbox commuter case, very nice and its not too bulky. Had it since I bought my phone and I love it, a little pricey though.
[Desire General] vnvman:
Any tpu case will be the best option, got one from expansys a year ago and it's still rocking. My desire fell on concrete a dozen times and took no damage at all, that's just great...plus it doesn't even stick in the pocket, coz it's not rubberized (silicon cases suck a lot cause of that).
[Desire General] harrypottero:
looks cool~~:)
[Desire General] Stripeymilk:
When I first ordered my Desire, I decided not to add any pouches, rubber cases, screen protectors or anything else that goes around the device, and instead went with the Valenta leather ZIPP case to store the phone whenever it's not actively being used.

Best decision ever :) After a full year and a few months, the device is still looking great. There's no scratches, no dust, no dirt, and when I'm using the phone it actually looks like it's supposed to.

You can drop the phone with the case, too. I've done it a few times (not on purpose!) and everything still works fine.
[Desire General] erklat:
I couldn't agree more with you. Slap zagg invisible shield for screen on, and with this pouch you have the ultimate protection which leaves your phone nice and slim.

I don't know how you manage to call almost 30% increase in size not bulky :D

I bought one for my brother's N900, that thing makes a phone huge. That huge actually that I decided against buying it.
[HTC EVO 3D] K-Driod:
I'm predicting 8/1/2011
[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
anyone bets bets? 5 dollars on June 23
[HTC EVO 3D] tjb3401:
I think it'll be a lot quicker than that.. Probably even before July. All the great Evo devs are switching to the 3VO says myn.

it will either be really quick or quite a while.
[HTC EVO 3D] Harfainx:
June 26th

This way they have a weekend to work on it.
[HTC EVO 3D] AyoJake:
dont really care since im keeping the phone root or not.
[HTC EVO 3D] DDiaz007:
Tomorrow!
[HTC EVO 3D] erikivy:
I bet it's already rooted and those responsible are keeping a tight lip about it.
[HTC EVO 3D] firemedic1343:
If I had it rooted I'd post some proof without actually giving away the way it was rooted.
[HTC EVO 3D] erikivy:
Good point. It would be fun to tease the masses. :)
[HTC EVO 3D] rdcrds:
You are joking about it being kept quite right? with how many people like to be the HERO and post anything and everything first? trust me once root people wish rush to post IM THE FIRST TO HAVE IT ROOTED HERE IS PROOF.

TRUST ME THE HERO EFFECT NEVER FAILS.
[HTC EVO 3D] Kingmac38:
root

toast has said we are good .....we have eng hboot and he did root the og evo ...... if he said anything htc could patch the exploit with ota ..... we will have root s-off really soon
[HTC EVO 3D] LouRock:
...............
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] eventhorizonn:
For those of you who still haven't rooted their Galaxy Mini, Ace or Gio with the leaked Gingerbread 2.3.3, Sam Firmware has a thread that covers rooting the gingerbread in recovery mode. You just have to download the upd_1.zip and update it through recovery mode. The link is below, and I'm kind of disappointed that xda-developers didn't have this..:/

samfirmware.com/apps/forums/topics/show/4729972-gingerbread-2-3-3-root-?page=last
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Zecanilis:
2 seconds to find it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1034145

Thread closed
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrwright83:
I have send my EVO to HTC to fix my charging port and I'm rooted with virus newest Rom, but my question what it the process for me to send back so they can fix for me for free
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
I would advise using Sprint for repair if you have that coverage.

Are you asking how to go about the warranty process or how to unroot?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mizzos4:
Like mattykinsx said, if you have TEP, bring to sprint corp store and they will either fix or give you new phone on the spot (might have newest OTA, which means no root until method rlsed). Even without TEP, bring it to Sprint and it should be $35 fee for any repairs. I don't recommend this, but if sent to HTC, you probably want to unroot using SON flash and RUU to revert to unrooted stock. However, if you modded the splash or bootscreen, make sure you revert these back to stock before unrooting your phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unknownforce:
3.70 RUU exe file reverted the splash automatically when I did it on mine. Just FYI.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaunole:
I'm looking for a way to easily unlock the phone when a bluetooth device is connected. Perhaps even re lock it when bluetooth is disconnected. I usually use the fingerprint sensor, but when the phone is in a dock, it's a pain to deactivate the screen lock.

This would be especially helpful when connected to the bluetooth in my car.

Maybe the only solution is to disable pin/fingerprint security all together?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xoluvsdance12:
Hi I was just wondering if you ever found a solution
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pixa241:
OK i just got this phone today and want to get miui demonspeed on it. I know i have to root and all that but not sure whats guides to read exactly. I have a vibrant thats rooted and with miui as well but not to sure on the mytouc. What exactly do i ahve to do to get my mytouc right out of the box to miui. Thank you.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
well if you know you have to root i guess your on the right track. Id say check out the post on the good emmc vs the bad one (in the general section) and determine which you have first. If its the bad one then you'll prolly not want to root at all.

If its the good one then you'll need to

1.perm root

2.flash clockwork

3.backup everything

4.wipe

5.flash Miui

6.Sit back and enjoy
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pixa241:
OK i have the m42gde...What does that mean for me?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ace42:
1.You have the bad chip/EMMc not the good one from ol sammy :(

2.You 'll need to use gfree method, visionary doesnt work... :(

3.That chip is prone to hi rates of failure check forum and brothers of MT4G...:(

4. Be extra careful with flashing :(

5. After you're rooted, you just flash the rom like on your sammy