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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] smaskell:
I use Wizz, which is a collection of widgets for honeycomb. They're all resizable so a calendar widget and a facebook widget each taking up an entire screen. I don't use the facebook widget at all but.. I needed to fill the space
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
Hello,

I dropped my Nexus S to pool water :( then It didn't boot at all. I waited a day to dry it. Now It boots, but stucks on Google logo with unlocked sign.

Now, here is what I can do and what I can't do:

- It stucks at Google logo with unlocked sign. Button backlights doesn't turn on because of can't skip the Google logo.

- I can access to Bootloader.

- I can't access to Clockwork Recovery section (because when I try to enter to Recovery section from Bootloader, Google logo appears and stucks on there)

What should I do right now? I think memory is corrupted. Is there any way to format it from Bootloader?

Maybe I should relock the bootloader and flash the official 2.3.4 rom. How can I do it ?

Thank you guys.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgi:
It may be already too late, since you tried to turn it on. My guess is, that you have hardware damage. It might not be the memory. The boot loader is much simpler than the rest of the OS, so it might not yet hit the defective parts. If you are very lucky there is only still water left.

Here is what worked for me before (read: NO warranty):

First and most important in such cases: Don't try to turn it on. Take out the battery immediately and dry it as well as possible. It should be sealed, so a tissue or or t-shirt should do the job. Don't put it back in yet.

2nd: Rinse the phone with distilled water. In your pool is all kind of stuff from salts (sweat and so on) to chlorine and other stuff that cause corrosion and conduct electricity. That needs to get out of your phone ASAP.

3rd: Now it will need time to dry. That will take a lot time, because the water will be in the deepest cracks where there is no air circulation. I used ethanol (pure alcohol) before to wash out the water since it doesn't conduct electricity, mixes well with water and evaporates fairly fast. Note however, that it acts as an organic solvent, too, and might damage parts of the phone like the display or solve glued parts (again the display). However, this worked for me before on an mp3 player. There was a stain (as if water entered) on the display, but it worked perfectly still. I do not know whether to stain was caused by the alcohol.

Side note: Chemists use acetone to dry their glass stuffs, since it evaporates faster than you can pronounce it, but that stuff is aggressive and will likely damage plastic parts. Alcohol should be fairly safe.

4th: Now you can try putting it in the oven to speed up drying. Use only the air circulation mode. I used that method successfully before at 50°C for a few hours. However, you should measure with a thermometer first, whether your oven keeps the temperature regulated well enough. Not all ovens do.

If you are sure your phone is completely dry, put the battery in and turn try turning it on. If nothing happens leave it to dry some more, then try again.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
Its already too late for this steps because a few days passed.

Thank you anyway. Someone else may encounter same thing.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
As mentioned in other posts. You could put it in a sealed bag filled with rice.

But yeah :\ you turned on the device. I would say you would have to wait an additional 5-7 days to be careful (maybe im over exaggerating but 1 day is definitely not enough)

Have you tried connecting the phone to your computer? Does the computer recognize fastboot devices?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasaf123:
I would like to emphasize that acetone is definitely a bad choice. It is a solvent for some types of plastic. isopropanol should work as well as alcohol (ethanol) and it is much cheaper.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fraspas:
In case this ever happens to other people in the future. Don't ever use a hair dryer or "put it in the oven" to dry your phone, it's probably the worst thing you can do, the heat will no doubt fry out your circuitry. Instead, wipe down as much water as you can from the phone and stick it in a bowl of uncooked rice. This method had saved countless wet phones.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obsanity:
Actually hair drier works very well as long as you don't heat the phone pass what it can typically handle. Hair drying it actually speeds up the process of few days to few minutes.

I've done it with many phones and other electronic things. Just don't get it hot.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris6278:
The bag of rice is the way to go. I dropped mine in a sink full of water an it wouldn't turn on. I put it in a bag of rice overnight an it worked the next day. No issues at all
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
Is it out-of-warranty if I relock the bootloader ?

I bought it from Bestbuy.com

I'm also not in USA. It will be really hard for me to request repair or replacement.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnythan:
It's not necessarily too late. I put an iPod Nano through the washing machine and dryer once. I let it sit in a bag of rice for 3 days and it wouldn't turn on. I threw it in a drawer and forgot about it, then took it out 2 weeks later and it worked perfectly.

So put it in a bag of rice and let it sit inside in the sun so it gets a little warm but not hot. Try it periodically.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
Well.. I've just tried connecting to a computer. It doesn't recognize fastboot ...

What now? Is it just a junk right now?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnythan:
Read post #10.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
A week has passed. I think it's already dried.

Now I concern about if it's out-of-warranty or not. Or any other repair way.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
Ok. I tried to enter the Download Mode. Holding volume up and down button and plugged in. Windows recognized it.

And then tried to enter Bootloader again and YAY! Installed the 64bit drivers. Everything is ok :D

Now I flashed the Clockwork again, now I can access it. Wiped everything and phone boots now.

Touchscreen works like hell. Listened to a few MUSE songs, sound quality is perfect.

BUT! Wifi does not work :( When I try to enable it, gives me an error.

I will try to flash the latest Radio and try again.

I'm going to insert the SIM card now, hoping network and mobile data works.

Edit:

Mobile Network, Wifi, Bluetooth, none of them works..

I will flash the stock rom and relock the bootloader and send it to Bestbuy warranty.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lvnatic:
They will most likely spot some water drops in it and will charge you for repair. If you're willing to wait you should give it another week in a bag of rice like the others have said, then try using it normally. I had the same problem with a nokia n95 and it had water signs on the display until I sold it for pieces, 1 year after the incident happend, so drying it completely is...I'd say impossible.

To note is that I was mastur***ing under the shower, hot water and some nice action on one of the biggest mobile displays at that time, don't try this at home guys :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
I tore it down and cleaned inside. Now Wifi and Bluetooth works.

But mobile network still doesn't work.

Everything works except the phone.. Touchscreen is blazingly sensitive. Speakers are in perfect condition. Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS everything works. All apps and games works perfectly, but it can not find any network at all.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdeathike:
ok i think this is what happened to my phone as well. i didnt water damage it at all i had to factory reset my device to get it to boot up and now i cant access any network besides wifi and t-mobiles standard network not 3g or 2g. i have experimented with different sim cards and nothing has helped so far..
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meetagrawal:
same thing happened to my phone

how were you able to enter in "download mode"?

i can flash recovery, but when i try to boot in, it gets stuck on the google logo

edit: i was able to get into download mode, but how do I proceed to reinstall everything?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
You should absolutely teardown your Nexus S and clean it.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1

You don't need to enter download mode.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meetagrawal:
Why do I not need download mode? Odin isn't recognizing my device.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
You said you can flash recovery. That means windows recognizes bootloader.

Do you have Clockwork Recovery installed? You can install everything from there.

Wipe data and flash a new Rom.

I guess it won't work because you have to teardown and clean your Nexus S.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meetagrawal:
I can flash recovery, but after I do, when I select recovery from bootloader, it just goes back to the Google logo and gets stuck there.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
That means there is still water in your Nexus S. Everything started working for me after teardown and cleaning it. (except mobile network)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meetagrawal:
Thanks I'll try that. Any thing special you recommend to clean it? Its been sitting in a bucket of rice for 4-5 days so a lot of it should be out.

If the mobile network doesn't end up working, then I have no use for the phone, but it's worth a shot!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmRipper:
OK! A miracle happened. I tried to insert a sim card last night and boom! Mobile network is again working flawlessly! YAY!

No problem left! Everything is enormously perfect.

I <3 my Nexus. Self-fixed itself ;D
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YourMainDude:
Story With A Happy Ending...

Effing Nexus Rocks!

Sent From In between Your Moms Boobies
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] gloscherrybomb:
Hi guys,

Quick recommendation of Hedgie wall mounts. I bought a set of two from ebay for just 8 pounds. THeyre velcro, so I was very scared as to whether they would be able to hold the transformer or not, but theyre super strong. I have one in my living room and one in my bedroom. Cant go wrong! will be interesting to see how strong they are after a long time.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Alien-Tech:
This is superb...

Hey I got mine directly from their website http://www.hedgie.net. This is indeed a great stuff. What a funny way to overtake a couple of millions of mounting solutions and leave them miles behind with it's practicality and quickness of mount.

Aaaaa, and you actually get two wall mounts in one package.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] skydirt:
Hmm, I'm skeptic for the opposite reasons,

Isn't the velcro connection too strong?

Pulling the transformer off with its plastic and somewhat flexible back doesn't pose a problem?
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Alien-Tech:
I don't know about regular Velcro, but Hedgie works for me. I just go behind the device with my fingers and lift it towards the edge on the other side. Detachment works flawlessly. As for attachment... just a little push on the wall and it is on.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] gloscherrybomb:
I favour a twist motion which seems to work well
[General Questions and Answers] LennartvN:
I recently flashed Elelinux GB 2.8 for my HTC Hero, but now it won't show my battery regression, so it stays at 100% until it's empty. Quite inconvenient, and I would ask ele myself but I am not considered an expert member yet. Anyone who can give me some advice on what to do now?
[General Questions and Answers] LennartvN:
A quick update, I have tried flashing a different ROM and that didn't help. The thing is, when I reboot my phone it updates the battery status, but only for a few minutes after is has booted, so after those minutes it's stuck again. Seems a hardware problem to me, any ideas?

Have taken out the battery, removed the sim+sd card and pressed the power button, everything back in, no joy. Have removed the battery for a dozen times, no fix.
[General Questions and Answers] LennartvN:
Small update, it works now and then, I guess we are not going to find a definite solution.
[HTC Sensation] madwolf27:
I've had no touchscreen or lag issues, and my battery life isnt bad and I've had no reboots

The speakerphone/ringer/notification volume is low, yeah, it's annoying but not a REAL problem.

Yesterday it starting getting very very hot while surfing the web/checking twitter/etc etc. But seemed to have no issues.

This morning I unplugged it and all was fine. Came picked it up an hour later and had to do a battery pull to get it to come back on.

Today the battery seems to be draining about 2x as fast.

Getting worried after 11 days of (near) perfection...
[HTC Sensation] jrwingate6:
If your battery is running hot and draining your battery thee are two popular potential reasons.

1. You have a bad battery

2. You might have a badly written app installed. I remember about a week after I purchased my G2X, I installed the NFL app for the draft. About 1 hour later my phone was piping hot and my battery dropped about 85% in 1 hour. The very second I uninstalled the NFL app and did a reboot everything wen back to normal. Check to see if you have any apps running in the foreground.
[HTC Sensation] samnada:
Agree it's likely either a bad battery or a bad app/process.

I'd suggest installing the app "OS Monitor" from the market. It will display all running processes and their CPU load. In the settings you can sort by load in descending order, so heaviest processes are at the top. This should show you if an app or process is out of control.

Be sure to exit the app as it's also a heavy CPU user. :)
[HTC Sensation] madwolf27:
The heat didn't seem to be radiating from the battery, it was lower. The lower portion of the screen was almost too hot to touch. I have "watchdog" and it gave me no alerts of any app running rampant with the processor. "wheres my droid power" also didn't report any app running rampant with battery consumption.

Battery Monitor Widget did report the battery at 41 C.

It got very hot again today while going through my tweedeck feed and playing wordfued. Did not do so last night when doing the same BUT I was on wifi not 4G.
[Off-topic] solarpolitiks:
Done with this stuff. Just got my diploma and I am applying for colleges and scholarships now. Taking courses in software engineering now. Looking forward to college.
[Off-topic] twitch351:
Congrats ;)

-Remember, Android hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first sign of defiance-
[Off-topic] solarpolitiks:
Thanks. Glad to be outta there. I moved around a lot in high school and it made my senior year terrible.
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Good luck in your future buddy. If I may add, try not to get a student loan while in college. It'll burden you for life.
[Off-topic] JayXL14:
Haha congrats man! I just graduated high school too!

Going to Rutgers Pharmacy!
[Off-topic] solarpolitiks:
Nice. Plan on going to college?

And student loans seem to be my only option currently :/
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
Can someone recommend me good and eye candy widgets.....somewhat like the youtube or market widget....or maybe somethin more better.....
[Acer Iconia A500] scottw714:
Beautiful Widgets - Clock, weather, battery, and utility widgets. Hundreds of configurations

Desktop VisualizeR - Allows you change icons. I use iconfinder.com to find icon sets and then use visualizer to link them to programs and remove the text. About 6 different sized widgets.

PowerAmp Widget looks like an MP3 player on your desktop. Plus it has an equalizer that makes the music unbelievable. It has 4 or 5 widget sizes.

Old Screen shot:

Click Here for Full Size
[HTC EVO 3D] osker83:
can someone fix the keyboard? I like this one but the resolution isn't correct.
[HTC EVO 3D] jddunkley:
Have you tried creating your own from here?

www.gimpsta.com/themer/

I haven't yet so I don't know if it looks good on the 3D or not but it's worth a shot. It says on the page that you can use a Froyo version for Gingerbread.
[HTC EVO 3D] oohaylima:
Yeah, I cooked one at that kitchen, but the keyboard hugs the left side. He's said he'll look into it, but believes he won't be to do much. So let's hope for The best!!
[Off-topic] mtmerrick:
So, very recently i helped my dad buy a new computer. he's tech-oriented enough to want something really powerful, so, we would up getting this.

Newegg link ($850 - great deal!)

Somehow, as we were setting it up (his first W7 computer, he needed a little help) we started referring to it as "The Cylon", and the name stuck. He also had me theme it with some cylon raider pictures he picked off the internet (and Tweaks Logon Changer - epic program). The desktop and logon screen are the same, a side-angle view of a re-imagined cylon raider taking up the bottom right quarter of the 24.5" vision monitor. I'll upload a screenshot on thursday. This is his user icon.

So anyways, we now refer to it as "the cylon" and nothing else. its fun, and the first computer either of us has named. I figure, its like cars - some people name 'em, other don't? IDK.

So, have any of you guys named your computer, laptop, tablet, phone, ect?
[Off-topic] tvall:
My cr-48 is named chromey :)
[Off-topic] k0sh:
mine Laptop Sony Vaio . didn't name it yet , but i conseder it as my second gf :D
[Off-topic] dioseres:
Mucho laptop it's named phoenix
[Off-topic] BeerChameleon:
HMMM, never thought of naming my computer :eek:

I wonder what i should call it? :confused:
[Off-topic] k0sh:
call it my thoughts ;) :D
[Off-topic] xaccers:
My cars are named, currently I have Cassy, Jenny and Juliet.
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
Haha! +1

I call my cr-48 "48"

Sparky calls his (cr-48) "that damn thing" (I call it unused:rolleyes::rolleyes: )

I call my N1 "Marv"

I call my NS "the revenge" (if you have either one n1 or ns, look at the log right after turning ur device on and scroll all the way too the beginning of the log.......)

Sparky calls his N1.... "my damn phone"

And I call my windows laptop "the machine"
[Off-topic] motoes400:
My laptop is named Slave 1. My roomba is named Slave 2.
[Off-topic] mtmerrick:
Hopefully you're not one of those who puts your roomba in a french maid coustume or something like that....

but, a dueling harness would be win :P
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
My ex called my phone "The Toy".

I call my PC, variously;

1. The damned thing

2. Fvcked up machine

3. The beast

4. The Goldberg machine

5. Bloody hell
[Off-topic] Charlienz:
My alienware is called Zebeloniu because of it's extraterrestrial design!
[Off-topic] jassyfr:
tunny 1, tunny 2...

for Pad, PC
[Off-topic] Dirk:
My graphics card became a bit unseated from it's pci-e slot this week, causing all manner of issues before i worked it out.

My pc was simply known as 'You *****' for a day or two.
[Off-topic] undarated:
My Alienware M17x is named "Mistress" by my woman. She always says that when I'm spending more time on it than she would like. She's happy its for sale! :)
[Off-topic] enteringrunlevel5:
Its called HAL (2001) when it's running okay and all sorts of expletives when it randomly BSOD's with 6 word and 2 pdf docs open and 2 internet browsers.:D
[Off-topic] droiddamon:
As a strange security measure in this house I usally name all the computers something matching the network ie

Original Network was Aerth with the machines, Ifrit, Bahamut & Shiva

The 2010 network was Rapture & wife's computer (C2D 3.0,4gb ram, win7x64) was "Little Sister" and mine (AMD x4 3.4gHz, 8gb ram, win7x64) was "Big Daddy" with the devices being named after plasmids...

well back in May 2011 "Big Daddy" ended up catching on fire (literally) and so once my insurance paid on the tower I ended up building a replacement (AMD x6 4.5gHz, 16gb ram, win7x64), so now she's "Phoenix"...
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Very nice naming convention.

I don't have enough rigs to start naming them right ;)
[Desire General] HalF75:
Hi.

As a noob that I am, I didn't backup my ROM, and now would like to restore it.

I've tried several, and tired several option but none work.

Can anyone help me restore the original ROM?

Best regards

Ricardo Carvalho
[Desire General] dehaani:
You have to provide some info! Which network, country, SLCD or Amoled?
[Desire General] Meaple:
Download an ruu then run it.

Swyped...
[Desire General] syowr:
I tried going back to stock RUU (waranty return) and the program would never run till I removed the windows hboot driver.

After that I was back to stock in a matter of minutes.
[Desire General] syed fathah:
htc desire gingerbread update

dear sir,

i have desire android 2.2. now i need to update gingerbread 2.3 kindly explain me how i can do this, pls instruction me

thanks

syed
[Desire General] Lothaen:
custom = go look in the dev section for the sticky thread for the video noobs guide

official = you need to wait
[Desire General] paliwalsandeep:
need htc desire original rom

Hi ALL,

Is any one help me to get original rru for htc desire.....
[Desire General] Da Big D:
Try this thread to find your original ROM. You have to give more info, though; there are stock ROMs for all around the world, and you might have a hard time pinpointing your exact RUU.
[Desire General] BigMrB:
use the search button or read a GUIDE
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mossy1963:
just updated to 2.0.1.11053_99. looks like they're preparing for a 2.3.4 roll-out soon
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Vanto:
Again !? that's 3-4th time this year...

My guess is "another leaked rom"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oxfordmark:
Has an even newer firmware shown up?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mossy1963:
I'm running custom JVP (2.3.4) roms so kies won't show anything for me anyway as JVO is latest UK (2.3.3). It'll be in readiness for 2.3.4 official, so if you're running stock JVO worth checking
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oxfordmark:
I'm running JVP, I tried JVQ but the Market would not show certain apps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mk_ln:
what apps specifically?...or what kind of apps (if they even fall into a category)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
One really should read the forum before one "double" posts.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1145418
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oxfordmark:
Apps that were marked as Private.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] -freedroid-:
Maybe this will happen... sometimes there were firmwareupdates after a Kiesupdate. Sometimes not.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mossy1963:
I do apologise, genuinely missed the other thread
[Galaxy S I9000 General] galen_cathal:
I don't understand the basis for all your talk...

2.3.3 hasn't even come out in most parts of the world and you are saying something abou 2.3.4 being imminent??

Does SAMSUNG know the word imminent?? We've been waiting for 2.3.3 fot months on end and other phones (CRAPPY ones) have received updates before Galaxy S...

So tell me, where do you get your info from?? A crystal ball?? Please...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gothfebrio:
can you list down the crappy phones that had gingerbread before we did? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kr0c0:
Korean variant now has 2.3.4
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mengo_:
can the unofficial 2.3.4 be rooted ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mossy1963:
my basis is that two 2.3.4 variants have already leaked.

Then a kies update this week (which often precedes a firmware update)

Your cynicism is not shared...the galaxy s has enjoyed numerous updates since I purchased mine last year on Eclair 2.1.

I don't have a crystal ball .... its called an informed guess
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rickg99:
For my understanding the major 2.3.3 updates are all release out !?

So what should Samsung do? They can only wait until the local mobile provider provides them with their version of 2.3.3. E.g. in Germany the official Vodafone firmware comes always week to months after the Samsung releases. But this depends on Vodafone!

Make pressure on your local mobile provider!