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[HTC EVO 3D] ktrotter11:
We all know that when unlocking and rooting there is a risk that you may get bricked, I'm pretty sure their biggest objective is to make sure anything they give us doesn't result in a bunch of paperweights that need to be replaced for free... That's not good business for them

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[HTC EVO 3D] ktrotter11:
Another thing, they are probably looking to find a universal way to unlock all of the phones that have just released too... Just a thought..prolly not the case though

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[HTC EVO 3D] spencer88:
I'd rather them fix the bugs first (like the new text message notification bug) and then unlock the device for us.
[HTC EVO 3D] mlin:
Interesting that you even purchased the device in the first place... It was widely known that the bootloader was locked when the phone was released.
[HTC EVO 3D] edufur:
This makes no sense at all. They could easily kill two birds with one stone and unlock during one of the OTAs to fix a bug. We don't need bugs fixed before the unlock. The reality is that once it is unlocked, our devs will take care of bugs in much shorter order than they (HTC) will. And in reality, once rooted, I will probably eliminate half of the bloatware that contains the bugs. So there will be nothing for me (and many others) to fix at that point.

The reality is that this is a simple task. They merely need to hand over the key. They fact that they are stalling leads me to believe they have sinister plans.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
I think they are waiting to release enough bug fixes to get a pulse on their new hardware. They don't want rooting to complicate the picture: they'll never know whether the problems are caused by rooting or legit bugs. So I think they'll do one of two things:

(1) Unlock the phone in the next OTA in the next few days. They may have the unlock ready but they are tidying up some final bug fixes in the SAME OTA.

(2) They want to release one more OTA before they unlock... so it may not be in the next one but will likely be in the following.

That's my guess.

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] pstevep:
yes our devs could squash bugs quicker, but our devs also arent liable.. if HTC releases an update that unlocks all of our phones, and the next day they all brick, due to a rush, then we all get free phones.. our devs rush a release of something and it bricks, oops, your bad for flashing it.. so it makes sense that they would want this tested, as well as they should make sure the phone is working properly before they unlock it.. it will be unlocked, just give it time.. if they unlock it today, and something screws up, we will all jump on the "HTC sucks for screwing up my device train"..
[HTC EVO 3D] SolsticeZero:
I think people are just being way too paranoid. I mean, it's not even been a week since the phone's been released!
[HTC EVO 3D] Jye75:
Sometimes, it's best to use separate stones to kill two birds. XDA developer bug fixes may not be in alignment with future HTC updates. Granted, you'd be rooted, but if it means having to completely redo bug fixes that should have been fixed already, when updating any new roms from HTC, you're doing twice the work.
[HTC EVO 3D] mlin:
Really? No sense, huh? This unlock is more than the snap of a finger, it takes time. That said, push bug fix updates AQAP and don't delay them by trying to bundle in the bootloader unlock. More people want a phone that works than the number that care about the bootloader. Of course they don't want to release their private key, they want to just release and OTA unlock that does not reveal their key at all. If this still doesn't make sense to you then I won't even bother responding to you next time because we obviously think in very different ways and there is no more I can say to try to explain this.
[HTC EVO 3D] edufur:
Actually, if you think about it, what is the point of guarding the key? If it is going to be unlocked, it is unlocked. The key to lock it isn't important anymore. If they want to lock future devices (which they said they don't), they could just create a new key.

In fact, the least risky thing for them to do would be to publish the key and tell people they get no warranty if they unlock it themselves... and that it would only be warrantied if they had a sprint rep do it.

There are so many ways they could do it fast and do it right. There is no excuse for the delay.
[HTC EVO 3D] daneurysm:
100% Agreed.

Releasing 'just the key' would also keep the barrier to entry relatively high. There are now thousands (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) of people who have learned about 'root and bootloader thing' who are going to want in, even though they will not understand it...too easy of a solution and there will be bricks left and right even though it is not just easy to avoid a brick it is damn hard to achieve one...don't flash the wrong phone's radio, gotcha....(why not crypto-sign those, but I digress)

Not to mention that every single day that ticks past that we do not have root we are losing developers. The evo4g had this utterly amazing community behind it because the phone had buzz, it was delivered on time, it has awesome hardware and IT WAS ROOTED A WEEK OR TWO BEFORE RELEASE....I rooted mine in the radio shack parking lot on release day at 5:30am....we had mods later that day, roms later that week....this smart-phone business is fast-paced...sure, a lot of people are saying 'Just be patient', but, our community (that is currently just a rampaging mob) hasn't even formed yet and the time is ticking, more compelling devices are weeks away--WITHOUT LOCKS....if we get unlocked in 2 months, well, it won't be anything like the evo4g scene.

I will return my phone on the 23rd of July....Why did I buy it knowing full well it would be locked? They said it would be unlocked, and if done in a reasonable amount of time (which I believe 29 days to be) it is a device I would want and that would be a community I would want to be a part of...but that window is closing, constantly. I love the phone, but, I'm following the developers...screw the companies. They are supposed to work towards OUR satisfaction.
[HTC EVO 3D] Alanmw86:
I'd bet its delayed because they are building in some kind of mind control function.

yep, that's my guess HTC is trying to turn us into zombies.

that or maybe it just takes time for the EVO 3D time to code it and all the bug fixes as well.

but I'm pretty sure its the zombie thing.
[HTC EVO 3D] pstevep:
+1 zombies makes total sense

Now available in 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] edufur:
The only time it take to release the key is the time it takes for them to post it. 1 hour max. Well worth it to stop the bad PR spam they are getting on their FB wall.
[HTC EVO 3D] ldominguez1986:
Ok i am not trying to be ignorant but is it really that important to have root so fast? I always wanted to root my phone but never did because I was under the assumption that most roms did not fully work completely. Like some couldn't record video or the 4g wasn't working or some other key features didn't work. Like I said I am just assuming and could totally be wrong.
[HTC EVO 3D] daneurysm:
Read my post above about why we (and every device) needs root as fast as possible...

...this isn't the Droid1 days anymore, there have to be like 100 Android phones on the market right now...
[HTC EVO 3D] mwalt2:
It's be nice to have superuser access for some apps even if you don't want to flash a different ROM.
[HTC EVO 3D] Alanmw86:
look thats not how they want to do it, so get over it.

they want to release something clean, that works well for everyone, not just people in the know, and they are probably packaging it along with some other bug fixes
[HTC EVO 3D] edufur:
Again, the smartest, cleanest, and greatest PR way to do it would be to release the key and tell people they are only covered by warranty IF they get a sprint rep to do it.

They had a MONTH to apply the updates to these phones before shipping them. They obviously got lazy. Now it is time to make good.
[HTC EVO 3D] Alanmw86:
****e happens.

I had my truck for years and they were still doing service recalls/bulletins

I've had a snowmobile that I had to take in to have revisions done the next season that did not come out the current season I purchased it.

I've had firearms fail that didn't have revisions done for months and the repairs took months themselves for the factory to handle.

they are going to do it in a way that has no potential to increase there liability financially or PR, a sprint employee isnt an HTC employee and Sprint is not going to take on the liability of modifying your phone (much less are the employee's going to be asked to take the time out of there sales)

your not going to be covered by warranty no matter who does it most likely (this is still yet to be seen I suppose) I know samsung/nexus S is worded quite precariously

I doubt they are lazy, you just need to realize its not like they probably have a huge team dedicated to just this model.

they have new phones, new software, new development and other devices they need to unlock.

its quite possible they may even just want to have all of there major devices ready for unlock at the same time as to not cause any favoritism or further PR problems.

Believe me, it sucks, I hate it, I want nowz! but its not like they are just sitting around giggling at us and refusing to release something haha.

whatever they are doing, they are doing for reason, and there's not really anything we can do about it.

Just be happy they are doing it period.

Now that doesn't mean there aren't still respectable timelines for these things, I'd be angry if 6months from now it still wasn't unlocked.

but a week? a couple weeks? a month??? thats all fairly reasonable to me.

you're way may seem nice to you, but it just plain and simple isn't the smartest or safest way to do it from a business perspective. just as many problems could be caused, if not more, to negatively impact PR by doing it that way.

I wish that wasn't the case, but it is what it is, everyone needs to just chill out.

and honestly should be worrying about the more important issue....

rubbing dev's feet so they don't move to another device...

HTC will unlock, good devs may not stay though. Edit: excuse me your all good dev's, I'm more trying to say we don't want to lose any of you :p
[HTC EVO 3D] steal25:
If they were to release an optional OTA and say if its taken than warranty is broken, would that just apply to HTCs warranty or will you also not be covered if you have sprint total protection?
[HTC EVO 3D] Alanmw86:
thats a multifaceted question.

1. theres ways (at least so far) to clear your phone of apparent rooting.

2. the OTA will probably be for everyone and in itself probably won't void warranty

3. rooting will likely void HTC's warranty, and Sprints service and repair warranty if the problem with the phone can someway be blamed on rooting.

4. if you have sprints T.E.P. there is never really anything stopping you from a claim, you can just say you lost it, got stolen, smashed it on accident, all's covered, I can't see them (at this point) tracking/voiding because of rooting.
[HTC EVO 3D] edufur:
@Alanmw86

That was too much wasteful content to quote. And I don't think it does a good job of refuting my point. But we all have our own opinions. I think they should just post the key and say we don't have a warranty if we use it. Problem solved.
[HTC EVO 3D] Alanmw86:
yes I suppose if you ignore what I said that makes sense.

they're not going to do that, to many problems, how are they going to know that you're one of the people that did this vs someone who did it the way they are working on? they'd have to code a way to track this or risk liability to the company on people they will say nah uh I took your OTA update I didn't use da keyz.

come on man, I know you want it unlocked, so do I but seriously, its not going to happen, if they don't feel ready to release something why on earth do you think they feel ready to let anyone else do something with the device.

They don't want bricked phones, bricked phones cost money.
[HTC EVO 3D] jbermi:
Yeah, so the 4G was rooted before release...why? because it was given out at Google I/O weeks before release, which gave devs that got their hands on it, the necessary time to get it rooted and a working solution out to the masses on the release day. How much time have the devs had with the said phone so far? at most they have had a phone in their hands since last wednesday...barely a week. I got mine early and know what, this phone is awesome, right out of the box compared to my launch day 4G last year. yes, I had a launch day EVO last year, but I didn't root till 6 months later in november, because I really didn't know anything about rooting til I started educationg myself. So I am in hurry to root, yet.

I think it would make more sense from a business perspective to squash some bugs first, then release the key. To HTC, the portion of the customers that want root is far less then portion that want a bug free phone that just works.

my final theory is that they just holding out till the GSM version of the 3VO drops in europe in early July. and they will release a key to appease all the 3VO and Sensation owners who are the most vocal. I don't plan on returning my phone,I like HTC, not fond of samsung or Moto, to me this is the best piece of hardware, and once rooted, the easiest to customize to my liking compared to the processes that are needed for samsung and moto.

just my 2 cents and some change on this whole thing.
[HTC EVO 3D] hakeem0996:
what better devices you talking about?
[HTC EVO 3D] A.Priori:
this is my speculative opinion that I'm posting on an internet forum
[EVO 4G General] killacamoh9:
I got off work this morning to my phone being unresponsive. I pulled the battery and it wouldn't go past the white Evo 4g screen. I went into the bootloader and noticed it said touch panel - fail. I can get into the recovery (it takes forever). I tried to restore several backups and I couldn't unlock the phone due to the screens unresponsiveness. Help? :confused:
[EVO 4G General] joehunni:
Sounds like a major hardware failure, get a stock looking ROM flashed and take it to sprint.
[EVO 4G General] GuestX0011:
Bad thing about not having at least one or two hardware dedicated keys dedicated to something more than on off and volume.
[EVO 4G General] Greatbape:
What kind of work do you do? I had this happen to me. Had my phone under 2 massive books in my bag. Screen wouldn't work anymore. Did you apply a lot of pressure to the phone while it was in your pocket at work?
[EVO 4G General] killacamoh9:
No. I work for FedEx and I can't take my phone in. So it was just sitting in the car while I was working
[EVO 4G General] killacamoh9:
Well I took the battery out several hours ago and just tried to turn it on and wala. The bootloader says something other than TOUCH PANEL-fail so I flashed synergy and its up and running. I guess patience is a virtue. I'm a noob here so forgive me for not knowing how to delete the thread. Maybe it'll help someone else. Thanks for the response guys. I appreciate it.
[EVO 4G General] choisYA:
Hmm same problem but got on HTC Wildifre and i tried to flash another rom but i can't becouse i have old Android system recovery i am trying to rename rot file in to update.zip but when i press in recovery it starting to install and after some time writes failed.. Any ideas how to flash a root without clockword mod with defualt android system rec ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Kilakro:
This is on a T-Mobile G2X. I've looked around and I can't find any threads with a problem quite like mine. I'm not a *complete* noob, I did successfully install CM6 + 7 on my Nexus One.

1.Can't boot into CW, when I try it gives me a screen with a gray circle that has two arrows in it and says "S/W Upgrade Please wait while upgrading..."

2.CM7 is stuck in a boot loop, it keeps restarting the animation of the arrows circling andy on the skateboard.

I've tried the following to get anywhere: Vol-Up+Power gets me error 2 from above; Vol-Down+Power gets me error 1 from above; Vol-Up+Vol-Down+Power has no effect whatsoever. I used Rom Manager to install CW and download CM7, RM failed to install CM7 so I went into Recovery and selected the file manually to install and CW said everything was fine but then I ended up in this limbo. If it was only one of the problems I know I could fix it with ADB but I don't know if that would be useful in this case (never used it). Any help would be appreciated.
[HTC Sensation] smashpunks:
In the browser if you scroll to the bottom of the page. Tap the task bar and it will bring you all the way to the top? Hell y'all probably know and I sound stupid. But I never knew. That's cool.
[HTC Sensation] Bxsteez:
It happens on my Thunderbolt browser. I'm running BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 ROM. So I'm pretty sure its a feature.
[HTC Sensation] smashpunks:
Sweet ya I never knew that .. thanks
[HTC Sensation] nxtwrld:
Works on my Flyer as well. Sweet. Thanks for the tip....

Sent from my HTC Flyer P510e
[HTC Sensation] galaxys:
Like'n that tip! cool
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
I'm glad they incorporated this feature. I really liked it on iOS.
[General Questions and Answers] dackoni:
Hello everyone, this is my first post on these forums!

I have rooted my HTC Desire, installed a Cyanogenmod 7.0.3 stable version, S-Off-'d, and partitioned the internal memory with AlphaRev CM7 r2 image. So far, everything seems to be working well, however, I noticed something curious after the repartitioning.

In quick system info, the stats are like this:

SD card storage - Total 7.05GB, Free 2.14Gb

A2SD storage - Total 457MB, Free: 140MB

Internal storage - Total 288MB, Free 140MB

System storage - Total 145MB, Free 16,38MB

System cache - Total 288MB, Free 140MB

If the CM7 r2 partition image has 5MB cache, why does the system info display a total of 288MB (same as internal storage)? While I had the stock partition, it displayed the correct 40MB of system cache. Again, it works just fine, but I wish to know what it means.

The second much noobier question is this: I use LauncherPro in CM7, since I like it much better than the ADW launcher. Does LauncherPro perhaps use the same system cache for it's caching? If that's the case, could the 5MB of system cache be too small for it to work correctly? I thought that the 5MB only for system cache was a bit small anyways, but I can't seem to find any faults for now and had no problems downloading very large apps from the Android Market as of yet.

I would be grateful if someone could provide me some answers.

P.S. I should also perhaps mention that I had re-partitioned the internal memory after I backed up my CM7 image with all the apps and settings. After the re-partitioning, I restored my nandbackup.
[General Questions and Answers] dackoni:
Nevermind, figured it out.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdac87:
Looking for an app that will let me use my HD7 as a Webcam for my Computer.

I've have looked and can't find information on this anywhere

Is this possible?

If this app is already out there could someone direct it to me!

Thanks in Advance
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tersagun:
I guess the answer is a sad no :-(
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wbadry:
I do agree as well. WP7 lacks lots of features that were supported in Windows Mobile. I'm quite sure that this app will come soon.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killerjoe1:
There is a WP7 called "PocketCam" that can do this. Search it within Zune.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldmacnut:
Im working on 4 or 5 roms right now, and seem to be having some strange errors, and issues while trying to use CWM to flash roms and kernals.

Kernals Im using

Boushh's Khasmek Voodoo v4, v405, v409, and v5.0

In that I get various builds of CWM

I have also used whatever CWM comes with the Verizon Bootstrap Program.

Roms I am working with are Based on DJ11, ECO2, and a Gingerbread port to hopefully be released this week.

Now, couple things...

If I do a manual recovery boot by holding power+Vol Up I get no sd card support, and will have to go to Advanced/Reboot Recovery in order to not only see an SD Card, but to install something, kernal or Rom

I also, upon typing this have seemed to have noticed a new bug where I choose to reboot system after install, only to have it go back to cwm no matter what I clear.

Also, I noticed various CWM's will also just not allow me access at all, period. It will appear on the screen for 3 sec, then black, but pressing the power button only brings it back up for 2 seconds.

Any ideas as to whats going on?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldmacnut:
Nevermind. I had a bad cwm from a cdma cm7port that i forgot to flash back over
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChiuOnThis:
Recovery help

I just purchased a VZW Galaxy Tab with EC02 installed. I got it rooted and would like some help to move further. I have read many threads and different forums but I can not find a definitive way to install CWM. I see you mentioned Verizon Tab Bootstrapper and wanted to know if this worked for you. I purchased it for $2.99 in the Market but I am hesitant on proceeding. I have read too many issues after installing the bootstrapper. Screen rotation, camera issues, etc..... Did you encounter any issues?

I would really appreciate any help you can provide.

Thank you in advance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elosogrande7076:
Hello everyone, quick question. Does anyone know of a keyboard for the Evo that has a built custom text option. And by this, I mean something like a list that I quickly pull up to enter into a text field anywhere in the phone (sms, internet browser, etc). I had a windows phone prior to the Evo and they had few KB that I was able to make a custom list of common words, usernames, etc that was easily accessible. Any help is greatly appreciated
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Keyboards, I don't know, but I know that handcent lets you input and select quick messages for texts; you can use the preset or create your own.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elosogrande7076:
Thanks for the response. Is this a feature that is only good for adding into sms or will it work in other parts of the phone (like the internet browser)? If it is the latter i might check it out. THanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
The new Swype has T9 style word selection
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yokozuna82:
Is there a way to increase text message recipients from 10 to 20?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
Yup, send twice! :P
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crnkoj:
There is in fact a way. Check in rhe dev section for the cool atrix hacks. It should be one of the hacks. You can change it to 100 or more if you like.
[HTC EVO 3D] chowder25:
I turned off all vibrate settings but I get random vibrate incoming calls. I tried phone right side up, face down, no ideas.
[HTC EVO 3D] awesomeindeed:
I've noticed this too but it seems to happen at certain battery level intervals. Not sure if it's just meant to warn me and I'm missing a message on the screen at the time or what.
[HTC EVO 3D] chowder25:
My battery is full. I had my wife test call me multiple times and it did it once.i dint know what changed to make it do it but its an annoyance to me
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negruj:
I just received the notificiation that there was an update available.

I'm installing it now. It was named "HTC update".

Anybody having an idea what's in it?

Can't seem to find anything yet
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vangrieg:
What phone/operator are you using?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negruj:
Htc Mozart

It's a Branded TMO-DE device.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negruj:
This is the phone information afterwards:

OS Version: 7.0.7392.0

Firmware revision number: 2250.21.13301.111

Hardware revision number: 0004

radio software version: 5.65.09.25_22.45.50.21U

Radio hardware version: A.102.0.D4

Bootloader version: 1.33.2250.1(123643)