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[Motorola Droid 3] UnexplodedCow:
I can understand that since the temperature in your car likely degraded the battery. Heat is the enemy of any battery I can think of, and will degrade them all, from lead acid to non-alkaline dry cells, rechargeable of any kind, and lithium. However, Lithium is especially temperature critical since they're more prone to exploding, and also see higher temps than most batteries because of compactness and being covered by heat-producing electronics.

Update for me: I can confirm that with 2 Moto SPN5504A chargers, and HTC CNR6875 wall charger that plugging them in first, then connecting the USB cord to the charger, and finally the Droid3 will result in solid charging. Any other method and I get a lot of no-charge issues. The Droid3 will report a charging state sometimes, but even that is spotty. I suspected bad USB cords until I was able to get repeatable results.

I've tried 2 Moto cords, and 2 generic 10 ft. long cords as well, and all have the same result. The phone does charge faster off the HTC charger, as it puts out 1.0A vs. the .85 of the Moto ones.

Finally, this goes against everything I have learned about electronics. I have always connected USB first and then plugged the charger into the wall to avoid spikes. Perhaps this is now entirely mitigated by the chargers being digital and having output protection.
[Motorola Droid 3] nullness:
Yeah heat and cold kill your battery and if some shipments of these things happened to sit too long in a hot truck or something...you get a bad batch.
[Motorola Droid 3] nullness:
Wow hope that is a software issue, if not, ouch.
[Motorola Droid 3] UnexplodedCow:
What makes you say ouch?

Also, I noticed the problem is mitigated when the battery isn't so low. 50% or higher capacity = no problems plugging a charger in after the USB is connected. I'm going to test to see how deep the battery can cycle before problems occur. I know 20% or lower will cause issues.

EDIT: After trying to unplug and interrupt the charging state at 30%, I have no issues, so it seems that at 20% is when a potential issue can arise, and it's better to plug the charger in and then connect to phone. Any other time it does not seem to be an issue. It's probably a design flaw in the charging circuit.
[Motorola Droid 3] Billiam44:
I've had my Droid 3 for a couple of weeks now and it seems that one of my three chargers sometimes has this problem but the other two are always fine. The one that gives me problems is from my eBook reader, so that might be why since the other two are Motorola chargers.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
The bottom of my desire got dipped in water. the part where the buttons are. now when I hit the power button it goes straight into hboot. I had ginger sense rom installed on it and s-off. when it's in hboot none of the buttons work, it's as if the volume down button is always pressed in and no other buttons will register, however the menu item "fastboot" is highlighted but pressing the power button does nothing. when I plug it into the computer in this state it does detect usb and enters the hboot usb mode. What are my options from this point? can I put an update on the SD card and reflash stock. I tried an RUU in hboot usb mode but it failed and said it could not connect to phone. as well adb could not connect. I guess that it needs to be in fastboot mode. none of the water indicators that I can see are red (battery and on phone), I hear there is one on the inside though, so not sure about that one. I bought the phone in september 2010, so it's still under warranty but the indicator might be wet on the inside and the hboot menu says s-off right on it. should I still try to send it back for repair? is there a way for me to put it back to s-onn so it looks like it;s not hacked and hopefully the indicators are all white and they'll fix it. or is that too much of a long shot. and last option is I have the disassembly and reassembly videos. should I try to take it all apart and check for corrosion around the button connectors and clean it with alcohol? please help if you know what to do? I'm kinda freaking out without my phone. Thanks guys.

EDIT: solved, for info go to last post. If your in this situation you might want to read the whole thread.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
you can boot into fastboot by holding "back" and "power", once you're in there try flashing a new ROM, or drying your phone without the battery in and the back case open.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
I've tried that when I hold down the back button and power it still goes into regular hboot. I can't get it to go into fastboot. One other thing I tried changing the hboot version with a pb99.zip directly on the sd card and it failed saying incompadible id or something like that. I tried the stock image and the downgrade and both failed. any ideas? Also, I have another working desire running insertcoin, in case that helps.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
hmm.. leave the phone powered off and take the battery out, and open the back cover, and leave it somewhere where it can dry (facing screen down) for a day or so, then try again. Otherwise its a bump.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
unfortanetly I've had it in a bag of rice for 3 days now. so there is nothing I can do from the hboot menu? what is it's purpose then? surely some smarter than I knows what to do? should I take it apart or send it in for warranty? or can I flash something to it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Have you tried unrooting with the PB99IMG.zip method? done by extracting rom.zip from the right RUU and renaming it to PB99IMG.zip, putting it in the root of your sd-card, and flashing it that way.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
flashing now, thanks for the idea. looks to be working. I'll let you know.

update: it had a progress bar on the upper right that filled up then went away now I'm left with an hboot screen with all the usual stuff on the top but where the 4 options usually are there is just one and it says hboot below that in green it says

parsing...[sd zip]

[1] bootloader[2] radio_v2

[3] radio_cust

[4] boot

[5] recovery

[6] system

[7] userdata

[8] splash1

[9] splash2

and it's been on this screen for 10 minutes now. should I wait or am I susposed to choose an option? if I am susposed to choose an option I can't because the volume buttons still don't work or any buttons for that matter.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] festa20:
I'd still give it time to dry I had to put my wildfire on radiator for a week n turned it on and u would have never known it had water damage
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
what do you think about a hairdryer and rice combo for a few days?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] festa20:
Yea it might work but I had it on radiator even had battery on there lol and heating is on a fair bit in our house n it worked fine I never used rice but heard loads of people using it u can only try I would give it bout 3 days on radiator aswell as hairdryer it might do the job if not send it BK
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
thanks for your help man, unfortunately it's the summer here and muggy as hell, so heat isn't turned on in the house. so airtight container with rice and hairdryer every day might do. I'm going to take it apart first and clean all the leads with isopropol alcohol. Also I know I cannot spell. :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] festa20:
I don't know how to spell lol but yea I'd. Blast the s**t out of it with dryer for a longish amount of time hope it works keep us updated with it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
I've tried rubbing alcohol and i got it into fast boot and it recognized usb, the buttons worked and I could select items with the volume rockers. eve could switch between hboot and fastboot. 20 min later I rebooted and all was lost. it's now back to just booting into hboot and no buttons are working. I don't know if I didn't clean it well enough or there was still some alcohol left inside the phone and maybe it moved around and shorted again but i left it for a day and tried it again and still nothing. took it apart again and dunked each piece in alcohol that is below the screen and the volume keys. it's sitting in rice now. I'll let you know tomorrow how it goes. cross your fingers.

UPDATE: Success!!! ok so for those of you who were stuck like me I hope this helps you out. I took the phone completely apart and dunked each piece in 95% alcohol, I wouldn't go below 90 if I were you. because I am impatient I only let it sit in rice for about 4 hours I then decided to get out the vacuum as suggested in a youtube video I seen. Don't be stupid like me, put an old pair of the wife's panty hose or go get a pair, you might lookd odd buying these but it will save you grief as I sucked up my power button and I had to cut the bag open and look for it, I found it in case you were wondering. I used the vacuum for about 30 minutes on all openings where alcohol could have got in. Then I put it all back together and powered the sucker up. I tried fastboot to be safe at first and it worked and the buttons worked. excellent!!! then I tried to boot normal and it booted right up into insertcoin nightly 51. double excellent!!! one small problem there seems to be some liquid inside the screen causing a weird looking picture. it all looks normal and colours are great but you can just tell there is liquid in there. so i took it all apart down to the screen and I used the vacuum again. put it all back together AGAIN and then turned it on normally. still there but it has shifted and looks like it improved. so back into the rice bag and I left the bag open in front of a dehumidifier fan. I'll probably test at 12 hour intervals and let you know how it goes, but I am super excited that I at least have my phone back. I can live with a less than perfect screen for a bit. I hope this might help someone else. don't give up on your phone! some videos I seen recommend using alcohol for an hour then brushing the pcb with a new toothbrush. this was going to be my next step. they also say to try and concentrate the brushing on areas that may be blue as that is the corrosion area, it just happens that when I dipped my phone pieces into the alcohol i did notice some blue runoff, so there may be some truth to that, or maybe it was just some dye on a piece, who knows. good luck to anyone reading this who is in this situation. I know how you feel!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreltech:
Reading through my old posts, found this one. Desire is still going strong. Still have screen artifacts but it's very minor. I even have ICS running on it. It does trend to get a bit warmer than my wife's desire but it does not cause problems.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjegan2111:
When I recieve an SMS while in a call the phone starts to read the sender of the SMS. This disturbs my call and I want to deactivate this. How do i do it inmy Galaxy S2?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonos:
You probably have driving-mode on. Double press the home button to disable it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjegan2111:
I had checked with the driving mode... it is off. but still i do have the problem
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Either,

Settings- Call- Call alert- Alerts on call- Off/Sound/Voice/Vibration

Or,

Settings- Voice Input and Output- Text to speech settings- Driving mode settings- Untick Message.

Regards.
[LG Optimus 2x] InternationalPlayer71:
Hi guys..i'm not a lg user..but i heard that lg dual has a custom kernel that let the phone use ui hardware acceleration..so does this kernel really exist??Where i can find it??

Thanks in advance

Best Regards

Francesco
[LG Optimus 2x] grognaz:
you might be looking for vorkKernel which has GPU GUI, not exactly sure what it does since i installed it today but if feels really smooth overall.

a thread for it can be found in the development section. hope that helps
[LG Optimus 2x] InternationalPlayer71:
Thanks mate!! Much apprecciated!! :-)
[Motorola Droid 3] pplude:
Hey, I was wondering if there was a way to isolate the kernel from a Sys. Dump. I know that a lot of locked devices have been exploited by isolating the authentication signature from the kernel file. We know what the AOSP is, so we can remove that. What we're left with will be a *mostly* Moto-modified branch. From there we can try to isolate that key, provided it isn't encrypted.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] hacku:
So I was wondering if anyone has been able to load the Android Keyboard (AOSP?) on their phone running GB. I like this keyboard for a number of reasons, but mainly the fact that it auto-corrects some words automatically that the multi-touch keyboard does not for some reason.

For example:

- If I type im, it auto corrects it to I'm.

- If I type wer, it auto corrects it to we're.

- If I type il, it auto corrects it to I'll.

I know most of you think this might be a bit silly, but I got used to this keyboard and typing this way before GB, and believe it or not these little shortcuts allow you to type/text a lot faster on the phone.

Last night I flashed my phone from CM4DX back to Official GB, and I tried flashing the keyboard being used with CM7 (Android Keyboard) but it won't work on GB. Not only does it not work, but I have now lost the Multi Touch keyboard and I can't seem to get it back unless I do a factory reset. I'm currently using Swiftkey X, but I still don't like it as much as the original Android Keyboard.

If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] infazzdar:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=875202

This is the Gingerbread keyboard in an apk. You can install it along side your current system keyboard.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjegan2111:
I have a Galaxy S2. I have heard that we can integrate the phone to the car system using FM frequency. Is there any software available for it? Kindly help me
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armoredfist:
the sgs2 can not be turned into a fm transmitter via an app if u meant that.

you have to connect a real fm transmitter to the phone to play music.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangomango:
http://tinyurl.com/3l2vudy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjegan2111:
My main purpose of trying to connect the phone with the car stereo is to answer the phone call using the car speakers. Is thre any other methood for this
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangomango:
Bluetooth..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mightbme:
+1
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RizSher:
You can get Bluetooth FM transmitters which allow you to route phones called and music to an FM channel on your car stereo. Most of these have built-in microphones with echo cancellation to improve voice quality.

another option, would be to get a car streo which has built-in bluetooth.

One example:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mddmx:
If your car stereo is not bluetooth ready, you can often add bluetooth to your existing stereo by purchasing an inexpensive "Bluetooth Gateway". They typically hide in behind the stereo and plug into RCA connectors on your car stereo. If you do an Amazon search for "bluetooth gateway" you will find products, prices and reviews.

good luck.
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
for the hell of it i wanted to see how fast i could drain the battery on this phone. i left it playing a movie via Seaman Player and had it downloading a torrent via ADownloader at the same time. it took a little over 40minutes(from 100% charged) until it got to 0% and powered down.

this was with the Seido 1600 mAh battery.

[EDIT] the battery also got so hot that i had to take it out and let it cool a bit before i could charge the phone again

[EDIT 2] P.S. once the battery is completely drained & you plug it back in to charge it, does the orange indicator light flash or is it supposed to stay on solid?

[EDIT 3] lol... it was flashing at first but then it went solid after a few minutes. thanks!
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
where did you get a working adownloader from? The last version I got had no search feature.
[Thunderbolt General] andydumi:
I thought the flashing indicates overheating.

Also, were you downloading via wifi or 4g?
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
firstly, i did a search last night on Market for 'adownloader'(as i used to use it in the past) and just downloaded it. did a torrent search on it and started downloading a movie. i guess it just worked?

and i was downloading via 3G (no 4G in this area yet)
[Thunderbolt General] arh2o:
You should do the same thing with the stock HTC battery and compare times. I would be interested to see the result - maybe you would actually get like 50 minutes with the stock hahaha.
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
silly me all this time when I was doing a search I was typing “a downloader” instead of “adownloader”
[Thunderbolt General] POQbum:
Just as an FYI, it blinks because it doesn't have enough power to bootup the phone. Once it's solid amber then you can boot it.
[Thunderbolt General] rjackson23:
Adownloader is on 4shared.com
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
its also in the marketplace
[Thunderbolt General] rjackson23:
yea it is but u cant seach for nothing on the updated version that n the marketplace :):):)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] alex7619:
Has anyone uploaded and converted the ota update into a zip file so we can save to sd card and install that way, rather than using the LG update tool?? Is this possible to do? This is without root.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ThC23:
Have you checked the Dev. Section? The only thing it don't have is the new baseband.

....
[T-Mobile LG G2x] alex7619:
No I havent checked but I will though.
[Acer Iconia A500] dito33:
It downloads this update, and then reboots to install but hangs up on triangle,

currently I am on .11 ver.
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
Did you download through Acer or an update on this site?

If you downloaded the update from this site.......

Have you decrypted the update first. What country are you in, as this may not be the latest update.

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] dito33:
From system update, it downloads itself and goes to reboot then hangs up with triangle and exclamation sign, I am in USA.
[Acer Iconia A500] captfx:
I am same as OP except I am at ver .10. I am unrooted.
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
what GEN are you both? Look in settings...about tablet build number (very bottom of about)
[Acer Iconia A500] moog70:
I encountered some problem with this update as well just this morning. I check for updates via the settings menu and found this new build .13, I ran the updated and it went through the motions of the install. It went to the android logo with the spinning gears and around 95-98% of the install status bar, it appeared that the install had gotten stuck. The android logo gears was no longer spinning and the progress bar seemed to have stopped moving. I rebooted it, got to the lock/unlock screen but was stuck...I couldn't unlock the device. Rebooted several times but got the same results. I reverted back to a copy of .11 that I have saved on my mini sd and got it unstuck. Ran the update again and progress got stuck around 95-98%. I waited longer this time and the device rebooted on it's own. Got the acer logo and then screen went black...sat there for a few more minutes until I decided to turn the device off and turn it on again. It booted fine this time around, I then received the "Update was successful" status and "APK successfuly loaded" status. Check the info under settings and sure enough my a500 is now on build 4.010.13.

So going back to your original post, it appears that the only way you can get past the triangle with an exclaimation point status is to run an update.zip of build 4.010.11. Look through this post...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1175136

There is a post here of a .11 build you can download. Good Luck!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] captfx:
I am GEN_2
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
I'm in US as well, but I'm GEN 1.

At any rate, if you want the latest update, you can get it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1176632

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
Dude, this is the (DOH, I meant AUS release), if there is a difference, the latest US is .11 (well now perhaps .13) _GEN2...

dont know my world flags......
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
Are you rooted?

do you have CWM installed instead of acer recovery image??

Did you rename/remove any system files and such???

these are a few to check if OTA will not install.

I will wait for the installable zip............
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
Like I said, I'm GEN 1 bought in the US. I updated with that file, and the GPS.conf file in it is set to north america, not Australia, so take it as you will, but that's a north America update. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] deedub334:
I was able to get the 4.010.13 update to install from 4.010.11. I'm very surprised as I couldn't get 4.010.10 to install no matter what I tried (I was on 4.010.08 initially. To get .11 on my A500 I downloaded the encrypted .zip from this XDA forum.

My initial update try of .13 failed. I was rooted, so I went into Acer Recovery and flashed the stock recovery image, then I un-rooted. I then downloaded the .13 update, plugged the A500 in and installed. The little progress meter hung at about 90% installed for a couple of minutes, but then it shut down, rebooted and the update was successful.

Then I immediately re-rooted, of course :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] pfc.joker:
Here is a link to today's .13 US update:

http://cdn.acer.futuredial.com/Acer_A500_0.000.00_4.010.13_COM_GEN2_1311738150515_bde864c2.zip
[Acer Iconia A500] dottat:
Mine hung at the bee/triangle screen as well.. though i was able to hold power button for 2 seconds to shut it off. Upon powering it back up it booted fine back into .11 and gave a message that the update failed.

Curious to see what's in these 14 megs...

edit... tried to look in that zip but keep getting error message about it being corrupted.. anyone else have success in looking under the hood?

edit#2- using acer recovery i put my recovery back to stock and applied update successfully... I did NOT have to flash the rom over again.
[Acer Iconia A500] mangolia:
can't install OTA 4.10.13

Hi all,

I am in California, my acer got OTA update to 3.1 build number 4.010.07 Gen2

I root my acer for using NTFS driver, still got OTA update to 4.010.10, Yesterday, I installed acer recovery and Clockworldmod, to day I got OTA update to 4.10.13 but it failed, I uninstall acer recovery and repeat update it failed, How can I remove Clokworldmod to get OTA 4.010.13?, can I install 4.010.13 without OTA?

Thanks in advance
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
Perhaps you can read?????????

here is a cut-n-paste from the official wifi patch update zip file, feel free to download it yourself.

suit yourself

Acer ICONIA TAB A500 ‘connect Wi-Fi unsuccessfully’ patch notification

To check the version of the operating system (OS) on your tablet:

Please go to Settings > About tablet > Build number.

Supported OS version(s): Please refer to the information below to verify if your

A500 is affected by the ‘connect Wi-Fi unsuccessfully’ issue.

Affected countries and OS

A. Countries: UK/France/Italy/Spain

- Affected OS versions:

Acer_A500_4.010.22_COM_GEN1

Acer_A500_4.010.30_COM_GEN1

- After installing the update, you are advised to update your tablet’s operating system to:

Acer_A500_4.010.38_COM_GEN1

B. Country: USA

- Affected OS versions:

Acer_A500_4.010.07_COM_GEN2

Acer_A500_4.010.08_COM_GEN2

Acer_A500_4.010.09_COM_GEN2

- After installing the update, you are advised to update your tablet’s operating system to:

Acer_A500_4.010.10_COM_GEN2

C. Countries: Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand/Philippines/India/

:eek:
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
No offense intended, but what does your post have to do with what I said. I bought my unit in the US. It is a GEN1, and the update I just did was a GEN1 as well. The update has a north american gps.conf file from North America, which makes me good to go.

So my question for you is (no offense intended), but why did you post that to me?? :confused: