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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickohead:
Hi all,

I have an interesting problem that I have now given up on solving on my own.

I was following this guide (phone was already rooted):

t-mod.org/182-2/desire-tutorial/

I got through unrevoked fine, alpharev fine, sd partition fine, radio flash fine and system rom fine - all was going well.

I then got the all-too-familiar boot looping (forgot to clear one of the caches probably?), so I rebooted into recovery, factory reset, wiped cache/dalvik/data, reapplied the ROM and rebooted again.. .same story.

Now this is where it veers off course and becomes like no other rom-flash stuff-up I've ever done before (I re-rom every couple of weeks... I get bored easily). I enter recovery mode again and it can't read my SD card (32gb):

Thinking it was a potential SD card formatting ****-up I put the card into my pc and loaded it up - it was perfect, my computer showed me exactly what was on the card (system rom and radio rom). Thinking there could some harm done that the phone dislikes I insert another SD card (16gb only ever used with the Desire) and the same error happens, I get yet another SD card (1gb), same thing.

In between scratching my head and tearing my hair out, I jump into the fastboot command line, reflash my NANDroid backup and start my phone - WIN. My phone boots, I have a working original rom and can place calls etc. Still no SD card functionality though. Not too phased and thinking I can fix it anyway I look into a few more solutions to my problem and one revolves around re-Alphareving. So I reboot the computer, phone attached, Alpharev boots up and then fails to find my phone. I check usb debugging and it's on. I then notice that the phone isn't receiving usb power from the computer. So now I have a phone without a working SD card slot and with no usb functionality except at fastboot... what the hell did I do?

I wanted to go back to my original RUU and start fresh, but without usb debugging access I'm screwed.

Is there a way that I can use fastboot to sort out something like the mtd0.img solution (which requires terminal access form phone and usb / sdcard)?

Am happy to sling over some technical details, but let me begin with the commands that have so far had no effect:

Of note however, is that I ran:

and the sucker returned:

What does all this mean?!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickohead:
It would seem I sorted it out...

I did a Fastboot recovery flash using the s-off recovery image from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1039954

I can use the SD-card again, but for some reason I can't mount it in recovery mode and transfer files - but I suspect this is a Windows driver issue (comes up as unknown device) and doesn't stop me from copying files directly to the SD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Install hboot and htc sync drivers and you should be able to copy files to sd card.

SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Acer Iconia A500] Heythumb:
I have been trying to find any info about this issue all over the internet but havent had any luck. I really want to know whether this a problem with my device or if its justthat speakers themselves arent that great and i have to live with it. My speakers mostly when playing music with vocals rattle, i dont know how to explain the sound but its as if the case its self is shaking because of the volume. I am sure people have had this type of issue with speakers on laptops, desktops and so on. Should i return it and get a new one or is this an issue with all iconia A500's? I hope iwas able to explainthe sound well enough.rattling, case shivering sort (f.

Any info is appreciated, thanks guys.:)
[Acer Iconia A500] fincan:
I have just tried with couple rock and modern jazz and some dance music. If the volume is at the highest volume there is distortion but it doesn't feel like really really bad, just as if you are over driving a small speaker.

One thing you can try is, put the same music tracks that feels like blown speakers to a usb disk and go to a store that has a display model of the A500 that you can play with. Take your A500 with you so you can test both at the same time in the same environment.
[Acer Iconia A500] Heythumb:
Thanks for the reply, its not so bad but it can also get really annoying as it is the most thing an ear catches. I don't want to return my device only to get a new one that has the same issue. I will take my Acer and a USB stick and try out the same music at the store, if the display device has the same issue then I'll just have to live with it, if not then I'll be getting an exchange.
[Acer Iconia A500] jonhome2:
One solution for track problems

I have the same problem on certain recordings, i have found the same distortions of those tracks on several devices. After a bunch of reading i came across a solution that at least worked for my tracks. They were recorded in MP3 mode. Mp3 is not changed by using equalizers. You can adjust the loudness of the sound or like jazz-rock-etc... But if they are recorded with to much base or awkward settings in equalizer, those setting are stuck while in mp3. I converted those tracks back to cd format (wav) adjusted equalizer setting more moderate, then saved those tracks back to mp3. My distortions (am type sound, sounds like speaker is broke, etc...) disappeared. There may be other reasons for these distortions but my problem tracks are good now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Heythumb:
Thing is its not just music saved on my device, its also any video whether online or on my iconia. Everything I play has that annoying shivering noise. For speakers that are supposed to better than most tablets, if they are all like this then even though this is my favorite tablet I might have to go a different way if I were to return it.
[Acer Iconia A500] lord_voldemort666:
My speakers don't have this issue, I would suggest exchanging it.
[Acer Iconia A500] Heythumb:
Thanks lord voldemort...lol, I will be doing that in the morning
[Acer Iconia A500] strider_mt2k:
I noticed a bit of rattle after turning up the Dolby bass settings too high.

After a little fiddling I found the "sweet spot" and haven't experienced it again.
[Acer Iconia A500] KennyNair:
so what's that sweet spot setting?
[Acer Iconia A500] 5428:
I've had the same problem with the speaker and gone to the service center to claim it. Acer service center said it was factory defect and repaired it. Although i still experience small problem with the sound, especially when i touch certain area near the speaker but so far...works just fine now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Heythumb:
So I went to Future shop to try out the Acer on display and its the same thing when the volume is turned up all the way so I just decided to keep mine.
[Acer Iconia A500] nick2k:
i tried doing this tonight with the demo model Costco had on display. unfortunately i couldn't even get past the lockscreen. i wanted to see how well Metallica's 'Load' MP3 (VBR) album would sound. :(
[HTC EVO 3D] alanmv567:
so i have searched high and low on the evo 3d q&a thread for any answer on this, has there been any fix for the hot reboot on this phone? I will run the hot reboot app but have to pull the battery to reboot it.
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
Until its fixed, don't do that lol. In the mean time I have been using fast reboot from the market.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trickster2369:
What does zip aligning apps accomplish? Been wondering this for awhile.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyetheskin:
could have googled this,it's compressing the apk which tries to increase it's performance
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fridgid:
I don't see how compressing would increase performance unless its able to read the compressed data without decompressing? Strange o_O
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
It doesn't make sense because that's not what it does. What it does do, if my understanding is correct, is rearranges the .apk files so that they begin on the front side of blocks of storage space, rather than in the middle or end,where the OS would be forced to read through those blocks for the required data before execution. Android uses just-in-time compiling and this entails a certain delay before execution can begin. The dalvik cache is supposed to alleviate some of that delay, assuming executable code is available. Zipaligning together with correct memory management and a current dalvik cache, in theory, should provide a very fluid user experience. Tools such as aggressive garbage collection and task killers will destroy that. If you're running apps that are abusively using system resources, the better solution is finding a better app, not managing it's poor behavior.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trickster2369:
Thanks for the replies, I pick loonatik. At least for now.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kvswim:
Hi, I just installed CM7 on my Gtab. I did a Google search on how to get Market (& other google apps) and I found you have to flash "gapps" through Clockwork Recovery. Is this through the app, or the recovery? I'm completely lost. I'm no noob, but I've never used CyanogenMod before. Can someone point me to a download and walk me through it?

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andnej:
Technomancer pointed out that you can find the apps on goo-inside.me but I have not tried it myself.

I choose the regular approach, I download the apps from apktop.com and install the apk. Simple, and the bonus is that I get the modded maps which allow me to do navigation (saves me 30-60 bucks)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradley_e_smith:
I would like to make sure that tun.ko is loaded at startup. I know about the insmod command, but am unsure where or how to place it to make sure it gets executed at boot time.

thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psycho693:
Hey everyone I am just wondering what rom the majority of xda desire users use. Let me know thanks!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 777ace:
This should be a poll :D

RCMixS Sense 2.1/3.0 Evolutionary.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickohead:
Agreed, set up a poll.

ROM's should all come with usage recorders to anonymously report stats about devices and ROM's - something like distrowatch for Android phones would be cool.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Cyanogenmod7
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Cynagogenmod reaches the most users overall. I am not sure how it's on xda.

SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaa:
I like:

Sense: InsertCoin (2.1+3.0) stable - using it now (latest 1.1.0)

AOSP: Oxygen-flashed this once in a while if I am bored with Sense (latest 2.2.1)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leroy:
I am using MIUI after using Leedroid and oxygen, and before that star....something or other.

I have found MIUi to be easily the least buggy for me. I am now using D2EXT on it and it seems very very fast
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guevor:
Insertcoin 1.1 right now. Used leedroid and cyanogen before.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rsdf430.:
I think most people use Cyanogen, but i don't know for sure.

I'm back on stock for a while since i need a bigger SD card, my 4GB card is full.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
It's a matter of taste I suppose. Some people want fancy/flashy ROMs while others want a slim bug-free stable ROM.

My personal experience with CM7 and, to a lesser extent, Redux, have been rather buggy requiring me to reboot the phone almost every day to fix a glitch here and there. Perhaps all the hacks and fancy features they add to these two ROMs is to blame for this.

But with Oxygen, I've not had to do that at all yet.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richy555:
Im running Redux 1.2 themed with standard kernel atm. Great ROM for what i require with great battery life.

Looking forward to the new 2.0 redux when it is released.:D
[Motorola Droid X2] ferg40:
Anyone else finding that this may be a dead phone? No dev support really is making me hate this phone. What do you think?
[Motorola Droid X2] gcforreal:
Yea i really hope not tho I heard a few devs are working on a cm7 rom but I think they're having trouble due to obvious reasons... I kinda wish I hadn't recieved This as a replacement to my x1 now... The dev community is blossoming for the x1 now
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
This phone has been out for what? 2 1/2 months? How long has the x been out? A year or more? And the dev community for it is now taking off? Do you have any idea how long it takes to dev or code anything? In your spare time? For free? While holding down a job? And trying to have a life? If you can do a better job than what's being offered, have at it. If not, don't whine & don't assume that anyone here has the responsibility to please you or satisfy your schedule.
[Motorola Droid X2] Sandso9:
yea I'm leaving this phone for either a charge or the sgs2 I'm tired of waiting
[Motorola Droid X2] ferg40:
Yikes dude.
[Motorola Droid X2] Devi0124:
Wow Gary.. I don't think either of them asked anyone to do anything for them...just stating that they wish they had a phone that there was more development on. Do developers of other phones not have lives or jobs? motorola doesn't make it easy for developers so I think the comment was probably meant more towards them and not towards developers here.
[Motorola Droid X2] rp076:
Just gotta be patient guys...Its getting some love, just not cheap one night stand love lol I have read in other forums that Team BAMF has some work in progress so let's be patient and see what comes up :D
[Motorola Droid X2] ferg40:
Lol thanks for the clarification. Ha
[Motorola Droid X2] AuxiliaryPie:
Gary had it right! everyone needs to chill out, we already know BAMF AND CM7 are being worked on currently, plus who knows what else is going on underground (chinese bootstrap and first ROM, remember that??). now we just gotta be patient, and while we wait, email MOTO and VZW to fix our bootloaders!!
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
Sorry guys, didn't mean to flame anyone or read too much into any statement. I just think that impatience doesn't help anyone or the overall mood of this forum. In case anyone hasn't noticed, there seems to be an exodus of developers off of xda because of the underlying tone of entitlement being expressed by threads that imply that no matter what they do it's either not good enough or fast enough. I took the OP's statement as being demeaning to the development that we DO have & got a little defensive on their behalf. We just have to be patient with & protective of the dev community that do so much to improve our devices & feed our flash habits.
[Motorola Droid X2] ferg40:
I'm trying to make a rom myself but motorola makes it hard to do anything. Bootloops have become the norm for me. Lol
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
That's great man. Thanks for your time & effort. Unfortunately none of these companies make anything easy. Even Samsung, supposedly the most open & dev friendly of them, isn't really very cooperative. Coming from the fascinate, it was a never-ending struggle for the devs to glean any workable code from what they did release. I guess it's just as frustrating to have to fix all the code you get as it is to only get it in bits & pieces.

Edit: It looks like there may be a little pudding coming our way soon!
[Motorola Droid X2] ferg40:
Where do we find this info? Lol
[Motorola Droid X2] Kanibull:
You guys do know that the bootloader is close to being unlocked right?
[Motorola Droid X2] ferg40:
Oh yeah? Where did you find this info?
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
Look in the dev section. There's someone looking for testers on irc.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
This is the price we pay for early adoption. The same thing happened with the Droid incredible, now it has lots of options.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xapamercury:
Hello!

I'm a frequent MIUI user and today just updated to the Stable version 2.3.4a (coming from 1.4.29) and now I'm experiencing problems with Wi-fi and GPS connections. The mobile is unable to connect to any network... keeps trying and obtaining IP adress but does not get connection.

Regarding the GPS, it's unable to find my location.

Do you know any solutions for this upsetting issue?

Thank you guys!
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sam008:
Guys

I have a new galaxy tab and got the recent update as well from 10 days ago. I've used an ipad before and the auto brightness worked very well. However, with the galaxy tab it keeps changing during the day time when there's consistent sunshine coming into the room (not directly though) and also at night with my CFL's turned on. Has anybody else noticed that? I see a plethora of apps to handle this and allow easy adjustment of brightness level but I thought auto-brightness should be an easy function to implement which Samsung hasn't pulled off well

Any solutions?

Thanks
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lobialkon:
Hello there!

I would like to do some changes to the theme of my phone as i dont like really much the icons and other things.

Im running Gingerdx v009.

The thing is that i choose everything i want on the site, and then, when i have to pick the options for my phone im stuck and i dont know what to do. I searched inside the .rar of v009 for the files and i found (2/3), then i pick up the .rar of UOT Kitchen and upload it to my SD card, reboot, open Xrecovery, install custom .zip, choose it, succesfull, reboot, but nothing changed.

What do i have to do?

Goodbye! Thanks in advance!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatthewWu:
i ever use UOT Kitchen and i can't use... Error :(
[HTC Incredible S] System92:
Hello,

After installing CyanogenMod7 on my Incredible S, I found that the 4 android buttons below the screen no longer rotate when I turn the device sideways. It doesn't worry me because I understand that I put a custom rom on the phone and all.

Although I did find that feature pretty cool and I was wondering if there was a way to get it back, all while keeping the rom?

Thanks!
[HTC Incredible S] tpbklake:
This has been previously asked and the response was that this is a HTC Sense feature and CM7 is not HTC Sense.
[HTC Incredible S] System92:
Alright, thanks!
[Motorola Droid X2] gcforreal:
Has anyone noticed a decrease in hdmi mirror mode quality since the gb update? On froyo the mirror mode looked horrible on a 720 tv but was fine on. My 1080p set. I was hoping the update would fix the quality problem on 720 sets as the droid 3 displays at both resolutions fine. The gb update has actually made 1080p mirror mode have horrible quality as well is there a fix for this or is it a hardware limitation
[Motorola Droid X2] Sandso9:
yea it does look pretty bad
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] whitis:
Is there any way to get androids pinch to zoom as smooth as the iphone? I mean, is there any browser using the trick that the iphone does?

I just noticed that iOS doesn't pinch to zoom normal, it just gives you a thumbnail which will refresh after you're finished with pinched to zoom, while android live renders while pinch to zoom.

So is there a way to get it that smooth? Or is any browser taking the advantage of that trick?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vetvito:
Enable hardware acceleration or use a browser that uses hardware acceleration, then turn off all the features of the browser. You know, text reflow, plugins, tabs, etc... all the great stuff of our browsers.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] whitis:
So where can I enable it? I'm using MIUI btw.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studentjunk:
Is there a way of copying text from the windows clipboard into the android phone? I have Bible notes in a windows program that I want to copy to an android program. they are made by different companies, so the easiest way to copy would be to do a verse by verse copy and paste. However, I don't see how I can use my windows machine to get into the android clipboard.

I tried using droid explorer, but couldn't figure it out. I was able to do a screencast.

tyi
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Best way to do it is to copy the text on the pc into a txt file, like using notepad. Copy that to your phone, then open it using a file explorer, use that text editor, copy it on the phone, then paste it where you need it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studentjunk:
Yes, every will work. Not sure why I didn't think of that. I guess when you have something stuck in your head, it's sometimes hard to figure out alternatives.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
To add on to what's already been said, once you save it as a .txt file and save it to your SD card you can import it into AK Notepad. I'm sure that there are other apps that allow this, but that's the app I use & I know that it works. You can also create a shortcut to the imported file on your homescreen (long-press on the note from within the app and select "pin to homescreen") or add a widget so you can access it easily.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkrodgers:
You can also use the Google Chrome to Phone extension and program to push snippets of text from your browser to the phone. I'm finding myself using Evernote more than that lately though. Catch notes, Springpad, or any of the other notepad apps that sync would work. It's nice because it works great both ways -- I can copy something from the phone and create a note, then read it from the PC, or vice versa.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studentjunk:
Thanks all. I will use google docs. They already have my information.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwkip:
A bit late, but here you go: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1821738
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mxl180:
I'm on stock GB but rooted. Any suggestion to wifi tether without install a new ROM?

UPDATE: download open garden wifi tether from the marketplace works!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khilbron:
Did you check the market.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xlGmanlx:
pretty much, i wasn't aware of getting it any other way
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingsway8605:
Does anyone know how the carriers are identifying tetherers. Verizon had begun bocking tethering apps and att has said they well start charging those who tether.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
They can suspect by how much data usage, and unless its a completely ridiculous amount, you are fine. I tether, but its nothing great at all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingsway8605:
They aren't using data usage to tell. There are reports all over of people opening tethering apps and getting redirected to warnings.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xlGmanlx:
On android phones?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingsway8605:
Yep. It seems the droid x is the most common android phone. Some on the tech blogs say it is baked into the firmware.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spyd312:
I installed this version:

http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com/files/wifi_tether_v3_1-beta2.apk

Also, in my opinion, the only way SPRINT can tell if you're tethering is if they had a way to access the routing tables (i.e. MAC Addresses) on your phone. Simply using a lot of data isn't 100% proof considering that Netflix, HULU and Google Video offer streaming services. I use HDMwIn to watch movies from my phone to my HDTV so it's not like I'm restricted to watching a good flick on my 4.3" screen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xlGmanlx:
I am assuming verizon would do something like that
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkrodgers:
AT&T and Verizon have definitely figured out ways to tell if you're using a tethering app and are using it to crack down. I'm not sure it's firmware based, but there are a few ways they could probably figure it out. So far though, there's no evidence Sprint is doing anything like this.