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[General Questions and Answers] deseo:
nope i gess it has to be a menu where to put the phone on diag or something i have the same problem
[General Questions and Answers] woodz93:
Driver

I installed this driver from the kyocera website. Unlike the susteen driver, this one will respond in the windows control panel properties window as a modem (not sure if that makes a difference, but at least it shows that the OS can talk to it). So maybe if someone can figure out how to get it to talk to CDMAWS and other software?

It's so weird, it's not even listed as the correct driver, but the documentation here shows it is the one...

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/support/drivers/USB_Driver_Installation_Procedure.pdf

Driver is here:

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/support/drivers/sy21_setup.msi
[General Questions and Answers] JSZESZE:
Dialing ##7678# brings up the DM mode menu; however changing it from UMS to DM doesn't seem to enable t to talk with CDMAWS
[General Questions and Answers] deseo:
oh well i guess we keep trying
[General Questions and Answers] Klown80:
If you are wanting AAA passwords and such, you do not need a driver to do this OP... :)
[General Questions and Answers] gadgetdaddy:
Please explain
[General Questions and Answers] woodz93:
What are you trying to do? If you are using this phone as a donor you need a working Profile 0 & 1 from another phone in the target network, that's one way to do it
[General Questions and Answers] bigsam731:
still dont understand!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] King350z:
Rooted a friend's phone using visionary, put root folder on SD card, followed Prompts in terminal emulator, reboot and S still show's on.. any suggestions.. I never had this problem rooting my own mytouch.. & The phone hasn't been updated, still running 2.2.1
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
Check out the Post Your eMMC thread in the general section, it will tell you how to check which one the phone has using terminal emulator. Phones with the "bad" eMMC cannot be rooted using the root.sh method, but can be with g-free.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
Root via gfree method...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VoiD_Dweller:
Before I learned about this website I had rooted my phone using the tutorial from the unlockr's website, gfree method.. Worked great.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neidlinger:
you need to be careful before throwing out the idea that ./gfree is a fix all. It's not. It's a huge problem on phones that have bad eMMC chipset.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
Yea... That's what happened to my old MT4G

Best suggestion is to just keep stock.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] McSurge45:
Does that mean I shouldn't put custom roms on my phone? What if I get bored?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NatsuDragneell:
U can also use launchers and home replacements if u get bored wit stock
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlanB412:
I wouldn't say don't put roms on your phone EVER.... but before you do make sure you check what emmc chip you have. If you have the bad one you're sort of giving your phone a death sentence by rooting with gfree. It might last a good while, but most likely your phone will brick itself at some point. And considering the root.sh method doesn't work with the bad chip, gfree is your only option.

Basically, if you have the good chip feel free to flash roms to your delight, AFTER YOU INFORM YOURSELF HOW. But if you have the bad chip just know that your phone is at risk of dying if you root it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irrelephant:
I have rooted and unrooted my phone(with the bad chip) many times, which writes to the emmc and power cycles it and flash at least 5 ROMS a week and flash back to nandroid backups as well during the week, so saying the bad chip and gfree combine is the issue is not true... There are cases of the root.sh emmc failure as well just not as many.... There is something more at bay with the bad emmc that has to be a common fail point not known yet. Cause as much as my chip has been power cycles and written to, it should be the first to fail! Just my two cents...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d12unk13astard:
+1 I have heard more horror stories about root.sh and visionary method failures then gfree method there's got to be more to the story then just the bad emmc chip and using Gfree to root. I used Greer to root as well and have bad emmc but good display and I'm a crack flasher, tho I've slowed down a bit after finding my 3 favorite roms.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlanB412:
@Irrelephant & DrunkBastard

I don't intend to discount your experiences with what I said. Like I posted before, I have read about plenty of people with bad chips who have spent a long time flashing and reflashing their phones, so I can totally believe that you guys haven't had any problems with it or gfree. And considering the nature of rooting I can also believe that people have messed their phones up with the visionary method as well, especially since I actually was one of those people. However, I was fortunate enough and informed enough to fix it without any lasting damage.

As you said, the emmc chip problem is something that nobody is entirely sure about, but the general consensus seems to be that they are much more likely to fail when you have the bad model, whether or not you have rooted your phone or flashed roms or anything. I've even read some cases where people with entirely stock phones have had it fail on them.

On top of that, the gfree method, while very reliable, relies heavily on that chip. I can't honestly say that I know the exact processes that are different between the visionary method of rooting and the gfree method, but from what I've read gfree is more of a hardware oriented approach to achieving s off while visionary is more software oriented. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm here to learn just like everyone else.

I guess it was sort of bold(and grim) for me to say that having a bad chip and then rooting it was a death sentence for your phone. What I was trying to get across was that the bad chips definitely do have a worst reputation. And while anybody who wants to root their phone should try and be as well informed of the risks and processes as possible, I think that if you have a product with a bad reputation you should read up about the problem and what extra risks it may cause.

ALL of the evidence doesn't point towards death sentences for bad chipped phones, but a lot definitely points to major problems with the bad chips, and that's something people should know about, particularly if they are one of the people who have it.

So in the end, people just need to try and make well informed decisions about what they will do with their phones(and the same can be applied to life I guess). That's what I was trying to get across. Sorry if I bothered you guys with my strongly worded post before, I just wanted to make sure people knew what they were getting into before they jumped into the pool.

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[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
That.

Moreover, I had an experience with Desire S (HTC Saga) with the aforementioned "bad" chip, and I can confirm it's prone to failure even in completely stock form. The "bad" chip seems to have a bad production run or post-silicon verification issues, since there are many perfectly fine specimens, yet more than enough reports of failing devices, not necessarily rooted. Of course, vast majority of reports on XDA would be of rooted devices, since this is what XDA is about.

Judging by the time-to-failure reports for those chips, it's probably safe to say that 2-3 weeks of heavy use would be a good checkpoint - if a chip is prone to failure, it'll fail within 2-3 weeks of heavy use, and if it didn't fail - it'll most likely serve the regular lifetime of eMMC (which isn't eternal either).

There was an interesting hypothesis for this chip's failures in one of the threads at Desire S section, which might be worth checking. It was said that the chip is most likely to fail when it has power failure (intentional or not) during write cycle. Which means, pulling the battery while installing the app, for example, has a high chance of bricking a completely stock device.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irrelephant:
i totally agree with both of you guys!!! and as jack stated, i think there was just a bad production run, or lot run for that matter... but all in all, rooting your phone is taking a chance since there are always unknown variables that could come to play. i have noticed that my phone with the bad chip has always been a bit more wonky that the one with the good chip, but i continue to use the bad one to flash away with because it was the one i started all the crack flashing on and if it fails, then it fails! i kinda wish it would fail so that i can start poking around at it to see what craziness i can find in there... i am all about troubleshooting things and if all else fails then i can send it in under insurance!

i think people should read and know what could happen and make a choice based on that, but i see too many ppl trying to scare off users because they have the so-called bad chip... but the bad chip has been good to me over a yr now and i continue to abuse this bad boy more than the average user!

and nothing anyone says on here is going to get me BUTT HURT, i am always open to a good debate on a controversial topic... so long as it is civil that is, cause if it gets ignorant, then i just leave it at that... to in the end, thank yall for holding open debate with me as it keeps me informed and thinking!!!:p
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] King350z:
I wish you could buy the phone and pick the rom it comes with......
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Looks like HTC improved some things with the camera but my major complaint is still there. Even with every possible enhancement and option (including image review) turned off, there is still a 0.5 to 1.0 second lag when taking a picture in bright lighting even after everything is already focused with a half press of the shutter. I think it is improved a little, but still a far cry from what it should be. C'mon HTC: if a weak iPhone can take a picture instantly, surely you can do better than this! :mad:

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] xPhantom:
I don't seem to have this shutter lag. The phone snaps the picture pretty instantly after I press the button.
[HTC EVO 3D] Genjinaro:
Yeah, I'd say do a full wipe & reflash. 0 shutter lag here. I can't even get the image to speed blur while in motion.

This is with the latest 2.3.4 update.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Are you using the dedicated camera/shutter button? Autofocus is the only thing "auto" that I have enabled. Are you rooted with revolutionary?

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] Genjinaro:
For my fastest shots, I use the onscreen button, the camera button has a delay. Auto focus is off.

Yes, rooted with Revolutionary & using Haus' Stock Deodexed 2.08.651.2.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Just updated my wife's phone via the OTA. Hers has never been rooted and will likely never be rooted so I just took the OTA. Her's is exactly like mine. There's at least a half second delay on every shot. I've tried the dedicated camera button and the on screen button. Regardless of the settings or the button pressed, the camera doesn't take the picture until about a half second after you press the button.

Edit: I've never seen one of these phones not have horrendous shutter lag so if you think you have close to no lag, could you please post a short video showing this? I simply can't believe it until I see it. :)

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] Genjinaro:
I don't have another camera sorry. Sold it back when I had my EVO 4G.

I'm surprised you have this problem.

Try turning up the Exposure & ISO to 800 as well. This also speeds up the shutter on cameras. Will it be instant, I'm not sure but it'll definitely be faster.

Let me know if that works.
[HTC EVO 3D] chazybaz13:
On a side note regarding the camera, what happened to the shutter sound on/off option? Now it's on by default and hitting menu in the camera app doesn't show it, am I crazy or is it gone?
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Nothing changes it. Already tried ISO 800, shooting in direct sunlight, and every other trick I could think of. Minimum shutter lag is about a half second. Only thing I can figure is that some people call a half second "instant". It's far from it. Went to the Rays game tonight. Indoor lighting was bright as daylight: no flash needed. All pics were good at least and not blurry due to the fast shutter. But between my rooted Evo 3D and my wife's totally stock one, we missed almost every shot even when taking casual shots. And when you hand someone the camera to take a group shot, they press the shutter halfway to focus and then press the button the rest of the way and it NEVER works. Everyone always starts putting the camera down and the actual picture is taken after their hands are dropping because they've already pressed the button and nothing happened until a half second later. Again, this is with all auto stuff turned off, flash off, auto focus off, etc. Unless you are taking a picture of a rock or something else that isn't ever going to move, this camera is totally useless.

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] born2rock4life:
Have you tried wiping the SD card? Or used something other than the stock one?
[HTC EVO 3D] Genjinaro:
You're right, mine is forever silent. Since I had it off.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
No wipey wipey, but... my wife and I both use a SanDisk 32MB and my friend and his wife use the stock SD card. No difference. Half second delay on every shot, occasionally longer. I wouldn't think the SD card or it's speed would come into play for actually taking the shot: only afterward in storing it.

Mike
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxlaplante:
Hey guys!

Anyone know if there is some roms/kernels for our SGH-T959P yet and if so, where I can find them?! Seems that there is no love for you model

Max
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Japots:
is that the telus fascinate 4g?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxlaplante:
Yes it is the telus fascinate 4G from Canada.. You can help me?

Thanks,

Max
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Japots:
I'm on a T959D (Fascinate 3G+), so unfortunately I can't help you. I'd just like to point out that there's no custom rom specific for our device as well (T959D). We instead use i9000 roms. There are some kernels specific for our device, but the i9000-ones work just as well (after a button fix)

I'd suggest trying out an i9000 rom, but since I'm not aware of the existence of stock rom/kernel files for the 4G phone, I'm not sure how safe it is :(
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxlaplante:
Yeah.. Im scared to bricked the phone so i will just wait till a rom come out for my specific phone. Thanks for the reply.

Max
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msheikh25:
Still waiting on a Rom or instructions on how to use another models ROM without bricking for our t959p also. I've had the phone about a month and it was fine at first, but now touchwiz is starting to get a little laggy :(
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Japots:
switch to launcher pro (free)

you can change the dock icons to touchwiz ones if you like the color. my only gripe with it is that the dock buttons are tiny compared to touchwiz. but the interface is overall faster and less-choppy than touchwiz 3.0
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msheikh25:
Thanks! Just tried launcher pro and it seems really good. Previously I had tried ADW launcher but that one was even more choppy than Touchwiz so i reverted back to it. But launcher pro seems like it has all the customizations of ADW and works nice and smoothly.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcmerritt:
Unbrick and Flash T-Mobile Galaxy S 4G firmware to T959P with Voodoo

Well, I bricked my T959P on Friday and by this morning I had it converted to a T-Mobile T959V Galaxy S 4G. Everything works too...wifi, GPS. Only real issue is it only gives me 3G in canada .... I am assuming because of a frequency difference or something in the modem firmware.

PM me if someone would like the rar file containing the instructions and all flash files. I am hoping someone posts the stock Telus kernel so I can experiment more with taking the phone back but I could not get root on my Telus Kernel so didn't have a proper backup of all files. Hopefully someone will post them but in the mean time I am enjoying a Telus T959P Fascinate 4G with T-Mobile Rooted firmware on it.

---------- Post added 20th September 2011 at 12:04 AM ---------- Previous post was 19th September 2011 at 11:40 PM ----------

I just did the unlock of the Telus T959P after recovering it from a brick using the nvram backup technique and then copied the backup to my computer. The code is in clear text on the T959P as well :-) I am now at T-Mobile 2.3.4 KH2 with Voodoo and have a fully unlocked Telus T959P. Not a bad end result to some hard days.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msheikh25:
So you are still on Telus in canada but now only getting 3g on it vs 4g like you were before you convereted it to Tmobile? How do you verify that, just by the speeds you are getting or are you not seeing one of the 850 or 1900 bands anymore? I don't think the phone actually shows "4G" in the status bar as far as I know. But I'm actually using the phone on ATT in the US (which uses the same bands as Telus) so maybe thats why I never see "4g". But I've gotten speeds as high as 7mb download which is about as fast as my wife's ATT branded HTC Inspire 4g gets.

Can you post the instructions and files for how you converted here so others can play around with it too? Hopefully this can be a good start to getting roms working on this phone. The Tmobile version is already more widely supported so what you did is a good way to get around it.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcmerritt:
Uploaded T-Mobile Rom for Telus T959

I have uploaded the files I used to convert my bricked Telus T959P to a Tmobile Galaxy S 4G. Instructions are provided earlier in the thread on how the files that are used were created. This is the rar with the exact end files that are flashed to my Telus phone. Just follow the instructions that came with the rar to upload and root the Tmobile software on your Telus phone.

I am not allowed to post links yet so PM me if anyone wants the mediafire link to the tried and tested Tmobile for Telus T959P files.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msheikh25:
Thanks for posting the instructions! Sent you a PM to get the link to download files...although I'm not sure if I'm going to try this just yet. I want to try to get instructions and files for how to get it back to stock, Telus ROM before I probably do try these out. Do you happen to have those also?

My unlocked T959p on ATT only has network options of GSM or WCDMA (or both). And the icon in the notification area has never said 4g...always on 3g. But I also get speeds which ATT would claim to be 4g (upto 7Mbps). So you are probalby good.

As far as Kies goes, I've never used it but isn't it just used for software upgrades for your phone? And now that you have a different ROM on it, you will probably never need to use it right, just use updates from whoever manages the Voodoo ROM? So should be good there also.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcmerritt:
Yeah, I punched my Telus sim that came with the T959P and put it in my Iphone 4. The speeds in the Iphone 4 seem way slower than with the same SIM in the Galaxy S 4 G (T959P) with the TMobile Galaxy S 4G firmware on it. I put it back into the whole I punched it out of and slid it back into the Galaxy S after testing on the Iphone to make sure the tests were done back to back and the Galaxy S 4G is consistently faster with the same SIM and 3G displayed in the menu bar.

I don't have original Telus Bin files so I can't go back and compare the Tmobile firmware speeds with the Telus T959P firmware speeds. Hopefully someone who has a rooted T959P on Stock Telus firmware will post a link to the stock firmware files so I can test this too.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rryanosman:
So as a t959p owner who lives in Canada, is this a good idea for me? I guess not if it actually slows the data down... Can someone clarify this, I'm finding the comments a bit confusing here.? (and silly question... Any bt issues?) Interesting to note, I bought a tmobile sim card for my stock (2.3.4) unit while in the US for a couple weeks, and my data speed is about fifteen kbytes/second. Yes you read right. Customer support obviously is useless on that. So while modding it into a TMo sgs4g would quite likely get me back to multi MB/s for the rest of my trip, what would my data speed be when I get back to Alberta and put my Telus Sim back in? Maybe some experimenting would isolate the file that triggers this, and one could swap in the appropriate version when on each network.

And serious thanks for experimenting with this... This may finally get us people who bought T959Ps not realizing what a lonely device it is, back into the main modding scene. Exciting... maybe I'll stop wishing I'd bought an iPhone yet.

Also, I'll mention here again that I have a stock Telus T959P 2.3.3 firmware set that has been used to resurrect a handful of handsets (including mine) if anyone needs it. (pm me.)
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gage_Hero:
Pooched T959P Saved

READ Thoroughly before you start, pay special attention to the last paragraph!!! I am not responsible if this goes wrong but if you are here, not sure what other options you have.......

This for anyone who has flashed the wrong software on their T959P:

NOTE:

You NEED to use the PIT file for each flash.......

NOTE NOTE:

NEVER FLASH WITH ANY OF THE THE CHECKBOXES ON, THEY NEED TO BE BLANK READ BELOW THE STEPS!!!!!

1. Get the factory firmware, I have a copy as does rryanosman who sent it to me

2. If you don't have it get ODIN

3. Extract the .rar I recommend 7zip

4. Start Odin, put phone in download mode right after connecting

5. Put factory.tar in PDA slot, Flash the factory tar, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected

6. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.

7. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.

8. Put the zimage.tar file in the PDA slot, Flash the zimage.tar file, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.

9. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.

10. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.

11. Put the paramalfs.tar in the PDA slot, Flash the paramalfs.tar file, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.

12. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.

13. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.

14. Put the boot.bin file in the phone slot and flash, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.

15. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.

16. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.

17. Put the sbl.bin file in the phone slot, and flash, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.

18. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.

19. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.

18. Put the modem.bin in the phone slot, and flash, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.

19. Disconnect, take out battery.

20. Put battery back in power up phone, you should have a running phone with 2.2.1 foyo

OPTIONAL: Update with Kies to 2.3.4 Gingerbread.

If you do ANY flash with the checkboxes on, especially the repartition, be prepared to break into a cold sweat, your phone will only show a white screen, no download mode, no recovery just WHITE!!!

The good news is if you hold volume up and power, while watching Odin it will still recognize the phone (com will be yellow) the phone will only have the white screen. From here you need to start from step 1 again, make sure you clear the checkboxs!!!! I personally did this 3 times before I brought my phone back to life!!!

Again special thanks to rryanosman without his help I'd have a $500 paperweight.

Link to files:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=78ZUOM2T