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[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
Alright so I think I have success with the using the touchstone inductive charging dock and palm pre coil on the Incredible 2. I unfortunately dont have a camera other than the one on my phone so I will have to update this post with pictures later.

The process was fairly simple seeing as HTC did most of the work for us by exposing the 4 pins below the battery.

The top two pins are positive and the bottom two are negative (I believe as it is working for me)

I taped the palm pre coil directly to the inside of the battery cover. The top solder point on the palm pre coil's chip is negative and the bottom solder point is positive. I ran two thin wires down to the 4 posts and soldered them on. I put putty in between the 4 posts and solder points so that no flexing and shorting would occcur. The 4 posts are springy so the wires were able to move and shut the phone off on me on more then 1 occasion.

After putting the battery cover carefully back on the phone I was able to magnetically stick the phone to the touchstone without having to sand or shave the plastic. Phone has been charging for a little over an hour now and it appears to be working. Ill keep this updated in case anything changes

HOW-TO

Follow along in the pictures.

Step 1:

Remove the Inductive coil and magnets from the Palm Pre battery door. If you use the original sticky piece you can put this directly on the inside of your battery door (same way it looked on the palm pre)

Step 2:

Solder a thin black wire to the top solder point on the inductive coil chip.

Solder a thin red wire to the bottom solder point on the chip

*Note - I taped my wires down so they wouldnt bundle up and cause the back to pop up. The antennas for the cell radio are built into the battery door so if the case sticks up any you will notice a drop in reception

Step 3:

Solder the red wire to both of the two top pins.

Solder the black wire to both of the bottom two pins

Step 4:

I put putty (wall hanging blue stuff) over the solder points and in between the wires so that neither solder point would touch. If it happens the phone will shutoff and you will have to remove the battery and replace it to get the phone back on

Step 5:

Test before replacing the battery door - It is such a pain to get the cover on and off you mine as well make sure it works the first time

Step 6:

Replace the battery door and make sure it sits snug - shouldnt stick up at all.

Step 7:

PROFIT
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
And we have success. Overnight charging didn't produce any adverse results. Charges to 100% battery is draining at a normal rate today.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
Awesome dude. Hopefully you can post pictures soon. Time to go order a touchstone and the battery cover
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] times_infinity:
I would love to see pics/a guide for this, especially since you can get both the Pre Touchstone and the inductive case for so cheap now. ~$12 not including shipping on Amazon.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] times_infinity:
I wonder if it would at all be possible to use conductive glue instead of solder, so that you wouldn't melt any plastic by accident as shown in the pictures. lol
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
this is great! thanks for the pics and the clear step by step tutorial. my parts are all coming in friday. can't wait to try this out. this will be great if it works the way yours does. hopefully i won't mess up anything.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
Try try try again...

Ah yes. Well this was a majority my fault. The soldering tip was too large and I ended up resoldering the wires two or three times do to the flexibility of the pins. Thats when i decided to put the putty between the solder points. unfortunately the damage was already done. Ive been having issues with the phone prior to doing this install so I will probably just exchange it under warranty anyhow.

Solder glue isnt a bad idea - I may pick some of that up for the replacement phone.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jacket1:
This looks great! Awesome work! Just picked up a Inc2. Got tired of my DX. Do you think this would work with an extended battery/door? Would definitely love to have this working.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
Entirely depends on how much room is between the extended battery and the battery door. The pinouts and traces wouldnt change.

Ive never been a big fan of having an extended battery so I dont have one lying around to test with. Im sure if you cut a quarter of sheet of paper and then folded it 3 times it would be about the same thickness. You could slide it in there for testing.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
hmm.. soo.. tried it.. be careful when doing this! i have no idea what i did wrong, maybe it was the heat from the iron (even though i made sure to lower the temp on my iron) but my phone no longer charges even through the usb. thankfully i have an extra battery with an external battery charger. but yeah this sucks.. thankfully i'm upgrading sometime next month so i'll just have to suck it up switching out batteries every time my phone dies but yeah, be careful when doing this.

EDIT: to make matters worse, it didn't even work. i'm assuming those 4 pins are pretty finicky, and that's probably where my problem lies.

EDIT2: tried to remove all excess solder from the 4 pins and now my charging is working again.. really wanting to try it again but don't want to risk messing something up more permanently this time. ahh!! don't know what to do. i already have 3 touchstones on their way. eventually i'll have to try it again. just seems like soldering for those 4 pins is gonna be a bit tricky.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] shoman24v:
Not to hate, but why hack up and solder to your phone like that? What's wrong with USB charging again?

I'm not seeing the benefit to this considering one user already broke his.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
so i'm gonna try it again.. but, any tips on how i should solder the wire to those 4 little pins? that's defintiely where i messed up the first time. i'm not sure exactly what i need to make sure of when i'm soldering it.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cac2us:
Custom Connector

You might consider using a piece of perf board cut to size and grooved for the wires.

The stuff I use is pretty thin, but you copuld allways shave it down.

Then some of that DAP brand tacky putty to keep the board on the pins until the back is positioned.

Kind of like a mini SIM card. Then the warranty is still intact and the pins do their work.

Edit:

If your bent on hardwiring it, tin the wire (find some ear bud wire, the kind that you have to scrape to get the solder to take) first using a low rosin core very thin (0.025”) solder non lead free if you can find it.

Once the wire is tinned, form the end of the wire into a ring using an opened up paper clip.

Use a low temp soldering station to heat the wire and get the solder to flow to the terminal from the wire, adding only enough fresh solder to get the flow started.

Remember to cleanup the area with very little fluid and a Q-tip. These LCD screens are effected by too much alcohol and the rosin will etch the circuit if left dirty.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
I like the ring idea. i'll have to try that out
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
Awesome idea. I kind of wish I would have done it this way. Im getting a replacement soon anyway since the metal around the outside of the screen has separated and began to lift up. I may go with the sim card idea instead. that actually sounds a bit safer and more aesthetically pleasing.

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Well on a lower level it can be considered innovation. Making a product do something it wasnt intended to do in the first place. I find hardware hacking to be just as much fun as software hacking.

Not to mention on those dark drunken nights when i have a hard time plugging the phone in, now all i have to do is plop it on the touchstone and i have a fully charged phone come the next morning.

Note - I tried installing this in the car using a USB adapter but it doesnt power the touchstone enough. Im looking for a dual usb to single micro usb to see if that works any better.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] shoman24v:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/...ryDetails&archetypeId=12663&accessoryId=47610

:p

Then all you need is a wireless charging pad.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
that adds bulk and costs way more than this mod though.

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having a hard time imagining what that would look like..
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
The bulk is what i was trying to get away from. Not to mention I had one of these already lying around from my Nexus 1 days - when this was actually a really cool mod. Im not a fan of thick devices. If you look at the one from Verizon you realize it adds some significant depth to the phone. I would however like to get my hands on one so I can see how their wiring is done.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] shoman24v:
Yeah it is noticeably thicker. Not sure how I feel about the price lol.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cac2us:
This is single sided copper. You might want to find double sided with plated through holes.

Edit:

To the OP,

You might want to re-up your pics without your ESN...

The fingerprint might pass tho...
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Mr Lime v2:
Awesome mod. Wish it was easier though. Sounds dangerous.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] andybones:
I have 3 BRAND NEW DINC2 back doors that came with refurbed phones, and I never gave them back, so now I have 3 never before used going mad cheap PM me...
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
I would if they were inductive charging battery doors but other then that - why? The mod doesnt affect the door other then using tape to hold down the inductive coil
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] andybones:
Because I've already sold one, and have gotten offers for the others. I didn't realize that the MOD didn't hurt the back door. Sorry.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
No harm no foul. Just didn't understand the connection.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jmstarship:
When I check my phone I found that the top right and bottom right pins are negative and the top left and bottom left pins are positive.

If you have a multimeter just plug in your USB charger and measure the voltage on the pins.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
Ill resolder in the morning and try it out.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] dpdoughty:
Still seems to charge. However not as quickly nor does it show wirelessly charging. I'm still unable to charge through USB.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] tshingy:
I want to do this mod but was thinking instead of soldering it could copper conductive tape work?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] KrInEn:
That's odd....I just tested this out. Positive is this top and bottom left, negative top and bottom right. Charges fine for me via USB.

Maybe post some pics of your new soldering job? Definitely should use a smaller tip.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] phil_socal:
so does this use the contacts designed for the verizon wireless inductive charging back?

the reason I ask is that it looks like CM7 doesn't support wireless charging.

also- any update on the correct pins to solder?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] haoyong:
So, question on this, guys. Do the inductive chargers (either the official Verizon version or the mod here) work with ANY inductive charging pad, or does the pad need to match the charging device?

I'm asking because I've got an inductive charger for our Wii, and may take a hard look at doing this if it would work. Another way to look at what I'm asking is, are the charging pads "one size fits all", or are charging pads somehow keyed to specific batteries?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Calibob2001:
So the way wireless charging works is that the base sends out a low power frequency. The phone has a little device in it that, when it is within range of the frequency, will oscillate and generate a small voltage. This voltage is fed to the battery and viola- it charges...

The trick is that the resonance frequency of the device has to match that of the base that is transmitting the frequency, otherwise it won't work. There is pretty much an infinite number of frequencies and so the chances that the Wii is the same as the Palm system is slim to none. Even if they are close, you will loose a lot of efficiency and it won't really work.

But there's always a chance
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Calibob2001:
There is another type of wireless charging called Inductive charging. A copper coil is placed in a fluctuating magnetic field and the magnetic field induces a current in the associated coil. This coil is then attached to a bridge rectifier and some capacitors for line conditioning. This is the same premise of a transformer. We know it as Inductive Charging.

This is actually what the palm wireless charging uses, as well as most of the other types of wireless chargers. Consequently, there is a much greater chance that the coil in the Palm will work with other inductive charging pads...
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] synaptyc:
Will this mod work through a protective case?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] synaptyc:
Success

Okay.

I tried this mod and it worked the first time =)

I changed it a bit thought.

Instead of leaving the wires connected from + to + and - to -, I cut the wires to 4 pieces about one inch each. Then I soldered them to the connection points and left the ends loose. I stripped them back exposing half an inch off the end of each wire. Now when I replace the back cover, they simply crisscross and complete each + & - line. I plan to replace all the wires with adhesive foil so things will be more secure if I ever need to open the back.

End result = charging just fine :cool:

PS: It will not charge through my protective case. I may move the entire setup to the protective case with adhesive foil connections internally to the pins. Easy mod! Thanks again OP
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] phil_socal:
I just completed this mod, works great!

If I soldered both top as positive and both bottom as negative, nothing charged anywhere (usb or dock).

I soldered the top left to positive and the bottom right to negative, and it works fine.

I'm using a cover too! although I cut a 2 inch hole in the back!

one thing I noticed, when charging on the dock, the screen is sometimes unresponsive as is the orientation stuff.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] DJ_MiX:
Just finsh my mod works great. Tried with conductive tape had issue with tape sticking to cover .

So I used tiny wires solder to connections. White stuff is some adhesive heatsink compound. Somewhat rubberish I'm sure silcon would work as well.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XHolyPuffX:
About a month ago, I was running RoyalGinger 3.0 with bluetooth, GPS, and background data disabled, and I was only using my home wifi to get online. My phone would pretty much hold a 100% charge for 5-8 hours if I left the screen off. I was pretty amazed at my battery life. Then I decided I wanted to try a different rom, so I backed up in CWM and did that. When I returned to RoyalGinger, my phone wasn't holding the 100% charge for as long anymore and hasn't done it since then (yes, I did re-calibrate the battery, like twice at least).

Recently though, my phone has been having horrible battery life under the same conditions. The only difference is that now I use LauncherPro instead of the stock launcher. I'll charge to 100% + 15 minutes or so, and with the screen off, the phone divebombs to about 95% within an hour and a half. If I actually use the phone, it will lose 30% in 2 hours. I have no idea what the problem could be since I don't have any data-syncing apps in the background and I'm really just texting people.

Any ideas?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
The consumption doesn't sound like anything out of normal. A difference in signal quality (radio or WiFi) or using radio for data instead of WiFi can cause that.

In any case, just check the apps that use your battery, and see that you don't have any process getting CPU stuck on 100% (you can see CPU load in System Panel Lite, for example).
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] febycv:
Download the apps below.....this will help you out.....

Use the app SetCPU for Root Users

It allows control of certain aspects of the Linux cpu freq driver, allowing for overclocking, underclocking, or tweaking speeds and settings. Download it here.

Use the app Battery Booster

Battery Booster is a powerful battery boosting tool and power management application specially designed for Android devices. Download it here.

Always remember to remove the charger immediately when the battery level reach 100% for longer battery life.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ^Fs:
Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD - $0.99

NOVA 2 HD - $0.99

BackStab HD - $0.99
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] sukartochen:
utorial connect storage devices (ex

flash, etc.) to the phone android who

default factory not support usb on the go

This is Step:

-Make Sure minimum running OS Froyo

(2.2)

-Phone in rooted

-Prepare to have plugged the USB OTG

flash and then connect with phone

-Install the application root explorer,

download via blapkmarket

-At the root (make sure mounted r/ w)

make a folder with the nameusb_drive.

-Download Q5 memory manager

application here

-Make sure the settings as shown below,

then Mount File System and Device Rescan.....dowload q5 manager here www.filetolink.com/b9b992ab
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Bahurs1:
Is this for like USBFlashDrive's only? I want's a keyboard or a printer :D
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Bo0mer:
Have you tried it? Maybe post a screenshot to see if it works. There's no sense in ordering usb otg adapter if i'm not sure it's working :)
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] hbali:
Has Anyone tried it?
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Bahurs1:
I'm trying now. but I can't get the drive to connect just to the phone >(

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I JUST ****ING bROKE MY 8Gig DRIVE.
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Bo0mer:
How did you brake it?!
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Blagus:
How? How did you connect it to the phone?
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Doomguy:
Bull****. You not break anything with phone usb. Just nothing happend.
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Bahurs1:
Well It's my fault... there wore a whole bunch of wires on the table and I probably short circuit it >.< aw That was a good drive:( but I can probably say that that it didn't work since the flash didn't light up at least once. Also I thing I probably mixed the red and the black wires... the stupidity of me... I don't wanna fry my other 8gig's so be careful and not as genius as me. (At least it wasn't the phone!:O)

oh yeah the drive when I plug it in the pc - nothing. no lights, no recognition, no life.

The way I was doing it was lazy cause I didn't want to start to solder anything. I had a port and I try'ed to to plug in the drive and the phone next I used a hub witch is in my monitor witch I think did the trick for some reason. I'm not using some freakin' duck tape made adapter next time...What do you think happened to the drive?I didn't learn well yet.
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] sukartochen:
you must make usb otg cable for your phone before can use its...see how i make its...
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Asycid:
Its more On The Fly than On The Go :D :D
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] sukartochen:
hahaha...its more better than you buy its.…-_-
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] wc_how:
It is just few dollars in the ebay =_=
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Asycid:
OK, I think you haven't got the joke Sir.

Cheers, I'm not offending anyone! I myself did some things like this on your picture! Even more strange things though :D

It was just a joke! BTW have you seen the "thereifixedit.failblog.org" page yet? :D
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] kingsize623:
something else,

the Phone don't supply any power to the usb stick.

maby you can use the power of the power supply of the phone.

but than it isn't on the go.
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] Bahurs1:
I don't know what killed it but I didn't use the charger and now I'm thinking that there wore some usb cables connected to the pc with lose ends. Oh well I guess I should get another one cause there are good deals around i hear :D

Any one have any idea what happened to it? Is it dead? Can I get a working chip out of it?
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] sukartochen:
for the detils just go to this site...rumah-android.com/read-your-flashdisk-into-android-deviceusb-on-the-go.html
[XPERIA X8 Android Development] sukartochen:
its good for ours to learn make something ..even through we dont know what is that thing and fail to make its...because success come to the people who learning from the fail...haha
[Galaxy Tab General] dhinged:
I bought the Verizon Galaxy Tab here in the US (Model SCH-I800, SKU SCHI800BKV) and it appears to be running sub-30 frames per second consistently. I've tried EStrongs Task Manager, Advanced Task Killer, and Android Assistant to try to find background programs that are hogging resources, but they're all below 1% (including Slacker, which I can't uninstall). A Quadrant test gave me ~900 score. I know the CPU is supposed to be a Cortex A8 Hummingbird, but every system spec I've run it through has told me it's an ARMv7 Processor rev 2(v7I) or something nearly identical. Did I get a slower CPU like the Wi-Fi version?

Certain games will run super-speedy, but most everything, including the web browser, the settings menus, and the market, run seemingly below 30fps. I can't get it to consistently run a smooth 60fps which every other Tab (besides the Wi-Fi version) seems to run at.

What can I do? Is there any other benchmarking software I should run? Should I take it back to Verizon?
[EVO 4G General] bjb_nyj101:
Does anyone know where I can get the Stock Gingerbread News and Weather Widget? I flashed cm7 butt the gapps I'm using doesn't contain the widget

Thanks in advance
[EVO 4G General] josh030181:
Here you go

http://db.tt/ZNQqacX
[T-Mobile LG G2x] substanceneil:
I am happy with WeaponG2x GB 2.3.3 on my G2x. It has only been 48 hours, but so far not a single issue. (Cm7 nightly 124 was resulting in frequent force closes and sleep of death).

I found this xda post that provided a camera.apk that will remove the video start and stop noises. We like to get video of our toddler, but as soon as she hears the sound, she drops whatever she is doing and grabs for the phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056547

What I did:

0. Forced closed and cleared data from the camera app.

1. Backed up the original camera.apk from /system/app

2. Replaced it with the new camera.apk

3. Changed permissions to -rw-r--r-- (just like the other apks in /system/app).

4. Restarted.

Now i get a "stopped unexpectedly" error whenever I run camera.apk. I even replaced it with the original, and still no dice.

I hate the re-flash the ROM just to get my camera back. Any advice?

Neil
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] bjb_nyj101:
Does anyone know where I can get the Stock Gingerbread News and Weather Widget? I flashed cm7 but the gapps I'm using doesn't contain the widget

Thanks in advance
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] jungbum:
Move GenieWidget.apk to system/app directory and set permissions to following and reboot:
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] bjb_nyj101:
Thank you!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj71787:
I know the phone is old but its really unusable. Its so slow even the time is about 8 mins slow. I restarted the phone but after an hour the time keeps going back 8 mins. Using apps are really slow.

I am using cyanogenmod 7.1.0
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
Its just to old bro, like an old dog. I sold mine for like $50 and 3 J's hahaha