yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC EVO 3D] spalding1028:
I took the dive last night and rooted my 3d using the htcdev unlock method and am running into some issues. First thing I noticed was Com.htc.bg keeps force closing, and I've already had 3 crashes (says phone recovered from an unexpected reboot) so far a battery pull fixed it. Any ideas?
[HTC EVO 3D] Rtistique:
How that happen i did mines the same way and it went good, did u flash a rom yet??
[HTC EVO 3D] spalding1028:
nope. only thing that isn't stock is my recovery. I've got com.google.gapps force closing now also, and it seems to be isolated to when I sync my accounts
[LG Thrill 4G] kiltedthrower:
My laptop has a hdmi input. I was going to see how Earth and legend looked on a larger screen than a 4.3" screen. When I connect from the thrill to the laptop, nothing happens. Is it not possible to connect to the laptop or am I needing to click something?

I googled and youtubed but couldn't find anything related to the thrill and a laptop.

Thanks in advance.
[LG Thrill 4G] quarlow:
Are you sure its an input, not an output? I have never heard of a laptop with a HDMI input, usually you want to put your laptop onto a big TV, instead of putting a peripheral onto a laptop screen.

The Thrill plays extremely nice with my 1080p Vizio. Netflix looks better using a HDMI cable and phone vs the native Netflix app on my TV. But, that might be because my phone consistently gets twice the bandwidth my home connection does.

Sent from my LG Thrill Faux G
[LG Thrill 4G] kiltedthrower:
Oh I don't know. It's a port that's labeled HDMI. I just assumed it was an input. Okay, so is there anyway to run the HDMI to the laptop or is it pretty much a TV thing?
[LG Thrill 4G] quarlow:
Maybe it could be done with special software. I also have a laptop with a HDMI port. I could not find anything remotely close to an option to turn that into an input through the Windows (W 7 64 bit ultimate) settings.

I also did a few Google searches about using a laptops HDMI port for input, and the resounding response I found was that its basically unheard of. They make special adapters for that, the run over USB. The "worlds first" laptop to natively support this feature came out less than a year ago.

Sent from my LG Thrill Faux G
[LG Thrill 4G] colbur87:
It's not possible to turn your output into an input. It's a hardware limitation.
[LG Thrill 4G] acem77:
in this day and age why hell don't they make the laptop screen work like an optional monitor with most new devices being digital HD it should only add little to the cost.
[LG Thrill 4G] technicalvampire:
Ok Speaking from hardware side

Ok I work for a large Semiconductor manufacture. That HDMI port is an output. In order to use your Laptop display try to find a TV Tuner for you laptop with HDMI inputs. They maybe hard to find if at all, and if you do find them they will be pricey.

Good Luck
[LG Thrill 4G] yoneilio:
This is not exactly true...
[LG Thrill 4G] CallMeAria:
Depends. If the hardware doesnt allow for it then it wouldnt be possible on a software level. I assume thats what he meant. Of course with enough know how you could probably make changes on a hardware level to allow for it.
[Acer Iconia A500] SamXp:
I keep getting a notification that a system update is available but after it downloads and tries to install, I get the error "the update is invalid and has been canceled"

Did this six times with the same result. What's going on?
[Acer Iconia A500] Neoprimal:
Assuming you are not rooted or modded, the only thing I did (and always do) is remove my transflash card before I do an update. If you DO mod or have root, maybe it's something else.

So my recommendation for now is to remove your msd card, that is if you even have one plugged in and then download and apply the update. If you don't have one in there, no suggestions here right now. I am stock, have never rooted or modded my system and my OTA was perfection. It downloaded and updated without a hitch.

GL, let me know how it goes.
[Acer Iconia A500] SamXp:
not rooted but I did have an SD card inserted. Removed it and the OTA was successful! Thanks!!
[Acer Iconia A500] Neoprimal:
Good to hear! Now you know. :)

Enjoy your Iconia.
[Acer Iconia A500] fermunky:
Realllllly interested to know why the sd card is causing the update to fail, that's strange.
[Acer Iconia A500] linhungsam:
if you download the patch fix from Acer support site, it also fix the "the update is invalid and has been canceled" error. That is how I solved the problem. It is good to know that the SD card is the main cause as I also inserted my SD card.
[Acer Iconia A500] kooorpen:
What about Acer informing about those "how to do" basic things. :mad:
[Acer Iconia A500] jostarr:
We have 3 Acer 500's ( NOT Rooted) in our family, two of them got the updates without any problems.......one even had an external sd card in it.

However, the third unit has NO sd-card and is NOT able to complete the update.

I hate to perform a factory (hard) re-set on it, as this unit has many apps installed.

Any new suggestions would be grately appreciated.
[Acer Iconia A500] shaun298:
I have got all my ota updates and installed with my msd card always in the device. Strange
[Acer Iconia A500] kekinash:
Sorry, not relevant.............
[Acer Iconia A500] jostarr:
Was my post # 42 irrelevant? Often the replies are interesting, but do not answer the specific question(s). This happens on all forums I have ever seen.
[Acer Iconia A500] kekinash:
Not your post, it was what I wrote....:D Just didn't drank my morning coffee and I wrote something not relevant to help you. Sorry for the confusion :o
[Acer Iconia A500] jostarr:
Perhaps the 3.2 OTA update is getting corrupted during the download. It seems to be a zip file of some 357 MB.

Does anyone know in which folder the zip file is stored, and the name of the file?

I'm thinking I could try to delete the file and download it again. Then try to install it

My goal is to avoid a Factory (hard) reset.
[Acer Iconia A500] fermunky:
For those posting that they're not rooted, it may be helpful to also note if it ever was rooted previously. I unrooted, or thought I did, and was getting hung at the Bee logo with an "!". I had to re-root, unintall anything related to root, including reflashing the stock rom, reversing everything that USB Mount All had done, re-enable the phone checking services and uninstall the battery saving app afterwards, THEN I was able to successfully update. Turns out I really didn't have a need for root access.
[Acer Iconia A500] ptgptg:
I had the same error message and tried twice before it finally went through the third time. I was rooted, but with the stock ROM. I also had an SD card in and removed it for my second try. I did not remove root for any of my attempts. On my third try, I left the SD card in and it updated. Wish we could get some consistency so we could try and determine the cause(s).
[Acer Iconia A500] Neoprimal:
2 stupid and 1 not so stupid question(s), but I have to get it out of the way.

Do you have it plugged in? The tablet may not update if the battery is too low.

The other silly question - how much space is it reporting as free? I don't know if this issue still persists for some, but I remember reading a while back where people's tablets were mysteriously 'filled up'. Since you have lots of apps anyway, could you check to make sure you have enough space free?

Finally, are you setting the tablet and wifi to never turn off? I always make sure my wifi is set to always on (which it usually is set to anyway) and also that my screen timer is set to 30m or Never so it doesn't turn off. Just in case it matters. 30m for small updates, Never for large ones.

The file is supposed to download again if it doesn't work - does it not? I have no idea where it goes. A dev may be able to help you there. If you need it to re-download, I think you can just perform a manual check and it should ask you if you want to get it. (I think).

Since some people have reported that the update works WITH the sd card in there - perhaps you can try some reverse psych. and pop in a msd, see if that works.

Let me know how it goes or if you got it to work.
[Acer Iconia A500] jostarr:
Interesting questions and comments. The answer to all 3 is Yes, Yes, Yes.

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] bigdogshark62:
This is why I love coming to THIS forum. So many more ideas that help identify and solve the issue. Most of the other forums I looked at said "factory reset, hard reset, factory reset, hard reset..." I come here, and I see "unseat the MSD card, set wifi to always on, set screen blackout to 30 mins, etc." And VOILA! Success!

Mine is a US-based unrooted A500, 16 gig MicroSD card, and lots of apps. I was dreading the thought of doing a hard reset, as I didn't want to lose all the apps (and the info stored therein), and have to spend the better part of a day restoring everything (had to do it before; this is my second A500, as the first was stolen at the Ostiense train station in Rome). So here are the ideas I took from the above posts to get the update to work:

1 - In "Settings" set Wi-Fi Turn Off to "Never" or "Never if plugged in."

2 - Also in "Settings" set Screen Turn Off to "30 minutes."

3 - Power off your tablet, and remove the Micro SD card (if you have one installed).

4 - Power on your tablet, go back into "Settings," and go into the About Tablet section on the bottom left.

5 - Tap "System Update." If the update was downloaded previously, it's likely you'll go straight to the Ready to Install pop-up. If this is the case, run the update, and let it fail.

6 - Once the update fails, go back into the About Tablet section as above and tap "System Update" again. This time, you should get the Download Update pop-up.

7 - Let everything download, and then run the installer when it pops up.

8 - Cross your fingers and toes, and pray to whatever deity you worship that the install is successful. It worked for me at this stage.

Might be something with the wifi or screen blackout settings that causes the download to corrupt. Might be something with the MicroSD card. Whatever it is, give this process a try, and try 2 or 3 times if the first one doesn't go through (as the system may still be trying to use the old corrupted download).

Best of luck to those who still have this issue!

Edited to add: BTW, once everything is working again, don't forget to back into "Settings" and set Screen Turn Off and Wi-Fi Turn Off back to where they were before to save battery life. Forgot to mention that. Oops!
[Acer Iconia A500] jostarr:
Tried downloading the 3.2 upgrade again, and made it a point to have the Acer full charged, connected to the charger, and in close proximity to the wireless router. The download was successful, and the file unzipped ok and the installation proceeded smoothly as expected.

Many thanks to all those who made suggestions.
[Acer Iconia A500] Neoprimal:
Nice! Enjoy :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] dsac:
I just installed Ice and Fire 3.2 (coming from 2.9), and since the ICS interface change, i can't for the life of me figure out how to add/remove home screens.

i prefer only 3, but by default there's 5.

i know it's somewhere obvious, i'm just missing it. anyone have any ideas?
[HTC EVO 3D] bo5ibbs:
So I can get into cwm recovery but my computer wont recognize my sd card so i cant restore a backup...any ideas? help appreciated..
[HTC EVO 3D] :
Take the SD card out, put it in a different phone or an SD card adapter. Once you have a connection to your PC, put the backup on the SD card and put the SD card back in your phone. You will then be able to restore.

If you can't access your SD card even on your phone, you can follow a guide to flashing through fastboot by putting it on your phone that I think is in the CDMA development section.
[HTC EVO 3D] bo5ibbs:
well i lost everything. what do i need to flash other than the rom, kernel, and radio?
[HTC EVO 3D] ianoob:
damn beer, that't the 2nd accidental "thanks" tonight :rolleyes:

shouldn't need anything but your apps and google stores what apps you've used if you told them to back your phone up.
[HTC EVO 3D] bo5ibbs:
okay so i think sprint fried my sd card when they tried to unbrick it. Other sd cards are recognized in recovery. What files do I need to flash to get my phone to boot again? stock rom? any rom? do i need to flash radios and kernel? I'm so aggravated lol
[HTC EVO 3D] :
...You took your phone to sprint to get it unbricked? A real brick is when the phone stops turning on completely and doesn't give an LED signal while it is plugged in to the charger. Anything else can be easily fixed. Not trying to sound mean, but yeah...

If you have a backup, I'm pretty sure all you need to do is restore from that. I'm not sure if it is possible to remove your radios unless you go into hboot and a flash a PG86IMG to purposely do that. Basically, you don't need to flash radios. Your kernel would hopefully be included in the backup/ROM. You can either restore from a backup or flash a (any) rom to get your phone starting up again.

Check out my handy guide on breaking your phone:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17836714&postcount=2

Also, how did you lose everything?
[HTC EVO 3D] bo5ibbs:
its a long story but i can get into recovery, but my mac wont find my sd. I tried another sd and it found it, so it has to be a problem with my sd. They deleted everything from it when trying to fix it. I wanted to brick it to get a new 3d to trade to my buddy for his galaxy s2. I was rooted w CM and he said he wanted a fresh phone with no scrathes or root. So my buddy said to flash a gsm radio and battery pull in the middle of it to brick it. I did but they somehow got back to recovery but my sd is toast..
[HTC EVO 3D] :
Ah, I see. The way I bricked my phone (that didn't allow you to go into recovery) on purpose was by flashing the PG86IMG RUU that can be found in the CDMA development section. I was on 2.08 and half the stuff failed to flash. My phone wouldn't go past the HTC screen or go into recovery. I went to the bootloader and did "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" or something like that to make it say S-ON and remove the -revolutionary- at the top.

I gave it to them and told them it wouldn't turn on. They checked HBOOT and verified it was S-On and tried going into recovery but nothing happened. They then said they would send me a replacement.

By the way, I did all this because 1/4 of the screen wasn't working but I didn't want to go through all their bullcrap so I did it the faster way by purposely breaking it.
[HTC EVO 3D] bo5ibbs:
makes sense. Well now I have a 3d that i said i lost, and tomorrow i'll be getting another i paid 100 dollars for. trading the new one for the galaxy to my buddy. But since this old one goes into recovery, i can possible fix it? should i just get a new sd card and flash the ruu? I'll check the meid and make sure it's clear, and if it is then i'll sell it for 100 bucks if anyone wants it. hboot 1.4
[HTC EVO 3D] :
If it turns on, it is fixable. In your case, you have to do is go into bootloader and flash the ruu. I'll warn you, though, it didn't work for me so I don't know if it will work for you.
[HTC EVO 3D] bo5ibbs:
Okay well I'll have to get a hold of another sd card first. I'd like to sell this thing.. You've been thanked!!
[HTC EVO 3D] :
Good luck!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aphuoc:
Can I make gold card with card reader or it have be in the phone? Since my rom need sd ext to run so i cant take sd card out.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikidntu:
Never try with the card reader and i don't think it works.

However, you can plug the new card and boot into recovery mode. CM should have an option to mount usb device so you could work from there.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
You can indeed make the goldcard in a reader. The phone is irrelevant as the cid you need is from the sd card itself.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aphuoc:
Well i tries using card reader but it said it couldnt get cid.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
It can be done. Why dont you also just mount the sd in recovery?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skarayala:
I have a nexus s I9020T and i can find the files if a need to restore to stock with fastboot or odin any help will be appreciated.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bedalus:
All that information is in the FAQ sticky in this section :)

Sent from the future to put right what once went wrong.
[Galaxy S II General] laxwillsch:
I recently found out that the International warranty that was advertised with the phone on amazon is total bs and emailed amazon about it and also included that the phone is now over $100 less now. I just received a response email with an offer of 20% refund which comes to about $130 back. I am sure that some people here bought the same phone and I would give it a shot and email them. I am again thoroughly impressed with amazons customer service. Hope this helps yall.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
interesting, did you buy from amazon (current price $660) or third party sellers, about $100 cheaper than amazon?

in any case, the item now shows "no warranty" in the title, maybe thanks to you :)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QTBQ2C/

I paid $700-something to import, when it was released, do not regret a single cent of that money.
[Galaxy S II General] laxwillsch:
There was two when I bought one with no warranty and one with the "international warranty ". The one I bought was $550 when I looked at it earlier.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
It's been posted lots of times - no international SGS2 purchased outside of its country of intended sale is warrantied. Period. A bunch of people did what you did and bought (literally and figuratively) the claim from an Amazon third-party reseller that the phone had a warranty. You're just confirming what was known all along. Samsung requires a receipt and/or credit card statement before they'll do warranty work and those documents have to reflect the proper country of sale. The seller also has to be an authorized Samsung dealer. They have a database of serial numbers so they know which phones were shipped to which authorized resellers to be sold. You might take it up with Amazon because what you purchased on their site was clearly misrepresented. The only way to get a warrantied international SGS2 in the U.S. is to buy it from an authorized reseller in the UK and have it shipped or from Expansys USA who sends it to their offices in the UK should it need repair.
[Galaxy S II General] laxwillsch:
Wow. This post was not about the fact that the warranty is bogus. It is that you can get 130 back if you just email them. I know that the warranty is a known issue and has been for some time. The purpose of this post was to be helpful to the other members in the community that could maybe get some dough back. But thanks for pretty much calling me an idiot for posting a known fact when in actuality all I was doing was trying to help with getting some members some of their money back.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Sweet! Must try this. Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] 27s:
Wow!! Good work loki! I will be trying this when I get home.
[Motorola Photon 4G] edgemaster191:
Guess i'm gonna have to start researching how to install all this...and now i have a reason to buy an HD dock / lapdock (if we get one) :-D you guys are awesome.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
First post updated. Forgot to add the prerequisites.
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
Damn, we have to be unlocked, there's no way around that or a workaround to keep 4G ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] depperly:
I may have found the reason I needed to unlock my boot loader... It's stuff like this that has me turned on about this phone. I didn't even buy the phone until after I bought a atrix lapdock modified it and verified it would work at the Sprint store. To me this is the future of mobile computing...

One device to do to rule them all...
[Motorola Photon 4G] slyder33:
Does this alter anything other than the webtop partition?
[Motorola Photon 4G] 2JZ GZE:
Got this up and running!

Any other programs besides AWN that you suggest we remove?

---------- Post added at 10:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 AM ----------

BTW I keep getting the error that the XFCE trash service is not working and to install thunar (which I already have installed). Anyone know of a fix?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
I'm trying to get together a list of what can be removed without losing functions but am also getting ready for my trip to Austin. Hopefully I can get some time in on this at the BBQ.

The trash service issues are affecting a lot of users on both the Atrix and Photon side of things. It's being looked at by myself (Photon) and others (Atrix) and hope to find a solution soon.

Good news from Sogarth in the webtop2sd thread in the Atrix forums.
[Motorola Photon 4G] 2JZ GZE:
Thanks! How would I know what programs would work in this environment? I tried to install Opera but an error message kept coming out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybericebyte:
Cant wait to try this over the weekend
[Motorola Photon 4G] depperly:
Is there a Chrome version that will run in this environment?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
The changes are minor and reversible . Not much different than installing an app.

I've seen source for it but haven't had the time to look into it. I'll be sure to add it to my todo list but it will have to wait til after I get back from the BBQ.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mr_wrong_0:
Thanks again for helping make this work. I too would love a way to install chrome on here. Please keep us in the loop on that front.
[Motorola Photon 4G] slyder33:
I have been trying this since last night and keep running in to the same thing and am not sure why. I get as far as installing and running synaptic, however after I install everything and reboot the phone and plug it in the most I get is my phone display showing on the webtop the xfdesktop never starts so I have reverted my osh to try again. Any thought, comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated I really want to get this up and running!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] 2JZ GZE:
Make sure you comment out correct items and also spell the items you are adding correctly. I had the same issue...oh yea, also make sure you restart your phone after each correction

---------- Post added at 12:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 PM ----------

I also have an issue of my desktop disappearing and then my old webtop wallpaper showing up. This happens sporadically and wont go away till i restart the phone...any ideas?
[Motorola Photon 4G] slyder33:
Not to sound dumb, but after which corrections?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybericebyte:
Having problems need to restore only webtop back to factory
[Optimus One, P500, V General] xsam123:
Hi

I use CyanogenMMatt rom and decided to apply the transparent statusbar patch.

I tried with

this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16763244&postcount=40

and

this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16945019&postcount=60 (v6.5.7 patch)

and none of these seems to work. I can't see the transparence of statusbar or the notifications area. I only see the "transparent" effect in the menus (Meizu 8.0 theme)

I tried with the Meizu theme and a custom theme created with UOT Kitchen, with the transparence enabled.

Someone has tried other patches with successful results?

Thanks

EDIT: I solve the problem editing framework-res & SystemUI in UOT kitchen, now i have transparent statusbar :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] aloayzab88:
let me see, wich launcher are you using? from my experience adw support tranparent status bar if you disable wallpaper hack, the default launcher suppot it too, I cant make it work on launcher pro, and in Go launcher works if you check high drawing or something like that, but your home will lag like hell. btw I use the pach of the suicide miui theme, dont use the mik 6.5.7 because is not the same, I tried myself and didnt work on Matt v1.1, I hope this will help, comment your results
[Optimus One, P500, V General] xsam123:
I tried with ADW, with and without wallpaper hack. My default launcher is Go Launcher EX, I also tried with multi picture live wallpaper enabled and the HQ drawing enabled and no results. Where i can get the suicide patch?