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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jboxer:
If you know how to do board level chip removal without applying too much heat and then you have the equipment to read the memory the answer is a conservative yes. Otherwise for the normal person, the answer is no. The data is gone.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
I have yet to see a hard bricked nexus s. Pull the battery and put it back in. Hold power....do you feel the vibration like it does when you first turn it on? If so you are not seeing anything on the screen because you have SAMOLED drivers when you have an slcd. If you are at this point, you should be able to again pull the battery, put it back in and boot into the bootloader by pressing and holding volume up and power. You should now have access to fastboot and can flash the individual partitions with the correct 9023 software.

If you can't get fastboot working the next option would be to try to restore via Odin by putting your phone in download mode. Lastly you could send in your phone for jtag recovery. Unfortunately there will probably be no way to recovery data off the SD unless option 1 works.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkyblue04:
I tried everything. It was dead. No download mode at all. No active USB and a USB JIG did not put the phone in download mode. (Some suggested the screen won't work due to SAMOLED vs SLCD, but that was not the case either!)

Lesson learnt! I returned the phone and it was EOA'd and got a new one.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jboxer:
There might not be bricked ones but there are unusable ones. I was trying to help a guy who's Nexus S got borked by the 2.3.6 OTA. The bootloader won't unlock and Odin won't flash any files due to the bootloader being locked. Download mode is a screen that says to unlock the bootloader. If he had unlocked the bootloader before this happened it would have been an easy fix. But because the bootloader cannot be unlocked now, although the phone is not a technical brick, it is effectively one.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
Download mode should just be a blank screen. Odin is samsungs factory tool to recover phones to a stock setting. It could care less about the bootloader state. Since you can get to the bootloader you need to flash the rom through fastboot. That would recover the phone you described.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Rocket42:
I did the update just now and thought everything went well. This is my first time. Someone else put infused 2.1.0 on phone and everything that goes along with that. I followed the directions in beginning of post to manually do the update. Now all my root apps are telling me i'm not rooted. I rebooted, took battery out and back in. I have read entire Infused post and no one has had this issue? Before i started i went into ROM manager and made a back up first.

Not sure what to do now??

i APPOLOGIZE if i posted this originally in wrong place.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Xev_10177:
First all, are you sure you're running the Infused.v2.2.3?? Beacuse if you are, then you're rooted.

If not, then you can simply root your phone again.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Rocket42:
Yes, under setting>about phone i was running 2.1.0 and now says the update worked and i am running 2.2.3 infused. I was rooted before update now all my root apps are being denied by SU. SU was in app drarer before update and all was well. SU still in app drawrer but now not working. I installed Root Checker from mkt and it does see SU 3.0 on phone but says i never got rooted or it was done wrong. I can get a log from that app if you will be able to make heads or tails of it. I tried to install busybox and it just fails causes it says i'm not rooted. so i'm confused...i uninstalled updates to SU, that didn't work...i have looked at all the SU settings and as far as i can tell i have it set right...

as far as rooting again?? I didn't do it the first time...someone did it for me..can someone give me a link for the best way to do that...and if i have to do that..can i just do it on top of what i have now and not lose anything? I read that rooting an infuse running GB is not or close to not possible? am i wrong? I hope so.
[General Questions and Answers] six_and_out:
So, this is my millionth time with this issue. basically the problem seems to be that my headphone jack thinks that my headphones are still plugged in. this leads to- no audio during calls without my headphones, no music without my headphones. ive had this problem with my last epic. i got sprint to replace that one because of the issue. now that ts back again on my new epic im concerned its no longer hardware failure and something wrong that im doing. possible problems could be- the headphones i use(they went through the wash once) ,mis-matching baseband/modem/kernel/rom... or perhaps too much wiping and flashing.

I am rooted with cwm3.1.0.1 and i recently applied the eh17.zip update but im still on ec05 baseband. ive been constantly switching roms between stockeh17, redbeast(ec05?) urban vendetta and regen and some starsky rom on eh17, desperately looking for one that actually works.

any advice or insight would be excellent. thanks guys.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidFreek:
Maybe your headphones are messing with your device. So try a different pair
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jcnogo:
Hello,

I would like to first start out by stating that I am new here and have been reading and researching about a lot of different phones for my verizon upgrade.

I have narrowed it down pretty much to the Droid Bionic and the X2. However I currently do not have 4g access in my area so its not hugely important to me to have 4g. The price difference between the x2 and bionic is $100 more so its a bit of a jump. Also I currently have an LG Vortex so I know that almost any phone is an upgrade.

So I want to know if it is worth the extra $100 over the x2 if 4g is not needed.

I know it has 1gb ram vs 512 on the x2 or if maybe there is a more recommended phone idea (I know this is the bionic forum) I really like the 4.3 in the screen size and would not really want to go below 4" is screen size. I tend to be a technology power user and will be taking advantage of as many features as possible and maybe some custom themes/roms.

Yes I know the bootloader is locked but I feel that it will be unlocked soon I see the drive in the community for that so if not by Motorola it will be by someone.

Thanks I appreciate the input... If you recommend another phone please post why vs the x2 and bionic.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jesziicuh:
Do you gave a radioshack around your area?

I got my bionic for 199 jus a little over a week ago

Not sure if they are still having the sale but worth a check
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Killz86:
This is why i went with the bionic.

I had the Droid X2 for 3 months, it was a ok phone nothing to show off, the Loud-speaker was somewhat low not very clear,The cpu/gpu was not the greatest or on par want i wanted it to be or hoped it would be,The screen was pretty good,the biggest problem's i had with the droid x2 was radom reboots/boot loops on stock, and the music poping sound from my music from the speaker of the phone, and this phone was a replacement for the Samsung Fascinate.

now to the Bionic

I have had this phone for about a week now

Its very fast, The Cpu/Gpu are very fast on stock i am not even rooted running all stock have a ton of apps on the phone and it runs very fast, and the screen is very nice looking, sound is very nice sounding, speaker sound is very good, no poping or anything of that, the 3g works very nice very fast, loads web pages very fast. the 1gb of ram helps alot with the o.s. the front camera is very nice and takes nice picture's and the 8mp camera works very well, and the 1080p recording works very very very well, i recorded my friend for 10 minutes messing around and it was very clear and the sounded very clear and nice.

When you get 4g the phone will scream, but it will eat the battery alive,

But i would if you have 3g on or 4g get the extended battery. i did get the extended battery and its alot longer lasting but alittle bigger, so if you get the extended battery get the case made for the extended battery it will not fit a nomal case. i already tried.

but i would chose the bionic because overall its a great builit phone, and verizon/moto already has a patch coming out in nov to fix them, and there is a great dev team working on roms/themes for this phone, so its only going to get better for this phone

if you are from the TOLEDO AREA please pm me and i can get you in contact with a guy who will help you out. he is a manager from a toledo store
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jcnogo:
I do have a radioshack but im on upgrade pricing and i've checked the website and a few resellers the best i have found is $249 but i would be getting a car charger and screen protectors at no additional charge.

I will double check radioshack but they never seem to be cheaper here.

PS. Unfortunately I am not in the Toledo area. Thanks for the offer though.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Killz86:
amazon online has a good price, or you can call verizon customer service and explain to them and most of the time they will be more then happy to help you. if you look at my thread below, you will see verizon customer service does help and they go out of there way for the customer. so you should start there if you want to try to get a discount if thats what your aiming for.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] irsmurf:
If you hold on to your phones for more than 18 months, I recommend choosing the Bionic. With a 1GHz dual core processor, 1GB RAM, decent graphical hardware and high resolution screen, it's going to have much greater longevity than a phone lacking any one of those features.

Dual core isn't a big benefit right now, but as soon as Android and third party programs more widely support multi-core processing, it will become very important. And 512 MB of RAM is barely sufficient for todays' high-end phones, much less for the operating environment a year or two from now.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mngdew:
Even with upgrade, you can still get Radio Shack's $199 deal. But the tax, $70 in Los Angeles, kills the deal. The best deal is still with Costco. They are out of the accessories, but they give you a mail-in rebate, instead.

If you really need a phone, get it Bionic. If you can hold off a few more weeks, you'll have more phones to choose from and find better deals on Bionic.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jcnogo:
Typically I do hold onto my phones for that long at least usually more like the 2 years between upgrades.

As for amazon the price is 249.99.

Radio shacks website says 299.99. with $100 mail in rebate (making it the 199) if you trade in your old phone but i can't be a smart phone. Also I am on a family plan and my mom already did the trade up to smart phone with $100 rebate so i have no line i can cheat that with... One more thing I currently have unlimited data and do not wish to lose that.

I'm not as concerned with the price as I am with making sure it is worth the extra cost.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Killz86:
if your going to pay close to $300 your better off just calling verizon customer service and ordering from them, and getting the extended battery while your getting the phone. but thats just me, it worth the price. its a great phone with alot of power and alot in its furture. but i will stop opening my big mouth lol
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jcnogo:
LOL I would rather not pay $300 or close to it but as far as its going i am not finding anything cheaper. although i did hear costco what is the price there?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Killz86:
i looked it up online on there website and its says $279.99
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jcnogo:
Ok so it seems I'm at that sub $300 price and stuck there... I might call and see what the price would be with extended battery. like you suggested
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eakeller:
I had the X2 for almost a month, and am much happier with the Bionic. The original X was an awesome phone, the X2 was slightly better, and the Bionic is in a different league. I don't have 4G coverage either, but the 3G performance is more than adequate.

Good luck!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SirReal63:
With my VZ upgrade and Amazon, the phone comes in at 220 bucks and I can keep my existing unlimited data usage. I too am about to take this plunge, I have found no solid reason to not get the Bionic, the dual core is an advantage in the future.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] docabe:
Check with Costco

Check with Costco. The are selling it for 199 with a car dock and several other extras. This deal is in store and not online.

By the way, I came from the Thunderbolt and the Droid 3, and this phone is much better than both for most of the reasons stated above. It took several tries with some defective units, but I am content now.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jcnogo:
Hmm I would check with costco but I would need a membership or someone with one to buy me a gift card in order to make purchases from there.

Also if you buy from costco and lets say the phone is defective would i have to take it back to costco or could i go to a verizon store to get a replacement? being that the nearest costco is 45miles away
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BFirebird101:
This is a terrific phone for many reasons. One, if you're into the whole "rooting" thing, and if you're not, you need to jump on the bandwagon!, the ROMS already being pushed out for this thing are amazing, which means in the future, this could very well be the phone that has numerous ROMS, etc, like the original Droid. It's very fast, I have never had any problems with mine. The problems that I have read about will be addressed with an OTA update, however, if you would not like to root.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jesziicuh:
U can get a 6o day free membership easy.just check online

Also try bestbuy and wirefly.com and letstalk.com both offer free shipping overnight not positive though
[Motorola Droid Bionic] darkkterror:
Don't go by radioshack.com pricing. Online pricing is different than in store pricing. The in store price on the Droid Bionic is currently $199.99 with no mail in rebate.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] KoolAidJunkie:
I got my Bionic @ Verizon for 149.99 (after Phone-Trade-In)

They advertise it at $299, but if you stand there and take to much of the Sale Reps time, he will bring the price down just to get you out the door. Then after he agrees to the $249, then ask about the $100 Phone-Trade-In. (He he says its not available anymore, then Verizon.com Lets you Trade in all kinds of phone https://www.trade-in.vzw.com/home.aspx - that site will tell you the price they will give you for different phones, and you can even trade in multiple phones to rack up some extra cash)

So far, I'm not impressed with the Bionic. And I'm EXTREMELY Annoyed at the fact that it doesn't allow apps to be Moved to the MicroSD Card. If give you the option to "Move to Media Area" but thats the 8GB of Internal Memory. The phone claims to have 16GB of Internal Memory, but it only allows you to access 8GB for music/photos/etc.

I paid $99 for a 32GB MicroSD card, which is just sitting in the phone not being used, because the Bionic Doesn't let ANY APPLICATION store cache/files to it. Evernote, which has always used the MicroSD and Has a option in the Settings to use the MicroSD, will not save to it. Instead it uses the Internal Memory. Games that download Extra Files, stores them to the Internal Memory instead of the MicroSD. I have two Games which require an additional download of roughly 300MB each, thats nearly a Gig of Space already gone from the Internal Memory. Then there are my Google Docs saved for offline access, E-Books saved for offline reading, and Many other things eating away at the small 8GB of memory. I Think this is do to the Bionic having the Phones Internal Memory Partitioned incorrectly, which is causing Application to think that the 8GB of Internal Memory is actually a SD Card. But oddly the Bionics Built In Camera application WILL save to my 32GB MicroSD. But its the only one out of the 14 Applications I've installed. Verizon Claims this is an error on the App Developer, and since Apps are 3rd Party, they provide no support.

There are other bugs; but I believe there is a update coming in Nov (I think someone mentioned it)

The Bionic Comes with a lot of Bloatware that can't be uninstalled unless you root the phone.

The Camera is kinda Crappy. Expected way better pictures from a 8MP camera. Its shoots HD Video, but they are small resolution videos.

Its quick, and HD games run smooth.

I've never had any other DRIOD, but I've had many ANDROID phones, and the Bionic is certainly not one of the better Android Phones. But thats expected from Motorola, since they have to customize everything, which sometimes causes them to fall short on functionality. I haven't owned a Moto-Phone since the Razor (which was a big fail)

If you get it, and Don't like it, you have 14 days to change - but know they will charge you a 35$ restocking fee.

Good luck in your choice
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jcnogo:
I went into radioshack today and looked at the phone found out that the bionic is $199 so its a little more reasonable in price. I am more than likely going to go in and purchase the phone on friday (payday) I will get the bionic and hope that I don't have bad luck with the phone like i have seen some people have.

I appreciate everyones advice and help with where to buy on the price it allows me to save a few bucks it helps.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eagle848:
check over at amazon seen ads for $149 drop from $179 and $50 amazon gift card
[Motorola Droid Bionic] uTriple:
Thing is worth it for $300 lol

easily all I'm saying
[Motorola Droid 3] e-drian:
I tried to recover my phone with Pete's Motorola Tools. I did all the process and says was succesful but after the las reboot now my phone keeps rebooting on the red eye and do nothing. What can I do? Should I had bricked my phone?
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
Let is sit for at least 5 minutes then if it continues it is bricked. There is a topic on here with sbf files to restore your phone. DO NOT LET YOUR BATTERY DRAIN, IT WILL MAKE THE ISSUE ALOT WORSE.
[Motorola Droid 3] bgdwiepp:
If you do accidentally let it drain all the way, refer to THIS thread
[Motorola Droid 3] e-drian:
May thanks! I just recovered with another solution. God I was sweating a lot! But finally get my phone back to normal
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dancom96:
I have tried searching but I can't find anything on the 3G speeds for the optimus one, other than the manufacturer thing, which is 7.2MB/s

I'm getting ~1200KBPS (1.2mb/s) with a 900 ping to a server right beside me, is this normal? I have the 3G tweak installed
[Optimus One, P500, V General] atulalvenkar:
Yeah it's normal.I get anywhere from 300kbps to 3mbps depending on location and no of people connected.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dancom96:
Do you have any tweaks?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] terratrix:
Try removing 3g tweak. I normally get 2.5 to 3.5mbps, with the server about 50m away.
[Fascinate General] BrettKoster:
I've seen a lot of threads about Odin and recently rooted my friend's Droid Charge. I had flawless results and another friend who wants his Samsung Fascinate rooted and a custom ROM installed.

I greatly enjoyed using the Odin software and I am wondering if I follow the instructions on this thread (switching out for a Fascinate compatible Odin rom of course) I will get the same result on the Fascinate as I did on the Charge?

Otherwise if that one won't work, I am specifically interested in a root using Odin thread for the Fascinate (I did search but haven't had much luck with it.). Thought I would ask the experts :)
[Fascinate General] droidstyle:
yes pretty much works the same... fyi for future reference please post your questions in the q&a section. You will get more responses there.;)
[Fascinate General] BrettKoster:
Thanks :) I had not thought about the Q&A forum, I will keep that in mind for next time!
[Fascinate General] droidstyle:
No problem... here is a good thread for rooting your phone!

http://www.galaxyforums.net/forum/fascinate-rs-guides/1967-how-root-froyo-gingerbread-your-fascinate.html
[HTC Sensation] hdjoe:
Does anyone have the stock camera apk? I prefer using cm7 but I love the stock camera. The ones that come with non-sense roms are for the most part, unimpressive. I like the full screen hi Res images from stock. Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] fr0zenblood75:
It won't work sorry bro
[HTC Sensation] Oomike:
What about miui cam? Anyone know how that is? I think its in someone's cm7 hybrid build.
[HTC Sensation] CEBZ:
Why wont it work? I got the sense 3.5 insertcoin camera apk on my computer and using miui and would like to use the sense cam...
[HTC Sensation] aNard:
It won't work, like all other widgets and htc software won't work over CM7. That software requires the HTC Sense Framework and will not work without it on your phone. You will get only a sequence of ForceClose from running the apk.

You're are free to try anyway, just take the camera.apk from any sense rom ;)
[HTC Sensation] hdjoe:
Bummer, well. "The Beast " rom seems to be the best of both worlds... Senseless rom with sense apps, like the nice camera!
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
I've been experimenting with camera apps. Judging by the fact that you like the sense camera like me, try camera zoom FX, closest i've come to sense cam. But no touch to focus. Comes with some other nice features. Closest i've come to instant capture.

Edit- beast rom is melvins?
[HTC Sensation] MusicMan374:
Ifyou just wait the camera issues with cm7 will be resolved. Only a few things don't work.

Sent from my Sensation
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
It's the UI I hate. The borders and stuffs. I like a plain UI but with classy looking menu and options and such. The sense cam and xperia arc cam apps are 2 examples. If anyone has any replacement or similar app please please let me know. Would appreciate it very much
[HTC Sensation] aNard:
My concerns are not about something that doesn't work. Simply the camera app of the CM7 is way way behind in comparison with the sense one in all their aspects. UI, functionality, effects, settings... If you buyed your sensation also for it 8mpx camera you can't be satisfied with that app or, at least, i'm not. It's the main reason that keeps me from flashing these roms. Actually, Friend Stream is another big one ;)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] charlier1977:
Really I am looking for to things. I would like to record video using the front facing camera and also looking for a good video chat program that will use the same camera.

Thank you all in advance
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
for chat i only use google talk. get talk 1.3 installer from the market or find the apk on xda and push it to /system/app and rename the stock talk apk to talk.apk.bak or something
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
+1 for gtalk - install a Gingerbread ROM and use the Talk 1.3 Installer app from Market.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] brorex:
I use tango have since i had the iphone has always worked fairly good for chatting from different phone I think they just came out with a pc application also I havent tried gtalk
[Samsung Infuse 4G] theROMinator:
Qik video.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.qik.android&hl=en
[Samsung Infuse 4G] XGX5309:
Skype w/video chat works fine on Gingerbread ROM's. As does GTalk with the "talk 1.3 installer" from the market, Kik, Tango, and you can record video from the FFC with the stock Samsung camera app or the stock CM7 camera app.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] holeshot77:
I use Skype. Works good. So does yahoo.

Sent from my Infused Nuclear device!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Emil9727:
Don't want to start a new thread over this and it's kinda related. Which app lets you video chat over 3g?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] fafik90:
Does anyone know where to get some decent quality and decent price screen protectors? The ones at AT&T and Best Buy are wayyyy overpriced.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] entropism:
I never liked screen protectors, but Naked Shield on ebay is about $2 per, and work very well.