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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grumbled23:
Guess it was my lucky day - The local walmart I didnt know they were selling them - otherwise I obviously would have went there.

My At&T contract has been up almost a year - I could have switched to any carrier (maybe that had something to do with it)

I dont know -

This phone is wonderful - now my girlfriend is using it and now she wants to get rid of her droid incredible
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Coldheat1906:
No rain on my parade. I know I could of sold it on Ebay but was just being lazy.

I was in the mood of "I want it now." :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] joeybear23:
Understood.

I'm just big on selling my previous devices on Ebay. For the last 4 years I have been able to cover my upgrade phone cost by selling my previous phone and I always get to have the latest/greatest every year.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] midnightslide:
Just picked mine up from a local Best Buy store this evening. Gotta say, I miss the extra screen real-estate that my Infuse had... however, with only having used the phone for a few hours, I can already tell that it is a much better device overall.

Funny story.... I call my local Best Buy Mobile store that is located in a local mall. They tell me they have 4-5 in-stock, and to head over there. I ask the price, and they tell me that they are selling the phone for $180. I was about 30 min away from my house at the time, so I decided to call a local Best Buy store, and see if they happened to have any in stock. I found a store that did, and headed over there on my way home.

When I got there, I told them that I was returning my Infuse (within the 30 days), and that I wanted to exchange it for the GSII. They did the exchange without any problems, however, they told me that the price of the GSII was $199.99. I told them about the BB Mobile price, and they told me that even though they were still a BB store, they couldn't honor that price or anyone else's. I was scratching my head... and I asked why. The customer service rep couldn't give me an answer other than "Store Policy. Only the stand-alone BB Mobile stores can do that".

So, I asked if I was going to have to go to my local BB Mobile and get a refund on their own price, and the customer service rep said "That is a pretty backwards way of going about it... but yeah. If you want to get the difference refunded to you, you have 30 days to go to the BB Mobile and get it.", then rolled her eyes and asked if I wanted the phone. Needless to say, I walked out of the store with it.. but I have no idea why they won't even honor their own prices from other stores...... wtf?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Vongabe14:
There is a chance that Best Buy won't match because it has to be Walmart that's selling the phone. It can't be a third party company like "letstalk". I ran into this problem on Sunday the 2nd. What i did was i printed the walmart webpage with the $164.99 price on it but i didn't include the url on the page. They ended up calling walmart but i lucked because the walmart that they called was closed due to the Nascar race that was in town. Good Luck to you guy trying this. a sgs2 for $164.99 is a hell of alot sweeter than $199.99.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
Walmart upgrade price is $148.88 got mine yesterday
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] midnightslide:
Just got off the phone with my local BB Mobile. The guy had to call his manager, and then call me back, but... They are going to honor the Wally World price of $148.88 and refund me the difference. Sweeeeeet!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kinubic:
just came back from bestbuy had them pricematch wallmarts price of 148.88 lol

got $51 back woohoo

i had to call a local wallmart to make sure they had it in stock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jaxf250:
Amazon wireless. $149.99, no sales tax & free 2 day shipping. Let's hope it is as good as my SGS... Now if Otterbox would just get their case released... ;-)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thatguyitsme:
Bought outright at Walmart $554 out the door... got on gs2 negotiated one on Craigslist 30 minutes from me for $300 with box & receipt (guy liked his atrix better, and I thank him for his choice)

Returned original to walmart and walked away happy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dmnall:
Well your state is nice only paying taxes on the contract price because I just paid for my phone because I am waiting for the phone but I had to pay the taxes on the entire $ 549.95 and minus $ 350 = 242 out the door. But still have to wait until I get my phone lol. I am completely phoneless lol.

Cheers,

Charlie
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ap3604:
California sucks :(

Paying $199 for a phone and then getting taxed $50 on top of that is an f-in joke :mad:

I strictly use Amazon Wireless or Craigslist (both are tax free) just to spite them for being greedy...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] HTC Chris:
Just went to best buy after reading your post and got my $51 too! The day I got my phone I had asked to price match and the lady called 3 walmarts that didn't have them in stock(release day Walmart had it for $164.99). But when I went back today, she didn't even call them(same lady)LOL. Glad I waited and got it price matched for $148.88! THANKS!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] djdino:
Guys, I have a brand new one from AT&T, $500. PM or email me at djdinoe@gmail.com
[Focus General] killerdvd:
I put a sd card on my phone for a couple of minutes. then I decided to take it out. and like a dumb ass lost it. now the phone is asking for the sd card or hard reset. any way I can get some important pictures out of the phone???
[Focus General] EnderPsp:
Most likely no... Did you format the phone when you had the microSD card in?
[Focus General] killerdvd:
No I didn't. But now every time I turn on the phone is asking me for a hard reset After I took it out.
[Focus General] EnderPsp:
I haven't tested this, but I think once the microSD card is added and phone restarted, the card is considered part of the OS. Probably that's why it asks for it. Problem is, you could try adding another one, but I doubt it's going to work since it's encrypted...

Without the original card, your best bet is either MS or Samsung...
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] lodxcol:
So I was attempting to do a fresh install of CyanogenMod nightly build #85 while in CWM recovery. I wiped dalvik and /cache, then decided to hit the "Fix permissions" button. Now, I'm not sure what this did, but apparently it wasn't good. After I did that I went to flash the rom and got an error

error in /sdcard/downloads/rom.zip (Status 1)

Here's where I am in a bit of a twist. I figured I'd reboot (thinking my old rom would still boot) only to find out my phone does not get past the splash screen. I can get into the bootloader, however, I had left a PG132.IMG or whatever the file name is in the root of my sd card, and now everytime I load recovery it asks me if I want to install it, and my only option after choosing yes or no is to reboot the phone, so I cannot access the other bootloader options.

What do I do? :(

Well I seem to have gotten past the sd card issue as I just removed it, lol. But I am still unclear as how to fix this problem.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Try to remove the rom.zip file and download and flash a new rom.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] oxlong27:
Yeah just pop out your sdcard boot into bootloader select recovery then pop your card back in whenever recovery comes on and flash something else
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] shoman24v:
Delete the file. You'll never get to recovery with it there.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] lodxcol:
I was not sure recovery would recognized ize my sdcard if I plugged it in after going thru the bootloader, but it did. I also had to redownload the rom. Thought I was stuck for a sec there, thanks guys.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cryogenous:
error /sdcard/....zip

solved my problem "error /sdcard/...zip"

make sure you mount cache when installing new custom ROM, hope that help,..
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] The Archangel:
Don't need the dead to rise
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] erwinsie:
Hello. searched for hours and tried but i coudl not connect my leo (with cyanamodgen 7.0.3) to my lapton (win 7 64bit) using htc sync. I know cynamodgen doesnt support htc sync, so, how can i flash stock official rom WM6.5 ? reason: want to try win 7 mango.

Thanks all...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] KrewsialNL:
Boot up the phone in tri-color ( turn on phone while pressing volume down button) screen mode and simply reinstall your stock winmo 6.5 ron. You can also extract the nbh file on the SDCard, name it leoimg.nbh and do the same thing. (boot in tri color mode)

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
HAHAHA, cynamodgen! It's cyanogenmod ;)

To answer your question, boot into bootloader and flash the stock ROM as you normally would :)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsingh2011:
After flashing CM7, I tried to return to stock by entering romracer's recovery and flashing the recovery I had made before flashing CM7. After the recovery finished with no errors, the phone boots up and gets stuck in a boot loop. I've tried this three times. Every time I have to flash a fruit cake (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1163009) to get back to stock.

Strange enough, I can make a nandroid backup of CM7 and flash to that from stock. I just can't flash back...

Something is wrong with the recovery files, any idea what it is?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake.perkinsr:
Did you wipe the cache after you did the restore?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgymnop:
Hmmm I did that several times now and I have no problem at all. I use romracer's recovery. You wipe before you install the backup right? I don't wipe after the recovery.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsingh2011:
Yup, I wiped cache, data, and dalvik cache before restoring.

Is it possible to restore the /system and /data partitions without restoring the /boot partition? Cause if so, I can just try using moto-fastboot to see if the problem occurs in the /boot partition or whether something else is the problem.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgymnop:
Did you do a data and factory reset too? I wipe and factory reset before recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Where are they held?

The reason I'm asking is when I put music onto my SDcard no matter what player I use it misses over half of my albums. Itunes to my Ipod has no such conflict. So doing a little research lead me to the meta inf? If a folder gets transferred to storage it should still contain the meta data right? How do you make that data readable to the system?(for the record mizing, uber, miui, and stock all have the same results).

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
How are you putting the music onto the sd card?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
From harddrive to folder to sdcard. So all the info pulled from the harddrive should be there? My music collection is very tight. Meaning all songs and album art are held in a single folder. Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Are there by any chance any .nomedia files in the folders?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
No .nomedia files in any of the folders.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
What formats are you using on your music?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
.m4a is the file type.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
You might've downloaded some aac files from the itunes store right? Are you sure none of them have drm? Android won't be able to read them if they do

Sent from my awesome SGS4G
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
No aac files and I've never used itunes store. All of my music comes from other free sources. It's weird. I have about 50 albums and half are recognized half are not. The ones that aren't have the correct song names come up and even the correct album name but for some reason the artists name isn't being read.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
What are you using to manage your music library anyway?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
On the computer I use Itunes(I have a Mac) on the phone either the stock player or the miui player that comes with AUDIOPHILE FTW. I've tried mizing as well. Thanks FB for looking into this.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Yeah this is a little odd. I'm sure you've tried the folder mode on mixzing? Can you give winamp a shot?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nullsoft.winamp
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Tried winamp same thing. What is going on? On a side note tried winamps shoutcast for a second. How does Van Morrison end up on alternative?!

The only thing I can think to do is redo my music folder and download it again to my phone. It's crazy the files aren't corrupt because they play.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
It might be a tagging issue. Not sure what method itunes uses to tag its files since mp3 files tend to use id3. That's why I'm glad on windows, Mediamonkey handles all the tagging. I have my folder structure really organized so that if I try to look for music from just a computer, no music player, I can find it.

/music/Album Artist/[<Album year>] Album/Track# Track title.

If you can get on parallels or bootcamp and can get mediamonkey on windows I'd give it a shot. I'll tell you how to force an update of the songs' metadata.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
My music is organized the same way. I'll give media monkey a try when I get some time. Still gonna try just redownloading my music to the sd card when I get some time as well. I'll let you know how it goes. If you have any other ideas let me know.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Nickcu13:
I have this same problem. I use Winamp to sync with my android. And i made sure using both Winamp and an independent tagging program that all my files have tags (artist, album, cover, etc.) and yet half of them still are not read on my phone. Not by Google Music app, not by Winamp, and not by Samsung Stock Player.

Could it be the file types that dont work?

The ones that DO have Artists reading all have the correct album artwork. The ones that DO NOT have artists according to my players all have albums, but about half of them do not have album artwork (the rest do). I'm not sure what's going on. I think it's an error within the Media Scanner?

(on a side note- if you include the track number in the file name of your song, it will show up as that when playing. I would recommend not putting the track number in the file name.)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Nickcu

I never figured out what's going on. Just learned to live with it. I think I might start playing around with it again and try to come up with some answers. If you figure it out let me know.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Nickcu13:
Im gonna look into it some more later, but i THINK it has something to do with the file type at this point. But don't quote me on that haha.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Just redid all my music. pulled all Itunes related crap out of the folders and it's still not recognizing about half of them. Gonna try some other stuff later. File type isn't part of it I don't think. It still recognizes and plays just shows up under unknown.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Nickcu13:
I just looked through mine and it seemed that all the files with unknown artist were in .m4a whereas the ones that recognized the artist were in .mp3

could you check and see if yours is the same way?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
looks like the same with mine. .m4a not showing up for some reason. I really don't want to have to convert all my files to fix this but I will unless someones got an easier way.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Converted one album from .m4a to .mp3 as a test and you guessed it that album is no longer unknown. So does anyone no of a free converter that will auto search and convert without having to do each of my 2000 albums? It can be for windows or mac. A big thanks to Nickcu for pointing to the problem. I can't believe I didn't catch that.

Scratch that. Took Fbis advice and DL mediamonkey. Converting right now. Looks like it's gonna take a little while. But the options are great. Decided to convert to 172 vbr mp3. Hey FB how do you force the update of metadata on mediamonkey? Once this whole procesws is done and a transfer my music to the phone and everything works I'll finally mark this as solved.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
If mediamonkey detected the tags you can hit ctrl + s to force the metadata to get written to the file. You can also try this with the m4a files since converting from aac to mp3 is a lossy to lossy conversion so your music's quality will degrade. If it's not ctrl + s just select a bunch of files (ctrl + a), right click and then select save metadata to tags. It'll be something like that. I'll get back to you on this later since I'm on my way out.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
FB

I am converting a small portion of my music as a test. 7.5gigs looks like it's gonna take 10 hours. So I'll get back to you later tonight. A still have the original aac backed up to the hard drive. Thanks for the heads up on mediamonkey it's pretty sweet.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Yeah you should test it on a smaller amount of music first, see how it goes.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Using mediamonkey. Converted all files to mp3. Auto tagged all albums with web. Reloaded to sd card. Everything is there. As far as the quality goes I can't tell the difference with headphones. Problem Solved.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
:). Awesome.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Nickcu13:
I wouldn't consider the problem solved. What's wrong with the .m4a files that the tagging doesnt work?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
That's a good question that someone smarter than I can try to answer. For me the problem is solved. If there's an easier way I'd like to know as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Nickcu13:
For anybody else having this issue and not wanting to have to convert all your songs, i found an easy way to do it.

First, if you use Google Music you could always just use the streaming through that as your music player. It converts the files to mp3 on upload and reads all the tags.

If you don't have unlimited data or don't have good reception in terms of using Google Music all the time, you can simply upload your library to it, and then re-download your library. It converts all the files into mp3 and the tags will be read without a problem on your Android device.

It's easier than going through and finding all your m4a files and converting them in some desktop program.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
How long did it take you to up and then redownload per gig? Sounds cool I just don't use google music. I've had an account since it came out but haven't done much with it. Might look into it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Well if you're anything like me with a 20 gigabyte music collection google music wouldn't be a viable option and it's much easier to do it from a computer where it would take a small fraction of the time.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Nickcu13:
I have 13 gb of music. Took about 2 hours total to upload and re-download. But it also all depends on your internet connection.

The problem with doing it on your computer, however, is that if you have your music organized in folders you have to go into each folder and select the files one by one. Most converters do not allow you mass import an entire folder because they see that as it's own, unsupported filetype.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Mediamonkey is perfect for that kind of job. If you have it all in one folder (ex: C:\music) you're good to go. It'll find all the files and you can can even integrate album art jpgs into id3 tags before you sync to your phone. You should really look into it if you have that much music. I haven't really found a good alternative since starting to use it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Nick

That's way faster then I expected. Good find. In media monkey you can batch convert which is what I did to only 7gigs out of 80gigs of music. Those 7gigs took 8 hours to convert on my comptuter. Damn googles servers are amazing. Looks it your way is the better way. So now we have to solutions for the problem. Thanks again for the find.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
8 hours is still better than 12. If you're uploading as fast as nick did:

(80 gigabytes) / ((13 gigabytes) / (2 hours)) = 12.31 hours
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
FB

It took 8 hours for just 7gigs. Could be my computer that's been wanting to kill itself for to years now! Nicks way seems faster if you have a good internet connection.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LowFatBlood:
Hello XDA Developers,

I have an HTC thunderbolt, I'm running Cm7.1, the newest release that came out yesterday. My issue is that wifi or USB tethering do not work. Whether I connect usb tethering and enable the feature from the phone, or enable wifi tethering and connect through my laptop, the network connects, but then says no internet access and/or limited or no connectivity. My laptop connects to wifi internet fine.

I've had this problem for every iteration of CM7 for thunderbolt since June. Before moving to CM7, i remember trying tethering once or twice and it did not work. I've just decided now to try and get tethering working.

I've tried using the wi-fi tether app from code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list as well as barnacle wifi tether, both have the same problem.

My main questions would be:

1. Is there any reason I have overlooked as to why tethering does not work on my phone? Is there some new verizon block to tethering for root users? Are there any settings I could try to get this working?

2. Are there any known issues with CM7 and thunderbolt tethering?

3. It seems weird if it was a hardware issue since my laptop does actually connect to the phone, it just has no network connectivity.

Thanks!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keith.mcintyre26:
I had a similar issue and fixed it by downloading the open garden wifi tethering app https://market.android.com/details?id=og.android.tether and changing the network to open on that app as well as the built in cm7 app. Then enable both apps and it should connect. Did for me.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolute_Zero:
Newest release came out about 20 minutes prior to your post :p CM7.1.1...check the rootz thread.

I've seen reports of this before. If memory recalls correctly, the devices weren't acquiring an IP correctly. Once you have it tethered, on the laptop/device try releasing and renewing your IP or disabling/enabling the adapter.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giant22000:
You are not the only person having this problem. I'm having this problem too and have not found a fix for it yet. I've found a pattern though, any ROM that I've loaded that was a build or based off of CM7, had the tethering problem. And as stated above, the problem about not acquiring and ip correctly is exactly what's happening.

Hopefully a dev or someone else can come along help resolve this problem. Apparently this problem is not very widespread as it seems that very few peeple have this problem.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LowFatBlood:
Thank you everyone for your help.

keith.mcintyre26, I tried your suggestion of open garden wifi app, and it worked perfectly, just installed it and it worked. CM7 wifi tether still does not work though.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giant22000:
Glad to see you found a working solution. This did not work for me... Back to foyo or non CM7 based GB AOSP's...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hangtenboy:
I tried the app as well and It didn't work :( I am in a tricky area when it comes to data coverage though so I can't help but think that might be it? Unrelated: Sometimes I lose data coverage altogether (drops out, comes back, drops out, etc) when I'm in 4G coverage areas. Maybe the two are related,