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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tim.Smith:
This right here proves you're an idiot. You hate the OS and want to switch but will only switch if the OS you're considering switching too can be as good as your current OS. See how stupid that sounds? You come across as one of those miserable people that can have a million positives but one minor negative is the end of the world for you. You will never be happy with an OS.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcoholic:
It makes perfect sense if you read the complete post. I said multiple times that wp as an OS is superior but overall android seems better because of customization and 3rd party apps, but i'll have to see what they do with ice cream sandwich. I wouldn't switch to gingerbread.

What part of that are you having problem comprehending?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake2046:
from the get-go you already knew android is more customizable and more apps...yet you still purchased WP?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
I will be switching to Iphone 5 once my zunepass subscribtion ends.. I am done with this gay phone. Has no decent apps or games in MP, but looks good.. I want a smart'phone not a blonde'phone.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcoholic:
How would i know the quality of the apps would suck? And it would take months to come out with decent apps?

I got the wp when it first came out. Went straight from windows mobile touch pro 2
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake2046:
so you think all apps on other platforms didn't take months and came out perfect when launch...please.

You should know better you are an early adopter to a brand new platform and it will take yrs to refine the OS...just like android and iphone...who took even much longer to reach the current stage.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcoholic:
Yeah i definitely overestimated the brand name of Microsoft.

The only reason android and apple took so long was because times were different back then. It was a new idea and a new way of things. Now, Microsoft has had time to learn from them and should have played things differently. Mango is how the phone should have been released.

I mean, even now, most apps that come out are released for app store and market. Take any bank, or any commercial app. It's just those 2 platforms. Hell, even my local bar has an android/ios app.

There is no awareness of windows phone. It's a shame because it's such a great operating system and it has the potential to be number one.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
Its been almost a year since WP7 came out. This lack of awareness was not their in case of ios and Android phones.. After an year of iPhone we HD basically all big names apps in the market ... Android was slow but at least people were aware of that os... After 1 yr noone knows what WP is.

This debate that WP is new is old now... WP is not new anymore.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake2046:
WP got more competitions at launch than iphone & android. At launch who was iphone competitor? At launch who was Android competitor beside Iphone. With that said...I agreed MS needs to upper WP7 awareness....so far it's almost non-existent.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PG2G:
Haha, didn't take a year for iOS to have an app store? :P
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strike_Eagle:
Because of one apps and you blamed the whole OS.

Let's me ask you a question.

Are there any mobile OS that have better built-in Social Network support like Windows Phone? And how many Facebook users out there?

And return to the question: You know WP7 is a locked OS and you still bought it, and now you scream out loud and say it is stupid because it can't install 3rd Apps? So, look like you aren't a smart buyer.

if you want 3rd Apps so bad, why don't you register for the Developers Account, and get it unlocked so you can install custom .xap?

after i read this sentence, you are no more than a stupid guy to me.

So, let's me ask you a question, when you send a messege to a group, everyone in the group will receive the same messege. but do they know how many people (which one, what are their numbers...) that you send that messege? And Why do they have to send it back to you and x people in your group?

For an example, you have a group of 15 best friends and you decide to throw a party tonight. You texted the whole group and invite them to the party, some will say "yes", some will say "no", so, why the hell the guy said "yes" even care about the guys said "no"? And is it necessary for him to know about it?

If you want group communicate, i would suggest to visit them instead, or you can do group Skype or simple just create a group chat on PC. Why? Because everytime you send one messege to a group of x people, you have send x messege totally and believe me, if you don't use unlimited plan and you have a long season of group chat on your phone, you will not happy with your phone bill by the end of the month.

If what you said come true, there isn't necessary to have a group chat feature in Skype, Yahoo or Windows Live Messenger, which can be done for free and 100x better on PC.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcoholic:
By 3rd party apps I meant apps from the marketplace
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strike_Eagle:
so you mean you can't access Marketplace or what?

Or you don't understand the "3rd Party Apps"?

3rd Apps is the apps that developed by individual or company that is not associated with the OEM, like you can develop almost and .cab by your old Windows Mobile 6.5, and you can do the samething with Dev Unlocked Windows Phone 7.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedfreak228:
i just switched from android to wp7. i also had iso before android. android is a cluster f**k. have fun with all the buggy force closes
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
It's fine to blame the OS. The Developers didn't make the OS have only 1/3rd the API support it needed to support a ton of apps on release.

Microsoft gave them the middle finger and they took it at face value. That's why they're prioritizing WP7 at such a low place right now.

Because iOS/Android sales more phones have more users. It's more advantageous for them to work on Honeycomb/ICS/iOS5 app updates then work on WP7 ports.

People on this forum can yell and scream "we need AppX" all day and all night, but when you get thousands of downloads in the Andorid/iOS App Markets per day and dozens per day in WP7 the choice is clear which one goes on the backburner.

Also, all decent Android phones from Samsung and HTC come with Social Integration. TW4 phones come with Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn integration. Samsung did People Hub before Microsoft decided what to call it. That's nothing to rave about. It's actually kind of embarassing that they tried to market that as some sort of new and innovative feature. We've already gone over this before. Same for groups.

WP7 did do some innovative things with the way it allows you to pin sublets of Apps to the home screen, but a lot of the marketed built-in functionality already existed for years. The main selling point of the OS is the user experience, not the features.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derausgewanderte:
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never mind .....
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alluriharikishan:
Guys my galaxy3 is suffering with a severe prob...

All the soft touch buttons and bottom part of the touch screen are not working... I desperately need help.... I couldnt open applications screen nor settings through menu.... need Help...

Thnkx.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hadi_xman:
Did you try flash you cel..?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4r5h:
^Most likely it seems that your touchscreen has been damaged. If your cell is still under warranty, then just go to your nearest Samsung Service Center and you can get it replaced for free. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herpez:
Hi. I have bought a new SD card and i want to put it on my android.

I havde android 2.2+ so i have apps installed on SD card (not using app2sd, usign default android way).

I can make a backup of my SD card but not the apps there. I tried to find the partition where the apps should be (maybe a ext2 partition?) but i cant find it.

So, the question is, how can i replicate all my old SD card to the new SD card?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droyd666:
If there is no ext2 partition then by default they should be in the .android secure folder but i dont think that simply copying the folder to the new sd will solve the problem because after you send an app to the sd, some of the data from the app still remains on the phone. Try copying the folder anyway and let me know if it works.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh00T:
Hey all,

unfortunately I can't post in the dev section yet, so I have to ask here...

I currently have an unrooted TF101 (B50) from Germany (DE). I originally used this one-click-solution to root my device (FW: DE 3.1, no CWM installed). Everything worked fine.

Later ASUS released the 3.2 update and I wanted to unroot my device and update it. So I used the unroot script and it seemed like everything worked fine. I did not revert to stock recovery when I was asked, due to the fact I had no CWM installed before.

After my device was unrooted I put the update on SD and was wondering why my TF didnt recognize it. Long story, short: In the settings I saw that my device now has the WW edition of the firmware. That's why it could not detect the DE update. So I thought, hm maybe the WW is working and indeed it was at least saying "Update available" when I inserted the SD. But after the reboot I just got an exclamation mark after 10 seconds.

I already tried many things, llike rerooting & unrooting with stock recovery to DE. I also tried other root / unroot / recover methods, nothing helped. I'm still stuck on WW 3.1 now. Google also didnt find any solution for DE.

The only thing I found, which might help me, is this thread: http://tabletroms.com/forums/transf...stock-3-2-recovery-roms-unbricking-tools.html

But it's only WW / US, no DE ...

Maybe someone here has an idea how I can bring back my normal stock DE firmware on my tab?

Thanks in advance

Wh00T
[HTC EVO 3D] Brutus2TheMax:
Alright, I was running Olympus XE with Bcblend 003 on hboot 1.30 and I tried unrooting using this manual.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1194053&highlight=return+to+stock

Everything updates but system. System comes up fail in red. Everything goes through and updates after that and it says image not installed press power to reboot. I reboot and now I'm stuck on HTC screen. What do I have to flash?
[HTC EVO 3D] Brutus2TheMax:
Alright scratch that. I reloaded TWRP through bootloader and flashed a stock rooted sprint rom. I have dust underneath my screen. A large amount at the top. I have to take it in to get a new one so whats the best way to unroot and return to stock?! I'm having trouble with all the moethods...
[Click General] PavleSRB:
I had some problems with rooting and flashing ClockworkMod, and when I solved it, sunitknandi asked me if I could post info which some people may find it useful, so here it is.

Next post solved my problem. I had 1.6 stock ROM with original recovery, and I just could’t install ClockworkMod recovery via ROM Manager. For rooting I used Universal Androot application (Download link in attachment below).

Thanks again, sunitknandi.
[Click General] sunitknandi:
Thanks bro. :D

Universal Androot users, always remember to re-root and mount ur /system as rw before flashing recovery from ROM Manager if u r using stock ROM. Thats what u need to do in short.

Hope this helps many people, as I know there are guys around who do not like to use a PC to root their Tattoo.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lalahai:
Anyone else having this issue? I can log in fine on my desktop but it keeps telling me i got the wrong username or password on my g2x :(
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Steeltippin:
Yelp I finally gave up and said eff it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] robbieas:
Same issue here. Tried everything I know of, never can get logged in. Sucks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] katanapr:
I recently bought a HTC Inspire 4G and has the Android Version 2.3.3. I wonder if I can root my phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Pirateghost:
i sure wish there was a way to SEARCH and find this information here......

or some way to STICKY something to the top of the forum section that would indicate you should read it and that it contains info......

i dont get it
[HTC Inspire 4G] cwhitney24:
Only in a perfect world would such tools exist. If someone could only create a SEARCH button and this Sticky you speak of...

Why o why???

I got your 10 char right here
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nick281051:
That's a great idea I wonder why no one invented it yet

Oh wait they did

/facepalm
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gizmoe:
I'm not sure a thread should have been started for this question, but your answer is yes. Ace hack kit. Search for it and follow the effen manual. I'm not being short, its really called the "effen manual". :-)
[HTC Inspire 4G] biglittlegato:
I think I just woke the neighbors. :-)

Sent from my Inspire 4G using the power of the dark side
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xTee:
CyanogenMod 7.1 stable version for S2 launched. Every1 tested?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
Try looking/asking in the qa thread, cm7 works fine.

Fm radio and tv out don't work, other issues.

Do some reading.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichidakira:
Does anyone have a copy of the stock firmware from the Xperia Pro MK16a or MK16i.

I messed up the phone and want to re-flash the stock firmware back into my phone.

I dont know what else to do and I am desperate....:confused:

If you have it in ftf it would be great. Please put it up on mediafire to share.

THANKS!!!:)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvaroag:
First, it should be usefull to know what you did to brick your phone.

Thinking quickly, here are your options:

1. If you damaged the system partition(mtd0), you may restore it with fastboot having a stock one. Also, it may be possible to restore it with from ClockWorkMod recovery(started via fastboot), with an update created from the stock firmware.

2. If you accidentally damaged the kernel, that would be a bit more difficult. Currently, there's no custom kernle for MK16, so you would have to wait until there's one, or recompile the stock kernel from source(SE makes sources available).

If it's the first, I may be able to help you providing my system partition. It's not the stock one, because the first thing I did when I got to root my phone was start Titanium Backup and begin to delete some system applications I considered useless. But I think you could find my system partition useful. Just explain a little more what you did.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichidakira:
Thanks for trying to help.

Basically I flashed another firmware for it and it didnt go as expected.:p

I cant restore it because now my phone is recognize as another phone so i cant download the stock firmware for my phone via PC Companion.

Mine is a MK16a with all the bloatware from fido.

I dont really care about rooting it or not.

I just wanted to get raid of some of the stock apps so it doesnt take up so much internal memory.

I think what I really need is the stock MK16i firmware and flash it to my phone or if someone got the stock MK16a firmware I can flash it again to get it running again.

If you anyone have any other suggestions please let me know.

Thanks
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupu666ro:
i also need a mk16i firmware packed as ftf, can someone help?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcummings100:
TeamXperia has MK16's now, so a stock firmware should be coming pretty fast from them.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvaroag:
I think ftf is for kernel & loader, not for system partition....

ichidakira, I managed to make a dump of my system partition, I think that will fix your phone. Note that it's not the original system partition, as I've deleted some of the default apps and changed the bootanimation.

To restore it in your device, follow this steps:

WARNING: This will clear all your data, including (but not only limited to) contacts, sms, applications, configurations, etc.

1. Download & extract this file: http://soporte.opensysperu.com/downloads/system.zip & the Xperia Pro recovery image from FreeXperia Project: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8L3DC0UQ .

2. Copy the system.img to your sdcard(using any method).

2. With the phone turned off, hold the menu button and connect the USB cable. If windows asks you to install the driver, do it as specified in the thread about rooting Xperia Pro.

3. Open a command prompt on the folder where you have downloaded recovery.img .

4. Run "fastboot boot recovery.img"

5. The phone will turn on and get detected as a ADB device. Also, the CWM menu will appear on the screen, but you will not need it for now.

6. Run "adb shell". Then, run the following commands: (It may take a few minutes)

cat /sdcard/system.img > /dev/mtd/mtd0

exit

7. On the CWM menu, use thew Vol Down key to highlight "Wipe data/factory reset", and then press the power button. Confirm the action if needed.

8. When finished, type "adb reboot" on your command prompt.

Then, your phone should boot normally.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichidakira:
Thanks for the info.

Please let me know when they release it.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichidakira:
For anyone looking for mk16i ftf...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1323730

Thanks to Jozinek
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BernieCZ:
MK16i system partition

Guys, could anyone provide me stock or at least his semi-stock system partition, as alvaroag did above? I have rooted xperia pro MK16i (via xperia recovery) and I'm experiencing weird problems after hard reseting my phone. Everything works virtually fine now, but:

- home button works, but doesn't act as home should

- after USB connecting to PC the PC says that my SD card is not inserted (however I can see its content while in the phone)

- PC Companion software can't find the phone

If anyone would have any advice how to solve this, it would be much appreciated also.

Edit: I had rooted this phone month ago and until yesterday there were zero problems. But then suddenly I lost some of my synced contacts from MS Exchange, so I decided to hard reset it and reinstall apps to fix this little issus. And then everything started...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvaroag:
Try with the latest SE firmware:

{PRO}[DEVELOPMENT] - CM7.2.0 - FXP047 FreeXperia Project

At the bottom of the post are the links for the MK16i SEMC 4.0.2.A.0.42 & MK16a SEMC 4.0.2.A.0.42. Select the one according to your device. Flash them with FlashTool. No this will permanently erase all of your user data.

Then, if you want to root it, try with the zergRush exploit: [16/Nov][ROOTING/UNROOTING] Xperia 2011 Easy Rooting Toolkit [v3.0](zergRush Exploit)

If the phone still presents problems, reflash the stock firmware & take it to your service provider for warranty.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BernieCZ:
Thanks, alvaroag. I was fixing further and further on and ended up with reflashing Jozinek's stock firmware which solved everything. But then, even with virtually out-of-the-box phone, SEUS still denied to update firmware, saying that the phone has altered software. Not sure if anybody really tried to wipe out EVERYTHING from the phone and pretend, that it hasn't ever been rooted or hasn't been did anything else, but I doubt SE repair service can be fooled that much - even stupid updater still sees some difference between my phone (which obviously lost all changes I made to keyboard, root access, everything after successfull revert to stock firmware provided by Jozinek) and regular not altered phone. So to make the story short - now everything works fine, I have virtually brand new phone, rooted via [16/Nov][ROOTING/UNROOTING] DooMLoRD's Easy Rooting Toolkit [v3.0](zergRush Exploit). But on the other hand I really doubt that these changes can be reverted to the state, that SE repair center would not be able to detect them and thus maybe cancel my warranty. Which is a bit sad and I did not expect it.

BTW: What is the procedure now to update my firmware, once SE will release it? SEUS refuses to do it... And for sure I would prefer to keep my data, if possible...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvaroag:
If you have unlocked your bootloader, then you will not be able to use SEUS. Try using PC Companion. Even with the bootloader unlocked, PC Companion will work, as long as you use stock firmware.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcummings100:
Not true that unlocking bootloader automatically stops SEUS from working. I had Alejandrissimo unlock my bootloader remotely via the info in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1254416

And even with an unlocked bootloader SEUS worked just fine (that is until i flashed to the latest firmware posted on XDA in the Xperia Pro CM thread). But that's only true if you use his exact method. It seems that all other methods do prevent SEUS from working.

But yes, as soon as you've unlocked the bootloader, regardless of the method, your phone's warranty is void. That includes unlocking it the official way via the sony ericsson website! PITA

And technically, if you even root your phone, you've lost your warranty as well.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BernieCZ:
Yes sure, but my point was not that this act voids warranty, which is clear and obvious. My point was about the fact that many people in forums are understanding rooting and other hardcore activities in the way, that "if something would go wrong with my phone, I still can revert all changes, reflash it to out-of-the-box condition and send it to repair service, while they will not be able to detect the phone used to be rooted or altered in similar way", but in fact there must be some detection mechanism which in certain circumstates (as is my reflashed phone) will recognize that phone has been rooted in the past. And my phone is now not upgradable by both SEUS and PC Companion.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvaroag:
Not exactly. If you root your phone without unlocking the bootloader(zergRush exploit), then you can reflash it using SEUS or PC Companion & any track of the rooting will disappear. But if you unlock the bootloader, that's permanent. Even if you relock the bootloader, you will not be able to lave it as it was before unlocking, as the DRM keys are deleted when unlocking.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex_mayorga:
If there's still interest, I have a stock SEMC/MK16a:2.3.4/4.0.2.A.0.58/xf_v3w:user/release-keys phone and I'm yet to start fiddling with it.

If there's anything worth extracting from it just let me know and I'd try.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arshiesst:
mk16a stock firmware - wanna unlock phone

hi. i'm totally new to android platform and rooting stuff! i have a xperia pro mk16a which is locked to fido canada. i want to unlock and debrand it. what i have learnt till now is that i can debrand it by flashing it to stock firmware. please help!

about phone:

see attachment
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvincze:
Did you tried to do it with phone repair menu in pc suite?

-DON'T PLUG THE PHONE!

-go to SUPPURT ZONE

-and in the software update check phone repair

-check mk16 on the phone list and follow the instructions!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PANCHOMATASANO:
Firmware ftf

I have some links to generic firmware but i can not publish links.

If anyone wants me for the requested by pm
[Atrix 4G General] philosocrates:
Not sure what is causing this, but today when I watch a linked Youtube clip my ATRIX will lock up and reboot. It appears as if the youtube mobile site and the app are fighting for video rights on my phone. Any suggestions?
[Atrix 4G General] Sparx10:
You have the updated version right? Mine did that before and then once I updated it from the Market it never crashed again.