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[G2 and Desire Z General] swee08315:
I'm just really trying to make sure I get it unrooted correctly.

according to the guy on the phone, If I don't qualify for the warranty, my options will be to either pay for the repair, or pay $34 for their diagnostics on it (WTF?).

and the repair is going to be $100, since they'll going to replace the whole screen, even though I'm pretty sure the only issue is with the ribbon cable.

It's not going to hurt to make sure I have S-On, and it could potentially save me a lot of cash, so I might as well do it.

I'm pretty sure I only have to type something into the terminal emulator to find out?

not sure what that was though..
[G2 and Desire Z General] swee08315:
Well, my boot loader says S-off, and I can't figure out how to make it S-on since I don't have a part-7[something].bin on my SDcard.

from what I can find, I think I can make it S-on by using the official RUU, but I'm having trouble finding this, and almost tried to flash an ruu from the european HTC Hero (aka G2) by mistake.

[it's quite annoying that people call that the forums label that phone the G2 even though I don't think htc or any other carrier does in any case]

any help here? can I use somebody else's backup or would that result in a brick?

any alternative methods?

Update:

well apparently I can "Use gfree to set secu_flag = 1 and CID = T-MOB010 (or your corresponding original CID)."

although I'm not sure exactly how to do that.

I pretty sure it means that I could Gfree to gain temporary root, and then use the Terminal emulator to open up and modify a particular file in the system, and change the value of the parameter "secu_flag" to 1 (I'm not a complete n00b)

as for the CID, I think I may already have it set correctly, but it never hurts to check.

Am I on the right track?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
almost right track.

Use psneuter to get temp-root, then run

./gfree -s on -c TMOB_010 (or whatever the cd is meant to be)

though psneuter only works for adb shell so you can't use term emulator to unroot.

and gfree only works on the 1.19 rom.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] NAM_killer:
If the screen is broken I believe all they do is change the screen and flash sense back on to it. I sent mine in with the screen not working and got the phone back with sense installed again + s-off. It looks like (for mine) they didn't care that it was rooted simply because it was a hardware fault and therefore did not matter whether it was rooted or not.

It is up to you whether or not you want to risk it, but with mine it was ok :-)

Will check back with this thread when I get back from work in case I can help further!
[G2 and Desire Z General] jspina:
video

Zedomax has a guide on how to unroot the g2 on youtube. (not allowed to post a link)
[G2 and Desire Z General] swee08315:
I still can't get the S-off

Zedomax's video tutorial was pretty useless, he did the same thing I did, then booted into the bootloader and said "wierd it still says S-off..."

as for the the psneuters thing:

$ adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter kept getting permission denied

eventually I gave up and used vissionary to temp root.

then I pushed and did the chmod 777 step with gfree

but "# /data/local/tmp/gfree -s on -c T-MOB010" led to "/data/local/tmp/gfree: permission denied"

maybe I should try the "rage against the cage" root method?

I'm on 1.19.531 btw
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
I’ll post some pics later, but wondering if anyone else has a gap between the glass and bezel on the right side of the phone? The left side seems pretty flush with the glass.

[update]

crapy pic, but here it is...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Krooked22:
Take it back
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
Mines like that too. I thought it was normal. I was worried about crud getting in the crack but its been fine and doesn't affect anything on the phone.

I just tried to take a macro shot of it and had no luck. Wonder if I should swap it out. Really don't want to get stuck with one that actually has an issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
i'm more worried about dust under the glass. having that gap, i'm sure it will
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
Closer inspection shows there is some dust in there but not a lot at all. I have 8 days to decide on swapping it. Don't know how many returns wirefly allows.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
Where did you get your phone from? Would they swap it out for that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
From the corporate store off contract

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ingenious247:
Mine does not have that issue.

To be fair, there is a tiny (I mean really tiny) gap on both sides but nothing that looks out of place. It appears it's by design.

Yours appears to be much worse.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeyinid:
I pulled my case off just to check and i have a very noticeable gap on the left and bottom sides of my screen. Its not enough of a reason for me to exchange it but its there. I always have the body glove case on so i dont ever see it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ingenious247:
I believe that these small gaps are by design, seriously. Think about the dispersion of shock when the device hits the ground. If it was perfectly flush with the

metal it would be way more likely to crack instantly..with the gap some energy escapes giving the glass a small but crucial release of pressure.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mudkip:
i agree with that. but in the OPs pic you can see the metal underneath thats crazy
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
Mine looks like his but I only see the glue they use or whatever they use to seal the screen.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
Yeah. The left side has a really small gap but the right is pretty big. Its big enough i can stick my fingernail in it.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
Thinking about doing an exchange but I'm worried about getting this issue

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1300133&highlight=quadrant

Seems to he pretty common. I personally dont have the issue or any issues build wise on my current phone. Its risky because I think I can only exchange one time.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
Yeah. That's what I'm worried about. Going in to exchange it tomorrow morning and gonna check the hell out of the phone before I leave the store.

I noticed it more today when I got my TPU case and the right side would get caught up on the gap.

Better pics of the gap. one of the left with the smallest gap and one of the right like grand canyon (ok...may not as big, but close :))
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ingenious247:
yeah that looks really bad. how how did you walk outta the store with it like that??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
Honestly. I was so excited about the phone i didn't even notice it.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ingenious247:
First Android? Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] imnothimm:
More like first 4.52 Samoled Plus super beast i'm guessing....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
Exactly. Had android since the N1 :)

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
Finally got an acceptable replacement. Took about 5 boxes. And it has a perfect screen (no lines). Everything at the corp. store was marked the 28th.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
OMG that's crazy. Please tell me you didn't see another one with the seperation on the side. I went to the store today and the display model's screen was flush with both sides.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
Thats the crazy thing. The display model there was perfect.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rudiepoo1:
Glad you were able to find a good one! Mine is from the 29th and no issues here, screen spacing fine on both sides.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
Just out of curiousity. What did you find with the ones you decided not to get? Was it just the lines on the screen issue?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mudkip:
mine has a small gap same size on each side. not big enough to put my fingernail in but small debris can get into it. not sure if should be flush to the metal band
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jester450:
They were the same gaps. Some not as bad but still a problem IMO. Figured if i paid full price im going to get a perfect phone.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
ok thanks. I think I will just keep mine because I don't want to get stuck with another problem. A lot of the problems listed in the forums, I don't have so I will just deal with it. I haven't gotten dust in mine so it's good so far. Once I get my case it should cover it up. I'm glad you found one you liked.
[HTC Amaze 4G] katamari201:
I really wanna get the amaze and really don't care for anything else recently released or pegged to be released this year. I can overlook all the other issues, since I think overall the phone is amaze-ing, but my biggest gripe is that the audio capture quality when recording video is horrendous. And they had the nerve to tout the camcorder by putting a dedicated button! It is earsplittingly sharp and distorted. Makes my ears hurt and hard to understand in general, not to mention all the stray sounds that sound like there's a lightning storm somewhere... I can't believe so many reviewers think it sounds good or tout the 44khz stereo recording. Blegh. It shares a lot of DNA with the Mytouch 4g slide and somehow inherited that phone's bad audio as well.

I'm thinking there should be a software fix, somehow, since I doubt the audio sounds like this when making a call. I don't know why there would be such a big difference in the first place. I don't think they fixed the bad audio in the mytouch 4g slide, so they are probably just gonna leave the amaze half-baked. Why does no one care about the audio quality of videos? At least the loudspeaker is decent I hear, with some wild polar opposite mixed reactions though...
[HTC Amaze 4G] blitzeratic1:
yeah i feel the same way. if audio is fixable, i will get this phone. if not, then camcorder is a useless feature.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Lazerus625:
Is a hardware issue with most htc phones. My G2 and mytouch 4g were the same way. The quality is not as terrible as people say, its just not on par with the quality of the rest of the phone making it an easy issue to point out. No phone is perfect. Sadly, they all have their down sides. Overall The phone is top notch! :)

Proud HTC Amaze owner
[HTC Amaze 4G] katamari201:
Darn its a hardware issue? Saying no phone is perfect really doesn't excuse the bad audio issue. It kind of breaks the camcorder for me. The bad audio isn't just hearsay, its half a dozen or more youtube videos with that really bad audio, and then all the other videos showing HTC's legacy of bad audio, like from the MyTouch 4g Slide. And the Amaze is damn sexy too. They seem to be the only Android manufacturer making those curvy nice unibody metal phones. Kind of disappointed with the Galaxy Nexus. lol. I'm jumping for the Atrix 2, cuz Motorola has gone up leaps and bounds on the camcorder with the Bionic and now the Atrix 2. It's also dirt cheap in comparison to the Amaze. Man decisions. But the Amaze feels so sexy...
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
there might be a software fix (like voodoo sound?) Once we start getting into the phone more...possibly a Mic filter?
[HTC Amaze 4G] katamari201:
I haven't really heard of one for HTC phones, or really a fix the bad audio recording on any phone ever. I don't really follow this stuff though so I could be completely wrong. The best I've seen is higher bitrate/sampling hacks, but it really doesn't fix a bad mic. I'm guessing it was engineered deliberately that way or left that way because they couldn't find a solution or were lazy and thought no one would care. I think its impossible to not hear the flagrant sound problems unless their sound engineers were turning Beethoven.
[HTC Amaze 4G] marstodd:
I've noticed the Amaze sound problems on all youtube amaze videos which are in stereo. the audio for GS2 videos is all mono, but much better quality.

Test mono audio with video...? what is result. Is it same problem?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Greenturtle23:
hi, what is the difference between mono and stereo?

There is a thread for amaze recording for both mono and stereo.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1302710.
[HTC Amaze 4G] marstodd:
Stereo would be MUCH better, giving spacial dimension, and with headphones the youtube amaze stereo audio is nice but terrible quality. Noise and no low end. SG2 has good sound fidelity but is only mono, single source but fidelity is more important than stereo.

I did notice the SG2 XDA has 32 bit CD quality sound but don't know if it's stereo.
[HTC Amaze 4G] marstodd:
the first try to do an audio fix would be use an equalizer. Load a video (with audio) into a processing program on a PC or Mac and see if the sound quality is fixable. If someone has an in with HTC they should get a response about this from the engineers.

---------- Post added at 09:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:35 AM ----------

I know cyanogenmod has the graphic audio equalizer so yeah, thinking about it WE NEED AN APP! Take the damn stereo channels in the AMAZING videos, apply equalization according to the user's gui settings, and save the video!

this will definitely fix the stinkin amaze audio problems and preserve this precious stereo (with no external mic) and fix-a-de-problem. But maybe an external stereo mic is the way to go.....

(baby):eek:
[HTC Amaze 4G] katamari201:
I don't think an equalizer is gonna fix this problem. I've also heard the mono recording from the amaze. It isn't that much better than the stereo. I'm not too concerned whether it is mono or stereo. You are using a phone to record, both mics being only a few cm away from each other and usually not even placed in a proper left/right configuration. The other mic should just focus on noise cancellation. The other problem is the Amaze is $550 even on ebay...
[HTC Amaze 4G] marstodd:
Maybe someone would plug a stereo (condenser probably) microphone in and see if it records well good fidelity with stereo.

Since SGS2 has a top and bottom mic and I think is mono, I wonder if they use them for decent low end. (as well as noise cancellation if that's necessary)

One problem with the Amaze is no low frequencies.

The other problem is clipping noise which cannot be corrected except by recording level adjustment.

---------- Post added at 01:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:38 PM ----------

The stereo on the Amaze recordings is really great. (put on some headphones and compare). my opinion is it's really a good thing.
[HTC Amaze 4G] amkaos:
to be clear, you like it and everyone else hates it?

thanx
[HTC Amaze 4G] marstodd:
To be clear: I like the stereo! that is very different than the fidelity. (frequency response)

The fidelity is the frequency response and the clipping problems. They are very bad but they might just be the microphones not the audio circuits, and the circuits might be connected to a stereo microphone input on the input jack so that stereo would be preserved, and it'd have decent sound. (by plugging in a stereo mic)

Is that clear?

Thanks!

The SGS2 has great fidelity but it is mono. At least from the phone's microphones which I assume are not stereo but are noise cancelling or maybe fix the frequency response. (Maybe the SGS2 has a stereo mic input I don't know that either!!)

P.S. We need hardware threads on xda-developers or maybe there is a hardware dedicated web site for cell phones (needed)
[HTC Amaze 4G] gustav30:
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but didn't want to start a new one.

I believe the problem is Sense 3.0 related and the gain HTC applied to the mics. I've come from a Sensation - and we had the exact same clipping problem on the phone with stereo recording and mono sounded a little better, but not much. When the Sense 3.5 leak came out, end of September for the Sensation the clipping problem went away in stereo recording. I went to a Sense 3.5 Rom for that reason alone because stereo recording sounded terrific. Once you bump up the media_profiles.xml to accept a higher bitrate it was a terrific stereo camcorder. No clipping at all.

I just got the Amaze and have given the Sensation to my wife with a Sense 3.5 Rom.

I love everything so far about the Amaze, the stereo clipping is the only issue I'd like to see fixed, at least for me.

BTW - I've listened to some YouTube vids of the Rezound camcorder and they sound fine in stereo. And the Rezound is Sense 3.5.

I've looked around for an adjustment in the smalis of the htccamera.apk but can't find anything that relates to the mic gain.

Anyone have any idea where the fix would be for this?
[HTC Amaze 4G] TramainM:
IDK if this will help but their is two thing that I did that seemed to help.

1) Make sure your finger isn't over the mic, it happens more than you think.

2)Use and External Mic, i have a pair of beats headphones that seem to have better audio than the mic it self.

In reality their isn't really an easy fix like flashing something. Its a hardware thing overall of the phone. Hope this helps this is all I could think of that might help.
[Fascinate General] exzacklyright:
About Time!
[TouchPad General] flexnix:
I had gapps in the cminstall folder when I used novacom. I booted the Tablet into CM7 and it went directly to the desktop. No 'First Time Setup' screen where you click on the Android cartoon or Market.
[TouchPad General] mputtr:
do it in CWM.
[TouchPad General] flexnix:
Just did. Let's see.......
[TouchPad General] flexnix:
It worked. Thanks. Admins please delete.
[TouchPad General] kmdub:
I had my gapps in the cminstall folder during install and it worked fine. Just make sure the gapps file is properly named....update-* I believe. Either way will work fine.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockyGothyBaz:
After flashing RUU fails with

Hi,

I'm just trying to get my Desire back to stock so I can sell it but the RUU that I have used in the past has failed. I've run the downgrader and flashed the stock ROM from Alpharev but now when I try to re-apply the RUU I get the black HTC screen with 4 warning triangles in the corners of the screen. If remove the USB an dreconnect then I get this....

---Alpharev----

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.93.1002

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

RUU

1 Bootloader - Bypassed

2 Radio V2 - FAIL-PU

3 RADIO CUST - OK

4 BOOT - OK

5 RECOVERY - OK

6 SYSTEM - OK

7 USERDATA - OK

8 SPLASH1 - OK

9 SPLASH2 - OK

Partition update fail!

Update fail!

If I run fastboot oem boot then I get this...

C:\AndroidSDK\tools>fastboot oem boot

...

(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0xA0000100 cmdline add=0x8E07F9F0

(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK

(bootloader) TAG:smi ok, size = 0

(bootloader) TAG:hwid 0x0

(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x26A0D

(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0x3

(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x0

(bootloader) MCP dual-die

(bootloader) MCP dual-die

(bootloader) TAG:mono-die = 0x0

(bootloader) Device CID is super CID

(bootloader) CID is super CID

(bootloader) Backup CID is ORANG001

(bootloader) setting->cid::ORANG001

(bootloader) serial number: SH09DPL01345

(bootloader) commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1

(bootloader) command line length =423

(bootloader) active commandline: board_bravo.disable_uart3=0 board_bravo.

(bootloader) usb_h2w_sw=0 board_bravo.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0 boa

(bootloader) rd_bravo.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidboot.e

(bootloader) mmc=false androidboot.baseband=5.11.05.27 androidboot.cid=O

(bootloader) RANG001 androidboot.carrier=ORANGE-UK androidboot.mid=PB9920

(bootloader) 000 androidboot.keycaps=qwerty androidboot.mode=normal andro

(bootloader) idboot.serialno=SH09DPL01345 androidboot.bootloader=6.93.100

(bootloader) 2 no_console_suspend=1

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=cache

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=userdata

(bootloader) partition number=6

(bootloader) Valid partition num=6

(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(2457), tags_addr(0x20000100), ker

(bootloader) nel_addr(0x20008000)

(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:423443 msec

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 99.905s

I've got a gold card in. I'm not sure if I'm missing a partition or if my goldcard needs recreating. Oh, and I have tried various RUU's but no luck with any of them.

Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you need any more info.

Many thanks,

Baz :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
Did you flashed Stock Hboot partition table before downgrader?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockyGothyBaz:
I did bravo_downgrade.img followed by bravo_alphaspl.img and then the RUU.

Is there another one I have to do?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tillus:
have you tried to run the RUU again while on the four-triangle-screen? that solved it for me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Don't open two threads about the same problem.

SwiftKeyed from CyanogenMod with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockyGothyBaz:
@Tillus - I had tried re-running the RUU but with no luck. I've also tried various other RUU's but can't get anything.

@MatDrOiD - Sorry, I think that's a forum screw-up because I was safely tucked up in bed at 12:48am. In response to your post on the other thread, I have flashed bravo_downgrade.img As far s I know that's the hboot downgrader, no?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Looks like a radio brick to me. You can try a,few things but you may end up contacting HTC
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Why did you flash the stock after the downgrader?

First Flash the stock, then the downgrader.

That's why the bootloader is bypassed and radio can not be updated.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
Exactly.

First you have to flash the partition table image, and then run the downgrader... if you do it backwards results might be unpredictable.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craoul:
You

do not

have to flash stock, downgrader is enough. After downgrader run RUU and it will succeed.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockyGothyBaz:
Thanks Dave, I'll give that a go as soon as I've had a cup of tea. I did things that way round because I had an issue once before and someone said that was the way to fix it and it worked so this time I just did the same again. I'll get back to you and let you know how things went.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockyGothyBaz:
OK, I flashed stock followed by the downgrader and then ran the RUU. My fault has changed to something that strikes me as being rather more serious. I have a feeling I was lead to the wrong RUU (RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_122704) as after I ran this my screen went off and hasn't come back on at all so I'm thinking this might be a RUU for the led version of the Desire. Also I no longer have Super CID which seems to be preventing me from doing any further flashing. I'm just looking into reflashing misc to see if that might help.

Current problems: No Super CID, No display, only boots into fastboot.

...oh bugger :-/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
why if you have dozen of ruu available, newbie always choice the damn old one??? U have to choice the damn last one! What wrong with the latest? How you can flash a such old ruu?

The next time, ask a confirmation before flash an ruu.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
IF it boots into fastboot, you can flash a newer RUU, try the latest one, not one of the oldest :)