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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KillaHurtz:
Theft Aware is where it's at. That **** will tell you when your sim has been changed, forward txt n much much more, I highly recommend it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Darmokk:
+1 for lookout, seems to work great and its already on the phone...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soraxd:
for some reason no web browser will work.. I'm on villainrom 2.5 and first had my phone reboot into safe mode, which I didn't even know existed.. then Widgets started showing up blank, then massive force closes, to the point the phone was unusable.. so I flashed v3.0 and the rest of the problems went away but the browser is still messed up.. so i flashed back to 2.5 and still no help.. I deleted my cache and davlik cache, and nothing.. I have 13gb left on my SD card and like 1gb left internal.. and 1gb system remaining.. can't think of what it could be.. but this problem isn't going away .. any help???
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soraxd:
anyone?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcadam:
Have you tried fixing permissions?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephraim:
I would like to suggest formating /system through cwm and restore backed up ROM.. I used to have a problem with leomar rom where when i install no overscroll the browser fc when i try to scroll even when i restored my backup stock rom.. But after formating /system > restored backup > flashed leomar rom > then flashed the no overscroll effect it went away.. Don't know if it will work on your case but it worked for my previous problem..
[Motorola Droid Bionic] yungwunn911:
I purchased a bionic and I couldnt log into android OS until it was activated. So i went over to vzw, got it activated, it turned on fine and then pulled it off my acct when i got home.

Threw it on CDMA workshop annd i think i messed up. Phone started trying to connect to "international towers" :confused:.

So, I tried reformatting the droid, and now its locked out again! I dont want to bring it back to the vzw store (or activate it) to just get into android the android OS.

1) Is there a way around this?

2) if the prl got wiped from the phone with cdma workshop, will vzw be able to add it back on? workshop wont connect to the phone anymore, not sure if its because i cant get passed the activation screen, or if its truly bricked...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
Not really sure what you mean by "enter the android os" - if you mean get to the homescreen, do this:

Pull battery. Reinsert battery. Power up. When you feel the vibrate (before it boots up to the activation screen) start tapping the middle of the screen and don't stop. Keep doing that. If you do it right, you can skip the startup and get to the homescreen.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Dakota0206:
I am thinking that if you pull the sim card it should skip it.

At the worst if it fails activation three times it should give the skip option.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nerdslogic:
If you are trying to bypass the activation you have to boot into that fastboot menu and select BP Bypass.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] yungwunn911:
Ok, sorry for the miscommunication. I wanted to bypass the activation screen. It was actually very simple, slide finger around the four corners of the screen in a clockwise fashion.

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/10/tip-how-to-bypass-android-activation-screen-on-motorola-droid/

Now, my next problem is i think the prl was erased from the phone...are CDMA workshop changes irreversible? Or can VZW send the prl to the phone (even tho its not connecting to their towers..)
[TouchPad General] erick161:
Whats your guys battery life like? Considering its alpha and all, its pretty great battery life. Figured i'd share my usage and see how it compares w/ some of you fellow CM7'ers

Btw, this is NOT overclocked.

Not too bad, as you can see, still had 17% left, but i normally dont like my battery to even hit 25%.
[TouchPad General] shadowhawk2020:
5 plus hours screen on isn't bad.... But I can't wait to see what it can do after they work on the power more. It is showing promise.
[TouchPad General] erick161:
exactly my point. shows great promise on just alpha. curious what others are getting as well.
[TouchPad General] drt054:
About the same.. I was using my TP pretty heavily for 5 hours with live wallpapers (koi - from the videos) and still had 37% battery left. Very happy with this "Alpha" build, can't wait to see what they improve.
[TouchPad General] Migwickert:
Yeah, I've experienced solid battery life considering. Quite impressed.
[TouchPad General] MaxyDad:
Pretty good results there. I haven't installed CM yet, but I reckon I get about 8 or 9 hours of screen on time with WebOS, so it looks like CM is in the right ballpark.

Maxy
[TouchPad General] sewhuy:
No sleep deaths after raising minimum setting with CPU master
[TouchPad General] sewhuy:
Wifi seems fine after setting to never sleep
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NatsuDragneell:
Well me and my cusn was wrestling. Around. Lol and I thought. I lput my phone in a safe place anyways after we was done my I notice that my backspace button was pushed in and I tried lifting it up wit random house tools wit no Vail and I wondering anybody had this same problem can u give me some assitance it's so irritating. Having to push. The button down hard to get a response

Ginger 2.3.4 S=Off No Root
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicholasb:
I sent mine back on warranty for this exact issue. However, the day after the call the button popped out on its own.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tvotony:
What phone are you using the mt4g dose not have a call button nor a back space button
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DistrictDigital:
He means the back key.

Call HTC for a replacement.

USA - 866-449-8358

http://www.htc.com/us/support
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcdroidincredible23:
Can some tell me how to change my boot Img
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmeadows013:
Not sure I understand this. What exactly in the boot.img do you want to change?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
I think he might mean the splash screen or boot animation.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmeadows013:
If the above is the case, you have to flash it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcdroidincredible23:
I mean boot animation
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
It depends where you got the animation from. Some are flashable thru recovery, and some you just copy and replace the original zip in /system/customize/resource/ with the new one. It all depends on who made or packaged the animation. If you open the animation zip file and it has a folder named meta-inf then it is flashable, if it has a desc.txt file inside you have to copy and paste it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kyleds:
hey guys,

I rooted my friends sgs2 and couldn't get two things to work. the portable WiFi hotspot keeps getting an error when i try to click on the check-mark. the second one is the video camera doesn't work. he's running the cm7 (not nightly) is there a ROM that has a working video cam?

thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mdstricklin:
I'm also running CM7 (not nightly). I believe the exact rom I flashed was from this thread (update-cm-7.1.0-RC1-Galaxys2ATT) and the video camera works fine. I just tested to confirm, I was able to record video with both front AND back cameras.

That said, I've heard that CM7 doesn't support 1080p video recording even when the camera IS working.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surfnhawaii808:
I am currently using cm7...

I will be selling my phone on Craigslist and I'm looking for a totally stock ruu/pd15img.zip image.

Suggestions? The ones I seem to keep finding are tweaked or have some stock/bloat removed...

Can you help? Thanks gurus!!!

:eek:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
Post questions in the Q&A section.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Undeadk9:
Sigh.....people just dont read the rules.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atown706:
There is a Q&A section if you did not know. This is the development section so you need to post that question in the Q&A section.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark manning:
You might get help if you posted in the correct place
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
2 or 3 pages down in development forum.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1174344

You also could have read the stickies and found this yourself.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
you are a senior member with 14 thanks and 190 posts. you should know by know that questions go to the Q&A section...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrimReaper24:
Thread has been moved to Q&A...
[HTC Amaze 4G] ViOv:
Lol I'm like the first one to brick it... congrats to me with a dead metal brick...

was playing with the temp root (tool and script) so just remind everyone there

are still risks associated

basically i got temp root, then after firing up titanium backup and backed up all my apps it crashed, then super user started crashing, it's stuck in forever boot loop, master reset will just shut down the machine lol i'll probably take it back since just got it 2 days ago
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
that happened to me too... lol, did you do a battery pull yet?? thats what knocked me out of the boot loop. :o
[HTC Amaze 4G] atoore:
Sent from hell using xda app
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
huh? :confused:
[HTC Amaze 4G] ViOv:
whats a battery pull? you mean just remove that battery? I did that and boot into Hboot for wipe, nothing works. infinite loop, I'm just gonna take it back to the store~~ hopefully they wont see its HTC unlocked bootloader lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
wait... you have s-off?? how'd you get s-off???
[HTC Amaze 4G] ViOv:
lol its in the dev section, unlock bootloader~~ :) it saids a giant UNLOCK when u go into Hboot
[HTC Amaze 4G] KillaHurtz:
Had to stop by and LOL, sorry. But hey you're in the hall of fame now :P
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
yeah, thats an unlocked bootloader, but its not s-off bro. 2 different animals.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chrischoi:
You should not be allowed to own a USB cable.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
lol.......
[HTC Amaze 4G] Cayniarb:
That's not S-Off (if it were, it would say 's-off' not 'unlocked'). Also, by taking HTC's unlock you voluntarily void your warranty, so I dunno if Tmob will be helpful...
[HTC Amaze 4G] ViOv:
OH I suck, this is my first HTC android. Didn't know that's not S-off... I just saw it now lol we'll see when I head back to t-mobile, hopefully they wont be able to start the device at all...
[HTC Amaze 4G] devcurious:
I hope T-Mobile will help you.

By unlocking the boot loader, you informed HTC that you voluntarily voided you warranty.

Those posts in the dev forum are extremely dangerous, both the bootloader unlock and temp root ones. The unlock being the most dangerous. I am grateful for the brave souls, that risk their device everyday, to help everyone.

However, until there is a method to restore a device to that "factory-fresh" state, people are playing Russian Roulette with their devices.

I am sending my best wishes your way though. Let's hope for a loophole.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ViOv:
Thanks, I just got a new phone. I walked in when the t-mobile retail manager was on an asshole attitude, so I just "attempted" to turn off the phone, he didn't even power it on, he just charged me a $50 restocking fee, I'd pay that instead of taking my chances of not being able to return it FOREVER, plus square trade deductible is the same anyway... so yeah now I got a new phone and I'm happy as ever,
[HTC Amaze 4G] devcurious:
Learn from this my friend, and spread the gospel to others.

Thou shalt not unlock the bootloader using HTC's method.

Thou shalt let people with more experience than thine self test new methods for anything.

If thou does not have extensive experience with development, thou shalt not do anything to thine device, unless there is a foolproof method to recover the device.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jboch9510:
Am I the only one annoyed by this. Your brand new to android and attempted rooting after reading next to nothing on xda. Once you bricked your phone, which was inevitable considering your complete lack of preparation, you cheated the system and saddled HTC with brick.

They won't continue being friendly with the dev community if they keep getting screwed by idiots who think there are no consequences to jumping the gun.
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
My thoughts exactly...OP is dumb for jumping in ****-deep. OP is a twat for lying/stealing/cheating TMo. Take responsibility for your actions...I cannot count how many times idiots did this in the Vibrant forum.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fimanmd:
calm down folks. While agree that the OP prob should have waited a bit, how does someone gain experience unless they try? Maybe be a little nicer instead of just outright insulting someone for their inexperience. Were you guys all born with complete knowledge of how to root a phone, did it by instinct? I doubt it. lay off the guy.

Secondly, cheating T-mo? like they don't make money hand over fist off all of us anyway? besides, for that guys $50 restocking fee, all T-Mo did was sell another phone so, they make twice as much money, and they get a phone back to recondition and sell as either a refurb or give it to asurion so that they can use it as an insurance replacement.

Be F@$%@#g nice on these forums people, otherwise people are gonna get burned out on doing stuff like this and there will be no development at all on anything.
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
People with no experience need to wait until the more experienced make things clear and stable. As for the cheating, etc, it is fraud. Just because we feel that companies rape us does not make it legal to steal. That is all I will say on it.

Applaud the successes, cast stones at poor morality.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fimanmd:
How is it stealing? I agree that they should wait, but who made you all judge jury and executioner? How about people ridicule you because you fail at something. You guys sent that revolution guy packing and now he wants to sell his phone because you guys destroyed him on this forum. You guys have every right to your own opinion but keep it to youselves. These forumsare for supporting developers and learning about our phones. Not making people feel like **** because you think your better then them. Your NOT
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
You entered a contract when you bought the phone--read your paperwork. It IS fraud/stealing/cheating a company out of revenue and physical product. When you un-lock your bootloader, it says VOIDS WARRANTY and you will incur the cost of repair. You break it doing things expressly prohibited in the contract YOU signed, you need to man-up. If I wreck my car while DUI, I should get every ounce of shiat I deserve (I cannot tell the investigating officers "it just happened" and expect to get off--or in this case, receive a replacement. BLAH blah, someone went packing because of ITGs...boo-hoo. We are all here for the same reason. If someones fragile feelings gets hurt over mindless internet banter--screw them. Grow a pair and contribute. This phone is so new, many other respected devs will be coming in time. We lose one, oh well.

BTW, it is *you're*. And you left out a period. Just to spite you for defending the same idiots all over these forums breaking rules inside voluntary contracts.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fimanmd:
Wow. You are bitter my friend. Im really glad I don't know tolerating
[HTC Amaze 4G] fimanmd:
Substitute personally for tolerating
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
I'm sure you'll get over it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Spovik:
You do realize, that once the device is sent to HTC to be reconditioned, HTC is going to tell T-Mobile that the warranty was voluntarily void by unlocking and will not be reimbursing T-Mobile.

T-Mobile will then graciously charge you an out of warranty fee to recoup the lost cost, in which you can add to your already-paid restocking fee.

Start saving money for your big bill.
[HTC Amaze 4G] devcurious:
I won't get into the more personal things expressed in this post, but I will say that what the OP did, was basically stealing from T-Mobile. I'm not a lawyer, but I believe the legal term is "theft by deception".

When he took his phone back, he willfully and knowingly, withheld information. That information, may have affected T-Mobile's judgement, to enter into the transaction of replacing his phone.

By doing so, he has exposed T-Mobile, to a similar charge from HTC. Also, by doing so, he may have exposed the T-Mobile employee that helped him, to possible disciplinary action from their employer. Not to mention, that by doing so, he jeopardizes some of the goodwill that both HTC and T-Mobile, have shown to the modding community.

This can affect you!

When you set out with a plan to lie, the repercussions can ripple out in ways never even imagined.

Wrong is wrong. Let's not lower ourselves to the argument of when doing wrong, especially when not in a life or death situation, is justified.
[HTC Amaze 4G] animefreeks:
i paid full retail for the phone, basically bought it off contract. if per se, this happened to me and i returned it saying it was defective, then they technically can't bill me for the exchange, because i paid in cash...maybe the $50 restocking fee and thats it
[HTC Amaze 4G] devcurious:
Makes no difference.

T-Mobile accepts the phone from you, under the false pretense (that you have advanced) that it has a manufacturer defect. They swap your phone, with the good faith understanding, that HTC will replace the defective device. HTC doesn't replace the device under the manufacturer's warranty, because it was not defective, it was rendered unusable by the actions of the user. So T-Mobile is negative, the price of a device, because of your actions.

In other words, your actions would cause T-Mobile to experience a monetary loss. A loss that they would not have experienced, had you truthfully disclosed, the cause of the phone reaching an unusable state.

Theft by deception.

All because they chose to trust you, and your word, that the device was defective.
[HTC Amaze 4G] animefreeks:
yeah, i fully understand that it is theft, but what i'm trying to say is that T-Mobile will have no way of charging me because frankly, there is nothing to charge because i didn't disclose ANY information at all to them, just the cash, and the purchase.
[HTC Amaze 4G] squish099:
Well technically it wasn't bricked, read the first post again.. The device was booting but looping.. An ruu flash would probably fix it.. The ruu has been available since around release.. Just saying..
[HTC Amaze 4G] M9x3mos:
Really? Where is the RUU I can't seem to find it.

Either way that phone was used with an account to make calls and internet right?

Bam! They have the imei from the phone returned doesn't take rocket science for them to match it to the account that it was used with.

Despite if you told them or not.
[HTC Amaze 4G] animefreeks:
so if ur on their monthly prepaid plan no contract no credit, just pay by check every month...?
[HTC Amaze 4G] candre23:
Rules lawyering aside, nobody should feel the least bit sorry for HTC or tmobile if they refund the occasional brick. Yes, the OP played with fire and got burned, but none of that would have happened if the phone had been properly open from the factory.

We shouldn't have to do a bunch of risky, warranty-voiding, trial-and-error shenanigans just to actually use hardware we've paid quite handsomely for. Tmobile insists the phone be locked to hades and back, and HTS complies. If they lose a couple bucks on the occasional brick caused by somebody trying to get around locks that shouldn't have been there in the first place, so be it. And really, it only is a couple bucks. There's nothing you can do to a phone that they can't fix in five minutes and resell it as refurbished for 90% of retail price.

Save your tears for the guys who don't manage to get their bricks refunded.
[HTC Amaze 4G] nellycruzz:
Of your smart enough to fk it up,be smart enough to fix it. Ignorance and stupidity is priceless and karma is a pain in the arse. You steal under the warranty because your to dumb to not screw it up so u wanna go the cheap way and get a new one because of error? What next when the next one goes out? Same thing? Exactly. Tmobile charges u to ship your phone back to you if its voided under warranty. Point is,the phone is what $600? Weather u paid retail or not,they aren't going to send u a brand new one because u decided to ruin yours. Period. Quit lolly gagging and get a job and stop saving your lunch money for 6mths-1 year and grow up. I break mine,I pay for it. Nuff said.
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
Actually, you SHOULD have to do a bunch of "warranty-voiding, ect." to mod these phones. 90% of all users have NO idea wtf we do here. We are the few, not the norm. IT IS IN YOUR F*CKING CONTRACT.

Sure, sign up for a credit card and ignore the contract. Get sent to small clains court and have a lein put on your bank account...same thing. By buying/signing you agree not to PURPOSEFULLY fux up your phone. As with DRM licensing, you buy the use, not the freedom.
[HTC Amaze 4G] nellycruzz:
He he I was reported glad it happened :)..no sarcasm here
[HTC Amaze 4G] animefreeks:
by doing this, T-Mobile will end up paying more than what the phone would be worth to the courts and legal fees...
[HTC Amaze 4G] devcurious:
Rationalizations aside, if you perform an action that renders your device unusable, then request (and receive) a replacement without divulging the actual cause, you are lying and you are stealing, period.

There are no exceptions. If T-Mobile has to commit any resources (money, labor, shipping, etc), to deal with a problem you caused and then lied about, you have stolen whatever the monetary value of those resources are. You have also given T-Mobile and HTC justification to FURTHER lock down devices, to avoid future loses.

How you don't make the correlation between the fact that phones are getting more locked down, specifically because these fraudulent warranty exchanges are occurring, is baffling to me.

If you don't like the policy, buy a Nexus device where this is not even an issue. To buy a device, that you know going in is locked down, then performing warranty-voiding actions and then lying to still obtain a warranty exchange, is stealing, plain and simple.

Because you are unwilling to accept the consequences of your actions, everyone else must suffer. If you do something to your phone, that both the manufacturer and carrier have warned you will void your warranty, you are NOT entitled to a replacement device. You need to PURCHASE a replacement device, so that the costs associated by your actions, are absorbed by you and you only.

You are the one that broke it, not T-Mobile or HTC.
[HTC Amaze 4G] animefreeks:
i'll just quote our District Attorney's written statement:

“Criminal statutes and case law have clearly established the law regarding theft by deception. In most cases, in order to prove criminal intent, there must be a clearly defined pattern of criminal activity; there has to be valid identification of the suspects; and there must be allegations of criminal wrongdoing to demonstrate the motive for the crime. Without these elements, the case does not meet the criteria for criminal prosecution, and it must be pursued civilly. Without other evidence, failure to perform a contract is not sufficient to prove criminal intent."

hence any HTC Amaze theft by deception would mostly be a civil case, not criminal case.
[HTC Amaze 4G] devcurious:
Ok, so you get sued in instead of going to jail.

What does that have to do with the fact that bogus warranty exchanges are one of the main reasons that phones are getting locked down in the first place?