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[Galaxy S I9000 General] pazvanti:
Hi all!

I have a rather major problem.

Today Kies told me that I have a new upgrade for the firmware of my Samsung Galay S i9000. It ran stuck rom with only a few apps installed. I said i want to upgrade so it started to check everything, done a backup of my contacts, started to download the firmware on my PC. So far everything is good.

After that the phone rebooted into an android working logo and said "Downloading..." it stayed like this for a while and after that Kies gave an error. Now the phone is stuck on this screen. Disconecting the device from the usb cable and pluging it back in does't do anything. Kies tries to connect to it but after a couple of minues gives an error that the device is not responding and I should try to rebot the device.

Any idea what to do? This is the work phone so I have to fix this.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: Fixed the problem with odin. I know I should get a warning for not searching first...but I panicked.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] siky_dude:
Easy stuff to fix, start by posting in the right section. :)
[HTC Sensation] bradmill08:
I ran the stock ruu dose that mean I am totally unrooted. When I go to the bootloader screen it says s-off and it says locked in pink. So i figured I am totally unrooted of not can someone please let me know how I can get my phone tottaly I unrooted thanks so much you all
[HTC Sensation] mayormullet:
You're halfway there. You need to run fastboot oem writesecureflag -3, then fastboot reboot-bootloader to get back S-ON. There's another thread that describes this in more detail.. Best to find that.
[HTC Sensation] bradmill08:
Can you please send me the link or give me some kind of direction. Thanksgiving
[HTC Sensation] piimp:
It's one of the stickies in the dev thread

Sent by my feau gee
[HTC Sensation] TheStigx:
This is how to get stock recovery:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1228648&highlight=OTA+stock

Do only the first 12 steps, and do it carefully :)
[HTC Sensation] bradmill08:
Thanks guys so much I really appreciate it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] marlonbr:
Hello guys!

I have a international I9100 and I live in Brazil. I'm looking forward to buying the AT&T GSII for a girl to use here, since it is cheaper then the I9100.

What I know:

It is technically capable of running here, both the GSM and 3G frequencies.

I can install CM7 (when ready) and forget everything about something locked.

You can unlock the olders USA's Galaxy S.

I use on my I9100 the newer Speedmod Kernel that says it's based on the AT&T GSII kernel(!!!!).

What I want to know:

Is it locked for AT&T?

Can I unlock it using a Samsung ROM?

Can I use a International GSII ROM directly?

I will update this post with the answers to properly share with everybody.

I really appreciate it! Thanks!

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Answers: (thanks nyydynasty!)

1) yes, it is locked to AT&T but you can unlock it with the Unlock Galaxy app from the market (https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result)

2) no

3) no
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nyydynasty:
1) yes, it is locked to AT&T but you can unlock it with the Unlock Galaxy app from the market (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.helroz.galaxysunlock&feature=search_result)

2) no

3) no, although this might be possible if you were to mix and match modems but I'll leave that one to the devs to answer. Quick answer is no, to be safe.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] marlonbr:
Thanks!

Holy ****, there is an app for that!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nyydynasty:
there's an app for almost anything lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] BarryH_GEG:
You can get the SIM unlocked using an online service. Once it's unlocked, it'll perform the same as the ISGS2 when roaming.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
Unlock app requires root. I think it's also possible to pull the unlock code manually from one of the partitions, can't remember which one.

I9100 ROM porting for basic functionality may only require swapping out the kernel and modem (for CWM-flashable ROMs). I think this is how DG ported Perception (with a few other specific tweaks to improve compatibility.) It's something no one has really put significant effort into because there's a lot of more basic things to do still.

Odin-flashed ROMs (like Litening) don't work, even if you remove the kernel and modem and just flash the system image - I tried.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dmnall:
I believe either way you will need to be root because the unlock code is in the nvdata.bin in the /efs/ folder. Same thing that was with the us variants of the galaxy s. The only problem I know of is that if you flash a custom rom, good luck if you did not backup the original efs folder at all. With my sgs2 *i777*, I backed it up and ran the sgs unlock tool. Unlocked my phone with ease.

HTH,

Charlie
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
I set the reminder to either notifincation bar or alarm and neither one actually works.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

EDIT:

See post #6 for the fixings.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gfsnic:
Same problem here. This is killing me as I use this function constantly. I am not getting notified on gmail calendar or exchange calendar.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
Setting up calendar events actually works. I just tested it - a popup does occur in desktop calendar when I set it through the phone.

But absolutely nothing happens on the phone itself.

Is it like that for you too?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gfsnic:
Yep, same thing here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
Does anyone know of any widget style calendar app which can force notification/alert for upcoming calendar events independently from the built-in android version (which obviously doesn't work on this phone)?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JimSmith94:
I started using the free Calendar Snooze from the market on my Evo, mainly because the Evo didn't have (or I couldn't find) a built in snooze, and it works well on the E4GT too. It's very configurable, gives a full screen notification, and will even use text to voice, if you want it to.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
Thanks, I am trying it now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
Calendar Snooze works just like I want.

Perfect.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
I just asked in IRC, and people said their alerts were working just fine.

I wonder if it's a common app me and gfsnic have...

Right now, I can only think of one calendar related app I have installed - Simple Calendar Widget...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ravizzle:
Works fine for me. But the alerts I use were set up within the calendar app on the phone. Are you guys setting the alerts on the web?

Sent from my Galaxy S2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
No, from the phone.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] apollion83:
I have a Onda Andy Smart dual sim phone with android 2.2.1 froyo, it's rooted but i need app2sd or a2sd... so i need:

or clockwork recovery for this phone

or a way to open the rom files and edit them before reflash.. the files are in .hex extension.. i tryed even to contact Koush to know if he can do a recovery for this phone but he never answerd me.

Now i post the rom files and hope someone of you is able to edit them.. or explain to me how to do it.

Link website: http://www.ondacommunication.com/en/prodotti/o/32/Andy-Smart?id_cat=3

Link rom: http://www.ondacommunication.com/dati/app/clg/it/SW-no-PushMail.rar

Thanks for you time.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] apollion83:
up..can someone help me?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEkANiK:
So i have rooted the htc DZ and tried out multiple roms... Till now i used to use the CWR to wipe the data/cache before loading a new rom.. Yesterday i decided to try SuperWipeG2+ without reading much(not trying to understand what it exactly does). :o

After i flashed it, i by mistake hit the reboot now in CWR and it hung at the boot screen. To fix this i removed the battery and put it back in,since power on was not working. When i did so it went to HBoot and started flashing the 1.34 PC10IMG file present in the sdcard which i did not remove after rooting.

Query:-

1) Should i have removed 1.34 PC10IMG?

2)If i ever face a similar situation like mentioned above will it enter the recovery,if the1.34 PC10IMG file was not present ?(i did try to do away with updating the 1.34 PC10IMG,but always entered the HBoot on every subsequent restart and never allowed me to change the options from flashboot to anything else).

2a)If it does not enter recovery, then what is it to be done?

3)Currently i have stock 1.34 rom which says i do not have root(check this by installing rom manger )! but when i check Boot page, it says S-off and other Hboot etc.

I did run from step 1. to root DZ and it was back to good old rooted condition.

(Did a lot searching and reading but i couldn't answer the above questions- hence the thread also just not comfortable experimenting too much,might end bricking the phone :p)

Non-rooting query:-

4)Also what is use of app2sd/partition of sd-card!

i mean, as per my understanding this(app2sd) can"only"be used when there is partition in you sd-card which allows apps to be moved to sd-card,but when using MIUI rom i still can move most of the user apps to sd-card..

If these questions has been already asked and replied or even already explained please forgive me for creating this thread and please provide the link.. Would appreciate a lot..

Thanks..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEkANiK:
Anyone ... Sorry abt the long post...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverwind:
I only know no.4 :)

Since Froyo, you dont need this app. You can move it to your sd card under the Application setting. But, not all apps can be moved (such as task manager, pre installed app). You dont need to create partition, just install it and run it.

Anyway, since our DZ has internal memory 1,5 GB, I never moved apps to sd card :)

Cheers
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEkANiK:
Thanks ... 1 cleared.. 3 to go... :P
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nipqer:
For the other q's

Yes you should remove the PC10IMG from your sdcard.otherwise you can't get into recovery through bootloader.

(although you could boot to fastboot, and if you have the eng bootloader boot a recovery through terminal/cmd)

Did you run the "./root_psn" step of the rooting guide? If not that might be the error with not perm-root

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEkANiK:
Thanks for replying..

I did run "./root_psn"..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OriginalGabriel:
ROM Manager is just checking for su, I believe; try downloading SuperUser by ChainsDD from the market and flashing the su binary with it and then loading ROM Manager.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEkANiK:
I did try that but did not work.. it still kept saying /system/bin/su missing... anyways I removed the PC101M file and now any issues I am still able to enter recovery..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OriginalGabriel:
When you installed the application, did you also flash the binary? Launch the application, go into preferences and scroll to the bottom for the option to flash the binary
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schnergun:
nobosy cares about these things? I must be the only one I guess
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] poppygt:
I care about the ascending ringtone, I miss calls if my phones in another room and I don't hear it till the last ring.

Edit: After some time spent on Google it looks like this is a common issue with Samsung phones (ascending ringtone). The Cognition Rom for the regular GS2 fixes it but I have no clue how.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revengesrage:
hmm I've always preferred ascending, why not just keep your phone in your pocket... but I know someone else like that too... Good luck :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Njnear:
Odd I actually like the ascending ringtone.

I could be wrong, but I believe the phone keeps separate volume levels for headphones vs none. What happens if you adjust the volume with the headphones plugged in? Does the volume remain high after unplug and plug them back in?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] poppygt:
Can't charge it while it's in my pocket lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schnergun:
no each time you plug them it, it drops the volume again
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] MisterEdF:
[Follow Up] American Express "Premium Return" (return purchases up to 6 months later)

I am posting this as a follow-up to a thread I started a number of months ago only to show how this AMEX "service" functioned with respect to my Galaxy Tab 10.1. The original thread got very acrimonious with some people getting downright nasty, accusations of scam by Amex flying all over the place and a lot of general BS from all the would be, wannabe & so-called lawyers. I requested it be closed.

This is the original thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1141614

Anyway, backstory is I purchased a 10.1 Tab back in June basically for my wife (who really wanted a iPad 2). It was used a couple of hours and sat in a drawer 99% of the time. I decided to make use of my "up to 180 day return option." I purchased this Amex "plan" just for use with the Galaxy Tablet if it turned out, as I had expected, that my wife would have no use for it. I ended up getting her an iPad 2 the other day which is perfect for her.

This is the time-line of how the progress of the return went:

Tuesday, 10/4, 9:00AM, Called to request return of Galaxy Tab 10.1 32GIG for which I paid $600 at Amazon on June 16th and was given a claim number.

Tuesday, 10/4, 9:20AM, received an email confirmation of claim with instructions to mail or fax copy of Amazon receipt and & copy of credit card statement (with personal info blacked out). Letter said it could take “up to” 7 days to see the faxed documents in the system.

Tuesday, 10/4, 10:00AM, faxed documents.

Wednesday, 10/5, 2:18AM, received email confirmation faxed documents were received and message stating “it can take up to 30 days to process documents and get approval to return.”

Friday, 10/7, 2:00PM, 36hrs later, received email with approval of claim and return mailing label. I had to mail package at my expense but was told any fees up to $20 will be reimbursed. Letter stated it could take “up to” 30 days after package is received by them and item is checked to get my refund.

Friday, 10/7, 3:30PM, Shipped package USPS Priority with $600 insurance and signature confirmation, cost $19.70.

Saturday, 10/8, 11:00AM, mailed copy of shipping receipt for reimbursement.

Tuesday, 10/11, 9:00AM, Per USPS tracking saw that Package with Tablet was received by Amex

Wednesday, 10/12, 2:30AM, confirmation email that shipping reimbursement receipt was received.

Friday, 10/14 received confirmation that item was checked and was in "approved condition."

Tuesday, 10/18, 1:00PM received a confirmation letter that the payment was approved and “my check for $619.92 is in the mail.”

All in all a painless experience and anything other than a scam.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
So let me get this straight. You bought the Tab and didn't like/want it any longer. You used the Amex benefit to get rid of it. Other than any constructive commentary on what made you not like/want it, who cares what you did with it after that. This is more a post about the workings of the Amex benefits program than it is the G-Tab. As long as you're happy. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] MisterEdF:
Exactly. It was posted only to show that unlike what a number of people in the original thread stated, that the "program" was not a scam. They kept wanting "proof" that it wasn't a scam so I provided it.

Everything else written had no purpose other than to explain why it was posted. There are a lot of other threads started here with much less information and value. :cool: I can see all the trolls coming out of the woodwork so I may as well just have this closed now. ;)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
I have no dog in this hunt as I never even saw the original thread. Your post(s) seem a little self-indulgent rather than informational. Anyone with an Amex card knows how the program works so you're certainly not enlightening them. It's irrelevant to anyone who doesn't have an Amex card. So what was the point of both your original post and this encore?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] avisweta22:
please anyone provide me the mobile bravia engine
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emdaftrave:
Hey all. Just recently, or the last few times I've tried to back up my rom to try another, when my phone goes into recovery, I just get a black screen and therefore can't see what's going on. Does the same when I flash another rom but it still flashes, so I'll get my rom, but I just can't see what's going on. I thought it was my version of recovery but I tried another version and it did the same. Any ideas?

Thanks all.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emdaftrave:
Bump.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EndOfSource:
It seems the problem is with recovery, right?

Have you tried reinstalling the recovery via rom manager?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emdaftrave:
As in reflashing CWM? I just tried it yeah, same results.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
Is the screen completely black? Do you see any backlight?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bombadier:
Try 4ext recovery

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271775

Strange it is only in recovery you are getting a black screen,is the bootloader black screened as well?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EndOfSource:
Have you tried an older recovery version?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emdaftrave:
Sorry for the late reply, had no internet access. Bootloader is also blackscreened, and 4Ext doesn't work...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akubicek:
Hi, I have same problem.. Black screen in recovery and during the boot. When the system boots, screen is OK. Sometimes i have also blackscreen when I want to use HW keyboard. I tried 4ext, reflash older versions of CW but still the same. I can see a screen through Android Screen Monitor and I can cotrol it. But phone is blak, only backlight. Can somebody say, how to solve this issue? Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiddyl:
I have exact the same problem as described here. My bootloader and recovery screen stays black without backlight but with lighted capacitive buttons. I tried different versions of CWM and 4EXT and the problems is the same. During normal boot and phone usage the screen if fine.

I can't exactly recall when it started to happen, but I could flash CM nightly 263 without these problems and two days ago I found the problem about the black screen.

Anybody here has a possible solution to this problem?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davetibbs:
Does anyone have an answer to this? I bought a Desire Z off eBay - as far as I can tell it's stock - and this problem is driving me nuts. I also get an issue where sometimes the phone won't wake up straight away and I have to press the on/off switch quite a few times - the lights come on at the bottom of the screen but the screen stays black. The phone also won't wake properly if I slide it to wake it. However, it feels like a software issue rather than (say) a screen hardware issue as if I plug a charger in to wake the phone up, it does so immediately, every time.

Please, please help! I'm slowly going insane with this.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afgomar:
What kinda temps have u guys been getting?

When im on 4g and browsing alot i notice it heating up so i check the temp using elixir2 and its 44c.

Is that too much??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Depends on your ambient. If its around 28°C then its okay imo. It will heat up more if you play games. Anything under 60°C is ok imo.

Right now mine is 34°C, doing nothing but surfing net.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afgomar:
Oh really. Okay then my old droid x2 never felt that hot but i guess its okay then thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afgomar:
After using the phone for a while the brightness automatically goes down and when i go to increase it it tells meit needs brigtness lowered to prevent overheating? Happened to anyone else?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SweetBearCub:
I've been doing some searching on various sites, all of it fruitless so far, so here I am to ask the hive mind.

I need a music player that has a widget with large-ish controls, say 2x or 3x or so the size of the standard music app widget that comes with CM 7.1 stable. It doesn't need to show album art, but it would be a nice touch to retain the repeat mode icon and shuffle icon, in addition to the standard previous/next/play-pause controls.

Why do I want such a widget? For easier control when I have the Nook propped up on the exercise bike at the gym.

Thanks!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] onclebob:
You can look to widgesoid, you can make lot of widget personalization including music control. Mix this with a launcher that allow widget resizing like go launcher or launcher pro..
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ianPhillips1:
Try winamp, it has decent widhets, I ran it for a long time until ICS music apk came out.

sent from space
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SweetBearCub:
I tried Winamp's widets, the playback controls were still tiny, as were the stock Gingerbread music players'. I'm running ADWLauncher, and I tried to resize the widgets, but even though I could bring up a resize box, I couldn't get them to scale up.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ianPhillips1:
What about putting the player buttons in the notification power wigets?

Ian

sent from my ereader
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] zires:
Playerpro has really nice widgets even on the lock screen.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rvpals:
PowerAMP has it, check it out.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SweetBearCub:
I checked the power widget options, and didn't see anything about music player options. Also, I did see the CM options to let the volume button long-presses control the music, but when I tried them, I got no response for several seconds, then the payer went "nuts" skipping forward as fast as it could about 40 times or so.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SweetBearCub:
Unfortunately neither of those are legitimately free. Is there a free option that has large widgets?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rvpals:
I purchased both Player Pro & PowerAmp. In my opinion, they're both worth the money.

Try winamp.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Cyboy:
I also need such a full screen widget say with 4 rectangle main playback controls so each one would gets placed on every quarter of screen

Or realize an on screen floating D-pad (pretty missing feature on android) scrolling huge lists etc…

It will be much more delicious being combined with #popup-wigdet app

(Dont suggest me trying root-needing features since every devices aint rooted / rootable)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tnnm:
Has anyone found a compatible bluetooth mouse? I can't find a standalone bluetooth mouse that will successfully pair with my DB (I have tried a Targus Model#: AMB04US and a Think Outside BT Mouse).

Furthermore, all posts I can find relating to the subject are for a keyboard with a built-in trackpad but I hate trackpads. I want to use a standalone bluetooth mouse and don't want to have to buy a dock (I am using the Webtop hack that bypasses the need for a dock).

Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TheNinthPlayer:
I successfully used my MS Bluetooth Mouse 5000 on the web-top. But here's the thing that might be causing your issue with the other mice: When I went to pair the mouse with the web-top it was waiting for me to enter a pairing code on the phone screen window and since i had that window behind a Firefox window and I didn't realize it the pairing process kept failing.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Jstylen:
Logitech has a mouse out meant for android tablets. Maybe give that one a try?