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[General Questions and Answers] galangdj:
Hi everyone,

Sorry I'm a newbie here and I'm hoping that I came into the right place to post this question. I badly need some advice.

Let me introduce myself, I am from Thailand and just a student. I know all my life I wanted that Samsung Galaxy S 2 android phone but it seems I can't make it to that real amount of money. So, from thinking too much I came with a plan to buy a phone there in US, those with contracts because they are much cheaper (please correct me if I'm wrong). And let my friend carry with him when he got back into our place. Please be guided that he's on the US now and am planning to be back on November so I got plenty of time to save and buy it.

My question is.

1. Is it possible to buy online from those carriers like AT&T, Sprint and etc considering I am from Thailand?

2. If the answer to question no. 1 is yes, I'm thinking that I will have a locked phone meaning I can't use it with other GSM (other SIM). So can I unlock it?

3. I heard some things like "Flashing Custom ROM". Is it okay? Will it unlock for phone if you do that?

I know my motives aren't so good but this is the only way I think is the best. Thanks a lot guys! Have a good day everyone.

Best Regards,

Paolo
[General Questions and Answers] WiredPirate:
No.

10char
[General Questions and Answers] simple.phi:
Just as WierdPirate mentioned above, it is( unfortunately for you) not possible to that.

Why?

First of all, for you to get the Galaxy S II, you need to sign a contract. For you to personally do that you must:

a) Be a

legal

U.S Resident

b) Be at least 18 Years Old

c) Have a valid U.S Address

Be aware of the following, even if you do manage to do acquire one in some way:

The device may come cheap but you sign a two year contract with the carrier in question, another hurdle to overcome.

There may be ways to avoid sales taxes, but that won't compensate for it not working outside the US.

Hope this helps. :)
[Droid Pro General] johnny5126:
When I was running Froyo on my Pro, it worked fine. Now that i upgraded to Gingerbread, I can no longer deposit checks by taking a picture of it. The pic comes out blurry and unusable. Taking regular pics are fine. What gives?
[Droid Pro General] johnny5126:
Does anyone have any ideas?
[Droid Pro General] clifference:
Seems to be a problem with every Gingerbread MOTOBLUR device
[Nexus S General] chinopski:
what is the best radio for i9023 in the philippines? im currently using kb3
[Xoom General] dino325:
Hey guys,

So I’m having a bit of a dilemma. Here's my situation, my Xoom had been updated to 4G already. My issue is that I can't diagnose when exactly a loss of data connectivity occurs when swapping sims with my Thunderbolt.

Here is what I’ve found so far.

-Upon receipt of Xoom back from Moto I,

1. Flashed recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img

2. Flashed Universal root method.

No problems with Wifi or Data until I attempted to swap Sim card with my Thunderbolt. Then complete loss of data and WiFi. I tried restarting and removing sim, Power cycling with Vol-up/Pwer with no results.

-From here I hard reset back to stock.

I then Reflashed recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img.

Root was still intact so I flashed Android Honeycomb 3.2.2 - Stock & Rooted, which put me at HLK42B. I had 3g/4g however no WiFi. At this point I tried sim swapping without powering down and after a force restart was successful in using the TB sim card. My Verizon updated to my unlimited plan and all on the Xoom home screen.

I however decided to try and fix WiFi so I without wiping flashed HLK42C provided by SemperAndroid. This restored all WiFi connectivity and 3g/4g remained intact. I also flashed the "Tachi" kernel and OC'd to 1.4. I experienced no outages of data all last night and today.

However this afternoon I attempted to swap my sim card and after a forced restart was met with no data connectivity but working WiFi. I power cycled several times with no result. I then powered down and pulled the sim, put in the Xoom sim and restarted with no results. However after approx 3-4 times of powering down and pulling the sim I received about 20 seconds of 1x connectivity and then a short while later I noticed I had 3g showing but when I went to connect to browser it disconnected and I received a page couldn’t be loaded.

I also tried to restore a backup I had to HLK42B but it did not restore any data.

So it appears that so far we can only swap sims successfully on HLK42B however we lose WiFi connectivity as a result. Anyone have any other findings to share?

Thanks for your time..

Dave
[Xoom General] dino325:
Update:

Alright some more trial and error. I'm can't completely confirm it yet but so far it really seems that the manner in which you swap the sim card is what might cause the loss of data.

Last night I reverted to a backup of HLK42B which didn't initially store data but after troubleshooting a few times I learned that putting the settings into CDMA only and restarting seemed to reattempt the activation to the network.

Anyways, after getting back data, I decided to swap in my TB sim again. This time I pulled the tray out waited about 15 seconds for the "Please insert sim card" popup and plugged my TB sim back in then restarted via the popup.

Viola, 4g connectivity, I had lost root due to restoring my backup of HLK42B so I flashed recovery and universal root and data checked ok. I then flashed HLK42C over HLK42B and still retained data while on the TB sim. Backed up and flashed Tachi kernel and still maintained data. I then pulled the sim tray in the same manner allowing 15 seconds or so and reinserted the Xoom sim and restarted via the popup. Again no issues with data connectivity.

My only issue I can see was the manner in which I pulled the sim card out initially yesterday. In an attempt to trick the system I pulled the Xoom sim and immediately popped in the TB sim without allowing the device to popup with the notification of "No sim card inserted" After that I experienced the loss of data..

Again these aren't backed up with any technically "real" proof, just trial and error.. If anyone has anything else to share please let me know..

Dave
[Xoom General] kurttrail:
You just picked the wrong time to swap cards. VZW was having connectivity problems yesterday.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
Because for last one month I have seen no new apps and no new games.

Wtf is this ****.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giddorah:
Sounds like a local problem... About 200 games/apps are added each day.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcoholic:
Lots of apps being added every day for me
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MR_Plow:
So I went through the process of rooting my phone and flashed CWM onto it this morning.

I was also in the process of flashing CM7 when things started going wrong.

I said I wanted to install the .zip from the sdcard--> apply /sdcard/update.zip and it seemed to succeed and so i exited out of the recovery mode.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get out of the loading screen since.

I can still access the recovery mode and the download mode and have thus tried clearing caches and doing the "wipe data/factory reset" and flashing the same clockwork recovery.tar file I was using before.

I've tried flashing a stock rom but now Odin (1.82 and 1.85) won't recognize my phone. I've tried going about the Heimdall route, but for some reason the command line just instantly crashes whenever I start it and don't quite understand the frontend either.

Other things to note:

The phone seems to restart pretty randomly, sometimes directly after I've pulled out the battery or if it's just sitting around.

The load screen that my GS2 is stuck on shows "Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100" despite it being the at&t version.

Can someone help?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
You missed a step in the CM7 installation instructions. Reread them again, CAREFULLY.

And I'm getting tired of saying this, but also please refrain from posting new threads until you have read, at a bare minimum, the first post of every sticky thread in a forum before posting to that forum, in the event that one of your questions might be a:

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: Instructions

You really need to follow ALL the instructions in the CyanogenMOD thread were you got the CM7 zipfile to a "TEE".

It's still not too late, going back to the first post in the thread where you downloaded the CM7 from would be my first choice!

(your only problem is that you have not followed the instructions to a "tee") :)
[HTC Sensation] APmoss13:
Hello, I have a T-Mobile HTC Sensation 4G, and I've ran into some problems recently. I'm a basic-intermediate user when it comes to Android, but I can't find a solution specifically for this. It started with a small problem but got worse and worse until I couldn't even boot correctly.

I started out installing a small custom battery mod, but that led to a few problems with the notification bar (not a big deal).

Then I tried to revert to the stock battery to fix the problem, format cache and dalvik cache in recovery, and reset. Then I was put into an infinite boot loop with the HTC splash, but going into cwm recovery was still possible.

Then, in recovery, I could not access my sd card for some reason, so I shut off, reinserted the sd card, and remounted it, then I reset again.

Now, it's impossible to boot to android at all, and I am completely stuck at HBOOT/FASTBOOT, and cannot access recovery OR perform a hard reset.

If I try to reinstall cwm recovery, I get a partition update fail as well...

I have full root, s-off, etc.

ROM- InsertCoin 3.3.1

Kernel- Stock

Hboot- 1.17.1011

Clockwork version- 5.0.0.8

Any suggestions? Am I bricked? :( I can give more details if needed.
[HTC Sensation] neoissuperman:
I think you could take a official RUU and rename to the same as if you were trying to flash CWR pm58img or whatever it is.... Don't have my files with me. It should reformat to stock. Hope it helps.
[HTC Sensation] APmoss13:
Alright, thanks, I'll try that soon and see if it works.

Update: Unfortunately, I don't think I can flash anything, it just comes up with a partition update fail...
[HTC Sensation] APmoss13:
Anyone else know what I could try? I also tried to flash the 1.45 RUU, but it can't continue past the search for the bootloader.
[HTC Sensation] joshndroid:
If u can get to fastboot have u tried manually flashing recovery.img ie

Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

This should work if u can get into fastboot and allow u to then get back to a recovery and may save ya life lol

Sent from my mind control device
[HTC Sensation] APmoss13:
I just tried that, but I get this error in the terminal-

"writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: image update error)"

I tried adb devices, and it's not even recognized, even though my sensation says FASTBOOT USB...
[HTC Sensation] joshndroid:
have you tried re-installing the drivers...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1161769

from here to see if the phone will re-mount the phone...

also have you tried adb remount... see if that works?

personally im running out of ideas
[HTC Sensation] APmoss13:
Nope, still nothing, I even tried different sd cards and usb cables, with no difference...

So has my phone been reduced to a paperweight? :(
[HTC Sensation] Divine flaw:
ummmm just a quick questions.... if you are on the fastboot screen and at the top it says fastboot usb have you tried running the ruu from there and are you scid? what carrier are you on? also in another post above this you said the bootloader doesnt get past the searching files, im wondering if you left the .zip that says pm58img on the root of your sd card. that could be the reason it doesnt get past that screen. just trying to get more info to see if we can get more help for you.
[HTC Sensation] APmoss13:
Yes, I have tried to flash the 1.45 Pyramid RUU, but when the RUU tries to reset my phone into bootloader, it just resets right back into fastboot (the RUU command stays at "waiting for bootloader"). I am also super cid and my carrier is US T Mobile. I made sure not to leave the update package on my sd card, and I even tried the RUU without an sd card at all, but no difference.
[HTC Sensation] Divine flaw:
ok.... i was just askin cause did the exact same thing (well almost, i tried to change the notification icons which resulted in my notification bar completely gone) you did and got into that infinite boot loop. and couldnt boot into android. and couldnt figure it out. the only thing i did was just install the ruu while i was in the fastboot screen and it worked. i wasnt aware that there was a 1.45 ruu for tmous but i dont think that should matter since you are scid anyways. now im just wonderin if you tried any other ruu's besides that one. for me i flashed the 1.29 ruu for tmous and that got me up and running...... sorry i couldnt help :(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slixzen:
Does anyone have the stock touchwiz launcher? I thought I had my Titanium Backup saved to do three instances of backup, and I accidently overwrote the original APK file that I had backed up. I was trying to test to touchwiz 4.5 mod, and I didn't end up liking it so, now I want to go back to the original.

If you can't provide it to me here, would you be able to point me in the right direction of where I might be able to find it?

Many thanks,

GH0
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] greatlakesghost:
http://db.tt/9BMbrfuc

That was extracted from starburst rom v 1.5. Hope that is what you were looking for.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slixzen:
As long as it was repackaged from the stock rom, then yep. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] greatlakesghost:
I believe so but don't quote me on that lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kee:
I've been trying to reflash my Bell Galaxy S from not booting up without success. I have tried Odin and Heimdall no less then 10 times with different suggestions in this forum. And I went from getting the "Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1" when the phone first loop boot to not booting at all after first Odin, then to "Can't mount /dev/block/stl10" - "Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1" after another Odin.

After many Odin and Heimdall flashes now all I got is just a round inanimated "sun-ray" with the usb cable plugged-in or the Samsung splash screen without the usb cable.

I don't want to proceed further because I think the solutions I got from other posts are not specific enough for my situation.

I have read in many posts that you MUST disable lagfix before flashing with Odin or Heimdall. This I did not do because my phone started to loop-boot with the lagfix enabled.

Someone even mentioned here you can't flash your Galaxy too many times as every flash is registered in the phone, or you will void your warranty.....

My phone: Bell Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000M. Updated from Eclair to Froyo via Kies. I do not know the exact Froyo version but my mental image of the "About phone" info screen seems to agree with UGJK3. Rooted and lagfix enabled while running Froyo.

Firmware packages I have tried back and forth so far:

s1_odin_20100803.pit

DBdata.rfs.tar (and I followed this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=953339)

I9000UGJH2

I9000UGJK3

I9000UGJL2 (last thing I did on Odin and flash with re-partition)

And I did check the re-partition box in some cases when flashing with Odin.

Hope I can get more help here so that I don't damage the phone any further.....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwsk:
Did you unlagfix before the update? My guess (but I'm no expert) would be that your partitions are still in ext4 which isn't recognized by stock firmware. Could try flashing the an appropriate kernel for your rom which supports the format.

Also, when I have problems after flashing I usually flash back to my previous known working configuration. In this case it would be some eclair rom, and the kernel which supports your lagfix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobertSand:
odin

find your stock rom from ramad, flash with odin 3 files with repartition and pit.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1102881

no problem to flash in odin with ext4 system.

its important to open odin and insert the files before you connect the phone, also take out the battery before you enter download mode can do the trick.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kurre:
Removing lagfix isn't mandatory if you are using

re-partition option, since it's setting up all partitions and formatting 'em also. I have many times flashed with Odin without removing lagfix and never had any problems regarding it..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kee:
Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

I only applied lagfix after I updated from eclair to froyo. There was no further update after that. So my last working firmware should be a froyo. The bootloop was not caused by any software update process. I dropped the phone and the battery came off. I rebooted the phone (most icons missing from home screen after this boot) but the camera application gave me an error msg when I used it so I rebooted it again. It started to bootloop after this reboot.

I couldn't get the phone in the download mode without the phone battery. And if I get to download mode with the battery, plug the usb, then remove the batter, the phone turned off. so not having the phone battery is not an option to me.

So I did too more reflashes, screen shots attached:

(1) UGJG8

(2) UGKG3

The phone still looped with the circular bars.

I'm wondering if I should check the Phone Bootloader Update box at Odin. Or should I tried Darky Resurrection Edition rom?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kee:
I took your suggestion and flashed a rom that supports ext4. I flashed it with Darky's Resurrection 10.2. Now I got a boot menu after the reboot. But I got "failed to mount /sdcard (file exists)"

Any idea? thanks.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] bhowanidin:
Is anyone else excited to hear about Grand Theft Auto III making it onto the 10.1 this fall?

http://m.rockstargames.com/newswire...uto-iii-10th-anniversary-edition-for-sel.html

Sent from my Cyanogen-filled G2x or my GTab 10.1 now "In Paris"
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] animelover:
I'm very excited, of course! It's one of the best games ever!

Hopefully they'll implement a good and adjustable control system! Or even better: support for Gamepads! :eek::D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] cro galaxy:
GTA3 on touch screen...lol
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] hebbe:
on the ipad it's quite playable...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] bhowanidin:
Please refrain from speaking about iCraps in my post. Thanks.

Sent from my Cyanogen-filled G2x or my GTab 10.1 now "In Paris"
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] hebbe:
honestly, did you understand my post?!

so, according to you, gta III must be icrap!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] bhowanidin:
...seems I need to re-read. And no, GTA III is the bomb. Claude doesn't talk for the whole game!

Sent from my Cyanogen-filled G2x or my GTab 10.1 now "In Paris"
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] hebbe:
yeah, gta rocks.

and it seems that cro galaxy is doubting about gta on a touchscreen-tablet, when i just said that it's quite playable (on an ipad, where i had gta installed). i'm not talking about a***e, never ever would i trade my galaxy tab for an ipad!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Matthewbe:
I am SUPER excited and I cant wait till it comes out!

(But I bet I will)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Patrul:
Excited to play on the new version. Will need OC?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Spartoi:
I'm curious to how they price it. Probably $15-20.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] quentin0:
That would be too much. I think $9.99 would be ideal.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] cro galaxy:
gta on tablet is a third of the original playable expirience! sorry on my english :-)

....:D.....
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] DBBGBA:
the beta version i tried at NYCC was only 70to80% done they told me, graphics were really toned down and the streets pretty empty. Gameplay is exactly the same as the original PS2 release. Price will be in sync with other high end iphone games they said, but it was still in discussion (so I'm guessing about 9.99 to 19.99). Unfortunately I don't like the 4:3 aspect ratio of the ipad and I thought the game looked rather silly in it :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] quentin0:
Eh, that kinda sucks...but I guess it's to be expected, right? I mean, there isn't much horsepower phones can offer, they are a few mm's thick and they aren't even actively cool by a fan or anything, so it'd be unreasonable to ask it to do everything a PS2 can do.

Maybe when we get 2.5ghz dual-core SoCs and the quad-core kal-el is when we can demand PS2 level graphics :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] DBBGBA:
True but after seeing the latest gameloft games I was expecting a bit more, overall it wasn't bad, I would say just a bit of massaging and it might look like one of the GTA on PSP.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] bhowanidin:
Yeah, graphics on PS2 were not the best with some PSP games blowing it away. Already know this game will smoke the iPad version - I asked Siri...

Sent from my EagleBlood-infused SGSII or my GTab 10.1 now "In Paris"
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] twisted89:
Anyone heard anything on the release date?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Nainconpetant:
i would prefer vici city because of the bikes.

GTA 3 was my first GTA and the first game i bought for computer
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0051QYJ8C/ref=mp_s_a_3?qid=1318821526&sr=8-3
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] TheAtheistReverend:
Not bad...

Anyone try these yet?

I'm kind of a case junkie. I think I'll order one.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Mine will be here in a day or two
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] TheAtheistReverend:
Yeah. Already ordered. Hope they're worth every penny :D
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Hahaha me too. I bought another case for .75 :-) both white...looks amazing...so ready to get it.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nerdUnv:
Shweet always wanted my dinc2 to be white or red or blue.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] TheAtheistReverend:
Well, the screen protector is about as cheap as it gets and the case looks cool but leaves a space between the battery door of the phone and the back of the case. I assume this is because of the raised lenses on the camera and the inability to contour around it for cheap.

Though this case might work for an extended battery! I would love it if someone tried this case on their extended battery cover and reported back.

Edit: Now I realize the whole raised part of the back has space. Weird. Doesn't fit the phone right. There is space between the case and the camera lenses, the speaker, all of it.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
I'll try it today.

Yea the screen protector sucks but gets the job done

I had found another case that was hard plastic for .75 so I got it and it was a great buy.

If I've helped. don't neglect my thanks button :-)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Works with the extended battery

If I've helped. don't neglect my thanks button :-)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] TheAtheistReverend:
That's awesome! I wonder how many others out there do?!

Fits nice then?

Dang, I might get that extended battery after all.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
It's really tight and a tad to small. But it fits better than it did on a regular batter...where you at? I have an extra battery and case

If I've helped. don't neglect my thanks button :-)