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[Verizon Droid Charge] mjdato:
At this point it will not charge or boot up into anything so I'm not sure if it's even recoverable right now....where should I even start?
[Verizon Droid Charge] mjdato:
I truly wish I was. LOL
[Verizon Droid Charge] wampuscat:
Well since u partitioned with the pit. Ur phone is sitting there with nothing on it. No rom, no kernel,recovery etc. So i know humble 5 wont work cuz it doesn't include a kernel. Humble 4 will however work. It includes a kernel and a recovery .have u did everything in the "Hoe to fix your phone "thread on top of development section?
[Verizon Droid Charge] blueis300:
I've had problems at times getting my phone into download mode. Just gonna toss some stuff out there as I'm sure there are people that know more than me. Is there anyway you can have a charged or extra battery charged? I would hmm uninstall the samsung drivers etc..or atleast re install so your phone is recognized when you plug it in the usb. So you can get your phone into download mode and Odin doesnt see it? Have you followed the directions in the stickys on the Dev page to a T? Im sure you have tried all usb ports,different cable, hell different computer. If you still can't get it back up as many have posted they haven't seen to many totally bricked phones I would love to have something to just play around with. If you dont have insurance and cant get it exchanged let me know. Pretty sure though more people will chime in and get things working though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wampuscat:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1111486. I can promise you this will fix your phone
[Verizon Droid Charge] mjdato:
I can get it into download mode and Odin recognizes it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mjdato:
Trying it now...
[Verizon Droid Charge] blueis300:
Ok so load the .pit file, check re partition, uncheck the other 2 option. Load ed1 or ee4 and load.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wampuscat:
So you gotta tell me .....Did it work? The suspense is killing me! Hope it did
[Verizon Droid Charge] ezas:
The Odin version of Humble 5 includes both the kernel and radio. Just didn't want there to be confusion about it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mrtruckincowboy:
Must have worked no more rant lol
[Verizon Droid Charge] mjdato:
Unfortunately, it did not work. I turned it back in to my company who took it in to the store who said that somehow the battery got fried. It was not wet or anything so not sure what happened.

But I went ahead and bought a Rezound, rooted it and have been infinitely more pleased with this device.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 850T5m:
Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum and to android phones. Coming from an iPhone, I recently purchased an Android (SGH-T989D)

I was reading around and decided to root my phone, went perfect. I then read about all the cool Mods that could be installed over the stock OS in order to improve it. I decided on BeastMod.

I realize that BeastMOD is for T-Mobile, but I have read numerous data speed results from users attaining like 20MBps download...I decided to give it a try on my Telus phone. It seems to be working perfectly, faster boot, fast scrolling on the screen. Quadrant benchmark got a 400-500 points higher than stock. My only concern was my data download speed. Previously I was hitting about 5000-6000Kbps, whereas now I am hitting max 3500kbps. On the top status bar it says 3G instead of 4G. I read somewhere that its just a picture, and I will still have my 4G speeds.

Anyone know what I'm dling slower than before?

Note: I realize this is the wrong place to post this, but I am not yet able to post in the Android Dev. Section yet.

Thank you very much!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sl___:
Welcome to the forum. It is my first android phone too :).

Your data speeds may just be due to network fluctuations. I'm also with Telus and I once hit the speeds in my signature, but this is not all the time. Try testing the speed sometime later, because I noticed in general BeastMod helped with my data speeds. Yes the 3G icon is just a bug because the roms are built based on the T-mobile one. But you should still be getting 4G speeds if you are in the right area. 3500kbps is a lot faster than 3G anyways. :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeyinid:
You posted in the right section. As far as your data speed, its probably network related, not software. I'd run some more tests over the next few days and see if it gets any better
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 850T5m:
Will do, thanks for the quick replies.appreciate it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miahegypt:
I'm trying to connect my SGS2 to kies Using Kies via wirless

I got connected but Kies keeps loading the device and no access to the phone

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Kies is working fine via USB but i need Kies via wifi to sync the phone at my office and home PCs and i lost my cable 2 days ago

is there some thing i can do to make this work

Edit : Kies Air is working fine but i need Kies Via Wireless
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Odia:
Try to disable your firewall it maybe is blocking the ports needed by Kies.
[Motorola Droid X2] stevenjcampbell:
Hope someone can help...

I installed the latest build of eclipse but I do not seem to have any auto rotate in any part of the os... regardless of the app I am in.

I have uninstalled launcher pro (the market installed it automatically) and cleared the launcher data reset defaults etc...

Nothing.

Any ideas?

I see nothing in eclipse parts...
[Motorola Droid X2] stevenjcampbell:
Nevermind I fixed it under display sorry for the unnecessary thread.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't remember this happening before. Recently I've noticed that the images pulled up in the browser on my phone (Opera Mobile, for those interested) look like crap.

I mean, sure, they always did look a bit yucky while scrolling, but generally once I stopped moving the page around, they'd sharpen back up. Now they aren't sharpening back up at all--unless I'm on wifi, then it works fine (as it should).

I wouldn't mind if they compressed images slightly to add a bit more responsiveness, but these images look awful, as if they were saved at below 50% jpeg image quality.

I've searched around xda and the web for info on this, but there simply aren't any recent threads about it. Everything is from two or three years ago, or doesn't apply on my network (T-Mobile US).

So yeah. This is annoying. I don't like my images looking so bad, and some of them, especially on sites like Engadget and Anantech where the front-page images are already compressed for speed of loading, they look not like images at all but simply fuzzy blobs of color!
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Nothing at all? :( Am I stuck with ugly images until my contract runs out, and then choose... what?

No matter what I search for the only fixes are for PCs, not phones. I didn't buy a device with a 4" samoled to look at ugly compressed-to-hell images from 1997... :|
[Networking] joeearl13:
Does it also happen with images in the stock browser?
[Networking] synaesthetic:
It happens on any browser, and any app that fetches JPEGs from the internet.

Edit: I called T-Mobile and complained. I'm not sure how legit their answer was, but it would line up with what I've seen. I don't remember my images being compressed on the handset before a few days ago, and the T-Mobile representative said there was something wrong with the system and it was being worked on, but she didn't know when it'd be fixed. This sort of makes sense, because I never experienced excessive image compression before.

I don't see though how a system issue could cause a transparent proxy to start compressing all of my images out of the blue, though. I suppose some devices (maybe featurephones and the like) would get routed through the proxy to make them run faster, but I remember everything looking just as good in Opera Mobile on my NS as it did in Firefox on my laptop, regardless of whether I was on wifi or 3G.

Edit #2: It looks like I'm being routed through Web2Go instead of regular smartphone data... whenever I enter an invalid web address, the T-Mobile Web2Go search form comes up. This never used to happen, I'd get a generic browser "page not found" error in the past...

Edit #3: Seriously, there is nothing on this anywhere? Nobody knows how to fix it or get around it?
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Great, now the Google+ app crashes whenever I try to view an image due to the compression...
[Networking] tafoxx:
That's no surprise. Google seems like the type to build secure apps, and this sort of transparent proxying can raise hell with checksums.

You're not the only one. I just noticed this happening about a week or two ago, and I'm really hoping it's not a permanent policy change. So far I haven't seen this issue show up in the default browser, but they cast a wide net--it's even compressing images downloaded by the Amazon Appstore. I'm going to poke around and see if I can identify other symptoms, but if this continues to be a problem I'm going to call T-Mobile and be very insistent. I've heard that threatening to cancel can be very persuasive, and this problem is unacceptable.
[Networking] DroidVPN:
Just install a VPN on your phone so that your HTTP request wont be proxied. You can also try setting a proxy in your browser, although Im not sure if that can circumvent their transparent proxies.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
It seems to be inconsistent across the network. My friend in Indiana has it happen to her, but others I know in other parts of the country have done tests and their images are the same size whether the page was opened on mobile data or wifi.

If I could use my router (which has dd-wrt already flashed) I could just set up my own VPN, but alas I have to use my roommate's, which doesn't have that capacity.
[Networking] xaccers:
Over this side of the pond on O2, it depends which APN username is used.

So if I use the mobile one it compresses images, if I use bypass or faster as the username it doesn't compress.

I believe that these are used with USB mobile broadband devices, so I wonder if you can find the APN settings for one of them and give it a try.
[Networking] lotherius:
Another advantage is, if you're on public wifi, protecting any clear-text passwords and sensitive information from being sniffed.

However, you may find that your webpage load-times will be longer, due to the lack of image compression and the extra hops necessary to go through your VPN server.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
It's still happening, so I'm becoming more interested in setting up a VPN on my router... the extra security will also be nice. :)

I haven't yelled at T-Mobile recently due to school keeping me busy, but I'll probably call them yet again sometime this week. Even if they can't do anything and I'm stuck using a VPN, maybe I can wring some discounts or credits out of them for my annoyance.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
I FIXED IT! :D

Or rather, circumvented it.

Just dicking around with settings, I randomly changed my APN from epc.t-mobile.com to internet2.voicestream.com... and the excessive compression has completely disappeared!

I don't see any other ill effects from doing it either... though I haven't tried to send an MMS.

The APN settings I used:

Name: T-Mobile US alt

APN: internet2.voicestream.com

Proxy: <not set>

Port: <not set>

Username: <not set>

Password: <not set>

Server: <not set>

MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc

Proxy: 216.155.165.50

Port: 8080

MCC: 310

MNC: 260

Authentication type: <not set>

APN type: <not set>

APN protocol: IPv4
[Networking] GlenH:
I seem to be suffering pretty badly from this on the Orange UK netowrk. Images in the facebook app pretty much useless they are so compressed, and even the images in the market are terrible.

Does anyone know a suitable APN to bypass image compression on Orange UK?

EDIT: Orange seem to keep this pretty quiet, but it turns out you can go to http://accelerator.orange.co.uk (when connected to the orange network) and select your level of compression there! :-)
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Yeah, unfortunately there's no such option on T-Mobile USA. And now my alternative APN is also being compressed. Only it's a lot milder compression, so I'm just going to tolerate it for now until I can get a satisfactory VPN setup ready.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Well, there went my "mild" compression on the internet2.voicestream.com APN. Now it's just as heavy and as ugly as before, with horrible banding artifacts and halos everywhere. JPEG file sizes are being decreased to less than one-third of the original size, and it doesn't seem to discriminate at all--in the browser, in the Market, everywhere.

Even the app icons in the Android Market look ugly and overly compressed!

Think I may have to go see what the blue deathstar can do. :/ If they don't compress their images I may just switch... even though it's more expensive for a slower network... this is just horrible, though. Modern web pages are so full of images and rely heavily on images to deliver the content and style of the page. With them being compressed to below a third of their original size, it's just not a satisfying internet experience at all.
[Networking] lotherius:
I'm wondering if they're linking compression to the amount of mobile data you've used, or if they think you're tethering?

I wasn't getting any compression artifacts until I started tethering a little over a week ago. Now I'm getting heavily compressed images as well.

Myself, I'm not complaining *too* much because my connection is pathetically slow to begin with and the smaller images help. However, it would be nice if it only did it on epc and not internet2 or internet3...
[Networking] synaesthetic:
It's extremely frustrating for me because my connection is stupidly fast. I can pull down 700-800kb/s on downloads and speedtest app routinely pegs me between 4.5 and 6Mbps downstream. And this is on a phone that isn't HSPA+ capable.

Clearly this is MORE than enough bandwidth to handle uncompressed images. I never, ever had a problem or a complaint about the speed at which pages loaded.

But now, I'm to the point where I'm literally willing to trade my fast connection and low-ish bill for AT&T's iPhone-clogged network in the Bay Area just so my images stay uncompressed.

(And no, Verizon and Sprint are not options. Sprint's service is complete ass in the East Bay, and besides, they're both CDMA which is complete fail).

Edit: Somehow after futzing with the APN settings, the "lesser" compression has returned. It's still not perfect, but it's a lot more tolerable than the "full" compression which reduces images to about 1/4 their original size... the "lesser" compression only reduces it to about 1/2.

Edit #2: I wonder if they're using UA strings to identify who is "tethering" and who is not. Because I use Opera Mobile and I have the UA string set to Desktop, because I hate mobile sites. This means my UA string shows my phone as an unspecified Linux PC using Opera 11.5. I wonder if that's affecting the compression in any way... changing the UA back to Mobile didn't seem to help, however, and my partner's phone has never used any browser or user agent besides the stock Android one (she also has the compression).
[Networking] lotherius:
I have no evidence, but I'm leaning toward the idea that they are detecting tethering and enabling image compression based on that. I *never* had compressed images on my mobile device until I started tethering. I know a lot of folks are saying "they can't tell", but you'd be surprised about how much they CAN tell. User Agent isn't the only way the can tell.... They can also tell what type of client is doing DNS lookup.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Except I'm not tethering. I tethered a lot before, and they never compressed my images. Now that I'm not tethering, images are compressed. WTF T-Mobile?
[Networking] DroidVPN:
Are you using opera mobile? Maybe opera mobile is the one compressing your images? You might want to try Opera MINI and set image compression to none. That will bypass your ISPs image compressors :) only downside the website will be less interactive.
[Networking] lotherius:
Actually, has not a thing to do with Opera Mobile. T-Mobile triggers compression on some users for unknown reasons, though I suspect it has to do with high data usage. It affects all JPG images but not PNG's, regardless of browser and regardless of APN used. It is *extreme* compression - the quality of images is degraded to the quality of week old excrement.

Once it's been triggered, there is no notice and no apparent way to turn it back off. Even the Market UI comes through heavily compressed (since the Android Market UI is nearly all cloud-based now).
[Networking] damac:
I'm not sure of this in US, but in UK, they redirect all your web requests via their own servers to compress images. You can turn it off, but it doesn't stick between sessions which is effing annoying. Anyway, here's a quote from T-mobile UK rep:

---------- Post added at 11:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:00 AM ----------

If you're tethering and using Firefox, here's another solution:

You need an extension called 'Modify Headers'. You'll need to configure the extension once after its installed. Click Tools and then Modify Headers from the main Firefox menu bar. Then, you'll see at the top of it's window a drop down where you can choose 'Add', 'Modify' or 'Filter'. We want to choose 'Add'. Then in the next text input enter 'Pragma' (without quote marks) and then in the second text input add 'no-cache' (again without quote marks). Click the add button to add this rule. Then you need to add another rule. Again choose 'Add' from the drop down, then enter 'Cache-Control' and 'no-cache' into the two text inputs. Add this rule and make sure they are both enabled, they should have a green dot by them.

In the Modify Headers window (Tools > Modify Headers) there is a button called 'Configuration'. Click on this and then check the 'Always On' checkbox.
[Networking] lotherius:
Looks like that's UK only. Even tried the software download of the Accelerator settings too, and it just says "Optimization service is not available". Search of Google-Fu shows there's not any US equivalent of that service that anyone seems to know of. I certainly don't remember it from when I worked in t-mobile tech support either.
[Networking] damac:
Aah..., but here's another weird thing. This compression was 'ON' permanently on all T-mobile UK broadband without any public interface to it, until quite recently when they presented users with the option to turn it off. Maybe too many users made too much noise? Anyway try the modify headers extension on firefox in my previous post and if that works, then they're definitely doing the same thing in US as well.

Oh another thing, when web pages are loading, browser status bar shows getting data from addresses like 1.2.3.4 and 1.2.3.5 etc. That's another sign of their proxy being applied.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
The modify headers addon works great when I'm tethering my laptop, but it's not useful to prevent compression on the handset itself.

The compression seems to be triggered by something, I'm not really sure. Maybe it's related to network congestion. Sometimes it just randomly comes back very strong, everything is banded and ugly, and if I mess around with my UA string, the compression slacks off a bit for a while, until whatever happened before brings it back.

Right now there is compression being applied, but it's not nearly as bad as it was originally. It's tolerable, but I think I'm just going to have to set up a VPN at home to make it go away permanently.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Still going on. :/ It doesn't happen on AT&T, and I'd be willing to switch over this, but they want such a huge deposit that I can't pay for getting out of my contract and all of that and new phones...

Ugh. Should have never gotten on a contract to begin with.
[Networking] drazyw:
All my web traffic is being compressed as well. I'm using the T-mobile Rocket 2.0 data stick so no tether cheats going on here. T-mobile changed the terms and conditions back in July to include the right to compress video and images when ever they want. As per T-mobile's fair use policy, I see this as an easy way out of your contract as it has a significant impact on your mobile web usage. I'll be switching to Verizon and I'll let you all know if I'm able to get out of my ETF.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
Yeah, I'm done. After so much hassle and nothing to show for it, I'm voting with my wallet. Since the blue deathstar is the only other GSM provider in America, I have signed up with AT&T for service. Not a contract, either, but postpaid no-contract service, which T-Mobile refuses to even do anymore.

Now comes the unfortunate task of yelling at T-Mobile until they waive my ETF. And I'll never get another contract again, ever.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ravin_jr:
hi,

i had flashed CM-7 Rom.everything is working well except i cant connect my fon as modem in pc to use Internet..any solution for this..flashed back to stock rom..thank you..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] domnic79:
USB thethering is not available in cm7. I use bluetooth for thethering.

Sent from Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 using Grif's Cyanogenmod & allinone script.

Dont jus say thanks, use d 'THANKS' button. [XDA RULE]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ravin_jr:
thank you very much Domnic79....Any suggestion of Custom Rom which enables USB tethering? I tried Blackhawk and CM-7..Blackhawk totally cant activate data mode at all...:)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] domnic79:
I used firstua rom & coderom. USB Thethering works on both.

Sent from Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 using Grif's Cyanogenmod & allinone ram script.

Dont jus say thanks, use d 'THANKS' button. [XDA RULE]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Prawesome:
I would suggest FIRSTUA rom but it no longer receives updates and the thread is pretty much dead now,I heard coderom is good.

But for some guys,they say that the FirstUarom is the best bciz it has performance boost and all the other things.

The final choice is yours though.

Sent from cyanogenmod7 Galaxy Ace...

Don't just say 'thanks',press the thanks button,if I helped you..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] madman:
if you want performance boost only then you can also give this combination try...

stock + cf-root + ext4 fs + remove bloats you don't need

ext4 boosts performance drastically ...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vastphoto:
Hi all,

My first post here - I did a quick search but found nothing so here goes.

I flashed the latest stable release of CM7 on my phone at the beginning of the week and everything was running fine until I noticed that the Sim Toolkit app is missing from the app drawer. If I check the process manager I see it there and it's running but I have no way to access it without the .apk in the drawer.

I've spent most of the day doing Goolge searches but to no avail so does anyone have the CM7 sim_toolkit.apk file or know where I can download it?

Many thanks.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tha_subchief:
I have no idea where to download it but i believe it comes preinstalled...please consult the person dealing with that rom for more information. Sometimes developers remove the sim toolkit because it doesnt work on some custom ROMs...:)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
Try *123# for sim toolkit.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tha_subchief:
the sim toolkit is found in the cynogem mod settings. it was removed from the app drawer...i dont have cm7 installed but look around in the settings and you will find it somewhere there...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vastphoto:
still looking...

@tahahawa

Do you mean call that number or text it?

@tha_subchief

I looked though every menu in cynogenmod settings but there was nothing there.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
Call it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vastphoto:
Thanks. That did it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilvoice32:
Im in love with this on feature from the revolver rom that gives you a button on the task swither screen to take them off. Is there anyway i could get that on any other rom than Revolver?

I'd rather not go and flash Revolver, if thats what your thinking about saying.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] colint3:
why not

Why not its a GREAT rom