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[General Questions and Answers] Robanada:
tl,dr: dropped my rooted phone- it's dead. It's insured, but will the fact that it's rooted be a problem? Also tmo has a larger deductible- any advice for me on that?

I rooted my T-Mobile G2x and installed CM7 (and of course CWM) about 6 months ago. I've had insurance on it since I got it in April. I just dropped it from about 3 feet (fell off of my lap as I was exiting a coupe) and cracked the screen pretty significantly. It does not power on off of the battery. When I plug it in, the LG logo pops up, stays for about 3 seconds, and then the screen goes blank- the notification lights flash on and off, and then the process repeats. If I try to go into the bootloader, I hold down power + volume down, and the LG logo stays on for longer (maybe 9 seconds or so) and then it ultimately repeats the whole cycle. Interestingly, if I just have the phone plugged in with no battery, it doesn't do anything. It's as if it was just on the battery, or as if I wasn't mashing the power button.

So I have 2 questions:

A) Is there any problem with making an insurance claim on a rooted phone? If so, are there any steps that I can take to fix that? Is there any way to power it up enough to unroot it? I'd also like to get some pictures and the like off of it.

B) The deductible for this particular phone is $130. To me, that seems kind of obscene, since the phone goes for 199 normally. With 8 months of insurance at 6 bucks per month, that's $48 in insurance. That, plus $130 = $178, almost as much as the phone is with a new contract. I actually got my G2x for free because we left AT&T to come to T-Mobile, so- in my head, anyway- I have a hard time paying more for the replacement than I do for the phone initially. Does anyone have any advice for me on this? Is this fee negotiable or anything? Can the $130 be offset by $48?

What really gets me is that the same phone: the Optimus 2X, has a replacement fee of $40! It's the same phone, except that it has the keyboard gestures that I was hoping would be in the G2x. There's no way to get one of those instead, right?

I'm on vacation right now, and so I won't be home for 3 more days- I'll take it into T-Mo then. But is there anything else that I can try in the meantime? I've tried booting into recovery, but that didn't work, and I can't think of anything else to try. I might just try to leave the battery out overnight. For some reason that sort of thing has worked for me in the past with other phones.

EDIT: Never mind- I got it turned back on! Apparently when I dropped it, somehow one of the contact points for the battery was compressed. With a pencil I pulled it back out and it works. Now I just have to make an insurance claim on the screen =D (Which, apparently, I can do without un-rooting)
[General Questions and Answers] kronickhigh:
Err guess I should have read the whole post

Unfortunately tmobile/asurion's deductible is non negotiable. I know what they will say, since you prolly aren't due for upgrade, the cost of the phone to you right now is 499.

As for not powering on, not sure, but if the issue was just with the screen, I'd replace the screen myself, but not all sure what your situation is

Also, yes, you absolutely can process insurance on a rooted device
[General Questions and Answers] Robanada:
Ah good, that's very comforting. At the very worst, I pay 130 bucks and everything is back to normal (minus the pictures!)

I understand, from a business perspective, that they can say that the full price would be 499. That makes sense- I just don't like it! I should have been more careful, I suppose. It just broke so easily! Gorilla glass, indeed...

Thanks for the reply- I'm glad that I can get it replaced for sure!

I'd really like to be able to use the phone, even with a broken screen, for the remainder of the trip- you can't think of anything else I should try to get it to turn on?

EDIT: nvm, I got it (editing first post)
[General Questions and Answers] nateap87:
what if rooting caused you to lose your imei?
[General Questions and Answers] SuperBonk:
then you would have a paperweight
[General Questions and Answers] fprado06:
yes.....
[Atrix 4G General] wangdeli900:
just check http://bbs.gfan.com/forum-522-1.html.
[Atrix 4G General] island-guy:
Man, i tried turning my phone in every direction but can't read what heck is on that website. Then i thought it was like one of those 3D holograms and called it quits 3 hours ago. Oh well
[Atrix 4G General] freshbakd:
Addons for Firefox do good job of translating when I get to PC ima take a look
[Atrix 4G General] freshbakd:
seems a lot more like app development going on there. only found a few roms that clearly state to only (brush) to hong kong version of atrix im assuming brush is flash. sbf was mentioned so no thanks. but interesting
[Atrix 4G General] alistair3149:
No it is just a Chinese forum, nothing special there, and also it is not an app development site
[Atrix 4G General] freshbakd:
i know its not app development site but that seems to be there main concern.it just seems like most of the posts were about (software) mostly apps i looked around a bit. agreed nothing special
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlands:
Doing Some testing. Can a dev or knowledgeable individual tell me all the files and apks affiliated with the fingerprint scanner in cm7. I want to try some experiments. I kow it's more than the FingerprintSensor.apk, but what else is associated with it.

thx
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko!:
check the /system/etc/lib folder as well as /system/framework folder for anyhting that looks like it may be FP related
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richcar:
Deleted
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Press Menu and Back button at once.

Please use the Search option. This has been discussed many times.
[Acer Iconia A500] omik47:
Anyone using zeppelinrox's v6 supercharger script with the a500?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangdeli900:
CM9 is a very amazing version that i have been played, but there are some problems, such as cm setting is missing, and can't be connected to pc with mass storage mode. Hope these problems to be solved as soon as possible.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
In first before the flaming starts!
[Nexus S General] kyokeun1234:
So when ics ota is avaliable on my phone, I'm going to update it. But I have one serious question: do I need to factory reset my phone? I heard that I don't need to but if I don't, my phone will get very sluggish because of the old os fragmentation or something... Is this true? Do you think I should erase all my data and apps to update? (ps. I'm not rooted) I actually have mybackup pro, but does that restore apps and data of the app? Some said that it does and some said it doesn't. I want to make sure.

Thanks so much.
[Nexus S General] Harbb:
If you have a locked bootloader and you have a straight stock GB rom, with the apps and so on you have downloaded from market, you should have no issues. All apps and data should still be there on ICS.

I highly doubt mybackuppro can backup all apps/data on a non-rooted phone, so i wouldn't rely on it.

Keep in mind however it is still a fairly large upgrade and it is ALWAYS best to backup the data you need most (SMSs, contacts (if not synced), photos, videos, music and so on), even it's on the SDCard. Also note that if your bootloader is locked (no padlock on boot) you don't have any option to do a full backup at all. Unlocking it will get rid of ALL personal data. Only way forward is through the update.
[Nexus S General] kyokeun1234:
So let me get this straight...

I should factory reset my Nexus S and I don't need to worry about apps and data of the app because Google will do that for me? Well that's very convenient! And I don't really care about media cuz everything is on my computer which I can just copy it back to phone.

Thanks a lot man! Now I can rely on Google for all my apps ;-)
[Nexus S General] Deleted member 2574792:
I get the feeling that's *not* what Harbb said

If I'm correct... Harbb is saying

1) you don't need to factory reset your phone

2) theoretically, your data and apps should be safe on your phone

3) but for safety, you should backup all your stuff
[Nexus S General] Harbb:
Sorry kyokeun, i forgot to say that you should NOT factory reset. kto_matchu hit the nail on the head.

Every

flash has it's risks, even the most minor ones. Although nothing should go wrong for you, and i highly doubt it will, there is always a chance. For your situation though, the only way to get to ICS is to go through it without a full backup - however doing so definitely doesn't need a data/factory reset.
[Nexus S General] kyokeun1234:
OK, thanks guys :-D
[Nexus S General] VaKo:
I did mine using the downloaded OTA, and it was fine. I am running a stock, non-rooted and non-unlocked NS. However, I did backup my "SDcard" contents, SMS's and call logs prior to the update. There were no issues at all with the update process.
[Nexus S General] kyokeun1234:
OK thanks. My sms and contacts are backed up and all I'm worrying is just apps and data.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jacobgreat:
install gsm on wifi tablet on zenithink 280 (c91) ,what components would be required ? , here are the specs of the tablet Model

C91

CPU

CORTEX A9

FSB

1GMHz

Memory

DDR 512MB

Nandflash

8GB—32GB（standard configuration ：8GB

Extended

TF card ； U disk

LCD display

10.2” TFT display ,1024*600

Internet

Built in Ethernet :support WIF

3G

camera

USB 3G module;

build-in camera

I/O ports

DC in

Earphone

RJ-45

TF

1*USB 2.0 Host port

1*USB 2.0 OTG port

HDMI output

Touch scree

Capacitive

Audio

Built in stereo speakers 1w*2

Built in mono recorder

LED indicators

Power; charging

Key-press

Power on /off 1 key

Volume 2key

ESC 1 key

Max battery time

Wifi on :4 hours

Battery

polymer lithium ion, 4000mAH

Power adapter

220V Input 9V DC Output ,2A

Product dimension

264mm×161mm×16mm

C91 software capacity

Software

Description

Remarks

OS

Android 2.3

office

File reading programs

Word viewer

Excel Viewer

Powerpoint Viewer

PDF Viewer

Image Viewer

Editing programs

Microsoft Wordpad

Microsoft SpreadExcel

Messengers

QQ,MSN

Internet Explore

Internet Explorer

Audio

MP3 playing

WAV playing

WMA playing

AAC,AAC+ playing

WAV,WMA recording

Vedio

1080P MP4 playing

1080P AVI (XVID,H.263,DIVX )

1080P MKV playing

1080P 3GP playing

1080P RMVB,RM playing

Image

JPEG image

GIF image

Games

Playing cards

Languages

Support multi language
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] griba92:
isn't possible to put GSM modul on your tablet.

you don't have the program in your tablet and no hardware parts.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Wufei74:
I have a rooted Tablet (1.4.0, OTA blocked). I watched Netflix fine last night at the around 10pm.

Today I try opening Netflix and every title I attempt to watch gives me the same error, 1005. It seems to be the error that netflix gives when it's a device that was not previously allowed.

Argh. Should I try installing Netflix from the Amazon App store? Are they the same thing? Would anything like that work?

I've already restarted my Nook and attempted to re-connect to Wifi. My account still works, as I've been able to watch Netflix on my computer.

Anyone else having issues?

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jdavisable:
Working fine for me and Im on 1.4.0 (ota blocked) also.

I'm pretty sure the netflix app on the amazon store is not the same as the one on the NT.. The NT is netflix certified so it plays at higher resolution than other tablets with the app and the netflix on the NT probably has some changes to support the NT DRM.

Sent from Nook Tablet
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Wufei74:
So it turns out that apparentally I'm on 1.4.1 now. I tried to go through amazon app store and install their Netflix app... and it said something along the lines of "you don't have permission to install apps." **** you B&N.

I rooted after Indirect released his total root package. I just verified again, since I still have the folder on my desktop, and it contains FOTAKill.apk in the system/app/ directory.

I just followed directions, and I had full root and working Google services after I followed the steps. This is upsetting :(

I may have messed something up but.. it's hard to mess up double clicking a .bat file haha.

I'll just have to format and revert back to 1.4.0
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Yes people is reporting that some OTA kill methods stopped working, not sure if the replacing device manager method works well but i think B&N will find a way to override it and push the new update again, hopefully someone come up with something definitive. Recommendation always make a backup with titanium backup i've seen many posts that it works good.

Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jimmysuggs:
Where are people reporting this?

This is the first post I've seen that claims that idirect's method of blocking OTA's doesn't work. If that's really the case, I would expect to see tons of reports coming in that NT's with OTA's blocked via idirect's method are updating.

Is anyone else actually having this issue?

Or is it an isolated incident?

---------- Post added at 05:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:16 PM ----------

Also, Wufei74, did you use indirect's method for modifying data for devicemanager? Because that seems to be only sure way to block OTAs. Having the fotakill.apk in the system directory doesn't do the trick. You need to actually modify the devicemanager, as explained here, by indirect:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1405418

Do us a favor and let us know if you actually did this before your NT updated, yes? Because if you did do it and your NT still updated, then we could all be getting updates soon. On the other hand if you did NOT do it and simply relied on the fotakill.apk, then the reason your NT updated is clear. Either way, the more information you provide, the easier it will be for us to determine what we're dealing with here.
[Off-topic] Archer:
Dust 514 looks awesome, for sure. I'll definitely be on it.

Check out lemon party for the prequel. Just google it.
[Off-topic] Thecookieman:
I've been following this game for some time now and I'm very pleased to see its coming to fruition. Mag left a bad impression on me ( pushed me to COD ) So I hope this game gets the 32/32 squad based game play right!
[Off-topic] Hooride707:
They started beta signups for people with active eveonline accts on dust514.com
[Atrix 4G General] ylyanleiyl:
Please help me, my phone is Atrix 4G, to unlock the phone two days ago when the phone can not boot. Installing the battery press the power button nothing happens, remove the battery, plug in the power only the green light in the light. How should I do?
[Atrix 4G General] Alcapone263:
Google how, to charge your phone without a charger, you will have to sacrifice a usb cable. After you put a charge on it, reflash a gingerbread sbf file. I suggest the 2.3.4 pudding full sbf since you want an unlocked device.
[Atrix 4G General] ylyanleiyl:
thanks for your advise ,but when using a USB charger, the computer can not find the device, and I did install the correct driver.
[Atrix 4G General] Alcapone263:
What I suggested involves cutting the end off a usb cable and manually charging the battery with an electric current, if you would have searched there are several YouTube videos that show you how to do it.

If the phone won't start with a charged battery then you have no way of fixing it.
[Atrix 4G General] neer2005:
Try to borrow a battery from a friend who has a atrix or Droid X instead
[Atrix 4G General] ltdanno360:
or external battery charger from ebay for a buck
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Aashrey99:
My RAZR's external SD card speeds are extremely poor. I get 4MB/s transfer speeds. I used my SD card on my older phone and the speeds were much better, reached upto 8MB/s on the same set of files. I tried setting the read ahead cache to 2048 but nothing changed.

Does anyone else have slow SD card speeds?

Is there any possible fix for this?

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] CaFFeiNe666:
1) what's yous sdcard class?

2) read ahead cache, is not bigger=better, let's try other values, not just the minimum and maximum, it changes it's optimum for each memory card

3) how did you measure your speeds? on my lg dual i had for example, my class10 sdcard

12w 17r on phone with sdtools

19w 25r using it as a memory reader
[Motorola Droid RAZR] polaris441:
A fix for this is to get higher transfer rate sd card, say 10 mb/s. But it would be more expensive.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xxkyh:
I bought a class 10 sd card from amazon, which got a writing speed ~15m/s.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Aashrey99:
I have a class 4 SD card. So my speeds won't be great, I know that. But my card used to manage better speeds before. Is the problem with the RAZR then?

I tried 128, 1024 and 2048. There was no change in the transfer speeds. I read these speeds off teracopy's window. Is there a tool for measuring read-write speeds for the SD card?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garywojdan81:
Try SD Tools, free in market.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Valynor:
http://www.tvtv.de/tvtv/index.vm?dayId=0&weekId=0&groupid=0&lang=de&epgView=list

I just happened to stumble upon this website while going through my bookmarks, crashes the ICS 4.0.1 stock browser every time. Loads, thinks for a few seconds and then just closes the browser without further notice.

So lets make a list out of this. ;-) Might become useful at some point by linking this to Google for future fixes.

Don't forget to mention your ICS version.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dwang:
Mobile nytimes will crash the 4.0.3 browser.

So will the androidandme mobile site.

It won't crash right after but if you scroll around for a while the browser will crash.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deekjx:
That site does not crash the 4.0.2 browser. Seems they may have fixed something. As for the mobile NY times, works in 4.0.2 so maybe we need to wait for official 4.0.3 to test.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sroeseler:
hey i just attempted to root my wife's nook color, 1.3, using this method http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1054027

i have made the boot disk and pushed both nooter zips to disk, cwm comes up and it runs both zips just fine, ive tried both one after other ten reboot, reboot in between, wipe dalvik and the run but i always get stuck in the boot loop

can anyone tell me what im doing wrong here
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sroeseler:
and the plot thickens... so i did the 8 failed manual reset, and rebooted to stock, repeated process.. im out of bootloop but it appears the touch screen doesnt work anymore???

yeah so no matter how many times i 8 fail reset still no touch screen, all other buttons work, tried reinstalling clockwork and nothing...i bought the insurance, do i need to run it over cause im outta ideas, my first thought was ui was missing file but it should go back if i reset shouldnt it???
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sroeseler:
just shoot me..please

ok back to stock, re root, boot loop again, re stock , cm7 (update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed) + gapps (gapps-gb-20110307-signed) and now application setup wizard has stopped unexpectedly.....stuck...thoughts? please am i over thinking/looking something
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sroeseler:
day two...

i created sd boot img with cwm 3.2.08, im seeing that i need to use cwm 3.2.01 in a few places.. when i get the file from clockwork (recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore) and try to write the image to the sd card something is wrong, its not a format that the windows recognizes and so i cant add zips to it and i get nothing in the nook. ive tried to reformat from the pc and in an old android phone i have but its always the same when i try to write to sd , is this the wrong image, can i find it somewhere else

i am using same 8gb sd card i made first boot disk out of, do i need to use a new one??

i got it to work i have good cwm 3.2.01 on nook...
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sroeseler:
stock + root?

ok it seems that cwm 3.2.0.8 was definitely my problem, i switched to recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore which i got from http://tinyw.in/0Vw

problem remains that when i flash man nooter 18 then 16 i get nothing, I was stuck on "n" load screen not even a boot loop

i then pushed cm7 again and i am operating as a full android tablet, i want the stock nook image with gapps can anyone help.. im leaving be till i get a answer, didnt want to update to 1.4 or downgrade to 1.2 havent seen a stock img of 1.3 anywhere
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkpetrov:
Hi!:)

Can anyone please share how fast the battery drains when listening to online radiostations? How much will it drain for an hour of listening, for example?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombies1337:
This is a highly subjective question as it depends on many different factors. Namely, are you on WiFi or 3G? Are you running the stock ROM or have you flashed a custom ROM? Do you have bluetooth/GPS/background data enabled?

Frankly the best answer is whatever you come up with. Try streaming for an hour and see how far your battery drains and go from there.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkpetrov:
Well the thing is i don't have the phone yet so i wanted to know if it's really worth buying it as i'm a quite heavy user (Mostly listening to online radios).

Sorry i forgot to mention more details. I wanted to know what the battery life is on 2G and 3G (Of course It's still subjective as it will depend on the signal strenght, but it will still be close enough i think), mostly with headphones plugged in and with a stock rom (2.2 or 2.3. I guess 2.2 gives better results in most cases?).:)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombies1337:
With a little work, you can get this phone to get adequate battery life. Basically, your expectation should be that you can get through a full day using this phone moderately. That's about all that can be expected. Based on my use of the phone, I'd say an hour of online radio streaming per day should be alright. I wouldn't expect to use the phone heavily outside of that and still get through the day, however.

You have to pick and choose your battles. You'll get great performance with this phone but you trade battery life for that. With that hour of streaming, you'll have to forgo any extended gaming or anything like that. If you charge your phone up every night and keep it plugged in as much as possible throughout the day (car charger on the way to/from work, plugged in when possible at work), you shouldn't have any problems at all.

Hopefully that answers your question.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkpetrov:
Ahh thanks, it seems the stock battery won't be enough for me even in the Atrix and i'll need to get an extended one.:)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombies1337:
The good news is that there are plenty of extended batteries out there from the relatively small to the gargantuan so if you look around you'll be sure to find something that's right for you.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hlywine:
I have used Slacker Radio payed version and had no problem streaming for 6-7 hours a day from a full charge to the time I have to plug it in to keep it alive. I was streaming through 3G, not wifi. also to keep in mind, the payed version of slacker actually buffers the full song while playing, so it doesn't drain the battery as much by being actively connected to tower all the time, just enough to download the song and then disconnects while it finishes playing the song.

i didn't have anything else turned on, no blue tooth, no gps, no wifi, just music player connected to my stereo at work for constant random music.

anyway, hope this was helpful.