[HTC Amaze 4G] antiquezip:
Ok guys

As the title said, this is a Post-flashing problems thread. If you are looking for answers/solutions BEFORE flashing anything, please go to these thread and read first.

Frequently Asked Questions writen by hasoon2000

READ THIS FIRST writen by seansk

[HOW TO] ROOT HTC RUBY / AMAZE 4G writen by Binary

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This thread is an attempted to save new Amaze owners / first time flasher / Android newbies from being flamed and/or being yelled at for a reason. I'm by no means claiming to be a Dev or techies or computer geek at all - just simply gathering all the common problems newbies facing after flashing a new rom.

Others veterans please joined me in this thread for any additional info that you think might be helpful to save us all from questions that either making you laugh your a** off or ruining your day :D

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1. Wi-fi and Bluetooth not working / error

You need to flash the kernel using Kernel Flashing Tool. Kernel Flasher Tool is available on the Amaze 4G Android Development section. Those who seeks shall find.

* What's is a kernel?

In the Rom package that you downloaded, there is a file name boot.img inside - that's the kernel (sometimes Dev will included a link for kernel download on his first post as well - Xboarder56 has been known for doing this with his Roms). Double click on the ROM package and drag the kernel out to flash (How? Read the Kernel Flashing Tool thread)

* As of today (Jan.09.2012) The Amaze only has two kernels. One custom made by Faux and the stock kernel made by HTC. Most of the Rom at present came with stock kernel unless otherwise stated by the Dev that his Rom is built with Faux's kernel. Make sure you read the first, the second and the third post of ANY Rom thread.

Read it thoroughly

. The first post is descriptions of the Rom, the second post usually contains information regarding any changed (change log) during it's life span for each version. Read it to get an idea of what works and not and what has been fixed.

You can use Faux's kernel for any Rom that you like. If you find bugs or en-counting problems, please re-read Faux's kernel thread and report it there. DO NOT report it on any Roms' thread that did not came with Faux's kernel.

2. My soft-key lights will not light up

This problem has been reported and confirmed that it is related to Faux's kernel. Please note that it doesn't means Faux is produced a bad kernel. He is a great Dev and he is working hard to bring more exciting stuff for the whole Android community - not just the Amaze. Problems are came from HTC for they did not fully released all the necessary files hence he has to work on it blindly. If you continued to use his kernel, great! Helps him by reporting new problems (make sure you read the whole thread so that you are sure it is a NEW problem.) Otherwise, please re-flash the kernel that originally came with your Rom and DO NOT report the soft-key light's at any threads - including your Rom of choice's thread

Second common reason for this soft-light keys problem is due to the CRT enabler. If you did flashed the Crt then that is the reason. If you don't know what's Crt is, congratulation! Your chance of having issue with soft-light keys has been reducing in half and your chance of being yelled at has been significantly erased unless you jump into a thread and asked "What is Crt?" :D

3. Battery draining

This is the most repeating issue on any forum in XDA and on the internet as a whole. There are many myths and assumptions and theories regarding how to make your battery last longer, heck, there are even tons of apps that tried to helps users en-longing their battery life. Over all, most of veteran Android users known that battery hog mostly came from:

A. Display:

Your Android phone featured a massive screen and it needs juice to bright up your day. One can always go back to a featured-phone to get many days out of their battery or you can dim your screen brightness to 5% and carry a flash-lite with you - either ways are find :p

B. Radio signals:

Including Cellular signals, Wi-fi signal, GPS signal and Bluetooth signal. Wi-fi has been blamed in the past for battery consuming but with the new 4G, the star of the whole battery drama is now belong to the 4G signal. Live with it or buy a feature phone with no internet connection (j/k). Actually if you do a little research on this matter you might be able to squeezed out, perhaps, a few more hours from your battery.

C. Rogue apps:

Played a big part and hard to tracked down but it is our responsiblity as an end user. This is a pain in the neck process but it is our problems - not Devs'. You'll need to track those apps down - one-by-one

D. User setting:

Syncing also playing a big part in draining your battery and there are tons of apps that come with sync's function.

Facebook

is notoriously on this matter so did email and some other apps. Make sure your email app doesn't sync every 5 minutes and your Facebook too.

All of these 4 reasons mentioned can partly solved by users' setting. By doing a little research you will find methods on how to reduced battery consumption on your phones but don't expect much though. In the end your phone is a smartphone, a mini computer, a game console, a portable TV/DVD player and a Walkman. Heck, your girlfriend may have has used it as a B.O.B (Battery Operated Boyfriend) while you are away :p, so, please DO NOT report or opening a new thread regarding battery life UNLESS you are using one specific Rom for a long time and through many versions and just found a significantly changed in battery drainage on a new version.

4. Tethering don't work and/or it take me to the Tmobile selling page?

You need to change your APN (Access Points Name) setting. How to change APN? There is a thread of APN collection setting for many regions/countries in the world in the Amaze forum as well as all over XDA. Again, please search.

5. When I flashed a Rom, update a file. I got an error saying: error, invalid, can not find file ect ...

For some reasons, HTC loves to tested their customer's courage when it comes to flashing custom Roms and rooting phone :D. Do it twice! Re-flash, re-update, re-do it .... most of the times you will be success after second attempted - especially with the kernel flashing. Please don't ask me why :p just do it twice.

6. Wi-fi calling not working

You'll needs:

A. A new SIM Card that came with the Amaze or if you don't have one - request a new one from your Tmobile

B. Asked Tmobile to add you on the Wi-fi calling plan - free of charge

C. Registered your address on your Tmobile account

7. Power Advance Menu

You just noticed the Power Advance Menu wrongly displaying text and seem to messed up? Don't worry and DON'T REPORT as this is a well known problem and a minor one. All the function are perfectly working - just the text is wrongly displayed. The corrected way to distinguished it's functions is by looking at the icons and/or the second line of )small) text under each option. You'll get used to it after few times using the Menu. Since it's a minor issue, purely cosmetic, hence the Devs decided to concentrated their efforts on other more important issues to make sure we have a smooth working Rom, so, please DO NOT mentioned this issue at all. Believes me, nothing upset Devs more than someone posting about this issue

8. Black Screen - Phone will not wake-up

I'm accidentally find out and solved the problem of Black Screen during in-coming call (BulletProof 2.2.0). By replacing the service.jar from the previous version (BulletProof 2.1.0) with the intention to get rid of the CRT file in my system, by doing this I am also discovered that the black screen problem is gone. However, this problem can be easier solved by simply dis-able the screen-on/off animation setting instead of replacing the service.jar with the one from previous build which doesn't have CRT.

It's worth to be note that during my old days with the HTC HD2 running Nandroid I've encountering similar problem of black screen when waking up the phone and it was caused by the CRT as well. This, at least happened to me with more than 3 Rom, including the famous AmeriCanAndroid, HyperDroid and Tytung's ...

So if you are experiences Black Screen problem, please check to see if you did flashed the CRT and/or enable it?