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[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
Different standards. Unlocked for GSM allows the device to accept SIM cards from any GSM carrier using the same frequencies. Once the device is unlocked, simply insert the SIM card and mostly everything works.

More complicated and a bit of a legal grey area in the US for CDMA. Given there are no SIM cards, the device has to have the identification information stored inside the radio modified...which is a bit more complex requiring certain software, etc.

Hope that helps clarify!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pechkin000:
I am just wondering after looking through this forum why there is never anything compatible with CM9 roms like Codeworkx's Unofficial CM9 for example. Am i missing something?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mbh87:
Until a final build of CM9 comes out there likely won't be any themes for it. It's too hard for themers to keep up with nightly builds.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Christian99:
Not 100% accurate. There are little things here and there like the 30+ battery mods, the s-mod apk 2.1... Very coold transparent. This is what I am aware of.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mbh87:
battery mods can be done in ~5 minutes, a complete theme is a different story.
[Acer Iconia A500] shampoomonkey:
Hey,

I recently became the owner of a bricked Iconia a500 tablet. Beyond that, I don't know much about it and I cannot contact the previous owner...

The situation:

It will boot the the Acer logo, but it doesn't go beyond that.

I've searched this forum (and others) for ways to bring it back to life. A factory reset doesn't seem to do anything at all.

I can boot into recovery mode to load a rom, but cannot find the proper rom. CWM does not seem to be installed. I've looked for stock roms but none seem to work.

When I try and load a rom I will inevitably get a white triangle with an orange exclamation mark inside of it. Next to this is the android man.

I've found a few threads that purpose links to a stock rom, but a lot of them have file shares linked to Megaupload... which is.. well non-existent now.

Again, I can not tell you the anything about the current software.... if you know how I can find out that alone would be a huge help! = )

Many thanks,

Robert
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
This might be your best luck..

This flashed thru your computer adb.. apx mode..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20680452#post20680452
[Acer Iconia A500] shampoomonkey:
Hey Erica,

Thanks for you very speedy response!

Well, I read a lot of that thread... lol probably more than I should admit. I followed the procedure but was unable to get a good connection via USB.

I was finally able to get it to register a Factory Reset thanks to that post. Had tried it a few times before... must have not been pressing hard enough?

Either way, it is stuck on Erasing Userdata... and Erasing Cache...

I saw that it was suggested it could be a hardware issue... What is your opinion?

Thanks,

Robert
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
I still think its a rom issue..

You might could try to download the rom again. and try again.. there is also another thread in the DEV section that does the same thing but differently you could try that or maybe posting there where a TRUE Developer might be able to help you..

I just repeat what i have learned from my own mistakes and read from others..

Sorry im not more help ..
[Acer Iconia A500] shampoomonkey:
Trust me Erica, you have been a great help! If I find a solution, I will update this thread with it = )

Thanks!

Robert
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0wnti.me:
Hello all,

I am new to the atrix family, I was a htc aria owner previously. So far I have one click rooted the atrix and unlocked the bootloader, I believe. How do I confirm these?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briankb:
When your phone is turning on, you should see the text "Unlocked" on the top left of the bootloader screen. This would confirm that your bootloader is unlocked. You should also have an app called superuser installed. This would confirm that your phone is rooted.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0wnti.me:
Thanks, I did something right then.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0wnti.me:
Can I get some guidance to an install guide for roms?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] live4nyy:
First, go here and install the custom recovery:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1204500

Then you should be able to install (almost) anything through recovery. :)

Then go here to get a crash course:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1154600
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0wnti.me:
thank you.

this is a bit different than what I had used for the aria, I am a bit lost.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FriendlyNeighborhoodEnt:
I just rooted my Thunderbolt 2 days ago and I had heard that CM7 was pretty good. I like the feel, and I overclocked it to 1.4 ghz. But I have realized that the battery drains way too fast. When I fully charge it if in use it drains 2% every minute. And before root it was not like this. I was wondering if it was the radios. Before switching to CM7, I flashed the radios to the MR4 ones, my baseband is version 1.48 & I would like to know of anyone knows of I am using the correct radio, or which one is recommended for CM7. Because I want to keep CM7, but it I am using the right radios, and the battery drain is this bad, I want to know another ROM with very stable battery. I am new to these forums, and to rooting. I also have a few questions, if I do switch to a new ROM, how do I flash a kernel? And how do I clear up space on my SD card because when I seem to have lost available space due to flashing CM7. If I keep losing available space on my SD card, how do I go about clearing up space?

Sent from my Thunderbolt running CM7 with xda premium.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donnyp1:
Every aosp ive tried on tbolt has been like that. The only rom to give good batt life for me is shiftsense with the imo lean gb sense kernel. Not sure whats up.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FriendlyNeighborhoodEnt:
I've been seeing shiftsense with leannkernel alot. How do I flash to the lean kernel? And can anybody clear up a few things for me?

1. How do I format my SD card? How do I clear up space, because I want to be able to switch between ROMs and not run out of space on my SD card.

2. Is the ROM located somewhere on the SD card, is it safe to delete it?

3. What is dalvik cache and do I have to wipe it everytime I flash to a different ROM? Do I need to constantly wipe data and cache aswell before switching to a new ROM?

4. Do I need to perform a NANDROID backup eachtime I flash a new ROM? Because I didn't know how to do it, so I didn't do it before I switched to CM7.

It would be great if you guys could shed some light for me on those questions, I am new to all of this, pretty much unfamiliar to Androids, Linux, and flashing so all this terminology is fairly new. Thanks!

Sent from my Thunderbolt running CM7 with xda premium.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meraklis56:
Can anyone help me about that?My x8 is really fast but when it comes to gallery(open) it opens really slow without loading the pics..Can anyone tell me why that happens?x8 alfs v7,GDX v22
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spevky:
Maybe becouse you have a LOT of images on your phone? Or maybe use MiniCm 2.1.8. OR You Sir have a slow SDcard.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawayne21:
Download QuickPic from the market.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meraklis56:
does it support files?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meraklis56:
problem solved,quickpic does the job:):):)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawayne21:
good haha :)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] - Swift -:
Or Fishbowl Gallery
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gallagmj:
So my friend can't really tell me much about his phone not working anymore, but when it's turned on it gets stuck on the white HTC splash screen. However, I can get to hboot. From HBOOT, when I select recovery it takes me to a red triangle error screen, but from this I can hit Power + Volume Up and I get to some sort of recovery, but it's full of errors.

It's titled "Android system recovery <3e>", and then after the commands (reboot, apply update from SD, wipe data, wipe cache) it says:

When I click apply update from SD card, it replies with "Invalid Operation" and then something like successful reboot OEM. I have an SD card that I can place updates on (I also have an incredible) and possibly update from there. Any ideas on how I can get this phone back to stock and running again?

EDIT:

While in HBOOT I selected "Clear storage". That rebooted me then brought me a screen with a green down arrow and phone icon behind it. The green arrow then changed to a red alert triangle. From here is pressed Power+Vol Up and got the same recovery screen as before, just with different errors. Now they are:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Have you tried to do an ruu thru hboot as a PB31IMG.zip? You can get them here. http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22 And here is how to flash with hboot if you dont already know. http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=79
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gallagmj:
Ya I just tried that, I was able to flash it and everything. It asked me if I wanted to reboot, I selected yes. It rebooted and then went to the picture of the Incredible with the green arrow above, then went to white splash screen and got stuck there. I've read some stuff about partitions being messed up or something, that's what I assume the could not mount errors mean. Might it matter that I'm using the SD I use in my Incredible, or is it something else? Is there any way I can fix these partitions? I've read stuff about parted? What exactly is that? Can I flash anything that might restore these things? I feel like since I can get into HBOOT and Recovery the phone is not lost? Thanks for the reply by the way
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
I would try using a fresh sd meaning to copy everything to a pc and then format it fat32, and then move the needed files back. Parted is a disk management tool used to create all types of partitions, however it has no way to access the system partitions, only the sd and emmc. I dont know much about fixing borked partitions, so if thats the case i wont be much help. I would format the sd, put the ruu on it and try again and flash, if that still dosent work i would try to flash cwm recovery and see if you can access it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gallagmj:
So I can get into ADB while I'm in fastboot, is there anyway I can clean up partitions from ADB?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gallagmj:
I guess I can't do ADB, I can just do fastboot commands. How much does this change the situation? Also, here is the getvar all from the fastboot command:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigEdgar:
I've got the same situation. Did you ever figure out a solution?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eljean:
Just read my post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1819095
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukkypuggy:
Its a good post
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
Hello I was wondering if there is a mod to have usb fast charge when plugged into the comp. I just came from a Inc and there was a mod flashable through cwm. it was very nice. it charged the phone just as fast as an outlet, if not faster. is there a mod?

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] agreenbhm:
Interesting... I'd be interested in this as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patt2k:
+1 this would be great!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nadcicle:
Agreed, awesomeness would ensue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
the developer behind it for the htc Inc was chad0989

. he made the incredikernels and the incredicontrol app. tried to use incredicontrol app just for fast charging but didnt work since the kernel doesnt support HAVS or SVS. Im on Francos btw
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cricketsmoke:
Imoseyon said once any speed charges were done by taking code out that slows it. Nexus doesn't have it in kernel now according to him so not likely.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmmarck:
Would there be a way to selectively trigger AC mode as opposed to USB mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] droidkevlar:
just asked this in the IRC chan and few devs said doing this could mess up your computer system. point of the hack would be to trick the cheap car chargers into giving u the full charge, not the computer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
hmm well i know chad did it and no one that has ever used it had a problem. my computer is fine and so was my phone. il send him a pm and see if he responds
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
sent him a pm
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
is it possible to take apart his incredicontrol apk and see how it works that way? its in the market
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] morfic:
Not many motherboards have USB ports capable of supplying current in excess of the spec 500mA.

Research modding your (car?) Charger to be detected as AC charger instead of USB.

Sent from my Nexus Prime.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Natolx:
What about a mod that allows the 3 pogo pins to receive more than 500mA(recognized as USB)? That seems ridiculously low and is far more relevant/needed. If you want to charge through the pogo pins you are just SOL.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xHausx:
Moved to General.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Firon:
I haven't seen a device that can't do 1A over USB in like a decade. :P

Hell, even non-PCs have no problems with it. I've done it off a Wii before just for fun.

A lot of newer motherboards can even do 2A over USB (to charge iPads). Most ASUS boards in the past 2-3 years have this as an advertised feature (asus ai charger).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bunklung:
Very interested in this actually. Not so much for USB/AC charging on a computer, but for MHL AC charging.

With the current MHL adapters (even when plugged into an AC outlet), the Gnex reports USB charging. To make maters worse, the screen does not shut off on the Gnex. After an hour or two your battery will die. 500ma is just not enough.

The MHL spec says that 500ma is the charging spec. However, I tweeted with Tim Wong:

http://twitter.com/WongTim

He is the president of the MHL association and he said 500MA is the minimum, not the maximum. My quess is that the Gnex won't try to draw more than 500MA since the data pins can't be shorted on the MHL connector.

I think the MHL adapter will provide for more current, just like most laptops and desktops.

With this mod, it would be nice to tell the Gnex to AC charge. Tim suggest that the phone should not draw more than safely required so long as the voltage doesn't drop on the MHL adapter/MHL tv.

I think the Gnex, by design looks for the shorted data pins and doesn't try to push the envelope as far as monitoring the voltage drop on a USB detected power source.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
I recall reading about some smoking/dead phones from fast charging mods. Thanks but no thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TheBishopOfSoho:
I came at this problem from a different angle and accidentally found a solution for you. I have an iPad and it wouldnt charge from my PC so did some research and came up with this:

http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/ai_charger/

Its a free driver from asus that increases the max amp on USB bus. Supports most mobos and works awesome on my PC and dell laptop, I can now charge the iPad on there.

It also has the benefit of fast charging of my Nexus. Double win.

EDIT: Ignore the ****ty site design, it looks terrible but does as it says
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] miketoasty:
Just installed and will give it a go. Wish me luck people.

Edit: Didn't work for me. Same charging speed with and without it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
Here is a pm back from chad:

I'll look into it and see if I can come up with something for the gnex also. I do not plan to release a kernel, but possibly I could provide a patch.

Can you get me a kmsg (/proc/kmsg) while you plug your phone into an AC source, and then a USB source?

adb shell "cat /proc/kmsg"

Also a log of the power draw while connected to USB and to AC

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
i always had the mod on my inc and so did a TON of his followers. i never read a complaint
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Natolx:
Please mention to him about the pogo pins being recognized as usb
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
ok i will do that
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Oops it was SBC.

I have my own fast charge method: I have a fully powered USB port. Phone thinks its on AC and charges like it is.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] io53:
I'd love to see a patch for this too. Was using it on my old Desire HD without any problems at all. It is very handy when using a car charger and I guess it would be golden for MHL too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T-Keith:
I'm not sure if it's necessary as the computer has to be a able to supply it. I charge my nexus with the 2A charger from my touchpad and it charges crazy fast.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
i have an asus U31SD which it worked on. i dont think its the comp tho that needs to be able to charge it because i plug my phone usb into my pioneer double din in my car and it charged my inc just as fast with the mod
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bunklung:
Any updates from chad on this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sruel3216:
havent heard back from chad after i sent my log. he said he was looking into them though. il send him a follow up and update you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xxprodigyxx11:
anybody thought of using a charging USB cable from amazon? It shorts the data wires in the cable and forces the phone to charge in AC mode from a car charger.

Edit http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003VYBCAY/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/192-2302119-3478121?redirect=true
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] staticx57:
Bumping this especially the MHL part.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tung_meister:
anyone looking into this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xxprodigyxx11:
Just wanted to let you guys know I got a micro USB charge cable from amazon. My phone now charges in AC mode from my car charger and actually charges the phone while using Nav.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
Need a tester or two. You need to know how to use adb and have current widget installed.

PM me
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
Anybody???
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] morfic:
Email me what you need done, I can test it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] az_r2d1:
motorola charger

All you need to do is get the motorola charger with the blue light. It usually runs around 5 bucks and charges at around 900 m. I used to use this on my OG, and now it charges my gnex just fine as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
Or I can just patch the kernel and it costs everyone nothing...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
I have couple people testing right now. If those fall through I'll give you a shout.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Natolx:
Will this fix also address the pogo pin 500ma limit? It recognizes the pogo pins as usb
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
It should. As long as the charger can output more it should be able to take it. Shoot me a PM and you can try it out. Make sure you have a battery monitor of some sort installed that can log the current.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
Shot you an e-mail.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bunklung:
testing...

50% success!

Seems to work great for USB/Ac charging. Charger that was normally detected as USB and charged at 500ma avg, now reports 1A+ charging and in "AC Charging" mode.

Does NOT work for MHL charging. Charger is still detected as USB. Current draw is too great and the battery remains on discharge even when plugged in :(

Chad, will send you dmesg log and other details.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
What's mhl? The pogo pins?

Nevermind. googled it. Hdmi out. Send me a dmesg for when you plug it into that.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bunklung:
Sent both :)

It appears sii9234/si9234 handles the charging for MHL and fsa9480 for USB?

Do you still have my logs for both MHL and USB before I flashed your test Kernel? I can send them again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
Shot you another PM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jimmiegeddes:
very cool! Looking forward to this!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jdbower:
I knew I should have flagged this thread for monitoring, good job so far!

If I may make a suggestion, something I'd like to see is a Charge Only mode which didn't allow for MTP/PTP file transfer. I think this may also help alleviate concerns about overdriving a cheap PC USB port or just provide a method of having a compatibility mode.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bunklung:
The current setup we used for testing is that you must toggle fast charge on/off.

When fast charge is off your phone behaves normally. When fast charge is on, USB data turns off/MTP off/ADB off, when you plug into a USB data port. It will report AC Charging no matter what port you plug into, USB data port, USB charging port, or AC Charging port.

Anything could change, but that's the current setup, but I don't see that changing.

MHL seems more of an issue. I think part of that is the current MHL adapters don't provide enough current, let alone that 500ma spec they should. Still trying to get AC charging to report with an MHL adapter.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jdbower:
Great! It seems like a side effect of enabling fast charge mode is to disable the data aspect of the USB port so that will work fine for me. Looking forward to a broader distribution of this mod and I'd be happy to help however I can.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Natolx:
What app has worked for you guys for monitoring current from the charger?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
@bunk:

Sent you another PM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sblantipodi:
as far as I know the USB can handle up to 500mHa, this reduce the charging speed by a half.

obviously there is some motherboards like the gigabyte that can handle up to 1A in charge.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] io53:
I've charged my previous phone with fastcharge mod with a lot of different computers and have yet to find any that does not handle 1A..

Anyways, glad to see this is being worked on. Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sblantipodi:
This is wrong. Only gigabyte habdle 1A when charging. Asus handle 1A only on asus product.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chad0989:
Maybe officially supported or advertised. But many new boards have a 1+A fuse shared between multiple ports, so provided you don't have other high current devices also connected to those ports you can often pull 1A without an issue. If you do overload it, it will generally just cut the power to those ports until you disconnect the offending device(s).

I do believe that USB 3.0 ports can provide more current also.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sblantipodi:
USB specification says that USB devices can handle up to 500mah, I really doubt that there is other mobo that output 1A
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tjhart85:
If you solder teh two data ports of a stand alone charger together, it'll do the same thing (do NOT do this to your computer). That's what I did on a few of mine (it was sold as an iPad charger, so puts out >2A). Be sure its actually capable of putting out >=1Amp though, otherwise you'll be disappointed and eventually damage the charger (and possibly the phone).

A friend did it with a 500mA charger and it makes a high pitched screaming sound. He's older and can barely hear it, so he doesn't care, but I wouldn't want to risk my electronics with it.

USB pinouts: http://pinouts.ru/Slots/USB_pinout.shtml