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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
A couple months ago I dropped mine in water for a few seconds with a regular case and rebooted it a couple times before taking out the battery, then blow dried it immediately for a while on high heat and left it out for 8 hours before putting battery back in, then used it the whole day and it still works perfectly haha
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mikesPhone5:
I was wondering if this is really "long lasting", ....I remember there was nano coating for cars and it disappears after a while.

I believe that it works but does it work one year after ..or two?

They promise (liquipel) a lifetime more then the gadget itself, but this I don´t believe.

I found some other stuff, regarding making electronics water proof, a german engineering company liqui-tech.de

they recommend liquipel but offer something similar, but to protect the gadget you have to disassemble. Not easy to get it back assembled :).

But much cheaper, a can for 14€
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
A zip lock baggie and you're good to go! Cheap too

God promised men that he'd put beautiful women in all corners of the world. Then he laughed and laughed and made the world round
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] fitterdave:
I actually have the liquipel, on a Skyrocket and a Hercules. I have submerged them both and with the exception of the touch screens spazzing out (from the water "touching" the entire screen at once) they both worked perfectly after the water was evaporated/ dried.

They now support skyrocket at the highest level of protection they have. Some other phones get lower ratings, I think due to construction of the phone and its ability to drain. It is well worth the price, knowing that my skyrocket will survive a deluge, or just moisture from a shirt pocket on a sweaty summer day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] karabey:
Does anybody know what type of Nano Coating is used by Liquipel, P2i or HzO?

regards
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Yea, it's really small stuff and very proprietary. I could tell you but I'd have to....well you know what
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] karabey:
Ohh yes please tell me and k... me :)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] normanx:
Is there list of radios and kernels for the eris somewhere all together? I have looked some but cant find any.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
MD5 signatures of the radio .img files here (XDA)

kernel version numbers and radio firmware version numbers here (AF)

Note that there is one more radio, newer than the Eris 7/2010 & 3/2011 OTA release(s) of (2.42.01.04.27). Technically, it was a Sprint Hero (CDMA) radio - but the CDMA version of the HTC Hero had identical radio and app processor as the HTC Eris, and so it is 100% compatible with the Eris - it's version number is 2.42.02.10.29, and the MD5 sig of the image file is:

f15cf77b1c08cfb1f357e2574f386f5f 2.42.02.10.29.zip

You can find the above radio image file here (XDA)

cheers

bftb0
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GJ123:
Hello everybody,

Is there a way that allows us to pulldown the notificationbar on the lockscreen?

Like ICS?

Thank you
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makrilli:
With cm9 I'm able to do that but I don't know if it's a bug so it might could be fixed some day
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
you could try widgetlocker ?
[Gen8 General] Archoshacker:
I have been using my Archos 101 tablet for a few months now, I quite like it, and have tried a few of the different android builds available to download. I am keen to try and upgrade the ram, as 256MB is not alot. This is the progress I have made so far, I hope that maybe other people can add to it. First step is to find a suitable ram module that has the same pinouts, and specs, but with larger capacity. The ram module is marked "OVA18 D9LBZ". Using Microns FBGA decoder We find that the full part number of the ram module is "MT46H64M32LFMA-6 IT:A". If we go to microns list of available low power DDR modules we can see that there are available a 512MB and a 1GB version. (note that they are listed in megabits, not megabytes, so the original 256 megabyte module is a "2gb" size, 512MB is "4gb" and 1GB is "8gb")

I am in the UK, and havent yet found a uk supplier, but I found the 1GB module available in the US for about 50 US dollars.

I dont know what the max ram limit of the cpu is, I have read somewhere that the OMAP3630 cpu can support max 1GB, but cant remember where.

Im my mind there are two further problems once the chip has been bought:

1. physically removing the old ram module and fitting the new one. my plan is to setup a spring with one end glued/fixed somehow to the top of the old ram module, and then put the mainboard in the oven, and once the solder melts the spring will pull the ram chip off. Or it might pull the ram chip and the cpu at the same time. Then put tiny bits of solder on all the pins of the new ram module, align it ontop of the cpu, maybe under slight pressure, and put it back in the oven and hope that all of the solder joints connect properly. Quite a few of the pins are not used, so we can get away with 1 or 2 pins not connected. One concern I have is that in the spec sheet alot of the pins are labelled NC for not connected, but several have DNU which I take to mean "do not use". If these end up connected aswell then will this work or not. Another idea is instead of soldering the new chip on, we could polish the pins on the cpu really smooth and also polish the pins on the ram chip, and build a clip/holder type device, it might be possible to run the system with the ram chip just held under pressure on the cpu. We would need to stop the chip moving sideways also.

2. There may be a firmware issue with the new ram module, the system may not recognize the ram chip at all, or only address 256MB of it, because that is what its expecting to be there. I have seen a tutorial on upgrading the ram on an xbox and this is the problem they had, the new ram runs fine but only the original amount that was installed can be used without significant software changes. Hopefully archos have not made it too difficult for us.

These are my thoughts so far, I hope we can make some progress, or at least work out why it cant be done before destroying any hardware. I have links to the FBGA decoder, microns list of lp ddr chips, and the supplier of the 1GB chip, but as this is my first post I am not allowed to post links yet! PM me and I will send you the links.
[Gen8 General] vampir74:
Hi! Scholbert is good in this staff ask him . Bye
[Gen8 General] yigal66:
To be able to support bigger memory both memory controller of OMAP and pcb itself MUST have additional address lines. I almost sure that OMAP has at least 512MB support but not sure if Archos did preparation for bigger memory chip on board.

Also replacing of memory BGA chip not so simple and may cost more than new tablet :-)
[Gen8 General] Archoshacker:
I am hoping that the larger memory chips still use the same interface, and therefore the same pin layout as the 256MB chip, as the link for the datasheet for 512MB and 1GB modules is the same as for the 256MB chip. So I dont think any additional data lines are needed.

Yes im sure your right, buying a later tablet will have larger ram module as standard, but I just like to tinker with things :D
[Gen8 General] Archoshacker:
Wikipedia list a few phones that use the omap 3630 cpu, and therefore probably use a ram module soldered ontop as in the archos. The motorola cliq 2 has 512MB of ram, as does the palm pre 2, the nokia n9 has 1GB ram but is a fairly new phone and still expensive to buy. I am going to looking out for a damaged mobile (cracked screen etc) and hope that the ram module is intact.
[Gen8 General] Hobbit13:
PPCtech did such an upgrade for the venerable HP hx4700, for $130 including material and shipment.

You'll need rework equipment (special kind of heat gun, not that expensive ($60 is the cheapest)), in an oven you'll probably kill components that were added later on (audio jack etc) and can't stand heat.

If you have the right equipment, it's not that hard to do. You'll heat the RAM chip till you can gently pull it off. Then you'll clean the PCB of solder residue. Next you put on solder paste using a BGA screen made for the chip you want to use.

Then you put the new RAM ic in the correct position (using a microscope to align it correctly), and locally heat it using the heat gun.

Then you pray it worked, or retry (best with a new RAM chip, but they can stand quite some heat, so reusing should be possible).

Problem is that you don't know for sure it could work, thus it's unclear if the error was in the soldering or in the firmware....
[Gen8 General] NFSP G35:
Sweet project! Any updates?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivas95:
I was thinking of switching from checkrom to cyanogenmod, because its an aosp rom. Hows the general stability of cyanogenmod in the galaxy sII? Is the camera app perfect? I wanna know about stability and battery life too.. thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xethor:
I used to use CM7 but the devs sort of left it to work on CM9, which by the way is going to be awesome.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivas95:
When is cm9 going to come out?the stable version I mean?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anshmiester78900:
Around feburary end
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] valvados:
I've been using the Unofficial builds (link) of CM7 for a couple of weeks and had no problems. It has never crashed for me (some users have reported that it sometimes can crash when using the market). The camera app works with no problems, but the stock Android camera app don't have as many features as the Samsung camera app (I don't really care since I use a camera app from the market). The battery life is really good in my opinion. It definitely gets me through a day of normal usage, though it depends on how much you're using your phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivas95:
And all the apps from the market work just fine?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndyTang:
i use cm7 b4 , the performance is awesome and stable :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mudferret:
Choose the latest nightlies, they're 7.2 RC's. They're more stable than the stable release which in the end became a 7.1 RC, not to mention more features, etc...

The latest Buildbot official build is #116 on the Cyanogen Mirror Network. Codeworkx posted #117 on his blog here: http://codeworkx.de/wordpress/2011/12/17/cyanogenmod-7-12172011-galaxys2/

There are various unofficial builds, etc... but I haven't used any of them in a long time. There were some useful changes after #117 that the unofficial builds would have. None of them (that I can recall) critical to core functions however.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] valvados:
Yup all apps work fine for me
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hostilevader:
It has no HW accelleration :mad:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] indiankid25:
Hey guys can someone please explain to me how we can flash the Skyrocket roms onto our sgs2?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peconaut:
For my knowledge. I understand that we can flash the Skyrocket rooms because it's has similar/same hardware as the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II. However, you get auto rotation problem. The only way to fix it is to flash T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II kernel.

So just do a Skyrocket room and a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II kernel combo
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] indiankid25:
Thanks man the help is greatly appreciated
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Edit: Looks like a miracle occured on superbowl sunday and my device is alive and kicking!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Dude !!!!! You serious?

As a glimmer of hope for you mine looked dead a few weeks back, I couldn't get any life out of it at all, I left it for a while day then plugged it in to power and left it again, some how it eventually allowed me to turn it back on. Not sure if the battery sensor had a funny or what but it was totally dead. It did eventually allow me to turn it back on though.

I hope you do get it back on though, you haven't even been able to use the CM7 release from Gonc and me yet!!!!! how dare you break it before being able to test !!!!!!

Best of luck m8, it'll come back to life I'm sure;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] angusj:
Sorry to see you go. Praying for that miracle for you too :).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] TinaL38:
Regardless whether you bought the extended insurance, it should still have the one year warranty - is it bricked for some out of warranty reason?

I also know of many people who thought it was bricked, apparently if the battery goes completely out it will take some time to revive it.

never mind, I just saw you who are and realized why it probably bricked. Sorry about that!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
It's not covered by warranty because of the modifications, meaning it's out of warranty.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pepi4:
If you are sure it won't turn later they will never know. The way I feel about BN anymore I would not care about being honest ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
is it physically different? If not I'd just take it in with your receipt and complain, if they hold out start a scene and demand an immediate replacement under warranty.

Ususally works :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
hahaha, I know someone who works at my local B&N, I'll see if he can help me out.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] TRS-80:
Plug it in and let it sit for a while. As someone said above, if the battery goes really dead, it takes a couple minutes of charging before it turns on. That happened to me as well at least once already, giving me heart palpitations until it finally turned on. lol
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] joecareytm:
When all else fails buy a new one from walmart switch the 2 and return the bricked one.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
That’s awful!!! I'd never do something like that :rolleyes:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ACL3:
Probably won't help you, but my nook Tablet wouldn't turn on,I let it charge but it still didn't work.

I eventually fixed it by holding the power button for like twenty to thirty seconds and then turning it on again, surprisingly it worked.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] StridAst:
The same thing happened to me. I was sure I bricked my book, but holding the power button for like a minute somehow fixed it. I held it down, then gave it 30 seconds or so to sit, then tried turning it on, and it worked
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
guys, when I say it's bricked, I mean it is bricked. Nothing is working. Force reboot, holding power, letting it charge, NOTHING. :|
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dodgepot:
Sad to see you go. You brought a lot of life to this device. You'll be missed, for sure

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Even you were a beginner once

If this post helped click the thanks button!

remember QTIP - Quit Taking It Personal
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] SCClockDr:
If you strike out at B&N an absolute last resort, would be leave it alone for 1-2 weeks then charge up & try again. The battery going dead may halt a closed loop.

That option is only valid if you have not removed the battery yourself already. I am aware I am speaking to you Indirect. You 'da man IMHO.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
well, I added my current funds vs what I need for the nook replacement. I'm screwed unless I can suddenly buy a new device. I don't think I'm ready to leave the community though. :p
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] joecareytm:
I get my income tax return on 2/8 so I'll definitely donate then! Want you guys to keep up the hard work! :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jsp254:
you have got to see the irony in this! LOL.

quick recap

i make yet another sparky comment

you tell me you hope i get hit by a brick

today i thought i got hit by a brick

while your helping me "unbrick" my brick, i read that you got hit by a brick

there's got to be karma in this somewhere!!! LOL

while on the subject.... by any chance have you asked sparky for some help with this matter? HAHAHAHA
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] angusj:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22209074&postcount=136

Does this mean you're up and running again??
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Nope, it boots from sdcard but not internal. Meaning it's still dead.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bobstro:
I'm glad somebody got a miracle on SuperBowl Sunday! The Pats sure didn't. :(
[General Questions and Answers] khokababu1:
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[General Questions and Answers] Dariobrit:
Nothing to do this here... should this thread be deleted...:confused:
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabx:
Hello,

I wanted to update one SE Arc Experia already running cm7, but with a few months old Rom.

fastboot is not detecting my device, and I have no ideas why. After a few hours of search, I am still unable to fastboot it.

Arc is running fine with cm7.2.0 with FXP Kernel, debug is ON.

I am on Ubuntu 11.10, and everything is correctly set up. I already flashed Rom & Kernel in the past. The file 51-android.rules is in /etc/udev/rules.d.

#SE Arc Xperia
SUBSYSTEMS==”usb”, ATTRS{idVendor}==”0fce″, ATTRS{idProduct}==”014f″, OWNER:="gabx", GROUP:="plugdev", MODE=”0666″

the usb is working :

gabx@magnolia:~/Xperia/xperia$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0fce:0dde Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB

fastboot executable is in my box, with correct permission. The fastboot command works.

The phone is correctly in download mode, with the blue led (turn off, press menu, plug USB).

When I fastboot devices, I have no entry :

gabx@magnolia:~/Xperia/xperia$ fastboot devices
gabx@magnolia:~/Xperia/xperia$

Weird, the -i 0x0fce option doesn't seems correct:

gabx@magnolia:~/Xperia/xperia$ fastboot -i 0x0fce devices
usage: fastboot [ <option> ] <command>
.../.... list here of all otions and command

Sudoing doesn't change anything.

gabx@magnolia:~/Xperia/xperia$ fastboot reboot
< waiting for device >

The device is not detected. Why ??

TY for any help

EDIT

As I couldn't fastboot my device, I placed the boot.img from cm7 update on my sdcard. then from terminal emulator on my device:

flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img

Then reboot in recovery, but now black screen, can't boot at all!!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zdzihu:
Funny how I lost a whole day investigating the same issue :) Answer: invalid fastboot binary. Use this one

Don't use flash_image, it doesn't work with Xperias :)

Cheers,

z
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabx:
TY so much. Yes, a lot of wasting time, checking everything on my Linux box!! Your answer is nice to me, as I was doubting about my Linux set up, and now I feel safe.

I managed to settle everything today on a Winodows box, in just 15 mn! Fastbooted boot.img, flashed update from sdcard, et hop!

TY for the binary. I will use it next time on my Linux box.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drcyber:
shouldnt it be

fastboot -i 0xfce devices

instead?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g el:
try running

fastboot -i 0x0fce

.

You might also require running it as root. At least that's what i'm forced to do everytime, i guess it has sth to do with the udev entry but not sure what.

Also running as root means i'm not able to use tools like FlashTool, but if you just need fastboot, it will probably work.

Cheers,

G
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zdzihu:
You need to add the udev rule mentioned in OP and it will work for regular users too.

#SE Arc Xperia
SUBSYSTEMS==”usb”, ATTRS{idVendor}==”0fce″, ATTRS{idProduct}==”014f″, OWNER:="yourusernamehere", GROUP:="plugdev", MODE=”0666″

Also, I don't use 'fastboot -i 0x0fce' (just fastboot <command>) and it still works fine :)

Cheers,

z
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabx:
Agree totally, no need sudoing, neither use option. As previoulsy mentioned, a wrong binary was the only culprit. Usually, fastboot is trivial in Linux, with the only condition being the correct android rules in /etc/udev.
[Nokia Lumia 800] sHaHiN786:
Maybe just a little pedantic? :D

Yeah, regarding the 16GB even I thought that when I had the iPhone 4, but that a mount that's already in use is your OS, sadly, I know, even I believe that we are mislead to believe that it actually contains 16GB.

As for your faults, their seems to be a lot of faults with your handsets that I don't seem to have, take it to a Nokia care point or mail them on their Nokia support website, I'm sure your phone's in warranty, if proved faulty, they'll easily replace your handset. That wi-fi and lock issue, I've started to notice recently too since the update, I think Nokia have done a cheeky one of saving battery like this, cutting off wi-fi, and my gf gives me a hard time for missing her texts..-_-

*EDIT* oh and yeah, I'm thinking of sending mine for a replacement if Nokia don't have an answer to this.
[Nokia Lumia 800] iGunz:
Lol yeah I guess so. Still why am I complaining I got it for free :P

Oh also it says it has 512mb RAM. It actually has 300 or something. :/
[Nokia Lumia 800] dannejanne:
A fair amount of ram is reserved for the OS like on Android. Also about the disk space issue I don't think it's much to worry about.

Like prevoius poster said I think you are a bit picky about some faults. You also seem to have faults that does not exist on my phone.
[Nokia Lumia 800] anseio:
My computer needs to be turned on for my alarm clock to work on it, too. My alarm clock (were I to have one) would need to be plugged into the wall to work. Of course, the phone has to be turned on for the alarm clock to work.

It's very likely that the 16GB is advertised the same way that hard drive capacities are advertised. They market 16,000,000,000 bytes as 16GB. Considered how computers read storage, that 16,000,000,000 is actually 14.9GB. Then remove whatever is required by the OS.

Windows Live does not import your Facebook contacts unless you indicate it too. Mine does not, has not, and will not merge my FB contacts to my Windows Live account.

Yes, Calendar sucks.
[Nokia Lumia 800] iGunz:
The first bit you said is true but every other Nokia phone I know has turned itself on if the alarm time came. Why not this one? It's probably the Windows software, literally a computer lol

Thanks for the second and third bit it clears stuff up.
[Nokia Lumia 800] vnvman:
Actually all modern smartphones don't have that feature anymore, regardless the software: it's the same on iOS, Android, BBOS, WebOS, MeeGo and more. The only devices sticking with that feature may be the Symbian ones, but I'm not sure because the last Symbian I used was some old N81, which was able to do that but I still don't know about newer Anna devices...many things may have changed.
[Nokia Lumia 800] 1orka:
I agree with this completely. How often do you even transfer contacts? Bluetooth in this device is a joke.

I bought L800 for my wife, and she wanted an Iphone 4 btw, and one of my arguments against it was that there is no functioning bluetooth, imagine my frustration when i found out there is in fact no BT in Lumia 800 too.

Btw, initially i really liked the device, i even considered getting one for myself, but now i'm absolutely not getting it.

I'm also dissappointed in camera too.
[Nokia Lumia 800] bnathan:
Bluetooth issues

I dont understand the whole blueooth complaint. How many times in your life would you transfer a file via buetooth. Welcome to the 21 century, use the cloud. So strange to hear people say they wont buy a phone because of a feature they might use once to transfer their contacts. I have my contacts synced with my Live account for years and every time I get a new phone or computer I put that account in and my contacts sync. Bluetooth file transfers???? Why??????