[Fascinate General] machv5:
Thanks for the reply I am looking into it to see if I can do the same with the Telus Fascinate. I appreciate the heads up i assumed that the only difference between the two was the look not the guts of the phone too. I have a Captivate too and it is different physically mainly in the placement of the camera ribbons and mount points and that the power button is mounted directly to the board with bubble switch that has a metal casing on it like the volume up down buttons.besides that and without references to the contrary like data sheets that have arrows pointing to the items they're talking about (only found on here and maybe one or two other places, but I haven't found them for this phone and other galaxy s types) I only have my own observations to go on.

One of the odd things that has happened to my fascinate is that now when I plug it into my computer or charger is that I get a error message stating that the battery is not the right type and that it can't charge it. It then flashes a yellow triangle. However if I turn the phone on first it boots as far as the Samsung T959D screen and halts there. ODIN can't see it and neither can QPST but it does charge the battery ok.

I am also in the process of looking at which ATMEGA and accessories to buy so that I can also start learning to Jtag as well. I just happened across the thread I quoted and I started having a Christmas morning type feeling at the prospect of learning about it. I've always loved electronics and since Androids have come about and the rate that people break them and either toss them away or want them fixed it's been something I've really gotten into. I am having a hard time trying to figure it all out on my own without a land-based school. I am finding myself fracturing off from one thing to the next in my quest to become a developer. I don't have a lot of money to spend on equipment to get something together yet I recognize the need to have some type of development platform that I don't have to worry about bricking every five minutes as I experiment and work my way up the ladder, I don't want to end up just theming another devs work, I know doing the whole thing on my own is not feasible so know I would have to base my work on someone elses. I want to create something that is my own and that works.

The unbrickable mod would give me that development device to mess around with. Failing that I will still put together a Jtag unit that I can use. I don't know much about Arduino's either.

To give you some of my background, I've been taking things to bits ever since I was a kid, now though as an adult (of sorts lol) they work when I put them back together (most of the time). I loved CDT (craft design technology) in high school we had these netbook sized breadboards that you could clip together and add wires to for different projects. Then in College I took a course to become a computer tech at one of those technical schools that offered a skim milk version of computer science that left you only able to pass an A+ exam (poor choice on my part I was impatient) the electronics portions only lasted 2months 1 month for analog electronics building an AM and FM Radio then 1 month for digital using a hobby type bread board we built a basic modem from nor gates, nand gates, etc... and then an alarm clock. I scored 98% on that class. That was also 15yrs ago. Since then I have done all kinds of jobs but always come back to something tec related, our first home computer was a ZX81when I was 8yrs old. I sat there programing Pong from a book for couple hours (horrid keyboard rubber chiclets) and debugging my mistakes then after playing the game for 10mins I got bored and shut it off. Now I'm 38rys old and haven't been this enthused about learning a new thing since girls stopped being yucky... Anywho moving on.

I try to search as much as possible and not pack the forums with new threads asking the same questions answered 10 times before, unless it's something I really think deserves its creation. My main obstacles that I am facing is that I am still learning Linux commandline and it's frustrating to see the amount of tools out there that only work with either Windows or only with Linux. And due to only having one computer with limited space that I use for everything from video game machine to TV to learning with I haven't decided whether to have my Android SDK in Linux or with Windows, I guess I should find out if I can use the same resources like the API's from either OS.

I guess if I wads more patient and less scattered it would help, but I have adhd, hyper focus though which is lucky I guess, it is a ***** to work with someties. If I could find a land-based school (that isn't in India or China) that offered a mobile phone course then I would likely take it. Where do the service center people learn? Computer Science courses that I see have very little if at all anything to offer regarding Android.

WOW!!! sorry for tearing your ear off there I'll delete it if I went too far off in my ramble I'm just letting you know where I am coming from and where I want to go, without asking if you wanted to know in the first place. :eek: bye for now