yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Milestone 2 General] Anonymous_:
Hello,

I wonder if someone else had similliar issues as me.

1) My power button got broken few days back. (Probably in the pocket - dunno how) I can press it, but it feels like it is still pressed. Dunno how to explain.. I just can't feel the "click" like on the other buttons and I have to press it quite hard, so it is annoying. It also does not respond correctly, sometimes I have to press on one side, sometimes in another.

Do you have any idea how to fix it? Or the only solution is to send it for warranty repair (I'm trying to keep away from it, since I will have to send it via post & it will take long & I don't have any good backup cell phone). And I dunno if they will approve this for warranty repair, since they can say "it was mechanically damaged" or "it is working - you can use it for pwr on and off" ...

tl;dr: my power button works, but very badly - I can't feel the "click" and I have to press really hard

2) I'm getting soft & sometimes hard reboots. It is VERY annoying (I think I don't have to explain why). Usually it soft/hard reboots when in pocket (and when I'm going on the stairs). It sounds weird, but when I try to repeat it by pressing on various points on the phone - it just does not reboot... So I dunno what it is causing - the only thing I know is, that it is usually when in pocket. Sometimes it just hard reboots when just placed on the desk... But that's occasional, so not a big deal. I've already tried to change ROM (from MIUI to Argen2Stone 3.0, but it did not helped), I've also tried to change VSEL, but it also did not helped :(

(can you recommend me any particular VSEL, which should really work safely?)

Any idea how to fix it or how to detect what is causing it? Anybody experienced this issue(s) too?

Thanks for any ideas or response.

Sorry for my english - I hope it is clear
[Milestone 2 General] lampwarez:
Both problems may be caused by hardware, like internal board unaligned with phone chassis, damaged internal button, soldering problems, ... internal button may be almost pressed all the time, causing bounce clicks, shorts, and the difficulty to press, if the external button is not over the right place to press the internal button.

Do not forget to do a backup before you send to assistance.
[Milestone 2 General] Anonymous_:
Thank you for your response (unfortunately not positive for me).

However I don't know how to reproduce the soft/hard reset issue (I can't tell them: "Hey, it's rebooting in my pocket.. just carry it in it and you'll see yourself" :/), so it looks, that I will have to wait, till the power button will broke totally (so I will have a good and "reproducable" reason/issue) :/ I just hope, that they will accept it without any problem, I'm quite afraid, that they will deny it with some sh-- reason, like: "It is mechanical damage, we will not repair it for you" :|

Anyway, I'm accepting any other ideas and recommendations (till the power button will be totally unusable and I will have to send it for warranty repaid immediately).

-- Just one thing came to my mind - maybe I should now remove custom ROM, because I could not restore stock ROM in case, the button will totally broke. (and they will not accept M2 with custom ROM for sure)
[Milestone 2 General] dantonel:
Here in my city they accepted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] littledover:
I have looked around the forums and have found many issues with MHL but none seem to reflect mine.

I bought and MHL adapter, hooked it up, have the phone in a charging state, can see my home screens, and have even played Shadow Gun with little trouble.

It simply won't play videos, it plays maybe a second and then freezes, it doesn't lock up since I can still back out and such. It does this with Mobo, MX, and the stock video players. I have disabled USB debugging and it made no difference. I was really looking forward to watching movies on the TV with this thing. I have tried numerous clips but none work, same deal with Netflix.

It's a stock GB with Touchwhiz from Bell.

Anyone have a solution?

EDIT: Seems to work slightly better with soft decoding set as the default in the movie player. For a while I had the video working well, but audio came out of the phone not the TV.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clockcycle:
Ok, I've never seen this or had this issue before. So I am not sure what is causing it.

I installed my usual apps after flashing Mr. X's stock+root-CIQ Tmo T989 rom.

First app I usually download and run before anything is Adfree. Then Astro file manager to restore APKs. But I realized that this method left me with some older versions of the apps and they wouldn't have their market links. Yes, I could run Titanium Backup to fix them..

Anyways, suddenly I get a star icon on my notification bar. I look at it and it sends me to a website claiming I won a tablet and to chose.

This is one of the links, don't visit it, I just posted it for reference;

http://com-user.mobi/galaxy/usa/go.php?t202kw=usipad31&uid=REMOVED

So I decided to wipe and flash again and go through the same process to see if perhaps catch who's the culprit..

It happens again this time with a plus icon..

The star icon has happened twice on different occasions, only in the last week, and after installing a recent update to Adfree.

These are the apps I have installed;

Adfree

Astro

3G Watchdog

AT&T Smart Wi-Fi

Barcode Scanner

Beautiful Widgets

Bloat Freezer Free

GasBuddy

Google Voice

Quick Boot

QuickPic

RealCalc

Root Explorer

ScanLive

ShopSavvy

Speed Test

Tapatalk

Ubuntu Regular TTF

Zillow

Has this happen to anyone? Any idea what's causing this or how to catch / prevent it?

I've had one app actually hijack my my stock browser and change the search engine to some smartsearch type site, like it does to normal windows browsers.. lol

Thanks,

-CC
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iok1:
I've had one

I've had the same one, (it's some kind of advertising). I tracked it to some gosms theme. My suggestion:

1. Wipe (with backup of all the apps)

2. Restore ONE App

3. Reboot. (since the ad appeared everytime i rebooted my phone)

4. Repeat 2 & 3 until you see the ad

5. Uninstall latest restored app or complain to developer.

Hope i helped :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stylez:
AirPush Detector

Ad Detector

AirPush should find the culprit.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gh0stdriver:
I was just using my phone and for some reason my browser crashed. it just crashes upon startup, so i decided to restart seeing if it would do any good. and then my phone wouldn't get past the boot splash screen...(the alpharev joker boot image)

Desire GSM rooted, S-off

clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.0

im not exactly sure what rom i'm running but it's a mod of the normal one.

i'm assuming my phone still has some hope because the recovery is working( at least it boots, i havent tried anything else yet) and i dont think i can bring it to a shop..

i searched around and apparently i should wipe the data and format and everything, then fresh install a new rom?(im thinking cyanogen this time, with partitioning my sd card...)

so:

- do i erase everything, and do a fresh install?

-my sd card is already partitioned, if i need to "join" it back before i partition with cyanogen, how should i do this?

-is it safe to do the fresh install with only the files (lets say a zip) and nothing else in the card?

thanks u_u
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruzkay:
- do i erase everything, and do a fresh install?

if the recovery is working u can flash a new rom yes

-my sd card is already partitioned, if i need to "join" it back before i partition with cyanogen, how should i do this?

i dont think you need to join the sd card back but i think some recoveries have the option to partition sd from there

you could also use a card reader and partition it on the pc

-is it safe to do the fresh install with only the files (lets say a zip) and nothing else in the card?

yes if the recovery works you can just flash as usual, remember to clean caches etc before flashing new rom else u often get a boot loop
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy3434:
if you change to 4ext recovery you can check and re-align partitions on you SD card with it, it also seems much better for partitioning you card than using windows which can cause problems. Do a quick search 4ext has its own thread. Has a few other really useful features to like USB unbrick.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kmmxracer:
Just read this on the portal. Hope it's helps us out!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23792088#post23792088
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] gingerboy92:
for samsung gs2.. T.T
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Italiandevil0505:
Just installed AOKP on my transformer. I have flashed the gapps zip twice and still have not been able to get the you tube app. I tried to download it from the market but it says device incompatible. Any ideas?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Running this YT app on AOKP ROM

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16959871/YouTube-3505.apk
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Italiandevil0505:
I have also noticed a lot of market apps are now incompatible. Any ideas why? Everything seemed to work fine on stock ics.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tingtan:
You can flash EOS GApps, it has some apps that are missing from the regular GApps: http://goo-inside.me/roms/teameos/gapps/ (latest version 10.5).
[HTC Amaze 4G] IfYouAintFirstYoureLast:
Hey guys, immediately after flashing NRG's energy rom, I am now getting edge network coverage (3g) in all the places i was getting 2g coverage. I didn't see this mentioned in the energy rom thread, so I wanted to say thanks. (I cant exactly attribute this to flashing the rom, as the carrier may have increased coverage, but it is doubtful that they did.)
[HTC Amaze 4G] glacierguy:
It's the same radio band... No s=off means no radio flashing. That means, although Energy ROM is AWESOME, it probably didn't increase your cell reception.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fcpelayo:
I myself have experienced better coverage as well. but what i think happened was that the radio signal to pick up for 4g service was lowered like ex. if it required 70db to pick up 4g signal it was probably lowered to 65 db hence areas with less coverage well be covered but with really really weak service. but i would like to be wrong and someone correct me so i learn more :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] IfYouAintFirstYoureLast:
im not too familiar with radio flashing although the amaze comes with edge and now im getting edge coverage in a county that I was only receiving 2g coverage. My girlfriend was getting edge coverage on her t mobile phone in the same locations that i was getting 2g, until i flashed energy rom.
[HTC Amaze 4G] glacierguy:
Me either... Maybe I'm wrong too, idk... I'm no dev, just an experienced instruction follower :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] Keylogger_0:
Edge IS 2g. They're both the same.
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
this...

and this...

also, just because it says your signal is better, doesnt mean it actually is
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwibsi:
Hello,

I have a couple of problems.

I've been using Litening Rom for months now and I liked using it a lot.

I would like to upgrade to the ICS version of it now.

Here come the problems.

Ever since I rooted the phone, none of my computers recognize my SGS2. I've used clockwork to flash other ROMs on it, but no computer will talk to my phone. Charging via USB obviously works. Switching the phone to USB-tethering, or to debugging don't work either. I've tried installing different drivers, installing Kies etc. but nothing seems to work.

If you have any ideas on how to fix the USB-connection, please let me know.

So the first question basically is: Can I fix my USB connection?

Second problem:

How do I install litening rom ICS without the use of ODIN? Can the odin-compatible image of litening rom 2.0 be converted into a clockwork compatible zip-file?

Third problem:

How do I keep all my data, and program settings, after upgrading to ICS?

I use K-9 mail, the stock SMS app and what's app.

Is there maybe a way to migrate the settings, apps and widgets when upgrading to ICS?

Thanks to all of you.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Greg:
1. You need to install samsung drivers

2. You can flash Littening rom with odin mobile

3. You can back up what you can with TB, after will set again. Upgrade from GB to ICS need always a full wipe. Good luck
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwibsi:
thanks for the quick reply.

1. I have Samsung drivers installed. On the 4 PCs I use, a SGS1 works with the same cable I use for the SGS2. The phone charges, but there is no reaction in Windows. It won't even look for drivers to install as it doesn't realize there is a device.

2. I've seen that option, too, however the free version only does the Kernel and I don't know, what more there is to a ROM.

3. I don't know, what TB means.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxyII:
TB - Titanium Backup. You can search in Google play
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Greg:
1 Try to uninstall and install again samsung drivers, was helpfull for me

2 I`m afraid to flash rom with odin mobile you need to buy it

3 TB is Titanuim Backup app from market, you can back up you apps and sms, call logs from existing rom, then restore to new one. Hope you understand
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Try entering *#7284# into the dialer. This will bring up a service menu. USB

should

have PDA selected. If it doesn't, select PDA. If it does, change it to Modem, then back to PDA. After that, try your USB connection again.

Please read some of the FAQs and stickies in the I9100 General section. This is a pretty basic question that has been answered over and over and over. Short answer, Kernel is just part of a full ROM.

TB = Titanium Backup. Use it to back up apps and their data.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwibsi:
Thank you guys so much for all the fast replies.

I got the TB = Titanium backup. Thanks

I'll give it a go and see, what happens.

I used CW's backup feature, so worst case, I'll have to go back to the old litening image.

The issue buying from Android market is, that I don't have a private credit card, only the business ones and I can't use it on an app to help cracking my phone.

What is a SGS2 cable?

Is there anything special about it, other than a standard micro-USB cable, that I'm not aware of?

I hadn't tried the *#7284#. It was set to pda. Changed it, restartet, changed it back. Restarted again. No change.

I opened the phone today and had a little look for corroded contacts and cleaned them, but everything looked fine and no change.

I ordered a new USB socket for the phone and will change it, once it arrives. It really looks like a hardware failure to me, if it is the USB socket, we'll know by the weekend.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwibsi:
Hey guys,

the USB-socket was in the mail 20 minutes ago.

I changed it and ... Voila! The USB connection works again.

Obviously the phone is still under warranty and I am considering sending the defective part back to Samsung.

Thank you all for your help.

I'm going to try the Titanium Backup now and then I'm going to get me some ICS :-)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Greg:
Make sure you reading careful instructions before, not after. Good luck
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I think you voided the warranty when you opened the phone and changed the part yourself... But major props for doing so!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwibsi:
You just might be right, that the warranty is voided, but sending the phone back for repair was not an option.

What are you going to do with no phone for 6 weeks? So, you actually need to buy another one.

Buying and reselling another phone is a bigger drain on the wallet than buying a 15€ spare part and 20 minutes to fix it. Exchanging the part was no biggie. It's just a matter of loosening 9 little screws with an appropriate screw driver and having a credit card handy to open up the phone.... oh and make sure that your wife leaves the vacuum switched off until your successfully put everything back together.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
True enough on the vacuum!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twiq:
or alternatively you could make yourself a nandroid backup from CWM, flash ICS to your device. then restore app/app+data/data only using AppExtractor.

AppExtractor free version only allow us 5 restores per batch, but it works :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
My opinion, after a cwm backup just flash with Odin. You should still.have all your apps, settings etc.

People say you need to do a wipe beforehand but I flashed ics lpq coming from gb and all worked fine, other than the known ics bugs (scrolling, incompatible apps etc). So I backed up ics with cwm and restored my gb backup.

Sent from my GT-I9100T
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwibsi:
The AppExtractor tip was excellent. Took care of my K9-Emails perfectly.

However, on the text messages it didn't really work. Only thing it did was wipe the other messages I had received after the flash. :-(

Can you guys recommend a better app to handle them, where maybe the import would work.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twiq:
yeah sorry, i forgot to mention that, i wish it has some kind of merge function with existing datas.. it'll be awesome
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwibsi:
don't worry about it. No problem there.

But it's a bit of a pity, it's not working at all, it just deleted my new messages

and the old ones are also gone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SDOF:
Thanks. Lite'ning Rom install.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcvals21:
Hi

i read and read and also read a lot of posts here and thank you every one for for every thing...

but i m little bit confused...

I will put some questions that will help to summarize things up:

who know please help with these questions:

1-if i have defy (whether it with red or green lens) can i flash any full SBF except the Gingerbread SBF?

2-if if i have defy (whether it with red or green lens) can i flash any fixed SBF except the Gingerbread SBF?

3-if i have defy (whether it with red or green lens) can i flash any custom Rom?

4-if i have defy (with red lens) and i flash a rom that is just for green lens will i brick my device (or vice versa)?

5-what is the worse thing that will happen if i flash a rom (stock or custom) that is for defy's with green lens on a defy with red lens (or vice versa)?

6-if i flash a rom (stock or custom) that is for defy's with green lens on a defy with red lens (or vice versa)then just i can't record 720p videos or it will damage my camera if i try to use it ? or it will damage the camera flash or what exactly?

thank you

regards
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zakoo2:
1: you can flash any sbf, but if you flash gingerbread, you wont be able to downgrade to froyo, and if you have green lens, you wont be able to use your camera with a stock rom. if you flash a 2.3.6 sbf, you wont even be able to downgrade to 2.3.4

2: you can flash any sbf (even 2.3.4 gb ones), and you'll have the downgradeability, but you wont have it with the 2.3.6 ones.

3: of course you can, but only with 2nd init, not with rsd lite.

4: no, you wont brick it, you just simply wont be able to use the camera.

5: if you mean defy rom on a defy+, you will brick your phone. but the defy roms support both lenses.

6: the only thing that can damage your flash is flashing me525 (chinese defy) on your mb525 ('normal' defy). as far as i know, nothing can damage your camera.

hope this helps.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcvals21:
zakoo2 You are great...

thank you very very very much :)
[XPERIA X8 General] moca1337:
I want to get a new phone and i may have lack of money so should i buy x8 if i don't have enough money ore should i wait a little and get money to buy x10 mini/mini pro?

I want to have many apps on phone and install roms,play games and browse internet.So what do you recommend?

Sorry for my bad english

+ i want that unlock slide tghing like on iphone to habe :)
[XPERIA X8 General] her3814:
look if you want, you can buy x8, it has a bigger display, but the difference is that x8 has 3mp, and x10mini/mini pro has 5mp camera, for games they aren't that good, you can maybe with luck get a -11W20 X8 so you can flash a custom kernel to get better results with games, but i would recommend you to wait so you can buy another phone with better specs! X8 is a great phone but with the same price or a bit more you can find better phones
[XPERIA X8 General] pochopsp:
in my contry x10 mini costs less than the x8, however i suggest you buy a lg optimus one, it costs about the same of these phones and has a bigger screen, my father has had one.
[XPERIA X8 General] Lietotajs:
X10 mini has a more better camera 5mp with autofocus and led flash and picture quality is like with cheap photocamera (x8 only 3mp without autofocus and flash and picture is bad)! Screen size is small and resolution is smaler than ever android phone - 240*320 and many games not fit in display. X10 is small with good camera, but not designed for games. X8 has a better battery and display, but camera is same as on moust phones. For you purpose better is x8!
[XPERIA X8 General] thu001:
It also depends on ur thumb size tho cuz X10 mini is 2.55" while X8 is 3"

Cheers

Sent From MT11i
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] GeknGekn:
Samsung realeses sg2 kernel sources sais sammobile on twitter. Might that be of help to the Note development scene?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thelestat:
I am surprised this is not bigger news, maybe because ICS is not in the title.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the note essentially the same as the GS2 (hardware wise besides the screen and SPen), so couldn't these sources be used to fix most of the issues in the AOKP/ AOSP builds for the note?

---------- Post added at 07:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:49 AM ----------

link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23791925 to the S2 source thread with download links
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] piecemakr9:
Ics kernel source for gs2 has been released. Does this help us towards an ICS ROM AT alL?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
Maybe, but I don't think so. Different processors. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] piecemakr9:
I know that but I just didn't know if it helped us in anyway darn
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
I hope it does
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Deleted member 3255800:
SGH-i727 kernel

I jsut posted a reply on this under the ICS for GSII LTE. If you search the Samsung's Open Source Download center for SGH-I727, you will be able to get and download the kernel source for the Skyrocket.

Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] andTab:
Can a dev confirm that this is ICS?

I would assume that this is only GB!!!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] scoot05redss:
I'm not on a PC to check but are you sure that's not the gingerbread source?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Deleted member 3255800:
you're right

You're right, that was for GB. Sorry. Got too excited. :-(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nrm5110:
I'm thinking gb its called sgh-i727 update1. Zip or something.

https://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=SGH-I727

people who live in glass houses sink ships
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
update 1 is the 2.3.6 patch.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nrm5110:
I figured rican I curse you right now

people who live in glass houses sink ships
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] icenight89:
lol funny stuff
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
Mabye change your thread title to mistake or something..... Right now your still at boy who cried wolf. But hurry before you upgrade to boy who caused riot