[HTC Rezound] xv-6800:
When you say it wipes your phone, you mean it starts from scratch, and removes your data, right? To clarify, it will be unlocked but back to the factory install of the VZW ROM, right?

In my first initial copying of playlists, I discovered that the phone does more than just copy to the internal cache; it actually opened and read the playlists for the conversion. I know this because I first HTC sync'd my music library, then manually copied the .WPL playlists. Well, 3 of the playlists referred to an .MP3 file that was in a location outside of my library, which I had forgotten about, and when I looked a the playlists in the Music app on the phone, the file was not listed in those 3 playlists. I manually opened the playlists on the PC to see where the file was, got a copy of it and placed it in the same folder as all my other music. I the HTC Sync'd again, and the file was placed on my phone. I looked at the my playlists on the phone, but they still did not show the missing .mp3. So, I went back to the PC, opened the playlists, edited the path to the .MP3 in questions to point to the same folder as all the other music (now pointing to the new copy I made). When I went to manually copy the updated playlists to the phone, that's when I noticed the playlists were gone. I realized then that the phone reads the info in the lists, re-writes that info in whatever manner it needs, but when it sees and invalid reference, it ignores it, which explains why the missing .MP3 was not there. It then deletes the files it read from.[/quote]The internal playlists are stored in SQL databases, cache folder and you need root access to get into it, but I have not found anything looking like usable data in the ones I searched through on my Incredible. My Rezound is not rooted. My memory of how to access data in a database is failing and comes from the early 90's when you had to know such things.[/quote]So all I would need is to find those files and read/write to them with something that can read .SQL databases. That sounds easy enough. Now I just need clarity on how the unlocking and rooting work. I thought unlocking and rooting were the same.

I'm pretty sure a lot of the issues I am seeing with this phone are specific to this phone. When I became eligible for a new phone upgrade, of the HTC phones the Incredible and Thunderbolt were out. But, when I finally got around to upgrading 8 months later (lazy), those were no longer available. All that was left was the Rezound for $79. How I wish I had upgraded earlier BEFORE the Rezound!

Please tell me your steps to clear the data from media storage. Maybe I need to ensure I did it the same way, although I seriously doubt that's the culprit. I bet I need to wipe out the internal playlists file, because that could indeed be corrupted, especially now that I know they are database files, as database files easily become corrupted.

FWIW, I would not hesitate to wipe my phone, but I don't want to have to setup all my e-mail accounts. Too bad there's no way to back up settings like that. Who the heck designed this OS, anyway? It's so stupid to hide user settings like that. If I could backup my email account settings, that would be awesome. It would also be nice to backup desktop settings, but I'd wipe in a hearbeat if I could save the email settings.

BTW, yesterday I checked the status of my battery. I had 15 hours on it, and was still at 40%. I had wi-fi on, and used it a bit. I was thinking that now that the phone is getting some use, the partial draining and charging has helped "condition" the battery. But, then I remembered the night before I turned off bluetooth and GPS, but from what I understand bluetooth and GPS don't use that much, right? What do you think?