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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Okay just got an email back. The website listing the ion with a 1500mAh battery is a typo. Should be 1930mAh. He will check on the network bands (1700/2100) and is gonna see if there is a white paper for the LT28at specifically.

His thinking and mine was that AT&T just didn't want people to see that the LT28at had T-Mobile supported network bands.

Will let you know what more I hear.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
White paper for the LT28at - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByrrmqPijqISXy1KYTRZdER1Mzg

White paper doesn't list the 1700 band but my friend is gonna check still.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Received a new version today of the white paper: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByrrmqPijqISM2dBcFpwNUpaTG8
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shangoof:
thank you for all the info

so there is quite a bit of wrong information spread across major cell phone websites, engadget, cnet, gsmarena, phone arena...

so lt28i can run t-mobile hspa+ at 21/5.8 Mbps and is future proof for lte

lt28at is at&t locked and what is sold through sony store in usa

lt28h is the non lte model and would run on t mobile hspa+ at 42/5.8 Mbps

maybe the failed at&t/t-mobile merger explains how the lt28i was available for a while and then a revised at&t version had to be done
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mehran_o0o:
I have this hardware test app and it tells me battery is 1930... And the tmobile compatibilty is confirmed, but this phone is att locked so maybe if we can get it unlocked we can use it with tmobile too, but as lomg as i know this is only a standard of America's network

Sent from my LT28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
What hardware test app?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] momaru:
Just wondering. If all versions actually have 1700/2100 bands, would it be more beneficial to purchase the lt28i over the lt28h and be able to run it on an AWS network like t-mobile?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Yes because the LT28i can be purchased unlocked but the LT28at can't be and there are no ways to unlock it currently.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mroach:
I had the same problem when I was shopping for the LT28i. I was really hoping it was 850/900/1900/2100. GSM arena seemed to be the source of this misinformation and it spread to eBay. I emailed many sellers and they refused to look at the box to check since it is printed on there. I checked Sony Taiwan's website (the only place the LT28i was sold at the time) and it said 850/900/1900/2100 so I took a gamble. I was wrong. It is, as you say, 850/1700/1900/2100, making it the weirdest band frequency ever. A bit of a disappointment for me since I live in Sweden and my provider had 900 coverage, but whatever. Their 2100 is perfectly fine.

If you want more confirmation, I attached a screenshot of the configuration info screen from my LT28i.

UMTS 1: 2100

UMTS 2: 1900

UMTS 4: 1700/2100 AWS

UMTS 5: 850

LTE 4: 1700/2100 AWS

LTE 17: 700 (AT&T)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] popfan:
You missed the second entry on your picture where it says GSM900.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mehran_o0o:
I have antutu and zdevice test and norton utility

Sent from my LT28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mroach:
I meant I was missing UMTS 900, not GSM. My carrier is a 3G-only network with UMTS 900/2100.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mrd7rs:
so this model has 1700/2100? i've been looking for xperia's with this band.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shangoof:
the lt28i and the lt28h do, i just ordered the lt28i waiting on shipping now, paid $525 shipping included
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zangetsu2188:
What? Weird. The LT28i is available here. No UMTS BC8 (900)? Oh my. Might as well check the Sony shop here if they will release the LT28h variant. I don't know if my carrier is using the 900 band for HSPA. Fingers crossed that it is 2100.

I might encounter a problem with that 900 band when in roaming, too.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mrd7rs:
where did you purchase your phone?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mroach:
Relative to the other major UMTS bands, 900 is scarcely used. Nearly all operators of UMTS 900 networks primarily operate a UMTS 2100 network and they're using 900 for rural coverage or to augment urban coverage for the purposes of building penetration and capacity.

My home network (3 Sweden) has a 900 network but as far as I can tell I'm not missing out on anything by having the LT28i. My last couple phones had 900 and I'm not noticing any difference.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shangoof:
I got it from Overseas electronics
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] twent4:
can you tell me how to reach this page please? google fails me and always brings up the INFO page.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] accts:
From Spec:
[HTC One S] LIONS1:
Hello,

my htc one s has msm8960 so is it s4 or s3?
[HTC One S] Inferi0r:
Hi. What did the guys from the search function say?

Here is your answer.
[HTC One S] jriv:
S4
[Xperia Arc General] 92jacko:
After the ICS update, we now have a "vendor" directory within our system folder.

This folder seems to hold duplicates of folders found within the "system" directory (which includes the "app" directory, containing bloatware and copies of apps from "system/app").

My questions are:

What is the purpose of the "vendor" directory?

And, can the "vendor" directory be safely deleted all together? (I did give this a go, and up to now, do not seem to be experiencing any side effects.)
[Xperia Arc General] Riyal:
Vendor directory is there since gingerbread. That is where sony put all miscellanous files. For example all apk's inside the vendor/app are only being used by setup guide. If setup guide is launched for the 1st time it copies all the contents inside vendor directory and being copy pasted to it's respective directories.

It was mainly made for the use of the factory reset in the settings app in the phone. Wherein if you do a factory reset the phone delete's all the data it contains and return back the 3rd party files back in case you uninstalled it.
[Xperia Arc General] 92jacko:
Oh, I never noticed it while I was on GB. The only reason I noticed it this time was because I had bloatware running from the vendor dir (such as Lets Golf).
[Xperia Arc General] Riyal:
Yes. If you were a ROM developer and want to integrate some optional apps(let users have the right to uninstall it if they want to) then the best place to put it is in the vendor directory.
[Xperia Arc General] 92jacko:
How does that work then? As with the bloatware I had, I had to use root explorer to remove it from the vendor directory to stop it from being available on the device, the option to uninstall in the settings menu wasn't available.
[Xperia Arc General] Riyal:
I'm not sure if it was a bug or what but that's not the case on GB. Probably sony intended it to be like that or they have done some minor errors.

Anyways I don't see any good reason why the likes of let's golf be considered as a system app. It won't even work unless you download it's game data. :p
[Xperia Arc General] 92jacko:
Ah I see.

Yeah, I'm with you on that one, totally not cool of them to make a game a system app (n).
[Xperia Arc General] ArcMan09:
Due to vendor app partitions.

We get very less space around 40 kb in system partitions :mad::rolleyes:
[Xperia Arc General] ArcMan09:
To get rid of this f***** use less partition .

Flash arc s fw.
[Xperia Arc General] 92jacko:
Is there no other way of completely removing the partition without having to flash an S rom?
[Xperia Arc General] ArcMan09:
No there is no other method
[Xperia Arc General] jader13254:
This is a Question Thread! [Q & A]

MOD ----> Move or Delete

Why he ask 4 questions in 1 thread and put it to General...

The answers are also questions so move!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] SmithO77:
I was streaming a movie & noticed it looked stretched. I watched it on my laptop & the movie was in letterbox. Both movies were stretched on S3 showing no black boarders is there a way to change this?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] srichachasauce:
Chainfire is a well-known developer on XDA. He has released numerous apps that are extremely useful. One of particular interest is Mobile ODIN. As the name of the app suggests, it flashes Samsung firmware onto your device. This is extremely helpful as it is often annoying to have to rely on your computer to flash back to stock. Furthermore, some of you may experience problems due to the USB port on your computer or phone. Also, this will not trip your flash counter.

USE WITH CAUTION. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR DEVICE OR YOUR CAT GOES ON FIRE

This will not flash/re-partition PIT, IBL/PBL, SBL & EFS. (No need to anyways...:rolleyes:)

To flash via Moile ODIN, you must have ROOT

As a safety precaution, you must have 80% battery power!

1. Go to Chainfire's thread for Mobile ODIN (here) and download the following files:

MobileODINLite-v3.00.apk

MobileODIN_FlashKernel_I747-v2.0.apk

[OPTIONAL] If you're feeling generous, then go do Chainfire (he deserves it!) and yourself a favor and download the paid app via the Play Market. Pro can inject root in the stock firmware prior to flashing! :D

Note

: If you downloaded Mobile ODIN Pro, you wont need to install MobileODIN_FlashKernel_I747-v2.0.apk as it will automatically download the corresponding apk for your device.

2. Once you've downloaded and installed the two apps, go download AT&T stock firmware. As this is a huge file, download it on strong WiFi connection.

(MD5: 66c6dfae34fd06c098f07537d19943c2) <- MD5Sum of the zip file

3. Extract zip and place tar.md5 in the root of your internal sdcard.

4. Open Mobile Odin > select Open File... > I747UCALEM_I747ATTALEM_I747UCALEM_HOME.tar.md5

It will not flash the following files in tar:

aboot.mbn

sbl2.mbn

sbl3.mbn

rpm.mbn

tz.mbn

5. Check wipe data and cache & dalvik cache* and flash (select Check for MD5 sum).

Note*: While it is not necessary to wipe data and cache & dalvik cache in the app, it is suggested as to prevent boot loops.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jde984:
nice guide
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tamanaco:
Pardon my ignorance, but when you say "It will not flash the following files in tar:"... are those files not needed at all or do we need to add them manually?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] srichachasauce:
I don't think so as you don't need to flash boot loaders. Also, repartition is not necessary as were not using hellraised roms (yet).I am not 100% sure tho.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
I believe it's a "safety" feature that the dev built in, because unless absolutely necessary, you generally don't want to mess with bootloaders, as those are the few items that can seriously f up (aka "Hard" brick) a phone if it goes bad. Also, it was found that some of the latest leaks from Samsung on various devices contained some shady bootloaders that noobs were indiscriminately flashing, so again, this helps save them from themselves :)
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] VikramW8:
I've been wondering that can the sony ericsson x8 users have a haptic/tactile feedback on pressing the hardware buttons? I found haptic feedback on hardware buttons in aroma installer while installing CM9 Crema de Nieve ISC ROM... son can we have it while using the phone normally like other phones like htc explorer, live with walkman having capasitive buttons do?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redhead7:
I have been using this guide on modmymobile.com:

7. Open the ROOT folder you extracted on your Desktop.

8. Double click on #1-Run this to start ROOT.

This will upload the files needed onto the phone. It might take a few minutes, on the video it was quick as I already had these files in the SDCard of my phone. Once it gets to the point that it says Adb Shell and has a $ with a blinking underscore (_) then we are ready to go to the phone.

9. Open up ConnectBot on the phone that you previously downloaded.

10. Click on where it says SSH and change it to Local. Type any name and press enter. Once you get the black screen with the $ you can type the following lines:

Code:

cd /data/local/tmp

./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin

11. It will show a message, just wait till it shows

FORKED **** Childs.

**** is a number. Once that happens you can close down Connectbot.

12. Re-Open ConnectBot. If successful you should see a # meaning you have temporary root already.

13. Now type the following commands:

Code:

/data/local/tmp/install-root.sh

14. Nothing should happen, except getting another # sign, meaning that the script has finished.

15. Now go back to your computer and close down the command prompt window.

16. Click on the file called: #2-Run this to start RECOVERY

17. Wait a few seconds and then you will get the $ _

Type:

Code:

su

I can complete steps up to #17 type the code "su"

this is what I get back:

bionic/linker/linker.c:1581:ERROR: 2818 could not load "libbindr.so"

bionic/linker/linker.C:1641:ERROR: failed to link su

bionic/linker/linker.C:1734:ERROR: CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE 'su"

$

What am I doing wrong or any suggestions on how I can easily root this phone will be appreciated.

Thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] pmateti:
I am following Civato's guide to install ICS Boot Loader. I place the Acer tab in APX mode manually. I run the following.

./nvflash --bct bct.bct --setbct --bl bootloader_apx.bin --configfile flash.cfg --odmdata 0x300d8011 --sbk 0x04DD1E00 0xA76D0000 0xE727E402 0xE8502103 --sync

And, I get stuck at "failed executing command 25 NvError 0x120002" etc. (I am using nvflash on Linux.) At that point: The Acer tablet screen is lit up with "acer" logo in yellow, "Acer Iconia APX mode" written in the top-left (landscape) corner in tiny font. On Linux PC, you see "Nvflash started\n[resume mode]\n" and then just hangs. Cannot even kill the process. Disconnecting the USB cable kills the nvflash process. Acer tablet remains in the same state (yellow logo, power led lit white). Here are the last few lines from the above cmd.

bootloader_apx.bin sent successfully
waiting for bootloader to initialize
bootloader downloaded successfully
failed executing command 25 NvError 0x120002
command failure: sync failed (bad data)
bootloader status: partition table is invalid, missing required information (code: 14) message: nverror:0x4 (0x4) flags: 0

Luckily, the tablets boots as it did before this failed procedure. What is it that I am doing wrong?
[Acer Iconia A500] IcedCube:
It means your NAND has been hosed, and basically, she's a brick on life support (via the bootloader). Why are you installing manually, may I ask?

Sadly, it may be time to order a new one? Unless the bootloader has an option rewrite the partition table (and start fresh), I doubt she would be of much use.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Some other folks had the same issue in the past.

Basically most of them ran an EUU to stock 3x. It should reset the partitions. Believe they ran TimmyDeans tool which comes with the EUU.

Then they were able to update the bootloader as per the guides.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] yaworski:
There is no need to use whole EUU. But in this state you still need to run --create command to fix this, which will format whole internal storage. Copying all data from storage to PC and making nandroid backup is adviceable.

This could be an eMMC failure but also it could be just a messed up data in the partition table.
[Acer Iconia A500] NIxana:
Hi I haved the same error like you and I used the TimmyDeans tool.

it seams we have some mestup partition sheme that is fixed only when the system is formated again.

So my recomendation is to folow the steps and Ihope soon to be runing ICS with new bootloader

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1723608
[Acer Iconia A500] pmateti:
My A500 now has V8 BL

Thanks to the replies fromNIxana, yaworski, Moscow Desire, I was able to successfully flash V8. On the Linux PC, I was in the root-3.2.1/Image/ dir. Copied flash.cfg to flash8.cfg. Made the following changes to flash8.cfg: for partition 4, filename=bootloader_v8.bin, and for partition 6, filename=recovery_twrp_2.1.3-ICS.img . The shell line I succeeded with was

./nvflash --bct flash.bct --setbct --odmdata 0x100c0105 --configfile flash8.cfg --bl bootloader.bin --sbk 0xSBK0 0xSBK1 0xSBK2 0xSBK3--create --go

If I had system.img etc. for an ICS ROM I would have dared to replace their names also in flash.cfg. Without these, the above installs a ROM from the root-3.2.1 pkg of TimmyDean.

My experience differs quite a bit from what was reported in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1723608. Hence the changes to flash.cfg
[Acer Iconia A500] yaworski:
@pmateti: you can also remove filename attribute from other partitions leaving only the changed ones for EBT and SOS partitions. Then you just enter recovery and flash any rom you want without the need to wipe anything.
[Acer Iconia A500] pmateti:
I realized that I could have removed the filename=... line for any partition that did not need to be re-loaded. Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] djricekcn:
What should or have to download to get Japanese into the Galaxy S3? My G2 had it in there by default so I'm not sure what I have to download to type in Japanese natively.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] gtuansdiamm:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.japanese
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] djricekcn:
Thank you very much!
[HTC Inspire 4G] thegoob:
When my phone turns on it goes to the white htc screen and then continues to vibrate like its crazy, after that it hangs at a black screen, i tried everything, even flashing the PD98IMG file, still nothing, any help would be amazing!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Reinaldo33897:
If you can access recovery try full wipe then reflash a rom.
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
What have u flashed? It sounds like a messed bootloader.
[HTC Inspire 4G] thegoob:
this isnt exactly my phone, my buds daughter had it and he had it rooted and cm7 on it, well it wasnt working so she called att and they sent her to htc because it was out of warranty, the guy at htc had her do a factory reset and it work now, i tried flashing everything from recoveries to the PD98IMG with no success....and S-off is there...
[HTC Inspire 4G] titilianos:
I hace the Sam problem but just pull out battery and start in recivery mode fullwipe and restore backup rom and magic its all ok again
[HTC Inspire 4G] bhatt86:
So I seem to be having the same problem the phone boots to white HTC screen then goes to the lock screen. After the lockscreen pops up the phone shuts off. The phone isn't mine I just told the guy I'd look at it he already took it to At&t and they did a factory reset without backing up the recovery. It is unrooted on stock rom hboot blah blah blah. I am not familiar with this device myself but I am familiar with other HTC's such as the Evo 3G and Droid Incredible. I assume what I can do is run the RUU for the Inspire and reflash the ROM that way without root.
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
You will only able to flash a official signed RUU if you are not S-OFF...but a factory reset should have been enough. If the issue keeps ocurring then take it again to Service Centre.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wasya152:
if i manually update from 4.0.4 takju to the jb 4.1.1 through cmw, will i still get OTA updates in future. also, if the i do the update, will it lock the bootloader and erase cwm? thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
OK to get a few things right here, you need to have stock recovery to install OTA, no it won't relock boot loader, yes it will erase CWM. Your rom needs to be 100% stock (including boot loader, kernel and radio aswell as rom and recovery).

The way I just went to 4.1.1 (takju) I was running the preview JB Google IO rom anyway so in CWM I reflashed that to undo any system changes I made. Then using Mskips nexus tool kit I used it to flash stock recovery and then BOOT (NOT FLASH) to CWM. Find the update and flash it. Before you do all this use titanium to back up your stuff, do a nandroid and get voodoo OTA root keeper so you get root back after the update.

Then using the tool kit again I used it to flash CWM back. Then your done. I won't give further instructions but for further reading efrant has very good posts about this stuff, mskip has very good instructions on his tool kit in the thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1419170

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1392310

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wasya152:
i'm still a little confused. my phone is completely stock. it's a takju 4.0.4. i don't want to wait for the OTA for jb 4.1.1. i was going to use the nexus tool kit to unlock the bootloader ( i believe that's required to boot it into cwm) then run the OTA update that people posted for my version to update it. I don't care about keeping cwm or bootloader, just want the update now and keep the phone still stock. i also want to make sure that i'll get OTA updates in the future. It looks like I can just boot it into cwm without flashing it, so that's what i'm going to do.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wasya152:
can anyone confirm that i can just boot into custom recovery and apply the update zip and still keep everything stock?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Yeah you can but you need to unlock the boot loader to do it, which wipes your entire phone so back up any thing you want to keep like photos or music. When the bootloader is open you can just leave it and just lock it if you need to send for warranty. Or if you already have root but locked boot loader there is a free app to unlock it on play store

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wasya152:
once, i update the file using the nexus toolkit to boot into custom recovery, once it updates, it will lock the bootloader and the phone will be back to stock right? or is the bootloader going to stay open.

also, will i still get future OTA updates if i just do the update by booting into recovery and not flashing cwm?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Once you unlock it the bootloader stays open until you choose lock I again. You can still get ota but remember you need the matching bootloader, kernel, radio and unmodified system and recovery. So just booting cwm is fine to apply and then after its applied the patch you can flash what ever you want again. I find its always a good idea to make a back up of a 100% stock rom and keep it on the pc just in case. This is all simple and quick with the tool kit

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wasya152:
Hey, first, thanks for the replies. Second, if I unlock the bootloader to install update, make no other changes, meaning everything else is stock and the update is googles stock update, them once the update is done, can I run the toolkit again to lock the bootloader. Doing this will it bring my phone to same everything as a stock ota updated one? Or is me unlocking and then locking bootloader going to cause me to have a different version for the next ota
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
No worries its fine. Yes after you have successfully applied a stock OTA patch onto a stock rom then you are running the same as everyone. Their are minor regional differences, like takju and yakuto (what ever lol) toro, toro plus etc but flashing a ota patch from a different build won't work on a rom that doesn't match.

You can go to the Google developer site and search for the full ROM and you know definitely its 100% as its meant to be, the patches just write over the bits which change in updates. The thing to bear in MIMD about flashing the whole ROM from Google site is that it will wipe your entire phone

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images (keep looking through for the build you want and you can flash it using the flash tool. Back up your stuff like music photos etc first)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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anyone interested?
[Member-Found Deals] dasistsparta:
How is that cheap?
[Member-Found Deals] Censura_Umbra:
$320 for tablet and dock is a good price. I just sold my nib transformer for $325 with no dock