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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slippery wing:
I wanted to throw this out there in case someone else can benefit from it.

Yesterday I dropped my S2 E4GT in the toilet. I'll save you the details, but yes, it was "clean" water. Luckily I think it hit the basin before the water which caused the battery cover to fall off and the battery to fall out prior to being submerged.

Completely dejected, I did the following (what could it hurt?):

I took the phone to my air compressor in the garage and blew compressed air through every nook and cranny.

Placed the phone in a Pyrex bowl.

Covered the phone in white rice.

Placed the bowl with the phone in the oven at 170 degrees F (the lowest setting).

Forgot about the phone while troubleshooting a car issue.

Came back in after an hour and twenty minutes to my wife telling me she removed my phone from the oven because it smelled like burning plastic.

The phone looked normal, so I shook the rice out of it, and figured with nothing to lose, put a different battery (Anker) in the phone and it booted up like normal(!)

So far the phone is working like it always had. A few things that saved me: I had removed the external SD card prior to the "incident", I had a charged up spare battery on hand, and I think the fact that the battery popped out before it hit the water probably saved the day.

Not sure what the optimum cook time is at 170 degrees, but after 80 minutes or so, even though it smelled like hot plastic parts, there is no noticeable deformities or defects.

Give it a shot, your mileage may vary.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigj231:
I think the only thing you can really hurt in an oven like that is the LCD screen. Usually, everything else is good to about 100 degrees C (~200 degrees F) if it's off. If you're patient, the rice will remove most of the water overnight. Just shake it off before you throw it in the rice. The biggest problem is getting water spots under the screen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
A big no no with electronics is using an air compressor to clean or dry it. It can blast off small components like smd caps. Also air compressors have small amounts of oil in them that can carry tiny bits of metal with it as it is being pushed out of the hose with the air. Than can provide a decent conductive bridge. Also with air rushing through a device with metal and plastic in it, static electricity will build up. You got very lucky.

I personally take the entire device apart and bake only the motherboard in rice at about 180 for an hour and let the digitizer and screen assembly dry while wrapped in a towel over night.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigj231:
I hate to say it, but my grandparents have an old i386 system that would disagree with you. (As well as several impact guns that disagree with your claim about oil being in the air.) Plus, I've used an air compressor on modern systems plenty of times. The trick is to not be stupid. Make sure you are using an air dryer, turn off the oil (most people don't even have this anyway), and don't shove the blow nozzle into the board, and you'll be fine.

Also, you're a lot more likely to screw something up when removing the board and digitizer than just letting the entire thing sit in rice, or even bake at a low temperature. A hair dryer is a much better option than an oven or air compressor IMO.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slippery wing:
No doubt I got lucky. That is a good point on compressed air. My system has a filter and a dryer attached, so water and oil should not have been an issue for me, but it's something to think about if you have an out of the box air compressor.

I've had bad luck taking electronics apart, particularly with the snap fit assemblies that so many electronics incorporate.

I figured my phone was done; anything I could try would be an experiment and if it worked out, great.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] georgito:
Hi there, having a sms problem, not all the time, ,but approximately 1 of 10 sms is not received. .no notification but led blinking (using light manager) )and no sound and no sms. .using omega rom...Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonareck:
Me too I have the same problem. I found a fix you have to install Ghostly SMS.

This issue was repported to Google. Can't post outside link. :(

Look like a problem when you have low memory. I use a custom rom Omega v42 which limit text message to 1000. I just lower it to 200 to see what happen.

What is your SMS limit?

Are you running low in memory?
[HTC One X] benvaj:
My device overdrained in fastboot and completely went silent. I could not turn it on anyhow i tried. Not even fastboot, not even the notification led worked. I even charged it all night but no luck. I took it to t-mobile for repair. The repair guy managed to fix it temporarily but he screwed up something later. I suspected that the battery has damaged somehow, so i bought a new one. The guy used some kind of power suppy to recharge the battery, so i thought i can do the same with 2 AAA and 1A battery ducttaped to each oder. I actually managed to turn it on with the new battery and the ducttaped battery, but i had to use floepie's batch file to charge it over 10% to unlock the bootloader and flash a cwm recovery to chrage it with usb.

In order to do this i had to remove the back housing and the coating from the battery and charge it with the ducttaped batteries and two wire on each end. + side to + side and - side to - side. the red wire is the plus side and the black is the minus. Others are the grund. Keep the wires to the battery as shown in the pictures.

Floepie' batch file: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1658084

Only do this if nothing else helps

, and the repair guy refuses to do it because he is a mother******.

I'm not sure if it works on other devices or with different type of batteries, and

I am not responsibe for anything happened to your device because of this

. It should be completely dead so i dont know how could it be worse anyhow, but dont point fingers at me :)

I'm not that good at english so if something doesnt-t compeltely clear, please tell me!

I hope this helps somebody who was in the same desperate situation as i was.

Good luck!
[HTC One X] TToivanen:
Will keep this in mind. I smirked a little at the duck tape part. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] beko723:
Hello when i connected my phone with Kies it showed me that my firmware number is LJ1(ALB) and it is unable to check for updates...

Can you please tell me what this LJ1(ALB) means ??? :confused::confused::confused::confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] musclehead84:
LJ1 is what software version you are on. That is what the phone shipped with. You are 2 updates behind. The one after LJ1 is ljc and the new ota is ma7. I'm surprised your phone isn't prompting you to accept an ota. Are u rooted and on stock rom or what is your setup?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] beko723:
and ALB what means ?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhagiratha:
I placed a pre-order last week for the xperia Z from handtec.uk for shipping to New York.

I am presently using a Lumia 920 on Simple Mobile and have had excellent 4G service for months now.

Does anyone know if I will be getting the same 4G service with the xperia Z on this network?

LTE I will not get since am not using the phone on AT&T network and is not offered by Simple Mobile, which is fine with me.

Thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spectre51:
Which model did you order?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TangoXray:
Do you know what model would work in the U.S.? Currently using Straight Talk (AT&T)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spectre51:
For HSPA+ the C6602 for LTE the C6606.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhagiratha:
My mistake guys, I'm actually on Straight Talk. I did check my order and handtec said the model they getting would be the Xperia Z ET964 C6603.

In any case, I cancel the order this morning since I realize that the phone will be a bit too large for my taste plus those port flaps will be a pain in the arse in the long run. Will wait for the ZL ... as it will suite me better.

Thank you all for your responses. Cheers
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spectre51:
It's not much bigger than the ion. I have comparison pictures in another thread showing it compared to the ion and TL.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhagiratha:
would you mind directing me to the location where I can view your comparison? thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spectre51:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38133093&postcount=17

Sorry try that link other one wasn't working.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danw_oz:
The C6603 is the LTE model. C6602 is not. The ZL will not be much smaller though.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhagiratha:
I totally changed my desire on getting a Sony. I have decided to go with the HTC One. Yep! :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danw_oz:
Make sure you get the AT&T model so you can use it on all US markets only all the bands.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyendu8t1:
Dear Friends

Please help me with rooting my S2. I have gone through some of the threads.

The Details of my phone are as follows:

PDA: I9100XWLQ2

PHONE: I9100DDLPC

CSC:I9100DDLPD

Baseband version

I9100DDLPC

kernel version :

3.0.15-1157945

dpi@DELL225 #3

Build Number

IMM76D.XWLQ2

I have been through a few threads but couldn't figure out which method to use.

Can one of you please show me the way as in what are all the requirements and what all files I

would be requiring.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Dibs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f-r:
Which thread did you try?

Tell where did you got stuck so we'll help you.

Sent from my digital submersible hovercraft.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyendu8t1:
I tried at the following:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1246131

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1125282

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1126522

I am not able to deduce as to which kernel I should be using.

Please kindly help.

Regards

Dibs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
That's easy, siyah v5 for S2 at gokhanmoral.com

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyendu8t1:
Hi

Could you please elaborate on the steps.

Can someone pleasw provide me with some

detailed information.

Regards

Dibs
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f-r:
Start here https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+flash+siyah+kernel+on+galaxy+s2

There are more than 50 guides on this. If you'd only bothered to search.

Sent from my digital submersible hovercraft.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyendu8t1:
I did try on google about rooting my galaxy s2.

However I am not able to deduce if there is any specific kernel

That i should be using.

Please kindly help.

Regards

Dibs
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donnie Sins:
Check the fourth post about Siyah, there's your answer.

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
BS, You simply want spoon feeding.

You have already been told to use Siyah kernel. Plus its made extremely clear in all the other silly "how do I root" topics.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyendu8t1:
Wow, so easy for you people to ridicule someone, rather than help.

Anyways thanks guys for all the help..

Regards

Dibs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
Hey if you would like help, just write me back? I sent a message to you, reply if you would like me to help you root your S2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amkivb:
Go to galaxys2root.com and look for your phone model and go to FAQ then you should see "how to root"
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
He tried things like that, but he has detailed questions also like exactly which firmware he should use. So I wrote him a message so I can tell him exactly what to do and how to do it. Some people like him just want to jump straight into it, and that's what I did. So I know how he feels, and I'm gonna help him out
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
You want us to root it for you?

Read the thread.

And yeah, it's easy to mock someone who asks for something wrapped and when he gets it doesn't wanna unwrap it by himself.

Sent from the little guy

---------- Post added at 06:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:35 PM ----------

Alright, what happens when 145 users want the step by step guide?

You're gonna PM em all? That's a lot of PM....

How about this..there's like 500+ posts about gow to flash siyah kernel, why not guiding him to read one of those by using this magic word: SEARCH.

This is not a online support you know.....

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
Yea I know, I'm just trying to do a favor for him. He seems like he wants to know every detail before he starts, and even when he learns what things are, he will still be afraid to root the phone. So I just wanted him to get all his questions answered over pm by me so he feels more comfortable and knows its not going to get bricked. I can't do this for everyone, and I know that. Its just something I feel like doing?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Valid.

(Every guy who reads this is gonna send you a PM tho ;) )

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
Hahah well then to the few nice ones I will help, and to others I will tell them what to search haha
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyendu8t1:
Hi gastonw

I never said anything like that. Just wanted someone to show me the correct path...as after going through so many articles I was perplexed.

Anyways thanks for taking out time to go through my post.

Regards

Dibs
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
No problem man :) did the link and everything work?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyendu8t1:
hi mbals5610

I did give it a try as i stated in my message. Not too sure what went wrong.

Lets hope we can fix this.

Regards

Dibs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
I PM you man, did you get it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
Hey man, PM me back
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
What did you do?

You guys can post it here, lol it's allowed.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbals5610:
Yea I dont even know man haha
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindeboy:
Hello, I have a problem. I cannot enter service mode by dialing *#73......#. I get invalid mmi code. I am on 3.7.1 root box and three network UK. Any help to solve this problem would be appreciated. Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
It's aosp, it won't have Samsung service menu ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindeboy:
I feel like I should be slapped on the head 20 times :) :) I did not realise it was rom dependant. thank you for you answer. I hope it will be helpful for someone else too :)

So while I am still here - would you know how to find out if I have hd voice activated on my phone? Option 8 i believe on service mode? Or how to find out what csc and modem i currently have?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
No csc on Aosp Roms

Modem(baseband) ...settings/about phone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindeboy:
Thank you once again friendly xda'er :) All my questions have been answered :) have a good evening
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] eamp:
For those who want to install Jelly Dream 2.5 in a Neo V this patch could help you.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
Jelly Dream is already there for Neo n Neo v both afaik

Then,why the patch?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Attitude.SSJ:
People are having bootloop problems on 2.5 installation... Maybe patch is for that...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
In that case,has the Op contacted the Rom developer regarding this patch?

N also about bootloop?:)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Attitude.SSJ:
Developer himself has released a patch...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] eamp:
I saw that there is already a patch in developer section, but when I uploaded this there wasn't one. As you can see I don't post to much so i can´t upload it in developer section. I think at this moment this patch is useless.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
No worries mate,I appreciate your effort ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] anuj17:
there is no camera in my neo v ......though i installed an addition camera app nd its working fine......

wifi direct not working(big problem).....i installed this rom because i wanted wifi direct in my phone......this rom is fast but every time i start wifi direct.....it says couldn't start wifi direct...

it was working fine before but after 1 or 2 times.....its not working now......

i installed this patch but nothing happend....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navroza:
guys i find how to upgrade my samsung glaxy s3 replica(clone) android 4.0.4 to 4.1.1 [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P9aSy_qFLoc[/YOUTUBE]

so in that video is laguange that i dont know anyone can translate it ro i upgrade android?

THANKS
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f-r:
And the award for the worst post title goes toooo ..... OP!

Sent from my digital submersible hovercraft.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] [iop]wah:
guys,

how can i transfer phone numbers stored on my phone to my sim card, i cant seem to find any option for it..
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] haroen88:
There is no function for that...

---------- Post added at 09:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:45 AM ----------

Try app save contact, etc... there are several on goggle play
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] [iop]wah:
will do...thx^^
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] vhick:
I use this app to transfer my contacts to sim card: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobile.robotobia.sim.manager2

I hope it helps.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Sh00cK:
Google Contacts Sync ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AriSLaSH:
Soft bricking often happens in when you try to install a ROM which is not optimized for your phone e.g:Installing i9100 SII ROM on your i9001.

Here is a basic tutorial on how to unbrick a i9001.

Requirements:

For unbricking your phone you are going to need these:

1.An official Samsung firmware

2.ODIN downloader

3.AriesVE.ops for ODIN usage.

4.USB cable

5.Samsung KIES drivers installed

6.Patience!!!

OK.first of all you need to check things above and make sure you have them all.

Fortunately when your phone is soft bricked(when soft bricked your phone doesn't boot into the OS And instead of that you'll see picture of a phone connected to a computer and on the connection line there's a warning sign) can get yo the download mode. So first get your phone in download mode by pressing this button combination: volume down+ home key+ power button

So then get set to use ODIN.

Connect your phone to the PC and make sure you have installed drivers and also killed every KIES process.(If you have done well till now you can see one black gets yellow and in Terminal you'll see 2 lines "detected","added") So start ODIN and place AriesVE.ops as the ops file then use your official firmware (extension should be like this |..... .tar.md5|).To get your firmware working tick "one package" and place you "MD5" file in "one package" location. Then after MD5 checking start the process and go grab a beer. :)

Wait about 7 to 10 minutes to see PASS on the block.

Then your phone would automatically reboot into your android OS. Then you can start rooting, Tweaking and other stuff again.

At least one you have your phone and your warranty back. :)

FAQs:

1.my phone gets stuck at setup connection. what should I do?

Chill out! Don't panic! Simply remove your battery for 10 seconds then do these things all again and proceed!

2.my phone boot loops what do I do?

Simply reboot your phone in the Recovery mode "volume down+ power" and wipe cache/dalvik cache if you can.

(Once I installed FOTA from stock recovery and that worked for me)(I suggest you install the official TWRP recovery from SDcard to have more options)

3.you tell me your questions!I'll edit the topic later!

At last feel free to ask any dumb question. Dumb questions are muck more valuable than dumb mistakes!

Please hit thanks button if I helped you out!:)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iceolate:
I'm trying to figure out how to get Android to recognize certain links and offer to launch that particular application. For example, when I click on a Wikipedia link in Chrome, I'll get an offer to go to my Wikipedia app. However, when I click on a link that someone has posted in Facebook, like Soundcloud or Youtube, it goes to the mobile website version of either, which is a little frustrating.

Actually, I noticed that when you go to Youtube's mobile page, sometimes, you then get asked about the Youtube app, which makes the double step even more ridiculous.

I was trying to search for this information online but did not come up with anything. Is this a setting I can configure somewhere or what? Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] HTCDreamOn:
I'm starting this thread as a result of trying to port Paranoid Android 2.51 from the saga. Long story short, turns out previous known ways to fix keyboard problems in ICS ports no longer work for Jelly Bean.

Please PM me and post useful info in this thread.... I absolutely do not want this to turn into a "how do I do this" thread.... This is for exchanging knowledges and discussion.

Progress so far: Thanks to strapped365, who has successfully ported PA 2.xx WITH working keyboard for the myTouch 4G Slide, We now know how to enable the soft keyboard. strapped365's instructions were off the top of his head, so here I have written a revised version with detailed instructions.

If you want to help out but are a n00b at editing .apk files, please follow this simple guide for de/ recompiling with APKTool.

SOFT KEYBOARD FIX

PHYSICAL KEYBOARD BUTTON BACKLIGHT

PHYSICAL KEYBOARD OPEN / LID OPEN STATE (SCREEN ROTATION UPON OPENING KEYBOARD)

TO FINISH OFF

Here's how strapped365 told me to finish it off (I used Ubuntu's built in archive manager to do this, it should work fine, if you're not using 7zip just extract the right files from the original, delete the respective files in the new one and pack the old stuff):

Obviously make sure the new file is renamed to to framework-res.apk.

THANKS TO...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lms24:
AW: [INFO][REF][MON 18 FEB '13] Jelly Bean Porting thread | Vision Keyboard Fixes

Good job man! This will be appreciated by many g2 devs, when it comes to in porting. Thanks for sharing.
[Other TouchPad Development] bmebme:
I have chroot installed, debating if I should delete it and install native.

my experience with chroot: chroot does not support mouse, only 11.10, but it is in card mode which is convenient, and BT, video,audio works .

what is pro or con with native ubunto 12.10 or 13.04.
[Other TouchPad Development] netkillercat:
i say native will always be better then chroot

i been runing ubuntu on my tp for some time now and i most say with bt sound and wifi

now it wont be fast and it wont be stable :silly:

im running 12.10 and loving it
[General Questions and Answers] mcnaught82:
Anybody else having problems with registering with htcdev.com? I registered and I still have not received the activation email. I checked my spam and everything and no email from them. I want to root my device with ViperX and I cant because I cant get my token id from them till I register. Im using Hasoon2000 all in one tool kit.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] antonio.v.s:
Hello,

I am new in this word of the mobiles software.

I have an xperia GO.

I have read than the mobiles have a firmware that controls the Bluetooth, the wifi and the phone communication called radio.

Is this for all the mobiles ?

When I install a new ROM in my phone change the radio firmware ?

Thank you.
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] dhrumangajjar:
What is the maximum LCD density for our HTC explorer???

Can we set it to 200 or 220??