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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Evilhik:
Note is is only for people who are having trouble with their Kenwood music not working properly with their head unit via USB mode on their radio.

I accidently stumble upon this .. One way you can get the Kenwood Music to work with your head unit in the car is buy having a Pandora equipped radio. In my case its a KDC-BT752HD

Install Pandora on your phone , log in

on your radio go to pandora and connect your phone to the head unit,let it connect

press home and go to your kenwood music app then just play from there it should use pandora to play the music it doesn't transfer the song name or anything but it will play the song via USB.

This is only for AOKP , i have not tested it for CM.

feel free to hit the Thanks Button if this helped you.

p.s. if this is in the wrong place mod please move it to the correct place thanks !
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] esema1o:
Im goin try if worka but thanks :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
Guess I'm glad I don't have to do that with my KDC-X996 w/ my S3...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imz09:
Hi guys.can anyone tell me how to downgrade samsung galaxs s gt i9000 running ics to official gingerbread 2.3.3.???

I am running ICS 4.0.4

Baseband version XXJVT

Kernel version 3.0.8-g4dc1367.

Cyanogenmod Version 9-20120507-nightly-galaxysmtd.

Looking foward to your replies.

Thank you.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raducux:
wrong thread...you're looking for galaxy s forum my friend :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ZDeuce2:
Cricket to sprint rom question...

Wondering if sprint roms can ad used for cricket galaxy sIII?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justFaisal:
Hey everybody,

I've used both of these apps (mentioned in the title) and I'm getting different results from both apps for battery.

Temp+CPU shows about 5°C less than temp monitor. Has anyone else noticed it? I'm not sure which one is correct.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] OABsoftware:
Did you already try to make a phonecall with your XDA or MDA in your car? Then you certainly discovered a disadvantage of PocketPC Phone Edition: the buttons and menus in the Contacts application are much to small to select a contact and a number while driving (unless you have very sharp eyes and tiny fingers).

That's why I wrote PhonExt.

PhonExt makes it easier to scroll through your contacts, select a phone number and make a phonecall.

PhonExt makes it possible to really use your XDA or MDA while driving.

And with PhonExt you can easily recognize who is calling, even without watching the screen!

PhonExt offers the possibility to assign a specific ring tone to a contact or even to a category of contacts!

PhoneExt works on all pocket pc's with integrated phone that have Pocket PC 2002 - Phone Edition as operating system.

You can download it from http://phonext.oabsoftware.nl.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] OABsoftware:
PhonExt extends your XDA; and it's free!

Oops, almost forgot to tell that PhonExt is freeware...
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] othman:
Cool and tiny software

It's Great tool

i install it and it's working fine with no problems and if i'll find any bug i'll let you know.

thanks with best regards

Othman :)
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Paultnl:
Great little app does exactly what I want.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] ansaar99:
Hi

Very nice app, works nicely and cleanly.

However have found that (here in the UK) it dials some mobile numbers wrongly.

eg. mobile number is 0781 123456

it will dial +1 781 123456 (i.e makes a call to America!)

Clearly this needs fixing.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] padman:
Hi There

same problem here not only with mobiles...it was doing the +1 thing to ALL numbers...

The authors suggested I add country code into my XDA dialing properties...

After a reboot is is not doing the +1 thing anymore but now DROPPING all leading 0's ... so 0207 gets dialled as 207 , 07973 dialled as 7973

summat is going wrong here LOLOL
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] RaymondM:
Just wondering: Have you changed your Country code from '1' to '<your country code>' ?

'Start' -> 'Settings' -> 'Connections' -> 'Connections' -> 'Dialing Locations'

After flashing qtek or the XDA-developers ROM my XDA Country code always changed to '1'.

grtz!
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] padman:
raymond..

yes I have, as said above , after setting the country code for mobile/home/work dialling properties , the dialler is now dropping all leading zeroes...

thnx for the reply
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] smaslift:
Doesn't customise ringtones

Hi folks,

I have the same problem- initially, phonext always dial +1 as prefix calling America as it is and then when I changed the settings of connections to country code 44, (ie not 0044), it dials correctly now. However the ringtone that I added to any categories doesn't work and even using the contact menu, adding ringtone doesn't work. Anyone has the same problem besides dialing out?

Cheers

Vic
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] LumpiStefan:
For me it´s not working too....

First problem I have, that also the wrong numbers are dialed....

Instead of +497031.... it dials +317031....

I my contact list the number are stored in this format:

+49 (7031) .....

Another problem I have, is that i cann´t set a ring tone to a person. I´ve got this option in the contact list, but when i try it, I´ve get an error Message:

"Cannot run menu add in"

I´m using standard ROM Version 3.17.03 ENG and RAdio Version 4.21.00

Regards

Stefan
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Peter Poelman:
LumpiStefan: take a look at this thread, which may contain answers:

http://xda-developers.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1054
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] LumpiStefan:
Ok, was my mistake. Have seen this thread already, but i didn´t mentioned, that there is a new version of Phonerxt Available. Now it works fine...

Stefan
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Guest:
This is a very very very useful utility.

One suggestion: I have in my contacts more than a thousand numbers. I presume I'm not the only one. Although the search is fast (arrows go page up and page down), I suggest to the creator of the software to add in the upper row (instead of "Dial a contact") three buttons dividing names in alphabetical order (A-G, H-R, S-Z or whatever): this allows faster search. Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandonloly:
my galaxy s2 is GT-I9100. i saw a jellybean update is on kies so i did the update. However after i did the 4.2.1 update, i found out my CSC was changed! before the jellybean update, it was TGY(HongKong) after the updates, it changed to XSP(Singapore)...WTF.............

Also i cannot change the CSC anymore. i tried using CSC select to change my CSC, but it says "com.android.Precnfig not found on your device. Manual mode..." not only in phone, Kies also says my device is unable to do S/W upgrade or something.

BTW i haven't done any rooting. i don't know why after i did the jellybean update, it shows these kinds of problems.

please give me some solution or any feedback!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
re-flash.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaosphappy:
changing csc code in jellybean requires root access.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] officiallyme:
i rooted and tried csc select but there is no csc to select from.

anybody know why?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ermacwins:
Did you solve this problem?
[HTC Sensation] pete2806:
This was my 1st time trying to upgrade an android and i drove myself to insanity:eek:

Please help , i hope my phone is not bricked.

I was trying load Android revolution 7.1 following instructions here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1098849, i failed on my 1st attempt ,so i went back into the recovery and reloaded my backup. Decided to give it another go went through successfully with the wizard and it said the install was successful , i hit the reboot option it loads the HTC logo and then the beats audio animation showed up and then suck on this screen ( tried restarting a few times but no go) realizing i must have done something even dumber or not followed a niche detail., i decided to go back and recover, to my dismay clockwork mod wont load when i select the recovery option. SO now i m stuck with no phone

My HTC sensation is rooted, S-off and backed up

Tried:

I tried to use adb to push to boot but adb wont detect my phone.

I removed my SD and copied a new PG58IMG.zip but hboot wont detect my sdcard or the new file

Tried few recovery options here but no goodhttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1472298
[HTC Sensation] KiD3991:
How long were you stuck? Mine takes around 20 minutes to boot up.
[HTC Sensation] pete2806:
Well like all other upgrades it takes a while i thought , from what they were talking about in other forums . I left 1st try for over 40 mins but never booted in and i lost my cool. I have given up hope and now stuck
[HTC Sensation] ashkan-khatar:
Hi,

according to what you said, "trying to upgrade an android" are you sure your firmware was ICS's 3.33?? Maybe it had been GB's, wasn't it?

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that pretty "thanks" button's waiting for u if I helped :P

Sent from a shaken up HTC Sensation XE using...whatever! differs?!
[HTC Sensation] pete2806:
Coming to think of it , i remember downloading the ICS's 3.33 but looks like failed during the update. SO looks like i have ran it over GB's
[HTC Sensation] ashkan-khatar:
oops... so I think you've bricked your phone :thumbdown: :(

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that pretty "thanks" button's waiting for u if I helped :P

Sent from a shaken up HTC Sensation XE using...whatever! differs?!
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
Can you go to the bootloader a now?

Post the bootloader details if you can
[Hardware Hacking General] POPE3909:
I have no experience with electronic repair, but I would like to get into building electronic boards as a hobby. I'll start with a simple stripboard, and hopefully start working on more advanced chips within a few months. (I had to learn Diagnostic Microbiology - specifically, Bacteriology - in less than a month, so I think I can handle the BASICS of this hobby fairly well.)

Please note that I won't be cluttering up this forum with trivial questions, as I'm more than happy to search online for questions that I may have. I posted to the Hardware Hacking forum so that I might directly inquire as to how to best start off in this hobby, by ensuring that this thread had the maximum chance of being reviewed by a knowledgeable source.

My question is how I might go about putting together a suitable KIT to get me going. I'd like input before I go off buying various kits, only to become more knowledgeable in the field and realize that I should have spent my money more wisely. My first project would be to build a POGO pin to OTG host cable, but I hope to progress far beyond that in the upcoming months.

I've found a couple of kits at makershedDOTcom. Should I invest in them, or build my own? I'd just search for what I'd need in a kit, but I have no idea if my finding would be accurate or just a waste of time.

Thank you for any information you are willing to provide.

Regards,

POPE3909
[Hardware Hacking General] Renate:
If you want to just master basic electronic assembly skills, get a Velleman kit and do some soldering.

If you want to learn more experimenter analog electronics, get a protoboard and $20 of parts to play with.

Radio Shack still sells their "Engineer's Mini Notebooks".

For playing with digital interfacing and programming an Arduino is not bad.

Maybe a Raspberry Pi is more your thing.

I've had fun with theTeensy.
[Hardware Hacking General] Adapt0r:
Dear POPE3909

To get better direction you need to tell what is prior experience. Can you program? Do you know basics of electrical and electronic circuits?

In any case I would advise to buy a kit with variety of components and possibly Arduino board. It's fun and gives quick gratification.

Radio Shack has a few. It does not matter where to buy it matters how good is support or availability of information.

Good luck!
[Hardware Hacking General] 3ndymion:
Hello. As an alternative to getting just some kit, you can also get a cheap, damaged android phone to play around with on some certain auction site. For example, you can get an HTC myTouch 3G Slide (a.k.a. Espresso) with a cracked screen for about $30 or less. This device is very easy to disassemble & reassemble, & just to play around with in general. If you really want to get into electronics, you should consider this as well. There are plenty of damaged, but still working phones that you can get for very cheap.
[Hardware Hacking General] jhlaird:
Modern technology tends to be so highly integrated that it's not a great place to start learning - for example, while identifying the chips in a phone can be an interesting exercise, you're very limited in terms of what you can actually do with a soldering iron.

You're going to want some tools, no matter what you do.

Get a decent soldering iron - if not the cheapest then at least the second cheapest! You can solder with anything but some are a lot easier to use than others. Make sure to get an electronic soldering iron - there are some that look similar but put out way too much heat, which can damage components, especially if you're new to this stuff. Bigger is not necessarily better.

I don't know if you can solder already, but if you can't - practise! Remember you want to heat the materials you want to join, then melt the solder on to them; if you just melt solder on top it'll blob and not make a good connection.

Good side cutters are invaluable. Get some that you use for wire, and never use them for anything else (like coat hangers, tin can lids, etc) - you need straight sharp edges to cut fine wires and you'll be very frustrated if they're not. This style of flush cutter is pretty good: http://dx.com/p/rewin-5-electronic-wire-cutter-yellow-black-116062

Side cutters also make great wire strippers. Nibble around the edges of the insulation, then use the flat side to grab and yank it off. Takes some practise but it's very fast - I find it easier than using dedicated strippers.

You also want a multimeter. Doesn't have to be anything fancy - a $10 one will do. Make sure it has a resistance or continuity setting because one of the main things you'll want it for is checking connections.

As for what you start out with making - it really depends what interests you. If you're totally new then kits can be great - can be good for delivering encouraging results, making something that actually does a thing.

On a more basic level, you can do a lot of things with resistors, capacitors, LEDs, and transistors. Your local electronics shop will probably have mixed bags of all those 4 categories and they are really good to keep around.
[Hardware Hacking General] Ninis94:
Thanks. :)
[Hardware Hacking General] showlyshah:
So.. u r up2 it. In my case i started as an electronics hobbyist b4 15 years. And now i am an electronics & electrical engineer. What that matters is not your interest. But your passion. Give it a try only if you are willing to make it your passion, i said it becoz, electronics is always practical and less theory, in many cases theory wont help u to solve ur tasks, but a solid practical knowledge will do. And believe me, it will eat up ur patience and brain. So it must be a passion more than interest. I am not discouraging you, but i am telling the fact. The best thing about it is " that mighty feeling" u get when u do complete some thing u started ( and when it works!).

So start it with basic tools. A decent soldering iron, a 16-18 swg 60/40 lead,soldering flux,a set of screwdrivers, knife,pliers,tweezers, etc.

Start doing simple circuits like led blinkers,melody generators,light chasers,etc.. then do what developers called as analysis and debugging, ie try changing component values( mostly try experiments with passive components like resistors,capacitors etc).

My story started with LEDs ,bulbs,dc motors, then i started building disco lights with LEDs, then tried melody generators, then i stepped to transmitters, then amplifiers, microcontroller, etc..

knowing about components and its effects is the basic of every thing.
[Hardware Hacking General] snoopen:
I agree with showlyshah, get all the basic electronic components and work your way up. The two "Make: Electronics" kits and the book on MakerShed are a good start and aren't bad value for money. I built my own kit by buying the individual parts but it's not much cheaper and some parts used in the book might be difficult to find.

Arduino (or similar) is a great way to transition to electronics from programming and is probably the best path if you want to keep in the digital/programming side. All the electronic components you buy can be used in some way with an Arduino.

There are so many resources out there that can help guide you. My favourite electronics forum is eevblog, from there you can branch out and find many other great resources.

You can find like minded people at a hackerspace in your area. Google is your friend.
[Hardware Hacking General] Entropy512:
I'd strongly suggest getting started with Arduino hardware - possibly, if you want to learn a bit more about wiring things up instead of just plugging in shields, an Adafruit Boarduino.

Another thing I personally suggest - Arduinos are pretty much just AVR ATMega dev boards. Rather than use the Arduino IDE, get an AVR ISP programmer (like the USBTinyISP) and start with AVR-GCC. The initial learning curve is a bit steeper, but you learn a lot more about how to efficiently use the underlying hardware, and you'll be able to retarget the stuff you write (for example, down into a Tiny85) much more easily.
[Hardware Hacking General] showlyshah:
As i said earlier, it is better to work around some small components b4 burning expensive ic's. The reason is to build up the knowledge of how components work in real time, even to know the specs of components is a great knowledge, eg:- u cant just use any pnp/ npn transistor in any circuits which need them, gain,current,voltage,temperature values are some basic.

Let me get into another serious example:- most microcontroller boards contains direct drive for some analog devices like leds, small motors etc.. some of those boards use direct o/p from microcontroller ( most pic ic's have it), others use ic/transistor drivers. And when u play with it, for instance , u programmed a stepper motor driver circuit, and is connecting the o/p to a heavy current stepper with out a proper driver circuit.. the story ends!!! The moral knowledge( aka technical knowledge) microcontroller's are not "Thor" to pass lighting through it! Of course u need his hammer ( in this case, the driver) to do that kind of s##t.

So my point is burn the hell out of some analog ic( LM 2030 dual power audio ic is a good option to see how an ic explodes in case of o/p short( with out protection diodes) )power imbalance etc) , explode some filter capacitors ( works great with dual supplies), barbeque some transistors and resistors( motors are ur companion), see what colours a 3.2 v led can produce when run at 6v( yellow light from red, blue light from white are my fav) or if u are smart u can burn the pcb also( high current dc( lead acid batteries can do the trick with out much personal damage)., get used with these stuffs for a while, ask pardon to family members, shout at friends, electrify pets, make holes on ur fav dress.. and become a hobbiest.. then step into developer world with that base, and then u will never miss valuable hits.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] K1NGTR1llA:
Ima a noob, but i wanna how to get my phone with a different company.. Im trying to do it without having to buy anything.

I dont want to keep paying sprints high bill and i want to get with a cheaper company. I want an easy way to complete this task.

I want to know if i zero my esn will i b able to just take it to another cmda company and have them activate it on their network.

Please and thank you.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] blakeevo4g:
There are plenty of guides on here for even a noob to understand

sent from the batcave using the bat evo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] K1NGTR1llA:
Thanks

Can you show me to one of these guides, and

is it possible to do it without first activating a phone from the preffered carrier
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] shiftylock:
Generally, no. You need to buy one of their phones first. Unless you go to page plus or cricket, both carriers I have no experience with. Here's a guide for vzw prepaid.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2116244
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] thatotherguy..:
If you need help with cricket flashing,, just pm me

Sent From My White Cricket LTEvo
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ghstudent:
Stopped using the stock music player once I realized how many wake locks it caused so now I need a new music player, just curious as to what everyone else is using.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crixley:
poweramp by far....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ghstudent:
I have looked into it, have you used doubletwist by any chance?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crixley:
yeah poweramp is much better imho
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mauserruger:
I use N7 player.. Absolutely love it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CamFlawless:
Play music is simple but does what I need.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jason_Nguyen:
I like player pro.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Shuttle, which used to be known as AMP (I think).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] illmatic24:
Noozy
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ghstudent:
This one looks nice, I will be looking into this!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] *KiD CuDi*:
Player pro with isyncr is the perfect combination if you use iTunes. If you just want a simple player, shuttle is pretty good
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crixley:
for eq and overall quality, nothing comes close to poweramp
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bruce Lee:
Rhapsody is the best if you only listen to a ton of music though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] feistygoat10:
Gone MAD is the only one I have found that I like and it is pretty customizable.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] db1231:
Did they fixed the bug which wake up the screen every time it's goes to the next song?

I used it on my previous phone but because of the noted bug I moved on and happily to Player Pro.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crashpsycho:
I use kingBeatz Audio by azn the works well with 3 items

Apollo

Rocket Player

PowerAMP
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] oriveradel:
PowerAmp...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] May82:
+1 for PowerAmp
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] creeseph:
+1 for poweramp as well as FauxSound
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] arshull:
I personally use Neutron. It is designed for audiophiles, so is not as easy to use as other players (according to others. I never had any issues). But..... it has the best sound and is the most adjustable by far (in my experience). Most of the settings only need to be set up initially (if you want something different than default), but most are just personal preferences. But I think it has a slick look, has every feature imaginable, plays every type of file made and sounds great (especially when the phone is hooked up to a nice system). I use my phone as a player in my car (via USB and BT) and at home (via dock/USB) and it produces incredibly clean and dynamic sound. Other players sounded like trash once hooked up. I also have heard good things about Poweramp, but I have found that Neutron does everything and only requires one file on your phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
I use Android Music for the simplicity and poweramp occasionally when its certain music. My car prefers Samsung player which is not bad at all.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CZ Eddie:
I wish PowerAmp had a skin with BIG buttons for using it in the car in landscape mode.

Same for Pandora.