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[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] this_mike:
Killinghall, you just need a really steady hand and a fiiine soldering iron. A multimeter helps a lot too! I'm lucky enough to have inherited one of those really funky 'third hand' devices - looks like a crude robotic model of a person with articulated croc clip arms and a magnifying glass head. Soldering this connector would have been a pig without it, but you would be amazed by the usefulness of blu-tak and paperclips in this situation!

Your sync cable looks much like mine did to start with, except that you have proper wires which should make life much easier!

I read all of the sync / charge cable posts here last night / this morning in order to understand why my 'bargain' (*twitch*) retractable cable wasn't charging and having taken it apart a few times and now knowing, I thought I'd share my findings.

First up, litz wires (those really fine threads in the cable that look like a half-arsed attempt at screening) used in the retractable models are awkward to work with. They *are* flexy and so forth, but a relative bugger to connect properly because of their per-strand insulation and intolerance and the XDA IIs' apparent intolerance to slight resistance in joints. In order to get a good connection with them, I twizzle them into ropes then carefully and quickly tin the last 4mm. That way, you can dab them onto the pins more easily.

If you think you've wired it properly, and it maps out with a multimeter, and you have ground to the usb casing, and it still doesn't work, it is probably because of the vcc or gnd connection, clean it and redo it.

I got sidetracked, and added in a gps cable (through an old ps2 to DSub9 mouse converter - loads of fun) which meant that the inside of the connector got pretty full and also that the phone (xda iis) stopped charging. The gps worked beautifully of course!

I fidgeted and poked and measured and drank beer but nothing helped. In the end, I stripped the connector, cleaned off the solder from everything, fluxed it all (an even better smell than white board pens imho) then re-wired it. Success! Charging and gpsing!

Of course, when I fitted the clamshell connector halves back on, it stopped! Deciding the tried and tested strip down would be faster than fidgeting, I repeated the strip down and rebuilt it as a sync/charge cable which is currently recharging the phone. I did have to wiggle the wires inside the clamshell as I was reassembling that bit tho! </waffle>

My cable is: pins 1-12 clean, isolated and empty, 13-tied to the 20-22 vcc 'clump' ,14 to USB_Data+, 15 to USB_Data-, 16-18 shorted 'clump' tied to GND, 20-22 shorted 'clump' tied to VCC.

I have only tested this from the usb ports on my notebook but am expecting an expansys charge anywhere kit tomorrow and can report progress with wall cubes / car lighter adapters if anyone's interested.

Hope this helps someone!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] this_mike:
Follow on from last night - I tied pin 2 to the GND clump and got a green fully charged led, but then the phone started discharging again so this is not yet a good pinout (apologies!).

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EDIT - but:

USB Plug

vcc - pin 13 then via a 0.15 ohm resistor to pins 20-22

usb_d+ - pin 14

usb_d- - pin 15

gnd - pins 16-18

Works with usb port, cigarette lighter adapter and wall (ac) adapter.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] skiddd:
Hi,

I bought a 4-in-1 Travel Kit for my XDA II and I would like to share

the Pinout that was used for the 2-in-1 USB ActiveSync/Charger cable.

Red = 22, 20, 13

White = 15

Green = 14

Black = 18, 16, 5, 2

**Standard USB Wiring**

1----(VCC)---- Red ---- +5 VDC

2----(D-)---- White ---- Data -

3----(D+)---- Green ---- Data +

4----(GND)---- Black ---- Ground

I tested it on 3 PCs and 2 Latops. It works for both my laptops (DELL and

Toshiba) but it did not work on one of my PCs which was an old P3-733

using an on-board USB 1.0 port. Which brings me to the conclusion that

although the pinout above is correct it has some incompatibilities on

some PC's..

The car charger that came with the Travel Kit comes fitted with a USB A

Female socket which enables me to connect the same USB cable that I

use for ActiveSync into it and thus I think it is safe to assume that the

same Pinouts were used (ONLY Ground and +5 VDC). I tested it on 2 cars

and it was working (both cars have 12V+ cigarette lighter outputs). The

voltage going to the phone was accurately measured at 5.37 V+.

Best Regards,
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] interestingfellow:
Activesync and new cable problems... please advise

i rigged up the connector on a charge/sync cable, and the computer dinks twice ("HEY, I FOUND A USB DEVICE) but does not identify it. I also did the cradle mod, and it works off and on.

I'm having a few problems spanning several possible catagories.

I'm running 4.1.16 and 3.8.

Problem 1: Sometimes, when placed in the cradle (before and after mod) it will dink twice, and the PPC shows activesync negotiation/authentication, but the device does not establish an activesync connection.

Problem 2: My moded cable charges, but does not do anything for sync or USB IO

Problem 3: (not really an XDA thing?) My computer doesn't really sense any USB devices unless I "add new hardware" and click search. It dinks and I can proceed doing what I needed to do, and hit cancel in "add hardware".

I just tried a hardreset, and then reloaded a good backup copy of my device, and the cradle still doesn't detect the device until I run the "add hardware" wizard in iether case. Still no USB connectivity on the charge/sync cable both ways too.

Please advise...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] :
There is a lot of stuff said here, but I am not confident it contains the answer to a question I have: Can I use the XDA (Wallaby) charger with the MDA II (Himalaya)? Just the charger, not the USB cable.

I am curious whether I'll need to buy a new charger or if I can use the old one now I've upgraded from I to II.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] chelms:
Which way is up?

Hi all!

I have my nifty Zip-Linq cable here, and I cracked open the connector to see the pins. Forgive my ignorance, but which way is up? If I am looking in the slot of the connectors, and the pins are on the bottom, is pin one on the left or the right?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] windowsceportal:
cradle and charging

Hi!

I have a very smiple (I hope) problem. I don't want my cradle to charge my MDA II when it is docked but the charger is not plugged in, only the USB. Does anyone know a software solution to force the device not to charge the battery from USB?

It is very importatant to me.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] slammers:
Does anyone know the pinouts for the rest of the pins on the 22 pin connector? I am specifically looking for the RS-232 pins.

Shawn
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] tamanegi:
http://www.xda-developers.com/connectors

Hi there,

I would like to refer the above URL which is introduced within above quotes...

http://www.xda-developers.com/connectors

but browser reply me saying "There's no page"....

does anyone has idea where the page goes ?

Regards

Tama
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] slammers:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/wiki/Connectors
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] MaROtO:
yes sir ;)

I recently measured ~0.59A doing a charge using as +5v power supply an old computer power supply (pre atx). A power supply cappable up to 15A on the mainboard connector that i used....

And yes, charging procedure of li-ion batteries is not as simple as with other common battery types.

Procedure of charging a li-ion battery like our HTCs is some what like this (if my memory not fails):

The first step is about suppling a constant current until the circuit gets the battery final voltage as opossed to other common formats with wich must mantain the voltage range between a know range, without worrying about the charge current except for not surpassing the maximun charge current...because the batery internal resistance wich wich draws part of the given current in to heat, and if we provide more amps than the max amps for those the batery can disipate the produced heat, it will start becoming hotter, and depending of the battery type it can be very dangerous, achieving a high risk o fire or explode.

And the second and final one is about providing as much current as necesary to mantain the final voltage value. If we give as much current as the needed to result in an overvoltage value (really not much voltage increase...for typical 4.2V bateries is about 4.3V-4.4V) the battery will not continue charging and can be seriously damaged (below that current/voltaje it's only a mater of undercharging)...and of course, a higher risk of fire/explode/leak (an more dangerous because of the chemical mature of the cell) tahn other battery tipes. So that as the battery gets charged we must be able to reduce the current value. Reducing it until the current is about a known percent of starting current in this current voltage value...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
hello everyone ... i think i have bricked my device

i cant boot it normally ... it seems pc can see the phone but the phone is not responding to any order

when i opened cmd ... i typed "adb reboot recovery" ... to make phone enter recovery ... but it said device not fond ... even though odin does recognize the device .. and pc too

any ideas

please help

regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strictly#:
Can you get your phone into either download or recovery mode ??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
Please provide more details like:

Which rom/kernel?

What all did u do that ended in bricking?

Able to enter Recovery or Download modes?

New to android flashing and stuff?

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
i can enter download mod ... but when tried to flash stock rom .. odin stuck on setup connection !!!

and no i cant enter recovery or boot normally .. i flashed a worng recovery file by odin and this is how the problem happened

thanx 4 replying
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
i am not new to flashing with odin my friend .. its just i flashed files of l1900 instead of l9100g
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Mistaking an I9100G ROM for a I9100 ROM is not an honest mistake.

If you don't consider yourself new to this at least double check your files and triple check xda's threads.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
reply

my dear considering my self as new or expert is not the point ... i have a damaged phone and i am asking for help ... i checked XDA

no one has the same problem .. they all were able to enter recovery

i dont even like samsung ... my device is HTC ... at least when they publish a new device they give it a new name ... not change a letter

thanx for replying and thanx for your attempt to help :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strictly#:
What about this ??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
i will try it out and report ... thank u soo much :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Ok....so you're sayin' that you checked xda and all users with a similar issue than yours could get to recovery mode?

You need to check your "searching" concept.

Of course, it's not your fault samsung released a device with a letter at the end, that is just common sense. Care to flash HTC one ROM into an HTC one x? I mean, it's the same right, who cares about the letter at the end.......

If you look up closely...you'll see that I was trying to help you, to read and learn before you go on borking is a hell of an advice if you'd ask me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
my dear u still dont get it ... my download mod is not the typical download mod ... my screen only shows "a cellpohne connected to a pc with triangle in the middle of the connection" ... when i "searched" on XDA ... i found out that such a screen is also a download mod .. but not the typical one ... and i think it useless since every time i try to flash some rom with odin it stuck on setup connection

and by the way its huuuuge difference between htc one and the htc one x ... they have different shapes

any way this is not our subject ... i really do appreciate your help and any help so much .. i mean this thread was created to help people right

thank u so much

regards

:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
You are in forced download mode, so your device is begging you to flash something. When you get that screen plug your phone to the PC and flash a I9100 stock ROM.

In order for your pc to see the device reinstall kies and kill all applications before you start flashing.

Doesn't work?

Try another PC.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
If I am not mistaken, I think the OP has an I9100G.:)

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Thought he flashed an I9100G ROM on his I9100 phone.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
"its just i flashed files of l1900 instead of l9100g"

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
hey guys ... i downloaded a stock rom for 9100g ... but as i mentioned before it always stuck on setup connection

so anyway i sent it to an expert whom fix it cost me 35$

thank u sooooo much .. u r the best

appreciate your time and effort

god bless u

regards

your little brother from Syria :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
Good for u!

Wonder how they fixed it though...

Please add [SOLVED] to the title of ur post. :)

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BADroid-z:
actually i dont really know how but he disassembled the device ... and played with some boot hardware !!!

thanx for your efforts guys

:)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rcdeoliveira:
Hi,

Why facebook pictures are so ugly on jelly bean address book?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Stammis:
Hi is it possible that my tf700 disconnect wifi and not the other way around? Because my Internet disconnect only when I use this device but it also disconnect the wifi on my phone. The frequency varies from day to day but it only happens when I use Youtube or those nvida app stores, never when I surf or read online.

Thx in advance
[HTC One X+] patterson12123:
Frankly it's poor, call is fine, but the media I get distortion and crackling, I've heard others talk about it, but no one had mentioned a fix. Is anyone aware of a resolution, it's quite aggravating. There was a file I could edit on my captivate back in the day that upped the transmission rate that took care of it. Is there something similar that could be done here?
[HTC One X+] starfox5194:
That's Interesting. I don't have any problems with the bluetooth audio streaming quality. Sure, nothing beats an aux cable quality wise, but it's always sounded pretty good to my ears. I consider myself a little bit of an audiophile too.
[HTC One X+] patterson12123:
I notice it mostly in my car, but I also bought backbeat go ear buds today, and it really just didn't sound right, it's not in your face like holy cow why does his voice sound like that, it's more like crackling in the highs, I don't get it through aux though, I would have thought it was my phone, but I had seen it mentioned a couple other places
[HTC One X+] NoobDude:
alpine type-r interiors and sub, alpine bt head unit, everything is powered by alpine v-power amps, and I gotta say, I hear the distortion pretty clearly over bt. My old inspsire 4G running cm7 sounded AMAZING over bt. I hope someone finds away to bump up the clarity some. devs? Lol
[HTC One X+] patterson12123:
So I think it's safe to say, you like alpine ha ha, but seriously though, thanks for the +1, didn't want people to think I was just crazy or something.
[HTC One X+] Lucky Thirteen:
You guys have tried this fix as stated in the General HOX+ Q&A?

Or it is a different issue?
[HTC One X+] NoobDude:
IIRC that was the first mod I flashed for this phone, and while it helped 10 fold with the call quality, it did little to nothing for media and other audio.
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
i got the answer you're looking for... :)

i noticed this problem the first time i used my hox+ with my car stereo. same problem...bt calls are ok, but if you are listen to music, you hear ugly distortion in the highs...the sound isn't clear and the stereo image is bad.

after doing some research i found out that it has to do with the bluetooth bitpool settings. but what can you do against it: maxween did a bluetooth fix for me, which worked perfectly. it is implemented in the newest builds of his AOKP roms, and in the newest versions of Liors cm 10.1 roms.

so you can use this fix in every aosp rom.

unfortunently, there isn't a fix for stock-, and sense rom's jet. i've made a demand to mike1986 if he can implent it in his android revolution hd 6.5 rom, but it's not done atm.

so if you want to listen to some fine bt music quality (it sounds awesome in my stereo now btw.), you have to install the actual aokp or cm 10.1 rom...otherwise you have to wait for a sense fix.

ps: we've connected the brandnew htc on from my friend in my car stereo. same issue! looks like htc is doing this intentionally to sell more of the aptx care stereo adapters and beats accessoiries with the aptx codec...
[HTC One X+] badtlc:
I also have this problem. It annoys the hell out of me because I can ALWAYS hear it. Maybe i'm too sensitive. I don't know. Either way, I'm going to see if the Elegancia ROM can get the fix implemented.

Thanks for letting us know there is a fix.
[HTC One X+] skeppley:
The only way i have found to lessen the distortion is turn the media volume on the phone down to at least 3/4 and use the vehicle/Home stereo receiver to control the volume increase needed. It helps a lot, but a true fix is really needed :(
[HTC One X+] NoobDude:
Indeed, and check to see if your receiver or head unit has a secondary volume control for each input. My alpine for instance, allows me to tweak the volumes for each specific input (AUX, HD radio, Bluethooth, CD) from a rang of -5db to +5. IF i set it anything above 0 it sounds like crap. Hope this helps some.
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
if the connection's fine, you should not have to turn down the volume. the sound quality is even better when the bt output vol is on max on your phone. on the other devices, i would recommend an input of 0db, if you are going above it, you have the risk of digital distortion, and this is sounding really ugly.

i'll post a link from maxween later so if any developer of a sense custom rom could do a fix would it be awesome :)
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632#c151

here is a thread about this issue, i also found a german page from a guy which used this fix for his htc one and it worked.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1880298http://

i tried it out on my one x+ but unforunently it didn't work...so if some developer could make this "audio.a2dp.default.so" fix working on the hox+ (sense rom's) it would be awesome... ;)
[HTC One X+] badtlc:
Thanks for all your research and time mr_breaks. I am hoping we can get a fix for this issue.

Using an aux audio cable is not a big deal but listening through BT is so much easier and allows me to control my music from my car controls. I like that functionality.
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
same here. i don't like to plug in the cable everytime and the control over my car is much confortable and safer.

btw: with the patch the bt sound is better than with cable

imo... of course it depends on the car unit, but i had very good results with my system and my hox+...
[HTC One X+] badtlc:
So did you fix it or not? I thought you said you tried fixing the bitrate settings but it didn't work.

If I can change the settings myself, i'd like to try it if you could guide me.
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
not yet. there is no way to change the bitpool manually, it has to be done in the file called "audio.a2dp.default.so".

i'm waiting for support form the developers, cause i don't have the know-how to do a fix by myself. :(..."i would, if i could" ;)
[HTC One X+] maxwen:
well as you know we don't have source for the exact version sense is using

if a version compiled from 4.1.2 is working must be tested

I can provide a version later
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
man, you are the man! if you can find a fix, i deffo gonna hit the donate button :cowboy: ;)
[HTC One X+] NoobDude:
ditto. it worth a few bucks IMO.
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
seems like there is no way to fix it in sense...aokp rom + cm 10.1 sounds perfect (aosp 4.2.2) but 4.1.2 sense sounds terrible...

looks like htc is using a different bt audio driver too...
[HTC One X+] maxwen:
sense is doing bt completely different then AOSP :)
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
do you know if there is a official sense developer in this forum maxwen? seems to be that aokp is winning the fight between sense and aosp roms :cool:

actually it's like this:

sense:

-better camera than aosp roms

-beats audio profile

-search function in drawner

aokp:

++++++bluetooth audio

+nice pure jb

battery life? didn't find out which one is the best for me :D
[HTC One X+] mr_breaks:
so im on the official rom right now and i've updated it to the newest 4.2 sense 5 version. tested the bluetooth sound on 4 different speakers with different tracks, but the problem still exists. is there a way to fix the problem now on 4.2.2?

cheers
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyanogendroid:
So, now that we have achieved OTG, does anybody know of a self powered usb controller? For example like a usb NES controller with a battery inside. Mods if this should be in the Q and As then feel free to move this thread.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scream4cheese:
PS3, Xbox and Wii controllers.

I figured how to use my PS3 controller to play games on my N7 but I haven't tried it on my N4. Besides, it's too small to play with a controller.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilsonlam97:
Why not just get rid of the wire and use Bluetooth?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moe6:
Use a PS3 controller. Wireless via bluetooth too.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyanogendroid:
So they will work with a usb connection? I have used bluetooth before but the input lag with the ps3 controller was too much to bare.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] laurenbo:
Hi there,

I wanted to burn a 5.15 bootloader along with a cooked nbf ROM on a 128 MB SD-Card, but when I select

- Bootloader: C:\XDA1\boot515.nb0

- Windows CE: C:\XDA1\nk.nbf

I get "Failed to open device \\.\PhysicalDrive11

I tried with the SD either just formatted or with a 5.14 bootloader + wince backuped from XDA1 device. :evil:

I deactivated my eTrust antivirus, still no luck. :evil: :roll:

Any :idea: ? Thanks,
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] Peter Poelman:
Use XDAtools instead of XDArit. XDArit is old and not very intuitive, XDAtools is not perfect, but certainly much better.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] laurenbo:
Hmmm - Thanks for the hint Peter, but I have no luck either with XDA Tools.What I want to do is simply replace my 5.14 bootloader with 5.15.

When pointing to my boot515.nb0, XDAtools says "unsupported file format"; don't know how to read sourcefile C:\XDA1\boot515.nb0

Fix Broken Bootloader stops with:

C:\XDATOOLS>pnewbootloader bootloader_v5_15.nb0

'C:\XDATOOLS\pput.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

ERROR: ITReadProcessMemory - Unspecified error

Unable to find flash info offset, cannot disable bootloader writeprotect.

>> Any workaround? Is it just me? :oops:

thanks,