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[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] penicilllin:
well i think that not all htc devices has the same screen..

i got my i-mate about 5 months ago.. and my friend got his yesterday.. when i put mine next to his.. ohhhhhh

his screen really sucksssssssss... it so much bright to the degree that you cant read.. and the colors are dithered and all bright colors seemed messed up.. above all when i looked to his screen with an even small angle i could see almost nothing..

about 2 months ago i met someone with an 'yellowish' xda ii.. and he told me that a lot of xda ii has these yellowish screen and that O2 are replacing the screen for free..

it's a common issue.. search the web an you'll find a lot of people having lots of problems with their screens..

HTC is doing a sell out or what??

it's really shame.. thanx God i have a good screen.. my screen is really so much better than my old xda I.. its 'nearly' as good as my iPaq
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] andyclap:
> I never even hard reset it... Just took the battery out for one minute (with plenty power in the backup...)

Yeah, the backup battery lasts around 30 seconds. You gotta be quick when replacing the battery if you don't want to cold boot.

Incidentally, removing and replacing the battery won't gain you anything, it'll do a hard reset if it looses the charge, and no reset at all if it doesn't.

Best thing to do is a full activesync backup as a matter of routine when installing any new software. Takes maybe 3 minutes on my device with lots of stuff installed.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] jg1212:
Well I have already done this before but the slider doesn't work

I think something is going with ATI chip
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Shadamehr:
Er no mate- haven't got a clue where you are getting that from...

As long as my XDA2 has a decent charge, I can take the main battery out, and my data will be safe for around twenty MINUTES, not twenty seconds mate.

Done it often enough to know this.

What I was implying is that just taking my battery out for one minute when that application hung my phone, led my XDA2 to full resetting - thus most likely not a battery issue at all, but the didgy application itself that casued a HARD reset...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] penicilllin:
removing the battery will always do a soft reset even if you put it back in less than 0.00001 second :lol:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Shadamehr:
Indeed.

But read my post.

I suffered a HARD reset, with full loss of data. Not a SOFT reset mate.

Removing the battery will NOT do this until around 20 minutes, with a proper charge.

The application iteslf caused a hard reset...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] MBastian:
I now use my 4th device (XDAII)!

All have the same problem: less than 4.000 colours.

And it's not only about the amount of colours. It seems that some tones are replaced by green or grey.

A had the MDAI some weeks ago and used the same theme at both devices. It looked on the MDAI more accaptable.

One point which wasn't mentioned in this topic is the grey area around some icons (Settings/connections/AvantGo Connect).

And also the dial pad (i.e. the back arrow) has no transparent border.

I first saw the problem at the setup-screens: most of the pictures had grey backgrounds where they should have been trandsparent (i.e. "tap here to complete").

A second problem of all devices I had is that the speaker has a low sough. Only when the device is turned off ist stops. It is also hearable when the volume is shut off.

I don't know what to do in this case. I'm quite certain that the next device will have the same problems, too. But this is not acceptable.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rudegar:
i'm almost 100% sure that the avantgo and dial pad borders have nothing to do with screen quality or how many colours the system have

but is because of the maker of the icon hardcoded the colour to a shade of white / grey he belived was std on all systems

my bet is if you change the menu background to black the rest of the icons would have black borders but avantgo would still have that grey one
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] MBastian:
That would mean that also Microsoft has chosen the wrong background colour?!

The problem also appears at the setup screens of the device.

And when I open the pda version of google the google logo also has the same problem.

I’m 100% sure that the problem with the wrong/grey background is related to the problem with the colour depths.

What to do? I don’t want to accept such problems with my device. But the next replacement (it would be my 5th device) probably won’t fix the problems.

It seems that this is a HTC problem, isn’t it?

I’m trying to get in contact with the T-Mobile product manager…
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] aceangel:
If you are basing the colors on the today screen, it is the today screen that is the problem. The today screen seems to only display 4096 colors. Otherwise, other apps display 65536 colors, just the contrast is a bit too high...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] MBastian:
I read in some posts concerning the new T-Mobile ROM update that cleartype is viewed very badly.

I'm quite shure that this will also be a collateral bug of the color resolution and/or the transparence problem.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Shadamehr:
Not sure how you feel that.

Given that my device is my device, is my device etc etc...

And the screen image is poor always.

But the Cleartype is only poor depending on the ROM I flash with.

So it is not specific to the device. It is simply specific to the Software implementation of how Cleartype is written.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Shadamehr:
^ Sorry if my post above seems rude. Never meant it to be.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] peekie:
now to add an xtra one the orange M1000 has the same problem as the xda2 i find the colours lower than my old ppc and watching films ect are also darker the brightness is set to full and its down to the contrast which within pocket tv can be adusted , hope someone can crack this egg open :wink: :wink: :wink:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] simba:
I have the same problem. I did a comparison with my IPAQ H2210. And the contrast on the MDA II were too high. If unselect all associations in IA Album I can open the photo with another programme on the MDA II. With this program it is possible to change to contrast. After lowering the contrast it looks much better. NOW hopefully we someone or a conpany will make a programme for this.

Otherwise I am going to ditch the MDA II and buy the iPAQ H6300.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] boybi:
i also have a problem with the screen of my XDA2. the screen on my iPaq 2210 is a lot more 'life-like' especially when i watch a movie clip using PocketTV.

also, when i enabled Clear Type, the black fonts have a shade of other colors on the side, disabling Clear Type will remove this effect but the fonts are awful!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rudegar:
read this

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=9279&highlight=cleartype
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] boybi:
it said in the posts that it was taken from a 1.60 rom. mine is 1.60 but my cleartype fonts don't look nice, as compared with my iPaq 2210.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Shadamehr:
Not sure if this helps mate, but in terms of good and bad Cleartype, it's not the NUMBER of the ROM that matters, it seems, but the OPERATOR.

O2 ROMS are good. Orange, I-mate, and T-Mobile UK ones it seems, are not.

(That's a ROUGH rule of thumb only, but was meant to indicate that the ROM version number alone is not the ultimate authority on it).
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] boybi:
hmmm, mine is O2. :?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Shadamehr:
All I can then offer is that you are the first person I have ever heard of to feel that the O2 1.60 version of Cleartype is bad mate.

I'm assuming you HAVE tried the Orange version etc, to see what their's looks like yes?

Your not just saying that you feel Cleartype looks 'poor' are you?

As MANY people don't like Cleartype - it's a matter of taste.

So are you saying you don't like it, or are you saying that BY COMPARISON to the Orange version, it is poor?

If you are just saying you don't like it itself, then that explains this.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] boybi:
i haven't seen the Orange unit. i'm just comparing it with my iPaq 2210 which has better Clear Type fonts.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Shadamehr:
Then its a moot point - the Ipaq is a different ballgame altogether.

This debate as such is about cleartype on the XDA2 - particularly the difference between the orange version, and the o2 one.

The iPaq is a miles different device - it even has a cleartype tuner if i recall, as well as a contrast slider - the XDA has none of these, so is very different mate.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] boybi:
i was just hoping there might be a way to improve the cleartype of my XDA2 :(
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Mi_:
Does anybody knows if the 1.72 ROM correct the Today colors problem ?

Or if there is any issue for this limitation ?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] goodliu:
read full post here but still can't find anyway to solve this problem...，is there any hack or some software could adjust the constrast on XDA II？

wait for some answer...thanks
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] darkcell:
try using search and type "cleartype fix" or "cleartype"
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] RamX2:
So there's no way to fix the contrast on this device ? :roll:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] RamX2:
I wish there would be a utility that allows us to change the brightness and contrast... :cry:

Anyway for whom is interested, don't bother your self to do anything about it bcz I opened so far 6 Himalaya's unit and found out that there's two types of himalaya's boards each has different TFT sockets and flat cable :( so for whom has a dark screen is stuck with it else you replace your board and your TFT , damn HTC :evil:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
Ok so I was trying to wire in my car charger in a nice tidy way. I'm not a noob at car wiring, having done loads of car pc projects etc.

Due to rushing and being a moron I accidentally hooked the charger directly to a 12v line instead of using the adapter to convert it to 5v. It was only for a couple of seconds before I realised and pulled the phone out of the holder.

Since then I've noticed some strange behaviour on the phone. It runs hot, freezes up when unlocking, drains pretty fast and keep randomly switching to landscape and staying there until a reboot.

I've done a full wipe (CM10.1) and am leaving it charging at the moment on the clean rom and it seems better. Not hot and not locking up or anything.

What I need to know is how can I test and be sure of the situation. Is there a battery test tool or app that will monitor temperatures I should use. I'm prepared to send it for repair (and foot the bill for my stupidity) but I don't want to send it off for repair until I know it needs it.

Thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arachneon:
The power supply inside the N4 surely uses power regulator. There may be also some protection diode to prevent from overshoot or overstress (this is the case here).

Still if the regulator was in a unstable state for a while, this may explain your strange behavior. If it has been irreversibly damaged (can be the case if the input voltage was above the absolute max rating), the output supplying the Snapdragon chip may not be what it should, causing erratic bahaviour.

I don’t think there is an easy way to check, except maybe taking it apart and measure the output voltage of the power supply circuit inside the N4…. Which seems hard without the proper equipment….

If you still experience thee random bug, maybe sending it back could help.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
Well it looks like something is very wrong. After a couple of hours sitting on the standard rom I decided to install GSam battery monitor to keep an eye on the temp and when I tried to unlock... same thing. Stuck on landscape and froze up on the unlock screen.

It's now switched off and charging but I just booted to recovery (TWRP) to see the charge level and it's only 26% after 2 hours! I'll leave it for the rest of the day, reset battery stats and see what happens but I'm pretty sure it's fubar.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arachneon:
The power supply circuit seems to be dead. It is no longer charging the battery the way it should. I don't have that much knowledge on the hardware, so I think i can't say more about your issue....

Good luck in any case !
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
Spoke to Google, they are sending a replacement out in 3-5 working days. That's pretty good service. They agree that the charging circuit is ****ed (not quite the words they used) so a replacement is needed. I am now in the laughable position of putting the phone in the fridge to keep it cool enough to allow me to wirelessly copy my backups and data to my PC without it rebooting itself!

Thank god for Titanium, nandroid and samba fileshare!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arachneon:
Well that's good news. Glad to see they came to the same conclusion :D

Cheers
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
Now I have to work out how to flash it back to standard without adb or fastboot (the usb plug doesn't work for PC connection).

Awesome. Found this most excellent post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34749844&postcount=2

Followed it and now I have a stock, unrooted, and locked N4 ready to go back to Google.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solutions Etcetera:
Did you tell them you connected it to a car battery?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vickpick:
im guessing no.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
They didn't ask, I just explained the problem and symptoms. I'm not trying to rip them off or anything. I'm happy to pay for repairs
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solutions Etcetera:
Ford: "Hello, Ford customer care. How may I help you."

Customer: "I just bought a new Mustang and it was working perfectly, but now it won't start."

Ford: "I see. What happens when you try and start your Mustang?"

Customer: "Nothing."

Ford: "Really? Nothing? It won't turn over, or you don't hear a click or anything?"

Customer: "No. Nothing."

Ford: "Hmmm... Do you remember anything out of the ordinary prior to it not starting?"

Customer: "Oh... do you mean the tree?"
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
It's a bit cheeky I suppose but worth a shot. Maybe I'm a bad person but I'm also a poor one
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solutions Etcetera:
My point is... if you didn't bother to tell Google you connected your charging port to a car battery, did you really expect them to ask if you did? That is about as likely as Ford asking you if you hit a tree just before your car stopped starting. Neither would be considered reasonable behavior.

I agree with your assessment that Google has excellent customer service. It would be a shame to see it change due to hundreds of people sending back devices they damaged due to their own actions... and from reading posts in these forums, this happens a lot.

If you're really not trying to "rip them off or anything", why not be a little more forthcoming about you frying it by connecting it directly to a car battery?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shook187:
XDA is actually full of fools like the OP. They cost phone makers more money than any other demographic customer. It's no wonder why insurance cost is high with ridiculous deductible. I also don't blame phone makers to what to lock bootloaders to keep idiots on XDA away from their phones.

We actually have people on here that think XDA'ers are a valuable asset to phone makers when really we're not.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
You're right. I'll call them back in the morning give them the details, just hope that split second of stupidity doesn't cost me a whole new phone.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.fast:
Did you call?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevessvt:
He will.

Right after the shipping confirmation email.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3Shirts:
I did and they said it'll be an out of warranty repair and gave me a number for LG in the UK instead who deal with those. They've emailed me shipping details to send it to them. Once they get it, they'll inspect it then call me with a price.

Anyone have any experience of this kind of repair, to give me a an idea how much to expect?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arachneon:
Well, if a component is dead (which seems to be the case) rework can be expensive. They will have to un-solder the component (can be easy, can be hard if it is a BGA for example) without damaging the rest of the motherboard. In this kind of devices we don't have much space, so I guess they have a specific tool to do that.

When they build the motherboard it is much easier, as all the components see the reflow at the same time.
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] oSandmaNo:
Hey guys!

When I first activated Facebook inside xperia it worked fine.

Later I uninstalled Facebook app from system and downloaded the app from store.

Now when I try to enable facebook inside xperia it says connection error. I tried to activate long after moving it from the system so I don't know if thats the cause. Is it working for anyone else right now or is it a facebook problem?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plapic:
Does anyone have the xap of this app?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pvt_nemesis:
If its free get it from Marketplace, if its not then don't ask here as piracy is against forum terms of use.

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plapic:
Free UK app

There are plenty of requests made in this forum for free apps that arent available in their local marketplace. This one is UK.
[General Questions and Answers] matchu_792:
Hey there,

I recently bought an AMD A9 Cortex Dual Core MID Tablet from eBay and was wondering how to go about rooting and maybe flashing a custom ROM on this device.

I had managed to find a website saying to treat it like a nexus 7 when rooting. However I'm worried about possibly bricking it by flashing software not for this device. If anyone has got one of these devices and have managed to root and flash a custom ROM help would be much appreciated.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plapic:
Does any one have the xap of this app? Only available on UK marketplace.
[Motorola Atrix 2] williamguy:
I misedited my build.prop so I am trying to reflash a stock system.img to my Atrix 2 using Terminal on my mac.

When I attempt to flash it I get error messages.

localhost:android williamguy$ ./fastboot flash system /Users/williamguy/Desktop/5.5.1-EDEM-28-TNZ_cfc.xml/system.img

target reported max download size of 1056964608 bytes

sending 'system' (491264 KB)...

OKAY [ 23.605s]

writing 'system'...

(bootloader) Preflash validation failure

FAILED (remote: )

I only need to flash the system.img to fix my phone, other images from the rom flash successfully - only boot.img and system.img get this error message.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
You need to get the moto-fastboot utility. Google search for it.

You use the moto-fastboot command and not the fast boot command to flash. I have used it on my macs many times without issue.... The fastboot command does not work on moto phones/images.
[HTC Desire X] KevinDamien:
Hi, I'm having a rather frustrating problem and I was hoping someone could help me out. On my htc desire x, there is no option to download the offline voice packages. My google search and voice search are both up to date and there are no software updates for my phone, so my android and sense are up to date. I just got the app Utter, which is great by the way, but I want to be able to use it without killing my internet cap, since I don't have WiFi at home.
[HTC Desire X] KevinDamien:
Still no reply?

People please I would love if someone could just help me out here. Not being able to use utter offline really sucks.
[HTC Desire X] mindlesSheep:
Well, I have personaly never heard about any usefull offline voice recognition, everything is using online sources.
[HTC Desire X] KevinDamien:
Google

Google offers you the option to download their voice packages. The problem is, it doesn't allow me to do that on my phone.
[HTC Desire X] rey71ng:
Same problem with my HTCDX
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlanza:
Is it possible to use a BT GPS receiver in WP8? and with here Maps? I'm not able to even connect it to the mobile.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StevieBallz:
Windows Phone 8 does not Support external GPS Receivers. Certain Apps could implement compatibility themselves but only those Apps would be able to use it. I guess noone will go to those lengths given that all devices have a GPS Receiver built in. Here Maps definitely won't.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlanza:
I think this is an error as the internal GPS is really battery consuming, while using a BT GPS makes it possible to have battery lasting a lot more. For example if you go hicking or running you cannot recharge ;) (well if you have a solar charger yes, but ....)

I think WP should allow having this implemented. My old N78 (symbian) did and I was really happy with it. I guess I should go to user voice and ask for such an issue ;)
[Sony Xperia ZL] cafealpha:
http://promotions.newegg.com/Sony/13-1435/index.html

Xperia Z preorder (in stock apr 18)

$599.99 after promo code

Xperia ZL (LTE 6506)

Total $589.99 after promo code

Xperia ZL (6502)

$ 519 after promo code

I said OMG with the price tag for 6502.

(i got my ZL 6506 two week ago at $570 ebay)

Newegg has great reputations and ship it quick ( you are not waiting a week or so like shopblt)

I would take xperia Z if Newegg had a stock when I ordered.. anyhow I like my ZL except its screen :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] Dannyada1988:
Useful information, I just want to buy a smartphone as a gift for my best friend and she likes the brand Sony very much. Thanks OP.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Gitaroo:
too bad not for canada.
[Sony Xperia ZL] akong702:
Sucks that the white C5606 is sold out.
[Sony Xperia ZL] MadRed:
What's wrong with screen?
[Sony Xperia ZL] cafealpha:
viewing angle problem...
[Sony Xperia ZL] colts187:
Got mine from Negri Electronics.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ryude:
Thanks for the link! Maybe I will get back into making ROMs :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] ryude:
Deal is back! This time even cheaper, C6506 is $569.99 after promo code.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_mmc=EMCPB-042013-_-PB-_-Item-_-75-212-254
[Sony Xperia ZL] riz157:
anyone recommend reliable online retailer deliver to the UK? thanks
[Sony Xperia ZL] jvs60:
I got in on this price. Thanks