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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmbardal:
Hi!

So .. I'm having the following issue.. wich is bugging me quite a bit.

I recently started using Google Hangouts instead of SMS (TextMessaging), and I'm very fond of it.

The only issue I have is that the numbers I havent added any areacode to gets the areacode for Sweden (+46),

and this is ONLY on Google Hangouts.

When I go back to the regular SMS app, the areacode is removed, and I can again send SMS without sending it to Sweden first.

I'm from Norway if it matters (+47). But the phone itself is imported from Sweden, but I'm using Norwegian as language.

So I cannot understand why this should be an issue.

Anyone got any info on the matter?

Edit: And yes. I checked my gmail. I have my country set to Norway.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmbardal:
And I just doublechecked that it werent my Backup Pro that messed things up (since I know app+data backup\sms backup can sometimes be a bit wierd.),

because I checked with only the original google drive backup that comes with android, and I still got +46 as the area\countrycode when

texting a number without +XX infront of the number when using Google Hangouts.

I just find it very wierd. There is no reason for Google Hangouts to pick +46, right ?

Except the fact that the phone is imported from Sweden.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistrBjorn:
As another Norwegian, I have the exact same problem. The Hangouts app adds +46 as the country code to all my numbers without an already existing prefix (I even think it added +45 at one point, which is the prefix to Denmark).

I bought my phone (HTC One) from a Tele2 outlet in Norway. Tele2 is a Swedish mobile operator company, so quite possibly my phone is the Swedish version (I don't know how to verify that).

Also, my default country code in Gmail is set to Norway.

Could this be a bug?

Edit: Also, when I use the default SMS app from HTC, no problems occur (as with OP dmbardal). That is, the app doesn't prefix any area code.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] korgmatose:
Same for me, just noticed the bug in hangouts. Seem there are some issues with norwegian in general om android these days. Earth cannot search if system language is set to Norwegian, and Drive won't open New Google sheets.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] korgmatose:
I have Tele2 and I believe this to be some kind of "dial assist" making Hangouts believe that since tele2 uses Swedish simcarda, that I am trying to dial to my home network, and that I'm roaming abroad when I am indeed in Norway messaging a Norwegian number.

A are all of you also tele2-customers?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andebor:
I have the exact same problem and yes I am a tele2-customer. I think what you're writing about Sweden could be the problem. Google probably didn't think of that scenario when they added this. A fix would be greatly appreciated! At least there should be a way to override the setting it gets from the sim.

This problem is extremely annoying!

I will write a bug report for google to ignore. :eek:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinnadyr:
How did the bug report go? Tele2/Nexus 5 user here with the exact same problem. Sometimes it works to store the contact with the area code as well before sending an SMS.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmbardal:
I'm still having the same issue, despite desperately changing everything I can on Youtube, Google Plus, GMail, Hangouts etc.

Still no change.

I recently posted on the Google+ help group to see if anyone got a fix for the issue.

I will report back if I find anything.

This is seriously starting to bug me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phillytemptation:
hey i've been living in Vietnam for the last year, and with new google voice integration I tried texting home and just noticed that it would at the VN country code to all my contacts. What I ended up doing was using twitch contact formatter to analyze all my contacts and resave them with the international standard. It did a pretty decent job in recognizing what was Vietnam and what was the US. It might work for you all. I did have to manually process some that got mistaken for VN when they were US numbers.

I was easily able to spot the mistakenly converted contacts by clicking on the VN flag and switching to national convention. This showed me all my "Vietnamese" contacts, and I could easily spot the difference in names. I just reedited those contacts to delete the country code and then processed them.

Hope this helps!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steeini81:
Danish Area Code with TDC

I have same problem. norwegian with TDC subscription. +45 on sms text when they are supposed to be +47. Have changed all the contacts but its annoying when I write new text to new people. Default at +45.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justinaclark17@gmail.com:
hangouts will automatically add +1 prefix when tring to send short code sms, for me I am attempting to get my data usage from straight talk sending usage to short code 611611, and hangouts will automatically add +1 making the number +1611611, I have figured out that if you delete all messages youve attempted to send in hangouts and your phones default messaging app, go to app manager on your phone, force stop your phones stock messaging app and hangouts app, make your messaging app the default messaging app, create a new contact in phone for the short code i addded the number as name: staright talk and phone number as 611611, send message using phones defsult messaging using the newwly created contact, close messaging app force close and clear cache in app manager on pphone, then make hangouts default messaging app open hangouts and it will retrieve the message from your messages in the default messaging app, and now it will show the number when you selct the message as 611611 the correct short code without adddign the +1, as long as you keep that message in your list and use that converation for any future message to that short code it will work just fine. please feel free to post any questions
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgrinst1:
I eventually found an easier workaround. In "Contacts", select the contact that has the designated short code to and click the Send Text flag on the right hand side. If Hangouts is your default SMS app, it will open up a Hangouts SMS window with the short code and NOTHING prefixed up front. i.e. it will work ok. Cheers.
[General Questions and Answers] Vishal27_:
what is android kitchen? is it used to create apk or just used to validate them? thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] zipperX:
It's a tool for those who want to start learning how to make custom ROM or modif a ROM:)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
hi all,

my mobile is showing blank SD Card and when i click it ask to format card and pressing yes shows " External Media in unknown state"

SD Card working fine in PC or other mobile phone....

so the question is .. can i install custom rom without Memory Card like RUU installs without memroy card .. is there anyway .....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
If you are rooted and s-off then yes
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
rooted and s-off = yes

but can you please guide me HOW

i tried to download the file from my local pc web server to mobile but both webkit and ucbrowser dont have option to set the download path

i even set the / to R/W with Root Explorer with no luck

please please please guide me with some detail ..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildstang83:
TBH, I know nothing about this device. I do know that your sd card will need to be formatted to fat32. So move everything off of the card you need to save, and then just reformat the card using your pc. I'm not sure what kind of computer you have (Windows, Linux, OS X) so you'll have to google how to reformat an sd card on your specific OS.

Once you've formatted the card, remove the battery from the phone, put the card in, put the battery back in and power up. The phone "should" detect the card at this point if all has went well.

As far as flashing a ROM directly from the phones internal storage, I'm not sure the G2 has an eMMC? Well, if it does, just connect the phone to your computer and mount it as a drive. Just like mounting your sd card. Transfer the ROM to the root of your phones memory, reboot to recovery (TWRP, CWMR, other) and do your wipes as normal followed by flashing the ROM from internal storage.

All in all, you should give formatting your sd a try first. That usually clears things up.

Good luck :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
THanks Dear for the detailed answer

i tried testing memory card on other phones and pc and it was working fine but i didnt tried formatting it again .. so i am gonna do it and post the experience

as eMMC .. i dont know what it is but G2 never detected as a drive in my windows 7 pc ....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
yes the g2 has an emmc but it is not partitioned for general storage. you would need to create a new recovery to use anything here

and i dont believe any of the recoveries for the g2 support adb sideload which would be the easy way of doing this...(maybe i just found me a project!)

but if you have roms in .img format, at least the system partition you can flash in fastboot or through a PC10IMG.zip

of course developers do not create this for you so you would have to make your own.

If you want a simple way ill look into making a new recovery as i should have some time this weekend. ill get back to you if i do
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
demkantor ... surely i am waiting for anything you can make that help me do the task ...

wildstang83 ... i tried to format the memory card but it got corrupted somehow .. 4GB shows just 30.6MB and it is not formating or even creating a partition of 30MB, tried another card but have the same issue ... so i guess there is something wrong with phone to not preparing cards.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
oh and i just remember i read somewhere about push the file via adb shell in PC

cant i use this way to install any ROM

i am sure this way surely works but do not know how.

because in my android collection i have a file named RUU_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.3_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_224299_signed.exe

when running this windows installer it will connect the phone check the phone image version and telling you the new version it will update/downgrade and when you confirm it just reboot bootloader and sending file and done .....

thats what it shows on screen do not know what is the background process, i tried changing the rom.zip(copied the TEMP folder to another drive and replacing rom.zip with renamed Curvis.zip as rom.zip) found in RUU with Curvis renaming it to rom.zip but it didnt worked out.

what i guess is the installer knows the HASH/MD5 value of rom.zip as even renaming it to rom1.zip installer goes for it always only giving error when it didnt found the actual file.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildstang83:
Sorry to hear about your sd card. I believe something must have went wrong during the format such as a cable got wiggled or something else or, it could just be that your sd card is starting to go bad. These things do have a read/write lifespan. How did you connect the card to your pc to format it? I believe the best method is by using an adapter like this one: http://www.amazon.com/eForCity-Micro-SD-Adapter/dp/B001CQJSP4

As far as flashing the ROM via sideload, it just isn't possible. As [MENTION=4334383]demkantor[/MENTION] mentioned, the current custom recoveries for the device are not capable of this "feature". And that is exactly what that command is you say you found.

I believe there is more going on here, I can't quite believe you've tried multiple sd cards all to no avail. Is there more info about your device and steps you've taken that you can share? What I mean is, ROM, Recovery, and bootloader/hboot versions.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
As far as flashing the ROM via sideload, it just isn't possible ..... but RUU is working this way if its called sideload ... it installs without memory card or doing anything with phone, i just connected the phone with usb cable and run the windows installer like i do for install any other software.

i connected the card with card reader and even tried the built-in card reader in my laptop too both gave same result.. damage card is not a problem .. problem is phone is not detecting any card .. it just giving the same error and when the card died it was working perfectly and i restart set and got this Black SD Card or has unsupported file system msg and click on this msg says format card and gave External media in unknown state.

i dont know what exactly i should tell you about device, its just plain G2 i use it for call sms and skype type voip softwares and Clockwork was installed .... never install any game or any other software.

the current OS is GB 2.3.3 RUU_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.3_Radio_ 12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_224299_signed.exe directly installed from pc.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildstang83:
Ok do this.

1. If you don't have the Java JDK installed, download and install the JDK 6: LINK

2. If you don't have the android sdk, download and install it. Get it HERE NOTE: Must have the jdk from above installed to operate.

3. Download the latest ClockworkMod Recovery: LINK

4. Rename the file you just downloaded to recovery. Make sure the extension is img. So recovery.img

5. Open up the directory where you installed the Android SDK, should be something like C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools.

6. Inside the SDK look for a folder called platform-tools. You'll know you've found the right folder once you've found it because there will be a binary inside of it called fastboot. Place the recovery.img inside this folder.

7. Make sure your phone is turned on and debugging is activated. Connect it to your PC via your data cable.

8. Open a command prompt window and cd to that platform-tools folder. This command should look something like this:

cd C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

Adjust that command to wherever your platform-tools folder is.

9. Once cd'd to platform-tools, run the following command to boot your phone into bootloader:

adb reboot bootloader

10. When the phone boots into bootloader, you may see something that says fastboot usb. This is good, it means your phone is ready to accept fastboot commands. If you don't see this, it just means the device is not in fastboot mode, simply highlight fastboot with the volume up or down button and then press the power button to select.

11. Once the device is in fastboot usb mode, flash the new recovery to your phone:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

12. The command prompt window will say something like sending complete, success. Once this is done, reboot the device by sending this command:

fastboot reboot

13. Disconnect the data cable and power off the device.

14. Insure the sd card you want to use is inserted into the device. Boot into recovery.

15. Go to advanced menu option.

16. Go to partition /external_sd

17. Select the highest value

18. On the next window, select whatever swap value you want, 0 or 32 is fine.

19. Select the file system format, fat32 or ext3.

20. Wait for it to complete, reboot the device and see if the device mounts the sd finally.

tl;dr: Install the latest recovery and repartiton your sd card.

Let me know how it goes :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
wowwww this is what i called detailed help

unfortunately there is a meeting for next 2 hours, let me finish the meeting and then let me try my luck

Thanks Once Again
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
The PC10IMG.zip will flash fine if made correctly like an RUU in fastboot mode. Again so long as you have radio secure flags turned off. The above poster is correct to be sure you have attempted to format the SD properly as well as test others. Although I have seen issues similar to yours when the SD tray goes bad, which isn't hard to replace and can be found for about $10

I had only about an hour a hour earlier and most of that time was taken up sinking, once I get some more I will fix a few build errors and hopefully have a solution for you maybe this weekend, that is if the format won't work, and by the way I highly would recommend 4ext recovery over clockwork.

Best of luck though!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
F:\500GB2\Mobile SoftwareZ\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030\sdk\platform-tools

>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

< waiting for device >

sending 'recovery' (3552 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.691s]

writing 'recovery'...

FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 0.693s

this is what i got
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
i have a working PC10IMG which i used previously .... but again if the PC10IMG.zip works fine cant i use other roms, i like Curvis2.1signed.zip its what i like

Stock tweaked and GB ....

and i am waiting for your fix demkantor .. it will not only help me but help many others plus adds another line in your projects profile :P
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
when bootloader is loaded i can see this like the image

Fastboot usb

then vol up down tips and

bootloader

reboot etc etc

problem is i can select all 4 items but not FASTBOOT USB
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
i guess this is what i was trying to locate .. found it in wiki

didnt give it a test as its asking to wipe data first and let me backup my contacts before wipe

but Remote : not allowed is confusing

why its not flashing recovering :/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
before you ask me question google give me some commands which i tried and the results are

saw on many places that ppl are talking about locked bootloader .. is it my case? i didnt see any words of locked boot loader here :/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Looks like something went wrong during or after your rooting process, you have a shipped bootloader as opposed to an engineering one. This is why fastboot won't allow for the recovery flash

To have this along with a bad SD will make things a bit more challenging. Do you remember the method your phone was rooted by?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
i used a software called "UnlockRootPro"
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Yeah... May cause issues down the road, read up a bit here for some more general knowledge about your phone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2348266

We need to get your sdcard working and root you the proper way, root-for-me programs are often not the best way to go
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
woaah demkantor

awesome guide .. its time to go home and i already have a plan to awake all night with G2 :D

happy weekend to all and especially both of you and demkantor i am waiting for your FIX ... :P

will update next experience soon
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
before going home last second update and no luck
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
And its a good thing you don't have an engineering bootloader, a PD15IMG.zip is not for your phone and would have bricked it if it worked

Be careful what you choose to flash
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
but i downloaded it from some post mentioning its for desirez/g2 .. thats why i downloaded it and put in Desire Z folder in my driver

anyways first good luck in day .. am saved ... what you want me to try ... i downloaded another one "vision.hboot-0.76.2000"
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Well if you want you can flash the PC10IMG.zip in post 30 here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1728208

I can't guarantee its safety as you don't have true radio s-off but others in your same boat have used it and said it works fine for them

It will wipe your os so you will have to hope you will be able to fix your sdcard. It will install 4ext recovery for you and this may be what you need to fix your issue

If it doesn't we can add a ROM to the mix and install it the same way
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
i already have PC10IMG about 290MB

i tried 10-12 OS in this fone so i have all of them in drive ready to re-use :D

let me do it
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
If you read through that its a custom PC10IMG.zip I made for someone, its not one you downloaded before ever

Better yet I'll make you a different one when I hit my PC, they only take a minute to do
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
waiting for the custom file you gonna make for me but i am sorry .. how do i flash PC10IMG

fastboot flash recovery

fastboot flash hboot

or fastboot update

and i tried gfree and got this both on normally powered on mobile and in bootloader
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy sorry sorry forget to unlock the screen
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Awesome news, so feel free to flash that PC10IMG.zip I linked you

fastboot flash zip PC10IMG.zip

From there see if formatting in 4ext recovery works or not, if so flash a ROM there if not well have to move. It looks like its going to be another late night so I doubt I'll hot my PC when I get home, but if the above won't work I'll have something for you soon
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
damn remote : not allowed

i did an experiment of sending recovery.img to /data/local/tmp Succeded

but didnt know how to run it in normal android mode

FlashimageGUI.apk is not for DZ/G2 so .. no luck

everything is working as it should except that remote not allowed error
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
a little improvement and succeded

Vision PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.84.2000 (PC10******)

Radio-26.13.04.19_M
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
4ext loaded without sdcard in 40seconds

tried formatting memory card but error formatting memory card

i guess memory tray broken .... because this is new card

what my main purpose is to install curvis and i think if i push curvis.zip into /data and mount /data and install it i guess it will work

or maybe if i reboot in RUU and directly flash curvis

what you say?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
I have no idea what curvis is so I can't say

A new tray is about 10$ and takes about 10 min or so to replace, something to consider anyway
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
http://www.tegro.mobi/2011/08/05/curvis-2-1-2/

its just another ROM which i liked ....

nothing especial

so till now am ok with 4ext

should i try flashing the rom via RUU mode?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Sure its for you phone? Just never heard of it is all, do try flashing a ROM made for a different phone

And unless it was made to be flashed in fastboot (as opposed to recovery) it won't work
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
but if i try flashing a rom that is not made for DZ wont it make issues for my phone.. IF its flashed?

i have a ROM for Google NeXus S
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Mistype... Do not try flashing a ROM made for another phone
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AYEHAN:
but how do i install a rom

all roms i have are in zip format and when i try them i got msg android info not found :/

and another question, now i am Eng S-Off

what if i wanna SHIP S-OFF

how do i do that
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Sorry been busy lately and haven't had a chance to finish my little project, you can't flash just any ROM this way as the developer would also need to release a fastboot flashable ROM

But hopefully I'll have some time soon to offer you a fix

Oh and you would have no reason to be ship s_off, that's just no good