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[Shift General] khals:
Hi folks

I recently bought a second-hand HTC Shift, which seemed to work just fine untill I tried installing Windows 7 on it. It started acting weird, so I formatted the drive, which failed. I ran scandisk which ran for over a day and failed. The HD restore function does not work either, telling me there's a HD error.

I then went to the store where the previous owner had bought the device, telling them that the HD was dead. The clerk told me that the warranty didn't cover the HD, so I frustratlingly left the store.

Do you guys know if the clerk is absolutely right or not? There's still one month left on the warranty and I'd be extremely unhappy if I have to spend money on replacing the HD if I don't have to as it might be covered by the warranty.

Thank you for your interest! :o
[Shift General] hdbueller:
It is kinda touch and go on the warranty. They should cover it, but they may say that your "unauthorized" modification i.e., flashing new software, voids the warranty. Your best bet may be to just read the thread on changing the HD to a larger one, and do that instead! It is not too difficult to do. You can get a new 80gb drive for it that will fit right in and you will not have a recovery partition to deal with. You would be able to then put Windows 7 on it instead of that crappy Vista o/s. You will have to download 7 from the ms site and make sure that you follow the thread on W7 updating to the letter!!

Later
[Shift General] Dammo:
Oddly enough my HD died on me today, was working fine yesterday, left the shift in W7 powered on when I went to bed. Came down this morning to a message please insert valid boot disk and the HD clicking to itself every 7 or 8 seconds. tinkering gave me nothing, Phoned HTC, end of a 30 minute phone call they come get it tomorow and provided they don't find it to be my fault, they shouldn't it was sat on the side, it shouldn't cost me a penny :)

Pitty I've lost my machine for a while though.
[Shift General] khals:
Success!!!

Thanks for your input guys! :)

As dark as my situation seemed, at the time, I now have a fully working Shift again with a brand new harddrive, that HTC replaced for me :D

I'm think the clerk misread the warranty statement by HTC, which is on the warranty card that came with my Shift, which reads: "The Limited Warranty provided by HTC for the purchased Product excludes (i) any damages of the hard disk that are resulted from mishandling and/or dropping of the Product, and (ii) any losses of data, program and/or information resulted from such mishandling and/or dropping." He must have read it as if HTC did not cover the harddrive at all!

I contacted HTC which told me that the warranty would of course cover the harddrive also, as it would with any other computer you would have bought from any store. With their email in hand, I returned to the store, which then sent my Shift to repairs under warranty coverage! Although I had to wait nearly 3 months for it to return, I'm now back in business! :p

If any of you guys face a similar situation, I'd suggest you to do the same ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] es_pirulo:
It's possible port any of the G1 roms (there are 3-4 roms at least) to our Magics?.

Anyone knows how to make this porting process??
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] QTeknology:
It's possible... just stay tuned...

Best G2 Rom is ION, so use that for now :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] fridlack:
I am using ION, but would be great if someone can add some lenguages to this pack...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] w3rw01f:
you might want to check out spfrance's rom @ http://wiki.smartphonefrance.info/firmware-htcmagic.ashx

it's as fast as ion + some many other nice features

p.s. you can use translate.google.com if you can't understand French)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] es_pirulo:
I'm using spfrance rom too...

it has more languages than ion rom...

we'll wait for the one who give us the key to port....
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] asci:
PLS where to find more info about this rom in English?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] vishalkishnani:
Hey guys my Device Storage memory is 88 mb and out of that free is just 15 mb.

I installed only

1) Slide to anwer dialer

2) S2U2

3) .Net Framework

on my device memory rest is all on internal storage.

I have come to know that opera uses around 8-10 mb of storage space. So i want to uninstall it.

But its not there in add and remove programs.

please let me know how to remove Opera.

Also let me know if any other software to be removed to free up the space. Like voice commander (this is also not there in add and remove programs)

Regards,

Vishal
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] grahamkdt:
Remove Opera?

If it doesn't show up in 'Remove Programs', it's installed in the ROM which means you can't remove it. The best thing to do if you want loads of storage is to install a 'lite' ROM. That way you can install only the apps you use ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] christophR:
i have the original rom from the htc page! give it no solution to deinstall the opera browser, if is no opera browser entry in the program list to shown?

in the windows folder on the integrated storage not found an opera folder, also.

plz help me..

sorry for my bad english.. i hope every guys understand my problem..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Rudegar:
you can't remove opera

opera is put in the core os which is placed in a

place where users can't access the storage

so even if one makes a rom without opera

it don't free up storage for users access

it's impossible to remove opera unless you cook your own rom from scratch

if you don't like opera don't use it

and

set the browser you like as std browser

then opera will not bother you as even if you could delete it

it would not give you more storage mem
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] scrumpypaul:
hi folks

my current issue is slightly different

i've installed opera mini 5 which is great for my needs, however i have various RSS feeds going and if i click on links they will open in opera 4, not 5.

how do i therefore set opera mini 5 to be the default browser?

plus if anyone knows how to get rid of the annoying opera 5 prompt which asks me if i'm happy about the fact that i may be charged for accessing the web, then i'd be very pleased to know it.

thanks in advance from scrumpypaul
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] owziee:
Well I only saw that once since I installed the version with all certificates... Try installing the all certificates version and you'll get rid of all the promts :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] scrumpypaul:
which version did you install?

i downloaded directly to my diamond and saw nothing about certificates.
[G1 Android Development] Christian S.:
Hi!

I just wanted to play around with the Android SDK and write some "Hello, world!" applications, because I think the world needs more of those ;-)

But I have a problem with the emulator: it doesn't find my AVDs. I get a correct list of the avds by using

android list avd

but when running the avd with the emulator

emulator @myavd

I get the error message:

emulator: ERROR: unknown virtual device name: 'myavd'
emulator: could not find virtual device named 'myavd'

.

I'm using Windows 7 RC1 32bit.

Anyone any idea how to fix this?

Bye

Christian
[G1 Android Development] uta8111:
I've seen similar problems from time to time. I found it best to create AVDs from within Eclipse when possible (don't forget to set up an emulated SD card of *more* than 8MB at the same time associated with each AVD).
[G1 Android Development] neoobs:
Use this instead

emulator -avd myavd
[G1 Android Development] Christian S.:
Hi!

Thank you for the answers! :-)

I found the problem:

The "android" tool created the AVDs in the directory "d:\.android\", the emulator expects them in "c:\users\<username>\.android\".

I created an NTFS junction as workaround and it works now :)

Bye

Christian
[G1 Android Development] dgiudici:
I am having this same problem but with vista please help...

I am getting the following error

[2009-08-11 22:18:33 - Emulator] emulator: ERROR: unknown virtual device name: 'my_avd'

[2009-08-11 22:18:33 - Emulator] emulator: could not find virtual device named 'my_avd'

and I am not sure why. I am very new to eclipse, but want to get started with android development. How would I tell ecipse to look in the correct directory to find the AVD?

I look forward to hearing back.

Cheers

DG
[G1 Android Development] alexadvance:
That was exactly my problem, I've moved my "HOME" directory on another disk, and I can't launch emulator.

But now, with your NTFS junction method, it's OK !!
[G1 Android Development] jshields:
Hey there guys you've probably already sorted this but after you create your avd just cd to the tools folder of the sdk and type

emulator -avd (your name)

the avd will be created in the same directory as your sdk for example i type

cd C:/sdk/android/tools

emulator -avd Sheilds1.5 -sdcard C:/sdcard.img

Hope this helps :)

Shields

also link here to explain all :)

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/avd.html
[G1 Android Development] ttancredi:
On Vista, android creates the avd folder under C:\Users\<username>\.android . It does this even if you are logged into a domain account (i.e. it doesn't create a C:\Users\<domain>.<username>\.android folder. This will cause the "unknown virtual device" error also. Copy the .android folder to C:\Users\<domain>.<username> and you will be good to go.
[G1 Android Development] DiLLio:
Nice one, Christian. The ntfs juction/mklink did the trick for me :)
[G1 Android Development] paralight:
ok thanks very much! , it solves my problem :)

bye

Guillaume
[G1 Android Development] 5old13r:
What NTFS function???

What NTFS function are you speaking of???!!!!?!?!?
[G1 Android Development] sybux:
If you have moved your home folder from c:\users\myUser to D:\myUser for example, you need to open a command line (cmd.exe) and do the following :

1. cd c:\users\myUser

2. mklink /j .android d:\myUser\.android

so that android will think files are in c:\users\myUser\.Android

Hope it will help you.
[G1 Android Development] nocute8072:
Thanks a lot, I also met this problem, and this method really worked.
[G1 Android Development] jmaciak:
that's not even "c:\users\<username>\.android\" ... it's one directory up relative to My documents folder, that's where they're created. christian has probably moved his "my documents" folder to D:, that's why he has the d:\.android folder ... but that's the java problem, ... it has property UserDir which points to c:\users\<username> but differs from what some other elements evaluate user home path.
[G1 Android Development] MetalMonkey:
Environment Var > Link

Maybe I'm being stubborn, but I'm not a big fan of the symlinks or junction points or whatever.

via Yahoo! Answers and another random blog

You can override the behavior of both by declaring an environment

variable called ANDROID_SDK_HOME

Make it point to your HOME folder ( EX : C:\Documents and Settings\Phoenix\

) and both the emulator and the java based tools will read

and write into the same folder.
[G1 Android Development] Fenopy:
TY for the Advice!
[G1 Android Development] dnquark:
For me, making a junction from my homedir to c:\users\{username} didn't work, but setting the ANDROID_SDK_HOME to my actual home dir did.
[G1 Android Development] GrantusMaximus:
I've raised this so SDK guys were aware:

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13008
[G1 Android Development] pedrozopayares:
Tienes razón, esta sí es la solución al problema:

1. copias la carpeta .android dentro del directorio del usuario c:\users\<usermane>\

2. Vuelves a correr el emulador, y listo. Funciona perfecto.

Chao,

pedrozopayares
[G1 Android Development] apiroglu:
Another solution

I've run into a similar problem with the same error output and here is a short description of the malady and the cure:

If you run tools/android and install with sudo (don't know why I did that anyway :rolleyes:), it gives the same error while trying to run the emulator. So, don't. Just use your regular user privileges.
[G1 General] G1-evolve:
Sorry!

Application Profiles (in processnet.eggenstein.android.tech.profiles) is not responding.

I keep getting that error on start up everytime.

How do I fix it? And what is it?

I am on JF 1.5.1

apps2sd

Also while I text via onscreen keyboard my screen times out. is that normal? While im typing?
[G1 General] osho741:
That process error is from a widget you are running I believe. Uninstll it and it will go away. The screen shouldn't time out when you are typing, do a wipe then reinstall the rom, should fix it
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] doctajay:
I have really been enjoying using the new version of Internet Explorer Mobile in WM 6.5. It certainly isn't as fast as Opera Mobile, but I seem to like it a little more. Has anyone else been using Internet Explorer for the most part on their phones with WM 6.5 installed?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] p51d007:
I have. I've been resisting installing any other browser with this install.

I'm trying to give the 6.5 version of IE a good chance before installing anything else. So far, so good.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] TaurenSnake:
I am as well with my newest test cook. Does anyone now how to access the about screen in the new IE? I know it is supposed to be IE8 mobile but got got some co-workers with the "seeing is believing" mentality.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] freco:
I use new IE too. It was one of the reasons that I stick with WM6 from the first place.

So far, so good for me too.

There is no About screen. I 've been looking for it before with no luck.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] gmanfuzing:
i don't its to slow and buggy for me :[ i haven't used it recently but i prefer opera much more !
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] paul201:
I cant change te default browser to IE

Over the years I have refined my browsing to pda pages, (lower graphics and less DL time).

I cannot change the default browser to IE (I dont like Opera) no mater which tweak i use ( I also cant get suggested words to show either).

any suggestions
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] trueg:
I am also using PIE included with WM6.5 as my main browser. Before WM6.5 I would use a combination of Opera Mini, IE and Skyfire. Since I switched to WM6.5 I haven't had a need to install Opera Mini or Skyfire.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] drtolson:
I'm enjoying the new IE under 6.5 as well. I find it faster and more reliable than Opera, and I like the fact that Activesync 'keeps' my favorites across multiple flashes,etc.

It works really well for me...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] trueg:
It's also pretty cool that embedded flash animations work as well. Heck even Youtube works although the video is choppy. =(
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] cazzz24:
I use it, Opera is definatly faster, but having favs sync'd is really nice. It is a little buggy, but I dont think theres anything running WM 6.5 that isnt a little buggy. Definatly a step up for M$ but im sure they could do alot better, they dont seem to care much about any of their browsers which makes no sense to me being as it is the main gateway for most people running windows to access the internet, but what do I know.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] GTRoberts:
Jumping between hyperlinks in IEMobile on WM6.5

Like another poster here, I've have 'adjusted' my browsing patterns and only browse websites that are "PDA" friendly; such as m.facebook.com, m.zdnet.com, m.engadget.com etc

Unfortunately the new IEMobile does not allow me to jump between hyperlinks and forms... instead its 'scrolling' the whole page.

I've tried AdvancedConfig's option of "disabling" the 4-way navigation but that just doesn't work.

Does anyone have any other ideas?
[Touch 3G General] rawette:
Hi everybody,

I Have a big problem with my new Jade. I have upgraded form the oficial site (htc.com) with this program : _HTC Touch 3G_MR2009_RUU_Jade_HTC_Europe_2.32.401.2_Radio_Sign_12.41.30.16_0.41.30.12_Ship without error... but after reboot, the phone is always "off" and curiously it does not ask the pin code of my sim card (proximus - belgian provider).

A help will be much apreciated and my apologies for my bad english.
[Touch 3G General] hadimassa:
Switch on your service by pressing the icon next to the batteryicon on top. Or use the commmanager and enable your telephone. Wait a few seconds and you will be asked for your pin.
[Touch 3G General] rawette:
I've try this several times but does not work. Thanks for your reply.
[Touch 3G General] rawette:
Solved !!!! I have installed stockSPL and all OK. Thanks for help.
[General Questions and Answers] lucolippi:
Hey guys,

i am searching for for a solution to get notified about delivery of sent sms. i know that i can enable it but than i always get an SMS from "System Administrator". Is there any way to just get a popup "message delivered"?

I mean even my further mobile phone of sony ericsson had this feature

Thanks for your tipps

greets
[General Questions and Answers] Owendavies:
If you install HD Tweak then there is a setting in there that will notify you of a message being sucesfully being sent; I use it! :)

Owen.
[General Questions and Answers] hmillhouse:
jgui sms report eraser is one solution. Unfortunately it 10 euros.

Although you get delivery reports in the same style as you mentioned, it will do it silently and can erase or transfer them to delivery reports folder immediately or after a set period.

So you can check if you need to know if its been delivered, but otherwise be undisturbed.

That's the option I use in the face of not having found a better one..

Edit - realised there is a freeware version available as well. Don't know if it has all the options though.
[General Questions and Answers] Chris Cross:
Yes, you can do that. It is really simple. If you have a registry editor, this is what you have to change:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings

Change "SMSNoSentMsg" value from 1 to 0 in order to get the confirmation!

​

Another way of doing exactly that is to install the cab file I am attaching.
[General Questions and Answers] lucolippi:
Thank you guys for your replies!

But Owendavies and Chris Cross Solution is the one i mentioned in my first post?

So i will check out the	jgui sms report eraser, but it´s freeware in the standard version, can´t find a big difference to the pro version
[General Questions and Answers] steve4063:
i tried the hd tweak for delivery reports

but i'm still getting a text to say its been delivered

which is actually quite annoying lol

i like to know that the message has been delivered but i just want it to tell me, rather than sending a text

i have unticked the stand message options and used the hd tweak version but i'm still getting a text

any ideas please thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Fishawy:
I don't think that somebody has figure it out yet.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] NightRaven:
Can anyone help explain why a rom would require an older gwes.exe inorder to boot? We are trying to build a 6.5 rom, but it requires an older gwes.exe, which isn't compatible with 6.5.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dcarr622:
Hello,

I recently did one of the stupidist things ever-my tilt was water damaged. It was a whole 3 to 5 minutes before I figured it out. As soon as I realized it I hopped out, removed the battery, SIM, SD card, and wrapped it in a towel.

When I got home I did some breif reading on the ATT forums, some people said that you should completely dissasemble it. After taking out some Torx screws and having no idea how to take it apart, I saw some little "tamper strings" under the cover above the battery and decided to leave it alone.

This was in a residential pool with light chlorine. I read that if you get salt water in it, you should rinse it with distilled water, but I'm not sure if I should do that now?

It's been about 24 hours since it happened. It is currently sitting in a plastic bag with several silica gel packets. Luckily I can't see any water behind the screen.

The most interesting thing is that the little moisture indicator hasn't really changed. When I got it (refurbished from ATT) it was white with a tiny hint of pink at the very top. It doesn't look any different now. But I could see how a very grumpy ATT employee could mark it as water damaged.

How long should I wait before trying it out again? Should I discard the existing battery and buy a new one? Any other advice?

I would really appreciate your help. I know that there is info out there but I didn't see any that specifically dealt with chlorine and also I was wondering what you all thought about the water sensor.

Thanks, have a great day.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Barkleyfan:
I don't pretend to be an expert, but I would not allow it to "air dry" because of minerals and rust setting up. I would use compressed air to force the moisture out, followed by a blow dryer to clear up any residual moisture. I'd then let it sit in a nice sunny window for a while, just in case. Never dealt with it in a phone, but this is the method I've used for other electronics, including a Nintendo DS. Sometimes successful, sometimes not. I think it really depends on the initial short.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dcarr622:
Thanks for your response. It's not drying in open air, it is drying inside a small ziploc sandwich bag along with a three silica gel packets. Are you suggesting that I take it apart and then blow it out with the compressed air? Seeing as my water sensor hasn't really changed much color I'm hoping there's a sliver of a chance I might get a help at an AT&T store.

How long do you think I should wait before giving it a try? Do you think the battery I have is safe to use?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kierandill:
You are on the right track:

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index....t=3475797&referralPlaylistId=search|cellphone
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dcarr622:
Well sadly after 4 days drying out in the silica gell, I put the battery in and right away the LEDs at the top were flickering on and off-blue, white, green, etc. Then, I pushed the power button. The vibrator buzzed lethargically but nothing came onscreen.

Now when I plut it in I get the dreaded "red light."

I tried to start opening it up, but I couldn't even get that cover above the battery off. I don't want to damage the plastic even though it's out of warranty.

Any suggestions on places to get repair? If it would be under $100-120 it would probably be worth it to me to get it fixed.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] noodles21o2:
you do not need to take it apart, dip in rubbing alcohol (prefereably a high percentage) then let sit for a while, depending on the amount of water you will need to soak or longer or several times. using a toothbrush after soaking can help.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] burtcom:
No -- don't soak it in anything -- you'll get fluid inside the touchscreen.

Better to let it dry then try it -- and if it still doesn't work properly take it apart and clean each piece.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jdwilson:
Check out www.ppctechs.com they did excellent work on both of my Tilts.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dcarr622:
Wow they are expensive! $60 just to diagnose probably not going to be worth it. Anyway, I think I'll just wait another 3-4 days and then try it again. I'm a little wary about taking it apart cuz I can't seem to get the hang of it, but my warranty is over anyway so what's to lose?

@noodles21o2, do you mean to take it apart before soaking and brush the inside?

Thanks everybody for your suggestions.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] noodles21o2:
no, just dip the thing in rubbing alcohol. it is proven to work...which is because alcohol is highly volatile. will absorb the water and evaporate much quicker. the brush is for if that doesnt work completely and would have to then take it apart. and worst case senario...it still doesnt work :)