yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] charliepaterson:
Signal

I've tried with Orange and o2 sims- no difference - O2 sim gives 100% dignal in the same area on iphone.

Signal is not consistent - i can take the phone out of my pocket - it will have a full signal then drop to 1 or 2 bars straight away.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xdaman85:
I'm at central London, and I get like 1 - 2 bars 2G and lots of annoying drop outs.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] hairy bum:
im stuffed then ?:D

im in the cotswolds , live in a cottage with 3ft thick walls .... its ok if i lean the phone up against the glass of the window :eek:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xdaman85:
yep, sometimes when I get no signal I have to lean up against the windows too, I guess its ok in the summer but in the winter your cheeks get cold lol
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ballandbiscuit:
I am on Orange and have switched to a Hero from a Nokia E51. The E51 at my house would pretty much always have full bars on 3G and I could make a call anywhere in the home.

On my hero I get one or 2 bars at best and it regularly goes out of range. I can only make calls reliably upstairs which is rather annoying and when downstairs I have to leave it on the window ledge to make sure my emails and SMS come through.

The E51 was exceptional for coverage so maybe my expectations are too high. I am sticking with the Hero for now and hoping some FW updates come along to fix a load of bugs and maybe improve reception. Might be tempted away by an E52 though when they are finally released if things don't improve.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] wingy999:
signal

im using an unlocked version on o2 and the signal is pretty poor compared with my nokia 5800. where i have 4 bars on my nokia i only get 1-2 max in a variety of locations. the signal fluctuates constantly. hope they sort it soon
[Hero, G2 Touch General] wingy999:
update

After messing around with the phone i decided to reset everything and start afresh.

Dont know if there connected but my reception has improved by at least 25% by just resetting it. So i bought some signal boosters and stuck 3 around bottome of phone where ariel is located. Well i can get 4 bars 90% of the time at home and it never drops below 2 and out and about where i could not get a signal (by my works) i can now get 1-2 bars.

So an improvement which means i now get to keep the hero. Any future updates can only be a bonus.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] scopes64:
Where did you stick the signal boosters? Inside at the bottom of the battery cover case, on the battery on in the battery compartment? As they only cost a few quid I might give then a go also.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jamminjp:
Thought I would join in!

I have issues with mine if I set it to 3g, at home it wont make or receive calls even though there is signal, yet at work its fine and connected to H.

If I set it to 2g at home its fine, when I called up Orange they said the was a transmitter problem but that was about 6 miles away in Dudley.

Handset is a CPW one and not an Orange branded Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] hairy bum:
siginal boosters ---- where when why ---- how much ? never heard of before :eek: intrested
[Hero, G2 Touch General] tatwamasi:
Are these signal boosters the sort that are just little stickers which everyone says do nothing....?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mccreath:
Singal

I have full signal on mine in most areas, but surprisingly in a primary town VERY near a mast, I barely get a reception. Inside I get nothing.

But I re-itterate, 95% of the time I do NOT have an issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] arnoldjrimmer:
I've switched from a K800i on O2 to the Hero on Vodafone and I too am disappointed with the poor signal it seems to get. I wasn't sure if it was the network or the phone.

Sitting at my desk I can't make phone calls any more as the signal is too poor and keeps cutting out. Also when out and about it frequently displays "No service".

I hope this is a firmware issue that can be fixed because it's very annoying!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] havocnl:
I'm having pretty bad HSDPA signal, GSM signal is good though... It switched back whe HSDPA signal is gone.

Can people who are having problems please also post there radio version?

Mine : Smallbandversie: 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25
[Hero, G2 Touch General] arnoldjrimmer:
Mine is 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] tatwamasi:
Same.

Orange Graphite.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] havocnl:
Has anyone tried the 63.18.55.06_6.35.05.31 Radio on their Hero yet?

It's on http://android.modaco.com/content/h.../26-08-hero-roms-radios-in-update-zip-format/
[Hero, G2 Touch General] arnoldjrimmer:
Thanks for that link! I have installed the MoDaCo custom ROM and the latest radio firmware. I'll report on whether the reception is improved later on, but it's looking promising. Also the custom ROM is great! Really fast :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] orouborus:
i too am having the same problem. i have a strong hsdpa signal here, but it always switches to edge, i dont like edge because when im browsing its sooo slow. is there anyway in which it uses hsdpa only and edge is disabled? i have a topaz and i always use hsdpa and i dont have any problems with it anywhere i go.

cheers!
[G1 General] atg2d:
Hi for some time i had this problem: the ringtone is reset to one of the default ones without me doing it. This started happening before Cupcake but then i thought that happens when the SD card is mounted. After i updated to Cupcake i decided to move the ringtone to the phone memory (i made it ogg too), but the problem still happens. Also recently i noticed that the ringing volume is going to zero from time to time, although that might be me grabbing the phone for the volume keys...

Has anyone experienced problems like these? I am tired of missing calls because of these problems...

I am using:

Baseband version: 62.50S.20.17H_2.22.19.26I

Kernel version: 2.6.27-00392-g8312baf harry@hypnos #1

Build number: dream_devphone-userdebug 1.5 CRB21 147201 test-keys

I know it's an old version but i don't like flashing my phone often...

Thank you for any help
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] zkyevolved:
Hi everyone. I've been searching for a while, and I'm clueless. Is there an app out there or a registry hack to do custom vibrations? Everytime I receive an email or SMS it vibrates for SOOO long and it's a CONSTANT vibration, and I'd like to make it some kind of pulsating one, or whatever. I saw the registry hacks for ringtones, but what about for the other notifications?

Thanks :)

Kent!
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] Kersey247:
Hello there,

Check out this post for a program called Valert which should do what you want, customizing the vibration:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=437279

Cheers
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] zkyevolved:
Hi, thanks for your response, and I've already checked that application out, it only works on phone calls :(
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] salmander:
yaaa I want it too....i mean its kinda annoying....wen I recieve a txt and it jus constantly buzzzzzzez....
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Hi guys,

I've searched the forums and I can't find a solution for a problem I'm having. I have successfully rooted and played around with different flavors of Hero ROM's and optimized kernels. But, I would like to revert back to the original Vodafone UK ROM (I have a nandroid backup of it, done right after rooting the device). I have restored the ROM but for some reason, OTA updates never install. The ROM I have backup'ed is CRB17 and I know the latest is CRC1. Using the System updates menu in Android, I download the update, but it doesn't install, it says that I need to reboot, which I do and nothing happens.

How can I get the original unrooted: HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000) : Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G : CPLD-10 (Voldafone NL + UK + Australia)? I have a friend that hasn't rooted his Magic, how can I get his SPL?

So far, what I've done:

- installed Engineering SPL HBOOT-1.33.2004 Signed update.zip and restored the original recovery for Sapphire that Haykuro has around (when I nandroided my original ROM, I had already put in the Cyanogen's recovery tool...) - OTA doesn't work.

- installed Modded HBOOT-1.33.2004 by Crios Signed update.zip and restored the original recovery for Sapphire that Haykuro has around - OTA doesn't work.

Another thing I noticed is that although people say that with Crios SPL, I should be able to do the OTA updates, I can't! :(

Also, the SPL description says "Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-OFF H : CPLD-10", and my original description should be "Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G : CPLD-10".

Has anyone been able to make OTA updates working again?

Thanks for your help in this matter, I feel like I've tested everything :\

-------------------------------

EDIT:

OK guys, just got my OTA updates back. You should thank RubenFreitas for the dump of his "virgin" HTC Magic Vodafone UK. This is a 32B device, unrooted, which means you can do OTA's again.

How to restore your device to OTA abilities:

- first you need to put Crios SPL (2004/2005) with S-OFF on your device. (look for instructions on the forum, search for "magic hboot spl").

- fastboot into Amon_RA recovery tool. (fastboot boot recovery.img)

- make a backup of your current rom (don't worry, this is just for getting the file structure into the sdcard).

- After it finishes, reboot your device and mount your sdcard.

- In your sdcard, you'll find a "nandroid" folder, open it, until you see boot.img, etc.

- replace the files with the ones on the file here: www.dymsoft.com/rubenfreitas_Vodafone_UK_ORIGINAL.zip

- fastboot again into Amon_RA recovery tool

- recover your backup (which will now be the original ROM from vodafone).

- reboot and enjoy your OTA again :)

If for any reason, nandroid restoring doesn't work (your phone does not boot after 15 minutes), you can restore the backup manually in fastboot mode:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot flash userdata data.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot reboot
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
I have exactly the same question!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Roy_Drage:
Just 1 question, why do you desperately want OTA updates?

I mean anything we get on here is likely to be one step ahead of any update our carriers give us, even if we do miss out on something good when it's sent out someone will pick it up on here pretty quickly and pull it apart to make sure we dont miss out.

Just my thoughts, I really wouldn't worry.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
It's just the idea that I can't get my device working for 100% again that makes me crazy ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] xyzulu:
Going back to the standard rom is hardly working 100% .. ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Smartass ;) ... but still nothing on how to fix this?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
The only reason I want OTA working again is for getting "Donut" update automatically when it comes out, rather than having to wait for it to be available here.

From what I can gather, we can only have OTA if the Magic is unrooted, am I right? According to Crios posts, I should be able to do the OTA updates, but his SPL is for HTC devices, and I have a Google one, although it works fine on my Google. Just the OTA doesn't work.

Anyone knows how to dump the original SPL from an HTC Magic that hasn't been rooted?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Malky1903:
I'm sure once it's out it won't be long before it's available on here. Wouldn't surprise me if it was posted here the same day.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Roy_Drage:
Wouldn't suprise me if we had it here before!!

I mean they already have the code for most of it anyways. From what I've seen and tried of donut it doesn't even look that great! Possible mulit-touch, well they will mange to pull that out and stick it in a cyanogen rom or something, and a widget for the home screen allowing you to toggle things like wifi etc....

You can get those anywhere off the market, check the widgets on jerpeleas cyanogen rom page. They are really nice.

Read this, doesn't even sound like Donut is going to be version 2.0 of android, more like 1.7 or something:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/android-team-member-says-donut-isnt-2-0-doesnt-have-multitouc/
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
To me that really doesn't matter! I just want the possibility to restore my Magic to factory settings with OTA updates!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] weetabix1980:
same question here. Snappiness of the vodafone original rom is the best so far. Have tried all different roms. Problem is, there is an update available i can download it but it wont install.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Still no-one who can fix this? Come on, please... I'm sure you genius' can help us out!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] scoobyturbo:
i think i shall be ok haven't peremantly flashed anything no spl updates back to stock vodafone uk rom. only thing i did install was a few hero builds so hopfully ive done no damage to my phone
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Imho un-rooting the phone should do the trick, but how can that be done? There are a couple of manuals for the Dream, but they ain't working for the Sapphire.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Can someone please upload the original SPL from Vodafone (NL/UK/AUS)? I'm pretty sure that if we can put that one back on our Magic's, we have our OTA Updates back!

It would be appreciated very much!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Tomorrow I have a friend that has a "virgin" HTC Magic from Vodafone UK :D I'll try to get his "virgin" SPL and boot and everything.

I found out how we can dump it all into .img files (what nandroid uses). Hopefully, it should get us back OTA updates!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4035680#post4035680
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
That would be awesome! Great!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Hi DFerreira.... did you manage to get the original SPL?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Not yet... my friend couldn't come to my place. I'll try to catch up with him tomorrow.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] weetabix1980:
I also have an untouched magic here (dutch one from my gf). I just dont know what to do
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
OK guys, just got my OTA updates back. You should thank RubenFreitas for the dump of his "virgin" HTC Magic Vodafone UK. This is a 32B device, unrooted, which means you can do OTA's again.

How to restore your device to OTA abilities:

- first you need to put Crios SPL (2004) with S-OFF on your device. (look for instructions on the forum, search for "magic hboot spl").

- fastboot into Cyanogen recovery tool. (fastboot boot recovery.img)

- make a backup of your current rom (don't worry, this is just for getting the file structure into the sdcard).

- After it finishes, reboot your device and mount your sdcard.

- In your sdcard, you'll find a "nandroid" folder, open it, until you see boot.img, etc.

- replace the files with the ones on the file here: www.dymsoft.com/rubenfreitas_Vodafone_UK_ORIGINAL.zip

- fastboot again into cyanogen recovery tool

- recover your backup (which will now be the original ROM from vodafone).

- reboot and enjoy your OTA again :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] weetabix1980:
will this also work for a dutch one? vodafone
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
Not sure why you would need someone else's nandroid backup... restoring your own first nandroid backup (before you rooted) would do the trick too.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
No it didn't, my own ROM made me stuck at CRB17 and OTA Updates didn't work. Now I'm back at CRC1 :)

But, I can't tell if OTA Updates are working again, because... there are no updates at the moment. Is there a way I can test this?

But, thank you very much for get my original Magic updatet again :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
It is working, I did the update on my Android, wiped data and nandroid backup it. That's why you have CRC1 already :)

Make sure you have Crios SPL (2004), I know with that SPL OTA's work if we are using the original carrier ROM. When we try to "adb push" something to the phone, it says that we can't do it for production units, which means we are back to the original state, as far as ADB can see it :)

I tried to get the original SPL, with S-ON but I could not find any instructions here on the forum on how to dump it!!!

Amon_RA, how do I dump an SPL? Can you help?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work, as long you have a 32B device you should be fine.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
I have updated first post with the instructions on how to get OTA working again on Vodafone's 32B devices!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Yes it does.. (oftewel, jazeker ;-))
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] bonesy:
Amon RA i cant do that, my first nandroid backup was corrupt :( im looking for an original vodafone nandroid backup if anyone has one??
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
the one I provided is the original Vodafone from UK, which is the same for other Vodafone devices in the world. Its totally clean and unchanged in any way, so OTA work again. Still, unrooted SPL would be nice for warranty... I'm waiting for instructions on how to dump an SPL update.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
Didn't VF release any OTA update containing a hboot?

If so, get the URL to the update via logcat/ddms, download the package, extract the hboot.img...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Did someone manage to replace a new SPL with the original Vodafone-one? It would be so damn nice to get my Magic completely to stock settings!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] omerzzz:
I did,

But i didn't used the Original ROM yet.

I don't get update, currently on build CRB17

Guys, can i get OTA and still have root?

I need it for my Hebrew lang. only

EDIT:

I did all the necessary, I think I am in the stock.

What is the latest build ?

and how can i get temp root access to replace fonts, to enable read Hebrew?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] htcmagic:
This is a link with vodafone orininal rom

http://www.onlinenovabg.com/voda_rom/
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] animsuper8:
Oi, can you help how to install this files?

please,

tanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] htcmagic:
Thats what i did, made a nandroid backup before any rooting. I did not put any rom on my uk vosafone htc magic, just rooted it.

My question is do i need crios spl to perform the procedure, or just the recovery-RAv1.2.0G.img?

My phone already lists

HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000) : Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G : CPLD-10.RADIO-2.22.19.26I

Can the restore procedure be done only on the phone from nandroid backup AFTER fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0G.img?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DJNemesis:
same here only, i have the Cyanogen recovery 1.4 dont have a nandroid back up tho, but i can download the one in the first post, am i able to just flash it through nandroid backup restore?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] htcmagic:
well i have done it from the phone and OTA updates are ok.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Use recovery to create a backup of whatever you have now on your phone. Then you download the stock files that I nandroided. Connect your phone to your pc, browse to your SD card and replace the files inside the nandroid backup with mine. Reboot and restore nandroid backup. Done, you are back to stock ROM.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DJNemesis:
but what about the Cyanogen Recovery 1.4? will that be replaced to ?

so i got no root acces anymore? or will that stay ?

so just download your nandroid backup files, replace it with mine, restore nandroid backup and im done?

dont have to change anything to cyanogen recovery 1.4? wich gave me root acces?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DJNemesis:
did it :) and it worked :)

didnt recieve a OTA update emidiatly tho but think thats normal. cyanogens recovery is gone, so waiting for the official Donut to roll out now. somwhere soon, anybody knows how i can check to see if OTA updates work again?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Confirmed that it works to revert back the OTA :) I've just received the Android 1.6 update OTA from Vodafone UK :D working fine!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] jamesyb0i:
how is the UK magic different from the myTouch3G?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Just the software that comes with it, on myTouch3G you have T-Mobiles apps, on UK Vodafone you don't have nothing really, it's a more clean update.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
I'm still waiting for the update but there was a huge problem with the Vodafone network here in The Netherlands. I hope it comes soon.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=574262

If you want to speedup things, you can download the file directly from their servers :) I was using market, downloaded "Listen" from Google and then I went to check for new updates on settings and behold, Donut was downloading! :D

So far, my impressions:

Most of the things stayed the same (applications wise). One thing I'm missing is double tap on my headphones and heck, headphone pause... It's like it only works now for answering the phone and nothing more :( It is faster and battery wise it last longer than ever! I just love the power control widget, allowing on/off right from the main screen. The new camera software is good and allows switching from camera to video with a switch :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
I know I can download the update via the link, but I just want to know if my OTA updates are working again ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Try downloading something from market and while it is downloading, check for updates in Settings, it should start downloading the Donut update. I was also waiting for it, and I downloaded "Listen" from Google when it started downloading Donut in updates. You should already have received the update from Vodafone UK ROM I put on the first post.

Also, make sure you have SPL 2004 Engineering, I tested with it and it works perfectly. Also, by having the SPL Engineering, that means you can use Google ION ROM's, which is great for development.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] maxisma:
1.33.2005 is ok for OTA too..
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] BigRD:
Now that I'm back to stock ROM and upgraded to Donut does anyone have any tips about rooting? The cupcake and previous versions no longer work for me and I keep getting a FC at start up.

I had fogotten how quick the stock ROM was :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ronni.rasmussen:
A little late to think about now if you dont have the needed recovery images or flahed things you can restore.

For the rest of ya, what is the reason you came here in the first place and decided to flash a cooked rom?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] XperiHans:
Just to see what was possible with the Magic. And I don't know where you're talking about, but I have the correct Recovery and the original... I just want to confirm too that our Portugese friend was right.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
I've updated to Donut without any problems with Engineering SPL 2005 and using the stock Vodafone UK ROM that is on the first post. Hope you got the update too!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DJNemesis:
dferreira> it worked man:) recieved the OTA donut update 2 days ago :) thnx :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Glad to know that its not only me! :)

Now... what do we need for a moderator to "sticky" this thread?