yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vma:
@enigma1nz:

Shame on me, I did indeed forget the USB port!!! You should of course check both: charging and Active Sync connection. A broken USB connector is a mayor issue and hard to solder without proper equipment.

Regarding the speaker: I am speaking out of experience, as one faild on me. The speaker is like a small button and it has two contact plates. They are not pogo pins, but act like them. The speaker will be pressed by the case against two contact points on the PCB. What happens is that apparently some car-holders do too much pressure on the sides of the Universal casing, causing the speaker contacts to bend back and forth everytime the phone is placed or removed from the holder. After a few months the contact gets worse and worse until one of both plates brake off. Because they are so tiny, it is impossible to repair the speaker - believe me, I have tried. I ended up buying a new speaker cell at eBay.

Cheers,

vma
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] enigma1nz:
And believe me, I repair devices for a living. Thanks for the run-through, although I could give you the same. It happened to you, doesn't mean it happens often or it is a fault in design. I could give you a list of design faults in quite a few models of expensive cellphones on the market today, the mentioned speakers are not one of them.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] midnightsights:
I appreciate, the help people! any more inputs? I am happy that all the previous posts were, about how to inspect the device upfront and some other useful tips what to check other inputs will be highly appreciated :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kerda:
Battery can be also considered. Some are sold with good batery some with dead battery. It is not so expensive, but costs something. In general if battery shows less than 50% and devidce still works (even under load) that is a good sign.

Also as for the touch screen - the best test is to open note taker and try to paint something. The painted line must exactly follow the stylus movement if it jumps somewhere, then the touch sensitive layer is bad. I bouht such UNI on eBay (was described as perfect working order), had to replace the digitizer myself.

I do prefer buying not working UNI's on Ebay with good display. Once I bought not booting one - mtty job fixed that. Other time I bouht one where the display was still off - the flex cable popped out from connector. Etc....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] midnightsights:
Thanks for all the advice people! now, please welcome me to the HTC universal family, (well actually, I have a Dopod 900 but what the heck all are the same right?) your inputs had been essential, for me to get my new baby without any hitches I hope that nothing manifests after the one week assurance the seller gave me :)

Special thanks to enigma1nz for all the patience and help provided to me I asked her a lot of questions in the pm's but she answered in full detail :)

Now I have my own device so I will be flashing away, I hope without any problems. Again my thanks to the community hopefully there are more inputs for others who are thinking of buying their 2nd hand universal via meet ups :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] enigma1nz:
Excellent news! Congratulations!!! And welcome to the Uni family, of course. As you can see, we are one friendly bunch, all help and support will always be available. Have fun :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] enigma1nz:
Damn, I was hoping to do a very good Marlon Brando Godfather impersonation with 'Welcome to the family' :p
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
LOL

You started in the right direction!:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] blackSVK:
to midnightsights : welcome:)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] enigma1nz:
No, sweetie, the right direction would be an Orb3000 impersonation and 'Welcome to the forums', but I was worried, being Orb2000, hehe, that I simply won't be able to compete with a more updated version :p:D:p:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] tomal:
LOL......... :D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Thanks dear, you´re nice :)

you´ll be Orb4000!!!

Cheers and have a nice weekend,
[Touch HD General] eyeofthetiger:
Hi there

Within the last day I am having a problems when viewing mobile friendly opera pages. I am geing pictures as normal but the text is coming across as squares and zeros only ie like this []0[]0[]0 etc

When I click view page directly, I get normal english text again.

Can someone explain why this i happenng and how it can be corrected.

Thanks
[Touch HD General] ozmoran:
There is a thread about this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=545738

Im not sure if the help I mention will fix your problem

I also get this if I get a language font that isnt on my phone but they are usually SMS from companies in Thailand not using english
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] alonroz:
Hello everybody!

Hope someone can help me, as this is a troublesome issue:

First of all, I'm on a Touch Pro with a Stock WWE ROM. The one that was provided with the phone.

Since yesterday, and without any apparent cause (haven't installed/changed a thing), the Pocket Outlook refuses to open my email messages.

I get the email in the inbox, but when trying to load a message, it just flashes the taskbar, changing the 'X' closing button to 'ok', marks the message as read, but doesn't load it.

The weird thing is it does open the SMS messages. I'm guessing that works because of the threaded view being enabled, so the viewer program is different.

I've tried to erase the account (GMail) and recreate it, didn't help at all.

Any ideas?

Can I reinstall the Outlook in any way without Hard-resetting the device?

Thanks a lot!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] baxy:
wow sounds pretty similar to my problem (except i couldn't open sms's either).

I found my problem to be my memory card....maybe try removing ur memory card(if you have one installed) and resetting the phone, then try to access your outlook messages.....worked for me anyway....hope it helps
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Nemo0815:
Hello,

i just got my Hero and I'm now trying to setup my POP email account using HTC mail. I'm using the same settings which i had on my HTC Diamond but for some stupid reason i cannot setup the outgoing SMTP server on the Hero.

No matter what I do, i always get a

"550 Administrative prohibition" from the outgoing mail server.

However, i can receive email using the same account information, just sending does not work :(

Any hints?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rhedgehog:
have you turned authentication on for the outgoing server?

that error suggests you haven't and it is blocking you because of it!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Nemo0815:
Yes, i have. Actually, when i turn it off i do not get any error messages during account setup but then again i cannot send any mail in the HTC mail app :)

The above error occurs when the HTC mail setup prog tries to verfiy the settings with the smtp server.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Ovek:
Do you use a different username for your smtp server? That flatout refuses to work for me in HTC Mail, I would suggest you try K-9 a much better email app.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Nemo0815:
No, it's the same username (=email address).
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rhedgehog:
ok, next one to try, i know on my server, the username is the email address bbut with a + instead of the @. Usually i don;t have to use it and the @ sign works, but some programs i have to use the +

could that be it?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Nemo0815:
Nope, sorry. That didn't do the trick as well.

Meanwhile i read on some other forums that it depends on the mail server, that's why some work and some won't. As it seems the HTC Mail app is sending a "script" (whatever) during account setup that is treated as malicious by the server and ignored therefore.
[Touch GSM General] hoha7:
last week my home wifi was working correctly but now it isnt.. but my phone cant detect it .. only d home 1 .. rest r working on it
[Touch GSM General] jeremy89632:
So you flashed back to original ROM and this problem still exist?

Till now, no solutions for this issue yet, there is another thread which had the same issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=455956

Have you tried other cooked ROMS, like onyx?
[Touch GSM General] hoha7:
yes i have tried onyx,vadyariks n topix 1.2 .. but my rpob is different from d person in dat thread .. i juz cant connect to my home network n cant detect it also .. oder networks r working fine ...
[Touch GSM General] jeremy89632:
Ha, that should be your router issue.

What router are you using?

and what security system are you using (wpa, wep .. )
[Touch GSM General] hoha7:
linksys(wrt54g) is my router n d secuirity is totaly disabled....
[Touch GSM General] jeremy89632:
WRT54G!

Im using the same router as you!

Totally no issues, why not you try putting at least a WEP password there?

Or if you dont mind, try flashing your router and use other software instead of the crappy linksys firmware.
[Touch GSM General] hoha7:
lol... any recommendations for d firmware ? :D
[Touch GSM General] hoha7:
k problem solved .. i reset everything on d router n done .. thnx jeremy :)
[Touch GSM General] jeremy89632:
Cheers Dude:)

Router firmware ah ..

mmmm .

http://www.google.com.sg/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=dd+wrt&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Do check it out. Any questions, ping us back.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dubstar_04:
I want to make my own rom based on the cyanogen rom. I want to add a few apps and remove a few that already exist.

I have tried using the adb but it wont uninstall the ones I dont want.

I would like to mod a rom before I flash it, Is there a how to for this?

Thanks,

Dubstar_04
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jubeh:
I dont think there's a how-to, but I can type a quick one in a jiffy;

Tools;

A computer (Windows PC in this example)

7zip (google it)

The rom you wish to modify.

Either JRE or JDK (so you can run java apps) (google it)

JF's testsign.jar (google it)

Method:

Install 7zip in your computer. Also install the Java runtimes so you can run java apps through the console (ahem, command prompt).

Unzip (if it's not already) your testsign.jar and place it somewhere easy on your HDD (C:\, for example, doesn't get easier than that). Also place the rom you wish to modify in the same folder.

Open the update.zip file (or whatever it's called) with 7zip (you can do this by either using the command dialog (right click) and selecting 7-zip > Open Archive, or by going right-click > Open With > Choose Default Program and select "Always open with this program" with 7zip FM (file manager)).

Once it's open, navigate to the folder system/app and remove in there any apks you don't want in there (for example, I always remove VoiceSearch.apk, VoiceDialer.apk, SystemUpdater.apk, Talk.apk, and when available, SpareParts.apk, com.mp3.amazon.apk, and a few others). That is basically the uninstall process. If you have the apks for the apps you wish to install, you can drag them into the 7z windows at this point too (if you have hboot spl, you have a lot of space in system, so dumping them here is safe). If you don't have the apks, but you have them installed in your phone, you can use adb to get them. Just make a folder in your desktop called app (or whatever you wish) and run adb with your working directory in the desktop (C:\users\myname\desktop). The adb command would be: adb pull data/app app. This will place all the contents of downloaded apps (free ones) inside the app folder in your desktop as apks. I don't know that there's anything you can do at this point about paid apps.

Anyway, once you're done deleting and adding apks to your zip. Close the 7zip window (it saves the changes automatically, you should have kept the window open through the whole process).

Open up the command prompt again, and change your working directory to C:\ (usually cd ../..), then, if you placed all like I told you to, you can just run; java testsign updatenamewhateveritis.zip

Ofcourse, replace updatenamewhateveritisi.zip with the name of the update, but I recomend renaming it to update.zip beforehand so you don't have to type a lot.

After it's done signing, the rom is ready to flash.

Good lucks to you
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortadelax:
Wow...Good explanation.

I have few questions.

-Do i need the jar sign thing?

-Can I create a flasheable update.zip to "add/remove" apps to a fresh flashed rom? (I mean, flash a custom rom and then apply update.zip which can add and remove apk ), or do you recommend to modify the zipped rom instead of creating a update.zip ?

Many thanks
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Depending on your recovery you can just toggle on/off if you need a signed zip or not. This is a very old thread and I imagine it was much harder to push apps into /system back then or to remove /system apps for that matter. With root access there are many apps you can do this with now, or with adb or terminal emulator

What is your purpose for this by the way? I feel there may be easier ways to accomplish what you're after
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortadelax:
Thanks for answer :o

Yeah...it's and old thread, but actually it saved me to post a similar topic thread again :good:

My purpose? Not developing anything nor cooking rom. I just found at http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Barebones that i can safely uninstall apks that i don't use. So i uninstalled some of then, and i was thinking, in case of reinstalling the rom or flashing a new version of it, how to erase the unusefull apks(for me at least) in one step.

I think the easiest way is removing them from the zipped rom before flashing.

What do you think?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
yes you can unzip and rome .apks, but then you will have to sign it unless your recovery allows unsigned zipps. why not flash the rom as is, remove all the unwanted, add what you like, then make a nandroid copy of the way you like it. this can then be flashed whenever
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortadelax:
Oh...the sign thing!

Anyway, there are few useless apks, so i think i can do it manually after flashing rom.

Hey. I'd like to know what nandroid is...

I use CWM recovery to backup/restore data/rom and I use Titanium Backup for the applications. So what the **** is nandroid. I mean, is an apk? Is a boot tool? And what can i do with it?

Thanks a lot dude!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
it is the backup you make in your recovery, you will make either a nandroid backup or bart backup. depending how it is done it will be an exact copy of your rom, apps, call log, etc. any thing stored to you phone @ that "recovery" point

it gets its name from nand (the nand flash memory) and android, some recoveries may just call it a backup
[Touch HD Accessories] forcetranquille:
hi,

do you if we can find this kind of case for the touch hd ?

http://www.qdossound.com/Shop/Mobility/iPhone_3G/JetSkin_for_iPhone_3G_S#

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zucchini:
Can anyone point me to somewhere where i can learn how to develop software for WM6?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Addicted2xda:
Go to Development / Hacking forum
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] loccochat:
Hi!

I am looking for an easy way to customize the today screen to my wishes (add app/folder links, change number of calendar entries displayed maybe add rss feeds and so on), the same with the start menu (add folders instead of programs, ignore the limit of entries that can be added etc.), and finally I would like to arrange the PROGRAMM, SETTINGS, and GAMES folders as I like it.

I know that there are several ROMs out there and I tried some, but there was nothing I found suitable for my needs and in most cases I encountered problems that have not taken care of. So I don't want a ROM, I don't want SPB or sthg. like that (it slows down the system considerable), I just want a tool that allows me to do the modification I described above.

Any suggestions or ideas besides "do it yourself"?

thanx and regards loc
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] pashax1:
Click on the "Panels" Button .... :-D
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] iqvalentin:
Actually I've found the Sony Ericsson Panel quite useful...

It has RSS feeds, various calendar and clock settings, shows you the weather information, shows your appointments and tasks, has some really good shortcuts for airplane mode, wifi, bluetooth and ring settings. Besides you can add shorcuts to the programs, contacts and files that you want.

For the today screen there are a lot of plug-ins, but honestly I haven't tried any since I alwas use the SE Panel. I'm sorry for not being of any help there.

You want to organize your progams list, right?

I think I can help you there.

Just go to the File explorer and search the "Windows" folder, in there go to "Start Menu" and then "Programs", there you'll have all the shortcuts that are in your program list, and you can arrange em as you wish (move them, add new folders, etc).
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonnibravo:
Hi Guys,

I am having a problem with rooting my G1, For the last hour I have been stuck at the point where I have downgraded the phone to the RC7 successfully and am trying to press enter twice and type the telnetd.

At this point I'm not sure if it should give me a sign that it has worked but I then goto telnet command prompt which is showing some questions marks them the # sign but when I type in the commands from the instructions the following happens: Typed exactly as it appears on my screen

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

# #cd sdcard

# #flash_image recovery recovery.img

No such file or directory

# #flash_image recovery/sdcard/recovery.img

usage: flash_image partition file.img

# #cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img

recovery.img: No such file or directory
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dubstar_04:
Try reading this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442480

Its sounds like you havent put the recovery image in your sdcard.

read the instructions again.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonnibravo:
I placed the recovery image and the zip file in the sd card, but i was thinking of sacking this method and trying the root.apk method.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wahookasan:
rename cm-recovery-1.4.img to recovery.img on your sd card

-OR-

flash_image recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonnibravo:
The file is called recovery.img
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonnibravo:
Ok I rebooted the phone pressed enter<reboot>enter again and the phone rebooted, so now I have root what next, do I need to do anything else before putting on a rom, what rom should I put on?>?????
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtrplr71:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f12/rooting-your-g1-made-easy-11825/

faster and less complicated
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonnibravo:
Thanks worked
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtrplr71:
no problem
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] -adrian-:
Hey,

for some reason i cant do more pictures.. did about 80.. and it says the storagecard is full

but i only have 2300 of 15132mb used.. wtf?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] poetryrocksalot:
The pictures are being saved in your internal memory. Change your save location to your external storage card. Go to camera settings and find it because you definitely will find it unless you insist in not looking for the settings.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] -adrian-:
that is actually the point.

changing to internal memory gives me 451 pictures left.. saving on storage card .. 0

but the pictures i did before are actually saved on the storage card.. if i delete 1 picture .. i can take another one -.-
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] poetryrocksalot:
Did you buy the storage card on eBay?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] -adrian-:
nope

sandisk 16gb class2 - shown in storage card infos

edit: push!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] -adrian-:
nobody knows why ?
[General Questions and Answers] axl30:
hi... I wanted to ask if someone knows me to say where I can find the packets, drivers and the whole material to create a rom x the blackstone...

I have looked for but I have noticed that who has the last packets it doesn't share them...:(

where them I can find thanks excused me x my english

i not search build of wm or kitchen i search drivers leo or others and manila package 2.5
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] axl30:
hi... I wanted to ask if someone knows me to say where I can find the packets, drivers and the whole material to create a rom x the blackstone...

I have looked for but I have noticed that who has the last packets it doesn't share them...:(

where them I can find thanks excused me x my English
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] -PiLoT-:
if you do i little digging youll find them

mostly in kitchen threads but also from da_g's posts
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
Search, search & search

Plenty of kitchen threads already exist. If you ask in one of these threads you should get your answer. No need to create new thread
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] axl30:
i not search build of wm or kitchen i search drivers leo or others and manila package 2.5
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bkf1:
Hello all,

I'm looking for any program/hack to skin core components of Windows Mobile like buttons, scrollers, combo boxes, radio buttons, sliders... Since the first version of Windows Mobile MS hasn't changed terrible Windows 3.x like skin :( Even on new WM6.5 (except the scrollers). Do somebody know any program to change this awful old style? On Palm there are some programs (e.g. http://www.3gxsoft.com/palmrevolt/ ) so I hope there is any program even for Windows Mobile ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bkf1:
Do somebody know at least how to change/add skin of these core components???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] adwinp:
I think you forgot to use search.

There's an entire section on themeing, for example for the Diamond.

You can change some of the components via tsk files, but most of them require editing resource files like shellres, tshres and so on.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nothin:
wisbar. (not WAD), just wisbar is only method for skinning what cannot be done in 6.5 feeble m$ methods.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] StellaDel:
I have had my Hero for one week, great UI, very laggy and as for media even my Blackberry Bold beats it. This UI needs better hardware, it DESERVES better hardware. I have seem some positives from the Android OS but I'll stick with RIM for now.

So it's going back in the box, along with the 16GB MicroSD and brand new case and going on EBay.:eek:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Ovek:
Yep sadly I'm leaning that way to... it's to slow (most to the time), to bugged (all of the time) and like you said useless at media.

I wonder how good the LG BL40 is? ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] stingerpl:
I'm still hoping for a decent update that will fix the lag because the phone. It seems plausible because Hero works okay right after the reboot.

If they wont fix the lag and my BT issue I'm going to sell it also :(
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kevinof:
Did the iphone work great right after launch? Nope. Same with any new handset - I've no doubt there is going to be firmware updates that address most of the problems and speeding up the ui is probably one of them.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] elmoono:
I am not experiencing these issues, used mine for 10 days. Lag - very slight very occasional, but nothing like WM6 devices, hardly noticeable. Find the hero a delight, installed 15 apps, added 8GB card. I do find i need to use taskiller after browser sessions to close the browser, same with default twitter app.

The only issue that concerns me is the signal strength at home is low compared to my HTC Tytn - but then again the Tytn is only so good at reception thanks to trying a multitude of radio's from XDA!

Build: 1.76.61.3

Soft: 1.0.0A6288

Firm 1.5