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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geochelone:
How you take screen capture of your Hero?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkodr:
Using the SDK. The Screenshot app did not work on my Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spacechimp:
How do you get the dropbox icon to appear? I've created a browser shortcut (to the same iPhone URL) but even if I insert this as a quicklaunch icon it looks like a standard icon.

Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkodr:
I've used BetterCut.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spacechimp:
Nice one - cheers dkodr
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nofowuw:
Wondering the same things, rly i hate that my folders arnt organzied :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] commodoor:
Nice app but it says that it doesn't work with hero :s

does it now work or not on hero??
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkodr:
Works only on MoDaCo's custom ROMs (so I've heard!). I'm on MCR 2.3 and it's working just fine (as it did on 2.2).
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spacechimp:
Ok, so I'm running a standard UK Vodafone Hero with the 2.73 fw upgrade - but I'm not going to be able to run BetterCut? PITA.

Don't fancy my chances of playing around with the modaco stuff. Ho hum ...
[Touch HD General] pczdogxx:
Hi

Could anyone tell me how to set the HD and PC such that the HD can make use the internet connection via PC during in Active Sync.
[Touch HD General] Rudegar:
settings->connections->connections->advanced-select network

pick my home network in the dropdownbox or whatever the non isp

network connection is called on your device

in settings->connections->usb to pc make sure

Enable advanced network func is checked if you use usb

and if it don't work your firewall is most likely blocking it
[Touch HD General] pczdogxx:
Some stranges, I can connect to Internet at Home's PC but I can't connect at Office's PC. My Office PC set proxy server to browsing internet.
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
As stated by Rudegar above, you'll probably find that your work has a firewall set up so you are unable to access internet through your phone using usb cable.
[Touch HD General] pczdogxx:
Is it possible to by-pass the firewall setting at PC or proxy server?
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
You would need the access codes from your IT department
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] burgess_boy:
I have had the latest MoDaCo rom running on my T-Mobile G2 touch a day after I recieved it and have to say that it out performs the stock rom by far. I have noticed a problem in the last 2 days or so which prompted me to do a clean install today but unfortunately did not resolve the problem.

I originally installed the MoDaCo rom using the guide over at the unlockr which was very simple and effective. I also decided that I would try and use apps2sd to help remove installed packages off my phone and store them on my 8GB SD. I had partitioned my sd card as the guide here suggests, I followed the code correctly by basically using copy and paste function in cmd so as to not make any mistakes and made note to update the ext2 to ext3 only as I read that the ext4 has issues with this particular rom.

I presumed everything was fine until today I noticed that when I install an app from the market store it seems to still be storing all the applications on the phone memory, I noticed the phone memory was reducing on every installation wheras the sdcard memory is untouched. Another thing I noticed is that in the sd card setting the sd card total space is being read as 7078MB wheras the partition was for a size of 7437MB. I have also accessed the data/apps folder on my phone through adb shell commands and low and behold all my apps are stored on there. There is also no folder on the sd card so there must be a problem.

I would be greatful if anyone could guide me as to any known issues with apps2sd on this particular rom or whether they can see where I might have done something incorrectly.

Many Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dayzee:
With Aps2SD as I understand it, some parts of the programmes are still stored on the devices - system files etc. so The phone memory will change gradually.

Also, the browser and market caches still grow on the device, and need deleting via Application manager to keep the device memory as free as possible. (With Browser, clear cache, but not data as this clears your cookies and bookmarks :) )

Also, the apps from aps 2 SD are of course stored on the Ext3 partition. It doesn't get read at all as the SD Card in the device, as the device only sees FAT32 as SDCard space, so new apps loaded don't make a dint in the SD Memory seen on the device, or even in your PC, as this does the same thing, it doesn't see the Ext3 partition.

In My case, prior to installing MCR rom, I had around 50 apps on my device and my phone memory was reading around 70MB

After a wipe and installing MCR2.0 before loading any APPS - I was at around 155MB

After reinstalling ALL my 50 apps plus a fair few more - so around 60 apps(including some bulky apps like CoPilot - which I know stores around 8mb of its total of 15mb on the device itself to run smoothly and Docs To Go) I'm at around 120MB

So my advice is - Check your Browser and market caches. If your device has 50 or 60 apps on taking up around 30mb, then the bulk of those apps are being stored on your Ext 3 partition and its likely all running as it should.

If you have 50 or 60 apps and they are taking up closer to 80/90mb of your device storage, then aps2 SD might not have worked. - check on the thread for ROM that you have installed for advice on how to solve it.

Hope that helps

Dayz xx
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] HTC_nut:
I restored my contacts using sprite backup from my Touch Pro 1 to my Touch Pro 2. All contacts restored fine, but when i get a call is says unknown caller, even though the numbers match in the contacts, any suggestions:confused:?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] samarrai:
some times it happen with me too

:(

i even had a call , and the ID was correct then the next day i was looking for it in the history , to find it under unknown called !!!!!!!:confused:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kizer8:
Me too. How do we fix?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kizer8:
Anybody know how to fix? This is so annoying.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Mesquire:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=561681
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ma6inista:
To fix that issue, run Sprite again and restore only pim.vol file.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] o0adam0o:
I have this problem also!

how do u only restore that "pim.vol" file?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ma6inista:
When you select "Restore" and Sprite asks you what do you want to restore, expand all folders, then remove all check marks but the one for pim.vol
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kizer8:
I'm sorry I don't understand. When I ran Sprite backup on my old phone, I told it to only backup the PIM contacts. When I restored on the new phone, it only restored the PIM contacts.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kizer8:
Yes, it definitely is Sprite Backup. I did a backup from my old phone to my new Touch Pro 2 with PIM Backup 2.8 located at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299705 and now caller id is working fine.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] judicious:
i have the same issue on my att tilt 2, i backed up everything, can i actually restore anything? i have the unknown caller issue as well.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] e_dogg:
My wife and I both have noticed similar behavior on our Tilt2s (we each have one).

When the phone is ringing, the caller ID shows up. But when we're connected, it says "unknown" but displays the phone number.

The HTC fix mentioned in this thread appears to be for non-US HTC branded phones.

Any other ideas? Do we just need to wait for AT&T to release some sort of fix or install a custom ROM?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] das-man:
I have the same problem as well. Does anyone have any ideas or solution to this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jesterz:
Anybody got more info ?

found this on pastebin which seems like an updated build.prop

http://pastebin.com/m350cb21c

ro.build.description=2.73.751.4 146733 CL#61205 release-keys

it looks like it could be something internal from Chunghwa Telecom as the ro.product.brand=chunghwa
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Drizzy Drake Rogers:
I think thats the taiwan hero has anyone done a system dump off the taiwan hero!!!

might be the most stable one and I would like to cook it up!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I have a dump, I will repack tomorrow!

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Drizzy Drake Rogers:
yay! thanks modaco you the real hero man! hey is there an RUU
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jesterz:
nice one, cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] christonge:
Nice one Paul... as always you come up trumps! Cheers ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tsekh501:
Is it a generic one or a carrier branded one?

Thanks so much, I have been waiting for this. The CustomLocale.apk never works for Traditional Chinese.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stefan1975:
so what might be more stable about it? is it asian languages only or wwe/dutch as well? is there any changelog from the current "official" 2.2 ROM? I do not feel as if i have too many problems running that one currently and would be interested in knowing what was improved in the taiwanese version.

thx, stefan
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Drizzy Drake Rogers:
I would like to cook it for the G1... g1 still lags at times!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ghoonk:
Does anyone know what the difference is between this new ROM and the old one?

I'd love to see if modaco's 2.3 will include BFS (I have cyanogenmod 4.1.9.2 on my G1 and it FLIES) and any new fixes/updates/languages from HTC themselves
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
Look at build numbers. 2.73.751.4

2 is the version number

73 is the release number

third number is usually vendor specific changes

fourth number is vendor release number

This build should be no different from 2.73.405.05 except it's a Chunghwa release. Selection of all locales can be enabled by removing the customize directory (though this removes also the pre-loaded scenes, I'll have to check how to keep those files).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] packetlss:
BFS aint gonna happen on Hero until we can compile our own kernels. So when HTC releases the source you can expect stuff like BFS.

All current roms rely on having HTCs precompiled kernel and just changing the software around it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Added HTC Generic 2.73.751.4 (as 2.73.405.5 + Chinese support) to this post. It is the same core as 2.73.405.5 with Chinese and a few bits like Plurk, AK Notepad etc...

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] phel21:
That's a bummer. I was hoping HTC would contribute the necessary bits into the generic linux kernel so that it would be possible to compile e.g. 2.6.31.x with all its android-fixes for the Hero. The current 2.6.27 was also a nightmare wrt wifi on most notebooks, so that may explain some of the instabilities and AP-compatibility problems unless HTC have back-ported most/all the new wifi-stack-code from 2.6.28+ to their 2.6.27 code.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
do you have the official RUU in exe format? (I'm keeping a backup of all dumps in my computer just in case, up to ~30 GB now, I'm hoping to get a hero someday...)

Also, is this rom WWE? I thought it was a Chunghwa release
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
No, only the dump.

It is a Chunghwa release, but it has English.

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
Okay, thanks Paul
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tsekh501:
The HTC people widget in the 2.73.751.4 ROM is slightly different.

In previous ROMs, the people widget takes up half of the screen and for each of your favorite contacts, it display his/her photo with a button next to it. Pressing the photo open up his/her contact information, while pressing the button execute the default contact method.

In the new people widget, you can choose between taking up the whole screen, or just half of the screen like before. For each of your favorite contacts, it now displays only his/her photo (with a small icon, not a button, at the lower corner of the photo to remind you his/her default contact type), and pressing the photo execute the default contact method.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Sweet, will make sure that's in 2.3!

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Have you tried any other widgets to see if there are any differences?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
I didn't find any other difference when i had a brief play earlier today, but the new people widget is definitely nicer and will be a cool addition to Modaco 2.3 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ghoonk:
Does installing the ChungHwa ROM require a wipe?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tsekh501:
Yes, installing 2.73.751.4 will wipe everything, even from 2.73.405.5, I tried. Use nandroid to backup before installing if you want to roll back.

I actually prefer the old people widget... is there any way to extract the people widget from 2.73.405.5 to 2.73.751.4?

One other change from 2.73.405.5 to 2.73.751.4 I noticed is Chinese input. In the HTC CIME floating around on this forum, the choices of Chinese input method are:

Handwriting, ZhuYin, CangJie, PinYin, and Stroke

In 2.73.751.4, only Handwriting, CangJie and ZhuYin are available. The Handwriting input is better in 2.73.751.4. You can now choose between recognizing everything in simplified Chinese, or in traditional Chinese, or write in one but display the other (e.g. write in simplified but recognize as traditional). Finally, the Touch Input Chinese keyboard can now also be calibrated as in the Touch Input English keyobard.

The 2.73.751.4 ROM also supports full Traditional Chinese interface. WWE + CustomLocale.apk works fine for Simplified Chinese, but the Traditional Chinese interface in CustomLocale.apk is mainly a combination of Simplified Chinese & English.

Other changes I notice are the inclusion of Plurk, JBed Java, AK Notepad, and KKBOX (kkbox.com.tw, a music service in Taiwan). All widgets, besides people, seem the same as 2.73.405.5.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lox_Dev:
I have package contact widget of both rom and jbed.

Contact widget and jbed don't work on 2.73.405.5. They prevent the phone from booting (WHY ??!?) If you try them:

- to revert back from Contact-widget-2.73.751.4 use the 2.73.405.5 zip package

- to uninstall jbed, boot in recovery mode and:

adb shell

/ # mount /system/

/ # rm /system/app/Jbed.apk

/ # rm /system/app/Jbed.odex

/ # rm /system/lib/libjbedvm.so

/ # reboot
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tsekh501:
Thanks... but putting 2.73.405.5 contact widget onto 2.73.751.4 won't boot either! I tried use your zip file using the "update.zip-method" to install them, and my Hero got stuck at the screen with the Hero logo.

I actually tried extracting the files of the 2.73.405.5 contact widget, and incorporate them into the 2.73.751.4 ROM last night and that didn't work either. I thought there was something I did wrong during signing:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=560398

Has HTC figured out a way to prevent people from extracting their apps and put onto other (versions) ROMs? Any explanation to this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lox_Dev:
That is what contact-widget-2.73.751.4 does on my 2.73.405.5 hero. My update.zip are ok because I can revert back to original contact widget using my contact-widget-2.73.405.5 and it then boots....

I am very curious to know why 2.73.751 packages don't work on 2.73.405.5 ....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lox_Dev:
Many differences between the two roms
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tsekh501:
If you look at the system\app folder in the 2.73.751.4 ROM, there are 2 new widgets, HTC news widget and a HTC Horoscope widget. They didn't get install together with the rest of the ROM though, and I cannot install them manually either. No idea why.

The two widgets were clearly on those Hero at the Taiwan Hero press event (saw them on youtube). Not that I am really interested in using that two widget though...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tsekh501:
For those who want to know how the new people widget in 2.73.751.4 looks like, take a look here:

http://cache-foo-05.gawkerassets.com/gawker/assets/images/4/2009/09/500x_DSC_1050.jpg

The above is a brief review on Sprint's Hero by Gizmodo. They are comparing it to an Europe Hero using the old rom, which is a bit unfair in my opinion, as both speed and camera got improved a lot with the new rom.

The new people widget makes each photo larger, at the expense of functionality. You can no longer press a contact photo to look at his/her contact info.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] enlightener:
the problem is the .odex . you can use this to get rid of odex:

http://code.google.com/p/smali/wiki/DeodexInstructions
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lox_Dev:
What do you mean by "get rid of odex" ?

I managed to deodex htccontactwidgets.odex and reodex using smali but no luck the new htccontactwidgets.odex doesn't work....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
Wow, great tool.

Odexes are extracted dalvik executables (classes.dex files inside the apk) that have been extracted, verified, run through dalvik's dexopt (optimization), and byte aligned. They depend on the framework they were created in, that's why you can't pull an apk and it's odex from one build and add it to another (frameworks are also odexed, though the changes between releases, say, HTC Asia's 2.73.728.5 and the WWE release 2.73.405.5 (btw, again, check number, the first and second, 2.73, reffer to the system version and release number, the third number is the vendor number, 405's are always WWE, and the last number is vendor release version) are both the exact same framework except for changes in Asia's services.jar (and consequentally, odex) for vendor-specific information, just that one change throws out all hope of using another version's app because the odex will fail verification during boot and your phone will enter into boot loops (if it gets that far).

With that tool, you can take the odex and transform it back into a classes.dex file that you can toss inside the apk and turn it into an "universal" app.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
when you baksmali it, rename it classes.dex and toss it inside htccontactwidgets.apk, no signing necessary, just adb push to your device
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lox_Dev:
Thanks, but I found it with lots of searching. Now I have done my classes.dex file and added it to htccontactwidgets.apk but it does not work I get that in logcat:

I/PackageManager( 73): /system/app/htccontactwidgets.apk changed; collecting certs

E/PackageParser( 73): Package com.htc.htccontactwidgets has no certificates at entry AndroidManifest.xml; ignoring!

I/PackageManager( 73): Failed verifying certificates for package:com.htc.htccontactwidgets

Isn't there some information stored somewhere in the sytem about it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
did you re-sign the apk after including the classes.dex? if you did, then try it without doing it, if you did it, erase the META-INF folder and sign it,.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lox_Dev:
I (re)tried both and it worked without resigning.

Seems I now need to flash 2.73.751.4 on my device to deodex the htccontactwidgets to try it on 2.73.405 ....

Here is htccontactwidget.apk from 2.73.405 if anyone running 2.73.751 wants to try it:

adb remount

adb shell rm /system/app/htccontactwidgets.apk

adb shell rm /system/app/htccontactwidgets.odex

adb push htccontactwidgets.apk /system/app
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rody02_4:
will it work if I just copy the apk file into my sd card and install it from there ?

(I know It's kind of stupid Question)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
i don't know if your build has rwsystem script on it, run it on terminal, and if you don't get an error, then you do have it, if not, then type in terminal:

$ su
# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

now you can write to system. if you copied the htccontactwidgets.apk to the root of your sdcard, go:

# rm /system/app/htccontactwidgets.*
# cp /sdcard/htccontactwidgets.apk /system/app/htccontactwidgets.apk

That way you don't have to do it from adb.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lox_Dev:
To explain a bit, htccontacwidget is installed in /sytem/app witch is not writable. You'll then understand that it can't install/uninstall as normal app as it is installed on a readable only part of your phone. You must have a rooted phone and copy it using console.

Regards
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fonzpda:
i have the htc hero with build 2.73.751.4 146733 cl#61205. should i upgrade to the 2.73.405.5?

Is it really the same thing??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jubeh:
build series 751 is the chungwa release, 405 is WWE, the choice is yours, 751 has the newer contacts widget, 405 doesnt, but you can push it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fonzpda:
If that is the only difference I think I will stick with the factory 751 for now. Even though I don't speak chinese or whatever chungwa is.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] evisn:
help

i use 2.73.751.4,can support chinese,but only Handwriting, CangJie and ZhuYin are available,i wanted type PinYin ,how should i do? how to install? thx very much.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chxis:
i wanna know as well, ha, thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] t8002xda:
I have accidently flashed "RUU_Hero_Chunghwa_3.31.751.1_R_Radio_63.18.55.06O_6.35.15.01_release_signed.exe" and stuck with FW2.1. I am wandering if I can use Gold card plus this Chunghwa signed ROM to flash it back to FW1.5. Please kindly advise if I should try it and kindly provide the Hero ROM (2.73.751.4) if it is still possible. Thanks in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MrPadie:
Wow, talk about resurecting the dead :P

Anyway, you're unfortunately stuck with that ROM now until (and if) the new SPL/bootloader of the 2.1 ROMs are rooted. Sorry man, unfortunate that you didn't check the threads and messages stating you shouldn't flash it until a dev has pre-rooted it and removed the new bootloader.

Mr P.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] t8002xda:
Thanks, anyway.

I guess I will have to wait until the solution is available.

t8002
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bonesy:
try the goldcard / downgrade method it may work
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maharz:
oh my god... it's a zombie thread :D :D :D :D

anyway, you can try the gold card method and please make new thread for it.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] opensea:
Hello,

First of all sorry for the bad english. :)

With my old sim card was broken i get a new one. With this new card i cannot make the 3g symbol visible. There is allways the E (edge). I'm unable to make video calls. Only normal internet connection with edge.

The operator call center guy said that my 3G is active.

Well i hope you understand my problem clearly. :)

How can i solve this 3G issue?

Thanks for any help.

You can see some screenshots below.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] mannyo1221:
3G maybe active on your account and your old sim card, but it also needs to be enabled on your new simcard. If you speak to them again, make sure they know you have a new sim card. Even provide them with the simcard number and they can lookup on the system if its 3G enabled.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] opensea:
Thanks for your reply.

They know the situation that i have a new card.

I will move my number tomorrow to vodafone. I'm tired of this stupid people and their gsm thing. I really hated them.

Imagine: nobody there can help me about the WM phones.