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[Touch Pro2 CDMA] r-two-m:
I went and drilled a hole in my (new, 2 week old) Tilt 2 for the reset button and it came out looking almost stock! No regrets! I can't remember the diameter of the hole now, and I'm on vacation, so I can't get to my calipers or machinist pin gauge to pin the hole. But it went very easy.

Tip: do NOT use a Drimel or rotary tool. Use a pin vise and a NEW, SHARP drill of the right size and turn the drill bit slowly by hand. You will get a much cleaner hole than something whizzing at 60,000 rpm.

I used a scalpel or you can use an X-Acto blade (I'm a medical device R&D Engineer so I have some of that stuff) to add a little chamfer.

My only concern was that I might be adding a port for dust and dirt to get into, but there is already a small port a quarter of an inch from it anyways.

Also, if needed, let me know and I'll get the drill size I used when I get back from vacation.

Now I'm thinking about a hole/slot/port for my SD card!!!! Only thing is, I think I'd like some type of cover/flap over or under it to protect it.

At least until I get my 32gb SD card. Then I don't think I'll be needing to switch out cards any more. ;-)

NOTE: Doesn't work for me. I have the ATT Tilt 2 which is WM 6.5 and to hold the "End Call Button" just does a screen lock. This is for when all else fails i.e. hardware and software buttons.

Richard
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] OniKyanAE86:
I recommend getting it, I'm a service tech for Sprint and your SOL with out it. You will end up paying a hefty amount to fix what might be wrong with your device (ie. broken screen). With the insurance you do not pay anything out of your pocket, unless your device is water damaged or by physical abuse, then you end up having to go through Asurion along with the $100 deductible to get a new replacement sent out to you. Just think about it, If you are going to have such an expensive device, wouldn't you want to protect your investment? You should see how many people buy these high end phones and refuse to get insurance, later they come in with issues/problems and they get pissed off that they have to pay to get their device fixed. Just my 2 cents.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] khsanad:
how i make charge my prophet battary with external charger ??? and i have one with 2 pins
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bittermormon:
So we just got 3G here this week, but when I am on the 3g network, my cell triangulation doesn't work. can someone with 3G in their city confirm that it is working for them so I can stop worrying about it?

Thx
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
NC?

How does one know if triangulation is working exactly, ha
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bittermormon:
SLC utah

make sure your GPS is off then open Google Maps and hit menu - My Location.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
I go to lunch in a few and will test. Raleigh NC just turned 3G this week as well.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Confirmed: same issue... can not find my location, where edge can (did not cut off 3g, basing that off of 1 year of using maps up till this week when i got 3g in my city).

Anyone have thoughts on this?

For that matter.... why do i not have 3g in buildings/homes? I only have 3g when outside.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Worked on edge.

In phone status it shows my network as UTMS, not 3G (used to say Edge).

I guess this in normal?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poly_poly-man:
Think about how "triangulation" works (improper name, really):

Along one of the low-bandwidth data channels (along with network time, network name, etc.) are a few small numbers: your MCC and MNC (describe which network: 310/410 for att usa, 310/260 for tmo usa. Those are compared against the return from AT+COPS (or actually a little database if you see "T-Mobile" or "AT&T", compared with "Voicestream Wire", "Cingular", "ATT0", or often just "") to get your network.

Those are then combined with two more numbers, the LAC and CID. The Location Area Code is unique to a region on a network (pretty wide range), and the CID is unique per tower. There is no lookup (similar to COPS) that provides a location from a given cid. This means that you have to look up the LAC/CID against a database (MCC/MNC sometimes speed up searching/possibly sort out duplicates - idk). There are a few of these databases available - there's one free one which I'm thinking about, google probably keeps one (they keep a wifi database too), microsoft probably keeps one, etc. AFAIK, there's no unified database... please correct me if I'm wrong. However, the networks do provide their tower lists to big-name lists.

One last thing to think about - the companies will always try to sell you on the idea that they use multiple towers and find the area their coverage overlaps, or that they use "the unique footprint of a tower"... basically, they put your rough location as the complete coverage area of the tower to which you are currently registered. Actually, they don't really calculate it well - it's just a circle around the tower. What google means by this second claim (the footprints one) is that some of the circles are different sizes, depending on whether the cell is full power, low power, etc. This is especially provable in my bedroom - I have access at full signal to two 3g towers (I love this area :P), that seem to overlap right here. This means that, when I use google maps, or another similar program, the circles constantly move between the two. It also means that I get spammed with unsolicited +CREG's on my modem line, as it moves around :) .

Combining all this knowledge, I know exactly what's wrong. #1: the lac/cid on the EDGE tower elements is different than the 3g towers (makes sense, for signal range calculations), #2: google knows about the LAC/CID on the EDGE towers, and #3: google doesn't yet have the new 3g towers' LAC/CID information in their database. Therefore, the program is passed information it doesn't know about, so it simply returns an error.

Proposed solution: wait a week or two :)

ADDITION: You don't have 3g in houses because the 3g signal does not penetrate as well (It's on a higher frequency, and the signal drops after less interference than edge). Since these are new towers, they may also be running at reduced power.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradycl_84043:
I'm in SLC as well, and can also confirm wierdness with the non-GPS location over the first couple of weeks... including one day where my phone absolutely insisted that I was just outside of San Diego. Quite mean of my phone to tease me like that considering that I was in West Valley City at the time. It seems to be getting better as time goes on.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
^^ wow, I can feel the authority. Thanks for a great post. I think you are correct, the 3G seems to be getting better coverage (sometimes getting it in my house now). I trust t-mo and google, thank you man.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tarzanman:
I don't know EDGE technology (never delved into it), but I seriously doubt poly's claim that it uses a different frequency than 3G. If you're using a USA spec G1, then your tphone has a single radio for t-mobile's 1900 MHz band.

The issues you are noticing with 3G coverage are more likely due to SIR parameter set by the deployment engineers (i.e. they are telling the 3G cell to only 'talk' to your phone if the signal is strong).

This is just a guess, though. There could be any number of issues going on, like some misconfigured settings on the RNC's for your sector (which makes sense if the coverage is new).

UMTS is the 3G technology that T-mobile (and AT&T) use, so that is normal.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poly_poly-man:
yeah, it's generally not too much of an issue - all the frequncies are pretty close (I think the 850mhz stuff from att might go a bit better than the old 1900, but it is pretty close). And, as I just discovered, tmo is entirely 1900mhz, so that part was mistaken. The rest should be accurate to the best of my knowledge (eg. EDGE can take more interference before it drops, etc.)

EDIT: Nope, their entire EDGE network is 1900mhz, but their 3g is only 1700/2100. So, it's a tossup, and that close makes not much of a difference.
[General Questions and Answers] mike21pr:
i searched and could not find any with the new toolbar... does anyone know where i can i get custom 6.5.1 themes in QVGA???

thanx
[General Questions and Answers] robcodemax:
Here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4690745&postcount=38
[Dash 3G, Snap General] iridium21:
Is there anything like VITO SMS chat that will work on the Snap?

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
For any devs out there...

Would it or is it possible to develop an app that will keep the backlight on for the keypad ? i.e. On while the screen is on and go off when the screen goes off ?

In the dark its very annoying when using the Hero and having to fumble for the right key to press - Home, Back, Search etc.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nehvada:
i second that :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] felikz:
well erm just press any key and the light will go on dude, you dont need an app for this
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
So you fumble and hit Home or even power off (to sleep) the screen when you only wanted to hit search or back.

Flicking the scroll wheel is the only way to light up the keys and not press the wrong one by mistake, but that tends to highlight a button, link etc... and sometimes if you hit the ball too hard, you select a screen element.

Still a pain and TBH not like any handset I used before. Backlight time out was always linked to screen time out.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Funkym0nkey:
You dont need to hit any key, just move the scroll wheel even slightly and lights come up. And it does need decent amount of pressure to press the scroll button, you wont accidentally press it.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
er, yer, I know... but I don't want too :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nehvada:
lets just say "even if it doesnt make sense to some people, WE want it!" :)

btw, there is one app "dark keys" that keeps the backlights of the keypads off all the time. this was made for the white G1. maybe it can simply be rewritten to make the reverse happen?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nuumuun:
+1

i'm beeing annoyed by the keys not being lit as well ...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Glad I'm not the only one ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ketanitem:
Yeah, I want it too. Thanks for bringing this up!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] gangstaunitg:
I think it's good idea, btw it looks cool at night. I want it too
[Hero, G2 Touch General] XebozZ:
Good idea. +1
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
So which dev is gong to earn a couple of $$, ££, €€ by writing this for each copy sold then ??
[Hero, G2 Touch General] fullerlee:
From what I can tell of the API docs (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html, the SDK only allows for the keyboard backlight to be on in FULL_WAKE_LOCK state, meaning the screen will have to be full brightness.

So I don't think this request can be achieved by a pure SDK app.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
How come it lights up at any screen brightness on the Hero ?

Surely its also a hardware call and not just an OS call ? These would be independent of Android and particular to each manufactures handset, else they would all be the same.

Not questioning you, but it would seem strange that its not addressable separately to the screen ???
[Hero, G2 Touch General] fullerlee:
I'm by no means an Android SDK expert, just posting what I found in a quick search round the docs. Happy to be proven wrong!

Lee
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Of course - wasn't criticising at all :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] soulehmoo:
Might be able to dabble in the /sys/class/leds/ folder.

I'll take a look when I get in.

Not a dev though. Lol.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] fullerlee:
Correct.

echoing a value to:

/sys/devices/platform/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0066/leds/button-backlight/brightness

through adb shell turns on the backlight.

I think an SDK app could be created as a service with a broadcast receiver listening for the power state changing that just writes a positive value to the file above.

Loads of similar examples here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=565015

I'll take this on, just about got it working.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Wicked thx :)

You are stars (especially fullerlee)

Don't make it too expensive though ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] fullerlee:
It will be free and I'll release the source. I'm taking all the info from various postings on xda.

I'm able to write the brightness from an SDK app (although this may only work on rooted devices, not sure yet). The off_timer file doesn't seem to have any effect. The best I'm able to do so far is to start a service which updates the brightness setting every 5 seconds while the screen is still on. It has the desired effect, but it's not particularly clean.

If anyone can offer any insight into the LED states then please chip in.

[Update]

There are a few issue with this:

1. /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/brightness is not writable by default. Making the writable flag persist across reboots would require modifying /init.rc. This requires root access.

2. Although I'm able to turn on the button backlight after chmodding as above, the system turns it off after the timeout period (10 secs). I can get round this by starting a task to set the backlight at a period < timeout period. This approach isn't ideal, battery life would be my main concern.

Lee
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Lee,

Any progress with this chap ? Not pushing or anything ;)

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch General] tbower:
I would like this application too. The keyboard light should turn on whenever it is deployed.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rdejager:
In CM6 and CM7 you can set it yourself in the automatic backlight options of CM settings. So this is not persee needed. Mine is always on if my phone is awake.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] tbower:
I'm in too.... sounds like someone could make a lot of $$$ if they were to develop this application!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] amibumping:
I see a lot of themes with the font changed, and i search what i don´t find any post talking about, you know something??
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] supersanj:
see here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=421385&highlight=font&page=5

Has the tools and tutorials on changing fonts. Read through the whole post as there are plenty of ready made cabs for you to install too.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] amibumping:
Thanks a lot, i thought that this thread it was no compatible with the Manila 2.1 but there is no problem, thanks again :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Phildu91:
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if you're happy with my work, please

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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] dirtytwo:
Hi Phildu91,

let`s try it.

seeya dirtytwo
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Phildu91:
you can try this rom, i think it's a good rom with JMLToday pre-installed
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] 110229048:
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[Touch Pro, Fuze General] deuteros:
I put a new theme on my phone that I really like but when I slide out the keyboard and the phone goes to landscape mode, it just rotates the screen and shows a garbled mess on the right side. Apparently the theme doesn't have landscape support. I'm not sure why a theme wouldn't support this but is there a way to change it so it looks nicer?

I believe the theme is Red Breath V2.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] The Jack of Clubs:
if its a tf3d1 theme and it doesnt support landscape, most likely it was meant from the touch diamond. which is basically a touch pro without a keyboard. back when you didnt do gsen rotate and didnt have a keyboard there was no reason to have a landscape so the first tf3d and themes didnt have one. oh and there will be no getting it to work either with that theme. enjoy your portrait only! :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] NeoDMD:
I was enjoying my new Touch Pro 2 from T-Mobile for over a month now and suddenly I noticed that Touch Flo 3D said I had a "new text message". I usually just check "all messages" so that I can see all text message "discussions" instead of one at a time or "read only" mode when you tap a contact and slide over to "sms". So this time I checked "all messages" and none of my messages were "unread". I even went through every conversation to make sure nothing was missing, not even an mms message.

I even turned off Touch Flo 3D thinking that was causing the issue, no dice. Everytime I go into the SMS app for Windows Mobile and look at the folder tree, I see "inbox (1)". So I downloaded a cab file from xda that allows "mark all as read" in the sms app. After installing/softresetting and choosing "mark all as read" from within the WinMo SMS app, this issue did not go away both in Touch Flo 3D and in the WinMo SMS app.

Finally I came across a link of someone having an issue with their HTC Hermes (Kaiser?). They made a program called "FixUnreadCount". This app shows that it is checking all mailboxes (including sms/mms) on the WinMo message app and determines which messages are actually "read" or not.

Once I got to the "sms" portion of the scan, it found that all messages had been read, but the notification was set to "1". It fixed this and moved on to check my other messages on the phone.

After the scan finished, I noticed that TF3D still thought I had an unread message so I softreset my Touch Pro 2 and that was it. Touch Flo 3D had synchronized with the WinMo messaging app and determined that there were no "unread" messages.

I felt I would post this up here since I know there are a lot of Touch Pro 2 owners out there and none of the other fixes worked for me. I also hope that this can be found easily in a search because finding the fix in the hermes forum was almost dumb luck.

I posted a link to the thread that has the file available for download. It's a zip file. I just downloaded the file via Opera directly onto my storage card, then extracted the file and ran the file after extracting. You may get a warning that says "unknown publisher" just tap allow and it should run just fine.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1519862
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] squirtpunk:
Thank you, I've hard reset twice already because of this annoyance.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sleze:
Thank you. Ran it once and after a soft-reset, all was fixed.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] StarTrader911:
This fix worked for me to.

Much appreciated!

Thank you for the post!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] NeoDMD:
Glad I could help. I know this was an issue that wasn't covered too well when I first learned about it. Making it easy for others.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] skyler17:
Just use SafeInboxExtender

Once installed, go to your inbox (windows default, not TF3D), click menu, scroll down and click 'mark all as read'

That should do the trick, and its easy too.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] jetjet33:
i have been having this issue with my phone for months thanks so much for posting this, yur a life saver... really!!!!!!!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] djara02:
Thanks for this soo much. I was about to flash my phone again cause I had this problem the first month I got my TP2 and looked online a lil' and could not find an answer... dat is why I luv this forum :D
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] agrickard:
I had this same issue and stupidly started a new thread without a thorough search (sorry).

Any ideas why it happened in the first place?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] aliendan:
Well, I installed the SafeInboxExtender and clicked on Mark All As Read and the phone still says that I have one unread message. It didn't work for me. Any other ideas, guys?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] agrickard:
So did you try FixUnreadCount followed by a soft reset, as in the first post?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] thefoys:
Can someone please help me! I have downloaded this zip many times and it works for a few days then the phantom message appears again somedays totaling to like 5 new text so it says. Is there anything I can do to keep them away for good? I love my phone but this is driving me crazy!!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] GDannyboy:
NeoDMD

Thank you! Awesome fix. I've had this problem with several WinMo phones from time to time, usually after receiving several automated texts, and always had to hard reset the phone to fix the problem, which in this case, with the Tilt2, would have been a major hassle getting it just the way I like it again.

I changed my settings to the default UI and then ran the exe file, then switched back to TouchFlo 3D, but the count was still wrong, so I performed the soft reboot like you suggested and again, it was still there, so I just ran the zip file again and it was gone with out another reboot.

Thanks again.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] alvaralu:
=)

works great thx a bunch
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] flory115:
how to extract the file

hey i was wonderin how do i extract the file lol idk how 2 do it like i already downloaded the zip file but i dont know how to extract it lol
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] arcivevoda:
thanks a lot. saved my sanity.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Shadownn:
thank you men xD :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kwaku2814:
Unread text in message fix

and easy fix for this Is safe inbox extender it gives you the option to mark all messages as read something the original option fails to do so download it and no more hard resets

Laters
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cblame:
:D thank god it freakin worked! ive had to deal with this for months now!

the first time i ran it, it said it had taken out the message on the scan so i exited the scan and did a soft reset, and it didnt work. so then i ran the scan again and this time did the reset before exiting the scan, and that worked like a charm. so if your havin issues with it try that. thank you again so much for that, im glad someone finally figured this issue out
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cblame:
go to tools, then file explorer and find the file, select it then press the menu button, one of your selections should say "extract" (select it), then youll get a screen askin where you want to save it, just to make it easier on yourself save it to your storage card, once this is done go through your program files again and you should see 2 files with "fixunreadcount" (one is the folder logo which you just extracted from, the other is a little window logo thing which is the actual file), select the file with the window thing and it will then run the scan, after that press the reset button on the side of your phone. if it doesnt work the first time (it didnt for me), run the scan again and reset again and it should work :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] itsslae:
YES thanks ALOT. I never really thought it would be a problem but once the problem showed up it, It is very distracting and frustrating!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] thepeoplesclub:
The annoying bug on touchflo 3d has been resolved here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4376025

Now when you reply to sms through manila the "Request delivery notification" will always remain ticked if you select it. Great work by kalbit :)

Here's the cab I used and tested working great

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=230324&d=1253605253 Enjoy