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[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Azrael316:
Is it possible to add video codecs to the Media Player in a non modified MDA, the phone is only on loan to me from my Mother-in-Law, so I dont, if possible, to upgrade anything.

Im wanting to play standard MP4 and AVI files.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Dixiesmu:
Vide Codecs

Hi There

Search the forum for a CORE PLAYER it's a simple media player that can easily be removed before you give it back.:D
[G1 General] cybertmfer:
Hi,

i just bought a htc g1 locked to t-mobile austria. I got a good price for it and i decided to buy it because i found a lot of information regarding the unlocking of the phone (so that i can use in vodafone card here in Portugal).

But the problem is, it seems t-mobile austria changes the native codes.. I'm, trying to talk to a lot of ebay stores and some sites, but the most usual answer until now is that they can't supply the code to unlock the phone from t-mobile austria.

What can i do?

thanks
[G1 General] jndd333:
I would look into seeing if T-MO Austria can unlock it for you (they may charge a fee tho).
[G1 General] palosjr:
A few weeks ago "Drizzy" sent a link to a few people about a contest regarding motorola/tmobile and winning a MotoCliq. The link was only supposed to be for employees but I googled for the link and found it, did the quizzes, and now 2 weeks later i got an email saying i won a cliq and that it should be in the mail in a few days. Anyone else do this, or are any others here tmob employees that did the quizzes and won?
[G1 General] jordanjay29:
Sounds like a scam or fake to me. But wait a few days and see if you get it.
[G1 General] palosjr:
i was thinking it was also. but i called a buddy that actually works for tmobile, he said he won as well last week and got his in the mail earlier this week. hmmmm im hoping it was real.
[G1 General] Diceman4:
How did you get a valid P-Number?
[G1 General] palosjr:
I was told to just make one up, so I did. I was going to ask ppl that worked for tmob for theirs, but I was in a hurry. It never stopped me in the process so I just kept going. Maybe I got lucky and chose a correct one?
[G1 General] Diceman4:
OK cool, I just made one up also.

Did you pick a store number in your area, or just a random one?
[G1 General] palosjr:
i picked the one closest to me, but I had to pick one that was an actual "corporate store" not an authorized seller. So Wally World, Best Buy, and Places like CellularOne, or CellBiz, or OneStopCell (i am making up names) dont count as tmob stores.

how long ago did you do the quizzes? i did them like 2 or 3 weeks ago. got the email today that i was a winner and my phone would be in the mail within a week. I wish i could get a shipping confirmation number so I could track it though!
[G1 General] Diceman4:
I think that I did it about 2 or 3 weeks ago as well.

Where did you get the store number? Did you just call the store and ask?
[G1 General] palosjr:
i just googled for tmobile stores, went to the site, searched for my zip code. after the store name there is a number, that is the store number i typed in...

here is the page that came up for my zip- http://locator.t-mobile.com/Locator...=0&searchType=storeLocations&SLU=0&EIP=&DBR=5
[G1 General] Senorkabob:
You dont find it sketchy that you BOTH won phones? lol What are the odds of that
[G1 General] palosjr:
tmobile is the one that hosted the contest. they gave away something like 250 phones per week. for a 4 week contest.
[G1 General] brandenk:
I did it and didnt win anything. It would seem very plausible that tmobile would want to get this phone into the hands of as many employees as possible so they have one and you want one when you walk up. Either way, it you get a phone you know its legit!
[G1 General] palosjr:
yea, im not an employee though lol. oh well, if i get one, i will post here!
[G1 General] palosjr:
im gonna go ahead and say its pretty legit. i just got my UPS shipment confirmation email. should be here at my house in 3 to 4 days (so monday or tuesday)
[G1 General] Wisefire:
I never found this link, someone send me the link... Haha, Maybe its over, but it never hurts to try.
[G1 General] palosjr:
for anyone that wants to go ahead and try it...

LINK REMOVED
[G1 General] Wisefire:
Awesome. Thanks for the info.
[G1 General] palosjr:
haha i would have redone it until i got a 100 on both. thats what i did!
[G1 General] dcman008:
what did you guys use for the pin/pass?
[G1 General] palosjr:
you make one up and then later on it gives you a new assigned one, save that one and the passcode, you will need it later
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xavier6303:
I cant be the only one. The problem I am having is when performing a Nandroid backup....the backup never ends. I have like 3 gigs of space left on my sd card and Ive tried deleting the Nandroid folder to make it re-create the folder. Still, it will run forever if I let it. It used to be intermittent, delete nand folder and reboot and try it again usually solved it. Now it just wont work.

Anyone have a solution to this problem? I went through alot of searching and found lots of info on the restore but not much on the backup portion.

Thanks guys
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kubiste:
Xperia X1 freeze. After 6 months I have problem with my xperia and gps. When I try to use internal GPS (whenever software), display freeze and I have to replace batery. I have tryied to flash another ROM, it works few hours and now I have same problem. Any ideas?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LEEONES:
Hi,ok let´s see, like you ive had the same problem, just when i was using any gps navigator the phone suddendly stopped and that was sucking me a lot so after that i started to think what could be the problem, and at the end after a lot of time i found where was the problem and what was the solution. To find the solution i decided to hard reset the new rom with which all my gps problems started, and following the instalation steps of all programs and configurations i found the problem and this was related with the quick gps, before using this program to upgrade my gps location my mobile was runing tomtom and others without freezing, but after upgrade the gps location with the quick gps my mobile started to freeze. So this is the problem, just do this try to hard-reset and install eveything but dont, i repeat dont !!use the quick gps or this will freeze your phone again. Following this step your phone will run the gps navigators without the freeze problem :)

Then men after this try to do this and let me know (PLEAE) if your problem still remain ok? see u and hope you can solve this problem like me. :D
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jas1976:
I too have just started having GPS problems as listed above!:eek:

The problem seems to be Quickgps...as soon as u run the quickgps update(which you may have on autodownload) Tomtom crashes and you have to reboot the phone...

I have reinstalled a different rom since and still have the same problem!

i dont know if there is a cache for this program that can be cleared or something other than reflashing the device:confused:

As the days go on and the 7 day update starts running out im guessing more people will start having the same problems!mine happened 28/10/09 evening time!:(
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoalco:
Same problem: freezing XPERIA when using GPS!

Yesterday I connected my X1 to the PC and got the latest Quick GPS update. Today I'll need to use my gps for a trip... Wanted to prepare the navigator and got the same problem like you guys.

Probably something wrong with the last update since I have not installed anything nor updated the firmware.

Is there any way to get any older version of the quick gps? Before after each 7 days period, it was possible still to use the GPS. Even though it was much slower but in the end it always works before updating... Will a hard reset give me an old version of Quick GPS?

This is so annoying at this moment. Hope somebody find a solution fast.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepeca:
Hi all,

Got the very same problem yesterday.:eek:

I tought the GPS HW had gone. I have uninstalled the Route 66 SW, but there are some files that still lay in the phone.

Then re-install everything from scracth, but problem remains. Now i know i a GPS. Could be worse if was a HW problem in the phone.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motaba:
Possible solution

Hi

I have maybe same problem with other phone (HTC Rose). If any application try to connect to GPS, phone freezes. After Hard Reset it was OK, but only until I use QuickGPS. Then it again freeze whole mobile after use GPS application.

My temporary solution:

1.

Erase QuickGPS data. Simply delete 2 files: Temp\xtra.bin and Windows\xtra.bin

2.

Soft Reset phone.

Try it, and let me know.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoalco:
working so far...

Thank you motaba.

I did what you proposed and erased the files. It worked actually.

I have been running my gps now for some minutes and it did not freeze. It found the signal and started to navigate without freezing.

So at first glance it seems to work. I will try it further and tell you all about further information.

but how can the gps work so fast and well without these quickgps files? are they totally redundant?

Greetings
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepeca:
Thanks a lot motaba.

Works for me as well.

As yes, it got the location pretty fast without the "A GPS mambojambo" :p

I was gettin 8-9 statelites.

P.S: Anyone can tell me were to get TomTom 7 for X1 ? Route 66 is pretty anoying some times....
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SKrepost:
X1 GPS

After deleting the fails xtra.bin my gps start to work for now, but I want to ask do I have to use quickGPS update :confused: if I update the gps from there the problem will be start again :confused:
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kubiste:
Yes delete xtra.bin helps!!!

Does anyone has older version of quick gps. I still want to use quick gps, becasus waiting for gps to fix is annoying. thanks
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepeca:
Hi all,

After deleting the xtra files and confirm that works i went out, and during the driving i used the GPS.

Even went going out of the car and switching GPS programm off, as soon as i got back into the car and switch programm on, the GPS location came so quick that was unbeleivable. Only time to switch it on , put it into the older start the car and when i look into it, was already navigating.

So my advice is FORGET about Quick GPS.

I think ESA as lunched a new GPS satellite for the European system, I wonder if has anything to do with with it. ??? Anyway it's great !!!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Sid:
No, ESA satellites are not primary GPS satellites. They provide WAAS/EGNOS correction info only. AFAIK Xperia does not support correction, so it does not work with these satellites at all.

The problem could be with QuickGPS data. Many users started to have the problem at the same time. It seems xperia uses QuickGPS if they are available. So any corruption on QuickGPS side makes GPS unusable.

Sometimes just forced QuickGPS reload helps .. but sometimes not, and that's when the trick with xtra.bin comes handy.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jorni548:
Thank you all in this awesome forum. Deleting the xtra.bin files solved the problem for me. Even the time to log the gps position seems not really to be slower in my case
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepeca:
Hi Dr Sid

Thanks for the explanation.

My point was that the xtra.bin removal works, and after i did that the GPS position was found very very quickly without starting Quick GPS.

I wonder why because, before it would take 10 minutes or more, if quick GPS was not used.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motaba:
Summer time change?

Hi

I was wondering what is wrong with xtra.bin. It is downloaded from web server xtra1.gpsonextra.net or simmilar.

In my country (Slovakia) at 24-25.10. there was time change from summer time CEST (GMT+2) to CET (GMT+1). Maybe it is some dependance between change of time and GPS problem.

Wiki says same time change is all over Europe.

All of you with same problem, please check registry, what servers are set in QuickGPS. My phone is HTC, so registry are there:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\QuickGPS\0\0]

"port"=dword:00000050

"IP"="xtra1.gpsonextra.net"
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyDiamond:
THANKYOU SO MUCH!!

This has been driving me crazy!! I have only just learned to put ROM's on my phone and this is when the problems started, so I suspected the ROM's was causing the problem.

Deleted the 2 files and now my GPS works perfectly. :D

Excellent fix, saved me so much time.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vgualdi:
THANKS THANKS THANKS !!!!!!

Works for me too (Buenos Aires - Argentina).
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dasto:
It's very probable that this is the problem, since I have it since a few days also. But it's strange, last time change I had no problems with it.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcatss:
hehe, a bit slow to find this thread

yep the quickgps data is corrupt somehow.

took me a lot of reboots to find this out.

A-GPS still works just try running google maps with GPS turned OFF!! you get a rough idea of where your are.

QuickGPS gives a weeks calcutions of predicted GPS satalite locations which can then be used to reduce the cold-boot gps startup time.

If you live near the coast at all, your GPS chip will also pickup the land based stations that broadcast static information which helps in the accuacy of location.

It is quite possible to live without QuickGPS, it just makes the startup time anything upto 2 minutes.

However, with quickgps being used for so many phones, it should not be too long before its all fixed again
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Sid:
It's just pity it can't be disabled by some normal means. If you delete the file, QuickGPS will load it back next week.

Also it could try to compare data from the file with data from the satellite. If different satellites are visible than those which should be visible based on the file, than GPS could realize something is wrong. It does not.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mopral:
Weird issue...

I check on my X1:

-load QuickGPS file

-launch GarminXT

all works fine for me...
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pumiddu:
Hello Motaba,

I've stumbled in this issue too, and your solution works fine. I checked the registry keys: they are "port"="80" and "IP"="xtra1.gpsonextra.net". I suppose this server is HTC own. Doesn't it?

Vito
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoneyTopList:
I tried to delete these files and the communicator doesn't freeze when using gps but it is searching the satelites for a few minutes without any result. But the same happened to me 2 days ago when I re-installed the system and it started to work later. So I hope it will be fine again.

When looking at quick gps I found out that if you click "menu" you will get to option to define when this software will update the data. So if you uncheck all boxes it seems that it is a way how to disable the updates.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyDiamond:
How about you don't recommend those Affiliate programs!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maximus_laggus:
Thanks for the info motaba:) I had the exact same problem with tomTom on my Xperia or any app that uses GPS. Phone would freeze. I deleted teh 2 files you named and GPS is fine now. I just won't use Quick GPS anymore until I know they've fixed it. This site rocks with bells on:)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dasto:
I have now the same problem again, I thought after reinstalling it wouldn't give me any trouble. So I tried to find the files which I should delete, but I can't find them, so can anyone tell me where I can find the files I have to delete? I have a Xperia with WM 6.5 (energy ROM)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sciumaker:
I've read somewhere here to disable quickgps, delete all xtra.bin files,

restart phone and use SeaSGEE instead to fix gps it's seems work for me :)

it can be found also here

http://www.mediafire.com/?t1xkmyrttjz

regards
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paggps:
This is weird: I´m having the same problem since two days ago (any app using GPS freeze the phone). Followed the instructions (deleted xtra.bin in two places, cold boot), but still the same problem !!

Every time the GPS is going to fix position (with 5-8 satellites), before writing the coordinates on the screen, the phone freezes.

I have Garmin Mobile XP installed, and I am NOT using QuickGps anymore.

Can you give me any help ?

Thank you!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motaba:
Are you sure you are not using GuickGPS?

Check QuickGPS, if it has set "Auto download ..." and if Valid time = Expired
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] llshadowzll00:
thanks for the tips! works wonderful
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eric X1:
And what is the reason

Seems the community of "Quick GPS related freezers" is getting bigger every hour. I've send my under warranty X1 back to Sony last Friday and am curious to see what they'll find out - maybe a chance to get a X2 as replacement ? ;-)

Despite the potential idendification of the cause - does anyone have an update why Quick GPS has this problem. To me it was always a quite nicely used feature to have a quicker sat-fix and I can't believe they are not aware so far, but couldn't google any response from Quick GPS so far.

Eric
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mopral:
I do not think Quick GPS is the problem: If it was, everybody should have this issue

As I said before: Quick GPS works for me (all settings check in QuickGPS, Load QuickGPS file during ActiveSync, run GarminXT and all work fine with 15 seconds fix)

Maybe the solution will be to find what is different between those who have this issue and those who have not this issue
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ecky:
Thank you so very much

I have hard reset and restore backups 3 times today without luck and now I found solution here. You saved me so much time.

Thank you,

ecky
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Sid:
It may depend on location, europe also had daylight saving time change just before this started to happen, also the files on the servers is updated several times a day. Only some combination could cause the crash.

I never had crashes, but I had cases where my GPS always lost all satellites just after it established a fix. Refreshing just few hours old QuickGPS file helped.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhamini:
I'm agree with you. I don't have any problem till I installed spb mobile shell 3.5 yesterday! it's too Weird but I think it may conflicting xperia panel manager and the spb mobile shell. is there anyone have spb mobile shell 3.5 and the same problem with gps?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fredkf:
QuickGPS is in fact the culprit

Thank you to the earlier poster that submitted the suggestion to delete the xtra.bin files from the Temp and Windows directories.

I've had by X1i for a year now and, from time to time, had the same problem as the other posters here: The phone would freeze up and be fully unresponsive when GPS was accessed. In my case, I used CoPilot v7 and more recently CoPilot v8 as well as the GPS feature on GoogleMaps. As soon as one of these applications tries to get a GPS fix, the phone would lock up. The only solution would be to reset by removing the battery.

Bear in mind that this was a very intermittend problem that I was able once to resolve through a hard reset, but that on other occasions just went away by itself after a few days of having given up on the GPS. Clearly, therefore, some QuickGPS downloads are corrupted (perhaps based on certain locations only - I don't know how this works), so the problem is intermittent and probably doesn't even affect all users at the same time...

Today the problem occurred again - I recall that I hadn't used the GPS since the most recent QuickGPS download 2 days ago.

And would you believe it - after deleting both xtra files, all back in fully working order. Magic!

Again, thank you very much to the original poster of this solution.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] migueloncete:
Guys,

I have been experiencing the same problem. It suddenly got freezed every time when using the GPS after 8 months of working perfectly.

The solution

: I went to the post-sale service of Sony Ericcsson and they have updated my ROM with the version R3AA007. Now it works flawlessly, even if it doesn't get GPS signal it gets position (I suppose its due to the A-GPS, that now finally works...).

Hope to be of help.

Regards
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motaba:
Hi Mopral

Can you send (me) us your registry settings for QuickGPS. It can be found somewhere in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\??Sony??\QuickGPS\]

You can export it with free PHM Registry Editor (Tools -Export - type Win RegEdit 5)

And how is set your phone:

Settings - Local Settings - Language

Settings - Local Settings - Location

Settings - Date and time - Time zone

Settings - Date and time - Automatic time

(Names are not 100% correct beacuse I use Slovak version)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mopral:
Here is my reg file for QuickGPS (do not import it directly as I use a custom rom and the location is not the same than in stock rom!)

For my settings, I will try to find them...
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motaba:
My settings

Thanks for reg file.

Comparing to my HTC S740:

Mopral - working:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\QuickGPS]

"RemindTime"="00000000000000"

"region"="FR"

"Bias"=dword:0000003C

"MemoryRequired"=dword:00000000

"remind"=dword:00000000

"auto"=dword:00000000

Motaba - not working QuickGPS

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\QuickGPS]

"RemindTime"="02171106131630"

"region"="SK" (=Slovakia)

"Bias"=dword:00000000

"MemoryRequired"=dword:00280000

"remind"=dword:00000001

"auto"=dword:00000000

"autoClose"=dword:00000001

Other registry values are the same.

Values Remind, Auto and actSync are probably 3 settings configurable in QuickGPS window.

Region was on my phone set sometimes set to "--" but after downloading data to QuickGPS it was changed to "SK".
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motaba:
My settings

I tryied set

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\QuickGPS]

"RemindTime"="00000000000000"

"region"="FR"

"MemoryRequired"=dword:00000000

"remind"=dword:00000000

Soft Restart phone,

download data from QuickGPS (this step changes regon FR to SK)

Run GoogleMaps with GPS enabled

And there is no phone freezing.

I don't know what happened. Only one value I really changed is "MemoryRequired".

Maybe finally xtra1.gpsOneXTRA.net servers returned corect xtra.bin.

EDIT:

It worked only one start of Google maps, after second start of Google Maps it is freezing again.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a1astair:
SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 and Quick GPS

Yes - I am using both those programs and have experienced the GPS freezing my X1. Deleting the temp file has not solved the problem though.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paggps:
Yes ! the problem was that I was re-downloading QuickGPS corrupt data automatically while connecting to ActiveSync.

Now, unchecked that option, and after deleting the "xtra" file, the GPS is working again.

Thank you very much!