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[G1 General] heyheylife:
Hi guys,

So i bought a brand new white Rogers dream (G1) phone from this guy who said that he tried to flash the G1 with a hero rom and something went wrong and now the phone is dead. When I plug the power cable, the rogers screen comes up and it stays like that (and that disappears after a short while) - the light blinks on the phone though .

I thought I could get my friend phone to fix the phone (and he agreed and asked me to buy it) just in time for my girlfriend's b'day on Saturday but that idiot decided to take off to Montreal for the rest of week.

So, I am left with this phone - and $150 out........I have looked around the internet trying to figure out a solution but I havent been able to get a starting point...

solutions? :)
[G1 General] pjcforpres:
Well, first things first, we need to find out if you have a brick or not....

Pull the battery, wait about 15 seconds, put it back in, then hold down the camera button, while still holding down the camera button press the power button until it starts turning on... release the power button, but keep holding the camera button. If it doesn't take you to 1 of 2 different screens, one will have 3 differnet colored bands, the other will have skating android guys at the bottom, you likely have a bricked phone.

It should not take more than a minute to load one of those 2 screens, but for good measure I would give it up to 5 minutes.

The other thing you can do is hold down the home button and power button when turning it on, and it should take you to a black backgrounded screen with a green text menu, that would be a "recovery screen" or it will show you a box with an arrow pointing to a phone, that would be a "you don't have recovery screen"...

If you can get to any of these screens, we can help you from there... I would test the camera plus power button first, since using that screen to flash a working ROM will be the easiest route.
[G1 General] Ssantos6981:
let me get this straight...

You purchased a bricked phone? why would you be so cheap in the first place and buy a used phone as a present? Did you at least try to turn it on first?

If you can get to the tricolor screen I'm sure there is something someone here can do for you.

BTW, I have some unreadable CD's that I am selling which I promise will work in your disc player!
[G1 General] Ace42:
LMAO this is good right here.If you can get a hold of adb there might still be hope for you.
[G1 General] heyheylife:
....

i am tried the home/power and camera/power but nothing........still the rogers screen....

and i turned on the phone before i bought it - It was stuck at the rogers screen. The guy gave me a brand new G1 with everything sealed + a tomtom one gps for $150 so it wasnt a bad deal.

I had read somewhere that it isnt really bricked if it turns on.

Be nice - I was just trying to get my girl something more than I can usually afford.
[G1 General] coolbho3000:
Unless he was stupid, he would not have given you the phone unless it was truly bricked. If camera+power does nothing, then it is most likely a bricked handset. Buy your girlfriend a working handset and eBay this one as bricked.
[G1 General] iPhone iWing:
do you have the sdk installed?? if not you are going to need a g1 to install so you can get the drivers working. now just try what a few others got lucky with. lucky is key here. once its installed and drivers are good. open sdk and cd\ to sdk\tools blah blah. now plug the device in, type the fallowing.

adb shell reboot boot-loader

if it says waiting, then maybe you have luck. so now disconnect the device with the sdk still waiting and plug it back in right away and see if it jump starts the phone into fastboot. you can also try

adb shell reboot recovery

these are for super super lucky ppl. but you never know. in my case it worked. i think if you go screen then you most likely are not bricked but thats just my opinion. when it wont boot at all you and you get the blue LED of DOOOOMMMMM then ya no luck. but eh.
[G1 General] goldenarmZ:
If cam/power and home/power don't work, then it is truly bricked. Your friend could not have fixed it anyway. The only thing you can try is as above: get the android sdk and try to get fastboot to find the phone as it switches on. This very rarely works though.
[G1 General] supremeteam256:
Also make sure your holding the camera + power button or home + power button long enough.
[G1 General] heyheylife:
sold it....

well - i sold it 'as is' on kijiji for the price i bought it for- after trying for about 5-6 hrs (held the camera/power - power/home buttons long enough)

thanks guys again, for your input.

Lesson learned.
[G1 General] H@OBouget:
Ummm let me get this straight....

You bought a phone

that didn't work

so your buddy could fix it

so you could give it your GF.

But when your buddy left for the week

and you couldn't fix it yourself

you sold it for $150 via the internet

in less than 24 hours?

Either your the "God of Sales", or this whole thing is BS.
[Android Themes] nurk:
very new to this site and phone anyways how do i install themes on my device
[Android Themes] phantomzer0:
You need to root your phone and put a custom ROM on it. Scroll down to the forum that is specific for your phone (there's a huge picture of it next to the right forum) and find a tutorial.

Alternatively, you can go to cyanogenmod.com and go to the wiki there. There's a good tutorial on getting a custom ROM on your phone, which will then allow you to apply a theme.

The best thing I can say is to read as much info you can, which will involve google searches and searches here, and make sure you understand 100% what you are doing. There are some steps that can brick your phone if you don't read and understand fully what's going on.
[Android Themes] agentaaron:
Dont let it all scare you though...it really is a simple task...like phantom said...read the instructions 2-3 times before you attempt it to make sure you understand each step.
[Android Themes] nurk:
ok doesnt sound to bad but how do i root the phone
[Android Themes] agentaaron:
When you go through the process...you will obtain root access automatically
[Android Themes] Ace42:
Dashing to action, but then as soon as im done clashing, gonna hold your and smash it.

http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/

Watch this right vid kiddo :)
[Android Themes] phantomzer0:
I myself used a kind of hybrid tutorial for Cyanognen. I downgraded and then used the one-click root app to load cyanogen onto my phone. Cyanogen doesn't mention this method on his site, but I have to be honest, I rooted 3 phone in 20 minutes with that method from start to finish and it was probably easier than scratching my ass.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Traveller22:
Hi all,

Just installed the software Pocket Stars of Nomad Technologies.

Software to give you a realtime representation of the stars in the sky from your position on that time.

You can have your position entered automatically by GPS, but that's not working for me.

I have 2 options to chooce from regarding GPS settings:

1- Use "Windows Location Services (LBS)"

2- Choose a COM port and and a Baud Rate (says default is 4800).

I tried both options to no avail.

I found lots of info on the forum, but I can't put my finger on it where to look for. When I tried COM 4, it quickly gives the time in one empty window (with COM 1 and LBS, see above, it doesn't do that). But it can't find any satellites. It keeps saying "satellites: 0".

Anybody had any experience with similar issues? And maybe even solutions?

Thanks!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] miro666:
Sometimes need more time for devices found satellite. Outdoor quicker, but in Settings - Connection, you must have app "Quick GPS"...Download with it app satellite data, and you must have GPS most 1 minute, both whatever , with LBS, or COM4 4800-9600.

Regards
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Traveller22:
I have QuickGPS and updated.

Just found out that Tom Tom 7 is having the same trouble. No GPS signal.

I recently updated to Dutty's R6 ROM, but I hadn't checked the Tom Tom 7 GPS availability.

Now my device seems to have general GPS trouble. Any solution ideas?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] PMoto:
If I were you, I'll post it in the ROM "Dutty's" thread.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Bruce Inman:
@Traveller22

I am on the same ROM and have GPS.

Make sure assisted GPS is enabled and get a GPS primer program like GPS Viewer to inititate the connection instead of your nav Program.
[HD2 General] fgth90:
Hello,

I found this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=511204&highlight=phenom on xda and tried this cab http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JTYUUD7K

on my HD2.

After putting my video aspect on Raw Framebuffer, it seems that it's reading flv format (put your ppc in landscape).

If it is confirmed, I'd like to thanks fenomeno83 for his post.

See you,

Franky

Edit 16/12/09 This thread should be closed because this file not working properly.

Hope someone will be able to find a flv file reader.

Sorry for this.
[HD2 General] tukmol:
tcmp causes crush

i need to reset my hd2
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
Anyone else having a problem on Sprint with Wifi Teather connecting to PPTP VPNs? After I teather I cannot seem to get on a VPN I can connect to from my DSL modem fine. No clue how to even begin to start troubleshooting...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] flipzmode:
So meaning you are connecting to a vpn from your laptop. When you are at home and on your home wireless you can connect to the vpn just fine, but when you are using the wireless provided by wifi tether on your phone it won't connect?

I'm almost certain that is probably caused by your vpn software not allowing a connection to an ad-hoc network which is what wifi tether creates. It's considered insecure because it's a lot easier for someone to spoof/do a man-in-the-middle attack.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
wow thanks for the quick response. Exactly, I am using a laptop on my home DSL using DD-WRT for wireless & it connects to VPN fine. When I switch over to wifi teather running on sprint & try connecting and it gets to verifying username and password and then throws error 619: A connection to the remote computer could not be established, so the port used for this connection was closed.

I am using the built-in MS PPTP client so I guess I could see about the adhoc network, ill google around and see if I can find another client to test.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
this has to do with GRE (a protocol that is used in pptp) not being enabled in your dsl router. i have fios and had to enable the protocol in my fios router to get pptp to work. i also had to enable port 1723. forwarding the port is not enough, in most cases. im not sure what wifi tether enables in iptables on the phone but you may need to edit iptables. see this link http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/gre-protocol-unavailable.phtml
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
It works on my DSL fine, its when i switch over to wifi teather on Sprint then i cannot connect.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
does it work ok when your on another network, or at a friends house
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
Only reference to IPtables i can see in wifiteather is in http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com/svn › trunk › res › raw › tether

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?...tether\.googlecode\.com&sa=N&cd=2&ct=rc&l=123

Not really good with iptables, dunno if thiat means anything...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
try this

$su

#iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
or add that to the script
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
I started tethering, then i ran SUFBS. Went to terminal, did the above, went back to my laptop connected to the wifitether network, tried to connect to VPN and it still failed. Its got to be related to firewall or something like an app blocking it though right? If sprint was blocking GRE I wouldnt think it would get as far as verifying username and password(?)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
The VPN box I am connecting to is a m0n0wall box. There are 6 other connections to it so I know its working.

This is a log of the connection when I try to connect using wifi tether:

http://pastebin.com/mb796e7b

Here is the logs of the connection when it works (my DSL line):

http://pastebin.com/m2a9a8313

Logs are in reverse order. what sticks out to me is it looks like when connected with wifi tether, it looks like its fails trying to negotiate protocols. I see it doing the following over and over

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: [pt1] LCP: SendConfigReq ###

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: ENDPOINTDISC [802.1] 00 90 27 0f 3f 64

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: MP SHORTSEQ

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: MP MRRU 1600

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: AUTHPROTO CHAP MSOFTv2

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: MAGICNUM 91ae4210

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: MRU 1500

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: PROTOCOMP

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: ACFCOMP

#Dec 10 02:06:50 mpd: [pt1] LCP: SendConfigReq ###

On my DSL line that works it does the above step only once and then goes on starting with:

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: [pt1] LCP: rec'd Configure Request #1 link 0 (Req-Sent)

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: CALLBACK

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: [pt1] LCP: SendConfigRej #0

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: Not supported

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: CALLBACK

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: ACFCOMP

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: PROTOCOMP

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: MAGICNUM 5f561cd6

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: MRU 1400

#Dec 10 02:09:36 mpd: [pt1] LCP: rec'd Configure Request #0 link 0 (Req-Sent)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
If you notice in your logs that your when your are not connected via wifi tether, it will call the authentication via mschapv2

the problem is definately in the wifi tether program. its not allowing the gre protocol. i will test this this weekend and try to come up with a fix if somebody doesn't beat me to it.

you should be able to adb into your phone and run the "iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT " command. and get it to work without errors.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
or you could just disable the firewall by stopping iptables all together

# iptables stop (not sure on the syntax but im sure somebody will correct me)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
Correct me if im wrong, but isn't iptables what forwards packets from the phone to the PC when your tethered? If i disable this wouldnt that stop everything?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
iptables is the "firewall" of android.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
Ok its working for me with no mods

Here is my setup

Server

VPN Server: Ubuntu 9.04 running pptpd

Router: Verizon Fios Router with PPTP forwarded to my server

Remote

HTC Hero (rooted running fresh 1.0 and wifi tether)

Windows XP (client)

I didn't have to modify any configurations on the phone itself and it works perfectly.

I suspect that you have firewall issues on the server side of your network.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
I have verified connections from multiple locations personally now, this a company's PPTP server - i cant imagine its the server. We have stuff coming everywhere from public wifi & airports/panera to the local cable & dsl. Nobody else is having this issue, id think itd have came up somewhere by now. Im using wifi tether in the rom from - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=587674 is it possible its rom related?

Wifi Tether says its version 1.60-pre3 looks like build date was october 2. Ill try jumping up to latest and greatest 1.70-pre1 even though i dont see many changes. Anywhere else I can look? Any way to turn on logging to see if the packets are being dropped?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] cteneyck:
You connection is failing with authentication (i suspect radius). I am running the same version of wifi-tether as you and it works perfectly.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TrevE:
Why would one connection fail with radius but it works with every other connection? Radius is everything or nothing...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] da9th_one:
I downloaded several Art Bell interviews from youtube, converted them to mp3's and sync'd to my tp2...each interview has multiple parts, and each part are saved like an individual album in the following format...

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 1

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 2

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 3

ect...

When listen/view these file on my laptop, media player has them in the correct order. Alas, when pull the same files on my tp2 they are out of order, for some strange reason...sorta like:

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 7

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 10

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 2

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 1

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 16

its quite frustrating...i deleted them all from my tp2 and sync'd again to no avail...all other albums are in the correct order but these.

anyone have a solution for this...???
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ohyeahar:
The order in which they are played with the HTC music player depends on the file name. It sorted alphabetically. As such, according to your file naming convention, they would play in this order (assuming you have 21 parts):

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 1

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 10

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 11

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 12

(13-18)

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 19

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 2

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 20

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 21

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 3

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 4

(5-8)

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt. 9

If you want them to play in the correct order, you can rename the first 9 files so that the number is two digit rather than one. For example:

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt.

01

Art Bell Interviews Dr Jonathan Reed pt.

02

and so on...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] da9th_one:
thanks so much for the reply...ill give it a shot once i get home....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] Coderedpl:
So now that i figured out that my GPS on the TP2 is pretty much fried I'm looking into external bluetooth gps options.

I'm leaning heavily towards this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Holux-M-1200-...4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1260403463&sr=8-4

Anybody have experience with that one?

I ould probably leave it in my car most of the time, but if key chain was available i would just carry it with me.

Any other suggestions?

I want something detailed not "overview". This one is 32 channel and as far as i read its pretty good
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] RemE:
I used their previous model of that size and it was excellent, fast, and long lasting. If you have to go external, you can't go wrong with one of these.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] Doinshots:
I second this. Holux served me well.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] w8asa:
Holux is the way to go....

I have the Holux M1000, and I really like it. The newer Holux models are smaller, and seem like they are just as good. The battery life in my M1000 is amazing, and I can also charge it in the car.

Good luck.

What software are you using in your TP2? I find that TomTom seems to lag more than CoPilot, but I think that might be due to the TP2's GPS set/processing.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] BrokenPixel:
+1 Holux, my dad has the small version (M-1000), battery life is pretty nice, locks gps pretty quick also.
[General Questions and Answers] Zero1011:
Hi all, I do not speak English, I use a translator but look, I installed the Windows Mobile 6.5 for hx2000 series and mine is a HP IPAQ hx2490c, was not in the list hasi I started to try and now that for the upgrade of the PC, disconnect the iPAQ Pocket PC and not do anything, reset and even Hard Reset I gave it what he wanted to install, and still remains in standby as the first step of all, I've done everything and even did the format for hardware and nothing stays the same does not react, and according to the manual I read said that it was like a "brick" no longer works, please help me you know we can, I cost very expensive and was a few days ago to buy it please I beg you to help me with this!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sabelbas:
Hey guys not going to ask anything about 0.1 release or anything that trivial (hehe) but hoping someone has managed to get the program to run on the i8000.

I have managed to get it to run at 10fps and game interaction is nigh impossible. I have installed the bios scph1001.bin and am running the settings at

CPU - recompiler, cpu - arm v5, GFX - GDI

any ideas please?
[General Questions and Answers] aethicus:
ok I love my HTC Topaz but my wife wanted an Iphone, I got her a 3GS and just jailbroke it. now I need to get it setup to use ATT network. I have ATT SIM and it has an unlimited data plan already.
[General Questions and Answers] nathanpc:
I want to get that SIM on the iPhone?
[General Questions and Answers] aethicus:
so how do I get an iphone to work with my existing 3G data plan.
[General Questions and Answers] nathanpc:
It will work perfectly, but you will only have what the plan can do to you ;)
[General Questions and Answers] DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
I'm pretty sure you just put the SIM card in and reboot, I don't think you actually have to configure anything. But I don't use an iPhone as my regular device, so I can't verify.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] Noob01:
i moved some apks to my sd card on my mytouch then i opened linda file manager to try to install it. when that happens, the file manager instantly opens two install windows. every time i click install more windows keep coming. i havent been able to install any apps from my sd.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] tytech:
use astro

Install Astro. Easier and better.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] mout2u:
Re : Use Astro

Hi,

My HTC Magic, after installing the Sense UI, ended up with a perfect SPL HBOOT - 1.76.0007 (SAPP10000). It has a PVT 32A. I want to install Barcode Scanner and Bluetooth_File_Transfer applications in my Magic but am unable to access the Android Market. Like you mention, to use Astro File Manager. I have downloaded the Astro File Manager.apk file to my Notebook from Rapidshare. How do I install this file? I am a non-techie.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] CLLC:
Hey :)

get the URL to the rapidshare download, now on your phone go to that address. It should then download the apk. When finished simply tap the file downloaded apk and it will install. Now you have Astro.

Now with all the other APK files, place them on your SD -> Open astro and navigate to the apk's -> click it and it shall install -> Enjoy!

Feel free to donate ;)

CLLC
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] mout2u:
Re: Can't Install Apks

Thx mate. :)

Will give this a try.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] jawonder:
Hey what do you do if the apk file can't install or in my case i installed the gingerbread keyboard on my droid x and it was too small then i tried to reinstall the stock multi touch keyboard using root manager , I went through all the steps i place it on the root of the SD card , copy , paste and permissions but when i exited and went into settings , language and keyboard and selected imput method there's only Swipe and the keyboard i bought - swiftkey the gingerbread keyboard was gone and it did not install the stock key. I then tried to use Astro to install the stock multi touch keyboard , it was installed but as soon as i select multi touch keyboard in settings i start getting a popup saying it closed unexpectedly i had to uninstall it to stop the pop which was coming rapidly . Can anyone tell me what went wrong and does anyone know how to correct this and get the Multi touch keyboard installed ? .
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] thisishoot:
do you have adb? you could try pushing the apk to the phone that way

adb never fails bro
[General Topics] orb3000:
Google Maps Navigation blocked outside the United States:mad:

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translat...os-estados-unidos&lp=es_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

Why, why:confused:
[General Topics] nathanpc:
:mad:

What is Google thinking?

Now I cannot use it here in Brazil!

I'm going to turn mad... :mad: