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[HD2 General] ephestione:
I may be the slow minded here. BUT :D

1) Everyone having had even third-person experience with laptops knows that using one with a battery inserted and "most of the time" attached to the external power unit, makes the battery die pretty soon, and all laptop batteries are Li-Ion based since quite a while; sure, part of that damage comes from the heat generated on the battery both from the charging and the laptop being turned on, but all the rest is caused by the "unnecessary" repeated charges (confront the "battery university" website for this)

2) I often plug/unplug the cable from the pc to move several small files, I just don't feel comfortable doing it if everytime the battery gets a "charging hit", for the aforementioned reasons

3) I want to be able to charge the device when I choose to and not just everytime I plug it somewhere ;)

4) enabling the car charger as "proper charger" lets the device take up more current and charging faster

5) I've always behaved, with all my Li-Ion powered devices, in a way that I would charge the battery when it got to ~20-30% and not before, reducing the number of times I actually charged it; the definition of "recharge cycle" is not the easiest one here, and "battery university" has an interesting one; but since my behaviour until now has given its good results, I'll just keep doing that ;)

As kilrah stated, 1.85A may be the max specification, yet the HD2 is NOT going to get that much from a recognized charger. The german thread pointed from the second post of the thread is also specific about it, the intook currents are higher, but not that higher... plus I've peeked inside the car lighter charger, and it's got no single resistor :D Also, the max 2A is useful when you plug several other things to it for charging purposes other than the HD2, and that's why I connect the HD2 to a USB1 hub connected to the carlighter charger :)

For a briefly useful reference, my iPaq 214 only took max 200mA from the miniusb plug no matter the charger capacity not the charger "nature", so devices do have a regulator, and it would be reasonable to think that a multihundred euros phone has one, and pretty efficient at it :D
[HD2 General] atagent:
So aside from hacking the USB cable, is there any other way to make the car usb charger act like a car charger? Or I should save my time and just buy an actual car charger, instead of a universal usb one....?

Thanks!
[HD2 General] ephestione:
solder together the central pins on the charger output port, it's the exact same principle :)

Even thought hacking a cable is "safer", as you're playing with a ~2USB asset instead of a ~5USD one, and you have to connect a usb cable to the car charger anyway in order to charge the phone :D
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] dra6onfire:
Okay, I have done this three times now with three different Phone ROMS including romeos, energy and one I dont remember the name of:

I load morphgear and it works great. I'm playing snes on my phone and everything is peachy. I can use all the features and exit the program with no ill effects UNLESS I get a text message while I'm playing. If that happens then I can exit the program and go to my sms screen with no issues but the sms program will no longer close. Aside from that everything SEEMS to be working fine, I can still make calls and recieve messages and run applications but upon a soft reset of the phone, the ROM is completely crashed and won't boot and needs a hard reset. On romeos the hard reset came with a plethora of new problems in the ROM that could only be fixed by reflashing the ROM. I haven't had energy long enough to determine if there are problems after the hard reset.

Does anyone know what is going on here?
[Nexus One Accessories] alvinleephd:
For those who use a seidio innocase, which car mount do you use? I've seen several nexus one car mounts but I'm a little wary of purchasing them since the case adds extra thickness and I'm unsure they'll be able to fit in the car mounts.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamasi36:
I found that Lukluk application plays better with with HTC media player as well as jetflicks tv app. It allows me to leave the app and come back to pick up watching where I left off. Nexus media player doesn't. Any Help?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigacgomez:
If this is possible, it's not gonna happen anytime soon... HTC media player is built using and runs on the HTC customised framework [Rosie]... it will not runn on the stock android framework... and currently, we have no means of porting the HTC framework to the stock Nexus ROM...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bochenghu:
Just got my HTC Hero a few days back. It was a Malaysian set without the Android market. I got fed up with the crappy apps installer it came with so I followed one of the tutorials in the forum and had it rooted (i think) and upgraded to the international version.

Old version :mad:

Build: 2.73.728.5 146733 CL#61267 release-keys

New Version :eek:

Build: 2.73.405.5 146733 CL#61267 release-keys

I got the android market and I'm loving it. I loved it so much that I ran out of memory and sorta crashed the phone. I did a factory reset and re-flash the firmware. Then I found out about apps2sd. I've been digging into the forum on guides to set it up but none of them actually worked.

Can some gurus on this here forum please write a short guide on how to manually install apps2sd?

My current setup:

Phone just rebooted clean after a wipe. The ROM is the international stock ROM. The recovery image I've installed is the AMON-RA version. My SD card has been formatted using the AMON RA Recovery console, so by right it should have all the necessary partitions. The radio is still stock as I have never updated it to anything else (didn't have enough information to realize the full implications of updating the radio, so I put that on hold for the time being)

What do I do next? I have installed terminal emulator though as I gather from the forums that it's a must.

I'm begging all gurus out there to please shine some light on this dark crater I'm in.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CyberWalrus:
why not just stop using crappy stock roms and flash the latest modaco? its a lot faster, has more featues and app2sd is build in. do a nandroid backup for safety, and use a backup tool of your choice (i bought my backup pro, its not cheap, but i dont like the free ones, they have never worked well for me) for your contacts etc.

Its realy easy, a lot easyer than trying to get apps2sd runnig right on a stock rom (I dont know if that is even possible)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bochenghu:
Ouch~ Really that crappy huh......

As per your suggestion, I flashed my ROM to 3.1-update-hero-modacocustomrom-core-signed.... either I messed up or it's actually a feature with the rom.... but my social networking apps just won't work after that. :o It's just a bit too advance for me at this juncture.

So I'm back to the updated official ROM again....

Any takers on the guide to manually installing apps2sd???
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bochenghu:
Is all hope lost?? I was hoping that someone would have had the experience of installing apps2sd from scratch.

Custom roms are good and all but blind reliance on them don't sit too well with me. The custom roms are in every aspect PERFECT but what I am trying to achieve is a better understanding of how the thing works. What better way than to put a hold on the shortcuts and doing it the manual way.....
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reldridge:
Im looking for the same thing man... just want to add the app2sd to the stock htc hero cmda rom after rooting...

Anyone???
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
Unlikely, the only people capable of producing these guide are the type of people who DO install custom roms. If you're that fussed you'll work it out yourself and produce the guide yourself.

Its 100 times easier to just get a custom rom installed.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] amirnili:
hi

i have the herm100 device using wm5

i update my rom to wm6 and 6.5 and still have a big problem getting files from other devices by bluetooth connection

i can sent files but cant get them from other - i get an error from other device tat i dont have a ftp or opp service active

everything worked hust fine on my mobile 5

please help

if i want to go back to wm5 the original how can i do it ?
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
Hi guys, i know this is a common problem amongst some of us, there are several threads discussing the connection drops but please there must be someone out there who knows something about it.

Basically with HSDPA enabled, the connection will last a random period of time before disconnecting by itself and displaying: cannot connect for an unknown reason.

When HSDPA is turned off, only 3G is used, although this works fine, it is fairly slower.

I am on T-Mobile UK, I have phoned their technical support, we have established it is not the sim card but the phone itself and have tried a variety of steps to solve this, for example receiving band settings for WCDMA, this has not fixed the problem.

I have tried changing the username and password combinations and have tried every combination of every advanced network option. I have used the T-Mobile stock rom 1.43, official HTC ROM 1.66, duttys hg, energyROM, artemis 5.0 and artemis 5.5 (would recommend btw) using MTTY before every flash, and every single different radio combination.

Myself, and many people here would be very grateful for any help posted.

Thanks in advance
[HD2 General] rodrigofd:
Why don't you try Settings > Connections > Advanced network > GPRS tab > change from PAP to CHAP.. and reset... or viceversa.. that helped for me..
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
Thanks for the post, i've tried all that i've tried all advanced settings, at most they last for a day or so but after a while the connection dropouts seem to worsen
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
Ok ive just gotten off the phone for the third time with the technical support

basically what they've said is that the hsdpa WILL disconnect because the mobile towers simply can't handle the traffic.

He said in his honest opinion I should disable it because it simply won't work well and there is no fix.

Taking the piss juuuuust a little bit
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
Mine on t-mobile uk will show H, but usually drop down to 3G. It won't give me an error when it drops down though.

It sounds like its not transferring from H to 3G.

To be honest, i was unaware t-mobile ran HSDPA till I got my HD2 (never showed on my BB).
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
mine switches between 3G and H too, this happens when the connection is being used (for example loading a web page) when the job is finished (page has finished loading) it turns back to 3G right?

are you saying that your connection never disconnects?

may i ask which radio and rom you are using?

thanks!
[HD2 General] ptit_biscuit:
For my personal experience, I have for over a month, on versions 1.48, 1.66 by HTC, artemis versions, versions of other French chefs. had no problems,

Login Exchange push 24/24 without any cuts, I solicited the network with opera I passed automatically 3g H, and since February it to completely fall with the problems that everyone encounters (lost connection for several minutes , unable to connect to 3G without hard reset)

to remove the sim chip, I try with another chip of the same operator, another chip from another operator, the problem is still there.

For several days I have also continued a Touch HD, it faces no problems, no problems in connection 24/24.

In short, impossible to challenge any operator, any base station, any sim card.

It is then that the problem come from HD2:

-Software: We all try every combination of rom and radio rom possible.

It is the hardware, maybe the chip integrated into a concern for design, manufacturing concerns on some series, may be dysfunctional due to incompatibilitée between several chips of the phone, short, HTC should look into the problem.
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
correct, it never disconnects.

It will switch seemlessly between them, when using or not using.

same one it came with. O2 HD2.

ROM 1.43.206.4 (70315) WWE

RADIO 2.04.50.22_2
[HD2 General] DORMIU:
I've also been struggling with this problem ever since I got my HD2 three weeks ago. However it seems like only a few people experience this.

My case is exactly like cgrec92 described. I'm on a 3.5G network in Denmark (3 Mobile), the phone shows the 3G connection at all times. When things do work and I use Opera/weather/Twitter/email etc, the symbol changes to H and I know the data connection is functioning. I can be using this for a whole hour without any problems.

However, if I put the phone down for a while and then pick it up again to use one of its data services, very often it does not connect to 3.5G (or H) anymore. It will still show the 3G icon on the screen, but there's no data connection. Then I go to Connection Manager and I can see that data connection shows as Off - and after a few seconds it goes back to On by itself :eek: That does not mean the problem is solved, as the phone still fails to establish any data connection. What I need to do then is manually turn off data connection and re-enable it again, which makes the 3G symbol immediately change to H. Then everything starts working again - until the next time it stops working... :mad:

I contacted the HTC customer service and they said it might be a driver-related issue, recommended a hard reset. I did that and for a few hours I thought it solved the problem, but no, data connection still disconnects by itself.

I spoke to 3 Mobile's technical service and they told me to update my software, which I had already done previously (I'm running stock 1.66 ROM Danish). They also said they never received any such complains about the HD2.

Like cgrec92 I've also played with all kinds of network/band settings, but it did not make any difference.

***

One question: isn't the phone supposed to automatically connect via EDGE when it cannot connect via HSDPA? Because in my case it will only establish data connection via H, never EDGE.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!
[HD2 General] pa49:
My take on this FWIW

It's not the phone!

It's the radio ROM installed.

I live in an an area where T-mobile say I can't get HSDPA.

However, I know that I can. How? Because 3 network uses the same local cell and transmitter as T-mobile and their signal will rip your eyes out!!!!!!!!!

All information obtained from a good friend of mine who works for BT, who, service manage the cells for the networks.

Plus, in this location, the cell traffic is then handled by BTs digiatal backbone which takes it who knows where after that.

So I have a very isolated situation in which I know there is a decent HSDPA signal, but I have had trouble with drop outs on my two previous phones (Nokis 5800 and HTC Touch Diamond 2) and originally on my two T-mobile mobile broadband feeds using Huawei E220 cell network modems.

All fixed when I finally found the right Radio and flashed it on the phones and unlocked and flashed the latest modem firmware.

My broadband connections are always on and never drop out and my HSDPA signal on my HD2 is through the roof!

To further emphasise the point all the equipment is used (when home based) behind solar glass which is notorious for blocking mobile phone signals.

Land on the best one and you will get incresed battery life as well.

Bottom line is try the latest radios (2.08.50.08_02 in my case) and I think you may be surprised at the results.

Current result of speed test 09.31 hours

ADSLSPEED.COM | Speed Test

3 minutes later

ADSLSPEED.COM | Speed Test
[HD2 General] Hojlind:
I have the same problem with the connection dropping. What I did to make it work was to disable HDSPA and putting GPRS to CHAP instead of PAP, and so far I have no problems at all :)
[HD2 General] DORMIU:
Thanks for the reply and tips. I also did the same earlier today, except that I did not change PAP to CHAP :O. I was waiting until tomorrow before I posted any results, but I gotta say so far the connection has been stable just like yours.

I also called HTC's customer service in Denmark and the fellow I spoke to was very helpful but he said he has never heard about such problems. He sent me updated network settings via sms, but it did not fix the problem.

I mean, only some users around the world suffer from this problem, right? So what is it that's wrong with our devices? Is it a production fault? If I exchange my phone for a brand new one maybe I won't be unlucky again? When 3 DK finally told you the problem was unfixable, did they mention other users with the same issue? Did they ever offer to replace your phone?
[HD2 General] pa49:
Erm!

It's your radio!

But, I think I did say that in a previous post.

You had a helpful fellow who sent you updated settings?

And he thought that was going to fix your problem?

That was helpful!

It's your radio!

The technicalities are beyond a customer assistant at the end of a phone. They work from a script.

I'll send you the settings.

Have you done this?

Have you done that ?

Never heard of anyone else with your problem!

It's your radio!

T-mobile uses PAP protocol (at least they do here in the UK) and it's a handshake protocol so changing that won't really do anything to the signal definition.

You have it or you don't.

It's your radio!

There is no "production fault".

You are not "lucky" or "unlucky".

You are in an area where you will suffer from this because of the ???????

THE RADIO!

I think I have made my point.

If it turns out that you don't have a radio issue then please feel free to admonish me.

Until then----------

It's your radio!
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
well I don't mean to sound rude but do you SERIOUSLY think we haven't tried that? ive tried every possible radio available here and every different rom, so excuse us for trying new things.im glad your not having any troubles yourself because it is really annoying

perhaps you could post us your rom and radio?

I don't suppose you could post us your settings in advanced network?

did you use the connection setup?

thanks for your help
[HD2 General] DORMIU:
Yes, I was about to mention something similar. I haven't tried combining different ROMS & Radios myself, but I know people like cgrec92 who have with no good results.

And if it is the radio, then every 3 Denmark user like me would be experiencing the same problem, correct? I don't think that's the case. Actually when you read the forums you will find users from different countries with this problem, and they/we are not the only ones with a certain combination of ROM/Radio.

So yes, by disabling HDSPA I finally managed to have a stable data connection (but no 3.5G, obviously). At this point no one seems to know the cause of this issue, but I suppose it's naive to expect a future ROM to solve it, after all it's not a widespread problem. Is HTC even working on it? Are we sure it's not our devices that are faulty?

I honestly have no idea, but I cannot just accept this problem and live with it after all the money I put into this phone. That's why I brought up the possibility of having it exchanged for a brand new one in hopes that it will not have this problem.

Any ideas?
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
The post by pa49 was to DORMIU.

I'll pm you my t-mobile settings.

And I cant use the connection setup, being an O2 HD2, it only allows selection of O2.
[HD2 General] pa49:
I referred to my radio in my previous post -20.08.50.08_02.

My OS ROM is Leo Lite 3.

Connection setup used and no further settings.

My explanation for this is the fringe nature of the received signal.

The radio its constantly 'hunting' for a signal and the radio software has difficulty in locking on.

BTW OS ROM and settings ready don't affect the efficiency of the radio signal.
[HD2 General] DORMIU:
I appreciate the help, but he doesn't seem to understand the issue here. It's not that we have low connection, or that we cannot connect to the 3.5G network. The problem is that the phone's data connection will automatically disconnect even when we are in an area with full 3.5G signal. The phone will connect for a while and then, moments later, in the same spot and with full signal, data connection is terminated. So I just can't see how the radio has anything to do with that, especially when there are hundreds of other users out there with the same ROM & Radio as us and in the same network. And yet they do not experience this problem.
[HD2 General] podycust:
Ive have similar issues but it depends where i am it appears that some towers its ok where others its not!
[HD2 General] pa49:
mo

The radio differentiates between all the different levels and types of signal and it depends on how exact it interprets the signal. They are supposedly optimized before release and then re optimized with each newly released version. Network operators then have their own network parameters and again the radio has to accommodate this as well. One radio will never satisfy all these criteria and some of you will be in the wrong place at the wrong time on the wrong network with the least effective radio.

I can assure you that I most certainly do understand the problem and that is why, in my own case, I have resolved it.
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
pa49, we all do really appreciate your help, but ive tried almost every rom with every radio, so according to you if I use your rom and radio then its problem solved? and dont say you have to experiment different combinations to find your own because ive already done that

if you kept your radio the same, but changed your rom, would you still have no problems?
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
double post sorry
[HD2 General] onisuk:
i have artimis v5 radio V2.04.50.22_2 on O2 3G

i cant even connect to 3G anymore...my phone fleets between E and G symbols ..i used to see the 3G and H at work but not since my last flash !!!:mad:
[HD2 General] pa49:
That is exactly what I have done over the time since the release of 20.08.50_02 radio.

It happens to be the one that was recommended by the ROM chef of the ROM that I now use anyway, but, I had already found it to be the most effective of all that I had tried.

I have not encountered the problems that I had with my stock T-mobile UK ROM - low signal strenth, dropouts of signal completely (unable to retain the signal lock) and all this happening from one second to the next.

One other point is that there is a Rilphone.dll which optimises (supposedly!) the respective carriers signal, however, I have never changed this from the one included in the ROM that I flashed.

There is an element of reliance on the radio with regard to the interoperation with the OS and vice versa, but, this should all happen transparently and if it does not then that is when new releases of the radio ROM (which is basically the hardware driver) come about.

Like I said you don't get the perfect setup in all instances, however, I do believe that you can arrive at the optimal combination of OS ROM, radio ROM and hardware and it could be that the next version release will be "the one" for you.
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
thanks for the reply

i have just tried your radio version, again with no success, i dont suppose perhaps you can specify which version of leolite you are using?

i have just changed the rilphone.dll, and just like everyone else who has, has completely messed up the connections

i had to re-flash stock 1.66, and again, the same problem

im now downloading energy rom and the 1.66 hotfix

any other ideas?