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[Android Software Development] Austin021296:
Alright i have the the sdk installed i just need abd commands to work now
[Android Software Development] x-ravin:
Don't forget to add the tools directory to your PATH
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] doeboy711:
I am running Fresh 2.0d and found out that I can play it but you have to get an older version. I have v1.2.1. I found that apk online and installed it and it works. A lil lag here and there but its 100% working. I thought I should share my find
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] KERKEDAGAIN:
1.2.6 works flawlessly on DarchLegend..
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] doeboy711:
I couldn't get any 1.2.6 to work on any 2.1 rom. Idk why but hey it works now and thats what I care about :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] twmshwn:
Hi

I have rooted my 3UK HTC hero and running Hero21 community 1.7.

If the Hero gets an official upgrade to 2.1 then if I upgrade, 3UK will lock the Hero down.

I want the best of both worlds, I want to have the latest upgrade, but I don’t what the network provider

To lock it down.

Hywel
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ZED_pt:
Dont upgrade to official,as soon as it is out most surely someone will port it.

Its just a matter of 1 or 2 days...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] juansuandi:
just wait till someone port the ROM for us...

but how about radio and SPL? i thinks official update will replace the SPL right?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] james1089:
Dont use their rom period why would ya there only to stop you tethering anyways.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] craig0r:
Hopefully this will alleviate some confusion about official/custom ROMs.

I'm not exactly sure how OTA updates work, but probably pretty similar to RUU's. An RUU is an executable that will flash several "ROMs" to your phone: Boot, Radio, Recovery, System and Data. It also appears to write to the SPL, but we don't care about SPL as much as we care about the Recovery ROM. Anyway, you run the RUU, it flashes all that to your phone as one big package, including overwriting our recovery ROM, and you lose root, probably forever. However, you can extract the ROM.zip from the RUU file and you see all the separate images that get written to your phone. With access to all the separate images, you can repackage them into an update.zip like we use to install custom ROMs.

You can turn an official ROM (from an RUU file) into a custom ROM in just a few minutes by manipulating a few files. (There are other threads dedicated on how to cook ROMs.)

So, if you think that there's some advantage to flashing the official RUU, there's not, because with a bit of reading and manipulating some files, you can flash your carrier's ROM without losing root/custom recovery.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] HomerSp:
Probably a few hours at most, depending on what time they release it.
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] twinblade:
I prepared these two little files that have to be decompressed in the storage card root to display a nice SE logo and Xperia name when the USB "Disk drive" connection method is used.

You may choose to hide the two files by modifying their attributes when connected as disk drive. It won't affect the functionality. It depends on your taste :).
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] writeonthis:
Thanx man, let me try it on my x1
[Desire General] DoAndroidsDream:
Turned off the phone last night, returned to it this morning (6+ hours) with "Power off - shutting down" on the screen. I ended up pulling the battery and booting from cold.

The phone turned back on with no problems, but 45 minutes after turning it off again - it is displaying the same screen and not shutting down. Pulling the battery, turning on and then turning off the phone immediately has the same problem.

Tasks running before the shut down are normal, I have almost no 3rd party apps installed yet.

Ideas anyone?
[Desire General] ipodtouch1001:
Sounds like a similar problem that I and a number of others seem to be having. The bad news is that there doesn't seem to be a simple fix at the moment, but the good news is that with it happening to increasing numbers of us, hopefully it will be remediable in a future update.
[Desire General] Spineli:
Hi there,

What main post are you referring to for this issue?

If you could please direct me, thanks.

I'm having the same problem, last week I was turning the phone off and it would turn off in half hour or so.

This morning, I turned the phone off, and it has been "Shutting down" for about 3 hours now...

extremely frustrating!!!
[Desire General] gogol:
Try to install "aLogCat" application. This app could show Android log files.

And see if you can spot something there ...

I also have this issue. I took out the battery.

The thing is ... after turned on ... you can turn off without any problem.
[Desire General] lukeyboymac:
unmount sd card before shutting down.

Will change it from never to shutting down to shutting down in <10 seconds
[Desire General] poldie:
Perhaps this? :http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=666332
[Desire General] jurmala98:
Had the same issue when I first got my desire from T-Mobile. SD Card later failed on me, and after getting a replacement from T-Mobile, the phone works perfectly and shuts down instantly. So my guess is that your problem is the SD card. You could try walking to the retailer and try to get a replacement SD card. When mine failed T-Mobile even gave me a 8gb one instead of the orignal 4gb
[Desire General] jannen:
Im 99% sure its an app/widget causing the prob. I had the same, but its gone when I uninstalled most of my apps. Not sure which app caused the prob though...
[Desire General] hrcro:
I had that problem. After a hard reset it is not present any more. So i guess that some app caused it. Couldnt tell wich one.
[Desire General] poldie:
It might be harder to diagnose than uninstalling/killing something and trying again, as it might be due to memory leaks, services, other tasks. I've read that it might be related to the backup to sd card which happens from time to time, so unless you're in the middle of a backup then you'd not have a problem (assuming there is a connection). You can only tell over time.
[Desire General] mvjh01:
HTC Desire won't power off

I had the exact same problem. I only had 2 widgets active: 1 was the Handcent SMS widget the other was a Battery widget from mippin.com. I changed the Handcent widget to the program shortcut but did not uninstall and uninstalled the Battery widget. Now it powers off with no problem
[Desire General] micks_address:
i have the same issue with my desire.. i have a 8gb sd card in there.. which is nearly full.. maybe thats an issue?

how do you unmount card before shutting down?
[Desire General] Gana1991:
Menu > Settings > SD and Phone Storage > Unmount SD Card
[Desire General] micks_address:
thanks for that.. is there any downside to doing a hard reset? is that setting - privacy - factory data reset?
[Desire General] flux:
Once I tried to unmount sd card and then it wasn't possible at all to shut down the phone. I had to remove battery
[Desire General] shikhar:
hey buddy, try to remove quick links like back light and soft reset, it works also try with flash light same...worked with me..good luck. or try toms power off zip.
[Desire General] santacruzdz:
DESIRE doesnt turn off

It sucks..all night long, this morning i found out it was still in the process of shutting down..turning off the cell phone should be a priority program,all others tasks must shut down..i think HTC should make an update since a lot of users experience same problem.
[Desire General] RaptorRVL:
It used to hang at shutting down with me too. But, and I have no idea what changed, it now shuts down just fine. Weird stuff!
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
I shut mine down last night. It used to take about 60seconds to shut down but last night it just said "shutting down" for hours. I left it to see what happened. 11hours later it still said "shutting down". :( I picked it up and was going to open it up and remove battery. I obviously didn't want to do that to get dust and crap into the back of phone. As soon as I turned it over to remove back the screen went white! HTC. And it started up. ? ? ? coincidence or did me moving it around cause the restart after 11hours?

Anyway, I can tell it now has 237mb free (using advanced task killer to check memory available). It never normally has more than 150mb free. Maybe there is a memory leak somewhere in Sense UI? It seems the longer you have used thephone without a restart, the more likley it will hang during shutdown.

I hope HTC are aware of this issue. I logged a support call too, as I'm sure many of you did.

anyway, shake the phone around a bit before you remove the back to see if that helps. It did for me after 11 hours of being stuck on "shutting down!" screen.

Oh by the way, I had unmounted the card befre the shut down in the hopes it would be quicker than 60seconds. It made no difference!
[Desire General] micks_address:
i had this issue also.. a factory reset fixed it.. i think it was an app i installed did the damage.. some mentioned unmounting the sd card first but i tried that and it made no difference..
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
thanks Mick. I have no apps installed but google maps, google skymaps, and advanced task killer. If I did a factory reset I would probably end up putting those 3 things back on too. so I'll leave the factory reset action. I would lose all my settings and customization? ah I'll just put up with it till a fix comes..

I know some people are against using task killers, and I agree that they should not be used unless 100% needed. For example, sometimes the newsfeed HTC widget will crash and won't update and I cannot remove it or restart it. I can use task killer to kill it, and its 100% fine when it restarts, so there does seem to be some cases where a task killer useful. I owul dnot use it all the time though. Only when something hangs or crashes.
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
I have never had it not shut down eventually but it does take like 10mins sometimes. Just unmounted the sd and it took about a minute but not sure if it would have only taken a min anyway so dont know if that helped

Can anyone see on icon in the blurry status bar bar appear when its trying to shut down. It is something to do with sd card card?
[Desire General] who_me:
And I thought I was the only one with this issue...I just end up removing the battery after starring at the "shutting down" box for 15 minutes. Not the most ideal solution it has to be said but at least it switches the phone off...
[Desire General] cgrec92:
just uninstall the task killer as it causes problems and is not needed

my phone turns off in a couple of seconds

taking the battery out is not good for the phone
[Desire General] refelian:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=666332&page=42

Guys, try keeping the screen on while shutting it down.

I also talked about this in the flaws and annoyances thread.

Good luck!
[Desire General] Rogalicious:
Hello

I don't know if anyone is still suffering this annoying problem, but I just retraced my steps, removing apps and widgets until it would power off normally. It was the 'Notes' widget supplied with the phone that was causing mine to not shut down.
[Desire General] church473:
Well I found that an app called 3g watchdog stopped mine. I had 3g watchdog on in the notifications area so when I used a task killer to close watchdog then the phone shuts down normally....try closing programs that leave an icon on the notifications area
[Desire General] sagi73:
The problem seems to be caused by the program Astro.

Try uninstalling and verified.

Hello
[Desire General] D-fens:
Od you unmount SD card will it mout itself after the phone is back again?

About this blurry icon - this is the SD Card icon but I can not read the text.

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[Desire General] mcgon1979:
When I unmounted the SD card first it still took hours.
[Desire General] ranwej:
I had the same problem, for me helped kill "battery widget" and disable internet connection (disable APN) before power off. Then my phone shutdown always under 1 minute. And i'm trying to keep the display always on with touching it during shutdown..
[Desire General] Fernando Britto:
Advanced Task Killer

Hi everyone,

this was happening with my phone as well, then I uninstalled the Advanced tASK KILLER that was recommended by the sales man at cardphone warehouse, and now it shuts down in less than 10 seconds.

;)

Fernando
[Desire General] zlivan:
Battery Indicator from Darshan was keeping mine from shutting off. ATK, backup, or card unmounting made no difference.
[Desire General] iLHaNroID:
Confused.. which app may cause this problem?

Hi.. I'm experiencing the same problem as yours; Desire can't shut down at all, or it takes 10 - 15 minutes to succeed it. There are many different opinions and suggestions here in this thread, hence I am quite confused on this issue; which app(s) cause the matter, I have Astro file manager, battery reminder, system (task manager), notes and so on. As understood, any or all of them might trouble the system to stop him shutting down. Is there anyone who has good knowledge about the issue and enlighten the case?
[Desire General] .:george:.:
Try turning your WiFi off before you turn off the phone. Works for me :)

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[Desire General] refelian:
I had contacted htc about this fact and they acknowledge that it takes a long time to turn off. Although they point more in 5-15min closing time (dependant on how many apps you at one point accessed), an

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other aspect which can stall the shutdown time is letting the screen go off. It will go in to a standby mode where it actually wont do anything.

A task killer can definitely help for those people who dont want to spend 10 minutes tapping their screen so it wont go on standby
[Desire General] mofolino:
Update 1.21.405.2 ?

Hi,

I have the same problem and I don't know (if) what application is causing it. But I noticed that if I am using phone with no restart for a couple of days - then I can't switch off. When I take battery out and try after a few hours again - it works without problems.

I wonder if this update 1.21.405.2 fixes this? Anyone?
[Desire General] iLHaNroID:
I too hv noticed that, as you said, after a couple of days without restart, it takes extremely long time to shut down. I hv updated fw to 1.405.21.2 as soon as it was released; not sure if it has solved the matter or just because of the fact that i hv uninstalled some of the apps; have not experienced such an issue yet.

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[Desire General] scary chicken:
Actually I didn't have this problem until I got this update so in my case the 1.21.405.2 seems to be the cause.
[Desire General] ardsar:
My phone wad fine until the last update. Have nothing different installed.

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[Desire General] ULJ:
For me and two of my friends (also with the HTC Desire) it has been the microSD card that has been faulty causing the phone not to shutdown/close. Try to use the phone without the original microSD card. Then the phone will shutdown/close perfectly. The solution is to buy a new microSD card.
[Desire General] The_Stranger:
Nope, with a different card, my desire still taken ages to shut down....
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
Haven't shut down in ages (not since the new 1.21 update)... but I have noticed my phone rebooted itself twice over the past few weeks. When I was opening a video in the gallery and once just opening the gallery itself.

anyway, I decided to shut down today just to clear the memory etc.

It stalled on "powering off" screen as per usual. switched the screen off and left it for 10 or 15 minutes. switched it on, still on "powering off" screen. so just switched it to standby and back a few times and hey presto, HTC startup screen. so not too bad. its just slow. sometimes it wouldn't even shut down at all. Maybe 2.2 will solve this. yay.
[Desire General] desiregeek:
I have the same shutdown problems with HTC Desire that everyone else here is having. I bought mine new in Taiwan and even though it allows you to change to English it still has all that other local crap on there. Many of the stuff also can not be removed under the applications section as there is no uninstall tab to remove application. I upgraded to a new 16gb SD card from kingston and it still is slow as hell to shut down. Takes about a few minutes jus to shut down and I pretty much don't have any applications installed on there except for a few basic ones. I did try the kill applications task but still it takes forever to shutdown:(
[Desire General] tincmulc:
Shutdown problem

My desire gets stuck in a shutdown loop (it will sit at "shutting down spining wheel" for a whole night, and still not shutdown). This first occured after I installed juice plotter and some other battery remaining widget. I unistalled the widget the same day and juice ploter a day after that and my phone still can't shut down.

Also, is there a key combination to soft reset the phone? Opening the battery cover is... a risky busines.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] depaor:
+1: turning off Wi-Fi and Mobile network allows a normal shutdown.

I have build 1.21.405.5 and have been unable to shut down the phone "naturally" until a few minutes ago - when I shut the Wi-Fi and Mobile network down.
[Desire General] Ik Desire:
Have you tried appkilling tasks to find out what task it is shutdown hangs on?
[Desire General] daern:
I use Advanced Task Manager to kill all processes and services before rebooting. Works a treat every time. If I don't do this, it always fails to reboot.
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
Everything? Kill them all?
[Desire General] pascanu:
Happened to me several times, even after a hard reset. Fixed it by restarting several (2-3) times in safe mode (hold home button while powering up until it vibrates), then restarted it several times normally. It is almost certain an app or a widget that is causing it. Entering safe mode will reset all widgets (you will have to recreate them) and probably delete some cache/obsolete app data.

Try it, see if it works for you.
[Desire General] pedrodebordeaux:
I had this problem. My phone rebooted after less than 5 minutes of use. I sent back guarantee. They change the motherboard, for a problem supposedly linked to the radio card
[Desire General] daern:
Why not. It's not like you'll need them or anything ;)
[Desire General] Ik Desire:
Maybe it hangs on apps restarting because you closed them...
[Desire General] pascanu:
Did you try what I suggested? I'm really curious if it works for other people as it has worked for me on more than one occasion.
[Desire General] tincmulc:
The desire to use the phone normally is greater than the desire of turning it of properly.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] oncoming_storm_:
Desire taking ages to power off

IT IS HTC NOTES!

Thanks to a previous poster, I popped m hTC notes widget into the dustbin (from the desktop) and the power-off now takes 10 secs.

Tried EVERYTHING else

MAybe it is the link from the notes widget to the SD card? Sometimes a warning is displayed when you open the phone from cold, on the notes widget.

Anyway - Excue the cap but I want everyone to know ASAP

IT IS THE HTC NOTES WIDGET - REMOVE FROM HOME SCREEN

I thank you:)
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
I don't have the HTC notes widget on my home screen? I still have the problem though. I also killed ALL apps. same. 25minute shut down. ah well... Im sure 2.2 will fix it.
[Desire General] tincmulc:
I also don't have the widget, not even installed, the kill all apps didn't work either.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] scoobyspin:
I used to have this shutdown problem till I rooted and installed a madaco Rom
[Desire General] pascanu:
Nope. It might have been in your case but I never had that widget or used HTC notes and had this problem. However it seems most likely that in most cases it's one of the widgets so people who have this problem should try deleting all widgets and re-creating them.
[Desire General] Srem:
i have been having this problem. based on this advice i turned off the alarm (which has an icon) and my phone turned off in less than 10secs. i will test this again after a couple of days usage and report back
[Desire General] Merkes:
Well this is a problem with the automatic backup from HTC. Go to:

Settings -> Privacy -> Back up my data & settings

Turn it of and then try to power off your phone then. You will see that it's much faster when turning off.
[Desire General] predo:
its not that because I never had this on and it still doesn't power off everytime I shut it down. Need to take battery out :/
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
its not the alarm. its not an app. Its not the calendar.

if you have not shut your phone down in a long time (days or a week) it will take ages sometimes. try pressing power/downvolume/trackpad to reset the phone. This will reboot it. after reboot you can shut down in 10seconds or less.

yes the reset does not backup all your data like the shutdown does, but thats what is stalling the shutdown. it is taking ages trying to save all your settings and exit properly. even if you kill every task before shutting down it still takes ages.
[Desire General] tincmulc:
I had it shutting down for more than 12 hours. After a reboot it still took more than 15minutes, at which point I gave up. I now try to keep it on for as long as possible, and do the reset combination when something goes wrong.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] Harnec:
Same here, turned off the alarm than my phone shuts down in 10 secs (tried after 1 week usage than again 20 hours usage same results). swithing the backup off didn't help me which I tried earlier. Interestingly the alarm did the trick. I don't have a clue how can alarm create such a problem.

UPDATE: after froyo I dont have this problem anymore alarm on or off
[Desire General] christhorn:
Well, I've been having the same problem with my Desire recently.

Having read this thread I got rid of the following widgets from the home screens, and the phone now shuts down in 5 seconds: Calendar (HTC), Power Control (Android), Weather (HTC).

I've just reinstated Power Control on the home screen and shut down is still 5 seconds, so (in my case) it's Weather or Calendar.
[Desire General] rtb35:
Basically it is a problem with the running services and the inability of the phone to shut them down when you want to turn it off.

For me it was "battery indicator pro" that was preventing my phone from shutting down,if i close the app manually before shutting the phone down the phone will turn off in a matter of seconds.

So if you have problems turning off your phone i suggest looking at your running services and using a process of elimination work out which one is causing the problem.
[Desire General] darosa99:
wont power off

i had this problem on my htc inspire running a desire based rom and i tried shutting off fastboot. it seemed to do the trick, it shuts down completely now.dont know if it will help but can give it a try
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] acostello:
So, i have a pre 3.5mm jack mytouch 32b version. When i try to use flashrec, it just says backup failed: could not run command. This is my first problem. Can someone help me work this out?

More info, i have a 4 gb sd,

1.6 firmware

2.6.29-00479 kernel ver

Build number DMD64
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] acostello:
If its best, you can contact me via aim at bignutz2k2 or at google talk at acostelloatgmail.com
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] bunu:
http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/11/how-to-root-the-mytouch-1-2-and-fender-mytouch/

Here you go.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] acostello:
I got it to 1.5 but i cant install flashrec now for some reason using astro. I guess I dont know how to. Any suggestion?