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[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
Well a moderator would have to sticky it. I suggest anyone wanting it stickied should send a PM to Timmymarsh or one of the other mods and request it. (I never request my own posts to be stickied. It seems tacky to me).
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
PAGE 16???

Bumping for the noobs
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chfields:
This should be a sticky!!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcarpenter:
Bumping to prevent moronic threads.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
Thanks for the bumpage. Doesn't look like it's gonna get stickied, which is a shame in my opinion. But oh well.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mountaindont:
hey buddy

just wanted to make you aware that the mods are in the middle of setting up a portal for us, so im thinking stickys are the last thing on their mind. id recomend reposting once its opened :-)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mountaindont:
also your OP is extremely hot headed. idk if the mods would accept that in the first place.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
It only appears hot-headed to people that willingly act like noobs.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mountaindont:
im pretty sure it appears hot headed to the mods too. if you read the rest of the stiki's, none of them act like their trying to spite the people with questions.

i actually learned somethings from your thread, so i definatly appreciate it, and would love to see it stickied... im only trying to help here bud!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mountaindont:
if you like, i could clean it up a bit for you, add some more useful information (from a n00bs point of view;)) and send it to you. it might increase your chances of getting stickied.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
I think it's perfectly fine the way it is. If it gets stickied, cool. If not, also cool. People bumping it is almost as good ;)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flexte:
It's not worded right and not that organized. Content is fine but its too jumbled.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
Out of curiosity what isn't worded right?

As for jumbled, I don't agree, but I'll take any reasonable suggestions to make it easier to read. The whole point of the OP is to keep down the endless garbage that gets posted.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flexte:
ok quick example look where it says android terms. there are a bunch of quotes mixed up in there. and get rid of the "first and foremost"..sounds like you are about to thank god for an award. Its just not neat i can point out Tons of examples. oh yea throw in something about all these dumb battery life threads. every damn phone has at least 10 -20 threads about battery life. forgot to mention i agree with everyone that the tone is way to harsh.. even the title.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
It's supposed to be harsh. As I said, I don't care if it gets stickied..I just think this post, or something like it should be, but you might note that I DID say in the OP that the mods could feel free to change the title if they liked. The quotes are there for a reason. To give credit. I suppose I could remove the quotes and just put in a 'credit' line, though. That's not a bad idea, I'll do that. Adding in the battery life too, another good idea.

As for 'neat' ... it's arranged fairly properly. I could rearrange it a bit I suppose. I'll look at it later.

Edit: Changes made. I'm leaving in 'first and foremost' though. Sorry you find it offensive. :)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
It would work fine if people like you weren't in it making useless posts. I asked for comments on what content people would like to see. As I add more I'll organize it better.

As for 'scaring noobs away' I don't see that as the bad thing you seem to. These threads are NOT for people who won't read. They're here for people who either know what they're doing or are willing to take the time to learn a little before messing with their phones. How many threads have you seen that start like, 'I think I bricked my phone'. or 'HELP!!!!!'? Those are pointless and unnecessary (or would be if people took some time to read and learn first). I spent 3 hours reading these forums before rooting my phone the first time...and several hours over subsequent days familiarizing myself here with the phone before I bought it. No, not everyone has to do that. I go a little above and beyond. But I DO read ROM threads and howtos (including the problems people have with each) before I commit anything to my phone.

In regards to new devs, I sincerely doubt any of them would see the OP as a bad thing. Most (if not all) of them are likely to look at it and either ignore it, or simply agree.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
:)

10char
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDanger:
First, this is your thread so you can do whatever you want.

I just think this is a great idea, just implemented wrong.

Too harsh for the common reader. This is a friendly community, so I would have wrote the same thing you wrote... just in a better way.

There's other way's you could have wrote this... but you chose this one and I can only respect you for that.

The tone of this thread is the only thing I would change.

This is just my comment on this thread. No hard feelings to you... I don't even know you, so don't get emotional or take it personal.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watzone69:
I'm all for being nice but the fact is, it's not working. I've seen several threads that offer well written and thorough explanations and answers for almost every topic listed in the OP. You can find them somewhere around page 79.

My hat's off to smw6180 for making the attempt. The sad fact is that the people who need to read this thread, won't.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auramaster:
Hey, sup guys...I'm from the G1/Dream forums, but my sister just got a Sprint Hero yesterday.. So I was thinking about rooting it for her so she can enjoy the benefits of being a root user (: ...

-Any suggestions on a quick 2.1 Rom for the Sprint Hero? I heard Damagecontrol was a good rom, just wanna get some suggestions..

-Oh and another question, when I wipe her phone, do I have to do anything to reactive sprint, or does it automatically do that? (Sorry donno anything about CDMA phones here, since I have GSM Tmobile..)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
I don't take anything personally from people I don't know. Life's too short to get pissy about things people who I don't know and will likely never meet say. :)

But as I said I like the tone of this thread...and as has also been mentioned 'nice' doesn't seem to work. Read the post above this one...for whatever reason that person chose to ignore the links on the first page and post here anyhow with questions that are easily found via search. So basically I give up. Even if stickied the people who need to read this won't.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
I'm answering your questions...though it drives me batty given the subject matter of this thread.

DC and Fresh seem to be the two most popular. I've used both and prefer DC. Others (Darchlegend, Regaw, a few others) are also very good ROMs.

Her phone doesn't have to be reprovisioned, so just wipe and go.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferfy67:
Condescending?

Thank you. I am neither noob nor a Developer. But I agree. I found it demeaning.

To OP if there is a question that you don't want to read OR answer, scroll by. Your post does have some good info but sounds patronizing. Not sure if it was intended.

Sent from my HERO200 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
*shrug* I'm done with it at this point. It was patronizing because it was meant to be. Too many people don't bother or are too lazy to read anything and just post new threads (which have been posted 10 dozen times before).

As for scrolling by...well frankly I do that. It doesn't make the forums any less cluttered. And I really shouldn't have to. I've been a member here for years and this is the worst I've ever seen this place.

But since so many people seem to disagree with what I'm trying to do, I'll just drop the thing. No skin off my nose either way. I'll just stop reading all but the 2-3 threads I'm interested in and stop looking at anything else.

Oh, and to answer your 'just scroll by' response, the reason I wasn't doing that for the longest time is because I like to be helpful. Poke around, you'll see I've been around helping beta test, or root out bugs, or just in general answering questions. I don't develop ROMs or themes...I just don't have the time to learn what I'd need to know (especially for theming) so I repay the community by helping out with people that need help. But I'm all done with wading through 20 page threads of the same crap that's been posted 1600 times before.

You try answering the same question 20 times or so and see if you don't get frustrated enough to want it to stop as well.

Maybe it's time to go to Android Central on a more permanent basis. This place has been out of hand for way too long and the general attitudes here have become intolerable to me.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDanger:
LOL at the post you mentioned... I don't think being nice or straight to the point works... Sorry bout my previous post... some ppl need it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smw6180:
Yeah I saw what you said on Damage's thread. Did you notice that 3 people on the SAME PAGE asked if the DC server was down....after I posted it was?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDanger:
Yeah... and that's when I thought... "smw6180 was right"

smh
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watzone69:
Sweet Jesus, I had to pop over to this thread for a quick dose of sanity while wading through the Damage Control thread! It's almost like people are asking the same questions over and over on purpose. Are people really that lazy and unobservant? My God!!

...7, 8, 9, 10... OK, I'm going back in... God, grant me the serenity...
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokipimpin:
hell im a noob an i still agree...lol
[Touch CDMA Android Development] turtle9er:
Hi,

My power button broke last week and just installed Android, my issue is that I can't get any menus since can't use the power button. Anyways to remap the menu button to the D-pad? Or can I get menus without the power button, I have tried everything. Thanks.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] wertt:
i'm in the same boat. my power button has been flakey for the last few months, but as of yesterday it's on it's last legs. it sometimes takes me 3 or 4 minutes to get my phone unlocked to make a call. i might have to go back to windows!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Gersonian:
So I just replaced the housing on my phone. Check and see if its the connecton on the motherboard or the button itself. If its the button, I'd be happy to hook one of y'all up with a new power button from my old housing.

Sent from my Sprint Vogue using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Touch CDMA Android Development] wizziko:
man I'd gladly take your old power button. For the last couple of months, I've been using an eraser and tape for my power button lol
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Gersonian:
Ok PM me with your contact info and I will send it along... If you need a link to a disassembly guise for the vogue, let me know.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mprinkey:
I was having trouble with my camera button, so "back" was missing. I tore it apart...need a Torx 5...using complete teardown instructions I found on this site. The metal clips came loose and allowed the switch to push into the case. You can see how they should look by comparing to the reset button or camera button that is working. I bent the clips back and dropped some solder on them to hold them in place. Then probed with the phone on...pressing the switch down onto the board and clicking the button and watching for a response. Once I found it, I held it in place and lightly heated the metal leads to reflow the solder joints on the motherboard. I held it down for 30 seconds after removing the iron. Once I reassembled it, everything seems perfect. This seems a much better solution than trying to hack up a custom control scheme. Good luck.
[HD2 General] kimborly:
Hey folks,

Stock HD2 - both hubby and I (buy 1 get one free deal) have expereinced flakyness with the data/cell radio - sitting still, the readout cycles between 3G and E with the same number of bars...

Is there an upgrade to the radio that will provide some stability? And - is it even possible to flash the radio driver without flashing a fully baked ROM?

Thanks!
[HD2 General] token2k6:
well you still need hardSPL to flash the radio..you can flash a radio, then flash a 'stock' rom, but I'm thinking there isn't one for the HD2..you'd have to wait for the first upgrade from T-Mobile to try to do something like this.

crazy that this would be unstable! I would check you're setting or maybe get some advanced config tool and see if you can enable 3G only..
[HD2 General] dailydriver:
After doing a factory reset on mine, it stays in 3G for 20 minutes and then switches to Edge indefinitely. This is frustrating. I changed the band to WCDMA and it stays in 3G now, but I shouldn't have to do that.

The wife's HD2 is perfect. It's always on 3G. We got it as a bogo special also, so it should have the same everything.

The only thing she doesn't have is "HSPL" installed. Besides that, I never flashed any roms or anything. I just have HSPL there just in case I ever want to play with it.

Can HSPL cause this issue? LOL...noob... :-)
[General Questions and Answers] alexsemi:
Why at night my HTC weather on tmo HD2 tells me that it's sunny outside? :)
[General Questions and Answers] ElCondor:
Hehe yeah that sounds pretty senseless!

How would you call it then? Dark?:p
[General Questions and Answers] donald-c:
When I update the weather at night it changes to, usualy, 'Clear' with a moon.
[General Questions and Answers] djteotancolis:
do you update it at night...cuz if you dont it'll still show sunny
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] vlad9d:
Hello,

I recently flashed my TP2 for the first time to CookieMonster's Hometab Manila 2.5.201225. I installed hdwalls without any trouble, however when i attempted to select a backround it just gave me a never ending spinning wheel. Then when i tried to restart, TF3D would not function properly and the phone became very glitchy. I have so far done 3 hard resets and no luck.

Any ideas?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] mhurg:
Could be several things. Did you install the HQwallpaper patch which corresponds to the Manila version?

Did you install the latest HDwalls?

Did you make sure the background cab was made for Sense 2.5?

Other than that, I can't think of anything that might cause it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] vlad9d:
yes, i installed HDwalls .24b and HQwallpaper patch 2.5.20xx. However when i try to install the backround cab i still get the loading screen and when i try to install the cab manually it asks me to disable TF3D which after that the phone does not function properly
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] lacrossev:
I've had different problems with HDWall, after a lot of frustration i was pointed in the direction of BGtweak which also has its own thread on xda, i would suggest you take a look at that and see if that suits you, its pretty decent for myself on a 21090 build of sense 2.5 with GTX by energy for an att tp2
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] sirphunkee:
Great find, thanks!! Here's the direct link:

BG Tweak

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=660557
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gunnyman:
(yeah I searched) :p I have several 'dead' entries in my wallpaper picker probably from messing around with a2sd and such, and I'm wondering where they are stored so I can get rid of them.

Thanks
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Konikub:
Here....lol
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] kyouko:
I think i remember reading /data/data?

Or sdcard/wallpaper :p

Edit: saw a file under /data/data/com.android.settings/files/ called "wallpaper" it was a decent sized file
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gunnyman:
those look like standard unix preference files like on my Mac. Do I want to delete the one for com.Android.Wallpaper or com.htc.FilePicker?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] kyouko:
whats under the com.android.wallpaper dir? btw check my edit from my last post

I'll try to delete that wallpaper file under /data/data/com.android.settings/files and see what happens. I'll post back in a little.

EDIT: haha deleting that wallpaper file just removed my wallpaper and set it to default. So, gotta try something else

Edit2: I've tried deleting a ton of things off my phone that have either album, or wallpaper as a part of their name. none of which have gotten rid of those wallpaper. i give up :-/
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gunnyman:
Thanks for investigating I had no idea it would be such a mystery :D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gunnyman:
Just for fun I'm going to remove my dalvik cache and reboot.

EDIT: made no difference
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] kyouko:
Alright, so I couldn't give up :p

Where exactly did you go to select the wallpapers that have been removed? ie. Htc wallpapers, photos, wallpaper gallery?

Are you referring to the one's in the attached picture
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gunnyman:
it was in the extra entry just called wallpaper. I think its related to the aloyociois ROM because that's the only ROM I have that uses launcher 2

Sent from my HERO200 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Touch HD General] erich900:
Do someone know when HTC will give out a new htc hd (blackstone) rom? maybe with colour Manila TAB. or something like that.

Because the stock rom is the fastest and most stabile ROM, I think! BUT not a pretty ROM, like the Manila 2.5 and W6.5**. It just need a OVERHAUL!

I think we can have W6.1 with... Manila 2.4 maybe hehe. not as fancy but cooler then Manila 2.1

LET's press the HTC, because they think everyone ****t money to buy a new device every month or week!

im happy with my HTC HD, but i think HTC has forget about us old-device-user! and they come out with upgrade to other "new" devices, but i want somthing to, somthing cool. and if xda and our worlds best developers can, then the htc company with the tecnologi can do it to! wtf i think, crapy done by htc! i have sent 1000 of mails too them and they keep say " dont know" then why do u work at support for god f###.. or? feks. the stock HD ROM have the ugly keybord, i want the new one on a stock rom.. so!

Sorry for my english =P but u guys understand what i meen!
[Touch HD General] Wiggz:
Good Luck with that - Whilst I share your frustration that those who keep faith with Stock ROMs aren't rewarded with updates, the fact is that with the sheer amount of devices that HTC currently release year on year, the odds that some of it's back catalogue will get any such update are quite small.

I eventually gave in and flashed an XDA/Cooked ROM.
[Touch HD General] jenotc:
Me too ....... I really would appreciate some stock rom, that would have qualities of Duttys rom with Co0kie Home Tab and CHTEditor versatility.
[Touch HD General] erich900:
thats what I really mean!! Stock rom with qualities of our chief would be the best for HTC HD:) Cheers!
[Touch HD General] erich900:
I have flashed xda cooked ROM, but our chiefs have stoped building ROMS with WM6.1, and manilla 2.1. And I prefer the speed and the stability of the WM6.1 and manilla 2.1.
[Touch HD General] hatkeeper:
Answer is no, and that is just the nature of business

There are too many new devices out there that they are focusing on (and still have issues), just to name a few, HD2, Nexus One, Desire...

Actually I don't mind them doing so, but at least make it easier for outsiders to access info on older chipsets (MSM), which to me is the main hurdle to maximize performance on the phones.
[Touch HD General] erich900:
ok, ur right now as i thinking, but.. WHY! do everyone want WM6.5? is stil laggy after some use, at the begining its WOW cool and fast, stable, but after 2-3 weeks its starts to be slow. so, why not make the 6.1 even better and faster + new design ( manila 2.5) tabs? the rest dont have to be as "cool" as htc hd2 (leo) i allways use the kwbr topix rom, but im dont going from his rom topix 3.5 wwe =D anyway, his new rom topix 3.6 or somthing, is it wm 6.1 or 6.5? heh:)
[Touch HD General] hatkeeper:
u know why? because it takes effort to do software development, you need more people to support two platforms than one. It would have been nice if htc just upgrade/tweak manila 2.1 to 2.5. but from general use, you know that's not the case, as they behave differently (functionality is the same).

So why is this decision made? Could be many reasons, maybe feature, flexibility wise, 2.1 is just not good enough for the future, who knows?

For sure htc is not going to work on 2.1 & 2.5 to acheive the same goal, even though its for different phones, sadly in this industry the upgrade cycle is 6 months to 1 year (just like computers). I am not try to bash on the company, but take a guess which htc phone is at top quality in user experience (hardware & software) at release, and have good upgrades/support after 2 years. When you hang around xda long enough, you will know :)
[Touch HD General] erich900:
ok, i understand now! HTC HD is dead. the company is thinkig about new phones. but if ill buy HTC Desire HD, do i have to keep installing coocked rom's frome here? The HTC Desire is not getting the "new" htc sense, ( htcsense.com) why? its so lalala stupid, look at the xp,vista and win 7. only new design, but u still have internett explorer and other stuff, i dont care about the design, only about nice updats.

thats why i dont like htc loonger, the forget about our phone after 5 months.
[Touch HD General] Sp1tfire:
Pff, it's useless asking for updates for old HTC devices. They launch a dozen of phones every year. Their goal is to sell the new devices and earn money, not update the old ones for free. I use HTC Touch HD and i haven't seen any official updates on their site, except for some bug fixes and an official ROM which does nothing more than my preinstalled ROM. Haven't checked the updates for other HTC devices, but it's obviously they didn't give a damn about HTC Touch HD immediately after its release.
[General Questions and Answers] xdatek:
never mind
[General Questions and Answers] Noonski:
Moved thread to Q&A as OP stated this is not a query about Code.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ngmanis:
Hey, I am big into making things completely custom - especially when it comes to my phone. But my impatient self didn't follow up with enough research on "rooting" - essentially leading me to flash the 2.1 leak (seemed a lot simpler/less risky than rooting except I didn't know the endless customization possibilities that came with root)

So now I am stuck with a 2.1 leaked Eris and I see all of these AWESOME ROMS on here. Yet all I can do is look :(

So my question is, Are there other ways to customize things such as lockscreen, bootscreen, icons/icon names, etc without being rooted?? Any type of customization program or application you guys have would be awesome. Post them here!!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidkevlar:
You can change your boot and icons. You can use better cut do change icons. There a lot of topics for changing boot ani.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ngmanis:
Oh ok cool. I had a friend willing to trade his Motorola Droid for my Droid Eris today....I said no simply because I'm not so sure I would like the Moto Droid....What do you think? Have you had any experience with it?