[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] purpleonyx:
Greetings all --

I am posting this request for help because I've exhausted just about every other resource. The community support and documentation is great and I have learned quite a bit in a matter of days. You all are great!

Here's my situation. I have the HTC 8900 (KAIS110). Not the 8925 like most seem to have. It is my understanding that 3 versions of the "Kaiser" were made, or at least submitted to FCC for approval, and that the 8900 was to go to AT&T (branded on phone), but was canceled in lieu of the 8925. This is the non-camera version.

For reference, the following information is listed in the battery compartment:

HTC 8900

KAIS110

FCC ID: NM8KS

SKU: 64760

P/N: 99HCY091-00

Made in Taiwan

Currently:

HardSPL 3.56

Radio: 1.71.09.01

Myn's Warm Donut RLS5

kallt_kaffe's kernel 2010-06-06 (kaiser/240x320/donut/panel 2/tilt options used in LoserSkaters NBH Editor)

Problems:

1. Installing OS (Sys+Data on NAND), dmesg output shows "Block 711 is bad". Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't be a problem as the OS would remap to a new block. This could also be an issue with yaffs, or a few other things, and not even be bad. But the question remains, is this causing problems?

2. Attempting to run Calibrate Screen results in error with the following message: "The application Calibrate Screen (process org.isageek.dasbrennen.CalibrateScreen) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. [Force close]". I have not seen a recent post in response to whether this problem persists with all builds, or if I am just lucky like that.

3. GPS does not want to play nice. From the app store, I install GPS by Andrea Baccega. Sometimes I get a single satellite to display, once I saw 3 on screen. Unfortunately, none of the other fields (long/lat) were populated which tells me something is wrong.

Dmesg output:

GPS:env_mask=0

GPS:date=00002000

GPS:time=000000 hlat=0 llat=0 hlng=0 llng=0

GPS:speed=0 bearing=0

GPS: has been tickled!

4. Using the phone on T-Mobile, why can I not get 3G working? It keeps going back to EDGE. I have the Android data plan as well.

5. Voice search is quite flaky. Sometimes it works great once, maybe a few times in a row, and then it just stops working and presents me with the Try Again / Cancel screen, after which, there is no longer audio for phone calls. From what I can tell using Dev Tools, looks like VoiceSearch is hanging due to an issue with Mediaserver. I recall seeing this issue, or a similar one, surface in the forums but there was not much information pertaining to it that I could find.

6. The following errors appear in the dmesg output; I am posting the list just in case one or more messages are beyond the scope of normal operations:

mmc1: host does not support reading read-only switch. assuming ite-enable.

Init: cannot open '/initlogo.rle'

[RR] ERROR no local ept for prog 02000031 replying anyway!!

audio_enable()

audpp: DMA missed

audio timer expired

audio_disable()

audmgr: DISABLED

binder: send failed reply for transaction 5448 to 149:221

7. As stated above, this phone lacks a camera. The slot where the camera goes, just has a cover over it. Looks like I should be able to pop a replacement in the spot. Anyone know the part number of the rear camera, or where I might find one? I can only seem to locate the front-camera on various web sites.

Thanks all!