yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
lol, how many hd2's have been sold? thats a one in that many chance occurance, and no mistake.
[HD2 General] hazard99:
just wow

Wow I cant believe it still works. Id wanna shoot myself!
[HD2 General] RicarduZonta:
If you get your phone wet don't use a hair dryer to dry it coz it overheats metal parts so the circuits melt.
[HD2 General] fuuunkdat:
In the words of homer simpson DOH! :D cant believe it worked after:eek:
[HD2 General] poohpoohguy:
as long as the internal complete dry, u shouldn't have problem to turn it back on.
[HD2 General] Sentinel196:
The best thing you can do with a phone that has been for a swim (completely submerged in water) is to pull the battery off and soak it in isopropyl for 30 min or so. This should get the water out of it. Then leave it out to dry until completely dry.

Iven if a wet phone works initially, it generally wont be long before the components begin to corrode. The isophopyl will drive out any water and then completely evaporate.
[HD2 General] SiL3nTKiLL:
u are one lucky guy lol
[HD2 General] HTC_Junglist:
very very lucky, my friend sneezed on his and it stopped working...
[HD2 General] appoggio:
Built HTC Tough :D:D:D
[HD2 General] d0ug:
Even better, since this phone already soaked for half an hour, with the battery out soak and then flush it well with distilled water to remove all the minerals that could cause corrosion, then stick it in a container of desiccant or rice if you're cheap

Alcohol especially soaked that long could be harsh on adhesives, surfaces and components in the phone.

Water itself isnt bad for electronics, its the minerals that are in the average tap, pool, beach, lake water. Distilled water has none of these minerals. Also any liquid tends to damage things like the camera and LCDs where it can get between the glass covering and LCD and backlight causing water spots to develop that are hard are just about impossible to remove.

If you do go the isopropyl route, id say do a very quick flush with it, and then make sure you are using 90%, usually in a red labeled bottle at the drug store, normal isopropyl is something like 65% alcohol and the remainder is water!

Really the best option for either route is to completely disassemble the phone then flush and dry while disassembled, but i know thats hard for some people to do without completely damaging it cosmetically. Remove things like the LCD, Camera, and speakers as these could be further damaged by subsequent soakings in either water or alcohol. These parts may need to be completely replaced depending on the existing damage
[HD2 General] djchubbs:
im supprised no one has asked this but,

HOW DO YOU GO FOR A SWIM WITH YOUR HD2??????

Did you go fully clothed or something? or do you normally keep your HD2 in the pockets of your swim shorts?

:D:D:D
[HD2 General] pliva:
Me too

Hi,

I also took my leo swiming. Now loud speaker isnt working. can anyone help where i can get one?
[HD2 General] Redeyedrichard:
Oooo, that's interesting...for your next test...microwave the phone for half an hour. :D
[HD2 General] JoCamel:
Yes.. I had it in my swim shorts. Before I went to the pool, I thought: "Be aware of that phone, don´t forget it in the pockets..." -> That didn´t help...
[HD2 General] HtcMeo:
Yeah, our HD2 is a great phone.
[HD2 General] HectiQ:
xD :D hilarious
[HD2 General] HectiQ:
and distilled water won't screw up your device? so lets say, if I want to clean my screen randomly, I should use that?
[HD2 General] d0ug:
What do you mean by clean your screen? wiping down the outside with a cloth? or just soaking the phone to clean it?

I would never submerge the phone in any liquid to clean it unless it had already taken a dunk in the drink. The point of distilled water in this case is to flush out the minerals and contaminants that would have been deposited, to prevent corrosion of electrical components. If things like the LCD, camera, and possibly speakers are showing damage from the initial dunking, distilled water or alcohol wont fix it

If youve got dust or something between the LCD and glass, then take the phone apart and use a microfiber cloth or compressed air can to clean it out, or live with it if you're no good at taking things apart and putting them back together.

In the end just dunking the phone to try and clean it after a submerging is just lazy, the phone really should be torn down, all parts separated, then scrubbed with dish washing liquid/distilled and a soft brush and then rinsed with distilled and everything left apart to dry for at least a day.

As said previously parts like the LCD, Camera and possibly speakers are probably going to need replacing if you are trying to get it back to a like new appearance/function.
[HD2 General] pakure:
so now you know people, why HTC made your HD2 to become warmer and hot with use, .........so that it can dry up the water droplets in case someone thought to use ........say......? .GPS underwater :D:D:D
[HD2 General] pliva:
Spare parts

Any thoughts where I can get spare parts for Leo?
[HD2 General] bhand:
I wasn't so lucky with my wet phone please help !

Hello Guys, I am a doctor and the other night I got home really tired and put my phone on top of my drawer as I always do, and took a coupe of aspirins and after a few mins. of tv I fell asleep. I had the glass with some water also on top of the drawer and while asleep I hit the plastic glass and some water dropped (I believe on the surface of my HD2) I say I believe because I was asleep and and I woke up at the noise of the glass falling on the floor.

I noticed the phone screen was wet and cleaned it and went back to bed.

I failed to remove the battery or turn the phone off, next morning, the screen of the phone was flashing on and off repeatedly and it behaved erratically.

I removed the battery, removed the back cover and wait... It has been three days now and if I put in the battery it turns on and works almost fine for a few mins. but the volume screen pops up repeatedly and the volume does not work and at some point it seems the phone goes crazy showing all kind of screens at random like a DEMO MODE (if you know what I mean) but the must frequent is the volume screen.

I bought some humidity absorbing powder and the phone is just there, now surrounded by it. I don't even know if it is wet inside.

Does this behavior sound familiar to any of you ? the thing is that I don't have HTC support service in my country, this phone I imported it from the us and I trully hope this is a wet solutionable problem.

I apologize for my lack of English, I hope no one gets uncomfortable.

Any help guys please ?¿:(
[HD2 General] mushages:
same here it happened with me :D :P
[HD2 General] Hatefly:
Yep, exactly what I was going to say.

And P.S. your sig comment about Unix almost made me spit my coffee out... Good show, lol.
[HD2 General] christofertan:
Please HELP

Will this really work? My HD2 was in a rain storm in my pocket, and as far as I can see...loads of water behind the screen...its been 3 days now since then and still water :-( Thanks for the advice...
[HD2 General] roloracer:
So my story is, I had always kept my hd2 on my pocket, and babied the thing. For my bday last monday my wife got me a otterbox defender case for it, I was very happy and thought it looked nice and safer than it did with the oem rubber gel, liked the belt clip also, anyways, I was hanging out by my pool just enjoying my bday having a beer while keeping an eye on my kids that were swimming, when my daughter called me to tell me that there was a spider on the pool, not even like five or ten seconds after I approached the pool and I'm looking down to the water, I see my hd2 slip out of the belt clip and fall into the deep side of my pool. I tried to catch it before it went too deep but I missed it , my daughter dove right after it and brought it back up. So I took it apart from the case and battery, and had it on rice since, and I'm hoping that it will be dry and come back, I didn't think of rinsing it off with fresh water, hopefully it doesn't get corroded. I got insurance on it but don't want to go thru the hassle . I just want my phone back. Sorry for my rant. :(
[HD2 General] tmihai20:
I must sau you must have stepped into something (lucky). Do not ever try assume it will work again. This is one happy HD2 story :)
[HD2 General] DN41:
my friend happened nearly the same..

i think he was kind of drunk :P

the ipod touch 2g and a desire was in his pocket..

guess what...

DESIRE IS LIVING, IPOD TOUCH IS DEAD :D

wuuuh HTC ftw ;)

DN41
[HD2 General] roloracer:
funny you said that "don't ever try to assume it will work again" 'cause here I am on opera mini, from my hd2 live and well, actually after much testing all day, everything works exactly the same. A week in a tupperware bowl of uncooked rice, wiped it down, air dusted the raw rice dust off of it and put it back together, and turned on like nothing ever happened, battery still had the same charge when it went in the pool, and let me tell you, the water damage stickers on the phone and on the battery are a dark pink . got to love htc phones.!
[HD2 General] roloracer:
sorry, double post!
[HD2 General] mozsen:
goog luck..
[HD2 General] godsafk:
Wow, good to hear that things turned out fine!

A month ago I was preparing to hop in the shower when I accidentally dropped my HD2 in my toilet ( recently cleaned and flushed). Due to my cat like reflexes, I had the phone out of the toilet and battery removed in 2 seconds flat (I have a method of removing the cover and battery extremely quick). Left it out to dry and it has been working without a hitch ever since.

Always a scary thing when your shiny new electronic device gets submerged, but luckily I came out on the winning end of a battle with my toilet.
[HD2 General] egemet:
Same thing happened to me...

Last month, in a flooded area in Albania, I fell into cold lake water with HD2 in my pocket. I was going to die, but rescued luckily. Later, I took the battery off of HD2. It remained with a water filled screen for two days. Then I dried it with a hair dryer for couple of hours patiently, avoiding overheating. Now it works perfect. Last stains of water got away after a NAND flash. There is no equal to HD2 in many aspects, including submersibility:)
[HD2 General] dertester123:
Thats not unusual at all.....

The voltage of the battery is very low, so its unlikely that much happens to the phones electonic.(it can happen when the wet battery causes higher voltages but thats very unlucky^^)

A big problem is the oxidation, even a little is sometimes enoug to destroy the conductors or maby connect them so it comes to residual currents.(chalk sediments etc. and saltwater)

The electronic parts itself are usually water resistent, most problems are camera, buttons, display and battery.

Best would be to disassemble the housing and to rinse the phone with alcohol. Battery / Sim / sd everything out.

The alcohol evaporates very fast, while water(even in rice) can hold a very long time between the thin layers (touchscreen-display-housing-mainboard are all flat layers with much space for water)

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Since my family developed a affinity for flushing phones we have a little rescue kit for these emergencies :D:D

I think we had to do this to more than 5 phones tha last few years and only one died, it fell in a "gurkenglas"^^ glas of cucumbers.

At least HTC does not use some kind of watersensors that break/block the phone on purpose if it gets wet... i think the iphone had something like this :D:rolleyes:
[HD2 General] JoCamel:
Just fyi.

The phone is still working and in an everyday use, camera, display, and everything else is fine!
[HD2 General] dertester123:
Yeah ik ^^

You did the right thing with taking battery out and using the hairdryer^^

That was just in general, that people dont "give up" on their devices too fast ;D
[HD2 General] TheiPhoneKiller:
Htc 's are very well made,i accidently dropped my Hero in toilet and it survived although the speakers didnt work after i needed a new battery,Your very Lucky it survived that long in water
[HD2 General] tallmantim:
Yeah, I had a diamond go for a swim in a toilet bowl (glad I no longer have a phone that fits into my top pocket!)

Pulled out the battery immediately and dried it carefully with a hair dryer when I got home and it all worked great again. 4 months later had some troubles with the backlight not coming on properly (it looked like software as it would work fined for the first couple of minutes after a reboot) and tried to get it fixed under warranty - but then the water immersion tab spoiled that!

Some guy bought it off me for a decent price on ebay (I fully detailed what it was and was not doing).
[HD2 General] bradecrain:
W-D40 is the best solution for wet electronics. Is displaces any water on circuitry. Hair Dryer is such a bad idea :(
[HD2 General] Parsian86:
unfortunately I dont have a swimming pool :'(

im surprised, usually phones's speakers get damaged in such events.
[HD2 General] sstfn:
You can see our htc hd2's can do everything haha
[HD2 General] roloracer:
I dropped my hd2 in the deep side of my pool last August on my birthday party, my daughter jumped after it, it sat in the bottom of my pool for like a minute, I took the battery, sim card and SD card out, put it in a Tupperware or uncooked rice for a week and when I put it back together even the battery still had the same charge from when it went into the pool. The battery lasted me for 3 months after that when it started to loose charge quicker than normal, but my hd2 is is like it never happened, been flashing and everything, running nand now beautifully. So I think that patience is important, put it in rice and forget about it for a week or so, you do not want to use heat like a hair dryer when a component or wire can get damaged from the heat.
[HD2 General] quandao93:
i like my hd2 to be perfect, so what you can do is purposely brick the phone so you cant turn it back on any more. then you check the water indicator by poppig out the battery. it should be under the camera, if it's pink it means the phone has touched the water. to fix this and lie for getting a new phone, if you have warrantee. You can bleach the water indicator and itll go back to white. Good luck.
[HD2 General] DN41:
illegal.

DN41
[HD2 General] unicoyo:
Wtf incredible
[HD2 General] marianchez:
HTC HD2 rocks

I had an accident this morning, my HTC HD2 fell into the toilet just when I was flushing it..... so I had got it away from it with the screen still on and removed the battery. After dry it for about two hours with hair dryer, etc, I powered it on. No problem, everything works.
[HD2 General] tay200k:
That made me lol funny stuff :D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] effluent:
Anyone want to create a scrollable news/rss widget to replace HTC News widget? Any other peeps out there want to see this? I don't want to use Sense and it's my favorite widget. Have tried to no avail to find something similar and nothing comes close. The other I was looking for was a replacement for Friend Stream, and Pure Messenger fit the bill perfectly. But haven't seen a suitable 'News' alternative.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Vegasden:
I use Newsroom Pro.

I'm EVOing via tapatalk
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] effluent:
Does it have a scrollable widget that integrates all the feeds not just one? I installed the free one earlier and immediately ditched it because it didn't do this. Maybe pro does?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hah2110:
So does anyone else notice a huge correlation between keeping their phone in their pockets and battery life vs. when it is out? I guess it could also be that when my phone is in my pocket, I am outside and it is hotter as compared to inside on a desk/table but I can easily get 2-3x battery life by keeping the phone on a table.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnoggle:
Could it also be that in your pocket, it is possible that you bump the power button and the screen turns on until it times out. Being that the screen kills the battery insanely fast, I'd think that'd be possible. Then again, I'm pretty sure my phone's screen doesn't turn on much if at all in my pocket.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hah2110:
No way because the power button is on top. If that was the case, it would also register under Display in Battery Use.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jep4444:
id wager its a signal thing, your phone is probably losing connection to the network and reconnecting thus draining the battery
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akirajds:
pocket gremlins?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnoggle:
Oh, I proposed this because I put my phone top down in my pocket so when I grab it out of my pocket it is correctly placed in my hand.

That is possible, but that would also change the cell standby percentage in battery usage.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hah2110:
Right... Also realize (I should have added this) that every time I pull my phone out of my pocket, the SetCPU temperature is in the 30s for temp whereas it is <28 on the counter. That is why I thought it was heat related.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnoggle:
Yah, I've definitely heard that heat makes a battery drain faster...I think.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jep4444:
that could also mean your system is using more of its resources which again could be a signal thing(doesn't mean it is but it's certainly plausible)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhoenixAG:
You are right. The heat is a very big killer of battery life. I live in a hot country and everytime I take the phone out in the sun the battery life is horrible.

Inside it usually lasts longer although sometimes its temperamental.

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Sent from my Nexus One
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
its well known that the nexus antenna is super sensitive to human contact. hell i can just cover my antenna and the bars drop almost completely. so i imagine its next to your leg and reducing the perceived cell reception, making the phone ramp up power to compensate.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hah2110:
But if that were the case, I would be seeing "Cell Standby" skyrocket. Any other theories? Couldn't it just be body heat? Why do no other phones experience this.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] de Wolfe:
I cannot load it, because I don't have a German S/N... Can anybody load it?

See also here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6893905#post6893905

Link to HTC-UK-HD2: http://www.htc.com/uk/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=297&act=sd&cat=2
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] fards:
its' the 1.72 O2 rom badly labelled by HTC
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] abumhmmd1:
New Offical

HTC HD2 (O2)

ROM 2.07.51.22 (UK)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=707494

ENJOy
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] fards:
Have you actually READ that thread before posting that?

everyone that has tried it very very clearly state it's a O2 UK rom 1.72
[Hero CDMA General] okcppcnut:
I flashed Darchdroid and I love the ROM but I'm not keen on the stock contacts app. I want the ability to see groups. What is your favorite not stock/htc contacts app?
[Hero CDMA General] distantneighbor:
i believe darchdroid uses aosp apps only meaning the contacts app is aosp. What you must want IS the stock HTC app.... not sure where you can find it, nor WHY you would want HTC People over AOSP contacts, but I am sure you could if you looked.
[EVO 4G General] Mu5ic92:
why is it that the autofocus never completly focuses on the object i wanna take a picture of. when im taking a picture from up close i click the screen to autofocus on the item but it zooms in clears the item up but then returns back to a blurry image. any tips or ideas on how to get this working better? the hd2 took amazing picture with the autofocus and now the evo 8 megapixel camera dosent do the same.
[EVO 4G General] BigBallin:
change your settings

i have mettering mode at center area and grid set to on
[EVO 4G General] Mu5ic92:
helped a little but still not quiet what the hd2 used to do. im pretty sure adjusting the contrast and stuff will help but i dont want to end up messing the setting up to much
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
i turned off face recognition and autofocus works 100x better now
[EVO 4G General] Mu5ic92:
that actually helped alote. thank you
[EVO 4G General] mrono:
My problem is that if i'm trying to focus on something that is small in front something that is farther away, it will focus then unfocus. Like when I hold my finger 6in away and it focus's on the wall 4 feet away instead, even if i click on my finger to focus it there
[EVO 4G General] baiatul:
You notice that specially when it's on bar code reader mode. I was testing the program, and it takes about 10 seconds to focus in the bar code clearly (it depends on your pulse). But I like that feature. I think iPhone doesn't have it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bcarter2000:
Does anyone know how to get full flash? I've read a N1 thread that said HTC phones can run it, but I can't get it to work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=686736

The file is on the 2nd page. If anyone could help I would appreciate it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rulyskull:
its says its froyo only :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] IRREAL:
Finally after several attempts i managed to set the full web experience also on IE mobile version.

After these small changes you can navigate in the same way as a traditional PC:full web experience on flash player(also Youtube\editor),macromedia active-x and i think applet java(?).

Go to on the folder:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent

and set the following keys:

(Default) ->Mozilla/4.0

Compatible ->compatible

Desc ->Default(Windows CE)

Platform ->Windows NT 6.1 [set to Windows NT 6.0 for OS Vista]

UA-Language ->JavaScript

Version ->MSIE 8.0 [set to MSIE 7.0b for InternetExplorer 7]

Template ->Same as Windows 7

See the key Templates for restore the original values if necessary.

No softreset required,you just check the proper operation over http://www.useragentstring.com/

-tips- For a better navigation in this mode is recommended temporarily disable htc sense (more ram).

Tested on my HTC T5353 Stock rom WM6.5 build 21889

Enjoy!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] IRREAL:
[HOW TO]Set Opera useragent like IE8 desktop on Win7(or IE7 based Win Vista)

Ok the same can be done on the Opera browser.

For now only tested on stock version 9.7 Build 35627

It goes this time to the key and change to:

HKLM\Software\Opera\Prefs\User Prefs

String value:

Custom User-Agent ->Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)

Even here you can change the Platform/Version value for the switch Browser/OS system (see the first post).

-tips- Please backup the entire folder if you need to go back :) Simply use any registry editor for this.

For Opera 10 users,this string is written usually on opera.ini (ini file) localized in %InstallDir%\profile or simply you can access this information with the command without "http://"-> opera:config from the browser.

Feedback appreciated!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Raptordin:
Excellent Information. Thanks for Sharing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TAMHAN:
Hi Folks,

Resco has just confirmed that it will support Windows Phone 7:

http://tamsppc.tamoggemon.com/2010/06/21/resco-on-windows-phone-7/

With best regards

Tam Hanna
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulvallee:
Downloading Sky Map (and also one other app I've found, Speedx 3d), will crash my phone. It goes into the sparky-multicolour-X reboot and boots the phone on install (the download works, the status changes to "installing", and it reboots).

This is only since applying FRF50.

I've tried uninstalling both and starting over with them, but no dice. In the past, both were on my apps2sd list on Cyanogenmod 5.0.7.

TIA for any ideas.