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[EVO 4G General] SiriusScaper:
After reading this thread I am pissed and feel like an idiot!

My local RS has been telling me for the last month that they would call me as soon as they got one in or any other store in the area did, but of course I never got a call. I called twice a week and had them take down my number at least 3 times in as many weeks. I called on the 4th and asked AGAIN if I could get my phone replaced yet and if they didn't have stock if I would still be covered considering I had been pestering them for the last month. The guy I talked to said I should still be able to exchange it due to the circumstances after the 30 days.

However, I call today and get the manager on the phone and explain everything, including what someone told me on the 4th and he says that it is the first he has heard of it. I don't doubt that and I tell him that I have been calling his store for the past month trying to get a replacement and so he takes down my number and says he will "make some calls" .... He asked if I had called a sprint store, which I didn't think of doing because I bought it there...

Now after reading all the posts I realize that I could have demanded a replacement from 2nd and 3rd batch of preorders they had... I'm worried that he will call me back and tell me I now have to go to sprint for a replacement which will cost me more $$ I am sure. What sucks is the people working at my local RS are really polite and helpful in person, but over the phone they put me on hold for 10+ mins and they are somewhat rude and dismissive. In three and half weeks I never once got a call back from them.

Hopefully the manager, who was conveniently never there when I called before will work something out for me.
[EVO 4G General] Xenithflare:
XD I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not... and to be fair, I didn't say to CALL that rep an idiot, just that he was one :p

YES.

Now now, that isn't true. At every location, you get different employees. At the store I used to work at (moving was the stupidest decision I've ever made...), we cared more about helping the customer get what worked best for them than we did about what would make us the most money. Then again, we sold enough phones that it didn't really matter either way :p

In case anyone is still getting the "we can't due to cosmetic blahblah" from any sort of rep: Radioshack recently sent out a webmail (all DMs should have done this) informing associates of both the screen issue and the recent OTA error, so everyone should know to swap out phones showing these behaviors. Any further problems should be solved by contacting the District Manager; BBB and Sprint are wastes of time and far more excessive options.
[EVO 4G General] evoxsin:
one year manufacturers warranty?

how would members go about an exchange with HTC? im past my 30 days and i will be exchanging my evo for a newer version once the 004 starts to show up or improvements have been made. but ive never done an exchange with HTC with a one year manufacturer warranty. how do we go about getting that taken care of, say in september(depending if the screen separates badly)
[EVO 4G General] JUST2SUAVE:
**** buying from sprint stores, im returning my sprint corp store evo today and getting one from best buy, where they get shipments.
[EVO 4G General] coolguy949:
When I returned my phone on 7/5 they had never heard of any issues with the Evo. As far as the Assistant Manager was concerned, the Evo is perfect and has zero issues. I had to show him the light leak and screen separation for them to believe me. He said only one person had exchanged their phone in the near three dozen they've sold.
[EVO 4G General] Bp3dots:
This is the best way. The number is posted at the cashlanes of every RS, and it gives us the chance to weed out people who are misinforming/mistreating customers.
[EVO 4G General] bob13bob:
you can get the phone for $420-sih at wireflyl with paypal cashback. cheaper subsidized.

google: wirefly evo slickdeals
[EVO 4G General] :
I purchased 2 Evo's on June 4th from RS. They both have horrible light leak. I purchased a Body Glove snap on case for my Evo and I can still see the light leak even though the case hides the seams between the seam and the phone. I'm obsessive about my electronics and I'm waiting for it to get replaced.

Obviously I'm out of the 30 day period and the manager at RS says he'll give me a call when they come in so I can get them swapped. I have no documentation or proof other than his words. I asked him if he can reserve the phones and he stated that they can't reserve or order them. What if they don't get any in anytime soon? I'm getting pissed and I'm holding off calling the district office. I'm cutting them some slack being that I was a former employee so I know how it is.

Sprint should just be able to order us a device and send it due to the issues. I love the phone but that light leak is unacceptable.
[EVO 4G General] Bp3dots:
He actually can order them through feedback, he just needs your reciept info. If he still claims he can't, call the district office and maybe someone there will instruct him how ;)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] socksfelloff:
Thanks in advance for anyone who has any advice!

I recently updatated to a newer version of RoDrIgUeZsTyLe@FroYo on my nexus one and since then google maps will not install.

when updating to the newest version of the rom I whiped cache and dalvik and updated. everything works except google maps. Titanium backup does not even give me the option to reinstal it. google maps v4.20 is just listed as an uninstalled app. When i select to restore missing apps, it says completed yet google maps is still not installed.

Before this I was not able to install the newer maps V4.30 and i still cannot install it off the market.

To eliminate the rom as the culprit i installed the newest version of eViL n-One-sh0t and I still do not have google maps, nor will it install.

I am just looking for anyone with any sort of advice, i tried googling it and came up with nothing. one thing i have not done is whiped the phone back to stock then re flashed the rom. I was hoping to avoid this but if it is an obviose fix i will just do that

thanks again!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivetingchap:
Last night I put my phone into the Clockwork Custom Recovery to install CM. However, after restarting, my phone only boots up til the HTC logo. I tried going back into custom recovery to restore to stock but whenever I get up to the "adb shell" portion in command prompt i just get this: '/system/bin/sh' failed: no such file or directory (2).

has this happened to anyone else. is there a fix or do i have to send my phone in?

thanks for any help.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivetingchap:
any help at all would be appreciated. to clarify i can get into unrEVOked but I can't go into adb shell.
[Windows Phone 7 General] chikoo:
Does the WP7 feature set includes features such as cropping or touching up the images in the album?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Helmore:
I'm not sure if it will have first party support, but they showed something like what you are describing. What they showed was a third party application that integrated with the Pictures hub. The integration was pretty well done and you could start touching up a picture right from within the Picture hub.

Here's a video of what I mean: http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/1212/311.915

It starts at about the the 2:30 minutes mark and ends at about the 5 minutes mark. As you can see, the interface looks a bit unresponsive and choppy, but that's because that video feed is directly from a phone passed through via a USB cable and that's just not as smooth as what is really being seen on the screen of the phone. Another reason for why it's not as smooth is because that's a very early demo, that demo is from last February and the software has progressed quite a bit since then.

As for first party support, I don't know. If it's not there in right from the start then I think they will eventually have build in image cropping and touch up features though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] chikoo:
Cool.

Thank u very much!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaapx:
Well I had 2 mp4 videos previously on my sd card and they played nice from the gallery in 2.1 but since i updated... the phone says " this video cant be played"

Anyone else with this problem?

Any solution?

thanks in advance
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antikryst:
you worried me there since i never attempted to play any videos since my manual update to froyo from stock att yesterday.

my mp4s still played.

i was on unrooted att update 1 stock. just manually flashed frf85b yesterday and it still works for me on the gallery.

hope you are able to sort your problem out.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blueman101:
you probably used the wrong video codec when you compressed it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaapx:
dont think so those same videos were previosly playable on 2.1!

@antikryst thanks

any ideas anyone? anyone else with the same problem?

my nexus is an at&t stock by the way
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svenkat24:
Yes, my phone too has the same problem. I had few files which stopped playing since 2.2 update. That said, I downloaded another mp4 file and my Nexus One played it perfectly fine. Weird.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JHaste:
are you on the new radio? the new radio has different codecs...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcp2009:
Same problem here man. I have about 11 movie's on my phone + every episode of King of the Hill. King of the Hill is rmvb so I use RockPlayer for those. When I go to the gallery in my videos folder it shows my 11 movies 5 of them have thumbnails and play and then there is the others that don't have thumbnails and don't play but the weird thing is I used the same converter for all of them and the same converter settings and they all played on 2.1 but now only 5 out of 11 do. Weird stuff
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericc191:
Get RockPlayer. It owns.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaapschaap:
No it Rocks ;)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uKev:
I've got the same problem on my nexus one. I can't play most mp4 files and other stuff anymore. RockPlayer is not bad but the video decoding engine of RockPlayer does need more energy as the internal one.

Also rockplayer does not support streaming, so rtsp:// links don't work anymore.

Another issue is with the twitter and twitvid website. It will server a mp4 file (twitvid) of which the system player is capable of playing. RockPlayer is not available to play these files after opening through the twitter client.

I would be very happy about any tip to debug this problem.

Things I tried so far with no success:

Delete cache and data of:

* Gallery

* Mediastore

* Meridian

* RockPlayer

* YouTube
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wylker:
I'm having a ton of battery life problems with froyo and froyo based roms, I want to troubleshoot it and I think it has something to do with the new radios. Can you run the 4.06 radio with 2.1 and/or 2.1 based mods?

tia
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Yes, but **** won't work.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wylker:
I'm really only worried about being able to make calls etc. I don't care about the camera or camcorder.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icon57:
I ran froyo radio with 2.1 with no issues...
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Need to add ch13 to wireless. Ar6000 chip can do it, but i can find no config to set it. Reg domain missing on the x10. Anyong know how to re-add it? Phone is rooted, but cant find a config file either. Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

Frank
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
bummer, no one knows huh?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] xanfia:
Have you tried to manually modify wpa_supplicant.conf? It's located at /data/misc/wifi/ I recommend you to use Root Explorer because it includes a text editor and can easily mount the partition. Be careful to not touch its original permissions or your wifi won't work. BR

Edit: I've been investigating this issue an there's no option in wpa_supplicant.conf to change channel range or to point to a channel, you just set the ssid. I hope it's not hardcoded in wlan_tools binary file... First thing I'd try is to write your wifi parameters into wpa_supplicant.conf and then cross your fingers :)
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
I don't think so...

I've spent hours on this (including reading source code from atheros used in openmoko) and I am starting to get an idea of how it is set.

Android passes a hex code to the ar6000 module when it loads it on boot..

That hex code is the regulatory domain... I am trying to find out what the codes are, and also where the X10 is installing that module.

you can do a lsmod as root in a terminal to see what I mean.

I could just use rmmod and insmod to remove/add the driver as needed, but would rather find the place where android is loading the module and edit it there to suit.

regards

Frank

PS, been using root explorer since the day it was rooted.

right now, I'm copying the entire system to the sdcard so I Can browse though it on the pc.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
did a dump of the whole system to sdcard and then used agent ransack on a windows box to look inside all files including binaries to see if I can find where the ar6000 module is loaded, but can't find it anywhere.... lots of mentions, but nothing I can see as loading the module.

I may actually have to re-compile the ar6000 module and hard code it to all 14 channels.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
I've downloaded the source from SE and I'm looking though the driver and related code trying to find a way to hard code 14 channels or some method of making it settable that doesn't involve locale
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Chillest:
Hope you succeed. That's just ridiculous that SE sells X10 with the wrong domain in the first place so that users in Europe and Australia can't use channels 12 and 13. Even more ridiculous is that you cannot connect to ad-hoc network because that is disabled,only infrastructure mode is allowed. Maybe that could be patched too somehow...?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Im gonna set up a build enviroment and compile default ar6000.ko wifi_tools wpa_supplicant etc etc. My biggest concern is that just when i get it sorted...... someone will hack the bootloader and it won't be necessary anymore.

Don't know why they have done this.... i suspect to get the international approvals quickly without having to hack on the code.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] ddewbofh:
I think the answer is the least common denominator. Why maintain two kernels, one with full number of channels available and one with a restricted set when the vast majority won't care and in most cases even won't know it's missing? It's easier to maintain one kernel with the lower number of channels since it'll work just fine on both markets.

Edit: Channel 14 is a japanese "bonus", so I'm disregarding this as it's only one country.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
True, but the ar6000 is supposed to look at the locale set, and set the available channels from that. Unfortunately it seema SE broke it and locked it to 11 only. Needing 12 and 13 is more comman than you think
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] ddewbofh:
Don't make assumptions about what I think, you'll look foolish. I know full well that those are useful channels, but I also know that it's illegal to use them in parts of the world. And when you're releasing a wireless device all over the world it sometimes makes more sense to limit the number of channels to the lowest common denominator.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] jerpelea:
Maybe i can look into japan rom and issue an patch in root thread
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] jerpelea:
as i promised

http://hotfile.com/dl/52283415/58f59ba/wifi.rar.html

from docomo japan

this folder stays in /
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Chillest:
So what do you suppose to do with those 3 files?

Simply copy them all in \ of the phone and reboot it?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Interesting, The module ar6000.ko IS actually different... for one thing it is 284 bytes smaller and a binary diff shows there is a small change early on in the file and a bit lopped off the end.

I put them in place in the root dir of the phone.... set the ownership:

chown -R root.root wifi

Turned off wifi so it unloaded the default module.

loaded it manually with insmod:

insmod /wifi/ar6000.ko

And off it went after turning the wifi back on.

Then renamed the old /system/wifi directory:

mv /system/wifi /system/old_wifi

and put the new one in it's place.

cp /wifi /system/wifi

works perfectly for normal wifi...

Just have to wait till I'm at work on Monday to find out if it gives me ch13. My big router has clagged wifi at present and a new card is on it's way from the US for it.. in the meantime I'm using a Siemens piece of junk that is also locked to 11 channels.

It is work I need ch13 for anyway.. will know on Monday.

Mr jerpelea, you are already a legend for your efforts rooting the phone, but you may have just put another feather in your cap. :-)
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Chillest:
Unfortunately it still doesn't work, because they have disabled channels above 11 even in japanese firmware. :/
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
How do you know they disabled the japanese version? It is possible that we need to get japanese wlan_tools, wpa_supplicant and wmiconfig to get it working, not just the driver..... i cant think of any other reason they would change the driver like they have. I will be reflashing soon... i might put dotmoco japanese rom on first and test it properly
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Chillest:
These files from japanese version are different simply because they are older versions. You won't get channels 12 and 13 if you substitute your files with those.

BUT I'VE FOUND A SOLUTION THAT REALLY WORKS!

You have to turn wifi off and hexedit file /data/misc/wifi/reg_code

Change its contents from 10 00 to 37 00 and you will now get full 13 channels!

Don't try to change to 40 00 (which would be for Japan), you won't get 14 channels because hardware supports just 13 and the driver would simply fail to load.

Wish there would be as simple solution as that also for the ad-hoc issue.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
that is friggin awesome.... should tell jerpela so he can add it to root. funny, id looked at that file lots of times ant it never clicked that reg = region..... doh!

What is the ad-hoc issue? i wasnt aware there was one... have not tried it yet.

will look for the thread... lost in newbie "cant root" threads......
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Hi Chilly,

Have you tested this?

I ask because it isn't working for me..

I made sure the permissions and ownership was the same as before, (system system for the one in data/misc) and also did the same for the one in /system/wifi and that one is owned root.root.

still not detecting 12 or 13... tis very odd... I am running the latest 23 rooted firmware... are you? Normal channels are working fine still.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Found this code in the X10 source for driver_wext.c in the wpa_supplicant directory certainly looks like SE have made additions to the code. I see ch14 listed there also. Seems to be saying that the code to use to get all 14 channels is 0x0099

/* SEMC:LC: Update for DMS00746850 Start */

// Atheros +++

#define ATH_REG_CODE_FILE	"/system/wifi/reg_code"

#define ATH_REG_CODE_GET	0

#define ATH_REG_CODE_PUT	1

#define ATH_REG_CODE_FCC1_FCCA	0x0010

#define ATH_REG_CODE_ETSI1_WORLD	0x0037

#define ATH_REG_CODE_MKK5_MKKA	0x0099

#define ATH_WORLDWIDE_WOR0_WORLD	0x4060

#define ATH_WORLDWIDE_WOR1_WORLD	0x4066

#define ATH_WORLDWIDE_EU1_WORLD	0x4068

#define ATH_CHAN_11	ATH_REG_CODE_FCC1_FCCA	//ATH_WORLDWIDE_WOR1_WORLD

#define ATH_CHAN_13	ATH_REG_CODE_ETSI1_WORLD	//ATH_WORLDWIDE_EU1_WORLD

#define ATH_CHAN_14	ATH_REG_CODE_MKK5_MKKA	//ATH_WORLDWIDE_WOR0_WORLD

Gonna change it on mine now and see if it works.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] zephyrix:
It'll probably be 0x99 0x00 depending on endianness.

Also in the source code, channel 14 is commented out. You can only go up to 13.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Further on we see this code:

if (val == ATH_CHAN_11)
return os_snprintf(buf, buf_len, "Scan-Channels = %u\n", 11);
else if (val == ATH_CHAN_13)
return os_snprintf(buf, buf_len, "Scan-Channels = %u\n", 13);
//else if (val == ATH_CHAN_14)
//	return os_snprintf(buf, buf_len, "Scan-Channels = %u\n", 14);
return os_snprintf(buf, buf_len, "Scan-Channels = %u\n", 13);
/* SEMC:LC: Update for DMS00746850 End */
} else if (os_strncmp(cmd, "SCAN-CHANNELS ", 14)==0) {
/* SEMC:LC: Update for DMS00746850 Start */
int allowChannels;
int val;
if (sscanf(cmd, "%*s %d", &allowChannels)==1) {
if (allowChannels == 14) allowChannels=13;
if (allowChannels == 11) {
val = ATH_CHAN_11;
wpa_driver_wext_op_reg_code(
ATH_REG_CODE_FILE,
ATH_REG_CODE_PUT,
&val);
} else if (allowChannels == 13) {
val = ATH_CHAN_13;
wpa_driver_wext_op_reg_code(
ATH_REG_CODE_FILE,
ATH_REG_CODE_PUT,
&val);
}
/* taken off channel 14
else if (allowChannels == 14) {
val = ATH_CHAN_14;
wpa_driver_wext_op_reg_code(
ATH_REG_CODE_FILE,
ATH_REG_CODE_PUT,
&val);
}
*/

Which shows chilly is right, 14 is disallowed for the x10 but instead of failing it should just drop back down to 13.

dunno why it isn't working for me though..

If worst comes to worst, I could get the guy that has the build env setup to compile a version of this code that has 13 hard coded in.. which looks to be pretty easy to do.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Chillest:
Yes, I have tested this.Also running rooted 023 firmware on X10i. My router is set on channel 13. Before it wasn't detected at all. Now I can connect just fine.

Didn't touch any permissions.Simply turned wifi off,copied file from /data/misc/wifi to sdcard, hexedited it on pc, deleted old file in /data/misc/wifi and finally copied edited file back from sdcard and turned wifi back on. Everything is fine after reboot too. Perhaps your original file didn't get overwritten properly.

There's another issue with ad-hoc, that is you cannot see any AP in adhoc mode, only infrastructure mode is allowed. Surely it can be patched too, just have to figure out how. Third party software (like g-mon) can see ad-hoc, but native wifi manager can't so you cannot connect to such network.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Can you attach you reg_code for me?

perhaps my hex editor is getting it wrong somehow.

I've tried with 3 different editors now and no results.

cheers

Frank
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
thanx chilly, i have your reg_code in place in both /data/misc/wifi and in /system/wifi

looks the same as mine but will see if it works for me tomorrow.

Sent from my X10i using App
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Chillest:
Hope it will work.

Here's proof that it works for me.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] jerpelea:
PATCH FOR WIFI CHANELS 1-13

http://hotfile.com/dl/53369725/7606f62/wifi_patch.rar.html
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Hi chilly,

Got your copy and it worked. Can only assume that my hex editors added a Windows return character as it looks the same as yours when opened.... this is of huge benefit to me so thanks heaps. So glad it turned out to be such a simple thing to change.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] sibaya:
does this work for android 2.1?

Not sure if this thread is dead but I am not getting channel 12 to work. Looked in /data/misc/wifi and there is no reg_code file, dd a scan and there is no reg_code file on the phone so created one but no luck

So my question is does this patch apply to 2.1 update 1? and if not any ideas where I can look?

thanks

Rob
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] erreesse:
jerpelea patch link don't work anymore.

is possible to upload the file somewhere?

thanks to all