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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Snarksneeze:
My Touch Pro 2 is currently sitting in a bowl of rice while I gather the courage to install the battery and test my methods of drying it out.

Yesterday, my sister walked into the swimming pool with the phone in her back pocket. It only took her a second to realize her error and thankfully I was right there. I popped the battery out without turning on the screen and layed the seperate parts out in the sun for a few hours. When I got home, I dumped the phone into a bowl and filled it with rice in the hopes that the rice would absorb any excess moisture.

This morning, I broke out my tools and broke the phone down, looking for water damage. I found some residual water under the screen, but with so many layers of plastic, I would rather not take it completely apart. To help with this little bit, I placed the phone screen up on the dash of my car for 1 hour. Since sunlight is deadly to a phone, I didn't dare leave it longer.

We have a central heating and air unit outside, so I placed the phone atop the unit outside (it blows warm air from the top) for another hour.

I checked the screen for moisture and can't see any now, but with all of the various layers, it is hard to say for certain.

The last thing I will try is to hook up a universal air pump used for blowing up air mattresses and such to the bowl of rice. With a cover on top and a few vents on the side, I am hoping to blow dry air in and the last remaining moisture out.

If anyone has any other tips or tricks to add, I would be happy to give 'em a shot. I am in no hurry and a few days is worth the wait if it means the chances of the phone recovering are greater with other methods.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cbeck:
If you can create a vacuum (use duct-tape creatively to form a seal between the container* and the universal blower, and have the suction end of the blower making the connection) that would probably be best. Water between button contacts and on the circut board, in my past experience, has been the most lingering after-water problems.

When my blackjack ii took a dive in the doggy dish, it was about a week before it was completely dry, as evidenced by the lack of odd behaviour from the power button. I considered myself pretty lucky in that one. Good luck.

*The best you can probably do for a vacuum container would be to use a good-quality plastic baggy. Cut the zip-lock part off, insert the phone and a folded piece of cardboard to keep the bag from completely colapsing/getting-sucked-up, and duct tape it to the suction end of the universal blower, or even better, the suction end of a cleaned electric leaf blower. -Just a thought.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Snarksneeze:
Update

After allowing the phone to spend yet another night in the bowl of rice (I decided against introducing forced air out of laziness), I plugged the battery back in and tried to boot it up.

The phone did not respond, at all.

I plugged the phone in via the official charger and noticed a momentary blip of the orange LED near the speaker. This seemed familiar, so I pulled the battery out and tried plugging the charger in again: Sure enough, I got the exact same response. The battery was either dead or the phone wasn't recognizing it.

The replacement phone came in Tuesday, but with some medical emergencies in the family, I didn't attempt anything until this evening. I removed the new, charged battery from the replacement phone and put it in the one I have been working on.

Voila! The phone booted straight up with the new battery!

I noticed some residual damage to the dispersal plastic behind the screen as the phone booted with a white background, but once the phone booted completely up, I couldn't see any difference from before the accident.

While I haven't been able to completely test every aspect of the phone, I plan to update this thread once the new battery (buy dot com, ftw!) comes in on Monday.

I am very pleased with the results and it was definitely worth the time and effort I put into the drying process.

If anyone stumbles upon this tiny thread, please keep in mind a few things:

The phone was only briefly immersed in water for about 30 seconds, inside a pocket

After removing the phone from the water, I pulled the battery before turning on the screen

I allowed the phone to dry over the course of five days

I consider the fact that the phone is now working to be a freak coincidence, results are not typical
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] planedoc:
a friend of mine had his immersed in water for about 3 min before he realized he had it in his pocket....since we are airplane mechanics, we deal with A/C alot, therefore we have a vacuum pump handy for evacuating A/C systems. He put his phone (dunno what kind, it was touch screen though) in to a vacuum chamber ( a glass jar with a hole tapped in the cap to allow for vacuum to be pulled) and pulled a vacuum on it for a day...it is still working and it was 2 months ago. So just an idea, i realize the equipment is not available to everyone, but it worked for him.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Snarksneeze:
This is interesting!

Chemistry suggests that reducing the air pressure to a near vacuum would reduce the temperature needed for the water to evaporate, allowing it to do so at a highly increased rate... but keeping the phone inside an air-tight (and thus water-tight) container would actually prevent the water from escaping.

What am I missing here?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] planedoc:
The vacuum pump has a way of letting the vapor out of it in the process of pulling the vacuum...you can see the vapor as it escapes from the vacuum pump and by the time you reach 29.92 or close, you usually never get a perfect vacuum, but close....moisture is mostly gone....let it set, with a set of guages of course (forgot to mention that) monitor the vacuum, anytime it goes below 28-29 or so, turn the pump on again to remove the moisture....untill it holds for several hours making sure its all gone...a little overkill never hurts with these expensive devices.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cobblers1:
Hi Devs

Looking to buy o2 Orbit XDA from Eb** phone has been upgraded to wm6 BUT I want wm5.

Is it ok to delete wm6 and revert to wm5?

If ok how can do - need answer please by return!

not a new member(was Issus)
[Nexus One General] rjhay22:
Google app inventor... This is one of the things that makes owning an android phone worth it, especially the nexus. ;-)

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/12/googles-app-inventor-will-lead-to-an-app-explosion/

Edit: I just saw Britoso posted the same thread about this... Mod please close if necessary... thanks. :-)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdmba:
I have some general questions about what to do after a flash, in case any kind soul "in the know" would care to reply:

1) Every instruction set says to make a Nandroid backup. I assume this is in case something goes wrong with the flash. If you have a bad flash, or don't like the new rom, do you just restore your nandroid and you are done; or do you ALSO need to reflash your prior ROM first, and then restore your nandroid.

2) I have nandroid backups, titantium backups ("all data and all apps" natch), mybackup pro ("apps and their data") ... once you flash a new ROM, what is the best way to put all your apps back and get up to speed? I have to assume you DONT want to restore settings from one ROM to another.

3) Very similar to #1, if you like your stock and you flash a ROM and configure it too and take a nandroid backup (so you have different ROM's nandroided), do you simply restore the nandroid to switch between the two, or do you have to re-apply the dev's ROM first.

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksizzle9:
U can be on any ROM at anytime and restore a Nandroid backup with no real flashing of any ROM or data wipe or anything, i.e. u backup CM6 and install the new froyo with sense and if u want to go back to CM6 just restore ur nandroid backup, done. Sorry so short. Battery is dying
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksizzle9:
Also u can only restore titanium backups from one froyo rom to another. Or 1 eclair to another. 2.1 and 2.2 dont mixx unless its an app only as far as i know. Cud b wrong
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yankele:
Hey guys, I got my EVO like a month ago and almost immediately I rooted it.

I will like to know a way to add hebrew fonts to my phone.I saw that in the market they have an "Israel Pack" app, but the comments say that it replaces the english fonts for the hebrew ones and I just want to add it so it recognizes hebrew on a browser and also to use it on the keyboard.

I saw there is a way to do it on the hero(since I'm a new member I can't post any links) but is based on 1.5 I think and as of now Im using 2.1 "OMJ_EVO_2.1_Eclair_v1.6r" (I'll use 2.2 but the cameras are important for me) and I don't think that method will work in the same way for the EVO.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
[Liquid S100 General] olle0047:
Hi! i currently have a hero with sensehero 2.1 installed. it works fine, but are getting tired, both speakers blown and quite scratchy screen.

So what i was wondering is, is it worth the buy of a liquid e over my hero? i can get an ok deal on one in norway for 480usd$ last year i payed ~780 usd for my hero. should i save up a bit and buy a htc with non underclocked snapdragon, or the liquid? i dont mind it getting hot as some reviews say, so does my hero. But what im most worried about here is the quality of the screen, is it scratch resistant enough? and how is the speed compared to say a desire or a nexus one?

Hope someone can answer my questions and sosry if there is some bad english :D

Thank you!

Ole
[Liquid S100 General] HustlinDaily:
Never used the Hero (was considering it) but I think that it is a better phone.

I have an A1 (256 megs of RAM while E has 512 megs of RAM). Mine is overclocked to 1GHz so in terms of speed, it is fast (Linpack scores of 6.x nearing 7). Even at 768MHz it was getting Linpack results in the 5.x range. There is also reason to believe that the GPU is overclocked because it gets Nenamark scores in the 16.7 fps range at 1GHz (while HTC 1GHz Snapdragon phones get it in the 10-13 range). So yes, the speed does compare to Nexus/Desire.

The phone is plasticky and creaky, doesn't look amazing or anything, but in terms of hardware, you won't get better bang for buck anywhere.

As far as scratch resistant goes, I was using without a protector for the past 2 months and there are a couple of small scratches (really not too bad. Does not affect anything on the screen). The phone does include a screen protector but it is utter ****. I could not use it. Recently I ordered a 3M protector and a scratch remover, hopefully that takes care of it.

In terms of overall screen quality:

-It is an 800x480 WVGA 3.5" screen so the it does look really good. I don't see pixels or anything.

-The multitouch works but is not great. However there is a custom kernal which does improve it (this is an MT test with the fix, the test is done in FroYo, which is somewhat usable but still lots of work needed til its perfect, but this kernal is also available for Éclair- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTBRwgFPnC8 )

-The sensitivity is not great, however there is a hack which greatly improves it.

If you are looking for something affordable yet nice, you should take a long hard look at this. If you do plan on saving up a bit and stepping up, I think the Galaxy S would be a better buy given how much better the Hummingbird processor is to Snapdragon (especially on graphics) and how nice the Super AMOLED screen is.
[Liquid S100 General] olle0047:
Wow. I didnt actually bother checking out the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S from my network supplyer here in Norway, Telenor. I just assumed it would be dirt expensive. And i found it was only 30 dollars more expensive than the acer if i lock my service plan in for another 12 months :O.

I now know its GOING TO be the samsung :D only downer is that its huge! but ill survive that. Now i cant wait for my paycheck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] cheetara:
Hi folks,

I'm thinking of picking up the galaxy s, the samsung vibrant from t-mobile to use on my carrier.

i had a few questions and hope you fellas can help me out.

1st, what would be involved in unlocking it? Would I have any problems getting it unlocked?

Also i'm a total noob to android but i've been reading up. What exactly is "rooting"? will rooting allow me to put a stock 2.2 on it? is that even possible and is it recomended on this phone?

and lastly from people who have been using this phone, do you recommend getting it?

thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] cheetara:
oh snap! i posted this in the wrong board. it should have been in the "Galaxy S I9000 General"

sorry mods.
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] dagrim1:
Rooting allows you to get access to parts of the phone you otherwise wouldn't have access to. Compare it to having administrator rights on windows, you can access more files, do more stuff. Programs can perform more actions when your phone is rooted.

Putting 2.2 on it is completely seperate from that and at this moment is not possible. However, Samsung already stated that the first 2.2 update will be somewhere in august (not for euro/usa regions though) so perhaps withing the month after that it will also be available for other regions. Samsung has officially announced that it WILL be updated though, so no need to worry about that.

Without the 2.2 update it's already pretty damn fast though (with some tweaks its faster then the Nexus one WITH 2.2) so I would certainly already recommend it.

This is my first android phone (after symbian, windows mobile and more) and it's really easy to get used to and works just great. The screen is beautiful (good colors, vibrant although reading text on it is a less great experience) and it's very fast. Also feels light, in a good way, great screen, etc. I can totally recommend it.

ps. No idea what the status on unlocking is, mine was unlocked already so never looked into it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] larryccf:
you might want to make sure the frequency bands of the one you acquire will work on the carrier you want to use it on

if not, it may not work at all, or may not give you 3G data svc
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] sensi_:
personally i didnt think any phones are locked down anymore, at least not in the UK?

you should buy the phone, its the best ive owned, not saying its the best on the market but id like to hear of an arguement for why it isnt.

rooting was done on this device even before release, and with already 300k sales in south korea alone it looks like its going to have some great support and updates in the future
[HD2 General] VisualOddity:
So, I have noticed an issue. I am on Kumar's Classic ROM, which I LOVE, but I am pretty sure this happened on the stock ROM as well...

Here is the issue and use environment: I keep my music on the SD Card, and I play it through the music tab. Everything is fine generally speaking. It finds the music after a few seconds on a fresh boot, reads the files and plays them fine. That is when the device is on/screen displayed. I have noticed that a lot of them time, as soon as the screen locks, the music will pause every 5-10 seconds, stay that way for about 1 second, then continue playing... over and over. As soon as I unlock the screen, it is back to normal, then when I lock it, the issue returns. It even did this a little while streaming Slacker yesterday, then cleared up after a while.

I can't figure out what would cause this. I have also noticed that movies on the SD will play fine for e a while, then the video will lag while the audio is fine, and then the video will play at like 3-4x to catch up to the audio...

Odd issues, and I'm hoping someone here has an easy fix for me. I did a search and didn't see anything...
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Have you ever reformatted the card since getting it? That might be a good place to start. Also, if you have another usable card handy, just to put some music on and test with, it'll help pinpoint if the issue is the card or the phone at least.
[HD2 General] VisualOddity:
Good idea, thx...
[HD2 General] maxpower097:
I had similar issues with other music programs and video programs too. Not the stock ones. Pretty much what seemed to be happening is when the phone went to sleep it cut off its connection using up its buffer then stopping. Then when I woke it up it would start playing again. Best solution I have found was to just use mortplayer. This seems to love the HD2. I will get about .01 second skip when it locks, and then when it sleeps but pretty much doesn't miss a beat. I always listen to streaming radio too so that may be an issue of mine. Since your running music off a sd card and the stock HD2 sim cards are supposed to suck you may wanna try a different card to test it.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
this happened to me when i set the lockscreen to show the animated arrows. It seems it animates them every few seconds even when the screen is off.

Disabled them again and it was fixed.

Been editing the lockscreen? or installed a new lockscreen recently?
[HD2 General] VisualOddity:
I'll try both of those suggestions, thanks guys!

I would really like to keep using the sense music player though, as I like it a lot. This also seems to happen in Slacker too... :(

How do I disable the arrows?

No playing with the lock screen. Only the stock one, or any edits that come with cooked ROMs. However, this has been happening through multiple ROMs, and with hard resets each time...
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
not the arrows then, , something running in teh background, that the phone is having to ramp up the processor to perform.

Dunno what to suggest, sorry, maybe something installed to sd card, that is making the music pause when read? does it do it when the mp3 is on main memory?
[Nexus One General] hansmrtn:
Hey can anyone tell me where I can find the stock rom, just rooted. I would really like it if it was flashable :)
[Nexus One General] Sindroid:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=614850

a little look around can take you a long way..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] pheonix20002:
Hy:)

Does anybody know for some program which turns multitouch on for all programs and games? i've got lots of games with wirtual pad like on picture below, but there multitouch doesn't work and its quite uncomfortable to play without it.

Please tell me how turn multitouch on, or tell the name of program which reapairs that problem.

If someone know how to make that program he is VERY welcome and i bet that program would be a hit!:)

Thanx alot!!

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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] aoakes:
unfortunately, the developers would need to recreate the game with a multi touch kit, some ps1 emulated games do have this feature on wm6.5

you can look into Bluetooth keyboards for wm devices where navigation keys make game play better.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sethrw13:
Ok, I really want to root my Evo and install a custom ROM but Im PETRIFIED!

I use to have a motorola droid that no matter what I did to the phone I could (even if it was bricked) restore it with an application made by Motorola. Because of this I had no problem playing around with Roms because I could always "fix" the phone if needed.

So my question is, is there a program that does the same thing for the EVO, where I can restore and unbrick the phone?

Also, can you recommend any custom ROMs to use? Preferably 2.2 if every thing works camera,wifi, bluetooth,4g etc...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] apristel:
Probably have alot better luck in the EVO forum.. and yes you can run the sprint stock ruu ( the old one ) and get back to the beginning.

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=619
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mathrania:
Hello,

I have been using Touch Pro 2 from last 7 months. Around 4 moths back i upgraded to Win 6.5. After that i am facing a particular problem. Sometimes i get an error of "Device.exe" and then all the sound from the phone is mute.It doesnt play any sound and even if i answer/make a call, i cannot hear the other party's sound or even when their phone is ringing. There is only vibration. I tried using it with headset, and there is absolutely no sound. After resarting the phone everything is fine. But the error appears the very next day or the day after that, and i just restart the phone. I tried Hard Reset and installing the official ROM from HTC website, still the problem persists. The only software i installed after replacing the ROM were NetCF3.5 & Advanced Configuration Tool v3.3 only. I highly doubt if it causes this problem as i was using it in Win6.1 when i bought the device.

The people at HTC downgraded my device to Win 6.1 and asked me to use it for a week and see if the error comes. I am using it for almost week, and the problem is not there.

Can someone suggest what the problem could be, as i dont like 6.1 as i am now used to 6.5. I dont think HTC will be able to help me soon. Someone please help me in this case.

REGARDS.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ehaas13:
Hi, I had a similiar issue with my tilt 2 that I finally figured out was linked to advanced config tools. Specifically the changes I made in the sounds settings. For some reason this muted my microphone and speaker. After changing back those settings to default the problem was resolved. I am running 6.5 on my phone. Hopefully this helps you out.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mathrania:
YOU ARE RIGHT buddy... i was doubting on Advanced Config only..... but i did not made any changes to he sound, i use it for unthreaded messages only...but this time i did not install it, i got the unthreaded sms patch from HTC and installed it, and till now i did not face the same problem, it almost 3 complete days of my usage.....

now i am sure Advnced config is the culprit....

Few more people are having the same problem in my country(UAE) and have complained at HTC, i shall inform them about this...or lets wait for another 3 days to make sure that this problem does not occour.

THANKS A LOT
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cbeck:
I had some similar problems with the advanced config running the stock rom with the att tilt2. I've since banished that program from my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kewl_ansz:
Hey anyone of you having problem with activation of 5.1 channel mode in default music player in earphone mode..Mine always says that 5.1 cant be activated when sound effects are enabled..But when i check in options it says normal in sound effects. I am not able to figure out what seems the problem..:confused:

Any other good music and video player you would like to recommend??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dexter666:
Try turn on 5.1 option when watching a movie, maybe it's only for this? Anyway I'm using it only with videos and didn't try with music.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kewl_ansz:
I can turn it on while watching a video but cant do the same in music player.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cicinho:
Mines has worked from day 1 with the music player. I never touched anything, just when I put my music on and pressed 5.1 it worked.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JaGuR:
You have to have both effects turned off, equaliser, and the other one, to get it to work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NZtechfreak:
Works fine here.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] retro-man:
From day #1 I don't have problems with 5.1 ch mode. Works fine. Wthat did you change on your phone? Maybe a hard reset will help?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kewl_ansz:
Found out the prob. My equaliser was set to auto and because of that 5.1 wasnt being activated.

Thanks for the help.