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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
If you pay for the TB Pro Key, you can backup system apps (the actual apk) and restore them to /system/app - I've done so anyway. You shouldn't restore them (or their data) on other roms. You can also freeze the app to test if anything will break by removing it. Freezing doesn't remove the app, just keeps it from running or showing in your app drawer. I know it's a bit pricey, but I think it was more than worth the price. Plus you get background app restores, meaning that you don't have to agree to permissions and select install for each app.

You don't have to restore everything that you backup. When you choose to batch restore (select "restore missing apps with data"), you can uncheck which apps you don't want reinstalled. I usually only restore the apps I absolutely need after a clean install, then if I need an app later I'll restore it. This helps to weed out apps you don't use. You can of course do this with the free version.

If you've removed apps and need them again, you can download the rom and extract the apps you need then push them to /system/app. Or you can just flash the rom over itself without wiping data, just wipe caches. If you're running stock you can do this with the stock rooted rom.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J_Tesla:
I'll try to do the story short:

I got my EVO from launch day. 1.32 and 1.36 stocks and roots were a success. The hell started when I got 1.47 stock update.

Using the SimpleRoot method, I successfully rooted the 1.47 EVO and left it in a rooted stock ROM. Using WiFi Tether, like any normal day (in my life, I need the tether XD), it turned off and rebooted on it's own. the phone was hot as hell and while playing the Sprint boot screen it turned off and rebooted again. Was at this point when I decided to run the 1.47 RUU to see if it was the ROM or the phone. Phone worked great on stock, until the reboot problem came again haunting. Seems the reboots are caused (by deduction) by two factors:

1. It's searching for signal on low signal zone.

2. The phone heats up.

Now, the reboots are the least of my problems. Today the phone didn't want to pick up the 3G network, and when it did, it froze the speeds to 7-10kbps. When chatting with a Sprint rep, there was no outage or maintenance in my area. Investigating further, it seems that the WiMAX radio wants to turn on, even though I have set the 4G off (since I am in Puerto Rico and clearly there's no 4G network). Heats up trying to get 3G, and reboots.

Also, PRL and Profile won't update, even when 3G bars are full, and gives me error 67 and no 3G connection for at least 3 minutes.

That being said, I know the phone's pretty effed up; I'm going to the Sprint store tomorrow to get some options on how to solve this (Total Equipment Protection FTW).

The question is: What caused the phone to go haywire? I've done stress tests to the EVO and it withstood everything before rooting at 1.47 OTA. Would it be the overheating using WiFi Tether, or something in the root method that I used?

I like to discuss this because I don't want this error to happen to anyone. Finding that the root method for 1.47 is as risky as hanging yourself is dangerous. Specially if it's the first phone someone's gonna root. (Not my case, already three separate phones successfully. My only problem regarding a root has been the EVO.)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J_Tesla:
Any thoughts into this will be appreciated.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigdrago:
Hello.

Is there an app allowing me to send bigger MMS? All my old Nokia's send bigger MMS pictures than Desire do :( Yes the settings are 300kB. But Desire compress it to 10kB :(

And video. Is there a way to compress the video files even more? On my old Nokia I could film about 20 seconds and still able to send them in MMS. On Desire I can only film about 5 seconds (QVGA 320x240).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spion96:
I have the same problem, please help someone...
[Desire Themes and Apps] GANJDROID:
A few weeks back, I could get this working on a Sense FroYo rom. (for the life of me, I can't remember what one it was)

Since flashing different roms, I haven't been able to make it work on any. Always results in the contacts app being removed.

Any ideas what the problem could be?

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=724200
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
Really nice.

Di someone succed to flash that on a CM6 ROM? I'm too afraid to do that.
[Desire Themes and Apps] GANJDROID:
Works on latest DeFrost.

I love the theme, especially the dialer look.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
Sound more complicated, here are some stuff I don't Understand very weel.

They are located from post #16 in the original thread you linked in first post:

"U have to rename the file cm6phone.APK to Phone.apk and then dump it in the update.zip, reflash and goodluck. Thanks all"

"I think the CM Rom owners need to get some help from their romdev gurus there"

"No that recovery update is for stock rom owners,

this mod is not working for CM6 users"
[Desire Themes and Apps] GANJDROID:
Yeah, I don't think its working for CM6. Check the first post in that thread, it links to a few pages for cm6 users.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
Yeah, I tried the CM6 modified version, and they work pretty well.

Unfortunately, they are not up-to-date with the screenshots ( older version)

I cannot believe that someone here is not intersted by porting this theme to CM6 to our Desire... :(

Would be awesome
[Desire Themes and Apps] phunkycow:
The complete theme looks sweet (not only the contacts.apk) ! Might try porting it soon, but hoping someone will do it sooner :P
[Desire Themes and Apps] GANJDROID:
It really does. Had a look at it earlier and it makes me want a Nexus One along side my Desire. :P
[Desire Themes and Apps] goa200:
i managed to get it working by doing a quick and fugly port of it.

Can post the files once i get back home from work.

didnt bother with the framework though since i didnt like it very much.

got it to work on kalis CM6 rc1 port.

if ya want the framework files lemme know
[myTouch 3G Slide General] cveez11:
does anyone know if you can purchase a new battey door. i have searched everywhere and can't find it anywhere.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] poetik517:
there's a thread on this here
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sultan.of.swing:
I need one too.the battery door is junk. Mine doesn't fit anymore.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] TrueBlue_Drew:
I read on a post here yesterday or the day before that a battery cover is one of the parts that t-mobile themselves can sell you through customer service. Not sure if it is correct or not but maybe give it a try and confirm if it is the case. I could use a spare.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] jriv:
I wanta white one for my black phone that would be awesome

sent from my badass slide running eugene's port of cm6
[myTouch 3G Slide General] jenol:
Have you guys thought about calling htc the manufacture of the phone?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] y2k1ltd:
Try here myTouch Accessories.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] benmarvin:
Damn, 20 bucks seems like a lot, but this white door would look cool on a black phone: http://www.all4cellular.com/mytouch-3g-slide-door-white.html

I'll wait for cheap ones to hit ebay.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sultan.of.swing:
I was having issues with my battery door. I got a replacement phone from tmobile for a different reason. I had to use my old battery door on the new phone and it fits like it did when new. So it was the phone and not the door itself.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] enculturation:
I read the same thing. However, when I called I had two reps tell me that they didn't sell them. They then referred me to HTC for the part, HTC told me they didn't have any due to the phone being so "new." I'm just planning on treating it nice, and waiting until they hit the net. They're not even on eBay yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] robijno1985:
Hi everyone,

I flashed him a root version of: Eclair. XWJM1

but now I have no internet in my bar at the top of the screen (no 3G, HSDPA) I can only do things via WiFi now ..

Who can help me urgently?!?!

thnx
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wolf_man:
Settings - Wireless & Network - Mobile Networks - Access Point Names

You probably need to create a new APN in there for your network
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ostendk:
Some cases only choose one - so good luck :) those APN settings can you typically find at you Telefon service provider . :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Emadhasan:
I'm sorry if this was answered elsewhere, but I couldn't find a thread related to this....

My TP2 was acting up, so I soft reset. After Sense loaded, I got a message "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable? This will permanently delete any files on the card". Now the phone is not reading a card anywhere.

Is there anything I can do to make it readable? I figure the easiest solution is put the card into my computer, copy all the files, put the card back in the phone and format it, and then put the files back on the card. However, I don't have a miniSD adapter, and I won't be able to get one til tomorrow at the soonest, and I kind of need this taken care of today. Any suggestions? I would appreciate it. Thank you.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] fone_fanatic:
yeah best bet would be to put it in a memory card reader and access it through your pc. probably got corrupt somehow. there are some recovery apps out there to get the most of the corrupt data out.

Have you tried plugging your device into your pc and setting it in disk drive mode to see if you can access your memory card?

also theres a really cool microsd usb card reader on amazon for $3.99 +shipping. I ordered one and it came in a couple days, its pretty slick. check it out here

good luck, oh and heres what the memory card reader looks like, comes in white or black.
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
Hey,

My Vibrant CONSTANTLY keep rescanning the media on the SD, and its slowing the phone to a crawl. Ill watch it start, finish, and then start again 30 seconds later (or so). Anyone else have this, and if so, did you find a solution?

Thanks!
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Sounds buggy...mine usually just does it if I reboot the phone
[Vibrant General] yvyv:
Actually my ONLY complaint about this phone not constantly but every time I reboot and it takes a good while scanning, if I try to press on any button while scanning the phone freezes, there has to be a tweak to disable this feature when vibrant roms become available..
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
Thats my issue too....it freezes, the screen goes off, the button backlight stays on, and I cant do anything but hard-reset it by holding the power or pulling the battery. ive deleted almost everything of the internal SD, so I have no idea why its freezing
[Vibrant General] yvyv:
I remove the external card and still experiencing the same thing, I just don't understand how my old HD2 with buggy winOS never did this, come on Developers Android is an awesome OS and extremely configurable, PLEASE fix this issue for us.
[Vibrant General] Nism300ZXTT:
Mine does it on reboot and after I unplug it from my pc. It is a little annoying but it doesn't last too long.
[Vibrant General] Welshy992:
It's scanning 16gb of memory for media changes. Why would you expect that to be faster than 20-30 seconds. Are you guys serious?
[Vibrant General] Welshy992:
If it's doing it constantly and not just on reboot than that is definitely a defect.
[Vibrant General] Qwijib0:
The media scanner runs for me, at least, every time the userspace filesystem is modified, so on unplug from PC, file copy/deletes in the file manager, bluetooth unpair...etc. If you have an app that is frequently writing to /sdcard then that's probably triggering it for you.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
Did you replace your SD card with one from another phone? I don't get any major scanning issues
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
Just exchanged the phone for a new one. Will report back.

No, I am using the stock SD card (Not ready to lose Avatar yet)
[Vibrant General] tacomaguy20:
I know you can copy avatar to the internal memory and it will still work... but the link on the app won't find it, you'll have to go to files, ect. I'm pretty sure you can copy it to another SD card without any trouble. As far as the media scanner, it is pretty annoying...scanned alot when I first got the phone ..of course moving around avatar, it took a long time to rescan and it scanned several times. Now it seems to scan evertime I move or delete a file ...sometimes it scanns more than once but its usually pretty fast. It would be cool to change the settings to rescan only when you specify or something.
[Vibrant General] t1h5ta3:
i have just over 7 gig of music on my sd card, scan after reboot lasts less than a min.

<edit> it is a class 6 card, so that might help with the speed etc...
[Vibrant General] cashless:
I was messing around in /system and looked at one of the .conf files. There's a line in there for media with a value of "on". I'm sure if you edit it to "off" it'll stop scanning but who know what the negative effects would be.
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
Ya, I never had this media scanning on my G1, on any build. Wonder if it has something to do with the Internal SD and some sort of database it maintains of it. No idea why it wouldn't be simple flash memory though, exactly like an SD card :confused:
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
It's because of the Music player and such.

I'd still say try a reset. I just did and things (besides the GPS which is not going to be fixed by this) like the market and such aren't giving me such long loading screens. I was installing 3-5 apps at a time. Even the Friends feed widget doesn't have the looooooong loading screen anymore.
[Vibrant General] Maxy6:
I have this same problem. Typically it will kick into the media scanning mode when opening Google Maps. The phone becomes unusable for several minutes. The screen will shut off and then comes back on close to a minute after hitting the power button. Sometimes it will display "Safe Mode" in the lower left corner.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
yeah, I have an 8 gig card which is basically full and the media scanning I only notice on boot ups. And this takes very little time (20 seconds maybe).

I'm curious if you have a corrupt file or app that is causing the issue man?

Have you moved avatar to your computer, stuck the SD card in your PC and formatted it? I wonder if you put it back in your phone and rebooted if you would still have this issue?

Worse case you just move the folder with avatar back to the card, nothing lost.

Do you mind trying a format?
[Vibrant General] ultra spikey:
Someone should try the "Autostarts" app. I would try it, but it requires a rooted phone, and mines not rooted yet. This app may be able to prevent the media scanning...

http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-autostarts
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
Thanks for the tips. I have wiped, exchanged phones, wiping the internal and external SD, and attempted to prevent the scan using autostarts (although I didnt find anything specific), all w/o luck. Ive removed ALL my music from my internal SD, only pictures are left.

It seems to scan every few minutes or so, and it almost always causes a restart of the Touchwiz process (w/ a reload of all the widgets) and lags the phone a lot (so much that it doesnt respond to button touches for a minute or so)

Im about ready to dig in and disable this scan unless we can find a legitimate fix or purpose for it.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
There is absolutely no reason why 2 completely different ones should be doing this. It's something you've put on the phone that is causing this because it doesn't add up otherwise.
[Vibrant General] larryccf:
heygirl might be onto something there - when i got my first 16GB class 4 ultra card from sandisk, it came with a "media manager" program for users to format their card with, and it had selections for every model phone including the Sam galaxy S -

if it was just to set whether to use Fat 32 or not, it'd have been easier to simply give us a list of what format to use with whose phone

just a suggestion

found this on sandisk's web - not very helpful but might - http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4344

after i used it, my media scanner only takes place during reboots and whenever i disconnect from the laptop and never lasted more than 5-10 seconds
[Vibrant General] TGA_Gunnman:
I hate the media scanner I am going to work on turning that feature!?!?!?! off.
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
I agree, but I cannot figure it out. When I got the second phone, I installed apps very slowly and did not put ANY mp3s or music on the device. The only other option is to remove all my pictures as well, and see if it has this issue. After that, there should be almost no media on my SD card. I am only using the internal SD, the external SD hasnt been touched.

I really wish I could turn this off, unless we find its doing something very important (which, for some reason, I doubt, as no other Android devices do this, to my knowledge).

Guess I'll try removing all my pictures and see if it helps.

I also experience the occasional freeze\lock-up where the button backlights stay lit, and the screen remains off and unresponsive. Not sure if I those two issues are related or not.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
What apps do you have installed? Have you messed with the gps settings at all in regards to the black screen?

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] kingkesi:
I had the same problem with the Media Scanner basically freezing my phone (not allowing wakeup) on every reboot. I was waiting for several minutes each time and the phone never recovered. Finally realized that when I pulled my SD card out, the phone would wake up and all was back to normal. I ended up backing up my media from the SD, reformatting it, then copying the media back. No problems since then. This was about a week ago.
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
I have quite a few apps installed, but most are disabled at start-up using autostarts. I applied the GPS fix, but haven't changed anything else. I ended up pulling like 700 pictures off my phone, just to test and it def sped things up, but it is still at like 15 seconds, and it occasionally does it randomly.

I am using the stock external SD card, but this is the second phone that has done this. If you mean the internal sd, I was thinking about trying this tomorrow just in case though, no time to back it up tonight
[Vibrant General] lexluthor:
Just came across this thread.

My phone is unresponsive for a few minutes after start up.

Does it matter if the SD card is formatted as FAT or FAT32, maybe?

Anything else to try?
[Vibrant General] martin0641:
I for one notice the slowdown because of apps like newsrob and chandoid that have a lot of directory cache and items to scan.. I'd like to limit the scanner to only certain folders.

Sent from mah fone.
[Vibrant General] air2k57:
Mine only does it when I reboot it, lasts only 39 seconds or so. And even then, it still runs okay.
[Vibrant General] raduque:
Try putting a .nomedia file in the root of your internal storage and SD card.

Because seriously, the media scanner shouldn't be running randomly. It should only run when you change the filesystem (delete/create files), disconnect from USB mass storage mode, mount/unmount the SDcard/internal storage, or on boot.

If you don't mind going through it, do a factory reset, then put your apps on one at a time with a small period between apps (like 20-30 minutes) and see if one of them triggers the media scanner to constantly run. Then, simply delete that app with extreme prejudice.
[Vibrant General] zimphishmonger:
That sounds like a great idea, I totally forgot about the .nomedia file that used to be on my G1. Will give that a shot and see what happens. There shouldnt be an app randomly generating media, even if its is writing cache to the sd. The scan should only be looking for media, correct?

EDIT: Okay, so putting .nomedia file in the root of the sd cards has its side effects, it cant see any of the ringtones I keep on my sdcard, or at least it cant access them anymore.

I also noticed a ton of games using the SD card to store audio data, so this media scanning issue gets worse the more multimedia-based apps you add (assuming they use audio/video files)
[Vibrant General] here.david:
What they got right:

Screen

16GB class 6 internal storage

Weight

Wi-Fi, GPS and Silent on the drop down notification bar to turn on/off

Easy to root

Oh, did I say the SCREEN

Can change two docking icons on bottom

1Ghz speed

What they are clueless about:

The double - push power on AND then lock screen

The double - Bluetooth drop down notification bar MUST goto settings then on/off

Layar - s-l-o-w to load and must reload EVERYTIME and then goes to download

TeleNav GPS - need I say more

CPU goes down to 19.2MHz

Locked down 2rd party applications - unremoveable unless expert

Starts with over 230mb free and without loading any user applications goes down to 90MB

Can change only two docking icons on bottom

undelete-able bloat-ware

undelete-able bloat-ware

undelete-able bloat-ware, need I say it again, undelete-able bloat-ware

Can not turn off power on "lame" startup sound without turning off everything

1Ghz speed crippled so as to S-L-O-W down everything

Non-Stock Android OS

Bottom line , IMHO, either give a choice between stock Android OS and all this "Samsung customization" or just leave Android stock. Like buying any "personal" item such as a home, car,etc...Folks "want it as they like it" one size does not fit all..basic Android and We will "paint it" as we wish.:mad:
[Vibrant General] INeedYourHelp:
I agree with you on many points, but it's still a very good phone.

btw, you do know there's a specific Vibrant-only forum?
[Vibrant General] iammorris:
Layar is a 3rd party app, not a Samsung app.

Again, 3rd party app - install another one if you don't like it.

The beauty of Android is that it's customisable. Install LauncherPro or ADW.Launcher from the market and you'll have an incredibly powerful and stock Android-looking homescreen.

You listed "easy to root" as an advantage. So root the phone and remove the bloatware?
[Vibrant General] mikael120:
not to be rude or anything but this is not development related, It belongs in the general section.

In addition this forum is for the I9000 only, discussion on the other galaxy s phones belongs in their respective forums
[Vibrant General] here.david:
Sorry, can this be moved to there?

BTW, IT IS A GREAT PHONE...did not wish to imply otherwise...I was wondering "IF" Samsung folks would be "looking" to see what was going on with Development and might get the feedback that, the main point seem to have got lost..."Stock Android"...
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I'm sorry, but a lot of your points are not valid, or you make them out as enormous obstacles, when they are not. If SAMSUNG were to ever read this forum,i think all they need to hear is kudos, and thanks for leaving things OPEN for the community.
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
OP,

nearly all of your grips can be fixed with root and market place apps.

- you can remove all the bloatware

- use "CPUsetup" to set min speed of cpu

- use "no lock" to get out of the two step unlock process (power button and sweep)

- you can remove both start-up and shutdown sounds

- CM6 should be with us soon so you can dump touchwiz for basic android.

- use "awd launcher" or "pro launcher" for fully customizable docks, home screens and app draw.

- dump bloatware layer install market layer (people say is much better)
[Vibrant General] darkknight49:
isnt throttling the cpu a good thing?:confused:
[Vibrant General] WiKDMoNKY:
How do you remove the startup/shutdown sounds?

How do you remove the bloatware?

How do you "dump the bloatware layer install market layer"?

Thanks in advance!!!
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
Only if you want good battery life. Locking it at max will eat your battery for lunch. The system will speed up the cpu as needed.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
^^ find my thread titled Tips & Tricks.