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[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultan.of.swing:
Well I'm sitting here trying to install openSUSE and its not working. It goes though all its checks at the beginning and then just goes to a black screen and stays there.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbetcher:
It sounds like it's an X display issue which is surprising in all honesty. What kind of computer do you have? If it's a custom built what is the video card (or if you know the video card and it is a pre-built)?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultan.of.swing:
Its an older prebuilt hewlett crappard. I got out of building custom computers a while ago.

Anyway I got installing now using text mode. Its at 83 percent right now. Will see what happens.

Ok wtf. It finished installing, then rebooted and says something about hard disk not found or something.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbetcher:
Do you have two hard drives? Like, one Windows and one Linux? Also, check your boot order in your BIOS (especially if you have two hard drives).
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultan.of.swing:
Nope just one drive and I set it up as the first boot device. Guess its time to see if I can find my windows disk.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbetcher:
*shrug* I won't stop you from running Windows if you want. :)

Sometimes certain drivers can interfere with the proper tagging of the drives - most of the has been eliminated which is why I'm surprised to see that issue at all anymore. What I would try first though is making sure that you're NOT booting from the openSUSE DVD when you reboot after that install. Remove the DVD, then boot from your hard drive directly.

If that doesn't fix it then if you're interested you can do this:

Boot into 'Rescue' from the DVD.

Once loaded and at login type 'root' (it won't ask for a password).

Type 'dmesg |more' and look for your hard drive (press 'Space' to go down one-by-one page - it will take a few pages before you get to what you're looking for) immediately followed by something like "sda sda1 sda2 sda3". (The 'a' may be different for you and THAT is what we're looking for).

Once you have that changed letter (e.g. instead of 'sda' you have 'sdb' or 'sdc') type: 'fdisk /dev/sdX' where 'X' is the changed letter.

Then look for the first line that says 'Linux' to the right of it - it will most likely be THE first line. Make note of that number next to '/dev/sdXN' (where 'N' is the number).

Reboot (you can hard reset if you want) and make sure your openSUSE DVD isn't in the drive. Once the boot menu comes up press ESC, then Enter.

In that menu press 'e', then change where it says change 'root=/dev/blahblahblah' to 'root=/dev/sdXN' (where X and N are what you recorded earlier).

Press 'Enter' then 'b'

See if that works.

Otherwise, enjoy the next several hours of installing Windows, Windows patches, applications, and configuration of everything. :)

EDIT: keep in mind that all of those instructions are from memory, so YMMV

EDIT2: Eh, I had the dmesg grep wrong. Updated to make it a bit more painful, but actually work

An example of the lines in the dmesg you're looking for is something like:

[ 2.640793] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HDS728080PLAT20 PF2O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

[ 2.641334] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 160836480 512-byte logical blocks: (82.3 GB/76.6 GiB)

[ 2.641459] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

[ 2.641465] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00

[ 2.641523] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or F

UA

[ 2.641901]

sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultan.of.swing:
I'm trying a different install this time. Set up the formatting to see if it will make a difference. If not I will try your method. I was booting without the dvd in the drive as well. I booted into recovery before and tried a bunch of different passwords and what not and decided to try root and that brought up a bunch of stuff I couldn't comprehend. now I know. Lol

Let's see what doesn't happen!
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultan.of.swing:
Well it got farther this time. Now its at the yast2 installation screen. Getting somewhere now.

Got a green from now! And bam I'm on the desktop!!!!

NICE!

Ok how the F do I get my internet working? I went through the network settings but it still don't work
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultan.of.swing:
Same here can't seem to get my internet working. With ubuntu it worked automagically. I'm wired too
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultan.of.swing:
How did u get your wired connection working if u don't mind me asking
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Residue26:
First of all, I am sorry if this is a repost or if this in the wrong section; I'm not too sure which section this should really go in. I have searched the forums for this and I didn't find anything.

Anyway, I have the Samsung Captivate for ATT (unrooted) and I am trying to sideload apps via ADB. I ran the ADB setup and everything using a guide I found in these forums. In the command prompt I cd to sdk\tools and I type in adb devices and I get two lines that say "I8972197fab0 offline" I have the correct drivers for the Captivate installed on my computer. I have unmounted the internal SD card and have USB debugging enabled on my phone. I was just wondeing if anyone could help me out with this as I am new to Android. Thanks!
[HD2 General] WestOz:
OK ordered a replacement screen with digitizer, despite only my digitizer being cracked (surprisingly everything still worked even touching in the damaged half of the screen) as I had read it was far easier to replace the whole screen.

Well I can tell you its still not that easy. After a slow struggle I did manage to swap the screens over, but alas no joy. The phone is probably starting up as there is the usual vibration after release of the power button. The screen backlight is on, but no display.

So now I come to the questions I probably should have asked up front, before ordering.

Are there different models of the screen ie different generations of HD2 have different screens? Is there a way to tell which one the old and new one are? I note that the YouTube video of a screen being replaced shows slightly different internals to mine, thus my suspicions regarding variations of screen.

Lastly would the Telstra Phone version have a different screen from the universal version of the same era?

I will pull it apart again this evening and see if I can see any obvious differences (or install errors) but if there is anyone with knowledge that can guide me as to whether I have the wrong version screen I would be grateful.

Cheers.
[HD2 General] WestOz:
Continued

Opening up everything again shows both screens have the same HTC part number: 60H00295-DOP and similar serial numbers. So I reinstalled the old display - no change - a blank screen. Checked over all the connectors, ribbon cables, etc all look correct. So reassembled with the new display and performed a Hard Reset. This occurs as expected though with no display. All the buttons work and I hear a peep as the volume is raised up and down. The soft reset button causes the usual restart effect. I also note that back light comes on, stays on for 30 secs, then dims then turns off 30 sec later. I can even tell that the touch part is working as I can feel small vibrations to each touch and if I'm in the volume set screen and I touch where vibrate is I get the usual vibration confirming it has changed to vibrate mode.

It would appear that in the process of changing the display I have damaged the display driver chip or something along those lines as the other processes above tend to indicate the processor is still working and reading button presses, making sounds etc....very sad.:confused:
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Phromik:
Since there isn't one, what do you recommend? I haven't seem any good ones in the market, and there's too many to search through them all.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s15274n:
I'm a big fan if mixzing. Chris Soyars also has an amazing one for cm6 assuming that gets ported soon.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Broken:
Pure Music Widget. Is nice, many different sizes and skinnable.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Phromik:
I will check those out, but I ended up just porting over the music apk from CM5 and installing that

Sent from my Samsung Vibrant
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] romanonly:
'Cubed' in the market rules.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] the3dman:
Stock 2.1 Music Player with widget.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kelmerp:
While the Samsung Music player app doesn't have a widget, it might have something better - if you're playing music you can control the app even if the screen is locked. When you're screen is locked you'll see a little down arrow that you can drag down to show your music controls.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] vinnydakid:
DoubleTwist also has a decent widget.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dublued:
Not only that, you have your music controls from the notification bar. I don't miss the music widget one bit with these 2 options :D
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ram100987:
I third the preloaded music app. Why do you need a widget that's always on the home screen taking up space and resources whether your listening to music or not when you can have controls hidden in the notification bar that only show up when you're actually listening to music?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] NikAmi:
Are the notification bar controls tied to the TouchWiz interface or can you use any home screen customizer, as long as you use the Sammy player, and still get the notification bar controls?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Digitalthug:
Its part of the Samsung Music app, not the launcher, so you can use it with any Launcher :)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] masterotaku:
The notification bar and lock screen players remain in place if you use a 3rd party home screen (ADW, Launcher Pro), so long as your using Samsung's excellent player.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Phromik:
I don't like Samsung's music player. I don't like that when I pick an artist, it opens all albums. I like the stock music players way of showing the albums, then opens just that album when you touch it. I don't want to play the entire discography when I just want one album. I know there is an "Album" category, but I like my music by artist -> album, not just album.

If that's not too confusing to understand lol
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] jeremiah_mn:
I love the music controls in my notification bar when using the Samsung player, but if I get a handscent pop up message from a text it gongs that music player right out of the notification bar. Sometimes if I go back to the music app its still there paused, but sometimes not. Kind of annoying, anyone else noticing this?

Edit: Reboot seems to have fixed this now, sorry should have tried that before posting.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] DaMaDo:
I use bTunes because it actually keeps my playlists when transferred over wifi from iTunes on my PC (with tunesync). I'd like to use the stock player but it only shows all the songs/artists/albums...no itunes playlists :(
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Damitu:
I found out that Lithium player is one of the best out there so far.

Great Music effects also!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] hurrpancakes:
If you click artists, then on the artist, it will still show each album, it just shows them in a list as opposed to icons for each album.
[Desire General] seedar:
Anyone else have their bluetooth headset drop the connection to the phone everytime you move into a new WiFi hotspot ?

thanks,

Seedar.
[Desire General] seedar:
not fixed in Froyo either

This bluetooth being dropped problem is not fixed in Android 2.2 either :(
[EVO 4G General] cocobongo77:
Itried different way by the forum to unroot but seem doesnt work

- I wiped data and davin then flash the PC36IMG for 147.651.1 - Nothing

- Cyanogen6 doesnt have HTC Sync which i cant use the RUU STOCK.exe , i tried alone and giveme errors 171 and 140

- I followed step by step by this forum (Bottom) http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=123714 and i cant go after step 5L because show # (rooted) and not $(not rooted), I think that why

Please any suggestion to get back in stock in a easy way. I need bring back to sprint tomorow or after for exchange

thanks in advanced.
[EVO 4G General] criccio:
Flash a Sense enabled ROM like Fresh then run the RUU.
[EVO 4G General] cocobongo77:
What you mean flash a sense?, Sorry for the Noob question.

Got a xda link to follow?
[EVO 4G General] sablesurfer:
Some ROMs include Sense in them...that is HTC's overlay (launcher). Some ROMs don't. CM's does not have Sense in it.

So...if you are still rooted...flash Fresh's ROM since the other poster says it includes Sense. Then go from there.

(I am only interpreting and you'll need to go find Fresh in the dev section.)
[EVO 4G General] criccio:
You have the know-how to flash CyanogenMod but you can't flash Fresh? Something isn't adding up here.... :confused:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=726090
[EVO 4G General] cocobongo77:
Im worrking in it , right now trying flash with the fastboot.exe and the recovery-ra.img Will see if i an configure the fastboot open and dissapear. Im noob
[EVO 4G General] cocobongo77:
I cant flash with flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-evo.img

I got this error : error writiing recovery: No space left on device . Im so confused:confused::confused::confused::confused:

any help
[EVO 4G General] cocobongo77:
I flash already with Fresh 1.0 Nice rom

Thnanks
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] daftlush:
On the new OTA, i want to change the Droid! sound to daft punk's "Human!"
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dancomer:
i would like to change this as well
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] craigmack:
I'm not trying to be a a$$ or anything but if you search for it, it is in these forums.

remember once you edit the desc.txt file with your sound you need to push it in recovery (mount /system) to /system/customize/resource/

also for skyraider you need to rename the file VZW_Droid.mp3

PS. Here is the link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708316

also note we are 480-Width of the animation & 480-Height of the animation
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] daftlush:
Seriously bro... I'm on xda ALL DAY... I do plenty of "researching."

I'm looking for what Scuccia had done in aiccucs:

"Modified /system/CID/default.xml so bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3 will run from /data/local/"

Nevertheless, thank you for taking the time to respond.
[Droid X General] tazzpatriot:
i rooted then stupidly did the update ,, i still have the su alien ,, but i cant do adb at all ,, keep gettin access denied ,, i have debugging on ,( first thing i checked) how can i remove the super user? i tried to do the root again ,, i get up to ./exploid

thats as far as i get , no option for the password or nuthing ,, did i mess up root ? i even tried to update the drivers and nuthing
[Droid X General] b0bj0e:
I had a similar issue. Make sure you set the usb mode to PC Mode (use the built in notification bar utility when you plug in the phone). I couldn't get an adb connection in mass storage mode.

Goddamn I love swype!
[Droid X General] tazzpatriot:
says device not found like that , in charge mode i get permission denied this sux
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Darkeligos:
Is it possible for an App to interfere with the WiFi connection? I've downloaded plenty of third party, torrented apps and I've been noticing that my WiFi will work for a few pages and then stop loading, throwing up an error saying "Web page not available" showing the little Android. This would cause me to disable WiFi and go strictly with 3G. Enabling WiFi later would help with a few more pages until it wanted to die again.

After I uninstalled ALL of my apps and unrooted the phone, I've noticed that the WiFi works again (so far at least). I still have the same 1 bar signal from across the house, but it isn't giving any more errors.

I constantly used task killer to free up memory, so I don't think those apps would have made a difference in the sense that they may have been taking up some bandwidth or the such.

Any clues guys? Thanks for any help.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] miahmartin:
Same

I have the same problem. I rooted and did the settings.db. My wifi will turn on and connect but 20-30 seconds later it just turns off on its own. I haven't unrooted it to see if it fixes it though.

How did you unroot yours?

Thanks
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Croak:
Like, I'm pretty sure that's just karma, dude. Harsh vibes from people like me that make software for a living reaching out and disrupting your chakra centers. And your WiFis.

That and using Task Killer in the first place. Not needed, causes more problems than it solves (and it solves almost nothing on Galaxy S).
[Captivate Themes and Apps] candymann:
I am in the same boat--just started noticing it today when I got home from work and turned the phone back on only to see I wasn't connected to wifi. When I connected to my network again I noticed the 3G icon stayed on the screen with the wifi connection symbol, where the wifi icon used to replace the 3g icon. After a little while, it was gone.

I have rooted and removed some of the AT&T apps but nothing else. I havent sideloaded any apps either. It usually take me a couple of tries to connect to my router (WRT54GL). Sometimes it also seems that my phone turns off wifi by itself.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] heygrl:
I hope this isn't a symptom of the battery cover antenna. Does your WiFi signal show as weak in the strength readout?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] tdogz:
It does actually turn off wifi by itself! I did the following last night and haven't seen an issue since. As a new user, I can't post links: androidforums.com/samsung-captivate/130163-wifi-connection-turns-off-when-sleep-mode-default.html

From androidforums.com:

By default the wi-fi setting is set to go to sleep (and use cellular data instead) when the screen is off, which will most likely happen while you are streaming music as well as other things. To change it so the wi-fi never turns off, go into the phone's menu -> wireless and network -> wi-fi settings -> tap the menu button and select advanced which has an option for wi-fi sleep policy that had been defaulted to sleep "when screen turns off". There you have the option to change it to "never" or "never when plugged in".
[Captivate Themes and Apps] candymann:
Did a little more playing around with it, finally had to reset my router to maintain any type of consistent connection after restarting the phone. One weird thing is that my old iPhone wasn't able to connect to the router consistently last night until the reset either--it has never had any issues in the past.

After the reset, the captivate did maintain a consistent connection--I browsed a few websites and streamed part of a show from my computer using Allshare.

This morning when I turned on the phone wifi wasn't connected so I went into the settings and looks like the phone had attempted to connect unsuccessfully. I clicked it again to connect and it connected without any issue and was fine until I left for work. The whole thing seems a little wonky, as well as it should automatically try to re-connect if it fails the first time if network is in range, or at least give you an alert.

I just set up tdogz suggestion above, so we will see if it helps.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Darkeligos:
On this forum after .com/ place "showpost.php?p=7231968&postcount=4"

Haha sorry bud, but after browsing for some good videos to put on the phone my curiosity made me type in "android" in the torrent search box. I was amazed I could do such things.

Before I unrooted the WiFi wouldn't work with full or low bars, not sure of the strength readout.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] div3rg3nt:
Running into the same issue, I am positive it is a software issue. It only seemed to happen after I flashed my phone with the Odin One click downloader. Dunno if it is coincidence or not. Going to try clearing the user data from the recovery window to see if it helps. I also notices on the power widget, i cant control GPS from there, blue tooth as well i think.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] div3rg3nt:
Yeah, user data reset did not do it. Reflashing now.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] div3rg3nt:
Huzza! I figured my issue out, may be yours as well. Did you do the sideload hack with the settings.db? Turns out you need to change the owner of settings.db to system:

# chown system settings.db

After that, I was good to go. The logic behind this is that settings.db tracks more settings than just if you can sideload apps or not. I'm betting the system is trying to change a value in that file and it cant after the hack, so various systems fail.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahjee:
I recently installed white widow and a lot of my music isn't showing in my player, I noticed wma Isn't working but didn't check others, any input on this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifly4vamerica:
Ok so i have 10 or so videos on my Evo. When i open the video app they all show up as thumbnails. Which is cool but the actual name is missing. Is this normal, or am i just missing something really obvious?
[Droid Incredible General] rigman:
Has anyone with a rooted phone taken it in for Verizon to check the battery? I wonder if they'd run any diagnostics to check the battery and notice it's been rooted?

I'd rather not go back to stock just to have the battery checked. I'm afraid they might load an update while they have it, that might keep me from going back to root.

I've tried everything to conserve the battery. I keep wifi, bluetooth, gps, and network turned off almost all day. I removed live wallpaper. Turned off all notifications, updates, (like weather), haptic feefbsck, etc.

I know my choices are;

1. take it on for service while rooted and take a chance,

2. unroot take it in for service and chance they plug the hole,

3. Buy a extended battery out of pocket.

Suggestions? Or your experience?
[Droid Incredible General] Reddog80p:
What makes you think your battery is defective?
[Droid Incredible General] rigman:
I have everything I can think of turned off. Make no phone calls all day. Average maybe 5 or 6 text messages a day. And maybe 30 to 60 minutes a day browsing. If I'm lucky the battery might last 8 hours.

Seems pretty low usage to me.

Edit: The browsing is while on wifi.
[Droid Incredible General] mikeacela:
That definately sounds like a problem. I text frequently and download a lot of apps and I still get 22 hours of battery. If I was in your situation would take it to Verizon rooted and all. I highly doubt they would update the phone for you but u can ask them if they will. But their is the chance they will void your warentee if they see SU. It all comes down to you. If they were to open up the software to look at the info, i might consider temporarily unrooting until the examination is over. If they see u tampered with your phone they may not help u all together.