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[Captivate General] jdsemler:
Anyone else getting an OTA update?

I literally just walked in the door from returning it after getting an absolutely disgraceful chat session with their tech support asking me if I tried things like turning the phone on and off.

I really liked the phone, but I didn't want to get stuck without workable GPS, especially since their acknowledgement of the problem is the semi-acknowledgement of, "that under certain conditions, the GPS on our U.S. Galaxy S devices may not be meeting performance expectations," as seen in places like on the Others tab of the SamsungGalaxyS Facebook page.

If OTA updates are rolling out, I'll go re-buy it. I figured they would just roll it into the Froyo update rather than take resources away from that effort for a one-off patch.

For those wondering, the AT&T rep I spoke to was aware of the GPS issue but tried to downplay it saying it doesn't matter to most people and tried to charge me the restocking fee, saying they charge it every time unless a phone is DOA but she'd be happy to exchange the unit for me. I calmly explained that GPS is a key feature for me (I travel a lot for work), and that feature is DOA and known to be so. Rather than cycle me through exchanges that would use up store stock of good phones that other customers may be perfectly happy with, it would be better for both of us just to not charge me the re-stocking fee and call it done. She got the manager's approval, and that was that, so kudos to them for being reasonable.

I do still like the phone though. If there's more confirmed reports of a fix and folks saying it works, I'll be back there the next morning to get it back.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
I havent received an update yet. But I'm rooted, so I dont know if that would stop me from receiving the update or not.

Samsung did post on their twitter account the other day that they are aware and are currently working on a GPS fix. So, however long that takes remains to be seen. They have zero credibility when it comes to putting out software fixes and updates. I'm going to stick it out for the full 30 days and if nothing then return it for an iphone4. Between the GPS being absolutely useless to the 12 hour battery life, I'll have to say that this phone is less than spectacular.
[Captivate General] waltah!:
May have been a false alarm unfortunately. I think it might have ben a gps test app update. Hers locks almost as fast as my nexus one now though so I'm confused. Sorry if it turns out to be bogus everyone.
[Captivate General] madjsp:
This is the real question. Anyone running the I9000 having this same issue? Then it is not really software but hardware.
[Captivate General] NOSintake:
That's what I want to know. I don't know how this can be a software problem, when multiple apps can't use it correctly
[Captivate General] waltah!:
Guys it may have been bogus and just a gps app update. If that's the case then I apologize. Its locking about as fast as my nexus one all of a sudden so I thought it was legit. If that's the case I don't want to get anyones hopes up cause ill feel like a tool.

Might be a double post as the app crashed on me.
[EVO 4G General] sablesurfer:
http://www.informationweek.com/news...html?articleID=226200284&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

Yep, seems Apple wanted to stop people from owning their own phones. Finally a ruling that makes sense to me and I applaud. No way in HELL I am leasing technology when you ask me to put down >$500.
[EVO 4G General] AvatarOfFrost:
No offence, but what does this have to do with the EVO exactly?

This is an EVO forum, please leave the damn iPhone alone. :rolleyes:

Why do we have to have all these stupid iPhone threads? :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] wildgillis:
Because the exceptions to the DMCA allow all phones to be hacked/unlocked legally including the evo

Edit

Also would likely protect all the devs here that make custom roms from getting in trouble

End edit
[EVO 4G General] mbaseball3:
I agree! Also doesn't make sense that this forum's mobile version is themed like the iPhone browser. Isn't this a ppc forum?

Sent from my HTC Hero
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farrellwes:
I am a noob when it comes to the technology with phones. I rocked the samsung instinct for two years( Worst phone Ever). I am good with Pc`s and understand the majority of stuff including dos prompt. With so much info out there and all with different methods on how to get there I want to know if I am going about this right. Let me know if my order is off. And post a forum link to the correct number if there is a forum post with the correct anwser. Thanks for those who take time out to help me.

Questions I have:

When Rooting my phone, can I back it up so that when I restore the backup I will still have all my downloaded apps I currently have pre-root. If not, After rooting, when I restore a backup, will it just be the stock evo. Do I backup before or after rooting. Once rooted How Do I nandroid.

1) Backup phone: What should I use.

2) root my phone: Should I just use SIMPLE ROOT, and just follow those instructions. With the root

3)Nandroid backup.

4)Rom Manager- Load CyanogenMod-6 from there.

I am the type of person that needs video to learn things quickly, If there is a legit video that would show me step by step , that would be the most useful. Thank to all that are helping me out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thegame3202:
So is it normal to have to run the command to make system rewritable every time? I thought after NAND unlocking, I should always have access.... Do I need to run a command? Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildgillis:
you should not have to run any command try root explorer from the market and make sure you mount the nand as r/w in the app I use this to change my boot screen to a new one every week
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidlightle:
I don't know for sure, so tread carefully, but I believe you could modify the init.rc where these two lines are:

The first mounts it normally and the second remounts it read-only. If you remove the second, I believe it may leave it read-write on startup.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] AdrianK:
I'm trying to make a static boot animation, so it's the same as my splash...

Here's what I've got so far, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? http://drp.ly/1rghdj

desc.txt has been set to 320 480 - same as png size

I've tried several FPSs to no avail

I've tried just a sing png in each folder, names 00001.png & 00002.png
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Houka420:
Here ya go. I just changed the file names along with the fps & rezipped it. I pushed it to /data/local/ & it seemed to work on my G1. I uploaded it to Mediafire. http://www.mediafire.com/file/w34znomyqcew317/bootanimation.zip
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] AdrianK:
You are immense, thank you!!

I'll try removing redundant frames...

It's just a shame that there's a gap between splash1 (no splash 2 on Magic) and bootanim and then another short gap before the lockscreen, which I'm sure weren't there with the default bootanim :-S
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Houka420:
I rezipped it into 1 part so it may help with the transition between the two, maybe. ;) http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=...d080c3eaa17387ec8683d6900f2d967ba1a25e8978010
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cincydsm:
I just currently upgraded to Cyanogenmods newest release of Froyo(2.2) and I am getting a authentication loop when I enter in my gmail account, it says its verifying and keeps looping it over and over again. anyone else with this problem? have phone service and text/web abilities but need to retrieve my contacts and get this resolved.
[Off-topic] atomfix:
I just lost my bank card, does anyone know if you can still Giro the bank and withdraw money domain your account without your card? I can't wait to phone them up and ask for a new card because I'm going on holidays in about 3 days and need the money asap,

Does anyone know if i can? In the UK
[Off-topic] atomfix:
Nvm I found it haha! Xx
[HD2 General] jkolner:
Iv'e just flashed Dutty's Redemption v3 ROM, and when creating a playlist, the HTC Sense musicplayer don't find alle the music on my SD card.

Any suggestions to force the HTC music player to opdate files?
[General Questions and Answers] kdurbin82:
I had this idea and was hoping that a windows mobile developer would pick this up as a simple project:

There are already apps out there (like three of them) that you can use to turn your winmo phone into a mobile webcam using ftp and network directories, but none of them work well or function the way I need them to. So here is what I am looking for. I want a light weight app that can take lo-res pictures IN THE BACKGROUND and upload them automatically to an ftp site without PASV at a pre-determined delay. For example, the app would run silently in the background, use the phones camera to take a small 320x240 pixel photo and upload it to the ftp using setup parameters every 10 minutes.

The only app of the three mentioned that actually does this, does not work well. It is slow, heavy on resources, and the FTP doesn't even work. Anybody interested, PM me, and I can compensate up to $20 if it works the way I want it to. (It's not much, but I don't think that it would be very difficult if you know what you're doing.) It doesn't need a fancy interface or anything.

THANKS!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
I am having problem running kies as it keep crashing at start up with dialog box showing the message ' mainstage has stopped working' reinstalling kies didn't help. Anyone had this problem?

Ps: I tried searching function from the xda app and it return no result before posting here.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yc1437:
Flash JM2 problem gone away
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SLX69:
I had the same problem under Windows 7 64bit. Solved it by installing Windows Mobile Device Center, don't ask me why :-(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
Thank you for replies. I have tried to reinstall MDC but that doesn't seemed to help solve the problem...

Still cannot use Kies.. sigh.. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberz:
Solved

Kies require Windows Mobile Device Center on newer Windows, activesync on older Windows. :)

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WAS:

I have just purchased Galaxy S.

Installed Kies on windows 7 64 bit, kies doesn't start/work at all. It remain at splash screen. When open task manager I found the splash process and form1.

It is a big delusion :(

Samsung make software only for 32bit?? How to sync 232 contacts from iphone without outlook??

Samsung, sigh ..

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
Thanks for the hints everyone.

My 'mainstage' problem seemed to have been solve with reinstallation of the latest Kies from samsung which I have just downloaded. That being said, kies open and run fine, but I am back to the same old problem unable to connecting my phone to kies. This software is really a POS.

My system is Window 7 64Bit home professional.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
Also just to note, I notice that kies requires .net framework for window xp and vista. To be safe.. and it might be totally unrelated... I enabled the Microsoft .NET framework 3.5.1 on window 7 when I reinstalled the new version of kies.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberz:
Yes, and do not forget Windows Mobile Device Center on newer Windows, activesync on older Windows.

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
Thanks :)

Last note really.

Today the in a last ditch efforts to connect Kies due to upgrade from JF4 to JG4 over kies, I have finally decided to format my internal SDcard.

Kies was able to connect to my phone after several reboot attempt of my computer and telephone. Upgrading to JG4 seemed to have no problem connecting to Kies so far. However, I have my doubt that after installing several programs the problem will probably pop back up again.

Cheers Everyone
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kingconnought:
Kies Mainstage Still Not Working

I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling and using different versions and Kies Mainstage still does not allow Kies to start up.

I've installed Mobile Device Manager and still nothing.

Seems as though Samsung exec's opted for a slick, pretty GUI without consideration to actual functionality!

At this rate, I will never be able to upgrade to froyo 2.2 unless someone writes an install package that works.

frustrated.

Galaxy S, 2.1 update 1 Eclaire. 2 Gb Micro SD card.

Laptop: Asus 3 Ghz blah, blah, blah
[Galaxy S I9000 General] raffaelediana:
Same for me....the strange thing is that some weeks ago it worked....i use windows 7 64 bit
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ricksterx2010:
Kies Mainstage Still Not Working

I had similar problems running Kies on Win 7 x64. What I did was do a fresh install of the updated Kies version 103_100_2 (from Samsung UK site), ie. uninstall old Kies and remove any lingering directories first. Then Uninstall the Samsung USB drivers installed with Kies. Then install the x64 bit drivers for Samsung mobile devices. Worked a treat. :D

You can get the x64 bit drivers from Softpedia website

cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kobrien52:
Having the same problem. It's infuriating.

Kies was working fine until about a month ago and now I cannot open it. Have followed the advice given in this thread but no luck in getting it to start.

Running Windows Vista 32 Bit
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ben Goldring:
mainstage not working

I have vista 32bit

I reinstalled the latest version of kies it still didn't work so I then installed .NET framework 4 and that seems to have solved the problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jamiecannock:
hope this helps for all you vista 32 bit operators that have the mainstage problem.

took me two hours to work out but seemed to correct the problem by downloading the 4.0 version of .netframework.

kies seems to be working now

let me no if this helps

jay
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xbkeeper:
Fix for XP:

I had exactly the same problem on my XP Netbook and solved as follows:

Uninstall Kies

Uninstall Samsung Modem for Mobile Phones

Uninstall Microsoft Silverlight

Uninstall Microsoft Silverlight SDK

Reboot

Install Kies

Hope this helps.

A.

PS Reasoning behind this is if you look at the error log file that the crash produces and is about to send to Microsoft then you see that the exception occurred in XamlParse... Xaml is the xml language used by Silverlight and WPF.

PPS Samsung get your act together and write software that works properly.

PPPS Samsung give us a way to update your phones without having to use the piece of cr*p you call Kies.
[Wildfire Android Development] brokenworm:
Im looking for the HTC WILDFIRE test Ruu release ..the exe.

Do someone have a link ?

Brokenworm
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] cirian75:
Looking at the x10 mini pro for my old man.

ticks many boxes

android

small

full qwerty

but not fond of Sonys UI

So could anyone test launcher pro from the market on one and post screen shots or stills please ?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] knudsen81:
when you go to x10 mini apps forum, you see launcher pro only works on android 2.1 and not android 1.6
[Droid X General] zedomax:
Apple has been spreading false rumors about Droid X's death grip, here's a video I made proving what really is going on, enjoy~

[YOUTUBE]tPHNIPbe1v8[/YOUTUBE]
[Desire General] ephumuris:
I have applied the menu to wake mod but I want to be able to double tap menu and unlock NY phone. Any ideas? I'm sure it worked before!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] safetynl:
Closed...........go to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7415897#post7415897
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] syahmanowar:
Hail safetynl!

Great effort and look nice.

Can you make for my country? Malaysia Flag?

Keep up the great work!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] anhphe076:
Share DIALPADS SWITCH

(Mortscript required). Can you create it?

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=117890
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] babydragon23:
Great Flags Man :) Like ur work

Can u create da mexican flag by any chance ...Thanks in Advance :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] safetynl:
Update

It's there my friend ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] safetynl:
Sorry

I wish I could but unfortunately.....sorry :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] syahmanowar:
Thank you so much.

Keep up the great work!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] king23james:
GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!! could you create a dialer with the German flag?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] safetynl:
Thanks!

German Flag is there my friend
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] anhphe076:
Can you mate transparent Dialer style for me!! Thank you very much.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] king23james:
THX A LOT!!!!!

ur my hero 4 2day ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] safetynl:
I tried but didn't came out nicely, sorry again :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] bx10r:
Can you make Ecuador?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] safetynl:
closed

closed.................go to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7415874#post7415874
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] bx10r:
thanks, they look great
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] bx10r:
After unzipping how do i copy and where in the windows folder do i paste it?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] safetynl:
Open windows folder on your device and paste, thats all ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ruianast:
thank you very much for portuuese flag.

nice work .

i will test it now

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] cre8ted1:
Which update request should I ignore
[Android Apps and Games] SiL3nTKiLL:
is there any good apps for the android for streaming TV or watching shows online? ive tried SPB TV, didnt like it to much, dont wanna pay for MobiTV either lol...any other options out there?
[Android Apps and Games] matrix2004:
Live tv app in market.
[Android Apps and Games] SiL3nTKiLL:
i cant find it in the market...
[Desire General] the_sikness:
Hey Guys,

I ran unrevoked the other night, which went well.

I then proceeded to install OpenDesire, which then the device wouldnt boot. I restored the original which I backed up using nandroid, and once booted the settings page kept force closing.

So I decided to try and flash the OpenDesire mod again, which failed again.

Once I tried to put the original rom back on, I could no longer get into the recovery menu. I then tried the older method of rooting the device, to try and put an original rom back onto it. Now it's stuck in RUU mode, and whenever I run the step1.sh (tried windows also), I get the following error:

FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail)

Any help would be much appreciated. As I have googled my little butt off, and cannot find any solution to the problem.

Thanks in advanced.
[EVO 4G General] ek9manr:
According to HTC in order to fix this problem you must do the following:

Go to Facebook.com

from your personal info you must delete your High School information. then add a city to your employer.

that worked for me and hope it works for you...
[EVO 4G General] loztboy:
I'll try it right now, kinda weird fix though don't you think?

Holy ISH it works!!
[EVO 4G General] ek9manr:
This will not work for users that can login and can not see facebook contacts or link them.
[EVO 4G General] jonesdana:
+1

HOLY **** it WORKS!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] splink7007:
Lmao, it DOES work! I went into contacts and online directories had to refresh like 5 times before it synchronized my friends. After complete sync, I added my high school info. All seems to be ok. Crazy fix!
[EVO 4G General] Hardcorp:
How weird is that... It worked!
[EVO 4G General] redrazr7791:
Still doesn't fix the whole "no friends" situation :mad:
[EVO 4G General] splink7007:
It worked for me. Refresh a few times.
[EVO 4G General] hoopsdavis:
WOW!!! That work
[EVO 4G General] dash87:
OMG it worked! I had to refresh 2 times but its fixed. thanks so much I really appreciate it.
[EVO 4G General] TJDuckett:
Sure as **** not working for me... do you have to delete College info too?
[EVO 4G General] splink7007:
Try removing you fb acct from accts sync. Delete you high school and add the city to you employment. Then add fb back to accts sync and refresh a few times under contacts and online directories.
[EVO 4G General] ek9manr:
Try to delete HTC sense from your Facebook apps on the website
[EVO 4G General] splink7007:
That too, almost forgot I did that step as well.
[EVO 4G General] TJDuckett:
Yep. Deleted both things. My high school info is gone (left college), and my jobs have cities... re added it to sync and have been refreshing under onlien directories...it's a no go.
[EVO 4G General] TJDuckett:
Nevermind... it looks like it worked out of no where after I just plain removed all of my school and work info.
[EVO 4G General] TJDuckett:
And now it's getting connection error everytime again... ugh. I give up.
[EVO 4G General] redrazr7791:
It worked for about 5 minutes and then FAILED!

Sort of retarded that you have to tweak this and twist that, just to get the account to sync correctly.
[EVO 4G General] MCL1981:
This worked, but I litterally had to hit sync about 100 times to get it to go.
[EVO 4G General] TJDuckett:
^^This... and now my fb has no school or work info.
[EVO 4G General] MCL1981:
You can put it back....
[EVO 4G General] TJDuckett:
haha. Well, I know man, but, it's a hassle, albeit small.
[EVO 4G General] tauzins:
holy **** it really worked....
[EVO 4G General] zer0-1ne:
still doesn't work for me on any rom.
[EVO 4G General] allyn274:
Is anyone seeing a problem Facebook for MyTouch 4G today?

Deleted - sorry
[EVO 4G General] Nisarg Makwana:
ohhh my god.......this small weird trick really works.....:good::laugh:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] luvjones305:
I have a motorola droid that already been flashed too metropcs but the enternet & my picture messaging don't work any more on my motorola droid rooted 2.1 android they all was working earlier today i deleted a file in my sd memory card by accident an it reeboted my phone and took of my enternet an picture messaging settings by mistake i had too look for a wi-fi connection to sign in to use my phone again over the wifi connection but the phone still can make calls an regular text but no more mms messaging or internet any more if you can help me to put it back on send me a message on here
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] cudahy_boy:
hey if you get info can you please help me out
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] tronnix:
I don't know any specific info related to MetroPCS, but I had a similar situation a while back. I would re-flash the stock ROM that came with your phone and start from scratch with whatever process you followed before.

I seriously doubt that the file you accidentally deleted is the source of this problem, but I would start from scratch either way.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] iNFiNiTY125:
re install

hey it sounds like u need to reinstall autostart.apk and u2nl

1. install autostart (look in market or in rar file i provided)

2. Put everything in the rar on your C: drive

3. open cmd type: cd c:\android\tools

(To install autostart)

type: ADB install C:\android\tools\autostart.apk

3. Type: adb shell

mkdir /data/opt/

exit

4. Type: adb remount

adb push c:\android\tools\u2nl /system/bin/u2nl

adb push c:\android\tools\autostart.sh /data/opt/autostart.sh

5.Type: adb shell

chmod 0755 /system/bin/u2nl

chmod 0755 /data/opt/autostart.sh

adb reboot

6. then go to the voice dialer and say "Open APN's" and make sure there is one and it is selected. look somewhere for the apn settings for metro

if still nothing then get new NV items: http://www.whiterabbit.org/android

if u need more help let me kno
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] luvjones305:
hey thanks

hey do i need a computer to do this on my phone or just type it in my phone through my root explorer app