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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Exohart:
No you do not need to unroot. If you accept that ota update it will take away your root because the rom it puts in isn't rooted. I happened to download and try out froyo 2.2 like 3 days ago to see how it functions. It works very well however the update killed my hotspot completely. I ended up restoring back from Froyo 2.2. I will give a link that will take you to the downloads to do it where the rom comes rooted, and the radio and wimax drivers are there as well. Here it is.... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=740520 One thing to remember is this is not the absolute final build that is pushed out on the OTA update that they have done today. So my guess is very very soon if not already there will be a posted and rooted version of the final build. I am unsure and I am almost positive nothing is every final, but I don't know if you will be able to re-root your evo if you just accept the update from Sprint. If you no longer want a rooted phone and all you care about is getting the update, then you can or will have gotten the request today from sprint as I did or you can look for the update manually in system updates, from settings at the home page. Hope that helps and take care.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Exohart:
I strongly suggest you do not just get stock 2.2 because you have no idea if you will ever root again. Unless your taking it into sprint it makes no sense. I really do not want to attempt to get you that file because its a massive mistake. The download does work though i already tried it that much i can say. See if someone else will actually tell you what you need to do because i'm not sure i can bring myself to do it sorry. I am slightly unsure how you ended up rooting your phone if you are having trouble with a download that has an executable file as in you click on it and it runs If you however need help downloading or flashing or whatever the other stuff that i linked that i will definately try to assist you with. If you flash a stock rom you can and will get the message to update the system and you can manually look for it too. The roms have that disabled so people can't due to ignorance, apply the update then say, "Oh crap I am not rooted how do I fix it?", which we will see a lot of today.
[General Questions and Answers] Jonalaniz:
I recently bought a used HTC Dream from ebay that was working perfectly for the first 2 days, until i rooted and flashed CM 5. Shortly after the screen started to freeze as soon as I opened the keyboard and if I pressed any buttones or taped anything on the screen nothing would happen until I slid the keyboard back in, as if it were "catching up". I tried reseting and flashing the original firmware and nothing seemed to fix this problem. I am currently running CM 6 RC1 and have to use the on screen keyboard. Has this happened to anyone? I tried google and the only problems I have seen don't seem to have a fix. Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] Jonalaniz:
Anyone, please?
[Shift General] axelTP2:
Hi everybody! I bought some weeks ago a Shift and my first priority is to change the language from Italian to English. But before going ahead in flashing a new rom I thought it is wise to make a back-up of the original rom.

So in my attempt to dump the original italian rom of my Shift I've come to an error status I don't know how to overcome, therefore any help would be very much appreciated:

Following pof's How to dump HTC Shift ROM at

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=382609

I downloaded itsutils, unzipped on the pc and placed all the itsutils files in the c:\users\HTC User folder, (as I just did not know how to change the path in cmd to go to the c root with the itsutil folder).

Further on, with the WinMob connected to Vista with USB Tool, I introduced the first command line for pdocread

pdocread.exe -w -d FLASHDR -b 0x800 -p Part00 0 0x31f000 Part00.raw

and I got the answer

Copying c:\users\HTC User\itsutils.dll to WCE:\Windows\itsutils.dll (which I think it's OK) and then

rapi reinitializing (is it normal?)

and then

ERROR: CeProcessConfig – r=002349d0 ce=00000002 le=00000000 hr=80070005

– Access is denied

I have no idea on what the cause of the error could be, probably I must have done something wrong and I am stuck at this first dump step.

Can somebody please help me further to get unstuck?

Thank you very much!
[Shift General] thaihugo:
Are you connected using activesync?

Also, try this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=427507

and use pdocread -l first.
[Shift General] axelTP2:
THANK YOU THAIHUGO for taking the glove of answering me on this dead forum, I really need help! I find it fantastic that you are still so active, maybe in time some other senior members will take again the challenge to support the newcomers.

Yes, WM was connected to Vista side using the USB Tool and the Windows Mobile Device Center.

Looking back, I think I opened cmd as user and not as admin (now I know how to do it), this might have been the mistake, I will try again this afternoon.

1. So far I understood that the main reading process is running under Vista using the command lines and the itsutils, which is ok.

Does it matter where the unzipped folder <itsutilsbin-20100324> is placed? I mean should it be placed obligatory in the root of the c:\ drive?

If YES, how do I do that in the cmd line, I mean change the directory? Normally the cmd screen opens to the folder c:\users\HTC User when starting as user and to c:\Windows\system32 when doing it as administrator. Is it wise to copy all the itsutils files to system 32?

Of all those itsutils files, which are the absolutely necessary files to do the dump? Are these pdocread.exe and itsutils.dll only? This is because I'd like to handle as less files as possible to the system 32 folder.

2. If I got this right, the link that you pointed to shows for the Raphael ROM how to do the dump entirely on the WM side and should be applicable to the Shift WM as well if not managing it from Vista side, is that what you were trying to say?

3. Is this way of dumping the rom covering also the radio part and the bootloader, I mean all the 4 raw files contain the whole initial memory of the WM?

Sorry to raise such beginners question, but I did not find these things explained in any of the Shift threads and without answers I cannot progress with this dump job and furtehr proceed with flashing a custom rom in English. I did search in the Shift forums and googles for answers, but maybe I did not use the right keywords.

Looking forward to receive the enlighting answers, thanks in advance!
[Shift General] thaihugo:
Admin cmd mode should help yes.

1) it doesn't matter where your zip is. Just uncompress the files somewhere in a folder (c:\itsutils if you want), open you command line in admin mode, navigate from system32 folder to the itsutils folder and try again with the pdocread -l then the command from POF post.

2) do not use raphael numbers. I linked to the post for the general procedure. Proper numbers are in the POF post.

3) you will not have the radio, nor the bootloader. But you have to jump if you want to use custom roms. Bootloader is available somwhere, and radio also I think.
[Shift General] axelTP2:
Still getting errors

Thank you again Thaihugo!

I gave it another try to pof's commands as you recommended this time first with pdocread -l and it doens't work, BUT I'm getting the similar error messages. While accessing cmd as administrator and running the cmd line from c:\itsutils:

pdocread.exe -l

rapi reinitializing

and then after about 35 sec

ERROR: CeProcessConfig – r=002349d0 ce=00000002 le=00000000 hr=80070005 – Access is denied

At different runs I got different addresses for r and ce, but the same for le and hr (no idea what those mean).

It doesn't change if launching as administrator or user.

I even downloaded a previous version of itsutils directly on the Vista computer and unzipped it with Total Commander and the result is the same.

Have also tried another command from pof with the same error result:

pmemdump.exe 0x8c000000 262144 SPL.nb

Of course the WM side was connected to Vista via USB Tool and I also checked if from the Vista side the WM folders were accessible.

I'm completely stuck, don't know what to do further, please help!!!

Thank you!

P.S. Have copied the itsutils.dll to the Windows folder in WM via e-mail, just like in the liberalization process in order to avoid copying it via Active sync (as recommended for Raphael). This time at the first run of the pdocread.exe I was asked to accept installing itsutils.dll on the WM side, which I did.

But I'm still getting the error messages when launching pdocread.exe -l, this time running very fast in a few seconds and after 4 turns it stops with the final message

ERROR loading itsutil.dll - probably denied by policy restrictions

Does it ring any bell to you?

My guess is that I have to relax the security policy on the WM side, but I don't know how.

I am amaized that nobody raised all these before.
[Shift General] axelTP2:
I've finally done it! HowTo......

OK, I finally managed to dump the ROM thanks to the support of Thaihugo and the info in various threads on this forum (with credit to the authors), I have now the ROM and bootloader dump files, but not the radio rom.

There were several detailed steps important for beginners that were not included in POF's thread "How to dump HTC Shift ROM" at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=382609 that prevented me to do the dump from the first go.

In order to spare other newcomers time, here they are:

-On the WinMob side change the Security Policies setting by installing a registry editor like PHM Registry Editor, TotalCommander, etc. (I used the cab files downloaded in Vista and moved to WinMob via the Windows Mobile Device Center);

Go to HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies and change the valuename '00001001' from dword:2 to dword:1. Save the change and soft reset your WM device.

If in doubt check this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=427507

Note: After finishing the dump operation do not forget to revert back to the initial dword:2 value

-Download itsutils from POF's site to Vista and unzip the package to a new folder "c:\itsutils".

-To be on the safe side disconnect all network connections (3G modem, wifi, BT, LAN) and all USB external devices.

-Connect the WinMob side of the liberated Shift to Vista using the USB Tool and check in the Windows Mobile Device Center that the folders and files of WinMob are indeed accessible from Vista

-Open the command line screen and go to the folder where you unzipped the itsutils tool by typing "cd c:\itsutils" (without the quotes).

-From within the folder itutils type the command "pdocread -l" (without the quotes).

At this point, with pdocread.exe started, go to the WinMob side and

you will find a message asking you to accept installing the itsutils.dll on the WM side, say Yes to it and wait until it is instelled.

Then go back to Vista side and carry on as described in POF's thread mentioned above by:

- using "pdocread.exe -l" to list the NAND PARTITIONS (which have to do also with the radio side as I understood from one of cmonex posts)

- using "pdocread.exe -w -d FLASHDR -b 0x800 -p Part00 0 0x31f000 Part00.raw" and the other 3 commnads to generate the 4 raw files in the same folder c:\itsutils; keep them for reconstructing the original ROM

- using "pmemdump.exe 0x8c000000 262144 SPL.nb" to dump the bootloader file to the same folder c:\itsutils; keep that too.

That's it for now.

I have to deal further with dumping the radio rom, but I don't know how to do it, I must search the forums.

A big THANK YOU to all who helped me!
[Shift General] thaihugo:
I never dumped a Radio. I think the experts keep this as secret because it's quite dangerous. Isuggest you have a look at your radio version and try and fin the same radioin the forum already dumped.

Otherwise, there are roms for each radio, so you could just simply apply the one that works wth your radio. No phone call though if you don't use the right one.
[Shift General] axelTP2:
Thank you again Thaihugo, it seems that you are the only senior left on duty on this dead forum....yet the counter shows 238 views of this thread. Hm, strange....Anyway, thank you for all the good hints given one way or another during the past days, I wouldn't have made it without it.

I got the message, I will not bother with dumping the Radio. I know that a particular Rom is matched with a certain radio. I will flash one of your roms, most probably Age of Reasons and the associated radio. I am not looking for tens of programs on the WM side, it is enough to have the basic things in English and instant-on. I will let you know!
[Vibrant General] justinlposey:
the fist time i synced my facebook when taking my vibrant out of the box it worked fine, but i did a factory reset on my phone and now when i sync my facebook it only imports 192 people, (the same people everytime) i have around 600 contacts on fb and i dont know why it is doing this. i have tried everything in the world to get them to sync, i have removed samsung from facebook, did a hard reset and still the same 192 contacts. i have clicked the select contacts i wont to sync and it still gives me only the 192. someone please help before i throw my phone in the furnace at work. thanks alot in advance
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
Which facebook are u using ? Built-in or app from market ?

I noticed that they don't work together. I have enabled sync in built-in and disabled in app. Also there was a recent update to new version of facebook 1.3.1, maybe that fixed something......
[Vibrant General] dq13:
mines doesn't sync AT ALL now... I can't even get pictures on my contacts or nothing
[Vibrant General] WilliamStern:
Same here. It's really pissing me off!
[Vibrant General] eff0rtless:
dang it.. i just did a factory reset as well and its not able to pull all my fb contacts. I'm using the app and the newest out that was just released. will report back if I figure it out
[Vibrant General] DAKIDD236:
Mine doesn't sync neither. But you can manually set your contacts to your facebook contacts. click on contact> Media> Link contact> Get friends then you can scroll to whoever you want to sync
[Vibrant General] humblehyper:
Mine is fine, I did a factory reset also. Did you guys go to "Accounts and sync" and added your facebook account there?
[Vibrant General] DKM119:
The fix for this I'd that you have to delete the samsung application from the main facebook (under setting I believe) and twitter using your computer.

Just wait I few minutes and sync from your phone...that worked for me.
[Vibrant General] jesse_wildcat:
that didnt work for me... is it safe to assume that its facebook with the issues, not our phones?
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
no. It's probably Samsung's hacked-together TouchWiz that's causing the fail.
[Vibrant General] MrGibbage:
Could it be that you have your contacts app set to show only contacts with phone numbers? Try disabling that option and see if you have all of your FB contacts.
[Vibrant General] Wes33:
figured it out!

This was frustrating me too! But i figured it out:

Ok from contacts you press menu, then press the "get friends" button. Add your facebook account, or if it's already there select it. Now you can choose which individual facebook contacts you would like to add, or you can choose "select all"!

:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linkman8x:
Hello,

i have a problem with my touchscreen, the capacitive screen sensitivity is a too high.

I think the sensitivity will be decreased by changing some values in touchscreen driver .... :confused:

I dont known but my U help me ^^!

Thanks

Weird Touchscreen behavour - Video Doku

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=595655
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linkman8x:
Help me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUJFLIfYiY
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonnn:
I'm looking for a solution to this too :(

Looks like we might need to replace our screen digitizers!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linkman8x:
HTC HD2 with different Touchscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVn2HvexhQ

This touchscreen failure can be solved with correct driver under Windows Mobiles

Touch.dll and TouchGL.dll

but no chance with Android :|
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linkman8x:
Help me T_T
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mekwall:
Hello proud SGS-owners!

(Beware, wall-of-text) :p

I've been lurking around the xda forums since I got my first Android phone (Hero). Now that I've gotten myself an SGS I've "moved" from the Hero forums to the SGS forums. My first impression was that the SGS forum community is far behind that of the Hero community, which is understandable considering that SGS is a much newer phone and doesn't have as many users (yet).

I never felt that I had anything to contribute to the Hero community because it was already flourishing when I came there. I'd like to help the SGS community to move forward and reach that same level, and hopefully beyond. The SGS have the potential to be the real (iPhone?!) kick-ass phone we've all been waiting for, so why not have a kick-ass community?

It took me hours, scouring the threads, to learn how to safely flash and root my phone, but it was well worth it. The problem is, most people don't have the same patience or time to do so. So, for starters. How about we combine our shared knowledge and put up a post that will hold all the necessary info on all current FWs, basic info on how you flash, root, what odin is, how-to's and not-to-do's, and so forth.

All of this can and should also be put in the wiki, but I believe we also need a thread for it here or many people will miss out on the info. Perhaps something in between, the best of two worlds? Right now the SGS wiki is really lacking...

Any ideas or opinions? I'm all ears and open for discussion :)

To the mods: You can move this thread to general if you think it's out of context. However, this is first and foremost targeted at the dev-community so I think it should be left here.

Best regards,

Marcus
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] appelflap:
Great idea to collect as many information as possible. But there's a already a thread for this: the big faq thread.

I like your intiative though. And yes, it would be very nice to have an updated wiki.

BTW, for the general section it would be nice to have a sticky tips and tricks thread, like the one tboy2000 created for the HTC HD2. We need someone though that will maintain that post. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mekwall:
Shame on me. How on earth did I miss that thread?! :o

Do you know if you can you let other people edit the original post in some way? That would help alot :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] appelflap:
I surely does ... But i don't believe it can be done.

BTW that would be a nice tip for XDA-dev forum developers: create an option to let multiple (selected?) users colaborate and edit one opening post. But then again, that would be almost be the same functionality as a wiki :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dakine:
I agree with the op, the faq thread is good but this forum could really use a 'getting started' thread for people that just got their phone. And it should be in the general forum instead of development.
[Desire General] feldba:
Hi

I have a problem with my desire.

In 7 out of 10 times if i get a call the screen for picking up the call appears delayed and if that happens and i pick up the call when the screen appears it takes another 10 to 20 seconds until the person on the other hand can hear me.

I have no custom roms on my device.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Thx
[Desire General] shoonari:
Hej devs!

you know that are device get silenced during the incoming call, if you turn it face down.

Is there any ways to prevent it?

Im asking cause usually i keep my phone in jeans pocket, and sometimes i miss a calls due to this feature...

thx!
[Desire General] gandalfmuaddib:
I don't think a mod is required for this.

Doesn't Settings > Sound > Uncheck "Quiet ring on pickup" do this for you?
[Desire General] shoonari:
not exactly

this option gives you a posibility to quiet a ring when your phone make a move during a call(doesnt matter in which direction).

But even if you turn this option off,ring will end if you put your device on a screen
[Desire General] mrwookie6379:
Untick the above option and it should ring with out quiten ring tone. Works with my Desire.
[Desire General] pascanu:
The OP is right: the phone still goes silent when turned face down even with that box unticked.
[Desire General] mrwookie6379:
Hmmmm intresting....as mine doesn't just tested. :confused:

Strange....
[Desire General] shoonari:
so, any interesting ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] quicksite:
I don't want to repeat a post. But I am not getting enough traffic in the DESIRE subforum to get this answered.

HERE IS MY THREAD THERE:

[Q] How to get Froyo 2.2 OTA in USA for Unlocked UK Desire (w/ T-Mobile USA service) http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=595#

But I want to expand my search here: WHAT IS UP with HTC? HTC SUPPORT WEBSITE IN UK: Search results for: HTC Desire > Android 2.2

How can they be so clueless throughout their entire international corporation regarding simple information -- where do I get my update for my HTC DESIRE unlocked UK-purchased phone?

• I have the HTC Desire, UK version, unlocked.

• But I am in the USA with T-Mobile USA carrier service; I bought the phone to use here because T-Mobile USA carries phones i don't care about, and never carries the ones I DO want, so I forego with 3g-- and just get the phones I want since I use wifi 80% of time anyway.

• The Android 2.2 has been available for the HTC Desire in the UK

• HTC Customer Support cannot tel me how I can get it. They first tell me -- seriously -- "Sorry, the OTA is pushed out from UK cell towers and you can't reach that signal in USA, so you are out of luck. All you can do is go to developer.Android.com and download the 2.2 update"

• "You mean to tell me this has been available to me all this time?"

• "yep, for over 2 weeks now."

• "What do I do?"

• "You go there and find the generic 2.2 version, since your phone is not tied to a carrier, it does not have al the carrier-specific update software with it"

• "But I thought these updates are PHONE-specific. I thought that was the whole big thing HTC has been saying. That first they have to wait for Gooogle to release the Android Code, then they have to test the code on various devices, and it takes certain tweeks per phone...?"

• "Nope... Didn't require much testing at all"

• "Well.... Okay then.... So I just go to deveoper.android.com ands I will find the file to download?"

• "Yep. SHould be there. It's been there for 2 weeks."

• Is it like an apk file?

• "No, you need to use HTC Sync..."

ANYWAY, I could go on -- and I do -- in the other thread. Suffice to say: He didn';t know his *** from hole in ground... And after 40 minutes on phone, and two times being put on hold, he comes back this time to say, sorry, i was mistaken, you WILL get your update OTA, but you missed your cluster and will have to wait til it comes around again.

I said "How is that possible? My phone is set for auto-update -- AND i check it manually and have been checking for past two weeks and every time it tells me it is UP TO DATE, no new software... yet it it version 2.1 ....

And more endless crap-talk.

Does anyone know: How can I get my update?

And #2: WHY IS THIS SUCH A MYSTERY?

And #3: MUST IT BE SO RIDICULOUS?

Thanks very much!
[General Questions and Answers] tejajuloori:
Ota does not check for country specificity when the phone is unbranded
[General Questions and Answers] quicksite:
Okay, that answers part 1 of about 5 parts to the question.

So, if I am in USA, have unbranded HTC Desire GSM model purchased from UK. T-Mobile USA is my carrier.. Who/ what server is pushing my update? IS it on HTC servers? Do they control it? How is it routed? Why have I not seen it? Why have I not gotten it?

How DO it get it?

thank you.