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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
oh as for error 262, is that usb timeout? if so, boot into bootloader, connect usb, and then run customruu as administrator
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 022908ali:
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I followed toast's guides for Root and Nand unlock and thought I had everything working perfectly. However, today I went to flash Flipz latest Rom and found and issue which now makes me second guess whether or not I have done everything properly. I can access recovery without a computer, perform a nandroid backup and recovery, etc etc. However, I cannot wipe "sd:ext". When i select that option it says i need to do it thru ADB. Does this mean I did something wrong when unlocking NAND?

I've also noticed that my my build is not set in recovery, but I read that if I could access recovery than I was fine.

Any advice would be appreciated.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timothydonohue:
at least with amon_ra's recovery for our device, it craps itself when trying to wipe the ext partition. probably not your fault.

build not set is a normal reading, at least for me.

if you can write to /system while it's in android, you're good to go.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 022908ali:
Thanks, I do appreciate it. New at this, but learning. Thanks for your input.
[Droid Incredible General] vantagejuan:
I decided to do an experiment this morning. My fiance and I both have Dincs. We're both running SkyRaider 2.0.1. We both have the 1500mah touch pro 2 battery. I bump charged both phones this morning and both went off the charger at 8:30. I cleared my battery stats in clockwork immediately after the bump charge. I didn't clear her battery stats. She had been getting better battery life largely because I use my phone a lot more than she does. That changed today.

The numbers don't lie...

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my phone - battery bump charged and battery stats wiped:

8/3 - off charger: 8:30am

Stats @ 10AM

Uptime: 1.5 hours

Awake: 1.25 hours

% left: 94%

Stats @ 12:30PM

Uptime: 4 hours

Awake: 3.75 hours

% left: 85%

Stats @ 3:45PM

Uptime: 7.25 hours

Awake: 7 hours

% left: 68%

Stats @ 12:30AM

Uptime: 16 hours

Awake: 10.5 hours

% left: 24%

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Fiance's Phone - Bump Charged, battery stats not wiped:

8/3 - off charger: 8:30am

Stats @ 12:30PM

Uptime: 4 hours

Awake: 1.25 hours

% left: 68%

Stats @ 12:30AM

Uptime: 16 hours

Awake: 7 hours

% left: 12%

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I've come to the conclusion that wiping your battery stats is a very important thing to do and will give you hours more battery life. I'm currently losing a little over 4% per hour, which should give me 23-25 hours of battery life. This is a very significant improvement over the 14-16 hours that she will likely get.

I do find it really odd however that my Uptime and Awake Time are so close. This would normally lead me to believe that some program isn't letting my phone go to sleep, but my battery life indicates that isn't happening.

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Day 2: Didn't get rid of need to bump charge. First bump charge actually seemed to take a little longer this morning (over 30 minutes). Second bump was 6 minutes. Had to scrap today since my fiance's phone didn't charge last night. It wasn't plugged into the wall. Doh!
[Droid Incredible General] the337:
i might give this a try. i'll be interested to see if others try it and see what their results are.
[Droid Incredible General] partizan81:
Would I have to clear battery stats every day in order to achieve this additional battery life, or is it only a semi-regular thing?
[Droid Incredible General] craigmack:
???

How do you wipe them in clockwork?
[Droid Incredible General] Lcsglvr:
Question- did you fully charge, wipe, then drain battery down /all the way/ before re-charging (e.g. phone shuts itself down) or did you charge, wipe, and then let it drain a bit and then just plug it back in the charger at night without letting it shut itself down from lack of battery?

Thanks.
[Droid Incredible General] k_flan:
I just tried this earlier as well. I bump charged (charged with power off until led went green, booted all the way up, and then powered off, repeated this cycle like 3 times) and then wiped battery stats in clockworkmod (it's in advanced).

Too soon to see if it makes a difference, and I really didn't have any problems but figured longer is better right :p

Edit: I now plan to let the phone run until it shuts its self off
[Droid Incredible General] vantagejuan:
I doubt it, but don't know for sure yet. I'm tempted to charge it back up now to see if there is a difference in length of time spent bump charging. I hope it shortens it. I won't be clearing either of our stats tomorrow to see if the battery gains comparable to hers stick.

reboot into clockwork, scroll to advanced (i believe), then wipe battery stats

I let it drain itself all the way, then charged it overnight. woke up. bump charged for 1 cycle then cleared the stats.
[Droid Incredible General] s197:
Doesn't work for me, bump charged this morning then booted to recovery and wiped battery stats. If anything, it appears my battery life is worse and one side effect is I did not have 3g on the first reboot.
[Droid Incredible General] vantagejuan:
Your 3g data drop on reboot has nothing to do with wiping your battery stats. It's a known bug in the 2.2 roms. There's also no way that it could make your battery life worse. You're probably just using more heavily today. It's hard to compare one day to the next since your usage levels vary. I know that I use my phone way more than my fiance and comparing the same phones pulled off the charger at the same time is the only way to tell if it makes a difference.
[Droid Incredible General] k_flan:
I didn't have any problems with 3g on the first boot, and my battery life doesn't really appear to have been effected. I can go about a day between charges, and it stayed the same.... completely anecdotal though and I've only been through one charge.
[Droid Incredible General] jdkoreclipse:
you should clear stats regardless
[Droid Incredible General] s197:
I know about the 3g bug but I've never encountered it, ever, until I wiped the battery stats. Maybe that's just a coincidence.

Maybe the reboot due to the loss of 3g is what drained the battery more quickly initially. My routine is the same every morning. Unplug the phone, turn on pandora, walk ten minutes to work. So I have a fairly even amount of usage for the first few hours since it sits idle after that.

Maybe I'll revise my initial thoughts to say it may not be worse for the battery but I'm definitely not seeing the improvements you are. Can I ask what ROM you're running?
[Droid Incredible General] eris_n00b:
First Time Bumping

I have had issues on and off since I got my Dinc. Running SkyRaider RC3 atm seems worse since I flashed it.... 2.5 seemed better. Doing a bump charge/wipe now and will post later with results. I am a fairly heavy user (I know 'heavy' is very relative) and know that a whole day (about 8am to 8pm) is pushing it for me, but I am lucky to make it till 12pm. I have actually seen it drop to 20% before 11am. During the first few hours of the day, I may check 2 emails, send no more than 3 txt and make one phone call... Seems like a big drain for that.
[Droid Incredible General] bradm23:
Weird, I wiped my battery stats today for the first time and also NEVER had a 3g problem when rebooting. Now EVERY TIME I reboot there isn't 3g untill I turn on and off airplane mode. I know the two doesn't seem to be revenant, but it seems like a lot of people are running into the same exact problem. Anyone care to input on this?
[Droid Incredible General] bradm23:
Well later on in the day I tried a restart again the the 3g turned on a few minutes after the phone booted. It still hadn't ever taken this long before, but it did come through on its own. Just a little update on my last post. I'm still interested in knowing why though
[Droid Incredible General] eris_n00b:
Well so far so good, but didn't use it much today. 3G bug happens to me every reboot, but comes on in a few seconds. I'm at 54% atm and bumped/cleared at 2pm est its now 10 pm
[Droid Incredible General] pcphobic:
If your phone uptime is close or same as the number of hours u have since unplugged, that means it's the usb bug preventing your phone from going to sleep.

What u need to do each time your phone is fully charged (connected to the wall charger or USB cable), u will need to unplug the cable and do a manual reboot.

Otherwise, the phone might still think it is plugged to an external power source and refuse to go to sleep even while your screen is turned off and your phone is idle.

Then u should see using Spare Parts or Battery History App, that your uptime is around 10% to 16% of your total time the phone has been unplugged.
[Android] jrebeiro:
Hi All,

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to define the settings for ADW.Launcher in a custom ROM. Is there some sort of XML file I can put in /system or something?

I'd like to pre-define the icons/widgets on the desktop and the action buttons.
[Android] pulser_g2:
Umm. You would need to look at how ADW stores its settings just now. They will be in /data/data/com.adw.launcher/ or something like that. Play with the files there and see what happens and look inside the sqlite databases etc.

Then try putting those files into the data folder of your zip.Give that a go.
[Android] YarsRevenge78:
Did anybody get this to work yet? A similar question was asked in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7571896#post7571896

I replied with an XML file I found that may be useful, but I didn't get a chance to test it yet.
[Captivate General] Fortune090:
Wow! Nice compilation! The only thing I know that doesn't work properly with the Captivate is method 2 of the lag fix in the link given under the lag section.

Other than that, this is great! :D Thanks man!
[Captivate General] s15274n:
^ yeah, I'm not a fan of those lag fixes... tried to convey that in my post. I just switched to LauncherPro and use Autostarts.... my phone flies.

Hope this helps you guys. Never really thought that some of you guys were not checking the Vibrant threads (like I was not reading the Captivate ones).

Someone please feel free to take ownership of this and make it more suitable to the Captivate. Just want to help... if someone does use it, would appreciate at least a name drop :)
[Captivate General] kaluman:
nice work on that and thanks for the qr codes for those programs, a lot of useful stuff that I didn't know about
[Captivate General] r_shook:
Awesome post :)

Thanks s15274n!!
[Captivate General] Shwiggie:
Thank you ever so much for the the Swype arrow keys tip. That was the biggest problem I've had with the Captivate. The brightness control through the notification bar was also a big help. Sometimes its the simple things that make your day.
[Captivate General] alaiwy:
This needs to be stickied immediately. Phenomenal thread. Nice work.
[Captivate General] zorphnog:
Nice compliation! I second the sticky vote.

To me, TouchWiz is the single biggest lag producer on the phone. I've gone LauncherPro and never looked back.
[Captivate General] shaolin95:
Yep, I used this thread before, great stuff indeed ..thanks!
[Captivate General] agras:
Awesome, awesome post. Thanks TC!
[Captivate General] Aftashok:
thanks a ton for this thread, and *facepalms* for me not thinking to check out the Vibrant forums also....
[Captivate General] s15274n:
Doesn't look like this thread really got much attention like it did on the Vibrant. I am not going to maintain this one like i do the Vibrant.... feel free to check there periodically (OR, have someone maintain this one as a sticky).
[Vibrant General] blink55184:
Might be inappropriate in this forum, if so I apologize. But if you are posting to 'Samsung Vibrant General', then you have Tmobile...

I called TMO again asking for any update regarding the GPS bug, they gave me the same old script.

I asked if there was anything they could do to credit or compensate my account for the lack of functionality.

I was put on hold for 1 minute and then was given a $20 statement credit.

Maybe if they have to dish out plenty of those, they'll also get on Samsung's back harder.

Good Luck.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
bugging tmob and asking for credits does nothing to help with fixing the gps problem, especially since they have pretty much nothing to do with the issue. if you don't like the phone or can't live without gps, return it until it's fixed.
[Vibrant General] Minker17:
What lack of functionality? GPS?
[Vibrant General] blink55184:
and if you don't want $20 credit on your bill, don't call Tmobile
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
They notate this stuff on your account so I hope you use your freebies wisely. People getting credits in other threads won't have much leeway when they're asking for a 1 year upgrade or anything else. It really does nothing. Complaining does more than asking for a bill credit.
[Vibrant General] blink55184:
Sorry, yes, GPS
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
i won't call tmob about this, this is a samsung problem. i don't see why you feel entitled to a $20 credit from a company who isn't providing the service that isn't working.

if your blu ray player stops working do you call your cable company and ask for a credit to your bill?
[Vibrant General] blink55184:
Nope, but if the cable box they gave me made by samsung didnt work right, I would.

Anyways, thought some others might like to try.

I'm off to see how funny MyTracks tracks my jog!
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
that's different, your phone works fine for the services tmob provides.

again, this is a samsung problem, not tmobile.
[Vibrant General] ZombieDude00:
On a phone released by t-mobile ... money is money i don't care who is at fault the fact is t-mobile can get you something for your trouble now. I did this as well over a week ago. Nice move

If you don't think this is such a bright idea because its Samsungs problem well I guess you don't like free money off your bill; who cares where the blame is if either of them are giving something for the troubles I suggest we do it.

Anyone get somewhere with Samsung? I highly doubt it but would love to know if they are offering anything up for the GPS issue.
[Vibrant General] ZombieDude00:
dam nice Avatar I have JTHM scared into my flesh right shoulder. Comic #4 story 3 I think.

Anyways JTHM ROCKS thought I would though you one :)
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
what makes you think this is free money? for every credit tmob gives for an invalid reason (like gps not working on a phone that tmobile doesn't make), that delays things like hspa+ expansion, getting more and better phones available, etc. not to mention the fact that a bunch of people calling and asking for this credit is going to make a lot of customer care reps miserable, at least that was my experience when i worked customer care for tmob years ago.

if you are so unhappy with the phone, return it. but as far as tmob goes, you are receiving all the services you are paying them for with this phone.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
lol. nice. likewise, the big lebowski is a great movie.

and don't get me wrong, the gps is a frustrating problem. but this just isn't the way to get things fixed.
[Vibrant General] ZombieDude00:
I'm happy with my phone and personally I never use the GPS for anything hense why i don't really care.

Here is my point and i will shut up. We have these phones there is a "problem" and t-mobile can give you "something" for your troubles. i suggest you take it. Tmobo reps are there to serve I don't care if I bug them its there job. Its not like the CS reps are the developers for Samsung when we aren't calling. Plus this doesn't hinder the development in fact its the opposite they actually will press Samsung in the future for a better product as well as increase there testing of said product.

At least in theory.

my two cents

JTHM for life
[Vibrant General] engineer14:
so i take it when you get your credit card bills, you ask the post office to pay part of it since the mail did not make you happy and they delivered it?

or when you buy clothing that tears up early or has some bad material etc, do you go to the store and ask for money.

you either take it back or you keep it, outside of that there is nothing else they will do. If you bug tmobo reps over something they or tmobile has control over that is one thing. Do you thing tmo just said, "hey samsung, release a defective item, we dont care".

and when you say tmobile can give you "something", thats really liberal, they didnt say, for your troubles take this, you said "for my troubles i want this". big difference
[Vibrant General] DKYang:
I'm not coming back to this topic again and I know the person I quoted isn't coming back either, but I just had to say this.

Look at what is in bold in the quote. T-Mobile isn't giving us "something" for our troubles. You, or the OP(whomever it is), is "asking" for credit. If T-Mobile offered me free credit, then hell yeah I'll take it, but I'm not going to ask for credit unless it's appropriate. For example, the stupid salesman at the T-Mo store didn't charge me $249 for the phone like they were suppose to, so I had to ask for a $15 credit, which I deserve since they promised me a full upgrade price.

If I was having issues with the phone, I would just return it for a refund and then rebuy it when it's fixed or a better phone comes out.

That's it, bye. :)
[Vibrant General] Rubens81:
true i agree on that money is money

i have had any problems with GPS so far, but i had also did the fixes that was available, so far it works great, but money is money and if their is a way i can get something off my bill from my service provider whether its there fault or not i will do that.
[Vibrant General] jon6206:
you're right and you're wrong and heres why... Cell service carriers are ultimately responsible for the phones used on their network since they are the ones who limit our choices of models in the first place. If Tmo didnt require its users to choose from a list of cell phones they authorize then I wouldnt hold them accountable for them, but since they do i expect them to have fully researched and tested all models that they impress upon us to buy. If I could buy my phone directly from the manufacturer and choose my service provider from there then I would only hold the manufacturer responsible. I understand the difficulty GSM CDMA TDMA and varying network bands but this is the situation the carriers have gotten themselves into due to competing strategies. If t mobile is willing to issue these credits to then i can only assume that they understand this as well. and since applications like google maps latitude navigation and telenav all require GPS and a data connection to send back and forth i would have to disagree with you again that i am in fact not receiving all the services i am paying them for with this phone. each of these are bundled in the 95% functional phone that t mobile sold me and each of these are why i pay $30 every month to tmo for my data plan
[Vibrant General] toeshot:
In all Honesty O have been with TMO for 8 years and they have always been fair with me. the last thing they did for me which they were in noway responsible or have to do, was to help me with the HD2. I was trying to get this phone from Walmart for 50, because that was a walmart sell. After 2 days walmart totally screwed up my account and wouldn't sell me the phone. TMO straightened everything out and sent me the HD2 for $50.

Now if you feel that TMO is at fault for the GPS sure call them and get the $20

But have you tried getting into the GPS menu and enabling Skyhook? This works fantastically

*#*#1472365#*#*

Application Settings

Use Skyhook = ON

Back out of the menu

As for getting a credit from the cable company for the faulty box I can guarantee you that if it was a problem from the manufacturer with every box they wouldn't credit you, but wait for a firmware update.

IMO TMO should do the same. this is a samsung problem since other phones have no problems with GPS on TMO's Network
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] maticnyc:
i'm on sprint if that matters. how can i save my voicemail to my computer?
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] kevintmr:
Have in-call recording enabled on your phone. Call your VM and start recording. When you're done you can find the .wav file in \MyDocuments\Notes. Sync it or even better just transfer file via USB cable.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] mboguc:
Can you give me more info.. i am not sure if stock rom has in call recording..

Do you have stock rom or custom? I have seen a .cab flying around here somewhere if i find it ill post it for you
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] jahnile:
Your best beat is Google voice, they are saved on your phone and the servers. It's a .wav file so they are all saved on your phone. U can also log in to your Google voice account online to listen to them on your pc. Finally the best part is your question, u can also download the voicemail.

Google.com/voice
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] mboguc:
Good one.. I forgot about this... Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shnizlon:
Hi ,

I want to buy Samsung Galaxy S form expansys but I have small question that maybe someone could help me find an answer :rolleyes:

I have a friend in Florida right now and I want to send him the product of his address :)

But I don't know if the price in expansys including TAX . Someone know if he will pay TAX for it in Florida ?

Here is a link :

http://www.expansys-usa.com/d.aspx?i=198626

Thanks a lot :D:D:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
yes they charge tax

if you want to avoid tax, then buy from another country Xpansys, then send it there ;)

say for example buy from Xpansys UK or Xpansys Canada, then have it shipped to Florida
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shnizlon:
Thank you ! :D

Then if I buy from here :

http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=198072

And send it to Florida I will not pay any tax ?

Another thing:

I want to ship my order to a different delivery address from Billing address as shown on bank/credit card statement , It's possible ?

Thank you a lot again :):)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shnizlon:
I need an answer today, to know buy or not. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] CWL:
We do not charge tax for orders to Florida. Tax is only within Illinois, as that is where we are based. You'd need the delivery address on file with your bank as an alternate address.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Globetrahter:
Ok, so I have my EVO that was Simple Stock Rooted to 1.47, I wanted the Froyo update so I unrooted back with the stock HTC RUU exe 1.47.

So now after going into disk mode all of my apk's I had were still on the SD Card including nand etc. should they have been or? I though not so I did a format of the SD Card. I then updated to 2.2 and loving it so far

Now I guess my question is how to re root..do I use that "odexed" that is out or what? Any help appreciated
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superlinkx:
Can't root until someone finds a root method. Could take months.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianfreytag:
I doubt it'll take months...

But yeah. You screwed yourself. Should have just flashed a rooted 2.2 ROM.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Globetrahter:
Nah, Im good, not worried about the root, I wander if I even need to be. I really only used like a couple of applications that need root so.. but just wandering,

What is this all about then

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=743352

HTC OTA Froyo 2.2, *FINAL*, build 3.36.651.6 (Rooted) Odexed
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikevillarroel:
That is what you were supposed to flash instead of unrooting and upgrading. That was your chance of getting Froyo for now.
[EVO 4G General] paulsalem:
Anyone else having this issue?

1)Add new event.

2)Fill in "What"

3)Fill in "Where"

4)Fill in "Description"

5)Save

6)Edit the event you just created

7)Text in "Where" field will now be in the "Description" and the "Where" field.

Anyone know of a fix for this?

Thanks.