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[Captivate General] jaepoori:
So some phone calls here and there throughout the days are being dropped. Im talking to the person then it drops. I call em back and it drops again. You guys have this problem after rooting and all that good stuff? I dunno if its cause of the rooting or its my phone -_-. Battery seems "ok".
[Captivate General] Ph8:
I havent experienced any droped calls, but then.again where I live ATT service is very very good. As far as battery goes I went 1 day 18 hours with a live wallpaper and still had juice left.
[Captivate General] Shovelhead84:
None. Captivates function as an actual phone is superb.
[Captivate General] iamamp3pimp:
I agree. ive placed about 200 calls so far and have yet to drop one.
[Captivate General] confrontation:
"Try holding it a different way"

Apple CEO

Steve Jobs

I guess it works for the iPhone 4 dropped calls hehe
[Captivate General] Shovelhead84:
I heard that if you wrap a bicycle tire around the phone it helps with preventing dropped calls. It also helps to prevent the back plate from shattering during a sneeze or light sun exposure.

These may just be tips for iPhones but I'm not an engineer so I couldn't tell ya.
[Captivate General] jaepoori:
i don't know what us going on then. cause i just got a call drop again today and coverage in maryland is fine. my manufactured date is end of july but yet im seeing called dropped problems. im.thinking about going to back to factory and starting from scratch. damn it.this sucks. also with the batter life:

1 hour phone calls

30 mins of games

20 texts back and forth

40% left. wtf

might have to wait till the battery is broken in.
[Captivate General] tor_man:
I have experienced dropped calls too, it is not consistent, maybe one call a week or so, but it does seem to happen. My Captivate is rooted with the ext3 fix, but I doubt this has anything to do with that.
[Captivate General] Ph8:
Do you have wifi or Bluetooth enabled? How about a live wallpaper? These are other factors that can cause poor battery life. You may just have a bad battery if after a week you don't see improvement followingbthe charging/draining cycles I would exchange the phone. Also when u drop a call use the att app to report it.
[Desire General] dogstar55:
I have started to notice the performance of my htc Desire degrading.

Apps take longer to load. Where before it was almost instant, now I have to look at plain black or white screens while the apps load.

Not sure what could be causing the problem. Anyway i can find out whats the causel?

Its a stock unrooted 2.1 desire.

Only things i have loaded recently is HTC IME keyboard mod and "what the doodle". all other apps were running for a long time.
[Desire General] abc27:
Stock Unrooted 2.1? Just install 2.2, it's much faster.
[Desire General] Whiterin:
I have found that the amount of available memory/RAM decreases the more you use the device. Not sure if its due to a memory leak somewhere, apps getting greedy with RAM, or what. I find that when it gets to a point thats too low for my taste, or performance starts to degrade, a simple restart works to clear up the issue. This happens even with a task manager, so I am not sure what the cause of the memory degradation is.
[Desire General] Deleted member 2496007:
Mine did the same whilst on 2.1

Does a re-boot not speed things back up? If not it could be a dodgy app hogging memory.

When this happened to me, I fixed it by backing up using mybackup pro (worth every penny) and doing a factory reset. Takes only half an hour, and gets your desire back to box fresh speedy. Just be mindful of which apps you put back on.

I also take it your stock desire is branded? When your carrier releases 2.2 to you, you'll see a vast improvement too.
[Desire General] alex_hk90:
I noticed this on my Desire (2.2 custom ROM) just now, and it seems to be a memory thing as according to "Android System Information" the CPU usage is low (under 10%) while the RAM usage is high (only 7% free). Is there any way to prevent the RAM going so low and performance degrading as a result? Will a task killer help for this? (I've read not to use them as Android's meant to take care of tasks but if it's not doing a good enough job of clearing up old tasks then surely it would be better to use one?)
[Desire General] ergoulf:
Es task manager works well for me when my ram is getting low. Nice not having to reboot. Im on froyo 2.2
[Desire General] Jabbafat23:
Stock Desire on 2.1 used to slow down once it got to about 40mb free. Now running 2.2 and its always above 100mb. Runs fast all the time now but I keep my task manager from the 1.5 days as its handy to know what is running and using up the RAM
[Desire General] alex_hk90:
What do you do in ES Task Manager to free up your RAM? I tried "Kill All" but it didn't seem to have much effect (still stays at around 40 MB free). Had to restart in the end to get the performance back up to scratch (now has over 140 MB free).
[Desire General] onmichele:
Same issue here and i suspect that default browser is the cause.

When free RAM goes very low, generally after one or two days from the startup in my case, i use free app OSManager to see all running processes. This app shows several instances of default browser process (called Internet), each one eating 40-50 Mb of RAM and in sleep state (not zombie). System never removes them and manual killing doesn't work, so there stay in memory over time. I tried different task managers, but only OSManager shows this detail.

To confirm this hypothesis, now i start to use Dolphin instead of default browser: in a couple of days, i will know if the issue is still present.
[Desire General] Whiterin:
Well, this isn't the cause for me as I have always run Dolphin Browser HD on the Desire. I don't use the default browser. I think it's mainly system processes that just stack up in the background. I found that going through and trimming the list of system processes did free up the memory, but it's just as fast to restart the device.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnHi:
how can i make sure if i am using evdo not 1x? when i goto internet,My phone show the 3G logo with up/down arrow on the top screen. but when i input ##33284# to see evdo engineering,an/aaa authentication is 0(=not authentication).

how can i confirm i can use evdo 3g network?:confused:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
there is speedtest apps on the market that are free....you will know when you have 3G ;)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnHi:
ths ,i have downloaded speedtest.it show my download speed is 60kbps,upload speed is 20kbps. is it 1x or 3g?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bobb_o:
Sounds like 1x. I get 1080 kpbs download and 853 kpbs upload
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnHi:
my god~

now,my test result is download 54kbps,upload 1089kbps(>1Mbps)!!!!

I do have it really!

which network did i use?1x or evdo?

:confused:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morganpants:
1x caps at 12kb/s with a upload that can range to whatever the tower allows, and 3g can cap at 250kb/s down with an upload that usually is about 50-90kb/s.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
Both have 1.42 hspl, both have energy wm base rom. One will fire up the mattc 1.5 Android but when I remove the sd card and put in the other HD2 (even after a format) it just hangs at 'jumping to kernel'. Pop it back in the other HD2 again and everything is fine!!

Any explanations as I am stumped :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chalid:
obvious question: radio version is the same? :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
Sorry. Yes both the same (12.50)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HectiQ:
hmmm.. tried with another SD card as well?

- ROM, RADIO, HSPL VERSION, SD CARD are ALL THE SAME?

if not, look in to that first.. Second, maybe try with another SIM card.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
Tried different sd card as well. So really odd. The phone can't be broken nor the SD slot as it reads and executes other files.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fi3ry_icy:
happens...

i wonder if for the hd2 that does not boot, have u tried using the exact same sd card which boot the "bootable" hd2?

if so, and the phone is still unbootable into hd2, does any1 else know of any way to extract out a log for the devs/kernel coders to take a look?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Tubgirl:
Have you tried to switch batteries between the devices?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
Have tried using exact SD card. It won't boot. Have not however tried swapping batteries. Will try in 45 mins and post result!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Super Octet:
Hi,

You should try to make a "clean start" with Android and the second HD2 :

Delete everything on the SDcard and copy back the Android build on it.

Then, start Android normally in the second HD2.

My point is that, at first launch, each build creates some data before Android appears, MAYBE this data is in a way related to the phone it has been created with, explaining why you can't run an already "ready" build on another phone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
Thanks but youll see from original post that I even reformatted the same SD and then copied the build across. It won't boot. I assume that's what you meant.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Super Octet:
Yes, that's what I meant, sorry I read your post a little too quickly.

You could also try another build :

Yesterday my phone ( using android ) froze, so I restarted it and it became IMPOSSIBLE to start Android again ( white screen, black screen, before and after reformatting the SD card ) so I tried a different build and it worked.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] OCedHrt:
There are times when it just won't boot. Be gentle with it in WM and it'll boot fine ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HectiQ:
try same SIM card
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 11calcal:
The one that won't boot task 29 it and put the same ROM back on it might have some stuff hanging around in root of phone that's causing issues
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] longobongo:
when i had jumping to kernel issue it was because i forgot to rename the .txt file in android folder to startup.txt. maybe a silly question but did you do that?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chripo72:
+1 on that. Up to now I wasn't able to copy my fully configured and working FroyoStone installation from SD card to HDD and back without getting problems sooner or later (although no hardware was changed at all!). I had boot problems when doing so several times. So you might consider to set up Android on the faulty device from scratch (without copying anything from the other device). I'd also start with a freshly formatted SD card...

HTH!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bskballa92:
Dont quote me on this, but I believe the HD2 has two variants (again, dont quote me) they use 2 different types of LCD (I believe one has a blueish tint to it). So maybe your problem lies with the screen? When I bought this phone for my moms birthday, i noticed that the screen was a little blue no matter how I tweaked the settings, but mine, if anything has a little yellow to it. Again not sure, remember reading about the 2 variants of LCD causing certain problems with certain builds. Hope it all works out for you
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chalid:
There are definitely different hardware suppliers.

I bought my HD2 in the UK in november last year. 1 month ago I bought a second one for my father. The display of the new device had far better colors and contrast. Besides having some other minor problems with the device, that was the last straw, so I sent it to HTC for repairs. They replaced the screen and the colors are now even with my fathers HD2, however the color of the LCD panel itself, when switched off, is different. So still different LCD screens ...

But its not only the screen: My fathers HD2 boots up twice as fast as mine; same radio, same hspl, same rom, same configuration. From the moment the red letters on the bottom appear, it only takes ~15 seconds for that HD2 to get past the splashscreens. Mine takes ~30 seconds. However, the odd thing is, in all benchmarks I ran, both got the same results ...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
Am working on this now. It has a fresh Energy Rom on it (build 23128 - same as working one). I am now in process of reformatting the SD card (the long slow version). I will then copy mattc 1.5 on to card and try again. Saw a post about renaming .txt to startup.txt. It's already called that and works on the other phone anyway.

If this doesnt work then I'll do a Task 29 although I've no clue what that actually is :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Gaz25:
You should do a Task 29 before putting the Energy rom on. Task 29 wipes the phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=644781
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
ok. Just reading about how to do that now.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
Ok. Did Task 29. Flashed Energy 23128 Rom. Flashed 2.12.50 Radio. Reformatted SD card. Copied Android (Mattc 1.5) to card. Booted windows. Browsed to SD card. Hit CLRAD. Hit Haret. HUNG on 'jumping to kernel' AGAIN!!

Only one thing has slightly chnaged. I reformatted the SD card and put Darkstone on. When this gets to 'jumping to kernel' it stops then slowly fades out, leaving the screen black. At least this is new! But not really progress.

I think this is one of those issues that is just an unknown. This device does not like booting Android but why, who knows. Everthing it has works on my other HD2 which just makes this even more bizarre.

Thanks for all the suggestions. A serious gold star to anyone that solves this one.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Raudi1:
I've also had the fading sometimes when running a new build. But then it continues like it should. It always happens right before the penguin appears. When I have time I'll try to make a video.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TitusO:
Luxury Problems - two HD2s -

I couldn't get enough!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Super Octet:
Once again, try another build.

The one I used to have freezing problems with was Mattc 1.5 too.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] robrob777:
RAM size is the same?

In http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=754002

the guy is having the same problem trying to boot android in an HD2 prototype with different ram size than the commercial one.

different startup.txt is the key here probably.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
I wish that were the case with mine :)

As for trying another build, I did say I had. The first (Mattc) hangs, the second (Darkstone) fades to black. Please post a link of another Android build as these are the only two current builds I know of.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Raudi1:
Have you tried shubcraft?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamesbond_28_007:
The non working HD2 storage RAM is 198MB. The working one is 400MB.

I think I've found the problem...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Bzo 21:
I had the same problem didn't work when i switch the cards sim cards or nothing...

what I end up doing was totally formatting the phone itself as well as the SD card But' even then i still have alot of problems with running android on this phone if i shut it off it never finds the roofs again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fi3ry_icy:
198mb only? I think something happened to the phone.. u might wanna return it to stock configuration b4 sending it to HTC for repair..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] robrob777:
The 198mb phone might be a HD2 prototype with a total of 320mb in RAM. it displays 198 in windows because the system ate 121.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] ilikemoneygreen:
On android, is it possible to have an app limit another apps of certain services? (like for example if i had "app A" that i wanted, but it requires gps or access to my contacts to install, and (app A) has nothing to do with those [like if a wallpaper app required access to my personal info], would it be possible for an app to limit "App A" of services and take away its ability to use the undesired service?) i guess im asking if this is plausible or not... If it is, Do you know anyone who would develop this app? I bet i could get a lot of users supporting this idea.... (A lot of Users want the ability to do this) I bet this app would be a huge hit, and a must have for most knowledgeable users...

Thanks for Reading
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] [ L ]:
There already is one. The power control widget that comes with your phone can turn gps on/off, along with brightness, WiFi, and account syncing along with a few other things.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] ilikemoneygreen:
I literally mean limiting service to an app.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Toadeh:
So more like a firewall for apps to stop them accessing different resources?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] [ L ]:
Well, yeah. When I first used the power control widget, my GPS, WiFi, and Sync was on because of Google Maps. Occasionally, when I download a new app, GPS or WiFi will turn on and I just turn them off. You could also try whitelist/blacklist apps which might be able to help you.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baab666:
Hi, I'm with Virgin Mobile and I own a HTC Desire. I'm sick of waiting for the 2.2 Froyo Update. Anyone got any inside info on when they are going to roll it out? Also I like the idea of Rooting my phone to escape Virgins' hold over me, but am terrified of Bricking it. Is there a link to an 'Idiots Guide' of how to do it, or do I have to jump back and forth between posts and cut and paste my own guide? Thanx for listening, Rob.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 842m8s:
Hi, If you just need the Froyo update, you do not need to 'ROOT'! There is a wealth of information on how to go about it. If you have not already found out what to do, check out the various relevant posts. unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE as to your requirements, it is worth your reading a few comments to know the consequences of the various procedures.

To start you off, this is one of the most straightforward manual Froyo update prceedures i've come across. I'm not yet able to post live links here so just cut and paste, or navigate to: 'androidforums.com/htc-desire/148932-froyo-ruu-update-available'.

It includes simple instructions. You'll need to create a "gold card" to perform the procedure.

I hope this helps.

Please post your progress just to let the forum know how you got on:D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbdags:
Or you could just root and flash one of the many Froyo roms on here and be happy! Takes 15 mins to sort out with Unrevoked 3.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baab666:
Thanks 842m8s, I'll get straight on it and let you know as soon as. I rooted my Desire today before I read your reply and tried to flash a custom ROM. The rooting worked fine but after flashing ROM the phone just kept re-booting. Minor panic until Nandroid saved me with recovery image. Phew. I'll go slow now. Will try your method tomorrow. Thanks again. Rob
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baab666:
Hi SBdags, I tried Unrevoked 3 and it just kept rebooting. 3 times I tried. Had to re-root and use nandroid image to recover. Followed these instructions to the letter. Hemorrdroids.net/one-click-root-thanks-to-unrevoked. Will try again if I can't find more simple method. Thanks, Rob.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baab666:
Help i'm rubbish at this

Hello again, I just made a gold card with a 1 gig SanDisc. When I put it in the Desire it said it was damaged. Is this normal? I doubt it somehow. I formatted it to fat 32 with Windows and it seemed fine then. Bloody Phones, I love em. Should I have formatted the card inside my Desire instead of with windows? I tried to reformat and start again but Windows said the card is now 'Read Only'.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baab666:
Hi, Everything now sorted. Gold Card worked. Flashed 2.2 Froyo successfully. Can't thank you all enough. Excellent site and members, I think I'll leave well alone for now. One question though. Will I still get updates from Virgin, or will I have to revisit XDA when next update occurs? All the best, Rob.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 842m8s:
@baab666

I'm pleased you got sorted, well done!:)

With regards to Froyo, as you are now sporting stock HTC Bravo Froyo firmware, your 'de-branded' phone can now only get OTA upates from HTC same as any un-branded Desire, and for now, to install these, I believe you will still need the gold card you created for future Froyo firmware update installations.

Maybe someone else can confirm that. :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 842m8s:
@baab666

Hi again, I should add that my comment in my prevoius post to you is based on the assumption that you flashed with Stock HTC Bravo Froyo ROM and are un-rooted. If you rooted, and you install stock, you will lose root. To retain root, you'll need to follow whatever process your ROM release source dictates. Rooting is not something I claim to have a lot of experience on so again, maybe someone else can elaborate on this. There is a wealth of info on rooting related issues at this site, so just browse!:D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duijnpeter:
Froyo update

Hello, my sugestion is to do nothing and wait for the provider's update. Froyo is faster but has still bugs like filming in 720p (HD) is stuttering!!! Just sucks!!

So I have also a question, who shares with me the same experiance.

Watching tv programmes is still smaller than my HD2, witch I had..[/U]:mad:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PSULightingGuy:
Hey all, this isn't a major issue, but whenever I reboot my EVO, the 4G radio turns on. Since I'm, running SwtchPro, I see it and never leave it on too long, but it is a bit irksome. I originally thought it was the ROM when I was running Fresh 3.1, but last night I switched to Baked Snack 1.3 and I still have the same problem. I never use 4G normally so it's off at shutdown, but it turns on at every boot. Anyone have a similar problem or know a fix? I have the latest Radios as of 2.2's release...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawasaki00:
I have the same issue if I use launcher pro or adw, the 4g toggle seems the culprit for me. I made a shortcut to the wireless and network tab and turn it on from there, it is an extra step but it works.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PSULightingGuy:
Bump... Still having this problem. Currently on Baked Snack 1.3 (1.4 later today) running Netarchy Kernel, ADW Launcher, SwitchPro widget. Every reboot, I see the 4G toggle come on...
[Droid 2 General] androidmylife:
I wonder if its possible for droid 2 owners to try this. Can you go to this website adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and see what version of flash it indicates that you are running. I am curious to see if it says whether your running 10.1.72.7 or like the application info states 10.1.72.7.10 . If it is running the second version then I wonder if its possible to extract this update. On the droid 2 in the stores if you look under application info the update to the adobe flash is not part of the system files. It actually shows as a downloaded update which leads me to believe that it might be possible to extract the apk update.
[Droid 2 General] karnovaran:
It says 10,1,72,10