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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greg019:
Will make a log, but can You recommend me a good wap browser for this phone, opera use wap pages in a weird way.

Maybe it's also a good option to take the webnwalk app from the T-Mobile ROm, if it's also possible...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Eh? Isn't the webnwalk app just the stock browser under another name?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greg019:
Maybe Yes,but I dunno,because I don't have it.

Just I read on T-Mobile site that I have to open webnwalk and then go to here or go to there...

But I can't open wap sites with the stock browser. (Villain ROM 12)

I have to use Opera Mini,but it handle wap sites with a little paranormal activity.

(It handels URLs separated by enter as one...so I can't open URLs, because it shows a message: "unsupported phone" so I can't even open test streams, movie trailers on the T-zones site)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
I edited your post to pop it into a codebox, as I was struggling to read it :P

Hmmm. It looks like you are having Opera Mini crashing, though I can't be sure. Could you explain what you were doing when you took this log, to confirm what I'm seeing (much of it is routine rubbish you get all the time)

I think you need to change the browser UserAgent to view the t-mobile site on the stock browser. There's a guide somewhere on the forum.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greg019:
Thanks for editing. :-)

I just started Opera Mini, went to the T-Zones site, opened MobilTV site, free video page (but when i click on it, marks the links as one...) and then it say's it unsupported phone, then i quit from Opera, then kill all the apps. :-)

That's all I did.

I attached screenshots. (1st one with false link marking, 2nd with "unsupported..message)

Edit: Also tried changing UserAgent, I just won't show wap pages correctly. ( wap.t-zones.hu )
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
OK. I think we need to change the User Agent in the stock browser for this to work. There's a post somewhere about this.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greg019:
So I can't do anything?

Tried Useragent in every possible way....
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Umm. There's a way to do this IIRC. You need to edit a /data/data file and change the user agent string to what T-Mobile's browser uses. I can't remember the file name, but it's mentioned somewhere on here.

You edit it and change the UA string itself, then it should allow you to use the android browser on the site.
[Vibrant Accessories] freekyfrogy:
So I went onto monoprice.com and was able to get a complete car kit that included a cigarette to USB adapter, 3ft USB to 5-pin microUSB cable, and universal car mount, all for a total of $11.28 $11.37 including shipping!

the individual items are:

cigarette to USB

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10826&cs_id=1082602&p_id=3523&seq=1&format=2

USB to 5-pin MicroUSB

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10303&cs_id=1030307&p_id=4867&seq=1&format=2

Car charger

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003WRBGK6/ref=oss_product

Universal GPS car mount

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10840&cs_id=1084001&p_id=5272&seq=1&format=2

I hope this helps anyone who is looking for a cheap but effective mounting system for their car :)

EDIT

The adapter did not charge the phone correctly, so my phone would drain faster than it would recharge. I went to amazon.com and bought a car charger that should work great, and only ends up making the total a few cents higher ;)
[Vibrant Accessories] zerosource:
Wow. Good price there. :D
[Vibrant Accessories] ultra spikey:
The output of the car charger is 1000ma, the stock wall charger is 700ma I believe. You think it'll hurt it? If anything, I think the phone will just get warmer than normal when plugged in.
[Vibrant Accessories] speoples20:
that's the car mount I use. Picked it up from there, really cheap but you get what you pay for. Its an ok car mount but not great.
[Vibrant Accessories] freekyfrogy:
Well hey, it'll work right? Lol.

As for the charger, I'm not sure. I don't think I'll do anything bad really.
[Vibrant Accessories] SiL3nTKiLL:
dam thats not a bad price!
[Vibrant Accessories] jinx8402:
Just a FYI

Even though the car charger is rated at 1000mA, it does not have the D+ and D- pins shorted together. This causes the phone to think it is connected to a data only device (and not a power supply). Because of this, it only draws 500mA, which when using with Navigation actually causes more drain than what the charge is.

It's a simple fix though. Just pull apart the charger, and solder the middle pins together (look on the underside of the board, and solder together the two middle solder points). The proper way to do it, and the way I did it, was to bridge it using a 200ohm resistor.
[Vibrant Accessories] freekyfrogy:
Ask that kinda sucks. Well I'll see how it works before I try anything. Is there a canker on that site that will work correctly? Or is the problem with the car to usb rather than the usb cable itself?
[Vibrant Accessories] frankencat:
I bought one of these chargers for my duaghter before this thread and it does not work with her Vibrant. Guess I will have to mod it.
[Vibrant Accessories] Pneumatic:
You have to be a hard core tweaker to break down an solder a $2 cable. I wasted more than $2 worth of time just reading the post about it. :)
[Vibrant Accessories] freekyfrogy:
Ok, so it didn't work. The phone just said that the usb had been plugged in, but it didn't charge. I took a pic of what the charger looks like torn apart, can you tell me where I need to souder? Am I going to have to tear open the usb casing, or is it something I can do without tearing it apart any further?
[Vibrant Accessories] freekyfrogy:
So I grabbed another car-to-usb thing, and now it says It's charging but It's apparently draining faster than it is charging :-( it doesn't even seem to be slowing down the drain. Do you guys think that a different cable might affect things, or should I just get a new charger/adapter?
[Vibrant Accessories] DKYang:
I don't have this charger, but try using the cable that came with the phone. If its the same, then try to exchange it or using a different cable.
[Vibrant Accessories] leechdweler:
I also bought mine from monoprice and it does not charge. It only drains :mad:.

Will look for alternatives.
[Vibrant Accessories] jinx8402:
I just did a few quick searches, because like a few others have said, it drains faster than it charges when using navigation. Not good if you're on a long trip.

Also, it is not the cable itself it's the charger that is not correct. I used both a monoprice wire and the oem one that came with phone. Just as an update, I have noticed that while soldering the points helped a little, it is still not pulling as much as even the stock wall charger (which is only rated at .7A). I found this out by going to the file /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_chg_current.

-While plugged into the wall ithe value is showing 1050 on average.

-Plugged into usb it shows 850 on average

-On the modified car charger around 900 on average.

So even with the mod it still doesn't pull the full amp and still drains a bit quicker than the charge :(

You can try the fix and see if you get better results than me. If you look at the port that you would plug in the usb cable, (from the angle you took the picture) you will see four pins "bend" down into the pcb board. These are the four pins I am talking about. The outside two are for power. The middle two are your D+ D- (data) pins. if you flip over the board you will see the 4 factory solder points, just add a dab of solder to the two middle points.
[Vibrant Accessories] wergeld:
I bought this combo as well and the charger works fine for my usage: pandora on my one hour commute. I can't get navigation to work right (and I know how to get to work :) so I have not tested that.

Only flaw so far is that the audio cable from my phone placement on the windscreen to the aux-jack in for my stereo is an inch too far than my cable can reach. Time to get a longer cable.
[Vibrant Accessories] freekyfrogy:
I just went ahead and bought this on amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003WRBGK6/ref=oss_product

This should do the trick, and when coupled with the gps mount is only a couple cents more than buying the adapter+cable :)

it would make the total package... $11.37 :D
[Vibrant Accessories] josb0513:
what do you guys think about this one?

http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Char..._21?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1282314027&sr=1-21

suppose to replace car / wall charger as a one unit...
[Vibrant Accessories] freekyfrogy:
The new car charger works great :-) when my phone is asleep it will fully charge in under an hour! The only thing is, with my screen all the way up using gps it still drains a lot faster than it charges. When I turned the screen down, it didn't seem to go down at all in the 5 or 6 minutes of driving I did. Does this screen really suck THAT MUCH power??? Are there any chargers out there capable of charging this phone well enough to allow for full screen brightness while using the gps functionality?
[Vibrant Accessories] Maverick777:
I'd like to know the same thing.
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
Any chance you could read the specs off of the car charger you bought from the amazon marketplace store? What does it say is the output voltage and amperage?

It would be awesome if you could check what the phone is actually drawing like jinx8402 did by reading /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_chg_current

As far chargers that will allow for full brightness while using GPS, we need to find one that outputs a full 1amp. I suspect that maybe some of these generic chargers are losing amperage and not outputting as much as they're rated at.

The modded monoprice adaptor, although rated at 1000ma, outputs less than the samsung wall charger thats rated at 700ma.

I wonder if the OEM samsung microUSB chargers might do the trick, they can be had for $7 on ebay, but I'm having trouble pulling up their specs. I would guess they're rated at 700ma, and if they're as good as their wall chargers that might do the trick...
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
Thread in the galaxy S forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=757909

Someone mentioned this:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25177

2000ma! I wonder how much it really outputs. Does anyone know how our phones handles charging? Does it require a smarter charger to stop, or does the phone stop the charge itself? For example, my old phones ages ago, if you used a dumb quick charger it would just overcharge until the battery died. My Dell Axim PDA (which I used as my car GP nav) it didnt matter what kind of car quick charger you used, as the PDA itself would halt charging as needed..
[Vibrant Accessories] kiapolo:
I have this universal car mount (purchased from monoprice). I bought it for my old GPS (Dell Axim x51v - with TomTom)...works perfectly with the Vibrant.
[Vibrant Accessories] sfsilicon:
Stumbled on this thread via a referral. How do the numbers relate to the charging current.

On my Vibrant the file is 0 when the phone is not connected and around 850 connected to the USB port of my notebook. Assuming that a typical USB port maxes out at 500mA the value 850 doesn't correlate with the mA value being pulled or am I missing something here?

My phone is fully charged for a change so I can't test my 1A wall charger. I'm also experiencing a slow down (touchscreen unresponsive) when I connect it to the charger. Makes accessing the file difficult.

What does this fix do? Does it by-pass the USB check that the Vibrant does? I'm looking to pick-up a mini USB to micro adapter which is charge only. I'm guessing the data pins are not connected. Would your fix ground the data pins to each other? Any risks with doing that? Why not just leave them floating or break the connection?
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
check out the "Battery Charging Specification" paragraph here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Power

USB is normally maxed out at 500mah, but if the device is detected as a "dedicated battery charger" (by having D+ and D- pins shorted) it will disable data but allow up to 1.8 A
[Vibrant Accessories] sfsilicon:
Thank you for the reference. Didn't know this. What does your charger show for /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_chg_current when you do this mod?

Does anyone have experience with the USB micro to mini adapters that are supposed to be charge only? Like this one? Would they have D+ and D- pins shorted or more likely the extra lines are not connected.
[Vibrant Accessories] FlipnKraut:
I just got a car charger with a usb connection rated to work with the ipad. Absolutely no problems.
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
I don't get my phone until later today (its been a long wait) so I'll have to report my own measurements later, but jinx reported this:

-While plugged into the wall ithe value is showing 1050 on average.

-Plugged into usb it shows 850 on average

-On the modified car charger around 900 on average.

Sorry I don't have any experience with those adapters, but someone correct me if Im wrong, but I believe those pins would normally be shorted in the charger adaptor rather than in the cable itself. So you would want to make sure whatever charger you have is a properly pinned as a USB charging device, and you should be able to use any cable with that
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
Did you test with the screen on full brightness and running GPS?

Whats the output amperage rating of the charger?

Can you tell us what charger you got and from where?

Did you do any measurements as discussed previously in the thread?

Thanks!
[Vibrant Accessories] FlipnKraut:
I ran it with gps and music running but not with full brightness, but I think music and gps would drain it enough.

I didn't do any measurements because frankly I don't know how.

I can link it when I get to a computer. I got it off amazon, if you search car charger ipad and look for the one with 2 usb ports you should be able to find it.
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
I posted the results of some preliminary testing I've done, pretty much just confirms some stuff we've heard already.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7873861#post7873861
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
Easiest way to check how many milliamps your phone is pulling from a charger:

1. Get "Astro File Manager" from the android market place. Small, easy, free. If you already have a favorite file manager anything will work.

2. Navigate to, and open this file: /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_chg_current

It will open it as a text file, and give you one number. You can click back and reopen the file a few times to get different numbers, to get an idea of the average amount of milliamps your phone is pulling.

Any charger that lets you pull about about 850mah is on par with the OEM samsung charger and is just fine when you're phone is sitting off or being lightly used. What we're looking for now is something that will do much more for those of us that want to be able to charge while still using the phone heavily, like car nav, when 3g, GPS, heavy CPU, and the screen are all being utilized at the same time.
[Vibrant Accessories] jinx8402:
Hmmm, I see some people are reporting the file showing only around 850 with the stock charger. That's weird, because mine was definitely showing over 1000. I'm not sure how this correlates to the actual amperage though, because as sfsilicon pointed out 850 over usb exceeds the 500mA rating of USB.

My coworker has a micro usb car charger with the cord hardwired, and I think that was showing over 1000 in the file. Not sure why a hardwired version would be different.
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
I'll test it again when I get home today, just in case it was a fluke. USB can go over 500mA due to "battery charging specification".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Power
[Vibrant Accessories] ytj87:
Great find.

In the same location, the file charging_source gives the following values:

0 - no power source

1 - usb power source (with limited current per batt_chg_current)

2 - wall power source (with higher current in batt_chg_current)

Two other files show what the phone thinks it's connected to...

/sys/class/power_supply/usb/uevent

Shows ...POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE=0 (or =1)

/sys/class/power_supply/ac/uevent

Shows ...POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE=0 (or =1)
[Vibrant Accessories] ytj87:
Oops, please delete.
[Vibrant Accessories] theodork:
So I retested and replied in the other thread, you were right.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7879254#post7879254
[Vibrant Accessories] sfsilicon:
Could you ask your friend what the specs of his charger is (>1A?) and what the exact number is? I'm trying to rig up a similar cable without cutting up a cable. I'm guessing that the Vibrant can't pull much more than 1A when charging. This is assumption is built on the lack of posts from folks that have a 2A charger and lack of any charger current file value over 1100. I'm waiting for one of the posters here or on the Galaxy S thread to post their results with a 2A charger before I buy a couple myself. 3 car and wall chargers, since the ones I have (with the exception of the Samsung charger) seem to provide less than 1A.
[Vibrant Accessories] DaSmittyman:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25177 2000 mAh on the first page on that thread a user says it works.
[Vibrant Accessories] sfsilicon:
Here is my home made charging cable. ;) Ended up cutting a USB to mini cable and temporarily shorting the data pins.

The charging_source file is correctly showing "2" or wall charger. The weird thing is my batt_chg_current file is only showing 80-120. This is on a USB port and original Samsung charger where I normally get 800-1000.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. The USB power spec says that the data pins should be shorted and have max 200 Ohm resistance.
[Vibrant Accessories] sfsilicon:
Home made back-up charger

So the reason I cut-up the cable yesterday was to finish my home made back-up charger. I'm using a 4x AA case with on off switch. I've sodered the cable to a mini USB connector and I'm using my mini to micro adapter to connect to the Vibrant.

I ended up soldering a 100 Ohm resistor between the data lines and I'm getting some decent results:

batt_chg_current = ~700

charging_source = 2

4x 2600mAh NiMH AA in series for 5V

Part cost = $3.58 (case) + $0.06 (cable) + $0.20 (soder, shrink cable) = $3.84

Found out that you can get the same case assembled (w/o batteries 7 resistor) from DealExtreme

[B]Micro USB pinout[/B]
Pin	Wire Color Function
1	Red	V BUS (5V) -> connect to Pack Red Cable (+)
2	White	Data- -> connect to 100 Ohm resistor
3	Green	Data+ -> connect to other side of the resitor
4	Joined to pin 5 ID
5	Black	Ground -> connect to Pack Black Cable (-)

Update: Used a freshly charged set of NiMH batteries and I'm getting 912-930 in the charge current file.
[Vibrant Accessories] Globespy:
He lied......I bought this charger hoping that the 2amp power supply would be enough to charge my Vibrant whilst using the GPS in my car.....it drains just the same as all the other chargers.

I guess there's no solution for this problem? What a stupid thing for Samsung to do.....why bother having GPS when you can't use it for a roadtrip without the phone dying?

I'm thinking of getting a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and am now concerned that the same issue will exist on this!
[Android Software Development] DevilDogVIKING:
I keep getting this error anytime I do anything inside my strings.xml document. How do I fix this, it's really annoying.
[Android Software Development] DevilDogVIKING:
I'm also having a problem when I try to run the app in the emulator it tells me there is an error and to fix it before i run it, but I can't find the error. It shows a little red x in the package explorer on the very top of the stack, but I cant find the error.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiz_:
Hi,

I currently have a VF UK Desire, which has been updated with the recent branding.

I'm planning on rooting the phone and installing "NexTSense v5.0 Sense-FroYo 2.2 Official"...

Once this is done, can I run a RUU (say RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe) to unroot my phone is I have issues and need to send back for warranty repairs?

Thanks,

Kiz
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesmcuk:
Hi there, you can indeed unroot your phone but the problem is that the bootloader will remain unlocked meaning that it is possible to tell that the phone has been messed with. I don't know for sure if that ROM would unroot the phone though, not that it really makes a differance especially if you find you need to return it for a reason that would prevent you restoring such as a broken USB port
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snorg:
Hi all,

I got problem with internet connection on my HD2 (ROM 1.48). There are 2 ways I connect to the internet - WIFI and GPRS. GPRS connection works fine - I can download and read e-mails, make backups with MyPhone, update weather information, etc. But when I connect to the internet with WIFI, there are only 2 things I can do. I can browse web pages with Opera and update Twitter messages. But I can´t download e-mails, make backups, update weather information, etc. When I try to update or backup something, there is connection error (through that connection between phone and router is fine and web pages are running).

It seems to me like most of applications want to connect to internet via GPRS only. Is there any way to set up (or check) the phone to connect to the internet via WIFI when it is turned on?

Thanks for any advice
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjac014:
Sorry cant help but agree - it would be fantastic if there was some way of knowing / controlling when it used GPRS data and when it uses wifi. When wifi availabe obviously would rather use that than be charge a small firtune for data.

Any one out there about to help with this??
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kakphone:
Internet browsing

Ditto. I can - after HUGE effort - connect WiFi but I cannot browse the internet using either Opera or IE. 2 year old Nokia connected and browsed literally within 2 secs! Also, the phone keeps connecting via GPRS all the time even with data connections off. Can anyone help? Thanks PS I know it's unproductive & forgive me, but I have to get this off my chest: this is the worst cellphone I've ever owned. Bluetooth doesn't work, internet doesn't work, handsfree car kit doesn't work. Does anything work?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
correction, YOUR Bluetooth doesn't work, YOUR internet doesn't work, YOUR handsfree car kit doesn't work.

Get it exchanged. (if they genuinely dont work)

@others, go to settings menu all settings connection connections advanced select networks.

there are two dropdowns, in teh top one should be the name of your mobile data, , this is what automatic progs will use to connect to the web, in teh bottom one it should be 'the internet' (or sometimes 'my work network'), meaning they use wifi if available, and data if not.

(At least thats how they should work....)

If you set the top one the same as teh bottom one, nothing should try to use mobile unless wifi is not connected.

Could be a proxy problem? some operators set up a proxy, which can screw with connections.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snorg:
samsamuel: Thank you for your advice. I´ve tried it - in both dropdowns I got "my work network", but no success.

I´ve found something interessting. When I turn on YouTube client (using WIFI), I can´t play videos. That should be ok when I got problem with internet connection. But YouTube client shows on the welcome screen preview of today´s added videos. So the question is why should application download preview of video, but it can´t play the video? I´m a little bit confused :)