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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxpandatennisxx:
Hey guys, i just rooted my evo 4g running android 2.2 using the method that came out today (or yesterday..) and when i try to install the OTA update it starts updating and then just stays at a screen with the green android person and a triangle with an exclamation mark inside of it. any help?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
It might be easier to just download the rooted stock 2.2 ROM and flash it from recovery. It will give you exactly the same result. See the wiki if you can't find the ROM in the Development forum.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alextrox69:
"As soon as it is booted into recovery, you are done with that.

Next in recovery go to

Code:

Flash zip from sdcard

and choose the

Code:

unrevoked-forever.zip"

there is no option for me to choose flash zip from sd card

but when i have the phone on and i check the sd card the unrevoked-forever.zip is there...any ideas why this is happening? thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alextrox69:
my only similar option is install zip from sd car..and then theres no zip..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noxious Ninja:
Select "install zip from sdcard", then you should have "choose zip from sdcard".

If not, does it say ClockworkMod Recovery when you reboot into recovery?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alextrox69:
nevermind i got it!!! now i need to find
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stshannon:
I use my phone as my alarm clock. I keep it chargeing on my bedside table. I do not have a house/landline so this is my only option for communication.

It would be nice if at night, when I'm sleeping, i can set my phone (via app or setting) to a "do not disturb" type state.

In this state, i would basically like all phone calls routed to a special voice mail, that will state to the caller that i am unavailable, and to leave a message. However if it is an emergency, give the caller an option to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring my phone.

Same with Text Messages. I would like all text messages intercepted, and responded to via text in the same fashion, with the same option for the caller to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring/notify me of the call/text etc.

And of course, put all other notifications to silent mode etc.

Then in the morning, i can check all notifications, phone, text etc, and see what i missed.

I hope i explained this well enough.

I would like to be able to sleep without interruption, but if something important happens, or an emergency happens, i can still be gotten a hold of.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Blueman101:
there is an app called silent time lite that I use, it wont route your calls or anything, but between the times you states the phone will go into silent mode (vibrate or not, you decide) you can also have exceptions like if your mother calls at 3 am or something. Its free in the market, i use this app for school, put my schedule in there and it automatically muted my phone for classes:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stshannon:
Hmm, exceptions for contacts eh? Might be the next best thing if i cant find, or someone create an app that'll do the other stuff.

Thanks for the suggestion, ill look into it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] nopenope:
uh... How about... AIRPLANE MODE
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] schyzo001:
I like the stshannon's idea : this kind of "filter" people can "bypass" only for emmergency...I've been loking for that for long time !

@nopenope : the aireplaine mode doesn't allow this kind of redirection I think...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jmajor1111:
timerriffic is awesome and free. once you've got your profiles all setup you can set what goes off, volume, vibrate etc... I use it to turn off notifications at night but ring my phone at 100% when I'm "on call" for work or 40% when i'm not.

different day settings too, m-f and weekends.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KarateExplosion6:
I'm just getting into themes and am very new to the game. Can I go ahead and apply MM themes from the Hero and/or Legend... or, do they need to be modified/ported in some way?

Appreciate the help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeyrokschicago:
So I had my Evo rooted through Unrevoked 3 and attempted to use Unrevoked forever to gain full Root and NAND unlock. Well after 2 attempts, I get the S-Off up top but still can not flash unsigned ROMS such as Cyanogens CM6. I've searched up and down and can not figure this out for the life of me. Any help would be appreciated.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EyeslikeOlives:
Use Toast's method for NAND unlock (it's part two of his two part method) and follow the steps to completion. After that, wipe and flash CM6. It's what I did. Worked perfectly. BTW, I think this should be posted in Q&A. So you know next time.

EDIT: Also, if you looked at the first 1-15 pages of the [Guide] How to root Froyo or w/e the thread it called, you would have found your solution. Look harder next time.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeyrokschicago:
Hey I appreciate the reply and apologize if I misposted this thread.

The only question I have is if this method is compatible with what I have already done to my phone? And secondly, when I use the method you suggested, do I start at part 2?

Again, big thanks in advance:]
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noxious Ninja:
Or you can just flash the ENG bootloader using the package from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=752832. If you've already done Unrevoked Forever, doing that should let you install Cyanogen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EyeslikeOlives:
Yeah. I used the OTA Froyo root that was just released and had tried flashing CM6 RC2 afterwards and got a message notifying me it couldn't be done. I spoke to jiqqaman and he suggest to start at part 2 of Toast's method. The reason for that is part 1 is the root, which you've already done, and the second is for NAND unlock, which you need. Also because Unrevoked isn't a true NAND unlocker. After you finish the steps Toast has, you can go ahead and wipe, flash, and reboot. Make sure to flash the latest radios as well. You can find those in another thread somewhere around here that says All Radios or something. Should check second or third page.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noxious Ninja:
Unrevoked Forever is a NAND unlocker. It's just that Cyanogen checks for the ENG bootloader, which Unrevoked Forever doesn't supply. You can easily flash the ENG bootloader after you've done Unrevoked Forever and then not have to worry about trying to update your PRI.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nycdiplomat:
this method didnt work for me. i was unrevoked forever, and flashed the .zip package and now i cant get my custom rom to boot from recovery, it kicks me back to hboot menu. where did i go wrong?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benjio12:
I have created a package that will flash the ENG hboot and RA recovery in one flash.

DL it here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=764062

Follow the directions on post 28 in that thread to get that flashed, then use the included recovery to flash CM6.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nycdiplomat:
Don't kno what's goin on... but I've followed the directions word for word and it doesnt work for me. Maybe I should try reflashing unrevoked forever and then trying this again?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justinisyoung:
after you flash unrevoked forever, run toast's part 2 for everything to work right. meaning...

do unrevoked 3 then unrevoked forever

download the PC36IMG.zip that's in toast's part 2 root

put that on the root of your SD card

turn on the phone by holding volume down and power, select yes, and let it flash

once it finishes flashing then you'll be booted into a Sense pre-release test rom

download clockworkmod recovery and put that at the root of your sdcard, rename it to 'recovery.img', also put the flash_image file on toast's part 2 on your sdcard

adb shell to the phone, you should have root access, if not type in 'su'

type this in: 'cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

chmod 755 /data/flash_image'

type this in: '/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img'

then type in this: 'mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-eng.zip'

turn off the phone, and turn it back on holding the volume down and power buttons

choose recovery and then flash cm6

it's simple if you read through the other posts a bit more thoroughly.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E Double:
Hello folks,

In the last week google maps has gone from only having the requisite (for this phone) slow to no gps issues to freezing the phone, causing it to reboot as soon as I do almost anything in maps. This was constant in v4.4 (which I updated to last week), so I downgraded to previous version, 4.0. This appeared to work better for about 3 whole minutes, and then promptly caused the phone to **** its britches. Have any of you folks experienced this issue? The phone hasn't been rooted (I figure I'll wait and see what's what with 2.2) and besides the stereotypical random lagging nothing else causes the phone to lock up and die the way Maps does. Is it the app? the dodgy gps? I didn't spend this much on a phone to not be able to use all of its features, so any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

Dennis
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disturkis4u:
Mine sometimes locks up if I leave gps on. I leave it off and turn it on when it loads up fully
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E Double:
I'll have to try that out. I have gps set to come on when maps fires up. It just irks me that I would have to remember to do such silliness on such an otherwise very nice phone. I hope Samsung gets their stuff sorted on this gps issue., and fast. Lets hope september being when the fix comes isn't just smoke.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdveteran18:
I'm getting the same issue. GPS and maps worked once for me after doing the quick fix. Since then i have updated the Maps and now opening it freezes the phone. Literally everything comes to an halt and renders my poor Vibrant useless till I pull the battery. Not a life altering problem but i do hope i can resolve it soon in case I might need to use it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E Double:
I turned off GPS and that seems to be the culprit. I even went back to using maps v 4.4 and it hasn't puked yet. I'm definitely tired of this dodgy gps thing.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdveteran18:
Yeah I feel you on that but just have to believe samsung will hold true to their statement and a fix is on the way. Love my phone too much to worry about that
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
They already have. The Epic 4G contains the GPS fix and Engadget has reported that the GPS fix indeed works.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunks:
I have the same problem, had to uninstall Earth.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdveteran18:
That's great news. Thanks for the info.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rshemeld:
I had the same issue i used ROM manager ran the Fix permissions and rebooted and it works fine now..
[Captivate Accessories] tkienzle:
Been waiting for someone to get this in cheaper than at&t well i found them looks oem i bought one will let you all know if it's legit or not... ;)

I can't post links yet so you have to go to ebay on you own and find it..

This what i searched for to find it " samsung i897 case body glove "
[Vibrant General] makamiso:
Seriously, for a tech review site/channel it's incredibly unprofessional. No clue if this is some sort of a joke but he basically says the phone is rubbish and android multitasking is rubbish as it lags. This after good reviews from the same guy not long ago.

Just leave the phone to finish its media scanning and it works fine for me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAcvIqcpHrI
[Vibrant General] trunkstar1:
Wow, I couldn't even finish watching that. That's kind of a huge user fail. Who doesn't wait until a device is all the way done booting?
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Someone who uses an iphone?
[Vibrant General] trunkstar1:
Basically exactly what I was thinking. Someone who uses Macs? Thanks for the pre/post lag fix video btw.
[Vibrant General] makamiso:
i would say the only reason it lags like this is because of the media scan that these phones do at the begining.
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
he's a dumb ass. what a pointless video.
[Vibrant General] xplanowestx:
This was an obvious attempt at trying to bash the best phone on the market. Fail Bash is Fail.
[Vibrant General] SugarMouth:
What a joke!
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
The guy runs a Windows Mobile OS site/blog/video channel. Fanboys will diss other products just for the hell of it.
[Vibrant General] kizer:
LOL

He has all those apps installed and an other than stock background configured so he has to know how it really operates. Talk about a BS video.
[Vibrant General] speoples20:
Thats like turning on a computer and trying to play a game right away. You have to let the damn thing finish booting up first. Honestly if he waited a minute then used the phone there would be no slow down.

Obvious bashing is obvious
[Vibrant General] Goog1e Phone:
lolol...what an idiot.
[Vibrant General] ConceptVBS:
This was obviously a smear campaign.
[Vibrant General] chadti99:
I think he has a valid point from a user experience perspective. It annoys the heck out of me that the media scanner brings the phone to a grinding halt at start up.
[Vibrant General] Maverick777:
Yea, I get annoyed sometimes with it too. Luckily, in the Froyo update Samsung adds a percentage to it in the notification drawer so you can see how long it'll take instead of just waiting. Not to mention the rotation lock button in the drawer as well.

Just more reasons to be excited about the update and gps fix. :)

As for the video, I couldn't finish watching it either. It's the most unprofessional and uneducated video I have ever seen from PocketNow. And this is coming from someone that watches PocketNow all the time coming from years of WinMo usage.
[Vibrant General] Jim_99:
I can do the same thing by hammering Win7, WinXP, Win98 et al trying to load up apps, open the clock, WIFI menu. Its the same effect

"APPLICATION NOT RESPONDING" is the biggest notification I get on Win7

I wonder how Windows Phone 7 will fair? I have already posted many critical points but the MS worshippers there must want to burn me at the stake already!
[Vibrant General] Jim_99:
From the guys Twitter posts it looks like he has a small axe to grind against Android

I cannot post his Twitter link directly (Newbie poster) but his user name in Twitter is adamzea
[Vibrant General] Steeltippin:
I don't think is point is valid period. On a cold winter night and day, do you start your car and immediately put it in drive/reverse, do you start your computer and right after windows boot up do you start launching programs out the wazoo....I think his whole purpose was to bash Android. There wasn't one valid point throughout that whole review.
[Vibrant General] 98classic:
the scanner does suck, this is my 4th android phone and not even my hero would take so long. but either way its a nice phone and that vid is lame lol.
[Vibrant General] jkcheng122:
How much storage space is there on your Hero to scan?
[Vibrant General] bauerlucas:
I think that samsung should have made it so the phone is still on the loading screen when it does media scanning. But still this guy just wanted to make it look bad as soon as it got fast it was over.
[Vibrant General] 98classic:
Same 5gb of mp3 on the same 8gb card

Edit: the evo doesnt do it either.
[Vibrant General] ProximaC:
Here's the video response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=mB5OTldCiO8
[Vibrant General] makamiso:
Is that internal or external?

Because the galaxy s (depending on version) has either 8gb or 16gb (like mine) of internal sd to scan let alone your external sd card that could be up to 32GB
[Vibrant General] 98classic:
Its the same external card ive used on all my android phones, i dont add anything to internal memory, just whatever the system does.
[Vibrant General] kizer:
Nice Video.
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
lol @ second video

'If you trust pock now reviews of Android, I'm pretty sure you're retarded...'
[Vibrant General] bauerlucas:
Some one mail me a video camera and I'll make one for the vibrant. Thanks in advanced.

Sent from my SGH-T959 usin g XDA App
[Vibrant General] boborone:
My wife didn't even know what I was watching or why and said that guy sounds like an idiot.

Sent from my captivate
[Vibrant General] talltexan:
I say someone wakes him up in the morning and yells 500 commands at him and see if he can "multi task well"
[Vibrant General] itsjusttim:
Have any of you installed ryanzlagfix? Because it greatly improves/shortens my "media scanning" time.. And I have a 16gb sd full of music and movies.
[Vibrant General] dezvous:
You really can't just wait for it to finish, regardless if it takes a minute or two? The longest I've had it take is about 30 seconds if that and I've used up about half of all the space.

I'm glad it scans the media, and tells me when it's doing so.
[Vibrant General] Munk0:
Dang it, now I went and watched that awful review. I use to like PocketNow but geesh what a dumbo approach. I, like one of the first respondents, couldn't finish watching the video because his completely biased approach to using the Samsung Vibrant or probably any Android device.

PocketNow you get a great big fail. Bad work.
[Vibrant General] j0hnZ:
Video is hidden, says it is private....

I saw it when the thread was new though. The second video posted in here was great.
[Vibrant General] darksonic:
Crap, I really wanted to see this. Did anyone managed to grab it before it went private?
[Vibrant General] erickrios:
From pocketnow.com:

"Update: This video seems to have invoked some very heated responses, we're gonna pull it for now. We'll have a response soon."
[Vibrant General] bauerlucas:
so this means we won. They took it down! Yay?
[Vibrant General] PathogenX:
AWWWWW.... it's taken down :mad:

I wanted to do a video response.
[Vibrant General] bauerlucas:
This is his idea of a apology. Sorry can't post links mabe someone can for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwW6YBfnDiU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Vibrant General] talltexan:
Looks like they posted the video back up , and i love how he said he showed a video how to make it hang or slow down.... Looks like it took a total of 3 seconds for the media scanner to go away however the notification keeps coming up to let you know hey stupid you can do stuff now!!!! Yet he waited 30-40 seconds that he didn't have to and patronized the android os "hows the weather?".
[Vibrant General] 98classic:
bahahahaha "i showed you hot to make it hang" lol, what a loser
[Vibrant General] jsparakov:
The guy does have a point that the average user would be frustrated with this. I think it's a software issue caused by Samsung rushing this thing to market or just bloatware. The hardware is perfectly capable of doing much better.

There's an unboxing video showing the bootup time and "login" for a Captivate and an Epic 4G. Both were turned on around 1:27 in the video. Epic got the welcome lock screen at 1:49 (22 seconds), Captivate at 2:14 (47 seconds). Unlocking allowed a usable desktop instantly while the captivate was still "Media Scanner Running..." even after sweeping in. I'm really, really betting on the September update to fix a lot of these issues since the Epic apparently has the GPS fixes already. Either that or there's a lot of crap on the Captivate/Vibrant that needs removing.

Youtube: UzMAkpajZxU (can't link, so use the code to watch).

Oh, also the reviewer also points out that Epic 4G runs Touchwiz v2.5 instead of v3.0, if that may make a difference. But I would say that there are a lot of factors involved, so I wouldn't jump to any solid conclusions.
[Vibrant General] erickrios:
He does attempt to apologize, but you can tell that even in his apology he is being an arrogant prick that wants to get the last laugh...I hate that guy.

http://pocketnow.com/android/android-fail-multitasking
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stshannon:
Re-posting this as i think it'll get more valid attention in this forum.

If this is completely the wrong forum, please remove it. I just think it'll get more discussion here, with developers.

I use my phone as my alarm clock. I keep it charging on my bedside table. I do not have a house/land-line so this is my only option for communication.

It would be nice if at night, when I'm sleeping, i can set my phone (via app or setting) to a "do not disturb" type state.

In this state, i would basically like all phone calls routed to a special voice mail, that will state to the caller that i am unavailable, and to leave a message. However if it is an emergency, give the caller an option to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring my phone.

Same with Text Messages. I would like all text messages intercepted, and responded to via text in the same fashion, with the same option for the caller to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring/notify me of the call/text etc.

And of course, put all other notifications to silent mode etc.

Then in the morning, i can check all notifications, phone, text etc, and see what i missed.

I hope i explained this well enough.

I would like to be able to sleep without interruption, but if something important happens, or an emergency happens, i can still be gotten a hold of.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bcpk:
Sounds like you want either Bedside or Tasker.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stshannon:
Yeah, those are close to what i want.... but a lil bit more functionality, in letting the caller decide if its important enough to bypass the do not disturb status....

But one of these apps might do if i cant find one that has those features, or someone can create one. =)

Thank you for the suggestions tho.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bcpk:
Tasker can disable silent mode on receipt of a codeword in an SMS

ie make your voicemail "blah blah send an SMS starting with 'EMERGENCY', all caps, if you MUST reach me"

then when Tasker gets that it will turn off silent mode and they can ring again, or you could just get Tasker to squawk when an EMERGENCY text message comes through, and you can ring them back.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blueman101:
So you

want

the app to disturb you so that you can say allow or cancel? Why not just set it to vibrant then? :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrganizedFellow:
@stshannon: the reference to using TASKER is probably your best bet for now. Until a more dedicated application comes along to do what you need.

Have you heard of or used Tasker?

It has unlimited capabilities.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disgustip8ted:
sounds like a nice request for google voice since they already have a do not disturb, they could add a "press 1 if someone is dying to interrupt this persons beauty rest"
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stshannon:
Hmmm, i might have to take a closer look at Tasker then, it sounds to be the closest.

No, i want the system to give the option to the caller/texter if it is an emergency or not, and if so, bypass do not disturb. But it sounds like Tasker may be very very close in functionality to what i need. Ill take a closer look at that.

Thanks to those that responded.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bcpk:
This article has the basics of how to activate your phone by SMS http://lifehacker.com/5611003/build-a-find-my-iphone-clone-for-android
[Galaxy S I9000 General] at314:
Beware of this app it will access your gmail account through POP, guys who installed this app change your password immediatly!!!