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[EVO 4G Accessories] marvelouswonder8:
Hmmm selling inferior services had a bad experience? I know some individuals choose to shadily sell the black tie using lies and deception but that's not company policy, and what most people don't understand is the difference between a service plan and a replacement plan, if a person chooses to purchase the black tie they agree to its terms and conditions as well, in my experience best buy has never denied a service claim to a customer who's repair needs were covered by their plan (or charged them extra), and op tell the person who you talk to you would like a manufacturer branded battery and they do have ways of getting one for you
[EVO 4G Accessories] Klasickwun:
Simple fix go back to Geeksquad and talk to the manager or ask for the supervisor... and have them order you another battery... ill explain to you what might have happened the Geeksquad agent that ordered your battery they probably did not select manufactory parts when placing the order.. i Work for Geeksquad thats how i know but.... sometimes that options is not available for all products when you go in there just don't be rude.. send me a message if you have anymore issues i can help you as much i can with this is issue..

Ps im not defending the company everyone is entitled to there own opinions and i respect that im just trying to help out in this simple issue
[EVO 4G Accessories] FattySparks:
It's not a scam, it's written down in their Black Tie Agreement. It's the same way with their laptops. When you get a replacement battery it is an off brand. Read the pamphlet.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Fusionr300zx:
YESSSSSS, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A THREAD LIKE THIS.

!!!!!!!

soo... i work for best buy mobile.

GSBTP is bull****.

phones we send out take about a month to "get fixed" and sometimes come back with the same problems, or get "junked out" which is when we give the customer a brand new device int he store.

personally don't have geek squad black tie on my phone for many reasons.

most of all because it changed from a PRP to a PSP.

the easiest way to get around it, is if you signed up for it before the label on the receipt changed to PSP.

differences..

PRP is a REPLACEMENT PLAN.

PSP is a SERVICE PLAN.

all phones besides blackberry's (for some dumb reason) get sent out to get serviced, blackberry's on the other hand get swapped in the store for any issue's.

i myself got screwed over as a employee with the PRP vs PSP thing, the new manager wouldn't let me replace my phone when i had PRP written on my receipt.

the battery thing is something else nice that i now know about.

since you got a replacement battery.. did that use up your service pan and require you to get a new one? if so, that's a joke.

sprint insurance > GSBTP for any phone besides a blackberry.
[EVO 4G Accessories] SouthernEvo:
When I first purchased my Evo from BestBuy , I also signed up for their insurance program . I had the phone for about a month or so , slightly over a month if I remember correctly . After coming across several threads referring to their insurance and how they handled claims I immediately called sprint about their insurance . I explained the situation and my concerns I had in regards to the insurance I had through BB , I even offered to take my phone to a sprint store to have it inspected if needed before putting insurance on the phone . After a few mins they told me information had been submitted and I would have coverage in 72 hours . After the 72 hours I called to confirm it had been put on the account and that it was showing on the bill . I then called BB and canceled the insurance . Went fairly painless and quickly . I havent looked back since the insurance change but then I dont usually make to many claims when it comes to cellphones .
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
Sorry for the delayed response guys, kind of forgot I even posted this rant. So basically Geek Squad admitted that it was pretty crappy that I was sent an 1100, but they couldn't do anything about because that was the only battery they had. So I was told to buy a battery from another store and submit a receipt for it and would be refunded. I did that, but unfortunately the battery I ordered from Amazon which was supposed to be new, was actually used and even had a phone number written on it! So now I have a dispute opened with an Amazon seller as well. Still haven't submitted the receipt to best buy, probably wont even bother. It's only $15. I'm just going to cancel geek squad warranty and keep my sprint insurance. By the way, Geek Squad does not give out new phone as replacements, they are refurbs. In my opinion, Sprint's insurance is quite a bit better. No questions asked.

someone also asked about proving it's an 1100mAh battery. 1100mAh is actually printed on the battery, although I'm sure its real capacity is probably even lower.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Wasney:
I work at bby as well, just in computers. I will say this, even with the bull**** of sending it out and such, I would rather deal with that than pay a$100 deductable. I had liquid damage...Sprint would have sent me to asurion and such. Would have been a hell of a lot faster, but $100? Screw that.
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
$100 yes, but it's also $6 less a month, or $70 a year. So in the long run, its probably cheaper. Also try getting a new phone from Best Buy when you've lost your phone, not gunna be much help then! Everytime I've actually filled an insurance claim its because i've lost my phone, ive yet to actaully damage one. I've had excellent results using Asurion in the past. New/Refurb phone is overnighted to you, sometimes you even get upgraded. For some reason I still have both black tie and asurion coverage, i'll be changing that before the next billing cycle. guess which one I'm going to keep?
[EVO 4G Accessories] skantman69:
Best buy warranty blows. Their geek squad is exactly that, useless uneducated geeks that are morons. I but my electronics from walmart, hands down best extended warranty service I have ever had. Most of the time walmart just exchanges for new, no questions.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Wasney:
6 less a month? Im charged 7 per phone, not 4. Black tie is 10. And then again, employee discount...so even less. I have only had to do a insurance clame once, and that was the liquid damage. 30 days of waiting got a new phone. Plus they gave me a loaner.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polli_78:
Hello. I am from Russia.

Please, tell my, how to increase the volume of the external speaker through the service menu?

In Russia I have not found an answer to this question.

Please, help my.

PS Sorry for the translation.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m3talm0rph:
Maybe you could use this app http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7735478#post7735478.. it needs root but with it you can control everything about volume!
[Android Software Development] bartamues:
I'm building an app in which there will be little to no user input, but the screen needs to remain lit while the app is running. The app also needs to remain in the foreground, even if a face button or sleep button is accidentally pressed.

The default android video player has all of this functionality. The screen will not turn off, even during prolonged lapses in user input. The sleep button also has a different function while the app is running; rather than causing the phone to go into sleep mode, the phone enters a lock state in which screen input and the face buttons are disabled.

I need to replicate this functionality, but preferably without the lock icon or the lack of touch input.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danifamous:
Yesterday my router lost broadband connection... Yes it's BT, so happens almost weekly.

Right while I was changing from Pinky's 1.8 rom to OD 3.5.0.

After the connection came back, my Mac and xbox are working fine, both on wired/wireless connections. But this is the first time I've been unable to reconnect with my Desire, even when I've wiped/nandroid restored the old rom.

It connects on the desire. But in the router config (bthomehub.home), it says it hasn't connected. I refresh a couple times, and 1 out of 5 refreshes it says I'm connected.

Then drops again.

As no other devices have been affected, is this a problem with my Desire settings? or the router?

Is there a way I can diagnose the issue?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gh001:
I've been trying to root my T-mobile G2 for a while now, and hopefully get a good room that wont make the damn phone slow enough to miss calls.

What would be really great is to have some short threads, I mean, REALLY SHORT, maybe a page or two where things are explained in details with no ways for people to miss anything.

I mean nobody likes to ready 26 pages of posts just in one thread for how to downgrade the hero before rooting it.

Keep it simple!

Save us from the idiots that cant seem to follow one simple instruction! Let them have not right to bother us with stupid questions!

Save us from people that are gifted with more knowledge than the rest of us android newbies, from telling us, Ummm try this, ... and this,.... or this.....

Close the thread, put it on top, make it sticky and let people that really want to get somewhere get there.

Thank you!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papinho:
Hi.

Is there a way to increase Call History Log size? It's 300 by default and I tried to change it with Advanced Configuration Tool, but no effect.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sh8an:
second this

any solutions on this issue?

upd. tried various different settings with Advanced Conf. tool for max amount and clean period without success
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iiiiaann:
Hey all, I'm messing around a bit with a kitchen and making myself a tweaked ROM, and i'm looking for the image files for the bottom bar (with phone + and ^). I'm messing around with the newest fresh ROM, and i would like to just tweak the colors, but i can't find the image files anywhere. Can anyone help by telling me where they are located?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowe343:
Should be in the framework-res.apk folder. I'm not sure if you can edit it like other png files though. Maybe an XML edit of some sort. Not sure though. Also, you might wanna check out the Rosie.apk in system/app.
[Droid Incredible General] Phoenix111:
Here's my situation:

I have two Droid incredibles at the moment. One I have had for months, its stock everything, no rooting. The other is new, hasn't even been activated yet. I only have one phone line. What I would like to do is use the new phone for tinkering; rooting and custom roms.

So I have a question: How easy is it to dial *228 or whatever it is and switch back and forth between these two phones on my one line?

And would the new phone need to be activated while I am rooting it?
[Droid Incredible General] jbrowning37:
http://support.vzw.com/clc/

from here click activate a phone underneath "support for your phone" and it should be pretty much self explanatory.
[Droid Incredible General] Grikshanks:
If you have a wifi connection, you can just use that on the non-registered phone. I believe you should be able to run the unrevoked root tool without needing to activate the device, from there can just install roms thru recovery.

Switching the active phone is fairly simple, but I have no idea if there is some limit verizon puts on number of times in a time period the line can be switched.
[Droid Incredible General] Incredibuyer:
Sorry I don't have the thread link but I read a post from someone that uses two phones. One doesn't have a camera that he/she can use at work and an Incredible for afterwards. On Verizon obviously and swithes back and forth like you want to. The post is somewhere in the KingKlick Kernal thread.Go back a day or two. Didn't mention having any issues with Verizon. Hope that helps.
[Droid Incredible General] Phoenix111:
Thanks for the reply. One other question, I want to try and keep these two phones two separate entities as much as possible. So much so that I don't want to use the same gmail registration for the second phone. I know that this would force me to re-pay in order to download the same apps. My question is, there shouldn't be any problems creating a new gmail account for this second phone to keep everything separate right?
[Droid Incredible General] Incredibuyer:
No problems what so ever.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flashman:
with android I can't manual select my provider and it's very important that i use roaming (my provider telfort uses a bigger network KPN and my phone has to use roaming for internet)

I'm living at the border so roaming is a little tricky, that's why I have to use manaul network selection

can it be done.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xecuterbox:
is this your problem, h**p:// xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7817459

I had that problem when I got back into android last night and found that within 5 min of searchin :P

if its not that what is does a message come up or what is / what isnt happening.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] real187:
if you use google with as many as 3 words.

its on the top of the list.

and you can always set it manualy.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xecuterbox:
Looks like it is a different issue than I first thought, so apologies for the confusion

but is it the manual operator, Im only ever on one network so leave on automatic but just out of curiousity clicked search manual on my hd2 android and after 'searching' I get 'error when searching for networks' followed by 'No networks found'.

Cant seem to see this anywhere else and its no biggie to me (obviously is to OP) but It will be interesting to see if this is build issue and affects everyone or just some.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flashman:
well i found the solution you mentioned and yes i can get into the apn list

but after searching for 2 days......I still haven't found a solution for my problem

I get the error:

"error while searching for networks"

with manual selection
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flashman:
to sum it up:

I have to roam for internet

I live at the border and with automatically selection it will connect to , for example BASE (belgium) (I'm in the Netherlands)

so my problem is that I can't manaul select my network!!

maybe I'm searching not good but I can't find it

btw. I had it with different android roms and different radio's
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flashman:
maybe now you can give me those 3 words
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flashman:
I will wait a bit, back to winmo and will check new android builds.
[Click Android Development] gelim:
Hi,

I'm creating a new thread because I did not find anything here related to that specific topic.

I would like to backup my radio ROM before flashing a WWE one. My intent is to test the WWE and if anything goes wrong with e.g the simlock I'll restore the original one.

Some directions : all /dev/block/mtdblock* are not used (appart from system, cache & data) should it be there ? maybe not using yaffs2 ?

Any enlightening suggestions appreciated !

Cheers
[Click Android Development] francians:
you can find your own radio image inside of the wwe.. nowadays there are 2 radio for tattoo: orange and stock.
[Click Android Development] gelim:
let's say I'm not trusting the WWE content downloaded via an untrusted source ?

Is there really no technical way to achieve that when being root on the phone ?

Thanks
[Click Android Development] francians:
don't know, but to achieve your own radio.img from the phone you shoud dump it from the internal memory. Maybe a full backup from recovery saves that image.
[Click Android Development] gelim:
> you shoud dump it from the internal memory

yes but it's unclear how to do it. There are several kind of memory in the phone... My bet goes on the NAND one but ATM I don't know how to access the first mtdblocks)

(same for 1 & 2)

some kernel log to illustrate that :

> Maybe a full backup from recovery saves that image.

No full backup from recovery (using amora's one) doesn't dump radio.img. That's why I'm asking here.
[Click Android Development] JoOoSs:
When you open an official RUU from HTC, all .img are extracted on temp folder. So you can take it from here.
[Click Android Development] gelim:
Actually my problems changed a little bit after doing the mount yaffs2 whitout success I issued a reboot from adb.

From now on, my Tattoo won't pass the (vibrate)Tattoo boot logo. I can't go into recovery either (should be just after the Tattoo logo displaying). The only functionnal thing is the fastboot menu and doing a fastboot flash boot boot.img (got that from the RUU) I'm left with the classis FAILED (remote: not allow) thing.

I think I'm doomed and I bricked that little piece of hardware :-(
[Click Android Development] potattoo:
applying an official RUU should unbrick it

it only needs fastboot usb mode
[Click Android Development] gelim:
Yes, should.

potattoo: there is a CID check on this device, it needs to be bypassed using the Goldcard technique AFAIK.

Another protection is hboot has S-ON (signature verification) so I'm out of luck with the manual fastboot flash or update (required some *.sig apparently)

I did an RUU flash from Windows XP (inside a Virtualbox) it managed to reboot the phone (I wasn't able to do that with fastboot reboot !) and timeout on the "waiting for bootloader...". During that time the phone is frozen with the HTC logo.

UPDATE: on a physical windows it's better, the RUU WWE cleans userdata, and then tries to flash the zipped ROM... until it fails. I can now reproduce this behavior manually with fastboot.exe. Here are the log messages :

Let's try an oem boot to see what it could say :

(I intentionnaly blanked by 'XX'ing some numbers thinking they are not relevant to the analysis)

The "FAILED (remote: 42 custom id check fail)" message when flashing shows clearly that the Goldcard I did following "[HOWTO] Create a GoldCard - Bypassing the RUU/SPL CID check to Root/Downgrade" topic is not recognized by HBOOT. Why ?

I tried as well not reversing the CID (as seen on another site) and doing the online generation again. Same problem : CID check FAILS miserably.

Questions that arise are :

1- what is the difference between the CID "HTC__247" seen in the boot log and the big alpha-numeric chain I got doing an "adb shell cat $path-to-mmc-cid" ?

2- does the CID change by mounting the sdcard on another android device ?

I'm pretty conscious we're derivating from the initial topic of this thread... but thanks for the help anyway.
[Click Android Development] gelim:
Okay, I got it solved. Feeling much much better.

The CID reversing was clumsy so my goldcard was not correct. I wiped the card : did a mkfs.vfat -F 32 -S 4096 /dev/sdb1.

Tried that site for CID manipulation http://hexrev.soaa.me/, generated the goldcard.img again via http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard.

dd if=golcard.img of=/dev/sdb.

Guess what, now CID check passes successfuly.

Just for the record here is a successful fastboot flashing log :-)

(yes now I switch to a windows 7 for the fastboot step, it's of course not mandatory, I could have done everything from a linux...)

Here we go for the NAND restore (I of course did a NAND backup before all the fudging)

Celebration time :-)

Thanks for the support.
[Vibrant General] torenc:
I bought a microusb to HDMI cable (Samsung P/N ECC1HU0BBE but not from Samsung, from some other random place) to see if it would work. It does not appear to work on my phone. I'm running the stock ROM, just rooted with the bloat removed.

I plugged it into an HDTV here at work, checked "TV out" in settings, and nothing. TV said it didn't see any input. I was dubious about this, especially since there's an option in there for NTSC/PAL which AFAIK doesn't apply to HDMI. This leads me to believe that maybe the TV out option is for something more like the classic ipod style analog video out through the headphone jack cable.

I tried: just checking the "TV out" box, switching between PAL and NTSC, restarting the phone with the cable connected, etc.

So, there's my anecdotal report. I'm guessing that our phone doesn't support this cable. I thought I had one of the latter (analog video) type in a box of cords somewhere but haven't been able to find it yet. Has anyone tried one of those cables?

(I'd post links to the cable I'm talking about but it won't let me! D:)
[Vibrant General] Qwijib0:
drat.

Maybe it only works with specific apps-- Did you try playing a movie in the built-in video player app?
[Vibrant General] torenc:
I did, I even tried a couple different videos of different types.
[Vibrant General] Gr8gorilla:
there are some threads bout the analog headphone cables. They work fine, and are cheap, about 3.00 on amazon.
[Vibrant General] Qwijib0:
Yeah, but 720p out would have been nice :p
[Vibrant General] sigeltek:
Yeah ive heard the hdmi mini-usb don't work, just the tvout through headphone jack.
[Vibrant General] PREZNANDO:
Switch colors red to yellow.....yellow to red.......funny but works
[Vibrant General] solidkundi:
they're not having issues with the analog cables..

this is a micro-usb to hdmi... so colours don't apply here...
[Vibrant General] ConceptVBS:
You got the wrong cable.

This is the correct cable to get:

ECC1HU0BBEBSTD

Found here: http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/...detail&subsubtype=data-cables-kits&returnurl=
[Vibrant General] Breach:
You could have gotten a faulty cable. It's also possible the cable was assembled by some random joe making and selling junk cables. Where did you get it from? It may be a fake samsung cable and not true oem.
[Vibrant General] torenc:
This is certainly possible. I bought it from some random shady web store I found on google shopping. It _looks_ like a Samsung cable, but that doesn't really mean anything.

The cable I have looks exactly like that, down to the little plug symbol by the microusb port on the side. Also you'll notice that the part number you list is the same as the one I did but with an "STD" on the end. The page you linked me is where I started my search for this cable. The cable itself doesn't have any part numbers on it that I've found.

If it doesn't work on my TV at home either I'll take it apart and we'll see what's in there. I can't imagine much.

So, who knows? Maybe I have a knockoff, broken or wrong cable. If so, bummer for me, but that means that we still have the possibility of HDMI out on this device. So, someone buy that cable straight from Samsung (whenever they decide to start selling it) and prove me wrong! I'd be very happy :)
[Vibrant General] skipsmith:
I bought the same cable and tryed everything...

I am not sure if it is a software issue or what. But it definitely is not sending signal threw this port. Tried a many different programs/apps and settings.
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
I thought "TV Out" was only for the analog video signal through the 3.5 mm jack.
[Vibrant General] scrizz:
where did you guys buy the cable?

just want to know

Thank You :D
[Vibrant General] oc3rulz:
It could be the cable. I had to buy a specific cable for my Greddy Emanage since they did something to switch the USB cable to make it proprietary. They charged $30 for the stupid thing too! Bunch of BS, anyhow, they may have done the same thing with the Vibrant.

I dont remember hearing anything about the Vibrant doing HDMI out though
[Vibrant General] deviusdragger:
i used an old 3.5 to rca cables from a motozine i had and video worked just fine on my tv. it kind of looks like crap on my 52 inch screen. but it worked. so im thinking maybe the video out only works through the 3.5 jack.
[Vibrant General] Piny12:
The Galaxy S doesnt support HDMI output. That was a accident statement from Samsung. That cable is for the "mondi".
[Vibrant General] ConceptVBS:
Here is the official tweet from Samsung:

http://twitter.com/Samsungservice/status/20215650228

:(
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
Hmm. I wonder if it works on the Sprint Epic 4G, or on the international I9000. (There are several Galaxy S features that T-Mobile and AT&T have disabled, but which appear in other variants.)