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[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] jassired:
For all the people who are not able to get the weather updates.....

Turn On "PhoneSettings>Location>Wirelessnetworks" (no need to enable GPS) to determine location using wifi or mobilenetwork
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] KingCifer:
i found that one out too but i dont want my coordinates transfered to google all the time ... and any1 else has the feeling goto needs way too much resources/akku?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] brusque:
Wheater, name, etc.. all fine.

But, sometimes, the default lockscreen from my Galaxy S is shown and then appears Goto :(

i'm using 1.42 version. Any ideas?

Thanks!
[Vibrant General] justice26:
Ok. I did a search and found nothing inrefrence to this issue. I have made the custom ringtones aswell as the custom notifications and placed them on my phone under meia/audio/notifications. I only get a second of play when I place the custom notification tone for an email alert. They are .mp3 files and are at most 3 seconds long. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks in advance
[Vibrant General] crxforya:
How r u getting custom ringtones to play on vibrant?
[Vibrant General] thegreatcity:
Ringdroid will do it.
[Vibrant General] crxforya:
Does it put ringers in default media folder?? Can't seem to get it to find ringers on ring tone shuffler
[Vibrant General] d_bot:
i use zedge, to download, then rootexplorer to move them
[Vibrant General] crxforya:
How does it pick up non ogg files??
[Vibrant General] d_bot:
download a ringtone from zedge, move it to /system/media/audio/<what you want to use it for>, then reboot.

so say i downloaded "mytone.mp3" and i want to use it as a email notification, i use rootexplorer to move it from /sdcard/zedge/ringtones to /system/media/audio/notifications then reboot. then i can go into the email app and select my ringtone as "mytone"
[Vibrant General] crxforya:
Thanks ill give that a shot
[Vibrant General] crxforya:
Presto that was it thanks 4 ur help
[Vibrant General] d_bot:
no problem, enjoy your totally awesome phone! :)
[Vibrant General] q426669:
*EDIT*Got it working - sorry to bump a dead post!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htwnzlil1:
i have a MyTouch one without 3.5mm jack and it sorta got some water in it i dried it all up but now it wont recognize the Sim card and the SD card. i was so stupid i went and did wipe data/factory reset from recovery mode and now it wont even boot up so i was wondering is there any other way i could install a ROM or it has to be from the SD card and can i do a hard reset since it is messed up and wont boot?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lannister80:
Hold down the "volume down" button when booting. Do you see a white screen with three little Androids on skateboards? Is so, you *may* be able to use fastboot mode, in which you can flash things directly from your computer to you phone, no SD storage required.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htwnzlil1:
do you know how i will be able to do that can you help me out?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HectiQ:
When I try navigating with navigon, the GPS tells me I'm completely elsewhere and picks up at that point, lol and it send me to drive into the water xD

Lucky I always mind the road, still, what could be the problem that the GPS doesn't gets my location correct, not even in a radius of 30 km's.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DocteurN:
The Localization via GPS is ON (not only triangulation) ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HectiQ:
yes, the GPS icon was on my screen all the time, also my 3G network was online at that point. So I received information from 2 channels. And still, it was such a damn pitty to see my device fail :( - I returned to winmo, then with tomtom it only took my half a minute to get a very functional signal. strange, it's not my phone, it's android..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumpy76:
i have the same problem: no gps signal and the GPS(navigon, sygic, copilot) doesn't get ma location

Gps is enabled in phone setting.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] relic:
Mine works for 2min before signal dies out.

Also switching gps off, the icon stays in the taskbar.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veda_sticks:
what kernel are you using? there are quite a few kernels out there now. different roms are using different kernels. Some kernels gps doesnt work, some it does.

Ive used GPS in SHUI8 1.4 build with no problems. I havnt tried any other builds lately since GPS started working in the latest kernels with his builds.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HectiQ:
I use mattc leo from 23th of august with sense. God it scared the freak out of me, lucky I knew the road 80% sure, I've been there once, but damn, if it's so unreliable, I'll always keep my windowze :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] relic:
I am using the one supplied with Froyostone V1. I've been told no issue using GPS with this one, but I have tried more than 3 gps softwares on it and they will die after a minute or two, mind you I make sure I get full GPS reception when I am on the road.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ducter:
I use Google Navigation and it works well, on mattc froyo/sense v1.5 and all is well. It does take a few minutes to get a signal, but after its solid.

A word of caution...dont follow your GPS blindly.

Also, this is not a development thread..
[HTC Excalibur] texas4life:
I have a htc_s620 and when i connect the usb to the computer activesync doesnt pick it up when i put it in bootloader the word usb doesnt come out. Can someone please help me or tell me what is wrong with it.
[HTC Excalibur] Cyclonezephyrxz7:
Refer to the Sticky...it explains a lot of what you need to know about FLASHING your ROM
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
As Cyclonezephyrxz7 states, please check on the sticky under rom flashing.

Having this, thread closed.
[EVO 4G General] jfashion:
Probably the wrong forum topic but I'm getting 4G in New York, I got 5mbps with about 2 bars.

Sent from Evotistical Evo
[EVO 4G General] rebosxl:
What part of new York ?
[EVO 4G General] jfashion:
Downtown White Plains, Harrison and I got some in Tarrytown

Sent from Evotistical Evo
[EVO 4G General] Bielinsk:
That is some top notch development work there for you to deploy 4g in NY
[EVO 4G General] nenn:
if you know its the wrong place then why did you post? we have a few threads like this in general.
[EVO 4G General] jfashion:
I know, my bad. Trying to move or delete right now.
[EVO 4G General] rebosxl:
Ugh Manhattan gets no love
[EVO 4G General] brol1k:
Actually there's alot of spots getting 4g already

Tapatalk'd on Evo
[EVO 4G General] tsipa:
Yea... I've been getting 4G at the seaport since launch. I was also able to get it at Giants stadium last week.
[EVO 4G General] emulatorx:
Im in the lower east side manhattan, And i've gotten 1-2 bars from my 12th floor apt..

like 6mbps/1.5mbps not too bad..cant wait for FULL OFFICAL 4g with always FULL 3 bars.. thats gonna be crazy
[EVO 4G General] Rene2.5RS:
I was down near Battery Park last week and had 4G service.

Nice to know White Plains is rolling out 4G, use to live there couple years ago. Now I am in CT and they are rolling out 4G in random places right now. I have it outside at my house currently, but for the small town I live in it truly makes no sense why here.
[EVO 4G General] emulatorx:
here's a few shots of it running from my lower east side apartment:
[EVO 4G General] dominakay:
i have been getting it in the bronx too off the bx river and bruckner blv. with full bars and boston rd n gun hill rd
[EVO 4G General] aman1127:
I'm in bensonhurst and I the best I ever got was 10.05 mbs

Sent from my fast as hell phone that you can only wish you had
[EVO 4G General] Systemfraud:
Anyone know if Albany or Poughkeepsie NY will be getting 4G? :'(
[EVO 4G General] brol1k:
Not to trash but can I have this theme? lol or post the link here, Im in love with that black clock lol
[EVO 4G General] w1zk1d:
4G - FiDo - Wall Street

Down by NYSE:
[EVO 4G General] achllles:
Speed and stability went down quite a bit in queens.
[EVO 4G General] shottadb:
You can get 4G around Flatbush and Atlantic Ave. 8Mbs
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
Some of us are having problems with our Captivate randomly shutting down. AT&T technical support thinks it could be apps that we've installed. Could they be right? My replacement device didn't start shutting down again after 3-4 days of owning it. By that time, I have already installed some favorite apps. Here's my list. Let's compare and figure this out. It's just a theory. Can't hurt. :o

<<<< OMG! While typing this new thread to turn on my phone so I can see the list of apps I have installed, MY PHONE TURNED OFF ON ME! WHAT THE...!!! >>> Anyway...

Apps installed:

-SMS Back Up and Restore

-Yahoo! Mail for Android

-Adobe Reader

-XDA-Developers

-Market History Manager

-Speedtest.net

-Google Maps
[Captivate General] J4CC3B:
Mine never did it until I set advanced tag killer to harsh every half hour. I watered down the harshness a little bit and it hasn't shut off since :)
[Captivate General] jersey_609:
Theres a thread in the vibrant section that's about the same problem and it happens after 3 days could try there
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
Thanks. I just posted on an existing thread over there. I will do a hardware master reset later and observe again the next 3-4 days. Samsung gave me the directions. (Hold the volume up and down plus the power button, all 3 buttons for 15 seconds, etc.)
[Captivate General] ranova:
most are saying that its bad RAM/memory and exchanging the handset fixed all the problems
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
Is there a memtest type application for android? Bad memory would make sense, but so would a number of other theories.
[Captivate General] jersey_609:
Ur welcome hope it helps and u get it figured out
[Captivate General] Jack45:
Yeah, that's their answer for all problems, big and small. I'm sure in some cases it's valid, but the reset is used more as a "what the hell' reply rather than a knowledge-based solution.
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
...which I agree to some point. Some users just end up loading crap on devices which screws things up (some of the apps mentioned above might be crap, or not, not sure, it's only a theory. Of course, a perfect device is a unit that can withstand ANY apps you feed to it. But we don't have THE perfect device (yet, or ever).

I will do the hardware master reset in a few minutes and not load anything for 3-4 days (but I will enter my Gmail account and let it sync with my Contacts, Calendar, and Email, but that's it...for now).
[Captivate General] Jack45:
What steers me away from the app theory is that there have been several posts indicating that the random shutdowns have occurred with a stock device. No apps downloaded / installed.

I don't have an answer except to say that the master reset can't hurt. Realistically, though, if you go a few days without a shutdown don't sit back and smile like the Cheshire Cat. Sometimes the shutdowns occur weeks into ownership. I'm not being negative, just realistic.

I wish you well.
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
Agreed. Like I said, this is my second device and the shutdowns didn't start until 3-4 days after ownership on both devices. The reality (for me) is that the Captivate isn't so great after all after two devices already (sorry to say) but I'm not going to give up just yet. I have until the 31st to decide whether I will continue this 30-day early upgrade trial or take it back and continue to use my HTC Fuze and just let my contract expire (in October). If I take it back, come October, I will decide whether I will stay with AT&T and take on another (hopefully bug-free) Captivate, or move to Verizon and check out their Android phones -- HTC and Motorola devices! :confused:
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
I just did a hardware master reset. It isn't exactly a hardware master reset like the tech guy described it. He gave me the directions to "delete user data". It deleted the apps that I have downloaded from the Market, and other things. I don't know what else. However, when it booted up again, I noticed my settings and widgets are still there. My homescreen was still customized the way I had it. So, it's not a total master reset. The software Factory Reset isn't also a total (software) reset. I did that and found some folders left in my internal memory (not my external MicroSD) from the previous working session. Hmm..
[Captivate General] vksf01:
my captivate started to shutdown about five days ago. it's been doing it once a day, always in the morning. i wonder if it has something to do with the power management. the phone is always charged overnight and the shutdowns always seem to happen about an hour or so after i unplug it from the charger.

the one day it didn't shut down, i noticed that the lock screen was unresponsive (ie i couldn't unlock the phone) and i ended up having to power down the phone anyway.
[Captivate General] pmpntl:
exactly how it happens on mine.
[Captivate General] vksf01:
i'll see what happens over the rest of the week and then try the master reset. if it still happens, i'm going to return this for another one. unfortunately, i've had it for over 30 days.
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
Even after 30 days, you will still be able to return it (maybe to Samsung) for repair or a replacement. Good luck.
[Captivate General] Larry202br:
Mine has shut down twice, and I've only had it for 12 days. As you described, it happened both times in the morning, following a recharge.

I had to remove and replace the battery to get it to turn back on, is that the same thing that happened to you? I mean to say, did you have to remove and replace the battery to get it to work again?
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
The two Captivates I've owned (and returned due to a combination of GPS and Random Shut Downs) have shut down on me even in the middle of the day (not only in the morning after recharging for the night). It shut down on me while getting my afternoon coffee. I was showing the phone to the Barista, set the phone down on the counter to pay, picked it up, walked back to my office and just when I'm about to wake it up, it does the bootup. It also shut down on me at night while walking in the dark. I noticed my pocket lit up. I pulled out my phone and I saw the Shut Down screen as if you had pressed and held the power button (but nothing else was in my pocket that could have pressed the button!).

Random, I tell ya. Random.
[Captivate General] vksf01:
no, i just turned it back on using the power button.
[Captivate General] sobolosrios:
I just wanted to chime in to say that I am having the same problem. Random shutdowns, not necessarily related to charging. Often they are in the morning however. For me it has been happening a few times a day. Likewise, it seems to have not happened at first, but began a few days ago (I have owned the phone about 2 weeks.)

Are you guys rooted? I have tried unrooting to see if that matters. I don't know why it would, but perhaps...
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
I'm not rooted. The 2 phones I have returned have been stock.

Please help get the word out. Visit your local AT&T and let them know. Get a replacement or something. Get AT&T to notice how much of a problem this has become for many of us so hopefully they will get in touch with Samsung.
[Captivate General] vksf01:
not rooted either. mine's about as stock as you can get, except for juice-defender. i'll wait till the end of the week to see how it goes and then if i'll hit up att to get another one
[Captivate General] Larry202br:
I'm not rooted. I don't have any unusual apps installed.
[Captivate General] Jack45:
It's NOT Market app related as random shutdowns have occurred with stock phones.
[Captivate General] Jack45:
I think we can agree by now that it's not related to software downloaded from the Market. Each potential culprit has been ruled out, in addition to the fact that it's been happening with stock phones. That leaves us with pre-installed software, system settings, a bad batch of RAM or some other hardware issue that is not universally defective.

I've had my replacement for almost two weeks without a shutdown. My settings are as follows:

1. Wi-Fi is always on and is set to never sleep. The "never sleep" settings can be accessed via the Wi-Fi settings page menu, Advanced tab at the bottom. Reason: I'm attempting to generate additional under-the-cover activity (plus I do use Wi-Fi). As I'm not a technician, this may be nonsense.

2. Power saving mode is not checked. Reason: "Don't do me any favors, Captivate. Your idea of power saving may get out of hand."

3. I never let the phone go into sleep mode on its own. Default is 30 minutes, but I always push the button to get it to sleep. Reason: Just in case the built-in sleep timer thinks that "sleep" and "coma" are synonymous.

You can try these three mods to see if they work for you. I'm not saying that these settings will for sure fix the issue, but rather letting you know what's been effective for me...so far.

Bottom line - I'm offering a no-lose proposition. Beats the hell out of another "me, too" post.
[Captivate General] vksf01:
here's something i tried this morning which i read on the att captivate forum (i think). basically, before i disconnected the phone from the charger, i turned it on to dismiss the "battery fully charged" dialog box. thus far, the phone hasn't shut off. it's only been one day, so i can't confirm if this is indeed the culprit. if this doesn't work i'll try the method from jack45 of not letting the phone go to sleep
[Captivate General] cachookaman:
i narrowed my problem down to setcpus powersave mode. i used to have my phone set to 600/400 powersave when the screen is off and ive had it not wake up from sleep tons of times. ive changed it to conservative instead and i havent had a problem since.
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
I think I've figured it out. It's not app-related. Rather it is GPS- or connections-related. I just flew in from Europe (and boy, my arms hurt -- rimshot) and I had the Receive Data on Roaming disabled most of the time including the Use GPS to set Location. I only turn those two on when I'm playing with Google Maps, checking my emails and searching and reviewing restaurants online. In all 7 days I was away, I have never experienced one shut down at all! (I had a shut down once on this phone prior to the trip.)

So I posted this GPS issue that causes the shut down in another thread. I'm beginning to believe it's true!

Since I'm back in the U.S. I will continue to monitor this. I won't have GPS On all the time. Let's see how it behaves all week.
[Captivate General] Singhman:
Mine has not done it since i changed my sim card 1 week ago. I think it could be a bad batch of sim cards. I was having the same issue with 3 phones, then someobe suggested it could be the sim...and its been good since (used to happen every 2-3 days).
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
I'm using a new SIM card too. Is your Use GPS Satellites in the Location and Security settings checked? Mine was unchecked for the most part of the week while I was away. I'm thinking that's what keeping my device turned On.
[Captivate General] 3dot14:
Guys, registered this forum just to reply to this!

My phone was rebooting 3-4 times a day, after i turned off my gps, i has not restarted today at all!!
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
Having the USE GPS satellites option enabled only tells the GPS chipset to use GPS signal and not the Wireless Networks (or cell tower triangulation) which ONLY KICKS IN when you open a GPS or location aware app. Add the power control widget and the middle icon is your GPS enable/disable. Enable it then watch the notification bar.

Nothing.

Now open Google Maps. Notice the little animated icon? That indicates the GPS chipset is talking to GPS satellites in order to get your location.

Now back out of Google Maps. Where did the GPS icon go?

My captivate shutdown one time on me which was right after I charged it before going to sleep. In the middle of the night the phone died and I missed my wake up alarm!

So far hasn't done it since, however right now I'm running the Galaxy S i9000 ROM with a stock Captivate kernel.

-edit I leave my GPS on all the time, use a task manager to kill any app that might keep the GPS connection open. For example Google maps or Layar or one of the GPS test apps.
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
I know about the apps that use GPS and how the icon shows up every time you start those app. But what we don't really know are the background apps that run silently that might use the GPS. This is all a theory since I don't have the proper tools to dissect the hardware and software parts of the device.
[Captivate General] GingerEffect:
It happens to my Samsung S Vibrant (Almost same hardware as captivate) on Bell Canada and I *think* I can reliably reproduce the issue, at least on my phone.

Steps:

1. Go to a spot where you know it has failed, for me this is my office because it has bad reception and it seems to only shutdown for me when there is bad reception.

2. Make sure 3G is turned on and open an application that uses data.

3. Wait for the phone to sleep, do not hit the power button or anything to make it sleep (not sure if this step matters)

4. Wait ~30 mins without touching the phone (You can play music with it while this is happening if you want, the music will stop to let you know it's failed)

5. Try to wake up your phone, it is now dead.

I'm not sure this will work for everyone but last night I could reproduce 3 shutdowns in an hour and a half. And reproduced about 7 shutdowns yesterday when my phone only usually shuts down ~2 times a day.

I'm testing out all kinds of software permutations (disabling stuff, installing things like Captivate Keep Alive). Nothing has worked so far, my guess right now is that the problem lies in the Pattern Unlock feature so I have disabled it, I read that on a forum somewhere.

My guess is that if you have too much running in the background it might take up too much cpu or ram so that when the phone tries to come out of sleep it can't get enough CPU power to come out of sleep and therefore gets stuck in a kind of limbo. This theory could then be releated to the SetCPU problem when you set the CPU too low when it sleeps the issue occurs.

Moral of the storey is I have no idea what's going on, but please post if this works or doesn't work. Maybe it will shed some light on the issue, or you can tell me I'm wrong so I can give up.

Luckily I'm not past the 30 day mark and I'm exchanging for a new Vibrant tonight. Wish me luck!
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
In this case, you might as well give up because so far, all theories have been proven wrong (sorry) :o My shutdowns (on my 3rd Cap) happen around 9am almost everyday depending on usage. It went like this.

1. ~10:30pm plug the phone to charger over night.

2. Between 2-3am, the phone is fully charged and I'm sure it shows me the "Unplug charger" message. I'm in dreamland.

3. Alarm goes off at 6am. I sleep for 15 more minutes.

4. 6:15am, I clear the notification that says to unplug the charger.

5. At my desk at work, I check messages, send sms, browse the web a little, on and off starting 7am.

6. At around 9am when I wake the phone up, it's dead. It doesn't wake up from a sleep. It boots up and when it finally settles, the battery level is somewhere around 85-90%

This happens almost everyday. It seems like the battery is fully charged by 3am and it shuts off around 9am. There's something there. I can't quite put my finger on it.

I'm on my 4th Cap now (I just got it yesterday and finally I got it activated this morning). Let's see how this performs in the next couple of days.
[Captivate General] Nickel Dime Bay:
Im pretty sure it only happens when you fully charge you're phone. Disconnect at 98-99% and i bet you wont get a shutdown, which is really weird.
[Captivate General] RexEscape:
Will you call me and wake me up at 2:56am so I can disconnect it? ;)

If someone can write an app that will disable the charger from charging the battery to 100%, that would be awesome!