yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnny12times:
So I've pretty much given up on trying to figure this out. I've tried every method possible, all work on both my non-replacement vibrants, but nothing works on the replacement one. Going to have it replaced again and have a new one ordered out. When that one gets here, I will test download/recovery modes, if I have any issues, I'll pull the dump file and post it here, maybe someone can figure out what's going on. On the back of the device, the IMEI sticker has manufacture dates (year.month), looks like the replacement was a 10.7 just like my original Vibrant, so it's not a manufacturer date type issue, it's got to be something changed in the software side of things. It's almost as though the volume rocker keys do not work for recovery/download mode, I get the exact same thing as if I'm just pressing the power button. When I did get in to recovery (before getting to it's current state), the volume keys worked fine for selection though. I can confirm that there is no new information on tmob's side about how to do a hard reset using the hardware buttons (ie, recovery mode) as of this posting.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oc3rulz:
Did you try with the phone OFF..

1. Have ODIN running

2. Hold Volume Down + Up

3. Plug in USB (WHILE HOLDING VOLUMES buttons in)

Should go directly into DOWNLOAD mode
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnny12times:
I did try that as well. Works beautifully on both my old Vibrants, but not on this new one.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oc3rulz:
Drats!!! Oh well, time to go back to T-Mobile
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glensta:
@ Johnny12times: Dude u'r right. I've played around with a few different vibrants and they could all go into "download mode" - but when receiving a replacement unit (within the last 2 days), nothing works to go into download mode. Something has definitely changed - not sure what.

Good luck bro - hope it all works out.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YMark:
I received my Vibrant last Thursday (8/19). I have never been able to boot into recovery mode using the buttons. Needed to root by using one-click.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mentalex2:
Ive also tried every button combo and am still unable to get recovery or download. I received the phone last fri (8/20). Its so frustrating knowing that so many other people can get manual recovery. Im sending it back tomorrow for replacement, but who knows if that one will even work? I hope someone figures out why so many vibrants are unable to do this. Good luck!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnny12times:
Well my new one should be here within the next day or so, as soon as it arrives I'll check it and pull a dump file. I'm not savvy enough to figure out how to fix it, but at least smart enough to put it here for the people that can. :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dex1701:
How about this:

1. Remove SD and SIM card

2. Remove battery

3. plug the phone into USB

4. hold down vol-up and vol-down

5. pop the battery back in while holding vol buttons
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnny12times:
Tried that as well. Believe me, I've tried every single method on this board. Something was changed.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newkirk:
I've been successful getting download mode with: batt out, hold up/dn, plug in USB, insert battery, download mode. Can't get it any other way from the handset, and have been unable to get recovery mode from handset at all, solely via adb. (unrooted handset, recovery via adb to run clockwork from update.zip to install mobileap) Datestamp on my IMEI/SN sticker under the battery is 10.08, other stats on request.

When I'm in front of my home desktop/dev system in a couple hours I'll ADB into it and acquire the requested data, I'll post back after that if nobody beats me to it. (I'm an Android noob - got my vibrant 5 days ago shipped direct from t-mo - but long-time linux admin & programmer, so I'm comfortable but unfamiliar in this territory)

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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spiffywerks:
THHHHHHHAAAAAANKKKKKK YYYYOOOOOUUUU For this.

Gosh, I was having the hardest time getting my phone into download mode, was stuck on the "phone -!- computer " screen and was afraid I'd have to take my phone back to get replaced and try to explain what happened. lol. Thank you so much.

But remained calm, kept searching the forums, I was sure someone else had to be having my problems before I posted a new post. hehe. Now I can try and debug some more things. I love breaking then fixing new tech.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowen23:
its funny how many people ACTUALLY read the op.. he sed he tried every combination on that page he gave the link too and u guys are posting methods that he has already tried and have been suggested 3 times already... READ PEOPLE READ!!!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowen23:
honestly dude??? google could have answered this in about 2 minutes if u used ur brain and SEARCHED!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saintnate:
I've been in the same boat here for the past day...looking on the back of my model, it was manufactured on 10.07, as well. I've tried every manual reboot method possible, I'm pretty sure that the rocker buttons will not initiate any sort of download or recovery mode, something definitely changed in the software. Ugh.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMcCraryNJ:
I have a replacement unit from T-Mobile that I received in the beginning part of last week, and I am able to boot into both recovery and download mode. Sucks to hear that the newer replacements seem to have this disabled.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orells:
Perfect example of a flaming guy (not the gay kind) of you don't have something positive to say stfu! Lame

Sent from the best phone from TMO... Vibrant
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srtpro4mance:
LOL you basically just did the same thing...

Anywho Ive got a 10.08 Vibrant showing the same exact issues. I ordered a replacement Vibrant but right now they're on backorder. :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glensta:
Yeah, Yeah - Me too......Nah - j/k. Best to keep it positive. I'm a noobie too and sometimes it takes a while to put this stuff together when it makes a little sense.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsparakov:
I just received three Samsung Vibrants in the mail today. All are labeled 10.07 in the battery compartment (Box says Date: 07/06/2010). Those are charging at the moment and I'll get back to you guys whether I can get into Download Mode or not.

Download Mode works for me when I have my USB plugged-in while still doing the up/down vol while holding power button procedure. It went to battery charge (while off) mode and then went into download mode for me. I had trouble getting Download Mode to work without USB plugged-in. I'm not sure. Just for reference: I have the official Samsung USB drivers installed. I'll look into it more.

I'll also have to go ahead and try the other phones.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n00bish:
Is there any progress on this? I'd like to know :\
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kgbkny:
This past weekend, I attempted to show my cousin how to clear the cache on his Vibrant. Imagine my surprise when I attempted to restart the phone in the bootloader mode and it went straight to the pink screens after the "VIBRANT Samsung" display. I tried rebooting the phone several times and got the same result each time.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BossDj:
You've probably tried it, but this came from a t-mo rep, worth a shot. Pull your battery, sd and sim cards, battery back in, then plug in usb. Do not touch anything yet, wait for the green battery icon to appear, once the icon has popped up, press both volume buttons, then hold power. As soon as the battery icon disappears let go of the power only. This method only worked for me when plugged into the pc, not wall charger.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flameinthefire:
so there is still no solution to this right?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p()()pypants:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=771247
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexrz619:
This Worked for me! thanks for the post. I was bashing my head trying different key combos
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sad2903:
Try Volume Down and power but don't plug in the USB till it gets to download mode !
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meldedchaoz:
Replacement Vibrant Download Mode - Halle-frikkin'-leujah

THANK YOU!!! With the new T-Mobile Vibrants that are coming out, this is the ONLY WAY to get into download mode. This needs to be reposted as its own thread PLEASE.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] droidkevlar:
You can thank stephen730 for me removing all my work. Tired of jackass's
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] droidkevlar:
Added v.02. Enjoy guys
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Sjflowerhorn:
used to use it on my eris and i loved it so im going to use it on me droid as well
[Vibrant General] elusivebyte:
Has anyone else ever seen this? Start writing a lengthy message in Talk, then go do something else without sending the message. (I was playing a game of Wordfeud.) Then come back to Talk and try to resume your message.

The attached photo is what I get. The only way I can get it to start typing at the end of my message is to open the hidden Swype editing keyboard (swipe from the Swype key to the SYM key) and press the down arrow until I'm at the bottom of the text box.

I can work around the issue, but it's kind of annoying. Just thought I'd share the issue and the work-around. Maybe you guys have a better solution.
[Vibrant General] morfic:
I mostly get it in larger edit boxes, most annoyingly when it came up and covered the xda app's password box, I touch the keyboard, instead I submit an empty password... Still registered behind the keyboard.

Must have missed the swipe from swype key to SYM key, most excellent, thanks!

Sent from my Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] cbisquit:
if that's the same issue I've experienced with a misaligned swype box I've found the easiest fix is to tap the back button, which usually just exits swype on the first tap. then you can click into the text field and get realigned
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] fanfangzhu:
How to solve
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nailll:
Try this:

1) run GScript

2) Press "Add script", then "Load file"

3) Select script "Enable_overlock.sh" and click "Save"

4) Select saved script and run it.

5) reboot your phone and try overlock with "Milestone Overlock" application.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] risahri:
Download

Please, where I can download this file? :confused:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nailll:
which file?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] risahri:
Enable_overlock.sh :mad:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nailll:
It should be installed with MotoFrenzy v0.5b (mine got one by default)

Anyway here is the code:

#!/system/xbin/sh
mkdir /tmp/sd
mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/sd
echo "550000 max_rate" >/tmp/sd/overclock
echo "56 max_vsel" >>/tmp/sd/overclock
umount /tmp/sd
echo "overclock file on sdcard now activated with default 550Mhz"
echo "Reboot for changes to take effect."
sleep 30
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] dsixda:
Please post MotoFrenzy questions in the MotoFrenzy thread, and refrain from creating redundant threads. It clears up the clutter and makes it easier for everyone else to find information. Thank you.
[Vibrant General] morfic:
So today cable is out after a storm, I remember I have a 3.5mm to rca cable from an old dv cam.

From many posts I remembered often video is not on yellow, so I try what should be audio, and VICTORY?

Well, sort of , home screens, apps, youtube included, yay \o/

The one app to really empress my wife with....mobitv......fail, signal goes away.

Exit app, tv out working perfectly as before.

What a pile of crap........, booooo

;)

I mean, seriously, DRM, so we can't play a low quality live tv stream on our tv sets.....seriously?

Sent from my Vibrant.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrishornet:
Got a hdmi cable and videos work fine but slideshows don't, i'm on stock 2.2.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Video out only? I could be wrong, though.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiruha73:
Hi! Is it any possible way to prevent AT&T from detecting what kind of phone you are using? If you using regular phone you can have regular data plan $15:), but as soon as they detect smartphone they automatically change your plan to $30 month. Any help will be great!!!!!:confused:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gidkid:
Sorry, but I don't think there's a way to beat the system. AT&T and Verizon both add a monthly bill for smartphones. This is one of the advantages of Sprint - no extra smartphone charges IDK if T-mo has these charges.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiruha73:
Is it any way i can spoof imei from my samsung sync to htc pure so my data plan remains the same?
[HTC Aria General] nrvate:
Hi all,

Like many of us, I managed to kill a digitizer on my HTC Aria. Replaced the blasted thing, and now I find my proximity sensor is really sensitive. It's locked in proximity mode (Z-devicetest shows distance 0) in normal conditions.

If I pull off the digitizer, so the prox sensor has a clear path in front of it, it goes out of proximity state and Z-devicetest shows the distance as 1 (and the display works properly during calls, speakerphone works, etc) ...

If I slowly move the tip of my finger towards the prox. sensor, digitizer still removed, Z-devicetest shows it flip from 1 to 0 (out of prox to in prox) as my finger gets within ~2 inches.

So it seems the prox. sensor is working but is too sensitive.

Is this the normal failure mode of a CM3602 prox sensor (read: i dropped it, and not only broke the digizer, but took out the prox sensor too!) .. or, is there some sort of calibration i need to do?

Anyone have a USA source of the CM3602? My usual suppliers digikey and mouser don't carry this component..

*curses self* shoulda listened to my friend who warned me this phone is real easy to bust ;)
[HTC Aria General] Anthony1s:
There is a guy in the accessories board that is selling parts of his aria. I'd link ya but I don't know how from this app.
[HTC Aria General] nrvate:
Right on.

I didn't want to butcher this poor little POS more so I figured out how to turn the bloody sensor off in software.

append

gsm.proximity.enable=false

to /system/build.prop

or just uncomment the line if you have an editor.. but you can just cat >> build.prop in the shell and type in the line. No editor needed.

Must do this via adb shell with phone in clockwork, otherwise nand is lokt. boo. dev eng hardware doesn't have that problem... stupid consumer devices!
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
So do you just start Android sdk and then type the following.

append (enter)

gsm.proximity.enable=false (enter)

or is there more to it. I really need to get this disabled.
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
I tried to do it with ASTRO but it doesnt save my changes.
[HTC Aria General] nrvate:
/system/build.prop is a standard text file.

Remember that stuff in /system is protected, I find the best way to deal with the /system partition is through clockworkmod recovery.

a. Disconnect USB, reboot into clockworkmod recovery

b. Mount the /system partition from the partitions menu

c. Connect USB to a system with adb

d. adb pull /system/build.prop

e. Edit file with your favorite text editor to append gsm.proximity.enable=false

f. adb push build.prop /system/build.prop

g. unmount /system from clockworkmod recovery partition menu

h. reboot phone, receive bacon

If you don't have clockworkmod recovery, just use unrevoked to install it :)
[HTC Aria General] nrvate:
Oh, i should also say CM6 (and maybe all of Froyo images?) do not honor this setting.
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
Thank you I will try this when I get home..

I may have an issue because if I open build.prop with root explorer it says...

# try to disable proximity sensor in call by default

# gsm.proximity.enable=false

This is located almost at the bottom of the page does this mean I am sol. It is the liberated Rom and I haven't done anything to it.
[HTC Aria General] nrvate:
Just remove the # ...

# gsm.proximity.enable=false

..to

gsm.proximity.enable=false
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
thank you so much..... you may be oh wait you are the FN man.

ok so if froyo images dont honor this does that mean when we get froyo I shouldn't upgrade.

anyway thank you so much now I can use my phone again, I didn't realize how much my Pure was dated till I had to use it for a few days.
[HTC Aria General] nrvate:
Glad that helped :)

I didn't find a property in Froyo that disabled the proximity sensor. Maybe there is one, maybe there is not. I went another method..

# hexdump -C /system/lib/hw/sensors.liberty.so | grep -C3 dev/cm
00001b10 54 5f 54 46 4c 41 47 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20 28 25 |T_TFLAG error (%|
00001b20 73 29 00 45 43 53 5f 49 4f 43 54 4c 5f 41 50 50 |s).ECS_IOCTL_APP|
00001b30 5f 53 45 54 5f 4d 56 46 4c 41 47 20 65 72 72 6f |_SET_MVFLAG erro|
00001b40 72 20 28 25 73 29 00 2f 64 65 76 2f 63 6d 66 75 |r (%s)./dev/cmfu|
00001b50 6b 74 00 43 41 50 45 4c 4c 41 5f 43 4d 33 36 30 |kt.CAPELLA_CM360|
00001b60 32 5f 49 4f 43 54 4c 5f 45 4e 41 42 4c 45 20 65 |2_IOCTL_ENABLE e|
00001b70 72 72 6f 72 20 28 25 73 29 00 2f 64 65 76 2f 6c |rror (%s)./dev/l|

Offset 1b48 in /system/lib/hw/sensors.liberty.so defines the device name of the proximity sensor, normally /dev/cm3602.

Hexedit the file to change the name of the device to something that doesn't exist, and you will no longer use the proximity sensor.

Nasty and totally the wrong way to do this, but it worked for me. I suppose I could have dug through source code to check for a flag to disable the sensor, but that takes more time and is far less hacking fun than hex editing a system library ;) If I didn't want to live dangerously I'd stick with the stock ROM lol.
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
Thanks again I will check back when group comes out if I can't figure it out. I am going to stick with the liberated Rom till we get the official Rom and it gets liberated.
[HTC Aria General] nrvate:
Not a bad idea if you're happy with 2.1 and Sense :)
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
Yeah I really like the sense UI so I will stay with 2.1 until a 2.2 with sense is available.
[HTC Aria General] madwifi:
Thanks for this info. Just changed CM3602 to XM3602 and it stopped.
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
I just upgraded to the new attn1 2.2 Rom with sense and I used the same fix you gave me for the 2.1 Rom and it worked so I guess that fix will work on all sence roms.
[HTC Aria General] tbone22:
I just used hexeditor on my phone ( fr 2.2) and went to the location you noted 00001b48 but nothing there. I went on looking and found it on a few lines starting at 00002090. but which value do I change to get it to disable. If you could look at this for me it would help alot.
[HTC Aria General] sudeepr71:
I am trying to use these steps to disable the sensor, but I am having issues pulling build.prop.

In the command prompt, I enter in:

adb pull /system/build.prop c:\

And receive:

264 Kb/s (4695 bytes in .012s)

The issue I am having is that I cannot find where adb stores the file on my computer. It's not in the c:\ directory. It's not in platform-tools folder. I did a search, and nothing came up

Any suggests would be really appreciated.

Thanks!
[HTC Aria General] kaschenberg:
I'm confused - why are you guys disabling the proximity sensor???

Is it because you improperly installed a new screen?

Might as well use duct tape to hold the new screen on and then JB Weld the back case. Seriously guys, do things right and take the screen back off and install it the right way.
[HTC Aria General] sudeepr71:
kaschenberg,

I dropped my phone, shattering the screen; resulting in a lot of fractures in the glass where the sensor is located. The phone and screen works when I add pressure to the upper right corner, leaving me to believe the sensor is being interrupted by the fractures. I am hopeful, as a temporary fix, that if I can disable the sensor, the phone will work more optimally until I replace the screen.

- Thoughts?
[HTC Aria General] sudeepr71:
Update:

Apparently I had the path wrong for adb or something. Anyways, I was able to disable the sensor and the phone works great.
[HTC Aria General] kaschenberg:
When you take it apart next time, trying blowing air where the sensor is located. (air compressor or can of compressed air).
[HTC Aria General] texbrocali02:
Proximity Sensor, Black screen fix after digitizer swap

Had the same problem after replacing also. Wasn't aware of rubber gasket to isolate signal between the two sensors. Just found out this was causing it. Put a stip of black double sided foam tape between the two and found out that this was the problem by testing it with AndroSensor on the app market (free). When I put it in direct sun light it would turn back on. Gets really annoying when you can't hang up! Ribbon is on the opposite side so carefully pry appart without dissasembling again and put a strip while using the app and quickly test by putting your finger over it. Should say PROXIMITY (0.5mA) and stay constantly at (mine) 0.4 in, and change to 0.0 in when covered. :D
[HTC Aria General] bardlet:
I use CM7(update-cm-7-20120520-NIGHTLY-liberty-signed.zip),

But I can't disable the Proximity Sensor with this way(gsm.proximity.enable=false)

Somebody help,plz
[HTC Aria General] drumist:
Follow the directions here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12807521&postcount=25

Alternative method: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25506531&postcount=44
[HTC Aria General] bardlet:
Yeah, it works! Thx a lot!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gladman:
All my downloads are stalled tonight. I see from a google search that this has happened to others. Is there any known fix?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gladman:
Erased all data, signed in again, worked ok. Downloaded a bunch, went back later for more, and we are back to problems with it hanging.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] b_atman:
anybody know how to get this working??

have seen other android phones running live wallpapers on the lock screen
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] Kizzmiazz:
App on market called screen suite lock screen .Or the best way is to just go with cm6 froyo 2.2 rom best lock screen I have seen.
[Android Themes] itpromike:
I'm seeing a lot of screenshots with notification trays that are clear or translucent and I"m wondering how to do that... is it something you can change with a setting or are notification trays like other part of themes where you pick a different notification tray and install using the update.zip method and you can't just edit or change the opacity of your current tray/shade? Also is there some place where I can go that I can pick through several trays/shades? Any guidance on this is greatly appreciated.
[Android Themes] opasha:
are you referring to the DOCKS at the bottom of screens? or do you specifically mean the notification panels when you pull down the notification statusbar?

if you are looking for docks and have an eclair or froyo rom- you can download launcherpro from the market or online at launcherpro.com; then you can install the following by just downloading them from here or any place you find docks.

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/9451596/1/Android Stuff/LauncherPro Docks?h=1c63c1
[Android Themes] itpromike:
No not the dock I specifically mean the notification panel/status bar...
[Android Themes] opasha:
ok well as far as notification panel transparency, jaguirre1231 referred me to this page about it. i haven't used it yet personally because i dont really care much about it, but it should help you.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/xeudoxus/47283-release-xultimate.html

it's the froyo transparency fix. goodluck :).
[Android Themes] Adamsville MITM:
u could just go old school and edit status_bar_background.png and status_bar_close_on.0.png in the drawable folder...