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[HD2 General] RY35AN:
Will Android work w/Outlook sync? Also, are you still able to tether with Android? I've searched around but haven't found the answer. If no for either then that will be the deal breaker for me. Thanks in advance
[HD2 General] Ryan79:
it does work with ActiveSync, it that's what you're asking?

as for the tethering, look in the build notes.... they give a list of options that do & don't work.

truthkillszz -

nice thing is, if something does get messed up, reboot format the sd, put the build on and try again ;-p since it runs off of the sd and not ROM, there's little chance of doing something a reset can't fix
[HD2 General] RY35AN:
Hey, thanks for the info. I appreciate it!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchguy06:
Can someone please help me find or get me the update zip from the 2.1ruu i would prefer it be from 2.27.651.6.

i have searched but cant seem to find it...i need it completely stock and not messed with.. thanks in advance
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaWeav:
The blanking mods apparently don't like existing users since I can't post links for you, but goto HTC or Sprint since they have the official 2.27.651.6 downloads.

htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/

shop.sprint.com/en/software_downloads/pda_smartphone/htc_hero.shtml
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchguy06:
i got that but im needing files out of that..i need to make an update.zip from that using whats in it..i cant use the exe file in fastboot
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
I'm glad that lasted all of two months, since you know, it's not like vibrators are a new high-tech feature in phones.

Its been getting weaker this past week and today it died.

Anyone else's getting weaker?

Sent from my EVO
[EVO 4G General] ritzbrie:
Not to hijack your thread, but I was snickering reading the thread title. And no, my vibrator is just fine.
[EVO 4G General] 063_XOBX:
The thread titling might have been less then ideal...

But no the vibration on my Evo is just fine
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Maybe I'll change it. But what else could possibly be bright to mind by the title on a phone forum? Haha.
[EVO 4G General] rooster94:
Oh I dunno, gave me a little laugh. Haha.
[EVO 4G General] Brutus2TheMax:
When I put it in vibrate mode through the volume rocker is vibrates but when I get an incoming call or text it doesn't...
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Good point. Mine is still weaker than normal, but I can actually feel it. Other than that, it's dead. Kind of annoying, or different with no vibe with the buttons at the bottom. ;(
[EVO 4G General] Tilde88:
no sir.... Mine is not weaker... or scratched... only one ding where a piece of glass broke off (barely noticeable). Let me tell you, it has fallen well over 30 times... And everything is working great.

I would however like to see the size of the vib. motor.
[EVO 4G General] edtate:
Totally unrelated to vibration but related to failing, my microphone has ceased to work :(....on my second replacement phone. Went from 002 with screen separation to 003 with light leakage and now no mic. Thanks htc for making such quality products.
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
I completely agree. They make such high quality products. I really wonder how Apple can't seem to keep up with HTC as far as the number of units that all seem to have some sort of faulty units per hundred.
[EVO 4G General] bassic:
I have two EVOs. One vibrator motor is very strong, the other is ridiculously weak and in fact feels like it's getting weaker. The short pulses from haptic feedback emit a ridiculous buzz that rattles the whole phone.

What's the solution? Wait until it dies then have HTC replace it under warranty?
[EVO 4G General] backdown:
download smart vibrator and see if the virbrator actually died.
[EVO 4G General] Jus10o:
I honestly dont understand why ppl (usually the same ppl) always have problems with phones, computer parts, monitors.. Not talking to the OP of the thread but everyone else (some that replied so far) you HAVE to be doing SOMETHING wrong when you go through 2+ products. You have to get over microscopic problems that you wont EVER see unless you pull out your magnifying glass.
[EVO 4G General] bassic:
So you're saying it's just OK to accept things as defective? For some people 'good enough' is just fine; others (like me) prefer things to be as close to perfect as possible. I have two EVOs; one is mine, the other is my wife's. When you have two side by side and one of them has an obvious defect, it's difficult to just accept these 'minor' problems as being normal.

There's a big difference between user action causing a problem and quality control issues. You can't blame the user for some of the problems that have been occurring with the EVOs; it seems that HTC's had a chance to improve things with HW revision 003, but the earlier runs most definitely had quality problems from the factory that were of no fault by the user.

The weak vibration motor wasn't always like that - it was strong two months ago when the phone was new. Now it's obvious that it's weak, and I'm concerned that it may break. I'm not getting all upset about this weak motor and I'm not begging for a replacement over it, but if it does completely stop working that's one basic function of the phone that I should expect to work, and I would seek a repair under warranty.

Also, I've owned several blackberries in the past along with several palm devices, and even with my microscope I never had any problems with any of these devices. I'm basing things off my past experiences; for the past six years I've owned PDA-type smartphones and never had any minor problems with any of them, so when I bought a phone that's supposed to be a flagship product, my expectations were very high.

It took me two replacements of my EVO, but I eventually got one that was good enough for me and doesn't have any problems (one had a flaw on the screen printing of the home button that looked like crap and leaked light, the second one had a column of pixels on the LCD that failed; two things that were not caused by me). I'm very happy with the third replacement, as it doesn't have any of those problems.
[EVO 4G General] Jus10o:
I wasnt directing it to the people who can explain real problems. My friend i got the Evo from actually returned his 002 cuz of huge light leakage at the bottom. But the people who are on there 5 an 6 Evos because something is broken, or just cuz its not as shiny as they hoped its just annoying. Obviously they are doing something wrong...

The whole reason I said something because I was just reading reviews on Newegg and soooo many people just ***** about things and return return return. Half of them you would think dont even know how to plug something into the wall outlet much less build a computer.. The anger there carried over to here.
[EVO 4G General] shortbus182:
The wifes gonna be pissed..:rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] bassic:
D'OH!

I think most of the negative EVO reviews I've seen were from the first run; apparently HTC did have some problems there, and that negative press got everyone examining theirs with a microscope. Everyone was making a big fuss about the screen separation, but when I recently noticed it on one of my EVOs and searched the forums, everything seemed to have quieted down right around the time HW 003 was released.
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
exactly. Like the hairline crack that people have at the power button. 99% of the people didn't even notice it till someone said something about it. And some of these people had been using the phone for months, and soon as one guy notices and posts it everyone rushes to the stores to get it replaced (which causes all those shortages on phones for the people that do have real problems), just cause of a little crack that is barely even noticeable.
[EVO 4G General] treckin:
Tell Asurion (sp?) to bill your wife... she CLEARLY abused the vibrate function on your phone to the point of premature failure.
[EVO 4G General] yznhmr:
I am also having the Vibrate problem... i do have hardware version 0003.. it used to work.. but over the last 5 months it has become almost no vibrate at all..

Guess its time to get a new one.. Damn.. i hate starting over..again..lol..
[EVO 4G General] eluno:
how hard is it to just replace the vibrator?
[EVO 4G General] Berat:
I was at work when I read the title of this thread, and I just started laughing.. Back to the matter at hand, have you tried going to a sprint store they have been pretty good at replacing screens im sure they can help out.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackinches:
Decided to flash back to stock(was using lag fix ext 2 + root/busybox, etc) and used the odin one-click method. flashed back to stock fine. Decided to flash the SRE v1.2.1a

Downloaded the zip, changed to 'update.zip' and rebooted into the recovery(stock) and selected reinstall packages.

It gives me the error:

E:Can't open /sdcard/update.zi[

(No such file or directory)

Installation aborted.

I've put the sre file on my internal SD card about 5 times now and know it's on there.

What gives?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhiannon224:
Did you rename the file update or update.zip, if you included.zip then the file in on your sd would read update.zip.zip and I have seen this happen. Coonect your phone to your pc and mount it then look in the sd and be sure you named it correctly. Thats' where I would start and post this question in the thread so the developer that made this or someone there could help you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=751934
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fox945:
Ditto, I've actually done this myself once so just make sure to rename it to just Update and save it and it still should be a zip file.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaseone:
One thing that any of the instructions I have read neglect to tell you is that /sdcard is actually the root of the mounted sdcard on your computer so you don't put update.zip in the directory sdcard you put it right in the root.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
This is incorrect.

Update.zip does indeed go on the root of the internal SD card.

/SDcard/update.zip - this is the proper path

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=725555 (step 2)

OP - i expect your problem is the file name as mentioned above.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dmoney5150:
It goes in the root.... Thats how i do it!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArcaneMethods:
I get the same message. I looked in the "Files" app and see that the card is named /sd and not /SDcard. Renaming it is disallowed. Could this be the problem?

If so, what next?

[Never mind; that directory is in the root of the internal storage and is not the same as the SD card.]

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArcaneMethods:
Got it to work. On my windows system when I plug in to USB and mount the device I have two separate devices in "My Computer" for it. One is the internal storage and the other is the external SD card.

For my Galaxy S Vibrant update.zip must be at the root of the internal, not the external SD card. It won't find it if in the latter and it updates fine using the "Reinstall Packages" function when update.zip is placed in the internal root.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhiannon224:
On a Captivate when we refer to the sd it is the root or we'll just say external sd when refering to the one you install in the slot inside the battery cover. This was a bit confusing for me in the beginning but sd is the root. I have been doing it this way since day one.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
We have about 2 gig internal and 13 gig that the phone sees as sd or sdcard. Now that is confused when you add an actual external sd card. Mine came from my aria and and on my captivate it shows as "/sdcard/sd" I'm not even sure how my pc sees this.

The update should be on root of the internal 13 sd storage. On the phone it is /sdcard but on a pc copying to /sdcard/update.zip may create /sdcard/sdcard/update.zip but I haven't tried.

I use opera browser to download directly to /sdcard. So I'm not sure but I'm guessing what we see on the phone as /sdcard we see on the pc as root of a 13 gig external drive
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gametime999:
thanks for the tip i just updated the zip
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiritflare:
I had this as well, (Samsung Galaxy S) and took a few tries of copying the file between my E: and F: drive - I have a Windows PC and both drives letter showed up E: ended up being the external SD and F: the internal sd card.

Also, my folder was labelled /sd and not /sdcard.

I tried a few iterations of copying and renaming the file to both E: and F: in /sd and the root folder "/" and nothing worked.

Finally, I took out the microSD, and then copied "Update.zip" to /sd and also the root folder (so both had a copy), and renamed it to "update.zip" (case-sensitive).

Then ran "adb reboot recovery" and was able to choose "update" and it worked.

Hope this helps someone
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiritflare:
I had this as well, (Samsung Galaxy S) and took a few tries of copying the file between my E: and F: drive - I have a Windows PC and both drives letter showed up E: ended up being the external SD and F: the internal sd card.

Also, my folder was labelled /sd and not /sdcard.

I tried a few iterations of copying and renaming the file to both E: and F: in /sd and the root folder "/" and nothing worked.

Finally, I took out the microSD, and then copied "Update.zip" to /sd and also the root folder (so both had a copy), and renamed it to "update.zip" (case-sensitive).

Then ran "adb reboot recovery" and was able to choose "update" and it worked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandshifter:
Hate to bring this back up but ....worked for me ! :) aha i added another .zip to it ...makes me feel dumb :o
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawfa:
Hi,

I have a Samsung Vibrant and I've tried all options suggested here and everytime I start to phone in recovery mode and select "reinstall packages" it tells me "Can't open sd/update.zip (such file doesn't exist)". Here is what I've tried so far:

- Plug the phone on the pc via usb. I then see the phone as a hard drive and when I open it it displays 2 drives, one is the phone and the other is the SD card (called simply SD). I copied the update.zip file and placed it directly into the SD drive.

- With a micro usb to usb adapter card I copied the update.zip file to the sd card.

- I removed the zip extension from the update.zip file (I tried doing this on the pc and directly on the phone via astro file manager).

- I´ve created an SD folder on the SD drive and placed the update.zip file there.

- I´ve created an SDCARD folder on the SD drive and placed the update.zip file there.

- I´ve tried renaming the SD drive to SDcard (the system wouldn't let me).

This issue cannot be this difficult to resolved. I really want to install I new rom on my phone and it's very frustrating not being able to resolve such a silly thing. Can anyone help?

cheers

Rafa
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
It sounds like your are putting update.zip on an external sdcard. Put it in the root directory of the internal sdcard.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawfa:
How do I do that? I thought I was putting in the root...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goob1284:
Ok. I had this problem the first time too. Plug your phone into your computer(make sure you're in mass storage mode and usb debugging is turned on). A pop up should come up, click on view files. Paste it right there. Then try it again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
Maybe you were. Read what I wrote. If you are putting it in the root directory of the internal sdcard, then I don't know what the problem is.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawfa:
When I connect using usb debugging mode the drivers do not show up on windoes explorer, although I can see them on the device manager console.

This is insane...I´ve tried everything and it still doesn´t work...and I bet it´s something really silly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitjaajtim:
Which file you must rename in the update.zip? please help
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunarman78:
Hi all, sorry for bringing this thread up. Im using samsung galaxy s with eclair. My problem is my usb cable will not connect to pc if its in debugging mode. It will only connect if debugging mode is off. I've tried renaming the update zip file but still won't update. I'm not sure if I've properly install the update.zip file to my root internal sdcard since it won't access windows with debugging mode ON.

Any advice would be appreciated thanks! :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
reinstall your drivers. try to get debugging working on pc and use super one click root 1.8 from the pc.

why wont the update.zip install? what is the error message?

you dont need debugging on to copy the update.zip file to the phone.

are you calling recovery mode or download mode - debugging?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xristianmatos:
I had the same problem

Hello man, i had the same problem that you for 3 months and i just test with another sdcard and problem was gone

Good luck
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnalogX:
Cant Flash CyanogenMod 7.1 in Galaxy S2 GT I9100:

No matter what i do or where i put it or what i rename it to it just wont work!:confused::(:mad:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
welcome to the captivate forums. this has nothing to do with a 9100...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] granitoos:
It's very simple because i had same problem. Just format sd card and rename sdcard name to sdcard and copy your rom ( without extrat ) and will work. Cheese
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jameel819:
You are a genius!

I swear, you just solved a problem I've been having for the last 4 Hours! EXTRA KUDOS GIRL!!!!!!! :-D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bnenad92:
Tnx, and i fix this problem, thank you once again!!! :o
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calripkenturner:
Anybody know what would cause the touchscreen to stop operating when the phone is plugged in? It happens when plugged into the wall charger and the computer.

Thanks in advance,

Stew
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 063_XOBX:
Maybe it's improper grounding?

That was causing it to not work right when it wasn't held in people's hands...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calripkenturner:
I guess it must have been ROM related, was on CM6 switched back to Baked Snack and don't have the issue. Weird.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scev5:
This happened to me today at work. Was in my hand and it started out just jittery and slowly completely stuck. I unplugged and turned it off and on and it started working again. I just rooted with the new 2.2 method
[Epic 4G General] Jsimon9633:
I know its the first day but damn 3 hours and done? I thought evo was bad :[
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
I don't know what you're doing, but it's wrong.

I bought my phone today at 10:00 AM. First thing I did was charge it all the way. Once I took it off I started getting my apps back, I watched a 720p movie for 10 minutes to see how it worked (freakin amazing... 720p MKV movies out of the box). Browsed the web for 10-20 minutes. Listened to music for 5-10 minutes. Played gamed for about 30 minutes.

Really put the phone through its paces.

I'm at 25% now. 9 hours since unlplugged and screen on time is 1 hour and 34 minutes.

Also remember that you don't get the most out of your battery until you cycle it a few times. I'm running juice defender which also helps a lot.
[Epic 4G General] EvanWasHere:
How did you watch your MKV movie? I am guessing that transferring a 5GB file to the memory card is not optimal.
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
It's a 720p MKV of Dr Horrible :) The file is only 800 MB (the movie itself is 45 minutes long). I transferred it over while charging the phone along with my music.

Use the "my files" app and navigate to the movie. When you click it, it opens in the stock movie player which plays MKVs just fine. I was rather amazed.
[Epic 4G General] sling:
Take it back get one that works as should
[Epic 4G General] Jsimon9633:
Lol I'm wrong ? I use juice plotter and heavy use and 3 hours later I'm almost at no battery :)

I'm ok with that as I have been using the hell of it! Love it so far
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
Yeah...kinda watching the battery myself.

Put it on the charger at 5x% and it hit 100% after charge in about 5 minutes. I turned it off to charge via USB because I knew that couldn't be right. Hit 100% in about 10 minutes. Turned it back on and it's at 65% and charging.

Gonna give this one a few days to condition, though, through normal use and see what happens. The GPS pisses me off that it's completely FUBAR but we'll see if a software fix takes care of that.
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
The epic drains its batter about 5 to 6x faster then my captivate. It went from 100% at 8 am to dead at 12. I turned off 4g and charged it but now its died again. Died 2 times in 1 day. I am returning it so I cant test more but some people say batters need few days before they work 100%.
[Epic 4G General] jfenton57:
I charged mine yesterday morning till the light turned blue and the phone said it was fully charged.

I worked on the phone from 2:00 yesterday afternoon till 11:00 last night...adding, emailing, texting, web browsing and when I was done, it was still at 50%.

My guess is that after there's a real 100% charge in it the battery will condition....just like every other cell phone I've ever used.
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
So far my Epic battery life is AMAZING. I get so much battery drain on my Evo when I'm not using it. Last night, my Epic was at 14% battery life. I refuse to charge it until I drain it all the way. This morning I woke up and it was at 13%. After 6 hours of idling... 1% drain.

That means my phone has lasted from 11am yesterday until 7:30am today. 2 hours and 10 minutes of screen on time....
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
You are really not having fun with this phone. I got my phone at 11am put it on the car charger. Made a few calls while on charger (about 40 minutes) at about 2pm the phone said 100% charged and to unplug. I'm coming from a modded WinMo FUZE to this phone' so you know I had to explore the Andriod OS. I was on this phone till about 11pm and still had about 20% battery after downloading apps(Now I finally know how poor winMo marketplace really is.) I know the battery will only get better so I'm fine with it. If I need more I'll get a extended use battery.
[Epic 4G General] Jsimon9633:
Ok well either battery life just blows or it needs time to adjust

I made double and triple sure to 100% charge it and juice plotter is already saying I have only 4 hours left from 100% and just now I've been using it for 45 min and its down to 75%
[Epic 4G General] Jsimon9633:
Another note is that the display seems to be the biggest and outrageous offender of battery consumption. 77% right now

My evo had that issue but once I rooted it and installed a custom rom it leveled out to not have the display use that much juice
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
See if you can get a replacement. Something isn't quite right there. Im going to get juice plotter and see what it reports for me, but if it's anything like yesterday, I'll easily get a full day out of the battery as I won't be able to use it as much today. I'm going to be working a lot :(
[Epic 4G General] Jsimon9633:
I have 30 days going to wait and see of it improves or see what others report and then may report
[Epic 4G General] Jsimon9633:
Yeah I'm leaning towards battery life sucks because even when its off it is using up more battery than my evo did.

I can get full charge to last like 4.5 hours with moderate use.

And the display is by far the biggest offender

Right now it is ay 61% it battery use going to display