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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jdrake001:
lol, this is hilarious and worrying at the same time
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mellll:
Man I dont know, but if heat can unbrick my phone, that says something...

If you read in the this entire thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=754673

You will then see why I decided to put my phone in the oven.

Some people were saying that heating their phones, would allow it to access the recovery menu.

I just went all out with it.

And it is worrying... But wtf can we do, Samsung has to step up and tell us whats really going on!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] miki4242:
Well, to add some credibility to this X-Filesy story, do a scan for text strings on your modem.bin file: believe it or nit, there is text mentioning a thermistor check in there (probably related to battery charging I think).

Since a thermistor is a kind of resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature, and a piece of software specifically checks on its performance, it is not unlikely that the result of this check, depending on temperature, can influence the behaviour of other parts of the system.

In short, IMO, it's quite possible the phone is setup to get into recovery (or debug) mode easier when it is overheating (during charging, extreme CPU or GPU load, or whatever) to make it easier for the techies to find out what the @#$ is going wrong with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Idan73:
spbtv a heating machine lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] SuperVirusQ:
At first, I was thinking that it's only another april fools' joke.

But after I went through the whole thread, I should say IT IS really a good try,

especially when we don't know what stop us from entering the recovery mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mellll:
Thats what i mean. Im glad someone took the time.

We need more people to test this method...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] exadeci:
Maybe some kind of tape that melt with oven :p

Have any of you tried to open your phone and compare it's insides with international models ? Because it doesn't seems to be software related except if the phone goes automatically in recovery after crashing from heat
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Karupan:
I'm totally stumped as to how this can happen! But it is possible that *something* reads the temperature. If you goto the ServiceMode -> Debug Screen -> Antenna/ADC, there is a reading there called Read Therm which shows the temperature. So it does seem that there is a thermometer sensor inside.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mickeko:
Obviously... You have tons of sensors measuring temperatures in computers too... CPU, GPU, harddrives, motherboard and whatnot... The phone has that stuff too to prevent damage from overheating. It doesn't mean it makes sense to put it in the oven though. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Kasha:
I've tried the method with a professional hair dryer, but it didn't work for me, I removed the battery and aimed it at the upper part of the phone, after 10 seconds it was quite hot, but nothing could get me even close to download mode or recovery mode.

That's a real pity as I can't return my phone and I'm stuck with the original firmware without any way to flash new firmware and fix the current issues (like poor GPS performance).

Edit: Tried it one more time, with heating the unit more, it got really hot, but still with no result.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mellll:
It didnt work for me the first 2 times I tried.

Try different heat, maybe go from mild, to so so hot and then to mild etc.

You have nothing to lose. I would keep trying, dont give up.

Try again later.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] BackfireNL:
ROFLOL! WTF putting it in the oven? :P thats the most retarded thing everrrrrrr
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] BackfireNL:
Uhm yes you can! download one of my scripts and put your phone in USB debugging mode. Unzip the script somehere and open the .bat file!

But let me give you this warning! If you fail flashing your phone in download mode there is no way to get in to download mode and reflash!

BTW if you try to put your phone in the oven please put yourself also in the oven because mb it will fix your brain! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mellll:
You do realize that his phone is bricked?

How is he going to have access to anything like that when his pone is bricked?

Wont boot into recovery, and wont boot in download mode.

Did you read this thread?

This is for people who are unable to access anything on their phone.

READ......
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mystifiyer:
Please stop your lies!

Just as we have really smart guys around, we do have the average joes and the really dumb ones. For even remotely suggesting microwaving your handphone is ludicrous! What if the poor fools around here thought of giving it a try?

Even the notion of suggesting microwaving your handphones is totally ridiculous.

Obviously you do not know what happen when a metallic object is placed in the oven!

Since you are able to show a video of the Galaxy S making it out of an oven alive for 5mins, please do show a BEFORE microwaving video too.

Otherwise, I really have to brand you as a liar.

We are here in this forum either to contribute or to learn. If your notion is having fun, please keep it reasonable.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mellll:
Who said anything about putting any phones in a microwave?

Thats coming from you, and not anybody else.

If your phone is ok, and you're happy, move on, dont bother posting this crap in this thread.

This is for people who have bricked phones, or want to access the recovery menu.

Seriously. If your phone was bricked and you had no other option, you would experiment all kinds of things.

And nobody said anything about microwaving a phone. So please dont come here to **** on this thread about something that nobody has ever said.

My phone works now, and Im happy, nobody has to believe anything. I'm just sharing my experience and if it can help anyone great, if not, great, im still happy I was able to fix my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Kasha:
Yes, I've seen your script and actually used it to root my phone. Great job for us, people with locked 3 button combo!

But, as I have read many times in these forums, the probability of 'bricking' the i9000 is quite high during flash process. I really want to flash a fresh firmware with needed languages and working GPS, but I know that if anything goes wrong, I'll have to wait for a solution (if there's ever going to be any) or take the phone to Samsung for paid repair (as it's a 'grey' import, I don't expect any warranty on it).

I tried the heat method as I tried almost everything else. I really hope someone will find a workaround, as I started thinking of selling my phone and getting a 'proper' one.

No, my phone isn't bricked yet, I'm just trying to find a way to flash a new firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] xan:
Maybe try to put it into freezer (-36*c or lower) for over 48 hours?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mellll:
*sigh.

Yeah you guys are right, this was a big joke.

Mods, nuke this abortion of a thread.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] xan:
Well, lets see...

Plain stupid idea..

Absolutely no proof.

Youtube video gone...

Am I missing anythin?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] zebulon35:
This is probably the worse thread I´v seen here...Don´t put your phone in the oven, and absolutely not with the battery in it! I would rather take a chance on sending it to samsung for warranty service.
[Epic 4G Themes] Fixter:
This will give you horrible battery life. I already tried it. Restored all my Apps, and I just got the worst battery life. Wrote down all my apps, Hard Reset, and Installed them. I'm good to go now. It's just an advice. Remember that the restoration of the apps will come with remains of the older phone the apps were.
[Epic 4G Themes] lordcyrus:
I can see that happening, but I'd think that it would have to be certain specific apps. Were you able to troubleshoot or weed out specific apps causing a problem? Did you only restore apps or also system data?
[Epic 4G Themes] Fixter:
Only Apps. I think Juice Defender and most of the ones that required personalized settings were the ones that were causing the problems.
[Epic 4G Themes] spongaweb:
I need to get my Slingplayer loaded up and Titanium Backup has all the info.

Anybody know how to extract the info out of it for the login info for Slingplayer.
[Epic 4G Themes] tokyomonster:
I'm having trouble seeing how Titanium Backup could be behind an issue like that.

Is this all circumstantial?
[Epic 4G Themes] Fixter:
No. As I said before. I used the phone 1 whole day with no apps, just pure stock, and then the next day I used Titanium Backup and restored all my apps, and my phones battery went to hell.
[Epic 4G Themes] lordcyrus:
I think the question is whether there is solid proof that restoring any app at all will cause you to suffer battery problems or if it was something specific you recovered.
[Epic 4G Themes] tokyomonster:
I'm still skeptical, but what the hell, I bit.

I did a factory reset, and am going to use App Brain to re-install the apps, then restore the data over top of them from my Titanium Backups, because I'm lazy.
[Epic 4G Themes] RuzzT:
Nevermind, I see this was already asked.

Did you restore with data or just the apps? Because I could see how restoring with data could introduce problems.
[Epic 4G Themes] bigdbag:
This seems somewhat unlikely. Anyone report back with a wiped phone and clean-installs yet?
[Epic 4G Themes] bradatz:
Ya to the op try app and not app+data. I bet that solves your problem. Wipe battery stats and record them for proof.
[Epic 4G Themes] bigdbag:
There's no such option according to my Titanium Backup :(
[Epic 4G Themes] richse:
This is not proof. Correlation is not causation! I used my epic for the first day and it had a great battery life. Today I have horrible battery life and my time without signal is about 50%. I have not restored anything with titanium backup. I think you may be jumping the gun on the cause of your battery issues.
[Epic 4G Themes] richse:
How do you do a factory reset?
[Epic 4G Themes] tokyomonster:
Settings -> Privacy -> Factory Reset
[Epic 4G Themes] The_Real_D/\SH:
it may cause a problem like that if you restored the apps from a previous different device
[Epic 4G Themes] tokyomonster:
So, I'm seeing better battery life today, but I don't think it's related to my wipe, because I still restored all apps + data from my Nexus using Titanium Backup.

I made sure not to restore flash though, and set the facebook app not to auto refresh, and didn't install the twitter app at all, since I dig the tweetdeck beta. I set the built in samsung facebook and twitter syncs to 6 hours this time vs 3 hours before...

And really, that's the only things that I can think of that are different. From about 7:30AM to 11:30, I had about 80% battery life (according to the bar). This includes some web browsing, and playing the angry birds demo for a bit. Charged the phone for an hour via my car charger during lunch, and when I left at 4:30, it was still at about 80%-ish, which is a huge improvement over yesterday.
[Epic 4G Themes] iSaint:
Too late its Bricked :mad:
[Epic 4G Themes] logikgr:
Never had a problem here. I always use Titanium to restore my apps. I've done one-by-one, and full batch restore.
[Epic 4G Themes] theimpaler747:
Moved to themes and apps ;)
[Epic 4G Themes] squshy 7:
Holy freaking necro...what could have possibly caused a bump in this? Lol
[Epic 4G Themes] treyxazn:
wow hahahahah
[Epic 4G Themes] wj0t:
Any truth in this?
[Epic 4G Themes] KennyG123:
It is possible that bad or incompatible data could cause lots of problems including battery drain. A reset could fix it. It is recommended whenever possible to down.load apps fresh from the market and only restore data that is absolutely necessary like contacts, call logs, maybe launcher data for homescreen setups.
[Epic 4G Themes] Fixter:
Yep, what he said, whenever possible, just download your app people. :) I miss my Epic, I think I've changed phones 6 times after I sold my Epic. Best keyboard ever! :D
[Epic 4G Themes] running_the_dream:
I only use Titanium to restore certain apps after flashing a rom. I don't restore call logs, contacts, or texts. I don't think any of that is necessary. Call logs and texts can be erased and I just log on to my gmail to restore my contacts. I don't have any battery issues with Titanium or data issues.
[Epic 4G Themes] timberwolf671:
I have used this procedure many of time and never seen it to cause a battery problem. 1st doing a factory reset with 3x wipe will take a hit to your battery. I suggest you do a total drain of the battery with a full charge. Then see if you are still getting poor battery life. Then look at what apps you are bring back to life. You did not say what rom, if custom then what version, theme or apps. Might help to know more info!

What I am using and I am getting 10-30 hrs before hitting low battery warning. I do turn off data connection with not needed. And still turn on Airplane mode then off to hold off the evil spirits of TWS after a fresh boot.

ACS 1.0.2

My own custom red theme

Several games from the market

Agenda Widget (Free version)

Transparent market

Beautiful Widget (set to every 12 hrs)
[Epic 4G Themes] hardrock121:
i havehad bad battery life for a long time .. just odind back to stock n installed synergy... i ve always restored apps.. using titanium in the past..may be that was the reason i was getting bad battery life...this time i just restored cpl of apps .. including data.. lets see if thats going to make any difference..
[Epic 4G Themes] lv2bll:
some apps like juice defender and task killers can have an adverse effect on batt life. easiest way to fix is to restore the app itself and not the data.

SIMPLE
[Epic 4G Themes] autoprime:
i have def seen issues using TB on my epic lately. i actually think its the app data and not the app itself thats causing the issues. i dont think its titanium backup issue.. i think its the way the phone is.

i have multiple android phones.. i mess with the phones nvm.. etc and ive noticed settings dont "stick" they normally do on phones.. using qxdm, qpst, cdma ws etc. mix that with the way we have to wipe and clear our data at least 3 times... weirdness.

im not being very technical about this at all.. it just seems the phones memory is a bit "silly" when using anything else other than standard procedures for editing settings/files etc.

today after using TB to restore a few apps+data... after a reboot i could no longer keep my phone from resetting. it'd boot up.. phones radio would kick in.. memory card said it was now ok to eject then phone would reboot. over and over and over.. so i booted into recovery and wiped the cache/dalvik 3x.. phone booted up and everything worked as normal.. even the apps i had just restored(with their data). idk..

tl;dr

its not titanium backup its the phone(still love my epic anyway!)
[Epic 4G Themes] iSaint:
You guys.... this is not a problem was a dead thread that was brought back up (by me) and i shouldn't have done it :(
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] volkl23:
Hey guys, for the life of me, I can't find that wonderful software that allows you to install apps without connecting the phone to the computer?

It's something to do with hosting it via cloud and then connecting with it wirelessly to download and install?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] SIKKBOY:
dropbox.........
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s15274n:
dropbox, appbrain, awesome drop...

appbrain is very cool if you use their site to browse the market. You can click on the apps in your browser (pc) and then have them automatically install on your phone.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] volkl23:
Thanks guys!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s15274n:
Hey man, if you do go with dropbox (amazing), I have a referral link in my sticky thread (general section) that would give us each an additional 250MBs. :)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] volkl23:
I used your referral link. Quick question on dropbox, is there a way to upload an entire folder on the phone instead of 1 file at a time?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umd:
Hi. As you know 3D gallery app is very slow. I couldn't find a basic gallery app (like HTC gallery app) Any suggestion?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umd:
Still waiting :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phunkycow:
If you want something basic you can try Large Image Viewer. But it doesn't offer file operations (delete etc). Nice, clean and simple UI!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umd:
Thanks for the answer but it force close a lot.

I found B&B gallery app. It looks ok but didn't satisfied. So still waiting :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepakoffline:
i am too looking for the same. i am back to sense rom just because of this particular reason, otherwise i am a great fan of opendesire :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] attu90:
I just use 3D gallery but dont find it slow at all, are you using a custom rom, if so which one ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umd:
I'm using Open Desire. Do you think this issue has connection with it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
i dont think the 3D gallery app is slow either, ive never used opendesire tho .....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danchappers:
I've used OpenDesire and personally didnt find the 3d gallery to be all that slow :S
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andycted:
3D gallery isn't lightning fast, but that's hardy its main problem...

Anyway, as above, I'm back from defrost to htc sense because of this and camera (other stuff to o) but on aosp I was trying to use justpictures. It's actually quite functional, if you can stand the fact that it's dead slow.

Sent from videotext, using the remote
[Droid X General] cavz903:
So does anybody know if any devs are working to port CM6 over to the X?
[Droid X General] backbeat21:
Cm6 uses a modified kernel, as of now, I believe we are still limited to only running a stock kernel on the dx else we anger the motorola instant brick bomb.

If they can get around that I think we will start to see work on the cm rom coming over. Otherwise we'll be using roms built for dx with stock kernel.

At least I think that's the case.
[Droid X General] shaneaus:
I think it is more a matter that none of TeamDouche has a DX (except for Koush and he pretty much works (almost) exclusively on the custom recovery end of things).

Without a device they don't work on ports. The SGS devices have portions of encrypted code in the bootloader (I think) but, they just don't have a custom kernel for it.

I believe they could port CM over to the DX - but, we have to find a dev that knows what he is doing to volunteer to work on it (and, work with TeamDouche). I wish I knew enough or had enough time to learn. :-(
[Droid X General] LexusBrian400:
Until the bootloader gets opened up, we will never see a CM6 port.

Sorry to squash anyones hopes, but its best u know now and get over it :)

Way to many kernel changes for us to have CM6 without an unlocked bootloader. Just not gonna happen... Yet.
[Epic 4G General] natemg:
I am trying to test out my company's first Epic and I put in all the info, email address, domain\user name, password, server address. It accepts my info, I take the defaults of how much data to transfer and frequency, then it brings me to the mailbox. It shows my sub folders to the inbox, it populates my calendar and contacts. It leaves me on the main inbox folder and then a yellow bar comes up " Unable to open connection to server" and nothing populates in my inbox.

My company is on Exchage 2003, I have a vibrant working just fine as well as a HTC evo. I tried with multiple exchange accounts on the same server but get the same result.

Anyone have any ideas ?
[Epic 4G General] schwa13:
Same Problem with Exchange and Epic 4G

We are using Exchange 2003 as well. Contact, Calendar, and other mail folders show up just fine. I can see sent items, deleted items, and all other sub folders. When I try to load the inbox, I get the same error message.

What gives?

I just picked the phone up about 2 hours ago and came right here to figure it out!
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
My company uses Exchange 2008 and I'm able to connect just fine. So much quicker and easier than the moment.
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
I had the same problem. I had to go to gmail and import my contacts for hotmail and then sync my phone to the gmail account.
[Epic 4G General] JoshBeach:
i heard that when 2.2 comes out, the exchange settings would work.

i am only getting 50 of my 812 contacts to import.
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
I lost about 20 out of 252. So I just went back added the ones I'm missing.
[Epic 4G General] Hanson68:
Active sync support with most android phones is very dodgy -- some work and some don't. And I'm not talking about some models over another -- it's a unit specific issue. Some Epics do and some don't. The same thing was happening with the Droid X. The only models that consistently work are from HTC because they have their own active sync program in sense.
[Epic 4G General] schwa13:
no workie, workie, now no workie

So i was here back at the beginning of September. Exchange would not load my inbox, then one day it started working for no reason I could find. I stopped using Moxier Mail and went to the built in email program.

Then two days ago, my Exchange account and another IMAP account I have set up on the mail client disappeared from the phone. NO idea why. My email, contacts, and calendar just vanished.

So I added back my exchange account, contacts and calendar came in just fine. Now my Exchange mail is back to where I was two months ago.

"Unable to open connection to server", that's all I get on the screen for my inbox.

Epic 4G, Exchnage 2003, built in mail client.
[Epic 4G General] albino83:
So I have a similar infrastructure to you, we run Exchange 2003 currently and have had numerous issues with the Epics. I have a couple tricks that really seems to help (at least in my environment)

1. When setting up the phone make sure the Calendar amount is set to All

2. Setting up the phone over Wi-Fi as opposed to the mobile connection seems to work significantly better.

3. If you have issues with the users calendar 9 times out of 10 its due to corrupt entries which not only cause issues with the calendar syncing, but also consume a huge amount of bandwidth. To correct this create a new calendar in Outlook, go into List view and copy everything from your calendar to the new one. All entries that cant copy need to be deleted. Move all your stuff back from the temp calendar to yours and the issue should be fixed.

I am running the leaked 2.2 on my Epic currently and it does seem to address a lot of the issues the Epic had with 2.1 and Active Sync.

Hope this helps and let me know if you have any questions.
[Vibrant General] db3:
Something I came across this morning and thought I'd share. maybe someone will find it useful.

http://www.askvg.com/google-android-hidden-secret-codes/
[Vibrant General] AllGamer:
they took it from our wiki, and our main topic on the main SGS forum

if you have been over to the main forum, you'll have probably seen it
[Vibrant General] db3:
doh! sorry. i've seen people ask about codes in other threads so when i came across i thought i was helping out.

thanks for pointing that out. i'm still pretty new here.
[Vibrant General] FireRaider:
Is there an official name for these types of codes? I think its a great reference.

And I cannot find where they are posted here on XDA. I looked through the Wiki for the GT-I9000 if that what you meant by the 'main' page.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samseo:
I'm having trouble with Fring when i used

I9000TGYJH1

and

I9000TGYZSJP2

when i call someone, i can hear them, but they can't hear me.

have problem with the test call too... i can hear the voice from the machine but i hear nothing when it tried to play back the 10 seconds recorded message.

anyone using Fring and have not problem? can i know which firmware are you using? or how to solve this problem?