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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoking3:
Hi guys. I was thinking of buying this phone after being very dissapointed in galaxy S. So if one of you can spare a few minutes to answer some of my concerns, it would be a very good deed.:)

1. is the space enough for installing apps (galaxy s had 2 Gb for this)? Can we maybe move the apps on the card?

2. can you direct me to the latest ROM (with Froyo) not cooked , no modded, the plain simple one? And to some installation instructions? (I would search but really dont know how the naming is for the roms and which one is newest)

3. is there any app that allows this phone to play avi and xvid?

4. if the phone is locked is there any unlocking method? If the phone is locked, can I still upgrade it to the latest rom? (even if the rom is not designed for my carrier)?

I guess this is all I need to know.

Thank you very much for your time.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
froyo comes with legacy apps2sd but its not very good, if you root you can install apps2sd+ witch is much better, rockplayer will play almost all video formats ive tried, its like vlc for android :D lol if you look at the android development section there is a sticky with all the latest official roms. if your device is sim locked you must buy an unlock code to unlock it, you can use any rom with a locked device although if your device is branded you must make a goldcard before you flash a generic/branded (other than your own branding) offical rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoking3:
Thanks for the quick reply. Now I only need to know what a gold card is.:)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
there is a tutorial in the rom development section, it basically skips the cid check so you can flash branded or generic roms :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoking3:
Ok thanks man.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
here a link to the thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=696189
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rockhopper:
Any have the latest ROM? looking to install this on my SD card.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rockhopper:
Anyone.....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tosh1:
Hey guys this is my first time really working on an android and I am trying to get it to work with Metropcs.

Here is my question.

I have this Android SDK r06 and when I execute it, a window pops up. There are several things checked and unchecked. I basically just hit accept all and then run it...

Do I need to accept all? or can I just run what was initially checked off when I first opened it?

I dont want to install any un needed stuff since this part takes forever!!!

Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[XPERIA X10 General] Jamolah:
Okay so u have the phone up to ur ear while the keypad showing. When u remove it away from ur ear it says "tap twice to unlock". What is the point of this? The screen is locked when up to ur ear and unlocks when away from ur ear.
[XPERIA X10 General] -PiLoT-:
it says it when u have the phone to your ear aswell you just cant see it because youre not an iguana
[XPERIA X10 General] pngface:
hahahahahahhahahahaha

I fell off my chair when I read that
[XPERIA X10 General] misterzak:
My iguana prefers the Samsung Galaxy S. Bloody Samsung faniguana
[XPERIA X10 General] Izzy_Deadyet:
It's a pain that it does it when using Bluetooth and the phone isn't near your face. When I call a company and get the automated press 1 2 3 etc having to double tap first before each selection is a huge pain.
[XPERIA X10 General] kitsVA:
Unfortunately, there are quite a lot of minor annoying features like this one with X10. Got used to them over time :-(.

Maybe, SE implemented this because the proximity sensor is not working like they wanted it to work. Frankly, if the proximity sensor does it job like it should, there is no need this extra step. The whole phone functionality of X10 is probably one of the worst I've seen among phones I used.

One other problem with X10 contacts is if you use large file size images for contact pictures, it doesn't down scale them I guess even for the small thumbnail images shown in contact list. The entire address book crawls to load. If you downscale the contact image file size manually and re-assign them, you can see the load time of contacts much faster.
[XPERIA X10 General] M3mPh1z:
Now that was funny, lmao
[XPERIA X10 General] Jamolah:
LMAO...

Are u sure it says it other times? I have only noticed it with the kepad.

Okay so yet another annoying thing about this phone.
[XPERIA X10 General] -PiLoT-:
no ill explain as ive tested this.

when the keyboard is down below ie hidden then the prximity sensor kicks in. when the keyboard is up ur less likely to have the phone up to the ear so it locks after a set time savinf the proximity sensor this actually makes it a feature not a flaw as calls centres can be navigated easily i e. u have to listen to 3 menus with butten presses in between you can press button and press earpeice to ear and it locks stopping you from pressing anymore buttons
[XPERIA X10 General] Jamolah:
ahhh... good to know. Still kinda annoying. I'd prefer the proximity sensor to take care of everything.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] xanaviarai:
Dropped the Slide in the garbage disposal (yeah), pulled it out, was still on, pulled the battery within 30 seconds.

Dried it out the best I could for about 30mins. I know I shouldnt have but I turned it on, it got to my CM6 lockscreen and froze, after another restart it would not get past the logo.

Fastboot worked but said touchpanel : fail, instead of Touchpanel : Synaptics "XXXX".

So I did complete dissasembly and the board and the panel is in a box of rice.

I will update as I go along for those who may be curious about the effects of a dunk on this device.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] donepate:
OK. First off, that sucks. I have been there a few times myself, and it was worse. One in the toilet, one in the dish water, and one in the swimming pool (deep end). Second, you need to take it completely apart (look for an assembly manual on XDA), use 90% rubbing alcohol to clean the boards without getting any under anything you cant get it out from (this will remove contaminates), and leave out for 24 hours before re-assembly. It sounds simple, but take a lot of attention to detail. I have done this for people about 40 or 50 times (ex-T-Mo employee with a heart), and only lost about 10 of them. If you're up for it shoot me a PM and I will help you as best I can.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] xanaviarai:
I am a repair technician by trade so the assembly was the least of my concerns. I noticed the inside did not get wet very much at all, I think the touchpanel connector got a drop in it, i made sure it was clean and i used a razor to skim a fresh metal surface for all the contact points on the phone. The phone is 100% functional as of right now.

It was quite a scary moment when the panel tested as fail, and the ROM seemed to be MIA.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] guitarist5122:
Wow, only 30 min. I accidentally took my phone into a lake with me one and was swimming around for about 5 min before i remembered it was on me lol. It had alread powered itself off. I gave it 2 days to dry before powering on. A little excessive but at least it was a little longer than 30 min 0_o so lucky nothing fried. Glad your slide is still working
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dlozano956:
i dropped mine in a puddle. immediately tore it apart and placed it in bags of rice. it worked after a day of being in rice. didnt need to do anything else other than that. i did notice some sms and call issues after that but rooting it resolved the issue so i doubt it was a hardware issue
[myTouch 3G Slide General] tubaking182:
never dropped a phone in water myself, my g1 hit a puddle once(not deep at all) but i still tore the thing apart and got the battery out before anything bad could happen. i try to help out my custs as much as possible, but so many of them just leave it on and don't think anything is wrong until it stops working a few days later.

the best thing to do is what was mentioned with the alcohol, my uncle dropped his phone in the lake and he turned it on a few times and i was still able to get the thing up and running within a day for him.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
I have a Galaxy S as shipped by Bell Canada. It doesn't have the 3 button download mode so I'm staying away from 3rd party roms for now.

It is unlocked and rooted. All has been well until today. I had it off for a while to use the SIM in another phone. When I turned it back on it asked for the SIM unlock code. I Dismissed that and checked the phone, all seemed well other than no SIM activation. I turned it off and removed the SIM and now it won't boot. I get the usual logo, the song, and for a long time the S logo. If I wait long enough it then appears to be off. If I press the back or menu key they will light up but that's it. I can't do anything else other than pull the battery.

I tried the hard reset with holding volume down and tap the power button. That only turns it back on with the same problem. The actual SIM is fine and working in another phone.

Is there anything I can do? If I could hard reset it I'd take it back to the store but I hesitate for now while it still contains my data.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] endisforever:
this is a problem i have just posted about a couple of mins ago

but i can get it recovery mode and fatory reset with the vol up, home and power

then it will boot but obviously i have to then reset everything from scratch which is really annoying so anyone got any idea re this
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
lucky for you that you can get into recovery. Right now I'd be happy with a hard reset, it doesn't take long to rebuild the setup. I'd like to know who decided to remove the recovery mode, that's evil and keeps me from simply resetting the device.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] endisforever:
its all the apps re downloading and installing them and resetting up accounts and swype and all that lot need a fix asap

do you know what version of andoid you are running
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
yes but at least you can get a working phone again, I can't without being able to get into any boot menus. Honestly it only takes 30 minutes to setup again from scratch. I'm on 2.1 and what I find at least on my HTC when it had 2.1 is that I setup the google account, let it sync contacts etc, then from Market Downloads I'll see listed all my apps that were previously installed. As long as I don't leave that screen I can install each app one after the other. Or a proper backup....

Any other magic key combos to reset this thing???
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dreamtheater39:
did you try hooking up to kies?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
Yes but that does nothing since it never fully boots.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Electroz:
Same thing happened to my phone, but a factory reset did nothing. The internal SD card gave out. Phone is now sent away for 3 - 6 weeks awaiting repair.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigc_13:
my phone did this to me today too, I was just about to post about this when I saw this thread.

So its an SD Card problem? theres no hope of getting it fixed without sending it in?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
Yes I think it is the internal card meaning there isn't anything good enough to reset to. I walked the phone over to the store and I'll have to wait for new stock next week. Actually I'm lucky they will exchange it since I bought it outright which apparently is "against policy" even though they list a no contract full price. We'll see how it goes next week but overall I despise the telco industry in this country.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigc_13:
i went to best buy today to try and exchange it, and apparently they only have a 14 day exchange policy with phones despite it saying 30 day on the receipt, anyhow i phoned samsung and they said i have to go through bell, even though im using the phone on telus, so that should be interesting.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] clubtech:
So all the people that are having this problem have the Bell model?

Today i got mine off eBay, as soon a i turned it on, i get exactly the same thing.

It wont load into Android, i see that galaxy S logo and then black screen.

If i go into recovery i see "cant mount SD Card".

The more is search this forum the more i see that all the people with this problem are owners of the Bell i9000M model.

I seriously think they have some defect with the manufacturing line of the phone.

Have you guys installed any firmware on your phone before this happened?

mine is like that out of the box.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
Mine is the same Bell model. There seems to be some issues with them which makes the lack of download mode even more dangerous. Right now it doesn't feel like the warranty is going to cover us for problems not our fault. I hope they replace it next week but if it still lacks download mode I'll remain nervous.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] clubtech:
Seems like everyone is with the Bell model but my questions is:

Have you guys installed another firmware than the factory one which caused this to happen?

Are you running Stock?

We need to try and narrow this down as i am seeing too many posts about this issue, and they are with the Bell model.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigc_13:
i put new firmware on it last week, can't remember what it was but it was upgraded through kies so it's one samsung pushed to me, not a froyo unstable one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] clubtech:
Thanks. if it was pushed to you via Kies i assume you were running stock JH2.

So it just stopped booting out of the blue?

To the OP: have you install any firmware on your device before this happened?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
I haven't flashed any 3rd party roms. I did do the official update via Keis which even at the store today they reminded me that I should do the update.. That update seemed to go well and has been working for over a week until I turned it off for an hour. It still isn't clear if the disabled 3 button mode is hardware or software related but we all seem to have that in common too. So before they dismiss the whole thing and we get hosed over technicalities such as unlocking it should be clear that there are clear defects in these phones as far as I can tell.

I want to be comfortable that I'm not left out of hundred of dollars just because I choose to buy it outright and not be tied to contracts. Samsung has to play nicely because it is their phone. Bell has to play nicely because they are bringing them in and distributing to retail. What carrier I use should be irrelevant because the problems are not related to usage.

FYI, the clerks went off for conference to decide if I somehow got the phone against policy. Either they trust my story or I got mine moments before they got the memo about not selling outright.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xZeDgEx:
Same here, stock JH2 from Kies. Not rooted. Boots to Galaxy S logo, then black screen. Mine is sent in for repair... Almost two weeks now.

Seeing more and more of this being posted. There is obviously some issues with this phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
Our posts crossed.. :)

Yes I believe mine had the JH2, the official keis offered firmware. I was looking forward to the biggie update at the end of the month so wasn't about to risk bricking before then. Irony stepped in anyway.

I'm a bit nervous until I get a new one. At that point if the 3 button mode still doesn't work I'll remain nervous that I'll get another potential brick.

edit-> yes, I simply shut it down for an hour or two to use the SIM in another phone to test that phone. At next boot it died. I knew something was wrong when the logo stayed up for much longer.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] clubtech:
I have the 3 buttons enabled so it is not related to the 3buttons being disabled, however when i boot into recovery it clearly displays an error that it can not find the internal SD.

There is definitely something wrong with the Bell Galaxy S corrupting itself.

I bought mine from an eBay seller, he is saying the phone booted fine when he shipped it but when i opened the box today i only got this black screen after logo.

Gladly the seller will take it back.

Maybe this is why there are shortages everywhere in Canada. I hope the caught this up and are fixing it with the new batch.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigc_13:
When I talk to bell on monday I'm going to request a phone with working 3 button recovery system, I'm not interested in getting another broken phone pushed at me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] clubtech:
Reading the forums here, in your internal SD card gets corrupted like what is happening right now, having the 3 buttons will not help.

It wont help if you reflash the phone as there is no way to fix this. But yea, it is better to have the 3 buttons than nothing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rdcoast:
Are we sure that download mode wouldn't allow for a 3rd party flash? Doesn't that fix the scrambled eggs on the SD? I don't want to resort to that but if I was stuck with the phone I'd want to do it. But for now I want a new one and hope it is fixed. Confidence isn't high so I'll need to ask if I'm covered 6 months from now if the same thing happens.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigc_13:
ya i know but i mean for future use so i can flash roms etc, right now i can't do anything becuase i'm afraid of bricking the phone and having nothing i can do if something goes wrong
[Galaxy S I9000 General] endisforever:
i have thihs issue but im not on bell being from the uk

i can get my phone back on as i have the recovery mode and have too factory reset for it to boot

but i have to do tihs everytime i turn my phone off

i have updated via kies to 2.2 in test mode
[Android Apps and Games] thomassoegaard:
Hello people :)

I am looking for an app or toggle widget that makes it possible quickly to change between the different dictionary languages in the htc_ime. Every day I write in Danish, English and Italian and I find it a bit annoying to have to go into settings, keyboard language and choose the language every single time. It would be much easier to be able to change the language just by pressing one "button" on the homescreen. So if anyone knows about such an app or widget, or if someone would be able to develop one, it would be VERY MUCH appreciated! :) Thanks in advance!

- Thomas.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
Not sure if this is the right place, but mods can move if necessary

got root access with Unrevoked 3 yesterday, and now, my 4g radio continues to cycle on and off, which , of course is battery suicide..

widget wont do it, settings menu wont do it..

Stock 2.2 rom

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jelive:
Have you tried these tweaks to "stabilize" your connection-reconnection....

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7260880&postcount=66

There are a few others too if you do search on 4g connection.

Jim
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
yeah, Jim, my 4g connection was perfect before, as I had done all these tweaks a long time ago..

this only started yesterday, after rooting my EVO using unrevoked 3

everything else works great, its only this issue came up..

thanks for your suggestion, though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Testrunner:
Did you use the latest beta unrevoked 3? In other words did you root a froyo 2.2 Evo?

If so, you need to report this to the unrevoked team through the official unrevoked beta testers site. There are no mentions of this on their site as of yet.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
yes, I did use the latest beta unrevoked 3, and had reported a different bug to them.

what makes this so bizarre, I just took the phone into a different room in my house, and was able to turn off 4G; i tried this 20 times today, and it did nothing, but when I went into my wife's office, and asked HER to try it, it did it.

creepy; unless the phone was afraid of her..

hope it keeps I will reboot a bunch of times to confirm
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jelive:
Assume you have a nand backup...next step may be a hard reset. :-(

Jim
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
Micro-usb port is borked, gotta return phone to Best Buy (got the black-tie plan). Running cm6.

What's the best non-usb way to unroot? I used unrevoked then advanced shell commands to unlock Nand.

I have a wireless adb app to compensate for lack of USB connectivity. Though that may not help in recovery mode.

Any suggestions?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowe343:
SD card reader. Just throw the RUU on the card.

Sent from my SUPERSONIC
[General Marketing & SEO] pavvy:
Can folks recommend a good Android (or general mobile) website or two -- preferably that focus on useful app reviews? (There are so many sites out there... I was following one on Twitter, but I'm not so interested in constant updates on new Evo cases or whatever.) Thanks.
[General Marketing & SEO] zephiK:
http://www.appbrain.com/ Not a app review site but it is better than browsing the Android market to find apps.
[General Marketing & SEO] s15274n:
anroidcentral.com

androidandme.com

andronica.com

appbrain.com (love the hot apps section).
[General Marketing & SEO] BossDj:
Androlib.com
[General Marketing & SEO] themassofthesun:
thetekcentral.com is a newer blog that does good reviews of useful apps
[General Marketing & SEO] down8:
AppJudgment on Rev3 runs the gamut - Android to iPhone.

-bZj
[General Marketing & SEO] ashishpdme:
Appbrain.com

You can find apps rating, several marketing tools and review of apps .
[General Marketing & SEO] jay613:
Here's a few out of my list of about 50

1.*appeggs . com

2.androidshock . com

3.*appbrain . com

4.*24android . com

5.*gamepro . de

6.*bestandroidgameaward . com

7.*bestandroidgames . net

8.*androidgamesreview . com

9.*gamespot . com

10.*droidreviewcentral . com

11.*droidandroidgames . com
[General Marketing & SEO] Kjas Labs:
appolicious.com

appia.com
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nawcho:
Has anyone figured out a way to create a storm8 account on an android hd2?

I cannot find the option anywhere to make a new account and there is no way to do it online.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] daemonfly:
I haven't seen one yet. They've all been iPhone games recently ported over, and the only way to create accounts was on the iPhone.

Stupid way of doing it, imho *shrug*
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nawcho:
I have been searching and phones that come with android seem to be able to create accounts just fine so it isn't only iphones.

Anyone know whatsup?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VICosPhi:
Hello everyone,

I am really annoyed with this feature that causes change in ringtone notification sound if you happen to hit VOL UP and DOWN keys on idle screen (when on unlocked screen). I happen to hit these keys quite often and my ringer volume is often too low and I wonder why didn't I hear my phone ring?

In my opinion, if I need to lower down the ringer volume (or increase it) I'd do it from settings menu under voice call management.

Is there a way to disable this "shortcut" to increase decrease ringer volume when on idle screen, or doing anything while screen is unlocked?

thanks...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VICosPhi:
Bump.... so is this impossible to achieve guys?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcontrol:
I dont think ive ever heard anyone complaining about it. I suppose you can use something like settings profile to keep it constant, but as far as remapping the volume keys I havent seen anything yet
[Vibrant General] Tengis:
Does everyone elses phone do this? Ive gone through settings and **** every time it annoys me to see if I can find something Ive missed.

Thoughts?
[Vibrant General] richan90:
This is totally normal, just set it on vibrate + ring so at least you can feel it for the first few seconds.
[Vibrant General] Tengis:
This makes me a sad panda.
[Vibrant General] wang1chung:
i kinda like it.........i don't jump everytime my phone rings at full blast.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
kinda forgot about this, I got use to it.