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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Accord281:
I'm fairly certain that you need to grab one of the PB31IMG.zip files with the unrooted stock 2.1 floating around and install that. Then run the S-on tutorial. You should be good to go after that. For ****s and giggles once you do that you should be able to check for updates and the froyo update should be there.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogre150:
Put s-on then unroot by RUU back to stock.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joker713:
So, basically, turn s-on then find one of the "official" rb31img.zip files and flash that from the hboot right?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patchnauty:
really dont even bother. just call customer service, since they are going to have to order it for you anyways. 18664065154, state you already took it to a technician and they reset and wiped handheld. They will send it to any address (not po box) you want. Keep it the way you have it.

ps and if they ask you why you didnt just get it replaced in store tell them you would have but you wanted to back up your stuff first.

Besides if you do a nandroid backup you can get it right where it was pre defect.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverxbv2:
Should he be going back to 2.1 or run the leak for 2.2? Would it matter at this point? I was just thinking about this issue also.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patchnauty:
customer service is just going to do a factory reboot and dump all memory anyways. just keep what he has on it. By the time it goes to replacement center hes probably going to upgrade to his next phone. Besides they have no ideas whos phone it is anyways.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] falkien:
I had to get a new phone. I left s-off and reverted back to non rooted 2.1, they don't look at stuff like that. At least they didn't for me.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crackers8199:
Curious how you blew the speaker...seems to be a pretty common problem these days but I've never seen anyone say how they did it...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m4a1rifle:
Is there a way now to manually link each phone contact with facebook friend? because default htc sense facebook will link all automatically and pull in any FB contacts that have telephone numbers... it's quite annoying "feature"..

Any solution now? I'm using rooted froyo.

Thanks!

edit: I notice that Samsung Galaxy S i9000 have this function to manually link facebook, anyway to "extract" that apps (SNS Sync)?
[Vibrant General] vapotrini:
You guys weren't joking when you said that the battery drains a "bit" quicker with a white background on there. I couldn't believe the rate at which my battery was being drained, so I set up a little test to see just how fast the juice was being sucked...

I used 3 wallpapers, a pure Black, a pure White and Galactic Core Live Wallpaper (Mostly green, a little purple, a little black). Since it would take too long to do it from 100% to 0%, I instead opted to do it from 50% to 40% for each one of them. With full brightness applied, wifi, gps, bluetooth, no sleep for the screen. I let each one just sit there from 50% until they each reached 40%.

The results blew me away!!!

Black Wallpaper lasted 85 mins for 10% loss. Or 14.1 hours @ 100%

Galactic Core lasted 45 mins for 10% loss. Or 7.5 hours @ 100%

White Wallpaper lasted a mere 20 mins for 10% loss. Or 3.3 hours @ 100%

Over 4 times the rate of black??? Wow!
[Vibrant General] MilkPudding:
Wow. I know white uses more battery but I didn't know the difference is so big. Now I know what wallpapers to avoid. LOL
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
Yea, that doesn't surprise me, not sure why it blew you away...
[Vibrant General] KerryG:
On a Super AMOLED screen a black pixel is off which takes no power, a white pixel takes the most power, so go figure.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
i've been using black.png wallpaper, just because it looks so awesome. SO BLACK
[Vibrant General] bauerlucas:
Just downloaded a black.png and now its my back ground its nice super black.
[Vibrant General] ozy944:
Wow, thats a world of difference!

Would you be interested in doing that test again but in flight mode? Just to make sure theres no draining of the battery due to other processes. ( Scuse if youve considered this already :p )
[Vibrant General] smutek:
Help I try to flash black png with the odin and no workee.
[Vibrant General] smutek:
(kidding)
[Vibrant General] smutek:
:-p
[Vibrant General] dezshiz:
Thought red saved more?
[Vibrant General] bauerlucas:
No red takes the least besides black on an amoled screen black is off.
[Vibrant General] Chief Geek:
So white killed it faster then a live background. wtfo, I didnt see that coming although I do see the logic behind it, but thought the CPU drain of rendering the background would pass the solid white, or atleast be close. Helluva test, thanks for the info.
[Vibrant General] hkfan:
This is what i use...just black
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
Great test. Appreciate the findings. Been using black backgrounds for a while and it helps tremendously but didn't know the results would be so drastic
[Vibrant General] Emama:
that's why I really hope the apps can have a black background,

especially the GOOGLE TALK!!!
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
i would like gmail to use black also

twicca is a fantastic twitter client that is mostly black. it looks great
[Vibrant General] bchalk:
Flat black is boring, I had an awesome black with a cat face in the middle which was awesome... And now I'm just using this one which isn't quite as dark, but its twice as awesome:

http://www.talkandroid.com/wallpapers/image-android-eating-apple-1407/
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
That's sweet! Thanks for sharing
[Vibrant General] eweo911:
Hers a good one I use.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Download zedge from the market and search black. There's a lot to choose from.
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
Here's one I use.
[Vibrant General] pavvy:
To play "devil's advocate" (or something) -- how long is your wallpaper ever up on screen during normal use? Either your screen is off; or you turn it on and launch an app or something else... are the home screen(s) usually displayed for longer than 30 secs. or a minute (maybe a few minutes, tops, if you're clicking through a widget)?

I guess those bits of minutes can add up... but I wonder if it's enough to make the hue of your wallpaper really contribute significantly to battery drain in the real world?
[Vibrant General] vapotrini:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the battery life. It was merely an observation about white back grounds. And believe me, if you have a white back ground on there, it's going to add up fast.

All in all I'm happy with my battery though. I run Galactic core @ 85% screen brightness, use the phone between moderate and heavy and get a full day with no problems at all. Imo - For what you get with the vibrant, a full day's use is more than acceptable.
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
@pavvy

What you said is very true. Although, an example would be the default xda theme, which uses white background. You can manually change it to black background with white text via setting though. :D:D
[Vibrant General] dorsai3d:
White is probably the main reason that the AMOLED screens don't blow away their lcd competitors on battery life (the other being the lack of transflective properties in sunlight, requiring it to "out bright"the sun). I recall a paper saying that white pixels ended up costing something like 3 times as much energy as when compared to white on an lcd (because behind the polarizing layer/liquid crystals, it's always white on an lcd, and has been power optimized for such over many years)

Also, this is why, even when you turn auto brightness off, the web browser dims the screen quickly. Many (most, even) websites use significant amounts of white. Add to that your data usage (also power hungry) and web browsing is a recipe for crazy battery drain. Same goes for other apps with a white focus.
[Vibrant General] bauerlucas:
Lets stop going to web sights unless they change there background to black with red letters. All amoled people will change the world! :)
[Vibrant General] Leoslick:
I want the xda app to have a black background!! I spend a lot if my day on here. Maybe they can incorporate themes?
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
i want the xda app to stop being so crappy at loading and quit crashing every time i reply to a topic
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
It does have a black option under settings

All black is a bit too much for me as well so I have this

I likes
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
oh wow, that's much better. thanks
[Vibrant General] Leoslick:
Agreed, this is much better now. Now I have more complaining to do ; ) , in that I heard the black screen saving battery is a myth, I'll try to find the link, and i somewhat believe this because noled tends to waste a lot of battery.
[Vibrant General] Leoslick:
Lol, I also agree with this. It force closes on me after any post or thread I write up and send!
[Vibrant General] the3dman:
Well this makes perfect sense.

With led's 1 pixel is made up of three led's (Red,Blue,Green).

Black = all led's in the pixel off

White = all led's in the pixel on

In terms of color led's using power in a screen:

Red Led's= Uses the least

Green Led's= Mid Range

Blue Led's= Uses the Most
[Vibrant General] Leoslick:
Ive tried to found the link buy nothing, just a bunch of info supporting the black saving battery theory, which I'm glad to see. Any way her is my preferred background.
[Vibrant General] Leoslick:
And here is my battery saver.
[Vibrant General] Emama:
Yes! It always force closed when posting!

Also it keeps asking me to type password at startup even it is already logged in

A bit offtopic sorry:p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] srsizzy:
I just reformatted to the latest MightyROM, and I had backed up all my texts with PIM. It took like an hour or half-hour to "restore" them, and all the conversation threads are visible under "All Messages" (as well as the latest 25 texts in Manilla), however, when I open them, they're completely empty. Anyone know why this might be happening?

I had a really nice version of messaging through Calkulin's Kitchen, but I don't know what it was or how I might put it on over MightyROM -- it basically looked the same, but a few more buttons of interface on a lot of things (actually, mainly buttons instead of softkey-like buttons in messaging and the Start menu and other places).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Lennyz1988:
Are your messages threaded? That will cause problems from time to time.

What you could try is:

Hard reset (to start from scratch)

Disable threaded mode.

Backup your sms (you will notice that it will restore much faster now with disabled threaded mode)

Enable threaded mode.

Then your messages need time to get in the right order again (because of the threaded). This will take from 15-30 minutes. Then it should be fine again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vietn95:
Hi, I am a new android user. I am having problem getting my google calendar (web) to sync with the phone. It doesn't show the option for me to select and sync the calendar with my google account. By the way I have 2 google account. Once is for random junk and the other is for school. So far the the captivate only lets me sync the Calendar with the junk account but not the other account for school. I tried removing the account and adding it again it would only let me sync mail and contacts but no calendar option. I was thinking of removing my junk account but it says that I need to do a factory restore which I don't want to do. Has anyone run into this problem? I search but couldn't find anything similar.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Here in Seattle I get good 4G reception (maximum bars) with download speeds typically >6000 kbps (ping 381 ms), yet when I browse the web, the speed at which web pages open begins to dramatically slow about half-way through and then eventually stops before download is complete. I do not have this problem with 3G or with other apps. I am using Fresh 3.2.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akastixx:
i was getting that too. i have no idea why. it was so annoying. pages would load to 85% - 90% then stop, but web apps like youtube and pandora did fine. i hope someone could shed some light on it in case it happens again. i was using baked snack with kernel #4 before, but have not had the issue occur with baked snack 1.7 kernel #6.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristmasGT:
My biggest problem is streaming on sites like Justin.tv, with 3G I can stream just fine without too much of an issue. However 4G it constantly skips and buffers every 5-10 seconds.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] deathst:
Sorry for another I9000XXJPC thread.. But i got something to report

Flashing with the PIT s1_odin_20100803 Provided in the Samsung-Firmwares, Fixes the Camera Bug and the Laggy Touchwiz.. Seriously no Kidding

Also it fixes Some camera bug like panorama shots
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] aeo087:
Does it still change your IMEI and other phone info?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] deathst:
Nope Imei seems the same to me..
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanam:
I know it does the ROM, apps, accounts, settings etc but now that I have installed:

1. A custom ROM (Virtuous 2.6)

2. A custom Kernel (Adrynalyne's V1 for Virtuous)

3. A custom theme (rEVOlution)

4. Various mods (mostly recommended by RMK40)

So will all these things also get backed up or do I have to install the theme, mods, kernel again if restoring?

Thanks
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lemaj5:
Everything

Everything will be backed up, my nands be 500mb or more, it's boot, system, data, datadata, cache, sd-ext, android-secure, and recovery images!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanam:
Thanks. So I dont have to reinstall the kernel and the mods! Thats a big relief!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdfzhsd:
I installed the HTC_vs_GALAXY_S - SENSE THEME - Beta 0.2 theme @ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=769274&page=3 and I tried to revert back to the original touchwiz home using their revert method, and I couldn't. I forgot to do a backup using nandroid, or something like that, and any help would be greatly appreciated. No Offence to the developer, of course, he did a great job but the theme doesn't really fit me and i really want to go back. I was unrooted at the time of install and recently rooted my device with the theme on. I tried to exactly use the way they tell me and it didn't work. II have a GT-I9000running the official JM1 firmware that came from kies. Please Help, thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdfzhsd:
anybody, please?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OGC313:
I also wondered this which is why I only use custom docks and icons in launcher pro. I'm guessing you have to do a fresh flash using odin, sorry buddy.
[General Topics] Nikolai2.1:
http://www.dailytech.com/New+HTC+Android+Slider+Offers+Both+GSM+CDMA+3G/article19548.htm

Check it out.
[General Topics] MrObvious:
Cool. I want it.
[General Topics] tigmon:
Any more info?

I'm going to be leaving for boot camp for the air force around june/july... any date to when this phone will be released? also im looking for a global andriod phone for verizon and i prefer non motorola (just a personal preference). 4g with a front camera would be a huge plus when I come back home as im expecting 4g to be rampant by the time i return to the states....any ideas? Thanks in advance :D
[Epic 4G General] Phen0m:
My Phone is randomly starting up with all types of apps.. how can this be prevented? Is there a startup folder like on winmo?
[Epic 4G General] AdhvanIt:
This is what android does. The operating system is built to multitask, just like your pc's OS. If you don't know what you're doing, you'll likely cause issues when not allowing apps to run at startup. Get rid of the crappy task manager that you're likely running and let android do its job.

If you want to tweak androids memory usage settings, get autokiller. Read first though. Don't just set it to strict or aggressive and not expect to run into problems.
[Epic 4G General] crazaytalent:
While this may be true, there are a lot of unnecesary apps running at start up and constantly popping up... as advanhit says, one should know what they're doing before messing with it, otherwise u can completly crap some apps that u like to use or have running. But provided you have an understanding of what apps u need and which ones u don't, u can always root, and use an app like titanium uninstaller or root explorer/manager to remove some apps, such as some of sprints bloatware etc... you just have to know where to look to find them... some simple esearch here or on othr forums like sdx, will help you figure it out.
[Epic 4G General] Aridon:
Download startup manager from the market to stop unwanted apps from starting or restarting automatically.
[Epic 4G General] Phen0m:
I should've clarified.. I dont mean system related apps.. I mean, one reboot my Fring or google voice among others, will be in the running apps list.. next reboot, sprint nav, ebay, bank of america will be running..

I'm already rooted, and ive removed the bloat that i wanted to remove.. I monitor my memory usage with Advanced taskkiller.

Thanks for the suggestions and advice guys!
[Epic 4G General] AdhvanIt:
Again... Get rid of the task killer.

As far as google voice, stop that from running and it will effect google sync. Which syncs contacts, calendar events, etc. If youre running Froyo, even apps and settings will be effected by this.. This is what I meant by knowing what you're doing before tooling with these operations. As stated before... This is how android works. Leaving it alone will be the best thing for you. If you're lagging, I recommend a different ROM.

FYI. Not to sound cocky, I'm speaking from experience.. Five generations of android devices used... All rooted and running flawlessly. G1, MT3G, Cliq, Moto Droid, Droid Eris.
[General Topics] Bukem75:
I will be in Yokosuka, Japan for two months for work... My Evo will be coming along, but I am very curious about prices and rates for prepaid phones while over there for local and perhaps international calls if wifi is not available...

Ideas or websites to check out? Thanks!
[General Topics] Bukem75:
One bump then letting it die
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanam:
It just sits there. Seems to be a vestigial organ. Any way I can make it useful? Like using it to wake up the phone like in the iphone? Or like a full menu options button like the "B" thing in a blackberry? Any mods that people might recommend? There have got to be other uses for this button than just using it in the ClockworkMod Recovery boots?

Any suggestions where I could find these mods? I know the trackball to wake mod is there somewhere but I cant seem to find it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ACD168:
yes trackpad can wake phone.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
Go into Rom Manager > Download Rom > Ihtfp69 > Goodies for 2.2+ > Download > You can pick just the Optical Joystick wake and apply it to your phone. Backup to be safe, you don't need to wipe to install, just make sure you backup.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanam:
Thanks guys!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0xdroid:
Can this be applied on any ROM or only on SkyRaider ?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanam:
ihtfp69's solution works for me on virtuous. I can confirm that. Sometimes it takes a click extra on the trackball to wake it up though.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
It should work on any sense rom, i'm not sure about vanilla roms though. I'm not 100% sure about this so if you are going to try it be sure to make a nandroid backup first.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] shaolin95:
Hi!

I got a My touch 3G to replace the tilt 2 for my wife since she wanted to play some games I got in my Galaxy S.

I was not expecting miracles but I was hoping that it would be able to run games like Angry Birds, Crush The Castle and Blow Up at great speed but I need to say I am disappointed.

Angry Birds runs the best of the three and playable.

Blow Up is close to good but sometimes feel like its underwater or like watching the Bionic Man.

Crush the Castle is just horrible.

Is it because I am running Cyanogen 6 froyo?

Do you guys really only have about 30MB of free ram after booting?!

Thanks for helping...I am trying to decide if its worth an older ROM like Eclair or just sell this the tilt 2 and look for a Galaxy S and call it a day.

Regards
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] kwapiu:
Did you went threw 'performance options' in cyanogenmod 6.0?

Try to enable "JIT".

You can read on it there: android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/dalvik-jit.html

I feel like repeating myself... oh wait, I really am :)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HTC Magic 32A, ENG S-OFF H

ROM: CM6 - FroyoRedux Mod v1.9

SPL: 1.33.2005

RADIO: 3.22.20.17

Recovery: Amon_RA Sapphire v1.7

In love with "JIT"
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] shaolin95:
I did but did not notice any difference really.

Is it normal for this phone to only have 30MB RAM available after boot?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] AdrianK:
Yes, more RAM will be freed when you launch an application. You might see people recommending taskliller apps, but they really don't help at all, Android is already perfectly capable of managing running processes.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] willie44:
Other than email my Storm sucks at being a smartphone, but I have come to rely on Blackberry's having notifications per contact. I would be using ActiveSync for my email protocol. I am currently using a Corporate BES connected to Exchange 2007.

I am willing to root or use a custom rom to get this feature. Do I have any options out there?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garebear0506:
Ok im I freakin nub I let my friend play on my phone and he deleted my youtube app through titanium backup and I need it back any help im running sre 1.2.1 a 1.2ghz oc if someone could post an apk that would be great.... Pardon my mispelling if I did
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
Here you go...
[Droid Incredible General] grampadeal:
Hey guys,

I just downgraded my phone to 2.1 and went into system settings but my phone is telling me it is up to date. What gives? Why can't it find the OTA? I was getting pestered by it constantly before I downgraded. Is there a way that I can force my phone to go look for the update?
[Droid Incredible General] Vorpals:
Try dialing *#*#checkin#*#*

Or just download the official OTA from Google, rename it to update.zip, and apply from recovery, as shown here: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770091
[Droid Incredible General] jdmba:
RUU

I ultimately just ran out of patience and ran the Froyo RUU:

http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Incredible/
[Droid Incredible General] jstuart91:
If you downgraded to the out of the box software version you will need to manually apply the first OTA from back in May before your phone will see the new 2.2 OTA. Check Settings>About Phone>Software Information: If the software version is listed as 1.22.605.0 then you need to install the May OTA (If you already have the May OTA installed it will list version 1.22.605.2)

See this post for how to install the May OTA Manually: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7933281#post7933281

Once that is installed you should get the OTA pop up to update to 2.2 (Took approx 3 hours for me after installing the may OTA). Or you can allways manually install the 2.2 update as well with the directions found at: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770091
[Droid Incredible General] Mark0266:
Tried the link

http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Incredible/

says it requires a username/password

-Mark
[Droid Incredible General] Mark0266:
Says it needs a username/password for the link
[Droid Incredible General] Berzerker7:
You also need the stock recovery (not clockwork) to get it.