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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrigan:
http://code.google.com/p/smali/wiki/DeodexInstructions

This tells you how to deodex a odex file. Basically an odex file is an optimized file that has device specific information regarding the dependencies of the BOOTCLASSPATH .jar files. They're primarily core.jar, ext.jar, framework.jar, android.policy.jar and services.jar. The process of deodexing is to extract all of that information for the odex file and create a classes.dex to put into the apk associated with the odex file. You have to basically tell the program, baksmali, what .jar files to look at but it takes a bit of research and trial and error to get a classes.dex file generated. You then need to add it to the apk and resign it, which requires yet another program autosign.

This process is not for the impatient or the faint of heart. You can actually do this on your PC with the correct files. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I've just started messing around with deodexing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kokjsch:
Thanks!!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrstdOne:
While a new member, I've been following the community a bit and have flashed my Captivate successfully several times.

It started acting weird earlier this week (lagging and shutting itself off) so I decided to re-flash it and re-apply SRE with all the goodies it brings.

Since my last flash, the phone works fine (calls, messaging, and Internet) except for one problem - the Android Market.

I can access the market but am unable to download anything. I've tried many different solutions, ROM's (JF2, JH2, and JH3), 3G/WiFi, internal settings, clearing the Market cache, Dalvik cache, etc., using Market Access and going outside of AT&T's allowed applications, all to no avail. It's the same whether I attempt to download after a fresh flash or after applying SRE. I've also tried Unleash the Beast.

Finally I decided to call AT&T to find out if there was a problem somewhere on their end.

Here's the weird thing:

The IMEI I have on the sticker under my battery is that of a Captivate and matches what they have on record. The representative I spoke to told me that the IMEI I have in my phone's menu is an iPhone IMEI.

With all that being said, I have two questions:

1) How did this happen?

2) How can I fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madjsp:
What does your imei start with?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrstdOne:
The one in the software starts with 004999

The one on the sticker starts with 351863
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinunleaded182:
Iphone imei starts with 011. That rep doesnt know what hes doingp
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xatrekak:
did you ask them to update youe imei number? would likly fix it, could have just been an accident, from what i have read about 10% of imei number are not unique so somehting could have gotten messed up server side
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xatrekak:
also a quick google of the 0049 imei shows that there are several iphones with that imei
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrstdOne:
The rep who I've been working with is off today but she said she'd call me tomorrow. I'll ask her to update the number and hopefully she can.

Unfortunately, while I'm pretty much a noob to all this, I've found that I still know more than most of the people on the AT&T side and the rep I've been working with is the most knowledgeable of the group. :rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dmoney5150:
Did you go from an iphone to the samsung if so, it could be a translation issue on atts side which means the billing system never updated the imei to the switch because it errored out on the billing side happend all the time when i use to be a switch tech for att simple to fix just need to file a ticket with a certain department but can be a pain if the rep is new.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
I thought the phone read its IMEI number from its own hardware. This thread implies that something on the network is telling the phone what its IMEI Number should be.

I know there are a lot of Ebay phones with bogus stickers - the stickers have one SN/EMEI number, but the phone internally says another.

Where did you get your phone?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrstdOne:
I've never owned an iPhone and I purchased the Captivate from a corporate store, not from an authorized reseller or ebay.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labbu63:
wait cant this be useful if we can change the imei to a vibrant one we can get money off of data or would most of you feel bad for doing that (one good thing about that though for 10 dollars we get unlimited data)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigJayDogg3:
You gotta pay to play. If you don't want to pay smartphone fees, don't get a smartphone. I'm sure we'd all like a break on price, but when it comes down to it, we can't get one, so we make do.

And unless the modmyi forum was wrong, that's illegal.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labbu63:
yeah i know but im just saying if someone isnt scared to go to jail
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricethief:
If the IMEI shows as 004999010640000, you might check out this thread. Good luck.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=777288

PS: you might want to look at this specific post in that thread.....

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8060884&postcount=33
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xatrekak:
actually i was just looking at the library of congress's recent ruling on the DMCA and their new excemptions and read this

"

(3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network.

"

sounds like to me that changing the imei is legal as long as the only reason you are doing it is to connect to a network that you are already authorized to use
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
Changing The imei is illegal and has nothing to do with the DMCA. changing The imei is fraud like changing a car's vin number.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xatrekak:
alphadog00 i was wondering that, you wouldn't happen to be able to point out to me which law that is contained in, i have heard it was illegal like a million times but havn't seen the law yet. but i have always liked reading the actual laws that make the things i want to illegal
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labbu63:
how do you know its illegal the DMCA was changed and said it was legal so until you find something that says its illegal we will never know
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
You are confusing unlocking with changing your IMEI. It is legal to unlock and hack, it is not legal to change the phone's network id.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
I can't point to you an exact law, but cloning phones has been considered fraudulent for years and people have been prosecuted. In changing the IMEI number, you are in essence cloning a phone - it may not exist yet, but it could. So once a new phone is made with the new EMEI number you created, you have created fraud.

After doing some research - this is the section of federal code that is used to prosecute cell phone cloners:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001029----000-.html

U.S. Code: TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 > § 1029

§ 1029. Fraud and related activity in connection with access *devices

You may not get arrested for changing your IMEI (not one person anyway) but at some point the carrier will probably just black list your device or your account.

Changing the IMEI or ESN basically makes your device a counterfeit access device. Some debate that if they own 3 phones they should be able to let them all share one IMEI if only one is active at a time.

Personally, I can see no valid reason to change your IMEI - swapping sim cards is easy enough.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrstdOne:
Thanks for the links.

I'm supposed to be going to the store today where the manager is going to try and put the IMEI in the system.

I'm kind of worried they're going to know I flashed it and not help me or just terminate my account forcing me to switch to Verizon.

I never flashed with that firmware but one of my original flashes (a couple of months ago) was to an i9000 ROM. Since then I've only been using Captivate ROM's. Could it have taken that long for things to get this messed up?
[Epic 4G General] The_Real_D/\SH:
ok i took three shots, one at midday with the sun fully beaming, one at the time where the sun was going down and than finally one at night. each was a picture of the same thing (my work/metro health hospital) and in the same parking spot. i will label above the picture what time of the day it was as well as what phone captured it. without further ado, here we go! (PS: you can easily tell which one is the winner just by graininess)

Evo Day

Epic Day

Evo Sundown

Epic Sundown

Evo Night

Epic Night (haha that sounds like a title of a get laid movie :smile: )
[Epic 4G General] jok3sta:
evo definately wins this.. Im impressed. but the epic isnt bad.. definately not as sharp as the evo but that could be because of the 3mp difference in the cameras. But maybe its me but i feel like the epic camera takes a better night shot
[Epic 4G General] infamousjax:
I think the Epic looks better... not sure what ^ this guy is thinking, but the Epic clearly looks more realistic and has a better night shot.
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
Oh God yes. The Epic looks sooooo much more natural. You can see the famous over saturation going on in the EVO pictures. Those blues look so fake. I would say they are a tie at night... I don't like either of them there.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Did u really sit in your car all day and take pictures with your phones lol?
[Epic 4G General] PlankLongBeard:
You know what, I today was offered a trade. A trade for the evo again, what held me back was the amazing and natural feel the EPIC provides. The EVO IS over saturated and i am yet to see a video as good as the epic, and yes this is with the 3mp less, so what an amazing feat from samsung! I love how the ceo stated, its all in the software and how its used.

I am still sitting on debate, why i don't know maybe the 4.3 inch screen. Yet, this 4.0 is so much better. Ah..

Sent From The Moon :-)
[Epic 4G General] Dameon87:
I concur. The EVO looks completely over-saturated. Anyone who knows photography or picture dynamics can tell you that the pictures comparisons above prove that the Epic takes more natural looking pictures. All it is is an over-compensation on the part of HTC to attempt to balance out the quality of their almost always horrible cameras. And for the record; More megapixels does not always mean a better picture.

+1 for the Epic's camera.
[Epic 4G General] sling:
+1 except for night shot.

In that shot EVO looks to give more detail on building windows etc catching night refection light better
[Epic 4G General] b1indsided:
I've compared both as well and the epic pics are more real and close 2 life like colors.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Actually the night shot is definitely better on the Epic..it is true that you can see more stuff in the EVO picture...but notice the weird unnatural brightness...also look at the closer lamp post one epic you can see the lens flare and light as it should be..on EVO its completely bland with no light depth...

Whats happening is Epic is achieving closer blacks as EVO is trying to compensate visualization by highlighting everything..

Look at the mirror glass...notice in the epic the rim stays the same color in all the pics, on the night pic the rim completely changes color..not to mention the epic shows an actual reflection there..unlike the EVO which completely fails due to the highlighting.

On the other pics yes, EVO seems to have more detail..it may be due to he 3 mp or it may be due to Epic compressing the image. The colors though on EVO are WAY off though...
[Epic 4G General] jbmn:
I've owned both the Epic and Evo. In my opinion, the Evo was worthless as a camera. The quality is was inconsistent and the flash blew out the quality.

The Epic on the other hand is one of the better cameras I've seen on a phone. I used the Panoramic feature on it last weekend and it worked great. Definitely more feature rich in terms of camera, and the quality seems to be more consistent.
[Epic 4G General] monadzback:
Guys, just because you have more MP does not mean the picture will be better quality. Just bigger. And I challenge you to take 720p video with the two.... the Epic will blow your minds. The EVO has horrible compression and going from low to high light the evo stays with the lower frame rate where the epic adjusts. Plain and simple the Epic destroys the evo in video.
[Epic 4G General] orateam:
i have to weigh in on this topic. I am a big user of phone cameras. I have toyed with photography for over a decade and have been looking for a decent camera phone for a long time. That is why i still kept an LG Renior around. I have my wife use it even though she doesn't use the camera. But when i need a good photo, i just ask for her phone.

Anyhow, i had the Evo and found that I could only get so so pictures with it. Mostly it had to do with software. On the Galaxy S I was able to get great photos. It rivals the Renoir. I know none of these phones have a camera worth ditching my canon's for, but still nice to have around when i need it. The guy who took these photos should set both to night mode. And the ISO's to the lowest possible setting. When i take galaxy photos at night at 100 ISO, they are not grainy. your subject needs to be still, but in those photos, the subject was static.

To me, i'd rate the galaxy about an 8 as far as camera phones go. I'd rate the EVO a 5.
[Epic 4G General] smashpunks:
Does the epic have night mode? If so the night shot should have looked better.
[Epic 4G General] The_Real_D/\SH:
hahaha i was on breaks at work and that is bethind the building in a parking spot where i go for a smoke.... just went for my lunch and 2 breaks and snapped a photo while doing so on all three.
[Epic 4G General] Six-Deuce:
I went and swapped out the Evo for an Epic recently. So this isn't biased in any way since I do have the Epic, but the Evo takes some amazing photos. 90% or better are not oversaturated. There are certain photos that do feel bluish, but i took over 300 - 400 photos of my baby girl and the photos look crystal clear with very realistic color. The photos rival those of my 10 Megapixel DSL camera. I have to give this to the Evo. I haven't taken nearly as many photos with the Epic yet, but the 3 MP makes a huge difference on the photos. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on this, but I can't justify 3 MP less and hundreds of photos that prove me otherwise, just to feel better about the epic. I love this phone anyways so I'm not complaining, but that is the one thing the Evo just wins in my opinion and I personally can't argue it.
[Epic 4G General] enter260:
you mean dslr? there is no way the evo or any cellphone comes even close to the quality of a dslr, and if you knew anything about photography, you would know that more megapixels (more often than not) does not equate to better picture quality.
[Epic 4G General] volcomjerk:
You either have a crappy dSLR, smoking something great, or have bad taste.
[Epic 4G General] bomix:
Yeah I totally agree.. I have both phones also.. I'm on the epic only because of the camera! soo much better.
[Epic 4G General] Rydah:
I gotta say the evo looks better in those pics.
[Android Apps and Games] athornz:
I've just started using my car dock for my nexus and I am really disappointed with the car dock app. There is a second screen with empty spaces but no way to add shortcuts.

And I would expect there to be car versions of apps like messaging, contacts, and phone.

Having to answer a call in the car by sliding the answer button is not very safe. We should be able to just click one big button.

I am getting into android development, what would be involved in modifying the app/ creating car versions of the the apps mentioned above. Is it doable?
[Android Apps and Games] ZeroBarrier:
No offense, but your logic is flawed. Answering any call, looking at any texts, or doing anything at all with your phone while driving is not safe, period.

But if you are really that desperate for a customizable car home, check the market out fo Custom Car Home and Car Dock v2. Both of these will do exactly what you are looking for.
[Android Apps and Games] athornz:
Well yes its not safe, but isnt that the point of a car dock/app? To make these actions safer to do while driving, handsfree?

I have checked out those apps, but they don't quite have the same polish in terms of interface as the Car Home app, and only really accomplish the shortcut issue. Not the issue of actions like answering a call, picking a contact not being suitable for in car.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiNJiN76:
Tried everything I could imagine. ROM Manager...Amon Ra's, Windows and used a Partition software. It always hangs (because it never get's past a certain point). Amon Ra just keeps going and going and going and never stops (left it for over 8 hours one time). ROM Manager says that it did it...but it didn't. Windows software also just keeps going and going and going.

I'm out of ideas. Why won't my SD card partition? It's a 16GB ADATA class 6 card. When I interrupt the partition process...I can see that it has partially partitioned the card...but not to the full capacity I requested.

It's weird because when I first got the card...I was able to partition without problems...only took a couple minutes or so with Amon Ra recovery. Now, nothing... I'm clueless...

Can anybody help me out? :confused:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilchip85:
did you format your sd after you interrupted the partition? maybe that will help?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzecher:
I suggest you to copy all files to PC and then delete the current partition with a partition manager (do not resize it). Then, create the partitions you need again. It may be better to create them with ROM Manager.

And if that fails, you may do a surface test of your card, since it may have bad clusters. In this case I would not use that card.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiNJiN76:
Yeah...format was required by the phone.

Okay...so I'm going to delete the partition...then go straight into ROM Manager and see if that works.

Thanks for the replies!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ken101:
Hello,

I am a rookie in android world, i just rooted my HTC EVO with 2.2. I was wondering if some can tell me the benefits of rooting the device and tips and tricks

thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martyzidek:
I wonder why would you root your phone and have not one clue on what it does or what you can do with it. And if you rooted your phone obviously you know how to look through a forum.. also you should do nand unlock also.

Anyways. Things like over, underclock, use 3rd party apps, use apps that have to have root in order to use. That's some. There is a search button that helps out alot unless you are using the app for xda then use Google. Also if you read through topics if mostly on topics when rooted. Also custom roms and kernels.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ken101:
Please provide some helpful guidelines instead of criticism
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martyzidek:
Yeah that was putting it lightly. People are going to flame you for posting something you can learn by just reading a few posts in each thread.. or going to back out and nit even give you 10 seconds of their life because you fail to read or search on a topic that makes this forum. If it wasn't for rooting and all the other stuff that comes with it. And I gave you some info. I don't feel like searching everything for you and posting the link.

Edit: helpful guidelines... search button and Google are very helpful. Serious and all, spend a hour on here in the forums and you will answer the questions on your post. I was new on here when I got my evo. I rooted because I heard what you can do. Not because I heard about root and had no clue. If you Google there are yahoo topics asking this and fully explains. Wiki fully in detail explains this. So many other websites and forums have the info you want. I'm not trying to sound rude here and people might take it as rude. You will probably here 10 times from people about the search button after hearing it from me.

Edit again. There isn't really any guidelines after root. Depends what you want to do after. Use apps that use root, use a custom rom or kernel, or theme and customize everything... well almost everything..

If I could post links to the info I prob would.. but can't..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martyzidek:
The main thing after rooting and nand unlock is to be able to use custom roms and kernels. There are 2 types. Sense and senseless roms. Senseless roms are called asop. Cm6 is a rom that has no sense in it at all.

You can use setcpu which is a paid app in the market to overclock or underclock. You need a custom kernel and sometimes with stock kernel you can overclock. You don't need a custom kernel to underclock. Also there are many thing implemented in kernels to help your phone run faster or use less battery. Read all kernels. Some kernels can only run on sense or asop roms.

You can change most stuff on your phone. When you turn phone on you have the splash screen which is the first thing on. Then you have bootscreen. Both can be changed. You can change the icons with an app in the market but forgot the name of it.

There are different launchers. Launcher pro and adw launcher.

Each has there own pros and cons.

You can change keyboards... like swype and Droid x keyboard or ones in market.

Most of the icons on the status bar can be changed. There are themes that theme everything on your phone..

So much more.. you can spend hours on here and find new stuff to do. You will probably put a custom rom on and kernel and there almost all of them or enough and find one that suites your needs...

Hope this helps better.. I'm bored at home while girlfriend is at the bar..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ken101:
Thanks now for the help. Any special Rom thats the besy?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martyzidek:
Depends on what you are looking for... every rom is different. They all look different.. and some take out gapps (Google apps) and sprint apps.. just try one first to learn how to flash a rom and understand how to do that. Then just read up on roms and find one that suites you..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ijrod21i:
It's really up to personal choice. Just make sure that you back up your phone and that you have NAND unlocked.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ken101:
How do I figure out if I have nand unlocked, what's the good software that I can use to backup my phone
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazyon2wheels:
There is lots of information on the xda website a good place to start is http://tinyurl.com/25tc3xr