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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hortstu:
Well I guess I'm going to start over and wait for the latest unrevoked to come back out. Thanks to everyone that tried to help. "NO ROOT FOR YOU!"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
You have a lot to learn....

First of all, don't rename the sdcard, rename pc36img.zip. Just rename it to anything you want so boat loader doesn't recognize it and try to update itself. Next, you aren't utilizing root. You do have a rooted boot loader, but you are still using a protected recovery and rom. Install a custom recovery and flash a new rom so you can be cool.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hortstu:
Yes, I know I have a lot to learn. I didn't rename the sdcard, that wasn't possible. I figured part of the problem with getting this to work was the path. My sdcard wasn't called sdcard it was called some 8 digit number. I eventually worked around pushing the file to the sd card by installing the phone as a drive and dragging the file to the sdcard.

After I rebooted and updated/ flashed the file, I renamed the file on the sdcard by removing the .zip. I did this via disk drive on my laptop because I wasn't getting anywhere with the command line.

Again this part didn't make any sense to me, not that most of it does, but what was the point of the next command in the directions if I renamed the file?

Right "I have a lot to learn" I thought following the directions in toasts tutorial step by step would have gotten me to that point. I didn't realize I was just supposed to skip stuff when I run into problems. That kinda seems like what your telling me to do. I thought all of the commands were important.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hortstu:
I was hoping you had some follow up insight dkdude.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigmoogle:
if you still on 2.1, try this method (just make sure the files aren't corrupted)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741294
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dragooon123:
I got 2 questions for CM6, I'll be getting my Desire back by Thursday hopefully :

1) CM6 by default doesn't have any of the Google's applications, including the Market App. I know it has a separate package, but it has too many Google's applications. The only ones I want from it are the Market, and the necessary ones required for operation(Google's accounts for authentication, setup wizard etc). Rest I want to download from Market(I see that most are available from it). So can I just delete the apps from the system folder in the package? If so, what are the must ones that must be kept?

2) Is the SD card required to be partitioned in 3 partitions(Fat32 + Ext2/3/4 + Linux Swap) when using CM6?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.vandalay:
1. you can open gapps.zip and remove all the apps you don't need in /system...don't know which are "must have"

than you zip it back and flash it ,you can sign it but you don't have to...you can flash unsigned gapps.zip using clockwork recovery

2.no CM doesn't use apps2sd(ext) they use native froyo a2sd

hope this helps
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dragooon123:
I got another Q, can a Goldcard be used as a normal SD Card? I mean I plan on making one as soon as I get my Desire but I'll preserve it for future needs, I SLCD bricked my last one and realised the importance of having one. So would that be a good idea?

Thanks for your reply, it helps :). Also, what are the kind of partitions I need to create for the SD card to be usable in the phone as well as Amon Ra's or ClockworkMod's Recovery? I created a FAT32 one using Windows and GParted(2 different times) but Clockwork's recovery or fastboot couldn't recognize them.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenmhp:
Yes the goldcard can be used as a regular sd-card :)

And for partitioning you only need a fat32 one as long as you don't run any old a2sd. Using windows should work fine, but you could try partitioning it again with amonra or something similar. And are you sure, you haven't got something wrong. The recovery is usually easily able to read fat32 easily, and how do you see, recovery and fastboot doesn't recognize it? :)
[Dash 3G, Snap General] bloken:
i can't add recipient into message.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mobile_mogul:
I know our device is considered a mid range device and that one of the main reasons we can't port other roms is due to the lack of an hd screen. What if we were to take the screen density changer from the android apps forum and incorperate that with say the evo or galaxy rom? It would allow us to use these roms without having to resize every image. I'm just thinking out loud. I pm'd CR about it hoping he could work on it, but haven't had a response back yet. Let me know.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] infinitybiff:
I'm not entirely sure its impossible. Can we figure out what rez the pixel density changer can get us to? If it can get us to an hdpi rez ill give it a shot.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] infinitybiff:
ignore my last post. Not thinking this is possible. The pixel density doesn't affect the device resolution from what I can tell. See attached screenshot. Things look smaller (appears to have higher res) however, screenshot is still the same stock res. :( I'll change some more build prop settings to see if i can get some different or better results. Fyi this is pixel density set @ 130.

EDIT: It does make angry birds lite fit better on the screen, gonna play with some other settings in the build prop and some hdpi apps and see if I can make something happen for you guys.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mobile_mogul:
Good stuff. I know it won't change anything about the resolution, but it allows the device to mock a higher resolution on the screen. Just seems like we should be able to view bigger images on the screen. I'm gonna take an image with the mts's resolution and the same image but with the galaxy's resolution and see if they display full screen in their respective settings in the density changer. Should be a good test.

Edit: Just remembered, the netbooks running android only display icons 4 wide from the factory. Your screenshot reminded me of that. If those screens which are higher res than ours look the same as ours (the icons are bigger only because the screen is bigger) then in theory this should work.

Edit 2: Just for ****s and giggles I read through the comments on the market for lcd density changer. On the hdpi devices people are complaining about certain widgets not scaling well, but the mdpi devices are only having issues when scaling to funky non-standard resolutions... just wanted to post another reason why with a little hackage, this should work.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nbetcher:
I'm working on finalizing my DPI changer app. It should be possible because the Android specs states that pixels = density * ( dpi / 160 ) or something like that (I don't have the page pulled up right now). My program is 90% complete... the logistics are done, but it just has an error wsaving, but it's due to programmer error most likely. ;)

So, for example to scale an image from HDPI to MDPI you take the X resolution and multiply it times 0.75 and let the image program lock the aspect ratio (e.g. don't specify the Y resolution). MDPI to HDPI is (obviously) multiplied by 1.25.

Hope that helps.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] infinitybiff:
THanks for the info :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] infinitybiff:
Anyone know where/how an apk determines its going to render in mdpi v hdpi? My guess is the build.prop, but It doesn't appear to gather that info from the pixel density. (rom manager won't cover the entire screen when lcd density is set to 130 so i'm thinking its sensing mdpi some other way) Any help would be appreciated :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] infinitybiff:
You may want to change the thread name to something like "THINKTANK: MDPI To HDPI Port via Pixel Desnity"

That way people will have a better idea what the thread is about :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mobile_mogul:
Changed. Also, I wasnt able to test anything last night as it got pretty late, but I have tonight and all day off tomorrow to tinker around with things.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] r0man:
The problem is that HDPI devices don't have MDPI drawables, so every image in every app (and then some) have to be scaled down.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Whoareyou:
I have a program on my computer called image resizer, that let's me right click on the pic in file explorer and click resize photo, the select 320x480 and it rezises it for you.

Sent from my HTC Espresso, that is apperantly a failing device using the XDA App
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] PcFish:
What version you using? 2.1?

It keeps aspect ratio so sometimes it doesn't resize perfectly. ie when I try to resize boot screens it converts to 296x480 instead.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mobile_mogul:
That would be the purpose of the density changer. No need to resize any images. Just load the changer and it visualizes a higher resolution on the screen....
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] r0man:
Wouldn't that cost alot of CPU power to dynamically resize the images?

I've never used the density changer so I wouldn't know.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mobile_mogul:
Ok, after chattin with IB, he provided a little insight on how the density changer works.

I just got the touchwiz ui to load no problem on the slide by changing the density to an HDPI equivalent. It's still a little "off". But im gonna keep tweaking it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mobile_mogul:
Ok, so I've been able to get pretty much anything made for the n1 to run properly on the slide. Only thing i've had issues with are when loading the touchwiz ui, it is all pushed to the left side of the screen. If I can force tw to use 5 columns it would fill the screen and we'd have an almost full port of the tw launcher.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mobile_mogul:
Sorry to triple post, but it wouldnt use any extra cpu cycles... All the res changer does is change the value in the build.prop.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] r0man:
But its still displaying an HDPI image, just scaled down?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Whoareyou:
Well I installed Density Changer from the market, but it won't do any thing, it says it works nut when I reboot my phone nothing is any different, and its still at the default res, any idea on why this is????

Sent from my HTC Espresso, that is apperantly a failing device using the XDA App
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nbetcher:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785864
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rapidfire224:
so with this, could we port the evo rosie apk that has working livewallpapers to work with the stock slide rom? :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whipon:
Recently bought a Samsung I897 Captivate. Its a unlocked phone and I'm using it in Argentina with Movistar. My previous phone was a Motorola Milestone, and it sometimes changed the connection from 3G / HSDPA to 2G (EDGE), in 3G areas. The solution was to go to APN settings, enable "2G only", then disabling it, and the phone instantly switched to 3G again.

However, the Captivate doesn't have such option. Setting the phone to Flight Mode its useless, it will keep connecting in 2G.

Only solution I found at the moment was to go to Network Mode (*#0011#) then navigate to Network Control => Band Selection, selecting WCDMA only, and then enabling Automatic again.

That seems to reset the connection.

I searched in the market for free and paid apps to help me fix this issue, but I found nothing, only the Toggle 2G app, but it only works with Cyanogen Mod.

I have some questions:

If I set the connection to WCDMA only, then I'll have no signal at all in 2G areas, right?.

Does anyone know a quicker way to do this?. I tried to make a shortcut to ServiceMode with dg Quickcut but when I try to open it it crashed the phone.

Thanks in advance.

Whipon.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
as of right now, there is no "fix" for this. the best you COULD do is to flash Eugene's VibrantHybrid ROM where the "use 2g networks only" option does exist, but you'll lose GPS (for now)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whipon:
Thanks for the quick reply Kaik541.

Does the signal strength improve with that rom?.

Currently I'm using I897UCJH7 from samfirmware.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
you should revert back to JH3 if you're going to use Hybrid (I don't believe JH7 is compatible yet, there are some issues that cropped up with SRE, so it would be safer to do JH3, or even better JF6). I've seen slightly better reception and MUCH better battery life running Hybrid
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whipon:
It seems it will be updated soon.

Maybe I'll give it a try.

Do you know if it removes the 850 band?.

I need it, because my carrier uses it for WCDMA.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkVasyaK:
Try this:

1. In the Market, download Any Cut. (This is a free app) 2. open Any Cut and choose New Shortcut 3. select Activity 4. Scroll down the list until you get to Phone Info 5. Select OK. (this will place the short cut on your homescreen) 6. Open the shortcut and scroll down until you see "Set Preferred Network Type" 7. Choose GSM only and you are set. This forces the phone to EGDE

I used this to force edge. Use google to download AnyCut, it doesn't exist on the market for the unknown reason
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cincy1020:
I just discovered Juice Defender. One of its features is to set phone to 2G automatically (seems very configurable). I haven't really had a chance to test it, but thought I'd mention it to you anyway :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whipon:
Thanks a lot. I use dg Quickcut for that.

But, I don't need to force EDGE, I need a way to force 3G :p.

The phone usually switchs to EDGE in 3G areas, and I need to change it back to 3G.

I've used your suggestion to make such shortcut, changed it to WCDMA only, clicked the Disable Radio button twice (because it didn't changed to 3G), and when it switched back to 3G, I changed back the network to GSM / CDMA auto.

What about WCDMA preferred?. Will it try to allways connect to 3G?.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xatrekak:
can yall not just dial * # * # 4636 #*#* scroll to the bottom and chnage it there, just so happens i posted a how to earlier in the general section, works on stock ROMS afaik.

also GPS still works
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xatrekak:
read my previous post.

it has a WCDMA preferred WDMA only (only uses 3g) and a bunch of others. read my post in general for a more detailed explanation.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whipon:
Thanks a lot

Thanks, but Mesasone pointed me to a great app in the market.

Its called Samservmode. It opens service mode without entering any codes.

Anyways, thanks for your help ;).
[Epic 4G General] goodelyfe:
i could have sworn that this phone auto rotates right? regardless if keyboard is out or not?

i know it may not be full rotate

is she supposed to rotate with the stock launcher? or does orientation only flip when keyboard is out?
[Epic 4G General] goodelyfe:
SN: of course launcher pro works fine..... i just wanted to know if touchwiz launcher was supposed to work like that as well
[Epic 4G General] NeonMonster:
In short, no.

TouchWiz only rotates if you slide out the keyboard.
[Epic 4G General] goodelyfe:
okay so i am tripping. lol

thanks!!!

cuz i coulda swore i had it rotate the screen once but i guess im wrong.

thanks again!
[Epic 4G General] ePIC4G:
go into settings display settings and check tap orientation to enable rotation orientation
[Epic 4G General] robl45:
it did before the update to add amazon mp3 garbage.
[Epic 4G General] goodelyfe:
it is enabled

dah well
[Epic 4G General] Gopena:
There has to be a way to force TouchWiz rotation. I have a vibrant, and now that the dock is out, there has to be something the dock does to force rotation on the touchwiz homescreen.

anyone have any ideas?
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
u be tripping ;)

as long as we're asking questions, i could have sworn that you could re-order the touch wiz screens but i'm thinking it might have been because was on the epic experience rom.... was that a TW 3.0 feature?
[Epic 4G General] josidhe:
Pinch zoom out to get to that feature.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
from the home screen on a stock phone? not working. not a huge deal i just remeber being able to do it
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 1999TL:
I see there is an SMS time fix in the market. this uses the phone's time instead of network time. I like this better b/c I hate getting out of order texts.

My question is if this application takes up battery? I know in winmo it was a simple reg edit, but I don't know if a process is constantly running for this. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thgill:
Hiya gang!

New member here. Thanks to this wonderful forum I have been able to update my Captivate to the most recent 2.1 Firmware JH7. I also ran Unleash the Beast to gain Root access, sideloading and to remove unneeded ATT and Samsung Bloat.

However, it didn't occur to me that the Memo app was part of that bloat that was going to be removed. Silly me.

I know there are more full featured Memopad type apps in the Market Place, however I really liked the simplicity and straight forwardness of the included Memo app. I found it very handy for jotting down random thoughts.

Sadly I didn't back these apps up before Unleash the Beast unleashed some deleting action on them.

So, anywhere I can obtain that Memo app from? Possible to extract it from a firmware?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparker366:
Google is your friend. Try is sometimes it works wonders. I just googled what you were looking for and came up with a link to all the apk's on here http://208.100.42.21/showthread.php?t=712594
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glio1337:
I'd take a look at "AK Notedpad". I too wanted a very simple note program and it's the best one I've found.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dayv:
wizard memo in the market is a simple but nice memo pad.
[Vibrant General] flameinthefire:
What can we do? I dont want to mess with anything again because i know if anything goes wrong i cant get in to download mode.. But i too want to flash the new roms and gps fixes. Is there anyway to make the hardware buttons unlocked?
[Vibrant General] jonathan3579:
Why not use adb? I used it and Odin for the first time two days ago flashing this new patch and it was quite simple. I, like you, have a hardware locked handset. Let's hope it didn't take you nearly the same two hours that it took me. :p
[Vibrant General] mr2t32:
You can root using clockworks and run some of the patch through clockworks too. Try not to use odin unless you really know what you're doing. A lot have odin hang on them. Other than that, you can flash rom using clockworks.
[Vibrant General] glensta:
I received 1 of the new hardware-locked phones and used adb to get into "download mode" - but odin got stuck and I had to unplug the phone and tried plugging it back in and it didn't work. Once I took the battery out, I got the dreaded "phone to pc" icon. I tried a whole lotta combinations all read here on XDA - nothing worked. One I got that "phone to pc" icon - i was screwed. Adb doesn't work at that point.

Basically - I wouldn't use Odin with one of the newer vibrants - only update.zip stuff

*Just a suggestion*
[Vibrant General] Chief Geek:
TWO HOURS! Lucky SOB, took me over 4 hours, but I was at work with nothing better to do then to play with it on and off, google some more, crawl xda, play some more....rinse repeat...

But I don't think there will be an official "fix" as in their eyes nothing is broken. It is as they intended. I'm not really sure if this move was by tmo or samsung, but regardless it's a PITA. I used ADB. The hardest part is getting the drivers in, after that it's easy cake walk thanks to the wealth of knowledge here at xda.
[Vibrant General] flameinthefire:
exactly my point. this is what happened to me. but think about this lets say i flash a rom right and you know how sometimes it hangs on the vibrant screen and just stays there. and in order to get it back i am going have to use odin. which i cant.......... so i think i wont mess with anything anymore. Rather just wait for official 2.2 ota update. :(
[Vibrant General] Viralblack:
Take it back and do a warranty exchange cause the buttons arent working correctly.
[Vibrant General] RobBull69:
I've never tried it because I could never get Kies to connect to my phone, but isn't there a way to update firmware through Kies? I know the i9000 guys use Kies to upgrade, but I think that's only to get drivers and the updates though. I wish Samsung had a better interface than Odin to flash firmware. It's absolute garbage.
[Vibrant General] sparks.calvin:
Hello, I am new to this android stuff but think I may have a problem and no hardware keys may come into play.

I rooted my phone for no other reason than to remove bloatware

I removed what I new was safe and left alot on the phone just because I was not sure what to remove

Phone was working great and had no problems

I decided I wanted to do a factory reset to remove all my apps and user data etc.....

I did do a titanium back up of my apps so I could easily resinstall if I wanted

I did the reset and now as soon as the phone boots I get TWLauncher force close and just about any other app that tries to load just continuose force close loop

I did not remove the original launcher so I am not sure why this is happening but I cant flash since I cant get into download mode and I cant use ADB since my phone wont let me put into debug what to do?????????????
[Vibrant General] Chididdy123:
This is how I got out of "phone to pc"

get into download mode (i went through it manually, as in plug in the phone, and pressing the volume buttons together at the same time)

Connected to ODIN, and by perfect accident, I clicked on "start" without placing ANY files in ANY spots.

This is what I thought "OMG $h!t" Well my phone was already bricked enough, so i just let it run its course through ODIN. My phone magically rebooted, and it booted into the ROM i had installed before I got the "phone to pc" problem.
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
Whats the disadvantage of having a hardware locked phone?

From what I'm reading i cant load custom roms? or can use Oden?

Also I just got mine and im sure its hardware locked but how can I tell

TIA
[Vibrant General] pgibbons:
The disadvantage is that it is harder (maybe impossible in some situations?) to get into the Download mode if something goes wrong during a ROM update. You can still load custom ROMS but if something goes wrong, you might not be able to get to Download mode to be able to fix it.

I had the phone ! PC screen on mine when I first tried to unsuccessfully flash Vibrant8. Luckily, my Vibrant doesn't seem to be hardware locked and I was able to get back into Download mode and re-flash it with Odin.
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
I'm able to access download mode with volume keys and i can access recovery mode so i guess im ok

also date on box is 8/27/10
[Vibrant General] Superfrag:
How do you know whether you have a hardware locked Vibrant or not?
[Vibrant General] eugene373:
No No No.......

When you can't get into Download MOde....

assuming you just got a Hang in ODIN Flasher...

1. Un-plug usb from Phone ( But still plugged into the Computer )

2. Pull Battery

3. Let the Phone sit for 15 to 30 seconds

4. Plug in USB to Both Phone & PC if not already

5. Hold Both Volume Buttons

6. Put Battery in while still holding Volume Buttons.

My Phone is HW Locked as well, with a v1 board.

every-time I get odin hang, doing the above always results in letting me re-flash.

These Phone's by Design are hard to brick, unless you>

A. Change SBL

B. Use the Wrong .pit file for Partitioning

C. param.lfs does not Brick the Phone, but Does mess with Screen rendering

~Eugene