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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungVibrant:
Hardware Locked, huh? really? on the vibrant?

Can someone explain what hardware locked vibrant is. Is this some term you guys made up. I can not for the life of me, figure out, why in the world Samsung would ship some phones hardware locked and others not.

Makes no sense, someone explain, seems like this is a made up term which does not apply to Vibrant.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0080:
Either Samsung is being completely ignorant to this issue or they have the worst quality control. I am beginning to think it's both. Simply google searching brings up lots of results on this issue.

My first Vibrant (USB port eventually broke) 3 button recovery worked fine; dated July 15. The replacement after that did not work, nor did the one after that. Those were both made on Aug 16. I finally got a refund under buyer's remorse and waited another week. Got my fourth Vibrant today, made 09/01 and yes it does work with 3 button recovery.

Keep in mind none of my Vibrants were refurbished units. They were all brand new. I think Samsung has a serious flaw on their hands. I'm concerned about keeping this phone even but I added the insurance on it just in case.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
By "hardware locked" they mean that you cannot access the phone's recovery or dl mode using the 3 button method.

this has apparently started with the 08/**/2010 batches. beforehand this phone was deemed "unbrickable" but it's now actually possible with the newer shipments so ppl have got to be a lot careful trying to mod their phones now.

on a side note: i've read that Samsung Mobile Canada has admitted that the hardware locked phones are in actuality a defect. hopefully Samsung Mobile USA will come to the same conclusion.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
I think that's the first phone dated after 08/** that i've heard of actually having the 3 btn modes work. My bf has a vibrant and I've been holding off purchasing one myself since hearing about the hardware locked ones. i've been literally scouring ebay for a phone that was a part of the July batch.

well, this gives me a little hope. :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungVibrant:
Well just my 2 cents on the topic, entering recovery mode required following strict steps, miss 1 single step, and you won't get into recovery.

now as far as download mode goes, I have been able to get into it once. This was by accident, I was randomly doing various sequences of volume rocker and power, it went into download mode. Now since then, I have no clue what sequence I used, but I have never been able to get into download mode ever again.

Additionally, my phone is dated 7/2010, so the 8/2010 batch theory doesn't hold since I can not get into download mode either now.

To get into Recovery Mode, follow these steps.

Okay, I'm reading lots of people having trouble getting into recovery mode, thinking their phone is broken or busted. Chances are you are not holding down the power button log enough, or you are letting go of something too quick.

FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS STEP BY STEP.

1) START with your phone off

2) Press volume up AND volume down at same time, keep them pressed in the entire time, do NOT let go. I prefer to hold my phone in landscape, this gives me better control with my fingers.

3) WHILE holding down volume up and volume down, press and hold power button, DO NOT LET GO OF ANYTHING. You should be holding down volume up, volume down, and power, DON'T LET GO! HOLD ON... and proceed to next steps, dont let go!

4) PHONE will start, you will see the white Vibrant logo. STILL DON'T LET GO, volume down, volume up, and power all pressed.

5) White Vibrant logo disappears, still dont let go!

6) White Vibrant logo re-appears again for the second time. Right when you see the white vibrant logo pop up a second time, let go of ONLY the power button, keep holding down volume down and volume up.

7) Phone enters recovery mode, you can let go the volume rocker.

hope this helps, it worked for me, hopefully it works for you also.

now can someone post sure fire method into getting into download without needing to connect the phone to your computer and using odin?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungVibrant:
Hate to break it to you, my phone is made in July, and it WILL NOT go into download mode, I do however get into recovery mode.

That phone date batch theory doesn't hold true, so you can stop searching for july phones.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0080:
Samsung Mobile USA support is worthless. I called three times and finally got someone in "premier support" who didn't know anything. He actually went as far as to tell me a simple data wipe would resolve this problem, ha! I then got a hold of someone at Samsung Telecom corporate office who said he'd look into it and never called me back. No surprise there either. I think it's kind of sad that people are having to resort to Facebook wall comments to get a company to start backing it's products.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungVibrant:
Thanks to sabooher, I was able to get into download mode with no problems, I hope this works for you, and thank you again sabooher.

okay, start off with your phone turned off

hold down both volume down and volume up at the same time, do not touch the power button

now, get your usb cable, have one end into your computer, the other end put into your vibrant, while you are still holding down the volume up and volume down at same time. dont touch power button

your phone hopefully will now go into download mode!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FenixGryph:
Nope, no good.

Had the sdk already, so that was no problem. With usb debugging on, I had the same problem I've always had with adb - error: device not found.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
Sure, it's all over their facebook page. I've read tons of android sites so I can't quote the site that led me to this page but I've been following the Samsung Mobile Canada FB page over the last few days about it. Suffice it to say: the Bell customers are really not pleased with the 3 btn issue: Samsung Mobile Canada

maybe you don't have the correct drivers installed, try the ones from this thread --> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728929
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterotaku:
Well here's my take on things. I got my phone (July 11th build date) directly from T-Mobile corporate. Came via FEDEX on launch day. Long story, suffice to say I had Behold II and complained to the right people at the right time and got swapped a Vibrant to basically shut me up. :)

Entering download mode seems to be very timing specific even for this original batch phone. There is only one way I can reliably get download mode 100% of the time...

- Pull battery

- plug in to USB cable connected to PC

- hold down VOL DOWN + VOL UP (DO NOT HOLD DOWN POWER)

- Insert battery

Alternately I can get into download mode using VOL DOWN+ VOL UP + POWER, but I have to be very careful to catch the right moment after the Vibrant logo appears the 2nd time to release power to get download mode.

When I ODIN, I use the first method always now.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazycaveman:
That's odd. I've never had a problem getting into download mode; in fact, I was confused the first time it happened cuz I didn't mean to! All I have to do is make sure the USB cable is plugged in and then hold all 3 buttons when I turn it on and into download mode it goes.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterotaku:
I tend to have bad luck with Odin too. I've seen the "ohsh*t" icon many times...

(note: the "ohsh*t" icon is what I call the phone/caution symbol/pc icon I tend to see quite often) :)

When that happens the ONLY way I can get back to download mode is the battery-insert method.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathan3579:
It definitely sounds like you don't have the correct drivers installed. My drivers were downloaded through the installation of Kies, however, is your computer online while you are attempting this? I can only speak for my computer which is running Windows 7, but it automatically downloads any updated/new drivers necessary when connected online.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FenixGryph:
woot!

Ha ha!! The drivers were the problem. I was under the impression I only had to install the samsung drivers if I was on a 64 bit system.

I'm looking at my recovery menu now and am very happy! Wish I had time to do the stuff I wanted to do the vibrant before work, but I gotta make a couple of bucks before I get this guy set up just how I want.

See? I knew XDA was the place to be. Many thanks Oniyuri and jonathan3579!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jakewill:
:( Well, go figure. I didn't know when the expiration date would hit, and sure enough, today is the day (9/18). If it makes you guys mad, imagine the frustration of the guy who spent dozens of hours relearning photoshop, learning hex color code, finding the tracer hex offset, learning how to properly edit and un-sign an apk file, learning to sign an apk file, re-relearning photoshop to make things look nicer, then re-re-relearning photoshop to make things look even nicer, then re-re-re-relearning photoshop to discover "Actions" that can automate the theming task, then creating five new keyboards, only to find that they've all expired!!! :)

Well, no regrets, that's my motto... That, and "Everybody Wang-Chung Tonight." At least I now can run Photoshop in my sleep, and maybe my skins I have made will easily port to a new version of Swype+Mic.

Thanks for the compliments and feedback, fellas. I'll take down the APKs to avoid confusion. The project will be on hold until noted otherwise.

jakewill

Attached below are the modded/skinned versions of Swype.

***********

INSTRUCTIONS

***********

1. Uninstall any previous versions of Swype and Swype Installer

2. Unzip downloaded file and install APK.

3. Allow Swype as an input method - MENU>Settings>Language and Keyboard>Check next to Swype>Hit home button to apply changes

4. Long press in any text input box (search, email subject, etc.) and click "Input Method". Choose Swype

5. Profit.

Update 9/17 - SWYPE TRIAL EXPIRED until further notice. :)

Update 9/16:

-Added 6 Keyboard APKs

--Black/Gray/Orange

--Black/Gray/Gray

--Black/Green/Green

--Black/Red/Red

--Gray/Black/Orange

--Gray/Black/Black
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thatdudebutch:
awesome! using it now! if you can figure out how to make an all black one that would be awesome as well!

edit-

immediate FC??

edit2-

Possible borked DL, second download worked fine. THX!!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jakewill:
First post updated with Gray-Inverted themed Swype. :)

It isn't "all black" but it was quick and easy for today. Hopefully that will get you by.

I plan on doing more themes later, as the hard work is done now (photoshop layers ftw).

Let me know what other themes you want (Be specific, if possible)

jakewill
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jakewill:
I haven't had that issue, did you uninstall your old Swype first? Try that.

jakewill
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Upstreammiami:
thanks! man awesome work
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] neotericpiguy:
I could really use a green swype with mic also. Props on find a swype with mic enabled though. I've been looking for a long time.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] khanam:
And I would love a red one with mic. Also does this require me to have a beta test license? I currently use one which does not require a beta license - the droiddoes themed one but some others I have tried say beta trial has expired or something like that.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] sheepforwheat:
which release version of swype is this based off of?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jakewill:
Done, see first post.

Also, could you edit out (delete) your huge image in your post to avoid confusion? Thanks!

Done, see first post. :)

Done, see first post. :)

1.56.30.7625

Thanks for the input, guys!

First post updated with screenshots and APKs!

jakewill
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] KGBxxx:
Any reason you didn't use the new 1.6 version of swype? Just wondering

Sent from DI

Ruby w/ Kings #1 Kernel

2.0.5 radio
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jakewill:
Did that version have a mic? Where is that version? Link? What is better about it? Does it expire? I want answers! :)

Thanks,

jakewill
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] sheepforwheat:
I know there is at least a 1.61 version out there, but it doe not have a mic. Can someone add a mic to 1.61, that's all i want :D
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thatdudebutch:
Awesome bro! If possible, request for a inverted grey like in the OP with cyan tracer and possibly a little darker of a background? Awesome work my friend!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jakewill:
So, BlackKeys/GrayAccents/CyanTracer/BlackBackground? :)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] BillytheKid82:
cyan theme would be great!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jakewill:
So BlackKeys/CyanAccents/CyanTracer?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] BillytheKid82:
yep! that would look nice
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thatdudebutch:
I myself think cyan accent buttons may be to busy looking.. Cyan letters and tracer would be awesome though!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thatdudebutch:
That as well!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] JAYNO20:
Any chance for all red keys with a black background?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] cpredsox:
gizmodo just posted an article about OpenFeint bringing more games to the market. You can grab MiniSquadron for one dollar right now on the Market. It's a pretty addicting game. I hope this opens the door to more quality games being sold on the Market. Below is the article in quotes.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] zephiK:
Been playing Fruit Ninja.. for such a simple game, it is pretty addicting
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] cpredsox:
I just bought that one as well going to try it right now.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] zephiK:
have fun :) i still dont get how people got 300 on zen mode :X my record is like 198.. probably has something to do with combo points
[Captivate Themes and Apps] TopDogg1:
is there a program that will allow me to remove all the at&t bloatware off of my phone? thx in advance
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Pmac25:
The general forum is always a good place to start.

From the general forum

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=761819
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChiGGz:
Whenever I go to google search, it tries to find my location and I see the GPS icon flashing.

I made sure to turn off Location settings in the browser (even toggled it).

...what gives?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
if you go into settings, you can disable it

i recall i selected the option to NOT use GPS to get mylocation

and selected instead use phone network to determine my location
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xaccers:
I've got a BT head in the car which works fine with WMP, but I'd rather it was able to control S2P.

Is there anyway to do this on the HD2?

I've tried T-Back 6.5 BT Driver but it's made no difference.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slamming_sammy1:
i don't have an answer, but i'm in the same boat as you. I'd love to use something else instead of wmp. I hope there'll be a fix soon, otherwise I think I may have to look for another phone. I can't stand how, with wmp i can't even fast forward and rewind, i know it's possible, but with the hd2 that's not even working.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slamming_sammy1:
also, would anyone know if this is a phone-related issue or the rom/OS; i'm wondering if I switch to Android that this problem would be solved. thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adbirdie:
does anyone think that this will work on a rooted desire running official 2.2 rom????
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saad.dawra:
I want badly! we need this.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aindow:
It's only just been announced and we won't know until it has been released on the new Desire Z, Desire HD phones. I hope they update the Desire to this new sense though. :-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsterfly:
Me too! This new sense has some nice new features.

Looking through HD specifications I saw that it will support .avi and .xvid video playback. Could be useful if they bring this to Desire. DLNA too.

And this HTCSense.com thing sounds nice.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aindow:
Even if they can't update the sense on the Desire I am sure it wouldn't take much for HTC to make an app to read phone data, many free apps already do this so should be simple in theory.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
have you guys not learnt anything from htc yet lol i can guarante you this feature will not be officially ported to the desire. the main reason is because if htc gave there older phones all the new features, what incentive do we have to spend $500/600 on a new device
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mateash2002:
this is very true. i waited for ages on the 2.1 update for the hero until i got fed up and got a desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghashul:
You have a point, AndroHero, but on the other hand, how many Desire owners would actually switch to a Desire HD or Desire Z? I know there are some enthusiasts, but most of us will at the least wait until next year. I could understand not giving this to a model that's maybe 1-2 years old, but Desire is from this spring, so it wouldn't prevent many people from buying a new phone, and people would know that buying a HTC was a safe bet.

I'm not saying it will come to Desire, but I think it should.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blazeitup123:
I just got my desire and see no reason to upgrade to these phones at all.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -A-P-M-:
I bought Desire in April and I will probably skip Desire HD. Its nice phone, but I don't think its worth to upgrade, because I think soon we will have better phones available: with dual core processors, Android Gingerbread etc. So I will rather wait for those phones.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] hubs9:
I just loaded sense and I no longer can touch the top bar and get notifications. I also don't get the drop down manager that controlled the programs and amount of memory used. Does someone know if this is not part of sense or if this is another part they forgot. Or is there a fix for this?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bmhome1:
Sense definitely supports both. Try looking in preference settings for each.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] StrangeShadow:
Here's the Task Manager, the notification bar should be there already though.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] GWelker62:
FIXED using MemMaid.

I was annoyed too that the notification manager doesn't work off the top bar. I was able to get it back using MemMaid. I went to the startup services in MemMaid and found NOTIFICATIONMANGER was set for manual start. Changed it to auto start and.... Woot! I got Notification Manager back!

There is bound to be a reg edit to do this too. Looking now...

Also, the HTC task manger I am still looking for. It actually came up working a couple of times right after I installed the new rom, then disappeared. ???
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
Hi folks,

Have a peek at posts #27 and #30 over in the Q&A thread about spontaneous call drop/reconnects which appear to be due to segfaulting of the "rild" daemon in Froyo ROMs

At this point, it is speculative whether or not the Sprint Hero version of libhtc_ril.so has something to do with the problem or not (the "rild" daemon is also different in Froyo ROMs from the most recent Eris 2.1 OTA release), but it seems like that would be the first thing to look at (experimentally, since we don't have the source code for it.)

Your feedback would be appreciated - in particular - are you using the Sprint Hero version of libhtc_ril.so in all of your Froyo ROMs for the Eris?

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] Decad3nce:
Shouldn't be a problem if the person who compiles CM6 was using the extract-files.sh script in the device repo. It contains most/all of all the proprietary libraries necessary for a fully functional device.

Extracted from a working 2.1 build and then pre-linked(http://github.com/darchstar/android_device_htc_heroc/blob/froyo/prelink-linux-arm-heroc.map) for functionality.

Check conaps device repo: http://github.com/Conap30/android_device_htc_desirec

I don't see one for KaosFroyo, I just see and update.zip(?).

Either way, there's a lot of differences because of the proc type. Something we found out the hard way when we tried to merge the Hero(GSM) and the Hero(CDMA) device repos together.

There would be a lot of erroneous bugs until we finally decided it would be best to split them apart again.

Seeing as TazzFroyo is a direct port from the CM6 nightlies for HeroC, it's very likely that you guys are facing the same issues.

One of the things that Conap has been working on is fixing up the prelink map, something that you guys could help out on and finally have the most stable and functional froyo.

(Man, I really kill conversations)
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
Thank you Decad3nce - I learn a great deal from every one of your posts.

I unpacked a number of recent Eris Froyo (and legacy) ROMs for comparison:

user@ubuntu804:~/Android/tmp$ md5sum `find . -name libhtc_ril.so -print`

939ed5e367b1291492c25915ce793a4b ./original1.17.605.1/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
2857bca5b51163004d2254a1b13ab0cd ./21_julOTA/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
2857bca5b51163004d2254a1b13ab0cd ./21_leak_v3/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so

e921186c8e5342fdf8c2fccac9f9f632 ./htc_sprint_hero_mr_2.27.651.6/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
e921186c8e5342fdf8c2fccac9f9f632 ./update-cm-6.0.0-Heroc-RC1/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so

2857bca5b51163004d2254a1b13ab0cd ./CELBFroyo2.6/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
fa6f724144bdb7b08c340fa264ecad27 ./kaosfroyo-V34/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
e921186c8e5342fdf8c2fccac9f9f632 ./TazzFroyo-Vanilla-6.0/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
e921186c8e5342fdf8c2fccac9f9f632 ./TazzFroyo-2.0/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
e921186c8e5342fdf8c2fccac9f9f632 ./nonsensikal_v5.4/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so
64b4e08d3d34a3b662f3ba820c6bc306 ./tenzomonk_Vanilla2.0.3/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so

It looks like the TazzFroyo & nonsensikal ROMs have been using the Sprint Hero Vendor RIL;

KaosFroyo uses something I don't recognize - perhaps an earlier Sprint Hero Vendor RIL ? (it is internally timestamped "HTC-RIL 2.0.0053HM (Feb 24 2010,00:01:16)" - just two days earlier than the Sprint Hero MR2 version) ;

tenzomonk is using an older RIL in his AOSP Vanilla - "HTC-RIL 1.6.1045G (Nov 12 2009,11:19:21)" ;

Only Conap's CELBFroyo2.6 seems to be using an Eris Vendor RIL library.

( Note the last Eris 1.5 release ("MR2" or "1.17.605.1") had a version number of "HTC-RIL 1.5.1030H (Oct 27 2009,22:14:44)" - I don't know if tenzomonk is using a Leak-V{1,2} Eris library or a Sprint library.

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] Decad3nce:
You'll always have the best stability with your specific proprietary libraries created for your board, which as you've just presented means that the best stability may be in CELBFroyo2.6.

KaosFroyo RIL could be from anywhere; since he 'optimizes' his libs(still not sure what that means).

Hope that helps. Wasn't sure if you were asking a question with your response but oh well lol.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
No questions. At this point I'm just going to use Tazz 2.0 with the lib replacement to see if the problem disappears or not. Hopefully I will get some help, either of the form "I tried the lib replacement, and still had the same problems", or "it used to happen to me all the time and has stopped since I started using the Eris library".

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] eldouche:
FWIW: I switched to CELBFroyo2.6 from KaosFroyo and have not had that problem any more...