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[Vibrant General] Stresa:
Another theory

My Vibrant has mounted normally and without any problems on WinXP sp3 and Win7-64 systems, but I have also run into the occasional system where it will not work at all.

On the systems where things worked normally it was never required that I load a special Samsung USB driver for the phone. The standard mass storage drivers included with Windows worked fine.

My new theory is that there may be a drive letter collision issue in some cases. On the laptop that I use with my phone 90% of the time the phone always mounts as drive G: and H:.

On other machines I have noticed that the phone always seems to mount as G: and H: even if E: and F: are available. I'm not sure how/why it always gets mounted using those letters. It may somehow be defaulting to that because G: and H: were the first letters available on the first system I plugged it into.

I have a Win7-64 desktop machine that will not currently allow the phone to connect. This particular machine already has G: and H: assigned to hard drive partitions.

I will probably experiment with temporarily changing the letter assignments to see if I can get the phone to mount. It's worth a shot I guess.
[Vibrant General] vkewalra:
Sorry, I didn't go into as much detail as I could have.

I've installed those drivers listed here as well as any other I could find. I've tried USB debugging mode, changed all the USB modes listed. I've mounted and unmounted the SD cards using the settings menu when doing this.

Is it possible that there is some background service that should be running? Or is it possible that something in the firmware is screwed up? I guess it's also possible that the USB plug itself is messed up?

Thanks for the help.

I used to use this forum years ago when I had a HTC WinMo phone, it seems to have lost any record of past posts due to inactivity.
[Vibrant General] BossDj:
As kizer stated in his post, are you mounting from the prompt on your phone's notification bar? Once plugged into your pc or mac, you slide down the notification bar from the top of your home screen, click on the usb prompt then select mount. Thats the only step you didn't list that may have been missed.

Edited - the prompt in the notification area may say mass storage, my home pc fried last week so i cant test it to get you the specific verbage.
[Vibrant General] vkewalra:
I don't get any prompt at all. At this point I will just install CM6.1 when it comes out and hope that fixes the issue. It's usable for now. I can transfer files using WiFi File Explorer for now.
[Vibrant General] n2ishun:
It helps if you know if you are USB 1.0 or 1.1 or 2.0....or even 3.0.

Also, are the USB ports powered ?

Are the USB ports on the computer in question filled with dust and dirt ?

Contacts corroded ?

Are the ports recognized by the operating system correctly (you know, drivers loaded since it's old arsed WinXP) ?

Do you undertand how to operate a computer at a higher level than just being able to install viral apps ?

Malware ?

Trojans ?

I could go on all day.

It works fine here, on Win7x64, WinVistax64, and *nix.
[Vibrant General] kizer:
That is bizarre you should get a least something in your taskbar.

Click for larger photos if you like.

Heres what my looks like and of course I have the taskbar pulled down so you can see it.

Below that is the box you would click to say connect it.
[Vibrant General] BossDj:
I did have a freind who didn't realize he could pull down the notification bar. Could that be the case here?

Op, you do know you can pull down the bar at the top of your screen, the one with your clock and battery icon etc., put your finger up there and swipe in a downward motion.
[Vibrant General] vkewalra:
I have tried this on a corporate IT managed WinXP system (running Kapersky AntiVirus) and a currently updated Snow Leopard MacBook. I could give details all day as well. Both are in good condition and very likely not the issue.

Seriously, if you have nothing useful to say don't say anything at all.
[Vibrant General] perry215:
they don't understand i had this issue too man and i fixed it.

first go to that link and download those drivers... use the uninstall app to uninstall the drivers off your computer.

while your doing that go into your phone setting>applications>usb settings

make sure it says "ask on connection" (you can change it later) go back and go to development to turn on usb debugging.

reinstall drivers, connect phone wait for the drivers to load. the un-connect phone turn debugging off.

and it was fixed for me.

hope this helps
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic General] Karin Schneider:
Hi Guys

I have bought a HTC Touch from Switzerland that is in German Language but I want that in English language.

Rom version : 2.20.407.1B GER

can any one helps me out in changing the language of my HTC?

Regards,

Karin
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic General] _spiritus_infernus_:
try this sequence:

tap start - after that "settings" ("Inställningar" - Swedish, "Einstellungen" -German ) - after - "system" ("system" - Swedish, "System" - German ) - after that - "regional settings" ("nationella inställningar" - Swedish, "Regionale Einstellungen" - German ).

in regional settings choose your place, after that - soft reset (switch off and on your device / use an soft services or a little red button on back of your device, under the battery cover)

or if you haven't a worldwide edition (WWE) of your ROM - try to flash another ROM, that described in the relevant sections of this forum.
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic General] pajerm:
you can find an original Englis rom here... I think your phone is elf (64MB ram) or elfin (128MB ram)

http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic General] Karin Schneider:
thanks but it didnt works.
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic General] Karin Schneider:
thanks for replying,

my phone is 128 ram

but from the link which one you have given i dont know which one exactly i have to download, kindly helps me in that case.

thanks again
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic General] pajerm:
if you want an English rom you have to download one of the WWE elfin roms.... there are more than one, so pick the rom you like better... them are all original ;)
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic General] Karin Schneider:
yes i want english rom and from where am able to download it? kindly give me link pls
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wifiguru:
Why can't I get this to work? Driving me nuts!

I have loaded the engineering rom, rooted it, go to rom manager, reboot into recovery, and I get the red triangle screen.

Try to apply update.zip

It says:

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted.

What am I doing wrong?

grrr
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bender1077:
Custom Recovery

Do you have a custom recovery set up??? AmonRa or Clockwork?

Sounds like you still have the stock recovery to me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wifiguru:
That's the problem.

Im trying to run the update.zip in stock recovery to flash the clockwork mod.

In RomManager, it says clockwork mod is flashed, but when I hit reboot into recovery, it takes me to stock recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomh1979:
try going to where it says flash alternate recovery, which is amon_ra, and then flash that, then try to see if you can boot into recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bender1077:
Have you tried to flash clockwork from ADB?

EDIT - Or from terminal emulator?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wifiguru:
No go. Same story.

Being a pain the @$$
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wifiguru:
No, but that is my last resort.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abowersq:
My first post and my first thread on xda but been a lurker for several months. Long story short rooted my Eris w/ jcases one click root method (donate to this guy he's awesome) and then tried kaos.froyo v35 and nonsensikal v7 (loved it) and just enjoyed being rooted all together. But since I upgraded to froyo my calls that I would make or receive would have an echo on the persons end I would be talking to. Called tech support to ask what would cause this and they said to *228 and update roam cap. No help went looking into other options but no dice. So removed root w/ leak-v3 and pb001.zip and reflashed to stock. Echo is now gone. Any insight to why my root is causing echo. Will post links to remove root the easy way soon
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abowersq:
I also have a blown speaker on the back...so my replacement coming from Verizon should take care of both issues..I was just scared to send the phone back in a rooted state...call me paranoid.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Not paranoid, smart.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abowersq:
I had read in the unroot threads where people were sending the phones back still rooted but with my luck it would void warranty. Had a similar issue with the cold air intake on my car. Had a sensor that crapped out and the stealership tried to blame the intake. Done with that stuff
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjb413:
I have the same problem since upgrading to kf and rooting. no idea why though.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abowersq:
Well just got the new Eris in from VZW...rooted already and Flashing Nonsensikal V7 vanilla...hooray

we shall see what this holds
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekingofstyle:
I'm having a similar issue on kaos froyo 35-1.

A month or so ago I rooted my Droid Eris and upgraded to KaosFroyo. Shortly afterwards i started getting complaints of poor sound quality on some calls.

It only happened when using my wired (not bluetooth) headset.

Last night I did some testing, and found the following combos

- headset with another phone - good

- Droid Eris KaosFroyo with no headset - good

- Droid Eris original backup with headset - good

- Droid Eris KaosFroyo with headset - poor. It was described as "tinny and echo-y, hollow"

I find it slightly odd that OS selection would make a difference for sound quality, but it was pretty clear in the test. Has anyone else had similar issues with KaosFroyo? Any ideas for fixes?

I have a Jabra wired headset, Droid Eris, and KaosFroyo v35-1.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] davidreece:
had 10 mins to kill and had this idea its not resized but i thought it was quite funny so thought i would share :)
[Droid Incredible General] eMpTy3000:
Gmail 2.3 is in the market now but when I try to install it I get "Package file was not signed correctly."

I'm currently using Gmail 2.2.1. I even found the apk online and tried to install it manually but it just says installation unsuccessful. Anybody else seeing the same problem? Any fix?

FIX:

Here is the easiest fix I could find from within this thread...

Uninstall 2.2.1 with titanium or root explorer, reboot, then install from the market.
[Droid Incredible General] Dmtalon:
Mine installed fine and runs fine... I'm rooted/s-off and installed the deoxed 2.2 leak and running kings #4... (just for reference)
[Droid Incredible General] JaydenR:
Same here. Installed fine.
[Droid Incredible General] eMpTy3000:
Interesting... I have the exact same setup as you right down to the kernel.

I tried rebooting the phone but that didn't help. I guess I could try to do it via adb, but I was just curious if others saw the same problem.
[Droid Incredible General] TD7424:
I am running Vitrous 2.7 (gmail 2.2.1) and it will not install from the market.
[Droid Incredible General] big.daddy:
im running the same setup, and mine wont install either. I get "unsuccessful installation".
[Droid Incredible General] skaterpunk0187:
I'm running uncommon sense bats .8 install fails for me as well
[Droid Incredible General] SuperFly03:
Same.

Unsure why.

Do we need a zip of the APK to apply or what?
[Droid Incredible General] rmoney:
Virtuous 2.7, won't install from the market.
[Droid Incredible General] rmagruder:
CM6 - won't install from Market .

Package not signed correctly.
[Droid Incredible General] PhillyCheez:
virtuous 2.7 - won't install.

"Installation unsuccessful"

EDIT: just saw this from rmk

"I know about it and expected it. The reason this is occurring is because our Gmail version had to be patched to work with Voice Search. I had been considering a new release the past few days anyway so this will act is a nice catalyst.

Since I am here posting, here's what I was thinking (please provide comments/feedback on it):

I want to move more apps back to /system/app. Prior to Virtuous Buddy and/or EZ-Customizer it was compelling to move as many apps as possible to /data/app. At this point, it just adds another place to have to go to remove stock apps. My thought is, it would be easier for you guys to either use Buddy or Customizer for EVERY stock app.

The trigger for this is two-fold. First, I discovered a bug in the /data/app logic which is just becoming increasingly complicated to deal with. And second, if everything is in one place, I can modify the scripts to move disabled apps rather than delete them, so you can easily toggle them off and on via buddy.

Our end result is the same, you can still easily remove everything, it just becomes simplified. I was thinking this next release would be 3.0 (given the magnitude of the change). Following 3.0, every upgrade would be made available as a small patch, like we had from 2.5 to 2.6.

What do you guys think?"
[Droid Incredible General] enigma429ad:
If you are rooted with a custom ROM, use Root Explorer to rename "Gmail.apk" to "Gmail.apb" then REBOOT. You should now be able to install Gmail update from Market.

-copied from a fb post, worked for me
[Droid Incredible General] dep01:
I am also getting Installation Unsuccessful -- package not signed correctly...

---

C_01.3E.03P

Droid kernal 2.6.32.9-P3Droids (pierce@MyDroidWorld #17)

voles-userdebug 2.2 FRFxx 49593 test-keys
[Droid Incredible General] masully1984:
I was using 2.2.1 and mine installed fine. I'm rooted also.
[Droid Incredible General] mzmartipants:
I couldnt get mine to update (sr 3.1 sense, kk bfs4, s off) until I did this. Now I'm updated.
[Droid Incredible General] angryspoon:
Did not work for me.

Edit: it is not allowing me to rename by simply long pressing and then clicking rename. Any ideas?

I searched "gmail" in Root Explorer and found /system/app/gmail.apk and tried to rename that but it would not work. Just keeps reverting to .apk even though it says rename successful.

Could I try moving the gmail.apk to another folder and then downloading?
[Droid Incredible General] srt4mn:
Worked for me.

Running Virtuous 2.7.
[Droid Incredible General] mzmartipants:
I had to change it from R/O to R/W to get it to be able to be renamed.
[Droid Incredible General] angryspoon:
First thing I do every time is change to RW. Would not change it.
[Droid Incredible General] johnpwu:
Didn't want to pay for root explorer, but this works:reboot into recovery, mount /system, then use the command prompt to move the Gmail.apk. Reboot and download and install from the market.

Setup: DInc running Skyraider 3.0 RC3
[Droid Incredible General] jiggadroid:
Even simpler, over on android forums I had a similar thread and someone found if you uninstall 2.2.1 with titanium or root explorer, reboot, then install from the market, it works fine. I tried this successfully myself.
[Droid Incredible General] skleper:
renamed, rebooted, still can't install.

tried to uninstall. Uninstall went ok, but 2.3 won't install anyway

rooted, virtuous 2.5 rom

OK nevermind. After I uninstalled it, I forgot to reboot.

solved.
[Droid Incredible General] pinokio_best:
works on vir2.7

back up with titanium-uninstall--reboot-install from market
[Droid Incredible General] Wynnded:
Works on Adrynalyne's FrankenROM.
[Droid Incredible General] tutux:
use adb shell, do this:

# mount -o rw,remount -t rootfs /

# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

# cd system

# cd app

# mv Gmail.apk Gmail.apb

# exit

then REBOOT and update from market
[Droid Incredible General] wesny:
Had the same problem as other people in the thread ("install unsuccessful"). Backed-up Gmail 2.2.1 with Titanium, uninstalled, rebooted, and installed fine from Market. Running Skyraider 3.0 RC2.
[Droid Incredible General] ogre150:
I was able to update by using titanium to remove and reboot then install in market. Worked fine.
[Droid Incredible General] rmoney:
Can I delete the apb file? is apb anything specific or just something thats not apk?
[Droid Incredible General] angryspoon:
Titanium method worked. Put Titanium into Chuck Norris mode just in case and deleted the Gmail app, rebooted, installed and awesomeness.

Thanks all.
[Droid Incredible General] Dmtalon:
I've been playing with writing an app, and if you install it (after signing it) and then go to another computer and use a different "signature" you can't install over the original (whole purpose of signed apps). So I guess the people having problems are ones running a special gmail (for some fix like the voice search) which is signed differently which is not allowing the "upgrade"

Of course everyone's figured out the fix, delete the original to update :)

I didn't see that mentioned in the thread (reason) so I figured I'd post.
[Droid Incredible General] ratledge:
That's exactly what's going on here. Many people have the 2.2.1 version on their phone that was downloaded from web-site (this one for example) that was signed differently than the OTA version that came out with the 2.2 OS "Froyo" update and therefore it *****es about the signature being invalid. It's actually specifically because the signature on the old installed version does not match that of the new version available from the market.

Again, as stated by several before me, either uninstall it completely, or use RootExplorer to rename it to "GMail.zip" or "GMail.pka" (or whatever), reboot and then grab GMail 2.3 from the market. You're good...
[Droid Incredible General] jbh00jh:
Mine also installed from the market with no problems at all.
[Droid Incredible General] vhop:
Titanium reboots when I try uninstalling Gmail. I've tried all the other methods but Gmail keeps coming back after reboot. Any Ideas?

I'm running Virtuous Rom 2.7
[Droid Incredible General] MMBosstones86:
+1 was having the same problem
[Droid Incredible General] QQ:
+1. I'm unable to remove the current gmail as well
[Droid Incredible General] grd069:
worked for me also running Virtuous 2.7:)
[Droid Incredible General] Dmtalon:
http://www.informationweek.com/news...html?articleID=227500369&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

Its in the market for download...
[Droid Incredible General] wrightrocket:
Gmail fails to install successfully

I tried first to update, and that failed.

I renamed the old /system/app/Gmail.apk, and it still failed.

Running:

Virtuous 2.7

BFS #4 Kernel
[Droid Incredible General] infotechsailor:
i also couldnt install. virtuous 2.7. downloaded, but install unsuccessful.

must be due to custom ROM??? i saw some comments that CM6 users also failed.

i was going to look for the APK to download, but it would probably fail too... need to have it put up on rom mgr
[Droid Incredible General] norestr8nt:
Forgot where I saw it but try renaming gmail.apk in /system/app to gmail.apb the reboot. Then install from market. Worked for me,hope it works for you as well. :D Edit: Its actually discussed several posts below this one..would link to it but I'm a newb and not allowed yet.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aflansburg:
I cannot push via adb right now due to the lack of an at home PC............ I don't think my ps3 can do it since Sony took the happy out of it with their last few firmware updates.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyouko:
If you have the apk, why cant you just install it using a file manager? Or, if you want it in /system/app/ you can download estrongs file manager, which has root access then just copy the apk into that directory.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gass20:
i need exact directions on how to upgrade my mt3g 1.6 into 2.0 or better somebody please help!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] karanits:
Bad news for Indian SGS owners its confirmed that froyo in India will also be released late in October

here the confirming tweet from samsung. :eek::eek:

When i asked this to them a few weeks back they told it was confirmed for end of Sept. Now they deleted that tweet :mad::mad::mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xtoad:
Or...not bad news if when it IS released it addresses and corrects the problems that are so frequently discussed around here and works like it can and should? ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] anonymusneo:
if its coming late then curse u man:(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Prasad:
At this point, I have become rather well acquainted with waiting and waiting... And waiting! I really don't care when they come out with it anymore... I just want the update delivered OTA whenever it does arrive...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] karanits:
I really hope that's true! The point is, they did confirm it to be released in Sept for India. If they release froyo in UK in Sept. then it is understood that the improvements are done or none at all!

It will not be the case that Indian or Spanish froyo will have the said improvement alone just because they were released late.
[Hero CDMA General] Vandelay007:
I am finding that I haven't been receiving texts from some people because handcent blacklisted them on its own. I am leaving it set to 'show blacklist' items so I dont miss anything - but I do not see a setting that shows who else may be blacklisted - am I missing something ?
[Hero CDMA General] ASimmons:
Long press on a contact in the contact list to unblack list some one. I dont think there is an actual list but showing them and then white listing them should fix it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markwilley:
A few days ago I made the cardinal mistake of getting my phone wet. Even worse, it was wine. And no I wasn't drunk, but I was half awake. Anyway, I got my phone working fine again except for one thing. The battery functions normally, meaning it drains at a normal pace, but the percentage doesn't update unless I restart the phone.

But stranger than that is when I charge it the percentage quickly declines to 0% at which time it suddenly changes to 100% and is fully charged. And when I go into Spare Parts and look at the battery info it says it is at 100 and that it is in good condition and all of that.

So my question is, has anyone had a similar experience with their battery with or without getting their phone wet?

(I am on CM6 using the 9/16 release.)
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
I don't usually like 'WHEN CAN I HAZ GINGERBREADZ?' but this is different.

According to a lot of Android people on Twitter, GMail, Phone, Contacts, Calendar and other G Apps are on the Market with a lot of speculation that it's preparation for better ota updates after Gingerbread.

What do you guys think?
[Desire General] !PANDA:
Hepefull Gingerbread shall be here soon! Although now that the Desire HD and Z is coming out.. i think that they will get the ota before the nexus or our Desire.:/

Sent from my beloved hTc Desire!
[Desire General] SkyWalker1726:
even if we do not get an official release for our device , since the Desire has more HorsePower than the Z , i think a port can easily be made ( just a guess though )
[Desire General] AndroHero:
the desire dosent have more horsepower than the desire z, dont let the clockspeed fool you, the 2nd generation snapdragon in the desire z is quite a powerhouse, it like comparing a 4 gig core 2 duo to a 3 gig i7 cpu, even tho the core 2 duo has a higher clockspeed, the i7 would kick its ass :D ps keep your eye out for the htc glacier aka the t-mobile sapphier, its gunna be a beast with a 2gig dual core snapdragon :D
[Desire General] Svala88:
Can't wait for gingerbread :)
[Desire General] chichoko:
Probably we'll get Gingerbread too since our Desire meets the minimum requirements for it.. and since Google said that Gingerbread will make the custom UI's obsolete.. it all depends on Google i guess.. B-)
[Desire General] elburna:
Yeah, but it is still an HTC Device so the decision on any update in HTCs side. And why should they offer an OS without Sense...?
[Desire General] snudel:
why are you so curious about it?

what will be new there? any flaws you have right now?

why so freaky about updates?