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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael338:
Alright guys/gals.My question here is this.Using unvevoked3 and not updating to the new OTA update is okay? I'm still having problems with sync not syncing? Thats cause i have not updated yet. Will my phone be alright without the update even though i want it..I cant seem to update it to my evo.Either no one helps or its not in plain English for some of us that dont have the experience rooting or unrooting.

What do you all think? Anyone in the same boat as me.? They say put the file on your sdcard root file.Where in the hell is that?

**** does happen and im in deep **** without the update.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahnile:
Ok this should be easy. If u are unrevoked and u are full rooted running a custom Rom then just flash the update. There should be a post with the zip that u can flash in recovery to apply the update. If not then just wait for your custom Rom to be updated to the next version with will be surely base on the latest ota. Like u said it's def.ly not a big deal.

BUT:

If u are running stock or want to remain on a stock Rom just flash the rooted 2.2 base on the new OTA, Can be found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789913

Edit: came across this, should help you also http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=790394
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael338:
hmm

I have that update on my computer already. Then they say to put in in your sdcard root.I don't know how to find that. I'm using revoked 3, stock Rom I'm sure. Clockwork mod is installed. Please help. Instructions does not help me much. How do I just flash it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahnile:
Ok if u have it on your SD then that's easy providing that u got clockwork mod or another custom recovery. Just boot your phone into recovery, I use quickbot. U can also use Rom manager to boot your phone into recovery and also flash a clockwork recovery . Once in recovery just go to flash update from zip, then select the zip(should be the one on your sd) confirm and then reboot. You're done.

Edit:

Putting it on the root of your sd simply means drag and drop it to the main folder on your sd card, where u see all the other files and folder. Just open up your sd card in a browser(double click removing disk from my computer) and also the folder on the computer where u have the file. Then drag and drop it on your sd card. Where u dropping the files is the root of ur sd, hope this helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mizzos4:
Get to SD root - connect your EVO to your PC through USB and mount it through disk drive from the notification bar then drag your update file onto the SD card, i.e. on my windows laptop, root would be the window "Computer->Removable Disk (G: )

To flash - power off then hold vol down + power button to get into hboot and then select recovery. once there, select flash zip from sd card and select your update file. let it finish and you should be able to reboot into the updated rom.

*quick boot is an app from the market that allows you to easily reboot into recovery for rooted phones
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahnile:
Quicker method ,note that your removable disk may be a different letter depending on how my disk/drive on your pc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael338:
Help with OTA

Okay i put the file on my e: drive which is the main sd card folder.I then go to volume down and hit power.Once there i let it do its little boot.Then i click recovery.From there i dont see flash update from zip.On my recovery i have the following.

reboot system now

apply sdcard:update zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

install zip from sdcard

nandroid

partitions menu

advanced

go back.

As you can see there is not flash update from zip..

Thanks again...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunkyAroma:
it's not that literal.

select install zip from sdcard and then navigate to the zip
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael338:
Went to install zip from sdcard.After that my options are apply sdcard:update zip choose zip from sdcard etc.When i went to apply sdcard update.zip it gave me e: cant open /sdcard/update.zip no such file or directory.installation aborted.When i go to choose zip from sdcard at the bottom i have update.zip.zip. but the folder i put in there does say update.zip renamed.

Again thank you....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahnile:
Michael this is an invalid file name. U do not have to rename or alter any thing with the update file. The file is already a zip file so the extension is already a .zip file. Any file that is zip will always be for example 'filename.zip'. you adding a .zip to the file name will make the file unacceptable as there is no .zip.zip file. Just leave the original file you downloaded as is. Once in recovery you can then follow the same steps you mentioned. Go to choose zip from sd card,u will see the zip file on the sd,select it then confirm and install. U should be fine if u follow these steps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTH-EVO:
Just for the record... On Windows boxen, the default options for your filemanager,

is: Hide extensions for known filetypes

Translated:

If windows shows the correct icon for the file, it knows what type of file it is, and therefore will hide it's extension - in your case; .zip

Stupid, I know (Windows).

So, when you see the file "Update", and it shows an icon indicating that windows knows it's a .ZIP file. You will know that the filename is actually:

Update.zip - not just "Update" as you see in filemanager.

Bottom line; file has the correct icon in filemanager, it's extension hidden.

File has a generic icon, then file is unknown, and probably shows it's extension.

HTH

--Chris
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcarlospr:
I am getting the following error:

Buld: RA-evov1.7.0.2

Finding update package

Opening update package

Verifying update package

E:No signature (206 files)

E:Verification failed

Installation aborted
[Droid Incredible General] ACD168:
Just did a quick *228 cos I saw someone in the Eris Section saying they got it.

Well what do ya know. it went from 518.. something to 52011. Upstate New York. No idea what PRL Version is or what this means. I think it has to do with the romeing towers or something?
[Droid Incredible General] boomertwo:
Yep looks like a new PRL as I just tried it and got the same version you just did.
[Droid Incredible General] ACD168:
found a cool site too

http://www.roamingzone.com/prl/#Verizon
[Droid Incredible General] smtom:
db's lower for me

Tried this, went from -86 to -92. Fewer bars too, although those don't really mean anything for this or otherwise. I switched back to 65144, db's went back up. Who knew?
[Droid Incredible General] boomertwo:
In your case it looks like Verizon removed access to some towers that were near you that gave you better signal strength.
[Droid Incredible General] Lexus One:
Verizon/Alltel Hybrid PRLs may stop working soon

*228 got me 52011 here too. But I originally had a Verizon/Alltel Hybrid PRL (65024) that was working absolutely great (4 bars!) until a few days ago. I live in a fringe area for Verizon. But there is an Alltel tower about 1/2 mile away. Unfortunately (for me), I just read that Verizon who in 2009 acquired Alltel, has recently unloaded Alltel, or at least a good chunk of it. The company that bought Alltel is called Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. Or ATN. This probably explains why my Alltel Hybrid PRL no longer gives me great reception. I'm back to 0 to 1 bars now. When I did the *228/2 today I had my fingers crossed...but it didn't help. Still 0 to 1 bar, and dropping calls again... :(
[Droid Incredible General] bradm23:
How can I check which prl I'm running. I have been having great reception so prob won't mess with anything, but curious how to check. Thanks
[Droid Incredible General] ACD168:
settings, about phone, software info. scroll down, PRL Version, right unders PRI
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tobiascrystal:
The header pretty much explains it all, I want to use multiple builds on my card but with the 1G data image size of most of the newer builds I can only fit two on there. does anyone know how to change it back to the 512?:confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pinobigbird:
Here you go: [How to]Simplest way to change internal memory (data.img) from 256 to 512 or 1gb by bhaveshdj
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] polo735:
Requires that you use a linux os.
[Fascinate General] DevinLeFevere:
Is it possible to do so yet? As of right now it looks like Odin is the only route to getting it to work. Any Mac users had any luck? I'm rather nervous not having my Clockwork back ups :(
[Fascinate General] Stevespear426:
I'm curious also. I read there is a bmunlock that can flash from shell, but no confirmation or walk through yet. I hope this thread gets the ball rolling for us, or we're gonna have to get real smart real quick.
[Fascinate General] fallingup:
Being a mac user myself, ive been meaning to write a one click script for mac users. right now though, i have too many projects swimming in my head, and i also work a full time job and a part time job. just not enough time to get done what i want :(

Easiest way would be just borrow a friends PC or use bootcamp right now to use odin. sorry guys, i will get to it asap though
[Fascinate General] DevinLeFevere:
I just borrowed my g/f's Laptop lol. I now have clockwork as frustrating as that 20 mins was being back on a pc

:rolleyes:
[Fascinate General] Stevespear426:
unfortunatly ive convinced my friends to change macs. Pcs are getting harder to find.
[Fascinate General] NOsquid:
Looking forward to this too!
[Fascinate General] aes55:
any word on this yet? i'm dying to get a backup going with CWM, but im on a mac and i literally have no friends... with a PC that is ;)
[Fascinate General] chrisw27:
Yeah, I would appreciate this too, as it's really hard to find access to a PC around here.

I tried searching Google and some forums about ways to install without a PC, but only found ways to install on Macs with HTC phones.
[Fascinate General] aes55:
still no word on this? i haven't been able to track down a PC, and i'm feeling really scared and alone without a backup...

seriously though, anyone do CWM on a mac yet?
[Fascinate General] Stevespear426:
I've been searching still nothing...
[Fascinate General] chrisw27:
It's funny. Android is an open Linux platform and yet most of the tools used to hack it are Windows-only. Am I the only one who finds it strange how people are using Microsoft software to hack Linux devices? and yes I understand most people use Windows, but I would have thought that after buying an Android device, with Google's platform being open-source and designed with a cross-platform philosophy, that I would be just fine with hacking the device with my Mac or any Linux computer.

Anyway, I know the problem.. Linux, Mac, Java devs.. where are you? We need a cross-platform solution!
[Fascinate General] Crashspeeder:
Everybody should have a Windows machine at their disposal. Macs have started to catch on but it's still not as supported as I'd like to see. That being said I use a virtual machine to run Windows if I'm not near my desktop PC. VirtualBox is free even if the operating system isn't, though I'm sure some of you can get creative...
[Fascinate General] zero7starz:
Bootcamp + Copy of windows- that was my end solution. Sorry guys...
[Fascinate General] Stevespear426:
TUTORIAL

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=804248
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Narcissus85:
Hi guys,

just a stupid question...

I bought a microsd 16gb class2 by sandisk.

Is it ok that for writing 6gb of data on it, it takes about 45 minutes (or more)?

thanks

ivan
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
class 2 = writes 2 Mb per second

so divide 6GB on 2Mb / sec (60) then times it back for 60 for minutes and you will get your total of minutes required to copy from PC to the class 2 card....

lets just say it's painfully slow

even for a class 4 card

i will not buy any SD card that is less than Class 6
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Narcissus85:
yes i think it's really slow but a class 6 sd card 16gb...cost sooo much! : >
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tk44uk:
6Gbyte@2Mbytes per second = 3000 seconds= 50 mins ...
[Off-topic] SXUsr:
I've had a browse over the first 10 pages and couldn't find a similar thread so started this. Post the vids that you've seen that really crack you up. :D

Evil Goat....

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[Off-topic] SXUsr:
Just for laughs - Water Park...

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[Off-topic] chopper the dog:
Peeing is funny.

good day.
[Off-topic] SXUsr:
[YOUTUBE]-bzSRRXzXMY[/YOUTUBE]

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[Off-topic] waffles510:
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[Off-topic] SXUsr:
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[Off-topic] chopper the dog:
It looked like he was having fun until I realized the little guy was tied up.

good day. From my fascinate with xda app.
[Off-topic] SXUsr:
From reading the comments on the page, you'd think it was unnatural to put some form of collar on a dog, and stranger still that you would attach a longer piece of material to that collar which could then be attached to something else. :rolleyes:

I'm not sure why anyone would think it's being cruel.
[Off-topic] ddgarcia05:
I don't know how to add the video link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfXo06QmSc
[Off-topic] SXUsr:
lolol! Think I would have thrown up too had I been sat next to her.
[Off-topic] chopper the dog:
[YOUTUBE]YGfXo06QmSc[/YOUTUBE]

Copy address of you tube video. Hit you tube button in reply. Paste link.

And eliminate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfXo06QmSc

from link. And just leave code.

OMG VERY VERY FUNNY.

good day.
[Off-topic] shoemeistah:
O snap! sick haha. glad I don't own that plane.
[Off-topic] SXUsr:
Contains swearing, but what else would you expect from some badass council gansta rappers.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pscalett:
I'm having an issue with my EVO. I tried to update my radio to the newest version and now when my phone rebooted it took me to my home screen and then went black and vibrated 5 times then the led started blinking green. I pulled the battery and I can get into recovery mode but I can't to a nandroid restore because it can't mount the sdcard. I've been frantically searching around to find out how I can fix this and can't seem to find an answer. I'm still fairly new to this whole rooting process but my phone was rooted previously and now in recovery it shows that s chip is off... If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Patrick
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smokestack76:
Havent seen anything about this. But anyone know of a way to stop the phone from ending charge once full? I am sick of charging at night to wake up to a battery with 90% charge. Been digging but im not sure what it is. I would love to have it run off wall power after full charge instead of ending the whole cycle.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faspalma:
I found recalibrating the battery using this post helped me http://forum.androidcentral.com/t-captivate/30851-recalibrating-your-battery.html
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fuffalo:
I've got two main problems with my galaxy s.

1) Today at around 1pm I had to force close something (I don't even remember what it was. I had just woken up the phone and went to check my mail, so I assume Launcher pro or something). It kept prompting me to force close, so I just took out the battery and reboot it. The phone can no longer get passed the initial screen (before the S). I've tried to reset to factory defaults, and it still doesn't work. I assume I can re-flash (not home yet) - but I'm wondering what would cause this type of behavior. FYI - I've been running 2.2 JPH with Rombie's mod)

2) I get really bad reception. I constantly will have my phone go from no service to 3-4 bars while sitting in the same spot. I also have a problem in busy areas where I'll lose my connection completely (whereas other people with different phones seem to have no problem right beside me). Is there anything that could be causing these issues?

Side note: When I originally upgraded to 2.2 JPH I had efs issues for a while, and it took me a while to get it up and running. It's working now (phone and data) - I'm just worried there's some residual effects of a mildly corrupted efs or something.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fuffalo:
Update...

Things have gotten worse and I really need some suggestions.

I've tried flashing about 5 different firmwares and I can't get the thing going.

The closest I've come is with the stock jh2 firmware. It boots and it goes to a black screen after the S logo. I know this has been brought up but I have not had success with solutions I've found in other threads. I've tried it with pit512 513 and 803. I've tried it with repartition checked and unchecked.

When I try a 2.2 rom (such as the latest jpk) and upon resetting in the recovery mode, I receive an SDCARD failed to mount error (although one time I also received a failed to load DBDATA error). It also won't let me format the sdcard in this screen as obviously it can't mount it.

The closest I've come to getting the sdcard working is on the jh2 firmware i can "load update.zip" from my firmware, and it seems to actually load - unfortunately that update.zip is completely useless (as it's just an unlocker update i believe) - and I can't change the update.zip as I can't access the sdcard.

Please help if you can!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nanobot2k:
I had the same problem. My phone was working fine and then it just turned off and froze. I resetted it a few times and it would go to the S logo and then the screen would go blank and the buttons would light up. Resetting it a few more times made it work once but then when i started it again the phone would go back to the same problem.

I tried a ton of rom on it and some worked (but my internal sd card wouldn't mount). The problem got progressively worse by it's self and my phone wouldn't even start now. I recently send it back to Bell to get it repaired and hopefully they don't ping me saying it was my fault for ****ing around, which I doubt they will find out at this point since the damn thing doesn't even turn on.

I researched this a fair bit (2 full nights) and found out that it had something to do with me flashing Jp3 and that set my internal sd card as read only somehow. It's a bug and if you google it a lot of people have had this problem but none had a working solution and everyone of them had to send it back for repair.

Edit: I am also Canadian with a bell phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fuffalo:
If I end up sending it back to bell, will flashing back to something like JH2 help cover my tracks?

Any idea how long it takes? I can't really go without a phone for more than a couple days =/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nanobot2k:
Honestly, it is a very frustrating process. They quote you a 2 - 6 week window and do not give you any hard time table and to top that off they don't have any loaner phones that are smart phones. The loaners cost $25 and $250 down.

I had to go out and find one from a friend and even then they wouldn't let me use a CDMA phone since i had a HSPA+ data plan and it some how ****s with their system. The only way you can use a phone on their network is using a HSPA+ phone if you need data. Luckily a friend had a HTC magic that was unlocked so I am using that now.

You can try to load up the default rom that ships with it and then send it in for repair.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fuffalo:
Is the default rom JH2?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nanobot2k:
I believe it is this one I9000UGJH2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fuffalo:
Alright so I can adb in to my phone when it's in recovery mode.

Does this help at all? Can i try anything from here?
[Vibrant General] PolishDude:
Looks like preorder for the G2 will start tomorrow and the phones will be for sale at stores October 6th. Anyone preordering or getting a G2? I am a bit undecided, i am thinking about possibly picking one up and playing with one alongside my vibrant and seeing which one I like more and selling/returning the other. I love the screen on the samsung but no led notifaction and the plasticy build quality are bummers, not to mention not much support from samsung. If you are getting one or not getting one, why or why not? Just curious, the samsung is my first android phone so I have no previous experience besides playing with my brothers G1 back in the day.
[Vibrant General] funkyfungus:
No thanks. I am so over slide-out keyboards now that I have been introduced to Swype...

fF
[Vibrant General] d_bot:
nope, more than happy with my Vibrant. slide out keyboards are old (imo) I had a slide out keyboard back in 2005...and it makes the phone too bulky (imo)

but i am Excited to see how the g2 performs.
[Vibrant General] phillipxenxciel:
why would i downgrade my phone?
[Vibrant General] DKYang:
I'm surprised nobody said "Vibrant gave me so much problems (because of my ignorance) so I'm preordering the G2 also!"

I'm not going to get it. Although it is a beastly phone from the specs that I've read, but I don't need a qwerty keyboard phone, unless it's slim like Samsung has done with the Epic. Also, I wander how the battery life is going to be.
[Vibrant General] dcontrol:
Can't afford to have both, but I am surprised to see that there are so many with that much disposable income.
[Vibrant General] rjwisniewski:
As I've been telling my customers... Don't fall for the hype. Stick with the Vibrant.

Sent from my Samsung Vibrant using the XDA app.
[Vibrant General] PolishDude:
i havent had a keyboard since a Nokia E71, not sure i really need it, thats why i figure i can take advantage of the remorse period and see if I like it/use it...i bought my vibrant from costco so im still within the return policy (90 days)
[Vibrant General] Chief Geek:
Not even that intereated in it. So its a beefed up htc Dream, fabulous if you need a slider with good specs, but I'm fine with my vibrant. I'm just as fast if not faster with swype then I was on the only decent qwerty phones ever back in my blackberry days.
[Vibrant General] turbosix:
you'd have to be an idiot to preorder the damn phone considering how 99% of the vibrant owners on here got ****ed by tmobile.

want the phone on launch day? that'll be $249.99 + $18 upgrade fee + tax, minus $50 MIR 2 months later. so a solid $240 for us here in dallas.

then i get online and after a couple weeks see that everyone else was able to get the phone from costco, walmart, wirefly, amazon, etc for around $100 with no dumb ass MIR or upgrade fee.

oh, but i cant take my phone back and go buy it at costco or walmart because i've used my "upgrade" and the only place that can do an "override" to get my 2yr renewal pricing is a tmobile store.

l.a.m.e.
[Vibrant General] iunlock:
Like what someone said, why downgrade?

Plasticy build? I bet if they made the back cover metal it'd change your perspective. The glass and trim is excellent built quality. Sure the back cover is plastic, but that was the whole point for it being light weight. For those who have covers like me, I don't care if the back cover is plastic.

The G2 is all hype. It seems like big news because Tmo is actually advertising it like crazy, unlike the Vibrant that got little press. Either way....why downgrade?
[Vibrant General] turbosix:
the vibrant didnt get much press but the entire galaxy line is getting advertised out the ass. everyone i know that used to be a staunch iphone supporter is like "whoa whoa whoa now.. wtf is this galaxy s phone? have you heard about it? i wanna get one, i saw it on tv, it looks awesome!"