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[Vibrant General] DirtyDre:
I actually work for tmobile and i used to have a touch pro 2, decided to go with a vibrant and couldn't be happier after getting used to no not having a keyboard the vibrant is extremely responsive a don't miss the hardware keyboard at all, i got to play a lot with the g2 since my friend has it and just could not get used to the smaller screen after having the vibrants beautiful screen, speed wise even with the 800 MHz the g2 is also extremely responsive i didn't feel much of a difference, i myself would recommend the vibrant is a great multimedia phone with a beautiful screen every single phone i have had has always had a hardware keyboard and i don't miss it at all, if you feel that you cant be without the keyboard go with the G2 oh and by the way the camera on the g2 has a flash so i know that can be a decision changer to many people hope that help :D
[Vibrant General] Ilmoran:
That has to do with 2 things:

1. Commisions: Sales Reps ALWAYS want you to buy "the next big thing". It's how they get paid.

2. Uninformed: I wouldn't be surprised if the sales reps are less informed about the phones than anyone moderately enthusiastic about their phones. Unfortunately, for them, phones are a job, and a lot of times people just don't want to look at anything resembling their job once they go home.

As for the Vibrant:

I love my Vibrant. I wouldn't even consider switching to the G2. I enjoy tweaking so I don't mind rooting/flashing/etc, so that part of the phone doesn't bother me (and to be fair, the only problem I've had so far that I felt needed tweaking was the GPS, which now has an OTA fix for people not tweaking their phone).

I am however curious if Motorola is following through on their supposed 2 GHz android phone by year-end. That might catch my attention.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Jero:
I purchased an EVO today and just finished rooting it using the unrEVOked method. I tried accessing ADB the same way I access it with my Hero but was unable to. Is there something different I need to do (install, commands, etc.) to gain access to ADB on the EVO?

Right now I just want to remove all the Sprint bloatware that's on here, and install some other .apks that I have...

Any help or links that can help are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTH-EVO:
Can't remember for sure, but, if you haven't already, you might want to perform

Unrevoked's S-OFF procedure.

I also wanted to remove the "bloatware". While adb commands will do it.

I chose to use the "root Explorer" app.

HTH

--Chris
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xNotta:
Root Explorer will work for removing system apps.

Try http://www.androlib.com/android.application.siir-es-adbwireless-jADCj.aspx to use adb over WiFi.

Since I can't adb wired that app works perfectly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jus10o:
You have to install a custom rom, they include the adb commands. Or add them into the stock rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Flashed today my GT-I9000 to TO froyo I897UCJI6. I know i should not have done that now. But i really got pissed today at the gps of my phone and when i saw and update for galaxy s i just went for it, haven't checked the phone variant version. Thing is now my phone has no gps whatsoever it boots up fine but, sound only shows when i plug my headphones, accelerometer dont work correctly and so on....

So i though i`ll flash it back to stock. But the thing is once i connect the usb cable the phone just reboots and stays dead until the usb is disconnected.

I read the other threads but found no similar issues.

Here is a brief video of my problem

-http-://-www-.youtube.-com/-watch?v=MtcCvfCbAFk-

Remove all "-"

since i can`t post links

Anyone has any ideas how to get me back to stock?

Thanks!!

Damn i can`t even charge it!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] franklin01:
Kinda weird indeed, try to remove the battery, wait a little, insert the battery and go to download mode (volume - / home / power) then start odin, put all files needed, and connect the usb, if it doesnt reboot hit start...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowrider_05:
you got to enable adb debugging on your phone then open a command window and type: adb reboot download connect the usb to the phone and hit the enter key for the adb command before your phone fall asleep, then you are in download mode an can flash any rom with odin.

hope this helps, i flashed the same wrong firmware from the Vibrant.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Thanks Franklin, i tried the battery trick to no luck.

This is i cannot put my phone back to download mode because my "HOME" button is not mapped to do anything, seems like the "RETURN ARROW" button does the fuction when the system is loaded.

Any other ways to flash it back? Sd card or something?

Thanks for replies ;]
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowrider_05:
please try it my way it worked for me and i think it will work for you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
I open the cmd navigate to c:\androidsdk\tools\ type in adb reboot download hit enter, it mounts daemon tools i plug in usb cable and 3 seconds later the phone goes blank and it stays unresponsive(no 3 key combination, not even the power button can turn it back on) i unplug the usb cable and the phone automaticaly shows the AT&T logo and starts up. The same happens when i plug my charger in!. Does that mean my SGS usb port is fried or something? Is there another way to flash my pnoe back to stock ROM?

I am so sorry i tried to make it better :[

Any clues?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowrider_05:
no this is NOT a defective phone, its the result of the ROM and the 3 Button combo can´t work oh and you dont really mean deamon tools? and you musst plug the usb cable in the phone right before you hit enter or it can´t work!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
I did that too. Like i said the phone turns it self off once the usb cable is attached.

Here is a brief video of my problem :(

-http-://-www-.youtube.-com/-watch?v=MtcCvfCbAFk-

remove all "-" from url.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirphunkee:
dainiuxxx, this thread belongs in the Q&A section, not in development. Take a moment and read the "STOP, READ THIS BEFORE POSTING" thread at the top of both of these sections, it has clear guidelines for proper thread placement.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Sorry for that sirphukee.

Any help? Anyone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Anyone that can help? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
have you tried plugging it into another PC or Laptop?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Yup tried amothe laptop, reboot.

Wall charger, reboot.

So i`m kinda out of options?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
yes, return it to the store, to get an exchange

a normal working SGS does not reboot when plugged into any USB port/charger

it's Shorted (damaged) for some reason
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
ok, return sounds good to me, but what will i have to say when they`ll switch on the phone and see the AT&T logo?

I`m in UK and my network is Orange UK.

Will they accept it back with no problems, i kinda doubt that....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
uhh... you are in quite a pickle ...

try to remove the evidence, intentionally use a Update.zip ROM flash to kill the flash

or flash it to stock if you find a good ROM via Update.zip

use the WiFi to download the Update.zip ROM flash to the root of the internal SD to flash it.

ROM Manager can get the same results, you can WiFi install it from Market
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Installed ROM manager from market, but seems it needs the phone rooted, right?

And rooting can be done only via usb cable, right?

Where do i find a Update.zip ROM via Wifi? and what are the procedures when i do find it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
OK,

so obviously the question now is HOW DO I F...k up my phone completely so no one could see what was done to it. When i`ll take it back to the shop.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you can ROOT the phone within the phone itself

by downloading Ryzaa One click lag fix from the market

instead of installing the lag fix, select the option to ROOT the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samhark:
Same issue here. Amazing how easy it is to mess this phone up when you are really stupid. Oh well....

Tried the one click lag fix to root it, but cannot find a way to get into download or recovery mode. Tried every button combo I have seen suggested, but either gets stuck in a loop on the AT&T screen or just boots into the OS.

At the moment I feel my only option if we cannot find a way to get into download mode is to format the internal SD card and send it back to o2 (my provider), tell them it fried when Kies tried to do an update, cross my fingers and hope they send me a new one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samhark:
What's worse is that everything I try sucks up a bit of battery and since I cannot charge from USB or from power cable I'm running out of things to try.

Phone currently off until someone has a new suggestion. sigh.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Ok, tried the OCLF one click lag fix for rooting the phone. No luck as it only works on 2.1. But it i tried to force root it, no luck as ROM manager still can`t run the "privileged commands".

Is there another root app for 2.2 JI6?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Some help please?:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dainiuxxx:
Do not know about you, but i had a tip from a guy who got the phone in download mode using the very first method described in my thread. U type in cmd: adb reboot download. then you plug in your phone( you have to be quick about it) takes about 1.5 seconds for pc to recognise the phone, and then you hit enter.... bingo the phone reboots straight into download mode.

My problem was i did not had fully installed drivers on my pc so i could not get my pc to recognise the phone quick enough to install the drivers. LUCKY me my neighbour has a phone just like mine, so i borrowed it, installed the drivers and woualla :)

Hope it helps!!!

Good luck
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zygiboos:
I have the same, restart with USB or charger.

Problem was samsung screen locker. I download from market "No lock" and disable lock sreen. Now cable work fine, no restarts. But not everything workin fine (sms enables screen, not working pin codes etc.)

So we now know the guilty app. But hov to fix samsung lock?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmkarim:
Hey, I had the same problem when running Eugenes froyo ROM when trying to fix my internal SD Card. I found 2 methods work.

1. Use the homemade JIG to boot into download mode

2. Open command prompt, navigate to adb, queue up the command so all you have to do is hit enter, plug in the usb and hit enter right away.

For some reason I cant figure out why this only happens in Eugenes rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kitkid:
it works !!!

hey all.

I've been having the same problem with my SGS and i've just got my phone to work !!!! :)

I had the whole 'can't get into download with 3 buttons' and the 'plug usb into phone & get charging then constant reset' problems.

I've been playing around with the cmb prompt & getting into the phone via the adb program.

After many failed attempts to get the phone into download mode, via adb, i finally got it to work....this is how.....

1. Had Odin running with all the files loaded and boxes ticked, ready to go (you'll find loads of 'how too's' in the Q&A section of this forum.)

2. I had cmd open, in the correct directory for adb tools.

3. Typed in adb reboot download, but didn't hit return.

4. I had my phone turned on, usb lead plugged into my phone, BUT NOT MY LAPPY !!!

5. Plugged the usb lead into my lappy and as soon as i heard the windows blip, to say something was trying to connect to my computer, i hit return to kick adb into actionand.......................it worked !!!! finally !!!!! :) :) :)

6. Hit the start button in Odin, kept fingers crossed, went for a little walk around my flat and 5 mins later.......2.2 was loaded and phone was charging :)

So after 5 days of head scratching, trying EVERYTHING i could find to kick my SGS into life.....finding out where my local samsung repair centres are..... the above has finally got my phone up and running again.

So now to fix the 3 button issue, re-load all my apps, root the phone, back it up and NOT TOUCH ANY LAGFIX EVER AGAIN !!! ;)

God i'm glad i've got my SGS back, i forgot how s**t my N96 was (after having to use it for the past few days !!) :D

Cheers.

Stu
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zygiboos:
I manage the problem to.

I install program "no lock" from market and distabled the samsung screen lock.

Then problems with USB was no more.

So I connect in KIES mode and get new upgrade (I change product code in registry to XEE this time [not XEU])

Everything is working 150% fine now!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kitkid:
Hey.

I tried the No Lock app from the market, and no joy on my phone.

Deffo worth a try though !!!

Cheers.

Stu
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But time and time again this error has proven to be a hardware error. Mine did the same thing and samsung/bell had to replace the mainboard in my phone. Good luck, but unfortunately, anything you do further is a waste of time short of sending it back for repair.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djf8:
I am running on Frakin-Twiz4 with jacs oc/uv/voodoo beta 4 kernel v1.1. For some reason I can't seem to get my myspace contacts to sync. No errors on syncing....just shows 0 contacts. Anyone else run into this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sl0play:
Cuz your the last person on MySpace? :p

sry... I couldn't help myself. :D
[Epic 4G General] snaggly:
and it still says i have di07 how do i get the update downloaded from this site still aint workin
[G2 and Desire Z General] ohhdavid:
Truly guys.. how come so many posts here are negative? It seems like some comments here seem to stand little purpose.

What about the good things about the phone? How are the keys on the keypad? After using MTS keyboard the G1 keyboard feels flat and very difficult to type with. What cool uses have you found for Flash? Does the bigger resulution make in-page flash work better? I imagine videos on FB must play better and feel more natural.

Id love to see those lucky enough to have a G2 to start threads to discuss interesting new uses and experience improvements of the phone.

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Arcadia310:
I understand what you are saying. However, people do not like spending $500 on a phone that isn't what it was advertised as.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Gryphen:
Because people happy with the phone are not generally looking to run around forums praising whatever it is they are happy with. No matter what it is or how few the problems may be, the majority of posts will always be negative because that is who is visiting the forums.
[G2 and Desire Z General] larryccf:
hey - i'm super happy with mine - keyboard is great for me, but this is my first physical keyboard

a lot of folks imagine the hinge is "loose" and a bad design, and the best i can gather, cause it simply doesn't close with the pressure of an alligator's jaws and it might come open if you ever decide to text while hanging upside down ( i kid not)

and others, in spite of the indications that the 4GB is there, insist on believing the sky is falling

and all that puts a negative cloud over it. Then to compound it, the complainers ignoring the fact that there are strong indications the phone is not missing 2GB, get further pissed, cause Tmo, 96 hours the pre-orders were shipped, but still before the official launch, hasn't got a full explanation for them when they call Customer Svc, even though it's a weekend. Nevermind that the jury hasn't had a chance to look into the "issue". But in their minds, they already know it's not there, and why ....why Tmobile should have sent tech trucks straight to their house to pick their phones up and make this right. I'm being a little sarcastic there, but if you read the threads on loose hinge and internal memory you'll see what i mean.

One poster actually started a thread trying to establish a correlation between the phones with loose hinges (that are not truly loose) and the missing memory (that it looks like is there, just not reported by android 2.2).

basically they're acting like those 4 yr old brats you see at airports these days - they want their way, no matter how wrong or in left field they might be.

the phone itself, coming from a Vibrant, is a breeze. Surprisingly, no issues, no lags, a GPS THAT ACTUALLY WORS surprisingly well, and fast & smooth as silk in operation, with a battery life that's about 30-35% greater than my Vibrant and while i'm not employing every efficiency trick i could find to help the vibrant's battery last.

but that's not enough for some folks
[G2 and Desire Z General] smasraum:
I LOVE the phone. I'm coming from a G1 that I had rooted and running cyanogen 5.0.8 (eclair). I haven't tried a flash site yet, but everything else about they phone is great. The only things that I might change would be some of the button placement.
[G2 and Desire Z General] smasraum:
I don't think the hinge thing is a problem, but I can reproduce what folks are complaining about. I just don't think it's a problem.
[G2 and Desire Z General] larryccf:
and how was it not what it was supposed to be?

i'm not a tmo or htc fanboy - any doubts on that, go over to the vibrant forum and check my posts when the GPS issue surfaced and the fanboys over there were so confident it was minor, or that we didn't really need gps, why if you did, why not buy a dedicated gps, yada yada

what has Tmo described and not delivered?
[G2 and Desire Z General] arich:
4GB internal memory and HSPA+ speeds in supported markets
[G2 and Desire Z General] shibby80:
just out of curiosity i would like to know how many people actually paid full price for the phone i know i did but im not under contract
[G2 and Desire Z General] larryccf:
i paid full price, have been contract free since 2006

haven't seen any reports of anyone not pulling hspa+ speeds that were in confirmed HSPA+ svc coverage areas

i pulled it this afternoon with no issue,

on the 4GB internal memory:

a) developers here on XDA found memory totals were showing 2.1GB which is an odd amount, with a lot of partitions they couldn't identify - quote from bottom of pg 15 on XDA G2 android development forum (link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794053&page=15 ) :

"This might also be relevant to the ~2.1GB mmc size weirdness - there are of course not going to be non-power-of-two NAND devices so all these ~2.1GB devices must have 4GB of space but may show up with an odd number of sectors due to gatekeeping by the baseband processor."

b) someone else pulled a dumped G2 rom down and found the sandisk part code reference for the nand chip, googling it pulls up it is a 4 GB chip

here's the link and the stmt

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=795594&page=30

Originally Posted by jigabite

"I'm assuming this is the dmesg output? Has anybody really investigated this part # yet? Googling 'SEM04G' brings up this document:

http://www.omapworld.com/iNAND_e_MMC...1_0[1].pdf

Page 20 says SEM04G is a 4GB part. I'm sure nobody has pulled the thing apart yet but it also says that SEM02G is the 2GB part... Curious

From the pdf. Could be a something ridiculously retarded like a messed up setting:

Value for 4GB-32GB: 0xC0FF8080

Value for 2GB: 0x40FF8080 "

c) and then someone else injected the fact that the developers over on the XDA HD2 forum that wrote the android 2.2 rom for the HD2 (it came out with windows mobile 6.5) found they had to write the rom to reflect or read a max of 2 GB internal memory, as android 2.2 is coded to not recognize more than 2GB.

here's that link:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8429161&postcount=306

and finally, then today, cyanogens tweeted he’d rooted his G2 and found 3.7 GB, but then when he rebooted, he lost his root. Other developers had already speculated that HTC has mirrored the OS in a separate partition, and when the phone boots up, it checks the boot OS with the mirror’d copy, and if it doesn’t match, then the mirror’d copy reflashes itself over the new boot OS.

while none of the above is absolutely certain, it sure is positive indication that the "missing" 2GB is there after all.

Other than the report in our phones’ on the SD & phone storage page showing 1.2GB, what other evidence have you seen that it doesn’t have 4GB?
[G2 and Desire Z General] dthadamaja:
Paid full price right here. You're always going to have more people be vocal about the bad than the good.
[G2 and Desire Z General] larryccf:
understood - it's just irksome beyond comprehension when the "bad" is not confirmed "bad", just folks reading the headlines of a post and assuming
[G2 and Desire Z General] Blueoval24:
Also coming from the G1 and I think the G2 is great. The keyboard is gonna taking a little getting used to for me but at least its a hard board. I happen to agree with the OP though, its already 3 times (or more) better than my G1 even if its "missing/hiding" some ROM.
[G2 and Desire Z General] JoshHart:
I think there's the buyer remorse thing too for people that can't afford it or on the fence they want to justify reasons they should return it and if other people agree with them then they can use that as the reason in their heads instead of taking responsibility. But look on any forum and you're going to find the same thing no matter what the product is.
[G2 and Desire Z General] scotolsen:
coming from the Vibrant i have to say, i'm quite thrilled with this phone. the build quality is just superb as is having vanilla android again. after the vibrant i swore of anything not stock and built by HTC. even at 800mhz this thing feels so much snappier than the Vibrant ever did (wth was with that lag?). not having 16gb of internal storage is a pain but then again that internal storage caused me headaches when i used odin and it'd erase the whole thing. also: notification lights! i used NoLED on the vibrant but i'm just so glad to have something that is built into the actual device. finally: FROYO. holy crap i missed that when i went from the N1 to the vibrant. "update all" new mail and google talk apps. support for chrome-to-phone, flash 10.1. i am however breathlessly awaiting root so i can enjoy some yummy wifi hotspot capabilities. all in all, a fantastic phone.

OH! and the metal battery door is a brilliant touch.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renardk764:
Hi all, I've been browsing the forum for a couple of days and have the fix for turning off voodoo but haven't been able to find anything explaining how to completely remove it. Will replacing the kernel remove it?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lralexl:
place a blank file named disable-lagfix in the voodoo folder on your internal sd card, reboot and wait for linda to tell you the process is done. then flash a non voodoo kernel to rid yourself of it permanently.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renardk764:
Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stringbeans:
Is it even worth installing a new launcher if there's technically no way to remove touch wiz? Cause basically you're just running the new launcher on top of touch wiz right?