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[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
**First, I don't know if this really belongs in the Q&A Section or in this General Section, so sorry if I misplaced this thread.**

Here's the story

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Yesterday in San Francisco marked the last day of Fleet Week demonstrations by the Blue Angels, who ride FA-18 jets. Our Italian Heritage Day and Columbus Day parade was held at the same time the flight demonstrations occurred. My school marching band (which I am part of) participated in the parade, and we would here the jets flying above us, producing loud cracks, so I assume they were creating sonic booms.:cool:

I put my HD2 in a thin leather sleeve, which then goes into my band's U.S. Marine uniform's inner breast pocket. Of course, the two-mile parade made me sweat. At the end of the parade, I took out my phone, and the sleeve was wet (but the phone was dry). When I turned it on, it was frozen, so I did a soft reset. When it rebooted, I noticed something weird...

Here's my issue

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Every time I add pressure on the power button (I don't have to depress it all the way), it launches my task manager (ArkSwitch) and the screen freezes until I turn off the screen by fully depressing the power button. When I turn on and unlock the screen, ArkSwitch is open.

I flashed the T-Mo USA stock ROM (WM6.5), and when I add pressure to the power button, it launches the Start Menu. This made me realize that the power button has somehow been cross-wired to the screen's top-left corner (where the start menu is now located, and where the ArkSwitch activation field was located)!:eek:

Here's a question

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Has anyone ever heard of this before?:confused: My friend's iPhone, right after the parade, could not make a call -- it would not launch anything, but the home screen still swiped left/right. Another friend, who has a Samsung dumb-phone, took out his phone at the end of the parade, and the screen was shattered! Is it possible that the waves from the sonic booms may have affected our phones (We've been in longer, hotter parades, so I don't think humidity is much of an issue, especially taking into consideration the broken screen of my friend's Samsung. Also, the water damage indicators are still white, so sweat didn't penetrate)? This has never happened to me before, but this is the first time I marched this particular parade with my HD2 in my pocket (I've already marched 3 parades with the HD2); I marched with my TP2 in the same pocket last year, and it was never affected (I marched probably 6-7 parades with the TP2).

~~I now have restored stock SPL, and I'm going to go to the T-Mo store to try to get a warranty swap.:(
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
Update

I'm getting a replacement phone soon.

I spoke to one local rep and 2 CS (on the phone) reps. All 3 of them were dumbfounded when I explained the hardware problem. The local rep who actually witnessed me pressing the Power Button, which launched the Start Menu, was so confused he didn't even bother doing anything -- he immediately took out the battery, looked at the water damage indicators, wrote down the IMEI, and told me he wrote a note on my account regarding a strange hardware problem, and that CS will deal with warranty swaps.

The 2 CS spokespersons were just plain confused about the issue!:p Good thing they just ended up doing a warranty swap without pulling the "Did you do a hard reset?" stuff.

Anyway, I'm still curious as to how this happened. I've had my HD2 since mid-April, and this failure occurred only yesterday (Oct.10).:confused:
[HD2 General] Scabes24:
Wow, that's strange :(

If you have another device you should use that one for a day or two and leave all cards and the battery out of device, and maybe put some pressure on the hard send key. Something similar happened to my Topaz over the summer, it was really hot out and I'm pretty sure I didn't get any sweat on it. Anyways, somehow the next day the windows hard key opened up the dialer all of a sudden and there were some tiny green lines on the phone.. after a while the green slowely creeped down to the bottom of the screen and dissapeared (over a period of three months) and the hardware buttons eventually fixed themselves (over about a week).

Were you drinking at this parade?
[HD2 General] Nakel:
No offense intended, but the Blue Angels don't "ride" FA-18s, they fly them. In aircraft passengers ride and pilots (or naval aviators) fly.

The Blue Angels did not go supersonic. The aircraft at the airshow did not affect your phone in any way. Think about it. If you experienced a sonic boom that could break your phone, what do you suppose would have happened to your eardrums? Plus, the Blue Angels are all about precision flying. I guarantee they didn't accidentally go supersonic, and they damn sure didn't do it on purpose. Hope that helps narrow down what happened to your phone... Wish I could be more help, but at least I eliminated a blind alley! :)

Ex military pilot.
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
Thanks, I'll give that a try. But my replacement HD2 should be arriving in 2 days, and who knows, I might as well relive the "new phone" experience!:p

I didn't have alcohol of course, but I did have a bottle of water after the parade (and I swear I didn't miss my mouth when I drank it).;)

Not offended at all.:) (I admit I'm ignorant when it comes to aviation.)

Geez, when 3 Blue Angels members (1 pilot and 2 engineers) came to my school for a brief recruitment presentation, they did say they go supersonic during some points of the demonstrations -- maybe they realized us kids these days just don't know that much about aviation.

I love watching the Blue Angels fly. I used to go to Downtown SF each year to watch them on their last performance, but now that my marching band participates in the parade that occurs during the demonstrations, I barely get to watch them anymore (I just hear them flying above me).:(

Thanks. Now I think aliens are just screwing with me...:eek:
[HD2 General] DN41:
thats really corious ;)

happily, you'll get your replacement ;)

thanks for sharing this "funny" story.

what about the other phones? are they working again?

DN41
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
The iPhone is working fine; my friend has had no issues since the parade. The Samsung, which had the broken screen but still had calling capabilities, stopped working altogether -- my friend just got a new phone to renew his contract.

I'm still at school and my HD2's at home, so I don't know if it's working well yet.
[HD2 General] OrionCarl:
sure its a screen issue...there is a video on youtube of a hd2 being pressed near the hardkeys and doing funny things
[HD2 General] tunppi:
Had like same problem with my old Wizard. when pressed over dpad up button it launched always start menu, but when pressed exactly at dpad up button it did what it was meant to :) like there would have been extra button hidden..

but as for sonic boom, no they didn't do that at no chance at all. it is very dangerous for people near mostly for ears. and as far as I know they are allowed to do that only very high in the air where is no "outsiders" and only far away from cities and other stuff.

thumbs up for you getting new phone
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
Well my HD2's still broken... Looking at the UPS tracking, I should get my phone in 20 hours (when I get home from school tomorrow).:cool:

See, the weird thing is, why would the hardware suddenly fail after 6 months of use?:confused:

I imagined the would fail within one month of using the phone; I never thought of it taking 6 months.
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
I finally received my HD2 today. I can tell it's refurbished; the screen was not lined up correctly with the uni-body sides/back design, so I had to push the screen down on the sides to line it up (I assume the screen was replaced on this device). Whatever, just as long as this lasts me at least another year, it's fine.

Scabes24, the "fix" you recommended hasn't worked yet, and I will have to return the broken phone by the time it might fix itself (you said about 1 week).

Back to flashing...:D I can finally update my one-month-old ROM and my sig.:eek:

(Oh, yay! 1000th post!:D)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b8d69:
i'm having a problem with sprint vm. i went to the sprint store, they just did a hard reset. There is still a phone # that keep showing up, but my inbox is empty. the phone is stock (unrooted) running 2.2. Is anyone else having problem.. sorry i'm a noob..
[HTC Aria General] kevina90:
Like many other peoples i started with stock(duh) moved to liberated and then to CM6. But today i did some researching and the new sense is pretty cool, hopefully will be added to liberated 2.2. My question is, will you guys be moving back to sense 2.2(hopefully with new sense) or staying with CM6?
[HTC Aria General] ls377:
I'll probably try Froyo Sense when it gets put in Liberated, but I'll probably stick with CM6 unless I'm completely blown away. I do miss parts of Sense though.
[HTC Aria General] maevro:
Yes. I know that people are quick to dismiss Sense but I like it a lot, especially after using Motorola phones, that are garbage.

I have used every ROM available for this phone and Froyo with HTC Sense would be perfect for me.

I keep going back and forth between CM6 and a ROM that I tinkered with that is like a hybrid. I really hope they have an official update soon or a ROM that combines everything.

Is that asking for too much?
[HTC Aria General] Noz85:
Ditto.

Now to wait and see.
[HTC Aria General] ycode90:
I want froyo sense mmmmmm.
[HTC Aria General] CallMeAria:
As long as CM upgrades to using the new kernel thats supposed to be released with Froyo I'll stay loyal to CM.
[HTC Aria General] tat2me2:
I'd rather have sense -
[HTC Aria General] Rwelch:
For me it will depend on if they add in extra features into the Sense that aren't likely to be added into CM.
[HTC Aria General] Okstatefan:
CM has been a blessing for this little Aria phone, but I do miss Sense UI.
[HTC Aria General] BelacNongaw:
Does this mean htc's 2.2 for aria is around the corner?:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTC-Bee-En-Route-to-Verizon-Leaked-ROM-Emerges-160263.shtml
[HTC Aria General] Gorilla800lbs:
If given a choice, I'd definitely prefer 2.2 Sense!
[HTC Aria General] drjim:
I'd go with Sense as I like the UI and many of its widgets.
[HTC Aria General] DougG_ATL:
I enjoy some elements of Sense, as they're very carefully designed and work effectively. Conversely, I will only install a ROM if it's as open and customizable as CM6. Android is supposed to be about a more open system and I don't understand why these companies can't understand the needs of power users.
[HTC Aria General] mwreed:
Sense 2.2

I hate to admit it but I miss the pretty. I also carry the iEvil and it's tough to pull out CM6 and not winch a little. For all the UI haters, there is a good reason big companies spend tons of money on the user experience. Functionality can be enhanced with a great UI.
[HTC Aria General] Noz85:
*crosses fingers*
[HTC Aria General] tacitapproval:
According to the specs I saw the HTC Bee has a different (inferior) CPU.
[HTC Aria General] Sengfeng:
There should be enough guts in that ROM to strip out the hardware specific bits and put in Aria ones.

Attn1 -- looked at that yet? Prognosis?
[HTC Aria General] ycode90:
How come non android native (IE:Hd2 ect ) can get froyo sense and we can't ? Not *****in because I can't make it , but someone can . Maybe a good write up on how to build a rom is in order .
[HTC Aria General] Rors:
I tried and liked the CM6 mod and everything that went with it, but as I dont have an iPod or anything, not having the radio to listen to is a dealbreaker for me.
[HTC Aria General] BelacNongaw:
I was posting that as a possible indication ours is soon to follow. That rom is for a CDMA phone...which means we can probably forget about porting that to the aria.
[HTC Aria General] :
I believe the FM radio may be (or is soon to be) working on the nightly builds judging by cyanogen's tweets last night. He was already using his on the N1.
[HTC Aria General] bluedragon1982:
Whats about create two roms?

Cm6 for aria

And

New Sense, maybe than its possible to port the new sense to the wildfife ;)
[HTC Aria General] DougG_ATL:
Why not pick up a microSD card and download the Amazon MP3 app? You can use DoubleTwist to load any of your current music and directly purchase legal music from Amazon straight to your Aria!

You can also download TuneIn, IHeartRadio or the other streaming radio apps. Who needs an iPod? :D
[HTC Aria General] bkmo:
I tweeted to him and asked what we need for FM on the Aria and he said we have to backport some kernel patches to our 2.6.29 kernel.
[HTC Aria General] Rors:
I'd do that, but I read somewhere that you cant sync with a Mac? Or have they sorted that now? Might buy a bigger SD card and give it a bash. And to be honest, I do quite like listening to the radio as there are some very good stations here in Australia.
[HTC Aria General] attn1:
It would be awesome if threads like this were posted in general, where they belong.
[HTC Aria General] zeyoner:
lol, I agree.

I'd have to say that for a while when I first got a hold of my Aria I loved Sense! I've been using CM6 for a few months now and when I give Liberated a try I can't last a whole day with it. It blows imo, not the ROM itself but Sense. Like yea it's pretty and all but CM6 can easily be customized to look however you want it to look. To me Sense is just too deep into the ROM. I would like it if I was able to unload and load it as I please. ex: ADW Launcher & LauncherPro.

I would love to see the FM Radio in CM6 but it's not a deal breaker for me.

Ps

Attn1 and everyone that has worked on bringing CM to the Aria. You guys are my rock! :cool:
[HTC Aria General] joshua54:
Can't wait to try froyo sense!
[HTC Aria General] JCurtisod:
I tried CM6 loved the speed and the apps2sd but really missed the Sense UI. Now I have Liberated RO12, works great, no apps2sd though, spent WAY to many hours following steps to get it to work and never had success.

Hoping for Froyo with Sense
[HTC Aria General] ChairmanPlow:
I've tried CM6. I like it and all the options it gives you, but I really like the Sense UI. That being said, I went back to Liberated. Looking forward to (hoping for) Froyo Sense.
[HTC Aria General] MikeChelen:
Is the Sense UI or ROM open source? Sense is good as far as manufacturer addons go. If it cannot be modified though then there is no point switching from CM6.
[G2 and Desire Z General] s30zgt:
Cyanogen is saying its a bug. Tmo is saying its a feature. which one is correct?

If it is indeed a bug how would tmo go about fixing our phones? mass recall? sweep under the rug?

If its a feature, is it a precursor to what future phones will be?

Either outcome isnt very good for the consumer and may lead to lots of lost customers for tmo. Specially after tmo releasing a statement that its a feature of the phone.

I love this phone, the very first smartphone i ever had, and was really looking forward to hacking around with it but its hard to justify such a device that locks you out of such features. I hope cyanogen and all the other great devs work out a solution to this problem. I dont want to send it back.

looked for similar threads and couldnt find any.

info link:

h**p://phandroid.com/2010/10/11/cyanogen-calls-shenanigans-on-t-mobile-g2-root-fail-safe-mechanism/
[G2 and Desire Z General] d0nkey:
Read teh goddamn internets!

Wtf people??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!
[G2 and Desire Z General] SuperFly03:
This......
[G2 and Desire Z General] krayshunist:
Absolutely this.
[G2 and Desire Z General] AndroidNoober:
I read all post lol, but I need to do this question, Im always an Iphone user (tmobile network) I bought this G2, I keep reading that cant be root for now, I change it today because got blackout twices....

I dont know what the hell works the root thing.. Just an advices, should keep my G2? or wait for another android phone...

Still have 13 days for return
[G2 and Desire Z General] s30zgt:
care to elaborate?
[G2 and Desire Z General] AndroidNoober:
Can you? lol...
[G2 and Desire Z General] s30zgt:
First off learn to type in a understandable format. your previous post just butchers the english language.

Second, i can see that this thread will go nowhere. Mod can you please close this thread?
[G2 and Desire Z General] AndroidNoober:
Sorry, I know my English is bad.. Is my second language.. I just trying to understand a little bit about this.. Spanish pages are from Mexico or Spain, harder to understand!!!

Like I said, sorry about that.
[G2 and Desire Z General] krayshunist:
Sure, here: Read the ****ing internet.
[G2 and Desire Z General] s30zgt:
Wow thanks man lol. I don't need your asinine comments that bring nothing to this thread. Mods please close this thread.
[G2 and Desire Z General] greengoldmello:
Wow... ppl are such asses..i dont see anything in here that warrants the op to be cursed at...ridiculous
[G2 and Desire Z General] XfooYen:
People are being jerks for sure, but OP, you should search better cuz your question has been answered in several threads. The short of it is NO. It is not a bug in the sense you are thinking. It is an intentional bug which tricks linux (android os) into thinking writes to the system files during root are being made when in actuality, the writes are only being written to cache. Once the cache is cleared during reboot the root access is erased because it wasn't actually written to the system in the first place. It's not a bug that needs to be fixed. It's a bug that was placed there to fool the system and make permanent root more...challenging.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rUsTyRuSs:
Wiki

There is a very informational Wiki out. Check it out. It will get you up to date with all the work that has been done towards root.

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] Anomaly:
The important part of the question.. for me.. is whether the Z has the same bugFeature.

I see one random user saying that they flashed a G2 rom on a Desire Z and nothing more. Have I missed something? Kinda hard to say yay or nay based solely on that.
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidtoy09:
"Intentional Bug" ????

If it's intentional, it's NOT a bug.
[G2 and Desire Z General] s30zgt:
Thank you XfooYen for the info. I did a quick search before I posted(the posting page even searches similar post before you publish them) and found nothing similar. I will make sure to search more thoroughly next time.

I am familiar with the current situation with root, I just though that if a well known developer like cyanogen thinks that its a bug that maybe the readers of xda might want to discuss his possible ratonale for such a statement, then again that may not have been what he was trying to say and got it misrepresented by the media. Instead I saw nothing but irrelevent and pointless posts. For a second I thought this was gizmodo or engadget.

Thank you again. Its good to know that xda has readers who actually know what they are talking about and not just the average troll.
[G2 and Desire Z General] XfooYen:
Actually, you're wrong.

RT @cyanogen: @garok89 yeah, and the statement tmobile made is technically wrong. theres nothing that restores the phone, its actually what i'd call a bug
[G2 and Desire Z General] ericc191:
Agreed. This is XDA. In the years I've been here, there was never this much flaming and douchery as there has been lately.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kosmarnik:
Tried searching, no hits came up so:

how does one get all the symbols from a regular keyboard mapped?

Like <>\~`[] which are sorely missing.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] aspromalee:
I agree. I have been looking for the old symbols, too. I take a lot of meeting notes where paragraphs are used from articles, and really liked the paragraph symbol, and now don't have it. Would really like something if it could be found.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
I've never tried to map symbols with this, but you might be able to. Try tarkim's key remapper.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lightninman:
So I recently purchased the Samsung Captivate to use with my AT&T GoPhone plan, but every time I boot up the phone, I get a message that says

SIM card crash

Check your SIM card or

contact customer care.

The SIM card works in other phones just fine, so it has to be a problem with this phone. I tried unlocking it, but that hasn't helped, and other carrier SIM cards work.

Any suggestions?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbui:
I met the same problem. Any suggestion?

Thanks !
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
That sim card is not compatible with the captivate.
[Desire General] georgeuk:
Hello there, I have a phone on the three network. I managed to root it using unrevoked. I installed a rom called auraxtsense. it was working but I tried to then install a new rom using the same method but it wouldnt work. it still goes back to the same rom. any idea? what could i do.
[Desire General] shoemeistah:
Go into recovery mode and wipe dat and cache. Then flash the new ROM.

Hope this helps.

Sent from my HTC
[Wildfire General] blueberry27:
Hi there all,

There might be some answer to my question somewhere lying under some other issue/title. But I can't think of close possibility, so m posting a new thread here.

It's about Remapping the 4th semi-hard Search button (w/ a magnifying glass icon) or any other button to default (or any other function).

I have WildPuzzle Rom 8.0.8 which working all fine except with some messed up Google App. One of those app is Google Search (com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.apk) which initially was link to the Button I mentioned above. So whenever I used that little button (either on home screen or web browser), it crashes and FC. I try reinstalling Google Search app but failed/restricted to override.

I found out, GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk in /data/app/ folder is causing the problem, so I get rid of it with the help of Root Browser. After that Google Search app from market installed with no problem. No more FC.

That's the git of my current situation. Now here is the real problem. The magnifying glass Search Button lost default link to Google Search App. How do I remap it? I have installed Open Search & Voice Search, which I can bring up by Long Pressing that Search Button. But Single Press Search is gone.

I'm guessing I only need to either fix the link or place the right file in right folder. I can do simple coding (when necessary) if you can guide me a bit.

Thanks for anyone who can help me in advance.
[Wildfire General] blueberry27:
Anyone can help?

Just remapping magnifying button to do default Google search thing.

Thanks.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] Rizalxda:
Please advise on a FAST, STABLE TP2 CDMA ROM that includes these apps but not necessarily Sense. I run SPB Mobile Shell as it saves a lot of RAM (30 MB?) and I can link directly to Word and Excel files from the home screen, unlike Sense. I see custom ROMs often scrap Worldcard but I find it very useful. This is supposed to a professional quality phone afterall, no? Thanks for your sage advice.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] Teej53214:
I used the rom below.. I had to install Voice command.. but he had a link to the version to use with the rom right there available for download... the Energy roms are great.. and has worldcard.. I have played with it a few times myself.. very cool how it scans the card info...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ml2514:
Hi guys,

How do I set the default calendar view on the G2? I can't seem to do it. I tried:

1) Keeping it in the view I want (Week) and pressing the home button

2) Keeping it in the view I want and rebooting the phone

Btw, I'm accessing calendar via the Calendar Widget and it defaults to day view ALL the time.

Thanks for any input!