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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipassassin21:
First off i'd like to say im not new to android, im not a dev or anything but i know how to work myself around my phone. But unfortunately i think think i might have possibly semi-bricked my phone. After installing frankin twiz final rom with JAC kernel w/voodoo, i was then informed that the official JI6 update was released. After i disabled the voodoo lag fix I tried odining back to stock vibrant so i can hopefully get the OTA update. It appeared to have flashed correctly. But once i booted up my phone it booted through the samsung vibrant screen then the galaxy screen, then just stayed there for awhile and turned black. I have tried to enter download mode but i believe i have a hardware locked phone(i've tried over and over again but with no avail) so i don't think i can odin flash again. So i have no clue what to do anymore. Please help. thanks.:(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silow:
Can you get into recovery by holding down the +/- buttons and power button? If you can, you can boot into Clockwork recovery and use ADB to see if mount /data works and what file system is formatted.

Also if you can use the buttons to boot into recovery these are the steps you should follow to get into download mode and have ODIN recognize your phone properly.

1.) Unplug your phone from the usb cable

2.) Remove your battery, sdcard, and sim card

3.) Open ODIN

4.) Plug in your usb cable to the phone and computer

5.) Hold down the volume +/- buttons

6.) While still holding the volume buttons insert the battery.

7.) The phone should now be in download mode with the big yellow icon

8.) Odin should recognize that your phone has been connected

9.) Flash the JFD firmware following the instruction in JAC's JFD thread
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipassassin21:
Thanks silow for the reply, but i've tried that and it failed. Even before i bricked the phone i couldn't access the recovery nor download mode by the hardware button i had to either enter through ROM manager or through terminal. Any other suggestions? thanks again.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silow:
If you can't get into recovery using the hardware buttons you should return and exchange your phone because that is consider a defect.

Being unable to get into recovery or download mode when you have a "soft-brick" is dangerous business.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nazrazr:
Hi read there lots of 3 buttons problem...sorry to ask what is actually the 3 button problem????...

and one more thing...my phone firmware now is jf3...and when i connect with kies it show a new update for firmware....what is the different actually with both of the firmware????

have any of you faced the problem where your wifi turn on by itself and sometimes the wifi button does not functioning and need to restart your phone to solve it....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
let Kies upgrade you to the latest firmware the stock JF3 is tooooooooo old, and too many bugs
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domchik:
I bought my phone with jf3 as well, and had the exact same problem where the wifi will turn itself on and got stuck. The only solution was to restart the phone. I upgraded to jm8 and never had this problem again. Just update your phone through kies or odin.

The three button problem is when you can't access download mode or recovery mode holding a combination of three hardware buttons: volume up+home+power, or volume down+home+power
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nazrazr:
hey....i am thinking right now to upadate my firmware but i cant as the process got stuck...dont know why it happened..maybe bcoz of my kies probably...anywhere my kies version is 1.5.3.10093.80...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] journeyman82:
This is my first Android, coming from a Nokia 5800 on Symbian, and I finally got around to flashing a custom ROM. I installed Cognition 2.1.7 and I really liked the wallpaper that came up when I booted for the first time. As soon as I flashed the minimalist evo 4g bar mod it changed it to a grass background and I can't find that wallpaper anywhere so I'm guessing it was built into the Cognition ROM somehow. I flashed again and the wallpaper came back so I took a screen shot of it, but that's only a third of the size of the full wallpaper. Was wondering if any of you know how to get the wallpaper out of the zip file or if there is anyway to restore just the wallpaper without losing my mod? Or if anyone has a copy of it, I tried searching all over for it but couldn't find it.

Here's what the wallpaper looked like
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a.n:
Straight from the latest build.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] journeyman82:
You're the best, thanx!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stam2000:
Since froyo we have had the flashlight app that has 3 levels of brightness. Is there anyway to change the brightness of the flash when taking a picture?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theguy386:
found this a while back and I've been using it with no issues

http://forum.androidcentral.com/droid-incredible/9829-droid-incredible-tips-tricks-thread-7.html

(post #64)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KGBxxx:
I remeber a while ago I had an app that could turn off one of the flash LEDs. I can't seem to find it now and don't remeber the name. Any help??? I think it would help in night picture taking and avoid washed out pictures.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ACD168:
That's a great app, or at least a great idea for an app if the creator took it down, I would love to have that, and have the option of choosing which led to turn off, one for better lighting and two not to wear one out faster than the other, and the best of all make the flash less as bright.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] h22ajspec:
I sometimes lose service and it only comes back if I cycle airplane mode or reboot phone. This happens in places were I have great signal . even when the phone shows no service I can still make calls but can't text and if people call me goes to voice mail. This happens on every build, radio, and rom I have tried. I don't see this as a known isue in the forums . Any help would be great . Also thank you to all whom contribuit to these android builds awsome work!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Life Engineer:
Resurrection!

It's beautiful to revive some old dead threads! :rolleyes:

I have here the same problem with my NAND build!

Can anybody help on this?!?

10x
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thomas_pieps:
yes I have the same problem, this can be resolved by setting the mobile data network to 2G only.

The Android build has this problem on some providers when trying to use 3G data mode.

Here in Belgium, this problem is there with Mobile Vikings (Base)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Life Engineer:
Thanks bro but unfortunately i'm 2G already! :confused:

I had this issue in the past! I don't know what made it go and now what made it come again!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thomas_pieps:
Any third party apps that can cause the problem?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] wingman1487:
I have had this problem for a while. It will just randomly loose connection, you cycle airplane mode and then your service is back. Its almost like the phone isn't looking for a new cell tower after it loose connection and cycling airplane mode causes it to search again...

Extremely frustrating problem as it happens often and has been for a while (on many different builds and radios)

If anyone knows a fix or something, you would be my hero haha :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xWarrock:
And, what about the problem?

I've the same problem, but my network comes and goes.. :confused:

one time i have reception, and suddenly its gone. autmaticly it comes again and on and on.

I'm a match ringer, i know :cool:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xWarrock:
Nobody has this Problem too? O.o
[Vibrant General] pedalmaster:
I use Anycut to create shortcuts but am unable to figure out how to create a shortcut that puts the phone in vibrate mode. I currently use the # key on the dial pad.

Also, I know this may be simple but please take it easy on me as this is my first post to any board of this type even though I study them frequently.

Have a updated to J5 (through Kies) galaxy s vibrant.

Thanks
[Vibrant General] a400meter:
There are several apps in the market that that enable this via widget. Just tried ' silent toggle widget' and it works fine.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] unCoRrUpTeD:
unCoRrUpTeD Dual Boot V1​

COMING SOON

Head on over to the official thread for unCoRrUpTeD Dual Boot >>>>>>>> Dual Boot
[Hero CDMA Android Development] unCoRrUpTeD:
Reserved for no reason at all.

Maybe i can find a use for it
[Hero CDMA Android Development] t12icky0:
HELL YEA!!! been waiting for this man..you are awsome! look forward to the release with anticipation. I did want to ask..whats a sufficient Micro Sd card to you(size wise)? i currently have a 2gb with about 1gb left would that be enough or should i go buy a 4gb?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pwachleman:
+1 on this, will be really useful! Thanks for your work!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] unCoRrUpTeD:
I currently have the partitions for /system and /data set as 200Mb. i am going to try and add on more for /cache, but I am looking into making it as small as possible, since many would not be installing a lot of extra apps. It could be as small as 330Mb total.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] t12icky0:
so will i need that APPS2SD thing for this?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] unCoRrUpTeD:
No. I will have instructions on setting up your sdcard

Right now my script is linux based. I'm not sure how much can be done with a batch script, but it will direct you in what you will need to do.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] t12icky0:
sweet..your the man..cant wait!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] obsanity:
One important thing I would like to propose here for the developer is a "standard" location somewhere on the SD card which would keep all the common data such as contacts, recent sms, call logs, etc. so that multi boot environment can share data without loss or duplicates.

In other words, boot to CM6 tonight and in two days when you decide to go back to stock ROM, all your sms, phone calls and such are picked up right where you left them in CM6 and vice versa.

Other than that, this sounds like an awesome thing. Can't wait to have the phone boot one ROM for Monday, another for Tuesday, and another for Wednesday and another...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] s0be:
Not really possible. Different rom versions (2.1 vs 2.2) store the data in different formats. You'll have to rely on something like titanium backup to handle it.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] HeroMeng:
How exactly is the dual-booting done? Does the batch script need to be controlled from the computer, or have you made a custom bootloader for on-the-fly switching?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] t12icky0:
very good question
[Hero CDMA Android Development] unCoRrUpTeD:
It's pretty simple if you have ever extracted the ramdisk and kernel from boot.img

The recovery has not been modified and the only time a computer is used is to setup the ROM the first time. You have to modify the boot.img from the ROM you want to installed on the sdcard. Once it has been changed, all you do is flash the boot.img of the ROM you want. I have mine setup where everything for the ROM is stored on the sdcard (/system, /data, and /cache) but have not been able to test out cache yet.

The reason for a non modified recovery is so that it can be done on any android phone.

I may put up a way to do this while I look into the script.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] electrikjesus:
that is awesome you got so far so quick. i was hoping the squashfs tip would help you out. cant wait to see what approach you took.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] HeroMeng:
Oh, I see how you do the dual boot now. But I have one more question. How exactly do you get the rom on the SD? Do you use an ext partition or just put it on the FAT partition? Or is there some other partition type that I haven't heard of?

Sent from my Hero. It has a mind of its own O_o
[Hero CDMA Android Development] unCoRrUpTeD:
Since everyone has a different size sdcard and most do not want to format the sdcard completely I will provide instructions on how to partition it correctly.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] CrashV2010:
Go on buy.com and get a 16gb sdcard for about 35 bucks, jesus lol !!!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] t12icky0:
lol..i dont use that much space...as you can see i have 1gb left on my

2gb..LMAO! i would have like prolly 15gb left on it. So it would be pointless for me to get a 16gb.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] unCoRrUpTeD:
I have an 8GB class6. I have used about 4GB.

Post #2 has steps on setting up the sdcard
[Hero CDMA Android Development] PMDColeslaw:
Just wondering but whats the plus side to this as opposed to just having different nandriod backups to flash between? I know it would be faster to boot but imo that's not woth all the partitioning of the sd card and what not. Now if it allowed you to run Windows Mobile roms from the SD then that would be awesome. I had a dual boot on my old HTC diamond and thats where I first discovered Android :D
[Hero CDMA General] bso44:
Whenever I end a call, it goes back to the lock screen. Where can I change this in the settings?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snorge:
Nevermind used Odin was simple.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=734475
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silow:
If you want to Nandroid back to a JFD-based backup:

1.) Disable Voodoo

2.) Download and flash the Stock-Kernel-Vibrant.zip from the Frankin-Twiz thread

3.) Nandroid your backup
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterotaku:
AFAIK Jac's kernel is still compatible with JFD. Making it compatible with JIx builds is something we owe to eugene373 in the first place as this used to be an issue.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Only Loki:
I switched from rooted stock, to bionix w/stock kernel. Do I need to Odin back to stock or can I just nandroid?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fishman0919:
Nandroid will get you back to stock but will not put you back to stock baseline JFD. Odin is the only way back to true stock.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silow:
Depends on which version of Bionix. Bionix 1.4 and below are based off JFD so you can Nandroid a stock backup safely. Otherwise you can flash the JFD kernel and Nandroid a stock backup, however this will not flash your baseband (modem.bin) back to JFD (but should still work I believe).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Only Loki:
Thanks guys. I'm a linux user and don't want to deal with wine. So just wondering if I flash 1.4 or earlier then nandroid. Will that get me back to stock base band?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevja1:
Just in case you haven't read this yet...

If you wind up using Odin - find a windows PC - don't take chances with Wine + Odin - Odin is bad enough as it is.

Also, make sure your phone isn't hardware locked if you haven't already. If it IS hardware locked and Odin fails, (as is very common), you'll brick your phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Only Loki:
Yeah that is why I was trying to avoid using it. If I don't get an answer by morning, I will just try to flash down and report back here so hopefully people will have something to reference. I searched but couldn't find a definite answer.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silow:
I haven't tried it but flashing down should work.

Also if you are unable to get into recovery using the volume and power buttons you should return your phone for an exchange. This is consider a defect and you'll likely be unable to consistently get into download mode - not a good thing when experimentally flashing ROMS and kernels.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techpreneur:
Why would you want to switch from Bionix?
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
Ok so I have been messing around with the evo and doing a new rom for the whole cricket thing.

One thing i have noticed while doing this is that the EVO DOES NOT drop down to 1x at all. So i decided to write a 1x PRL to the phone. The phone reports that it is ON 3G network. This is not possible and I think that is wrong. Sprint has the phone reporting that it is 3G even though its on a 1x network.

If his has been discussed please let me know thanks.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Sorry to deviate from your original message but is there a way to force 1x? I'm assuming 1x uses less energy than EVDO/3G; so if true, it would be beneficial to switch to 1x when idling/display is off. Maybe tasker or juice defender already does this?

Edit: On CM6 I hit 1x from time to time. At least the status bar reports it as 1x. Could be a Sense/HTC bug.

Edit 2: It seems that Android doesn't have a API for 3G/2G toggling. Sucks.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
No your fine, Yes CM does go to 1x. This isnt based off a sprint rom. Its not a HTC Sense issue because I had ported a incredible rom a while back to the phone and it would drop to 1x. I just tried a new port for 2.2 from the incredible and its doing the same thing.

It is possbile that it could be a HTC Sense Bug in the 2.2 Froyo. But i really think that Verizon and Sprint are not wanting it to drop to 1x. Wich i think is wrong.

The way i forced it was to load a 1x PRL on the phone.

I'm connected as 3G "False" as i checked the speed now and I only got 39.62kb wich is far from the 1565.1kbs i checked before switching PRL.
[EVO 4G General] nukedukem:
Maybe you already knew this, but I'm pretty sure that for a 1xRTT network the 3G icon in stock htc sense roms simply greys out. At least that's what I remember seeing in the manual. When the phone is connected to 3G the icon turns white.
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
I don't know - I'm almost positive that I've seen a 1x symbol in my status bar instead of 3g a few times. It's been a while though...
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
Well from what i see thats not true.

Im on 1xRTT right now. The icon is a solid white.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
Even if that was the case and it should grey out. That is completely deceiving. It should accurtly show it is on the 1x network.
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
sorry - who was this to? Also, I know there's a 1x symbol in the framework - it's got to be there for a reason, right?
[EVO 4G General] nukedukem:
OK I just checked the manual and it has a 1X icon. You're right.

Edit: The com.htc.resources.apk where sense signal icons are located contains the images for 1X so maybe it's something in the xml's that prevents the phone from either correctly notifying a 1X signal or bypassing the connection all together. HTC obviously intended for the phone to connect to 1X if they took the time to sensify the images. Strange.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
Yes HTC intended for it but thats not the case. Has anyone on sprint successfully dropped to a 1x Connection ? Here is what I notice if im not forcing a 1x connection.

If it looses a 3G connection, it does not successfully drop to 1x. It just looses 3G all together then tries multiple times to go to 3G if it doesn't succeed you loose internet.

If you have a 1x prl it loads 1x but shows its a 3G connection wich is not true at all. This is disappointing.
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
ummm...yeah - like I said in my prev post, I've seen the 1x icon appear on my phone in parts of nj where I wasn't picking up 3g.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
What ROM are you using ?
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
OK Im going to grab my friends Evo tonight that is on a sprint a force a 1x connection and see if his shows accurately or not.
[EVO 4G General] nukedukem:
I assume your custom PRL is forcing a 1X connection on sprint towers and not verizon or something? The phone may only show a drop to 1X if on sprint's network. If you are on verizon or cricket or something it probably wont indicate 1X.
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
I was either using stock, or an older version of baked snack.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
Its not a custom PRL the one im using is a cricket prl. Made only for 1x network. It does not support EVDO.

Sprint has a few 1x PRL's only and I will load his phone with it and test it.

That doesn't make sense. The phone being on cricket or any other service would not make the phone report its on 3G all time. I flash a lot of phones to cricket. Like i said before this is a Sprint Rom issue. I loaded it with a incredible ROM and it successfully drops to 1x connection.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
fachadick,

You might have been using baked snack rom.

Im checking tonight with the service on sprint.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
So far its confirmed.

Two people with HTC EVO's on sprint.

One (Me) on with evo on cricket.

We forced all three EVOs to work on 1x connection only. All three of them are showing 3G icon but are only getting 1x speeds. This is very deceiving.
[EVO 4G General] nukedukem:
The reason I say it might not work on a PRL from another carrier is because when I am roaming I get a triangle above my reception, but the data icon remains 3G if I remember correctly. The actual data connection is only 1X because of roaming agreements, so what I am theorizing here is that the phone only changes to 1X when you are on an authentic sprint network and the connection drops to 1X. This is probably built into the rom, which is why it works for other phones, but not the EVO.

Because you are using a "roaming" PRL, I would think that the phone doesn't trigger the change to 1X icon just like actual roaming with a Sprint PRL. That's my hunch.
[EVO 4G General] amoamare:
Yes i understand what you are saying, and yes that is plausible.

But doesn't explain why when we force the sprint ones they do not change to 1x ? I can force any other phone to 1x on the sprint network.
[EVO 4G General] xHausx:
I've noticed it also, you have to force it stay on CDMA HDR or it will sometimes use a slower connection instead. As others have mentioned there are times when the correct icon will show up though
[EVO 4G General] freerein100:
I am in an area that does not have 3g service and my Evo has never shown anything but the 3g icon. All other phones I have show the correct data type.
[EVO 4G General] brmasha:
I am pretty sure this has been done intentionally by Sprint. I am in a 1X area and have never seen the 1X icon except with CM6. The Samsung Epic 4G also doesn't display a 1X icon which makes me think its Sprint doing it on purpose. You can check the network you are connected to by using ##DEBUG# and then choosing data status.
[EVO 4G General] snovvman:
Is there a widget out there that would correctly display EVDO vs. 1xRTT? It's helpful to know when the phone is connecting via 1x vs. EVDO. When sending SMS, the phone will also briefly switch to 1X.
[EVO 4G General] Calkulin:
Sprint does make a change to the HtcCdmaStatusBar.smali in the services.jar to show the 3G icon when in reality it's on 1x
[EVO 4G General] heygrl:
This isn't cool but I'm glad someone brought it up. Sprint constantly switches between 1X and 3G in areas with full 3G coverage, I've seen it happen far too often on their data sticks.
[EVO 4G General] snovvman:
If anyone can "undo" this evil, it would be you... How about it? :D:D
[EVO 4G General] strung:
I can confirm this
[EVO 4G General] aago1254:
cricket flash

okay with most htc phones you have to get it into daig mode by going to ##daig# on your phone pad and hit send.. since i dont have a evo im not 100% sure thats how you get it to daig mode but most htc's use this settings. but once you get connected to teh computer use cdma work shop and make sure you have your spc with sprint phones they are hard to come by. anyway once you connect to it using cdma work shop go to the other tab and update the prl here is my website full of prl files its trial and error but here you go cricketflash.co.cc would have them

let me know