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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gr8gorilla:
P.S. My phone was completely stock (so please don't mention how I did this with a lag fix, etc.). I waited at least 15 mins before I pulled the battery, before which I had noted the T-Mobile sound starting without the animation (seems like a timing issue or something). And finally, I realize this is a duplicate post to many others but I want people to find this info (not be at the bottom of a really long thread) to get the word out how T-Mobile deals with their errors

Did you not read that part?

I bricked two stock Vibrants with the update. The second one failed during Mini-Kies update and was hardware locked.

It is a known issue according to the Tech guy that I spoke to while getting my replacement.

First phone wouldn't power on after failure, second phone was hardware locked so un-fixable.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiber:
No, no.

This happened to me, I had a rooted phone I had uninstalled the inflight internet, etc on it and hadn't overclocked or anything like that. Phone kills itself. I went to the tmo store and they only make you pay for shipping if you take the overnight option.

PROTIP - DON'T ASK FOR EXTRA SPEEDY SHIPPING AND THEY'LL PAY FOR IT.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dechire:
so i guess we are just SOL for the data on the phone? I just lost an entire vacation of pictures. I had not had a chance to root this phone either. this is ****ing awesome.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watcher64:
I guess this is just an example of "store your pictures on the external SD card"

Then if you brick it you can still get your pictures back ....
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patriot1973:
Word. That's one of the first things I did when I got the phone and was playing with the features. Switched it from phone storage to memory card.

Sorry to hear you lost photos.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackElvis79:
Protip: Pay the damn overnight shipping fee...it'll be deducted from your bill (flex pay) which makes it free: )
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oka1:
Here is the business side

If I am T mobile every time some person has a problem and I offered free shipping, the Every moron would be shipping the device back for Any problem. Way way costly, so that is not going to happen. If you Really believe the phone is factory defective then, pay the shipping and move on. If you messed with it at all then the burden to resolve is yours and be honest about that. Remember the reason people are in here is to customize the phone and improve it. Like the XDA mantra sez.......... It is not just the result... but the journey....

Like one of the other posts stated:

If you rooted it, then that takes the fault from T-Mobile to you. You changed the phone. The update was designed for a pristine un-edited Samsung Vibrant, if you changed anything in the system by rooting or flashing it is your fault for changing the equation. T-Mobile is NOT at fault for your actions.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjhart85:
There is a hardware lock fix now, you really should flash that before you do anything else. Yeah, you run the risk of bricking with the hardware unlock, but it's probably a safer bet than flashing away.

If you Odin it with the JI6 update, you might still be able to get a working system out of it. Worth a shot to see if you can get it without having to flash to stock first (which will wipe).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkknight49:
With all the time you spent with tech support, you could have found the thread that delineates how to fix your phone and update through odin. Its very easy and, frankly why be on a developers forum when you are not willing to tinker around a bit.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grantisimo:
As long as the phone still powers on you can still use ADB Pull and save the data from the /sdcard folder. This update isn't a totally bricking the phone (at least it didn't mine) just making the display and inputs not work. To quote Billy Crystal: "He's only MOSTLY dead"

Odin was really simple to reflash the stock ROM and then I was able to do a nandroid restore from there.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heldc:
The T-Mobile OTA update left my phone only booting to the vibrant screen, but it was a pretty simple fix with Odin. The hardest part was getting the proper drivers installed in windows!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jerzeeloon:
Mini kies wouldnt even let me update,so I rooted and flashed bionix 1.8,works great.**** tmo.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr2t32:
Fyi to the people with hardware lock. I did the update on my gf's phone which was hardware locked and it failed. The phone would only boot to the vibrant screen. The good news is the ota update unlocks the hardware because her phone is able to get into recovery and download mode even thought the update failed. The point is don't worry if ota fail on you because you can just use odin to fix it since it unlocks the download mode.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NikolaiT:
If the update even gets that far...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FenixGryph:
This is what I did in order to fix my boot loop

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/8456-force-update-to-ji6-vibrant/
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Here is a link about 2.2 release for those who are interested

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-Goes-Official-with-Android-2-2-for-GALAXY-S-161230.shtml
[Vibrant General] kboater:
thanks for the info, but everyone is going to tell you that this had been posted MANY times in the past few days

thanks though
[EVO 4G General] drsiaca:
Here is my first day with BS 1.8 with netarchy kernal 4.1.9. I am a very heavy user.

The pic explains itself, some other info not in pic is setCPU is over clocked at 1152 and underclocked at 245 this with screen on. Profile with screen off was at 125-245 (those are the flat lines). Also managing the power is Juice Defender (great app). Launcher Pro is also installed.

Next test is with KiNgxKernel #9
[EVO 4G General] skydeaner:
netarchy 5 preview has a lot better battery life. Think about that even! It isn't ready to be an every day kernel yet, but it is bound to be amazing.

But yeah, thanks for the post, this is still very nice, especially when you think about how they were when they first were released lol. droid 2.1 or 2.0 or whatever was on it and the terrible first kernel and we were setting at 4 hours if you wanted to use it for anything lol.
[EVO 4G General] drsiaca:
It isn't out, at least the stable version yet but it is in my plans to try it.
[Android Software Development] foobar2605:
Hi all,

i want to show the last recent emails of a selected folder in a homescreen widget. access to internal content provider content://com.android.email.provider is locked by protectionLevel=3, so only system apps can access this provider.

is there a chance to do this with root access?

are there other possible solutions to get access to the emails stored on the phone?

regards,

foo
[General Topics] johseph:
Ok so i have been an HTC guy for a while now but due to some customer service issues and my lack of excitement surrounding WinMo, i am looking for a new phone.

I have had most recently the Touch HD from HTC and now I have the branded TP2. I love my TP2 but its constantly crashing and i know Win7 is on the way and all kinds of new Android goodies as well.

NOW

my issue is this, i have looked all over the net and seen all types of phones but im not sure what i should look for next.

Is there anything coming that anyone knows of that is worth waiting for?

I have seen the Windows 7 phone due out next month, but its missing an entire row of keys that my TP2 has and I think i kinda like the number row on my qwerty so i think that phone is out. I like the Desire Z but same issue there as well.

Is there anything coming from another vendor maybe with Android that has a keyboard on it? What about the Nokia phones, the resolution is not as good but what about the phones?

I just hate to spend a load of $ like i have in the past on these UK versions of the phones only for them to suck like 6 months later.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

**Also some internal memory would be nice as well

**I also need to use the phone in the UK so the Droid stuff is not usable

thanks
[General Topics] poetryrocksalot:
I guess you havent heard about the HTC 7 Pro...

It's a direct upgrade from the HTC Touch Pro2...same keyboard too..same number of rows....

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/htc-7-pro-first-hands-on/
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glen4cindy:
This is somewhat strange to me, but, I am new to this.

I've been playing around, but, I had a nandroid, so I wasn't worried.

However, after my nandroid restore to get back to my desired configuration,

my Google Sky was gone. The Market didn't even show that I had downloaded it, and Manage Applications didn't show it.

I know it was there when I did the backup, so shouldn't everything have been restored to right where it was before?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyouko:
you can try using a file/root explorer such as "root explorer" or "estrongs" to search the /data/app/ directory for the GoogleSky apk.

One thing i would suggest is to reboot into recovery and run "Fix uid permissions" under the "other" option. The application may be on the phone but the permissions are set incorrectly so the phone isn't reading that it is there.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danaff37:
Also, if you are using cm6, and you never changed a2sd from automatic, google sky will install to sd card. And unless you use clockwork recovery, your froyo native a2sd apps are not backed up
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glen4cindy:
My install location is set to Automatic.

I am not using Clockwork, but, I thought the point of a Nandroid was to make an image of the system so you can restore it if something goes wrong.

In the first case, I simply reinstalled Google Sky.

The next time I tried it, just to see if the same thing would happen again, I waited a few minutes, and Google Sky showed up by itself.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danaff37:
But native froyo a2 sd isn't on the system, it's on the actual fat partition of your sdcard. Amon ra for the hero is an old version, and wasn't set up for this.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krylon360:
Hey everyone,

I'm receiving a bricked Eris in the mail, was being sent to me for dev work next month, but he accidentally bricked it within clockwork. (formatted the boot and system partitions)

Does anyone know if there are JTAG pins on the board?

Right now, the device doesn't see that it's plugged in, doesn't turn on (though, Im sure it powers up, just no drivers telling the phone to light up.)

If I were to create a gold card, do you think I can get it into the boot loader and flash it?

It's not under warranty, or contract, and I don't have a VZW account, so can't really take it in for a replacement.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hungry Man:
If you managed to get JTAG I guess you could flash firmware. You have to find the pins, and then you'd have to make the JTAG yourself... which there are no instructions for. I don't know how many of the pins you'd have to put in it or anything.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=647904&highlight=JTAG
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrqube:
anyone know how to unlock different file parameters, its the files that have a gold badge and star on it. thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] |ErosizeD|:
i installed 4 days ago,

N.O.V.A

Sandstorm

and Spartan.

I have got a bad gaming experience, the multi touch it's not acurate, he jumps when i move it ( the multi touch on the x point ), i got some Freezes continously, and other **** things, this not happen on Galaxy S, iphone, and other android phones.

Any one can confirm this?

THanks.

PD: excuse my bad english :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tjken33:
Well i can add when playing heavy gunner with dual touch option and the touch instead of tilt option, the screen sometimes jump in the wrong direction if touched a certain way. Very annoying when you have a swam of 40 bots coming your way and all of sudden your back is towards them.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] |ErosizeD|:
yes 100%, i got the same problems...

is the screen of the HD2 or the drivers are not 100% perfecctioned?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JonSolo:
I'd be interested in the WM Rom you guys have, the Android build, radio, and kernel. That might get you answered.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JanssoN:
Yes, I think so. I have the same problem. It seems a little inaccurate.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shadowrtype:
This is more of a problem on builds based on the Nexus. Try some other android build based on the Desire. Multi touch screen controls work very nicely on them. I'm using Mdeejay Froyo Sense Clean 1.1 and NOVA plays very well.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ll_l_x_l_ll:
i am using bungsters CM6 based rom. i have no issues at all.

i even downloaded an app called multi touch test from the market where you place 2 fingers on the screen in the same time and play around to see if the positions of the circles where ur touching will screw up " just like on nexus 1 and desire " and no. no problem at all it was perfect.

but i downloaded NOVA just to test it few mins ago and its perfect.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] THUDUK:
Sandstorm runs great on my Ndeejay evo warm with hasterin 7.5

Multi touch seems very responsive
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shagratt:
I played all of them fine with Bangster rom. Cannot play them with mdeejay 3.1 :(
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] :
I currently have a HTC Magic but I am getting annoyed with the lack of decent stable roms for it so I have been shopping around and for my budget I have a choice of either an X10 mini or the new X8 but wanted to find out which would be better as I understand the X8 is like the X10 mini but with a bigger screen and a lower camera
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] adils3d:
Dony buy either of the phones as they are dum.

I was a xperia x1 user and my x1 stopped working as it had gone in water.

I bought a x8 and my friend also had saved moey to buy a x10 mini pro.

But let me tell you that its nor worth thr money you are spending and the X1 had 13 buttons on the front bottom the xperia just had 3 buttons on the front bottom.

There isnt any direct call button, you will have to go back from the menu to make a call.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] VooDoo`:
With a alternate Homelauncher (f.ex. ADW) you can bind the middle key with the dialer if you are already at the homescreen.

...and for the X8 and X10 use the sony-ericsson.com comparison tool and try to look at the phones at a market.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] :
Sorry to sound dumb but isn't the X1 a WM device? the 2 I asked about are both Android devices I only ask about these 2 devices as I hate WM and Apple iOS. My other oprion is to strech my budget for a HTC Wildfire (all of these handsets would be pay as you go)

I have looked at the comparison charts but I am more interested in 'real life' comparison rather then a spec for spec comparison
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] knudsen81:
i had also a x1 wm phone, and now i have x10 mini pro and had x10, x10 mini and htc wildfire....

If you will have a small phone get the mini, i only have the pro becouse i use the qwerty keyboard much.... the mini/pro is a great phone, but the wildfire has a ugly screen, then you use a picture as wallpaper is looks ugly.....

so if i was you i will look at x10 mini or x8....

my 2 cents
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] :
Cheers for that I am not much of a qwerty keypad user I prefer the old T9 style predictive keypad as I don't text often and I can text a lot quicker with a keypad rather then a qwerty. I know what you mean about wallpapers on the wildfire as I had previously had a Tattoo with a similer size screen
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Lweek:
My thought

Personally I like more X8. I've got X10 mini pro two months ago. I like it, It is nice device but small resolution restrict from getting all those great apps so it is not ideal. I also thought I will use HW keyboard a lot but most of time I'm just lazy to do it. On screen keyboard could be good enough for me. Camera with autofocus is nice but I have problem with fingerprints on lens everytime I check lens out. Such small phone is hard to avoid touching the lens. And also AF is not working perfectly. I experienced decently blured pictures from time to time (just bad focus, not shutter problem). So, with X8 you can save some money and still get slightly more usable device thus better resolution. Personally I'm thinking about switch to X8 from my X10 mini.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] knudsen81:
the x10 mini has a good t9 keyboard, but the x8 comes with a on-screen qwerty keyboard like the x10 and not as the mini's keyboard
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] sampleit:
disreguard adils3d's juvenile comments lol...

Anyway i have a mini pro, and its a gr8 little phone but i bought it specificly because i wanted a small smartphone and a taste of android with T9 style onsceen keypad for sms...using the slider more for emails etc.

The X8 Depends if a bigger screen is more important to you and your not bothered about the lesser camera fucntions and like an onscreen qwerty apart from that i dont think there is any difference apart from price.

In the uk o2 are selling the X8 for £130!!!!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] :
unfortunatly when I went to get the x10 mini today from CEX it had been sold so in the end I ended up getting a HTC Hero instead as they didn't have anymore x10 mini's within my price range. The X10 mini was going for £130 unlocked/sim-free but as it was sold I got a HTC Hero for £120 + £15 to get it unlocked
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] knudsen81:
Htc Hero is also a great phone, works good, and if you root it you kan put android 2.2 on it :D
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] :
I would do but I like the HTC Sense UI which I don't think is in 2.2 yet?:confused:

I currantly have 2.1 update 1
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] knudsen81:
i don't know with sense but custom rom from villian team works great with hero

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] raiderkilo:
X10 Mini is perfect small phone with lots of features better than X8
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] li_boud:
I don't think that except camera there is any superior feature in mini than x8..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] ToTTenTranz:
As a X10 Mini owner, I'd say it depends a lot on its usage.

I got the X10 Mini because I already owned an Omnia HD with great camera and multimedia capabilities and I needed a second device to handle another operator.

The X10 Mini is just that, a great secondary device with great software capabilities because of Android and spectacular performance. It does hold the title of world's smallest smartphone.

However.. the small screen and resolution limits too much the android experience, making some tasks like web browsing a bit painful, not to mention software incompatibility.

For a better smartphone experience, the X8 will be a lot better.

However... for a good android smartphone experience, I'd choose none.

Given Sony Ericsson's back story with firmware updates, I wouldn't get an android from them at all..

Android apps are too much version-dependent, and SE is still late to bring an update to Éclair when every other manufacturer has moved to Froyo.

They even ridiculed themselves to the point of launching a phone with a 2 generations old firmware, the X8.

That's like launching a laptop with Windows XP right now.

And no one knows when the updates are coming.. The X10 was launched a year ago there's still no update..

All we know is that they've NEVER updated any android from them, ever.

And looking at their background SE's background with their Symbian smartphones (laughable, to say the least), I wouldn't count too much on their support.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] li_boud:
Well said..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] :
That is another reason why I was glad they had sold the X10 mini and went for my HTC Hero which already had 2.1-update1 on it and the unlock for the HTC was actually £5.99 via a reputable ebay member express-codes so £120 for HTC Hero w/ 2.1-update1 + £5.99 unlock made for a much better choice instead of £130 for a X10 mini
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] iversen20:
I have both of them.

And if the camera was the same in the x8 as in the x10 mini pro, I think the x8 was the winner.

It works faster, batterylife is longer, the screens bigger size make a real diffrence.

I use the x10 pro as everyday use and the x8's just for fun, I simply love the x8 with the exeption of the camera.

And about updates, who cares really?

If there dosent come a official realese, im sure there will come one here.

Not something there is giving me a headic :rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] DAXGr:
Well that would be true if SE hadn't installed a locked bootloader, able to boot only their signed roms...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] :
X8!!!!!!!!!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Ulumia:
X8 because: higher resolution, larger screen and lower price (in its time)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamal717:
So if i install the zack 1.5 hero it goes past g1 screen and gets stuck at the start up screen with the X i need some help please n thankyou
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bacon165:
hey, i have a uk htc hd2, i have had it since last march 2010, all has been good, no problems(love this phone),it running standard ROM 1.72.110.4, radio 2.15.50.02_2

my earpiece speaker has stopped working(was fine yesterday, now dead) :( i have done a quick panic search, i wondered if there is a test code, diagnostic menu to test the speaker? if its broken, can i replace it my self?

i just want my phone working again, as when i make a call ppl can hear me i cant hear them :(

any advise, help would be great guys :)

ps my case has a strong magnet clip that when closed rests over the earpiece speaker, could that have damaged it?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JerseySteve:
I encountered the same problem - calls connected OK - people could hear me - I couldn't hear them....

Phone was returned to Jersey Telecom for repair and I've just received it back after 7 weeks ! ! !

HTC Touch Pro2 loan phone drove me nuts !

Hope you get better service

Regards
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bacon165:
hey, quick update found a replacement earpiece on ebay, from hong kong, i know could be risky :(

i did find a dis-assembly video on you tube, was going to post links but i ant allowed too newbie yet lol

still tempted to fix it myself, feeling brave :)

i still couldnt find a text code or menu for the earpiece to test it, anyone got any ideas?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bacon165:
no one able to help me out, bit disappointed :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
no theres no audio test codes/modes.

Before you start taking it apart, you have done a soft reset and a hard reset, right? (my external stopped working today, no obvious reason, but a soft reset fixed it)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bacon165:
hey, thanks for your reply samsamuel :)

i did do a soft reset, and a hard reset, but no luck sadly :(

after the hard reset, recovered to an earlier spb backup i had, but still......

i thought htc would have had a test mode etc, but if they dont, then i cant test to find out definitively if the earpiece is the issue :(

does anyone know a good site for spares(for earpiece). i can only find ebay :( and a part from hong kong, not sure if it will be as good at the oem earpiece.....