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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aussiebum:
If there are demo units that you can play around with at a T-mobile UK store, just launch the phone into the Phone Tester mode (*#*#4636#*#* for the Desire), and assuming the phone has data connectivity, you should be able to see the DNS used.

That's how I found the DNS for my carrier using my Milestone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hastarin:
I've finally taken a look at this. The default values match the spec of our phone:

http://www.htc.com/www/product/hd2/specification.html

Which matches your carrier so I'm curious why you changed your setting?
[Captivate General] shishir95:
After some research and recieving my replacement Captivate (I broke my old one. Check the thread titled "To all new Captivate owners" for pictures and the story), I noticed that compared to my old Captivate, my new one is brighter, and the screen temperature is much more neutral. The pictures have also come out much better than my old Captivate and have rivaled and overtaken my point-and-shoot.

The device seems much faster (on JF6 -- which i network unlocked my phone on :D) and does not lag at all. The battery seems to hold much better because I turned the phone on when it had 6% battery and it held that charge for almost an hour of me setting up the device at max brightness and dropped down to 4% after I disconnected from WiFi. Before, the charge would drop down 5 or even 10 points. But of course, i'll "recalibrate" the battery.

The network reception definitely seems a full one to two bars higher and the contrast of the screen has vastly improved to boot.

Sadly, the GPS still is a pile of crap and my broken Captivate still has the better GPS signal and gains a full non-AGPS powered lock within 16 seconds on the JPK/JI6 Hybrid ROM.

These changes seem to indicate that the Voodoo ColorFix mod that is supposibly coming for our Captivates would be a YMMV modification since the screens apparently have changed. I'll update this thread once I flash JH7 through Kies Mini and see if the speed has gotten better, or the battery works better, or of the GPS works at all.

Cheers,
[Captivate General] nh5:
I got my captivate just over a month ago. I was reading some of the complaints about the blueish screen and I don't see any of that in mine. Maybe they revised the hardware a bit. I don't really ever use GPS so I can't comment on that.
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Where did you get yours from? I got mine about a week after it was released and I've experienced almost none of the problems that people commonly report with this phone. It ran pretty quick out of the box, the screen is nice and bright without any noticeable blue hue, and GPS has always been great. I got mine from amazon.com, perhaps it's some common retailer most people got their phone from that received a bad batch of captivates?
[Captivate General] nh5:
Mine I got at my local AT&T store. It wasn't a authorized retailer but a plain old AT&T Store.
[Captivate General] jdsemler:
I read somewhere that Samsung was likely no longer going to be shipping Super AMOLED screens on the Galaxy S line and replacing them with Super TFT LCD. Perhaps this is what you are seeing? Granted, it seems to be mostly rumor based, but that's like believing the OTA update fixed our GPS.
[Captivate General] nh5:
I got the box the phone came in and it specifically says Super AMOLED on it. If its not, its false advertising and I'd be pissed. This phone seems too good in the sun to not be a AMOLED
[Captivate General] Mac11700:
Oh please..why even say something like this...

All Captivates have them..just as all Galaxy S series have them...Hell even the new Windows 7 phones have them :rolleyes:

Mac
[Captivate General] shaddix2:
I got my captivate 5 days ago and the white balance is definitely on the cool side.
[Captivate General] cliffgardner:
I ordered my through the premiere store from AT&T on launch day and the screen is gorgeous. I haven't noticed any blueish tint. :D
[Captivate General] shaddix2:
use clouds as a reference white on a sunny day
[Captivate General] ph00ny:
when the display is turned off, does it have the blueish tint from certain angles?
[HD2 General] kaka1234:
A few days ago i bought a hd2 off craigslist and put android on it, aand start using it on my preferred.phone first plan. everything was perfect until.today when.i opened my tmobile account and saw a pic of hd2 on it out of no where. i am a little worried.because.hd2 is supposed to.requiere a more expensive "smartphone plan". i am pretty sure i didnt tell them i changed phone, so they must somehow detected it, i wonder if they would start charging me more?
[HD2 General] neoslan:
Yea, they can detect your phone pretty fast. Supposedly, they would block you from using the phone-first internet, and make you upgrade to a smartphone plan. The HD2 is definitely considered a phone on a smartphone plan. You really should be paying $30/month.
[HD2 General] HyperNode:
Ya data plan ATM costs to much $30/5GB per month. But rumour is TMo is cooking up another data plan for not heavy users which is 200MB/month for $10. So lets wait and see what happens, hopefully its true.
[HD2 General] kurt-willems:
In each case it is cheaper than here in Belgium.

1GB/month = 30€/month = 41,23$/month :(:mad::mad::mad:
[HD2 General] ORiZorrie:
That's for Proximus yes. They are the market leader. If you stick with them you're bound to get ripped off :(

Mobile Vikings has everything I could dream off: €15 / month = 2GB data + free sms. So actually you get € 15 to call with and the data plan for free. After 12 years of having Proximus that was an incredible shock to me.
[HD2 General] kurt-willems:
Hmm, if you look carefully on my account you will see I'm with Mobistar, not with Proximus!!

Yhe, I know Mobile vikings is cheaper fore data, but it don't have everywhere HSDPA coverage, I know aether Mobistar ore Proximus haven't it but it is better.

And bay the way I have almost 60H of communications each month. So conclusion I will stay with may formless, even it is expensive, but that's live here in belgium. :cool:
[HD2 General] ASCIIker:
i live in pakistan and the service providers here offer dirt cheap plans (no 3G yet though), and the business/market model is such that the majority of plans do NOT include a phone...so most everyone just gets whatever phone they fancy, get a plan, slap in the sim and we're good to go. i get unlimited gprs/edge for an additional RS500 on my plan (thats about $6) per month. all incoming calls are free and outgoing calls to any network are RS1.25 (thats about 2cents) per minute!

so i never really thought about how my provider can detect my phone. out of curiosity, would the OP have been able to hide the device model from his provider if he never used WM? for example, he gets the HD2 but does NOT put his sim card into the device. he then proceeds to keep WM in flight mode and sets up android...so that whenever WM boots, it is in flight mode, and then he can jump into android where flight mode is disabled. he puts in the sim...and starts using the phone like i've mentioned...i.e. phone services disabled completely in WM and using WM just as a bootstrap into android where all phone services are enabled.

would that prevent the provider from detecting the device model? or do they detect the IMEI and look it up in some database? or is the detection mechanism based on some other principle?
[HD2 General] InfX:
This is exactly what they do. Want some more details ? Google for "TAC database".
[HD2 General] kaka1234:
Thanks for the info, let's see what happens, the data is still not cut off til now.
[HD2 General] lemonspeakers:
that is very interesting. I am using my Euro HD2 on t-mobile USA since this janurary and my t-mobile account has not shown a picture of my device yet. There is no picture. This is the message they give me:

Sorry—we’re not sure which phone you’re using, so we’re not able to display resources. Please select a phone.

I am not on a data/text plan at all. I just do straight calls 1,500 Minutes shared.

Will I be caught?
[HD2 General] shinji257:
Eventually. Anyways the prices you guys gave make me happy that I'm keeping my unlimited plan with AT&T. All I can download for $30 per month.
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
The data plans for t-mobile are changing in a couple of weeks, still 30.00 for unlimited (25.00 on non subsidized phone) and I think 200mb for 10-15.00.
[HD2 General] GulDucat:
T-Mobile has a database of all HD2 IMEI's (unique phone serial numbers) of all T-Mobile branded HD's as well as any T-Mobile branded cell phones. As soon as you started using it, they detected what it is and will start charging you accordingly. AT&T does the same crap with iPhones and other AT&T branded phones.:mad:

The only workaround that I know of is to use non carrier branded phones that the carrier does not already have in their database.
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
im so happy that we dont have tmobile here in switzerland lol

paying only 29CHF (aroudn 30$ or so) for unlimited calls to my provider, unlimited sms(thats godlike) and "unlimited" mobile internet. but they cut down the speed after 500mb xD.. i could pay 19CHF more to get 2gbs till they cut it down, but hey, im not listening to internet radio anymore, so 500mbs are enough :P
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buddy17:
updated to 2.2, and i currently have my phone log set to view "all logs"....but that is really annoying since that includes text messaging. There are options for calls made, calls received, and missed calls, but no option for "all calls". I don't want to go into my phone log and see text messages, thats why i go to text messaging. I also don't just want to see calls i made or calls i received, i want to see them all!

am i missing something???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brynn85:
I just noticed this problem today, also. :-/ I mean I think it's fine that they give the option to include texts and stuff, but seems they left out a vital option to just show "all calls" (which should be the default, imo.) Sucks to have to choose between the options of dialed, received, missed, or everythinggg with every text, too. :(

Hopefully this can be remedied somehow, though
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buddy17:
glad i'm not the only one who is bothered by this! i agree completely
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfbrainhunter9000:
same here, it's very frustrating.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] juiceppc:
I was looking for an app that can turn off my screen and put my device in standby basically. I know there is an app actually called "Lock Screen Widget". But maybe it's only for 2.2 Froyo. Because on my Aria with stock 2.1 it doesn't show up in the Market. I don't want to go to CM6 as I like Sense and the stock ROM. I just want an app that will shut off my screen as I really dislike that angled power button on top.

Tasker no go.

"Can I use Tasker to turn the screen on and off ?

Turning on, use the Display / Turn On action.

Turning off, no, sorry, that's not allowed by the Android designers. "

Thanks.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] pretzy00:
I use an app call ' Screen Off Widget ', and it works well. It has a 5 sec delay after the screen is off for a true lock, but all apps seem to have that. It can be found on the market using searching either Screen Off or Seltzer (maker of the app).

Hope this helps.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] drjim:
Never mind. Misunderstood your post.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] juiceppc:
Thanks for the advice but "Screen off widget" isn't the same. Sure it "shuts off" the screen but it delays which still leaves the soft keys vulnerable to presses. Also it states it can not shut the screen off due to API. However, "Lock Screen Widget" does do this. Is this allowed in Froyo but not 2.1? Any way to get APK and force it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] futuristicstyles:
Is there one that lets you slide right to unlock then prompts you to put in a pattern?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyeballer:
Lockbot can do it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] futuristicstyles:
Thanks a lot I'm about to try it ASAP
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] futuristicstyles:
Thanks man I just hort lockbot pro strainer application for purple who get bored fast
[Imagio ROM Development] RelicXII:
I'm hoping that maybe a Chef can help me out with this one, as they might have ran into this same issue.

I have made my own ROM for my Imagio based on the oringinal 21874 Build.

My problem is that I have video play back issues with Album, Windows Player, and You Tube (Which I know album & You Tube uses Full Screen Player). When ever I play mp4s etc.. it would cause my device to freeze/lock up).

I have tried 3 or 4 different versions of Album, Full Screen Player, You Tube, Media Tool Kit..and aswell as other HTC Software and components. Does anyone know which software component versions work best with each other?

But since I also have issues using WMP, I have to say It just can't be HTC software.

The closest I have got it to work, it would play the video but the video was off sync with the audio.

I also have made a ROM for someones HTC Pure and ran into the same issue, so it can't be just the Imagio.

So I am at a loss of what could resolve this problem.
[HD2 General] Sheon849:
i cant get the phone to boot at all and it wont reinstall any roms as it always freezes at 0% :( is there anyway possible to restore this phone?
[HD2 General] kurt-willems:
get start to give us some more information sir, witch rom/radio you gave install?
[HD2 General] Baltazar-TM:
I have a very similar problem with my HD2. I do not know which radio is installed but it used to be and still is whatever came from the factory when I bought it from the T-Mobile USA. I used the NAND flash because i had issues with it. So let me first explain how i got here. The phone was good for a about a 6 month period of time and then the issues started. The issues were exactly the same with its stock WinMo as they are with Android so I really thin that it is the phone itself. The only question i have is, is there hope? Ok so it was bad and it would not boot or anything so I decided to put it in a ZipLock bag and put it in freezer. After taking it out and making sure that ZipLock get the condensation as opposed the device itself I started the NAND flash. I used HSPL3 and did that first (It used to be SPL-2.10.0000). Then I used the MAGLDR 1.11 and that worked too. then I used the DAF.exe NAND flash that was ported over from HTC Desire. So then I got stuck right after Rebooting message. So ALL was well but it would not reboot. I let it sit and then after no change in hours I pulled the battery. After that the phone would not start and Iput it back into freezer. After it got cold i started it just fineand Android was awesome. Up until the point where i went browsing through stuff on Android. Also note that I did go through "First time use" setup with no issues.Anyways, has anybody seen this behaviour on this phone and is there help? Thank you in advance.
[HD2 General] Baltazar-TM:
Also to add. Every time the phone will not boot I can know ahead of time because it will have vibrations going off. So basically if I get vibrations (About eitgh of them in sequence) the phone will not start up. Yes, it was like this under WinMo as well.
[Captivate General] mrjay711:
It seems that when my phone gets cold the music starts to crackle. This is a big problem because I spend a lot of time outside in the winter and like to have music when I'm outside. I haven't. Read any other post of people having this problem so any help with this problem would be great .
[Captivate General] sschrupp:
I don't know about the cold, but when I try to play some songs with the 5.1ch button enabled I get crackling. Maybe there's a relation there?
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
Is it like a popping/skipping sound? I've experienced this a couple of times... But I'm on cognition 2.2, and it usually only happens if I'm browsing the web at the same time.
[Captivate General] mrjay711:
Well I figured it out last night my phone quit reading the memory card. so I don't know if it was the card going bad or is it was the cold affecting the card I will have to try to put the card back in when I get home tonight and see if it works. the music plays fine when it is stored on the phone
[Captivate General] mttfrog13:
I've heard a lot about crackling in the music player. I think its related to the lag problems on the galaxy s phones.
[Vibrant Accessories] oldarney:
Why doesn't there seem to be an extended battery with a cover that only makes the phone chinless and not chubby. All of the covers I have been seeing make the phone considerably chubier. From what I have been seing, the vibrants thickest point (chin) is 14mm while the thinest is 9.9mm. If this is so, the phone could support a battery thats 0.9mm instead of 0.6mm and still retain its form, without the chin that is.

Another question is, if your going to make a battery thats 10mm thick, why not take advantage of the head room and strech the top, that is, make the upper 0.4mm of the battery, longer, as to cover the sim and the SD cards.

This would add at least 1000mah.
[Vibrant Accessories] cthach11:
I believe that extended battery makers are trying to refrain from covering the external sd card and sim card with battery. I think it also has to deal with the speaker placement and safety issues. I mean, it would be great to warp a battery around things, but is it cost-friendly? No. Its just more affordable to make one huge square battery than a flexible one.
[Vibrant Accessories] oldarney:
http://cgi.ebay.com/3500mAh-Battery...813696?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4aa5987bc0

For a 3500mah battery, that is one nice cover. I guess only iphones get molded batteries.
[Vibrant Accessories] cthach11:
Yeah, iPhones have that rounded shape to it with no abnormal chin. I'm sure the cases house just really thin batteries.
[Vibrant Accessories] down8:
I'm with the OP on this - I'd pay a reasonable pirce for a 2000mA battery, which would just get a couple more hours. Then the phone would just be flat against the rear curve.

-bZj
[Vibrant Accessories] Chalup:
Just some food for thought: I use the Mugen Power extended battery/cover and actually really like the added size. For me, it makes typing and holding the phone much more comfortable.

Oh yeah, and the battery lasts forever.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timmy303:
I have been looking for a while today to find a good caller ID app and have yet to find anything that works without having to have a subscription. Most our right don't work or are spoof apps. Anyone have one they like?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayporsche:
White Pages with Caller ID gets the job done quite well, it can be found in the Market .....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timmy303:
yeah, i wanted to get that one but its $7 plus a sixth month subscription.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayporsche:
Ok I hear you and understand your position. The 6 months period covers the Caller ID feature to look up incoming calls automatically and give you a notification in the status bar, after those 6 months you can always look up the numbers manually or just get the free version from the get go and do the same.....to be honest I totally forgot that it was $7.00, IMO it's just a necessity so I'm not concerned with those $7.00 ! actually that would be a 'single malt' drink at any establishment any day of the week excluding taxes and tip. Good luck with your search.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwertz:
If you dont mind only city, google "city caller id apk". There is an app out there that was free but City ID sued him and had to pull the app but you can find it around
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I use this. It's great and free just do a google search and you'll find it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bert269:
BuddiesNow: I need some help to get this Samsung app to work correctly under any ROM. Meaning, I need them as Widgets and not just shortcuts to it.....

I know it work fine under the stock TMO roms with the supplied launcher, (but also not under all the launchers, specifically ADWLauncher!). I need it as a widget and not only a shortcut to the app.

Can someone please help me with it: with these:

I have sign it with my own certificate, but I keep getting this error:

Failed: [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES]

What I have tried:

1) Sign this app with my own certificate,

2) Uninstalling BuddiesNow, wipe Dalvik-Cache

3) Uninstall the remainder of the app from Applications (nothing found)

4) Install with ADB and as an app - none works.

still gets the same error.

After signing it with my own certificate and uninstalling it, I now get :

Failure: [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]

Please help.

Tried looking for the app in Market too, but I guess it's Samsung property (and they probably shoot me now, right?....LOL)

Update: Doing a logcat during the installing of the app (from a filemanager) I get: Package com.sec.android.widgetapp.buddiesnow has no signatures that match those in shared user android.uid.shared. ignoring!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stolen_pillow:
Touchwiz widgets will only work with Touchwiz, just like Sense widgets will only work with Sense. There's no way make them work with ADW. However, Launcherpro Plus offers similar (and IMHO, better) widgets. Launcherpro is also very fast, loaded with options, and the Plus version is only $3. Give it a try.

Edit: before you get flamed, this should probably be posted in Q&A or General.

Sent from my Vibrant
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bert269:
Thanks....

I can understand that it could be bounded by TouchWiz (or whatever). It's not that it is not working, it is just not working as a Widget (shortcut works).

Well, then I guess not just only Samsung will shoot me, but the dev's too....I overstep on their territory...SORRY!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stolen_pillow:
No need to get defensive, if you hang around XDA for a while you'll find that some people won't be so nice. You're right about the widgets, they are coded to work specifically within TW frameworks, unfortunately there's no way around it. If you like ADW, try Launcherpro. You have to pay for all the goodies, but you can afford a $200 phone, so $3 shouldn't hurt too much.

Sent from my Vibrant
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BurceH:
Hey guys! I have no idea where to post, so I apologize if I'm in the wrong section.

I'm very new to rooting and I've seem to come into a major problem. (Atleast in my eyes.) To start off I had gotten my HTC Evo 4g & used the method of UNRevoked to root my Evo. I then found out UNRevoked isn't a full nand unlock & all the nitty gritty, so I came upon Toastcfh's guide to rooting the Evo. I performed half the instructions as told and was then in this boot loop. Right before it happened I (think) I erased the Dalvik Cache, but I definitely hard formatted the whole phone/cache. Anyway as told in the instructions I was suppose to flash the PC36IMG.zip to my phone and I did. Once that all configured it rebooted on itself & now the phone is stuck in boot with stock recovery method. I can load into HBOOT and see that in green lettering it says: SUPERSONIC EVT2-2 SHIP S-OFF, HBOOT-0.79.0000, TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab, RADIO-1.39.00.04.26. Please help me. I havent used my phone for a whole day now. :\

To add: Before the PC36IMG.zip got added on my phone, I had clockwork mod recovery. Now I have the stock one I'm guessing. I have tried a stock RUU through HBOOT USB, but the RUU either says some error my phone battery is under 30% (when it's fully charged). Or the RUU will say waiting for device to connect. & I tried putting a rom on my sd card then flashing or whatever and my computer wont open my sd card unless, I put it in the disk reader. Please ask questions, I'll answer as best as I can...thanks! :)