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[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinpanalley:
Hey!! It's your favorite messed up unsolvable situation dude...

Ok, here's the new update:

It was eventually deduced (more by me than by T-Mo) that my wife's phone could be the problem. Having crossed out all variables the only thing that remained was the possibility that her handset was at fault. Or that the combination of old SIM card and first-release handset on her end trying to contact new handset and new SIM card on my end was causing some strange connectivity issue network-side but BECAUSE of her phone. So we went to T-Mo. We asked them to let us borrow another Slide for a few minutes to do a controlled test to see if my wife's SIM card would work in another phone. If it worked, we'd prove that it was her handset. Or maybe the CM 6 Root. My call to her SIM in another phone went through fine. So, we warranty-exchanged her phone. Just got it last Thursday.

Flashed to CM 6.0 again on the new one. The damn crash happened. I crap you not. The only thing in all this that makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER is: if it's the root causing this problem... why doesn't HER phone have problems dialing out???? Why is it only when I call HER number. Every - single - solitary - phone number I call is FINE. Hers... nope. Crash. Alas...

Tonight I'm gonna unroot completely on both phones. If it works, we're simply not gonna root anymore and I'll let cyanogen know there might be a bug nobody's noticed before. If that DOESN'T work, then I have absolutely no clue what the hell to do. But I'll probably at that point call T-Mo (they have this whole thing documented now) and tell them that maybe we should both be moved to new phones.

Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas are welcome. I no longer know what to do.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fermunky:
The only thing left to do would be to try any other SIM in her phone, or even have her exiosting number put on a new SIM and insert it into her phone. But indeed, this is very very strange. When I worked for Nokia, I only came across one other unsolvable issue, where a customer had a certain model Nokia, and on a particular stretch of interstate near Washington DC, his phone crashed. We tried new phones and even new SIM cards (was using TMo). We then had a tech visit him, tried an AT&T sim in the same phone and it did not crash.

I never new what they did after that. I imagine our techs worked with TMo techs to later resolve. This is bizarre.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinpanalley:
Ok... unrooted both phones. (Any difference in going to the "factory" root package provided by CM and just restoring to the one you backed up through nandroid?)

Since last night when I unrooted, there have been no problems. Still using LauncherPro (hmm... maybe LauncherPro was the problem?). Anyway, I wanna give it a few days just to be absolutely sure that it was a rooting issue. I have no faith anymore that this won't happen again. For now, it's all good.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinpanalley:
Still looking good but now I think I don't have the latest update from T-Mobile because I'm back to having that issue where T-Mobile Contacts keep trying to sync which was cleared up by that OTA update. I've already unrooted so I don't know how to add it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fermunky:
From what I understand, it can take a few days or a few reboots for it to pull the OTA update again.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinpanalley:
Alright well without the CM Root it's been flawless. Well, not flawless but the issue hasn't resurfaced. It must have been that root. I do now have this other issue with the email program where it doesnt let me start typing in the body of the email but rather forces everything I type into the contacts field. Probably a bug.

Any other good roots out there that people know about so I can get back to Froyo again?
[Fascinate General] th3cr3473d:
Can any one give me a list of roms available for the fascinate and some details about them.

Maybe your opinion about which work best??

Thanks.

Sent from my fascinate with my keyboard
[Fascinate General] bomber889:
why don't you just read
[Fascinate General] th3cr3473d:
I was hoping to get an idea of what was out there, ive read through a lot of the different post but they've left me a bit confused so I thought it would be easier to post this question.

Sent from my fascinate with my keyboard on XDA app
[Fascinate General] gardndj:
Download Rom Manager from the market and check the "Download Rom" section. Most of the goodies for the Fascinate are there. For more info on a particular rom/mod search the dev forum for the thread. Performance wise most of the roms are pretty similar, it really comes down to feature differences.
[Fascinate General] th3cr3473d:
Thanks ill check it out,i have to buy the full version right??

Sent from my fascinate with my keyboard on XDA app
[Fascinate General] BingoDanny:
I asked the same question or something close in a different thread.

From what I was told there are no special roms or atleast true roms available yet. so it might not be worth tinkering yet. The roms available are basically roms where stock apps are erased and apps are added.....for me theres no point.

ill take a stock 2.1 or stock 2.2 any day.

BTW "palmary weather" is a awesome weather widget...the best ive seen. even better than sense ui weather. I hope this guy makes more widgets!!!!!!!!!!
[Epic 4G General] mynewepic10:
Trying to see if anyone has or can make a flash file for the spring navigation since the rom does not include it. Or does someone know the best navigation software for the epic?

Thanks.
[Epic 4G General] hoihtah:
I just use google navigation.

though gps seldom has hard time locking on.

but once it is on.. it's pretty accurate.
[Epic 4G General] Rodderik:
google navigation works pretty good but you can grab the epic system dump and install SN28-1092-sprint-signed.apk from the app folder or google that file name
[Epic 4G General] Jed Dignazio:
Here ya go:
[Epic 4G General] mynewepic10:
So I will just put the apk file on my sd card and install correct?
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Drop it in /system/app for best results.
[Epic 4G General] LordLugard:
Me, I'm down with Google Navigator and CoPilot Live.
[Epic 4G General] luvjones305:
hey

by the way do any body have the sprint hotspot app from the epic4g thanks
[Epic 4G General] Jed Dignazio:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833066
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
I am trying out Navigon,which I also used on my WM phones. it costs but it has the advantage of working off line, and its mapset is very very good with speed limits etc.

There are some issues with it, like ease of navigating from a contact, and that it doesn't have al the street names on the 3d nav screen
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] dkn8:
I just upgraded my X10 mini to Eclair by editing my build.prop and letting SEUS do the rest. However, I wonder how long we SE-Users must wait for Froyo and upcoming.

My idea now: did anyone think of compiling Froyo for X10 mini or other phones? I am interested in starting a project for this if none exists right now, provided the most relevant issues can be solved.

So, I'd like to know

- if there's a way to make all hardware (WLAN,3G,USB...) running without proprietary drivers (don't know yet if e.g. SE uses publically undocumented hardware)

- if its' legal to extract drivers from the proprietary image - if possible anyway (should be technically)

- what about encrypted device storage, meaning parts of bootcode and so on?

- what about testing a potentially self-compiled android on a real phone without the risk to cause unwanted behaviour in the public, meaning, e.g. paralyzing parts of the GSM network...

Always keeping in mind that staying legal is directive #1.

And yes, I can hardly assume how much work this could become. But there are other open source project showing that interesting projects can become a good thing. (writing this on a debian-powered machine...) ;-)

Any chance?

Yours

dkn8
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] egzthunder1:
Thread moved to x10 General
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] li_boud:
This is a good place to start and gather required information -

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=726813

Yes, thats a long thread, but invaluable if you want to make custom ROMs
[Android Software Development] Wiskid15:
My programming skills are far to minimal to take on a project like this. The app idea is pretty basic: A camcorder application which allows you to specify audio quality.

I would like a camcorder app which would utilize the features of the app "HiFiCorder." HiFiCorder allows you to record high bitrate audio up to 320k. I believe the current camcorder apps record audio at around 8-12k.

Every camcorder app I've tried has had pathetic audio quality. This makes taking video on your phone pointless. I believe there would be a huge market for an app with awesome video AS WELL AS audio quality.

Thanks,

Wiskid
[Android Software Development] kokesh:
Try Bambuser - it allows you to change resolution/audio quality - I own crappy VF 845 with fixed focus 2mpix camera/320x240 video and it does 800x480 video, with better audio quality.

The only thing with this is following: it works like qik, it streams it live to their website, you can later download FLV with your video, they have direct link to video in the dashboard.
[Android Software Development] Wiskid15:
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try. I know someone had once suggested Justin.TV as well, but I didn't really like the idea of having to stream, then download. I guess if it's the only way to get decent audio, I'll give it a go...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aikeru:
Hello, everyone. My brother recently bought a used T-Mobile (US) myTouch 3G as he needed a GSM phone that would work overseas. The person who sold it claimed it was unlocked and seemed to work for awhile.

It stopped working with the overseas SIM so he sent it to me in the USA to try and fix it. :)

Now it is stuck at "No Sim Card" message without a SIM card and I've moved to CDMA network so I don't use a SIM card anymore...

I'd like to know if there's a way I can root this thing and put a working ROM on it or what I can do to get past this screen... Here's the data from hboot:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G

HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP30000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.23.02

May 27, 2009, 19:06:41

Thanks for any help anyone can provide!
[Vibrant General] JJG2:
When I plug in my Vibrant to my computer, nothing happens. My phone says it's charging, but nothing else happens. No dialog that tells me that the USB is connected on the phone, or anything on the computer either that I have inserted a new flash drive. Has this happened to anyone before? Any suggestions?
[Vibrant General] stevec666:
After it's plugged in via usb did you mount it?
[Vibrant General] mo0se:
find the samsung vibrant drivers for your computer
[Vibrant General] Deadsilent14:
Make sure drivers are installed correctly.

Windows x86 and x64 drivers:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728929
[Vibrant General] robertwind89:
I had the same problem when I reinstalled windows 7, after u have the drivers installed if doesn't work restart your phone that's what I did and it connected right away and recognized my phone
[Epic 4G General] sauron0101:
Lets put together a list of problems that we have with this phone. I'll split them into software bugs and things we just don't like.

Software bugs/shortcomings

- GPS problems

- Touchwiz seems to have been gimped (less of an issue as I use Syndicate, although I know some people like Touchwiz)

- Kies does not appear to be working

- Phone seems to get really hot

- Signal appears to have difficulties locking in some areas still

Things we just don't like about this phone

- Internal storage for apps is less than 500 mb when you install (it seems that every Galaxy S phone has been gimped in some manner - this is ours it would seem. Whereas the i9000, Vibrant, and Captivate lack flash, we have this problem).

- Still uses pen tile

- Battery life is not as good as it could be (Kernels like Pheonix and Xtreme try to adjust this)

- Keyboard WPM could use some work

Note: Keep this thread civil. I don't want this thread to be locked due to a flame war. We want to put together a list of known issues. Maybe something like this should be stickied.
[Epic 4G General] J3ff:
*It simply isn't usable in stock form for a business professional.

-The gps never works when you need it on demand.

-If you actually use your phone, even just to talk on for any amount of time, it dies quickly.
[Epic 4G General] HeroMeng:
I'm having issues with MMS. Takes hours to download.
[Epic 4G General] LordLugard:
I definitely disagree with this particular assessment concerning being usable in stock form. Even though I'm rooted, I specifically refuse to run any custom rom. Very happy with stock. My gps has worked when I've ever needed to use it.

Battery life could be better, definitely, but I make it through a regular work day (almost 6.30pm and at 37%).

I'd say battery life is my number 1 need for improvement, not gps (mine works fine when I need to use it) but that's not unique to the Epic in general. Android phones and *great* battery life don't seem to mix.

Forgive My Brevity. To Be Or Not To Be...
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
Kies does not work when you are rooted for safety reasons. gps will not lock if you have wifi on and sometimes it needs to be on kinda weird. no problems with twiz maybe you should do a battery pull and for the guy with mms taking awhile to download update prl or get closer to a tower or turn on mobile data. The only problem with these phones are the people using them.
[Epic 4G General] jojo08:
time w/o a signal >50%
[Epic 4G General] Isira:
The LED notification light only blinks about 5.25 times then stops. After that, it blinks sporadically.
[Epic 4G General] imwillzillla:
Anyone who criticizes the battery life on the Epic probably didn't come over from the Evo. It no exaggeration has about 4 times the life
[Epic 4G General] sauron0101:
Not at all. Hardware wise, the phone itself could use improvements. The Galaxy S global edition came with 1.7 GB of free space.

Although the GPS is different on this unit than the other Galaxy S phones, all models seem to suffer from various GPS locking issues. There are a host of other issues, some of which have been addressed by Sprint.

Lets put it this way: Samsung got a lot of things right with this phone and we are moving I think overall towards a better Android experience, but we've got some ways to go.
[Epic 4G General] sauron0101:
Having never used an Evo, I can't comment on that one. I bought my Epic for about $300 + shipping + import taxes and am using it in Canada as an "Android touch".

However, gripes appear to be common on battery life. In particular, enabling 4G for most users seems to suck battery out very rapidly.
[Epic 4G General] daddymikey1975:
Coming from a TP2 I will point out a nuisance that I have.

No way to link notification volume with ringer volume. There are 2 separate sliders and it bugs the crap outta me. Either my ringer is too low and notifications too high or vice versa..
[Epic 4G General] GXnext:
My gps hadn't failed me since the last update or so. Ever since it has been fast and accurate so I am shocked people are still complaining about it. Maybe some of you with the GPS issue haven't updated to the latest stock rom...

Fine, I'll shut up.
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
These are general, not (RE: NOT!) specific problems, meaning that not (again I say NOT!) ALL phones are gonna be affected, so if your phone is good, then so be it and stay quiet since this thread clearly isn't meant for you, but for the people who actually have the same problems such as I and the next guy.

Back on topic, I think the back button thing should be up there. Not sure ifits fixed yet, but my epic has it and I bought it first week of october and it had dg27 so I'm guessing mine was part of the first couple batches
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
I disagree. Battery life on the Epic is terrible.

Currently at 27%. Time since plugged in: 9.5 hours with only 1 hour and 12 minutes screen on time.

Seems 3x worse than when I bought it. Need to put my spare battery in soon...
[Epic 4G General] cnuckols1:
If you use the volume rocker they are definitly linked. Even if you place them on two different settings on the sliders, then use the volume rocker they both move to thr ringer setting.
[Epic 4G General] bomix:
Power button on the right side... WHY wasn't it put on the TOP!

Stupid video recording always asks for Normal or MMS limit..
[Epic 4G General] arabdrifter:
well so far on my epic everything has been working very well..including impressive batt life. i came from an evo >epic..just flawless. i do however dislike the download cap, signal strength could be improved, stock browser doesnt let you rename a file when you downlod to sd card.
[Epic 4G General] OperationMove:
Well let me first start off by saying that I totally still love my epic, and that every device has shortcomings/issues/****ty support in one way or the other. I love my epic.

Now that I got that out, one thing that totally aggrivates me is the fact that the keyboard doesn't recognize typing faster than a certain WPM. I happen to type very fast, and about 1 in 5 words will have a missing letter if I don't type in granny mode. For a long time I thought it was just me and that I haven't adjusted to the keyboard yet. Unfortunatly later on I viewed a post on here that about 30 other ppl were *****ing about the same thing. :mad: Ugh. Other than that though I love the phone... but I got a hardware keyboard attached to it and switched to sprint so I could type faster... but half the time swype is more efficient! Lolz.
[Epic 4G General] imwillzillla:
That sucks. When having the spare battery in, did you leave that one in to see if it was the battery and not the phone? Also is your phone rooted? I rooted mine, dropped it in a bowl of cereal and got a new one from the store and both rooted and unrooted worked fine for me but I think you should look into what is causing it.

A couple of other folks in this thread who came from the Evo appreciate how good the battery life is on this. I will try to leave my EPIC unplugged for the next twelve hours and see how much juice is left. and I play Angry Birds and Galcon constantly.
[Epic 4G General] houkah:
While i love the phone i do have some problems.

The wobbly slider mechanism

My GPS was fine until i left the WIFI on for several hours. After that i had to reboot for the GPS to lock. So sure the GPS 'works' but it's easy to break.

All the stupid little stuff i have to do. ie. airplane toggle, kill DRM, set wifi to always on, cold start for GPS. It would be nice if we didn't have to do any of that. Not a big deal for me, but for non-technical people i can see it being a deal breaker.
[Epic 4G General] y2bangali:
idk if anyone else has the same problem as I do, since the fist day i bought my epic, the back 'haptic touch' button doesnt work properly.. i have to press it a few times and i get frustrated... me and my friend bought the epic at the same time, from the same store, the 1st week it came out and all his buttons work perfectly..
[Epic 4G General] Sh0wNuF:
Some of you guys have legitimate complaints but some of you should do some research, if the back button isn't working and your friends is then obviously yours is defective and should be replaced (there are even a few threads on this issue)
[Epic 4G General] y2bangali:
sorry I actually never looked in to my problem and just have been dealing with it for almost 3months now.. but this is the first thread i have seen that relates to the epic issues since signing up here..

and I dont think i can get mine replaced cuz i didnt purchase the sprint warranty..
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Our Epic comes with a one-year manufacturer's warranty without having to purchase anything. Sprint honors this.
[Epic 4G General] drunix:
Encrypted PPTP VPNs are not supported (though they are supposed to be)
[Epic 4G General] y2bangali:
but this means i have to send my phone in and wait days or even months for it to return, no? and i dont have the essence of time like that lol

my epic is rooted and has custom rom+kernel so doesnt that void the warranty? although i did hear that if i go back to stock and unroot it then it doesn't matter but i'm not sure about that..
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Odin and you'll be fine. I can't comment specifically, but I can say even if you don't do that, there's a very good chance you'll be just fine. A hardware defect is a hardware defect.

Also, just bring it to your Sprint store. They'll order a replacement and have it back in 2-3 business days.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
???

You can post and ask us here, or you can take it in to a Sprint store and see if they'll swap for a new one.

Me, I'd try the latter immediately rather than waste my time speculating here, but again that's just me.
[Epic 4G General] sauron0101:
Agreed ... this thread is not about moaning ... limit to real problems please.
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
that is yoru repsonse on a thread with duplicable bugs and issues? I realize you are new here, but one could say the only people without problems are those new to smartphones!

And PRL's and proximity to towers have nothing to do with the issues downloading MMS attachments
[Epic 4G General] sling:
I agree!

I had same battery performance when owning Epic which is # one reason...GPS issue being the second I went back to EVO.

Now back I'm pretty darn happy everything works , Stock kernel performance battery life is great.

With Netarchy new 4.2 kernel lineup EVO battery life even gets better!!....8 hr device sleep only 3% battery loss.

Epic is a great device just not ready for prime time.

Hopefully Samsung tightens it up fast ,to Be be rated #1 device is very misleading to those looking to buy the best
[Epic 4G General] imwillzillla:
Man I've known people to jump back to the Evo after trying the Epic, but having better battery life? I can't explain it at all. Congrats on finding the phone that's a fit for you though.
[Epic 4G General] sling:
ya many have reported better battery life , the HTC latest stock kernel released a couple weeks ago improves it even more.

You then add HTC development community into the mix it makes EVO a unbeatable performer.

Once again Netarchy new 4.2 kernel build is the real deal imwillz

Hopefully HTC takes note of Nets work adding his mix into their stock kernel

My baby running (Netarchy-toastmod-4.2 cfs-bfq-havs-more-smartass-universal-signed) 3% loss 8hr sleep time frame.

Norm stuff going during device sleep providing results above

HTC weather widget gps update interval every 3hr

Friend stream update every hour

LiveProfile active

Incoming emails received led blink & alert sounds

3G 4-5 bar signal strength

Thanks man.

No EVO fanboy here just a Android junky posting up my Epic experience leading me back to EVO

I want Samsung to succeed tighten up take care of android family.

They need to supply firmware updates that fix fix fix issues not kick them aside as they have done to entire S galaxy lineup & HTC needs to provide Amolod screen & better graphics processor to complete their package < EVO2 hopefully will have it.