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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sstrawsb:
So now that I lured you in with my snazzy thread title I will hit you with the boring stuff. Im just lost on all the ROM Flash OCLF Kernel Lingo. I want to go to Froyo and currently have 2.1 with Voodoo. There doesnt seem to be any SOLID thread that gives you simple instructions on what it does, how to do it, etc.

I read somewhere that if you have the Voodoo on the phone currently you have to flash back to the stock ROM. Other thread dont really touch on if you have to flash back or if you just do the upgrade.

Second, what is going to be lost in the process. Again I see some thread that say you have to do a Master Delete that will erase everything on the phone then some are not clear if you have to erase everything. If you do have to wipe it clean what are you guys using the back up all your apps? I did a backup with ROM Manager last night as well as a App Backup with Astro. But where do the backed up files go? Is it smart enough to drop them on the external SD card?

I hate to post such a general question but I am just getting overwhelmed reading 6 million different threads about different versions that do different things.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curti.nogg:
Disable voodoo by creating a folder in the voodoo directory "disable-lagfix" (without quotes), reboot (this will take a while). When that is fine download Titanium Backup and use that to backup all your apps + data. Copy the Titanium Backup folder to your external sd card. Backup all the data you want on your internal sd card. Flash back to stock and do a master clear (enable usb debugging first), root and install RM/CWM, copy over the rom you want to flash to the internal sd card (DO NOT RENAME). Power off the phone remove your sim card and sd card. Boot into CWM and flash your rom.

ps. Make sure your battery is fully charged.

Let me know if I missed anything. Swyping this before bio class.

Edit: Do NOT restore system data

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sstrawsb:
Thanks a ton! Thats exactly what I needed to get it all straight.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laxwillsch:
What he said. Also if you are new to flashing I would advise looking into the cognition thread. It is definitely the easiest and most user friendly rom. And actually if you are coming from 2.1 all you should need to do is disable the lagfix by above named method, and one click to stock using odin. Also can be found in cognition thread somewhere. Then flash. I have never had to do a master clear. And have never had even a minor problem with either odin flashes or CWM. This just would save a little time but by all means if you wanna stay safe as can be do a master clear.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sstrawsb:
Thanks. I got the Cognition rom loaded up and is working well. Although It is missing swype which I miss.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
Huh? All my Cognition versions had swype. :confused:

Swyping....read at your own risk
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laxwillsch:
I second that, I have always had swype as well. I know this sounds obvious and I am sure you have already tried this but cog sets the default as android keyboard try switching the input by long pressing the input box.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sulphur4724:
Might have to go into settings, locale and text and enable it. Not sure, never used it, but I have to do that for smart keyboard. It's a thought.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] CroSladi:
Hi Guys

I'm interested in making a Theme but I have no ideas which "style" i should choose :)

I already experimented a bit and have a few ideas but don't know if anyone wants them to have :D

my idea was for example to do a "Simpsons-Theme" or a "Little-Droids-Theme" and then change also the Icons to a simpsonsstyle and also the lockscreen and and and..

I hope some guys can reply with their ideas and favourites! :)

thanks guys..and for a reward I'll make the Theme for you/us :p

here are just 2 pictures of my experimental Theme..little Droids moving from the middle to the left/right on the Lockscreen ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] CroSladi:
Oh come on guys..everyone fully satisfied? :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Bucika:
Re.

Hmm i have an idea :) could you make theme based on sport caled SAMBO or greco-roman wrestling? If you are interested please replay and i will give you my email for foture conversation and pictures sorry for my bed english im from Slovenia
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] uppon2:
Hey dude. I see you posting a lot in the Doc thread :) Hows it going? Coooooool

So. How about a theme set to some artwork ideas from H.R Giger. He created the original Alien design from the movies. He has some messed up style but it is a cool concept for this type of thing i believe. For example you could use one of his spinal cord concept for a lock screen. Check it out man

http://www.google.com.au/images?um=...&sa=1&q=h.r+giger&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

It's almost like industrial / scifi - please keep this in mind as it WILL BE RAD!

I have a very large collection of his artwork if it helps i could email?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] hinderbrus:
I would suggest but prefer doing one on my own ;) I like the black/transparent one tho. Just not that much colors. I will make something like this when i learn how to ;)

less is more in my case so black and white is the way to go... it will go nice with my future "wp7" theme
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] omnia-one4all:
You might take a look at themed omnia's on modaco. Might tricker some ideas. Jn foundation made some nice graphics on his rom to

Personal i think that glassy black looks cool.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] CroSladi:
i've the problem that i can't decide wether i like COLORS or wether i like DECENT BLACK :)

sometimes this and sometimes that :)

maybe i should make both variants and then just change everyday to the one i prefer :p

but thanks mates..some nice ideas ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ragin:
Hi,

This is an idea I have for a long time, How about a totally XXX theme? like battery icon with lowering bra for one, & all icons modded with kamasutra in mind??? :D:D:D

This is just an idea. Use your imagination. Could be a Hit on the market.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Darkyy:
Haha :p

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[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DjAbu:
forum.xda showthread.php?t=829199 . Elegant steel without icon change!! This theme is just so beautiful and simple, I love it, but those icons would be stock ones.

Jesus, I can't put the link...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] crandf:
I think this is a really great theme you could draw inspiration from. Basically its a theme where the icons and widgets are designed to look like part of the background, and of course the cartoonish sketchy style is really cool too. But I would prefer if the B&white was reversed to save on battery life.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8360167&postcount=7071

Another idea for a theme. ie simcity. Background will be a grid of roads and highways. The icons and widget will be city buildings or vehicles, and for really big widgets, they can incorporate their own road connections along their edges and corners so they can still be placed anywhere on the background and still blend into the road grid.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] uppon2:
That battery icon already exists
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] nickporwal:
how about this one:--

http://img835.imageshack.us/g/snap20101106195110.png/
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] CroSladi:
i like that style..there's also a ADWtheme in paperstyle..but i'm not sure wether it would look inverted :S

the seconde idea is also nice :)

i also thought about a "wood"style or a "glass"style..just something that looks like a real material..

maybe even rubber or marble :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] crandf:
Hmmm for the simcity theme, most icons should probably be vehicles that'll literally become moving traffic when I'm flipping thru the homescreens, and there could be traffic lights that change colour on cue when the user is flippin thru the homescreens, it could be really fun! :) The larger widgets will have to be buildings though, like a clock tower for time, a stadium with message banner.

I wonder if its possible to include walking pedestrians and a count of the pedestrian killed by traffic when flipping thru the homescreens.

Another idea, a Resident Evil theme. The icons are living people, the background contain moving zombies. Or vice versa. If zombies move onto icon squares, then an animation begins that changes the people icons to a bloody corpse. Resets every few minutes of course. :D
[Epic 4G Accessories] mynewepic10:
This seems like a good deal, us seller, and oem. It is a more money, but you do get it from a us seller instead of from hong kong.

Enjoy

http://cgi.ebay.com/Epic-4G-Battery...444684?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item27b65f9fcc
[Epic 4G Accessories] mynewepic10:
A little better price

http://cgi.ebay.com/5-New-Accessory...606854?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3f03ea0086
[Epic 4G Accessories] mynewepic10:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2x-Battery-Sams...188469?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item45f68d2475
[Galaxy Tab General] mike_m:
Picked mine up Contract Free from PCWorld. On Wifi it works great. But, I have a really stupid problem with inserting a SIM in the device and getting it to stay in.

I have tried inserting both a giffgaff PAYG and a Three PayMonthly SIM (full size)following the directions in the booklet and watching a couple of YouTube videos.

With screen facing me, insert SIM with gold contacts facing down and cut out notch on lower left. If I hold the SIM card, the phone will reboot and I have network connectivity. However the SIM will not stay in place even with the slot cover in place it comes free. There is no reassuring click when I insert the SIM card, I have tried other ways of inserting the card, there is a click, the card is held in place but the phone does nort recognise a SIM has been inserted. So I'm pretty sure my method is correct.

Help, Im at the pointy of taking this one back. A quick search on XDA and google does not reveal any meaningful results.

Regards,

Mike
[Galaxy Tab General] shollywood:
Cut out notch is on the top left...look at the picture on the SIM card slot...
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
I keep my finger nails short, and I found that I could not insert either the SIM card, or a micro-SD with my fingers. I needed to push down on both with a pen.

Hope this helps.

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] kiawui:
I did have this problem of the tab not recognising my simcard when I first inserted it. I was sure it was done correctly.

Try taking out the sim card and rubbing the chip with an eraser. Clean off the residue before inserting it back. You may still see no service after the phone has rebooted. Be patient n wait for a while more. The signal will come. This solved my problem. I hope it helped you too.
[Galaxy Tab General] mike_m:
pushing the SIM in with the tip of a pen has done the trick. I guess my fingers were just to fat!

Thanks

Mike
[Galaxy Tab General] Garret:
Nah, I had the same problem too and I have thin fingers, solved it by using a business card that was next to me :p

You just need to use your nails for these damn cards / slots, and mine are always too short to do the job.
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
Hmm

As I figured out today, it's obvious when the sim is in correctly, because it goes in much deeper and doesn't look anything like it might obstruct the closing of the "flap".

I had to use a long nail to get it in the correct way round (did it while the tab was on) and as soon as it was in the tab detected it and rebooted itself.
[XPERIA X2 General] fire-warrior:
there is afile called sdt.exe at windows folder ... if i press it once nothing happens but if i connect my x2 to computer it would react as aflash drive :D ...

so can some one design an interface for it or we can even port it from any other phone ... lets say x1 :confused:
[XPERIA X2 General] Halcyon:
TNX alot

oooooh thank u thank u for telling that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[XPERIA X2 General] LuckeY-LuckeR:
WoW thnaks for this great info :)

I was so sad as i saw that there is no way to get my X2 running as an flash drive.

I think the easiest way to switch is an shortcut to programs or todayscreen or anything like that. Then the file is once running, you just open the taskmanager and kill the file.

May i´ll write a toogle script with mortscript in a view days ... we´ll see ;)

EDIT:

I now was trying but there´s no sdt.exe in my windows folder. So i was looking in the windows folder of my X1 which was able to be pluged as an massstorage, but ther wasnt a sdt.exe too.

So i think it wont be so simple to get the massstoragemode back :(

I think the mass Storage mode is handled in one of the 3 exe-files: device.exe, shell32.exe or filesys.exe

But these files i wont replace on my X2 ;)
[XPERIA X2 General] o_afifi:
Thanks.....

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[XPERIA X2 General] s316_khan:
:) Thanks

Thanks Dude......:):cool:
[XPERIA X2 General] s316_khan:
you have to use a file explorer like "resco explorer" to view hidden files in windows folder as "sdt.exe" is a hidden file :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Forrest80:
the manual says MicroSD and does not mention SH.

I searched but couldnt find the answer in in the Vision forums.

Will MicroSDSH work?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deathofdemigod:
yes, as far as i remember devide allows cards up to 32Gb
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottmog:
LOL privet! :)

ya zhil na ukraine tri goda haha.
[Venue Pro General] zellbz:
Question for those who have the Venue Pro: For the past two day that you all had the phone how is the battery holding up?
[Venue Pro General] Peew971:
I'd like to know that too, battery life is the reason why I don't want a HD7.
[Venue Pro General] Arcarsenal:
I took mine off the charger about 7am yesterday, went to work, used the phone to browse the web on the train, make a few calls, send some messages and mail & used the media player. Got home around 7PM with about 20%, which was about what my brother's Venue Pro had as well.

His phone died around 8:30, I had mine on the charger by 9PM, so I would say the battery lasts anywhere from 12-15 hours with moderate usage. This was on the first full charge though, so that may improve.
[Venue Pro General] zellbz:
Thanks, that's n ot to bad.
[Venue Pro General] Sangheili:
Feels like it's similar to my HD2 in usage. Wish the battery lasted a little longer but then again i'm using the thing more then usual since it's new :-)
[Venue Pro General] Peew971:
Those of you with the relaunched DVP, could you comment on battery life please? More to my query, can you use it as a Zune all day and still be able to have a full day of usage?
[Venue Pro General] raimeiken:
would like to know this as well
[Venue Pro General] 937dytboi:
battery is decent, I had wifi running while I was planted in the phone for a straight 2 hours and it lost about 1/4 of the battery. I have yet to go a full day straight without putting it back on the charger about mid day. So maybe tomorrow I will give a review on the battery
[Venue Pro General] im.thatoneguy:
Today it's been going for about 15 hours of really light usage and it's at half power.

Yesterday I used it web browsing for an hour or two and used it about as much as I ever will and it got about 18hours.

First day with over 300MB of downloading, syncing and first charge resulted in about a 6 hour battery life.

I would like to test straight up MP3 playback time but ran into the problem of volume. It rings through the headphones if you have headphones plugged in so I wouldn't be able to hear my phone ring. Not really an option. And I'm not keen on tinny mini speakers playing music for a couple of hours.
[Venue Pro General] cdgoin:
Yesterday woke up to its first full charge.. used it to surf and text and made about 30 min call. Texted off and on all day, even played with a few apps and had wifi on for about 3 hours. It died in about 10-12 hours.

So it should last a full work day, and if your at work you could have it on charge.

On standby today (havent played with) and about 30 min of talk time. Its showing almost no charge lost in 4 hours..

Charles
[Venue Pro General] yourlife:
I don't know if its just me but on my first full charge I only got 4 hours of usage. On the second charge it jumped to 7 hours. I'm pretty sure its because I was constantly using it, but it was still a bit of a surprise to see my battery life drop so quick, especially after hearing reports of 10-15 hours of moderate to heavy use.
[Venue Pro General] bernaserra:
Same here, I have been so disappointed by battery life.
[Venue Pro General] domineus:
on idle

2 and a half days

moderate use

1 day and about 5 hours (no playing just sms very few calls)

heavy use

18 hours
[Venue Pro General] raimeiken:
my phone just died and this is after 1 and a half of use! this thing is incredible compare to my G1!

I don't even have to lower the brightness and turn off all the features unlike my G1, which really hindered my experience with that phone. It's the same story with my friend's new MyTouch 4G. His die after 7-8hrs of use and he has to turn off features and turn down the brightness.

This phone on the other hand, I used it quite often in those 1day and half. texting, phone calls, internet, playing games, watched an episode of family on Netflix app, took many pictures and played with camera settings and many other things, yet it lasted that long! WOW
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
this is my experience also
[G2 and Desire Z General] skulk3r:
How is the experience with your Desire Z so far? I have had mine for 2 days and it is fantastic! Moving from WinMo to Android has been a breeze and I am loving the hardware keyboard and capacitive screen (came from Touch HD)

What does everyone use their shortcut keys for? I am thinking about using it to launch the browser or sms app.

Also, I find that the HTC Sense widgets for calendar/agenda and contacts and bookmarks take up too much space. Is there any way to make them smaller?
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
I think you probably want to ask this in the General forum ? You might want to PM a mod to move it :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingkobra74:
I've noticed that sometimes the max volume of the ringer isn't what is normally the max volume.

I think there is something on the phone that is altering the volume, then when you exit that app, the phone thinks that the lower volume is now the maximum volume.

For example,

I boot the phone and volume is ok.

I run the FM radio, and lower the volume.

I then turn off the radio, and return the phone to max volume.

The max volume is now nowhere near where it used to be, and doesn't go back to normal until I do a reboot of the phone.

I'm not suggesting it is the radio doing this, its just an example, I need to try all my apps to see what might be doing it.

Anyone else experienced this? Maybe its an easy fix, or am doing something wrong myself.

Edited to add:

This is something to do with the radio. Phone on max volume, plugged in the headphones and launched the radio. Lowered the volume using the rocker. Unplugged the headphones and went back to the home screen. Tried increasing the volume and already as max, but much lower than it was before launching the radio.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Merfurial:
I had a similar experience last week, the volume on the notifications was so low I could barely hear it sitting at my desk with the phone in front of me. But I rebooted and never saw the issue again. I do use the radio, so maybe it's related.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] who knows:
i to have knoticed this, ive turned the volume down for something then its also turned the ringtone volume down
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingkobra74:
I mailed support about it.

Also managed to crash the phone just by maxing out the ringer, plugging in the headphones, then lowering the ringer. The volume adjustment window just stayed on screen and didnt respond to pressing the rocker, even though I could see the sound profile widget changing in the background to vibrate and silent when i reached those points. Removing the headphones didnt do anything, with headphone icon still showing in notifcations bar.

Tried to reboot, but wouldn't even respond to that. Had to remove battery.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fubofo:
I have also experienced this issue. Being one of those who had the DHD from 18th October, I have noticed that the audio volume does indeed get affected when using the FM radio or the HTC Music app. Also Vplayer app caused this issue as well as actually 'crashing' my audio all together - sometimes after using Vplayer I had no audio at all unil I restarted.

I now solely use Car Tunes app for my audio and have had no problems at all. Also using Quick settings with everything turned up to Max I think the audio isnt too bad. Previously I thought there was a serious issue with audio, but Im starting to think it maybe just down to specific apps - I now use CoPilot also and have to turn the volume down as it so loud (in another thread I noted that SatNav was unusable because of not being able to hear anything)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingkobra74:
Got a response from HTC, although it reads like a default 'do a hard reset' reply, which I'm not happy about doing.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eozen81:
What the hell is this problem now? Will problems about DHD not end one day? :confused:
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lawrence750:
I've had this problem once.. and come to think of it, it happened when I just got the phone, and I did use fm radio just to play around with it.. not another bug surely?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milon123:
Also got this issue. Dont even need to lower the volume during radio playing. Just on/off radio and the main volume is "set" low. Quotes because the volume control didnt changed...

Reboot is working but its not the best solution :/
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] +Flip:
I'm having a similar problem.

Yesterday i putted my volume to zero while i was eating with my mom.

After increased it to max, the sound while typing an sms is very low.

Rebooting doesn't help, all volume settings are set to max, but the sms sound while typing is lower then it was before.

The tricks in this topic also couldn't solve the problem.

Sorry for my bad English:cool:
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
I know of this issue. Dolby/srs has been enabled on your phone. It should disable when you unplug your headphones but for done reason it doesn't always disable. It can be disabled manually but can't for the life of me remember the menu path for this.

Sent from my Desire HD by magic.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goodm7sn:
i got the same problem today, had to put rockplayer into mute (lowest media volume) but then somehow (after several hours till i noticed) , notifications (sms,emails) went mute too :confused:

anyone found a solution to this yet ? cos this is annoying tbh :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinn___________:
Why don't you use tasker to automatically set the volume to max after exiting said music applications? Should work as a short term fix anyway.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupremeBeaver:
This issue happened with me as well. I set the volume to max when playing angry birds but noticed it was nowhere near as loud as i remember it being before. Rebooted the phone and fixed. This is a strange issue. I wonder when HTC will roll out a fix.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd5675:
Hi All,

I had kind of a similar problem, i noticed that the keypad tones was very low and the screen lock 'click' was almost silent. However, sound settings were at Max.

I downloaded Quick Settings from Android Market and found that System Volume was at 2 of 7. I increased this to 7 of 7 and all is ok now.

Maybe this will work for some.

:)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] man2003:
Yeeeeeh... Quick Settings fixed it.... Thanks a lot...