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[Galaxy Tab General] rpmbnsf:
OK.. before anyone starts jumping me..I have looked all through the threads on here and have not seen this specific question asked (forgive me if I have missed it).

I have ATT with the true unlimited plan, if I get a T Mobile Tab (off contract) does it come unlocked or does anyone know a way to unlock it?

I'm assuming the Tab will be like any other T Mobile phone where as long as its unlocked I will be able to run it on ATT (just without 3g...only on edge and no voice) ?

Has anyone done this yet?

My concern is that we have had no announcements from ATT yet and rumors about removal of front facing cams..i'm almost positive ATT will do this on account they have done that on every other phone out there!

Only other option would be to get one from Bell (CA) ..that should have the proper radios for both ATT 3G network right? but how hard/much will that be getting it into the USA?
[Galaxy Tab General] rpmbnsf:
OK..so I found the answer to my own question in a thread I did not bother to read cause of the heading (one about credit check if buying a off contract Tab).

Short answer is the off contract Tab's (T Mobile) are locked to T Mobile. to get an unlock code from them you need to have service w/them for over 30 days..

Also hearing some bull about not being able to buy off contract Tabs w/out getting a data plan (from T Mobile)? WTF is the point of an off contract Tab if you have to get a data plan..its then not "off contract" is it?
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
Just a F&%@# shame on them... really
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Roots08:
Hey guys,

Quick question here: Is it possible to disable the physical slide-out keyboard in either WM or android (specifically android) without having to take the thing apart?

I saw this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=692022

But that didn't work for me. Has anyone else had luck with this solution? Is there any other way to disable or turn off the keyboard without physically unplugging it?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Why would you want to do that...? If you don't want to use it, then don't. The on-screen keyboard is pretty good, and you can get swype or whatever else you want... You never need to slide the kbd open.

So what's the point?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Roots08:
The keyboard is damaged. It sat in a puddle overnight, so now whenever I need to input text, the keyboard just outputs random characters. Constantly. Even when the physical keyboard is not engaged. I've been able to work around it in WM (its still VERY annoying), but as soon as I boot into android, it automatically goes to the browser and starts the random text thing again. I cant keep it on the home screen for more than half a second before it goes opens the browser again.

Whats even weirder is that I checked the water damage stickers on the phone and none of them have turned red.

I'm assuming some of the keys shorted out and are now always "on." So I just want to disable the physical keyboard and only use the soft keyboard.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Ouch. Well, if you have TEP just get the thing replaced - especially if it doesn't show any water damage.

With that said, I'd say the best option would be to physically disconnect the cable. I'm not aware of any software way to disable the kbd in Android... Curious, how do you do it in WinMo? I'll poke around to see if there is any way to do it in Android, not sure how it would be done. There may be a secret option that I'm not aware of, because it never comes up :p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] F22:
The simplest option is probably to create a minimal microp key layout that only contains mappings for the three front panel keys handled by microp, and then perform surgery on your init script to replace the existing keymap entry for your rhod with your new minimal one. Nevertheless, init is embedded in your rootfs.img and isn't easily edited from a Windows computer. Thus you'd need to either copy init over to your sdcard with the terminal emulator inside of android, or install the Android SDK onto your computer so you can pull/push the file with adb. If you have a computer running Linux then there are more options.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] snalbansed:
Pop over to this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=828011&page=3 and maybe you'll get some ideas about how to create yourself a special keymap with nothing in!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Roots08:
Thanks for the info guys. I really no good at doing any deep editing, so a lot of those suggestions just went right over my head :-}

I know this is a big request, but if someone has the time and knowledge to create an empty key map for me and tell me how to apply it, that would be greatly appreciated. If not, no big deal. I just don't want to screw up my phone any more than it is, ya know?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
LOL you don't really seem to have much to lose at this point...!

Sounds like it may be more complex than originally thought. Unplugging that cable still seems to be your best bet... Otherwise you'll have to muck around with things everytime there's an update.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] F22:
rootfs with bad kbd option

Download the rootfs found here. and follow these instructions:

1) Uncompress the file via the 7zip utility.

2) Rename it to: rootfs.img

3) Copy it over to the android boot folder (usually andboot) on your sd card.

4) Open up the file startup.txt found in the same folder with your favorite text editor.

5) Find the line that starts with set_cmdline and look for an entry on that line that begins with physkeyboard= and change its setting to: physkeyboard=rhod_badkbd

6) Restart your phone.

Since you're the one who has requested this, you're my designated tester. It should turn off all your keyboard keys. It should also leave the keys on your front panel working. Let me know how it works for you. If it works fine I'll submit this modification for inclusion into XDAndroid. If it doesn't, we'll have to tweak it further. You can thank Arrrghhh for talking me into doing this.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] tms02:
I have had this procedure work on several phones....

Take the battery out.

Submerse the entire phone in alcohol. The alcohol will displace the water in the phone. After a minute, take the phone out of the alcohol. The alcohol left in the phone will evaporate. After 24 hours, place the battery back in the phone.

Should work like new.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dong2007:
Hey Ppl.

Someone who knows how to zoom out, in Google earth?

And how to zoom in & out in opera mobile? (f.ex Google.com)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] JayJ-1974:
One word, Multi-touch.

And guess what, the X10 doesn't have it.

:-(

Post on my Rooted 2.1 X10i using Tapatalk Pro and Swype
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Wolfbreak:
But with the Buttons you can do
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dong2007:
There are no buttons...

If so, I would like to know where?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] curious_yellow_eyes:
Search for 'Europe' or 'Asia' or whatever ;-)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stavs:
is anyone building a froyo rom for i896 captivate from rogers, there has been alot of problems with people flashing to at&t roms and failing to restore their original stock rogers rom. This is the only reason keeping me back from flashing to an already available 2.2 froyo rom. I know nothing about linux, programming or any of that stuff and was wondering how difficult it would be to build a rogers 2.2 froyo rom or are there pieces missing to build it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redjersey:
look at this tutorial:

http://www.mmacleod.ca/blog/2010/10...sung-galaxy-s-captivate-to-android-2-2-froyo/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
saddly not yet , were canadian , meanin we get phones 6 month later , most dev will ( eventually mod our own rom )
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stavs:
ahh much appreciated, will look into this a bit. thankyou.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stavs:
i dont see how it could be THAT difficult to take the at&t leaked froyo rom and make the necessary adjustments for the i896 captivate. I just dont want to lose my GPS function (its working very good) and i dont want the annoying AT&T splash screen
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chalup:
If you know nothing (your words: first post), then how can you gauge the difficulty of doing such a thing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudstrife13:
I just helped one of my friends load the 2.2 AT&T i897 update, working fine on his Rogers i896. Soon as Cyanogen release something for the Captivate we plan to be updating him again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
At this point for the GPS to be fixed I'm pretty sure we need the source code or atleast a rom from ATT that it works 100% correctly with.

The cognition roms for the I897 work fine on the I896 -- thats pretty much how I've had my friends Rogers Captivate running froyo since launch week. You obviously have to load your own APN settings and whatnot though.

PS. Probably best to use the rogers modem file -- it's in the I896 thread.

Lots of people are running or have tried there. I do have some build prop changes and apn changes for the rom but until I have my friends phone back here to test them I don't want to share something that could very well just bootloop. Plus I want to try cognition b2.4 on there and adapt the changes to that since that just came out too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
you get the drift , its nto complicated , its just we need someoen we same interest as us i.e a candadian dev or a bored US one :P

btw I use all the roms and I just flash our rogers modem on top of it so my gps is perfect :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stavs:
well one of the main reasons i want to flash to a 2.2 rom is because i have read that it improves battery life and fluidity of the OS, i could possibly live without flash 10.1 and the use of installing apps on my sd card for a little while.

I'm on my 7-8th charge right now, could be slightly more and my battery life is average at best. Had it running 2 hours before i went to school, fiddled with it a little (a little music, a little browsing, testing out GPS functions) then tested out the GPS using Ndrive to school. During this time i had some ocassional 3g use (<10 minutes), about 20-30 minutes of wifi browsing, and about 3-3.5 hours of listening to music. I also used the gps coming home to test out its accuracy and functionalities. By the time i got home my battery was red.

I've calibrated the battery also, and used several guides to help improve battery but nothing that i have done has made any dramatic difference. I was thinking maybe a 2.2 rom could help with that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ime2010:
Sorry, i m very new to Android phone ~~~

I wanted to flash my i896 into Froyo 2.2

but so far, looks like there is no way to get off ATT split screen at bootup right ???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
It's been hit or miss with that keeping the gps fixed (depending on the phone -- i flashed 3 -- and what it was coming from or what the user was playing with -- mostly different cognition versions). The key factor there seems to be doing a wipe even after a fresh reflash, then it seems to work well consistently. Thanks for the feedback on it. I don't have a captivate myself so it makes it impossible to do any realworld testing on my own.

Yeah I'm too nervous to do much digging around there -- I think the first one is being kept along with the bootloader. Some other folks on here were trying to sort that out. The second part of the bootscreen is easy to change. I think we're going to be stuck with the ATT one until we see something from Rogers (2.2) or someone does some very tricky and potentially dangerous work. I just wouldn't worry about it for now I were you. In theory most if all damage you'd do could be repaired with ODIN but definitely don't quote me on that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ef9jeff:
so far my flashes have been pretty rough.

I came from a nexus one where i could just load the .zip file and install easy as pie from there. This bul**** odin flashing drives me up the damn wall, but i can get it done, I have had this phone for a week and have tried many roms. I tried going back to stock rogers and it was a complete fail. When odin flashed back to rogers, i still had the stupid att logo, but whatever i dont see it all the time, and it would randomly try to download things from the market. Tried reflashing, and the same thing, except 5 mins later and the market just wouldnt download a damn thing for me. I dont have a reason for this but whatever.

I have tried going to stock i897 att rom and my phone will not boot, it just just a boot loop, so i cant even go to perception build, so i had to odin flash to cognition 2.2.

So far I am pretty happy with it... battery life is better than stock, no lag, it comes pre-rooted, but my signal isnt strong like when i first got the phone on factory stock OS. I want to flash the modem files only but i havent been able to find the files or the instructions how to.

I am thinking of going back to the nexus one, but am willing to make this phone work for me. Only one more thing i dont like about this phone, is the camera! Out of all things the camera kinda licks a sweaty nootsack.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexander宇:
i896 i897 i9088

I think i896 is the same as i897。You can use adb to enter download mod, and use i897's rom. In china, we have i9088 wich is Chinese captivate. It can also use i897's rom. No Bug, no problem.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubbie_01:
hi,

I recently got my HD2-man what a wonderfull phone-the screen is definitaly the bizz. :D

I want to upgrade the standard rom "1.66.521.1 (76641)WWE" to the new 3.14 Rom; when entering my serial on the HTC support site for the update it gives an error. Will I brick the phone if I download the WWE ROM from XDA?:mad:

The service provider is VODACOM and I'm in South Africa, serial number is SH06PNW01693

thanks in advance :p
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
no it won't brick it, but it won't flash either cossounds like you have a provider locked phone.

you can either use hspl2 and forget about the 3.14 roms until your provider releases a rom, or make a goldcard.(dont say "how do i make a goldcard, it's well documented :) )
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubbie_01:
thanks for the clarification :)

Is there a specific reason why certain ROMS are available on certain "country" sites on htc support eg the WWE ROM is available in the UK location for download but not on the middle east and africa location. although it is the

world wide english

ROM? or am I missing something?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
the phones have two locks, region and carrier. english is available on most regions roms, just not always. depends on the region and i guess also what the carrier specifies when they order their rom locked (rom locked short for carrier locked) roms.

short answer is i don't know why.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mach3te:
Just got a notification for a new OTA update on my Incredible. Was curious as to what is being included besides the new bloatware. If this OTA has already been leaked then I apologize. I was just curious to know if any new radio's or features have been added. For now I'm gonna wait till this is dissected and chopped up to see what's inside. Funny thing is I am running Redemptive rEVOlution v2.0 and it still came through. :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Picao:
Got the same one this morning when I woke up, did not apply it as I also am on Redemptive 2.0. I did not think that we would get any updates if we are on another ROM. I never got the one to update to Froyo.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkohn:
Got this too this morning. I'm running uncommon sense. I never got ota froyo update either.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jermaine151:
I got the same. Myn's two point two
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
I seen this in another post, so I don't know who originally posted it because I closed the window, but can confirm it works.

Get your build.prop from your /system/ folder

edit it

put this line in, not add it but replace the line that starts like this ro.build.fingerprint=verizon_wwe/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Replace it with this

ro.build.fingerprint=verizon_wwe/inc/inc/inc:2.2/FRF91/264707:user/release-keys

Replace your build.prop and reboot. I did it by just using root explorer, copying it to the sdcard, editing on my PC, then copying it back to the /system/ folder then reboot. It might nag you once more upon reboot, but ignore and close it and it wont ask anymore.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jermaine151:
Thanks TNS! Going to try it now. That icon in my notification bar is getting on my nerves. LOL.

EDIT: Worked like a charm. Thank you Sir!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Div033:
if you press-hold the build.prop in Root Explorer you can "Open in Text Editor". The only thing that needs changed is the six digit number: "FRF91/XXXXXX:user..." replace that six digit number with 264707, save and exit, reboot. My notification was still up after I rebooted, however after tapping on it and hitting back, I got it to go away.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jermaine151:
Good idea. Even if you tap on it after a reboot and let it open, wait a few seconds and it'll say "Your system is up to date".
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
Yea that would of been easier to do for sure.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd5500:
So theres nothing of value in this update?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
Probably not worth doing it stock unless that's how you go. I am sure the ROM devs will incorporate the updates into their next rom updates.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jermaine151:
No. Most rom makers have incorporated the good parts of it and the rest is bloatware (VCast, etc.).
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmiller98:
Good call on the fix. Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrchambo:
I just got the update notice and I'm on MIUI!

The majority of the upgrade notice was in Chinese...

jc

ps thanks for the fix
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Picao:
Thats too funny...LOL
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skibum7686:
Running Redemptive rEVOlution 2.0 I haven't received the update notification yet. Would it hurt anything if I change the build.prop now before I get the notification or should I wait to see if I even get one?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kacey:
Trying to change the build.prop with root explorer and when I select open in text editor I get this warning:

'You cannot edit this file because the file system is read only'

Any idea why?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james_pnut:
up at the top hit mount R/W and not R/O
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrchambo:
Go to the upper right corner and click Mount R/W

That should do it...you are in read only mode by default. Usually...

jc
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
Click in the top right where it says "Mount R/W"

Then you can edit it.

Then when you done, click "Mount R/O"
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kacey:
Thanks guys....figured it out...it just wouldn't let me edit my reply!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geekmug:
I just got my Incredible and activated today and picked up this update, and unrevoked3 doesn't work and the recovery mode timing attacks aren't working for me either.. so maybe the actual update was to patch the exploits? :eek:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris7os:
build.prop

You're the man. Worked great. Thank you my friend. :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carnage9270:
We have several Dinc's here at work. The only phones to receive this update so far are the slcd incredibles. Amoled doesn't seem to be getting it. And there appears to be a side effect after the update is applied, if you had a bluetooth device connected you need to unpair and re-pair the device. People are noticing that the scrolling seems much faster after the update so I'm going out on a limb and assuming the update had something to do with updating the slcd drivers.

Also had an issue on one where the phone wouldn't boot up after the reboot until the battery was pulled out and put back in.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stockmoose16:
I have the same problem as OP, and in Root Explorer, "Mount R/W" is already selected. I still open the file and get the message "You cannot edit this file because the file system is read-only." Now what do I do?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fretless:
This is troubling. Not a good sign.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pacman9889:
I'd just like to point out, I have an AMOLED incred, and got the update pushed this morning. I'm running stock froyo/rooted/s-off. Haven't tried upgrading yet, I'd rather wait and see what the good old XDA community has to say about it. Someone mentioned that devs would put the good stuff in other roms, any ideas what that good stuff (not counting bloatware) is for us stock users?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R1lover:
If your running the latest rooted leak, then you won't see this update.... so I'm assuming it's nothing new and included in the latest leak of 3.26.605.1
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDubbz:
Can't update

Hi,

new here, but just wanted to share my ota install experience.

Stock 2.2

Rooted - Unrevoked

S-off

Ok, After clicking "restart and install", phone counts down from 10 seconds and then says "rebooting now..." for a long time, over a minute.

I pressed the back button to cancel, since "cancel install" did not respond.

Now there is no system update notification anymore, even after turning the phone off/on. Also, settings/phone/software shows - system software is up to date

I know it's not, because the build number is still the same as it was, and of course no new V cast junk (unless there is actually some cool app in V Cast that I don't know about).

Just for fun, I decide to do a Clockwork recovery from the backup I had just made and see if I get the notification to update. Cross my fingers and hit restore... ... ... It takes about as long as making a backup (6 minutes). Reboot...

And what's the first thing I see after a prolonged blank screen that makes me only slightly nervous? - system update!

I click to "restart and install" the update again, and have the same problem, it pauses at "rebooting now..." After I hit the back button, my phone is as normal.

I do an adb reboot. Still no update prompt or download.

Does anyone know why this would happen?

thanks
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilhe1s:
If you have altered any system files this could be the cause of your problem.

I would just edit the build prop. Worked for me. :cool:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linkwilliams:
how do you copy back to system ? ....its read only screen comes up on mine.... Im a noob to this stuff