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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laff4fun:
No data charges for WiFi calls, but does go against minutes...

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I talked with a T-Mo G2 specialist and she basically said the same thing...While calling on WiFi, you will NOT incur ANY charges - however, she did say that the minutes you do use while calling on WiFi will be charged against your minutes. She also made it very clear that if the phone connects to the cellular system, then you will get charged for international roaming...

To prevent that, she even emailed me the sequence for making sure your phone does NOT connect to the foreign cellular provider...

Here it is...

1. From any Home screen, tap the Application Tray.

2. Scroll to and tap Wi-Fi Calling.

3. Tap the Menu key.

4. Tap Settings.

5. Tap Connection preferences.

6. Tap one of the following options:

o Wi-Fi Preferred: All calls go through Wi-Fi when connected to a Wi-Fi network. Calls drop as you leave the Wi-Fi range.

o Cellular Preferred: Calls go over the cellular network, and Wi-Fi Calling is a backup if the cellular network is not available.

o Wi-Fi Only: Calls can be made when connected to a Wi-Fi network. If there is no Wi-Fi network, then your calls cannot connect.

7. Tap OK.

Hope this helps...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c_licious:
That's odd because I just got off the phone with customer service too and the guy was looking stuff up when I asked him about international wifi calling then told me that they would charge international rates if the IP address of the wifi was outside the US. I hope he's wrong but would still use caution until we have stuff in writing.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kronickhigh:
it's quickview now ; )
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebu:
if your on wifi often enough to use wifi calling why not get magicjack, can use it with csip now.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowofzeus:
Ya my sister-in-law uses it to call us while she is stationed in Italy. It works really well.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaww:
Two years ago I was told by TMo customer service that I would not be charged overseas calling if I used WiFi over there (Germany). I would be charged minutes, except I was calling M2M, so that was not to be a problem for those calls.

Got my bill. and there was $200 for overseas calls while I was on WiFI. I got most of it removed ONLY because I had been told it would not happen.

If they are ONLY charging minutes at US rates - that will be an improvement - but be careful. The posts on using magicjack may be the way to go.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinkinrui:
Just out of curiosity, which phone did you use when the charges happened? It seems to me that the likely culprit is the phone not actually using UMA for the call. On Blackberry phones, you can tell when UMA is being used because the signal indicator will say "UMA" instead of EDGE or 3G. The post someone made about making sure the wifi calling app is set to ONLY route calls through wifi is a very good idea. It's all about making sure there's no connection happening through the roaming carrier's towers.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mingkee:
I think disabling worldclass (international roaming) can avoid such problem.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LEM-:
That is if you want to completely disable international roaming... When I go overseas, I usually prefer to have an option of making/receiving important calls (and/or communicate through texts) even at worldclass rates, but to avoid leisure calls. If I could use Wi-Fi for those - great.

But if not - those who are not aware, Skype is now available from the market with ability to make skype to skype calls for free over Wi-Fi (but not over mobile network) as well as very cheap skype to phone calls (again over Wi-Fi). Just add a few dollars of credit to your skype account before you go and call anywhere in the US for a couple of cents per minute as opposed to gambling with being hit by a few dollars/minute roaming bill. Putting $5 into your Skype account will give you about 200 minutes of talking vs risk of being billed that much for as little as 1 minute in some countries, or at most 5 minutes in others... Oh, and calling numbers in the country you travel to may be quite cheaper as well.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infinitron:
I'm currently in Japan and have been using the wi-fi calling through my hotel's wifi network. Having checked my bill online I see my minutes being used like I would see it if I were using a standard connection if I was in the states. I am not getting charged anything for data according to their website.

You can definitely set your phone to not connect to any foreign provider and send/receive calls only through wifi. This is obvious on my phone based on it having the normal signal bars grayed out and the wifi calling icon in the corner. Basically, I leave my phone on all the time and then I only get calls and texts when I re-enter my hotel's wifi area.

I don't know for sure, but this method appears like it might keep you from incurring foreign text messaging costs. That last statement is only a guess, I just don't see any charges yet on my phone bill.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taino211:
Infinitron: Are you using the G2 or a Blackberry? I'm going to Europe this Friday and this would be really helpful.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InGeNeTiCs:
This information is posted on t-mobile.com in plain writing.

http://www.t-mobile.com/business/Information.aspx?tp=international_calling
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowFan2008:
If you call a non-domestic number, while using wifi calling (UMA) anywhere in the world, you will be charged extra.

If you think you are using UMA (WiFi) but actually connect using an overseas mobile carrier, then you will be charged extra. If your call drops from Wifi and connects to local overseas mobile carrier, then you will be charged extra.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikramdhani:
Well i think the rep is correct and if you are flying international they will charge you for the roaming calls because you are using phone minutes. Make sure that you use the service at your own risk because it might get you a big bill from T Mobile
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Th3_uN1Qu3:
I've just bought an used Diamond for $82. It looks great, there are only a couple very minor scratches on the display (fixable with a little Displex methinks), came with all the standard accessories plus a genuine HTC leather pouch.

Story is as follows: The owner bought it last week for $140, but noticed later that the G-sensor only works up and down. He took to "the only authorized HTC service center in Romania" and they said something about a broken foil and asked for over $150 to fix it, so he decides to sell it. He'd just picked it up from service today (the diagnosis itself cost him $5 so they didn't even give it back for free). He could've sold it for more, but lucky me.

So, i check it out, and accidentally drop it. It falls flat on its back. Okay, it isn't hurt, everything works, i pay the guy and leave with the phone. On the subway back home everything fine, but at home when i try to connect to wifi it won't start. I reboot the thing and i get the dreaded MicropError. Then the backlight decides only to work when it wants to.

I take the thing apart only to find the wireless cable had come out of its connector, and when i lift the mobo out the display cable also detaches easily. I plug the wireless back in, and notice that the display cable doesn't "click" when the board is mounted back in its place. Aha, so this must've been it. Great service center they have, they can't even click a connector in place.

I use a flat screwdriver to make sure the cable locks firmly in place, put a piece of paper under it to keep it from moving around again, and put the phone back together. Success. I haz working HTC. :D

It's true that a broken G-Sensor can't be fixed, right? Not that i care too much about it, i just want to know a yes/no type answer.

So, now the main question. I already noticed that the built-in speaker is crap, something typical of WinMo devices as far as i've seen. Now, the supplied headphones are also crap and it doesn't have a jack adapter either. Before i slice the handsfree and patch my Samsung in-ears onto it, i want to know if it sounds good on quality headphones. I don't need it loud as the Samsungs are plenty sensitive, but i need good bass. I have a Sony Ericsson w595 and it's got really powerful bass. I used to have a HP iPAQ rx4240, and it was loud, but it was miles behind the SE phone in sound quality and bass.

The main idea is that the HTC will replace one of my two phones - either the Nokia N93i or the SE w595. The N93i is held in one piece by superglue only and sometimes i need to restart it before it will accept a charge (and it's a PAIN opening Symbian menus for the first time after you restart it). The w595 i got as a gift this summer and is in pristine shape complete with protective foil applied to display. So i could easily sell it for what i paid for the HTC.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Hero Yu:
I was wondering if anyone could provide me with unbranded Regedit entrys so i can upgrade my phone to U.K froyo JPO. My phone has been upgraded but its on the Nordic Froyo as i forgot to change the values from the early Froyo release. Any help would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] brunino1967:
Hi, I would like to know which app do you use to connect (from your Samsung Galaxy Tab - SGT) to a

shared folder

in your home network?

I mean if I have a shared folder in a Windows PC (in my home net), which program do you use (in your Samsung Galaxy Tab) to "see" inside that folder?

Astro? Ghost Commander? Other app ?

Thanx
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] mklass:
I was trying this last night..

There's an App pre-installed made by Samsung, (I think) called AllShare, This is a DLNA client. I didn't have any look with it last night but I was only messing around for like 5 minuets so.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] koven:
try 'es file explorer'.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] dimaru:
Astro with the smb add-on works fine for me
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] clausnymark:
Try File Expert

Had the same kind of doubts. Tried several file managers, and so far (2days) File Expert is my favourite. It didn't work at first though, but after exiting and restarting the proggie it works just fine... ES File Explorer works just as fine but I somehow prefer File Expert... But that's just me!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Mauser.NET:
On my Desire I use CifsManager to mount my network shares. When mounted you can use the shares from al your apps, for example Astro or Rockplayer.

It works perfectly, but your device has to be rooted. :D
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] bullyfrog:
CifsManager only works on a cooked rom that has the cifs module compiled with it. Using it on my N1 :-)

I am desperately looking for a cifs.ko module compiled specifically for the tab as an alternative but there does not seem to be one available yet. Without the correct cifs.ko, Cifsmanager will not work (even with root) :-(

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Mauser.NET:
Ahh... didn't know that, sorry. I think/hope custom roms with it ported in will come soon. Then there will be nothing left from getting a tab myself... except the price maybe ;-)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] monthirut:
ES File Explorer I confirm
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] sixty1ragtop:
I find this works alot better then droidftp I was using before. Does anyone know is there a file size limitation on viewing pictures? Any picture of decent size I try to open doesnt show. I can copy/paste the file to the sd card and it views.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] cretudan:
ES File Explorer is great for network share!!!! Works very well an android 2.1, htc wildfire.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] konawayne:
Allshare program works good with .AVIs (and perhaps others). Just make sure in WM player understreaming you enable access to files and designate which files are to be included in your library. Only thing allshare takes like 30s to load all my files into allshare filelist. Other than that and the lack of codecs support it's fine. I also use ES file explorer and astroshare.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] clovis_ll:
How do you guys do it? I tried the all share app but ask it shows is my device..
[Touch CDMA General] joelshort:
I'm using Android WITHOUT a data plan on my Verizon xv6900 smartphone. The one annoying problem I have is the lack of a good calendar function. Since I'm not using data, I can't sync with Google calendar etc.

I have tried probably 15-20 different calendar apps and they all have one annoying trait in common: I can't schedule repeat appointments on the days of the week, ex. on every 2nd Tuesday. Almost all allow you to repeat appointments on the numerical day (ex. the 8th of every month), but not on the day of the week.

Does anyone know of a good calendar app that can schedule repeat appointments on the day of the week, not on the number?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
Hi guys,

Is it possible to have a shortcut icon on homescreen that powers the phone off. I have a protective gel case on my Desire and its a pain in the a**e having to long press it through the case and then select power off and then ok to confirm.

I am using quick boot app which is excellent but no power off option with it. Just reboot, recovery and quickboot. Have already requested Dev to add the function but not hopefull.

When long pressing the power button a menu pops up right? Is it possible to invoke that power menu in another way? Perhaps with a shortcut?

Surely its not rocket science to be able to click an icon and the phone powers off???????:confused:

Edit: see last post for solution
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
??

C'mon guys, someone must know a way to achieve this. Otherwise, whats this forum for?:(

5 minute job to knock up a zip patch file or a simple app for someone who know's what their doing. I feel a lot of people (certainly those using protective cases) would find such an app or patch (for rooted users like me) very welcome.

I would happily do it for someone else.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercianary:
you can power off with the command

you can use gscript (light version available on the market for free.) to add a shortcut to that command on the homescreen.

You will need root access, i think.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercianary:
??

C'mon man, you must know how to show some sort of gratitude or give some sort of feedback. Otherwise, whats this forum for?:(

5 minute job to go on your computer (or phone) and post a reply for someone who know's what their doing. I feel a lot of people (certainly those who help others) would find a simple thank-you very welcome.

I would happily do it for someone else.

My point is if you can't be arsed to reply to your own thread in 24 hours why bump it after a day with no reply?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rastaman-FB:
reboot controll widget
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
Mercianary,

Don't get your knickers in a twist:p

Only seen your reply this morning. Thanks for your suggestion - gscript. Gonna try it out later today. Will post back.

Cheers dude.:)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercianary:
What....these feelings...I feel bad now...sorry. :)

That widget looks like it would do the job great. Just depends of your stingy like me and wouldn't pay 87p for an app when I can do the same for free.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
Just installed gscript and run a reboot -p script but it doesn't work:mad:

I get a stderr: not permited error

I am rooted and have the superuser app

Any ideas??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercianary:
Try

su

reboot -p

Edit: that wont work. Make sure you tick 'needs su' box in gscript when you make the script. Should make it work
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
Got su box checked.

Tried

su

reboot -p

Tried re-installing gscript.

Tried reboot

Is it not working because, although I am rooted with unrevoked 3.2, I still have s-on? I wonder. Or, is it because reboot is not allowed to be run as a script???

But I have superuser app. Puzzled.:confused: Any more suggestions as I really want to get this working. By the way scripts not requiring su run fine.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] couto607:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/quick-boot/com.siriusapplications.quickboot
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
Hello

Yes I am already using quick boot but it doesn't have the option to simply power off the phone. Only reboot, recovery and bootloader. I have asked the Dev to add this option as others have also asked but not hopeful anytime soon.

All I want is a homescreen shortcut that powers off the phone. Simples!

Why am I getting not permitted error messages when trying to run following from gscript.....

reboot -p

It is set to use superuser but gives the error. WHY!!!!:mad:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercianary:
Try running the command from a terminal emulator. If that works we know gscript is the problem (in which case I can tell you a work around).

If it still doesn't work maybe your rom doesn't support it (I use cyanogenmod and it works fine for me.).

Edit: double check gscript is set to 'allow' in superuser.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ik Desire:
Su

Shutdown

Works in terminal.

Sent from my Evil Lair using Doomsday Device
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercianary:
Not for me. It must be different on different roms.

Are you using a sense rom?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
By terminal emulator, do you mean an adb shell from a command prompt on P.C........Or do you mean something that runs on the phone?

Edit: Ran Alpharev last night and am now s-off:eek: All went smoothly. Have installed root explorer and was wondering what file/directory permissions I need to change to be able to execute scripts?

btw, thanks for your suggestions Mercianary and IK Desire:)

Edit: installed Android Terminal Emulator and ran

su (it asked for superuser permision and i allowed)

#shutdown (phone powered immediately off but would not switch back on - had to pull battery)

#reboot -p (same as above)

Totally stumped and baffled.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ik Desire:
Leedroid 2.2e. Using terminal emulator on phone. I have the same problem (have to pull battery before rebooting). But previously this was not the case.

Sent from my Evil Lair using Doomsday Device
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos67:
Update

Have found a solution (sort of!). Have installed busybox and have created a gscript script as follows....

busybox poweroff -d 10 -f

This works and powers the phone off after 10 seconds. The reason for the 10 second delay is to give the system enough time to unmount filesystems and stop services. An ordered shutdown if you like.

Thing is....Is this what actually happens? I mean the poweroff command in busybox doesn't go through the init system. So, is it a "clean, ordered" powerdown???? It switches back on ok afterwards and everything seems to work.

But the question is am I risking corrupting the filesystem by shutting down in the way?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] badboybiky:
I already try to update/repair my xperia mini pro by editing the build.prop file by changing the no with uk no but it update/repair me with the same firmware.i think I can solve this problem by replacing the orginal file from the latest firmware uk.if anyone want to help me plz attachh that file in this post plz. Your xperia can be rooted using tool mentioned in another post and if you want to unroot it just repair it.plz I am tired of pressing ? Key for.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] buff_rob1256:
You can change the keyboard layout so it acts as if it were an english qwerty keyboard, although you can't disbale the annoying language bar thing because then it reverts back to nordic for some reason

EDIT:

Here's the solution I used:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] marada2:
Here is the generic unbranded UK build prop as requested.

it works for me I have just update to 2.1 with it
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] buff_rob1256:
So if I flash this onto my already 2.1 Nordic then I will effectively have a 2.1 UK?
[Captivate General] Smallsmx3:
Anyone know where I can get this? I was running cde aosp and I'm going to switch to the latest cog for a bit... I like the default android messaging app...if anyone knows where to get it and how to install it that would be great
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
You can replace the one in the Cognition Zip with one from the ASOP ROM before installing.

I attached the one from the ASOP_froyo_cm6 ROM.
[Captivate General] skinien:
If you've already installed cognition, just delete /system/app/Mms.apk then place the aosp Mms.apk in /system/app/ and reboot. I was successful using those steps.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jorrr:
So, you are thinking 'not again the *** apps2sd n00b question', but here I am :p

I did some research on XDA and the rest of the internet though, but nobody seems to have this problem.

I have a rooted Desire with DeFrost 6.0. With it, it is very easy to install your apps on the SD-card. I have only 8 apps on the ROM itself, but those are widgets and apps with notifications like Facebook (notifications don't work if they are installed on de sd-card is my experience).

The rest of my applications are installed on the sd-card (around 80 apps). But the problem is that all apps also have a piece of dalvikCache on the ROM as well. You all know that of course. For instance, I installed Documents To Go (5MB) on the sd-card. It also has 5MB dalvikCache on the ROM, so thats double the price :).

Now if people ask here 'is it safe to move the cache to the sd-card', most of you say 'unless you want to show off how much empty space you have on your phone, I would just keep it on the phone'. But I do not have any free space.

With DiskUsage I can see that I have around 150 MB of data: 26MB system data, 15MB free space (and he is already nagging the telephone is running out of space), and more than 100MB of applications, with most of it is dalvikCache.

So is this normal? Is 80 apps really the max you can have?

My biggets app is by the way Documents To Go (5MB), and I had to delete it. So I don't have very big apps.

Just want to know how much apps you guys have :D

Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpSpin:
How have you forced the Dalvik Cache to stay on the phone memory and why/how have you copied your widgets on your phone memory?

PS: Do you use an EXT3 Partition or the Froyo legacy A2SD?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenmhp:
It's not unusual to move dalvik cache as well as the app. You will need root though, and then just partition your sd-card and install a rom with a2sd+. The only /data/data will take up space on the phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jorrr:
I didn't do anything to force the cache to stay on de phone. But it's normal the dalvikCache is on the phone memory right?

I use defrost 6.0 and in it you can go to settings > applications > manage applicatons, an you can move all your apps to the sd-card. I'm not sure what kind of A2SD that is.

I move any applications with widgets to my phone memory, because otherwise widgets don't work anymore if you reboot your phone.

@mortenmhp: But also a lot of people do not recommend to move the dalvikcache. Is it safe to do?