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[Galaxy Tab General] clubtech:
The issues with the lag in the browser is all over this forum.

It is also present in the SGS 2.2 firmwares so it is definitely a bug that Samsung will need to fix as the lag is simply unacceptable.

Dolphin HD helps a little but since both stock and Dolphin use the same webkit core (that has this lag), it is not solving all the lag issues.

Opera mobile is super smooth because it is using Opera's own rendering engine.
[Galaxy Tab General] rockky:
Guys make sure in settings you click 'on demand' when it asks for enabling flash.... makes a big difference.
[Galaxy Tab General] xoltrix2000:
I knew it was a Flash issue, mainly because on my Nexus One before I had Flash on it, it was running as smooth as a baby's ass up until I install Flash.
[Galaxy Tab General] GAMERIG:
Yes thank you for tips.. its helpful..
[Android Software Development] e-zzy1:
Does anyone create mobile-website? I am trying to create a download dialog inside an iframe however for some reason it doesn't work it takes me to the page inside the iframe but once I click the download link NOTHING HAPPENS anyone know why?

the download dialog work on any regular browser but not on android.

iframe example:

<iframe src="myframewithdownloadcontent.html" name="download" width="500" height="500" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>

inside the "myframewithdownloadcontent.html" this is what I have:

<a href="downlodcontet,pdf">Download</a>

Doesn't matter if its a pdf zip or any other type of file nothing happens when I click the download link or even if I create an automated download the DIALOG NEVER OCCURS!!!

any help will be highly appreciated THANKS! :D
[Android Software Development] e-zzy1:
so if no one here knows, then does anyone know a good forum/place where I can as this question
[HD2 General] Marct77:
It's blowin' a Hoolie all across the Uk tonight,not much of story there

admitted,but I was intrigued to see if my HD2 would finally show me those

damn leaves blowing across the screen......

Well up to now they must still be clinging to the trees cos

I am still showing rain despite wheelie bins blowing round the garden and my windows whistling.... hmm I wonder if we'll ever see all these animations ?
[HD2 General] smeddy:
+1! LOL :)

I've not seen it in 12-months of HD2 ownership, outside of the demo
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I heard the only way to trigger that animation is to stand on the summit of mont blanc in a 100mph wind, hold your phone in the air and scream "thunder thunder THUNDERCATS" whilst being struck by lightning.....

worked for me anyway....
[HD2 General] Marct77:
Ah mighty Lion-O you have returned to save us :D
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
:D make sure you have gps on though or it wont know your really at the summit.....

on a serious note though, ive never seen it either.....
[HD2 General] hugojungle:
no storm animation

Same here in Germany. It is really windy, but my HD2 insists that I'm getting soaked rather than blown away.

I assume it is not a problem of the mobile but of Accuweather.

Hugo the JungleDyret
[HD2 General] bitterncarp:
I actually saw the leaves display on a future day for Glasgow when I was going through my locations but it then turned to rain when it updated.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Hey fellas,

I wonder if there is anyway to realize if your phone's ROM had been flashed before I bought it?

I have recently bought a new hd2, and as the ROM was very old, I decided to upgrade the ROM (from Taiwan region which was the only region allowed me to download ROM update because of the phone serial number), but after upgrading the language of my phone changed to Taiwanese. Accordingly, I guess my phone ROM had been flashed before I bought it, otherwise the language would have been Taiwanese FROM THE BEGINNING.

If we assume the seller has used HSPL to install the WWE ( English ) ROM on my phone, What if he/she had already removed the HSPL before selling it to me? Is there any other way to find out if my phone had been flashed?

I want to debate the seller but I want a good proof before any talk to them.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
look in bootloader at what it says next to spl. If it ends '.hspl' then it has been hspl'd, but if they removed it, theres no way to tell. perhaps they used a goldcard, perhaps they used sspl.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
It says SPL- 3.03.0000 XE,

By the way, is using Gold Card or SSPL illegal? I am asking this because if it is legal, I can't debate them.

Using HSPL falls in a gray area in terms of being legal or not, right?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
it does mean that whilst its on the phone, but its not on the phone (your spl ends .0000, that means its stock) anymore so no problem. it doesnt break warranty permanently, only whilst its there, and its not, so dont worry about it.

Since its got a 3.14 rom on there, they must have used goldcard anyway, not hspl, and yes, theoretically it broke warranty by bypassing the manufacturers checks, BUT there is still all valid software on there, and no proof anything untowards happened, so no problem.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Actually when I got it, it was ROM 1.43 Version, but I upgraded it and the ROM being 3.14 is as a result of my Upgrade, not theirs.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] truc007:
I can't be 100% sure but for me, if it's a Taiwanese phone with another language... then it has been flashed.

Anyway, what do you want to complain about?... you put it back to "original" setting by flashing the Taiwanese ROM... hope you can read it ;)

One way could be if the previous owner sell it as "UK version" (any version but Taiwanese). Then you didn't buy what was advertised for.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
My complaint will be "Why you sold me an illegally flashed phone". (Assuming flashing phones is illegal, which I am not still sure about it)

Well, you can expect it from a eBay second hand private seller, but not from a reputable retailer.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DonDie:
Since when is flashing a phone illegal?!? Hard SPL flashing "may" void your warranty. But if you use the original HTC roms theres no problem.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Are you sure? You have a source for it? Cause if you have, you'll make me so happy.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prozac69:
Do you like the phone? Does the phone work? If you answered 'Yes' to both of these my next question would be 'Does it matter?'!! :confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Apparently you didn't read my first post.

The phone language is now Chinese and its as a result of the fact that they probably sold me a flashed phone.

Now I have to either live with a Chinese language phone or I have to ( illegally? ) flash the phone again...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lude219:
what's there to complain about now when you already flashed/upgrade to a new ROM?

That's like buying a new car from the dealership, installed turbos on it, blow the engine, and now demanding that the dealership to reimburse you for selling a lemon.

You shouldn't have touched or flashed the phone at all until you find out if it's a virgin HD2 or not.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
If you believe flashin phones is not illegal, that's one thing. BUT:

I really don't know how you compare installing a turbo on a car ( which clearly voids the warranty of the car due to the warranty terms and conditions ) and installing an OFFICIAL upgrade from the FORMAL htc website into my phone! I am not the one who flashed the phone so why I should be blamed?! I only did a legal upgrade and that's all.

Mate, tell me where in the htc website is mentioned that "you must not upgrade your phone ROM before you are sure that your phone is not flashed by the seller"?!

Assuming flashing the phone with another region's ROM is illegal:

They shouldn't have sold me a flashed phone in the first place. If it had not been flashed, I would not have faced this problem.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lude219:
My point is that you have already flashed another ROM on top of it (official rom or not)...so what other trace of previous flashes being on there? I mean, you verified that the SPL is original and had 1.43 rom (which is realllllyyy old) on it, I don't know what else you want.

How is the packaging? Any form of knicks and scratch anywhere on the phone?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJW6927:
wow. definitely one of the silliest questions I can remember ever reading here.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] X1-owner:
Why is this a silly question? Sure, most users here don't care if they void their warranty by circumventing security to flash whichever ROM they want, but this guy is clearly not one of them. He bought a new HD2, and if he just wants an official ROM, he shouldn't have to resort to gold card or manipulated SPL methods to install an upgrade with the same language.

Meteorite-The-Second:

First of all, you're using the term flashing in the wrong way. Flashing is the way to put a new ROM (official or not) on the phone. When you put your current official upgraded ROM on the phone you flashed it.

Flashing the phone with an official ROM for it's original region certainly doesn't void the warranty. Using any kind of SPL manipulation or gold card method to flash any other ROM probably does, though if you restore the original SPL and ROM before returning it for warranty it most likely cannot be detected.

When you flashed the ROM that is currently on the phone, I assume that you did that via a USB connection from the computer as this is the official way of doing upgrades. If that is the case, then the ROM that was on the phone before must have been flashed using soft SPL or gold card, because Hard SPL cannot be removed by flashing via USB, and you obviously have the official SPL on your phone now.

If you bought the phone new, it really doesn't matter if flashing with gold card or soft SPL is actually illegal or not. Go back to the store and demand an official english language phone. If they cannot provide that, demand your money back and buy it somewhere else. Before leaving the store with the new phone, use the phones serial number to check which official ROMs you can download from the HTC web site.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Look at the difference between Revisions of the two different parts of the box:

img17.imageshack.us/img17/287/img5655d.jpg ( REV B) look at the red arrow

img571.imageshack.us/img571/5381/img5656m.jpg (REV A ) look at the red arrow

Why they should differ in Revision? Are the revisions on your phone boxing parts the same?

tx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Yes, that's the case. I did it with a usb and upgraded it with the file I got from htc taiwan.

All other regions gave me the message " This file is not suitable for your device".

What if the seller removed the hspl BEFORE selling the phone to me i.e. what if the hspl have not been there in my phone from the beginning ( I didn't check the bootloader before upgrading the ROM so I know if the hspl were there or not) ? I have heard you can remove hspl after you have flashed your phone it while keeping the new official or cooked rom. Is that right? Or will you lose your newly flashed Rom if you remove the hspl?

BTW, thank you for your help.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ouzo:
Are you sure about that? Doesn't flashing a stock ROM of the same region as your device get rid of it? Seemed to work when I wanted to downgrade from the official WWE 3.14 update.... Flashing the stock 1.66 WWE ROM took me back to SPL1.42, allowing me to put HSPL 2.08 back on.... (all done via USB)

I think if the OP explained a bit more about the phone's backgound more people might have been able to help. What country is the phone supposed to be from? Is it that it's supposed to be a UK device but it has actually come from Hong Kong? (for example)

Perhaps I shouldn't have tried to read this thread with a hangover ; )
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
you just answered yourself. you didn't remove hspl by usb flashing cos hspl wasn't on your phone. you had stock 3.03 from the 3.14 rom and downgraded it to 1.66 stock, so therefore your line "seemed to work when I wanted to downgrade the......" is nonsensical.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
These two quotes are in contrary...

I still don't know if I have a hspl'd phone and then upgrade the ROM through htc website with the aid of my phone serial number, will the hspl be seen in the bootloader after the upgrade?

Experts, please shed a light on this,
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doublecheese:
Goto SETTINGS > ABOUT PHONE > SOFTWARE INFORMATION > And see the USAGE values, as far as I know these values can not be changed even ater a flash !!!!

So see for yourself if you have already spoken that much or not

BTW, I wouldnt want you as my customer you dig into things too much, if you`re happy why bother more ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
My original question was "How to find out if a phone has been been FLASHED before buying". A phone can be flashed without been used.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prozac69:
Totally agree.

Like it or lump it. If you're not happy contact the seller. If you are happy ......it's bloody hard to tell that you are!! :confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
go into bootloader, look at what it says by spl.

if it ends .0000 its stock

if it ends .hspl , , , you can guess the next bit

if it ends .6666 you are half way through a flash using sspl.

They're the only endings you will see, unless you start messing with manufacturing/test roms/spls, and you dont really wanna do that.

regarding hspl, , ,

you can run the hspl.exe program you used to apply it to remove it. This will leave everything intact, nothing gets wiped, and cooked roms continue to work.

You can also use a stock rom flashed from sd card to remove it. If it the correct stock rom, it will remove hspl and then flash the stock rom. If it is the wrong stock rom, it WILL STILL remove hspl, but then the flash will fail and the phone will be left not booting. (Not a problem, though, its just scary the first time it happens)

Flashing anything from usb whilst hspl is installed will not affect hspl, it will still be x.xx.hspl in bootloader. This is why you cant use hspl to run the 3.14 roms on a branded phone without using a goldcard. (UNless theres a branded 3.14 for that phone, there are a few)

Goldcards are a magic sd card that works with stock roms, and makes the phone accept any carrier or region roms, so long as they're stock.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yourmate:
I don't agree!! It's not just silly, it's bl**dy ridiculous! It's like going to hackers.ru and telling them that hacking is illegal or going to overclockers.com and telling them that it's bad for their mobo and processor...

I've had many HTC phones since 2002 (started with XDAII) and I had no other brand since then only HTC. Because I love 'em. And I came here in 2003 to get some help flashing my phone because I wanted to experiment a little and get something else than stock and you know what I don't give a s**t if it's illegal. But that's just me - you're different.

No problem being different, but people are coming to xda-dev 'cos they WANT to flash their phones. I do repeat they do NOT like their phones being original.

No offence but I hope you get the picture...

To register just to ask how/what you could complain about to your seller - instead of just speaking to him frankly and tell him your concerns - seems a bit of wasting your our time and space.

1) Do you want a phone with an official WWE ROM on it which is flashed legally through HTC's website? If answer is YES go to 2) if NO go to 4)

2) But you can't have it as your phone is from a different region? If answer is YES go to 3) if NO go to 5)

3) Ask for a refund - case closed.

4) What's your problem then? Flash a ROM which seems to be your cup of tea and enjoy - case closed.

5) You have what you wanted why complain? Sit back and relax - case closed.

So either way you can solve this...

With best regards,

ym

pm. you know what? I AM the idiot spending 20 minutes reading this bulls**t and even posting a reply :D

[edit]: oh and please check out my signature since - I don't know how many - years
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doublecheese:
your original question was: How to find out if a phone has been been FLASHED before buying"

BUT YOU SAID ; I have recently bought a

new

hd2, and as the ROM was very old....

You said it yourself NEW, normally if you buy a new phone , all usage must be zero, if the usage is not zero, the seller probably flashed, because everybody flashes their phones. Look at you, even you flashed it.

But here we say like this, I will make it quite polite for you , if you loose your virginity once , you loose it for good !!!!

So dont bother, if u like it just go on with that phone, if not, contact the seller.. But He will probably tell you to fucx off anyway !!!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Buddy, I appreciate your trying to help, but I am afraid I have to repeat what I told you last time.

Your method (checking usage) to find out if one's new phone has been flashed won't help. The reason is that a new (unused) phone may be flashed

without being used

. So checking usage won't reveal anything in this circumstances.

Anyway, once again thank you for your trying to help.

P.S.

I know the answer of my question now. Thanks to everyone.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KB24@CL:
can we lock this please?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stirkac:
yes it has been flashed atleast once by some HTC employee during production. go and get yourself new EEPROM chip without anything if you like useless 500$ brick.

now close this topic for gods sake
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jan-willem3:
That is the hole problem you can't see. It is possible because your rom was in english. But since you have flashed the htc rom. You can't get any evidence to show it to the seller. Otherwise you could say hey this is a english rom on a taiwanese serial. The reason you can't see it because hspl gets removed after flashing a stockrom. The seller chosed in that case for an english 1.43 rom.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msnuser111:
seriously people? just flash HSPL and flash an english rom and get over it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jan-willem3:
Yes and you won't see that there was ever hspl on it.

That is nice if you have to send your phone to htc.

But not for selling of course.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tone_def:
I've install Visionary + (r12) and permrooted my MT4g. Applications could request root and be authorized for about a day. Today, I tried to open Root Explorer, and it couldn't get root access. Also, apps that had already been authorized (Terminal, Titanium Backup) no longer had access. "Superuser" showed that these applications were, indeed, authorized.

Upon restoring the phone to factory settings, Visionary + still indicates that my phone is already rooted. The "unroot" option does not seem to be responding to my taps.

Any suggestions? Should I just reflash?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whosdaman:
Please post question in general section or in the Q&A thread located in the Dev section.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bo$s:
Can somebody explain how ext2 loop device lagfix works and answer why f.e. rfs+ext2 is faster than rfs?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenpaxtongoes:
Alright, I may have a brick on my hands but after playing with Android for two years I've found that's pretty tough to actually do so I'm still hopeful. Using Clockwork recovery, I did a factory reset and flashed the cm vision full 5 nightly build onto my G2/Vision. It gave me a boot loop so I went into hboot and tried to flash the PC10IMG. I'm getting a "Main version is older! Update fail!" message and have no idea what to do. Somehow I'm back to S-ON so I can't even try to flash a different update. If anyone has any ideas I will try anything. I love my phone and would hate to lose it three days after root happened.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruleftbehind:
I hate to be the one to say this, but didn't the thread say not to not to try it yet?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenpaxtongoes:
If you hate to say it and it doesn't help then why say it? And no it does not say that anywhere in the thread. Others have tried and had success.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazz9690:
You didn't make a nandroid backup?

No offense, but you said you've been playing with Android for 2 years. You should've known that the first rule is to backup what you already have!

Have you tried installing the stock ROM pre OTA in the "Downgrading ROM" thread?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenpaxtongoes:
I'm attempting it but adb won't copy my misc.img to my SD card, nor will it detect the miscnew.img I've made from someone else's misc.img.

Edit: Oh, and I WAS using the first release of the Clockwork mod for the G2 and I did not see a nandroid option there or I would have made a backup. I guess I shouldn't have tried it without a backup. Is there any way to use nandroid to flash someone else's backup?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jigga0o7:
What you need to do is mount your phone to your PC using Clockwork Recovery and copy over the misc files that way.

I had to downgrade to the stock rom myself and I used the misc files located in the below file.

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=437017&d=1289270330
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenpaxtongoes:
I already downloaded those files, and copied miscnew onto my sd. But when I try the

"dd if=/sdcard/miscnew.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17" command it says the file does not exist. It doesn't work with the card mounted or unmounted.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sundar2012:
If you can get into clockwork you should be OK. i think your mistake was doing a full factory reset rather than install CM and then wiping data and cache. go into clockwork and wipe everything.

Find the official pre-ota zip, go into hboot, and flash. if this fails, go into clockwork, wipe everything, then go into fastboot, flash the original recovery, then go into hboot and flash the pre-ota zip.

Otherwise, find the thread when people had problems flashing the OTA after removing goggles and use that method to reflash the pre-ota.
[HTC Aria General] Gabes Dad:
I found some more details regarding the release of the HTC Gratia:

HTC Europe now has a product page for the Gratia.

Celluloco.com retail store also has an unlocked Gratia (gloss black or white) listed here for sale with an estimated release date of Nov. 14. Although, the BBB doesn't have the greatest reports about Celluloco's credibility

Hopefully this means HTC will soon release the source and/or an official Froyo release for the Aria sometime next week.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
AWESOME NEWS. No more liberated :)

EDIT: LOOK AT THE SPECS PAGE. IT SAYS ANDROID 2.1