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[Wildfire General] mahmutmuratdemir:
I had a similar accident with my SE990i and the rice trick resqued the phone except the battery but I had to dissamble the phone and cleaned the board with endustrial grade (%98) alchool which is a good moisture absorber but don't rush keep it in a dry heated place and be sure there is no moisture left in the phone good luck
[Wildfire General] jawbraeka:
did the phone get dried out at all?
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
Havent tested it yet! Have had it in a ricebowl for 2 days and now finishing on the radiator. So I will probably test it tomorrow or today after work, but thinking it is for the best to wait longer.

I will post here if I succed with my rescue! =)
[Wildfire General] jasonfreeman:
If that works I'll take my Wildfire for a swim... o_O

Jk jk, haha
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
haha, dont be like that!! Cross your fingers for me instead :p
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
SUCCESS IT WORKES!!!

Tried it today, and it started up like normal! Everything seems to be ok! This is just amazing! So to everyone making my misstake, do exacly as I did, and maybe your phone can be washed aswell =)
[Wildfire General] Cyda:
YAY \o/. Glad to hear the rice trick worked. :)
[Wildfire General] danny.don:
Oh that is awesome.. I have been following your post ever since you posted.. Just to see the outcome.. And that's awesome.. Nice to hear that
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
Haha, yeah! Thanks for that tip! I am very happy and the phone seems to work as good as it did before. The screen is a litte bit affected by the water, but barely so its noticible!
[Wildfire General] Alex_GP:
Congrats and be a little bit more careful next time!;)
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
haha, I will doublecheck my laundry everytime from now =)
[Wildfire General] jawbraeka:
good work my son.... just empty your pockets every time you change clothes so that way you don't do it again lol.... with the water and the screen... i would say leave it for another day and quite possibly it will clear it or pull it apart and get the water out... i suppose you've been lucky this time but yeah i would do it to be sure so that way i know 6 months is not going to roll up and BAM dead phone..
[Wildfire General] halaue:
wow it really worked?! although i aint replying u here, but i track your process.

Congratulations and glad to hear that you had rescued ur wildfire. salute to all the peoples!
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
thank you guys for the cheers! Really cool that it worked out this well! I really did not expect that! Maybe someone could learn something from this thread aswell. I think that my phone would have been dead if I tryed to start it directly. So waiting is the best thing to do, patiance!! :)
[Wildfire General] halaue:
make a summarize of the ways =D
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
Off course! This is what I did: :)

1) Gently place your phone in the washingmachine (about 60min)

2) Cry during the whole process, swearing may help you!

3) Go to work knowing your phone might be dead and still in the machine, regarding to this, still be polite to your coworkers.

4) Back from work:

* Do not start the phone, just take out the battery

* Rinse all parts with regular water, medium hot, to get rid of the rest from the machine

* Let the parts dry on the radiator with paper between. (6-8hours)

* Put the phone in a risebowl, all covered with rice (24+hours)

* Finish the process on the radiator again (24+hours)

* Make sure that you cant see any water in the phone.

* Pray to God, Satan, Allah, Sheeva, Jerry Springer (or someone else)

* Put the battry in the phone and try!
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
If you keep doing it have a look at the motorola defy
[Wildfire General] Sander M:
Congrats on the rescue.

You should add this to your list.

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HBOOT-0.80.0002

MICROP-0622

TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac

RADIO-3.35.15.31

WATERPROOF!

May 13 2010, 22:09:43
[Wildfire General] Akerhage:
haha, will do that! =)
[G2 and Desire Z General] kingvaj23:
I tried downloading the visionary app from modaco and I got problem parsing the package any help?
[G2 and Desire Z General] meltedmoops999:
Try downloading it from your computer first and then loading it onto your phone that way. If that doesnt work, it might be a bad version of visionary.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arrtoo:
Hello.

I stand between Desire and Galaxy S right now, i recently had a X10i, but it has a hardware failure that my service provider arent able to fix.

So is galaxy S the best or Desire.

Galaxy has better battery life, better screen, but i've heard it has some performance trouble once in a while?

Desire has Led light and optical tracking mouse, no particularly failure..

I also thought of Iphone 4, but i think this version has to many defects?

Tnx for all replies..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] t1mman:
-Galaxy might have GPS issue, if it is important to you, test it out before buying it (30 min walk on dence city conditions is the worst for any GPS, you'd get an idea if it goes good or bad)

-Display on SGS is the best out there, period!

-GPU (graphic unit) is the best out there, period!

-Issue with the file system (corrected with lag fix) so you'd get "lag" when using intensive read/write on SGS (large ammount of files, slight lag when installing, etc). Froyo seems to lesser the issue

-Camera quality is pretty good. HTC has the reputation of having poor camera, so even higher MP's on the cam might not mean higher quality.

-Led flashs are useless compare to Night Mode on SGS (google it for examples). So unless you want to use your phone as an expensive ligh torch, this shouldn't be an issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arrtoo:
tnx for reply. anyone else have experience, maybe with both?

someone tried Iphone 4? (Calendar notes on iphone(do they show a notification))?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pr0cs:
Desire still has multitouch bug as well that likely cannot be fixed due to hardware limitations:

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] ap27:
I've had both. I would say Galaxy S. The lack of LED and touchpad doesnt bother me. The lag can creep in after a while but lagfix solves it pretty well.

On the other hand, Desire camera is nowhere as good as the SGS, same with the GPU...games run much smoother on the SGS and it can play 720p video. Desire struggles with HD video and some games.

Galaxy S needs some tweaking, but once thats out of the way its definitely over the Desire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkimmortal:
Galaxy S hands down having seen them both side by side.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
Galaxy S would be great but...

If I were to buy a new phone again after experiencing all these internal issues of Galaxy.

I PERSONALLY would stay away from Galaxy S.

But that is just me.

Just do some reading here before making decision.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
Get a Desire HD, or wait for Cyanogenmod.

Unfortunately, I am starting to doubt this phone increasingly every day :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Jayanth.M.P:
wait for a better phone....dont get galaxy s right now.....too many issues...you will regret it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rdy2go:
I own both devices.

If you want worse hardware and zero problems choose HtC Desire, it's nearly flawless and lag free. No problems with insufficient memory etc.

Galaxy s has much better screen, call quality, speaker quality, much better camera despite its lack of flash.

I prefer galaxy s as advanced user, after rooting and lag fix I'd never come back to desire.

But out of the box experience is much better in case of HTC Desire.

Afraid of rooting/flashing? Phone just has to work without xda? Choose Htc Desire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emms:
if its gaming your most intrested in the iphone 4 games are alot better well polished and its a whole world apart in terms of build quality. The sgs has a kind cheap feeling about it. i wouldnt get the desire but i would def get the desire hd if its available to you go for it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] avatar_43:
Having owned the Desire before the SGS I'd say the little niggles the SGS suffers from are liveable. I couldn't give up the smoothness (sure with the lagfix but meh) especially when it comes to video play back and games along with the screen it is miles better then the Desire.

Out of the box - Desire

As a phone to play around with - SGS

A phone that works... Just - iPhone

But personally Android any day for me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] t1mman:
You can have plenty of "iphone" like games all over internet with the Flash...

So, unless you wan't something you can't realy fool around with and is closed, I wouldn't go with an iPhone
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bcam117:
If you have some time and gaming is important get the galaxy s. The best would be to wait for a new phone, but its always going to be the best and you'll end up going crazy and never getting a phone.

The galaxy s to me is like an alpha romeo. Yeah it gives you **** every now and then but theres just something about it. When the phone works its just all fun, but it has its ****ty moments. Like with the gps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
I figure op would reply back to our replies??

Hope OP made a goodchoice
[HD2 General] babanoku:
I had flashed Dexter's latest ROM, then ran Task 29 so I could flash a different ROM. All I am now getting when I swwitch the phone on is a message saying DEXTER LOADING PLEASE WAIT.There is nothing to load though as all the information has been deleted. I have tried switching the phone off and on, hard reset all to no avail. Have I bricked it? please help....
[HD2 General] babanoku:
Just found a solution in another post, SHUD AV JUST USED THE SEARCH BUTTON.
[HD2 General] FrAsErTaG:
Task 29 before flashing the new rom :)
[HD2 General] babanoku:
Keep getting error connection when i run task 29, have got to the bootloader screen now but do not have usb showing on it
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raphy82:
Hello, Here is my issue,

Goal: want to add contacts to Favorite so i can access easlly reach them to call and send mail ans sms.

Problem: I press the "Import contact from Sim card". i see it coping my contact like 1 of 100------> 100, then it says completet, and you press OK.

But then nothing has been copied.

Any one that can help me solve this issue ?

Thanks

PS: could it have something to do with MSN live messenger ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
"import contact from sim"...copies all contacts from sim card to phone,....for setting contact as favourite, it should be on phone, not on sim
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diaclone^:
i have the same problem as raphy82.

I import my contacts from SIM, the Pop-Up seems to copy the contacts from SIM to internal memory. but after copying, my contacts are not on my device. only on the SIM.

I use the newest official htc rom 3.14 since today.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diaclone^:
I have found a solution for the contact import problem.

You have to open the sim manager in Phone/Contacts/Menu

Mark all your contacs and select copy in the menu.

Your phones copies your contacts on your sim to your device.

Greez
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raphy82:
HEllo, Diaclone^

Thanks, i worked,

in my phone it says not "Copie" but "Contact to SIM ..."

Just click on that and Voila...

Now you have your contacts both on Sim and on Phone =)

Good Work and Thanks

/Closed
[Droid X Themes and Apps] sovrce:
Last night I tried skinning my status bar to black using this method. It was late, I was tired, and did not see that you need to be de-odexed to apply this theme. Needless to say, I'm now screwed. It won't boot past the DROID screen. So... what do I do? I tried booting without the SD card but haven't tried anything else. Do/could I just do the power+home key and clear the cache? Is there any easy fix to this where I can salvage anything from the phone? I'm guessing I need to use the SBF, but I've never done that before so I'm looking for that guide. I'm running the official 2.2 OTA and I had rooted it. Could anybody please point me in the right direction?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] drowens:
I did the same thing the other day. Here is how I fixed it.

-Download RSD Lite (credit to MyDroidWorld)

-Install the RSDLite 4.8 program by double clicking on the program.

-Download SBF into a folder.

-Open RSD Lite and find the UNZIPPED SBF

-Put your Motorola Droid X into bootloader. (turn phone off and hold volume down

and the camera button while pressing the power button)

-Click start and sit back.

PS. You need to run RSDLITE as Administrator.

Note: after the flash will need to boot into recovery (hold volume down and the home button) and wipe data and cache.

Link for SBF http://www.multiupload.com/NCBVTV0AU5

I ran into an issues after I did this, it would try to activate though US Cellular. That isnt uncommon. just be sure to restore to thought the phone after you SBF and the go to your keyboard and hit *22807 then ## that should force it verzion. If you have any questions let me know
[Droid X Themes and Apps] sovrce:
Thanks for your help. Yeah you probably would've had to update the PRL file as that's just a generic 2.2 OS install. Quick question - would it be a problem if I already wiped the cache and data/factory reset it? I just tried that and it didn't help any. Mostly just a black screen now with the occasional flash to the DROID logo. Am I still good to use the SBF?

Also... did you ever get this resolved? I Googled *22807 because I'd never heard of it before and this is what came up. Does flashing to this SBF always mess up your MEID?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] drowens:
I would assume that you would be ok SBFing it. My friend works for Verizion and that is what she gave me to do.
[Desire General] tolis626:
Hey guys,what's up?

I had a screen protector on my Desire's screen which recently became full of scratches and had some air bubbles below it,so I decided to remove it(using the screen feels much nicer without it btw! :) ).But unfortunately I am not sure what our screens can take.Are they scratch resistan like the Leo's screen?If not,should I put a protector in again?

Thanks! :)
[Desire General] hamdir:
ive removed the screen protector two months ago and i found that i'm enjoying the desire a lot more without it

the glass itself seems resistant, i didn't have any scratches yet not even a slight one but i keep my device in a pouch so i don't know how it would stand in a rougher environment

seems better than the diamond screen which used to get damaged by finger nails :D
[Desire General] iL_FeD:
I have exactly the same doubt, I removed the screen case about two weeks ago and it feels nicer, but don't know if it will get any scratch. I also have the phone inside a TPU case, but is not that beautiful that way :( so I'm tempted to remove it also, but don't wana break my phone
[Desire General] lanroth:
I've had my desire for over 5 months, have never had a case or screen protector and the screen is completely unscratched. By contrast the silver buttons do have light scratching.

I keep it in my jeans pocket and try to avoid putting keys and coins in the same pocket.

I think the screen is pretty scratch resistant and after my experience with it would never consider a screen protector.
[Desire General] tolis626:
Well,I only take my phone out of its case to use it,so it is safe when in my pocket or anything like that.And it is glass,not some cheap plastic,right?Glass doesn't get scratched easily! :D
[Desire General] Budadank:
+1

Exactly the same here.

However I put mine in a TPU case when at work as I'm a mobile engineer and the places I work can tend to be a bit messy. The Desire's screen is much more scratch resistant than my old Touch HD due to the screen being capacitive and made of glass rather than plastic.

As long as you don't put it in your pocket with anything else and you're not too rough when cleaning the screen you should be fine.
[Desire General] vnvman:
Nope but it still does...trust me, a friend of mine tried to experience the sense of freedom, mocking me for making mine look like a tank with tpu case and brando ultra clear...now a few days ago (2 months usage, and he's a bank clerk, not a marine) noticed that his screen is all covered in tiny micro-scratches: they don't annoy much imo, but you know...also, even almost invisible scratches could weaken the glass increasing its chance to break.

Long story short: don't listen to what the Pope says, use condoms!
[Desire General] tolis626:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!Epic!You wrote history! :p :p :D :D

Well,I did buy a pair of protectors,but it feels so much nicer without them...It's frickin' glass and I am to cover it with plastic?Anyways,I use a case(a leather one if it matters) so I don't think I'll have a problem.What do you guys think?
[Desire General] vnvman:
Idk..i'm kinda skeptical towards those cases..i my girl bought one for her ipoo, and not too much after she had a nice big scratch right in the middle of the "omfgappleroxstevejobsisgoduberantiscratchglassverybigbigdeal". I could take a wild guess saying that having a case will mostly increase you chance of doing something bad to your phone: eg, a grain of sand in your pocket won't be likely to harm the phone in any way, but if you have a tight case and that little bad boy ends inside it might even literally CARVE the glass..you know, with a grain of sand it's like glass vs (rough) glass, aka very very bad...

Also, i can recall that almost all of the (lot of) times my old sweet Htc Cruise fell, that happened while i was trying to pull it out or putting it back inside its case :rolleyes:

Imho tpu case (plus protective film of your choice) rules, hands down.
[Desire General] htc fan89:
The desire's screen is not resistance to scratches, I had mine for 1 month had it in an case but, never placed an screen protector. I always kept it away from coins and keys, but after 1 month it developed a scratch which wasn't an regular scratch it seemed to be blurry and disorder with was super annoying. so, my point is get an screen protector before it's too late.
[Desire General] samsanchez88:
It's really just a question of wich screen protector you use, i've had 3 (including htc's own) and the last one (wich was sent to me for free when i complined about the htc one!!) is hand's down the best i've had. It didn't leave a single bubble, it's hard to see it's even there and it's more slippery then the screen itself so it makes the whole experience seem smoother, i'm very happy with it!!!!

PS: don't ask the make 'cause i really can't remember, but the message is; find the right screen protector=experience as good as without!!
[Desire General] arrtoo:
I am in a tricky situation here.

I need to choose between Desire (not HD) and Galaxy S.

I also considered Iphone 4, but because of much problems, i rather dont.

Is the battery life of Desire Poor? (i had/have X10i(the big one) and i had enough battery for 2 days. is Desire better or worse than x10i?

Is the screen bad in sunlight?

and which one would you choose?

tnx for replies..
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I have no experience of the SGS but I love my Desire. I get over 24hrs usage with most apps syncing each hour. The screen is poor in direct sunlight but all phones are
[Desire General] hitreset:
I've had both. The sgs is nice for the screen but I hated that the build quality wasn't great and there was no led notification. The sense UI on the desire is a lot nicer and the desire is smoother through transitions
[Desire General] ballandbiscuit:
My wife has an SGS, I have a Desire. The SGS screen is awesome but the lack of LED notification is a big problem as you have to unlock it to see if you have any messages etc. She can't even get 18 hours out of it which annoys her no end so she is always having to charge it. She isn't even a techy so all she does is call/text and email, no MP3 playing or browsing etc. My desire always lasts 2 days (I turn it off at night 11pm-8am).

SGS is so close to being great but the battery life, lack of LED and less dev support than HTC devices makes it less desirable than the desire IMHO!
[Desire General] arrtoo:
tnx:) someone else have experience with Desire or all of them?

Desire HD? worth the wait? (its maybe a little to big), In norway we have to vait to end of december or longer for Desire HD.

Anyone tried Iphone 4? (calendar, notes(notification on these?))
[Desire General] hamdir:
the SGS best plus is the graphics card gaming performance

bad points is the plastic build, iphone copy design and iphone copy interface, you get high quality rigid feel with the metal in the desire

SGS camera has no flash and you can get excellent results with the desire camera provided you reduce the digital sharpness

like EDDY said camera can last you a day with the desire slightly more if you use it less

super amoled is great but you get higher pixel density with an SLCD desire, pretty close to the retina dsiplay

slightly better software support with the desire
[Desire General] hamdir:
Desire HD is bigger and heavier, so its up to your taste

screen is 4.3inch but standard LCD, while desire is nicer amoled or SLCD higher with pixel density too

Desire battery is better than Desire HD

Desire HD has a much improved interface, slightly better camera, better 720p recording, it also sports a much better graphics card for gaming, more internal storage and more RAM, same processor speed
[Desire General] voodoodror:
My friend bought Desire and after a couple of days he regret and got the SGS.

I saw the phone, played with him a little bit and I got the following results, some of things you already mentioned and some not:

- SGS has bigger screen & less weight. Total weight of 135g against 119g. It really feels lighter in your hand but as you all said, It's all thanks to the poor plastic design. Screen is 4.0 inches instend of 3.7. Super AMOLED vs. SLCD, I think both are very impressive screens.

- SGS has more internal storage than desire. It comes with 8\16GB internal + microSD extension. Despite the Desire, You don't need any of S-OFF N1 Table, A2SD or something like this.

- The latest technology in smartphones by far - Bluetooth 3.0, DLNA & Built-in Wi-Fi N.

- SGS's GPU is much more stronger. Playing games is way more smooth. Playing 720p movies without an effort.

- Camera - I think both phones has pretty much nice pictures, 5MP. SGS has no flash but nightmode also does the job. SGS has 720p faster fps recording.

- SGS has also something that almost no one talk about - LOW SAR. According to SAR EU, Desire has 0.72 W/kg (head) against SGS that has 0.24 W/kg (head). Pretty big difference.

- SGS has FULL multi-touch support. Desire's lack of multi-touch support, it can understand up to 2 fingers and that's also defective.

- First of all, as a phone - SGS's speaker is clearer than the Desire. Desire's speaker is noisy when playing at full volume. Recording quality is also much better in SGS. Desire's recording quality is poor, Both sound recording and video recording. Desire uses old AMR format.

- Battery Life. SGS's has 1500 mAh and Desire 1400 mAh. I think the difference isn't about the battery but because of the "Smart battery use" of Samsung. You can reach up to 2-3 days with the SGS. Desire's battery will last for something about 1 day.

If the following things doesn't bother you then buy the SGS:

- SGS doesn't have Camera flash.

- SGS's design is mainly poor plastic.

- SGS doesn't have LED notification.

- SGS interface is an "iPhone" copy.

- One of the disadvantages for me, at least, there isn't CyanogenMod port yet.

- Less android programs support as I know.

- "Menu" and "Back" buttons are touch, It might bother you at some point.

- After all, It's Samsung and I believe this is the only phone which they can compete with.

In conclusion, take your time and watch reviews of both phones on YouTube before you decide.
[Desire General] ste1164:
Also calendar and notes on the iPhone are good but android easily beats the iPhone in notifications. There is no LED light and if you get a text when your in the middle of doing something on your phone it interupts it.