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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichyH:
I have a question about removing group from the phonebok that were already removed bij an app.

This is what happened:

I installed Contacts GroupU in order to give a lot of contacts the same ringtone.

Because I ran into some problems showing the groups in my phonebook I deleted them.

Now that I figured out how to show contacts in a group in my phonebook I noticed that the old groups are still listed under the Display Groups option in the phonebook. (Sync Groups)

I've installed 3 different group tools, but none of them shows the previously remov group.

Anyone who can tell me how to remove those groups from the list?

I also had some groups that were linked to Gmail, but after deletion there still in the list to.

Even though I do not see them in Gmail.

So I have the same prolem there.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunawan-1:
Backup your contacts first. Then og in your gmail account with PC. Delete all contacts in gmail contacts account. Restore your contacts previously backuped.create your contact group again. Sync with gmail.. Done.

Gunawan-GN Multimedia-X10i
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichyH:
Thanks, that will fix my Gmail groups.

But I also have a few double entries under the Phone Contacts.

Any thoughts on how to delete those.

I've deleted them with Contacts GroupU but they are still visible under View Contacts menu - Display Contacts - Phone Contact.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunawan-1:
Try make setting don,t auto sync. Actually I hate this auto sync feature too. :-)

And in view contact just tick phone contact only. So changes we make in phone will sync to gmail contact. Not gmail to phone contacts

Gunawan-GN Multimedia-X10i
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichyH:
It is in View Contacts - Phone Contacts that I have double group entries.

I am not able to delete those double entries.

It looks like the apps I used didn't delete the groups properly.

So now I would like to know how to delete those entries.
[Vibrant General] jzero88:
So i have probably flashed my phone around twenty times, and each time something goes wrong or doesnt work, i have to use Odin and flash back to stock, do the JI6 update, install OCLF, root it, flash clockwork recovery, then try and flash another rom.

My concern is that it takes forever to do his process everytime. Is there an easier way to do this? Do you need to have JI6 before flashing a 2. 2 rom? Do you need root to install a custom rom? Or can you just copy over clockworm recovery to sd? Any info will help, thanks.
[Vibrant General] Annex1:
I've flashed my phone with every rom I could find. I was using ClockworkMod Recovery to do my flashing and never had a problem. but if you flash a 2.2 rom.... you can't go back to 2.1

Unless you open Odin and have your phone set to Download mode.

Use these files and click START

PIT- s1_odin_20100512.pit

PDA- T959-PDA

PHONE- T959UVJFD

Then your phone will be rolled back to 2.1 update1 STOCK.

I had to use this 4 times. It works.

**If you have a Nandroid Backup of a rom running 2.1 You can't use that to roll back**

YOU WILL BRICK IT UP!
[Vibrant General] willsnews:
What if that rom includes a kernel?

Constantly Drinking
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
Who's the stupid person who told you to flash JI6 first to go to 2.2?
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
yeah ...
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I have no clue how you could be having this much trouble... are you following the guides?
[Vibrant General] joe.kerwin:
First off you don't need to wait for the ji6 / flash the ji6 update to get to froyo. 2nd, why are you bothering with the lag fix before getting on the rom you want to run daily? Try to keep your flashes clean. By this I mean once you're odin'd back to stock, just flash 2.2, so there's no weird mods messing things up for you. If you're finding things wrong every time you have to eliminate as many variables as you can that could potentially cause something to go wrong. If you flash straight from stock, you're only variables will be within the 2.2 ROM you're flashing. Hope this helps. It's definitely worth it to get on one of the froyo roms in these forums, I recommend Axura, no problems at all and there's an even newer release than I'm running so it might be even better.
[Vibrant General] villaparv:
I did a backup with 2.1 update1 stock. Then flashed to 2.2 Obsidian V4.

That's my first flash and I only got the phone for two weeks. So apparently

I was still in learning mode. I did not backup my contacts as I thought

I could easily go back to 2.1 just as if having a dual bootable linux box.

However, after restoring to 2.1, the phone did not boot. It appears that I

have to use ODIN to bring it back. But my concern is I will lose my contacts

once 2.1 is back. So my questions are:

1. if I use odin, will I lose my contacts?

2. is there any other way to let the phone boot?

3. Not sure if my case falls into the category that flash to 2.2 then cannot

go back to 2.1 unless odin is used.

Sorry for asking so many questions.

Many thanks in advance.
[Vibrant General] eminembdg:
Ok i'm confused on how you will lose contacts.

When you add contacts to your phone are you choosing "google" as the place to add it? If you choose "phone" then you will lose contacts as data is wiped.

But always choose "google", then all of your contacts will be synced and stored to googles servers. Then once you add your google account after you flash your rom all of your contacts will be synced right back to your phone..... this is what I do and I always have my contacts no matter what
[Vibrant General] boystuff:
install check list

OCLF (Root only)

Rom Manager (clockwork recovery + Rom Installer)

thats all you need really for quick installs.

I did my first rom install about a week ago, since then i've flashed 4 different ones, havent had any issues. i tend to stick to installs that can be installed via clock work, Used odin 1 time that was because OTA JI6 broke me.

Obsidian V4 is unstable and was pulled from the public download page for revisions try V3 or Onyx R3.1

as for contacts, you don't have them synced Via gmail or atleast backed up on your sim?
[Vibrant General] explodingboy70:
Just so everyone knows there is a stock 2.2 for use with ODIN. No need to go back to stock 2.1 then up to 2.2 again. The 2.2 for ODIN is pre-rooted. I have done this twice now with no problems. Haven't needed One Click Root/Unroot since we got 2.2
[Vibrant General] villaparv:
It might be a little late to know this. But to be honest, I do not really buy into

the concept of putting everything in google's hand. That's why I chose to

save in the phone other than google.

I thought that by backing up the current ROM (2.1 update1 in my case),

I should be able to restore back to it whenever I want to.

Am I doomed? Really hate to shoot everybody an email asking for their

numbers. And worse, some of them don't have email since they are old :-)
[Vibrant General] villaparv:
so far obsidian v4 has not given me any trouble, but I will give V3 a try later

to make sure I have at least one stable version.

As for contacts, I did not take it too seriously when I flashed to 2.2.

But now I realize it's a lot hassle to get all numbers back if I can remember

who are on my list.

Is there any hope to save my a**?
[Vibrant General] jzero88:
Thanks for all the replies but to be clear all my custom flashed roms flash successfully. Nothing wrong with flashing, just doing advanced stuff like testing eugenes kernels with other roms. If something goes wrong then i have to start over. I was just wondering if we can go from stock to 2. 2 which i know now we can. Do you need root to do this or can you just copy the update. Zip of the clockwork recovery to sd and get into it from stock recovery to flash the new rom
[Vibrant General] boystuff:
Ive been using gmail as my contacts backup since 06 when it was beta invite only. Synced via active sync on my windows mobile 5,6 and 6.5 phones with ease its just always made more sense then outlook or sim cards since i could access it anywhere i had internet.

Give it a shot doesnt hurt to always have atleast 1 backup
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OFinch:
Sorry if this is not worth creating a thread.. But I am wondering what you guys use for your 3 buttons you get to assign anything to do for suggestions for myself.. I can't seem to think of any good ideas, I'm sure some of you have some pretty good ideas to help me.. Thanks a lot
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffff00:
1: Twidroyd Pro new tweet popup activity

2: Messaging

3: Launcher Pro.. w/ home button set to show notifications within LP. So home then notifs
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dietotherhythm:
I haven't even bothered to assign them to anything. Would probably be more efficient to just keep shortcuts on the home screen. I mean you get 4x4 apps per page with 7 pages that's 112 shortcuts. I don't really see the need to assign 3 buttons more.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddotpatel:
SNESOID!!.... 10 char
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazz9690:
Navigation

Translate

Soundhound
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidcues:
User dictionary

Firefox

Terminal

When im satisfied with dictionary switch with exchange email

htc vision
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mckayrytting:
I use them for the 3 things I use the keyboard for most: Messaging, Google Voice, and Talk. Once everyone starts using my GV number I'll probably replace messaging with Gmail. But I figure while I have the keyboard out those are the apps i'm most likely to be using, so I made them the shortcuts.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranova:
Hey all,

Just got my ATT N1, rooted it, updated to the latest baseband, and using wildmonk's kernel (2.6.35.8_SVS-950mV_CFS_AXI_720p_1152MHz_111110b). Using beta cyanogen 6.1 RC1. Not overclocking.

When I run slacker in the background while using Google Navigation, after awhile it would soft-reboot (shows the animated cyanogen logo). Im guessing its something memory related? Whenever I just run navigation or slacker by themselves, it works fine.

Any ideas what is wrong? When I was on the stock rom/kernel/etc, the slacker + nav combo worked out great.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] britoso:
Try the normal non-OC/UV kernel and see if that works.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
You could also try a cache manager, because both those apps can cache a lot of info...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranova:
i found the culprit. I was using LCD density changer and set it to 200. For some reason that causes the phone to become unstable, especially navigation + slacker. anyone else have this problem and have a solution?

I have tried rod's MIUI rom, and changing the LCD density to 200 causes the phone to soft-reboot almost everytime you try to awake the phone from sleep
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raul645:
I flashed a new rom on my htc hd2 last night, I got a screen with vbndroid wm rom on the left side and hyperdroid on the right side. I hit the droid button on the right side and it went into this programming code screen where it looks like its loading files, I left it there now its been on that screen since last night aqbout 12 hours total. Can any one please help, and thank you in advance:confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
summary. you flashed a lite rom with a bootloader to choose wm or android but android hangs during boot.

what rom? what radio? and why aren't you asking in that roms thread? (not that i can help, i know nothing about droid, just clarifying your question)
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
Not sure whats going on, how did this become the first post in this thread?
[Venue Pro General] fathamburger:
dotnetnate.com/2010/11/why-windows-phone-7-will-fail-and-i-might-finally-break-down-and-get-an-iphone/
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
God...people read that thing? pfft...how'd that get on Google so fast? :)
[Venue Pro General] orochidp:
So this person's impatience and incompetence means that WP7 is a failure?

Can't argue with that logic.
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
Whats worse is this is the second forum this has been posted in by the same poster that I know of, who knows how many more. Looks like someone's trying to spread the FUD!!!

Actually, I'm feeling a bit clairvoyant myself, here's my prediction - tonight will be dark, tomorrow the sky will be bright in some places and others not so much! Bow down before my awesome future-seeing powers!!!!
[Venue Pro General] Spankmeister:
I have not heard of the Venue Pro going into the death reboot spiral...

The 'Engineering Sample' issue was pretty covered the day of launch and I believe it was a mistake on their part.

For me, a 16GB phone would be fine, as I really don't use my phone as a media device. I use my phone for internet, email, SMS/MMS and calls.

I would worry about battery life anyway with me using the web a TON on a daily basis and responding to many emails/SMS messages.

Let's see what happens when these are officially put on sale and people start getting them in their hands...

There are some parts of the above blog post though that I do agree with....having your brand new OS on a hardware platform that is about a year old (1ghz Snapdragon proc) is not the best business.
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
Yeah, the fact that I can read and understand what I AM allowed to do based on the terms of of a contract is a *****.

Maybe you should try selling this POS to customers. While yes, Dell royally !@#)('d up - the fact is, MS is to blame for the storage problem. Period. It's not in any way, shape or form a consumer device given the approach they took and as someone who sells technology, specifically MS tech, to clients - guess what - I'm advising them to still the hell clear of WP7 until they actually engineer it properly to have broad appeal. Or would you like me to also get quotes from others at MS that have to evangelize this crap who also think it's a load of BS as well?
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
The first unit I received, the one that went back to the store, was not an engineering sample. Someone mentioned that I should've written down the revision numbers...but I also had none of the other problems the engineering samples had, e.g. I could connect just fine to my secure wi-fi network. Two types of devices went out, contrary to Dell's public statement. All Dell is claiming is that batteries were mislabled but there are two distinct sets of behaviors, i.e. one is the 'proper' version of the hardware and the other isn't.
[Venue Pro General] orochidp:
You can hit your phone over and over with a hammer if you want according to the contract, it doesn't mean you aren't stupid for doing it.

What storage problem? The one where Microsoft explained what the criteria is for an acceptable card, or the part where they said that they were working with SD card makers to get the proper information on the packaging to let the users know if the card was acceptable to use in the device?

What you did was impatient. You performed an unsupported procedure on a undeveloped feature using a substandard card, then proceeded to blame everyone but yourself. The Venue has plenty of flaws, sure, but I'm not sure what you experienced is anyone's fault but yours.

PROTIP: When modifying hardware on your device, especially hardware noted by the manufacturer to be unmodifiable, unintended issues may arise.
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
Either I didn't clarify it or you didn't read it...but MSFT is claiming, in their stores, that it breaks the warranty if you replace what it shipped with with ANY card - even certified ones. They stated that the Focus is the only one that can have its storage swapped out. So in other words, when those shiny new "Certified" logos get put on the cards - they're useless outside of the focus. So yes - it's absolutely MSFT's fault for going with a storage scheme that is this destructive and allowing devices with such minimal (non-replaceable!) storage to even be on the shelves.

It's not impatient - it's realistic. If a mfg doesn't want someone to change something, to the point where the change is truly catastrophic to the device, then they'd damn well better put a lot more labeling what MOST intelligent people look to modify, although I'd hardly call this a modification. Further - it was working just fine and I'm apparently not the only one to experience power cycling, mine just never recovered from it.
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
Most people buy the device they want in the first place and DONT go rooting in the innards of their device looking for storage card slots when the device clearly does not have one visible or other ways to unofficialy upgrade their device. The fact that you made the choice to swap the card is not MS's fault, they made their position clear on swapping storage cards, and the card in the Dell is obviously not intended to be swappable, the manufacturer made the effort to hide the card from being visible irrespective of what methods they used, and you made the choice to buy a device with insufficient storage and decided to add storage in an unsupported way. Cant see where your storage card complaint has any merit.

Whether MS's way of implementing storage card integration is correct or not is a separate issue, so are the inevitable bugs in any piece of software as there are in WP7, but for the storage card complaint if you go out of your way to use a device in a way for which it was not intended you cant blame anyone but yourself.
[Venue Pro General] fathamburger:
haha yeah I read the colour cycling post shortly after I posted this and figured it was you :P

Didnt find it via google, found it via the Dell website via their dell venue pro hashtag which popped up your tweeted complaints plus several others. Not a good sign at all. Hope they will not be selling the same units to us when they become available without addressing the problems, if the delays are a result of addressing the problems they should at least say so.

Even then, I need a phone of my own for development soon. Will have to give up my current one to another developer shortly, hell this is starting to become a very costly platform to buy into since I may have to buy a "stopgap" phone I don't really want i.e. LG quantum if these shortages persist.

Efjay I wasn't trying to spread FUD, rather his is the first detailed post of his experiences on a non-vapourware phone and i'd consider it requisite reading for anyone wishing to make an informed decision.
[Venue Pro General] Finges:
Why did you buy this phone in the first place? Your biggest gripe is the lack of storage space on the phone. Okay, fine. 8GB is probably not enough to store all my MP3/Videos/misc....

However you knew going into the purchase that 8GB was all you were getting. I'm pretty sure that you did not know that it had an easily accessible MSD slot. Reports of the MSD slot did not start coming out until 11/9... as in your blog post. You purchased your device on 11/8 as seen on your Twitter.
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
I purchased it on 11/8 at the Scottsdale MSFT store. I hate to break it to you, but it's not exactly rocket science to pull the battery out and look for where a microSD card would be. I had that sticker off and the card pulled within about 5 minutes of having it in the car. My apologies for not posting it to the world, but if that's exceptionally difficult to imagine how one could do such a thing without someone else writing about it first, perhaps you shouldn't be critiquing my actions. The only delay between me purchasing it and running into problems was the shipping date on the initial 32GB card.
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
Really? You're saying that on this forum? Have you even SEEN the sticker? It has no text on it...it has nothing. There's nothing to distinguish it from something that could've been put there just to hold it in over a OMGYOURPHONEISGONNADIE sticker.

You really don't have any concept of contracts... unless something is stated that it will in fact void the warranty, the warranty is in tact. Don't piss on me over bad lawyering on Dell's part. If anything, you should be thanking people that are griping about this to get it changed.

That they claim I voided a warranty is where it has merit. Again, L2Contract. I did nothing in violation of the warranty. There was no warning that removing the sticker or the card itself violated the warranty - that's really the end of the story. At BEST you could argue that there's a very minor warning at the end of the manual...I mean, dead on the back of it, that mentions that it may make the phone unusable - but again, nothing that mentions that it's a violation of a warranty. Beyond that, even MS' KB article are MUCH less dire than that and are pretty much summed up as 'you might lose some data'.

Yes - it is. However MS is not 'separate' in this case - they were the ones in the store telling me I voided the warranty when 1.) nothing indicates that such an action would and 2.) They're not the warranty holders.

Yeah, I went reeeeeeeally far out of my way. You know...looking in the same place I'd look in other phones for SD slots, e.g. my HD2 and seeing what was pretty obviously one...yeah, that took some brainpower.
[Venue Pro General] ratchetjaw:
Man its all this type of crap they probably are delaying the release. To make sure the damned stickers are legible. Joking but kind of serious
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
Maybe...but I think it'd be more that there are just general hardware problems with the device.

Someone from the MS store contacted me, so I'm trying to see if they can either correct or confirm the associate's story about not even the certified cards being able to be used.
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
I think thats the whole point, most people are not buying phones and heading to xda to find out where the hidden storage card is, you are obviously not the average user but just because you are more knolwedgeable doesnt change the fact that the storage card was not meant to be accessed and changed, whether by someone with a degree in astrophysics or the milkman and playing the injured consumer and quoting contracts doesnt make your claim any more valid.
[Venue Pro General] orochidp:
I fail to see what contracts have to do with you messing up your phone so badly that you needed to return it.

I also fail to see why Dell is at fault for your botched swap job. I mean, everything you've said so far seems to be a lot of bluster to cover for your own incompetence. Funnily enough, just keeping your failure to yourself would have avoided a lot of this drama.

In summary: Contracts have nothing to do with your lack of skill or forethought into pulling vital components from your phone impulsively on the ride home. You keep bringing up "contracts" like it means anything. You may understand contracts, but you sure don't understand cell phones.
[Venue Pro General] nathanysmith:
I didn't come here to find out where it was. I knew where it was ...see previous post ;)

Well, it absolutely does. If I can engage in a supposed warranty voiding action without notice that said action voids a warranty...it doesn't void the warranty and in fact is not a condition of the warranty. There's no warning on the sticker. There's no text anywhere. I'm really not sure what's difficult to understand about that.
[Legend General] randy_khoo:
Jusy installed cyanogen rc1.

Having problems with ringtone.

Sometimes it sounds, sometimes it doesn't.

Rebooting doesn't seem to help.

Before I was using rc1, was using 6.0, but the ringtone problem wasn't severe then.

At the moment, playing them from settings-sounds, is not a problem, but when a call comes in, it goes dead silent. Sms seems to work fine. Media plays with no issues as well..

Can someone advice?

Thanks.
[Legend General] Grimmjeeper:
I'm having the same problem, but with notification sounds as well. it works fine for a day or so, then all sounds stop working and rebooting doesn't help at all. :confused: