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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amfetamine:
There is a known issue with the trackball acting weird, scrolling on its own, not scrolling, scrolling only in one direction. The issue seems to be hardware related and have to do with limited space in proximity to the usb connector.

I've never had this problem, but my wife's eris did. Got it replaced.

Google "eris trackball usb"
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] synesthete:
If your phone is still under warranty, then you should take it in to the verizon store to be replaced. This happened to me and they replaced it with no hassle.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isthisreallife:
Hi all,

I am thinking of selling my x10 and purchasing Desire.Is it a good idea.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roaringhere:
No! Better wait for the first quarter, when new phones will be introduce in the market...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoTi_96:
+1
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devein:
First, ask this question in desire forums ;-)

Second: one thing better in x10 is slightly bigger screen. In practice this means about two lines of book in aldiko. Width and number of pixels are the same.

I have both phones now, first bought x10, then desire...currently looking at one rom per day thanks to easy rom backup. (now: defrost)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devein:
New phones wont be fully cracked and modded, and certainly wont have similar price to x10..
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k1sr:
It's a freakin' awesome idea...!!

I'd be keeping ideas like that to myself though, someone might steal it and use it themselves.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iead1:
Why sell a 7 month old phone just to buy an 8 month old phone?

Try the Desire HD or Desire Z if you want a newer phone.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dani187:
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=2964&idPhone2=3077

except the MT issue on X10, the x10 is much bether :) bether camera, larger display more rom, battery life etc ..

me and probably thousand people wait for a custom rom witch alow MT/ or at least dual touch
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiac100:
x10 vs desire

Camera: complementary and not fundamental to the workings of a smart phone.

Dispaly: 3.8 inch amoled with multitouch better than 4 inch TFT single touch

Rom: I think RAM is more important to the user and the dseire has 512mb compared to the x10 384mb

Battery Life:Purely subjective

Let's not forget that you get froyo and all its goodness on the desire while the x10, save for the devs cracking the bootloader, is destined to die with 2.1. Also HTC sense much better and more functional than the dreary UXP.

I don't think you'll find any review on any of the tech blogs that actually put the x10 ahead of the desire. The desire wins there unanimously.

Having said all that, I think like others who have said, you should wait until q1 next year when newer phones get released and then make your choice. Unless you want to at least get something reasonable back for your x10 before it becomes valueless.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_iceman:
I think that the crux of this question lies in the users needs...

For example.. tell us your top 3 uses of your phone.. (texting, watching video, browsing, streaming video from websites, listening to music, camera..... etc.etc)...

That way you'll get some feedback on the elements that really matter to you rather than having everyone commenting on the elements that matter to them..

For me.. I wouldn't have a Desire.. simply because it's ugly.. but that's just my opinion on a feature of the phone which is important to me.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iead1:
The Desire loses because it's an old phone. The X10 loses as well.

Why would anyone buy an old phone when the newer version is already on the market?!

Not to mention, the X10's screen absolutely blows the Desire's AMOLED out of the water. There's a reason they changed it to SLCD.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris2403:
Ive got both these phones at the moment and i have to say, as much as i love the x10 there isnt a hope in hell of me ever using it again. Sense is a better ui, im finding the battery life to be better, has froyo and custom roms, it might just be me but the screen seems more vibrant, i can actually hear the other person, my signal at home now stays on 3g permenantly where it used to drop to 2.5g the majority of the time, the software is a lot smoother and more responsive, the custom htc software like the music app is much better than sonys attempts and it has multitouch. The only thing i miss is the camera and app from the x10 but seeing as i take about 10 photos a year on my phone i think i can live with that.

All of this is just my opinion of course and if you disagree then thats your right but my x10 is being sold pretty soon and ill never be buying se again. The only reason i didnt get a desire hd or z is because for the cost it doesnt seem worth it really, i could get 2 desires for the same price as 1 hd or z.
[General Questions and Answers] goofyman13:
I have tried downloading "Crud" and I must be total idiot, can't get it to work...keep getting error message when I try to open. Can anyone talk me thru it in first grager language ?
[General Questions and Answers] satellite000:
hey man just exctract he files in your phone and then run the .exe .
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] vtmn215:
Just got an update for my MT3G to get to 2.2.1. Any of yall experiencing this too?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pickwick27:
I just received it this morning. I haven't applied it yet, though. Has anyone here applied it and can confirm that:

1. The phone can still be (re)rooted (eg. using RATC)?

2. The update doesn't mess with USB tethering?

I took a screenshot of the update information, but the forum won't let me post links. If you click on my profile, it's in the album called "screenshots".
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] blizard80:
would be nice to have logcat of that to get the link...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
I think another thread has it, search around.

Here's the bare link, but be careful as I have NO IDEA what's in here.

http://android.clients.google.com/p...7ff5575808.signed-opal-ota-75603.687ff557.zip

Here's the quote from the other thread.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JohnnyP.akaJP:
Got it today, Im wondering if i used APn droid and disable data, would it d/l via wifi, and does 2.2 need gmail activation.... I saw someone say that it doesnt
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
Probably me. I have an INACTIVE sim card in my mt3g. The update arrived over wifi and installed no problem, but it is signed into a google account. Don't know if that matters.

For what it's worth my mt3g and mt4g are on the same google account and they can both be on at once no problem.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SiL3nTKiLL:
got it this morning, havent had a chance to play around much with it though
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JohnnyP.akaJP:
Did you activate your phone Via wifi or data?? Because I have the update, and im deciding weather to install or not...

Sorry mate, but how did you activate your phone with INACTIVE? IT detected it right away for me..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mountaindewmi:
Installed OTA - lost root

I had manually updated my MT3G (original) manually going through 1.5 to 1.6 to 2.2 then used RATC to root. Everything was GREAT!

Then I got the OTA update and it kept bugging me to install. I said fine... installed it... lost root and superuser, etc. Ok, I tried to use RATC again and no go. It lets me run the RATC file in the phone, says "forked childs" and then terminal will not restart. Tried through adb shell, same thing. I cannot get root access anymore. :( Lame...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JohnnyP.akaJP:
Makes sense...I'm not gonna upgrade until there is mre support. Also om not gonna go through the hell gmail activation.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
Wifi.

Phone doesn't get data with this sim card because the card has never been active. It's the one that came with my mt4g and isn't being used except to sit there inside my mt3g.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] XfooYen:
I rooted just fine after this recent update. The update doesn't prevent or block root. I used SuperOneClick (which remotely installs RATC, su, and busybox). Try SuperOneClick.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
Make sure usb debugging is enabled and power off the phone. Connect it via usb. Then boot phone while connected. SOC should work first or second try after that.

It did for me.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] compumaster:
After this update my sync problems with Exchange Server 2010 has been resolved.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
Which problems? The only issue I noticed is that email notifications are never really cleared until you manually go in and view it. Is that what you're talking about?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Veereihen6:
Has anyone experienced SMS problems with the 2.2.1 update? My buddy has a T-Mo Mytouch3G that just got updated OTA today, and he cannot get SMS at all.

The update has also slowed the phone down to a crawl, the lag is horrendous.

Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
Do a factory reset and it should be A LOT better.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] AntonJart:
I tried rooting with SuperOneClick - didn't work
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] AntonJart:
My phone lagged like hell after update. Two factory resets fixed it, and now everything is smooth so far.

By the way, after reboot it has tons of apps running in the background. Don't forget to kill them
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
go back and reread the instructions on page 1 VERY CAREFULLY.

make sure you have usb debugging enabled.

use the original cable that came with the phone.

make sure you android sdk and the adb drivers for your phone installed.

power off phone and power it up while already connected to computer.

Worked for me first try and i've done it 4 times already.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] AntonJart:
I guess its a usb cable issue. I have no original cable
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
That might do it. Did you try the other steps I mentioned?

For my phone, the only way to get it to work was to power it up while already connected. Try it that way.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Veereihen6:
Yeah, t-mo tech support had him do that, and now he's getting constant reboot problems. I've got to take a look at it again tomorrow.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
???

I think you misunderstood me. Why would tech support help him root his phone?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Veereihen6:
No, they weren't. You have to go back and read my first post. Buddy got the OTA update to 2.2.1 and had no text messaging and a ton of lag. Someone suggested factory reset would help, as did T-Mo tech. It didn't help. Wasn't referring to rooting at all.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
On first boot after factory reset, let it sit for a solid 20 minutes before you touch the android to begin.

Seriously, DON'T TOUCH IT for 20 minutes because on first boot there are all sorts of background processes running to let it "settle in."

Do another factory reset, let it finish "thinking" before you start setting up, and see if that helps.

My bad, I got two different posters confused.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JohnnyP.akaJP:
Hmm..So I presssed update, and guess what, it restarted about 3 times, then its on my home screen now.....but nothing happened...didnt ask to download 2nd file, and i go to system updates, it says no updates avalible. i had it root, then i unroot before i pressed update.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Phateless:
You need to reread instructions carefully and thoroughly.

MENU --> SETTINGS --> ABOUT PHONE

Near the bottom it will say version 2.2.1.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JohnnyP.akaJP:
Nvm.it was secretly downloading.he he
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] joseramon.gl:
:)Appreciate the right person to provide us the way to the resurrection of our topaz brick, please many people need to work again our topaz.

Investigate all a brick recovery tutorial, thank you very much
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] mocroboy:
Eject your sd card and pull the battery out.

Download a rom and start the rom with the RUU update tool **** on your pc.

Connect your phone.

Your phone will boot up in recovery mode.

Start the update after RUU found your phone.

The phone will update after the update re-insert your battery and let it charge for à minute or 5 before you start your phone.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] joseramon.gl:
Hello my friend, my topaz not start or enter bootloader mode, I'll run what I say and I'll tell you, you are very rewarding in this problem thank you.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] joseramon.gl:
Hello my friend, sorry to say that the operation did not work I have indicated, the phone does not recognize the pc and I get error 260. You have another idea to solve this problem?, Thank you
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
You should be more specific describing your issue. What exactly has happened? What ware the circumstances? What is happening now: does your phone react to power button? Does it enter bootloader? Does your PC see the devise if it’s plugged in? Does your battery charges? etc…..
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] joseramon.gl:
You're absolutely right, I detail the problem:

1-the problem arose at a bad flash, I run hard spl of mega htc (pack of Harry) was in error, for I have also the mega htc and wanted to investigate the change of rom, but was connected topaz pc loaded and will affect the execution of another program.

2-since then the htc topaz shows no signs of life, does not work, don`t boot into bootloader, it is not recognized by the pc, you are not charging LED light up, but pc connected to the battery if it heats up because I think load.

The situation is complicated solution to the problem you my friend?,
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Sqoerk:
If you killed the bootloader, you'll probably aren't able to recover it only via USB and a PC. Here is the jtag pinout:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=669871

This is a programming connector. Don't ask me about how to work with it....I just know that you can program via this connector a broken flash. Hopefully somebody can help you. :o
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
yes man, sorry to say, but you are in real trouble. :( i think you should directly get it touch with the post starter of the jtag thread, mentioned above, mr. the-equinoxe. hi is real tough guy.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] joseramon.gl:
Information displayed is perfect, is a great information, now we have to work hard, thank you very much and if you have more information would be of great help.

The truth that I have no idea where to start, if it is attached would not know which pins to which, if you must connect the pins with a PC would know not, can you help?

God bless
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
sorry. but I have never did this. ask this man http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=323818

maybe he can help you. write him personal massege.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] joseramon.gl:
Mr Egorlev ,You're a gentleman, I will accept your suggestion, I appreciate all your support, thank you very much again .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] schiphol:
Display Brightness problem with my Galaxy S

Hi I have bit of a problem with my galaxy S' display. The display uses a ton of power (90% +, going down 1% every 2-3 minutes with display on) as per the OS usage data. I have not experienced brightness settings / power saving mode as having any effect in terms of extending my battery life.

Now here's why I think there might be something wrong with my phone. I know two other people that also have a Galaxy S. We come together often last time I noticed their displays are MUCH MUCH brighter. I took all three phones on the table and noticed that regardless of the brightness level I set on all three phones, whether it be the minimum brightness setting or full brightness (all 3 phones SAME settings of course) mine is always the darkest. Also their phones display 40-60 % from the total power used by their display's rather than mine always showing 90%+.

I tried a battery recalibration etc this doesn't do anything in my view. After trying some great suggestion on this forum, I alway set the display to its lowest brightness setting, still no difference.

One of those other phones is running the same S/W as mine (doc's rom JPA) the other is still on JM2, so I can definitely exclude the firmware version as a cause.

Any thoughts suggestions as to how to solve this? Or might I just as well stop bother with that and have Samsung exchange the phone's display?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nikiiv:
I have the same problem.. Did you find a solution?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] schiphol:
Hi, No unfortunately I didn't. It is kinda strange I'm not getting any response on this thread. If you and I are having the same issue, I find it hard to believe we'd be the only ones!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Evans_Prophet:
There is a "smart management" option under settings (saves battery). This seems to change contrast etc when enabled and makes screen dimmer. I have to SGSs and I can confirm that, Check it and tell me whether it worked.

nb: this option will make a full white screen dimmer than if you have half white and half black (the white will be brighter in the second case - probably to improve contrast).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nikiiv:
Hmm.. this is what I did.. I placed the brightness slider to the left and switched on the automatic brightness control. Now battery use does not show 50% or more in average use, but seems normal, like it was before froyo

Smart Management is off
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
Where can I find the apk for Samsung's Epic stock Music player?
[Epic 4G General] Product F(RED):
If you want the stock music player with a lot of cool tweaks (ie fullscreen, see-through background, gesture controls), download MusicMod from the market. Similar to but much better than stock.
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
thanks I'll try it but I would rather have stock music player if you have it.
[Epic 4G General] bondosho:
I'm a fan of DoubleTwist.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Which exactly are you going for?

Sound Player or Music Player....

2.1 came with Sound Player

2.2 comes with both Sound Player and Music Player

The Music Player is the one with the 5.1ch option and Equilizer, but apparently cant play ogg :/
[Epic 4G General] blackderbyhat:
The fascinate music player was playing oggs just fine, it doesn't keep the tags though (So no album art), so i just converted em to high quality mp3s and got over it.
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
I have no idea, which music player comes with stock epic? that'd be the one
[Epic 4G General] sniperwitagun:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5t0bd842398216i

that (if i can remember correctly) worked for me. cant test it right now though.
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
It didn't work for me, application not installed
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
I've found all the apks I need from a system dump, now how do I install them? it say's application not installed.
[Epic 4G General] sniperwitagun:
because you would first have to uninstall the music player you have when doing it locally. try using adb.
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
what is adb?
[Epic 4G General] Product F(RED):
I found a Galaxy S system dump here. It's about 80 MB: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8022126&postcount=13
[Epic 4G General] y2bangali:
joust out of curiousity, y would u want the stock epic music player? its not even all that good... fascinate is much better..
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
I find to like the stock better, that's all.
[Epic 4G General] amosher13:
search is your friend:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=773142
[Epic 4G General] Product F(RED):
I already linked you to the system dump that has all the APKs in it.
[Epic 4G General] juryduty:
Android

Debug

Bridge

Lets you connect to your phone with a computer. And to install the stock music player you need to push it to your /system/app folder and reboot. /system must be mounted rw before you can do that though...
[Epic 4G General] sniperwitagun:
Bingo. However you should check out winamp. It was just released for android recently. Much better than any other music player I've used.
[Epic 4G General] digijuan:
Where can I get adb from?

I'll try winamp.

How can I install the apk from the dump?
[EVO 4G General] sidepart:
The gal is eyeballing my EVO and is thinking about picking one up now, so I'm thinking of maybe picking one up for her instead for Christmas. So my goals here are to get her a new phone with her old number using a new plan under her name, all while still maintaining surprise on Christmas.

Just a little background, she'd be coming from T-mobile, her contract has been up since September, so she's good to a new carrier. She is wanting to change carriers to Sprint. She figured out that for the same price as her t-mobile plan (with a clamshell), she could get unlimited data, text and 450 minutes (unlimited talk for cellphones)...and also a student discount. Figured I'd mention that here so people don't think I'm just randomly changing her carrier.

Has anyone ever gone through this process before? What are the best steps to take to 1) buy the phone for her with a new account, 2) get her old number ported over after receiving the gift and 3) putting the phone in her name after giving it to her? (and 4. have a contingency to return the phone if she changes her mind)

My current plan involves the following steps:

1. Buy phone off of Amazon, sign up for new individual account under my name with a new number.

2. Give phone to the gal.

3. Immediately after if possible, call Sprint and port over her old number. (is this possible?)

4. Transfer account to her name (I will probably pick up the first month of service and activation).

I was looking at picking the phone up off of Amazon.com for $149 with free 2-day. If anyone else has any better thoughts/deals I'd be grateful for help in this area as well.
[EVO 4G General] khov07:
Porting numbers is a very easy thing to do:

1. The authorized contact on her account must give the OK for the port; essentially this would just involve your gf contacting TMo and inform them of an impending port request.

2. Provide Sprint with all the necessary TMo account information: account number, account PIN (if any), etc.

3. The port is completed while you are on the phone with them. I've never ported from TMo to Sprint, but I've ported between Sprint and VZ. It's very easy.

The only issue I see is that you are purchasing the phone with a subsidy. In other words, that phone is tied to a contract. When you port her number over, you are locking in to that two-year contract (her ported number replaces the new number on that device). Make sure you transfer the account to her name asap in case there aren't any wedding bells in the future ;)

Also, you will have to probably pickup the pro-rated charges on both accounts; this can get pricey.

EDIT: call Sprint ahead of time, because you might get stuck with two contracts: one for the contract that came with the device purchase, and a 2nd for the ported number. That would suck. I am unsure if Sprint would just replace the number or require a new contract for the ported number. Call ahead to check on this.
[EVO 4G General] sidepart:
You know...perhaps I'm going about this all wrong. Maybe an Amazon gift card for the price of the phone would make more sense.