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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] queefinout:
Alright, so I think I bricked my phone! I had put android on it. 2.2 bluetopia? and everything was running fine. My battery was low so I go to charge it, but before I do that a page I was loading from the net froze on me without realizing and the screen dident turn off. I left and did some things and come back to the phone, screen is still on, still frozen and EXTREMELY hot. I get really nervous and get my phone and its to the point where I cant even hold it for too long without it hurting my hands. I take out the battery and pray for the best. My praying sucks apparently because now it does not turn on. Ive tryed letting the phone cool down though the night and it does not turn on. Ive tryed taking out sim card and mem card and it does not turn on. Ive tryed taking out the battery and plugging the the charger it does not turn on. Ive tryed with the battery with the charger it does not turn on! phone gets warm when I put the battery back in. Light that indicates when its charging with the charger doesnt turn on. only slight good news is when I turn the power on I feel a slight vibration from the phone like if its trying to turn on but just cant. Hope someone could shed some light and let me know If I should just move on because this sucks!!!!

ps. I hope people learn from my mistake.

pss. What are the return polices from htc or tmobile? Im concerned because I bought the phone second hand.

thanks for reading/helping.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] CuseSniper:
As far as any return/exchange, it's definitely a no on both HTC &T-Mobile... And if she won't even boot at all, it sounds like a classic but common overclocking mishap.

Sorry to say, but it may be time to move on.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] brooon:
One question for my personal understanding: Android ROMS that are offered here on the board are not innatelly overclocking my HD2, are they?! Now I´m really anxious, due to the fact that i´m using biffmod and my HD2 gets much warmer during strong usage (e.g. gaming)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nagharajank:
Try doing a hard reset

Hold Volume up and call end button, it will go to the multi color screen and do a factory reset, this will erase all your data.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cavemaneca:
If possible, can you try a different battery? If you killed the battery by overheating (which is often easier than killing the phone using the same method), it might not even get to the first screen without power. A sure sign to see if it's your battery, is check the feel of it. if it's in any way bulged or kinda squishy it's probably fried, and if it's just the battery that's a lot cheaper than the whole phone.

In fact, I've gotten quite a few nice phones for real cheap, since the original owner thought it was "broken", when all it needed was a new battery.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jose makalolot:
+1 on this. I also had one phone like this before. Change the battery.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] queefinout:
it ended up being the motherboard. i sent it in for repairs through htc and they fixwe it. i tryed your guys suggestions on trying a different battery but it still would not turn on. lesson learned, Im going to try to avoid Android on my phone from now on.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] StephanV:
Hate to hear what happened, but staying away from Android doesn't really seem like a solution to me. The percentage of bricks due to Android is very small, so I'd say go out, have fun with your phone while it's still up to date (lets face it, hardware improves too quick) and don't be left behind with WinMo 6.5. That's just not worth it imo. If you stick to non-overclocked kernels you really are pretty safe.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jcsy:
probably go 2 the shop and try 2 get a battery tested into your HD2

if that works, buy the battery :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] queefinout:
you know what, you make a lot of sense. i did enjoy android quite a bit and will continue to use it. funny thing is I bought the hd2 just for android and did that until my phone broke and now im kinda liking winmo a lot now.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] crozzbreed23:
Hey,

Currently I've been working on a game for the Windows Phone but a couple things have really irritated me during porting, one of which is they don't allow custom GPU programs...which is very stupid considering there basiceffect class is completely useless.

The Windows Phone has some awesome hardware and it sucks that its being restricted by the dev team.

So right now I'm looking at microsoft.xna.framework.graphics in reflector(the GAC version not the reference version). The effect class itself is NOT marked as security critical, but the constructor is(because it requires compiled GPU bytecode to be passed down), so the logical why would be to load it via the contentmanager, but the damn thing spits out("You are unable to compile custom effects for winphone7).

My question is does anyone know where that error is actually located?

It looks like XNA is using a custom content importer to import some kind of template called "BasicEffectReader" , and "BuiltInEffectReader" . I don't know if I'm allowed to post reflected code on here, but if you open up BasicEffectReader.cs youll find that it creates a "cloned effect" from the BuiltInEffectReader.

My other questions are, is the bytecode for Windows Phone 7 different from the 360/Windows(I'd assume so), and if so is XNA actually compiling bytecode on the fly, is it using a template for basiceffect?

If it is requires its own bytecode, what kind of methods do you guys think would be feasible to be able to create custom effects? The graphics card on the phone should follow the DX9 specs, unless its a 9.5 hybrid like the 360.

EDIT3:

Alright it looks like if you compile it on another platform, strip out the contentmanager stuff at the start of the file, it will load(passes all the header checks) but it fails because UnsafeNativeMethods.Effect.GetGlobal(graphicsDevice).CreateEffect(pEffectCode, ((uint) effectCode.Length) - num2, graphicsDevice.pComPtr, out effect_desc); returns a invalid handle...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] jfwfreo:
Very surprised they don't let you use custom GPU shader programs.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] crozzbreed23:
Yeah I know :/ anyway I kind of got a custom program loaded, but I'm not sure about the OpCodes, so I don't know how to customize it yet.

Also what version of Direct3D is the phone running? Is it a 10/11 hybrid? cause in XNAFrameworkCore.dll it references D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain and it also references CreateDXGIFactory1
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] crozzbreed23:
Has anyone got PInvoke to work? The only way to get access to the HLSL compiler for the phone is through non-exposed API's in XnaFrameworkCore.dll.

When it creates the effect it looks for the unique four byte effect iden to create the shader internally(D3D_Effect_CreateHandle in XnaFrameworkCore.dll). So to get access to the HLSL compiler and compile our own effects it looks like we have to call some of the non-exported API's from the DLL. Which shouldn't be a problem if someone has found out how to get PInvoke to work( Not the COM dll hack but actually calling PInvoke. ).

EDIT

For anyone thats interested here are the different ID's(remember the hex is actually in reverse order):
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] athompson:
A number of us have tried to do it, but have failed. The correct path is probably '\Windows\X.dll.' I haven't tried that yet. It's probably worth mentioning that even if you do get it working, Microsoft has sworn to reject any app that uses PInvoke.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] crozzbreed23:
I know the app would be rejected, I only want to build a portfolio project that I can take with me to a job interview.

Even though a lot of the HLSL code is in XnaFrameworkCore.dll, there is a d3dcompiler dll(which is compiled against D3D10). I know this is probably something that has been answered before, but is there a method for opening up the WM ARM dll's in IDA?

My thinking is this, we can launch executables but to get access to the OS dll's we have to build valid OS libraries. I wanted to try the COM dll method, but I don't have the phone yet and the emulator obviously won't load COM dll's.

If we can get as far as calling LoadLibrary than we can call:

Than ASSUMING D3DCompiler.dll works(its not referenced in the XNAFrameworkCore except for loading in the HLSL sig), we can load custom GPU programs(that are HLSL based not effect based which is just fine...) as well as exposing more of the Direct3D API.

The only reason why I want all the graphics API's is so I don't have to create a portfolio project with baked lightmaps with bumpmapping built in. Its such a shame that the GPU on the phone is going to waste because they designed a very restrictive effect interface :/.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] msanda_77:
Its a pain but it has been but there are lots of reason why they are doing that. for one when the chassis requirements where released the minimum requirement is that the gpu had to do opengl. xna is built for direct x and hence the problem, some stuff had to be ported to opengl for it to work properly, the problem wiht this is that the new chips now have directx gpus with them, and i am not sure but i believe none of the wp7 phones that have been released has any of the directx acceleration. Becuase of this and compatibility with the later phones (atleast up to next year) some stuff had to go, custom shaders for one. But i believe if you work close with microsoft they actually give you the the ability to create custom shader. I have not played much with xna for windows phone, just on xbox so i am not to sure what i can do and not do. But your post was enlightening and i will go back to it after i finish my few apps.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] crozzbreed23:
Yeah your right. I just read up that they are using the ADRENO 200 GPU(http://developer.qualcomm.com/dev/gpu/processors), which supports opengl es, and "Direct3D Mobile" whatever that means. But that still doesn't explain why they didn't allow custom GPU programs because everything is still being compiled down to bytecode. If the GPU can do per-pixel lighting it is more than capable of bump mapping that reacts to lighting which is why I really want to see if I can maybe extend one of the .net effect classes, but I still haven't figured out if that would mess with any of the internal core functions.

But as I did with the XNA 360 code, I got access to the UnsafeNativeMethod classes inside the framework dll that expose all the native interfaces to the core. So basically I just skip passed all the XNA init code. The only thing that creates a problem with on the phone is that they use a "messaging service" to communicate with the framework, they build a byte[] array in the .NET code and pass it to the framework which parses it and does whatever it needs to do. On the phone, pointers aren't allowed, but I might just be able to use reflection to get the messaging code.

Also I thought of something, sense the GPU supports OpenGL ES and I know that someone has been able to create a window(the FS example on Chris's site), I wonder if we create a COM dll and link against the OpenGL ES library that we can just use OpenGL rather than the "non finished" d3d api? I would try that myself but I'm not going to be able to get the phone for a couple weeks and I havent found a way to get COM dll's to work in the emulator :/
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] athompson:
You can pretty much give up on that one, the COM dlls for the phone are ARM assembly, but the emulator runs on x86. Not likely to work.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cas46706:
K...now I have no idea what to do??!! I tried the Eris root for dummies...loaded the rom...gscript lite...gscript.zip...put everything where its suppose to go...started the root part1 script...rebooted n now my phone only bootloops!!!! I can't get it to go anywhere!!!! Can someone please help??!!!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pkopalek:
If you can turn your phone off, then turn it on by holding VOLUME UP + POWER, do you get Amon-RA's recovery? or 'Android Recovery'?

You should probably do a data/factory reset to make it boot up all of the way. If you can't get it booted up, and you haven't made a backup

power the phone on with VOL DOWN + END + POWER and do a full factory reset on your phone. That will probably get you booted up.

Then do this:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eris+one+click+root+xda+jcase
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] jennan88:
Hey guys,

Ive recently got an HTC Legend and I don't get very good signal where I live. After reading through a lot of threads, apparently this is due to the phone's design, so I'm looking to possibly sell it and get a Motorola Milestone. I like the design of it, I like the Qwerty keyboard and I like that it has a larger screen that's not 4.3 and enormous.

Anyway, you guys have lived with it for a while now. How's the reception? Is it a phone you'd recommend?

Thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] spiderx_mm:
IMHO, just get yourself another HTC. if you want a physical keyboard, buy a Desire Z.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Jonderrick:
I'm getting the myTouch 3g slide for Christmas and was trying to see if anyone could explain to me on how to make the

Galaxy S' puzzle lockscreen

for the myTouch 3g Slide in a

video

or by

instructions

. All help is greatly appreciated.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] tkgod:
I'm pretty positive that couldn't be done since I believe it is apart of Touchwiz. Unless you could port Touchwiz which would probably have issues since it runs under a different resolution.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Jonderrick:
well can u do that for me then? i don't care about the screen resolution, all i want is the puzzle lockscreen.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] PcFish:
I haven't looked into the res folder myself, but theoretically couldn't someone just change the background of the lock screen to a puzzle and change the slider to a puzzle piece?
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] acejoker25000:
It isn't that kind of thing the puzzle piece and the blank spot aren't a straight line from each other
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] acejoker25000:
Also you could ask nicer and actually do a little research yourself instead of expecting everything don't for you. It's not a simple port and if it was someone would have done it by now.

BTW questions in question thread not theme thread and did you need 2 posts when you could have just asked this question in the other.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Jonderrick:
I did ask in a nice way, and I'm only 12 years old. I don't know how to research about stuff, I bearly know how to use this forum.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Ace42:
You dont know how to do research, but you know how to root?
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] jay713:
lol good one ace42. i know really if you know how to root how did u learn that??? Was that in your DNA??
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Hayzie:
uh... lol? You know to discredit yourself due to your age by saying you're too dumb to research? And the forum, you entered tags. I don't even remember to do such things.

It's research.

When I was 12, I didn't get the privilage to even have a phone like this. I see 12 year olds now who have the latest touch phones and are 7 ft tall.

12 years of age, which must mean you're in middle school. 1 school too many, because research has already been introduced in elementary school.

Don't fail school like you fail threads.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] kitila:
LOL thats bad my son will be 2 soon and he knows how to use xbox hell even a computer might not be what I want him to click but 12 can't even us a fourm right lol
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] MusicMan374:
It has already been done, I saw awhile back a galaxy S semi-port to the Slide. You guys are harassing him about his research when you can't do your own? Damn.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780611&highlight=touchwiz

Acejoker, I don't know how you forgot that you actually HELPED this guy put touchwiz on his mod.

I'm not sure if it has the lockscreen, I didn't actually download it, but it's worth a shot to try. It at least has the touchwiz UI.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] migueltherocker:
That's a half working launcher, not actual TouchWiz. Do some research before you try to school people.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Hayzie:
sdlghsdglhskdlghsd
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] nonextstop:
When he meant screen resolution he meant that the apps were designed for a higher resolution. The app doesn't alter your screen, you'd have to port the apps images to MDPI, and then port TouchWiz, which isn't easy. At all.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstyle88:
Hey all, tried searching for this but found no one else having this issue. I have an issue when sending a text/email or using the keyboard. Randomly while using the spacebar, the spacebar will move approximately 10 spaces and then close out of the message. It may be associated with the common Vibrant lag- that could be whats causing it. It happens with all keyboard apps - swipe, better, stock android and swiftkey. Anyone else having this issue? Its hard to describe..

Right now I have stock vibrant. Got it bricked during the ji6 update and I'll root and modify it after 2.2 is out. My PC is old and couldnt handle the odin software!

Thanks for all your help everyone!
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
Seems like Bell Mobility left voice functionality on the provisioning of the Flex plan for the Tab, which is supposed to be data only.

Flashing mine to use voice, I first tested it with my Telus voice/data SIM from my regular Galaxy S phone (I unlocked the Tab) and everything worked fine once I set up the Telus APN data.

For giggles, I put the Bell SIM back in the now voice-enabled Tab, and tried dialing out. Works fine. Tried calling the number of the Bell SIM, it also works fine. God knows how much I'll end up being charged for those two phone calls, or if they'll deactivate my plan for doing it, but it's indicative that Bell isn't voice blocking this thing just yet.

Me, I kinda like it, as I'd not planned on using the Telus SIM in the Tab unless I was in the US, since I have a data roaming and voice plan from Telus.

This way, I can leave the Bell SIM in, and as long as they don't disable it, I can at least make emergency calls.
[Galaxy Tab General] ConceptVBS:
So there are three carriers in Canada right?

Bell

Rogers

Telus?
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
Those are the "big three", and they all run 850/1900 HSPA networks.
[Galaxy Tab General] clubtech:
Sorry for the off topic, I assume you unlocked the pad using the nv_data hack?

Can u recommend the hex editor you used to unlock?
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
Yes, used the nv_data hack.

I used HxD:

http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
[Galaxy Tab General] cmstlist:
Now that it's more than a month later, did you get charged for those calls?
[Galaxy Tab General] blingless:
flashed mine yesterday and have been making calls.
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
Yes, about $0.75 each call.

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab General] cmstlist:
yikes!

I wonder what happens with voice on the prepaid tablet plan.
[Galaxy Tab General] Rad_Fishy:
A little off topic but I just got my Tab and received a text message from Bell. I tested it out and I'm able to send and receive texts. Is this normal, and if so, how much can I expect to be charged per text message?
[Galaxy Tab General] mariotenuta:
You get charged 15cents a message.. Now my question is if we disable the network and use only wifi will the we get charged anyways?
[Galaxy Tab General] blingless:
Damnn! I've got a demo line in it but I wonder if it will affect anything. Guess I'll find out next month.
[Galaxy Tab General] bleach666:
too bad the tmo tab won't work for mobilicity :(
[Galaxy Tab General] cmstlist:
Where did you find that information? I wonder why not?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juiceppc:
When my Captivate battery hits 10% or less the screen automatically dims and the camera will no longer work. Is there ANY way to stop this from happening. I'm more upset with the screen dimming and I'm unable to make it undim.

Thanks. Do all the custom ROMS do this as well? Is it a hardware thing? Software thing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
afaik, it's a hardware thing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juiceppc:
That sucks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juiceppc:
Well, I just email Samsung for a "fix" for this. Or a way to disable it. Last night my daughter was doing something really cool and I wanted to take a picture. Couldn't... Battery had just reached 10%... So basically IMHO 10% might as well be 0%.

I let you guys know what Samsung says. Probably something like:

"That is a feature designed to help you maximize your calling time and can not be disabled."

If that's the case I'm getting an HTC Android phone. Samsung meddled too much with Android IMHO.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarterF:
Hey everyone, last weekend I unrooted and wiped my phone, went back to factory settings, rerooted and installed CM6.1 RC2. I've been enjoying it so far (because I hate Sense UI) but I've got a couple of questions that need answered. Hopefully you all can help me.

CM6

1. Is there a setting to turn off always-on mobile data? I cannot find it.

2. For some odd reason, I cannot turn on bluetooth. I've not had a problem with turning on bluetooth with any other rom. In fact, I remember testing bluetooth the night I installed CM6. Is this an issue with the phone or the rom?

3. No matter how much I turn off Auto-Sync, it turns back on. What is doing this?

Battery Life

1. On average, I get around 10-14 hours battery life a day, maybe a little more if I barely use my phone all day. I've heard a lot of people say that an ideal battery drain with the screen off should be 1-2%/hour, but mine will drain from 6% to even 10% in 40-50 minutes (EDIT: Currently 75% battery left, unplugged for 2hrs 30min, done nothing but use the browser for 5 minutes, download something, and install it)! I use systempanel and spareparts to monitor which apps could possibly be doing this, but none look like they're eating up too much of the battery. I check Facebook 4-5 times a day, use the browser, and check Gmail. I don't use Google Talk. My screen brightness is around 30-40% and I have underclocked when the screen is off with setcpu. What is draining my battery so fast? It's a shame that there are so many cool things to do with this phone but I can't do them in fear of my battery dying before the end of the day :(

Sorry, that last question was long, but I did not want 2 separate posts. Thanks guys, I hope you can help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t3project:
1. no. you could however turn data roaming off or use a program to accomplish this such as "tasker"

2. what do you mean you cant turn it on? what does it do when you enable it? use the widget in your notification drop down.

3. turn off background data as well and that should fix your problem.

and as for you other question. 10-14hrs is perfectly normal for battery life on cm6.1. and fyi: its RC1. there is no RC2 for 6.1 as of yet