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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hayabusa1300cc:
battery life by curvefish is the bomb!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
Battery minder is cool. But i am totally loving Battery life

Thanks guys this is my first android phone and I just keep finding more cool **** seems like every day, but at the same time it's ez to get lost in all the apps.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zanderman112:
I use batterytime. Battery percent, temperature, voltage in pull down notification drawer. Also a widget for the battery.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhinckley:
Things I can do:

- Get to bootloader screen

- Plug in USB, pop in batter and get to fastboot USB (PC detects "Android 1.0" at this point but can't find a driver for it).

- Attempt to load ESPRIMG.zip from root of sdcard but always get "Main version is older!" and "update failed!" followed by a prompt to reboot device.

Things I can't do:

- Boot up the phone past the splash screen

- Go into recovery/fastboot; recovery dumps me to the splash and hangs there and fastboot just brings me right back to the bootloader menu.

Phone was working a few hours ago and then when I powered it down it never made it back past the splash screen.

Am I screwed?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PcFish:
Delete ESPRIMG.zip from your sd card. It tries to load it every time you start up.

That happened to me before and I didn't know what was going on lol.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhinckley:
It wasn't on there before I put it there. I was trying to get it back to the factory image. Whenever I went to the boot screen it was always looking for ESPRDIAG.zip or ESPRIMG.zip. If I delete it, nothing new happens, still hangs.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhinckley:
/bump

Still stuck. :/
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acejoker25000:
Hmm odd situation.I no I had a problem but I left it on the splash screen for about five minutes and it finally booted you can try leaving it there and see of it eventually boots but if it takes 10 minutes plus then forget it. Though idk why you can't boot into recovery. when you have it plugged into your computer does adbe recognize it? Maybe you can do something with adb
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknownally:
This is happening to me too. Anyone know the solution?

If I delete ESPRIMG.zip will anything bad happen?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -deuces-:
same thing here...lol

total noot to the mytouch.

i am trying to fix for a friend, and i get endless boot loops. can acess recovery and bootloader
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MusicMan374:
Adb only sees the phone if its in recovery or fully booted. I'm pretty sure fastboot.exe is what is used to debug fastboot and earlier boot stages.

No, nothing bad will happen

You're hijacking a thread, you should make your own. Simple answer to your question though; reflash a rom in recovery. If you need more info make your own thread.

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknownally:
I made my own thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=890386 with no luck.

I didn't have ESPRING.zip to begin with since I deleted it after rooting. So I download the stock ESPRING and ran it through Bootloader. It prompted me to update so I did.

After the update finishes it asks me to reboot. So I do and then I'm stuck on the splash/boot screen again.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeezyMT3G:
When I first rooted I deleted the expressimg.zip and left the update.zip (recovery) just incase something like this happened ...

Boot up using power + volume down then its gonna try to look for espressimg.zip ...it will tell you its not found..then use the volume button to go to recovery..push power to select then its gonna take you to the screen with the red triangle/exclamation mark screen ..press and hold power and volume up for a little (if it doesn't work keep tryn till you get the stock blue recovery to pop up)...the stock recovery will pop up..then it will prompt you to apply update. Zip from sd card (clockwork recovery) ..select it and you should be in clockwork ...then do what you gotta do...

Its happened to me a few times and this always does the job

Hope this helps if not I'm sorry and keep tryn :)

You HAVE to have update.zip (clockwork recovery) on your SD card..(not in any folders, on the root of the card) in order for this to work!!!

If you don't have it push to SD card via adb
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -deuces-:
what if ur not rooted?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeezyMT3G:
Then root :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepykit:
It's my understanding that without having the security off on our phones, the espresso recovery is not modifiable. What this essentially means is that, either the recovery should be there and fine (and by "fine" I mean, you get a triangle with an exclamation mark in it) because no ROM can currently touch it.

Me thinks that, if you are not able to get to the stock recovery (not Clockwork, but the basic, bare bones one) than your phone is probably having bigger issues. I would test this by doing the following:

1. Boot into the boot loader (I believe it's power and Volume Down at the same time when the device is turned off).

2. Wait for the device to finish it's grumblings (if you have the ESPER.IMG file on there, I think it actually checks it and even asks if you want to install it -- if it does, say no).

3. Select the option for recovery (with the volume keys).

4. I think it's power again to execute the option.

If you get to a nice black screen with a picture of your phone on there with a red triangle, then your phone is in business. We can probably convince it to behave. If that far doesn't go, me thinks something is wrong with the bits of your phone that current ROM modders can't write to...
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeezyMT3G:
Ummm that's exactly what I already said 0_o
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepykit:
For reasons that I don't quite understand I always like instructions in step by step order so I thought it might help. If not, oh well...

I do wonder what could cause someone to lose their recovery on a Slide (at least before this afternoon)...
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeezyMT3G:
Lol me too
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -deuces-:
ok not my thread but im need help to.

my phone wont boot, so theres no way to root.....i tired.

i can get the red triangle and phone: pics in my thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=891312

thanks you
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepykit:
Hm... Does your Slide have a 0 on the keyboard or a 0 with a line through it (where the 0 key actually is)? I know this sounds like an odd questions, but bear with me for a moment...

For the first however many months, Slides could be rooted by fooling the thing into booting a modded Clockwork Recovery and then gaining root that way. All the work had to basically be done while in recovery (unlike the exploid method). The newer Slides, from what I understand, no longer have that flaw :( and the method doesn't work.

This method (http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/1856-rooting-the-slide/page__p__17094#entry17094) (sorry have no idea where Eugene's copy of this has gone in the dev section).
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknownally:
Hey,

thanks for the help. I just have a problem.

I can't get to recovery. When I do, it goes to the T-Mobile splash screen. I do have update.zip and ESPRING.zip in the root of my SD card, but I don't have exspressimg.zip. However, I don't think it matters since I can't get into recovery.

I also tried using a different update.zip from http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Espresso with no luck.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeezyMT3G:
ESPRIMG.zip is what I meant lol sorry

And no it doesn't matter.... does this happen when you select "recovery" from fastboot? Or when youre on the red triangle/exclamation point screen? you shouldn't be taken to the tmo splash screen...don't hold power and vol up for too long cuz it will reboot the phone and take you to splash screen (maybe that's what ur doing)

If you're in the red triangle screen hold power and vol up for no more then one second..keep pushing till the blue stock recover pops up
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknownally:
It happens from the fastboot screen.

I use the volume controls to highlight RECOVERY, then I hit power to select it (I don't hold any buttons) and all it does is go to the splash screen. I can't get to the red triangle screen like I use to be able to. I don't know what happen. It was after my nephew played with my phone.

Is there any other way to get to the stock recovery?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeezyMT3G:
Have you tryd goin back to stock and re-flashing stock ESPRIMG.zip??

The only thing i can think of is goin back to stock re-tryng

but other then that id suggest you take it to a tmo store

and hopefully theyll give you a replacement, cuz i cant think of anything else

0_o sorry
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknownally:
When I went to fastboot, it automatically detected the stock rom ESPRIMG.zip, and asked if I wanted to apply update so I did. After that it asks if I want to reboot and I select no and again with the frozen tmo splash.

I guess my phone is bricked. I don't get why it is.

It has been working with CM6 stable for months until now.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MusicMan374:
Yeah its ESPRIMG.zip not ESPRING or EXPRESSIMG or whatever. If it successfully installs ESPRIMG.zip and you STILL can't get into recovery than your phone has deeper, possibly not fixable problems. Either that or you aren't navigating to recovery right.

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknownally:
Okay I think my phone is done for.

You think TMO would know it is rooted if I turn it in for a replacement?

How would they know if it won't even start up?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MusicMan374:
They probably wouldn't know. I don't know what all of you are doing to get your phones recovery to break, besides failed s-off attempts.

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide
[Droid Incredible General] sangweb:
Hi,

I cannot seems to find a ring option that will also allow vibrate. For now, I can only choose Ring or Vibrate but not both. When I choose Vibrate profile and try to turn on the volume, it automatically change to normal. TIA.
[Droid Incredible General] ejdavis72:
Go to settings/sound/ the third one down where it says "vibrate" put a check mark in it. You have to have the ringer volume up in order to put a check there.
[Droid Incredible General] smtom:
Agree w/ earlier guidance.

It also depends on the ROM.

Most, but not all ROMs allow for this functionality.

I've only seen a few that didn't.
[Droid Incredible General] sangweb:
I've do have that checked but I don't think it ever vibrate, in only rings.
[Droid Incredible General] ejdavis72:
Does it vibrate for other things? Like when you turn it on or while typing?
[Droid Incredible General] rigman:
Get Sound Manager from the market. Open it up and press menu then Vibrate Settings. Set to Vibrate Whenever Possible.

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SkyRaider Sense 3.3.3

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaahinjjj:
Hi all,

I just flashed a new Rom on my SGS which is from Bell. Everything is working fine except the camera. When I open the Camera app it force closes. I managed to find the stock camera app for my phone but have no clue on how to install it. Any help would be appreciated.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indeed15:
Can someone help me wipe my phone from recovery b/c i cant see anything on the screen but i do know the phone works and responds to touch?

I just need someone who can tell me exactly where to scroll in recovery to get to the wipe data/cache option.

Any help is very much appreciated :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkeee:
Unfortunately it may not be possible to help you navigate blindly because Clockword Recovery has a feature that places the confirm option among 10 choices to prevent accidental clicks. But from repeated tries it seems to come up in the same spot for me, so hopefully it might work for you.

So I can suggest that once you boot into recovery (volume down + power) and do the following.

- Press volume down 3 times and press trackpad, very very gently. Sometimes it registers a single click as two if you hold it for too long.

- Press volume down 7 times and press trackpad to confirm.

If it you select one of the "No" options on the confirmation page it will spit you back out to the main menu. So you press volume down 3 times, trackpad, volume down 7 times, trackpad.

Are you sure wiping your cache will resolve the issue you are having? It sounds like a screen defect or perhaps a resolution issue? Have you messed with your build.prop? If it doesn't work you may need to do some additional work from adb shell.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indeed15:
Thanks for the reply. I will try this as soon as I get back from class. I think it's a screen defect because the phone was working perfectly fine and when I came back to my phone after 10 minutes all I saw was a blank screen with the backlight on. I haven't messe with the build.prop. I have messed with the LCD density a couple times but I don't think that's what cause this issue. I just wanna try to clear all data I have on the phone so I can try to exchange it at a tmobile store lol. I know it won't fix the screen issue.

Thanks for helping. I'll see if it works. I do remeber that confirming wipe data and cache would also be the 7th option repeatedly.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carloswithac:
Can you get into Fastboot?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indeed15:
im not sure. i cant see anything on the screen
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JmsBishop:
so, my rom did not back up and my phone on regular power on just stay on white sceen displaying htc, when i try recovery it says no images. i have a back up G2 and i am looking for a way to save the proper to the sd card so i can boot back up. any feedback would be awesome. thanks

O and I'm s on, so I guess I'm not rooted

Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indeed15:
So I went into the T-Mobile store and got my g2 replaced :)

Jmsbishop, I'm new to this but ima try searching around and see what I can figure out to help you out.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Aus_Azn:
What is the best IM app for the Captivate in terms of battery life? I am trying to decide between AT&T's stock app, Trillian beta, or AIM.

EDIT: I do like the capability of multiprotocol (I'm a Digsby user on PC, having used Trillian for PC when it came out for Android), but multiprotocol is not necessary for me. Only AIM and FBchat are really important.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using the ad-free XDA 1.2.1 App.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] nahrah:
I'm using ebuddy its free and you can use: icq, gtalk, aim, facebook, yahoo, MSN and MySpace accounts all in one
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Enhanced:
I'm using GTalk right now and I like it overall. My biggest gripe about it is that you can't change the conversation style of the chat windows. Specifically, I can't change the font size or resolution of the chats which is problematic because there are many times where I can't see the actual chat window once the keyboard is up. For example, I use Smart Keyboard which adds the word prediction line on top of the keyboard, which then additionally has the input box ontop of that. If I write more than 1 line, the box size increases further and it gets to the point where I can't see the recent chat lines.

I've downloaded Trillian to give it a try and I loved the look of the chat windows and interface overall. It uses chat bubbles instead which I think looks cleaner and more organized (I think KiK Messenger has the best look). Even better, the entire client uses a smaller font which is nice. I also like the black theme that is standard in the app. The things I didn't like was the persistent icon in the notification bar as I don't like icons cluttering my status bar that aren't actually notifications. I unchecked the "ongoing" notification option in settings which didn't do anything at all but I believe is a bug. The second thing I didn't like was how it didn't allow me to swipe between active chat windows. I've gotten use to this in GTalk and it was very intuitive and second nature to me. Thirdly, I didn't like how the input box didn't expand when you typed more than a single line. It would just keep scrolling over which I find annoying as I don't get to review my message in full before I send it. Finally, I didn't like how they had 2 send buttons - one beside the input box and one as the return key. I'd much rather have the emotion button down there like I have it in Gtalk. These 3 things made it a deal breaker for me unfortunately.

So yes, I'm looking for a good IM app as well in which at least GTalk and MSN is included. I googled Meebo and but the look of the interface has already turned me off. I'll take a look at eBuddy however.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] viny2cool:
Ebuddy is best. I have tried all even paid one like bjive. Ebuddy worked best.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MikeyMike01:
I wish Google Talk had AIM integration.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Themes and Apps] JPS81:
All of you are entirely missing Aus_Azn's actual question.

The question is what is the best client in terms of

BEST BATTERY LIFE

.

All of you are simply answering according to what IM client simply works or has nice options.

Anyway, out of all the messaging multi-protocol apps I've tried, the default IM app bundled with AT&T/Samsung that handles both AIM and MSN has been the most power efficient, however it's trash due to it not being able to switch seamlessly (or at all) between wifi and 3G (last I checked, maybe they updated it to not suck?).

Out of actual useful universal clients, I've found Fring to be the most power efficient.

I haven't tried too many individual protocol apps as of late, however I noticed that anything with MSN/WLM tends to suck up more juice than something like AIM or gtalk. Perhaps the MSN/WLM protocol just uses our radios more/less efficiently.

The official AIM client was okay. Pretty much every dedicated MSN/WLM client I used sucked up power like nobody's business. Gtalk is easily the best out of the single protocol clients. Kik is even more power hungry than MSN/WLM apps.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] avgjoegeek:
I was using the trillian beta and it was pretty decent on battery life. But any multi app that runs un the background is going to kill you r battery.

On Cognitions latest and greatest. Don't ask what version DG pumps em' out to fast!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Aus_Azn:
@JPS: I'll give the stock app another whirl. My phone is constantly on 3G anyway, so it's no different.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using the ad-free XDA 1.2.1 App.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] RDI:
I have had good luck with Trillian
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Dave the Knave:
I was pretty sure that all the stock IM applications that came on AT&T phones didn't use data, but rather SMS. At least that was the case on my first cell phone (Ericsson Z500a), my a727, Blackjack, and Impression (all Samsung phones btw) so I could be wrong. The only thing that might have used data was the initial sign in, but that was never shown as a data charge on any of my bills since 2003.
[General Topics] user7618:
Found this story and thought everyone would like to take a look. Sadly, my cdma hero isn't supported. Hopefully, the "lightweight version" will be as good.

http://www.androidcentral.com/angry-birds-lite-coming-older-phones

Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[General Topics] orb3000:
Link is not working
[General Topics] user7618:
I just clicked it and it's working. :confused:

EDIT: Realized I copied the FeedR link. Try it now.

Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[General Topics] orb3000:
Thanks for fixing it, now it´s ok
[General Topics] user7618:
Excellent, and thank you for letting me know it was broke.

Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[Venue Pro General] MJCS:
Has anyone figured out how to do tethering with the venue pro yet? I've gotten to the EM menu but can't seem to find anything that would allow this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ~gtw:
So I hooked up my bluetooth GPS to the phone the other day, and one thing I have noticed (during testing driving only, with MyTracks) was that the track was indeed better, however all the while the compass arrow was swinging wildly from one direction to another. Sometimes 180 degrees while phone and gps were sitting still.

This leads me to wonder if the GPS itself isn't the issue, but some integration with the other sensors. Has this been discussed and considered?

(I know someone mentioned it recently, which is why I paid so much attention to have noticed the way the arrow was deviating from the direction of travel.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dangrayorg:
No, the GPS is defiately the issue.

I had seriously thought this for a while and suspected some sort of sensor mixing on Samsungs part, but now that i've investigated the phone thoroughly, including roothing and looking at the drivers and processes that run while navigating I can confidently state that the teeny-tiny GPS antenna is the problem. That and a proliforation of advice in this forum to use the GPS in MS-Assisted mode, which doesn't use 'GPS' at all, but mobile base stations instead.

The reason the compass was swinging around was probably because you were driving in a car made of metal.

I saw very similar behaviour when I first got the phone and had it in a case with a magnetic fastening. Strangely enough no matter what direction I faced I was always heading south according to the phone.

You can help the phone out considerably however by making sure that it has a decent sky-view in a car - so put it in the windscreen rather then attaching to air vents.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lineobird:
You could try using the 'calibrate' option of the Compass program (catch.com) that is available on the Market. It gets you to do a figure 8 movement of the device during the processes. I have to do this after using my beltclip with the magnetic fastener which messes up the compass. I think it's best done outside the car. Before I did that I was always facing south too!

As far as the OP's post, I don't know if the calibration would help when an external GPS unit is employed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrej.marinic:
first of all: the gps implementation on this device is a disgrace. absolutely worthless. as far as compass goes, that is a weird one. you can get it to work sometimes by running /system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha (need to be root to run it). but it "breaks" again after a while.

also if someone could test the following: get wifi signal, get gps position (not a-gps, turn that off completely), be sure that the lock is there. then switch off the wifi without touching gps settings. does the gps lose signal instantly after switching off wifi?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] paperecho:
Could someone make the stock sense green battery without the % numbers.

I tried myself with editing the files and a metamorph to no avail. Tried manually putting them into the framework and flashing and still nothing.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ACD168:
+1 to this. I know it requires more than the usual drag and drop. I believe I recently read that it requires editing some XML files or something past my knowledge base, so far.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Scblacksunshine:
Same here, looking for a circle battery icon without %. The UOT kitchen is not working for me
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Reefhunter49:
+1 for this.