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[Desire HD General] xspyda:
I'm very disappointed with the tactile feedback of the buttons on my DHD - ie, there really isn't any!

Are all your DHD's like this? I have read reports of hard to press buttons but I wondered if this was common or a fault with certain batches? These buttons are not hard to press it's just that it's hard to be sure you have pressed them!

Volume buttons are the worst, the power I can live with if I must. My concern is that over time these buttons will stop working altogether.
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
Nobody else seeing any problems with this at all?
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
dupicate of above posted in error
[Desire HD General] RobTheRover:
No problems on my device. They are firm to press, but a) the fact it powers on and off when I press the power button, and b) the fact the volume goes up or down when I press the volume buttons, both kind of give the game away. :rolleyes:

Or are you expecting more than that?
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
There's always one it seems!

Yes, I expect the buttons to be positive and actually feel like they are making contact - let's not forget this is a £500 device, not a cheap PAYG dumb phone. Is it too much to ask that the thing feels like it's worth the price?

My buttons work, of course but the fact they feel more like capacitive buttons almost that actual buttons is somewhat off-putting!
[Desire HD General] RobTheRover:
Always one? Am I the one expecting more than a button to function when pressed?

They have short travel, thats all. In a couple of weeks time you wont even notice.
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
Rob I don't mean to cause offence but I feel your sarcasm was a little unfounded, hence the comment.

Short travel I can live with quite happily but the fact I can't even tell by feel that the button has activated I think is a bit poor.

Having looked around, it seems I'm not the only one of this opinion either.
[Desire HD General] RobTheRover:
Every device is different, mate. Moving from one handset to another is sometimes like losing your comfiest pair of trainers and having them replaced with army boots two sizes too small.

After a few weeks of "wearing in" you wont remember how comfy your trainers were.

Confuscious, he say, live with it a bit. ;-)

Edit : And sarcasm, well, thats just me and my sense of humour. Apologies if you took it the wrong way. No malice intended.
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
Fair analogy.

I hope you are right because having 'fixed' the low speaker sound and the ill fitting creaking sim cover (things I should not have to do incidentally), the volume rocker is now the only thing letting my dhd down.
[Desire HD General] RobTheRover:
I agree that a £450-500 device shouldnt suffer such corner cutting, but I guess some enterprising after-marketeer will make better quality battery and sim slot covers and hawk them on ebay for £10 a pair, and us lot will all buy them like lemmings! (see, that bloody sarcastic streak has resurfaced!)

Actually.... £10 x what, 500,000 devices? = a new Ferrari and a big house and a new, younger missus! Winner! Now where did I leave my ABS plastic injection moulding kit..?

For the record, my Sim and battery covers dont have any gaps, but I've only had the DHD a week. Maybe the early adopters got the raw deal in HTC's rush to get to market?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draketh:
Hello all. I'm sort of new to this.

Okay, here's the story.

After trying for half a month trying to perm root, I read somewhere that I should do a Nandroid backup first. I then downloaded ROM Manager and installed ClockworkRecovery via the app. Before this, I had temp. rooted my g2 using Visionary + r14 (Perm root wouldn't work no matter how many times I tried).

I pressed the backup rom button, and my screen turned black, then an icon of a phone with a red triangle with a ! point inside of it appeared. I am not sure whether that mean it is still backing up or if I screwed up my phone.

Any advice? Or do I have to reset or something?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
You need to root before you can do a full system backup.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibemad1:
Correct. But don't worry; your phone isn't screwed up ATM. just pull the battery and reboot.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
I think your phone hasn't got its recovery flashed properly. After you flash Clockwork, you should really test it by selecting the "Reboot into Recovery" option from ROM Manager. Very often the first time you try that it doesn't work, and you need to flash Clockwork for a second time, and then it works.

It's not backing up, you haven't screwed your phone. Just boot it normally, go into ROM Manager, flash Clockwork again, and test booting into recovery. If that works, then you can do your backup.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] misconcepti0n:
There was a known issue with clockwork recovery where if you tried to install it it would give the screen you described. However, upon doing a battery pull, rebooting the phone and installing clockword recovery again usually was a success. Some people said it took them three times, but the majority of users said doing it a second time worked (second time worked for me).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortlived:
Took 2 installs for me. If you still have trouble you can manually install it. Just do a search for manual clockwork recovery.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draketh:
No gold, guys.

Eh... No good on the clockwork backup. Tried the methods: Re-install Rom Manager, clear data cache for rom manager, re-flash recovery, restart phone, went to ymca and worked out, and reboot into recovery (didn't work) then reflashed recovery again. I can't think of anything else to try. Every method results in that dumb phone with the red triangle...

Is this a common problem?

EDIT: Oh, and I got permanent root finally, and tried all of these steps again. Still no success.

UPDATE 2: Uh-oh. I went into hboot (power+volumedown), and it showed that I still have s-on. I've heard that means bad things if you are rooted with s-on still. Is this relevant?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
I think that you'll have to get S-OFF if you want to flash custom recovery.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortlived:
Its not a bad thing to have s on. You just cant flash any non official update without s off. At this point you i think you will want to follow the gfree instructions for full unlocking. After that you should be good to go. Also did you hit vol-up plus power when you got that triangle?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draketh:
K I looked at gfree

And yes, I have been pressing volume up + power when the trianglE appears. It doesn't make a difference. Isn't gfree the same thing as visionary?

UPDATE: I can't get gfree to work, because my stupid XP computer won't install drivers (tried all ways of getting 'em on, just throws me an error)

I saw a sticky'd post that boasts g2 guide for perm root and s-off individually. It says that I can put the hboot.img in /data/local/, and enter a command line into Terminal, and then command "sync", and it will s-off it. BUT it also says above that by typing the command wrong, or not having the right program could cripple or paperweight my phone. Should I try that?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
No, Visionary isn't the same thing as gfree. Visionary can get you root (both temporary and permanent). As can an alternative called rage.

What gfree gets you is radio S-OFF (so you can flash custom ROMs), plus SuperCID and SIM Unlock.

Don't do the thing with hboot, that's more risky, as it says.

As for the drivers, download and install HTC Sync from HTC's website, that includes USB drivers.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xomikronx:
Rage method worked like a charm for me. Visionary was to buggy.

I recommend you use the Rage method and report back.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
Agreed. I read a lot of bad things about visionary that I rooted just using rage.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbmg:
I did it using visionary following the tutorials @ theunlockr.com

That site has great tutorial step by step as well as vids to go along with it. Used it for s-off and permroot, as well as loading custom roms.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draketh:
UPDATE: Installed Desire Z's HTC Sync, drivers appear to work like a charm. I'll post back later and see if s-off helps nandroid recovery.
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
Download file, rename to update.zip and update through stock recovery

http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/sprint_samsung_d700/1506bdf2e04b.update-SPH-D700_DI18ToDK28.zip
[Epic 4G General] dutchman71:
really? I'll take the bait. Downloading?
[Epic 4G General] brizzle1986:
Its legit
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
It's legit and awesome, Froyo + touchwiz 3.0 :D
[Epic 4G General] shabbypenguin:
hey op how about a bit of clarification? like as in you need to odin back to di18 in order for this to work

or wait teh extra 30 mins and just flash the updated roms as they come... your choice
[Epic 4G General] tony45x220:
Is this an official release...too many pple are having problems with all these "BETA" releases...I'll wait for people to start developing on samsung's release...is this it?
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
what quadrant scores are you guys getting? Mine are worse than before, between 850-950
[EVO 4G Accessories] J Piddy:
I have not seen this linked any where so I thought I would put it up. There stuff takes a little while to get here but thy have nice stuff and cheap.

https://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.40745
[EVO 4G Accessories] aronslusa:
I purchased one very similar to that, but it was a buck cheaper off ebay.... I personally liked it better than the Sprint card dock (which I returned shortly after purchasing).

For the price, those are actually worth it.
[EVO 4G Accessories] J Piddy:
I really like how it has a camera hole. It is snowing here and I just made my first snow drifting video this morning. AWD and Snow plus a camera FTW!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Jakey615:
Is there any way to upgrade the phone to at least 2.0 if I root it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] MagickalShadow:
Absolutely!

All you need to do is create a 2.0 ROM for it and you will be good to go. Now I know some guys on here have been working on a 2.1 ROM for months now so they may beat you to their upgrade and Cricket may actually have theirs out before then as well.

The main issue is, in most cases each phone needs a ROM tailored specifically for it. It wasn't even as simple as taking a ROM from Sprint’s Zio and putting it on the Cricket one, it is taking a lot of tinkering to figure out how to even do that.

So...in all seriousness, the best advice is be patient...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KrystianSGA:
Hey all,

For some reason on my MT4G, when i set a default, it ends up resetting after about 5 minutes.

For example, I use the LockBot app, and when i press the home key, it prompts me to select which program to complete the action with. The two options are "HTC Sense" and "LockBot(Don't Select)." Under the two options it the option "Use by default for this action" checkbox. I select that and hit "HTC Sense," and it works for a little while. Then after about 5 minutes when i hit the home key, it will again prompt me to select the program to complete the action with.

This happens for all apps, Lock 2.0 , AWD Launcher, Lockerwidget .... etc...

Anyone else have this problem, or better yet, have a solution?
[General Questions and Answers] TheBigBroski:
Well I'm using Matt4542's "Epic". This is a Droid 2. I want to restore it to the factory settings, however I failed to back up before installing the custom ROM >.<. How do I get it back to it's factory settings?
[General Questions and Answers] saurabh88:
just flash the new shipped rom what else
[General Questions and Answers] wsiegfri:
How to I return from my current fresh rom back to the stock sense ui?

My cousin put the fresh rom on my phone and I just want to restore it back to the current stock sense ui that had swype and everything. How can I do that and will it keep my phone rooted?
[General Questions and Answers] mrkite38:
That's a bit more of a process on the droid 2 than your average htc phone.

There are detailed instructions on flashing back to stock in the d2 general forum.
[General Questions and Answers] mrkite38:
Please don't hijack someone else's thread. Go read in the forum for your device.
[General Questions and Answers] ..Xperiencer..:
Search under the developers sub-forum for Droid 2 here in XDA.

You will find the Stock ROM & instructions for flashing your device.
[Galaxy Tab General] mi4kidzmom:
I read on an earlier post that they aren't selling very well, so I thought I'd post this.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9199678/Galaxy_Tab_sales_hit_1_million_reports_say

Sent from my awesome galaxy tab!
[Galaxy Tab General] riz157:
It's goodbut not.that good.
[Galaxy Tab General] qipengart:
Why don't I see more tabs here in salt lake city?
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
1 million + 1 here :)

The salesguy in the AT&T store had to go to anotehr shop because they were out of stock. That said, like many others, they may not have put much faith in the tab: he told me they keep only very limited stock in their shop and kept on funning out of them because of the demand...
[Galaxy Tab General] mmace:
because they actually fit in your pocket, I carry mine round Leeds UK, bet people say the same thing here, doesn't mean they aren't there
[Galaxy Tab General] Tiamath99:
Just a marketing pollicy. They think giving good sales will convince people to buy it.old trick.

Personally I don't believe it for a second, I still haven't seen one in the street or anyone outside this tech world talk about it. And at that price range its even harder to believe.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tb5...:
does anyone know of a way to view these...

my gallery used to lay them VERY slowly... but seems like it doesn't any longer...

nothing on the market either... anyone know of a way to view them?
[Fascinate General] Lynx83:
Ok so I just got this phone (coming from a DInc), just wondering what ROM is the best one out there. I am already rooted and have clockwork installed, now itching to put a ROM on and get rid of Bing lol.
[Fascinate General] NOsquid:
Did you flash Clockwork in Odin? You can't do it from ROM Manager on this phone.

JT's super clean is a safe bet. Blackhole is another popular one.
[Fascinate General] Mr.Obvious:
Correct you need to flash it through odin ie clockwork. I have used alot of roms so far but I like the black hole build you're own. Many options and the recent v1.4.1 is really nice. Sonsofskywalker is a great dev and keeps up on his stuff.

Sent from your mothers closet.
[Fascinate General] Mr.Obvious:
Also check or geekniks stupid fast kernel 1.2.3 you can use many other phones boot animations.

Sent from your mothers closet.
[Fascinate General] martyotaku:
Honestly Ive seen absolutely no improvement in using a custom rom vs launcherpro over stock. Your better off keeping it stock for now untill 2.2 comes out.

But if your even smarter you return the phone. Dont throw away the box, you like me might not be happy with it and get stuck with it. I dont think its actually the phone im unhappy with....but more android. Android has become a disapointment to me. An OS is only as good as the applications it has.

I was a 3 time Iphone user....then switch from att to verizon in Nov 2009 and have gone through a bunch of droid phones. On Verizon its the best choice. But when Windows phone 7 or Iphone hits next year many will be gone.

I know many of you guys will chew me up over this. But I gotta speak the truth,
[Fascinate General] Lynx83:
I had an iPhone... IMO the iPhone is a toy. I plan on giving this a go for 30 days and see if I like it or not. If I dont I will return it and go back to my DInc.

Thanks for the advice on the ROMs guys I will download that one now :)
[Fascinate General] Lynx83:
Also, is there anyway to get Bing completely off the phone? And what about when I hit the search button to be able to get directions like I could on my DInc.
[Fascinate General] RacerXFD:
Yes, there is a way to get Bing completely off. I will tell you if you just read the stickies at the top, you probably didn't need to post this.

If you have root access, which is easily done, you can then use install CWM. Once you do that, you can install jt's super clean rom. That'll take care of your issues.

If you don't like the way the current launcher you are using, install ADW or LauncherPro. I personally recommend ADW as it is open source and well developed.

But again, you should have posted this in the General forum. And you should have read the stickies before posting.

Can you imagine what this forum would be like if everyone who purchased a Fascinate posted saying exactly what you are saying???
[Fascinate General] Lynx83:
Apparently you have reading comprehension issues also so I dont know why you are trying to be hard and call me out. I have rooted, I did flash clockwork, and I did flash a ROM, but its still not functioning the same as my DInc was.
[Fascinate General] RacerXFD:
My bad. I do have reading comprehension issues...

Anyways, depends on what you want, the good ones are already in ROM Manager to download when you feel like.

Sonofskywalker's ROM is neat in that it erases everything stock and leaves only what you want to leave in there.

JT's is simple and clean.

Deoxdexed is not bad, but it does come with a theme if you're into that.
[Fascinate General] Lynx83:
I used "Super Dark" I really like the layout, but now all my haptic feeling in the phone is gone :(
[Fascinate General] Lynx83:
Ok I got it working, I flashed the stock kernel to the phone... seems to be working properly right now :)
[Fascinate General] ksizzle9:
Froyo just dropped for the epic. Official froyo. While us fascinate users wait for our maintenance update. **** yeah. Way to go Sammy and Verizon. I hate to have to put this phone down with this brilliant hardware but ill be on my incredible until you **** or get off the pot. Jt, adrynalyne, love you..sorry I've been out of the loop at irc. Plannning this wedding is quite the time killer. Be back in irc tomorrow when I get home
[Droid 2 General] MaeSiuS:
Hello,

the speaker of my Milestone2 (where you put your ear while talking on the phone) produces interference noise during a phone call. You may know this annoying sound from making a phone call or send/receive a SMS next to powered unshielded speakers.

I ordered another Milestone2 to check if this noise problem was a hardware defect. Now I have two MS2 with the same annoying noise.

Did motorola forget to shield their speakers. Who builds a mobile phone that cannot handle the RF it uses?!?

Anyone else got a noisy Milestone2?

At least this guy has: https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/292340#292340

Bye

MaeSiuS
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suua:
I posted the same threads on the General Question and A but nobody cant help me?

so i opnend here to, i apologaise .

For a few days ago, i flashed voodoo lagfix, from the market, and the phone was running fine till now, i did a har reset to get my all default setings and all default apps, now when i turn on the phone, and when i tap in my simcard code its shows only black screen, i can se my notification bar, i can pull it down, but i cant se my homescreen, my apps nothing its just black???? I cant ether connet to pc, when i plug in the USB its say PC CONNECITON AVALIBEL ONLY IN IDLE SCREEN?? I dont unsterstand

Can somebody help me? how can i flash a new kernel or a new rom without entering to the phone?? is it anyway?

Thanks form my heart is someone can help me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Well you have just made a bad phone.

You need go to download mode and use odin and flash a new firmware.

Sent from GT-I9000 jpo. My own kernel for z4mod and with 342MB Ram
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suua:
Thx for req mate, but i have tryit to go ito Download mode with 3 buttons, but it seems that it dose not work on mine? or is it a special way to do it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Well if you don't have that you have not much options.

Try to remove the simcard then try to start the phone.

Sent from GT-I9000 jpo. My own kernel for z4mod and with 342MB Ram
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suua:
I did it, but it dose not help, i thik is was voodoo that bricked my phone! is it an other way to get ito Download mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android.francis:
Can you go to recovery mode? If yes, are you using clockwork mod?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
So long the phone works then you can fix it.

Try to start the phone with usb cable and try recovery/download mode.

Sent from GT-I9000 jpo. My own kernel for z4mod and with 342MB Ram
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suua:
Yes, i have clockwork mode installed, but i cant go ito recovery or download mode with the 3 buttons way, i have trayet volum up + home + power and volum down + home + power, but it show only the galaxy s logo and if i still hold thous buttens, the phone shuts off and do the same thing again.

DamianGto, i di what u recomanded, but when i try recovery mode it show only the battery is loading ? im i missing somthing or doing something wrong ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Try to release the power button and hold the other ones;-)

Sent from GT-I9000 jpo. My own kernel for z4mod and with 342MB Ram
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suua:
It seems that my phone dose not support the 3 buttons methodmto ito recoveri/dowmload mode. I tryed what u said mate, but i had no luck! :(:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
I just think you do it wrong.

U did say it start over if you hold the buttons. That use to mmeans they work.

But try this.

Remove the battery and let utter be out for at least 10 minutes.

Then hold the volume button down + home button down+ power button.

Then put in the battery.

Release ONLY the power button when you se the logo and STILL hold the volume button and home button.

Sent from GT-I9000 jpo. My own kernel for z4mod and with 342MB Ram
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suua:
Should i hold the buttons while i put in the battery ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Yes..

Sent from GT-I9000 jpo. My own kernel for z4mod and with 342MB Ram
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suua:
Thx for ur help mate, but no luck, i did exatcly what u recomanded, but no lcuk :( i think i will send it to service :(

thx again
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aCx85:
hey guys where I get a .TAR file ? or convert a .zip to .tar.

I have my pit file just dont seem to know what to do with the .tar file.

Im used to restore.flashing my phone via .zip thats all.

Can I just take my .zip rom I want and convert to .tar
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android.francis:
what is it that you wanted to do in the first place? samfirmware has copies of the regional firmwares (.tar files) if you want them.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nailerr:
.tar is another form of archive. You need to read this fully:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=723596

I also recommend you search Youtube for some videos of the process too. Odin flashing is not the same as a .zip update from SD Card, and honestly if you are unfamiliar with what a tar-ball is you may not be up for what using Odin entails. You have a very real risk of bricking your phone through a mistake.

Read, read again, be sure, flash!