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[Focus General] n8huntsman:
Last night I had a low battery. The screen was on and I hit the side power button to turn it off and nothing happened. The screen just stayed on. After several attempts to turn off the screen it turned off all together. I assumed the battery died. This morning I plugged it into my mini to micro adapter, which I have used before, and it still wouldnt do anything. No charging lights or anything. Tried three different mini USB cables and two different micro adapters. I get nothing on any of them. Are there supposed to be any lights on the phone while it's charging when the phone is off? I really doubt it's the chargers but I suppose it's possible. Does it sound like the phone is dead? Is there anything to check?
[Focus General] RichPark:
I would pull the battery out to force your phone to reset. Plug it in to the charger and and turn it on.
[Focus General] n8huntsman:
Tried removing the battery several times, still no luck. Today is the 31st day. If it's the phone, AT&T better replace it with a brand new one!
[Focus General] n8huntsman:
I held the battery from my fuze up against the Focus terminals and pressed the power button. It turned on. So apparently the battery is flat and not charging for some reason. Will try with the original charger when I get home.
[Focus General] FishFaceMcGee:
You weren't using the original charger before? That's probably why you're having issues. I've had significant issues with it charging with any cable other than what came with it. No clue why.
[Focus General] n8huntsman:
Figured it out. I have 3 old HTC phone chargers (120v to mini usb) so I bought a bunch of the micro to mini adapters for $1 on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-Mini-U...230750?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item41546be29e

When I use the old charger with the adapter, it will not charge. It does on my gf's HTC Surround though so I will give the wall plugs to her. When I use the new EBAY adapters with a standard usb cable plugged into a computer it works fine. They also work fine plugged into the included 120v to USB adapter. I also bought a couple generic 2 port 120v to USB adapters, http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-2-Dual-PORT...694149?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2eb1df4185 ,

and they too work fine with a standard USB cable and the ebay adapters. It's really odd. I'm not sure what the difference is inside the 120v to mini vs. the 120v to standard USB but it was consistent amongst all of them.
[Focus General] SuperSport:
I had my HD2 USB adapter at my bedside for charging my HD2. Instead of changing the adapter to the new Focus supplied one, I just plugged in the Focus to the HD2 one. In the morning my phone was dead. HD2 Adapter will NOT work, no matter what I try. I even tried my wife's iPhone adapter, and same thing. Went to the Focus Adapter, and all is good now. Strange...

Also, USB Cable to PC works fine.

PS: I read somewhere that the phone will not charge if it's turned off. Have not tested the theory, but maybe related.
[Focus General] Skex:
I don't get the charging issue. I found out today that my phone wouldn't actually charge with a stand alone micro charger that came with one of my old BT headsets. Seems to work just fine with my car charger using the provided cable but it still makes no sense.

It's only 4 pins and a ground how the hell do you screw that up?
[Focus General] wspaw:
There are no lights anywhere to indicate that the phone is charging (other than the AMOLED screen). So, you have to check before the screen turns off. No LEDs to indicate a missed call or SMS, either - pretty annoying.
[Focus General] n8huntsman:
Another thing I noticed, when using the aftermarket wall-plug to USB adapter, even with the Samsung cable (USB to micro) allthough it does charge, the touch screen is very very sluggish. Takes several fast swipes just to get the phone to unlock. Can barely even type a word. This also occurs on my GF's HTC Surround. Weird indeed.
[Focus General] SuperSport:
That makes it sound like a software issue since it's two different manufacturers.
[Droid X General] davidukfl:
So my phone originally had the 2.2OTA, however my phone got stuck on the M logo when theming so i SBF'd it.

However now my version number says: 2.3.9. My assumption is that the SBF i used wasn't truly the OTA 2.2, and actually just the leaked 2.3.9 version

So from what i can see I'm looking at a few options to get back to the latest OTA version.

Either do this: http://www.droid-life.com/2010/09/21/how-to-return-droid-x-back-to-android-2-1/

and return to 2.1. Then get the 2.2OTA, and from there wait for the latest OTA 2.2.1

or

Flash this 2.3.15 leak. And from there manually flash the latest 2.2.1

http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/179646-new-froyo-2-3-15-a.html

or

Flashing this 2.3.15 SBF

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8630797&postcount=17

So which is gonna be the safest route for me to go? Also will bootloader versions come into play at all? I've seen stuff saying downgrading back to 2.1 from the OTA 2.2 is not possible. So I'm wondering if i'm going to have problems because i was originally OTA 2.2 and now I'm 2.3.9 leaked.

My bootloader version says 30.03
[Droid X General] milan616:
Since you seem comfortable with SBF files, get the real 2.3.15 SBF (Android 2.2) and flash it. From there you should be able to OTA (wait or get the update.zip) your way to 2.3.340 (Android 2.2.1). That is the safest and easiest route.
[Droid X General] davidukfl:
alright thanks. That's the route i was looking to go.

I'm gonna install rsdlite 4.8, however do you know if i need to replace the .ini file like version 4.7? Or can i just install it and run as is?
[Droid X General] milan616:
rsdlite 4.8 is good to go out of the box, no updates like 4.7 needed. Just make sure you're also on the latest Motorola drivers. I'm at work, but off the top of my head they are 4.7.1 I think.
[Droid X General] davidukfl:
cool, thanks for the quick reply.

this will be my project tonight. Hopefully i don't lose everything when i SBF. I was quite pleased when i originally SBF'd and the only thing i had to do was re-root and re-theme
[Droid X General] milan616:
If I were you I would make Titanium Backups of everything you want to save! I've gotten stuck in bootloops before when doing SBFs, and then had to wipe data/cache to get out of it. Always backup important things before stuff like this! ;)
[Droid X General] davidukfl:
oh most definitely. I got more backups than you can shake a stick at.

I had actually managed to restore a clockwork backup after i originally SBF'd. I'm kinda surprised i didn't run into any problems considering it was a backup of ver 2.3.15 with my theme.
[Droid X General] milan616:
Yeah, luckily enough there aren't enough changes to the kernel and how the system interacts with it to really mess up things when you restore a 2.3.15 nandroid on a 2.3.320/340 kernel. Still a bad idea, but at least it isn't catastrophic.
[Droid X General] davidukfl:
so out of curiosity i decided to try 928droid's "back to stock 2.3.15 odxed" and guess what.....it changed my version #

So i guess the SBF file i flashed wasn't the problem (double checked the file name and did it does indeed say 2.3.15) turns out the theme i had installed changed the version number.

It was either incognito....or more likely was this theme i put over the top of incognito: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-hacks/99795-theme-black-juice-v3-stock-2-2-ota.html
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nextelbuddy:
Im sorry if this has been covered, ive spent the last 2 days reading the Vibrant bible thread and also over on Cyanogen site and Android spin and im really frustrated with how often my device soft bricks.

i have 5 roms on my internal SD card and Rom manager running. i was able to use the option to install form SD card no problem for 4 roms and the 5th one was one called Hybrid R4 and when it rebooted into the clockwork recovery and performed the format and update then it rebooted into the Vibrant logo for 5 min. i removed the battery and rebooted so many times and same thing.

this is the 3rd time this has happened and its so annoying even more so because i know i have a good ROM on the internal SD card i can load up again but i cant get to it because i cant get into clockwork because i keep getting the stock samsung recovery screen with limited options resulting in having to use ODIN to flash the stock firmware and start over.

when i had my Mytouch i had a permanent recovery flashed to the device so i neve rhad to do this. are the Vibrants not able to have a alternate recovery console flashed to it?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildklymr:
which rom are you flashing over? It sounds like you are going from a 2.2 froyo rom. Hybrid R4 is from the time before the Devs started including Kernels with their roms. If you want to flash a 2.1 rom thats doesn't include the kernel over a 2.2 rom you need to flash a 2.1 kernel first. Search the bible for kingklicks kernel or Justanothercrowds kernels. Good luck.

Edit: also when you flash clockworkmod recovery in rom manager, it places a special update.zip in your root directory. leave it there. when you soft brick all you need to do in the samsung stock recovery is reinstall packages (sometimes needs to be done twice) and it will load clockworkmod recovery.

and they can have clockwork permanently flashed but it sometimes causes other problems. Eugene373 has a few kernels for 2.2 that have it permanently flashed, but it caused me issues when trying to flash another rom over it where i had no recovery at all, not even samsungs.
[Defy General] zen123:
Would it be possible for some of you guys to install a couple of apps to test as I'm having problems with them.

The apps are World Newspapers (Abhishek Kumar) & BBC News (Jim Blacker). They install fine & launch. The problem I'm having is that I can't read any of the articles over wifi. When I turn off wifi & use 3g connection everything works fine.

I've done a hard reset & installed just those two apps but same thing happens. Also what I found is after a hard reset I can't access Android market over wifi. I have to switch off wifi & sign in using 3g connection first but after that its fine

Thanks
[Defy General] :
It happened to me as well and same as you first I had to access the market with 3G connection first to pass the terms and services stage/page.

Just a wild guess here... maybe both apps need to know where you are (location/country) so they can push the right news to you and that is not possible over a wifi connection.
[Defy General] zen123:
I have both apps installed on a Dell Streak, HTC Desire, Galaxy S & Orange San Francisco with everything working perfectly fine over wifi.
[Defy General] :
Ouch! I did say it was a wild guess. Do you own all those devices? : )

Have you tried to set your network type to 2G only to see if that helps? Please kill/stop both apps first and if you are about to change your network type then please don't forget to reset it back.
[Defy General] zen123:
Sorry mate wasn't trying to be cocky....

I've just installed Engadget app & having problems with that as well. When using over wifi it downloads the articles text only, pictures don't load. Again over 3g the whole article including pictures downloads just fine.

FYI Pulse app displaying same behaviour...

I think I may have a faulty phone.
[Defy General] :
What you just described in above meets when Data Server is enabled. Menu>Settings>Data Manager>Data server

This feature is meant for 3G though so I don't get why that happens over your wifi.

Another thing came in my mind was that a standard router supports 4 ports (connections) and you listing dozens of devices I was wondering how many devices are connected to the router when you are using your Defy? Surely you have a couple of pc/laptop too : )
[Defy General] mobilenewsdev:
Hey,

I am the dev of World Newspapers, is the problem solved?

Regards
[Defy General] zen123:
My phone speaker stopped working after a couple of weeks so I returned to Amazon for refund. My Defy definately had a problem with the apps I described including yours, but as there not much people replying to this thread then maybe it was limited to just my device.
[Defy General] gavinta:
My friend

Where are you and which ISP you are using?

I believe the problem doesn't caused by your Defy.
[Defy General] zen123:
HI there its nothing to do with isp. I have a Dell Streak, HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S & JUST got a Nexus S & they all have no problems with the apps.
[Defy General] gavinta:
Oh. I'm sorry about that. Can you check /system/etc/host ? You can view that as a text file. In a normal situation you can see "localhost 127.0.0.1" . if there has any other text, could you tell me?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] livewire195:
Alright I read your FAQ,

I'm currently using clockwork recovery mod to install roms yadda yadda.

Messing with the ADB Shell, accidentally removed all my apps :P

Now I restored the phone, using the SAPPIMG.zip, then re rooted, installed rom manager, and installed my current rom.

In this mist of all this, when i got back into Clockwork recovery, I checked nandroid, and it still had a back up before I dicked around with the phone.

What I'm trying to get out, is there a way from the phone that's stuck in boot loop, to go directly to Clockwork Recovery Mod or any other recovery service, from phone being off, to turning on?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] skndeep102:
hold home then hit the power button and it should go into recovery

if that doesnt work and while in a bootloop it is available to your computer you can adb reboot recovery
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] livewire195:
For the ADB reboot recovery, just plug the phone in, and turn it on; then use adb reboot recovery in cmd to pull it up?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] skndeep102:
yeah that should work
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Sewez:
Is there any widget that can turn off the display instantaneously?

Another question, how to set screen time out to a very small period (let's say 5 secs) ??
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Rlyeh:
Why? if you can just press the turn on/off button

Doing that would be very annoying. plus ur phone come with a sensor if u left ur phone alone it should turn of the screen very quick.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Sewez:
Someone have already managed to get it done on the Desire HD, Maybe someone can modify the apk to get it to work on the X10, or if there is an application that can do the same job.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Sewez:
Guys someone help me plz because my power button started to wear off
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] divine3155:
it would be good to have it
[HD7 General] gamefrick:
So up until now, to those developers and programmers for mobile apps, who always wondered how these apps were made or would be made for WP7 using Visual Basic 2010. There is the Windows Phone menu in the program. Ofcourse with .NET Framework 4

Go to this link >>> Trying out Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7

ENJOY! ;)
[HD7 General] tfn:
http://create.msdn.com/en-US/ just found this today haven't checked it yet though
[HD7 General] gamefrick:
NICE!!!!!!!
[HD7 General] badboy70:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this only for the professional versions of VB?

Not the free Express editions.
[Nook Color General] vorgle:
Hey! This forum is awesome, but you guys already know that. I'm starting a new semester at college after this winter break and want to consolidate all my work into a single device (I went the first 3 semesters not carrying anything on me because I hate to hold stuff). I do need to know if it can handle the job, rooting enabled capabilities are acceptable too, I almost exclusively use ubuntu and while I've never owned an Android device before, I'm sure it will be familiar enough.

Here is what I need, Could you tell me if it can do It

-PEAP Authentication Capabilities

-PDF Viewer (preferably with bookmarking, commenting capabilities)

-Some sort of handwritten note taking application (I'm fine wearing a glove with capacitive stylus)

-Can it switch between a notepad and PDF viewer (multi-tasking?)

Things I don't need but would help

-RDP for my campus' cloud

-Access to driver for touchscreen, something similar to synclient for touchpads in linux.

I'm a C/Basic/Python/Java programmer that recently started playing with eclipse's android sdk, sufficiently convince me to buy this and you might get something out of me :D, thanks for any help.
[Nook Color General] lanfearl:
...

all of your questions could be answered by doing a bit of looking.

Does the nook color have a pdf viewer?

Seriously?
[Nook Color General] vorgle:
I can't find info on PEAP and I can't find any info on the extent of PDF viewing capabilities (Bookmarking/Commenting Capabilities) which is important in a classroom. But thanks for your help, I can see at least 1/3 of your posts are douchey. On many forums this is a typically frowned upon means of increasing post count, I'm sure this forum is no different.
[Nook Color General] devis:
PEAP - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=36dabddba0ba6162&hl=en

PDF - It's a viewer only... it won't edit. As far as I know there isn't a PDF editor for Android. But there are others, Documents To Go has an office suite with a PDF viewer that should incorporate most of your required functions.

Handwriting - I'm sure there are some apps in any of the alternative app stores (the official Google one isn't as of yet working)

Multitasking - Yes, just find yourself a task manager in the app stores.

RDP - Yes, find a client in the alternative app stores.

Synclient - No clue....

Now, all the above having been said, I will give you that at first glance the answer you received might come off as smug. However, there are lots of threads in these boards that discuss pretty much everything you've asked for. What isn't covered in these boards can be found with simple Google searches. Remember, this is an Android device, somewhat stripped down but Android OS nonetheless. So most everything that works for Android will work for this as well. Just need to root this.

And no need to be a ****. lanfearl is only comparing you to the multitude of other new members who are looking for a magic wand approach without taking the time to do their own research. You, sadly, fall into this exact category.
[Nook Color General] ixampl:
There are many things missing, especially on the hardware library side. Many frameworks have been scrapped, others have permissions changed and settings have been either removed or hidden.

DON'T think you can extrapolate from Android's functionality to this device's functionality. Some applications just won't install or won't start. Some report a reason, others just don't install... "nope, I don't work. kthxbye."

Vorgle's questions are quite valid:

I have no idea if PEAP actually works on the NOOKcolor. Considering that you cannot access a lot of the Wifi menus that Android usually offers, linking to instructions for the Nexus one doesn't necessarily help. And it certainly hasn't been discussed prominently on these boards.

There currently are no PDF readers with all the functionality asked for by Vorgle. Documents To Go offers bookmarks (some other readers do too I believe) but there is no reader with commenting / annotation support.

So I don't see why he should get snarky replies.
[Nook Color General] devis:
He's getting snarky replies because he doesn't seem to have done any research at all and is coming here looking for all possible answers. For someone computer savvy (note the various programming languages he claims to know) he should know better. Do your own research, then come ask the questions you didn't find answers to. Such as PDF for example. he doesn't seem to even know the NC supports PDF, let alone all of the functions he's looking for. Something as simple as that is easily obtained by reading the device's specs! And they're even in the FAQs!
[Nook Color General] vorgle:
Thanks ixampl. I put my computer background hoping people would simply believe me and infer I had specific reasons for asking the questions I did, rather than explaining the reason behind every question to get the help I need. I really wasn't wanting to make enemies here, I hate starting off like this but it is necessary for me to know. I need to be sure of some things before I spend the money, or if I should look elsewhere at other tablets (or e-readers).

But Here They Are:

-PEAP Authentication Capabilities:

I've seen a tutorial for the nook with no confirmation from any source on the net that it actually works, from what I've read it isn't native.

-PDF Viewer:

Because All my Books are in PDF, obvious. However, no PDF capabilities are listed on B&N (just that it will view), or any other app store I can access via my computer. I've never owned an android device, and I frequently use Adobe Pro to edit and annotate my books.

-Some sort of handwritten note taking application:

I've seen something close to this in a market clone, but it was advertised as supplemental to keyboard based notes; too slow for a lecture. If there is something like dasher for Android that will work on the Nook Color, I'm fairly adept with it, and that would suffice. There is a Dasher beta for Android, but it is spotty on devices it was meant for, no idea what would happen on nook.

-Can it switch between a notepad and PDF viewer (multi-tasking?):

I've seen no documentation on multi-tasking capabilities for the Nook Color. I can't assume what works on other android devices will work on the nook, it is too highly modified (as pointed out by ixampl) to just infer this on a specifically necessary requirement of mine. I think the market would be nice on the nook too, that works on other android devices, it certainly works on the... oh wait, no it doesn't.

-RDP for my campus' cloud:

Valid enough, I think. I know some exist, but I was expecting: "don't bother, they're unusable". I don't know, I asked.

-Access to driver for touchscreen, something similar to synclient for touchpads in linux:

To restate, I want the ability to modify the touchscreen driver for the nook, allowing me to drastically change the sensitivity, I have hotkeys on my laptop to do this in linux; it would be nice to mess with the driver on the nook. This would allow me to display a technology on a portable tablet device that just isn't as impressive on a laptop. I didn't/still don't expect to get an answer on this one.

Thanks, and I'm sorry if I have caused any confusion or come across as a noob to google. I used to use lmgtfy too for "stupid" questions. Then I realized it was kind of rude; especially since once elaborated on, I often found there were legitimate reasons the questions were asked.
[Nook Color General] discourse:
I think the Nook Color is not the right device for your needs. An iPad has apps for editing pdfs and everything else you've asked for. Another option would be the Dell Inspiron Mini Duo that was just released.
[Nook Color General] ws6kid:
Documents To Go 2.0 - for editing viewing pdfs, along with the ability to open other types of documents.

Note Everything - For note taking both typing and stylus input.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimMun:
Hello,

I am planning on downloading the Handcent SMS app.

If I do, can I uninstall the standard messaging app or do I still need that?

Thanks!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PollPixx:
I dont know, but why would you uninstall? Just set in options you dont want a notification and disable the sound, it will not bother you ever again. Handcent is great by the way, highly customizable...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lord Takyon:
I think if you remove stock you won't get notified at all by handcent.