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[Vibrant General] perroh:
How would I be able to tell the manufactured date on my phone? I dont have it here with me, but just I know when I get home...

Is it possible to attempt to replace the phone within the first year of purchase??

I got my Vibrant at Best Buy.. would I have to go to Best Buy or T-Mobile??

I seem to get some GPS locks and correct positioning ONLY when I use both GPS & Network location options... sooo I'm assuming my GPS doesnt function properly right..?? My GPS alone should be able to locate me right??
[Vibrant General] dawsoju:
I just got my phone replaced through insurance about a week ago and noticed a increased gps lock right away
[Vibrant General] YatimaMeiji:
If you have the update(which everyone should have by now) and gps isnt working still, then yea I would say call it in and get it replaced. I have mine that I got when it first came out and after the update(but then this was also after flashing each and every rom/leak/etc that i went back to stock), gps works fine for me.

Just remember, dont place the phone near any large metal, or magnetic objects, this throws the compass off. And try to be in view of as much sky as possible. Being in the shadow of a building will distort the signal and throw your location/accuracy off.
[Vibrant General] ZX3ZX4:
perron-

You should definitely be able to get decent accuracy/locks/location from the GPS just by itself. Using wireless networks can sometimes help enough that it masks the fact that your GPS performance is sub par. I never have the "Use wireless networks" box checked as it doesn't seem to improve my GPS's performance, and sometimes it seems to hurt it. Use an app like GPS Test to get an idea of how well the GPS is functioning, and make sure you have the wireless networks option turned off.
[Vibrant General] tenbeau:
A quick question---Don't you get a refurbished phone if you get your current phone replaced? That is the way it has always worked with me for the last 13 years with TM. Perhaps you received a refurbished phone mfg in Nov. I am still having GPS situations and have thought about asking for replacement but am concerned that I would receive one worse than what I now have, including hard locked buttons.
[Vibrant General] blanked:
They will give you a "new or like-new" phone. Mine was new but it wasn't in a retail package.
[Vibrant General] ZachLL88:
my manufacture date is 7/21/2010

my gps seems to work just fine. Thats with wireless networks not checked. sometimes i cant get a lock in a building, but thats not a huge deal for me. My gps stays connected when i get a singal, doesnt wander off the route, and seems to be fairly accurate, within a few feet. I got the phone oct 22, from radio shack.

Just used the GPS Test App;

Indoors

in view 12

in use 5

30ft

Outdoors

in view 12

in use 8-10

18-20ft
[Vibrant General] monstah_rain:
I got my replacement Vibrant last week. It was a new phone, complete with original box, battery, two back covers, headphones, instructions, usb cable, charger, and SIM card. GPS works now, locks in seconds and doesn't jump around anymore. I Odined my old phone back to stock, put it in the new box and sent it back to T-Mobile. I kept everything else.
[Vibrant General] engineer14:
i got my phone from tmobile off contract in august and my gps works but not very well. do i qualify for a replacement?
[Vibrant General] fosormic:
EDIT: Crap. Never mind, just realized you wrote "original box". I'll call for replacement. Nothing to see here. Move along...lol

The one you got, was it on a white box and wrapped in a carton-with-a-window or was it a full retail box?

I received one from insurance (Asurion) and was in a white box and indeed was refurb but all accessories in the box, including both back covers and all (was replacing a Nexus One). Got it replaced by tmo bcause the screen was greenish, and received the replacement one in an identical box, from the same address in TX, no accessories but I'd swear is new, not a single sxratch in the battery area - a telling sign (on the IMEI label under the batt says 10.07 so I assume us the nfg date). The IMEI in the box matched on both phones.

My GPS jumps all over the place, so if you definitely got a retail one, I'll ask for warrabty exchange.
[Vibrant General] barmanham:
I had gotten a replacement not to long ago was in original box sealed
[Vibrant General] fosormic:
Thanks. Based on both of your posts just called, and will get a replacement. Didn't give me any trouble at all when I asked for a replacement. However, the guy said he had no idea if I would get a new or a refurb... will call tomorrow and whine just in case.
[Vibrant General] fosormic:
Should. They sell it. They must guarantee it. Call their cust service. Your IMEI is the key.
[Vibrant General] jstein222:
mine came in the little white window box, no backplate, battery, or anything else. Maybe it's a refurbish...I don't know, however, it works perfectly and looks brand new.
[Vibrant General] fosormic:
Just like mine #2 (current). Looks and feels new. GPS jumps around when you are static? And have you used the samsung gps reset app thing?

ty
[Vibrant General] blanked:
Yup, that's how mine came. Manufactured in November and appears to be new in ever respect.
[Vibrant General] 12paq:
What was your deductible?

Sent from my Vibrant using Axura 2.2 Voodoo & the XDA App
[Vibrant General] fosormic:
$ 130 for me. The first Vibrant I got was a replacement that was pretty much "forced" upon me as the phone I lost was one of my Nexus One and they said they would only give me a Vibrant. I wanted a G2 and actually bought it, planning to ebay the Vibrant and turned out returning it. To think that I didn't want it and now am loving it to death :)

Btw, just tested my Vibrant running 3G on AT&T's network :cool:. If I didn't do it myself wouldn't have believed... Here.
[Vibrant General] roffee:
yeah! it's great, my gps works fine now
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willsnews:
Has anyone seen the c thru phone app is there anyway to make that work I paid for the app and the dev totally dropped support on the app I kept it instead of returning /refunding in hopes he would fix it but no luck ive e mailed the person and everything and I really want to get it working correctly
[Nexus One General] Youngunn2008:
So I dropped my phone, in a case mind you, directly on its face on hard tile floor. Didn't do anything to it cosmetically. I thought phew. That was close. Go to unlock with trackball wake - nothing. Go to key test on recovery, trackball left and trackball press won't register. Tried reboot several times... damn.

So, do I try to claim warranty?

Send in for repair?

Live with it?

I have another phone I could use temporarily...

Console me. :'(
[Nexus One General] Mokurex:
Well the nexus s just came out. . . . . . . :P
[Nexus One General] Youngunn2008:
So I called HTC to setup repair. So now since my n1 is hacked nine ways to Sunday how do I proceed? Wipe it to factory? I have cm 6.1.1, Wildmonks kernel, dark tremors a2SD on ext partition with sdcache, HTC sense keyboard...anyway. you get the pic.

Advice please :-)
[Nexus One General] Hollow.Droid:
Although people have reported getting replacements with custom roms still applied, i'd personally wipe to stock:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=614850
[Nexus One General] Mokurex:
If you already unlocked the bootloader, it wouldn't hide anything even if you wipe it to stock.
[Nexus One General] Youngunn2008:
Well I'm just doin a repair, not the swap... but with dt a2SD enabled I don't know how it will behave for the repairman when it looks for my ext partition.
[Nexus One General] Devastatin:
I'd wipe to stock just to give them the least amount of hassle. Especially if they are to overlook the unlocked bit.
[Defy General] SteveChou:
From motorola support forum and other forums, we know that probably there is an earpiece bug in DEFY. At present, no official statement about it.

Does DEFY still water proof after repairing the earpiece？
[Defy General] Le_Poilu:
First : Defy is not Waterproof but water resistant, it's not exactly the same thing.

Waterproof : You can let the device the time you want under water

Water resistant : It can resist to be under water (less than 1 meter) but I'll never let the Defy all the night in the bath :p

Then: There's no reason for a repaired device to be not water resistant angain and IP67 complian.

They have the tools for that, you don't have to worry.
[Defy General] danbutter:
IP67	=	Total dust ingress protection	|| immersion between 15cm and 1m depth

http://www.sensorsone.co.uk/ip-rating-checker.html

and yeah, it should be the same as new...if not you get to send it back again
[Defy General] Le_Poilu:
Nice link !

It would be great to have a IP68 device :D
[Defy General] danbutter:
Exactly my thoughts when I read it! :D
[Defy General] jk1234:
Only one way to find out tbh. But yeah is should, everything is put back together as before right so it should still be water tight.

Let us know how the earpiece holds up after repair.
[Defy General] bobbyphoenix:
LOL Motorola: There's a tool for that!
[Defy General] scrannel:
Actually it's probably not the earpiece. But if you send it in for that not only will they not fix it, but there's a team of defrocked nuns assigned to lick the water sensor stickers so your guarantee is void. You've been warned.
[Defy General] 周矛顺啊:
hello,I have a question,can defy resist dust? dust proof?my defy has several dust in its screen!!what about your defy?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alabamaroping:
OK. I know this is nit-picky, but that's me.

I have contacts in google voice and in facebook. Several are both.

Some contacts have pictures in both places. Some ROMs use the google voice pic as the contact picture, and others use the facebook pic.

Currently running AXURA 2.4. It uses the google voice contact pictures, but I'd rather it use facebook without going through all of them individually and picking the default pic.

How can I prioritize those on a large scale?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
Hi

I have the international galaxy s, i9000, which had the JPO stock firmware, it was also rooted using Z4root. All was fine until yesterday when I uninstalled an app, after re-booting the phone was semi-bricked. No problem I thought, re-flash... so I flashed to the latest JPU (2.2.1), no problem all ok,

except

the kernel is marked as rooted and now I can't un-root or re-root..? stuck..!

Any advice would be appreciated..? For instance, do I have to re-flash back to JPO and then install z4root then root / unroot or..????

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
any ideas...???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] furiousrcj:
I just fixed mine! I'll send you what I did as I was struggling with the same thing all evening!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] furiousrcj:
Okay, first I used superoneclick to root it, then I used the recovery file and keys in this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833423

and copied them to the correct directories using root explorer. I hope that helps!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
Thanks furiousrcj ~ will give it a go...

:-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
I'm assuming that you can root again even if it says already rooted..???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
bump...

anyone know..?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafi92:
When you just reflashed your phone to a new firmware, the kernel will always have the word 'root' inside. Not to worry because that's the original firmware kernel. You just root normally with z4root from then on :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafi92:
Also another thing: 2.2.1 does not support z4root to root your phone. You can use ryanza's OneClickLagFix to root 2.2.1.

Rooting 2.2 with z4root works just fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
just run z4root, said running exploit etc.... then acquiring root shell.... then it exits on its own but the cpu is going 100% and nothing happens, no superuser nothing..?

If I go back into z4root there is just a crashed 'white screen' and all the while the cpu is still going crazy... If I go into the task manager it shows z4root as Phase1

Only after re-boot does the cpu return to normal..? but no superuser and no root..!

Is it definitely compatible with 2.2.1..?

any ideas..??

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
ah just seen your post... ok will try that, thanks

What about SuperOneClick..? would that work with 2.2.1..?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafi92:
My apologies it's superoneclick and not oneclicklagfix. You could also can use cfroot for JPU. :) hope that I don't confuse you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcat888:
SuperOneClick sorted... rooted again :)

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafi92:
Happy to help :)

Cheers!
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madsquabbles:
is the archos gen 8 the best for AV quality in android devices? i've tried the evo 4g, moto droid, g tablet, and nook color and so far the archos 101 and 70 have the best audio out and video playback. i'm able to get louder sounds with no clipping. this using both the built in players of each device and using power amp with the same eq presets. and for different file types - i've only used rockplayer - the gen 8's native program have the least amount of problems. rockplayer stuttered on the nook color with 48khz audio encoded mp4's and the nook's native won't even handle that audio at all. the others did better but rockplayer isn't as refined as the archos' player.

are there any devices better than the archos for video and music playback? how does the galaxy tab compare?

i haven't used hdmi out - i don't own a hd tv as i don't really watch tv and my 24" dell has no hdmi.
[Defy Android Development] f4lkon:
so far so good. after i had flashed my defy it took a long time to boot. first welcome message was an com.android.mms error ;) nevertheless the rom runs good.
[Defy Android Development] 04pie:
someone could make a video of the result and as an example upload it on youtube? Pardoned my not good English!
[Defy Android Development] richiehd:
Gonna flash this on my girlfriends defy after a revision or two. Shes not a power user so she would freak out if the rom force closes or has bugs. It looks great! Is it gingerbread or 2.1 themed?
[Defy Android Development] marcoser:
great! can you insert images and write us what do you change in the specific? quadrant how much point you make? thanks a lot? (is not froyo, right?;) )
[Defy Android Development] Plumbum_DN:
"Only" themed
[Defy Android Development] wyxpark:
OWG, am i in the Defy forum? It is the first customized ROM here!! Greetings!!!;)
[Defy Android Development] SlightlyAmused:
Squee! I have been waiting for this since day one!
[Defy Android Development] richiehd:
It is! Im excited.
[Defy Android Development] jboogie3:
i am working on the bugs... remember this is beta guys... not final. put this out just so you guys can see what i have in store
[Defy Android Development] Higgsy:
good work JBoogie, I'm using my own rom I have customised the way I like but thanks for kick starting the dev scene
[Defy Android Development] vanloque:
Thanks a lot, great news! Now i'm looking forward for the 2.2 port!

Or maybe we should wait directly for 2.3, the source will be made available in a few days by google.
[Defy Android Development] danbutter:
being pushed out now:

https://groups.google.com/group/android-building/browse_thread/thread/91172a81604c8a0?pli=1
[Defy Android Development] jboogie3:
thx guys, im working on beta 3 right now
[Defy Android Development] jboogie3:
beta3 is now up
[Defy Android Development] andyfletcher:
Hi there!

Just put beta 3 on and it looks like wifi is broken. I switch it on, then it turns itself back off again. This behaviour wasnt there with beta2, it worked fine with that.

Keep up the excellent work!

Andy
[Defy Android Development] andyfletcher:
I was a bit quick to mention that... i rebooted the device and all is working fine and all of the previous minor gripes are fixed too... top job! One thing i would like tweaking... is it possible to change the text colour on the dialog boxes (example google acc setup) you have white on very light grey which is barely visible.

thanks again.
[Defy Android Development] jboogie3:
can you post a screen shot plz? and thank you for you feedback!
[Defy Android Development] strahlstrom:
JBoogie beta3 works fine for me =)
[Defy Android Development] trickyhenry:
Yes i found this too although not sure how to do a screen capture.

I can explain though... start new text message and click to add name. At the bottom where it says 'done' the button is grey and text is white. So the text is hard to read. Normally the button is dark grey and the text is white.

Hope this helps. I will buy u a big beer if you can get 2.2 up and stable.

Cheers
[Defy Android Development] CleanSweep93:
^^^Yeah I figured that out when it wouldn't flash haha
[Defy Android Development] rbeier1221:
*Edit* Looks l like I was replying to an older post...oops...that being said...

I have an (almost) stock backup, but would need to restore, wipe data, and backup again before I could post it anywhere. Let me know if anyone needs it.
[Defy Android Development] yoganche:
zagaza,

hi guys,

I DID IT !!!! :p

I now have the radio fm icon and it works perfect !!!!

I did like in the explanations before, I tried to mount it in R/W but it was keeping saying me "cannot copy.....file system read only" , so I did it in R/O and it worked !!

Thank you for your advcie Jboogie, and the others too.

Beta4 is goooooooooddd !!! Just waiting for the french pack and fixing little bugs as we stated before.

Happy new year for all.
[Defy Android Development] nisse12:
Calendar - New appointment bug?

I've installed your ROM and I am also very pleased with what you have done! There is though one problem I have and that is the inability to create a new appointment in the calendar. I have also tried to install another calender app and the issue remains.

The problem shows itself in the following way: I enter the calendar app, click menu and choose "New event". Then the screen goes black for half a sec and returns to the last used calender view.

Is it just me, or do others have the same problem?
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
You are right when i tried to set up a new event it also turns black and goes back...

Nice.InSane
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
I found an other bug: Neither u can import the contacts from the SimCard nor u can even add contacts!

I wanted to add the contacts manually but when I clicked save they were not in my contactlist...

Nice.InSane

Edit: I noticed that they are added, but I can only see them and add them when I click the call button. When I wanted to add them by pushing contacts they are not added and I cannot see the contacts added by pushing the call buttom!
[Defy Android Development] jboogie3:
when motoblur is removed this will always be a problem... You can even asked Handler. with the sim manager added it adds the contacts but you may not see it when you select the contacts. You will have to go through phone and then press contacts. i can add the blur stuff back but then it wont be blurless :)
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
Thanks, I now downloded an other contact manager...

Cannot wait for next beta xD.

PS: Will u make a ROM with Android 2.3 later?

Nice.InSane
[Defy Android Development] ExtraSyn:
Hey boogie, what do i change the apn settings to so i can get mms, and lol to be honest the only thing i like about blur has to do with the contact manager it has. Facebook sync and so on, but yeah still using this rom. Great so far no fc. Just this problem with the apn.. if you could help me with that thx.

Syn
[Defy Android Development] qpzmaluk:
Does anyone else have the problem with trying to sync emails etc? it just seems to get stuck and not download them to the phone.
[Defy Android Development] rbeier1221:
I have no issues with email. What type of email are you trying to sync?
[Defy Android Development] qpzmaluk:
Its the gmail app. It doesn`t seem to autosync my google contacts and emails. I`ve got everything switched on to do it but it starts syncing and then about half an hour later its still stuck trying to sync.
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
Happy new year all!

I am sync to my gmx account...

The first day it works, but the second day it always chrashes when it wants to update the emails.

Nice.InSane
[Defy Android Development] Jawzz:
Nvm I fixed it. Everything is working great now!
[Defy Android Development] ExtraSyn:
Can't add contacts
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
@ExtraSyn

Read 7-8 posts before...

You can download an other contactmanager or just use the dialler to add and see ur contacts.

Nice.InSane
[Defy Android Development] rbeier1221:
Not sure... might want to reflash.
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
@jboogie3

Just one question: When will you publish your next Beta xD, cannot wait for it....

Nice.InSane
[Defy Android Development] dnsdenis:
Hi,

i'm testing, and i've added file to a mirror but i can't post a link yet...

wwwDOTfileserveDOTcom/file/gtVAs4E
[Defy Android Development] nisse12:
Has anyone gotten the calendar to work properly? I still can't add new appointments. Is there a work around?
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
@jboogie3

Can u program the Defy in the way that i can connect to an ad-hoc ?

Nice.ImSane
[Defy Android Development] ExtraSyn:
What contact manager should i use
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
I used the "contact group manager".There I disabled in the settings->sort&hide everything expect "my contacts"

@jboogie3

I found another bug: When you click the enter button of the keyboard while writing a sms it does not jumps into the next line... , it sents the written sms twice!!!

Nice.InSane
[Defy Android Development] jboogie3:
you change this in the settings in the mms,
[Defy Android Development] Jt612:
Is it possible yo.contacts to sync with facebook seeing as you can't add accounts i can't figure it out...

Sent using motorola defy
[Defy Android Development] Nice.InSane:
Cannot find mms, only sms ...

Can u be a little bit more concret where I can change that?

Edit: Found it!

Nice.InSane
[Defy Android Development] chaihg:
Connected Music Player CMP

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you all know that its just very simple to install the CMP onto this ROM (for those who are missing this awesome player). I just downloaded the CMP.apk file and installed with any apk installer application, and thats it. Everything works like a charm. Cheers to Jboogie again.
[Defy Android Development] pre2k:
great rom! thanks!

but i found two bugs:

- can't add new events to calendar (like some people already mentioned before)

- when i want to play music with the player it starts to play for a second, then the screen turns black for half a second and the song stops playing. with the widget it works

anyone knows how to solve these problems? would like to stick with this rom...
[Defy Android Development] jboogie3:
all this will be fixed on next update.. had an update almost ready but i am working to transfer everything to 2.2. so my next rom update will be 2.2
[Defy Android Development] pystolero:
There is no way to have french language in the rom?

Maybe in a futur update?

Thanks a lot.
[Defy Android Development] chaihg:
Jboogie please please give us an update in the same 2.1 and not 2.2. It will be sometime before things are sorted out and fine tuned there. At least give us one that you have already made. :(
[Defy Android Development] cthulhu501:
+ 1 with pystolero

any way to have french language in this very nice rom?
[Defy Android Development] rbeier1221:
Looking forward to the froyo update! :D