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[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nirvana388:
I know how you feel, I don't want to go with my crap loaner for 2 weeks to have another phone that dies on me, but I can't think of another phone that I would like as much as this one (when it is working...) wondering if the Telus Fascinate has the same problems, as it doesn't look as much like an IPhone and has a flash. Fortunately I'm contract free with Bell so I can jump ship if needed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
Exactly! for the past 2~3 weeks i've been without the phone, i've been browsing around for a new & better phone... but so far all searches comes back to the SGS being the best one on the market... :(

Telus and Rogers Galaxy S models should be trouble free if you don't mind the missing front face camera for Video Chat

they are the same ones as the US carriers have, and so far from all the Galaxy S series, only the DAMN BELL I9000M has this problem with the power issue that kills the Internal SD :mad:

and unfortunately it's the only NAM GSM version that comes with the front facing camera
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Karmalina:
Wish I had my build date on my handset that failed after JK4, but I already exchanged it for a new one built 10.10.

Fingers crossed!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
flash it, install speed ROMs, or just upgrade the stock ROM with lag mods

if it survives for 1 month, then it's safe :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Frostshock:
I'm on a Desire Z now and I've got to say, it's really nice. Overclockable to 1.4 GHz, and it's a little stubborn but rooting unlocking and getting Clockwork and custom ROMs has all been cracked. And most importantly, 850/1900 MHz :D

Not to mention I've had it fall onto asphalt and it only scratched a bit. My Galaxy S's plastic probably would have cracked. The battery life is much better than my Galaxy S's and the GPS can not only track me but tracks me almost perfectly with very little margin of error.

Still miss the Super AMOLED screen though, sure it eats through the battery but it's very nice in sunlight. If you prefer slate phones then Telus is getting the Desire HD probably January, and if it's similarly locked down like the Z then it should be unlocked fairly quickly.

Just possible alternatives since Bell's Galaxy S may never be functional.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i've been looking for a HTC DHD with NAM bands, and the Telus version might be passable, but yes, it'll be really hard to break away from the SAMOLED

i played with the HTC DZ for a few hours, and can't get the amazingness from that Sony LED screen

When you OC to 1.4 does it automatically adjust the CPU speed as you use it? or it needs to be locked at 1.4? thinking more along the line of battery usage
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Karmalina:
Thanks, planning to tackle this plan on my next days off...been tentative to do anything since my first phone was replaced within a week and I'm now on lucky #4. But at this point if they tried to give me any grief about me causing an issue on my phone I'd be likely to set the whole store on fire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] t1mman:
Don't worry, they're pretty aware of the high failure rate of thoses!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] devonblue4u:
http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_optimus_2x_goes_live_on_preorder_priced_at_550_euro-news-2156.php

The LG Optimus 2X come in at $725US, but is a dual core, and the screen is said to rival Super AMOLED. And its more of a leap beyond SGS than the Nexus S. I'm keeping my eye on this one...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nirvana388:
Completely agree, I'd just ditch my vibrant and talk bell into swapping it for a Desire Z, but my friend has one and the Screens doesn't come anywhere close to what I'm used to, I also don't need a phone 3x as thick for a keyboard that is slower than swype. Let's hope the post-August manufactured phones have actually gone through some sort of QA process that they clearly left out on the original.

As far as the Fascinate, yea losing the front facing cam sucks, but to be honest I have several friends with SGS's and IP4's who all have tango, and none of us ever video chat, so I think I'd rather have the camera flash.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trinitonesounds:
1) Hard reset BEFORE (Yes/No)? - No

2) Hard reset AFTER (Yes/No)? - No

3) Wipe cache BEFORE (Yes/No)? - No

4) Wipe cache AFTER (Yes/No)? - No

5) How long did you last before having the SDCard Failure? - 5 min

6) Did you ROOT the device BEFORE (Yes/No)? - Yes

7) Did you remove it before update? - No

8) Did you ROOT the device AFTER (Yes/No)? - No

9) Did you apply LagFix BEFORE (Yes, Wich one/No)? - No

10) Did you remove it befure update? - N/A

11) Did you apply LagFix AFTER (Yes, wich one/No)? - No

12) What is the manifactured date (Behind the battery)? - ?? (it's in for replair)

13) If you did not hard reset before, please post a list of apps installed.

As if I remember that...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PuerkitoBio:
Died after a good run on JK4...

Installed JK4 on December 10th, died today (when booting, can't get past flashing Galaxy S i9000M screen).

1) Hard reset BEFORE - NO

2) Hard reset AFTER - NO

3) Wipe cache BEFORE - NO

4) Wipe cache AFTER - NO

5) How long did you last before having the SDCard Failure - 12 days on JK4, about 60 days overall

6) Did you ROOT the device BEFORE - NO

7) Did you remove it before update? - Doesn't apply

8) Did you ROOT the device AFTER - NO

9) Did you apply LagFix BEFORE - NO

10) Did you remove it befure update? - Doesn't apply

11) Did you apply LagFix AFTER - NO

12) What is the manifactured date - 10/09

13) If you did not hard reset before, please post a list of apps installed. - a bunch
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deezy7:
Well THAT is bad news...op's edited post was guessing that anything 10/09 or after would be safe....daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
[Galaxy S I9000 General] contalyst:
1) Hard reset BEFORE (Yes/No)? Yes

2) Hard reset AFTER (Yes/No)? Yes

3) Wipe cache BEFORE (Yes/No)? No

4) Wipe cache AFTER (Yes/No)? No

5) How long did you last before having the SDCard Failure? 2 weeks

6) Did you ROOT the device BEFORE (Yes/No)? No

7) Did you remove it before update? N/A

8) Did you ROOT the device AFTER (Yes/No)? No

9) Did you apply LagFix BEFORE (Yes, Wich one/No)? No

10) Did you remove it befure update? N/A

11) Did you apply LagFix AFTER (Yes, wich one/No)? No

12) What is the manifactured date (Behind the battery)?10.09

13) If you did not hard reset before, please post a list of apps installed. oddity here. All my personal data was kept even after 2 hard resets. My pictures and music is and was on my internal sd.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] moiza67:
1) Hard reset BEFORE (Yes/No)? Yes

2) Hard reset AFTER (Yes/No)? Yes

3) Wipe cache BEFORE (Yes/No)? No

4) Wipe cache AFTER (Yes/No)? No

5) How long did you last before having the SDCard Failure? 3 weeks

6) Did you ROOT the device BEFORE (Yes/No)? Yes

7) Did you remove it before update? No

8) Did you ROOT the device AFTER (Yes/No)? Yes

9) Did you apply LagFix BEFORE (Yes, Wich one/No)? Yes

10) Did you remove it befure update? Yes

11) Did you apply LagFix AFTER (Yes, wich one/No)? No

12) What is the manifactured date (Behind the battery)?10.09

13) If you did not hard reset before, please post a list of apps installed. N/A
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Handsome Rob:
1) Hard reset BEFORE : No

2) Hard reset AFTER : Couldn't, no recovery mode, no UI

3) Wipe cache BEFORE : Yes

4) Wipe cache AFTER : Yes

5) How long did you last before having the SDCard Failure : 7 days

6) Did you ROOT the device BEFORE : Yes

7) Did you remove it befure update : N/A Didn't update

8) Did you ROOT the device AFTER : N/A Didn't update

9) Did you apply LagFix BEFORE : Yes, Voodoo

10) Did you remove it befure update : N/A Didn't update

11) Did you apply LagFix AFTER : N/A Didn't update

12) What is the manifactured date : 10/11

May not have been a bad SD, DBDATA error, however no XDA methods/odin flashes would recover it. Mad flashing revealed only JK4 had recovery accessible/useless, displayed SD error.

8 day DOA exchange at bell store, painless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ManuWKK89:
here goes guys and gals,

-i'm proficient at flashing to stock ji and jf using odin

-i know how to use master clear as well

-i know how to root/unroot using several methods: apps like oclf, update.zip, oneclick root(one i use the most), and android-sdk-command prompt (longer but my preferred method)

-i know how to backup and restore apps using titanium backup(donate user)

-i know how to use rom manager to restore and backup roms

-i know how to navigate the clockwork mod recovery

-i know the basic CWM menu items by heart (ie: install, choose from sd card, etc)

-i DON'T know the more complicated menu item in CWM (ie: advanced restore, etc)

-i know how to enable/disable lagfixes but i don't know what any of it means (ie: ext4, ext2, "overkill", jfs, rfs, etc)

the past weekend i've been flashing several different roms using CWM trying to find the perfect one for me. i have install/backed up right now: espyel 3.0, espyel 3.5, axura 2.3, cog 2.3oc-uv. these 4 roms have the components to what i want for my phone.

what i want to know how to do is, for instance, if i like espyel 3.5 the most for how it looks or whatever, but it's missing some apps that are included in one of the other roms, how can i move those apps over to the ROM i'm using? and also, there's little things niggling me, like how the android keyboard (the one i use) doesn't vibrate when i press characters(i've checked in the keyboard settings vibrate when pressed), how do i fix that?

is there a tutorial some where that shows me how to move apps around from one rom to another? once i know what app i want, how do i know which apk and associated files are needed?

the apps i really need are the

1. stock samsung alarm clock (for the smart alarm that doesn't JOLT me awake), 2. the other clock app (don't know the name) but it's like a desktop/dock type thing; it has 4 buttons along the bottom for weather, news, clock, and music.

3. voltage control

4. most importantly, the stock (i think?) android music app. this is the one that when you select an album, it shows the album art in the background behind the song in that album. i think it also comes with different sized widgets. this one just has the best feel, imo.

5. i know there's some missing but here goes.

thanks in advance for sparing me cheeky condescension/use the search flames
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avgjoegeek:
1. stock samsung alarm clock (for the smart alarm that doesn't JOLT me awake),

Um - Standard Tibu backup/restore should work find for this.

2. the other clock app (don't know the name) but it's like a desktop/dock type thing; it has 4 buttons along the bottom for weather, news, clock, and music.

This sounds like Desk Home - You can either Tibu Backup - or find the apk inside of the ROM's *.zip file under /system/app and possibly just install it to the new ROM by copying the necessary *.apk file to your SD Card and using your File Manager to install it.

3. voltage control

This one is probably a no-no - if it isn't in the ROM your updating too most likely its due to the kernel that cooker is using. I wouldn't recommend installing it as it would have already been there if it had the correct kernel. :)

4. most importantly, the stock (i think?) android music app. this is the one that when you select an album, it shows the album art in the background behind the song in that album. i think it also comes with different sized widgets. this one just has the best feel, imo.

Again - should either be able to do a standard Tibu backup or find it in the ROM under /system/data for the *.apk. and you could try installing it on the new ROM and it should replace it. But... this might not work as sometimes the cooker of the ROM does some strange stuff.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hansalvato:
On the boot screen it says SPL:

and stuff like that is it hacked?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] n2rjt:
It depends. What IPL and SPL versions are shown? What ROM does it boot to?

What is your goal? To install a custom ROM, restore it to an official ROM, or what?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hansalvato:
IPL:1.08

SPL:1.08

GSM: 01.0910

OS 1.8.10.2

I will probably want to have it CID unlocked and install WM6.5 and overclock

ps:excuse my noobness ive been with android for a while
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] n2rjt:
Wow, Android to Wizard. I hope it is not too disappointing.

You have a G3. There is a sticky post in the rom development forum that tells how to unlock and update your rom. If you cannot find the files you need, post a question in that thread saying specificaly what file you need.

If you want wm6.5 I recommend the CRACING rom in my signature.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hansalvato:
Im still with android im just wanting to try this because modding phones for me is kind of a hobby lol but yeah thanks for the info!
[Windows Phone 7 General] gordec:
Anyone think it's possible to make an emulator for order versions of WM like 6.5 or 6.0 for WP7? That would be sweet. There are so many apps that would be beneficial to us.
[Windows Phone 7 General] GenkaiMade:
Okay, you'd have a couple of extra apps, but they'd be buggy, slow, and generally quite crap - just like the rest of the OS.

Surely you can hold out for them to be made for WP7, if only so that they're actually usable :P
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
and MS did also say they themselves wouldn't support it. WM6.5 is approximately 100MB as well, so I wonder how that would play in the apps space, considering we don't have access to native code at all.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Titus_Andronicus:
I think that with the amazingly fast processors in WP7 phones, they could easyly emulate the old WM6.5 phones. There are some apps wich will not likely ever get made for WP7 that would be sweet to have.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
Why exactly would you want to? I mean what are you missing out on that much?

Remember, emulation wouldn't open up the door to apps like Call Recorders and that kind of thing as there would still be no access to that in the WP7 System.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLCMOBSTA183:
im having problem with my market updater its not letting me look at my downloads in market place but i can search and download fine. i wiped the market place data and cache to restart the market place but that doesn't seem to fix it. does anyone know where i can find the market place 2.12 so i can try to reinstall it im running miui 12.18 and the market updater is 1.0

EDIT: i found the 2.12 but its not letting me install the apk
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruleftbehind:
what you should do is use ROM Explorer or something of the sort. Navigate to /system/app and find com.android.vending.apk & and give it FULL permissions. reboot the phone and your market should work fine.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikey:
This isn't the Q&A section

Apply your question(s) in the proper sub-forum, or it might result in a temporary vacation
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Butzacooky:
Hey guys, I've searched and already found how to unroot and everything, but in my case, I have a broken screen so I can't visually see anything. I'm sending it into HTC but I don't want them realizing its been rooted anyway.

I have changed the bootup T-Mobile screen so there is no annoying sound... I don't know if that might throw them off.

I've tried androidscreencast but it won't load in recovery mode, only in normal mode.

It's running CR_Mod_1.35.531_OTA Full ROM

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droopypillow:
Just send it back...I sent my original slide back due to camera being fuzzy and it was rooted with custom bootscreen and rom and nothing happened.. I did the same thing with a G1 years ago
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frankenstooge:
I see more and more people who 'must' have trackball wake in their ROM.

I want to try it out... but if you carry it in your pocket, does it get accidentally turned on? I don't need my battery dying too early today.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hollow.Droid:
Nope I never had it wake the phone accidentally, even If it does the lock screen prevents any unlocks. I personally 'need' it because my power button is broken :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
i need it also because my power button is dead too. and no, it has never woken in my pocket.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
Use it all the time! Never turned on by accident.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwig:
Anyone who holds onto a nexus one with a broken power button is kind of dumb. It's still under warranty. Call them for a swap. You won't even be without a phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hollow.Droid:
Well my power button broke after I replaced my digitizer (I could only afford to replace it myself) and therefore voided my warranty. Trust me, I would have replaced it if I could :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caseuno:
i had a broken power button, unlocked bootloader, rooted phone and i had opened up the phone messed up the void sticker called htc told them my warranty was void because i disassembled the phone, sent it to them they repaired it and sent it back with stock 2.2 locked bootloader free of charge.... awesome
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
That's cool :cool: An early XMas present! :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hollow.Droid:
Damn, might have to try that!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meechto:
My N1's power button is intact. However, track ball wake is a convenience for me :) And yes as everyone here has reiterated, the track ball wake does not unlock the phone it merely lights up the screen :) though with CM you can configure a track ball unlock as well. But I guess that is what will cause accidental unlocks in the pocket ;)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
It's a matter preference. I find it very handy to have trackball wake.

Now with trackball answer it's even more handy for me.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] izmar:
I hate having to awkwardly push the power button with my right pointer finger to unlock it.

It's like im giving my phone a reach around.

I use trackball wake+unlock.

It's so nice to just push it twice, then have it unlock. Less work = faster access.

It occasionally comes unlocked in my pocket, but the worst that ever happens is I have 200 characters of mumbo jumbo typed into the handcent quick reply box. I always face my phones screen towards me, so if anything smashes my pocket, it hits the back of the phone! I guess a drawback to that though is you can activate your touch screen through your pants. It could also be the auto-screen-on caused by the handcent app itself, so when that mumbo jumbo gets typed into the quick reply box, it could be just that the screen never turned off because my leg had been touching it since it turned on.

Who knows.

Either way, it's become a necessity for me.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
I've never once had it unlock in my pocket, besides you need to swipe afterwards anyway.

With all the reports of failed power buttons on nexus ones, you'd be crazy to use it to unlock your device 80 times per day. Track ball is much more robust.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
My though exactly.:D
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Pre-req: An understanding of how to install the SDK and how to built out a generic 2.2 device. I won't go into that, here. Let's also assume that the name of your new 2.2 image is "TnT", for the sake of these instructions.

So, assuming you have a 2.2 generic device in the emulator, ready for use, these are the steps that worked for me:

1- Get a copy of TnT's OTAUpdate.apk. You can grab a copy here: http://www.mediafire.com/?zaiiz12s599hlmk

2- Update the android image so that it has a system.image that you can alter. The way to do that is to take the sample system.img in /platforms/android-8/images and copy it into the same location as your image.

3- Reboot into the emulator device, which now has your new image. This is the syntax used, in Ubuntu:

./emulator -avd TnT -partition-size 96

4- Use ADB or sideload OTAUpdate.apk into the emulator, as a user apk (it should install fine).

5- Edit the build.prop so that the device thinks it's a TnT build. The three lines you want to emulate are:

ro.build.description
ro.build.fingerprint
ro.tapntap.version.release

6 - Reboot again. Then, run the OTA updater. It should update you if there's a new firmware avaiable. You can't actually install it here, but just check logcat and you should see the ZIP location and then just grab it manually. If there are no new updates when you do this, you might want to test by updating the three entries to something older, like this:

ro.build.description=harmony-user 2.2 FRF91 hudson-20101122-122046-TnT_SVN_2967 test-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=Flextronics/harmony/harmony/:2.2/FRF91/hudson-20101122-122046-TnT_SVN_2967:user/test-keys
ro.tapntap.version.release=1.0.1-2967

That way, you know that an update is out there and this should pick up on that.

Hope this helps!
[G Tablet General] woneill1701:
Roebeet,

Your key looks like you are emulating the 2967 release. Have you tried it with the 3053 version?

Could this be why folks are not getting the OTA update on their Gtabs?

Bill
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I was emulating a 3053 device, when I first set this up. I just used 2967 in this example, just because some people are still seeing 3053 as the latest.
[G Tablet General] prscott1:
Hi Roebeet, I was going to set this up in the emulator but I wasn't sure what you meant by this step. I have several avd's setup and one for 2.2. Where do I copy the system.img from the android-8/images folder to? (my .avd folder?).

Thanks!

EDIT: I tried to copy the system.img to my appropriate .avd/... folder but it hangs on boot.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
That's the place....
[G Tablet General] prscott1:
Hmmm. it is hanging on boot up. what permissions need to be on the system.img?
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
I didn't do anything to it. Just copied it. I seem to remember running into the same issue unless I create the emulator, and then run it once before you put the system image in if I remember correctly.
[G Tablet General] prscott1:
Okay, I started a new avd - started it. shut it down. copied system.img. started it.

It boots now. but still won't let me write to the system folder. I pulled the build.prop to edit it but it won't let me push it back. Says it failed to copy it ... Out of memory

EDIT: I changed system.img to read + write for all but now it is in a boot loop again on the android bootanimation.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
And all of the sudden the light in my head comes on... I had the same issue. Had to start the emulator from a command line like this...

emulator -avd TnT -partition-size 128

Need to run that from wherever you happen to have emulator.exe located. Mine is in the tools folder like yours probably is. Change the name TnT to whatever yours is called. Has something to do with not having a partition to write to...

Edit: Once you have the build.prop changed you can start the emulator from the GUI. Seems to only need to be run from the command line to get it built.
[G Tablet General] prscott1:
Yes! I just googled and found out the problem was I should start it from command line. I'm working now!

Thanks for your help.

I'm actually using a Galaxy tab addon for my play ground right now.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Cool... Fun stuff isn't it:)
[G Tablet General] fahadz:
i need OTA enginner whos build my system

i need OTA enginner whos build my system any body here contact me

thank u
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godzilladad:
Just want to get the s-on to take back to Sprint. Stuck on Fastboot, when i press bootloader it goes back to fastboot. I tried the PCS361 zip file, but all it does is restart back to htc evo screen and stays there. so frustrated, try doing research but i dont really understand how to do it, please help!!:(