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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dynamicpda:
I lost the official red battery. Been using replacements. And I didn't pay attention to the moisture indicators before the accident, so I don't know any color changes. I just see several red stickers on the red plastic inside the phone. The only obvious water indicator is a slightly opaque plastic chamber that seems to have a rubber gasket around it. It's located to the right of the camera. When the phone was wet you could see water sloshing inside. Now that the phone is largely dry, you can see a few small droplets. It doesn't seem to have another purpose other than to hold water.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saboture:
That small chamber your talking about is the speaker. If you play music and put your finger over it, you'll lose almost all sound.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdh10475:
Why dont you have insurance? You a retail $450 phone rooted and no insurance. :confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letshaveDEX:
That is only if you don't have TES.

Also, to buy a new screen it costs $100, even if you have TES or not. Sucks major balls.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheNexxuvas:
I think you mean TEP, and no it is not $100 for a replacement screen. For a non liquid damaged phone it is Free with any ESRP or TEP on the account.

IF, any customer has not been paying the $4 for ESRP or the $7 for TEP the repair fee is $35 for screen repair with the option to add TEP after repair...but again...not for liquid damage. Liquid damage is something we do not repair around or for, we consider the phone Damaged Beyond repair and set you up with the # and website for Asurion insurance for the replacement.

The plans changed around 4 months back.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] entropism:
OK, let me clarify: Like I said before, if you have TEP or not, the STORE will not touch a liquid damaged phone. You can order a replacement phone through Asurion for $100 if you do have TEP, you're ****ed if you don't.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Berat:
It might be to late but, put the phone in rice for a few hours. Rice absorbs moisture, so it may help dry it out completely.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dynamicpda:
Thanks for the clarification. I may buy an OEM front panel replacement (digitizer + LCD) for ~$110, since neither I can avail myself of neither Sprint nor Asurion.

The problem seems to be expanding as I dry it out. Another vertical strip on the screen has developed the same problem.

I wonder if the Damp-Rid desiccant is getting into the phone. (The phone gets dusted with a fine powder.)

I'll try to pry open the case and reseat the digitizer ribbon to see if that helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EliWay:
Why haven't you tried the bag of rice solution yet? It's the cheapest and most effective method.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dynamicpda:
Rice was the first thing I tried. Then moved up to real desiccant.

The phone is really on the fritz now. The screen randomly stays black on resume.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] live2ride96:
I feel for ya, man. Got three evos in the family, and never bought TEP, because quite frankly, pretty much anything can be fixed for $35 other than water damage and total destruction of the phone. I didn't see either of those happening. And then my dumba$$ wife dropped her phone in the crapper. Dried it off, and put it in rice right away for 2 days. Pulled it out, and it worked fine, other than a little discoloration. For about a day, anyway. Then it was stuck at the splash screen. So now I had to go spend another $300 on Craigslist, and here I have one of the prettiest paperweights you've ever seen. I contemplated whether maybe I did in fact need insurance. Then I decided I just need a less clumsy wife.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doward:
Ok, finally got the build environment finished, got a successful 'generic' Gingerbread build done.

Now what the hell do I do with the files? I've got a ramdisk.img / system.img / userdata.img in my 'OUT' directory.

I'm figuring I just flash them to the phone and see what happens...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lithid-cm:
after make did you try a make -j{whatever} otapackage?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doward:
Doing so now... what's this going to do? Set it up as a flashable zip file?

*EDIT*

make-3.81: *** No rule to make target `otapackage'. Stop.

Yeah, I had to recompile make 3.81 from scratch, then stuck it in my /bin as make-3.81 ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] digitalrurouni:
Anyone mind helping a fellow noob out on some steps on how to build a gingerbread rom? :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doward:
I'm trying to work out how to at least attempt to load the image in the Emulator, before testing it on my phone...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doward:
Well, copying system.img into my android 2.2 and 2.3 AVD directories yields - boots 2.3 no problem, 2.2 does not boot.

My first reaction is that the 2.2 kernel's not compatible with the 2.3 system.img, but isn't the kernel included in system.img?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
The kernel is packed in to the boot.img
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doward:
When you compile Android from source, where is boot.img located?

Under out/target/product/generic, I have ramdisk.img, system.img, and userdata.img - no boot.img.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
The boot.img is made from the kernel and ramdisk. See below

HOWTO: Unpack, Edit and Repack Boot Images
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zemerick:
Was this ever resolved because I'm having the same issue. .
[General Questions and Answers] dakkywantstodocrazysht:
title says it all id just like help
[General Questions and Answers] Diamond_dawg:
Not at the moment, which phone do you have tho?
[Epic 4G General] MeOverTrance:
World of Warcraft Android Authenticator problem

Yes, I made the mistake I never thought I would. I installed the Authenticator on my old Eclair ROM and attached it to my account. I flashed and brought my phone up to speed with DK28 and the Froyoness must have gone to my head because I forgot that I should've disattached the Authenticator first. I am now unable to log in to my Battle.net or WoW account. I am also waiting till Mammon pushes out the latest version of his ROM before I redownload the authenticator. Can I just redownload it to my phone again ? Or will I have to contact Blizzard about this ? Any help is appreciated thanx !
[Epic 4G General] kenvan19:
Contact blizz. Its not hard. I wiped my phone once without thinking about my authenticator and almost missed a lk raid rofl
[Epic 4G General] MeOverTrance:
Should I do it with a phone call or an email ? And what did you tell them ?
[Epic 4G General] Sh0wNuF:
Definitely call them, it will get fixed in 15 minutes vs weeks via email. Just tell them you had to do a hard reset on your phone and forgot to disable the authenticator first. Make sure you have one of your cd keys so they can make sure its realy your account. I didn't and they were still able to authenticate that I owned the account through my payment info and a discription of some of my main characters so it definitely best to call them
[Epic 4G General] MeOverTrance:
Just emailed tech support, hoping for this to get resolved soon

Will call in the morning

Thanx everyone !
[Epic 4G General] rdzlyz:
Did that once, faster if you call them and take it off, all they need is your original can key when you started WoW
[Epic 4G General] Sh0wNuF:
Definitely call....since you emailed today you will get a response in about a week saying they either need a photocopy of yur id or just to call them, lol
[Epic 4G General] Dulanic:
This is half the reason I reason I make cw backups lol. Not sure where blizzard stores the esn of the authenticator but titanium doesn't store it.

Just call. It's a 30 minute wait for a 2 min call. I've never forgotten since lol
[Epic 4G General] Sh0wNuF:
The worst thing is that since I'm a flash whore I just took the authenticator off and when you take it off you lose your core hound pup companion pet
[Epic 4G General] Dulanic:
Try flexauth. It let's you force your serial number.
[Epic 4G General] JettMartinez:
I restore mine all the time with Titanium (data only) no problems.
[Epic 4G General] Dulanic:
Was this after a full data wipe? Because it has been confirmed that titanium doesn't store the esn for the authenticator. It is stored elsewhere in the system data.
[Epic 4G General] JettMartinez:
Yeah, I just did it yesterday updating to the latest Nebula ROM. 3x wipe of data/cache/dalvik. I even did it a few weeks back on a freshly rooted new phone when my original was replaced for bad battery contacts.

I just download the app again from the market then restore data only from Titanium.

I would recommend keeping the serial number somewhere else safe though. From experience when I had the key fob authenticator, Blizzard is easier to deal with when you can give them the number.
[Epic 4G General] snowmanwithahat:
Calling is definitely faster. I've managed to recover my account twice when flashing a ROM and forgetting that it would wipe out the authenticator. Just try and remember to remove it manually next time, saves so much hassle.

Call them though, email is not effective
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kitster1:
I have full android sdk installed in my winXP for development and being updated to 2.3 as latest.

Recently i found that i am unable to do either ADB/fastboot as both "adb devices" and "fastboot devices" didnt list out of my attached nexus one.

i have tried to reinstalled the usb driver and the window shows "android bootloader" being connected on plugin.

Please advice
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
What folder did you point to when you ran the ADB commands?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kitster1:
C:\android-sdk-windows-2.0\platform-tools

I can mount as external stoage and no problem to trigger the command, but it seems can't detect my connected mobile through adb or fastboot neither.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sl8125:
Check if you have adb and fastboot file in the platform tools folder. If not you need to go download it from Google. When u got my new laptop it also didn't work. It kept telling me adb commands was not available.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Since you're not getting a "command not found" message, you're obviously in the right folder. Try installing the latest drivers instead of reinstalling the ones you have...
[Droid Eris General] crax0r:
(please don't ask me where I got the name...)

All devs, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a all-in-one ROM ftp server for all the public to see. Instead of having to use multiupload and other site where some of the speed is limited, has one place for all the ROMs for the public to download old, new and beta versions for all to see. I was just wondering if it would be a good idea. I have a dedicated server so that the bandwidth and space would be enough.

Just comment on what you think!

If any developers would like to contact me on permission to upload their ROMs to the ftp server just PM me.

Thank You!
[Droid Eris General] ijerk:
r u serious man??? with a handle like that and the name of it is project ""take""ie ...my phonehas sensitive information on it and u could do anything to the roms on your "dedicated server"

someone get the kraken!

dumb@$$
[Droid Eris General] neederishelp:
no, your the dumbass... he is not asking for a dedicated sever that connects to the phones, its one for the ROMS... I think that it's a good idea, but there is already Github, lol
[Droid Eris General] crax0r:
Thank you neederishelp,

Can you give me the link(s) to the Github?

Thank You.

And btw, ijerk, your name matches... And Tiki + Taquita my dogs names....

And if I changed the ROMs the MD5s would be different.
[Droid Eris General] ijerk:
Evil prays on thee weak..

Bring thy repulsed beast KRAKEN

Upon the wicked
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Windycity35:
I noticed battery life on ae leaked Captivate Froyo 2.2 build (with AT&T bloatwares intact) was stellar!!! The battery life nearly doubled the custom ROMs that I have tried (the latest Cognition 2.3b8 and Axura 2.3 ROms).

I have tried all three on a regular work schedule from 8am - 4pm in a same location. I left all the ROMs installed as is. Here are the battery life meter findings at the end of my shift listed by ROM:

1. Leaked Captivate Froyo 2.2 --- Battery Life (92%)

2. Axura 2.3 --- Battery Life (69%)

3. Cognition 2.3b8 --- Battery Life (65%)

Anyone know why is this? Don't get me wrong, I love the Axura new functions and all that extras built-in. However, the battery life is discouraging.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cachookaman:
did you recalibrate the battery and delete the batterystats.bin each time you changed to a different ROM? also, im not sure but the different modems could be the cause of the battery drain.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
I almost want to say this is common sense. If you load something that increases your phones speed with a lagfix, gives you stronger reception and faster download speeds with using a different modem, and has many more enabled options would you not think battery may be effected?

All this being said I can get 20 hrs of moderate use on my current configuration. I do not need much more then that
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] born_fisherman:
:D *almost*

I have questioned this myself sometimes, then realizing that there is a lagfix installed. it's like buying a Vette for the gas mileage.. not gonna happen.

Hence, some custom ROM's do have damn good battery life with lagfixes! So, it's just a matter of finding what suits your needs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avgjoegeek:
The issue I've been seeing with the latest builds of most of the ROMs in the Dev Forums are:

Using customized i9000 Kernels and Modems. These are hacks/tweaks (and very good ones) to work with Captivate phones.

OC/UV Kernels that offer awesome overclocking/voltage capabilities but at a price - battery usage.

Using a Vibrant build for Captivate phones.

Custom "Captivate Kernels" (sorry the quotes aren't there for sarcasm just emphasis) that are still in beta or development.

All of the above cause battery issues as they are not optimized for our phone, missing some bits in the software that handle the OS/battery life, or straight up bleed the battery to death as your OVERCLOCKING YOUR PHONE.

And to make it worse utilizing different modems just exacerbates the problem.

Lag Fixes - SHOULD NOT AFFECT BATTERY LIFE AS THEY ARE JUST CHANGING YOUR EXISTING FILE STRUCTURE IN YOUR PHONE.

So it does make sense that while using a "stock" ROM you would get better battery life.

Now.. on to battery life/usage:

Calibrating the battery helps at least keep a more accurate track of how your phone's battery performance is doing.

You can do a few things to optimize your battery usage:

Of course Calibrate your battery - removing battery stats on your phone, doing the drain it down to 0% and re-charge to 100% to ensure you have an accurate idead of true battery usage is always helpful. I delete battery stats right after every flash to a new ROM.

Turning off Wireless/GPS/Data etc. while not in use. This does NOT mean to use a task killer since if you have an errant app running it will just make battery life worse not better.

If your using an OC kernel - then the usually install Voltage Control is a must! I have heard great things about tweaking these settings and people getting great battery life from their devices. Now.. mind you you don't have to overclock if your running the OC kernel. It's just there if you want it.

Also - being careful of what you have installed on your phone is one of the biggest ones most people miss. If it's trying to do a push every 3 seconds that is utilizing your battery/proc and that will be killing your phone.

With all that being said though? The custom ROMs are all awesome and I'm very glad we have them - even if it means I sacrifice a little bit of battery performance (which to me is horrid to begin with). I use a little common sense and I can at least get through an entire day with average usage (txts, email, calls, xda, angry birds etc..) without having to throw it on a charger.

Sorry.. long post - too much coffee and 90 wpm does that to me sometimes :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vuoflfan:
whats the easiest way to do this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avgjoegeek:
For battery stats - you go into the advanced Clockwork Recovery Menu - go to Advanced - and you should see Clear Battery Stats there.

I would make sure that your phone is charged to 100% before doing this.

There is another trick you can do also that works for some people.

Charge your phone in.. as SOON as you get the notification stating to unplug your phone you should unplug it - wait 30 seconds then plug it back in. If it wasn't calibrated correctly you will see the percentage on your battery typically at around 97% instead of the reported 100%.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kipp:
The improved battery life can probably be most attributed to the difference between the Java interpreter in 2.1 and Froyo's JIT.

In short, when Java does interpretation, it reads a single application instruction, decides what to do with it, does it, and repeats. If the same function is encountered again, the interpreter still has to re-read the instructions, decide what to do again, and do it.

In comparison, when Froyo's JIT encounters an application function, it reads the instructions in a large batch, decides what all of them should do, and records the result in the processor's "native-language". If the same function is encountered again, the processor just does it without needing to make all of those decisions again.

The speed difference is more than 30x. Running application code is only a small fraction of the total "working time", so benchmarks typically only see about 3x improvement. For the parts that are running applications (including even the home screen), Froyo is ultimately running 1 operation that used to take 30 operations - that means fewer electrons are wasted on the processor.

Also, Samsung's crappy filesystem decision certainly will impact battery life, since the format they chose (a relative of the old DOS format) performs seeks optimized for linear mechanical devices (like hard drives), not from FLASH, which suffers on fractional block reads and excels at non-linear reads. Lots of electrons will be wasted interacting with FLASH unnecessairily, but that kind of interaction is rare compared to other battery consumers.

- Kipp

Embedded Systems Hardware and Software Engineer
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] PanCubano:
I almost looked though all 85 pages of the "post your home screen" thread hoping someone asked the question there, but, came up with nothing so far.

What its the time and date widget he is using on his home screen?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] collins521:
Look for "SiMi Clock Widget" in the market
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] PanCubano:
You're a god. Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] collins521:
Anytime, glad I could help
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] kingvaj23:
Haha I swear I looked thru the whole thing too-_-
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] kingvaj23:
Also what calender app is that??
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] firetiger:
Calwidget.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] cubanito151:
Lol are you Cuban?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] PanCubano:
Lol. Yeah, but I was born here.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] MRCLrider:
The simi clock is the ****! It recently added battery level support, and I'm actually thinking about dropping battstatt.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] androidtoy09:
Yep, just dumped my Beautiful Widget for this. :D the Battery status addition is amazing
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] gravis86:
Actually, it's not Calwidget. They are very similar, but I like this one better. It's Pure Calendar Widget, skinned with the "Transparent" skin.
[Droid X General] reaktorblue:
Hello Everyone,

I've scoured the net looking for a solution to this and after two days sifting through all sorts of miscellaneous info, I have utterly failed to find a solution.

I currently have a Motorola Droid X which was running Froyo 2.2 rooted perfectly on Windows 7. I had no issues previously connecting my Droid X via USB (With USB Debugging enabled) and utilizing ADB successfully.

I just recently updated my phone to 2.3.340 which has unrooted my phone but also has appeared to broken something with the way ADB uses USB to connect. Now when I run the command, "abd devices" I receive a result of the following:

"List of Devices Attached

015D84ED13017011 offline"

Aside from uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them from numerous locations around the web (Google, Motorola, etc) it does not appear to work. The phone does not have any issues being detected when the USB cable is plugged in. I am able to utilize pretty much every other function, up to including seeing the serial of the device when its plugged in, it just appears offline.

Can anyone help me out here? Is there something that I'm missing? Just to recap..

-USB Debugging: Enabled

-USB Connection: PC Mode

-Android Version: Froyo 2.3.340

-Android SDK: Version 8

-OS: Win 7

-Drivers: Motorola Device Driver Package 4.71

-ADB Interface: Mot Composite ADB Interface
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Have you tried changing the usb mode to "charge only"? I know in some cases the X is odd about the way it works with adb
[Droid X General] crxin:
Usually rebooting the phone worked for me, but what are u trying to do?
[Android Software Development] meow_moi:
hi, im no expert with the whole android thing and need help. my phone is moto backflip 1.5 version. I try this SETTINGS>ABOUT PHONE>CHECK FOR UPDATE

and im getting the answer : The device is unable to connect to the server. Try again later.

And this been happening again n again. I know my wifi is working n all. I even tried google for a solution n it said if this has been happening then u have to wait untill the update version for your phone they decide to send u.

A friend of mine told m about this site.. that you guys might be able to help me out here.

thanks,

Bharti.
[Android Software Development] jgeiger:
go to motorolas website and look up your phone and go to support and check for updates there. it will tell you to download stuff
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] yeet2:
i have some .3pg files from my old phone tht i moved to my driod and they wont play for some reason any ideas?
[G2 and Desire Z General] contalyst:
I got my wife a Desire Z and all is fine except she cannot download ANYTHING from the market. Not on WIFI or 3G. You find an app, tell it to download and it just sits there saying "starting download" yet it never starts.

Any help is greatly appreciated
[G2 and Desire Z General] theXeffect:
Click cancel n retry without leaving
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elektrisk:
I just flashed to Axura, and whenever I open an app from the app drawer, it's by default in landscape mode and won't switch according to the position I'm holding my phone in.

Auto-rotate is enabled in Settings -> Display.

I've tried Zeam, ADW.Launcher & Launcher Pro; all have the same problem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
Try reflashing...not a normal behavior
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elektrisk:
Apparently, Axura does not support the Captivate. That, or I downloaded the Vibrant version by accident. My home and back keys had reversed roles as well. I reflashed to Cognition and all works fine now. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
Axura does work with captivate...you get the file from captivate forum?