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[Fascinate General] xceebeex:
I assume that *228 options 2 is just to update the roaming lists? If so, I have run *22899 (which just runs it automatically), but I can try that again since I haven't done it since rooting and installing new ROMs and kernals.

As far as being in a former Alltel area, I am not sure, I am in the Binghamton, NY area. In my mobile network menu there is only two options; Home and Automatic. It is currently set to Automatic.
[Fascinate General] ogxku5h:
How do i know if I live in a former alltell area, and if i do how can I improve my signal?
[Fascinate General] xceebeex:
No other suggestions and/or ideas?
[Fascinate General] scriz:
Our radio sucks. Its a known issue with the phone. Put the Fascinate side by side a Droid X or Droid 2 or Droid Eris or Droid Incredible or Droid 1 or ..., you get my point, and you'll see that the Fascinate always has about half the signal strength that all the other phones have. I had >1% TWS while I was on Sprint with my Epic, but I switch to Verizon (which is supposed to have better service) and I get 33% TWS all day.
[Fascinate General] tannor:
I have the same problem I get anywhere between 60-70% without a signal at home.

When I go to bed at night I lose about 25%. I called up verizon they sent out a site team and got back to me, supposedly I am on the fringe edge of where tower is, and nothing they can do and that is why it is marginal, even though my other phones work fine like my old blackberry.

It turns out the 3G needs a lot more signal, and my phone is constantly searching which is draining.

Only way I can remedy this is at home only use Wifi, and never have 3G. I do that now and only lose about 4% battery at night.

It appears the antennae really stinks compared to other phones. Maybe an update will fix it but I doubt it.
[Fascinate General] ludevious:
I regularly commute from the metro nyc area to long island, and I can verify that the phone has an obvious quirkiness in the cell phone reception. While I have anywhere between -109 to-96 dbm if signal strength in rural long island, I have full bars in the city. while that sounds normal, the reception drops tremendously as data is being accessed. The radio sucks and there is nothing we can do about it baring some engineering work or radio tweaking that is hard to test in the dev community. Flashing radios run a higher risk of bricking than your run of the mill custom rom.
[Fascinate General] tannor:
Same exact thing I work in NYC and get full 4 bars..while I live about 40 miles north of the City. I usually get anywhere from -96 to -101 at home and -86 in NYC
[Fascinate General] Falcyn:
Unfortunately, that doesn't sound off for your area. According to Verizon's coverage map, Binghamton is right on the northern edge of a rather sizeable no-coverage zone extending out of Pennsylvania. Also, the cellreception.com ratings from other people in that area are quite low.

That, combined with -- as other people have mentioned -- the Fascinate's seemingly sub-par radio means I don't doubt the 60% number is accurate. The Fascinate definitely doesn't receive a signal as strongly as other phones, I can attest to that -- my Droid 1 received a steady (if not strong) signal in some places my Fascinate goes in and out (or just out) of service. It's frustrating, and there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it. I just hope it's a firmware issue that Samsung can fix -- and actually fixes -- rather than subpar hardware.
[Fascinate General] imnuts:
That area, VZW has a roaming agreement with Sprint or some other carrier as I was up in that large "uncovered" chunk this past summer and had service the entire time.
[Fascinate General] tannor:
Hmm never knew about that site cellreception thanks for that!

I just checked and now I see why I have barely any coverage, I am about 30 miles form verizon nearest tower.

Interesting thing is there is a sprint tower about 1 miles west of me...hmm

I always thought about switching to Sprint for cheaper and better phones I am tempted to return this and do that
[Fascinate General] djp952:
For what it's worth, I've gone to 0% time without signal since updating to DJ05, but I still see non-trivial "Cell Standby" battery usage anyway. Usually around 15% after a day of use. Not sure if that means something is whack in DJ05 and the 0% is bogus or if it means that "Cell Standby" power usage actually has very little to do with that value. Not knowledgeable enough. It might be worth your time to try DJ05 if you haven't already.

There is also the hidden menu that lets you configure CDMA and GSM stuff, but I tried those (while on DI01) and *anything* I did in there just made it worse. I read somewhere that the radio may be looking for GSM services which shows up under "Cell Standby". My intent was to change the radio to CDMA only, but again, changing it from the default "WCDMA Preferred" just made things worse for me.

That second part was kinda meaningless .. lol, sorry. My reason for posting was to point out that my "Time without signal" dropped to 0% by installing DJ05, but didn't seem to have an appreciable affect on "Cell Standby".
[Fascinate General] imnuts:
I think that Cell standby is battery used by the cell radio when it's not in use. Time without service is battery used by the radio when not in use and looking for service.
[Fascinate General] tannor:
Yep I am on DJ05 and did not make a difference. Out of curiosity before Dj05 what % were you getting without signal?
[Fascinate General] nmoreman:
I am an Epic owner, same phone, sometimes same problem. One of the things I do is called the airplane toggle trick. It works for me, don't know what it might do for you.

My phone goes to 50% standby when I boot or turn off and on for any reason. To fix this, I turn off DRM in Running Services and do this trick.

Turn Airplane Mode on for maybe 30 seconds, then turn back off. This resets the radio.

This returns mine to 0%, so might try this.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nocode99:
I was just wondering if it was still possible to get an AMOLED from Verizon if I say, complain a lot about my screen lacking in comparison with a competitors phone. I got my DINC about a month ago and love it and I like the screen as it is, but from a programming perspective, it seems that there are two different methods that people need to take on whether they have an AMOLED or SLCD. Thoughts?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icstars989:
It would probably be a refurb if you got one. Being over a month though don't count on it. Getting it would be the luck of the draw anyhow from their warehouse.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksidirt:
I remember last week when my gf and I went to go get her an Incredible the salesman was telling her it was AMOLED and I was like no its not. He was like yes it is. But I eventually proved him wrong. Shows how much they actually know about the phones they are selling.

Anyways you could probably tell that story without the proving him wrong part and complain alot how you can't see the screen very well in sun.

You might be able to get a refurbished one or maybe a custom order.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cryous:
Some stores still have some in stock, that's how I got mine, just ask for one with the serial say the end of w2 keep in mind that after 30 days you cannot return the phone and it is considered used

Sent from my HTC Incredible
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ed Zachary:
Wonder why that is, since neither the OTA update nor apps on the Market seem to differentiate...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SynbiosVyse:
Because they use different drivers.

For the most part you cannot get an AMOLED version if you bought an SLCD version.

If you have an SLCD version and ask for a refurb they will only give you the SLCD, you cannot request an SLCD version because the way that the request is done in the computer and the selection process in the warehouse.

I've gone through 3 AMOLEDs so I wanted to try an SLCD to see if the hardware was better put together, but they wouldn't give me an SLCD version no matter how much I asked. They simply gave me another refurb AMOLED. There are refurb AMOLEDs in warehouses, but I highly doubt there are any new ones anywhere.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ed Zachary:
I still don't get it. Sure, if you are writing an app that tries to access the screen directly through the hardware layer, I can see where you would need to target specific drivers.

But, in all the years of app development, I have always used the OS' API for the HID interaction. That way you don't have to write different versions of your code to target specific makes and models of hardware.

For instance, in the Windows world, a paint or print command in an app does not care about specific makes or models of monitors or printers. That is taken care of by the OS' interpreting the command from the API and passing the interpreted commands through the I/O ports.

The corollary in Android would be you would use the Android API (in the SDK) to interact with the screen. The OS would be responsible for passing that interaction on to the screen itself through the drivers.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SynbiosVyse:
I do see your point but I believe it has to do with the fact that with full replacement mods such as Cyanogen, they interact with the phone at a level lower and need direct access to the screen hardware.

Whether you believe it or not, it is a fact for example try flashing CM 6.0.2 to a SLCD, the screen will not work.

I don't think this affects the sense-based ROMs as much, but I could be wrong. I haven't looked too much into them.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mb02:
Screen type has no affect on apps, and that is all OTAs really are, besides maybe a couple of coding brush ups to fix some system bugs, but those would not relate to the screen either. The main problem between the AMOLED and SLCD is that they require slightly different coding in identifying the display, which is why AOSP roms had trouble installing on SLCD when they were made for AMOLED. The rom was trying to recognize an AMOLED screen and sensors but obviously was not finding one.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ed Zachary:
Thanks, guys. That makes sense.

App Development - Probably don't need to get down close to the metal.

ROM Development - More likely to need more direct access to devices.

Especially when working with an OS where we can get our grubby mitts on the kernel source code itself.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksizzle9:
i recently got back into the icredible game,(got one on luanch day, sold it, used, x, then fascinate, then saw a Amoled one at a shop, in pristine condition and picked it up) anyway, the guy i got it from is a very honest guy, and i have been dealing with him for about a year now and he said that he had ordered about 10 wholesale from VZW about a month ago and told me it was AMOLED and i doubted him at first but then checked up on how to find out which it was and he was true to his word, and upon speaking with verizon the phones ESN had never been activated, so i would think that the easiest way to get them would be to find a 3rd party retailer, and then check it out and see which screen it has, it could be entirely possible to find a VZW store in a remote area that has absolutely no business and still has them in stock, i know that the SLCD ones actually ship with froyo, so if on the box it says it has froyo then thats one easy way, and if it says android 2.1 then you may have a winner, just a few tips on how i got lucky maybe they will help you out.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cryous:
That is not true, some amoleds like mine shipped with 2.2. to tell go into settings, about phone, then hardware information, if it says 0002 it's amoled if it says 0003 its super lcd

Sent from my HTC Incredible
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cryous:
Also my town has over 50000 people living in it, so we are by no means small. a friend lives in san francisco and he got a stock amoled the same time I did

Sent from my HTC Incredible
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ed Zachary:
A lot of the smaller stores practice what is pretty close to JIT inventory, keeping a very few phones in stock. When you go in to buy one, they put you on the phone w/ a central location and the phone is overnighted to you.

That's how our two DINCs got to us, and we went to a store in a large city.

To the OP, I think it's going to be somewhat of a crapshoot. You could call or visit stores and hope to get in touch with someone who knows what they are doing. Then hope they have an AMOLED in stock.

Same holds true for calling VZW. Keep calling until you luck into someone who knows what they are talking about, then hope they can find an AMOLED for you.

Good luck!
[Captivate Android Development] nbs11:
Delete Please
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] parizek:
Hello,

a friend of mine probably bricked his Artemis. He tried to flash, but did not HSPL first. Now the device can enter only bootloader. I tried many USPLs, MTTY, micro SD but nothing worked.

The version of SPL is 1.14, active sync does not go green after connecting, but if I try to flash, it is recognized and returns Error 300. I guess I need the original ROM, but it was in czech and I cannot find it anywhere.

Any ideas are very welcome.

Thanks in advance.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Hakim Rahman:
for SPL Artemis you can try this :D :D and to l his official ROM you can look at -> http://www.shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=windows mobile&model = Artemis​

but first try to him that your friend's device hardreset !! like this way :To perform a hard reset

Press and hold the Left SOFT KEY and the Right SOFT KEY, and at the same time, use the stylus to press the RESET button at the lower left side of your device.

Release the stylus, but continue pressing the two soft key buttons. Release them only when you see the following message on your device screen: “Press Send to restore manufacturer default, or press other keys to cancel.“

Press on your device. Warning! Your device will be set back to factory default settings. Please ensure any additional installed programs and/or user data have been backed up before a hard reset is performed.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] parizek:
thanks for ideas. HR cannot be made - returns error like "cannot format partition".

On the shipped ROMs site I cannot download anything - it only says something about redirection on ppc geeks :(

Here I attach the screen, what I get after trying to flash..
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

only the original rom will bring your device back to life.

whats your red numbers and letters at device start-up?
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] parizek:
I can get only to bootloader, so the IPL : 1.14.0001 and SPL 1.14.0000 , that's all I can get :(
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] parizek:
hmm, after a communication with official HTC servise in Czech Republic I got the number of original ROM and successfully downloaded it.

But still the same issue. Is it possible, that Bootloader is corrupted ? The guy told me that it is the only possible cause, if this ROM does not work :(
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

Try this original rom..

The bootloader of this rom matches yours..

(1.14.0000)

1. Put device into bootloader

2. Connect device to PC

3. Run the RUU

4(a).

If

this does not work, then you are stuck in the mud..

4(b).

If

that original rom does work, then click here for USPL 1.11.CMON

Good luck!

Rn
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] parizek:
Hi,

thanks man for all the ideas. Unfortunately the ROM you are hyperlinkinkg I have already tried with no success. I have given it maximum, now I am giving it up.

Thanks for your patient help.

p
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] ComptUnix:
ME to in same problem plz help IPL 3.04.0001 and SPL 3.04.0000
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] gqstatus0685:
Does anyone here have the skills to make the music widget vertical. I have a nice wallpaper but don't want to cover it with the music widget. Is there a way someone can make the widget vertical (up and down) so that I can place it on my homescreen on the corner?

I wanted to do the same with Mini Info widget but I understand that the dev would probably have to do that since it's his app.

::: In the attachment I would like my music widget to go on the right side of my screen since it fits perfectly there without covering the picture. :::
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] gqstatus0685:
BUMP. Any themers want to take over the task?
[GT540 Optimus General] Lacokako:
Well I've got this problem with my phone, when I go to sleep it right around 70-60 percent, when wake up its either really really low or discharged, and when i check the battery usage it says something like Android system 95% and some other things.

Maybe its the widgetlocker or my LauncherPro, i'll make a factory reset and test it out.
[GT540 Optimus General] Troute:
I've only had mine a few days but so far it's been pretty good on the battery. That said I have it set to 2g only, no widgets running and don't leave the wifi on unless I'm using it. I've noticed that the battery meter is not very accurate, it seems to only drop in 10% jumps although maybe that's something to do with the 2.1 upgrade I did.
[GT540 Optimus General] Lacokako:
I always have 2g, almost never have wifi on, also when i turn on the screen sometimes it says that the SD card has been expectantly removed... That doesn't seem normal...

Edit: Did a Factory Reset and I'm stuck at a Setup FC loop, i'll have to re-flash V_V
[GT540 Optimus General] ZduneX25:
No it isn't. Are you online by whole night??

My advice - download TaskKiller and Kill all processes before you go to sleep and let's check next day morning your %.
[GT540 Optimus General] Lacokako:
Ok, got quarx black system rom and the percentage didn't move! :D
[GT540 Optimus General] flyboyovyick:
i use quarx and i don't use 3g so my battery lasts 3 days using angry birds and recieving calls and using wifi. I never switch my phone off, so its always on stand by.
[GT540 Optimus General] flyboyovyick:
To be honest i must have only switched it off twice.
[GT540 Optimus General] Lacokako:
Yeah, you can easily stretch this thing for 3 days ;) (With mild use)
[GT540 Optimus General] Copro:
Would also give it 3 days or more using mostly 2G running around and additionally WiFi and FRITZ!App for home usage constantly running.

Also some Angry Birds in between and my new found favorite app Barnacle WiFi for tethering ;-)

Never turning the phone really off and leaving it in StandBy most of the times running the Open European V20A with Firmware 2.1-update1
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackygr:
Guys excuse this maybe stupid question but searching arround didnt help me much.

My problem is this:

I have made 3 Firmware update,1 from Kies and 2 from odin,and in all cases things went wrong and had to make factory resets.This kept so many files in my sd and now everytime i start the phone it takes about 5 minutes to scan the cards.

I m currently on JPX and very happy with it,and dont want to change,but want to get rid of all those files in the sd card that do nothing.What should i do then?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgottlander:
If you mean /mnt/sdcard, backup all the files you want to save and do a format in the sdcard settings. No important system files get saved there. So it should be safe.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackygr:
i m not sure what you mean bu saying mnt/sdcard....i meant the pace where programs use to store some files,i ve got thousands since i have installed many many programes,but unistalled them cuz i didnt like them...

so you think going in recovery and wipe sdcard will keep my syste as t is but clear all the programms and the unused files???
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
Anybody have any success sending / receiving MMS (multimedia messages) on Droid 2 Global that is not using Verizon network?

I am using mine on Rogers Canada and I have all necessary settings applied for MMS proper operation. However sending MMS message never succeeds - message details say "National access coverage not available" - message just sits and waits forever.

I have managed to receive 2 only (no idea why), all other show up in conversation (no notification sound) but say message received @ time/date (download) (reject) buttons appear, download always fails, except for the two times messages downloaded successfully.

Looks like Verizon has been messing up with the messaging app. I tried handcent SMS, but it pretty much does the same - looks like it is just an api over the built-in messaging.

MMS is not something utterly important for me, but it will be nice if we can get it working properly.
[Nexus S General] joesixpack1969:
Has anyone with a rooted nexus s managed to enable the at&t frequencies? 850hz? is it possible physically (is there a 3g 850hz frequency built in?)
[Nexus S General] ranxoren:
3G on this first version of the Nexus S (assuming they come out with an HSPA version as well like they did for the N1) supports 900, 1700, and 2100 MHz. The onboard hardware does not support 850hz / 1900hz.
[Nexus S General] joesixpack1969:
That's a real bummer...

Short sighted of google too...
[Nexus S General] Donatron:
I'm pretty sure it was intentional. It would be in Google's best interest to have all bands so that they wouldn't need to release multiple versions like with the N1. They likely have a deal with T-Mo
[Nexus S General] Mactagonist:
5 and 6 band HSPA radios are still quite uncommon. I can only think of one or two devices on the market that use them.

It is just life. Send them feedback and tell them you want an 850/1900 version.
[Nexus S General] ryude:
Just wait for the Nexus S to come out on ATT, I seriously doubt Google is going to make the Nexus S strictly Tmobile. Tmobile makes up less than 10% of all cell phones, would be kind of stupid...
[Nexus S General] joesixpack1969:
Why does it say quad band with 850hz here? http://www.google.com/nexus/#/tech-specs
[Nexus S General] dinan:
That's GSM - you can make calls and get 2G (EDGE) data just fine on AT&T with the Nexus S... but would you want to? =)
[Nexus S General] dimes-jth:
Its not googles' fault. A long time ago the US gsm providers decided to add a download chanel to 3g gsm so that users couldn't take their phone from one provider to another and so the could not import phones in from europe. You can take a phone from att or tmo and it will do 3g on any european gsm provider you chose. However no normal european gsm phone will do 3g in the us. They lack the second download chanel. So don't complain about google, it was the providers that made a conscious decision to muck it up.
[Nexus S General] petep86:
That's 100% true!!! Plus the batter life would be horrific with all those signals, and a bigger antenna! LOL
[Nexus S General] seriouslyjeff:
I'm on ATT

I hate the EDGE speeds but there is nothing else we can do. I currently carry around my Nexus One with this one to use as a hotspot. Google will probably release another version within a couple months as they did with the N1. Hopefully they will cause tethering all the time is awesome to show off but cumbersome all at the same time
[Nexus S General] mr. haison:
I picked up the nexus s yesterday. Love the phone compared to my Captivate on Cognition but EDGE is really hampering the experience.
[Nexus S General] emuneee:
Nokia managed to design a pentaband 3G (5 different 3G bands, 850/900/1700/1900/2100MHz) phone, the N8 and it has no problems AFAIK. Samsung probably doesn't have the knowledge or talent to design a pentaband 3G device though. :p
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
The T-Mobile Vibrant (a Samsung Galaxy S phone, just like our Nexus S) can be used with full 3G speeds on both T-Mobile and AT&T (1900mhz). My friend is currently using an unlocked T-Mo Vibrant on AT&T with no problems and fine 3G speeds.

Samsung certainly knows how to make a phone that will work on both networks; this was clearly a Google decision...why, we'll never know, but I suspect pressure from T-Mobile.