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[G Tablet General] necromonger89:
Whenever I buy an electronic devices I always purchase insurance. Very rarely do I use them as my devices never really mess up. LOL! I still have an original PSP from when it came out, never used the warranty/insurance on that one.

Being as this is the second G Tablet I have bought(one for me and one as a gift), I did buy insurance for mine(2 years).

I asked the Sears cashier if I theoretically owned two and one had insurance, can I use the insurance for the one I have? He was puzzled at my question and responded with? "No because it is one insurance for one item" I asked him that when people return items, do they go by serial number or item number to verify an item? His response was "We go by stock number, but if something happens and the screen doesn't respond or it wont turn on anymore you can ship it to us for free and we'll exchange it for a new one if it is covered" So again I asked him my questions but a little bit differently this time and asked "So if I bring one and its messed up and have insurance on one of them, does it matter which one I bring?" He was perplexed and could not respond to that question and just said "Well try it, just make sure one of the items is not opened(sealed) and try and return it using your insurance. But if there isn't a problem we cannot exchange it for a new one, you can only get a refund.". I ended up topping my questions with the manufacturer's warranty and thats when he said "Well for those are when the serial number is required, but we don't handle that. Well if you are unsure or it turns out you cant use the insurance on both, bring the unopened within 30 days for a refund, they just rebuy it again with insurance"

IDK if the guy knew exactly what I was talking about because his smile turned upside down when I rejected the insurance and asked him about the loop hole. So gain, I would love some personal experience on this matter. Should I have bought the other insurance too? Or should I test and exploit this possible loophole. I am just saying because $57 is $57 and I have been duped lots of times for insurances that I never really used (except on my old G1 and Xbox 360-RRoD). I know that on the 360 they go by serial and that's probably because its Micro$oft.

Sorry for the wall O' text! and thanks for any answers!
[G Tablet General] festivus:
I never, EVER buy insurance on electronic items. The way I see it, if the item lasts through the first 30 days without issue, it's likely to go a long, long time. I also use a credit card which automatically doubles the manufacturer's warranty at no charge.

If you had saved what you have likely spent on extended warranties for every item you have ever purchased, wouldn't you have plenty of money to replace any of those items by now? The reason why retailers push extended warranties so hard is because they are virtually pure profit. Heck, I usually get the itch to upgrade an item long before it quits working, so again, all of that money would have been wasted for me. To each his own.
[G Tablet General] scottfish:
I just bought my G Tablet at Office Depot for $369. Insurance would have been $119.

At that rate, I'll take my chances.

I like your chances of "splitting" the insurance as well. They'd never go by serial number to check.
[G Tablet General] necromonger89:
Wow that's some pretty expensive insurance! Well I was looking over my insurance receipt and it looks like I was right! They only use the UPC number(item number) for exchanges and insurance. On the insurance policy it just ask for my receipt # and UPC# on their website. I saw no reference to the serial number anywhere. Win for me. I know I'll probably never damage or mess up my tablet, but the gift recipient might.

Thanks anyway, I might look up into those credit cards you guys mentioned.
[G Tablet General] tahngarth:
I worked in both Tools and Electronics at Sears from 2000-2005. They changed registers since then, so I'm not sure how much has changed (based on the menu's I've seen, not much), but other than consoles (as mentioned) everything is strictly based on stock numbers, so in theory it should work.

Now, I think in part to combat this, and to combat construction workers from abusing this, you actually can only use the warranty once.

http://www.searspurchaseprotect.com/tnc/tnc_national.aspx

"This Plan will be fulfilled and the Term shall expire as to each Covered Product when a product reimbursement or product exchange is made for that Covered Product after the beginning of the Term"

Horray for lawyer speak. Honestly I would be surprised if many register jockey's knew anything of this. I only recall this coming up once in my 5 years there.
[Epic 4G General] markphon:
Where can I find the saved picture directories whenever we snap a pic or video.

I know this is kinda a noob question, but I tried searching for it but I could not find the exact answer.... or I guess I wasn't looking hard enough.
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
sdcard/Dcim/
[Epic 4G General] markphon:
Thanks for the quick reply.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psufan5:
Keeps logging me out without me knowing it... and when I open it, its showing a lot of people offline. A simple sign out and sign in fixes it, but wow its annoying. Anyone have a clue why my phone would be doing this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Penphoe:
Which client are you using?

I had issues with the Samsung IM client that I downloaded from Samsung Mobile onto my phone. The reason why I use that client is that I can use it with both my Google Talk and MSN IM clients. I was having issues with it earlier this week - I could "sign in", but everybody was of "unknown" status.

Seems to be working now.

Oh yah, I'm on a SGH-i896 (Rogers Captivate S)

LaterZ!

Darren!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banesong:
I am finding that my phone loses connection with GTalk fairly consistently, no matter the number of bars that I have. I am using the Google GTalk client.

Sorry for the thread necromancy.

T
[Wildfire General] matthew1471_wildfire:
Hi all,

Bought my Wildfire, paid more money to get the black one. Turns out it has Asia ROM (Singapore, SEA). Also turns out Asia are the least likely to get firmware updates on time (ironic for a Taiwan based company).

Don't want to root. But want to run UK / Europe firmware.

Have looked at the FOTA updates, they all seem to be a collection of patch files and the SEA ROM has a different firmware version to the UK firmware.

Have seen a few RUU files posted around. Would this be what I would need to flash the UK version?

Few questions I would be grateful if someone could answer:

1. Is this region change via RUU even possible or will I just brick my phone.

2. Would this mess up future updates (how do HTC determine whether there are applicable updates? IMEI?)

3. Is there a better way?

4. Where do the (seemingly leaked) RUU files come from? Any way to guarantee authenticity?

Thanks for your time,

Matthew
[Wildfire General] UtmostMick0:
1. Yes with help of a "Gold Card"

2. not sure , never got an OTA Upgrade before , i run a custom rom

3. Gold Card and RUU for version you want , would recommend rooting it anyways so you have access to recovery / nandroid backup

4. shipped-roms.net look for htc buzz

PS

Be aware that if you run the RUU for Froyo 2.2.1 you will not be able to root your phone afterwards.

Any Probs let me know and will help if i can
[Wildfire General] a1030bw:
I think u should wait for few weeks because 2.2 for Wildfire is here in HK today, hope Singapore will get it soon:D
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
2.2 ruu here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9888671&postcount=2
[Wildfire General] matthew1471_wildfire:
Good call!

As of 23/12/2010 :

"HTC Wildfire Asia (/ SEA) Froyo Update Released Today"

blogx.co.uk/Comments.asp?Entry=820

Had an early morning Christmas gift from HTC :). I shall carry on being from Singapore ;-).
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pickleman77:
Hey everyone. I'm running MIUI (latest version) and I recently downgraded my radio to 7.28, as it has given me better signal than 9.01, which I was on. I've been trying to get everything situated with a *228, but whenever I dial it, I'm greeted with "The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Anyone know how to fix this?

EDIT: Turns out, you need to dial *228+. I'll leave this here in case anyone runs into the same problem.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morph3k:
Or you can try *22899

I always have to use that because with cyanogen I can't get the dialpad to pop up to press 1 or whatever to program my phone, the 99 at the end automatically does it for ya.

Never heard of having to add a + sign after *228 though. Didn't even know you could do that.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pickleman77:
It did the same thing for both. I found that adding the + after *228, then pressing 1 when prompted did the trick. Not sure why in the world the + made a difference, but it works!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morph3k:
Change the thread title and put something like [Solved] in there so people can search for this.
[Droid Eris Android Development] crax0r:
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Google Apps work on KaosFroyo v39. Will test more.

Link to Google Apps here.

Everything is working 100%!

Installation Instructions:

Copy file to root of sdcard.

Reboot to recovery

Install like a ROM.

Nothing special.

Credits to aosp on Hero forum (link here)
[Droid Eris Android Development] workshed:
Not be rude, but that's just the tiny package, just the new vendor and some google stuff, no apps tho.

I have the full and tiny posted on my OP page under "VANILLA - FroShedYo."

I believe framework packed the full, I just updated a few of the apps in it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824160
[Droid Eris Android Development] crax0r:
Thanks for that workshed. I just might post some screenshots because I already took them... and hey, would you mind if you could teach me a couple of tips for making ROMs? It's no prob if you don't.
[Droid Eris Android Development] erispimp:
Yay i get no fC now
[Droid Eris Android Development] workshed:
If I can find the time. Start reading up on what you need. Install linux (64-bit if you want to start deving Gingerbread) get the sdk, read up on github, read about git and repo sync'ing, lot's to read before you start attempting.

I'll help you with any specific questions :)
[Droid Eris Android Development] Familyguy1:
That Gapps will work with KF V39 right?
[Droid Eris Android Development] tazzpatriot:
I didn't ignore ur pm bro.. I've been busy.. as shed says .. ill help to man.. get urself setup and ill help also..and what was u talking about being rude in irc? I don't go there
[Droid Eris Android Development] workshed:
IRC has nothing to do with your rudness, it's just your nature.
[Epic 4G General] xiton:
Hey all,

I may be interested in picking up an Epic 4G. I know nothing about the phone, but I assume it's rooted and there are some third party ROM builds. With these builds, is it possible to get 2.2 and 2.3 in the future on this device, or is there anything I should know about before taking the plunge?

Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
look in the devoplment section., thats where you youll find your awnsers
[Epic 4G General] karate134:
You'll get 2.2.1 on the Epic soon, and 2.3 is a probably. Who knows on the latter though.
[Epic 4G General] jeremiah.rs:
Hey,

If you do pick up a new Epic, it won't be rooted, you'll have to root it yourself.

In regards to Android versions 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3 (Gingerbread), Froyo is already confirmed and hopefully should be (officially) out before the end of the year. As for Gingerbread, its up for debate, Samsung has been very opaque about it and hasn't confirmed or denied it.

If you want to get custom ROM's, there are already plenty in the development section of the Epic forums, and there are a bunch of 2.1 and 2.2 ROMs. The 2.2 ROM's out now are based off a leak of 2.2, but they should all work fine as far as I know.

If you need anything else, post it up, and I'm sure someone here will get back to you.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] -Sumsy-:
Hi can anyone help me with changing the bootscreen on x10 mini pro please i have looked in x10 min thread but i cant see if anyone has success on doing this
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Javi97100:
Yea I can help ask ur question so I can answer them :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] owain94:
this will help you :)
[G Tablet General] bosaleh_m:
hi all,

really i need help by win mobile i can download any music from any site but in Gtab i cannt can any one tell me even by htc diser plz why ??????

also when i downloading from market i cannt chosse ad card it dosen't ask.

regards,
[Epic 4G General] SubnetMask:
I installed ADW launcher, and like an idiot, didn't do a backup first, and upon rebooting the phone, it now hangs part way through the boot; It's Syndicate's Shuriken ROM, and it hangs at the "Samsung Epic 4G" screen with the multi-colored X. Is there ANY way to get into the phone's memory and pull phone logs, SMS, MMS and Angry Birds data? When I boot into recovery (although I have clockwork installed, I can only get to the samsung recovery), the SD card shows up on my PC as a drive without media since the SD card is mounted, so the PC sees the phone. ADB shows no devces connected, altough the only adb I have is what came with the andromeda one click flasher. Is there something else that I need?
[Epic 4G General] SubnetMask:
Is there anything I can flash using the stock recovery that'll get the phone to boot or even only show up in adb? I don't realy care if the modem's there or not, or how stable it is. I've tried flashing a handful of "stock" updates, but all failed with various verification errors. I had CW installed, but apparently it got replaced by the stock one. All I need to do is run "Backup Everything" to get my SMS, MMS & Phone logs, and Root Explorer to get my AB data. After that, I can (probably will) Odin back to what I was running, or maybe one of the newer Froyo's until the official release is out.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
If you have cwm you can just reflash a rom without a wipe to get the info you want. The only updste.zip i know of that can be flashed threw recovery is the one for dk28
[Epic 4G General] SubnetMask:
The problem there is While I had CWM installed, I've always had trouble getting into it. It seems that at some point, the ROM overwrote it with the stock recovery, so the only way for me to flash anything is with the stock recovery, or to extract the flash data from download mode if that's possible. How do people get ODIN dumps? I assume that's just a complete read of the flash.
[Epic 4G General] SubnetMask:
Been doing a lot of searching and reading, and came across this thread. Using Odin to flash the clockworkmod.tar (which has recovery.bin inside it) shoudl replace the factory recovery, shouldn't it? I tried flashing it and I still get the Samsung recovery. Is there a newer version than in that thread that I can download and try to flash in the same way?
[Epic 4G General] SubnetMask:
Ok, I actually managed to get somewhere. I got CWM Recovery to take, but it's v2.5.0.4, and doesn't seem to be working 100% right. I can't mount the SD card to USB, it doesn't want to do a nand backup, and the smiley button moved the selection bar up, "H" is enter.

Edit: I then managed to get 2.5.1.0 installed, so now keys are functioning properly, and it would seem I was able to get a successful backup. Is there a way to get into the img files in the backup, or is it likely that if I odin it back then advanced restore the data back, it'll be accesable?
[Epic 4G General] SubnetMask:
Well, I got all the data I wanted to get. As my last post says, *somehow* I managed to get CWM Recovery to take via Odin (Is try, try, try again, try some more perseverance or insanity? :)), and then was able to update it to 2.5.1.0, at which point CWM started functioning properly. I then was able to use the DI18 > DK28 update zip, which got me into a funcioning device, which allowed me to back up the data I was looking to get. Of course from there, restoring it back to fully functional was easy.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rnrstar:
ok, so ive noticed that sometimes when i pull down the notification shade that my first tap doesnt get recognized....but if i close the shade and reopen, then my finger press gets recognized. or when i try to tap on one of the 'recent' applications section of the shade, i need to double tap sometimes.

sometimes to a lesser extent, i notice this in the market when i press the search box too. most times though everything gets recognized with a quick tap instead of needing a firm delayed tap or double tap.

anybody think this is a bug?

ive looked around a little and nobody seems unhappy with the touch sensitivity/grounding so not sure what to do...

but ive never had it happen on the lockscreen or launcher bar or other programs that i can remember either.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XfooYen:
This happens to me sometimes. It doesn't bother me. It may be a small bug but I suspect it is actually the trackpad pulling focus. Sometimes the trackpad will detect a slight input and place focus on a nearby screen icon or menu item, depending on which type of screen you're on. The focus highlight is subtle and hard to notice so that "first tap" might actually be your finger pulling focus back to your intended selection. Your second tap opens it.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chris66:
I love my Swype, but I really don't care for the stock grey keyboards, So... I made them blue.

View attachment 471124 View attachment 471125

View attachment 471126

Unzip the attached, replace the assets/keyboards folder inside the swype.apk and re-install using your preferred method.

Download
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] nuggyunlimited:
Cool + 1 will thank you when I get by my laptop.

Swyped From Eva Running Myn's RLS4.95 On The Now Network!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] t3project:
so how exactly did you install this? anytime i make changes to the OTA swype like this the applications always gets FC'd when opening. the only way it usually works is with metamorph.

i've pushed the swype.apk and flashed it but no go. always a FC. the OTA works perfectly however
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chris66:
Make the change to the keyboard folder in the swype.apk and toss it in an View attachment 472932. Don't re-sign either. Flash from recovery.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] t3project:
hmm, i re-signed. maybe that's the problem. thnx
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Full HD:
Hi !

I just used SystemApp Remover to delete some system apps. Unfortunately I deleted the

GenieWidget.apk

and the

GenieWidget.odex

without backup.......because I´m an idiot :D :rolleyes:

Could anyone be so kind as to copy the two files with i.e. Astro or Root Explorer from the Optimus One and upload them here? The "standalone" GenieWidget.apk´s from other threads don´t work so I need the original files. Would be much appreciated.

Best regards

Full HD
[Optimus One, P500, V General] :
Only the apk, from my O1, seems the odex file is not present in android 2.2.1. Try it.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Full HD:
I´m using the stock FroYo 2.2 from LG, in the system/app folder are a lot of .odex files, too. So I thought i need it, but the file you uploaded is working and doesn´t need the .odex file at all.

Thanx for uploading, focos! :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] :
Ye, i've seen in 2.2 version are the odex file, but in 2.2.1 are not.

You are welcome.
[Nexus S General] tfreshman:
See title.
[Nexus S General] raqball:
Works for some, doesn't work for me.... Have tried it several times, no dice no update for me.... I am central US....

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] lrdiaz:
Nope! Nada, resigned to wait
[Nexus S General] debro012:
I'm in alabama, doesn't work for me.
[Nexus S General] csmall:
No luck in NY. I tried 3 or so times
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
EDIT: Warning...this actually didn't just work fine for me.

It breaks recovery and it breaks root.

It breaks root by changing the permissions; easy enough to fix by mounting /system and chmod 6775 su

Recovery seems more problematic. I've flashed clockwork (3.0.0.0) twice now. You can boot into from fastboot after flashing without problems, but once you reboot the phone, recovery is broken again (little android with the exclamation point).

That didn't work for me, just download this file from Google and flash it from recovery if you can't wait for OTA. Worked fine for me.
[Nexus S General] gietl:
Didn't work for me either. I wouldn't expect it to be so on demand anyway. Can you imagine how that would flood the networks. :) Granted we aren't a huge number of users but this is probably prime time data usage.

We'll get it sooner or later, or just grab the file as listed above.
[Nexus S General] Smokexz:
Just do a manual update, I tried this about 5 times before hopping on my computer and now I am rolling with 2.3.1

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] sinatosk:
Hi... first post I think.

I tried this twice with a reboot in between and not work for me either. I'm in the UK. Just got my NS today.
[Nexus S General] vapor311:
says checkin succeeded but does nothing.
[Nexus S General] brianbrain:
Another no go from NY...but I'm patient, still in love with this thing :)
[Nexus S General] mingkee:
I have it manually installed.

Hopefully it will fix radio (2G/3G) freezing problem.
[Nexus S General] bigmizz79:
Nothing here ..from Boston
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Edited my earlier post, but this is for anyone who has read past that point:

Warning...this actually didn't just work fine for me.

It breaks recovery and it breaks root.

It breaks root by changing the permissions; easy enough to fix by mounting /system and chmod 6775 su

Recovery seems more problematic. I've flashed clockwork (3.0.0.0) twice now. You can boot into from fastboot after flashing without problems, but once you reboot the phone, recovery is broken again (little android with the exclamation point).
[Nexus S General] raeef:
I tried it several times and no luck.

Irvine, CA
[Nexus S General] Bmerz:
Tried a few times here too (Denver), nothing yet.
[Nexus S General] Menace II Society:
This.

And I've tried more than 3 times and still no luck.
[Nexus S General] jalyn02:
Got the update about 3:15 today MD
[Nexus S General] BiGMERF:
nothing here in NYC
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
I know lots of people like waitng for the "official" ota but the Official OTA link was pulled from a logcat and is in another thread :)
[Nexus S General] dinan:
Did the checkin and it said I had an update, so I clicked install. Phone rebooted and then turned on with the android guy and an exclamation point in a triangle.. waited a bit but then did a battery pull. Turned the phone back on and it looks like the update didn't go, still on 2.3. I'll just wait for a custom rom.
[Nexus S General] BuzzSpan:
got the same.
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
checkin just re-associates your device with the tower, it isnt instantaneous you still gotta wait, it just helps some times
[Nexus S General] BiGMERF:
still waiting here in NYC
[Nexus S General] Rusty!:
Completely normal for an OTA update, and your recovery is not 'broken' it is just back to stock. If you want it to stop reverting back to stock, remove or rename /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
No, it's not back to stock. It's broken.

I cannot enter any recovery with the normal methods (adb reboot recovery, power off vol up & power to fastboot, etc); in my opinion that's broken. If it were just back to stock, either of those methods would at least get me into stock recovery. They don't, they get me to "!" android screen.

Thanks for the tip on how to "fix" it, though. I will check it out later, unless Koush's already come up with something different.
[Nexus S General] AndrewGoldy:
Nope, Didn't work on my iPhone. Must wait for my Nexus S to arrive!
[Nexus S General] Rusty!:
No, it is not broken that is the stock recovery. Just because you don't know how to use something does not make it broken.
[Nexus S General] varungandhi:
Nothing here in Aspen so far.