yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Venue Pro General] notebookgrail:
That's awesome and gives us more hope for further digging. Were you able to use the device as storage device with the reg tweaks and see the folders? If so, how much capacity does Windows drive property show?
[Venue Pro General] pessimistic observer:
to get that sd card to show up on computer just format it using a dumb nokia phone
[Venue Pro General] ft55555:
The OS is probably stored in ROM. Interestingly, the DVP is listed by phonearena.com as having 1GM of ROM, which is more than almost all other WP7 devices currently released. Of course, you have to take those specs with a grain of salt since phonearena.com also lists RAM as 512MB.
[Venue Pro General] lemonspeakers:
@notebookgrail,

you're gonna have to link me to the registry tweaks. id love to check it out!
[Venue Pro General] benjaminries:
It is early in the life of this OS, so EVERYTHING needs salt. The DVP may indeed have 512MB of RAM; this hasn't been conclusively disproven.
[Venue Pro General] notebookgrail:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/juanand/...ying-with-windows-phone-7-as-usb-storage.aspx
[Venue Pro General] theclueless:
we need to find out how to use hardware buttons to do hard reset; if you are unlucky like me, when you replaced the sdcard and it went bad, there is no way for you to pop another card in and do hard reset on that card

htc and samsung phones all have a bootloader hard reset menu accessible during boot via combination of key presses, hopefully venue pro does have one
[Venue Pro General] bbowman:
try holding down the camera button + volume down button then press power.
[Venue Pro General] lemonspeakers:
doesnt work. it will tell you to plug ur phone into usb + computer. The only way to exit that screen is to remove battery.
[Venue Pro General] theclueless:
would you try it yourself before making such suggestion? i did every possible key combination with the volume and camera keys, all come up empty... and i really wish i dont need to do so for the qwerty keyboard :mad:
[Venue Pro General] bbowman:
when I do that button combo on my DVP I see a "plug the phone into your PC" graphic. when I do so, Zune pops up and give me an error message (related to another issue) that it is unable to restore my phone. It looks like somehow Zune has an important role in performing the hardware master reset.

You don't see anything like this?
[Venue Pro General] theclueless:
thats not the hard reset menu. htc has the bootloader option to perform factory reset in the case of the OS would not bootup, and also the option to connect the device to pc to perform restore (venue pro has this)

but since zune does not allow backup, the restore option is useless
[Venue Pro General] sureloch:
If you set up your phone with a windows live account it gives you the option to remotely send a command erase your phone data and reset to factory defaults.
[Venue Pro General] sureloch:
You need a windows live account and go to the windows live home screen.

mouseover "windows live" in the top left, then>devices>find this phone>erase
[Venue Pro General] theclueless:
again, you need the phone to be functional to use this feature

im talking about device hangs at boot or boot looping, that requires hard reset without the OS being functional
[Venue Pro General] sureloch:
Ok, I didn't realize you had that serious of a problem. For some reason I thought you were trying to initialize a new sd card. The reset key combo will come out eventually.
[Venue Pro General] theclueless:
i was able to initiate the 32gb card using the setting->about->reset method when i first got the phone.

after a couple random crashes, the last time it was functional i was browsing the web, then the phone seemed hanged, then kicked me right back to the metro screen, but the phone no longer recognize the sdcard on the about screen; after reboot the phone got stuck on dell screen and would not startup, so i switch back to the original 8gb card, did not work either (boot-loop)

i pulled the card out, and it booted fine without any addition apps, and i try to initiate a reset, pulled battery, insert card, exact same symptoms with respected sdcards
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
I was under the impression that on e a card was initiated it could not be used again in another device...though I did read something about formatting on a Symbian device. When you pull the card that is crashing did you try to restart the device with no card? Try it. After that shut down and put the original card back in
[Venue Pro General] theclueless:
the 32gb card was fine; i can pop it into my hd7 and after hard reset it is working like magic (on hd7)

i did try to put the original card back in, it just stuck on bootloop

events happened in chronological order:

1. received DVP (happy as a kid)

2. bootup and setup

3. took the original card out, bootup again

4. put the 32gb card in, it booted up, but does not recognize card

5. put the original card in, booted up fine, retaining all the original settings

6. went to setting->about->reset, confirmed twice, pulled battery when screen turned off, then swapped the sdcard with the 32gb one

7. booted up, when through first time setup, the about screen recognized 29.8GB storage, so did Zune

8. played with it for 2 days, random crashes, mostly in marketplace when downloading games

9. browsing web with metro browser, the app hanged, then kicked me off metro screen

10. cannot launch any downloaded apps (phone and IE still works), about screen reports 0GB of storage space

11. rebooted phone, stuck at dell screen forever

12. took out the 32gb card, the phone booted up clean

13. tried to hard reset with setting->about->reset trick, did not work, still stuck at dell screen

14. swapped with original card, getting boot loop, cannot boot up

15. tried to find bootloader recovery hard key combo, all the suggested combination led to "connect to pc" screen, and zune cannot restore phone
[Venue Pro General] jessej:
Just as an FYI I was told that the hard key combo was hold volume down/camera then press and release power button (dell mobility support). This took me to the same connect to pc screen as posted above. Only a battery pull would exit that screen.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
were you able to get this working again.....I have a friend in the industry doing test sequences with different phones and cards....
[Venue Pro General] wolfdtx:
i'm having the same issue. cannot find a way to reset the device with or without a memory card inserted. phone boot loops with no way to access os and soft reset options.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdizzy07:
Hi,

I have a problem with a friend of mine's HTC Hero (GSM version), it was bought overseas, and at some point it started giving these update messages, see the image attached.

if we choose "update now" the phone reboots into "cyanogenMod V1.4 + JF recovery mode", I don't know exactly what to do from there, the "cyanogen" lead me to think that the phone is rooted but I tried to run some applications such as terminal and superuser permissions and both of them acted/reported as if the phone is not rooted.

I've searched the net for answers and found 2 solutions that are not applicable:

1. change a file named otacerts.zip to otacerts.bak - I've read that it makes the updater think that the file is corrupt and keeps downloading it indefinitely.

2. factory reset - but I'm afraid it will simlock the phone to its original vendor - preventing us from making calls and using 3G and remove our language support.

any help will be appreciated.

p.s :

I don't have the exact version number on me right now, I will post it if its critical.

We don't want to actually apply the update (unless it won't damage functionality), just to stop the notification.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walkinhotdog:
You might want to provide us with your firmware version, what ROM your running and android version. Check by the settings>about phone>software info
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdizzy07:
thanks for the reply, here is the requested information:

Firmware version:1.5

Baseband version: 63.18.55.06EU_6.35.06.18

Kernel version: 2.6.27-8dd6deee

htc-kernel@and18-2 )

Build number: 2.73.405.5 146733 CL#61267 release-keys

Software version: 1.0.0.A6288
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walkinhotdog:
Hm, it looks like your running a very old firmware. Android version 1.5. We have been officially updated to 2.1. That is probably what the over the air (OTA) nagging update is about. Now im not sure whether your phone is rooted or not since i dont know what "cyanogenMod V1.4 + JF recovery mode" is. However, i think if you update it thru the OTA, you will lose root access assuming that you have it already. The most commonly used recovery for flashing and updating firmware is this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=561124

So i guess the next step is for you to decide whether you want your phone rooted or to just accept the OTA update (the update will wipe your phone i think). Or you can go to settings>about phone>system software updates>untick scheduled check to stop the nagging. Although i recommend either rooting the phone and installing custom firmware, or taking the OTA update jus to be up to date

Oh yea i believe this is only part 1 of the update, which isnt the 2.1 firmware yet. This is a preparation step. However, the second part should come to you shortly after you accept this one. So i dont think this first part will wipe your phone, but im not positive

Second, we need someone else with more knowledge to tell you if your phone is rooted
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damonkashu:
I bought this samsung vibrant used from someone off craig's list, and prior to this I did not have a data plan for my phone, just texts/calls.

It seems like it would be useful to have the 200MB plan for checking out maps/email on the go, this vibrant is supposed to be HSPA+ compatible if I'm not mistaken.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
If u MUST have emails and facebook checking every 10 mins then yes

I don't have it I use wifi
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damonkashu:
how much data would maps use? Since I want to be able to navigate the city/find interesting restaurants near me, is 200MB enough?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
What company you using it on
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damonkashu:
t-mobile, isn't that the only provider for this phone
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
people unlock and use on different carriers
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Master™:
HSPA+ is a no.

The Vibrant does NOT have that. The only phones that I am aware of that have that on T-Mobile, is the G2 & myTouch 4G. We have HSPA
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] down8:
I can't imagine the point of having a smart phone w/o a data plan. But maybe that's just me....

Otherwise, get a flip phone & a tablet - better screen size that way.

-bZj
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MilkPudding:
Exactly. What's the point of using a smartphone without data plan?

Just get a feature phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr2t32:
200mb is more than enough for maps. especially with gmap 5.0, it cache the map onto your phone, so far i only downloaded about 10mb.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] eliezer-twin:
Superuser dont load, its really weird but all other funtions seem to work well any advice??
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] till1988:
http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=813

/thread
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pepe_palotes:
Same problem for me. Any idea?

Sent from my HTC HD2 with Android.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pepe_palotes:
I followed instructions of post 3382 of the Froyo Sense HD 4.6 thread and now it works.

Sent from my HTC HD2 with Android.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dharvey4651:
Why not just direct him to the thread where the build is released instead of directing him to the Q&A forum. This kind of question is best asked in the ROM thread where you might actually get a good reply.

Using the search function within a thread also helps..
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaywan:
By mistake i deleted the files off my SD Card Now I can't play games Like Rock band because it says please insert sd card. Can some one please post me a copy of those files that come ond the sd card when you buy the MT4G...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
Its uploading now. I'll post the link as soon as its done. My upload is slow as hell though, so its gonna be about half an hour.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaywan:
Thanks man or the best...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stoneyjonez:
Edit: nevermind I don't have those files
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbetso:
Here you go my friend http://www.mediafire.com/?isr8cwsor9vfo3w
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbetso:
what else are you looking for
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaywan:
Nothing else thank you very much
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaywan:
Sorry Still New To THIS SITE!!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c10ne:
i did the same thing what other files were on it so i might find them?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] digitalicecream:
I really wanted to browse my pics stored on Picasa and I'm pretty fond of the Google Gallery app (I know there are others out there).

So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/?gzw4zzdezoz

After installation, go to your GMAIL application and select Settings > Accounts. Add a new google account, then select your current gmail account (re-add it) or select from the google account associated with Picasa.

Great Tip dascud!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] wvcachi:
Worked for me too - thanks for the tip!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] dascud:
Worked for me too. However, I could not get my picasa albums to sync initially.

I had to go to my GMAIL app and add my (same) account again which gave me the option to sync my picasa albums and everything works fine now.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] KryptoNyte39:
I'm lost on the Nook Color and photo viewing, not to mention videos.

I have tried just about every app I can think, researched until I'm blue in the face, but no matter what I do, if I drop 80 photos taken by your typical-everyday camera into a directory, and copy this directory to the mounted micro-SD card, this device nearly has a stroke just creating thumbnails.

At this point, the Gallery app mentioned in this thread shows the grid of photos, and about 10 of 80 actually have a thumbnail that was created, the other 70 thumbnails on the grid turned from gray to black while the application struggled to create the thumbnails.

With 32 GB of storage space, there's no way I could manage hundreds (or thousands) of photos. I must be doing something wrong here, so much storage space, no way to use it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] madrascafe:
Cool.. with it could also see my uPnP server ;)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ctos:
works great on my NC, thanks a lot!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mikroft:
I've been having problems with unresized images. The resized ones display fine. I'll do a batch resize to see if that works for my photos.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] KryptoNyte39:
Any help or new information would be much appreciated. There are a couple of apps out there that can take care of the video, but I just can't locate anything else that can deal with photos.

This is frustrating, as I purchased this device specifically over other devices that don't allow for removable storage, but what good is 32 GB of data if you can't sort it and find stuff properly?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] KryptoNyte39:
See this thread for a really fantastic photo app.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=866827
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] vap0rxt:
Time to get more pics on my NC. :)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] wretchedlocket:
Check out Picasa Tool Pro. It's really nice and free
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] donballz:
OMG that fixed my calendar too. I could hug you right now.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
I wish I could download ALL of my Picasa images to my Nook.. But I have yet to find anything that'll do it. A few apps will let me download individual pictures, but I can't suck down the whole thing.

Picasa Tool Pro, as mentioned, is a nice tool, but as far as I can tell it has a batch uploader but not downloader. Although I'm going to check it out for the upload facility, pictures I take on my Nexus One I'd like to make to Picasa.

Honestly I still haven't figured out a halfway sane method of keeping my N1 and NC in sync. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Velshtein:
Slight issue here, not sure if anyone has had it before.

Just acquired a Captivate as an xmas gift to myself (sick of that iPhone), and began the whole process of getting a new ROM onto it. Rooted, installed ROM Manager, flashed a clockworkmod recovery (2.5.1.2), and hit "Backup Current ROM".

The device reboots into the standard recovery mode with the usual options (reboot system now, reinstall packages, delete all user data, delete cache data).

No backup is made, and I just have to continue the reboot. I've tried flashing to an older version, clearing the download cache, and using the option to go to ROM Manager's recovery mode (just takes me to the default recovery boot).

Am I doing something wrong here? I followed all of the instructions step by step.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo009:
Try doing "reinstall packages".

Steps:

1. Copy the clockwork recovery "update.zip" attached to this post to ur sdcard root.

2. Reboot to recovery.

3. Select "reinstall packages".

4. It would say something like replacing recovery with clockwork recovery, and reboot into recovery. This happens only the first time u use this.

5. Select "reinstall packages" again.

6. You should be in clockwork recovery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Velshtein:
Good deal. Worked perfectly. Out of curiosity, do we know why the phone was doing this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo009:
Ok. I'll explain to the best of my knowledge.

The zip I gave u is the most non-intrusive way of CWM. No ROM manager installer is needed on phone apart from placing this zip on sdcard root.

When the phone boots up, it loads the default recovery console. When we select "reinstall packages", it loads "update.zip" on the sdcard root by default. Since the update.zip we have there is the CWM zip, it loads it therby loading CWM console.

If u don't want CWM, just delete this update.zip.

Hope this helps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NISMOFO:
I have this exact same issue ROM Manager is doing nothing but rebooting into recovery. So if I use your workaround, I need to keep this update.zip file on my device at all times?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Yes best to do so
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
All ROM Manager does is download the update.zip that was posted and put it on your SD Card. The other steps need to be done regardless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NISMOFO:
I got the ROM backup working. I guess I was too impatient the first time. I cleared/moved a lot of stuff off my internal SD card too....doubt that it mattered.

But it works quite well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anime4ever:
Hi

I just had a Htc hero and I want to know if I can update it. (I'm new to Android)

I know it have 2.1, someone rooted it (I don't know whats rooted) and granted me superuser.

Now I want to update it because I heard it's faster, have better keyboard, etc.

But I can not official update with the update option in the phone.

Someone told me my version of something was to new so I had to downgrade it so I could put a rom.

So I want to know, whats a rom, and how can I put one that's better then the original 2.1.

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberon:
Try installing VillainROM 12 to a full 2.1 Rom, you can also try Floyo to a 2.2 Rom. ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anime4ever:
I heard I had to downgrade the boot.

How can I do that?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Proz0r:
Hello! :D

A ROM is the system on your phone. You must install a custom recovery to flash another ROM, I would recommend VillainROM 12, it's a good one to begin with.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anime4ever:
Thanks, but I heard I had to downgrade the boot to install a rom.

Is there any guide to to so?

And after a guide to install a rom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techynewbie26:
Well if your hero is rooted there's no need to downgrade it. It was the newer updates that had a patch installed in it that made it impossible to root your phone was the reason why it had to be downgraded I believe.

Since you said it's already rooted what you need to check for is if you have a recovery image set up on your phone. Go into recovery mode by either holding down the vol down button and power or the home button and power but here's instructions one how to root your phone and load a custom rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=645253

hope this helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchellvii:
On my EVO, sitting right next to my N router, I can get maybe 9-10 mbps downstream. Meanwhile, my laptop can get 22 mbps.

Is this normal for the phone to max out at 9-10 mbps or am I doing something wrong?

** If this is a stupid question, please bear with me as I don't know much about the electronics of wifi on phones. Please explain rather than flame :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchellvii:
Upon doing further research on this, I can see that wifi reception on the EVO is a major issue. In the same room my laptop is at full bars, my EVO shows no bars at all. This is a powerful router and I can't get more than 20 feet away without losing signal significantly.

I have noticed I am running on Channel 2. Would I do better if I changed channels? From what I have read only, people are saying that other phones such as the iPhone 3GS have twice the wifi range as the EVO.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchellvii:
Just performed interesting test.

These wifi routers shoot signal in all directions. As a test, I create an aluminum foil parabolic mirror (crude but effective) and put it under and behind my router. I then held the phone 4 feet from the router and ran speedtest.

Results:

WITH FOIL MIRROR:

11396 mbps(d)

1044 mbps(u)

WITHOUT FOIL MIRROR:

9117 mbps(d)

1033 mbps(u)

The up speed in both was about the same as that is due to my EVO beaming back to the router. However, the surprising part was that my downstream speeds increased by almost 25% with the mirror in place.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY:

If you have a wireless router that is situated in a corner or along a wall of your house, create a parabolic "radar dish" using tin foil and place it between the router and the wall and see if you wifi speed and reception does not improve.

** UPDATE:

I live in a pretty big house. The router is in my upstairs office which is the opposite end of the house from my living room. Prior to creating this "radar dish" I had zero wifi reception in the living room. With the "radar dish" I now have 1 out of 3 bars in the living room and am getting around 5 mbps downstream.

I am impressed that such a simple fix could make such a difference.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rasih5503:
Hi Guys

I would like to inform you guys I have found best perfomace build+kernal

I have tried various builds with various kernals for last couple of weeks.either I had battery drainage or stoppage or data corruption or laggy problems

Finally best one I tried is

MDJ_FroYo_HD_v._4.6_MDJ_S78.0 with update.kernel.hastarin.16.12.2010.Works perfect. battery usage is great to be honest with you better than window ROM and less laggy. no corrupted data or sudden stoppages.

Try guys.I bet this will be the best combination built I have ever tried.

Thanx Mdeejay and hasterin

what about RAM based built mdjay....?:)