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[Captivate General] Scott_S:
The memo also mentions if the manufacturing date is later than 11/06/10, which adds to the confusion, for me at least, because imei#'s can be 351xxxxxxxx and manufactured later than 11/06/10.

Mine, for instance, is 351xxxxxx7623, manufactured 11/26/10, and is a 1011 build.

This is my 2nd captivate, no problems yet.

You may want to at least find out your manufacturing date and your build number (on label on phone under the battery), as my guess is that the mfg date/later build is more indicative of whether or not your phone will have problems, if you haven't yet experienced them, but are worried you might.
[Captivate General] ivanh3:
Birther...

Anyways...My phone falls into this category, but I have not had any problems. I am also running a non-stock ROM. I am considering re-flashing and giving them a call. My GPS is not as fast as I would like.
[Captivate General] samven582:
Guys I just want to confirmed that this memo is real. I spoke with AT&T Android support this morning and read word for word of this memo and were shock that i had gotten a hold of it.
[Captivate General] reinbeau:
Never doubt the powerz of the interwebs Someone posted in another thread somewhere that the AT&T Tech guys don't like these forums - this is a prime example of why they don't. We know the real info before they do!
[Captivate General] Rizz67:
I am in the same boat. Bought on launch date. 1007 build. 3518xxxx0069 imei. Dont have reboots.....yet. Don't see if the risk is worth it to replace.
[Captivate General] dabuddha:
Went to the AT&T Device Support Center to see if I could switch it out. Showed the "technicians" the memo, they said it was a fake (she seemed very full of herself) and that any news would have come from the manufacturer. I don't believe her, but I wasn't going to make a big scene. And the other guy, after reading the memo, asked for my phone so I handed it to him and he popped out the batter while the phone was still on... Since I had already switched out phones before they said they'll ship me a new battery and "see if that fixes things" in which case I'm pretty sure it won't so I'm going to call warranty center a few days after I get my battery and see if service is better. At least I got a free battery...they don't have refurb batteries do they...?

3518...7696 build 1006

7/9/2010

(i believe i'm well within range yea?)

Note: this is the DSC in Alpharetta, GA
[Captivate General] bogle35:
I didn't like the "your phone will have the shutdown problem eventually" and just to make a lake a long story short, AT&T exchanged it

my old phone's imei number ends in xxxxxxxxxxx"28xx"

new phone's imei number ends within xxxxxxxxxxx"9000"
[Captivate General] mikegy2002:
Exchanged phone yesterday at service center. Tech said they had been instructed to exchange phones within that early no. range no questions asked. As she's getting ready to get no.s off phone, phone coincidentally shuts down!
[Captivate General] SuperSync:
I am currently on my 4th Captivate since 9/20/10.

#1 (Batch 1007) New from retail company-owned store. Stock firmware/non-rooted. Started sleeping death about 4 days in. Only when charged >90%.

#2 (Batch 1007) Exchanged for new unit at same company-owned store. Stock firmware/non-rooted. Started sleeping death about 6 days in. Only when charged >90%.

#3 (Batch 1007) Exchanged for new unit at same company-owned store. Stock firmware/non-rooted. Started sleeping death right at 42 days from original purchase. Only when charged >95%. Decided to give it a while and live with it. Tried these kludge keep-alive apps and so on. Why should I have to do that and ruin my battery life even more to get something working properly? Finally called...

#4 (Batch 1007) Exchanged for refurbished unit via device support/warranty exchange toll free number. Had to give them my IMEI, check the little water damage indicator color for them, etc. Received on 11/20/10. Lasted until yesterday (12/29/10) without issue. A variety of ROMs including Cognition, Perception, Auxra, Doc's, Darky's, and currently running Assonance v5.2 w/gliterball's kernel. Thought for sure when they refurbished this one they corrected whatever it was. Only when charged >80%.

Called support center today, they REFUSE to send me a new unit after all my troubles...or any screen protectors I've wasted on all these up to this point. I did manage overnight shipping at no charge though.

Is there a pattern here? I think so. I just wish I had written down all my IMEIs to this point. Regardless, I think the majority of 1007 units are the culprits. The individual I spoke to today was "completely unaware" of a shutdown issue. He is a contractor in a call center in New Mexico.

FWIW...............
[Captivate General] superdlb:
I had random shutdowns with 2.1 even after ota update. I have been running 2.2 cognition v2.3b4 now for about a month and have had no shutdowns, and now the phone is blazing fast no lag.

baseband ver I897UCJJ4

kernel ver 2.6.32.9 jet.lee@sep.11 #1

build number cognition.v2.3b4

I tried a couple other cognitions roms and had some problems so I went back to this ver and absolutely stable. Thanks DG for the great work.
[Captivate General] lskohn:
Thanks for the heads-up!

Well thank heavens for this forum... saved me a lot of time. I had to replace my Captivate (for once I had purchased the insurance!) - got the refurb within 2 biz days (Tuesday), revved it up . . . and noticed yesterday and today that it kept turning off even though it was substantially fully charged.

Thanks to this forum I could see the IMEI placed the refurb in the problematic range, called AT&T and after talking to a scripted dork, she's sending another replacement.

Of course, there's no guarantee it won't be another problem child, since they sent out this one AFTER the press release about the issue. :( But at least I didn't waste time trying troubleshoot this one! Thanks, guys!:D
[Captivate General] ademarne:
Went to the Seattle Device warranty center today and simply said, "my captivate is having random shut down issues, like when I put it in my pocket and take it out later it has turned off".

The person helping me just asked me when I had purchased the phone and my account information, then looked at his computer for a bit and grabbed a new device from the back room. He then swapped everything out and said its all good to go. I also asked him if this was common with these phones (playing dumb) and he said there was a "bad batch".

I did get a refub device with an IME in the range of defectives, but the sticker under the battery is much different than the one that came with my original phone. If it starts tweaking out as well, I'll head back there and demand a brand new device.

On a side note, the GPS on my new phone is very good compared to my last one. I get locks of 5 meters inside my house, before I couldn't even get a lock inside!

Cheers
[Captivate General] dj_aby:
Hi,

I wanted to check what a random shutdown means for those having the issue? Does the phone restart, or does it simply shutdown and stay shut?

I'm having a weird issue. My phone was working great until some days back it did a restart when I was on a call with someone. I'm also not sure if it's really a restart as the ATT logo and the power off/on sound did not come. What happend was the wallpaper went black in the password screen, and in the notification bar it said Media scanning etc. It happened 2-3 times and I removed the battery and put it back in. Since then the issue didn't occur. Please let me know if this is the same issue you guys are facing which you refer to as random shutdown?
[Captivate General] jswclw:
Same here...referb EMEI is in problem range, very different sticker under battery, much improved GPS performance, no shutdowns so far.
[Captivate General] gunnyman:
How can I find out if we have a Warranty Center in town? I went to the website and didn't find one in the store locator. We have 2 corporate stores though will they be able to help me?
[Captivate General] Dynablue:
@gunnyman-

I'm too new to post links but:

Go to ATT wireless, click Support, look for 'Answer Center' on the right side of the screen and click 'browse answer center', choose 'phones & devices' then 'warranty' and finally you should see as a question something like 'Can the Device Support Center replace my phone under the warranty exchange program?'. Select that, scroll down a bit and you'll find a list of all DSC's.

Sorry it wasn't just a quick clicky link.

No DSC listed for SC.
[Captivate General] gunnyman:
Thanks Dyna Blue I guess I'll just call them then
[Captivate General] Praz-1:
Called the ATT warranty department this morning. I explained to the lady that answered the phone was randomly shutting down. She said I needed to talk to the Android department. After a couple of minutes on hold she came back and said it would be some time for them so she would try to help me.

I explained what the phone does and also mentioned the memo from Samsung. Told her my build date, IMEI number and software version all fell within the range referenced in the memo. She asked what the IMEI number was and after a bit came back and confirmed that according to the memo my phone was defective and needed to be replaced.

She said a replacement would be shipped out immediately and usually regular shipping was free and priority was $12.00. But because of this issue the replacement would be shipped priority at no additional cost.

So it appears the memo is for real and ATT is taking care of the defective phones.
[Captivate General] stuff:
What is this "random shutdown" you people are referring to? I have yet to have such thing, and my IMEI ends in "2710."

It's a refurbished unit though, so perhaps the internals are not the same as what came factory. Or improvements were made before it was resold.

My real question is, does that mean my refurb unit is also under this recall? Making me one lucky sonofagun? Cause then I could just wait a bit, and say it's happening to me and get an exchange?
[Captivate General] aalh:
my turn

I am well within 30days and have had shutdowns on every rom I have tried

both cap roms and r-o i9000 roms

my cap is build 1011 rev4

imei 571...1562

mfg date 11/2010 they could not tell me a day

I am flashing back to stock and returning to RadioShack today
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archangelCJ:
alright guys i think i may be screwed here.

teh phone i got is the HD2 runing widnows mobile "5.2.21869"

now the problems i have is that most of the apps i go in to, teh screen orientation is stuck on landscape and there is nothign i can do to get it back. shaking violently dosen't work for all teh rage fixers out there.

i tryed re-calibrating the G-sensor with no luck. then for a laugh i calibrated it so that the phone though flat was at some obscure angle, then reset to flat, alro with no luck.

i have done the foctory reset located within the operting system with no change, and i have done the manufacture's reset as well (the one where you hold down teh volume buttons and tap the power button).

now i have the firmware update that will most likely fix this but there is a problem (which is where i think im screwed). whenever i plug the phone into my pc, or any other, it simply charges adn will not recognise that i have connected it to a computer. (i have dissabled charging whenever connected to a PC).

so do you have any suggestions guys or am i as screwed as i think i am.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casemandan:
After you plug the phone into a usb port on the pc, does a screen pop up on the phone letting u choose from either : charge only, disk drive, or the one u need for update "sync"

If not you might have to download a new windows rom from the hd2 rom section and put it on the sd card

checkout this newbie section on how to

just verify in the settings under phone how what is your rom size

for 512 MB ROM use this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=609477

for 1024MB ROM use http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=653614

There are instructions there on how to do this without using the usb cable, Just flash thru the SD CARD

Good Luck:)
[HD2 General] WaveMaster1406:
Hi people

I want to know how can i get all my Google contacts in my HTC HD2?

When i try to download google Sync app at http://m.google.com/sync,

is said that my device is not compatible :confused:

Please what i gotta do???

Thx a lot for your help
[HD2 General] rlydiard:
For Windows Mobile you do not have to download anything. Read this. If you are running Android on your HD2 I have no idea about that, but would suggest then that you check the HD2 Android forums.
[HD2 General] WaveMaster1406:
I'm running Android too. But i'm look for Google sync for WinMo 6.5
[HD2 General] rlydiard:
Then the link is your only choice. As far as I know there is no sync application for your PC, so you can only configure your HD2 to directly sync with Google Gmail.
[Hero CDMA General] Kayouu:
does anyone know what these particular prongs next to the camera goto?
[Hero CDMA General] Kayouu:
Bump. No one knows the hardware?
[Hero CDMA General] hatchguy06:
I assume you are talking about to the left of the camera.. that would be for the speaker i believe. unless you are talking about the raised tabs... i believe those touch the back casing and have something to do with protecting the circuits from static.. could be wrong on their purpose tho
[Defy General] theboogedy1:
I am very experienced with creating many themes for Blackberrys. but recently the old blackberry broke and i moved on to the Moto Defy. i tried to get some themes but realized i was completely clueless.

i was wondering anybody could answer some questions for me about themes for the Moto Defy.

1. are all themes for android phones the same or do you have to download themes for different OS or devices?

2. is their a certain software or web program that is used to create themes?

3.how do you install a theme to the Moto Defy?

I promise to post my themes here once i learn how to make them.
[Defy General] psixda:
As far as I know there isn't a standard method to create themes on android, you can change wallpaper and that's it. If you want to skin bars and other system stuff you need to be root. Only if you install an extra home manager (launcherpro, awd ...) you can have themes for it (icons, wallpaper, colors).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Futki:
Hi There. i am having problems sending sms from froyo. After i send messages, it shows me that the message is trying to be send but most of the time it never does, just keeps trying. i realised that some times the messages are being send but with delay with 2 to 3 days.i checked some sms time stamps and other stuff but didn't got any results. any ideas... thanx in advance
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GatorsUF:
In an attempt to not Highjack the Redemptive Revolution thread with the same title, are there any themes that fit the Redemption ROM?

I see lots for SkyRaider and Cyanogen but nothing for Redemption. If links are posted I will add them to the OP...

*update*

Themes

Viva Azul - by fernando sor

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=888476 - spence341

Notification Icons

Conservative Color Notification Icons - By DarkTharen

Launcher Pro Theme

(These

should

work with any ROM)

Galaxy S Launcher Pro Theme - by Benny879
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] spence341:
Fernados Viva Azul is for Redemption.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GatorsUF:
Theme added
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helgaiden:
A friend of mine had her Eris metroflashed to MetroPCS. Calls and SMS work, but she wants me to provision the rest of it to work like i did with my own Eris on metro. I tried it to find out the Eris one click root app is not on the market anymore however i had the APK, erisone.apk. I loaded it to her SD card and downloaded Astro File Manager and attempted to install, which it proceeded to tell me it couldnt be installed on that phone. All i need is RA-Eris recovery as i will be loading a custom ROM. Is there an easy way to change the recovery on it so i can do this? I was thinking i just needed to update to 2.1 OTA (can someone provide the link? the old link from google doesnt work anymore) then the Erisone.apk will work (this apk loads custom recovery as well as a root very easily). I need to load a custom ROM before i can begin with the provisioning, what do you guys think i should do?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Does this work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=742228?

Or see this list of options that scary alien provided http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10013596#post10013596.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helgaiden:
The top one is one i tried. The bottom link there mainly concerns rooting. Im trying to install a custom rom thats already rooted so i don't care much for rooting but i guess its necessary to install a new recovery image right? All i want to do is install ra-eris recovery so i can load a custom rom. The one click method you linked automatically installs a new recovery image and thats what im really after. I just don't think that one you linked is compatible with 1.5
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
You have to be rooted and have a custom recovery in order to install a custom ROM.

Editing...ignore what I had posted in this space before.

The second link (starts with "Failing that...") says it works with 1.5.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helgaiden:
You have to be rooted to have a custom recovery. This i know...but can you have a custom recovery without being rooted? I dont care about getting this phone rooted, i just want a custom recovery on it.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
You HAVE to be rooted to change: recovery, kernel, hboot, ROM, and radio. The only exceptions are official updates, whether they be OTA or running a RUU update from Windows with the phone connected.

Root access effectively means being able to change things you're not normally allowed to change.

If you want a custom recovery on your phone, you're going to have to root it. To be technically fully rooted, you would probably have to change your hboot (referred to as S=OFF), too, but it doesn't sound like you need that part. This may not be the answer that you want, but it is what it is.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helgaiden:
Okay, i will try one of those other root methods then. Do any of them install a custom recovery as part of the process like the universal one click root does?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I'm sure they all probably do, but I'm sure they say definitively in their threads, too. Everyone who roots wants to install a custom recovery so that they can flash rooted ROMs. Most everyone, anyway. Only those who just want the stock ROM but rooted wouldn't care about the recovery, but those are a minority.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helgaiden:
Alright cool. Im gonna do the last method from Scary Allen's post. Just a question though..

i hook up the phone to the PC then click install_root.bat. That should do what i want, however in what mode should the phone be in when i have it plugged in? Powered on like normal, in the stock hboot/recovery mode...??
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
You should keep questions about various methods of doing things in the original thread. If it doesn't say in the thread about what mode it should be in, then you'll have to ask GrdLock. If it doesn't specify then maybe it doesn't matter what mode it's in. The only thing it specifies is:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helgaiden:
yeah i got that much out of it. Okay, thanks for your help.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
The jcase "One Click" .apk does not work on 1.5, as you discovered.

Note that the root exploit method that One Click employs does work on 1.5 - but unfortunately the One Click app itself only runs on 2.1.

The Universal Eris Root for Dummies! method will work on both 1.5 and 2.1; it uses the same (wag3slav3) rooting exploit, but does not require the 2.1 OS to be running in order to work correctly. All it does to your phone is to install the Amon_RA custom recovery - exactly what you are looking for.

This method is the same one referenced by scary alien in his post mentioned above - the second URL in his post.

I've said this before, but I'll say it again: when you say "rooted", it means different things to different people. The most general definition is that you have "installed something on your phone which gives you privileges to alter some or all of the phone software which the device manufacturer did not intend".

So - you can have an engineering bootloader on a phone, but a completely stock OS... and that would be a "rooted" phone. Same deal for a set of root tools installed in the OS, but a S-ON bootloader and a stock recovery partition. Or a stock bootloader, a stock OS, but a custom recovery - again, that is also a "rooted" phone. In all three cases, you now have the means to alter whatever you want on the phone. That's all that "rooted" really means; it doesn't necessarily mean that the OS has been kanged up.

bftb0
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helgaiden:
ahh confirmation it doesnt work on 1.5, nice haha. Well thanks. Ill look into the Dummies root method but right now im leaning toward's GRDLOCK's method. At least i know i have good valid options though, thanks!
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linuxkidd:
Hey all,

I had the sense to use the Rotobackup method on my new Sprint Tab after rooting it with the Z4root package. I then proceeded with the ( now outdated ) CWM Flash process adapted from the Epic 4g. Now, I can get into CWM and the process appears to be functional, but I can't get the "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" to work. It all goes well, but when I boot back into android, all the junk is still there.

Now, I know this wouldn't normally be a big deal... However.. In set'n up for my Rotobackup, I punched in a spare Gmail account in case someone wanted a copy of the backup for dissection,etc... Now, since I can't get the factory wipe to work ( neither from the Privacy menu, nor CWM ), I can't get that acct off my Tab so I can get to all my purchased apps on my main account.

Since I have the Rotobackup, I'm thinking that I can just restore one of those packages and get the stock recovery image back in place. I just want to verify which one I should restore before I move forward.

My expectation is that I need to restore the 'boot.bin' file. Can someone confirm this?

For the record, these are the files I have saved:

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 262144 Dec 22 19:00 boot.bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32768000 Dec 22 19:00 cache.rfs
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 25620093 Dec 22 19:23 data.tgz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 86507520 Dec 22 19:00 dbdata.rfs
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6553600 Dec 22 19:00 efs.rfs
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 336068608 Dec 22 19:00 factoryfs.rfs
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 16777216 Dec 22 19:00 modem.bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1310720 Dec 22 18:58 param.lfs
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 262144 Dec 22 19:00 pit.pit
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1310720 Dec 22 19:00 Sbl.bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 7864320 Dec 22 18:59 zImage

Thanks in advance,

LK
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linuxkidd:
Or, can I simply do an rm -rf /data/* to get the effect of a factory wipe?

Thanks,

LK
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linuxkidd:
Ok, I figured it out..

So, the thought of flashing the recovery image came from my root experiences on Evo. I decided while waiting for a response to do more digging through the CWM installation routine and noticed that it made a backup of the original recovery file ( since on Epic and Tab, it's a redirector method instead of an image on the Evo ). AND.. it had a 'Remove root/CWM' option!

I modified the run.sh script to NOT remove root on that option and only put the original CWM in place, ran it.. and VIOLA!

Hope this may help someone else.

LK
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZoinksS2k:
are you saying you have a working CWM running on your Sprint-flavored tab?