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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quint21:
Hi, I'm running a g2 rooted/s-off using the old method. I'm using the ota rom that I rec'd in november, along with cyanogen baconbits and an overclockable kernel. The problem is text to speech doesn't want to work. When I try to have it play a sample phrase from tts extended it plays no sound. Sometimes tts extended force closes. Under the text to speech configuration under android settings I can't get sound to play either, using any of the engines. I purchased an svox voice and installed the svox engine and that doesn't work either, although I can get the svox app to play a sample phrase.

I've tried doing a data wipe from recovery, along with trying any and all settings I could change in the tts settings.

My next step is to try flashing back to the stock rom, and see if that works. If anybody has any suggestions I'd love to hear them :)

Thanks in advance!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amorek13:
i had a similar issue conttacted htc there is a problem with tts extended that is installed on g2, and i think you installed espeak for android that causes a problem with both espeaks installed make sure you have default language selected
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoTacMatt:
I couldn't get the Google Translate to work due to the built in espeak. So I deleted it out of the ROM and downloaded the updated version from the Market.

It worked fine then! You might try that since you mentioned you are rooted.

Can you select pico instead of espeak? I just noticed my espeak is not even selected.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] swehes:
So I have been looking around and just can't find a proper way of adding a dictionary to an Android phone. Running Froyo on a Samsung Vibrant. I have MoreLocale2 on my phone but that doesn't add the dictionary. It just switches between languages. The gingerbread keyboard supposedly have a Swedish dictionary on there, but I can't see it, which makes me think that I have to have the dictionary on my phone before I can select it, or at least activated.

So my question is this. Does anyone in here know how to do it? Or is willing to investigate? I'm not a programmer, and I have a hard time trying to figure out where the dictionary would be going on the phone.

I'm rooted and running a leaked version of Froyo.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] drugoija:
I am also curious about it. I got rooted wildfire with cyanogenmod installed and got English and a couple more dictionaries on it, but would like to know how to install Russian dictionary or at least can some one tell me where is the dictionary file located in the rom it self(in archive).
[Nook Color General] m2pilot:
Hi All-

I've run into an issue with the Market that I haven't been able to find in the various market oriented threads here.

I rooted yesterday using auto-neuter 12.25 & everything worked great. I can youtube, I have my google apps email account syncing, I can download free apps from the market, etc. Angry birds is a real treat on the Nook color!

My problem is with trying to purchase paid apps from the market. Like many report successfully doing here, I want to get Titanium Backup pro & use it to backup the nook to a dropbox account. When I try to purchase from the android market, I am told to enter/create a gmail account vs using the existing gmail apps account. I have tried re-entering the google apps account data, but I seem to end up in and endless loop where it asked for the credentials, I supply them, it accepts them, and then brings me back to asking for credentials.

Does anyone have any insight into this problem??
[Nook Color General] BertoJG:
It is my understanding you should use an actual gmail.com account for the primary account on android devices. This is probably the source of your issue.
[General Questions and Answers] durps:
I remember reading a way on how to freeze apps and such without having root.

Can anyone tell me what to do? I have a G2

thanks for any input!
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
I have officialy given up on repairing my phone. Looks like it's not possible to fix this thing. Just spent the better part of 3 pays (4hours of sleep a night) trying to get my phone fixed. My sister bought this EVO through some work deal and gave me it on Christmas. I rooted it that night, and bricked it 30mins later, because of the newer partition scheme it is currently impossible to get this phone back working...

This is what I have now. A EVO 4G that boots normally to this screen. ftp://eto.homeip.net/shared/IMAG0003.jpg

A Vol Down + Power Boot boots to this screen. ftp://eto.homeip.net/shared/IMAG0004.jpg

I can also navigate to this screen. ftp://eto.homeip.net/shared/IMAG0005.jpg

Because of the S-OFF it is obvious to those in the know that I rooted my phone.

I'm just wondering if you guys think this scenaro will work.

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Walk into a Sprint Repair Store, tell them my sister just bought the phone new (about a week ago) and gave it to me as a X-Mas gift. I chose to do the latest OTA-Update, and after it stopped booting and only went to this screen. ftp://eto.homeip.net/shared/IMAG0003.jpg

Where I'd have to pull the battery to turn it off.

They will probably try VolDown+Power and might comment on S-OFF (which I will say I don't know what that is).

Hope they give me a new/refurbished EVO for free or less then $50.

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Questions

* Should I go to a Sprint Store I've never been to? (There are stores within 20miles of me) (Closest knows I root phones, then other I've been into a bunch of times and may have given up on me)

* Should I get the receipt from my sister, who I don't want to tell I rooted/bricked phone

* Call ahead of time and see what they say on the phone?

* Also please give me suggestions of anything that will help

BTW

* Am well within 30days of buying phone, though I'm not sure if my sister bought it through Sprint or not (Think she did though)

* I have pin/name/number on account and can easily activate a different phone they give me.

* Would rather not tell my sister or even get the receipt from her room to keep her from suspecting anything, but can if need be

Thanks for your suggestions, wanted to get this done by the end of the week before I head back down to San Luis Obispo for college. (Where there are fewer Sprint Stores to spam)
[EVO 4G General] muppetman462:
I don't know what the policy is.... most likely, as soon as they see where you're at, the tech will figure out that you were trying to root your phone, and you'll be SOL.

Have you tried booting your phone via ADB? Maybe you can go into recovery via adb shell and see if you can go from there....
[EVO 4G General] xlGmanlx:
if you can get it to power up all is not lost, try pushing AMON's recovery via fastboot

Fastboot

Copy recovery-RA-evo-v1.8.0.img in your android-sdk-windows\tools\ folder

Boot your phone into fastboot mode

fastboot devices(press enter) (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your phone)

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-evo-v1.8.0.img(press enter)
[EVO 4G General] kperry1911:
Since your phone turns on and you can boot into fastboot. Bricked would mean nothing happens period. There's still hope. Try this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780141. There's a video walk-through showing you how to unroot and return to s-on. Then you may be able to start over.

Good Luck!

-kp

Edit: Try GMan's suggestion above 1st.
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
Sorry guys, itried all that stuff yesterday for several hours in the irc.

*adb doesn't recognize device (if you can help me with this that would be great)

*fastboot works but always gives

writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote:image update error)

*flashes in hboot except for Radio_V2 always give

Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] RECOVERY - Fail-PU
Partition update fail!
Update Fail!

It's all in the opening post of the first thread I linked. Wanted to keep that thread about fixing my phone, and this one about getting it back to Sprint / HTC. Thanks
[EVO 4G General] indagroove:
Do you have TEP on this device? If so, and you were to accidentally drop your phone in a very deep lake, river or ocean, you would be covered for loss with a $100 deductible. You can add TEP in the first 30 days, if you don't already have it.
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
Sprint Insurance right? I don't... I might do that but that's my last resort.
[EVO 4G General] craigbailey1986:
If you can boot into the hboot just run a ruu and restore the factory Rom, if all fail pm me your number and I will walk you thru it
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
shameless bump - completely changed opening post
[EVO 4G General] haplo1818:
I could be completely wrong but it's my understanding that, as long as you can get into the hboot, all hope is not lost. I thought I had bricked my wife's Evo when I was rooting it last week.

What worked for me was:

1. Take the SD card out and put it in a PC.

2. Clear out all files on the root of the SD card. (Not sure if this is needed but it's what I did. I left the folders in place though.)

3. Download the appropriate stock ROM from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838448 (Thanks xHausx!!)

4. Rename the ROM to PC36IMG.zip and place it on the root of the SD card.

5. Place SD card back in the phone and boot into hboot.

6. Your phone should detect the PC36IMG.zip and take forever to load it before asking you if you want to install. Say yes to the install and let it reboot after the install.

This brought my wife's phone back to stock so I could attempt the root again. My wife's phone is a white 0004 that came stock with 3.30.651.3 on it. I downloaded the 3.30.651.2_PC36IMG.zip from the site above and it worked just fine.

This is what worked for me but results may very. I'm still a nOOb with this, having just came from a Pre, you may want to wait till someone else comfirms that the above will work...

Hope this helps!
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
Tried this multiple time with different PC36IMG.zip, always get Failed-PU

Partition Update Error, I might try the 3.30 version though just to make sure.
[EVO 4G General] Nefariouss:
Won't like my opinion but, you knew the risks of rooting. If you can't fix your phone then you should add the insurance and suck up the deductible fee. You don't deserve (or anyone for that matter) a free replacement for ****ing up your phone. It sucks but that's the risk. They'll normally have you one the next day.
[EVO 4G General] housry23:
Your phone is definitely not bricked and is fixable. Do you have adb drivers installed on your PC? If not find them and install them then try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=829045?

Since you are already s-off you won't have to do all the steps, but by reading the entire OP you could figure out where to start and what to do. Just to be on the safe side you may want to start at the beginning using HBOOT USB from this screen you posted ftp://eto.homeip.net/shared/IMAG0004.jpg and start completely over. you are not bricked. Just hang in there and someone here will get you hooked up. You are in the right place my friend.

Evo's are really not that easy to fully brick.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
I know whats wrong with your phone problem is i don't know how to exactly fix it! When you tried to root it after taking the OTA or upgrading the HBOOT you messed up the partition table thats why you can't flash a rom what you need to do is try to run a ruu back to stock and then try to reroot but untill you get the partition table fixed you have a phone that is nand unlocked and can't flash any rom the ruu rewrites the partition table if your phone came with 3.70 then use that ruu but if you took the ota then run the 3.30 should work don't do a PC36IMG run the RUU in fastboot usb mode
[EVO 4G General] haplo1818:
Have you tried using a different SD card? Is it possible that something is corrupt with it? I also hear that you need to have at least 1GB of free space on the card when your trying to flash it.....
[EVO 4G General] craigbailey1986:
Let me just say myself and this guy stayed up late last night working on this phone trying every possible root/unroot method you can think of.

The pc he is using has adb drivers installed but the computer wont recognize his device as a adb device. Fastboot on renders certain commands and we tried all with various recoveries. I hit up a dev and we went thru different things and cant seem to figure this one out

As I told the Josh it can not be bricked because we get the bootloader and fastboot screen, I think its not even the partition but the recovery. Also he has a modified hboot by someone on xda (josh please post the link) which I believe that pc36img is whats causing all the problems.

If anyone could help it would be appreciated!!:D
[EVO 4G General] craigbailey1986:
Let me clarify he didnt take any ota (this is what i told him to tell sprint)

He had a 2.02 hboot and rooted with tha method successfully. Then ( for reasons beyond my comprehension) he tried to downgrade his hboot. The method he used, used some sort of mod hboot which is supposedly .76 but says 2.10. This is where the bootloader screen began to loop.
[EVO 4G General] rugedraw:
I'm sure he thought you needed the engineering SPL to be able to flash roms. When I rooted mine back in June with toast's method, that was the way to do it. I rooted my girl's new Evo last month using Unrevoked, and I also downgraded the hboot because I thought I had to in order to flash a custom rom. Fortunately, I was able to do so with no issues.
[EVO 4G General] jimd144:
Cleared all the caches?
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
The partition table is screwed but there has to be a way to reset it I knew that method was risky told my friends to stay away from it

Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883548

The reason I tried downgrading was I wanted clockwork, so I could flash custom kernels. I for some stupid reason thought I couldnt flash kernels unless I had clockwork recovery, and that clockwork would never come out for 2.02. Sorry I was retarded as usual.
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
Yeah, I want to see if I can do this but at the same time I want to get my phone working before the end of the week cause my classes start again next week.
[EVO 4G General] carlos33018:
Have you attempted RUU?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=473336
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
Yes, kept getting error 170, got a 64 bit driver started getting farther where it would actually try to flash. Then got error 171s instead. I have some logs from it. I skimmed them and they complain about too many bad blocks...

ftp://eto.homeip.net/shared/RUU_101228T160722.log
[EVO 4G General] RTC88:
Are you using the htc original usb cable with adb? If you use a generic cable the pc won't recognize the device.
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
I really doubt that... But either way i tested it with another working EVO and adb worked just fine.

How does the cable matter? USB has + / DATA IN / DATA OUT / -

Your saying the cable that came with my EVO has something different about it? It somehow tell my computer that it's different then a generic cable when every other cable is also just four wires that allow electricity to travel across them...
[EVO 4G General] jjjackson56:
Not really that the cable has anything to tell your phone its not original, but what I remember from my g1 is using cheap cords had a real issue. So you don't have to have the stock cable but don't use some crap one either.
[EVO 4G General] Philyteach:
Warning: I probably don't know what I'm talking about. Don't try this unless someone who does know what they are talking about thinks this is a good idea!

Since he is getting bad block errors would running calkulin's format all zip be of any use to him? Its supposed to format boot, cache, data & system partitions.

Perhaps instead of using adb just pull the card, put it in a reader and throw the file on there?
[EVO 4G General] hachiroku:
the first time i flashed i did the same thing. your phone isn't bricked. it is just that directions on the forums aren't clear as day.

copy over appropriate zip rom to your sd card. use the appropriate boot loader to flash the appropriate rom. done and done.

if you can get to the recovery menu through recovery msdos application you should be able to save your phone. you can use the recovery app to mount your USB drive to appropriately copy the rom to your SD card. from there do your clear steps then flash the new rom. it should then boot up and install as it should.
[EVO 4G General] craigbailey1986:
He cant get into recovery so caulks format all is impossible.

The instruction on the forum were clear as day, hehad his phone rooted and still is. the problem is he tried to downgrade his hboot with a modded hboot and this is where his problem is.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
Any way to mod the format all file to launch as part of pc36img and launch the stock ruu right after?

Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
[EVO 4G General] craigbailey1986:
hmmm... i dont know... i will contact caulk and see what he thinks
[EVO 4G General] Philyteach:
You know, I'm actually gonna be pretty happy if my dumb idea turns out to be useful. :D
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
does the format all file comlpetly rewrite the partitions cause the RUU seemed to look at the partitions and think they were bad block, then basically say it couldn't run.

Anyway I went to sprint repair store (but not really owned by sprint I guess) and they said go to the corporate store cause they could just switch it out. Went to the corporate store and they said bring a receipt and they could just replace it. So now I'm trying to get the receipt from my sister, hopefully without her finding out.

It doesn't really matter now cause it won't cost her any thing, sprint said they'd replace it for free. And when they looked at the phone they booted into hboot and didn't comment on S-OFF.
[EVO 4G General] tangstang:
looks like you got it taken care of:)
[EVO 4G General] ricersniper:
worst case scenario with this is 15 seconds in a microwave. a friend fried his killed droid by over-clocking it and it boot looped constantly. knowing Verizon would jack him on a rooted phone that he couldn't un-root, he put it in the microwave and it completely wiped the phone out with out visibly damaging the board or screen. not the most ethical thing in the world but it is known to work.
[EVO 4G General] d14:
If the phone was purchased from a corporate Sprint store they can log into your or your sister's account and view/print the receipt. The only way they wouldn't be able to see it is if she paid for the phone without the sales rep logging into the account (which is frowned upon because there's no history of the sale and it turns into a nightmare trying to get it returned/fixed if it comes back).

You don't really need a receipt for a 30 day exchange, everything should be on the account. Realistically, the only way it wouldn't be on the account is if you bought it from a 3rd party store; in which case you'd have to return to the store from which the phone was originally purchased to do the exchange anyhow.

If you're outside the 30 days from purchase, just walk into a repair store set the phone on the counter and tell them the phone is "doing this" and you don't know how or why it got like that. Don't say anything about updates or rooting or anything of the like. The sales people making the tickets don't care because if you're not buying anything you're wasting their time and you're not dealing with a tech directly.

People seem to think that the technicians are highly educated on phones, truth be told, they're rudimentary at best. They'll try to wipe the phone, if that doesn't work they may open it to check for liquid damage. 99% of the time If they can't get an Android phone running with a wipe they're usually just going to swap it out through TEP. Don't have TEP? Pay $35+tax and they'll still swap it.

Unless it's something blatantly obvious like a custom boot animation, they probably won't notice or can't tell that the phone was bricked while attempting to gain root. Most techs wouldn't even know what "S-OFF" at the top of the screen meant.

You'd be surprised just how many Sprint Technicians have bricked their personal phones trying to root them.

One suggestion though, each store has a monthly exchange budget, I.E. they're not supposed to do more than say, 275 exchanges in the given month. Thus you want to go at the beginning of the month, not the end. They're a little more willing with the replacement phones when they've only done a handful of swaps.
[EVO 4G General] d14:
Also, make sure you're extremely polite to the sales rep making the ticket. Anytime they make a service ticket theirs a chance you're going to get a customer satisfaction survey call and if they think you're going to give them a good review they're more likely to help you. You walk in and start being standoffish or a hardass they're going to bounce you out of the store as quickly and as cleanly as they can.
[EVO 4G General] squick:
You should have that as a first resort, LOL! If you get the $7 protection it covers everything like loss, theft, breakage in your case lol. I have used it twice on older phones. One that I ran over.
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
Well, another update.

My sister bought the phone from a third party website through her work. She got me the receipt of that (by email) and the Corporate (non-repair) Sprint Store said I should just get it replaced through them, no questions asked.

Because I was curious I went to a total of 3 sprint stores today. The Corporate, and two other stores. The second store I went to basically told me to come back in an hour and they'd have it fixed (lol I knew they wouldn't have it fixed). Anyway they were extremely nice and said I could just pay $35, they'd get an order for an EVO or just pay for insurance for a month, leave my phone and they'd order one the next day.

The only reason I didn't take this method (and leave my sister out of it) was because I'm leaving for College this Sunday and the Evo is apparently backordered.

In the end though I told my sister and she said she could just order another one through work. =]
[EVO 4G General] TheNexxuvas:
WE know what this damage looks like...so not worth doing, techs are aware when you guys are now taking to nuking them in the microwave these days.

Sorry, won't work.
[EVO 4G General] Midnigh7:
What do you get when you boot to recovery? A black screen?

What happens when you boot to recovery and on your PC run adb devices ?

When you are booted to recovery check your device manager on your computer to see if you have any devices not recognized....do you?

-Midnigh7-
[EVO 4G General] josh4trunks:
Recovery brings me to regular boot screen. (see OP)

adb never responds on any screen ever, works fine on another EVO.

No devices, same as boot... not even a usb drive
[EVO 4G General] Midnigh7:
Try this.... http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10011464&postcount=1

You might need to pull the SD card and stick it in a computer to get the files onto it.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
This is what got him in this situation to begin with

Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
[EVO 4G General] ChrisDos:
I've seen this happen before with ADB not seeing the device. Solution is to use linux and adb. I use Linux exclusively, except to occasionally play a game under windows. I set up ADB on both just because I could. ADB under windows will see my phone just fine, but not my wife's. ADB under Linux sees everything and has no issues whatsoever. Linux FTW.
[EVO 4G General] OneStepAhead:
here is what id do. throw it in the lake and call asurion and pay the 100 deductible for a new one.
[EVO 4G General] OneStepAhead:
if you don't have insurance already i don't think you can add it, I believe you need to call from the phone you want to insure, and well, you obviously cant.
[EVO 4G General] OneStepAhead:
maybe wouldn't work on you but it would work on most.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
And not to mention, nuking your phone is insurance fraud. And if you just take it back and try to get a warranty replacement and not insurance, thats also fraud.