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[Windows Phone 7 General] Stairmand:
I've had this problem since release day. I'm in the UK and have a HD7 from O2 unlocked running on Vodafone.

All my music is tagged perfectly using MP3 Tag (i'm a bit OCD about this as I have a Home server and 3 HTPC's that use the same library) all have Artist, Album Artist, Track, Album and Album cover image tagged.

On all the music transfered to my HD7 Kasabian, Ian Brown, Foo fighters all have background images working fine.

However, If I play any other artist I have no background images, even very popular ones. So I tried your guide, If I play a track and select the Marketplace icon it just says "Loading..." and doesnt work.

However after LOTS of messing about, I found that it works if you hard reset, dont play any music tracks! just select the Artist and then select Marketplace. Marketplace then loads and background images come up OK.

Funney enough searching for the Artists ibn Marketplace works any time. So I think that this is obviously a problem with WP7 and not region or Zune pass related.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
Weird that you had to reset but great that you've found a solution :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Stairmand:
Well easy come easy go, the tracks that I managed to get background images for no longer work but the ones that worked originaly still do.

I hope MS sort this in V1.1.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strutten:
I can't get any of the artists backgrounds... All the tagging is perfect, but still no luck. To bad, since this is part of the beauty (pun intended) with wp7...
[Windows Phone 7 General] airelk:
I'm from New Zealand, Just bought an HTC Trophy, quite impressed except for the lack of internal memory (8gb) and no expansion slot. But Yeah I was first trying to get the Zune tile to change to having artists on it rather than just the zune logo. And haven't fixed that and Now I'm trying to suss out my artists images as background images on my trophy whilst in the zune application.

So far after resarching for a few hours, It only works in the US. Obviously me being in New Zealand gives a lack of support, but we're used to the lack of support in probably everything, as technology in New Zealand is probably about the same as the US was in 500BC.

But I've changed my Pc region settings to the US, and now I can access the Zune market place on my pc, and on my zune I changed the location settings and such to the US, but that didn't do much. I also made a new hotmail account for my zune and set it all to settings in the states. I downloaded the zune social tagger, but that couldn't connect, even with popular artists. However on my Zune software on my PC it connects to the artist bio and marketplace and such, but once synced to my phone, nothing changes.

No luck so far.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Krissrock:
it's not as simple as the OP states. it will work IF you have all the correct tags. You're best bet is to use the Zune Social tagger...it's very good BUT also does not work 100%.

in the ZST, there can multiple albums identical albumbs listed for the same artist, some will show the correct image, and some will not.

There's seems to be 3 different pieces of meta data that is used for the artwork.

Album artist - pic u may see when u click on the album

song artist - pic u may see when u play the song

Artist - pic u may see when u click on the artist's name

If u haven't experienced this yet, you can different images for these attributes, for the same song depending on where you're looking in your phone. For Example.

I had the song Umbrella by rihanna ft Jay-Z. At one point, when i would click on the artist name, I would get her background pic...I could click on the market place and get more of her songs...BUT when i clicked on the song itself, I would get Jay-z's background pic and bio!

So, I found a entry in the ZST that would give me her pic for the artist, and her pic for the song. and I was just going to edit the song information since I was going to use the wrong album.

So i tagged the umbrella song with an incorrect song from another album of her's that correctly had the images tagged. THEN when i would manuall edit the album title, the pic would go BACK to the incorrect background pic for the song!

So long story short, there's a lot of incorrectly tagged info on the market place and in ZST. There's also artist that don't have a background picture at all. If they have a bio though, it's correctly tagged.

So what i've found is using the ZST and trying multiple albums till i find one that is correctly tagged/linked.

The op's suggest will work for some, but u gotta have it correctly tagged in the first place.
[Windows Phone 7 General] airelk:
My entire library is properly tagged, has always been, every track has album art too. I tried zune social tagger, but like I mentioned, It just won't connect at all. Everytime, no results. Even typing in 'Eminem' or 'Fleedtwood Mac' for the sake of checking for the bigger artists; and still no results. I changed my PC region to the US, and my language to English (United States). And no results. However now my Zune software DOES connect to the marketplace (music and all), whereas originally it was just videos and apps. My zune software now works fine and when in 'now playing' mode it shows the graphic visualization of the artist (ie fleetwood mac has images of them and the stats of song plays etc, same with bee gees). So I know THEY ARE properly tagged, it's just my Phone that won't show the background images. My phone is set to US in it's regional settings.

So far my only conclusion is that I'd have to hard reset my phone, and when it asks for my live ID, put in my phony US windows live id and set it up as US phone.

But I'm sure there is another way, and someone has figured it out.
[Windows Phone 7 General] airelk:
I also found this to be rather interesting:

"Hello,

Thank you for posting. As of today, Music purchase on Zune is not available in Canada. Have a great day and a Happy New Year. "

and to which the OP's reply was:

"Axel, are you aware of the fact that it really looks like you are mocking all of us? Meaning all of those who, like me, are forced to use Zune portal as the only way to get applications into my device and cannot do it just because I don't live in one of the selected few countries?

What does that say about MS policy towards the world?

I will not have neither a great day nor a great year because I bought a very exepnsive phone but can't use it properly just because I am portuguese...

And there are many, many others like me!

Thank you MS... thank you very much!"

I just don't get why Microsoft is so fussy about it's region settings on zune? If they want more money (which is what its about in the end), then just open your market to more regions, more people will be happy and will buy it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Krissrock:
sorry bro, if it's not right on your phone, it's not really right on your pc. The pc does a search and will find similarly, although incorrect informaion. If you have multiple albums by the same artist, you can notice when going into the mixed view, or get more information on this album...you will get different results.

Zune will search and return what it finds, correct or not...however, your phone will return nothing if its not properly tagged. If you hit the "marketplace" button, sometimes it does nothing at all...

You should going through the result, and connecting a song with each one of the various search results, and see what it does on your phone...you'll see different results and probably eventually get the right one

zune itself is the worst at tagging. You can search and connect an album, and still not be able to see mixed view. I pretty much couldn't for anyone till i started using the social tagger.

I think what really needs to be disclosed is how the marketplace gets its information...it almost seems like a wiki type of user managed database of a lot on incorrect ****.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hammered09:
I've been looking at this today and I can safely say that Zune Social Tagger is... well, crap!

You have to have the details as is written in the Zune DB and I mean EXACTLY... If you have your files tagged with a lowercase letter in, rather than whats in ZST's DB, it won't pick it up. The actual tag maybe correct, it's just that it's not intelligent enough to realise that its the same bloody track!

Also, there is no-way of updating the actual DB. I have a couple of Kasabian albums which aren't getting picked up due to the albums being the original ones and ZST only has updated versions, ie re-released versions. I know what my album is, WTF do I have to have it tagged as MS want it to be tagged...

If they want this system to work, then they ought to allow us to be able to update the DB and let it grow, it would be correct as well, rather than the pissy, crappy way that it runs at the moment. :mad:
[Windows Phone 7 General] Alperen4:
There is a tool called "ZuneConsole". I also have ZuneHD and with this program, we can manually change artist backgrounds, bio etc. There is not pictures for all the artist, for example in my archive, Tool, In Flames have a bunch of pictures but Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity have none. That tool is hooking Zune and provides to change or add what we want.

If anyone who knows programming or etc. can take a look and try to port or mod this tool for use. I can't post the web site of the project now because my posts are not adequate. But if you google, you can find easily.
[General Questions and Answers] lbrwrx:
hello everyone, I am new here and doesnt know a lot about root/rom stuff.

so i got someone to do a full root on my sprint htc hero, decided to change rom to crunchysoft 2.1.6. then later updated to 2.1.7.

I am having problems with ringtones, I seem to not have any other options for my default ringtones.

when i go to settings - sound n display - phone ringtone = my options are just "silent" but it actually makes a ringing sound.

how can i get other ringtones? also, when i get a text msg, its just vibrates. i already when to the setting on the sms and tried to change the notification sound but it too only has "silent" as an option.

any help is appreciated. thanks
[General Questions and Answers] dpark06:
lbrwrx, I am having the same problem. I just flashed the csrom last night and couldn't get my notification sound to work. Also, phone ringer just has one ringer option. I love this rom, but I need sound for my text messages. Anyone?
[General Questions and Answers] MWaV:
Rookie here too trying to learn more. Have you tried htcevohacks.com? they do other phones too.
[General Questions and Answers] lbrwrx:
I still couldnt find anything. I am also experiencing a lot of forced re-boot with this rom. Im gonna try to look for another rom or go back to stock.
[Nexus S General] xspyda:
I know that at this time there is no way to remove clockworkmod recovery so I'm wondering what else can be done without installing cwm.

Just how far can we go with the nexus s before reaching a point of changes and tweaks being irreversible (in the event of having to return it to the shop)?

Can we still root and be able to return to out of the box state if necessary (removing all traces)?

Is there any point in the above without cwm installed?
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Actually, as some of us learned the hard way, the new 2.3.1 update forces you back to stock recovery on every fresh boot of the device. Nice safety feature if you think about it.

I think if you factory reset the phone and relock (fastboot oem lock) the bootloader, no one's going to not accept it as a return. Do you really think Best Buy return desk goes that deep into the phone. Several posts around here of people returning and stating Best Buy didn't even turn on the phone or open the battery door to see if a battery was in it still! YMMV but I personally am not worried about being able to return to BB as long as I don't water drop or otherwise physically damage the phone.
[Nexus S General] xspyda:
Interesting. For those of us who haven't been pushed the 2.3.1 update yet though it looks like flashing the clockworkmod could be a bad move... for now at least.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Only if you're concerned about Best Buy not taking the phone back if it's on there. Better safe than sorry, I guess.

I haven't tried in stock recovery, but supposedly you can flash unsigned zips with it, so if that's true, there's one thing you don't need CWM for, but you're still giving up Nandroid and other advanced features.

I wouldn't do too much mucking around with system files without a nandroid to fall back on. One guy in another thread seems to have really mucked up his phone just by playing with fonts.

If all you want is root and can get it to stick without CWM (I couldn't, I had to use CWM advanced feature to mount /system and chmod the su binary), then probably fine without CWM until you're sure about keeping the phone. There are reports of rooting without CWM if you search here and the developer's section.
[Nexus S General] xspyda:
Thanks, I'm not a best buy customer but your points are relevant nonetheless. I think I will leave as is until I make my final decision :)
[Nexus S General] nxt:
You only have to worry if the returns desk/mobile people call up a Geek Squad person for verification. Those Geek Squad people, they know their stuff man.

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/sarcasm
[Nexus S General] xspyda:
Thank God for the "/sarcasm" - I thought you were serious there for a minute!
[Nexus S General] sudoash:
CarphoneWarehouse accepted my return of a previous phone (which was also unlocked + rooted) and they still accepted it and exchanged the phone. I'm guessing you just have to be lucky.
[Epic 4G General] akenis:
First noticed a problem using Google Sky Maps. I couldn't tilt phone to view above the horizon. I was on a 2.2 ROM, but I never tried it on a stock ROM. This position sensor error would effect any app that uses the phones position (pitch, roll, azimuth) as an input, for instance game control. It would manifest as not being able to turn or climb. It also effects horizontal/vertical screen switching.

What I know from testing:

A. Download Sensor Debug from market. The simple program lists the sensor values that are reported to programs: Azimuth, Pitch, Roll, as well as force sensed along X,Y and Z axis. If the system is working properly, values with the phone sitting still would read: Pitch 0, Roll 0, X and Y Forces = almost zero, Z (gravity)= -9.xx. Tilting the phone to the left or right, Roll goes +/- 90. When tilted toward the sky, pitch would smoothly increment from 0 to -90 when vertical, and -180 when upside down. My phone when sitting on the table will read (depending on calibration method): Pitch= 0 or -180, Roll =0, Z axis= either +9 or -9. Rolling the phone is sometimes limited to +/-30 degrees. Pitch increments in the proper direction, but is capped. If I start at 0 when flat, it stops at 90 degrees when vertical. If it starts at -180, it stops at -150.

B. Calibration settings appear to be stored in /data/system/ms3c_yamaha.cfg. Changes are real time. If deleted, it is recreated. Values vary greatly. Settings/display/horizontal calibrate effects the values. There is also a calibration utility available from terminal: su system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha. The terminal method has been reported as more accurate.

C. The problem has persisted with full data wipes, factory resets and ODIN return to stock.

So, is anyone else seeing these kind of problems. Questions:

1. What kind of pitch/roll values do you see in Sensor Debug:

2. What are the values in your /data/system/ms3c_yamaha.cfg? and what kind of calibration did you do if any?

3. I want try going back to stock 18 again, but think my method is not complete. What is the most thorough method?

I used the method described in the "my gps fix for 2.2" thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=869806. It uses Odin 1.3 and SPH-D700-DI18-8Gb-REL.tar.md5.

There's another "Return to Stock" thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=773032. It uses the same version of Odin and SPH-D700-DG27-8Gb-REL.tar, and maybe a different PIT. Not sure what a PIT file is.

It appears that the threads re ODIN for DK28 use a different version of ODIN and or PIT, or no PIT.

4. Is it possible that ODIN isn't writing part of the firmware? If I can verify the problem after a thorough return to stock, well maybe it is a hardware issue and I'll just go down to Sprint and get a new one!

Hey thanks for listening! So looking forward to fixing this issue and appreciate any and all help/comments. Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] Mort3987:
I've had the same exact problems that you're having. I've done the same things you've done to try and fix the problem but nothing works. I've really only noticed the problem in sky maps because I haven't played any games that required going above the horizon. Hopefully someone can figure out a fix for this because I'd really like to use sky maps again.
[Epic 4G General] akenis:
I used the link above, return to stock, last page of that thred. Odin3 ver 1.67, and DI 18 stock with no PIT. Sensor debug values are the same....

What are your sensor debug values? Maybe try the su calibrate if u can.

Went to Sprint store. Nominal debug values on an Epic and an Intrepid...

Not a tech store so walking 1 mi to the other one. I am resolveed that I have hardware issues, or at least issues that ODIN can't fix.

I don't have insurance, but it's only 3 months old...should be covered?
[Epic 4G General] ungovernable1977:
Make a big scene, ask for manager... they may try to refer you to sammy warranty... don't put up with it. But the 7 bux a month is def worth it...
[Epic 4G General] Mort3987:
I don't think that the problem is the hardware. Sky maps was working for me before flashing over to the froyo roms. I'm just hoping that once the official froyo is released, it'll be fixed with that.
[Epic 4G General] akenis:
Update of my journeys....

2 mi walk to the tech store. 45 min later, they say yes the accelerometers are faulty, you need a new phone. Don't know what they did, but the only two things not stock on the phone where Google Sky and Sensor Debug.

So great, I get a new phone! But wait.... "it'll be here in a week." But I don't live in San Francisco, so that does me no good. They say to talk to go to my local store in SC, or call CS to get it mailed. Evidently they won't swap with a retail phone.

CS is no help. Won't authorize a retail swap. Won't have replacement sent to residence or my local store. I'll try calling them tomorrow.

In the meantime, I'm going to ODIN 1.6.1 straight to SPH-D700-DK28-8g-rel.tar.md5 OFFICIAL with no PIT, one click root, and restore my Bonsai system and data. My previous 2.2 upgrades have all been via update zip from DI 18.

So I guess the question remains, does the phone have hardware issues, or did my 2.2 upgrade dork something up that ODIN can't fix. Seems like it will be a while till I can Google Sky....
[Epic 4G General] Dameon87:
You cannot use another person's accelerometer values. Each and every accelerometer is different and calibrating will give everyone different values.

To fix the accelerometer you can run the following command in a terminal emulator :

su
/system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha

The problem is that something has changed from Eclair to Froyo that Samsung hasn't taken into consideration. The update from a DI18 stock to the OTA Froyo should work without a hitch.

Hopefully w/ the official Froyo update we will get a fix. Otherwise, we should confer w/ noobnl or the CMSGS team to figure out how they were able to resolve the issue.
[Epic 4G General] akenis:
I've used the utility numerous times. Agreed that individual accelerometers would be somewhat different, but I think the differences wouldn't be very large in the .cfg file. The utility is "fine" calibration.

My device has gross errors.... Z axis prior to running the utility is +9.xx instead of -9.xx, and lay flat pitch is -179. The utility helps a little, but pitch values are referenced wrong, and don't increment properly even after running it.

Obviously there are areas of the phone that don't get reset with ODIN return to stock (Phone remembers the time, account info, etc). Sprint Tech couldn't get the g-sensors working right either with what ever reset procedure they use. Either data is stored on a level ODIN can't reach, or it's hardware failure.
[Epic 4G General] MikeFornes:
Im a complete noob so correct me if I am imagining this... I had the same problem and fllashed back from froyo. Did the su/system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha fix and it worked. Started restoring all my stuff and the orientation started to dog again.

I messed around and tried changing my launchers. I was using ADW and switched back to TW and the response was much better. I changed to Launcherpro and it is a little slower but not as bad as ADW. Am I high? Please forgive my noobiness.
[Epic 4G General] mictek:
I have noticed the same problem. The D18 rom was fine and all the games worked good. I checked the horizontal calibration and the sensors seem fine but the games and sky map don't seem to register properly with 2.2. I'm waiting for the OTA to come out b4 I take the phone back for a swap.
[Epic 4G General] abrognlie:
I'm actually having the exact problems you all are having with the pitch sensor, ever since I moved to DK28. Right now it is annoying, but I am hoping it will be resolved when DL11 is released. If not, it looks like I'll have to call Sprint and have them get me a new phone, because some programs don't work correctly right now.
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
I noticed this problem while using maps, my compass seemed to have East and West swapped (but North and South were fine). I used the calibration tool in the Settings menu under "Display" (horizontal calibration), but I put the phone on the table upside down (hanging off the edge enough for the "calibrate" button to be in reach).

Not ony did this fix my compass, it seems to have improved the auto rotation response time dramatically
[Epic 4G General] mictek:
Wow...that seemed to help a ton. The games are off, but I don't really play them anymore so no issue. Sky map actually works now. The auto rotation is much better also. Thanks.

Edit: This fix works. I also started my game prior to doing the fix paused it and did the calibration. The game works great now.
[Epic 4G General] Mort3987:
Thanks! This seems to have fixed problem. I'm not exactly sure which part fixed it for me so I'll just go through what I did. I placed my phone face down and did the calibration in display settings, but then my phone wasn't switching to the correct orientation, so I rebooted my phone to see if that would help. It didn't. So I then did the terminal emulator calibration and now it's fixed. So, that makes me wonder if it has something to do with the calibration utility in display settings having some settings that are flipped around.
[Epic 4G General] abrognlie:
Woah... that worked. For whatever reason, it actually worked. Hmm...
[Epic 4G General] akenis:
Wow!

I actually tried the upside down trick once before with out success. Thought I had some results this time... then added another step. Voilla!

1. Working on a rooted froyo ROM. Upside down horizontal calibration from system/display/settings/display.

2. Reboot. (Not sure if that step is needed)

3. Connectbot su system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha

At this point, sensor debug showed no success. Pitch and roll both limited to 30 deg.

4. Settings/display/autorotate. Uncheck.

Back in sensor debug, every thing checked out.

Anyone think it's still fixed if you enable autorotate?
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
I agree that the calibration in display settings seems to be the problem, sensorcalibutil works fine right-side-up. But sensorcalibutil didn't seem to fix the orientation lag, so it's possible that the display settings' calibration is correct, the internal compass I installed upside down, and sensorcalibutil has been modified to compensate... but I doubt it, the hardware should work no matter what the orientation, so a software problem in the settings' calibration is more likely the cause