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[Venue Pro General] Zephnath:
Try this to fix Zune Software

Try running the Zune software in combatibility mode by following these steps:

1. Right click on the Zune software icon from the programs list

2. select properties

3. Click on Combatibility

4. Click the check box next to the text "Run this program in combatibility mode for:"

5. Select a version of Windows Vista from the drop down menu.

6. Check the box that has the text "Run this program as an administrator" next to it

There is a chance that you may only need to the program as an administator, so you may want to skip steps 3-5 and see if that works first. Note that you will get a notification every time you start the program now, that is the down side of doing this, but it could fix your problem. If not, just reverse the steps to go back to normal. Let me know if this works, if not I have other suggestions for you to try.
[Venue Pro General] erebusting:
Thanks but it did not work....=[
[Venue Pro General] Zephnath:
Ok, so here is the other suggestions I have for you.

Option 1

1. Plug phone in to computer

2. Open Device manager (Start>Right Click Computer>Left Click Manage>Click on device manager)

3. In device manager click the plus next to Portable Devices

4. Right Click your phone (this will most likely show as what you named your phone)

5. From the drop down menu, left click uninstall

6. From the window that opens warning you about the uninstall, check the box that mentions deleting the driver software

7. Click OK (Your phone will now disapear from the list)

8. Click Action from the top menu bar

9. Click Scan for Hardware Changes

10. Your computer should now reinstall your phone (if not right click the unkiwn device and select update drivers from the drop down menu)

11. Reboot (just for good measure)

Now run Zune Software and see how it performs. If still a no go, uninstall Zune Software, and then install a fresh copy. (That is Option 2)

If that doesn't work, try a different cable if possible (Option 3)

If you still have problems, the issue may be outdated drivers on your computer (OEMs are sometimes poor examples of keeping things up to date....I know big surprise right? If this is the case, go to the manufacture and get the drivers from them) (Option 4)

There are other possibilities for your issue, could be another program messing things up on your system. For now, try these steps and see if any of them work. Finding specific problem programs can be a pain....unless you already know how to figure that one out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vwgli2007:
OK, after many days and long hours of research i have came up empty handed.

i am rooted with

calkulins EVIO 2 rom V1.7.1

(this happens on any ROM i install).

The issue...

i connect my phone to sprints 4G network and pull only 1 bar. i get speeds of up to 5 megs which is awesome, but it fluctuates. it holds the connection for about 1 minute then it drops and the 4G radio starts scanning all over again. i literally have to walk around the house till i can find a good spot (1 sq ft.) and have to sit there if not the connection gets lost. in some cases i get 2 bars but the connection still drops. i have the latest radios PRI 1.90_003 and PRL 60670.

Is this common? or maybe the towers suck?

if any one can help ill gladly appreciate it. : ) thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenfieldan:
There was a fix for this in Myn's thread in the Dev section. I used to have the same problem :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vwgli2007:
Do you have the link?
[Defy General] drsouly:
after restoring a rom with the custom recovery tool, my downloaded apps list is missing most of its entrys :/ any idea?
[Defy General] wilbur-force:
clear the market cache - usually works.

(MENU>SETTINGS>APPLICATIONS>MANAGE APPLICATIONS>Market - then choose clear cache)

if that doesnt work find an app you know you have downloaded and 'install' it again.

its a fairly common problem and its nothing you have done wrong ;)
[Fascinate General] CNemo7539:
I guess following thread is a very good example of how civilized people deal with issues. Samsung is in question.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883820

May be we need to start campaign about Froyo/Gingerbread using same tactics?

That was promised and a lot of hardware were bought because of this. Time to hold promises!

It's a little bit to late (because some variants are already got/getting Froyo), but there is a chance consolidate across all variants.
[Fascinate General] J Shed:
That thread is because of real failures on the device, rendering them unusable. Sorry, but you're a fool if you purchased a device because it might get an update, it's not Samsung's fault.

I'm getting a bit frustrated waiting for this update because there are things popping up that require Froyo, but some of these comments/threads on a number of forums are just silly.

By all means, make yourself heard, but the lack of Froyo doesn't render the device unusable.
[Fascinate General] chopper the dog:
Verizon will give it to us when they are satisfied with the build. A 1960's hippie movement will not get it here any faster.

I am fine with 2.1 myself.

good day.
[Fascinate General] CNemo7539:
My phone USB failed few days ago. I have thread here, trying to get additional information if others have similar problems. That said VZ already send another one for free. I do not know yet if it is new or refarb.

What I think is that, promise is what it is. I didn't pushed them to promise anything. But, getting normal support for device is something I've assumed at the time of purchase phone + dock + other crap. Would I know that everything is so slow, I might got another phone. I think I'm not alone here.
[Fascinate General] J Shed:
They committed to releasing the update, they gave an estimated time frame for release, they didn't PROMISE anything. Froyo is coming, but the lack of it doesn't mean your phone doesn't work. Updates aren't normal support, they're updates. 2.2 is not required for the phone to function.

The funny thing is you're absolutely not alone (pretty sure I made that clear in my OP), it's just getting ridiculous some of the things people are demanding. It's not Samsung, nor Verizon's fault you purchased a device based on what it might be. That's your fault, period. I purchased this phone for what it was the day I got it, not for some dream land a few months down the road.
[Fascinate General] CNemo7539:
I feel about this a little bit differently, looking at the back of my phone dock. It has easy readable label saying that some functionality will be available when 2.2 update released. And it was promised SHORTLY. So shortly, that people found it OK to hold over 30 days grace period.

Overall I do not think it silly to expect something. I DO EXPECT that MS will patch Windows, Live etc. I DO EXPECT that HP, Dell and others update drivers. This practice exists for years now.

I do not know why it sounds funny when I expect that Samsung or VZ will fix GPS and other issues?

It is not that I'm screaming for update right now. But some clarity about situation will be greatly appreciated. Neither VZ nor Samsung didn't stepped down from their heights to inform us, mere mortals.
[Fascinate General] garywojdan81:
What if you ARE a 1960's hippie though?
[Fascinate General] J Shed:
This is fair, but can you name companies that do this? Unfortunately it's very rare.

They can't give you a set ETA (software is such that you can't give out fixed dates until it's done), nor can they really tell you what they're working on/why it's delayed (would you really understand if they did tell you?). The best they could tell you is "we're working on it," and unless you live in a cave (or subscribe to one of the ridiculous conspiracy theories), you already know that.

And again, YOU deciding to hang onto the dock is your fault, not Samsung's. At 29 days, you could've strolled into the VZW store, and returned it. And again, they will release Froyo for the Verizon Samsung Fascinate. If they do not, they will be in real legal trouble because suddenly, you'd have a case for a class action lawsuit because of your dock.
[Fascinate General] CNemo7539:
Believe it or not, I'm in IT... And I tell you - there is always deadlines and dates are set in stone. Moreover, public beta will settle all worries. It is easy way to show to average public what company does and where it stays at the moment. That is how other companies handle same problems. MS with SP betas is good sample. Even secretive Apple does it!

I guess, we have a case for class action. I just wonder for how long we should wait before initiating it? As of now, we have a pretty good reason to believe that time for Froyo is gone, because Gingerbread is out and Samsung has it. Do you see my point?

As to return... Well, it not going to happen in the future. I'm going to stay away from Samsung products. Unfortunately I cannot leave VZ.
[Fascinate General] J Shed:
"IT" and software development are not the same thing.

Public beta works with basic software, and even some OSes, not with phones. You release a public beta that has a bug that can brick your phone, and you're screwed. It's MUCH more difficult to fix a bricked phone than it is to fix a desktop that won't boot properly.

You don't have a case, yet. If Samsung fails to deliver 2.2, then you will, not until then.
[Fascinate General] CNemo7539:
No need to explain what exactly I do. It is development.

Go to Apple site and figure out how they deploy public betas for iOS. Nobody complains about broken phones. I never heard about this.

Hell!!! Film the video for youtube if not anything else! Show prototypes in the stores! Even this will be better then noting! Release official statement. Just do not sit like cat in the sand!

They simply are not willing to do anything, because they got their money already.

And could you please define "fails to deliver"? :-) As far as I'm concerned they pretty much failed. Froyo was released and pulled off several times on other SGS phones. And they have Froyo on tab, which essentially same hardware. What is this?

Though I might consider it as showing progress ;-) Problem is that at such pace phone will physically pass out sooner then we get update.
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
Believe it or not, I am actually trying to get them into admitting that Froyo will not be released.

I got one rep who replied to say it, however, she doesn't know wtf she is talking about. Depending on their next few replies if whether I crack the email open and send it to the major blog sites.

I am trying to get someone who actually knows something to admit that 2.2 is not coming. We shall see. Past that, you are right, there is not a damn thing we can do until its determined that its NOT coming out.
[Fascinate General] Domush:
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands who bought a cradle with a sticker on it saying "2.2 required for this to function".

Is that their fault they received a product which doesn't work as advertised, just to open the box up to a "gotch'ya!" sticker?

Is that somehow not Samsung nor Verizon's fault, too?

Sometimes I wonder how often people on here ever take responsibility, seeing as they are so quick to make excuses and attack those wronged. You would all do well in politics or customer service; Neither party holds anyone accountable for their false promises.
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
The problem is, until they admit that its not being released, they have us all on a technicality, that coming soon has no defined time frame. Leaked internal documents are likely not admissible in a lawsuit.

Its ****ty, its unethical, but it is what it is.

I am just as angry as well.
[Fascinate General] CNemo7539:
According the news, Samsung is going to introduce Galaxy S ancestor in Barcelona in February. So, I guess first Galaxy S lifespan is even shorter than I've expected. Sure, it is because was VZ was late to the game. Churning out new models at such pace doesn't leave time to support old ones.
[Fascinate General] RacerXFD:
Galaxy s is like lexus to toyota. It's just a line of phones from samsung which are high end.

Adrynalyne is right when he says that there is nothing that we can do but make them admit that nothing is coming out...
[Fascinate General] J Shed:
Funny you mention apple, and then in the same breath you talk about making phones obsolete.

Apple and Samsung are apples and oranges (lol). Apple has ONE phone (3 if you want to count the og, 3g, and 3gs, but those are mostly obsolete), Samsung has at least 4 or 5 in the US alone. Each on different networks, and with differing software setups (bloatware). How again are they going to ensure they don't start ****ing **** up if they push a public beta? Trust me, I'd LOVE if they did that, but it's an unrealistic expectation.

And "fails to deliver" means it doesn't come, at all, ever, period. When they admit to freezing development and NOT releasing anything past 2.1, then everyone who purchased a dock has a case for a class action lawsuit.

Don't talk to me about accountability when you are so eager to blame someone else for your failure to return a product you weren't satisfied with. It's also your fault you decided to wait it out for Froyo.

You chose to wait, that's on you. So now it's a matter of you waiting for them to release 2.2+, or them to admit they won't release it.

I'm not defending anyone, I'm just tired of the stupid crap I'm seeing from people over this update. I didn't buy that dock because I think it's a piece of crap, regardless of the fact the 3.5mm jack doesn't work (which, BTW, sounds like it's the ONLY thing not working, it charges the phone, displays the dock program).
[Fascinate General] CNemo7539:
I guess we are getting away from the intended topic. This might be my fault, if I not expressed clearly.

If adrynalyne is talking to somebody at Samsung, would be nice if he can share that person contact. I guess idea is to have one single point of force application.

Even if that person is brainless office droid, he will have to report up at some point, if number and intensity of complaints is over some threshold.

Could we here formulate some collective message and start pushing it from different emails?
[Fascinate General] nmyeti:
I'd just like to use the 3.5mm audio out on my dock, have map rotation gesture working in maps and get chrome to phone back; new gmail client would be a nice upgrade... Hopefully it will happen someday...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Ejen:
Hello there

Last week I finally got around to rooting my Hero after having been too eager in the first place and taking the OTA update when I first saw it and then later couldn't figure out how to root. I just realised I could downgrade it via HTC's roms avaliable on there website.

Anyway I have been running froydvillain 1.7.2 for a week now and it has been going great, wiped everything to begin with started afresh nice and fast but then yesterday my phone dropped its charge in 4/5 hours in the morning for no reason, nothing was playing and no applications were running, none of settings had been changed from last week other than the new market being flashed onto the device.

Today I have calibrated the battery since I skipped that step when flashing the rom. To no effect it would appear since after being on for 1 hour the battery has dropped to 90% with almost no use. :confused:

Any ideas? Thank you :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] soryazlawl:
Trying to Theme the Nexus S. Already figured out SystemUI, but now trying to modify the framework-res.

Image replacement is working fine, but XML files are giving me quite a bit of trouble.

Metamorph & ninjamorph isn't working for either.

Via ADB pushing - pushing an unsigned framework res gets me a boot loop at nexus

Pushing a signed framework with signapk gets the job done with 43078538 force closes

I'm using Apktool to compile/decompile and signapk to sign.

I've also tried update.zips but they keep giving me:

Opening package

Installing package

installation aborted

- not surprising considering I've never had to do them before

I themed the vibrant pretty easily but not sure why I can't figure out my trouble here. Any ideas?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] sassyness77:
I'm getting same error! Even mounting system isn't helping at all.....I've themed alot of phones but never had this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BarrettBear:
Hi.

I've got a question that many people have probably 'solved' via using a replacement shell. I'm looking for an alternative however.

My problem is that even with a 6.5 windows mobile ROM on my device, some software still keeps smaller buttons, small checkboxes, etc.

My question is, seeing as how these components (Checkboxes, push and release buttons, slide buttons, radio buttons, text entry spaces, date & time pickers, scrollbars etc) are requested by the software, from the device, isn't there a piece of, of can software be developed which intercepts these requests and returns the software larger (perhaps even user specified sized) buttons/sliders/scrollbars/etc.

This would help create -much- more finger friendly devices, and it would in fact create a user customized level of finger friendlyness.

Not sure if this question made any sense as I've phrased it, if not, ask questions :)

Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 General] action_efn_jackson:
Hope to see it on the Marketplace soon.

http://wmpoweruser.com/surfcube-new-3d-windows-phone-7-browser/
[Windows Phone 7 General] orb3000:
It looks very nice!

Wish this could be ported to WM too:(
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
looks kinda like a cheesy gimmick to me based on the youtube video.

Seems to open pages a lot slower than default IE.

The bandwith restricter setting seems to switch the phone over to mobile google page version (which I've had problems with in the past finding proper links when needed).

I'll try it since I try most apps, but It doesn't look that exciting.
[Nexus S General] wootek76:
Is there a setting for home button being dimmed. My home buttons are very dim. I dont wanna have to return again for this.
[Nexus S General] zorak950:
I'm not aware of any setting. The Nexus S button backlight is significantly dimmer than that on the other Galaxy S phones, though. That's not a defect, it's part of the device's design.
[Nexus S General] rashad1:
I like the fact that they are dim, they're not distracting. I've never had a problem seeing them either
[Nexus S General] sosasami:
I think there is a hardware issue with the lights. Mine arealso quite dim, and I've seen several phones that had them both dim and much brighter, all straight out of the box.
[Nexus S General] zorak950:
The two I've played with (including the one I own) both had a dim backlight. If there are phones with a brighter backlight, I'm glad I don't have one. The backlight on my Vibrant hurt my eyes when I was using it at night. Now if only the screen brightness went lower so I could stop using Screen Filter...
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
maybe they are only using one LED to lit the whole thing vs. 2 ore more used on the SGS ?

to save battery power?

that's just my guess, we wont know for sure until we take one apart
[Nexus S General] sstang2006:
I can tell you without taking it apart.

There is one LED for every key. (total of 4)

How I know this?

Press just in a corner or any of the four keys (back, menu, search or home) and you will see it get dimmer (almost off) individually from all others.
[Nexus S General] wootek76:
I'd rather mine to lit up bright so is this something where bestbuy will replace it.
[Nexus S General] zorak950:
They'll probably replace it as many times as you want as long as it's in like-new condition. But I doubt any new one you get will be different.
[Nexus S General] krumb:
I'd rather mine cook me dinner, but it wasn't made that way...
[Nexus S General] ka24e:
Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead, however it is true that some Nexus S devices have brighter softkeys than others.

I bought my Nexus S a couple weeks ago (Rogers) form FutureShop. The led backlighting on the soft keys are dim. My girlfriend got hers yesterday. The lights are bright.

My room mate also has a Nexus S and her lights are bright as well. I went to Futureshop to see what they would say. The guy at the counter agreed he has seen the same thing on various Nexus S devices. Some with brighter buttons than others. It might just depends where the device was made (what factory) etc. and what leds were used.

The phone is not defective, however, personally, I prefer the brighter backlight.
[Nexus S General] siffar:
I think this might be of some help to you - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1141233
[Nexus S General] TheDub:
I would have to agree this was by design. The buttons are just light enough to make an faint but elegant appearance in fluorescent lighting, and dim enough as to where when using the phone in a dark room the buttons aren't so bright they distract you from the screen (aka the content).
[Nexus S General] andy957:
Same for me...and it's driving me crazy

I love the Nexus S (using it on Rogers here in Canada), but the dimness of the soft keys is very disappointing and making the phone difficult to use at all times of day, but of course particularly at nighttime.

I have checked with Rogers, Samsung and Android Central and nobody knew of any solution, so I'm happy to see this thread to learn it's not only me, and I didn't get a bad unit (Rogers told me to send it for repair, of course, because they didn't want to actually pick up a phone to see if they are all like this).

My phone recently did an auto-update to 2.3.6, but I don't seem to remember the buttons being brighter even prior to the update.

So does anyone here think this could potentially be fixed through a firmware update at a later time or is it really a hardware issue? I must add that this is particularly annoying to me because I also have two HTC phones and their soft keys are *brilliant*.

Thanks, everyone!
[Nexus S General] snowmanwithahat:
Agreed... They're only 4 buttons and the only time I cant easily see them is in the middle of the day when i'm outside. It really helps the device and makes it look good with the blacked out design.

Seriously, you'd have to be senile to not have the muscle memory to hit the buttons as they are... You shouldn't even need a light on then to be honest
[Nexus S General] snowmanwithahat:
It's definitely by design and not defective.
[Nexus S General] andy957:
Thanks but it's not worth all that effort for me.

---------- Post added at 11:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:17 AM ----------

Shame, IMHO. Thanks for the response.
[G Tablet General] sam96_77:
I bought my gtablet 2 weeks ago. I have 30 days to return the baby. Following are my questions.

1. I know lot of pundits are calling 2011 as the year of tablets. Did I jump the gun and bought it too early? gtab's spec was the reason for the buy.

2. Do you think in the future they will release firmware update to honeycomb since google doesn't recommend froyo for tablets?

3. lot of the current apps dont work.

4. you tube streaming is horrible.

5. last but not least the screen.

I appreciate the efforts of several guys on this forum for supporting the device. however I am still on the side line as far as introducing other roms on the device. so it limits my gtab to some extent.