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[EVO Shift 4G General] blahshed:
Yes inactive is part of the total ram but the total ram is 390mb total useable ram is 371mb and inactive is how much of the ram is currently in being used up (inactive is just bad wording for what it is on quadrants part) 3 parts to describe ram...total, inuse or "inactive as quadrant puts it" unless they mean "in active use" just bad wording and free or available left...so same amount of ram as Vision G2. Once u have cm6 or cm7 installed and kill what u can in background u will be able to hit about 230mb free without a live wp, with lwp 210mb area depending how much is going on in lwp. As the stuff loads in background and ram leaks out u will end up hanging out in the 155mb free range 50%.. Because of the 500ishmb rom u will end up needing to move apps to sd to free up space on internal memory and thats when u will notice some lagg with that class 2 sd card. So to rectify this buy a class 6 or higher sd card. Class 10 8GB micro sd cards on amazon for about $30 (amazing price since they were over $160 8 months ago) i am not talking out of my ass. I repair and mod android/winmo phones full time for a living. Download the free memory widget from CocoNuts (to guage where your at, at all times with ram), ATK (add what u dont want to kill to ignore and use the widget) and memory booster (to boost back up your leaked out ram), another really good app i reccommend to get your ram back up and to stop background loading is auto process killer full/paid, as it has more features and a widget that free doesnt) also spare parts from market not the one that comes with cyanogen has an option for process killing, set that to aggressive. The less running in background the less your system will tear through your battery. So even though the ram can handle whats being loaded and still be snappy why not improve anywhere you can. The only one of those apps that requires root is auto process killer. Want good widgets to watch the sd and rom get internal storage widget and sd storage widget made by NetworkG3 and i have the sense style ones he made (or someone else re-skinned) that are not available on the market, if you want those pm or gtalk/gmail this name, and ill send them to you as i dont know where to find them i pulled and saved them from a custom motorola sense ui rom for a milestone a while back.
[EVO Shift 4G General] kenvan19:
We've had two updates and neither of them fixed anything lol I wasn't hating on the shift was just stating an issue I'd had.

Also both gps and wireless networks were on. This is far from my first time at the android rodeo. Since the initially problem its dropped to 70m but that it still far from the 5m lock on my epic (a phone known for bad gps locks).

Sent from my ext4 Epic 4G running Bonsai4all 1.1.3!
[EVO Shift 4G General] blahshed:
Never get ota updates especially with sprint...usually just security updates to either remove the root you obtained or make it harder to gain root...official stock roms suck anyway
[EVO Shift 4G General] tatonka_hero:
wasn't the newest version of Google Maps supposed to dramatically decrease the time it took for a GPS lock? I know my Hero gets a GPS lock faster than ever with whatever version of maps it's on now
[EVO Shift 4G General] silex:
After 4 days using it there are a couple things on my nerves: keyboard buttons don't have enough bump or pitch to them, wish space bar was more centered, when tying in landscape my palm constantly covers the light sensor, always hitting the volume rockers, tapered back makes it tough to hold, hard to hit the power button at the right angle, touch sensitive buttons accidently getting hit, disliking how the back cover is installed, battery life just isn't there for me; Hero gets better still for some reason, and could use a larger screen for my usage.

I don't know guys, I might have to try out the optimus s or epic in the mean time.
[EVO Shift 4G General] steven1022:
Its the exact opposite for me, I think the keys press nicely, although I do wish space was more centered its long enough to not bother me too much. Hand never gets in the way of the sensor, and I love the power button way more than the Evo. Battery has been great.

The volume rocker gets hit all the time for me though, I do hate that.

Love the phone though.

No harm in trying other phones though, you can always trade back :)
[EVO Shift 4G General] silex:
I think I'm just being anal. I will give the Shift a second try starting with a fresh hard reset and PRL+Profile reload shortly! Followed up by temp root to grab MSL in order to reload data settings through ##DATA#. I have a feeling it will be fresh, clean, and new! PS, I learned that leaving GPS off when no tin use actually increases 3G speeds!
[EVO Shift 4G General] sn0:
My only gripe is with the volume buttons. I'm constantly touching them on accident.
[EVO Shift 4G General] koolkid09:
Does anybody capacative buttons have a bluish color to them?
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
Uh huh. The handle of the magnifying glass looks brighter and whitish
[EVO Shift 4G General] koolkid09:
Ok. I thought I was the only one. Not a big problem I just wanted to make sure I didn't do anything wrong.
[EVO Shift 4G General] HTCotta:
Anyone having problems getting the weather to update? Seems totally random and happens over 3G and WiFi, it just says "No weather data available" and manually updating it doesn't do anything.
[EVO Shift 4G General] yokken:
i have no problem with weather, automatic or manual updates. maybe it can't find your location?
[EVO Shift 4G General] HTCotta:
That's what I was thinking, but my TP2 never had problems finding location with the network anywhere where I live. I have been having trouble getting a GPS lock with this phone but i'm not using GPS to locate for weather. I'm thoroughly stumped as to what could be causing the problem because it's totally random, sometimes it updates just fine.
[EVO Shift 4G General] silex:
I just noticed that official app updates from Sprint, like the Voicemail app, requires one to be on their network. Wifi will not work.
[EVO Shift 4G General] dizidi:
Is there any way to disable weather animation on the home screen? thanks
[EVO Shift 4G General] adamr240:
Delete the widget, then add it back. There is an option to disable fullscreen animations. I'm assuming some are still there though.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tconwa1:
i dont know about you guys but the bluish tinted off bright and super bright home menu back and search buttons just erk me every time i look at them

replacement phone showing up tomorrow.. but from what ive seen of them, all of this first batch has a different patterned bright off bright bluish tint look to it.

just makes the phone look unclean to me, when coming from the rooted evo, i need to to be perfect.

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aside from that. love the phone. cant wait to see what AVA, MynsWarm, and Cyanogen feel like on this.

im going to hold off on OTA update until i get a perm root on this little beast of a phone.
[EVO Shift 4G General] wardfan220:
That's the only way that I know of to fix that. The clock flip should still be there, but it will get rid of that snowfall/windshield wiper/sunlight/cloud mess that you get when you unlock it. Sometimes I don't like it because I want to unlock and get to what I wanted to do, but other times I like to sit there and watch it, lol.
[EVO Shift 4G General] BuddahWolf01:
does anyone else have issues with getting taken up away from the text box when typing with the hardware keyboard? I notice it in the messaging app (but that is also the only place I type much with hardware keyboard) but I'll be typing looking at the main text entry box, then all the sudden it jumps up into the conversation and has unseleted the text box.

Maybe I'm hitting a button or something, but I can't figure out what.
[EVO Shift 4G General] silex:
I have not experienced that issue.

Shifted from my Evo using XDA app.
[EVO Shift 4G General] floorlava:
Just got the shift, can't connect to my wifi.

It says its connecting, then it goes to disconnected, scanning, connecting, disconnected, etc..

I have WEP enabled and MAC filtering.

I double checked the WEP key and verified the MAC address is enter correctly into the router.

I turned both of these off anyway and still got the same thing.

Tried rebooting...

I can connect to the same wifi network with the laptop I'm using to post this just fine.

Anyone else had this issue?
[EVO Shift 4G General] qngds:
This happened to me past 2 days. Battery pull helped, but that's hardly a "fix".
[EVO Shift 4G General] durandetto:
Anyone else having issues with hanging up on people while on a call because buttons are being pushed with your cheek? My wife keeps complaining of this and I checked her proximity sensor and it seems to be working fine. She swears that she is holding the phone tight to her ear.
[EVO Shift 4G General] bobbysteels216:
I had this issue today.
[EVO Shift 4G General] silex:
I have not noticed this, but I recommend Sanity in the app store. It makes better use of the prox sensor which may help in your case.

Shifted from my Evo using XDA app.
[EVO Shift 4G General] AnalogXDA:
I have been experiencing this issue. I had a thread about it on the ES4G forum on Android Central, but not too many responses. I exchanged the phone and still had a problem with the new one; I have an open ticket now with HTC regarding the problem. They want me to bring it (or maybe send it) in for repair, although I really think it's a design flaw.

Your wife wouldn't happen to have dark hair that she wears over her ears, would she? I do, and I have a sneaking suspicion that this may exacerbate the problem (although it still can recur when I use the phone with my hair tucked back).

Those of you who have this problem, please contact HTC about it. Maybe they'll fix it for future users.
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
I never have that problem but the wife hits mute with her face on her OG Evo all the time. The Shift's proximity sensor has really impressed me. I think the problem may be the women's.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] AnalogXDA:
Well, I'm not a woman last time I checked, but I do have longer hair than the average man and I wear it over my ears. This is why I'm coming to suspect that hair may have something to do with this. Just for reference purposes, my previous phone (Palm Pre) shut the screen off just fine for me.
[EVO Shift 4G General] squirrelx:
I love my shift especially the battery life but there are two BIG issues that I am running into.

1) the headset is extremely touch sensitive and I have to hold it at just the right angle to get it going. Then if it moves or I move then it pauses the movie/song until I move the headset cord just the right way.

2) WiFi + Bluetooth = no go. If I am on Bluetooth, then I cannot connect to my WiFi network. So if I am in a conversation and want to look something up, I have to disconnect the Bluetooth.

Anyone else having these issues? Otherwise it's awesome, quick, and just awesome otherwise.
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
Don't use bluetooth but use the headphone jack everyday. Never had a problem. Check for crap in the jack, like lint.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] squirrelx:
I checked and I don't see anything inside of the jack. Perhaps its just my phone. I will see if anyone else has a problem with that

I also have two minor issues:

1) I tend to "cheek" people and accidently hang up on them like with my cheek.

2) The voice mail icon does not go away after I listen to my VMs unless I restart my phone.
[EVO Shift 4G General] oxeneers:
Some things that bug the **** out of me:

- Randomly, while using landscape hardware keyboard in HTC Messaging application, the message list will scroll down, causing what you're typing to sometimes go off screen and not be visible anymore.

- No hardware QWERTY auto correction in HTC Messaging app. To see what I mean, try and type "im" in Google Talk (which auto corrects to "I'm") and type "im" in HTC Messaging.

Other than that, the phone is great. Upgraded from an EVO. The Shift has a new version of Sense UI that improves on the EVO's version of Sense in so many ways.

For instance, when receiving a call, there is a green/red outline around the handle to pull whether to deny/accept the call. When deleting an entire SMS thread, the phone doesn't hang anymore while deleting a thread, especially a big one, instead we get a nice full screen spinner to tell us when it's done. Loading the Gallery does not take as long on the EVO, and the first load is usually the last load.
[EVO Shift 4G General] StringerE:
Works for me. At least I assume this is the HTC Messaging app you're speaking of:
[EVO Shift 4G General] sarspants:
There's an option for it if you're using the stock keyboard. If you use a different one, it has the option but the one one I use doesn't recognize the ".com" button and a few others so I just leave it off.

Menu > Settings > Language & Keyboard > Touch Input > Text Input > Under Hardware QWERTY there's prediction and spell correction.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see what you mean! BAH!
[EVO Shift 4G General] oxeneers:
Yeah, that hardware QWERTY option doesn't do jack ****, regardless of what soft keyboard you use. The HTC Messaging app is so bugged it's scary.

And the guy above us, you're using the soft keyboard auto-correct which obviously works. I'm talking about using the hardware QWERTY.
[EVO Shift 4G General] StringerE:
No I wasn't. I was using the hardware keyboard. If I had been using the soft keyboard it would've shown up in the screenshot. You can't dismiss the soft keyboard without also dismissing the word suggestions pop-up. Here's a couple more:
[EVO Shift 4G General] riggsandroid:
LOL. He's using the hardware keyboard...
[EVO Shift 4G General] BrandoKC:
Can you figure out how the hardware keyboard "prediction" was enabled? I've tried everything in the keyboard settings to no avail.

Thanks!
[EVO Shift 4G General] oxeneers:
Okay, well, I usually use Swype, so I enabled the Touch Input soft keyboard, tried to replicate what you're showing with the hard keyboard, and it doesn't work.

Regardless, what I'm talking about is Android system-based auto correction. Like I said in my example, use Google Talk and type "im". It will auto-correct with no bull**** Sense UI popup. That's what is disabled in the HTC Messaging app.

For instance, I want to use Swype but when using the hardware keyboard in the HTC Messaging app, I want stuff like "im" corrected to "I'm". I especially don't want that green popup distracting the hell out of me. Ya dig?
[EVO Shift 4G General] ColeSloth:
Does the power button feel kinda spongy to anyone else?for me it feels like its about to push itself in at any moment(though it hasn't). I dunno if my phone is flawed with the power button,or if they're all like this.
[EVO Shift 4G General] raid31:
Anyone else having problems with the speakerphone? It was working fine then I got a call and it cut out completly, now no sound will come from it, no music, sound from games or ringer volume confirmation. There is also no sound at fist boot. Im rooted running stock rom. any help would be appreciated.
[EVO Shift 4G General] dtaylorr:
yes and no

The way android handles the 3G, GPS, etc is an on demand kind of system. It is not drawing power when it is not active. But will cycle on and off with the demands of the device and user.

However it is a slow power drain. Not a huge one, but over the course of a day it will drain your phone faster.

I have a widget on my home screen which turns these things off and on instantly. Most of the time I keep them off. Do I really need to my facebook app to be updating when it is in my case for two hours? Do I need to instantly know that it has gone up three degrees?

Basically if I am actively using my phone and using that function, I keep them on. However, when I am done using my phone for a while, I turn them off.

Too each their own, I prefer simply to not have these things running when I don't need them.
[EVO Shift 4G General] dtaylorr:
I had number 2 yesterday, Simply would not go away.
[EVO Shift 4G General] dtaylorr:
never

Must be something about how you guys are holding it. I have never had this problem. If anything it turns off too fast for me.
[EVO Shift 4G General] StringerE:
Sorry, I don't know why it works. I didn't do anything special, really. I remember a while back, maybe even before we got our own forum here, that someone said you had to turn on prediction and auto correction for the hardware keyboard in the settings and I did that. But y'all have that turned on also, from what I've read. I have not installed any 3rd party keyboards or made any other keyboard related changes. Stock rom and perm rooted, but running LauncherPro & Beautiful Widgets instead of Sense. Stock messaging app. Auto correction works for me with the hardware or soft keyboard in every app I've tried.

I'd be happy to check any settings, etc. if you tell me what you want to see. I'm including some additional screenshots of my settings below.

I don't use Google Talk (or Swype), but the underlined part above is what I'm doing. In the screenshots I posted, I typed "im" (lowercase with no apostrophe) and it auto corrected it to "I'm". From what I can tell, the green popup is part of the deal. You don't get one without the other.

Here are some screenshots while testing the 2 settings changes. The first one is with both settings options checked:

Then I unchecked Prediction, which greyed out Spell correction:

Then I checked Prediction and unchecked Spell correction:

I'm not including screenshots of both unchecked, because that's the same as the 2nd set above when it greyed out Spell correction.

With both options checked, it changed "im" to "I'm" as soon as I typed it and then popped up optional words. With Prediction checked and Spell correction unchecked, it left what I typed as "im" but suggested "I'm" as the selected alternative - if I hit the space bar after that it would've corrected it to "I'm".

Again, I don't know why it's working differently for me that it is for y'all. This is stock behavior for mine. ???
[EVO Shift 4G General] StringerE:
Did you try using a plunger?
[EVO Shift 4G General] BrandoKC:
ROFL characters
[EVO Shift 4G General] ColeSloth:
cmon guys. Hows your power button feel when you push it? Is it nice and clicky, or spongy and you can barely tell you pushed it?
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
Bout in the middle.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] ahager88:
+1 - It could definitely let me know when I'm coppin' a feel in a more deliberate, defined manner.

Sent from my PG06100
[EVO Shift 4G General] ColeSloth:
Thanks. Glad it's not just mine then. I've done too much tweaking to want to replace it with a new one.
[EVO Shift 4G General] nurrwick:
I know this is three weeks old, but:

I have trouble connecting to our campus WPA network after a reboot.

What I've figured out is that the "secure credentials" feature locks you out of connecting to a network until you've provided the password. For me, that means going into Wi-Fi settings, tapping on the network name, and giving it the password. It seems to connect fine after that, but before I do that, it gives me the exact same symptoms: scanning, connecting, disconnected, scanning, connecting, disconnected, etc.

I used the HTC email support feature today to ask about it. Basically:

"I understand requiring the password to view the network configuration, but I think requiring it simply to connect is a bug. If it isn't, though, can you make it so that the dialog asking for the credentials password is thrown up instead of just cycling through a few reconnect attempts and then giving up?"

I also offered a logcat and told them this isn't how things acted on my Hero.

I don't know if this is the same issue you're seeing, since I don't know if WEP networks run through that mechanism, but basically - there are some problems with how Wi-Fi is handled and no, you're not the only one with them.
[EVO Shift 4G General] AnalogXDA:
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I suspect that the Shift's proximity sensor has a hard time dealing with hair. Still awaiting feedback from others who are experiencing the "cheeking" problem as to whether they wear their hair over their ears. Feedback on hair and skin color might also be helpful if people feel comfortable discussing it.
[EVO Shift 4G General] nurrwick:
So the results on this are in.

HTC's support rep tried her best but was unable to help me, since I had no way of playing with configurations on our work access points.

BUT...

Evidently, this is an issue that others have with 2.2 and 2.3. See Google Code for android:

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13990 -- Issue in 2.3

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11130 -- Issue in 2.2

And here's a workaround if you're interested

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8804#c67
[EVO Shift 4G General] oxeneers:
Thanks for the detailed post. I have been using that hardware QWERTY auto correct now, however, this still doesn't fix the fact that that will not work unless I'm using the default HTC soft keyboard. I use Swype.

In Google Talk, and most other text fields including the browser, without using that HTC hardware QWERTY auto correct it corrects that stuff automagically. It's just disappointing that I have to use that ugly green popup stuff to get stuff corrected for me.

Thanks again for the post!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheesmo:
Hello,

I consider myself a fairly technical person, and I recently had my phone lock up while running Nero V3 for my Samsung Vibrant. When I tried to reboot (battery pull) my internal SD was corrupted, so i decided to return to stock. I was not running any lag fixes at this time. Upon flashing to stock with Odin, I was greeted with a black screen and 4 lights. I've been trying everything to fix this. I saw that many people with the same issue have had luck flashing Eugene's Froyo that Doesn't Brick, and then flashing the JFD stock rom. I tried this as well, and have had no luck.

I am stuck. I don't know what to do. I have managed to load CWM recovery, and i can adb into the device, but when I try to push an update.zip, I get an I/O error.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm just not suer where to go from here. I really believe if I could just format and re-partition the internal SD, I would be able to get it all back...

Thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] traderx2009:
When you say you flashed "eugenes froyo that doesn't brick", how did it not work? Were you able to get into download mode and odin the proper files? Did it error out?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whitehawkx:
If you are able to boot into clockwork recovery you can format your internal sdcard there. That should fix your corruption issue. After that I would boot into download mode and Odin stock JFD with re-partition clicked. Hopefully that gets you up and running. Then if you actually NEED any files from you internal sdcard (like pictures) there are programs out there that let you recover items off erased harddrives. Just be sure to do that before filling up your sdcard with new stuff. Hope this helps and good luck.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheesmo:
Eugene's Froyo that doesn't brick gave me an error, and I read that it was supposed to. So from there, I got into download mode and used Odin to install the JFD Stock Rom. Odin was always successful when it came to installing and rebooting my device.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheesmo:
Recovery "says" that it sucessfully formats my sd card, but the files remain, and I still cannot boot. When I use Odin to flash any other ROM, I get the same result. I either get a black screen with 4 lights, or it gets hung up on the Samsung Vibrant screen.

Also, I'm not concerned with any files on the internal SD.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] traderx2009:
If you can get into cwm recovery and download mode, you should be able to get out of this. Try to format sd from cwm as whitehawk suggested. Did jfd odin error out as well? Can you restore from cwm?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drewtang:
Didyou repartition in odin when you flashed back to stock or on eugene's froyo that doesnt brick?