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[Droid Eris Android Development] wildstang83:
Why is it illegal? I ask this because I personally have flashed roms from all these great devs and sometimes I get one that says Sprint even though I'm with Verizon.
[Droid Eris Android Development] hunkashoo:
No they are both CDMA!! You need to get your facts straight.
[Droid Eris Android Development] pkopalek:
The answer is, from beginning to end, changing carriers via changing ESN's is illegal in most places, and, as a result, has no real place on this forum.

I don't know if there's a section around that relates to changing ESN's for other purposes, but this kind of activity is not condoned, supported, or even allowed by posting rules to be posted here.

The Eris, technically, has all of the hardware and software necessary to run on Sprint, Cricket, and most other CDMA networks. Each network keeps close track of what Serial numbers it will allow to operate on their network. So to answer your question, yes it is possible, but no it is not legal, and the details of the procedure (which I have no idea) are not going to be easily found here, and this thread will probably be closed, bearing the introduction of such a discussion.
[Droid Eris Android Development] CCCP4ever:
I'm surprised how many useless threads people start these days.
[Droid Eris Android Development] DarthMowzy:
Its amazing to me that something like this would be illegal. Where has our freedom gone?
[Droid Eris Android Development] viogrep:
flashing to a different carrier isn't illegal. Only ESN changing is. Flashing to a different carrier is quite possible. However, its easiest when there are identical phones on two different carriers, that way you can just flash the firmware from one to another. Also, the provider has to be willing to accept it. Verizon for the most part will accept phones that aren't produced by them, same for MetroPCS and Cricket. Sprint, and Cellular South will not. I believe I covered the major CDMA carriers.

For those that are confused. Flashing to a different providers firmware on an identical phone does not change the ESN. It just provides the new providers network information and roaming list. Case in point. I used to own a Moto Q9C, I flashed it between Cricket, Verizon, and Alltel on a monthly basis, depending on where I was going and who had the best coverage plan. ESN was never changed. Since those providers openly allow outside devices.

I'm on my eris now, I would like to take it to cellular south and I know a tech that would activate it, however, I'm not smart enough to change all the correct settings to get it to operate on their towers (would be very simple if THEY sold an eris, I could just grab eris firmware from one of their devices.)
[Droid Eris Android Development] semmtexx:
We live in America. We are not free. We are slaves to the federal government and to the tax code. My $.02
[Droid Eris Android Development] ufmace:
Thanks, at least someone on this thread knows what they're talking about.

Changing ESNs is illegal because there's pretty much no reason to do it except to clone other people's phones (essentially stealing their accounts).
[Droid Eris Android Development] Stonent:
Changing ESNs would be like rewriting the magnetic strip on your credit card with someone elses.
[Droid Eris Android Development] tj13:
Your problem is weather or not Sprint will let you register the ESN on their network. The phone is compatible. Verizon is keeping track of their ESNs. If a phone isn't one of their's they won't let it on thier network. I don't know about Sprit, but it's problable the same. So you are probably out of luck.

FYI, the diffence in a Rom displaying Verizon or Sprint it just in a text file. I has nothing to do with the running code. Many of the Eris 2.2 ROMs are a port from the Srint Hero. Someone just didn't update the file.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Sparticusx:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=730289&highlight=cricket

This may help if you have not seen it, I flashed my eris to MetroPCS with this.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
Thanks to viogrep for bringing some sanity to this thread.

If you want to explore a little, and you have the 1.49.2000 S-OFF bootloader on your phone, see

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9878143&postcount=8

You can have your bootloader dump your "mfg" partition to your SD card for inspection with a hex editor.

I'm no carrier-flashing expert, but I think that this "mfg" partition is pivotal in storing the carrier and PRL settings.

bftb0

PS The above mentioned thread also gives instructions for custom-booting Amon_RA so that you have privilege and access to any of the other "hidden" partitions on the phone.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Haxcid:
Yes Sprint is CDMA. It used to have a GSM network but it sold it.
[Droid Eris Android Development] cstone1991:
From what I have read/heard you would not be able to legally use your Eris on Sprint. There are 2 problems that prevent you from doing so. The first one being that Sprint, to my knowlege, does not allow you to activate phones that are not theirs (basically they have a database of ESN's that are theirs and only those ESN's can be activated on their network. That leaves you with the option of cloning the ESN from another Sprint phone (which I have no info on how or if you can do this) I do know that it would be illegal to do so if you can, as other people have mentioned.

I suggest that you either sell your Eris to be able to buy a second Sprint phone to use as a backup, since having a backup seemed to be the only reason that you wanted to do this. Or you could try to find someone who was willing to trade their Sprint phone for your Eris.

I can't imagine that it would be worth the effort that would be required to possibly use your Eris on Sprint and I know that there are plenty of people who like the Eris and would be more than happy to take it off your hands.
[Droid Eris Android Development] homer169:
Why not just call sprint with the esn and ask? I activated a Verizon phone on u.s. cellular several years ago without any problems. Could be the same thing.
[Droid Eris Android Development] BrownEye02:
Well I just found out that you cant transfer a sprint phone to verizon (rumored psp phone), guy said theirs something on the phone itself that wont allow it. But I dont know if this applies doing the opposite thing.
[Droid Eris Android Development] iggypop123:
find somebody who will trade you a hero for an eris
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinsane:
So all of the sudden I get a notification that my memory card had a problem and that it's "read only".

It was totally fine then this. Is my card corrupted or is it a hardware thing?

I can get it to recognize it....then it goes right back to read only.

I've used the same card from my G2...to Nexus One...to Vibrant to my now MT4G.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pack:
try formatting it with a card reader...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjlean:
Probably messed up. Mine did it too and only thing I could do was format.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinsane:
Dang. What about all the apps that I mved to SD and folders? Ill lose all of that? It wont allow me to move them back to the phone
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjlean:
I will tell you the truth. You will lose everything. After this you will learn to backup your sd card on your computer.

I wiped out mine too. Somehow, my card became corrupted and would not mount. I lost everything. Still pisses me off.

Good news is there is a stock 'ROM' here and you can just start over. I know it sucks, but think of it as a learning experience. What else can you do?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=845756

One question I had is: Is there a way after it wont mount to get it to mount? Like... can you go into terminal and mount it at all?

Hope this eases you mind man.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borodin1:
You can put in into another android phone and it will work just fine (most likely). Has happened to me multiple times in G2 (part of a reason it went back to t-mo).

Alternatively, you can try USB mount option in ClockworkMod recovery and see if phone will recognize your card in recovery, you can then copy everything over to PC and re-format the card.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 99danman:
Wait! Before you reformat, plug it into a Windows machine and run checkdisk on it. I just had this problem yesterday and this fixed it for me. I didnt lose my data or anything because it wasnt reformatted. Just check both the boxes on the dialog box when you run checkdisk and hopefully itll work for you too.

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How to run Chkdsk from My Computer or from Windows Explorer

Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.

Click Properties, and then click Tools.

Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,

Select the Automatically fix file system errors check box.

Select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjhay22:
I too have been experiencing this problem, and have tried almost everything to fix this crap! but no luck, I'm not sure what's causing this, but I've tried several SD cards already and even replaced my phone thinking it was the device card reader, but I still have the same problem... Hope someone can shed some light on this matter...

But to the OP before you go formatting it, you can try to save the files on your SD first by going to recovery > connect device > mounts and storage > mount USB storage. You should see your files from the SD card so you can back those up at least.

Good luck!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dclaw_fantum:
Had that happen to me when I popped in a new card. Put the old one back in, same thing happened.

Turned out that the restore didn't work correctly. Was able to restore the stock backup I made after rooting and haven't had issues since. I played around trying to get different kernels working, and had to restore a few times. The one time just didn't take fully.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinsane:
I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!

Check disk is it!

Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.

Thanks for the feedback and help guys
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjlean:
Nice!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjhay22:
Good to know, I suggest backin up often now though. I still get random sd corruption every few days after the first one. Its like my phone got devirginized or something lol.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 99danman:
Glad I could help :D
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiokimoto:
I've been lurking for awhile and finally decided to root (mainly because of the MIUI ROM).

so before i attempt to use unrEVOked 3.1, I had some last min questions.

if i flash to MIUI, and do a complete wipe, will i lose all my pictures/videos on my phone, and is there anyway to save them? i know my apps will be wiped, and thats okay.

will my SD card be okay?

and, if for whatever reason I get tired of root and ROMs, how do i go back to completely stock, 2.2 Sense?

thanks so much guys.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiokimoto:
i loaded up MIUI, but i dont have my contacts anymore.

is there anyway to get it back?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Keyboards:
Your supposed to back them up either to your SD card or through your google account, so not really.
[General Questions and Answers] osbozzy:
Hello guys ...

I'd want to root my Samsung galaxy 3 phone using the tool "Super one click"

But before i root my phone , i'd want to hav a back up using Nandroid tool.

But my phone is not booting into the recovery mode at all .

Tried holding the volume button an the power button for a while.

Also tried holding home button and power button.

Any idea how i can boot into the recovery mode ?

And also i see many of em posting in teh forum tht they're stuck in teh recovery mode.

Pls help.

Thank u
[General Questions and Answers] ugly_bob:
The 3 button recovery mode is locked out on a lot of the galaxy series phones. One way I managed to get into recovery on a galaxy 3 is holding down volume up AND volume down, home and press power. If this doesn't work you can try to get into recovery through ADB, make sure you have usb debugging enabled before trying that though.
[General Questions and Answers] osbozzy:
Thank you for the reply ...

I tried the volume up down button + home button + power button ...

But it'd not boot into the recovery mode ...

What is ADB ?

Am sorry ... AM very much new to these stuffs ...

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] ugly_bob:
ADB is part of the android SDK, it's an interface (for your computer) used to issue commands to the android device. Here's a basic guide http://www.xda-developers.com/android/adb-easy-tutorial/

You'll need to run adb and push the phone into recovery mode. It's pretty straightforward, everything I know about it I've learned from this site so just have a look around.
[General Questions and Answers] osbozzy:
Thankx alot :) :D
[General Questions and Answers] osbozzy:
I've succesfully rooted my phone :)

But am not able to find any custom ROM for my Samsung galaxy 3.

I searched all over the xda forum an also hav been googling for a while , but not able to find a custom rom.

Pls help me find a custom rom for my samsung galaxy 3.

If there's any other phone model's custom rom i can install in my phone , pls lemme kno .

Thanx a lot :)
[General Questions and Answers] ugly_bob:
What is it about a custom rom that you are wanting? What is it about the stock rom you don't like? If you're wanting features/functions that the stock rom doesn't have, you can probably modify it to do whatever it is you want seeing as you have root access.
[General Questions and Answers] osbozzy:
I'd want to hav a different theme installed and want to improve the battery back up an speed.

Battery last only for 12 hours even when its in idle mode.

I've kept my cell inoptimum brightness and i keep the GPRS (using APN droid) , GPS and wifi off. But still the battery seems to last long only for like 12 hours.
[General Questions and Answers] ugly_bob:
How old is the phone? Is it within warranty period? If the battery life is draining this fast on a stock rom I'd say it's probably a faulty battery. If you want to get a warranty replacement/assessment you'll need to unroot and remove any rooting applications from the phone. Best to reflash to the original firmware just to be sure as rooting will usually void the warranty.

Just out of interest, how long has the battery been draining that quickly? Since before you rooted?
[General Questions and Answers] osbozzy:
Since teh day 1 my battery power drains so quickly.

I hav confirmed with the samsung showroom ppl. They say its not teh battery problem , all android phones are battery suckers...

I also spoke to many of my friends who use teh same mobile. Their battery back up also is also about 12 hours in idle mode.

Tht's wen i decided to root my phone and use a custom rom.

But unfortunately , am not able to find any custom rom for my phone model.

And even metamorph doesn't seem to work.

Will it be arite i use a custom rom of any other phone model ?

Pls help me find a good custom ROM for my phone.

Thanx alot :)
[General Questions and Answers] ugly_bob:
Hmmm I doubt it would use battery like that if it's just idle. I suppose you've done all the battery saving tricks, turning off automatic email sync, turn off wifi scanning etc

Another phone's rom will be coded to that particular hardware, so trying to flash a different models rom onto yours will not work (most likely brick it) unless it is the same hardware. What I mean by this is how the samsung captivate, vibrant and galaxy s are all the same phone in terms of hardware (as far as I am aware) but just marketed under different names.

Even so, I am not entirely sure if you could flash a captivate rom onto a vibrant etc. My only experience here is with an i-mate jasjam, which is also marketed as the htc hermes, htc tytn, and many other names. These devices are all the same hardware internally so theoretically compatible with each other's roms.
[General Questions and Answers] SirGeneral:
Worked for me.
[General Questions and Answers] osbozzy:
I've done all the things possible to save my battery life ... Like ... Turning off the email sync , disabling background data, brightness set to optimum and Network type set to GSM only. But still teh battery back up aint tht good.

Is thr nothing i can do bout it .....? at all.....? :( :( :(
[General Questions and Answers] ugly_bob:
To be honest it sounds like it's a battery problem to me. The battery can drain quickly if you have a constant data connection, wifi scanning, bright screen etc but if you have disabled all of these I can't really see any reason why it's doing this other than a faulty battery/power management software.

If I was in your position I would find a copy of the stock rom and flash that, and see how it goes. If there's no improvement, get a copy of your proof of purchase and have it sent to samsung for a warranty service.

This is all I can think of really, unless you have any third party apps that are active/connected without you knowing.
[General Questions and Answers] tanpatnode:
And another thing, live wallpapers can be killers depending on how intense they are. Probably wouldnt drop that many hours off of what a stock battery should be. I don't know much about the stock Samsung rom but for my D1 I turn off 3G. Texts and calls still come in and there is no battery being drained from random need of data. Just for the mean time that helps. Having a darker background may be better too . Hope that helps.
[General Questions and Answers] kulparsan:
Custom ROMS and increasing battery life

here are some cool links for ROMS... thanks to all great developers

I'm currently using this one.. great ROM - two days battery backup and 5% still left

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=986831

another famous ROM(kyrillos)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=957123

FOR increasing battery life follow this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1024867

hope this helped u all.. :)
[General Questions and Answers] TheKingShas:
how to get to first

guys i installed many roms ,,, but no rom is 100% good so i have to get back to my original one which i was using when i got mob ,,

HOW CAN I GET THAT ONE ???

ny one know that
[EVO 4G General] mattpermaul:
I put a splash screen on my evo and write frankly it suxs and it makes my phone take forever to boot and I wanna kno how to remove it if there is a way
[EVO 4G General] Rydah:
Flash the original or run the stock ruu.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thataaronkid:
I just installed cognition V2.3b8 and now would like to go back to just the normal right out of the box Att captivate rom..

would i just do a factory reset? or how do i go about doing this?

Thank you in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] platinumyahoo:
First off, do not post noob questions in the development section, post it in general/help.

second off, it took me literally 5 seconds to open up the stickied directory (thanks blackjackboy) and find this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

Next time take the time to do a search
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thataaronkid:
****. My bad. Wont post here again..

I assumed this was the right section to post this as there was threads all about installing roms.. but i guess not.

I can see this site is not very friendly..
[G1 Android Development] jfeyrer:
Ok so ive been running this thru my head for days now. So this is me telling the world my idea and seeing if its worth a crap. I would like to have a tablet like rom for the g1. this sounds crazy but i found a app called lcd density changer and you can change the density to make the screen appear as if it is a high resolution one and things are smaller. Makes me feel like i have a large screen agian. i may be crazy but its just a idea, i am a noob probably a noob idea. but i would love to see this.

LCD Density Changer is in the market:D
[G1 Android Development] jfeyrer:
And please if i am a idiot dont be to harsh just now getting into the whole android scene
[G1 Android Development] Since001:
I really dont understand what you mean. All the android versions running on current tablets are the excact same versions as they run on android phones. The screen is just larger.
[G1 Android Development] jr10000:
If your wanting to change android icons to be smaller, its not possible on the phones unless you get a widget that allows you to put 2 rows of icons on a regular single row. The reason why you cant just change icon size is because when programming apps the sdk automatically sets the amount of rows and colums for the screen device.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Please delete

Requesting to delete this thread asap, thanks
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
spoil sport

its worth it just reading the bs in post 4
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
I'm not requesting it to a mod just to the OP of the thread. Yeah I have no idea what post 4 is about.
[G1 Android Development] jcarrz1:
OMGZ THEREM's BIG COMPANIES LAUNCHING COOL TABLETS AT CES AND ALL I HAVE IS MY G1!! :( LETS SEE WHAT THEM DEVZ CAN DO!!!

-OP
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
Meh, leave him alone

@jfeyrer

like @Since001 says, the tablets are running the same kind of andriod, just a different screen res

Something like ADW Launcher can give you more 'app slots' ( which is why post 4 is such a laugh )

but at the end of the day you will gain nothing by having more icons on the 'desktop'

you will have more problems interacting at the 'finer' res ,

here is a stupid analogy

it would be like trying to play a blueray through a 1st gen 15" tft

you could probably rig it so it works, but why? a divx would be much easier.
[G1 Android Development] jfeyrer:
I do apoligize i am new to all this just thought it would be a cool idea.
[G1 Android Development] jfeyrer:
And thanks for the explanations they really helped me understand
[G1 Android Development] jamal717:
Where u messed up at is u NEVER NEVER NEVER no matter what u NEVER NEVER NEVER apologize lol NEVER SAY SORRY!:D:D:D
[G1 Android Development] dhkr123:
It you think it feels small now, just wait until you make everything so small that you can't even read it.... :eek:
[Desire General] jprosen1:
Hey..

I've noticed that when I want to take a picture with flash in a complete darknes, there's no pre-flash, so I cannot see what I'm about to take picture of.

1. Is this behaviour normal or is it just my phone

2. Is there any hacks which would enable LED flash before actually pressing the "take picture" button (vhen recording video it works)

Does anyone know what I'm talking about (I suck at english):rolleyes:
[Desire General] AndroHero:
Search the market, see if there is a flashlight app that can run in the background, that could solve your problem :)
[Desire General] jprosen1:
so, it looks like this is normal behaviour then :(

I have flashlight app, but it stops working when I switch application...

It would be best, if flash would turn on when a switch it to (flash on) in camera app.

Does this bother only me:confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] torquadon:
Any chance to flash NAND Android ROM under Linux?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] white-energy:
Just use Virtual machine (Windows 7 since XP has some problems with flashing) using VMware player.. its very easy to install/use.. then just connect your 'HDroid' and start doing the required steps.. or just use "Clockworks Recovery" steps.. the only thing you do in Linux is copying the files to the SD Card. ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] torquadon:
Thanks, but i know that solution, i did it that way. It is not flashing under Linux... You still need Windows. I'm interested in pure Linux way.