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[Captivate General] saintsmmx:
Thanks for the feedback man, really appreciate it. Yeah I have handled both and I must say that the build on the Captivate is much more impressive.

Now what about the customizability of the device? Which one is easier to flash custom roms on? Which one has better development of custom roms?

Sent from the Heavens
[Captivate General] grave101:
Vibrant, as the Dev center is more active and has better ROMS (IMO)
[Captivate General] saintsmmx:
Great thanks for the input bro. I'm really split between these two phones.

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[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Seba617:
I rooted my phone using the SuperOneClickMethod and then installed ROM Manager and flashed clockwork mod recovery onto my phone. After this i tried to backup and install a new rom onto my phone and when i would do that it woudlnt allow me to backup and it wouldnt let the rom install. it would just bring me to a recovery screen and i would have to reboot my phone. i tried unrooting, formatting the SD card, doing a system wipe and then trying it all over again and now when i try to boot into recovery it just shows a trangle with a cell phone laying down next to it. it doesnt let me do anything i have to pull my battery to reboot it and then it goes back to normal. What do i do to fix this?

PS: my Volume Up is broken so i cant even attempt to boot into stock recovery.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] JCeppli:
If you can't enter on recovery.

I think you will need to install the original ROM, just using RSD lite.

Or search for froyo version if don't need base.
[Fascinate General] nextlevelude94:
Hi, i was just wondering if anyone was having problems wit 3g staying consistently on? it keeps switching to 1x and stays there most of the time if not the whole time... I updated to DL30 with DL09 modem on 1230 non voodoo by adyl which works great..is this a known issue if so is there a fix? thank you in advance
[Fascinate General] MADDAN18:
I'm still on DL09 (stock rom) and still having problems from 3g to 1x. I noticed the problem seemed to happen when the service in the area wasn't all that great. But what's unusual, my friend has a htc eris and it stayed locked on the 3g no matter the reception...
[Fascinate General] dalrym05:
This phone just has poor signal compared to others I've had and did you say your overclocked on dl30? I didn't think that was possible yet
[Fascinate General] nextlevelude94:
well i was on dl01 before and i had to switch to DL09 to be able to get to DL30.. i followed adrynalyne step in installing.. i installed the radio/then the modem/then the kernel because he indicated that you should install all 3 so you wont have anything stop working.. at that point i dled DL30 and flashed it with cwm.. could that be the problem since i installed the non-voodoo kernel? or when i flashed DL30 that didnt matter anymore?
[Fascinate General] ajd88:
I am having the same exact issue. Before I flashed I usually had 1 or 2 bars at work locked in at 3g, now its always 1 or 2 bars locked in at 1x. Sucks. But everything else is great.
[Fascinate General] imnuts:
What kernel are you using again? It looks like you're using a kernel built for 2.1 on 2.2, which could very well be part of your problem. There are very few kernels that are available for DL30 at this point. There is the stock kernel, stock kernel with boot animation support, and stock kernel that supports cwm recovery.
[Fascinate General] nextlevelude94:
mmm around 3:50pm, 3g just started working again.. i heard from someone close to me say that verizon was messing with some towers.. i guess it was around this area.. or something.. hope it doesnt happen again... fingers crossed!
[Fascinate General] Snow02:
Yeah, I was having the same issue yesterday. Verizon is sending a new phone. Then this afternoon it started working again...whoops.
[Fascinate General] pkopalek:
The fascinate has a poor CDMA antenna compared to other phones.

Htc phones and motorola phones get 10-15dbm higher reception at all times.

Because of this, your reception suffers (obviously).

Sometimes when a text or call happens, it'll switch to 1x and get stuck. Why?

Poor reception.

I have 3g in my office at work about 30% of the time. My olds HTC eris? 100%. It's how the phone is built and cannot be changed.

It's one of it's shortcomings, imo.
[Fascinate General] jacobjohnford:
Possible 3g to 1x fix

I do agree with some of the other posters here about the fascinate service issues and after tearing my Incredible, Droid 1 and Fascinate apart I will say the Saw Filter and PA are different manufactures as one would come to expect between different manufacturers.

Long story short,

Try different PRL's

Verizon has a plethora of different PRL's try some of these.

You will need QPST to update PRL get it at

htr. thecamson. com/hacktherazr.com-QPST_2.7_b215.exe

To enable USB Modem mode on the Fascinate type **USBUI then select modem on both options

To update PRL plug in your fasciante after the 2 above steps then

1. select QPST Configuration/Add new port if you don't see a phone connected (its connected if it says SURF and some numbers.)

2. Start Clients/ Service Programming

3. Click OK/ click Roam/ Browse to any of the attached PRL files/ Click Write To Phone (Your SPC or MSL is 000000)

4. DONE!!

Hope this works for you guys. I personally run 65145 and I have constant 3g. I dont know if it will be the same but give it a try!!

Jacob
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polish-jack:
I am having an SMS time stamp issue with my phone. All incoming messaged are stamped -5 hours from local time but outgoing is local normal. The problem with this for me is that my messages are organised by date stamp and this really messes with the chat order.

Anybody have any clue as to what is going on?

P.S. I am on the Rogers network with a Bell Canada Galaxy S Vibrant.

Model number: GT-I9000M

Firmware version: 2.2

Baseband version: I9000UGJL2 (Is this what the JL2 is?)

Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 SOK 4_6_8 1128

Build number: assARMS.UGL2.v0.3 (Is this the ROM currently installed?)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste52653:
I have this same issue now - I just re flashed my wife's phone and now the time stamp is wrong

:(

Has anyone fixed this issue?
[A7 General] kingjf54:
I just unboxed my A7...very nice...I got a response yesterday about how to do the Dexter mod, but I want to know if I should first install the firmware update from the eLocity site prior to doing the mod, or after doing the mod, or not at all...Also, what about future updates?

Is the Dexter mod worth it ?
[A7 General] Zenwood:
The Dexter Mod is worth it. It has many improvements including access to the market.
[A7 General] kingjf54:
So do I need to install the firmware update before or after or at all if I install the Dexter mod?
[A7 General] Humraz:
You just need to install Dextor's mod only. It already has the firmware updates.
[A7 General] RojasTKD:
Not a all

I'd wait for Dexter to mod the latest eLocity update, unless eLocity is allowed to add the market and gapp in the future.v Even then if Dexter offered an update I'd use his.

Yes.
[Desire HD General] alex98uk:
I've done a fair few flashes with my Desire and always found it quite easy to follow and do, but I am so, so, so confused about how to go about attacking the HTC Desire.

Essentially, I want to root it and install a custom ROM (maybe change a radio, that's it). However, there is no set of instructions in any one thread, it's all over the place.

So far, i've managed to permroot my brothers phone using Visionary. Now, the next step is getting Clockwork Recovery. However, there seems to be two version 2.x (installed by ROM manager) and version 3.x. Apparently the former doesn't work for CM7... but I cannot find how to actually get Clockwork 3.x installed (easily...).

What are the most popular DesireHD ROMs and do they all require Clockwork 3.x? Also, what is S-Off... and do I need it!?
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
Because standard Desire does not have nearly as tight security as DHD has. You need S-OFF to get clockworkmod, and if you want to flash CWM 3.x, you need ENG S-OFF. Only gingerbread roms need CWM 3.x.

S-OFF: Phone security off, internal memory becomes read/write, you can flash anything you want, no version checks etc.
[Desire HD General] alex98uk:
Hmm... OK, I mean this is for my brother who is in no way technically inclined :p Perhaps we'll just leave it rooted for now and see if an automated tool appears for the Desire HD in the future :)

Cheers!
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
It does not get much more automated than my Radio S-OFF Tool / ENG S-OFF Tool.. :rolleyes:
[Desire HD General] alex98uk:
I suppose so. So basically, the steps are:

Root phone - Done

S-Off/Eng S-Off

Install Clockwork Mod

Install ROM

The bit I find trouble with is how to do the clockwork mod bit. It seems like CM is the best DHD ROM, but that requires Clockwork Recovery 3.whatever and to get that installed you have to go through a ton of SDK stuff. Is there an easy way to get it installed?
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Possibly like this one? search is your friend
[Desire HD General] SAPPH1RE:
If u really need CM7, but doesn't want to install cwm 3, than, try CM7 on my signature..
[Desire HD General] alex98uk:
Ah brilliant :)

You know if it'll work with Clockwork Recovery 2.5.0.7 as that what comes with ROM Manager?
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Simple answer, no.

Please try following the advice you are being given and search the development forum, if your not willing/able to devote the time to reading up on S-OFF and installing CM7 please leave well alone and save us all a little time
[Desire HD General] MattSkeet:
To be honest I think that dhd is quite easy to root. You have one click tool in stickies so really a monkey could do it.

I'm attempting to root my girlfriends galaxy s and it's really complicated. Download this download that check if you have 3button startup, get Odin and so on....

Desire HD is fun to root...
[Desire HD General] magnum73:
One Click-tool? For the latest update you have to downgrade,that looks not so easy?
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
Yeah, downgrading makes it a bit harder, true. But after downgrading it is a breeze.
[Desire HD General] magnum73:
Wating for a new tool or updated visionary?
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
Visionary will not do it, but I might make a tool to handle all those downgrade commands. I am busy now, however, so you should not wait for it.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
I wouldn't hold your breathe, whilst there is a simple-ish downgrade route the chances of anyone going to the great effort of needlessly finding and exploiting a new security flaw are remote. Anyone desperate for root will probably take the downgrade route and anyone unable to grasp the steps involved would probably be better served by a stock rom
[Desire HD General] magnum73:
I'm looking forward for an automatic tool to downgrade...Jkoljo

I want to get rid of that irritating bootsound and have a new bootscreen...
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
Just use the manual method, I am busy, so it might take a while before I can start developing such tool.. :(
[Desire HD General] magnum73:
I have time ;) and I am afraid to do something wrong...
[Desire HD General] dhiral.v:
I wonder why HTC don't want us to root...
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Tech support, without root access you are unlikely to do anything terminal to your DHD software wise, so that should limit your tech support to hardware issues. With root access ham fisted people are returning phones with user inflicted software problems
[Desire HD General] magnum73:
At jkoljo: is there any news for an automatic tool to downgrade or to root the newest firmware?
[Desire HD General] ColorCodePurple:
I agree with OP information is scattered all over the place,and is contradictory :(

from what I infered,

I have to temp root and then perm root using visionary (My software version is 1.32.720.5)

then I have to use that one click S-Off tool,then install ROM manager and then flash CM7?

what about the wipe? exactly what ino do I loose permanently? my sms? my contacts? the picture with my contacts? and do I also loose the HTC contact sync?
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
Nope, it is best to do the downgrading steps yourself, because it involves killing the adb service (which my tool would try to control).
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XMaseX171:
I know there is a ton of threads on this, but I can't seem to find an answer. I am using imilka's Glacier Sense v1.3 and I have all my contacts doubled. How can I fix this?

Thank you in advance.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bates_1974:
Check by pressing the windows key when in the people/contacts which accounts you have selected to show, if you have phone and google choose just one. if you only have google, sign into gmail on your pc, select contacts on the left and then you can merge duplicates. on your phone resync google contacts under settings, accounts and sync, google account, and it should do it for you.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XMaseX171:
I have gmail and facebook both on there. I went into gmail and unchecked the option to sync with contacts. Should I leave this one checked and not facebook? I want to have my friends profile pics auto sync to my contacts. I did try to uncheck gmail but everything is still doubled. Will signing into gmail and doing what you said, have any effect if I want facebook to sync?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bates_1974:
depends how you originally imported your contacts and where you saved them.

If on first boot you enabled them through a previous android build keep google contacts sync on.

The facebook side of things will sync your contacts, but not right away, it will try and match existing ones and give you a notification that contacts can be linked and let you check the right facebook profile is being synced with the correct contact.

Check you have nothing under sim card and phone accounts showing also.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XMaseX171:
Well I deleted everything data/cache with CWM. So I thought that would of cleared everything. I also did a full wipe of my SD card. I then flashed the glacier rom with CWR. I did however find a very easy fix to the contact problem. I was able to click view inside the contacts tab and uncheck any accounts that were set to sync contacts. So now my contacts only show up one entry. Now my problem is when I send a text, the contacts are still doubled. I am not sure how to fix that one..
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
New question: Would I be able to dual-boot my phone (say, CM6 and what it has on there now) without too much trouble? It doesn't sound like it'd be too different than having two OSes on a PC, on the startup screen it'd just ask which you'd want to boot...
[EVO 4G General] -viperboy-:
You can remove all of those safely without messing up anything. I would recommend just flashing a ROM that has all of that crap removed already cause they usually take out more of that bloatware.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
nahh you can take all of those out. :) Dont get rid of htc facbook or you wont have a way to sync contacts. (if that matters to you)
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
Okay, thanks for the tips. I've been eying CyanogenMod as a possible OS replacement, but Sprint isn't going to come and bar me from making calls or accessing their network, are they? (reading how Motorola almost bricked any Droid X running unauthorized software isn't helping)

edit: I do know to do a Nandroid backup before doing any of this, but can I set my phone back to S-ON if it has to be taken in for service?
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Nope they shouldn't...

Yes you can. its not to hard to do either.
[EVO 4G General] jstalford:
There is a zip flashable in recovery that will put you back to s-on. I can pm you a link if you can't find it. I think it's called unrevoked-forever-son.zip.
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
Okay another stupid question... In checking my version of hboot I managed to boot my phone into recovery mode. I pulled the battery and it seems to work but I wanted to make sure I didn't screw something up by mistake.

edit: did some research, doesn't look like anything's going to be wrong, since I never connected my phone to a USB of any kind... But my Pandora widget is broken, which I can work around with by just reinstalling the app. Am I still good to root though?
[EVO 4G General] dkdude36:
by booting into recovery? no. if you want help rooting, i can help. even if you need a bit of hand holding, i'm not smart enough to help with anything else so...
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
Thank God, thought I might have destroyed any and all opportunity =/

I'll probably wait until Gingerbread to go beyond simply killing the Sprint Nascar, Football, FlashLite, and Nova apps...
[EVO 4G General] dkdude36:
once you root, you can get gingerbread and keep root. you might even be able to get gingerbread before stock with a leak, and you can already get an aosp version. either way, it will take a while for devs to root gingerbread. you can just root now, and upgrade your rom and radios to gingerbread later, giving you the exact same results but ROOTED! confusing? yes. opposite of ios? yes. awesome? also yes.
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
Definitely the opposite of i(P)OS, it looked so awesome until maybe six or seven hours after I got my Evo when Sony announced Playstation Suite... Now I'm just waiting for Gingerbread to come (and for a stable CM7, don't want to flash a beta ROM as my first only to have something go horribly wrong)...
[EVO 4G General] dkdude36:
so you dont want to root then? you might have to wait a while once gb comes out...
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
it has not yet been released... but here is a link to the guy working on dual booting.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=847423
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ech419:
I had recently Hard Bricked my Vibrant while flashing Custom ROM. Nothing was showing up at all on the screen. This is the following detail mailed to me by Samsung when sent for repair.

Original Problem:

Technical Inquiry

Power

No Power Up

Problem found:

BAD BGA COMPONENT

WARRANTY, REPLACE PART

Solution:

Replaced PBA

Can anyone elaborate what the above statement mean ?

Also, Samsung had factory disabled the Recovery Button on my Phone, so can it be enabled again by Samsung by servicing it ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krzysiek_CK:
Printed Board Assembly
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoyLoo:
BGA = Ball Grid Array. It's a type of packaging for an integrated circuit and how it is attached to the PBA.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ech419:
So basically flashing a Custom ROM resulted in a physical defect on my Phone ?

I was planning to Jtag the Bootloader but thought that it might void warranty.

I dont think I might try to flash a ROM onto the Phone now. :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ripjaw27:
I had somewhat same problem on my Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Mine said: "The unit is repaired. SOLUTION: Replaced PBA"

I hard bricked my tablet because I was flashing a GSM version when its a CDMA. Thus from what I researched those are not interchangeable. That might of what happened to you as well. I know my lesson about GSM and CDMA now....

I still haven't got my device back yet. Got the ticket update yesterday. Can't wait to get it back!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
your warrenty gets void when you root the phone
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ripjaw27:
You can unroot your phone and flash original firmware and from what I gather, they can't get any evidence saying that you did. Although I have heard people overclocking their rooted phone and damaging the componets inside.... And they can tell that you did root it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Romulan Star Empire:
Same Thing! (Almost)

I have the Samsung Epic Touch 4G Touch on virgin mobile (Sprint's variant of the GSII) and had rooted it. I then updated it to jelly bean 4.1, then re-rooted (JB28 update) I then started to have charging problems that got worse, eventually so bad I went down to radio shack. I knew the guy that worked there and told him my situation, he said to send it into samsung and don't tell them it's rooted. Its on its way back to me now. I think either samsung missed it somehow, or just didn't care that it was rooted.

Here's the E-mail text:

Original Problem:

TECHNICAL INQUIRY - POWER - WILL NOT POWER UP

Problem found:

BAD BGA COMPONENT

Solution:

REPLACED PBA
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hoange:
Bad bga component

PCB assemblies fail due to bad BGA component connections. They can be repaired either by reflowing or removing the device and cleaning it with solder, reballing and replacing.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] RoosterWolf:
I want an activity in an app to overide the Android default (built-in) phone dialer/receiver that normally gets run on incoming calls. This is so that I can replace the default screen, the one that pops up when a phone call comes in, with my own call reception activity.

What approaches would you suggest for this. How do you control the priority / precedence of components to be called? What is the Android component that does the phone call receiving, and how do I run my own activity BEFORE this starts up (and instead of it).

Do you know whether this kind of thing (overriding built-in components) can be done without modifying the Android Java source code (of the dialer/receiver I assume)? Or in some other way?

Would you please point me to any information (links, books, code

examples, whatever), you may have about this? Any starting point would be helpful.

Thanks,

Rooster
[Fascinate General] WhiteRocks:
So since I dont see any other threads on this here on xda... I'm guessing we wont be seeing Blackhole 4.0 released to everyone here on xda anymore?

Blue Super Froyo
[Fascinate General] cesium:
He said on androiddoes that it will be released via ROM Manager to the public at 430pm today. The thread you mention was closed because at the time the ROM was released only to VIP subscribers of androiddoes
[Fascinate General] WhiteRocks:
Ok, good to know, I hadnt seen that...

Blue Super Froyo
[Fascinate General] gbmitchell:
Will that thread be reopened once it is publicly available is what I want to know.

Have any of his other rom threads been shut down?

Not that this forum is moderated by committee or democracy but I am not a fan of locking that thread.
[Fascinate General] zachsx:
They locked it because you cam not advertise in xda nor tell people to join another forum and pay to download. He will open another thread when it gets released :)
[Fascinate General] WhiteRocks:
Im just hoping that with xda taking steps to shut down the advertisement like thread for androiddoes here on xda, didnt keep sonsofskywalker from contributing his ROMs here on xda.

Blue Super Froyo
[Fascinate General] zachsx:
I don't think so. Skywalker is a cool cat. He was trying help out since androiddoes, allows him to host free.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wraith04:
I just flashed Serendipity 5.1 for my ROM of the day and I cannot get TiBu to reinstall to a point where I can use it. It will install from the market but when I open it the only button lit for use is the uninstall button. I have tried to uninstall/install two more times but no luck. Prior to Serendipity I was on Firefly 1.5 and 2.0.5 and it worked fine. Any ideas on what needs to change? TIA
[Galaxy Tab General] vince.26:
Hello I have kind of a n00b question. I currently had a galaxy tab running a kernal that was made for the JJ family, (rotos). If I want to flash a JMI rom do I flash it first then flash the kernal for the JM* family?
[Galaxy Tab General] antiochasylum:
Wrong section. However you would have to flash the kernel first. That's what I did with Modaco.

Sent from my MoDaCo powered Galaxy Tab.