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[Samsung Mesmerize] bdemartino:
I use PDAnet and it works flawlessly. I think you're probably having issues with the driver? I tried using the stock one as well and had no luck, once I downloaded the PDAnet server client it also installed the correct drivers (for windows 7)
[Samsung Mesmerize] afritchen:
No problems with wireless tether for root. Superclean rom with voodoo kernel...
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
Well I use Easytether for USB tethering, I have both and easytether is faster, you should try it. my question was about wireless tethering because I needed to do some debug on an iPad and didn't have wifi.

It started working right after I posted this thread though lol idk what was wrong before. thanks guys.
[Samsung Mesmerize] bdemartino:
Sorry, I must have been tired when I posted because I didn't read very well :)
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
So I've apparently, effectively bricked my phone. Under bootloader it is listed as S-OFF. Is there any way I can return my evo in and stay under warranty?

Note: I can not reach recovery.
[EVO 4G General] ipatella:
What happens when you rename a recovery to PC36IMG.zip and try to update via bootloader?
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
I go into a boot loop no matter what i do, no matter what I flash. I have flashed 10+ PC36IMGs with everything from bootloaders to recoveries, to every img that can be on the phone... there is a thread still on the first page if you want to look at that.

Anyways, it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to fix it, so this is more about what options are available to me in getting a new phone, if you having any suggestions though on what I can do to fix mine, please be my guest and comment on my thread below, I'm still trying to fix it!
[EVO 4G General] bnapy:
Just report the phone lost or stolen and pay $100 deductible.
[EVO 4G General] ipatella:
I would try one last time to flash Amon's recovery.

Download this: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=483320&d=1294435056

Rename it to "PC36IMG.zip"

put it on the root of your sd card via a card reader if you have one or someone elses phone.

then update via bootloader.

Other than that I'm out of ideas. The good news is I'm not as savvy as 95% people on here, which means someone much smarter than me might know the answer. Good luck.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
Hmm, yeah I may just have to pay the 100 then... but is that an insurance thing or a warranty thing? I don't have insurance :(

Do you think Sprint will even check for the S-ON?
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
i dont think its a warranty thing its insurance and i think your screwed
[EVO 4G General] dizzle247:
What happens when you put a pc36img.zip file on the root of your SD card and start up in bootloader?
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
I appreciate the people trying to help me... but honestly i've flashed a ridiculous amount of PC36IMGs. Both boot.img and recovery.img and then much more. This is more about, is there anyway I can return it to sprint and get another under warranty. Sounds like i'm out of luck.
[EVO 4G General] jimd144:
So you cleared all the caches?
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
What did you do that caused this issue? Or what were you trying to do? Also what hboot version do you have?
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
I've done "clear storage" I don't see a place to clear anything other than that in hboot.
[EVO 4G General] kf2m:
Pretty much. If you haven't tried yet, try re-rooting via toast's method.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=690762

Try going through the whole process. If successful make sure you have a nice stock ROM like the current Sprint Lovers ROM to flash.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
Unfortunately my phone isn't getting listed as a device under adb, and thats part of the toast tutorial :( I have tried his eng-PC36IMG.zip, and it didn't work
[EVO 4G General] Nrre:
woah woah woah....

take your phone to wal-mart and slide it over the demagnetizer at the register a couple times.

THAN take it in.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
I had nightlies of CM7 they would reboot fairly often, but I just figured they were unstable. Out of nowhere it rebooted, and lost all my texts, and desynced my google account. I decided to switch to CM6. When i switched to CM6, soon after it rebooted out of nowhere, and then staid in an endless loop and never came out. I currently have hboot .76, for more fastboot commands.
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
Try this PC36IMG.zip. If it doesn't work the first time then try it again. If it doesn't work the second time, then I would say you're SOL. I know you said you've tried a bunch but they aren't all the same. It's the sprintlover's full update ROM.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
Is it from here? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=830153

If so I've tried it :(
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
Yep :/ I don't know what to tell you then man, sorry.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
I guess I'm going to Sprint and playing stupid!

Has anyone done this successfully?

It sucks because as soon as I started having these problems, all the experts would be frustrated and say "*sigh* you're not bricked, you can get into bootloader" and so I was so sure it was fixable... but apparently not. Every time I mention it I have a thousand people yell at me "FLASH PC36IMG!!" Anyways thanks for the help!
[EVO 4G General] jstalford:
This might be a stupid ?, but can is there a PC36IMG of the unrevoked s-on zip that you could try, to at least stop it from saying s-off?

Also, if you can go without a phone for a little while, can you just log into your sprint account and sign up for insurance, wait a week or so then try to claim?
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
That's actually a great question, and it would work but he's on the .76 eng hboot which isn't stock so even if he got it to say s-on, the hboot version is a dead giveaway.
[EVO 4G General] customhdrider:
Hey guys,why not try running an ruu,get the phone back to stock,then if it boots,just reroot and go from there
[EVO 4G General] sminker:
Have you tried flashing S-On then the "Original 3.70 Update"?
[EVO 4G General] sminker:
Jinx

....
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
lol I assumed OP already tried that.
[EVO 4G General] jstalford:
Doesn't he need to get s-on before he flashes the stock ruu that unroots?

Also, is there something he can flash that will wipe data, other than doing it in hboot?
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
I thought the stock ruu reverts the s-on....
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
Ok, so I have used the RUU exe and done that. I just go right back into an endless loop cycle - still S-OFF, unfortunately.

I've been told that its impossible to make the S-ON tool a PC36IMG. Apparently there is no way to do it without recovery.
[EVO 4G General] luist4498:
I thought you said you flashed the MIUI rom when this all happened and you had 2.10 HBoot!?!

(From your other thread on this issue)

"I flashed a CM7 nightly, from CM, about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday, still using the same nightly (build 1 or something) my phone seemingly out of nowhere rebooted - I wasn't even using it at the time. When it went back into CM7 it acted as if I had never linked a google account to my phone. The first thing that came up was the android google apps screen. Anyways, I decided I wouldn't stick with CM7 until at least an RC was out, so I wiped data, cache, and davlik and flashed MIUI. I used it for about two hours, didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and once again seemingly out of nowhere it rebooted... except when it did it went into a cycle and never reached MIUI, and wouldn't go into recovery, I could only access bootloader.

Anyways, I'll tell you what bootloader says my phone versions are, but I do believe the info all changed this morning when I flashed the ruu file"

SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-off

HBOOT-2.10.0001

MICROP-041f

TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac

RADIO-2.15.00.11.19

Oct 15 2010, 12:07:00
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
Ok, somehow I overlooked this. Now this is what I made this thread for!! Do you know anyone that has tried this? I wouldn't think they would take the phone apart at sprint. Would it ruin the screen color and make it obvious? Thanks for the tip... I just want to make sure it's actually gonna work before trying it. It would be pretty funny to bring in a fried evo that booted up with a green screen.
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
I've heard that nuking them in the microwave works.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
It did actually happen soon after I installed MIUI... though honestly I have no clue what the hboot version was at that time before I started flashing things. I didn't go into as many details on this thread because I didn't realize it was going to become a help thread - that was never really my intention. I said it happened during CM just because thats when my phone started actually acting strange.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
Hmm for real? Or would that be obvious?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOfSxh9Yq4
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
I read a thread somewhere that someone pulled it off. He nuked it just long enough to permanently damage it so it won't turn on at all, but not long enough for a gelatinous monster to break free from the confines of the phone's plastic and glass shell.

I'm not recommending that you do it, obv.
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
bet you wish you had insurance now
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
you're a genius.
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
lol this guy cracks me up
[EVO 4G General] Bigjim1488:
I can't see much point in nuking the phone if you don't have insurance. I don't think they will replace it for you otherwise.

Sent from my Evo while i should be working
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
you can activate insurance when ever you want. Simply call it in. But then you have to wait a couple weeks so they dont file insurance fraud against you.
[EVO 4G General] mrfunnyguyky:
To all the people saying just add insurance you can do it at anytime that is a false statement. Insurance has to be added within 30 days of adding the new esn. After that you are screwed.
[EVO 4G General] herzzreh:
And even if you could add it at any time, they would say "no calls have been made from the phone since the insurance was added, sorry, no replacement for you"

Been there, done that.
[EVO 4G General] dizzle247:
i'll trade you a new-ish Blackberry 9630 with a clean ESN for your bricked evo.

I do strongly believe that you're missing a step somewhere. After reading all 3 of your threads about bricking your phone, I have seen anybody else, or myself who has experienced any of the issues that you're having (from boot loops, white screen > black screen > 5x vibrate, not being able to access recovery) and not be able to get their phone back to a working state after following the instructions of someone on this board.

plus, you never really answered my question as to what happens when you load a PC36IMG.zip file on your device. Does it goes through on bootloader and ask you to flash (up for yes, down or no) etc etc?

Let's say it does work, what happens when you hit volume down, power button, and launch recovery? (whether it be amon or clockwork).
[EVO 4G General] cephraim:
I did. But, it was only a day old.

Might be worth a try.
[EVO 4G General] dizzle247:
another thing you could try is going to sears, picking up a t6 screw driver and CAREFULLY take your evo apart and d/c the cable from the screen to the rest of the phone and make it look as if it "fell out". Put the phone back together, maybe use some locktite on the screws and take it into a sprint store and tell them your phone won't work and won't power on.

even though the phone "works" they'll never be able to see the S-OFF because the screen dun work!

i SO do not endorse this idea for replacing a bricked evo. Get insurance, it's the smart thing to do.
[EVO 4G General] thanamesjames:
Hmm I might try that... I'm definitely planning on getting insurance... or maybe just running stock even :eek:

Anyways I was actually able to use RUU recently to get a grey screen last night... like no matter what my screen will be grey. Does anyone know if sprint just goes into bootloader to see S-ON? Or do they have some diagnostic tool they hook up to the computer?
[EVO 4G General] bcarter2000:
I have had some high powered magnets (n50) near my phone, and no damage was done. You might want to take the battery out if you go with the de-magnetizer.

And I have heard of sprint reps going to bootloader. Especially if they try to fix it.

Sent from the xda app.
[EVO 4G General] potna:
Put clear fingernail polish one or more of the copper contacts under the battery, that touch the battery. The battery won't make a full connection and it will not power on.

If you fail what are you out?

You can scrape this off yourself if you needed too.

This is just a fictional side if me, I would never actually suggest someone try to actually do this.
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
If nothing else, I would take it into a service center and explain exactly what happened. Either way, I'd suggest trying to get a replacement if you flashed so many ROMs and kernels (the idiot in me is speaking). Worst that can happen is that they say you can't. You may get lucky and get an employee who's rooted and customized their own phone and helps you out.
[EVO 4G General] spamking98:
I would suggest you go to walmart to the hardware plumbing section, look for the biggest toilet plunger you can find and take your evo out, place in front of your face with your left hand and take the plunger with your right, and just apply maximum force to suction both your evo and your face..this doesnt always work but it did for a few members here...thats how you unroot your phone...
[EVO 4G General] luist4498:
Ive gotta be doing something wrong here...............this isn't working for me! Still says S-off in boot loader! Should i get a bigger plunger from a hardware store or something?
[EVO 4G General] flying_low:
Happened to me too while trying to root an older phone with unrevoked3. It would boot for about 60 seconds then buzz five times and shut off. Hboot showed s-off but no adb and no sdcard mount. Tried unroot with ruu, no luck.

I was worried about the super user permissions showing in the app drawer so I cleared the data in hboot which forces it to run through the setup screens first (and crash in the process)

Whether they cared or not it worked, they replaced it NQA.
[G Tablet General] balticzar:
How the heck do I access files on my SD card?

I've done some googling and some searching here on the site. The closest to a solution I've found is: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=936979

But that still doesn't help. Where the heck is the info on my SD card? Actually I can't even see any of the contents at all on my SD card.

I'm rooted and running Vegan 5.1 Rom if that matters. Thanks guys.
[G Tablet General] squashpile:
I don't think you can. I am having same problem running same ROM. I may try TNT out here soon.

Just picked up mine yesterday.

EDIT

I think I said the wrong thing.. you should be able to browse the card as nunja said, but I can't view card info or format. I may be missing something. I still LOVE this G tab so far!
[G Tablet General] balticzar:
Thanks for the reply. Wow this blows. That's weird.

What I did just find out though is that using the Root Explorer app (which you need root rights for) I can see the contents of the external SD card (contents are under SDCard2). I have a movie on it. Problem is I can't play the movie from SDCard2. I suppose I would have to use the Root Explorer app to move the contents back and forth between the two storage devices. That sucks.
[G Tablet General] nunjabusiness:
Running same ROM, I have no problems browsing to mine with ESfile or root explorer. I have a few dozen albums of MP3s and a few HD movies on there and play them all day.

The files have the correct icons for the media players that play them. I just click the name of the file and it plays.
[G Tablet General] balticzar:
Sweet Mary Lou!!!! After a lil more research I found out that the app ES File Explorer will not only allow you to see the contents of the SDCard2 (external sd card) but it will also let you play/view the files on it.

So....go grab the free app ES File Explorer.
[G Tablet General] yujikaido79:
I use this app for windows at this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=885429

to access my external sd card, it works great with the wireless adb app in the market. It uses adb so you need to be able to see your device with the android sdk. There are topics on here for getting adb working if you need any help.
[G Tablet General] balticzar:
Great thanks for the heads up. The ES File Explorer app lets you see the contents of the card while it is in the G tab, while using the G tab. That is actually what I needed. I have no issues with popping the card out, popping it into my PC, dragging and dropping files on it and then putting it back in the Gtab. I just needed to access the card from the G tab.

However, I do need to familiarize myself more with adb so I will follow your advice. I think that will make my Android tinkering even more fulfilling. Have the Droid X now and can't wait to get my hands on the HTC Thunderbolt. Long live Android!! Thanks.
[G Tablet General] nunjabusiness:
Actually, funny you should say that. My brand-new 16GB SDHC card started giving me fits on the stock ROM so I put it in a reader on my notebook, reformatted it and flashed VEGAn on my Gtab.

Worked flawlessly ever since.
[G Tablet General] squashpile:
Just loaded up custom TNT rom and can access external MicroSD in settings. I am going back and forth with VEGan and this custom 4.2.1.
[G Tablet General] Rumbleweed:
Try disk usage app to see the usage data
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
Can you steal the qik from the streak 7 and see if it can work on our streak 5?

any rom floating around that we can take bits and pieces from?

would love front facing camera working on a video app

thanks
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
here is the system dump... gonna try and load qik to see if it work on my streak 5

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CP4MADCR
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
here is the file.. it actually installs and works well on the streak 5...

however when you go to load the front camera, it just stays on the back one... ARGH!!!!!

anyone want to apktool it and see how to fix it?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Foxhoundep3:
pretty interesting, hopefully someone can work it :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Not Android Development

Please post in the Correct Forums

Moving to Themes & Apps
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
I hope he is able to do something with it, but Im guessing not, because of similar issues with fring and ffc.
[G Tablet General] xguntherc:
Well. I got a G-Tablet back at first. one of the first on these forums with one if you look back to the original G-Tablet thread (think it got closed after 1000 whatever pages) I took it back right before my 30 day period ended because of the 30 day window, and because I couldn't flash anything near the end in CW. had some bad blocks in the built in memory I think.. but I loved the device

I've since had the Archos 101 and thought the G-Tablet was much, much better built. and I'd like to get another now that the ROM's and stability have improved.. For the most part everything works pretty good now right.. Fully featured, games all work. Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, stuff like that. What about Gameloft games? NOVA? I'd love to play that on my G-Tab if I got one. Does all that work? Do racing games work, or is the accelerometer slightly off alignment?

If anyone wants to maybe point out what still has issues. I'd love to hear. as I think I'll be getting another one here soon.
[G Tablet General] HorsexD:
Most Gameloft games arent optimized for Android Tablet so most dont work. I got Hawks to work but that got boring o.o. All games ive tried from market worked fine. ITs not the gtab anymore that doesnt make games work, its the devs that need to update their games for higher resolutions n stuff.
[Hero CDMA General] vscag:
Anyone see the hero cameo on Detroit 187 last night? It didn't look like it was running GingerBread though : )

I am from Detroit not sure if anyone else watches this.
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
They were also using them on Hawaii five o
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpeeon:
i'm sorry if this has been discussed before but this is an s.o.s..

i recently updated my fw to JS3 via kies, but it changed my CSC to NEE (because i was using fake NEE product code in kies registry patcher to let it update) so i wanted to change it back to some good CSC so i downloaded JP9_Multi_CSC (from JS3 rom) and got the instructions to just delete my old CSC related files from /system (csc folder, t9db folder, CSCVersion.txt, SW_Configuration.xml) and copy the new ones in there from the zip. so in root explorer i deleted them and began to copy the new CSC files there, it was going fine but when copying the files in T9DB folder i got an error which said "paste failure - there was not enough disk space to compete the paste operation". then i saw on the top of the program it's really nearly full: 275.47MB used, 348K free. i have plent of space on my phone, it seems like /system uses a dedicated partition which was already almost full before i started to copy these file there.. so i don't know what to do now, i don't want to restart my phone (cause i couldn't copy all the CSC files needed so it might be in an inconsistent state). is there a way to increase the size of /system. or maybe i can just delete some files from there to gain some free space (from media or app folder for instance) so i could finish copying the necessary files, but i don't want to screw anything, i don't know what can i delete safely..

pls help
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcarr622:
If you have full /system you likely have more problems than just the correct product code.

Your best bet by far is to do a full flash with Odin and repartition flashing a ROM with the CSC.

Changing the CSC by copying files into /system is not really the best way to change the CSC anyway.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Just move the file from media and then copy the file you wanted. Reboot. Then copy back media, but in ringtunes you only copy back the ones you want. Then you have more space on system.

**DamianGTO Steam kernel. 350MB Ram. 500HZ. ext2/jfs . js3 base**
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpeeon:
well, root explorer says it is pretty much full, and was already almost full before i copied anything in there (in fact my phone has stock samsung rom, the only serious changes i made so far was rooting, changing kernel to sm k12t and enabling it's tweaks) but i haven't experienced much problems using the phone, it's fast, responsive, stable, etc.. is it really a problem if it's full?

btw i solved the problem by temporary deleting layar from /system/app/ (i backed it up before), it was like over 1,7mb and i never used it.

DamianGto: thanks for the advice, i made something similar just instead of ringtones i deleted an unused app
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpeeon:
so any further comments about this (from experts:) ) ?

should i be worried if my /system is full and is it recommended to wipe everything and flash a new rom or is it ok if its full? as i said i didn't notice anything strange so far, it seems to be good, fast..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
just try to remove something do you free up some space. it always better to have around 10MB free.

**DamianGTO Steam kernel. 350MB Ram. 500HZ. Ext2 on all partitions. js3 base**
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpeeon:
ok, thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpeeon:
well, i just did a full flash with odin and repartition, i wiped everything and the free space on /system was pretty identical afterwards, only a few MBs (2-3). so i think it's normal for stock roms. or i did something wrong :) anyway i deleted a few unused apps to gather a little more space just to be sure.