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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsav666:
So I'm new here, and to the whole phone tweaking thing. I've been messing with my phone lately and was happily content with my rooted phone and decided to attempt installing jagermod. admittedly i did not read up as much as i should and now after reinstalling i have managed to mess my phone up royally. so, i've tried recovering from a backup, i get the MD5 thing that never goes away, i've tried factory resetting, tried hard resetting, nothing works... it will not boot past the htc logo and then glitches out with black lines... anyhow any help would be great. thank you.

-jsav666
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
Look in the android development forum for "the ultimate back to stock thread". download the "PB31IMGxxxxx" file there, rename it to just PB31IMG.zip and put it on the root of your sd card. Go into the bootloader and let it run the update. This will bring you back to a 2.2 stock. From there you can re-root and do whatever else you like.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syde1020:
Mine did this also at one time and I found out it was a error from a incompatible kernal
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smtom:
Black lines, or a black strip w/ white lines on either side?

If you see white lines on either side of black strip, sounds like a recovery type mismatch based on AMOLED or SLCD?

Regardless, search for the content from Doug Piston, who should be able to remedy what you are seeing. It may take resetting it to stock (RUU), but his thread(s) have the info you need.

hth
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ray243:
So right now, my phone keeps on getting stuck at the 'android' word bootscreen. It keeps repeating and seems to go on forever! Someone please help me! I heard its due to rooting! Can anyone confirm this?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] i2gh0st:
What did you do? I tried once to install aps 2 card and the phone stood in android screen about 20 min :-)

Anyway if it doesn't start. Flash new android: nand restore or sbf

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[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ray243:
Finally somebody replied back. Its been going on for days, I've removed the battery, placed it back, same thing.

Also, sorry but I have no idea how to flash something. How do I do it? And it doesn't even go past it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] DannyDroid:
I should spend on time in this sub-forum.

If you have flash a custom ROM then just reflash it or try another ROM.

It's highly, highly unlikely that your phone it breaked so don't worry about.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ray243:
I have never flashed a custom rom. I don't even know how to flash in the first place.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] under18:
turn off hp.try to hold up-dpad(towards screen) button and switch on your milestone.

then you see black screen written Bootloader.

battery OK.

OK to program

connect USB

data cable.

if you can go into this screen, then u can start to learn to flash vulnerable recovery.

and ready to install custom room.

google around on how to instal vulnerable recovery for milestone .
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ray243:
Yep, I can go into it. But I checked, and can't find how to install a vulnerable recovery. Any help?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] DannyDroid:
My site is down atm, but this may help;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=932196
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] nnkk:
shut down phone ->hold down hard keyboard x key and power button->when M logo appears release power button but keep pressing x key until recovery mode shows up

there is an option for clearing data/factory reset

you'll loose everything but it propably fix the problem
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ray243:
Including my contacts?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] nnkk:
your contacts if you have chosen it will be at your Gmail account and they will be restored.
[Droid 2 Global General] XtriFe:
Hi all. I've just found out about this brilliant phone. Had no idea it existed. I've always liked the Motorola Milestone (qwerty physical keyboards are a must to me) however i ended up getting the wrong version of the milestone (european) with the wrong 3G bands for my carrier so i could only get Edge speeds.

Anyways, it seems like the Droid 2 Global version uses simcards. I live in the Dominican Republic, Claro (my carrier) runs on the 850/1900 bands and it seems like the D2G can work with them, in theory. I've been reading a couple of threads regarding this though, it seems like those bands have been locked out by verizon so people don't use it on other US carriers such as AT&T which happens to run on the same bands i need (850/1900). But others say its the carrier ID that has been locked out. I read something about a user being able to get 3G speeds on Chile, but i've no idea what bands he was using.

What i want to know is, if i ordered a Droid 2 Global phone, would i be getting 3G speeds using my Claro simcard here after having it sim-unlocked?

There's also the Milestone 2 of course, but they seem to cost $500+ plus they dont specify which bands the phone works with. I dont want to end up buying the wrong phone version again. Also, It seemsl ike the droid 2 global is being sold for a less ($300-400).
[Droid 2 Global General] haroldz123:
http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_2_global-3636.php

read the spec
[Droid 2 Global General] helmutiffe:
I am using my SIM-unlocked D2G fine here, on a carrier that uses 850MHz UMTS.

The Milestone 2, as far as I know, is still only available in a 900/2100 UMTS variant so far.

From what I gather, the lock Verizon put on the radio to prevent use on US GSM carriers is based on the MCC (mobile country code) number associated with networks based in the USA, and not the frequencies themselves. In effect, once unlocked the phone will work with any GSM provider (on a supported frequency), except those based in the U.S. This would explain why the AT&T 850MHz network (MCC 301) doesn't work, whereas the Telstra 850MHz network I use (MCC 505) does.

One complication about buying a Droid 2 Global now, is that from various reports on this forum, some devices don't respond to their SIM unlock codes (!) and are effectively unlockable. If I were buying a D2G now for use on a GSM carrier, I'd only buy one that has already been unlocked - wouldn't want to take the chance on getting a phone that is unlockable. This might be why some are being listed for dirt cheap!
[Droid 2 Global General] XtriFe:
Brilliant, thats what i wanted to know, many thanks !

Wow thats not good is it. Thanks for the advice, i'll make sure the phone is unlocked. I've never really understood how phones are unlocked by third party anyways. But I understand you can have them unlocked by giving verizon a call and under certain conditions, they'll provide the unlock code for free.
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
I was in the Dominican Republic last week with my D2G and it worked perfectly (unlocked using Rogers Canada service). Claro service sucked a bit (coverage wise) but worked fine (3G), Orange (EDGE) seemed a bit better where I was.

I am pretty sure you will be fine AS LONG AS you get unlockable/unlocked D2G.
[Droid 2 Global General] XtriFe:
ok one last question,

does anyone know if a droid with bad esn will work ok with a different carrier's simcard if unlocked?

I would assume droids with bad esn will be going for cheaper on ebay
[Droid 2 Global General] haroldz123:
bas esn mean d phone could be stolen so it will b a hassle to clear the esn
[Droid 2 Global General] TripleMPower:
How can one know if the phone has a bad ESN? Just wondering.
[Droid 2 Global General] jraskal:
Obtain the esn from whomever you are purchasing from. Then ask Verizon regarding the esn you were provided.
[Droid 2 Global General] XtriFe:
but wouldnt you only need a clear ESN if you're going to use the phone with CDMA? or would that affect GSM usage as well ? (simcards)
[Droid 2 Global General] helmutiffe:
According to the eBay listing I bought mine from, it has a bad ESN (at least, it explicitly stated "will not activate on Verizon") - but the GSM/UMTS radio works fine.
[Droid 2 Global General] locarbdontmeannosugar:
Bad ESN will only affect use on Verizon and its MNVOs (possibly). GSM networks will work fine. Just remember though if it's not already unlocked, and the ebay unlocker codes don't work, it will probably be near impossible getting verizon to give you the code for a phone with bad esn.
[Droid 2 Global General] XtriFe:
thanks for the info. I''ll look for unlocked plus bad ESN phones on ebay and see if theyre any cheaper
[Windows Phone 7 General] slighmd:
this will be great for MS and WP7!

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/feb11/02-11partnership.mspx

http://www.winrumors.com/official-nokia-partners-with-microsoft-for-windows-phone-7/
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
I am happy because now I will actually consider owning a Nokia. I just never took to Symbian and the Nokia UI no matter how well balanced the phone were.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Would love to have an N8 running WP7.

EDIT- This kinda sounds fishy:

"Microsoft will continue to invest in the development of Windows Phone and cloud services so customers can do more with their phone, across their work and personal lives."

As opposed to giving up on WP7?
[Windows Phone 7 General] OGCF:
Wow I still can't believe it really happened. Amazing.

Sent from my SGH-i917 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] adesonic:
don't think it is fishy, they are just re-stating what they have always said, i.e. they are in this for the long haul.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lapingultah:
This is brilliant news! Hope we get some schedule to upcoming Nokia WP7 phones soon, if not at today's press conference, then maybe next week at MWC :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] M@rtyn04:
Certainly the boost that was needed to get WP7 really off the ground. Nokia may be losing ground to the competition, but they are still the number one when it comes to worldwide sales.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
Certainly the big news here besides Nokia hardware is the integration of Ovi Maps and Nokia's content store into WP7.

Now it's all about timing, they better not wait for 2012 to deliver on that.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
More content can never be a bad thing. Looking forward to seeing what the Nok-nuts have been enjoying, game-wise.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lumpaywk:
I actually did a little cheer when i saw this, now the game is really on.
[Windows Phone 7 General] WhyBe:
Now my question is, will MS eventually tell the other hardware partners to f*ck off? Since the partners are making lackluster hardware putting subpar effort into WP7?

It would be great if MS played a major hand in designing future Nokia smartphones. Maybe they could produce some truly innovative hardware to carry WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
What I would like to see is MS selling a premium device directly from themselves, kinda like the iPhone or Nexus S...having something similar to the Nokia N8 hardware directly fashioned by MS and sold from them in their stores or online.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
I don't think they would benefit from doing that, otherwise they probably would have bought Nokia altogether. We all know Samsung and HTC can make great devices if they really put their mind to it and that's what the Nokia deal will bring: a desire to best the other OEMs and bring the best phone to the platform (supposedly).
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Well well.

I was never Nokia, always SE and was waiting for SE to join WP7.

But regardless of that, it is a huge boost for the whole WP7 no freaking doubt.

The biggest mobile company says that WP7 is the best choice for their smartphones offer.

This is very strong signal for customers.

And yes it adds some more confidence WP7 is a serious thing with a perspective.

But, my concern is also - Nokia smartphones is a sinking ship due to their decisions.

So let's hope their weakness will not be continued on WP7 development.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Deleted member 2842059:
I haven't used anything Nokia in years. How good are Maps? Obviously, Google maps reign supreme but this is a secondary choice? Better than Bing, correct?
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Looks like the N* has a chance of being the first WP7 device from Nokia. Lets hope it is.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/nokia-will-be-able-to-customize-everything-in-windows-phone-7/
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
My guess is they are significantly better than Bing outside of the US :P
[Windows Phone 7 General] cyclical:
I bought a cheap Nokia handset for use in another country and that thing is built great. If they can bring in good handsets and tie it in with WP7 they should gain some market share in the US for sure.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strutten:
I my opinion, ovimaps is better than google. Google maps may offer a better online experience, but ovimaps offer great offline experience. 90% of the times I use the gps (without playing with it) is when I'm in an area without strong 3g-signals, and the online-only-maps from google ang bing are quite useless to me. I would, however, really like to see ovimaps with the online capabilities from google and the very nice satellite view when zooming in from bing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] truffle1234:
This will make the rest of hardware guys to raise the bar as Nokia do make lots of good hardware but the os was killing them.. Now at least HTC have some competition to built wp7 devices....

but the thing I want to see is "a tablet running on full blown wp7 os...
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
does htc have poor build quality ? I missed it in the last few I've owned.

unlike the pc business, there is no reason a manufacturer has to bend to the will of microsoft.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TheOnly1:
The Ovi Maps are a great GPS solution both online and offline. And they are completely free for all Nokia smartphones. That has actually been a strong selling point for Nokia in the last 2 years. Now I suspect that Ovi Maps will only be available for Nokia WP7 devices :p

The Nokia engagement will for sure boost several things:

- OVI Store is available nearly worldwide and from the letter I can see that MS intends to use this to broaden Marketplace availability. If you happen to live in an unsupported coutry (90% of all countries currently!) WP7 is currently pretty useless unless you use almost exclusively warez! Not very motivating for developers IMO when you take into account that Apple sells worldwide.

- Nokia is a strong brand with loyal followers that will buy anything that has the name Nokia on it. Especially in Europe. Very good thing for WP7 popularity. Believe it or not but Symbian is still on more devices than iOS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
If Microsoft opens up the software for Nokia, great. If not, expect another phone that blends into the crowd. As it will just be another phone by another OEM.

Microsoft needs to loosen up if they want sales.
[Windows Phone 7 General] adesonic:
Not sure that all nokia users will stick with nokia now. Just been on a couple of nokia user forums and boy are they p*seed. Interestingly, many of them equate wp7 with wm6.5. Most say they are planning to jump ship to android.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Compare features of Symbian to WP7, and WP7 looks like a child's toy.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Ovi Maps is a very good satnav solution - it's offline, which is what I vastly prefer, but I don't think the software itself is what matters.

Nokia owns Navteq, one of the two major suppliers of map data (the other one is TeleAtlas). Both Navteq and Teleatlas have way better coverage than Google (and of course better than Bing) worldwide. Basically, on Google Maps in a country like Russia you get a couple of cities and that's it. Navteq/TeleAtlas will have the most obscure village covered to the last tiny street. That's because Google has coverage where it has ads business, they don't care for the rest. I had problems with Google Maps not just in Russia, but also on Crete and in Croatia during my vacations there - I was trying to use GM while renting a car. That was rather miserable.

Good to see you alive and kicking, vetvito. I was wondering where you were for two pages!
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
I don't think Nokia would have signed up for this if they didn't see the WP7 roadmap and think it would be able to compete with IOS and Android. If anything, this is an extremely good sign.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Basically agree on this. It's a positive sign.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Its a sign of desperation. My questions stands, what can Nokia do that the other OEMs can't do? Not a damn thing. Do you think noKia can make a flagship phone without Microsoft loosening up?

You guys aren't being realistic.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
It's all about image. Plus, 1.5 brains are better than 1.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Maybe you should go read some more. Obviously you have missed vital details of the announcement.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TheOnly1:
LOL. Just imagine all the Carl Zeiss optics that are coming to WP7 :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] Mileski:
Android Sucks

Also we can have the amazing extended nokia battery life, build quallity, Nokia Care (which is a really good customer assistance).

Everybody says MS should loosen up a bit, but hey, Apple is as (or more) tight as MS and they rule the market. And i should say RIM is a closed technology company as well, and they rule the smartphone market here in US.

Android is so open that poor owners are stuck in old versions of the OS where other can be pleased with newer versions and features.... so unfair... I had a Xperia X10, a great hardware and i had to wait for almost 1 year to have android 2.1 while google had just released 2.2 with flash support and JIT enabled.

So make your choices ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Well, not everybody says that, I certainly don't!
[Windows Phone 7 General] augie7107:
This post is right on. I still have an X10 rotting in my closet and have come back to MS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
What facts did I miss?
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Here is an example: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/nokia-will-be-able-to-customize-everything-in-windows-phone-7/
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Apple and RIM make their own phones. That's not a good comparison at all.

Microsoft has the best rule, the absolute best rule. All OEM stuff must be easily uninstalled! That's the best rule, so why not allow full customization that can be uninstalled by choice?
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Did you read the whole thing. It says he recanted his statement. So what facts did I miss?
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
you can compare also wm 6.5. its much better than wp7 or symbian it terms of features...

Despite features, the end-experience is much better on wp7 than any other plattform. After 6 months of cool Android experience, wp7 is another world of beauty. Its not all about features...

look how engadget trashes Symbian...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/14/nokia-n8-review/
[Windows Phone 7 General] phoneguy 4567:
The fact that the Nokia guy is already making statements & pulling back on them is not a good sign. At the very least it shows the two sides have a differing understanding of what the agreement means. It sounds like Nokia thinks of WP7 as a base platform where they can put all their stuff on, a Symbian 2 or Meego without the development costs.

I don't see the other OEM's sticking around if the statement turns out to be true, or worse MS will let everyone do their own thing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
He didn't change the fact that they COULD do it. He just said they probably won't.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Best statement in the thread
[Windows Phone 7 General] nok_fusion:
this deal is just awesome,can wait to see a nokia device running wp7 :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Hirnteri:
I hope nokia will do a welldesigned phone (not like the other nokias...) with carl zeiss etc :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] phoneguy 4567:
Thanks :)

I've owned Nokia's in the past and their hardware is nice, but I don't think it's head and shoulders above anyone else. For MS to make a special deal with Nokia above their other OEM partners is a mistake IMO, & is pushing them into the Android camp. It would be understandable for Samsung & HTC to dump WP7 because this deal makes them 2nd class partners.

I wish MS luck in North America. I can't remember Nokia ever being wildly popular here & somehow I doubt WP7 will change that.

From Nokia's standpoint I don't understand why they would limit themselves to just WP7, do they really think MS will treat them as equals in this partnership? I can't see any downside to Nokia coming out with both Android & WP7 phones.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
He didn't take his words back or anything. He says they have more freedom than what's officially announced, then says it doesn't mean they'll use it.

Which is exactly what I as a WP7 user want. The last thing I need to see is live backgrounds, faux 3D and cute icons with a different menu fonts.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
First of all, there's nothing that's been said that puts them "above others". If they made a commitment of some sort they might get some preference. Say, if HTC or Samsung said they'd use WP7 as their primary smartphone platform they would have had much more influence on how the platform would develop I'm sure.

They are 2nd class partners because they chose to be 2nd class partners. If they are focused on Android, why should MS bend over backwards to satisfy them?
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
This is whats typed: "will Nokia be able to "customize everything" on Windows Phone 7 in order to differentiate itself? "Yes!" was Elop's ebullient proclamation, though he quickly pulled it back to say that Nokia likely won't make extensive use of this freedom to tailor Microsoft's OS."

Recanted.

Then this is also said: "Now Nokia's saying it -- perhaps exclusively -- has been given the liberty to play around inside WP7 to its heart's content."

Enough said, they're confused or Endgadfet is making stuff up.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Which is great news.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
What that Nokia gets to do more than the other OEMs, thus ruining the same experience on all phones? Or that there will be yet another mediocre WP7 device?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Mishaye:
He's asked if Nokia will be able to customize everything. He answers that, yes, they will be able to. But also says that they likely won't make extensive use of that.

He didn't retract the statement. It was simply a clarification. There is nothing confusing about that. They have the ability to change it if they want to, but they probably won't change much.

I very much doubt Nokia would have agreed to this if they had no ability to customize it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
"Though he quickly pulled it back"

Pull back, pulling back is a retraction. Get over it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pseudoware:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/exclusive-nokias-windows-phone-7-concept-revealed/