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[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
@Side Note: Still shouldn't matter. Anyone that takes (EDIT) photos for business use with their phone camera should have the SkyDrive Camera Roll Backup/Sync enabled and you can set your Photo Gallery to Private.

The OP's situation is completely avoidable.
[Windows Phone 7 General] radeon_x:
This is either a very bad troll or you're a complete moron. I can't decide.

Sent from my GT-I9000M
[Windows Phone 7 General] webwalk®:
damn my camera app crashed too yesterday after i was changing some settings.

i turned off light and changed the measurement adjustment.

it crashed when i tried to focus the object. black screen, crash.

so happy a restart fixxed it, i better dont mess with the settings for some time...
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jonno2343:
Yeah, besides, Microsoft did not MAKE you do a hard reset of your device.

If you read the manual and understood what you were doing before you did it you would have known that a Hard Reset puts the phone back to its initial state.

You must have also disabled image syncing onto Zune which would have backed up your photos everytime you plugged it in or Wifi synched it. Could have also auto-uploaded the pics to Skydrive and had a lower resolution copy on there.

Can't blame Microsoft for this. Yes, the camera should not be broken, but most times a soft reset will fix any software issues.
[Windows Phone 7 General] badboy70:
Bah, sorry.

I was kinda drunk when I posted this.

I was at a party.

But to answer the questions:

1. What you were doing when it crashed.

Nothing. I tried to take a picture by holding the camera button whilit was still locked.

2. What type of phone you have.

HTC HD7

3. Whether or not you're using a 3rd party MicroSD card in the slot.

No, I did not modify my phone

4. What actually happens when it crashes (phone freezes, app just closes, middle finger graphic comes up on the screen, what does it do?)

It shows the zoom bar on the right, then immediately closes and shows the start screen.

5. Were you on WiFI, EDGE, 3G, GPRS?

Edge

6. Are you sure the device isn't defective (And/or prematurely failing on you? In this case, the OS has nothing to do with it - can happen on any phone running any Smartphone OS)

Nope, there's nothing wrong with it other than that.

7. Other trivial information that can cause us to come to better conclusions.

Not really, I never did anything special to it.

All I did that evening was texting, calling and updating my status on Facebook because the power blacked out, three times.
[Windows Phone 7 General] badboy70:
Ok, so after the third hard reset the camera works again.

But now all the pictures I take are rotated 90 degrees :confused:

I think there's definately something wrong with the camera app.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
Sounds more like a HW problem to me (wouldn't be the first for a HD7) as it doesn't happen to everyone else.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lekki:
Yeah, sounds like a bad HD7 to me too. My first HD7 was an awesome phone, if by awesome, the standard you use is how often it simulated Windows XP by crashing on me.

Returned it and got a new one and it's been smooth sailing so far.

Send that POS back and replace, blame HTC not MS and don't do your business while drunk otherwise it won't be the phone's fault you lost your job.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blanket:
i don't know which is worse, being unable to identify the cause or blaming something else other than the cause
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
Honestly, I'm actually surprised somebody hasn't posted Die, Badboy70. Die. because of this post, XDA is maturing. Anyway, your Zune auto syncs your photos by default, I'm assuming if you do this for a living, you'd know not to turn this off. So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you're FOS for saying you're losing a job because of this. I'm betting more on you being a 14 year old who's phone is malfunctioning due to a hardware problem and had to come rant about it instead of asking for help.

Just wanted to echo this.

Your excuse of being drunk just validates the first part of my phone. You won't know your device is defective without a professional looking at the camera hardware. Just becase nothing else is messing up doesn't mean the camera isn't defective. Considering it worked, and then didn't, especially on factory settings leads me to believe this is hardware related, if it even exists at all. I would try to replace the device.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
It's more likely to be a defective HD7 ...
[Windows Phone 7 General] krjcook:
Doesn't a hard reset delete all the data off your phone? So instead syncing it to your PC and extracting the photos you decided to delete. It may be MS fault that your Camera app crashed, but its your fault the data is missing. Why didn't you back your photos up on your computer or even to skydrive? Couldn't had been to important if your didn't.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindbuRn:
I am giving my Captivate to my wife tomorrow and I am picking up the Inspire 4G. That being said, if I should backup my Captivate with Titanium Backup, will I be able to recover all of the data back on to my Inspire? Or will all or certain items be lost? i.e. contacts, pictures, apps, etc.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickm50:
You should have your contacts synced to google through your gmail account.

Pics can be taken off the phone by plugging it via usb and mounting the phone, you can then drag and drop the pics to your pc.

Apps that you have downloaded are attached to your market account(gmail) so you will be able to restore them as well.

the only thing you need to worry about is your data for your apps. (copy the contents of your sd card to your pc)

Running titanium backup on the phone creates a backup for that phone, trying to restore it on a different device might not work work out so well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
Just copy everything to your external sd and swap it or copy over via computer into the htc and if you backup everything else with google it will update automatically.

Edit....enjoy the htc I am going to check them out tomorrow and may wind up with one as well.
[Dell Venue] nounousomes:
In order to go to the Fast boot,

Hold volume up and volume down together, along with power bottom till the dell logo appears,

I managed to get fastboot menu, but it does not transfer any data,

can some one help?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biigreen:
wife just got new mt4g. rooted through gfree method. downloaded Rom Manager from market. Flashed recovery. went to hboot. hit recovery. CWM poped up. use down arrow to get to backup and restore. press power and...... nothing.

The text menu disappears and the Rom Manager icon is there, nothing else. Press power again and the text menu comes back. nothing responds. have to pull battery to boot. it is CWM3xxx whatever. text is orangish.

tried to uninstall Rom Manager. Use an older CWM2 version. Flashed recovery again. Rom Manager shows 2.5.1.2. But when reboot into recovery, i'm still at CWM3 recovery.

she wanted pink android battery icon mod. had to get framework-res.apk from the mods flashable zip and adb push. so she is happy for today.

I read some stuff about recovery problems but most of the CWM threads are about version3 for getting to Cyanogen. I'm just interested in getting CWM to work at all.

Not a noob to this.... just this phone. Flashed her mt3g to CM6. Flashed the helllllllll out of my vibrant testing for devs and my own app development/mod/themes. I know my way around an android.

My next step is to try and get back to stock and start over. Any ideas or advice?

Thanks
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
use the trackpad to select things in clockwork recovery, not the power button.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biigreen:
Holy f'n stupid. im an idiot. The hboot said power. So I just figured cwm was too!

Thank you!
[HTC Inspire 4G] chocodough:
Being as some people already bought the phone at Costcos and AT&T's release is tomorrow, I wanted to start a thread for people having speaker issues.

If anyone has read my thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=949878 You will notice I and a few others who recently got an Inspire early have noticed very tinny call quality in the earpiece and speaker phone, and very low speaker volume on the rear external speaker to the point where you can bearly hear it ring or hear the notification tones.

So of anyone else is experiencing either of these, please post in here.

I have a report filed with our local HTC rep and she passed it up the chain. So we'll see if it goes anywhere.
[HTC Inspire 4G] iPrevailed YDG:
just sounds weird when using pandora
[HTC Inspire 4G] theot:
Mine has excellent in-call volume, thru ear speaker. External speaker a little weak.
[HTC Inspire 4G] dalynqwent:
Boo boo speaker

Speaker is garbage. Phone speaker is phone, but the rear one sucks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] substance12:
My n1 doesn't have very good speakers. Its not faulty though, just not very good. Ive heard its a problem with htc. Regarding the inspire, are we talking about defective or just poor quality?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Naytwan:
So far its been ok. Call Quality has been good and loud enough but the speaker volume is weak compared to my iphone 4.
[HTC Inspire 4G] derekroper:
Very low ringtones and notifications, even with volume turned all the way up...
[HTC Inspire 4G] winsettr:
Does anyone know how the volume compares to the Aria? Because it's damn quite, especially if you ever set the phone down face-up, covering the back speaker...
[HTC Inspire 4G] legend221:
See this thread for a possible fix: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=773449

Ill be trying a few things myself, hopefully not run into a boot loop in the process. hahaha
[HTC Inspire 4G] simulatordos:
Anyone able to compare the earpiece volume to the Captivate and Aria? I thought Aria was way too low and Captivate is about right... don't want to switch to a phone with lower call volume.
[HTC Inspire 4G] chocodough:
The captivate is definately louder. Not as loud as an iPhone, but louder than the Inspire.

Also the captivate doesn't have that tinny sound like the Inspire does in the earpiece.
[HTC Inspire 4G] chocodough:
Well we sold out of Inspire's today, as did a a few other stores that I know of.

So far we have been getting good reviews of the phone in general, but many people are complaining of the low external speaker volume. I can see this is going to be a big issue with a lot of people.

I've had a few people comment on the tinny trebly sounding earpiece and speakerphone, but it appears that different people have various tolerences when it comes to sound pitch.

For people wanted to compare it to the Captivate, I would have the say the Captivate definately has better sound quality and the external speaker is a tad louder, but still not on par with the iPhone. So it just seems the Inspire although better in "almost" every way from the Captivate, is definately a step lower as far as the speakers.

I'll keep everyone informed when I hear some more back from our HTC rep. I'm hoping this can just be corrected with the software update.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MarcMaiden:
this phone is AMAZING, but i agree with you choco,

the speaker is pretty much useless...its tinny, and the volume is too low. That being said,

the in ear speaker is one of the best i have used. It seems like the loud speaker, battery, and front facing camera is how HTC managed to keep this one at $100

Edit:

We nearly sold out of them as well today...people are responding very well to this phone, much better than they did with the captivate.
[HTC Inspire 4G] simulatordos:
I bought it. I must say, I think its a little louder in call than the captivate. I think the external speaker is ok, so my feeling is that theres a production line issue here.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jrick1019:
Speaker Issue

The speaker for notifications and ringtones is horrible. I can barely hear it when I get a call. Im thinking about returning it. Whats the point of a phone if you cant hear when someone is calling. (other than that it is a decent phone, I will test battery life tommorrow)
[HTC Inspire 4G] jdk2:
Either that or varying parts. My incall speaker sounds fine. The external speaker is....well just crap. Luckily, I don't use the phone's external speaker for much anyway.
[HTC Inspire 4G] geekdadof3:
Coming from a Captivate

I bought the phone yesterday, and well I haven't had extensive use of it yet both the external and the earpiece volume are fine to me...no problem with ringer volume.

I will agree that the sound is a bit tinny.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tetsuo44:
picked mine up yesterday and the rear speaker is a bit quite for notifications. the earpiece sounded a little tinny on the first call i made with it, but i'm thinking it might have been the fact that it was to a buddy of mine on a cm7 nightly and using speaker phone. i didn't notice the tinny sound on any of the subsequent phone calls, so either i got used to it and it doesn't bother me any more or it was his phone not mine :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] romeo0119:
This thread should be rename to post here if u think the speaker level is too damn low. Its not a problem when all the phone are the same. Hopefully it is fixable with a software update.
[HTC Inspire 4G] GiZiM:
Yeah speaker sucks I mean look at it... they didn't even try
[HTC Inspire 4G] legend221:
Anyone thats rooted try this

See this thread and see if it improves / fixes the speaker problem:

Dont forget to push the .so file

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=772564
[HTC Inspire 4G] romeo0119:
Have u tried that out? i dont wanna flash something n have my phone not boot.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mentalcase:
I did that last night. My phone booted, but I lost my sound altogether. I guess it flashed over the inspire drivers and boom no sound.
[HTC Inspire 4G] romeo0119:
Lol that's not good, thank goodness i didnt try it, would have had to reflash the whole rom
[HTC Inspire 4G] r34p3rex:
Earpiece is fine, the rear speaker is a bit weak :(
[HTC Inspire 4G] DigitaL BlisS:
I was waiting for a thread like this. Will HTC EVER improve the loudspeaker and mic quality? Seems like no one at HTC or whomever they get to test their phones, actually uses them as phones. This issue plagued me with the Dream, the Magic, the Nexus One, and here I was hoping the Inspire/Desire HD would have been an improvement. :rolleyes:

Come on HTC, get your **** together!
[HTC Inspire 4G] egyan:
I'm new to Android and am afraid to flash DSP Manager and lose sound. If anybody figures out a solution you'll be my hero since it's the only gripe I have with the phone. Thanks!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] mentalcase:
Just wait a little bit. We need htc to release the source for the inspire. Then some intelligent developer can port over these dsp managers to our phones.
[HTC Inspire 4G] acPIZZA:
Hopefully they can fix the speaker issue with an update. I feel it is a software issue all the way... here is why: Open up Angry Birds and turn the sound all the way up - the little theme jingle plays loud as hell!!!

I know this isn't a technical/scientific discovery, but if they could make ringtone/alert sounds the same as the angry birds song we'd all be happy.
[HTC Inspire 4G] d.cortez:
i have a much better experience with my 7 Mozart (WP7). you can tell they put a higher quality speaker in that phone, especially when i listen to music.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elrooster:
That's true, the sound on the games are loud, but ringtones/alert sounds are way too loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
[HTC Inspire 4G] substance12:
I think there are 2 issues here. 1 is that the speakers are tinny. 2 is that the notification sound are too quiet.

My unit has the second issue. Since the phone is capable of producing loud sounds, i have to believe this is a software bug. How do we tell htc about this?

Sent from my Inspire 4g using the Xda App
[HTC Inspire 4G] winsettr:
I think word is going to get to HTC/has already gotten to HTC. Coming from the Aria, both the ear speaker and external speaker are a vast improvement to me. But, having said that, the notifications are definitely quieter than multimedia, which seems to be a software problem fortunately.
[HTC Inspire 4G] chocodough:
I would think if HTC has a Facebook or Twitter account, everyone should post on there to get the word out.

I did report it to my local HTC rep and she is passing it up the ladder, but posting on HTC's social network pages sounds like a great idea.
[HTC Inspire 4G] winsettr:
So interesting finding: the SMS ringtone is significantly quieter than others (Gmail for example). You can test this by going to each program and selecting different ringtones. Anyone else?
[HTC Inspire 4G] bravo bob:
very poor speakphone sound

I have to agree, I have had MAJOR complaints form friends and family when I try and use the speaker phone on my HTC ATT Inspire to the point where I can go from speakerphone to no speakerphone and the sound quality goes from crap to really good [respectively]. I would like to also note like others in this thread that i have found the sound quality of the ring tones to be less than stellar compared to what is heard from the games [such as angry birds]. If this is fixable I hope HTC and or ATT issue something to those of us out there as i waited a while to buy this puppy and i really do like it I just cant stand that trying to listen to you tube or anything else via speakerphone sounds awful.

Bravo out
[HTC Inspire 4G] shammad16:
My inspire earpiece speaker is dead & I am unable to hear during in/outgoing calls & had to switch to speaker phone!!! it was working fine earlier until i accidently did the factory reset. Ive tried installing from stock to customized ROM but the issue is still there!!! :(

help plz
[HTC Inspire 4G] Richter12x2:
Same issue here - also works with a pair of headphones, but earpiece speaker is gone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] brian1921:
Had the problem when I flashed it first time, clear cache and system data reset and reboot it again, fixed the problem....
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
Hey guys I need your help

I've been using cm7 for a couple of weeks now. I havnt had problems until today.

I flashed build 32 over and for some reason it wasn't booting up. It was on the splash screen for a while (it usually does that and when I take battery out and restart it boots) so then I took the battery out. Next thing I know is that my phone is stuck on the mytouch screen... I went to recovery and when it booted into cwm 3. I got a error saying it couldn't open system/recovery/log or something like that... it still went to cwm and I checked the mounts and it said /system and /data wasn't mounted. I clicked it to mount and it gave me an error saying it couldn't ... therefore it wouldn't let me install cm7 or do a wipe... is there anything I can do to fix this? It seems to be that the nand. Is corrupted or something...
[myTouch 4G General] jggimi:
I think, based on your description, that pulling the battery at the particular instant caused the secondary problem.

A "factory reset" reformats /data and /cache. But not /system. You can do that manually from the mounts and storage menu, then either restore a nandroid backup or install cm7 and gapps.

HTC Glacier running CM7 #33
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
Hmm I font think its just two directories... I think my whole internal storage is messed up. I tried using the reformat option from cwm but no luck
[myTouch 4G General] jggimi:
Time to discover what you might be able to accomplish with Fastboot and a USB cable.

HTC Glacier running CM7 #33
[myTouch 4G General] danger-rat:
I think a lot of people are having problems with clockwork 3 in the nexus forums, and more specifically with it screwing up partitions. I was luck just to lose my ext position on my sd...

Reformat and reflash seems to be the easiest fix...
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
i dont know how to repartition the phone storage :/

i tried doing it off cwm and it wouldn't let me... is there anyway to do this through adb? i think adb is working...
[myTouch 4G General] danger-rat:
Reformat the whole card, and then try to repartition. This will write your data, so back up first...
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
how do i do that? o_o through cwm? i tried formating everything including system data cache... and i dont know how to repartition through cwm. cwm is the only thing i can get to right now :/
[myTouch 4G General] danger-rat:
Sorry, looks like the only option in clockwork is to partition. Can you not do it from your pc?
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
yeah it gives me error when i try to do :

fastboot erase system -w :/ is there anything else?
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
guys... :(((((( am i totally effed up? i couldn't find anything i could do.. no matter what i did, the /system and /data would NOT mount... so i cant format it
[myTouch 4G General] jggimi:
I have never tried this, but you might consider it.

In this thread is a method to return your phone to stock -- it uses the bootloader's ability to repartition and reformat everything somewhat automatically, using a file called PD15IMG.ZIP from the SD card's root folder.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11011692&highlight=pd15img.zip#post11011692

There's a link in the thread to the .zip file -- look to post signatures. Put the file on an SD card (with another phone, or camera, or Micro-SD to SD adapter, etc.) and boot into the bootloader with that file on the SD card.

I do not know if you can rename the .zip it to update.zip and force it to flash with Fastboot's update command, because the PD15IMG.ZIP is a specific thing this phone's bootloader looks for. As stated, I have never tried this, and do not recommend this. It might work, or, it might cause more damage. Putting the file on an SD card without Fastboot will be safer.
[myTouch 4G General] option94:
You could try to boot your phone into fastboot,

and then type

fastboot erase -w system

Your phone wont boot after that, but you should be able to flash a new rom from clockwork.
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
ive tried both the pd15img.zip method. it says "partition update fail"

and i also tried the "fastboot erase system -w" and it did not work.. it says that it can't be done. i also tried to format /system through adb and cwm, and both says it can't because it must be mounted before
[myTouch 4G General] jggimi:
From your description, it seems to me that the internal flash memory has a damaged partition table -- easy enough to repair if this were a hard drive you could remove and take to a linux system somewhere. But it's a phone, and a bit of flash memory that can't be removed.

Flashboot has an "erase <partition>" command. I don't know what it does, since it's not well documented. Does it reformat an existing partition? Or does it remove the partition from the partition table? There is no commensurate "create <partition>" command, so perhaps it recreates an empty partition. But I tend to doubt it.

I would think such work might be done from an engineering bootloader or engineering recovery system -- one available to HTC service technicians, for example.

Since you're not getting a great deal of help in the MT4G subforum, you might post your question in the top level Questions and Answers forum.

Sorry I'm not much help with this.
[myTouch 4G General] jggimi:
One last thought. The bootloader itself has a Factory Reset. That might do it. Might not. But like chicken soup, it probably couldn't hurt. Boot into the bootloader (volume down while powering up), select BOOTLOADER with the volume control and then the power button, then select FACTORY RESET. Perhaps it will do something positive.
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
eh.. i couldnt do anything. i tried all options. its like impossible to reformat or repartition the drive..

i actually called up insurance and they'll be sending me a new mytouch 4g..

we have just told them that it doesnt go past the mytouch screen.. would they figure out that it is rooted? i mean.. choosing recovery from the bootloader menu takes it right into cwm lol
[myTouch 4G General] danger-rat:
Just flash the stock recovery back via fastboot...
[myTouch 4G General] dumbkkid:
ive tried :(