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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldgamma:
Hi,

firstly may I apologise if this has been covered, I did complete a search without

success.

I do not have Outlook on my pc,

is it possible to sync contacts with gmail without outlook, if not is there a relatively inexpensive method of purchasing Outlook ?

regards

Geoff
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikesomething98:
If you have a Gmail account and Android, you do not need Outlook at all.

Outlook can only sync with Gmail with Google Calendarsync AFAIK.

On your phone in Accounts and Synchronization, Add your gmail account and choose the items to sync.

- contacts

- gmail

- picasa

- calendar

What are you currently using on your pc as a contact manager application?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Backup your contacts to your SD card and then restore them but select your Gmail account to add them too. It will then sync the contacts to Gmail
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spile:
Use MyPhoneExplorer which is free.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldgamma:
Thank you for the replies,

I do not have a contacts manager.

I have exported to SD card, deleted and copied back as google contacts,

it now appears to be a gmail upgrade problem as the phone error message

>Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly<

I'll just have to wait to see if it works.

Geoff
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] lollonais:
It has started for about 2 weeks now. The phone pops up a message saying for me to save and that if I want to save before I turn off. If I try to turn off the screen, the top button wont react. I have to press twice to get it off, then it comes back on and it gives me the same message. I have to soft reset it to get it working again.

I also did a ROM update and that reset it everything, but then it started doing it again.

It is hardware right?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] lollonais:
So this is becoming very annoying this ****e keeps popping up and its draining the ****e of my battery. Anyone has had this problem.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] angelofhope:
I don't really have a solution for this, but I had the same and also was thinking it's hardware related...

I tried opening up the phone and cleaning it out, first with no noticeable effect (except I broke my speaker wires, be carefull with that if you ever decide to open up your phone), but it seems like something went right, because I only rarely have that problem now ...

One theory I had was that water might have sipped in the button or something, so I'm leaving it out the bathroom when I'm taking showers now.

Anyway, if anyone else has had this problem and did something about it, I'm also very interested to know...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] R^7Z:
Actually to me, it sounds like some app has gone rogue. Have you installed or modded anything after you flashed the updated ROM? I would suggest if you have anything of importance, that you save/backup that information before performing a hard reset as this will reset everything back to stock for the ROM that you are using. I am using the ROM in my sig/signature and I am not experiencing any of the issues you are describing. It is a custom/cooked ROM so you will need to have HARD-SPL'd your device before you flash. Also, there is a CDMA version on PPCGeeks if you have that type of device.

:cool:

n-Joie! (Enjoy)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadw80:
So I went into my Verizon store this morning to do a waranty replacement for my Eris due to a dead spot in the upper right corner of the screen. Replacement will be here in 3 days. What are the odds I will be sent a different droid? This is my first time doing a warranty replacement.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spc_hicks09:
getting a different droid phone is highly unlikely, a lot of Eris's have been turned in to verizons trade in program so you will most likely get a eris refurb.

Sent from my Ginger Tazz with gum drop buttons
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjb413:
just got an eris refurb yesterday. your chances of getting an eris are 100% unless you were told otherwise.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadw80:
Eh yeah another Eris it was. 8 more months till upgrade time.

update: after 24 hours with this phone, it is more screwy than my 1st one!

another one is on the way but they placed it on my 2nd line which is my fiancee's eris. I call to tell them its for my line, and the guy says well when I get it send it back and they will send one for my line. So I got frustrated and the guy offered me a month free service and transferred me to tech support. The guy there says when the phone comes in I can still activate it on my line. Hope the 3rd one isn't so messed up.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadw80:
Looks like this is a good one!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Yeah, you can switch which phones are on what lines at will, or replace with phones not even acquired through Verizon. Sometimes you do have to at least activate it the first time on the line that it was originally intended, though, and then you can switch it on Verizon's site, in theory.

Hopefully it keeps working well for you.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaze06:
The best thing to do with Verizon reps when they start screwing up is to get exponentially more irate than you really are. You'll usually get something for free :D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadw80:
emailed verizon saturday and they called me back today. my line was eligible for the early upgrade, but they rep was nice enough to do both. he also said this was the last time I could do an early upgrade. So Wednesday I'll have the x and my fiancee will have the Inc. I hope the devs for these phones are as awesome as the ones for the eris!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
That's awesome! Have fun with them!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalladubb:
I actually was having issues with my Eris, I went into a Verizon corp. store, they told me I'll have a free Inc the next day. 3 days later I got another Eris and an apology letter explaining that in order to get the early upgrade my Eris must fail 3 times in total.

This second Eris is acting really odd and I may have to take it back.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smokeey:
Droid X devs are lousy. I recommend you steal your fiances DINC and run cyanogen mod 7....
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kent_Davis:
what?

I wonder why tech cannot just change the line over on the phone? that does not make much sense! But hey you got a free month of service you CANNOT beat that my friend!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Heh. That's brave them telling you exactly what formula will get you a early upgrade.

Yeah, that sounds really weird. You can definitely put any phone you want on any line, at least after initially activating it on the line it was "meant" for. I know I already commented to that effect, but, WTH. :D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjb413:
Sorry to resurrect the thread, but I do have some more information. Or at least have had a similar situation. My fourth eris just fell victim to the trackball issue. Went to store and was offered the LG Vortex which is an android phone, but does not have an xda forum (is it bad that is a requirement for my phones now). They told me to call and see what other options were available. The rep on the phone agreed to get me a new incredible for $99. Would give me credit on my next bill for $120. However, it would use one of the two year upgrades on another line. Just wanted to report my results. Also this means I will still have my eris and my wife will have hers, but most of my time will probably be spent with the inc forums. Although, now I have gotten my wife in to flashing her phone and such so she will expect updates...lol.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadw80:
Rooting the Inc was pretty easy, even though there's no 1 click app like for the eris or z4 root for example. There's a gingerbread rom but no where near where the gb roms for the Eris are.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjb413:
thanks. i've been checking out those threads and it seems like most of the stuff is working on the gb roms. although i couldn't tell if fm was, and i'm almost positive the tv out is not.
[Wildfire Android Development] Usexy:
Hi Guys and Gals,

Just thought it would be a good idea for all those using the CM7 nightlies to post here what changes they've noticed and anything that doesn't work.

Please note that

none

of the issues posted will be reported to the Cyanogen team, this is just for users of the forum.

Also if anyone could suggest a suitable format for post so it is easy to find info on a particular build it would be greatly appreciated :D
[Wildfire Android Development] f0xy:
These can just be done in the thread can't they?
[Wildfire Android Development] Usexy:
true but I thought people might want one place to find all the bugs/developments
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
*** EDIT *** Sorry these files are no good so I'm removing the links. There are a few other threads that will provide the help and files needed

I have used this thread to restore my Tab and it worded perfectly

http://gizmoninja.com/2011/04/21/how-to-root-latest-samsung-galaxytab-verizon-update-ec02/

I've had a few problems up to this point but now having these files has helped me feel more secure about recovering back to a completely fresh Verizon stock image including reverting to rfs from ext4.

Ok, here are the files create from a ROTO back-up minus the data. This was completed on a brand new Verizon G-Tab with only temp root. I know quite a few people may need this so share as needed.

Includes the following files:

boot.bin

cache.rfs

dbdata.rfs

efs.rfs

factoryfs.rfs

ldb.db

modem.bin

param.lfs

param.rfs

pit.pit

bls.bin

zImage

Hope these help
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Coolsaber57:
Just curious, did you happen to repartition using the PIT file?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
Nope. But from what I have read, it should work. We were just missing the actual file to do it...

Let me know how it works if you do it:)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Coolsaber57:
Hmm, ok. I had read that once you converted to EXT4 that you needed to repartition to get back to RFS. I'm not saying that's true, just that I saw it somewhere.

I'll try to flash first without repartitioning, then repartition if that doesn't work.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
The reason I said no, is because I have not used these to recover yet.

I did have the issue where I needed to repartition and couldn't find the file anywhere. So I ended up returning my device for a new one. Then did this pull so I could recover if I got back to that situation again.

By all means , use the pit file. that's what it's there for :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Coolsaber57:
Gotcha. Well, I'm charging my tab now, so we'll see what hapens.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Coolsaber57:
Ok, i'm having issues with the repartitioning.

I have all the files in the right spot, but when I hit start, I get "failed to retrieve config descriptor"

Anyone get this before? Any fixes?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
I haven't seen or heard of that error. Might want to PM Roto to see if he has any ideas
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Coolsaber57:
I can't, he's set to not receive PMs :(

Someone mentioned that there's a way to boot into a secondary bootloader and try flashing in the download mode that way, but I don't exactly know how to do that.

I'm THIS close to sending this thing into samsung for a warranty repair.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
Well you got further along then I did when I was in your shoes. I sent mine back and got a new one. That's why I created the Roto backup...

I saw what the other guy said and was confused also. Never to that before so I wouldn't know how to start...
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Coolsaber57:
I just created a repair ticket with Samsung, I'm tired of dealing with this.

I'm seriously considering selling the Vzw tab and getting a GSM tab. It seems so much easier to fix if it breaks.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
It does seem there is a lot more support for GSM.

BTW, I haven't had any issues with my new device and I'm rooted, running CWM recovery and Klean ROM.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Coolsaber57:
That's what I thought too :p

It may turn out that my device had a hardware problem, but who knows. I'll be sending it out tomorrow and report back when I get my new one.

One thing that I did find weird though. I was letting the Samsung screen stay on for a while when it first was "bricked" and eventually there was an audible voice telling me something about being "unable to mount data" or something close to that. Anyone else ever hear that?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
Man you're full of firsts... I haven't heard that one and I let mine sit for an hour one time out of frustration :)

But now that I think about it, it was the /Data partition that couldn't be mounted in any of the recoveries once I got to that point so I can kind of understand, just not hearing the voice. Could it be that was in your head, LOL ;)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] alex2792:
Yup I had that when I was trying to restore my tab. This means your partition table is messed up and you have to repartition with pit file.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] cnewsgrp:
I used the files in this post to return to stock and I now have a brick. Has anyone succeeded in flashing these.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] roadhero:
Nobody knows for sure, but bootloaders, modem and pit file in this post seem to be corrupted. There's no existing stock firmware for VZW tab like for Sprint one. No leaks from Verizon :(
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] cnewsgrp:
Here is how to restore Verizon TAB http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sa...84-how-restore-vzw-galaxy-tab-stock-dj11.html

This thread must be closed. I flashed files from first post and bricked my unit.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] roadhero:
The thread on droid forums lacks modem, bl and sbl files though, a lot of guys in this forum need them. But agree, these files in this topic are corrupted.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjansen110:
Updated OP to remove the link to the files and added a link to a thread that helped me restore recently.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winwiz:
anyone use this program?

It's excellent.

When someone rings, it speaks the name of the ringer

it even reads your SMS/email/twitter etc
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
HTC Confirms 2.3 Desire Plans

​

Bit of a news flash here, sorry if it's in the wrong section but this is more of an anser to an un-asked question, y'get me?

Anyway, HTC confirmed yesterday that they WILL be updating the current Desire range upto 2.3. This includes the Desire, the Z and the HD. Hope this helps with the concerns that HTC were ditching the Desire for the Desire S.

For the rest of the information, check out this page.

The link goes to CNET ;)

*It's likely that rather than being 2.3, the Desire will be getting 2.4, which is the latest release from Google. This is no different from 2.3 but contains some very minor bugfixes.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ULJ:
Nice! A bit long to wait though.

Thanks for the info!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] expler:
wow thanx for the great news! made my day :D

i hope its worth waiting
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jwtiyar:
when we will get it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Read the article.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
no problem, I was randomly searching the Internet for any articles that could shed any light on the current Desire situation we are all going through, and I just happened to find that neat post that was only put on there today. Alas the Desire lives on, I guess with it being so popular HTC decided to make it, however I'm not expert but from a Market view of things, I seriously doubt Honeycomb will be coming to the Desire range, as none boast dual processors and with the update coming so late, it would be a large Market downside for HTC, why develop Honeycomb for a device that's waited 6 months for a 2.4 update... Anyway I'm just glad that within my first few days of being at XDA that I have been able to help people with the Desire information, I know I only sourced it, but this stops a lot of peoples worries, and it looks promising that we WILL be getting the new sense :D time for a beer I think xD
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radu_wizu:
We re starting to feel just like the Xperia X10 users and their updates it all goes according to HTC's plan. Nevertheless its good to know we'll be getting the new sense and and Android.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
I think that the reaosn why it's taking so long really lies with Google. If they hadn't of had the 2.3 exclusivity with the Nexus S, then the chances are we would have our update much quicker. However HTC should be concentrating on Software just as much as new Products. Existing customers are just as important as potentially new Customers, and at the moment it looks like they are focusing their business on creating new products, and not updating the current ones. Not a good business plan at all.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adz63:
with the way that our providers play about with it , as stated in the article it will be xmas before its out
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] de Wolfe:
I won't look forward to the update because waiting for updates ALWAYS dissappointed me in the past...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
That's one of the benefits of De-branding. My HTC Desire came branded with the Orange software (which left me with 100MB of free space) I de-braded, updated to Froyo 2.2 and had something like 143MB of free space left, and whenever HTC release an update I immidiatley recieve it. My HTC has Orange logo's on it and everything, but it's de-branded.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
Waiting is rubbish, HTC need to seriously take a good look at Customer Loyalty, but i'll wait :) HTC Sense is the best thing about the Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
Bah that is a long ass wait. I think I shall stick with CM7.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
I know what you mean :o
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ragdoll20:
honestly, this is good news but come on... everyone on this forum has already had it on their desire's since the start when gingerbread for nexus came out. there are so many roms out there, im not excited about this, i get excited about the awesome work the devs do here :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Singh400:
Yes please!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
It's not the 2.4 update we can't wait for, its the new Sense, well in my case it is anyway. 2.3/4 isn't a very good update? It's a few icons and support for some other Hardware, Honeycomb should be interesting.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chmura:
Can't wait!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
You are aware that if the last OTA is anything to go by you won't be able to update without using an RUU? Even with a gold card
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
What do you mean mate? If it's OTA, than its not an RRU?
[Defy General] ccav2000:
I just saw in another forum a user complaining he could not download a ROM from http://and-developers.com/sbf:defy so I tried myself.

All links that point to motorola's own download server are dead.

Be aware if you were relying on those links for anything.
[Defy General] fyrstyk:
Does anyone have the JRDNEM_U3_2.34.1 file?

Glen
[Defy General] Exoten:
I've uploaded it here

And here
[Defy General] fyrstyk:
Thanks for that. I've got 2.21 and will upload it later.

Maybe we could get a sticky with the links?
[Defy General] eXDee:
Does anyone have a stock Telstra Australia rom?
[Defy General] Bendary:
There is a comment there that says "Doesn't contain motoblur" Can someone confirm that this is a stock clean froyo rom cz thats what I've always wanted a rom without motoblur!!
[Defy General] chaihg:
What needs to be done is to put a new thread of stock sbfs into the first link of development section and maybe request sorensiim to host all the sbfs we can gather.

We should be good to go then.
[Defy General] felipeferreira:
Someone has the UK firmware 2.51.1?
[Defy General] big_f6:
does some one has 2.51.0 India firmware? without motoblur ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Root, Flash custom rom with the power menu options, select download mode from power menu?

Trigger 2.1.1 has the power menu, others do as well. May work>?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ech419:
Thanks for the quick reply.

But the problem is that Vibrant has no Support in India. And the last time I flashed something, I regret it, as it took about 1 month of hassle of shipping it to US and from there to Texas.

Hence, I am going to avoid flashing anything onto it till the time I gather $250 to change the Motherboard of the Vibrant to the one of the International Galaxy S I9000, as that has the support needed in India, in case of a Hard Brick. :(

Any other Button Combinations other than these will be of great help. Thank You. :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MWBehr:
I always just:

Have USB plugged into computer

USB is unplugged from phone

Hold volume up + volume down

Plug USB into phone
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Hmm... okay, rather than re-read your OP, did you try:

on pc open newest version of ODIN (make sure it's the newest, noob guide has a link to it)

connect USB to PC (not phone)

Phone, take battery out... put it back in

press and hold both volume buttons.. make sure both are pressed in and held

plug in USB to phone (should already be connected to pc, with ODIN open)

Keep holding... a second or two passes....

Download mode?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Master&Slave™:
+1 this method always works for me
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcghee1973:
would the Quickboot app work for you I wonder....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] williamsean:
Hi,

I've notest the Android Sense ROM's from the HTC HD2 have changed into a NAND/SD hybrid build, where you need a "ext partition" on your sd card in order to run the rom.

While it is really nice that we can do this stuff with our phone, I have the problem that I have no cardreader and and no expansion card(micro sd > sd) that I can use. So there is no way I can format my sd card into 2 partitions.

So for my question, is there a workaround for this?

Greetz Willem
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Digital Outcast:
You can do it from CWM/CWR if you have that on your device. It is an option under the advanced menu.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyhassen:
I was looking around and a lot of people had the same issue and some how got it to work. a lot of people also had installed stuff and that worked for them. mine wasn't working since the second i got it and tested it. i can't see the technician till tomorrow when he gets in.

I've tried and nothing has worked for me.

1. take out battery and SD card

2. Charge battery to full

3. Make sure its room temperature
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hungry Man:
I know most kernels we use default to 710mhz max and something like 245 mine.

Would it be possible to change that ourselves in the source and then recompile the kernel and put it on our phones?

That way we could have the phone starting up at say 768max and 19mhz min. I know the kernels also have sleep states that they consider so you could customize that yourself too.