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I think my Dream is toasted... OR My experience with the "blue light"

Recently my phone started acting a little unusual. For instance, composed email weren't being sent out while syncing and a wipe and reflash seemed to fix it at first. This problem continued to get worse and at the same time, I started getting SD card ejected notifications seemingly without reason. Now it's to the point that my phone is completely unusable/useless. IF it boots all the way up, it will lock and then just go black. I have to remove the battery for some time to get it to turn on again. This includes loading the SPL and the Recovery interface. The ONLY way my fone will act semi-normal is if I remove the SIM card and boot it. Then eventually it will again just shut-off. I have reverted back to an older SPL with no luck (was using Haykuro's latest one until now). I have loaded multiple radio's with no luck (after reverting the SPL of course). I have tried multiple ROM builds, JF's, Cyanogens and Haykuro with no luck. This really sux. 4 month old fone and seems the radio might be fried. VERY disappointed in the quality. I hope I can get some help and warranty the phone. I am thankful I unlocked my old Blackjack and am able to use it for now. Just though I would share my tale of woe. I am not sure exactly what caused this. Maybe too much flashing? Not sure, but be aware; I feel like maybe I played too much with my phone. That last part REALLY sux cause I love my fone. I LOVE that I can play with it and install all of the great ROMs and themes. Anyway, best of luck to all you Dream owners. I hope I dont have to buy another one (cant afford it )
My fone is not bricked it just seems unstable in every way. Sad day 4 me
[UPDATE]
Before I made this post, I turned on the blue LED (holding trackball and power) and just let my phone sit there. Didn't really have a good reason to do so other than 'why not?'. Anyway, shortly after making this post, I couldn't just leave it alone so I picked up my phone again (I really do love it that much lol). While holding it and just thinking about my less and desirable situation, I noticed the back of the fone was warm like it is when you've been using it for some time. I couldn't help but think that the blue light was indicating that "something" was going on in the background so I just began pushing the buttons on the front and no specific way just randomly and all the sudden my fone rebooted. Sorry I can't say how long it was in "blue light" mode.
Now everything I had experienced and read concerning the "blue light" indicated the only way to get it out of this mode is to 1) remove the battery or 2) let the battery just die on its own. So you can imagine my surprise when the fone just rebooted. It booted up (no SIM inserted) and seem to be fine, but as I mentioned before, this had happened only to lock up and reboot itself. I just began using it as much as I could to see if it would fail again and it seemed to keep going fine so I thought "why not insert the sim again?" So...
With SIM inserted, the fone booted up fine. Again I began to put it through its paces and everything is good so far. Makes call (too late to have someone test call me), browses, downloads market, basically everything with no lockups and no reboots leaving all keys unresponsive. Damn I was happy! But not too much just yet. I'll let it keep going for sometime to make sure it's good, but I can't help but to think that putting my fone into "blue light" mode somehow "fixed" my fone fo lack of a better word. I am perplexed but pleased. Will update later after some decent testing time has gone by. I remain hopeful and regret my earlier comments regarding the fone's quality. I hope I remain regretful of this lol.

Interesting. Can you tell what EXACTLY was on the SDCARD when this happened?

lbcoder:
When this problem first happened on my phone I had folders containing my AppManager backups, ringtones, NES ROMS, camera pix and video files. It's the SD card I always have in there. I don't use apps2sd. I thought maybe there some problem with this card so I tried 2 other SDs I have with the same results; instability. I even tried a clean build with no SD card (as well as with and without SIM); all with the same results. I tried every possibly combination as a form of troubleshooting.
When I put it into blue light mode, the SD card that was installed contained DCIM (pix), appmanager, mp3s, video files, 2 different radios in .zip form (radio 1.22 and the sappire radio; neither with the name update.zip), .footprints folder, ime folder and that's about it. Did u have something in mind?
BTW, I wish I could edit the name of my thread to show there's an update...

The Blue LED has some other purpose and is simply not a "lock". That just seems silly and useless, especially since you'll find if you put it into this 'mode' it will drain your battery fairly quickly for a 'lock' mode (like 12 hours).
There's more than a 'lock' going on here...

I agree. It's doing something in the background other than just being a type of "lock". I'm don't want to claim that it fixed my phone because I have no idea what it's doing when that little blue lights is on. I am saying that it seems a little more than coincidental that my fubared fone (my feeling at the time) began to "magically" work after putting it into this mode and its subsequent reboot. I am really glad I did.
No amount of: fastboot erase "partition name", data wipes, radio/spl/rom flashing helped my fone. I was going to try and get warranty today, but now I don't need to. Back running ION and happy as h3ll! Maybe this will help someone else with a fone that refuses to function correct. Maybe it won't, but I definitely wanted to share my experience with it.

BTW, I was running Cyanogens 3.4 JF mod at the time this began. I understand some other people have had some similar issues as seen here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=525306
These problems are very similar to what I was having, but mine seem irrecoverable even after flashing EVERYTHING. Just food for thought...

I wonder if it found one of those radios and did something with it?

For that thread, Cyanogen has stated that the main issue is in the kernel. The memory killer kicks in and kills essential processes thus result in a crash. He stated that he's looking into it and the fix will likely be in 3.4.1 or one of the iterations after that. I'm not sure if your suffering from the same thing though. None of them seem to have the same symptoms as you do.

hamshu said:
For that thread, Cyanogen has stated that the main issue is in the kernel. The memory killer kicks in and kills essential processes thus result in a crash. He stated that he's looking into it and the fix will likely be in 3.4.1 or one of the iterations after that. I'm not sure if your suffering from the same thing though. None of them seem to have the same symptoms as you do.
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This is why I stay on Google Ion. It's clean, stable and fast. All these "optimized" builds seem plauged by bugs and quirks.

lbcoder said:
I wonder if it found one of those radios and did something with it?
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Interesting thought. But it would have to have parsed the file and made a determination on its own as to whether or not it was a valid radio. Neither were named update.zip at the time. Also, I had already downgraded the radio to one of the versions that existed in file name radio_1.22.zip that was on the SD. That allowed me to downgrade the SPL without bricking because at the time I was running Haykuro's newest SPL (which I have since reflashed to my now functioning fone).
For that thread, Cyanogen has stated that the main issue is in the kernel. The memory killer kicks in and kills essential processes thus result in a crash. He stated that he's looking into it and the fix will likely be in 3.4.1 or one of the iterations after that. I'm not sure if your suffering from the same thing though. None of them seem to have the same symptoms as you do.
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Actually I described pretty much the problem quoted below that is in the thread that I referenced earlier:
tearsphere said:
Can someone please help me..
I installed Cyanogen 3.4 when it got released a few days ago and it was running smoothly.. I think he is a genious. Just today my phone shut off on its own and I had to take the battery out and put it back in to get it to come back on.
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So I guess it could be open to interpretation. I think Cyanogen does amazing work. I have great respect for him and all his efforts that have given us more functionality with our Dream fones. As I said, it's food for thought. I'm not drawing any conclusions as they would be based on conjecture.
I am intrigued by the blue light mode. I really wish we knew exactly what purpose it serves.

Internet Problem

for some reason, the 2 times ive flashed custom roms on my phone modaco 1.1 and 1.2 the internet stops working. everything else works perfectly find and the evdo sign shows up, but the internet just does not work. any work around?

and why is it that everytime i try and restore from recovery on my phone, it says
error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh
restore' via adb!
im guessing i have to run it via my computer and if i do what do i type in??

Joecrack305 said:
for some reason, the 2 times ive flashed custom roms on my phone modaco 1.1 and 1.2 the internet stops working. everything else works perfectly find and the evdo sign shows up, but the internet just does not work. any work around?
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Several people have reported this, have you tried Fresh rom? Not saying anything against MoDaCo at all, but it seems people have intermitent data issues.
Joecrack305 said:
and why is it that everytime i try and restore from recovery on my phone, it says
error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh
restore' via adb!
im guessing i have to run it via my computer and if i do what do i type in??
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This thread may help but I haven't read through it all. Don't know if the answer is there or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719

thanks ill try that and for some reason restore never ever works on my damn phone and the backups are on my phone pretty weird but thanks again

I am running the new Fresh 1.0, he released it last night or this morning. It is GLORIOUS! I LOVE IT. Except, I think the lock screen is a little ugly, I can deal with it though. There are ways to change the lock screen which I may do later today.

i want to use clear as a bell but that doest work yet on 1.0 correct?

post back a link to it and I will load it up and see if it works. Saves you the effort, and i was planning on trying other stuff anyways. Who knows I may like it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=594274

ok just downloaded fresh 0.7 everything works again except internet calls sms everything but no internet???

Just looking back through previous threads of yours. You have run RUU and everything havn't you?
I am at a loss if you have done the RUU and still get no data.

idk what the hell is the problem i ran the ruu back to stock internet is fine i rooted internet still fine flash recovery internet fine install rom internet dead lol

Yeah, thats really odd. Do you have any Root apps installed? Other than maybe WiFi Tether. DroidWall? App manager? anything that could be killing or blocking 3G?

i had droid wall just uninstalled and rebooted i also have overclock widget does that effect it? shouldnt right?

Droid Wall definetly woudl break internet. Maybe it left some stuff behind on the uninstall? A setting or something? Apps2SD is on, it may still have stuff on the SD card. You could try to format it again since you cant actually see that partition...long shot though.
Does the Over Clock widget work? See a difference?

it was droid wall you my friend are the ****! (in a good way of course) lol

might sound stupid but yea overclock does feel like it really work lol. going thru the menu seems so much faster! and when your not using the phone you dial it all the way down, and it really saves the batter

Android 200456, Karl +1 SCORE!
Glad you got it fixed.

people at work are going to hate me lol, i had a customer come in and he was like =O ill pay you lol.i might have to do a side business lol

tethering doesnt work for me on 0.7 =/ it says start tethering stays there then it says su request but it doesnt let me hit always allow because the options dont even show up =/

You should have a Super USer Permisions app in the app drawer. See if the permisions for the app are in there. If they are, long press and delete them. If not, you may have to get the APK for the latest build and push it. Make sure that you Allow all, its the only way mine works at least, otherwise i dont get access.
sorry the reply took so long I didnt get an email that you posted back.

Why does my phone shutoff?

Rooted my Hero and it doesn't matter which custom Rom I've tried(Fresh, Damage, others) my phone will shut off most of the time it goes into sleep. I don't know its off until I go to wake it up by hitting the end button. When I restore back to the stock Rom(still rooted) it works fine. I do a wipe and a Dalvick wipe prior to flashing. I'd like to get this figured out so I can use one of the nice Roms. Thanks.

If you're running A2SD and you have the Dalvisk on a slow sd card you phone can reboot or shut off. Try moving it off of the SD

patkin said:
Rooted my Hero and it doesn't matter which custom Rom I've tried(Fresh, Damage, others) my phone will shut off most of the time it goes into sleep. I don't know its off until I go to wake it up by hitting the end button. When I restore back to the stock Rom(still rooted) it works fine. I do a wipe and a Dalvick wipe prior to flashing. I'd like to get this figured out so I can use one of the nice Roms. Thanks.
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WOW! You are the first person that has had the same problem I have...I was never able to resolve the issue. I used that bastard 2.1 test leak.......read my posts and what I went through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6268366#post6268366
My phone works fine now with gumbo 1.5, but I cant use any 2.1 roms or the problem comes back......

kyouko said:
If you're running A2SD and you have the Dalvisk on a slow sd card you phone can reboot or shut off. Try moving it off of the SD
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I am not positive what A2SD is. I have a new 8MB SD card that came today. If I pop that in what will happen. Should it be partitioned? Thanks.

Chaid said:
WOW! You are the first person that has had the same problem I have...I was never able to resolve the issue. I used that bastard 2.1 test leak.......read my posts and what I went through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6268366#post6268366
My phone works fine now with gumbo 1.5, but I cant use any 2.1 roms or the problem comes back......
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Thank God I thought I was the only one. I searched but didn't see your thread. Weird problem.

Same problem here too since the new leaked 2.1 test ruu from damaged. The only 2.1 Rom that works for my needs without rebooting every 3rd or 4th time I wake it using the end call/power button is Damagedtrev 2.01, the updated 2.05 Rom in his thread just makes my phone reboot as described above. I don't have a link to his thread, but it would be interesting to see if it worked on your phone too. Other's have claimed a battery shorting might be causing this issue, but I'm not buying that. I've looked at /proc/lastkmsg for clues, but nothing obvious there. I hope the official Sprint update doesn't have this bug or sprint will be giving me a new phone. /end rant

I can't seem to find Damagedtrev 2.01
So I can't test it.

Here's the link to the thread.
I cannot post links, because of some restrictions,but here is the last part of the url.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653622
here's the link for the full rom
Oops cannot post link to rom on 4shared, look in the bottom of the first post in the thread for a link to the full rom of DamagedTrev_v201
Please let us know if the rebooting stops for you. Maybe one of the devs could find where the problem is. Pretty please!! I could post any info needed.

Ok, downloading......stay tuned.
I really hope this 2.1 ROM works.....I'm kinda sick of 1.5.
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P.S. I'm reading that there is a battery issue....do you have that?

kyouko said:
If you're running A2SD and you have the Dalvisk on a slow sd card you phone can reboot or shut off. Try moving it off of the SD
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Hey good news. I put the new SD card in after backing up the other one, partitioned it and copied the files and folders back on then flashed ALOYSIUS and so far so good. I have woken it up about 10 times in a row. Looking good.
I had tried that perticular Rom before with no success.

Interesting.....I'm using the 2 gig sd card that came with the phone....I wonder if that is my problem?

Well it started again. This was right after setting my Gmail and POP3 mail accounts. It shut off on the first sleep after this. Hmmmmm.
I'm re-flashing now and not setting up the mail accounts. Will report back later.

Waldo447
Please let us know if the rebooting stops for you. Maybe one of the devs could find where the problem is. Pretty please!! I could post any info needed.
Well, my friend. You were correct! full rom of DamagedTrev_v201 works on our phones for some strange reason. And updating his ROM caused the re-booting to start again. So whatever was changed from 2.0.1 to 2.0.5 is causing our particular problem. I'm not a dev by any means and don't know much about his stuff, but this is encouraging. Perhaps someone can figure out what it is?
I did notice that ALL the other 2.1 ROM's I have used that cause my phone to re-boot from sleep mode, is that when I hit the menu or power button to turn it on, the lights turn on, then reboot phone. With DamagedTrev_v201 that doesn't happen. The screen just pops up to unlock it.....don't know if that helps, it's just something I noticed.
Heres to crossing our fingers that someone can fix this!
P.S. I wiped and went back to Gumbo 1.5c as that 2.1 ROM was way to slow for me and I couldn't get bluetooth to work and audio would cut in and out.

reboot
i would like to know if its a full reboot or just a soft like where it hes to the sprint or boot animation

kwajr said:
i would like to know if its a full reboot or just a soft like where it hes to the sprint or boot animation
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It's a full reboot. The phone actually turns off when it goes into sleep. You don't know it's off until you hit the button to wake it up and the phone boots up.
Now for the good news. After re-flashing and not setting up the email accounts it was still shutting downconfused so I started looking elsewhere so I opened up what I thought was a likely culprit in Autokiller and none of the presets where selected so I picked Moderate and haven't had a shutdown since which has been over an hour. Fingers are crossed. I'll report back later.

That's it I've wasted way too much time on this. Phone works great on the stock ROM. They must have planted some devious anti-flash widget in this phone. I'll leave it rooted for now.

patkin, dude, I felt the same...I gave up on 2.1.
download, wipe then flash Gumbo-1.5c-BARE-signed.zip after it reboots, download and flash Gumbo-Sense-signed.zip.
You flash Gumbo-Sense-signed.zip over the Gumbo-1.5. No need to wipe or anything, it just adds to the ROM. Fast as hell and works PERFECT.
http://www.4shared.com/file/217809392/5fcf1f5d/Gumbo-15c-BARE-signed.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/217811195/3afb5fcf/Gumbo-Sense-signed.html
Give it a shot....I think you will like it......let me know =)
Gumbo thred so you can read up if you like. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630221

Chaid said:
Waldo447
Please let us know if the rebooting stops for you. Maybe one of the devs could find where the problem is. Pretty please!! I could post any info needed.
Well, my friend. You were correct! full rom of DamagedTrev_v201 works on our phones for some strange reason. And updating his ROM caused the re-booting to start again. So whatever was changed from 2.0.1 to 2.0.5 is causing our particular problem. I'm not a dev by any means and don't know much about his stuff, but this is encouraging. Perhaps someone can figure out what it is?
I did notice that ALL the other 2.1 ROM's I have used that cause my phone to re-boot from sleep mode, is that when I hit the menu or power button to turn it on, the lights turn on, then reboot phone. With DamagedTrev_v201 that doesn't happen. The screen just pops up to unlock it.....don't know if that helps, it's just something I noticed.
Heres to crossing our fingers that someone can fix this!
P.S. I wiped and went back to Gumbo 1.5c as that 2.1 ROM was way to slow for me and I couldn't get bluetooth to work and audio would cut in and out.
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Glad to see your rebooting issue was fixed with this rom even though you went back to gumbo 1.5. In my mind, this just confirms that it is not a battery issue. I never use bluetooth and have never experienced any audio loss with this rom, but apparently even people on the same hardware and firmware versions have different problems.
kwajr said:
i would like to know if its a full reboot or just a soft like where it hes to the sprint or boot animation
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Full Reboot here too.
patkin said:
That's it I've wasted way too much time on this. Phone works great on the stock ROM. They must have planted some devious anti-flash widget in this phone. I'll leave it rooted for now.
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Yeah, got my phone beginning of march 2010 and I also think there is something in the 2.1 test ruu or hardware that is keeping the phone from functioning properly with an altered 2.1 rom.

Just wanted to let people know what happened to resolve this. I went back to 1.5 then when 2.1 official came out last week I said what the heck if I can't enjoy a rooted custom 2.1 I'll try the official and guess what. Same problem as the other 2.1's.........phone shuts off randomly! Except this time they are replacing it with a new phone. Yeaaah! I'm probably going Evo now though since I found out I can get a new phone. Anyone need a new Hero?

I'm having the same problem.. One question. Does DarchDroid automatically move dalvik-cache to the sd

X10 Reboots on USB Mount

Hi guys,
I've been experiencing this very consistently for the last couple of days now... every time I plug into USB - when I mount, the phone reboots... it's very quick, but has anyone else been experiencing this?
Thanks!

Hi keisuke_z,
which phone (X10i or X10a) and which Firmware do you make use of?
I had that Issue on my X10i UK Firmware R1FA016 too. Now, on Nordic R1FB001 everything is fine.
I'm not sure, if it was an Firmware or settings Issue.
On R1FA016 I couldn't determine any settings that could have caused that problem and resetting the device didn't help neither.

I am now getting this issue. Whenever I go to mount my phone, it crashes and then reboots. However it is always mounted when I plug it in. This leads me to believe it is somehow stuck in a mounted mode.
Anyone know a how I can see the logs for what the hell is going on?
EDIT: By the way my phone is X10a (R1FA014)

Same question here

Same here, I never bothered troubleshooting it as the reboot is fast and all is good again post reboot but ya, would be nice to find a fix. I have also noticed that the icons that show up in the notification bar are the explanation mark icons and not the standard usb icons.

element27 said:
Same here, I never bothered troubleshooting it as the reboot is fast and all is good again post reboot but ya, would be nice to find a fix. I have also noticed that the icons that show up in the notification bar are the explanation mark icons and not the standard usb icons.
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Exact same problem bro...

j3yps said:
Exact same problem bro...
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Happens for me too - found out that's it's an application(s), as I re-flashed the phone, and the problem didn't occur until I batch-installed some applications.

ToastyJustice said:
I am now getting this issue. Whenever I go to mount my phone, it crashes and then reboots. However it is always mounted when I plug it in. This leads me to believe it is somehow stuck in a mounted mode.
Anyone know a how I can see the logs for what the hell is going on?
EDIT: By the way my phone is X10a (R1FA014)
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I can even copy files on my PC, and access files on the phone SD card at the same time - how is that possible?

HunteronX said:
I can even copy files on my PC, and access files on the phone SD card at the same time - how is that possible?
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Me too!! Isn't this a SE bug?

Well, I reset my phone to factory state and it seems to have gone away. It bugged me just that much while developing. However, I seem to find that it will still disconnect if the cable is jiggled a bit in there. Perhaps something is loose on mine too. If it gets bad I may have to send er in or get it replaced.

Hi Guys,
This problem has just started happening with my x10a. I'm hoping that the only solution isn't to wipe the phone...
The only thing I can think of that might be causing it is a particular app that is using the SD card?
Maybe the R2BA020 firmware update will help things out. As soon as I get it I'll let y'all know!
Update: I've upgraded to R2BA020 and the problem has not happened again yet.

Hello Everyone,
I have noticed that the phone reboots everytime Spotify or any other media player is active and accessing files on the SD card.
Cheers
Marcus

Same here, and i have found that with one more reboot the triangle icon goes back to the normal usb one again. As Thurban says above, maybe something is running which is accessing the sd card at the point when we attempt to mount it?
One step that might help - perhaps if we were all to use ATK to kill everything immediately prior to whenever we plug into usb, and report back here if the issue still raises its head? That sound like a plan?

updating the phone would help resolve the issue..might be some application on the sd card thats causing this..so, you can also try formatting the sd card..

Issues after Kies Mini update to Froyo

I am listing problems or issues that I found so far.
- no more Android keyboard as choice for input settings!
- Avatar link no longer works, it is not opening the movie (movie is on the SD card) and when going through a file manager to open it says content is locked and when I choose option to unlock nothing happens
- gps seems to be worse than before the update, I think I was on JI6 before, and it was acceptable, not the best, but still acceptable, indoors I would lock to 5-6 now it is viewing 9 indoors but not locking on (since I cannot go outside and test now I will post update later on...)
- no more weather clock widget...

I went and got the update thru kies mini and tge recovery is now 3e. And now i cant root it! Anybody have any ideas on how i can root?! i tried the one click root and another way and no go. Any help would greatly appreciated.

I rooted KA6 using superoneclick

davemw2 said:
I went and got the update thru kies mini and tge recovery is now 3e. And now i cant root it!
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You may find that you'll get better assistance by disclosing your rooting method / app. What is your rooting method? Have you tried Z4Root?

BorisZX6R said:
I am listing problems or issues that I found so far.
- no more Android keyboard as choice for input settings!
- Avatar link no longer works, it is not opening the movie (movie is on the SD card) and when going through a file manager to open it says content is locked and when I choose option to unlock nothing happens
- gps seems to be worse than before the update, I think I was on JI6 before, and it was acceptable, not the best, but still acceptable, indoors I would lock to 5-6 now it is viewing 9 indoors but not locking on (since I cannot go outside and test now I will post update later on...)
- no more weather clock widget...
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Maybe Kies Mini is refusing to update my phone because I have it set to use the Android keyboard? Sighs. I hate Swype and the Samsung keyboard is a big pile of poop... Gues I'll be buying Swiftkey or something...
I gave up on the GPS a long time ago. Avatar is pretty meh... I guess I won't feel bad about taking that SD Card out and putting in a bigger/higher class card now, since I don't like mounting phones and using them like thumbdrives laziness is no longer an excuse if it doesn't play at all!

I'm really starting to get the impression this will be one of those releases that gets pulled after a few hours...
"We tried to release it, but couldn't. Please buy a Vibrant 4G+"

N8ter said:
I guess I won't feel bad about taking that SD Card out and putting in a bigger/higher class card now
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was this in relation to avatar somehow?
the day i got my vibrant back in july, i immediately copied the movie to my other sd card and swapped them.

I was just outside for a while and had the chance to test the gps in my car, it seems it is just as unreliable as stock before JI6, which in my case fixed the accuracy and lock on issues, now it jumps a lot more from place to place and the signal is lost much easier than before...
I purchased my Vibrant used but either way I can state with certainty that this is my last Samsung mobile purchase.
Even my friends HTC Aria works better and is more reliable than the over-hyped Samsung Galaxy S line, especially the Vibrant....

ok... Igot my phone to root useing super one click and now i cant get into cmd recovery! damn!!! any hints tips anything?!
And after a few tries, and phone wipe avatar works just fine for me.

Anyone else having issue rebooting into clockwork recovery after the kies update? I am rooted and checked that but seem to not be able to reboot into recovery mode.

megatherian said:
I'm really starting to get the impression this will be one of those releases that gets pulled after a few hours...
"We tried to release it, but couldn't. Please buy a Vibrant 4G+"
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This would be the way to go about it for TMo. Make it available via Kies only, see what happens, if bad, delay OTA.

BorisZX6R said:
I am listing problems or issues that I found so far.
- no more Android keyboard as choice for input settings!
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If you would have been around the last month or so since the first leak you would have known this... it's not a big issue. There's ways of getting Android Keyboard and/or the Gingy KB on it...

My phone is finally booted right before I press the reply button to post "my phone is stucked at the "S" logo" lol

tomykat said:
Anyone else having issue rebooting into clockwork recovery after the kies update? I am rooted and checked that but seem to not be able to reboot into recovery mode.
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Froyo ROMs use the 3e recovery, which will not let you load clockwork recovery, this has been known for months. you should search, there is a solution to flash 3e so it works like 2e if you absolutely need to get into clockwork recovery

Zylograth said:
Froyo ROMs use the 3e recovery, which will not let you load clockwork recovery, this has been known for months. you should search, there is a solution to flash 3e so it works like 2e if you absolutely need to get into clockwork recovery
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Is their now an alternative method in 2.2 for making rom backups/installs?

esmoger said:
was this in relation to avatar somehow?
the day i got my vibrant back in july, i immediately copied the movie to my other sd card and swapped them.
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I dont pluf my phone in for usb mass storage and the phone has a lot of internal storage.
Avatar doesnt launch because this update chanhed yhe mountpoint of the external sd card.
When u press the icon, its not going to do anything because the patg hardcoded into it does not exist.
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^any idea how to fix that? move it elsewhere? the funny thing is I just updated my coworkers phone and her avatar works.

It seems I spoke too soon regarding avatar and the gps performance.
I just took out the external sd card and formatted the internal sd card and then I did a factory data reset from the phone settings under privacy and after reboot I inserted my sd card and now avatar works fine and the gps seems to work better than with ji6.