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Clock Issues

Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble with my devices time keeper....
Ever since I changed the home tab clock, the regional settings don't seem to work. I like my clock to be in 24h format but all I get is bloody AM/PM!
I've tried to uninstall .cab and soft-reset back to original to no avail, and just wondered if anyone else had this problem or an idea of how to sort it?
Thanks in advance.

Time format...
What time format do you have set in your 'Regional Settings'? If they are set the way you want, but the time still displays in another format, the developer has coded the format within the application, so you won't be able to change it from the device settings

I have it on UK regional settings, when bought it was on US settings, but, having changed backwards and forwards it does'nt seem to like either.... I'll try with a few more regions and see what happens....

Sorted now.... for some reason it started to work when I changed the settings to another region, switched back to UK and all was fine

Sprint HTC snap firmware update.

Today my Sprint Snap 511 popped up a dialog that asked me if i wanted to accept or reject a new firmware update. I'm happy with how the phone has been performing, so i rejected the update pending some research.
anyone have an idea what this was? is it winmo 6.5? some sort of minor update? how do i even get back to that dialog if i want to accept the firmware update?

I have the same question. Noone knows anything?

dougmwpsu said:
Today my Sprint Snap 511 popped up a dialog that asked me if i wanted to accept or reject a new firmware update. I'm happy with how the phone has been performing, so i rejected the update pending some research.
anyone have an idea what this was? is it winmo 6.5? some sort of minor update? how do i even get back to that dialog if i want to accept the firmware update?
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i got the update it seem'ed to have improved battery life i have not charged my phone since the update, about 48 hours ago .... maybe

Firmware Update for Sprint Snap--->DO NOT DO IT!
I installed it, and while the phone seemed to work well at first, it does one thing that will render your phone almost useless.
You can no longer change your default ringer, even to one of the pre-installed ringers.
In fact, I cannot even set the phone to vibrate.
HTC will tell you to do a hard reset but it will not fix the firmware problem.
So DO NOT INSTALL THE FIRMWARE UPDATE!
It is not a WM6.5 update.

I saw someone post in another forum that after they did the firmware update they could not change their ringer and they also could not receive text messages. They could send text messages though. I'm definitely going to wait.

Does anybody have any of the old firmware that they can upload? this new firmware is just ridiculous.

I agree with Dr. Gizmo. DO NOT download this new firmware.
I have been noticing something odd with my yahoo! email service on my Snap. I used to be able to attach multiple pictures into one email message. Now, I can no longer attach pictures in my email message. If I want to send an image via email, I have to locate the file in my album, then click 'send in email.' This is extremely frustrating, as I can only send one message with one attached file at a time.
I thought by doing a reset of the factory settings this would remedy the solution. I was wrong! After backing up my files and defaulting all of the settings, now my ringer is stuck at the default option. I can change it from silent, to work, to normal. However, I can make no changes to the actual ringer, ie "standard2, melody, drums, etc, etc."
I was half asleep when I pressed "accept" when prompted the firmware update. I wish I had pressed "Decline."
DO NOT accept the firmware updates.
Does anyone know a work around? Is there anyway we can reverse the firmware updates?

I have the same problem as all of you and I feel like an idiot for accepting the update when it popped up on my phone on March 24. I cannot change my wallpaper to a picture of my own or change the main ring tones. I called HTC support and they told me they sent NO firmeware updates out and that I should hard reset the phone. Do not hard reset the phone as this DOES NOT correct the problem...which really scares me because if a hard reset does not work then what the heck will.
Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the update or undo it?
Also, if HTC did not send out the update, it might have been an update that windows sent out and they are to blame. This needs to be addressed and fixed soon. By the way Sprint, please don't tell people to hard reset the phone...That DOES NOT fix this error.
Please help anyone
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PirateTD,
You should be able to change your homescreen background image (wallpaper) from the menu at the bottom of the htc homescreen.
The ringer won't change from anywhere

SnapJoeSnap
Nope..changing wallpaper overall is not working.. try to change the wallpaper to one of your personal pics and it will say "Unable to set picture as Home screen wallpaper."
it will say this no matter what picture you try to change it to and this DID NOT start until the windows update.
If you go under settings and click on homescreen and then change it under where it says background image, it will change it but it will not change it to what you select. I have selected multiple different images under here and it either stays the same or changes it to something TOTALLY different from what you selected and i have no idea but it wont let you pick a wallpaper now.
Please try this everyone and let me know what it does to ypu

Anyone have any idea how to get the old ROM prior to the update and how to install in on the phone..
Any help would be appreciated

PirateTD said:
SnapJoeSnap
Nope..changing wallpaper overall is not working.. try to change the wallpaper to one of your personal pics and it will say "Unable to set picture as Home screen wallpaper."
it will say this no matter what picture you try to change it to and this DID NOT start until the windows update.
If you go under settings and click on homescreen and then change it under where it says background image, it will change it but it will not change it to what you select. I have selected multiple different images under here and it either stays the same or changes it to something TOTALLY different from what you selected and i have no idea but it wont let you pick a wallpaper now.
Please try this everyone and let me know what it does to ypu
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Funny thing, this win mobile is... I went through start>settings>home screen and I CAN change the picture setting to whatever I like (it does not give me the error) BUT the image displayed won't change. If I go back to settings>home I can see that the change stuck, but the picture won't change even thou it looks like the wallpaper is 'refreshing'. I was sure I could and did as I rechecked before posting and I would get the "error..." message from settings>homescreen but not from HTC Home sliding panel AND I saw the diff pic in the wallpaper.
EDIT: Wait just a minute... I can't insert files into emails!!! What the...???

PirateTD said:
Anyone have any idea how to get the old ROM prior to the update and how to install in on the phone..
Any help would be appreciated
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Yes it would be. Can anyone help us guys out?

Sorry I can not help you with uninstalling the firmware update, but I can tell you this the update if from neither HTC nor Microsoft it is a Sprint Firmware update. The word is the update that has caused problems for our phone was released in part to put an end to the practice of using the phones data services on our laptops. As much as I do not agree as to how Sprint has handeled this I understand their reasons with some people taking advantage of this ability to hog bandwith with torrent downloads, watching movies... So if you are one of these people thank you very much and as a Sprint user I do not want to see Sprints service affected like ATT's with not being able to make calls because everyone is using their IPhones. Get your self an aircard!
Ok I have found a few work arounds to the main ringer and the home screen picture issue.
The first work around the Home Screen Picture - thanks to the update above and a locked registery the settings panel no longer works... But if you use the Picture and Video app (included with the phone) to set your home screen back ground picture. Just open the image you want to use with the app and with the use of the "menu" you can set your home screen image there.
The main ringer is a little different but along the same lines. Making this change requires something along the lines of a ringtome manager that allows you to change the main ringer in it, and the phone does not come with one. However I did a trial version of Photo Contact Pro that had this ability. Now I did not care for Photo Contact Pro after trying it out but still it allowed me to change the main ringer while I had it on my phone. Now I can no longer change my main ringer because I uninstalled the App but then because it was a trial version it did not cost me anything. So if you really need to change your ringer once here is an option, however if you are one of those who wants to change their ringer on a regular basis, you will then have to find an app that will allow you to did this or wait until a fix is released.
As far as an email issue someone wrote about here you will need to double check your email account settings. I had problems sending emails from my phone and found the auto settings were not correct for the smtp (out going mail) server and I had to set them manualy...

Sprint finally released an update to the Snap s511, you can find it on the website. It fixes all the problems that the bad update caused

[Q] Few problems on my Milestone 2, please help

Hi, I'm new here, I searched a lot through this forum, but no result. My problems:
1) When I'm typing on hw qwerty keyboard, it very often types double (sometimes even triple) letter, some letters doesn't work at all time-by-time (mostly "l" and space key). Its really annoying when you wanna type on hw qwerty (much more comfortable then sw keyboard for me)... Is here anyone with same problem or with solution?
2) Everyone knows that notification color LED light at the top-right corner , but mine has a software bug or something. After buying the phone, everything was good, but after few weeks, this led starts lighting blue (even not blinking, just keep lighting).. When I press power button (phone goes to standby) this LED's intensity goes lower, but when I wake phone up, LED starts lighting blue more intensively (like you have 4 levels of intensity: 0-no lightening, 1-the one in stand-by, 2-when the screen is on, 3-same intensity as blinking when new msg or so).. I tried to restore phone, but same as before - at the beginning no problem and after few weeks, blue led light is back.. I even tried turn off, pull the battery, get it back, but in the moment I pressed the power button, the blue LED starts lighting again.. I tried even one app which can set the color of LED (Blink?) but no help.. Then I thought that I have some app installed which doing this, but I didn't find anything.. Please help me with this if anyone can..
3) I noticed that in my phone are installed few apps which I'm really not using at all and even some of them are not in drawer.. These apps are in phone since I unpacked the phone, it is:
- News, Weather and News, ESMusica, HipHopOfficial, RevolverTV, Rock On Altitude, TrueCountry
Will some of the root apps and then just uninstall those useful apps help me?
Sorry for this long thread, but I didn't know how to write it, to make it understandable. Thanks a lot for your help..

To your LED problem.. if a flash doesnt fix it.. nor a Reset.. i would mail the support.. and send it to repair.. since the updates are very very slow on motorola...
And your Spam apps.. well those can be removed by Titanium backup and freezing them (See: Freeze Motoblur and Other apps) Or you can use root explorer find the right APK's and remove them fully of your device.. (Works via Shell as well by using "RM" to remove files..) (you need root though isnt hard to get via z4root or even step for step root like i did)

thx
thanks a lot .. I rooted my M2 and freeze those apps..
then I downloaded root explorer and made some digging through the phone root files/folder, now here is my question: when you go to /sys/class/leds there are some files, included the "blue" file.. it has no extension and I can't copy it to SD.. I'm worried to delete it, when have no backup of it.. also there is in folder /sys/devices/system/leds/leds0/ file "event" which might be useful to.. but I wanna ask, might this (delete/edit these files) solve my problems with the LED light ???
and still don't know what to do with the keyboard

I think the Keyboard problem is serious and will be fixed at some point.. Also Try turning off every keyboard setting like: "Auto add spaces" "Auto capitals" and those.. maybe that helps ive seen it on another post
to your LED problem.. i never touched the files you talked about.. i wouldnt delete them. . first copy them to some place .. and look what they are .. maybe even google the name of it. some are stock files and similiar to other phones!
Well i just touched them now ... anyway they seem to be not accessable i dont know.. "cd: can't cd to /sys/class/leds/blue/brightness/" nor can i copy them or even CAT them.. it just cant be accessed... (i tryed the devices one aswell)
seem to be placeholders or something that the kernel access's .. i guess... im not that pro on this.. all i can do is c++ and thats not even close to this .. on Linux Kernels and Linux system i only have basic skills.. i only work on Windows NT

I tried it too, but same result.. in emulator I typed cmd but permission is denied.. in file manager it can'n be deleted.. I guess the only thing I can do right now is wait till gingerbread for M2 will be released (also for keyboard issue).. thanks a lot for your help ;-)
Sent from my Milestone2 using XDA App

Hi, I have the same problem with the keyboard.
Is there any solution yet?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058544 have a look. it has been there since forever

thnx a lot
I'll give it a try.

Changing Icon & Font Size

So I followed the steps here and my icons look so big and beautiful only problem is whenever I use anything but the default 240 size the dialer crashes and cannot be used whatsoever, anyone know how to fix this????
"use root explorer and edit /system/build.prop
find:
Quote:
ro.sf.lcd_density=240
Change the 240 to 260 (or something else), save the file, and reboot the phone
A Higher # will make everything BIGGER, including icons, fonts, etc
A lower # will make everything smaller"

Please somebody. Has anybody done this edit before??? Thanks

there must be another setting to change to get the Dialer to work. i tried 248 and 275 (listed in the build.prop file) and it didn't work for me either. on my other android devices, i would simply find a font file and rename to DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf and then copy to /system/fonts/. i tried this on my first Atrix and it went into a continuous boot loop. i had to exchange for another device. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID!

cortez.i said:
there must be another setting to change to get the Dialer to work. i tried 248 and 275 (listed in the build.prop file) and it didn't work for me either. on my other android devices, i would simply find a font file and rename to DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf and then copy to /system/fonts/. i tried this on my first Atrix and it went into a continuous boot loop. i had to exchange for another device. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID!
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It would be great if someone knew how to fix this. I really think the icons look great its too bad the dialed keeps crashing!!

cortez.i said:
there must be another setting to change to get the Dialer to work. i tried 248 and 275 (listed in the build.prop file) and it didn't work for me either. on my other android devices, i would simply find a font file and rename to DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf and then copy to /system/fonts/. i tried this on my first Atrix and it went into a continuous boot loop. i had to exchange for another device. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID!
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It would be great if someone knew how to fix this. I really think the icons look great its too bad the dialer keeps crashing!!

The Atrix checks and rechecks all files on every boot so this will brick your phone if the files dont match

neer2005 said:
The Atrix checks and rechecks all files on every boot so this will brick your phone if the files dont match
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yep! i can testify to that, lol! makes me appreciate the ease of root and customization for my Nexus One (will never give it up!) and my wife's Inspire4G. i'd also like to punt this MotoBlah crap! i'm using Enhanced Email and the Blah contacts app is disabling my ability to select accounts i want to use to add new contacts...
not holding my breath on this, but i hope Moto makes good to unlock the bootloader and allow us to customize our devices.

neer2005 said:
The Atrix checks and rechecks all files on every boot so this will brick your phone if the files dont match
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Well the only thing i can see so far that has been negatively affected is the dialer. Everything else works fine.
With the higher resolution the icons have shrunk and to me look a little disproportionate on the ATRIX. This makes it look really nice and well spaced.

Every font look the same

I guess it's more system problem than hardware, but I dunno where I should put this. So, I don't know why, but I discovered that all the fonts on my phone looks the same. I wanted to change font in my snap, and there's this "font picker", where Old English is. But for me, it was still the default font(Roboto, I assume). I thought it was Snapchat's fault, so I reinstalled it, but problem remained. Then I downloaded some fonts and tried to change font by FontFix, but I looked at font viewer and I noticed all the fonts look the same. I mean, every one of them looks like Roboto. Even not downloaded yet fonts look like default one. As my phone is rooted, I checked if everything is ok in /system/fonts, and seems like it. Is there any solution for me?