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[HELP] Data Connection (Not Disconnecting After MMS)

Hay all,
I've got a major problem here and I'm not sure if it's a common Blackstone thing or if I can stop it.
Basicly after I recieve a Media Message (MMS) or send one the data connect stays active.
I'm on Orange and it uses Orange Internet as thats the only data connect info I can find on the phone (when sending a MMS it show up as Orange MMS in the little info bubble at the top)
Is there a way so that after I recieve an MMS or send one it automaticlly dissconects like on the Nokia Phones?
As this could cost me a fortune having an active connection open an not relising.
Thanks

There are several ways to accomplish this. I'm guessing you're on stock ROM, so the easiest way to accomplish this would be to install HDTweak which has settings to automatically turn off data when not in use (you can set things like to turn off 1min after not being used or 5, etc). If you're on a cooked ROM, you can check if there is a "Data" tab when you go to Settings>Phone>Data which will have an option to automaticaly turn off data when not in use.

Thanks for the reply - When I go to settings there is no Data option
How do I do this rom stuff - I've new so a little unknowning on these kinda things

I would probably advise you to do the first thing I posted, which is try HDTweak, since you won't have to mess with ROMs that way as it's nothing more than a program, but with powerful features. However, if you do wish to flash to a new ROM, do so at your own risk. The ROM development section has great tutorials along with a plethra of ROMs to choose from, and I believe most of the new ones have the Data tab (I know Duty's ROMs have it, but I'm guessing that many of the other ones do as well, and you can always just ask in the thread with the ROM that interests you the most). Just make sure to read the wikis on in the ROM section, they'll answer all your questions and if there is anything left unanswered then a search in the ROM section will probably give you the solution.
Good luk

SMS Backup

Morning all, sorry if this has already been answered, I did do a search, but had no success. I currently have a Hero, but am due to have my HD2 delivered tomorrow. Is there a simple way of transferring all of my SMS and MMS settings to the phone.
Please dont flame if this has already been answered, I did look first before posting.
Cheers

Are you talking about transferring settings or the actual messages?
The former isn't really needed, you'll have that set up automatically for you. Re messages I've never heard about a tool that would transfer stuff from Android to WM and I would seriously doubt such a thing exists.

Its the actual messages itself, just wondering if there would be a simple way of backing up my messages, then putting them onto the HD2 when it arrives. If it cant be done not overly worried, just thought it would be cool if I could.

No Sounds and Contacts Bug?

Okay so I searched far and wide on these forums for 3+ days now with not answer. Maybe I'm just blind or not typing in the correct search terms but here is my problem...
I have a Sprint HTC Hero rooted flashed bla bla bla the works... anyways the alarm clock sounds are missing and the alarm clock will not work because of this. Does anybody have JUST the ORIGINAL alarm clock files?
Secondly, whenever I goto call someone or someone calls in it shows up on my phone as the same contact all the time calling in/out. It is the last contact on my list.
Any help with these issues would be great!

Anybody that can answer my question would be greatly appreciated... I am pulling my hair out because of this. It is totally messing up my schedule as well.......

danimal_01 said:
Okay so I searched far and wide on these forums for 3+ days now with not answer. Maybe I'm just blind or not typing in the correct search terms but here is my problem...
I have a Sprint HTC Hero rooted flashed bla bla bla the works... anyways the alarm clock sounds are missing and the alarm clock will not work because of this. Does anybody have JUST the ORIGINAL alarm clock files?
Secondly, whenever I goto call someone or someone calls in it shows up on my phone as the same contact all the time calling in/out. It is the last contact on my list.
Any help with these issues would be great!
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In regards to the "original alarm clock files", I think you might want to try installing the alarm .apk file again on your phone.
Have you tried reflashing the ROM? If not, try that -- first without wiping the the phone, then doing so if nothing changes.
If that doesn't work, I'd advice you Sprint RUU your phone, TEST the Stock ROM to see that you do hear the alarm sounds and that your calling problem is fixed. If this happens to be the case, then there was probably a glitch in the ROM -- happens sometimes. Reroot, install recovery, and flash ROM of your choice once, test again and report back.
Hope that helps. I've attached the file below.
To install:
1. Download file -- DO NOT EXTRACT IT
2. Place it into your AndroidSDK\tools folder
3. Run this command in Command Prompt, make sure you cd into your tools folder first though.
Code:
adb push WorldClock.apk /system/app/
adb shell reboot

Thank you for the help pseudoremora I finally was able to get my alarm clock sounds back however my contacts issue is still an issue.... I've tried re-flashing and doing the Sprint RUU like you said but my contacts still jacks up. It will always be the last person on my contacts list that shows up whenever someone is calling me regard less if it is that person or not. It confuses the hell out of me and I can't ignore phone calls properly now! lol Is there anything else that you could think of that might be effecting this? I've tried downloading just the contacts file as well and re-installing that on my phone but it does the same stupid thing.

danimal_01 said:
It will always be the last person on my contacts list that shows up whenever someone is calling me regard less if it is that person or not. It confuses the hell out of me and I can't ignore phone calls properly now! lol Is there anything else that you could think of that might be effecting this? I've tried downloading just the contacts file as well and re-installing that on my phone but it does the same stupid thing.
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No problem for the help. With this contacts problem -- I would double check your contacts and verify that the numbers match with the correct people and also check your Gmail account contacts as well -- Gmail might be merging or somehow doing something weird and causing this problem, since your Gmail account is tied to your phone. That would be pretty much my last guess.

pseudoremora said:
No problem for the help. With this contacts problem -- I would double check your contacts and verify that the numbers match with the correct people and also check your Gmail account contacts as well -- Gmail might be merging or somehow doing something weird and causing this problem, since your Gmail account is tied to your phone. That would be pretty much my last guess.
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Yes I've already gone through and checked the numbers of each contact to make sure nothing was matching up. I also disabled Gmail contacts so that I only have the ones that I hand jammed in. I am at wits end on this one.. I've flashed the Sprint RUU like 50 times now with no such luck (1.56.651.2)

danimal_01 said:
Yes I've already gone through and checked the numbers of each contact to make sure nothing was matching up. I also disabled Gmail contacts so that I only have the ones that I hand jammed in. I am at wits end on this one.. I've flashed the Sprint RUU like 50 times now with no such luck (1.56.651.2)
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Hm... I don't know then. Have you talked with Sprint at all? Have you checked out some other forums to see if this problem has come up?
If not, try that as well - cause I'm out of solutions.
Check AndroidCentral, Modaco's website, anything dealing with Android phones. Sorry I can't be more of a help.

pseudoremora said:
Hm... I don't know then. Have you talked with Sprint at all? Have you checked out some other forums to see if this problem has come up?
If not, try that as well - cause I'm out of solutions.
Check AndroidCentral, Modaco's website, anything dealing with Android phones. Sorry I can't be more of a help.
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I've talked to Sprint about this issue and they were completely clueless... they didn't even know what a rosie was. I'll try searching those other places thanks pseudoremora for your help. I'll post up any updates if I get this issue resolved.

danimal_01 said:
I've talked to Sprint about this issue and they were completely clueless... they didn't even know what a rosie was. I'll try searching those other places thanks pseudoremora for your help. I'll post up any updates if I get this issue resolved.
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No problem. Good luck.

[Q] Backing up (and restoring) SMS?

Just seen the thread about a new ROM.
My ROM is the last Offical Jan one and I am interested especially in an updated Radio so want to update.
BUT I have a number of important SMS on the phone that I wish to keep.
How do I back them up, flash to a new ROM, then restore them please?

this has been asked a ridiculous amount of times. search

I really bloody hate when people feel the need to post this - on XDA more than any other forum I frequent.
I searched.
I searched this sub-forum; I searched the new Q&A section.
I read about 20 threads.
I did not get the answer I wanted.
I posted the question.
You don't want to help someone struggling, don't. Why though feel the need to intimidate posters with this?

Microsoft My Phone is what you want.

wigwam12 said:
I really bloody hate when people feel the need to post this - on XDA more than any other forum I frequent.
I searched.
I searched this sub-forum; I searched the new Q&A section.
I read about 20 threads.
I did not get the answer I wanted.
I posted the question.
You don't want to help someone struggling, don't. Why though feel the need to intimidate posters with this?
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mainly because I find it hard that with a search in just HD2 General for "backup sms" you couldn't find anything out of the 85 threads that pop up. You hate when people say to search, a lot of people hate it when people ask questions that have been asked/answered a lot.
Here's a hint: don't use the top search where it shows a magnifying glass & a sprocket, right at the very beginning of the list of threads there's an item that says "search this forum". it shows on every forum & every post & is much better.
Here are a list of programs that work:
Jeyo Mobile Companion
SPB Backup
PIMbackup
M$ MyPhone
I personally use Jeyo, though it isn't free. It backs them up to M$ Outlook & you can restore as well.

Thank you both.
As it happens I do also have a wry chuckle when someone posts a question that has been asnwered 3 threads down - but it is the slightly sneery need to dive in and smack a person down who is obviously just after some help from people who have been there and done it and does sometimes get on my wick [as it obviously did yesterday ]

You could also use PIM Backup.

lantern20 said:
You could also use PIM Backup.
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I had a lot of problems with restoration and pimbackup, especially with secure box

Thanks guys
As my calendar is already synced with google, contacts with outlook via activesync and pix etc are on the sd card I have just activated myphone and set it to sync sms only.

[Q] HTC Sense Friends link

I keep getting a notification to request friends from HTC Sense Friends. However all the friends are just listed as "Orange" with the option Request or Ignore.
How can I disable this?
Thanks

What happens is HTCSense.com syncs all your contacts to it's database. In your case, you have "Orange" in your phone book.
When someone else with "Orange" in their phone book (you can imagine that it's quite a lot!) syncs up with HTCSense.com, then HTCSense.com goes "Oh look! This is the same person, maybe these people are buddies!" and suggests that you might be friends with them.
I get it with "Vodafone" and "Voicemail" too. I also had "Aaaaa" which was a remnant of an old featurephone that I would always end up pocket-calling (was one of those phones where pressing the select button takes you into the menu, then the phone book, then the first contact, then calls it - so I put a dummy entry in to stop it from calling anyone!)
Easiest way around it is to rename your contacts to something else. So you could change "Orange" to "Orange Customer Services" - however you'll probably find that someone else has that too...so you might need to get more obscure with your naming!

Or you just disable HTCsense sync (Options->Accounts and sync).
If you don't really use it, there's no point of it draining ur battery while u sleep

what exactly does HTCsense sync do ?
i mean if we stop it from syncing , will that affect the sense.com website and we wont be able to track the phone or ring/lock it ?

Hi all, I'm getting the same thing. At first I was ignoring them but they kept coming back so I clicked the Request button to see if it would go away, but no it says I have them as friends but offers more of the same contacts (main one being "show balance") to add as freinds. Can someone please help cos this happends every second day?

ceck_01 said:
Hi all, I'm getting the same thing. At first I was ignoring them but they kept coming back so I clicked the Request button to see if it would go away, but no it says I have them as friends but offers more of the same contacts (main one being "show balance") to add as freinds. Can someone please help cos this happends every second day?
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Did you even read my post? I'm not going to even bother repeating myself but I've said exactly what you need to do.

dazultra2000 said:
Did you even read my post? I'm not going to even bother repeating myself but I've said exactly what you need to do.
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Sorry about that I should have addressed it as I'm still getting the same thing. I did change them by removing letters and it was still showing up and found out it's the number its finding, but after all that I found out that it was O2 numbers from when I joined HTC Sence with a HD2 desire rom and now I'm with vodafone and they aren't applicable so have now deleted them
very sorry about that, I am a Noob