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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

[REQ] Custom rom for high pixel density

I'm finding the standard LCD density too small and prefer a setting of at least 200 on my Streak. I also find that 3rd party widgets tend to look better on a setting of at least 200 and best on 240.
Only issue I have is various stock apps no longer look right at the higher setting e.g. the Gallery doesn't display the buttons at the top correctly, the dialer shortcut doesn't appear correctly in the Stage launcher, when receiving an incoming call in landscape mode the number is not fully visible, dialer looks weird and I'm sure I will find more things.
Basically, the two biggest annoyances for me are the dialer and the gallery. Can versions of these apps be baked into a rom that is designed to be used at the higher LCD dencity?
THANKS!!!
Krisbo

agreed the high density looks very sharp, I like it.
but trying to enter text in some fields, you cant even see the input field, Dialer incall buttons and contact names become b0rked, among other things,
Can anyone fix this so they dont get so blown out of proportion?
Thanks. The highest I went is 200, but back to 160 on djsteves 1.5.1 because of issues mentioned above.

I do believe you'd have to open up each apk and completely redo all the graphics so they don't look out of proportion blown up. I guess all you'd have to do is make them all smaller but it will probably be much more complicated than that!
So yes, it can be done. But i doubt anyone will do it.

Could you copy an apk from another phone with a higher pixel density? E.g. nexus one I think has 252ppi.

nexus by default is 240 yes, ill have a look at doing a 1.5.1 huge version wen i get a sec

You are awesome!
Could you possibly make it no baseband because I use a rebel sim?
Thanks

Before flashing the zip, unpack the whole thing and open system/build.prop with a text editor (like notepad or your favorite IDE). Then search for "ro.sf.lcd_density=160" and change it to a value you like. Save the file and repack it into the zip file (with WinRAR for example). Flash the ROM using StreakMod or ClockWorkMod and have fun with it!
Another option is to get Root Explorer - or a similar program - and go to system/build.prop. Set the permissions to r+w. Now you can edit this file using Root Explorer or copy it to your MicroSD and edit it like I said before. After the edit copy it back if you have too or save it. Then set the permissions back to r+o and reboot.
I have mine set to 220, which is a great size but I guess 200 is nice too!

alex3305 said:
Before flashing the zip, unpack the whole thing and open system/build.prop with a text editor (like notepad or your favorite IDE). Then search for "ro.sf.lcd_density=160" and change it to a value you like. Save the file and repack it into the zip file (with WinRAR for example). Flash the ROM using StreakMod or ClockWorkMod and have fun with it!
Another option is to get Root Explorer - or a similar program - and go to system/build.prop. Set the permissions to r+w. Now you can edit this file using Root Explorer or copy it to your MicroSD and edit it like I said before. After the edit copy it back if you have too or save it. Then set the permissions back to r+o and reboot.
I have mine set to 220, which is a great size but I guess 200 is nice too!
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I think we understand that, the issue we have is that anything higher than stock 160 and apps get blown out of proportion, escpecially phone app for me, 180 is the highest /usable/ for me. I would love to have to cranked to the max, after owning an iphone 4 for a while, sweet display; but software is too simple.
Thanks DJ_Steve for looking into this,
please see if you can sort out the blurry contact pictures in-call, they look horrible even on stock 160, is it just me?

chrisrotolo said:
I think we understand that, the issue we have is that anything higher than stock 160 and apps get blown out of proportion, escpecially phone app for me, 180 is the highest /usable/ for me. I would love to have to cranked to the max, after owning an iphone 4 for a while, sweet display; but software is too simple.
Thanks DJ_Steve for looking into this,
please see if you can sort out the blurry contact pictures in-call, they look horrible even on stock 160, is it just me?
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Exactly. I'm running mine at 220 but if the phone happens to put itself in landscape mode while it's ringing (happens sometimes) I can't see who is calling.

sorry i don't get it. how is the pixel density supposed to increase if the resolution of the LCD screen is fixed (480 by 800 pixels, not one more not one less)? to clarify, I am not denigrating, I just do not understand

Very frustrating. I dont have "ro.sf.lcd_density=160" in my build prop. Im on official ota update from a couple days ago

Hi Steve,
Any news on this?
Krisbo

carhigh said:
Very frustrating. I dont have "ro.sf.lcd_density=160" in my build prop. Im on official ota update from a couple days ago
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Me neither.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App

deekdeek said:
Me neither.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
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I don't think this line is in the stock build.prop. Just add it under #other edits. If that's not their either, look for either debug.sf.hw=1 or debug.sf.hw=0 and add it after that.

You can use Incoming Call Plus (beta) as a replacement for incoming calls. This works great and has no negative side-effects for me.

Krisbo said:
I don't think this line is in the stock build.prop. Just add it under #other edits. If that's not their either, look for either debug.sf.hw=1 or debug.sf.hw=0 and add it after that.
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Adding it worked. Thanks, i can read more now

alex3305 said:
You can use Incoming Call Plus (beta) as a replacement for incoming calls. This works great and has no negative side-effects for me.
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That's not bad although the answer/reject buttons are UGLY!!! Does the job though and I can see who is calling

Any progress Steve?

I took this Gallery apk out from the Cyanogen Mod HTC Evo zip. It should scale properly when you change your DPI although stuff becomes real small when you go back to stock 160 DPI. It also fixes the "this is an audio file only" or whatever the hell that is if that wasn't already fixed.
It seems Dell changed the DPI of the dialer and gallery app to make use of the screen real estate while also using 160 dpi for the rest of the system.

Tried that apk n didn't do **** for me but I might have done it wrong...no biggy 1.5.3 looks like it might have this area sown up
Sent from xda app Dell streak dj 1.5.2
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update: dialer seems to crash with the setting below, so for now the phone isn't really functional...
Hi!
I just noticed "LCD density changer". This app allows you to change the density of the screen, making, for example, all widgets smaller.
The app from the market didn't work for me. But, I followed the guide at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760805
changed /system/build.prop, so that instead of
ro.sf.lcd_density=120
I have
ro.sf.lcd_density=90
in my case I didn't have to remount /system as read-write. But if you do, then just do
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock7 /system
After reboot, everything is smaller on the screen!
(installing the apk directly from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765639 worked for me, also)
The smaller icons are great! I can actually use ACast, and have the sound control buttons on screen while seeing my tracks!
I'm not sure whether 90 is the best value to use... maybe I'll play with other resolutions. The best would be if the app worked...
Test and enjoy!

Sadly, I still can't find a way to fix the dialer issue. Possibly, the problem lies with the "BlurPhone.apk" in /system/app
Maybe I'll try to edit the apk, as was done here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863519
Can anyone who has the non-blur rom installed check if for them the dialer also crashes?
The easiest method is to use the apk from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765639
It works for me.

i have a flipout.
the dialer crash too.

same here, take a look at your build.prop
if it says "ro.mot.sw.deblur=true" then yes otherwise you've likely have the "blur" active.
ps my phone is on 100 and some apps don't fill the screen completely....

Help with changing resolution.

Recently tried booting my phone for the first time and after hours of precautions I managed to successfully boot my x play. However, changing my phone's resolution was not so successful.
My goal was to reduce my resolution to help run games(Pokemon go) faster and a lower DPI looks amazing.
I tried various resolution apps with all of them failing to work. So, I tried changing my build.prop file's DPI setting. It successfully reduced my DPI and my phone looked perfect, until half my apps crashed on starting them including messenger and textra.
I reset my DPI back to normal and the same apps continued to crash. Had to go back to factory for now, but looking for a possible solution for when i boot again. What have others done?

I changed dpi in build.prop to 380 and everything is fine. Try reinstalling crashing apps after changing dpi

I use texdroider_dpi (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.texdroider.texdroider_dpi&hl=en) for changing the resolution.

Nougat and viber resolution problem

So, since day one I used UK Nougat firmware on FHD resolution. Yesterday i moved back to WQHD and now my Viber is bugged. Any idea, how to fix it? I would reinstall viber, but as far as I know, I would lose all messages? I also tried to clean cache, restart phone and nothing helps..

Temp. solution for others (i guess). I had to change original background to each conversation. I guess also new conversation would be bugged and need to change background.

droidhd said:
Temp. solution for others (i guess). I had to change original background to each conversation. I guess also new conversation would be bugged and need to change background.
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Backup your data on google drive, then restore to default in settings!
I think you messages will remain, if not you can restore from earlier backuped data!
After that all is ok!

Permanent solution for all existens and new chats is:
Viber settings>change background. You can also use original background as i have it and it works. It must be something with resolution change that mess up in viber, but all fine now

Yeah, obviously Viber cuts the background image exactly to the size needed and just did not think of the case you can adjust the resolution of your device (which is a new one).

From today, viber didn't fix this bug!