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contacts & ringtones

hi everyone
i was wondering why when i assign a specific ringtone to a contact, it doesn't work. i have flashed several different roms for my herald/wing and sometimes it works. is there a registery edit or something i have to do? i have tried saving the files into the main memory and also the storage and neither works. any ideas or should i just give up on have "devil woman" play when my wife calls.
thanks
DK

Unless something's changed with OpenTouch 6.5 from ttrans fromer OT releases there's nothing special involved. Saving ringtones to the memory card often results in the loss of the assignment.
What type of file is it you're trying to use, how large is it and have you tried encoding it as another type?

CRE said:
Unless something's changed with OpenTouch 6.5 from ttrans fromer OT releases there's nothing special involved. Saving ringtones to the memory card often results in the loss of the assignment.
What type of file is it you're trying to use, how large is it and have you tried encoding it as another type?
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i start with an mp3 and use audio manager to trim it and save into ringtones folder. i have also used mp3 trimmer with the same results.

Have you tried MP3 ringtones supplied by anyone else?
If you want you may PM me your email address and I will send you one from my phone that I know works.

CRE said:
Have you tried MP3 ringtones supplied by anyone else?
If you want you may PM me your email address and I will send you one from my phone that I know works.
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i have some RT's that i purchased a while ago and i have some midi tones too. its wierd, when i was using otv3.0 biggy all worked fine. i don't know. thanks for the offer and help

Ok, so the bought ones aren't working either I take it. Do they work when you reflash OT3?
Are you restoring from a backup or do these not work with a fresh setup?

well i kinda have ot6.5 lite tweaked the way i like, so i don't want to go back to 3.0 just for tones. i was just wondering if anyone out there had already come across this and had a reg fix or something. i guess not that many people use diff tones for diff contacts. me, i need diversity in life, plus its easier to recognize a tone than pick up the phone and look whose calling. know what i mean? i also get a kick out of watching my co-workers faces when the diff songs come up. i guess i'll just keep an eye out for a fix. throw me one if you find it first.
thanks

Well, the reason I asked if you've tried a fresh install or even going back to 3.0 is to see if it's not some corruption somewhere. I've run every ROM you've listed so far without issue. I use different ring tones for most of my contacts as well and the only times I ever had that issue was with one corrupt file and the rest were when I put the MP3s on my SDHC.
I'll keep an eye out though. I'd still try backing up (even if you just have to use a demo of Sprite Backup or something) and do a completely fresh install. If you find a solution post it up for future reference.

hmmm. i'm not sure what you men as to a fresh install. i am kinda new to all this tech, i've only had a wing for about 4 months. i have hardspl'd my wing and i hardly ever get any errors when flashing. does sprite backup keep all your rom settings? pretty much all i ever need to keep is my stuff on the mem card. what i dont understand is that i can set a tone for my main ring and that always works. something gets screwy when applied to contacts. so you keep all your tones in main memory? isn't that a mem hog?

Sprite and a couple other apps out there create a backup file of all your settings and selected or all of your files. They saved to a compressed file on either your mem card or your PC (not all apps will backup straight to the PC).
At any rate I just wanted to make sure you weren't from a backup file... to eliminate one possible source of the issue (incompatible settings saved to it from a different ROM setup or corruption).
What I mean by a fresh install is reflashing the ROM and reinstalling all your apps via their installer. No restoring from a backup file or copying files to their folders. Not trying to confuse you.
First thing I'd try now that I know a bit more would be to download a demo of a backup program and make a backup. Then I'd reflash, try setting things up far enough to test the ringtones. If they work, then just plan on reconstructing your preferred setup without using the backup to restore your settings from... if there's no change, then restore the back up and you're right back where you were before.
Does that make sense?
If you're having this problem with more than the one ROM I doubt it's just a setting error. I'd try different sound files altogether.
Specifically which ROMs are you having this problem with anyway? You might see if they've got something in common, such as the same version of sound drivers.

not confusing at all. i got what your saying. i guess i'm actually fresh installing everytime since i don't use any back-up programs. is that right? anyway what other forms of sound files would you recommend? what are you using? the versions of roms i have been using are basically every rom from Ttran's OT collection, starting with v3.0 and currently v6.5 throttlelaunch3d lite. v3.0 is the only one that the tones worked for. i will try the back-up idea you have after work today. thats a good idea. thanks

Yeah, I'd call the way you're doing it a "fresh install"... I mean by that that the system and ROM are essentially fresh and untouched. So you know there's not an old setting that might be causing the problems or a bad registry entry.
Backing up definitely makes things easier. I make a backup of my setup fairly often. Then when I want to try another I'll flash it, start setting it up, and if I need to be back with my old setup before I can finish setting up the new one, I'll backup where I am with the new setup, reflash my old ROM and restore the backup for the old setup... then I can resume working on getting the new one where I want later on.
I make my MP3 ringtones using Audacity. I generally make the mono and only 40kbps... nice and small but usually still sound good at that size. You could also try a WAV file.
I haven't used OT 3, but I've tried all the rest, not just the lite ROMs either. I haven't had any trouble. My offer still stands to send you one of my ringtones for you to test with if you want.

sounds good. is audacity a free? i'm gonna pm you my email and we can try a little test. maybe the stereo is the problem.
thanks

Email sent.
I doubt the stereo is the issue, although file size, bit rate and VBR may be.
Audacity is free. It takes a little getting used to, but there are how-to's on the net, just Google it. It's NOT as user friendly as some apps, but it is generally better than more of the dumbed down apps.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Have any luck?

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Have any luck?
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ok, you got me. it worked. did you make those using audacity? if so, i guess i'll have to DL it and start cuttin up some tones. wierd huh?
anyway,thanks for the help. i hope i didn't inconvenience you too much.
DK

So I take it they worked alright for you?
Yeah, I made those with audacity. If you need any help with it shoot me an email.

Youtube App Warning Storage Is Full ??

(Leo youtube app, not sure if its the same)
So yeah my 512mb of ROM is getting pretty full with me installing loads new apps. I went onto the youtube app and as soon as I load it up I get an error message saying Warning storage is full and when I tap ok, the program closes so I dont get the chance to change the storage settings to my memory card (if thats the problem) So I deleted some temporary files in the youtubes program folder and I even uninstalled a few apps but I still get that problem...
any ideas on what to do?

I'm experiencing the same kind of problem, with the same message only in dutch: "opslag is vol".. I haven't found a solution jet..
But i have it since a day, and i have plenty of memory available on my Leo..
I'm on stock 1.48 rom...
I'd hate to hard reset my phone :S.. But if i can't figure it out is a good start a nice cooked rom mabye

go to file explorer/windows/youtube. there should be a lot of files there. delete those and it should work. i had the same problem and after i deleted those files, its working again.

marctown78 said:
go to file explorer/windows/youtube. there should be a lot of files there. delete those and it should work. i had the same problem and after i deleted those files, its working again.
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Yes marctown78, i did what you said and it works, thank you very much. btw, i did not delete them one by one. I use "select all", which include those "favorite" and "channel" folders, and deleted them all. and the youtube still works fine.

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(Leo youtube app, not sure if its the same)
So yeah my 512mb of ROM is getting pretty full with me installing loads new apps. I went onto the youtube app and as soon as I load it up I get an error message saying Warning storage is full and when I tap ok, the program closes so I dont get the chance to change the storage settings to my memory card (if thats the problem) So I deleted some temporary files in the youtubes program folder and I even uninstalled a few apps but I still get that problem...
any ideas on what to do?
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btw, you mentioned you can "change the storage settings to my memory card", how exactly can you do it? I tried but seems there is no such setting in youtube.

I also deleted everything (including the favourite, search, history and channel) folders and still I am getting the warning!

I'm still having the same problem with my HD 2. Have followed the above steps but no joy. any other suggestions? thanks in advance.

ibsuk said:
I'm still having the same problem with my HD 2. Have followed the above steps but no joy. any other suggestions? thanks in advance.
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i used to get this, i used the cleanram program to clear down any unneeded processes and woulod fix the issue, i have a schedule set up which runs the cleanram program every day and havent had the issue since.

Cheers. I did try this but it didn't seem to work straight off.
For some reason it is now functioning again.

had that problem too but it is storage memory not program memory u have to have about 10mb of free space available for youtube to run kinda strange though but thats what I figure out, what I do is install the apps that I like on memory card and the ones that r essential to phone memory so I have more free space.
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af974 6.5.X ROM 23549

I deleted everything (including the favourite, search, history and channel) folders. I installed "Cleanram" and made a 3rd level clean but I am still getting the warning!

It's working again, thanks to Kikill
smilgard said:
I deleted everything (including the favourite, search, history and channel) folders. I installed "Cleanram" and made a 3rd level clean but I am still getting the warning!
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Thanks Kikill, I tried to delete inside youtube folder only; it does not work(I only have 7mb left in my device, 6mb before the deletion inside youtube folder), it TURNS OUT as per your suggestion, we need extra space.
The day before my youtube was working, and I downloaded some movies that were stored in my device, and suddenly my youtube is not working; thus, I clean up my other folders as well and get around 60mb back and this time it is back to normal.

godsimon said:
btw, you mentioned you can "change the storage settings to my memory card", how exactly can you do it? I tried but seems there is no such setting in youtube.
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I tried this also but there is no option in youtube, I've looked through the registry and can only find in
HKLM-SOFTWARE-HTC-YOUTUBE-TempFileLocation
but don't know what to do from there, can someone enlighten me?
thanks in advance!

Im getting this error on my wifes HD2
Any real solution yet

storage is full
same problem!
Like an idiot, I did exactly like was suggested (deleted everything in the Youtube folder, without backup) and it still doesn't work.
Anyone else have any ideas?

same problem
same problem. Although i use cleanram regulary but still get the problem .

Youtube app Does not open storage is full
Well i recently have this problem on my HD2, after some testing i found that the app needs 10mb of free space on device storage to run, if you have less you will get the error.

Phone only rings once?!

Hey guys, I'm a new Nexus S owner coming over from an Evo. On my Evo I rooted it and put a custom rom on it and such, so I'm not completely new or wet behind the ears when it comes to doing things with your phone.
Here's the thing: I went and put custom ringtones on my Nexus, but the one I use primarily only rings once. I look at it and see it vibrating and still receiving a call...but the ring-tone does not loop. It rings once and that's it. So far it's the only problem I'm having with my phone. Anyone having the same problem or have a fix for me that I can use?
Thanks in advance for the help!
btw: I put the custom ringtones on my phone by making a folder in the SD card titled media/audio/ringtones. I did that and the tones showed up. Is there another method that I can use that will make the ringtone repeat itself, because this whole 1 ring thing is not going to work, lol.

someone else asked me about this exact same thing right before you posted this. I tested, and ringtones on your sd dont loop :/ I made a 4 second ringtone to test and it rings for 4 seconds then stops. i know this wasnt the case on other phones and dont see why it is now. but just letting you know thats your issue.

I don't find this to be true for me. I've got the same setup and mine loop. I don't know how to help troubleshoot it for you either. I'm running stock rooted. I will test this later and let you know if I was wrong.

Yea, I'm running stock rooted as well...I don't understand why this would be an issue at all. It doesn't make any sense. I would hate to have to just make the ringtone longer by looping it manually and then replacing it on the phone, there has to be some other reason behind this.

herbthehammer said:
I don't find this to be true for me. I've got the same setup and mine loop. I don't know how to help troubleshoot it for you either. I'm running stock rooted.
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I just made a ringtone, placed it on my sd, and it only played once. I was asked via gtalk by another NS4G owner about it, so I tested. Maybe your ringtone is longer than you think?

I am having the same issue. I took the stock ringtones off the last rom I was running on my Evo and they don't loop on my nexus. I even tried placing the ringers in the actual ringtone folder (/system/media/audio/ringtones) and they still did not loop, I just gave up. Any one have any ideas?

Are you guys using google voice integration? I found that it started only playing ringtones once after integrating with google voice.
I've noticed the same thing as you guys have, can't figure it out.

I didn't integrate

snowmanwithahat said:
Are you guys using google voice integration? I found that it started only playing ringtones once after integrating with google voice.
I've noticed the same thing as you guys have, can't figure it out.
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That could be it. I remember when I first got my phone the ringtone would loop. Sometime after GV/Sprint it stopped doing it.

I did integrate after getting my phone, and it use to loop while it was integrated I think...but then I turned the integration off after a while, lately I started noticing that the ringtones weren't looping.

I use music files for my phone that last until the phone is answered I never noticed
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I've done a bit of investigating with this and have yet to find a definitive answer. The ones that will repeat are on system media ringtones. They are all ogg. I was playing with Vespa.ogg. I made an ogg file and tried to disguise it as vespa. I made sure the audio file characteristics were similar. Permissions and ownership were copied too. I even changed the tag of the file of it's name and composer was the same. I copied my file on top of the real one in system and made everything ro and rebooted. None of that made any difference, it wouldn't loop. I opened up music app and played files. The original would loop but the imposter wouldn't. The only differences I still see is my file is 3k smaller and not the same date as all the other ogg files in the system folder. Other than that, all my theories of what is causing this behavior have been wrong.
Could it be md5 signatures? Date and time (I don't know how to change that only using the phone and gui)? Other than that I have no frigging clue. Anyone else motivated enough to figure it out? I can't think of anything else and don't know cli enough to agamgm things in a terminal window or emulator.
If I copied a file from system to sdcard, it would loop out of it's native folder. I don't know if a ringtone editing and assigning app would make any difference. It's too late and I'm too tired ATM to do anymore detective work today.

Its the gv integration. Do the same tests after you disable it.
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I've done a bit of investigating with this and have yet to find a definitive answer. The ones that will repeat are on system media ringtones. They are all ogg. I was playing with Vespa.ogg. I made an ogg file and tried to disguise it as vespa. I made sure the audio file characteristics were similar. Permissions and ownership were copied too. I even changed the tag of the file of it's name and composer was the same. I copied my file on top of the real one in system and made everything ro and rebooted. None of that made any difference, it wouldn't loop. I opened up music app and played files. The original would loop but the imposter wouldn't. The only differences I still see is my file is 3k smaller and not the same date as all the other ogg files in the system folder. Other than that, all my theories of what is causing this behavior have been wrong.
Could it be md5 signatures? Date and time (I don't know how to change that only using the phone and gui)? Other than that I have no frigging clue. Anyone else motivated enough to figure it out? I can't think of anything else and don't know cli enough to agamgm things in a terminal window or emulator.
If I copied a file from system to sdcard, it would loop out of it's native folder. I don't know if a ringtone editing and assigning app would make any difference. It's too late and I'm too tired ATM to do anymore detective work today.
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Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

Mine was never integrated to begin with

Just to let you know, mine loops just fine.. 9023 gsm version.
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herbthehammer said:
Mine was never integrated to begin with
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yea, i remembered you said that after I posted that

thiagodark said:
Just to let you know, mine loops just fine.. 9023 gsm version.
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Are you picking one of the ogg files of ringtones that came with the phone? If you play the file you chose in a music app, how many seconds long is it? I just said to hell with it and found the ringtone I like and copy paste in an audio editing program on the computer enough times to make it 30 seconds long. Problem not solved but taken care of.

nope, i'm using a file seted by 'zedge' app, it's an mp3 file! i also use another short mp3 file and it also loops.
i'm on cm7 with stock kernel!

Is it possible there is only an issue with the Sprint version of the phone?

Grasping at straws now but anything is possible. If I remember, zedge you can download and has a built in trimmer and can assign stuff too.
I will play with ringdroid and the like and see what comes of it.

SOS!! Upgraded my XT720 from 2.1 to 2.2 and Screwed UP

Hi everyone
I am in need of urgent Help
I upgraded my Motorola Milestone XT720 from 2.1 to 2.2 using Cincinatti Bell Manual.
I referred this
http://www.cincinnatibell.com/milestoneupgrade/#howtoupgrade
Now, After successful upgrade, I have some serious issues
1) My Camera's Flash isnt working. I cant enable it.
2) Performance is low
3) Lost MotoNav. How can I get it back?
4) Even if I keep Pattern lock, the slide lock do appears
5) Also, How I can merge duplicate contacts? like one contact has 3 numbers saved that are same..
Thankyou

1. im not sure. should work.
2. performance is low. you can overclock using milestone overclock if you are still rooted. however, if you are not the kind who maintains you phone everyday, i suggest you go back to 2.1 as its the most stable.
3. just google motonav apk
4. thats a flaw in the rom, cant be fixed. if you'd like to try out custom roms and maintain you phone like most of us do here, then go ahead. its very exciting lol
5. you can merge duplicate contacts by signing in to gmail on a computer, click contacts and just look around the buttons. its called "find and merge duplicate contacts" if im not wrong.
hope this helped

1) Tried all level best best to start flash... It didnt. Installed Sleekcamera apk.
2) Google find and merge always crashes and unable to do the action
3) Whats overclocking? Is it a self explanatory software??
4) Dont feel like going back to 2.1...Love App2SD
5) I also have some issues - cant play HD video and my internal video player isnt working to its full potential as I am unable o avi file. I feel, that there is codec problem, as Ringdriod isnt working too...

Chety said:
1) Tried all level best best to start flash... It didnt. Installed Sleekcamera apk.
2) Google find and merge always crashes and unable to do the action
3) Whats overclocking? Is it a self explanatory software??
4) Dont feel like going back to 2.1...Love App2SD
5) I also have some issues - cant play HD video and my internal video player isnt working to its full potential as I am unable o avi file. I feel, that there is codec problem, as Ringdriod isnt working too...
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if you like to have apps on your sd, there's a more advanced way to have it. i think its better than android's own move apps to sd. many roms we have around here have app2ext automatically set if they detect any ext partitions on your sd card. it moves all user apps onto an ext partition on your sd card (you have to use a partition tool to make this ext partition).
overclocking is actually just controlling your cpu clock speeds. most of us overclock our phone because it sometimes get laggy if we use the stock speeds. theres an app that helps us overclock on the market called milestone overclock. please remember that you need to be rooted do these stuff.
for the camera, you might have hardware problems. i dont know. contacts you should try doing the find and merge duplicates again. i'll upload a pic to show you what it looks like.
i recommend mioze's cm6 rom if you ever want to play around with flashing stuff. the stablest i've tried so far. Cyanogenmod is very versatile lol. there are a lot of themes for this rom too, made by Sileshn our master themer. for the videos i dont think i can help. you could try mobo player from the market (i think?)

Thankyou - Sorry to buggin u again n again. One last help
if you like to have apps on your sd, there's a more advanced way to have it. i think its better than android's own move apps to sd. many roms we have around here have app2ext automatically set if they detect any ext partitions on your sd card. it moves all user apps onto an ext partition on your sd card (you have to use a partition tool to make this ext partition).
How do I do that..in a esy way? I saw I video and it was very complicated for guy like me. Any easy way like app or something??
overclocking is actually just controlling your cpu clock speeds. most of us overclock our phone because it sometimes get laggy if we use the stock speeds. theres an app that helps us overclock on the market called milestone overclock. please remember that you need to be rooted do these stuff.
Cool...Thanks.
for the camera, you might have hardware problems.
No bro. It used work fine before upgrade.
i dont know. contacts you should try doing the find and merge duplicates again. i'll upload a pic to show you what it looks like.
Thanks..but Gmail says Oops… the system encountered a problem (#101)...Maybe due to slow Internet(300kbps). Any app??
i recommend mioze's cm6 rom if you ever want to play around with flashing stuff. the stablest i've tried so far. Cyanogenmod is very versatile lol. there are a lot of themes for this rom too, made by Sileshn our master themer.
This is baffling for me. I feel like M not too smart for smartphone
for the videos i dont think i can help. you could try mobo player from the market (i think?)
Yup, I have that. Unable to to pay HD vid. It shows a lag of sound and vid. Tried soft decoding. Didnt work.

Couple of things about this. Are you still Rooted? CBW gave root permissions and then I think later in the tutorial they tell you how to give it back. Don't give it back. For what you want to do, you need to keep Root permission of your device.
Next are you comfortable with flashing custom ROMs and doing realtive non-beginner stuff on your phone. We can help you and walk you through stuff but unfortunately, there isn't an "app for that". If so, then here we go.
If you successfully were able to upgrade your phone, then you can do this. There are many custom ROMS in our forums that you can use. CM6, Hellmonger's, Kahl's V4, Bravo (wip) and CM7 (wip). I suggest CM6 or Kahl's V4 as they are stable enough for beginners to learn on. The have 99% working everything and what doesn't work, is either being fixed or there are already work-arounds. (search the development forums for these)
CBW's ROM doesn't have app2ext. It only has the native Froyo app2sd where you can go to settings>apps>pick your app>move to sd. This is not the same as App2ext or Link2sd. In these you have to partition your SDcard with an ext partition. Do you know how to partition your SD card? All the above ROMs do have the native Froyo app2sd, so if you don't know how to partition your SD card, that is fine too.
Answer those and then you can decide to move forward or not. It isn't hard and you don't have to be super smart to do it, although the more you read around, there are some seriously intelligent people in here. It is just from reading your posts above, how comfortable are you? You will not brick your phone and make it a paperweight, we can bring it back from the brink, if need be. We've done it before.
**Milestone Overclock is an app in the market (requires Root) that is free to download. Just download it and set it at preset 1000/66 and you'll definately seem a boost in performance.
**Google contacts. If merge doesn't work for you, go into google on PC and look at your contact and you may have some duplicates in there. When i first got it, i had 3 of everyone too. Also, go into your phone and go to settings>account/sync and see what is sycnhing. Side note: if you have a Google+ account, unsych that as everyone in your circles will be put on your phone and vice-versa.
**Moboplayer. I use this all the time and have no problem seeing HD vids. Might want to take another look at the preferences. It even says it on the thunmbnails that it is HD.
**Camera. If you don't like the the camera function, there are a few on the market (mostly paid though) that work well. I use Vignette, but there is Camera360 and I think one for LG too. If your flash isn't working though, that might be a hardware issue.
Figure out what you want to do with your phone (flash custom ROM or not) and we can help. If you already flashed the CBW upgrade, then you are really half-way there.
Also sorry for the manifesto sized response.

Hi
Actually thankyou for detailed resonse. I find it very helpful. But, M disappointed to tell, that in afternoon,I installed Moto-optimizer after I couldnt work on Motorola Overclock and Started the process at 800...and then, its only M logo which is showing up.
Will give it to service centre tomorrow and get back to 2.1. I hope, they are not ale to detect this s/w fault..
Will love to learn our SD card partition,

Chety said:
Hi
Actually thankyou for detailed resonse. I find it very helpful. But, M disappointed to tell, that in afternoon,I installed Moto-optimizer after I couldnt work on Motorola Overclock and Started the process at 800...and then, its only M logo which is showing up.
Will give it to service centre tomorrow and get back to 2.1. I hope, they are not ale to detect this s/w fault..
Will love to learn our SD card partition,
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See this before you do the below. Easy read but might work for you instead of flashing back to 2.1.
Here is a recent troubleshoot that we fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089148
No need to take back to service. We can get you back to stock pretty easily.
All you need is to download RSDlite on your computer, install it and run it.
Here are the .sbf's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953863
Here are the directions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753170 See first post. It's easy to do.

[Q] software and or cell tower issue

I have a galaxy s 4g (T959V) that is rooted and unlocked running CM9. I was given this site about a year ago when it was suggested I restore the factory software and reload CM9 from scratch. I am currently using Straight Talk also. All has been going well until recently. Multiple issues
1. If I receive text multiple text messages from one person.. they may not be received in the order they were sent .. sometimes messages sent to me are never received.
2. The phone randomly turns itself on and off.. it can be 1 or 2 times a day or not at all for several days.
3. The battery may indicate it needs to be plugged it and after i leave it off for a few minutes and turn it on, the phone indicates it does not need to be charged (sometime 50 plus % charge)
I am currently using my old T959 (not rooted or unlocked.. with the factory software) until i can do something with the T959V. I was never able to get the tethering, hotspot or wifi calling to work with the T959V but i do recall seeing something here or on the CM site saying that didnt work. The last two day I have been having issues with the T959 no receiving some texts also.
Any thoughts? Should I another version of CM or another OS? It would be nice to have the option of using tethering, hotspot and wifi calling.
Thanks in advance for all your help

Is the battery swollen? Place it on something flat and see if it sounds easy. Sounds like part of the problem could be that. I would suggest the cm11 that fb has out. He (and a lot of others) got it running smoothly on the old phone.

champ1919 said:
Is the battery swollen? Place it on something flat and see if it sounds easy. Sounds like part of the problem could be that. I would suggest the cm11 that fb has out. He (and a lot of others) got it running smoothly on the old phone.
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I was wondering that might be part of the problem. The newest battery appears slightly swollen but I am not using it currently. The older battery in use on T959 probably needs replaced and will be done so. Can I install cm 11 on the T959 also or should I leave that one stock? Just curious..I like having a backup in case of problems.
Thanks again

Looks like you have 4 separate issues:
1. Not receiving some texts and multiple texts being received out of order: Have no answer for this but it probably happens to everyone from time to time. Could possibly be the room in your home you happen to be in at the time.
2. Possible battery issues: See Champ1919's comments.
3. Tethering and hotspot: Both work fine with CM11 (which works wonderfully on this phone). If you choose to install this ROM please pay close attention to the flashing instructions and which Gapps file you should download and install.
4. Wi-fi calling: If you need this feature, you'll have to flash Gingerbread or any ROM based on Android 2.3.6 (such as Valhalla Black). Wi-fi calling does not work on the more advanced ROMs.

DickyG said:
Looks like you have 4 separate issues:
1. Not receiving some texts and multiple texts being received out of order: Have no answer for this but it probably happens to everyone from time to time. Could possibly be the room in your home you happen to be in at the time.
2. Possible battery issues: See Champ1919's comments.
3. Tethering and hotspot: Both work fine with CM11 (which works wonderfully on this phone). If you choose to install this ROM please pay close attention to the flashing instructions and which Gapps file you should download and install.
4. Wi-fi calling: If you need this feature, you'll have to flash Gingerbread or any ROM based on Android 2.3.6 (such as Valhalla Black). Wi-fi calling does not work on the more advanced ROMs.
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I have my T959V restored to factory setting now. I am giving up for the evening as I have been unable to get CWM from the Gapp store to get to my phone. As mentioned earlier I have both a T959 and T959V.. the playstore only acknowledged my 959 there as a my device and not the V,
I have the CM11 and the Gapp minimal on and SD card. I did copy my SD card to my pc. When I enter the samsung recovery and try to install the CM11 file, it says I do not have enough space on the SD card (16 gb card with 7.76gb free)
I will try again Monday evening and will purchase a new battery also.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305560
Don't use rom manager aka rom mangler!!
Search for lumin30's thread/guide. He links what you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716
[GUIDES] Fresh out of box Galaxy S 4G | Heimdall One-Click For Dummies
I believe fbis251 linked this in his cm11 thread.

champ1919 said:
Search for lumin30's thread/guide. He links what you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716
[GUIDES] Fresh out of box Galaxy S 4G | Heimdall One-Click For Dummies
I believe fbis251 linked this in his cm11 thread.
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I did link it. There are very specific steps you need to take to install CM11. Please read them carefully so you don't wind up with an expensive paper weight .

FBis251 said:
I did link it. There are very specific steps you need to take to install CM11. Please read them carefully so you don't wind up with an expensive paper weight .
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ugh.. technology has not been my friend lately. (i have a windows machine that say is has no os on it and i need to reload this laptop from scratch also.. so that might be some of the issues) when i bought the T959V a little over a year ago it was rooted and unlocked. last october i was had to reload cm9. sunday night when i thought i had reload the factory software back, did that unroot the phone?
tonight i was unable to get super manager to the T959V, i did notice the apn changes at will from straight talk to tmobile. i did see the "efs" file on the sd card and copied that to my pc. superoneclick was downloaded from download.com because the link kept timing out from the xda site.
i waited 45 minutes after i clicked on root but gave up .. checking if rooted showed false. checking for shell root showed false. i did copy the report that was generated and saw several no such file or directories on that.
any thoughts?
thanks

kindanewb said:
ugh.. technology has not been my friend lately. (i have a windows machine that say is has no os on it and i need to reload this laptop from scratch also.. so that might be some of the issues) when i bought the T959V a little over a year ago it was rooted and unlocked. last october i was had to reload cm9. sunday night when i thought i had reload the factory software back, did that unroot the phone?
tonight i was unable to get super manager to the T959V, i did notice the apn changes at will from straight talk to tmobile. i did see the "efs" file on the sd card and copied that to my pc. superoneclick was downloaded from download.com because the link kept timing out from the xda site.
i waited 45 minutes after i clicked on root but gave up .. checking if rooted showed false. checking for shell root showed false. i did copy the report that was generated and saw several no such file or directories on that.
any thoughts?
thanks
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You gotta slow down a bit first. What ROM do you currently have on your phone?
What's your issue now?
Do you have a Heimdall One Click you can use to go back to stock rooted GB?

FBis251 said:
You gotta slow down a bit first. What ROM do you currently have on your phone?
What's your issue now?
Do you have a Heimdall One Click you can use to go back to stock rooted GB?
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Yes I have Heimdall One Click and used that last Sunday to go from CM 9 back to stock (unless I missed something doing that). The T959V shows GB 2.3.6. I am now attempting to go from that to CM 11. The Gapp store only acknowledged my Vibrant not the T959V which was why the Super Manager did not load on that phone.
Thanks

kindanewb said:
Yes I have Heimdall One Click and used that last Sunday to go from CM 9 back to stock (unless I missed something doing that). The T959V shows GB 2.3.6. I am now attempting to go from that to CM 11. The Gapp store only acknowledged my Vibrant not the T959V which was why the Super Manager did not load on that phone.
Thanks
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You need to now flash a rooted kernel with a CWM recovery. @bhundven made it easy for you by making this one click:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/teamacid/files/bhundven/Stock_KJ6_and_root-One-Click.jar/download
Just download Bryan's one click and flash your phone with it.
Reboot to recovery, then flash my latest CM11 build.

And give up on the cwm app for this phone. It's not supported. If you flash the vibrant one, you'll brick.

FB I did as you said and now have CM 11 on the phone. I just got frustrated with technology issues. I have MobileGO on a pc and used that to copy stuff from one phone to another (but have a nandroid backup also as that was on the vibrant). My calling log does show up but nothing shows up as contacts as well as no transferred text messages. Also the names of my playlist show up also but nothing is in them.
Thanks

kindanewb said:
FB I did as you said and now have CM 11 on the phone. I just got frustrated with technology issues. I have MobileGO on a pc and used that to copy stuff from one phone to another (but have a nandroid backup also as that was on the vibrant). My calling log does show up but nothing shows up as contacts as well as no transferred text messages. Also the names of my playlist show up also but nothing is in them.
Thanks
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Do you mean that none of that data got transferred or none of that (contacts, call list, etc) is not showing up after you installed CM11? You can probably transfer some of that stuff using some play store apps, you can make backups to your sd card and copy the data to your SGS4G.

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Do you mean that none of that data got transferred or none of that (contacts, call list, etc) is not showing up after you installed CM11? You can probably transfer some of that stuff using some play store apps, you can make backups to your sd card and copy the data to your SGS4G.
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I should had stated that better. The copied info (contacts, calls logs, texts, pictures music was done to a computer then transferred to the SGS4G) appeared to transfer after I installed CM 11. Currently the contacts list is empty (main thing), the playlist shows empty but the music appears in Apollo and the pictures show in gallery.
I havent CM 11 greatly yet.. but I do like the changes that were very obvious over CM 9
Thanks

kindanewb said:
I should had stated that better. The copied info (contacts, calls logs, texts, pictures music was done to a computer then transferred to the SGS4G) appeared to transfer after I installed CM 11. Currently the contacts list is empty (main thing), the playlist shows empty but the music appears in Apollo and the pictures show in gallery.
I havent CM 11 greatly yet.. but I do like the changes that were very obvious over CM 9
Thanks
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Hmm, you can try exporting the contacts via the contacts app on your other phone. It'll create a vcard file that is universal. It'll work to import your contacts in CM11, I have tested this myself.
As far as the playlists, it will depend on the music player. Which player were you using before?

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Hmm, you can try exporting the contacts via the contacts app on your other phone. It'll create a vcard file that is universal. It'll work to import your contacts in CM11, I have tested this myself.
As far as the playlists, it will depend on the music player. Which player were you using before?
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I did get a vcard file file and contacts all transferred to sd card and imported the the SGS4G.
The playlist is my error. I forgot when I went from SGS4G and back to the stock Vibrant that I had to recreate the playlist there also. I will try Apollo again once I can access it without the following message.. Unfortunately, Apollo has stopped. I did notice on albums over 10 tracks long the are (example on 15 track album) 15,14,13,12,11,10,1... to 9. If I am listening to an audio book and need the tracks in order, will changing the # to an alpha (a.b.c.d.e.) keep that order?
Thanks

kindanewb said:
I did get a vcard file file and contacts all transferred to sd card and imported the the SGS4G.
The playlist is my error. I forgot when I went from SGS4G and back to the stock Vibrant that I had to recreate the playlist there also. I will try Apollo again once I can access it without the following message.. Unfortunately, Apollo has stopped. I did notice on albums over 10 tracks long the are (example on 15 track album) 15,14,13,12,11,10,1... to 9. If I am listening to an audio book and need the tracks in order, will changing the # to an alpha (a.b.c.d.e.) keep that order?
Thanks
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Hmm i'm not sure about Apollo specifically but most music players will let you do sorting like you're saying, so if the files for the audiobooks you're listening to are in numeric order, then using alphabetic sorting should work for you.
Ex:
Track 01
Track 02
Track 03
should all play in order with alphabetic sorting

FBis251 said:
Hmm i'm not sure about Apollo specifically but most music players will let you do sorting like you're saying, so if the files for the audiobooks you're listening to are in numeric order, then using alphabetic sorting should work for you.
Ex:
Track 01
Track 02
Track 03
should all play in order with alphabetic sorting
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I will give that a try once Apollo works again. Not sure why it hasnt worked since Monday. Also the installed camera and browser are getting the same message about "unfortunately has stopped". All of these did work over the weekend. Ideas?
Thanks

I messed around with Apollo and found other options and have it working and have made several playlist.
Thanks for all your help