I have a first generation myTouch that I want to wipe, install some baby apps on, and hand off to my 1year old. There are a number of apps she enjoys using and since we aren't going to be using the myTouch anymore, it might as well be hers.
The problem is that without service, you still have the option to place an emergency call. Needless to say, this could be trouble.
Is there a ROM out that I could flash onto this phone that has that disabled? Or is there a way to disable it via the terminal? I don't mind her having access to the wifi, we could show her youtube vids and such.
I know I am not alone on this one as I have found a thread or two on other forums asking similar questions, but no one every had an answer....they only question the reasons why. Plain and simple - my kid likes our phones, we can give her our old one, but we don't want her dialing 911.
Thanks!
pIxiLatEd said:
I have a first generation myTouch that I want to wipe, install some baby apps on, and hand off to my 1year old. There are a number of apps she enjoys using and since we aren't going to be using the myTouch anymore, it might as well be hers.
The problem is that without service, you still have the option to place an emergency call. Needless to say, this could be trouble.
Is there a ROM out that I could flash onto this phone that has that disabled? Or is there a way to disable it via the terminal? I don't mind her having access to the wifi, we could show her youtube vids and such.
I know I am not alone on this one as I have found a thread or two on other forums asking similar questions, but no one every had an answer....they only question the reasons why. Plain and simple - my kid likes our phones, we can give her our old one, but we don't want her dialing 911.
Thanks!
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you could pull the phone.apk from the rom via adb or term or have a rom built for you without the phone.apk
or you could put airplane mode on that should work fine as well
I tried airplane mode, but if by chance and emergency call is placed, it automatically turns on the radio to make the call.
Thanks for the pointers, I will see about pulling the phone.apk off the phone and see if that might fix it. I am not a n00b, but I have never created a ROM. That's a bit more work than I would like.
pIxiLatEd said:
I tried airplane mode, but if by chance and emergency call is placed, it automatically turns on the radio to make the call.
Thanks for the pointers, I will see about pulling the phone.apk off the phone and see if that might fix it. I am not a n00b, but I have never created a ROM. That's a bit more work than I would like.
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ok hope that works also you can use this in terminal type in
su
then type,
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblk3 /system
after this then type, the first letting is a lowercase L
ls /system/app
after this a long list should popup
then type in,
rm /system/app/Phone.apk
after this then reboot and you should be set hope this help ^_^
^^ Thanks sir!
I do get a few force close's on start up, but once I got through them it seems to run pretty good. While there isn't much I can do to keep her from having access to the phone buttons and such, I figure she can play with it and wreak havoc so long as there is no way to dial 911. I got the phone all set up with some fun wall paper and photo frames of Yo Gabba Gabba characters and then did a nandroid backup for easy fixin'.
Cheers!
pIxiLatEd said:
^^ Thanks sir!
I do get a few force close's on start up, but once I got through them it seems to run pretty good. While there isn't much I can do to keep her from having access to the phone buttons and such, I figure she can play with it and wreak havoc so long as there is no way to dial 911. I got the phone all set up with some fun wall paper and photo frames of Yo Gabba Gabba characters and then did a nandroid backup for easy fixin'.
Cheers!
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cool cool glad you got it the way you wanted ^_^
That is an awesome idea. I am going to have to do that when ever I decide to upgrade to a newer phone. Thanks for the idea.
And app that does it for ya...
This app is called "Uninstaller for Root." It lets you uninstall ANY apk on the phone, including all of those used to dial and/or place calls.
Have fun with it, and way to use current tech to educate your child!
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I am on my third one and now my 30 days are over so I'm stuck with it and if I return it based on warranty help I get a remanufactured one but I am having some really annoying problems. I have searched these forums but frankly they are very complicated and you all seem very advanced and technical and it's very confusing. I'm hoping someone can lay out in baby steps how to help me with these issues.
1. My folders, and TF3D indicate I have a text message when there are no conversations in there it's completely empty in every folder but it still indicates I have one new text message and it won't clear with a soft reset or anything.
2. Often times my calls go straight to voicemail and do not ring on my phone.
3. I drop a lot of calls
4. Often times my phone will flash and show who is calling but not actually ring even though the sound is completely on.
5. I get a ton of errors that want to report to Microsoft especially the shell32.exe error
6. Often times when I try to connect to the internet it won't work on the Opera browser or IE browser just says can't connect.
7. Often times my email won't download and I get a message saying check in my network connections and the only way it'll fix is if I power the device off.
8. The feature where I can flip it upside down to mute it doesn't work
9. Often times I will click on one spot and it activates something I didn't click.
These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Can someone please help me? I am begging. You can find me on Yahoo at julesthequeen06 if it'd be just easier to tell me I'm a lost cause on chat. Thank you in advance for reading this far.
Julie
BroncosMom said:
I am on my third one and now my 30 days are over so I'm stuck with it and if I return it based on warranty help I get a remanufactured one but I am having some really annoying problems. I have searched these forums but frankly they are very complicated and you all seem very advanced and technical and it's very confusing. I'm hoping someone can lay out in baby steps how to help me with these issues.
1. My folders, and TF3D indicate I have a text message when there are no conversations in there it's completely empty in every folder but it still indicates I have one new text message and it won't clear with a soft reset or anything.
2. Often times my calls go straight to voicemail and do not ring on my phone.
3. I drop a lot of calls
4. Often times my phone will flash and show who is calling but not actually ring even though the sound is completely on.
5. I get a ton of errors that want to report to Microsoft especially the shell32.exe error
6. Often times when I try to connect to the internet it won't work on the Opera browser or IE browser just says can't connect.
7. Often times my email won't download and I get a message saying check in my network connections and the only way it'll fix is if I power the device off.
8. The feature where I can flip it upside down to mute it doesn't work
9. Often times I will click on one spot and it activates something I didn't click.
These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Can someone please help me? I am begging. You can find me on Yahoo at julesthequeen06 if it'd be just easier to tell me I'm a lost cause on chat. Thank you in advance for reading this far.
Julie
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Have you flashed a new rom, loaded any progams, or done anything beyond out of the box configuring? The easiest answer would be to hard reset the phone and see if that helps.
We need to know some more in-depth info
Carrier:
Rom:
If you haven't tried flashing a rom I highly suggest doing so. This can help with a lot of the problems you are having. For the Stock Rom has a lot of problems.
i wouldnt flash a new rom if its screwing up like this out of the box. what have you installed on your phone? if its doing all these these without any installed programs or mods why have you waited 30 days to do something about it? it seems to me its more of a software issue. try hard resetting and go from there. if its fine, install one program at a time and find out which is causing it. if you have att then i dont think your mute is supposed to work like that, thats a feature you have to install another program to do. i could be wrong but mine doesnt work like that.
I would do a hard reset and clear everything... i would change my time to redirect the call to voice mail to the Max: 30 seconds, I would turn off error reporting because its just a pain in the arse.. the flipping it upside down to mute is the program thats having and issue but like everyone else said what do you have installed on your phone
Hi guys!
Was poking around online, and found this page: http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-research/blog/part-1-guide-to-windows-mobile.aspx . It lists a few great programs (many of which have been developed by you folx here at xda). There are two phenomenal ones that work quite well on my TP2.
The first is the SD card tuneup. I don't know why, but it seems to make my WHOLE PHONE go faster. I love it.
The second is the advanced configuration utility. A great way to access tons of settings to better tweak your phone.
Hope it helps you guys as much as it does me.
Warning for verizon users
Be very careful here and learn from my mistake. I did the reg edit from the linked page for increasing the threaded sms space. I copied the file over to my PC, made the edit, pasted back and reset. When I went into text messages and clicked "all messages" it wouldn't open. I hit reply and it wouldn't open. They only way I could send a text was either from favorites or contacts. I still had the original file so I pasted it back reset but but still f'ed up. I finally had to hard reset to fix it.
Another Warning
I would recommend not using the Advanced Configuration program on CDMA phones. Apparently some settings are just different enough to cause weird problems, one of which is being unable to answer an incoming call. (had that happen on my mogul), still see threads warning about using it on CDMA TP2, so be ready to hard reset if you do decide to try it out.
Advanced Config Tool on Sprint TP2
Thank you last poster on the issue with CDMA and Advanced Configuration Utility. I've been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why I'm having so much trouble answering the phone. Sometimes I can answer, sometimes not. I've also noticed a few other strange behaviors like not getting the pop up "snooze" message I used to get when using the phones built in alarm.
Looks like my only way of not only removing the ACU but also fixing these problems is a hard reset? That seriously sucks, but at least I have a potential for getting these functions working again.
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Thank you last poster on the issue with CDMA and Advanced Configuration Utility. I've been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why I'm having so much trouble answering the phone. Sometimes I can answer, sometimes not. I've also noticed a few other strange behaviors like not getting the pop up "snooze" message I used to get when using the phones built in alarm.
Looks like my only way of not only removing the ACU but also fixing these problems is a hard reset? That seriously sucks, but at least I have a potential for getting these functions working again.
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Here's a link to a way to fix things without a hard reset. At least it will fix the phone
answering problem. Be sure to stop using Adv Conf too!
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=1205964&postcount=16
Hello there,
I have a serious problem. A while ago i flashed the energy rom to my device and it worked great. Now i can't use my phone anymore because it was a beta version? I've searched the forum, and i saw more of you got the same problem.
And i've read that it's possible to reinstall windows on my device but..
I typed serious import texts with notefolio and windows note creator program thing, i need it for my job,, Is there any way to retrieve those text files? It's not on my SD card, so it must be in the internal memory.. ****
My laptop makes a sound when i connect the USB cable, nut i can't see my touch pro in ''my computer'', it seems it won't connect...
Please please help me i'm desperate
thanks allready
Greatings,
Bouke
Mine just did the same thing and im about to leave the country. Have any suggested new builds?
Energy Rom Craps Out
My phone has also taken the time trial sleep, any help before I reflash. XDA should make it known that acts such as this do not happen again. I have donated to the development of this site, now wondering why & if I will do it again. Please help with a fix other than reflashing.
Moved as not ROM Development.
caution523 said:
My phone has also taken the time trial sleep, any help before I reflash. XDA should make it known that acts such as this do not happen again. I have donated to the development of this site, now wondering why & if I will do it again. Please help with a fix other than reflashing.
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I dont think theres any way to undo this thing. just happend to me this morning. I was able to get a start menu, but all the apps I start, start under the message.
BUT, since I got enough reminders that this version I flashed was going down, I see not more than to just accept this failure .
So I held down the vol- button en pressed the reset button with my stylus, now I its flashing a new ROM.
Good luck
yea i tried that aswell, but everyting is beneeth the message.
And indeed it's a huge FAIL from the energy rom developer
I'm still hoping for some reactions that may help recovering my valuable text files..
If i flash a new rom it will erase all the data on the phone memory including text files notefolie etc. right?
Greatings
unfortunately yes. as far as i know there is no chance of getting them out of there. but you installed a custom and private made rom - that is to some extend alsways a risk and you should back up all the things you have on your phone when you do this.
good luck
i too want to get a few things out of the phone.
the stuff that still works is htc sense, and anything started directly out of sense, but not any shortcuts to programs.
you can access it by locking the phone, then unlocking it.
it will give me access to sense ui.
so i'm now pretty much looking for anything that's left to help me start a backup program.
any ideas on how to add a program as a service?
maybe with sd autostart.
does that still work?
all we need is to get the phone to run one lousy backup app.
maybe even automated.
we need ideas! ;-)
shadow# said:
i too want to get a few things out of the phone.
the stuff that still works is htc sense, and anything started directly out of sense, but not any shortcuts to programs.
you can access it by locking the phone, then unlocking it.
it will give me access to sense ui.
so i'm now pretty much looking for anything that's left to help me start a backup program.
any ideas on how to add a program as a service?
maybe with sd autostart.
does that still work?
all we need is to get the phone to run one lousy backup app.
maybe even automated.
we need ideas! ;-)
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Hmm what doe you mean with locking / unlocking the phone?
And as backup program i have PIMBackup @ SD Card..
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Hmm what doe you mean with locking / unlocking the phone?
And as backup program i have PIMBackup @ SD Card..
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My phone locks on long end key.
If I press that and unlock again, the expiry message disappears for a while.
Sense and some Programs started directly from within work. Not the home screen links
However, I cannot start programs from links or access the internal memory.
Is there any way to read this while in "boot screen" mode?
If you can get some things to work, then pull your sim card out, and sync to a pc. If the syncing works, set the pc's date back a few days, and see if the rom starts working normally, then back up what you need and re-flash.
If you can't sync, just try to fix the date on your phone. A soft reset may be required.
Doesn't work as Sense crashes when I try to set the date.
Maybe it works for other people.
Sync does not work as that is blocked.
I tried changing the timezone immediately after it locked but that didn't work either.
So I suspect changing the date back wouldn't do you any good.
In other words: I don't see any way to recover any data from internal memory.
I'm going to do a hard reset now as I don't have time for this.
I conclude that whoever decided or implemented this timebomb as is, is a complete asshole and I hope he gets eaten by wolves in his sleep.
Disabling a product after a beta phase and/or forcing customers to update is perfectly fine, destroying their data in the process is unacceptable.
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I conclude that whoever decided or implemented this timebomb as is, is a complete asshole and I hope he gets eaten by wolves in his sleep.
Disabling a product after a beta phase and/or forcing customers to update is perfectly fine, destroying their data in the process is unacceptable.
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Gee, Office 2010 is a beta release, and came with a time-bomb. Maybe you should call microsoft and tell them to suck it since your custom rom didn't live up to your expectations.
shadow# said:
Doesn't work as Sense crashes when I try to set the date.
Maybe it works for other people.
Sync does not work as that is blocked.
I tried changing the timezone immediately after it locked but that didn't work either.
So I suspect changing the date back wouldn't do you any good.
In other words: I don't see any way to recover any data from internal memory.
I'm going to do a hard reset now as I don't have time for this.
I conclude that whoever decided or implemented this timebomb as is, is a complete asshole and I hope he gets eaten by wolves in his sleep.
Disabling a product after a beta phase and/or forcing customers to update is perfectly fine, destroying their data in the process is unacceptable.
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I totally agree with that. I don't have time for it either, and i've already told my supervisor the good news..
Does anyone know a good working smooth ROM without the crappy time bomb thing?
Hey everybody,
I am a reformed iPhone loser, I had the original 2G, got the 4 for about a week and a half on release, and a good friend of mine talked me into returning it for a captivate and I have been hooked on droids ever since. I am an IT guy by trade and a tinkerer in general so Android is perfect for me. Found this site and haven't looked back.
Recently my company put me on their verizon plan and I opted for the Charge as I have been very happy with my Galaxy phone from Samsung. My company is cool and doubt they would mind me throwing custom ROMs on this beast, I just have to build up the courage to risk the warranty on this thing. Anyway, now that my overly long introduction has been done, here are a few gripes I've found so far and hopefully you guys can help me with.
The basics (non development related)
1.) I love the factory e-mail app, the fact it handles both my corporate and gmail in one central app is nice. However, the Gmail app still takes priority for whatever reason and all my gmail mail goes to that, but if I manually press refresh on the e-mail app, it will load. I have tried to uninstall the Gmail app but as you all know, it's embedded.
2.) My cappy handled threaded texts very well, my charge seems to break up the bubbles by pages like a normal phone would. I will get seperated messages all the time, hate that.
3.) I get a lot of double text messages, no clue why.
4.) My SD card has already corrupted, I took a picture yesterday, clicked on the small thumbnail in the corner and deleted it from there, all of a sudden all of my pictures turned to small grey boxes with ? symbols. The phone still detected the card and displayed the storage space, but I kept getting a notification the card was damaged. Eventually I formatted it, but then couldn't get it to mount. I physically removed the card and the battery and let the phone sit for 2-3 minutes, then put it back in, and after media scanning, the card was working again. I could then take pictures, and store them normally again.
5.) Random data droppage, from 3G to 1x to nothing, then back to 3G. Never had so many time outs on the web browser before. The WiFi also seems to be pretty bad, sitting next to my router at home, I was getting 1-2 bars?
Development related
1.) Like I said, I haven't even attempted anything yet, but from my initial reading it seems like Samsung and VZW have teamed up to make it more difficult to get root on these phones. On my cappy a simple .zip installation through recovery could get root, but to have to flash a kernel to get root, seems risky and unnecessary.
Hopefully this phone will grow on me as I start to explore the third-party stuff more, I know custom ROMs on my cappy made the phone a completely different beast.
Thanks,
-be
Glad to have u on board with the Charge! Ok to address some of ur issues, the one issue that I seem to have in common with u would be the signal dropping. That has to be the most annoying thing. Its not something I can pinpoint myself, but I would guess it has to be something to do with a faulty antenna in the phone or maybe some issues with the towers. I've taken it up wit VZW and there isnt anything they could do except send me a replacement, which STILL has the reception issues.
Another thing u will notice is that sometimes ur data reception just wont return AT ALL. pulling the sim card and battery for a few mins solves this issue.
When it comes to developement, rooting this phone is as easy as u would think. Flashing a kernel with Odin isn't a pain at all. Very simple. Flash the recovery, then kernel to lock the recovery in. From there, flashing via CWM is easy. U know the drill comin from a Captivate I assume.
Hopefully some of this helps u out man! Don't be scared to take the plunge!!!!
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA Premium App
Welcome to the droid charge. for your email problem, open the settings app, scroll to accounts and sync, select your gmail and then uncheck sync gmail. now go to the email app, open your gmail, press menu, press account settings and check email notifications. now go into email check frequency and put it at what youd like.
The data drop problem happens to me maybe once every few months and it will be fixed in the gingerbread update with the new radio software. your sd card problem appears to be solved. the double messages would be solved by downloading a third party messaging app or doing a data wipe (in settings>privacy>factory data reset) but that will wipe everything except for your email and contacts and you may get some of your apps back automatically but for the most part you would have to reinstall redownload them manually
Kernels arent very risky because there is almost no way to file brick this. there is a full odin which will completely bring it back to stock. also if you get a voodoo kernel (almost every kernel) you get improvements to your phone's sound quality, you get root and you get the option to change it from the laggy samsung rfs filesystem to ext4 filesystem which results in faster boot times, faster media scanning, faster app opening, and pretty much everything gets a small speed boost.
Thanks for all the help guys!
I took the plunge yesterday and flashed Humble 1.5.1 using ODIN, other than having it scare the **** out of me twice by failing before I realized I had to put the battery back in once in download mode, it passed with flying colors and I now love this phone so much more. All my problems seem to be solved with this new ROM too, no more double texts, no more email problems, data seems to be more stabile too.
It's faster, it's simpler, it's not doo doo brown, and it's way better on battery. Looking forward to being apart of this community and trying out all the ROMs.
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It's faster, it's simpler, it's not doo doo brown,
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I actually loled at that last sentence.
The data going in and out has been a problem for everyone on every rom at some point. It's a Samsung/Verizon issue. The quick fix is to go into airplane mode for a few seconds, then turn it off. BTW Imnut's just released an update for his kernels a few days ago that has improved performance fairly well, so look into flashing an updated kernel.
Hello,
First off, I know its a super buggy build, but some of the problem I've encountered aren't even reported so I feel like I'm the only one having them. As well, I would have posted on the actual topic, but I don't yet have 10 posts yet, so it won't let me.
Anyway, first problem.
I can't use/ setup voicemail! I don't really care about visual voicemail, but I literally can't even access my own voicemail. Dialing my own number just gives me a busy tone, what gives?
Secondly, on that matter, every time I make a phone call from my phone, the screen goes black the second the phone screen pops up. I thought it was like a proximity sensor or something, but even with the phone on a table, I can't get it to come out of the "black mode" while on a call. If I press the power button, the screen will flash on briefly, but not long enough to do anything with it. As such I can't hang out phone calls, so I have to force reboot after every phone call.
And finally, on the matter of the phone, there are times where people call me, I'll answer (get the same black thing) but I can't hear them at all, and they can't hear me at all, but we are connected, and since I can't hang up, and on a black screen, I am helpless.
Another problem... I connected my phone to my comp today to try and grab a new ROM, thought I'd mount the SD card, but when I plugged it in, there was literally no option to mount anything. I went through all my settings, developer stuff, nothing fixed it.
As well, since I couldn't connect to my computer, I couldn't run "adb logcat" to maybe see what was going on with the phone and such. So I used a mobile terminal app I use occasionally to run "adb logcat" locally on the device. Well when I first run "adb devices" my own phone doesn't even pop up... Yes, developer debugging is enabled, and yes, the mobile terminal app had complete root access. How do you explain this? A friend of mine suggested reinstalling the rom wiping the dalvic cache, which I did, but all the problems I've been having still persist.
It makes it extremely difficult to use my phone day to day with these issues, and since I can't do a logcat, I can't really report the problems accurately, even though I seem to be the only one having them. Don't get me wrong, I love MIUI and all the work the MIUI.us team does porting, but I just don't think I should be having so many problems.
Thanks for the help guys.
Did you do a full wipe before flashing miui? I haven't updated to v4 but voicemail/phone calls work fine for me on v3...maybe you should try flashing that instead? Can't help you with the adb stuff, sorry. I did have trouble getting my phone connect to my windows 7 laptop though but adb worked fine on vista
joorie said:
Did you do a full wipe before flashing miui? I haven't updated to v4 but voicemail/phone calls work fine for me on v3...maybe you should try flashing that instead? Can't help you with the adb stuff, sorry. I did have trouble getting my phone connect to my windows 7 laptop though but adb worked fine on vista
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Yep, I did a full wipe many times actually. Could it be that I used a backup from an order version of MIUI (2.4.x) inside that backup/restore program and it's corrupting something? At least in regards to phonecalls and voicemail...
ItWasLuck3 said:
Yep, I did a full wipe many times actually. Could it be that I used a backup from an order version of MIUI (2.4.x) inside that backup/restore program and it's corrupting something? At least in regards to phonecalls and voicemail...
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Try testing voicemail and calls before restoring?? I restored data from some games using MyBackUp Root or something and my phone has been working fine >_< If all else fails, I can upload the 2.8.24_v3 rom for you! I think blind is gonna have a new build up today though so up to you. Sorry I haven't been much help :\
joorie said:
Try testing voicemail and calls before restoring?? I restored data from some games using MyBackUp Root or something and my phone has been working fine >_< If all else fails, I can upload the 2.8.24_v3 rom for you! I think blind is gonna have a new build up today though so up to you. Sorry I haven't been much help :\
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I'll give it a try next time I flash. I do appreciate the offer for the v3 rom, but maybe I'll just wait for blind to get the new one up and hope I have better luck. I did a little more research on the adb thing on JB roms, and apparently there's some other driver needed or whatnot, so I'd assume that the terminal app I'm using on my actual HOX doesn't have said driver. However, that doesn't explain why I couldn't mount my SD on my computer. Like I said, maybe this next update will solve everything lol.