OK, this may be an odd question but here goes...
My phone's been playing this weird Sci Fi type sound at completely random times. I have no idea if this is due to a system function or an app. I've used ES File Manager to scan the SD card for all media files and it's not on the card. It won't scan the system directory and Root Explorer doesn't seem to have a scan function either. I've only noticed this happening once every few days and when I check the phone afterward I don't see any unfamiliar alerts or messages.
Took me a while to track down a reasonably facsimile... It sounds similar to the last sound in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPOU-AUuxKw&feature=related
(skip to 2:08)
What ROM are you using?
It's rooted but it's the stock ROM. I got the phone right after Christmas because my HD2 just up and died. After rooting and de-bloating the phone I haven't felt the need, yet, to try a custom ROM.
Also, I've disabled the bootup animations.
Wow, that's freaking creepy!
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Definitely creepy. No notifications or anything, eh? I'd probably make a backup of the contacts (if you're not synching them with T-Mobile or Google already) and anything else that's important, then do a factory data reset to see if it continues to happen.
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Wow, that's freaking creepy!
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Hahaha... Right?! It played at 4:30 this morning. The phone was just sitting on the night stand. So it's got to be some sort of system function or application that's being run by the OS. I've double checked all the ring tones and notification tones for all email, messaging and calendar apps and can't find it anywhere. If this sound persists I'll just have to go with the "my phone is possessed" explanation.
After some more investigation, I've found this sound is made by a musical instrument called a blaster beam. (Of course, if there is a Blaster Beam App, it's not installed on my phone. ) And it actually sounds closer to the sound of the seismic charges from Star Wars II. The two sounds are compared here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAEoZ-dJjZ4&
This is just really freaky.
Yeah, weird sound. LOL. I can't fathom what would make it do that.
stephen_w said:
Definitely creepy. No notifications or anything, eh? I'd probably make a backup of the contacts (if you're not synching them with T-Mobile or Google already) and anything else that's important, then do a factory data reset to see if it continues to happen.
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No, nothing out of the ordinary. When I heard the sound this morning I checked and there was nothing but a couple gmail notifications. I checked the gmail and email properties, of course, and there is no such sound in the list.
Yeah, if I can't figure out where this is coming from I'll do the factory reset. Not quite ready to do that yet, though. Got to admit... My curiosity is getting the better of me.
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No, nothing out of the ordinary. When I heard the sound this morning I checked and there was nothing but a couple gmail notifications. I checked the gmail and email properties, of course, and there is no such sound in the list.
Yeah, if I can't figure out where this is coming from I'll do the factory reset. Not quite ready to do that yet, though. Got to admit... My curiosity is getting the better of me.
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LOL, this definitely has my curiosity piqued. It's too bad you can't induce the problem as that would make it a ton easier to track down. Keep us posted.
LOL That is to funny... Reminds me of Siri trying to kill lol that video from Smosh on youtube! Man thats weird.. I would re-do everything again just to see if it does it again..
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I had that happen to me before for. It was coming from twicca one of those twitter applications that updates at random times. I just changed the notification settings and it fixed it.$ee if you have any twitter or even Facebook notification.
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I had that happen to me before for. It was coming from twicca one of those twitter applications that updates at random times. I just changed the notification settings and it fixed it.$ee if you have any twitter or even Facebook notification.
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Huh. Good suggestion but that's not it either. I don't have a twitter app installed and though I do have Facebook, I never stay logged in. Checked it anyway, though, and none of the notification sounds are the right one.
But thanks for the suggestion.
I posted a couple examples above in the thread but this is as close as I can find to the sound (as I remember it). http://www.thepickofdestiny.com/temp/BlasterBeam2.mp3
Is the sound anywhere in your media folders? Under settings> sounds> notifications, what sound is set for notifications?
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Nope. I cant find that sound file ANYWHERE and that's what's so weird. And all my notifications are set to "silent."
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Nope. I cant find that sound file ANYWHERE and that's what's so weird. And all my notifications are set to "silent."
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Restore to a stock ROM with either odin or heimdall, and reinstall are your apps one by one... Do you have any kind of av program? Try running a scan to see if you got some kind of virus...
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Restore to a stock ROM with either odin or heimdall, and reinstall are your apps one by one... Do you have any kind of av program? Try running a scan to see if you got some kind of virus...
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Still on the factory stock ROM. Never loaded any custom ROMs. The only thing I've done to the OS is root. And that was primarily so I could install Titanium and lose the bloat that Samsung & Tmo put in.
Currently running Lookout AV. If there's a better one out there I'll try it. I've only been playing with Android devices for a couple months so I'm still pretty new in this arena.
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OK, question answered. (And now I feel really stupid.)
The reason I couldn't find that sound file anywhere on the phone is because it wasn't coming from the phone. (DUH!) The sound file is called "Radon" and it was coming from my Galaxy Tab 10.1 which was sitting nearby. It was an alert notification coming from the built-in email client. I only found it because I was checking my Tab this morning when an email came in and I saw the notification flash in the status window. I probably hadn't made the connection before because I usually have the sound off on the tab so as not to disturb the wife while she's sleeping. (I can sleep through anything.)
Thank you all for your helpful suggestions.
I'm going to go lie down in the street, now.
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OK, question answered. (And now I feel really stupid.)
The reason I couldn't find that sound file anywhere on the phone is because it wasn't coming from the phone. (DUH!) The sound file is called "Radon" and it was coming from my Galaxy Tab 10.1 which was sitting nearby. It was an alert notification coming from the built-in email client. I only found it because I was checking my Tab this morning when an email came in and I saw the notification flash in the status window. I probably hadn't made the connection before because I usually have the sound off on the tab so as not to disturb the wife while she's sleeping. (I can sleep through anything.)
Thank you all for your helpful suggestions.
I'm going to go lie down in the street, now.
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Man, I liked it better when we thought it was possessed! Seriously, glad you figured it out.
Indeed. The resolution is certainly anticlimactic.
Much like every Ghost Hunters episode ever filmed.
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Indeed. The resolution is certainly anticlimactic.
Much like every Ghost Hunters episode ever filmed.
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Haha, so true! That would be the last thing on my mind LOL. Glad to know its wasn't cyborg or something on your phone. Congrats on finding the culprit!
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So far I love the phone. The feel and weight of the phone just seems better then my Captivate(which I gave to my wife). After not getting data on the phone unless I had WiFi on kind of sucked, but if you make a new network. You will be able to gain data back.
The only thing I am not liking is when I set up my HTC sense with Facebook, it put all my friends from facebook into my contacts list in my phone. I do not want all my friends on the list. I have tried and figure out how to delete from the list but cant figure it out. Anyone know how?
I also side loaded a few apps using the SLW program, once you download HTC sync on your computer it was easy.
I cant wait until this phone gets rooted so I can go in and change some stuff around, like ringtones. You can have custom ringtones when the phone is not plugged in to the USB but once you plug the USB in, it reverts back to the stock ringtones because it thinks shuts off your SD Card. Well you know what, I guess I can have the option to only have it charge will plugged in. That might work.
Other then that me loves the phone. Glade my wife had an upgrade so I could get the phone for $79.99 from Costco and a free charger with it. She loves my old Captivate so I was like hell ya ill trade ya!
Ha I love it...got a feeling alot of wives will be getting a captivate tommorow
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Happy valentines day ......here's my old phone! lol yes there will be alot of this goin on
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lol actually bought the wife a new Inspire to match mine, talked my parents into both getting them as well !
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The only thing I am not liking is when I set up my HTC sense with Facebook, it put all my friends from facebook into my contacts list in my phone. I do not want all my friends on the list. I have tried and figure out how to delete from the list but cant figure it out. Anyone know how?
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I have the Evo for sprint which should be similar. Open your People/contacts app, hit menu, and you should see an option that says 'View'. Select view to choose which contacts you want displayed and deselect your Facebook account.
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abanh said:
I have the Evo for sprint which should be similar. Open your People/contacts app, hit menu, and you should see an option that says 'View'. Select view to choose which contacts you want displayed and deselect your Facebook account.
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Ok so in the people and contacts it has my correct contacts. What am talking about is when you look at the phone on the homescreen you see the button that says phone. If you click on that it will show every one of my Facebook friends, even the ones they I dont have in my contact list. I dont want them there.
I haven't mentioned to my wife yet... she's gonna wonder why the hell I'm getting up early on a Sunday morning, probably think I'm having an affair, lol.
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I haven't mentioned to my wife yet... she's gonna wonder why the hell I'm getting up early on a Sunday morning, probably think I'm having an affair, lol.
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You are, with the Inspire 4G. hahaha
I dont regret it for a second, yeah no Real 4G but we have root, roms and radios NOW.
Also, for those that just want to install apps and leave the phone stock you can go to this thread created by me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943174
The phone feels so polished and the screen is awesome, no Craptivate screen but it will turn heads.
We have accomplished so much in so little time.
Thanks to all the devs and porters out there, this is already a more than worthwhile device and for the price you can not beat it.
Atrix is just a bad memory of Motoblur hell, good luck trying to even root that damn thing.. hahaha
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Ok so in the people and contacts it has my correct contacts. What am talking about is when you look at the phone on the homescreen you see the button that says phone. If you click on that it will show every one of my Facebook friends, even the ones they I dont have in my contact list. I dont want them there.
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Ok I know what you're saying, and I didn't even realized my phone did that until you just mentioned it. I didn't see a way to get rid of them either.
If this is bothering you because you have to scroll through so many more names to get to the contact you want to dial, have you tried the t9 smart dialer feature? Lets say you want to dial 'John', instead of scrolling all the way down to his name, just spell out his name via t9 (5 for 'j', 6 for 'o', 4 for 'h', etc). The contacts that match what you're typing will appear and you don't have to scroll through all the names. My Evo and other HTC sense phones do this ( stock android doesn't, but you can download other dialers in the market that do). If you already knew this and just don't want the names to appear, can't help you there.
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I really, really like this phone. My ear speaker is great, although the external speaker is a little weak. Not a huge deal though, just had to select the high pitched notifications to be sure to hear them.
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I thought it was interesting that Facebook .com thought my phone was a nexus one
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i went to check this out in the store today. a few thoughts
-size is great. i compared it to my nexus one w/seidocase and it is only slightly larger... like less than a .25" larger in width and length
-weight is great. very comparable to n1 w/case
-sense 2.0 looked pretty slick.
-very fast... zero lag.
-my only stickler was the screen. i could see the "grid" dots on the display unit. is this typical of slcd?
Love it already and havent had it 5 hours yet, beats my old htc surround hands down.
This kicks the captivates ass all around, even unrooted with stock rom. Soooo glad I pulled the trigger... nice to have a decent exchange email client as part of the basic package (sorry touchdown, but the integration is a big plus... I hated the separate address books).
The more I use my phone the more I realize everything works and works well.
Have installed pretty much everything there is and it plays or runs them without a hiccup.
Obviously the only apps it will not run are the ones that require root. My plan is to do this very soon so I can take advantage of those as well.
Every single game I've installed is smooth with no lag.
Emulators work with zero issues, my plan is to try the the psx one next.
You can not measure the battery life right away, it has to get used to a few charges first. See the Desire HD forums and they will say the same.
I've made some calls and can say that it sounds great, I've tried both the loudspeaker and the ear speaker and both sound fine to me.
Obviously the small speaker will not be that loud especially at first. Still planning to use DSP Manager to see if it fixes it.
I've still to try out the gps while moving in the vehicle as well.
Build quality is very satisfying and is what's expected from HTC.
Where I had trouble getting 3G I am now getting a constant H+ according to the phone.
What else can I say I made an excellent choice and with the Sideload Wonder Machine, root, radio and custom ROMs there's room to make this phone even better with those options.
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Hello. This post is going to be semi rant semi help needed. I'm going to list the issues on my infuse. Feedback whether or not you have the same issues or a way to fix would be great. I'm getting pretty irritated with this phone though. Here we go!
Apps crash way more than they should. Browser, camera, music player, Facebook. Just random.
When receiving phone call, it just vibrates. Trust me, the volume is up all of the way. I go to change ringtone and that doesn't even make a sound. I have to reboot for my sound to work. Very frustrating.
Call quality. Jeeeeeesus Christ. I have never had a phone where the other person constantly says "what? I can't hear you?" Or "why does it sound like you're a mile away from your phone?" Or "take me off speaker phone!" I ASSURE YOU the phone is on my face, mic by my mouth, and outside where I have full bars.
And now as of today, I tried to show videos I took at warped tour 2 days ago and get the error "cannot view video" I literally took the video myself with the phone. Watched it before. But now I can't.
Smh.....
Stock rom, I am rooted but these have been on going before I decided to root.
Like I said in the beginning. This is a rant/cry for help.
If anyone is having the same issues or knows a fix, reply?
Thanks for reading
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It's defective, ask for a return.
I tried. But I got on Craigslist without the box and att demands box and receipt. -_- I can always go with Samsung warranty but ill be phoneless for a couple weeks. Is the call quality bad on anyone else's? That's one of my main concernes.
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iiKevin said:
I tried. But I got on Craigslist without the box and att demands box and receipt. -_- I can always go with Samsung warranty but ill be phoneless for a couple weeks. Is the call quality bad on anyone else's? That's one of my main concernes.
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LOL!
I bought a massage on craigslist and it was the worst massage ever. The chick wasn't even hot!!! I was going to ask for a refund, but she didn't give me a receipt and her pimp required a receipt for any refunds.
Traded an iphone 4 without box.
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I used to have call quality problems but i fixed it. It can be fixed if you disable the samsung noise reduction, just press the menu key during a call
jesi.james said:
I used to have call quality problems but i fixed it. It can be fixed if you disable the samsung noise reduction, just press the menu key during a call
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Thanks ill give that a try
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I agree...my call quality improved too after disabling the noise reduction.
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I haven't noticed any of the issues you seem to be having.
Call quality seems good, (at least nobody has said anything negative about it). Phone volume works as it should, apps don't crash any more than normal.
You definitely have a dud, you may just have to go through the Samsung Warranty.. their service is excellent. They don't ask many questions, they simply email you a UPS shipping label, you ship the phone back to them, then in a few weeks, you get it back.
Samsung Customer Support is really quite good(at least in my experience.)
It also sounds like your "stock" in that you have no clue what was done to your phone before it got in your hands. I'd try flashing a ROM (infused is my favorite), and deleting all the data to have a fresh install. May help
I've had the same call quality issues. I just posted a week or two ago with the same frustrations. Multiple people would tell me that I wasn't talking in to the phone. Glad to hear of this noise reduction stuff.
Althought you bought the phone on craigslist. the att warranty is not void. I had this happend to me before. get with the previous owner. ask them for the cell phone number, and explain to att that you bought the phone from him. they will send you a replacement.
_NooB_
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It also sounds like your "stock" in that you have no clue what was done to your phone before it got in your hands. I'd try flashing a ROM (infused is my favorite), and deleting all the data to have a fresh install. May help
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Ive had it for about a month now. I whipped data as soon as I got it. I've used all the roms for it but I bricked it so I am just on stock ATM. I really only rooted for screen shot capabilities.
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DS1495 said:
I haven't noticed any of the issues you seem to be having.
Call quality seems good, (at least nobody has said anything negative about it). Phone volume works as it should, apps don't crash any more than normal.
You definitely have a dud, you may just have to go through the Samsung Warranty.. their service is excellent. They don't ask many questions, they simply email you a UPS shipping label, you ship the phone back to them, then in a few weeks, you get it back.
Samsung Customer Support is really quite good(at least in my experience.)
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Eh I had bad experience with my captivate sim tray messed up.
Ill still go through samsung though.
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tae4111 said:
Althought you bought the phone on craigslist. the att warranty is not void. I had this happend to me before. get with the previous owner. ask them for the cell phone number, and explain to att that you bought the phone from him. they will send you a replacement.
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Thanks. Ill give him a call. All I need is the number associated when he bought it and let them know?
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antuus said:
I've had the same call quality issues. I just posted a week or two ago with the same frustrations. Multiple people would tell me that I wasn't talking in to the phone. Glad to hear of this noise reduction stuff.
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Yeah I Google'd the hell out of the call quality. All the reviews said it was great but not for me. Im glad to hear about that fix too!
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If you have the official Twitter app, it has been causing lots of issues with music, ringtones, videos and notifications not working. There has been a lot of success fixing these issues by simply deleting the Twitter app. It fixed all my media related issues.
I have had great call quality with mine though. I think it is way better than my iPhone 4 was for making calls.
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If you have the official Twitter app, it has been causing lots of issues with music, ringtones, videos and notifications not working. There has been a lot of success fixing these issues by simply deleting the Twitter app. It fixed all my media related issues.
I have had great call quality with mine though. I think it is way better than my iPhone 4 was for making calls.
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I had media issues as well until i removed the official twitter app. All has been good for the last 2 weeks regarding media. Give this is a try!
scottyb0721 said:
If you have the official Twitter app, it has been causing lots of issues with music, ringtones, videos and notifications not working. There has been a lot of success fixing these issues by simply deleting the Twitter app. It fixed all my media related issues.
I have had great call quality with mine though. I think it is way better than my iPhone 4 was for making calls.
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Wow thanks. Ill try that. I only downloaded that dumb app cause some girls I met at warped tour said they were on twitter and to follow them lololol. Ill give it a try. Thanks!
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Mine gets the video error once in a while too. I made a post about and there were some others with the problem too. It gets fixed after restarting.
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Hey All,
Anyone having missed calls issues? I have been getting them for a while now but now its starting to be a bummer anyone know what the issue could be and how it could be resolved? Also phone is getting a little buggy :l Go Launcher EX stopped working...or at least the icons don't load...so I have switched so ADW Launcher for now which I'm liking but its just too complicated for me (standard user) I fixed my too long text problem with Go SMS Pro by making it split my texts after 156 characters I believe? Sometimes phone slows down...not sure if that's normal....Sometimes my Beautiful Widgets Superclock wont load either :/ but the weather part will....Phone used to die quickly im a failry heavy user but I dont remember it dieing this fast before, I have it on for 10 minutes...and I see the % at the top right drop from 100 to 87%... =( I just did a Battery calibration yesterday I think im seeing a improvemnt..not sure lol, I should have recorded how long it lasts >_>.Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Edit - Sometimes my phone will text people weird boxes :/
Edit2 - Btw anyone have some good UV values? 4 Set CPU or profiles and things of that sort...
BTW I'm still a noob at this stuff but I'm learning haha!
~Viper
ROM: Valhalla - BlackEdition
KERNEL: I cant remember =/
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Viper-Link said:
Hey All,
Anyone having missed calls issues? I have been getting them for a while now but now its starting to be a bummer anyone know what the issue could be and how it could be resolved? Also phone is getting a little buggy :l Go Launcher EX stopped working...or at least the icons don't load...so I have switched so ADW Launcher for now which I'm liking but its just too complicated for me (standard user) I fixed my too long text problem with Go SMS Pro by making it split my texts after 156 characters I believe? Sometimes phone slows down...not sure if that's normal....Sometimes my Beautiful Widgets Superclock wont load either :/ but the weather part will....Phone used to die quickly im a failry heavy user but I dont remember it dieing this fast before, I have it on for 10 minutes...and I see the % at the top right drop from 100 to 87%... =( I just did a Battery calibration yesterday I think im seeing a improvemnt..not sure lol, I should have recorded how long it lasts >_>.Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Edit - Sometimes my phone will text people weird boxes :/
Edit2 - Btw anyone have some good UV values? 4 Set CPU or profiles and things of that sort...
BTW I'm still a noob at this stuff but I'm learning haha!
~Viper
ROM: Valhalla - BlackEdition
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I remember a fresh flash of Valhalla Black has all of the ringtones set to none. You have to go select the ringtone you want or it will be on a silent ringtone.
I doubt that is the problem since I have a custom ringdroid ringtone on currently. I but I will change it and see if I receive any missed calls... Let me try to explain it further though I don't receive some calls period. But I look on my friends phone and it shows that they did indeed call me... Sometimes message me and yet I received nothing from them... =/
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Could be network issue too... It's not a uncommon thing in the cell phone world. Text messages too?? How often does it happen? Can it be repeated and logged. If so, try posting a logcat in the Valhalla Black thread for help.
Yea I know it can be but recently its been doing it much more before it was roughly about once a week? Now it's daily =/ how do I would I log this? Catlog?
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Try a new sim I think they're free if you're t mobile... that might help with the missed calls and stuff. About the other stuff that's just plain weird. Sounds like you have a bad battery and bad sd card and bad phone. Throw that thing away.
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TwitchyEye said:
Try a new sim I think they're free if you're t mobile... that might help with the missed calls and stuff. About the other stuff that's just plain weird. Sounds like you have a bad battery and bad sd card and bad phone. Throw that thing away.
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Yeah the sim cards are free. I do know that they updated Sim cards a while back when I updated phones. Before you throw away or donate to an xda member, lol. Try to wipe/reflash OR even a fix permissions for the lag. Gremlin remover is my favorite.
hello viper and other readers. im noobing and guessing this is for a sgs2. viper can you give me more on the text message splitter mine is the same.
but too my main issue if anybody could help my sgs2 has had difficulties since coming out of the box tethering in wifi mode. i can turn it on and get other devices to connect but after thirty seconds or so the tethering signal drops out and i loose my connection. i have to go back into gathering and portable wifi hotspots and retire the box again. if i stay in the tethering box i can watch the tick disappear and my devices will loose connection again. i am running a sgs2 i9100 xwlp7 and have rooted the phone which seemed to lengthen the tethering time to a maximum of two minutes but it perfect the drop out 100% of the time. any help here would be appreciated.
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danjmarsh said:
hello viper and other readers. im noobing and guessing this is for a sgs2. viper can you give me more on the text message splitter mine is the same.
but too my main issue if anybody could help my sgs2 has had difficulties since coming out of the box tethering in wifi mode. i can turn it on and get other devices to connect but after thirty seconds or so the tethering signal drops out and i loose my connection. i have to go back into gathering and portable wifi hotspots and retire the box again. if i stay in the tethering box i can watch the tick disappear and my devices will loose connection again. i am running a sgs2 i9100 xwlp7 and have rooted the phone which seemed to lengthen the tethering time to a maximum of two minutes but it perfect the drop out 100% of the time. any help here would be appreciated.
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Download Go SMS Click the menu button > settings>send settings>split large messages and about the texting try download a tether app on the market? If you have trouble still PM me and ill look into your phone for you SGS4g and SGS2 are different phones...
@rbedell
Ok I will try that!
as for the sim cards I will have to try that over the weekend since the stores aren't very close to me :l
cheers it was a great help solved both problems now what's the best uses for a rooted sgs2. other than removing one phone and contents to another handset. i must be overseeing something
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Well only reason I rooted was to try different roms since the stock rom on sgs4g is clunky and buggy and the custom roms by our great devs are must more stable... Usually.. Lol and they look better and some extra customization options. Also some enhances on performance and battery life!
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do you have a link of custom roms i can look at
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Actually I believe your in the wrong forum you use a Samsung galaxy S 2 correct? If so your in the SGS4G forums and they are totally different and flashing one of these roms could potentially brick your phone if I'm not mistaken.
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danjmarsh said:
guessing this is for a sgs2.p
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Negative ghost rider.
Not trying to be rude but wrong forum.
Don't want you to start reading into the threads and wind up it not working.
Some apps are compatible but roms are not.
You have been warned.
Here is what I am wondering.....
When I had a captivate I saw this ROM :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093696&highlight=captivate+touch
Basically it turns the captivate into an iPod touch in a way. The dev took out the phone basically. It will play videos, music, camera works, wifi etc.
The deal is I have an old Infuse sitting in my desk drawer, my 2 year old like to steal my phone (Note 2) and open the gallery and swipe the pictures back and forth,pinch zoom, knows which one is the video player, and the music player. Well she also knows how to delete stuff apparently LOL. What I would like to do is load the infuse up with pics and princess movies and let her play with it (it has an otterbox) that way if she deletes something I won't be scrambling trying to figure it out when I need it and it's gone
I am trying to avoid her making an emergency call which (if I remember right) a cell will do without a sim card in it.
Are there any Roms out there for the Infuse that are similar, or how hard would it be to port something like this?
Thanks
Geeve
geeve420 said:
Here is what I am wondering.....
When I had a captivate I saw this ROM :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093696&highlight=captivate+touch
Basically it turns the captivate into an iPod touch in a way. The dev took out the phone basically. It will play videos, music, camera works, wifi etc.
The deal is I have an old Infuse sitting in my desk drawer, my 2 year old like to steal my phone (Note 2) and open the gallery and swipe the pictures back and forth,pinch zoom, knows which one is the video player, and the music player. Well she also knows how to delete stuff apparently LOL. What I would like to do is load the infuse up with pics and princess movies and let her play with it (it has an otterbox) that way if she deletes something I won't be scrambling trying to figure it out when I need it and it's gone
I am trying to avoid her making an emergency call which (if I remember right) a cell will do without a sim card in it.
Are there any Roms out there for the Infuse that are similar, or how hard would it be to port something like this?
Thanks
Geeve
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Probably easiest solution is put the phone into airplane mode. Your two year old would have to get it out of that mode and then know 911, enter,etc. There was another post in the forum for a similar request...do a search, there may be other options too.
psal217050 said:
Probably easiest solution is put the phone into airplane mode. Your two year old would have to get it out of that mode and then know 911, enter,etc. There was another post in the forum for a similar request...do a search, there may be other options too.
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This works alright but it kills the wifi so I can't add shortcuts to youtube videos what would happen if I rooted and uninstalled the phone and contacts?
Geeve
geeve420 said:
This works alright but it kills the wifi so I can't add shortcuts to youtube videos what would happen if I rooted and uninstalled the phone and contacts?
Geeve
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You could try but you would probably need to open the ROM and remove the phone.apk and contact.apk from there. My current ROM allows contacts to be disabled and no such option on the phone.
Cool thanks! I may play with it and see what happens. In the meantime I am going to PM the Dev and see if he would mind if I ported (or attempt to anyway LOL)
Geeve
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geeve420 said:
Cool thanks! I may play with it and see what happens. In the meantime I am going to PM the Dev and see if he would mind if I ported (or attempt to anyway LOL)
Geeve
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You can turn WiFi back on after you go into Airplane mode and the cellular radio will still be disabled.
I also saw this thread over at Rootzwiki that might have a solution for you. I haven't used it so try it at your own risk.
jkakkanad said:
You can turn WiFi back on after you go into Airplane mode and the cellular radio will still be disabled.
I also saw this thread over at Rootzwiki that might have a solution for you. I haven't used it so try it at your own risk.
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Perfect! Stock Infuse, flashed entropy DD, flashed the zip from that thread and it is exactly what I needed! She can still play with the dialer but if she hits call it will force close. Great find and thank you so much!!!
Geeve
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I know this isn't Android anymore, but has anyone pulled/ported the stock Tizen browser from Tizen OS? I assume it would be easy enough to sideload this to the device via USB Debugging, right?
BJSerpas said:
I know this isn't Android anymore, but has anyone pulled/ported the stock Tizen browser from Tizen OS? I assume it would be easy enough to sideload this to the device via USB Debugging, right?
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Sounds easy and it might be but, we don't have a keyboard yet anyways. Hopefully when the fleksy keyboard comes out there will be more useful apps.
Raul69.atl said:
Sounds easy and it might be but, we don't have a keyboard yet anyways. Hopefully when the fleksy keyboard comes out there will be more useful apps.
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While we wait, can you share what you think would be a useful scenario where pulling up a webpage on a tiny watchscreen will be more convenient than just pulling out your phone and doing it that way? I'm really curious and maybe you have a great idea I haven't considered.
Some kind of situation when you want to check things without hands free? Checking live train times while carrying luggage or checking football scores while it's raining perhaps?
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Think a dev confirmed there is no external acess from the gear 2, only direct to phone, so this wouldn't work I would assume.
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root
That mean no root no rom no nothing for the gear 2????
From, not to.
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rEVOLVE said:
While we wait, can you share what you think would be a useful scenario where pulling up a webpage on a tiny watchscreen will be more convenient than just pulling out your phone and doing it that way? I'm really curious and maybe you have a great idea I haven't considered.
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Cheating on a test, of course. That's pretty much the only reason I'd want a watch browser.
bryanhayn said:
Cheating on a test, of course. That's pretty much the only reason I'd want a watch browser.
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Then maybe I should get started on the pdf reader I've been thinking about
dominoid said:
Some kind of situation when you want to check things without hands free? Checking live train times while carrying luggage or checking football scores while it's raining perhaps?
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Either of those scenarios you just mentioned are great, but voice commands w/ S Voice would be more useful (if it can even do this - I know Google Now can get me this info from my phone, but S Voice on the Gear currently just comes back and says "sorry, we couldn't find the answer to your question".
Also, if your hands are full, what makes you think that opening up and typing a web address on the watch's little screen will be "hands free"? You can't even interact with the watch without touching it with your other hand.
BJSerpas said:
Then maybe I should get started on the pdf reader I've been thinking about
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I have finals tomorrow, hurry this up!
I keed
chalkycroissant said:
I have finals tomorrow, hurry this up!
I keed
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Off topic-
Try a TI-89, works great!
BJSerpas said:
Off topic-
Try a TI-89, works great!
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I do have one, and it worked great in Highschool. Sadly, my college wont let use graphing calculators on tests
dominoid said:
Some kind of situation when you want to check things without hands free? Checking live train times while carrying luggage or checking football scores while it's raining perhaps?
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How would you navigate an app or browser without using you hands/fingers? Your football score scenario is already accomplished via ESPNs Score Center app. It can be configured to send notifications based on team preferences (i.e. notify of scoring plays during your fav team games).
And now that I think about it, if only the Google Maps app could be configured to send turn-by-turn notifications, we would sort of have GPS on our Gears.
BlackZenith said:
How would you navigate an app or browser without using you hands/fingers? Your football score scenario is already accomplished via ESPNs Score Center app. It can be configured to send notifications based on team preferences (i.e. notify of scoring plays during your fav team games).
And now that I think about it, if only the Google Maps app could be configured to send turn-by-turn notifications, we would sort of have GPS on our Gears.
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oh I forgot about the turn by turn functionality - Pebbles can do this, even though I never got a chance to use it since my phone is mounted on my dashboard. Would be useful when walking in a city, though - without keeping your phone out. The problem of course is the watchscreen turns off again and you have to touch the watch and navigate to the app again to see the next direction.
rEVOLVE said:
oh I forgot about the turn by turn functionality - Pebbles can do this, even though I never got a chance to use it since my phone is mounted on my dashboard. Would be useful when walking in a city, though - without keeping your phone out. The problem of course is the watchscreen turns off again and you have to touch the watch and navigate to the app again to see the next direction.
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Yep, and shortly after I posted this I came up with an article about that Pebble feature... however, it seems it is limited to the iOS version of Google Maps because it is able to send normal push notifications for each turn.