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Hello,
I am a new user of HTC phones, and bought a HERO after going through this website and reading the posts w.r.t. Android etc.
I have a few queries, which I am sure will appear quite basic to most of you, however, there are quite greek to me. I am in New Delhi, India and bought my phone a week ago.
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I have read about a firmware upgrade to Hero phones. However,the helpline here says that there is no firmware upgrade available. The India page on the HTC website also does not list any upgrade. My phone is unlocked, although it shows another carrier's logo in the first screen, but no other issue. My firmware version shows 1.5 and Build no. shows 2.73.720.5. Is this the latest version or is this upgradeable?
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There have been a couple of instances where my phone has frozen, and no button has worked. I have had to remove the battery and re-insert to get it to work again. Is this normal? I haven't had a smart phone before so I wouldn't know the actual behaviour.
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I dropped my phone from about 3 feet, and it opened up with its battery flying out and a few minor nicks and scratches on the body and not the screen. No other apparent damage, but could this cause performance issues?
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Is there a way to sync this phone manually without having to use Google or Windows? Can I directly access the phones contact list and messages etc, like a data stick?
Would appreciate answers.
Thanks in advance.
RK
Hi,
Can anybody help me with this? My gps keeps failing. A reboot sometimes works, I've tried running quick gps but this makes no difference, Sometimes it will reboot itself after it fails (sometimes repeatedly!!) normally when using copilot 8. It doesn't seem to be an issue with copilot as google maps and chartcross gps also fail to work.
rom htc 3.14.405.2(04666)wwe date 29/09/2010
radio 2.15.50.14
protocol 15.42.50.11U
os 5.2.21913(21913.5.0.94)
many thanks
Does it fail in all usage situations (indoor, outdoor)?
Do you use Quick GPS?
Did you try another Radio ROM?
tictac0566 said:
Does it fail in all usage situations (indoor, outdoor)?
Do you use Quick GPS?
Did you try another Radio ROM?
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No, I've not changed radio.
I tried again last night. Co pilot worked for a minute or so then lost gps, then "gps back, determining position..." then rebooted itself, repeatedly and did freeze on boot up once. I soft reset it and tried google maps, it found no sats and rebooted itself, tried again and it was ok for about 10 minutes on copilot then I had finished my journey... It's infurating I do know! Would it be worth trying a different radio as I've not changed it from stock and it's only recently benn misbehaving?
It's still misbehaving... Is there anything in the registry that might cause it?
This may be a bit too drastic, but a hard reset can rule out the registry as the culprit.
I'm trying to avoid a hard reset if I can. I'd have to reinstall the modified rom if I did wouldn't I? (from htc website)
This is really getting me down now... Last night co-pilot worked for 10 minutes then without warning or apparent loss of gps phone rebooted, then without opening any apps or even touching it, it rebooted itself 4 times. I'm thinking a hard reset has got to be tried..
Forgive my ignorance, but if I hard reset will I have then to reinstall the updated rom and patches I installed from htc late last year to remedy daylight saving issues etc and will I be able to reinstall paid for software from marketplace without buying again?
Can anyone help please?
I've read about the rebooting problem with other users. This was caused by bent battery pins.
Did look at those?
thanks. battery pins look fine to me. i will try a hard reset, i'm just wondering if i can reinstall my paid for marketplace software or will i have to buy again and i presume i will have to reinstall htc patches and updated rom after hard reset. please forgive my ignorance. it threw a fit this morning too. i switched it to silent for an hour whilst at a funeral and when i came out battery was totally discharged. it was about 90% beforehand. it seems to be dying!!!!!!
Does nobody know, please?
i am sorry to say that ur problem is the same with mine,and i think its main board broblem,i open it and remove the gps part and then restart the phone,the same problem the phone keep freezing and restart it self,so i think its mainboard broblem,i bought another used hd2 ,and the old one for parts,
sorry to say this
abufaris said:
i am sorry to say that ur problem is the same with mine,and i think its main board broblem,i open it and remove the gps part and then restart the phone,the same problem the phone keep freezing and restart it self,so i think its mainboard broblem,i bought another used hd2 ,and the old one for parts,
sorry to say this
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Thanks for the bad news but I think you may be correct.... I've hard reset it and the gps and rebooting side of things is exactly the same, but now it also seems to be eating the battery(COMPLETELY drained in 16 hours with approx 15 minutes of calls made and a brief use of copilot and googlemaps) and I've not installed any additional software or made any changes from "out of box" condition apart from reinstalling my contacts and the latest version of facebook.... It now also is not porting facebook profile photos into contact list even though I have recreated the links.... I have emailed htc but had no response from their "crack" support team as yet (it's only been 26 hours so far). I only got the HD2 in August last year so hope that it will be a warranty issue. I seem to remember people having issues with facebook contact photos but can't find the posts. Can anyone help??
Well, an update. After 3 months and the unit going back to the repair centre FOUR TIMES and a TWO replacement units I appear to have a working device again. HTC repair centre seem to be totally useless. I've had no info from them regards any repairs that have been carried out. Each time it went away for repair it was back within 4 days so very little testing was done.(I did find out on 1 repair the speaker and the wireless card were replaced....Why???) The first replacement unit took 2 weeks to arrive though and that had absolutely no gps.......The second replacement took 3 1/2 to arrive but so far the gps is ok but I still have no facebook profile photos in my contacts list....... Any ideas how to rectify this??
My apologies if this has been asked elsewhere, I searched and couldn't find the answer. I have a galaxy s2. the galaxy s 2 is the gt9100. The phone is unlocked, wasn't bought from a carrier etc. running totally stock, no root.
My question is, why is my galaxy s2 still on 2.3.4, when overseas international galaxies are running higher versions? I know it's not because I'm waiting on a carrier. Is it Samsung new Zealand who has to approve the update through kies and they have just been too useless to do it so far? Does my region matter on an international unlocked phone?
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My apologies if this has been asked elsewhere, I searched and couldn't find the answer. I have a galaxy s2. the galaxy s 2 is the gt9100. The phone is unlocked, wasn't bought from a carrier etc. running totally stock, no root.
My question is, why is my galaxy s2 still on 2.3.4, when overseas international galaxies are running higher versions? I know it's not because I'm waiting on a carrier. Is it Samsung new Zealand who has to approve the update through kies and they have just been too useless to do it so far? Does my region matter on an international unlocked phone?
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It's still running 2.3.4 because you're waiting on a push update from Samsung OTA, or via Kies. Actually, you're lucky you're on 2.3.4. I was on 2.3.3 for nearly 4 months before I got tired of waiting.
If you want 2.3.5 or 2.3.6, I would just get the firmware and flash it yourself. Takes less than 5 minutes after you know what you're doing, and you don't need root to do it. Intratech's official i9100 firmwares thread has all the firmwares for unlocked GS2s, official from Samsung in post 2, instructions (READ THESE) in post 1. The only change he made in them is for any that are 2.3.5 or newer, he replaced the bootloaders with the older ones which still allow the use of a USB jig to reset the binary counter. Otherwise they are completely stock.
Thanks. Is this an issue with Samsung NZ in particular? I'm moving to Australia next month, so is there a chance this will just happen when i get there? I've flashed plenty of phones, but i'm really nervous about flashing this one as it's my shiny new toy I'm actually totally happy with stock, only issues are with battery life, not bad but not great, and with the phone getting hot sometimes. Do you have these issues with the later firmware?
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Thanks. Is this an issue with Samsung NZ in particular? I'm moving to Australia next month, so is there a chance this will just happen when i get there?
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I honestly don't know. But I doubt it. I think it is based on the phone and where it was bought, not necessarily where it is in operation. But I don't know that for sure; that's just my own speculation. But then again, who knows? I use a UK bought i9100 in the US, and the i9100 isn't sold in the US - which could by why I never got an update pushed to me OTA or via Kies.
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I've flashed plenty of phones, but i'm really nervous about flashing this one as it's my shiny new toy I'm actually totally happy with stock, only issues are with battery life, not bad but not great, and with the phone getting hot sometimes. Do you have these issues with the later firmware?
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I flashed XXKI3, which is 2.3.5, to my phone, and I don't have those issues. But I also installed Green Power Premium on my phone, which helps to save battery by managing my network connections (both 3G/HSPA/HSPA+ and WiFi) while my screen is off. With how I've got it set up, I've managed to get about a day and a half of battery with moderate usage. Moderate usage = about 3.5 hours of the screen being on during that time, which includes surfing the internet, email, texts, calls, and some games.
You should check out Green Power to see if it helps with your battery. I have it set to completely shut down data if the screen is off between 11;15pm and 7:15am (hours I'm normally sleeping) unless the screen is on. During that time, I typically lose about 2-4% of power if I'm not using the phone. During the day, I have it set if the screen is off to turn data on for 1 minute every 15 minutes. I should let you know though, that the night time settings are only available with the premium version of the app, which does cost some money. (but not much - under $2 USD)
If this helps you out with battery and makes you happy, you may not need to upgrade.
When do you notice it getting hot?
The above posted link is for stock firmwares.............. If you follow Intratech's instructions exactly, there won't be an issue. You can always reflash to original just as easily if you don't like it. Just take note of your phone product code so you can find and download it easily again. You may have this on you box already.
Edit: If your using the phone or some app is running the CPU whilst the phone is charging, it will get hot.
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Yeah worth thinking about. I'm running juice defender pro, which switches data etc off when screen is off. Admittedly i use it very heavily, a lot of gps\navigation with screen on, with music playing in the background, but i went through 2 batteries in about 14 hours the other day.
The phone seems to get hot in lower coverage areas, when using gps for long time, or within one minute of loading graphically intense games like mc3. Not too worried about the gaming, i have a tablet for that, but it makes me nervous when it gets hit doing fairly mundane tasks.
I'm hoping samsung get's their act together and pushes these updates soon. I'll try when i get to australia and post back here. I'm sure samsung aus should have much better support than samsung nz.
I'm not that stressed and can wait. But it just seems really strange that several revisions havent been pushed to an international phone. Can't blame it on a carrier this time!
If it helps, this phone was parallel imported. I think it's probably from Hong Kong.
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Yeah worth thinking about. I'm running juice defender pro, which switches data etc off when screen is off. Admittedly i use it very heavily, a lot of gps\navigation with screen on, with music playing in the background, but i went through 2 batteries in about 14 hours the other day.
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LOL, if you're constantly using the phone, no amount of updates is going to solve your battery draining!
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The phone seems to get hot in lower coverage areas, when using gps for long time, or within one minute of loading graphically intense games like mc3. Not too worried about the gaming, i have a tablet for that, but it makes me nervous when it gets hit doing fairly mundane tasks.
I'm hoping samsung get's their act together and pushes these updates soon. I'll try when i get to australia and post back here. I'm sure samsung aus should have much better support than samsung nz.
I'm not that stressed and can wait. But it just seems really strange that several revisions havent been pushed to an international phone. Can't blame it on a carrier this time!
If it helps, this phone was parallel imported. I think it's probably from Hong Kong.
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Yes, in lower coverage areas, the phone will constantly be searching for signal. This takes power, and will probably be searching for all available bands. Not much you can do about this, aside from maybe looking into a microcell if your carrier has them. (or will have them since you are moving to Australia)
And using GPS will indeed get the phone hot - it is using both the GPS chip and mobile data, which are two of the biggest power hogs.
But that said, I would STILL recommend at least going to 2.3.5 by using a firmware from that link I posted. Instructions are very clear, and you will only benefit.
So, a few weeks back my Mozart started presenting problems... In it's defence, i've had that device for approx. 2 years and if you see the state it is in right now, you'd be surprised it survived this long!
Now I love Windows Phone and my next device would have been Windows Phone 8 but alas, I need a stable phone with me always and thus can't rely on the Mozart in its current state. So I sold off my iPad 2 and went ahead and bought a HTC One X and initially loved it but grew to dislike it... mainly due to random crashes (probably a device manufacturing defect) but most importantly due to the poor battery life.
So I sold off the One X and purchased a iPhone 4S however after a few days of usage, some microphone issues emerged. I got it replaced and soon enough, the issues surfaced on the new device. Checked online and a huge number of users are apparently facing issues with iPhone 4s as well... so then returned that and got a iPhone 4...
But alas! Websites on Safari were a pain at times, cellular data would kill itself during a call though it didn't happen always, and some other stuff as well... So now i've sold it off and am in the market for a new phone.
Today i returned my cousin's HTC One X and got a Galaxy S3... have been testing it out and am loving it so far... Especially the battery! Charged it up to 67%... have had Exchange Sync (Push) turned on, two Gmail accounts on 15 minutes sync, Facebook and twitter push, and made at-least over a dozen calls some of them going over 10-15 minutes... and a game here or there plus an hour at the gym with continuous music playback and referring to a workout app... and in 3 hours time, it's battery has gone from 67% to 49%!!!
If it were my One X, it would have pretty much died by now or come close to it. Even the iPhone 4 didn't produce such good battery results for me - but close nonetheless.
So now i'm considering to the store tomorrow and purchasing a S3 for myself! Wanted to see if anyone here could provide any feedback on usage based on a couple of weeks or days of usage of the device? Battery life? any crashes? Anything else?
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Forgot to ask another important question... Now forgive my ignorance, but I am kind of new to Android - although I did use XDA numerous times to flash my brother's X10 + Arc and Sis-in-law's HTC Chacha... when i purchased this phone today for my cousin, it was a packed box. On opening and starting it up, it asked for a PIN code to activate. Which i Imagine meant that it was carrier locked?
The shop owner disappeared for 10 minutes and returned back with the phone unlocked and ready to use. He said he got it unlocked by using a proper code and all... and to be on the safe side, as soon as i got home, i did a hard reset and it didn't lock out on me. However, I do notice "ClockworkMod" installed on the S3 and also the state of the device in settings is set to Modified. What does this mean? Any cause for concern?
Regards!
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So, a few weeks back my Mozart started presenting problems... In it's defence, i've had that device for approx. 2 years and if you see the state it is in right now, you'd be surprised it survived this long!
Now I love Windows Phone and my next device would have been Windows Phone 8 but alas, I need a stable phone with me always and thus can't rely on the Mozart in its current state. So I sold off my iPad 2 and went ahead and bought a HTC One X and initially loved it but grew to dislike it... mainly due to random crashes (probably a device manufacturing defect) but most importantly due to the poor battery life.
So I sold off the One X and purchased a iPhone 4S however after a few days of usage, some microphone issues emerged. I got it replaced and soon enough, the issues surfaced on the new device. Checked online and a huge number of users are apparently facing issues with iPhone 4s as well... so then returned that and got a iPhone 4...
But alas! Websites on Safari were a pain at times, cellular data would kill itself during a call though it didn't happen always, and some other stuff as well... So now i've sold it off and am in the market for a new phone.
Today i returned my cousin's HTC One X and got a Galaxy S3... have been testing it out and am loving it so far... Especially the battery! Charged it up to 67%... have had Exchange Sync (Push) turned on, two Gmail accounts on 15 minutes sync, Facebook and twitter push, and made at-least over a dozen calls some of them going over 10-15 minutes... and a game here or there plus an hour at the gym with continuous music playback and referring to a workout app... and in 3 hours time, it's battery has gone from 67% to 49%!!!
If it were my One X, it would have pretty much died by now or come close to it. Even the iPhone 4 didn't produce such good battery results for me - but close nonetheless.
So now i'm considering to the store tomorrow and purchasing a S3 for myself! Wanted to see if anyone here could provide any feedback on usage based on a couple of weeks or days of usage of the device? Battery life? any crashes? Anything else?
UPDATE
Forgot to ask another important question... Now forgive my ignorance, but I am kind of new to Android - although I did use XDA numerous times to flash my brother's X10 + Arc and Sis-in-law's HTC Chacha... when i purchased this phone today for my cousin, it was a packed box. On opening and starting it up, it asked for a PIN code to activate. Which i Imagine meant that it was carrier locked?
The shop owner disappeared for 10 minutes and returned back with the phone unlocked and ready to use. He said he got it unlocked by using a proper code and all... and to be on the safe side, as soon as i got home, i did a hard reset and it didn't lock out on me. However, I do notice "ClockworkMod" installed on the S3 and also the state of the device in settings is set to Modified. What does this mean? Any cause for concern?
Regards!
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The shop owner probably rooted your device in order to unlock the phone (rooting voids your warranty), do you see a superuser app in the app drawer?
If so, install Triangle Away from the playstore or Chainfires thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114 and reset the flashcounter. Than go back to the shop and let him reflash the rom to restore warranty.
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The shop owner probably rooted your device in order to unlock the phone (rooting voids your warranty), do you see a superuser app in the app drawer?
If so, install Triangle Away from the playstore or Chainfires thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114 and reset the flashcounter. Than go back to the shop and let him reflash the rom to restore warranty.
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If its just warranty... then not worried about that. As i purchased this one for my cousin without the warranty - Rs. 5000 cheaper (approx. $50).
But thanks though, this is good to know... 'coz I was planning on purchasing mine with the warranty!
Battery life is a lot better than the one x..... the s3 should easily be able to get you through a day of heavy use and have juice to spare.
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The Zenfone 9 is a great little device. However, since today I have seen several automatic reboots of the device. Anyone else seeing this problem?
I haven't seen a reboot; any new app you've installed of late?
Good hint - I have installed one yesterday. Will uninstall and report back.
Unfortunately is still get 1-2 reboots a day. Not critical but annoying! Anyone else?
I'm on latest update and unlocked+rooted. Not a single unwanted reboot.
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Unfortunately is still get 1-2 reboots a day. Not critical but annoying! Anyone else?
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Are you on the latest update? Mine hasn't arrived yet, but I'm worried this issue will appear on mine.
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Are you on the latest update? Mine hasn't arrived yet, but I'm worried this issue will appear on min
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Yes I am. No worries. Device is great. Just software.
Did a hard reset - problem persists. Not sure what the cause is - working with Asus support on it.
Hi, a friend of mine with a ZF9 has got reboot every night during charge (he uses slow charge, this night he'll try normal charge).
He had reboot even during daytime, he did a hard reset yesterday and for now everything is ok, but I'll update with new info in case of.
I've been having those reboots for weeks now. There is an official thread on the asus forums talking about it. There are more than a dozen people who have also reported it and from the looks of it, Asus hasn't found the source of the problem yet. Out of curiosity, in which country did you buy it? Are you rooted?
my version is a french version. I neither had any beta OS on it nor was it rooted. I wanted to provide Asus with Logs but they rather wanted the device for repair, now I'm waiting for its return.
I doubt this is a hardware issue though as the reboots did happen in cold state w/o any system activities ongoing. The only special thing on my setup was that I used two sim cards in parallel.
I did a hard reset and he problem remained. I also used slow charging.
I'm from Italy and the phone of my friend is not rooted and with bootlloader locked.
I heard my friend minutes ago, and from when he deactivated programmed charging the issue seems to have disappeared. Have you got programmed charging on?
Yes, I have the upload scheduled. But I'm beginning to suspect that the problem originates from a lot in Italy. I just asked you because I thought it was from there.
Love this phone but also having the same issue. Bought from Asus directly (US site) too. There's a whole thread of folks with the problem too on their forum:
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Hi all, I bought an Asus ZenFone 9 from the UK online store. I started to migrate the apps from my old phone to the zf9 and once I finished I started to use my new ZenFone 9 as my main phone. However, I noticed around 3 dso that when i wentato unplug a fter charging the phone it looked as if it...
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Yes, I have the upload scheduled. But I'm beginning to suspect that the problem originates from a lot in Italy. I just asked you because I thought it was from there.
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Try to deactivate it and report please ;-)
My friend hasn't got reboot since then for now, two days and a half ago.
My reboots do not happen while charging, FWIW. And they're always while the phone is idle (sitting on desk). I look up and see it's spontaneously rebooting...
I was having reboots on custom kernel, just updated to 32.2050.2050.34 without going custom kernel (still rooted) and have had no reboots yet.
Mine reboots while watching YouTube app, either with high brightness, while charging, or both. It seems to be less likely to happen if i clear cache from YouTube settings.
It typically doesn't happen in other apps. Phone is stock. EU version.
After testing for a few weeks, there is a good chance that the reboots on my device are due to Magisk (not modules)