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Anyone successfully using this thing? It says it's compatible but mine is not working.. and I don't see a driver for it..
http://store.everythinghtc.com/htc-wired-remote-control-stereo-headset/11A29A5242.htm
Hmm i guess no one has got this working yet :O
I got an older one from my trinity and works perfectly on my HTC Magic (vodafone version and standard ROM ).
Nothing added.
Controls music and phone calls
Gregz78 said:
I got an older one from my trinity and works perfectly on my HTC Magic (vodafone version and standard ROM ).
Nothing added.
Controls music and phone calls
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The exact same one as in the link above? Chrome control panel, etc?
Exactly the same ... in white
When I plug the remote, nothing appears on the phone, no notification.
When I use the music related buttons, the music player doesn't show but an icon appears in the taskbar to show it's playing music.
Green and red buttons to Answer / make calls work too.
Perhaps something related to the Rogers device ?
Mine still plays music through the handset and not through the headphones. And none of the buttons work. This is annoying.. I am surprised there is only a few of us with this thing.. lol.
I think i have tried it on a few differnent roms, and still no luck. I don't see how it could be a hardware thing.. feels like a driver thing. Even if the music doesn't come out of the headphones, there is no way it should still come from the handset!!!
briggs81 said:
Mine still plays music through the handset and not through the headphones. And none of the buttons work. This is annoying.. I am surprised there is only a few of us with this thing.. lol.
I think i have tried it on a few differnent roms, and still no luck. I don't see how it could be a hardware thing.. feels like a driver thing. Even if the music doesn't come out of the headphones, there is no way it should still come from the handset!!!
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I'm interested on getting this thing to work, too. I'm running cynogenmods 4.0.1 rom on a 32b device from Vodafone germany and I can hear the music in my headphones but the buttonds don't work and the mic does appear to work.
richermartyn said:
You can search your drivers on the site of HTC.
They will provide you complete drivers. If not possible then you can search it from search engine.
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Does the drivers really support android?
amc0 said:
Does the drivers really support android?
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I highly doubt this.
The only thing I can foresee is that a lot of these sites selling them are saying they are available late August, so perhaps they are coming out with the same device that does have new drivers for it.
Unless richermartyn has downloaded said drivers and his remote is working perfectly.
I am jealous that some of you actually have part of it working. Nothing on it works for me.
What type of ear buds do you have (that shouldn't even make a difference!). I have some somewhat nice sony ones.
briggs81 said:
I highly doubt this.
The only thing I can foresee is that a lot of these sites selling them are saying they are available late August, so perhaps they are coming out with the same device that does have new drivers for it.
Unless richermartyn has downloaded said drivers and his remote is working perfectly.
I am jealous that some of you actually have part of it working. Nothing on it works for me.
What type of ear buds do you have (that shouldn't even make a difference!). I have some somewhat nice sony ones.
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Seems like it's only the 32a/HTC Branded devices that are supported. Got that confirmed from HTC Europe after sending them an email.
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Seems like it's only the 32a/HTC Branded devices that are supported. Got that confirmed from HTC Europe after sending them an email.
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Interesting.. I guess that would be my Rogers 32a magic.. but I have a hero rom installed.. hmm. I guess I will flash a rogers rom later and see if they work, and if they do, maybe someone can rip them from it or something..
briggs81 said:
Interesting.. I guess that would be my Rogers 32a magic.. but I have a hero rom installed.. hmm. I guess I will flash a rogers rom later and see if they work, and if they do, maybe someone can rip them from it or something..
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Well to quote the support they said:
"The headset/rc has not been confirmed working for the HTC Magic but it will apparently work on HTC Branded phones and most definitly not on your Vodaphone magic (32b)"
I'll try to see if those drivers do any good or if they're only for winmo phones.
Edit: Regarding the ear buds, I use a pair of WESC Bongo deltas and they work great with the rc when it comes to playing music and using in call.
Ah I see.. "Has not been confirmed".. neat lol.
Well let me know how it goes.
Maybe they will release something for real.. I am seeing a lot of online stores advertising these things to work with the Magic.
Very weird that it's still working for some people though.. sigh. I've barely used it.. lol.
It's a cyanogen rom issue. Installed the latest stock rom and it worked brilliantly.
I am about to try a stock rogers rom.
It was not working on jacheroski or myhero etc etc.. those are all probably similar anyways though.
Edit: still does not work! lol. Which rom did you install and what phone do you have?
briggs81 said:
I am about to try a stock rogers rom.
It was not working on jacheroski or myhero etc etc.. those are all probably similar anyways though.
Edit: still does not work! lol. Which rom did you install and what phone do you have?
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Here's a 32a port of the rom I'm using. It's supposed to be the latest stock rom for the magic and all the buttons seemed to work except the mute button, but that doesn't matter.
I have a german Vodafone Magic with the 32b board.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532902&page=30
Direct link to the fw:
http://android.smartphonefrance.info...gic-28-32a.zip
and when installing, it seems like you must wipe all your data or the startup can hang on the splash or say that the android process is not running which leads to you having to force close.
For the remote, i'm on a 32B and works perfectly on the Voda stock rom.
Now I just updated with a Hero Rom (Qtek 1.3b).
I will try if it still works.
Edit: Tested on QtekRom 1.3b . Works for calls / volume . The sound is ok thru headphones
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Here's a 32a port of the rom I'm using. It's supposed to be the latest stock rom for the magic and all the buttons seemed to work except the mute button, but that doesn't matter.
I have a german Vodafone Magic with the 32b board.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532902&page=30
Direct link to the fw:
http://android.smartphonefrance.info...gic-28-32a.zip
and when installing, it seems like you must wipe all your data or the startup can hang on the splash or say that the android process is not running which leads to you having to force close.
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yikes, that 32a port won't even flash for me. No signature, and verification failed. gah!
I tried another rogers/ion rom, still no dice.
briggs81 said:
yikes, that 32a port won't even flash for me. No signature, and verification failed. gah!
I tried another rogers/ion rom, still no dice.
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Do you have the correct recovery ?
Try flashing with Cyanogen recovery. Worked for me on my device.
Edit: I got a reply from another forum member saying that this rc should work on Superhero roms. I although havn't tested that.
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Do you have the correct recovery ?
Try flashing with Cyanogen recovery. Worked for me on my device.
Edit: I got a reply from another forum member saying that this rc should work on Superhero roms. I although havn't tested that.
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I am running Amon_RA's recovery, 1.2.0 I think. Oie.. seems like I will have to do some more flashing when I have time. Too bad it was not easy to figure out files used for this device.
I am using drizzys hero rom 1.4r1 and I'm getting the error message "Sorry, Shazam is currently offline" when I try to tag a song. I've tried it on EDGE, GPRS, and 3G and I get the same message each time. Shazam has worked on my phone before but I don't know if I've ever used it on this particular ROM.
meee tooo i have cyanogenmod 4.1.1.1 or watever it is, and it started yesterday as well, anyone know wats going on?
Any updates on this? I'm using it on my G1 with SenseHero, but i've noticed this for a while.
I'm running Cyanogen and it's running just fine, try reinstalling it, I don't know how that would help, but it wouldn't hurt to try
I had that once, it wouldn't work for a day or more. I didn't do anything in particular, it just resolved itself. Reinstalling the app is always worth a try.
I'll try reinstalling it.. thanks guys. I notice both of you are running Cy's ROM. I hope it's not because I'm running a Sense/Hero ROM, which coincides with when I started noticing it wasn't working. I don't foresee going back to a Cupcake/Donut ROM anytime soon.
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I'll try reinstalling it.. thanks guys. I notice both of you are running Cy's ROM. I hope it's not because I'm running a Sense/Hero ROM, which coincides with when I started noticing it wasn't working. I don't foresee going back to a Cupcake/Donut ROM anytime soon.
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I figured out what is wrong. If you notice on your Hero ROM sound recording does not work. Well Shazam uses that feature of the phone so if you fix the sound recording issue then Shazam will work. The Hero rom I'm using now (see sig) has the sound recording fixed and shazam works.
You were right! When SenseHero was updated to fix the audio problems, Shazam started working fine...
Thanks!
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I am using drizzys hero rom 1.4r1 and I'm getting the error message "Sorry, Shazam is currently offline" when I try to tag a song. I've tried it on EDGE, GPRS, and 3G and I get the same message each time. Shazam has worked on my phone before but I don't know if I've ever used it on this particular ROM.
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I think this will sound silly, but it worked on my device. And its not related to Sapphire, I am going to post my finding in this thread since this is the only proper search result when I googled the issue.
I was using MoreLocale in order to have the keyboard in my native language. When I set the language back to English Shazam worked (Don't ask me how I discovered it). I also tried another language i don't remember, that time Shazam said it couldn't send the tag.
This might be irrelevant but, I'm using MCR 3.0 on HTC Hero and I couldn't get Wavesecure to work as well. Following the factory reset, Wavesecure worked too. I highly suspect that that was also due to my locale settings.
Hope this helps.
In the recent cyanogen roms since 4.19 which required flashing with the htc radio my gps has stopped getting fixes. I am limited to only cell tower location. Maybe this is a radio issue? If so what is the best radio alternative which will work with cyanogen roms? I need my gps back. Thanks.
I just tested gps on my dream with cyan 4.2.1 on top of the htc flash. Working with no problems, even indoors. If you don't get any better tips, I would suggest installing again, and this time wipe ext3 partition in addition to wiping, and don't restore anything from backup for root users etc. before you check the GPS.
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This may not be a tip, but i had the same problems when i upgraded rom, I had copilot and Ndive that worked prior, But stopped after urgrading rom to CYAN 4.1.999
Only solution i found was to try other alternatives, the only one i got to work flawlessly was Sygic mobile maps 9 V7.71, gets a fix almost immediatley and works Perfecto.
Hope this helps
I have the exact same problem!
I flashed cyan 4.21 and stopped getting GPS fix. I wiped, wiped ext3 and installed enomther AOSP 1.6 without the expansion pack. I can't get a gps fix anyway...
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I flashed cyan 4.21 and stopped getting GPS fix. I wiped, wiped ext3 and installed enomther AOSP 1.6 without the expansion pack. I can't get a gps fix anyway... What the hell did cyan do this time. He really messes up basic functionality on android, I think that's why google are trying to stop him.
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Christ, thats an ignorant post
Cyanogen does not "mess up basic functionality", 99.9% of people running his roms have no such problems, myself included. It was probably something you missed or did wrong in the process. Did you follow the steps in his first post carefully, it is a more convoluted process coming from 4.1.11 because of the changes required by Google. In any case, rooting and installing custom roms has its risks and you chose to accept those risks, stop trying to blame someone else when it goes wrong. Take some responsibility, be constructive and try to find a solution instead of crying about it.
Incidentally, the reason Google had an issue with cyanogen was, completely legitimately, because his roms included some of their closed source apps (mail, youtube, market etc) hence why his new roms do not include those and Google are fine with him now. Try reading about it before you shoot your mouth off
I'm trying to work out the problem right now. I wiped again and installed another rom - not cyanogen. The problem is still here. It seems to be a problem that not only I have. It's quite possible that I, and others having the same issue, haven't followed the instructions correctly or did something else wrong.
Try flashing the radio
http://android-roms.googlecode.com/files/ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip
Well, seeing as my GPS just got a fix indoors with Cyanogen's 4.2.2, I think the problem is with you.
Now, without posting what you have done to get your phone to the state it is in now, how in the world can we help figure out what went wrong? This really seems like an isolated incident, and obviously not one that is suggestive of Cyanogen's rom being faulty (pretty damn insulting of you to blame him) since you have the problem even after flashing a rom that you give so much praise to for being 'stable'.
So..... how about you reconsider what you might have done to your phone, and try some troubleshooting...
1. When I am having issues with my GPS, sometimes I find it helps to disable GPS (both wireless and sat), reboot my phone, re-enable them, and try again to get a fix.
2. Use GPS Status2 to see if it is connecting to any sats at all.
See what happens... Who knows, maybe there is something wrong with your phone (ever imagine that?).
Not trying to be rude, or bash you, but you were pretty rude and bashing towards Cyanogen, and then you said you had the problem with someone else's rom too...
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Well, seeing as my GPS just got a fix indoors with Cyanogen's 4.2.2, I think the problem is with you.
Now, without posting what you have done to get your phone to the state it is in now, how in the world can we help figure out what went wrong? This really seems like an isolated incident, and obviously not one that is suggestive of Cyanogen's rom being faulty (pretty damn insulting of you to blame him) since you have the problem even after flashing a rom that you give so much praise to for being 'stable'.
So..... how about you reconsider what you might have done to your phone, and try some troubleshooting...
1. When I am having issues with my GPS, sometimes I find it helps to disable GPS (both wireless and sat), reboot my phone, re-enable them, and try again to get a fix.
2. Use GPS Status2 to see if it is connecting to any sats at all.
See what happens... Who knows, maybe there is something wrong with your phone (ever imagine that?).
Not trying to be rude, or bash you, but you were pretty rude and bashing towards Cyanogen, and then you said you had the problem with someone else's rom too...
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First off. I have tried both steps you suggested.
With gps status I can see 4-5 satelites and the lower right of the display says 0 sats. So I can't get fix, the gps itself works. Could be a problem with gps.cfg, I'm going to look at it now.
The issue occured right after I flashed cyanogen 4.2.1 stable. Even afer wiping entirely and flashing another rom I have the same issue, So I suppose that that the problem might be radio related. I actually consider there might be a problem with the phone, but a user who started this thread also had similar problem after going to cyanogen build. Maybe he did the same mistake as I did. Many times I have installed roms and had no issues while others had them - sometimes they occur sometimes they dont - depending on what spl/radio you are on, even what network you are on and what ROM you are coming from. Sorry for being that rude, I realize that now...
axlastro said:
First off. I have tried both steps you suggested.
With gps status I can see 4-5 satelites and the lower right of the display says 0 sats. So I can't get fix, the gps itself works. Could be a problem with gps.cfg, I'm going to look at it now.
The issue occured right after I flashed cyanogen 4.2.1 stable. Even afer wiping entirely and flashing another rom I have the same issue, So I suppose that that the problem might be radio related. I actually consider there might be a problem with the phone, but a user who started this thread also had similar problem after going to cyanogen build. Maybe he did the same mistake as I did. Many times I have installed roms and had no issues while others had them - sometimes they occur sometimes they dont - depending on what spl/radio you are on, even what network you are on and what ROM you are coming from. Serry for being that rude, I realize that now...
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We all get upset when things don't work that we expect to, my suggestion about that is to go back and clean up your posts before Cyanogen reads them (hopefully) so as to avoid pissing him off.. He has given us so much, and we don't want to alienate him on XDA...
Anyway, about seeing satellites but not getting a fix, have you tried re-flashing the radio?
You said you have wiped, and flashed two different ROMS. The possibility of it still being a software issue are slim (but still there), if the radio doesn't help... it just may be a hardware thing.
I have never had mine get locks on satellites and not lock-in my position.
I know this stuff has been mentioned, but here is your basic troubleshooting process. Complicated, I know. Shouldn't take all day.
Download GPSStatus2 from the market and check to see if it is connecting to any satellites at all.
a) Go outside, away from buildings and trees, and open GPSStatus2. If it connects to 1 satellite, your receiver is working and it's probably some fluke of atmospheric interference (rain, dust, clouds, temperature, vapor, fog all affect microwave transmission; even air quality) that it can't connect to more. Try some different areas with different weather.
b) If it connects to zero, reinstall radio image from the link a few posts up.
c) Still no luck, go all the way back to stock firmware (flash OriginalSPL if you have DangerSPL installed, then RC29) and let it update to Donut, try again.
d) If it's still not working, your GPS happened to randomly die or something. Call T-Mobile cause you need a warranty replacement. They will send you a new phone, you send the old one back.
You know... if you are only trying google maps, try downloading some alternatives. One off the top of my head is RMaps.
I'm flashing the radio now. I have tried the other steps. I tried to get a fix from different locations, now I'm in the mountains and the device has a clear view to the north, where most sattelites are supposed to be... Yes it could be a hardware issue. As you can see another userr ATINsa, who started the topic has the same issue.
still problems
I don't know why you are attacking that guy. There is a problem. I had it on my old dream which was just stolen and replaced. And now I have it with the replacement. Prior to 4.19 and the radio you had to flash to keep cyan cool with google I had no problems. Google tracks, my maps editor, and google maps have a problem. When using wifi can sometimes connect more. The old cyan roms worked fined. Please don't try to explain to me how to use a gps. I have reflashed and redormatted. This has reccured with all roms since I had to replacwe the radio with the one required for him to be cool with google.
So the quesstion is, what other radios are the newest and will work with gps and cyanogens newest rom?
There are 2 people in this thread with the same prob. A third says google maps didn't work but anothewr gps program did. I have experianced this with2 googlde dev dreams. There is a problem and its not a user problem.
Something like this really sounds like a hardware issue. I don't mess around with the GPS code in my ROMs.
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I don't know why you are attacking that guy. There is a problem. I had it on my old dream which was just stolen and replaced. And now I have it with the replacement. Prior to 4.19 and the radio you had to flash to keep cyan cool with google I had no problems. Google tracks, my maps editor, and google maps have a problem. When using wifi can sometimes connect more. The old cyan roms worked fined. Please don't try to explain to me how to use a gps. I have reflashed and redormatted. This has reccured with all roms since I had to replacwe the radio with the one required for him to be cool with google.
So the quesstion is, what other radios are the newest and will work with gps and cyanogens newest rom?
There are 2 people in this thread with the same prob. A third says google maps didn't work but anothewr gps program did. I have experianced this with2 googlde dev dreams. There is a problem and its not a user problem.
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The thing is, the radio that is flashed with the HTC system image, should be the same radio that you were already running on your phone. I don't think that has been changed since 1.5 came out.
And the problem with your theory of this being more than just an isolated incident is this: most people aren't experiencing this problem, only a handful (two or three people here or there does not a system problem make).
I'm 26 years old and have had windows mobile devices and now I've been on android for about half an year. I have used linux back in school when most of the kids here, blindly defending cyanogen were toddlers. I didn't mean to attack cyanogen or whoever else. It's just that the problem is with at least 2 or 3 people and maybe more. The right thing to do is to calm down and try to go back to a state which works. I have reflashed radio and gone to AOSP donut build. Still no luck. When you wipe you wipe /data and /cache right? What about /system ? I bet it's some of the libraries that have something to do with controlling GPS hardware, which remains after a wipe. It would be a nice idea to flash the SPL again. It will probaby clean things up. This is the next thing I'm going to try. It's a good time for someone with better knowledge of how android works step up and give any other ideas.
For now try :
Flash SPL again (whatever SPL you are using)
Flash Radio (latest one from htc developer site)
Flash some basic rom, like TMO cupcake or donut and let's see of it works. That's what I'm trying to do now. If this doesn't help, we might try the proposed reverting to stock spl and RC29.
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I'm 26 years old and have had windows mobile devices and now I've been on android for about half an year. I have used linux back in school when most of the kids here, blindly defending cyanogen were toddlers. I didn't mean to attack cyanogen or whoever else. It's just that the problem is with at least 2 or 3 people and maybe more. The right thing to do is to calm down and try to go back to a state which works. I have reflashed radio and gone to AOSP donut build. Still no luck. When you wipe you wipe /data and /cache right? What about /system ? I bet it's some of the libraries that have something to do with controlling GPS hardware, which remains after a wipe. It would be a nice idea to flash the SPL again. It will probaby clean things up. This is the next thing I'm going to try. It's a good time for someone with better knowledge of how android works step up and give any other ideas.
For now try :
Flash SPL again (whatever SPL you are using)
Flash Radio (latest one from htc developer site)
Flash some basic rom, like TMO cupcake or donut and let's see of it works. That's what I'm trying to do now. If this doesn't help, we might try the proposed reverting to stock spl and RC29.
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If you wipe it wipes /data, if you flash a new rom it "wipes" (it really formats) /system and /cache. Nothing is left behind on /system...
Ok. I fixed the issue. I'm on danger SPL , newest radio etc...
I reflashed radio (as adviced above). Prior reflashing the radio wiped and installed enomther AOSP+ADP 1.6, with exp pack 2.11.
After that installed an app from market called GPS TEST (Don't know if it had something to do with GPS being fixed)
It detected 5 satelites right by the window indoors. Then Google maps found my location.
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I'm trying to work out the problem right now. I wiped again and installed another rom - not cyanogen. The problem is still here. It seems to be a problem that not only I have. It's quite possible that I, and others having the same issue, haven't followed the instructions correctly or did something else wrong.
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well if you tried another rom and its still there .. then the problem might lie with your phone and not the roms you installing .... is anyone else around you with a G1 not getting gps location also ?
I've spent every free moment of the past few days looking at Hero ROMs trying to find one that would suite me best. And I am coming up with a lot of mixed feelings about different ones. I was wondering if you guys know of a stable and not laggy rom that has most of what i am looking for:
2.1
Backlight for the keyboard
voice search
Car Home
Bluetooth(i know it is hard to find but if you know, let me know please))
Wifi working(and wifi tethering)
Autoatic Google account sync
I am runing a G1 with Amons Recovery latest radio and danger SPL. Thank you in advance.
ttyrawa said:
I've spent every free moment of the past few days looking at Hero ROMs trying to find one that would suite me best. And I am coming up with a lot of mixed feelings about different ones. I was wondering if you guys know of a stable and not laggy rom that has most of what i am looking for:
2.1
Backlight for the keyboard
voice search
Car Home
Bluetooth(i know it is hard to find but if you know, let me know please))
Wifi working(and wifi tethering)
Autoatic Google account sync
I am runing a G1 with Amons Recovery latest radio and danger SPL. Thank you in advance.
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None of them, Bluetooth does NOT work on ANY Hero/Sense rom for the G1
As far as I know, 2.1 hero roms do not have keyboard backlights.
I have saw some 1,5 that have BT. But I kinda figured no 2.1 had BT yet. And how sure are you on the backlight, because that is kind of a big one for me. Thanks for your help in advance
You ask for too much. Options 1, 2, and 5 won't work. Options 2 and 5 won't work with Option 1. I'm not sure about Option 4. I'm sure Option 3 will work but only with the Android Search Widget. Option 6 will work for most ROMs. And Option 7 is a yes for most ROMs.
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You ask for too much. Options 1, 2, and 5 won't work. Options 2 and 5 won't work with Option 1. I'm not sure about Option 4. I'm sure Option 3 will work but only with the Android Search Widget. Option 6 will work for most ROMs. And Option 7 is a yes for most ROMs.
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What he said, btw he needs to check his pm's
ttyrawa said:
I have saw some 1,5 that have BT. But I kinda figured no 2.1 had BT yet. And how sure are you on the backlight, because that is kind of a big one for me. Thanks for your help in advance
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No, no sense rom for the G1 has bluetooth, never has, probably never will
Unless HTC shows us some LOOOVE! And stops calling us Illegal ROM MAKERS who BREAK RULES, but then BE NICE. COUGH COUGH loll.
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Unless HTC shows us some LOOOVE! And stops calling us Illegal ROM MAKERS who BREAK RULES, but then BE NICE. COUGH COUGH loll.
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Actually, that's Motorola. HTC has given XDA to continue its pursuit in the perfect Sense ROM (I'm pretty sure HTC "borrows" some of these changes"). And the only confrontation I've heard about with legal issues was Drizzy vs. Motorola (Not sure if this was true or not, but not my place to judge) and Google vs. Cyanogen (Which was over a perfectly valid, but imo stupid, reason)
Oh. Well then they're losers if they steal from us. And yeah, because Google tried to stand in our way to not allow us to get what we want, but Cyanoegn found his way around things, and now they're cool again =D
"You do the math of putting those together" -Chahk
So you guys are sure Backlight won't work with 2.1 hero?
No. It won't. And neither will BlueTooth. But you're all set for Tethering, Voice Search, Google Sync, Car Home, and 2.1 is up to you. I suggest Vegaman's Legend Port.
ttyrawa said:
So you guys are sure Backlight won't work with 2.1 hero?
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There is a temporary fix of changing the Display brightness WHILE the keyboard is open (for some reason this rubs the right file in the system the right way) and all lights on the phone will automagically light up, but this stops as soon as the phone is put into sllep mode (or standby, or screen turns off, using synonyms now, aren't I?)
Stop using big words like Synonyms, Antonyms, Metaphores, Onomatopoeias, it makes you sound smart and like you know what you're doing, and no body likes a person who uses big words and proper gramer. Btw, don;t spel ur wordz ritte.
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There is a temporary fix of changing the Display brightness WHILE the keyboard is open (for some reason this rubs the right file in the system the right way) and all lights on the phone will automagically light up, but this stops as soon as the phone is put into sllep mode (or standby, or screen turns off, using synonyms now, aren't I?)
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How would one go about doing this?
ttyrawa said:
How would one go about doing this?
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Settings>Sound & Display>Brightness, move the slider while the keyboard is out
There's an app in the market i use to manually turn on and off the keyboard backlight. It's called "Backlight Off", and its pretty useful since I have a white G1 and sometimes the backlight makes the keys unreadable. I haven't tried any 2.1 sense roms, so maybe this app can fix it? Lol, I might be way off but its worth a shot=p
Hi,
So I've noticed alot of people have problems with their GPS from time to time on these forums so I've decided to collate any and all fixes into one place. Here they are:
NOTE: I'm not responsible for any harm done to your phone. These suggestions are tried at your own risk. These steps can be taken in any order you want and a reboot is recommended after you try each step.
First thing you can do to get accurate fixes is to go to the Location settings on your phone. Tick the boxes next to 'GPS Satellites' and 'Google's location service' (Press agree when the prompt comes up). Also click 'GPS Source' and make sure 'Use Internal GPS' is selected.
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Second thing you can do is download the 'GPS Status & Toolbox' app from the market. Once installed go into the app and hit Menu and then select Tools. From the popup menu select Manage A-GPS state. Select Reset and then Download. Reboot and see if you can get a fix now.
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It is recommended you have a Nandroid backup before trying anything below.
Third thing you can do is download this GPS Fix made for the Legend (From Kot_Ik’s CM7.2 unofficial thread). Put it on your SDCard and reboot to recovery and flash it.
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Fourth thing you can do is flash a new radio in recovery. Get one from here. Try the bottom 2 first before trying the top one. This doesn't seem to be supported in the latest versions of CWM so you should load an earlier fake flash zip file. Go here for the recovery and instructions (Thanks ranger4740)
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Last thing I can think of is to change ROM's and see if that fixes anything.
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That's all folks. If you're reading this part and your GPS still isn't working then I've got no idea what's going to fix it
smithchipz said:
Third thing you can do is download this GPS Fix made for the Legend. Put it on your SDCard and reboot to recovery and flash it.
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This is not needed for old stable releases and was fixed a few weeks ago (so recent RCs and nightly builds already contain that bugfix).
smithchipz said:
Fourth thing you can try is download a gps.conf file from here that's related to your country/continent and flash it in recovery.
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All of the files I checked there are invalid.
ali ba said:
This is not needed for old stable releases and was fixed a few weeks ago (so recent RCs and nightly builds already contain that bugfix).
All of the files I checked there are invalid.
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Ali Ba, as you are the legend master, can you please explain why my legend could never achieve GPS lock on ANY version of CM, stable or not, no matter how long my phone tried until I started using the GPS fix mentioned above. I ask because you are the master, and you did say its not nessasary. So that advice is a bit confusing.
Thank you
sent from my legend using zeubeas cm9 beta2
ali ba said:
All of the files I checked there are invalid.
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Hello ali ba,
can you explain, how a valid gps.conf looks?
alligator_asl said:
can you explain, how a valid gps.conf looks?
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It is a config file parsed per line. This means that there shouldn't be any new line characters for lines that the system has to interpret as one.
It's perfectly OK to use a local NTP-server, by the way. It just doesn't fix problems at all. The short differences in the time the packets take to be sent and received are eliminated by the NTP protocol anyway.
Most so called "GPS fixes" are bogus at best (using the newest baseband firmware is something I'd recommend though).
ranger4740 said:
Ali Ba, as you are the legend master, can you please explain why my legend could never achieve GPS lock on ANY version of CM, stable or not, no matter how long my phone tried until I started using the GPS fix mentioned above. I ask because you are the master, and you did say its not nessasary. So that advice is a bit confusing.
Thank you
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Everything I say is right so you are wrong per definition. Also, I'm the reincarnation of an ancient demigod and I'll send a shipload of trained African killer bees to decompose your cell phones after you should you dare to question me. Any more questions?
ali ba said:
Everything I say is right so you are wrong per definition. Also, I'm the reincarnation of an ancient demigod and I'll send a shipload of trained African killer bees to decompose your cell phones after you should you dare to question me. Any more questions?
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Well, good question by ranger4740, but bad answer...
This fix gps.agps.legend.zip is not for CM9. If you flash this, you are flashing a lib which nobody knows where is from.
zeubea said:
This fix gps.agps.legend.zip is not for CM9. If you flash this, you are flashing a lib which nobody knows where is from.
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Sorry the fix is from Kot_Ik’s CM7 thread. Updated the post to show this.
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Exactly, it is for CM7 Kot_Ik, because it is built in that rep for that version, only clarifying for avoid to see posts from people flash CM7 libs on CM9, because it is not the way.
smithchipz said:
Sorry the fix is from Kot_Ik’s CM7 thread. Updated the post to show this.
Sent from my Legend using XDA
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After trying to update gps.conf file for my locatopn Europ/Poland both .zip files (Europ and Poland) crashes during updateing... is there anything ealse i can do to make it works ?;>
after those tryes i ve downgraded cwm useing ranger's update file and instaled latest radio.zip... after rebot gps still couldn't "lock" my positon... with custom settings for gps made by zuebas in cm9beta2 it founds and uses up to 13 satelites but couldnt lock position.... what ealse can i do to make it work properly ?
EDIT: after updating from latest to newest radio (now useing 47.26.35.04_7.05.35.26L) it can't even find any satelites, earlier it was finding up to 13-14.... I've reset and downloaded A-GPS state..... and still nothing
maxydem said:
After trying to update gps.conf file for my locatopn Europ/Poland both .zip files (Europ and Poland) crashes during updateing... is there anything ealse i can do to make it works ?;>
after those tryes i ve downgraded cwm useing ranger's update file and instaled latest radio.zip... after rebot gps still couldn't "lock" my positon... with custom settings for gps made by zuebas in cm9beta2 it founds and uses up to 13 satelites but couldnt lock position.... what ealse can i do to make it work properly ?
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I'm not sure apart from all the steps I listed in first post. Sorry :/
maxydem said:
After trying to update gps.conf file for my locatopn Europ/Poland both .zip files (Europ and Poland) crashes during updateing... is there anything ealse i can do to make it works ?;>
after those tryes i ve downgraded cwm useing ranger's update file and instaled latest radio.zip... after rebot gps still couldn't "lock" my positon... with custom settings for gps made by zuebas in cm9beta2 it founds and uses up to 13 satelites but couldnt lock position.... what ealse can i do to make it work properly ?
EDIT: after updating from latest to newest radio (now useing 47.26.35.04_7.05.35.26L) it can't even find any satelites, earlier it was finding up to 13-14.... I've reset and downloaded A-GPS state..... and still nothing
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Ok, what I have noticed so far using legend. Don't mess with gps.conf using other custom gps.conf I've use some before (instant lock) and its bogus as Ali ba put it.
Just use faster fix is enough.
OK, now currently I'm on zuebes cm9 and GPS works but getting it to lock is something else. And I love my waze.
I'll get in my car and start waze. Wait for a minutes or 2 than start moving. Lock or no lock, just start moving. Don't drive so fast but stay constant either 40kmh or 60kmh will do just fine. My lock usually happens when I stop at a junction or a traffic light or slow down before a corner.
Then when you lock for the first time. You can combo for the next trip as long as you on your waze at the same spot before leaving. It's instant lock for some cases but need to start over if it does not lock. Assume you use waze.
But if GPS is important. Use stock based rom and ogo2s rom also have good GPS if I remember well... I think its something about HTC didn't release GPS source that we ended up like this.
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Alright I've changed the post and removed the step about changing the gps.conf.
maxydem said:
After trying to update gps.conf file for my locatopn Europ/Poland both .zip files (Europ and Poland) crashes during updateing
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I'm sorry that it broke your device, but I can't do more than pointing out that these files are invalid.
Oops... said:
Well, good question by ranger4740, but bad answer...
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So I point out that these files are not only useless (as most GPS fix instructions are) but also broken and invalid and what do I get? Some random guy jumping at me telling me how stupid I am because GPS coincidentally started working on his device after doing some useless things?
You know, that's not even something I have to do (as if I was getting paid for support), I'm doing it because I'm basically a nice guy.
And then you, another random "I know how to register an account so let's attack people"-user, shows up. Thanks, you're welcome. Oh, I was right, by the way. The files are broken. The fixes don't work.
psyionx said:
Ok, what I have noticed so far using legend. Don't mess with gps.conf using other custom gps.conf I've use some before (instant lock) and its bogus as Ali ba put it.
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Thank you for actually reading what I write.
psyionx said:
I think its something about HTC didn't release GPS source that we ended up like this.
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That's right. There's a bug somewhere in the GPS module but we never got any sources so we don't really know how to work around it. The GPS module on the Legend doesn't have public sources so we hacked together some code from different versions. It works pretty well - once it starts working.
I sometimes can't get a GPS fix either when I started the device with GPS turned off or after toggling GPS a few times. Yeah, it is broken and I am aware of that.
The only "solutions" that really work are rebooting your device with GPS and mobile internet connection turned on. This lets it download AGPS data, inject the current time into the module and you'll get a fix within 20 seconds.
Using the latest radio (=baseband firmware) for your region has been reported to kickstart GPS as well. That's the only fix I can confirm, everything else is shenanigans and you should get your money back .
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I'm sorry that it broke your device, but I can't do more than pointing out that these files are invalid.
So I point out that these files are not only useless (as most GPS fix instructions are) but also broken and invalid and what do I get? Some random guy jumping at me telling me how stupid I am because GPS coincidentally started working on his device after doing some useless things?
You know, that's not even something I have to do (as if I was getting paid for support), I'm doing it because I'm basically a nice guy.
And then you, another random "I know how to register an account so let's attack people"-user, shows up. Thanks, you're welcome. Oh, I was right, by the way. The files are broken. The fixes don't work.
Thank you for actually reading what I write.
That's right. There's a bug somewhere in the GPS module but we never got any sources so we don't really know how to work around it. The GPS module on the Legend doesn't have public sources so we hacked together some code from different versions. It works pretty well - once it starts working.
I sometimes can't get a GPS fix either when I started the device with GPS turned off or after toggling GPS a few times. Yeah, it is broken and I am aware of that.
The only "solutions" that really work are rebooting your device with GPS and mobile internet connection turned on. This lets it download AGPS data, inject the current time into the module and you'll get a fix within 20 seconds.
Using the latest radio (=baseband firmware) for your region has been reported to kickstart GPS as well. That's the only fix I can confirm, everything else is shenanigans and you should get your money back .
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By quoting me you are implying I'm some one that only knows how to register and start attacking people, how did I attack you, most people here know your the master who gave us all cm for our legend which is wonderful, and I simply asked you as you are the expert to explain how? Then you come back with your B.S answer attacking me, for no real good reason Instead of explaining humanly the answer, you also imply I attack people, when all I do here is try and learn to do stuff, and help others when I can.
Any way best you add me to your ignore list then you won't have to see me attack and abuse every one on xda developers ever again! Hey better still report me to the mods and get me permanently band from xda forums if you've seriously got some evidence of constaintly attacking members.
Sent from my Legend using XDA
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... And then you, another random "I know how to register an account so let's attack people"-user, shows up. Thanks, you're welcome. Oh, I was right, by the way. The files are broken. The fixes don't work.
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Calm down. Nobody attacks people. I appreciate your work concerning the Legend port - and stated that several times.
Not giving an answer is ok - as you said, no paid support.
However, I can't agree on statements like ...
ali ba said:
... Everything I say is right so you are wrong per definition. ... Any more questions?
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as they are rude by definition. No more questions ...
btw, thanks for clarification
The only "solutions" that really work are rebooting your device with GPS and mobile internet connection turned on. This lets it download AGPS data, inject the current time into the module and you'll get a fix within 20 seconds.
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ugh! this is unnecessary fighting, ali ba might just misunderstood ranger4740 questions, cos it sound corny at first look but if you read it again it's just a genuine question.
about gps fixes, we should trust the expert, yes this won't work as ali ba said there's some bugs in gps module. This fixes might work on other devices but I wonder if it does anything for our Ancient Legend
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ugh! this is unnecessary fighting
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Agree. Back on topic
...So I am using Zeubea's ICS ROM (BETA3) and my GPS isn't working.
I have refreshed the AGPS-data and flashed the newest (?) radio (7.13.35.05).
In what way is the radio dependent on my geographical location? I live in Sweden, am I using the correct radio?
I get no lock, but I get accuracy of roughly 2km. How is this?
Also, I'm searching for an app to see how many satelites I am connected to, havn't found one yet.
Any help in this would be greatly appreciated - thank you in advance ♥
MarkInDaPark said:
...So I am using Zeubea's ICS ROM (BETA3) and my GPS isn't working.
I have refreshed the AGPS-data and flashed the newest (?) radio (7.13.35.05).
In what way is the radio dependent on my geographical location? I live in Sweden, am I using the correct radio?
I get no lock, but I get accuracy of roughly 2km. How is this?
Also, I'm searching for an app to see how many satelites I am connected to, havn't found one yet.
Any help in this would be greatly appreciated - thank you in advance ♥
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try using mobile data to get a good starting point (google's location service), also check gps source in location settings, and then try to get the precise location somewhere with a good view of sky....every next time it'll be faster, (you can even disable google's location service if you don't like it being turned on,it should still work faster than the first time after flashing)
edit: i just tried what i wrote above and got fix in no time,even from my room,using zeubeas cm9 beta3 freshly flashed... so, enable mobile data for a brief time until you get gps lock then you can disable it if you wish