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4GB Card

I know the Dash doesn't support 4GB cards... However, anyone find a way around it? Shouldn't it be software based? My brother gave me a 4GB card that wasn't compatible with his Samsung phone, so I figured I'd try to get it to work.

Good luck -- T-Mobile attributes the endless-reboot-looping issue to using cards over 1GB.
.PoNeH said:
I know the Dash doesn't support 4GB cards... However, anyone find a way around it? Shouldn't it be software based? My brother gave me a 4GB card that wasn't compatible with his Samsung phone, so I figured I'd try to get it to work.
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i am using a 2 gig with my tmobile dash, and have no problems at all.. like the 1st post, i would love to see a 4gig card work.. good luck!

I use a 2 gig card as well, but had that endless rebooting issue with WM6 & 5 on my Dash. Fortunately, holding the END key during the bootup would jump-start the device; but that doesn't work for everyone. When I contacted T-Mobile support about it, they said they provide support for the device with a 1 gig card, and the endless reboot was a known issue with anything larger the 1 gig. Didn't stop me though FYI -- I've not run into the booting issue since upgrading my device to the HTC WM6 ROM -- though now that I've typed that, it'll probably start happening
mofoliar said:
i am using a 2 gig with my tmobile dash, and have no problems at all.. like the 1st post, i would love to see a 4gig card work.. good luck!
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i always though the device support was 2 gig.. but oh well.. yeah i am still using t-mobile rom w/wm6 when it was 1st released. (as we speak) i am getting ready too upgrade to the htc rom.. so i wonder if the device will handle a 4gig when using htc rom?

I haven't tried it so I don't know how the phone would handle it, but could you partition it into 2 2g or 4 1g parts?

chaznet said:
I use a 2 gig card as well, but had that endless rebooting issue with WM6 & 5 on my Dash. Fortunately, holding the END key during the bootup would jump-start the device; but that doesn't work for everyone. When I contacted T-Mobile support about it, they said they provide support for the device with a 1 gig card, and the endless reboot was a known issue with anything larger the 1 gig. Didn't stop me though FYI -- I've not run into the booting issue since upgrading my device to the HTC WM6 ROM -- though now that I've typed that, it'll probably start happening
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I've been using 2GB card since day one ( Rogers S621 )
gone from original carrier's WM5 ROM -->> HTC generic WM5 -->> T-Mobile WM6 -->> HTC Generic WM6 ...etc
no problem whatsoever
my advice to those who have problem is:
When upgrade/downgrading ROMs ... take out the SD card & the SIM card altogether ...
leaving it in during the ROM up/down seems to be the cause for the endless boot

Nice try at a guess... but... nope. Had the problem from day 1 with the shipping ROM. This issue isn't always identical for everyone, and some don't run into it at all. Congratulations -- you're one of the lucky ones -- but thanks anyway for sharing your story
UnicornKaz said:
I've been using 2GB card since day one ( Rogers S621 )
gone from original carrier's WM5 ROM -->> HTC generic WM5 -->> T-Mobile WM6 -->> HTC Generic WM6 ...etc
no problem whatsoever
my advice to those who have problem is:
When upgrade/downgrading ROMs ... take out the SD card & the SIM card altogether ...
leaving it in during the ROM up/down seems to be the cause for the endless boot
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chaznet, i just finally made the switch to the ship rom (htc) and i havent seen any reboots.. i installed programs from the card and use it to use customize ringer for contacts... like the other poster said.. might try and take out sim and sd cardd..

Been there, done that... I'm not currently experiencing the issue, but, when I was removing either the SIM card or the SD card had no effect. As I said, pressing the END key during bootup got my device going. This along with the removing the cards, are solutions that work for some users and not others.
The 'endless-reboot' issue has been extensively covered in a dedicated topic, should you wish further clarification do a search and read all about it -- no need to repeat it all here
mofoliar said:
chaznet, i just finally made the switch to the ship rom (htc) and i havent seen any reboots.. i installed programs from the card and use it to use customize ringer for contacts... like the other poster said.. might try and take out sim and sd cardd..
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well sounds like u are set then

Um... yeah... I never actually asked a question -- have you read this topic?
mofoliar said:
well sounds like u are set then
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chaznet said:
Been there, done that... I'm not currently experiencing the issue, but, when I was removing either the SIM card or the SD card had no effect. As I said, pressing the END key during bootup got my device going. This along with the removing the cards, are solutions that work for some users and not others.
The 'endless-reboot' issue has been extensively covered in a dedicated topic, should you wish further clarification do a search and read all about it -- no need to repeat it all here
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chaznet said:
and the endless reboot was a known issue with anything larger the 1 gig. Didn't stop me though ...
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yes I have read the topic posted from others ... many things could be the culprit ... BUT DEFINITELY NOT BECAUSE OF THE SD CARD BEING OVER 1GB SIZE !! like you've indicated to be !!
heck !! even you yourself indicated what's causing the problem here ... not because of the SD card being larger then 1 GB !!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1478337&postcount=62
chaznet said:
but, when I was removing either the SIM card or the SD card had no effect.
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remove both altogether ... not just either/or

I've no idea what really causes it, that's just what T-Mobile support said, and you can never tell if they're feeding you a story or not. Thanks for your input though
UnicornKaz said:
heck !! even you yourself indicated what's causing the problem here ... not because of the SD card being larger then 1 GB !!
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I used to get the random shutdowns and it turned out it was the original battery that came with my T-Mobile Dash. When I switched to the 1200mAh battery I have had no problems whatsoever. I have, since day one, been using a 2GB card, so it can't be the culprit.

4GB cards are SDHC, not for Excalibur
4-32 GB cards are SDHC, a different, no backwards compatible format.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card

Hmmm, that might be the reason then. Thanks. However, as someone here mentioned; is there anyway to format the card into 2 2GBs cards in the compatible format?

Re-read the response, check the Wikipedia link, you'll find the answer has already been provided...
.PoNeH said:
Hmmm, that might be the reason then. Thanks. However, as someone here mentioned; is there anyway to format the card into 2 2GBs cards in the compatible format?
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Hi chaz, can you please check your PM? Thanks

.PoNeH said:
Hmmm, that might be the reason then. Thanks. However, as someone here mentioned; is there anyway to format the card into 2 2GBs cards in the compatible format?
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I can't see why not ???
when you plug your card into a reader ( might need an adapter for micro -->> SD size ..etc ). your card is read by the desktop as a separate drive .... use a 3rd party partition program ( partition magic ? ) and do it.
feasible in theory
I don't have a 4GB card to play around ... using 2GB is fine here

buying from ebay?

Hey all... just a quick question to set my mind at ease please...
Just bought a desire on ebay .. supposedly unwanted t mobile UK upgrade... brand New in box...paid 270 for itwhich I thought was a decent price...
I'm just a little worried about stuff on eBay though and wonder if there's anything I should check for to make sure its ok... any known problems I should be looking for or a reason someone would want rid in a hurry... as it was a 1 day sale.. many thanks for any help.

Nobody can advise what to look for? Is it at least possible to check how many minutes the phone has been used for ? (

Bought a Black HTC Desire on ebay.. £350.. box was still sealed - all good. But the chap selling it did live at the top of my road! LOL
Unlocked - just about to flash it!

Chivalryyyy said:
Hey all... just a quick question to set my mind at ease please...
Just bought a desire on ebay .. supposedly unwanted t mobile UK upgrade... brand New in box...paid 270 for itwhich I thought was a decent price...
I'm just a little worried about stuff on eBay though and wonder if there's anything I should check for to make sure its ok... any known problems I should be looking for or a reason someone would want rid in a hurry... as it was a 1 day sale.. many thanks for any help.
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thats a good deal, i got mine off ebay for £295, the main things u wanna check are the obvious, check the screen and the casing, check the battery for damage, turn it on and make sure you desire dosent have the pink screen tint problem, put it under some heavy usage and see if u get any random reboots ect and lastly plug it in while using it and make sure the device duznt get too hot, if your happy after doing all that ur sorted lol

If it's a stolen phone, it is possible that the IMEI has been blacklisted.
See here for more details.
Regards,
Dave

When you get it use the dialler to type *#*#4636#*#* then tap usage statistics. This will tell you how long each application has been used for. Obviously if it's brand new these should read 0.
It should be wrapped in a cellophane type wrapper that folds in all weird ways around it! It's all one piece. I would do all the usual checks, and look closely at it to ensure it hasn't been dropped etc.
Don't forget if it's a Tmobile upgrade then it will likely be locked to Tmobile and require an unlock code if you aren't on the same network!
It should come supplied with a 4gb micro SD card installed in the phone, the battery, usb lead, wall charger that you plug the usb lead into, earphones, and a few wee booklets. All the leads, charger etc should be in sealed bags.

Thanks all.... I've been using it since last night and seems allls well... gets quite warm at the.base of the back .. but I assume they all generate some heat ...
Checked the timers.. and sense was showing 3 hours.. but as I been using it a day that obviously me.. was in box all cellofaned up.. and all bits in sealed bags..
What's the pink screen problem ? Is it very noticeable ?
The 1 thing o did notice is there was an option to have something light up on receipt of mail or sms. I assume its the center of the optical tracker but I haven't noticed it light up once... should it? And hoe can I check? Thanks again for all the advice.. had set my mind at ease. )

The light for notifications is the one you see when you charge. There is no light at the trackpad.

socktug said:
Don't forget if it's a Tmobile upgrade then it will likely be locked to Tmobile and require an unlock code if you aren't on the same network!
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If it is the case, is it then possible to "unlock" it by flashing another ROM onto it? Just wondered cause I'm looking at one that might be locked to vodafone (upgrade).

Puccifer said:
If it is the case, is it then possible to "unlock" it by flashing another ROM onto it? Just wondered cause I'm looking at one that might be locked to vodafone (upgrade).
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No. A new rom gives you new phone software. To unlock it you need to go to Vodafone, or the cheaper and better option in my opinion, buy a code online!

HTC Desire on Orange.

Hi,
I'm a n00b when it comes to android handsets. I have come across two different deals for the desire: carphone warehouse unbranded 24mth for £25 and orange branded 24mth for £25 (business). Thing is I really like the black handset as opposed to the brown one. Can someone answer whether it is possible to remove all the stuff that Orange stick on their handsets without the need to flash/rom(?) - or at least, if that really is the only way how this can be done, what do you do if you need to use the warranty on the handset and have it repaired?
Thanks in advance,
M.

halftimefeel said:
Hi,
I'm a n00b when it comes to android handsets. I have come across two different deals for the desire: carphone warehouse unbranded 24mth for £25 and oranged branded 24mth for £25. Thing is I really like the black handset as opposed to the brown one. Can someone answer whether it is possible to remove all the stuff that Orange stick on their handsets without the need to flash/rom(?) - or at least, if that really is the only way how this can be done, what do you do if you need to use the warranty on the handset and have it repaired?
Thanks in advance,
M.
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Well removing things is a pain and if you want to unlock with a branded phone you will need to use a goldcard, unbranded is always better and the brown looks rather sexy IMO (I was against it to start with too)
Rooting is always a good thing if you need more info have a look here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
and they cant really touch you on the Warrenty side, ok if its a SW problem reflash with a stock ROM and get rid of the Rootedness,,, if its HW issue thats nothing to do with SW i.e a broken screen they cant call you up on it

So, I could get an orange-flavoured desire; boot the device into recovery mode and back up the phone (presumably this is an image), and restore the image using recovery mode should anything go wrong. I've read that there are stock images of the orange-flavour O/S, but I'd rather use my own image of the OS from when I bought the handset - am I correct in my thinking...can I do this?
Cheers!

unbranded phone is better choice, it will make your life much easier if you want to experiment with roms in future

halftimefeel said:
So, I could get an orange-flavoured desire; boot the device into recovery mode and back up the phone (presumably this is an image), and restore the image using recovery mode should anything go wrong. I've read that there are stock images of the orange-flavour O/S, but I'd rather use my own image of the OS from when I bought the handset - am I correct in my thinking...can I do this?
Cheers!
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Yep!
djoni1980 said:
unbranded phone is better choice, it will make your life much easier if you want to experiment with roms in future
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And i agree Unbranded is the business!

2nd Hand Desire Reboots with SIM in

I purchased a 2nd hand desire from ebay a couple days ago and it came today, apparently the phone was only used a few times so is 'as new'. I've come to boot it up and it constantly reboots with my SIM card in, doesn't even get past the HTC Boot screen.
If I take the SIM out it boots fine. I've spent a while searching through similiar issues but can't actually find anything concrete as to what to do. I'm not sure if it's been rooted previously and am wondering if I should just send it back and purchase another one from elsewhere?
Any advice?
K

Boot it without the SIM card and go to Settings>About phone>Software information and post up the Software version
Might need to reflash the stock FW on it to make sure it's working properly

Can you identify whether they have flashed it from this too?
Not really bothered so long as I can get it to work but don't want to risk doing something that will give them every reason to tell me to bugger off
Firmware version
2.1-update1
Baseband
32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11
Kernel
2.6.29-3cb3dfbf
[email protected] #1
Build
1.15.61.10 CL155070 release-keys
Software
1.15.61.10
Browser
WebKit 3.1

Pretty sure that's the stock Orange UK FW, which would suggest you have an AMOLED screen as well
In which case, it'll be locked to Orange and you'll need an unlock code to use another network but wouldn't explain the reboots with a SIM card in it

The seller has already unlocked it, she used it with Vodafone as far as I'm aware and said it worked perfectly fine.
You reckon my best bet is to send it back? It's listed as no returns but its my impression that they have a duty to ensure it's in 'as described' condition and it clearly isn't in full working order.

I reckon so, if it's not working then they have to refund your money. Perhaps try another SIM card to rule it out but other than flashing a new ROM there's no way of knowing what's wrong

Just tried my friends SIM, who is also TMob. Got a bit further for him but crashed before getting to the Home Screen again. Tried mine and it gets to the same point before a restart.
Think I may just buy one brand new, this 2nd hand experience really isn't doing me any good!
When you say the Orange has an AMOLED, should I assume the unbranded handsets don't? That kinda sucks as it was on of the reasons I wanted the Desire.

New units won't, no - they'll be SLCD

Now this is weird! When I got home I decided to try using an o2 sim I have lying around. It booted fine. Swapped it with my Tmob and it booted fine too.
Did a factory reset, tried it with the Tmob and it reboot looped, put the o2 sim in and it reboot looped with that too! Figured the only thing I'd done differently was the battery has been disconnected for the past hour or so, tried leaving it out for 5 minutes and lo and behold it booted fine with the Tmob sim.
Had to put in the APN settings for internet but otherwise it seems to be working perfectly fine now!
Undecided on whether I should send it back or not now, it's working but could it be buggy because of the issues I've been having... Why are these things never simple!

It's going back..... went back to the reboot loop as soon as I powered it off and on again. Can't be doing with it. Going to buy me a new one and hopefully won't have these problems.

Best thing IMO, shame though as it's a good phone
If you're buying new might as well get the Desire S as it's out now SIM-free

I did consider that but I'm really not a fan of capacitive buttons at the bottom of the screen as I constantly hit them on accident. Think I'll just get myself a Desire from Amazon for £300 and stick with that for the next year atleast.

This actually sounds like this Desire is having the famous bootloops. It's faulty hardware.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

I'd have said keep it, then root it and load a custom rom

[Q] Going to buy this phone, but I got few questions...

Is there a old model and new model, but still with the name HTC ONE X ?
I mean that probably the first phones were with few hardware problem / mistakes, and HTC probably changed / fixed these issues ...
Am I right? and if so, how to know which one is the newer with a closed box in the shop ?
I need to know anything else before?
BTW i'm buying the global version
Thanx a lot in advance for any answer

There is only one model of the international hox. BTW there are many s/n batches, you should try to find the latest s/n avaible in store. Mine is a HT23XW....... HT is the manufacturing location, 2 for year 2012, 3 is the month. So latest s/n should be free of many issues like wifi, gps (was related to bad antenna connection), sim card connection (again bad contacts Inside the phone) and yellow spotted screen (bad batches of screen for some manufacturing location). Here are the thread about understanding s/n: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24898388&postcount=13
Here are the known issues with early hox batches: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24516940#post24516940
How to test your device in store for defect: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649943&highlight=yellow+spot
Many software related issues were solved with OTA uprades.
BTW you may wants to look at the new HTC One X+ wich haves a bigger battery, slightly faster cpu, 64gb storage and Android Jelly Bean out of the box.
If I helped, plz click thank button!

Thanks a lot