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HTC Battery Drainage Bug (Possible Fix)

Hello,
This is my first attempt at .NET CF programming. It is in reference to this thread.
It attempts to cycle the power to the GPS hardware eight times (at 200ms intervals) by calling GPSOpenDevice() and GPSCloseDevice().
It also shows the raw information provided by GetSystemPowerStatusEx2() if you need to troubleshoot your battery.
I'm not sure that it works, but it attempts to do programmatically what is described in the thread link above.
Full source code is included. I think it is also a great tutorial VB.NET project for anyone wanting to learn how to read the power on their device.
Please let me know what you think, and if it even works towards being a workaround for the HTC/Qualcomm chip standby-power drain bug. If it does work, I'll improve it (add autorun/exit-after capability, systray, etc..)
To use this without dealing with VS2005/compiling/etc, just copy HQPowerFix.exe from the bin/Release folder (in the zip) to your device (anywhere) and run it from there.
Note: These images are from my development machine. They look different on the device:
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Regards,
--Weasel5i2

Nice idea! But it seems would be useful to cycle gps state not a fixed amount of times, but based on result of battery drainage (if it's below the certain level, the fix was succeed and no need to cycle gps anymore).
Also it would be useful to create a "command-line mode", when the program is starting and doing the fix without user interference. When done, it makes possible to launch iGo and this program from one script file, to implement the fix automatically after exit from iGo.

I found the MSDN documentation on the SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS_EX2 structure:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa926903.aspx.
It seems I didn't properly implement this structure's usage in my code, so I am planning to fix it tonight when I get home from the office.
@Vladimyr: That's a great idea, I do plan on doing that if this program turns out to be worthwhile and actually do the GPS power-drain fix as intended. Once I figure out how to more accurately read the mV/mA metrics, I will start working on that.
I'm also now working on a front-end/back-end for controlling a Car PC from a Pocket PC.. I think an older iPaq is cheaper than a Lilliput touchscreen
--W5i2

weasel5i2 said:
I found the MSDN documentation on the SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS_EX2 structure:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa926903.aspx.
It seems I didn't properly implement this structure's usage in my code, so I am planning to fix it tonight when I get home from the office.
@Vladimyr: That's a great idea, I do plan on doing that if this program turns out to be worthwhile and actually do the GPS power-drain fix as intended. Once I figure out how to more accurately read the mV/mA metrics, I will start working on that.
I'm also now working on a front-end/back-end for controlling a Car PC from a Pocket PC.. I think an older iPaq is cheaper than a Lilliput touchscreen
--W5i2
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Any updates to your program? Also, is it possible to edit the thread title and put GPS in it? I'd been meaning to reference back to this one and it took me a while to find it.

HAVE ANYONE TRIED THIS ALREADY?
DID IT FIX THE PROBLEM?
weasel5i2 said:
Hello,
This is my first attempt at .NET CF programming. It is in reference to this thread.
It attempts to cycle the power to the GPS hardware eight times (at 200ms intervals) by calling GPSOpenDevice() and GPSCloseDevice().
It also shows the raw information provided by GetSystemPowerStatusEx2() if you need to troubleshoot your battery.
I'm not sure that it works, but it attempts to do programmatically what is described in the thread link above.
Full source code is included. I think it is also a great tutorial VB.NET project for anyone wanting to learn how to read the power on their device.
Please let me know what you think, and if it even works towards being a workaround for the HTC/Qualcomm chip standby-power drain bug. If it does work, I'll improve it (add autorun/exit-after capability, systray, etc..)
To use this without dealing with VS2005/compiling/etc, just copy HQPowerFix.exe from the bin/Release folder (in the zip) to your device (anywhere) and run it from there.
Note: These images are from my development machine. They look different on the device:
Regards,
--Weasel5i2
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Doesnt work but nice idea

[App]Cinemo(0.9.5) - Movie Showtimes for VGA Phones with CF3.5

Cinemo is an application for finding movie showtimes and information for your area(USA and Canada only, as far as I know). You can use either your postal code or GPS to find your location.
v0.9.5
Changes
Code:
Fixed a potential issue with automatic updates.
Allow GPS to determine location.
Screenshots:
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I have just released a new version of Cinemo. From now on Cinemo will be hosted here: http://www.danielgary.net/cinemo/
The new version is really just an interim release that enables image caching for the movie posters and allows automatic updates to Cinemo. A message box will pop up to notify you when the new version is being installed.
Direct link to download: http://www.danielgary.net/cinemo/CinemoSetup.cab
P.S. I know the site is ugly. I threw something up there just to host the file for now. I will get something pretty later.
PPS
Mods could you please delete the previous thread found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=497225

When I attempted to install this to my memory card the installation would fail; however, the installation to device memory was successful. Can this only be installed to device memory?
Edit: Maybe for a future update you could query the "total $ gross" for each film on the list? Might be a cool addition.

Works well. One suggestion is to have a list of theaters that are within some range of your zip code. Many people go to neighboring zips to go to their preferred theaters.
I will be keeping an eye on this as it would be more convenient than loading up Fandango every time.

im unable to dowload via my ppc.... it just snow a bunch of code and at ppcgeeks the attatchment isnot valid

I get a "No movie times were found for your area." dialog box regardless of the zipcode I enter.
Running on a Sprint Touch Pro, WM 6.1, stock Sprint ROM.

I get a "No movie times were found for your area." dialog box regardless of the zipcode I enter.
Running on a Sprint Touch Pro, WM 6.1, stock Sprint ROM.
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I would imagine that you do not have a data connection open or available. Can you hit the internet with your phone? Try disconnecting it from the computer if the USB cable is connected.
im unable to dowload via my ppc.... it just snow a bunch of code and at ppcgeeks the attatchment isnot valid
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Direct link: http://www.danielgary.net/cinemo/CinemoSetup.cab

GPS part works great! Nice update!

danielgary said:
I would imagine that you do not have a data connection open or available. Can you hit the internet with your phone? Try disconnecting it from the computer if the USB cable is connected.
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I was able to hit the internet and use other data connection apps fine. I did have it connected to the PC. Disconnected, no change. Cinemo wouldn't work, other apps would.
Did a soft reset, everything works fine. I guess there must have been something that didn't take or load completely until after the soft reset.
Great app, thanks for the work!

Nice App. Since I dont have data plan I guess I will have to check it when I am near a Wifi

p51d007 said:
GPS part works great! Nice update!
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+1 for the gps, works like a charm! I use flixter on my ipod touch, and this works just as well for locating movies and since both are very similiar in UI, its really nice to have the familiarity from one device to the other.

Just letting everyone know I have movie synopsis working on my test build. Look for a new update to Cinemo in the next 24-48 hours. It SHOULD automatically update itself when you run it. I will post letting you know when it should be available.

thanks for this app i would love to be able to watch the trailer. maybe you could link it with the youtube app

awesome app, been following it since the first thread. the only thing missing for me would be saving favorite theaters other than that this is perfect. it's helped me out a couple times, thanks!

looks like this is going to be a great app - I am in Canada and i cant seem to enter a Canadian postcode as it caters for zip codes only! I also tried the GPS and it found no cinemas in my area and im downtown Toronto!
Potential feature add: would be great if you could add a feature to be able to enter dvd titles and get it to check the ratings on imdb and metacritic!

Hey thanks for the great app!
Is there a way to add more theaters to the list?
I have to change my area to get different theaters and i much rather just have all the theaters within the area be displayed.
Vancouver, BC, canada working decently!

I agree with some of the others. There needs to be an option for more movie theatres both when viewing the actual movie times and in the theatres tab. Also, itd be nice to check times for other days in advance. Like being able to view the times for Thursday when it is still Monday. Other than that I think it looks really good. Until theres more theatres I am stuck using Live search

every time i change the zipcode the app shuts down with an error. also, sometimes when i open the app it shuts down with an error. tried it on my sprint diamond and touch pro with same results. when it does open without errors it works great though. is there an explanation why there are errors so often? i'd say i've received an error about 40% of the time.
thanks for making this, it's a great idea and very useful. it's much easier and faster than having to open a mobile browser or some other app. keep up the development!

great idea love the concept. would you be able to make this for wqvga devices?
thanks in advance

Nice App but I have been having issues. I am using Energy ROM 3.0. I am not sure if it is because of the 3.7 .Net that he is use or some other reason but I am recieveing a message "failed: \storage card\program files\Cinemo\Cinemo.exe"
I am not sure why I have started to get this. I have more then enough room on my SD card. I have used it in the past and liked the app. Would love to have it on my cell but I am not going to change roms.
So, basically can anyone confirm issues on install? does it have to do with the 3.7 .Net that is being used?
Thanks,
SoBBie

pretty cool app.
i think it would be nice if you could enter your user account information for fandango.com or movietickets.com. that way if you see the movie you want to go see, you can just tap a "buy now" button, and you are good to go. maybe it could pull the confirmation number as well or something.

Two panel file manager for Android

Hi everyone,
I wrote yet another simple file manager for the Android platform, called Ghost Commander.
Why I did it? Because it only features two panels, like famous (Norton|Midnight|Total) Commander and you can easy copy/move files between the panels by a single key press (instead of that boring cut/copy/paste operations). It also can create and delete folders, edit small text files.
For the advanced users, this file manager has also the "root:" (su - super
user) mode to work with system files on a rooted phone, change file permissions
attributes (chmod) and even execute your own shell commands. Plus, the "mount:"
mode to browse and remount the file system partitions.
Aside the file system on the sdcard, the file manager can also upload or
download files from remote locations such as FTP servers, Windows (aka Samba)
network shares (plug-in required), create or extract ZIP archives.
Here is the link for download.

Ill check it out! Sounds interesting...thanks!
-BMFC

Your app is very good! Nice and simple, but it doesnt show anything under /cache or /data /or /system/sd/...it could really use that function, other than that its pretty good, no FC's, not really laggy, Nice work! Make it truly show ALL contents and itll be great! Thanks!
-BMFC

bmfc187 said:
Your app is very good! Nice and simple, but it doesnt show anything under /cache or /data /or /system/sd/...it could really use that function, other than that its pretty good, no FC's, not really laggy, Nice work! Make it truly show ALL contents and itll be great! Thanks!
-BMFC
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Thank you for the review.
I don't know why it does not show the content in some system folders. It just got nothing when it asks the list of the files for that directories. May be it's some java security limitations. I tried other file managers, they don't show that as well. I'll try to as a question on an xda forum.
Did you expirience any troubles with the track ball? The application should switch panels on the left movement, did that bring any trouble?

Can you post some screenshots?

zc2 said:
Thank you for the review.
I don't know why it does not show the content in some system folders. It just got nothing when it asks the list of the files for that directories. May be it's some java security limitations. I tried other file managers, they don't show that as well. I'll try to as a question on an xda forum.
Did you expirience any troubles with the track ball? The application should switch panels on the left movement, did that bring any trouble?
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The only file manager i know that shows the contents of those folders is SUFBS. It has a file browser, terminal, shared network viewer...its pretty good...i guess i hadnt thought about that being basically the only one that DOES show those directories...guess i got spoiled....lol
Screenshots:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
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-BMFC

bmfc187 said:
The only file manager i know that shows the contents of those folders is SUFBS. It has a file browser, terminal, shared network viewer...its pretty good...i guess i hadnt thought about that being basically the only one that DOES show those directories...guess i got spoiled....lol
-BMFC
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I tried to access to the "/cache" folder with a terminal emulator (ConnectBot) and got "Permission denied". But as root the folder reads fine.
So, it seems need to figure out how to run a java app as root (if possible).
Thank you for the screenshots. I've learnt I shouldn't mix system provided icons and application's in one menu.
That SUFBS seems very powerful. Will try it later if I'd find where to download it from.

zc2 said:
I tried to access to the "/cache" folder with a terminal emulator (ConnectBot) and got "Permission denied". But as root the folder reads fine.
So, it seems need to figure out how to run a java app as root (if possible).
Thank you for the screenshots. I've learnt I shouldn't mix system provided icons and application's in one menu.
That SUFBS seems very powerful. Will try it later if I'd find where to download it from.
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Its on the market, Its not called SUFBS anymore, it was changed to "SuperUser File Manager & Terminal" or something, if you search market for "superuser" it will come up, its about $2 or $3 USD, i forget, but well worth it for the functionality. Maybe you might contact the developer and see if they would help you with figuring out how to show root directories, since they already know...
-BMFC

It's definitely good start but isn't possible add 2 panels like app shares. For example :

d750 said:
It's definitely good start but isn't possible add 2 panels like app shares. For example :
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It's possible now:

2 panels great. Now definitely missing feature single tap select item and refresh second panel after copy file.

new version is available
d750 said:
2 panels great. Now definitely missing feature single tap select item and refresh second panel after copy file.
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I've decided not to overload the screen with additional components to be able to select an item by a single tap.
So, now it behaves this way:
When you click on the left part of the row the item processed, when you click on the right part, the row is selected.
Refresh after an operation was also fixed.

This is almost perfect. Isn't possible make option in settings to enable and disable file detail like (mb, time).

new version
d750 said:
This is almost perfect. Isn't possible make option in settings to enable and disable file detail like (mb, time).
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simple/detailed view option and sorting were added.

damn im actualy in middle of writing an app just like this but image specific
will probably finnish it up next week...

Freedomcaller said:
damn im actualy in middle of writing an app just like this but image specific
will probably finnish it up next week...
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that's interesting... is it available to take a look?

as of now its very similar to the standard image gallery (just the browser section has doublevision) and thats all im gona do for the browsing i just need to implement drag and drop to copy files which is probably the hard part. the cool thing is im gona have it drop onto a new activity with the drop explorer enlarged and some extra buttons like cancel and rename that it can be droped onto. since your not gona drop it in the area you picked it up from. ive never worked with drag and drop or content resolvers yet so this is gona be hard, but before this app i never worked with databases or list adapters either so...

Wow that's perfect. Now definitely missing ftp client.

d750 said:
Wow that's perfect. Now definitely missing ftp client.
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There is no a ftp java library around so write a ftp client from the scratch may take some time.
BTW, the Ghost commander has internal module architecture, so, if somebody willing to implement a ftp client according the interfaces I provide, it will be very easy to plug in to the project.

Freedomcaller,
Drag'n drop is probably cool, but I rather use the keyboard to do the stuff.

[Soft] A Console CMD for Windows Phone 7 !! the first one on wp7 [1.5]

CONSOLE WP8
Hello people,
I proclaim to you, and share the newest update my console application for windows phone 8.
With a total overhaul of the entire GUI and order management with use of new api sdk windows phone 8.
[last update 1.7] :
- Complet new version for windows phone 8
- Adding the command [ping] with (-n,-w) options
- Adding the command [net view] with options (-i,-t,-p)
- New version of IpConfig command, list all interfaces currently connected to the phone
- command print , for send by email
- Total remake of the interface with multiple bug fixes
And more hack things ...
Description
Execute commands 'prompt windows' from your Windows phone. The only shell app on Windows phone !
Access to over 45 functions with the commands ("MS-DOS")
- Show the contents of a directory
- Read the contents of a file
- Edit a file
- Move a file
- Copy a file
- Rename a file
- Print a content file to a email
- Delete files / folders
- Retrieve user information or device
- Run application 'Silverlight' in command
- Write scripts .bat and execute file script
- Ping - Tracert - Ipconfig (network command socket)
- Start programm windows phone since the shell
- Etc. ..
New orders are coming in next update.
Improve the script .bat functionnality and save a script to the homescreen shortcut
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Overall, I like this app. The following are suggestions for improvement.
Output text is too small.
Documentation is incomplete: What do the F1 & F2 keys do? And the arrow keys?
English is clearly not your first language. If you'd like help with it, PM me or tweet @piaqt.
"Maj." should be Caps Lock, or an arrow a la WP7 SIP.
btw: The Escape key is a very nice touch. Keep up the good work.

Ok thank you very much for your reply. Actually my first language is not English but the french ..
The keys "F1" "F2 " and the arrows to select the old Run command.
Thank you for your help to bring me a translation.
If you can give me any translation errors by private message I thank you ^ ^.
Otherwise I think well improve the documentation "help " for the next updated with new features.
Mehdi Bugnard

Hello I have just announced the updated 1.2 of WP7 Lite Console and updated Console 1.3 for WP7
Last Update
-Fixed bugs with the command "cd + space"
-Corrected translation in many places
-Editing multiple commands for better performance
-Crash problem "back" repaired
-Adding a new sample script
-Changing the help file
-Ability to run scripts properly since version 'demo'!
-Function edit 'now available for the proper trial version white.
1.2
-HotFix for white "Template"

With a next maj already being prepared with new orders and change the keyboard customize the keyboard's physical windows phone ^ ^ As requested by many users.

Interesting App
Hello,
I was checking out this app in marketplace. I thought this was very interesting. I have a question. Could this app be used to edit files for the DF router application that some HD7 owners have deleted before putting thier USB mode back into zune mode? I was reading alot of people have this problem and when i saw this app, it occured to me that this might be the tool to fix the problem if anyone capable of using this app without destroying thier phone with could manage to navigate to the right files and edit them somehow to enable zune mode again.
Just a thought......
Who ever can manage this would be a hero! =) It would definately make this app sell if a fix would come out of this app.

Hey thank you so much for your response and your comments!
Already I apologize in advance for my bad english !
Actually this program to be useful for your problem ...
However. Policy microsoft wants to block user access to the internal content of the mobile phone.
Normally you have access only to "Isolated Storage" of the application.
However it may be possible to access a known way with the [cd 'path']. But in my opinion it is impossible to access personal data and true system. But I look on my side if I rouve a way around this ....
In my opinion Microsoft is not daccord to pass an application that would change everything. Hoping a change in next update.
At your service for any info.
I'll keep you posted for future updating.
Little surprise coming for the 1.3

Greate app. It makes me feel like a linux enviroment.

Console WP7 1.3 new version is ready
Hello world! Adverts I want you out of the update 1.3 for the application "Console WP7" 1.3. With a lot of change
Thank you all for helping me to correct the various elements of my program "Dkp1977!"

hello my "Console Wp7" 2.0 is now avalaible on the market place !
With 7 news commands. I edited the description of "Console Wp7" on this thread

lite version of the marketplace does not work on htc titan or mozart (blocked), but works fine (all versions app) at the omnia w(windowbreak+root);why?thx

mikaelel said:
lite version of the marketplace does not work on htc titan or mozart (blocked), but works fine (all versions app) at the omnia w(windowbreak+root);why?thx
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Does not work on my Lumia 800, too. I am useing the default rom without any modifications.

Very interesting, a lot of potential
This is a very interesting app, with a lot of potential. It's depressingly rare to find an app for WP7 that really tries something new and innovative, but this is one of those. From a fellow Swiss (albeit German-speaking) to another I can only encourage you to continue to develop and improve the app.
But... the app (in its free, ad-supported version) as I downloaded it today, is barely usable. The scrolling is erratic, often I don't know which part of the output I see at a given moment. When typing a command, most of the time I have to type blind because the SIP covers the command that I am typing. The command history is certainly a good idea, but somehow I always fail to get back the last command typed just before the last enter. I try output redirection, with a single greater-than sign instead of two such signs: This either does not work without any error message or crashes the app. Finally I manage to produce a file, use the "edit" command: Black writing on black background, unreadable. So many errors, all encountered in a first 10 minute trial run.
IMHO, this is an early beta and should be treated as such, e.g. distributed with the help of the beta process that Microsoft offers or directly as a .XAP file.
And now some suggestions: As I see it, the app really needs many more functions supporting the typing / issuing of commands; such functions would greatly improve the tool, they might be even the key to real acceptance. Typing on a phone is hard, typing commands with special characters like greater-signs even more so.
Save commands from one run of the tool to the next. Implement a command to view the whole command history in a listbox instead of one at a time in strict order. You may try something like command-autocomplete. Maybe predefine one-letter or two-letter aliases for the commands, "d" for "dir", "e" for "edit", and so on. After an error with an incomplete command do not just ask me to type "command /?" myself, that almost feels like a punishment to me to have to type that myself, pre-fill the command input box with that command line, or insert it into the history, or any other super-easy way to issue the /? command. If technically possible, it also would be nice to be able to select any displayed text and use it as part of a command.

Little mistake
I tried lite version. This is not working on my unlocked phone. I debugged it. Result:
Console WP7 wants to make directories under isolated storage after every starting and want to copy all music + all picture collection from phone to this storage. When mp3 or jpg in collection is not placed in \MyDocuments\Zune\Content subdirectory, Console crashes.

works
mikaelel said:
lite version of the marketplace does not work on htc titan or mozart (blocked), but works fine (all versions app) at the omnia w(windowbreak+root);why?thx
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works on htc titan

Hi people , i come for tell you , the new update of the "Windows Phone Console Shell app" is arrive today !! After 2 years ^^

Is there a version for WP8? Please where is the .xap to download? Will it work on my ativ s?

Temporary root for Droid 3

I want a temporary root, because I don't want to change roms or anything yet. Mainly for free wireless tether. I would like to have something like z4root. Is there anything like this?
Sent from my DROID3 using XDA App

Z4 doesn't work for GB, also you can tether w/out being rooted, theirs a guide in the Development Section.
EDIT:
Heres the guide posted in the dev section;
faylix said:
Wireless Tethering is one of the main things I miss about not having root. I specifically bought a wifi only Xoom because I knew I could just tether it to my phone. When I switched to the droid 3 believing it would come unlocked it was like a kick in face.
Recently I came across a thread from Team Black Hat describing a way of enabling free tethering on Verizon without root. In their write up they provide a flashable zip. Useless for us as we don't have root, or a recovery, but it got me thinking. All credit for this goes to Team Black Hat. They rock, I really hope they are working on rooting the droid 3 because they are android gods.
The original thread by TBH can be read here.
I'm not going to go too in depth here, because if you screw you have the possibility to brick your pretty new device. Also, It goes against your TOS with Verizon, and who knows one day they might work out a way to tell who is doing this. The more people who know and use this trick, the more likely it is they will find some way of detecting and or closing the hole.
But I couldn't leave my XDA brothers out of the loop! So with the standard disclaimer (I'm not responsible for anything you do, anything that comes of something you do, blah blah, you know the deal) I will outline the steps required to enable free tethering on our wonderful Droid 3s.
I did this on a windows 7 64 bit pc. The radiocom software would def be happier with a 32 bit xp system, it will throw a lot of errors, but it will work. More on that in a second.
1st. You need the most recent drivers for your computer so that your computer can see your phone. You can get them off the Motorola website, same as if you were going to use adb or RSDlite. The file I downloaded from the moto support site was called MotoHelper_2.0.49_Driver_5.0.0.exe
2nd. You need a copy of Radiocom. Radiocom is a piece of software thats supposed to be for moto employees only and allows you to read and write data directly to your software radio. You need to search the internet for it, because its a copyrighted file I can't post it for you. You need to find the latest version. The best version I found was RadioCOmm_v11.11.11_Install.msi - You also need the .net framework installed on your computer. You can get that from Microsoft's site for free.
3. You need a USB cable and a droid 3.
Now... crack a beer and lets get down to business.
1. Install the moto drivers and the .net framework. Install Radiocom. It will give you all sorts of errors, but it will install.
2. Next, find it under your start menu. Right click on it, and select "trouble shoot compatibility" I just ran with the suggested settings. Basically what this does is run the application under XP compatibility mode. Now take a sip of beer, you are gonna get some error messages but don't tweak.
a. You will still get the first screen that says do you want ot the following program from an unknown company to make changes on your computer - check yes.
b. it will say motorola datacard drivers 1.5.9 : this installation is intended for 32-bit os versions only.please use the 64bit version on this machine. click okay.
c. Installation incomplete: the installer was interrupted before motorola datacard drivers 1.5.9 could be instaled. You need to restart the installer to try again. hit close.
d. Warning: Motorola Dataard Drier installlation package ersion mismatch. the version supplied with this tool does not match the installed version on the machine. WE cannot guiarantee proper radio enumeration unless you install the latest version. the installation package will start again the next tiem this tool is started. Click OK
e. This version of RadioCOmm is more that 2 months old. This version may be out of date. Please visit the PDO compass webpage and download the latest version of RadioComm. - Click OK.
Radiocom will start! Phew!
you will have to select the chipset at start: I selected CDMA 1x (MSM 7500) w/ Android. I don't know if this is the best or most accurate one. I actually spent 45 minutes trying to search for exactly what our chipset base was... but I decided to be brave (or stupid) and went with this one and it worked. after it boots, Under settings in radiocom, USB, Select PST USB Driver.
3. Now, Connect your droid 3 to your computer and put it in PC mode. If you installed the drivers correctly you should get this cool little screen showing your phone and telling you some info about it that pops up from motos software. in radiocom software in the upper right of the screen right under the RC logo, the lgiht should turn green to show the phone is connected. You can test by pushing the GET button under the SW version. It should return your Android software version. DON'T PUSH ANY OTHER BUTTONS. YOU COULD REALLY SCREW SOMETHING UP.
Now a little background, you can read TBH's awesome explanation, but the quick and dirty one is that moto's software radio uses three different 128 char string identifiers for data requests. Thats how they can tell the difference between your phones web browser asking for data, and a laptop or Xoom connected to your phone asking for data. We are going to use Radiocom to make all three strings match the first string - so all data appears to be just for the phone. After doing so - your verizon installed hotspot app will work and the usb tethering option will too! ta da!
Team black Hat has made a screen shot showing all the steps required it can be viewed here.
I'll also try including it right here but i'm not sure how it will look:
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3. now take a deep breath... use the arrows in the Radiocom program to find the tab marked P2K 1.
Look at the image and in your Radiocom program in the bottom left there is a box called STELEM/ RDELEM. First Select Dec entries.
Rdelem means read, and STELEM means write.
now this is very very important. Do not screw this part up. make sure again you have selected Dec entries, because if you enter the numbers below in hex mode and then hit DEC they will change and you will be reading and writing the wrong values which is BAD.
In Dec Mode
For ElementID: enter 8040
Record # 1
offset 0
length 128
Now Hit RDELEM. the box in the top right should go green, a bunch of numbers should flash through but most importantly right next to where you entered the element ID and record number the box that says Data (hex only) will now have a 128 char string in there. Hilight the entire 128 byte string and copy it.
4. You are now going to change the element ID to 8041 (record, offset, length stay the same) and hit RDELEM. If you compare these two numbers they are different, this is how moto knows you are tethering. You would have to paste both into a word file becuase they both end in a bunch of 00's so in the tiny data box they look the same, but trust me they are different. Select the data in the databox for 8041 and delete it. Paste the number from 8040. Now hit STELEM. Again you should see a bunch of numbers go through that box on the top right and it should be green.
5. Now you are going to do the same things for element numbers 8042, and 8043. Remember each time to hit RDELEM first, paste the value from 8040, then hit STELEM.
6. Now hit the restart button next the text box top center. You phone will restart. it will say something scary at first like SIm card not found. This is normal. Give it a Second and it will be right back to normal, you will have your 3G icon and be able to make calls, send texts etc.
EXCEPT.... Now you can use the verizon mobile hotspot application and it won't send to that verizon website that says "would you like to pay for tethering?" - you have just successfully hacked your radio to make verizon believe all data requests are phone data requests.
Ta [email protected]
We might not have root yet, but now we have free wireless tethering! I have had this running for about 24 hours and everything seems perfectly functional. My xoom connects right away to my phone and the distance is actually pretty good (like from bed to desk.. not just pocket to hand). Speeds are functional, just like you would get on the phone.
I hope I have made the wait for root just a little easier for my fellow XDA'ers... I know despite the fact I'm taking the Bar exam in 3 days I still check the forums every hour hoping against hope for some new news of root .... or hell... even video chat working in talk (gchat/huddle/etc).
Again I take no credit for this, All thanks to Team Black Hat! But if you wanted to press the thanks button it would make feel all warm and fuzzy inside =)
- faylix / local
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Also IF you look in the dev section theirs a 1-click root method...
morse coded via my DROID 3