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sms/email: unable to view

hey guys, recently my diamond was working fine, however, all of a sudden when i try to open my emails or sms, it just gives me a blank screen, i can read the sms from the main menu but once i try to tap n open the sms or email, it just gives me a blank screen, any advice?

maybe u soft reset & see how?

harky said:
maybe u soft reset & see how?
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tried n failed lol last resort is to hard reset which i really dont wish to, lazy to re install

I have the same problem yesterday after tweaking the hide sim contact and activate the burst & sport mode for camera. However, not too sure if the above tweaks was the caused.
Did a hard reset and its back to normal.

I have the same problem since yesterday night onwards. Didn't do any tweak or change of setting. This just happened out of nothing. Anyone can solve the problem? (other than doing a hard reset).

acelimks said:
I have the same problem yesterday after tweaking the hide sim contact and activate the burst & sport mode for camera. However, not too sure if the above tweaks was the caused.
Did a hard reset and its back to normal.
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the 2 above mentioned tweaks i never do

did you happen to install CE Star on the phone?

I did but it was about 3 weeks ago and the phone was ok.

I believe the issue lies with it. If you have not register your copy of CE Star, this might happen. To verify this, uninstall CE Star and see if the problem goes away.

its is CEStar issue. pls register your CEstar.

Registered and solved. Thank you!

Thanks......I have solved mine too......Well done !!

phone randomly does reset back to factory settings

need help... HTC HD7 radomly resets itself. This is a hard reset as I lose all settings and accounts. Any suggestions ?
Added to post: I also now noticed that after I have manually done the hard reset myself and started to set up my phone again with personal settings and contacts, it prompts me with a message at top of screen. It reads:
"To ensure you have the best experience we periodically need to reset your phone."
Of course I hit the cancel button. I also now notice that if I don't hit the cancel button right away, the phone will reset itself and I lose all settings and contact (hard reset).

After hours of burning up time and searching.... I found the instructions in XDA (search for DEMO version). The RUU I found works like a charm !! All issues seem to be fixed.

PaullikesWINMO said:
After hours of burning up time and searching.... I found the instructions in XDA (search for DEMO version). The RUU I found works like a charm !! All issues seem to be fixed.
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Hey.....I've tried searching for Demo Version....got no results....can you point me to the thread...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810346
There we go!

Jonno2343 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810346
There we go!
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Thanks...I ended up finding it....
Anyone else seeing this problem? I read someplace where some stores ran out of devices and ended up selling their display model. The Display models would have the DEMO version on them.

Locked out with pattern unlock

Hey, my nine year-old nephew came to me today with a question.
He has managed to lock himself out of his xperia x8, forgot both the unlock pattern and his google details.
I tried to force a factory reset with pushing the two buttons left/right under the lcd and the power but cant get it to work.
Any suggestions to what i can do?
This is so much easier with phones with straight-forward recovery mode
Thanks in advance!
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pzayx said:
Hey, my nine year-old nephew came to me today with a question.
He has managed to lock himself out of his xperia x8, forgot both the unlock pattern and his google details.
I tried to force a factory reset with pushing the two buttons left/right under the lcd and the power but cant get it to work.
Any suggestions to what i can do?
This is so much easier with phones with straight-forward recovery mode
Thanks in advance!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
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TRY THIS:
- Have someone call the locked phone.
- Answer it.
- Leave the call connected!!!
- While leaving the call connected, push the "back" key over and over. NOT the home key!!!
It should eventually take you to the home screen.
- Go to the home screen,
- Go to settings,
- Go to google accounts,
- Add another google account,
- Sign in to that one--- (must have wifi connected, as you're trying to communicate with the google servers while you're on a phone call-- it will prompt you to turn on wifi, if you forget)--
- After it accepts the new account credentials, and logs you in, hang up the phone, and go back to the lock screen.
- This time, use the new google account you just added, to bypass the slide lock pattern
Let me know how it goes!

Thanks for the great answer, but unfortunately it refused to take me to the homescreen.
Im gratefull for every tips i can get,
Worst case scenario i would have to grant him root access and cm7
what a thing to play with
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pzayx said:
Thanks for the great answer, but unfortunately it refused to take me to the homescreen.
Im gratefull for every tips i can get,
Worst case scenario i would have to grant him root access and cm7
what a thing to play with
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If he doesn't have anything important on the phone, then download and install Sony PC Companion 2.1, and do the following:
- Turn off the phone, and unplug it from the PC
- Turn on Sony PC Companion on your PC
- In PC Companion, enter the Support Zone tab
- Go to Update Phone Software
A window will pop out, saying that it cannot find your phone
- Click on Fix Phone
- Click on Continue
A window will pop out, saying that you will lose all your data
- TICK the BOX
- Click on continue
An update process will began.
Wait for it to show a window with all the SONY mobile phones
- Find your phone (X8)
- Click on the phone.
Now all you have to do is follow the on-screen instructions. It will tell you to hold the back button and plug your turned-off X8 to the PC, then it will erase everything, and download the original 2.1 ROM to your X8.
The exact wording for the above instructions inside Sony PC Companion might be slightly different, as I'm using a Polish language installation.
If you don't want to erase your data on the X8, then try this LINK.
or this one
or this one

Thank you, shall try it when i get home tonight and report back!
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thanks!
thank you for the excellent tips WhatWhatInTheButt,
i tried the latter three links first, but i could not get it to work the way i wanted,
so after a few swear words and some struggle in with the pc companion i decided to read your post line by line and found out that i had overlooked the crucial points in the instructions!
Thanks a lot, guess i will have a happy fellow over here tomorrow

Cool! Glad could help!

WhatWhatInTheButt said:
Cool! Glad could help!
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THANK U VERY MUCH WhatWhatInTheButt :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

mrx264 said:
THANK U VERY MUCH WhatWhatInTheButt :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
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did it myself one time(forgetting the pattern because i made it hard) i was on PrimeHD
full wipe solved it

WhatWhatInTheButt said:
TRY THIS:
- Have someone call the locked phone.
- Answer it.
- Leave the call connected!!!
- While leaving the call connected, push the "back" key over and over. NOT the home key!!!
It should eventually take you to the home screen.
- Go to the home screen,
- Go to settings,
- Go to google accounts,
- Add another google account,
- Sign in to that one--- (must have wifi connected, as you're trying to communicate with the google servers while you're on a phone call-- it will prompt you to turn on wifi, if you forget)--
- After it accepts the new account credentials, and logs you in, hang up the phone, and go back to the lock screen.
- This time, use the new google account you just added, to bypass the slide lock pattern
Let me know how it goes!
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Same here but with Xperia Go.
A friend of mine comitted sucide and his parents asked me to unlock his phone , i know stuff or two about android but never had this issue.
Phone is xperia Go i even dont know its running ics or or jb .
I am thinking of to root this phone and then install cwm recovery and i will backup every thing data system and every thing.
then format the system partition i think it will rester the phone and there wil be no password again and then i can advance resotre his data partition with cwm will it work ?????? Any tips are welcome guys i dont want to start with out knowing it that it would work or not.

ANY way to update with dev-keys device?

I got my Gear Live off eBay last week. Didn't come with anything but the watch, and just got the cradle from China. And it's definitely Chinese.
It's a third-party cradle, and it lacks USB data. I know this because across three computers, it doesn't detect a device. All I can do is charge this thing, and use 4.4W. I can't force it to grab an update, and because the cradle can't do data, I can't ADB into the recovery when I can force it (I have to route commands through the phone's bridge).
I'm desperate here. Is there ANY WAY to work the Bluetooth ADB and force an update, or at least move an update and flash it manually? I'm seriously low on funds, and this is killing me to not have the software updates.
As a note, I purchased my cradle from this guy here on eBay. If I hadn't instantly given positive feedback, I'd yell about it not supporting data. This is real bull.
EDIT: Seeing as it's a cheap charger anyway, I figured I'd pry it apart to see what actually makes this thing tick, and the results are supremely underwhelming. I've attached photos, but I can't see them being anything more than voltage regulation, to ensure nothing bursts into flames.

Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7oRjESQh_o
Follow the video fro unlocking the Gear Bootloader. Make sure to use v2 of his software. v3 is riddled with bugs. Once you unlock the software, use option 8, then reboot. Load back into the flashbooter/recovery menu, then use option 6. Update from there using OTAs.

Read my post. Actually read it.
I CAN'T GET A DATA CONNECTION VIA USB.

UltimaXtreme said:
Read my post. Actually read it.
I CAN'T GET A DATA CONNECTION VIA USB.
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Have you tried debugging over Bluetooth?

BRANDENDEUCE said:
Have you tried debugging over Bluetooth?
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It disconnects after rebooting into Recovery. Unless it's possible to throw a flash down while in the OS, I think I'm gonna concede and grab an OEM cradle.

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Hello guys!
I have a situation also with a device. I just received today, it has 5.0.1 on it, and i cannot use the tool that is specified in that video + after activating the dev. menu, i dont have the usb option ...
Any advice ?

R3d_Wolf said:
Hello guys!
I have a situation also with a device. I just received today, it has 5.0.1 on it, and i cannot use the tool that is specified in that video + after activating the dev. menu, i dont have the usb option ...
Any advice ?
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You can force the watch to boot into bootloader mode. Turn off your watch. Press power button and at the same time start swiping from top left corner of the screen to bottom right. (Diagonally) Do it multiple times.

aligatro2010 said:
You can force the watch to boot into bootloader mode. Turn off your watch. Press power button and at the same time start swiping from top left corner of the screen to bottom right. (Diagonally) Do it multiple times.
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Thanks for your reply aligatro2010, but i decided to return the device and got something else .

camera issues in landscape mode

I'm having some issues with the camera when in landscape mode.
In portrait mode, everything is working fine but once I rotate the camera to landscape, the "viewfinder" takes up only about 25% of the screen and moves to the top left . The rest of the screen has rows of arrows!!
I have no idea how this happened as it was working fine yesterday.
I tried force stopping the camera app and rebooting but it didnt help.
TIA
Al

can we have a screenshot?

illetyus said:
can we have a screenshot?
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here u go

pharmnatr said:
here u go
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Can you disable fullscreen thing? (yellow)

tried that, didnt help

pharmnatr said:
tried that, didnt help
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Try to clear data on the camera app, restart the phone into recovery and wipe cache only.
If it continues to do so then you can either factory reset your phone or wait for an update to the camera app.

Just tried that and still didnt help.
Samsung support told me to bring the phone to ubreakifix store in lower Manhattan.
They said they can load updates that they receive from samsung.

pharmnatr said:
Just tried that and still didnt help.
Samsung support told me to bring the phone to ubreakifix store in lower Manhattan.
They said they can load updates that they receive from samsung.
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It's a software problem. You should reset to factory before you go to uberakifix.

calinormy said:
It's a software problem. You should reset to factory before you go to uberakifix.
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Thats what I ended up doing. Took a while but it solved the problem.