F**k i didn't know that. Had my gf just start the factory reset. oh well... LMFAO thanks again for the help. I'll let you know if all is lost...
Took my shiny new Gingerbread havin' Incredible with an identity crisis into the local vzw store to get a new usb charger (stupid cat), and asked them why my phone now thinks it's an Evo. The guy was completely confused. Didn't inspire a whole lot of confidence. Another guy comes over, looks at software version on my phone and says, and I quote, "None of our phones have 2.3.4 yet" I say, mine does. He says, "Did you download it from the internet?" I say, "No, I woke up to a Software update message on my phone, and hit install." He doesn't believe me, thinks I rooted and starts looking through my apps. Once he notices all the bloatware is still there, he has no choice but to believe me. So, of course he gets on the phone with tech support. They want to do a hard re-set, say it will fix the problem. I say no way! I need my phone to work, I'm afraid a hard reset will kill it! I'll live with the identity crisis, and the no pushing of e-mails. Heck that at least makes the battery life a bit longer.
Of course they also blame Google for the Sprint bug, but as Verizon is the one who gets the bad press for the mistakes, you'd think they'd test it before allowing it to be pushed. Embarrassing for them really.
Took my shiny new Gingerbread havin' Incredible with an identity crisis into the local vzw store to get a new usb charger (stupid cat), and asked them why my phone now thinks it's an Evo. The guy was completely confused. Didn't inspire a whole lot of confidence. Another guy comes over, looks at software version on my phone and says, and I quote, "None of our phones have 2.3.4 yet" I say, mine does. He says, "Did you download it from the internet?" I say, "No, I woke up to a Software update message on my phone, and hit install." He doesn't believe me, thinks I rooted and starts looking through my apps. Once he notices all the bloatware is still there, he has no choice but to believe me. So, of course he gets on the phone with tech support. They want to do a hard re-set, say it will fix the problem. I say no way! I need my phone to work, I'm afraid a hard reset will kill it! I'll live with the identity crisis, and the no pushing of e-mails. Heck that at least makes the battery life a bit longer.
Of course they also blame Google for the Sprint bug, but as Verizon is the one who gets the bad press for the mistakes, you'd think they'd test it before allowing it to be pushed. Embarrassing for them really.
Ever since I accepted the gingerbread OTA my battey life has been abysmal, like I cannot get through a day even with my extended 1800 maH battery without plugging into my car charger. I used to be able to get at least 36 hours with moderate use. There must be some sort of bug as the battery usage has the Display using almost 80% of the battery on 30% brightness and only on for only about 20% of the time the phones been on. I have seen others with this issue with no resolution. Any ideas or suggestions??
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I did a factory reset right after I got the OTA so that suggestion is out
I've noticed, that handcent no longer allows customization of the LED notification, though this will probably be addressed in an update to handcent.
Glad your other problem is settled. When you plug into computer then toggle phone to 'use as disk drive' does anything at all happen? Does it look like it is re-installing the drivers? Do you here the noise windows based compute3rs make when plugging in a usb device?Only problem now is that my computer won't recognize my phone anymore. Only thing I really connect to do is to move my pics to my computer....any ideas on that one?
LOL, I HATE it when that happens!So it's not just me not being able to find that setting? What a relief
Glad your other problem is settled. When you plug into computer then toggle phone to 'use as disk drive' does anything at all happen? Does it look like it is re-installing the drivers? Do you here the noise windows based compute3rs make when plugging in a usb device?
It asks to use as disk drive SOMETIMES, but even if I say YES the phone itself shows it as being connected, but the computers are not showing it as being connected. I tried this with my laptop and my desk top. Neither one of them are recognizing the device. I tried rebooting computer and phone and nothing. Checked and unchecked the debugging with usb option under settings and that didn't do jack.
Computer doesn't do anything at all, no windows based computer sounds at all. Nothing. Dude on verizon wireless support suggested taking the battery out and seeing if that does anything. *roll eyes*
Have you checked in device manager to see if it shows up there?
Try looking for drivers from htc or vzw site
Factory reset ABSOLUTELY will not fix the market problem. Those people are truly idiots (or just incompetent) if they honestly think it was google's F$## up. All the corporate branding happens long after Google is done with the code. They should have atleast blamed htc (whose probably mostly at fault here), although Verizon should have caught it as well. That being said, it shouldn't be a huge problem.
Not sure what's going on with the push email problem, but you might want to try going into settings>manage applications and moving a few apps to the sd card. Off the top of my head this MIGHT be caused by low space in the data/data partition (see the low on space thread in the support section for more information on that). I have nothing really to base that guess on, but it's a possible cause and an easy/harmless thing to do.
EDIT: I realize that I didn't actually answer the question you asked, but I saw that Nightangel already covered that. Factory reset is harmless, albeit annoying and almost certainly completely pointless in this case.
You're right about not fixing the market issue....I think. I now have the old market and it refuses to update. I did have to do a factory reset today, 'cause I kept dropping 3G, and the phone would crash every time I navigated away from the internet or out of the settings menu. Totally sucked. Now in the process of getting things back to the way I want them, which is going to take some time.
Nor did it fix the "I'm an Evo" problem. Hardware info still shows the larer screen.
I managed to fix the e-mail push problem without the reset. Seems the OTA corrupted my mail client. Uninstalled. Reinstall fixed it, but factory reset made that whole episode pointless.
I have the same issue with the Market since I got the Gingerbread update- stuck with the old version and unable to update. Anyone make any progress on this?
Have you tried loading one of the new market .apk's that were floating around the net awhile back?
Have you tried loading one of the new market .apk's that were floating around the net awhile back?
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