OK so if for whatever reason you cant get your EVO to boot and this might had happened due to flashing another ROM or boot-loader etc.

• Charge the battery to 100%
• Take the battery out and place it back in
• Power the phone on by pressing both the power and VOL Down
• Connect the USB cable to both the phone and your PC
• Wait a few seconds and browse to “Fastboot” and press the Power button
• The word “Fastboot” should be colored red now.
• Download the latest RUU exeutable from http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/
• Start the program and follow the instructions.

This will erase the whole phone and force a clean restore of original files.

Good luck!

P.S. I tried to get my EVO back to a working state for over a day before finally doing this. I tried every trick and every forum suggestion out there with no luck

Errors like cant write Hboot, etc

For any of you that have a Samsung Intercept on VM running Android 2.1 and its feels sluggish and slow. This guide will erase the phone and install a Sprint software image on it. This isn’t for the faint of heart, following this guide might leave your cellphone bricked as in…. as useful as a brick.

*** I’M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR BROKEN CELLPHONE AS A RESULT OF FOLLWING THIS GUIDE ***

This is a condensed guide based on the write-up by Bpear96 if you want a longer better explained version head over to:
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/intercept-guides-and-tips/(how-to)-install-froyo-2-2-on-your-virgin-mobile-intercept!/msg130029/

If link is down here’s a PDF

I made this guide so I could quickly upgrade my friends phones and have all files required and instructions on one site.

Download this file and unzip it

Steps:

1.0  Install the Samsung software
2.0  Install the update to the software
2.1  Reboot your PC
2.2  Delete  ’SPH-M900_MR2_DE03_REL_1.tar.md5′ from ‘C:\Program Files\Samsung Electronics\SWUpgrade\Models\Binary\’
2.3  Copy ‘SPH-M910_MR_DF27_REL_156.tar’ file to ‘Binary’ folder. Make sure thats the only file in the folder!
2.4  Run SWUpgrade to update phone with new software
2.5  Copy  ’Update.zip’ to SD card on phone. Power phone off
2.6  Press VOL Down, End call, call, at same time follow menus to update from from Update.zip file
2.7  Install  Voicemail Notifier
3.0  Copy ‘SlapKernel-v1.1.tar’ to ‘Binary’ folder and run SWUprade make sure thats the only file on the folder.
3.1  Remove Sprint Software with newly installed program

So I needed a larger portable drive, my OWC drive is getting a little too full and I wanted to try USB 3.0. So I ordered a iOmega ego 1TB drive:

Looked like a great choice, a company we all know, USB 3.0, small in size…. on paper it seemed like the best choice. That is until I received it and installed. The drive comes with two partitions. One partition is the basic usable space and the other its a read-only CDFS image that CANT BE REMOVED.

So when you plug your drive in you’ll get:

As you can see there are two drives mounted. Drive F: is the drive I want to use and Drive D: is a read only image that contains their crappy encryption software. Couldn’t they just include that software on the main partition? we know 99% of us will delete that software since there are better encryption options (think TrueCrypt).

So I tried removing the partition from Windows, Linux Gpart, and even that software used to get memory sticks to be write-able. YOU CANT REMOVE IT! its safe to say that I returned the drive and that I will not buy stuff from iOmega for a while.

Other bad things about this drive; you need to plugin both USB leads to use it. (I least for USB 2.0) my OWC drive never required this.

So if you want a real good external drive get a OWC drive, they are great drives, you can get multiple interfaces, and they work. (I’m getting a harddrive to replace the one on my OWC enclosure)

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go

I’ve had the Nexus One cell phone since it came out and its been an amazing phone. I’m running Cyanogen’s ROM on it and I regularly get updates that give the phone more features. The latest build has HD video recording an MP4 and it also adds many tweaks for the camera app.

Here are some photos I’ve shot at Red Rock Canyon in Vegas. These are straight from the phone (I resized them down, nothing else has been done).

I think they look pretty awesome for a cell phone.

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Lately I’ve been getting headaches, and always have itchy, bloodshot eyes… somedays I get headaches so severe that I have to leave work and go home and sleep for 2-3 hours. During those crazy headaches I see flashing in my eyes…  I self diagnosed it as: Ocular Migraines

So after reading many blogs and medical sites I decided to try “Computer Glasses” I purchased a set of Gunnars model “Catalyst Edge”… I just received them and so far so good I’ll report on them after a few days.

*** Update: this is the second day using these glasses and my eyes feel much better. (I’ll keep on reporting to make sure its not a placebo).

*** Update: Its now been a week and my eyes feel really good. They are not itchy or super tired. No headaches either. Gunnar is coming out with a new line of lenses that aren’t yellow for graphic artists. I might have to exchange these because I work on images a lot.

*** Update: Its now been almost a month and I cant live without them… I use them at work all day and really can use my PC without them. I no longer use eye drops there’s no need for them.