I had been trying to quit smoking all day and was doing great. Was really proud of myself for finally committing and realizing it’s hard but certainly not impossible to just stop smoking and stick it through the uncomfortableness (is that a word?). Ended up going over to my sister’s house to have dinner and celebrate my first day of not smoking in who knows how many years. Steak was delicious and we had a great time.

On my way home while waiting at a red light I was rear ended by a Chevy Blazer who’s driver was extremely drunk (blew a 2.0 BAC) which ended up pushing me into the car in front of me which had a child in it. Thankfully no one was injured and the police came and arrested the driver.

At first I was very upset because I found out my license is expired and I wasn’t sure what was going to happen to me. I started worrying about the possible legal reprecusions of me driving without a license and the struggle of having to renew my license and get my car fixed without the support I am used to but God blessed me. The police let me call my sister and her husband to come pick me and my car up.

We ended up in the parking lot of North County Fair while I called my insurance company to report the accident. While we were waiting the girlfriend/wife of the drunk driver came up to us and asked us if we knew what was going on. I explained the situation to her and it was obvious she wanted to talk to the police to ask more questions about the DUI driver’s fate. She had her child with her and the police officer was about to leave so without even thinking I ran to the officer and explained that she was coming to ask questions and had him wait.

It was at that moment that I realized I had given my anger to God and realized how lucky I was for I was certainly under his protection tonight and feel that he used me to protect other people from greater harm.

I am thankful to God that the DUI driver hit me and my german built tank and no one was hurt instead of the DUI driver killing an innocent pedestrian.

I am thankful to God that I have family around that is always ready to help me.

I am thankful to God that even though I was breaking the law driving on an expired license that the police let me go with a warning.

I am thankful to God that he provides for me and I need not worry about the little things like getting to the DMV on Monday to get my license renewed or being without a car while I get it fixed for things could be so much worse.

Thank you God for all that you do for me, in Jesus’ name amen!

public static class WinInet
{
  #region Public Constants
  public const int INTERNET_OPTION_REFRESH = 37;
  public const int INTERNET_OPTION_SETTINGS_CHANGED = 39;
  #endregion

  [DllImport("wininet.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
  public static extern bool InternetSetOption(IntPtr hInternet, int dwOption, IntPtr lpBuffer, int dwBufferLength);
}

WinInet.InternetSetOption(IntPtr.Zero, WinInet.INTERNET_OPTION_SETTINGS_CHANGED, IntPtr.Zero, 0);
WinInet.InternetSetOption(IntPtr.Zero, WinInet.INTERNET_OPTION_REFRESH, IntPtr.Zero, 0);

But it doesn’t seem to be working. Reading up on INTERNET_OPTION_SETTINGS_CHANGED and INTERNET_OPTION_REFRESH at MSDN it looks like INTERNET_OPTION_REFRESH only refreshes the proxy data so I problably don’t need to be calling it. As far as INTERNET_OPTION_SETTINGS_CHANGED is concerned they mention “on the next call to InternetConnect” so I’m not clear when that would occur in an open browser. My other thought is that since I can’t find a was to set the script debugging settings using InternetSetOption then maybe an INTERNET_OPTION_SETTINGS_CHANGED won’t refresh those values.

I’ve been searching forums all morning looking for a solution since the phone seems to be partially working. Came across a site that suggested I could use the Motorolla Software Updater to reflash it but this is unable to determine the version of my phone. I tried another method of using the Motorolla Software Updater to start the process on a co-workers “good” Moto Q and swapping mine in while the update is downloading but I can’t get that to work.

So I’ve moved on to trying to use RDSLite to reflash the phone. I’ve found SPT_Q2_C_01.13.00I_01.0D.00R_MONSTER_01.sbf which is apparently firmware for some version (not sure which) of a Moto Q provided by Sprint. Using RDSLite I get part of the way through the process but it fails. The error doesn’t give much detail (that helps me understand what is going on at least) but it “seems” like it’s failing while trying to erase the old flash but also indicates that it’s not able to verify the bootloader (like a checksum error). So I’m not sure if the phone is actually dead (ie: dead flash) or if the problem is with the the file I am trying to upload. For shiggles I’m going to try uploading a Verizon image that looks like it might be an older version than what I have… Sigh…

Update: Tried several different flash images with RDSLite and they all seem to fail the same way. Luckily I found http://www.motorola.com/iden/support and was able to verify that my Moto Q is still under warranty. Going to ship it off tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed. Wish I had known about this repair service the first time it died and Sprint charged me $55 for a replacement. I have a Samsung A900 I was able to temporarily active on my account so the 10-14 days estimated repair time is only a slight inconvenience (hope I don’t miss any meetings heh).