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[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samdroidx:
I was having this issue with VirusROM for the first week or more that I ran it because I didn't flash on a full charge (stupid me)... It also dropped from 100% to 90% in about 10 minutes when it did drop without rebooting - not sure if you have that problem. I resolved all of this by bump charging. There's a workaround for the CWM issue that I followed in another thread found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1016508 ... ie. charge with your phone booted; reboot, charge, reboot, charge, etc. until you are at about 99% when you reboot. Then just wipe your battery stats and use like normal. I didn't think that it had worked permanently until a couple days later when my battery was recalibrated. I'm running the same kernel as those of you on Das BAMF if you didn't change it so I hope this helps you as well. Basically after I did this it only dropped 2-3% on reboots when not fully charged but I believe that is normal since it takes a lot of power to boot the phone up completely. Hope this helps.

Edit: Wanted to point out that after I wiped my battery stats I didn't reboot all the time to see if it was dropping since I figured that would affect calibration. Ran it until it died on normal use and got a lot longer battery life than stock, which makes me question as to how "accurate" it actually is after rebooting. Just a thought.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cashmore1985:
could you also just re flash on a full charge?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samdroidx:
I don't think so, because your battery may not be at 100% if it says it is, which is why you would have to bump charge.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cashmore1985:
Ah, I see.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cashmore1985:
Well I think it worked. Thanks a ton!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
FWIW, I'm on the extended battery and stock ROM and there's no issue that I can observe in terms of the percentage not dropping/reporting properly.

Most of this stuff seems like urban legend and placebo effect to me.

Does anyone have any documented (by Google) evidence that any of this "battery calibration", "batterystats.bin wiping", "only flash roms on 100% charge" stuff is legit? If not some documentation on the OS, then some actual controlled testing with data that supports these concepts as legitimate?

I mean something that documents how batterystats.bin operates and what it controls and doesn't.

My understanding is that the batteries themselves have integrated circuits that control the battery's charge. Surely this can be communicated to the phone (how else does the phone know the voltage being supplied as it diminishes?).

Seems that an intelligently designed OS would take advantage of the battery's own reporting and just go by its charge status rather than come up with some silly scheme that involves the phone using batterystats.bin to control it; especially when, if the urban legends are actually true, that file is so easily confused and needs to be wiped so often. Gr
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cashmore1985:
I see where you are coming from and agree that testing needs to be done but bump charging and deleting battery stats got my battery notification to start indicating again
[EVO Shift 4G General] evokiddo:
I perm rooted my shift and would like to install cm7 rom

But I can't get into recovery to do nandroid etc...because I get stuck on the htc screen.

I don't have my laptop anymore so I am using terminal emulator.

I have PC36IMG.zip & recovery.img in root of sdcard.

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

I get image not found if flash_image is in sdcard root

But I get scannning error if the flash_image is in system/bin..

I have search google etc...

Can I get some help please???
[EVO Shift 4G General] danaff37:
If you're perm rooted already, just download rom manager from the market and use it to flash recovery.
[EVO Shift 4G General] evokiddo:
Thx for replying..I have tried that..I still get stuck on the htc screen...

I actually got terminal emulator to pick up the recovery.img

When I type

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

I now get the blank line

But its telling me reboot is not permitted.
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
Try quickboot from market
[EVO Shift 4G General] evokiddo:
Thx For replying and I have tried quickboot as well...

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

Then I opened quickboot in tap recovery and I still got stuck on the htc screen...

I guess the question is why is this happenning?

I am perm rooted with visionary that's the only thing I have done.
[EVO Shift 4G General] evokiddo:
Never give up!!!

I have fixed the problem..I went Into rom manager re install clockwork

Than boot recovery with quickboot and I got into recovery mode.

What I have realize is that every situation is different and just have to read and try to figure it out safely on your on!!!

But I have read quickboot works and it did for me...thx!!!!
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradbradbrad:
I have CWM 3.0.8, and want to get back to the red recovery, so that I can flash a new rom on my fascinate. The problem is, that I can not for the life of me get my phone to show up on Odin. I have tried on two different computers. I have used Odin on both computers for this phone, so the drivers are all installed. Any ideas? The rom I have now is a force close nightmare. I would like to get back to something that is stable.

Thanks for any help,

Brad
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHoLyx:
Follow this guide.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1001064
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradbradbrad:
Ive used odin before, I just cant get the fascinate to be detected by the computer. It wont even mount the sd card via the usb cable to transfer files. I got the phone in download mode, connected to the computer through the usb cable, but can not get the yellow "added" dialog in odin so that I can flash the .tar file...

Thanks for the help so far,

Brad
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roblovesbox:
Maybe a stupid question but do you have Odin open before you plug the phone in.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brossma1:
You can also try to reinstall drivers or even odin check to see that you have odin 3 1.3 and maybe reinstall odin it can be found here in one of the forums.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradbradbrad:
I have tried it both ways, going into download mode, then opening odin, and first opening odin, then going into download mode.

Now, I have another problem. I was able to do a data wipe, which stopped the force close loop. I was then able to get my phone workable at least. Then, while resetting everything, I dropped it on my coffee table and the touch screen will not respond. The phone's soft keys work fine and i can turn it on, but have to do a battery pull to turn it off. I have tried turning off/rebooting, and again doing a data wipe. I don't know what else to do other than take it in, but I don't think that is possible since it is rooted:confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koshinobi:
Ive been trying to find.mods.for the taskbar and its icons but cant seem to find any..ive seen ppl with some pretty cool ones like transparent taskbars and different color 4g icons..none of those were the ones that come with the tmobile theme chooser themes..does any1 know where to get em??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Go into the Android Development section of XDA for the EVO and look for custom rom threads like Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS5 and on the first page of the thread, you should find all sorts of titlebar mods, among other things. Note: you must be rooted with a deodexed rom and a lot of the mods are specific to certain roms so read carefully.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koshinobi:
Im runnin ex destroyer which is based off cm7 any other suggestions?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

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[Desire HD General] cd993:
Hi, the problem I face is that my proximity sensor didn't quite work correctly on Froyo custom roms and required the use of the calibration app to sort it out. However upon trying a gingerbread Rom I faced the same problem only the calibration app doesn't seem to want to work, perhaps its not configure for gingerbread yet. My question is that the calibration data must be stored somewhere and so would it be possible to copy it from Froyo and import it in to gingerbread so the sensor works properly?

Sent from my HTC Desire HD
[Desire HD General] leppie:
/sys/devices/virtual/optical_sensors/proximity/ps_kadc

Look if this file exists.

If so, paste the contents.

Also 'stat' the file for permissions.
[Desire HD General] cd993:
Thank you for the reply! I have looked and can see that file, is it that single file that I may need and no others from that folder? Also with root explorer do I check permissions of the file with it upon pasting it in gingerbread?

Sent from my HTC Desire HD
[Desire HD General] skylinegtrvspec:
how to fix this can anyone help
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
I uber-jacked up my GPS. When I went to cm7 RC4 I lost the ability to get a gps lock. I've tried installing cm6.1, and the "liberated froyo" ROM. Neither return the gps functionality. It just never gets a lock.

Is there any hope for restoring a working gps? If so, what do I do?
[HTC Aria General] zervic:
Try the following:

1. Download cm7 & applicable gapps.

2. Wipe data, cache & dalvik AND format /system

3. Install cm7 & applicable gapps.

4. Boot into cm7.

4a. Test gps, download gps test from market and run it.

If gps still doesn't work:

5. Download cm6.

6. Reboot to clockwork.

7. Nandroid backup.

8. Wipe everything, flash cm6.

9. Boot into cm6.

9a. Test gps, download gps test from market and run it.

10. Reboot into clockwork.

11. Restore the nandroid you made in step 7 without wiping anything.

12. Boot into cm7 and test gps.
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
I tried the steps for cm7... gps got no sattelites... FYI when I did wipe Dalvik I noticed that nothing really happened. Is that normal? Everything else shows up as steps on the screen, but wiping Dalvik just immediatly went back to the menu.
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
i've still got clockworkmod 2.5.0.1 - is that the problem?
[HTC Aria General] DroidRunner:
Thats normal.
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
wiping dalvik behavior is what you mean is normal I guess...

Which "gps test" are you speaking of. I tried two and neither gave me any signal... This is looking bad.
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
when I installed RC-4 and had issues, I tried following what is on post 535 here on this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=956223&page=54

is that what caused the meltdown?
[HTC Aria General] cHarley04:
You can't just do the CM7 part, you must follow the steps for going back to CM6.
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
I understand. Somehow I miscommunicated. I followed steps 1-12 that you gave me, what I'm saying is that after step 4a I had no gps signal showing in the test program. then after step 9a, I still had no gps signal showing on the test.

I hope that was more specific.
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
BTW thanks for helping

:)
[HTC Aria General] CallMeAria:
So just to be clear, are you just not able to get a gps signal lock? Or is your gps radio not working at all? When you start up gps test or maps/navigation, is the gps icon showing up in the notification bar?

If the icon is there, but it just keeps flashing and wont lock then check the following:

1: make sure mobile data and/or wifi (connected) is turned on.

2: Then go to Menu>Settings>Locations & Security Settings.

3: Make sure Use Wireless Networks is checked.

4: Run GPS Status (market app)
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
First, yes the icon appears in the notification bar.

I tried the steps (several times trying gps status). The thing just shows no lat/long. I never get a lock in maps, or any other gps test.
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
at what point do I proclaim the gps is dead?
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
I'm calling it dead. Gonna do a factory restore to original Rom/condition. Then take it in as its still under warranty...
[HTC Aria General] drumist:
I would recommend going to #liberatedAria on irc.freenode.net and seeing if anyone has any idea what might be going on. Good luck.
[HTC Aria General] mtnlion:
gps revert worked for me.just flashed 35 still having gps issues.so are we doomed to flash a gpslib revert every time now?since this problem hasnt been listed on the bug tracker does that mean the devs dont consider it a problem?
[HTC Aria General] chilimac02:
after I went back to the factor default by following this thread:

http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-aria/65654-how-backup-factory-restore-htc-aria.html

I turned off the device and went to bed. In the morning I started to drive to the ATT store and just for fun turned on GPS. It immediately worked...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeryCoolAlan:
I m wondering if there is an alternative to these carriers something cheaper and I can use the internet and help thanks
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] nunjabusiness:
Just installed this app from the market - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattlary.shareMyApps

They make it out to be a way to show friends what you have installed, but I am thinking of it as a good way to reinstall everything after changing roms?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Isira:
You should look at AppBrain if you want to synchronize your apps to a list so you can easily reinstall everything when switching ROMs. You can also publicize your lists. If you don't know AppBrain already, you should read the Lifehacker article to get an idea.

AppBrain [Market] [Lifehacker Article]
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] nunjabusiness:
I have a problem with AppBrain in that it always says "the requested item could not be found" any time I try to use it to update. Honestly don't know why I still have it since it never worked properly.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] customyota:
Titanium Backup Pro. One click installs all apps after a rom change. Root required and I can't tell you for sure if it works on the g tab since I haven't received mine yet. But I don't see why it wouldn't.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] sumdumdude:
This.

I have installed multiple roms and the first thing I do after the install is download Titanium Backup Pro from the Market and then restore from my backup. It is a one click, or touch as it were, method for re-installing all of your apps. Definitely worth the few bucks for the Pro version.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] nunjabusiness:
That really sounds like a "must-have" app. I have the free version, but am thinking I will buy the pro key before my next ROM switch (when gojimi finishes Ginger Vegan)
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] mt251401:
+1 on the Titanium Backup Pro. Has saved me so many times. Nice thing is that it backs up data too, not just the app like Appbrain.

I also use it frequently to freeze system apps to remove them from my app drawer
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] bso44:
Yup. You can sync it to Dropbox too.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilsolito:
I need to turn off the "bluetooth redial" command... Is it possible? What should I do?
[Android Software Development] liranc:
I was just wondering, i know that there are plenty of Remote Access clients for the android, but what about a virtualPC? I would love be able to work in a windows environment when i don't have access to the interent.

With phones like the Motorola Atrix and other dual cores with plenty of memory this doesnt' seem like it's the most far fetched thing, right? Is it already available?
[Android Software Development] DanWilson:
It's easy to emulate a Linux distro (minus a GUI cos the framebuffer I think..) but you'll be waiting for an eight-core Android phone to emulate a x86 or 64bit PC well.

ARM =/= Intel / AMD, as such, no Windows.

However, if Microsoft release an ARM version of Windows...

Sent by a changed sig since I can't talk about pirates.
[Android Software Development] ggolemg:
Do a search on here (xda) for qemu, you can have a fully working copy of XP running
[Android Software Development] smaskell:
it's a question of when, not if.

microsoft already announced that they're releasing windows 8 for arm

and they showed off a demo of office at CES
[Android Software Development] DanWilson:
So how hard would porting it be?

Sent by a changed sig since I can't talk about pirates.
[Android Software Development] sandix:
well qemu for android is very beta, i mean VERY. but, on the top side it might boot XP, (not like it would work well without the dual core atrix or similar) but it would lag really bad. the HTC Evo might be able to run windows 98 or 2000 very well, but that being said it would also lag. you can try bochs/qemu for android. give it a shot, it is very straight forward to use, just put the windowsxp.img file in SDL on the SDCARD. and bam! it will boot, not saying it will be an amazing emulation, like i said before, very beta..
[Android Software Development] ggolemg:
I'm not advocating anything here but there is a version of XP called tinyxp and as long as you have purchased XP and have a valid key its legal, the benefit of tinyxp: it runs on 40Mb of ram, and extremely low system requirements otherwise. Just make sure you have purchased XP in the past to keep it on the up and up. considering ubuntu, debian, win2k have all ran very well on my 1.8ghz ocd mytouch4g id bet tiny XP would run even better as it has less requirements than 2k pro
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmisterio:
Here is what I'm trying to do. I watch a lot of streams and I would like to connect my xoom to my hdtv which does 1080i so I can watch the streams on a large monitor. however, the quality on my lcd tv is for lack of a better word, crap. Is there anything I can do to improve the quality or am I basically stuck with what I'm getting when I connect my xoom to my tv?

Thanks.

PS- The same can be said of divx files and other movie files I load onto my xoom. They are higher quality on the device than they are on the tv.
[Atrix 4G General] macperson123:
What's a good website for live wallpapers, with QR codes? I've haven't found any decent ones yet.
[Xoom General] mmisterio:
Here is what I'm trying to do. I watch a lot of streams and I would like to connect my xoom to my hdtv which does 1080i so I can watch the streams on a large monitor. however, the quality on my lcd tv is for lack of a better word, crap. Is there anything I can do to improve the quality or am I basically stuck with what I'm getting when I connect my xoom to my tv?

Thanks.

PS- The same can be said of divx files and other movie files I load onto my xoom. They are higher quality on the device than they are on the tv.
[Xoom General] e.mote:
Suggest a HTPC/STB connected to the TV, and the Xoom using a remote-access app. Boxee just announced an iPad app for May, and an Android version should follow. XBMC has a beta remote app for Android you can try. Then there are proprietary solutions like Slingbox, Orb, etc.

You don't want to stream FROM the tab. HD-thru-wifi is always iffy, and you'd need double the bandwidth (for vids going to the tab, and from there to the TV). Streaming from HTPC, preferably thru a wired pipe, would also bypass the Netflix/Hulu constraints on mobile devices.
[Windows Phone 7 General] randude:
Ok, so here is my theory why it is taking Microsoft so long to release updates and bug fixes. I think the Windows Phone team is currently recoding Metro to run on top of Windows 8 instead of Windows CE. All the updates they are talking about down the road will be integrated into the new Windows 8 platform. Anyone else think this may be the case.
[Windows Phone 7 General] eternalemb:
That'd be EPIC if it were true.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
I'm fairly confident that WP8 will indeed run ontop of Windows 8.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
why ?

why would you want wp8 when 7 is still so immature ? a complete rewrite again ? id rather see wp7 mature and actually be updated as promised before a new version was beta'd.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
I very much enjoy my WP7 device thank you. There is no reason for me not to want a WP8 next year.

In any case, merging Windows CE and Windows "proper" makes perfect sense. I see no good reason to maintain two completely different codebases (Windows CE and Windows 8) once Windows runs on ARM. In many ways there is no need for a complete rewrite as Windows CE (albeit very old) was always the ARM (or, mobile if you wish) version of Windows - it includes many of the very same underlaying principles.

What many people are missing is that WP7 is not an OS as such, the OS is Windows CE. WP7 is the shell. Porting this to Windows 8 should require much less effort than maintaining WinCE.

Since [most] all third-party WP7 apps are frameworked it also means any existing apps will work on WP8.

If done correctly (and I know, this is Microsoft we are talking about - chances are slim) it would also enable devs to code/design apps for Windows Phone and Windows Slate simultaneously. Rather than offer two different versions the app would adapt to the form-factor it's currently running on.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
I think they have to. Especially at the rate the competition is going, they will have to merge. They will have to do it fast, if they want to stay relevant.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dccorona:
from what I've read, many people feel that Microsoft will release "Mango" as 7.5, and then WP8 to coencide with Windows 8...bumping up a version number doesn't mean it's a total rewrite...just that it adds enough features to be considered a major enough update to get a new number. For example, iOS 4 wasn't a rewrite of iOS 3, and android 2.x isn't a total rewrite of android 1.x
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Yep, and I'm sure Apple is going to have OS/X on Phones and Tablets next year.

I swear some of you people don't even think this through completely before making such baseless statements.

There's nothing saying they have to merge.

Windows just needed ARM support, which is basically done (and Microsoft probably was working on it for years beforehand - CE already basically worked on ARM and they've supported other platforms in the past) and of course another UI layer which they are working on.

However, this says nothing about the tons of Windows Apps which are optimized for non-touch keyboard+mouse use that will be basically broken on a touchscreen device.

You can use any HP touchscreen computer and see just how clunky a Win32 application is on a touchscreen computer. I don't see a majority of vendors running to revamp their application UIs to support touch, and a UI layer cannot do this on the fly due to the multitude of layouts, etc. used in Win32 applications.

Most vendors will basically have to create a touch and non-touch version of their applications.

That's why Apple is using iOS and not OS/X on their iPad. Icons and Widgets work better on larger tablet screens than Tiles, so while WP7 looks great on phones and certainly scales really well to larger/higher res displays... It would look terribad on a tablet, and lead to a ridiculous amount of wasted screen real estate.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
I swear you must have misinterpreted my post.

Who said anything about OSX on a phone?

Jobs already said that wouldn't happen. IOS, WebOS(debatable) , and Android will continue to pave the future. Unless Microsoft does something, and I'm not talking about a Windows 7 tablet.

Windows is slow as hell compared to the competition. Look at Windows Media Center, and loom at Google TV, Apple TV.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
That does not explain why MS failed to solve all the bugs listed here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9153088&postcount=1

the NoDo update, that arrived so late, shall logically have solved must of the above mentioned bugs/issues. But it didn't.

What are MS waiting for? They behave like they have no competitors.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
If the applications are all managed code than who cares whether it's WinCE or Win32?