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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] proskateronnie:
Still haven't got this. It's not just your Evo though. This is happening to a lot of people.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liamaa:
I got the same message. Im completely unrooted on my 0002 hardware that I got last June. I called sprint and they seemed even more clueless than usual. They didn't even seem to bebe aware that the message went. Practically hung up when the Guy suggested a hard reset.

But everything seems to be working fine.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpsheridan:
So I keep getting the message and decided to call in and see what I found out.. Apparently I got the right person to talk to. Customer service briefly talked with Tech Support and then transferred me to them. They had me do the following:

1. Power off Phone & Pull the battery for about 20 seconds

2. Put the battery back in and power it back on.

3. Goto Menu - Settings - System Updates - Update Profile.

After doing this I still had the error message but I believe that message was there before I got the update to my profile. So I then restarted my phone one more time. After that reboot I don't have the message again. So we will see what happens.

He is also going to be calling me back sometime today to see how things are. This is something that apparently is happening to the EVO phones (according to him). I asked him if I needed to update the PRI and he said that he had it push all the settings to the phone when I choose the "Update Profile". So I told him I would run with it for the day and see what happens.

Just in case anyone else sees this problem. I will add more as I know more. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EClecticTastes:
The Issue is The Amazon Cloud Player

When users try to stream music from this app over 3G/4G, they may receive a network error notification. Amazon has an update that includes a work around but advises that users contact Sprint to get a longterm solution to the issue. When I contacted Sprint, they sent a profile update.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fceeviper:
I only received this message once since I updated to the last version of Amazon Cloud Player. I haven't seen it since.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flying_low:
after reading this last night i got the same notice this morning and my 3G no longer works. just tried the profile update and it failed saying to try again later. gonna have to figure this one out

Edit: multiple reboots, no fix. Battery pull, fixed. Anyone able to explain that one?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpsheridan:
The only real conclusion I can come up with is either they made a change on their system. They obviously aren't going to acknowledge that one. But I have seen this popping up in different places more now. After the initial call I made the other day I have seen it pop up 1 other time. I haven't contacted them again yet to let them know that my problem still exists. I guess I'll keep looking for the fix and hope someone stumbles across it. But I really think there has been a change since I haven't had this problem until recently. I'm going to call back in and see if I can get someone who might have a better idea of the network and see if I can get some acknowledgment from them. I'll let everyone know my findings.

Sent from HTC ECO.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madaaron:
I called the number it gave me on my phone from the same message, got sent to tech help. He didn't know what to do so I got sent to another tech desk that forced a prl update. It worked for a couple hours then i got the message again. Ive found I only get the message when my phone is set to sprint only.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lrosenman:
Call sprint again and talk to a tech. They have a script now for this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 00mred00:
Get your msl ....update prl then remove http proxy settings. Update data profile forced method....enjoy

From what some others have found the message is initiated by the recent Amazon mp3 app update. The streaming issue has been present since before christmas....app dev's are getting tired of getting calls over what is really a sprint issue.
[Nook Color General] supersoulfly:
Just need to give a big thanks to all those in the community that have put their time, money, and effort into the Nook Color.

Specific thanks go to (in no particular order):

cyanogenmod team

wvcachi

mad-murdock

Drakknar

Samuel Halff

dalingrin

phiredrop

GabrialDestruir

I'm new to the Android mod scene, and the experience has been great. I'm so happy with how the Nook has developed.
[Nook Color General] animatechnica:
Seconded!!!!!
[Nook Color General] dshulman:
You guys are great. You make owning this thing so much fun!
[Nook Color General] photoassign:
ditto to all. I'll add verygreen to the list.
[Nook Color General] luciferii:
Dont forget deeper-blue he gave us honeycomb

Sent via Cyanogenmod7 Encore RC4 n.35/Tapatalk Pro
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] bubbletee:
I'm using Telus Lite 5.2. Everything worked just fine until one day I charged battery over night (phone on). Morning, the red LED was on and phone was quite warm. Also feels like the battery drains faster. The LED is on even phone is off.

Tried the following, but problem remains

reboot, bootloader, and recovery reboot (LED on in all modes)

flash 2 sbf

nandroid to fresh Telus Lite and last month backup

change battery

remove batterystat.bin and /battd folder

Any suggestion?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] msr4:
Heres somebody on the Motorola site having the same issue.

"There is a possibility that your battery contacts may be making a physical contact but not an electrical one, it's more frequent than what you might imagine, we electronic technicians run across this quite a bit. Power off the Droid, use *denatured* alcohol ONLY and clean the battery contacts with a cotton swab. A little goes a long way. Allow the battery contacts to dry completely, when inserting the battery, make sure it makes the best possible seating in your Droid. Replace the battery back and power the Droid back up and run your test. --- Dan"

Not sure if it'll work.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] bubbletee:
Still not working. But thanks.
[Nook Color General] sark666:
If you google android gpu acceleration, you'll see numerous threads on other sites of people asking for it and others saying there hardware is smooth enough.

I don't want to discuss the merit of gpu acceleration as I think it's a given. What I'd like to know is a list of apps that do. But also, if these apps can, why isn't it utilized system-wide? Other threads mentioned older hardware could only have one opengl layer, so if your launcher was gpu accelerated, then a game wouldn't launch. I doubt this is the issue now with more recent hardware.

Is there any side project trying to add this to say cyanogen?

Anyway, I know launcher pro is accelerated. The scrolling through applications is like night and day with other launchers. Also the latest Opera is accelerated. It seems like the built-in gallery app is accelerated. I'm not sure about any of the pdf viewers. ezpdf seems the smoothest, but again, it might be just more optimized over other pdf readers.

So is there a list of apps that utilize the gpu? (besides games obviously)

I'm not sure if it's a video driver issue from device to device, but if that's so, how can a small app like launcher pro work accelerated on numerous devices?
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
Because a lot of Android phones can't take it.

Yeah, but Android's target is a huge range of hardware- some very crappy. Read up on Android's "fragmentation problem."

A composite based GUI is a HUGE project. It is WAY beyond the scope of this community. It is what delayed Windows Vista for so long, and was a huge reason why many people didn't like Vista (as hardware around its launch couldn't handle the interface).

It took the Linux desktop over three years to add a decent composite GUI, and that was with MANY large companies working on it.

Composite based GUIs are VERY VERY difficult to get right. The only reason Apple has it right is from the get go that was the best part of OSX. Apple's engineers somehow got its composite GUI (called Quartz) on old low-MHz PowerPC machines, and that miracle of technology has not been duplicated anywhere else. In fact, that was the competitive advantage that Apple took with it to the phone market once phones were as powerful as old PowerPC machines.

Other OS's that use a GPU accelerated GUI just have to have very strict minimums for hardware. For example, look at the minimums for Window's phones. Any one of those would be high-end in the Android market.

Run Launcher Pro on an older Android device like a Droid 1 and you would be singing a different tune as to how smooth it is. The fact of the matter is that the Android eco-system isn't ready yet....
[Nook Color General] sark666:
Hmm, compiz made huge improvements quite rapidly so I don't know about 3 years to get it right. The benefits were immediate; maybe refinements as it went along.

Regardless if it is huge undertaking, google has to address this. I've read articles where they say it's more garbage collecting vs an accelerated gui. Here's a brief but good article on it: http://www.satine.org/archives/2011/01/01/the-care-and-feeding-of-the-android-gpu/

And linux is a good example, the initial beginnings of compiz were a very small group of developers and features were being added very rapidly.

It turns a lot of people off android when they see a sluggish OS, or the appearance of a sluggish OS.

At any rate, my question still stands. you mention older devices needed to being supported. Then how does an app like launcher pro do it? I'm sure it doesn't have custom drivers for all the various gpu's out there? Same with Opera.

And I'd still like a list of (if there is one) of gpu accelerated apps. If the OS doesn't have it, then it would be nice to have it at the app level. Although I see that causing more headaches down the road instead of the OS doing it.

Anyway, google doesn't sound like they are taking this issue seriously. Or dismissing it as not necessary, but I think that's a mistake. On a traditional desktop OS, it's a nice to have but not really necessary, as most things are static. But given the size of the these devices, menus/icons etc are usually moved about cascade and expand etc. Items are dragged and moved etc. All this calls for an interface that maintains a high fps or otherwise it gives the perception of feeling laggy.
[Nook Color General] dalingrin:
Trust me...rewriting Android to do automatic compositing is a huge undertaking. This would be very difficult to do while maintaining compatibility which existing applications. Honeycomb has compositing but it isn't enabled in applications by default because it can break applications with custom drawing. I don't see any reason for us to attempt to implement composting when its already done about as well as anyone can do it in Honeycomb.
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
GPU GUI acceleration on the Linux desktop didn't start with Compiz. GPU GUI acceleration started in 2004 when Keith Packard added the composite patch to Xorg. David Reveman began working on XGL and Compiz around that time, and didn't release a workable beta version until 2006.

Yet that beta version relied on XGL, which was basically running the Linux desktop like you would a video game. It wasn't until AIGLX became stabilized in open source and closed source drivers in 2007 that GPU GUI acceleration on the Linux desktop was finished (I am huge Xorg junkie, that is why I know these random facts).

From what I have heard, Honeycomb supposedly has a GPU accelerated GUI. But we don't know till we can see the code.

I would say that the sluggishness is only obvious next to iOS- other mobile OSes also lack such abilities. Compared to iOS Android has mostly targeted the lower-end user segment where quality of experience is less important than raw price (hence the many underpowered Android phones).

Eventually due to attrition the baseline will increase in power and old phones will be cut off for new features such as this. I have already heard that Gingerbread runs terrible on a Droid 1, which is barely a two year old phone.

Same way games do it- they just run like crap on older phones. Google can't afford to take that approach with the entire OS.

Me too.

I think that is an accurate assessment. I think Google believes that in time the hardware itself wil cover this inadequacy- it matters less on dual core phones. Its all those poor people that bought early Android phones that have had to suffer the most...
[Nook Color General] sark666:
I'm sure it's not trivial, but again standalone apps seemed to have done it. I know OS wide is another issue. But really, honeycomb is really late when it comes to this. It really should have been a 2.x feature. I"m the exact opposite of an apple fan boy, but the first iphone in 2007 had this. That set the bar right there. What 4 years later and google is almost on it? And yes iphone is a fixed device, but still. An abstraction layer should have been worked on so if a device has a gpu it's used, otherwise fallback to software.

And on a side note, It would still be nice to know apps that do implement this now.
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
I am a huge fan of this stuff (I actually had a blog about composite back in the day) and I can tell you after hacking on many devices and OSes, only ONCE have I seen a decent software-based compositor. OSX. That is it, in the whole world.

In fact, Apple's entire "magic" empire of devices is built on that unique competitive advantage. Part of what has made it work is that composite was there from day one- unlike a Linux, Windows or Android, OSX/iOS has ALWAYS had composite so applications had to work with it.

And it wasn't a painless process. Early OSX versions (until Tiger I think) all had major composite bugs (to the point I am good at spotting them). Part of Apple's advantage is that initially the OSX base was so small that it didn't matter what broke and what didn't.

So essentially it is not a 4 year gap, but is more like a 10 year advantage. All those old PowerPC Mac users paid out the nose to make modern Apple phones the pleasant experience they are.

To me the saving grace of Android is that Google allows developers to replace major parts. So maybe the entire OS will never have real GPU acceleration, but Google doesn't stop the Operas and Launcher Pros of the world to replace essential functions with apps that CAN leverage that ability. That way different parts of the OS get fixed up by those who are best at that part, and those with weaker hardware can do without.

So yeah, a list would be nice.
[Nook Color General] swaaye:
Well even Windows XP seems to dust Android's best. For example, browsing these very forums on my pathetic netbook is smooth but on NC it is extremely slow unless Opera Mobile is used. Even Honeycomb's browser is slow scrolling these forums. It is pretty mind blowing that in 2011 there would be 2D GUI inadequacies like this.

But the reason is as has been said: there are phones with really poor GPUs running Android. So Google basically set the bar too low in order to probably lower the cost to develop an Android device and now they don't want to break compatibility. Although I don't see why 3.0 couldn't have been more ambitious.
[Nook Color General] unimatrix725:
Not Quite A List of Android GPU Apps

GPU Acceleration will be system wide when Ice Cream Sandwich is released. I stumbled upon this thread hoping to find specific apps. I am of the Nvidia Bootcamp, so that influenced me to get a Droid X2. There are some killer apps that work perfect with GPU acceleration. I am rather surprised to find that this thread became a history lesson, much which I knew and Wikipedia could tell me.

I am using a Movie Player on Android called MX Video Player (FREE and Free Codec Download Required). It works extremely well. This app is an excellent example of quality software taking advantage of GPU acceleration, before a system wide implementation. I doubt "MX" will get better when ICS is here.

As for CyanogenMod none that I know of other than the ICS port they are cooking up. Has to do with ICS SDK API 14, that is the framework for it?

When I find more I will add to the list here, that is if I dont forget.

Oh and that snyde XP comment.... Let me know how the android gui and os is when it has had ten years in the limelight, with patches and bug fixes!
[Droid X Themes and Apps] smyers1012:
Ok so I Sbf'd my phone back to stock and went to root it again with Z4root as usual and it just won't root. I realize sometimes it can take up to 30 minutes and if you reboot it, sometimes it will be 10 seconds, but I left it to root overnight on the charger and made the screen stay on..When I woke up it was still spinning the little wheel trying to obtain root access. Very upset about this.. Any ideas guys??
[Droid X Themes and Apps] siphyn:
Try rebooting once more, and then once booted, put the phone into airplane mode and try again. What version of z4root are you using?

Beamed from my MB810
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Funnyface19:
i had this a couple of times rebooting should work
[Droid X Themes and Apps] smyers1012:
im going to try airplane mode method and then if that dfoesnt work ill just reboot it a bunch!
[Droid X Themes and Apps] js.droidlover2010:
Z4Root

Mine is not working either... I just received a droid x as a replacement for my incredible through Asurion and tried this multiple times including rebooting plenty of times and putting in airplane mode. I still cannot get it to work.

Let me know if there is anything else I can do to get this working...

Thanks!
[Droid X Themes and Apps] smyers1012:
yep on 1.3.0 here the most up to date version and it will not work no matter what i do...
[Droid X Themes and Apps] dornstar:
Had the same issue. Left it to run overnight, woke up and nothing. Rebooted several times and it eventually worked.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] smyers1012:
how many is several though??
[Droid X Themes and Apps] smyers1012:
is there any other way to root the droid x cause this will just NOT work
[Droid X Themes and Apps] _atlien_:
Are you perm rooting first? Or temp then perm?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] cluk13:
I found only the permanent root works. I just battery pull until it works properly. It should show signs of life within 60 sec so don't bother running it overnight.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
Reboot into recovery, clear the cache and try again. Worked for me the other day.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] smyers1012:
clearing the cache did not work hmm any other ideas myabe a data reset?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] 70blzr:
just tried the reboot and switch to airplane mode and it worked in about 20 seconds. don't know if it was the reboot or the airplane mode though.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] smyers1012:
just wiped my data and it finally worked guess it just glitches like that sometimes..

thanks everyone who helped!
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Ultra Droid:
The data wipe is what finally got it working for me, when I rooted my DX.

-Mike
[Droid X Themes and Apps] davislb921:
Do you have usb debugging enabled? I know it sounds silly because you arent rooting thru usb. But when I rooted mine I had it enabled. It can be found in settings,applications, Development, then enable usb debugging.
[Android Apps and Games] StDevious:
Interesting app

http://www.rootmetrics.com/

Market Link

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rootmetrics
[Android Apps and Games] dilfatx:
Read an article about this today, installed it. Works as advertised.
[Android Apps and Games] matt2053:
Problems: it let me run the network speed tests on wifi. It did not show avg results for areas, only a generic color coded map layer with no legend. It turned on my GPS and left it on, and that problem persisted even after I pulled the battery and did not even launch the app after boot. Last night it drained my battery from 50 to dead while I slept. I checked in spare parts and found this app was the culprit. Had to uninstall.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] esotericizm:
I have been trying unsuccessfully for 2 days now to create a working system.img and im having no luck whatsoever.

I have a Pendo Pad which i believe is based on the rockchip 2818 www dot pendo dotcom dot au/tablet.html cant post links yet

cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00002000 00000010 "misc"

mtd1: 00004000 00000010 "kernel"

mtd2: 00002000 00000010 "boot"

mtd3: 00004000 00000010 "recovery"

mtd4: 00038000 00000010 "system"

mtd5: 0003a000 00000010 "backup"

mtd6: 0003a000 00000010 "cache"

mtd7: 00080000 00000010 "userdata"

mtd8: 00179800 00000010 "user"

mtd9: 00020000 00000010 "pagecache"

mtd10: 00020000 00000010 "swap"

I've tried to use RKdump to make the image but it gives the error:

# /data/rkdump /dev/block/mtdblock5 /sdcard/system.img

/data/rkdump /dev/block/mtdblock5 /sdcard/system.img

unknown image (00 00 00 00)

I have also tried to Harder method of DD. And i have what appears to be a backup.dump, But i am unsure of where to go from here.

Any help would be appreciated, As i am fairly new to this, I unfortunately cannot upload the dump file because i am getting really close to my internet quota and am charged alot if i go over it. Also i would like to learn how to do it on my own.
[Surround General] kilme14:
ok i have had the htc surround for about a month on the at&t 3g network but it doesn't want to connect. does anyone know an idea of whats happening or what i can do to fix it?
[Surround General] ertz:
Hmmm... I have a Surround from AT&T, but I live in Argentina. I had to manually set up the APN.

Go to Settings > Cellular and make sure the Data connection is ON.

If it's on, but you still cannot transfer any data over the AT&T network, tap the edit apn button and add the necessary information.

I'm not sure if that information is correct, make a call to AT&T support to get the correct information if this isn't working. If all else fails, ask for a replacement.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_piedlourde:
Hi everyone,

I've successfully rooted me GSM Desire and am running CyanogenMod 7 (I also installed Redux v.1.1.1 and CyanogenMod 6.1 without any problems). For some reason, though, the /system and /data directories still seem to be read-only. In Root Explorer it seems to let me rename files in those directories and says "Rename Successful," but if when I leave the directory and come back the file is back to its original name. I also can't move any files there. When I use ES File Explorer it just says "Sorry, operation failed!"

I have enabled "Mount R/W" in Root Explorer and "Mount File System" in ES File Explorer but nothing seems to work. Is there some extra step to making these directories writable that I have missed?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi there, you need to have s-off (aka security off or full root) to write to /system and /data with the device booted, i.e. using root explorer etc.

You can also do it with s-on, but you have to to that with your PC via cmd prompt and adb shell which is less convenient.

Great guide to getting s-off here, took me <10 mins!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794314
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_piedlourde:
Yeah, that did it. Thanks!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamOliver:
I need to exchange my defective Thunderbolt and need to return to stock. I'm getting the error message:

"dd if=/data/local/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17: cannot open for write: Permission denied"

Does anyone know what the problem is, or what I have to do to fix this?

Edit: It's giving me the "Permission denied" error after "su" now. I don't know anything about command prompts, any help would be appreciated.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newmex999:
My gtablet is on its way to me. Where do I go in this forum to find out how to upgrade the OS (which is what I have read that I need to do to make the gtablet really enjoyable). I will probably need step by step instructions. Thanks!