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[Desire HD General] UpInTheAir:
You could also use a custom kernel such as LeeDrOiD 2.2.9. Lee has various governors tweaked as well as undervolting lower than stock for same frequency.

It is a flashable zip through clockworkmod recovery.

Saves heaps of juice with Smartass governor. As well as default to a lower frequency when screen off.

It is part of his Rom, but available as separate dl.
[Desire HD General] mjehan:
how does one flash a kernel ? don't i need to flash a new ROM ?
[Desire HD General] baste07:
you just need to flash the kernel file, different from the Rom file.
[Desire HD General] UpInTheAir:
As long as you have permroot & s-off or eng s-off.

You will still have superuser from when you used visionary to permroot.

Download Rom manager from market. Use the options to flash clockworkmod recovery from Rom manager. Choose version 2.xxx for Froyo Rom or 3.xxx for gingerbread. You always change this later. Follow the directions, you may have to give superuser permission and reboot.

For LeeDrOiD, recommend to use version 2.5.1.3

Now you will have a new recovery. If you want to get into recovery, go through bootloader, or power off phone & plug in usb power. It will automatically boot into recovery after a few seconds.

There will be an option, mounts and storage, select mount usb storage, it will connect to pc and you can put the kernel zip directly onto the sdcard, don't extract. Now unmount, and go back to install zip from sdcard, choose zip by vol up or dn and select with power button. Install. After success, reboot device.

After that you will need to setCPU to the selected clock and governor and set on boot. First allow superuser permission. Set all sliders to min and press menu / automatically detect speeds /ok. Then set max / top slider to required speed. And gov to Smartass. Warning too high a speed will use more batt, possible freeze phone or damage etc.

This is just a very quick and rough guide, I don't take any responsiblity for any omissions or damage to your device etc. But at least you have an idea where to start and various steps involved.

Best to read up on all these steps before you try anything and always step by step.

Editted to fix a few keyboard typos.
[Desire HD General] hisheeraz:
thank you all, very usefull thread. cheers
[Desire HD General] letom:
So far I've found running Android Revolution 3.5, and this new radio has given the best battery performance + smartass governor on set CPU. I was at 18 hours unplugged at 52% with normal use, never had that before. But to do all these settings, changes and roms you need Eng S-OFF and Radio S-OFF, might be worth looking them up how and what they are in dev forum.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dr_rick13:
hey guys please please idk what happened but i accidently dragged an app over the main menu icon on my HD2 android.. and now i have no way of getting to main menu...any help please???
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
By main menu, I assume you mean the app drawer. If that's the case, then long-press a blank spot on your homescreen, choose shortcut (or maybe it's custom shortcut, cant remember for sure). Then choose 'launcher actions' and then choose 'all aplications'. At least that's how it's done in adw launcher. Then you can just drop that shortcut icon back down into your dock where it belongs
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dr_rick13:
oh thanks a lot mate! but i just deleted everything i had on my phone, and the droid started from scratch. thanks anyway! peace
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
Also worth noting that with adw launcher (in typhoon for example) swiping down (or is it up, i forget and have disabled it now) on the homescreen shows/hides the whole menu bar at bottom. I wiped data Few weeks ago thinking id lost my whole launcher.

As for just the one shortcut, press and hold the one you mistakenly dropped there and choose edit, pick activity, activities, open/close app drawer.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M2R2:
Hi Guys!

I couldnt find anything working in my TWIN SIM card by Vodafone (2 numbers inside it). I have a Nexus S with android 2.3.

I would like not to change my ROM. Does anyone know how to install the stk or an equivalent application?

Thank you very much in advance,
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M2R2:
Please help!!!!!!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treUse:
from what I've gathered, stk is broken on the NS, and we're basically waiting for google to fix it, I might be wrong though...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] andy572:
hi @all,

is there a way to convert a mtd partition to another filesystem?

i've tryed the following procedure:

1.) boot to recovery

2.) login to system via adb (adb shell)

3.) mke2fs -m 5 -b 4096 /dev/block/mtdblock1

at point 3, it gives errors and nothing is happen.

now, i've tryed to flash a ext3 filesystem on this partition via

flash_image system system.ex3.img (found a explanation on how to create a ex3 system.img), but after mounting the /dev/block/mtdblock1 on /system it shows still device as "yaffs2".

would be nice, if someone can explain me if it's definitvly not possible to convert

mtd partitions or tell me a short tip what can i test ;)

ThX

Andy
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ciscogee:
An anything known about this in the last year BUMP :)
[Xoom General] jase33:
Nice find. I may give this a try.
[Xoom General] ejwsoeters:
Nice! Hopefully somewhere in the near future an app will be available to get this done automatically.
[Xoom General] MitchRapp:
yeah like Root Explorer N (for Network!) would be cool :P just map a network drive and booya!
[Xoom General] KerryG:
Sounds like a big pain in the ass versus having a DLNA server running and streaming live without even having to root.
[Xoom General] wwallace55:
Even with a DNLA server, you can't copy files back and forth from the Xoom to your computer. You can't access pdf, cbz and other file types and make them work on the Xoom. This also serves as extra storage for large video files and music collections. For some users, this amounts to several hundred Gigabytes of material.
[Xoom General] robbiev80:
Thanks for the guide man!!! Worked like a charm. :)
[Xoom General] myv6mustang:
also unless a video is tagged as a streaming video when converted you can't stream only download. Would probably use a different video player
[Xoom General] jwbtx:
Thanks for the excellent post...

jwb
[Xoom General] jlaw904:
Great guide. A lot of people don't realize how awesome this makes the xoom. I use cifsmanager (free, I think) with moboplayer to watch all my avi movies and shows hooked up to my TV. Any kernel that supports the cifs modules should work.
[Xoom General] qwerp_:
i thought all you need is cifs.ko and you can mount any drives.

instead of going through all those steps.

however, the question is obtaining cifs.ko in the first place.
[Xoom General] Ish61:
hi,

can you tell me how to in install timat??
[Xoom General] gqstatus0685:
Does anyone know of a good network drive I can purchase? Nice find OP I will bookmark this.
[Xoom General] Alfahmad:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rhmsoft.fm.hd

* Support both local and remote(LAN/SMB) file system
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strider88:
Engadget posted the latest spec requirements for WP7 devices and some minimum requirements are higher than the 1st gen WP7 devices specs.

What does it mean? No Mango update for 1st gen devices?

That would be so depressing, I don't have the money to buy a new phone come 2012. I JUST bought my current device.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/14/microsofts-latest-wp7-chassis-spec-includes-second-gen-snapdrag/
[Windows Phone 7 General] comeradealexi:
I highly doubt they would do this as it would be a massive slap in the face to the initial supporters
[Windows Phone 7 General] GuestK00306:
No, these are just requirements for the devices pre-installed with Mango. First-gen devices will definitely get Mango. Otherwise, MS is going to lose a lot of sales!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
All devices get Mango, confirmed again yesterday at MIX.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strider88:
Thanks guys! that's reassuring...
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
Those are specs for 2nd generation WP7 phones, not for update.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
This is why I like this "rule with an iron fist" strategy of Windows Phone with respect to phone hardware.

All the first gen devices will get Mango update. All the first gen specs were pretty much the same so you know if an HTC HD7 can run it, so can a Trophy. once they preserve this generation iteration (gen 1 = ver one snapdragon, gen 2 = ver two snapdragon) it will be very easy to know if you can run the newest OS in the future based on your generation not on your handset maker.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nathantw:
Famous last words. There should be a disclaimer "unless you're on the AT&T network."
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
How are those specs higher? I'm pretty sure this is just a bump mainly for Qualcomms production purposes, as they've lowered the speed rating, however, the first gen chips aren't that far behind tbh...
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
Specs ARE higher.

The 2nd gen 800MHz CPU performs on par with todays 1st gen 1GHz CPU. The 2nd gen 1GHz CPU performs even better. There isn't much of a difference though, the CPU is hardly taxed on WP7 devices anyway. The HUGE improvement will come from the fact these SoCs include the Adreno 205 GPU which is massively faster than the 1st gen Adreno 200.

Add to this that the 2nd gen SoC's are 45nm rather than 65nm which means they use less battery and run cooler.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
:DUnbranded and updated
[Windows Phone 7 General] nick.venema:
And what about the new language support. Will this be included also in the Mango update for 1st gen WP7 devices. In my case, I bought a HTC Trophy 7 Vodafone branded version. So after the Mango update i would like to enable the Dutch language on my Trophy. Is this possible guys?
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
There will be no limitations at all, every phone will run Mango, new and old. That includes all features of mango including language packs etc.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nick.venema:
I hope you're right because others speculate that this would'nt be the case. Has something to do with license from manufacter and Microsoft or so.... Let's hope Microsoft wil cover this in a smart way.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PieOfJustice:
How does that work? How is 800MHz faster then the 1GHz?

Sent using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
I can agree with you about the GPU, but it isn't this outrageous upgrade... I honestly see this as first Gen snapdeagons not being produced for Mcrosoft...

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
I think MSM7X30 are with 2nd generation Scorpion CPU kernel while our current QSD8X50 are with 1st generation scorpion (Correct me if wrong). There might be a efficiency increase.

Anyway, 65nm->45nm and Adreno 200 -> 205 will help.
[Windows Phone 7 General] npoe:
I was expecting a msm8660 and adreno 220. I don't see a big improveme unless I'm missing something.
[Windows Phone 7 General] knave:
The same as how a i5 @ 2ghz is faster than a P4 @ 3ghz
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
True, it's not a huge leap in performance. But I see this as a good thing for three reasons;

1. We don't actually need a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU. Our phones are fast enough as is. Sure, It'd be nice to have something high-end, but it's not needed and brings me to

2. Using slightly older tech (i.e. 2nd gen rather then 3rd gen) keeps prices in check. This is good as the average consumer can easily afford (and justify buying) a WP7 device. And

3. this means older devices will still be able to run Mango (or, more so, apps written specifically for ManGo) without performance issues. Remember how iOS4 initially performed on the early iPhones (i.e. 3G and older)?

They seem to actually have a strategy behind running on middle of the road hardware and I for one think it's great. What I would like to see is more optional hardware though, FFC, NFC, Gyro etc should all be supported (and I have a feeling they all will be) by the OS but optional to let OEMs differentiate themselves in the market.

At first I thought the inclusion of an optional Gyro was madness, but after seeing a MIX11 session it all fell into place - they [MS] have constructed the API so that you don't call the Gyro directly, rather you call a "movement" API which will give you the information you require. This means that devices without a Gyro will still give you, the developer, the same datastream to work with, just with a lower "resolution" than on devices with a Gyro. The same could be applied to other functionality which in the end means there will be no fragmentation - however having devices running on anything from a 800GHz single-core to a 1.5GHz dual-core processor would mean games [especially] would run great on some devices and not at all on others.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
With the games issue I'm hoping they have some trick up their sleeve to reduce graphical effects etc on lower end devices, increasing them on higher end devices meaning the games play just as well whatever device you have.

Similar to games on Windows PCs
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
No, I completely agree that its a good thing, my tone in my post was simply for the OP who was worried about updates for current phones... The processor change is nowhere near large enough to separate the two... Like I said, its more due to manufacturing moving on, and for efficiency/battery not device capability... At least imo

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
qualcomm does boast support of dual core snapdragon processors on its website...

I wouldn't be surprised if probably very early next year we see a dual core phone at all..
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
I'd love to see dual core CPUs, but I'm not sure that the OS currently supports it. SMD support was added to Windows CE 7 (which came out after Windows Phone 7). Apparently Windows Phone 7 runs on CE 6 (with some additional features).

Also, for those upset that there isn't really a spec bump. Keep in mind that these are minimum requirements. As important as it is for Microsoft to catch up with Android tech, it is important that they keep a relatively low end minimum spec for Nokia.
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
its interesting that qualcomm boasts use of dual core for wp7 devices but microsoft may not have support for it.

I'm not sure if that's wholly true

I think like you said keep in mind this is is minimum specs. We know that qualcomm 2nd gen snapdragon (scorpion 800 mhz) was supported with nodo, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there is dual core support in wp7 for mango but the minimum specs indicate at least 2nd gen snapdragon processors.

In many ways, mango is intelligent in that the specs are still relatively low but the OEMs can update those specs to make way for apollo...good strategy
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
So how MS will handle that? If wp7 is on CE6 how can they add SMD support? Can they in the next version add CE7 without making current apps need to recompile and break the OS?
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Can you give me a link for that? I don't think I've seen it.

It'd probably be fine because all of the apps run on top of .NET. A lot of the rumors suggest that they will be going with Windows 8 for the core.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
Didn't know anyone tried to put iOS 4 on a 2G. But it does run like crap on the 3G. 3GS is not so bad.

This is just my opinion but Microsoft went on record saying how they would avoid fragmentation issues. One was by ensuring updates for all in the same timeframe. We know that did not work out. I suspect with the strict hardware requirements they have for the handsets that it will be a while before a handset gets left behind.

You always need to find a middle ground. It is not good business to have someone own a handset for 10 years. It is also going to piss off people if they need to change their handset every 10 months. 2yrs when most contracts change sounds good to me :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
^ good points

its really difficult to say what's really going to happen

LG boasts something more high end, now whether that means d/c or not is open to debate. but vocally they are the first company to "try" on wp7 at least legitimately...unlike today's pocketnow story that boasts a 16 mp wp7 device (which runs immediately into the d/c limits of the newest snapdragon d/c)

If there were dual core, it would lead to fragmentation and that totally retracts from microsoft non fragmented stance.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TAMHAN:
Hi,

I don't think that Ms is so silly. Keep in mind that Nokia wants to use WP7 on all its smartphones.

And the specs, now, are already very highend...
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
I think the OEMs may very well come out with higher end devices, but I don't think this means they need 4th gen processors.

They can add front facing cameras (I do believe we will see this with Mango - it's a consumer oriented feature so not "detailed" yet; however we will know for certain once the Mango dev tools are released). NFC payments. Gyros. 64GB memory. HDMI out. All of these are features which would make a higher-end device.

The ONE factor that speaks for Mango supporting dual-core is that rumors have gone around saying we will get LTE capable Windows Phone devices with Mango. As far as I know that means it would need to sport the MSM8960 SoC (i.e. a sibling chip to the one found in the HTC Evo 3D). This is a late 3rd gen chip though which goes against all other reports of Mango support.
[Windows Phone 7 General] cndymn_:
true?-> sell

If this is true, i will sell my phone without detours.

this can't be real, i mean microsoft has released an "unfinished" OS and with mango the will be the nowadays standards, which other smartphones has got.
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
unfinished? disagree i think android is far more incomplete
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
It's not true. Microsoft has confirmed that Mango will be coming to all existing phones.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
MS also confirmed the carriers would not block updates. MS has confirmed dates for updates. None of them has come true. If there are rumors of first gen devices not getting Mango, it is probably MS inching the news out slowly before official statement to avoid an uproar.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
There aren't even rumors of that happening. The OP made an assumption based on the fact that specs changed. Let's not start up any rumors here, nobody has ever suggested that Mango wouldn't be coming to existing phones.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
i dont believe this at all. That would require a lot of work, since the kernel is totally diferent. They would have to disable multitasking at all, and create agents and put the OS running on top of win8. I dont think that makes too much sense.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
It's tricky. Carriers are not actually skipping the update, but they are "testing" the update.

Still painful, but after all the carriers need to release the update.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
It does sound like a lot of work, but there is a lot to gain by having computers, tablets, and phones all running on the same base. Time will tell, I guess.
[Windows Phone 7 General] petercharters:
There really is no need to panic. Go and watch the video from Mix11. Joe Belifiore demonstrates Mango running on the exact same Asus developer phones he was using to reveal the platform a year ago.

In fact, just to cheer you up, Mago runs *better* than NoDo or the launch platform. Joe also demonstrates speed increases over the older versions - up to 30% in some memory areas - and remember, it's still not finished or completely optimised.

To be honest, Mango is looking pretty awesome. Pretty much everything developers have asked for (realistic requests, anyway) was included in the announcement, and you could see Joe trying not to grin with well-deserved smugness every time he got another reaction from the crowd when he reveals yet another feature. I'm looking forward now to see some commercial conferences too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Xenithflare:
This is a fantastic post. I salute you, good sir.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
the kernel win8 is much heavier, much more complex than the CE6/7.

I really dont think there is lots of advantage in running both base. The wp7 runs Silverlight/XNA apps. The new tablets will have the immersive apps which are xapps, silverlight, so basically you can easily port from wp7<->tablet(win8). The thing is they have to be different. Its impossible to make apps be perfect on both devices... I dont want a windows 8 UI on my phone... or even with all the height and complexity. It would bring more time booting up, etc...

The trick here, and MS is already doing is the Silverlight .NET thing connecting everything.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
"Again that means the HTC Flair does not utilize any of the extra power it has - not to mention the fact it is likely to use more battery."

wrong...

Even if the OS is not optimize for a 1.5Ghz and 220 GPU believe it will run way faster, if not for the dual-core at least for the 220. Its way way better... 4x.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
Please explain to me how it would run faster if the UI is already running at 60fps... Throwing a more powerful processor at a process that already runs full speed without taxing the CPU (or GPU) only means it'll sit idle for longer.

I cannot pinpoint anywhere in the OS a more powerful processor would make a difference (bar 1080p high-rate video encoding/decoding). Even sorting large datasets takes no time at all.

Sure, upping the processing power would allow them to do more complex UIs but it would be at the cost of backwards compatibility - which they can't afford to do this early in the game.
[Windows Phone 7 General] :
WMPoweruser asked earlier what version of Windows CE Windows Phone is based on and got this respond:
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
games.......
[Windows Phone 7 General] BlackRonin357:
Sounds like good news all around, cuz I'll wind up coppin a new joint in 2012 anyway. I can't keep the same phone for linger than a yr anyhow. I'm real excited to see how wp7 ****s on the competition with all this innovation.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
This may (and most certainly will) be problematic. Microsoft has a policy where it's up to OEMs and/or operators to decide which language packs to install on devices. They also don't make language packs available for download for end users. I don't know for sure but suspect that Microsoft charges for additional language support (they charge end users for MUI packs for their desktop software, so they have this annoying tradition, in this cases they might charge OEMs/MOs).

So far most phones had all available language packs but some operator branded handsets have just one or two languages available. I seriously doubt that my T-Mo De Mozart will get Russian support - right now it only has German and UK English.

One bad sign is that ROMs already differ by geography - you have "Generic", "Europe", "Asia" etc.

That being said, with a GoldCard you can flash any official ROM, so you'll be able to change all that, but of course flashing is somewhat of a hassle as you lose all your data, settings etc.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
Way to take my comment completely out of context and applying it to a scenario I specifically said, in the same post, would be a bad idea.