yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dx1881:
Patience is a virtue for most, but when its your primary line and data is f'd up I'm not going to wait. Research at the time was non existent for this matter. I had a new phone in 10hrs when I requested replacement. A dev suggested reflashing the stock radio and re rooting the device to restore data, this didn't take. Its flasher beware, something everybody knows. Devs even post this in the beginning of all threads. Everybody's phone reacts differently to each rom, kernal, radio, theme what have you. I'm just now sitting back and waiting for UD to be released
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
UD... LMAO
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bloodlvst:
Hey there,

I was using the CM7 nightlies for a while, and the battery life was great. However, it seems like ever since I flashed CM7 Stable my battery life has went down. The part I'm finding odd is that it didn't even last 12 hours today and I barely used the phone (especially in the first 8 hours since I was at work). As well, the battery usage shows Cell Standby and Phone Idle combined using over 85% power, which I've never seen before. I want to say it might be some of my apps, but they're the same ones I've been using. In case it makes a difference, here's my setup:

LauncherPro

Trillian

Clock/Weather widget from Fancy Widget

SetCPU on "conservative" setting

Gmail, Facebook, Messages widgets from LauncherPro

Power Widget

Score Mobile widget

None of my sync settings are really frequent, most are hourly refresh, another is 30 minutes. And since I haven't had this problem before CM7 stable I'm still thinking maybe it's something with the ROM.

What I'd like to know is if I should try to calibrate the battery first. And if that's the case, what is the best method to calibrate the battery so the ROM is reporting it accurately.

Thanks in advance :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bloodlvst:
Anyone have any ideas?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibemad1:
I have been getting the BEST BATTERY LIFE EVER since moving to the latest radio.

Sent from my G2 running Cyanogenmod 7.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnowOokami:
wipe the battery stats... look at the forum how to.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bloodlvst:
Which radio is that?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HLeenders:
Always flash at 100%. Then use your phone at least 4 days, as in 2 complete cycles of using until you have to charge it again. Do not change your radio unless you are absolutely confident about the things you are going to do. Chances are you have a custom rom which does not match the radio you are trying to flash, resulting in a expensive ¨presse papier`.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bloodlvst:
I appreciate the caution, but the current radio I have is the version that Virtuous recommended to update to. Is there a more "Cyanogen-specific" radio?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnowOokami:
I got the stock radio and it's working perfectly. 28hours of uptime with ease (and everything on, incl pushmail). No GPS issues, good reception and no static in the background.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polarbearmc:
when you say use your phone for 4 days (2 completely cycles) until you have to charge it agian... what do you mean exactly? i need to charge mine after like 8 hours...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HLeenders:
What I mean is that you should, after you flashed a new rom, drain the battery at least two times and charge it again fully. Or charge at 100%, flash and wipe battery stats after flashing to speed this up a little. Point is, there is no definite daily use. You could (usually not) notice a very small difference in batterydrain after flashing, but be sure it's not because of Bluetooth, Wifi, GPS or some other thing which is accidently turn on. That's why I said to use the phone for 4 days, and 2 complete cycles. I do not use my phone as heavy as you seem to do. Furthermore, I take care not to turn Wifi, Bluetooth or GPS on when I do not need those functions.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
About 3 hours ago, I won a Desire Z (wheeey!) at the HTC London meetup. Naturally, I came straight here after the help I got in January rooting my Desire.

I used the Visionary method and obtained temp root status, and then attempted perm root, which seemed to work. All of the guides I have read include a bunch of steps after this, one of which included deleting Visionary, which I then did. I just turned the phone off, took the battery out for a bit and then turned it back on. I still have the Superuser icon and the Terminal Emulator indicates that I have root access... is that it then? It's that simple?

Please tell me if I've done anything wrong, as I don't want to flash Cyanogen and Clockwork Recovery if it's all going to go to hell on me. Any advice or confirmation on whether or not I've obtained perm root would be lovely. :)

Oh, my firmware version is 1.34.405... etc. Is this simply the last version which allows for such easy root?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OriginalGabriel:
Having the SuperUser icon just means the app is installed, open up terminal and type 'su' to see if it throws up any errors
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
I should have mentioned that I did that and got the # symbol, am I good to go?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OriginalGabriel:
In theory, yes; in practice, no. Visionary (with the G2/Desire Z, at least) is known to be a bit buggy. You shouldn't have any issues installing custom ROMs but, I would recommend using the wiki method to root.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
My understanding, if he already used Visionary to root, and it worked than he should be good to go. Either it works, or it doesn't. The risk with Visionary is that it sometimes corrupts some partitions, which causes the phone to not boot. I haven't read any conclusive reports on Visionary causing long term issues (correct me if I'm wrong).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
This is my understanding as well, though I'd probably still use GFREE to get S-OFF if I were OP.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
That's my next question, I'm using this guide ( http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2 ) to try and get S-Off to flash Cyanogen and I'm wondering what step to start on, assuming from your replies that I'm rooted already.

I know it's a bit of a dumb question, but I just don't wanna fudge my new phone. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OriginalGabriel:
I used the wiki method myself, those that used other methods (like Visionary) and were told to root via the wiki seem to have all just started at the beginning, from what I've read.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
Whoa the Wiki method is completely different, looks like it was rewritten on 04/01.

You can completely ignore the temp rooting steps and concentrate on the gfree steps

From the "Necessary Files" section you need gfree, flash_image and ClockWorkMod Recovery

I would use the latest ClockWorkMod recovery rather than the one listed on the Wiki:

http://mirrorbrain.cyanogenmod.com/cm/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img (of course it's only the latest as of the time of this writing)

From step 2 you need to use:

$ adb push gfree /data/local/tmp/
$ adb push flash_image /data/local/tmp/

From step 2.a you need to use:

$ adb push recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img /data/local/tmp/recovery.img

Again note that the file name for CWM will depend on the version of CWM you are using.

Skip to step 4.b you need to use:

# cd /data/local/tmp
# ./gfree -f
# ./flash_image recovery recovery.img
# sync

Continue on as normal from here.

I skipped the temp root and perm root sections as you are already perm root.

I also skipped the ENG HBOOT parts, since that's not strictly necessary and the most risky part of the whole process (one mistake can result in a brick). If you want to flash the ENG HBOOT you would need to follow steps 4.a instead of 4.b, (you would also need the necessary HBOOT of course) the only command you need to omit from 4.a or 4.b is "# ./root_psn" which is the script which establishes permanent root.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
Thanks a lot so far man, but I'm still stuck. I have adb, when I open it in the SDK, it flows for a bit, then closes. This is right, right? I'm meant to do all of these prompts via the cmd window?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
OK, I've now sorted adb, but I can't get anything to work past that. Nothing will transfer to my phone and I'm going to kill... somebody. :(
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You say you've sorted adb, but can you be more specific please ? What works and what doesn't work exactly ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
Ah, yeah, sorry. I got to the point where when I type in "adb devices" in the command window, it shows me my phone, with the serial number and whatnot. However, whenever i try the command:

$ adb push gfree /data/local/tmp/

It just won't work. I have all the files together in my desktop at the moment, having moved them from the downloads folder on my laptop. Is there a specific place I should have the stuff I need to send to my phone?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortlived:
There is a great write up here about getting adb working. It sounds like either you didn't set up a "path" to use those commands anywhere or if you don't want to do that make sure your files are in the same folder as your adb.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
You need to have the files (extracted from the ZIP files you downloaded) in the same folder you run the ADB commands, if your ADB is in your path you should be able to run ADB commands from any folder.

To summarize you need to extract all the zips you downloaded under necessary files, all to the same folder. The open a command prompt and CD to that folder before you start using your adb push commands.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Yeah, steviewevie wrote it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865685

But it looks like he is willing to give the OP some personalized help.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
Right, thanks guys, I think I'm making some progress.

ADB is all set up, and as far as I'm aware, having:

program files > android sdk > platform tools

on my path should mean I can open adb from anywhere right? I have all of the extracted files in platform tools, where adb is, in my program files... is this right, or have I completely missed the point here?

I keep getting "cannot stat 'gfree':: No such file or directory"

Sorry, I seem really stupid concerning this whole thing, but I'm sure it's something equally obvious that I'm just not seeing.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
New problem. I worked out what I'd done wrong there, and got everything onto my phone. However, when trying to change the directory to /data/local/tmp, I keep getting "The system cannot find the path specified"

Now what am I doing wrong?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
Remember you are running those commands (everything in that section) from an ADB shell, not from the Windows command prompt.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arconaught:
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly do you mean by that? What should I do?
[Thunderbolt General] cjmcmillion:
I just saw this didnt know if anyone posted a link looks interesting wonder if this would work on the thunderbolt since there design is simlar?

http://www.amazon.com/Acase-3500-Extended-Battery-Black/dp/B004BJVFCS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=mobile&qid=1289535093&sr=1-1
[Thunderbolt General] gadget!:
I seriously doubt it.

For one, even if it did fit you would have to use a dremel or something to accommodate the bigger kickstand on the TB.

Sent from my B.A.M.F. Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] 1234567188:
Do you have eyes?, I want you to look at your battery cover and then look at that battery cover.
[Thunderbolt General] MYxdaUSERNAME:
goodness this is an awful post...where do you people come from? why would that thing fit the thunderbolt?
[Thunderbolt General] miketoasty:
I didn't know this was the accessories subforum....
[Thunderbolt General] trendsetter37:
holy **** this made me laugh soooo hard lmao!
[Thunderbolt General] cjmcmillion:
good question same place you did of course...lol :p

anyway just thought i would ask didnt know everyone was going to

cut a man down for trying...some people do mod there phones other

then just rooting and flashing roms...

:cool:- oh yes i have eyes and i do own a dremel tool...just wanted to point that out
[Thunderbolt General] reg83ny:
I got it months ago for my incredible. Hoping it would fit the Tbolt. First, not the battery. second, different snap on angle to lock it into place. Wait for Mugen to come out with thier battery. I asked Mugen they told me its on its way..
[Thunderbolt General] feedhead:
Hello cjmcmillion

Look at your battery cover, now back to mine, now back at your cover, now back to mine.

Sadly your battery cover isn't mine, but If it stopped being an Evo battery cover and switched to a Thunderbolt's it could fit like mine.

Look down ...back up... where are you? You're in a store with your battery cover wishing your cover could fit like mine.

What's in your hand? ... back at me. I have it, it's a cover with a fit you love. Look again, the cover now fits a Thunderbolt.

Anything is possible when your battery cover fits like The Thunderbolt's and not an Evo.

I'm on a horse

Point of Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
[Thunderbolt General] 1234567188:
LOL

/10char
[Thunderbolt General] pmdied:
Holy crap. Must have been a literature major.
[Thunderbolt General] Hooride707:
Nice :-)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bbot3k:
does the radio ever need to be reflashed? or is that something that shouldn't be changed more than needed?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] akapaul26:
You shouldnt need to reflash it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knowledge561:
Just like the title says im looking for the best clean option. My phone gets really sluggish at times and I would like to increase the internal storage for memory and cache.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Have you tried Cachemate?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
Try changing the vm heap size to 32-48. This will not give you more internal memory, but will give your larger apps (launchers & such) more room to breathe, so to speak. If your default isn't already 32, I'd try that first. Move your way up if needed and see what works best for you. Lower numbers can cause force closes and larger numbers can cause memory management issues. 40 always works well for me, 44 when I was using LauncherPro.

Almost forgot, you can do this with the app VM Heap Tool. It's free on the market.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knowledge561:
Thanks plainjane, im trying it as we speak.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
No problem, hope it helps :] I've also found that rebooting every day keeps the phone from getting bogged down. Using the "hot reboot" option from Widgetsoid works for me and takes less than a minute to reboot & reload the os.

Let me know how changing the dalvik vm works for you. It should help. It might not solve all of your problems, but it definitely made a noticeable difference for me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knowledge561:
My phone for some reason boots up faster now that I changed the VM to 44 :) And it everything is much snappier. Rebooting is understandable. I've just rebooted for the first time in 3 days.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
Glad it helped!

It's a neat little trick that I haven't seen mentioned very much.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkrodgers:
I don't think that availability of internal storage itself has a huge impact on performance. Increasing the VM heap size certainly could though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ro_bro:
Here. I've done it, make sure you follow the instructions:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=855424

On step 7, I've rebooted in my recovery (amon) by pressing selecting reboot, pressing volume down and then getting back into recovery, as while in recovery, I found that you can't adb to get back into recovery.
[EVO 4G General] potna:
My wlan wpa2 key was somehow still present.

Did I do something wrong?
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
It was backed up via Google back up
[EVO 4G General] potna:
Are you serious?

That's handy and thank you
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
No foolies

You're welcome
[Nexus One General] erikclaw:
I am just curious, what is the baddest phone on the mkt now? I love my Nexus, haven't kept up with a lot of the newest releases. Wondering everyone's opinions.
[Nexus One General] tonyx3:
Hardware-wise? Probably the Atrix from Motorola, if you can handle a locked bootloader (so no fully custom roms).

The upcoming HTC Sensation looks promising too, though they still seem to be stuck in the ways of low internal memory and using SD cards for expansion...
[Nexus One General] erikclaw:
So is it an HTC thing making us partition our SD cards to get enough memory to run all the rom's etc we like? Does AT&T have anything cool, or able to be run on their system like my Nexus does? I know most hate them, but in my area it is my best option and I have no problems with them.
[Nexus One General] britoso:
Only thing missing on the Samsung Galaxy S2 is HDMI out. It has DLNA (wifi streaming)
[Nexus One General] erikclaw:
So....it can't broadcast or share the HDMI recordings or pics through an external device ie a TV or computer?
[Nexus One General] britoso:
TV will have to support DLNA, For the PC you will need to use the USB cable. I'd skip the S2 if you really want hdmi.

Take a look at the Optimus G2X it has HDMI.
[Nexus One General] erikclaw:
That optimus sounds pretty cool. Since it is a Tmobile device and say I bought an open one, or one without a carrier. Swapping out the card from my nexus would work right?
[Nexus One General] cqms13:
Wondering if I can walk into a tmo store on 20th and get a g2x sim free?

Anyone know?
[Nexus One General] erikclaw:
Is the g2x sim card different from my nexus1? Are they different because of the 4g capability?
[Nexus One General] krabman:
You can drop an AT&T sim right in, has the right freqs for 3g. Cons I see are small battery and my experience with LG build quality is not comforting. I would add memory to that but I'm expecting proper a2sd from the smart people soon enough.
[Nexus One General] fryhole:
I plan on moving to the G2X from an Optimus T (my Nexus One kicked the bucket awhile back), and I gotta say that despite the T not being made of any super high quality materials, I really like the feel of it. The G2X seems to employ some of the same ideas so it might be a pleasant surprise build-wise.

Batteries seem to have been forgotten by a LOT of manufacturers. If I remember correctly the GS2's is 1650mAh and the HTC Sensation's is something like 1530mAh, and the G2X's is 1500mAh. None of those seem stellar, but I'm a bit more forgiving of the G2X's because I have a hard time believing that the larger 4.3" screens on the other two aren't going to suck a fair bit more battery than the G2X's smaller 4" display.
[Nexus One General] Hollow.Droid:
Baddest depends on your needs. I personally think the HTC sensation is the 'baddest' out there at the moment. Its specs are top notch and looks like the newer, bigger brother of the N1 (Albeit minus the trackball). However, the G2X looks nice as well....again it all depends on your needs.
[Nexus One General] erikclaw:
My meaning of the "baddest" was basically the nicest phone with the best features. Which I know can be taken differently by different people.
[Nexus One General] player911:
Looks like a nice phone but looks like a summer release, which means Sept or Oct if I actually were to wait on it. It does look like the big brother of the N1. It has lots of nice specs too aside from Sense.

The Tmobile G2X is available online in a few days, dual core, 4" screen, HDMI out and it has stock Android. I believe the phone is unlocked and easily rooted. Looking over at the LG thread they already have custom firmwares and kernels etc. CM7 is already in the works and should be here shortly.

I've been doing a lot of research and I think I'm sold on the G2X mainly because my Nexus One has crappy download speeds on 3G and they just released 4G in my area. I've been looking at the 4G phones for some time but have been waiting for a Tegra 2 chipset.

I've been searching on the different GPU's involving the Orion SGS2 and the Snapdragon 2... and I think Nvidia is really pushing mobile games and with NVidia support will only equal it being around longer. Plus the Motorola Xoom is Google's main platform for honeycomb and it uses the Tegra 2 for GUI acceleration.

So Game and OS acceleration = Tegra 2
[Nexus One General] jfgraham93:
I'm sooo glad you posted this. I currently have a Nexus One w/ ATT 3G bands and was gonna pick up a G2X off contract when it comes out. Wasn't sure about that yesterday when I found out about the Sensation but your reasoning is 100% agreeable.
[Nexus One General] player911:
Yea I can't see Qualcomm or Samsung pushing game developers like NVidia.

The 4.0" screen is the same IPS screen found on the iPhone 4. While I was a little iffy about a non-Amoled screen after the Nexus, comparisons show that it is brighter and cleaner then the existing Amoled screens, excluding the Super Duper Amoled Plus Plus screen coming on with the SGS2 in the coming months because it isn't out yet.

The only negative I can find is that it is limited to 14.4 mpbs, which so is the HTC Sensation.

Here is a video comparing some games on the LG and the SGS2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFs9OQinNo&feature=related

Spoiler Alert: Tegra 2 wins.
[Nexus One General] galaxys:
If u want something now, then the G2X looks like a nice choice for tmobile. But, if u can wait then keep an eye on the Sensation...
[Nexus One General] bpm2000:
That video makes the SGS2 screen look so much better, hope its just a youtube thing... the ONLY thing keeping me from jumping on G2X instead of waiting for the sensation is the screen...
[Nexus One General] causeway:
GS2 does support HDMI out, over its new MHL port (USB and HDMI in one).

I don't really like Samsung for dicking about their customers on their first android phones but they seem to be rolling out updates for the GalaxyS in good time. I think the S2 is my new phone.

The hummingbird processor stomped all over everything when it came out, Exynos will do the same, i mean has anyone see its most recent quadrant score? Over 3000.

Also, no pentile AMOLED screen, WOOT!

I just hope the dev community gets behind it, they don't seem to give the GalaxyS much love...
[Nexus One General] josemedina1983:
Android LG g2x,Htc evo 3d and pyramid, moto bionic,galaxy s 2.

Windows 7 : nokia n8 type of hardware duo core 12mp camera xenon flash coming Q4 maybe.

HP palm the pre 3

Symbian x7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwiz123:
you know cool anamation that the cynogen rom makes when u turn off the screen can that be on other roms?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
This is not dev issue it should be posted I. Q&A. Short answer is no. Those are 2.3 based and built to deeply in into the OS.

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