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[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
I'll address some serious wrongs in this post.

1. Ios is objective c, not c/c++. Not everyone likes it.

2. Games dont run in a jvm. That's pretty funny. Almost all games are built with the ndk, and don't use dalvik for much at all.

3. Because of number 2, there is nothing for games to take advantage of in 2.3 that anyone would notice.

Some side notes. You don't have to be a soccer mom to make bad purchasing decisions. Education level doesn't mean squat. We get folks with engineering degrees all the time needing help with their devices. Who knows, maybe the iPhone is a better fit for them. I don't know, or care. It doesn't fit me. Obviously, Android was a better fit for you too, unless you admit to being stupid in your purchases. Also, a lot of the jerkiness of Android is from it doing far more multi tasking and not being gpu driven yet. IPhone is kickass at single tasks which keeps overhead down. Also, android is known to have a kinda stuttery app drawer. IPhone doesn't have an app drawer so who knows how it would perform. As for games being better on the iPhone, thats awesome, and true. Of course, if I wanted a phone for its awesome games, I'd have bought an iPhone. Once again, it goes back to whats a better fit for you. If I was concerned about games myself, I'd buy a 3DS and not only save money, but smoke the iPhone and Android.

Moral of the story, stop comparing apples to and...er oranges.
[Fascinate General] Scrappy1:
I guess we kind of agree then, but you're misstating some fairly obvious facts:

1) My C/C++ comment for iOS has to do with high performance 3D games. To keep a game engine compatible across multiple platforms, the engine itself will be programmed in C/C++. I'm not so interested in Cocoa Touch. See iOS / PC Unreal engine 3: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GettingStartedProgramming.html

2) Prior to Android 2.3, you HAVE to use JVM for the following: touch/input events, audio control and effects, app life cycle management, and more. Only at 2.3 can you more fully break free of the JVM. See the full list here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html

3) I've read multiple sites like this: http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=1315 that seem to think 2.3 will be much better for games.

Now then, I'm not sure what the agitated underlying tone of your post represents. My main goal was for people to realize and respect the benefits of Apple, rather than engaging in simple one sided bashing and propaganda to make themselves feel better about Android. Both sides have pros and cons. Now then, you somewhat criticized my earlier post, then ended up agreeing with me, which leaves me confused.

The very common complaint people make against iPhone in here is that people buying them are iSheep, they are trying to be cool, they are uneducated, etc. By stating that "you don't have to be a soccer mom to make bad purchasing decisions" and "Education level doesn't mean squat.", you have effectively nullified the whole line of reasoning. Thanks! I won't say anymore.
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
Werd. Thats what Android does.

I'm sure there are plenty of idiots out there that agree with you.

Education doesn't teach not be an idiot, btw.
[Fascinate General] PurplePlatty:
Visit a Sennheiser store (dunno if this actually exists). Alternatively, wander through head-fi.org and please don't come out the other end as an audio snob. Or for in-ear phones...Shure, Etymotic, Head-Direct RE0...
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
Hey guys. I've had my G Tab for about 2 weeks with TNT Lite 4.4 installed, and it has been running beautifully. The day before yesterday, I quickly tapped the power button to turn the screen off, and it shut the whole thing down (without going through the normal shutdown process where it asks you to confirm, etc). Every time I have turned it on since then, once it boots up I get force close message after force close message for several apps, and am unable to do anything.

Some examples of the apps that are repeatedly force closing are:

Google Services Framework

Launcher Pro

Titanium Backup

Pandora

Tapatalk

Dropbox

Once I manage to get all the force close messages closed for a moment, there is usually enough time for me to hold the power button and bring up the shutdown menu. Then I get a bunch more force closes and I can usually get them to close long enough to power it off eventually, but it is a struggle.

I am able to boot into CWM fine, but whenever I select any of the options on the top level menu in CWM, it switches to a black screen and I am unable to do anything until I hold the power button and turn it off.

Any ideas? Thanks!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
Bumping this thread to see if anybody has any ideas. I tried NVFlashing the tablet, but that didn't fix the problem. I think it might be connected to this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=962545&highlight=process+android.acore

But now when I try to turn the tablet back on, nothing happens. I am at a total loss.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K J Rad:
You probably only needed a data wipe. But since we're beyond that now...

You say it does nothing. How much nothing does it do? Backlight come on? Splash screen? gTablet Screen? Fade to black? Have you tried pluggin it back into your computer to see if it's booting into APX Mode (likely)?

Most likely the nvflash failed in some way. Make sure you have bekit's 1105 image, the correct version of nvflash and the appropriate drivers for your version of windows (if that's what you are using). Then try again. If it doesn't work. Let us know.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
Yes, it looks like my tablet is now stuck in an APX loop as described here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1038689&page=1

Reading through this thread and several others it links to to see if I can find a solution.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K J Rad:
Follow these instructions exactly.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=861950

Use bekit's 1105 image (nvflash_gtablet_2010110500.zip)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
Following those instructions exactly is what got me into this situation in the first place ;)

I was just about to send you a PM because in the thread I quoted in my last post, you asked whether anybody experiencing the APX loop problem happened to live near the FL panhandle. I am Tallahassee. If you are still interested in getting your hands on a tablet with this problem, let me know and I am sure we can work something out.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K J Rad:
Ok... in the thread you referenced we got one fixed by doing this:

1) Go into APX mode and connect to the computer.

2) enter the following command from the appropriate directory on your computer.

nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --format_partition 12

3) reboot

4) if the tablet does not boot properly repeat the nvflash with bekit's stock 1105 image.

If that doesn't fix it then I really would like to see that tablet. I'll PM you an email contact address.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
Thanks! I am kind of new to all this, so... How do I enter that command?

Edit: I tried copying and pasting that line into NotePad and saving it as a .bat file in my NVFlash directory. It opened a command prompt which said something like "NVFlash started" but it closed VERY quickly after that, and didn't appear to do anything else. I tried reflashing stock 1105 after that, and it is still in APX loop.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K J Rad:
From command line or copy and paste the following two lines into a text editor and save it as a .bat in your nvflash directory.

"nvflash.exe" —bl bootloader.bin —format_partition 12

@set /p batuserinput=Press enter to continue:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
I am basically the world's biggest idiot. I thought I was so careful about following the NVFlash directions exactly, but the whole time I was using the nvflash_gtablet_46_whatevernumbers download instead of the correct one. I downloaded the right one, followed your instructions, and now I can boot correctly! Thanks so so so so so much for your help!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
Okay, so I followed the instructions in your other thread to use a micro SD card to wipe my cache and data. I then downloaded the OTA update. However, my original problem of lots of various things force closing still seems to be happening. I rebooted the tablet so I could get an accurate list of which apps/processes were crashing on boot, and I got stuck in a boot loop (birds -> g tab logo -> birds -> g tab logo -> etc).

I NVFlashed it again a couple more times, and it is still stuck in a boot loop.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] TheFlyingPig:
Trillian has been the least user friendly app I have downloaded from amazon to date.

I put in the wrong screen name and it won't allow me to change it. There doesn't seem to be an option to delete it either.

It just keeps on asking me for for the password. Since it wasn't entered right, I have no password for it. It just gets stuck in the loop. I can't even delete it:(

I'd appreciate it if anyone has any tips on how to delete accounts.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] sfreemanoh:
Long press on the account, it should give you the option to edit/delete.
[Xoom General] BM1515:
Is there a button combo that can be done to enter recovery mode.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
ON the 3g just hold down the volume down button after about 5 seconds. On the wifi there is no current one. Check out this link tho:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1041192
[Galaxy 3 General] rmu1985:
I flashed my phone with kyrillos v4 rc3 a couple of days back.. it was working smoothly.. I calibrated my battery.. Under clocked cpu to667.. Now the problem which I an having is the phone gets stuck often.. I was not sure when and why until I realised it today.. Whenever I press the volume up or down button the phone gets stuck..i have to again remove battery and then restart..

phone gets hung up irrespective of what application I am in when I press volume button

could someone please help me out?
[Galaxy 3 General] AacidD:
now that the final edition is out try upgrading to that :)
[Galaxy 3 General] rmu1985:
just noticed about the final edition. Will download and flash the same.. hope that would resolve this issue!
[Galaxy 3 General] kokojojobobo:
don't use other profiles in setcpu, only conservative works well for me and doesn't hang! :)
[Galaxy 3 General] rmu1985:
Thank you.. Upgraded to V4 ultimate edition

I upgraded to V4 ultimate edition and its awesome.. I changed to conservative mode in this version and it doesn't hang up now... thank you:)
[General Questions and Answers] renzo.olivares:
Ok well I am trying to change the app drawer background of warm z twopointtwo from transparent to black. I know I'll have to edit the Launcher.xml in the rosie.apk but i've tried openin the xml with notepad ++ and all i get is a lot of NUL highlighted in black. I've then tried to open it with PSPAD and have gotten something like this : BC07 0000 F807 0000 3A08 0000 0200 6900 is pspad opening the .xml right? If this is right then what line would i have to edit to change the color of the app drawer background from transparent to black and also what line would i have to edit to change the personalize menu from transparent to black?
[Windows Phone 7 General] wwfc:
I accidentally deleted the 'me' square from the home screen and can't find it anywhere to get it back. I've looked in people, accounts etc but can't seem to get it. Anyone out there with a solution, thanks for responses in advance.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
I had the same problem a few months ago. It's really sort of hidden. Go to the people hub. From there you can pin the me tile back to your homescreen by simply tapping and holding your profile which is displayed on the very top.
[Windows Phone 7 General] wwfc:
Thanks for that, they could've made it more accessible :P Thanks again.
[Windows Phone 7 General] munkeyphyst:
wow, that is a hidden little thing. like the press and hold on "people" to get to the sim contacts copy function, and the press and hold on the "pictures" title to change the background image... cool when you find them, totally lost if you don't know they are there.
[Windows Phone 7 General] stan2:
There are more hiddent tap-and-hold item that people don't know about. I think MS should implement a short 'glowing' for items are are tap-and-hold enabled. Like how collectibles in video games that glow and flashes ;)
[XPERIA X10 General] cytokine:
The X10 is assembled by Foxconn, but who makes the parts?

Display - ?

Touchscreen - Synaptics?

PCB - Panasonic

Accelerometer - Bosch Sensortec

Compass and magnetic sensor - Asahi Kasei

Battery - Sony

Camera - ?

And multiple other parts?
[XPERIA X10 General] bleached45:
I thought Asahi was a drink company/brewery?

(Not to be off topic, sorry)
[XPERIA X10 General] pongscript:
I think the camera is also Sony.
[XPERIA X10 General] cytokine:
Asahi Kasei

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Kasei

Asahi Breweries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Breweries
[XPERIA X10 General] aR_ChRiS:
OT: I want a beer now lol
[XPERIA X10 General] Hanzo.Hasashi:
isn't display and touchscreen the same?
[XPERIA X10 General] andrew.mackew:
Camera could be from Sony..
[XPERIA X10 General] andrew.mackew:
Did you consider to disassemble the device and check for serial number parts?
[XPERIA X10 General] Stylee32:
Already done: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=668132
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miatawnt2b:
i cant seem to find the option for autobrightness in vegan 5.1.1. Am i missing it or is it not there?

thanks

-J
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mt251401:
Did you try the power control widget? That has auto brightness selection on it.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
Just wondering what pre-requisites were required. Are all of you Kernel devs actual programmers. What languages and any other skills would be required to understand what is going on.

Adrynalyne's guide is awesome and I was actually able to produce something usable , by following the directions, but understanding for example the Make command line we had to use, ARCH=arm, etc ????? have no idea what that line actually means, but would like to.

I have multiple certs, network+, active directory etc, and learned it all on my own so im not worried about understanding, just looking to be pointed in the right direction so as not to waste time learning languages or whatever that would not be relative.

Thanks again for any info.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
Make calls the makefile and follows instructions contained within.

J # tells gcc compiler how many threads to use. 1 thread per core. Rule is # of cores +1. This can increase compile speed tremendously.

ARCH specifies the CPU architecture.

Examples are ARM, x86, and x86-64.

The rest tells gcc to compile using the toolchain which allows gcc to compile for the specified architecture.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
As always, thank you!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
Anyone else have any words of advice on the topic question.

Thanks again.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
you dont necessarily need to be a super coder. for example here is a common thing all the n1 kernel devs do to boost the audio in the nexus one in the arch/arm.audio.c file and board-mahimahi.audio.c file.

STOCK

[Q6_HW_HANDSET] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 0,
},
[Q6_HW_HEADSET] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 0,
},
[Q6_HW_SPEAKER] = {
.min_gain = -1500,
.max_gain = 0,
},
[Q6_HW_TTY] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 0,
},
[Q6_HW_BT_SCO] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 0,
},
[Q6_HW_BT_A2DP] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 0,
},

and the new values to "boost" volume

[Q6_HW_HANDSET] = {
.min_gain = -1500,
.max_gain = 1100,
},
[Q6_HW_HEADSET] = {
.min_gain = -1500,
.max_gain = 1100,
},
[Q6_HW_SPEAKER] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 800,
},
[Q6_HW_TTY] = {
.min_gain = -1500,
.max_gain = 1100,
},
[Q6_HW_BT_SCO] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 800,
},
[Q6_HW_BT_A2DP] = {
.min_gain = -2000,
.max_gain = 800,
},

that's standard for any kernel released for that device, and its pretty easy to do. i've pulled the source and compiled my own kernel many times, but i am not a good coder at all, just a few classes in college. i managed to make changes to the battery driver and get it incorporated into the cyan repo, so i definitely think you should look into it. there is nothing more rewarding then contributing back to the community.

also take a look at the cyanogen kernel, and follow the daily commits and see the type of changes made. some will be bug fixes, but you can go way back in time and see major edits as well.

go here to the kernel:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/cm-kernel

then click COMMITS on the top. then each commit, click on the description text and it will show you the old vs new code. it will show you what the original code was, and what that commit replaced that code with. its very insightful for something like this.

it also is a good way to see what is happening with your favorite ROMs, you just have to find the repo for the ROM of your choice. cheers.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
Very helpful and a great place to start, much appreciated, its funny posted this example in particular as i have been looking around on how to change the max possible volume of my phone, again thanks.

Its funny looking around the directories of the kernel source theres a sound subdirectory, which I have been looking for the above tweaks, but its not where I expected to find it.

Seems alot of stuff is in the Arch, Arm directories, what is the signifigance?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
also cant find those particular battery tweaks in the mecha kernel. any idea where that code is in the mecha kernel.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
here is the enhanced battery driver i did:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/cm-k...a76d7a3bb91ec3#drivers/power/ds2784_battery.c

it looks a little overwhelming. but it literally took my months of research, compiling my own test kernel, before i finally got those couple hunder lines added and working. prior to that i had no experience except c++ class from college, and used google to learn and learn some more.

the driver is in drivers/power/ds2784_battery.c and the additions start at line 401 if you want to see the whole thing:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/cm-k...a76d7a3bb91ec3/drivers/power/ds2784_battery.c

it was a great feeling once it was all done. check my sig for the link to the app we made too, which actually interacts with the enhanced driver and changes battery register addresses etc.

here's my repo for just the app (java code is what android apps are written in. the kernel is linux/c++). go into the SRC folder is where all the main stuff is.

http://github.com/R0gerP0dacter/BatteryCalibrator

Edit: actually I originally made a detailed commented driver version for someone who wasn't familiar with the project to follow the work. This would be helpful for you.

http://github.com/R0gerP0dacter/n1batcal/blob/master/ds2784_battery.c
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
Thank you very much for all this info.

Anybody have any idea where the sound/volume data is.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
the audio will likely be in that same arch/arm folder. i'd go to the HTC developer site and download the kernel source code, since it has been released already. look thru and you should be able to find it.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apxmusic:
So I recently tried to reinstall the stock firmware for my Docomo Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" and ran into a problem. I get to a certain point in the flashing, Heimdall says it's 100% finished but the unit does not reboot and the blue status bar (as in the picture) is not 100% and it just sits there. (it's been 30 minutes) I am using Heimdall FrontEnd 1.1

I have tried Odin (yes I installed the driver's correctly and it sees the tab) but I get a fail everytime I try to restore the tab.

Please help!

If you live in Japan, that would be great. I currently live in the Tochigi Prefecture.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GANJDROID:
Long press the power button until your device turns off, then press volume down+power until it boots into that same screen (minus the progress bar)

Flash your rom via Odin. And have a loot around the forums/Google for a p1_hidden.pit to flash with it.

That should sort it out.

Sent from inside a whale.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apxmusic:
Thanks for your help man. I tried everything you said, but nothing worked so I said "**** it" I took the tab back to Docomo and exchanged it for an LG Optimus pad. It's pretty good, but for some reason can't handle 1080p video. The Galaxy tab had no problem. Weird hey?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btyork:
Yet another reason I believe the GT is the best tab available at the moment.
[Vibrant General] singlebyte:
http://www.samsunghub.com/2011/04/18/2ghz-dual-core-smartphone-from-samsung-could-come-in-2012/

Now I would love to have this phone! Fast as a regular PC
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
the time this phone will be released they will announce that they're going to release a quad core. Up to the pointyou don't know what your'e going to buy.
[Vibrant General] singlebyte:
It almost feels like the manufacturers are "slowly" releasing one innovation at a time. They probably have some 16 core, 5ghz beast just waiting to be released 3-4 years from now! They are just milking us month by month.....LOL
[Vibrant General] S0NiX0928:
Gotta love the art of obsoletion, the tech industry is a master of it. It all comes down to the dollar signs in the end; never the next great available feature or function they can offer the consumer...
[Vibrant General] dligon:
well me i've bought a g2x and took the dual core processor out of it and superglued it to my vibrant processor and now i have a time machine.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaybenosa:
I'm using eternal prophecy v5.3 and my phone has been goin into car mode almost once every hour. It just started doin this today, it happens when the phone is and isn't plugged in, any idea what could be goin on?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r916:
Mine was doing that with CM but only when plugged in.

Delete car mode unless you actually use it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaybenosa:
Alright this is gonna sound crazy lol, but car panel doesn't show up as one my applications. I just get an icon in the notification area sayin "car mode enabled, click to disable"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r916:
Do you have Titanium back up installed? if not install it, it will be in there.

I don't know the cause of the problem, I had the same exact thing happen to me and I was like WTF?

Even after I deleted it, it still popped up a couple times before I rebooted the phone a few times and it hasn't came up since (about 2 weeks now).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaybenosa:
Gonna dl titanium back up right now, thanks for all the replies
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r916:
No problem, this is quite an annoying little bug.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaybenosa:
Ok, I downloaded titanium back up and car panel is not there..whats goin on with my phone. LoL
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arozer:
Related issue:

In my CM, my MAPS always opens up. Any fixes for that?

Like I'll have the phone in my pocket and I'll take it out to do something and boom.. maps is open.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r916:
Have you tried to go to settings>applications>running services>choose force stop on maps. ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaybenosa:
So, I just unplugged my phone from the charger and what do you know, car mode enabled lol...you think its something on my sd card maybe??