yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] SPD7:
Meh, idk. I use both and while Verizon 4g is currently fast, not always faster, that wont last. On 3g, Verizon is much slower.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr.orange303:
Maybe you could edit the title to say "My Phone" even though some others share your grief. It would appear not all does. .....thus far.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
And if T-Mobile had gone with a better chipset (21-42Mbps instead of the same 14.4 that the G2 has - mind you the Vibrant 4G has 21Mbps HSPA and my buddy regularly gets similar speeds to yours - 17-19 down and about 2.4 up) for the baseband, it would be a non-issue. T-Mobile has a smaller network and thus more backhaul than Verizon. Also, using the AWS band, T-Mobile can support more calls and data connections per tower than Verizon can on the 700 band. Its just the way that the spectrum works. 700MHz broadcasts further but can't handle as many connections as 1700 can but 1700 requires more towers for sufficient coverage but has over twice the total network capacity as 700. That said, Verizon being an ISP as well gives them a backhaul advantage.

As was previously stated though, do not expect the speeds on Verizon to last. Also keep in mind that Verizon is quite like Sprint at this point - you have to have LTE *AND* CDMA turned on to make and receive calls and still get your 4G data. This equals much higher battery drain than an equivalent "HSPA+" phone on T-Mobile with the same signal strength being taken into account.

Anyway, as was said earlier in the thread, don't give up on the phone. Try a factory reset first (settings/privacy) and set everything back up again - if that does not work, exchange the device. I've had no issues outside of my own doing with the G2x yet which is amazing since I almost never buy the first generation of a device due to bugs. LG really makes high end android phones.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mobilehavoc:
I had installed the Car Home from the Market by sending to the phone via bt. After looking at my usage in spare parts it looks like it was using some sensor all the time so I'm hoping that was the issue. IV uninstalled it and closed the current car home app that's included. So far no sensor usage. Lets hope that fixes it. Would make sense because I doubt other folks installed this Car Home app on their phones.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jay3147:
I'm also having similar issues with my phone. I received the phone yesterday morning and i've got nothing while trying to wake it up a few times. It's happened about 5-6 times and it seemed to happen while charging the phone. I don't know if that is a coincidence though. I pull the battery and then it will boot up fine. I actually had the same issue with my original G1. The issue went away after the phone received a few updates.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jimbo831:
This. Wait until more than a few Verizon customers are on the 4G network, speeds will drop a bunch. LTE will probably still beat out T-Mobile's 4G, but not by much once the network gets some traffic. As it stands, Verizon only has one 4G phone that is pretty new, so I'm sure the total number of 4G users is quite low.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mobilehavoc:
I'm definitely jinxing myself but....since I removed the Car Home app and then rebooted. Then stopped the Car Home app that came with the phone from running. It's been OK. Battery life is better too. If I can get it to last at least 5 days before a reboot, might be livable until an update comes along.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jimbo831:
I am still pretty disappointed in this. I can't figure out why T-Mobile downgraded their latest phones (Sensation and G2x) to 14.4 from the 21 of the Vibrant 4G. This is supposed to be their flagship phone, but they didn't even put their best modem in it, yet the Sidekick 4G got a 21Mbps modem? Just don't get it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mobilehavoc:
**** **** ****! Sorry...just happened again. Reboot. Bam. This is irritating to the extreme. Wifi was off, BT was off, phone had been fine all morning. Was exchanging texts with people and put the phone down. Next thing I see, it's rebooting.

WTF!!!!!!!!!

Maybe it's an app that's running but just seems very random.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] aim1126:
I believe this has nothing to do with tmobile. the reason why the galaxy s and sidekick support 21mb/s is because the hummingbird processor supports it while the snapdragon and nvidia only support 14.4 mb/s
[T-Mobile LG G2x] aw1974:
This doesn't seem so random anymore, and I've read about all the same issues with the O2X. Are you going to try to exchange it before making a final decision?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hah2110:
My intention was to look for the Bootloader to find "clear storage" to format the phone. Holding Vol Up + Power did nothing so I tried Vol Down + Power. The phone rebooted twice and, when it came back on, it had been completely formatted! WTF, that happened to be my intention but wow.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nate420:
lol good find
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jrwingate6:
Cool nice sweet awesome radical
[T-Mobile LG G2x] diablos991:
Good to know!

Ha ha!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ericc191:
Actually kind of useful. Don't need to have the phone on to format it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jimbo831:
How many threads do we need on this? It's already stickied. Can a mod please delete these.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Mistic99:
I didn't see it stickied in this forum. Perhaps that is the 2x forum? But slot of the info there will need to be duplicated here. This is a good find, I would have never guessed out coming from a mt4g.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jimbo831:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1037098

and

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1042155

and this thread. Three total on the same subject. Not trying to rail on you or anything, just hoping the mods would consolidate.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Mistic99:
ahh, read most of those threads but over looked the specific posts. Maybe there should be a general faq starred with the op having all this info.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jrwingate6:
I love the wannabe forum police. They kerk out over the slightest thing. I am glad this thread was made because I wouldn't have known about it otherwise.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] MWBehr:
To be fair, I don't believe this forum has a dedicated mod yet. Obviously we still have the Senior Mods and General Mods, but it just means threads might be moved or deleted a bit slower than other forums.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BDawgTrap:
I was just looking through calkulins wimax and radio updates and he has all the PRI, NV, And Hboot drivers up also. What are those three and what functions do they serve? I tried searching on the web but couldnt find much about them...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weidnerj:
Let me plagiarize:

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/197258-evo-radio-wimax-pri-nv.html
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BDawgTrap:
Thanks. So that forum was kinda arguing what it was but u think I got the gyst of it. PRI and NV control your data snd connection and stuff correct? And any idea on the HBoot?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
hboot is a VERY deep hardware-linked bios system. even more so than recovery. it controls the partitions on the device, and can help do flash memory overwrites. it's the white screen with skateboarding droids you get to by holding vol down+power while the phone's off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
NV aka non volatile memory (area/space) where Wimax, PRI etc updates are stored. It also controls data rates and bandwidth.

PRI aka Primary Rate Interface is a telco standard for how voice and data is handled between the user and telco switch.

PRL aka preferred roaming list a database that assists the mobile in the acquisition and selection of a serving CDMA network.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BDawgTrap:
Oh sweet! Thanks guys! I just felt the need to know before I start flashing things on my phoneike crazy Haha. But that makes a lot of sense. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BDawgTrap:
Oh and I almost forgot. Does a custom recovery replace the hboot? Or does it just like cover it up? Or do they have nothing to do with each other.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
No, a custom recovery will not mess with HBoot.

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[General Questions and Answers] dazunck:
So I have about reached my boiling point, I have followed every article I can find including Team Whiskey's and the one that AndroidSPIN has posted as well. I had no problems rooting my prior to updating to Froyo 2.2 that was finally released for the Vibrant. I would like to see if anyone can lend a helping hand I would really like to drop the BIONIX 1.3 v ROM I simply just frustrated at this point. Any Ideas anyone? I am attempting to use the Z4ROOT and have attempted to use the one-click root as as well. Thoughts?
[General Questions and Answers] zeemar007:
SEE which firmware version u have!

the latest wont allow u to root..

see if its froyo 2.2 or froyo 2.2.1 or later..

froyo versions after 2.2.1 cant b rooted!!!

so u need to downgrade the software version to do this..

MIND U ROOTING WILL BRING FORTH LOT OF PROBLEMS..people generally hv to bear even more headache than from their galfrens!! also it will void ur warrenty!
[General Questions and Answers] i-vinn:
unable to root my Galaxy S

Hi Folks,

I'm unable to root my Galaxy S. (tried different methods)

I had rooted my phone through Ryans Super One click Lag fix & unrooted my phone a month ago.

I tried to root the devise again but not been able to succed with the following methods.

1. Ryans Super One Click 1.91 : the Super One click says waiting for device and dies, no sucess even after trying for nth time.

2. Installed Z4root.apk directly on my phone internal SD card: It force closes after displaying acquiring root shells?

3.Downloaded update.zip folder into internal SD card and then press the 3 button combo and it says.

E: signature verification failed

Installation aborted.

4. Installed Universal abdroot which roots the 2.2.1 firware as well.

However even this failed.

Not sure why all the methods failed, Is it because I rooted and unrooted my phone earlier ???? Please help me...:confused:

model: GT-I900

Firmware: 2.2.1

Kernel: 2.6.32.9 root@SEP-51 #1

Build: FROYO.XXJPY
[General Questions and Answers] SaturnUnleashed:
I changed phones just recently and I backed up all of my apps and contacts using Titanium Backup. Everything went smoothly when restoring, except my contacts aren't being restored. I rooted my old phone and I've been able to restore them every time I switched roms, however with my new phone, they're not. I have gone to the specific file (contact/calls storage) and tried to restore it, rebooted, and everything, but that still doesn't work. Could someone please help me with this? Thank you. If it helps, I'm on a Droid Eris running 2.1.
[General Questions and Answers] TheSonicEmerald:
I just sync all my contacts to Google, just more painless like that. But in backing up contacts on the phone, I'd use MyBackupRoot and Titanium Backup for Apps.

Sent from a Limited Edition phone from a Premium app..
[General Questions and Answers] SaturnUnleashed:
I didn't really mention this but I can't access my old phone to get my contacts. It's broken lol. I just have a backup from before it broke. Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] ady_uaic:
I'm having the same issue:

've made on my previous phone Samsung Galaxy S II a full backup with titanium backup. Now, I have One S (s4) and I want to restore my contacts. It doesn't work with old fashion way (by entering in titanium backup and restoring everything). Can you help me out with this? There is a way to find the contacts in the titanium backup folder and add them manually in the last case?

@SaturnUnleashed did you find out how to do it?
[General Questions and Answers] RalfvdEnden:
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but after searching around for a solution to this issue I came up with nothing useful. Unless you can restore to a phone with the exact same ROM the backup was made on, it cannot be restored.

Nobody (as far as I can tell) has found a solution to your problem, so unless you've sync'd your contacts with google I'm afraid they're lost forever.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
So I received my 1st VM since flashing to salvage mod and I noticed two things..

1. It took like 10-15 minutes for the alert to come through after I missed the call

2. I got a weird text message letting me know off said VM, but it asked me to call some number, which didn't play my message

Does this sound right? I finally called my phone number and retrieved my message
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Yeah, that's a common problem. Easiest thing to do is download an SMS app that lets you block texts from certain numbers and block 9016.

edit: I think super-private conversation is what people use.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alaman68:
handcent will block 9016 texts and has a nice interface. Finally after being told 2000 times to try google voice, I did, and it is great. I would recommend trying that if you want something else to play around with.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Yeah, I switched to Google Voice, even on Sense ROMs (not like I ever use those anyway).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alaman68:
oh yeah, sense. I remember that. It was like February 2011 or something right? Best thing about google voice is the text translation. Seriously, did they even try? It's funny how bad it is, but the service is great
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
But, if I block the text, how he hell do I know if I actually got a VM or not?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
You should still get a VM notification.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
Nothing showed up yesterday :/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
Left a VM from my work phone, lets test this out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Sounds like a plan. Let us know.

Edit: What steps did you follow in order to set up your VVM?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
10 minutes and no alerts at all.

Does this sound normal?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
When you set up your VVM did you:

•*Use Titanium Backup to backup vvw in a Sense ROM

• Flash CM7

• install the apk for VVM (attached in various threads, or extracted from a sense ROM, unless it's preinstalled in Salvage)

• Use Titanium Backup to restore data only for VVM

Sorry should have asked this first. This is the only way to get VVM properly working on AOSP.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
I am not running VVM.

So I discovered that I get the text almost immediately, but there is no "notification" that pops up.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
What are you using?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
I would just call my own phone number and put in my PIN.

So since I dont have VVM, I get the text message instead?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Yeah, you're not going to get a notification if you're not using a voicemail app lke Google Voice or VVM.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
Ah ok, makes sense. I am going to DL Google Voice and test it out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
FYI, you have to set up a GV account and number on the comp first. You can set it up online from the phone, just easier from a comp.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
So Google Voice works. I guess I still need to set it up to say my name and stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jboy15:
someone want to trade his iphone 3gs 32 gb for my sgs4g .

do you guys think its a good trade?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] richielasalsa:
Don't do it ur going to downgrade majorly u won't have 4g one.. two slower crap phone
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] chadster214:
Hell no! dont do it!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jboy15:
thanks to u guys .
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] nrfitchett4:
yeah, iphone on t-mobile equals t-mobile's horrendous 2g internet as your only mobile internet. Can't even send mms most time over 2g without it erroring out.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] tonyio:
week ago i traded new iphone 4 to galaxy s4g, i so happy i did it...hate iphone
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] yentlequible:
I don't know how you could even consider trading your galaxy S for an Iphone 3gs. The 3gs is a very old phone with old inferior hardware. Your phone will blow it out of the water.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] atothek:
Prefer iPhone

I have both phones and have used iphone for years and Galaxy 4G for 3-4 weeks. I prefer iPhone. Easier to use, crashes much less than my stock Galaxy 4g, more and better written apps, dock connector on iPhone allows my car to charge phone with less wires, battery life is way better for same usage with stock firmware, etc. Yes, you will lose high speed data on TMobile if that is a problem for you. Personally I have wifi at work and home so could care less about data.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] skillz398:
absolutely not.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Success100:
if anything the iphone4 would be a fair trade. say what you want and i still prefer android to iOS, but the iphone4 is a great piece of hardware. That would be a decent fair weighted trade
[Touch Pro, Fuze Android Development] jjflanigan:
I'm trying to determine if there is a "simple" way to turn on / off the LED flash on the back of the HTC Fuze? The flash currently doesn't work with the camera (not a big deal), but I also cannot find a reliable way to manually turn it on and off either.

I've tried searching several different ways but have only found one reference to it:

echo 1 > /sys/class/htc_hw/flash

I downloaded the terminal app and that worked and I was able to turn the flash on, however I was then unable to turn the flash back OFF (I tried echo 0 > /sys/class/htc_hw/flash, to no avail) without rebooting the device.

Is there some special trick I need to do to be able to turn the LED on and off easily?

Thank you in advance.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Android Development] R^7Z:
None that anyone has shared yet, aside from rebooting... ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Android Development] arrrghhh:
Indeed. Status quo is you can turn it on, but not back off...

My stupid RHOD doesn't even have one of these fandangled lights. I miss mah flashlight!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Android Development] R^7Z:
my off topic post for today

Sure you do... :rolleyes: Just like you miss the d@m3d d-pad! ;) :p
[Touch Pro, Fuze Android Development] arrrghhh:
lol, that thing was great in theory. Horrid in practice.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hah2110:
No LED and nothing on screen?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lance713:
crap, i knew i'd be missing notification lighting but i forgot this applies to charging as well... d'oh...

still excited for mine to be delivered tomorrow... the wait is killing me ... sorry for not having an answer :P
[T-Mobile LG G2x] TimTim12:
shortly pressing the power button will bring up a screen animation showing how much of the battery is charged, found out by accident actually!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
Actually if you want to see the charging process indicator, press one of the volume buttons to temporarily turn on the screen - this is much better than the power button method as we all know if you hold the power button down too long, the phone boots - undesirable when you are calibrating.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hah2110:
I get very inconsistent results with either button. How do I know when it is done charging based on that green battery indicator?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] xguntherc:
I just noticed this as well, while the phone is powered on there is NO way to tell that it is charging, or how far it is? all previous phones had at least a small LED that went from red, or orange, to green. This has nothing.

So only if powered off, you can check. lame!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mobilehavoc:
It's a game, you guess how much it's charged and then you turn the screen on to check if you were over or under.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jrwingate6:
I'm not being smart or anything but why would you turn you phone off to charge it? The only reason I can think if is not wanting to be reached while sleeping or something but at that point you can just silence your ringer.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Profondo_Rosso:
I bought mine and it's turned off, so there's your answer. I have no way of knowing if it's even charging or anything.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dkb218:
What does it take, .0003 seconds to hit the volume button? My HD2 has all types of notification lights. I never go by them. If I'm looking for notification of something then I usually have my phone is my hand. Very simple to turn it on.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Profondo_Rosso:
The phone isn't able to be turned on. I just bought it an hour ago and since it's completely dead, I can't turn it on to check anything, nor is there an indicator of if it's even getting a charge. Or I have a bad phone. Either way, it's not exactly a great design.

*It just turned on finally. Guess it was beyond dead when I got it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jsapp:
Boo hoo. Who cares? You soul knew this before you bought it, our should have
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dkb218:
Oh, okay. I didn't read that part in your previous post. How are you liking it now?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dkb218:
Your soul knew it before you bought it? Wow! My soul hasn't mentioned this to me yet.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] kampf:
I've had two occasions today where the phone doesn't want to wake, and holding the power button down for any length of time does nothing.

Probably something related to GPS, as I think I left Earth running the last time.

I do wish there was an LED, or a capacitive button left on, or SOMETHING.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Evofusion:
What are you talking about, if the phone is on just press the power button once and it says "Charging (XX%)"

I know because i'm charging mine as i type this, currently at 88% charged...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] uploder:
^what he said
[T-Mobile LG G2x] kampf:
Here's my tip for this:

Clock.

Yep, Clock. Tap it, then hit the button in the top right if you want to dim the screen.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hah2110:
Negative.........
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vinnyjr:
When the battery is fully charged a small screen pops up telling you your battery is at 100% and to unplug the charger.

There are some apps n the market that will put a small light on your screen for charging, email, text, ect.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hah2110:
Not when the phone is OFF
[EVO Shift 4G General] craby1925:
Every time I click home, I get the loading and the screen takes a minute to load up. Its not too long, but its annoying enoug. Does anyone have a solution? Thanx
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
Get rid of Sense launcher. Use LauncherPro, ADW or GoLauncher.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] alher591:
Sounds like maybe your out of memory? Try clearing up some apps
[EVO Shift 4G General] craby1925:
Jesusice, do you have the same problem? I wonder if the desire hd rom/port has this fixed.....
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
I'm on CM7 so I don't have Sense anymore. When I did I would get that loading screen frequently. Not sure about the Desire port fixing it but if you haven't tried it yet and like Sense then you should def give it a try.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] craby1925:
I just flashed desire z rom, the problem is gone. I am glad because I love sense, and its got lots of compatibility and skins and bhtc account. Its amazing but stock is still bad
[EVO Shift 4G General] adamr240:
That's not really a solution.

I never had that happen, ever, on any sense rom. Sounds like there is a lot going on in the background.

EVO Shift and XDA app
[EVO Shift 4G General] craby1925:
Ya sorry, but this rom is night and day to evo shift stock.
[EVO Shift 4G General] colema19:
I disagree it's not a solution, it is a possible solution. It's a round about way of saying that the launcher itself is slow loading, and that a different launcher will alleviate the problem.

You're assuming the launcher is slow loading for other reasons then that it just is. It certainly won't hurt to try a different launcher and see if that fixes the issue the OP has.