yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] BarryH_GEG:
I have this in my review post but wanted to call it out separately to see what others are experiencing. My G2’s best speedtest.net score is 10289 down and 1582 up. The average is in the mid-8’s down and about 1.2mb up. The best score on the G2X is 7013 down and 1263 up. Average is in mid-6’s down and 1mb up. I took the tests at the same time and after the G2X was loaded with the identical apps and configuration that was on my G2. I know both sets of numbers are good compared to some areas of the country, but if the percentage of degradation is the same everywhere the slower the connection the worse the G2X will perform compared to other T-Mobile 4G phones. I'm guessing it's either LG's implementation of the radio hardware and/or software. I'm hoping it's the latter which can be fixed via an update.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] smashpunks:
I got 8 at tmobile where the myt4g only got 6... Id say its good..
[T-Mobile LG G2x] xguntherc:
different days have different uses and network clog, one days worth of testing wont prove enough.

try at night, and again tomorrow
[T-Mobile LG G2x] BarryH_GEG:
They were done side by side. So any network congestion would have effected both equally. They're also configured identically, unlike units tested in a store which are stock.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Evofusion:
Wow you guys are lucky, I was getting 3 down on the G2 and am getting about 4.5-5 down on the G2x

7 down seems fine enough to me on a mobile phone.

Anyways point being i'm seeing higher speeds locally on my 2x compared to my G2, so who knows.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] xguntherc:
I get anywhere from 4-7 MB/s down and a solid 2.5-3 Up on my MT4G in vegas..

I'd check my G2x speeds but I boxed it up and it's going back because backlight bleed issue is worse than most I've seen here. Hopefully the next will be a little better.. I can live with a little, not a lot.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ericc191:
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I don't really care if my phone is pulling 2mbps or 10mbps. When I'm surfing the web, everything loaded quickly. When I installed Dungeon Defenders, the update was done downloading in around 5 minutes. Considering it was over 100mb, that's more than acceptable to me.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr.orange303:
Does tmo charge extra for 4g like sprint or veriz?

That would upset me if i paid for it. If not then........
[T-Mobile LG G2x] smashpunks:
No they don't...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vinnyjr:
My Lg G2X is getting on average 7mb DL and 1.5mb UL. My MyTouch 4G is getting 6mb DL and 1.3mb UL. Same apps, time and location. The LG G2X is faster.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hypersonicx:
But Its also capped at 5GB and then goes to dial up speed after the 5GB, where as on Sprint %100 unlimited.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] MWBehr:
Oh c'mon.......

I'm starting to agree with the "I turn my phone on vibrate and won't cut my chicken" guys.

This thread is just ridiculous. Seriously are you TRYING to find things to complain about. These silly data rate comparison threads come up every time a new official rom is released for any phone as well. One guy says it's far worse than before, the next guys says it's the best ever!!! The point is, unless you want to continue your little test in 100 different locations at 100 different times of the day, you're not doing a reasonably analytical test. This is why no two people will ever agree on the results of one persons "scientific" test.

I'm sure the results are "real" to you, but they don't really matter to anyone else.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] BarryH_GEG:
First, here a quote from the TechCrunch review:

A quick note on the network speed. The G2x is, like the G2, kitted out for T-Mobile’s “4g” HSPA+ network. The G2 got around 9Mb/s down in my neighborhood, with around 3Mb/s up. The G2x reliably goes at half that rate – between 3 and 5 megabits down and around 1.5 up. Not exactly the lightning-fast advertised speeds, but they were fairly consistent and for all the usual uses it was quite fast – loading pages and games in the browser or downloading apps, that is to say.​

So, I'm not crazy. And to expect T-Mobile's self-proclaimed flagship to outperform an older slower phone (the G2) isn't an invalid expectation. Having a super fast processor and a slower connection nets you about the same performance as a slower processor and faster connection when streaming video. My G2 actually plays Hulu faster than my G2X over 4G. On top of that, the G2X is silly fast over Wi-Fi so it's not the phone, it's the implementation of the radio. I like the phone but I'd really like to see it reach its full potential. If you (or anyone else) are fine with it the way it is then you should really have no interest in this thread anyway.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ajftl:
It's Tmobile... not the phone.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr.orange303:
Well i think any potential buyer wikl check out this thread. My vibrant was horrible with reception.

My old g1 got double the signal.

So ill report my findings tomorrow and hope its better than my vibrant.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DeezNotes:
I have the G2x for the 14 day trial period to test it out and see if the network suits my needs (possibly switching from Verizon). I never really speed tests this often, but I feel it is necessary so I can get an idea of the speeds based on my frequent locations. Verizon is too slow in some key areas for me.

I was surprised to see people talk about 7mb down on T-Mobile, because on the G2x for the few days I've had it, I have yet to see more than 1.5mb down. This is in all different areas and with a full 4G signal. One time a full signal on 4G was much slower than 1 bar of 4G - that never made sense to me? The phone stays on 4G pretty much all the time and even with a full 4G signal, I average about 500kbs down.

I'm hoping it's the phone/software... because if the network performs better than what it does now, I would be much more impressed with the network and would be more inclined to switch. It seems to work okay with basic browsing, but at times it does show that it's slow (like when downloading apps from Market).
[T-Mobile LG G2x] chnky18:
Well coming from evolution on sprint I am 100% happy. No BS I was getting .12mbps on sprint 3g and on the rare occasion I got 4g I would avg around 6. But 4g was really limited in the dfw area and battery life was garbage. I'm running cm7 with stock kernal.

With the g2x for the first few days I'm getting 5-7mbps with peaks of 11. And the battery life is immensely better. I haven't transferred my acct from sprint because I wanted to test and so far I'm blown away.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carycooke:
is there anyway to reasign power button to make maybe the home screen button to wake device???
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nerozehl:
Since the homescreen button is capacitive, I don't think it will work when the screen is off.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drawde:
Send it back, not worth the trouble imo.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carycooke:
Well I guess ill send back but from what ive been reading around here the power button has a few problems anyways with sinking in and just being cheap
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compnird:
My button just sunk in last night after a few months of use. Got mine on release day and it just now stopped working.

Is there ANY way to power it on via ADB so I can pull a Nandroid backup?

Going to the VZW store today to see if they will replace it for me... I pray they do. I've got a few scuffs on the thing so they better not act like I dropped it. :|
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxigenboy:
you could always open up the TB and remove the plastic button, then just use a paperclip to turn it on and off.

sounds silly, but hey.. it'd work
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dberm22:
I have been trying to hack this apk for a while, and it seems like every time I get pass one hurdle, there seems to be another. I have come to the point where I am stuck. The program installs, but when I run it, it force closes immediately. I used logcat to debug it, at it is getting stuck at com.paypal.android.MEP.PayPalActivity in the AndroidManifest file, a file I didn't even edit. I have uploaded my file here..

https://rapidshare.com/files/458402928/signedcom.bionicpanda.aquapets.apk

I feel like this shouldn't be too hard of a fix, I m just not familiar with integrating paypal into apps.

Thanks in advance.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dberm22:
I did a little more work on it, and simply removed that line in the manifest, hoping that maybe, it would disable checking for PayPal. I don't really need PayPal (I don't plan on buying anything through the game), so if PayPal is the issue, I don't really mind if it is disabled. However, this didn't work, either.

Does it have something to do with not adding the libraries to the build path? I figured I didn't need to since it was already built once before. I am using apkmanager to compile and sign, and it's doing that fine, so I don't think that's the issue.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dberm22:
So I tried debugging it using the emulator, and I get the following error when running the app:

I/ActivityManager( 66): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.
MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.bionicpanda.a
quapets/.activity.BPLauncher }
I/ActivityManager( 66): Start proc com.bionicpanda.aquapets for activity com.b
ionicpanda.aquapets/.activity.BPLauncher: pid=396 uid=10036 gids={3003, 1015}
D/dalvikvm( 396): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 8425 objects / 272904 bytes in 111ms
W/dalvikvm( 396): threadid=7: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4
001d800)
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-8
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): at java.lang.System.arraycopy(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): at com.paypal.android.b.b.a(Unknown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): at com.paypal.android.b.g.c(Unknown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): at com.paypal.android.MEP.PayPal.setLanguage(Unk
nown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): at com.paypal.android.MEP.PayPal.initWithAppID(U
nknown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime( 396): at com.bionicpanda.aquapets.utilities.BPApplicat
ion$1.run(BPApplication.java:177)
W/ActivityManager( 66): Activity idle timeout for HistoryRecord{44ed0c08 com.b
ionicpanda.aquapets/.activity.BPLauncher}
W/ActivityManager( 66): Force finishing activity com.bionicpanda.aquapets/.a
ctivity.BPLauncher
D/dalvikvm( 396): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 3962 objects / 192456 bytes in 137ms
W/ActivityManager( 66): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{44ed0c08 com.
bionicpanda.aquapets/.activity.BPLauncher}
I/ARMAssembler( 66): generated scanline__00000077:03515104_00000000_00000000 [
33 ipp] (47 ins) at [0x35c3b0:0x35c46c] in 7980996 ns
E/MP3Extractor( 34): Unable to resync. Signalling end of stream.
E/MP3Extractor( 34): Unable to resync. Signalling end of stream.
E/MP3Extractor( 34): Unable to resync. Signalling end of stream.
E/MP3Extractor( 34): Unable to resync. Signalling end of stream.
E/MP3Extractor( 34): Unable to resync. Signalling end of stream.
W/InputManagerService( 66): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: co
m.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@4503ba18
I/Process ( 396): Sending signal. PID: 396 SIG: 9
I/ActivityManager( 66): Process com.bionicpanda.aquapets (pid 396) has died.
W/ActivityManager( 66): Activity destroy timeout for HistoryRecord{44ed0c08 co
m.bionicpanda.aquapets/.activity.BPLauncher}
I/ActivityManager( 66): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.
MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.android.launcher/
com.android.launcher2.Launcher }
D/dalvikvm( 307): GC_EXPLICIT freed 32 objects / 1848 bytes in 144ms
D/SntpClient( 66): request time failed: java.net.SocketException: Address fami
ly not supported by protocol
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dberm22:
Actually, come to think of it, I did delete a line in that file that says xlargeScreens = "false", which gave me an error when compiling. Once I deleted it, it compiled just fine. I dont think that would cause my errors though (especially since I'm using a droid X).

Can someone PLEEEEEASE respond?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] MongooseHelix:
I have been working some with the apk you uploaded and get the same errors as you showed on both my phone(CM7) and a stock 2.2 emulator. Decompiling then building it again without any changes didn't help any either.

I see you are trying a different approach but still having some issues. Would you mind uploading the original apk along with the custom versions of the files you wish to use? Then I could try playing around with adding them also to see if we can figure anything out. Would also help if you let me know the path to the corresponding original files within the apk.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dberm22:
Thanks!

here is the link for the original file:

https://rapidshare.com/files/458742720/com.bionicpanda.aquapetsOrig.apk

I attached the edited xml's.

I'm really stuck...don't know why its FCing. So frustrating.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dberm22:
I got it! It was all about compression ratio...

I turned it to 0, and now it works! Woohoo!

Heres the link:

http://www.multiupload.com/4ECH25VQDO

thanks for your help anyway!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] MongooseHelix:
I'm glad you got it working. I saw that the most recent error log you posted said something about compression but I hadn't gotten around to even downloading the stuff yet to try anything. Feels good to have it up and running I'm sure...persistance pays off :D.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dberm22:
Due to some new requests, I have re-uploaded the file.

http://www.multiupload.com/4GP7YH8V47
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] junkeeroo:
Hi,

Any chance this file can be uploaded for Canada? Site say geographic area is out of bounds.

Cheers,

JK
[HTC Inspire 4G] substance12:
I'm looking for the rectangular lockscreen associated with the HTC slate skin. anyone have that? the normal htc lockscreen is a curved arc... not that one.
[HTC Inspire 4G] XAviierG:
You can change the skin and there's rectangular ones
[HTC Inspire 4G] substance12:
I should have been more specific. I'm on a sense less rom. I'm looking for an apk or whatever. I copied over the htc lock screen apk but it was the arc shaped one.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tehgeekguy:
Here's a .zip with the 4 lockscreen images from Rosie when the slate theme is applied. Just to be clear, this is ONLY 4 of the lockscreen images and I'm not guaranteeing these are all of them, or that if you yank these and drop them in a different lockscreen that they'll work. Best of luck to you :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] substance12:
I guess I need more hand holding. How do I apply those skins? Do I need to unpack the apk and drop them in?
[HTC Inspire 4G] tehgeekguy:
Well, for one, you can't just carry over the lockscreen, you need Sense in order to use it. I provided the 4 main images from the theme, from there you might be able to open up the corresponding apk on whatever ROM you're using, and replace the lockscreen images in there with the ones provided above, but the names of the files might change, not really sure.

If you knew what apk the lockscreen images were in, and what the filenames were, you could probably get away with a morph for use with metamorph, but without knowing that stuff it wouldn't really do a lot of good.

A better question might be "Hey guys, I have **ROMNAME* rom and I'm looking to edit the lockscreen, can anyone point me in the right direction?" :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] substance12:
good advice. I'm using cognition senseless rom. I pushed the htclockscreen.apk on from his sense rom zip into the system/app folder and that's about as far as I got. I opened up that apk and looked around but didn't see anything that made sense to me.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watt9493:
What could i have done to do this?

sent from my ADR6300, with the power of banananas
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watt9493:
Still cannot view battery stats. :/

sent from my ADR6300, with the power of banananas
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watt9493:
Edit: reboot and reroot fixed all problems. :)

sent from my ADR6300, with the power of banananas
[Intercept General] payterx:
has anyone tried to make a jtag for the intercept yet? to get the modem.bin of a virgin mobile phone.
[G Tablet General] collindv:
Pretty good write up here:

http://www.edn.com/blog/Brian_s_Bra...rther_Feeding_Of_My_Android_Hacking_Habit.php
[Thunderbolt General] Jrocker23:
I cant use wireless tether since I updated to the new radio & ruu. I was running rooted stock ruu before and have been using Adrynalyne's 4.4.2 kernal

I have applied the radio v2 and used this method here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1042004

I tried wireless tether v2.0.5,6 & 7 and no luck, has any seen this issue or know a way to fix

If there is a post already, I apologize but haven't found it by searching

I was able to correct the issue... after trying all versions I uninstalled thru titanium backup and cleared data with tb and reinstalled 2.0.7 and now it works...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InFiNiTeX:
I have 2 Xooms, once is slightly slower than the other.

Everyone benchmark I run, Xoom A out performs Xoom B.

One was purchased from Walmart (Xoom A) and the other Amazon. Both are WIFI models.

Xoom B browsing is always laggy.

Any Suggestions
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charlie_Don't_Surf:
It just sounds like a matter of quality control. For example when car manufacturers give journalists tester cars they select the cars that perform better than the bunch. That's because in every process no two things will be the same.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jondwillis:
I know that Motorola used different manufacturers for the screens on the Xoom, so it is not a stretch to imagine other hardware differences. But like the guy above me mentioned, even two "identical" pieces of hardware will vary a little.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iflip:
Many of us like to use home replacement apps to have more customization. But many of us whom are htc fanboys don't wanna let go of our sense widgets. They do make sense after all. So with the advent of these popup dock apps being on the market like dock4droid i thought hmmm maybe there can be a Rosie dock app that can be created as an overlay to the stock htc Rosie dock! Something that is themeable and looks just like the sense Rosie dock except that it has more app shortcuts embedded on it. Say like 3-5 app shortcuts that can revolve like the android rotary lockscreen that scrolls through different user defined shortcuts like launcher pro/ go launcher. That way we can keep our amazing goodness that sense 2.1 has to offer but having the convenience of using more shortcuts on the dock that home replacements offer. Has anyone else thought of this? And should this have been in the android general forum for more visibility? I'm not a developer btw. Just an enthusiast. Whaddayall think?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nerozehl:
Sounds like a nice idea for those sense-lovers. As for me, I don't much care for sense or the widgets, but would be willing to give this a try.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigd5783:
I originally thought sense was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen back in 1.5. After the step up to 2.0 I perfered the look of AOSP with other adjustments. I absolutely hate the dialer, contacts, and several other aspects of sense though. I would do anything to get it removed from my phone completely. I will rejoice to the heavens once CM7 is ported over to this wonderful piece of hardware.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iflip:
Its funny to me that the way you feel about sense now is the exact same way I feel about aosp. I like the way aosp performs over sense. Feels much lighter and easier on the cpu. But I like the look and the added functionality that htc brings to android on their devices. Perhaps if there would be a wonderfully themed metamorph and some htc themed dialer and contact apps available on the market I'd totally be on aosp. Since there are all these developers out here banking off of htc themed apps ie flip clocks, widgets and home replacements, I don't see why the htc corporation just not turn their famous ui into a highly advanced home replacement app! And/or convert their famous widgets into android widgets for sale on the market. I'd be willing to pay spb 3d shell money for all of that. They can definitely bank off of selling their ui to those that don't buy their devices and to Those who buy their devices, root and flash aosp on their devices. It can be a win/ win situation for them. And btw, they would kill any home replacement app on the market right now if they were to release a home replacement app based on sense3.0!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yareally:
The most themeable launcher with a doc that I've seen is Go Launcher

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex

Go launcher isn't very sense like though if that matters. It's more like vanilla android or sort of like touchwiz on samsung phones.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smstutler:
With LauncherPro Plus and the theme support of widgets you can pretty much have a sense like ui.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iflip:
Yea but I'm not talking about an idea for a home replacement appz I'm talking about just a dock replacement app, or dock overlay. Something that is put on top of the default dock to be used with the current rom and can be used alongside the proprietary widgets. Launcher pro is the best home replacement app to mimic sense but sense 2.1 and the upcoming 3.0 has surpassed launcher pro. The developer can updated it to have much of those features but who knows if he will and when he will. A simple dock overlay with a few enhancements can save app storage space and be easier on the cpu. I've noticed when I have more than 3 home replacement apps installed, sense starts to get a bit laggy. It would be nice to be able to still experience sense entirely but with a few added enhancements.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yareally:
Problem with launchers those widgets are bundled with them on android is they're generally not sharable. App independent ones like pandora don't have that problem, but the launcher ones seem to be be tied into the launchers and wont play nicely. People have ported out or cloned ones from launchers, but I am guessing the actual ones are just too tied to the launcher code to be standalone.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iflip:
True but the idea I'm talking about is not a home replacement launcher. I'm talking about a dock overlay. Something that can be used with the default launcher, widgets etc. Look up dock4droid on the market. The idea stemmed from that. Specifically what I'd like to see is a replacement Rosie dock that covers the default dock with extra app shortcuts that are scrollable like launcher pros dock.
[Xoom General] DroidBee:
I just received my Xoom WiFi today. Background info : I own an iPhone and a Macbook Pro. When I first started up the Xoom, the first thing I noticed was that the honeycomb graphics were a little pixelated. Then I noticed the same thing in the music players - the album covers seemed pixelated.

Am I just spoiled by the retina display? Even the camera seemed like it wasn't 'HD'.
[Xoom General] DroidBee:
No one has a reply? :)
[Xoom General] DroidzFX:
The xoom has a higher resolution but the screen is not as vibrant as others. Not sure how you would see pixels b/c of that. I dont see any pixels but I do only have 20/20 vision and view at a normal distance.
[Xoom General] gpstar:
I dont notice any pixelation.

Compared to my girlfriends ipad2, the colours are not quite as saturated. I do notice the blacks seem better on the xoom and easier to read text while a webpage is scrolling.

There seems to be 2 different screens used on the xooms. The dmesg output says I have the AU optronics one.