yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s13envy:
well i tried to flash seredipity 6.4 using the cwm, and selecting it from the sd card and got this error again:

E:cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)

(device or resource buys)

E:can't mount SDCARD:ROM.zip

Installation aborted

I'm going to try renaming the seredipity zip to update.zip and see if it works that way
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s13envy:
moved to a different thread
[Droid Incredible General] pronghornrunner:
... if nothing else... Backups/Restores take a quarter of the time! :D
[Droid Incredible General] woznet:
Thats it? I have tried AOSP roms a few times but they never lasted longer then a few hours. I just keep going back to Sense, I would love to hear about what is better about AOSP vs Sense. Are those backups including system data or just apps + their data?
[Droid Incredible General] k_nivesout:
What I like about aosp is the increased performance and customization. I get much better battery life compared to sense roms, my phone feels much snappier and the availability of themes/mods is unparalleled. Not to mention cm7 is always being updated and has the most support of any custom rom.
[Droid Incredible General] jaypr9:
I was trying out CM7 and while it was nice there were a few things I missed from my old rom and wasn't sure if I could get it on CM7.

On my old rom the pull down has the flashlight icon so I can turn it on and off easily also I was looking for some task bar themes. I found a few but not too many unless I'm not looking in the right place.

I really hate that standard gingerbread green theme.
[Droid Incredible General] k_nivesout:
You can put the flashlight toggle in the notification pulldown and you can also set it to death ray which is way brighter than the sense flashlight. That also reminds me of another useful feature that was added recently, you can long press an icon in the pull down menu and it will take you to the setting for that particular feature. As far as themes, there are quite a few in the market and floating around in the themes section as well.
[Droid Incredible General] bast525:
*sigh* anyone who claims they are getting dramatically better battery life on an aosp rom vs a sense rom needs to actually test it and show proof. I've done testing using apps like System Panel and Battery Monitor Widget and I saw NO difference in battery drain between cm6 and my stock sense rom. Neither when idle, asleep, or while actively using the phone.

On the dinc, the two biggest battery killers by far are the screen and 3g data. And no rom is going to change that.

I'm glad that we have options but I hate when people claim things are faster or have better battery life but offer no objective proof.
[Droid Incredible General] Deleted member 2776902:
My top 3 reasons.

1. Increased speed/responsiveness.

2. DSP Manager, in 2.3 you get bass boost, once sense hits 2.3, it may have it too however. But for the time being. AOSP only.

3. The super bright flashlight! Seriously, probably the second most used app on my phone, next to SMS.
[Droid Incredible General] k_nivesout:
Hm sorry if I don't want to spend my time making graphs and charts, doing testing etc, so I can "back up" my opinion that battery life and performance is better on aosp as opposed to sense.. As I see it, sense offers fancy graphics and social integration but of course uses more CPU and therefore battery as well. If this is a ridiculous claim I apologize.
[Droid Incredible General] Deleted member 2776902:
I'd say its more dependent on what services you use in sense. Like friend stream, news, stocks, weather, and such. And how often it updates, how many live widgets you have etc. And AOSP ROM's typically don't have as much to sync, and less stuff running all the time. Hence the better battery life. Also depends on the kernel you use.
[Droid Incredible General] k_nivesout:
True, those things in sense are optional and not using them or syncing them less often could help but that kind of defeats the purpose of using a sense rom.. Not to mention that the framework that allows those things to work is still running in the background even if you're not using those services. AOSP kernels do seem to have better support as well.
[Droid Incredible General] matoya:
This may be completely shallow of me, but I HATE Sense's visual style. It's just too cartoony for my liking. Too me it looks like something that belongs on a children's toy, not a legitimate piece of consumer electronics. It's an ugly, cartoony battery hog. I know that some people think that AOSP Android looks "boring", but I greatly prefer it to Sense.
[Droid Incredible General] donnyp1:
that may be true, but sense was made to be usable in a smartphone SENSE. AOSP is very boring, and a battery hog on gingerbread. Until it is released for the inc, we are just using someone elses build. It is easy to come in here and blast something in which you dont like, but I ask, if you hate sense, why did you buy the dinc in the first place? You obviously have the wrong phone. to come in here and bash this phone because its too "cartoon like", is kind of stupid, since you bought the phone. I personally get much better battery life off of the sense 2.0 z roms than I do off of cm7. I really cant stand people who just bash a rom, just to bash. Everyone has there own preference, why not just leave it to that. If the sense roms are so cartoony, why the hell did you buy the phone, you look like an idiot for bashing a phone you paid alotof money for dude.
[Droid Incredible General] matoya:
First of all I didn't buy my Dinc, I received it as a gift this past Christmas. I didn't get to choose my phone or my carrier. I love the Incredible but I hate Sense. And I'm getting better battery life with CM7 then I get with any Sense based ROM. You talk about people having they're own preference and leaving it at that, why don't you take your own advice ans stop insulting people for having a different opinion than yours?
[Droid Incredible General] k_nivesout:
I came from a Droid 2 and I'll definitely say sense>blur but was mainly attracted to the Inc because its fully unlockable and has goo(d dev support. Getting better battery and gingerbread is just a bonus.
[Droid Incredible General] donnyp1:
We all have choices, your the one who commented in a thread on how much you HATE something. I dont really care if you like sense or not, but i have children, i suspect you may not, i teach them not to use that word. Had you not used it, i probablt would have never said anything. The problem with our society is all the HATE going around.
[Droid Incredible General] breathtakingevil:
I've been doing some tests on CM7 recently... with my battery life.

I have the stock battery, using Tiamat 3.3.8, -25 UV. I don't use any self-updating widgets other than Fancy Widgets Home for weather and clock. On my second page I have SuperManager widget for monitoring free RAM, not saying it helps battery life, but definitely with performance. OC'ed at 1113, and using performance governor. LauncherPro Plus is my default launcher...

Yesterday when I went to sleep, my phone had been off of the charger for 13 hours plus, and I was still at 51%.

Perhaps I don't use my phone as much as ya'll... but I browsed internet for a good 45 minutes.... sent and received a total of about 50 text messages.... got about 4 emails (everything on autosync) and tweaked some settings in launcher pro.

Maybe it's because I stopped using so many autoupdating widgets, but the last week I have been seeing a dramatic improvement.
[Droid Incredible General] Mercutio5:
I find CM7 to be faster than Sense... until I load it up with widgets. Beautiful widget clock, calendar widget, contacts widget... Once I've added these, CM7 is noticeably laggier and generally slower than Sense.
[Droid Incredible General] matoya:
And you don't think that's overreacting just a little? I didn't say I hate a person, I said that I hate a custom UI on a mobile operation system. The thread is about AOSP vs. Sense, and I simply commented that I greatly prefer the look and feel of AOSP Android to the look and feel of sense. I don't hate everything about sense, I like the flip clock widget and HTC's camera app is great, but the fact is that I do hate Sense's visual style and think that it is better suited for a children's toy then an actual piece of consumer electronics.
[Droid Incredible General] bast525:
Up time, or time off the charger, means almost nothing, considering you'll only lose a percent every 2-3 hours. You guys need to look at your AWAKE time, time you are actually using the phone. I find I can typically get about five hours of awake time out of a full charge on my sense Rom. Cm7 gave me fourish, I don't recall what cm6 was but I know it wasn't as bad as 7.
[Droid Incredible General] dfd9999:
I have all three of these features on skyraider 4
[Droid Incredible General] Div033:
My personal main two reasons:

- I dislike the capped framerate on rosie. I like my butter smooth LauncherPro. So why use sense if I'm not using Rosie? One might say the sense apps are superior and I wont deny that many of them are. However, there are many alternatives from the market that can fill that gap:

Gallery - QuickPic

Camera - Vignette

Music - PowerAmp

Calculator - SOWGcalc

- Mmm Gingerbread. It sure is nice to have the latest and greatest. Did I mention the screen off animation? Gingerbread has improved garbage collection over froyo as well, which means more buttery smooth animations and super fast responsiveness. You notice it most when dragging on the screen. Anyone notice how important to me animation smoothness is? I tend to think it improves usability and was one of the few things Apple got right about the iPhone.

This is just my opinion. I have no need for sense apps and I prefer LauncherPro over Rosie, so why even bother with the rest of the sense framework? I actually like the stock AOSP look, at least with GB. I thought froyo AOSP looked atrocious.

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Droid Incredible General] k_nivesout:
Definitely agree with the previous post. Really like the look of AOSP gingerbread and its just so smooth. I use ADW EX as opposed to launcher pro but also love how smooth the screen transitions are and you've gotta love the CRT animation :)
[Droid Incredible General] mamarley:
I too love the smoothness of AOSP, but you really have to replace the stock ADW launcher to see it. ADW runs at the same 30fps that the Sense launcher runs at, but Launcher Pro runs at a buttery-smooth 60fps.

I do, however, have to give HTC credit for Sense being (in my opinion) the least laggy of the non-stock Android UXs. (As a disclaimer, I have never used completely stock Android on a Nexus phone. The closest I have come is CM7.)
[Droid Incredible General] jac17:
Personally, I just like how much cleaner the phone feels (without sense crap on it) and therefore how much more personal it feels. For this reason, I wish I could get a Nexus S. But it's not on Verizon, so in the meantime I just rock OMGB and I'm content.
[Droid Incredible General] nate2830:
I really miss the mail and calendar widgets and haven't found a suitable, free, replacement (it was linked with facebook which was nice, too). But I love the screen transitions as noted above. No real battery life difference noted...
[Droid Incredible General] zerocool79346:
It's just a phone man, you're coming across like a total douche.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acsi007:
i read back near the 1.0 release notes that gapps was added. so i just flashed my first flash of royalginger 1.6 [mild applause!!] and found that i didnt have gmail anywhere. i downloaded it from the market and it works. my questions are:

1) if gapps was included (since RG 1.0 ?) why did i have to dl gmail?

2) why does gmail not respond to pinches to zoom in and out? it just pans, no zoom.

thanks

PS: super duper rom. thanks to teamroyal. posting this here instead of RG thread since i dont have enough posts yet...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] athakur999:
The Gapps package nowadays only includes apps that can't be downloaded from the market. This is mainly the Google signin backend, the "News and Weather" app, and the Market itself.

Anything that can be downloaded from the market is intentionally left out - Gmail, Maps, etc. Otherwise, when a new update came out, you'd end with two copies, one in your /system and one in /data, which would take up space unnecessarily. Also, some people don't use Gmail, etc. so these apps would be bloat for them.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acsi007:
anyone know why i cant use multitouch on royalginger 1.6 to zoom in and out of gmail? (browser app and other work fine in zooming)
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] athakur999:
Apps have to support multitouch. Google never got around to adding this to the Gmail app.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acsi007:
well that makes sense, and i never thought that google would have left that out... i could have sworn my stock mytouch from t-mobile had pinch on gmail... would t-mobile have "sensified" the app to add pinching? i have to check my wife's stock, but i'll take your word for it. thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mahlhavoc:
Now if I unjderstand correctly, HTCs IQAgent is the sprints spyware for HTC, correct?

Now I know that ACS has a rom for the EPIC 4g, frozen rom (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=976194), and it deletes the entirety of Samsung spyware from the system per it's thread.

Now my question is, is there a good rom that deletes the HTC spyware from the EVOs system? I have flashed many-a-rom and whatnot and therefores etc.. even applied the aforementioned Frozen rom to my wifes epic... I just have not seen or maybe noticed, a rom that does this.

Any direction would be appreciated.

TIA!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnmoose:
you can use titanium backup to freeze them, in what ever rom you want to run.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mahlhavoc:
I didnt think that would freeze the whole deal or if the IQAgent went deaper?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JL13:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1046622

[ROM] 04/24/11 | Fresh Evo 4.0.0.4 Beta | Gingerbread 2.3.3 | CIQ Strip + The Usual

"CIQ Strip" =)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
I remove that crap from any rom I run. There was a write up on www.themikmik.com about how to get all the associated files removed. If I remember right, basically this is what needs to be removed

from /system/app, remove HTCIQAgent.apk and IQRD.apk

from /system/bin, remove 'iqd' and 'iqfd'

from /system/lib, remove libhtciqagent.so, libciq_htc.so, libciq_client.so

from /system/etc, remove iqprofile.pro

from /data/data, remove com.htc.android.iqrd, and com.htc.android.iqagent.

I remove all that stuff from every sense rom I run. Once you delete all the files, boot to recovery, and wipe cache and dalvik cache.

Here's the link on http://www.themikmik.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=233 that I used for that info. It's instructed to use on MikFroyo, but works on any sense rom. Get that spyware crap out of the phone!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] harrij4:
Yesterday, out of the blue, my G2's handset speaker became really distorted. The distortion scales linearly with the volume but does not dissapear. I've tried rebooting and tweaking some of the audio settings, but nothing has helped. Has anyone else experienced or heard of this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] tjmarchand:
Is it the speaker for phone calls or the one that the phone uses when you're on speakerphone? Sorry for my confusion. It may be something that requires the phone to be swapped?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdalah2004:
hey i bought nexus s about 2 days ago so after tried to make couple of phone calls, it turns out when making a phone call the other person hears his echo. though it dont effect it my side but it effects the other person i have rooted my phone only to installs arabic fonts. any ideas? thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] urquidezj:
Hello, I'm having problems trying to change roms, I have mgldr 1.3 clockwork 150 partition and it flashed fine I can do a backup of my current miui rom from miui-dev.com but when I go to flash a new one it flashes like normal, but when it reboots I get a kernel error and it takes me to the magldr screen, have found no answer, any suggestions? Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zach.antre:
make sure the new ROM you are trying to flash is not for cLK.

When on CWM go to "mounts and storage" and sellect "format boot"

If those don't work, then the ROM dev did something wrong.

edit: make sure the CWM partitioning have for /boot about 8M (other builds are using 5M but MIUI needs 8M)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] urquidezj:
Both I've tried are clk lol are cwr roms obsolete now?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zach.antre:
There are 2 bootloaders for HD2

MAGLDR and cLK.

You have MAGLDR so you should download ROMs made for MAGLDR.

I don't understand your question
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] urquidezj:
Sorry if it says magldr I can't download roms that flash through clockwork recovery? Like I have to flash through dft on a computer?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
No cwm is not obsolete, you just don't yet understand what you are being told.

Both magldr and clk allow cwm roms to flash BUT if you have magldr you download magldr cwm roms, and if you have clk then you download clk cwm roms.

A good example is the typhoon rom,,, in that thread are two roms to download, the magldr version and the clk version, , both are the same rom, and both are cwm zip roms, but the clk wont work on a hd2 running magldr, and the magldr version wont work on a hd2 running clk.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] urquidezj:
Got it thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmurch@cox.net:
I am new to flashing and so far with this forums help have made it to the point where I can get into the Clockwork recovery. I can select the downloaded ROM, flash it, and re-boot. When the phone reboots the original Froyo 2.2 is still there. However it's still there but missing a bunch of stuff. No martket app, etc.

Am I missing a step here?

TIA, Jeff
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
We don't know the steps your taking to know if you've missed one...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
I suggest you download a different ROM and test it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmurch@cox.net:
Good point sorry about that.

Download ROM (Firefly in this case)

Reboot into CWR

Select ROM file on the filesytem of the phone

Flashing goes thru its thing with no errors

When I reboot the system the result is as stated above

Jeff
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Did you download a full flash file? (1xx mb)

Also, you can rename the file to update.zip, place it in the root of your sd card (not in any file) and through cwm, reinstall package.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmurch@cox.net:
Thanks everyone for all the help. I FINALLY got a new ROM on this thing. I followed all the same steps as before but took the suggestion to try a new ROM. Since BWolf56 has a pretty prominent plug for Firefly 3.0 I installed that and it worked fine.

Thanks again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
haha! What can I say, I love this ROM :rolleyes:

Glad we could help! :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmurch@cox.net:
FF desktop

Deleted dumb question..............
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Could you be more specefic? lol

To the left of the digital clock in the notification bar would be your battery then signal and left to it would be your data (3G / H).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmurch@cox.net:
Doh

The main reason that I went thru all this (and I am glad I did this is 100 times better than the stock ATT 2.2) was to get bluetooth voice dial..... And guess what? I get 'this feature is disabled on the connected phone' message. Should I have bluetooth voice dial with FF3 ?

I just noticed that the tethering option is disabled as well.......................

Jeff
[General Topics] ShadowReaperGR:
I want to buy a smartphone and I have narrowed it down to those to devices. Which one of the two would you suggest?

I want to be able to tinker it, trying custom roms etc...
[General Topics] ShadowReaperGR:
So many views and no replies?
[General Topics] Dg 3:
I would pick the desire
[General Topics] MartyLK:
Desire is your only choice...if you intend to customize it. The Moto is locked down. But even if it wasn't, the Desire would still be the best choice.
[General Topics] spongethebob:
I've got a defy and i love it. If waterproofness is imporant for u it is a good choice. But if tou are looking for high customisation the desire is a better choice.
[General Topics] Robi959:
Desire best phone for me...
[General Topics] ShadowReaperGR:
Why is the desire more customisable? The defy cannot be rooted?
[General Topics] terrywong:
Motorola Defy +1
[General Topics] Step666:
The Defy can be rooted but the bootloader is locked, which causes problems trying to install custom ROMs.

That said, some people in the Defy section seem to have found an exploit that will allow them to install CM7 onto the handset, though it's understandably slow going.

So the Desire is easier to customise and has a slightly better camera but the Defy is rugged, has an absolutely spectacular battery life and seems to be cheaper to purchase.

Personally, I'd go with the Defy.

Then again, I did, so I'm biased...
[General Topics] mattneri:
I don't like motorola at all, so I would go for a Desire
[General Topics] MacaronyMax:
Desire would be more elegant and a better performer ( I think) But the Deffy, Well it is pretty awesome, and is unlikely to show signs of wear, I hate it when my phone starts to get scratches etc.
[General Topics] Step666:
The Defy uses an under-clocked TI OMAP 3630, running at 800MHz as opposed to the stock 1GHz.

Even at that lower speed, it gives the QSD8250 that the original Desire uses a run for it's money.
[General Topics] MacaronyMax:
Ahhh, Was never aware of that Thanks :) Damn... I sometimes wish I got a Deffy anyway :( :p I'd go for Deffy, Although I'm guessing the Desire would be a more popular choice :cool:
[General Topics] donverse:
desire for sure.

has the bigger community behind it. way bigger!
[General Topics] watt9493:
Either is a good choice. Ive played with both, owned a defy for 5 months, and am now on an htc droid incredible (nexus one) the defy, with the right clock speeds and voltage via setvsel, can last for 4 days. Htc's seem to have worse battery life overall. And the defy is waterproof, a nice add on.

Sent from my ADR6300 in memoriam of sakai4eva.
[General Topics] phxmark:
I for one will never buy another MotoFAIL device. I had a Cliq XT and MotoFAIL cancelled the update to 2.1 on it.

I now have a HTC HD2 with CMYLXGOs Desire HD ROM on it. Will stick with HTC from now on!!!
[General Topics] Step666:
The same HTC that are now locking the bootloader on their handsets?

Whereas Motorola have officially stated that they are going to look at the possibility of providing an unlockable bootloader.

A decision between two phones should be based on the merits of those two phones, not of previous devices but they're simply inconsequential.
[General Topics] Szymatt11:
glango! motorola owns! (except blur)
[General Topics] il.fof:
That's not correct.The QSD8250,cpu wise,is faster overall than the OMAP 3630(and the Hummingbird) even when it's clocked at 1 ghz.The real downside of the QSD8250 is the gpu.Here the Defy takes the edge.Answering to the topic: Desire all the way.
[General Topics] NITRO_100:
I was thinking to buy the desire, but when the Defy came in my country I decided to buy it, it was cheaper and I liked that is scratch and water resistant and I didn't regret it ! It is very fast and smooth, battery is very good, signal is great, I have signal in places where newer had, no issue at all with it. I think it's best buy.