yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy 3 General] isdfoa:
thanks for that reply!

yea, i really dig the sg3 design, and i heard it has the upper hand in audio quality. im not really into playing hardcore mobile games, just the casual ones. does the g3 have a lot of lag?

@galaxy ace:

i wish, but its not here in canada :s
[Galaxy 3 General] gfcpinto:
I'd stick with SG3... Much better material wise and you have a nice support here at XDA. If not going into hardcore gaming as said, it's a pretty good choice.

My opinion
[Galaxy 3 General] rockneo:
Optimus one does have multi touch BTW as well as 512 mbps. Of. Ram

Sent from my Optimus V
[Galaxy 3 General] mannuforall:
Its most depends on once requirements, g3 work well in all app and Angry birds also work fine. The music and headphone both are good in quality. And 256 ram is more than enouth for texting/calling. Battery work for around 5 hour when I countlessly browse net with downloading files too. I think its good.

But I think music and headphone both are not upto mark in optimus one.
[Defy General] bent2517:
Is there a simple way to update from 2.1 to 2.2.x, blurless?

Could someone make a simple guide?

I have rootet, made backup with Defy Recovery System, downloaded S.Froyo_Nordic_Edition.zip and 3.4.2-177fixed.sbf
[Defy General] spongethebob:
Try using this rom (barebones 1.5):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=977989

I have installed it yesterday following the instructions its creator put in his post, everything worked fine, and it is a very nice rom.

From where you are:

1/ U need to download and install RSD lite and ur phone drivers on your PC

2/ put the barebones zip on your sd card

3/ pur the Nordic froyo nand folder (unzipped) on your sd in the folder /clockworkmod/backup/

4/ download and flash The Korean sbf file, 3.4.2_74-Stock.KR_BLUR.sbf with RSD lite

5/ follow fritolays instructions
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsutton:
Hey guys. i was just wondering if there had been any attempt to port htc sense to our X10's. I'm actually fairly new to the X10 game (a few weeks.) and so im not sure what all has been attempted and what hasn't. Thanks!

EDIT: I did a little bit more searching and found this http://myxperiax10.blogspot.com/2011/01/jerpeleas-htc-sense-custom-rom.html but it seems to just have a link to Jerpelea's CM7 port. The hotfile link says there's no such file or that it has been taken down. Any specific reason?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustD:
Gentlemen,

Is it possible for me to swap out the Dead Horse Kernel bootanimation (small chrome android logo) with one of my own? I see where it's located in system/bin, but it's not a zip.

I am running rooted Froyo 2.2 (KBD), and have disabled the T-mobile & Samsung start up animations. I would love to personalize the start-up.

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. Dead Horse is GREAT on KBD so far
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chefdave12118:
Why do so many people on xda have penguins as an avatar? I want one but don't want to look like a dope if I'm not a dev or a mod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twiz0r:
Because penguins are the best animal ever.

Swyped via my cyanogenized and gingerbreaded EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bacidath:
linux mascot...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestD1010:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortlived:
Get rom manger. Select install rom from sd card....then flash the radio....make sure its compatible so your next post doesnt start with "my phone wont boot plz help"
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popokrew:
Its not recommended to install radios with recovery. If you check the radio thread in the dev forum, it gives you step by step install instructions.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxhTcG2uSERxX:
But if i dont like it can i just restore back to normal

hTc G2

Running on senseginger 3.0
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
What is wrong with your current radio? You said if you don't like it can you flash back wich tells me nothing is wrong. Don't flash a radio unless your current one is giving you an issue plain and simple
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxhTcG2uSERxX:
But get really slow data speeds

hTc G2

Running on senseginger 3.0
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostchild:
if you have s-off and have sdk/adb you can fastboot flash Safest way to flash radios,

if not there are PCIMG radio that you can flash through bootloader, and yes if you dont like the outcome of it you flash your original radio back
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxhTcG2uSERxX:
How do u check if u have adb/sdk

hTc G2

Running on senseginger 3.0
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostchild:
did you install it on a computer thats something you have too look ,

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

thts the adb guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=970809

The PCIMGs as well radio.imgs

radio.imgs are for fastboot flash

PCIMG are for bootloader flash
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sephiroth1439:
need engineering hboot to use radio .img files

use the PC10IMG.zip method to flash your radio via stock hboot, easier in my opinion. Just make sure u rooted with gfree and superCID is set to 11111111.

Read this if you need to check what your superCID is set to

In all honesty tho, while im all for people who want to learn how to tweak their own devices, if you dont know what adb/sdk is, or you dont know what HBOOT or gfree is, you shouldnt be messing with your radio. I foresee a brick :(
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostchild:
Lol if dont know what sdk/adb should be or have root, but gotta start somewhere,

and CID doesn't have to be at 11111 if jus unlucky few need it, as well its better recommended to have but not really a necessary thing, i dont have CID set, was able to flash PCIMG
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
Before flashing a radio I highly suggest you call you carrier first and see if its something they can't fix if the issue is data. Make sure you know what speeds your area is capable of as well. But as mentioned before this if you don't know what these key terms are don't mess with it untill you read up and are confident.

I know what I'm doing but I usually check with my provider first to make sure nothings up with the network. You know part of your cell phone bill includes "free support" right..use it

dont send me pm's crying about how i hurt your feelings in a thread
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortlived:
Your right. I dont flash radios very often and forgot about that.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PatrickHuey:
*palm to face*

then

*search*.
[General Questions and Answers] LostRealist:
Hello!

First off, I am a complete noob. 100%. But I want to root my evo. So naturally I had a few questions. 1 question I haven't been able to find an answer for (sorry if it's somewhere on the forums!) is about "halfway" rooting.

I was going to use unrEVOked to root but I read that that's only a "halfway" root. I wanted to use unrEVOked though so it wouldn't erase everything.

If this is a "halfway" root than I assume that I can root my phone with unrEVOked, make a back up of everything, and then root it another way, right?

That way I could go back and put all the data I backed up back on my phone. I want to make sure I'm right before I try this.

Also, what can I use to do a "full" root if unrEVOked is only a halfway root?

Sorry about being a total noob. Thanks in advance for accepting said noobness. :)
[General Questions and Answers] plainjane:
Unrevoked does fully root your phone, older versions required the forever zip to be flashed through recovery to gain s-off. This is now integrated into the newer versions of unrevoked.

Here's a thread with a similar question that I replied to. It eventually turned into a kind of walkthrough/guide. You may find some useful information there, as it walks one user through the process of rooting and flashing a custom rom. Also be sure to have an understanding of what you're doing, and that you know the pros & cons.

This may be helpful:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1045537
[General Questions and Answers] LostRealist:
Thanks plainjane! I actually ended up using unrEVOked like 10 minutes after I posted this cause I just couldn't handle it anymore!

If you don't mind me asking a few more noob questions I'd appreciate the help. :)

I was wondering how to do a "NAND backup" for one.

Last, is there a way to flash gingerbread to my Evo without losing HTC Sense? Is there a way to update the Sense I have? Cause the one on the Thunderbolt is way cooler.

Thanks plainjane! You rock!
[General Questions and Answers] plainjane:
As far as nandroid backups go - boot into recovery, choose backup/restore, and choose backup system now... or something similar. Unrevoked puts the ClockworkMod recovery image on your phone, which I haven't used in ages. I would suggest flashing Amon Ra recovery, but which you use is up to you. There are more details on nandroid backups & choosing Amon Ra in the thread I linked you to.

There are some new roms with Gingerbread & Sense, but it's a port & not very stable. I definitely wouldn't suggest using any of the gingersense roms as your first flash. Once you get the hang of it & can troubleshoot on your own, I'd say give it a whirl.

Since it seems like you really like Sense, I'd suggest trying out Myn's Warm Z, which comes with Sense 2.0. If you want better Sense over GB, that would definitely suit you more as the gingersense roms come with Sense 1.0.

In the thread I posted, that member chose Myn's Warm 2.2 as their first rom. It's a great first rom choice if you want something closer to stock, but nicer.

If you haven't read through that thread, I would do so. I think it would answer a lot of questions you may have, and give you more info on what comes next.

If you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask. Just be sure to do some of your own research as well.
[General Questions and Answers] LostRealist:
Thanks so much for your help. Yeah I really should be more patient but I ended up flashing Gingersense to my phone like an hour after my last post. I got lucky and everything works except one thing. I get an error when moving apps to SD. But everything else works perfect, even the camera. Everyone was having problems with the camera and market but it all works. Like I said, I got lucky.

I appreciate your advice! From now on I'm going to wait for responses before I flash anything. I could have really messed it up. Thanks again!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a lawless a:
where can i get new fonts for my phone?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nerozehl:
You can use any TTF font I believe. There is a thread on XDA (search for it) that has boatlaods of fonts. You can use Font Changer (market) to install them. I wouldn't flash them, just extract the .ttf from the zip and put it on your memory card and then use Font Changer to apply it. Don't let Font Changer restart the phone for you, it seems to hang on the TB.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a lawless a:
ok thanks for the info. ill search xda and see what i come up with.
[Android Themes] ald3n3:
I don't know where to ask this question but i'll give this a shot.

When making the theme, where do i store the dock background picture that i want to use for my theme? is it under drawables folder if so, what filename should i name it?

Thanks!
[Android Themes] Madala_ZA:
Fast Easy Theming

adam2010 has an excellent thread on theming. It includes a walk-through starting with the very basics, check it out: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1010107

Hope this helps :)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bls2633:
I used Titanium Pro to back up all the apps and bloatware on my G2X. When I try to restore any of the ones I have un-installed the restore option is not there. I think it may have something to do with the external - internal sd card. I also keep loosing the icons to some of my apps (the ones on sd) inside the folder on my home screen. How do I restore these apps that I have backed up??

Ps I have used titanium many times on my rooted cliq with no problems.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] crazythunder:
my backups are on the internal sd.i've restored a few times with no problem i haven't updated mine though. using an older apk. i've read people are having issues here and there with titanium. so i'm sticking with my old version.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] MWBehr:
IMHO Titanium Backup has always been great with user apks, but very lacking with system apks. I'm not sure if it's trying to actually "install" system apks or what, but I've never had any luck with it.

Anyway, you should be able to just push the apks back to your /system/app/ from one of the roms or backups you can find here.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] v8dreaming:
Have you checked the path to the folder that your backups are in with TB?

There is an option to change it in settings. You may have to reboot after changing it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bls2633:
gonna give that a shot. Thanks.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lilaliend:
Having trouble with my Titanium Backup. I backed up all my user apps + data, wiped and installed a new ROM. After getting it back up w/ new ROM, market, install titanium (w/ pro key) and go to restore apps. None of my backups show up. Batch > "Restore missing apps with data", shows 0 apps. When I go Preferences > Backup folder location it shows the folder (mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup) with all my backups it in, even says "This folder contains 62 backups".

Any help on how to restore these would be greatly appreciated.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] matyou98:
On the folder location screen choose detect and choose whole phone. It will search for the directory your backups are in. If that doesn't work then i'm guessing you may have formatted the location where your backups existed.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Joseg1320:
Try this..
[General Topics] isdfoa:
in your opinion, which is the best? im looking to get a new android phone and im having trouble choosing! lol

i mainly want to use it for:

casual gaming (angry birds etc)

music player

idc about camera/video quality or flash

multitouch would be nice, but not mandatory

phone with good battery life please :s

list of budget androids i know of:

Samsung Galaxy 3/Apollo

Samsung Galaxy Prevail

Samsung Gem

LG Optimus One/M/C/U/V etc

HTC Wildfire
[General Topics] Feeshie:
Lg Optimus OC + lagfix kernel.

No contest. Best phone if you're on a budget.
[General Topics] MartyLK:
+1 The Optimus is a basic but super good phone. And relatively inexpensive.
[General Topics] Rageypeep:
If your in the UK it would have to b the wildfire, its only £10 - £15 per month depending on the package u want from a long list of networks. Its not a power house phone by far but for a tenner a month still a great little phone
[General Topics] herrypalm99:
galaxy is pretty cool
[General Topics] ForLorN SouL:
I would suggest HTC Wildfire
[General Topics] kemchong:
Don't buy the LG Optimus. My friend had been using it for a few months and now, it is not very responsive. She has a hard time playing Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja games. I tried it too and feel it being too un-responsive compare to my Samsung Galaxy S (Captivate).

Never have any experience with the other phones.
[General Topics] jimmod:
There's Samsung Galaxy Mini that cost around $170
[General Topics] terrywong:
LG Optimus One +1

2.3.3 + update tweak, play Angrybird rio no lag..!!
[General Topics] Erra:
If you can handle the locked boot loader. Moto Defy.

We have CM7 now, so its a pretty decent phone, good developer community, rugged shell for the device(water resistant/Gorilla glass etc) and it is usually a very cheap phone for purchase.
[General Topics] GnatGoSplat:
I think Angry Birds at minimum requires something with a Cortex A8 processor (ARMv7).

Angry Birds was unplayable on the MyTouch 3G (HTC Magic) I used to have, but works great on the Droid Incredible and Nexus One.
[General Topics] MaBlo:
Huawei U8800 / Ideos X5(or was it X6?)

It's really cheap here in Norway, but it's a pretty competent phone. Same chipset as Desire Z. Haven't tried it, but its scoring pretty good in reviews.

By the way I saw you mentioned the Wildfire. I wouldn't choose that phone if I was to do any kind of gaming as it doesn't have a GPU.
[General Topics] gontadu:
Angry Birds works on my optimus one! Armv6

Either that or a huawei ideos x5
[General Topics] redbullcat:
ZTE Blade/Orange San Francisco. (only £99 on PAYG on Orange UK).
[General Topics] Feeshie:
The lag on angry birds because of a touch screen bug that you can fix by a kernel. Fruit Ninja ran fine when I didn't have the kernel. IMO the lg optimus is very responsive, it might be just because I'm using launcher pro as my launcher with OC.
[General Topics] isdfoa:
thanks for the replies everyone! seems like the optimus one is the best way to go..

but does anyone know when the new samsung galaxy phones are to hit canada or at least north america?

im mainly waiting for the samsung galaxy gio... looks like a great phone.
[General Topics] 123android123:
all are OK, except Wildfire.....
[General Topics] ErOR22:
HTC Magic, very cheap.
[General Topics] skymera:
I got a HD HD2 for £142 on eBay.

Brilliant condition, now runs Android 2.3.3. Bargain price for a high end phone :)
[General Topics] jrxau:
We have given HTD Widlfires to our field techs. So far no problems and not too many complaints.. We now officially have more company owned Android devices than iPhones... :)
[General Topics] Ghostface22:
Lg optimus T $130
[General Topics] Step666:
Got my Motorola Defy for £10/month with only £20 up-front for the handset.

No competition between it and the Wildfire, not in a million years.
[General Topics] isdfoa:
why can't canada have europe's phones and plans :(

here, a smartphone plan starts at $50 on major carriers. :(
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
I'm not sure where you're located, but if you're in the US and you also want a cheap plan, get Virgin Mobile's Optimus V. It's basically Sprint's Optimus S (which is the best looking one) with the Home and Menu buttons switched.
[General Topics] bobloblawsum:
That's why we need to support the new playesr like wind, mobilicity, public etc. The likes of rogers, bell and telus buy up all the available spectrum and don't use it in order to stop competition. Feaky Snucks
[General Topics] Akulamenuri:
The LG Optimus One series gets my vote.
[General Topics] Kailkti:
Get a telstra HD2 off craiglist or somewhere. It will work with canada's 3g. It'll outperform any of the budget android phones out, tons of stuff to try and and you can get it for prolly the same price as one of these budget phones.
[General Topics] tokris:
just try optimus one instead...
[General Topics] iAaronHD:
What about the Transform? Does anyone other then sprint have that one?
[General Topics] brainzasif:
i'd go for HTC for that fact that its always got lots of open source support and very powerful hardware specs :o my brother and law has 2 of them both are much faster then my sony xperia
[General Topics] awersF:
+1 for optimus, i've got the T for $30 on contract.

for those of you who say angry birds runs fine, could you point me to the kernel? i'm running CM7 port by mik, and some levels on rio lag so much it's unbearable.
[General Topics] isdfoa:
wind/mobilicity don't have good enough coverage for me... :(

i live in the gta, but really they only have coverage in downtown. hopefully since mobilicity just luanched in calgary we'll start to see expanding coverage!

as for public, their phones suck. their new "buzz" phone seems okay, but im just not really into the blackberry style of phones. i prefer touch screen.
[General Topics] macro6:
anything by huawei
[General Topics] Feeshie:
Are you using Mik's kernel? That should of fixed all the lag. I play Rio with no lag at all except maybe the first 2 seconds of loading the map, but that's it. Your using Mik's rom so it should have Mik's kernel.
[General Topics] cxyrus:
vote for galaxy...

best performance value
[General Topics] bigfnfil:
galaxy is pretty cool
[General Topics] jooger:
+1 for ZTE Blade! :silly:
[General Topics] Blåburk:
SonyEricsson Xperia Mini and Mini Pro (with qwerty keyboard) 1GHz cpu's and around 512MB program storage (the lion part is taken up by Android and SE junk, thogh).

Also Xperia X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro and X8 but they lack cpu muscles.
[General Topics] Mashkawizii:
Xperia Arc IMO but don't downgrade from 4 to 2, it'll brick your battery gauge
[General Topics] Allanitomwesh:
Holy Christ! Do not get this phone! Get something with screen real estate. Huawei x5 u8800 or ZTE Skate or Huawei Ascend G300(vodafone exclusive) or Pantech or LG Optimus Black? Or even a Lenovo. But please. Don't be too cheap. It's just not worth it.
[General Topics] yamaha_wins:
Loved my HTC thunderbolt... But Ive just moved on to the Galaxy s3..
[General Topics] RoadToNever:
The best budget phone for me is one that offers current enough hardware at a low price like dual-core CPU and 1GB RAM. The downside is that these phones usually don't have the most XDA activity and unlocked bootloaders, brands like LG and Motorola.
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
Galaxy Nexus. 350 off contract.
[General Topics] RoadToNever:
Developer activity must be awesome but it would be too big for my shirt pocket. I can get a used phone with similar specs and unlocked bootloader for 200 USD. I admit it's not fair to compare used and new prices though.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Feeshie:
If I want to flash the new Void #e over the Void #d do I have to do the whole process all over again like the wipe and stuff? Can I just put the zip on my sd card and boot recovery and flash it?

Thanks.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] shhbz:
just flash over dont forget to make a backup using recovery if anything goes wrong u can flash back
[HTC Sensation] sonnysekhon:
...............
[HTC Sensation] Virtue94:
I'm still putting my money on a June 8th release. There's absolutely no way the date and location "hints" on the press release images were coincidental.
[HTC Sensation] sonnysekhon:
Maybe it's available for pre-order on the 8th.
[HTC Sensation] mattfmartin:
Hey Sonny, are you getting the sensation. Either this or evo 3d for me.
[HTC Sensation] vegetaleb:
So release date between 8th and 12th June + wait for root period
[HTC Sensation] kgbkny:
Agreed. T-Mobile usually releases phones on Wednesdays. June 8 is a Werdnesday, whereas June 12 is a Sunday.
[HTC Sensation] sonnysekhon:
I just got the G2x, I will get the Sensation too and then decide which one I like better. Not too concerned with the bootloader as I'm sure someone will crack it eventually.
[HTC Sensation] mattfmartin:
Cool. Does the G2x have an encrypted bootloader? Or is it already cracked?
[HTC Sensation] sonnysekhon:
G2x ships with an unlocked bootloader.
[HTC Sensation] formuk:
HTC rep here,

I can confirm that the subsidized price will indeed be $199.99 on a 2-year contract.

I know most markets are different but here in DFW we are having our HTC Sensation launch party on June 6th and will be available in stores on the 8th.
[HTC Sensation] sonnysekhon:
Thanks, I will edit the first post.
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
So non subsidized price will indeed be $500?
[HTC Sensation] sonnysekhon:
Can you please comment on whether the bootloader is encrypted like the Incredible S?

Yes.
[HTC Sensation] vegetaleb:
+1

I love the Sensation and I am willing to give up my brand new arc for it but ONLY if its rootable
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
so once the sensation is out, can we expect the price of the incredible S to drop? because it doesnt make sense to me that the incredible S price is over $500 non subsidized and the sensation is going to cost even less? i find it odd...