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[LG Optimus 2x] Rusty!:
Absolutely no point in it whatsoever. You have 1.5GB available internal storage available, if you can fill that, you have app hoarding issues :D

The recovery 'error' isn't really an error, more of a statement.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagreek05:
Was wondering if anyone knew of a ROM that was strictly made to turn your Captivate into a mp3 player. I am getting a new phone and want to turn my captivate into a pure music player........no extra phone components as they aren't needed. Thanks appreciate it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
I don't think you'll find a ROM that is made for that.. Although, you can get some really light ROM and install the music player you want on it. You battery won't drain and you'll be able to listen to music as much as you want (or almost :p).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagreek05:
Im not too familiar with android where phone components/programs go........but i do know that there are quite a few that run in the background.........I wonder if theres a way to keep them disabled or remove them and keep android working.......im sure that would help the battery and improve speed :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Tbh, speed should never be a problem.

As for battery, I had amazing battery life running FF 3.0 + speedmod k13e listening to music all day long.

Of course, you can kill some running services: Email, SnS, Google Services, Maps and such. But there are some others that you can't kill.

Either way, your phone should be just a good if not better than a mp3 player if you keep it light/stable. Beside, with your phone, you can have voodoo sound imp = amazing sound quality :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] little8020:
If you either turn data mode off or flight mode off and that will boost your battery a lot

Sorry said on instead of off
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gospeedgo:
You can also keep it in airplane mode and make sure wifi and bluetooth are off. Not using the radios will help with battery life as well.

edit: just a little too slow typing my reply!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
wells system apps are in /system/app

3rd party apps are in /data/app

you can use titanium backup to freeze apps for testing purposes and then later uninstall them.

make sure you have voodoo sound installed! makes music listening way better.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagreek05:
Hrmmm

Does anyone know of a REALLY light rom? Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
I believe A3 could be what you're looking for. It's very well built and I heard only great things about it.

I'm not sure about the last update but it used to be very stock looking.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctrlaltkills:
great. thx for all info
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 41LY45:
Yeah, no bugs whatsoever and battery life is nothing but spectacular. :D:D

And be sure to get the Voodoo Control app of the market. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bedspringlex:
check out precision 2.5 It is only 78 mb and has absolutely the best battery life of any rom I've used. With airplane mode turned on I would say you could several days use of it. it is fast even without a lagfix which uses battery life on other roms. The developer (Ryude) wanted to make a stripped down rom for better battery life and did a great job.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bornjamerican:
Why not simply leave the similar card out. No similar card, No service. You'll still be able to use wifi.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnavia:
You can use a program like bloatfreeze to "hide" most apps
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
Even with the sim out the phone will maintain a cell connection thus consuming battery if airplane mode is not turned on.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mesasone:
Put the phone in airplane mode, and use Titanium back up to remove any apps or services you don't want.

I don't really understand why you'd want to strip it down to the point of *just* being an mp3 player - there are better devices out there. But it would make a pretty neat alternative to an iPod touch if you yanked out the SIM card and put the phone airplane mode. You'll get some really respectable battery life that way. The hardware/OS itself doesn't really use that much power outside of the radio and the screen being on. Most of the time the phone spends clocked down to 100 mHz or something and just sips power.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankaka:
;););)Great!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsxiao:
I would definitely use a launcher to hide all the unnecessary bloatware apps, install only minimal things and then use a premium music player that has all the features you need and looks nice to boot. The one I prefer for all that is PowerAmp, it really looks clean and has a ton of features for you. although you have to pay for it in market :rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtupil:
my cappy have been my main music player for a year now!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lownox:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093696

Not sure if links still work though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xThe Enforcer:
Beat to the post. I remember seeing this when it first came out and intend on flashing if I ever get a replacement phone and don't sell/trade the Cappy in.

Can anyone confirm if this is still working?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capocaccia:
I dont know if the download links work but I do know that about a year ago I downloaded this ROM just in case the links ever went dead because I want to turn my captivate into a music player after an upgrade. So, if you want the ROM, send me a PM and ill try to get it to you. I have the Captivate Touch v2.0, Cognition Edition - KB1 2.2 by DesignGears NOT the cyanogen mod version.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bravomail:
Airplane mode

Can't you just flash regular ROM and turn Airplane mode on?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lownox:
Now what fun is that?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NamDark:
Try Captivate "Touch"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093696

It might be what you're looking for

Shoulda checked the last page before posting...doh!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] haruryu:
hi All, when i download HQ wallpapers from internet, and then want to make it my wallpaper on my tab, the quality lowers and its like it zooms in the picture. WHY IS THIS? any fixes or other ways?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] appelflap:
Take a look at this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=993596

If you realise that the center is 1280x1024 it is perfectly explainable why standard 1280x1024 wallpapers will not work.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] aefelix:
Download this and try...correct sized wallpaper...

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=577398&d=1303696002
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
So my Wife needed a new phone, and get out of T-Mobile, and on to a good family plan. Since I was with Sprint already the last year with my EVO 4G, I said get the Nexus-S this weekend, will be a great little phone compared to her old school MyTouch 3G.

So we went to the Sprint store my buddy is a Mngr at, and I got the bug and also picked up a Nexus-S 4G, and set us up on a killer family plan.

- What I like about the Nexus-S;

Lightweight and fits in pocket easily

Screen is beautiful

Battery life is longer than rooted EVO

Pure "vanilla" Google OS

2.3.4 Video Chat for the Wife and kids

- What I don't like;

Miss the "Sense UI"

4" curved screen, makes it feel much smaller than the EVO's 4.3" flat tablet like display.

No Sprint Visual Voicemail

My EVO 4G was rooted with Myn's RS 5, and I LOVED it, but the phone felt a little too thick and bulky at times, and heavy in the pocket, especially with Summer now, the phone does not fit in a short sleeve pocket like the Nexus easily does. And even with netarchy kernel and all battery life still was crappy compared to rooted Nexus-S.

But I seem to really miss the "Sense UI" the most, just a bit of a shock getting used to vanilla Android. I liked the Sense e-mail app, for non gmail accounts. The dialer and contacts was nice. The keyboard was sweet with arrows keys. Stock Visual Voicemail was great.

Not too sure what to do now ? Keep the Nexus-S and wait for CM 7.1 ROM that supports 2.3.4 and see how I like that ? I was a big fan of Cyanogen back on my Nexus-One, but then got turned onto Sense. Or go back to EVO and upgrade to EVO 3D next month and wait for Myn's ROM on that beast ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDSL:
I'm not sure if anyone can answer that for you..I mean if you really really want sense ui that bad you'll have to get a HTC phone..

Only you can decide that...Personally I love vanilla android but thats just me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rugedraw:
I agree with MrDSL. I've also become a huge fan of Sense and the perks that come along with having the Sense UI. It would be hard for me to go to vanilla Android now, as well. Me personally, I'm sticking with HTC for the Sense UI because I like it that much. It would take a behemoth of a phone made by another company that puts the Evo to shame, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Evo 3D with more power and with the bigger and better Sense UI?

Yes, please.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Personally, if you can't get used to the vanilla stock os [I personally like it] I would just wait till the Evo 3D and get it with the sense 3.0 and let myn have at it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negrito:
If you like Sense UI so much waiting for CyanogenMod is absolutely pointless... They ONLY do AOSP....

Might as well head back to your Evo... Or give LauncherPro Plus a shot, as its the closet thing to Sense you'll get.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
I am getting much more comfortable with my Nexus-S 4G today, after a full work day of use. Loving the feel of it in the palm of my hand, rests so nicely, and the screen is gorgeous. The battery life on the Nexus is amazing so far, being unplugged for 6+ hours, and not even half drained yet, at 60% now, and that's with tons of phone calls and plenty of texting as well as web browsing. And still not even rooted yet, so no custom ROM's or kernels, can only imagine the battery life with a good netarchy

The EVO to me is borderline tablet big, not just the 4.3" screen, but was also very thick and heavy. Not a fun phone to carry around in light shorts in the Summer. But sometimes that was nice, making it feel like a mini laptop, with lots of space to work with, and the Sense e-mail and contacts were very well designed.

But the more I am with the Nexus-S, the more I like it. yeah I misses the Sense UI, but getting used to vanilla is nice too Just waiting for CM 7.1 to come out, and then this phone should really be amazing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamantypants:
This. And if you love the Sense UI as much as I do, you'll get that nagging feeling you're missing something even weeks after you've gotten used to vanilla Android. I find myself flashing CM7 for the speed and newest Android versions/features.

But after a week or so of tinkering, I found that I was just trying my damndest to make it like Sense then end up flashing a Sense rom. It's not just the widgets, but the social integration, phone-wide theming, and all the options. I say return the Nexus-S and wait for the Evo 3d. It can't be much more than a month away, and it'll blow the pants off of the Nexus S, stock Sense "bloated" and all.

edit: Oh yeah, if you decide to keep the Nexus S, there's tons of apps/widgets/launchers that'll replicate the overall feel of Sense. Obviously you won't get the little things (like how the in-call screen will show you your contact's most recent social network update) but you can get pretty close. For CM7 I'm using Launcher Pro Plus for the widgets and Fancy Widget Pro for the Clock.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbsolutZeroGI:
+1

Once you become accustomed to the widgets of sense, there really is no replacement. the messaging widget, email widget, the calender widget, etc are all things you can't really get with a stock android experience. i mean sure there's handcent and chomp sms, but they're buggy and screwy and you have to pay to use them without ads (which is freaking stupid).

I still can't find an email widget that's as simple and easy as HTCs widget. Same with the calender widget.

Plus, the friend stream and twitter updaters that are themed to the phone. It kind of sucks to theme a phone black and blue and then have to deal with their opaque white backgrounds, it's an eyesore.

The nexus S is a great phone (despite the lack of an sd card and being made entirely out of plastic), but if it's sense you crave, I'd go with the quoted poster's idea, return it and get an Evo 3D. All the badass, PLUS SENSE!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
After reading the replies, having a hard time making a decision. The Nexus-S is growing on me, but it's the little things, like making a call to a vendor just now, I need to press 1, to get to the office personal, with the Nexus I have to press dial pad, then press 1, but with Sense the dial pad is there with the contact info at same time. Just these crazy minor things it seems Sense just got right, and that vanilla Android is still lacking.

My main beef with the EVO was the size, too thick and heavy. I have seen the Thunderbolt, and that looks more streamlined, and a hair bit thinner and smaller ? Or maybe they just designed it to look slimmer. If the EVO 3D matches the slick look of the Thunderbolt, will be very tempted to go that route instead.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbsolutZeroGI:
It'll be about the same size (same size screen at least). It won't have the kick stand so that might allow a thinner design but otherwise it'll be about the same size.

I think the Evo is a little big too, but for me there's far more problems with the Nexus S than a few tweaks for me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirkyd3rk:
I just got a nexus s personally its not all that imo. I'm probably going to sell it when something else comes out. I prefer my evo any day.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eat it iPhone:
I just couldn't do without hdmi and external storage. I also don't get the appeal of stock android, sense UI is awesome. I love my Evo and only a better Evo could replace it, thus I'm waiting for the Evo 3d.

With my current setup battery life isn't an issue, it gets me through an entire day and I haven't had to charge my phone b4 I goto bed for months (used to be 2x charging a day).

Sent from my Evo. Powered by MikFroyo, netarchy, XDA, and the tears of iPhone owners
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JUST2SUAVE:
Evo too big? Pause. Are you a man?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negrito:
lmao... I was thinking the same thing. My nook is too big to be a phone, but the evo is just right. I wish they had a non 3d Evo coming out, cause i give a crap about 3d... its a damn phone. but the rest of the specs are drool inducing. :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funcrusher:
What don't you like about it? I was playing with it earlier and I'm thinking about getting it after I get my Evo replacement.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirkyd3rk:
I have big hands so the evo fits perfect, I'm not crazy about its curves I really like the square (manly) look of the evo, no hdmi, and no removable storage (I hold alot of movies). I will say that the battery life is amazing! I'm pretty sure in about 2 months ill sell it and probably get the evo 3D.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
Going back to my Sprint store tomorrow evening, return the Nexus-S and get my EVO "Myn's RS 5" back from the dead :cool:

Didn't realize how much I have become accustomed to "Sense UI" The default e-mail app is perfect, the dialer...contacts...calendar...Going to "Stock" Android OS was a bit of a shock, and I did not hate it, but for sure not worth keeping. Sense is great for business too, just short cuts to everything, the little things make a big difference.

And add Myn's AWESOME ROM to the EVO, and it becomes a Sensation :p

I have my name on the list for the EVO-2 ( EVO 3D :rolleyes: ) Here's hoping Myn gets one too and get a nice new ROM in the oven
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorachus:
ok...another day with the Nexus-S, and it is growing on me finally :)

Several apps I needed to install to get rid of the lame stock ones.

- #1 was "

Better Keyboard 8

", a much improved keypad for texting, e-mails, etc...larger buttons, smarter layout of keys, and all black themed.

- #2 was "

Go SMS

", hands down the best text app, and with a cool black theme, blows away the boring stock Messaging, very customizable.

- #3 was "

YouMail

" Makes it just like the stock Sprint Visual Voicemail on my EVO.

- #4 was "

Opera Mini

" web browser, night and day faster than the stock internet, very smooth and no lagging.

- #5 was "

On Call End

" when done with a phone call, bring you back to home screen, instead of dialer.

- #6 was "

Dialer2

" an all black themed dialer, but shows the recent calls on top with keypad below, shows how long ago the call was made or missed, more like the "Sense UI" dialer.

- #7 was "

Beautiful Widgets

" a must have for the coolest clock/weather screen.

And several other apps, but these seven above were must haves, and make my Nexus-S much improved, and closer to the "Sense UI" stuff I missed from my EVO, and a lot of these apps have option for black theme which I really like on this phone.

But still the one MISSING app I can not find anywhere is a good default e-mail client for the non @gmail accounts. The default Sense UI e-mail on the EVO was ****ing spot on perfect, wish there was something in the Market to match that ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
You can try the K9 Email app. its not glossy fancy, but it does the job well.

Also on your Nexus S, how do you like not having the notification light? [Not being a smart ass.]
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] arkatis:
I have Hyperdroid with CNM 7 and a2sd+ partitioned SD card.

My question to you guys is..

Is it safe to flash another Android Rom with a2sd+ on my existing one?

Or do i need to flash my Card with Panasonic SD Format and make a new partition?

Whats the best a2sd+ ROM in your opinion?

Sorry if might this had posted before..it's just a quick question :rolleyes:

Regards,

Arkatis
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] malybru:
Hi,

The ext2/3/4/ partition does not get changed when you flash a new ROM.

You should be fine to flash a new ROM over your old one.

Don't forget to backup your data and when you go into MAGLDR wipe data,cache partition,and dalvik(in advanced).

Each ROM comes with its own CWM partition to flash in recovery.Do this, then flash your new ROM...

As for which ROM to choose,Imilka does a nice line in A2SD ROMS.

(Please remember,that this is only MY opinion)

Check here:

http://android.hd2roms.com/

:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] arkatis:
That was very helpful man! Cheers! ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Capt.PP:
If you're coming from a different ROM then you should do a back up using titanium backup before installing new ROM. It's highly possible it will have conflicts. Install app2sd when you close to run out space in your internal memory. Say, when you install a NAND ROM everything goes into your internal memory and whatever left should be use mostly before installing app2sd. Installing app2sd will take 195Mb from SD card and stop using your remaining space in internal memory.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] KnitGnosis:
Anyone else noticing that the messaging shortcut from the homescreen kind of does whatever it wants? Sometimes it takes me to the threaded view of my SMS message conversations. Which is what I want. But most of the time it either takes me to the last app I had open like the back button does, or it takes me to my most recent conversation and when I hit the back button to see all my conversations I get sent back to the home screen, or it just randomly throws me into email or my music player. Can't seem to figure out why its doing that.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yekrallum:
Hi all,

Would really appreciate your help! I'm a nOOb and may have bricked my phone. I rooted and installed a LeeDroid Froyo Rom last year, updated this recently to LeeDrOiD V3.0.2 GB. I got brave today and attempted to change this to RCMix S v1.3 (Sense 2.1+3.0mix) but now my phone is stuck on the HTC Bootscreen.

The process I followed was the same as when installing LeeDroids ROMs:

I backed up my apps

Re-partioned my SD card - 512md using ROM Manager

Used ROM Manager to boot to recovery

Factory re-set

Re-installed ROM Manager

Copied the new ROM zip file to the SD Card

Used ROM Manager to boot to recovery

Installed the new ROM which installed correctly ("Congrats, successful installation, re-boot and enjoy ..." or similar word to that effect)

Re-booted

But now it's frozen on a permanent HTC logo bootscreen.

I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer, or a link to the solution if there is one that may have been requested and solved before, I've spent an age searching the forums but can not find a solution.

Thanks in advance,

Karl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vis-tec:
sounds like you didnt wipe the dalvik cache.

I would drop the battery out, replace and boot into recover, wipe data factory reset, wipe dalvik and go for another install.

Can you confirm if you did the above?

edit: oh and i dont know if its made a differance but when i install a new rom, i transfer to the SD card then, wipedata, wipe cache and then install as opposed to booting the phone after wiping data
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Before flashing you always have to do a full wipe.

Your systemdata and apps can backed up by Titanium Backup. The backup don't get deleted by the wipe. After flashing the new rom (and eventually re-downloading/re-installing Titanium Backup you can restore all systemdata and apps by "Menu>Batch>Restore missing systemdata and apps".

First tip for the future: Always make a complete nandroid before every flash. ;) If there are problems with your new system, you a running system anyway. :)

Second: When go from sense-rom to a non-sense-rom (or reversed), you

must not

restore system data,

only

the apps. Otherwise there can be heavy problems with your system.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yekrallum:
Cheers Vis-tec,

Yeah, it was the dalvik cache, I did exactly what you suggested and it worked perfectly. Never heard of dalvik cache before but wiping it did the job.

Thanks again,

Karl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yekrallum:
Thanks MatDroid,

Good tip about the system data when moving between sense and non-sense roms - I would have found that out the hard way for sure!

I know nothing about nandroid so I'll start reading up on it!

Thanks again,

Karl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
This thread might help to understand the technical definitions:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=805247
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yekrallum:
Another good tip, I assumed that the wipe would delete the back-up, or to be more precise, I was unsure where it backed up the data/apps to. So I uploaded to Dropbox using the Dropbox feature in Titanium Backup ... this takes an age so it's good to know that the backup doesn't get deleted by the wipe for future rom changes!

Thanks again,

Karl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul.c:
Try using RaRecovery http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=839621

It's the recommended recovery for RCMix S. I got stuck in splash because of CWM.
[Off-topic] swingline0:
Good Monday to you all,

I've experienced three routers all loose WiFi functionality in the past two weeks. They're all different revisions and the only thing they have in common is that they were all in operation in the same town. Other than that, they've been in completely different locations and under different amounts of usage.

This all just seems curious. Anyone have a WRT54G router's WiFi give out recently?