yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
My remorse period is up on my crappy T-Mobile G2X and it has to be returned by 5/19. It was either pay $800 or loose $200 by having to sell the phone on eBay. I look at it this way, the dysfunctional G2X was $500. $300 more for a working phone that will be current for at least a year was a steep but worthy investment. And compared to a subsidized phone at $199, $700 and $800 are equally ridiculous.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
Are you switching to AT&T or something?
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
what he said :)

The phone is overpriced at $700 or above I would say.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Already did. SIM arrives today, phone arrives on Friday. Of all the phones I've owned, the G2X is hands down the biggest piece of crap ever unleashed on humanity. The hardware's fine. The software, unusable.
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
After flipping phones on craigslist, ebay and here I came out of pocket $50.

Found a atrix for 140 on Cl sold for 400. Xperia x10 from an xda trade/ sale got $200, and sold 1 of my vibrants for 250. After shipping I came out of pocket $50. I never pay full price.
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
Just placed an order with handtec for $729 shipped to the us. They have an order coming in Monday and they are shipping out all orders so far once that shipment comes in.
[Galaxy S II General] sky23:
Almost all orders came from Handtec and Clove -- UK stores, how did you manage to charge your phone? I know UK uses 240v and US uses 110v?
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
i'm using the charger that came with the captivate
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
^^^ I do the same. Any micro USB with one amp or even half amp output would do.

And the UK charger is universal 230-110 Volts, it is just it has the British plug that you need to buy a $5 adapter for if you want to use it.
[Galaxy S II General] sky23:
Nice! :)

At least it comes with a universal/autovolt charger, so no problem using it here in the US.. Is the British plug with the 3 holes? I think I have an adapter for that! :D
[Galaxy S II General] NickkxNekro:
Ok, so I went through the first few pages, and I've got this situation, hopefully you guys can help?

-Had the Droid Incredible since launch, dev'd roms for it for XDA

-Was on a family plan (paying $90 a month)

-Mom tried to pull this power trip thing, took me off (it's fine, rang her bill up a bit and told her to f-off ;) )

-Legitimately just ordered the G2x (T-Mobile) yesterday, should be here.. Tuesday (5 business days or something).

-Found out Galaxy S 2 was coming out (wasn't up to date, since I didn't really expect to upgrade or anything in the future / for quite some time).

-I can return the G2x (obviously), just need to wait for it to come in.

Here's where the ATT stuff comes into play.

-Never had a phone or number with ATT, does that mean I can't do method that was described in the first few pages?

-I can easily get a ATT phone to use as a dumbphone, but I take it that I need to have some sort of SIM card. My friend has his SIM from switching from ATT to Verizon for the Thunderbolt, but he just deactivated his account yesterday. Could I still use that?

-If I end up getting a SIM card to use, could I get my number switched over? (like my old verizon number to ATT)
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EYSKM8

And it charges at 850ma vs 700ma the stock charger it comes with.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Cool that you're a dev in the U.S. and interested in the SGS2

No way to treat your mother. She must be doing something right if you can buy an $800 phone.

The phone is an under-featured piece of crap. Mine's going back on the 18th, my new SGS2 arrives Friday. I dumped T-Mobile in the process.

I had to establish new service too. You have some choices...

1) Call them and tell them you have your own phone, a Moto Krzr, and want to establish new service. Ask them for the "zero-month" contract since you're not going to be using subsidized equipment. I have access to Premier (corporate program) and they did it, I'm not sure if a general CSR can.

2) Order a semi-smartphone off the AT&T website that allows you to add the unlimited data for non-smartphones plan. Activate the SGS2 instead of it and keep it as a spare.

3) Wait a couple of months and AT&T will have their own version of the SGS2. They could change the hardware and software which may or may not be an issue. The s/w wouldn't because you're a dev.
[Galaxy S II General] Virtuososteve:
If I want to buy the Galaxy s 2 where is the cheapest place to buy from? and does it work on Tmobile?
[Galaxy S II General] NickkxNekro:
Yeep. Wanted to get a phone that's going to have a nice scene. I think the Tegra 2 is what made me do it.

Haha, if you'd like to get in a heated debate about my moms parenting ability, I can assure you she's told me numerous times about how she knows she isn't good at it, and it's her lack of being there for me on multiple levels that allows me / made me the techy person I am. With that being said, I make $$$ as a 19 year old, working for a promotions company, as well as working as a techy at staples. I've gotten good grades, scholarships, all that jazz. Been doing engineering for 4 years, ect. Her lack of being there for me turned into me not wanting her around, so I could be independent, which then lead to me turning into a real life Yes Man. I take opportunities up, because I see that things happen for a reason / the timing of things always seems too perfect. I could go back and forth on this, but let's get back to phones.

Haha, yeah, read some of your other comments and almost cried. It's fine, the way I see it, Samsung is supposed to release the deets on it May 26th (Sauce), I have 20 days on t-mobile... soo, i'll use the G2x for 20 days, tell them I don't like it, get my $$$ back, then walk on over to ATT. Already talked to a rep, they told me to just use it and dump it. Sounded fine with meeee.

Probably will go with option one, just need to grab a AT&T phone and a sim card, but i guess that's what craigslist and friends are for.
[Galaxy S II General] NickkxNekro:
Yeah, sorry for the double post. It's officially on T-Mobile, but later will probably release for other carriers (just like the Vibrant went to verizon / sprint later).
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
The SGS2 is Exynos which is engineered by Samsung. Because they can't make enough of them, some SGS2s are going to have Tegra and SuperLCD screens. Hong Kong and India are two of the countries mentioned. It also has a Mali GPU which there's a thread floating around on that you should read if you're a heavy gamer.

Check out the hands-on Samsung demo video that's on the first page. It makes the O2X/G2X look primitive. The O2X/G2X are typical phones with a dual-core chip. The SGS2 and Sensation are next-gen phones. Check out the LCD bleed on the G2X and let me know how many times a week it freezes or reboots itself. It rebooted itself while I was on conference call to Asia which was its death.

You don't need a physical phone for option 1. They'll just send you a SIM card. Mine arrived today overnight.
[Galaxy S II General] inurb:
That's great you guys are getting h+. I was under the impression that att would need to flip a flag on your data plan in order to enable h+ since medianet unlimited wouldn't work with h+. Guess that is bs.

This is great news!
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
No U.S. carrier has the phone yet. There's speculation it will be a 4G Verizon phone first followed by AT&T. T-Mobile's launching the Sensation 6/8 and just launched the G2X a couple of weeks ago so I'm guessing they'll get it much later. The EU SGS2 works on T-Mobile for voice and EDGE, it doesn't support their AWS HSPA bands.

You can buy the phone from a UK retailer online for $700-800ish but stock is very tight right now since the phone just launched. Expansys USA is selling them but have 200ish people on a waiting list. Buying the phone anywhere else but from an authorized Samsung dealer in the country the phone's meant for means it has no warranty. It'll be out this year in the U.S. so if you're looking for a $199 subsidized price you may be better off waiting. The guess is that all the U.S. carriers will mutate the hardware and software like they did on the SGS which may or may not be a bad thing.
[Galaxy S II General] mattism78:
Ugh, it's taking everything I have NOT to order this phone. If there was any guarantee that a retailer would have it in stock (even early next week) I would probably pull the trigger. Just seems that everyone is speculating on when they will have available units and the wait gets longer and longer.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
From what I've deciphered, AT&T's network is either off or on. They have a smartphone database of IMEI ranges and they'll flag a phone if it isn't on a smartphone data plan. The SGS2 isn't in their database which is why it flies under the radar. Let's hope it stays that way - it's a killer deal and will help offset the exorbitant price I paid for the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
i ran more tests today and my connection seems to have stabilized quite a bit since yesterday (probably had something to do with the system transitioning me over to the medianet)

Anyways, i'm now getting anywhere from 3~4.3 mbps down and 500kbps~1.2 mpbs
[Galaxy S II General] NickkxNekro:
I'd rather never have a SLCD phone in my hands. Hopefully I won't get a Galaxy that has one.

Oh god. Well, it's my temp phone for 20 days or so until I figure out what I'm doing.

I legitimately tell them that I have the phone and I want to activate it and they'll just send it to me? Lolin', I'll try that. Won't be on a contract and such since I "have the phone already", right?
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
What's everybody's battery life like?

They're having strokes in Europe but nobody over here has mentioned anything.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
Anyone using their SGS2 on Rogers/Fido? Does it have time stamp issues for SMS (5 hours off)?
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
you must have the phone set for GMT time zone

Settings -> Date and time -> auto or manual time zone setup
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
Heh no, I don't actually have the phone but I'm just curious because it's a well known issue when using a non-rogers phone on their network. For example my friend's AT&T captivate (unlocked) on rogers canada is set to the right time zone, but the SMS/MMS time stamps are still 5 hours off.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
that's odd

does this mean roger's branded phones are all defaulted to a certain timezone setting?
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
I think they just have tweaked or extra settings that fix the issue for them. I know there are SOME international phones that have these settings programmed in as well which allows them to work without issue on Rogers. It also explains why flashing custom ROMs on rogers branded android phones sometimes screws up timestamps.
[Galaxy S II General] Xdenwarrior:
Dude, that is outrageously expensive. In my opinion, don't buy that phone at all, or actually instead just read this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13699240#post13699240 my last post ^.^ it'll give u some insightful info
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
Ordered on for 729 via handtec but now the water heater might be out. Funny how that works.
[Galaxy S II General] FtrV8:
I see there is a new update via Kies. Anyone using this on ATT's network using this device update yet?
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Your opinion is certainly your opinion and you're entitled to it. In the thread you reference I asked what you would recommend to someone needing to buy a phone in the next three months - you never answered. Assuming dual-core is a minimum requirement choices are: O2X-G2X/Atrix/SGS2/Sensation. Of the four, SGS2 and Sensation are the most advanced features wise so either would be a good choice for someone buying soon.

I get that the next version, and the version after that are going to be better in many regards but using your logic no one would ever buy a piece of high-end electronics always waiting for the "holy grail" next version to be released.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
It has nothing to do with the carrier. Go to the Samsung site and at the bottom, change your country to "UK." Find the i9100 in the support section. There's two tabs, one for documentation and one for software. Under software, download Kies, the Samsung desktop app. Install it as administrator, and run it as administrator. When you plug your phone in it should offer you updates or poke around until you find them. Check the posts on the first page if you're having problems, they talk about possible errors and solutions.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I am using this update on AT&T since early this morning, in NYC. Nothing new that I noticed.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Cases

Amazon UK has the Case-Mate cases available (they're coming soon almost everywhere else).

I got this one...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Mate-T...VWL8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1305231594&sr=1-3

They have other Case-Mate cases in different levels of protection.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s0litaire:
I'm running CyanogenMod 7.0.3

Baseband: 12.28b.60.140eP_26.03.02.26_M

What's the best radio to use?

Just trying to get my head around what RIL / Radios i need to get the best out of my phone.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_JMM:
The recommended radio on page one of the CM thread says 26.04.02.17

The best radio to use is the one that works best for you on your phone with signal vs battery life.

What works well for one might not work well for you. And give each radio at least 2-3 days testing.

See my sig for my chosen radio and ril but like I said, might not work as well for you. Won't know till you try them.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s0litaire:
Thanks

I'll give it a go tonight and see how it goes from there...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaithis:
I tend to go for the newest radio that people say has a higher battery drain.

Where I live the signal is a bit ropey and I find the higher battery drainers do give me a more consistent signal.

Have a play about and don't forget to give the phone a good test everywhere you use it.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s0litaire:
Hitting my head against a brick wall here...

I updated my kernel to lordmodV5.1-CFS-BFQhs.

I've tried to use fastboot to flash a new radio but keep getting :

sending 'radio' (24960 KB)...
OKAY [ 4.360s]
writing 'radio'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 4.361s

Recovery is set to "ship S-off"

CID = 11111111

I'm using Ubuntu linux.

Any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilblade:
H

i,

Is it possible to flash with custom kernel when I have XXJVK 2.3.3 loaded on system?

I'm after voltage scaling and have no success in flashing other than XXJVK (via Odin).

Please advice,

R
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
You need a Gingerbread Kernel.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilblade:
Any hint (please something more specific, like "download this, howto there")?

As I guess I run out of patience to rebuild everything on my phone for 23rd time. Every time when I get something which I believe will work, is not. :(

Regards,

R
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilblade:
Can anyone point me to right kernel? Please?

R
[Epic 4G General] twolostminds:
I see throttling removed on several ROM's and was wondering if this is the HTTP Proxy and RSTP Proxy removal or something entirely different. If different could you please give provide details on what was removed, what it was doing and what files were doing it. Thank you for helping educate me.
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
The proxies don't help, but the throttle service is buried in the framework JARs and must be removed by smali.
[Epic 4G General] twolostminds:
Thanks k0nane.

Is there any information available on those (7, i think?) throttling files that are removed from the Epic ROM's? What it throttled, when it throttled it and to what speed it throttled it too?

TIA
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
No, I didn't even bother to look.
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
Tbh me either... the word throttling was enough for me to remove it...

Also in twframework integers.xml there are some data throttling settings iirc...
[Defy General] Dragox2007:
Im fairly new to android (only had my phone about 2 months, refused to flash it till about 2 weeks ago).

I went from the 2.2 uk leaked rom to cyanogen 7 beta5. That worked perfectly on baseband uk T-mobile 2.51.1

I then installed the .zip update to fix the gps (beta 5.1) and suddenly my phone is dropping txts left right and center.

Im getting no texts through for an hour then 10 at a time. Whenever i send a text is just comes back unable to send txt.

Phone reports full signal and 3g+H working perfectly. But just keeps dropping txts and is sometimes unable to make calls.

i have tried basebands(UK Tmobile) 2.51.1, 2.21.1 and(UK) 34.0.3 (34.0.3 had no signal).

Im a noob and any help would be apreciated :)
[Defy General] danisarbu:
I have somewhat the same problem, at first i didn't get signal in 2g network and in 3g i could make calls but could't recieve calls and texts. i changed to international 2.51 and now it seems to work. I will post again if the problem reapears.
[Defy General] Dragox2007:
It's weird. Changed back to tmobile 2.51.1 and re-signed up for the tmobile +orange shared signal. Works perfectly atn

Give an update if it drops again
[Android General] riahc3:
Hey

I wanted to know if it was possible to use the FM transmiter in some Android phones and use the phone as a real FM walkie talkie. Thanks.
[Android General] taranfx:
Thats sounds impossible to me. Since the broadcom chip onbaord is FM RX only.
[Android General] riahc3:
Only recieves? Wasnt sure of that.

Thanks
[Android General] Blackersoul:
I was just asking myself exactly the same. :'(

Did u finally find it ??
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
Gang, I've searched and couldn't find. I rooted the Sprint Nexus S 4G and installed CW recovery.

Would some one please be kind enough to point me on how to unroot and return to stock recovery for a return.

Thank you!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmora01:
Why do you want to return it?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
Exchanging for another, I appear to have a defective screen which flickers when phone is shaken.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r80ies:
Yeah this would be good to know, as when you unlock it there is now a big unlocked icon when booting. I could see a sprint rep throwing the phone in my face saying they can't support it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
Use a file manager like Root Explorer or SuperManager (any file manager that can run with root access)

Delete /system/app/Superuser.apk

Delete /system/xbin/su

Delete /system/bin/su

Reboot the phone into the bootloader.

Plug the phone into USB.

Type "fastboot oem lock"

Good to go.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
What about the custom CWM recovery?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
Oh, my bad. Before deleting root, go to /system/etc and find whatever you renamed the install-recovery.sh file to, and rename it back to install-recovery.sh. Then follow my instructions to delete root, and once you reboot back into the ROM, it will erase ClockworkMod and install the stock recovery. That said, here is a set of updated instructions:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
Many thanks!!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
Titanium Backup did install busybox, how do I delete it along with all the symlinks that it created?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
Did Titanium Backup install busybox into /system/xbin? If so, (I assume you have a nandroid backup just in case), I would delete absolutely everything in that folder except dexdump. If it installed busybox somewhere other than /system/xbin, then we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
I don't believe it to be installed in /system/xbin/ as the only two items showing there are:

dexdump

su
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
OK check /system/bin then. Is BusyBox in there?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
OldBlue, I really appreciate your assistance!

I feel really stupid, there are numerous files inside /system/bin, heck I stopped counting at 40!! I do not see a "BusyBox" file there, what should I look for?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
Yeah there will be a bunch. Do you have a terminal emulator installed? If so, go into the terminal emulator:

Type "su" (without quotes)

Type "busybox which busybox" (without quotes)

Tell me what it says.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
I installed Terminal Emulator:

Typed: su

Typed: busybox which busybox

Response: busybox: not found

Although TB says:

Root Access: OK (BusyBox 1.16.0 from app)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
Oh no wonder! You're all set then. BusyBox is located within Titanium Backup's data folder. You don't need to worry. BusyBox will go away when you uninstall Titanium. So just follow my updated instructions and you're good. Let me know if you have any problems. Make sure you have a nandroid backup of your ROM before you delete root, just in case! You can never be too careful!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spdwiz18:
Quote: Go into /system/etc and find the install-recovery.sh file that you renamed originally, and rename it back to install-recovery.sh. (This will ensure that the stock recovery will be restored on first boot)

what if there is no install-recovery.sh file!!!!!! under system/etc?

i didnt delete it!!!!!!! i was woundering way everybody was talking about renameing it? i dont have that file..
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
Hmmm....try just /etc. Is it in there? Every stock Android build since 2.3.1/GRH78 has had that file in there. It checks the MD5 hash of the current recovery and if it doesn't match up, it flashes the stock one over it. That's really strange.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spdwiz18:
Nope .... no such file. I even did a search for it with root explorer and it does not come up. If worse come to worse ill pull it from someone's Tom just so I have it on my phone. But I know I did not delete it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
That is very strange indeed. I wonder if Google didn't install it on the Nexus S 4G. Can any other NS4G owners verify if /etc/install-recovery.sh exists on your phone?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
Thanks once again!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2k:
I can confirm finding /system/etc/install-recovery.sh. I renamed it install-recovery.sh.bak in order to get CWM Recovery to stick.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spdwiz18:
well then!!! i dont know where the hell it went then. can some one post there backup copy so i can replace it? just in case!!!!!!

it not even in my first nandroid backup. as i have made sevral alread for the changes that i have made

this is weird.

though, i will tell you a little story and see if this makes sence:

1st i did the oem unlock

2nd before i flashed cwm i tried to boot into recovery and all i got was a blank screen and the soft keey were lit. nothing happened for a few min so i did a batt pull.

3 installd wrong cwm 3.0.0.5 via fastboot recovery and got the cache errors that everyone else got.

4 installed superuser via zip file. failed tried twice both failed

5 reinstalled correct cmw 3.0.2.4 via fastboot recovery and all works fine.

6 retried to install su via zip file and works.

7 i have rom manager and that need to do an install on cmw in order to work fully. and it does everything it is suppose to. could rom manager have deleted the file?

now i have 3 backups

1st stock out of the box with cmw , root, su

2nd predeodex

3rd post deodex

the install file was in none.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldblue910:
Did the unrooting go smoothly for you?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zikronix:
neither did I so your not alone