yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pyoung9:
Because someone asked and they had to edit it themselves but I only have a evo to work with so I'm unable to.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxymo123:
Anyone is working on rooting 1.72 WITHOUT downgrade?

At least just clean root without s-off.

greets
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fludizz:
Appearantly it is really wel secured since this ROM was released december and it is still not rooted. Best option so far is to downgrade and root. I haven't found any reference to a possible successful root of the 1.72 firmware. I am also unable to find any status/update on this subject...

If anyone knows more it would be appreciated! :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wheeliest:
u can do the g-free temp root/ s-off and fastboot load cwm and zing, no downgrade needed
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxymo123:
how?

ps. obviously we are talkng about permament root
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wheeliest:
easy.

i do all this and the fastboot flash cwm, once u get S-off u can flash a recovery one, u just wont have root on stock rom. so u must flash a rom.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=834228
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Utorrent76:
I recently received a replacement G2 with the 1.72 firmware(with wifi calling) so it had the Dec. update installed,and was able to root just as easily as I did back in Oct. Just follwed "blackprince310"'s method,and it worked like a charm.Again.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxymo123:
But did you make a downgrade?

wheeliest - you've flashed a new rom so it has the same disadvantages as downgrading.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
I thought the only T-Mob G2 ROM versions were 1.19 and 1.21, both of which are rootable by the "usual" methods?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wheeliest:
but i avoided the whole downgrading part by simply flashing a new rom....

and whats the disadvantages of that?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deaththeorist:
perhaps the replacement one came pre-ota-ed?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Utorrent76:
It had WiFi calling so it was definitely post ota.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxymo123:
Loosing the original rom? Which is good enough and needs only a few hacks.

Loosing all the settings and apps? Reinstalling 300 apps and setting them is the pain in the %$%.

Potentially dangerous process with goldcard?

So what for downgrading if one needs only the access to the system files and run some apps like adfree or dsp manager.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wheeliest:
have you used cm7? because stock rom is garbage compared to it..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxymo123:
What has it so much better? (apart from new layouts and bacgrounds?)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wheeliest:
everything about it, way more control over the phone, better performance, unlimited possibilities..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxymo123:
Don't want to be mean but:

CM7 Bugs/Not working/TODO:

Camera

Missing FM

Screen calibration support

First setup wizard restarts

and more:
[Nexus One General] taylorgangbitch:
Has anybody had any problems with the new update from Google? If so please tell info; I'm having trouble with my wifi doesn't wanna connect to anything; what should I do?
[Nexus One General] dnlsmy:
Hey, glad to see you got a Nexus One, but I don't think I've heard of that problem before on 2.3.4 yet...

Try reflashing the update?
[Nexus One General] taylorgangbitch:
How do I reflash the update?
[Nexus One General] dnlsmy:
Download the 2.3.4 update found on the General Section of the Nexus One thread, rename it to Update.zip, and boot into recovery by holding down the volume down key and the power button. Select Recovery from the Hboot screen and when you see the Android bug/mascot, hit the volume up and poet key together. When you see the options list, select "apply update.zip". Make sure the update.zip file is on the root of your memory card.
[Nexus One General] jmarinco:
You wiped before install 2.3.4?? I was having some problem because I didn't wipe the device before install the new firmware. So I advise you to trying wiping and then install 2.3.4.

You can wipe you nexus doing this:

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Tap Privacy.

3. Tap Factory data reset.

4. Tap Reset phone.

Or take a look to this link http://www.androidcentral.com/how-hard-reset-google-nexus-one
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirreal12:
How can I flash back to factory rom and how? Is there a place I can download the factory Rom? If not can someone help me out here? I sure would appreciate any help from anyone thanks!

:)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbush3:
If you are on ATT 1.83 software then this CWM installer, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1042736, will take you back to deodexed stock files and remove any currently applied theme.

But if you are looking for completely stock, odexed files, you would be better off flashing an SBF. It depends on what you plan to do with the phone after putting the stock files back on really.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
Guide

This is what you need. Will show you how to flash to 4.1.26, 4.1.57. or 4.1.83.

Depending on your version of stock, you will pick one to stop at. Personally, my phone was on 4.1.26 when I bought it, so that is stock to me.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirreal12:
Thanks alot both of you!

What I needed was what you posted CaelanT, I got my phone back to norm. Thanks for the help. ^^
[Xperia Play General] landgateblue:
Hi can anyone recommend a site that can unlock my xperia play which is locked to virgin mobile? thanks :)
[Xperia Play General] AndroHero:
try here :)

www.OnlineGSMUnlock.com
[Xperia Play General] thatsupnow:
Www.cellunlocker.net works great did two phones the other day thru them
[Xperia Play General] FK1983:
I too would like to unlock my Virgin Mobile Play, those links above are very expensive :eek:
[Xperia Play General] landgateblue:
I have got my phone unlocked by virgin for £15 but they send the unlock post through the post and it could take upto a week!
[Xperia Play General] FK1983:
are you still in contract with them? I am so would they still provide one?
[Xperia Play General] landgateblue:
No im not in contract with virgin!
[Xperia Play General] kenshindono:
i'am going to wait Three months and call them it's Free BTW :D

Why would i pay and of course we could use Gingerbreak for Root so no need to unlock the SIM with a contract still ongoing
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmxfelon420:
I was just wondering what kind of performance settings people use/recommend for CM7 on our phones. Right now i've been running the following

Clock:710

Governor:Smartass

compcache:18%

jit: disabled

vm heap size: 24m

Is there anything else to consider? I was just curious as to how other people run their phones.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CH3NO2:
Get a ram/memory app and up the phones internal task killer settings.

Then I'd disable compcache.

Raise vm heap size to 32m because you're on gingerbread

disable jit

if possible buy adw ex launcher :D

vrrm vrrrm SKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKRRRRR!

lol you're good to go now :D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmxfelon420:
i'll change it up a little and try that out. I have autokiller installed, what settings work best for it? The only thing i usually run that might be an issue is the sirius app (or pandora).
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emarietta:
480 min

604 max

jit disabled

compcache disabled

24m

no autokiller or anything, run widgets, on tazz v27 and runs perfect fast and good battery life
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darca:
Right now what I'm running is:

Jit enabled

Compcache disabled

VM heap size: 32MB

Min: 245

Max: 729

I'm kind of a serious noob, but the speed is awesome and my battery life is fantastic. Yesterday device was on for 14 hours I used 20% with 7 calls and moderate texting.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CH3NO2:
never use a task killer b/c those kill the battery, but you should find an alternative to that buy getting a memory management app so android kills the task with its own task killer :D

but also try upping the max cpu speed and comcache isn't good IMO for speed
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmxfelon420:
i'll keep that in mind, i use autokiller mostly to manually kill tasks; it actually adjusts the built in memory management settings so there's no speed loss there. If it has other functionality, i dont use it.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seittit:
{insert generic cop compliment}
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CH3NO2:
did a bit of research and just use this instead of killing task...you'll never have to worry about killing a task again

echo "2048,4096,6144,21000,23000,25000" > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree

add that to one of your init.d scripts files and you're good to, or just make your own script file with that inside of it

/sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree

^make sure that is the location to your internal task killer and BOOM! no more "auto" task killer battery drain and wasting time manually killing task...this takes care of it for you

how does it replace an task killer app

i read up on it from this guy
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
Anyone have tried to change the default speaker with a better one?

Is it possible? And if yes how difficult?

The default one sounds like a fart from turtle ass, so that's why I'm asking.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] ericc191:
I'm sure it's possible, but finding one that doesn't sound like crap would be difficult.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] mk27:
I also would like to know. It's a bit quiet. I sometimes miss calls when it's in my pocket.

Vibration is useless too :(
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] ericc191:
Let me see if I can find that teardown link. Maybe we can get a good picture of what it looks like.

EDIT: Here's the link.. http://tjworld.net/blog/htc-desire-z-tear-down
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
It looks like there is an easy access to that speker - after removing the rear cover:

http://tjworld.net/attachment/blog/htc-desire-z-tear-down/IMG_0235-small.jpg

It stays on the cover, not on the phone side.

However the speaker sits in the rounded plastic shell so replacing with a bigger one would mean playing with cutting it. Am I right?
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] ericc191:
You are correct, but it's nothing too hard.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
So anyone would suggest a good speaker replacement?

It has to be something what fits in the amount of place there.

Maybe there are better solutions of the same size?

I'm compete amateur at this.

ps. and then how to mount it.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] ericc191:
I seem to recall the galaxy s speakers being pretty nice.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
"cell/mobile phone speakers" searching phrase doesn't work well for this matter. So I don't know how to find any such accessories on web.

Dissembling galaxy s for that wouldn't be cost effective, would it? :)
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] mk27:
Hmm so the speaker is just too small - it'll have to be an extreme hack (i.e one which involves modifying the casing).

Any chance i could move the mainboard to Touch Pro 2 and keep the rest :P
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] ericc191:
Lol, That would be pretty sweet
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
So anyone knows where to buy phone speakers (the interior ones)?
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] mejorguille:
After some googling, I found you this:

http://www.cellulardr.com/samsung-g...and-headset-jack-connector-samsung-i9000.html
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
Thanks.

The site is great!

However the link points to an earpiece speaker not a loud speaker parts.

I've made a search for loud speaker there. Now which one would you suggest for the replacement?

ps.

This one looks big:

-------edit------

However the one should meet some requirements, for ex. for current and the connection.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] ericc191:
I'm still trying to find out more info on this.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] infamousjax:
Why not just use headphones? A lotta work involved here to just make the phones speaker a tad better. Not worth it IMO.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] ericc191:
I think you have missed the point of this thread.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
Exactly.

Think before you unintentionally start trolling.

Ive founf spare parts for nokia 5800 and what's written there is that there is ONE loud speaker not the two ones I thought nokia has.

However, if I'm wrong and there is ONE speaker that makes 5800 play so incredibly, it would be the nice direction to go to.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
I have found where to buy nokia 5800 loud speaker.

http://www.mobilemonsters.lv/speaker-nokia-5800_p1028.html

There is some electronic info in the picture.

Anyone would help me understand it?

I can't find any electronic info about HTC loud speaker.

So please help me to compare the parameters of the two speakers. I mean especially voltage and resistance.

Will the Nokia 5800 speaker work on HTC Desire Z?
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] funkeee:
I used to build speakers and it will be difficult to get quality sound with such limited space. We can use a very expensive and tiny single driver. But even with high end drivers, a single one won't be able to cover a wide range of frequencies well, and there will be distortion at higher volume at certain frequencies. Or we can use a tiny cross-over and two tiny drivers (tweeter and woofer), or even three. I haven't looked at the disassembly, but I fear there isn't much room for more than single driver. Ultimately we will have to face some distortion, but this speaker is really awful so I'm open to it.

Unfortunately really small components like these are very expensive from audio parts stores. If you're not ripping apart another phone, the best bet would be these:

Bose IE2 ($100 at Best Buy) and you get two for that price.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] sino8r:
Instead of trying to retrofit a speaker, why not try volume+? It helps sound volume and quality. It works wonders for me...
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] funkeee:
Even with higher volume, the quality is terrible... at least on my device.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Maxymo123:
If you compare the sound quality of Desire Z speaker with the quality of Nokia 5800 speakers it's like night and day.

I've made several trip parties using my nokia 5800 and a bowl. So you can imagine.

Trying any volume + is worthless with this speaker.

And we are not talking about earphones.

People please read carefully.

We are talking about HOW TO MAKE DESIRE Z SOUND BETTER ON THE LOUD SPEAKER.

While the spare parts are quite cheap (about 10 dollars) it's only a matter of:

- compatibility

- ability to disassembly the Desire Z - and again this looks quite easy to get to the speaker.

So the problem looks to be very easy to solve.

What I (we) need is the good info about the COMPATIBILITY of other speakers like the one from Nokia 5800 with Desire Z.

And that was my question.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] sino8r:
I know nokia has always had great speakers and several feature phones have way better than the desire z. I agree with ya. I was a cell tech for 5 years and did some retro fitting with loud speakers. It is certainly possible. Just was throwing volume+ out there because it does help with sound quality. Its minor but a noticable improvement... I mean it is just upping the dbm and adjusting via equalizer. Are you quite positive your speaker isn't busted? If so, then take the phone to a 3rd party cell shop and the tech there might replace it with a better speaker. If you're handy with stuff, remove it yourself... size it up and find one that is relatively the same size. It will be kinda tough but it could be done. Good luck!

Bottom line... is voltage is going to be close enough not to have an issue. Soldering might be required. And finally, the size is what matters. You could use spacers or sand off a bit of the backhousing to get it fit correctly but it can be done. No one has seemed to replace their speaker on the desire z with another type so I don't know what else you can do but take it apart and give it a try.

---------- Post added at 11:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:35 PM ----------

If you're going up to a higher volume... adjust the equalizer or you'll have distortion. Nice to see you again, funkeee! Been around tmonews in a while?
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] MetalMessiah78:
Even if you could replace the speaker with a bigger one, you're not going to get the sound quality that you desire. Though the speaker is pretty crappy, the problem lies with the amplifier powering the speaker and the crossover that's built in.

If you increase the voltage to the amplifier, you might get higher volume, but the crossover is still going to limit the frequency going to the speaker. Even if you were able to find a speaker that was more efficient (needs less power to sound louder), the crossover will still limit the frequency response.

If you were able to find a way to limit the crossover the sound will be richer, but will start to distort at a lower volume, since the amplifier does not have enough voltage to power the speaker with the added frequencies you are trying to send to it.

You could get significantly better sound if you were somehow able to increase the voltage going to the amplifier and change the frequency cutoff point of the crossover.

Volume+, which increasing the decibel limit, does not increase the power going to the amplifier. I do use it to boost the volume a little, especially when listening to podcasts, and it does help, but it introduces distortion before you can reach the volume level of other mp3 players like iPods.

If you were to find a bigger speaker that could fit, the most likely possible setback would be that it needs more power then the OEM speaker and would probably sound less loud then the one in there now. If you would try to boost the decibels going to the bigger speaker using Volume+, it would start to distort, so you would be forced to cut the bass to it, since lower frequencies require more power than higher frequencies to sound the same volume, so you would end up with the same trebley and tinny sound that we have now. This is not even taking into consideration the crossover that is built in which rolls back the lower frequencies as the volume is increased, to prevent distortion and damage to the speaker.

Unfortunately, I know this is not what you want to hear, but that's the way things like this work. If you can find a way to increase the voltage going to the amplifier, without damaging it, and limit the crossover a little bit you will get better results.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] killj0y:
Galaxy s 4g speaker is epic! Lol

Ps put your phone in a cup easy remedy lol.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] skinnyveganboy:
OP has said that he's missed calls due to not hearing the ring because of the speaker. not that the op wants to DJ a party using nothing but his phone.

Keep this thread alive OP, I don't see any reason why this is impossible. I've been modifying electronics for years.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] sino8r:
If you're just going for loudness, volume+ (market app) does wonders! I like to set it to volume 8 on all 3 and bass at +3 and equalizer as beats. There's a hack for call volume and speakphone too! I recommend 40 steps. Check it out! Works good too! And made by fellow xda member and old friend, Meltus. He has been doing volume/sound hacks since the beginning of Android. So who better than to trust?
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] s14mc:
dude u are the man, thanks for takin me to school this morning. it all now makes sense
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] eneka:
I'll hack my phone open once my warranty ends...which is in a couple of days:D

the speaker utterly sucks, especially when used as a speakerphone.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] jaszek:
Having taken apart my G2 twice, there is nothing special about the speaker. It's a typical speaker that just lays there in the designated area with the contacts of the motherboard matching up with the ons on the speaker. You'd need to have an exact one in size and with same contacts if you want to just replace it.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] nagash91:
Hi all,

I disassembled my broken nokia 5230 that have a good back speaker.

I don't know if it can fit in desire z, and for now I don't want to open my desire z.. (I bought it 2 week ago :D )

Here the photos:

In future probrably I'll try to open my desire z
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] MetalMessiah78:
@s14mc - No problem. I used to be big into hacking stereos, amplifiers, crossovers, etc when I was younger, so I learned that stuff along the way, usually the hard way.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] jaszek:
When I'm bored I'll take a look on my G2, but I don't think it'll fit.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] phillyd420:
I tryed to do this didn't work so well
[Xoom General] sfld:
Go to your settings menu then / about tablet / then tap on android version 3.0.1 multiple times and a bumble bee comes up? Anyone seen this before?

Mod edit: Please refer to THIS THREAD for all discussion on the Honeycomb Easter Egg.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
Yes...do on gingerbread its better

Sent From My Evo
[Xoom General] Kcarpenter:
Got nothin on my Wifi model. Sad Day. :confused::(
[Xoom General] Kcarpenter:
Nevermind got it. Nifty!
[Xoom General] MitchRapp:
keep tapping, don't just do it once. tap tap tap

after 5 taps the REEEZZZZZZ bee came up for me - WIFI Canadian version 3.0.1 with Tiamat here...
[Xoom General] burden010:
Yep, Google likes to put these little easter eggs in.
[Xoom General] MitchRapp:
wish the zombies on my N1 GingerBread danced :P
[Xoom General] willverduzco:
Thanks for letting us know. I had no idea about this!
[Xoom General] sfld:
no problemo!
[Xoom General] vamp6x6x6x:
Yea youtube told me and its pretty cool
[Xoom General] Sebianoti:
Can someone post the artwork? c'mon not all of us have Honeycomb
[Xoom General] willverduzco:
You can see what it looks like by clicking my story on the XDA portal...
[Xoom General] B Dizzle:
Wow I posted this a month ago and now someone else posts and it shows up on the front page .....
[Xoom General] ocdtrekkie:
Yeah, it's kinda funny how that happens on XDA. Sometimes they'll announce tricks on the Portal I assumed everyone already knew about months ago. People found this easter egg out before the Xoom was even released.
[Xoom General] indierocker774:
So the message of this story is to tap the hell out of the Android Version tab in settings every time we update to a new version of Android.... GOT IT!! XD
[Xoom General] willverduzco:
Sorry about that, B Dizzle! I simply didn't see your post. It was not intentional.

I found your post and have changed the link on the portal.

Since this is a duplicate, I am closing this thread. Please use B Dizzle's Thread for further discussion of this Easter Egg.

PS. In the future if I miss something, please PM me and I will promptly correct it. In addition to being more discreet, I will be able to respond sooner.

Your friendly Moderator / News Writer.