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[Eee Pad Transformer General] dazz87:
Totally agree, i was planning to check out at the 10.1, but now knowing there's no micro sd card, and hdmi port forget it....total failure...and they r pricing 100 bucks more then TF...they should go ahead and place an apple logo on the back of it!!!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] slowhatch:
i dont know about "total failure" im guessing they will still sell like hot cakes, but i still am a firm believer that @ 399 the transformer is a better bang for the buck. It is kind of dissapointing to see that the tab is missing the hdmi & sd slots, those are two VERY important items to have left out. No expandable storage and no hdmi out of the box is a major downer. But at the same time what it lacks in ports/storage it may make up for in a crazy battery life, and beautiful form. To some people--most consumers, those things are more important because they couldnt really care less about what how far you can really push the new hardware. Most of them will be happy to sit on the couch, hit the browser button, and watch some youtube vids and think it was money well spent. That doesnt cut it for me, and probably wouldnt cut it for any of the people reading this right now, but we, as much we hate to admit it, represent a truly small user base of most devices. With all the things the TF brings to the table there is no better value for the dollar right now, im sure that will change as to more devices come to fruition but as of now thats where my money lies--now if only i could get the damn thing shipped to me already.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] MikeyMike01:
The Galaxy S was the first to get Gingerbread besides the Nexus phones. Not too shabby.

Sent from my Xoom
[Eee Pad Transformer General] funnycreature:
Personally, I am waiting for the Galaxy Sii to replace my iPhone 3GS. I have no need for custom ROMs etc. as long as the stock performs well. Since I am new to the Android world I mostly only regurgitate what I read as long as it makes sense :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gadgetfann:
I'm spoiled now by the keyboard dock w/battery. Unless a competitor comes up with a similar configuration, Asus has the only tablet worth considering IMO.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] foxmeister:
Perhaps some people get out of their houses for extended periods of time and might not have easy access to their collection/PC to download other movies.

I frequently travel for business for 4 to 5 days at a time and I like to load my my tablet(s) with a wide variety of films/TV shows to fill the time when I'm not working. If I'm going on holiday, I might take several microSD cards crammed with video, not just for me but for my wife and kids.

So, for me, it's not a "load of crap", it is absolutely *essential*.

Regards,

Dave
[Eee Pad Transformer General] netscorer:
Dave,

I am new to the tablets but I wanted to ask you, if you need many movies, why won't you put them on the SD card? What is the advantage of putting movies on the internal memory?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bleclair:
Personally, I'd like a happy medium of ports and functionality / size. Pretty much exactly like the Transformer is right now.

No external memory slot or external HDMI on the Samsung, AND more expensive AND no IPS screen?

No, thanks.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dfin13:
Honeycomb needs a "sexy" tablet, like it or not, and this Samsung is it. Xoom, Iconia, and Transformer are great tabs, but they appeal to the Android fan who doesn't mind a utilitarian look to their devices. The Samsung will draw in those on the fence with its "it's so light and thin!" factor, and that's good for all of us.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SonicTab:
What it really needs is a faster processor,

Tegra 2 and HC just can seem not give the smooth iOS like experience.

Once that happens Android tablets will take off,

But then I'd expect apple to raise the bar with a retina display.

Lots of fun ahead...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dfin13:
Well a faster processor or an optimized Honeycomb. Who knows how well it will work when Google gets around to actually taking advantage of the tablet hardware?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bleclair:
As someone else said on another forum, it's a fun time to be a geek! :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Kippui:
32gb + 32gb Sd card = 64gb of combined space.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tornadog:
this may be the tablet yet. for the 2 weeks I owned the transformer, I didnt put a single thing on the 32GB microsd I had put in. I am not mobile for extended periods, so I can easily swap videos if ever needed from my desktop.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Geekbabe:
Samsung is all about image quality, that tablet is sleek, geek sexy, the screen will no doubt be gorgeous, remember,the average consumer doesn't want nor care about many of the things that early adopter geeks do.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Geekbabe:
I don't mind the look of my Transformer but I'd be lying if I said I like that fact that it's brown, LOL, being able to choose colors would be a HUGE selling point!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bleclair:
Yeah, I'm not too picky about color and I like the overall design, but.... Brown??

Reminds me of the Brown Zune. :D
[HD2 General] rodrigok100:
I get my HD2 from Ebay, but it comes with an user already "ramanagment", y tried to eliminated this account but i can't and perform a hard reset as well but the account still there, what can i do???????
[HD2 General] orangekid:
A hard rest should erase all that stuff. Try it again.
[HD2 General] rodrigok100:
No, unfurtanely not, i don't know what;s wrong with this cellphone i did the reset throught the menu and boot reset but even with those the phone keeps the programs, account, settings everthing i don't know why
[HD2 General] orangekid:
You're not doing a real hard reset, you're doing a soft-reset.

Do this:

1) On the Home screen's Settings tab, tap Menu > All Settings > System > Clear Storage.

2) Enter 1234.

3) Tap YES to perform the reset, or tap NO to cancel the reset.
[HD2 General] johnerz:
If its still there then format the sd card :)
[HD2 General] orangekid:
SD card won't make a difference, you can actually just take it out and not even use it if you want, it has no bearing on settings etc.. unless you are flashing a custom ROM using sashimi or UC or other restoration things.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Treken:
One of two things I'd like to do.

1.create an android theme app for the cm7 theme manager

2.or, be able to cook/insert theme into a post inc rom build. Can someone help or point me to someone who can?

I realized this topic had been covered for other devices but not the inc.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meepz:
I'm not sure if this is what you mean.. pretty much just follow this guide and by the end you just have to drag the file to your phone and install then select it from the T-Mobile theme chooser.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=964391
[EVO 4G General] bparvin:
Based on the new 18 month upgrade rule Google is putting in place it seems like EVO is guaranteed to get Ice Cream Sandwich. Great news!!

Sorry if this was posted already, but I glanced the top post in General and didn't see this. Delete if duplicate.

I saw it on the I/O stream but here is Engadget mentioning it as well:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-partners-with-oems-and-carriers-to-guarantee-android-upda/

More details at Thisismynext:

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/10/google-promises-android-devices-updates-18-months/
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Please post link to new rule.

It makes it easier to discuss the matter. :)

Edit: Thanks for the links.
[EVO 4G General] sgt. slaughter:
Long as the hardware can handle it......
[EVO 4G General] bparvin:
That is the only sticking point I can think. Unless they add more details/restrictions about customized versions as well.

I can't see why the EVO shouldn't meet the requirements for ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) Unless they add some huge GPU related features that can't be shut off built directly into the OS.
[EVO 4G General] brown14you:
This rule will only apply to devices that will launch from NOW going forward.
[EVO 4G General] thegregbradley:
None of this 18 month rule stuff matters if you're already on AOSP. Our phone will get ICS if CM and others support it, guaranteed. The original motodroid has CM7... the EVO will live on!
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
Nice to see steps being taken - or attempting to do as such - in the right direction.
[EVO 4G General] dabbill:
also teams like Cyanogen Mod will port icecream to alot more devices then what google says will run it.
[EVO 4G General] bparvin:
I enjoy the AOSP roms from CyangonMod and others but official releases just make those ROMs that much better.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
yeah.. good step in the right direction

but...

it is for new phones and moving forward.. evo is not new.

LOOPHOLE: as hardware permits.. this is a huge veto card (and who makes that call)... 512kb RAM maybe an issue.
[EVO 4G General] bparvin:
Did you read this or are you assuming? I haven't read that anywhere and didn't hear that during the live stream.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
you are right.. have not seen that in black and white....

but... i would bet it is only new released phones.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Ice cream looks like it will finally include HW acceleration. Honeycomb tablets are probably all Tegra 2 powered because of software compatibility. I think that ice cream will be very similar. Google said ice cream is comming later this year (fall I think), and with the N1 probably falling outside of 18 months old at that point, we might not see first gen Snapdragon/adreno support at all in AOSP/Android.

My guess is that Google will release a dumbed down version for low end phones and that'll be the version that CM ports over to older devices.
[EVO 4G General] bigant262:
Pretty sure Evo will get Ice Cream, they said no hardware requirements for it. And Evo is Sprints flagship phone still, pretty sure they are going to keep updating it until everyone can get a new phone.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Where did they say there's no hardware requirements? In fact, they said updates will come if the hardware permits. Thus hinting that there will be at least soft requirements.

BTW, by the time ice cream drops, the EVO will look like the G1.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
evo 3D and kingdom will be out by then.... and that would push evo off sprints top dog chair. before ice cream will be released in Q4.

I love my evo.. but i think 2.3 is as for officially it will go.
[EVO 4G General] Solicitous:
This will certainly kick ass, Sprint will most likely put the new OS onto the Evo because it is still one of the best phones on the market despite it being released for almost a year
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
You guys aren't reading....

Sent from my spaceship!
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
This just mad my day.

But yes, the evo may not get it, as it "technically" is an older device, so you'll have to wait on a port.
[EVO 4G General] :
Well if you count the fact that most new devices are coming with..More than the 512mb RAM that we have now then ice crewmen will mostlyikely have those requirements for that. Fact is the evo OS showing its age. Look at the newer devices coming with gingerbread. Do you expect the evo to be the top dog when the 3d is designed to replace the evo. Even HTC will eventual pull the plug. We will have to troyon the community for this one guys.help sense 4might be out before then and using some of the 3 sense ports it sort of lags now that maybe because of it being a port but official support from HTC proba. bly won't happen phones phase out fasts.

Also the time it took to get gingerbread on our evo .. is it really a flagship phone to HTC and Sprint still. If it was it could have been released sooner. They have the future to look forward to.

I just got my evo its great really is but I can see sometime down the road it won't be the beast it is now. If we get ice cream I don't expect it to go any farther. Notice ice cream from the devs here in the community.

Sent from my PC36100 running them liquid hydrogen rockets.
[EVO 4G General] rushco:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-clarifies-18-month-android-upgrade-program-details-far-f/

Google clarifies 18 month Android upgrade program, details far from solidified
[EVO 4G General] mlin:
Are old device is going to be grandfathered into this new rule?

Tapa tapa tapa
[EVO 4G General] rushco:
4 posts before yours has the answer.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13661781&postcount=19
[EVO 4G General] southparkeric:
Our evos can get icecream sandwhich right now. Just goto walmart freezer section and place an icecream sandwhich right on top of our evo...
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
Yeah... ummm... I wouldn't count on EVO getting ICS.
[EVO 4G General] mlin:
Not really but thanks anyway.

Tapa tapa tapa
[EVO 4G General] bparvin:
People are interpreting it differently right now. Some articles state it will be only for newer models coming out and some state differently. There are no set guidelines out yet.

I thought I read Andy Rubin saying he would like ICS to work on older models as well. Unfortunately I am having trouble finding among all the different feeds I have on Android. If I find it I will post it.
[EVO 4G General] boliviano3:
Unless you're on CM :D
[EVO 4G General] :
Note it could need 1GB Of RAM. If so idk if even CM could down it well enough to be useable. Also It could be incompatible hardware wise.
[EVO 4G General] evoman:
I dont get it. Even if ice cream isnt a major change, which I know it is, I have an issue messing with my phone and cant stop!!! Thanks to Google, HTC, and all of the devs. Oh and go WINGS!
[EVO 4G General] ldominguez1986:
I don't know about that cuz the nexus s only has 512 mb of ram too and i'm sure that phone will get ics
[EVO 4G General] rushco:
I think that person was thinking about sense and how big that is. Ice cream won't be big at all just like gingerbread.
[EVO 4G General] waterboy100:
I dont know if this means anything but the phone on the top row, second from the left looks a lot like a HTC EVO. I think its a Sprint logo but i'm not sure
[EVO 4G General] :
Exactly. Any straight operating system is actually small but add in a few other things and keep adding and you end up with something FAT. but regardless IC will need more ram to use simple as that, but once you tack on SENSE and it being 3.0 or even 4.0 it would have use resource demands. Reason why HTC phones are coming out with more RAM probably.
[EVO 4G General] Zac95:
That's definetly an evo. My idea is that ice cream may come to the evo, but isn't q4 pushing the 18 month idea even? I've heard the t bolt is guranteed ICS so if all else fails, have no fear... the developer community will not, like GI Joe.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
It doesn't mean ANYTHING. The Samsung Behold (2009) is right next to it.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
^^^ true dat
[EVO 4G General] oddfuturejoey:
Can you imagine we're all here waiting for ICS and it ends up uglier than bin Laden's exit wound? I'd be disappointed :c
[EVO 4G General] waterboy100:
fair enough. i only recognized it, the droid on the right and the xperia(?) on the bottom left.

thanks
[EVO 4G General] snandlal:
Evo3d

Uncle Jimmy says hello
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdreco:
question is.. Do anyone use the APP Locale??

and if you do, what plugins do you use with it?? and is it even worth using??
[Fascinate General] KneeDragr:
So somehow my phone did not like the Froyo update, would not boot after install or even a factory wipe.

So Verizon swapped it for a refurbished one, Ive had it for 5 days.

It had 2.2 installed when I got it. However the phone is almost useless for me now, It wont last a full day with nothing on, no GPS, no WiFi, no mobile data, no apps running, only turning it on once or twice during the day to check things and each time I do the battery draining like crazy!

I used to get 5 days out of my old phone, literally, because I am not a big user. I actually did play with the phone the day after I received it, to personalize it, and I drained 50% of the battery in an hour!

This is the same battery as in my phone, you dont get a new battery with the replacement.

I think its a hardware problem with the phone, but a guy at work says its just the 2.2 update, that it slams the battery.

Im going to take it back to Verizon tomorrow and see what they will do for me. If they wont fix this, I will simply revert back to my old flip phone since it lasts 5 days and cancel my data plan.
[Fascinate General] AlexDeGruven:
Keep on them to get that one replaced. Something in your hardware is definitely borked.

Even running WiFi hotspot, I don't see anywhere near that kind of drain (50%/hour). At the very worst, my idle drain was about 9%/hour.

This is not a good thing.
[Fascinate General] beray5:
You need to make sure your old battery is calibrated to your new phone.

1 - install CWM recovery.

2 - tonight when you go to bed, power off your phone (power off is not screen off). Plug in your charger and charge overnight, USB charging prefered over wall power charging.

3 - in the morning when 100% charged battery is indicated, boot first into CWM recovery and wipe battery stats, after which boot back into Android then you can check for battery longevity again.
[Fascinate General] Scrappy1:
Wiping battery stats seems to be a placebo effect. For anyone with serious drain (several % per hour), wiping battery stats does nothing. Its a shame so many threads are corrupted with this misunderstanding when there are other very real sources of battery drain on froyo ROMS.
[Fascinate General] beray5:
It's perfectly normal for some people that wiping batterystats.bin did nothing useful, it's also perfectly normal for others to loose 1/3 of battery capacity from being uncalibrated.

It's definitely perfectly normal for some to loose 10% per hour from being uncalibrated.

This kind of variance often confused people.
[Fascinate General] KneeDragr:
After doing some experiments, I think its Froyo.

The reason is I turned off mobile data and the battery only drained 2% in 3 hours. Then I recorded some vids of my daughter and played them back with her and over those 3 hours it only dropped 6%. Seems pretty reasonable. I know in my original post I said I had mobile data off, but I realized I actually hadnt, sorry for the confusion.

So I turned on WiFi and GPS overnight and it only dropped 4% overnight.

So something in Froyo is sucking down huge amounts of battery when mobile data is turned on.

Or its still possible its hardware related, that the data radio runs non stop when its turned on, just seems unlikely.

A guy at work suggested turning off data roaming and turning back on mobile data and seeing what it did.
[Fascinate General] ChrisDDD:
I've had my phone draining at about 10% per hour before, never did figure out what caused the problem. But I flashed back to stock (following the instructions to get ED01 by flashing back to DL09 and then running the update.zips), and that seems to have fixed it. Since 2.2, I've stayed largely stock - stock kernel and just debloated the stock rom. So far, that's what I've found to give the best battery life for me - 48 hours on a charge on average.

Few things to do/keep in mind:

Clearing the battery stats might not solve the problem, but it can't hurt. Charge the phone to 100%, then turn it off but leave it on the charger. Once the powered off battery indicator on the screen shows 100%, boot into CWM and wipe battery stats. Take it off the charger, turn it on and use it normally until the battery gets down to 5% or below. Charge it back up and you're good to go.

Also, give it a few days/battery cycles to come up to full capacity. I seem to notice shorter battery life immediately after a wipe, but after a few days, it's back to the normal 2 days or so between charges.
[Fascinate General] beray5:
Definitely seem to be software problem instead of hardware, I suggest leaving everything on -Wifi, GPS, bluetooth, etc... and disable all data sync only one at a time to check for power usage.
[Fascinate General] AlexDeGruven:
Load up Spare parts and see what it says in Battery History. Under 'Other Usage', it should show that running is less than 100% (depending on your usage patterns, this could read anywhere from 10-90%, but it should never show 100%). Do this after having been unplugged for a while.

If running shows 100%, you have a wake lock, which is forcing the phone to be awake 100% of the time, rather than sleeping and using much less power.

You can use dumpsys power from an su terminal or adb to look and see if you have any locks.

If no locks show up, and running still shows 100% (or even if it doesn't) with mobile data on, then there's definitely something wrong with the data radio, and you should have it swapped.

Don't accept any other answer from either phone CSR or in-store rep. No matter how they try and excuse it, constant 10%/hour and up to 50%/hour drain is completely abnormal.
[Fascinate General] KneeDragr:
Ok this is what spare parts says

Running 5.2%

Screen On 3.1%

Phone On 0.5%

Wifi On 77.2%

Wifi running 55.6%
[Fascinate General] 420fan:
Try this, it will tell you what it causing the drain.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13534133&postcount=23
[Fascinate General] AlexDeGruven:
Is that with Mobile Data on? Are you still seeing 10%+/hour drain with those stats?

If you're seeing that kind of running time (which is good), and you're still getting huge drain (which is bad), then your phone is broken and needs to be replaced.
[Fascinate General] KneeDragr:
Thats total since all time.

So I had the phone all weekend with wifi and mobile data on, then one day with wifi off, then one day with wifi on, mobile data off.

But the battery was consumed the most with everything on, but still very high with wifi off and mobile data on.

Unfortunately a refurbished phone must be returned within 14 days if there is a problem with it. The remaining time on the 1 year warranty is voided.
[Fascinate General] hongha_222:
just use stock rom DI01package3.tar.md5 and battery is very good for me
[Fascinate General] AlexDeGruven:
According to the OP, you've had it for 5 days as of yesterday, which leaves you a full week+ to get it swapped again.
[Fascinate General] ace5198:
50% in an hour.. even if u use it the whole time is ridicuoulous.. prob a junk batt.. what are batt temps getting to??
[Fascinate General] piizzadude:
There is a setting in the WiFi area to have the WIFI automatically turn off when the phones screen turns off, you may want to look into it
[Fascinate General] ace5198:
who would actually want to do that.. dude froyo is a million times better.. i get 12-18 hours on heavy use, wifi, data, gps auto rotate all one.. running comm v1.3..

ov c to 1.3

1300-50

1200-50

1000

800

400-50

200-50

100-75

sio schedualer

amazing performance great bat life runz like a dream!!
[Fascinate General] bxojr:
I just want to report that I've been having similar experiences, and in my case it seems associated with signal strength.

If I'm at home all day (where signal is good, and I'm on wi-fi), my battery life is pretty good. Not as good as it was on 2.1, but acceptable.

But if I'm out driving around, or in a place where the 3G signal is weaker (maybe 2 bars or less, but I haven't really verified that), my phone gets uncomfortably warm in my pocket, and battery usage becomes horrible. I've had the phone drain from full charge to 20% or so in less than two hours.

This problem never happened before I flashed the DL30 Froyo leak. Since then, it has happened on every Froyo ROM I've run, including official ED01 and the community ROM.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mystycs:
I have two batteries now. Assuming I want to use a spare so I always need to calibrate now? Hour do I handle a spare battery?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radioraheem:
Find an app called BatteryLeft. It will help you manage two batteries.