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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] FK1983:
Ok, I had a Samsung Galaxy S this time last year which I ended up returning within the 14 day "Trial" and went for the iphone 4 instead.

My main concern and the main reason I went back to Apple/ios was because of the fantastic developer support the idevices have, they have pretty much every major big name developer and all the indie developers making games and apps for the platform, this just wasn't the case with Android last year, I was soooo disappointed by the gaming side of things with android.

Anyway, a year has passed and i'm back! this time with an Xperia Play with the latest Android OS and i'm ready to see how much has changed in that year! but wait..... still pretty much how I left the scene a year ago with the exception of gameloft and rovio who now release decent games on the platform.

My questions:

Where are all the big name developers on Android? why aren't they here? will they ever be here? infinitly blade, plants vs zombies, real racing, field runners, we rule etc?

Where are all the great apps and games from the Apple App Store? surely its easy to port them over to Android? and the ones we do get look bad compared to the idevice versions even though our android devices are more powerful, why is this?

Have I backed the wrong horse again? I really hope not......

I love Android as an OS, very cool but I can't help but feel it is lagging so far behind in the app/game/appstore race that it can't ever compete now, am I wrong?

Our Android devices are very powerful, why are no games showing off our hardware? Asphalt 6 looks stunning on my Xperia Play and using the gaming pad is amazing but is that it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Brut.all:
1. Money. Still it's much easier to monetize your work in AppStore than in Android Market. First, Android community likes openness, free software, etc., but iPhone users... they could spend 1000$ for a featureless I'm Rich App ;-) Second, it's much easier to steal/pirate apps on Android.

2. Native development was neglected by Google for long time. Main effort was put into Java development and C didn't have access to many Android APIs. Recently Google has added most of required APIs, but...

3. Android devices are poorly supported by their manufacturers. If you want to use newest features in your app then you have to develop for <6 months old devices. And, as mentioned above, many features which are important for gaming were added recently.

4. Device differences. Even if all Android devices would be perfect and fully compatible with each other, there're still various screen sizes and resolutions, CPU/GPU power, etc. When you develop a game for iOS, you have to buy iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2, test it on these devices and set visual quality specifically for them, so game will run smoothly. If you want to develop for Android, you have to think of potentially every possible screen size, ratio and resolution, you have to test it on as much devices as possible and try to guess proper visual quality on a device or add feature for setting it by the user - as in PC games. It's much more complicated.

But I'm not a game developer, so maybe some of above problems aren't true and maybe there are more of them.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] FK1983:
Thanks! I didn't want to sound negative but would love to see Android do well on the gaming side of thing, hopefully this will happen one day?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] technoplunk:
Plants vs Zombies is due to be released on Android in the next couple months.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] FK1983:
Is that it?! :eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tricky103:
Hi

After finding that I had problems with the Gingerbread update draining very quickly it was apparant that something somewhere was wrong, as other people was experiencing very good battery life.

The android os is not letting the phone go into sleep mode..

I got my phone to work correctly and this has worked for many others who I have spoken with..

Ask customer to back up all relevant data, or do it for them.. Then clear off the internal SD.

Use Odin and flash an Eclair rom, with repartition and pit 512

I use :- http://www.multiupload.com/BEPEXOJKY2

JM9 PDA

JM4 Phone

JM1 CSC

Let the phone bootup to the dashboard, then switch straight off back into download mode..

From here flash the JV* rom of your choice, with no PIT or no repartition.

Once complete put and the phone has booted put back the required contents onto the SD.. Best keep it to a minimum, just titanium backup etc and other essentials.

Hope it works for you

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] maartenlaeven:
What have you done with bootloaders?

Have you flashed the froyo bootloaders when downgrading and then the GB bootloaders when upgrading again? Or just kept the GB bootloaders during both of the flashes?

hope this works...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tricky103:
I flash the full roms, so it flashes the boot loaders on each and every flash that I do
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mbr01:
What exactly is the theory behind this trick?

Flashing to Eclair, and then flashing to Gingerbread. Sounds weird...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tricky103:
Updates OP.. Now with Download and Images..

I think it would work with any firmware that you can repartition and use a pit.. But for me JM9 works a treat.. It sounded strange to me also.. But I tried it and it went fine..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Raider0001:
Looking good until you trigger draining again by any app ?!?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tricky103:
Not getting no where near as high drain though.. As you can see by the 2 images the drain should be high as WiFi is on constantly.. I don't use many apps, but Tapatalk, email and tweetdeck is all set to 30 minute updates..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
This procedure doesn't make sense, I don't believe it. Probably the first JV* flashing procedure wasn't done properly or something.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tricky103:
How do you mean doesn't make sense !!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!!

I had crap battery with jvk jvb and jvh. This install method sorted it all out... Maybe an extreme way of going about it...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jbdroid:
What is this??? Just 3 days for this trick?! I can even use mine for 4 days on stock JVB (with some UI mods though) on moderate use. And apps still trigger Android OS problem? So what is this exactly?

EDIT: Just saw your battery usage screenshot. Sorry but I doubt it much. Your phone signal went crap (red bars) but the graph didn't even flinch a bit...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
Ι mean that it is not a logical fix, hence, it doesn't make sense. Explain why this works, and then I'll believe it's not a coincidence....

You flash one rom, then you flash another one including bootloaders, wiping the first one entirely, then you reflash the first one including bootloaders on top of it, wiping it again entirely. What changes? Why does that improve the battery?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Raider0001:
We do not know what is it but from what i know it is not: modem driver i have now set to 2G only data OFF wifi off gps off sync off and task killer killing everything but not clock when screen goes off, screen set to minimum brightness i have deleted samsung update app and some other apps (facebook etc) on desktop only apps shortcuts no widgets no wallpaper its pure dark. Now when i launch gameloft intensive game for 30 minutes, turn it off and put phone in a pocket after some time i get it back and i could feel that back of a phone is little bit hotter (on back plate where CPU is i think) and from now on every maybe 3 minutes battery is going constantly down 1% by 1% until i do reboot nothing will stop doing that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] issybel:
No doubt about it, this trick works like a charm, I had a huge battery drain I flashed eclair then froyo then XWJVH, now I can use my phone moderately for more than two days with no problem, I ask everyone with battery drain to try it before judging, I know it doesn't make sense but believe me it does work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tricky103:
My belief is that it is not due to bootloaders, as the only problem they give is a corrupt screen.. I think that constant flashing possibly fragments the internal sd and system storage and flashing jv* without a repartition or pit doesn't makes the faults occur..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gentelman678:
How kernel JVH get more baterie life

How kernel JVH get more baterie life:confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Raider0001:
It is not kernels fault, it is android OS core triggering phone to not sleep because of hi cpu usage, im trying to do it now because of dirtiness i have made before flashing JVH.

Adding additional info: i could feel when sleep is not working, when i click unlock button screen goes ON immediately, when sleep was working screen goes on little bit later
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
what helped you here is the reflash with repartition

not flashing js*something first. could be the jv* only flash and you would not have drain again.

for me one app triggered drain not letting the wifi to change its state. noticed it as i had it set to turn off 10 seconds after screen and the stats showed the wifi on whole time.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
Interesting. So basically if someone updates from Froyo straight to JV* without repartition, they should, in principle, have great battery from the get go, right? (has anyone tried?) In that case there must be something wrong with how Odin flashes, not previously reported, since 512.pit is identical for Froyo and Gingerbread, and as far as we know the only thing that it does is to make the partitions.

What if we use Richtofen's method (the way he used to propose for flashing the leaked ROMs he posted), i.e. to flash first the pit file alone, with nothing else, then re-enter download mode with the 3button combo, and flash JV* without repartition or anything else. *Is there anyone who tried this and checked the battery?

This can potentially open a new line of investigation into how Odin works....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gentelman678:
I think that Your methode make a clean install of rom. But i think that is just a small update. I dont wont less my data and apk. I ask to give me another method to make more batterie life. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
id the app causing the drain

make sure thats the case

report to app developer ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Serious_Beans:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-us-carrier-names-revealed-atandt-attain-veri/

So not only do they have lame names, but SGS2 isn't releasing on T-Mobile, at least not now(but I hope it will eventually :/)
[General Questions and Answers] designgears:
Ya, those names make me want to import an SGS2.
[General Questions and Answers] oka1:
Yes I agree how can we "Function" "Within" T mobile when we cannot "Attain" the Galaxy S2............. this sucks............. and so does my pun......:p
[General Questions and Answers] Japro:
Why dont they just leave Galaxy S2? :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] D-Game:
History repeats itself... just like the original Galaxy S naming scheme but this time more terrible. :cool:
[General Questions and Answers] bluetoothless:
Maybe Samsung is trying to ATTAIN more respect by imroving how they FUNCTION WITHIN? Maybe an ETA on May 24th?????

Also, T-Mo's absence an indicator of ETA and merger/buyout?

CAPTIVATED
[General Questions and Answers] Serious_Beans:
That made me laugh

Wasn't a bad pun.

Yeah I do agree though, this sucks...lame ass names and no HSPA+ for T-Mobile.
[General Questions and Answers] kydkupa:
So i wonder if this will be a better buy than the Evo 3d for sprint users now. May have to change phones again.
[General Questions and Answers] I Am Marino:
These are funny names.
[General Questions and Answers] vbetts:
Just like everything else, they're running out of names. Samsung basically uses the same name for most if not all of their Android devices. Galaxy, and then just add a couple of words at the end of it. The next Galaxy is probably going to be called the Samsung Galaxy Burger.
[General Questions and Answers] rocketr2:
cant wait for the Verizon Function
[General Questions and Answers] Pickx:
Spirit Within?
[General Questions and Answers] Richard1510:
It made my laugh. I agree. The names are awful.
[General Questions and Answers] Daptonic:
I really couldn't care less about the names ... I really want the VZW one to be LTE capable.
[General Questions and Answers] bobbymokie:
retarded names for sure. but tmobile will be ok, getting the gs2's bigger brother. from tmonews:

The boys over at Thisismynext.com are running quite the scoop with codename “Samsung Hercules.” With a possible arrival date of August this one has some time to mature but the Thisismynext crew has quite the spec breakdown:

4.5″ 480 x 800 Super AMOLED Plus display

Android 2.3

NFC Support

42Mbps HSPA+ capable (category 24 HSDPA and category 6 HSUPA)

AWS plus 850/1900 MHz…they claim support for AT&T’s 4G will be here if the merger succeeds which interesting considering this phone is scheduled for August and the deal won’t close till next year?

Preliminary measurements of 5.16 x 2.76 x 0.37 inches, resembles the AT&T Infuse 4G

16GB internal ROM, 1GB internal RAM, expandable microSD memory up to 32GB

Qualcomm 1.2GHz dual-core APQ8060 processor??

8 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture and front facing camera for video chat

Micro USB transfer for HDMI

These are certainly some impressive specs and if they come to fruition will make for quite the beastly phone. This might be why Thisismynext claims this phone is tagged for the “over $350″ price category. Let’s see how this one develops.
[General Questions and Answers] 41LY45:
LOL.

Anyway,

It's Hercules on T-Mobile i heard. (A lot less lame)
[Galaxy S II General] EmilianM:
Could we do something like this "Optimized NightMode" also on Galaxy S II ?.. to optimize the Super AMOLED during the night ?

http://www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CF3DNightMode-238x197.jpg
[Galaxy S II General] dan13l:
The Screen Filter app does something very similar.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
+1 for Screen Filter, great stuff, use it daily.
[Galaxy S II General] skibadee:
It does do nightmode with chainfires driver on sgs2. I just installed it today.

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/cf3d-proxy-driver-brings-new-method-for-nightmode-promises-much-more/

It works amazingly! :-)
[Galaxy S II General] EmilianM:
thank for hint, but can this screen filter do also color filtering like here ?

http://jsharkey.org/blog/2010/07/01/android-surfaceflinger-tricks-for-fun-and-profit/
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Will972:
hi everybody, I wondered when we could benefit of one truth Sense 3.0 ( official porting) :D:D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raze599:
They probably wont port it officially. Doesnt make good business sense.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rory1980:
agreed, HTC won't release the Sensation/Kingdom sense 3.0 ROM's under the excuse that the DHD does not have the necessary hardware to support. In reality it's to make sure that we all buy the latest and greatest new handset.

I was running the Kingdom v.0.2 by Capychimp and RCMix and it was excellent, very impressive but still too many issues to be a daily runner for me. Future updates will be excellent I'm sure :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SERGI.3210:
also i´m running leedroid current version and 304 kernel with kalagas mixed and running lockscreen, weather, and sms-mms by sense 3.0!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Will972:
ok , but in the capy's Rom de navi bar is not the same , the icons are more smaller than the original sense3.0 navi bar .. and the resolution is not clean
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Will972:
When can benefit us of one Fully Ported Sense 3.0 on our DHD ?? i mean cause it's still a 2.1 Sense with some modification ..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma3x747:
There are two roms with real sense 3.0 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079108, this is real sens 3.0 ported from htc kingdom :) so have fun :D
[LG Optimus 2x] j.blaze:
Hi,

Does anybody know how to disable the auto capitalization on the LG Keyboard? I really like the keyboard, but I don't want the auto capitalization.
[LG Optimus 2x] ludovienne:
Setting -> Language & keyboard -> Lg Keyboard -> Word suggestion !
[LG Optimus 2x] j.blaze:
and than? There isn't anything about auto capitalization...
[LG Optimus 2x] JoaoMagalhaesBH:
Yeah, there's nothing about Auto capitalizaiton on the Word suggestion menu!

I just hate this Auto capitalization ****, it sucks so much!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Zspy1985:
Can someone try calling me? Send me a pm if you can thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gyaku_zuki:
Hey everyone!

I'm new to Android, and am a proud owner of a new Galaxy S II!

I love the phone, but with me being a techy type and gadgety type I've obviously heard a lot about rooting devices and so on.

I've heard a lot of perhaps dubious information about how rooting and removing the Samsung Hubs improves battery life, as well as removing the O2 branding I have on my phone. I'm interested in this but have some questions.

Firstly, are my assumptions above correct? Will I be able to improve battery life? Will rooting remove the branding?

Secondly, does rooting essentially erase the device - will I lose contacts, messages, settings and so on?

Next, does rooting void my Samsung warranty, and does it void my insurance?

I have one other question - in my Settings > About Phone menu, the kernel version is listed as:

2.6.35.7-I9100XWKDD-CL161513

root AT DELL103 #2

What is the last line there mean, the "root AT DELL103 #2" mean? Am I already rooted?

I'm sure these questions seem silly to some, and I'm sorry if these have been answered before. I'm very grateful for any advice from the more experienced Android users.

Happy to be joining you!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jblasrsx:
Congrats on the new phone! I'm jealous, I live in the US and we are still waiting for the SGSII. Anyway, I can't answer all your questions but I will answer what I know to be true. As far as battery life is concerned, once you root, you will need an app like Titanium Backup from the market to "Freeze" the media hub and other bloatware you don't want. Doing this will stop those programs from running all the time, which will definatly help conserve some juice. Rooting will void warranty, but if you run into any issues which will require you to warranty your phone, you can very easily put it back to stock with Odin. Odin is a tool that allows you to flash factory files and return you back to stock. Rooting will not erase you phone, it will just install an app called "Superuser" which will give you the extra privileges needed to run Titanium Backup and to do other fun stuff. And lastly, your phone is not rooted already, this is just what the Kernel is named. As far as the O2 branding removal, someone else will have to answer that for you, considering we don't have O2 here, sorry. Hopefully this helps in some way. Good luck and welcome to the community!

SGS Fascinate

Evil Fascination ROM

JT's Kernel

ED01 Radio
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 101matt101:
Rooting:

- won't improve your battery life

- won't delete any of your settings/apps/contacts/messages (or any other data)

- It will void your warranty (you can always reflash the stock firmware to get it back)

- Your Insurance is likely still valid (check with your insurance provider for conformation)

- Your aren't already rooted, mine said that as well, I don't know what it means

- Rooting won't debrand your phone, to do that you'll need to flash a generic firmware (available from one of the SGS2 dev threads on XDA)

I hope that helps you :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rooster19:
Matt, the man himself with the amazing guide is here :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gyaku_zuki:
It does help, on the battery life bit though, surely removing / freezing Samsung crap will improve it a bit? Or is the impact negligible?

If not, then is there much other point to rooting?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 101matt101:
I've made a load of YouTube videos on a) how to root and b) the +/- of rooting. Just search "mattj101101" in YouTube. They explain it far better than I can here. As for battery life, I've noticed no difference after rooting + or -
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rooster19:
I recommend subscribing to him also.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremium:
Looks like I'm not the only one with the same questions. I do have another question though: after you root the device, can you still use KIES to upgrade to newer firmware or do you have to flash?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 101matt101:
I'm not sure if this is a blanket answer, but my Kies now says it can't update but since Kies nearly bricked my phone updating to XWKE1, I'm not to bothered, it's a s**t piece of software, Odin is much faster/more stable. I recommend using it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gyaku_zuki:
Thanks guys - I think I'm gonna hold off on rooting until the process for SGSII is more established. Don't want to risk wrecking it just yet! In the meantime I've just taken to ending the Social Hub service.

On a side note, has anyone had a problem playing DRM-free files but the device complaining that "the device is not authorised to play this divx-vod content"? I have completed the VOD registration process but no luck. This is video that was taken on a compact camera, and plays fine on anything else.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
See divx .com and or a post in the FAQs

DRM content via divx register your device to play.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1065995

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greigster:
Followed all your youtube vids, brilliant, I couldnt have rooted without seeing how its done.

Have rooted my previous Nexus One and flashed CM nightlies but Samsung is totally different. The terminology in the rooting post is confusing for someone new to this.

Thanks for your help.

For anyone wanting to root, follow 101matt101 vids on youtube as it is as easy as 1 2 3
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 101matt101:
I know what you mean, I had an HTC Desire and using Unrevoked to root and CWM to flash new rooms/updates is totally different to flashing via Odin.
[HD2 General] mukesh_thiru:
Can we get WebOs on HD2?
[HD2 General] antaed:
As much as I would like this, it's very unlikely to happen mainly because:

1. the HD2 has very different hardware than Palm/HP Pre

2. there is not much interest coming from the developers on either side

Android flourished on the HD2 because the conditions above were of the exact opposite - similar harware (with Nexus One, Desire, etc.) and a lot of developers involved.