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[T-Mobile LG G2x] leoolo:
I keep seeing all this trouble with gps while the fix is soo easy i tried it on so many roms cm7, weapon,...etc download an app from market called gps fix then open it hit settings then start then when you see alist of satalites hit inject extra data or some thing like that and you will get an instant lock.
[General Questions and Answers] dhirend_6d:
I have just flashed with Indroi v4.0!! Wanted to know what is the use of partioning the SD card with ext4 and swap partition??
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] llckll:
I have rooted my phone and ever since trying to modify the build.prop file to get netflix to work, my swype stopped working. I did a hard reset under settings > privacy but my Swype still does not work.

Please help!
[Galaxy S II General] evilegrob:
Hi,

I just received my new SGSII phone today, charged it to 100% and started using it.

Went through some settings and started downloading new apps from market, after 30minutes of use, and downloaded about 10apps, the last app that was downloading and installing was: Skype.

The screen started flimmering, and would not respond, also the screen went on a lower brightness.

I held in the power button to turn it off, now it wont turn on anymore.

Ive tried taking out and in the battery, theres no "charge" battery when i charge it, its just plain and simple.. Dead..

Anyone else experienced something with this? Is there anything i can try, or do i have to send it back..? Kinda irritating been waiting for this phone for 7months..

Thanks in advance for tips & help!
[Galaxy S II General] iznee:
i suggest you return it promptly and get a replacement..when i first got the gs2 i tried all kind of apps and tests on it including lcd test etc etc..and nil issues at all untill the bettery totally drained..than only i connected the charger and rested the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] evilegrob:
Yeah i guess its my only choice, talked to them earlier i can get a fix from 3-6days, most likely 6days because of the incoming weekend, i get the returnbag in my mail tomorrow.

Tried to browse for some answers, tried 20+ different combinations of charger+battery+power no hope so far, ill keep it updated if i find some random fix!
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Initial thought would be a dead battery as those are the symptoms .

But if it will not recharge with phone off its a bit of the hardware blown i guess .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Does this phone just suck or these are common Samsung Issues?

Why are so many people complaining of a device dying on them after a day or 2. I could imagine some idiot dropping it, or sitting on it. But to see a device die from installing application is plain stupid.

Seriously considering looking at alternate options.
[Galaxy S II General] aussiebum:
I reckon you're just seeing a small proportion of vocal people complaining about their phone. I've had my phone for two days so far and have had no hardware issues to speak of.

When you do large volume releases, faults are inevitable. I doubt if you bought a new release iphone (eg. iphone 5... when it comes out) that you wouldn't have people whining about issues with their phone either.
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
I certainly do see people whining about iPhones as well, but not in a broad range. Meaning, software issues, application issues, battery issues, screen issues.

In either case, this phone is great and I will most likely get it anyway, BUT it seems that the complaints are more wide spread where anyone can have an issue in any department at any given time. SO EVEN if you have your device in perfect condition at the time of purchase, 2 days later and issue can arise while trying to UPDATE a FW to cause a device to die.
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
A good percentage of my job is customer service(Any retail/service manager knows) and with that we have to make people happy. Generally we give surveys to the customers and hopefully they call/email to corporate to get our numbers up to standards.

What we and my coworkers learned long ago, most people who actually call to do surveys are usually complainers or people with issues. People who complain voices are louder.

If I make a thread saying how great my 3 week old samsung galaxy s2 is, it would probably get 20-30 post tops with maybe a 100 views.

If I make a complaint thread after owning a day, also threatening other sgs2 user with devices like sensation, iphone etc, that thread would get 100-200 post and 1000 views.

Believe me, theres more people with positive feedback then there is negative. I have none of the issues mentioned.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
This is like the tenth post from someone who doesn't have the phone bashing it and then ending with passive-aggressive statements like: "I'm going to cancel my order," "I'm keeping my (insert phone here)," or "seriously considering looking at alternate options." Then a bunch of people leap to the defense of the phone and try to convince them to get it. Without offense, to you and the other nine people, I don't care what phone you get. And I don't know you well enough to invest my time trying to convincing you one way or the other. There are probably a hundred thousand of these phones out in the wild. There are probably 100 user complaints on this board (not counting the same 100 people making the same complaint ten times). You do the math. If you want perfect, don't by anything electronic when its first released. Go read the G2X/O2X boards, you'll feel better about the SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
Its funny because most threads created are only 2-3max users thats having a problem. Nothings wide spread. Also havent seen any credible people making complaints. Its all new users and people that have been around long enough should know better.
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
While I agree with you that most people will not post their excellent experience in a thread, some do, and this certainly gives a positive response to the device. But when you visit a forum and continuously see new threads occurring with issues, it gives off the wrong impression. At this point, there is no other device that can live up to what Samsung is offering, even if you argue HTC or Motorola do, they lack in some ways or the other.

Thanks for your input.

Correct, I dont have the device hence I am on a forum trying to gather as much information before I make the purchase. If you feel like expressing that people are only here complaining about this device lacking a great build quality, consider how many other people here are mentioning a similar point of an issue.

This is a forum and people can express their opinions, if you do not like what people have to say, just move on to the next topic and let this one go on without you.

But to not be a hypocrite, I will also gladly accept your suggestions and move on to the next topic.

Hopefully the device that ends up in my hands is issue free, unfortunately in India, you have to try to deal with a service agency who only has you to blame for a manufacture's defect. "Guilty until proven innocent" and not vice versa. This is why people are a bit more concerned, its easier for me to get a swap when I am back in the U.S, but not here buddy.
[Galaxy S II General] evilegrob:
Thought it might be a circuit board problem or so, but after having the battery out all night, guess what.. it turns on again?

After 15minutes use, same thing, screen goes darken with a flimmering. I press some buttons, alot of white stripes appear, and after that blue lines appear and i shut it down, starts up, gets to the pin-code and it locks up, twice, and now it wont start up again.

So im not sure what the problem might be, but im gonna have the battery out for a few hours and try a hard reset, anyone know the buttons for that? (Reset factory settings)

If that does not work, its going in to the workshops later today :)

Even with these errors, i still think the phone is great though :p Got a 3590 quadrant score out of box! :D

*Edit, had the battery out for 1hour 30minutes, tried holding volume up + home + power, no reaction, tried just the power button, no reaction.

Guess ill try to have the battery out for even longer and see, should probably give a note to the serviceguys that it might work for a few minutes before it breaks so they dont think its OK and send it back lol.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jejking:
Hello, my fellow WM and Xperia X1 users! (Yes, cracking hard but still rocking).

I have a question. Recently I discovered extra payments had to be made on my Vodafone bills. It was for data usage, an MB here and there made up for quite a bit of money. Yes, I'm a student so that's the main reason why I'm worrying about it ;)

The second reason... With WM 6.5.3 installed I immediately noticed my phone had the *bad* habit to throw itself onboard the internet train every time I used something with data involved. YouTube, e-mail, etc. I can imagine, the phone explained this with using 3G (sorry, I'm not so into the terminology) to back up my WiFi. I picked this phone with care because it had WiFi and aGPS and I managed to lay my hands on a cheap one. It was a real steal then :D Now I know better with Crackgate etc but okay, back ontopic...

I took it for granted that the first month I would have extra costs, trying to kill the Data Connection it put up everytime. Immediately went searching for a program or app able to manage or kill internet for me in the case the phone wanted it. The Interwebz came up with NoData, the Holy Grail and solution to everything including HIV! A dream of a piece of software and after installation it was pretty much impossible to reach the internet again without having WiFi on at my home network.

Now the bills suddenly came up with cash drawals for my phone randomly hooking up to the Net in the Netherlands. Strange. I went indepth and looked for clues. The PDF files on My Vodafone revealed the X1 with pretty rhythmic intervals (20 minutes exactly, 15 minutes, 20, 20, 15, etc) went on to connect to the network, using a bit of data and putting me almost into the red digits. I truly didn't want that, when I was awake it managed to do that quite a few times but it continued in the night. Really strange behaviour.

Now I called Vodafone about it, they say it's the phone randomly going on trying to hook up. When I notified em about extra software taking care of that, I was almost nailed to the wall and told in a not-nice way they had no affiliations or 'whatever' (quote) to those pieces of software and that I had to blame the creator for it.

Okay, it was nice for them to come up with the idea of complaining and making a deal out of it with sharing costs when I could prove I hadn't touched my phone (easy with those rhythmic logs) but it's about the bad aftertaste... Wasn't NoData meant to break the interwebz on my phone entirely? I am towards the opinion VFs story is bull**** by the way, I'd like to hear your opinion on this one though!

Edit: I posted this thread in X1 General because of the supposed relevance of the phone itself. It might be an issue over there, not with NoData.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JarekG:
First I would try to get in touch with the creator of NoData app.

Second, if you can shut down your phone, remove the batteries for 24-48 hours. Then call Vodafone and see if you have any charges.

Also can you see where are the connection made (like to what site)?

If you can see where is it trying to connect, it would be easier to narrow down the application and either disable it or remove.
[Surround General] callmerayn:
Recently,

i bought the HTC surround,

I know, i was a little late in purchasing.

Any ways. I Love the UI but i wanted to enable sideloading and USB tethering.

I flashed a Rom, hoping to achieve something but i feel as though it was a waste.

what is the point to flashing a ROM for the HTC surround when it does absolutley nothing?

Thanks
[Surround General] keithltk91:
every rom update might have slightly different and change. So you should read the changelog of the rom update everytime. cheers! :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trojan92:
I installed V2BitSnackerX10ROM_2.1v2, after installation, I tried to restore my data using backup and restore, but the file doesn't install, tried to use Astro, still didn't install, what do I do? how do I install it?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Buddha:
try looking at this ;) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13321819#post13321819
[Acer Iconia A500] GeneralSmart:
I found a way to copy big files to your sd card witchout cutting them...The funny part: Archos provides a tool for that on its website to download and its called:ArchosHDVideoTransfer....just download it, select Target first! (SD-Card), select the file over 4 GB and enjoy...might take a while til file is on SD but at least no Cutting and converting needed....

Tell me your opinion on that,

Thx
[Acer Iconia A500] GeneralSmart:
http://www.archos.com/support/support_tech/updates.html?country=at&lang=de&#firm

here the link, scroll down and download ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] muqali:
Yea, but what kind of funky stuff does it have to do to the filesystem to get that to work? I wouldn't trust it to be 100% compatible with every device, at least without knowing how it works.
[Acer Iconia A500] xManMythLegend:
IIRC this split the file but made it "look" like it was one continous file. Not sure how accurate that is though.
[Acer Iconia A500] hellcat82:
Anybody tested this? I'm not convinced this will work on any other device than the Archos. I think the device has to be aware of whatever "joining" method they are using on the file chunks.

I also doubt it does anything on a FAT level, I suspect it just splits the file and uses a naming scheme or adds some form of metadata file which the Archos uses to jump from one file chunk to the next.
[Acer Iconia A500] muqali:
My guess would be it puts something in the header and/or just before the EOF to tell systems that support it that it's a split file and either the other file names or their positions in the FAT or both.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sorrowuk:
Just wondering what you guys think? How long you reckon?

Like a stock gingerbread rom ? Or Cyanogenmod 7 ? Stuff like what the galaxy s has.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eallan:
This is my first samsung android phone. I've used others for a while, and I played with TW3.0 and hated it.

Honestly, I'm not feeling too motivated to change.

On my atrix i couldn't freaking wait to get rid of as much motoblur as possible, but I'm actually finding TW pretty nice on this phone.

Sorry to be a bit off topic.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Never i love TW .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdy2go:
Install different launcher if you hate TW launcher.

Taskbar and messaging extensions are much better than pure android IMO.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocketpaul:
So true, tw is actually brilliant. especially compared to tw3.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uvaavu:
Figured I'd go back and look at TouchWiz4, after a week back on my LauncherProPlus...

Gah, it doesn't work with densities below 240!

The config options are so limited I can''t see a way, and after so long on HyperdroidGBX on the HD2 I can't deal with density above 190ish at the most :/

Any way to change the TW4 to adjust itself?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoogWeed:
I am using Launcher Pro as I just didn't like TouchWiz, but I do however really like the TouchWiz Dialer/Contacts so I'm more than happy to keep them.

We just have to give the devs some time.. I don't think TouchWiz + custom launchers should suffice for most users for now.

What exactly are people missing from AOSP? Personally, I'm more than satisfied with TouchWiz + Launcher Pro + Gingerbread Keyboard...
[Nexus S Accessories] joeystyles66:
I bought a dock and wall charger from Amazon a few weeks ago for my Nexus S. The dock works fine, but when I plug my phone into the wall charger it makes the touchscreen do very odd things. It starts to get very laggy, and it also seems to misjudge where I touch or tap by a great distance. When I unplug my phone from this charger it works correctly again. This problem doesn't happen with the charger that came with the phone itself. Any idea why this could be happening?
[Nexus S Accessories] cgi:
The charger you bought is likely not sufficiently isolated from mains. Some part of the mains frequency might leak through and confuse the touch sensor.

Mind, I am not saying that it is not safe to use.
[Nexus S Accessories] johnkim0011:
Sorry to come into your thread to ask a question.

But I have a question about charger too.

At home, I use the original charger that came with Nexus S. My battery seems to last very long.

At dorm, I use the so called Samsung charger I bought from eBay [it says it's legit and it sure looks like one] but battery doesn't seem to last as long as I would expect.

Settings and usage/variables are not exactly same but - for example, I got 22 hours with 40% left with home setting, while I would have to charge my phone usually after 6-8 hours at dorm.
[Nexus S Accessories] joeystyles66:
I'm thinking at this point I'm not going to risk it
[Nexus S Accessories] cgi:
Try swapping the chargers to test. But I honestly think it is not the charger's fault, if your battery is full both times. More likely there are other circumstances, like bad reception, or your phone is searching for wlan all the time or whatever. Try going to the battery monitor in settings somewhere, there you can see what it using power. I can't direct you there exactly because I have a non-english language running.

As I said, your charger very likely is just as safe as all the other Chinese electronic stuff. It is just not filtered/stabilized enough and so it confuses the touch screen. Keep in mind that the touch screen works by sensing a very small capacity change. Some overlaid interference can probably easily disturb it.
[EVO 4G General] Skitzi:
Yep, Madison Wi :)
[EVO 4G General] kthejoker20:
Where?

I'm downtown by the UW hosp. no signal here?
[EVO 4G General] GaryJ51:
Damn, I'd be happy to get decent 3g.
[EVO 4G General] SharkUW:
So...no particular location info? I guess the default position here is that it's bs.
[EVO 4G General] plmiller0905:
It's only 4G over by Ever Park over on the west side. At least that's what i thought. Because i work on the east side and it's no 4G over here. But when i'm on the west side. I get 4G but the signal is really weak.
[EVO 4G General] Skitzi:
4g I am on is on the east side of town, where 51 and 30 cross. Not sure where the tower is, if you head north on 51 towards the Mall you lose the 4g signal so I assume the tower is south on 51 from 30 or right in the 30/51 intersection area, perhaps on the towers by the post office.
[EVO 4G General] dills2214:
or just check the map....?!??!?

clear.com/coverage
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
I dont even turn my wimax on anymore. On a good note for me though, I found out this morning that VZW came back into Atlanta and expanded the coverage even further out. My TB gets LTE pretty much everywhere now.
[EVO 4G General] perpetual98:
Seriously? Beloit? c'mon
[EVO 4G General] kthejoker20:
Still no sprint...? WTF
[LG Revolution] aliensquale:
well I was just about to order the Droid Charge and then I see the LG Revolution is releasing next week... so can anybody give a good idea of if the LG Revolution will be better than the droid charge? battery life? camera quality? speed, features, etc.?

what UI does the LG Revolution use?
[LG Revolution] rushless:
Should know by next week with reviews. Top level:

Charge

Good: Battery life, display, camera, sd card not stuck behind battery

Bad: Sloooow RFS file system, low ram, no internal media storage, old chipset refrshed ONLY for LTE bridge (this is NOT a refresh like the new Snapdragon)

Revolution (knowns)

Good: 12gb media storage, Netflix, newer Snapdragon is faster for cpu operation, but slower than the Hummingbird (in Charge) for 3D.

Bad: Heavily Bing centric, sd card stuck behind battery

That is about it for now on the Rev, until we get real devices out in the wild.

added: For game emulators, the Revolution would be better for CPU power (PSX and N64). Update: Not so sure about this now, since seems both are about the same for CPU.

http://smartphonebenchmarks.com/for...d-power-gsx540-vs-adreno-205-which-is-faster/
[LG Revolution] imnuts:
From what I've heard, the LG Revolution is essentially the same hardware-wise as the Thunderbolt, so it could very well have poor battery life like the Thunderbolt.
[LG Revolution] s44:
LG is using their own LTE radio and not the Qualcomm chip (Charge) or chips (Thunderbolt) the previous phones are on. So you may see different battery/reception characteristics from the TB's.

Real differences vs Charge: no SAMOLED+ (unfortunate), no RFS (fortunate, though Voodoo will fix that on the Charge), and weaker GPU (unfortunate).
[LG Revolution] aliensquale:
what processor is better.. the Hummingbird or the Snapdragon? how about more power efficient.. thus better battery life for the same performance?
[LG Revolution] ciaphuas:
I would say they have about the same efficency
[LG Revolution] s44:
Snapdragon wins some benches, but Hummingbird's better GPU gives it the edge in every situation you'll actually notice a difference -- that is, gaming.

Both are on a 45nm process so there won't be much efficiency difference.
[LG Revolution] Z51:
The hummingbird processor is better in my opinion
[LG Revolution] moondrius:
I have used just about everything and Hummingbird has alway given me great performance with even better battery life. Each time I try a Snapdragon device I never even use it for a full month. All 3 happen to be Htc devices so that may be why the battery life has been poor. The Revolution might be a good device but without google apps I will not be willing to give this one a try. If it happens to be priced at $200 it might sell will but at $250 I don't see a reason to get it over the Thunderbolt.
[LG Revolution] aliensquale:
and no word on when the Bionic or any other 4g phones for Verizon are coming out? no dual core's yet huh?
[LG Revolution] chaoscentral:
The charge uses Samsungs own LTE chip not Qualcomm the Samsung CMC220 is used in the charge
[LG Revolution] s44:
Huh, I think you're right. Looks like Anandtech was wrong on this. The difference may be a big chunk of the improved battery life: I wonder if the Revolution (which is yet a third radio) will be better, worse, or in between.

Interesting also that the CDMA radio is different from the Fascinate's.
[LG Revolution] smokedkill:
Avoid the Revolution. It doesn't have the most up to date android market on it (has one that was outdated months ago). It is missing some apps that other Androids have on their market. It takes forever to charge. Some apps have problems running on it. The default keyboard is garbage. I am saying this from experience since I currently have it, but returning it within the 2 week return period. The only good thing it has going for it is that it has the Netflix app preinstalled on it, but that doesn't save this android.
[LG Revolution] mi7chy:
Is it me or all Verizon LTE phones mediocre? The Samsung Droid Charge is castrated compared to the equivalent AT&T Samsung Infuse with larger 4.5" screen and faster 1.2GHz CPU. The other two, HTC Thunderbolt and LG Revolution, hardware-wise are identically mediocre. Hoping for an Infuse equivalent or Galaxy S II to come to Verizon.
[LG Revolution] thebum2323:
One advantage the Revolution has over the Charge is that it has an UNLOCKED bootloader. Now if xda actually decides to make a thread for this phone, I guarantee it will be at least 3x better than the Charge for 2 reasons:

1) More Custom ROM's than the Charge's 2) actual development that doesn't take forever... Revolution was rooted in 1 day (if only there was a recovery too :()

This phone could be a serious contender if people actually took the phone with Bing (yikes but it is all good its been rooted) seriously
[LG Revolution] s44:
That's not an advantage. It's parity.