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[Thunderbolt General] techspecs:
You'll be grandfathered in for sure... the VZW guy said it's tied to your contract. However, I did just read that they're going to do data family plans. If you have more than one smartphone in the house and you're not a super heavy user, it might be compelling to go to the FP. We'll see the price points I guess...
[Thunderbolt General] chayesfss:
I just purchased one outright from verizon last weekend, love it
[Thunderbolt General] Bxrider117:
I would definitely get a TBolt off contract. Maybe eBay or Craigslist. I got mine for $320 from Craigslist. I had the DX. I like the TBolt, battery just is an issue. I keep it on a charge when it gets below 20%.
[Thunderbolt General] doomedromance:
I've been really busy trying to move (to a 4G area!) But I decided to get a TB and was going to get one from a guy for $350 once I got to my new location. Today I went to a VZW store just to check out the phone again. Was telling the guy don't bother I don't have an upgrade yet and he was like oh the manager at the bank next-door wants to sell his TB and get a Charge. I got it from him for $260! It's like new short of the stupid coating on the kickstand.

Barely got a chance to play with it and set it up. But way way better than my D2's Blurry crap.

Anyone want to buy a Droid2, haha.
[Thunderbolt General] Shumthang:
If you have the money to spend, go for it. When I got my TB it was if should i get it or wait around and see how the Droid charge is and maybe even the Droid Bionic. But I said F it and upgraded to the TB and I absolutely love it
[Thunderbolt General] dragonrazorz:
quick question, i have a droid eris, i heard about vzw and their new data plans....im thinkin bout getting my own account, so i can have the unlimited data grandfathered, any idea when its suppose to happen? and how much would the bill be, and van i keep my number? or is this something i should ask in store 4g was just released in town, i dmt really tlk on it but txt a lot n use 5+ gb of data (3g)

K3V
[Thunderbolt General] tdevaughn:
any phone you can trade to get a Tbolt is a good trade imo!!!
[Thunderbolt General] jaben2:
I bought mine off of contract, was waiting for the Bionic, but who knows what I will end up with. I am loving the thunderbolt, even more now that I have 2.3.4
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tfn:
Hi

Just wanted to know why would SGS2 Users want to root their phones ?

Cause

1. Its one of the fastest devices out there

2. Its on latest Gingerbread ( honeycomb yes but not big deal yet and Icecream Roms not out yet)

3. If you don't like touchwiz you can go for launcherpro or ADW launcher or any of those.

People nomally would root if their devices haven't got the official latest software updates or to squeeze a bit more juice out of their ageing devices like my Hero which has been rooted and booted a hundred times.

The reason for my asking is I am considering buying this or the HTC sensation (locked bootloader I know) and would know what benefit it would be for rooting the SGS2 NOW.....

I understand when Icecream Sandwich is out and about it would make sense but is it really worth rootind your brand new Device ?

Or have we become Flash-o-holics addcited to XDA's and Cyanogens ROMs that we HAVE to ROOT and FLASH and have those sleepless nights to test out the new roms
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kersey:
The reason I've rooted mine is to use apps that require root (cachmate, root explorer, titanium backup etc) and also to freeze via Titanium Backup the apps and services I don't use, which should lead to better battery life if they aren't running in the background :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rooster19:
That's pretty much it ^
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esk02k:
Not rooted yet but 100% sure im going to (unless i get a brick)

Reasons :

-Full read/write access to the system folder.

-Recoveries : Nandroid backup, flashable zips, wipe battery stats all that good stuff that comes with a recovery (this is what im waiting for then ill root)

-The apps as mentioned earlyer (titanium, addfree, root explorer and many more)

hmm thats all i can think of at the mo.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
I rooted it, as I needed adb push to /system for quick adding of new files to my ROM :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdy2go:
No real reason to root it when you use it as a normal user.

Hackers root for fun :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uvaavu:
RW access to /system for me.

I *HATE* android at 240 lcd density, looks like a childs phone. First thing I do is change to somewhere between 167 and 192.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremium:
I rooted to use Titanium Backup and Adfree, that's pretty much it actually.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fallenguru:
Same as anyone else, I guess: removing bloat (hubs, ...), changing config files (gps.conf, ...), running apps that need root to work (AdFree, ClockSync, Tit Backup, ...), ...

Err, no. For deploying custom firmware you need an unlocked bootloader, not root. Two quite different things, really.

Locked bootloader and /system write-protected below the OS level. If you care about modding and tinkering at all stay away from newer HTC phones. And since you needed to ask I'm guessing you do.

Yes, I know they'll probably/maybe be hacked some time - but why bother when other manufacturers are much more dev friendly? Heck, even S-E seem to be getting it ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shnlnk:
Rooting will really bring more advanced feature. By rooting you can access to the root system of the phone, thus you can fully control your phone. You can control the permission when you install the apps. You can install apps that need root access.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonos:
To deal with apps that request permissions that they normally shouldn't request.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tontje:
I rooted my device to show off to friends who havent rooted it :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angelomaldito:
Why? To be able to use Privacy Guard and stop intrusion from Google and half of all app devs. For me this is more than enough to root your device. Also, to get rid of all the Samsung bloatware such as social hub and other junks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jimmy34742:
From some locations, you don't have access to paid Market apps unless you root and run Market Enabler.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nizarnoor:
I did it mainly to be able to play Tegra games.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbiz90:
How do you do that? I rooted my phone. I would like an easy way to selectively control permissions by app.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
LBE Security Guard will do that for free. Lookout does it at an annual cost. I'm sure there's others out there too, but I really rate LBE.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbiz90:
Thanks. Can I do it in Titanium Backup? That seems to be a must-have app while I root around for the best custom ROM. If not, I'll try LBE Security Guard as well.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxmiller:
I really want to try rooting my SGS2. But I'm afraid it'll void my warranty. Just got my phone yesterday so I wouldn't want to void my warranty.:o
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Root = void warranty no ifs or buts .

Unroot is install stock rom /original rom and remove custom rom counter if required .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spongeboob:
Can think of only one example right now :D

If you wanted to play Nvidia Tegra games (or other locked games), you'd have to use Chainfire 3d, which requires root :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tfn:
Hi AGAIN!!!!

Quite a few comments there.. ( THANK YOU) .. Just to update you guys I did go and buy the SGS2 ( my first samsung device) and am very happy with it..

I haven't rooted it yet cause I realised unlike htc phones you can update the firmware for samsung phones through ODIN which just serves my purpose.

As I rarely use titamium back and stuff like that, and I played with a lot of roms on my HTC HERO so dont feel the need to root the SGS2,. as I am happy with it as it is .... may be after a year a so I might decide. I f i still have the phone :D
[Droid Incredible General] brando56894:
I know there's an app that makes sub-categories that group Widgets based on the app they come from but I can't think of the name of it, the setup I'm looking for is found in the widget menu of cm7.
[Droid Incredible General] raptir:
It's actually based on the Launcher you're using. CM7 uses ADW as its stock launcher, which includes that functionality.
[Droid Incredible General] brando56894:
I swear I remember seeing an app for it, I'm using ADW EX and mine aren't grouped and IIRC there isn't a setting for it.... :confused:
[Droid Incredible General] TheWhiteBandito:
I used launcherpro plus with cm7 and still had that functionality, so it might be deeper that that.

I too would like to know if there is an app for this because that feature is awesome!
[HD2 Android Themes and Apps] hebbe:
hi :D

don't know if this is the correct section, or if i should have posted in the nand development, but i'll try here :)

i love my current rom, but wanna try something new. so i'm wondering if there's a possibility for me to make a complete backup of the rom (like a dump or so), which i can easily flash back.

magldr 1.13 ist installed, but no clockworkmod or something like that. i read that when flashing clockworkmod recovery your rom will be wiped, and i don't wanna lose my current setup.

i'm aware of titanium backup, but as far as i know it "just" backsup applications, settings, contact, etc., not the whole rom.

do you have any hints for me? that'll be great :D

thank you very much & have a nice day
[HD2 Android Themes and Apps] harrystone33:
ahh sorry friend..

I dont know if this is possible without Clockwork(Recovery)Mod Im sure somebody here may know something about possibly doing it but, they will probably tell a way where you'd need CWM installed, or you wont get an answer of how for sure to use something by the time you want to change, it's addicting :D lol
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garman76:
When trying to restore my settings with MyBackup Pro it stops when getting to my SMS with the message: restore sms failed: error code 14: unable to open database file.

All my other settings restore fine, but SMS only get half way through before I get this error.

Any suggestions?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] txtmikhail:
Do we have an call recorder that works with our phone..I tried a few in the market and non of them worked...I really need this asap...

Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pre2epic4g:
I have tried several as well with none of them working even 70% of the time....
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
I do not understand why this is not a stranded on phones like ours. ITS mine & i will do as i please with it and any call/s
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
I have the Call of Duty boot animation, but for some reason the audio wont work. I also have tried the Xbox 360 boot animation. Even that, will not play the audio. but the FinalThunder.mp3 still plays fine.

Ive checked permissions, file names...rhetorically everything. Anyone got an idea what i might be doing wrong?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bimmer323:
which rom are you using.....I'm finding the same problem using CM7 and the Bios boot animation. Haven't really looked into it yet though as I just loaded it this morning.

Will post back if I find anything.........:confused:
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
Stock. I rooted fully. Rootchecker says im fine, and the animation works, but no sound :(
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhp pilot:
What I have found that works is you have to have the folders within bootanimation.zip set up the same way as the stock one: android, progress and VZW. I haven't look that far into but it seems like the boot sound is triggered when a certain folder is started. If this is so, replacing the boot animation with another one that isn't structured the same and renaming the mp3 to FinalThunder won't work.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
Like, wat do you mean? only thing i got is the bootanimation.zip and FinalThunder.mp3, and its int he same place, as in /system/customize/resource/
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhp pilot:
There's a folder structure inside bootanimation.zip. I'm not talking about where the zip file stored on the phone. More than like the Call of Duty zip has two folders in it, android and part2. Link me to where you got the boot animation and I'll fix it for you.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
Ill try to attach the ones i have.

Looking inside them both, stock bootanim has no folders. But the COD one does. As for the audio, FinaltHUNDER works but cod-finalthunder wont. (no, i didnt name it that lol)

As i said before, the boot animation works PERFECTLY, just the audio is not working :(
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhp pilot:
Try this. Works with sound on my phone. http://www.mediafire.com/?2fvuc65eqdcfdp3
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
testing. will post with results.

Also, could you maybe tell me what you did? I really want to learn. I have some others i'd like to get working, as well as some ideas I am building with some friends. They know the stuff, but they are in classes and doing finals..I don't have the luxury of college.

Also, is there a way i can adb into my phone and auto-achieve r/w on my system folder? Right now, i have to use RootExplorer and mount as R/W since adb always tells me "unable to push, blah blah, read only filesystem"
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
It works. Perfectly. Cept the audio is unsynched but that will be easy for me to fix. Thank you so much. What did you change, my awesome savior?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhp pilot:
All I did was set the folder structure the same way the stock one is, with android, progress and VZW and made sure desc.txt was formatted properly.

If you are using adb, instead of using Root Explorer to mount system, try command

adb shell sysrw

Of course this command all depends on how the ROM is set up that you are using.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
So, say im using a new bootanimation. Copy/pasta the desc text file, and make sure the structure inside is the same way?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
adb shell sysrw says permission denied. im using rooted stock.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhp pilot:
Simple break down: android folder contains the first image of the boot animation; the one some people thinks is a second splash screen. VZW folder contains the actually boot animation images and progress is the last image display at the phone is booting. Place your boot animation images in these folders accordingly. I would suggest just putting a plain black image in the android folder and name the image the same as the stock "second splash" screen.

Use the desc.txt file from the boot that I sent you. The only thing you will need to change is the frame rate to make it work with other boot animations. So if a boot is supposed to be displayed at 10 fps, change the 30 to 10 and save.

Once you have everything the way you want it, zip all three folders and desc.txt using the store, or no compression, option. Now you are ready to go. Like you mentioned earlier, you may need to edit FinalThunder.mp3 to make it sync correctly.

About adb sysrw command; stock RUU is not up for that command. Not sure what the syntax would be for stock root or if you can even mount the system as R/W through adb.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
dont think i can. and i thnk i gotta lower the fps a little ont he animation
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
I tried changing the FPS and i hit save. I saved it also in the .zip and now the boot animation wont work period. What did i do wrong? Only thing i did was change 30p to 27p
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhp pilot:
Did you open it from within the zip file and save it? If so, when you saved it, the zip was updated and probably changed the compression ratio to the default of whatever program you are using.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superthrust:
so what compression method do i have to use to make this work correctly? Cause i need to fix the audio again.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhp pilot:
None. Use store option or no compression.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhaymond:
Hey guys, I'm looking for and audio thread that would help with a GB lockscreen, I have ran across one or know if there is one but I found this one and may one of you could help me?

I want to change or I should say make an audio sound for when I unlock my GB Rom. Is that possible? I also wanted to combined in two audio sounds. Any help would be great and appreciated. Thanks

*WALK in the WORD*
[Desire General] b0ng0:
I've found that my Desire camera photos always appear hazy, or to have a sort of "halo" around them when they're taken - certainly not nearly as sharp as they should be for a 5MP camera.

Has anyone else had this problem and is there a solution?
[Desire General] scutworker:
It's because the lens cover in the back case is not very good and is distorting the view.

If you take the back off the phone and take a few shots, you will see they are much clearer.

There's actually a thread about this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=990596&highlight=camera+cover
[Desire General] DesUKire:
I pierced my lense cover out of the back cover as it seems many others have done and now get amazing images. Obviously not everyone would like to do that so you can always try and clean the lense on the back cover with a cotton bud and lense cleaning solution Seems like a design fault as that plastic lense cover gets filthy very quickly and ruins images.
[Desire General] b0ng0:
Yeah after watching that video I tried taking a picture with the battery cover off and the clarity was brilliant!

Have you noticed any dust, etc. problems with the lens cover off?
[Desire General] geektastic:
had my lens cover off for 6 months or so, need to take the cover off to wipe off the dust occasionally but no scratches - seems the glass on the sensor is much harder than that on the cover.

best thing i ever did, just pressed out of battery cover in 2 seconds.
[Desire General] undercover:
Done same thing mate.

Obviously dust gets there, but it can be easily sorted out with a good blow and a bit of cloth.
[Desire General] Klewe:
I pierced mine out too an replaced it with a saphire glass which is really hard and resistant. No scratches until now (5 months) and the camera pics are like the ones you take with the cover off.

The only disadvantage is that you have to order it in the United Kingdom and pay for the shipping.

I found one also on Amazon, otherwise search on Google for Edmund Optics, they sell them.

Bye

Klewe
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sotos183:
Hello,

I have the HTC Trophy 7 for a week now and recently (before 5 days) I updated to version 7392. Since the update to 7392 I am experiencing weird battery discarge.

For example I fully charge my phone (100%) and when I unplug it and leave it on standby, with wifi and data off, after 1 hour it has 80% or less battery and the battery continues to discharge at a very fast rate. I also found out that it stops discharging itself if I restart the phone.

I finally tried to reconfigure the battery (fully discharge and then recharge the battery) and the problem went away but only till I recharged my phone from 25% or so to 100%.

What is going on? Should I do a hard reset?

Thank you in advance
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeeam:
I'm having the same issues too, on my Trophy. Was wondering if it was NoDo or just the time coming to my phone ;P
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sotos183:
There is no solution for our problem?

Please help us
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marvin_S:
Same issue on omnia 7. It was charging a whole night yet said battery was empty.

I than let it die, charged it again and pulled the battery halfway. It seems to work now... Very strange
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ropata:
Mine discharges completely overnight if leave it plugged into the computer while the computer is off. If i unplug it when i turn the computer off it's all good in the morning.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnnihilatorSC:
This indeed does happen, even with Samsung Omnia 7. It's pretty ridiculous and annoying.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxbat121:
Almost all phones discharge when connected to a dead usb port.

That's why they give you a wall charger for.

It has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.
[Acer Iconia A500] Deltaechoe:
Anyone had any luck getting the video player to actually work, i modified the .so file myself so i know i did it correctly at least as far as the patch that worked on my phone is concerned but on the acer i just got i can't get it to load up a video, just sits there blank

EDIT: nevermind i forgot to reset user agents and flash permissions on the browser, i guess i'm too tired
[Acer Iconia A500] jaya500:
where do you place the so file??? Can you help me get this working?
[Acer Iconia A500] snickle:
Get eh libflashplayer.zip from here and follow the instructions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1010606

Make sure you have installed flash 10.3 first.

Works great.
[Acer Iconia A500] eersfanpilot:
Ok I still can not get this to work.

I have Flash 10.3

I downloaded the zip file in the link and moved the .so file into the data/data/adobe..... location and replaced the file that was in there.

I rebooted. I have Dolphin HD set to desktop. I have cleared all the cache and cookies. I have it set to always enable plug-ins as suggested deep in those threads.

I have tried everything but yet, neither the apk hulu listed, or the website will play any hulu videos. I can see the page, the ads load fine. SpikeTV loads it's videos, just not Hulu.

I keep getting the "video not available on your platform" after the loading circle.

Help????

Edit: The stock browser does not work either.
[Acer Iconia A500] netham45:
I've noticed that every time I reboot that file gets reverted and I have to copy it back over.

Try killing your browser with a task manager and reopening it after copying, instead of rebooting.
[Acer Iconia A500] eersfanpilot:
That did it! Thanks!

It's working in Dolphin HD.

So to recap the steps for others.

Get Flash 10.3

Go to link mentioned above,

Download the .so Zip file.

Move the .so file to the data/data/adobe..lib folder

replace the file with the downloaded.

Make sure you are set to Desktop and not Mobile.

Also, not sure if it is needed, but I set the settings to Always Enable Plug-Ins.

Hulu works!