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[Nexus One General] xxlikquidxx:
too big, tried it already in a phone store here in Korea. It is VERY light tho, my first thought when holding the phone was, "why did they removed the battery off the phone?", then i pop out the cover and found the battery was there!!! phone is extremely light!!!!!! I was afraid of dropping it when using. 4.3" is too big for my hand, i think 4" is the perfect size for any phone.

Everything is fast and smooth, what else do you expect from a dual core 1.2ghz A9 chip? screen is beautiful, put the nexus 1 screen to dust even at max brightness.
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
already a thread on this topic in this forum. just search it out and find all the info you need there.
[Nexus One General] Big_O:
Some of us N1 users like state of the art technology. Wanted to know what other N1 users thought of it. Some are on the lookout for something better :). Love the N1, but too many lockups and rom bugs, battery life is poor, screen resolution has been improved on S2 as well as scratch resistant glass. It's something I'm considering for speed, quality and performance. Use my phone daily as a PC/PDA.
[Nexus One General] cymru:
But if this was asked in say... the Samsung G II area, then you could get proper opinions from more people who ACTUALLY OWN THE DEVICE.
[Nexus One General] Big_O:
I'm not interested in Samsung 2 thread opinions! Wanted to ask N1 users. Last I looked it was my post ;)
[Nexus One General] cymru:
haha fair enough.

Anyway, i agree with some others, it runs really nicely, but just a wee bit too big for the hand and also i'd prefer the phone to be aluminium and heavier than plasticy and light
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
That's why I'm saying a huge thread in this nexus one forum already exists about the galaxy s2, and u will prob find every piece of info already posted. :)
[Nexus One General] ImperialX:
I'm switching from my N1 to a SGS2. Currently waiting for it to ship from Handtec. It's the first Android phone since the N1 that really appealed to me.
[Nexus One General] rj3005:
I´m going to retire my beloved N1 as soon as I can get the S2 from my provider (should be in a week or two) I played with a S2 of a college (who bought it of contract) and I deem it worth to upgrade.
[Nexus One General] behelit:
if it had qhd and nfc it would be the ultimate device

i hear it will come with nfc in some markets tho..

samsung always have the latest tech, mhl, samoled2, usb3, bluetooth 3?
[Nexus One General] SuperDeform:
well either way to answer this i would just get both phones there is no doubt
[Nexus One General] krabman:
Had it for a bit now. You get used to the size pretty fast, before long the N1 seems small. I'm pretty big and I find devices too thin nowdays so I got a case that made it thicker on purpose. Did the same with the N1. If the S2 has any killer feature it would have to be the hardware acceleration in 2D. This really stands out in the browser where pages are rendered with desktop speed and zooming and such have a fluidity that are unmatched with any device I have seen. All lot of the attributes of this phone are pretty obvious. It is much more powerful and that can be seen throughout the gui while in operation and performing any task. This is pretty much a no brainer considering you are comparing what is now a year and a half old device to one which was just introduced. It should not be taken as a knock against the N1 as I am impressed with how well it holds up in comparison, it is no slouch on the latest nightly.

Specific things I do not like about the sgs2.... Hate having the power button on the side. I have turned the phone off several times accidentally and then had to reboot when I went to use it. I do not like having the single hard button surrounded by the two cap buttons arrangement. It kinda screws with the flow of doing stuff on the phone. Touch, touch, touch, oops, should have PUSHED the home button, push, touch, touch, PUSH. Just doesnt seem right to me. Plus while I never actually used the search softkey to search I did use the longpress to access quick settings and now of course used or not that button simply isnt there. I would have greatly prefered a standard 4 button arrangement. The build quality is lower than the N1. It is not what I perceive as terrible like my wifes captivate but the materials and feel of the phone in hand are a step down from the N1. Since both are cased all I really see is the case and screen either way so this one doesnt bother me but its there.

The pluses of the sgs2 are mostly obvious. Being newer and possessed of the latest greatest it is a more powerful device in every way. Again its good to keep in mind that I am comparing to a generationally older phone here and it should not be taken as a knock against the N1 but there it is. The screen is stellar and touch is very accurate. Side by side with cupertinos best the colors appear more saturated but it falls behind slightly in rendering fine text. Overall we both rated it a push while we both rated the extra real estate as a huge bonus. This screen is really good and can stand up to the best out there IMO. Touchwiz is surprisingly not horrible. I have gone back and forth between ADW, LP and TW and ended up actually keeping TW but with most of the "wiz" removed. The built in exchange support is better than the N1.

Overall I'm glad I did it. The N1 is the first device I ever owned where I actively liked it. I still have it, normally I would have put it up for sale the minute the new phone successfully booted. I still load nightlies. The bottom line though is in the pro/con department the sgs2 brings more to the table.
[Streak 5 General] antnee:
My back button has a creak and it's getting on my nerves. I got this thing new about 45 days ago and with the stories of people getting crappy phones in return.....thoughts?
[Streak 5 General] greg_gorrell:
If it is a white Streak, then yes! Do the warranty! I just got mine a month ago after waiting for almost two months because they had to wait to make more. I dont know about the black ones, but if its white then youll be receiving a brand new phone with all accessories.
[Streak 5 General] BlueCrystal:
Do the warranty through dell and not the provider. If it's on rogers make sure you call dell canada. If you're somewhere else, good luck and I hope you unlock it.

I got mine done three months after I bought it because the power button stopped working. If yours is rooted, run qdltool over it to avoid any rma risks.
[Streak 5 General] antnee:
thanks guys yea this thing being 45 days old shouldnt be doing this. i would imagine...Yea its an unlocked streak. Yea im thinking i would run qdl then not sure what 351? it came with 347 build.
[Liquid S100 Accessories] whitemoo:
Aye guys,

Wanted to get away from Zagg products for a change. I found the coverage of the Zagg protector to be quite low for our devices (at least the picture shows no protection for the entire device). So instead i decided to try out a brand i never heard of.

The brand is called i-mask, and apparently they are authorized at dell to protect their laptops.

I caught wind of their product on ebay, while i was looking for the best protection for my Acer Liquid E.

After a week of payment being cleared, i got the product. It probally took around a hr to put the protection film on, and left it overnight to set.

After about a week i took these pictures:

Coverage was good, though some pieces overfit. Not that bad since i can cut the additional bits to size. I took my time putting this protector on, and there are some bubbles i cannot get rid of, which are sort of visible in the pictures. Otherwise the film sticks pretty well to the device.

On top of this i put my silicon case, and feel my device is fully protected:

Hope this helps other Acer Liquid E/ S100 Users.
[General Questions and Answers] Inspire_Android:
Ok, I have been reading through many threads about radio flashing, ESPECIALLY this one "[RADIO][ADV]Inspire Radio how to without ENG S-OFF"

My question is here since I cannot post there in that thread being new and all.....

I have downloaded the New ATT OTA Radio (PD98IMG-att-12.39a.60.19_26.06.06.30_M.zip

MD5 Checksum: 33baebad8b1e7a20f4603aff0ba66468)

And placed the file (renamed PD98IMG.zip) onto the root of my sd card. Turned the phone off and booted into Hboot so that the flash should begin automatically, however the issue is, it starts to load the image file and says wrong image or file type??? and goes back to the hboot menu....

Any advise on this?? Thank you very much.
[General Questions and Answers] deanr1977:
Is your phone rooted? have you done the s-off? If the answer to both of these is NO.... then thats your problem. Google oneclickroot & Radio s-off & then go from there mate
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrywone:
Hello,

I was unable to find any thread speaking of my problem.

I made a softreset to my HD2, little red button on the back, this morning, and while loading, on the orange Windows screen it was saying "performing the phone for first use". I waited for a little while, and as it was taking too long and kept loading and loading, I took the battery out and removed the SDcard from the phone. After that it loaded pretty fast but now the phone looks like at the day of purchase.

It doesn't load or show any of the programs installed, contacts, messages. Nothing.

But through the file explorer it shows that all the old files are there. I mean the photos, program files and so. I don't know where the contacts and messages are stored.

It looks like the phone has the files but doesn't use them.

How do I make the pone go back to the files, and run all the soft?

Where are the Messages and the contacts are stored?

Please help me.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hamsn:
Messages and Contacts are stored in the Outlook database.

Try backing them up using PIMBackup, then hard reset your phone and restore it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrywone:
If you could just be more specific.

Where do I find Outlook Database? Can I still back them if they already don't show in my phone?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevedebi:
I assume you mean that your programs and information are on the SD card, since it appears that your phone did a hard reset, which clears the internal memory. The programs won't work because WM requires one to reinstall the programs in order to build the registry entries and copy any needed files to the \windows directory on the phone.

Your data files on the SD card should be fine.

The pocket outlook information is stored in the pim.vol file in the root directory, but if it hard reset those files are gone unless you backed them up. I use MS MyPhone, which automatically syncs my stuff every night at 2300.

After you get any files off of the main memory (if possible), remove the SD card and do a real hard reset - by removing the battery while it was doing initial setup, you may have stopped the OS from installing needed support programs.

Good luck, and be sure and come back and let us know how it is going.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrywone:
You seem to be right, as on the machine itself there are no files later then the begginning of 2010.

Is it possible that the phone made a hard reset by itself?

Does it mean that there is no way to restore the lost data?

I have made a backup in RescoBackup a couple of month ago, but I added a lot of new numbers to contacts during the last two weeks.

Is there a chance they were saved on the SD card?

I have a pim.vol file, but how do I check if it has the right data in it? in wordpad it shows jibrish.

Thanks in advance.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevedebi:
Unless you backed it up to the SD card, to MS outlook (via Activesync) or to some online backup, sorry, it is gone.

If you have a pim.vol file from before, just copy it to the root directory of the phone (not the SD card). Note that you will ALWAYS have this file in the root directory; it is automatically generated on a hard reset. You will need to have a copy that was backed up.

I highly suggest that you take a couple of moments and make a backup plan for the future. Your phone may have a hardware issue that caused the hard reset; it is not easy to get the HD2 to hard reset, and it should never do it automatically. So you may find yourself looking for those backup files again.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrywone:
Well, big thanks to all who tried to help.

My phone probably did a hard reset by itself. Something to be noted by HD2 owners.

Lucky me, I made a backup a month ago with Resco Backup v. 2.01. I have to say that the software didn't work at all as expected.

It froze every time I tried to restore the phone data. So I restored it in small portions.

And in about an hour I got my phone back (as it was a month ago).

After all big thanks to RescoBackup tool too.

Good day to everybody.
[Thunderbolt General] David522d:
http://www.bestandroiddownloads.com...nd-powervr-based-games-on-your-android-device

anyone wanna give it a try?
[Thunderbolt General] Legacystar:
Can't find the download link
[Thunderbolt General] BlackHoleSlam:
^^+1
[Thunderbolt General] TheStick13:
You have to sign in to be able to download. Looks like it'll let you use your google login, though.
[Thunderbolt General] g00s3y:
installing everything and trying out now, will report back in a few minutes.

EDIT: Samurai Vengenance II working on Thunderbolt, running BAMF 2.0-5. Pics in a bit.

crappy pics taken with a blackberry :\
[Thunderbolt General] BlackHoleSlam:
i was trying to test on my fascinate and after i installed the chain fire drivers and my phone restarted its now all f'ed up my browser is broken my wifi was broken till i went to the actual setting and it just is too crazy so i will fix damn i was hoping for some tegra games too well can't wait for my thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] David522d:
Thanks! gonna give it a go to, is it smooth?
[Thunderbolt General] g00s3y:
Samurai II was, tried riptide and there was some slowdown, gfx a bit messy
[Thunderbolt General] TheStick13:
Is that something that overclocking could take care of, ya think?
[Thunderbolt General] g00s3y:
Not sure, I was running at 1.4Ghz when I was doing this.
[General Questions and Answers] XoTic Scopes:
Ok, So I am sooo frustrated by trying to install Android 2.3.4 on my HTC HD2 Tmobile USA version. I have tried many tutorials and failed. I have tried SD root ways and NAND way still failed. Recently I flashed my phone with migm something something w.e that is... and flashed the rom I found on these forums by BOYPPC-SHIFTPDA gingerbread 2.3.4 thread. Everything went fine and when it was about to go into Android after the flash boot, BAM!!! error saying some kernal failed or w.e I tried SD boot and NAND boot from that meno Migm something shows and kept getting that error. I will post more details and maybe pic or video if anyone steps up to support me through this.

I used to have froyo 2.2 on it by sd root, which I used to activate by harret but after I tried couple of steps to get 2.3.4 that stopped working too and file manager kept giving me error of how it can't run it because app is not trusted. So I Hardboot the phone and formatted the SD card and went on with NAND tutorials and now Im stuck at this :|

Any help, guide or tutorial will be much helpful to achieve 2.3.3 or higher by any method for my HD2.

Thanks in Advance

-Ishmeet
[General Questions and Answers] XoTic Scopes:
A day past and still no reply...

Are these forums that much of Inactive or people over here aren't helpful at all?
[General Questions and Answers] cjward23:
Hey buddy, people here are helpful.

Maybe try posting in the HD2 section http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=989

UNLOCK OUR BOOTLOADERS
[General Questions and Answers] iwin2000:
read the damn stickies and figure it out yourself
[General Questions and Answers] XoTic Scopes:
Thanks, I tried posting there but it won't let me because I have less than 10 posts. System suggested me to post here...

STFU!
[General Questions and Answers] cjward23:
You should be able to post in the Q&A section

UNLOCK OUR BOOTLOADERS
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swimminsurfer256:
I called Verizon today regarding my battery life (at work which I started today I get sh*tty reception which kills my battery in 4 to 5 hours--usually last a full 12-14 hours pretty perfectly). The rep that I talked to quickly realized that I knew what I was talking about tech-wise and thankfully didn't treat me like an idiot.

She said something that got my attention though: she said HTC recently (as in the past few days) released something to Verizon reps saying that Task Killing apps actually interfere with the system and code in a way that drains battery *more* on the Thunderbolt than any other device thus far.

Anyone else heard of something like this or have a reason why it would do this?

*edit* I'm looking for like a dev answer to this... How it interferes with the system? I've seen the threads that explain how it messes with the Activity code but it seemed like it was more than that for the Thunderbolt.

Haven't gone a full day with ATK uninstalled but I'll try tomorrow and see how it goes.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pithism:
they told me the same thing but not about the battery drain, just that it screws with the system

but on other phones (droid 1) they highly recommend using task killers.

obviously two different phones/companies, but still you'd think they say dont use them for all phones, not just certain phones, because most people feel they are useless.

But it hasn't screwed up anything that i've noticed, and my battery has actually improved since day one, so i think it depends on your phone. And i dont think my improvement is from task killers, i'm rooted and i think custom kernels and roms have helped increased battery life.

Id say whatever works for you do it, and dont worry about the task killers ruining you phone, but if you find out they are then dont use them.

good luck
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomlyWatts:
I would guess that they'd negatively impact performance. The only reason you'd need a task killer is if you were on a 1.5-6 device. In all later version, tasks are managed natively as part of the core os.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobtheelf:
One problem is with people using them to auto-kill apps far too aggressively. If you're constantly killing apps that are constantly re-launching (such as clock/weather/SMS/MMS/news/widgets/etc that tend to stay resident), you're going to end up up using a lot more processor time, and thus battery life, than if you just let the apps sit idle.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trevlo:
I heard that its because Android 2.2+ automatically restarts apps that you close and then it uses more memory to restart each time it is killed. There is a built in task killer in the phone anyways. No need for a secondary killer. But from my personal experience: yes I got worse battery life with task killer than without it. Although on my Droid x it was the opposite. Must depend on the phone
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaxidian:
Your explanation is off a bit but you get a C+ for the spirit of it. ;)

In short, Android use your free memory to cache programs into using spare resources. ATK then removes these apps from this free memory, making it free again. Android then uses your free memory to cache programs. Then ATK. Then Android. Etc... See the problem? Slows down your system and wastes battery doing it. You are correct in that there is a built-in memory-freeing system that does this really when it's needed. There are ways to influence how aggressively it frees memory up.

The reason it helped with your Droid X was because of how pathetic Blur was. With custom roms that removed most of Blur, ATK hurt a lot there as well.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patdroid1:
+1 thank you... didn't feel like explaining all that

one thing to add for all you wondering...ram will use the same amount of power whether it is full or empty so don't' worry about using up all your ram...the android os will kill off apps and caches as needed to keep you running fast and efficient. our batteries life sucks because we use our phones so much or because (like me) we run beta software with bugs.

i've tested numerous times and sitting idle overnight (about 8 hours) on 4g OR WIFI, i will lose between 4 and 6 percent.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikithme:
Quit muddying up the dev section! This has nothing to do with DEV!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deltaechoe:
This should probably be in the general section, and yes active task killers will ruin your battery life, if you have it uninstall it. The only way you should ever force close running apps is with the app management built into the android system and thats only for rogue apps that never stop running.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qman66:
on droid x wit blur atk still hurt battery life. only worked on eclair.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ludionis:
One thing that I have encountered in supporting VZW technical issues, in addition to battery life, over-aggressive task killers, if not configured properly, can kill necessary apps. People call cause their alarm clock didn't go off, they didn't get text messages for 30 min to an hour, etc. Some of these programs *need* to run in the background.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kizzmiazz:
Yeah from what I understand its not the phone but the os. On eclair task killers helped out . But froyo and gingerbread both take care of all of that in the back ground and using tk's affects the way the two os's are working. I was told all of this back on my Captivate and at the time I was hooked on task killers and Froyo leaks were just coming out. My batt life sucked and a dev some probably know , Designingears , explained all this to me and omg it was hard for me to take in and delete advanced task killer lol. But I did and have never looked back and it definitely improved my batt life. Now every now and then you just get a stubborn run away app that the os just can't stop, can't remember the app but theres a couple out there that take care of this and there not task killers. Me, I just reboot my phone every now and then and all is well .

Sent From My HTC Inspire 4G @ 1.5Ghz | [ROM] CoreDroid HD GB 2.3.3 V6.6
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhowell423:
so from what I've learned being in the business for 6+ years. The task killers kill everything where android needs certain things to run so your system doesn't lag. That being said a lot of the manufacturer are including a task killer in there new roms to over come this issue. Example the new droid x 2 has a new task killer app. Motorola was the first to say to Verizon no task killing apps and now HTC follows. Wont surprise me with the gingerbread updates to android phones if you see more companies build task killers into their roms. I stopped using a task killer last week and battery life has increased. Just my thoughts and opinion.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dstu03:
I second that. When I bought my Thunderbolt the clown at the store told me to put a task killer on it. I did that it killed the battery...On Perfect Strom 1.4 I am getting over 10 hours with out a task killer. Not scientific but I consider 10 hours good for battery life on this phone
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sabindaman:
Day 1 when I bought the TB a HTC rep was in the VZ store and he was saying same thing then about task killers worsening battery life and performance
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elmuchodroido:
exactly.. froyo and GB do the task management job well.. when I had my droid 1 running 2.0, i compared with and without a task killer, and battery life improved a little when I did use task killer. But then with froyo and above, it would actually make it worse to use one..