yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] markmac:
Using mVideoPlayer I have used their feature for adding folders to look for videos, but it doesn't seem to recognize sdcard2. it allows you to select it in their browse window, but doesn't seem to index it.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] poymeister:
I have movies on sdcard2 that I can see with mVideoPlayer. One thing I had to tweak:

Do you have .nomedia in the same folder as your videos? If so, you have to tell mVideoPlayer to ignore .nomedia. See "Settings/Prefs => VideoList/Behaviour => Respect .nomedia" -- uncheck this. Then do a refresh and your sdcard2 video folder should appear.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] markmac:
I actually found that it would not see the movies on the root of SDCARD2. I created a Videos folder and moved my videos there, then added that as a Folder and it works. Guess it was just something with the root of the SDCARD2.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bender_123:
Never had this problem on any other phone...

I have my 4G rooted and have adb'ed Clockwork onto it, flashed a new kernal, etc...

the problem i am having is that Clockwork seems to vanish when I try to boot into recovery. If i use ADB and reflash i get it to work, but on the next reboot, I am back to stock android recovery...

Am I doing something wrong that my phone will only run a custom recovery when "tethered"?

My root access is still active...just i have to reflash Clockwork every time i want to flash something or backup.

I am completely confused:confused:...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
this hasnt happened on any of my nexus s 4g's but it does. there is a way to fix it, im looking for the link now as Ive read it a million times.

if someone doesnt post by the time i find it, ill link it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
Quote: obsanity says:: One other important addition to this, if you wish to run stock ROM rooted, is that you must rename this file after flashing recovery:

/system/etc/install-recovery.sh

Stock ROM flashes the stock recovery back to original during bootup if that script runs and detects that recovery has changed.

Thanks to Netarchy over @ XDA for this important tip.

pulled the above post from here: http://www.droidfiles.us/nexus-s-4g/root-nexus-s-4g/

good luck

edit: I used this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1071500

and this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=935819
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bender_123:
Duh...thanks! I would never have thought of that! Thanks for your help! Just noticed a lack of "Thanks" buttons on this board...Used to the Epic board and always clicking a thumbs up.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] teleknEsis:
Hey guys, I'm an Android developer in Austin, TX and the last couple days I noticed Network Location stopped working on 3G. It does, however, work on 2G [Edge] and WiFi.

Luckily there's a T-Mobile corporate sales office in my building so I went upstairs to talk to them. They had me write an email which they forwarded to their RF Engineers.

Got an email back last night saying their Sr RF Engineer was having the same problems I explained in my email and that the issue had been unknown to them prior to me raising it.

Needless to say, they're looking into it. However, I'm curious if anyone else in another city is having the same issue, particular one of the 50+ cities that was just upgraded to 42 Mbps.

To test:

1. Turn off WiFi

2. Reboot phone

3. Open Google Maps

4. Click on 'My Location' button @ top right.

You should see a "waiting for location" test message followed by a "location temporarily unavailable" toast message a minute or so later.

And for the record, I have tested this on a G2x, 2 N1's, and a NS with same results on each phone (in Austin, TX of course)
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bug splat:
Hey guys, my brain is on overload. I've played with UK0.7, UK1, ardatdat's OC kernel and a number of others but never got the speed I wanted because I was still using FAT.

I'd like to use ardatdat's OC'ed 2.3.20 kernal from my 16gb SDcard with EXT4 format but I can't find clear instructions on how to do this. I can get the Kernel installed but not on the SDcard and not in EXT4. Can someone give me a quick rundown on the steps?

Thanks :o
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bug splat:
OK, I loaded up Ubuntu and was able to get the 3 EXT4 partitions (1gb, 1.9gb, 11+-GB) set via a card reader. I used $auron's guide here :http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10324687&postcount=89 and now I'm stuck on the part

in bold

....

su

mkfs.ext4 -O ^huge_file /dev/sdb1

mkfs.ext4 -O ^huge_file /dev/sdb2

mkfs.ext4 -O ^huge_file /dev/sdb3

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb (or some other mountpoint if /mnt/usb does not exist)

cd /mnt/usb

tar -zxf /pathtofile/rootfs.tar.gz

sync

umount /mnt/usb

mounting to usb does not work and because I am not sure what should be doing I don't know how to get around it. I'm not much of a command line or Linux guy so this is tricky for me.

PS: my partitions came up as sdc1/2/3 not sdb1/2/3
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bug splat:
yeah I'm stupid, it would help if I created the USB dir first in the mnt folder.

So now that thats done. How do I get the 2.3.20 OC kernel on the sdc1 partition?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bug splat:
Screw it.

The SD card is not performing as well as it should. The R/W speeds do show its faster than the internal (11000/6300 vs 10000/5800) but when I put UK1 on the sd, it runs like crap. everything was smoother on the internal so I'm just going to put the OC'ed 2.3.20 on the internal.

What a waste of a day. :mad:
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Clown:
Moved to general.
[Droid X General] crawcraw:
I remember reading about having to unroot your phone from the Froyo update. I have the Z4root but it only has a root button.

1. Is it advisable to unroot for OTA update?

2. Any resources for Z4unroot?

Thank for helppin' a n00b out. :confused:
[Droid X General] milski65:
It is correct that you'll need to have your phone unrooted to receive the update. Are you rooted with z4 now? If so you should be able to click on z4 and have the "unroot" option appear. If it doesn't appear I have no idea where you should go. Did you do a nandroid backup as well? !
[Droid X General] drhill:
Unrooting has never been necessary. You just need to be on the stock rom without any system apps removed.
[Droid X General] papajani:
How about frozen apps in Titanium Backup... need to unfreeze?
[Droid X General] milski65:
Dr, you're saying leaving phone rooted will not stop ota? I don't want update. Have frozen 2.2.1 updater in titanium and some other bloatware as well. I was informed doing all this would stop update.
[Droid X General] drhill:
Being rooted will change nothing about the update. I can't speak to how Titanium Backup freezes apps, but I know in the past if someone removed/renamed apps in the /system/apps folder the update failed.

You should google/search this site for answer on how to avoid downloading the update if that's what you want.
[Droid X General] shukero:
What needs to happen in order for you to receive the update is that you must be on stock blur rom that came with the phone as well as not have any programs that prevent it from updating IE bootstrapperx, titanium pro, romwork (or w/e its called) etc. A lot of programs used to do Rome like the ones mentioned above have built in code to tell the ota update to basically go **** itself
[Droid X General] phillybizzle:
PM me i'll hook you up
[Droid X General] BBJohnnyT:
I didn't have to unroot when I did the 2.2 OTA update. But just before I updated, I did unfreeze all the crapware I froze with Titanium Backup. Didn't have a single issue. Once I was on 2.2, I froze all the crapware again.
[Droid X General] Legato Bluesummers:
i have never un-rooted my phone for any updates. They always pass fine if rooted. Only fail if you have messed with bloatware or have a bootloader installed. You even keep the Super User App, but it just has lost root rights so it will no longer work until you re root the device
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] blunted09:
very impressive browser for those of you that wanna try something different. extremely stables good layout and fast!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] gera4ever94:
I just switched to this as my default browser! If you asked me, its better than Dolphin!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] blunted09:
I have been switching between dolphin mini and miren. Boat browser is by far the best so far. I like the UI
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] crnkoj:
is that bloat browser you mean? :O
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] xredjokerx:
taken off market? o_o

edit: got it off amazon marketplace. woot. time to try lol
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] omni_angel7:
It's pretty nice, but honestly it's still the second-best. I was looking forward to a change, but Dolphin Mini has the speed dial home splash screen, smoother (higher frame-rate) scrolling, and it can remember passwords that Boat doesn't seem to want to. Maybe in future updates it'll compete, but until then, I'm sold on Dolphin Mini. Thanks for the heads up, though... Boat has potential!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] zir4:
Hands down good browser. I like how everything looks clean and simple
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] ChongoDroid:
Really nice! Kinda miuiesque. Thanks for the find!

Sent from my Googletron
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] mjharris65:
I've been using it the past three days and I love it. I tried to hold out for dolphin but it was giving me problems. Opera was slow. Miren was flaky. And then I found Boat and could not be happier. A+
[T-Mobile LG G2x] BarryH_GEG:
For giggles, can one of you that's stock run the Electopia benchmark? There's been some interesting results and it would be cool to see how another dual-core phone with a different CPU/GPU performs. The Sensation folks are obviously not amused.

Sensation

800x480

Average FPS: 23.65

Time: 60

Number of Frames: 1419

Trianglecount: 48976

Peak Trianglecount: 68154

960x540

Average FPS: 19.90

Time: 60.01

Number of Frames: 1194

Trianglecount: 49415

Peak Trianglecount: 67076

SGS2

Average FPS: 37.58

Time: 60.01

Number of frames: 2255

Trianglecount: 48633

Peak trianglecount: 68860

DHD

Average FPS: 23.36

Time: 60.03

Number of frames: 1402

Trianglecount: 48835

Peak trianglecount: 67628
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
Even the Desire HD blew away my G2x on this benchmark but it could be the custom ROM... I'll switch back to AOSP and try it again.

16FPS
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jlevy73:
Can't be right, my Thunderbolt smoked my g2x :confused:

26 FPS Thunderbolt vs 16FPS G2x

Something is very wrong with those numbers if this is supposed to be measuring opengl 2.0
[T-Mobile LG G2x] UCFJake:
I have stock and with a really hard time getting it to respond to touch input and with the sound off here are the scores:

Average FPS - 15.56

Time - 60.04

Number of Frames - 934

Trianglecount - 48928

Peak Trianglecount - 68838

This was a super buggy program on the G2x. I think it is definitely not optimized for dual core or at least the Tegra 2 architecture.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] BarryH_GEG:
There's no way the G2X would be lower than the Sensation. The test probably isn't dual-core optimized and the new CPU/GPUs are throwing it off. Thanks for trying though.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jlevy73:
And there is no way the g2x could be lower than a single core adreno 205 Thunderbolt.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nightf0x:
15.57 FPS for me running stock/not rooted. Like previously mentioned, it was very unresponsive to touch.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] diablos991:
Badly designed benchmark programs are bad.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
The sad part is that this isn't just a benchmark - its a game first and foremost.

And yeah I can't get past 16FPS on stock speed OR at 1.5GHz so I think there's definitely coding issues as Nenamark using Trinity on Bionic scores 72FPS. I think my Inspire (Adreno 205) got about 35?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nate420:
+1

Lets all buy phones with top benchmarks!!!!!!

Better yet lets all get iPhones.....

Fu*k a benchmark
[T-Mobile LG G2x] BarryH_GEG:
But if you really stop and think about it, if each of the different CPU/GPU's behave differently running the same software because of proprietary hardware performance tweaks we'll all be screwed in the long run. No matter how Electopia was written, one would think it would behave the same way on different CPU/GPU combinations - even if it wasn't dual-core optimized. So developers are either going to have to start testing on every CPU/GPU combo to release a single version of an app or release different apps for different CPU/GPUs. It's way too early to tell as dual-core and 2.3ish isn't that common now but it should be interesting watching software performance and development play out in the future.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
Its piss-poor coding on the app developer's part - plain and simple. While there are Tegra 2-specific instructions that an app developer can use in their application, there are not any mobile OpenGL 2.0 instructions the Tegra 2 doesn't support as far as I am aware.

If you want a good challenge for the chip, download an3dbench XL from Market. I just scored 32640 and that's with a bunch of background apps.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bdkinney:
Isn't this a windows mobile port (had it on my HD2 running WM6.5)? So, how does it provide an accurate representation of gaming on an Android device? Since it is the only bench my G2x has scored poorly on and (more importantly) real world gaming is spectacular on this thing, I'm going to say it doesn't. I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock in this one...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
Yeah agreed. I just ran it on the Nexus/CM7 AOSP hybrid and it still was only 16.06 while I got almost 40,000 on an3dbenchXL which put me like 30-something out of 7000ish results. :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] froanas:
This application was influenced by Qualcomm specifically to run poorly on Tegra 2 devices. They messed with the shaders so everything is rendered at a weird angle. If you change the code to run with a normal approach, you see the same results on Qualcomm chips but also 3-5x perf on NVIDIA chips
[T-Mobile LG G2x] darknightstars:
why would you say this benchmark was influenced? if you have the sources ..please share .. so we can all look ... and how can you say BenchXL is a good benchmark? I have run BenchXL Benchmark and seen un matching results on many forums ... it is very unreliable... not a good benchmark. At least electopia gives consistent reliable results... I would go with electopia as a GPU benchmark ..

i have a xperia play for myself - which performs superb for gaming - awesome graphics - i love the games on it - awesome device. my wife has g2x - which is equally good for gaming (thought she just uses it for texting - LOL )....

i think for gaming both xperia play and g2x are good...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] AndreiLux:
I'd hardly say it's biased to any one specific manufacturer based on these benchmarks:

More so I ran it myself with the latest firmware at stock frequencies (SGS2 btw :rolleyes:) and got:

Average FPS: 51.44

Time: 60.02

Number of frames: 3087

Trianglecount: 48827

Peak trianglecount: 68868

Quite funny difference to any other device I might say. :p
[T-Mobile LG G2x] froanas:
It's not biased

towards

any manufacturer, it is biased

against

NVIDIA's ULP GeForce GPUs in Tegra 2 SOCs.

Changes to the code cause increases in performance on Tegra 2 devices, while results on other platforms do not change.

In general, there is never a single, all-encompassing GPU benchmark to accurately compare devices. It all depends on the code, and how it interacts with the specific hardware of the device.

images |DOT| anandtech |DOT| com /graphs/graph4177/35412.png

images |DOT| anandtech |DOT| com /graphs/graph4177/35412.png

Source: Anandtech Samsung Galaxy S2 review (I can't post links :( )
[T-Mobile LG G2x] AndreiLux:
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4177/35412.png

That AnandTech review is badly outdated, like I said; the SGS2 gets for example 16fps there in February. I myself get 58fps today.

And I don't think it's biased against Tegra. Tegra performs pretty much there where it should be considering its age, and corresponds to it's specs.

And just to prove dismiss your point that Tegra gets a different codepath, I ran Electopia Bench again via Chainfire3D using the NVIDIA GL wrapper plugin emulating said device and I'm still getting the same amount of FPS.

If what you're saying is that it's not utilizing Tegra's full potential through proprietary Nvidia OpenGL extensions, might as well pack the bag and leave because then that logic would apply to pretty much every graphics core since it's not optimized for it. What we see here in these benchmarks is a plain simple ES 2.0 codepath which all devices should support and so we can do an oranges to oranges comparision. It's also one of the heaviest fragment-shader dependent benchmarks out there for the moment, and less geometry and texture bound, and that's why it runs so badly on pretty much every chip, since they don't get this type of workload in other benchmarks. This is also why the Mali gets such high FPS as that's where the quad GPU setup in the Exynos can shine.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nraudigy2:
It's clearly MALI 400 in SGS2 is most powerful GPU right now. There is a 60fps limit on Galaxy S2, so you'll need a powerful benchmark. You can also see that in Nenamark2 too. SGS2=47fps, G2X=28fps, SGS=24fps
[T-Mobile LG G2x] froanas:
Tegra does not get different code. It's the shader map that is set at a weird angle. There is no visual gain from this angle, all it does is force Tegra chips to use many more calculations due to architecture differences.

I'm not trying to rag on any one chip, I'm just pointing out that benchmarks are not cut and dry. Some benchmarks work better on specific chips, it's always a game between chip companies to see who can have the most influence in a benchmark's creation.

There are also several factors in Android benchmarking to consider, one big one being Android itself. Most phones have different versions of Android, running on random kernels or congested with OEM codesnot.

The MALI-400 is an outstanding mobile GPU, but you have to keep in mind that it has the upper-hand of a newer linux kernel and a much improved Dalvik VM over most of the competition right now.

Where it really shines is OpenGL ES2 blending and composition, but you'll notice it is not far from the competition in OpenGL ES1 tests. A Motorola Atrix running Gingerbread 2.3.4 beats it in most ES1 test from Basemark GUI actually, and they are pretty even in ES2 tests.

My point is that benchmarking is never a cut-and-dry situation, not in PCs and especially not in phones. It's always a dance, but less like the samba and more like some kind of robot krumping.
[Nook Color General] angomy:
Posted in the wrong forum. Please delete if possible.
[HD2 Android SD Development] Claus72:
Delete the post.
[HD2 Android SD Development] smeddy:
Ok, but don't you dare read my reply!
[Desire General] brynte5:
running REDUX 1.2 and cm7 hboot!

very pleased with it:)

i was wondering if it´s possible to install a theme in REDUX, that was originally created for another rom (cm7 or oxygen for example)?

and i was also wondering about the lockscreen in REDUX!

is it an app that´s included?

i guess there should be no problems, installing another lockscreen (widget locker for example), or can/ should i uninstall the lockscreen that comes with the rom, first?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retnuh:
Is it a hardware or software issue that I can not hear ringtones over my Samsung A2DP capable earpiece?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
I thinks its related to bluetooth hardware...I am not sure...I use blutooth stereo headphones and I can hear notification ringtones but when there is only one default ringtone for calls....

Even my roomies Moto Atrix do same for his bluetooth stereo headphines
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retnuh:
My previous smart phone was a AT&T Motorola Q9h. It would play the ringtones over the handset until the bluetooth earpiece was connected then the ringtone would play over it and not the handset. I wish the Captivate would function this way.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
The main issue is that the bt stact Samsung uses is crap. I also had a Q9h and loved it but for now this is the best we can do. IT will work if you are using sterio BT headphones but will not work on single ear
[myTouch 4G General] cmstlist:
I don't own an MT4G or Panache, but I started this thread for the inevitable arrival of Mobilicity & Videotron customers who would like to mod an HTC Panache. Once the MyTouch 4G Gingerbread update came out, it was found that the Fre3vo root exploit (originally found for the Sensation/Evo 3D) will also temp-root this phone. To get S-OFF you have to roll back to an old Froyo MT4G firmware - from there you can roll back forward to anything you want.

Differences between MT4G Gingerbread and Panache for the purpose of this thread:

- Panache requires a gold card because the ROM you roll back to comes from a different carrier.

- Your preferences in terms of what ROM to put on your phone after S-OFF may be different from T-Mobile customers - ergo, discuss here if this is an issue.

Thanks to jgobeil for posting the guide in post #98:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16858971&postcount=98
[myTouch 4G General] Jack_R1:
If Gingerbreak will work on it, that would be the only difference, instead rooting with Visionary+, they'll root with Gingerbreak and proceed with the same S-OFF guide, hopefully flashing engineering bootloader.
[myTouch 4G General] h22aboi:
What is gingerbreak??? Is there a new rooting method called gingerbreak?
[myTouch 4G General] mark manning:
Dude then why the hell did you start this if you don't own one? Stick to your own forum!
[myTouch 4G General] cmstlist:
Because I'm Canadian and using one of the new AWS carriers here, so I want to know as much as I can about the devices they release :)

There is someone else here on the forum who flashed the entire firmware of the Panache onto his MT4G and was unable to re-root with Gingerbreak even for temp root. Fortunately the user in question had Radio S-OFF so was eventually able to fix it. But this hints that Gingerbreak won't work.
[myTouch 4G General] dementor123:
That was me. And yes, none of the rooting methods out there will work on panache (including gingerbreak by SOC) firmware. I had to hboot-flash the stock 2.2.1 firmware and then was able to root.
[myTouch 4G General] cmstlist:
Thanks for clarifying. Of course you had S-OFF and the Mobi/Vtron Panache comes S-ON. So this leaves an open question of what is the first step to root the Panache.
[myTouch 4G General] cmstlist:
I just wanted to ask - you said you tried Gingerbreak and it didn't work. My question is, did you check if it at least provided you with temp root? Or it did nothing at all?
[myTouch 4G General] atifsh:
I got rooted. Just installed Rom manager to flash recovery and all is fine.
[myTouch 4G General] cmstlist:
Could you explain all the steps you took to achieve this on the Panache?

I just read your thread and it looks like you actually had a MT4G running the Panache ROM. But was your phone already S-OFF? If so, that'd probably explain why Gingerbreak worked. Not sure that'd fly on a factory Installed Panache.
[myTouch 4G General] atifsh:
Details on post I started, but its glacier used panache RUU.
[myTouch 4G General] atifsh:
Yes it was s-off, but another user who did that could'nt root though he also was s-off
[myTouch 4G General] cmstlist:
I see. So it's still not clear what will or won't work with a factory S-ON Panache.

It's reported that Gingerbreak does not work with S-ON Panache, but what's unclear is whether it can still be used to achieve temp root. If it can, this suggests a way to force it to an earlier T-Mo RUU which will permit the use of the S-OFF kernel exploit.
[myTouch 4G General] atifsh:
as far i know, both are same hardware and you dont need s-off to use factory RUU. thus if i can use panache RUU regardless of s-off i can flash mytouch 4g RUU on panache.