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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
Hmmm... xRecovery has nothing to do with PC Companion or Super One Click.

Try this:

Remove the battery from the phone for like 5 seconds.

Then insert it again and press the power button.

Immediately after the Sony Ericsson appears start pressing the Back button repeatedly.

After a few seconds, you'll be in xRecovery and you'll be able to follow the solution in my previous post.

If not, I'm afraid you need to flash a stock firmware with Flashtool or repair with SEUS. :(

Xperia X10i via Tapatalk
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zackwire:
that's what i did...my xrecovery maybe got messed up cus i tried several times to do the restart/back button trick and nothing.

well, fresh start. at least it's all working now.

thanks anyway! :)
[Nexus S Accessories] Philster5050:
Hi, I'm looking to buy the ibeats for my nexus s but on the box it says they're made for iphone/ipad/ipod. Does anyone know if the controltalk that are on the headphones work with the nexus s?
[Nexus S Accessories] mntbkr:
If your ROM supports it you will have control over start/stop, advance/reset track. The volume is not functional, Android unfortunately does not support that feature. In my opinion you can get better earbuds, I had a pair and they sound is OK, but they are clunky.
[Nexus S Accessories] tsunami1609:
I have a pair of solo hds and the control talk works on both stock and sense roms. The volume controls don't work, but the pause/play and double tap to skip works. Recently though the mic on them haven't picked up any sound, so calls are a no go (though I suspect that it's my cable).

If you don't mind me asking though, why would you choose ibeats over tour? I haven't tried either, but looking at the cable, the tour would last much longer. Unlike the over ears, the cable on the ibeats is standard fare, and that's what always go first on my headphones. That's just my opinion though.
[Nexus S Accessories] leyvatron:
same here... play/pause works with music and pandora.

no volume controls.... they sound good after you tweak them with dsp manager.
[Nexus S Accessories] Linus82:
Go with jays four instead of beats, equal soundquality for half the price. Same flat cables.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Accessories] Clusterfunk:
Buy anything but Beats by Dre. They are probably the worst value in the headphone market. Better off to go with Sennheiser or something.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mingkee:
I had an opportunity to borrow one from corp store rep.

Unfortunately, I am not impressed with this machine. The screen gets washed out if you watch more than 30 degrees off while G2x doesn't (it gets blue tint though).

The rep told me it gets 24xx on Quadrant, which is about same as my G2x.

Moreover, mine doesn't have much problem, so it may be wise for me to stay with G2x and wait for Samsung Hercules.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
The screen size makes me want the sensation. The screen quality keeps me at the g2x

G2x with faux AOSP
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ickster:
Timely thread for me. I'm returning my 2nd one and was really studying that Sensation a little while ago....."Should I cut my losses and get this"? Looks pretty good, it really does, but I'm staying with the G2X.

Hopefully the third one works without the reboots. But it is so nice I think I'd likely try a fourth. This after much thought.

It definately needs replacing.....hell it disconnected w/ black screen WHILE I was talking to the T mobile rep today LOL and while it did not reboot in the night, it did lose the bookmarks.

But my daughters is still running perfectly. Not one problem.

And man, this phone is just like her. When its good, it's very very good, but when it's bad....

I really love this phone.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] brdma:
How often are you getting these reboots? I've had a total of 3 G2X's in my household, and none of them suffer from reboots. I had to replace mine today because of USB issues, but other than that the phones have been great.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ickster:
1st locked up twice and the flashlight went on (?) and I had to pull the battery. Frankly that wasn't enough to return it but two days later was when they mysteriously disappeared fron the shelves and I had an Ick attack. It was on my 14th day and I exchanged it, just in case.

This one as I said elsewhere has been resetting in the night. Every morning I wake up to the phone wanting my sim password. I accidently activated that and like it. But seeing it tells me it has reset, which I would not notice otherwise I don't think. And I have been interupted three or four times on my calls with the phone shutting off. And it reboots randomly and frequently during the day. This is not good.

The first day (friday) it locked up with a very loud buzzing sound, not like the vibration but a loud buzz. This is my main reason for sending it back. I do believe the reboots issues will be fixed with the update.

In retospect I probably should have kept the first one. It was problem free other than the two incidents.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] asesino:
I really don't know which way to go.I'm a die hard invidia fan and the tegra 2 IMO will outperform the Snapdragon anytime but due to all the build issues with the G2X I just don't know where to look.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tombaker1:
Reviews of the Sensation coming out fast now.....this is a good one....love the brit chick

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-sensation-943466/review

the screen part: HTC has long had a problem with screen visibility in direct sunlight, and it seems that issue has continued somewhat with the Sensation. It's definitely a step up, as at medium brightness you can make out what's on the screen, but compare it to the iPhone 4's Retina Display or the Super AMOLED Plus of the Galaxy S2 and it's miles behind. However, the resolution is definitely a step forward, and the sharpness of the text is impressive.

Samsung Galaxy S2 vs HTC Sensation vs iPhone 4 Screen Comparison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UgDpwaDh78
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Cheeze[iT]:
Big toss up. Screen size is very tempting. I loved HTC built devices and the LG kinda let me down with all its kinks, but the support is nice.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] booch137:
I've got a solid G2X, no freezing, rebooting, and minimal screen bleed (after 1 return). The sensation looks like a great phone to me but the size of the G2X is the biggest I'll ever go. And after 2 HTC phones I'll never go back until they replace that damn speaker phone speaker with something you can actually hear.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] brdma:
In all honesty, that second link was mostly garbage. If you're going to compare 3 devices, at least do it in a common and neutral environment. It seems a bit silly to judge text clarity when you're looking at several different examples on different backgrounds and text effects.

Angle of view is also useless after a certain point. If you're viewing your phone at a 20 degree angle, it might be best to worry about untying yourself and getting away from your kidnappers first.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] speedbreaker:
wasnt the screen on this thing supposed to be abit concaved? certainly didnt look that way in them pics on one of them links!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
Yet another example of how HTC made such a huge profit. Cheaped out on decent hardware parts.

G2x with faux AOSP
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sl0play:
Yes, or atleast its supposed to sit a bit inside the housing so that when you set it face down it doesn't touch the surface.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mt3g:
I thought the same thing, go look at the specs compared to the G2X

http://androinica.com/2011/04/t-mobile-g2x-vs-htc-sensation/ scroll down a little.

G2X Dimenions

4.90 x 2.50 x 0.40

Sensation Dimenions

4.96 x 2.57 x 0.44

and only weighs .22oz more for the aluminum feeling.

I remember reading people really liked the metal strip the G2X has, that they would avoid putting a cover on it cause it looked so nice!!! I agreed but still bought a case since I'm selling the G2X for this aluminum sexy model called a phone, haha. I just love the feel of HTC phones prefer Sense overall as well... sucks for those with all those issues and still want to keep the G2X I feel bad as I have no issues and am still selling this phone.

Good luck peeps.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jrwingate6:
Have no issues with my G2X either but I feel the Sensations aluminum body isn't enough of a upgrade over the G2x but I can tell you what is a worthy upgrade. A SGSII variant. It's still the phone to beat and is still called the best Android phone that exists. Engadget even said in the Sensation review that the SGSII was more responsive and had more power. Myriam on Engadget said it wasn't enough to get rid of her SGSII and Sense was holding it down. I think I'll pass since I won't have enough app storage available to even store 2 of my Game Loft games. It's 2011 and HTC is still giving us 1gb of app storsge.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mt3g:
ya I dont want plastic at all... and launcher pro will take care of the sense hogging down if it does slow it down... doubt it will. The Sensations resolution helps with pixels... I've seen a couple captivates, and a vibrants that had weird looks to the text stuff... Sure they are bright and vivid but clarity is awesome...

Besides that Samsung has a well bad rap when it comes to phones, lol... just saying the G2X is awesome but I prefer HTC and Sense.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
Let us know how you feel when its not so great in sunlight.

G2x with faux AOSP
[T-Mobile LG G2x] eagle1967:
remember people

the sensation has most likely been sitting in boxes with those encrypted bootloaders.

and the benchmarks i see do not score 2400 on the sensation.

But it should be a decent phone, also the sensation has the mhl connection not a seperate hdmi and i hear it doesnt come with the cable. and they are hard or imposible to find.

also the mhl standard does allow charging but no hardware out at this time knows that standard so no charging while using hdmi out.

It did take 3 tries but i think i have a good g2x finallly it was dated april 30th for anyone that cares :)

So i would wait and see whats said once they come out.

Im sure it will be a fine phone but if you are into modding id wait and check out that bootloader first.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hazard99:
Sense ui eats so much ram!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] player911:
No way would I touch a sensation after I researched it for my buyers remorse period when I bought the G2x. Glad I made the right choice in choosing a phone. I never had a problem with any of my G2x phones. I traded the first one because of the backlight but never had any reboots or issues. The second one is near flawless.

The Sensation looks like a sweet phone and all but it is just to much of a step back in too many departments coming from the G2x.

Less powerful CPU/GPU

1Gb of Storage vs 8Gb

Lower Front Cam Res

MHL HDMI Out - Power

Encrypted Bootloader (which may or may not be unlocked) (HTC said "future phones would be unlocked")

Ram Killer aka Sense

Sure you can opt to run Launcher Pro and not use Sense... but that doesn't mean that Sense just vanishes. All those graphic files have to be stored somewhere. I cooked many Sense roms to know the difference in weight between a Sense and Non-Sense rom.
[Off-topic] Skellyyy:
So guys I'm really getting sick of using Windows XP and want to upgrade to Windows 7.

I'm just wondering how the best way to go about it after I've got the ISO burned or whatever, like how to copy my files etc. without any corruption. Also W7 will work with any hardware if I'm correct so it won't matter that I have outdated hardware?

Basically, can anyone give me a step-to-step guide on how to upgrade from scratch.

Any help appreciated guys. ;):D
[Off-topic] husam666:
I think when you insert the disk with windows running you'll have an upgrade option which will backup everything, install the new OS, then put back everything the way they were before (by everything I mean, registry entries, documents, user settings...)

or you can boot from the disk and choose click the upgrade button.

It's an easy process, but it took me a few hours to upgrade from windows vista to 7
[Off-topic] T.C.P:
actually the upgrade option is only if your on vista, best thing to do is backup your files to a external hdd and start fresh :D:D
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Yep. Back up your files to an external drive, insert disk, boot from CD, once you get to the drive selection menu, select the drive, drive options and format. This will clear your HD, and give you a fresh install. Also make sure you can find all the drivers for 7, and if you don't want to pay for 7, find a backup of an OEM Win 7 disk, and install with that. Might need to update your BIOS to 2.1, but that isn't always the case.
[Off-topic] Skellyyy:
Where are the files I should be backing up? Do any files need to be backed up in like sys32 or anything or just files like music, pictures, programs etc.? Is there a way I can backup program data too? The likes of favourites and bookmarks for chrome etc. :D

How do I go about checking/updating my BIOS?
[Off-topic] vbetts:
If you're going 32-bit to 32-bit you can put the 7 install on the same partition as the xp install, but you won't have any registry keys from XP.
[Off-topic] jaszek:
As for backup, music, photos etc. And usually you can find the update on the manufacturers website, it's a regular install. What MB to you have?
[Off-topic] Mr. Clown:
Back online, some editions done.
[Off-topic] brilldoctor:
There is always easy transfer. RUN THE UPGRADE ADVISOR before purchasing though
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperTheMando:
I've had a look around and this issue has been brought up a few times, but then just brushed over without a concrete answer.

I have a few MKVs that I want to play on my phone, but that don't have sound.

I've tried with the stock player and with Mplayer.

I've spent the last few hours googling how to convert MKVs to AVIs and whatnot and tried a few times all unsuccessful.

I don't really want to covert them anyway, they all work fine, just not on the phone.

The video plays smoothly, and subtitles show up if it has them, just no sound.

How can I fix this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sticks02:
OGG Vorbis audio track? Try Moboplayer. I just found out it'll read and play it, subs included.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperTheMando:
That's what I'm using, Moboplayer and the stock player.

No sound from either.

:(

I just noticed Moboplayer has a bunc of codecs in the market, do I need to install one of them? Which one?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cuspide:
well i have sound with stock player and mkv.... what sound is it ? DTS, DD ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luongtings:
i use Vplayer, works fine for me. shows picture sound and subs
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MyrddinLXXIIX:
Most mkv's contain an ac3 soundtrack.

The SII doesn't like that.

I convert mkv's to mp4 now with avidemux.

With these settings:

- video: copy

- audio: AAC

Works like a charm!

Edit: it's a 'cheap' conversion, it goes very fast because only the audio track is converted.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maddmatt:
The Mobo Player app should have an option to point you to the correct codec.

If you don't install the codec then it will only play the same formats as the stock video player.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xero Xenith:
I use mVideoPlayer, works fine for all of mine. :)

But I think DicePlayer has the best support for audio codecs, though it's only free for a trial period and doesn't support embedded subs (AFAIK).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stoolzo:
I have these installed permanently as one of them usually does the job, I usually try stock first followed by mobo, then rock with Act1 and QQ as backups.

Dice is probably the best but isnt free.

Dice

mobo

rockplayer

act1

qq player

I have tried pretty much all other players, honestly dont waste your time or money on any of the others.

EDIT - sorry I forgot, since moving to this Phone I hace scrapped qq for everything and rock for HD stuff as it doesnt seem to decode as well as stock or mobo, always try stock first.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumen_s:
On my GS2 I do not see any option Mobo Player to point me to the correct codec, any clue?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperTheMando:
I like this idea best, it means I can play through the stock player, so I don't need to have unnecessary apps. I do like the stock player.

Is there any quality loss when doing this?

Will embedded subtitles carry over?

Edit: I just tried this, and the file it pushed out had a really low framerate. I could see jaggeddyness in frames.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juami:
Mobo is good. it's free.

Mobo's ffmpeg codec support almost all codecs.

but ffmpeg sw codec use CPU more than HW codec.

when playing 720p H.264+DTS mkv. mobo ( or rock ... ) sw codec use almost 100% CPU power.

Stock Player and DicePlayer use only 20-40% of CPU power. ( Audio codec use cpu.. )

SW codec players use lossy color convert and resize routine.

dithering or color loss will occur. ( you can see when playing dark scene )

HW Codec's Pros.

1. Performance ( Can Play 1080p )

2. Battery

3. image quality

Cons.

1. Codec compatibility ( but SGS2's HW codec is AWESOME. )

2. not supported codecs ( RMVB, VP6/7.. )

** dice player 1.1.2 add mkv embedded subs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MyrddinLXXIIX:
Generally I get good results, but haven't tried it with movies yet.

Only 720p series with 25fps, no subtitles.

Back at my desktop tonight I will try a movie with subs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperTheMando:
The file I tried was a movie, 720p, no subs.

I don't know what it's framerate was, but it's pretty damn high. It looks seamless.

When I tried loading it with the app, I got this error. Maybe it is actually important and not to be overlooked?

I answered no.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MyrddinLXXIIX:
I answered no every time without much problems. Forwarding in the stock player seems a little slow sometimes but that might be normal.

25 is pretty standard for series I believe.

Converting gives the advantage of hardware acceleration and I do not want to loose that.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juami:
Diceplayer give you hw acceleration without converting.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MyrddinLXXIIX:
As promised...

Promised a follow-up with an mkv with subtitles.

I must admit I didn't get it to work yet.

Unclear to me if it is even possible, I found some info that the stock player will accept separate subtitles like .srt but I have not confirmed that yet.

Ran across another problem that put me off track.

Tried a conversion to mp4 with a movie but didn't think about the size restrictions.

Could not connect in Storage mode for some reason, so I tried to use SD-cards / usb-otg. No succes with 4 Gig+ files yet ~ using windows which has exFAT and NTFS, neither is working.

Possibly there is a filesystem that will do the job on Win7 and Android 2.3.3?

My research tells me that exFAT is not really available for Android, too tired atm to look for alternatives from the Win side.

Like USB-OTG very much, would like a way to get 4G+ files to my SII that way!

As I said, got sidetracked seriously ~ apologies if I got too far offtopic.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genaro12543:
Ive tried rooting a nexus one via fastboot on my computer and it gave me a message that a file was missing from platform tools anytime i put a command in like fastboot devices or fastboot oem unlock. I gave up on that nexus and now I have a Nexus s 4G that i'm trying to root and im running into the same problem...

The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

Thats the message i get every time i have my nexus connected and i put in a command. The problem is i open up the platform tools folder and that specific folder is in there.

I tried to fix the problem by manually putting that folder into the platform tools folder. Ive download the platform tools add on in the sdk like 5 times. Ive installed the full sdk on the computer a few times as well.

I gave on my computer and decided to borrow my sisters laptop to root since i thought it was something that had to do with this specific computer. I did go to the commands part on the laptop and it gave me the same message so Im completely out of ideas on how to fix this now. I just want my nexus rooted already please help if you can think of anything that i can do to fix this issue or maybe another way of rooting the device where i dont have to use the computer

Both computers are running windows 7
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chewbz:
Do you have ADB installed? If so do you have the correct drivers for your nexus to communicate to your comp? Also you will need java JDK for adb if you don't already have it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt2053:
This is your exact solution:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11139522&postcount=5
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve228uk:
It was my favourite game on the iPhone and was just released on the Amazon App Store for Android today. Problem is it crashes on opening :mad:

Anyone got it to work?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robstunner:
Works for me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve228uk:
Hm... Maybe a re-install is in order.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve228uk:
Nope! Re-installed and it just crashes or the screen goes black :(

Edit: Are you rooted at all?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandenk0:
I'm rooted and it works fine for me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwj5279955:
Works fine here.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve228uk:
Now I'm annoyed. I'm not rooted and it's not bloody working! Stupid Android :p

I bet it's something I'm doing wrong...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arj154:
have you tried it with chf3d and the nvidia plug in?

Also how did u get it in the uk?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve228uk:
I'm not rooted so that won't work and I followed this tutorial:

http://abtevrythng.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-use-amazon-app-store-outside-us.html?m=1
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elythor:
How did you manage to get the app?? Amazon won't let me download it because of "geographic restrictions" :(

Or are you using a US-based VPN?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve228uk:
Found another APK online which works! Now hurry up and bring it to the Market, Popcap.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleepycat3:
Plants vs Zombies HD that was just released is a Tegra 2-only release. So the SGSII can't play it without CHF3D.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beWater:
faked a amazon account with U.S address, dled and worked for me :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] balenax:
the version that was online didn't work for me either, it kept crashing at startup. i faked and amazon account ( us), since amazon store is not available in my country, downloaded the app from the store and it works very well. oh, the game is smooth, nice graphics,addictive, but sucks the battery like there's no tomorrow. played for like 45-50 minutes and almost 40% dropped.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avengerr91:
Yes same here it drains the battery and uses alot of ram don't know why
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dextrosan:
Works fine here. Faked US residency on Amazon and got it for free yesterday :) Nice game.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soniboy84:
Could somebody upload it to rapidshare, it's not available in the EU, and i can't pay for it. (I would)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve228uk:
This is the version I'm using: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FL3JRZMK

It should be coming out on the Market in a couple of weeks so don't get too attached to that APK as your game save might be wiped if you buy it :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmilianM:
Phone Plants vs Zombies from amazone appstore is working (and also the Plants vs Zombies HD ) on SGS II , without any problem.