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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zheiko:
Thing about sense is not the look of it, but its connection and cooperation with Social Networks, I love sense only because its automaticaly syncing my contact with facebook, on clear android its possible as well, but I have to do it one by one. And my calendar will never connect to the Facebook one, so I cant see birthdays and Facebook events, which is very handy(no I dont really remember birthdates of my friends). Unfortunately NONE of those 'senselike' widgets will ever be able to do this, and this is the thing why I like Sense(even tho I dont use it atm)

Now as HTC Released the Sense SDK I'd say we might be step closer to be getting Sense on other devices as well, however I am afraid that nobody will do it... look at the die-hard Samsung fans, they think we're dumb and stupid, just because we like our UI... Honestly, I dont like this approach, however arent we the same? If someone came on HTC threads asking if we can port TouchWiz on HTC, wouldnt we react the same?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cphkelvin:
Ya totally agree wt u said, everyone may have different ideas and flavour. Android is possible to happen everything. It depends on our passion.

No doubt again I love gs2 looking but sense UI rather than touch wiz.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infra4800:
I second that, brilliant written.

coming from Desire HD, I see this non-integration of Facebook Calender as huge drawback. Also, agree with the contacts, they sync with facebook in Sense.

If I knew the programming part, I would have ported Sense to SG2!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
Actually if you logged in to facebook for samsung social hubs you will be able to integrate facebook calendar. I love how the SGS2 comes feature packed out of the box. Not as elegant as HTC but they're both packing apps that you're never gonna use so why bother. The email app for samsung has been greatly improved and the only thing missing is the checkbox.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knights.JayTana:
Wishfull thingking: Sense 3.0 on SII + Hardware Accelerated....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
One could always offer a developer a lot of money top work on such a project .

Judged by the multiple repeat i want Sense posts $20,000 would be a reasonable amount .

jje
[Thunderbolt General] hogowner:
Hi Guys...

I have a Thunderbolt now (rooted) that waqs giving me problems I was going from 4g to 3g to 1x and then I wasn't getting any data at all. This started last night....I figured I would wait because it was a network problem

This morning the same thing was happening....I called VZ tech support and they told me before they send me a new phone...I have to go to a VZ store and get a new sim card. I unrooted my phone and went to the store. I got a new sim card and that didn' help. I called back tech support and they said they will send me a new Thunderbolt. I have a family plan and I have 4 phones on my plan (mine is the only smartphone) I asked if I can get a CHARGE...after some back n forth chat...he told me that they will send me a NEW Charge...and also a belt clip and screen protector for no charge....

I love my Thunderbolt...and I know there are pros and cons betwen both phones.....but I really use my Slingbox app alot and I wanted to get the charge because of the screen...so Monday or Tuesday my new charge arrives...

hope I didn't make a mistake not going with the Thunderbolt....thoughts??

I want to thank all of the other members here who helped me with all my questions on the Thunderbolt....I will be changing forums but I will stop in here from time to time :)

The charge came out with an OTA update (yesterday) that made numerous fixes and charge owners are saying that it made the phone AWESOME!
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
While I don't agree with your decision, it's understandable and i hope it works out for you :) charge has less dev support though :p
[Thunderbolt General] blueis300:
I just had a problem with my tbolt I couldnt make or receive calls but could do text message or email.
[Thunderbolt General] hogowner:
Yes I know less dev support...but remember.....it just came out....

I may not root it.....have to see........
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
It's also got that icky Touchwiz :p
[Thunderbolt General] sublimaze:
Since you're posting in the TB section, you already know what to expect ;)

The Charge is a nice phone as long as you don't mind Touchwiz & limited custom rom/kernel options (at least for the moment). Sorry the TB didn't work out for you.
[Thunderbolt General] xstahsie:
The problem that you describe was exact what I went through with my Thunderbolt. I went through Verizon tech support on the phone, as well as the store, only to hit a dead end... Even after getting a new sim card.

They wanted to send me a certified like new phone, but I hated the idea. So, after 2 days without any data service, I decided to do a complete re-installation of Froyo from bootloader. Note: wiping the data / factory restore and cache wipe did not resolve the issue.

The problem was likely due to a corrupt system file.

So yeah, I went and downloaded a rooted RUU Froyo and just flash it in bootloader, not in recovery, and works.

Thank you for confirming that I'm not the only one with a ThunderBolt that went through this problem.
[Thunderbolt General] mi7chy:
No phone is perfect. It's a matter of deciding what criterias are more important and deciding between the least sucky one. One area of weakness with the Charge is the inability to manage the radios and manually forcing between 3G or 4G. You lose the benefits of battery conservation by forcing 3G only and may experience constant flip flop between 3G and 4G causing loss of data connectivity in fringe areas. Also, no simultaneous voice and data on 3G.
[Thunderbolt General] ERIFNOMI:
I'm not entirely happy with my thunderbolt but because VZW sent me a really crappy replacement. Actually, my second replacement. I had an issue similar to you a while back. I couldn't even get 3G. No data. Went to the store, they had to call HQ or something, talked for 30min or so, ended up sending me a replacement over night. That phone was perfect before I lost data. The replacement had that reboot issue so I got a replacement for that one; the phone I have now. It came without working camera flash. I didn't notice until a week later when I used the flash for the first time. That's pretty unacceptable if you ask me. But, that's not the worst part. My screen is FALLING OUT of my phone. The whole right side of the screen is not glued/fastened in any way. It comes out 1/4 inch on it's own. Went to a VZW store and they couldn't be bothered since I wasn't there to buy a phone. My VZW store is useless. I'm going to have to go to a VZW kiosk at a nearby mall. Weirdly, they are the most helpful usually.
[Thunderbolt General] Immolate:
If your phone is an appliance to you, then you made an arguably good decision. The screen is a dandy one on the charge and battery life is notably better than the Tbolt. If you are a root/ROM guy, then you're totally off your nut.
[Thunderbolt General] sir2545:
I just went through this after coming from a Charge back to the Tbolt. The left side of the screen was loose and it took three Verizon stores to get a NEW replacement.

As far as the Charge goes, I liked the phone, but my friend has a Tbolt and we drive a truck so we are all over the country and the Tbolt sometimes would have service and the Charge wouldn't, or rather it seemed that the Tbolt could hold a signal longer than the Charge. I also didn't like the fact that I couldn't do voice and data in 3G, but I spend a lot more time in 3G since I travel all over. I also could never get over 20MB download on the Charge and my Bolt hit 42MB in Charlotte the other night. The battey is marginally better on the Charge, but it takes forever to recharge. Also the lack of Dev support and Samsungs issue with updates scared me. There is also a lack of RAM, 768 vs 512.

Walking away from it, the only thing that I think the Charge has over the Bolt is the screen. If you put a 1600 Mah battery in the Bolt, the battery life would be comparable., but that's just my 2¢.
[Thunderbolt General] bL33d:
I had a fascinate it don't matter if it just came out or not dev support is never strong for cdma samsung devices and always stellar for htc devices.
[Thunderbolt General] titansjonne:
i feel like the Thunderbolt is a very raw device. Verizon pushed it out after so many ppl knew about it. Now we must wait for them to finish perfecting it and getting it to where they want it to be. I think once they have a good update for it, it will be an amazing phone. I love my TB, but right now its nothing to brag about. Once it gets GB and they address battery life and get all the app support, it will be even better.
[Thunderbolt General] miketoasty:
Sigh, the charge has better battery life since it uses a bigger battery. I can get up to 30 hours or so on the extended battery with quite heavy usage.
[Thunderbolt General] hogowner:
I also am getting at no charge the holster...screen protector and I found out an extended battery for the charge. The VZ rep told me it is a 2600 battery....

I think getting this phone is a no brainer....especially with all the freebies....

the charge came out with an OTA update a few days ago....from what I am hearing from people who have the update, they are saying the data connections are better now with the new radio and so is the browser
[Thunderbolt General] deanrobbins:
I own both and prefer the Thunderbolt for reasons stated above. Though I do prefer the Charge screen.
[Thunderbolt General] adrynalyne:
So you quoted him, just to agree?
[Thunderbolt General] adrynalyne:
As mentioned before, as long as you are not big on dev support, so be it. I find 300mb less usable ram, and a filesystem thats 1/4 of the performance a deal breaker. To each their own, of course.
[Thunderbolt General] H3Dude:
Although you cannot force 4g only on the Charge, it does have a CDMA and 4G/CDMA toggle.
[Thunderbolt General] ready5:
Charge

The reviews are pretty good for the charge... but the test will be after a month of ussing it, to see if your already searching for another phone...
[Thunderbolt General] C@rn@ge:
I know the OP has already made a definite decision, but for those with the same problems as OP try this.

call ##778

choose edit

select modem

select rev. a

choose enable

menu softkey

commit

This glues the TB to the rev. a network which is the 3g if not in lte. This means less 1x network.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Password is 000000
[Thunderbolt General] Immolate:
I don't care who you are, that there was funny.
[Thunderbolt General] xstahsie:
Or you can download the Froyo rooted Rom for ThunderBolt on XDA, do a factory wipe and cache wipe, and install the Froyo.

Works for me. No more data problems.
[Thunderbolt General] kriskmk:
I was thinking to myself if Charge would be a better option over Thunderbolt..

I had a chance to play around with a Samsung Charge at my local Costco Store.. and boy am I glad I didn't wait for it!..

The screen is nice no doubt.. but that sort of backfires because it highlights how gaudy and awful touchwiz is.. It is just way too colorful and messy.

The phone dialer, contacts etc.. are no match to Sense (my opinion of course).

All in all.. touchwiz is simply too colorfully "busy"... and lacks the classiness of sense.
[Thunderbolt General] BigMcGuire:
After being with the Thunderbolt, I don't think I could go with any phone that has less ram, especially after seeing GB's usage requirements. I think the Thunderbolt is going to be the next Droid 1 (in terms of Dev support) for the foreseeable future.
[Thunderbolt General] eraursls1984:
I would never get a Samsung or LG phone, they are garbage. The only thing I would replace my t bolt with is a 4g Motorola or 4g HTC phone. I hope (but don't expect) Motorola unlocks their bootloaders but as long as I can still root a Motorola phone that will be the next phone I buy, if it can't be rooted then I'll get another HTC. I hope the charge works out for you but after a few crap phone from Samsung I won't give them another chance.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Sergey2011:
Hi, guys, i want to know if there any way to change system colors in Android.

I need something like UITweaker in Windows Mobile. Does anyone know such tool? Or maybe there is some other way to achieve my goal? Thanks in advance.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Canadoc:
There is a new app on the market called video chat which is like chat roulette. Tried it but the camera works only rear facing and sideways. Anyone know a way to fix?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] nxt:
Yeah, email the developer and tell them it doesn't work with front facing cam of the Asus Transformer Android 3.0/3.1. Hopefully they update it.

That's all you can do.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Canadoc:
Thanks will consider it. Yahoo messenger has same issue. Figure it's a honeycomb thing.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] spawndk:
Its not a Honeycomb issue

On my LG O2x running Froyo the issue are exactly the same, only rear facing camera and sideways.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blaze16:
Hi

I was wondering if anyone knows of or has experienced any problems with messing around with the X10 (i.e. ADB, flashing, etc.) on a MacBook. I'm just trying to dig up any compatibility issues before I even consider getting one.

Cheers
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garbagecanman:
Bout to get my brother a gtab and I'm wondering what to do to best optimize the tablet. Where can I look on rooting, which ruins are the best, I want him to have access to the market and play games.

P.s I'm very familiar with android I own a dell streak and an iconia.

Thanks
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865245

Please be aware that cwm v08 is for the 1.1 branch. If you have the 1.2 branch, you need this version of cwm.

The most stable and fastest rom right now that people generally agree on is the calkulin+clemsyn 1.2 or 1.5 ghz combo. The most popular rom is vegan ginger. Beside these two, there are almost a dozen others to choose from.

Remember that if you go with froyo then use clemsyn kernel. If you go with ginger then use pershoot kernel.

There are also 2 versions of honeycomb roms in development. Bottle of Smoke is being developed by Roebeet and Illuminate is being developed by linuxboxsolution. As far as I can tell, Illuminate branched off of BoS and is actually a bit better. It runs smoother if you delete the bootanimation.zip before you flash the rom.

About market fix, ALL current roms come with pretty darn good market fix already. You don't need to do anything in that regard if you decide to go with a custom rom.

And please, for godssake, learn how to nvflash before you decide to do some modding yoga.
[G1 General] MT4G_Slave:
I forgot to make a backup file and stuck on g1 screen, any one have a link to a backup zip I can use? I'm using ra recovery. thanks.
[G1 General] ldrifta:
uhh what radio and hboot do you have??
[Eee Pad Transformer General] goodintentions:
I did not buy the dock. The tablet only has a micro usb input. I have an adapter from usb to micro usb. Is there a way I can make the transformer recognize a thumbdrive via this way?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Paradaz:
No.....the micro sd port simply lets you insert a micro sd card and nothing else. You're probably aware of the following and I'm not trying to inform you things you already know but............

Micro SD Card

An SD card slot will let you insert an SD card.......

or Micro SD -> SD Adaptor

A standard USB slot will let you plug in a USB drive.........

or SD Card -> USB Adaptor.................

or Micro SD Card -> USB Adaptor................

or Micro SD Card -> SD Adaptor -> USB Adaptor

The obvious thing to do if is essential to have a standard USB port for storage would be to invest in the dock/keyboard which does feature two full size USB ports and a standard SD card slot.

The only thing your USB drive/adaptor will be useful for is when you take the micro sd card out of the TF in order to connect it via USB to another PC.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] xufuchang:
it's micro sd port, not micro usb port :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] hotelmode:
This might help you

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056592&referrerid=2783020
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Paradaz:
To summarise the link above they are attempting to use a female to female USB adaptor connected to the 40-pin charging port..........however this doesn't carry the 5 volt line that most USB devices need for their power source meaning only very low consumption devices are working.

When a USB storage device is connected via the dock/keyboard USB port everything behaves as expected. Asus have confirmed a USB host accessory which will connect to the 40-pin port so that is another option if the OP is prepared to wait.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EverythingNook:
got it, delete please
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hojuruku:
recall of "made in china" ATK branded battery in galaxy tab (affect non-korean too?)

About two months ago my tab died. I'm a foreigner in korea so I went down to my local samsung electronics service centre (sec.co.kr). After talking shop with the service engineer he opened up that there was a silent recall on all made in china "ATK" prefixed model number batteries which I had. The battery was tossed in the trash can showing there is NO returns / credit (RA) arrangement with the chinese manufacturing contractor or the relationship had gone sour, but this is just speculation on my part.

The replacement battery is a korean model that seems to have diminished capacity after the wear-in period (like others have reported). It is well known that samsung, hyundai and other korean conglomerates sell second class products to its own countryfolk whilst only supplying top notch components on export orders. Let's test this theory. How many of you who dared to open your galaxy tab export models have chinese made batteries?

I kept a log of battery performance under my new and former batteries.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0sh:
you'll be surprise that CHINA now the only country that made the original stuff :D and not to forgot the FACT that its also the #1 country who made the fake stuff :D

1- Cheap workers ...

2- ELECTRONIC Stuff are cheap

3- Intelligent Country :)

China now rolling the world by ELEC :D
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hojuruku:
Lets all hail China the land of fake brand knockoffs. They probably mixed up the genuine and fake batches with their OEM. Halarious! Go to china and try to buy a genuine electronic replacement battery or flash memory. Odds are you are buying a ghost shift fake. If china is so good why don't they design their own products like the koreans do. Their "dragon" mips knockoff cpu is a slow start.

Seriously guys. Its big news when a major handset is affected by a faulty component, or at least it was for the iphone 4. Now to assertain if this recall is for korean inferior product for domestic consumption with easy access to service facilities or their chinese cost cutting measure didn't pay dividends globally. Anyone got ATK branded batteries in overseas tabs? That's the issue here not how the chinese socialists peg their yuan to the us dollar to undermine the us manufacturing base (aka war machine) to overtake america as a super power. Reminds me of australia selling steal and iron ore to the japanese before it came back as bombs on darwin.

Sent from my SHW-M180L (now from 100% korean assembled components)
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hojuruku:
Im surprised there is no feedback. Someone PM rotohammer and ask him in the tabs he opened up to get JTAG working did he see a made in China ATK model battery. I used to work tec support for the now defunct daewoo electronics and it is no secret in the industry that OEMs will not own up to a product recall publically if they can help it and clean up the mess through their affiliated (or in house in Korea) service centres.

In case you dont yet get my drift this could be as big a scandal as the iphone 4 ariel defect that samsung capitalized on in the UK giving free galaxy S es to unhappy iphone users willing to blog their complaints online.

Does your tab have a defective battery? After 3-9 months your phone could refuse to start from a cold boot if defective and have very limited capacity compared to quality lithium-ion batteries. Samsung got screwed by their chinese subcontractor and don't want to clean up the mess if they can help it by keeping the userbase in the dark until they are all out of warranty.

That's why some of you need to check your battery model - especially early adopters.

Luke

Aussie expat exiled in South Korea

Google "burnpassport" for the youtube vid to see why.

Sent from my SHW-M180L
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0sh:
WTF wrong now ? ? ? why you asking someone to ask someone for u ?

u got the F>>< pm function use it by yourself ... and thank you for stopping PM me ....... .
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hojuruku:
K0sh: U don't speaky no englishe.

Sent from my SHW-M180L
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongski55:
Of course Kosh is not englishman-read his signature....
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hojuruku:
Yeah lets just ignore him. The issue here is with all galaxy tab "7 models. The issue is not chinese people (like kosh) but the products they make more inexpensive through their lower wages and low exchange rate pegged to the dollar that was even too cost compeditive for samsung to refuse. I guess samsung has to competete with the iphone that's made under contact by Foxconn who's workers are committing suacide in droves (including R&D staff) according to local news reports. Yes I once lived in china.

Surey a few xda developers have seen a galaxy tab with it's back cover removed! Does the battery's model number have "ATK" marked on it and the infamous words "MADE IN CHINA"? If so I'm telling you your battery is faulty and there is a recall on it in Korea

Sent from my SHW-M180L
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hojuruku:
My new battery isn't much better. Running on stock rom for a month with minimal applications I noticed the standby time was reducing.... I have to carry a battery pack in my backpack these days to get by.

Bump.... Has anyone oversees had a battery death or heard of defective chinese batteries stuck in overseas models?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trock79:
I have read a few threads on this subject, none could give me any solid answers. I have seen countless people have this issue, If I can get this solved than I would be extremely grateful.

After restoring a nandroid backup all was well and when I went to reboot I got the splash screen then the screen went black. This is where the bootanimation should kick in, but it didn't. I get a black screen and then 5 vibrates and the LED flashes green. I did end up geting into hboot and where I used to be s-off it now say s-on. I don't know how that is possible.

Has anyone been successful with fixing this? If not who is willing to help me? I am not convinced my phone is done and I am not giving up, I'm just asking the community for help.

I tried the RUU method but that didn't work either.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renzo.olivares:
I've gotten 5 vibrates and green led but i just battery pull and it goes away that seems its not the case for everyone and everyone this has happened to has gone for a refurb i think you can still turn on the phone when its plugged its usb connected and i think this is caused by a corruption of emmc
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trock79:
Battery pull did not work, and usb doesn't work either, but I think you are on to something about the emmc.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trock79:
With USB connected I was able to get into recovery for a few seconds before it bombed out again. I think I am getting somewhere.