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[Nexus S General] muzicman82:
Just wondering... I may have an opportunity to upgrade to a new phone early as another phone on my account is due for upgrade. That family member may just want an EVO, in which case I figure, they could take mine and I could take the upgrade.

The question is... Do I really want to move from the EVO 4G to the Galaxy S 4G?

Side by side, the EVO does look like the better phone given it has a microSD card slot and better camera. The S 4G has a better (though smaller) screen. I could care less about it being curved. I understand the S 4G does not have notification LEDs?

I have a 16GB card in my EVO, but I don't keep music/movies on it.

I'm also currently running CyanogenMod 7 Nightlies on the EVO, so I am not attached to Sense.

If anyone can give their thoughts, that'd be great!

[BTW, if you see this on other sites, I apologize, but I am looking for as many opinions as possible.]
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
well the evo does have a higher megapixel camera but the nexus s takes way better pictures. Side by side the nexus s is beats out the evo in every part except for size.

The gpu on the nexus s out performs that the adreno one found n the evo. CPU is miles more efficant than the one in the evo.

The only thing I miss every now and then from the evo is the kickstand.

yes no notification led is confusing why its not there. But while rooted and running cm7+net kernel I use BLN and it lights up the buttons for notification

Battery life is great when compared to teh evo, no matter what rom or kernel (other than sbc with extended battery) the evo would drain like a sive

the 16 gb (more like 12gb ) is fine for me, i do keep music on here but not much I still use a mp3 player

so if you have no hold ups about not having a micro sd card the nexus s is batter than the evo

Side note you may just want to wait for the evo 3d if having high megapixels and check box feartures is what your looking for
[Nexus S General] muzicman82:
Thanks for the input.

I almost never use the kickstand. Or at least I can do without it.

I may actually see if I can hold out for the EVO 3D. Looks pretty killer to me even though I could care less for the 3D side of things. Dual core would definitely be nice.

Then again, having a pure Google phone is also nice. I like HTC build quality, but I would rather an ASOP build or something close. I imagine it will be a while before the EVO 3D has Cyanogenmod or other clean ROMs available.
[Nexus S General] jonnythan:
I upgraded from the Evo to the Nexus. I'm rather happy with it.

The Nexus looks better and feels better in the hand. The OS is faster and smoother, it has tons more room on the data partition.

You might want to hold out and check out the Evo 3D though. It's got a dual-core CPU and double the RAM of the Nexus S.
[Nexus S General] muzicman82:
Yes, I was thinking about that. I just don't really care about 3D and hope that the 3D doesn't pose problems when it comes to custom ROMs.

I do like the idea of pure Google, but I root and flash, so who am I kidding?
[Nexus S General] jonnythan:
The experience of the stock ROM on the Nexus S is far superior to that of CM7 on the Evo.
[Nexus S General] ldnikon:
I upgraded to a Nexus S 4G from the Evo, and I've been pretty happy with it so far. The feel of the OS and the Pure-Google experience are really hitting home with me. And it does feel smoother using it overall (screen transitions and animations and such). So far the battery life is a definite seller. I had 3 separate batteries with my Evo, I usually went through 2 a day. On my Nexus, I can go through a whole day on a single charge with about 63% left over when I get home on a light usage day. 20% +/-5% on a heavy usage day...and on some days I leave the 4G on for extended periods of time.

The only thing I find myself missing from the Evo is the kick-stand. I loved that thing and use to use it all the time. It was the main reason I put off buying a nexus twice before I finally sprung for it. But all in all, I love the nexus. Like the two above said, you may want to hold off for the Evo 3D...though besides the dual core processor, I don't see anything too awesome about it.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btailor684:
Hi,

Long time lurker, haven't updated my phone to gingerbread, until I saw that the radio doesn't cause the bricks any more...I think I'm willing to take the dive now...

Being that I havent' flashed a radio/rom since BAMF 1.5 I just wanted to make sure there aren't any special steps.

I have dled the MR2 radio and a gingerbread ROM onto my phone's SD card already, Do i just go into to HBOOT and update the radio that way or do I need ADB shell to do so?

Also is it necessary to flash the radio first and then the GB ROM? Just want to refresh my memory regarding updating.

Thanks.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigMcGuire:
Yep, put the radio on your SD Card (root). Boot into HBOOT and let it update. Then reboot back into your old rom, tell it to reboot into recovery and then flash the ROM after wiping data 3 times. From what I've read, Rom first or Radio first, it doesn't matter. I usually do Radio first.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anidjare:
I would like to give a sound player other than stock, permission to open email attachments. Is this possible?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anidjare:
Really need help on this. I tried to use other market exchange apps but they don't push as well as the stock app and add separate calendar and to do functions which I don't need. I cannot check voice mail sent to me by email because when you try and open attachment it never asks which app to use. I believe this is because they don't have permission to open email attachments. Which is why I would like to add that permission to one. Any ideas.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superleeds27:
I've got Juice defender and ultimate juice installed. I also have Minimilistic text installed too.

Basically, I have minimilistic text set to update the weather condition every 120 Mins.

I was wondering how i allow this in Juice defender.

Juice defender obviousley shuts off the data connection when the screen is off, but is there a way i can allow Minimilistic text to update as and when it needs to?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asa2303:
In juice defender there is an option to set a time limit for how often apps can ping the network to update etc. I have mine set to 30 minutes so email can connect in case I miss anything important. Am sure there is a time option that would suit your need.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superleeds27:
I've set Juice defender to allow data connections for about 2 mins, every 2 hours..

Is this the area you mean?
[XDA Developer TV] czesioxda:
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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blaiseid:
Hi

I need this file from a site which can resume.Megaupload doesnt resume.

Arc_1.0_SE_StockROM_Decrypted.ftf

Thanks
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnkc1975:
I really want to use a GB ROM, but every one I flash I run into some issues. I wipe everything 3X and wait for a good 5 min. before set up. I keep getting an error when trying to play MP3s that says "unable to play this type of file". I use my phone at work to listen to music and kinda want this to work. This has onlt happened with the GB ROMS. Has anyone else had this problem? I've tried adding new files, re-booting, and re-syncing with no luck. Any help?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keith.mcintyre26:
Try clearing cache from the music app. Our use an alternative music player.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmartenn:
What did you find out.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnkc1975:
I noticed that it will play some files and not others...after further review, each GB ROM (Gingeritis and Bamf) I've tried will play MP3s but will not play WMA files. There doesn't seem to be a fix for it, and I haven't really gotten any response in the dev threads....so back to 1.7 I went.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramshanker:
I was on holiday in Rhodes last week and after a drunken night out I managed to loose my desire's sd card. I've ordered a new class 10 16GB card and it should arrive today, is it just a case of putting in my new card and starting from scratch, or do I need to add folders first i.e MP3, Photos etc?. Is there anything I need to download

I did have a backup on my PC from when I upgraded my SD card but I've stupidly deleted it.

To add my phone is rooted and I'm currently running a LeeDroid ROM although I was going to update to his latest Rom..

Thanks for your help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazook98:
just start from scratch, no problem...btw, since you're. starting from scratch, when you put the card in, it may need to format it to read it...using your phone for this is fine....Also, since you are starting from scratch, now would be.a good time to partition your SD card if your device has roms that support a2sd...if so, just check corresponding roms for your device for instructions on that...also, use dropbox backup in titanium next time, or at least save a nandroid in a dropbox folder if you don't want to start over again...Also, I'd go ahead and make a "rescue" folder on a new card with flashable zips of clockwork, amonra, wimax keys, format_all.zip from calkulin, and a small rooted rom (like sprintlovers), just in case you ever get into trouble. Lastly, your file can probably still be found SOMEWHERE on a windows puter...good luck!

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramshanker:
^^ Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go tonight ^^:)
[Wildfire General] Allex_master:
Hello everybody, this is my first post on this forum although I am following it for a long time (WinMO and also happy owner of an HTC Desire:)).

I recently bought a second phone, a Wildfire (new with the stock 2.1 ROM on it) and have few questions about it that I could not figure out in the last few days by reading the forum.

Ok so everybody knows that the stock 2.1 ROM is kind of bad, but

1)how is the 2.2.1 official release?

If I upgrade it then hboot will upgrade as well to ver.1.01 and bye bye S-Off.

2)Is it possible to first root it plus S-Off and then put the 2.2.1 official release on it?

3) will this change the hboot and block it again?

I ask all of this because I like the sense interface in htc phones. I know Jokerdroid ROM exists and uses sense and is really good.

4) In this case is it worth even trying official 2.2.1?

5) What other ROMs using Sense are there available?

Thank you everybody for help!

And sorry but I could not find the answers anywhere, but hope this thread will help others as well.
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
1) No difference, except updated HBoot with increased security, WiFi hotspot and Froyo Apps2SD

2) Probably, but I dunno why would you want to do that. Safe Flash ZIPs are much better, since they are the same as the official 2.2.1 release, with just the updated bootloader removed.

3) If you root and put official 2.2.1, it will be blocked. But, if you get S-OFF (Using an XTC Clip, presumably), it wont be blocked, since that S-OFF is permenant.

4) Absolutely not. There are more complaints than benefits, on this forum itself.

5) Too many to list. See here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1029318
[Wildfire General] bx19:
1). Even if u won't upgrade to 2.2.1 , there is no free S-OFF solution for wildfire yet (even for the 2.1 wildfire). Alpharev for wildfire is yet to be released. Almost all the wildfires u see S-OFF are done with paid xtc clip. And there is no software root solution yet for hboot 1.01 with S-ON.

2). Again how is S-OFF possible. If u mean it by xtc clip, u don't need to worry at all. Once done with xtc clip, u can do anything u want.

3). Again when done S-OFF with xtc clip, no blocking at all.

4). My suggestion was don't ever try upgrading to official froyo. And if u want to S-OFF by xtc clip, u can try. But personally i won't recommend u to upgrade to official froyo, and certainly i wont recommend u to go with xtc clip in a situation like this. Having a new 2.1 wildfire at the moment is really lucky. Just root with unrevoked and enjoy custom roms. Everyone of us will soon have S-OFF by alpharev.

And u know what, regarding free S-OFF solutions , the ones with hboot 1.01 have only alpharev x option (its also the root solution for these) but the ones with hboot 0.80 have both alpharev 2 and alpharev x option. Suppose, if alpharev x is released earlier (may not be), those with hboot 0.80 can upgrade to 1.01 and use it.
[Wildfire General] Allex_master:
So practically in my case there is no need to change it to S-Off. I thought Unrevoked does this anyway.

So then why is it necessary to have S-off?

if you can root on hboot 0.80 without having S-off?

Sorry I am really confused now.
[Wildfire General] bx19:
Actually the point that S-OFF is highlighted for wildfire these days is just to have custom roms on hboot 1.01 (because it is hightly protected and not yet rootable)

The unrevoked for previous hboot 0.80 uses an exploit to push the custom recovery and also push the required root files (like su binary) into the system folders so that they will be re-locked in the system folders giving su permissions to the user. But this kind of exploit is not yet made for hboot 1.01 . So it is unrootable with software methods. The only present way to root it is to disable the nand protection by xtc clip (thus making the system folders writable).

And of course s-off has lot advantages over just rooting. S-OFF skips the signature check of files to be updated. Can change the splash screen. Enables the fastboot extended commands. etc..,

edit: And no. Unrevoked forever is not present for wildfire to make it S-OFF (even for hboot 0.80)
[Wildfire General] Allex_master:
OK Thanks! That is clear for me now. I will give a try to few custom ROMs in the next few days.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
I created/ported skins for HTC Sense 2.1 (Gingerbread) roms and decided to share my work. Since Gingerbread HTC Sense 2.1 skins are no longer cross device compatibile, these skins are for Thunderbolt 4G, Incredible S, Desire Z and Desire S latest OTAs.

Rule1: You MUST have permission to edit and post anywhere my skins. Reposting skins is NOT allowed. Read xda forum rules point 12.

Rule2: I will not fulfill personal requests, but I'm open for intelligent sugestions.

FAQ:

Changelog:

Credits:
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
SKINs download & screenshots.

Screenshots:
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[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
Stock Thunderbolt Gingerbread HTC Sense 2.1 skins extracted from rom:
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[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] superchilpil:
Sweet! I've been waiting for these since we got sense 2.1

>--The Game--<
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] KGBxxx:
Fantastic!!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
Please download, test and report if they are working. None of them were tested, because I don't have TB:P

EDIT----------------------------------------------

New skin added: distINCtion Inversion, by distINCtINC - just brilliant rework of distINCtion theme;) Big THANK YOU to distINCtINC for his awesome work!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Kroaker:
The Gingerbread skin didn't work for me. Running BAMF Remix 2.0 b5.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
I have tested several different ones and they all work with Gingeritis v1.0, but still having issue with the transparency. I went to the UOT kitchen cooked up the file as you instructed. Flashed it, but still getting the ghosting with all the skins that I have downloaded. I have tried about 5 of them. Then skins look great until I use the pulldown and then the date and everything is ghosting in the notification bar. Same thing when I use things like the browser. Any other idea on how to fix that?? I know the file I created with UOT worked and it showed in recovery when i flashed it that it went fine, but still having the issue??
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Nikolai2.1:
Yay finally! :) But yes the transparency is still a problem, and UOT doesnt help
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] nrfitchett4:
tried distinction inversion and both the standard installer and astro can't install. will try some others tomorrow.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
If skins don't work, please specify your rom (preferably give link to it), how you downloaded skin (PC browser, phone browser, XDA app or other) and any other useful info.

This is the answer from my Desire HD thread:

Which means that some frameworks for Incredible or Thunderbolt are supported by UOT Kitchen and some are not. Tell about this in your rom thread, because it is a rom problem, not the skin.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
thanks for the response about the transparency, will see what i can do :)

Ok tried with Bamf since Gingeritis was having the ghost issue that could not be fixed. Same problem. So skins install great, but there is no way to get rid of the ghosting issue. I understand it is not the fault of the skin, and it is a ROM issue. Oh well. Guess these will be a no go until later down the road when fixes can be made..
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] nrfitchett4:
downloaded via phone and via pc, phone is stock, just received yesterday. After downloading, it renames the file to .bin with no filename if downloaded from the phone, so downloaded to pc, transferred to my phone and still would not install, says cannot be installed as an apk.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] seabhac:
Same issue here. Phone DL calls it a name .bin and transferred from my computer says it can't be installed as an apk. Running stock Rom rooted. Used astro to find and run it.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] excalibur7683:
I can not install these apk on my HTC Thunderbolt, have used Astro, tried tranfersing using dropbox and emailing them to my phone, down loaded an app installer,made sure Unknown Sources for apps was turned on. the details say it can not open it as an APK File. But i am seeing all the folders that come with it if i browse files ( assets, Meta-inf, res, android manifest, resources) I have tried the following skins- Metro 2.1T.apk , Carbon Fiber 2.1T.apk, Glass Sense2.1T.apk , MIUI 2.1T.apk Any suggestions?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
I found that any of then I download using the XDA app have no problem installing. Might work for others.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
Not to start any heated battle, but is there anything to explain why the few skins that Gadget ported over to 2.1 for Thunderbolt don't have the issues that these do? I have no issue with installing just with the ghosting as noted before. Again I know you stated that is a ROM issue since the UOT fix did not work, but the couple that Gadget ported over work great and have no ghosting issues with any GB ROM I am running? Was something different done with his compared to these?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
Is gadget's skins have transparent statusbar? In mine skins almost all have transparent statusbar (png that is transarent, have alpha channel), that is why you have ghosting effect. If you use skin with solid, non transparent statusbar then it will be ok.

I really don't know why they are working for some people and for other don't:confused:, but it's always some progress from "not working for all";)
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
They must not be transparent. Looking at them and switching back and forth everything as far as the status bar looks the same. The pulldown is transparent and the status bar is black on both. You can't see the wallpaper through the status bar on anything that I have gotten from here or the couple from Gadgets post. Weird.. Oh well back to the drawing board. I just got to find time to really dig deep and teach myself more on messing around with the framework and try to get it resolved. I do appreciate the time that you have put into these. They look great if I can just figure out the ghost thing it will be perfect.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
Best way is to take stock, for example, Desire HD: framework-res.apk, com.htc.resources.apk & SystemUI.apk. Upload them to UOT Kitchen, enable transparency only and let it cook. Then, when you have stock and modified with transparency frameworks, decompile both and find in xmls where exactly modification is. When found, apply it to Thunderbolt framework.

Or ask your rom chef to do this for you:p
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] dondk:
Outstanding! thanks

Trying them out on gingeritis
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
Thanks sopL87 .. will see what I can fish up when I can find the time.. Had this whole thing worked out for the D1. Just need to teach myself HTC ways.. appreciate the advice for sure.. :)
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] mzimand:
To the people having trouble installing with Astro, try to use Root Explorer. I have run into this problem with Astro in several ROMS and each time I did I was able to install the skin using Root Explorer.

FYI- Astro worked for me on Bamf 2.0-5
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] arh2o:
Ditto, I even tried downloading it via the XDA app but no luck. Astro is saying it can not open it as an APK file. So odd, anyone know how to install these?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
I just downloaded through XDA app. When the download was complete it asked me if I wanted to install. The same way if you were to get an app from the market. However since then I have wiped phone and can still install. I use root explorer. Find them on my SD card click and install. I have used about 5 of them. No problems with any as far as installing. Just the ghosting issue that has been discussed over and over...
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
Update.

New skin added: Burgundy. Updated skin: distINCtion Inversion. Enjoy:D
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] wctaylor79:
Alright now I am in buisness to so some serious skin downloads. Droid Theory GB ROM has got the transparent status worked in so these skins go over just right. Flashed the status bar back to white and ready to get these going. To touch back on anyone having issues, these work for me going through the XDA app to download and then install through root explorer. If you are having ghosting issues so far Gingeritis and Bamf gave me issues with trying to get the transparent status bar. Droid Theory works great. Just my 2 cents...
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] ucpro:
i keep getting errors when i try to install. it says "there is a problem parsing parsing the package"

das bamf 1.7

tried to install with root explorer
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] icedmayhem:
even the pull down is fixed or is that still messed up in GB Theory
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Benny879:
Maybe its just me, but are the transparent widgets supposed to have the "ghosting" effect also? Is there a way to fix that also? It looks like there's double backgrounds. I really want the Sense 3 skin but I can live with the widget shadowing. It's really noticeable in the header of the widget pictured here:
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] mzimand:
The skins in this thread are not for Froyo Roms. They are for GB Roms only. You need the Froyo Skins found in this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=801928
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] sopL87:
If you haven't realised yet this widget background is present in each skin. It's not changeable by skin. It's located in com.htc.resources.apk and can be changed only via modification of this file.

Did you saw post above? Why you people don't read FAQ in the first post. It's there to help noobs, but you just download and then complain about something obvious.

Big thanks for those informations, I appreciate it.