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[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kun910218:
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[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Too big for email. Can you download stuff from opendrive?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kun910218:
Yeah~I can log in the website
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
I'll host clemsyn kernel 1.2 from opendrive then.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Nevermind. I just emailed it to you.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kun910218:
Thank you~I just recieved it~

I can enjoy the Honeycomb Android Illuminate for The Gtablet\Zpad T2~

XD
[Desire General] andbarrone:
Is there any option to get apk and install on HTC desire, mail client from HTC Sensation ?
[Desire General] Lothaen:
any particular reason why?

i thought the mail client in sensation was the same as the one from the GB desire HD and the same as the GB mail from the leaked rom for the Desire to be honest.
[Desire General] Rageypeep:
I think the GB roms come with that app installed. If you mean can it be installed on older versions of sense then I would think it unlikely.
[Desire General] xlenz:
Using Root Explorer, you can search for this app in sys (system) folder.

Another way is to download ROM, and search for needed apk in ZIP file =)

If it is an official ROM, try to search for ROOTed official ROM, it is same like an official but in zip file.. and it is rooted))
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BullyDog:
Hi,

Apparently I have to rack up 10 posts before I can post a reply to ianmcquin's Visionary/gfree thread (THANK YOU, that was SO easy!). So I thought I'd ask a few questions. I'm sure it's been answered somewhere but searching has been kind of pathetic. And I need the posts anyway. I managed to get this far with the help of XDA. I figured this would be the best place to start asking questions.

I've rooted my G2 and flashed a couple of Cyanogen roms with clockwork. I'm now switching between stock Froyo and CM 7.0.3. I've done a few nandroid backups and played with Titanium a little.

What exactly does a nandroid backup backup? I know it doesn't do the SD card, although I think it will do the App2SD part if you have any apps moved to your SD card. I assume the radio gets backed up and restored, what about the recovery and the bootloader?

Is there really that much difference between flashing a radio zip and using fastboot to install an img file? Does a radio really make much difference for GPS, WIFI or bluetooth; or are they completely unrelated?

I guess that's enough for now. Thanks to everyone here for sharing your experience.

-LDB
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cjward23:
A nandroid does a full system back, so it backs up your rom, apps and settings exactly as they are. so if you were to flash a new rom and you didn't like it you can restore your nandroid and your phone would be back exactly the way it was before you did the Nandroid.

The safest way to flash radios is using fastboot from your pc. But I always use the PC10IMG.zip method and have never had any problems. Just be careful and read the instructions. But the general rule of thumb is don't change your radio unless you are having wifi/signal problems.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
What did you do with your original rom? Did you back it up with recovery? If so that's a nandroid.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BullyDog:
Hey guys,

@ cj: I'll throw some thanks your way because there was some useful info in there (at least after the edit).

@ spas: I have an analogy for you: You're driving around downtown San Francisco and you stop to ask me where the Golden Gate Bridge is. Are you going to thank me when I answer 'In San Francisco'?

Sorry if I seem like an A55 but your questions were answered in my original post and I thought I made it pretty obvious that I know what a nandroid backup is. These kind of answers are what make searching a PITA. You spend a bunch of time constructing a detailed search and somewhere in the first five pages is a bit of wisdom. Problem is your likely to give up before you can get through all the crap! Don't take it personally. It's a pet peeve of mine, I have issues!:p
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcqueen:
a nandroid backup will back up the following items:

-boot image

-recovery image

-/system partition (in its entirity, settings/app data included)

-/data partition (in its entirity, settings/app data included)

-/cache partition

-sd-ext in the event that you have configured a2sd (which, on a side note, is entirely useless on the vision as far as I'm concerned)

it does not back up:

-radio

-hboot/bootloader

when restoring a nandroid backup, your phone, with the exception of the radio and hboot you have installed at the time of the restore, will revert to the exact state it was at when you created the backup.

if you've rooted recently, you probably have engineering hboot and can therefore utilize fastboot to flash radio images (and whatever else). to be honest, I find the PC10IMG.zip update method to be easier, but that's just me... either method takes only a few steps and is [for the most part, assuming you check md5sums and don't do anything silly] very safe to perform.

as cj stated, however, unless there is a specific need, there's no reason to flash a new radio. it's a combination of mishaps that can cause things like gps and wifi to break, and it's usually rom-related.. in my experience, a change in radio is a more common remedy for fixing battery drain issues [read: reception issues, ie switching between network architectures too often] than anything else.

hope that helps.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
Yea you do seem like and ass..ASS. sorry I didn't follow your rules for answering your question which google could of done for you had you of actually tried.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BullyDog:
Wow,

Thanks for taking the time to post such a complete answer. I was thinking about flashing a radio just to find out if it stuck. I knew someone here could answer my question though.

Why do you think a2sd is useless, if you don't mind elaborating?

Thanks again, I'll be clicking the button in a second.

-LDB
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BullyDog:
spas,

Sorry if I hurt your feelings. I probably could have been nicer about it, like I said: I have issues. And lets face it, if I seem like one I probably am one.:D

Only six more to go, I guess I owe you something.

-LDB
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcqueen:
why I think a2sd is useless for vision (and not just vision, almost all of the new mid to high end devices coming out):

the three biggest "advantages" (increased storage space for apps, and swap/compcache for freeing up more ram) of a2sd are no longer advantageous...

-we have plenty of internal storage now. people are creating 1024mb ext partitions on phones that already have at least 1024mb of internal storage... to this, I say: :confused::confused::confused:

-swap/compcache, in my experience and I imagine for most everyone, are unnecessary on devices with > 512mb ram. it's going to be pretty hard to consume that much ram on a phone unless you are specifically trying to. if anything, the additional cpu resources needed to make compcache happen and the additional steps of moving data to and from external storage for swap will slow your phone down, not speed it up.

the only thing a2sd has going for it anymore is the fact that apps/settings are retained from rom to rom. even this can be problematic depending on how often you are switching roms and whether or not you are switching between different flavors (ie sense and aosp) of roms. of course, there are less confusing and less problem-breeding ways to back up apps and settings.

I am pretty sure the vast majority of a2sd users are just using it because they used to do it with their phones before we started getting more adequate hardware and don't know any better... that and it's one more thing to "brag" about to your nerd buddies (of course, if your nerd buddies have any idea what they're talking about, they'll just think you're dumb for setting up one more thing that can break for, literally, no good reason).

this is all my humble opinion and if a2sd is something you want to set up, by all means, be my guest! just seems like more work for nothing at this point if you ask me.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BullyDog:
Thanks again pmcqueen,

It's not something I've looked into, but the people in the market seem to make a big deal out of it. I'm having a hard enough time finding decent apps that don't need ridiculous permissions. I sincerely doubt I'll ever need the extra space, but it's always good to have extra information.

Have a good weekend,

LDB
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Jono_151:
Is there any short cut buttons like while im browsing to﻿ refresh? or click enter (to send text entered in a box ie- chat room) or a way to navigate through a web page without having to use the touch screen.

And it there a way to send a text without clicking send on the screen? And can i use any physical buttons (On the keyboard) to navigate though the menus?

Also any tips for a new x10 mini pro owner :) and i cant send recieve mms error (message not downloaded)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] TinoZgb:
in opera mini/mobile browser there are shortcuts for navigating through web pages, but idk about the menus.

why? what's wrong with your touchscreen? :D
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Jono_151:
Nothing :D And how do i take off some apps that came with it? I got some trial games(roller coaster & gold rush(?) that are useless, And id like to remove some other crap.

But i also would like to keep some usefull apps that came with it. (Short cuts to my account etc)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] kormatoes:
top tip root n flash a custom rom
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Jono_151:
Huh? I Don't really want to root (Deletes everything ??) and load a custom rom, i like it how it is with 2.1 (update 1)

I would just like to delete some of the useless trial games and applications that came preloaded, If i do decide to root it, Can i back up some applications first as there are a few usefull ones i regularly use.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] jokamaciek:
custom ROMs have possibility to send messages by clicking enter on phisycal keyboard, do u have proper MMS APN?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Jono_151:
I haven't been able to send a MMS yet on this phone, but i can access the internet fine.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] vdciii:
When you root, it doesnt necessarily mean that you wipe all and replace with a custom rom. it just gives you the power to access the inner device(and i mean software) of your phone in which a default x10 cant.

Try superoneclick in rooting. then install titanium backup. there you can delete those apps like rollercoaster and gold rush. :) then if you want, you can unroot it. for your pleasure :)

if somehow i have helped you. dont forget to press "thanks" :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] kormatoes:
wrong root just lets you get rid of stuff you dont want get your facts right
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Deleted member 3979716:
Ok, to translate this quick:

1. Without root, you can't delete those apps. You may also need root explorere after you root.

2. Root doesn't delete everything.

3. You can move apps to sd if you root (and i guess you want that :D)

4. Tips: Enjoy! :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Jono_151:
Ok lol :confused:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Jono_151:
Yeah something like that, Root the phone so i have access to delete the pre-installed apps i dont want or need.

I seen a program called 'Uninstaller' I could use after i root the phone.

After ive used superoneclick can i delete the icon/app from my phone and remain with root access?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liaobp1983:
Hi, I have search a few time but didn't find answers.

I running cm 7, and all are stable and all settings are customize to my liking.

Will my phone go back to fresh installed rom after doing s-off?

if yes, can I just restore all the settings after doing s-off?

Will my phone get faster(smoother and responsive) when s-offed?

After s-off I believe its now possible to increase so much my app storage size (I don't know the general term called for this storage for apps).

Will my data and settings be lost upon increasing app storage size?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayroller:
When I S-off'd mine, it left the rom untouched (LeeDrOid v2.5), nothing changed at all. Didn't notice any change to smoothness, but afaik that's not the idea behind it.

You can increase internal partition sizes using a custom table from the Alpharev website, but I've not done it myself so don't know what it will change (although I'd guess repartitioning your SD card means that whatever is on there would be lost) but make sure it's the right one for your Rom!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dzumagos:
S-Off procedure itself should not touch your current ROM and settnigs, however make a NANDROID beforehand, it your system wont boot up after S-OFF simply restore nandroid and all will be ok.

(also remember that S-OFF must be done on a ROM that does NOT use any ext partitions - no a2sd+, no data 2 ext or whatever or sd)

now the other part of your question - more space for apps and rom smoothness and responsivness.

S-OFF itself wont do anything (unlock bootloader only), it is flashing a custom hboot that makes a diffrence. custom hboot means changed partition layout, which gives you more space for apps and since they run from NAND rather than ext partition (which is possible with more space available) whole system performs signifcally faster.

unfortunately if you change your hboot to a custom it is not possible to restore a nandroid of a rom made for stock hboot partition layout. best you can do is backup your apps and settings with mybackup root or titanium backup, flash a new rom made for custom hboot and restore apps and settings with one of mentioned apps.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liaobp1983:
Thanks, I appreciate the explanation.

If my purpose of S-off is to increase app storage size thus more app on nand, then i have too back up, and restore each settings.

I think after few months, it will be the time. just side thought (im still not convince sensation is a robust device, can take everything u throw at it, including physically).
[Galaxy S II General] terryhau:
So Samsung for whatever reason, decides it's a good idea to include an easy to access task manager with a giant "kill all tasks" button in TouchWiz. It seems like everyone I know, that has a Galaxy S II, has adopted a certain behavior due this. What they do is, every time they put their phone away, they will automatically go to this task manager and kill all tasks, before locking the phone. When I ask them why the hell they're doing that, the answer is usually something like "wasting battery blah blah blah" or "wasting CPU blah blah blah"... NO!

For starters:

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them

http://www.infoworld.com/t/smartphones/myth-android-devices-need-task-killers-609

http://androinica.com/2010/05/googl...-imply-task-killermanager-apps-are-pointless/

People that are doing this, educate yourself. And Samsung, well done for encouraging this.

Just because a task is in memory, doesn't mean it's doing anything, and certainly doesn't mean it's using up battery. If it's staying in memory, it's because there's no need to release it just yet. If you start it up again, it will already be there, and load up faster. The alternative is, you keep killing it, and every time you run it again, it will have to reinitialize and reload everything. Which option do you think is actually going to cost more battery?

The whole thing with people saying "oh no it's using CPU, i must kill it"... what?! If it's using CPU, it's probably doing something. Why the hell are you killing a process while it's in the middle of doing something? Do you not care about data integrity at all? It could have been in the middle of syncing, or in the middle of a write operation who knows.

If you run other applications and your memory runs low, then Android will close it. And it will close it properly, as opposed to you force killing it, denying it of any chance to clean up.

Obviously there are rare exceptions with dodgy programs. But most of the time, the tasks being killed are system apps, or trustworthy apps, properly written by Google or Samsung.

If you're not a developer, you probably won't understand the whole Android application lifecycle.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html

By force closing an application, you're not allowing it to run its onStop() and onDestroy() functions. This is where apps do all the clean up, releasing resources, unregistering things, closing connections etc.

Do you do this on your PC. Open up Windows task manager, and just kill any task that's using CPU. Or hell, just kill all tasks every 2 minutes! Good luck with that.

This has probably been said hundreds of times, but a lot of people i know are getting GSII's and I see them doing this constantly. It's stupid. Do you really think they designed the operating system so that you have to kill everything each time you touch it?

TLDR: Stop "killing all tasks" (unless theres actually something wrong) and well done Samsung for encouraging this. Just stupid.
[Galaxy S II General] jonsmith709:
Damn your right, I never used a task killer on previous android phones, but for some reason I have got into the habit of doing it now. So I'm going to kill that habit. Well noticed :-)
[Galaxy S II General] Isadora:
Well according to the user guide (the full one from Samsung's website)... though personally I don't bother killing anything :p

Use the task manager › ›​

Your device is a multitasking device. It can run more than one application at the same time. However, multitasking may cause hang-ups, freezing, memory problems, or additional power consumption. To avoid these problems, end unnecessary programs using the task manager.​

1 In Idle mode, open the application list and select Task manager → Active applications.

The list of all the applications currently running on your device appears.

2 To close an application, select Exit.​

To close all active applications, select Exit all.
[Galaxy S II General] the_Calen:
i like the placebo effect and stop telling me what i have to do or not to do!

your writing style is to aggressive, stop being aggressive!

:D
[Galaxy S II General] ijat91:
For me, it is worth to have the clear memory option because I already faced the glitch or bugs program which cause my phone to run constantly at 1.2ghz and this will cause my phone become extremely hot. I can't see what application is running but for some reason, the cpu gone crazy. It drain battery in no time. With the simple one click button, I can closed the programs without need to restart the phone. Yes, generally I will let the android system to handle the application by itself but I still think it was a good moved by samsung to have task manager if we use it in proper way...
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
Well it's not all that bad, with 2 cores one core can easily come into a deadlock and the device will continue to function albeit much slower and consuming a lot of power, when this happens in the taskmanager the processes are listed red
[Galaxy S II General] Pwgadget:
Thanks ever so for much for this post I have just got my first Android phone and thought by doing this it would increase the battery life a tad but did kinda think it was a bit daft having a system that required manually killing tasks. Coming from a Windows 6.1 XDA Zest I am still getting my head round an OS that's doesn't require hours on Internet to work out how to do things.
[Galaxy S II General] Zheiko:
Sad, but true, I was getting onto Android from Symbian, and first thing after I realised that I do not have option of killing all apps, I have installed the task killer and kept using it for like a week, then I've read one of the articles about it, that its wrong, and that Android is not working as Symbian nor Windows, so I realised that I dont need to do that... unninstalled it and not using it at all since
[Galaxy S II General] xufos:
You don't need Task manager / killer if only all android applications are developed by good programmers that implement Android application lifecycle properly.

The problem is not all applications are developed this way. Some application may buggy / in beta stage that still consuming processing time even they are in background.

Task manager is still useful to close nasty program manually. But I do agree, auto-kill is useless and can cause battery drain and system instability.
[Galaxy S II General] Dr.Sid:
Yep .. it's mostly services what eats battery. And there is poor control over that. It would be interesting to see what service was active at what time, or even how much battery did it use. All battery discussions are about guessing what is running in the background and how often and how much. We should not guess such things.
[Galaxy S II General] DVC1985:
As far as I'm concerned an in built task manager is just as important as an in built modem right now. There are far too many unstable applications out there that hang up and Android can never fully deal with them(despite what research may or may not have been done in the past).

I have a few games installed on my S2(namely Pool Break Pro & TNA iMPACT!) that crash quite often and require the use of the task manager to manually end those programs(they are in the task manager highlighted in red when they have stalled).

However, what I will say is that the button to clear memory in the RAM manager really shouldn't be there at all. The task manager alone is more than enough to manually exit necessary apps that crash and stay open for no reason.
[Galaxy S II General] MaBlo:
I like to have the ability to close programs easily at hand. It gives me better control over "rogue" apps. I only use it for a few programs though, like the Engadget app. It seems to be poorly coded, often using 40-50% CPU when running in the background.
[Galaxy S II General] Sanchless:
I like it because it lets me close frozen apps quicker..
[Galaxy S II General] terryhau:
Lol yes. Not to be taken too seriously.

Force closing apps with the task manager when somethings wrong with the phone or closing broken apps makes sense. I'm just talking about people that instinctively press the close all apps button every time they use the phone for a second. It's just silly. Basically doing what those automatic task killing apps do.
[Galaxy S II General] the_Calen:
I use to kill opera everytime i'm done with browsing because even in idle mode the phone gets very hot when opera runs in the backgtound. But after these explanstions i stop force killing every app
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
If a program is badly written and won't stay idle, then kill it.

I am very selective about what I install, and never kill or need to kill anything.

You have 1 GB of ram on this phone. If you want best battery and speed, don't kill anything. loading a running app from ram uses less power than starting from scratch and booting it from nand, then starting it up.

So if apps are well written, don't kill them. If stuff stays around causing drain, kill it individually but find a better app ;)
[Galaxy S II General] cmd512:
This thread is spot on... for the most part. Like Pulser said, there are apps when idling/cached, cause detrimental effects like the one I detailed here causing your phone to stay Awake constantly and draining battery:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1094666

ATK isn't the most elegant method, but it allows you to put everything else on ignore and have it actively kill the apps that love to stay cached and cause issues even after you've exited out of them.
[Galaxy S II General] PINki92:
Is there a way to "lock" some apps into a memory so they never quit by the android OS except if I would decide to?