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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liteon163:
I was in a similar situation when trying to decide whether or not to root my DInc. My primary motivation was to remove the bloat, which did help a bit with battery life merely because there were fewer apps for Sense to load up in the background.

I then started trying different Sense kernels because I couldn't find much information out there about which ones were better than others. I felt strongly enough about this I started a thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1107423

I was able to squeeze a few more hours out of my phone using my top rated kernel, with results declining slowly in the lower ranks.

I say: GO FOR IT!

Once you get started, you may find yourself pushing farther into the guts of Android to get your phone working the way you want it to. But even stopping at rooting just to change kernels will get you what you are looking for. Adding a Seidio 1750 mAh battery could help add up to another few hours.

Good luck and keep us posted.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogcontact:
Thanks right, you can use MyBackup Root for APK+Data+Market Link + 0-click batch RESTORE for Free. It also allows you to schedule and have as many backups as you would like locally, for free.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PGleo86:
I'm keeping up with that thread, it's pretty good :D

You should definitely take a look, OP.
[HTC EVO 3D] Matafeka:
Hello,

I tried playing a MKV video with 1280x720 h264 definition. It didn't run well and subs weren't included. Is it possible for it to run smoothly and include the subs? Thank you in advance!
[HTC EVO 3D] im0rtalz:
Never tried it personally but this might work for you

https://market.android.com/details?id=afzkl.development.mVideoPlayer&feature=search_result

Edit - Just noticed it will only play mkv files if the phone natively supports it. If this doesn't work you might try Vplayer or Rockplayer.
[HTC EVO 3D] ktrotter11:
Mobo player..and get all the codecs for it on the market lol

Bussin Caps from my 3D shooter
[HTC EVO 3D] ayman86:
diceplayer works for anime mkv files! i tested this personally. though only with horriblesubs fansub group
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolverine_2k:
Hi all,

I rooted and updated my UK WIFI Xoom to 3.1 a long time ago now and for the past month when I go to my apps; it shows that there's 2 updates available. For "Music" and for "Videos".

Every time I click on update; absolutely nothing happens. It seems to want to load up the permissions to accept but the window just opens and closes.

Anyone know what the hell is going on here?

Tried searching but "Music" and "Videos" is too generic to search!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kidman74:
Hi all,

did anywhere know LeeDroid works on a Data2SD Version?

Because i can works with Data2SD with the actually LeeDroid Rom?

Greats

kidman1974
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldinmurguz:
very interresting...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Why don't you ask him via pm?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ickysjazz:
will be possible use rom manager soon?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ilarrain:
I'm working in some small fixes for CWM, then I'll notice Koush to get official support.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ickysjazz:
Hello again, any news about official support?

TIA
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] storage1:
Official CWM is done but wait for ROM Manager that will support ACE ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ilarrain:
Changes have long been finished, and accepted by Koush.

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_galaxyace

The CWM 4 in the other thread is the version compiled by Koush, with the same sources.

In order to complete ROM Manager support, he has to release a new version of the program, because this recovery needs to be flashed to a different partition than previous Samsung phones, which the current version cannot handle.

He is probably waiting to incorporate other fixes in order to release the new version.

The official version will only support Gingerbread roms. I was expecting Samsung to leak (or release) Gingerbread for S5830L long ago (as it is the only variant missing). Anyway, since that's not happening, I will probably release an updated, flashable version for Froyo.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninja.tiger26:
hi im thinking about getting a hd7 with windows phone 7 and being a ex android user am thinking of something different so got a few random questions that have probably been asked a few thousand times.

1. wp7 looks a bit plain in general lots of text etc, can any kind of a background be added by options or a dev firmware.

2. can normal aps be found e.g a full working facebook application with chat etc, or just its own built in offering

3. what would you prefer android or wp7

4. is this best on market or have i missed some newer ones (uk)

5. anything good you can do with wp7 worth telling me

thanks all who help its appreciated
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munkeyphyst:
1. No backgrounds, but if your into customizations, there is a thread all about that

2.Lots of apps out there. You can search the marketplace through several online places and check them out, Google it...

3. I prefer wp7, others prefer Android, sone prefer IOS, some like wm6.5

4.I like the focus by Samsung, the LG is interesting because it has MFG

5.It works, no tinkering required, it does what I need it to do really well. Your experience may vary considering what you "need" it to do and where you live.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casey_boy:
For the OP's benefit, the Samsung Focus is the US model - the UK model is the Samsung Omnia 7 (which I have and really like).

Casey
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninja.tiger26:
many thanks for the reply, sorry been trying to get some users pointers - fed up of android - seen one seen a million handsets running the same - plus i felt why should i have to keep modding it to fix basic problems. but th\ts off topic lol.

1. shame on backgrounds kinda odd. any specific thread or search terms or anything you reccomend i look at

2. thanks will have a google on that :)

4 whats MFG?

5. nice to know no tinkerings required, kinda highlights what i said about android

thanks for your help, its appreciated
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrdaco:
1. WP7 has rather big icons, so don't wory, you will not miss background after that.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
I am sorry if this is covered somewhere, I've honestly looked and can't find up to date info on this.

I currently have a Vibrant flashed with CM7.

Right now,

i can't even flash other ROMs for some reason, as they all come up with some sort of compatibility issue when trying to flash the .zip. I think it has something to do with recovery 4.0 being used. it won't let me flash 3.0 (which is pretty silly).

Anyway, I'd like to go back to the latest stock ROM. How exactly should I go about doing this, once I am already on CM7?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
How about just flashing another ROM? Downloaded two 2.2 ROMS and neither of them seemed to flash, complained about some sort of error with the format of the zip file. Didn't make a whole lot of sense...

I am on CM7.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
Basically, I am just looking to flash (while already on CM7) a relatively stable ROM that has support for wifi calling. Any suggestions in that area would be much appreciated.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jneal9:
Coming from CM7 you will have to go back to stock if you want to flash a pre-Ginger rom. No way around it. Just follow the guide movieaddict posted and it will get you there.

I recommend Bi-Winning, Project-V, or ZenDroid. But there are plenty of good choices. Good luck.

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAKIDD236:
CM7 uses MTD/yaffs2 file system which is different from stock Samsung roms. If you don't want to soft brick your phone, I would suggest using the link @movieaddict posted. I know Odin sucks;)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
I must be dense or something, haven't been messing with android devices for a while now, but these directions aren't making a lot of sense to me at all. Didn't know what to do once I had Odin up to be honest. Seems really really complex.

I just need a working stable ROM (could be 2.3 or whatever) with wifi-calling. Will pay someone honestly if they can give me the steps to get there.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movieaddict:
did u odin back to stock? or are u having trouble going back to stock? or are u having trouble working ur phone after going to stock??? wht are u having trouble understanding??
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
I put the phone into download mode and opened odin.exe. From there, I have no clue what to do.

i.e. on the attached screen, what do I do here to get back to a stock ROM?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movieaddict:
ok heres wht u do! go to this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1047087

now do not extract the pit and tar file, just download them and put them on ur desktop.

now click on pit ON ODIN and u find ur pit fle on ur desktop

Now click on pda ON ODIN and u find ur pda file on ur desktop

Now both of these should be showing these files next to them on odin

now after both the files are in there places under pda and pit

now if ur in download mode and ur phone is hooked up to a usb cable to pc and the files are in there places on odin the top left hand corner box shuld be yellow, The big white box above re-repartition should be yellow.

Now if allthat is correct press start!

just let it go through the process and it will reboot and u will be back to stock.

Just let it sit for like 15 min and will be done, just leave it alone.

ITS REALLY EASY!

NOW IF MY INSTRUCTIONS DONT HELP U! FOLLOW HIS INSTRUCTIONS ON THE LINK ABOVE I GAVE U. THERES A TUTORIAL ON THERE ALSO
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
I think I'm getting somewhere, currently have the process going. It has been about 10 minutes though, and still got the same "Downloading..." screen

Odin says

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

hasn't shown any other messages yet. Do you think everything is fine?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laylovj:
Nope..pull the plug and you should end up with a soft brick...your phone should turn on to a phone-!-computer screen. Odin should still recognize your phone..so try again.

Don't blame me if it doesn't soft brick..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
The next time I try this, how do I know that the process is going correctly? Will its how something different on the phone's screen or in Odin?

EDIT: Ok, this time, thinks look a bit better. Have an actual status bar going. Thanks for the tip.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laylovj:
Well it should actually take about 2 minutes so if it finishes in about that time you should be fine.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jneal9:
And it may not even turn on at all. Don't freak out. Pull out the battery for 5-10 seconds and put it back in. Then hold down Volume up+down while plugging in your usb cable. That should get you back into Download Mode with the yellow triangle. Open Odin back up and you should have a yellow box that says COM and a number. Then press the PDA button and choose the stock JFD file, and then click PIT and load the PIT file. Click start and just let it do its thing until it says PASS and your phone reboots.

Also I've attached version 1.85 of Odin which I find to work the best. Good luck.

Edit: Looks like you already got it started up again while I was typing...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsvnet:
Thanks everyone, was able to get back to factory...now to root again and go for a stable 2.2 ROM.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lifehijack:
Thanks for the info.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Big_O:
Like to switch between android keyboard and better keyboard 8. Noticed lots of words don't show up in the auto-complete or "word select". Is there a dictionary somewhere to download and install?
[HTC Sensation] The_Green_Android_Robot:
When I use WiFi tethering, it stops working every five minutes or so, as in the network is still being broadcast, but no pages will load. I confirmed that it is not the computer. Does this happen to any of you?
[HTC Sensation] smthkat789:
Its because you have apps up/downloading which will put tethering on hold.

Your apps have priority over the tethering, there's no work around to that.

Best bet is to check your apps settings to see which one runs randomly or constantly.

I suspect it would be the lookout app that is running, change settings.

I still have this problem too, but in my case its because I only get 1 or 2 bars signal.
[HTC Sensation] Paul22000:
I have a Motorola S305 and I'm using Mortplayer to listen to audiobooks/podcasts.

In the menu options, you can set the Rewind/FFW/Stop buttons on the headset to control the podcast.

But no matter what button I assign to Rewind, it just doesn't work. What is the deal?

I can set all three buttons to FFW and all three work fine.

But it seems there's something wrong with Rewind. Setting any of the three buttons to Rewind in the app means that the button basically dies and is unresponsive (until I set it to do something else).

This worked fine on my Nexus One, so it's not the headphones (especially since all 3 buttons work fine when used for other functions).

Admittedly, it was with an older version of Mortplayer, so perhaps this is a bug with the newest version?

Has anyone else run into this issue with the Sensation?
[Acer Iconia A500] scott.ragan:
Hey gang going to be deploying for the rest of the year soon and would like to be able to hook up an external USB hard drive loaded with movies to my a500 and watch them on the tablet. My question is will an external USB drive even mount or read on android (never tried don't own one) and if so what format will I need movies in and what software would you guys recommend for DVD ripping.

Thanks in advance

v/r

Btw, I'm rooted running Dexter 3.1 hc
[Acer Iconia A500] orion421:
Lucky for you, you bought the only tablet that will connect to a usb hd.

video foramts for the iconia are H.264 BP/MP/HP, MPEG-4, H.263

best dvd ripper I have no idea.
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
If you've already got HD vids, I suggest you download handbrake and download this setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBpeQNWbEQ and convert your videos that way.

As for DVD ripping you could do a search for ripit4me or something similar.
[Acer Iconia A500] scott.ragan:
Thanks for the quick responses, looking up rippers now
[Acer Iconia A500] timehunter:
I have a WD 1TB drive, NTFS formatted. The tablet will not see it without a little legwork, but the legwork is fairly easy.

Root it with Gingerbreak (since you're already rooted, that's for others that need the info), then install one of a couple different apps. Since mine is NTFS (large file support) I then installed NTFS Mount. I link up the drive, run NTFS Mount, pick the drive then click the mount button. In a couple moments I'm browsing the drive from the USB Storage link in my favorite file manager and movies galore.

As for file formats, it will also deal with AVI, DivX and other file formats by installing Mobo Player, which comes with additional codec packs to deal with other files types.

I've been using DVD Catalyst for all my ripping needs.

And since I'm a veteran and have seen my abundant share of deployments (1st Gulf War, 3 tours in Korea, etc), stay safe out there brother! OO-RAH!
[Acer Iconia A500] scott.ragan:
Excellent advice! Thanks mate!
[Acer Iconia A500] threedfreek:
Ok... I got a 1TB WD "my passport" the USB 3.0/USB 2.0 one. I formatted it to fat32 with a utility from Verbatim. (find fat 32 formatter in google Verbatim worked for me) Once I got it formatted on my PC I copied the 2 or 300 videos/movies I have... Most of my videos are encoded in XVID or DIVX but I have WMV and MP4's too. When I first plugged it into the Acer it simply flashed and I thought it wasn't working but on the next try I let it flash until it finally stopped flashing (about 70 seconds) then I was able to browse the drive with file expert. I downloaded MOBO Player which will play about any file type that I throw at it... there is a file browser in MOBO Player that will let you find the file you want to play. This mind you, is all done without rooting or doing any thing difficult... formatting to fat32 has its drawbacks but at that time there wasn't any ntfs driver programs that I knew about.

Wish you well with this great tab!

edit: found this http://www.verbatim.com/index/support.php?lang_id=1&cat=9&action=downloads&pid=5411&aid=197
[Acer Iconia A500] Biologos:
You can also try rockplayer, it can play virtually every kind of video file out there (certainly all the ones I tried), so you might save some time from converting them. Just keep in mind that to open file extensions not supported natively by android you have to go through rockplayer itself rather than a file explorer.

And just to add something small to timehunter's comment, if you use NTFS Mount (which is a great app and works with every hdd I tried), your hard disk will appear as "sda1". When you select it and click mount, it will be viewable under /mnt/sda1.

*Edit*: The new version in the market is called Drive Mount, not NTFS Mount. It is still free and still as good (and more). However, make sure you have busybox installed, as some root methods don't include it automatically, like the stock 3.1 root.
[Acer Iconia A500] Vereynn:
I've been using DVDFab for ripping and Handbrake for converting; the newer version of DVDFab's conversion tool wasn't at all stable the last time I checked it out (thankfully before paying for it, yay for trialware.)
[Acer Iconia A500] shaun298:
Where

Where can I find ntfs mount? I can't find it at the market. Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] scott.ragan:
Its now called drive mount

Sent from my Acer iconia a500 rooted running Dexter 3.1
[Acer Iconia A500] scott.ragan:
just wanted to say thanks. Got a Seagate goflex 1 TB USB 2.0 drive at best buy for 99$, DVD catalyst 4 for 10$ from toolsformovies.com and it worked great. Ripped "Seven" using the predefined Xoom HQ2 1080p filter (output was in .mp4) took 2.5 hrs but looks excellent in moboplayer.
[Acer Iconia A500] kierandill:
+1 for moboplayer! I have a bunch of WMV v8 encoded files and before moboplayer I was staring in the face the need to transcode them all to some other codec. No need now!

And thank you for your service, Scott.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allenfx:
Let me start by saying i do not live on xda and do not keep up with every development. I had been happily using Vegan 5.1 and then Vegan-Gingerbread until this week when my wifi crapped out on me.

I went with the new Flashback-Honeycomb and REALLY like it but i noticed very few people posting about it, while the other honeycomb rom pages have hundreds of posts (mostly people complaing that something doesnt work or asking why they cant get it working ((when they didnt follow the directions usually))..

Anyway,...without taking 40 hours of my time and reading nearly 1,000 pages of "how come i am boot looped?", I wanted to make a post here and ask the few "in the know" what the REAL skinny is on the various alpha Honeycombs available. What features really work on each (and what doesn't), which ones are the best/fastest/have the most promise.

....and in a cogent, short, logical, concise thread..without thousands of "but why can't i...." posts mixed in.

Thanks!

Allen
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJEvans:
None, because it's still in alpha, and I prefer a Rom that doesn't require me to make posts asking "why can't I..."

Seriously though, all of them are derivitives of "bottle of smoke," and you didn't even list that as an option. It's in version 6.0, now.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allenfx:
While some of that is taken as a good point i have to respond.

Even in alpha form, i already like Honeycomb-Flashback better than vegan 5.1 or Vegan-Gingerbread. It looks better, is more intuitive for a tablet format and flows fine.

....and

I have not had a single custom ROM yet that didnt have SOME kind of compromise/one thing that didnt work/problem. Not to mention what you give up using any of the versions of this thing STOCK.

Now that we cleared that up. :) Back on topic please!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roebeet:
Honestly, I think they are all variations on the same theme right now. And I mean the Adam ROM as the source, not BoS.

I do like what I've seen in Flashback, not to soft-sell it. I've pulled back for the summer (I've mentioned this before - not selling my GTAB, just want to enjoy / get annoyed by my kids being off). With the last BoS alpha, I was looking at Flashback and I liked what the tlbardelljr was doing, ie. the updates to the framework.

But in general, I like what all the modders / devs are doing. I know that some people are a bit overwhelmed by all the different mods, but better too many than too little!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJEvans:
I completely understand that BOS was a derivitive of other Adam roms, but, the roms listed are all direct modifications of BOS.

You took the Adam roms and ported them to the G-Tablet, then others have tweaked YOUR rom in order to create their own monster. I was just making the point that all of the roms listed are derived from BOS, yet BOS wasn't even listed as an option.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcksnftsn:
Flashback

I originally started with BoS 5.2 and loved it. Was holding off on updating to 6.0 hoping additional updates would be made available after the 6/27 Notion Ink updates.

Then last night I saw that Flashback has added limited flash support so I decided to jump over and try that. So far, so good though I haven't had much of a chance to play with it yet. It does seem to boot quite a bit slower than BoS but I appreciate what flash capability it has so I will probably test it out some more tonight. If BoS had flash I would be going with that but we shall see...
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike_ekim:
I think all respomses to the OP must be on topic. :) You can change the look by (for example) using VTL launcher.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scyld:
Has anyone tried Netflix with Flashback?

If so, and it works fine (maybe with the "manufacturer=HTC" fix), then soon my answer to the poll shall be Flashback :p
[HTC EVO 3D] bballer71418:
What exactly does the 2 cores do in terms of performance? Where should I be seeing improvements? I came from a cm7 og EVO that's was pretty damn quick. I love this phone and the battery life is suprisingly wonderful. I understand this is all stock without any kernel mods but it still should be one powerful device
[HTC EVO 3D] t3project:
well you could start by putting sense 3.0 on your OG evo and running it for a while and then turn on your BMF EVO 3D and you'll see the difference. :D
[HTC EVO 3D] sammael1069:
It runs separate apps on each core, soif you do a benchmark the scores won't show up that well, but does use both do you have osmonitor it should show both cores.
[HTC EVO 3D] radiohead_freak:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think 2.3.3 supports dual-core, at least from what I've read. Dual-core support came out for Honeycomb, and most likely Ice Cream Sandwich, but I don't think Gingerbread supports it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#3.0
[HTC EVO 3D] DDiaz007:
Correct.

10 Chars
[HTC EVO 3D] Zoidpilot:
Wait... What!? Elaborate pls.
[HTC EVO 3D] HTCRALEIGHFAN:
htc built the 3d for the near future! icecream sammy is for dual!
[HTC EVO 3D] radiohead_freak:
Well as HTCRALEIGHFAN said above me, Ice Cream Sandwich (2.4) will most likely support the dual-core hardware in our beasts. I mean don't get me wrong I'm not some shmuck, my 3VO flies, I'm just imagining what monster it'll become once both cores are operating. :D
[HTC EVO 3D] bballer71418:
Could app force closing be due to the dual cores? Not all but a few apps can't play on my 3VO but could on my og EVO.