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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solissfiend:
ROMS

As far as which rom you choose is your choice, I am running Toxic Smoke and a lot of people will agree its super quick and responsive but I support almost all roms, Devs here do great work on the vibrant and all should be recognized for it. I may have a solve for your low WiFi signal though..... Have you looked in to the Hardware GPS fix? It involves you opening up your phone and bending a small piece of copper, I did so and put a tiny sliver of credit card plastic under it to keep it from bending back down and now my GPS signal is ridiculous as compared to before. But as I read more there is another copper pin on the opposite side of the phone, that is your WIFI antenna. I then took my phone apart again and did the same thing to that pin and now My WIfI gets great signal. I guess it all depends on how tech savoy you are and how much you want to get into your phone. I know for how much it cost and how much I use my phone I wanted it working 100% so I took the extra time to do all of this and Im quite happy with my Vibrant now. But anyway my specs on my phone are,

ROM: ToxicMusixSmoke

Launcher: Golauncher Pro EX (Which is freaking awesome and free)

Kernal: Bali X (Will increase the responsiveness of your phone ff Overclocked to 1.2 using setCPU, you can download for free on XDA, cost 2.99 or something on the market, the dev offers it for free on here)

+ Hardware GPS Fix and S.gps.zip file for the drivers (You can also find this fine on the Hardware GPS fix post)

I hope this helps as my phone is very stable and I am totally satisfied with my phone as I was not so much at first. I also think with Golauncher you can get stock themes so your phone will look and act just like stock, but run 10000000000000 times better!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nighos:
I am new to the samsung t959

Any recommendation for ROM? I would like to be as fast as possible, and with a working GPS

I don't mind CM7 as long as it is fastest.

Thanks a million!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexluthor:
]I wasn't looking for fastest.

Just need something to eliminate done of this issues we've had with stock and to be stable with everything functioning correctly.

Project V seems to have done that.

Only issue, so far, is that bloater isn't working and I can't figure a way to get the samsung stock keyboard back. Can anyone help with that?

I like that this rom is so close to stock. If I didn't tell my wife, she wouldn't have even known I changed anything.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaintfm:
While I no longer use it myself, I found Zendroid 2.0.1 with Bali Kernel to be the simplest and easiest to use for a layman, like the average wife or girlfriend :)

It's extremely lightweight with no bloat to speak of, and battery life is phenomenal (no bloat, no 2g/3g bleeding).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberpyr8:
@lexluthor you can use root explorer our similar app to copy the apk to the system/app folder.

Sent from my hacked Samsung Vibrant running CM7.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FATEOWNZYOU:
Don't Listen to Recommendations that People Give you. It's really more your own Opinion on what you like. Visit my Vibrant Bible in my Signature. Just go through a Bunch of ROM Threads and look at all the specs, speed, looks, Etc.

I've learned that other people's opinion Doesn't mean anything, I use to flash the ROMs that people told me to when I first started.. Realized quick to Stop.. Its Following other peoples Likes
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaintfm:
If you're new to rooting, CM7, or any ROM currently in nightlies is not a good idea. I'd suggest you start off simple with something that's been around a while and is known to be very stable. A few of those would be:

Zendroid/Loki

Bionix

Bi-Winning

Project V

There are plenty more. Take Fatez advice and check out the Bible. (no, not THAT Bible).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexluthor:
Project V has been working well. No complaints from my wife so far.

If I didn't tell her anything, she probably wouldn't have even know there's a different ROM running (which is a good thing).

So far, happy.

Not worth even spending the time trying out other ROMs at this point.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaintfm:
If you're using Project V, and you really want to impress her, flash the Trigger theme for Project V. If 2.2 Froyo didn't have that nagging music playing bug, I'd still be using Project V with Trigger theme. It's absolutely gorgeous.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emama:
So surprised that no one mentions about trigger..
[LG Optimus 3D] jaikben22:
When in standbye overnights my phone goes from 60-70% to totally flat, I use battery monitor and I notice the phone use -100 till -200 Ma while I don't have any sync going on?

Somebod else with monitor app please give me our numbers
[LG Optimus 3D] gismo918:
I have noticed tha cpu works (without any app loaded) about 35% -45% with no reason...that eats battery !!! any other have noticed that ?

I can make a video to proove that !!! Maybe with 2.3 the resoults will be better
[LG Optimus 3D] abo_mara7:
I will give you my experiments:

First night(GMT+3 timing):

from (2-3)am: Wireless on, battery percentage still 19%

from (3am-4pm) wireless of, battery percentage is still 19% !!

Second night:

from (9am-5pm) battery percentage was 99%, when I wake up there were two missed calls and the battery percentage was 90% !!

Third night(Last night):

from (9am-6pm) battery percentage was 70%, when I wake up there were one message and the battery percentage was still 70% !!

* It is not nights, these days I actually sleep in the morning, and the timing doesn't mean I sleep all that, but before going to sleep I use my laptob.
[LG Optimus 3D] le_fieber:
I had the same issue in the first few days. I dont know if you installed some apps, but after I deactivated "green power" (for saving battery life) the battery lasts very long in standby mode.

so deinstall apps which say they would save battery and close all apps (browser etc.) before you sleep.

I dont know if the app was responsible for that or just the battery which needs a few days to generate 100% power.
[LG Optimus 3D] mmace:
Had mine for 2 weeks now, battery lasts 10 hours from 100% to dead, same as my Desire did.
[LG Optimus 3D] SinSilla:
Battery monitoring and optimizing apps did suck most of the juice out of my battery. Deleted all,my battery easily makes 12 hours now
[LG Optimus 3D] bioweb:
I don't have any numbers but my phone goes from 100% to around 93% to 95% overnight depending on how many emails I receive while it's in standby.

About the same as my old Galaxy S.
[LG Optimus 3D] otacon888:
That sounds great!

My Galaxy S2 would lose 30-40% overnight with a few emails...

I can't wait till I get my O3D.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Hey, i know there's some kind of code you put into the dialer to start AngryGPS. What is it?

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 2.2
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
No need for a code. Put it on your desktop as a custom shortcut using activities feature and you can start it from there. But you do realize that angrygps is a gps tester.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Ah, how do i do this?

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 2.2
[Verizon Droid Charge] Samsuck:
why don't you guys just use GPS Status and TOolbox?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
I was planning on using AngryGPS to edit some GPS settings. Unless you can't do that (you can do it on the Galaxy Tab)

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 2.2
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
I just said how to do it. Make a shortcut using the custom shortcut option and click activity.
[Verizon Droid Charge] roffee:
Which app has this function?
[Verizon Droid Charge] mbh87:
Pretty much any launcher. ADW, Launcher Pro, etc.
[Dell Streak 7] bluesy_92:
So, using NVFlash and the image files for the Wi-Fi only model, I can not restore my Streak 7.

I've gotten it to work before, using older custom ROMS, but when I try going back from the newer versions of Honeystreak, it won't work.

After flashing over, I can't get past the Dell logo. I've tried everything that worked for me before. When I try to restore it, though, it says "Error mounting /data", so it seems not every part of the system can be accessed.

If I try flashing back over to Honeycomb, it works. So, I can run Honeycomb, but NOT Froyo.

I've gotten it to work before, and don't know why it isn't working now. Any ideas?
[Dell Streak 7] rhclark923:
you know i had s similar problem well long story short i didn't have all the proper file even though i did download them all i eventually figured out they didn't finish even though it said they did so i would check all your file sizes if you are using the p. files and make sure also don't forget you gotta go into recovery and reset with option 3
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikofrize1985:
In english :

Hi, I'm french (sorry for my English, it's google translation)

Suite has a brick on my Xperia Play, I did the method of renaming in simlock.ta preset.ta but now I have no network and I have no fastboot mode, I tabled in SAV but I'm afraid that I will not fix it because the bootloader is unlocked. If you have a solution I will be very happy to know

En francais :

Bonjour, je suis francais (desole pour mon anglais, c'est google traduction)

Suite a un brick de mon Xperia Play, j'ai fais la methode du simlock.ta renommer en en preset.ta mais maintenant je n'ai plus de reseau et je n'ai plus le fastboot mode, je l'ai deposé au SAV mais j'ai peur qu'il refuse de me le reparer car le bootloader est deverrouiller. Si vous avez une solution je serai tres heureux de la connaitre
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crispyduckling:
i am the same situation as u mate

as are alot of others,

they are working on a fix but at the moment as far as i know there is nothing you can do,

there are online companies that charge for a service that can unlock the simlock and there by fix the radio, but this service seems to be temperaly offline

and has been for a while its abit of a mystery
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikofrize1985:
Ok, I sent my Xperia Play for service, I await their response.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SachinEdward:
i am also in same postion... Someone please help me.

What should i do now??
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inaroom:
bump..any fix for this?i even reflashed with wotanserver but it doesn't get the signal anyway...
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
Is there an alternative to 3g watchdog it is definitely not calculating my usage correctly and this could potantially be very costly for me, unfortunately an unlimited data plan in this recession hit country is like everything else way too expensive so i just pay 69 cents a day for 50MB and if i go over then (which i have done before) they charge you a fortune which is why i use 3g watchdog which incidentally used to run fine on my old HD2 but since ive got the GS2 it's been constanly wrong if i send a text to check my balance which ive just done i can see ive used 41.69MB so far today yet 3g watchdog tells me ive only used 20.69 that is over half so imagine i forgot to send a text to get my balance and just keep surfing the net,suddendly i discover all my credit is eaten up, Meteor don't care they aint in the business of warning people who go over their 50MB daily limit which is why it's imperative i have the correct usuage.

Sorry for the long post but you can see my prediament.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
I used two software's which are/were precise.

1- Data Counter Widget

2- Traffic Counter

If there are any other precise counter apps out there, please let us know.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
Thanks for the recommendations, ive no idea why 3g watchdog is calculating the usage incorrectly as with my old HD2 it was always spot on, anymore recommendations/tips appreciated. :)
[Galaxy S II General] boondoc:
give a look into droidwall also. it'll let you block off apps that you don't want using data over 3g
[Galaxy S II General] Lennyuk:
I have been using 3G watchdog on android for 2 years now, and its always been perfect for me, so long as you set it up correctly (and so long as your not forcing it to close...) it will calculate for you.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
the funny thing is it worked perfectly with my HD2 it was always spot on but has not worked properly with the GS2, i have even reset it a few times and cleared the counters but it's still wrong, i have it set to 50MB a day to warn me @ 95% quota and to auto disable 3G via juice defender at 98% quota,when im in the UK i use Giff Gaff and no problems with unlimited data but here i cannot go over 50MB or will be charged a fortune.

I suppose ill try some more recommended apps and see hopw i go from there.
[Galaxy S II General] blue265:
ZDBox is a good app and also breaks down usage per app so you can quickly figure out any rogue apps that are using too much data.

Does your wireless provder offer an app or at least a way to check your usage through the web? My carrier does which helps get an idea of where my usage is and could help if yours does too
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
I have ZDBox i didn't know it done that ill look into it cheers.

Does your wireless provder offer an app or at least a way to check your usage through the web? My carrier does which helps get an idea of where my usage is and could help if yours does to

Yeah Meteor has an app but it only lets you see how many calls and texts you've made nothing for data unfortunately , i just send a text to 50104 with "balance data" and it sends me a text back with my balance,sometimes straight away other times it takes up to an hour:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] jbdeq:
Have you ever had a problem with it keeping the phone awake when screen is off? Not totally sure its the culprit as uninstalled/froze a lot of apps before this problem disappeared.

Wondering what settings you'd recommend?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexluthor:
I have a Vibrant that's running the latest stock froyo release.

Wifi signal strength is pretty poor. If I'm a few rooms away from the router, the wifi calling apps goes off and on. When it's off, it says it's turned off because of poor wifi signal strength.

Are there any alternative modems(?) that I can flash (preferably via ODIN) that might improve wifi quality?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawika:
Not sure if this is gonna fix ur prob, but these are the modemz sooo. Here ya go!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=868774

Be sure to thank @scrizz
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
What are the differences between the EE4 and EP1F updates? I'm mostly asking about the radio, but all others will be read too. Just felt like i should know before i make the decision whether go back to Froyo or stay on the GB leak.

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 2.2
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
I'd also like to know, I love Froyo since it's stable and official and don't play on moving to GB until it's officially rolled out but I'm still quite interested in why everyone is in love with EP1F.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
I've honestly not seen a difference flashing the leak to GB. My signal strength has always been -75. Although. There are different gb radios floating around. I still have primary. Never flashed a diff radio.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
I thought EP1F had some radio updates?

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 2.2
[Verizon Droid Charge] knodalyte:
4G issues in EP1F?

My impression is that the LTE radio in the various gingerbread leak based roms has significant speed issues. I had EP1F installed for a few days and I went back to a Froyo rom because my 4G speeds had dropped to 3G-like.

YMMV, if I am wrong about this I would like to hear about it.

I suspect that if 4G is not available where you are, then EP1F would be worth checking out. Netflix will work, if you care about that...
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Yes i know, i thought it was just the network getting bogged down. I have netflix but it doesn't really matter to me.

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 2.2
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryan stewart:
Ive searched for various recommended settings and tried the ones from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1060825

And, for the most part, the videos are fine but what gets me is in situations where the camera is panning there is a noticeable jitter to the movement. Its consistent. Its only happening on the TF. I can play the encoded MP4s/M4Vs in VLC on the laptop and no jitter.

Id really love to get rid of this, it kind of kills the experience of watching videos because I like to watch shows like Top Gear on it and they pan a lot like that, although it does impact other shows. Its just more noticeable because it only happens when the entire camera is panning around subjects in way that most of the image on the screen is moving.

Im playing in the gallery BTW.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sontin:
Hi,

this is a well known problem with the google libaries for hardware decoding. Until we get a update, there are only two solutions:

Use software decoding. Apps like Rockplayer, Moboplayer... have this option.

Use a Flash-Player. There is no stuttering with the flash libaries.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] number16:
Does software decoding drain more battery?

And upcoming HB3.2 is supposed to improve hardware decoding of video files ...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryan stewart:
I hope because I have not had good luck with rock/mobo and HD content. Right now playing with the stock gallery is the best option I have seen. I was just hoping maybe there is something I could do to drop the compression or quality (without sacrificing HD) to get rid of this odd jitter.

Its a shame too because its the only thing that lets down the media experience. I have had multiple people interrrupt me on the plane to ask about it the screen is that good (well, than and after seeing me snap my netbook in half and put it back together :D). Heck, even ipad guys have complimented how things look on it (and their screen uses the same tech IIRC).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sontin:
I builded a very simple html site in the last few days which has the jwplayer flash player. This is the best way to watch hd content with less than 29,xx fps without the stuttering. Maybe i will put it online later today.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sassafras_:
If you want to hard telecine the material you can remove most of the judder.

It's an unfortunate side effect of the GPU decoding that we haven't yet pinned down.

sassafras
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deadman3000:
Is there any way to load MKV files with JWPlayer without naming them and their location in HTML? I'd prefer a browse option myself. Otherwise it's pretty useless to me.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] AnTrans:
I tried using Handbrake to encode to "Apple TV 2" preset. which is basically 720p in mp4 file type. It plays back very smoothly with rockplayer lite, mVideoplayer or moboplayer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sassafras_:
That's actually a great preset for this device. It's mpeg4 AVC High profile at a reasonable quality.

Good choice if you don't know a lot about how Handbrake works.

sassafras
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mlbl:
actually its not smooth at all, there's still a minor lag which is obvious to my eyes..so far even with the very latest 3.1 update (the one with the new tegra bootup logo), the lag is still there..i am hoping 3.2 would address this...it sucks that you cant really play 1080p or even 720p smoothly
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sassafras_:
You're either doing it wrong (possible) or confusing judder for 'smoothness'. Files encoded at sane bitrates play back fine in 720p and are completely smooth. Unfortunately, as described by sontin earlier in this thread, there is some poor telecining going on in the hardware decoding and panning shots tend to create the effect of judder which can be somewhat distracting.

It's unfortunately probably a result of the lack of a NEON MPE core in the Tegra 2 chip that causes this.

But for the record, judder ≠ lack of smooth playback.

sassafras
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mlbl:
well i guess you're right, its a judder then, but if that's the case, is there any way to solve it? i want a perfect playback like what i get on a pc
[Eee Pad Transformer General] AgeOfPanic:
I do feel though that playback has improved considerably with the last update. I have downloaded some files that were encoded specifically for the Apple TV and other such devices. Basically mp4 with high@L3.1 encoding with bitrates around 3000 kbps and stereo AAC sound. Before this update, every now and again they would freeze for five seconds or so, especially in high action scenes. Now they seem much smoother. Judder is still there, but it's definitely watchable.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deadman3000:
Nothing to do with telecine. It only occurs when there is audio in the file. Mux a video with no soundfile embedded and it plays buttery smooth. Something occurs when sound is added which causes a weird juddering effect. It's been suggested it's hardware acceleration not being enabled causing it but I'm not so sure. Jitter can happen when the audio framerate does not match up with the video framerate to the refresh rate of the display or somesuch (Not sure on the technicalities). It's why tools like ReClock are used on PC's.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sontin:
I can only repeat what i said a few times: The only way to get nearly smooth playback with hardware decoding is using a flash player. There is no other solution.

And there is a positive sideeffect: Using the browser filesystem (file:///) makes video streaming over the network more useable than using a file manager app. Even over HTTP (thx to drivedav and co) it's much better.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mlbl:
yes, you're right. with jwplayer it works perfectly, smooth and no judder!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryanrrx:
Interesting
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryanrrx:
for those of you that are interest!

This is what i have decided to do and its quite amazing results for its purpose!

Previously i had ben encoding mp4's with x264, @ 1280x544 or 600 whatever the video wanted to strech too, i was finding amazing quality even at fullscreen! I was amazinly happy with respectable file sizes

The dark knight 2.3gb

Saving private ryan 3.5gb

Quantam of solice 2.6 CB

However, after my huge success! I wanted to accomplish more! I need more videos on my transformer! I felt ripped off, i could not put more videos then what i had becuasw of the file sizes!

After some trial and error i found an amazing discovery but it comes with some sacrifice,

Let me talk about the file sizes first!

The dark knight 1.1gb

Saving private ryan 1.6gb

Quantam of solice 1.2gb

The hangover 880mb

Some of my movies are under 1 gb wow

I have 27 movies on my sdcard alone! Which is great!

Ok so this is how i managed such small files with mp4,x264. First off i started my encodes by dropping the resoltion from 1280 to 800 and then letting handbreak decide how to strech it

800x544 is what it normally looks like, the quality is set to 21! This is an inferior resolution for filesize with mp4! In some cases 60% filesize drop!!

This comes with a small drawback! I run my videos in the stock player anyways, so they will not be fullscreen movies! Myself i dont mind the bars on top and bottom!

If this bothers you, then this discovery is not for you!!

MKV FANS!!

STOP!! , before you start to lecture me, about mkv ,doing higher res, with 500mb encode's ! just stop!

I undersand, and know how as well , but its not supported properly right now ,and thats not what im discussing

I hope someone finds this useful

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deadman3000:
I don't want to reencode anything. I just want it to play my existing MKV's without juddering. How do I use file:///??? to play my existing MKV's with the Flash player?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] asummerf:
Where can you get jwplayer - I looked in the market place and found what I am quite sure was not the tool that you meant...