yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] tnerb123:
I actually went the other route. I bought a Nexus S and had nothing but problems with it. The signal strength was horrible. But that may actually change coming up here today or tomorrow. Sprint is due to release a patch for most of the issues i had with the phone.

The goods:

The phone comes with NO bloatware.

Its always up to date with android.

bootloader is not locked.

The bads:

Cheap plastic!

Has issues that will not be resolved with the patch coming out here. IE signal strength of phone calls was horrible.

the camera does not zoom. Samsung never built the software into it to do it!

Not easy to hold. With how it is shaped its a pain to hold.

Gorilla grip affects the antennas on the phone!

For the money, its not worth the phone at least in my eyes. Samsung has horrible customer support. They also don't seem to care about the customer once you buy there phone.

The best thing to do is go play with it in the store. Its your decision and your money.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
no question get the NS4G. someone said you can pull the latest android with a couple of commands and thats true, cyanogenmod does this but it also took them a loooonng time to get a stable build out and even then there some quirky bugs like GPS spazzing out. with the ns4g, you'll get the latest stable update of Android built by Google itself.

the camera not zooming is not a issue created by samsung. they dont develop the software, google does. you can use any of the many camera apps on the market for that. i also think the curved shape is much easier to hold than any phone ive held. and your comment about samsung is wrong considering that customer support is handled by google.
[EVO 4G General] Noxasa:
Don't buy a defected phone with the promise of a fix.

I never buy any defected phone design with a promise of a fix or update. I had a behold II for six months with the promise that an Android OS upgrade for that phone was just around the corner. It was a miserable six months and the phone never did get upgraded.

Nexus S has a well known radio signal issue that affects network speeds and call quality, and until they demonstrate that a fix HAS successfully been made and verified by the community I wouldn't buy that phone for anything. In fact, I just skipped getting the Nexus S and got an EVO 4G two months ago and I don't regret not getting the Nexus at all. I will never buy a phone with the promise of a fix again. And I love my EVO, does everything I want my phone to do and to top it off it was effectively free by coming over to sprint for their uncapped networking offers.

And would I upgrade for a fee if they did fix the radio issues and I had the opportunity? Probably not, I don't see anything the Nexus S can do that the EVO can't also do even with its few hardware improvements.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
1 - this is a google supported phone, and you are comparing it to the behold? LOL!!!!! fix is coming tomorrow and it's bringing in a new incremental update to android with it (2.3.5... initial google wallet related stuff probably).

2 - i can tell you what the nexus s 4g can do that the evo 4g can't - reliably play newer games with good frame rates. the gpu in the ns4g is still up there with the newer dual core chips, you can look at the benchmarks or just load up dungeon defenders or any newer game and see for yourself. the gpu was always the achilles heel for the evo 4g, it has the absolute worse gpu of all the popular android phones.
[EVO 4G General] ncadden:
I guess I can't really comment b/c I don't know a whole lot about the NS4G, but I can say that I went with the Evo back on Sept. 1st of last year, choosing it over the Epic, which had just come out, & I couldn't be happier with my decision.

Even though there seemed to be a lot of people switching from the Evo to the Epic, I went with what I knew, which was HTC, as I'd been using a Hero from the time it came out until then, & I have had virtually no problems with it, running Fresh for the majority of that time & now switching to Synergy.
[EVO 4G General] Noxasa:
1 - I don't know if Google is any better than Samsung at updates and fixes. Personally I wouldn't "hold my breath" that any company that says they're going to "fix" some defect in their existing product will actually fix it. Google did, after all, bail on their Nexus One product leaving all their customers up the creek, so to speak. So the update is coming on Monday, that's nice...now the only question is whether it really fixes the issues or not. Time will tell.

2 - Funny you should mention Dungeon Defenders...I just got done playing a few rounds on my EVO 4G so I guess you're not speaking from experience but from something you read or saw on youtube. I still know of no application or game that I cannot run on my EVO that I could run on the Nexus S. I'm sure there may be some in the future but then again, by the time that happens there'll be another phone better than the Nexus S 4G which I can upgrade to.

I'm not saying the Nexus S is "potentially" a better phone but if you cannot get reliable network speeds or call quality then it's useless to me.
[Acer Iconia A500] john707747:
Ever since the 3.1 update I cannot get the browser to stay in desktop mode. This happens with stock browser or Dolphin. Prior to the update Dolphin worked perfectly in desktop with ESPN, NY Times, BBC, etc. Frustrating. Any ideas or is this just something to live with?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TommyHD2:
Ok im now in a proper mess.

Ok ive been battling with trying to get Android on my HD2 i have manged no prob with the MAGLDR in the past but wanted to change to the CLK version.

I tried all the tried the tips etc and have downloaded the HD2 Android Nand Toolkit but i just couldnt get it working. Once i thought i did I get CLK wokring I installed the ZIP file but it just got stuck on the HTC splash screen. The only way i can it to actually boot is to put the stock Winmo ROM back on. So at the moment I have the stock ROM just with SPL. As soon as i run the Task29 option in the toolkit it then fails to load. Could somebody please advise me on what to do.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] czarsuperstar@gmail.com:
You need Hardspl from Cotulla. Search through the threads you'll find it. but if you had magldr installed you should have all the the necesary elements. using the tool kit you have to hold the volume down than power on. wait for your phone to say usb. Than proceed to task 29. Than when the screen shuts off hold the volume down again before the screen comes on. Pick your partition size, Than hit the partiton button wait for it to do its thing than hold the back key and some text should come on your phone ending with something like fastboot commands suspend. Flash the recovery. than when it go off again hold home until you get in to recovery. Hope that helps.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TommyHD2:
Cheers for the help. Ive got as far as the revovery install i had a load of text on the screen the last line of wich is 2690 --Portchange-- and the pc is sitting on waiting for device.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TommyHD2:
also this is all it does when i turn the phone on now
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] czarsuperstar@gmail.com:
Are you holding the back button until the text comes on?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] whynot66:
Have you successful installed hspl? Successfully installed magldr and successfully installed cwm?

Is the Rom your installing a magldr version? Did you get it from the Android nand thread?

Is your SD card working is it formatted to fat32?

Are you installing the Rom from SD?

Is it a .zip file?

Edit/ oh clk..... lol never used it
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TommyHD2:
If i hold the power with the back button or the power/hangup button the text goes up to --portchange-- line if i hold the home button it shoes the line

GET STALL_DESCRIPTOR 128 6 1536 0 10

Pc is still saying waiting for device.

I have magldr but cant seem to boot to it and i have SPL-2.08.HSPL CotullaHSPL

I also tried to install magldr again and it gives a USB init failed Info \\rspl\rspl..cpp (736) but the phone is showing USB with the red\green\blue\white screen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LaneyEFC:
haha..

alls ye really need mate if you have flashed spl 2.08 or above is get task29 plug phone via USB turn phone off turn back on while holding vol down key untill tri colours appear then it says USB at bottem, run task29 from computer phone will do the rest, get magldr go back to tri colour with USB at bottem run ROMUpdateUtility install it then try the rom in my signature first typhoon and download the recovery of his page and install that specific one then flash your rom, its got installation on typhoon thread....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TommyHD2:
Cheers for the help. Ive re-installed MAGLDR and have ClockworkMOD recovery v3.0.0.5 working and I have a rom that i have downloaded and am currently downloading one of yours Laney, before i do anything clockwork MOD is showing "Failed to find Cache partition to mount at \cache.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marvlesz:
Dont you have an sd card inserted?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayosopov:
Hi,can someone recommend me a ROM does have a great camera app and powerful enough to skip mkv video file.

In my current ROM ,I have crappy camera app and for example if I'm watching a video(mkv file) I try to skip to my preferred minute , it's only skip 30 sec forward.

Thanks.

Postscript:I forgot to mention that when I copy mkv file to my phone (It's in Portable Devices group) so I got this message :

One of the advantages of this phone is that he can run mkv file perfectly.Why I get this message?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayosopov:
Someone????
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghost77:
"camera app" has nothing to do with media playback. If you're referring to stock media player on the phone, you can try other media apps from market , "mVideoplayer" "moboplayer" "diceplayer" those three are pretty good.

As for skipping forward it might be video you're playing is poorly encoded , i see you trying to play 1080p video, HD videos will be more picky then SD when it comes to playback.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayosopov:
But why I keep getting this message?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonos:
Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and enable USB debugging. Then, connect your phone to your computer, pull down the notifications panel, and select USB mass storage. Click "Turn on USB mass storage", and your phone should now be mounted as a mass storage device. You can now freely copy the file you wanted to your phone.
[Galaxy S II General] s_m_a_s_h:
Hi I'm new to droid have the GS2, it keeps eating battery a lot, I have 2 app killers, though 1.2hours of listening to music the battery is dead. faulty battery or background tasks a nuisance?

Also, why when I placed documents (.doc and .xl) (via usb connection) to the internal USBstorage, the files became deleted? yet where I took the files from (memory card) still shows the 1.9gb regardless I cut and pasted info to the USBstorage, so where are the files if not in either location? as they not on the memeory card but still show taking up the memory card capacity, I tried to locate a undo move, but to no avail, with this in mind how can and should I use the USBstorage, given now I get write errors with whatever is placed in USB storage then becomes deleted.

I actually managed to place music on the USBstorage, yet the music player that came loaded on the SGS2 doesn't pick them up (I'm unsure if there is a search for new music etc), I did manage to place a sample photo to the USBstorage in a folder I made and placed into the space under phone (usb setting) and that showed up on the photo gallery app. success.

Am I to believe I only need to just add folders etc to the USBstorage to utilise the storage space and the phone will pick it up? or should I have to place my personal folder to the USBstorage folder, to utilise the space 11.5gb or can I just drop new folder to the phone area (is this the normal way to use it) (space shown via usb connection).

I ask as I don't want to spend another 8hrs finding the files i lost and backing up etc to then loase all by doing it ad-hoc..

Sure I UNDERSTAND I'm probably asking silly newbie questions but I have looked for answers to my questions and seems as everyone is seasonsed droids this is overlooked for newbies.

I also need to know (as I have heard) you can over-clock the phone from 1.2 to 1.4Ghz, is it worth it? also what is the benefit of flashing or rooting the phone~?

I use the phone simply as a media device, I have a Nokia E71 which I use mainly for normal phone use (calls, calander, and emails) though the size, speed and what can be achieved by the SGS2 is unreal, it's like having a tablet but pocket size.. yet.. problem is the battery.. any suggestions on increasing battery life (apart from the obvious, 'don't use it').

Thanks in advance.

smash
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
As Advanced Task Killers are not advised for Android, I will advice you to use Juice Defender Pro, its really a good app to have. Besides, always make sure that you are not using Wifi, Packet Data, 3G when not needed. Stop Automatic refresh of apps, stop or increase the refresh interval if Exchange emails, if you have. And before all that download Battery Calibration app by Nema from market and calibrate your battery. Also if you are rooted install Titanium Backup Pro and either freeze or uninstall some useless apps. By doing all these you should have an increase in back up.

Some people will suggest to use SetCPU, but I strictly won't.

Regards.

Sent from GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] tjtj4444:
Something is not working with your phone, 1.2hours of listening to music (through headphones I guess?) with display off should use very little battery, probably much less than 10%, so there is something that keeps your phone running much more than it should.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
Task killers can actually drain your battery faster on android. It is advised to not use task killers on android phones.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
hey guys, this is about the last thing on my phone to skin and i need some advice. what manila files do i need to look at to change the tasks widget as seen in the yellow box..?, are there any glass themed tasks skins kicking about. thanks for any help...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jdpl@:
Hi Donwhann,

Maybe you could try with Dinik's skin which looks very nice.

In the attached folder you can find the cab. file, the manila. files and it's png. files ;)

Best regards.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
thank you my man, your a star !!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Nordpolcamper:
Take a look at my gingerbread v2 theme i made it transparent maybe it helps ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
ok, i've gone with diniks skin, looks very nice but my last request is........

can anybody point out what manila file the image is as seen in the red box. i can alter it, i just cant find it :rolleyes:

thanks....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jdpl@:
Hi Donwhann,

You're welcome my friend ;)

That task image is not a manila. file, it's just a 56x56 png. file: CHT_tasksicon
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
nice....thanks a lot bud.
[General Questions and Answers] travo123456:
I was trying to put my phone back to S-ON after trying all the roms, i used the method of installing an unroot method i found on the web on my phone through terminal emulator.

Now my phone won't turn on, i've taken out the battery, left it for a bit and put it back in, and still won't work.

It';s definetly bricked, but i was thinking, if carphonewarehouse can't fix it, will someone let me know if they know anyways that i can fix it please.

It still charges just that it wont turn on no matter what i try.

THANKS
[General Questions and Answers] Redkevin25:
can you get in recovery mode?
[Verizon Droid Charge] htcdesirezgeorge:
Sometimes a man/woman must take control of that which pleases him/her the most. I, for one, fully support and root the daylights out of any android phone I have. My reasoning is that I can control, make, destroy, and repair something that DOESN'T blow up in my face, thereby adding a tiny bit of chaos to an over all dull existence lol! Im just curious, what are your reasons/rationalizations for rooting phones? Have fun with your answers!
[Verizon Droid Charge] piizzadude:
Hey mine is just as simple. I want to be able to do whatever i want to the damn thing. I want GB before the official build. I want CM when it comes to the Charge. Who are you (verizon) to tell me I have to keep crap on my phone that I will never use? You sold me the hardware, I pay you for the service. What I do with it from here on out is my business. I may be in a lone class here, but if I tethered a lot i would pay for it instead of using root to do it for free.

my phone my way is what it comes down to
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
I root because I can. I want full control over my phone. Like the other guy said, who is Verizon to tell me I can't do something with my phone? Also, I won't pay for anything unless I absolutely have to.

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 1.4
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
I rooted to speed up my phone and save battery life(underclock, voodoo, better ROM, etc). I knew before I even bought this phone it was kind of bad out of the box. Touchwiz sucking as much ass as it does.

When it comes down to it there's only so much you can do to your phone without rooting, I wanted full access. Simple as is.
[Verizon Droid Charge] asdecker:
I rooted because I was bored and wanted to learn something new.
[Verizon Droid Charge] type_2:
I rooted for 2 reasons

1) To get rid of the bloatware

2) To improve battery life

I could honestly live with stock if it had no bloatware and had great battery life. But we all know that will never happen on the US carriers.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Labgate:
Hello

I Have installed the Mango update on my Samsung Focus according to the instructions I found here.

Everything worked perfectly.

I Have found Windows live Messenger but did Not fond the Lync client. Is it there? Or is there a way to get it.

greetings

Gaetan Labrecque
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ren13B:
It hasn't been released yet. I imagine it will be released in the next month or two.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voljka:
Microsoft Lync support via downloadable app.

Source: http://jaxov.com/2011/07/windows-phone-mango-enters-released-to-manufacturing-rtm-phase/
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsabri:
Good news! Its coming Q4. http://www.gowindowsgo.com/2011/08/24/lync-coming-to-wp7/
[Vega General] foxguard:
Hi if my Vega goes into sleep mode, when I wake it the wifi has dropped out and i have to go into the wireless menu to start it again. this is new since today but have not changed any thing that should affect this? any one else had this?
[Vega General] O_G:
On the stock rom the wifi will turn off when entering sleep, this is to save power. It should turn itself back on within 5-10 seconds of waking. If it does not, there is a problem.

Some custom roms enable the wifi in sleep. Not tried for long enough myself, so cant comment on the battery life.
[Vega General] foxguard:
im using your rom... what should it do?
[Vega General] O_G:
Does the wifi turn back on automatically in 5-10 secs after wake, or do you have to turn it on manually?
[Vega General] foxguard:
seems I was to eager. It comes back after 10 Secs. Sorry mate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nash2000:
So I had cognition 4.x.x but I realized the rom that I was reading about the other day was cog 5, I didn't see it in rom manager but I did see it in the dev page, I downloaded it and went to install it.after 10 minutes its still on att logo, and I've tried the 3 button move but I just get a screen flash from black back to att logo. Dang, my first brick.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frank the Funkasaurus Rex:
Cognition 5 is a gingerbread rom, you need to follow the instructions on the first or second post to flash it. Can you get to download mode? If you can, try to odin back to stock and go from there...

Also, make sure you read the entire opening posts for installation instructions for every rom you flash.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Get in download mode and flash back to stock DO NOT use 3 botton fix. To get in to download more depending on bootleaders but if on I897 bootloaders take out battery sim and SD, plug in the phone press Vol up and down and insert cable (that's connected to the pc). If that doesn't work consider a Jig
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nash2000:
That sucks, I didn't even notice it was a gb rom and I always read the instructions besides this time. I pulled everything mentioned and I get no life when connected to pc while holding down volume up and down. Before I had any replies I did try the 3 buttons but all that brings me is to a little wheel on my screen. So I guess this is it huh?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nash2000:
I just called att and they're sending me a replacement phone, I just played dumb, they tried a few troubleshooting techniques to no avail so they said they'd send me a reconditioned replacement at no cost and ill have it in 5 days or so. Good thing its by back up phone and line, next ill read and read again the proper requirements of said rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharkboy0901:
Dont they have a one click unbrick for captivate?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nash2000:
I thought I read that there was but the instructions above don't mention anything about one so I'm guessing either there isn't one or it won't help in my case.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] varem:
Enter download mode, one click ODIN, and you're set
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nash2000:
It won't enter download mode, when I hold all 3 buttons all I get is a Continuing att logo flash. Although I did try it several time with different release timing and I was able to get to a black screen with 1of those little spinning wheels. But I was told not to use 3 button fix just use the volume keys, which did nothing at all.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holeindalip:
The three button fix is a zip file you flash from cwm that replaces one of your boot loaders, you didnt do this did you?try pulling your battery for a awhile have odin open on your pc,insert battery,hold both volume buttons, insert usb. Or try the one click unbrick