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[HTC Sensation] :
Most of the phone companies update their models based on the new hardware that is available; hence why the Sensation and the Galaxy S2 were released the same time.

Q4 will see quad core Snapdragon SOCs coming out; nothing from now until then will be a big upgrade. Personally I'd wait because virtually all our OSs and apps aren't multithreaded, and by the time they are, the quad core phones will be out, so you'd be able to get a big upgrade then for the same money.
[HTC Sensation] efcgenius:
I too went from Desire to Sensation - had Desire 6 months and loved it, pretty much done everything I expected and more

But Sensation is in a different league, I even started a thread on here "Desire to Sensation big jump or little junp" prior to getting it

Most notibly for me is browsing the web, turn landscape and if you have 20 20 vision no need to pinch and zoom every bit of text is readable and not even having to put face 6" from phone

Other difference is the overall size, its enormous holding it for the first few days, took me a few weeks to stop thinking everytime I picked it up that it was huge!!

Now when I use a Desire is like OMG how small is this!!!!!!
[HTC Sensation] Dr Asqueroso:
Lucky for me i've been with orange forever so this upgrade is free...

More minutes, more text and it seems more phone on a 18 month deal, i think i'll be getting a Sensation to be fair! And once of clever devs here roots it and the custom Roms start to come thick and fast i'll be heaven!!

Thanks so much for the advice people :D
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
No regrets here at all. At least if you do get it from orange you can temp root and use titanium to freeze the orange junk.
[HTC Sensation] tsekh501:
Btw, if you like Sense, going from the old Sense (1.9?) on the Desire to Sense 3.0 on the Sensation is quite a jump too.
[HTC Sensation] reckoner_85:
I also had a desire, it was brilliant, specially its build quality, which i still think is better all around than my sensation, however for everything else the sensation crushes the desire, it's a beast, which is a good thing :)
[HTC Sensation] Dr Asqueroso:
Phone ordered and will be delivered Tuesday.... i'm joining the club :D

i'd better start reading this board to see what i can tweak out of the box!!
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
ordered the sensation today and wanna ask first how is the card that comes with the device? are people using it or most of you bought a new one?

2nd, which card would you recommend?
[HTC Sensation] swellthekitty:
It's not a bad card, 8gb class 4 so it's fast enough for most everything. What is too bad is that the phones doesn't have more built in memory. I can fill 8gb fast so for me, a 16 GB card is minimum and the higher the class the better imho.

There are a lot of cards out there, I would recommend a name brand unit and at least class 6. I've got a 32gb class 10 from newegg and it works great (cant find link right now).
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller

good enough? or too much?
[HTC Sensation] swellthekitty:
That's a link to the seller's feedback so I don't know what item you were looking at. Feedback seems good though.
[HTC Sensation] The Radius Kid:
A Data 32GB here.
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
sorry, this is the link

http://cgi.ebay.com/Team-Class-10-S...C_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item45f3cbb0e0
[HTC Sensation] dubie76:
You need a micro sd. That link is the wrong one.
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
ok i give up.. can anyone recommend me on a good and not expensive 16gb card?
[HTC Sensation] jamiee6610:
I brought a 16gig pny card, its been very good so far.
[HTC Sensation] xnifex:
Newegg has the ADATA 16GB Class 10 card for $25 right now. I bought it for $35 when I got my phone last month & I thought even that price was worth it
[HTC Sensation] miniflight:
Try not to buy anything that are related to storage on ebay or online in general, e.g. microsd card, external harddrive, usb stick...they tend to be always fake. Best to go to local stores with good reputation for these things.
[HTC Sensation] WhiteSites:
I bought a Lexar 32GB class 10 microSDHC card.

17 MB/sec read

8 MB/sec write

this was using SD tool for android.

I am hoping that once S-OFF is achieved, and we get cyanogen running on this device, the speeds will improve. The card cost me about $90 shipped, and came with a USB to microSDHC adapter. At this point I am very disapointed in the card's performance. Even when using my computer to transfer the data to it, the best I got was about 8 MB/sec write.

Also after a full format on Windows 7, the card only shows 29.8 GB capacity

though the detailed figure was 32,005,685,248 Bytes

I am hoping this card is not a fake. Can anyone else confirm their benchmarks with a 32 GB lexar class 10?
[HTC Sensation] Mainspring:
locate a Lexar 16gb class 6 from a reputable dealer.

can be had for around $20.

I get around 7-9mb write and around 17-20mb read speed.

seems like about the same speed as the class 10 Lexar above.

32gb version is too expensive still. don't understand why they cost almost 5 times more when the capacity is only double.
[HTC Sensation] moto211:
Your capacity is correct. The difference is due to the fact that a properly calculated byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, or terabyte is calculated in base-2. The manufacturers have long been in the habit of calculating in base-10, hence the difference in what's claimed and what you actually see.

I think it might be a bit much to imply that any online vendor should be avoided when purchasing flash memory. As long as it's from a reputable vendor (not a ebay seller or amazon seller), you should be OK and in the event that you end up with a fake you would be protected by the vendor's return policy.
[HTC Sensation] joshndroid:
Like white i purchased a lexar 32gb class 10 card. Although transferring to the card was slower than claimed from my hard drive but transferring from my old micro sd to the new one i recieved much higher speeds with a class 6 limit due to the old card. As for onlkne vendors i have purchased all my external/internal and sd cards from ebay. I have had 1 problem but that was my fault because the offered price was too good to be true
[HTC Sensation] vvilliamm:
hmm i read an article on the main xda page about microsd cards.. it says the sandisk one has better i/o and random reads and writes.. so now im really lost..well in the end.. u still cant transfer more than 4gb file onto your microsd card.
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
why cant you transfer more than 4gb file onto the card?
[HTC Sensation] vvilliamm:
sorry for not being specific. You cant transfer more than a 4gb file because that's the limit for a fat32 microsd.... i believe.. lol
[HTC Sensation] the_scotsman:
Yep, fat32 has a file size limit of 4Gb.
[HTC Sensation] HannoSLM:
now i doubt there will be any difference between sd cards. We need a2sd or d2sd in order to evaluate better. On the HD2 there was a major difference between class 2 and a class 6 card. On the sensation i have tried class 2 and class 6 the performance seems the same.
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
Well, i guess my question is, does it really matters if i get a class 6 or a class 10 as class 10 is more expensive?
[HTC Sensation] bruce2728:
AFAIK the higher the class the more it drains the battery
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
really? never heard of such thing...
[HTC Sensation] The Radius Kid:
I guess it would come down to what you want to put on the card.

If you're just storing videos to go, a six should be more than enough.

I have a class ten card and installed some app's on it.

They run as fast as they did when they were first installed in the phone.
[HTC Sensation] mazinya:
So what would be the advantage of class 10 then?

Btw, found this... would it be good enough? or is it a fake one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lexar-16GB-Micr...gital_Camera_Memory_Cards&hash=item53e6f591f6
[HTC Sensation] joshndroid:
this fellow has mostly good feedback.. with a couple of peeved customers that have given him bad feedback.. I'm not a fan of people who list private listings because when you look through feedback you can never tell what the item was (but that's just my preference i have purchased from private listings many times)...
[HTC Sensation] mafiasx:
listen the Class have to important in the stability of your phone use.

why?

i have to explain that the class is something like doors in a small or big room (sd 2or 32 gb)as more is the class so the number of the doors

the problem is that when you put a tv ,bed,table in a room you make a route...this is what the electronic do.

so if you buy a big size but small class :problem

big class small size /battery lost : problem

big class big size /if full ;problem(cpu use battery use) if empty :problem (battery)

so a sd is not simple you will lose something:

space (small with a medium class)( is the most stable )

power (big class)

cpu and battery( big class big space not good use)

---------------------

and don format your sd

wen you format is like you translate a language to another (you axidently leave a dictionary in the sd that consume space) if ti is need to format use the right tool

like company software (if sandisk use sandisk formater) (the linux do a good format in the moste cases)
[HTC Sensation] :
I'm rocking one of the 16gb cards that came with one of my old hd2s.. I sold both of them and kept the cards. :D
[HTC Sensation] Morsolo:
I read that higher classes result in higher SEQUENTIAL read/writes.

This is fairly useless on a phone, as phones will be doing RANDOM read/writes most of the time. Lower classes are actually better for RANDOM read/writes, I'm not talking Class 2... But the Class 4/6 range is about perfect if you want to prioritize RANDOM read/writes.

I read that the Sandisk 32GB Class 4 is a VERY popular card in most people's phones, and is on the cheap side, too.

EDIT: Looking around for myself, I can't find a 32GB C4... Is it the 32GB Class 2 people like? I don't think I'd like a Class 2. (Or have I missed something)

EDIT EDIT: Found it. I guess Newegg/Amazon don't ship it. Wonder why?
[HTC Sensation] Teso Dos Bichos:
The linked post (and thread) has a wealth of detail and benchmarks for various cards: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14456360&postcount=42
[Samsung Mesmerize] jstahnke10:
This is a repost from: General discussion > Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking (I had no takers there and it took awhile to find this subforum)

I know I made a mistake and i'm beating myself up about it...

I tried to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and ended up using the incorrect phones software.

I have a Samsung Mesmerize from US Cellular.

I did some additional investigation and realized I used the Galaxy S I9000 software on my Galaxy S Mesmerize phone.

After several failed attempts, I took it to the US Cellular store and they were able to get the correct firmware on the phone.

However, I am now getting a continuous errors; among others, this is the main one I get:

I am not receiving this message after downloading a new app; I say this because after searching, it seems this is the usual culprit for this error.

I am able to make calls and receive texts, but I am unable to download anything due to having 0.00B on my internal phone storage.

The tech at US Cellular flashed it several times with several versions along with re-partition checked.

Personally, I think there is still a partition problem with the phone where all the available space is allocated in the inaccessible partition.

After backing up my SD card and doing a factory data reset myself from the settings menu I get this:

After I confirm, it takes me to recovery mode and says:

It appears it was only able to format the CACHE.

While in recovery mode, if I volume down to "wipe data/factory reset" and select OK and confirm with volume up, I get this:

Now when I open SDK Manager and run adb devices, it comes back with nothing:

I am running out of ideas to get my phone back to operational.

Thanks for your help and suggestions!
[Samsung Mesmerize] akellar:
Go to the Development forum and get a full build out of the "get back to stock" thread. Follow the instructions there and make sure you check the repartition box.
[Samsung Mesmerize] add144:
That may not even work akellar. Its worth a shot but may not work. If you can't get into Download mode you are ****ed. But even if you can, the ODIN flash may fail. Seen it happen to a fellow who flash i9000 files in the Phone box of ODIN.

Better cross your fingers champ.
[Samsung Mesmerize] matth1201:
I had somewhat of the same thing happen to me when going back to stock 2.2 from cm7. The internal phone storage said 0 mb and i was also getting the twlauncher force closes like you mentioned. No matter how many times i re- odined it stayed the same (with repartition both checked and unchecked) but flashing heinz 57 fixed the problem maybe it will work for you also.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AstroDigital:
Thinking about buying a WiFi only Xoom I am Canadian.

If I root it a flash it with a US ROM will there be any issues?

I can not see any problems? Should be the same hardware here or the US WiFi is WiFi. Maybe access the Google Market?

I have done research and there is a easy One Click Root, and US ROMs are at 3.2 but for some unknown reason Motorola Canada Xoom is stuck at 3.0
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] green_link:
i did it to mine. i've had no problems with accessing the marketplace. the only problems i've had are with google books, google voice, and google videos. and thats beause we don't get those 'services' in canada

it's all the same hardware. motorola canada hasn't said more than two things about getting 3.1 on our xooms. the last thing they said was it was comming in a 'couple of months'...that was over a couple of months ago
[Verizon Droid Charge] htcdesirezgeorge:
This question is primarily for the beastly developers that are on the Charge right now. I am interested in a MIUI rom for the Charge, think there is a chance of getting one made? I don't know if this is the right place BUT I personally love MIUI from my HTC G2 and want to get it on here!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Samsuck:
That'd be interesting, but it'll take a lot longer. I don't think Chinese Devs are into LTE right now since they don't have it. The Tbolt's version still has RIL in progress. That'll be the biggest concern. Honestly, I think it's going to be a year before we get a stable version of an AOSP rom, and even longer for MIUI
[Verizon Droid Charge] htcdesirezgeorge:
yeah I agree BUT it would be amazing to have!
[Verizon Droid Charge] nitsuj17:
possible...sure anything is possible

but it wont be today, tomorrow, next week, next month...after that who knows
[Verizon Droid Charge] htcdesirezgeorge:
Ofcourse I know it wont be any time soon. I would be willing to pay someone to develop a rom like that for the charge, anyone know a developer that is skilled enough to make something like that out of it?
[Verizon Droid Charge] nitsuj17:
are there? sure...but do they want to bang their head into a wall repeatedly or not is the question
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
If/when we ever get an AOSP ROM done (OMGB/OMFGB/CM) then we should be able to get MIUI and any other AOSP ROM onto the Charge as well. The question will be will people that spent time getting one of the initial AOSP based ROMs onto the Charge want to spend another month or so porting another ROM to the phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] htcdesirezgeorge:
I for one would be willing to compensate someone for the porting. I'd put a $100 donation out there to someone for making the ROM and then im SURE other people would be more than willing to donate too. I know how difficult porting it, I've researched it and, frankly, I don't have the skill to tackle it lol.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gibbo82:
Currently on a rooted 2.3.3 using gingerbreak, and no widgets seem to b appearing in my widget folder as long pressing the home screen!??...

Anyone else had this problem?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nimche:
Did you freeze something with TB?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinkster:
Can you add any using the menu option, or with another launcher?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meister_Li:
Don't install Widgets on your SD Card. They need to be on the internal storage to work.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jbass350z:
Long story short I missed a step when flashing GummyCharge 1.0. The first thing I did was flashed the all in one ODIN to get root/lagfix/CWM found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1092114

Then I flashed GummyCharge 1.0 not realizing I needed to disable lagfix. Now I am stuck on the red screen, disabling the lagfix from the blue/green CWM does nothing.. I added the disable-lagfix file to the voodoo folder and that also does nothing. I still get stuck at the red screen..

Before I further break my brand new phone, what do I need to do now?
[Verizon Droid Charge] JarrettXavier:
Flash one of the Full-Stock ODINs, such as: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1172182 and start over again - following every step. :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] Samsuck:
Sigh, this is the guide you should've used. I've rooted 4 droid charges using this guide.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122657

Try flashing the Stock ODin images
[Verizon Droid Charge] jbass350z:
Thanks.. that worked.
[HTC Incredible S] nayak.aj:
Okay so we all know S-off voids our warranty ... but what i d like to know is how does the dealer (or HTC) who honors our warranty check for it....

would it be by trying to get into the boot loader ? if so wouldnt it be great to mask the 'S-OFF' with 'S-ON' nd leave HBOOT just looking the way HTC intended it to look while being S-OFF , ofcourse after going back to a stock ROM ?
[HTC Incredible S] nayak.aj:
didnt make sense ?
[HTC Incredible S] Nicheuji:
That will create a lot of confusion and uncertainty (e.g. "Is my phone really S-Off?"). If I'm not wrong, flashing an RUU will revert your device back to S-On.
[HTC Incredible S] Shinugen:
I have to say I agree with Nicheuji.

Masking S-OFF with S-ON will create a lot of confusion and frustration, and I'm pretty certain that it's more than just the letters that they look at.. They're not stupid.

Don't underestimate them. xD

That said, it would be funny though.

And Nicheuji is right. Flashing a stock RUU will revert you right back to S-ON.
[HTC Incredible S] nayak.aj:
Heh... was just a thought

:P :P
[HTC Incredible S] ankanb:
I think we in India need not worry - I doubt the service centre folks have any idea about S-OFF. I have visited them 3 times in my city and the folks just dont know/give a damn. The servicing is outsourced in India anyways ;)
[LG Optimus 3D] daGUCCI:
[Q] Running games from SDCard instead of internal memory?

recently installed few games and run out of memory quickly, but my SDcard still got about 7GB left, how can I run games from my sdcard, I tried move most of games, but it allowed only move like 3 games from 10 :/
[LG Optimus 3D] bolinao:
You moved 3 games to the external sd card and they worked ? ,are you sure you didnt move them to the internal sd card ?
[LG Optimus 3D] daGUCCI:
Nope, moved to SD card (Dungeon Defenders, Medieval Castle Defense, Sacred Odyssey, TegraZone Games). It allow me to move back to phone aswell, but rest games I can't even move to SD card... :/
[LG Optimus 3D] bioweb:
If you have a bit of Linux terminal knowledge you could try moving all the data for the games to your external sd card and create symlinks or softlinks from the old directory names on your internal storage to the new ones on your external sd card using the adb shell.

Assuming you are rooted and know how to connect to your phone's terminal using the adb shell command you'll do something like this:

mv /usr/local/myGame /sdcard/

ln -s /sdcard/myGame /usr/local/myGame

This will move the directory called myGame that's initially in the /usr/local/ directory on your internal storage to your sd card after which you have a directory called myGame on your sd card with all the data in it for the game. So the mv command basically is the same as cutting and pasting a directory on Windows, you remove it from one location and store it in another.

Then you create a link in the /usr/local/ directory that redirects all requests that go to the myGame directory on the internal storage directly to your myGame directory on the sd card. In theory it should work perfectly as the Android system should treat a symlink in the same way as a direct link.

If you get an error when you create the symlink with the ln -s command or the game doesn't work anymore you can just move back the data on the sd card and everything will be as it was: "mv /sdcard/myGame /usr/local/"

You could also try some of the apps2sd apps in the Market.
[LG Optimus 3D] simacca:
What is the actual memory size reserved for apps?

Thanks.
[LG Optimus 3D] ik911:
5.7GB SD + 1GB internal can't use the external SD at the moment for apps
[LG Optimus 3D] bioweb:
I've done some tests yesterday and this method unfortunately doesn't work. The mv command doesn't allow moving files or directories from the internal storage to the external sd card. Instead, I tried using Root Explorer. As a test I moved all the datafiles for Angry Birds to my SD Card and using the ln -s command I created a symlink.

The symlink itself worked perfectly, I could get a complete directory listing of what used to be on the internal storage with the adb terminal. However, Angry Birds unfortunately didn't start but just force closed. I guess Android has some built in security.

It's strange though as this exact method was used in the earlier lagfixes for the Galaxy S to copy systemfiles to the sd card and symlinking them.
[LG Optimus 3D] daGUCCI:
damn, must somewhere find method what could work :/
[LG Optimus 3D] wan0eve:
Use Root Explorer open /system/etc/vold.fstab

you will find two line like:

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/mmc_host/mmc0

dev_mount extsdcard /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD auto /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1

Edit into the following:

dev_mount extsdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD auto /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/mmc_host/mmc0

Then save and reboot, the SDCard and internal memory will swap.
[LG Optimus 3D] bolinao:
Do you mean the external sd card and the internal sd card will swap.
[LG Optimus 3D] wan0eve:
Yes, it is.
[LG Optimus 3D] daGUCCI:
will try it out.

might need to download again all game files, becouse it will take years to copy from external to sd
[LG Optimus 3D] Lorien25:
Thats an cool idea. Any tests yet ?
[LG Optimus 3D] precsmo:
wan0eve, how ****ing sure were you about this before telling others about this? I almost got my phone stuck with this and felt so stupid ever
[LG Optimus 3D] wc326:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/340279-get-gameloft-games-to-external-sd/

this will make all gameloft game data onto external sd...
[LG Optimus 3D] bolinao:
WOW,it works :eek:..thanks for this :D
[LG Optimus 3D] wc326:
OP should put this link on his first post so everyone will knows
[LG Optimus 3D] iDutchy:
Can anyone confirm this working?

I been trying to find a way to do this for a while now and I don't want to brick my phone.
[LG Optimus 3D] bolinao:
Here is an easier way:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1091455
[LG Optimus 3D] iDutchy:
That is only for gameloft right?

how about my other apps I just want my 16GB card to be the main SD card to copy apps and games to. that's why I wanted to know if this fix works to swap both SD cards.

if it does do I need to format before I do it etc will I brick my phone what are the dangers etc?