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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] setspeed:
Well, you learn something new every day - I never knew that existed!

TBH I pretty much got rid of Sense in favour of a CM rom as soon as I got the phone, same with my old Desire.

You're right though, looking at HTC's help pages indicates installing HTC Sync on the host computer. So I think what I wanted to do is pretty much a no-go in my situation.

I think maybe the "bring my own router" is looking like the best option.

Thanks for your replies, guys - much appreciated :-)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
You can probably get a local SIM for pretty cheap. Check out the data rates. If you only need it for some critical stuff here and there you'll be able to get a low amount of data on the SIM (or a Data-only SIM). If not, I'm sure you'll be able to duck into some coffee shops with free WiFi and hook up that way.

If you really need to get some things done I'd simply bring a laptop and hook up to the net in one of the hostels or some other place with WiFi. I think you're going through too much trouble here.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] setspeed:
You're probably right, but I'm just a worrier! I like having a back-up plan for when sh*t hits the fan. Maybe I should just take a chill pill and see what happens :-)

The only reason I'm hesitant about relying on data via a SIM is that I know I'll be tempted to keep checking my email and Facebook/myYearbook all the time - and using up all my data and caning the battery. I'm hoping I can somehow abstain from all that and just use the damn thing as a PHONE (except when absolutely necessary!) :-D
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrajpal:
I am considering trading my evo for a nexus s 4g and would like to know if the issues with the radio are as bad as people are making them out to be, would love to hear some input. The nexus s seems like a great phone but i would hate to get a phone that had terrible speeds.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueluck77:
Radio fix is rolling out today, i just traded my Evo for the NS4G and I couldnt be happier. Make the trade, youll be glad you did. (I am and I am a HUGE sense fan).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonao1851:
Hey man I own a nexus s 4g and a evo 4g and, nexus s 4g is a lot much better phone, I hardly use the evo, I haven't had any problem with the nexus the 3d graphics are incredible, quadrant score is over 4000, get the nexus
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dezel29:
just traded my Evo for a NS4G....like it so far, miss some of the sense aspects though...i have spent most of my time trying to find widgets and apps that do the same things as sense...still think it is pretty crappy that there is no facebook sync...getting used to it though...

my biggest complaint is that i find it hard to txt on this phone compared to my Evo...the lil keys seem to throw me off...have tryd various keyboards but nothing to replicate my Evo, BTW, was using GB keyboard on my Evo...

just applied the new update so will see if this solves the issue of radios..

overall i love this phone...traded my Evo because i was bored with it...lol have done everything i could do with it and didnt want to use my upgrade yet, not impressed with the evo3D or the photon, maybe gonna wait for the SGII...or maybe this phone will take me into the winter and christmas phones...who knows...impressed so far though...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrajpal:
Thanks for the input guys, lemme know how the update goes I'd love to see the radio issues solved
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolo13:
Dears ,

I need stable rom with gingerbread and sense 3 with Arabic language support without need to change the hboot
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexter93:
Try insertcoin, or cools or robociks sense 2.1-3 mix. I think they all have Arabic support

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueluck77:
I love my Nexus S 4G (rooted) exactly the way it is except for the battery life, is there a kernal that anyone can suggest that will resolve that and possibly an UC/OC as well (just bc im greedy) :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Netarchy's 1.3.7/1.3.7

and its kernel not kernal

please look in dev forums before asking this. each kernel thread list its features
[General Questions and Answers] illatwill:
I'm having the strangest problem with my HTC Evo...

I used to get over 22hrs of moderate use (rooted) and ever since flashing any ROM running Sense 3.0 my battery life is affected to the point I'm lucky to get 6 hours of use. It discharges 15% within the first 10 minutes after unplugging the charger and continues to discharge at an increased rate throughout the day.

I unrooted the phone and took it to Sprint to "test" and after 3 hours they gave me back the same exact phone claiming they had "updated" it and everything, including the battery, had tested perfectly fine.

I feel like they are giving me the run around because obviously something is wrong here.

Any ideas as to what is going on here?
[General Questions and Answers] Salty Wagyu:
Rooting doesn't improve battery life, never did. Think of rooting as gaining admin privileges to a Windows PC, for example.

I think you have a background process running that is taking up a lot of battery, check the Battery Use page or reboot the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] illatwill:
I know, but it shouldn't diminish it either. It does gives you a chance to see a potential increase by undervolting, underclocking, ect.

Anways, no background apps running. All display scaled down, GPS off, ect, ect.

I have no clue as to why this sudden decrease in life. And Sprint says the battery is testing "excellent" as is the phone. Obviously something is not right here. Feels like they are being lazy and trying to avoid giving me a replacement.

:eek:
[General Questions and Answers] Metalshadowx2:
Evo is known for bad battery usage. Best thing for you to do is get a backup battery.
[General Questions and Answers] illatwill:
Lol. I know that too, I'm not new to the Evo. I work with phones, Evo included, on a daily basis at my place of employment.

I'm saying this same battery used to last over 22 hours with moderate use when the phone was rooted and underclocked. Now the phone drains the battery amost instantly.

I refuse to purchase an additional battery to combat a problem Sprint should be fixing. I paid over $500 for this phone and haven't even had it a whole year yet. Something else is going on here...
[General Questions and Answers] k_nivesout:
Sounds like a rom issue, not a hardware one. Those sense 3.0 features and eye candy come at a cost.
[General Questions and Answers] watt9493:
Yeah. Sense 3.0 is a battery hog. Try cm7 or something AOSP

ADR6300
[General Questions and Answers] Dragon_son:
yeah, one turne off and reboot, Battery Life TERRIBLE too, i'm lost 10% when reboot
[General Questions and Answers] aswasw:
It's ture ！
[General Questions and Answers] saintmagician:
Have you tried an app that shows you battery usage over your running apps? May tell you which programs are stealing all the juice
[General Questions and Answers] aaa:
!. Rooting does not have anything to do with battery life...well..not directly..it depends on your kernels, apps, phone settings, etc.

2. I agree, Sense 3.0 seems to drain your battery a bit more than previous Senses... well...you know what they say, beauty has its price..about the AOSPs, they have better battery live but they are not so pretty as the Senses...again...beauty has its price :)
[General Questions and Answers] jdtayloruk:
If it helps the 'Live wallpapers' are known to eat battery, but what it could be is Wifi, if you leave it switched on all the time it may be connecting to open wifi networks without you realising and eating the battery.

Interestingly though, a whole day of use, some wifi a bit of camera and some calls on a wildfire with wifi on, didn't seem to drop the battery much and this is with a rooted phone.
[General Questions and Answers] flaviobd:
you can try green power
[General Questions and Answers] YamaRaja:
Even though it may sound lame to some of you, the app Juice Defender has actually helped extending the life on battery quite nicely for me...

Another possible route might be to try different Radio/RIL combinations, some can also extend your battery life.

Not to forget, as someone posted previously things like live wallpapers or background process. Task Killers have been known to cause battery drain for instance.

Good luck in your quest for battery life!

Hans :)
[General Questions and Answers] sweetnsour:
if you go to battery use in settings, youd probably find out whats causing your battery drain
[Nexus S General] Atheistnofaith:
Go to here,

http://android.clients.google.com/p...c0.signed-sojus-GRJ90-from-GRJ22.39fe4c59.zip

Step 1 rename the file to update.zip(Do not open zip file).

Step 2 Copy update.zip to root of SDCARD.

Step 3 Power off phone.

Step 4 Press and hold Power+Vol up buttons(Enters Boot loader).

Step 5 Select Recovery.

Step 6 Press Vol up and Power(Before Exclamation Indicator comes up), if thats does not work , Press the Power button, or Vol up.

Step 7 Recovery menu options should appear, select apply update from SDCARD.

Step 8 Enjoy..

Note: This is for Stock Recovery Only(Self evident by the method used above).

Do not thank me refer to post,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1181833&
[Nexus S General] xyzulu:
Not that I care who's thread stays, but this is a duplicate of: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1185672

Perhaps one can be locked, I will report it to the site moderators.
[Nexus S General] Overstew:
You should state this is for stock recovery and not CWM. :)
[Nexus S General] shabbypenguin:
no, your phone will still be flashed, you will just lose the apn settings (mms and data) so youll have to enter those again but voice and sms will still work
[Nexus S General] dwthrman:
I'm good down to step 7, get unload icon...I'm pressing vol up, but ! icon comes up.

Thoughts?
[Nexus S General] seezar:
Did you try holding down the power button and then tapping the Vol + button?
[Samsung Mesmerize] bigjkcfan:
I have been running CM7 on and off for about 3 weeks but I do not roam, numerous times I have odined back to Froyo and reflashed CM7 but would never roam. I now odined back to Froyo twice and have stayed there but I no longer roam. I live in a place that barely has any cell phone service so having only USCC for service doesn't cut in when I barely have service 50% of the time. Anybody have any ideas?
[Samsung Mesmerize] djsp00kyk:
You have to check the roaming boxes in the settings. You did not say if you already did this but if not that would be a start. Not sure about with USCC but with CS i recently found out that i could be booted fron the network from changing a setting with cm7 and had to go back to stock, then debug fix to get back on the CS network otherwise i was stuck on verizon only.
[Samsung Mesmerize] akellar:
From what I have seen roaming does not work correctly with any of the gb roms.
[Samsung Mesmerize] bigjkcfan:
On Froyo it is set to roaming and automatic for the roaming settings.... I have done a *228+ and I have tried the ADW thing where you disable 3g and then reenabled it(not that this would help anyway but I gave it a shot)

When I odined I did the repartition. I am running on just a stock rooted rom with stock kernal etc so I don't know what the problem is, its just a bummer because roaming is pretty much a necessity in my neck of the woods.
[Samsung Mesmerize] akellar:
Did you not read my post? Roaming does not appear to work correctly on aosp.
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
Works fine for me.

Sent from my MIUI SCH-i500
[Samsung Mesmerize] bigjkcfan:
With all due respect, did you not read my post? I am no longer on asop, i'm on Froyo with no roaming.
[Samsung Mesmerize] akellar:
Sorry I did miss that.

Sage-good to know it works for someone. My experience roaming was bad and others have reported the same. I could have just had other issues though I suppose. Ignore me.
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
yeah I had some issues on miui 1.7.8 when I was in new york roaming where it would be in and out of data but I still could get calls and SMS without issue. Now I roam sometimes around where I live and have no problems.

Sent from my MIUI SCH-i500
[Samsung Mesmerize] akellar:
Yeah that was basically my experience as well. Could receive calls/messages but zero data the entire time.
[Samsung Mesmerize] bigjkcfan:
Tonight I reflashed EC11(which is what I was on) and I even flashed EC19 over it but still no roaming at all. I have tried to do a *228 and *228+ and it says that it is successful but my prl has not changed in over a month since before I started using cm7. Whether that is connected or not I don't know, this just does not make since to me since I have repartitioned when I reflashed a half a dozen times but still can not get roaming to work.
[Xoom Accessories] xjack:
It's got USB, although the charging looks a little scary.

Anyone tried this one or tried any of this company's docks? They all seem to be built similarly.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AC-USB-CHARGER-SYNC-CRADLE-DOCK-MOTOROLA-XOOM-/350466869946
[Xoom Accessories] Ifiuse:
I have it.

After buy: You can't use it with your gel case, or something like that, you have to connect it alone.

It's dificult to connect it right.

It isn't like the one of motorola, this one it's less stable, i think.

BUT:

Its work for what it designed to.

Usb and Power both cables work right.

If you can buy and OTG with mini usb you win :D

PS Sorry for my english.

PS2. I have it, right now its connected to my computer
[Xoom Accessories] zn706:
I don't like the fact that it looks like you could accidentally inject 12v DC into the USB port by plugging the power into the wrong mini USB socket. If it had a coaxial power plug I'd be all over it, but since I added a usbotg cable to my stock zoom cradle I don't think I'll be getting one.
[Xoom Accessories] patass:
i dont even know how that would work, it must charge it brutally slow since it's mini usb...
[Xoom Accessories] zn706:
it looks like a 12v plug with a mini usb plug on the end of it.
[Xoom Accessories] donaldson:
I've had that dock wishlisted for a while.

@lfiuse

Thanks for the quick review. Are the ports at the back clearly marked for power and USB? Like zn706, I'd hate to plug the power adapter into the usb port...

OTG would be nice...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magnum15:
I was browsing on my SGS2 with 5% battery life and sudenly my phone just went black screen... Then i wanted to turn it on again and nothing happens. Cant get into recovery and cant get into download mode because it says that the battery is too low. And now when i charge my phone the battery has a yellow triangle beside. What can i do?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
Just leave it charging. Or, if that doesn't work (for some reason) plug it in and then remove and replace the battery. Make sure to let it have a good long charge before you try to turn it on again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magnum15:
tnx it worked ;) first i was scared that battery died :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
No problem mate. Glad to help :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eljean:
I am not trying to flash it to another company, just trying to literally legally REPAIR it.

Basically i think my nv items are bad and I need to recover. I have a nv file but I dont know how to flash it, my computer cant recognize the Incredible because the nv items are bad and is acting up wont start and whatnot, but i got down the trick though. I have S-ON for some extremely odd reason as well I need to root but I dont know how to since the phone isnt recognized by the pc.

I saw this http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1451530-LG-Dare-ESN-MEID-Repair-file/page4

but I dont know how to modify it for my phone. This could be a fix.

Any ideas?
[Xperia Play Android Development] _terror_:
I've search for both "screen" and "brightness" without any results.

Is there anything we can do about the brightness of the screen? It's very low, even if you have it on max. Is it a hardware or software issue?
[Xperia Play Android Development] wired84:
I've seen a lot of reporst of bad screen brightness, but can't say I've ever experienced a problem. I had more issues with my HTC desire, I could barely see it outside on a cloudy day. The XP I can see fine most of the time.

What are you using to turn the brightness up/down? There is a widget to turn it up and down, but it only makes it go up to 175 (iirc). I use power manager. This changes my brightness depending on different scenarios. Similar to juice defender type things but a lot more basic. The best part of it is the screen timeout and brightness settings.
[Xperia Play Android Development] _terror_:
oh cool, will check that out :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] OTOGY2002:
Thanks,but don't disable sensor :-(

Brightness don't change :-(
[Xperia Play Android Development] brochador:
That's one of my problem also, the poor brightness of our phone, At first I thought there is an app to increase it, but there's none..:(

When im using it under the sun, I cant really see what I'm doing to my phone especially when there's my finger print all over my screen, so i always bring my cleaning cloth.
[Xperia Play Android Development] quazimojo:
Yeah i have tried every app out there in hopes one would work but that sensor just has to much control i guess.

Hopefully someone will figure it out eventually.

I guess some people are not bothered by it at all so possibly the people who would know how to fix it just dont care enough to.
[Xperia Play Android Development] ryocoon:
On the R800x, there is no auto-brightness to enable. It is all manual. 100% seems to be bright enough to read stuff outside in the sun. I don't know that there would be a way to push it even brighter.

A number of people have been claiming that if you remove the pre-installed screen protector it becomes a lot brighter. Maybe that might help you if you are willing to risk the screen scratches.
[Xperia Play Android Development] LemonPlusTea:
Yeah by removing the protector the screen becomes much more brighter.. The toughened glass seems to be holding up quite fine though.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
For a short 30 seconds experience with factory superglued protector, all I can say is remove it. Much better light sensor response, better contrast and much much much better finger swipeability on the mineral glass under the plastic protector...

Also now as I have phone, I'll see how to disable LS.
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
I'm glad you finally got your device blagus :D now start developing :mad: lol
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Sure, I'm dying too LOL :P

But first before unlock I have to sniff SEUS communication.
[Xperia Play Android Development] OTOGY2002:
Yeah Blagus,you are the best;)

Unlocks the brightness' and do a lot of us happy, Sony Ericsson to **** !!!!!!!
[Xperia Play Android Development] axiomjunglist:
I was talking to Doomlord the other day about this, the ALS seems to be part of the kernel. The exact location of the sensor parameters is /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/als. You can edit those parameters but nothing sticks on save/exit.

If you want to see how crazy the ALS is, fire up logcat in adb and watch what happens when you pull the phone away from a bright light source.

The only problem is some people love the ALS, and some people hate it. I'm in the hate it camp. I'd rather be able to adjust full brightness manually. It would peg the CPU a lot less too in certain lighting conditions, actually improving performance.

To that end, wondering if there is some kind of kernel extension or module that can be flashed, or if it has to be the whole modified kernel that is replaced.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
I found it in kernel. I'll publish it today. Stable, OC, and light sensor will be separated as module.

Everyone who likes it, will have it automatically on, and who don't can remove module from /system/lib/modules.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Problem: lightsensor and proximity are one device with one driver. So it'll have to be disabled in hw_config.sh
[Xperia Play Android Development] axiomjunglist:
I tried to solve it through editing the hw_config file, but had the same problem of results not sticking/working correctly. Enable would switch to 0 for a limited time before switching back to 1, and definitely after a boot, but still seemed to be functional and operating as if it was enabled, i.e. the functionality appeared to happen more slowly than rapidly on the fly. Also, the 254 variable never stuck at all, so that test failed, heh.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13937021&postcount=13

Would you need a custom hw_config for a custom kernel mod?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Because some people still like it, so I can't disable it for everyone.

Now this is where problem starts: no LS config in hw_config so I can't manage power modes like on older Xperias.
[Xperia Play Android Development] axiomjunglist:
Yeah they conveniently left that out!

I tried experimenting using different parameters and settings in hw_config but nothing would allow me to control it. I even poured over the technical info but couldn't find anything useful related to functionality in android OS.

http://www.austriamicrosystems.com/LMU/AS3676
[Xperia Play Android Development] ryocoon:
I would imagine we could alter the settings.apk framework to include a checkbox to enable/disable Automatic mode for light sensor, and if off, revert to manual change. Is this a correct assumption? It might be easier for the end user than enabling and disabling a module at terminal prompt or yanking things from the system image or (heaven forbid) the running OS. It would certainly involve a bit more work, to be sure. However, could also just alter the framework to run insmod commands through BusyBox so that we can insert and remove modules. *shrugs* Just thoughts, not mandates. ^_^
[Xperia Play Android Development] OTOGY2002:
Hello Blagus're really good, really compliments for the work you do for us now;-) I think that you release the modified kernel for the brightness?

Appearance? I would be happy and I think many users.

you're great !!!!!!!!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Seems like the only way is to make two separate kernels because LS and proximity are same device and driver.
[Xperia Play Android Development] OTOGY2002:
So you think you can do Blagus?:confused:

I'm waiting for you to places with great anticipation the kernel:D:D
[Xperia Play Android Development] quazimojo:
I guess sony is having the same problem and why the never released a fix if they are one in the same. I thought i remembered reading an official statement that they were looking into it ?.

So to disable the brightness control will leave the screen on all the time for calls and such when it should black out until you move it away from your face etc.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
However, I have experimented today in bright sun, dark room, and now in illuminated room at night.

I have absolutely no problems with LS in the daylight, to make display completely dark I have to cover half of screen because LS can detect a lot of light...

In dark room it's always dark.

In illuminated room, however, I can see bigger jumps in brightness, but nothing so ultra-mega-extremely-annoying as on X8 where a small shadow could completely dim screen.

But all these tests were made without factory screen protector. I removed it just after sliding finger few times to be able to notice difference after removal, and removed it immediately...

Do you have protector or not?
[Xperia Play Android Development] OTOGY2002:
i don't remove a protector.