yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[About XDA developers] Demon_man:
I first found XDA a long time before i actually signed up , was a lurker for a long time, just browsing and viewing threads getting tips etc, only joined in 2009 i think it was when i got my touch diamond and became hooked the people were friendly and help full, then i progressed on to the HD2 and it was all great until prob last summer and i just got fed up of this place, it turned into a n00b fest ok fine everyone has to start somewhere, we all do, but everyone in that section just turned into complete ass hats including my self because day after day countless threads of "help" "did i brick my device" nobody reads any more,I will admit i did it the first day i got my hd2 i messed up real bad from not reading.

But this site is just getting worse now threads being closed people calling hell outta each other, ill even admit i have been a twat today for someone asking how to back up there contacts on android, (sorry just cut your hands off).

The site used to be great used to be a place were you could pop along find something you need and read and learn from it, now even the xda search feature is a waste of time. You cant find the info you need any more unless you no where to look,

Recently got myself the SGS2 (amazing device) gotta say the most miserable unhelpful twats ive ever come across in a device section, I dont no maybe there all just bored of the same thing in and out but most dont have that many posts and are *****ing at each other, then you come across chainfire that guy is a frigging genius he gets so many reply to his cf-root thread im surprised he can keep up its crazy and he gives no trouble, then look at Hacre who created the Ninphetamine kernel for the sgs2 post 5 i will admit is the FUNNIEST thing i have ever read in my life but he makes the whole point about what is happening to this site, its getting worse everyday.

I used to love this site for the way people helped and im not the greatest but i did my fair share of helping in the hd2 section and now i just cba to visit the forum because of the way people get treated, yeah im just one member that dont care any more and i no it doesn't make a difference to the website because it has so many members but thats my problem it seems there is no respect for anyone on here any more.

just my two cents
[About XDA developers] androidino95:
Um, I discovered XDA in August 2010 trying to find a way to improve my Wildfire. Before I joined (registered), I did a lot of reading and I discovered true charms of Android. Since then I'm every-day visitor, not a developer, just a user though... But I'm proud because I'm a member in a community like XDA is. Not to forget, I got some knowledge about mobile OS' (Android and WM) over the months so I'm contributing the community by helping people. XDA for the win! :)
[About XDA developers] crit71:
I didnt have a clue it was so old.......although I do seem to remember browsing through it whilst looking for Symbian hacks and such.
[About XDA developers] mynamesteve:
Ok willverduzco I'm gonna call you out!

You respond to a thread where the last reply date is 31st March 2003, 07:25 AM....... 2003! (that's 8 and a half years old btw) In a thread about the good old days, you sir are a ether a master troll, a wizard mod changing dates all over here or i'm going mad :eek:

I'm not fussed which one, hats off to you.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Bring the deads back

How come you signed in 2008 and this post is from 2003:confused::eek::eek:
[About XDA developers] willverduzco:
Senior mods and up have magical powers. Look at my original post! :)

Why thank you sir. Looking at the my OP date, who says it's not all of the above. ;)
[HTC Sensation] nicky041192:
As the title suggests.

I would like to have the stock Blue Sky skin with the straight dock from this theme: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1191424

Thank you very much!
[HTC Sensation] gclawson:
Second That
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] uyo_kun:
Hi, is it any possible to make a landscape homescreen on Sony Ericsson Home?:confused:
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] zohaib0001:
Yes it is Possible

Yes it is possible but with the help of third party App

in the market there is two free apps available

1) Go Launcher ex

and

2) AWD launcher

install any one i recommend the AWD launcher

after install it press the home button and select the AWD home screen

when AWD is applied you can change its settings by tab on settings / preference

here is the option to landscape mode.
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] DanijasDub:
Yes it will be available in latest FW update which has been released already but just few product codes got it ...

Follow this tread to flash it with flash tools manually---> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1199597
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] GetPatriotized:
Man can you read? He's asking for landscape for Sony Ericsson Home

*sigh*
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] SirRobin78:
Sorry but i think this is not true - installed the fw on my arc and there is no landscape mode for homescreen. As far as i know it´s only possible with the xperia Play and Neo :rolleyes:
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Vintiem:
Confirm, still not possible in latest ARC (4.0..) version. Unfortunately

Vintiem
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] DanijasDub:
My bad, have read something wrong then....
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Ambroos:
Not on the Neo. I have one and it doesn't work in Landscape just by turning the phone.

Landscape on the launcher is ONLY activated if you

- slide open the keyboard/keypad (Pro and Play only obviously)

- dock the phone (all models)
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] dyjin:
Sony ericsson announced Homescreen landscape but it is only working on HDMI mode
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] animboo:
i downloaded the leaked home.apk from sony and it did have the landscape mode. though the new firmware doesn't have it
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] tinyXperia:
and

- connect phone to tv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9VnDu60smE&feature=player_detailpage#t=972s
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] ShyamSasi:
For me the Landscape mode works fine for phone dialer, Call log etc. but not the Launcher
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Vintiem:
So the feature exist, only a dev should enable it.

I hope someone will fix this

Kind regards,

Vintiem
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] zonetrooper90:
The latest firmware does have it... but it can only be used via HDMI...
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] svprm:
Until now New version[.368] not available for Play.

When it released,we can try that launcher in our ARC.
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] chch:
So landscape works for the keypad but what if you are doing a text search on contacts?

After clicking on the contacts text search can you flip the keypad to landscape?

(questions referring to non-physical keypad xperia arc, neo or ray)

Edit: I played with an Arc and have confirmed this shortcoming. At some stage you are stuck with a full qwerty in portrait mode. Guess it would be the same for a Ray
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenlm:
Hi guys,

Gone through about 100 threads these last couple of days, but nothing helps, so have to start a new one.

What happened was that the other day my phone started ringing.

The screen however was black, so I could neither see who was calling nor answer the call.

I let it ring out, then I held the power button so it would shutdown.

Tried to restart it, and that's when the fun started.

The phone got stuck in a boot-loop, only showing the Galaxy S logo (not getting to the animated one).

Left it in this loop for several hours, since I've had problems recently with the phone needing to do this cycle 5-10 times before booting up.

This time it wouldn't boot, however.

I've tried putting the phone in a bag of rice for 18 hours, in case of any moisture inside, not helping.

Then I tried recovery-mode, formatting the whole thing, but I got the following error:

"E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2"

Found this thread to try to fix the format error.

Got into download mode, but Odin does not recognize the phone, and I started believing all hope for fixing it without sending it in was gone.

I've also tried applying a couple of update.zip's from the SD-card, just to have tried it, but every package got Signature verifcation-error.

Anyway, when I headed to bed last night I left the phone in the boot-loop, and to my surprice, 8 hours later it had booted into first-time configuration.

YES!!!

Configured the phone with language etc., then all of a sudden the animated Galaxy S logo appeared...

And it appeared again, and again, and again for about 15 min., until I unplugged the battery.

And now I'm back at square one, stuck in the boot-loop (not getting to the animated logo)...

I have the latest versjon of KIES, not that it probably matters.

Does anyone have an idea of what the problem might be?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yaatzek:
What rom were you using? stock or custom? Maybe it has something to do with lagfix if it was activated... im guesing, im not dev just normal user... Maybe try to reinstal usb drivers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porkapple:
Just use odin 1.3 reflash official rom , everything would be OK.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenlm:
Not sure about the ROM, bought the phone used... But pretty sure it's stock..

Since Odin didn't recognize the phone, reflashing it with official ROM would be hard...

However, as for the Odin problem, that was caused by a faulty USB-cable...

Used another one, and Odin worked like a charm.

The phone won't start after running through the steps in the thread I mentioned before, but I will try to reflash it with offical ROM now and see how that works.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porkapple:
Not sure about used phone, But if I bought the phone used, I would reflash rom first. Because I do not even know what they done before , reflash offical rom would be fix some problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenlm:
Well, I would have if I knew... But stupid me thought that a phone was a phone. ;)

How wrong was I? :)

Anyway, a little update here (the problem is kind of solved now):

Flashed the phone with 2.3.3 Gingerbread I found on dkszone, after running the steps in the previous mentioned thread.

And the phone started like a charm.

But after a few hours of configuring etc, I managed to insert the SD-card again, and all hell broke loose again...

Come to think about it, thats what I did yesterday too, so I've come to the conclusion that the SD-card is the main problem...

However, now the phone is slow... REAL slow... Kind of like my 1.5 year old HTC Touch Diamond 2 with WP6.5...

It takes up to 2 seconds to open menu items, keyboard etc.

Is there any way to fix that?

Or should I flash it with another ROM?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yaatzek:
You mean the external sdcard? Maybe try to format it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenlm:
OK, so this is what I've now figured out:

The phone is damaged...

It seems that the internal SD has gone AWAL, and internal storage has somehow created itself on the external SD-card, thus the phone crashed when I switched cards...

When trying to format the USB-storage, I receive error: SD-card has been removed

So I guess I have to ship the phone off to Samsung ASAP... :mad:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyr0TeK:
I have a few odd files on my SDcard that have ASCII symbols as part of the name. I can't rename them or deleted them so I am was thinking about formatting my SDcard. I guess my questions are:

Can I format my SDcard without having to totally set CM7 back up again from scratch?

What's the best way to format it and what file system should I be using? I have a 16GB card I added a while back, I'm not even sure what file system it is on currently, can I look somewhere?

I am guessing I can just USB mount my SDcard, copy all the contents from it, format it (through Clockworkmod?), and then copy everything back to it?

I already copied everything from the card to my PC and I just skipped the files that had weird names and were stated as being invalid and would not copy.

You can see what I am running in my signature below.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dastin1015:
When you format an SD Card it doesn't do anything to what's already flashed to your phone. Just backup the files you need to a computer then format the SD Card. Once its formatted, put your files back on. Simple as that.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMGRANDS:
Yes you can Copy Everything, and then Delete the Sdcard!!

I've actually done it more than 2 times Recently! But make sure Everythings Copied Correctly!

Good Luck!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyr0TeK:
Thanks guys... thought that was the case... just making sure. :) Will do this today.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aiwetir:
There are invisible files and folders which in linux are preceded with a period like .android-secure etc. I know on mac they are invisible too, don't know about windows though. You may want to make sure you copy those too.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyr0TeK:
Yeah, I'm on Win7 and I have no files hidden, thanks though. I successfully used Clockworkmod this morning to partition my sd card, format it, and then copied all the files back. Seems to be OK thus far.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chongns:
Hi Guys,

i new here, so pordon me, if i done something stupid.

My SGSL is about 2 months old, and it have warranty of 3 years.

But i can't wait for 3 years than only try the GB firware,

So, i done that. (i mean flash the firware)

First, i try out the GB firmware of I9003XXKPE, (after that, i only know it can't revert to stock rom):eek:

So, i look all over the forum to find the way to flash back Froyo but not luck at all.

Than, base on my 2 month leanning from XDA, i try the below,

1. PIT the phone

2. flash the XXKPE

3. flash again the stock rom of DXKB2

i get back my i9003DXKB2!!:D

so now, 1 unknow issus, will samsung warranty still valid?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fooman123:
yes it will. no one will ever know that you tried a little gingerbread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulimic:
just read this link --->http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1004622 and you will know how to reflash back your firmware version

and with regards to the warranty issue just read this link also --> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1174085 :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bangalorerohan:
Okay! Hey there,

I am from India. One of my friends lost the "application" menu and hence went to the service center. He had XXKPE Firmware on the phone and they repaired the phone under warranty ( free of cost) and also he gave them the XXKPE FW files and they flashed that FW only for him...! IDK, it is luck or what!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drajax:
Afaik the Sgs service centre in Chennai, they only ask for the purchase bill or a copy of it, and they didn't bother wot lies on the fon! My personal experience after messing up two brand new Galaxy Apollo & this one the very second wk of buying it! :-)

☞★sent from my Galaxy SL!!

♪drajax!! ♬♂ツ
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
OH common, Really? This issue was already written in the FAQ. Why can't people learn to read
[General Questions and Answers] nicolaslei:
I'm sorry that my english is not good.haha:p

these days,I had downloaded some fantastic games such as StarFront,NFS and so on.And I followed the installation tutorials to put the data packet on SD root file.but when I ran the games,they required me to download the data packet via wifi.

god...:(

my lover is GSⅡ~

need someone to help
[LG Optimus 2x] jepcar:
Hello ,

Is it possible to set resolution to 1920x1080 for the camera pictures? I want to see them on my LG display. I am using stock , unrooted. Thanks in advance.
[LG Optimus 2x] spawndk:
no you cannot

1920x1080 are a 16:9 video resolution, not a picture resolution

Pictures are allways shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio

For pictures you can select 8mpixels (3264x2448) or 5mpixels (2560x1920) or 3mpixels (2048x1536) or 2mpixels (1600x1200) or less
[LG Optimus 2x] jepcar:
Thank you , but I have a photo camera that can shot pics in 16:9 , so i thought that the aspect can be overwritten on this phone too. Some other opinions though?
[LG Optimus 2x] .:george:.:
Maybe if you're willing to install CM7, it may be possible to tweak some files a bit to get the desired effect :)
[LG Optimus 2x] jepcar:
George , can you please be more specific?
[LG Optimus 2x] ergoen:
He means that if you install another rom on your phone you _might_ be able to set the camera resolution somewhere in it. :P

I would try to google for another camera app in your place. (Have you tried downloading any from the market, maybe some of them can crop images to the right size directly?)
[LG Optimus 2x] jepcar:
I haven't found one yet. I have tried all camera apps from the market and none of them worked....Maybe someone can help me a little more , please ?
[LG Optimus 2x] spawndk:
There are no camera apps for Android that can take pictures in that resolution.

Your photo camera that does it, cant really either - all it does is crop the picture afterwards in software, but the picture itself is taken natively in 4:3 aspect

There are no camera apps for Android that offer that option, so we cant really help you with that part.

If you want pictures in that resolution (or rather in 16:9 aspect) you will have to crop them yourself using a picture editor after they are taken. There are a number of photo editors for Android that will crop pictures on your phone, for instance "Photo Enhance" which will let you crop pictures in different fixed aspect ratios, including 16:9 widescreen. You need the paid version to save pictures in high resolution.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wheadon.photoenhancepro&feature=more_from_developer

Else try and look at some of the other editors - heres a list of some

http://www.web3mantra.com/2011/07/06/25-android-apps-for-photo-editing/

PS: You can offcource also crop and resize your pictures using a picture editor on your computer and then transfer them back to the phone again after cropping and resizing
[LG Optimus 2x] Johngo5:
I have a camera that takes picture in 1920x1080. It is a Samsung DV150F. They are 8 MB look good on my new TV monitor.

---------- Post added at 10:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 PM ----------

I have a camera that takes picture in 1920x1080. It is a Samsung DV150F. They are 8 MB look good on my new TV monitor. Full Screen
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oridoron7:
I truely think the sensor of this device (sg 2) can be better. how come, there is no option to rotate the screen vert and horiz by touch or key?

Please help

Ori:(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 666fff:
It does it automatically when you turn the phone.

I don't think you can lock it in an orientation...maybe if you're rooted, but not stock...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toastmh:
I would love that feature! I am constantly wanting it locked in landscape.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motodude:
Is there any option where I have an option to choose for which application it will be go into landscape mode . Like i always want the phone to be in landscape mode when i have to type something . The keyboards dosent have such option , or if i am missing something .
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sam008:
Guys

I'm giving the Galaxy Tab to an elder and may need to perform some maintenance or help out over the phone. I'd like to see what's on their screen (the Galaxy will always be connected via Wifi) - similar to how I can RDP into a Windows computer.

Is this possible to do with an app?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rangercaptain:
Search the market, as there are a few rdt and vnc apps.
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
Right, a little back story.

I brought my SGS2 at the start of May in the UK on O2 so I have an early model which came with the firmware before KE1. I rooted in the first week and was flashing Villainrom 1.0 before too long with no data problems.

I think it was around KE2 with Lite'ning rom that I first saw my phone constantly switching between H & 3G and stalling when receiving or sending data. This behaviour has continued through all the firmwares I've tried with many different modems. I moved onto to Cognition when it was v1.01 and have been using it all the way unto 1.2 with the KG3 modem. Again still with data connecting problems.

Things I have tried -

Turning off fast dormacy

Editing the build.prop http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1097612&highlight=build.prop pages 1-5

Switching off HSDPA/HSUPA via the *#301279# command

Disabling juice defender

Switching to WCDMA only

Changing modems

Full hard reset and reflasing of roms

Even with the above on multiple roms and rom versions my data connection was unreliable at best and killing spree warranting at its worst.

Possible fix-

What i found lurking on XDA on a slow day at work was the command below

*#2263#

This allows you to select which bands your phone uses. I selected option 2 then tested the 4 available bands. They all resulted in a complete loss of reception except WCDMA 2100. this is probably network specific you'll need to try it yourselves.

The results and current settings

Now when I try to use my data connection the phone no longer switches between H & 3G. It will start on 3G then find H and stay there, I see a slight delay if its been in deep sleep or JD has cut the connect but this is normal for the phone to start on 3G to save power.

Fast dormacy - off

build.prop -stock/unedited (I found this worked for me for a while but since 2.3.4 it didnt seem to help)

HSDPA/HSUPA via the *#301279# command - both on

Juice defender - on

WCDMA only selected as when picking a band it doesn't seem to like having a GSM band selected as well (happy to be corrected on that)

Modem KG3 -

Rom cog 1.2 - I'm patiently waiting 1.4 based on KG6 to test my findings.

Conclusion-

Okay it could be that selecting a band does F'all and that I'm seeing better results for a completely different reason. I'm not a developer so my fixing skills amount to playing with stuff I don't fully understand and seeing how more or less broke I've made it.

After thought -

Ive seen on the sensation forum they have discussed the wrong IMEI code being the cause of poor data speeds so I may look into that next.

Please share your experiences and anything else you've tried.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Ive seen on the sensation forum they have discussed the wrong IMEI code being the cause of poor data speeds so I may look into that next.

That should be no connection as IMEI belongs to phone and handshakes with network first .

KG6 modem some report as better .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] halfman21:
I will have to give this a try and see how it works, thanks for the share.
[Galaxy S II General] padlad:
I am in the same boat, it is VERY frustrating to say the least. A typical scenario for me is: reading a web page on my S2 for a good few minutes (3g has gone to sleep mode by the time I have finished reading), I click on a link, 3g flashes, H comes up and flashes once.....wait.....wait.......wait......10 seconds later it decides to initiate a connection and take me where I want to go! It does the same thing with the XDA app. I have been onto O2 about this a couple of weeks ago, all they did was give me the settings over the phone (which were the exact same ones I already had) and they also sent me a replacement sim card, suffice to say, there is no change. Now I am convinced its a network problem of some sort, I have a three sim card which I have been trying out and the above problems do not exist anymore when using three, I click a link after 3g has gone to sleep and it goes from 3g to H and initialises the data transfer in one smooth motion. It looks like I'll be getting my PAC code and moving to Three!
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
would be interested to hear if switching to the 2100 band helps at all seeing as your on O2 as well