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[General Questions and Answers] juzz86:
I'm certainly not the expert you seek mate, but I will have a go at explaining it for you!

I believe the battery life of the Droid Pro is a widespread criticism. There are several things you can do on your phone to save that precious juice.

1. Set your screen brightness as low as you can tolerate, or set it to auto. The screen backlight is the biggest drain on battery life.

2. In Settings > Location, turn off 'Use wireless networks' and 'Use GPS satellites'. These are used by the location service (and Google) to get a lock on your position. The GPS one especially has a sizeable effect on battery life.

3. Some people will advise against this, but get a task killer from the market. Advanced Task Killer is a good one. One tap of a button will kill the majority of those pesky background services. It's very easy to use, and it gives you the option of selecting which programs you'd like to keep alive etc.

4. You could also source the official extended battery, although I know this is less than ideal :)

Rooting your phone will help you with the background processes and also the carrier 'bloat' installed on your phone. There are several programs which let you stop or 'freeze' system processes, as well as uninstall them. The most common is Titanium Backup. This lets you freeze/uninstall almost anything on your phone, as well as backup all your apps and data (make sure you do this before you make any changes, so you have something to fall back on).

As far as the actual rooting process goes, SuperOneClick is the easiest. It's a small program you download, run on your computer, plug your phone in and hit 'root'. Make sure you select the 'Gingerbreak' exploit as opposed to 'psneuter' otherwise it may not work.

I also understand what you're saying about the apps' system requirements and so on. This isn't fixed by rooting, and if the list of what can be controlled scares you, just try another app :) There's plenty of lightweight ones out there that aren't so daunting!

I hope this helps you somewhat. If you need anything else, let me know!
[General Questions and Answers] frombb2droid:
Thanks so much for your response - very helpful. I am, BTW, already doing items 1-3. With 4 (the extended battery), I used one with my Blackberry, so I certainly do not have an aversion to this.

Thanks again!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itony007:
running royal glacier at the moment on gf's phone but want to upgrade her to a gingerbread rom for things such as gtalk vid. i chose ice glacier and then royalglacier in the first place because it was generally considered pretty stable with good battery

she's out of town and not that android savvy so i need one that is pretty stable that i can just flash and let her use.whether or not it is a dead rom and gets updates isn't really a problem as long as someone can help when there is a problem :o

so can anyone recommend me one of the more stable gingerbread roms with gtalk video?

looking at virtuous fusion and royalginger at the moment
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demozthenz:
I'm currently using Genration-X v4. It seems stable enough. No major bugs that I've noticed.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itony007:
just checked the latest and he removed gtalk vid due to some bugs :(
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronin178:
My vote-Faux 123's aosp rom...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
RoyalGinger 3.0. Fast, stable, no bugs that I have found at all and it supports gtalk over 3g and 4g. She will not be disappointed.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itony007:
i'm gonna have to take a look at this.it looks pretty good and not a lot of all the extra stuff.and look at that he just updated!

thanks for the input
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itony007:
anyone else? :o
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atifsh:
since skype now supports mytouch 4g with video i really dont see any use of gtalk video thatmuch.

remember new skype from market supports video on almost all ffc phones.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itony007:
yeah you're right now that i think about that. i usually use skype for pc-pc anyway.

but after a little looking around i still need to find a good stable gingerbread rom to use front camera!
[LG Revolution] markapowell:
So... I am rolling up my sleeves, brewing some coffee, and downloading ADB. After a mismatch with Md5, Mark did something dumb (maybe). So now, I am going to do some learning. Anyone wanna jump on IRC, and help a duder out? I will be on allllllll night.

Edit: And an hour later, I am stuck.
[LG Revolution] markapowell:
Sorry I figured my message was in regards to ADB, so I figured development was a good place to post.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] schahr01:
Does anyone know if it's true that at&t will release an official gingerbread upgrade soon (like in a few weeks)?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Misterjunky:
re: Gingerbread

Don't believe everything you read! ;)

Have a great day,

Enjoy!

Please don't forget to give me a big THANKS if reading this was helpful to you!​
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
no, they simply said what devices would get an update in 2011. the list included the infuse and captivate. it was released when the update was available foe the atrix and said the inspire would get 2.3 in the coming weeks. not the infuse.

so yeah we get the update but it may be around christmas time for.all we really know.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clubtech:
As we all know AT&T....it will be for Christmas..

i hope i am wrong.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Optimus-Prime:
September would be nice.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
Why not flash the gb rom? I did last night.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
Missing MHL/HDMI, rainbows - only reasons I can think of someone might not want to run the Rogers dumps.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
What do you mean no hdmi?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
the hdmi on the rogers dump is broken.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
Oh, so does that mean I can't connect to my tv via hdmi.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
if you are on the infused rom v2 betas on an att infuse then that is right. the kernel sources may be missing stuff. it is maybe posible to have it working on a rogers infuse with gtg's rom if you backup the stock kernel but i dont know enough about it.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MikeyMike01:
Absolutely cannot use the stock kernel on GB.

Sent from my Infuse 4G
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
read it more carefully.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
It isn't just broken - HDMI is completely missing from every part of the Rogers dump that we've looked so far. I believe it was intentionally removed by Samsung on Rogers' behalf.

The stock Rogers kernel def. won't fix it - MHL is not even enabled in the defconfig for Rogers kernels.

We can probably bring the kernel portions back (and have brought some back) but userland is missing.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
so im guessing the rogers customers dont get mhl at all?

well at least we got that much.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
Not a big deal to me not to have it since I've never used it. Will this be a permanent loss?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jdbeitz:
Samsung is good at leaving their customers high and dry with new updates, but ATT has promised an update in the coming months... fingers crossed
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cranch:
I'd not say its just Samsung in the mix but the problems with carriers in between.

The Touchwiz UX update for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was due out today and was released exactly at Midnight eastern time last night.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
samsung was bad, they are getting better but the carriers are also a factor. hopefully it gets better, hopefully we get a leak like those captivate guys always get somehow.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
If we updated with the official att gb would we still be missing these features, hdmi etc?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
Hmmm, wonder if I should revert back once att releases. Not sure if its possible or not.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] P1 Wookie:
You can revert back to stock anytime with Odin. And besides, if our devs haven't figured it out before then, you can pretty much bet roms will be based off the att gb once it does drop.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
yeah the missing features aren't a custom rom problem, apparently rogers didn't spec the infuse to have HDMI. it is a carrier specification. att isn't gonna scrap a feature. and as soon as att drops a rom (or leaks one) the devs will focus on those as bases for custom roms. with Samsungs recent record of posting sources the roms should trickle out in a matter of days from iinitial release. you would simply update from infused v2to infused v3 or something. no need to use stock firmware. it seems like people forget that the devs will be there in the future with all the return to stock talk.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jz3:
Just curious, is the hardware identical between the two models? ie: hdmi, audience chip. (didn't want to start a new thread)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
presumably yes, but there was always debate over what phones were using the audience chip. I know the att roms have noise reduction settings in call settings and on the active call screen if you hit menu. the rogers and many other galaxy s roms don't. there was some speculation as to whether this had to do with the audience chip in the captivate section and was never answered as far as i know. but I'm sure the good kernel devs know but just wont show up in the newb threads asking the question. maybe entropy will drop in and clear that up.

I will say I wasn't satisfied with audio on the captivate using canadian modems. the loss of hsupa was welcome to the call clarity with att firmware over the alternatives.

also if this follows the format of the captivate, the rogers captivate has sgh i897 on the main board, not i896. the only difference was the branding and the rom. the i897 said att on screen, the 896 was blank. I'd bet the rogers infuse is identical hardware to the att infuse.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] schahr01:
That's my plan - Just flashed infused v2 stable. No need for HDMI output right now. Will obviously flash whatever is GB based on official at&t when it's ready :D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MikeyMike01:
Which is why the SGS was the first phone to get Gingerbread after the Nexus?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rohit3192:
Gingerbread available for HTC inspire

Gingerbread is available for AT&T HTC inspire.

I am hoping that it will be sooner for Samsung infuse also.

Fingers crossed.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] ryfiphone:
November

My friend who works at At&t corp said that the release for the infuse was discussed to be the first week of November.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dcar777:
Just gonna wait for the real upgrade. I can't imagine there being anything significant enough in the rom to want to load a partial gb rom

:2cents:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nstong:
HDMI out isn't a GB thing it's just specific for the ATT infuse, but if you can't live without it you'll have to wait. And I think the other improvements (my favorite is skype video calling) are worth it
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ddot196:
it's hardly "partial". See for yourself..... Or wait forever and a day for att to push it to your phone. Gtg and the other devs have done a great job to bring us a fantastic rom running gingerbread. No complaints here. Oh and mine is bloat free.

Infuse, infused...running gingerbread
[Samsung Infuse 4G] P1 Wookie:
Yeah there's nothing partial about it now. The HDMI is a Samsung issue not a gb issue. Personally I don't need HDMI, honestly never saw what the big deal was about HDMI outputs on phones. I have my Xbox and a blu ray for that. Lol. Oh and my PC.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dcar777:
Ok weii I'll try it out. One question.... this will be the first time ive changed from one rom to another... will changing to this rom delete my icon laayout and/or delete my GOlauncher launch homscreen?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
im not sure about go launcher, it may have a backup feature for the layout but the system apps will change (no allshare, new kies air app, not sure what else). but you will loose all te 3rd party apps as you need to clear data for the new rom. backup the apps in titanium backup but make sure you only restore "mising apps +data" the only system app you can restore data to is "logs provider" which will give the call logs back. sms will need to be backed up in a different app, either a dedicated sms backup app or if you use a 3rd pary sms app it may have a backup feature.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] superweapons:
There's a Backup option in the Go Launcher preferences pane. But if I remember correctly, you can backup Go Launcher EX (app and data) using TiBu, and everything (including layout) can be restored without having to go through the launcher backup/restore interface mentioned above. Some widgets may need to be manually replaced though.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
Actually it's a Rogers issue.

It's a full-blown Rogers ROM. Unfortunately a "full" Rogers ROM is missing one thing completely - MHL/HDMI. Canadians don't even have the dongle so that feature will likely never get deployed to Canadians at this point.

Other than that, nothing "partial" about our Gingerbread ROMs, unless you really miss that bloat that was intentionally removed.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rohit3192:
noob question

I want to know if att release gingerbread then whether froyo bootloader is also replaced or remain their?

Someone said that bootloaders are locked to device and it is not a good idea to mess with it(it may result in brick)and any change should be through kernel.

so when att releases new rom do they also modify kernel and not bootloader?

how much is significance of froyo bootloader vs gingebread bootloader?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
it isn't a good idea to mess with because a) the way we flash bootloaders is with a pc and application, the transfer can get interupted. and b) we don't know how Samsung flashes bootloaders in there updates. samsung certainly has a safe way to do this. we just don't know enough about how.

there is no indication they will mod the kernel to use old bootloaders, they updated bootloaders on the i9000 and the captivate and vibrant leaks also need the updated bootloaders.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] johnny quest:
Hey gang, I'm one of many that probably are looking for something new for the Thunderbolt. I know that I would love to see something new and innovative. I love Sense 3.0 but there's just a few themes that catches my eye. The 3D effect can only "wow" so many people.

I posted requests for the Zenexp themes to be ported but the original designer never got back to me. There are a few other CM7 themes that looks so awesome but wish they can be ported to other roms that are not CM7.

I bought SPB Shell 3D hoping to have something different. It looks great but again it can get a bit boring.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I hope that the next update on other roms can "wow" us again, just like Sense 3.0 when it came out. Is there anything new coming up in the future? Hey, I saw a couple of video clips from "TAT Home" and they look awesome but they're great on inventing good video but not anything out on phones. Take a look at what they have, it looks great.

I thank all Devs for all their hard work and all Moderators for their theme creations. I wish I can do what you guys do.
[Android Themes] GTIVRon:
Hey guys, looking to create screen sized wallpapers for use with MultiPicture Live Wallpaper.

I'm looking for either an app for my phone, or on PC that mimics the cropping feature of MultiPicture Live wallpaper.

http://download.cnet.com/Phone-Wallpaper-X/3000-2192_4-10772445.html

That program is only for Mac... something similar to that for Windows is what I'm after. Or an app on the phone.

Once again I'd like something that does the resizing for me, basically just want to choose and aspect ration (resolution I'm going for is 480x800) that I can just make bigger or smaller around the part of the picture I want to use (just like when you individually pick wallpapers). I want to do this for the Random wallpaper feature of the app, and it doesn't seem to include a toll to crop and save the images with the correct resolution.

Thanks!
[Android Themes] Dirk:
IrfanView has some useful batch cropping and resizing features. And it's free!
[Android Themes] Mogite:
I'm looking for the same thing. I'll check out IrfanView but does anyone else have any suggestions?
[HTC Sensation] Finland_2_Cupertino:
anyone try this out yet? if not mine is on its way.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055J9MYQ
[HTC Sensation] nyknicks8:
This is the same dock as Kidigi, but unbranded. Ebay had this same thing for $17.50 with free shipping. See the other thread. I already got mine.
[HTC Sensation] Finland_2_Cupertino:
Do you like it? I used a gift card to buy it. :)
[HTC Sensation] nyknicks8:
Yeah its perfect. It does the job. The only thing I wish is that it went to dock mode automatically. I ended up just putting a shortcut on my home screen, but if it went in/out of dock mode it would have been nice.
[HTC Sensation] Finland_2_Cupertino:
I'm going to use it in my car. My sensation doesn't have a dock mode. Or even car home. Weird?
[HTC Sensation] Finland_2_Cupertino:
So I found the stock mode but it is hidden in the phone and I can't force it to launch.
[HTC Sensation] richardirv:
I have the Kidigi dock and I have solved the dock launch issue by downloading "Plug In Launcher" from the Android Market, the free version allows you to set an app to launch when it is plugging in.

Hope this helps :)
[HTC Sensation] GorillaPimp:
It's not unbranded. Has a RND logo on the front.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rehughe:
I searched for a thread like this but couldn't find one similar to my issue. I rooted my Thunderbolt and used ROM Manager to update to the latest Cyanogen Mod 7 Gingerbread flash. I ran the update and now I'm stuck at the boot screen where the blue Android is on the skateboard. It just keeps playing the animation over and over again.

Any ideas on how to get my phone to boot up? Appreciate the help!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rehughe:
Figured it out. I pulled the battery, and rebooted into recovery, then wiped all the data, and rebooted and it booted right up....
[Captivate General] kant5t1km3:
For all the people having problems with their music tags being messed up, I offer a solution. Its an app called MediaFix. It fixes the media tags. I'm using my phone so ill give credit to the person who gave me the message.

EDIT: credit to garrand for the message
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] woodmaster:
As stated. I also cannot move any apps to sd card. Plenty of room on both. Phone is able to access files on sd. Apk files download, but won't install whether from market or other. Tried reboot and removing sd card. Won't install or update any way I try. Stock GB 2.3.4.

SENT FROM DINC2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ChrisDDD:
Not sure why you would't be able to move any apps to the sd card, but for the market refusing to install, open up Google Talk and make sure your signed in. Not sure why it works, but any time the market won't install apps, and I check Talk, I'm not signed in. As soon as I sign in, the market installs fine.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] woodmaster:
I've never used gtalk but I'll try it...

SENT FROM DINC2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] :
If that doesn't work you should probably factory reset the phone if you haven't done that yet after the ota gb update.

Sent from my Inc2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] woodmaster:
Gtalk sign in didn't help. Trying to avoid factory reset if I can...

SENT FROM DINC2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] :
Your going to have to factory reset. I had the problem where apks would download but not install and more. Factory reset fixed all my issues for the most part.

Sent from my Inc2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] woodmaster:
Broke down and did factory reset...now to get the screens back how I liked them. Hope this don't happen again.

SENT FROM MY DINC2
[HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jabbacks:
Oh wat da hell... think i bricked mah phone. After doing nandroid backup, I started playing with the phone. formattin & stuff with the idea that I will recover from backup. Now phone cannot pass htc logo. Did a restore from backup but still the same.

Any solutions? Stock or modded backup? Links?
[HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumist:
I doubt you did any permanent harm to your phone.

What ROM did you have installed (or were you still on the stock ROM)? What ROM are you trying to install?
[HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
You mentioned that you did a restore after you noticed it can't pass the logo to try and see if it works. This means that you are able to boot into recovery so this should easily be fixed. Have you tried putting a rom(s) on your sdcard then flashing one/some of them?
[HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] STaria:
What do you mean by formatting? Did you format the boot partition or something?

But I agree, it sounds like you didn't do any damage to the phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brisk5181:
Hi, I saw someone is selling a galaxy s2 on ebay but he mentioned that the phone was unlocked but doesn't read sim card.

what do you guys think? easy fix? or hardware problem?

thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Try to perform a factory reset, if not bring it to the service center. My friend also has the same issue but it ended up as a repair , something went wrong with the contact points as per service center.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Isadora:
I'd be wary... Could it be because the phone has been reported as lost or stolen and blacklisted by the network? If that's the case and you buy it, there's no way you're going to get it to read your sim. Given that it's a recent phone, all the legit units are in warranty so I find it a bit strange that the seller wouldn't bother to have it fixed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brisk5181:
Could be, but he said he has receipt, I asked why did not bring to bell to get it fixed, he said he doesn't want to wait 3 months to get it fixed (3 months is what bell told him)...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingJames66:
Bell Galaxy S2 doesnt read sim card

When i put a bell sim card in it works if i put a rogers one it says no service and there is no prompt that comes to put the network control key id ont know whats wrong.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xinchi:
what version is it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Send it back to Ebay .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingJames66:
It was originally rooted to cyangonmod 7. I didnt want cyanogenmod anymore so i got android 2.3.5 for the galaxy s2. Im running 2.3.5
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nsa223:
I fix that by install android. Ice cream sandwich in me phone.. now its work
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJBoxer:
3 months is just unreal if its that much of a issue they simple replace handset even if its a refurbished handset and if prove of recipt is there is it a possiblethere is some form of paperwork with serial numbers which matchs whats stated on the underside of battery checking my paperwork which come with phone i have it provides serials and also imei number and im sure any network can tell you if the imei number is reported lost or stolen if questioned??
[XPERIA X10 General] twistededge:
Hey,

So I just completed a factory wipe and set up my phone again. Strangely though, the middle button on the phone that is defaulted to close all windows/applications and go "home" doesn't seem to do anything anymore. I can tell it still works as when the screen is off, pressing the button wakes up the phone, but after that it does nothing.

Anyone know how to fix this? Not sure where it would be in the settings.

Thanks
[XPERIA X10 General] bharadwaj1991:
I had this when I installed a new launcher...the ONLY thing that fixed it for me was to reinstall the rom. I tried wiping everything I could without getting rid of my data...but in the end that is all that I could do. But it did fix the issue. Sorry if you were hoping for something easier...maybe someone else may be able to help you.
[XPERIA X10 General] twistededge:
I am still using the stock launcher :S