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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boundless316:
I finally bit the bullet and moved into world of CM7/MIUI, currently running CM7 nightly build 80 with Glitch v11 LL. There's three separate problems I'm running into.

First in any of the Froyo ROMS Bluetooth audio always takes priority regardless of whether or not a headset is plugged in. With CM7 the headset always gets priority.

Here's the scenario; I've got my headphones in listening to some tunes, get in my car turn on my bluetooth car adaptor. The adaptor connects automatically but audio continues to play through the headphones. The only way I can get it to play via bluetooth is to physically unplug them. That of course pauses the music, really annoying. With all the Froyo ROMS I've run the audio switches to bluetooth automatically, no need to reach into my pocket to unplug the headphones.

Second I just got a new pair of buds with an inline mic and three button controls. I never had a chance to try them on a Froyo ROM but I've heard that at least the Play/Pause button is supposed to work and I've seen some posts on here that indicate CM7 even supports the volume buttons but so far no luck with any of them.

Finally how in the world can I specify a default music player? I generally use 3(Cubed), but in CM7 the lock screen controls as well as bluetooth controls only work for the default player. So if I'm in the car and hit next track on my bluetooth adaptor the phone starts playing two tracks at once! Fun times I tell you fun times.

Other than that I have to say CM7 kicks so much ass, this phone has never been smoother nor has the GPS ever worked this well. :) If anyone has any suggestions for these rather nagging troubles I'd be forever grateful! :cool:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boundless316:
Bumping out of ever dwindling hope...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
Hello everyone! I am brand new to the world of custom roms. Please laugh, but be helpful!

I am an AT&T customer, I received my Vibrant on Friday and have been learning plenty thanks to this site since then. I still have a lot to learn though, and if anyone could answer a few questions I would be very grateful. :)

I installed my first custom rom today. Bionix 1.3.1. So far it's great. It doesn't have all the Tmo bloatware that came on the stock eclair. I installed this rom because everyone said the GPS was great, it is very stable, good performance and good battery life.

So far, I have not been able to get the GPS working. Is this because I have an ATT Sim in the Vibrant? I am a total noob with this stuff, please don't laugh! I am not sure if the satellites are branded to certain companies or what (fill me in!). I have read that there are apps you can download that can help your GPS, but I am wary until I figure out if the Vibrant is incompatible with ATT satellites.

Can someone please explain in laymens terms what a Kernel is? Bionix came with Voodoo installed. To my understanding, Voodoo helps with audio and video display. But when I try to open the Voodoo app, it says that it is incompatible with my Kernel. How do I get a kernel that will work well with Bionix? (Again, sorry for the noobtalk.)

I'm sure I will have more questions in the coming weeks. Thanks in advance to being such a helpful community (you guys really are from what I have seen here!)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
Anyone have some advice :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkakuma:
I'd be happy to assist you. All you need to do on your phone is do some GPS fixes. I forgot which ones got my GPS working for my phone but Bionix GPS did not work out of the box. I remember I had to either download a GPSfix or do this

http://www.tmonews.com/2010/07/samsung-vibrant-suffering-gps-issues-quick-fix-available/

I remember the GPS was working great on the Bionix until I switched to different ROMs. You can load any ROM you want but be cautious of what you want out of your phone. Something that looks really nice and productive may give you horrible battery life and GPS.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
That's a pretty old article. My phone was made in June 2011. Bionix is supposed to having a working GPS outright. Are you sure this isn't the case?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkakuma:
I remember using it and it worked. But I forgot what I did to the GPS because it was so long ago since I've used Bionix. You can look around for GPS fixes.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
Hmm ok. Any advice as far as the Kernel/Voodoo is concerned?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkakuma:
Bali, Bullet, and Overstock are good for battery life and smoothness.

People say Bali is the best but I find that my phone overheats a lot and at times becomes unresponsive. Again, each vibrant is different in how it handles kernels. You have to try some of these yourself to see which one is best for your vibrant.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
Has anyone been able to get GPS to work using a Vibrant on ATT's network?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krzysiek_CK:
Yes, by changing the LbsTestMode settings (search on supl.google.com).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
Thanks for the response :)

I did a search and found http://phandroid.com/2010/07/21/easy-fix-for-t-mobiles-samsung-vibrant-gps-issues/

When I try to get into LbsTestMode by entering *#*#1472365#*#* the text clears after I enter the final *

What am I doing wrong?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoWeb:
I have a Vibrant on AT&T and other than the GPS sucking I can use it. Any way try this code.

*#*#3214789650#*#*
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
I tried that and it worked. Will test and get back :)

How do you find out what modem you are using? I can find the Kernel in About phone but the modem is not there.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoWeb:
The Baseband Version is your modem.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
Thank you my friend.

Edit: Can you make a recommendation for a good GPS modem/kernel? I'm running Bionix 1.3.1
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoWeb:
Happy to help :)

I don't know about Bionix, I'm using Project V, Bali 1.8.8 kernel, KB5 modem with no issues.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
I decided to try Bali 1.8.8 Kernel with KB5 modem.

I am trying to flash these using Odin. I think the KB5 goes in the Phone slot, and Bali goes in the PDA slot? When I click PDA and try to select the Bali ZIP it doesn't show up, it looks like the only file extensions available are .tar .md5 and .smd

What is a .pit, why do I need it? Where can I find one?

I'm trying to use this guide http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7152078&postcount=2 but I'm not having much success.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
I like to use the thanks button :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
Managed to flash them using SGS flasher. Still not sure what some of this stuff means. It's fun toying though :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkakuma:
In the future, just use Clockworks in ROM Manager to flash your kernels. I find it easier to just install from zip (zip name of your kernel). You will still have the same ROM just a different kernel.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
That's exactly what I ended up doing. Battery life is terrible. But I guess I should expect it.

I have a question about voodoo. From their site it says you can get a better image, (less blue screen, not as sharp of a resolution so no halo around text, etc). Do I need to use a specific kernel for this? I thought it was an app but couldnt find it in the app store.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkakuma:
Which ROM and Kernel are you using if you're getting such a bad battery life? I might be able to recommend some settings for you.

Voodoo is usually something that is loaded inside a ROM. Some have it, some dont. I personally have not tried looking for Voodoo by itself but I'm sure if you look around, you'll find a manual way to do it. However, Voodoo does not always work on all ROMs just because of the way it was built. At least that's how I remember it. I could be wrong :X
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinkerer76:
I believe you are correct. I first flashed Bionix 1.3.1 it came with kb1 modem and a kernel (I think, though not sure). Voodoo sound did not work with this kernel. I then flashed Bali 1.8.8 kernel.

I am at 11 hrs, 34 min at 49% with light use. 7 of those hours were in deep sleep using Juice Defender Plus. Juice defender is saying it has saved 1.67 off of my battery.

Some apps keep getting opened by themselves. Media Hub, Visual Voicemail, Google Maps as well as others. I would love to get rid of Visual Voicemail as I don't have Tmobile.

66% of battery has so far come from the screen. Not sure what I can do about that as I already have it locked on the lowest setting.

Do you have a good resource for retraining Vibrant Batteries? I have found some threads about other phones, nothing about the Vibrant specifically though.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkakuma:
I forgot which program you can use to disable and uninstall useless apps. I remember those crap apps like Wifi Calling that doesnt work because we're on AT&T. I think it was Titanium Backup that can help you disable or freeze or even uninstall apps that you dont want. But you really need to play around with the app because not everything is self explanatory. I think you press the menu button and press Batch and go from there.

Also, here's something I picked up last week while reading another post. Directions seems complicated but I hear its really simple. I personally have not tried this method because I havent found the need to do so. I dont think you really need to because 11hrs and already 49% is actually really good. But, in case you really want to max the juice out of your phone, here's the link.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8910035&postcount=31

Hope it helps. :)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3athsd00r:
Since updating to 2.3.4 (Alien v4) some Apps don't use the full screen.

Can anyone help with this?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sauronith:
1) Get Spare Parts from the market

2) Launch it

3) Look for compatibility mode; uncheck it

4) Reboot

5) Say thank you Sauronith
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simplesid242002:
I'm having the same problem, and compatibility mode didn't make a difference :-(
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3athsd00r:
Thanks man. Worked like a charm.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l_____l:
I know both are the same Android platform, however, I’d like to know which HTC model phone is as “exactly” the same as the “G2” with the CDMA radio. (Not GSM)

Exact same hi-cap batteries and battery covers, holsters, cases etc. Is there such a thing?

My reason? …moving from TMO to Sprint after 14 years. A CDMA version of the Desire Z/G2 would be nice, if HTC makes one that is a mirror image in CDMA radio format.

Thanks for any input,

-Pace
[HTC Sensation] brian85:
Currently running senseless 1.3 (2.3.3), but was curious about the 2.3.4 roms. What exactly are the benefits of 2.3.4?
[HTC Sensation] Lakeshow423:
It feels snappier! You should try it! Insercoin and bulletproof are both solid roms. Do a nandroid and give it a spin.
[HTC Sensation] skadoosh:
better battery life and smoothness
[HTC Sensation] brian85:
How does 2.3.4 give it more smoothness?
[HTC Sensation] reckoner_85:
It's not 2.3.4 per se, it's the optimized sense integration I think. so in a senseless rom I don't think 2.3.4 is smoother than the previous version.
[HTC Sensation] abuserkadayf:
it uses solar energy.. in 2.3.4 there is a software called solenergie which converts the solar energy into raw processor speed...do a benchmark and u will see that ur score will be OVER 9000 !
[HTC Sensation] galaxys:
Better battery life, faster and smooth...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swaneon:
Hello

today I bought a captivate with eclair 2.1

baseband: I897UCJH7

Kernel: 2.6.29

i was going to flash cyanogen rom but I am trying to do a nandroid backup but it will not allow me to go into nandroi? I select backup rom and it goes to the recovery screen, i select reinstall and basically it resets the phone. Been trying the same thing for the past few times, thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
Stop using rom manager. Use recovery

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swaneon:
do you mean use nandroid through an img file?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bornjamerican:
No. He means to use CWM Recovery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
yeah, dont use rom manager at all. boot into recovery, run your backup from clockwork recovery mod...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swaneon:
much thanks, have it now!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svdabc:
I installed Synergy RLS1+GODMode on my evo 4G.

Everything is working smooth.

Just the problem is when I connect my phone,

its not showing option of choosing usb connection type.

Its defaulting to charging and even if I change that option through setting, its not working.

If anyone know solution for this I appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svdabc:
Restarted two times and started working. Thanks.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 816jared:
This was the orignal microsd that came with the phone.

This is what happened...

I was taking some pictures when the last picture I took showed up just black in the preview window and wouldn't let me view that picture. I then rebooted my phone, this time the small preview window showed the most recent picture but when it went to preview the picture it was black with some sort of error looking image in the middle, same with the other pictures I would browse to. I had some calls to make so made those calls and figured I'd try to reboot again, this time when android finished booting it was complaining about the sdcard not being supported or the wrong format.

At this point I was pretty geeked out, have lots of pictures/video from the last month of traveling, so I turn off my epic pop out the sdcard and throw it in my nook color that has CM7 on it. The nook complains about the sdcard being blank.

So here I am now. Hopefully somebody will have some ninja way of retrieving the media off that microsd...

Also, do you think it's safe to use the sdcard from the nook or is that a bad idea as what happened might be something hardware related with my phone?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnCorleone:
What ROM and kernel are/were you using at the time? Stock rooted or a custom setup? I have had this happen twice before since I began using custom stuff and I lost everything both times. Hopefully someone may know a backup folder (if it exists) that your media is sent to. More info on your setup may help though
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insanity213:
You might want to try putting your SD card in a reader attached directly to a PC and try some file recovery utilities. Just google free file recovery and I'm sure you'll find some utilities to try. You may lose filenames and stuff, but if there's data left on that card you should be able to raw read it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 816jared:
SimplyAOSP v3.1.2 (ec05)

@John - were the microSD both dead or did a format fix the issue?

I won't really have access to a computer until Wednesday or Thursday when I get back from this trip, so no point in stressing out and ruining the left few days of my summer. It's just really going to bum me out if I'm not able to recover that stuff, had lots of stuff from the last couple weeks that I hadn't done anything with yet. Probably the most bummed about the videos of A Perfect Circle and the Black Keys from last weekend that hadn't made their way to YouTube yet.

What do you guys think about using the sdcard from the nook? I don't want to fry that one too if something is wrong with my epic.

Appreciate the input, thanks guys
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnCorleone:
If you format, you delete everything. Try copying your SD to your PC, then format, then copy back to SD. That may help. I had no luck when it happened to me though :-(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 816jared:
bump bump bump
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnCorleone:
You SHOULD be able to save the SD card but most likely your stuff on it got corrupted somehow. What exactly have you tried so far and what is your current setup?
[Galaxy S II General] SaosinEngaged:
So I bricked my Infuse 4g two days ago to my complete and utter dismay. I really loved that phone, but saw it as an opportunity to pick up the elite Galaxy SII i-9100. I purchased from Amazon and the phone should arrive Tuesday.

I'm VERY excited to receive this amazing device. Is it worth installing custom roms on this beast, or because of the horsepower under the hood would you say it's pretty much flawless out of the box? I really don't want to gamble bricking another phone I paid $500+ for.

Also, I've never used an unlocked device before. On At&T everything functions properly?

Lastly, I don't know much about phone hardware. How is the graphics chip on this phone for playing 3D games? Is it top of the line? Better than Tegra 2?

Thanks guys.
[Galaxy S II General] ericshmerick:
Got mine from Amazon last week. Hated it at first due to short battery life, but after a few cycles, it calms down. With an unlocked phone, you just put your SIM in and go. Everything just works.

I have not totally decided if I will keep it since I have a Nexus S coming this week, but it certainly is impressive.

I'm pretty sure you will love it.

Here is an HD video I took yesterday of a fire by my house. Pretty amazing stuff...watch in 1080p.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex7jF6hincA
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
The phone is very hard to brick, as long as you don't mess about with pits and put a sgs1 pit in (3 times and counting that's happened)

The phone is good out of the box, custom roms are mostly for theme customisation, and other nice tweaks.

As far as the gpu, it's more powerful than the tegra2 but lacks support for some of the texture and shader types that some games use (aka they use non standard ones), chainfire 3d can work around this, and there are lots of threads on the issue.
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
I'm on dumphone Att $50 unlimited everything prepay.

So Internet data speeds are just crap.

Got a $35 Sprint Mifi and ride they're Wimax network.

SGSII flies...probably unlike any upcoming sG2's on the carriers.

Battery's a challenge, no doubt tho.

Need extended one to survive.
[Galaxy S II General] itskapil:
Right said. it's pretty much flawless out of box and custom ROMs are a go only if you want themes, that is changed looks. GPU is far better than Tegra 2, and if fact, the best on mobiles.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
Yup! But depending on what rom the phone comes with you may want to flash a upto date stock rom as the newer ones do improve battery life quite a bit
[Galaxy S II General] SaosinEngaged:
That is what I noticed with my Infuse. Flashing one of the better built ROMs for that phone increased battery life a solid 30-40% over stock and it was very noticeable in day to day usage.

I've heard the SII is a MONSTER when it comes to battery consumption. So I guess on that front alone it's worth installing a ROM.

I'm telling you though, I'm admitting my n00bishness and sharing my concern over possibly bricking the device.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
The SGS2 is virtually unbrickable, just don't put a .pit file in, or flash a SGS1 rom and pit (has been done, 3 times!).

There are really good guides to flashing roms using odin.
[Galaxy S II General] SaosinEngaged:
That sounds great. I saw Lite'ning ROM on the list and I really like the look. What do you guys think of that one?

Thanks everyone for the responses.
[Galaxy S II General] SaosinEngaged:
Question.

So I received my Galaxy SII and it's pretty much a work of art. I performed the APN settings fix and notice that my H+ icon is not always on. More often than not, it shows a 3G icon at the top.

My Infuse did not exhibit this behavior, it always displayed an H+ icon.

Does this mean the Infuse did not properly display when it was using a 3G connection and not connecting to the HSPA+ Backhaul network, or does it mean my Galaxy SII isn't properly connecting to H+?

Which is it?

Thanks guys.
[Galaxy S II General] SaosinEngaged:
Also, how do I know if I have the correct data plan for 4G?

I selected the 4GB data plan when I got my Infuse. 2GB isn't enough for me.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
The SGS2 will swap between 3G and H+, dropping down to 3G to save battery life, and up again when needed.

Depending on the modem, it will swap more or less.

Its as intended, its a battery saving feature.

If you are getting H+ you have the right plan, AT&T "4G" is H+
[Galaxy S II General] SaosinEngaged:
Also does anyone have a link to the S2 USB drivers? I'm so far unable to find them.
[Galaxy S II General] rogconnect:
Download the Kies...

I think it'll install your USB drivers

http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/m...softwaremanual.do?page=MOBILE.SOFTWARE.MANUAL
[Galaxy S II General] r34p3rex:
Working as intended :D It drops the HSPA+ connection when you're not using it and defaults back to UMTS (3G). It's meant to save battery, but depending on your usage pattern, it could actually negatively impact battery life with the constant disconnect/reconnects
[Galaxy S II General] Infiniti350GT:
I also came from the Infuse (selected after I destroyed my Captivate) believe it or not I really enjoyed the Infuse and I didn't realize it until I got the SGSII. I had loaded the Ginger flavor of the Infused ROM and things were great to me even stock with Froyo things ran well - decent speed and smooth (better than my overclocked Captivate) I am in the process of either returning the Infuse before 30 days or selling it after picking up the SGSII.

Now that I have the SGSII I miss the huge 4.5 inch screen but I am impressed with the speed and experience of TW4 as I have never used Touchwiz in the past. I got mine from Newegg (didn't have a seal on the box like others have said they noticed too) Less than an hour I had DG's Cog ROM on it since there were already a few things I didn't like (I'm picky) If I had to pick one to leave stock out of the box to enjoy it would be the SGSII hands down. As posted previously these are hard to brick and become a lot of fun to ROM, customize, and theme which turns into addicting. Enjoy!

*edit- I am also on AT&T - in my area the Infuse did stay on H+ more but I notice the same speeds from the SGSII (about 1 hour south of Atlanta Georgia) also the Infuse was better at retaining signal & seemed to drop in less areas where I normally drop a call. While I have both phones in my hands I do plan on making a video about them - NOT to compare but to point out a few pros and cons & share some experiences as I'm sure someone else will be in this boat too.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
There in my 4shared, hit the icon in my sig.

Or you can get them from kies.
[Galaxy S II General] 3waygeek:
The switching from H+ to 3G is normal; it switches to H+ only when the connection is actively transmitting/receiving data. At least that's what I've seen & read here.

What kinds of speeds are you getting? In my neighborhood in suburban Atlanta, I usually get around 4 Mbps, but have gotten as high as 7.
[Galaxy S II General] SaosinEngaged:
I made a new topic as I accidentally forgot about this one, but my network speeds are pretty poor.

I'm averaging about 1-2 mbps where I averaged 5-7ish on my Infuse. This is with the APN fix and in the same areas in central NJ.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
What modem are you using? As I have found huge variation depending on modem, from Down/Up 50Kbps/200Kbps (odd) to 400Kbs/215Kbps in the same place at the same time.

Here is all the data I have collected on modems, note this is for the 3UK network in the UK, but it shows what I mean.