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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyLee:
The average person needs GPS for a lot of reasons. Some people actually use it rather than pretend they know where they are going, only to get lost, drive like an over cautious idiot causing accidents because they really dont know where they are going. I got my dad an Epic for the GPS because he's one of those people.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khoaker:
Gps is very useful for many reasons. Of course the obvious is getting around town.

But it also integrates with many apps that use your location. Such as yelp, or movie app, or facebook etc...

True, you could always manually enter your location, but one of the main selling points for me on a smartphone is to reduce the amount of things I need to do in my daily life.

Getting back to "getting around town". Instead of looking up directions and printing them out, and still possibly not know exactly where to go... I can hop in my car, pull up my calendar and literally touch phone twice to start navigating me to my destination.

Of course this won't apply to everyone, but I know it certainly helps me in my daily life.

Also just fyi, people aren't just containing about a few feet. A lot of roms have completely broken gps or gps that displays wrong location.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
Well for the reasons ^^^

And I'll put it this way. Lets say you have a car with 4 doors and u dont have many people ride in the back. Don't you still want your 2 rear windows to work?

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
In many cases the GPS just locks up while driving somewhere. So it requires a reboot to get it going again...not cool at 70 MPH on the highway. The GPS on our phone takes the place of a Garmin or TOM TOM and is a very important feature for most of us when choosing a phone. For people that don't go anywhere unknown to them it is no big deal. I do AC work and go to 5-8 new places a day. Don't want to sit with a map trying to figure out where I am going.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostrid3r:
Because when one lives in a major city, gps with real-time traffic reports is invaluable to have while trying to commute to and from work for example. Not a priority when you live in a small town and know all the roads and such. ;)

Don't want to be like that one kid on the Verizon commercial who has a utility belt with 5-7 devices attached to it. :p

All-in-one is ideal.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geekybiker:
The main reason I care is the location aware stuff. Knowing where you are is incredibly useful. Plus it *is* my only GPS device.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DCRocks:
Thsi is the main reason I use my GPS.

Traffic around here can be a massive issue, and knowing where to avoid, can change what could have been an all day parking experience, into a 20min trip, simply by not getting stuck behind an accident that has the highway closed, with no way to exit
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouseglider:
You hit the nail on the head! :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vita10gy:
Well, most location services work just fine without knowing EXACTLY where you are.

Other than the obvious that we don't need a reason, it should work, it can work, so when a rom comes out where it doesn't, we should fix that. The thing I use my phone for least is phone calls. That doesn't mean I should shrug my shoulders and go "oh well, I don't use it much" when I find out my phone doesn't actually ring for half my phone calls. (Ah HTC Hero, how I miss thee)

"mere feet" is a big deal while driving, even if that were the major complaint, which it isn't. (Sometimes it makes no attempts to talk to sats, other time it sees 3 but never locks. Other times it locks fine, but loses GPS at some point, never to return)

Mere feet in a big city can mean it not even knowing what road you're on, telling you to turn right 2 seconds after you passed your turn, and then not being narrowed in enough to realize it needs to reroute, until often times that route is now also moot.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rgregg504:
Air Conditioning? If so me too lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouseglider:
I have had the same problem and did the reboot thing to get my gps back also - but what I have found that works for me and is better and faster than a reboot, YMMV, is that I turn on airplane mode and than I turn it off and doing so it relocks/finds my gps again - faster than a reboot - and yes, I have done it while I was driving, but hey no worse than dialing a phone number. :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Yup. AC/Heating plus plumbing and electrical when things are slow. I dunno AC tech in Florida...what was I thinking...LOL.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Is that when it loses signal or locks up? I have had it lock up where even if you turn GPS off the icon stays in the status bar...then it is really screwed. I will try that though...thanks.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gundrted:
it was sold with it and should work. also i like the geo-tagging of my photo. My weather also follows me.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenaciousj:
Just because you don't use a certain feature of a phone doesn't mean others dont want it to work.

Lets say you use your phone more so for the internet and texting. Is it fine that the radio don't work for making calls?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thall302559:
I wouldn't buy it if it didn't make calls key word "smart phone"
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Etrick:
I'm with ya on gps don't work oh well, I don't use it. But it was handy to whip out a htc phone and get turn by turn that locked and loaded in seconds... but without a wifi connection our 3g is murky at best around here, and the 4g only exists downtown at isu campus.

Still think its funny to feel disappointed a 'smart device' that browses the web, accesses email, has not one but two cameras (one of which is quite good), has a qwerty keyboard, a bunch of weird sensors that let it orientate itself in 3 dimensions, can access a half dozen different radio protocols, fits in your pocket, is quite faster than an average computer, slim as this thing is... plays mp3s, watch video, sling cable to it even, record video, etc, etc, etc... but my gps (while it does lock usually ok) rarely works when I need it or actually have a use for it. But the kicker... why most of us bought it... it does all that and it places/recieves phone calls and text messages... no bull, seriously... wish u could go back to when u were 12 and show it to yourself right? Right??? Lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thall302559:
Exactly my point I figured gps had to do something amazing also that's why people were so upset or joyful that it worked or didn't work but eh in a age where my phone can do almost as much as a pc gps should work I'm just saying
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greenmuggy:
GEE... how important is GPS...HMM...

well i deliver for a place called steakout, & think of UPS workers, mailmen & soforth who literally use gps almost all day. it is a must have i dont use the navigation but i use the hell outta google maps...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouseglider:
Turning gps on and off didn't help - only a reboot or a simpler airplane mode helped me.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouseglider:
Not only do I use it as a gps for directions, but sometimes I want to know where the nearest, bestbuy, sprint store, or hardware store is, and the gps will tell me where, how far away, phone number and or directions to that spot from wherever my location is at. I can even find the nearest theater and play times with my gps. :D

So you never ask yourself, I wonder where the closest "insert here" and if they are open, or have what I want - you do a search and the gps will simply tell you all the info you need - it is as handy as the phone radio and also intergrates with the gps. You don't call that amazing?

And with the right software, I can do everything my PC does including make phones calls and give me live location info on from my handheld.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmspyder:
Part of being "smart" is knowing where it is....

Bottom line many people would like all the features of the phone working correctly, and they are entitled to have it so.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bagelicious:
I live in NC and flew down to FL in June with my manager to meet some clients. I was running stock Froyo at the time and I tried using Google Nav to get us to their office. It was miserable. They worked 2 hours away from the airport and the GPS would force close and lose signal every 5-10 minutes. Rebooting didn't help. I flashed a custom ROM that night in the hotel and that didn't help either.

Needless to say, my manager was not impressed and now thinks that all Android phones are pretty crappy. So there's another reason to have it work. Hard to sway someone from the dark side when our phones don't work as promised.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Etrick:
Phones can locate from any 3 connections ie wifi, cell towers, etc. Other phones seemed to have location services just work. This phone seems to struggle, not just with gps but with that as well.

But if u know where u are, u don't need gps to use maps. Lol...

It works on some roms/modems... usually perfect if using that agps to clear gps data...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeremy112683:
so the government can track you down
[General Questions and Answers] nigerking:
please give us complete android for htc imagio
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiboe:
....going borderline shakespere there, sorry about that.

for those users, if you are on a custom GB rom, like Buisiness Gingersense, Pure Speed, Shift, etc, you can do all the mumbo jumbo to go back to stock to grab the 2.3.4 update that you want. but, consider this, you will lose root, and not be able to obtain it for quite a while, remind me if i am wrong, but didn't it take a few months to get root when the dinc orginally got froyo back in september of 2010? (thank god for unrevoked)

but, again, losing root would mean some apps won't work right. and mainly, no CWM, and no custom roms right of the bat. yes i have the stock rom backed up here on my pc. but, as far as waiting, i'd do it. if you ask me i'd rather wait.

now, those that are not rooted, and have everything stock still, by all means, grab it up.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyetheskin:
wanting and needing are totally different,if you don't absolutely have to have it then wait. the difference between what's new around the corner and what we have now isn't much different anyway. new radio isn't guaranteed to make data/signal better or worse. custom sense kernels doesn't help much for aosp with exception of glitchy 720p record/playback. this isn't highly needed by everyone. best to wait anyway since newer doesn't always mean better. might backfire if you take the plunge of impatience
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiboe:
i guess some people got ahold of the 07.07 radio...no real discernable difference, it's just an update.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
Why unroot? Once it's posted on here give it 3 hours and a completed stock rooted rom will be released.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SynisterWolf:
i would bet money that once the exe is up someone will rip it apart and may a rom and from there wildstang and joelz will have a rom out in hours and not months.

remember when the first leak was out? it was less then a day we had a working rom. then a week later we had a working rom with 3.0 sense.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DustinBooyah:
I'll answer the question, I just un-rooted to pick up the update and boy does it suck. Wanna pull down the notification bar to turn off wifi or hit silent mode? Too bad. Do you like adding effects to your pictures? Photoshop express baby. Why isn't the flipclock working? Because it doesn't, that's why. Tried to switch my homescreens around and all that happened was nothing. Where are all the pictures in the menus? Not there is where.

I'm about to hit up Unrevoked and get Warm Synergy back on my phone. That was like... scary kinda. We've come a long way, fellas!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SynisterWolf:
ROFL! i just want the damn radio. i wounder how long before the RUU exe shows up.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMarkwald:
I remember that RMK had a flashable zip of the leak up in about an hour or two. Granted, it wasn't "tweaked" at all, it was just made available so you could keep root while trying the leak out.

Since everyone is anxious about it, especially since it went from "no the Inc won't get it" to "it's coming out in stages this week", I'll bet within a day we'll have a rooted stock ROM available to flash, and tweaked ROM's within a few days.

Just my $0.02.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watt9493:
Im staying rooted, waiting for the update to be flashable.

Sent from my Business Gingersense incredible. U haz permission to b jelly nao.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
I may be wrong but if you have s-off you should be able to flash a custom recovery and there for be able to root the new ota or at least restore an old already rooted nandroid. At least thats what the unrevoked/forever site makes it sound like. Someone correct me if im wrong.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
Basically football or somebody else is going to post a PB31IMG. zip. Somebody is gonna download it strip out everything but the boot.img, system and data folders. Add root and busybox and reupload. It's a little more complicated then that, but that's about it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donnyp1:
No way i would give up root.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstrom23:
So did Unrevoked work with the OTA?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
It's a completely different ROM, and most importantly, kernel. It's not going to work.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0nuts:
I unrooted my Incredible, never used any roms anyway.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] POQbum:
already is flashable as of a few minutes ago
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
And here it is: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1219407
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enmxscira:
after the last update, I'm unconvinced that this update will be better than the Synergy ROM. I'd rather stay rooted, wait for flashable custom kernels to come out, and if the radio is any good, snag that, too. the last one was a nightmare with all that bloatware; can't imagine what sort of crap they added this time.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pippenz:
The rooted version has already been released here on XDA. I for one will never unroot my phone. The OVO Community Rom RC5 is AMAZING.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GinoSylum:
I will never unroot either.. I'm running OVO RC4.. LOVING IT... Sence 3.0 is great. I'm guessing you are testing RC5? Its not public yet right? Looking forward to it.

Do you know if I will have to do a full wipe again before i upgrade to 5? Trying to decide if I should set up my phone the way i like it, or wait on 5...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Stick to root

I'm fairly inexperienced with ROMs and everything, but it's super easy to just use the stock rooted rom that incubus or joel put out. I flashed the stock rooted yesterday and it went PERFECTLY.

Easy to jump between ROMs, keep your root!!! ;)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 55Pegasus:
Keeping root. Really enjoying MIUI. I'll deal with it in February when I upgrade.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdanielvzw:
After rooting and enjoying tinkering with the phone, I'd never unroot just to wait for an update. I'd keep the old version until a rooted version was available!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman0125:
Root was the best thing i ever did!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airjordanmmix:
i just flashed a room 2.3.4 rooted but i didn't get the new radio. i'm trying to flash it but my phone don't allow me to.

S-off

Hboot: 92

Recovery 3.0.0.8

kernel 2.6.35

build number 4.06.605.2 CL111240

baseband 2.15.00.07.28

Android 2.3.4
[Off-topic] Cryous:
Hey guys,

Just a warning, if you live in the northwestern united states CPI ( consumers power Inc) is upgrading the power meters in residential areas.

Mostly Oregon right now, when the power meter is replaced your house will lose power for about 1-5 seconds depending on the tech that puts it on. When the power meter was put on, my power strips also turned off due to a surge.

So if you run servers or are doing something important from your home, just a forewarning.

However techs will ring the doorbell so its not a suprise

Mods: if this is in the wrong place please move it

Cryous
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Of course it´s not the right place:eek:

Sailing to off topic now
[Off-topic] Cryous:
Oh, lol I missed the off topic section

Facepalm
[General Questions and Answers] elcubano01:
I just finished rooting my Nexus S 4 G but now I dont know how I cant customized. will like to change the ROM and also overclock the procesor. Please help. by the way i alreday bricked one ph trying to replace the kernel.
[General Questions and Answers] sweetnsour:
for anything nexus s, you can refer here:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=880

for roms, kernels, etc, you can refer here:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1171
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechKidTarek:
Steve Kondik creator of Cyanogenmod had been hired by Samsung. Hopefully to make android on Samsung phones more awesome. This might make Android OEM's work closer with Developers which will make android better and Touchwiz better http://bit.ly/pJ484b​
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
Source?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirdroid:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1220295

CM7 founder joins samsung
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LoveisPeace2012:
Amazing news ...congrats to Steve he's earned it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stian230:
Just read the news. Good thing.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Declan79:
Perhaps its related with google huge transactions over motorola?

sent from my 2.3.3|dxjpe DJGTabs7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregr82:
Great news!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MorRoquen:
This is on Engadget too: http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/16/cyanogenmod-founder-joins-samsung-mobile-promises-to-make-andro/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stian230:
It looks like I'm gonna stick to the samsung phone for a long time.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onbacardi:
Samsung might have Steve but google having moto that might be better.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hansonator:
Google having moto is going to be better for all the members of the OHA.

Congrats to Steve from CM on his new job. Wish him good luck! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alpha Trion:
Congratulations to Steve.

It's great news to see community developers being drafted in by the big companies. Wish him all the best!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maysider:
no

it is not a good news........he will be pressed to make the system better, but not cleaner without ****ty TW stuff! just a pity for CM users

only a struggle anticipates him....he has to beat "****y software" in Samsungs phones....and he will not succeed, always it will be some compromise (samsung wants to earn money through his SW of course)

so the benefits will not be for us.....we want a clean system CM, but Samsung will never launch any clean system except for Google phones (nexus S), so the only bad is that a very favourite clean system (CM) looses one developer :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechKidTarek:
i think that he will only make touchwiz better if not fuse it with cm only for samsung devices which would be epic
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Intratech:
Hum, Apple might now sue Samsung for having a Steve working for them. They will say they are slavishly copying Apple who has Steve jobs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidkid311:
Hahahahahah!!!! Good one :).

But im happy for him :D. Hope other devs will follow :D.

Sent from my porn shoot using GT-I9100.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Declan79:
New strategy by samsung facing google whom just 'eat' motorola, it forced samsung and others to become more creative to keep and making their existenced in this rapid fastest growing market, we'll just have to wait for it

sent from my 2.3.3|dxjpe DJGTabs7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericshmerick:
He's not gonna like having his hands tied by corporate management.......
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bratag:
There are so many things wrong with this posting I am not even going to address them all, but yeah you are right - he shouldn't have taken a job so that he can devote all his time to keeping your ass happy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlevy73:
I'm real happy for him, this can only mean good things for Android in general. It's nice to see Samsung embrace the development community. If it wasn't for guys like Steve (#TD) and jesusfreke we'd still be trying to figure out how to make fire :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maysider:
he said it would't change anything, dear ass ;-) (but I don't believe that)

btw, he deserves the money, so good in one way even for me, dear ass ;-)
[Droid X General] leoingle:
I am not real familiar with Motorolas, most of my experience is with HTCs and Samsungs. I rooted my friends DX, he had version 2.2.1 (2.3.340). And installed the newest version of MIUI (which is 1.8.5). It installed fine. Upon finding out he doesnt sync his contacts with gmail, I needed to restore the backup of his original install that I did with TiBu. So I downloaded and installed TiBu from the market and installed the same DX Bootstrapper that I used to install MIUI in the first place, which i got from the Noobs guide. I opened DX Bootstrapper and it installed it succesfully then I told it to reboot recovery. Now all it does when I turn it on is stay on the Motorola logo. I can boot to the bootloader, but that is it. Is my only choice to SBF it, or could i successfully get it back up my trying to remove the bootstrap?
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
SBF, installing Droid X Bootstrap is what caused the problem.

MIUI and other 2nd init roms have a built in recovery that can be accessed through ROM Manager.
[Droid X General] leoingle:
I thought I might have screwed up when I installed CWM recovery and then Droid X bootstrapper on top of that. But that was before i realized that the bootstrapper IS recovery, I thought bootstrapper was something extra that allowed CWM to go into recovery. I did see the "2nd init" option when I installed CWM recovery both times (being after i rooted it and then when i installed it on MIUI). I thought the 2nd init has to the with a hardware revision, not the actual ROM. So there is 2nd init ROMs and what else? What are the other type ROMs called? And what is the difference between the two?

I got him back up. I SBF'd it then rooted it again and installed Rubix.

Thanks for the repsonse.
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
There's 2nd init roms and roms based on .596 stock.

2nd init allows us to boot roms not based on stock that would otherwise brick the phone or cause a bootloop without it.

For more information on 2nd init Google CVPCS's website and read his blog post about it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] justforflashing:
iPhone Killer

Here is my very first custom splash screen. Even if you dont flash it, let me know what you think.

And if someone would flash it just to make sure all is well, that would be great. Works fine for me, as this is what Im using now!

THANKS!!!