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[T-Mobile LG G2x] syl0n:
I made this switch. But I was forced to cause my MT4G died after I dropped it in water. Yes G2x is faster and has a bigger screen but in terms of development I think MT4G being an HTC is a better phone.

CM7 worked a lot better on it than G2x although G2x isn't that bad. It is still stuck on 2.6.32 kernel though, while the MT4G kernel is up to .35 and easily devvable.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hmichaelkim:
Spec-wise, they are about the same. Shouldn't be much of a difference except for the keyboard.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tweeklulz:
he said MT4G, not MT4G slide mate
[T-Mobile LG G2x] FatalityBoyZahy:
+1, lmfao.

And about the CM kernel, just install Faux or The Trinity kernel.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rubbamade:
so is it a good trade?

this guy said he had one that had problems and sent it back...this is the new replacement and it was preloaded with 2.3.3.

What are the thoughts on this? Is it going to be a better idea to root it and install a custom ROM? Are the problems more prevelant on the stock ROMs?

He said it has been fine since he got a new one. But that it had many problems before when he had one with 2.2.2. I just dont want to trade for some buggy non-functional phone!

Has anyone had a lot of problems with their G2x since rooting or stock upgrading to 2.3.3?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hmichaelkim:
oh lol, woops. Anyway op, should be a good deal then. Check for the usual problems, screen bleed, etc.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
Just look at the screen quality and you will never go back to a cheap ass HTC device eever again.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] funziebear:
Thats what i came from. Im a happy camper
[T-Mobile LG G2x] xsteven77x:
This is a no brainer IMO get the g2x.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] JaiaV:
I had the 'pleasure' to play around with a regular MyTouch 4G for a couple of days. It was terrible compared to my G2x. Now, the MyTouch 4G Slide is a whole different affair, but to me still worse.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Tattooed5150:
I would have to agree. I had the regular my touch 4g and exchanged it for a g2x. My g2x is rooted and running cm7 nightly and love it. Wouldn't go back to HTC.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] KingDavid63:
ROM-weapon , theme-blue steel , kernel-faux ****ing beast status man... Competing with sensation and galaxy s2, mt4g? No

Sent from my MeGaBoT Transformer!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Greytest:
+1 for the Trinity kernel.

I got a MT4G and my wife got the G2x. After playing with her phone for half a day, I went back to the store and traded my MT4G in. I love the G2x.

Very true about development. If you are flash happy and want to change ROMs often...stick with the MT4G.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dung8604:
I'm in the same boat as the op, and I'm really tempted to get a g2x, as I'm a bit of a tech addict and can't wait for the gs2. On the other hand, the mt4g isn't terrible. It's stable, and development wise a lot better than the g2x. It runs pretty much 99% of what I want it to run very well.

The development is the only thing keeping me from jumping right now.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jriv:
Stay with the mytouch g2x has no development for it

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Marine6680:
I am getting antsy to get a new phone to replace my MT4G, but I do not want to spend a ton like I would on a sensation or the Galaxy 2. I was thinking an older dual core might be a good start.

I like to tinker, but not overly flash happy. Just want stability and decent battery life, and the typical things like good signal reception and call quality.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] FatalityBoyZahy:
Why do people always bring up GSII? I doubt you'll notice any differences in real world performance... Just get a G2x. Development isn't that bad... But if you MUST HAVE Sense, stick with the MT4G.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Marine6680:
The GSII is a great phone... If it is anything like the first one then it will be even better with cyanogen or any custom ROM, same with the sensation. I don't use Sense often, but it isn't that bad, especially the newer versions.

The biggest difference will be battery life. From what I am hearing, the new SOCs are much easier on the battery, so all things being equal, the sensation or GSII will have much better battery life even with higher use cases.

That is why the choice is more difficult. Besides... us tinkers (aka the rooting community) will never be satisfied long with the same phone. After about a year, it is time to look into something new. Sometimes we can't afford the latest and greatest so we look for the best bang for our buck we can.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Paul Nur:
As to a new g2x owner (3 weeks) I love this phone, bought it brand new from the store and it works flawlessly, I flashed weapons GB build and using fauxes over clocked kernel.

In other words, i'm in love with it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mackpbj:
Let me just say that by having gone from a g1 to an iphone 3gs to an iphone 4 that i thought I'd never go back to android devices. But then I got a mytouch 4g from t-mobile(mainly because i hated at&t).

I was extremely impressed at how much android had improved since my g1 days. Everything worked really well and it was smooth though it still had it quirks. When i learned how to root the the phone then it became really fun to play around with. I tried a lot of roms and i liked most of them but when a rom came out with sense 3.0 came out, I thought it was perfect. I loved that mytouch 4g rooted with sense 3.0 and gingerbread was the best phone i ever owned.

Then i got an opportunity to get a g2x really cheap and i thought "what a great deal!" so i sold the mytouch 4g and bought the g2x. My biggest mistake.

From the beginning it had a lot of problems. The phone would and still does randomly go to black screen(regardless of rom) and the only way to fix it is by removing the battery. There is very little support by devs for this phone as well. i love the devs we have but there isn't that many of them and most roms still have significant bugs. Also the battery life is the worst i have ever seen on a phone.

there are alot of good things about the g2x but these things are deal breakers for me. If I could, I would go back to my mytouch 4g running virtuous unity.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Shaddy-Z.:
What roms are you flashing? MIUI is incredibly stable and I get great battery life. WiFi calling is janky but that's just the rom itself and I don't necessarily need it because I have great signal everywhere. But I don't experience any of the problems you're mentioning. I too have owned a mt4g and to be honest I hate virtuous. It was a lot of unnecessary stuff that slowed down the phone A LOT. The lockscreen was meh and everything else about the rom was slow because sense is no where as fast as gingerbread. I had CM7 on my mt4g with faux's smartass kernel back in the day. But my g2x runs much faster. However I sometimes miss the mt4g feeling. It was build very sturdy and had a great finish.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mackpbj:
I loved sense but I like stock gingerbread(except for camera) as well. I love using different launchers and trying different looks out, that's what make android so awesome. I love the freedom to put whatever i want on my phone.

But the g2x just doesn't feel like a high quality product to me and the mytouch did. I am glad you haven't experienced these common bugs but many other g2x users have. my phone is super fast and tegra makes it look good but it seems Lg should have done a better job with it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nickstewartroc:
Coming from the Mytouch 4G with virtuous unity myself, I must say that the G2X is so much better. The Mytouch was slow compared to the G2x and virtuous unity was a joke for my original Mytouch 4g and the replacement one. The touchscreen would randomly not work in places, and just a night mare. I only wish i could have got the G2x sooner
[T-Mobile LG G2x] saotua:
Seeing alot of people came from MT4G. I'm a MT4G and Miui lover. Just got this G2X as a replacement today. A little disappointed that there's no LED :( .. hopefully it is a great phone
[T-Mobile LG G2x] funziebear:
They gave me a g2x as replacement also :/ those crazies so far this phone has been OK second one they Send me first one kept thurning of on me
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rubbamade:
Ok..so i really wasnt going from a mytouch 4g...i had one i was going to trade. It is my girlfriends. I actually had a dell streak 5..was going to give her the dell and trade the mytouch.

The dell streak is a badass phone as well, but it does have problems with random reboots (no matter what rom), and it was a little lacking in the development.....

long story short. i traded the Dell streak for the G2X. happy with the trade. i havent had problems with reboots or anything...the battery life is a little crappy but the guy gave me a spare battery with charger!

Phone runs greaT! i am running eaglesblood with the included trinity kernel OC'd to 1400 mhz...runs great and very stable...

wish i had done it sooner...only downside is the screen size...that dell had an amazingly large screen..and the G2X feels TINY in comparison.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] saotua:
Received the G2X as replacement today and it keeps reboot like crazy. I'm sending it back tomorrow for another one :rolleyes:hopefully the next will be fine
[T-Mobile LG G2x] funziebear:
Yeah they send me two also second one seems OK I kinda wanna Betch about this one and see what else they offfer me maybe 5g data haha since 'm on the 2gb but that's OK seems like anywhere I go has Wi-Fi this one when battery is low has dark spots on some of the screen
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Marine6680:
So they are sending out G2X as replacements for MT4G? Warranty or insurance?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] funziebear:
Insurance it was just cuz they didn't have mytouch in stock
[T-Mobile LG G2x] funziebear:
This phone isn't to bad if u get a good working one way cleaner looking than the mytouch smoother and bigger screen witch I like since I came from a dell streak 5
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Marine6680:
I am actually getting a replacement MT4G soon. Mine has issues charging. I may sell it and get a G2X.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] funziebear:
I think ull like the g2x just make sure it has non of the know issues
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Marine6680:
There a thread on those?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] funziebear:
Just google it the ull find them if its a reburbished unit u have a better chance its running better :)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Marine6680:
I am actually looking hard at that Xiaomi phone too. $310 to buy a dual core at 1.5ghz outright and 1.2ghz version at a lower price... sounds good to me. lets hope the initial reviews are good, I would love to see prices being forced down.
[Acer Iconia A500] tarsh249:
hey everyone. so, ive been trying and trying to get linux to run on my rooted a500 because iv been wanting to turn it into MORE OF A COMPUTER than an " android device" but have had little succes. iv recently noticed the a501 runs windows, and i was curiouse if at all possable, could one of the more experianced devs here port eather windows (from the a501) or possably make a linux distrabution rom? any help would be greatlly appreciated :)
[Acer Iconia A500] shogunmark:
The A501 does not run windows! The Windows Iconia is the W500.
[Acer Iconia A500] Skunkeye:
The A500 doesn't have an Intel CPU, so there's almost zero chance of anyone getting any version of Windows to run on it in the foreseeable future. The W500 that runs Windows is a completely different piece of hardware from the A500.

Linux might be possible, as there are ARM versions of Ubuntu running on other tablets, but my understanding is it's a fair amount of work to get everything running (and straight Linux or Windows aren't really very good touch-screen operating systems, anyway).
[Acer Iconia A500] phoenixbennu:
As far as I am aware there is very little difference between the a500 and a501 save for some 3g and sim setups.

What you may want are some of the windows emulator (which are pretty much on the "poor" side of emulators and "windows") or use a remote setup to use your tablet to run the windows on your pc, just dont expect to be playing COD:MW3 with it.
[Acer Iconia A500] tarsh249:
i knew that. idk y i said a501, my bad. i have tryed linux installer from the market but it still wont boot. i must be missing directorys or sumthing. any ideas on an easyer way to install linux or maybe a tutorial one of u could help me with? iv cheked out the "how to install native linux" a few times but it doesnt make sense. any help would be awsome. thanx guys/girls
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
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Ok so i got my other problem fixed.

the one problem im having is in Touchwiz Music player, there are so called "albums" with one song in it... How can i just remove them without removing the actual song?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
bump please help
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iwillkillyou:
Use a tag editor. The album is probably spelled differently then the full album. Or if you want just the song, edit the np3 tags and delete the words next to the album column.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnargle:
Hi there,

I recently flashed Cyanogenmod 7 to my UK SGS. However, I was having problems with it, so formatted all the partitions in CWM (like data, boot etc.) including boot. I then (very stupidly) pressed 'reboot now' instead of installing a zip. This meant that the phone would no longer boot. I then downloaded a JVR firmware and tried to flash it with Odin, pit 512, but every time I do, everything up to factoryfs.rfs will be flashed, it will get stuck there for a variable amount of time, then the screen will become a block colour. Turning the phone off yields the phone -!- computer screen. I did manage to flash the whole firmware once, but then tried to flash Voodoo and the colour appeared while flashing the Kernel. I'm currently trying to reflash the firmware, can anyone help?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnargle:
Issue resolved: I used another USB port. Apparently some ports can be 'unreliable' and switching to another port allowed it to flash the whole way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Justchillz:
Thx, this saved me a lot of work. I experienced just the same problem! (used a USB hub)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VerizonKoolaid:
Are there any tools to create a backup of a selective sub directory on one DX to restore to an identical albeit loopy DX where neither a full nandroid is an option nor is it desirable to SBF back to froyo square one as there is unbacked up user-data. both DX froyo are root.

details

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17217163#post17217163
[Galaxy S II General] Unrealbr:
So i've got an Galaxy SII here in Brazil, it's from Claro and strangely has the HKE2 BASEBAND, HKE4 Kernel.

I read somewhere that 2.3.4 was already avaliable if you had Sammy's retail FW, not Claro's modded crap.

By the time i got home to download it all the post had been removed so i missed the opportunity.

If anyone could point me in the right direction i'd be damn happy!

As far as my knowledge goes i remember reading that swapping from this "custom" to the official would not violate EULA nor my warranty, and that i'd be able to do it without having to root the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
Go to the development section, there is a thread by, Intarech (spelling may be wrong) that thread contains what you are looking for.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Unrealbr:
@Achillies400

TY for the directions.

And a bonus here, i just found out i have a franken-phone.

Checking the Carrier-specific firmwares i bumped into some trouble lol.

My phone is from Brazilian's Claro BUT build is technically a Chillean version.

Check this out:

PDA: UHKE4 is Chile-based

PHONE: UHKE2, well, ok.

Now here's the interesting bit, the CSC is ZTAKE2 wich is NOT LISTED ANYWHERE!

Will i have trouble if i flash this one below?

Thanks everyone in advance.
[Galaxy S II General] dandroid13:
I was using it, found no issues at all. :)

You can also try flashing UHKG7 from http://www.samfirmware.com to get Android 2.3.4

(Even more strange is that the page says it's from Brazil, but SamFIT says it's from Chile too.)

EDIT:

This is the same FW from samfirmware
[Galaxy S II General] Unrealbr:
Any special difference from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4?

'Cause i'm looking forward at 2.3.6 already :)
[Galaxy S II General] dandroid13:
I've found some minor UI tweaks so far, nothing major.

About 2.3.6 I think it will take a while to arrive at stock roms, maybe sooner with CM7 or MIUI only.
[Galaxy S II General] Unrealbr:
Updated successfully!

No issues whatsoever!

tyvm dandroid13!
[Galaxy S II General] mjasonm:
So...

No problems whatsoever with 2.3.4?

No 3g data on/off problems on UHKG4 modem? I read that some guys were having some issues on getting 3g data back on after losing signal for whatever reason.

Can you confirm that everything works fine?

I just got an SGS II from Claro and I´m thinking of flashing it with this ROM to get rid of all that Claro crap (and get some original stuff back, like GTalk).

Can you hint me with the specific thread on how to flash SGS II with this ROM?

Thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S II General] Unrealbr:
So, the UHKE4 rom i flashed as avaliable from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278 (manual included there) is a 2.3.3.

Again, mine was bought THE DAY AFTER it was released here in Brazil, in late June so it has the hw version from Chile.

Aside from that it's all fine and dandy!
[Galaxy S II General] dandroid13:
The major difference from the 2.3.4 FW is that you don't get Folha and Livraria Cultura apps.
[Galaxy S II General] JirkaX:
Coming from HTC Desire & HTC Desire HD to Samsung Galaxy S 2, there is only one think i realize. Whatever HTC lacks in hardware, it more than makes up for it in software. HTC Sync works flawlessly. You want to convert into usb? no problem. Integration with contacts? works out of the box. I am stuck here for at least 2 hrs trying to make my new mobile to sync with Kies, with no luck. Before it turned into a USB, now not even that. (and yes i know about the debugging option). Same with software, linking is not as efficient, TW not as customizable, resulting in downloading 3rd party apps to do the things that you took for granted with HTC. So far, excluding hardware, I am really disappointed with my new purchase :/
[Galaxy S II General] TeeJayEss:
I also came across from a Desire - HTC Sync was a pile of crap, just like Kies when it's not working. When Kies works, it's waay better, not that I bother using that either - everything just syncs to my Google account(s).

As for Sense vs TW, I admit the contacts linking/integration is far better in Sense, but as for one being more "customisable" than the other, nonsense - neither interface is particularly customisable, other than widgets, which I think you're referring to. Sense had some nice ones included, but TW has too. The only one I miss from Sense is the combined clock/weather one, but you can get something which looks almost as good using the digital clock and Accuweather widgets.
[Galaxy S II General] Sparksltd:
That's what I first though when I exchanged my desire for a galaxy s about a year ago. You'll get used to and when you do, you will start to appreciate how good the galaxy s2 is in the other areas.

I did miss sence after switching but now I don't look back especially with the super amoled screen!
[Galaxy S II General] viper98:
i had a desire and desire z

hate sense

i love the new touchwiz. not even using go launcher any more
[Galaxy S II General] supermult:
Always try to find a way to sync over a google services. nothing is so easy an comfortable than syncing with google on an android.

i just love how it shows all my podcasts when i download google listen and i'm good to go. i know its simple, but it just works
[Galaxy S II General] pachi72:
To me Tw is the lightest skins..it's almost stock but better.
[Galaxy S II General] iwang:
tw gives closest to stock android experience. Thank god samsung don't use anything like sense or blur.

Sense is just too heavy for me.
[Galaxy S II General] buxz777:
i honestly hate sense ui , its a ram hog , its a battery drainer , its more complex then it needs to be and to be honest for me it is just a waste of time

give me a plain android o/s or touchwiz anyday :-)

i actually prefer go launcher to any of them but sense ui for me is just annoying overkill with a few nice weather animations

if i wanted sense ui i would have bought the sensastion but i wanted a phone that was based on power not one based on a pretty o/s that is a resource hog

why not stop neing disapointed and just sell the sgs2 and buy a sensation?? job done you can then be a happy person again
[Galaxy S II General] King Shady:
I love TW 4 and I use the stock launcher as well :)...however it would be awesome to see Sense on this beautiful display - The eyecandy that Sense has is great
[Galaxy S II General] Hollow.Droid:
I had sense on my Nexus One and while I tried it for a while I simply found it to be too heavily modded. Obviously it works for some but TW has been a pleasant, more stock experience so far (Coming from launcher pro). If I ever go back to HTC I'll be making sure an AOSP based rom is available before hand :p
[Galaxy S II General] vorcigernix:
Sense is something like UI overhaul of whole android. You may like it, but it is not android experience at all (except you can launch android apps).

TW is also too heavy for me, but except weird mail app it leaves android logic in place.

Black fact is, that you will have hard times to find anyone calling himself a "touchwiz hater", but you can definitely find a lot of Sense haters (take a look on any HTC related forum).

This makes your argumentation problematic and thereby very subjective, but I understand that not everyone have same feeling about HTC -> Sammy migration as me.

//

Edit

Because we are on android, you can try other UI called MIUI. I found it really nice and polished. There are some features I don't like, but its worth try IMO.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
+1 i don't necessarily hate HTC Sense but definitely better off without it and everything you've said is spot on.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
OP said himself it's eye candy and already added battery drain, RAM hogger by other user.

Meaningless thread IMO.
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
Some devs are working on a sense but there is very little progress yet :( but I am with you coming from a Desire running a Sense 2.1-3.0 mix, TW is quite a disappointment
[Galaxy S II General] Moandal:
I always had an HTC before my GS2, and I definitely prefer TouchWiz.
[Galaxy S II General] whmcal:
+1
[Galaxy S II General] blunted09:
Ill b happy with sense 2.1. Not 3. I don't care what sensation owners tell you, rooted or not, the sensation lags worse than my aging og droid.
[Galaxy S II General] kotaro_14:
Meh... TW4 is okay. Pretty standard rom. Not too heavily modified like Sense, but not too bare like stock, just in the middle. Firstly,I love Sense's eye candy . I'm not a big fan of TW4. Using MIUI and that was the best thing I've ever done.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II using the xda premium app.
[Galaxy S II General] bobdude5:
Sensation may lag, but the evo 3D is speed demon. I love sense so much, its so clean and useful for me. I love the notification bar layout, the polished widgets, the awesome text selection quick look up utility,and just how everything is so intergrated.

I had the epic 4g galaxy S phone and i hated it. Touchwiz on it was absolutely awful for me. Such an ugly ui on froyo.

Now with that said,i am still going to be switching to sprints version of the galaxy s2 come September 16th in hopes that touchwiz has improved since its last iteration.