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[Thunderbolt General] scottyd035ntknow:
Hi all,

Wife is due for an upgrade and knows basically zilch about phones. Its down to the D3 and the Tbolt. We do NOT live in a LTE zone yet but rumor is it will be deploying next summer out here. She likes the Tbolt screen but isn't thrilled with no keyboard. However it is $.01 on Amazon right now and that is pretty hard to beat especially for a 4G phone with over 512 ram and HTC build quality.

So if you guys/gals had to pick a phone RIGHT NOW out of Verizon's lineup, would the Tbolt still be it? I know I ask this on a biased forum lol. Anyway, she has left it up to me to pick the phone and at the expense of sounding like a cheap husband... the price alone has me leaning strongly towards it. The Revolution is automatically out being a LG product and the specs suck anyway, Charge has a great screen but terrible amount of RAM, D3 is not 4G but the keyobard is effing sweet (pentile screen tho)... DX2 felt slower to me than my old DX (plus pentile sucks again) so that is out.

Oh, we are both grandfathered into unlimited data so getting a LTE phone is pretty enticing. Speaking of that, when LTE does deploy out here... bye bye Comcast rofl. I may just keep my boost flashed Epic for the foreseeable future as my primary phone for unlimted calling and buy a beat up Tbolt on ebay used on my primary line to hotspot our house for literally 2-3x as fast internet as stupid Comcast which is the only half decent provider out here. Verizon refuses to deploy fios out here for some insane reason...
[Thunderbolt General] AvatarOfFrost:
Why not check out the Bionic on the 8th?

It will most likely cost $300 with a new contract and it is 4G of course, but its supposed to be very nice. There is a video on YouTube of someone playing with a Bionic and the new Blur looks really awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqnb4DhNF90
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
I would never rely on mobile data for home Internet. As long as you don't need reliable service I guess it's an option. Clearwater was good until the network got full due to the evo. Friend as a lte hotspot as their only Internet and they say it sucks, constantly drops signal.
[Thunderbolt General] subsoniic:
Sent from ging3r3dth3ory
[Thunderbolt General] leoingle:
because you are comparing a 300 difference for getting basically the same thing. can you say no brainer?

couldnt agree more.
[Thunderbolt General] ponyboy82:
If I had to buy right now, I'd check out the Revolution and Charge, but probably go with the Thunderbolt again (especially if I was paying and it was only $0.01!). The Bionic looks nice I guess, but honestly the performance of the Tbolt leaves little to be desired for me, and I really can't see the Bionic being $300 better. The only other thing I'd want out of the TB is a physical keyboard, but unfortunately there isn't a 4G verizon phone with one yet (or on the immediate horizon that I know of).
[Thunderbolt General] Hot Carl:
Yes, I would still get the TB again. You are not going to get near the features on any other phone for the price. One penny. You are going to sign up and get a 2 year contract anyway.. why spend $200 - $300 extra for not that much more if at all? Besides, is your wife going to be a power user and require root, etc? Doubtful. I think she will get used to the key board, especially for the price.

I can say it .. "no brainer".
[Thunderbolt General] DRainyDay:
+1

Revolution has very little dev support.

Droid charge seems very laggy and IMHO I hate the look of it.

Droid bionic will almost certainly come with an encrypted bootloader.
[Thunderbolt General] leoingle:
yes

yes

and yes
[Thunderbolt General] Boss428man:
I am confused when I hear people say this.. I am rooted and use cyanogen.. But even the stock rom performs good as far as I am concerned. Are you talking reception or speed of running apps?
[Thunderbolt General] dukemagic:
Re-read his post. The performance "leaves little to be desired" meaning that it's perfectly good.
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
Saying this phone is out dated is false. Name a phone on Verizon with ask the same features and currently out. Most of the complainers will complain regardless of phone because they have the want of a phone hacker but not the knowledge or will to make the phone do want they think it should. That and well, some people are just never happy because they don't realize the phone they have is really more of a computer that also happens to make calls. i'm sure everyone knows someone they its never happy with their PC either :)

also, the phone isn't Jesus--it doesn't perform miracles and it doesn't rise from the dead if you kill it :D
[Thunderbolt General] miketoasty:
I would again go with the TB but the Droid 3 is tempting for me since it does have the slide out keyboard. I came from the Droid 2 to the TB because I wanted to be locked into 4G before it was capped (Which I did successfully). Now that I have used 4G, there is no looking back but when a 4G phone with a slide out keyboard is released I will be all over that. Until then, I will stick with the TB as others have stated the speed is incredible. I use the debloated stock ROM and have no problems what so ever. Don't even need to OC it, it is that good.
[Thunderbolt General] fillyo:
The big question is what do you need your phone to do. While the Bionic will be newer, and may have some new features, are those features worth $300. Most phones out now are perfectly capable, especially the Tbolt. If you don't game, or need the biggest %#$, the Tbolt is a great phone. It comes down to UI, which one do you like the best? I prefer sense, hence, I stick with HTC.
[Thunderbolt General] Randallel:
I would buy a D3 for her. I'm sure she's just going to text a lot so the physical keyboard is a plus and I doubt your wife will care about the screen size that much. Also are you gonna root it too? I think the D3's stock Tom is a lot smoother then the Tbolt.
[Thunderbolt General] thisismalhotra:
+1, totally agree
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
samsung has a keyboard slider lte device on the horizon. Not sure of all the specs though.
[Thunderbolt General] CBMC:
Are you sure it is .01 for an upgrade. I thought that was only for new customers. I am see $119.99 for upgrade.

Sent from my ADR6400L using Forum Runner
[Thunderbolt General] xs11e:
Be aware the getting a phone from Amazon.com (or Wirefly or Costco or.....) involves an additional ETF if you change your plan.

This isn't a bad thing as long as you're aware of it, just be sure you read the terms carefully and understand them before signing.
[Thunderbolt General] CBMC:
I didn't think Costco did that. Also, Amazon's terms are less restrictive than wirefly.
[Desire HD General] Ignacas8:
Hi everybody. Sorry for my english, I am not american. There is the strange problem, my HDH self shutting down at any moment, I can play with phone or leave it on the table he's powering off anyway. And the second problem is the phone don't reading my SIM card, it's says: "no SIM card in phone". I am used Cyanogen mod 7 before, and now installed LeeDroid HD V3.3.3 GB. Phone powering off himself anyway. It's so anoying :( Please help.
[Desire HD General] k3k0123:
I got same issue

First think was the sim, try eith a different one and same issue

I buy a replacement on amazon and fix the issue

If yours is still on warranty recommend to go to the seller
[Desire HD General] k3k0123:
Replacement battery*
[Desire HD General] Ignacas8:
I tryed another SIM card and now it's working, but phone still shuting down himself. :( Big deal is the warranty,i don't have it.
[Desire HD General] k3k0123:
Do you try with another battery?
[Desire HD General] ernmin:
I think I've came over this problem before. After wiping and installing a new rom, it gradually disappears. Try to have a clean wipe of both the phone and the sd card.
[Desire HD General] A|ex:
I had this problem before, turned out to be the battery coming away from the connector whenever i moevd it so i stuck a bit of paper in and now no issues
[HTC Sensation] carsonp:
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this before but I was playing around with the demo model of the Sensation in my local phone shop. Typically it runs a demo video and disables any buttons but I forced a reboot and noticed that before the video started again it was running a sense-less rom. The locks creen and home screen were completely stock android. Anyone else notice this?
[HTC Sensation] stevejau:
And your point is?

Even if it is a different ROM, you won't be getting it, you get what HTC give you and thats that, until of course you unlock and flash custom roms to your hearts content.
[HTC Sensation] exb0:
Go back to that shop, nandroid back up and post it up here :3
[HTC Sensation] stevejau:
LOL..now thats funny...and a great idea.
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
Go back to the shop, go to Settings>About phone>Software information and make a note of the ROM name
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Eddy, he can't, its locked to the demo video. Could try something else though.

Op, if its not to much to ask, go back to the shop, reboot in safe mode (instructions somewhere here on the forum) and then you should be able to check sw version.
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
Thought the OP could do it before the video kicks in
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
I understood that he could only see lock screen for a sec before video started.
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
See above ;)
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
True, missed that. Let's see what OP says.
[HTC Sensation] n1kon:
some demo handsets have custom roms you would not want it as its not fully functional and is just loaded with demo junk. I work in retail and get asked for these all the time
[HTC Sensation] exb0:
If it really is a senseless Rom with sound working，then wow.
[HTC Sensation] carsonp:
I'll see if I can go back and poke around. I'll see if its functional or just a stripped rom with only sound working. I'll report back if I find anything interesting.
[HTC Sensation] Matt1408:
I went into Best Buy today, and played around with THEIR Senstion, or at least tried to.

The bootanimation is the one from the Android SDK, with the "android" logo. However, once you get to the launcher, it's the stock one from Gingerbread, though the notification bar is still the one from Sense.

However, this is were things get interesting, I booted up into the bootloader and snapped some pics from the Sensation I am returning.

What we have is a future build of Hboot. We also have some strange options like System Info and MFG Kernel.

I went into System Info and I see "touch panel-fail" but I think thats because HTC disabled it to so that you wouldn't be able to get out of the demo app.

Anyways, I'm sure this is all meaningless now that we have CM7, but it's still cool.
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
Very good job on the pics my friend, interesting...
[HTC Sensation] idavid_:
Never seen that hboot before... Interesting. Have you tried to go in recovery? (I see the option)
[HTC Sensation] Matt1408:
I actually tried Recovery and it looked like the standard recovery. I got the phone with the red X or whatever and couldn't get out of it. Walked away...
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
That's where you press volume up+power to get the Recovery menu ;)
[HTC Sensation] exb0:
Looks like a Eng hboot to me. And interesting... it's super cid-ed..
[HTC Sensation] KCuadrado:
Hmmm

Now that's interesting. At first I thought it could be some 3rd party launcher.
[HTC Sensation] kabuk1:
Demo roms have been around forever. I remember seeing them back in my Treo days back in 05. Interesting stuff on that HBOOT menu though.
[HTC Sensation] Matt1408:
Came back with my receipt and the phone was still on that screen :P Fixed it after :P
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robkoehler:
Why does it suck so bad when used with an active sync exchange server? It takes minutes for the app to open, then minutes more to respond to a tap.

This goes for the overcome roms as well as the stock tmobile rom.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaSauders:
I'm not having any issues with it on my phone, although I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to with Active Sync. My Exchange email is hooked up to my phone and it comes down automatically without issue.

In fact, the stock email app is the only app I've used that works predictably. I'm still keeping an eye out for other email apps, but so far the stock one is... do I dare say... the least headache infatuated one I've found.

So what exact symptoms are you seeing in regard to the way it's operating?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robkoehler:
When I open the App it takes minutes and several taps of the waiting button to display email. If I change orientation or tap an email it cycles through it again. Touchdown works perfectly.
[Acer Iconia A500] snackpants:
What 3G USB Stick works best with the Iconia A500? Looking for something on the T-Mobile Frequencies.
[Acer Iconia A500] gerke:
Why not use a Novatell Mifi or a Huawei E5830?
[Acer Iconia A500] TheMaster666:
They both seam to be around a 100 US..

USB Sticks seam to be cheaper and I don't have to worry about charging those separately..

I haven't tried any yet.. So can't say if any will work yet.
[Acer Iconia A500] cfgh:
I am using Huawei E1750 and works fine.
[Acer Iconia A500] Ma_Ru:
HUAWEI K3715 works also fine :D
[Acer Iconia A500] snakedoctorjw:
I was looking around for this as well. Tmobile's sticks wont work on android. but there Mifi does and its 25 new two year with 25 MIR so free then your plan it is their 4g

im in an area where that is spotty and it keeps a better signal than my phone and have yet to see it slow down or lose signaling! OR

Virgin mobile hot spot (I know not a stick) for 124.99

or Truconnects new 89 mifi on sprints 3g for 4.99 a month IF you use it that month!
[Acer Iconia A500] severoprisan:
huawei e220 works with Tabonayb2.1 Rom
[Acer Iconia A500] fermunky:
Those using Mifi, how's the impact on your battery life?
[Acer Iconia A500] starfcker69:
I hope this isn't off topic and may be a dumb question - so you take the SIM card out of your Tmobile phone (assuming phone has data plan) and stick it in 3G stick/Iconia Tab A500, as needed?
[Acer Iconia A500] fermunky:
You could, or buy a second SIM card for a data-only plan. However, I just keep my phone with me and activate the wifi hot spot on the phone, which was the reasno I bought the wifi-only a500 in the first place.
[Acer Iconia A500] starfcker69:
Thanks, that makes more sense. I have a TMO G2 for tethering. Also i missed this somehow:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/want-3g-in-your-iconia-tab-read-on/
[Acer Iconia A500] gerke:
I can use my Iconia for 7 hours, my mifi stops after 4 hours continues usage ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] nakulp:
Do the usbdata sticks work only on custom roms?
[Acer Iconia A500] bassem100:
yes, only with on custom roms and that was the reason i changed my room for
[EVO 4G General] churro7:
Is there a better camera?

Like from another rom
[EVO 4G General] Neitmrh15:
Synergy has the best camera I've used in a rom.
[EVO 4G General] marcusva79:
Look around for the MIUIcamera.apk. it is in the forums somewhere.
[EVO 4G General] playya:
+1 on that its what I use as well

Sent from my EVO rocking Evervolv Gingerbread
[EVO 4G General] snowboarda42:
If I load a sense camera.apk on an AOSP, will it enable 720p recording/touch to focus?
[EVO 4G General] bryank930:
CM7 camera has touch to focus. Enable it in the camera options
[EVO 4G General] Sry0fcr:
I doubt it'll work at all on AOSP.

But +1 on the MIUI Camera .apk
[EVO 4G General] alaman68:
Nope, you need the sense drivers for that. Miui camera is good, salvagemod has the best video quality for aosp.
[EVO 4G General] churro7:
can someone post salvage cam
[EVO 4G General] Vortran:
so.. CM 7.1 does - or does not - fix Evo 3G camera focusing? Especially close-up focusing? Where can I go to determine this definitively?
[EVO 4G General] F1u|}:
I don't have any problems with the CM camera.. However I'm still searching for the perfect apk.. isn't everyone?
[EVO 4G General] al mon:
So with CM7.1 my Evo camera sucks. Always out of focus in "low" light when its not even that dark.

The white balance even in daylight is way off even if set to daylight.

Is there a better camera apk that fixes this? In my original Sense ROM, the camera was "better" but still suffered from slow shutter.
[EVO 4G General] Kekoh:
I've been looking for a better camera too. I will have to search around for miuicamera

I haven't really been interested in the cameras on phones until lately. I have always wondered why CM pictures are not wide like the sense pictures unless you put it on 6M (wide), but then it is slightly lower quality. Does this mean that the sense camera shoots at 6MP by default? Or can it shoot 8MP wide?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spyder4848:
I would like to get a feel for your favorite current ROM being used on the Galaxy 10.1. List your favorite ROM with explanation and include the different ROMs you have tested.

Thanks

I have included a Poll to make life easier :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jzen:
I have tested Doc's slim 6.5, Starburst and Blazar (tw and non-tw). Task's rom seems to run the smoothest with benchmark in quadrant reading 3200 :)
[Continuum General] verizonless:
I have the SCH-I400 (hardware version i400.0.6) , still with stock software:

Firmware version: 2.1-update1

Baseband version: S:i400.0.6V.DL17

Kernel version: 2.6.29

Build number: SCH-I400.DL17

I would like to upgrade it to Android 2.2 (or higher) with minimal risk of bricking it.

Where do I start?

Are there special tools that I need?

Is there a difference between "firmware" and "ROM"?

Which is the latest stable firmware/ROM that you can recommend?

Is it possible to try a particular firmware/ROM without replacing the current firmware/ROM?

What do I need to do to save the current stock firmware/ROM so that I can restore it later (if I ever want to).

I am basically clueless at this point, so any tip or link would be very much appreciated.

Thank You!
[Continuum General] samuelhadams:
There's answers to most of your questions throughout the forums. Look around.
[Continuum General] dfgged:
Well, you can start with the search bar. :-P

Sent from my space time Continuum using the XDA App.
[Continuum General] verizonless:
That's what I did before posting my question but the best I could find was this HOWTO for Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10.

My understanding is that instructions that are good for one brand/model are not necessarily good for another. I couldn't find such a HOWTO for the Samsung Continuum SCH-I400 and I really don't want to brick my phone just to find out that I missed or misunderstood a step. Can you help? :confused:

For example, I found in this thread a reference to something called odin:

Is this the recommended way to flash the Samsung Continuum SCH-I400?

Is v1.85 the latest & greatest?

Is it possible to try a particular version without flashing it? (I have almost 8GB of free SD space)

Do I have to root the device before attempting any firmware trial or flash?
[Continuum General] circa881:
Just look in the development section
[Continuum General] jakeschweinz:
Literally all of your questions have been answered throughout the forum..
[Continuum General] ntien:
1. you'll want to download odin (or heimdall if you're on mac/linux)

2. firmware is the version your phone is running, and a ROM is a custom OS. for example, you're firmware is 2.1-update1. however, you are using the stock ROM. for the samsung continuum, as far as i know there is only one other ROM on 2.1-update1 (which is the firmware) and that's the debinged/debloated DL17 ROM (which is the custom OS).

3. just go through the development system and look through the ROM's and look at the comments to see if there are any bugs. currently the latest firmware is 2.2 but i don't know if there are any bugs.

4. not quite sure what you mean by that

5. what you're talking about is a nandroid backup. to do a nandroid backup you have to get clockwork recovery. just check this out http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1057072
[Continuum General] dfgged:
He is talking about running a ROM off his SD card. That's probably the one unanswered question. From what I know, not you can't.
[Continuum General] Weudel:
You have a LOT of reading and research to do before you're ready to do any of this stuff. Read through the Android Development sub-forum.... Then read it again... if anything is confusing, read it again. You can SERIOUSLY mess up your phone if you don't know what you're doing... Once you understand it all, then try it out.
[Continuum General] Txwolf1980:
My advice would be to first do research on the terminology. Once you know what words like flash, rom, odin, cwm, cwm cyan vs. yellow, recovery, and what things like a tar.md5, and update.zip, mean and do, it will be a lot easier to understand what you are reading. Google is your friend. Most of what I've learned has come from there. Also, peruse different forums. I understand that this one can get a little techincal for a noob. I still have to scratch my head about half of the time and think about what I'm reading before it makes sense. It will come, slowly. Just save yourself a lot of headache, and read read read, and if you have ANY doubts, find the answer BEFORE you start the process.
[Continuum General] AUATL:
This video helps a lot with cwm, and flashing via odin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHpl0s7qhk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Continuum General] nodixe:
Start by googling root and cintinuum and look for addictivetips tutorial and then look for how to install clockwork mod recovery (this was the difficult part imo) should also be at addictivetips. By time your done you should at least be familliar with programs involved and asking troublshoot Q's instead of general "how do I" Q's......

sent from my XDA phone - its more than a continuum
[Continuum General] verizonless:
Thank you all so much! You definitely helped.
[Continuum General] logan302:
TUT

There is a great tutorial on getting to 2.2.2 in the EC07 clean thread in development.
[Continuum General] smallz2k:
The quickest method ive use so far (i am newbie 2 rootin etc) is download the tool to root 'superoneclick' then youl have to search for the correct flash tool for your device,then download cwm recovery to backup/restore and install your 'mod rom'. Theres some very good roms about on this site,im only on a x1o mini pro came with 2.1 and s.e refused to release any futher updates 4 this model!but its now running either 2.3.9 or 2.3.5 quite smoothly ..made up ,so u should be able to find and try later than 2.3 and choose which rom you prefer.
[Continuum General] ciscogee:
well you dont have to start by rooting your phone... rooted roms flashed by odin work on stock 2.1 thats how i did it... i used superoneclick only once, on ec07 stock. havent had to since, cause i flashed roms with odin/cwm that are rooted and deodexed.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gadgetz:
I have never been able to send MMS mssgs when on WiFi, would be nice if I could. Is it possible?

via x10i WB GB v4.0.4 edition
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Horayken:
Hi! sorry but you can't use the wifi to send mms... the only way is using a data connection like gprs edge 3g 3.5g etc
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] D@rekills4:
Can anyone help?

N.O.V.A is not working for me....

I downloaded SD Cache and put in the settings of N.O.V.A in ChainFire 3D Pro but when I run the game I get a message "Video cannot be played"

So, I removed the video files from SD Cache and then run the game but now, all I see is a white screen....

I reduced Texture Quality and Texture Size....

Driver - QUALCOM
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] Rapier07:
Put the intro.mp4 file from gangster into it and try
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] D@rekills4:
I put another video instead of "LOGO.mp4" and "INTRO.mp4" and after it finished there was nothing but a white screen....

I could here the game music in the background...

I tapped in the centre of the screen and heard a sound, so I was probably on the main menu of the game....

Just the white screen is the problem....

Any solutions to this?