yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] scoobdude:
I think I would be willing to trade that AMOLED screen for a kickstand in teh case of watching movies though. Docks aside, a kickstand i find more useful than the added benefit of the AMOLED..... however put a qHD screen + AMOLED + kickstand and I am in!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] smoothone:
To anyone considering the two phones just get the one you think you might like most. Use it for a couple of weeks and then exchange it for the other if you don't like it, simple as that. You can read a hundred user opinions but everyone is different. Hands on is the best way to know. If you like to tinker with your phone, flash roms, etc, our when participate in the forums them get the Samsung. All the negative comments others have said Samsung upgrades ate trite but every Samsung phone i've ever owned has had a ton of activity and member participation on their respective forums. The SGS II will be no different. On the other hand this Photon forum is deadsville. I don't care of the Photon is relatively new. Don't care if source was just released. This place is dead and if you want any help on here and the three or four certain individuals are not online then you are screwed. Some people won't like what I am saying but its the truth!

btw my Photon is an awesome phone. The build, call quality, gps lock, speaker volume, everything on this phone has been superior to the Epic 4g or the Nexus S 4g that I owned!
[Motorola Photon 4G] acjohnson55:
I will grant you that LCD is much more efficient when you look at black text with a white background, but that's not really what I use my phone for mostly. For normal images, OLED is better, and AMOLED even more so. The RGBW display on the Photon has better power consumption than standard LCD. However, the battery on the Touch is 10% larger. So it's probably a wash
[Motorola Photon 4G] bitbang3r:
Still agonizing as the annual upgrade looms on the horizon, but if it came down to Photon-vs-SGS2, I'm leaning heavily towards the MoPho. Why?

* I'm still licking my Epic4G wounds, and I'm not a glutton for punishment. Cyanogen's employment by Samsung mitigates this to a large extent, but not even Cyanogen can fix fundamental RF design problems.

* I've seen plenty of daily evidence that the Epic's 4G implementation utterly sucks compared to every other Sprint phone in existence, and I've seen nothing that would lead me to believe the SGS2 will be any better in that regard because the Epic's Wimax problems seem to be software-related -- and Samsung just doesn't seem to be interested in even trying to fix them. Samsung isn't a newbie by any means when it comes to radios, but Moto literally wrote the book. I fully believe that there are value-engineering compromises that Samsung can, will, and does make without a second thought or regret that would have Motorola engineers quitting in disgust.

* Every better feature on the SGS2 seems to be qualified by a "...but..." disclaimer. Bigger screen, but lower res. Faster clockrate, but not a Tegra and (probably) worse battery life.

* No camera button. Epic fail.

That said, if Sprint announces that we're getting the Nexus Prime after all before the end of October... it's mine. ;-)
[Motorola Photon 4G] pukemon:
Tsk Tsk. Amoled overall is less power efficient than slcd. Micromanaging your phone to use as much black as possible to try and still argue that amoled is more efficient is just a front that your phone is using you.

I voided my warranty and your mum.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Just like only playing Tegra2 optimized games on your phone to try and still argue your phone is faster.

Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] vanstrien:
I guess you haven't heard of Samsung's Bada before? It has pretty widespread support in Europe, especially Germany/Italy/Spain, as well as Asia. I think the rumors you heard are pretty unfounded.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pukemon:
Insecure or something?

I voided my warranty and your mum.
[Motorola Photon 4G] limeaid:
The dedicated camera button was one of the features that initially drew me to the Photon. But then when I got my hands on it and realized that the button was not a dual-stage button, I was like *WTF*!!!!!

C'mon Moto, if you're gonna include the button, at least do it right. The dedicated button is utterly useless without a dual stage mechanism. I end up having to use the touchscreen to take all my photos anyway...
[Motorola Photon 4G] my2cents:
I was wondering about this. I figured I just didnt know how to fly it yet...
[Motorola Photon 4G] beartrap:
I'm very aware of Bada but do you know how to do an internet search? Bloomberg and DigiTimes and South Korean Government are the sources for most of the chatter. Maybe you should learn how to search the internet before you try to tell someone off.

Today was the first day Samsung officially announced it wasn't interested in WEBOS.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
I completely agree with everything you said, but I really agree with this. It is absolutely dead in here and it amazes me. I just talked to my guy at Sprint and he has sold almost 150 Photons this week, they have been selling like hotcakes now. Not at first but they just picked up this week. I just don't understand why some of the other developers haven't woke up and realized what a great phone this could be. Maybe that is Motorola's fault, I dunno. But it sucks because I really wanted to see 5-10 good ROMs on the dev page and a bunch of other hack and whatnot we could do with this thing, so far we only have Star Wars, and Alien. Not that they aren't good, just that we don't really have sh*t.

I figured we would get 1 or 2 dev's at first and then they would start telling their friends and yadda yadda yadda, here come 20+ dev's into the scene. but I guess most of them are going to be shooting towards the SGS2 and that phone will get the support this one should of had. Doubt I will go to the SGS2, I think I will be holding out for the HTC Kingdom (Evo's big brother, BIG brother) lol.

Who knows, maybe we'll get a late rush of Dev's in here when they finally realize what a good phone this is just right out of the box. Only seeing new posts daily from people that should just exchange their phones instead of posting is pretty disappointing.

It is what it is though. Hope everyone finds the phone they want and are happy with.

Keep in mind, with Sprint you can reset your 30 day time limit on the 29th day and get a new photon or whatever it is you want to get up to 3 times!! Please understand this. It is completely legal with Sprint, call them and ask. So really you get 90 days to try out a phone, or a couple phones!

So if any other dev's just want to try it out, that would be long enough to give it a shot and then try out the SGS2 and then come back to the Photon or just stay with the SGS2 if you wanted to. That is a great way to decide what you really want! You actually get to use each phone for 29 days or so!

EDIT: Another thing that is really irritating is that it seems that moderators completely ignore the Photon forums. There are plenty of threads that should be stickied and are not. Recovery threads, root threads, etc. And where is our Q&A forum?????

-DJ
[Motorola Photon 4G] limeaid:
I just had a chance to get my hands on a gs2 from germany. I really liked it, but the thing was HUGE. I believe the variant I was playing with was the same size as the epic touch but was not 100% sure since the owner of the phone did not know the size of the screen. It was quite a bit larger than my photon.

If this gs2 was representative of the size of the epic touch, then I'm cooling a bit on switching phones. The gs2 is simply too big to fit comfortably in my pocket
[Motorola Photon 4G] pukemon:
If you have the photon, stick with it. Its just a bigger atrix. Btw guys, if you have a photon goto the atrix development forums and look for the thread [mod] kernel display backlit (successful). Im assuming you guys have the same lm3532 display chip we have and the screen is too bright at night. Try playing with the terminal commands to get your display lower brightness and bonus, lower your current draw improving your battery life. Its still early but you can type in the echo command for the lowest setting and.it will reset.if you reboot. Hopefully maybe some devs for the photon can play with and get something changed or an app going for manually changing display brightness.

I voided my warranty and your mum.
[Motorola Photon 4G] downtrodn:
I had an atrix, loved it. Moved over to sprint and got the EVO 3d over the.mopho. I'm exchanging the EVO for something that will have good call quality and aosp. Eventually with cm7 and miui.

So..

Nexus s?

Photon?

Or sgs2?

I do miss the atrix though..
[Motorola Photon 4G] ghodzilla5150:
Personally I could careless if Dev's are not all over this phone and want to Jerkoff the SGS2. I can actually live without ROm's for the 1st time as I love the Photon the way it is. I had Synergy SC2 running on my EVO before I went Photon. The Photon is Great the way it is. The only thing I want is Free Wireless Tether because Ad-Hoc is NOT working. Other than that I am Perfectly happy with this phone the way it is out of the box.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
The photon has excellent call quality. I have heard bad about the nexus reception. The sgs2 ? We'll see.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bitbang3r:
>But then when I got my hands on it and realized that the button was not

>a dual-stage button, I was like *WTF*!!!!!

(bashes head against the desk)

Argh. Why is it that something so simple and straightforward ends up being something that no f***ing manufacturer can consistently get right? I mean, do these companies' CEOs live in complete oblivion to things like news that the most popular iPhone app in history was an app to hijack a button to use for taking pictures? Is there a chapter in the book they all read in business school that says, "When looking for ways to shave 7 cents from the manufacturing cost of a $650 phone, always start by eliminating the camera button?"

Just once, could we have a phone that sells for $206.39 instead of $199.99 and just does everything right, instead of having stupid deficiencies imposed for the sake of meeting an arbitrary price point? Like those awful capacitive buttons every single new phone is stuck with. HTC got it right ~5 years ago with the Leonardo... capacitive sensors to determine WHERE you're pressing, on a clicky tactile moving plate to determine WHEN you're pressing them.
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
the Call Quality of the SGS2 can never compare to the one in PHOTON 4G.

most of the SGS2 users are complain about bad reception and call quality all

over the web.

all the other stuff like Camera,UI..samsung wins bigtime
[Motorola Photon 4G] pukemon:
Motorola and nokia are top notch and the best in the biz for radio. Probably gps too. I remember a couple of nokia had borked gps. And if you changed to google servers for gps it greatly improved lock times.

Btw, the more o think about it the more I think the sgs2 is overhyped. Its been out about 6 months and the US is finally getting it officially. I think this is planned out by samsung which is fine, and also plays into iphone strategy. Ill be happy though if sgs2 dethrones iphone5. Apple can suck on deze nuts.

I voided my warranty and your mum.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
So you think it's overhyped because it's been out for 6 months and it's now coming to the US?

Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] pukemon:
Basically. Its been out awhile. I guess cheap ass america was waiting for the subsidies.. there are comparable phones that can be had for about $400+ new and even cheaper used. The only thing that sets the gs2 apart for me is the hardware acceleration. I can overlook all the minor shortcomings except ****ty battery life. That's why I went with the atrix. I wonder how much better battery life would be if the mail400 was 40nm instead of 65nm.

I voided my warranty and your mum.
[Motorola Photon 4G] timmymarsh:
Guys,

I think this thread has run its course and to prevent a flamefest this thread is closed.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliasbody:
Hello everyone,

I have the G1 since he is out, and now the Huawei X5 since I don't have a lot of money to buy an expensive and good phone like the S2 or the Nexus S.

One thing that always interested me a lot was the Custom Rom for all kind, available to the G1 and now the Huawei X5.... But one thing is missing, I've been trying to make my own custom rom, porting from one device to another but I don't really know how to do that :S...

I know that the Huawei X5 and the HTC Desire Z are very similar phones (same CPU, GPU, RAM and Screen Size). Some roms that have been ported to the Huawei almost all are based in HTC Desire / Z roms.

I've been trying to port myself a HTC Sense Ui rom to that phone, but I really don't know how to start :S... I don't mind of having a lot of bugs to correct, I don't mind of having a lot of scripting and hard programming in Java or C to do that, I love programming in all kind of languages, and I have created a few apps for Android, but only one reached the Market since the others are just testes (like games), so I really don't mind to have an hard work. As I like to say, learn is always I good thing, more if it is something that we like.

So I'm asking, for someone who knows how to do it to help me. I don't need someone to do the work for me, and I don't need an extensive tutorial with pictures. I just need, if possible, a simple example, and the necessary tools, the rest I will try to search myself.

Thank in Advance for all of you that take their time to answer me.

And I'm really sorry for my Horrible English :S...

Luis Da Costa,
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] she11c0de:
+1

i want to know too
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SinawY:
I think its impossible .

it's very hard to port a sense rom from HTC device to another HTC device.

any way here is a guide for porting sense roms for HTC devices:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1222746
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
Ok so makes no sense ive not had any problems like this. Ive had my phone for months. All the sudden last night i plug it into my ps3 to move over a video file and Boom. the Ps3 freezes in such a way that all the controllers stop working and i cant do anything on it. Unplug the phone and after a few seconds things go back to normal. I plug it into my Usb hub (4 way splitter from Tmo) on the ps3 and it works (albeit very very slowly). Try to go back to just the ps3 and again it stalls and the pc wont even see it. Today trying to fix the problem ive changed to 4 different roms, tried mounting in recovery and tried to get my PC to recognize it every way i know and nothing is working. The charging light comes on but nothing else seems to happen on the ps3 or computer. Thanks in advance pros
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
Bump. Please help if u can guys. Thanks
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theinitial21:
ooo i had this issue earlier this week, installed like 3 different roms and it wouldnt see it, but all of a sudden it came back up.

what I did was wipe data/factory, cache, davlik, went into mount and storage formatted everything that gave me the option, mounted usb and installed Royal Panache rom. rebooted twice and it showed again.

hope this can help you.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jorge330823:
I had a similar issue with my nexus s and a dev told me to partition SD card or power down phone. Plug it in go to recovery and find mount SD card try that
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
So i tried both ideas, interesting results. I had already tried getting it to work in recovery and no joy. Flashed the latest CWM 5.0.1.0 and still nothing.

Then tried Royal Panache and the phone seems to see the comp, lets me pick what kind of connection i want to use but then nothing else happens on the comp. A

Any new tips?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theinitial21:
did it show up on the panache rom then? when you say it didnt show up on the computer, it didnt pop up and it didnt show in the "computer" section where it shows all drives?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
Yes exactly.on panache only, it Shows in the phone but its as if the comp then can't see it. Still works fine with the hub but nothing else, have tried different computers, ROMs, cords, recovery images. The only way it works is through the hub. THIS MAKES NO SENSE.......could un rooting fix this? Could it maybe be the sdcard?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bstylz911:
This happens to me...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lesey8109:
This happened to me and flashing the latest unity kernal fixed it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1050106
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
ok, so virtuous didnt help. The rom didnt work alone neither did using the latest kernel. Unrooting now. will keep all posted.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivers33:
no dice mates, all the way back to stock and no difference. Like the panache ROM, the notification shows up, but it doesnt seem to make any real difference. Doesnt show on the comp or ps3 and so im on the phone with TMO now.
[Nook Color General] cityoke2:
Is there a way to make it where the nook doesn't wake from sleep when you hit the nook button? I know it used to not do that, but now I can not find a way to make it where it doesn't wake when the button is hit. I am running cm7 nightly 176.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] jasoraso:
One way to do it:

Using root explorer, in system r/w mode

Navigate to /system/usr/keylayout and edit

qwerty.kl

Delete "wake" from the line for key 102 HOME

Another way to do it is use ADB to pull the qwerty.kl from the NC; then use a unix compatible text editor to delete the "WAKE" tag; and push the file back to /system/usr/keylayout.
[Nook Color General] cityoke2:
Thank you sir/lass that did trick and hassle ridden me of a problem I have had for quite a while.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
You can do this with the volume keys, too; I can reach into my bag to adjust the volume without the screen waking up and thinking I'm touching it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mustangmatt1966:
Hey All,

First post here in the Galaxy tab forum but I frequent the XDA phone forums. I have a question (and I have done plenty of searching online and in the forums) but can not seem to get this to work.

My Galaxy Tab 10.1 WIFI only is rooted and has the newest TASK650 ROM installed. I am using the Motorola Photon 4G (rooted as well) with Barnacle WIFI tether. The Photon creates an adhoc network.

I have installed ZT-180 adhoc switcher on my Galaxy Tab and can not seem to get it to connect to my phone for tethering. I have made sure the SSID on both the ZT-180 app on the tab and the tethering app (Barnacle) match.

In the ZT-180 app on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 WIFI only, I switch from infrastructure mode to adhoc and it will not connect nor does it seem to do anything.

When I switch back to infrastructure mode it will connect to my home internet but switching to adhoc mode does nothing. Barnacle WIFI tethering on my phone is running and I can confirm I can connect to a computer for access. I have disabled WEP security just to be sure.

I know this topic has been discussed before but I could not seem to find the answers so I came here.

I hope you all can help a brother out.

Thanks again!

-Matt
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mustangmatt1966:
Anyone? :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mustangmatt1966:
Edit* i was able to connect my phone and tab via bluetooth and turn on Barnacle tether and it works. Thanks :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n99flake:
So, There's always paranoia about Flashing. No surprise there.

Here I will list the major worries and hopefully some aces will give opinions on all.

1) Network Locked Phones? - Does it REALLY matter if your phone is network locked before flashing a new Firmware? (i.e. CSC/PHONE&MODEM)? [If so, what firmware are/were you on?]

2) IMEI numbers - There have been various reports of IMEI numbers going down the drain on certain flashes.

EFS folders CAN be backed up but is it only ADB that can sucessfully back this folder up without restoration problems? And more questions...

3) Bricking - Seems like it's hard to brick any SGS entirely, but, whats the realistic percentage? 5%, 10% or up to 50%?

4) Warranty problems. Flashing does not necessarily void your warranty. ROOTING DOES, correct?

4a) OMG MY PHONE IS BRICKED! HOLY CAPERS BATMAN EVERYTHING IS RUINED!

Whilst unfortunate, seems like if a phone in this state is sent to samsung/ a repair centre they will have no idea what's gone on and replace it anyway, even if there was root. Discuss......

Flake x
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n99flake:
aahhh come one guys, after 150+ views, someone MUST have something to say about this...

It's never safe 100% to do any flashing, but maybe a weigh up of the problems might be useful to first timers... pleeaase

F x
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mushrom:
-i have a network locked phone, no problems at all.

-imei, just root your phone and backup the /EFS folder, although if you dont check EFS remove or wipe in odin, anything should happen.

-bricking is hard... almost allways you can run into download mode (and if usb isnt hw damaged will repair your phone)

-flashing and rooting both void your warranty, if you have a hw issue and want to send it, just take sure to flash a stock rom.

-if aint booting, and anything can be done by you, just cross your fingers send it, and never say what you did.

(all those questions are answered tons of times, thats why pple dont answer)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n99flake:
Nice one, cheers!

Don't suppose you know the best way to backup EFS?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJNutty:
I used Nitrality (from market) to backup my efs. Open it, click tools, then click backup efs. ***Note: your phone must be rooted and have superuser for Nitrality to be able to perform this backup***
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n99flake:
That is one nice app.

Thanks again!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mushrom:
imo, just copy&paste /EFS folder is safe enough, to repair imei just copy back...

apps might make images or dunno...

cheers^^
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SGS_elko:
-I backed up my efs folder with root-explorer. Just zip it with root-expl and send it to yourself via mail.

-My phone is network locked, i flashed a couple of fws and not any problem so far.

-For flashing only use trusted fws, like Ramad's, and don't tuch the phone during you flash the phone (because the contact of the USB port). So it should be all right!

Regards
[Acer Iconia A500] primus123:
I have spent alot of time searching for this but nothing pops up.

Can someone direct me to a section about overclocking this bad boy.

I'm already rooted. That's pretty much all I have done. I use it mostly for school. But do have a few emulators on the device
[Acer Iconia A500] Diablo67:
Theres a few threads that have different kernels,but you need to make sure you backup your os before using them,also these kernels are made to work on certain roms,so you need to carefully read each thread before OCing your tab.Heres a couple http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1170319

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138115
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sk8trix:
I am runnning 4.5.91 odexed

Unlocked bootloader

Rooted and Webtop mods all already implemented.

What I am trying to do is get the 1% battery mod but one that I have seen in the forum here is for a deodexed system....is there one for a odexed system?

What can I do I amnot trying to get a deodexed ROM like kens or alien or anything like that so will this mod be possible for me? thanks people.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mysticdrew:
Is it the ROM you don't want?

You can deodex without flashing a custom one. The steps are in this forum somewhere lol.