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[HTC Sensation] kripwalk:
Well I was thinking of flashing a new radio to match the rom im using. I just need help to know how are the way the phone can be bricked. or what happens if you flash an unmatched radio
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
There is no such thing as unmatched radio. It might not work as well as supplied radio, but it should still work. General conception is that latest radio is always the best, you just need to flash RIL which matches the radio to ensure maximum compatibility. Be very careful with flashing radios as this is the easiest way to brick. The safest way IMHO is to flash via adb.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muhammadshais:
after a lot of trying cant get my flashing process start in flashtool am using version 0.2.9.1 and my arc enters the flash mode blue led flashes but flashtool does not start flashing it continues asking connect it in flash mode .i have installed drivers and my windows shows device connected as s1 fastboot but still no luck..checked command prompt method of unlocking bootloader and it gives value 0.3 telling me that my phone is in fastboot mode then y does not the flashtool start flashing????please help:confused:
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShyamSasi:
It should be the Green light you need to Press the Power button + Back button
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muhammadshais:
Thanks a lott i wass pressing the menu key lol
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GreyGhostRos:
Menu + plugin to USB == fastboot mode.. You use it to flash unsigned images in fastboot mode using the "fastboot" tool (Blue light)

For flashing with Flashtool it is plugin with back button..
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] anasshe:
i updated my x10 to 2.3.3 thin i try to install applications on it, some of them installing successfully and some of them not although they was working on 2.1

so any help
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] mortar6:
Stok or custom??
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Quercus1:
All Orig. 2.3.3 APKs
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] anasshe:
both of them same i try on custom 2.2.3 and stock 2.3.3.

on 2.1 all working and installing fine

(the problem when i try to install some games)
[General Questions and Answers] SxcKieranGrr:
I'm looking to learn how to code, mainly because its something that has always interested me but I have never done. I have no experience in it at all. I'm looking for a book that can set me up with the very basics in java (or is it better to start off with a different language?) and hopefully I can move on from there.

If anyone knows of any good books that could help me I would greatly appreciate a link to it.

Thankyou.
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
http://goo.gl/xB9rK

Why does no one use the search before opening another thread?

Ohnoez

http://www.google.com/cse?q=learn+c...ub-2900107662879704:fs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1

Wut?

http://www.google.com/cse?q=learn+d...ub-2900107662879704:fs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1

I seriously could not find an answer to your question by using the search function.

http://www.google.com/cse?q=learn+p...ub-2900107662879704:fs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1
[General Questions and Answers] SxcKieranGrr:
So even on sophisticated websites like this there are still childish idiots like yourself on them. Yes you're probably right in that I should have searched before creating a new thread, however obviously I didn't think of that.

Maybe next time you should try and show maybe at least an inch of maturity when posting. Oh and for someone who would like me to donate to them and buy/download their apps you're not going the right way about it.

I dont know if that because you joined before me or have more posts than I do, this makes you think you have some superiority over me or new members, but it doesn't and remember with every new member is potentially another donation to you for your work. So if you want to carry on alienating these member towards you then carry on but if you don't then you might want to re-think your mentality towards them, because personally I wont be donating or ever downloading any of you apps.

With that said, thankyou for the links.
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
What you are seeing is my lack of understanding for people creating new threads with topics that have been covered a hundredtimes over.

I'm merely calling you out for your obvious mistake of not using the search.

You made the mistake, deal with it.

Thanks. May i call you lazy idiot?

I don't want anything from you.

You want something from this forum, more exactly from its members.

You want an answer.

You did not pay anything for the knowledge available for free here, neither the time a member puts up to help you out.

What you could do is show some courtesy by using the search function to not waste the time of people who are willing to help out.

Both my join date and post count are indirectly related to this.

It just means that i have seen too many threads like this, which could have been avoid by a few seconds of search.

What is more astonishing is that i still browse the question and answer forums to help people out.

Yeah maybe some people won't get the answer they wanted to hear, but hey you got your answer.
[General Questions and Answers] SxcKieranGrr:
Im confused now, from looking around it looks like python is the most basic of languages but if i was to start with a dummy book for that, would it actually help me achieve learning java? I dont want to get the wrong book and be completely lost because I havent learnt the complete basics.

It seems like everyone says different things and I cant get a clear answer of where to start.

@Dark3n I'm not going to sit here and argue, you have your view I have mine let's leave it at that. If you would like to help me (which somehow i doubt) that would be great, thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
The most basic language would be machinecode (ASSEMBLER).

But beleive me that it is really painfull to write and learn.

Python is a nice language to write in, no doubt.

But you should think about what you want to do with your programming skills?

Something Android related?

Then you should look at C for linux kernels and the lower levels of android.

or

Java for Apps and the higher levels of the android os.

If you want to learn java there is no advantage in learning python first, besides that you can program in python and java.
[General Questions and Answers] SxcKieranGrr:
I would like eventually to create an app for android, which is obviously done in java but if i got even the most basic of java books would i still be lost?
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
Edit: I just remembered there was a thread similar to this one where i already had a lengthy discussion about this topic.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179816

Not totally lost, you will learn about variables, if statements, loops, classes etc. those things are all still valid when writing apps. Those somewhat remain valid through most of the programming languages.

But basic java does not cover connecting your java code with the android user interface or making use of any android feature (rotate display, sensors, telefon,gps,etc.).

But seriously you don't need a book. Of course you can get one if you really want to. I would probably search the amazon bestseller list for something on android programming (for dummies) which does not require previous programming knowledge.

You can also just jump into it, google for "android hello world tutorial" or something like that.

But the official hello world tutorial should do.

Should make you able to write your very first app pretty quick. It's only a "Hello World" app, but hey thats where everyone starts out.
[General Questions and Answers] DeviateDefiant:
Aside from the programming itself, knowledge of Linux and *nix orientated operating systems would be useful. Terminal commands and such will prove invaluable if you take application development to a professional level in the future.

C and Java are obviously what's mainly involved in Android. But if you want something simple to begin with look at HTML and CSS (which are basically just translation matrixs not languages).
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
HTML and CSS knowledge would help a bit with the android user interface, but not with the actual code of the apps/programs themself.

I would advise the OP not to start with HTML and CSS if he wants to get into the programming buissness.

Unless you are going to make webpages HTML and CSS takes you pretty far of the track.
[General Questions and Answers] DeviateDefiant:
HTML and CSS, are two useful skills to have regardless. As you mention for interfacing, and also for the ability to work with Web Apps in the future. For myself learning Javascript and PHP has certainly helped with getting into Java/C.

Certainly HTML/CSS aren't related to learning Java and C but it's a good entrance point to coding in general. Although you yourself may see it as sidetracking, it can help some not to jump in at the deep end.

I wish the OP the best of luck.
[General Questions and Answers] csstamatin:
Hey dar3n, I had posted a similar thread as well, minus all the attitude, but I agree it does get posted alot, after talking to u and searching around a bit. Why dont u get someone to make a sticky post in one of the newbie rooms, or the q&a. Start a sticky discussion and I bet half these posts dissapear.lol
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warmo161:
Hi, I was looking into rooting my phone and I would like to ask a few questions, which I would guess have been asked before...

1. Do some roms come pre-rooted?

2. Do custom roms support OTA updates?

3. How do I unlock my nexus by unlocking the bootloader, and use the stock rom?

ATM I am on 2.3.4 + Locked bootloader, plz help, as I dont really understand a lot of the tutorials on the internet + a lot of them are old :confused:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Good place to start

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Nexus_One
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmollabi:
look on youtube

Nexus One 3g
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
As you know, 99% of the time the Bionic is dealing with singlethreaded apps (including the STOCK browser). Not a single Moto app is taking advantage of the dual core setup included with the phone. And only a few apps downloaded from the market can properly utilize both cores.

That being said - we can take the HTC Thunderbolt (single core) and put it up against the OMAP4430 and run a SERIES of tests.

We all hear that benchmarks don't mean much, and I agree to an extent.

I find it hard to disagree that the Bionic gets beaten in EVERY CPU based benchmark against the Thunderbolt at stock 1ghz.

So what's the real point in having a dual core phone that can't single-thread faster than older 1ghz single-cored phones?

Most of the speed/snappiness the lot of are experiencing is the DDR2 1gb ram, not the dual cores. If the Tbolt featured the same DDR2 ram, I bet the feeling would be close to identical on both phones, except in most cases, the Tbolt would outperform the Bionic.

There's no telling what Ice Cream Sandwich will bring to the table for multi-cored devices later, but as it stands right now, Snapdragons are wiping the floor in single threading.

Some examples:

Tbolt stock, Browsermark = 62,000+ score

Bionic stock, Browsermark = 52,000+ score

Closer in this test:

Tbolt stock, Linpack Singlethread = 41 MFLOPS

Bionic stock, Linpack Singlethread = 40 MFLOPS, seen it hit 44 once

Tbolt stock, Sunspider using Dolphin HD = 3157 ms

Bionic stock, Sunspider using Dolphin HD = 3706 ms

Just food for thought here, Bionic's actually slower 99% than the Tbolt.. I cannot compare to other single core phones.. but this is a good example against the 2nd generation Snapdragon chip in the Thunderbolt.

Edit: And about 2D performance, Thunderbolt melts the Bionic's face in anything 2D related (bitmapping, canvas, etc)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] comper:
The point of a dual core processor isn't to beat a single core processor in single core limited processes. I agree that the software isn't there to fully take advantage of the dual core processor, but it will definitely come. My TBolt that was overclocked to 1.8ghz and on various Sense and AOSP ROMS was still not as snappy as my Bionic which is bone stock when it comes to opening apps, switching through apps, browsing the internet, and scrolling home screens with a live wallpaper (both using LauncherPro).

Once again, not a lot of software supports dual core processors in phones, and that includes some of the benchmarking programs. Comparing the two in synthetic tests at this point in time is pointless. When it comes to real world performance, the Bionic clearly outdoes my TBolt and Charge, which is expected. I won't argue that the RAM doesn't contribute to the snappiness, but even if the TBolt had the same type and amount of RAM, the Bionic would still kill it in performance.

The dual core is great because not only is it very snappy now, but it future proofs your phone and will only get better as Android software gets developed to take advantage of it.

Just my opinion on the matter.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rlewis312010:
To me, Android is expanding into the world of MULTI-TASKING. An AMD Athlon 3000+ single core can be fast, BUT compared to a dual core processor, you can run multiple applications without losing your one core to that intensive task.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rlewis312010:
Oh, also wanted to add that I've never needed more than a dual core. WHEN not gaming, an AMD 6000+ dual core with 4 gigabytes of ram is PLENTY for me. It allows me to write a DVD, browse internet, have a program installing, use RSD lite, etc. 4, 6, 8, etc; overkill to me. Human body can only do so much. I am happy to have my dual core Bionic coming, should be all I need for a while (computer has lasted me like 5 years and still smokes MANY I use that others have). OPTIMIZATION, lol.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
Good responses so far.. and i'm in agreeance that the future of Android will bring more multi-core support to light and take more advantage. I just like pointing out that at this point in time, modern day dual core phone SOCs are a tad slower in single threaded CPU functions..

With the exception of the Samsung Exynos where it seems to whip butt in all tests.. MHZ to MHZ and single thread or multi threaded events.

I will say that positively the OMAP4430 SOC is decently faster than the Tegra2 SOC and it's about neck and neck with the Series3 Snapdragon Dual-Cores.. Compare against the HTC Sensation which runs at 1.2ghz x2, the Bionic at 1ghz x2 is typically faster!

So with that said, the Bionic will scream with a small bump in MHZ.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Immolate:
Since my son has a stock Thunderbolt and I have a stock Bionic, I thought I'd take a stab at reproducing your results.

Sunspider

Thunderbolt 4438.3 4309.7 4426.0 average 4391.3

Bionic 3811.2 3844.9 3782.1 average average 3812.7

Bionic winner by 13%

Linpack

Thunderbolt 25.882 76.767 26.247 average 26.299

Bionic 42.707 42.882 43.961 average 43.183

Bionic winner by 64%

Browsermark

Thunderbolt 39456 42868 40658 average 40994

Bionic 50532 51633 50975 average 51047

Bionic winner by 25%

Quadrant

Thunderbolt 1699 1621 1704 average 1675

Bionic 2075 2081 2120 average 2092

Bionic winner by 25%

Not sure if you have a custom ROM or an overclocked CPU, but whatever you used to benchmark the Thunderbolt was not stock. Research that can't be reproduced by a disinterested third party is probably flawed.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jbdan:
Nice scores! Thx for clearing this up :-)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cstrife999:
Speed isn't what dual core is about... PC benchmarks for purely speed would be the same... It's about multitasking...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
Is your son on the latest and greatest OTA and radio?

Edit: There's something wrong with your son's Tbolt.. Linpack has been 38-40 across the board for new Tbolt users.. Had to dig up old threads about people posting scores.. . even Engadget's tbolt scored 38 back on day 1 when Tbolt was released.

2nd edit: My buddy's stock Tbolt hit a 4100 sunspider in stock browser, 39 in linpack, 55k in browsermark.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
Funny, because it's not like Gingerbread is telling the cpu what threads to run on what core.. the support isn't there.. only apps are able to take advantage of the threads.. Since there's no thread balancing built into Gingerbread, we might as well be running a single-core CPU in the Bionic.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cstrife999:
Considering how big of a jump performance wise... I think you'd be wrong...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Immolate:
I personally took the Thunderbolt back to stock with stock radios. The phone comes back as no updates available. If you have a source for what the up-to-date versions should be, I'll be happy to check and verify. I haven't been following the phone since I switched to the D3 when it came out. As you're no-doubt aware, Froyo would not run on the GB radios, so they had to be reverted.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
Big of a jump performance wise.. according to what? Your eyes.. The feeling you get when using the phone? According to real numbers, i'm seeing different... or atleast close to the same as my Tbolt.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cstrife999:
I think it's pretty common knowledge that benchmarks are pretty much all flawed in one way or another. Day to day performance is kills my thunderbolt.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
I don't know what to tell you but the Tbolt you were working with sounds like it's botched.. or has some serious apps eating up cycles in the background to be affecting performance that much.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mcniglet:
Why does it seem like everyone is bashing the bionic? I just got mine coming from a fascinate and I'm overall happy with mine. Since I couldn't get a galaxy 2 I got the bionic. I never found the Thunderbolt appealing but seems everyone is saying how much better they like the Thunderbolt all of which are coming from a Thunderbolt. No one's forcing you to change, keep your Thunderbolt.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] draco259:
Having had a fascinate and Dinc2 and i have also rooted a few thunderbolts I can say that the bionic is my favorite phone i have had/ used so far.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Immolate:
Just tell me all of your Thunderbolt's version, radio and baseband information.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] manolith2011:
i got my bionic on friday. upgraded from a droid 1 and so far i like it. the only thing i dont like is the screen. as far as performance goes its just as fast as my galaxy tab 10.1
[Motorola Droid Bionic] adrynalyne:
The folks talking about multitasking being the difference here confuse me. The second core IS NOT UTILIZED in single threaded apps. So right now, its single core vs. single core.

To the person who posted 25 mflops from Linpack...that phone has issues.

Im not bashing the Bionic. This is true for EVERY dual core phone. One core sits idle, unused, unless there are some multithreaded apps. I don't care how much you multi-task.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] luke1333:
for you people that say the bionic is a joke and single core thunderbolt is better is nuts. i came from rooted, rommed and overclocked thunderbolt with 2.3.3 sense 3.0 and the works and the bionic stock blows it away! the 1 GB of ddr2 ram is the game changer and once devs learn to write code for programs and os scripts to take care of utilizing the dual cores look out this phone will be an item to be reckoned with!! just wait ppl!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] azwildfire:
One thing that makes a difference RIGHT NOW - the webtop app. I have put a linux distro on the T-bolt and compared it to the default webtop app, and the webtop app is much snappier with just using firefox and rdesktop performance. I can also open more copies of firefox before the system bogs on the Bionic than I could on the tbolt (most likely RAM related.)

But it makes me sad how much people forget about the glorious webtop!!!! (I had an atrix before so I know how lovely it can be once it gets tweaked into a full linux distro)

As far as future proofing, my fear is that by the time SMP software is main stream in the android world, quad core phones will be out.

On a side note, android runs on a modified linux kernel and it is my understanding the kernel schedules the threads and spawns them on whichever core it wants.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] adrynalyne:
I wouldn't count on this and even if it does...

Microsoft made similar arguments, but performance increases in Windows were never truly seen until apps became multi-threaded. And that was an entirely multi-threaded OS...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] seanmcd72:
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mzimand:
My bionic hits 65 in linpack and have hit 70 and 2500+ in quadrant with a couple 2750's.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eallan:
It's true actually. It natively uses both cores. You're wrong on windows too. Even something like burning a cd while browsing allowed you to see a performance increase in windows. Running two single threaded apps on different cores was worth it alone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
Someone who understands what im trying to convey...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] draco259:
I would trust adry on this one he knows his stuff. Also the 65-70 on linpack is with multi-threading on. In single mode its in the 40's.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] moosc:
you ask why. simple my phone is dual core 1gb yours is single core crude. ha ha my phone wins. its bragging rights.:D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cvmaas:
I don't think you understand how multicore support works at the OS level. The OS still uses both cores, but with multicore support the OS can lock a thread onto a certain core, its called affinity. The performance difference is the overhead required to swap the thread to a different core, and was a bigger problem on Intel chips because both cores had separate L1 caches and when the thread swapped cores, the data on the L1 cache had to do the same. Our processors don't have different caches for each core, so that performance hit is minimal.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] deathcipris:
Not sure if it has already been said, but two words...

"future proof"

Much longer EOL being that it is dual-core and apps will begin to take advantage of this soon, what with nVidia releasing a new Tegra2 each week (not literally, but you get the idea)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] idefiler6:
/thread

Basing arguments on technology that's ahead of it's applications is setting yourself up to look stupid (wait, what?).
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tommixoft:
How to get rid of screen lock screen? i'm tired to use that i want to see my phone after pressing button not slice to unlock :) Is there any easy way?

I' NOT talking about password and so on i'm talking about screenlocker itself. PS and i don't want any app to do this :) I hate apps.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] levibuko:
Can you tell me the sense of a smartphone when you don't use apps and email on your smartphone?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] spirosbond:
I found a way to do do something like that you want. As i can see you have cm7 so you have the CM settings, I guess. There are 3 lockscreen settings which can do sort of what you want:

1) Go to ->Unlock options and enable Menu unlock & Disable unlock slider

2) Go to ->Delay and timeout and put screen timeout delay and screen turn off delay to max (30min i think).

So your phone after these setting will lock after 30 min of nonuse and will unlock by pressing the menu button without showing any slice to unlock!

Hope I helped... :D
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tommixoft:
Well that's definitely better then it was :D Thanks. cause it's very bad thing when you have to turn on phone every few minutes cause you got sms :D Buti home there will be some one who knows how to remove. I have my Archos 32 player and it uses android but it don't have lock screen :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] marcindpol:
Battery drains out from 10% to 1% and (OFF) in a minute, yes one minute...

Any one has the same problem?, is this normal?.

I noticed it does not happen every time, what could possibly cause the problem?.

Thanks