yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO Shift 4G General] FdxRider:
I hate to see it too,not far behind see ya in the huddle!
[EVO Shift 4G General] drob311:
Well this sucks! But we will still be in contact... unfortunately, or should I say fortunately, I will be cancelling my membership shortly. Certain people have turned their backs to the TRUE community members and it saddens me because I too enjoyed this site at one point... see you in the huddle boss!
[EVO Shift 4G General] notsointeresting:
Aww that sucks. I am close to the same point though.

and where is the Huddle at? Im assuming you mean google+ do I just search for EVO Shift then?
[EVO Shift 4G General] YoungCorruption:
Gonna miss you man. XDA has changed in last 9 months i've been here and not for the good either

Sent from my evo shift as mods are retarded
[EVO Shift 4G General] jwigley24:
what used to be different about xda? ever since i got an evo shift and my friend told me about xda i've been hooked. i'm on here everyday finding out new information. this thread makes no sense to me...
[EVO Shift 4G General] thronnos:
A major part of it from what I have seen since I've been here is the quality of the people. Not accusing or placing blame on anyone. But there is a major difference from when I joined in march to now.

Sent from my Shifty Speedy using the XDA Premium App
[EVO Shift 4G General] cloverdale:
I understand completely, as I used to be very active on here, but do little more than lurk in the shadows these days. The people here are rude miscreants, the mods/admins are power tripping paedophiles living in there moms basements, and there is really nothing posted on here that cannot be done with a minor understanding of linux and java.

P.S. After what the mods did with Indirect, while supporting a scam artist, I feel confident of a ban. So, to the mod that bans me, I forgive you already, as I have worked hard to put myself in an excellent place in life, you have not, so I understand the anger. Look at this way, at least you and your mother will have a dinner topic to discuss (as opposed to the ususal conversations about the health of her favorite cats).
[EVO Shift 4G General] notsointeresting:
Was talking to Indirect on IRC.

He wanted me to tell you he says thanks cloverdale and that you can find him in the shift forums of sdx.

:cool:
[EVO Shift 4G General] im.nick.hello:
I have to say i totally agree, im sorry to say xda is corrupt... even though the devs are great this has gone to far. 1 month ago the shift forums were a peaceful place, we all got along knowing that every shift is different... now mandatory donations and jerks come along

LET THE HUDDLE LIVE ON!
[EVO Shift 4G General] the_scotsman:
Well, this thread appears to be full of mature people doesn't it? :rolleyes:

Closing this before someone else calls us "power tripping paedophiles living in their moms basements" :rolleyes:
[Motorola Droid X2] KurioHonoo:
Does anyone know of any gesture bases launchers? The idea seems pretty cool, im the kind of person who hates clutter on my desktop or home screen so on my phone I usually only have one homesreen with the power widget and very minimal apps. Having gestures would be awesome because then I could get rid of all those apps and just tie them to swipe based gestures on the home screen

Sent from my DROID X2
[Motorola Droid X2] 3UR0TR45H:
ADW has swipe up and swipe down gestures but not much else. There's also wave launcher but I didn't like it much.

[sent from my blurless DX2]
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
I freaking love wave launcher. Especially since I can go directly from browser to root explorer or script manager or gmail or any game. I have almost every app and a few settings in different folders and now u can even put widgets on the wave. Change colors of wave and labels. LOVE WAVE LAUNCHER.

Makes going from one app to the next seamless and.smooth. u can even put direct call or direct message to contact on wave. Seriously awesome.

I know there is google gestures but.its an app u open and write a letter on screen to search ur phone and apps. I prefer wave launcher. And if u use widget locker u can set it so u can use ut on lockscreen.
[Motorola Droid X2] Zues532:
I use Launcher Pro (my personal favorite launcher) and it supports swipe gestures on any/all of the dock icons. For instance, I have my middle dock button (of 5) set to open the app drawer on press, but when I swipe upwards it brings down the notification drawer.

Pretty handy if you hide the status bar like me. :)
[Motorola Droid X2] lhkjohn:
Palm Pre/Pre+/Pixi/Pre2/Veer lol I miss webOS gestures so much! If you're looking for those types of gestures, you may be out of luck.

Tapatalkin' from my Atrix'd out DROIDX2!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itm:
I'm running Launcher Pro Plus, and want to configure swipe actions for the dock icons, but when I press and hold each icon I only get to configure the main action for that icon - I don't get the swipe option. Has anyone else had this issue?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cromanorn:
I just checked in Rom Manager and there it was "Motorola Droid Bionic" WOOOOHOOOO :D:D

Already made a back-up and no issues! Thanks to all the devs who helped to make this happen.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] v1r7u41:
Acts like it installs but when I hit reboot to recovery it just does normal boot.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cromanorn:
I didn't have that problem. Uninstall bootstrap recovery, maybe?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kookahdoo:
Koush said to make certain CVPCS' bootstrap is installed first.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] v1r7u41:
That would be why then thanks :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Terri M:
This may be true, BUT when I bootstrap into recovery via ROM manager, I boot into the newest 5.0.2.4 version of CWM. If I bootstrap via the Bionic Bootstrap app, I boot into 4.0.1.5

Remember to hit the "Thanks" button when someone helps you!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] AdamNJ77:
I tried to make a ackup using ROM Manager and it tries to use "sdcard", not the real "sdcard-ext" (the actual location of the SDHC Card. Does anyone have any suggestions. I can make a backup fine when I reboot into Bootstrap, but not when I do it through ROM Manager. Bootstrap uses sdcard-ext, while ROM Manager is using sdcard
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cromanorn:
That's interesting. I didn't have boot strap installed and i was fine.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cromanorn:
I know he released officially, that's why you don't need the bootstrap apk. I believe Koush said you needed the apk but that was before he released the official for Rom manager. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jawonder:
You can't get into recovery without Bootstrap not even with Rom Manager Bootstrap is the recovery. Koush made that clear when he released support for the Bionic in Rom Manger "you must have Bootstrap installed". Remember the Bootloader is Locked.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cromanorn:
That's real weird. I don't have the bootstrap apk. Only Rom manager and Koush's cwm recovery. I can boot into recovery and back up without any issues.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smalltownbird:
I just froze bootstrap in titanium and used rom manager to install cwm. It installed fine. Then I used rom manager to reboot into recovery and that worked also. I didn't make a backup but it did get me into recovery.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jawonder:
You have to open Bootstrap at least once before you can use Rom Manager to boot into recovery. The new boostrapp has fixes for Clockwork 5.0.2.1.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ak110707:
I bought the Bionic on the 8th but haven't rooted it. Just so people reading this thread (and myself) know. Koush's bootstrap is 2.99 on android market. But if you have a premium version of rom manager do you still have to download the bootstrap from the market?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dubsx:
you may find that backup won't restore ...happened to me...just a heads up...I'm afraid to use Koush’s recovery now for fear it won't work.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PerCompLLC:
Yup. I attempted a backup and restore as well. When restoring, the message was that the various images didn't exist (data image, system image, etc...).
[Motorola Droid Bionic] brandonsisco:
I used Rom Manager to flash recovery and reboot, no success.

I used BionicBootstrap.apk to "Bootstrap Recovery"

and then Rom Manager to Flash latest Recovery

and then Bionic Bootstrap to Reboot to Recovery

and that worked great to achieve the latest version recovery!
[HTC ChaCha] Traumrakel:
Hello from germany -

is there any hack what implements the skype video call option to HTC ChaCha?

Thanks for your help...

Alex
[HTC ChaCha] astro11:
hey there, I don't think there is a hack. You can try downloading Skype and see if the video call functionality is already working out of the box...

or you can also wait for the Skype to implement the functionality on our phone, if you check the Skype android app page, you can see which phones are already available for video calls.
[HTC ChaCha] myxcon:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1153285
[HTC ChaCha] astro11:
any updates on this? is skype's video call working for ChaCha?
[HTC ChaCha] cLeAv0:
Try the link above you.
[HTC ChaCha] hermex26:
it s working normally without set up anything else
[HTC ChaCha] Emil Borconi:
I cannot get it to work

Hi. I have a ChaCha running 2.3.5 with S-ON.

I checked the link posted previously, downloaded the app, but still no video settings in Skype settings. I'm sure the phone hardware is ok for video calling, because I can use Tango for video calls, but I will really like to use skype as well. Any help please?

Thanks.
[HTC ChaCha] zuli007:
Skype is not working on chacha because it require ARMv7 CPU.
[HTC ChaCha] intel007:
Anyone tried this: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.oovoo

Its cross platform and more importantly free.

Give it a try.
[HTC ChaCha] miguelmaldonado:
It's not compatible with the chacha.. :(
[HTC ChaCha] Flexmaen:
Neither Skype nor Google Talk work with Video chat on the Chacha yet (although there is a "Video for Google Talk" app, but this does not work well.

I was able to install Yahoo Messenger with Video but I did not test it, since none of my friends used Yahoo Messenger and also this as always autostarting - so i deleted it. But I think Yahoo video talk should work.

I really don't understand why Google does not improve Google Talk. I like it more than Skype, but it's not clear why it doesn't even support voice talk on some phones.
[HTC ChaCha] ItachiUchihaSu:
I usually use Yahoo!
[Droid Incredible Accessories] Gorilla*:
SD cards are so irritating. I had a nice 8 gig card and i tried to connect it to my pc to transfer a file.... Long story short, it corrupted and it screws up the phone unless u remove it..

I have a 2 gig card in there now but i cant even insert the card to format it in windows cause windows recognizes the card, but will not format it. ugh.
[Droid Incredible Accessories] SynisterWolf:
do you unmount them before removing them form you device or pc?
[Droid Incredible Accessories] Gorilla*:
nope ......
[Droid Incredible Accessories] SteveG12543:
That could be it :o I've yet to have a problem with any of my SD cards, and I always unmount/safely remove hardware. Who knows, you might just have bad luck with SD cards lol :P

Sent from my Droid Incredible running some random CM7 nightly.
[Droid Incredible Accessories] SynisterWolf:
think of it this way. if the sd card is mounted there is power going to it. if you dont unmount sometimes the power can arc over the contacts. its like if you were working on your pc and decided to pull the RAM right out when the pc was on.
[Droid Incredible Accessories] Gorilla*:
well that was a hard lesson i had to learn i guess.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] franklin270h:
Does anyone have the older cyanogen mod 6 boot animation, the one with the nexus x that turns cyan in color? I searched all over and can't find it and was wondering if someone had the older rom laying around and could pull it for me
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] K3nDroid:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ndy5zrwt05y

how to install here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1161543

And heres the link to the secret website nobody knows about yet (so dont tell anybody), that I used to get this information.:http://www.google.com/
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Mystery252:
LMFAO
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] pol45:
LOL
[Droid 2 Global General] darthmalus:
i have switched carriers, and want to sell my d2g i used the 2.4.29 sbf file and rsd lite to restore it to normal, and its stuck at the droid screen :( i cant believe im having a noob moment. i made sure all my usb drivers where up to date and had the newest version of rsdlite any advice would be great ?
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Pull the battery.

If it doesn't help, go to the stock recovery and perform “wipe data/factory reset”.

Just in case you don't know how to get to the stock recovery, here: http://droid.koumakan.jp/wiki/Android_Recovery
[Droid 2 Global General] darthmalus:
grrr it says E:cant't open /cache/recovery/command

E:can't open/ cache/recovery/caller
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Are you sure the SBF process was completed successfully?

Speaking of which, did you SBF booting the phone into the SBF loader?
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
The errors you saw are ok simply do wipe cache data and you should be fine.
[Droid 2 Global General] darthmalus:
i have done that and have spf'd twice and no matter if i erase the cache it still wont let me factory restore it from the menu.
[Droid 2 Global General] darthmalus:
yeah held the power button down until the little black and white menu came up.

im using DROID2WE_X6_2.4.29_FULL.sbf becuase i wanted to test out the seem edit for unblocking the US gsm bands since im back on at&t now.

my D2G was running the latest build of Fission rom before TBH stoped supporting it. when im sbf'ing i do not really notice any errors when its done it says manually restart phone, but i cant because its in a boot loop. do i have to keep an sd card in it when im doing this ?
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Close RSDlite, and just take the battery out for a second. The phone will boot normally.
[Droid 2 Global General] darthmalus:
problem solved, now after trying to use radiocomm to apply the edit for the band unlock did not work, i found another post that refers to an update.zip that works but the dropbox gives me a 401 error :(
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arayess:
after applying Tiamat-Xoom-Rom-2.2.1.Moray or any other custom rom Vodafone Egypt does not connect to internet although i have GSM signal and i have set the APN manually but still does not work, i have tried Etisalat and it works fine, after restoring the rooted stock rom everything works fine, can anyone help me
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hector_122:
solarnz said it would work with european devices (HSDPA)

This rom supports all wifi devices, US Verizon 3g devices and European devices.

but i am not sure if he tested it himself on one of them, it might be 3g drivers are incomplete on that rom. or also it could be vodafone's fault as your xoom works fine with etisalat and they use the same type of 3g bands.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arayess:
the rooted stock rom works fine
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hector_122:
then it's the 3g drivers from tiamat's rom as i mentioned, contact solarnz or submit a bug to his rom page about your issue
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arayess:
he does not know as he has a wifi xoom
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hector_122:
try the latest 2.2.2 release it might have some improvements for 3g xooms but do a clean install with wipe and check if it works
[Acer Iconia A500] GCurry:
Has anyone who has installed the 3.2 OTA update been able to ascertain improvement with microphone input? Very interested for voice input purposes, which as of now is not functioning on my A500.
[Acer Iconia A500] eus107709:
I would love to know the answer to that as well.

I'm running 3.1, which is known to have mic issues, and I'm barely audible to the person on the other side of video chat. Running the voice recording app confirms mic input is extremely low.

Hopefully 3.2 fixes this. If not, I'll have to dump this tablet on eBay.
[Acer Iconia A500] Johnny0906:
Its a hardware problem, the software wont do anything.

You can try to mod it yourself like I did :)
[Acer Iconia A500] kekinash:
if is a hardware issue, why connecting an external mic doesn't improve the recording level ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
I wasn't aware you could connect an external mic. Isn't the headset port for output only?
[Acer Iconia A500] documentaryman:
Where is the post describing your mod?

The 3.2 update doesn't change a thing about the mic. Boosting the input level 20db in software also increases the level of the considerable system noise. Only a hardware mod would fix it.

Aside from the minnor 4 ounces weight disadvantage over the lightest tabs out there, the mic is the one major problem with this tab. It seems designed for the near proximity audio source of a mobile phone.
[Acer Iconia A500] eus107709:
Oh...

In that case, would anyone like to buy an Acer Iconia A500 Tablet? Used but in MINT conditon!
[Acer Iconia A500] GCurry:
The mic response on mine is substantially worse than that on my OG Droid. On the Droid 1, mic and voice input is surprisingly excellent. At the same distance, the A500 is unusable for voice input. Except for that, it's a fine machine, but this aspect has me on the fence about whether to return it or not. So I am looking for any approach to fix it: HW mod, upgrade, bluetooth input, wired mic input. Nothing so far is satisfactory, or even nearly as good as the Droid from 2 years ago.
[Acer Iconia A500] oldfordfreak:
Are you really selling?

How much and how? Lol
[Acer Iconia A500] peejayw:
3.2 makes no improvement but I am not sure that it is just a hardware fault. Recording level is better in the camcorder app than in the voice recorder one.

I had a video call to an Ipad the other day, their voice was crystal clear but they complained that mine was very hard to hear. I suspect that when Skype becomes available for Tegra tabs there will be a lot of people complaining about their A500!
[Acer Iconia A500] San Pedro:
I am wondering if anyone has found a mic to use that gives good volume for talk. One of the things I want to use this to do is video chat with my father, it's kind of a let down that this doesn't seem like an easy fix.
[Acer Iconia A500] GShyneDM:
The funny thing is that there are reports of people using headphone/headsets from their cell phones (with three strips instead of two strips in normal stereo headphones) as a workaround. It does not work for me and can make the microphone input even worse on voice recorder. I cannot confirm if the device has the hardware for the 3.5mm jack to have 2 output and 1 input.

Others have also said it is a software issue that crept up. It was non-existent in 3.0.1 and appeared in 3.1. Yet, another responded that they downgraded from 3.1 to 3.0.1 and the issue was still there.

I have read on other forums that the Android update to 3.1 had caused the mic to be useless on other brand tablets as well, which lends to something not specific to our A500 hardware.

Now, in this thread more people are convinced it is a hardware issue.

I'm lost as to what to think, and how some people in this forum are satisfied with their Mic performance. (That or they never use video chat)

My experience:

Voice input seems to work perfectly for me (Searching accurately for addresses and stuff on Google) but the microphone in voice recorder barely picks up a recognizable sound, which also translates into chatting with the Gtalk application.

I cannot confirm that 3.0.1 did not have the mic problem, as I updated to 3.1 immediately after getting the tablet.

I would think if the mic input barely registers a sound, how can the voice input search work so well for me from the same speaking distance? If it were a hardware problem, then the voice search would fail to register the specific sounds of my voice to get detailed information on addresses or items i am searching for. Right? Maybe others can confirm that the voice input for google'ing pics up spoken voice loud, clear, and accurately (maybe depending on accent or not).

Based on this, I am hard pressed to believe this is a hardware problem (not that the microphone is A+ quality either, but it should be decent enough). Hardware is the constant, software/driver is what can change the functionality. I dont know if the ROM cookers or Kernel developers can find us a solution, should this be software.
[Acer Iconia A500] chasmanian:
You are correct. Hardware is not an issue, because the mic works well enough in other applications. Either the app us at fault or some plug in.
[Acer Iconia A500] blcklab:
I can confirm voice input works well but any voice communication like GV is garbage. if I speak directly perpendicular to the mike about 10 inches away it's usable but not great for google voice.
[Acer Iconia A500] GCurry:
Hmm, thought provoking posts.

One poster was remarking that the video recordings were working OK, but the GV ones were not good. My understanding is that there are mics, one on the front side, top center of screen, and one back side, under the back panel. It's tempting to think that the video recording was OK because it was picked up mostly by the camera-side mic, and GV wasn't because it was picked up by the screen-side mic.

I suspect that the two mics have some noise-cancelling function so it'd be partly the differential signal that would matter, sometimes.

So it would be interesting to try voice input, like GV, on the FF camera side (the wrong side) of the tab, to see if it's better. It'd also be interesting to see whether disconnecting one mic would unconfuse some software confused by the differential signal. So far, I haven't had my case apart, so I'm less inclined to try that. I still don't have my 3.2 update, but sounds like they didn't work on it.

I saw a brief note in the bluetooth section of the user guide that the BT mic portion of the spec wasn't implemented yet, so implementing that is another potential workaround.

I thought for a while that the inline mics integrated into some wired earbuds with those 4 contact plugs might also be a workaround, but when I tried one, it didn't seem much better than speaking into the mic, so I suspect that maybe it isn't even working, either.

I got mine at Costco, so it can still be returned. But it also occurred to me that Costco ought to be motivated not to have these returned. A Costco-backed straight answer from Acer, with a planned fix, would probably prevent many returns, especially, as one poster pointed out, Skype doesn't work when it's supposed to. Makes me think a strategic call to Costco buyer might uncover something.
[Acer Iconia A500] eus107709:
Sorry freak. Provantage was kind enough to accept my request to return it as a defective device. I'll be picking up the Samsung Tab 10.1 from them. Video chat and Google+ hangouts were a big part of me justifying this purchase.

To those on the fence about returning it:

Try using the Samsung. While I loved all the features of the Acer, the Tab 10.1 is much more satisfying in actual use. I think the $100 premium over the Iconia is well justified once you've used both for more than 10 minutes.
[Acer Iconia A500] qhinton:
There is one for apple its called like imic or something. It plugs into in headjack about the size of tip of pinky.
[Acer Iconia A500] San Pedro:
Is it this one?

http://touchmic.com/tag/microphone-for-ipad/

Have you used it before? I'm weary to buy something that will not work.
[Acer Iconia A500] zetheroo:
I am finding more people who say that after updating to 3.2 their mic quality dropped considerably.

I have been using Skype and Gtalk as well as attempting to record using the Recorder app ... and all of them record a very poor quality sound in Android 3.2.

In Skype I attempted the test call and was able to hear my recording played back. It was barely loud enough and there were dropouts and pops/clicks etc.

I spoke to an Acer rep about a week ago and he said that the mic issues were addressed in update 3.2 ... which proves that this is most likely a software issue to some degree.

Very frustrating!