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[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Buckley:
I recently purchased a Xoom WiFi and wanted to upgrade to 3.2 but due to the fact that I'm currently deployed to Afghanistan I can not get the OTA update in which case I then unlocked, rooted and attempted to install it on my own. I successfully unlocked and rooted my xoom yet I am stuck on the update portion. I'm getting stuck at the "cat /sdcard/update.zip" command in ADB in which it returns with "invalid length" and I can not for the love of me get it to work. The commands I complete until that part are;

adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip

adb shell

su

cd /cache

mkdir recovery

then,

cd recovery

echo ‘-update_package=CACHE:/recovery/update.zip’ > command

cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip

reboot recovery

which is where I get the "invalid length" after typing the cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip command. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okantomi:
Nevermind.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishek046:
Help plz!!!

Hey, I have a similar issue. I'm using adb to install cmw on my p690 but get an error of invalid length for the cat command for /sdcard/flash_image....... can u giv me a soln?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmpmjmpm:
Ok, so I sold my iPhone 4 in anticipation of the 5. While looking around came across the SGS2. Looked very nice so I got one. My first mistake was buying from pictures and not holding the device in my hand. From the moment I took the battery cover off, it's not been good. This thing feels like it should have cost £50 on ebay, it's just soo plastic and so thin, I'm afraid that when at work (i'm an engineer so lots of bending, squatting, laying etc) it's going to snap in two in my pocket. It's just "laggy" and "buggy" the keyboard is unresponsive, it feels like a resistive device, I have to knock it into and out of flight mode every few hours as it seems to lose it's data connection, touchwiz is just butt ugly, apps are butt ugly.

I love the "openness" of android, I love the "geekiness" and customisability of it. I love the fact I have 48GB of storage (even if the phone refuses to use the extra 32GB in any decent way)

I have had this phone for about 4-5 days and already I find myself picking it up to play with and throwing it back down again without unlocking the screen.

So, I have come here for some decent advice. I couldn't ask this question in an iPhone forum because the responses would be very biased, but, I have found on this forum, you generally get people's honest, unbiased opinion.

Should I get rid of this phone and wait for the iPhone 5? the one thing I miss about the iPhone is although it didn't necessarily do everything, what it did do worked, the apps I used looked good, the device felt well built and was always responsive. Am I expecting too much from the SGS2? will I get used to it? will I grow to love it?

feedback especially welcome from anyone that has came from an iPhone 4 to a SGS2 and can see my point of view?!

ta
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TECK:
From what I read, it looks like you are a real iPhone user. As a friend speaking, I would recommend you to go buy your phone as you will never be happy with another non-Apple device. Is the same like telling a BMW lover that Audi is better, he will still dream of the next M3 model. Asking advice here will not get you unbiased responses as we all love the S2, as well Android. :)

For example, I don't think at all the S2 feels like a cheap device. In fact, it contains top technology that blows any current phone on the market. Personally, I believe that Samsung hardware is better than iPhone and even if iPhone 5 is released it will not beat the current S2 at any level. Not to mention that Samsung will release another model that will make iPhone 5 look like a cheap toy.

What matters most is your opinion, not ours. Who cares if we like better the S2, what matters is what you like to use on a daily basis. If the iPhone makes you happier, go for it. :)

Cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmpmjmpm:
should have known i would get a severely biased response;)

i have no loyalty to either, i buy the best, if its a pos I bin it, i have no probs doing that but before I make a decision, I would have liked some objective responses :)

[edit]

cheers JJegan, thats the type of opinion I am after (either way)

"From what I read, it looks like you are a real iPhone user"

Just wanted to add my recent device history is, htc hero>htc desire>iPhone 3gs (binned it and went back to desire)>iPhone 4>SGS2

so if anything, I've spend a LOT longer on android that ios ;) I'm not a "real" iPhone user, I'm a "realist" be that on android or ios:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp1tfire:
Sell the SII, buy the Iphone 5. It's obvious you won't feel happy with Samsung. Replies are not biased at all, we just read your comment and saw you gave no plus for SII, so why would you keep it, when, based on your description, SII is a crap phone ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HarryRag:
Clearly iAddicted, you should stay with apple and never test something else :D

For a Sammy GS2 you need to be a FlashAholic :rolleyes: and be able to handle the user freedom of modding and stuff (this part makes the GS2 for me the place to be and never go for a iphone).

On topic, that backplate is very solid though it look fragile, seen some tests on youtube with tons of extreme bending and folding, it was still in perfect afterwards.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
In fairness this poster doesn't seem like your average Apple fanboy who appear on these forums from time to time talking crap i do believe this poster is genuine.

Coming from an iPhone to Android is a bit like having sex for the first time :D a very new experience and for some it's excellent and for others it's not been as good.

What former iPhone users who have just "graduated" to Android have to understand is that it is a very different concept, not everything is spick and span and ready to go, you do have to take a bit of time out and customize your phone and apply various tweaks,etc,etc,etc, eventually your Galaxy S2 will be absolutely amazing,read up on here extensively, for a start i highly recommend downloading Titanium Backup PRO and freezing all Samsung Apps your battery life will increase ten fold, it goes without saying you should root your phone and apply a custom ROM, there are many good ROM's personally the best ive ever had is the one in my signature, there can be no denying that the Galaxy S2 blows any other smartphone out of the water but don't just take my view for it or people on these forums one only has to read the countless reviews from trusted Tech websites online to tell you this,Android is the way forward why do you think they are continually outselling iPhones, people are finally realising that open source and being able to flash custom ROM's and customize your phone is the way to go rather than be locked down to whatever Apple tell you.

To conclude - OP take a lot of time to read what is on these forums, i spent 3 weeks reading up here before i even had a Galaxy S2 so id would be more clued up and know what to do to make your phone even more amazing.

;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skimminstones:
lol at people *****ing at the OP. Have you actually read his post or just seen the iphone mentioned and jumped on the bandwagon of abusing the guy.

OP, all the faults you mention, (apart from the feeling plastic bit which is subjective and took me a little while to get used to how light and thin this phone is), are not generally in most peoples phones. Where did you buy it from as it sounds more likely that you have a faulty one to me. You could try factory resetting it and seeing if that helps but if you bought it new id get it swapped asap if i were you.

If you dont like the keyboard, download a different one. I use smart keyboard pro and that has a iphone style keypad that works perfectly well. Not sure what you mean by the apps are butt ugly though. Do you mean just the icons or you cant find apps you like? As for touchwiz, use a different launcher. I like launcher pro but a lot of people prefer GOlauncher.

The beauty of android is you customise it how you wish to, not how apple wishes you to.

But first things first you need to sort out the laggy and buggy aspect as that shouldnt be there.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matriak31:
i was like yourself. sold my iphone 4 which i loved to death and i pimped it up through jailbreaking it and was looking for which phone to go next...The S2 was the one for me. Picked it up when it first came and my first thoughts were what a piece of plastic ****....

But i have grown to love it. with a good case it feels solid in your hands and the size of the screen is just about right. funnily enough i even swapped it in the start for a htc sensation but because i could not customise it with roms i wanted this bad boy back straight away.. now i have it i cant live with out it.

So many new phones are coming out now but i will eagerly await when the S3 comes out. The handset does what i want it to do, it has HD recording and plenty of space in the memory department..

So my advice give it time and you will grow to love it...But if you feel that its not right for you then sell it and get the iphone when it comes out...I for one turned from the darkside to the light:D:p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TECK:
I run the latest KI3 2.3.5 stock firmware and there is a difference from day and night, compared to KG2 that my phone came with. Android evolves so fast and with every new release is so much better that is hard to even keep up with it. Hell, other companies would of probably label that version 2.4.0, not just a minor bug release.

I wish every company would dedicate their efforts in perfecting software like Google does. Let's look at performance differences between 2.3.4 and 2.3.5, is incomparable. Quadrant pushes at 4200+ on S2, the phone is smooth as silk and super responsive while the battery life is further improved. What more could I ask for?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netcitizen:
hey [OP] you clearly hate the device... no probs.. just ship it to me.. i will thank your OP.. :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Youngunn2008:
Congrats op, you just described my exact feelings about every Samsung phone I've ever looked at. A little advice: get a HTC phone, root it, and flash miui. You'll never go back to apple. :-)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmpmjmpm:
fellas, thanks for some really good feedback. The jury is still out on the phone. I'm hoping as I become more "in tune" with android again, I will realise that it's a good device. I also plan on flashing a new rom, to get away from the stock. It may well be what is responsible for the "buggy" experience I'm having (especially seeing as several of you say this isn't normal ;))

On that subject, is there a favourite rom I can try? I've had a look around and am a little confused, i.e. different kernels, kernels separate from rom's, cyanogen, miui??? I rooted the phone with cf's root, but then that isn't compatible with rom manager? litening rom looks quite good?!

when I had my desire I dont remember having kernels separate from rom's, or having to check compatibility. Anyone know of a good re-introduction type thread or blog etc which explains all this stuff?

cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matriak31:
if you check on each roms thread in the first page it has all the answers to the questions you have regarding installing the rom on their buddy. have a look and do a bit of research and you be good to go...no point me saying which rom is best and how you install it go into the development sections and go on to the rom you fancy and read through the first pages:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmpmjmpm:
just a quick update guys, I installed litening rom and only been using it for 10 mins but the difference if like night and day, now the phone is fast and responsive. I can type a quickly and accurately as with the my ole iphone.

so... seems maybe a lot of the issues were a fault with my carrier branded stock rom. Thanks for identifying this for me guys. I also bought a nice lil case from amazon, it's nothing supreme but built well, with a built in flip out stand so, now the phone feels a lot better in the hand.

Quite a bit happier now, I really appreciate the time a lot of you took to help what probably seemed like (to use a linuxism) YAIFT (yet another iphone fanboi troll)

cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Youngunn2008:
Lol... I used iPhone for a year, I understand what you're going through, but the freedom is amazing here with android. It's your device, do what you feel like with it, change complete os, launchers, lockscreens, skies the limit :-)

You should give miui a shot as well, I love it and highly recommend it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] g2xfan:
Has anyone found any good vent car mounts for there car? I'm wanting to setup my phone in my car so I can use it as a GPS. I bought one at Best Buy and it had this sticky stuff that you just stick the phone to and the problem I had with it was when I would be driving the phone would just fall off so I took it back.

I would have posted the links I wanted to post but apparently I can't because I haven't made 8 posts yet.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] OrganizedFellow:
I've always wanted to do something like this: i-don't-need-to-look-down-when-i-drive
[T-Mobile LG G2x] burhanistan:
I use this one every day and have been pretty satisfied.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mstrk242:
I've been using a bracketron vent car mount for years now, through multiple phones. They are very sturdy.

This one:

http://www.bracketron.com/rotating-air-vent-mount
[T-Mobile LG G2x] JonEk@t:
I'll 2nd this suggestion.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] derekedw:
I use the Mountek holder that goes in your CD player slot (who has CDs anymore right!). It works great.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Waldano:
Looks nicee just ordered one
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] smungai:
Howdy All,

If you're a fan of the Angry Birds game, you'll be pleased to know (if you didn't know) that zainuintel managed to install angry birds (Java version) on Blue Angel device. Follow the forum thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17121657#post17121657 and the original notice

http://www.xda-developers.com/windo...birds-on-your-blue-angel-no-android-required/

I tried the method outlined using JBlend on my Touch HD aka Blackstone, but kept on getting an error. However using JavaFX for mobile and the AngryBirds 4.1 jar file (for HD2), I now have this fun, addictive game on my phone. Graphics are fast and smooth and I'm yet to experience any problems. I'd really appreciate any feedback on other phones.

Hoorah!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] moby_wan_kenoby:
Hi

would you be so kind and paste the links for the JavaFX for mobile and the AngryBirds 4.1 jar file you mentioned above?

Thank you!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ajaysinbeast:
You will find the links in this post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271923 and if you find it difficult to play in landscape try the method in post #6
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kieshate:
Hey Guys,

i'm still not able to update from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 via kies.

Always the same message : this isn't an official firmware......

But i never flashed with Odin or something like...always updated with kies...

kies says the actual firmware is: pda: KF3 /Phone: KE7 / CSC: KE4 (DBT)

reinstalled kies and prob is still there...i also tried it on 3 differnt comp...

now, please help me!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kieshate:
hey,

it's unbranded, so no need for a provider...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Still the same answer then what's the latest firmware for that product code .

jje
[Networking] soundcheck863:
I have been a Sprint customer for several years. A few years back I dropped Nextel services and upgraded to a Samsung Rant and had no problems.

Two years ago I upgraded to a HTC Hero and then a Samsung Epic. Since then I have not been able to send a text message while roaming (making phone calls while roaming is also spotty at best). At college it wasnt a problem, but when I go home I roam a lot. I thought it might have been my phone since I know 3 other people with Epics and they have the same problem.

Recently, however, I have upgraded to the Epic Touch and it does the same thing. I have talked to Sprint about it and they seem to be bewildered as to what the problem is and I sense that it will most likely never get anywhere. They are "talking with the engineers" to try to resolve it, whatever that means.

Has anyone experienced this problem or even heard of this before?
[Motorola Droid 3] Androidsims:
I took the build.prop from Steeldroid and added the edits from SMC's camera edit (http://goo.gl/2EC7o) build.prop so we can have both of them in one. I'm not sure what all the changes in Steeldroid are, as the change log just says, "Lots of build.prop edits". Working great on my phone, running the deodexed rom. There is also a build.prop backup file included.

Edit: Allow me to add that you will need the other 2 files and .apk posted on the SMC link I added in order for the camera edits to work.
[Motorola Droid 3] mattdavis523:
do you have to install the modded camera app for these changes to work or just the 3 files?
[Motorola Droid 3] Androidsims:
Yes, install the apk as well. For the camera edits make sure you do everything stated in his thread, just use this build.prop if you want the additional things added in Steeldroid.
[HTC Sensation] :
Just throwing it out there but...

Are there any devs that possess the skills necessary to port MIUI to our beloved Sensation? :)
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
There already are ports - just not on this forum ;)
[HTC Sensation] celelivada:
try TripnMIUI , its on modaco
[HTC Sensation] Lakeshow423:
Trip's 1.9.23 version is pretty solid! Look over at Modaco if you wanna try it.
[HTC Sensation] rick@uswirelessla.com:
Try this site MUIU US rom http://rootzwiki.com/forumdisplay.php?112-Sensation-4G-Development-Forum
[HTC Sensation] :
Thanks guys!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] martinsch89:
Hello :)

I use HyperDroid-CM7-v3.0.1 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=769026) on my HD 2 at the moment and i have a question for customization of the homescreen. How can i get a Background for the normal Widgets like the Musicplayer or Energysettings? Before this NAND build i used AmeriCanAndroid and there have been a grey background for these widgets...

I searched the Phone, Forum and Google but i didnt find anything... Is there a hidden setting for Widget Backgrounds ?
[Nexus One General] hogg2500:
In case anyone don't know, the Pinch & Zoom feature is gone from the Gallery since the 2.3.6 update.

I have uploaded my logcat from when I was trying to Pinch & Zoom in the gallery.

Here is the link:

http://pastebin.com/dQ6AFWTQ

Perhaps someone can look at this and see if anything is wrong?

Report this issue and Star it at these sites:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20304&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=223d27115212fd2d&hl=en

Normally I don't do stuff like this but I have needed Pinch & Zoom so much since the update I got irritated. I have downloaded a third party app until this gets fixed.
[Nexus One General] tommert38:
Isn't this consciously removed by Google, because of the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit where Apple had a patent on pinch to zoom in their gallery, which is more or less the same in the Android gallery?

More info:

http://translate.google.com/transla...galaxy/&hl=nl&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8
[Nexus One General] hogg2500:
Interesting, I'd like to know if this is happening on the Nexus S 3G since they just got the 2.3.6 update today.
[Nexus One General] FourCrows:
I have the Nexus One and the Nexus S. I updated my Nexus S to 2.3.6 today and can confirm that pinch to zoom is still working in the gallery.

I updated my Nexus One yesterday and noticed it had been disabled in the gallery. Since my Nexus One is unlocked, I simply re-flashed GRI40 and then updated to GRJ22.
[Nexus One General] Dirk:
If there were an injunction it might have been Country specific, which would explain the feature being removed in some markets and not others? Just speculating.

Either way, perhaps it's a sign from god that the default Gallery is a steaming pile of poop and should be replaced by QuickPic as soon as humanly possible! :D
[Nexus One General] ch33kybutt:
Nothing to do with injunctions. Much more boring reason. El Goog just decided to limit pinch n zoom in Gallery to multitouch-distinct devices. N1 is only multitouch. Same thing happened for AOSP source before and had to be patched directly.

There is a quick fix ... just push the XML file for multitouch-distinct into /etc/permissions. Using XDA app now, so can't help much more.
[Nexus One General] DownloaderZ:
This is some serious BS....

the funny thing is that they left it working in folder and image selection screens. Now I just can't pinch-zoom in the actual image.

Pinch and Zoom is still working in maps and browser...
[Nexus One General] efrant:
Here is the fix ch33kybutt was talking about: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9951416&postcount=1
[Nexus One General] GldRush98:
Excellent! Switching out android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.xml for android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.distinct.xml has restored the Gallery's pinch-zooming back again.
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
Does your rotate still work on Google maps, after pushing the file?
[Nexus One General] GldRush98:
Yes it does :)
[Nexus One General] pfmiller:
It's even more boring then that, someone at Google just made a mistake. According to the Google employee on the support forums they are looking into the problem currently and have made some progress. If it was anything intentional I assume it wouldn't take much investigation to figure out.
[Nexus One General] ch33kybutt:
LOL! It just needs a single line modification ...

--- a/src/com/cooliris/media/GridInputProcessor.java
+++ b/src/com/cooliris/media/GridInputProcessor.java
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ public final class GridInputProcessor implements GestureDetector.OnGestureListen
mZoomGesture = false;
mScale = 1.0f;
mSupportPanAndZoom = context.getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(
- PackageManager.FEATURE_TOUCHSCREEN_MULTITOUCH_DISTINCT);
+ PackageManager.FEATURE_TOUCHSCREEN_MULTITOUCH);
{
WindowManager windowManager = (WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
mDisplay = windowManager.getDefaultDisplay();
[Nexus One General] fireb33:
I replaced Gallery apk with 2.3.4 version (both v1.1.30682) and pinch-to-zoom is back :D
[Nexus One General] hogg2500:
Can you post it please?
[Nexus One General] fireb33:
Sure! Here you are :)

apk: http://www.mediafire.com/?3b21qklaebig8n7

flashable zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?6wq7ti742gtup3w
[Nexus One General] GldRush98:
The new gallery *may* contain bug fixes or security enhancements (I don't know this for sure). Therefore, running the old gallery is not a good solution. Replacing that XML file is a better way IMO.
[Nexus One General] urmab501:
How to replace the XML file ?
[Nexus One General] fireb33:
You're right, but version number is the same... and replacing XML disables the new rotation method for non-distinct devices in Maps (two finger swipe), standard rotation gesture is too crappy :mad:
[Nexus One General] dookie23:
So if I am on the stock 2.3.6, how do I put the gallery apk on the phone without unlocking the bootloader?
[Nexus One General] GldRush98:
True, I could see how if you rotated the map a lot that would be a problem for you. Honestly though, I never mess with it. I'm still using the maps 5.6 due to the screen-dimming bug Google thought would be a good idea in the new versions :(
[Nexus One General] chinstrap:
I guess I didn’t realize how often I used this until it was no longer working. Stock N1 on tmobile.
[Nexus One General] krazichinaman:
+1. Especially when showing friends pictures and you look like an idiot when it doesn't zoom in when you pinch!