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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
I have it set too auto brightness. See attached.

Download PlayerPro its free. you might see burn starting on yours too. also show up in google sky map quite clearly.

I took a screen shot to see if it carried the effect over to my pc.. Don't laugh! The iPad burn works like that. It must be a memory related thing. Anyway..thats not the case on the SGS2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Disfected:
Well if you have auto brightness on, wouldn't that mean sometimes your brightness level would be exceedingly high enough to cause a screen burn? I haven't experienced any screen burn yet, even though I tend to have 4-5 hours of display time watching a lot of videos.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blunted09:
My brightness is at 50% and its definitely got some burn in. Very disappointing.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
Yeah it sucks. F*** samoled+, the trade off isn't worth it. What will my phone be like in another 4 months? Willl Samsung do anything about it? Probably not

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No really..it never seems that bright to me? If it ever did get bright i would turn it down as its a waste of battery

I don't think watching videos will do make noticeable burn. You need static images to create the burn. Download Playerpro, its free in the market, play a song and look at the task bar area and post back.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Disfected:
You mean when the top screen is covered in gray by the app listing the song, instead of showing the notification bar?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 666fff:
Well I downloaded playerpro and played a song (loca people by sak Noel-in case you were wondering :p ) and there appeared to be some very faint blobs where the status bar icons are. BUT they seemed to fade after a few seconds, maybe my screen is not quite there yet, but it seems to be heading in that direction.

I dread to think what I'd do if there was burn in anywhere other than the status bar. I think I would die.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
Good tune! I didn't notice the burn until installed PlayerPro. It doesn't really show in other apps or homescreens. Hopefully it won't get any worse
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
This issue is pretty well documented with AMOLED, but really, how long do folks keep their devices around here?

I get a new phone at least once a year, sometimes as many as two or three times a year if I decide to sell/trade/upgrade, etc., so even in the event of some small burn-in, it's not something I'm going to obsess about. My phone is a tool, and it does what I need it to do, and when it doesn't, I get another... and I'm not rich, and I do like to take good care of my equipment, but I expect that there's going to be some trade-offs in terms of design... and I suspect that most of us knew about this AMOLED burn-in issue, same as with plasma TVs, though maybe not all.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ferrari353:
Yeah but screen burn is going to seriously lower the value of the phone for a trade.

You said it's a pretty well documented issue with AMOLED, but does SAMOLED have the same issue....or is it different?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
A year or two I can live with that. But 16 weeks? The phone cost more than than the average plasma TV too!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave_024:
Thats all good and weel if you can afford it but most people cant and are tied in to 2 year contracts ive had my phone 4 months and the burn in is terrible i took it back to carphone warehouse and they tried to fob me off saying theyd never seen or heard of screen burn on a phone and to ring samsung so now my phones on its way to them to have the screen replaced under warranty

So for anyone suffering from this issue get onto samsung and get it sorted thats what the 2 year warranty is for
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anttic:
So, how did it go with that screen replacement. Did you get it covered under warranty?
[Kindle Fire General] isoDUB:
...besides amazon? i want to be able to buy it in store like at Best Buy, Target, etc.
[Kindle Fire General] justbecaus:
Best buy has it up for preorder-
[Kindle Fire General] markdt098:
Supposedly Radio shack will be carrying it as well.
[Kindle Fire General] isoDUB:
damn really? i hope its at radioshack! I'll be able to get the tablet at $150 or lower. :D great tablet at a great price.
[Kindle Fire General] markdt098:
How, is there some coupon code? Or do you have a gift card or something.
[Kindle Fire General] FootballGuru88:
I went to my local Best Buy and they were not taking pre orders. I asked one rep if I could just buy one on launch day without a pre order he told me "I'm 99% you can just walk in and buy one no problem."
[Kindle Fire General] isoDUB:
my dad has a friend that works there, so i get an employee discount. :)
[Kindle Fire General] onthecouchagain:
Wow, I'm surprised Amazon is not keeping this exclusively to their site, but I suppose more vendors means more sales for them.

This changes everything. I happen to have a one hundred dollar Best Buy gift card. I am awfully tempted now...
[Kindle Fire General] TheZuneLune:
Office Depot had signs up today, but I didn't see if they were taking pre-orders.
[Kindle Fire General] CCpotter:
I highly doubt this, by the way, it's still not clear whether wifi in other countries will work for Kindle Fire, since those large treasures on Amazon is one big reason for me buying a KF
[Kindle Fire General] gus6464:
Just cancelled my Amazon preorder since they just announced that it will be available day one at retail. No need to wait 2 days for mine to ship when I can just walk in to a Best Buy on Tues at 9am and pick one up.
[Kindle Fire General] quarlow:
Know this is an old thread, but I'm looking to get one for Christmas and noticed they had them at my local Walmart. I want to play with one first. And the nook tablet too. Walmart had a nook display unit but all you can do is turn it on and see the "you must sign in and be connected to the internet to continue" screen, not a good demo.

My big dilemma is can a 7" screen replace my netbook?

I'm also thinking the slightly bigger and older Vizio tablet. Having a universal remote in the tablet is actually something I think I would use a lot.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[Kindle Fire General] mewshi:
One of the supervisors at my store (I work at Walmart) got the Vizio tablet when we had it on sale for 198 dollars and got the 10% discount on that. She says it's good for certain things, but the remote control thing is wonky.

Also, the Fire isn't designed to be a replacement for a netbook. My netbook is used for long-term keyboard use things -- IRC, writing, etc. The Fire is more for games and stuff. Although, the SwiftKey X hack makes it better...
[Kindle Fire General] warrenskerr:
I bought mine at Target yesterday.
[Kindle Fire General] CrackMonkey91:
I got mine at target.

Anyway It could possibly replace a notebook if they ever make a keyboard for it. If they did I would get it so fast cause then I could stop logging my 2004 laptop to school
[Kindle Fire General] pyrostic:
Got mine at best buy
[Kindle Fire General] quarlow:
I was meaning 7" vs 10" size difference more than functionality. I have a netbook to have a compact web browsing device, with good battery life. But my netbook's battery is broken, and charge port is wonky, so it won't always charge, and when it does it only lasts like 30 minutes. But, its out of warranty, so I am looking to replace with KF instead of fixing it. I have other computers laptop for full computing needs.

I played with a Nook Tablet, the screen wasn't as small as I thought it would be, seems well sized.

Those that got their KF at target or best buy did they have displays to use? I think I am leaning towards the KF to save the $50 over the Nook Tablet, but still want to use it before buying.

Then I saw the best buy black Friday ad ... 10" honeycomb Asus transformer tablet for $250. But I hate fighting black Friday crowds, especially best buy. I've sworn three times to never do best buy on black Friday ever again, but they keep luring me in.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[Kindle Fire General] californiarailroader:
We don't have Target or Best Buy here, but the Staples in Ukiah has them in, as do most Staples locations.
[Kindle Fire General] teookie:
Got mine at walmart. Great thing about wlmart is you could rub it over wit a lawn mower and they will still let you return it. :-)
[Kindle Fire General] californiarailroader:
Our Walmart doesn't carry it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
I'm coming from another platform where we had separate partitions for the OS and the Recovery (boot.img and recovery.img). Each one included their own kernel (zImage) and their own initrd (initial filesystem for kernel)

I see on the E4GT PIT file, there is a partition for zImage, boot.bin, and recovery.bin

zImage I'm assuming is just the kernel. Does it include an initrd also?

What is boot.bin? I would have assumed it was the initrd to be used with zImage when booting the OS.

I would have thought when you booted to Recovery, it would used the kernel/zImage and then loaded an initrd from recovery.bin (or recovery.bin would contain it's own zImage and initrd), but I saw for the CWM recovery it seems to only flash the zImage and doesn't touch recovery.bin. Then I see a restriction that if you have CWM recovery, you would have stock kernel but it won't be really stock because it has the addition of CWM and installing it will result in the Yellow Triangle in download mode (which I assume means the kernel/zImage flashed with Odin were unsigned?)

Anyway, the way I would have thought CWM would have been built would be to replace recovery.bin and keep the existing kernel (zImage). Then you could modify each independently of each other. Alternatively recovery.bin could include its own zImage and initrd, so it would be completely independent of zImage kernel in case you mess that up.

Also I saw that there was no pull/backup of the stock recovery.bin. Is there a reason for that? Since the CWM flash seems to be implemeted through a new zImage, does that mean if you flash the stock kernel/zImage, then you'll also get stock Recovery back? I'm assuming here that CWM was hacked into zImage by forcing it to use CWM instead of using what is in recovery.bin.

Wondering if anyone could clear things up? I'm ok conceptually with how the linux boot process and Android work, just not with the specifics of how it works on Samsung.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LinuxBozo:
Just popping over from the Infuse forums, and saw this question, so I thought I would throw out an answer for ya.. On stock Samsung, they all three are the exact same thing. zImage is a kernel + initramfs image. The kernel bootstraps, uncompresses the initramfs, and finally, runs the init. The init's job is to either run recovery, or bootstrap the system. The recovery, whether stock or CWM, is baked into the initramfs so that there is no reliance on something other than having a bootable kernel to get into recovery. Much more reliable this way, and you can completely screw over your filesystems and still get into recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Thanks for the response.

So zImage, boot.bin, and recovery.bin are exactly the same thing (ie the same binary image) or they are structured the same (ie they all have a zImage kernel and initramfs)?

In my past experience, zImage is just the kernel binary, then you package it with an initrd/initramfs and a cmdline to create a bootable binary image.

So you are saying with Samsung, zImage actually is that complete packaged bootable binary image, rather than just being the kernel, correct?

If these (boot and recovery) are sharing the same kernel (rather than having their own individual kernels, which happen to be the same version) then it seems less reliable, since it depends, as you say, on a bootable kernel, which you could have messed up with let's say custom kernels.

If you had the recovery have its own kernel and the os boot have its own kernel, then you could screw up the os boot kernel and still boot into recovery.

In the back of my mind, I still think there is some confusion here (probably on my part). I look at the old odin PIT definition source code here:

https://github.com/cmsgs/utilities/blob/master/pit-stuff/s1_odin_20100803.c

and it seems to match more closely to what you are describing where kernel and recovery are both zImages, except it would seem they both have individual kernels (I may have misunderstood what you meant above by all three zImage, boot.bin and recovery.bin being exactly the same) as they both are zImage's, which according to what you described above is a zImage kernel + initramfs packaged together, but they are on separate partitions.

Now when I look at the E4GT PIT definition here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1278281

It seems like they structured it differently than the earlier odin PIT definition, so instead of having 2 zImages, they now have 1 zImage and a separate boot.bin and recovery.bin. The latter two I was assuming where the initramfs for each respective piece.

Part of my confusion then stems from the CWM odin tar file only containing a zImage and no recovery.bin to flash, which lead me to believe CWM was crammed into the zImage initramfs, rather than using the recovery.bin partition like the stock Samsung zImage might do.

Again, I might have this all confused. I'm coming from a different platform where things were packaged a little differently.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LinuxBozo:
That's correct.

Yes, I think you are confused, but we're getting there.. ;-)

You'll notice that in your PIT data you posted, the boot.bin partition is of 0 size. Because it's not used here. The zImage partition has the kernel+initramfs image. the recovery.bin partition is an exact copy of the zImage parition. It is not used in any real way other than as a backup of the zImage partition.

So yes, the CWM zImage does have CWM crammed into the initramfs. The stock zImage does the exact same thing, except with a stock recovery.

Hopefully this clears this up a bit more for you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
So when does the recovery.bin ever get used?

Also then if someone restores stock kernel/zImage, they should get back stock Recovery as well, correct?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LinuxBozo:
In most cases, it really doesn't. Technically, it should be used if your original zImage partition has become corrupt in some way, but I've never tested that to be completely sure.

Yep, since the recovery binary is baked into the initramfs in either case, flashing back to a stock zImage should return you to stock recovery.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davewils55:
Will CM need to change all its code to suit ICS, perhaps to a new CM version? I've always liked how CM keeps android up to date...

Also, what new features will CM be able to do over stock android ICS?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Emotion:
It will be called CM8 :)

ofc new source...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MATRIKS:
its going to be CM8
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJBunch1228:
In the dev forum? But why?

Sent from my LG G2x
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
SGS2 Idiot forum closed for maintenance again probably so posted here instead as its to hard to read the rules .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Probably the best one you've said JJe.Lol'ed really hard on this one. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bconover93:
... ... ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pat123:
Well, it's going to be called CM 9 and not 8!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtronics:
well actually its gonna be called cm9 and should be out in early 2012 waiting for it to come out from my htc desire
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChongoDroid:
Cm8 will never exist. :)
[HTC EVO 3D] nineandtwo3rds:
Howdy.

I've done the HTC unlock and am trying to flash recovery.img via adb. I've downloaded sync, sdk, and java. Set path for sdk, java...etc.

When I go to fastboot and try....adb push recovery.img /sdcard/ it says

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

error: device not found

What am I missing?
[HTC EVO 3D] pbg225:
Make sure its charge only and using a good cable and a good USB port then open CMD in platform tools folder and type adb devices...it should start the daemon and list the device try that and see if it find it
[7 Mozart General] mimicuk:
I have just bought a HTC Mozart off my friend, the phone is unlocked but it has still got the Orange network branding on it.

Please could you tell me how i can install a new rom that gets rid of all the Orange branding.

Sorry if you have been asked this a thousand times but this is my first mobile 7 phone as i was previously on HTC android and it bored me stupid lol

Regards Anthony
[7 Mozart General] mgarvo:
This has all the details you need

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1002391
[7 Mozart General] mimicuk:
Hi thanks for the link but i have followed the thread but now my phone keeps restarting in a loop?
[HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QUIETLYloud:
I've been looking for a way to root my girls phone, thing is that I only have access to a Mac and I can't find a version of alpharev for Mac. So, are there any other options?
[HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oahceasgnikgneas:
I'm not sure if 2.2.1 will work with Unrevoked?

Edit: Hmm, it's been too long since I've kept up with the Aria development. Nevermind, looks like you'd have to update to 2.2.2 and then use AlphaRev, which you can't use.
[HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumist:
Boot into a Linux Live CD and use that to run Revolutionary.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonbet83:
I just go a sgs2 and followed some instrustions using ODIN and SuperOneclick but it get stuck on step six and am now a bit stuck.

Im a bit confussed by it all, and if someone would be able to explain the in and outs to me that would be great.

A rom is the software the phone is running?

What is the kernal and what does it do? if the roms replaced do you replace the kernal? etc etc

thanks Jon
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LouisJB:
Read this first.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1125282
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1134290

read that to.:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewbowes:
Might be worth searching and watching the youtube tutorials, thats how i walked myself through my first sgs2 root.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonbet83:
Thanks for the replys, Im now downloading villan 2.5, can that just be flashed stright on using ODIN, now doing dome reading...
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medonly1:
I am using My Touch slide for almost past 6 months. Yesterday I was clicking some pics and it suddenly started acting weird and after some time the screen stopped reacting . Now the screen s not reacting at all. I tried to reset. Didn't work. I tied to update the software , but since than the MOBILE is not reading he SD card. Neither I am able to SYNC the phone. Please Please Please tell me what should I do .????? It's almost dead and I am not able to use it . I cant afford a new one right now so, please help .....
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MusicMan374:
Wrong forum buddy, try the mytouch slide forum, not the sensation forum.

Sent from my Sensation
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] txdeathray:
Unless a mod moved his thread, he's already in the slide forum, not sensation.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcelbjorn:
How can i get allshare to work in simplicity 1.1?
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
Can somebody send me a link to the 9.23 miui download for the Droid incredible. I can't find it anywhere.
[Droid Incredible General] AJGO23:
Go to MIUI.us, they don't want people to share links, and it is definitely there.

Here is the link to their site http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?228-ROM-MIUI-1.9.30.0-Droid-Incredible
[Droid Incredible General] sjpritch25:
I'd probably stick with 1.9.16 because there were issues with 9.23. I upgraded via miui updater and was stuck at boot. I've heard a lot of people having the same issue.
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
Oh ok. I just can't find the dl link for them. I went to miui.us and all I could find is 9.30
[Droid Incredible General] jpradley:
1.9.23 had such boot-looping problems that is was pulled, to be re-released a few days later. I'm running 1.9.30 and see no problems with it at all.
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
Oh ok. Well I went to miui.us and all I found find is the 9.30
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
Oh ok. Well Imma try that one.
[Droid Incredible General] sjpritch25:
yeah, i updated last night and having no issues the 9.30.
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
Where can I find the download link for 9.16. I can't find it anywhere.
[Droid Incredible General] jpradley:
Why do you want the release from 16 Sept instead of the current one?
[Droid Incredible General] Zalatorisaurus:
There were issues with .23 and he wasn't sure if there were issues with .30 as well. Version .23 has problems with displaying widgets and rebooting as far as I know.
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
Certain theme I'm want that does work with anything past 9.16. Lol. That's the only reason.
[Droid Incredible General] sjpritch25:
9.30 is very stable. No issues at all

http://romsmaster.miui.us/
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
I'm getting constant fc with theme manager. Any reason. I'm on 9.30
[Droid Incredible General] sjpritch25:
How did you install 9.30? Manually or through updater? Some themes need to be updated to be compatible with the latest build. You should get prompted though, at least i did.

If you did it manually, what did you wipe?
[Droid Incredible General] snapper915:
I just wipe dev cache and cache. I didn't do data. Cause I didn't have to do it last time. But yesterday my theme manager was working fine but today its force closing everytime.
[Droid Incredible General] sjpritch25:
I always wipe everything.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moschino02:
Evening people, im seeking some advice as im trying to update to mango 7720 from isv 7403

**step 7 of 9 installing update is where its failing the white bar at the top is only reaching half way then i step 1 of 2 appears with restarting your phone then the error code**

i have searched on most windows 7 forums and tried some tricks as suggested as time zone reserved space take sim out update drivers virus/firewall off uninstall/reinstall zune nothing is working ..called microsoft they are not familiar with the code...any other ideas or tip i would be grateful..its been 72hours i been at it.

Anyone come across this code? thank you for any advice
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quanbao:
i met the same problem, anh havent solved yet.

Im trying the last time, try to wait for the phone restarting step (7of9) patiently
[General Questions and Answers] cubsrule17:
Hello All,

I currently have a mt4g, and love the different roms and mods that I can put on my phone. I'm up for an upgrade and am just curious as to what phone you guys think will have more custom features for it from developers?

The Galaxy S2 or HTC Amaze 4g?

Looking forward to everyone's thoughts.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Here is a link to the three books I've found for Android one for Development and the other two for basic system mods and such. They're kinda helpful for me, as I'm learning, maybe someone else will find them helpful as well. They're in a rar/zip file. Enjoy!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L8TQ9TKA
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
No problem. :] If it helps people and maybe we can get more people onboard with learning how to mod and such, we can have some more Devs. Gotta have a starting point, so I figured why not.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mfriggio:
I am downloading now. Thanks for sharing!:D
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
No problem! :D