yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Okay, so can anyone else chime in about if it is possible to create signed update.zip files?

It occurs to me that the community is spinning its wheels right now with what we have available to us (kernel source code). Are other approaches, like my suggestion in OP, feasible? Too difficult? Impossible?

Does anyone think that once Samsung releases the first update for the phone that the devs will have more to work with (an official TAR file) and be more successful at getting our phones fully functioning?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kiavik:
Hello!

I've got my Xperia Mini Pro more than a month ago and have been experiencing some issues with the battery life and with the reception.

Besides the Xperia I also have a Nokia N82, both phones have a sim card from the same operator and both are set up to use only 3G and manual operator selection; putting both phones on the desk, the N82 gives me almost full strenght signal while the SK17i shows me no bars, if I pick up the SK17i it looses connection and I have to walk around the room like a dowser looking for signal. Moreover, once I found the perfect spot which gives me 2 bars, I have to hold the phone with two fingers because holding it with my hand makes it loose connection.

On top of this there is the battery drain problem: if I leave the SK17i in the perfect spot on the desk with the data connection on, the battery lasts max 3 hours (some times less than 2 hrs) with a full charge.

Also when I put it in my pocket leaving data on and I walk around the office, after a while the phone gets quite hot and to make it cool down I have to turn off data.

All this happens when I'm at work, when I go back home in the weekend the phone lasts a whole day having data connection and/or wifi turned on all time, also it doesn't get so hot.

My guess here is that in low signal areas there is a software component that litterally sucks the battery. Has anyone experienced this? And has anyone noted how the reception of this phone sucks?

Any idea of an app that can let me locate the battery-sucking piece of software?

PS: the phone is not rooted and has original FW and the latest apps updates that came out since it was bought. I've also immediately deleted McAfee crap and other bundled bloatware
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] TheLostOne:
I have the phone since Friday and also got bad reception problems.

It varies badly also without moving the phone. I can confirm that I lose all signal bars when holding the phone in my hand.

Can't say much about the data reception because it's the first time I have a data plan.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kiavik:
Hi!

Since it'a a while that you've got the phone, have you been able to notice how long does the battery last? Does it last longer if you're in an area with good signal?

Thank you
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] TheLostOne:
Honestly I can't really tell unfortunately.

At home I have bad reception and at work mostly none :D

But I think that changing the Network Type to GSM auto (PRL) helped a bit with battery drainage and also reception.

You get to the settings with *#*#4636#*#*
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kiavik:
Thanks for the hint, I'll try it and I'll let you know although I don't think it will work in my case since I have the 3 operator which works only in 3G/WCDMA and not in GSM.

BTW, what is that *#*#4636#*#* code? Do you know other codes like this?

Thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] TheLostOne:
You can input the code through the dialer and a hidden menu appears.

I just googled for other similar codes and found this site:

http://www.askvg.com/google-android-hidden-secret-codes/

You could also try the app Elixir 2. That's how got to the hidden menu in first place.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kiavik:
I did try the GSM (PCL) setting as you suggested but nothing has changed even after the 2.3.4 update, in low signal areas the battery just lasts a couple of hours if data is on, 5 hrs if data is off; at home I kept it with wifi on for a whole day and in the evening I still had about 20% battery left so it's the search for signal that drains the battery.

The last test I'm going to make is to change operator and see if in gsm mode works better.

Thanks for the answers
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Smiley76:
You can also try set Search mode to manual instead of Automatic in Mobile Network settings.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kiavik:
It's the first thing I did: disable roaming and set search mode to manual, although I noticed that the phone connects to other networks anyway but allowing only emergency calls.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] arichtman:
Searching for a network is definitely a huuuge drain on battery, combine that with people's mysterious loss-of-signal issues and bam, battery drain.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Rami1987:
It is confirmed here too that my signal is weak. My phone is SK17i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pengipete:
I live in a marginal signal area - and lose the signal fairly regularly.

Check the battery stats in the "About Phone" sub menu in settings. Unless those figures are cooked-up - there's very little drain from anything other than the display on my phone - and I have had wifi and data+GPS turned on most of the day.

In fact, I lose the signal even when charging or on a fully charged battery.

As an observation - the loss of signal seems to occur during or immediately after using certain apps like the maps - ones which make use of GPS or background data.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Johan-SonyXperiaSupport:
Just a tip.

Have any you confirmed if the same problem remains using another (perhaps newer) SIM card?

Because I know that sometimes problems like these can be caused by using older SIM cards.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kiavik:
Today I switched operator, went to one who has also 2G coverage and not only 3G like the previous one, I've had data, baground data and sync on, have been using the phone quite intensively and the battery is now at 59% after 4hrs.

With the previous operator it used to last only 2-4hrs.

Let's see what happens in the next days.

PS: In the past week I've tried disabling background data and the battery lasted almost 2 days, but to go online I used only wifi and not 3G. It seems background data is one of the highest battery drainers.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] gonanza:
My Sk17i worst

My rooted sk17i even can't connected to the internet, the 3G signal is low, and the bigest problem that makes me annoyed is the battery can't charge into the maximum capacity. -_-
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] serialkillazzs:
Each operator has there own share of bandwidth at different frequencies and drains battery differently

2g requires less battery

3 requires more battery

Auto- drains the most if your data is on also,your constantly searching for basetowers

Basebands can be changed to get optimum signal from your provider

3g will drain battery quicker than WiFi too

Newer 4g/lte is more efficient

66 baseband is good for me 3UK

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Spare battery around is the easier option too

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And a BlackBerry charger is handy too as it has higher voltage to charge aka quicker
[LG Optimus Black] Adjudicator52:
I just ran the LG update tool and installed the latest firmware but it removed the extra Red Bull Mobile features.

Now, I'm not particularly sad about this but it did remove the "Red Bull X Fighters" game which was actually pretty fun. Very much like Trials 2 on PC (LINK)

Will I have to restore my device to get this back?
[LG Optimus Black] redy2006:
Red Bull X-Fighters. PM-ed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JavaMac:
Hey folks. I'm trying really hard to get my Captivate up and running on 2.3

Here's what's going on: I was running Firefly 3.0 and decided I wanted the Rogers Gingerbread release. I flashed to stock, and upgraded to 2.2 and then 2.3 on Kies.

At this point I thought I just didn't have data because everything was crashing, so I retried flashing.

Now I have a stock 2.1, and I realized at that point that I needed to set my APN. Now I have full internet access, but a lot of my apps are still crashing.

My other issue is that no matter what I seem to try anymore, I can't get Kies to upgrade the phone or identify it's current firmware.

I believe I'm missing a component or using an incompatible component in the flash process, and although I've looked around, all accounts seem to indicate I'm using the proper methods/files.

Any thoughts would be appreciated and I'd be happy to report any requested info I can provide.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JavaMac:
One thing to note is that I haven't tried the Master Clear function on OneClick, basically out of reservation. I'm wondering if I try that first and then move through the rest of the steps, would that clear out whatever is causing this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Normally when I make a major ROM change, I'll flash to stock JF6, and then Master clear. Master Clear will erase EVERYTHING on your internal SD, because just a FTS will leave items from your previous installation which can cause conflicts(which is what I suspect is happening for you).

Just make sure you have backed up anything you want to keep on a external SD or on your desktop. Another thing to note, is to be careful not to restore Data in TiBu when setting back up
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JavaMac:
I'm thinking you're probably right on with that suggestion. It's been a concern of mine though that I'll lose more than personal data if I clear it out. Is this the case, or is Master Clear just going to delete any non-important junk including music, etc?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
master clear will basically FORMAT the internal SDCard....

it is not necessary to do between rom flashes

it sounds like you just need to do a factory reset (try the factory reset within the settings menu)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leon3223:
In the Netherlands, when you get a phone shipped with your contract (eg T-Mobile), you are stuck and branded to 2.3.3

In a quick ragequit I flashed it with firmware from SamFirmware (I9100XWKF1)

Also a Multi CSC is delivered with the firmware, so I installed that too.

Since I discovered that it isn't really a local firmware (guess it is KOR) i decided to install a stock firmware package from this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278 forum.

The one that I selected (CEKI2) should be XEN (Netherlands).

However after flashing this ROM, Samsung Kies still says CSC: KH1 (KOR)

@ the orange line

I tried to use the XEN CSC also from the same thread with Odin.

After that I even did a factory reset :o

Is there anything that I can do to set things straight here?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leon3223:
Solved!

By removing Kies, using CCleaner and reinstalling Kies it solved the problem
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] skymera:
Alright guys?

Accidentally leaned on my phone the other day whilst it was charging. Seems to have bent the charger port on the phone.

The phone still charges ONLY if the charger is plugged in and propped up in a certain way. needs to be pulled up slightly or there's no charge.

USB drive nor ADB work anymore so i'm guessing that a circuit has broken...

Does anybody know how these work?

If it's a case of broken connection, perhaps putting phone in an oven for a few mins will melt the the solder and hopefully fix the connection? (This worked fixing my 8800GT graphics card few years back!) Long shot :P

Ta :D

If it's truly broken then i'll probably get an SGS and then take a hammer to the HD2 :P
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
The micro-usb port on HD2's is flimsy. It's probably snapped off from the mainboard, and putting pressure in the correct way is pushing it back together. Same thing happened to my HD2.

But there is some relatively good news. An external charger and an extra battery will only cost you about $16-18 USD on ebay. This has worked just fine for me for over a year. With dropbox installed on your phone and comp, you rarely have to connect via usb anyways.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
if poss, check with another cable first.

I have a usb cable that looks fine but will only charge when angled downwards, no data, , yet if i bend it upwards it carries data but wont charge. my other usb cable works perfectly.

chances are it IS the port, as said they're pretty flimsy, however best to check, be a shame to bake your phone for the sake of a £2 cable.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iainbp:
same thing happened to me a few months ago,

the usb in the phone broke,

so i got a mains battery charger from ebay for about £4 and a few extra batterys,

been using them now for bout 2 months and all is good again,

it was a pain trying to get the usb in the right place for it to charge , i tryed the oven thing and it didnt work , not sure if i left it in there for long enough but i didnt want to ruin my phone completly.

easy option is to buy a mains battery charger
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] skymera:
Thanks for the replies!

I'll look into a mains charger and 2-3 more batteries
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] skymera:
So after my phone failing to charge at all last night I popped down to the local phone shop / stand in town and bought a universal battery charger.

+ and - aren't labelled on the charger so I assume it doesn't matter or it works out which is which?

It's a little slow and was a bit pricey, either way I have 63% battery now after a couple hours :D

Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
Wow mine's at 100% after a couple hours
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] skymera:
Might grab a decent one from ebay and return the one I bought.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iainbp:
this is the one i got from ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC-Wall-U...ories_MobilePhoneChargers&hash=item27b5da68d1

been working ok now for few months
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] se1988:
It will probably melt the plastic first, rendering your phone entirely useless...

DONT DO IT! :p
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ponk2k:
i cant seem to find an answer to this one and it seems to happen to a range of phones across the board. my desire hd of late seems to wake up and goes to the navigation app. first time it happened was not long after i rooted and flashed arhd. i just figured that the rom was acting up and redid the whole procedure with the same outcome.

decided then to try flashing virtuous unity which up till today was a success then the problem seemed to come back. Strange thing is plugging the phone in to power up seems to have corrected the problem. its as if the phone thinks its in a car dock(when i answered a call it went straight to speakerphone) but without actually being connected to any cables whatsoever. this is only a guess though as i´ve never actually used a cardock so am not sure if even thats normal

just to clarify, when i say it wakes i mean wakes from screenlock not from powered down
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeMulligan:
I have the exact same problem, since installing Revolution 6.1.3 (now 6.1.5) on my Desire HD. Have also tried reflashing to no avail. I did find a thread where someone had listed the files associated with the nav app, which I managed to delete, and that solved the problem of the nav popping up. However, even when off, my phone wakes itself every so often for no reason. I suspect whatever was "triggering" the navigation app, is still active. I'm with you on your instinct that it seems like the phone thinks it's being plugged in intermittently.

Anyone have any ideas what is causing this or how to stop it? I should probably crosspost this in the Revolution thread.

EDIT: Actually, I'm <10 posts, so can't actually post this in a dev thread yet....
[Motorola Droid 3] VincentDHam:
Everytime I go into recovery from bp tools. I click restore it always ends up saying "error in restoring system!". No matter which back up i click.
[Motorola Droid 3] techdigital:
That's because Hashcodes CWM recovery was never finished, you need to get the official droid 3 boot strap DON'T INSTALL IT UNTIL U UNINSTALL THE OTHER RECOVERY.
[Motorola Droid 3] beard0:
Which one is the official one?

/droid3
[Motorola Droid 3] jayjl3:
I have "froze" a lot of apps using titanium back up.

If i make a nandroid backup, and then try to restore it using goo.gl/b4b6L, will it be ok? or do i have to unfreeze first

UPDATE: just tried to do a backup, and here's what it says:

"Backing up system...

Backing up data...

No /sdcard/.android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.

Backing up cache...

No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.

Generating md5 sum...

Error while generating md5 sum!"

can someone tell me what that means? I do have an external 32 gb microsd card installed, so not sure why it says it's not there? I have noticed that when looking at the phones' folders, "sdcard" is actually the phone's internal 12gb storage..
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
I'm running Hashcodes recovery with CWM v5.0.2.6. Works just fine for me. I downloaded it from Hash's blog last night.
[Motorola Droid 3] MyDrodonWall:
im using "official koush's bootstrap" or w/e, but the one tweaked by hashcode. its on his blog. I loaded a recovery from bptools about 20 minutes ago actually and it worked fne for me
[Xoom General] okantomi:
It's quiet in here while 3G Xooms are in transit getting their long-awaited 4G upgrade.:D

So what is coming down the road that you might feel excited about, or what is on your wishlist?

In this thread I'm not looking for a ***** session, but just an assessment of where we are in terms of software/OS and apps availability for the Xoom. I think we are all aware of any hardware limitations, so unless there may be software fixes, let's not dwell on that, OK?

Anyway, I'll start: I'm pretty happy with the Team Tiamat roms/kernels/recovery and I understand that Team Rogue makes some fantastic kernels/recoveries, too. So that's pretty good, considering Honeycomb Source code is not available.

My real need is smoother integration of productivity activities (file creation/editing/saving/sending/printing) and also design/drawing/paint applications--for my two main moneymaking activities.

I can use a whole bunch of apps but they don't work so well together.

Is there anything good to address this on the horizon?
[Xoom General] hammer4203:
I think google and microsoft need to get the crap together and integrate some office. I mean it would be nice to see the use of features we have and use at home/work on our pc. Adobe is doing it. MS and google (with all the patents they just bought) could make a lot of money and people happy. We could have xbox live, MS games, office apps that work with our jobs, actual ability to use the system to better our wants and needs. I would love to have android link with my google stuff and my pc stuff.
[Xoom General] okantomi:
+1 for me!

I read somewhere that the average Android user doesn't want to pay for apps. Don't know if it's true, but will that impede MS entry into Android market?
[Xoom General] OracleBlue:
My want/need is very simple. I would love to see a few arrow keys on the keyboards. Rereading emails, texts, etc is a pain to edit without them.
[Xoom General] djshady07:
Been waiting on someone to say that I've got arrows on my phone why not on my xoom

:(
[Xoom General] okantomi:
I use the Hacker's Keyboard. it is configured just like a pc keyboard with arrow keys!

It also splits in half like the thumb keyboard and has a dedicated number pad mode. Sometimes a bit funky in regular keyboard mode when entering numbers, but overall, works great.:D
[Xoom General] AzN1337c0d3r:
Louding keyboard clicking and unlock sounds.

SD write capability similar to my Froyo phone.

Tap-to-Focus on the camera app
[Xoom General] idkwhothatis123:
Tablet Miui... What? You asked lol
[Xoom General] Psychokitty:
Great thread!

I'm very pleased so far, especially considering source hasn't been dropped. Overclocking & undervolting are HUGE to me, adding to an already great charge time as well as an already great CPU power.

I don't know if this is simply a software issue that hasn't been done, or what, but I would really LOVE to see drag n' drop on a file browser. That would really be the icing on the 'productivity cake" for me.

Looking back at the Droid 1 development days, I see that the devs have really enabled quite a bit considering they don't have the SC. Aside of customization regarding font, color, c, I really don't know what else is possible.

As I said, I'm very pleased so far, so even if there were no further great strides to be made, I would not be disappointed with whatever the development teams come out with.
[Xoom General] hchxoom:
Overall very happy. In addition to the wish for functioning office apps (I have purchased all of them and use each for different functions to fill the gaps), I'd like to see an app (or, better yet, an OS function) that allows 10 or more tablets in a room (around the board table) to talk directly to each other. I want to be able to run a meeting showing the presentation on each (one tab driving), yet allowing each to take advantage of multitasking so that an individual could slip out of the presentation to retrieve a file from dropbox, pull an email, schedule an appt, etc.
[Xoom General] madamimadam:
You took the words out of my mouth. I measure and draw countertops for kitchens all day long and would like to see an app that I could use to draw them on, kinda like a dumbed down auto cad that you could use a picture or graph paper as a background.

Also the device lags a bit with anything other than a static background enabled, seemslike it should be snappier all around and I wish the keyboard would keep up better.

I love the work the folks here have done so far with this device and I understand that some stuff probably won't/can't be addressed, but those are my desires for the device.

And I want to be able to swipe the bottom bar away, or long press a corner or something.
[Xoom General] okantomi:
These are all seriously great ideas. I'm not any kind of developer but it seems like some of these suggestions could be accomplished. I would love a way to draw with a stylus and have the line actually coming from a "point" the way I normally draw with a pen. I know that some apps have less lag and some stylii approximate a point but it just doesn't feel quite right. I would also like to see improved handwriting to OCR.
[Xoom General] solarnz:
I'm also interested in what people would like out of their custom rom.

Obviously we can't do everything at the moment and not everything is feasible, but it's always good to have feedback :)
[Xoom General] lpasq:
Tiamat makes Xoom zoom. No complaints there just kudos and gratitude. As for wishing...I wish annotation intigration for both capacitive and digitized displays was universally incorporated throughout OS and apps.

...xoom posted...
[Xoom General] kuroguy:
simple. I'd like to see support for usb to serial devices such as those using the pl2303 chip. I could use my zoom for hacking/servicing many devices such as the slug, routers, switches, etc. It would allow me to stop carrying a notebook computer.
[Xoom General] musashiken:
How about a proper hack for 3g USB dongle support? I only managed to tether my wifi xoom to my nexus one.

And I hope Google will optimize hardware acceleration for android UI interactions. So far honeycomb lags inconsistently.