yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Europa.:
Top 10 Android Phones

1.Samsung Epic Touch 4G

2.HTC EVO 3D

3.HTC Sensation 4G

4.T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide

5.Samsung Charge

6.Motorola Droid Bionic

7.HTC ThunderBolt

8.T-Mobile G2x (with Google)

9.Motorola Atrix 4G (AT&T)

10.Motorola Photon 4G

Just for reference.
[General Questions and Answers] guyphone:
I really like my Sony Xperia Pro
[General Questions and Answers] willymind:
Nexus Prime is quite good.

Samsung Galaxy S-III is soon to be released. Galaxy S III will come with a dual-core 1.8GHz Exynos 4212 processor along with 2GB of RAM. The smartphone will feature a 4.6-inch Super AMOLED Plus HD display.Moreover, the Samsung Galaxy S III will have a 12MP camera.
[General Questions and Answers] Significa:
.Totally subjective but I think the Galaxy S II is the best phone on the market right now. Though the Nexus Prime and S III is coming if you want to wait
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thedeadletters:
The status bar icons (wifi, 3g antenna reception) randomly change from green to gray. I don't think it's related to varying signal strength because sometimes full gray means full. This occurs on both Starburst 1.4 and 1.5 with their kernels and Zedomax. I did use the online kitchen to add Honeybread Status Bar Icons, but it never worked. I did a complete wipe (system?, dalvik, and cache), factory reset, and even re-flashed Starburst 1.5, but it still occurs. Unfortunately, I lost my original Nandroid, so I can't restore. I do have a backup of the original framework, but I'm uncertain how I can use it to fix anything without creating conflicts.

Any help would be appreciated!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ralexand:
Something new in Gingerbread. A "feature " that tells you when you have a secure Google connection. It you notice, the next time it is grey open up Google talk and you will not be signed in. After signing in it will go bck to green. Not sure why they thought it was a good idea or why the connection gets lost but I had to search for this myself when Gingerbread first came out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thedeadletters:
Wow, thanks. Glad to know it's just a "feature".
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cadorette:
Hello all... So i flashed a Sense rom the other day and my touchscreen would not respond whatsoever (RafDroid to be exact), couldn't even get past the lockscreen..so, I tried another one, and another one, etc..5 different Sense roms and no touchscreen..flashed back to HyperDroid, works like a champ..Typhoon, works like a champ..The AOSP roms seem to work..Ive done Task 29, wipe cache, dalvik, fixed permissions etc..

I've seen in other threads that the screen will stop responding if excessive heat is present..do sense roms run hotter? Idk? anyone else experience this/know a fix?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cadorette:
update!! ok now THIS is strange..change from my OP.. my hyperdroid and typhoon roms my touchscreen quit working..altogether...so im thinking, "its a known prob with these, ill flash back to stock and send it in for repair", but i flashed the stock LEOIMG.nbh file, instead my phone rebooted, via magldr, loaded up android and the damn thing is back! like brand new! Not really sure how that happened????? :confused: I mean im not complaining, but did i screw up in a positive fashion or something lol???
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Richy99:
flashing a sense rom will not do any damage to the nscreen or stop the sensor from working, sounds like yours was on the way out and it is coincidence

i have flashed about 50 times using sense roms in the past month and my phone is nearly 2 years old and never had an issue with the phone
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bvjunior:
It happened to me a couple of weeks ago. The touchscreen has started being less and less responsive. until completely stop working. I don't think it is cause by sense roms. I have googled the issue and realized that is is a fairly common problem of HD2 phones
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cadorette:
yeah its pretty much what i figured :( guess ill need to send it in..ive searched but having a tad bit of trouble finding a tutorial to flashing to stock WinMo from android? thanks for the insight as well guys:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] elektro255:
this is common hardware fail in HD2. Flex between lcd digitizer and chip is under power button, so any pressure on that key will destroy conectivity of this flex. I repaired that by rasping red button as much possible to avoid collision between this button and flex.

If your phone is on warranty, I recomend sending for replacement
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dross50:
Has anybody tried HDMI mirroring with CM7? I'm considering buying a tablet but if I can get HDMI mirroring to work I'll just buy the cable and a bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thunderpack:
I am wondering about this too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kanauru:
It doesn't work. I have to switch to stock / Cognition to use HDMI.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pspuser007:
Hello,

I wanted to try CM7 nightly.

I had rooted stock rom 2.29.405.5 with a2sd+ from this thread.

Before flashing cm7 nightly 225 I wiped data/factory reset and wiped cache partition.

Flashed rom and booted normaly.

After that I wanted to restore my nandroid backup..

I wiped cache and data/factory reset.

Then I got an error while restoring /sd-ext!

Tried again by doing the same and wiping dalvik cache.

When the process reached the point when it restores the sd-ext the progress bar got stuck.

(s-off and clockworkmod recovery (CM v.5)

After that I removed the battery and powered the device.

All my apps are not there. Not even the superuser app.

Please what can I do? :confused::(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leo_bsb:
I'm having the same issue with my nexus one. :( any ideas?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
What happens if you use advanced restore and restore the,sd ext on its own?

You may need to reformat your ext
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pspuser007:
The recovery would freeze :(

After a lot of retries I gave up trying to restore it.

I came to the conclusion the sd got corrupted. (Transcend 8GB class 6)

After that a lot of "bad" things happened, such as couldn't mount sd card, had to reflash partition table and a randomly occured USB brick...hopefully with the help of a friend we(mostly he) managed to fix it..I am at a stock rooted rom with s-off now and want to buy a new sd card..

Is there any way to verify that my old microSD has really been corrupted?

I have continued (kind of) the thread here!

With more info and questions.

Thank you for your reply!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klewe:
I have exact the same problem, but the disadvantage that I can not install any Rom as it freezes when installing. So I'm not able to start the phone as it sticks on "quietly brilliant" screen.

What I have:

- Amoled grooted

- S-OFF mit Alpharev CM7 r2

- HBoot 0.93.1000

- Recovery: CWM 5.0.2.6

- Last Rom: Runny Mede v3

What I tried:

- Restore Nandroid: Freezes on restoring SDEXT (after factory and dalvik wipe)

- Install ROM: Freezes at writing SDEXT or says that it finished but the bar sticks

- Format SD Card, deleted EXT4 partition and remade it with Gparted. Checked it with windows chkdsk and Gparted and it gave me no errors

- Rewrote the partition table to CM7 r2 with a PB99img.zip

- Made a EXT4 partition with CWM

- Changed the SD card with another one (always making a EXT4 partition and formatted in FAT32)

I don't know what else I should do. Please help restoring my Desire!

Could it be a issue of the CWM? As I can not go back to another one, because Fastboot flash doesn't work, I can not test it by myself!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
What do you mean fastboot flash doesn't work? Tell me everything
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klewe:
In Fastboot menu I can choose only from Bootloader, Reboot, Reboot Bootloader and Power Down. I don't have anything else to choose from.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Thats not how fastboot works. Read the adb and fastboot faq in my signature (ignore all adb things, and start at "what is fastboot?")
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klewe:
oh ok, seen it. So I'm gonna try Android Flasher to flash recovery.

To sort out recorvery as source of the issues, which one should I flash? Which one is the most stable?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Personally I am a cwm 2.5.0.7 man.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klewe:
Got it running again!

Flashed the CWM 5.0.2.0 and everything worked fine again.

It seems that the Clockwork mod 5.0.2.6.111007 of zyonee has a problem with SD-EXT (so it was on mine, don't know if it works on other devices too).
[Thrive General] Lilextreme:
I finally got my Thrive delivered & have been playing with it for a few hours.

I have a few things I was wondering about....

First I updated system & everything but it only says Android 3.1 still, why didn't it update to 3.2? The Asus Slider comes with 3.2 so naturally I assumed this would update to that also. Its not a big deal, I am just curious.

OK next, it automatically installed ALL the apps from my Google/market account which I mainly used with my ROOTED Streak 7 running Froyo2.2.2.....so a lot of apps are incompatible with my new UN-ROOTED Thrive...why?

Is there a root method for this tablet?

it seems slightly slower than my Streak 7 which I assume should be the one that's slower. Its only noticeable on a few games,,,,,could it be the games?

Streaming movies online are not playing but they load on my streak 7 & they both have same apps/plugins/etc installed. I even have a new 8gb SD card in.

Last for now.....the screen seems very bright. Not a good bright,,,,,more like a washed out bright or over exposed photo bright. I did try playing with settings but even with brightness all the way down, it seems like its washed out & needs more contrast or something.

I like the tablet though & maybe.these things are just from not knowing the machine really yet but.......

Anyone else have these kinda problems?

Thanks :-)
[Thrive General] chuckpo:
New 32gb Thrive...questions

In answer to your first question, Toshiba has yet to release an update for 3.2.

All your apps installed from Google because thats what was set on your Google account, I don't let this happen because I have three android devices and don't want everything on all of them.

To root go here: DaleNet Stock Rooted 0032 rom on ThriveForums.org

Search above site foe Netflix hack to get movies on rooted thrive.

The screen is what it is Not the best certainly not the worst.

Good Luck!
[Thrive General] Lilextreme:
Oh so then that is normal for screen?
[Captivate General] howmydictate:
I am in some hot water here phone will not boot into anything but clockworkmod recovery screen..... Tried to restore with no luck.... HELP!!!!!!
[Captivate General] TheDickster:
What are you trying to flash? What did you try to use to "restore"?
[Captivate General] trell959:
Load cm or miui and flash. You can mount sd card from recovery. and I say cm or miui because they run off of any bootloader
[Captivate General] hardwirk1:
did you try one of the one click return to stock options? you should be able to get into download mode and use one of them...are you with att?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chabun:
More or less: There are some tricks how you can use your phone as mass stroage but not offically. So Zune is nearly a must-have

I guess so.

But you will maybe able to get a VM running that bridges the usb port...

Yeah, easy to stop it. It's a option in the settings.

You can switch between selected languages every time! Without going to the settings... It doesn't vibrate on mine, Dunno if you can enable it...

I think it's possible cuz there's a special option for adding a gmail account (but don't be angry if it's not possible cuz I nver tried it)

You can filter them by account (so hide all facebook accounts would maybe do the trick or so) but I think it's not possible the other way round

Never seen anything like that...

There are some... Most of them use OSM/Google/Bing...

Yes, it's true cuz wp7 has a raid 0 with the internal memory and the sd...

You can set the music quality (kbit/s). And I never noticed any loss when I transfer a video via zune...

Yes, that's all possible...

Yes, you need a dev unlock to send apps from your pc to your phone for example... And there various other possibilities like Registry Editor, Apps with Interop etc. So it's quite useful to "root" your device...

Hope that helps you....

Just for info: I'm using an HD2 with Mango... So all the info is for mango only:D
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Localhorst86:
based on your first 2 questions, I really suggest you stick with android.

WP7 is relying on the Zune Software and there's no Linux sollution. There's a mac sollution by MS, but not sure if it'll work in linux.

If your main PC is running Linux, you'd either have to always reboot into windows or try finding a VM sollution, which could easily introduce new problems.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayonical:
Agree with this. Windows Phone is great but not for a linux guy like you and the extent of customization available on Android is NOT available on wp7.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmtast:
Thanks a lot for the fast, kind and useful answers guys.

I guess that, as Localhorst86 said, the OS has some limitations that I simply cannot avoid. It's a pity because I was really interested in trying this UI's approach, but gonna have to wait a bit more to see if they support Linux and evolve in some other areas.

Will start looking for the Atrix as I originally planned then.

Best regards.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkaul:
I think it's actually more akin to an NTFS spanned volume than a hardware-based RAID 0, but practically speaking, yes, it does create a single logical volume that spans the internal + SD card memory, which is why it needs to be reformatted if you swap a card in/out.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Localhorst86:
more of a JBOD than a RAID, then.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chabun:
Anway, I don't know how ms achieved the link between the sd card and the nand memory. And I do know that's not hardware raid 'cause the hd2 has no such controller on board:D

And yes it's JBOD but I can't tell you how the software layer controls them....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Dripz167:
The minute I save up enough to buy my Sidekick 4G, I'm heading for this deal.

Right here.

A quick little excerpt

Thought I might add that this will work with any 4G enabled T-Mo phone... just that you would have to pay the no contract price for the phone.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
Nice find dude! That is actually worth cancelling my contract for, I barely use any minutes and pay about $60 a month now. if I cancel it's like $200 but I will be saving $30 a month so:

30x18= 540- 200= $340 of savings and no contract!!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Rock3rboy13:
Tnx dude for telling us. I am definately going to switch to that plan!!!!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Dripz167:
I'm actually shocked you guys didn't hear about it. I heard about it a while (I posted the article on my FB the 3rd) ago, but I posted it here to make conversation. I'm glad you guys were notified, because this is a killer deal imo.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Rock3rboy13:
so let me get thiz straight if u want that deal you have to go to walmart only to get it?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Dripz167:
See, that's I'm not entirely sure about. It does say Exclusively at Walmart and it;s online store, as well as T-Mo's website, but how will you get the SIM card? Will it be shipped out to you?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Rock3rboy13:
I guess well just have to wait and see on the 16th. I'm going to go to a walmart store and check online nd see if I get it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Fresh Jr13:
Naw, I have unlimited everything and data plan

*****I'm a beginner ROM Developer, so don't forget to thank and donate*****

Phone: Sidekick 4G

ROM: FreshBlood ROM - Beta

Kernel: Bali 2.2 /w Voodoo
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vicmora5:
Yesss, I'm very interested in this! Since I am not a huge talker but frequently text and use data this looks like the perfect option for mee
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Dripz167:
That is exactly me! I never owned a 4G/3G phone before (I have the LX before they canned data, now it' sucks :( ) but I know I'm a HEAVY texter and I love to use data.

I asked my friend, who is on Sprint with the Evo if he uses 5GB/m, and he said he averages 3~4GB, so I know 5GB will probably be more than enough for me (Esp since there's wifi for data hogging things like video streaming)

And when I'm at home, I can just use the home phone, thus saving me on the 100 minutes when people like your girlfriend wanna "Hear your voice" -__-
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] iamjavedg:
wow great find! That's not a bad deal for people who don't talk as much as they text!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vicmora5:
So how do I go about getting this now?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
Walmart or tmobile website, starts Tuesday I believe
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Rock3rboy13:
How do you get the new plan?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vicmora5:
I dont get it. I go to change my plan online via the mytomobile, but that option isnt there. It says webonly when I view the monthly plans and I dont understande how Im not able to just switch to that plan -_-

Ok i did a live chat with someone from T-Mobile and they said that I have to go to Walmart and get the sim card activation kit. He had told me to just order it off the Tmobile website then he said that he was told that I would need to buy it from walmart. which is really inconvenient for me since I had to travel from my small town to a town with a Tmobile store /:
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
Call walmart and see if they can ship it to you
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] omgwtfmason:
Would this plan allow you to use Wi Fi calling without using your plan minutes?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yoyowhatup22:
No it won't, wifi calling always uses minutes unless you use a diff. App
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vizionforever:
Voip Google Voice apn modding over 3g and 4g?

Saw that on t-mob 2g this will work fine for VOIP... what is t-mob doing to block or interrupt stuff like grooveip (VOIP) from snrb labs(avaliable on android market for 4.99). I read something about having to modify APN or something
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
I haven't heard anything about that, I don't think they have caught on to it yet (they are just catching up to tethering and that's been around since 2008 on the G1) I know google voice works good, the one thing they said is you might not get as good of reception on prepaid because they borrow towers but I live in the city and get good 4g where I live/work, I think he might've been BSing me to get me to not cancel my contract though
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vizionforever:
Good to know thx! Been reading on slickdeals.nat that the reception over voip sucked because of latency, made no sense to me; on my HTC mogul with skype on sprint twas the bomb(albeit a small portion of the time cause the roms kept breaking the skype and skype was half committed etc... this looks promising, now looking for the cheapest 4g android for tmob any ideas? might start out with a my touch one 3g on craigs local for $55

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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vizionforever:
Well I'll never get into the tmob...Guess they dont care about the environment(multiples there), they basically refused to look up the Imei Number from a phone I wanted to buy off craigslist(to tell me if it was able to be activated), which is basically the Electronic serial #....So I will not do Business with a company that puts profit over the earths environment, or the criminal part of it...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
I don't think any cell company has the environment's best interest in mind. You don't need the imei for a gsm phone you just pop in the sim, unless you are looking to unlock it for a different carrier which can be done through an app on android and other phones can be unlocked for about $20 online
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vizionforever:
What if it is stolen? Will they allow it to sign up anyway? My opinion of them is getting better on the earth environment side...Guess it's kinda a catch-22
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
Doesn't matter with phones that use sim cards, as soon as you take the stolen sim out it is basically a factory phone
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vizionforever:
Weird ok so...I saved myself 140$ vs sidekick4g and got a mytouch4g/glacier off cl no kb thou :(......Going to walmart for a sim card now! Thanks for your help!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
Cool, let us know how it all goes!

Another good place to find android phones:

www.swappa.com
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vizionforever:
Scratch that, walmart does not have sim cards only family plan ones...not gonna take my cyanagen mod phone into tmobile for a free sim card so I ordered one off amazon.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] beauTOICHI:
This sounds like an epic plan. Definitely worth it for people only interested in texting and data.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Rock3rboy13:
So i went to a Walmart store today and they say that you only could get that plan if you purchase a phone from them
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ummkiper:
That's how I got the $50 plan.I went to walmart bought the tmobile dart used it 5 days,hated it,sold it on ebay for $90 and bought a sidekick 4g put my sim in and here I am unlimited everything for $50 a month on a decent phone,granted only 100mb is dl at 4g speeds but I don't get 4g where I live anyway.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] azmtbiker:
I have just rooted my E4GT.

Installed WiFi tether.

I cannot seem to get it to work. My Gtab 10.1 wont recognize it all. My laptop will show it under wireless networks but won't connect.

What I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zramon:
Are you talking about the Sprint Hotspot app? It's working for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bartendersimon:
The sprint hotspot app works just fine for me!

I havent test using 4G but i guess it doesnt work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] texasredrider:
On the Galaxy Tab 10.1 you will probably have to change out the wpa supplicant file. Use root explorer to do this. Be sure to go into airplane mode before you make any changes. Go into system/bin (make sure its marked r/w) rename the original wpa supplicant file just in case you need to revert. Then replace it with the modified supplicant file. Make sure the permissions are exactly the same as the original. Change back to r/o, take it out of airplane mode and you should be good.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
Try this one

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/detail?name=wifi_tether_v3_1-beta6.apk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zramon:
Why wouldn't 4g work?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] akarol:
It's working fine. The reason your GT10.1 won't recognize is because it is broadcasting an AdHoc network, rather than the EVO's infrastructure network. It's a pain but there are ways around it. All you need is download a ROM with the AdHoc tweak (such as the Overcome ROM for the GT10.1) or tweak the wpa_supplicant file yourself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] azmtbiker:
Thanks for the replies.

This is WiFi tether from the market i am talking about.

Any one have insight into why i can't get to work with my laptop. it shows as a network but will not connect.

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caaznkid:
Use wifi tether beta 6

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/detail?name=wifi_tether_v3_1-beta6.apk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tech7:
So does it work with the latest beta for infrastructure ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dkarol:
Yup! It's working on PhantomHacker's Starburst v1.5 ROM like a beauty :) I'm using the included kernel (the one that is embedded in the ROM).

It's the Sprint Hotspot app. Works wonders for me!