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[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] digitalsynner85:
Ok, so I've been having horrible reception issues out here where I live. I have called Verizon multiple times due to this issue. I have received 2 replacement phones in addition to the 1 I started out with. They finally opened a tech ticket and they got someone out to go check the towers. They called back stating they received word from the tech team that due to recent "bad weather", one of the dishes that serve the area in my direction was turned and it was affecting the service out in my area. I have stated multiple times when calling them that my mothers cell gets great service, even though shes getting only slightly better service (I get -105dbm and she gets -96dbm). They ran through the paces on each of those phones and they get the same issues from replacement to replacement. Has anyone else been given some bull**** excuse to try to play off an issue you're having with your phone/service just so they don't have to satisfy your requests until they feel they want to?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cartrixx:
No you have to call them and say u want the signal booster for you home or you will go elsewhere.. did it for sprint and they wavied all fees related to the signal antenna
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flamand:
Is it okay to leave my SGT7 in the charging dock after it's charged? When charging by USB cable it seems to me I've seen a message on the screen to uplug it from the cable when it's fully charged.
[General Questions and Answers] bikeracer4487:
This seems like a long shot, but I'm wondering if there's any way to install an older version of the Android OS. I know it seems counterintuitive to want an OLDER version of Android, but it'd be really handy for app-testing purposes if I could switch between versions of the OS without resorting to emulators. Please let me known if you have any ideas.

P.S. I only have access to Nexus S and Galaxy S II phones right now, which both shipped with 2.3, so flashing an original, pre-update ROM isn't an option.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
If you are rooted you should be able to find older ROMs for the nexus S based on android 2.2, so it would be easy to flash to that and revert to your backup when you are finished. As far as the SGSII it shipped with gingerbread, and I don't think a developer would take the time to port froyo to it...
[Android Themes] mxn-:
Hello,

im using 7zip to eddit my first miui theme, ive managed to do the battery so far and was going to do more but now imgetting errors with the framework-res.apk

When i try move/delete a .png file i get this message

0 Unsupported compresssion method for 'res\drawable-hdpi\stat_sys_download_anim3.png

Anyone that can help me?

Or anyone that can guide me the way to edit these .apk? ive tried .apktool but i cant get it to work

Thanks
[Android Themes] mxn-:
anyone help plz?
[Android Themes] fredxclaus:
@mxn- Try using Win Rar or the one provide by Windows. I use Win Rar when making my themes.
[Android Themes] mxn-:
ahh just tried winrar and worked.. thanks :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nutnithin:
while using the marketplace through my phone(dell venue pro)i cant install or update any app. the error says the live id service is temp not available..but when i goto my windows phone account webpage and reinstall programs from my account info it works...any idea on why this is happening?

nother problem i have is that i cant login into zune app with my live id and password. the error i get tells me that the location of my laptop(bought from singapore) is not the same as that of the live id..please change the location through the control panel...still doesnt work after changing it...

any help would be appreciated..
[Vibrant General] bdroc:
I went to T-mobile and did a hands-on. The reviews from phone reviewers didn't quite answer my questions as a vibrant user. So I hope this helps. Plus I don't own it so I won't be justifying buyers remorse.

Bottom Line: Not worth the upgrade from a Vibrant. Especially off-contract. If you are locked into T-mobile and are upgrading anyway, it is worth it. All others should wait to see what the deal with the new Nexus phone is. You will NOT be upset with your purchase regardless though.

Screen: Huge and beautiful. Since it's not pentile, but it is larger than the Vibrant, it looks very similar. The GS2 might be SLIGHTLY less pixelated, but its not the crisp sharpness that I was hoping for.

Build Quality: What the Vibrant should've been. It's the best looking GS2 and it feels very solid. The gunmetal band is plastic as far as I can tell. It feels more solid than the Vibrant, but not nearly as much as an HTC phone. this should not be an issue whatsoever. And boy is it pretty.

Data: I live in a 42Mbps area and i speedtested about 4Mbps. The T-mobile rep said they got 8 yesterday. My vibrant got 2.6. YMMV obviously.

Speed: Quick, but with a live wallpaper and as low as 3 widgets, it started to drop in framerate. However it did NOT lag. things still load and run quickly, but not necessarily at an ideal framerate. especially the homescreen. I benched a 3200 quadrant after a memory clear. it wasn't loaded with smartbench unfortunately.

GPS: Didn't get a lock indoors of a mall (top story). 1400 meters was the closest. But I didn't get to test it outside. Grr.

Didn't get to test: Game performance, Codec Support, Sound Quality or Loudness, Camera, Camcorder, FFC.
[Vibrant General] asatnik11:
I got my SGSII today and love it so far. The screen is beautiful, the gps worked out of the box and its fast as hell.

We'll see how I feel in a few days......

Now we just need some custom rom love:)

Edit: i get 13mbit/2mbit at work in minneapolis on 4G
[Vibrant General] ktaey0823:
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I got my SGSII tmo too. i'm loving it XD

everything works perfectly!
[Vibrant General] movieaddict:
im gonna have to say im loving it too!
[Vibrant General] rakeshchn:
Guys if you have both vibrant and the new SG2, please check and reply if the batteries are interchangable.
[Vibrant General] bdroc:
i dont think the batteries are...this one has 4 gold pins and apparently NFC built into the battery (?)...plus it looks taller.

Since I loved the Vibrant, I'm sure I'll love this phone and it's extraordinarily enticing. But to those who signed a contract with the Vibrant, 2 years isn't up yet and they would have to pay full for the phone. I didn't sign one and I paid-in-full for my Vibrant and to get the GS2, I would have to spend $530. For that, I could buy a PS3 AND Xbox 360, or a fairly nice HDTV or desktop computer, for what I consider an incremental upgrade for a phone.

It's not that I think the phone isn't worth it, its just not worth it as an upgrade from the Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] trustinhate:
i managed to drop my vibrant in the washing machine and am looking to get a new phone starting a new 2 year contract. they didn't have the sgs2 in the store i was at today unfortunately, but i did get to mess around with the htc amaze. it seemed to be pretty dope from what i could tell from messing with it for like 5 minutes, would you guys pick the sgs 2 over the amaze? i'm a little hesitant to buy another samsung product based on the way they handled the whole gps issue on the vibrant, so i'm kind stuck here. it's either one of those or wait until they announce more details on the nexus prime... but i dont even know if that phone will come to tmobile :/
[Vibrant General] tennandcoz1:
sit back for the prime.i think it's going to be called the nexus 3.But I'm not sure, a friend told me that.

simply ginger
[Vibrant General] bdroc:
luckily there are no known issues with the SGS2 like there were for the Vibrant. Even in early reviews, the Vibrant was criticized for lag and bad GPS. It isn't the case with the SGS2, so you are good to go on that front.

As for the Nexus. It may not directly be associated with T-Mobile. However, at this point according to rumors, there should be a GSM version and it should support T-Mobile's 3G band. So the likely scenario is that you would buy the phone unlocked and then get your T-mobile account.

The issue with that is a full price phone and a full price plan. I urge everyone who wants to use T-mobile to take advantage of their off-contract pricing. That math has been done on this dozens of times, but if you buy a phone at full price and join one of their off contract plans, in two years, you will have saved hundreds of dollars. You even have the option to spread the fincancing of a [T-mobile] phone over the months. I'm sure with the nexus that you can finance with the retailer you purchased it from as well.
[Vibrant General] LHBC:
I just asked and checked a couple weeks ago, the previously called "loyalty program", which lets you split the hardware payment over 20 installments, is no longer available to non-contract-binding customers. Basically if you are not on contract ATM and want to utilize that financing option, you have to sign a new 2-year contract. Sux, right?

here's the link:

http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1674
[Vibrant General] trustinhate:
i can confirm this as well...
[General Questions and Answers] mh505:
It finally happened - my HTC S740 was stolen a couple of days ago and I now have to decide what to do next: get a used one on eBay or find a worthy successor.

Is there a consensus what such a successor would look like? I remember a phrase by one of the wise men of this forum to the extent that "screens are not in the world to be touched" a view which I subscribe to wholeheartedly. So the new machine would have to be a non-touchscreen as well as have a retractable keyboard, just as the S740 does.

Much appreciate your ideas on this one!
[General Questions and Answers] mh505:
Anybody? Or do I have to assume there are no machines like the S740 anymore
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bikeracer4487:
This seems like a long shot, but I'm wondering if there's any way to install an older version of the Android OS. I know it seems counterintuitive to want an OLDER version of Android, but it'd be really handy for app-testing purposes if I could switch between versions of the OS without resorting to emulators. Please let me known if you have any ideas.

P.S. I only have access to Nexus S and Galaxy S II phones right now, which both shipped with 2.3, so flashing an original, pre-update ROM isn't an option.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
yes, its possible.
[HTC Sensation] ccs16rocks:
It is a qHD version available ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogershroed1991:
My Gmail email currently notifies me as soon as I receive an email, which is very annoying because sometimes I'll check it and put my phone down and then immediately get another email. I don't want to disable notifications completely, I just want to set it to only refresh every 30-60 minutes or so. I've seen this option in the default Mail app but can't find it in Gmail. Is there any way to do this?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dataslycer:
If you are using the gmail app on ur phone, it is set to "push" notifications. that means it gives u email right when it receives with a 5-10 sec delay. There is no way to do a "poll" notification, which is the kind of thing you want. tbh push is better because there is no battery drain while poll has to go on the gmail servers every 30 mins or however you set it to. but if u really want it then just use ur email app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TOMWALK:
The closest I'd say you can get with the actual Gmail app itself is to check the "notify once" option in account settings. I know that's not quite what you're talking about, though.

Dataslycer is right. Since Gmail is natively push, you're going to get immediate notification of a message. The only way to do exactly what you're talking about is to enable imap in your Gmail account settings on the web, then add your Gmail account as an imap account in the phone's mail app. You can tweak as you like there. But, as Dataslycer said, imap polling will really take a chunk out of your battery life.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogershroed1991:
How much battery would polling use? I have my business email set up in the Mail app and it's set to refresh every 30 minutes. The only thing I don't like about Gmail pushing the messages immediately is I can't stand my phone going off so often and the notification LED always blinking and I haven't found a way to disable the LED for Gmail only without disabling notifications for Gmail altogether.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TOMWALK:
If you're using a separate imap for your work email, then adding gmail as another imap wouldn't be a problem in terms of battery life. Half-hour increments for polling also is fine in terms of battery life. However, if you added gmail as an imap to the native mail app like you have done for your work email, you would lose certain functionality like archiving. I had mentioned the "notify once" option in the gmail app. Check that. What it does is this: it will notify you once of a new message in your gmail (as you choose- sound, vibrate, etc.), but it will not notify you of any other new emails until you check your messages. Maybe this would be a compromise that would work for you? In terms of the LED flash notification, I'm not sure if unchecking "email" in Android settings> display> flash notifications would disable the LED for gmail. Of course it would disable the LED for new work emails in the native mail app. If that's not a problem, check it out. I'd be interested to know the result.
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
For the past couple days I haven't been able to make/receive calls or text so I go to a local sprint today and they say that they have been having a lot of complaints from people in my particular location. However, Sprint isn't acknowledging that there is an issue for whatever reason, so i'm left sol unless I force my phone to roam (which i'm currently doing through an app). Everything is working fine now, however i'm worried that I may incur unknown charges as I do not know sprints policy regarding this.

Also, I read a while back that there is a hack that allows us to default to Verizon's towers and I was wondering if anybody could point me towards that thread because I can't seem to find it, assuming it's still active.

Thanks for any help guys.
[EVO 4G General] m20120:
It depends on your plan. My plan includes roaming at no charge. Even with that though there is a danger. Sprint reserves the right to terminate your contract (and service) for "excessive roaming". I do not know if there is a hard limit that defines "excessive". I do know that I have hard of people being terminated if a majority of their voice minutes were roaming or if they used large amounts of roaming data. I sure fire way to get your service terminated is to use the hack to force your phone to roam on Verizon too often.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
I believe most sprint customers can roam for data up to 300mb a month, and your voice calls can roam up to half of the amount of minutes you used on sprint. So if you have used 100 minutes on sprint this month, you could roam for up to 50. These arent strictly enforced, they arent going to charge you for using 52 minutes, but if you start to abuse it, they could charge you or force you to leave sprint.
[EVO 4G General] danvla:
I've been using the Verizon PRL at work because of horrible data reception. Been using roughly 200mb roaming a month with no issues and no charges.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
As long as your plan has roaming...
[EVO 4G General] flexgrip:
I just got booted for excess roaming. I told them there was something wrong with my evo months ago because it would be roaming even when it said it wasn't.

Either way though, now I go to boost. But just one last thing. I had 3 different reps at sprint tell me that roaming is "included in my bill", but no matter what, it still uses your anytime minutes or whatever they are called. I had it clarified several times by supervisors and everyone else... If you look on your bill, you will see that your total usage (in the downloadable excel file) will include any of the minutes that say "out of network".

So basically, even if they tell you roaming is included, what they mean is you aren't being charged cash for it... it simply uses up your anytime minutes. If you keep heavy track of that stuff with the nifty apps in the market or even by hand, you will notice if you have say 1200 minutes, use 100 anytime minutes on sprint during the day, and 100 roaming minutes at night, you will only have 1000 minutes left. Don't trust the vague answers sprint will give you, do the math yourself. It is scary how they can make a lie sound like you are not getting screwed.
[Windows 8 General] sparks79:
There is a lot I like about Windows 8 Developer, and a lot I don't like.

Number One Annoying is , Everytime I Run a Program or install something, You have to execute with administrator rights.

I can't see why I have to do this, because I am the only User and in users it shows me as administrator.

Also I find it almost impossible to install programs that are located on a HDD on another computer on my network.

ie-- I have large collection of apps located in a folder on another pc on the network.

In windows 7 I can install any of these apps from tha PC, But not in 8 , it just won't let me.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Windows 8 General] Emi_Cyberschreiber:
Admin rights are messed up in Windows dev preview. so you will have to live with that or go back to win7. if you get too annoyed by that

even in software like vmware you wont be able to run a virtual machine if you dont run it as admin.

in 3dsmax i get an error because it cant read a file from a plugin.

and UAC disabled means nothing, only you dont have to get the message. but it doesn't mean it changes something.

i already got used to that, but when you have to run programs as admin, you dont get drag and drop. so sometimes its hard to do stuff without it and i get annoyed. but oh well. thats something they will fix for beta but since its a preview for developers. dont expect a fix for that.
[Windows 8 General] auracle2g:
can anyone help me with mine
[Windows 8 General] shassouneh:
Have you tried disabling UAC ?

Start --> type "UAC", click on "Settings", then on "Change User Account Control Settings". Then slide the bar all the way to the bottom (Never notify), click OK twice.

If you REALLY need to run something as admin, Right Click --> "Run As Administrator"
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
My epic randomly went into boot loop on sunday. I odin'ed it monday and it was working better then before i woke up today and it was boot looping again i just tried odin 3 times now and it boot loops... is my epic bricked?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
No, bricked means no lights, no power, no nothing. You are sponged. Try a different cable and a different tar.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
any idea why this would keep happening out of the blue? Also i am using another my other cable that i always use. used it to root and odin multiple times.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
What are you Odining and are you restoring data? My guess is your data is bad. Downlod your apps fresh from the market. Don't restore any data.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
IDK

Not restoring anything i also removed the sd card. I tried to odin ec05 stock and eb13 stock. right after it says successful and closes threads i unplug my phone. Then put my batter back in and it say samsung after about 45 seconds it turn's black and samsung comes back up and loops. Also when i charge it shows the battery icon and the spinning circle in it freezes and the screen will not turn off. Seem like its just done for. I took extremely good care of it too very frustrating. If you have any other idea's I would appreciate them.

Edit: also each time it did this i couldn't get into CWM. Thats why i used odin. Just thought i should mention it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poit:
Have you tried using the "official" Samsung EB13 app? I've used it as a last resort for a clean flash.

http://www.multiupload.com/JCW8LY9KE0
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
I will give it a try
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
Good call it seems to be working.. i guess i will see for how long. Really strange it was totally bricked for a few mins no power or lights.. then i unplugged it and plugged it back in and boom started actually charging like normal (the the circle started spinning in the middle of that battery icon) so i turned it on and I was shocked to see the sprint boot screen. I bet its a temp fix till it full breaks but at least i dont have to use this damn blackberry.

Very strange

thanks
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
The Samsung update tool repartitions your device. It may have been a bad partition table. My next suggestion was to use the PIT file and check repartition in Odin but I see you are up and running...great!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
Oh maybe that was it. Hopefully this battery issues works its self out i kept saying full but really it wasnt charged. now i let it die with the phone on and its showing its low. But anyway thanks.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
You should fully charge your battery and clear battery stats in CWM.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
allright, i will charge it up then root it again.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
No, just go into CWM and hit Clear Battery Stats.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
I couldn't without rooting it and installing CWM. So i got it charged, rooted the installed CWM then did what u said. Anyway I hope this doesn't screw up again. thanks for the help guys.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
OH, so when you Odin'd you did not root after...Ah, I see. There is also an app to clear the stats and calibrate the battery but I believe it requires root as well.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gypsy214:
guys i restore a nandroid backup on my phone and now it wont pass the lg logo

and i try to go to nvidia recovery by pressing and hold vol down and power

but it wont go either it still stays on lg logo.

what can i do to fix this!!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jcbofkc:
Follow the instuction in this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056847

After you have recovery working properly download a rom and install via recovery.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gypsy214:
i did as you can see i have the drivers on my computer but somehow this phone wont go pass lg logo so my computer is not recognize the phone
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gypsy214:
ok i did flash recovery again but when i press vol down and power buttons it wont do nothing it stays on lg logo
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jcbofkc:
Hmmm....After holding power and vol down the android screen should pop up. Then release the buttons and it should go into the menu. I have no idea why the recovery did not successfully install.

Have you used the one-click method before on the G2x?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gypsy214:
i did flash one click recovery and it did fine but my phone would not go to recovery at all i held those bottoms for a minute and still now i did this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1248644

and now it wont even go to the lg logo it just stay black no recovery no lg logo. idk what else to do other than ask for a replacement
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jcbofkc:
Well crap...that sucks. Maybe the partitions got messed up. A few people have had that issue. It can create all sorts of trouble. Or it could possible an ext 3 vs ext 4 issue depending on what rom you had and what you restored. It will take someone a lot more knowledgeable than myself to help you. Good luck.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sarni84:
Take battery out put it back in then hold volume down and power
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gypsy214:
i did that but ever since i flash the rom on the recovery to if it help to flash partition on it the phone die completely it would not do anything and stays on a black screen.

it wont even try to bootup

anyways i tried several methods and non of them worked other than ****ing it up more.

so i just called tmobile and asked for a replacement and it should be here tomorrow.

thanks to all the tried to help