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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WTF?:
I had fast battery drain too, I switched to the ROM in

this thread

, and battery life is now AMAZING

use SuperWipeG2(+) and Guhl's EFS GPS fix available

here

before flashing G-lite
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ditamae:
Have you tried calibrating? Charging to full, wiping batt stats, discharging/charging back to full uninterrupted? The link below is a great calibration tool.... very convenient. I wipe stats after every ROM flash and keep an eye on CPU/RAM usage with Watchdog lite. Battery life is always good.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&feature=search_result
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] penfold1992:
how long does the battery last for aprox in standby and with regular use. if it dies faster then 3days on standby or less then a day with regular use there may be an issue im just wanting to know the time span of your battery....

also i had hardware issues with the g2 too. my radio sucked balls, i couldnt even keep signal in a call longer then 3 seconds and my wifi would just cut out for periods of hours at a time... im wondering if the manufacturing is becoming sloppy and they might be lacking quality control. i admit there is a lot to the phone but simple things like battery quality and signal quality should be checked regularly.

with the g2 i frequently hear things like this, battery, screen failures or behind the screen cracks, unresponsive touch screen and black spots, bad radio signals, color leakage and most commonly issues with the keyboard.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
Well if battery monitor widget is correct my phone would last 26 hours in airplane mode (36 with my mugen battery) with the screen off (I tested this with almost every user app uninstalled)

Edit:

Considering there was a guy who left his old Hero with CM7 in airplane mode and that it lasted for 30 days before the battery died... I find this quite discouraging
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
Wow. Battery monitor widget is INCREDIBLY innacurate while in airplane mode. I left my phone in it for a good 10 hours and it was still at 100%

Disregard this post... and thread
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ishehu:
Does anybody know if the readers hub apk works from the international version?
[TouchPad Development] Garrett07:
alright guys so the procedure is kinda complicated compared to Windows but not really lol Welp here it goes :D

TUTORIAL

1st: Download all the files needed to install (ACMEInstaller, CM7, Clockworkmod recovery, and Moboot) from rootzwiki

2nd: Once downloaded place all of those zips EXCEPT for ACMEInstaller into a folder on your touchpad called "cminstall"

3rd: Have the novacom drivers installed (google universal novacom installer, should be a .jar file)

4th: once that is done find the novacom drivers by searching in the finder (search novacom ;) )

5th: unzip ACMEInstaller.zip and place the one that isn't the readme in with novacom

6th: drag novacom over to a terminal window followed by "boot mem:// <" then without a space drag the ACMEInstaller file over to the end of that string. (The result should look something like this Garrett-Witts-MacBook-Pro-2:~ garrett_witt$ /opt/nova/bin/novacom boot mem:// </opt/nova/bin/ACMEInstaller)

7th: Behold! You have installed cm7 using mac!
[TouchPad Development] Smac7:
thank you very much!
[TouchPad Development] Garrett07:
You are very welcome man, just giving back to the community, was it easy to follow? It was my first guide lol
[TouchPad Development] knightnz:
I would've put:

1st: Download all the .ZIP files needed to install (ACMEInstaller, CM7, Clockworkmod recovery, and Moboot) from rootzwiki via the forum link HERE

2nd: Once downloaded place all of those zips EXCEPT for ACMEInstaller into a folder on your touchpad (via USB mount) called "cminstall". Optionally you can also download the latest CM7 Google Apps package from http://goo-inside.me/gapps/ and put that in there as well - this is required if you want access to the Android market.

3rd: Download Novacom from HERE & install it.

4th: Unzip ACME Installer onto your desktop

5th: Power off your TouchPad, then turn it on again, holding down the Volume-Up button until a large USB logo appears on the screen.

5th: Open a terminal window (click on spotlight, type terminal and select it) and type the following into the terminal window:

novacom boot mem:// <~/Desktop/ACMEInstaller

The installer will now proceed. It'll adjust partition sizes, install ClockWorkMod, CM7 itself, the Moboot bootmenu and optionally the Google Apps package. WebOS will remain the default OS.
[TouchPad Development] liemydude:
I got the install on my touchpad running. It got quite far and then stopped with the following lines ending it.

"Looking for the install images...

Initial install files not found.

Please download it from touchpad.linuxhacker.ru

and put in sminstall folder on media partition

the name should start with update-cm and end with .zip"

Any ideas?
[TouchPad Development] Garrett07:
Did you create the folder titled "cminstall" on the touchpad through webos?

and place in that folder the files "update-cyanogenmod...", "update-clockworkmod...", "update-gapps..." ?
[TouchPad Development] Garrett07:
thanks for the feedback knight, I will rewrite when I get the chance.
[TouchPad Development] boutwell:
I can not get the Novatel package to install on 10.7.2 (Lion). It errors on the final step. Anyone else get it to install?
[TouchPad Development] ianm:
Boutwell, I think you may have the same problem I had. If you downloaded the SDK for the Novacom drivers from the link in the original README file you may have the version known to be in compatible with OS X Lion. Don't have the links to hand, but you can get the latest version of the SDK installer from the HP/WebOS site.

EDIT - found the link here: https://developer.palm.com/content/resources/develop/sdk_pdk_download.html#c23352

Download the Mac version of the SDK and install, no need to bother with the VMWare section and during the installer's option selection, clear the tick boxes for the Emulator and PDK as they are not needed.
[TouchPad Development] chrischoi:
Is this confirmed working / updated? I don't want to get out of bed to fire up my PC. Haha.
[TouchPad Development] x-kid:
yes this works. i've done it on my macbook and my sister was able to do this on her macbook
[TouchPad Development] chrischoi:
Does Wifi work?
[TouchPad Development] chrischoi:
I get here and nothing. I followed the instructions perfectly. Touchpad is on the USB screen and Terminal is sitting there...

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I ended up having to redo the novacom drivers. Downloading them from the SDK pack is the way to go.
[TouchPad Development] enserio:
These ^last instructions worked best for me. Something about where my novacom and acme files were located had me messed up.
[TouchPad Development] chrischoi:
Just the Novacom drivers were giving me a install error. I also found that it's more consistent with changing director, then running the commands.
[TouchPad Development] Domvillan:
hey thanks for the write up very helpful

ps digging the A.B.R
[TouchPad Development] QueB3:
Yo Garrett I gotta say thank you man. I been struggling with that terminal command for 2 hours. My damn eyes hurt. Every site was just giving windows info. Thank you much man. I owe you a drink
[TouchPad Development] heliox:
Thanks for this tutorial, mate. For those(lazy bastards) who don't like reading instructions, here's a video guide :

How to Install Android on the HP TouchPad (Mac Version)
[TouchPad Development] Domvillan:
if anyone else is having issues with mac try running the commands in su mode.
[TouchPad Development] samthewildone:
Thanks... very easy to follow compared to the original. The original had nothing about putting the files onto the device. Go figure...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kinubic:
hmm debating if should go with AT&T's warranty or go with squaretrades? i love the phone too much it makes me paranoid that one day i may drop it or something may happened to it lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bigblue95z:
If you want insurance on your phone, get it through your insurance company if you have a homeowner policy. I pay $17/yr and have a deductible of $50 only if lost. $0 if I bring them pieces. Lol
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Vykromod:
Wellall started when I was trying to install Cyanogen mod into my U20a, I started reading the wiki, installed ADB, and other stuff, my personal hell started when I had to unlock the bootloader for my device. I have read many threads about this but I haven't found answers for the the issue that I'm getting.

First of all:

Device: U20a

OS: Windows 7 32

The problem is that when I run s1tool following the instructions that I have found in other threads (turn off the device, press the 'do the job' button, press the back button and plugging the USB cable) I do not receive any outcome from the s1tool, (I have waited 3 minutes waiting for any outcome but nothing happens), I have searched in the xda forums but I have only archived to get more and more frustrated with the s1tool.

So here I am looking for some answers and guidance.

Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] szl.kiev:
have you got the SEMC driver installed?

you can obtained it within SEUS or install gordon's gate (inside flashtool package).

maybe it can sort out your problem.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Vykromod:
I have already installed the last gordons gate avariable, maybe I should uninstal precious drivers and try again? If there is a way to do that.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Vykromod:
Bumping for some help.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] matmutant:
i'm on e10i but,

something that could have happpend : "faulty" usb connection...

did you tried with other USBcable/PC ?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] eurospoofer:
Try having a scout about in Windows Device manager for the semc drivers.

I had a small issue when I first tried s1tool, Holding the phones back key and plugging in kicked the phone into 'flash' mode as a USB device, but I didn't have the drivers installed. (PC companion was installed, but that only seemed to contain the drivers for the phone when it was in normal (non-flash) mode)

When I tried to update driver in device manager, after downloading the usb drivers, they wouldn't install. I simply uninstalled the flash usb device in device manager. (It'll show up when the phone is plugged in, in flash mode)

Once removed, unplug the phone and turn it off. re-start by holding back key and plugging back in. Windows re-detected it and the second time around, installed the usb drivers.

Hope this helps
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] cartoone:
I also had the same problem.

I installed Gordon drivers from flashtool.. but still not able to detect the phone in flash mode.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] eric793tp3:
me too, same problem

Windows XP

SE X8

nothing comes out even new verion s1tool use
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ErebusRaze:
So I have the US Galaxy S II variant which is an amazing phone but it's not the GS2 I fell for in February. I managed to flip (sell) my phone for a hefty price which is more than enough to buy the International version but in your opinion -- is it worth it?

I know the Nexus Prime, Razr, etc are being announced in 24 hours but I don't care -- for now. If I get the GS2 off or Amazon will it have NFC compatibility when it gains ground in the US? Is the home button really as flimsy as people make it out to be? All of your opinions are welcome.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gtg465x:
What about the international version do you like so much better? They are nearly the same.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ngocdao:
They are the same, minus home button.

Only nfc-ready place I've been to is starbucks. That's like having an lte phone but no lte connection in your city
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ErebusRaze:
Maybe because I've had the original Galaxy S and am not fond of the capacitive button layout, and I had numerous issues with the search button freaking out on the Captivate. The international version looks a lot better IMO, but lack of NFC is a drawback. The bad thing is someone already bought my At&t version.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: i777 vs i9100

There are a lot more differences than just the front mechanical button which everyone talks about.

#1: the i9100 has a built-in FM stereo RDS radio

#2: the i9100 has three front buttons one of which is mechanical

#3: the i9100 is factory unlocked (it was NEVER locked to start with)

#4: the i9100 has slightly thinner & smaller housing dimensions

#5: the i9100 weighs a few grams less

Here are the size/weight specs for each:

Samsung Galaxy SGH i777: Dimensions	126 x 66 x 8.9 mm Weight	121.9 g

Samsung Galaxy S II i9100: Dimensions 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm Weight	116 g

Most likely there are other slight differences which I have not yet investigated.

Check it out yourself at GSMARENA on their website.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] designgears:
faill quote 10 char
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ErebusRaze:
The man himself...

I see you traded your S II and have the At&t version at the moment. A reason you settled on this one (though your phone repertoire is pretty extensive)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] BarryH_GEG:
There are only three things that are in any way advantageous in choosing the ASGS2 over the ISGS2:

1) Subsidized pricing

3) Warranty with overnight replacement from AT&T

3) The ability to buy insurance from AT&T in case its lost or stolen

You can say NFC's an advantage but everyone will probably be on their next phone by the time you'll be able to do anything meaningful with it.

What you give up: (note: a lot of these are meaningless if you root/ROM)

1) Updates directly from Samsung

2) 2 year vs. 1 year warranty

3) FM Radio

4) Features and settings removed by AT&T

5) Multi-purpose hardware home button

6) $10 unlimited fake-4G

The ISGS2 was my first non-subsidized phone. I'll never buy another carrier molested phone again. I travel overseas a lot so don't have the luxury to root/ROM because every device I've modified always had problems registering on foriegn networks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ngocdao:
Lol@4 grams and less than 1mm even worth mentioning...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: grams

116g to 121.9g equals just about 6 grams difference, not 4 :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ngocdao:
lol .. even at 6 grams. seriously, i cant even tell the phones in my hand or in my pocket. How light and how thin do you really need your phone to be?

i hope you dont weigh your order of french fries too fearing a few missing fries.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] foxbat121:
None of the international versions have any warranty in US. You will have to deal with someone outside the US or the seller for any warranty work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bella92108:
I'm in Bangkok all week w\ my SGSII (AT&T) and the thing that drives me absolutely INSANE is that AT&T blocks the ability to select which network you want to use. I have a local Thai SIM (DTAC), but I have to let the radio\ROM auto-select the network, which bugs the sh#$ out of me, because many countries have the ability to roam on several networks, and not being able to chose annoys me.

I was at the market today and they sell the SGSII International version for $516 USD, I think I may take the plunge. The US version doesn't nor never will have the number of accessories available as the international one does, so I think I'm good there, and I know I can sell my ATT version for $450-500, so likely I'll pick one up tomorrow. Good idea? For $516 it's a good price I think.

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You're the guy on the plane next to me who pulls out the 17" Dell from 4 years ago that's 4 inches thick aren't you?

Although congrats for the worst analogy of the day!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: network selection

All you need to do if you want to be able to select different networks

is to unlock the AT&T phone........

As far as accessories you are right!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bella92108:
That's absolutely incorrect. You can NOT select network just by unlocking, that simply allows you to use the sim's default network. The manual network selection does NOT become usable after unlocking (I know from personal experience with the ATT SGSII AND the Infuse 4G). The only way to manual select on Infuse was to flash Rogers radio and install custom rom. Unfortunately no alternate radios are avail for i777 yet (if ever)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
Of course you need to put a different sim chip into the phone if you want to

change service providors with an unlocked phone.

The advantage of a unlocked phone is just that, the ability to use different sim

chips from different service providors as long as they use the gsm networks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bella92108:
I understand that. Tell ya what. Unlock your phone and pop in a t-mobile SIM and try to access the network selection screen. You CAN'T. I've been through this time and time again. AT&T LOCKS the menu. So unless you replace the radio AND install a custom ROM (ie on my Infuse I had Infused 2.3.3 and Rogers Radio), you CAN NOT even get into the manual network selection screen regardless of what sim you put into the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: network settings

You are right, getting into the manual network selection with a locked or

unlocked phone depends on which rom you are using, some roms let you

do that others don't. CyanogenMod 7 roms do have that feature and some

other custom roms have it too.

But changing the network selection settings is not a very good idea even

if we can do it.

But what's the point in getting into the network selection if lets say you have

an AT&T or T-mobile sim card? With an unlocked phone both of these two

sims will work fine without needing to change the network selection.

The unlocked phone will automatically detect the correct network settings

for any sim card which it's compatible with.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bella92108:
You don't travel much internationally, I see. :-)

Yeah, if you are in Los Angeles with an AT&T sim it's likely going to find it's way onto the AT&T network, obviously. Try roaming across to Japan... you'll find that AT&T has roaming agreements with NTTdocomo, and SoftBank. NTTdocomo is great if you're sitting at Narita airport, but you may want to venture outside the airport, to say, downtown Tokyo, where Softbank dominates in coverage and reliability in parts of town. You can't switch because the ATT ROM\Radio will ALWAYS favor NTT, why? Because ATT likely has a more favorable roaming rate negotiated (ATT doesn't have customer experience first priority as you likely already know). Not being allowed manual selection means you take what ATT gives.

Now take an international SIM... say you go to Thailand, where I am this week. I go home with the SIM and I want to use it in the US. ATT's ROAMING list they force on me will allow me ONLY to use it on ATT... but wait, my SIM I bought here in Thailand doesn't roam with ATT, only T-Mobile... so I'm fu$#ed... see what I mean? If I had manual network selection, 2 clicks and I'd select t-mobile. To take that right away from a customer is 100% anti-customer, and demonstrates what a regional carrier ATT really is. The people who control these things don't leave their cubicle in Dallas, so they don't get it that someone might just want to not be screwed without phone service when they travel because the furthest the programmer geek has travelled is the $5 happy ending massage shop at the edge of town, lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] id10terrordfw:
Just have to correct you on something, the $5 Happy ending places are NOT on the edge of Dallas, they are on Harry Hines near downtown... Not that I would know anything about that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: travel much

You're right, I don't travel much, do you want to take me to Japan and show me how? :)

Yes now I see what you mean!

(there are cheapy phones made in China which support two internal sim chips which can be switched on the fly I think)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bella92108:
Yeah, I didn't spent $500 to have a traveling paperweight though, hehe. I used to always carry a second phone, but then I ended up missing the nice features of my main phone when I travel. I'm just going to go to MBK in the morning and buy a SGSII International here and sell my ATT version next week when I'm back, on eBay or CL
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] lonewolf69:
Just out of curiosity...? Aren't all US phones LOCKED this way? So this isn't just an AT&T issue right... The same would be true for a sprint, tmobile or verizon phone...? Wouldn't it have been better to buy an internation phone to begin with instead of ANY U.S. carrier subsidised phone...?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: which is best

All the SGS2 i777 phones are LOCKED in the USA, they are locked to AT&T.

However its fairly easy to unlock these phones.

If I were to unlock my i777 phone it would not only work with AT&T but

with any other GSM service provider like T-Mobile which uses SIM chips.

The only downside to unlocking the phone is that even after it's unlocked it

will NOT work on 3G or 4G but only on GSM networks, which means that

voice calls will work great but anything related to internet will be real slow

unless you are using wifi.

Even the international version of our phones (SGS2 i9100) has the same

problem with 3G/4G if used with any other carrier here in the US besides AT&T.

The international version will work with any GSM network but without the

3G/4G bands unless you have an AT&T sim card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bella92108:
I just bought the new white SGSII international 20 mins ago. The issue isn't unlock the issue is att wont allow manual network selection on their SGSII
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] daverod:
So, the int'l galaxy s 2 fully supports AT&T data, then? HSPA+ is just 3G as I understand it.

I bought the original galaxy s in Portugal last year knowing that there were some limitations. It works for the most part but there can be 10 minute periods where my data connection dies.

I'm in Europe every summer, so I'm looking for some of the same benefits as the OP.

Thanks

Dave
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bella92108:
Yeah works the same. I just set mine up. Love being to press a button to answer a call. Got the new white one for $508 after currency conversation. Very pleased.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: networks

Bella, have you ever tried the CyanogenMOD 7.1 rom?

I just tested the latest update of it and just like the previous updates

you can manually select the networks.

I tested it last night and there were 2 networks showing up which I could

select from, one was my AT&T service providor which I use all the time

and the other was T-Mobile which I tried for the hell of it and if I recall it

said "no service" after making the selection or something to that effect.

(even though my phone is an AT&T I had a friend from AT&T store unlock it.)

So I am fairly sure that the network selection is very rom related, not just unlocking.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jgunna405:
U.S. technology hasn't caught up to our phones yet. We have NFC capability already (check battery). I think we're just waiting on the powers that be to flip the swtich.

I had the International phone as well, and I loved it. I don't really see a difference except in the ability to alphabetize apps and the removal of Samsung apps that didn't even work. (IM app). To me it's all the same but the Int'l version has more support currently so switching roms is cake.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] daverod:
You're not able to sort apps alphabetically on the AT&T version in Touchwiz?