yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Jaunzems:
I find its ARM-11 processor somehow slow. However, the camera and screen for its money are brilliant.

YES, IT HAS GOT STOCK GINGERBREAD UPDATE. Its behaviour is smooth, but with rough edges. Battery life isn't as good it could be.

My tip - Xperia ray. It has got the best screen I've ever seen on an sub-300EUR Android device. It has got a better processor and it's nice to hold in hand too.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Evgenik777:
Depends on your budget, SGA is kinda "best buy" device in it's price segment, but as I can see you can get a quite nice deals on SGS and SGS2, so I would go for those.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
Go for the LG Optimus series .

Otherwise the Xperia Play or Arc can be a good choice .

You could also try the Samsung Galaxy S+ :p

If not , try the HTC EVO 3D or the Sensation :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] downloadonlyaccount:
I like my Ace, but i'm not sure if i would recommend to someone at this time.

I guess there are better phones (higher res, faster CPU, more internel memory) for a price that is not that much higher than the ACE's.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
I want a phone under £200, i managed to find a SGA on my favourite PAYG network for only £145!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Evgenik777:
Than choose between SGA and SE x10.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Isn't the SE X10 the tiny phone with a even tinier qwerty keyboard?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Evgenik777:
Nope, that's X10 mini and Mini Pro, I'm thinking about full X10:

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=2964&idPhone2=3724

(X10 has bigger display, better camera 8Mpx, 1Gb internal memory+8Gb card+384MbRAM, and it's also upgradable to Gingerbread)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Holy sh*t, how much is that in the UK?!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Evgenik777:
Hmm...try something like this>

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ctg/Sony-Eric...3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A5251&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

(I'm not so much into ebay auctions, but I think you can find some good deals)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
I don't like buying second-hand or from eBay, i prefer to buy from a store like Phones 4 U, Carphone Warehouse or Three, neither of them stores sell the normal X10 :(
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Evgenik777:
Have you checked your network provider deals, per example my wife got SG Tab and IP4 for 70 euros (two year contract with Orange De).
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
I only buy phones on Pay As You Go, as I am in college, I haven't got a steady flow of income so i don't want a contract in case i can't afford to pay it one month
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Evgenik777:
Hey, i just found a brand new Galaxy S2 (Pay as you Go contract), just save some more money>

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Samsung-G...58729?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item1c1ffd0089
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Thank you for all your help, I can't afford that at this moment in time though, i'll just keep my money and put it all together at Christmas and get myself something then, i can get a HTC HD7 for £170 from my local CEX (unlocked) so i may get that.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Jaunzems:
I really don't want to start a WP7 trolling topic, but, if you want an open platform, isn't it too strange to consider HD7 as an alternative? Of course, Metro is great and everything works just so smooth, but it's not that open..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dami391:
For the money i bought my Ace, it was the Motorola Defy. Now i'm thinking why i didn't choose the motorola. It has a processor seemed to the ace one, at 800 Mhz; it has more RAM(512MB); It's super ressistant. And it support flash player native.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] QNBT:
In Sweden the price for SGS and SGA are almost the same, so i'd rather go for SGS(no led for the camera though). And as dami391 said Motorola Defy, the phone is "better" (specwise) and cost about the same.

It's kinda hard to recommend SGA now that there are better phones around the same price.

But I'd say that I'm very happy with my purchase of SGA.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] tyraelasd:
As the guy above me said, now you´ve got a lot more than we had when we bought our beloved SGA.

I would recommend the SGA for you if its price is affordable for your incomes. Id say that is the best phone I ever tried but this thought just came only when I installed a new rom and rooted it, if you are not planning install new roms I definetely would say dont try the touchwiz interface and the stock rom that comes with the Ace. It sucks.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] rhadrio:
IF I were you I would wait for the upcoming Galaxy W since it'll cost about the same compared to SGA but with bigger screen, better processor and lots of other good things.

But if you're in a hurry, SGA isn't a bad option at all athough maybe it's a bit outdated by now..

I've been using this phone for like, 5 months and overall Im pretty happy with it.

You might have to pick a GB ROM though.. 'coz from what I've heard, the froyo that comes with SGA is a lil bit buggy..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] traduz:
Defy for sure. You can oc it without a problem, and other things someone said in the last page :)

I dont recommend the Ace for anyone.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
The Defy is £300 over here, the Ace is £150, I need a phone around £150 (ideally) so i was attracted by the large screen, 5 MP camera with dual LED flash, gingerbread 2.3 and the good 800MHz processor .

And yes I want a phone to just run on stock rom, I don't want to do any flashing or rooting for my new phone.

I appreciate all the help you guys are giving me.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
If stock and unrooted , you might as well get another phone that is $150 as well .

Well , at least that's what I think .

This phone isn't exactly the best out-of-the-box .
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
without rooting and modding, stock sga will became crawling slow eventually, and the ridiculous 187mb internal memory will be full before u even realize it.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Alpha Gamer:
Definitely don't get the Ace.

The battery lasts a few days......if you don't use it at all, if you hardly use it, 2 days, if you use it, you can literally sit and watch the battery drain within minutes.

The screen is crap, the build quality is iffy and don't get any ideas of using Wifi without having to turn the wifi off and on again a few times per session when it disconnects itself claiming the signal is out of range.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
agree with most of it. the truth really hurts sometimes :D

but definitely didnt agree with the "Definitely don't get the Ace" part. we get what we paid for. and ace is a good device with what i paid for it. shouldnt expect much from a low-mid end range device :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ltorr3s:
I really love my ace, but i think samsung didn't gave it all the attention they should, imagine Ace with at least 512mb of ram, it would be a better phone, and 720p native playing, man, that would rock.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Alpha Gamer:
And mine was free as an upgrade lol

The Orange San Francisco(ZTE Blade) that I got rid of and replaced with the Ace was better though(except for screen size) and that was a low-mid end range device.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Thanks guys, So you all think I should stay clear?

What phones could you recommend for under £150? I've looked at the HTC Wildfire S, seems pretty decent but I want a phone with a decent size screen.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Alpha Gamer:
I don't know anything about it, but for the price and decent sized screen, an Orange Monte Carlo? http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-pho...1BCG1vm6NnzvVPCRWScQcbLJtLkJLs4wTm!-457108408
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
increase ur budget a little bit, consider device with armv7 instead.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
I can't afford to increase my budget:( I've seen the Monte Carlo but its locked to Orange and heavily branded with bloatware and everything has a orange colour scheme- I know an alternative launcher could fix that but the bloat-ware? yuck.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
rom shouldnt be a problem for orange monte carlo if u dont mind rooting and flashing. theres quite few custom rom for it, even got cm7 unofficial port for it at modaco forum. it not a bad deal afterall with roughly the same price as ace, with better resolution, bigger screen, bigger ram, secondary front camera :)

u'll be dissapointed anyway if u get an ace and just use stock rom. trust me ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Would it be easy and risk free to de-brand the Monte Carlo?

I know where you're coming and i agree, I like the Monte Carlo a lot but the bloatware is making me sick.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Alpha Gamer:
Ah, thought a way to unlock it might have been found by now D=
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
theres always a risk doing something that didnt come from the manufacturer, even rooting ;)

besides i've never unlock a device before and i think never will do. in my country even the device that came under contract from provider is sim free :p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Ah okay, well the Monte Carlo is only £130 from Orange! That seems very cheap for what you're getting. I might pick get it, still debating. I love the size of it.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] The Alpha Gamer:
Bear in mind i've heard it doesn't have a powerful enough processor for flash, if that's important for you?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Flash doesn't bother me no, I don't care for it:')

Would you choose Monte Carlo over the SGA?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
if i were to choose between these two before i had buy an ace, and judging by their both specs i think i would go for monte carlo.

but now that ive own an ace and never see/hold/use a monte carlo, cant really say that i prefer it over ace :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Thank you for all your help, I appreciate it, I'm going into my local Orange shop one day next week to have a look at the Monte Carlo.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] guddu2011:
go for motorola defy
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CurtisAndroid5:
Can't afford the Defy mate, I think I may just get the Galaxy Ace- i had a play on it tonight when i was at my friends (His dads old phone) and i like it, runs smoothly enough for what i want and the screen size is fine.

Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it. I might see you guys around this part of the XDA forums in a few months time when i have my brand new and shiny SGA :D Thanks for all your friendly advice!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
If you compare this to the iPhone 4 , you'll be partially shocked
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jm1999:
I just ordered my infuse for 50 dollars on amazon. Im coming from Tmobile and i current have a Nexus one.

If anyone has any advice opinions about current custom roms or anything i need to do since i will be rooting please drop a comment.

I chose the Infuse over new phone because I dont have 200+ dollars to spend on a fancy new phone. And honestly I just wanted the Big nice screen big screen with someone newer last generation proccessor.

I also chose Infuse over Atrix because moto just doesnt feel right to me, and id rather have a big amoled screen then mediocre dual core phone with ****ty motoblur. It took a lot of researching but i dont think i can live with a motorola phone. haha

Luckily my tmo nexus one works half assed on att network so i will be switching phones.(especially if or when ICS rolls out)

Other than that. Nice to be here.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] the2rrell:
here is everything we have for the infuse right now

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1293751
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jm1999:
Thank you sir.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Simba501:
Welcome! The Infuse is a great device :).
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dmarco:
Just curious, I am running this version now and experimenting flashing different ROMs. While I was in the recovery mode I noticed an option labeled ” Fix Permissions ”. Can anyone help me understand what that feature is and what it does? Thanks
[HTC 7 Pro] fe22st:
Hey guys,

my sister have a HTC 7 PRO

with 7.0.7392.0

and firmwareversion: 2250.10.12401.207.

she bought a prepaidcard from vodafone, and the dataconnection didnt work.

Vodafone said, that the phone can have a o2 branding, so vodafone can not connect to internet with that phone.

Can anybody give me an indrodution step by step, what i should do?

-Downgrade and root and unlock and delete o2branding?

pls help me ... thanks a lot
[HTC 7 Pro] padlockpl:
probably you've got spl with 3.xx at front (i guess)

so you have to follow that thread ->

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1013810

then hspl

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1195647

and custom rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1049106

BUT

this is my first post, so I truly don't know if i'm wrong..
[HTC 7 Pro] wp.:
：d：d：d感谢楼上分享了！！
[General Questions and Answers] TiffanyNicole:
I rooted my phone to the incredible evolution. There are many problems to it so I wanted to change ROMS.... well It wont let me. It is as if I lost super users permission? I cant reboot from ROM manager or the old fashion way with hold down volume key and press the power button. I have tried everything I know of including Z4 root. It force closes when I try to reboot into recovery and I hate this ROM.! I need it fixed if anyone can help me I will be greatly appreciated! Please
[Nook Color General] seannasmommy:
Has anyone else had any problems after updating to Nightly #223? Mine begins to load normally, but the CM7 Boot animation never appears, and I'm left with a black screen.
[Nook Color General] cincibluer6:
I'm wondering if there was a problem with it. I went to update and ROM Manager said it was unable to download.

Sorry I can't help you further.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Music does't play, either. The stock player skips from song to song without making noise, and BeyondPod reports playback error.

Back to 222 and I'm fine again.
[Nook Color General] jasas212:
I had this nighty on for 30 min went back to stable no good
[Nook Color General] fossicker:
DSP FC on N223

Performed update from n221 to n223, wiped Dalvik, and on reboot got a DSP FC, plus a Launcher Pro crash or two. DSP app would not launch (FC). Was able to "update" back to 7.1 Stable.
[Nook Color General] agapecs:
Notice the FC on the DSP manager on nightly #221 and #223. However I did flash 7.1 and I want to say I have read in the past that's not a good idea to mix stable and nightly releases. Haven't tried a full wipe yet with the latest nightly just standard update/backup.
[Nook Color General] zires:
Went from 200 to 7.1 no issues.
[Nook Color General] fossicker:
Upgraded to n231 from 7.1 stable. No more DSP force closes. THANKS TO CM7 devs
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
so, my girlfriend sent me these picture messages last night of her conversation with "siri"....

my girlfriend has an awesome sense of humor, by the way. lol
[HTC EVO 3D] Febby:
Ahaha... This made me chuckle ;P very nice!
[HTC EVO 3D] Zabalba:
This might be a better place to post

http://forum.iphone-developers.com/iphone-4s/

inb4 flaming Homer/Moes
[HTC EVO 3D] sprintuser1977:
Good one. Ignore the forum nazi. Funny stuff is always good
[HTC EVO 3D] fr0st420:
I think it's good enough for our general section. I never would of seen it in the gayphone 4s section.
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
Lol… actually, you are right I should have posted it there too people can see what garbage it is.
[HTC EVO 3D] JohnM:
The last one was really funny.
[HTC EVO 3D] heathmcabee:
Its official. Siri loves the ****
[HTC EVO 3D] cberrios:
That was funny... It made my day...
[HTC EVO 3D] dkdude36:
its official:

iphone is better than android cuz iphone loves the ****
[HTC EVO 3D] ckoadiyn:
LOL maybe the next one will have a mouth for ur pleasure
[HTC EVO 3D] bOkz:
haha this is very funny
[HTC EVO 3D] JohnM:
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[HTC EVO 3D] THunDA:
haha, thats pretty funny!
[HTC EVO 3D] Rydah:
It's true about siri loving ****. Was by an Apple store, so I tried it out, asked siri to suck my d!ck and she said, and I'm not lying one bit: "of course sir, when would you like me to?" I said "now," she said "okay.' I then said "thank you," and she said "my pleasure."

Via My HTC Evo 3D On The Now Network From Sprint.
[HTC EVO 3D] saxamoophone:
I asked it where to get a BJ and it brought up local escort companies near my current location. No joke. Android ICS needs to catch up!
[HTC EVO 3D] dkdude36:
when will you ever do that? and then you automatically become a suspect for 'that hooker found in a trunk off the freeway'
[HTC EVO 3D] fatalbert85:
Read first line about gf sending pics.

Scrolled...no pics of said gf.

Have a nice day.
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
^hahah sorry to disappoint
[Xoom General] cosmok82:
Hi at all.

I have the same problem of this member after the downgrade. Could someone help me?

I tried everything I could think of. Before adopting extreme solutions I would like to hear yours.
[myTouch 4G General] sunsean:
I know it's a subjective vague question - but what do you guys use? Obviously I'm speaking of a gmail account, not yahoo, etc...For non-gmail accounts obviously htc mail is the way to go. But I only use my gmail.

I've been using the main gmail app since I've been on Android until a couple weeks ago, when I finally tried HTC mail. I did this primarily for the fancier UI, and deeper Sense integration (quick launch widget, etc).

But I'm realizing that HTC mail, while impressive in its display and interface, seems to not work 100% smoothly. For instance, I've noticed a couple emails that didn't show up in my inbox in HTC mail, but are visible in the stock gmail app and on my gmail on my computer. Once HTC mail "misses" an email it will not appear upon refreshing, weird...this hasn't bee a widespread problem, but still if it happens to "miss" that one important email, that's not good...also, you lose a lot of the labeling and starring functionality that gmail has. Also - another thing is you can only sync up to one months' worth of mail with HTC, but with the native gmail app you can access all your emails. Theoretically, HTC allows you to search the server for older emails, but for some reason it's not working for me. Every now and then I need to dig up an old email, and HTC doesn't seem to want to let me do it.

Anyway - sorry if this is a lame thread, but I've been thinking about what I want to do and figured it was worth throwing it out in the general section to see what other people think.

I think, even though HTC mail is much prettier and 'fancier' - I'm going to go back to native gmail, because while it's not as exciting of an app, it seems to generally work better.

Thoughts?
[myTouch 4G General] jon_htc:
aww man sorry to hear that. well think of email as speculation. would you rather hear it from the horses mouth? HTC mail is nice ... I think its for emails that dont have their own app (ie company or personal website)

Maybe its the ROM.When I was using sense 3.0 i ran both of the apps you mentioned and they came in simultaneously.
[myTouch 4G General] sunsean:
I actually think I figured the "missed" emails out - I have labels set up in gmail where emails from certain people or with certain tags, get put in a label. In gmail, all of these emails appear in my inbox as well as their respective folders...but in htc, it seems that these emails appear ONLY in the folders (labels) they are linked to, but NOT in the general inbox...which is another thing I don't like lol. I don't want to have to jump between several different folders to try to find an email. I only use the folders when I want to group a certain label together for easier viewing and for archiving, but not to actually read incoming mail...

It's too bad - I love how integrated HTC mail is in Sense...whereas with gmail, it's just an icon. With HTC you have a choice of widgets, unread count on the icon, display in quick launch...btw I'm running TDJ's port of the Sense 3.5 Runny rom...love it!

But on topic, looks like I'm heading back to native gmail. I just wish that update didn't remove 3rd party access...or at least I wish gmail would implement an unread count option for the icon or a widget...
[myTouch 4G General] jon_htc:
Love it too but i think with a few more updates itll be ready to go with widget functionality.

I was running that for a day but some of the features werent working so I went back to MIUI.

TDJ has MT4G on lock giving people that love full animations (sense) and minimalists (MIUI) what they want.
[myTouch 4G General] sunsean:
Yeah I tried MIUI for a day myself. It was cool, different, but ultimately I preferred the more traditional 'android' setup. I was on cm7 for a good bit, but I always wind up back on Sense. I guess its vain of me but i just think the software feels 'higher end'
[myTouch 4G General] johnjjschmidt:
Gmail is superior to me for one reason only: push email. HTC mail does not offer this.

Sent from myGlacier
[myTouch 4G General] micahman:
I get much better battery life using HTC mail set to sync every 30 minutes.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pedrobelo:
Hi all

I have an E-PAD and the NAND is not working. Is there any way to boot Android thru SD Card? If yes is there any newbie guide to do so?

Thanks in advance
[HTC Amaze 4G] xdadevelopers-user:
Prerequisites:

1. You need an unlocked boot loader.

2. You need root.

3. You need a PC with adb that can see your phone

4. Your phone needs to have USB debug enabled

All of these are well documented here in the forum.

On the PC grab the two apk files that the UOT kitched needs:

adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk
adb pull /system/app/SystemUI.apk

Now go to the UOT kitchen and choose your battery style from the battery tab.

Next click on the "File Upload" tab and upload your two files.

Then submit your work to the kitchen and wait.

When the kitchen is done processing, you have a download called UOT-*.zip. download that. And extract it somewhere on your PC. Now you need to push the files to your phone.

adb push SystemUI.apk /data/local/SystemUI.apk
adb push framework-res.apk /data/local/framework-res.apk

Next you need to adb shell to the phone to remount the system partition as read-write and copy the files to their correct location. From the PC run "adb shell" Then, on the phone:

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p29 /system
cp /data/local/SystemUI.apk /system/app/SystemUI.apk
cp /data/local/framework-res.apk /system/framework/framework-res.apk
cd /data/dalvik-cache
rm *

Then reboot the phone. When it comes back up you should have your customized battery.

NOTE: This is all from memory so there may be some minor inconsistencies but the general concept is sound. The main thing you MUST do is unlock the bootloader and you MUST have root (temp-root should be fine)

NOTE 2: There are a lot more things that you can customize using the UOT Kitchen. I've only changed the battery but you should be able to change icons, taskbar, lockscreen and more. So, if you are comfortable doing so, have at it.

And one final note. This is the brute-force method. Once a CWM recovery is created for the Amaze then most (all?) of this is unnecessary and you can just flash the UOT zip file from recovery.

-xdadevelopers-user
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
after i do the adb pull, where can i find the files it pulled????
[HTC Amaze 4G] HenryHdz0903:
Should be in the same adb folder
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
what exactly are the inconsistencies? cause i cant get it to stick although i follow your instructions to a "t"
[HTC Amaze 4G] xdadevelopers-user:
Is your bootloader unlocked?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Reviewers:
I try doing this framework but it work's it force close's alot i restored firmware then i tryed it went good then i restarted my phone & now i'm on a black screen the button's show up but no display , what the hell ?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Enzopreme:
bricked again huh?? you building a skyscraper with all those bricks??
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
Here's a thought-let's all be patient and take one step at a time.

We need recovery before we start buggering around.