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[HTC Sensation] fr0zenblood75:
I think it depends if you will be using custom roms and or like sense or touchwiz

I love my sensation it has many roms to choose from and they make it way faster than it was on stock especially cm7

The thing I like about the gs2 is the amoled hd part and the exynos proccesor. I think the best thing you should do is wait for the galaxy nexus
[HTC Sensation] nellycruzz:
Repeat topic lol.
[HTC Sensation] wwfc:
Problem is i only have a macbook. So getting s-off and root on both is impossible. If I'm being honest i don't really like the Galaxy nexus. I actually think it looks a bit ugly. Also it uses the Pentile matrix display, so pixellation will occur even with the HD resolution. Im interested in pure stock experience and which is better without root etc.
[HTC Sensation] wwfc:
That's Helpful
[HTC Sensation] fr0zenblood75:
By pure stock u mean aosp or stock as in stock sense 3.0 and touchwiz?

If you won't root then I guess I recomend the galaxy s 2 its really fast on its stock Rom and the super amoled can probably amend for the low resolution
[HTC Sensation] bobbymokie:
Don't forget design. Personal opinion, I'd take a slightly lower spec'd phone for the nicer feel in hand. Can't beat metal and curved glass. Feels way more expensive.
[HTC Amaze 4G] krazie1:
Hi, i was on twitter and i seen this. Scepterr has made clockwork mod recovery for the HTC Amaze and says that it works on his phone. You can go to his google+ profile to check out the information he posted. He says that he is not providing any support but it should work with other Amaze's. I provided his twitter to if you wish to follow him.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106544349933037831956/posts/Jpa8SaA4p41

http://twitter.com/#!/Scepterr
[HTC Amaze 4G] fimanmd:
anybody tried this yet? think we can use it to flash the stock image and gert back bluetooth if we lost it?
[HTC Amaze 4G] krazie1:
Mods please delete this thread.
[Droid X General] FrostyIcy:
Just wonder if anyone has flashed either of these two Roms? They were just released over the weekend. I know battery life will be great on both. Just wondering what type of customization's they have before I flash. As well of any known bugs that either may have. Thanks fellas.
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
Going to flash Liberty 3 soon and will report back.
[Droid X General] benpatrick:
Yea I'm running Liberty 0.9 right now and I'm wondering which new one to flash. I already get great battery life on Liberty and love the ROM, but Shuji is definitely appealing for me to try.
[Droid X General] benpatrick:
I'm flashing Shuji 2.5 right now.
[Droid X General] FrostyIcy:
Cool definitely let me know how it works for you. Especially battery life.

How is Shuji 2.5? What type of customization's and battery life??
[Droid X General] benpatrick:
Battery life was extremely great! Seemed to have the best battery of any ROM I've tried yet. There wasn't much to customize really, which is a disappointment. Kinda boring. I ended up just flashing the newest Liberty X3 and I love it. It has an ICS feel to it. Very smooth and framework is very similar to ICS. Hoping they come out with some new themes for Liberty soon.
[Droid X General] GunnerOnASpooky:
I've flashed Shuji, but I would suggest Vortex if speed, stability, and battery life are what you're looking for. I have flashed many other roms, and so far Vortex eclipses them all. just my 2 cents
[Droid X General] FrostyIcy:
Ok cool thanks for the info. Thats what I was wondering. The developer just released Vortex 2.9 so I'll definitely be flashing this one.
[Droid X General] mlordi:
Currently running LibertyX 3 coming from CM7.1 and I must say that this rom has the best battery life I have ever gotten coming from older versions of liberty, cm7, and so on. It is also pretty fast when navigation home screens and apps. I have not tried Shuji yet but what would that rom offer that I don't already get from LX3?
[Droid X General] booyeahhomie:
Huge fan of Liberty, ran 0.9 until CM7 became a bit more stable. Unfortunately, CM7's battery life is just too much of a hit to keep running it. Just flashed LibertyX3, and it's great! Seems much smoother than 0.9 and battery life so far is great. Heavy usage for 3 hours (restoring everything from backups) and still had 75% battery left.

Anybody flash shuiji or VorteX? I plan on flashing those in boot manager just to mess around.
[Droid X General] dkranes:
I'll chime in with Liberty as well - been running it for about a week now. Best battery life I've had on any ROM so far. I know it's just a RC and some people are having issues, but I have not had any problems at all. Works great flashed over to Cricket as well, no issues with MMS or anything. :)
[Droid X General] sp3cial3dfr3d:
I have had liberty.9 gb and the sugui gb Im running cm7 nightlys for gb I prefer this the most 100s of themes,fonts,and all round good,I would also buy tomorrow tools great to have I bought it
[Droid X General] sp3cial3dfr3d:
Rom tools*
[Droid X General] Izzo0825:
Im running Shuji 2.5 and I really it like it becuase its stable. BUT its killing my darn battery and if I try to turn the volume up on my Plantronics Voyager Pro bluetooth it stops working and the phone will also hang the call up. Has me ready to switch to another rom!!
[Droid X General] Yogo123:
Im currently running vortex and has great battery life but I don't know if liberty is better. What do you guys think?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwfc:
Hey guys. I'm looking to buy a new phone this week, and i'm torn between the Sensation XE and the Samsung Galaxy S2. I can get them both free on a £30 per month contract with 900 mins, 5000 texts and 1Gb of data. So i'll post this on both the Sensation (since there is no XE board) and the SGS2 board. Hopefully someone on here has an XE, if not anyone with the normal Sensation please give some info as to how you've found it, same goes for owners of the SGS2.

Here is how i see it at the moment.

Screen

Sensation XE - 4.3" qHD 960x540 S-LCD

SGS2 - 4.3" Super AMOLED+ 400x800

This is one of the things i'm confused about, i mean, clearly the AMOLED display will have better contrast and viewing angles, but i'm slightly concerned about the resolution being only 480x800. On my Omnia 7 the super amoled 480x800 on only a 4" display looks pixelated. Could someone let me know whether the SGS2 uses the Pentile matrix or full RGB set-up?

Processor

Sensation XE - 1.5Ghz dual core Qualcomm MSM8260

SGS2 - 1.2Ghz dual core Exynos

The XE has a higher clock speed but I'm worried that sense 3.0 will slow it down. And also the Exynos is probably better than the Qualcomm.

RAM

Sensation XE - 768Mb

SGS2 - 1Gb

Clearly the SGS2 is better here.

Internal storage

Sensation XE - 4Gb (1Gb user accessible)

SGS2 - 16Gb/32Gb

Expandable Memory

Sensation XE - Micro SD, up to 32Gb

SGS2 - Micro SD, up to 32Gb

Dimensions

Sensation XE - 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm 151g

SGS2 - 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.49 mm 116g

Battery

Sensation XE - 1730Mah

SGS2 - 1650Mah

Camera

Sensation XE - 8MP, dual LED flash 2MP FF, 1080p video

SGS2 - 8MP, LED flash 0.3MP FF, 1080p video

So that's the specs, obviously in most categories the Sensation XE is the winner, but i would like to know what people who have actually used the phones think. There are some things other than the hardware which separate the two, such as Sense 3.0 on the XE, and Touchwiz on the SGS2. Not forgetting beats integration on the XE.

So that turned into a face off really, but still. What do you guys think? I'd love to here some suggestions as to which i should buy. I've had a Desire HD, rooted and S-Off'd obviously, and used sense 3.0 on that and it ran quite nicely, so a dual core processor should be even better. I'll stop now.

Look forwards to your responses guys ;) Alex
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorkis:
Go for the sensation XE if you get them for free. I have sgs2 and I'm reallly satisfied. But HTC is newer, got good specs. I know you wont be unsatisfied with any of them. But if i was in your shoes then i would go for htc
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkchazz:
Fixed ;)

In my opinion, the only thing better in the sensation is the build quality, the SGS2 is better in everything else, including the screen imo(+1 for full RGB setup)....

Also, the exynos SoC is better than all the crap qualcomm produces....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
The sgs2 will be faster than the sensation, and the screen is great.

On rawr resolution the sensation may win, but the sgs2 has ammazing viewing angles, colour, contrast etc.

I would get the sgs2 over the sensation myself, but i don't like sense, so that's more of a personal thing.

In the end, hardware wise there both good, so it's a matter of software, goodness knows when htc will officially drag there phones to ics due to sense, i dont see samsung draging there heals so much, a lot of what was in touchwizz seems to have gone into ics.

Tl;dr both good, software I think is the deciding factor (I would vote sgs2 but that's because this is the sgs2 forum)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwfc:
Yeah i got the Camera specs the wrong way around :P In benchmarks the SGS2 does seem to outperform the XE in things like linpack and Neocore. Full RGB is a plus on the screen front. I'm so confused :L I know what HTC are like though, so if i get the XE in a week or two they'll release something way better and i'll feel like a douchebag :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChriisM:
Just came from a sensation to a galaxys2 today owned the HTC for 2months , all i can say is i will never miss the HTC over the gs2, your worrys about the res in the screen has no effect from the difference the SA+ screen, colors have no depth and look like they have a white glow on the sensation, mine was custom romed with beats profiles on it, it is good, however power amp does a better job. Build is good but fat and i got a slim line case and it felt like a brick. But sense 3.0/3.5 is great very flash and handy for social news feeds etc.

All i can say is have a try urself instore and make sure to look at the sensation screen compared to the gs2s ,

Oye and one other thing , my HTC from new out of the box had white dead pixels and showed up really bad at grey colours, they drove me crazy , also the HTC only has toughen glass vs the gorilla glass on the gs2 and i had a thick protecter on and it got scratched

Hope i helped :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kailkti:
The only thing I don't want for an HTC phone is sense. As pretty and lust worthy as it is, the performance is subpar.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sn8f1st:
I had an HTC Desire for about a year and half, s-off and all that. I played with the Sensation as a few friends had them and being honest I'm happy I made the switch from HTC.

Not thinking about the UI the SGS2 is faster, I think the screen is better and everything is responsive. Rooting takes 5 minutes once you have it figured out. Ive only had it 2 weeks but its more responsive imo and using a sensation again felt like it was slow.

I'm still figuring it out really but they do feel really diffrrent in the hands. The sensation is heavier and feels more solid in the hand but also feels bigger. The SGS2 feels lighter but still tough, although it feels a bit cheaper it feels like it will last.

The Touch Wiz interface I do like. I also liked Sense with my last phone, TW is better with more options and functions as well as being fast and responsive. I'm just trying to get my head around it but I'm liking it a lot.

Oh and the battery life is awesome, a full day and half with light use and I had 20% left. I used gps, internet, made about 30 mins of calls, about 40 texts as well as syncing my gmail, hotmail, facebook, exchange email the whole time. I'm also still running the stock rom but rooted, I just use juice defender.

I hope that helps. Ask the same question in the sensation board and you will prob get the same about the HTC. It's really up to you, try both and see what you think. Look past the how the UI works and see how it feels you hand and also how responsive as well as accurate. You are going to be holding the phone for usually a year so it better feel right.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galactus:
I'd get the sgs2 easily, reviews have showed the the bump from 1.2ghz to 1.5ghz hardly makes any difference on the XE, sgs2 has a better screen, more memory, is very light and with proper eq settings can easily outclass the bass heavy beats sound on the htc. let me not forget, it runs like a dream :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwfc:
Iv'e confused myself even more now :P Just checked out the Moto Razr and it looks amazing. And its super Amoled Advanced with qHD so best of SGS2 and Sensation. Damn you OEM's! Stop making great phones i can't choose between. Screw it i'll get an iPhone............... oh no wait i have a brain.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kailkti:
The Razr has a locked bootloader so if you want to flash a custom rom onto it, the Razr defeats the purpose. Also Motorola is horrible at updates and keeping customer's satisfied. Moreover Motorola's software is even more subpar than sense.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
Yeh, unlocked bootloader and no need to s-off or anything is another good reason to go samsung or nexus.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwfc:
Iv'e got a mac though. So no way of rooting as far as I'm aware of anyway for sgs2 or nexus s etc. The Razr looks awesome too. This is a real hard decision :/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kailkti:
That's the thing. if you don't need to root or something similar then the razr is all yours. Just weigh out whether you need root or not.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwfc:
Yeah i suppose. Difficult decision. Might wait to see what HTC do with ICS
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] King Shady:
Galaxy nexus ftw. But if you cant get that than definetely get the RAZR or GSII. HTC offers great build quality but their software is buggy and hogs the battery. I enjoy TouchWiz and I also like Motorola's GingerBlur; its kind of nice.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rembrandtlnx:
sgs2 is superior to the htc.

Nexus Prime is the only one worth over the sgs2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
I would say the SGSII for sure, i like HTC and my last phone was the superb HD2 but HTC sense is a resource hog and i always just flashed non sense ROM's but i do believe Samsung have overtaken HTC in the smartphone market and to date the SGSII is still the phone to beat.

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edit -

meant to say i disagree with this

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if your happy with a locked bootloader then no problem but i certainly wouldn't be.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty warrior:
the moto will be locked down

but the international version might not be locked since they stated that the reason for the lock was because of the carriers

samsung has love for the Dev community

and dosnt ***** like HTC and other companies

havnt heard Az say one bad thing about them

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all the people who have handled the Prime say otherwise
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akujieze:
Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone else has experience this, or knows what is wrong. I woke up one morning and my phone was charging. The soft keys were glowing, but the screen was completely black and unresponsive. I tried taking out the battery, sim card, etc. But every time I plugged it in, the battery charging would come on as expected, then when i turned it on, the Samsung G and the TMobile signs would both come up, but then after that, completely dark, but the keys will still glow up. Anybody know what is wrong?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jasonhunterx:
Ive also ran into this problem scary stuff ok so dont remember what i did but i think eugene froyo that does not brick works
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akujieze:
oh, forgot to mention. The phone is not rooted or anything.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jasonhunterx:
U dont have to u juzt have to know how to use odin
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akujieze:
wait, what?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jasonhunterx:
Odin back to stock
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MailenJokerbell:
Dude,

You dont even have to ask.

>Download Mode

>Odin to stock
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akujieze:
it wont go into download mode....
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaintfm:
First, this is obviously a question and belongs in the Q&A forum.

Secondly: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1319802

Instructions on how to get into download mode, how to use ODIN, links to the files you need, etc.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dfduck:
Hello everyone,

Could someone upload the original Notes apk file? Apparently this app has been left out in the rom I'm currently using, and I use the app a lot.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SuperAce609:
Download Evernote. It works wonders :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dfduck:
Ah, thanks! Didn't know about that app.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jeffmizrahi:
I know there is a setting that will disable data but is there a way it can go into idle 3g until I use the phone and then switch back. I use google voice for my testing and I know it needs constant data to receive messages if I'm away from my phone or something and I think it would be a lot better if it could just switch to 3g. The my cell standby is over 50 percent usually
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dch921:
I know after using the stock .893 ota for a few hours I didn't have the High cell standby time like you are talking about. Also 3G would drop out when on Wifi and come back on as soon as wifi was off.
[General Questions and Answers] fairgun:
Hello,

I just started to root and install new rom on my HTC incredible S a couple days ago. Virtuous 2.39 is actually my second rom after cyanogen mod 7.

I just realized that I like htc sense based rom rather than vanilla mode rom. Thank you Virtuous team for bringing this awesome rom, so far I really like it.

However, when I check my phone info, I see that my phone model has changed from the original HTC Vivo to HTC Sensation Z710e.

Is this normal? Do I need to reinstall the rom to get the correct phone model?

I only saw one rom file (417mb) for the latest 2.39 rom though.

Thanks for your help :)
[General Questions and Answers] sweetnsour:
it is normal. most likely because the build.prop (which houses all of the information in settings>about phone; also contains more stuff that can be dangerous to mess with if you are not careful) file of your rom has been edited so that your phone model now reads as "HTC Sensation Z710e" instead of "HTC Vivo"

to keep it short, you have nothing to worry about
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
What he said. Virtuous Unity was made to work on numerous phone models and they only use 1 build.prop for all builds.
[General Questions and Answers] fairgun:
Thank you so much for the info. I know from their web that the ROM works for HTC incredible S.

It works great on my phone too. Thanks again :)
[General Questions and Answers] Mohanned85:
its known and it not a problem, it like xperia x10a when u put a rom it says x10i
[General Questions and Answers] fairgun:
Will it affect my android market purchases? When I log in to android market, it automatically know my type of phone (HTC IS). When I tried to purchase apps that are not compatible, it wouldn't allow me to buy it.

Now, when it changes to HTC Sensation, the android market will think that it is an HTC Sensation phone then.
[General Questions and Answers] sweetnsour:
yes, you are correct. this will affect your purchases. but my understanding is that the incredible s and the sensation are pretty the same phone so you dont have a lot to worry about (the reason why i said "dont have a lot" instead of "nothing" is because im in your situation as well. in my case, im running as a "P500" when really i am using a "P509." there actually has been a time when an app compatible for the P509 was listed as not compatible for my phone because i was running as a P500. let's just hope this doesnt happen to you. but it is something that happens rarely, which is why i said you dont have a lot to worry about :))
[General Questions and Answers] fairgun:
Thanks again for the reply :)

This forum really helps.
[LG Optimus 3D] paxxx666:
Does anyone in canada using the O3D have, or know of when the update with the 3D game coversion software is being released? (v10k, I think)

I see it is rolling out in the uk and europe.. Havent heard crap about canada.

thanks. \m/(>_<)\m/
[LG Optimus 3D] crazycage:
hey, im wondering the exact same thing. Eagerly waiting for Gingerbread.

Totally sucks now that ICS is coming soon. Ah well. Only problem I have with Froyo, is my bluetooth headset keeps disconnecting.
[LG Optimus 3D] paxxx666:
Ics looks and sounds great.

I just want the 3d conversion!! Lol.

Fingers crossed ics comes to the p925.
[LG Optimus 3D] paxxx666:
Also. I'm not having issues with the Bluetooth headset. I'm using a bluant.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatriff:
Hi all, I've had my Desire since they 1st came out, so about a year and a half now.. Had the same rom on there for about 10 months..

Last night I was sat at my desk and the phone just slides out of my pocket onto the floor, no big deal and it's not a big drop at all, I pick it up and go to turn wifi off and the phone just turns itself off, I try turning it back on and it stays on the pink logo for ages.. about 5 minutes before it reaches the lock screen but I cannot go any further because the touchscreen is no longer working.

The charge light doesnt come on, the battery icon is red all the time and the big battery appears on the screen saying please plug in charger, if the charger isn't plugged in then the phone just turns itself off.. Battery is 100% full and I even charged it on my partners desire and also tried her battery but it's the same.

I can access the bootloader but I cannot select anything as when i press any button the screen just turns off, and when i press any button again it comes back on. The phone will stay running in bootloader mode from the battery for hours and hours so maybe this could help pinpoint where the issue is as when the phone is on the lock screen it claims the battery is dead when it clearly isn't.

The phone still has reception and even H is connected still but I can't do anything at all.

I'm hoping somebody will recognize these symptoms so I can perhaps buy the correct part to fix this.. I'm pretty sure the fault is not the screen.

I have the phone layed on my desk now, I've stripped everything away and just left the screen and board, attached battery.. Same issue.. Detached screen and plugged in charger with battery attached, no charging light..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] onyonees:
Apologize if this already exists.

would it be possible for one of the talented developers in our forum to add an option to have the four buttons (menu, home, back, search) blink to notify of a new message, email, missed call, etc? or maybe be able to choose a button for a particular event, like menu button flashes for new emails, home button flashes for missed calls, etc.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jburnette87:
Try noled from the market.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darock159:
Noled is what I am using on mine and it is working great! Just be sure to activate it in accessibility in settings
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] onyonees:
thanks for the replies. yeah, i am using noled as well and it works well. i was just thinking being able to have the backlight of the buttons flash as a notification instead of the screen would use less battery. does noled have that option and i am missing it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] movieaddict:
Then use bln
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] asatnik11:
You need kernel support for bln which we don't yet have.....:'(