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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pgsxdjp:
I have a Samsung Focus with Mango installed. On a recent trip, in an effort to conserve battery, I turned off most of the background tasks (settings > applications > background tasks).

To try to turn them back on, I went back to that location and checked the box "Turn background tasks back on for this app the next time I open it". I then went to the app, opened it, but was not asked to turn background task on.

Does anyone know how to properly re-activate background tasks for particular apps?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jakeway:
Try pin the apps and also open the apps and see if there is a second push option. If so turn that on. If that doesn work, uninstall andre install.

I had the same issue with the BBC app as well as groupon. Once I reinstalled one I pinned and refreshed.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
The app should itself have a setting to enable or disable the background agent; manually re-enabling it should work.

By the way, for future reference you can easily disable background agents temporarily by putting the phone in Battery Saver mode. This also disables automatic email syncing (another huge battery user) though you can still manually sync.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] alirulzz:
hey does anyone know how to have group texting on the gs2? i send texts to multiple contacts but when they reply i get replies in separate threads so it ends up being like a one on one conversation rather than a thread of everyone texting together. i know in the iphone and windows phone, group texting works flawlessly.. anyone know if it works on this?.. thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sweetboy02125:
Sorry for my wording. I backup all apps with Titanium. I wiped all data and installed a new rom. restore all apps to new rom by Titanium. Apps didn't show in the market. how can i make them show under "my app" in market so i can update?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
wait.

you make a backup AFTER you install the rom?

you are supposed to backup your apps BEFORE you install a rom, then RESTORE them after you flash new rom

am i reading this wrong?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Misterjunky:
re: RESTORE

The only way you will be able to automatically restore all your apps each

time you flash a new rom is to re-flash you current rom and do a full clean

install, after it's done flashing in CWM Recovery do not reboot until you

select "Wipe data/Factory Reset" then reboot.

After you do this and the phone is fully rebooted follow all the GOOGLE

prompts and make sure that each checkbox is checked, do not skip any

steps at all.

After you do the above and reboot your phone and go to the market

google will not only show all your apps which you had previously

downloaded and installed, but it will also start to download each

and everyone that you have downloaded prior to flashing a new

rom. (This feature only works on those apps downloaded from the market)

If you skip any steps or do not check each and every google check

mark this auto-restore feature of gmail/google will NOT work.

This process has nothing to do with Titanium Backup.

Good Luck! Hope this helped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
this is the part that so many people get confused on.

as a general rule of thumb, you should never wipe data/factory reset AFTER flashing a custom rom. just do it BEFORE you flash the rom.

if someone puts together a rom with a /data folder in it, with various pieces/add-ons for the rom, and you wipe data/factory reset, you will NOT have these added features/apps/pieces when you boot your rom.

for example, in the captivates, part of the gps fix included a .conf file in /data/gps/

we had some similar stuff in the inspire roms too.

if a dev includes a particular app that they think the people using their roms would benefit from, they stick it in /data/app
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
my solution to that has always been:

restore apps

reboot

goto menu/settings/manage applications/all/market

force stop

clear data

launch market and accept terms again
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sweetboy02125:
Thankssss. Works great for a noob like me :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
its not a 100%, but it works ok for me
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] Klarostorix:
Do you think that it is possible, that our i9001 can get an official port of CM9 based on ICS?

Tapatalked from my Samsung Galaxy S Plus
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] joostvhoek:
Why wouldn't it be possible?

Joost
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] Klarostorix:
Theoretically everything is possible... But do you believe in it?

Tapatalked from my Samsung Galaxy S Plus
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] joostvhoek:
Yes,i do. I also have a lg gt540. It's a crappy phone and it didn't got any support of lg, but the community managed to make a lot of roms en mods. (cm6, cm7, clean 2.2, clean 2.3 etc). So if our commity believes in it, we can make it.

Amen!! ;)

Joost
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] Mikolak28:
This phone has as many devs as Justin Bieber has masculine male fans.

Unless they drastically drop the price, there's no way it will have a lot of devs working on it, since everyone will buy the normal SGS (ironically because it has a lot of community support).
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] joostvhoek:
In holland, the sgs is more expensive than the sgs+... And the sgs+ isn't really expensive in holland. I think the problem is, the phone is new. It is released a few months ago (i'm not sure..). The number of developers will rise, give it some time.

Joost
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] Sh0rty007:
I hope it will come soon :)

Can't wait!!!
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] netchip:
LOL CWM is done with few bugs.

I have maded a working cwm but forgot how :(

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] Mikolak28:
Most phones get devs like a month or so after they are released.

Up to now, there's been 1 or 2 custom roms, root and that's pretty much it.

It doesn't help that 70% of the SGS+ dev community (no offence) can't speak proper English.
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] TQuest:
same in switzerland.

i got it because it was cheap and powerfull and i needed a replacement for my desire Z with bad emmc. R.I.P.
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] joostvhoek:
In the gt540 community, most of the developers are russian or east-european and can't speak english. It's smart to check 4pda.ru (with translation) because there are a lot of smart developers on that forum.

Language shouldn't be a problem...

Joost
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolocabra:
i was just wondering if it's possible to install an windows rom on the desire z/g2? the thing is that before i had android i did used an motoq9h and i was missing the windows 6.1 on the go.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
short answer: no.

long answer: why in god's name would you ever want to use winmo 6.1....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolocabra:
not that one at least 6.5 or the new mango. i just want to try it to see how it works because i do not wish to spend more money for now just to try something new.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
Go to a cell phone shop and play with a. Windows phone 7...mango is just an update. 6.5 is older than android lol
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
Still, not sure why you would EVER want to go back to 6.5 when you have Android. I'd take Android 1.6 over WinMo 6.5 every single day....

And no, you're not going to get a WP7 ROM on this device. WP7 isn't open sourced (don't have all the parts to put it on other devices) and it would just take too much work and not nearly enough people care. Just not gonna happen. Sorry.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d_gkal:
can we install another os? (except android custom roms)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
WM6.5 is awful. Its just WM6.1 with some lipstick (and yes, its still a pig) to make it look a little prettier alongside iOS or Android, until Microsoft could get WM7 out. 6.5 is incredibly slow and unstable, would crash and freeze frequently, memory leak problems out the you-know-what, and no apps. Why would you want that instead of Android? Trust me, and I had a WM6.5 phone for a year before moving to the Desire Z. WM6.5 is painfully outdated compared to Android.

As already mentioned, WP7 is closed source. It would be a huge undertaking to try to port it to our phone. I'm no developer, but I think I've read it mentioned that you would also need to create new drivers to make WP7 work on our hardware. Technically, its possible, but nobody is going to take on that task.

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Not really. Somebody would have to port over that OS to work on our phone. And everything else (iOS and WP7) is closed source and would be an incredible amount of work to port it over (as I already mentioned). Technically, its possible. But nobody has bothered, or is going to. Maybe if you paid somebody thousands of dollars to do it.

If you want a different UI experience (but still Android) try MIUI. I think its the closest you'll get to a new UI feel.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coredalae:
well, honestly you could do a linux install on your phone :P never tried it myself but i did see some guides going around
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
To go 2+ days without freezing and/or randomly rebooting?
[HTC EVO 3D] joehunni:
Lol huh? I don't have this problem ever...
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
So far:

Deck ROM: yes, could go weeks without rebooting.

CleanROM: yes, only had it about 2 days but no problems

Synergy: no, tried every kernel and it wouldnt go more than about 12 hours without a hard crash.

About all I've tried at length
[HTC EVO 3D] anon20:
Nope. And it always screws up when I need it the most.
[HTC EVO 3D] Rydah:
My personal ROM has actually never needed a reboot or crashed. :)

Via My HTC Evo 3D On The Now Network From Sprint.
[HTC EVO 3D] JohnM:
Every ROM I've ran except some of myn's nightlies were completely stable.

Synergy - very stable

Cyanogenmod - seems to be the stablest

InfectedROM - Kind of stable

Myn's 2.3 - Not really stable, but these are experimental nightly builds we have

If it reboots randomly and freezes a lot, there is most likely too many apps running or similar stuff that is causing that. I use my phone heavily and have never experienced reboots/freezes/shutoffs.
[HTC EVO 3D] planet_x69:
Steelh never had an issue works for days before reboot just to clean up
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
Gotcha, nice replies guys.
[HTC EVO 3D] joehunni:
I refuse to run ROMs with several broken things, aside from AOSP, which is understandable.
[HTC EVO 3D] knowledge561:
Cm7 on airplane mode. No service so im good with wifi. 3D movies. ONLY reboot I ever had was adding 2000 songs to my sdcard. Phone couldnt handle it for 10 minutes. Then it scanned properly and good to go again.

Whooo! (Cole Voice...)
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
Basically, the reason I'm asking is because virtually every single frequently updated Sense ROM in the development section is full of issues people are having. I'm trying to understand why they are so popular if they are riddled with issues every other update. Do people not enjoy stable phones? I've been running the same ROM since July and to this day there isn't a single 'new' feature that has been implemented in ROMs these days that I don't want. If there happens to be one, it doesn't need a full flash.

My question is: Why are so many people using Sense ROMs that have nothing but issues and stuff that doesn't work properly? Since HTC has already provided a fairly solid foundation with the Stock ROM, how are so many Sense ROMs broken?

If the answer is aesthetics and looks, why not take a stable ROM, and work from there to get the look you want?

I'm also trying to understand the mind of a "Flashaholic" and besides AOSP or MIUI, there doesn't seem to be enough differences between these Sense ROMs other than kernels and random fiddling with the framework that really differentiate them. For a person that understands how ROMs work and can easily determine the core differences between them, I can tell you exactly what differences that ROM A has from ROM B, and yet, the user opinion is much wider.

Take for instance ROM A, which has a cute tagline in its title and is made by a 'veteran' so to speak. The changelog and file-by-file difference between that and ROM B, made by a seemingly unknown person are pretty small, but the audience seems to think ROM A is much more 'stable' and 'fast' than ROM B.

Aside from messing with the framework, I have done side-by-side comparisons of where most of the ROMs features claim to shine--its tweaks to memory, ram usage, cpu, kernel, etc; which reside mostly in the /system/etc folder and under build.prop and the differences are so small and most of the tweaks are identical. With that said, framework 'tweaks' make a minimal difference in every day situations and most phones will perform almost identical to the Stock ROM. The real differences lie in random build.prop tweaks and init.d scripts which mostly come from poorly documented sites and sources that were meant for Desktop computers and/or older phones like the G1 and can actually have a negative effect on our current phone's performance. I'm sure HTC has done enough research that their method of ROM delivery is probably optimal for most people.

At any rate, I'm interested in more discussion from the people in this thread. :)
[HTC EVO 3D] knowledge561:
Id like to try your dualcore mod with 1st core at 700mhz and 2nd core at 500mhz. Can you make the file for me? But is it possible to get a screen off profile with it?

Whooo! (Cole Voice...)
[HTC EVO 3D] aznmode:
I have flashed before due to aesthetics but now I'm on a hunt for a smoother (stutter free) rom. I also like having extra settings that some offer like synergys, and Eternity, and having beats is a plus although not necessary. The closest I've gotten is Eternity 1.3.1 w/stock look along with Tiamat sense 1.0.3 kernel and flashable script by Smokin. Smokins script made a difference in smoothness for me specially in the app drawer. The only issue that plagues my phone is intermittent black screen during calls.

Other reason I flash is sometimes I get tired of things and want something new to play with. Makes me feel I have a new device.
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
I can pretty much build a script that can accomplish this :P

That I can understand, but with the differences between Sense ROMs being so small, why? :) I suppose looks is a good enough reason as any, especially if you don't know how or feel like trying to extract the apks or images needed to make your current ROM look like the ROM you're installing.
[HTC EVO 3D] knowledge561:
Thanks. Im on cm7. Do I send you this build.prop or init.d or something? Also I use setcpu, im guessing I wont be able to use it anymore? Screen off profile would be 192-384mhz

Whooo! (Cole Voice...)
[HTC EVO 3D] thizzlemania91:
Senseless I get way better 4g coverage than any other ROM I've tried. With others my 4g would go on and off every 3-4 minutes. It really bugged me out.

Sent from my 62 inch 3d tv.
[HTC EVO 3D] cajones42:
I flash roms to have wireless tether mainly. Recently i like using sprint hotspot and it ia easier to flash a modified stock rom instead of tracking down the flashable hack. Other than staying up to date with software without breaking root, i dont see a reason not to be stock rooted. I buy htc for sense so aosp roms just arent for me. Im running infected eternity 1.4.1 and love the themed look just because it seperatea me from the rest if the world, if i wanted to fit a mold i would be rocking that girly iphone.
[HTC EVO 3D] smoley:
Freeza,

What ROM are you using?
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
First time I've heard anyone claim synergy is stable. Even the synergy devs have given up trying to get non stock kernels to run reliably with it and have recommended limping along by flashing the stock kernel over the included one until the ROM can be fixed.

As to why so many problems: I think half of it is kernel compatibility and half is in the baking. Some bake in the latest version of this or that apk that hasn't been thoroughly tested. Market 3.2 is a good example. Doesn't work: can't buy paid apps. Same problems occur with other apps like all the borked superuser updates between 3.0.2 and 3.0.6. So with all the pushing to include the latest versions of every low level app baked into the ROM, of course there will be some mismatches.

Not a fan of AOSP ROMs. Most of those don't have 20% of the stuff working like 4g, 3d camera, and other stuff. Most say right at the top, "dont expect this to work... Or that to work". No thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] Rydah:
Could dual cores always being on cause damage to the phone?

Via My HTC Evo 3D On The Now Network From Sprint.
[HTC EVO 3D] :
Its like sbc. No real proof.

Whooo! (Cole Voice...)
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
I'll probably never know. I tried all those dual core nods and they were all useless on both ROMs I was running at the time. Slowed down the phone considerably, especially wrt graphics. 2d graphics was so slow you could count the frames. I'm a believer that the second core will kick in when needed. No need to run it when you don't need it.
[HTC EVO 3D] Drewmungus:
Pretty much every rom has been stable for me. Mostly I stuck with Decks sense from from when it came out to about a week ago I switched to cm7. Deck's was soo solid it wasn't even funny.

I agree most of the roms out there are pretty much the same. This time around( compared to my evo 4g times) I'm trying to focus on Mod's, tweeks, and playing around with launchers.
[HTC EVO 3D] schmeggy929:
CleanROM DE 1.2 is running great after more than a week. Going on a day and a half on a single charge, mind you its been a light two days. Im not gonna flash an AOSP or CM7 rom because I want it to work. No 4G or camera working... Umm why would I to flash that ROM. Dont understand why some DEV's even put these roms out if everything doesnt work. Personally many are ugly and have the feel and look of an Iphone. That's just me, I see many love those roms and thats great. Glad there are great developers out there putting in the time and effort for us flashing happy people.
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
I just lol'd
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
lol :) My own special blend of this and that!
[HTC EVO 3D] :
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18430589&postcount=254
[HTC EVO 3D] SfinxSoft:
No hangs and reboots ever (stock rom, rooted and modified). The only strange UI delays (nearly one second 'Loading ...' messages appeared on the screen) I've noticed while playing with bluetooth keyboard.
[HTC EVO 3D] Febby:
Share the love ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] :
Every gsm ROM that I have used has never crashed on me.
[HTC EVO 3D] laie1472:
StelleH rom hasn't given me one single major problem. Stable since the day I ran it. After applying a ram script mod,modded the bp, tweaking the andreno config file, and the 3g turbo tweaks and a custom kernel it runs even better. Definitely a daily driver.

Locked & Loaded

""Shooter on Deck""
[HTC EVO 3D] mwalt2:
I built my ROM from stock and only changed the things I wanted. I made most of the .smali edit's myself from using steelh's guides (really useful) or beyondcompare and comparing my stock version to a rom with the 'tweak' I wanted. It hasn't given me any problems.

The placebo effect is kind of funny. I made a stock kernel with only 8 or so lines changed affecting only the notification led and capacitive leds. Some users said battery life was great and it was more stable, etc. Of course it was no different than stock for those things in reality.
[HTC EVO 3D] empiire:
Well ****, maybe they truly were getting better battery life. You never really know, although that is funny.
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
lol! here's to placebo! :)
[HTC EVO 3D] mswlogo:
Ditto. I think I might have had 1 (maybe 2) random reboots since I've owned it. Usualy if I was experimenting with some cutting edge mod or a bad custom ROM of my own.

Been running mostly Scott's CleanROM ROM's and have dabbled in a few others.
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
I *think* my rom (warm 2.3 on tiamat) is stable, but I usually flash or modify something like twice a day - which requires reboot - so I guess I'll never know if it's "stable" lol.

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I think it might have something to do with the freeza ROM? linked in his signature?
[HTC EVO 3D] Febby:
Oh thanks! I use forum runner and never see signatures sadly :-( I'll take a look
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
ran virus 1.1 for a few weeks on bc kernel 3 without a single hiccup... going on a week now on virus' 1.4... seems to be the same in stability. i am always overclocked at 1.62 with both cores running at all times.
[HTC EVO 3D] kneeldug:
All lack stability. The stock kernel (freeza edited) are all that I use because the phone was unstable with mwalt's dimming kernel.

I have no idea why other than twitchy hardware.

I believe the issue is:

Imperfect HTC kernel + randomness= placebo (it got better when I did X).

I use cleanrom. It is as good as any. It gets in a funk every few days wherein it reboots every 1-90 minutes until I pull the battery and reinsert it. Then it is good for several days...I think 9 was the record.
[HTC EVO 3D] e.anderson:
stable, unstable who cares!
[HTC EVO 3D] Serren:
I've been on some early build of CleanROM for months and never had a rom based reboot or crash. And I use my phone quite heavily. I had a stupid game crash a last week that messed up my Up Time, which was over a month and counting. My phone is so fast and stable that I have zero urge to flash anything new for some minor tweak like Beats audio, boring....
[HTC EVO 3D] southern87:
I am using a lil self modded version of empires ics/cm rom. The non dual core one, i could fry eggs with the dual core version lol. I don't use 4g much or 3d. If I need 4g ill nadroid senseless 2.7. My second choice on roms.
[HTC EVO 3D] SolsticeZero:
Latest SteelRom and CM7 Alpha 3. Both I can go without rebooting ever.
[HTC EVO 3D] ssojyeti2:
Steel ROM is by far the best and most stable sense ROM up to date...
[HTC EVO 3D] Genjinaro:
From Stock rooted to Android Revolution HD™ 1.1.0, I've never had a reboot, FC or lock-ups with any ROM or Kernel combo.

I don't over-clock or use heavily skinned themed ROMs.

Cast him into boot-loop hell & force close the gate behind him.
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
It's nice to see there are those who have their ROMs of choice. From the reading I've been doing across the forum, it looked like everyone just jumped from ROM to ROM without much loyalty or reason why except that they're "flashaholics."
[HTC EVO 3D] southern87:
I seemed to like one then support is gone for it lol. Haven't really flashed alot of roms.
[HTC EVO 3D] SirThumpaLot:
I ran a Warm TwoPointThree SVN update (r280) for like a month without a single reboot. Nothing but silky smooth goodness. Only reason I ended up switching was so I could try one of the official Warm Nightlies which has only rebooted on me once so far. I'be been running this nightly for about two weeks.
[HTC EVO 3D] youngpro83:
I've been on Haux stock deodexed ROM since he released it and only been adding in tweaks myself. As op stated I've dug into almost all of them to come to a similar conclusion, and that is all these roms are pretty much similar in more ways than one. I flash kernels and found a few that are really good but as far as roms go, I have not flashed a ROM for almost 3 or 4 months. I'm happy about that.

That's 3540 in benchmark.

Over 13 hours of battery.

If I see something in a ROM that I like or want. I will find a way to put that on my phone or just put it into my ROM and re-flash it.

Sent from my Beastly EVO.. And did I mention it has 3D?