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[HTC Desire S] Uppy:
I am bored and sadly unemployed right now (thank you CRS Business Systems, especially you Tricky, I know you frequent the desire s forums regularly, but I digress...) so I thought I'd write a few reviews for some games I recently bought and thought I'd recommend or steer you away from. Mainly cos I'm a geek with nothing better to do, so here goes.

Gangstar: West Coast Hustle

Price:

$4.99USD

£3.00GBP

Overview:

Gangstar is a GTA style "Sandbox" open world crime simulator. After a bank heist two latino/hispanic (with voices that really do not suit them) criminals hide out on the west coast doing jobs for various criminals, gang bosses and sexy pixelated "chicas".

Screenshots:

Shut it Granma! Wait, illegal pies you say? Damn those delicious dru.....illegal pies!!!

Take a long walk off a short pier hombre! Marginally racist screenshot captions optional.

Review:

When the game starts you are treated to one of Gamelofts admittedly very nice CGI intro sequences, the minute you take control of the main character the controls are simple and intuitive and work pretty well, the earlier missions are simple fetch and follow levels, for example, one of the first missions is simply to follow some gang members and listen in to their conversation. These simple missions ease you in nicely and set up a game that feels very much like a scaled down vesion of Grand Theft Auto 3. Later missions seem to rely too heavily on repetitive racing and driving from point A to B to C to D, this is all fine once or twice but it happens far to much in the game but overall that is forgivable.

The controls aren't entirely touch based, while on foot you use a virtual analog stick to move, this is fine for a while but the natural oils of your skin quickly turn the screen a little sticky making fluid movement harder as you have to adjust your thumb, this f course cannot be helped and isnt really a fault with the game but still worth noting. While ambulatory you can punch, kick and shoot anyone and any vehicle you choose. doing this allows you to collect money and weapons adding to the GTA 3 feel. Driving is a different matter, while pressing the accelerator you can tilt to steer, this in my opinion feels very natural and enjoyable, those who have played most racing games will prefer this to the alternative, sliding your left thumb left or right to steer feels less precise.

Graphically the game isnt as impressive as newer games but none the less it can be compared to the PSOne version GTA3, minus the transparent car windows. It looks nice in motion and certainly impressive when it was first released but looks a little dated now.

Closing Comments:

Overall I think you should give this a go, its fairly simple and looks ok, the size of the world is impressive and its nice to see a larger open world game. Given the fairly small size of the file you get a lot for it and after all, its GTA3 on your phone. Give it a go for some simple, wholesome sandbox style murdering.

Score:

7.5/10

So review your favourite/ worst games and tell everyone what you think.
[HTC Desire S] Uppy:
Krazy Kart Racing

Price:

Free from GetJar

Overview:

Polarbit and Konami remake the Gameboy Advances Mario Kart Klone(TM), Konami Krazy Racers for Android.

Screenshots:

Blue spikey hair, It's gotta be Sonic! I MEAN GOEMON!

I dont know who that is either, it's a panda with a pink helmet! WIN!

Oh look, Kickle from Kickle Cubicle came first. If I was him I'd watch out for Pyramid heads revenge, mind...

Review:

Well, what's really to tell that you cant already guess? Its a good Mario Kart Klone (see what I did there? I...wait I made that joke earlier and it wasnt funny then either.) and its free, so the price is right.

The first set of tracks seem fairly uninspired but visually they are quite pretty. The music is insanely catchy and anyone who remembers the Ganbare Goemon games will raise a smile when they hear that music, as you unlock new cups the courses quickly become trickier and more interesting with shortcuts and multiple paths around the tracks.

In typical Polarbit fashion the controls are almost entirely tilt based only touching the screen in game to launch a weapon or to jump so everything works well, the gyroscopic controls can be turned off to give you a more analog control if you so wish but for me, the gyroscope is always fun.

Graphically the game is a little bit of a mixed bag, the tracks range from the downright pretty to the plain to the damn ugly, same goes for the character models, Goemon especially looks a little.....off, luckily you'll only be seeing him from the back for 90% of the time. Character handling doesnt seem to really make much difference but the selection is nice with more characters and trials to be unlocked after completing each cup.

The gameplay is what's important though and I can safely say it is a solid and enjoyable kart-oon(HA!) racer complete with obligatory power-up boxes, if anything I'd say it was often a little too simple, I very rarely came anything other than 1st.

Closing Comments:

Its free and fun, online multiplayer would have made this absolutely incredible but for the price, there is no reason not to grab this and have a race or three and enjoy some klassic (I'll stop, I promise) racing and some nostalgic music from gaming past.

Score:

9/10
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adzidek:
Hey everyone.

Check out my new post here :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18918943

Let me know what you think!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Double posting is frowned upon. Also, this probably should be in accessories, not q&a.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Mod pm'd...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Thread closed

Yes, this doesn't belong here, if you're trying to sell something, it belongs in the Marketplace.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikea3000:
Hi guys,

Anyone have an idea what would cause my battery stats to have very high "Android System" usage all of a sudden. No new apps installed.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
I'm seeing this get pretty high as well. Starting to wonder... TW really limits the information in the Battery Status dialog. Hopefully we'll get ROMs soon that have more detailed information like I had in MikG.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikea3000:
Did you recently start seeing this? Or has it been from the beginning?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
It has always been a bit higher than I am used to. I just grabbed the new version of betterbatterystats from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Hopefully I can use this to figure it out.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikea3000:
Please keep me posted if you find anything
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Romanbb:
System Panel works really well for me I found. Paid version is totally worth it, too.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikea3000:
Just another thought/question...

I am assuming since it is "Android System" causing such high usage ( I have 5% battery left and android system is 30%), that it cant be an app I installed causing the issue.

It has to be something that is either part of the stock ROM (I am stock, not rooted) or something core to the android operating system. PLease let me know if you agree with my logic that it cant be an installed app.

Just trying to find the root cause at this point or determine if I have to hard reset which I dont feel like doing.

Thanks again
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mastapsi:
The original SGS2 has an issue similar to this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1290020

They discovered with it that the processor has to ramp back up to 800MHz to do its pre-deep sleep tasks, in addition to taking longer than normal to do those tasks. So with a phone that woke up often to sync, even limiting the processor to 200 MHz with the screen off, it still spends a considerable amount of time at 800 MHz. I don't think they have a fix, but you can work around by limiting the amount of syncing the phone does while sleeping.

Don't know if this is related, since TMO SGS2 doesn't use the Exynos.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikea3000:
Thanks for the reply. My problem is that the battery usage for android system used to be 5% or less and now out of the blue is 25-30%.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mastapsi:
Did you change any sync settings? Setting up an email account or maybe a widget to sync could do it. The phone has to do a bunch of system related tasks when it wakes up and goes to sleep, and those fall under "Android OS", so even if it is waking up to sync for an app, the system still has to do stuff, and more than usual when coming out of sleep. Like the other thread said, the original SGSII does all these things at a far higher clock speed than it needs to, and takes longer than most phones do.

I myself don't have the phone yet, nor do I have an original SGS2, but you could look up much of the same information the gentleman who wrote up the OP in that thread I linked to see if the issue is related.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikea3000:
I was so annoyed with this issue that I decided to do a factory reset. I dont think it helped.

So far after being off the charger for 2 hours....I sent 5 texts, browsed web for about 5 minutes. I am down to 87%. Display time is 46%, used for 18 min and android system is 17% with stay awake time at 3 minutes, and there are other items taking up battery at 5% or less like cell standby, android os, market

Does this seem normal, I never rememver android system taking up over 5% even with little usage. I am actually pissed because I would have thought that a factory reset would have helped for sure.

BTW, I am only syncing one acct, Google
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
I've been watching with betterbatterystats for a couple days now. I've got Skype running in the background so I expect that to use some battery and cause some wake ups.

But it has turned out that location services and updates have been doing a lot more, as much as 7000 in one day. They show up as something related to Maps, but I think that it might be Latitude. So I have disabled that location tracking. We'll see if it helps, there isn't much more using my battery. It is just something keeping it from deep sleeping.

If this doesn't work I'll look at other location apps like weather and such. I already uninstalled Accuweather after reading about how they transfer your location tracking information over the Internet unencrypted!
[HTC EVO 3D] mike.r.olson:
Question to anybody that can answer:

Do I just need to replace the digitizer? The phone still works, it just has a terrible spiderweb crack in the screen.
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
Hi there, sorry to hear about your accident. It depends on if the LCD (the black underneath the glass) is also cracked. If just the clear glass is cracked then yes, you would buy the glass it has a film on the under side that has a ribbon attached and that is the glass and digitizer you would need replaced. If you also cracked the LCD you need both.

I have a brand new glass + digitizer, never used but tested to be working that I will sell to you for a fair price. We could setup an Ebay + Paypal listing to keep us both safe and protected. I will ship it out today via any carrier, even overnight if you want. Obviously if you want to get it tomorrow we have to finish the transaction earlier rather than later, or it would get there Wednesday instead of Tuesday.

If you are confident you can replace it, let me know, I have been wanting to sell it for awhile just haven't taken the time to list it. If it is going to help an xda member I would much rather do that than a stranger. Let me know what you think. Good luck with your screen!
[HTC EVO 3D] palekillerwhale:
Stop by my store and I'll replace it for you.

If you're in east TX that is.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] durrence:
My wife likes her Captivate but never uses data capabilities. AT&T requires a data plan for any smartphone. Has anyone thought about making it emulate a dumb phone? Is it even possible? This would save me $15 a month by not using data. I would be willing to pay for instructions for such a mod.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
This would be better in the q&a forum, not development.

No, you can't. Att uses the phones IMEI number to determine if data is needed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lildoggs:
My wife is also on a captivate. She doesn't have a data plan. This is what I did. I backed up the efs folder on the external SD card and I also put a copy on my computer for safe keeping. Delete the efs folder on the sdcard. Then reboot the phone. You look at the imei number it will be a generic number. Hence non detectable by atts systems. She's had it for about six months and no data plan yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theevildevil:
Do you mean that you want to use the phone as it is without the internet plan?

If yes, go to Settings >Wireless and networks > Mobile networks . uncheck the Use packet data box

Advantage in this method is that you can hop on a wifi network when it is available.

If you mean you want to fool AT&T network to recognize your captivate as a non-smartphone and continue to use the dataplan, I believe this forum doesn't allow such discussion.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Gibbs:
Not that I know anything, but couldn't you wipe the phones EFS data and replace it with a "dumb phones" information?

Like I said I know nothing. I don't suggest you do this, or anything like it for that matter.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pupochek:
FWIW, I bought a Captivate on EBay (put Pinnacle on it), put my wife's SIM in it and she uses it without any requests from ATT to get a data plan...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmtheiss:
If you want to make the phone look dumb, you could just paint/theme it to look like an iPhone.

(bah-doomp-thud.)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aus_Azn:
This is illegal in most countries of the world, USA included.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whirly:
your best bet would be this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093696, though i have never tested it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klyentel:
It's not illegal to ask questions :rolleyes: (which this is the wrong thread to do that by the way @ OP), and nobody has broken any laws its just web chat. Informing someone how to do something is not against the law, freedom of speech corrects that. I can tell you exactly what to do to rob a bank, but you won't be charged for robbing one until you do it. Talk of terroism, treason, or any communicative threat...now that is illegal.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aus_Azn:
I was answering his question. Changing the phone's IMEI is illegal...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] durrence:
But will it still function as a phone if it has an unknown IMEI?

Suppose I call AT&T to cancel her data plan and re-activate her old Motorola Razr, then take the SIM out of the Razr and put it in the Captivate? Could they still tell I was using a Captivate if I disable data on it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Without changing the imei, yes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bornjamerican:
I bought my Captivate from AT&T last year and not once have they questioned me about not having a data plan. I had an LG Incite before that without a data plan. Maybe I simply lucked up but I'm not complaining.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigy4n:
you need data plan only when buying phone from at&t. if you bought captivate from ebay/somewhere else then you can just put in the sim card and use it without getting data plan
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulletproof1013:
This is the best answer yet;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Until att does an imei sweep and just add it to your account.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigy4n:
i think that's illegal if at&t does that
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Which part? If they can add a tethering plan or drop people from unlimited data, they can add a data plan to your line if they gave proper reason to do so. Check the Terms of Service.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
If your phone is still under the two year contract it is likely you will get billed a termination fee, but there is only one easy to find out ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigy4n:
wow that's ridiculous.

i have been using captivate on t-mobile with no data plan and they haven't done anything to my account. seems like at&t are leeches
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
It's not ridiculous. It happens. And yes they are.

For reference read Att wised up.an entire thread about what att does to those tethering without a tethering plan.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigy4n:
so glad that at&t and t-mobile merger didn't go through
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Yet? lol who knows whats going to happen
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigy4n:
i would switch to metro pcs if it happens
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aus_Azn:
It might be enough to actually get me to pay for my own contract and leave ATT. They already don't give a crap about being competitive, until they were definitively losing the tech race to Verizon, Sprint and TMobile in "faster-than-3G" technology and in Android hardware.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antharr:
You can use a Captivate on AT&T without having a data plan. They require you to have one if it's under contract. If it was purchased elsewhere or contract has lapse there is no reason they would require you have a data plan. If you are placing a SIM card from a non-smartphone with a non-smartphone data plan and want to use data off towers and not WiFI then the answer is no. That will probably get you flagged rather quickly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bornjamerican:
Again, 3+ years with a smartphone purchased through AT&T without having a data plan added to my account.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antharr:
Then you are good. That phone is yours. I use to sell phones and people would damage phones under contract and place the SIM in a GoPhone with no issues. I don't see any reason they would care.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaNaRkI:
All AT&T has to do is give you notification of a change and what the change will be. With the tethering the "warning" is effectively the notification. They don't even need any form of acknowledgment from you. It goes for any service they offer. Grandfathering ppl in is only something they choose to do to keep ppl happy.

leaked from my FUSED SGS I897 contaminating you via XDA app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassguy86:
If only

I WISH this was possible. I love my Captivate but had to change to my backup dumbphone because AT&T did a sweep and added a data plan I can't afford...and I don't want one because most everywhere has this thing called WIFI. and there is no medium, either data is off and you can't MMS or you turn it on, they catch you faster and you get slapped with a data plan.

If anyone does find a way to MMS and not have a data plan that would be great.

I made it 1&1/2 years w/out data on my iphone 3gs...then it broke
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NCXC:
Use Miui, there is a setting to disable data but not mms... Great feature!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
for me, this mod is very useful, especially when u are surfing pages with lots of columns/rows or tables like many forums, and for stock tickers with tiny fonts, etc

http://ykkfive.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-browser-mod-set-font-size.html

RC1 - 201111020139HKT

- tested on "my modded KI8" without problem

- since i have other modifications to my rom and kernel, it's POSSIBLE that IT MAY NOT run properly on yours

- ATM, it is suggested that normal users to wait for the feedbacks from other users before installing it

- kindly PLEASE REPORT it here or on my blog, telling me and others if it works, thx a lot!!

more info and download
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] gippy2:
look forward to this
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ka2uki:
+1
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] DSA:
Nice mod

I bumped up the thread rating, can't believe some idiot rated 1 star...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Siberian Tiger:
+1 Too many idiots

On topic now.Very good one ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Cangir:
lol thanks i was searching for this =) !!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] thanku:
Where is the file ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
RC1 released
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] prosumerhacks:
Useful mod! :)

this is something that I've always wanted in browser... now that it's here, im very happy about it... good work :)

thanks!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
does it work?

any feedback pls?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] soyef:
Thanks works great

On ki3 rom

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
that's great

and i chose ki3 for compatibility and it should run on more rom since ki8's may not backward compatible
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] claimui:
Working on Cognition 1.5.1 (based on KH3). Thanks, this is a great mod!

One tip for users is to also experiment with the "Default Zoom" setting to find a good combination of text size / zoom setting.

ykk_five, can you let us know how the mod works and what you changed to the smali files? Would be great for investigating some more browser hacking.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] harrynghiem:
Work on RevolutionHD rom (KI4)

thks in advance, ykk
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
yeah, i planned to do so actually, but i wonder if a diff patch is good enough coz the variable names differ a lot

good, thx for reporting
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zabihjan:
Works on Wannam Kj2

Thank u
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tuvi123:
also works for me on CheckROM RevolutionHD V2.0.0 (which is based on KI4).
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
thx mates. i think it's running without problems then, coz what i worried is, mine is ki8 but this is a ki3, and i've removed something from my ki8's rom which i thought they might be a problem. glad to know it's OK now
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Jodelaplaya:
Works nice with revolution HD 2.0 ;) but there is some bug when you set to medium or large.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
what is the bug about? can u give me more details pls?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Nuja:
Hi,

any how to (edit smali) ? Would be nice to be able to do it by ourselves.

thx
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
hi,

if you r going to mod for own use and don mind hard coding, u can simply change the font size in com/android/browser/BrowserSettings.smali like i used to which is relatively easy. however, if u wanna add it to settings, u'll need to deal with some more files and to write new functions in smali files. also note that the browsers in different rom are not the same, so probably u have to modify other functions as well
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] borjus86:
work fine on CheckROM RevoHD™ V3.1.1...very good mod! thanks for your work!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ykkfive:
Thx, enjoy
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] singereric:
All of a sudden my galaxy tab can't power on. It works ok last time and power off successfully, but today when I try to open it, the splash screen just don't show up. I tried to enter recovery mode, but also failed.

When connect to the cable for battery charging, the screen is as the following, without any motion.

Any one met this before?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psy1208:
Nerver seen this before...

Maybe the battery is broken ?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] used2hvatreo:
How long has it been since you powered it off? Some of these devices have safeties to prevent power up if it doesn't think it has the juice to boot all the way. How long have you had it on the charger?