yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] clearym:
Who do you think benefits from customers paying full price for their phones? The providers, like T-mobile and VZW? I always thought that all they cared about was getting you to sign a new 2yr contract... because I don't think they get a cut of an unsubsidized phone sale. I could be wrong though...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] strifejester:
they just want people to buy the locked down crap so they come back later and pay full price for a nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lorddart:
I'm sure they get percent either way but if they've screwed you into contract with a lesser phone and can have you coming back for another phone in a month off contract they're doing pretty well for themselves. Especially with the people that sell their phones back to the dealer for half street value... Ouch
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
If they don't get a cut of an unsubsidized phone sale, then that means they don't get to pay less for a subsidized phone sale either, so either way the carrier is paying out of pocket for a phone subsidy.

Think about it this way, the phone manufacturer doesn't care whether you buy the phone from your carrier subsidized or unsubsidized, that means the manufacturer will charge the carrier the same price either way. So the difference between what the carrier makes from a subsidized phone sale and a unsubsidized phone sale is exactly the difference between the prices it charges you, regardless of how much of a cut they get from the phone sale.

This is, of course, ignoring more complicated revenue sharing and carrier branding schemes that might exist between a carrier and a manufacturer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeitgeb3r:
Shops and operators can be bought with money.

If you own a shop, and Microsoft/Nokia comes around to offer you the largest cash in return to putting Lumia at the shop front, and placing GNex waaaaay at the back next to the dust bin, course you'd take the money.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dredwerker:
I partally agree but would google/samsung allow it and if so then they are properly cheap.

Also has this business thing happened or is it due to real world problems.

It looks fishy that the biggest android thing for a while seems to be getting buried and a spit

*Lumia* wash mouth out :) is on 'coming soon' on Vodafone but no GalaxyNexus.

Also would the operator potentially alienate their customers ? Are Android customers just wimps??? :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DJTaurus:
The reason for GN pushback is cause Sammy introducing Galaxy Note first (logistics reasons)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] johnchad14:
Or....they are releasing other phones with older android versions first to give them a small chance to sell before becoming near instantly obsoleted and sell tragically low amounts. That doesn't sound too unreasonable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tjotte:
Steve Jobs, may he rest in peace, swore to destroy Android wich he hated more than anything, and adding to that the fact GN is a samsung, i'd not be suprised if Apple is paying alot of money to keep the media hype down. Just my little conspirecy theory ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BiGMERF:
when it comes to verizon... its all about pushing the Razr and rezound as much as they can b4 they drop the galaxy nexus... they will push the hell out of those 2 phones as well as the iphone 4s as much as they can through black friday. then release the GN the week after knowing true blue android fans will come buy them anyway.its business.. can you blame them?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] horsetastic:
This thread is specifically for BlackICE ROM (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298283) graphics....Themes, Boot Animations and anything else anyone would like to create :D.....

Feel free to upload your designs and themes here.....

Here's some of mine..

4Ext Theme

DL file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42365766/4EX...ckICE V1.zip

Splash Screen

img file download....http://www.multiupload.com/8Q5OJ082YZ

Boot Animation Final V1

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42365766/BlackICE Boot Animation/bootanimation.zip

This should be on BlackICE 1.21 as standard but you can get it here now if you want :)

Boot Animation work in progress V2

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42365766/BlackICE Boot Animation V3/bootanimation.zip
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] alienmind:
Original BlackICE artwork

GitHub

BlackICE logo font

Arkanoid font (cooltext.com)

jameslrsmith's banners (full gallery on flickr)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] horsetastic:
haha :p you know these are yours already....post looked a bit dead with no pretty pictures on it haha!!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
and again:

to make the BlackIce Customization perfect, look at this:

wl theme?

http://www.file-upload.net/download-3847409/blackicenew.wltheme.zip.html

wallpaper:

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/341/5/f/music_by_ceptureanu-d34fswi.jpg
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] maatsby:
4ext recovery themes (not to be used with the new touch recovery)

4ext got blackiced 4ext minimalistic

4ext blackice grey

Splash screens

Splash Simple Splash Cube

big thanks to jameslsmith for letting me poach his graphics :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-3847742/blackicenew3.wltheme.zip.html

http://www.file-upload.net/download-3847743/blackicenew.wltheme.zip.html

http://www.file-upload.net/download-3847746/blackicenew2.wltheme.zip.html

just my first .....
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] napster113:
splash screen

here's my simple splash.

download img file here
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] GuestK00156:
Minimalist BlackICE 4EXT Theme

So I redid my theme with a few color fixes, and I made one where the logo is shifted down.

Centered Logo: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271670/4EXT%20Themes/4EXT%20Theme%20-%20BlackICEv1.zip

Lowered Logo: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271670/4EXT%20Themes/4EXT%20Theme%20-%20BlackICEv2.zip

Again, they look better in actuality than in the screenshots.

Screenshots:

Centered Logo:

Lowered Logo:
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
what do you think?

i will try to make the ice a little bigger,

............and make coffee:eek:

and a noob question: what can i do with a splash screen?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] horsetastic:
I really like this one :D

If you download splashflasher (search the forums here for it) you can flash the img file to your phone so when it boots up rather then seeing the glowing white htc screen you see the nice custom one you've installed :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
thank you, will try it out!!

WLtheme download

http://www.file-upload.net/download-3848536/blackicecrush.wltheme.zip.html
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
and here it goes.

WLtheme download

http://www.file-upload.net/download-3848778/Blackiceslide.wltheme.zip.html

deactivate the right slider, change icons to this:http://www.file-upload.net/download-3848783/--1320165578.rar.html
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] paddelundh:
A noob question,how do i install this?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
you have widget locker, right?

put the zip in folder sdcard/data/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker/themes/

then choose Blackiceslide,

deaktivate the right slider, and choose the clear icon for the left one.

i´m working on my next, but i got some grafik issues.

MORE COFFEEEEEEEEEE:p:D:eek:

---------- Post added at 07:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:00 PM ----------

and, yes, another one.

like one of the previous, but better.

Bigger ICE

WLtheme download

http://www.file-upload.net/download-3849076/blackicecrusher.wltheme.zip.html
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] horsetastic:
I want to find a way to flash a lockscreen and slider through recovery without the need for widgetlocker.

Sent from my Desire HD using BlackICE......
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
That would be great. If I can help, please tell me!

Send from my totally BlackIced DHD
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] horsetastic:
It seems to be quite awkward, think I need to consult my alienmind and perhaps a user....I think it's within the framework, I had a play today but it's all chinese to me!!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] TUN_SD:
I know what ya mean!!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Nark.GA60:
Question. How do you make your own? It looks like one of the files is an image but I can't open it in order to modify it.

You can just put it on the base directory of your SD card and boot into hboot.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] napster113:
I'll repload the image later as jpeg so you can edit it ,then download splash flasher

on to your PC ,then you can convert your picture back to a img file to flash heres the link.http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794638
[Eee Pad Transformer General] CrazyPeter:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111031PD219.html

ICS coming to Transformer and Slider "early december". Asus have sold 1.2m Transformers since it launched in April, and are ontrack for 1.8m for the 3/4 of a year of 2011...

Not too shabby at all. Whilst all the media have been talking about Xoom and Tab, it seems consumers were actually buying Transformers....
[Eee Pad Transformer General] helltel:
well. Im one of those people. Jurt bought one and im very happy with. And was looking into xoom and tab.........but transformer caught my eye
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rob_pasq:
Me too

I bought 2 of them. First one was a B80 and I really wanted to root it so I bought another one that is rootable. This one has the dock, which I bought with the first one. USB ports and another MicroSD slot. Gotta love all that extra space and I love extra options. Then, updated right away so the support is there. So I switch from my IPad 2 to my Transformer but only when the transformer is recharging. With the dock, I'm not on the I Pad very much at all any more. Can't wait for the Prime!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dburckh:
Interesting. The numbers I read were 3.2 million total Honeycomb tablets. So Asus has over a 1/3 of the market? That makes the 3.2 number seem low. What about Zoom and Samsung? I wondering if the other 600k were going to be Prime's or if they plan on fire sale-ing the TF1 when the prime comes out. I've been shopping for sub $300 tablets for my wife. Current candidates are Fire, 80 G9, Ideatab A1. I would love to throw a Transformer into the mix (or give her mine and get a Prime :) ).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] asdfuogh:
Why would anyone else wanna get the other tablets? Sounds like their companies don't give a crap about their customers.. hmm.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jeremyshaw:
i kno, rite?

Seriously, ASUS has been rather on the ball with OS updates :)

Not to mention, the TF101 was cheaper, lol...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dagrim1:
This, and of course the screen is excellent as well...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] temporarily_insane:
Apple spends about a quarter of a billion each year on advertisement and public relations. If a company like asus wants to catch up, they really ought to spend more on ads and PR.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] wynand32:
I don't think ASUS has any desire to "catch up with" Apple, nor any delusions that they could. In fact, that's what's stupid about the whole thing: no company NEEDS to sell as many tablets (or any other product, really) as the iPad 2--they only need to sell however many is necessary to get a return on their investment.

ASUS is clearly happy with the number of Transformers sold, or else they wouldn't be making such a huge push with the Transformer Prime. As long as they sell enough to keep making them, I'm happy.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Schaduwridder:
+1 on that.

Here in Holland I see Samsung doing a lot of ads.

Asus could sell more if the general public would be more aware of the Transformer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] frdurso:
Bought one Slider for me, here in Brazil, asus doesn't make advertisement at all and it was really hard to find the tablet... found more often only iPads, Galaxy tabs 10.1 and 7 and xoom. Some time ago I found Transformer but didn't find the Keyboard, only in sites like "mercado livre" (Works like ebay)...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] chmilz:
It's annoying that they don't advertise.

I use mine often for work and when traveling, and tech illiterates ask "hey, is that an iPad?". I explain mine is ASUS and runs Android, and they always reply "never heard of it", and look at me like I'm crazy for buying it. Then they tell me they're probably going to buy an iPad 2 for $700, despite not knowing what it does, what the differences are between tablets, and completely oblivious to $400-$500 tablets that are newer, more powerful, and expandable.

Not to mention, once ICS hits and merges Android phone and tablet software, Android devices will outsell Apple by the millions and devs will focus a lot more energy on Android tablet apps.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] shawnc9:
I just bought one too

The new prime's design isn't really to my liking. The price for a transformer now doesn't hurt too, it has dropped to a reasonable level. You prolly need to give prime some time to sort out the initial issues.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] aburgthing:
A word to the wise, there are pros and cons with the "waiting" thing. Generally the new tech is jumped on right away by the geniuses that frequent here like hungry wolves. Once they crack and root a device, they move on to development. When the company patches the exploit, the intensity of finding a root solution precipitously dips and continues to do so with each iteration of hardware and software. (The companies fix the original exploit making it exponentially harder if not impossible to beat). If you are in the front door when the device hits, you will undoubtedly be able to root it, and it will stay that way for the life of the product. Just something to think about.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] raze1000:
There are those of us who jump right in and get the latest tech and enjoy it and enjoy our lives immensely, and there are those of us who wait and wait and always do without on the chance that something better or cheaper will come out.

Those are the types that usually have nothing new and nothing to enjoy.

In my book your a long time dead so i am going to get whatever i can as soon as i can and have the pleasure of using it.

A friend of mine is earning over 40k a year yet always goes for a cheap option.

Now he's moaning that his tablet is not good for movies etc etc etc.

Should have stopped being such a tight arse and gone for the asus.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] CrazyPeter:
That's only the tip of the iceberg, they can only talk about their legal/moral advertising.

Both Microsoft and Apple spend many more times that on less ethical forms of marketing, like:

Employing "gamers" to stand outside stores in midnight launches to "buy" consoles and games..

Employing armies of viral marketeers to monitor forums and blogs and praise/defend their employers products.

Holding blogs and news sites to ransom for good press with their advertising budgets

Inviting blogs and news sites to lavish launch parties, all expenses paid trips to Redmond/Cupertino, Free Xboxes at E3, free Acer Ferrari Laptop with Vista..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] wynand32:
Agreed, 100%. If I'm hit by a bus tomorrow, I don't want to think about all the things I never tried because I was waiting for something cheaper to come along.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] chatch15117:
haha, I just smile and say "no, you wouldn't have heard of it" and happily continue using it(and fire up wifikill app and block every apple device on the network for lulz)

Apple sheep... too many to deal with.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] drunkenscholar:
Love my Transformer; the dock makes it a sweet netbook, when I'm writing articles, too; If only Polaris had more word processor tools like spell check and word count, I would say it's perfect for my needs. As it stands though, I have VERY few complaints.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Danzano:
Lol i must get that app!!!!

Usually when im asked i say when was the last time you saw a ipad2 with a keyboard dock and the same amount of ram as your netbook at home with 16hrs battery life????? (bombardment of questions usually follows)

Think ive converted a good 30 people since owning my tf
[Eee Pad Transformer General] goodintentions:
Also my experience as well. All the sheeple keep telling me I got a cheap chinese imitation. Can't really blame them, though. Apple spends a quarter of a billion each year on ads.

Asus, on the other hand, spends more money on post sale support. We've had 4 major upgrades, each one addressing the needs and suggestions of the users. 4 major updates in 5 months. Even apple doesn't roll out this many updates in such a short time. We just got an update today, a week before the announcement of the second generation transformer. It's clear by now that Asus will continue to stand behind the TF 100%. In fact, I can't think of any other gadget I ever owned that get this many updates in such a short time.

I'm an asus fan now.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ExploreMN:
Does that mean Motorola was happy with the dismal numbers they sold? After all, the Xoom 2 is just around the corner.
[General Questions and Answers] Etss:
Hi!

I flashed new Revolution HD rom with recommended radio to my Desire HD.

It boots up fine and shows "Unlocking SIM and setting phone up". But when it asks my language and sync info, after sync info "phone setup" shows new screen what is completly black. I can change ringtone volume, buttons vibrate, clock shows exact time, lock screen works and I can connect phone to PC and it'll ask for charge only or usb tethering etc.

How could I skip phone setup? I have issues with wifi, BT and radio. I guess that makes phone setup issue. Is there any flash files or something to skip phone setup. I can change setups from "setup" menu, I don't need phone setup.

I made backup of my old rom and restored it, that works like a charm.
[General Questions and Answers] mp6827:
Hi,

I am experiencing the exact same problem (not found any other cases on the forum). Going to the black screen following sync info part of the phone setup.

My phone's not rooted (so I don't have a backup of my rom) so I ran the Ace 3.12.405.1 RUU. This hasn't solved the problem for me.

Does anyone have any alternative ideas?

Cheers.
[HTC Wildfire S] greavey:
my wifi seems to bug the hell out of me with the cm7 rom. it wont send me data even tho its connected as shown by menu and i can ping google just not surf. anyone else in this position before i reflash the rom
[HTC Wildfire S] djxs:
I had the same thing happen. On first boot, wifi would work perfectly until I disconnected and tried reconnecting again, it would connect but nothing would happen.

You'll also notice that when this happens, the wifi icon and signal strength icon will no longer change its colour. For some reason it only happened the first day I installed CM7, but after multiple reboots, installation of some apps, everything works fine now.

edit: I also changed my governor to SMARTASS2, (122MHz min, 806Mhz max), but I don't know if that had anything to do with it.
[HTC Wildfire S] djxs:
I saw your thread about yours freezing at 806Mhz.. the only thing I can think of is maybe you have a different CPU revision that doesn't overclock too well.. or maybe different RAM which also doesn't allow for higher overclocking.
[HTC Wildfire S] greavey:
Got to wipe over this until its finished. cant believe im the only one.
[HTC Wildfire S] greavey:
Am I the only one with the WiFi problem.
[HTC Wildfire S] centrezuk:
no mate i have them too! not just wifi but mobile data also it says its on but does nothing and also the colour doesnt change sometimes, same for overclock anything past 600 freezes up.
[HTC Wildfire S] storms:
We should port this conversation over to development (Cyanogenmod 7 thread) - since it appears to be an issue specific to that ROM(?)

I'm having the same issue - running Alquez Cyanogenmod 7 (beta 1)

It's working great. Running smartass2 min 122 max 806 with no problems...

...except that either wifi AND mobile data can theoretically be connected, yet the browser and other programs/syncing can't connect to the internet.
[HTC Wildfire S] centrezuk:
i cant post in development :( i think i need at least 10 posts lol..
[HTC Wildfire S] greavey:
i know its silly but the rules must be obeyed. i just unistalled awaiting the fix.

I tried everything i know, but no joy.
[HTC Wildfire S] Liam_K:
Same problem with me as regarding posting in development..

And same problem with internet connection switching on and off without warning on cm7. was totally chuffed i got it untill this happened. Both the cell signal and the wifi/3g would go grey instead of green when connected..

Got frustrated, changed to tmous ROM, and now hae a different problem; need new radio, 3g not working!

Hopefully cm7 gets solved soon...although apart from my own issue with radio reflash(i think thats the problem?) I really like TMOUS...it is very sharp, and a lot smoother than the ported cm7, in my opinion..

Anyone find a solution, post it!!! Thanks..
[HTC Wildfire S] Liam_K:
Here s one thing i "think" helps...trial and error, as usual...

1; Keep wifi turned off, only keep 3g connection on.

2; Install 3g watchdog (I got Pro version) . This is an app that monitors the 3g connection, and i am inclined to believe may help keep it active. Now, mine is greatly improved with connection, thanks to these factors. Oh, and a few reflashes and a few reboots...

Hope it helps? It has helped me...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hanxgen3:
the title said it... any ideas guys? I hope something that can help communities..
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leftspeaker2000:
Apart From Voice to text not working well with my a Australian accent now when i compose a message with it it does not seem to ask me to confirm retry or anything else it just shows the message in the thread. Does anyone know whats up ?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reeg420:
Yah it doesn't really work for me too well either with my Boston accent.... I don't pronounce "r"'s in alot of words...

Got better in mango though... Little better if you allows the phone to send to Microsoft.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
@leftspeaker2000: It does that if you just open the messaging hub and hit the mic button. If you want to do the fully voice-driven experience, you need to press-and-hold Start and then use the voice command. Say "Text: <NAME>" with a brief pause where the colon is. The phone will also enter that mode if you receive a text when it's configured to use speech to read it to you.

Hope that helps!
[Dell Streak 7] JugglerLKR:
Has anyone tried such cables?

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-f...d-T2-HDMI-Cable-Freeshipping-wholesalers.html

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-f...-SMB-A1002-HDMI-cable-HDMI-1-wholesalers.html

IMO they should work, coz DS7 dock has hdmi connector. And cable itself is just a pdmi-display-port-hdmi adapter.
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
It shouldnt work as the gtab uses a different connector
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] humouse:
As an mobile reader, GO Book support txt ,UMD,PDF and epub ,provides you joyful reading experience by features like

multiple format support, import,group,full text search, reading mode, automatic history save, plus beautiful UI

design. Your palm libary starts right from here!

Function:

1. Library: switch between bookshelf and list modes.

2. Import: import books in single or batch mode.

3、Search: supports Alphabetical search and real-time display search results.

4、Page turn effect: simulated page turn effect.

5、Reading Mode: day and night eye-protection reading mode.

6、Automatic save: automatically save the last reading record.

7. Go to: quickly skip to where you like.

8. Font size: adjust font size freely.

9. Brighness: adjust screen brightness depending on the ambient illumination.

10.Group books: easy manage group of books.

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[HD2 General] deepak.soni:
How to install android on htc hd2 with win 6.5?

hey. ppl .. i want to install android on htc hd2 buyed yesterday..and i want dual boot option for win 6.5 and android... i never done it before ..

i want this rom - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1268580 (runnymede with sense rom).. pls provide if you find a video for dat.. your help wil b aprreciated

thnks