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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MMakoto:
"More, PowerSkin® is XPAL Powered, meaning it's charged by patented battery technology that reflects the highest standards of safety, quality, and performance."

what exactly do they mean from the above description? this case has a built in battery pack or something? if so, it should add significant bulk.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Killbynature:
I wouldn't buy this. Your better off buying a case and a separate battery. These cases plug into to the micro usb socket so when your charging the phone your charging the case. If the phone is fully charged and the case would charge the battery of the phone while the phone is draining its own battery. This will make your oem battery die faster since its going through full cycles more. I had one for mytouch 4g its battery died within 3 months from this case.

As soon as I bought a new battery and stop using the case the battery has been fine. I had that phone since its release date. Basically have the case charged but don't turn it on till the battery dies in your phone first. I wouldn't even keep it plugged in since the back is so easy to click in and activate the power skin. These cases also have the worst protection ever for a case. The phone is easy to fall out of the case. There is nothing to hold it down to keep it secure in place. Even a cheap gel skin has more protection than these things.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
yup, that's true

it's not just this case, or vibrant or mytouch, that happens to all battery life.

i used to always leave my phones plug-ed in when i'm able to, to keep the battery topped up

but that killed the battery faster

since i stopped that, and went the route of replacing batteries after they go down to 15% percent (the auto low battery warning pops up) and switch to a fully charged pack, all my batteries last waaaaaaaaaaaay longer than when i kept it topped up on the charger
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ronin4740:
Posted photos in op

Using tapatalk on my Galaxy 2 to post this!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rpolito73:
I don't like how it looks like the left side on the front shot its not rigid. That's what I hated about the d3o flex cover. Looks all uneven n can't even see the bezel in some spots. Bottom right seems jacked up

too. I can see bezel in the pic.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Wareazy:
My sister got one of these for her Galaxy S1 ... not that great only gave her about an extra 1-2 hours max before it died. Also you have to charge it and the internal battery separately, taking it off every night so that you can charge them both.

Not worth it, in my opinion.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
only 1500 mAh!!!!!!! it's so not worth it

LOL :D

i was expecting at least 2500 mAh out of that bulky pack
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] G1_enthusiast:
power-skin

anyone ever use this? they got one for our phone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jdiddy_ub:
i saw it available online, im curious as well..how much bulk it adds and what it really looks like..$40 is a ridiculously steep price for a battery and a case though
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ronin4740:
I have one and use it. I also have a spare battery. between the two I'm good for 24 hours :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1331293
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jdiddy_ub:
power-skin

for anyone who has the powerskin case for this phone or any other...where do you keep your phone when you are out? in your pocket? if the added thickness im curious if its too bulky to carry around that way...ive been trying to search for a holster or case but i havent come across one...if anyone knows of one please link me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cookie1203:
i had one for the vibrant and it did help with battery, it just kept the battery at 100% but the extra size was too big...i would recommend maybe a bigger battery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gdmlaz:
Powerskin for tmo galaxy s2

has any1 tried this product yet ? thinking about it twice the battery sounds like is worth the price to me........... LET ME KNOW ?

http://www.shop.power-skin.com/powerskin/samsung/galaxy-s2-tmobile
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ronin4740:
I have one which I like. You can read my thoughts about it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1331293
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkphantom:
Hmm...for twice the width you'd expect more no?

Also, how does this affect the LED flash when taking pictures?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rault18:
[youtube]eJB9grh1lHA[/youtube]

Dont buy one
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Horvaticus:
Eh, I kind of stopped caring for that review as soon as you said that you're limited to being close to the computer with the generic micro USB cable they gave you :P Hahaha. For the record, any usb cable will work. I wrote a review in another thread. Here's the excerpt.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
I have one for sale. $50 includes shipping in the USA. It is brand new in the box never opened.

Contact me here via PM or @ marc at newman dot org
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GreggoryD502:
The cut out for the camera looks awful.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jordanishere:
If i wanted a heavy, poorly made brick, id have bought the htc amaze.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Rores:
Hi Galaxy ace Guys,

I'm starting a port over for the LG Optimus One

I'm having Ubuntu problems and i cannot download Source, Modify source that i put on an USB; it's really p*ssing me off. :mad:

Can someone post up a .zip of the stock rom (not a flashable) that is 2.2(.1)

or also 2.3.3 if you have it. We have libs for 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, and 2.3.7 but the last 3 are CM7 and i dont want to merge with cyanogenmod :D

Thanks Guys!

I may try and port LG 2.3.3 (or .4) for your galaxy ace :cool:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
u can just download odin flashable rom from samfirmware and extract the system.img using magiciso if ur in windows, or just mount it as fat if ur in linux.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] consegregate:
Though it's a bad idea to pick the Ace firmware, riddled with bugs.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
Open as MagicISO
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
When I plug in the Photon to HDMI a black screen comes up. The menu on my phone will not come up to connect. Any help?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
I have to wiggle mine, once i find the sweet spot hold it there. Cheap monoprice cable.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
This is a cable I got on Amazon.com It is great quality and it costs 6 bucks. I get a black screen. I have used the cable before with no issue. Thanks though. I doubt that is the issue but I will try it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MultiDev:
Send it back to monoprice. They replace for free.

I have many monoprice cables and occasionally, some of them don't work right. Just send it back. Their customer service is very good.

The current microHDMI cable I have from them works perfectly. No jiggling necessary.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Reserved for future use
[Droid Incredible Android Development] badogg:
I just want to thank you for all the hard work you've been doing on this. It is projects like this that keep our devices as current as they can be, and interesting. So, thanks a lot to everyone involved.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] fudplayers:
I couldn't have said it any better.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] sal_shawn:
And this why I am sending him a donation right now. :) Thank you, your work is greatly appreciated.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] lonnyrs:
Ok, I'm gonna need a little help! I tried playing around with this, but now I can't get out!! AHHHHHH!! power and volume down doesn't get me to the bootloader. What can I do?

edit - yes it did..whew!! but it was absolutely awesome!! thanks!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jbdan:
amen +1

.....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 5thAgent:
I love you.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Smokeey:
ooooooohh eeeeemmmmm geeeeeeee

<3
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dpeppe01:
Tried it real quick. Nice!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] SlimSnoopOS:
I'll be the first to admit that I have no interest in trying ICS on the Inc lol BUT I have to say, thank you for working on this. I hope to see this progress tremendously once the source hits.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] badogg:
I installed this to check it out. Wow. I'm really excited to see what kind of ICS love is going to come to my beloved Dinc from this. I really liked the little bits I could see.

Cheers!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] chocolate8175:
Good stuff man, you're a champ. Thanks for being adventurous
[Droid Incredible Android Development] CUViper:
Neat! I was wondering what you were up to with that clone of my repo. :p

I haven't actually tried your port yet, but for the touchscreen stuff, I suspect that the userspace parts are just expecting certain interfaces exposed by the kernel driver. We should know better with full source, of course. But I would guess the right answer will be changes in userspace, because obviously not all devices will be able to have the same touchscreen driver. Well we'll see. Hope to see you in CM when ICS finally comes out. :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
What you said is exactly what I've been thinking, I just haven't been able to tell what data the Samsung driver is letting the OS see that the HTC driver doesn't.

They seem very identical in terms of the output they generate and where it's stored. Obviously something is different though. And it's really annoying, because the HTC driver actually produces MORE data and is much more explicit in reporting exactly what its doing to the point that it looks very confusing and messy even when you compare to Samsung's driver. I don't think HTC would try and make it confusing unnecessarily though, and other drivers they have written look similar in the way they work and report data.

That said, I've actually been using the Samsung driver on my daily driver install of CM7 and I think it works better. It feels more responsive and can register the pressure of my touch more accurately (feels like it anyways). But it crashes maybe once or twice a day, and the screen will just stay on and become unresponsive. Haven't figured that out yet but it only does it in certain applications.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dirtsky:
Really looking forward to seeing what people put out when the source drops.

Sent from my Incredibly awesome Droid Incredible.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dunndada:
Can this help?

http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-nexus-boot-recovery-and-system-dumps-now-available
[Droid Incredible Android Development] GRZLA:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/348194-04-nov-icl23d-galaxy-nexus-boot-recovery-system-dump/

^direct link to the thread.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Yeah. I probably wont be the first to say it will probably help :D Trying to get them now. Stupid filesonic. Don't know why people don't use mediafire!

I'm going to start working on this later, as I seemed to have found a better solution for the touchscreen drivers, and am now able to use the original HTC driver with a slight modification :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dunndada:
Great.... this is helping me deal with the wait on the nexus.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] CUViper:
That's an interesting definition of "better"... ;)

Great!

For my part, I won't be looking at anything until we have source. I already hate dealing with as many proprietary blobs as we do, so trying to port a whole system of them makes me cringe...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
Full ice cream sandwich system dump

Get it while its hot boys and girls and lets get the DINC a new face :)

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...-system-dump-icl23d-recovery-and-boot-images/
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Yeah, apparently they have deprecated the use of one or more of the input preprocessors. I'm not near my comp anymore to figure out which one exactly, but when the HTC driver is compiled with only the EV_ABS bit set, the touchscreen works in ICS. (And GB, not sure what purpose they serve or did serve).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19047963
[Droid Incredible Android Development] FatGuyWithWifi:
what all exactly works? like is enough working for this rom to be ready for everyday use?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] baboonsRus:
Op states "not a daily driver".
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Update coming in a few hours guys. Hopefully get to see some new goodies from the Galaxy Dump and possibly radio working.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] frostincredible:
You are making me miss my Droid Incredible...lol. Awesome job you've done here man.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Well to be fair I did a lot of tinkering to get the Samsung driver to work, but fixing the HTC driver for us was very little work once I realized what it possibly was. I did however rewrite parts of the HTC driver before I had the idea of trying it. I really didn't think it would work, but I figured a couple minutes of building and flashing again just to see might be worth it.

I mean I literally commented out 4 lines of code.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jermaine151:
I've been stalking your threads. :) Is the touchscreen still working in pointer mode? I was checking out the idc files in the Nexus dump and was thinking of seeing what I can do with that dump. I don't want to reinvent the wheel if you've already made great progress. Thanks for all of your efforts on this.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Yes it is still in pointer mode, but I haven't had a chance to mess with it since I fixed the HTC driver. Don't hesitate to try things though.

There's an update zip at the end of this post with the fixed kernel. Should work with ICS and CM7. If anyone wants to try it and see if they can get it out of pointer mode, please do!

I'll be working on an updated ROM with the Nexus dump shortly and kind of hoping the pointer thing is resolved so I can include a fix for that, but I'll mess with it too if no one else gets anywhere.

http://www.4shared.com/file/yaRVYwiF/update_signed.html

I apologize for the 4shared link, its the only file sharing site I could find that worked when I uploaded from a phone!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jermaine151:
Thanks swm! No problem about 4shared. I'll let you know if I make any progress.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1320170&page=16

Something on there about idc files that may help. If it makes any difference, which I have no clue, I think the HTC driver does its calibration by amplitude. The new Galaxy system dump also has a differ idc file as well.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
I would think a direct port of the dump would be smoothest and work with the least problems.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
That's what I'm working on doing I just haven't been at a comp for a while. I should have a working copy of the dump up in an hour or two. At my buddy's place and the best thing I can use is a 3GHz Pentium 4 laptop. Hard to believe web browsing is faster on my phone :p
[Droid Incredible Android Development] donnyp1:
Thats hilarious, but i know what you mean. Got an i7 laptop quad core now and it smokes!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Alright, going to have to wait till tomorrow morning sometime. I actually came here to my friends house for a party and people are starting to ask questions haha

Having some trouble with getting the new dump to boot but I can't work on it any longer without getting **** so I'll update tomorrow.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] duloz:
How dare you expect to have a social life when the internet is waiting with bated breath?! LOL... just kidding.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] x2kjosh:
Party on!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] intaminfan08:
I really can't wait to have a taste, im still holding off but god is it hard. Can't wait till the main bugs are out this willlll be my daily!!!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] duloz:
for what it is worth, it appears that the system dump does BOOT with either the boot image from the sdk port and your kernel... i tinkered with the idc's a little and got results...

When i say it boots, i have reason to believe that the OS loads, as the power button triggers the screen off/on animations, and with your kernel, i get some on screen interaction from touch input... but all that appears on screen is white and black bars, with a white square that follows my finger around when using your kernel. I'm guessing i need to replace some files for the screen, but don't know enough about rom cooking to know what i am doing there...when i started trying to replace anything outside of idc's, build.prop and boot image, i could not boot...

Basically, renamed the touch idc to correspond. Added META-INF, build.prop, and boot from the original port. Flashed it, flashed your kernel over it, and...

Can't confirm from onscreen visuals, but i'm guessing that the white square that follows my finger indicates that it's still in pointer mode, so thinking that must be a kernel level issue?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] joedeuce:
from following all the ics threads, I believe pointer mode indicates a missing or misconfigured idc file

Inspire 4G // BlackICE
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Xephik:
Can't wait till the radio gets working!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Touchscreen is higher priority.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Xephik:
I did not say it wasn't, I was simply pointing out that getting the radio working will be a great milestone of this projects development. Once the touch screen issues are fixed and the radio is working, for many people it will be enough to keep on their phones for longer than 20 minutes.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] hakarune:
SWM this is so cool, can't wait till more is working. :-)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] renzo.olivares:
EGLS :)

10 char
[Droid Incredible Android Development] frostincredible:
+1

10 char
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Yup. Working on some stuff after dinner tonight.

Thought I'd get to it earlier but I guess I partied a little harder than I expected last night. I may update the SDK port with a couple things and hold off on the new dump till I get it working correctly.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Yeah, and it starts to with the new RAM disk. I got it to boot (not completely :D) using the new RAM disk, and they've revamped a lot of the init stuff, which makes going from the white Incredible screen to the boot animation very quick.

I'm getting hung up with libwebcore (I think, I don't have the logcat from when I was messing with it earlier handy) upon booting though, keeps looping in the logcat and I get to watch the pretty boot animation over and over.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] duloz:
I'm running a fly by night operation myself. Make changes, flash, see what happens...

Egl folder from cm7 boots to a black screen. Folder from sdk port gives me the same result as the straight system dump...

Never got to see the boot anim. Either black screen or white at that point... only know that it boots completely because the screen will sleep and get some indication of touch input from your driver.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
I made a few changes to the ramdisk which got me the boot animation using the kernel I posted earlier and the full Nexus dump and the EGLs from the SDK.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] duloz:
Ah... good to know. Sounds like I'm up against a brick wall myself, then... don't know a thing bout changing ramdisk.

I'm one of those "hope to get lucky" newbs... to be fair, though, "hope to get lucky" has gotten me far in life, and i have the added benefit of having an extra incredible to use as a sandbox without messing with the one I use as an actual phone...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Haha well I've gotten lucky quite a few times in the last week so don't let that get you down. If I had, I'd never have found out that deleting one line of code would get the HTC touch driver working :D and trust me this is all new to me too.

I just have way too much time on my hands. That and learning how kernels actually work, this all seems like a great excuse to spend time on it.

We'll figure it out, between anyone else trying on this forum or me, I have faith! Its more interesting when you don't have the source sometimes hahah
[Droid Incredible Android Development] duloz:
Which hardware revision do you have?

I ask because it just occurred to me that the screen behavior I am seeing is exactly the same as if I flash a version of clockwork recovery designed for the amoled screen or vice versa... maybe I will give it a shot on my phone phone tomorrow, as I'm pretty sure it is an older model, so might get a different result...

Edit: nevermind, no difference in behavior between the two phones.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] chocolate8175:
What does that mean? Ha
[Droid Incredible Android Development] GRZLA:
Hey swm, a user in the other thread pointed this out. Figured I would paste it over here for you. I'm not sure what any of it means, but maybe you do.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19103124&postcount=196
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Alton (Halo 2):
Is this a flashable Rom?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jonzin:
WIP - work in progress. No not yet. swm will get it though.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Alton (Halo 2):
Thx and I hope so :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] frostincredible:
Yes. In the OP there is a download to a flashable zip that is the ROM.

Just cause it says WIP doesn't mean there isn't a ROM. WIP can mean the ROM just isn't finished, but there is a version available, just not everything, or not much, is working.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Alton (Halo 2):
Ok thank u ,will download now
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jonzin:
Sorry. Didn't catch that change to the OP. Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Hey swm, did you see this commit for the N1?

https://github.com/anarchron/N1_ICS/commit/0dbfe32010bb33efd3e557f604503bb55f412a26

It might work on the Inc, minus the libs and firmware files though hardware is similar.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Djay1809:
Downloading now,

Edit

Installs easy, could use a better boot Animation (I would go with the avengers clip preview). But cosmetics can come later. Looks good UI is tyte, as soon as the touch screen works this will be G. I'm in for beta testing, esp since My GingerSense is running out of time. Anything I can do to help, I'm in. Good job.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dunndada:
The silence is deafening
[Droid Incredible Android Development] swm5126:
Sorry guys didn't mean to fall off the face of the earth, all the action is happening in the touchscreen driver thread under General Android Software development.

I'm holding back on the Galaxy dump until we can figure out how to make the touchscreen not act like a crack addict in withdrawal when its in normal touch mode, since the pointer/cursor is very annoying.

Its taking a little longer than I imagined as it seems like we're going no where fast. But I haven't given up yet.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Djay1809:
its cool just hit up up soon as you can, in the meantime, what exactly is being disgussed at the other thread?