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[Droid X General] androidrookie84:
I recently sbf back to gingerbread from a custom rom and now I can't connect to my widow network,anybody going through this?
[Droid X General] OffDatGoGo:
Try reinstalling the Moto drivers on your PC. Reboot. Then reconnect your device to the PC.

DX on too many different ROMs to keep updating my sig via XDA app.
[General Questions and Answers] t0x1n:
I'm looking for a good compact, pocketable droid and I've narrowed my search down to these two

Galaxy W Pros:

Faster CPU

More internal storage

Lighter

BlueTooth 3.0

Slightly better battery (on paper)

Desire S Pros:

More RAM

Existing CyanogenMod support - ensuring ICS upgrade

Autofocus

Veteran, proven model

Slightly cheaper

Your insight would be appreciated :)
[General Questions and Answers] t0x1n:
Bump........
[General Questions and Answers] -CMX:
Personally, I would by a Desire S because I love the build quality and style. It fits in my hands beautifully and is what I was going to buy myself but instead got the Nexus because it was cheaper.

I have never personally played with the Galaxy W but it does have some pretty good specs. Have you played around with the phones in a shop? I think that is very important part of deciding which device is for you.
[General Questions and Answers] t0x1n:
Seeing as both phones have virtually the same measurements, both would probably fit the same in one's hand. The Galaxy is lighter, though, but I don't know about the build quality.

Unfortunately I can't play with the phone since it hasn't arrived in my country yet :o
[General Questions and Answers] jimbo.levy:
Get the Galaxy W. Both are great phones but the Samsung wins hands down IMO.
[General Questions and Answers] t0x1n:
Thanks, I'm also liking it better as of now

Could you possibly elaborate on why you think it's better ?
[General Questions and Answers] jimbo.levy:
Sure can. I like HTC for their UI (Sense) but feel that 3.0+ is crap and somewhat overdone. 2.1 hit the mark for me.

Whilst they both boast very similar specs, the Galaxy W takes things a little further forward.

Samsung are well known for their speedy and reliable hardware whereas HTC are notorious for badly coding their CPUs, ultimately resulting in slower performance.

Build quality is great on both devices and dimensions and weight are very similar.

It's a variety of little things that make me favour the Galaxy W above the Desire S.

Things like the faster processor, better and simpler UI etc.

I'm also a Samsung fan boy at heart =D

I hope that helped =)
[General Questions and Answers] t0x1n:
Thanks, I'm also a bit of a Samsung fanboy :)

Too bad it's not guaranteed to get ICS...
[General Questions and Answers] Johev:
It all depends on the market, if many people will opt to buy it they will certainly be many developers who will want to develop for it.

Only time will tell, lets just hope the bootloader doesn't come locked or that someone will find a fast way to unlock it.
[General Questions and Answers] tcchuin:
In my country,the price of desire s is 1.5x of galaxy w.desire s has the 'premium' feeling:)
[General Questions and Answers] t0x1n:
The question is how justified that feeling is, in terms of real world usage
[General Questions and Answers] t0x1n:
Update

A couple of new reviews for the phone:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/samsung-galaxy-w-i8150_Mobile-Phone_review

http://www.hardwarezone.com.ph/review-samsung-galaxy-w-i8150-winner-different-way

I wonder what's keeping GSMArena...
[General Questions and Answers] knowsnophones:
Has anyone seen the white one in person? How is it?
[General Questions and Answers] cristiann86:
i prefer desire s, in my opinion is better.
[General Questions and Answers] mmmcfc:
The Desire S has much better dev support and better build quality. There is already a stable ICS ROM for it and a plethora of different ROM's . I develop for it and have to say there are loads of great ROM's for it :)
[General Questions and Answers] terryfried:
In UK 3 will sell a Galaxy w for £180 a HTC Desire S costs £280. and I still pre fare the Galaxy W.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] falgun:
Everytime I get a call the phone says the name of the person calling like a talking caller id. Even when I get a text message same thing. I may be dumb but I can't find where to turn this feauture off. Anyone can point me in the right direction on how to turn this off thank you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ltrulsse:
Maybe Settings - Accessibility - TalkBack ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hazem77:
Check out driving mode in voice settings
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] falgun:
This worked but i also had to click the option Always use my settings and that fixed it. Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] lewis750:
Haven't decided whether to flash a new ROM, but I wanted CWM recovery so I could wipe battery stats to improve battery performance like I did on my MyTouch 3g. I rooted my Galaxy S 4g and followed the "[RECOVERY]CWM FINAL for the SGS4G" instructions exactly. I downloaded the recovery file and used File Expert to place it in the /system/bin folder. I didn't delete anything (I DID save a copy of the original file), just let it overwrite. I downloaded the update.zip file and placed it in the root of my SD card.

I rebooted and now I can only get to the splash screen, whether I just power it up or hold down both volume buttons and the power button to try to get into recovery. I can get into download mode so I downloaded Odin and it recognizes my phone. I'm pretty sure I can restore from here and will look for instructions on the site, but I would rather just restore the original recovery file first (if it's possible) to see if that works.

Question: Can I use Odin to restore just the original recovery file? If not, is there another way it can be done considering that I can only get into download mode?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] stephen_w:
You can't (to my knowledge) use ODIN to deal with individual files like that. You could download the android SDK from www.android.com, install it, install only the 'tools' module (else you download and install all of the different sdk versions for the platform as well as other stuff), and use adb to move the file back into place.

I'm sure someone here probably has a mo-better way, though.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] lewis750:
I was spending too much time on this so I decided to flash another ROM. GB ROMs gave me the rainbow bootloop so I flashed stock FROYO (thanks, krylon360) successfully. I'll worry about GB, rainbows, and bootloaders later when I have more time, but I still want CWM recovery. Any ideas as to why it didn't work (see OP)?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Exodian:
To get rid of rainbow screen just odin the kg4 leak. Then Odin one of Dr honks gb kernels to get cwm.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] stephen_w:
GB ROMs will do that if you don't first flash one with the correct boot loaders. KG4 was the first GB ROM to have the right ones.

I'm not sure what happened with your initial attempt to get CWM working, though. I've never attempted it that way; I've always flashed one of drhonk's GB kernels.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rambo8987:
Is there alot of rom development going on? Any sense or miui.us Tom's being ported?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nosympathy:
Search button is pretty cool. Try it...this has been asked before.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dadsterflip:
Slowly building up steam buuut might slow down because of the Nexus. But who knows maybe moto will unlock bootloader (wishful thinking).
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PG101:
MODERATOR MESSAGE

And the point to open a new thread like this is??? Search Search Search!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] KevlarTheGreat:
Do you think one of you brilliant HD2 devs could port the republic wireless ROM over to the HD2? It would mean that we could get (sort of) unlimited data, text, and voice for $20/month. It seamlessly transfers your calls, data, etc, to and from WiFi and the cellular network. The only catch is that if you use a lot more cellular data, minutes, or text than WiFi, then they will try to get you to use WiFi more or, if you keep using too much cellular, suggest a new carrier.:D

http://republicwireless.com/

The Catch

Engadget Clarifies the Catch

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tobiascrystal:
Only problem I can see straight off is that when you aren't using their Wifi setup you have to fall back on to the sprint network which is cdma and our phones are gsm. Now if we could get this rom and bring it over to gsm we would be able to save some minutes, text and data on our current gsm carriers which be cool.

But other than that I think it's a nogo to get to use simple as your carrier.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] KevlarTheGreat:
Good point. I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that.
[Vibrant General] djordan79:
Hey so I've been flashing roms for awhile now with no problems... But the other day I odined back to stock... Now after I flash any rom when I use the power button to try to wake the phone up to get to the lockscreen it takes forever for it to wake up... But this only happens after I flash a rom.... Doesn't happen on the stock jfd rom..... So I know its nothing wrong with the button itself....

And also after flashing custom rom and booting into recovery from cwm the recovery will be red not green and I can't restore any nandroid backups....

So anyway... I haven't done anything different than I have in the past as far as flashing goes but now my phone is jacked!

If anyone knows why this is happening I would greatly appreciate any help!

Thanks
[Vibrant General] Woody:
This happened to me the other day and I could not restore a nandroid either. Still don't know what happened and I haven't even tried to restore anything b/c I don't want to have to Odin back and rebuild everything again from scratch.

When I was on Cincinnati Bell stock Froyo, I was able to root and install CWR with the green recovery and screwed something up and was able to restore just fine. I have since flashed Toxic8 which comes with the Red Recovery and through some self-inflicted stupidity, caused an unrecoverable bootloop that I couldn't clear, wipe or restore. That is when I had to Odin and rebuild.

Interested if anyone else knows why this is. Wonder if I could download CWR from market and use that as opposed to the Red Recovery that came with the ROM?
[Vibrant General] konthewicked:
The red cwr is for voodoo enabled roms make sure you disable voodoo before flashing roms that do not include voodoo lagfix.
[Vibrant General] Woody:
I knew that Red was for Voodoo, but would I have to disable it to restore the same ROM, just a backup? With the Red Recovery,I haven't been able to restore anything at all. In fact IIRC I did try it with it disabled and it didn't work that way either.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultradj83:
Hi everybody!

I'm on the latest ITV firmware.

When I use swype, it sometimes didn't add the space between words.

This send to happen randomly...

Can anybody confirm?

Any fix?

Bye!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cl8rs:
I looked at the Kindle Fire and Nook, they seem pretty good(and the Nook community is fantastic apparently and I'm assuming the Kindle will be too). Are there any other nice Android tablets under 200$? With at least 1Ghz processor and 512MB of RAM...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whouwit510:
ok my volume buttons dont work im trying to follow the steps on temp root then downgrade when i get to the bootloader part to flash PD15IMG to press up to flash i cant because my buttons broke is there any way do this without the volume buttons thanks
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jberg22:
I think there's a way to do this using adb. Not sure of the steps, so see if you can look it up and find anything.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwhood:
I had to take apart the shell of the phone and clean out dirt that was stuck behind the volume rocker,had

To go to electronic store and by a mini screw driver combo and "BAM" working again,hope this helps!!!

sent frm the home of "THE WIRE"
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magus57:
Found a few under $350, and I currently pay $40/month for unlimited talk/text and 2GB of 3G web (Simple Mobile). Wanting to upgrade from a HTC G2 (with CM7 Nightly), and the main feature I'm looking for is a secondary camera (for Skype video calls).

Now what brings me to the Streak is both the relatively cheap price and the huge screen - the combination meaning I don't feel like I'm missing out by not having an Android tablet.

But I've got three major concerns:

-Battery life. I hear it's a problem for some, and not for others. Any light on this? I personally don't need it to last more than a day with moderate daily use (on Wifi most of the time, maybe 1 hour of data usage a day, a few texts/phone calls)

-Performance. I don't need much out of it - my G2 handles everything fine with its 800Mhz CPU - but I have no idea how old/new this 1Ghz CPU is, and how it handles even day-to-day stuff. I mean, if it lags just on the homescreen or something, that's kind of a deal-breaker

-Screen quality. I have no idea how it compares, but I used a Streak 7 for about a week, and found the screen acceptable...except in portrait mode...something about the screen type or viewing angle literally gave me a headache while using it, and returned it pretty much because of that.

My next choice would probably be the G2x, which while it obviously doesn't have as big of a screen (or even much bigger than my G2, for that matter), it's about $100 cheaper, and seems like most of the issues that plagued it at launch have been worked out both by official updates and CM7.
[General Questions and Answers] bloodfart:
so i want to add beats audio to this rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000320

along with the 3.0 mms (the one with the "post its" look)

is this possible?

i have dloaded the zip unpacked it, dug around a bit to get familiar

unpacked the mms.apk and found that the "post its" images are in there but they arent being used when sending txts..

so is this possible? or do i need sense 3?
[General Questions and Answers] dumraden:
Hello, as a first step into modding and developing i decided to add a recovery menu on my Sony Ericsson Active(ST17i), followed some of the guides out there in the internet, I repack it although when trying to flash it through fastboot i get "writing 'boot'... FAILED (remote: Wrong range:0x10008000-0x10360b0b. Ok:0x00200000 - 0x03dfff)" at the end.

What could be the issue? I tried adding "base 00200000" when repacking but didnt get anything different.

P.S. The boot.img im using is an insecure stock one based on the 4.0.1.A.0.284 firmware version.

The kernel im trying to get the recovery menu from is based on the 4.0.2.A.0.58 firmware version.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Appl_Usr:
Hey everyone,

I haven't seen any topics in this forum discussing this.

Which Sense 3.0 ROM is the most stable/FAST? I have tried Aurora which was fast to start with, but then became slow? :confused: I can't seem to find a bug-free (more or less) Sense 3.0 ROM which is smooth and stable.

If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it! :p

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zedmarcus:
Not wanting to rain on your parade, but have you tried searching???

There are a million threads already covering this topic.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Appl_Usr:
Yea

I didn't find any.. could you point me to a topic?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zedmarcus:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1293989

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330963

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1310058

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1334411

etc

etc

etc
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Terepin:
I stand correct. This n00bs aren't stupid at all. On the contrary, they're very sneaky, trying to make us to look like idiots by forcing us to help them.

This proves only one thing:

Never

underestimate power of stupid people in large groups.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Appl_Usr:
Not quite sure what you mean there... ;)

Decided to go with sebastiaan15's RunnyMede Rom, thanks for all your input! (i think) :p

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] man4714:
Runnemede / Aurora are go0d :cool:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smathan:
Runnemede defo good
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matty Matt:
From my personal experience, it seems that sense 3.0 roms work better (by better i mean smoother) when using the stock Hboot. Dunno if that is just me...also i have major issues with the inability to make calls when i've used sense 3 roms. Again i think it might just be me...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 777ace:
Well said sir!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darewinder:
I am currently located in Turkey and bought an S2 here locally since my iphone4 was locked to att.

However the android market only has free apps. This is very frustrating. ( I also have an HTC incredible which is running the full android market but my s2 isnt).

My question is, Can I flash an European or american rom to get the US android market? (perhaps a way to change csc).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
Try market enabler from the market...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garoto1973:
I usually do a few workarounds to get all my apps:

1. Try Market Enabler over 3g, not sure if it works on wifi I get better results over 3g.

2. Install Hotspotshield free on your PC to fake a US IP on your PC, or better do it over a US real ip (some businesses like where I work have US ip connections). Then try to install apps via Android market web page (in combination with step 1 it should recognize your phone as Tmobile i9100 for instance).

3. Change your credit card billing address to a US one (just took me 5 minutes over the phone with my credit card company but not sure if its legal in all countries).

4. Use an alternative market like GetJar. I have been able to find many apps there that I cant get through the market, plus they usually have freebies (for instance Tune In radio Pro is free right now). GetJar is legit and safe but sometimes can get slow updating apps as it depends on the deals they have with the developers.

This way I can purchase from B&N, use Hulu or update google maps, youtube, etc.

When everything fails I usually copy the apk from a friends phone or there is always the mediafire option but you might not want to go that far ;)

Also you might want to visit developers pages as sometimes they accept paypal (like Poweramp).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darewinder:
I already have US credit cards (again only studying here abroad).

So I cant just flash another rom? This has to be software based because my HTC incredible's market works fine (there sitting right next to each other on the SAME wifi network)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tehpriest:
Install Market Enabler from the android market. It's free so should be there.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miahegypt:
what is the point of having regions for the market ????

i have no idea why Google does that
[Captivate General] id10terror:
This (not very scientific) test was all done on Serenity KJ3 4.2. I ran the test 3 times and in order to get an average. It was done in the same location, with the same server chosen in SpeedTest Mobile app. I did this mainly to pinpoint which captivate modem worked best for me in my area (South East Florida), so keep in mind that you will probably get different results depending on where you are.

I'm just sharing this in case someone finds it useful. I'll try and add new modems as they come out.

Forgot to mention I downloaded all the modems from Oxicottin's site.. He also has a nice map with modem ratings in different areas:

http://soggycashew.weebly.com/sgh-i897-modems.html

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1227717
[Captivate General] LNJ:
Problem is that you're not the only one on the network when the tests are being run!
[Captivate General] b-eock:
No, that's not a problem ..
[Captivate General] id10terror:
Well, I ran this at like 4 am when I couldn't get to sleep.. Don't know how many people were on at the time, but I'm sure it's less than usual lol

Either way, like I said in the OP, this a very non-scientific test.
[Captivate General] shoman94:
What about 1900 vs 850mhz?

I've done the "test" in the past with i9000 modems.... but I separated the frequencies cause it makes a difference.

Also signal strength..... I made sure that I had greater than -85db
[Captivate General] id10terror:
Good suggestions.. I'll do a more in depth test when I get a chance. I just got lazy since these modems are RAT Restricted, and doing the little trick to change frequencies takes longer.. :o
[Captivate General] shoman94:
no problem... I do think though that the RAT issue is phone related...... I have no issues getting in to service mode.

I have a 1008.
[Captivate General] WarEduar:
running miui rom, cm7 kernel, and living in south america, which modem will be better for me?

Any help will be apreciated.
[Captivate General] MeVirtually:
Interesting, thanks!
[Captivate General] ap1618:
Has anyone tried BVJJW2?

-Sent from a Galaxy far far away
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] dragonnn:
I found a simple way to change wi-fi MAC address on Ace. Only watch you needed is Root Explorer. Follow this instruction:

1. If your wi-fi is on turn it off

2. Open Root Explorer and go to the /data folder

3. Find and select via long touch the file .nvmac.info

4. Use the option "Open in Text Editor"

5. Change the MAC address to the what you want (I suggest to insert the letters as big characters).

6. Touch the menu button and select "Save & Exit"

7. Torn on you wi-fi and connect to the preferred network. You Ace should connect to the network witch the new MAC address

Note! This change aren't permanent, when you reboot you phone the MAC address goes back to the original. Only test on CyanogenMOD, but working on other rom's based on CM. Not tested on stock rom's and other custom rom's (if you can test it on stock rom's or stock based rom's and it works tell my I will include this information to the post). Use at own risk.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] consegregate:
What is the practical use, may I know? Does it help clear timed downloads?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] traduz:
Why change your mac address?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] pujitjuneja:
Well it helps me change to a MAC address that my college Wifi recognises, i can even connect using my phone (i.e. my laptop registered with them)

This+TransProxy made my day :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] happily1986:
ok i don't know about you but if this tutorial ends up as a means to perform MAC spoofing, the user will end up on the wrong side of the law. Be warned.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] satti8893:
Can i use laptop mac address?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] dragonnn:
satti8893 yes, why do think that you can't?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] mundixx:
ok how about this.. any way to retrieve the list of wifi passwords your device has stored?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] catapult1234:
Of course.

Use root explorer to do it

Cheers
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] mundixx:
Cheers! :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] diditdr:
Hhh too simple for noob to do these. Wlan admin mostly aware and deploy wpa2 than mac address based security.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] happily1986:
don't be so sure. some home users don't even enable authentication OTA from their access points and some just enable MAC filtering.

fyi, encryption results in a degeneration of the 2.4Ghz radio signal to a limited extent. As a result, some people resort to broadcasting in open and only using MAC filtering.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] Sopalajo de Arrierez:
No such file in CyanoGenMod v10 (but I have an Asus EEE Transformer). I did a search within all directory structure: it is not there :( .

So this system is not valid for any CyanoGenMod ROM.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Android Development] Zainano:
SAME HERE! Did a search = no such file! (Using CM 11)