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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
copy the .zip to sd, enter magldr - 8 - ad recovery, in recovery 'flash zip from sd - choose zip' will flash the rom..

BUT

since you would need usb to flash a different partition size, you can only use roms that are small enough to fit in your current partition layout.

you have typhoon, so you probably have a 130 - 150 meg partition, , , from the market, download 'supermanager', start it, choose file explorer, enter the system folder, and look at the top of the file list, directly below ''back up level folder' something like total 150.0M used 137.7M Free 12.7M(8%)

This means I have a 150meg partition layout, so i can use any rom that says it needs 150meg or smaller.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YawTakyi:
Thanks for the reply, my question is, can I insert the my sd card straight into my laptop slot to access it or not?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
yes

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] PPKLP:
And you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7 to resize all or any of your partitions on the SD card when it´s in your laptop aswell. including fat, fat32, ext3 & ext4
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urra901109:
Any one here use ps3 media server? its a good media server. i can stream vid+subtitle but not on android phone. no subtitle appear. any ideas?

before someone flame because of not using uncle google/searchbar let me make it clear. i tried googling and searched the forum and the thread i found doesn't let me post a reply due to new user not allowed bla bla bla http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1116709
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fmtopgun:
I've tried so many times to do the exact same thing you're trying to do with no luck. I correctly set-up the streaming from VLC, then using DLNA or TVersity but my SGS2 always says the format is unsupported (asf/srt).

Maybe a solution could be to stream on a VPN and then connect on it with the phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thedesi:
I'm looking to access PC's internet and pass it to the Phone. Is this possible for our phones?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gr8hairy1:
There are a number of cheap usb wifi adapters that can double as access points.

I'm guessing you have a laptop with mobile internet?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thedesi:
I have wifi at home but at work, I get no signal (data or voice) and wondering if I can connect via USB. I don't have wifi at work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gr8hairy1:
Yeah they'd probably have issue with you wirelessly broadcasting their internet.

Bluetooth however would work and is cheap. And won't interfere with the network at all.

I've read else where on xda that people have gotten it to work, but the only instructions were for linux, and I got a feeling your work computer is xp.

How easy? Alot depends on the operating system and bluetooth adapter.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] timbck2:
Today's Amazon App Store App of the Day is Documents To Go by DataViz. This app regularly sells for $14.99, but it's free today!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoWeb:
Since I'm still waiting on my pre-ordered White Note from Handtec anyone care to tell me if the Note has the ascending ringtone like all Samsung phones? This is where the ringtone starts off low volume and then gets louder. Can this be changed in any settings?

My personal preference is to not have the ascending ringtone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bengaz:
Yes it has, or mine has anyway. I dont like it as I work in a noisy enviroment.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoWeb:
Thanks, I might be able to solve that if it's the same as on the t-mobile Vibrant.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bengaz:
Thanks, I'll watch this thread...:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoWeb:
If you have time and are rooted, try this and let me know if it worked at the thread below.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19533639#post19533639
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kebong:
i just updated to KKA and will try your fix in the other thread as this "feature" annoys the hell out of me.

EDIT:

CWM -based Recovery v5.0.2.7

-- Installing: /sdcard/PhoneKKA-No Ascending Ringtone.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported.
Amend scripting was deprecated by Google in Android 1.5
It was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the ClockworkMod 3.0 Gingerbread based recovery.
Please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages.
Installation aborted.

So I tried pushing it using Android Commander, set permissions to 644 (default), restarted, but that didn't work either. The ascending thing is still there.

It's not working for me. Am I doing something wrong here, or...?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Minimalcriminal:
Flashed ROCKET v22 - XXLA6. how to stop this frigging ascending ringtone , i need same volume level where in i have tried different methods to replace phone.apk but, file expert doesn't allow to copy system/app . can anyone help me out ? if there's any other method for current ROM.

Cheers .
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] lodxcol:
Hi, I am running CM nightly 134 on my DInc2. I have a question about the market. On my phone, when I access the Market, it properly shows the Apps installed on my phone, and Apps I've bought that I haven't gotten around to installing yet. However, when I access the Market from a web browser, under My Apps, every application I've ever installed is on the list, even if I don't currently have it installed on my phone. Why is this? Is there a way to correct this so that they are properly synced? Thank you.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] TheAtheistReverend:
Wow, this is kind of hilarious. There are a ton of apps on the list in my account. I never noticed that before. There aren't any from my previous phone. Weird.

Can't figure out how to get rid of them. The help section isn't much help. Haha, big surprise.:rolleyes:
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
Ok so I can't wait any longer for the Galaxy Nexus, I need a new phone now, and I'm considering switching carriers.

I need to make a decision soon! Rezound vs Razr? I know I'm in a rezound forum, lol...but I'm hoping to get some unbiased opinions.

Battery life? Screen performance under sun? GPS performance (very important)? Thickness of phone, weight, etc? Locked bootloader? Development support? Manufacturer upgrade history...I want ICS on this!

Also, anything I should know about Verizon itself. Their billing practices? Customer service? network?

Thank you all!
[HTC Rezound] voxigenboy:
the only thing the RAZR has going for it over the Rezound is just it's look(physically), but spec-wise the Rezound is a superior device. not to mention if you have good eye sight, you will notice this weird 'fuzz' around text & icons on the screen of the RAZR due to it's inferior display.

as for verizon in general, the service is really good, but they sure are pricey as hell & their voice plans suck(as do the new tiered data plans). i'm only here because i got on while they still had the unlimited data.
[HTC Rezound] eallan:
Rezound.

"Thinness" is the only advantage the Razr has and it actually makes it less comfortable. The rezound fits in hand like a glove.
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
The motoblur razr isn't in the same league as the Rezound. Read the reviews.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[HTC Rezound] voxigenboy:
heh.. i wish the rezound was bigger. i'm hoping seidio or mugen will release some gigantic 5000mAh+ battery that at least doubles the thickness of it.
[HTC Rezound] Superguy:
It's pretty beefy with the OEM extended battery.
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
I went to Verizon today to compare these phones. The employees there are so stupid. These people are there for 8 hrs everyday, can't they take the time to learn about the phones?

Anyways, I left more confused than ever. I can't decide which phone I want!! Two things that worry me about the Rezound are battery life and having a non-amoled screen. My Vibrant is an Amoled, and honestly I LOVE THE SCREEN. Even though it is low resolution, the contrast ratio, deep blacks, and visibility under sunlight is amazing. I'm worried the non-amoled screen of Rezound is not going to make me happy. Sure the Rezound is higher resolution but I'm willing to give up resolution for amazing contrast ratio and visibility under the sun.

Ahhh I can't decide!
[HTC Rezound] voxigenboy:
Did you play around with the RAZR at all? If I hold it about 1ft away from my face I can see this weird fuzz around the txt & icons. It's enough that it screws with my eyes and makes me feel like somethings wrong with them & have to rub them... Even at 2ft away I can still barely see the fuzz. Oddly, some people say they don't notice it, others do & then people who've said the screen gave them a headache for the 1st day or two until they 'adjusted' to it.... LOL
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
I didn't notice any fuzz around texts. Great now I have to go back tomorrow and look, lol!

I'll try to go tomorrow and compare the phones again, I'll keep an eye out for the fuzz.

The Razr felt uncomfrotable in my hands, the Rezound felt comfy. The Razr screen just kept me going back to it though, I'm a sucker for Super Amoled, enough so that I am willing to give up higher resolution screens for it. Deep rich blacks, vibrant colors, excellent visibility under the sun, I guess I'm hooked on sAmoled.

Agh I don't know, I'm more confused than ever, darn you Nexus for not being available already.

I'm leaning towards the Rezound though. Mainly because it doesn't have a locked bootloader. I'm thinking that means more dev support in the future.

I don't know :(

Oh one last thing. sAmoleds have this anti-glare coating, it's like a blue tinted coating. Anyway...I noticed under the store lights at verizon the Rezound had major glare off the screen just from the lights in the store, but the Razr had very little glare. Thinking this might be a problem for me under the sun.
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Even if the Nexus was out I'd still chose the Rezound. First of all the RAZR has TERRIBLE battery life even w/ smart actions on. I was out and about using the phone (moderate usage) and I dropped from 100% to 20-30% battery life. This was about a week after using the phone, so there was plenty of time for it to break in and calibrate. The RAZR gets pretty hot too like 110-114 while streaming netflix, pretty uncomfortable. The colors are rich on the screen yes, but you can clearly see how pixelated the screen is thanks to the pentile sub-matrix. The Nexus also has the same issue with being on a pentile matrix (people have already complained about the screen). There are also speaker/audio problems on the Nexus, as well as sudden slowdowns that involve notifications. Plus the build of Samsung phones are just inferior to Moto and HTC IMO.

The Rezound is good so far, it has the highest clocked cpu/gpu out of the bunch. Even if the soc in it is "older" it easily keeps up and exceeds the RAZR and Nexus in some areas of performance, benching. I know the RAZR and Nexus handle java better than the Rezound though. I really think this has to do with Sense and it is a memory/cpu hog, and the fact that GB doesn't really support true HW acceleration could be another major factor in why a device of this caliber has slight issues w/ Sense. Just the app drawer and notifications, some lag on the browser but still ok. If you switch out for ADW EX or Go launcher etc this solves the app drawer and notifcation lag for the most part. It's not perfect but much better. Another issue w/ the Rezound atleast for me and a few others.. DEAD PIXELS/STUCK PIXELS on the screen :mad:. I'm on my second Rezound and I found a dead/stuck pixel on the screen. I even showed it to the rep instore that saw the first one, and she stated she didn't see it (obvious lie was obvious). I'll give it till tomorrow and if it doesn't clear up, I'm going to raise hell at another store. But overall I'd say the Rezound is still the clear winner here. Once it's on AOSP or a stripped down sense and ICS oh baby.
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
Thanks for the insight. Is the bootloader locked or unlocked on the HTC Rezound? I keep reading 2 different things. I know for certain it is locked on Razr, but what about on Rezound?

Oh about the pentile sub-matrix...I own a Vibrant right now, it has a pentile sub-matrix at a lower resolution than that found on the Razr and I absolutely love it. Yes I see pixels, but the high contrast ratio, deep true blacks, vibrant colors and amazing visibility under the sun is amazing. I don't know I just personally think the negative comments about pentile are overblown.
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Yeah the pentile sub-matrix wasn't too bad. The screen on the RAZR had beautiful colors, but the main concern was the pixelation was still fairly noticeable and there were black blobs on the screens sometimes during load screen. That only occured however if the screen was black/dark, it was "normal" to motorola. People have been complaining about the Nexus screen, but as in terms of color reproduction AMOLED will always be superior to LCD. I just wonder if all manufacterers going w/ AMOLED are going to be using pentile sub-matrixes now. I mean don't get me wrong the screen on the Rezound is awesome, amazing even (minus the stuck/dead pixel which seems to be going away thanks to the app on the market). I was watching a 1280 x 720p of an anime I'm watching Shakugan no Shana III final and it looked amazing. The playback was smooth eventhough it was .mkv. If you do get the Rezound I'd add a 3rd party launcher and you'd be good to go. The sense isn't that laggy, but it's definately not as smooth and as polished as 3.0 I think.

Edit: Woops forgot to mention! Yes there is no S-off at the moment, and only a temp root is available. But I'm sure that we will have S-off w/ custom roms and kernels.
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
What is s-off? Never heard of that in the Samsung Forums.

ps...why is it so dead in the verizon forums? The Rezound and Razr are new devices but the forums are so quiet. The forums for new phones on T-Mobile and At&t are crazy with lots of buzz for the first few months. I'm worried, those this mean Verizon phones get less development support from the community?
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
s-off means that the NAND portion of the device is unlocked and can be written to. Simply put it will allow you to flash non HTC signed images, as well as obtain permanent root. Essentially it's the motorola equivilent of having an unlocked bootloader. TBH most of the people on Verizon probably don't even know there's even development for their phones. Half of the VZW customers are either old, the braindead and just have a smartphone and don't know how to use it if their lives depended on it. Or business users and average users that don't care about unlocking their phones or performance increase. We're probably what 5-10% of the VZW customer build up? There are quite a few devs that will support this phone, heck you should check the Thunderbolt forums. So many roms and active development, there's even CM7 and ICS (I think some unstable alpha build) for it. Just a matter of time before development picks up here, as the Rezound is still a new phone.
[HTC Rezound] jake21:
Yea I'm in the same boat as you. Been to the store a few times. Been leaning towards the rezound but bit concern about outside usage and durability (scratch resistance) of the screen. The three things that annoy me about the razr are not as comfortable; green tint (esp at off angles) and non-removable battery. Hum also I like the sense browser a lot better. Dolphin doesn't do nearly as good as a job at reformatting text when you tap zoom (its a little thing but the browser will be one of those frequently used apps).
[HTC Rezound] Argent36:
Since I didn't see it posted here...

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/11/2...-galaxy-nexus-succeeds-down-flight-of-stairs/
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
How much do you use your phone out in direct sunlight? That's never been a problem for me. I've always thought that lcd screens had a truer color reproduction to me, amoled always seemed cartoonish. I'd much rather have a 720p lcd screen where I can't see the pixels than an super amoled (not even plus) screen wear the text is fuzzy. Also, the razr has a greenish color tint when the screen brightness is turned down.

I won't use an android phone that I can't replace the battery on, period. All of them are battery suckers.

I haven't heard of any screen complaints on the nexus, yes its pentile, but the pixels are so small, you are probably not going to see them.

I'm beginning to think that ICS is not a finished product. I've read several reviews where its just not as snappy as the GS2's, which is crazy. I'll stick with the rezound for now and htc, never been a fan of the plastic samsung builds.

We really need s-off so I can transfer all my game data over...

Just ordered my Rezound from amazon for a penny. Apparently back ordered but expected to ship by friday.
[HTC Rezound] Evo4gLI:
Back ordered now huh? ? Glad I got in early when I did...mine will be here tomorrow
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Main complains I've seen is the volume changing on it's own , poor audio quality and the screen's blue tinge. I looked at a HD review video and the Nexus did look pixelated, but will obviously leave final judgement about the screen when i see the phone in person. I will look at the bloated Nexus Prime and see what she can do.
[HTC Rezound] SamXp:
Battery life?

I'm extremely impressed. I didn't want to hope it could possibly last an entire 10 hour work day on a single charge with what was sure to be a gas guzzling dual barrel 1.5GHz processor on the LTE network and the highest pixel density in the industry, but it does. And then some, on days when I can restrain from playing with it non stop.

Screen performance under sun?

As good (or bad) as anything else I've played with. Direct sunlight is a tough one.

GPS performance (very important)?

Maybe it's just that my point of comparison is an hTC EVO running CM7.1 but GPS lock is much, MUCH faster with this phone.

Thickness of phone, weight, etc?

Coming from the EVO (which is similarly sized), this actually looks/feels slightly smaller, and the backplate has a nice, confident feel in the hand.

Locked bootloader? Development support?

Still locked. It looks to be a popular hTC phone, though, so it should have Dev support as solid as the EVO 4G, DInc, etc.

Manufacturer upgrade history...I want ICS on this!

Historically, developers will beat hTC with platform updates by 3-6 months. I'd be surprised if Feb/March rolled around and we were still waiting on root and an ICS ROM.

Also, anything I should know about Verizon itself. Their billing practices? Customer service?

I've got experience with VZW, Sprint and AT&T Customer Service and they were all about the same. The only knowledgeable Customer Service employee I've ever spoken with was with Apple about ten years ago. Even they've declined now.

Network?

Oh man! Sprint coverage was absolutely awful at my house. 4G was sporadic throughout the city I live in (Winston-Salem, NC) and I would be lucky to get dialup speeds at my house. I harassed them for 9 months before they terminated my contract without penalty for excessive data roaming on other networks. Now I am getting 14000kbps in the metal office building that would run my EVO's battery down in two hours, trying to get a signal with Sprint!

VZW gets an A+ for the LTE network!
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
Very helpful!
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
Can you add prepaid phones as add a line?

I'm leaning towards rezound!

I have a question. Ok with T-Mobile and At&t, on family plans you can just go to Walmart or wherever and purchase a prepaid phone, but instead of using it as prepaid you can actually add that phone as an additional line to your account as long as you havent reached max 5 lines, stick in a sim card, pay 9.99 a month per line extra, and use it. Doesn't add to your contract either since you didn't get the phone subsidized. Can you do that on Verizon?

For example I'm going to get 2 Android phones now on a family plan with contract. Later I might add up to 3 more lines, but instead of getting the phone through Verizon subsidized, can I just get those cheap pre-paid phones at Target, call Verizon and add them to my account as additional lines? Basically buying the cheap phones full price from Target or Best Buy but instead of using it as prepaid, adding to my account? The phones are only like 40 bucks and not worth getting through Verizon and having additional lines committed to 2 yr contracts with ETF since I'm not getting the phone subsidized.

Did that make sense?

...well I just called Verizon and asked them the same question, they said a prepaid phones serial number must be used as prepaid for 6 months before it can be converted and added to a post paid account as add a line. Not sure if she was correct but that is what she said.
[HTC Rezound] mallman:
there is absolutely no comparison in the camera. The rezound has almost 0 shutter lag and the pictures are extremely clear and infinitely better.
[HTC Rezound] rgallius:
I was going to make my own thread for newb HTC questions, but this seems like a good place.

I'm switching to the Rezound from a Samsung Epic on Sprint. (yay penny sale on Amazon)

The nice thing about Samsung phone hackery is Odin. Basically it's a windows program that samsung uses to flash their phones in batches in the factory. It makes it super easy to do anything with a Samsung Phone. Odin uses .tar files and can flash whole roms, kernels or modems.

1) Is there a program like Odin for HTC phones? In a perfect world, if you wanted to restore your HTC phone to stock, and the files were available, could you do it? (you can with Odin)

2) S-off is NAND lock as previously described.. which is something you don't deal with on Samsung I believe, right?

3) Also, what is h-boot?

4) Are there any newb guides to HTC out there that I can read up on?
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
just checked the status this afternoon and now it says shipping tomorrow. Part of my problem was on the verizon end, the verification through the system was failing so they had to call and get it cleared up.

1. No real program like Odin, htc releases an update.exe for each update that can be run from your pc to update your phone, or you can install signed official updates from hboot.

2. Don't know

3. Hboot is the boot menu that you get when long pressing vol down and the power button with the phone off.

From here you can factory reset, install signed roms and radios (official ones)

4. Sure they are out there, but I don't know where. Really not too much to know.
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
I think for Verizon if you're adding a prepaid phone to the account, that phone has to be "active" as a prepaid phone first for I believe 5-6 months. That was in the past though, not too sure about now.
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
So HTC doesn't have anything like ODIN? Sounds like we have to be more careful when messing with HTC phones. The good thing about ODIN is if you semi-brick your phone but can at least get into download moad with 3-buttons or using a usb JIG, ODIN will bring your bricked phone back to life. Samsung's are hard to brick because they can be easily brought back to life.
[HTC Rezound] SamsungVibrant:
Yes you are correct. I called Verizon and asked them, they said you can add a prepaid phone to an account as long as the prepaid phone was used for at least 6 months as a prepaid phone.

So silly to buy cheap phones direct from verizon subsidized and then subject yourself to a 350 ETF when the same phone can be found at walmart for like 30 bucks. These are the little things I will miss with GSM, GSM doesn't care, you just stick your sim in and it works.
[HTC Rezound] rgallius:
Does the Rezound have a notification LED?
[HTC Rezound] WillEat4F00d:
Yes, but quite small.
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Yeah nerd it does.