yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aindow:
Three only has 3g masts which means you get 3g signal pretty much everywhere. If you go somewhere with a poor or non existent 3g signal the phone will roam on to Orange 2g. Three used to have a roaming agreement with Orange for the entire uk however, recently they have started to end this agreement with Orange in areas where they know the 3g network is strong enough.

I'm with three and if you're on the three 3g network it will show 3 as the operator when you pull down the notification bar. If you roam on to Orange 2g it shows 3 with another 3 directly underneath it. On a side note I actually left orange for three due to signal issues, oh how the tides have changed since three first started out with 3g .

Oh and Three use 2100mhz for their 3g network and Orange use 1800mhz for their 2g which is why customers on Three or Orange never have the volume issue which affects people on o2 and Vodafone(both mainly use the 900mhz frequencies).

Rik.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rbs_uk:
Simultaneously? Can I surf web and at least receive phone call & sms? Or if somebody calls me it will go to voicemail?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrYuzhai:
i'm confused.. does this mean three does not also get hsdpa? or hspa+? i get that signal on my orange desire hd - as the galaxy nexus is hspa+ device its now got me puzzled.. hmmm..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GR36:
Three will not let you use 2g signal. They lock all their phones up so it's not possible. That's how they claim to have the fastest network in the uk. If your our of a 3G signal area, you have no signal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rbs_uk:
Are you sure?! That sounds very unrealistic.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rbs_uk:
Three has HSDPA/+ because I have their mobile broadband USB dongle.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrishiggins:
That is rubbish IMO. Three use orange 2g as already said if there isn't 3g network. I work in the middle of nowhere and get excellent 3g signal from three. I have tried all operators before three and it has the best coverage and speed that I have found. Its like having 3 meg broadband.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WhiteHartMart:
I've used a 2G signal recently on 3 so can't agree with that either.

What I heard though is the 2G will be restricted to voice only? Not sure how true that is.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
yes, on 3G or HSPA you can be online and receive calls and texts simultaneously.

with 2G you can only receive texts whilst in a call.

it's not unrealistic, it's true

According to this article dated more than a year ago, you are wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] erbain:
oscillik, once again you're the one that's wrong. Three do still allow you to roam onto oranges 2g network in areas with no 3g signal. I know this is true as I still occasionally do it.

Did you even bother reading the Reg article you posted. Try reading the very first paragraph "3 has started to switch off roaming onto Orange's 2G network in locations where it reckons its own coverage makes the 2G partner redundant."

If that looks familiar, it should as it's almost exactly what chrishiggins said.

You must be getting used to being wrong by now...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
Actually you are wrong. Here is what chrishiggins said, with the pertinent details bolded for you

Now, as you can see, he quite clearly states that even in the middle of nowhere, he gets excellent 3G signal. Nowhere in his post does he make any allusions to anything that the Register article mentions.

Also, yes I did read the article, particularly the part that states that the article is a year old.

Since you seem to be so keen on facts, please, find every single instance of where I have been wrong and haven't admitted to being so, and post the evidence for all to see, collated into one area.

Take your time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] erbain:
Wow, what have you been smoking? I know what he said, you have quoted it several times.

Let's try this one more time :

"Three use orange 2g as already said if there isn't 3g network" This is what you originally quoted and stated was wrong, it is in fact true and is exactly what the Reg article says. You used to be able to use orange 2g anywhere in the UK but now you can only use it where there no good 3g signal.

"I work in the middle of nowhere and get excellent 3g signal from three" So he has a good 3g signal at his work, what's this got to do with being able to roam onto 2g in bad 3g areas?

I think I'll pass, but If I'm reading a thread where you're spewing ****e and generally being rude I'll make a point of replying.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
I apologise for being wrong with regard to your first point. As you have correctly made me out to be a fool here, chrishiggins does say that. Although it is still yet to be ascertained whether 3-UK still have any existing 2G roaming agreement with Orange, and if so, what areas this covers. I'm sure you can agree with me that 3-UK should really be a bit more transparent about which areas are able to receive 2G roaming. This would be beneficial for all existing and prospective customers.

The second point has a lot to do with being able to roam onto 2G in bad 3G areas, since in the majority of cases, 'middle-of-nowhere' places tend to not have 3G coverage. Now I know that is a very vague definition, but it is one that I'm sure you have experienced yourself. I would be very surprised if you had kept 3G reception whilst being in a place that most would regard as being in the middle of nowhere.

As for your closing point, I respect your tenacity. After the conversation we've had, you've successfully proven me wrong regarding something I have said, made me out to be a fool, and furthered the exploration of fact. You weren't trolling, you actually had a beef with what I had said. All in all, you've come out on top here, I've been given a swift clip round the ear, and other readers should hopefully be more informed. Can we at least agree that this is a positive outcome?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] erbain:
It would be nice if 3 were a bit more transparent about where 2g was still available, unfortunately I don't see that ever happening.

Personally I've had a fairly good experience with 3 over the last 5 months, I get a good 3g signal at home and at work and find it generally OK. I was down in Cornwall a couple months ago staying in a hotel that could have been described as the middle of nowhere, I had no 3g signal but I was still able to roam onto 2g, so I know it still works in some places.

3 do seem to have improved there network since I last used them a few years ago. As a bonus, I think my GN is able to pick up a weaker 3g signal than my N1 was, maybe the hspa+ radio helps.

I try to never troll, If I'm arguing a point it's because I believe what I'm saying is correct. Anyway I'm glad in this instance we're able to agree :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] robaldred:
Indeed, I'm calling BS here, I've been talking to them recently, they were telling me they don't run 2G themselves. If there really is no 3G coverage, they have a fallback in place that runs off the back of Orange.

They are slowing turning off 2G fallback in places where they consider their 3G coverage to be more than adequate.

cow.neondragon.net/index.php/three-begins-2g-coverage-switch-off-have-you-been-affected-your-rights
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow wave:
When I first start the camera app after a reboot I get the message "Cannot connect to camera". If I try to start the app again it works fine every time until the next reboot.

I've tried a factory reset which worked for a few reboots until the message started happening again.

I'm running the latest stock rom and can't figure out what's changing to cause this. :confused:

Any ideas?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romcio47:
Had you got that problem on earlier versions of stock ROM?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow wave:
Sorry, I haven't had the phone long enough to have an older version of the stock rom.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m2maddy:
Even I had this error once, I had to reboot the device to get that fixed.

This was the 1st time it happened.

One thing is it happened while shooting a 720p Video.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romcio47:
I don't think it's software problem, probably camera is damaged, or its flex cable. I had the same problem for a moment after disassembling my Play but I forgot to completely connect flex to the connector.

I think the only way to fix your problem is to bring Your Play to authorized service or (if your phone has warranty) send it to SE.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow wave:
It could be but it just seems odd that its only the first time using the camera after a reboot. Try the app a second time and every other time its fine.

I would have though if it was the flex cable it would be all the time or happen randomly.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fox Bailey:
Well.

I'm having an issue like that right now. However, I started getting it after I messed with a ton of system files and the framework-res.apk

Did you do the same? I'm working on figuring out what went wrong, it's definitely a software issue for me.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fox Bailey:
Possible Problem and Solution

Hey guys,

I noticed something really curious after having an extensive conversation about a few r800's and a Moto Cliq XT about camera issues and I've isolated what might be the problem that people are unknowingly creating.

Status Bar Widgets

Having the LED/Flash/whateveryouwanttocallit light as a widget toggle in Android 2.3.x seems to use the same line of code as the camera. Or something techy like that. IDK. I was about to fix it after a ton of annoying work. But the easiest way (and fastest really) that I came across was just turning the widget off. Removing it completely. In fact, just get rid of that entire feature in 2.3.x and save it for like, IDK, 3.0+

Really hope this helps that random person out there who needs it.

-Fox
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackbox92:
YES, i agree, should make a fix btw, =)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] fusty07:
help guys i flashed my ace into behradgh cm7 but the sim tool kit is not working and im a prepaid user i need that so restored my stock rom backup on cwm4...the restoration process completed the i reboot the phone but im stock to the second samsung logo help plzz..,i can go to cwm4 tried restoring again but it did'nt work help how can i fix this without using odin to flash my phone.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jimbo.levy:
Boot back into recovery, wipe phone, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, restore stock ROM again.

Should work ok now...I hope!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] fusty07:
i already did that many times but after rebooting its still stock on the samsung galaxy ace logo,...i tried formating the system cache and etc but is the same....
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jimbo.levy:
Then I have no idea buddy. I encountered the same problem when I flashed CM7.1 and tried to restore stock firmware. I gave up in the end but I was led to believe that wiping both caches would alleviate the problem. Hopefully one of the developers will read this and have a solution. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance. Good luck =]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] droidtwoseven:
it's not possible to flash back stock rom backup after flashing a cyanogen.

its because CM7 coverts your file system from RFS to ext4 which your stock rom is incapable of.

Try to use CF-Root found on android development section, convert your file system back to RFS using Ext4 Manager (which you can find after flashing CF-root) then flash back your stock back up. This should be work.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] fusty07:
ok...still waiting for other comments...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] fusty07:
hehe tol ganun ba?but how can i install cf root im stock on the samsung ace logo?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] domnic79:
D best way, Odin.

Sent from Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 using Grif's Cyanogenmod & allinone ram script.

Dont jus say thanks, use d 'THANKS' button. [XDA RULE]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] droidtwoseven:
Use english kabayan. For others to understand too.. :D

Try to flash first Sangingerace*Lite (depending what FW version you are using). I believe you can convert your file system with patch provided on that thread.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dragonnn:
The simplest way is flashing a full package firmware using ODIN, then flash cwm and restore you backup.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] nomiset:
Hey bro, I think the problem might be that while backing up from cwm your backup might have been crammed into your sd card due to lack of space. This happened to me also I was stuck at the SGA splash screen. So I tried clearing caches and wiping the phone to no avail.

But as my last resort I just flashed my phone with CORRECT firmware through ODIN. hope I helped!

Please update me.
[Atrix 4G General] CSharpHeaven:
Boot time

Cons

The startup of Atrix on Gingerbread is considerably slower than when it was on Froyo.

Also examining the dmesg log using OSMonitor app I noticed constant warnings about the CPU clock speed, all sort of debug messages, and error messages. Is anyone else has noticed them and are these messages something to worry about?

Edit: attached few screenshots for the sharp eyes of kernel developers. Thanks.

Text Messaging App

Pros

The layout improvement are a welcome and always liked what Motorola offered.

Cons

The character counter disappears while typing. It is an important feature to work properly all the time.

Home Launcher #2

Cons

While in Messaging app upon returing to the home screen the shortcuts disappear. Navigating to next or previous home screen and then returing back to the original screen then the shortcuts reappear again. I have experienced this twice so far.

Further testing revealed defrosting blur.res was not the solution. Also the shortcuts disappearance has nothing to do with which app was being active.
[Atrix 4G General] Alaq:
I hate to burst your bubble but I doubt Motorola checks here without reason...

And this was sent to my email from motorola when I wanted to get them the idea of selling Factory Cables and SBK's to fix hard bricked Atrix's:

Plus: People have made custom ROM's that fix the problems that you listed...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] binaryLV:
Hi there!

I'm working on Bachelor Thesis in university, and, as a part of it, I'm also writing a GPS application for Windows Mobile - GpsApp. It is mainly a GPS logger with possibility to save data as GPX file that can be used in services like Endomondo.

It's intended to be fast, stable and low power consuming.

One of the main goals is to make it low power consuming. Currently I've compared it to EndomondoTracker - EndomondoTracker drained my battery in 4 hours and 30 minutes, GpsApp - in 7 hours (with "Min battery level" set to 0%).

Features

Current features:

* GPS logging - stores tracks in internal binary format

* Exporting data to GPX - allows to save single or multiple tracks in single GPX file

* Min battery level - stops GPS device at specified battery level (20% by default)

Planned features:

* Low-power mode for GPS

* Keep display turned on (with dimming backlight)

* Keep backlight turned on

* Speedometer (km/h, mph)

* Compass (will use GPS, because my phone does not have other sensors...)

* Find a location (will show direction and distance to specific latitude/longitude)

* Better user interface (visually and functionally), particularly "Export GPX..."

* Simple web page with description of app, help, FAQ, comments, feature requests etc

* Possibly uploading data directly to some services, e.g., to www.endomondo.com (depends on requests from users, use rights of services and their API)

Although the list seems to be easy-to-implement, I don't have much time for developing and testing it, so it will take few months. But the application is already in working state, and I'll be thankful if you could try it and write some comments :)

System Requirements

Device with Windows Mobile Professional and GPS receiver.

GpsApp is developed and tested on Windows Mobile 6.0, but it might work on other versions of WM as well.

Download

GpsApp can be downloaded at http://gpsapp.misc.lv/.

Latest version was released on 2011-11-27.

Screenshots

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Deleted member 1890170:
It works even on a CE 6.0 Sat Nav

Installed it on a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Professional based Sat Nav. After putting the ( CE 6.0) missing 'gpsapi.dll' into app's folder, your 'GpsApp' utility started and ran flawlessly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mrmoroshkin:
Hello, GPS-guys!

BinaryLV, I read about your cool app for PocketPC GpsApp and try download it, but site get down(((

Where can I get it? and gpsapi.dll?

Regards, Vladimir
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] AFAinHD:
This thread will be for anyone to thank any of the great devs who work on our now even greater phones. Rules: 1. No nay-saying the devs. 2. Don't get off topic.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] fwelland:
What are the chances that some sort of shortcut or macro or custom key can be set up in Thumb KeyBoard 4x so that when you activate it, it brings up an spen/ocr like widget that is found in the Samsung SGN keyboard ? Or perhaps just 'invoke' the samsung keyboard in spen/ocr mode?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
Hi folks.

I attempted to root my S2 a few moments ago with the method in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1331784 and everything looked like it was going well. It got to the end of the batchfile and rebooted the phone, only this time nothing came up, just a black screen. Then, I noticed some random pixels on the black screen, only a few, and random colours. Then I noticed more of them appearing slowly, filling the screen. I was confused and watched it in horror for a minute until the whole screen was full and the colours were turning white. I switched off the phone and tried again. No good.

The instructions say to try holding volume up, home and power to turn it on so it starts recovery mode but nothing different happens. I tried download mode and at least that responds.

What are my options? I'm new to all this but having read up I thought I understood it. It seems I was very wrong.

Help!?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
Considering that's meant for the Galaxy Note, what zImage did you use with it (assuming you did step 1.2, not-yet-rooted.bat)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
I used the one linked, called CF-Root-SGN_XX_XEN_KJ4-v5.0-CWM4.zip.

I had seen people posting in the thread that it worked on the SG2 though. Now you mention it I can clearly see the SGN refers to the Galaxy Note. I was feeling reasonably confident about things but now I think I'm either going to scream or cry.

Is there any way I can salvage this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
You mentioned download mode works, so just flash a stock kernel (or CF-Root kernel if that's what you're after anyway) for the correct device as PDA in Odin and hope for the best!

If you do indeed have an I9100 (check before flashing anything else), CF-Root or Official.

Directly flashing a CF-Root kernel in download mode will increment your binary counter though. So probably best to go for stock kernel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
Thank you for your responses.

I have seen the following on that page;

Orange UK ORAKJ4 CSC: *The URL goes here*

(above link modified as I'm a new user)

I'm from the UK and with Orange so I think that's the one, it has the KJ4 in the name too. Do I use Odin for this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
It's a stock kernel you need, not CSC. Carrier branded ROMs/kernels are in a different thread, [ROMS]Official i9100 carrier branded firmware download for Odin Flash. Do you have any idea what your phone was running before? I would hazard a guess that it's actually the BVKJ4 kernel from that thread which would match, based on the one you flashed earlier.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
My bad, I didn't see you mentioned Odin in your reply. I'm feeling a bit stressed out and not thinking well. Unfortunately, having looked down the various packages, I'm unsure now which I need. The one I quoted is a "CSC package", whatever that is.

Can you guide me further because I don't know what my old version was originally.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
I have looked in the new thread you sent and I think I need the;

Firmware info: PDA:BVKJ4|PHONE:BVKJ4|CSC:ORAKJ4

You are absolutely right, it did start with BV! If I use the branded Orange one I should be back to where I started? Would flashing it increment my counter? It's the least of my worries at the moment, but if there's a way of preventing it, I'm all ears.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
Flashing a stock kernel in Odin should not increase your counter and will hopefully get your device booting again.

If that's the kernel you go for, you should be picking the file Kernel_I9100BVKJ4.tar.md5 (not Kernel_I9100BVKJ4.exe, extract it first) as PDA in Odin. Just make sure your Odin options look like the ones in Intratech's first screenshot in his guide (linked earlier).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
Thank you, it's half downloaded at the moment. I'm glad you mentioned having to extract the contents because I'd have tried sending the whole 300mb or so to the phone.

Hopefully then, this will flash ok and I'll be back in business!

I feel very much out of my depth now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
It should only be about 5MB, it's just the stock kernel you need (i.e. the second BVKJ4 link).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
Oh, it's finished downloading and I see when extracted it's actually just that one file.

Here we go, fingers crossed...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
I saw your post just in time. I have downloaded the stock one, at 5.1mb.

I could have made another horrible mistake if I'd gone ahead with things. I will now attempt to flash the 8mb Kernel_I9100BVKJ4.tar.md5 file from that archive I've just downloaded (the 5mb one).

Have I missed anything?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
I don't think so. Just make sure you follow the instructions from Intratech's thread linked earlier, specifically Flashing Firmware with Odin.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
Well, flashing that stock kernel has done wonders. Thank you so very, very much!

I will try to find the thread where I was reading about this zergrush exploit working on this phone. I can only assume I'd read it and read this one after and put the two together by mistake. I don't particularly understand the whole thing which is why I liked the idea of this exploit as it keeps things stock.

I will see if I can find that thread and read it carefully.

I think I'll call it a night now, and get to bed. Thanks again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
You're probably still rooted, since zergRush did its thing earlier, and flashing a kernel shouldn't have changed that. The only thing you did wrong was using a CF-Root kernel (zImage) for a different device. If you'd have used one for the right device, it should have worked fine.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollal:
I'm not sure how I'd check for root. I don't have that superuser program available as an app.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
You could try running an app which requires root and see if it works, but if you don't see the Superuser app, it seems unlikely it will. Anyway, if you're still feeling up to it, the simplest way to root (in my opinion) is using the same exploit you tried earlier, but from a different thread (and it doesn't come with the risks of using the wrong kernel ;-))

[16/Nov][ROOTING/UNROOTING] Xperia 2011 Easy Rooting Toolkit [v3.0](zergRush Exploit).

Takes about 3 minutes.