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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hinata76:
Haha I'm also from desire hd too..end using a Arc.

Well I like the physical buttons below.no need to press the top button to wake up the phone.

But might wanna get arc s..since it's on a 1.4ghz processor.

Then again there be many models that coming out on at least 1.5ghz dual core etc phones.

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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=1.336957,103.928197
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hemlocke:
Thoughts

Yes, I would also like to know how satisfied Arc owners are, if the rumors of the Arc HD (Nozomi) are true. It's a beautiful phone, and having owned three different iPhones, I can say that is the thing I miss the most since I switched in November to Android. I know that the SE Android phones have not exactly been spec kings, but has that been really noticeable with your current Arcs?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Poker gypsy:
Sorry Sony lovers but im not satisfied, im waiting for. Gs3 or iphone5 this will be my last Sony phone
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GForceXIII:
It's a lot faster than my old phone(LG optimus One). I'm satisfied.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
It's a quite satisfying phone to have, I love mine.

There are always phones that are better and phones that are worse though.

It's a never-ending process. ;)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmk152:
There is absolutely no difference between ARC or ARC S except Arc S has 1.4Ghz processor.

The only reason i upgraded to Arc S was for the 3D Multiangle, but SE never included that feature :(

If you get yourself an Arc S at least you won`t have the bother of unlocking bootloader to overclock ;)

NB. I Still love my ARC, best phone i`ve ever had
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
Not true at all.

Arc S scores much better than Arc is every benchmark.

Plus is has double download/upload speed (from 7.2 to 14.4)

Anyway it's a great phone.

I'd say double core doesn't matter yet. Arc works like a charm.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hemlocke:
Interesting. I'm guessing Sony has some optimization/HW acceleration that others don't have. I heard how smooth the SGSII (AT&T SGH-i777) was, but when I switched from the 4s, it still felt slower than either my 4 or 4s, and while it may have been better at surviving a fall, it just felt cheap. That's why I want to find out about the Sony devices before I waste any time (and $35) trying them out.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BinaryXeroMedia:
Let me get this straight. QAUD CORE IS NOT BETTER. IT IS JUST THE SAME. Why do people think quad core is better. My Mrs has the sensation which is 1.5ghz dual core. And I see no difference in it at all. In fact. The battery dies within a few hours. Its more laggy. Sets on fire when playing games. And the boot loader is locked. Imagine what it would be like unlocked. Flames coming outside of the speaker. The arc s is the best phone in my eyes. I hate all this dual core quad core tegra 5 core crap. Its useless. Soon you will have a phone with a fan in it just to keep the CPU cool. I think there should be a specific phone for specific things. Like the play. Hardcore gamers got the play. I have it and have 3 battery to do extreme hardcore gaming. But I then I have the ray. Simple phone for social networking. X10 which is old :D and the arc s which is pics and videos and everything else.

OP

Get the arc s mate. It won't let you down. Trust me. I have it and the only problem I have with it is when I plug the phone into the mains the touch screen go a bit unresponsive at times. And it drives me mad but hey.

Regards

Blackwatch
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dp94:
Speaking my words. :D

Some friends of mine own the SGS2 and in my opinion even the SGS2 is more laggy than my Xperia Arc S.

You don't need a dual-core processor.

I really recommend the Xperia Arc S to you, it's the best, and you'll be more than satisfied with it. ;)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hemlocke:
What's the build quality like? My local AT&T stores don't even stock them, so I couldn't get a hands-on. They only gad the Play.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taaviu:
And xperia Neo is too good :)

Sent from my MT15i
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyPeter:
If you think like that, you never by anything, as clearly when those phones are out/affordable, the will be others around the corner then too..

Buy what you want when it suits you. Trade off trade-in price between your old phone to the new one, and pick the right time..

My upgrade form HTC Legend to Arc S cost be £120...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] humadoon:
I end up buying a GNote
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BinaryXeroMedia:
It's not needed until we get 2Gb of ram a nvidia graphics card, a mini cd drive, USB output to external HDD and a 500Gb internal HDD.

Sent from my Ray or Arc S or Play or X10i or Sensation or Wildfire or Optimus using the power of my outer body experience
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
I finally received my ARC. Except for its so easily scratch screen, i am so satisfied with it like i was with my old NEO, wich my boyfriend borrowed from me...

What I not like, is the f**** locked bootloader... No way to unlock in my LT15i or my MT15i... So i can't try CM7 or others ROMS... Very disappaointing IMHO... Any suggestions on that?

Thanks for yoir audience...

Qa'pla!!!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wir3start3r:
The SE xperia arc S is a nice phone but not compareable to sth. like the sgs2 or nexus s
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flo95:
Nexus S is worse!

It's comparable to SGS II, SII is faster, but not much ;)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
I beg your pardon, but i have an overclocked Arc (1.4GHz) and a SGS II, and all i can say is LONG LIFE to my GT-I9100 :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] progosu:
Why would you even bother comparing a single core with 512mb ram to a dual core 1gb ram phone? also I got my brand new arc s for $300 meanwhile I would have to pay around $500 for galaxy s2.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xperia*arc:
I have an arc for 6 months

rooted locked bootloader and running aniking rom and deleted so of bloatware

It is simply great

I have no lags at all

no heating exept when charging

absolutely great mobile

the build quality is great

i dropped my mobile like 100 times and i only got some scratches oon the back cover and in the chrome

my friends have Sgs2 and the speed of the arc and the s2 is the same

and el s2 battery drains fast and gets heated but mine doesnot

my arc is easy to handle but the s2 is hard to

I love my arc camera it's better than

s2's camera

and my arc is also cheaper than s2 for about $200

I AM absolutely satisfied with my arc and i won't change it untill quad core phones are common

In my opinion .. get the arc or arc s and you won't regre it
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArmorD:
I thin Arc S is a phone that suits for all.

For geeky people, there is a pretty large community here in XDA, and we got a load of roms and stuff. Cyanogenmod and MIUI(wip) teams are developing their roms for Arc/S. They are basically the biggest community roms for Android.

For people who are interested in photography; This phone has a very decent camera for a smart phone. I'd say this would be the number one choice. It even beats N8 imo.

For movie freaks; Large screen, good quality and resolution + Bravia Engine.

Personally I love my Arc S. Yes, there is better phones, but c'mon, I paid under 300 euros! Go for it!

EDIT: Lol, old thread :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
What i miss from SE's phones is it's easyness to get custom ROMS into them...

On the samsungs is too difficult, but still possible...

The advantage is that we don't have to mess the bootloader. It is already unlocked!!! :D

BTW: with samsung phones you don't have the 0% battery glitch...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
dont buy arc s for ics

Arc s is a nice phone but do NOT upgrade it to ics because it becomes rubbish after ics. It kate freeze and i hate it now.if you buy it let it stay gb.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnrangoo:
Use right ics rom. KA21, arcknight 3.3 -> very good ics experience
[Nook Touch General] LastSilmaril:
Wait, so this piece of software does the trick in Windows:

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

But I'd still like to know how to mount correctly.
[Nook Touch General] ros87:
Double posting will make you quite popular with the moderators,.. not! ;)

I answered you here.
[Nook Touch General] Celebom:
very simple bash script:

#!/bin/bash

if test $# -lt 2; then
echo "usage: $0 [image] [mount point] <partition number>"
exit
fi

if test -z $3
then
number=1
else
number=$3
fi

mount -o loop,ro,offset=$(parted $1 unit B print | grep "^ $number" | sed "s/\s$number\s*\([0-9]*\)B\s*.*/\1/") $1 $2
[HTC Rezound] etjrowe:
Surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but as far as I can tell, Verizon isn't lying about CarrierIQ not being on their phones, at least not the Rezound.

Mine tests clean. Completely stock, retail, s-on device.

The .apk by the discoverer of this threat is available here for those who are paranoid and want to check for themselves like me.

Haven't seen ANYONE with a Verizon Android device find it yet, but I would love to hear if any do. I'm new to Verizon, so I don't have a whole lot of trust in them yet and want to know if they're lying to us.
[HTC Rezound] AtLemacks:
They may bake in their own variant or have another way of tracking, I don't want to speculate, but it isn't on my phone either.
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
They were talking about carrier IQ on the NBC News with Bryan Williams tonight.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
The apk will only work correctly on rooted phones the Dev said in an article I read today.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[HTC Rezound] con247:
Verizon phones don't have it.
[HTC Rezound] AtLemacks:
So maybe we need to stalk some threads of rooted phones. I read on CNET today this from HTC, "Carrier IQ is required on devices by a number of U.S. carriers."
[HTC Rezound] xRogerxC:
You read correctly. However, Engadget has been in contact with most all of the phone manufacturers and carriers.

Verizon responded by stating that "Carrier IQ has never been installed on any Verizon phone. "

Sent via my HTC Rezound using XDA premium app.
[HTC Rezound] hellcatrydr:
Here is the actual Endagadget story.

Pretty interesting read... Another reason to like Big Red more than T-Mo. (Now... if we could only steal the Magenta chick...)
[HTC Rezound] didiwags:
Wow If I read that story correctly all the big carriers except Verizon uses it!! Score for them and sucks to be on those other ones!!
[HTC Rezound] Apsalus:
I wouldn't be surprised to find out the VZW uses something similar, but far more insidious and difficult to detect. :(
[HTC Rezound] dabombcra:
I agree. VZW can be sneaky!

Sent from my Rezound using Taptalk
[HTC Rezound] etjrowe:
That's why I'm nervous. I've been with them a month and besides their network being tons better, I'm not impressed. With all the bloatware crap they put on this thing it's hard to tell what's what. I can't wait for S-Off and a good AOSP Rom.
[HTC Rezound] phillybizzle:
teases she just needs to do the.commercials naked..I wish this was England lol
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
They had simular tracking files on the Incredible but NilsP always removed them in his roms.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[HTC Rezound] ssoares01:
Wasn't that an HTC file tho?
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
Yes, a HTC file on a VZW phone. VZW could have removed it like we did.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
There is a new app in the market that will find carrier IQ. Still under development.

Voodoo Simple Carrier IQ Detector 0.3 Works on rooted and unrooted phones.

Sent from my HTC

LTE 4G Rezound
[HTC Rezound] Mordecaidrake:
I'm not surprised, believe it or not, that Verizon doesn't use CarrierIQ. Reason being they were one of the advocates for Net Neutrality. As it's been mentioned before, all the more reason to like Big Red.
[HTC Rezound] AtLemacks:
You are misinformed, Verizon is not an advocate for it, and has filed lawsuits to BLOCK Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is NOT a good thing for end users.
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
When the phone is rooted the Devs can usually find the malware and remove it.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[HTC Rezound] Mordecaidrake:
Right I worded that sentence wrong, Verizon was about letting users do whatever on their network and not monitoring what they're doing.
[HTC Rezound] AtLemacks:
+1

But I am sure there is a monetary underlying cause.
[HTC Rezound] jcollierdavis:
I followed along with Trevor's steps in the video and didn't see anything that looked like the Carrier IQ he discovered.

Verizon says they don't use it. My though it to believe them because I didn't see it. I still want independent verification neither this nor any similar software is present.

It surprises me that they made such little effort to hide it.
[HTC Rezound] jbh00jh:
80-90% of smartphone users don't know what roms are, much less spyware.

Sent from my HTC

LTE 4G Rezound
[HTC Rezound] bruce31797:
A friend of mine has a Rezound and tried the app "Voodoo Carrier IQ detector" and got a score of 100, which meant that it had Carrier IQ. Have you checked with that App?
[HTC Rezound] psouza4:
Same here... several entries that look similar to:

<6>[110449.651075] [SDAL_32]: 1 <SDIO_CIQ > t=0, r=0, tt=0, rt=0

Gives me a score of 100 for these as well.

Anyone have thoughts?
[HTC Rezound] phillybizzle:
doesn't the device have to be rooted?
[Nexus S General] caleb1783:
i've been testing out my battery with various settings... but i am getting confused because i've changed too many things...

so, i will record the things I've done...

once its complete and well documented, we shall find the setting with least battery drain~!

http://caleb1783.tistory.com/258

for your information, all testing start around 7:17 AM (off charger) and at screen shot at 10:00 PM...

and if you want to test a specific setting, please tell me. i'll be glad to test it out for you.

Thanks.
[Nexus S General] Braneless:
This will tell you what is best for your particular phone and your usage habits, but the results won't be gospel.

If you're trying to determine how much each variable affects battery consumption, you should change just one setting at a time in conjunction with a design of experiments.
[Nexus S General] silvergt2:
This is my test with the Miui rom and with Franco Kernel 25-11-2011 of moderate use.
[Nexus S General] caleb1783:
yep. thats exactly what i want to do... over the past few weeks, i changed so many things at so many different levels i dont even know what i did or did not do... ^^
[Nexus S General] silvergt2:
for that one test different roms and kernels, whether also I liked the mine that is looked nice but also the trinity kernel is pretty good... the battery last much more but also the performance a little low.
[Nexus S General] Braneless:
I used to be super-anal about battery conservation and kept pretty specific notes. I'll see if I can dig them up, but they're all for Evo 4G roms/kernels.

I've since learned to relax a little and just use the crap out of my phone. No more eeking out every last mA lol.
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
I dont know if anyone else is in the same boat and hates the se theme, and wants a fully working Rom based off the stock vzw one but I sure do. That's why in making this thread to build a list of features and mod people would want for said Rom. Then if I can get enough support and help I (or someone who knows how to to this better as I never have) can make it. So please post what you would like to see or if you can offer some support. Thanks.
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
The list is as follows so far.

[WIP]Notification power widget

[ ]Power menu reboot options

[ ]Power menu screen shot

[x]App2sd

[ ]Xloud

[ ]theme chooser support (longshot here)

[x]Bravia Mobile Engine

[ ]Long-press trigger buttons for media (L - previous song, R- next song)
[Xperia Play General] 91ludesit:
I'd like the above, but I really just want an ICS theme.
[Xperia Play General] 007shark:
Most of what is listed is doable. I am watching this thread to gauge interest.
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
I know it can be done just not entirely sure how its done, later I'm going to compare my systemui.ak with the modded gsm fw ones that don't work and see if I can add it in. And also so far the list is only stuff I had on the top of my head.
[Xperia Play General] :
The only what i wish is a fully stable and perfect running MiUi Rom for the Play who also works the touchpads and any other thing..

Also i wish me cyanogenmod 9 nightlys :D:D
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
Well I don't like miui at all so I won't be helping with that lol not that I could really help anyway the scale of the miui and cm7 work is way over my head.
[Xperia Play General] 007shark:
The SystemUI.apk should be the easy part. It decompiles with ApkManager without issues. I was already looking to add this to mine. The harder part is the screenshot.
[Xperia Play General] TheAugust:
I also would love everything bladestonez mentioned, and if it could be on a cdma compliant 2.3.4+ build, I'd be ecstatic.

Highest priority would be aps2sd, for me, then the notification power widget, etc, etc.

Are there any camera mods to enable panoramic pictures?
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
I've seen scteenshot mods for UK roms before so now just to do digging
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
I would like 2.3.4 also but vzw is terribly slow on updates and I am just working with what's available
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
ok well im about 99% positive that i have fount what makes the notification power widget mod work and have tried to add it to the cdma SystemUI.apk but when i compile it wont include the additions its like you can modify things and it works but you cant add them. i have included a zip that should only need to be extracted and merged with a decompiled SystemUI.apk then compiled if anyone can get this added i would love you forever. also if you do get this added would you please pm me the modified SystemUI.apk or attach it to a post in here.
[Xperia Play General] Nextron:
☻Fully working 3D sweep panorama

☻More Xperia PLAY launcher customizations (Themes, background, sort by, display only these and these games, recently played, most played, favourite - i know, let's create a second Game Center!)

☻Bravia Mobile Engine

☻Enable/Disable auto brightnes, ultra brightnes

☻Long-press trigger buttons for media (L - previous song, R- next song)

☻Camera: L button - focus, R button - shoot (and make it fullscreen, I mean no edges and onscreen controls - only settings, if possible transparent :)

The last 3 ideas are mostly from hatcyl so thank him :)

I know that some of these ideas are difficult to implement, but would be pretty sweet if someone would. Good luck then!
[Xperia Play General] bladestonez:
Thank you for the great ideas I have been attempting to port the notifications widget with no luck, about to give up but I will do what I can with your suggestions thankfully most of them already exist.
[HTC Inspire 4G] King_Me:
Ok, so I followed all steps in the manual, installed drivers, unistalled htc sync, formatted my sd card nd no luck.

Once I start the program, It says:

check adb connectivity

*server not running*

then cuts off and says enter passkey.

I tried RTEM

I copy and pasted the whole code as well, no luck.

I stopped programs that werent needed,

Is there maybe a list of programs i need to stop??

Am i missing a step?
[HTC Inspire 4G] zelendel:
Did you go to the irc like the thread suggests?
[HTC Inspire 4G] pazzo02:
I suggest trying the Ubuntu method. I wrote a short manual here.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/in...ads-all-outdated-post1364019.html#post1364019

It was so simple doing this way.
[HTC Inspire 4G] boss man Kole:
Did u turn off your anti virus?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gizmoe:
If you don't even get past the enter passkey screen, then you are not entering the right key. It is generated only after you run hackace. It places it in a file. The link to the file doesn't always work but there are more ways than just clicking on a link to get it to work. If you were entering the right key you would either go to the main screen or if it wasn't going to work it would give you an error screen. If it just says nice try then you need to find that key. It's easier than you think. I promise.
[HTC Inspire 4G] cwhitney24:
It is not a hard process. Just involves basic reading, basic, computer skills, and some common sense. If your still stuck PLEASE re-read the OP of the hack kit thread to find out where the irc chat is (as zelendel as said already) . Attn1 is usually very happy to help as long as you have read.

I got your 10 char right here
[HTC Inspire 4G] fernandezhjr:
If the link doesn't pop up, try opening the effen manual and place the mouse cursor over the words cajun.txt and look down in the status bar. It will give you the location of the this txt file that contains the passkey. Then just manually go to that location, open with notepad, and copy and paste from there. This worked for me with IE, not sure it will with other browsers.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bigjohn6582:
Read the manual again and again and then again...... Until u can see it in ur sleep and then root.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MMM-BACONSTRIPS:
I think we got that covered ;)
[HTC Inspire 4G] dustinharwood197:
Oh heck one more can't hurt. Did you follow the directions and READ THE EFFEN MANUAL? Sorry...
[HTC Inspire 4G] jim2394:
Help, inspire stuck on flashing radio in hack kit

Flashing hack kit, everything fine until flashing radio 95, been stuck there for an hour. Any suggestions?
[HTC Inspire 4G] mrhaley30705:
Read, read more, then if you still have problems, IRC.

Ze, shut it down.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jim2394:
Ok, shut it down. Now phone comes on and has htc in center of screen with triangles in each corner but only while its plugged in.

Unplugged, it says:

ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF RL

HBOOT-0.85.0024

MICROP-04.38

RADIO-26.06.06.30_M

eMMC-boot

Apr 12 2011,00:55:45

RUU (is highlighted in orange)

How do you use the irc? I've gone and don't understand how to get help...
[HTC Inspire 4G] mrhaley30705:
Nickname is what you want to be known as on that channel. Think of a channel as a chat room. Once you are logged in, the bar to type in is at the bottom.

The Ubuntu method is probably the easiest way, imo.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MMM-BACONSTRIPS:
If this person is having trouble comprehending the hack kit as well as the irc chatroom the ubuntu method is going to be even more foreign to this user..