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[General Topics] Magikarp:
Using cell phones while driving has been banned for a while in some countries already. I approve of the ban. If you want to text or call, park your car. 2 hands on the wheel when driving :D
[General Topics] MartyLK:
This is something I hoped would happen for such a long time. It will only help if the law is actually enforced, though. I don't know how many times I've been stuck behind someone driving 50% below the legal speed limit who was too busy chatting away on a cellphone to be bothered with paying proper attention to the road and obeying road rules and etiquette. It's actually worse than a woman fixing her face while driving to work.

My only hope is that the penalty for such a travesty as talking on a cellphone while driving will be severe.
[General Topics] psijac:
This will stop texting accidents the same way this will stop drunk driving accidents, by that I mean not at all.

Stupid people are constantly looking for clever ways to hurt themselves and those around them
[General Topics] MartyLK:
Maybe, but at least there will be penalties for them like there are for DWI offenders. It's worse to have DWC and no possibility of punishment. I would rather there be a punishment even if it didn't deter them. At least they would have to pay for their horrible and irresponsible behavior.
[General Topics] orb3000:
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Please guys keep on topic and friendly, otherwise I may have to shut down the business
[General Topics] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
EVERY ONE IS ALWAYS IN PEOPLE'S BUSINESS.
[General Topics] nate6138:
I try not to use my cell phone in the car, I know a couple people who've gotten into accidents because they were too busy texting.
[General Topics] Mister B:
Hands free is no issue & safer than many other things you do while driving.

arguing with passengers, interacting with stereo & GPS systems, CB radio systems, eating, drinking fluids, smoking are all distractions but legal.

Health & safety has gone mad in the western world & the result is a collapsing economy as legal costs & limitations ruin economy & business growth.

The phone is not to blame but the idiots who text & call without handsfree kits are in need of harsher punishment.

Common sense & less nannying is what is required.
[General Topics] netnerd:
hey loser, is that how you get through life by saying you know better grammer than others to feel better? haha
[General Topics] jojoyohan:
That's not actually true. It is more distracting because the person you are talking with doesn't know what's going on around you and cannot help you react or pay attention. If you're talking to someone and they can see what you see, they'll slow down or stop talking at points where you need to concentrate, such as a busy intersection.

The human brain really isn't meant for multitasking like this so I would approve of such a ban.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
I just noticed that the rezound I ordered for a penny had some dead pixels. I was on a full black screen and noticed little white specs.. doh!

anyway, Called amazonwireless and in less than 5 min he ordered me a replacement and its being sent next day :)

pretty damn sweet Customer service if you ask me. I was worried that amazon wouldn't be as accommodating as verizon, but I was wrong. In fact, they are better in a way.. he is sending me a 100% new unit, not a refurb like VZW does (not that there is anything wrong with those units)

anyway, just wanted to share :)
[HTC Rezound] voxigenboy:
dead pixels are a common issue with this phone(i have a dead pixel also). hopefully your 2nd one won't have any.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
My friend has a rezound. And the other day when we were driving around town.. we noticed his had 4g the entire time.. and mine was bouncing between 1x and 3g. At a few points I had no.service while he had full 4g.

We still can't figure that one out. I seem to have 3g much more often than I have 4g. And I live in Sacramento Ca.. so not like I am not in a Major 4g area
[HTC Rezound] voxigenboy:
it's a sign that you need to move west to San Fran.. like the old Pet Shop Boys song "Go West"... :p

seriously though, if you've removed the back cover recently, make sure that it is properly secured onto the phone. if the cover is 'loose' at all then the antenna contacts will be 'loose' and could cause those issues.

also, i find that sometimes if i go into a '3G' area, when i come back into a 4G area the phone will still stay stuck in 3G and i'll have to turn the radio off/on for it to correct itself. or you could use the app "LTE OnOFF" from Market. i use that regularly.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
thanks for the tip on that 'lte onoff' app :) works like a champ
[HTC Rezound] blestsol:
Thank god I don't

Sent from a Rezound, crappie camera included.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] loni90:
hi

just wondering. can i use my digital drawing pad pen on my HTC evo view/flyer?

it has the same stuff, like two buttons and all, with the nib, battery etc.

should it work? evern though its not made for htc?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] barry99705:
What's it do when you try? Who makes the drawing tablet? I know my Wacom pen doesn't work.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] loni90:
just ordered a htc view, and waiting for it to arrive. havent got the pen with it as far as know.

but i got a drawing pad, its not wacom - dont know what it is though...

but since its not working for you, i guess it will not work for me either.... :(
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Renegade360:
The pen technology is N-Trig. Wacom is a better but not whats available to us. Wacom has no battery. N-Trig uses a battery. You most likely have an N-Trig pen, but there's also a good chance it could be some proprietary pen also. You won't know till you try unless you can find out what you've already got.
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
Hi guys. I want to install a file manager and another apps and i already have the files to install, but now how can i install it in the phone? I create a "Aplications" folder in the phone and then i put the file inside, but when i open the folder by the phone there`s nothing there... :confused:
[HTC Desire S] kozalak:
try to open installation files :)
[HTC Desire S] Deleted member 2496007:
Are these files definitely in .apk format? To install apps outside of the market first you have to go to Settings, Applications, then tick the 'unknown sources' box. It wont let you install them otherwise.
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
I already have selected that option. I have open my "aplications" paste with Quick Office and the paste doesn`t have my files. I doesn`t understand why?
[HTC Desire S] Deleted member 2496007:
Don't use quick office to browse for and install files. Use a file explorer like ES File Explorer. Use that to browse your Sd card, find the files and select them to begin the installation.
[HTC Desire S] fanatcom:
Needed in the browser address bar enter the path to the installation file in the correct format, for example: file://mnt/sdcard/Backup/Market-3.3.11.apk

Good luck ;)
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
I realy don`t know how to install aplications, and i don`t understand why i don`t the files doesn`t apear in the past that i created. :(
[HTC Desire S] fanatcom:
Discover the path to the file on the sdcard and do as I wrote

Из России с любовью! o_O
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
And how can i find de path?
[HTC Desire S] fanatcom:
You create "Application" folder on sdcard? If yes, then patch: /mnt/sdcard/Application/file.apk

Из России с любовью! o_O
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
I connect the phone by disc unit and then i create the paste inside
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
Solved! And it`s sooooo easy... :( I used Htc Sync and theres is an option to install aplications.
[HTC Desire S] fanatcom:
Well, then you can do so: with htc sync install a file manager, and then use it to install other programs. If you so easily ...

Из России с любовью! o_O
[HTC Desire S] carbon21:
another easy way is to place the apk files on the root of your sd card. Install appinstaller from market Run this and choose the file from the file explorer it brings up.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] wheelerr:
Exactly what the title says. Do you guys think we will have a full root with s-off for this device? It's the only thing holding me back from getting it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garlick2:
If they don't, I imagine there will be a 2nd Init, which on the Droid 2 global I had was just as good.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] wheelerr:
Im not 100% sure what that is. I've read a bit about it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] [TSON]:
S-OFF/S-ON is only on HTC devices. RAZR's bootloader is completely encrypted, not just system files. Moto promised a bootloader unlock (...and unencryption is implied) where "carriers permit" with ICS, so we'll see how that goes.

We DO have a working safestrap though, thanks to Hashcode, and DroidTh3ory is hard at work on bringing us AOSP ICS, so, I wouldn't think twice unless you're considering the Nexus and are willing to wait (possibly forever?).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garlick2:
It's a binary code which in essence, tells the init file to reboot, and allows a secondary code from a hijack to be injected into the boot cycle.

This allows for custom roms to be installed, without having to unlock a boatloader, or permanently root your phone.

It works really well on other phones, and has allowed all kinds of custom roms to be installed on locked boatloader phones.

So S-Off rooting isn't as important as it seems.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] wheelerr:
Very interesting, the phones I've had all used s-off.

Awesome thanks for the info. This explains it perfectly.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] [TSON]:
garlick, that's 2nd-init, not s-off. s-off is disabling the security measures that HTC sets in place to protect "crucial system files" that prevent you from making non-sense-based ROMs.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garlick2:
Ok....I was explaining 2nd init, because wheelerr said "Im not 100% sure what that is. I've read a bit about it." in reference to the 2nd init.....so yes, I was explaining 2nd init.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstylazz:
I have a problem with my hero and not sure how to get around this issue. I bought a new phone so decided format my hero's SD-card, then to a factory wipe from the setting menu with-in the phone, my problem is now that i get a boot loop and am using RA recovery (not my choice as i was using clockwork in-till villainrom installed RA) and do not see any option to mount the sd card again to do a clean wipe/install, the rom that is currently installed on my phone is Eilinux gingerbread rom (if that helps).

Any way to re-mount the sdcard?

SOLVED: By finding adb commands to manually flash clockwork.img
[HTC Desire S] halcs:
Hi after some advice, my wife just got a sensation from 3 as a replacement handset and they told her to keep her desire s which i want to use.I have got an unlock code from gsmliberty and the code seemed to work but i can get no internet i can only make calls on the handset i can access wifi but get no symbol beside the signal bar at the top and also still get 3 start up screen etc.I want to fully unlock the handset but don't know how any help would really be appreciated thanks.:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dream12:
Hi There,

Not sure if anyone will have an answer to this until Rogers officially releases the phone, but will a Galaxy Nexus phone bought from rogers work on Mobilicity?

I've heard that the phones selling from Bell do work on Wind/Mobilicity/other 1700(AWS) frequencies, but I'm not sure if this will be the case for Rogers.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vvaffles:
galaxy nexus is a pentaband phone, it has both GSM and AWS bands so yeah, a Rogers version would work on mobilicity.

and since the phone is unlocked, a any carrier version of galaxy nexus should work on any carrier, except for the LTE version.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mcgon1979:
Ok... Let me just throw it out there... Your GN is not "Perfect". It is not "Flawless". It's a unique piece of hardware that came off a mass production line. It is not identical to any other GN if you spend enough time examining it :D

In all fairness, I got my GN 3 weeks ago on Nov 25th. I moaned about a light (barely noticeable) horizontal band across the screen and only noticeable on very low light when scrolling.

3 week ons... I'm at peace. :D More and more threads (about the screen, dust particles, build quality etc) appear every day that confirm, the GN is not a hand made and individually scrutinized piece of swiss machinery. Nope. It was not manufactured in a clean room in the Jet propulsion Lab by NASA engineers in funny suits. It's a phone. :D Wait wait... don't go yet. I'm nearly done. The point is... After a week or so of bemoaning that it was perfect, I finally just started to use it, and...ENJOY it. Now after 3 weeks use, I could not be happier with it. Battery seems to have improved as time went on (or perhaps Im not starting at the screen so much anymore!) and I now treat the phone like a phone. A piece of expendable tech that I'll probably use for 12-18months.

Should it be 100% flawless? Perfect? Clean room hand built? for 700dollars? No. That money pays for the research and the technology in the phone. It doesn't stretch so far to include sapphire crystal display or hand assembly and post packing scrutiny by an OCD swiss guy with a loupe.

God damn it people, don't let a speck of dust, or a some slight variation in colour bands on the screen ruin your experience of a super device. If its flawed like a line of dead pixels, yes, return it, but if your really just unhappy because its not flawless, well don't be.. because nobodies GN is flawless. Look at it long enough and you'll find something you can pick at... Or you could jsut use the phone and marvel in its awesomeness and stop looking for a bit of dust you can only see when you get into the closet at night with a loupe, night vision googles, and an infrared lamp. :D Enjoy it :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] predation:
exactly why i'm just going to use the phone and not "look" for issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sjgarbz:
Oh my god, really? You write an absurdly too-long rant, that uses 5 too many smiley faces, telling us we should chill out over defections on our phones? You are telling us to not scrutinize our phones so much. Well don't scrutinize our posts so much, and don't tell us the proper way to go about enjoying our phones.

What a wiener.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pukemon:
i put your post under an electron microscope and i came to the conclusion your wee wee is smaller than his. just sayin'. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sjgarbz:
>>assuming im a dude
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] brian85:
Must be that time of the month then...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
If you have nothing to contribute, well you know..

There are way too many threads about nitpicking at every single little detail. I'm not saying the phones don't have issues, but the OP is right. There are way too many threads about such minor details where people expect the phone to be some amazing device as if God himself had created it. It's not. It's a phone.

I think part of the problem is a lot of people are buying it off contract and thus feel that since they are paying so much the phone should be devoid of any and all slight defects.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
It's not just that people are buying it off contract. This happens with pretty much every phone. Every time a phone is released there are always threads where people say things like "What problems should I look for?" My thing is, if you have to seek out the "problems" then they aren't problems. And only on forums like xda do people obsess over the most minor "defects". The average consumer doesn't return a phone 3 or 4 times because if they go into a pitch black room and turn the brightness down all the way and then look at an all black screen they see some sort of imperfection. This is the type of unreasonable expectation of pure perfection that you will only find in these online communities. People are flat out ridiculous in how they overreact to the slightest "issue" they perceive themselves to have on their devices. To the average person they can use the exact same phone with the exact same "issue" and not have a single problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] liquidarts:
I would assume you are Steven J. Garbarino, a dude.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sjgarbz
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
lol pwnt

10 char
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] King Shady:
Lmfao
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] barbaragha:
hahaha good one liquid, nailed him :D

what a twitter feed! sleeping material...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ianwood:
I agree with the OP. We should all be so lucky that the biggest problem we have is the slight imperfections on the screen. I've noticed the banding (streaks) on the display a few times already but only because it's been discussed ad nauseum. Do I like it? Not really. Do I need to obsess over it and return 3 different units for the same issue only to realize, that's just the way it is. It's not perfect but it's also not worth the amount of complaining that's been going on here. 36 hours in and I am pretty well pleased with it! The screen is gorgeous!

BUT, if Samsung is reading this, my message is this: What's your problem?!? Why isn't this thing perfect?!? I paid too much! I want signal from inside of a lead box! Work harder!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GR36:
I whole heartedly and completely agree with you.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rawdi:
Hi,

I would like to know what can i delete from the sd card when I flash a new ROM. I don't want it conflicting with the ROM. can someone help me on this or am I talking rubbish?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billy_87:
Come on rawdy, ur jokin right, theres hundreds of posts here where people have mentioned how to flash a rom and do it safe, my friend, search and ull find ur answer, if not here than googe, but in a brief thing, your sd card, y dont have to remove anything, but to be safe format it through ur phone and then you can just follow the procedure of flashing a new rom through, custom recovery....

Use mikes superwipe, itll do the job just fine, get it from the Android revolution hd forum
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matthew33:
I've always used ROM Manager to install roms on my phone, even though some ROM threads say not to use it etc.....always works, never a problem.

I'm a flashaholic....my process goes like this:

1: Download ROM on my PC

2: Cut and paste onto my PC any folders i want to keep (wallpapers, appmonster app backups etc)

3:Format SD Card With SD Formatter

4: Cut and paste new ROM onto my SD Card with nearest card reader I can grab.

5: Put SD card in phone.

6: Sometimes I just go into Rom Manager and go into recovery.

7: Factory reset, wipe davlik cache, wipe battery stats.

8: In Rom Manager select "install Zip from SD Card

9: Sorted.

Some of the extreme ROM Police Officer Super Geeks may say some or all is wrong, but 100% works, 100% of the time, NEVER bricked a phone or anything gone wrong etc.

Sometimes I can't be arsed to go through the whole process, so i'll just download a ROM, whack it on SD card, wipe davlik and battery stats, cache partition....then just choose install zip from SD card in Rom Manager.

Or, sometimes i'll whip out the battery, hold volume down and press power to boot into recovery that way.

Soooooooo many ways of doing it.....been trying to brick my phone sometimes, but can't....don't know how soooo many people manage to Brick their phones.

I'm, as you can prob' tell, not exactly the sharpest tool in the box, and if I can't brick a phone!!!!! GOD KNOWS how others do.

oh god....i'm rambling talking cow dung...please, make me stop...lol:D:D
[Palm Treo Pro] dnw53:
Result is failure to connect on cellular data & charges on the goPhone prepaid.

Only workaround is to disable cellular radio every time I want to use Wifi.

How can it be configured to do the usual [obvious] data network preference of USB, then Wifi, then cellular?

Repro:

Turn on both cellular radio & Wifi, sync email via Windows Live, see failure to connect

Details:

Palm Treo Pro

Windows Mobile v6.1

AT&T goPhone SIM, voice & text only, no data

BTW, I liked your fast "similar threads" facility above. However, no answers there.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DNak206:
I need a new ROM and have not been keeping up to date. The only requirements are decent battery life and some kind of wireless tethering. Running BAM REMIX 1.8 and need something 150% stable, what do yall recommend?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carl G35c:
I have been using Skyraider 1.3 its been superb
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobiushky:
Might want to check out the InfectedROM.

I'm running InfectedROM Eternity, r179. Slick and fast.

---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:45 PM ----------

Spammed, myself to get to 10. need to post in the ROM forum.. Apologies.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twizzler703:
2nd that, been running skyraider for 2 weeks now, i usually flash every 3 days lol
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcodori:
thunderstick. stable mostly stock with speed tweaks. built in cpu settings (custom kernel)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gephoria42:
I'm using the thunderbolt synergy mod I know I went from the thunder stick mod I'm enjoying synergy mod more than thunderstick

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[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DRGilroy:
If your looking for stability, I haven't used one more stable than BAMF Side Project (non ADR version). It's close to stock, debloated, slightly custom kernel and Sense 2.1
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hallstevenson:
Another vote for SkyRaider. Only applies if you want to stick with Sense though.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DNak206:
Thanks everyone, I personally don't mind Sense. I use a ton of their widgets and like many, have always been pretty fond of the clock. I'll have to look that one up, many thanks.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nswenson:
Skyraider works great except for the occasional call answer bug. All of the sense hybrid roms are having this issue where when you have an incoming call there is no answer button. Happens maybe 25% of the time. So you are force to deny call and then call the person back. Other than that, it is an excellent ROM. Fast and efficient. The battery life is very good with nearly 20 hours of up time.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sushiman79:
ShiftS3NS3 1.5 by DroidTh3ory is ROCK SOLID ....

not sure where to find it anymore. Tried the later version (2.x), but it would crash on me. I have never seen a ROM less bug free than SS 1.5 (hell, my wife uses it). I think I get a FC rarely, and I go weeks without rebooting. WIFI tethering works fine (or maybe i downloaded it from the market), i use it all the time.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtyfingers:
That is easily fixed with the built in skyraider settings and a build prop edit if you want it to stick after a reboot.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nswenson:
Please enlighten me. So far I've yet to see a confirmed fix for this issue. Happens on BAMF, Gingeritis, Skyraider, and every other sense 2.1/3.0 hybrid ROM what are based on the later firmware builds. If you have the fix, please point me to it.

Thank,

Nathan
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hallstevenson:
On SkyRaider, you can force it to use the Sense 2.1 answer screen. The issue is in Sense 3.0, which SR uses some pieces of.

It's explained in the 1st post of it's thread at Team Bamf, under the v1.3 section.

I use it... I got the bug a couple of times before I made the fix permanent and it went away 100%. I reflashed 2 days ago to remove a theme and it reverted my change and ... I ran into the bug twice in past two days. Need to fix it again.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DNak206:
It seemed like SR might of been a BAMF build, glad to hear it is, I've always like BAMF.

Can anyone confirm if wired headsets work with that ROM or does HTC still mute the mic, etc? Just posted another question in the general, really surprised this hasn't bothered anyone else..