yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashok.antony:
Great post. I was under the impression that I am the one who think this way. I am not too concerned about getting the last bit out of the phone either. I am ok with it as long as it doesnt bother me too much. The main criteria for me is battery life. My job requires me to be available all the time and except for my mobile, I dont have access to any other phone much of the time. So, I tend to look for better battery life; having said that, I am not a power user.

I do like my phone looking flashy though. :-)

I have tried Serendipity,MIUI, etc. Didnt quite like the battery life in MIUI. Serendipity was good but still not the battery life I expected. However, thats not the reason I moved off from Serendipity. It was a great ROM but coming from Eclair (stock), my activeSync for emails didnt work in Serendipity. I thought it is the ROM issue but later realized it is the same with any Android after 2.1

Anyways, currently i am in Fasty KK4 version and it is AMAZING. With my usage, I casually get 2+days of battery life. I might just stay on with Fasty till a stable ICS comes along.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Another thing to keep in mind regarding the differences between the i9000 ROM's and the i897's is that the i9000 based ROM'S utilize the higher upload speeds(4G), the i897 do not. In my local area that translates to 1.7-2.3mb versus 500-800kb upload

The last set up that I ran with Phoenix was Unleashed, with Crysis's theme. Ran really solid, I actually ram it again just before ICS dropped

Sent from a autonomous device
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insanity213:
Just load CM7 and don't look back. I use it as the daily driver on my work phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashok.antony:
Really? I have some small irritants on the CM7. Like, when you go to the contacts from Call, it doesnt show the alphabets on the right hand side corner. THis means if I need to call someone whose name starts with W, I need to scroll all the way down. In other ROMs, I can touch the letter "W" on the right hand side and I am immediately in the names section that starts with W. Is that just me doing a bad flashing or am I the only one finding it frustrating?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbc663:
I would stray away from the aosp roms for the reason of battery life alone. Hands down, no argument WHATSOEVER, for what you are trying to achieve, it's either Cognition or Serendipity. Again, i could be basing this on battery life, but they both have the exact same features, with zero flaws. Hats off to Mikey and Chance of the Serendipity duo.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbc663:
While I'll agree almost with everything u said here, the i897 modems supports the audience chip, while the i9000 roms do not. It is up to u to decide...

i897 based roms with i897 modem will give u superior voice quality on calls.

i9000 roms with corresponding modem will give u close to double data speeds, but will significantly lack call quality. The audience chip cancels out background noise

so there is quite a difference.

edit: wait i think the corn kernel now supports both..(pregaming for new years, sorry :p) BTW, happy new year to all and best wishes in the new year!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haydonxda:
Like you, the Captivate always frustrated me. Between the GPS that was never going to work and unresponsive and "random behavior" I found myself questioning whether my next phone should be an iPhone.

I came to the conclusion that I needed to get away from US carrier provided phones because they were always going to be hacks and behind the times. (Unless of course, you got an iPhone... sigh.) I got a Galaxy Nexus and think it's great. Wait, you asked about the Captivate!

Well, about a week after I got my GN the ICS 4.0.3 ROM was released which I loaded onto my Captivate. I used it for a few days and found that my Captivate is the best it's ever been.

Had this ROM been available prior to my GN purchase I might not have gotten the GN. It really breathes a lot of life into the Captivate.

Long term though, as I mentioned, no carrier branded phones for me. They cripple them to death and never fix problems. It's either supported directly by Google/Apple or not worth my time. (The jury is waiting to deliberate on Microsoft's new sauce.)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hd779:
I ditched the captivate for the gs2, but still use it for flashing newer roms. I found the best rom for me to be cognitiin 4.5.3 (2.2 froyo) for simplicity and smoothness. I also use launcher pro, as it seems to perform much better than touchwiz.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
No. That was true a long long time ago but through the work of kernel devs it is no longer the case.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Hey Mikey, give up on everything else and come back to the captivate? Regardless, good to see you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
More or less.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinggheedora:
Why do you have to update every week with MIUI?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
They provide weekly updates until the ROM is 'stable'. I would run that ROM stable at 1.6GHz and -175 across the board UV. That ROM is one of the most stable that I have ever run. And I got GREAT battery life, so for all those complainers that said they got terrible battery life didn't give it time to calibrate or have a suckey battery
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonjacobmoon:
I am not sure how this happened, but after a recent reinstall of Bionix 1.3.1 (with Bullet kernel) the ability to long press on home to get to the task manager has disappeared. I thought it might be the ADW launcher, so I switched back to stock. No change.

Any ideas how this happened and/or how to fix it?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trailblazerz11:
Never had this happen. I'd just say to reflash bionix. should be fine to just flash on top w/o wiping data. (may have to disable ext4 though)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonjacobmoon:
Turns out it was the Bullet kernel. POS kernel, IMO. Flashed back to Overstock and it took care of the problem.

Go Blazers :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nevrlow:
Need bali 1.8.8 kernel like a baus

sent from my Sensation XD
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonjacobmoon:
Bali softbricked my phone. So, would rather not try that again.

I thought that Overstock would have turned on Voodoo when I flashed it, but it didn't. When I enabled it through CWM, the problem returned.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
Why don't you give this a try? You can remap every button on your phone with both short and long press options. May just need to reset your home-long press option.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonjacobmoon:
Well, I was looking at the app and accidently hit "apply" and it hotbooted. When it came back up.... the home button is completely disabled. Its worse than before.

So, now what?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonjacobmoon:
Okay, nevermind.... I got it back to where it gets me back to home at least.... but still no long press option as far as I can see.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
It used to have the short and long press options. I pulled up the help and it said LauncherKey will now do this for you. Search Market for that. If not there then maybe just Google the apk download.
[HTC Amaze 4G] eggydrums:
Made with UOT kitchen, this is the first theme I'll be posting here in xda.

Link coming soon!!! Expect it this afternoon!!

Also, video on how to make a theme on UOT coming soon to YouTube :)

Edit Jan. 3

Sorry for the delay, I'm having some issues with my pc so I haven't been able to upload the theme :(

In the meantime, I might as well mention what the theme has:

* Honeycomb style battery

* Black status bar

* Transparent Notifications and Quick settings

*Blue overscroll

*Blue dividers

*Ying yang loading icon
[HTC Amaze 4G] eggydrums:
Reserved for screenshots!
[HTC Amaze 4G] TMAC 13:
Cool bro... I love themes AND how-to videos lol

Sent from my HTC Amaze 4G running QuikSense v2.0.1
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zexbig:
I would like to shade some light to current situation regarding unlocking bootloader, custom roms, and using clockworkmod recovery on MOTO RAZR.

First of all to answer few common questions here.

1) Does Motorola Razr have locked bootloader?

Yes.

2) Is it possible to install ClockWorkMod?

Yes but with some caveats.

3) Is it possible to install custom ROM's?

Yes but there is several different methods of doing this (safestrap and bootstrap)

4) What is the difference between safestrap and bootstrap?

Bootstrap method works on the following way, it's basicly hijack of boot process

and running CWM instead of some other regular process, in RAZR method bootstrap process is hijacking logcat and running cwm. Current bootstrap method

works on all RAZR models from different carriers. J.Y.Daddy made his bootstrap method and compiled CWM for RAZR, more info can be found at original post

here.

With bootstrap method we are overwriting original /system partition which may be a problem if something goes wrong because there is no way to do proper recovery (we have locked bootloader), also every time when phone reboots it goes first to recovery and then from recovery You need to select reboot in order

to boot normal system.

Safestrap works on opposite way by installing separate ROM in /preinstall folder

in order to avoid problems and have safe fallback in case that something goes wrong with custom ROM. On this way we always have safe fallback method and we can run original ROM. More info can be found here

Please be aware that safestrap works only on CDMA version of RAZR, at least for now.

Conclusion for now is that we have way to install and run CWM by using bootstrap/safestrap but only proper solution is to have unlocked bootloader,

according to some inside info which I got Motorola decided not to unlock bootloaders generally with full understanding pros and cons of this approach.

Since we had similar situation with Atrix couple of months ago and we manage

to overcome it with extracting bootloader from engineering version of sbf ROM and flashing it with RSD and after that doing normal fastboot oem unlock.

I think that this is only clean way to do the unlocking bootloader and have full

access to our phones.

I would like to invite people who participated in wide community effort to unlock

bootloader on Atrix to provide their support to do the same thing for RAZR.

In order to do this I believe that first step should be get access to engineering

and beta versions of ROM, since ICS beta firmwares should hit beta testers very soon I think that maybe good path to our final goal.

I will update this post regularly as soon as we have some development related to unlocked bootloader or some other method to achieve full access to our phones.

Press the thanks button.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zexbig:
Reserved..
[Motorola Droid RAZR] nagnrik:
Good brother, thanks for initiating to take the development forward.. I almost thought development is dead for RAZR except few developers like "Shady/Kholk etc..", did not see anyone digging in (especially GSM version)... Appreciate your initiation and hope to see some light on RAZR....
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zexbig:
I'm sure that we will have soon some development going on, it's really shame that company such is Motorola which produces very innovative and high end products always needs to put some obstacles on our way to fully enjoy our devices.

As we saw already Motorola is doing some really cool things such is webtop, full phone encryption, fingerprint sensor on atrix which are not available on phones from other vendors and this is showing their R&D strength but marketing is other story and relationship to community is also something that they should work on.

P.S. nagnrik I see that You also have quite some history with Motorola :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] nagnrik:
Yeah, That is really a sad part. It makes little sense(ignorable though) having been told from Verizon/AT&T, and locking boot-loaders. But, how about GSM? GSM mobiles too come with locked boot-loaders.

Motorola is very unique in whatever they present, from HW Finger print scanners to Software Smart Actions. The tech team did really excel in their work. RAZR is just an example of the way It has integrated all top notch technologies and super build quality framed into one single beautiful piece(I hate it is a bit wide thought, LoL). But true, their marketing strategy sucks..

Yeah, I have had a long Motorola history except for few HTC phones. And, MMI has quoted on its G+ status that something mind blowing on the way for CES'12.. LoL.. Let's hope not very tightly locked boot-loaders.. :-D

<https://plus.google.com/113884566566424587799/posts> ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] [TSON]:
JYDADDY DID NOT MAKE CWM OR BOOTSTRAPPER. He kanged Nitroglycerin33 and got credit on a bunch of major websites for no reason
[Motorola Droid RAZR] skiwong20:
I strongly agree with Tson. I did testing with Nitroglycerin33 to get the Razr Bootstrap working. Check your facts.

*MOD. please move thread*
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zeidof:
I had Atrix before my new Razr, i'm not a professional developer, but i will do what can i do, i'm who solved "sms delivery report" on Atrix,

i love moto brand, i think moto is the best & despite of this issues you said, i prefer to have a moto mobile phone forever,

These can not change my opinion about moto, i have a Samsung Juicer in my home and itz enough for me from Sami,

Count on me brother
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dligon:
do you still need to do the safestrap/bootstrap method since the fastboot files are out.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] [TSON]:
Unless you really really like RSDLite, I'd still use safestrap. RAZRX and IC3 don't seem to like bootstrap
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zexbig:
TSON I will update original post with informations which You provided.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] PMDColeslaw:
Ok, so we all know how Google music currently only uploads from your PC, and I'm sure we all hate the fact that when we download new music to our tablet or phone from some other source (like Amazon or MP3Downloader) it doesn't upload to GM.

I know the work arounds like Drop Box and setting GM to search the USB Drive connection of your device for new music, but both require either the PC being on and awake 24/7 or the phone being connected to the PC. I think that defeats the purpose of GM's sync design.

So here's my Idea: (Mind you I don't have the know-how to even begin this, so if it's impossible forgive me. :))

Couldn't one of the amazing DEV's on XDA decompile the Google Music Uploader program that runs on the PC and take what's needed from that (such as the upload urls or commands or whatever) and use it to create an Android App that will do the same? Then you could have a standalone app that monitors your /music folder and uploads new files to your GM account. Similar to the way G+ uploads new pics.

Again I have no idea how or if this could work but I thought it was worth mentioning... Any takers? :D
[Kindle Fire General] choochooman74:
I am running into an issue with the Nook app that I use to read magazines, since almost all the Magazines on the Kindle App are for Stock KFs or Ipads. Anyways, the app works fine after the initial install. When I go back to it later in the day, this is what I get.
[Kindle Fire General] tabocaw:
I also have this same problem. Uninstalled nook app and the reinstalled it. It works fine after the initial install then gives you an error when you go back to it. Wont sync or allow you to shop at all.
[Kindle Fire General] choochooman74:
I do have a trouble ticket in for it with nook. Let's see what they say.
[Kindle Fire General] choochooman74:
After doing the MAC address fix, the Kindle App now thinks I am a Kindle Fire. The only reason why I had the nook app was to get Magazines. It appears to not be needed now.

NEVERMIND. It seems like I jumped the gun. Some of the magazines now are available for Kindle for Android.
[Kindle Fire General] bitemeoftn:
So does changing the MAC address on the KFire help with getting amazon VOD? While I'm not a big fan of the Amazon bloat I would like to take advantage of the free month of Prime and the ability to stream videos, but I don't want to be stock to do it.
[Kindle Fire General] choochooman74:
I think I solved one of the issues. Since I changed the MAC address, I have not gotten one error all day with several reboots along the day. Maybe the nook app used MAC address for something???
[Kindle Fire General] choochooman74:
To get the magazines to appear right set the lcd density to 180.
[HTC EVO 3D] chungmaru:
Hello?

I have a Evo4g+(it is a ev3d's local model without 3D.. but have wimax)

A few days ago, hTC kor said that sense 3.5 update will be in mid january

But I didn't hear about ev3d's update news..

Is any news about evo3d's update??

Or leaked rom like holiday or sensation?

P.s htc said evo's ics update will be released in first quarter of 2012
[HTC EVO 3D] Rydah:
Are you trolling?

:sly:

Via My HTC Evo 3D On The Now Network From Sprint.
[HTC EVO 3D] chungmaru:
Nono :) I didn't believe htc kor. Because evo4g+ is based on evo3d. So I think that evo3d update is front of evo4g+
[HTC Jetstream] DanMc85:
Does anyone know any website in the USA that you can buy the offical HTC Jetstream Folio case?

HTC Model #: 70H0047900M

Looks like amazon used to carry it:

http://www.amazon.com/HTC-70H0047900M-Jetstream-Folio-Case/dp/B005SVZDB2
[HTC Jetstream] Russ741:
have one you can buy

i have one you can buy. PM me if you are interested.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shiv4m:
I used to use ShootMe before I wiped my phone and began using 2.2 again. Can anyone suggest me an application to use specifically for taking screenshots? Do any of you have the ShootMe .apk?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N00B_IN_N33D:
Go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20092560#post20092560

I posted a download for ShootMe there. It's #15.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shiv4m:
Thank you.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flaheat88:
Ok you guys since I'm selling my HTC sensation (not enough Aosp support).. I will be purchasing an hd2 for a backup phone until I get my sgs2.. my question is..

Since the hd2 that I'm purchasing is already rooted, how can I tell if its Nand or SD? .. and how can I unroot then reroot it? Links will help greatly also!!.. thanks in advance!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LaneyEFC:
Task29 clears everything meaning there wont be a rom on your phone then you go on from there, magldr 1.13 etc there are guides within the forum that will get you through it :) like this for example http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=893948

EDIT: oh and if its an sd build windows is still there, so basically you wont see android until you boot it from your sd
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] k_idan:
well for naw i see that i will never sell the hd2 ..........he can do everything
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crippius:
best phone on earth !
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flaheat88:
Thanks Bro.. really helpful info there.. helped me a ton.. what's the best from for the hd2 currently that you could recommend that is stable and battery efficient??
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LaneyEFC:
Cant really recommend roms as what might be best for me might not be for you, so id just read around HERE and see what you might like test a few and if you install them correct you wont have a problem with half of them, some are still in beta so not stable for every day use, look at these 3, these have been up long so most possible the most stable Rom 1 Rom 2 Rom 3 Enjoy...
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarkProvanP:
Hi everyone,

Since the Opus One never materialised, and the Streak is getting quite old in the tooth inside, what have you been thinking of as a replacement? The Galaxy Note seems to be having a lot more success than the Streak ever did, but it's a bit too far outside of my price range as a replacement and I now have an ASUS Transformer so I don't need a Tabphone any more.

Watching a video of the official ICS upgrade for the Nexus S was the final straw for me for some reason with my Streak. I've had it on unofficial ROMs since I got it, but none of them ever made it feel like a non-beta device. I still suffer from random reboots and Dell logos of death when I'm using the Streak, mainly at times when I need a phone the most, so I'm really up for getting a replacement.

Since I'm on a limited budget and on PAYG (GiffGaff FTW) I've been eyeing up a used Nexus S or HTC Desire Z on eBay to tide me over until something better comes out that I can afford. So, apart from the Note/Galaxy S II/Galaxy Nexus, what are you thinking of?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBottledBook:
Well since I've heard rumors that Dell is making a "Dell Streak 2" (An update to Dell Streak 5) I think I might be going with that if it's true.

But I'm sticking with Dell Streak till the end.

With the 2.3.3 update the device reached from the level Bad-Ass to Mega B0$$ (With the $'s)
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Final5k:
You already mentionned the top of the mobile phones in today's market. You can also do a quick search on gsmarena/phonearena to find a specific device.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asusgarb:
thinking about the rumors about it, a beautiful replacement would be the future samsung galaxy s3. i know it will be very expensive, sut i'm still waiting to buy a note since the first time i heard those amazing rumors about the s3.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kleverman:
Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Getting mine delivered this Tuesday. Buzzing !!!!!
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaydog:
This one seems cool...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/29/lenovo-lepad-s2005-vs-dell-streak-5-cuddle/
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordmorphous:
I'm thinking of the Skyrocket from AT&T, but will probably hold out for a quadcore device. The Kal-el chip looks like it rocks! If the rumors hold out true for the Galaxy S3 (quadcore Exynos, 2GB RAM, 12MP camera, 1280x720 screen), it sounds like it would be the one to beat...we'll see what happens in the next few months.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miciobigio:
.... HTC Sensation XL !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hkalltheway:
I've noticed in the menu options, there is an option to keep the phone in 2G mode only. On the other hand, is there any way to keep the phone in 3G / 3.5 / 4G mode? Any software that can do this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NPuter:
The phone will only switch to 2G if faster speeds are not available. The 2G mode option allows you to prevent the phone from switching to faster (and more battery consuming) data connections....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chrono_Tata:
From the dialer, you can type in *#*#4636#*#* to bring up some "secret" settings. From there you can configure your phone to only use 3G.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hkalltheway:
How about if I don't want 2G at all and want it to stay 3G only, even if there is no signal? I remember this option on the SGS 2..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
You do what chrono just said and the hidden menu let's you force 3g only. *#*#4636#*#* on the dial pad.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Doesn't stick all the time for some reason. Same with atrix. And other phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hkalltheway:
What setting to change? I see phone information, battery information, etc..but no settings..any help please? Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chrono_Tata:
Go into phone info. From there if you scroll down a bit you will see a text that says something like "GSM/CDMA auto". Press that and you should get a drop down menu. Change the setting to "CDMA only". That should work. :)