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[Motorola Photon 4G] Semseddin:
Hello guys,

I've been following xda photon forums from the start. I must say that i like what you guys do here and your communication, being helpful and nice to each other. Devs are friendly, owners are like buddies. Honestly, MoPho forums draw a picture in my mind for what it should have been like in all other motorola forums @xda. I own razr xt910 and atrix now. Just decided to trade my atrix for the photon. Atrix is a great device but it doesn't excite me anymore. It's not that i need a photon but cant resist myself of getting one especially after the free msl code guide.

Wish me luck for the trade since i'm looking after a straight trade. :rolleyes:
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
Good luck with that.

I think the fact that the Photon is not as popular as the EVO3D, SGSII, etc. is an advantage when it comes to this forum and the type of peeps participating. I remember how bad some of the other phone forums got after growing with users. Everybody started complaining, fighting, and most the devs, sorry to say, were just plain jerks. In there defense though they were getting stupid questions asked time after time after time from lazy, immature users who didn't want to read first.

The other great thing is that this phone is better stock than most other phones are so not as many peeps having to flash a new rom every hour to get things to work. The roms we do have in this forum are quality and backed by devs willing to provide any support needed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
After being on the EVO 4G forums, and Droid X Forums, boy, I hated the rude people. But after all, we have only had one major fight break out here, and I had to call in the mods to clean some trashy mouths up. But, only one. I am friends with every user, (I think that the one who got into a verbal fight with me left the forums, so now I can honestly say,) every user on the MoPho forums. We are the nicest people just trying to help one another in anyway we can. (Please join the XDA Fan Group by clicking below on my Signature.)
[Motorola Photon 4G] harmonyxda:
guess most of those "rude people" must be some kids who got too excited on a new phone. Photon is for men, lol... I found popular forums (xda, ppcgeecks, androidforums...) are always helpful.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
I think you can block curse words bubb the rest of us I think are over 16/18. We can handle the words of the curse

adding stars to curse words isn't going to change anything we all know what it is....as long as someone isn't calling another user a ****ing asshat I think we are good ;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] dsims7_2000:
Welcome! We are a small family here and get along well (I think so anyway!) Get Deedscreen to make you a signature like he did mine, ask questions, provide answers if you know them, tell a joke now and then!!!

If you look at my signature, SPB 3D Shell is giving me a headache at the moment, but I love my phone. Get Otterbox Defender over GhostArmor to protect that baby!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
Coming from the EVO 4G since it's launch, I've definitely seen my share of arguments and rudeness on both XDA and the Androidforums website.

The community for the Photon seems smaller but not less served. We already have a nearly stable CM7, a Miui port, and our CM9 is well on the way to being on par with the EVO 4G's.

The only thing we're missing is some themed roms, but it is of little consequence, specially if you use CM7 and utilize the theme manager.
[Motorola Photon 4G] 0mfgroflmao:
I've come from the Samsung Galaxy S, it was good and lots of development but the crappy GPS annoyed me, couldn't get a fix unless you're under a clear sky.

Loving the Photon, gives me a fix down to 6m indoors on a rainy day in just a few seconds! Also the notification LED is really nice.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
Its funny how no one had this phone but when a little development comes around all these new people pop up randomly lol. Good luck with your trade, and if its successful hope you enjoy the best device on sprint's network!
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
You will never fully enjoy your phone until you ditch that launcher bro lol. I understand that many paid 15 bucks for it so you guys are clinging to it but its bad, Michael Jackson bad (aka it sucks).
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcowboys2184:
I know right... but it's all good the more the better!
[Motorola Photon 4G] armandoq:
is a great...

is a great phone man ! buy it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] LexLuger82:
Truth
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jmaserang:
I'm posting from cm9 on 3g now its way better on the mopho than my evo even without the camera working we might not have as many devs as the evo but ares are the best
[Motorola Photon 4G] Puzzlegal:
I bought the Photon on launch day. But I came here hoping to find development works. :) I don't have those skills (or that time) but I am grateful to those of you who do.

Meanwhile, I like the phone, and I like the community. I assumed there were similar communities around most of the phones, though.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HotInEER:
It's a very good phone. Just watch out for the texting issues.

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII EPIC 4g Touch on XDA Premium!
[Motorola Photon 4G] roundeye1987:
Glad to see one of the best phones I've had or seen is getting more love! It really is a winner, though. Great battery, great hardware, good screen, and a wonderful community; what mote could u ask for in a phone?

Sent from my CWM OC'd CM7 Electrify.
[Motorola Photon 4G] plmiller0905:
What texting issues...or are you trolling?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mediaon:
welcome
[Motorola Photon 4G] Semseddin:
Hello guys,

Will finish the trade on monday. For starters i know a lot about the photon, there is no texting issue or whatsoever. It is one of rare stable stable out of the box android phones in history.
[Motorola Photon 4G] aamirani:
Yeah, even though I don't post much, I browse a lot! I love this photon and community, always helping out. The phone itself has great battery life, last night I plugged my phone in with 50% battery left!
[Galaxy S II General] vrus1:
Let me start by saying this is a great forum!! I've been a long time lurker here and have learned quite a bit.

I do alot of software development and always have a few phones in my possession so I find this a great central place to find whatever I need.

Saying all that, I have a few phones from the Android side (Atrix 4G, SGS II, Exhibit II 4G).

I typically have to configure at least 1 Exchange 2010 Account, plus 2 or 3 IMAP accounts on each phone. Right now I am carrying the SGS II.

With Firmware 2.3.3 Exchange 2010 synch's properly and all the emails are kept up-to-date. The read status, reply status and forward status all get synch'd correctly. IMAP however, does not synch the REPLY or FORWARD status so this is a great nuisance when you are holding your phone and trying to figure out which emails got responded to and which didnt.

I've since tried Firmware 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6.

2.3.4 behaves the same way as 2.3.3.

2.3.5 and 2.3.6 FIX the IMAP issues and they now synch their REPLY and FORWARD status BUT, Exchange 2010 account always shows FORWARDED whenever you reply to an email.

Does anyone know how to get a working email system on ANY Android O/S so that you can synch Exchange 2010 and IMAP accounts properly??

I have in addition to the 3 Android phones, an iPhone 4S and a Samsung Focus and recently got rid of my Blackberry Torch. I've never had this much trouble getting email to work properly on a phone.

I would think Email would be the first application that gets updated and tested on the phone since most people live by email these days.

Any insight would be appreciated.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apfolmer:
I have been using all day to try to update my sgs2.

I unrooted the device and uploaded a stock firmware to the phone, and thought kies would help me now..

but kies says that this device does not support updating with kies ???

I am currently running :

PDA:I9100XWKF3

PHONE:I9100XXKE7

CSC:I9100XEUKD1

2.3.3 android.

I would like to go for 2.3.5 or newer .. but i dont know what file to use... as im not sure what is right for me.

Im located in denmark/Europe..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Dont mean to be rude, but Come on man... go to development thread and read a bit first. This way you would know how to update/fix ur device if sth goes wrong and not wait for help from anyone :)

It took me 15 min to read then flash new room, root it and feel great that i have learned something :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apfolmer:
I couldnt agree more...

But i have been reading all day long, and im not sure if its ok to flash the I9100XXKI3 file into the phone ....

i dont see anywhere it says how to determine what file is safe for the ohone going from one firmware to a newer version..

i KNOW that my firmware is XWKF3 ... but the new... must it just be named something hihger like KI3 ? (i is higher than f) ..

Im so tired of spending all day with this ... i have earlier made LOTS of Wii softmods, xbox mods, etz, so thats why its so confusing spending all this time on this..

please just help me get the newest dk / european file for my phone, mr teacher :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nyssa1104:
Once again all is safe if you read and follow the deatails.

firmware look for firmware for i9100 android 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 is the current android.

Look here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278 or here http://www.sammobile.com/ now read its that easy.

If you cant find what you need from these 2 links flashing is not for you. ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stylez:
Posted in wrong subforum and all info is in the threads mentioned.

Not so hard :rolleyes:

Thread closed.
[HTC Sensation] Droidicus:
Is there one in the offing? I saw some post about ICS experimentals "around the corner." But, I am interested in a stable build. I don't have time anymore to flash nightlies. :(
[HTC Sensation] septix:
The alpha you'll find in development section works as a daily driver.
[HTC Sensation] geoffcorey:
First, you need nightlies to have a stable.

Secondly, we don't have nightlies yet, and that's gb.

We don't even have a CM9 alpha yet.

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC Sensation] septix:
I was referring to CM7. Just to be clear.
[HTC Sensation] blahbl4hblah:
We most likely won't get nightlies anytime soon. I've tried multiple times to compile and successfully get it to boot but it just don't work for me haha.

kmobs and the other sensation maintainers are the only ones with the source for it
[HTC Sensation] nexus2515:
Found no alpha- can you link back
[HTC Sensation] k0nfucius:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1258543
[HTC Sensation] septix:
That's the one.
[Motorola Droid 3] tacosrdelicioso:
Miui ever?? I love it...
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
not being a smarta**. you will probably find more info googling this one cause it will pull up links from other forums, i havent seen anything on it in the dev forums. i did a quick search for you to see if i could provide a real answer in the very least. The closest i got was this which doesnt seem to be official MIuI if i read it right. but hope it helps :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1237197
[Motorola Droid 3] tacosrdelicioso:
Yeah...ik about that. Just asking if anyone is willing to provide an unofficial port. Probably not though....ics is all the rage. I wish I could do it...but I don't have the capabilities money and computing wise. Or experience because I never have had the ability and probably never will.
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
people seem to like the petition things in xda aha. MIuI would be a petition worth making so if you really want it make it. they are developers and the doird3 is a popular phoen so im sure they will listen
[Motorola Droid 3] tacosrdelicioso:
Cool ill go ahead and do that when I get the chance
[Motorola Droid 3] nu2droid:
I too am still waiting for miui. Last I saw in one of the forums was Hashcode saying he might try to port it after he got cm stable.

Only time will tell.
[HTC Sensation] potblack2win:
Why the hell are HTC so bad at producing phones without decent speaker systems. Everything is soo tinny and cheap sounding (NO BASS)

I Currently own a HTC Sensation and its the same £500 (cost).

Its really bad
[HTC Sensation] Alipk52:
+1 really, i too hate it, bought sensation after looking at a great presentation of sensation's ad on HTC website where there was a word "multimedia + music" shown as animation, still can't believe HTC mentions this kind of performance as music oriented! I use my great old N70 m.e for music, what a sound it produces, makes me feel ashame for HTC!
[HTC Sensation] the_scotsman:
I really don't get it. They're very good for some things, so when it comes to things like speakers, why on earth do they manage to stuff it up so much?
[HTC Sensation] nxt:
I also have an HTC HD7 phone and the rear speaker on that IS INCREDIBLY loud!! Sensation speaker is a joke.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[HTC Sensation] fireblade893:
The speaker and sense refreshing way too often are the reasons I'm going to look at a galaxy when the s3 comes out
[HTC Sensation] UnixSlayer:
Might not be the speaker.......

I noticed the same thing when I got my Sense 6 months ago. Since.... I have installed Volume+ from the Market. It helps, but it's not the cure all. Not sure if the limitations are the speaker, or the main board. I looked at the Galaxy S II, and the new Razr...... The sound is a little better, but to me.... the quality of the materials used on the HTC are sturdier. That's what sold me. The others felt really cheaply made. One thing I can say is none of them could touch the sound on my BlackBerry Bold. RIM makes a good product.
[HTC Sensation] UnixSlayer:
retraction......

I would like to retract my statement. It's definitely the speaker, and not the main board. HTC should really put some decent speakers in these phones. Especially with Beats audio installed. I'd be embarrassed to put my name in it. Sorry Dr. Dre.
[HTC Sensation] inconceeeivable:
I just bought a used Sensation, and I'm frankly considering sending it to HTC for repair. The volume is very low--there's no way I'd hear it in a crowded room. Would sending it for repair likely help? Or do all Sensations have garbage speakers?
[HTC Sensation] CastleBravo:
It's the same with all of them. It's still possible that yours is in need of repair and worse than normal, but even the new ones suck.
[HTC Sensation] Pikabat:
Agreed speaker sucks big time, at times like these I really start to miss my Nokia N900 and N95 :(
[HTC Sensation] nba1341:
g2's speaker is great. mytouch 4g's isnt that bad either. but my tmobile comet cheap go phones speaker is way better than sensation and mytouch 4g

sensations is just ridiculous i thought my phone was broken when i bought it
[HTC Sensation] ixon2001:
I have a cheap Samsung £20 something mobile, that i use when im at work & the in call speaker on this cheap mobile is better than the one on my HTC Sensation.

Having had the Galaxy S2 to, I can tell in call quality on that phones is miles better than the HTC Sensation, shame rest of it gave me problems hence moving over to HTC.

One thing that really annoying apart from the quality is the rattle ya get when speaker volume on full sometimes.

Basically HTC need to find a new supplier for speakers as the ones they using now are basically shocking to say the least.
[HTC Sensation] dullhunk:
i m also upset with my sensation external speaker....my frnd s2 speaker is awesome.
[HTC Sensation] townay:
TBH i couldnt care much for a better speaker. What I want is a better mic. HTC's audio in video capture all have this sharp crunching effect..whatever you call that.

Searched everywhere if its possible with software/app fix or just hardware (mic) issue. Apparently since I couldnt find any software fix AND videos from n1, dhd and sensation all suffer from the bad audio, I can only say its cheap mic.

I so bad want a proper mic for video capturing but I love the fact that HTC doesnt cheap out on their phone's shell though. Feels like holding a premium device compared to say a...cheap plasticky samsung :p
[HTC Sensation] vegetaleb:
They must have an old contract with a crappy factory because they didn't change since the N1!

Compared to sgs2 and Arc it's very crappy and tiny
[HTC Sensation] inconceeeivable:
It's annoying enough that I'm probably selling the phone. An amazing build doesn't mean anything if we can't hear the phone.

I have performance/lag issues as well...just pretty disappointing overall. Not sure how this phone got such good reviews from CNET, etc...maybe I really do have a bad one...?
[HTC Sensation] Jedi2011:
I find the Sensations speaker is plenty loud enough to hear it ringing, and as for playing music on it there's a name for people who like playing music loudly on their mobile speakers in public and it rhymes with grunt.

Also, the stereo recording gain has been fixed in ICS4.0.3 / Sense 3.6 stock RUU.
[HTC Sensation] BurnRubber90:
My Moto Cliq makes Sensation's speaker look bad lol. Though HTC kinda fixed it on firmware upgrade. My Sensation almost had no sound when I first got it.
[HTC Sensation] townay:
Really? Thanks for the info!

But I am still on ARHD 3.6.13 which is a Sense 3.0 rom.

I still havent gotten the idea to move to Sense 3.6 because IMO its isnt much of an upgrade over 3.0

I'll wait for a stable version of ICS once the proper, official release of ICS from HTC is release!

Still appreciate that bit of info though. Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] zaki0saad:
My phone external speaker is loud enough for my ringtone, and as for music.. I use headphones :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padanfain:
I hosed my touchscreen... the new one is on order, but I'd like to be able to at least have partial use of the phone until it gets here. I was thinking that I can use some things by just using the trackball, but the device is "locked" and I can't drag that little bar across the screen. Is there a way to use the SDK to get a GUI interface to the device using the android tools? Figuring that if I can do that I can disable the pattern locking thing for now...

Or if anyone knows how to disable the pattern locking via shell...
[Galaxy S II General] xethor:
If you install one of the various TouchWiz ports for MIUI on CyanogenMod, you will end up loosing access to the internal SD in most apps. Here is how to fix it.

Using root explorer (or pulling the file in adb, editing it and pushing it back), open /etc/vold.fstab.

It should look like this:

## Vold 2.0 Generic fstab
## - San Mehat (san@android.com)
##

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

# internal sdcard
dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 11 /devices/platform/s3c-mshci.0/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0

# external sdcard
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1

# USB storage device
dev_mount usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk auto /devices/platform/s3c_otghcd/usb

In this file, do the following edits:

## Vold 2.0 Generic fstab
## - San Mehat (san@android.com)
##

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

# internal sdcard
dev_mount [B][COLOR="Red"]sdcard[/COLOR][/B] /mnt/[B][COLOR="red"]sdcard[/COLOR][/B] 11 /devices/platform/s3c-mshci.0/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0

# external sdcard
dev_mount [B][COLOR="red"]emmc[/COLOR][/B] /mnt/[B][COLOR="red"]emmc[/COLOR][/B] auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1

# USB storage device
dev_mount usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk auto /devices/platform/s3c_otghcd/usb

That is it. I still don't understand what in the TouchWiz framework causes this issue, but I don't have the need to dig deeper.

Download TouchWiz apps for miui (ported by langtheng?)
[Galaxy S II General] Bwwwww:
Thanks!

Does this port bring the touching camera to cm7?
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
Nopes, It is amitmiz who did it!
[Kindle Fire General] AFront85:
I apparently deleted my amazon music and video apk's while fiddling around last night and now on my bookshelf the music/video tabs don't work. I am wondering if the stock apps are available anywhere to reinstall or if I'll just have to deal with it until I reset?

It's my own fault for not having a back up (I thought I had run a titanium backup batch). It's not a major issue, but I just like to have everything working. TYIA for any help!
[Kindle Fire General] Sandman21dan:
Probably you need to re-flash a stock firmware, they're available in the development forum.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] backtothemac:
I picked up the SafPWR Fusion 2 case today from AT&T. My usage so far hasn't been wearing the battery out, but it is an 1800ma case that goes with the original 1600. So that should be enough power to sync everything like a madman, and screen at 100%. lol

Will update after a couple of days to let you know what it is like.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] shogunmark:
can you post pics of it on your phone.. curious to see how much extra it adds to it.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] gtkansan:
More than double thicknes. Not for me...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] slapshot30:
Yuck... I didn't know it was that thick.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] backtothemac:
It isn't twice as thick, but it is pretty damn thick.

It is heavy, I can tell you that (with the phone). Without the phone you think, hey this isn't to heavy. LOL.

Still deciding if I am going to keep it.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] CCL X10:
I have been using this case since I bought my vivid over a month ago. It definitely adds some bulk to it, but it also does a good job protecting the Phone. It doesn't look/ feel like it would be very useful as drop protection, but I have dropped the phone multiple times on hard surfaces (I am 6'3") and the case has taken all the damage.

As for the 1800mah battery in the case, I have been less than satisfied. I almost feel that it was a typo and should have said 800mah. When my phone hits under 20% I turn the case on, if I am not using the phone at all while the case charges it, I can get it from 20, to about 80-90% before the case runs out of juice. If I am using the phone moderately while the case charges it, I am lucky to see a 30% improvement before the case goes dead 1-2 hours later.

I will say though, that if I let it charge from the case in my pocket, and do not use the phone, it DOES charge pretty fast from 20 to 80-ish percent.

If I want to use MHL, I have to remove the phone from the case, but I believe it works for data sync, etc in the case.

I plan on continuing to use this case as it hasn't let me down yet, and the extra battery life (though not 1800mah worth) is definitely a life saver.

Just my short review. Hope it helps!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] backtothemac:
I was worried about this. I am trying to figure out if I am going to keep it. I really like the way the Speck case looks, and that is what I was going to get. I ended up getting the battery case, and the one that looks like a tire with a leather back. They had the otter, but I just didn't like it. But I can never make up my mind with cases and phones lol.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] backtothemac:
Well, I just boxed it back up. I had it on the charger for like three hour and the phone wasn't fully charged and neither was the case. Case was only half charged. DO you have to charge them separately? Or can you charge both the phone and the case at the same time.