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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] killhr:
Just curious so if anyone wants to chime in please do ok ive noticed since the last month or so there seems to be 2 roms that stay updated and the most popular which are Calk and StrongSteves and he uses Calk's as base so my question is has anyone tried both and came to any honest conclusions on which is better and if Strong Steves just a themed version of Calk's
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Zorachus:
I have been extremely happy with Calk. Great battery life and speed.

If you like battery life, check this out;

Calk's 2.0.1a + Rogue 1.3 kernel
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thatdudepoops:
IMO...

Cyanogen 7.2.0...RC3 . The snappiest, fastest rom i think. Doesnt have 4g but the 3g is enough on this rom..Pandora and all. I haven't had time to truley test battery life...will get back in that

Sent from the future
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asbjörn:
UnNamed Rom with KingofThajungle's ICS theme port...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] killhr:
I cant seem to find it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
Because it isn't here. It is against forum rules to mention the other site.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Eddiepapi:
Even through pm?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mephime:
I was waiting to hear which rom was the best, 4g is a must. Im looking for a rom where everything works, no fc or reboots. a rom that has been used or at least ten days without problems. I just got the epic touch, still have my old epic and I have flashed my old one many of times. Many of great roms but ater a couple of days the fc or reboot, trying my best to avoid that. So If I have to I will wait as long as I need to for a nicely tweak new rom. I have read and strong steve looks and sound really nice along with tnz blend, any help on the matter. Any truely daily drivers or do I need to wait, I cant wait to flash so someone help me out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thatdudepoops:
Just Google cyanogen for epic touch man its there.

Never have ur source, come from one source :)

Sent from the future
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thatdudepoops:
Daily driver plus tweaks ... Id say cauklins is most stable. Its a harder choice with these epic devs cus to be honest almost all these Roms are pretty damm solid for being a young phone. A lil better battery here, a lil better reception there...they're all pretty stablestable. Reboots stopped with the EK02 modem for me. And the only fc I've had is between zeam and my pandora folder. But zeam fixed it.

Coming from the HTC hero and the OGepic ...where there was a lot of test and error...were lucky to have some good smart seasoned devs on this phone...not to say they're decent ppl but they do decent work ;D memory leaks, LOS, reboots etc...get stomped out pretty fast.

Sent from the future
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ben's:
To the OP; I would check out the Starburst ROM. The latest build makes it extremely easy to flash with CWM. It offers the best stock experience in my opinion. It's an absolutely flawless ROM which is basically a stock Epic ROM stripped down for speed. The most stable build has been out for over a month and it's made by one of the most respectable devs for the Epic.

There are some options for customization as well and you can flash the latest official kernel/modem for the phone. The ROM is 100% stable, I have been running it since I got my Epic and wouldn't run anything else.

It's not a flashy ROM however, I like the build, it's super fast and stable, all of what you are asking for.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mephime:
@thatdude what ver do u recommend I have read some problems with 2.7
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rbtrucking:
Phantom Hackers Blazer rom is a a pure beast with the ICS Extra terrestrial edition theme. Pure win!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
2.7 has no problems at all. Its user error. If you want deodexed, go for Calkulin's or NoName but the others are great as well. If you want odexed, strongsteve's is amazing
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] urbanlink:
I've got TnZ blend 2.2. Battery life so far is good and I've been really happy with it. I've tried miui and caulk. This is my chosen daily driver. .02
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nibrwr:
Calk's 2.7. Stable & fast
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
Ive been running StrongSteve's rom for a while now, and i have 0 complaints (im just as picky as you are if not worse XD) on the plus side its fast as f*** and Steve and JohnCorleone are always there to help. =D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
It would appear you cheated lol. There is some charging in there. Longest Ive gone so far was on stock at 21 hours. Running Calkulin's 2.7 now though. I am an abuser though I like my screen brightness and haptic feedback.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mkuehn10:
I love this ROM. Dev is super active and takes user input to heart. Phone is running great with great battery life.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-aulanti:
Sorry , i don`t know if i can just open a thread or if i must have some posts and other things , because i`m new here but i have a quastione :

HOw can i root this device : Samsung galaxy sII GT-I9100

Android version : 2.3.4

Kernel version :2.6.35.7-I9100XWKI4-CL575468 root@DELL 143#2

please if someone can help me please let me know :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSniperFan:
You know that there is a forum for the galaxy s2?

Anyway, the easiest way is to use CF-root. You'll find it on the forums here. You'll need either Odin or Heimdall to flash the root-kernel.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-aulanti:
yes i got all of the tool i got S2 root , i have odin , kies but i don`t know which insecure kernel i must use to flash my device..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Here: http://www.filesonic.com/file/2077864784/GT-I9100_XWKI4_insecure.zip.
[HTC Sensation] payneardo:
Where is the boot animation on the ICS as would like to change the animation on the RCMix ICE v1.1 ROM ??

Having a search around and it doesn't seem to be in the right areas but probably be me but will be keep googling and searching but anybody knows that would be great :)

Cheers

Payneardo
[HTC Sensation] rddocke:
I know in arhd its in /data/local
[HTC Sensation] jasminthoria:
File name should be bootanimation.zip

If you check in these 3 location most probably u will find it.

/data/local/bootanimation.zip

/system/media/bootanimation.zip

/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyzpatel3009:
When i was using gingerbread 2.3.4, my nexus s is not connecting to pc. pc is not taking is driver. i tried so much by some adb driver and also Samsung's latest drivers. but still it is not connecting.

And also having this problem, i make a stupidity by upgrading to the official ics 4.0.3.

In ics 4.0.3 in bootloader mode it is showing black screen and still not connecting to pc. When i connect it shows as unknown device. And i update driver is takes as usb input device or HID-compliant consumer control device.

In 2.3.4 in have installed clockwork recovery mode 5.0.1.0.

Ics 4.0.3 can't be root because of this problem..

Now i cant do any recovery without root bcoz it needs recovery mode. And cant connect to pc to act fastboot.

Plz give me some suggestions.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] soulcrash:
Hi guys,

i did a search but have found nothing regarding this kind of problem.

My display shows some kind of pattern on plain colors.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16054199/screen.jpg

Its worst on grey and white, (certainly) not seen on a black screen, and its almost not visible on the highest screen brightness. But, its very distracting on everything below and also visible in pictures etc. if looked closely.

I come from a S2 which had not this effect. Is it a faulty screen or a normal effect of the pen tile matrix?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dp92180:
I see the same thing when my screen dims down before it goes to sleep.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] soulcrash:
Just before it goes into sleep mode? (which afaik is even darker than the darkest setting while it`s awake).

I clearly see it under medium backlight setting, the grey elements of the market are a place where i always see it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] voxigenboy:
hate to break it to you, but that's just how the screen is(especially when the brightness is turned down & on plain colors). i've had 2 Nexus' and both did the same, even the ones on display in my local verizon store are the same way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PrawnPoBoy:
Turn the brightness up and it will go away. It's a quirk of the screen technology.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] soulcrash:
Allright, so i have to live with that... Thanks for your answers!

Is it possible to edit the levels of the automatic screen brightness?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dawynkoop:
If you're rooted and have Clockworkmod you can use this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1377410

Just make sure you meet the requirements and follow the directions in the thread. I have used this on a Verizon LTE Galaxy Nexus and didn't have any issues, even though it is in the CDMA form.

I am not the dev of this mod, just passing along the info.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] soulcrash:
awesome, thanks a lot!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] skynet11:
I wonder if there's some kind of deeper hidden meaning to the pattern, some kind of subliminal message :D jk

Terminators run on Android...
[HTC Rezound] phackney:
For some reason the Rezound doesn't include the "Notes" app, which I've seen on other devices running Sense 3.5. I had this widget in a 3.5 ROM I was running on my DInc, but extracting it from that ROM and trying to install it won't work. Does the widget need to be modified to support the new screen resolution? Is there someone here who knows how to do that?
[HTC Rezound] Izeltokatl:
It might be a resolution issue.that or you forgot to pull a supporting file with it. If you have titanium backup try searching with the filter "note".
[HTC Rezound] phackney:
There are actually three apks involved.

HtcNotes.apk

HtcNotesProvider.apk

HtcRichNotesWidget3D.apk

The problem is that they fail to install normally by selecting them in a file manager.

I used Root Explorer to copy and paste them directly into the System/App folder. The notes app still did not show in the app drawer, and when I tried to add the widget to my home screen I just got a force close. I'm guessing that they need to be modified somehow to work, but I'm not a programmer so I'll leave that to someone else.

BTW I obtained the apks from the latest SVN for Prime 3D XL for the Droid Incredible. I'm wondering if there is a version from a different phone ROM that will work.
[HTC Rezound] phackney:
Any devs have plans to get this app working on the Rezound?
[HTC Rezound] Izeltokatl:
I just use SpringPad. Or try pulling the thunderbolt version?
[HTC Rezound] ajglenn03:
I am using sticky notes and seems to work great.
[HTC Rezound] Tired of the Bull:
Did anyone ever get this working? I love that widget linked to Evernote.
[HTC Rezound] yucww210:
i think i can .call me ^
[HTC Rezound] Tmask32:
I know one of the sensation roms has it
[HTC Rezound] pkopalek:
Those APKs will contain images for a 800x480 screen and the widgets will look strangely small on our 1280x720 screens, even if you get them to work! HTC tends to use actual-size PNGs for everything (and not 'stretch' big ones small or small ones big, like some apps/widgets do).

The Notes widget on its own is just one which scrolls through 10 pages of yellow notepad, which you can either write on or scribble on on one of your home screens. Even on the HTC Eris, when you hit 'Get More Widgets...' or whatever it was, you could get Notes. I don't know if this is the one you're referring to or not!

The HTC Evernote Widget is a little different. Someone was investigating that, but even so there surely wasn't a 1280x720 version of it, I'm sure. We'll see what happens. That one is unique in that it integrates with Evernote kind of like Friendstream integrates to Facebook!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Amritttt:
I am in Dubai (u.a.e) and bought galaxy nexus from some wholeseller and he said it Is unlock and was working fine till yesterday.yesterday I rebooted my phone it Is asking me "Sim network unlock code" please help me out I don't even know what carrier is this phone from and how do I fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Amritttt:
All i know it is yakju maguro
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jameslepable:
I suggest either take it back get him to unlock it or buy a code off of eBay and put it I will yourself
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Amritttt:
I am ready to buy the code from cellunlock or ebay but i dont know which one to buy there are two pack uk or us. Please help me thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jameslepable:
Is the device from a particular country? And also search the forum, am sure the is a thread about it :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Amritttt:
I dont know is there a way to check?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pakxelaos:
If your device is yakju maguro then the phone is GSM/HSPA+ version from U.K
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Raptor1956:
I don't like the default clock face on the clock widget but I can't see how to change it -- what's the deal?

Brian
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jstegeman:
The deal is you can't change it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pedmond:
Just use any of the other 10,000 or so clock widgets on the Market :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bourque66:
Iv seen variations of this problem all over the place, but mine seems to be unique.

When trying to flash miui, i get that god forsaken red message. My understanding (or lack there of) was that i was missing the insecure kernal. Although, i had that entered during the Odin process. "GT-I9100M_UGKG2_insecure".

So what am i missing?! Thanks!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mkbi11:
I'm using michie's latest rom and everything (apart from camera) is working..the only thing I can't do is buy paid apps from the market..I get an error message .....anyone know what this noob is doin wrong?
[Verizon Droid Charge] lonndoggie:
My Charge has seen decreasing performance. I'm running 2.3.6, the last TBH leak, and I was initially getting Quadrant scores as high as the 1400's. Now, I'm down around 700! Needless to say, the phone has gotten laggy.

I'm using OSMonitor to look at what processes are busy, and I keep seeing k3g_wq running, using anywhere from 20% to just under 40%. Never used to see it before. I figure it's a system process, as if I kill it, it starts back right away and always has the PID of 54.

I've searched here and with Google and I can't find anything about what this process is. From the name, I might guess it has something to do with 3g access, but it's running like that even when I go into airplane mode.

Thanks for any info.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Undzis:
just a suggestion but since GB has officially been released i would wipe cashe,dalvik and data. Then flash infinity, tweak stock or danalo's stock debloated/deoxided rom. Then flash imoseyon's repacked voodoo kernel. you will get a quadrant score of around 2000. Im currently running infinity ext4 without tsm, imoseyon's kernel and v6 script. its been pretty good for me so far. i have no complaints.

But if anybody else has a better setup. I myself would like to know as well :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] lonndoggie:
Wow, that's quite a prescription! For now, I'd just like to know what that process is and why it's running, so I can try to get it to back down.

Thanks for the tips. BTW, I was running voodoo lagfix back in the day, and it got me quadrant scores similar to what I was getting with this GB ROM (not 2K, but 1600 wasn't unusual); I'd like to get back to that point. Without necessarily starting over.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
You're basically going to have to. The TBH leak is really old.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lonndoggie:
The TBH leak isn't that old (I downloaded it on Nov 7th), and the age of it doesn't make kernel processes run away. It's GB 2.3.6, basically the same as the latest OTA. And it only started doing this recently.

I'm afraid either something I've installed recently is triggering this (the better option, as I can start uninstalling stuff until the problem goes away), or there is something gone wonky with the hardware itself that the kernel is reacting to (obviously the worst case). That wouldn't surprise me, as this is my 3rd Charge, the first two having had lost their minds, running really hot and then rebooting every few minutes (this on the stock OS, rooted with the voodoo lagfix kernel).

More data (if there's anyone out there who actually knows what that kernel process is): OS Monitor's "messages" list is flooded with this:

"k3g_work_func: fifo entries are less than we want"

I get dozens of these PER SECOND.

Again, if anyone has any insight on what that process is about, glad to hear from you. Those who say "Nuke and pave!", not so much.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Fifo is an io scheduler if I remember correctly. Try changing it and seeing what happens.

"Nuke and pave" still seems like the best option.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lonndoggie:
Fifo is a general term for a queue -- "first in/first out". Many kernel processes live their lives managing queues. This one is complaining about it's queue being shorter (fewer entries) than it thinks it should have.

Did I see your name attached to a thread about trying to compile a kernel? If so, would you do me a favor, so I don't have to get all into git so I can get to the AOSP code, and grep for "k3g" and/or "k3g_wq" (still sounds to me like like "kernel 3g worker queue") and see if you can see what it does? Nothing in depth, just in general what it handles.

Funny thing happened today. It was getting worse and worse. Battery stats showed a shocking thing--for the first time ever, Display wasn't the biggest battery hog, it was Android OS!

So I decided to just reboot, to see if I could get it back to good enough to do backups and start the nuke-n-pave process. I had rebooted a few times over the last few days, and it didn't solve anything. Today it did! Back to normal, and I ran Quadrant twice and got a 16xx on the second run. Nice. A few hours later, and it's still good. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Oh, I had also uninstalled DropBox (which I wasn't using yet anyway) and this massive Gameloft game, "Tintin". Those didn't help, before reboot. But maybe those, coupled with the reboot, did.

I may still nuke and pave, but probably with the stock GB and just root after that. And keep hoping the CyanogenMod comes out with a ROM for it.

Thanks.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
I'm gonna revive this thread because I have a similar problem. My dad's charge is fully stock. He has never messed with anything. It was fine the whole time he had it except today. He has not used it at all today (10m screen time in 12 hours, and half of that was me trying to fix it) and the battery drained down to 30% all by itself. Me being the tech guy, he gave it to me and I checked battery usage. Android OS was reported to be using 89%. Cell standby was at 3%, and display came in last at 2%.

Since "Android OS" is very generic, I used adb to put the xda version of betterbatterystats on his phone, and under process, there is this thing called "k3g_wq" with almost a full bar. Under other, it shows the phone being awake 98.2% of the time. This problem only arose today. As he has not used the phone at all, there would be no rogue apps unless something just turned up. I disabled automatic updates in the market since the stock tunewiki app updated its permissions to read SMS (spyware???).

Does anyone have a solution to this besides factory reset?
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
K3G is a sensor, specifically the level sensor. Not sure why it would take up system resources, but I would think turning off auto screen rotation may be one method to try and limit its use and battery drain.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lonndoggie:
See my posts on k3g_wq above. Note that I found error log message about it not having enough entries--thus my supposition that wq == worker queue. If imnuts says it's a level sensor, then that's got to be it; from the name, I figured k was for kernel and 3g was...well...3g.

In my case, I was able to see it using OS Monitor (free in the market), using consistently about 30% of the CPU, which resulted in the OS being the largest consumer of battery.

And, for me, it finally just stopped doing it, after one more reboot. Hasn't come back. But every time the phone gets a bit laggy, I go look at that process list.

On another note, we're using my Charge at work as a test phone for our Android app, as it makes it blow up like no other device we have.
[Verizon Droid Charge] nismology:
I have noticed a sensor leak associated with google maps. Try opening maps in that phone, exit out of it and see if sensor usage persists. I hadn't mentioned it before assuming it was unique to my device.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Scrappy1:
I also notice runaway usage of k3g_wq in the last week. I have stock OTA EP4 and it had been running fine for many weeks with no issue. So there has to be something that changed recently. My guesses are the new version of Google Maps, or new version of Tiny Flashlight with the "shake on lockscreen" feature. I don't see Tiny Flashlight running any services, but since I disabled the shake on lockscreen feature my k3g_wq usage seems to be OK.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
I factory reset the phone and the problem disappeared.

Sent from my pocket-sized, Linux-based computer using electromagnetic radiation.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Scrappy1:
Ooooh, I just had the k3g_wq high usage issue while actively using my phone. OS Monitor showed it using 40% of processor all the time. So I tried the following:

1) disable auto-rotation. No impact.

2) started and exited maps. No impact.

3) Unistalled maps update and tiny flashlight. No impact.

3) Turned off wifi, GPS, data, BT. No impact.

4) Killed every running service that would stay killed. No impact.

5) Rebooted. This fixed it for now.

This makes me think back to the flash destroying early leak of GB for the Fascinate. This ROM would also have a similar process that got stuck using lots of CPU. On that dirty ROM, auto rotation needed to be enabled to see the issue. However once you had the problem, it wouldn't go away until reboot. The only safe thing was to disable auto rotation, reboot, and never reenable. Perhaps the Charge is now the same.

My opinion of Android and Samsung is not improving. In fact I do have some anger issues.

Give me a freaking iPhone at this point, I'll do anything for a quality engineered and tested device that actually works out of the box. Android and Google are sloppy if nothing else. Open sloppy mind you.
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
Must resist urge to flame... Seriously though, I think it's just good practice to get used to flashing ROMs, making backups, and learning to mod your phone. I've had some curious problems that only a reflash would solve. In any case, the only thing worth a damn on the iPhone 4S is the camera. The internals are fast, but what's the point?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Scrappy1:
If you're a geek and have time to flash and mod, that's great for you. I used to be in this camp. Now I just want my phone to work without contanstaintly modifying it, babysitting process and battery life. I want a phone I could recommended to ANY friend or parent without worrying. The Charge definately isn't it.

My brief history in Android:

Samsung Fascinate: got tired of poor battery life and runaway processes.

Samsung Charge: got tired of poor battery life and runaway processed. Also, voice quality is horrendous.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Tons of reviews of runaway "Android OS" proccessed during idle. Voice quality is bad and outbound audio drops.

With each generation, problems weren't fixed and Google/Samsung continue their careless ways. To me its just sloppy, sloppy, execution.