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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 92GreenGT:
Has anyone have this happen? I have my contacts linked on my phone through my Google e-mail. Got my phone on December 18th area and haven't had any issues with it until yesterday and half of my contacts disappeared. I was texting my wife and her name was showing on the incoming text and there was a time where she sent two-three text messages before I could check them and I was looking at the text in quick reply as I scrolled through them I noticed the first text had her name and the two after had her cell number. I thought that was weird but didn't think much of it, then later that day I had a unknown number call me so I answered it and it was a friend I had in my contact list but rarely talk to. That made me suspicious enough to check my contact list and sure enough, like 90% of my contacts are gone. A few survived but I've messed with settings and re-synced my contacts but still no avail. Anyone else had this happen? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dreadlord369:
Hey I had the same thing happen. I literally just looked at my phone minutes ago and saw this... I now have 4 contacts left.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 92GreenGT:
I'm not sure what has caused it, anyone else?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dreadlord369:
Yea I just tried removing the account and re-adding it and that made no difference at all. I also tried adding another account with a few contacts in it and it only brought in one contact from the account.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 92GreenGT:
I done a quick search on Google and it seems to be a pretty common thing that "just happens so get used to it". I don't think we are getting our contacts back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 92GreenGT:
Fixed mine!

Go to your Google Contacts on the computer(I searched Google Contacts on Google Search and it brought it up) and you should see a restore feature on the main thing with your current contacts. I restored mine using the "last week" feature and it brought them up and they are back on my phone after I re-synced. Hope this helps you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dreadlord369:
Awesome! That worked!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stretched:
Ive seen this before too. Haven't found a perm fix yet.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevinB88:
Hi,

Rom Manager says i got Clockworkmod 2.5.1.1 for galaxy S but i got Clockworkmod 5.5.0.4 installed. The Problem is that i cant find the right Downloads like Baseband for Galaxy SII. I' m using the Alpha of Cyanogenmod 9 for Galaxy SII.

Does anyone know a fix for that case?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cosmic Blue:
Rom Manager doe not work properly with s2 roms, there seem to be a bug in the rom manager that makes it incapable with the phone.

use cwm to flash files to your phone it is more reliable.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indianx:
Doesnt matter what rom manager says. Its fine.

where you got 5.5.0.4 cwm ??? you have any link ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bakron1:
I was wondering if someone out there in development land could add the blacklist call blocker with the wildcard function into a rooted ROM like the older CM7 had? Is it EVEN possible in ICS? I do not see the call menu option like there was in GB?

I love having the ability to block calls without adding addition apps from the market.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fairy123:
hi ya me too waiting for that
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tanner4137:
I'm almost positive that the option comes in MIUI ROMs
[Android Apps and Games] Faitas.:
Hello everyone,

Today I was trying to install GTA 3 on my Prestigio MultiPad. Yesterday I rooted my multipad and Android OS version is Gingerbread 2.3.

But when I am trying to start the game, game automatically turn off... What is the problem?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zohanAAh:
I'm using teamhacksung's ICS Port for Galaxy S and i can't select multiple contacts neither in contacts and when i try to send message to maltiple contacts.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gkaradag11:
Hey guys. I am planning to buy a new Android device in 2 weeks. But since i am really not that interested in with this kind of stuff, i need your advice. I need a fast device, not super fast like SGS 2 but fast. i will use it for browsing web, social networking and gaming most of the time. A ff camera must have cause i might need to use it occasionally. And it would be awesome if battery life could get me thru the day. Also my budget is around $400. I have done a lil` research and highlighted those devices.

-Motorola Atrix 2 ( my most favorite one, but lack of support from Moto makes me think twice and of course locked bootloader )

-Htc Sensation 4G ( 1gb int. storage is a major con. for me. Also have heard problems with touchscreen and battery life )

-Lg Optimus 2X ( again lack of support from LG and, 512 mb ram? )

So in those aspects, what would you recommend me? Or any other devices that i should consider?

Thank you already, and excuse my bad English. Not a native speaker.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HazzaBlake:
I'd go with the Sensation. HTC devices always have a great dev community behind them, and in turn, fixes for battery life and touchscreen issues. As far as storage goes, get yourself a 16GB SD card and you're sorted.

hope i helped

BTW. You're English is great, man. no need to apologise :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwbr:
The HTC Sensation just fits that need. Also easy to root and develop or install custom firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
Just a question..but if your budget is $400 why wouldn't you get the SGS2?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gkaradag11:
i have heard Sensations battery is not good enough. Most of the people i have talked with says they end up charging the phone twice a day with the stock battery.

And i cannot afford SGS2 cause i cannot buy the phones with plans. And Ebay prices are around $460-$490 for the devices only. And also cannot buy Sprint, Verizon etc. phones, I need a phone with the GSM tech.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
Ebay is the worst!! In the XDA marketplace you can get an AT&T SGS2 for under $400.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gkaradag11:
What is XDA marketplace? I have not heard of such a thing like that. Sorry you are dealing with a noob here. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=476

Its a forum where members buy/sell/trade phones. Not like ebay, no bidding. Mostly a set price with some haggling. Pay with paypal just like ebay.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gkaradag11:
sounds good, you are right. it cannot be worse than Ebay anyways. Thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gkaradag11:
but for some reason i cannot access to this market. any ideas?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
Probably have to wait for your 10 post verification email.
[Android Apps and Games] muneebrocks:
Like i only want jaxtrsms and agps to be able to use my gprs the rest have to wait for me to enable wifi
[Android Apps and Games] polobunny:
Can be done with Tasker. You can make a profile to enable GPS only when certain applications are detected as running.
[Android Apps and Games] c00king.c0w:
exactly! use rooted tasker, that's how i solved exactly the same problem. It works not onyl for gps but also data (gprs) :D
[Android Apps and Games] polobunny:
Oops, I missed the "R" haha.
[Android Apps and Games] xdadevelopers23:
droidwall

if ur phone is rooted use droidwall. free app.:)
[Android Apps and Games] Dhiraj:
If your phone is rooted then you can try eNeTraffic.

HTC Sense 3.5, Android 2.3.5
[Android Apps and Games] muneebrocks:
While all comments were productive and appericated I finally used your advice for two reqsons

It is free

And it was doing exactly what I wanted

Tasker for me was too confusing
[Android Apps and Games] muneebrocks:
Can anyone tell me what service should I allow in droidwall to enable agps support?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mr. Holmes:
I figured I'd create my own thread for this since it was originally posted in a dense thread that doesn't seem to attract the right people. =p

I decided to take a dive and go ahead and do this damn thing called rooting. I have some questions of concern, though (Obviously, my phone is the T989):

1. What is CWM actually doing to my device? What is Odin actually doing to my device?

2. If I do this method, is this actually flashing a custom ROM, or am I staying on the ROM that came with my phone (stock ROM)? I have no intention on doing anything besides gaining root access to my phone. I want it's ROM to stay stock and never change. Is this method somehow changing it? Later, I will get out of the water to explore the jungle.

3. When and if Ice Cream Sandwich is pushed to my device, will I be able to update without worrying about anything? When the time comes for the ICS update, I won't care about losing my root access, but I'm worried about a brick. Can someone elaborate on this concern for me?

4. If I perform this method, what are the instances that I will need to unroot my device? Besides warranty and return, of course, because that's never going to happen at this point.

5. If I root my device with this method, what will notably change with my device? Not what's possible, what will change? Any problems? Any new, immediate features?

6. Last but not least, Nandroid back up. When to do? How to do? Should I be doing even if I don't have root? When the root is finished, is Titanium back up a replacement for Nandroid back up? I know this one is accessible through search easily, but I'd like to hear the answers straight from the horses' mouths, if that's okay with everyone?

I've actually did a search for the majority of these questions, but I can't see to get the wording right to narrow the search down to specific question that I'm sure other people have had.

Thank you all for your time.

Cheers, Mr. Holmes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] media_11:
1. CMW flashed CMW on your phone. If you are concern about making no changes other than root access, go with odin. its pushing a file to abstain root access.

2. you are still staying on the stock room.

3. you would still get ICS update without bricking your phone. You will be losing your root access and would have to re-root your phone after the update.

4. if you are planning on not returning this phone, why would you unroot it? its more like having an extra 'superuser' app on your phone that can be removed anytime you want.

5. you won't have any problem or neither you would get any additional features just by rooting. it opens the door to endless things you can do with your phone, like removing all apps you would probably never use for ex telenav. why would you use telenav and pay money when you can use navigation app for free? why keep these app in your phone and have them use ram and slow down your phone when you never going to use them?

I think you should root your phone and play with it. if you don't like it, its going to be updated to ICS in couple months anyways. And remember, you can always factory reset with few clicks and buttons.

Hopefully this answer your questions.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mr. Holmes:
Thank you for your answers. You've really cleared up and confirmed things for me.

I have one more question based off of your answer, though. When you say I can just factory reset with a few clicks and buttons, do you mean I can undo the root by just going to settings > privacy > factory reset?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SGS2o:
You have to download the stock ROM for your device, then flash it. Factory reset alone can't unroot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
does anyone have superuser zip for 2.3.6 the o from Melvn thread abort on me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] joking:
Go to http://androidsu.com/superuser/

and donwload the newer su version. The file name is Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip, it's the 3rd link on the list.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] media_11:
I used superoneclick to root mine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SGS2o:
SuperOneClick does not work with 2.3.6 anymore, so you have to use Odin.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mr. Holmes:
Thank you all for the information. I've completed the root.

I still have a question about the nandroid backing up, though. I performed some kind of backup from the recovery screen: back/restore > backup. I'm not sure if that's the correct way, but I do have a 1.3 gigabyte file located on my external sd card.

Is that about right?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] russianDroid:
Why would u wanna root and stay always with stock?that so boring man

Ther is nice roms out rite now.ones u see it u will never wanna go back to stock trust me u only sayin that couse u didn't exspirienced it...... try. Darkside cm7 rom....

---------- Post added at 03:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:57 PM ----------

Oh and next time rite before u do backup it gonna let u change the name of ure back up..just name it something so u will know its that forsure....but since u didn't doit it should show u a date u did it so u should. Be good..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] candyman2000:
Hi

Recently installed CM7.1 and found that I can no longer tap numbers in the browser and have them sent automatically to the dialler.

Is there a tweak to turn this on or do I need to install a new browser?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razpor:
My galaxy s2 has had battery issues the day i got it.I was getting around 6-7 hours then, thought it was some issue with firmware checked the battery usage and everything seemed fine expect for few times the android os seemed a little high , so i installed a custom rom , tried sensation and villianrom and a few others .Villianrom seemed to help battery a little but few days in and battery is again draining like fuel in a f1.So i decided its nothing about the firmware and all , maybe i have a bad phone or battery cause its draining like 1% every 2 -3 mins while browsing or doing anything as a matter of fact i get about 4-5 or at best 6.5 hours but thqts rare.I mostly use wi-fi so it definitely uses less battery than 3g . So now my question is ... As i have rooted my phone do i get

The warranty assets as my phone is like 4 months old.I know about unrooting but will that do the trick ?

And btw apart from battery issues , which seem like i have a unique case , my experience with the phone has been amazing this is definetely the best phone on market ;-)

Please respond....and also share your experiences with battery backup of s2 .....thankyou. cheers B-)

*i forgot to add that another thing that i have been noticing is the high battery usage by the display , it sometimes is as high as 80% even on low brightness to which i have found no cure...no matter what i try it lowers sometimes to about 30% or more and is back again to higher, this has furthered my doubt that i have a faulty piece. Pls comment.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mark67222:
I'd say 1% every 2-3 minutes sounds about right if you have screen fairly bright.

Did you do a back up before installing custom rom?

If so install original rom back, then I think you need a usb jig, which is available from ebay. This will reset your custom binary counter so the warranty peeps won't know you've flashed a custom rom at some time.

I'm quite new to this so hopefully someone else may reply and correct me if wrong.

Mark
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manmad:
you tryed installing betterbatterystats and check which app causes wakelocks? most apps that cause battery draining wake up your phone all the time.

there is a free version of it on xda
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razpor:
Yes i made a nandroid backup

..

Also i mostly use phone at low brightness..so i cant explain the 1% per 2-3 mins..

And i am new to this too...1up for newbees :-P ;-)

Hehe
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razpor:
@jjegan

And can you please give me the link to battery faq...i tried but cant seem to find it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1312273&highlight=battery

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1234264&highlight=battery

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1351663&highlight=battery

+ BetterBattery Stats + Juice Defender apps .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makrilli:
I have cm9 so of course my phone consumes a lot of battery but sometimes it uses 2% in a night, but just a while ago i had 5% left of my battery, i go to get the charger and when i come back in 30 seconds, I have 0% of my battery left
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b3dm4n:
on regular use, my batt wear off in a day or a day and a half, but when my kid play a HD game, the battery drained in just 3 hours.

I've only tried 2 custom roms, miui and criskelorom, and I think using criskelorom combine with neak kernel is my best so far
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razpor:
I used the trick of battery calibaration by ram3n and battery seems to hold up a little better. Betterbatterystats was really helpful as well as battery monitor and cpu spy . But still i guess yhe phone will suffer on heavy usage or even medim .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razpor:
I havent tried crikelo rom ... I guess i ll try it... Villainrom seemed good for battery too .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferns4u:
Rapid Battery Drain on Galaxy SII

My Samsung Galaxy S2 Battery drains heavily all of a sudden. I noticed that suspend backoff is consuming battery. It doesnt go into deep sleep either. Using ICS 4.03.I have attached Battery Stats dump file. Please advise.
[Hardware Hacking General] hackqiang:
Hi all,

I had made a decision to port u-boot for GT-I9023 few days ago, so I collected some chips info in this phone:

thanks AdamOutler and Rebellos for CPU

CPU: Samsung S5PC110
Baseband processor: Infineon 8824 XG616 X-Gold
Tx Front-End: Skyworks SKY77529
LCD: SONY NT35580
Touchscreen: Atmel MXT224
PMIC: Maxim Semiconductor MAX8998/National LP3974 PMIC ?
Audio: Woifson Microelectronics WM8994
MCP: Samsung KB100D00WM-A453(include 3Gb Mobile DDR, 1Gb OneDRAM and 8Gb OneNAND)
NAND: SanDisk SDIN4C2
BT/Wifi: Broadcom BCM4329GKUBG
NFC: NXP PN544
USB Switch: FSA9480
Touch keypad: Cypress ?
Compass: AK8973 ?
acceleration sensor: KR3DM ?
Gyro sensor: STMicroelectronics K3G
Ambient light and proximity: GP2A ?

Maybe there are something wrong in the list, please correct me.

ref:

1. Nexus S Teardown http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1

2. Kernel configure from https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/samsung.git
[Hardware Hacking General] AdamOutler:
From what ive read S5PC110 is what the galaxys series has. The S5PC110A01 is the rebranded and slightly tweaked Apple A4 processor
[Hardware Hacking General] bhundven:
Let me know if you have a thread for this development, if not, pm me with your progress. I'm porting u-boot to SGH-T959V, and am planning to port it to other Galaxy S devices. https://github.com/bhundven/u-boot_galaxys/wiki
[Hardware Hacking General] Rebellos:
Well, here's point of mine and Adam eternal disagreement - I think S5PC110A01 = S5PC110 = S5PC111 = S5PC11<whatf***everIsHere>, and Apple A4 is something different. It's really hard to get out of that desinformative mess provided by Samsung documentation and various "Teardown Experts".

Enough to said that S5PC110 isn't CPU but it's PoP package, containing S5PC110 CPU and corresponding memory package with oneDRAM, LPDDR and oneNAND inside, CPU itself is under memory chip, so "chip id" in teardowns is usually taken from memory package writing, as CPU itself doesn't have any text on it.

I'd recommend you just grabbing Odroid's (the one with Hummingbird) Uboot, and it contain set of drivers for most of hardware you need. Just add some drivers from NexusS kernel sources. :P
[Hardware Hacking General] AdamOutler:
We disagreed at one point that S5PC110 and A4 would not work the same.. I agree at this point. However, S5PC110A01 is the model number for the A4 processor. See here:Samsung-Intrinsity Apple A4 (S5PC110A01) RISC SoC
[Hardware Hacking General] deepakpatil001:
Can we change the internal ram of android device?
[Hardware Hacking General] bhundven:
No, the cpu is under the internal memory (ddr and onenand) on the chip in a Package on Package configuration.

If there is any thing you could do (if you had the specs for both the internal memory, the cpu, and an ocilloscope) is try to optimize timings to gain tiny or maybe bigger (never know) in performance.

You would make those changes in the bootloader.

if by internal memory you mean internal storage (onenand), why not just modify the bootloader to boot a rom or linux distro from a partitioned usb device? rapid rom development. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] nicopilami:
Hi

Yesterday I wanted to look at a movie on my tab;

I plugged a headset on the tab, and started to play the movie.

The curious thing is that the sound came both from the tab speakers and in the headphones.:confused:

How could I do to have the sound ONLY on the headphones ?

Thanks

Nico
[Acer Iconia A500] mswirski:
The Tab should simply recognize the jack has been plugged in, and deliver sound only to the headphones.

Is it playing on BOTH the headphones and speakers, or just the speakers?

As a simple test, check if you get the same problem using a different set of headphones.
[Acer Iconia A500] Digil:
I've had a similar experience a few times, where the sound will play out of both the speakers and the headphones (annoying those sitting next to me on planes). What worked for me was simply unplugging the headphones and then plugging them back in again, until you see a small headphone icon on your status bar. Once you see that icon, you can be fairly certain the sound is only coming out of the 'phones.

I know it's a simple remedy, and you have probably tried it already, but that's what worked for me.
[Acer Iconia A500] cruise350:
I forget what the app is but there is an app in the market that will solve this problem if the unplug and replug method doesn't work for you.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Network_Punk:
EDIT: Ignore this post! I had flashed using install from zip within recovery, used fastboot to push the .img instead and it works again! Hope this helps someone in the future (or rather hope that it is never ever needed again)

Please help!

I flashed the KF1 Radio for I9020 found in the main post on the dev forum, had no luck so tried reflashing the JK8 radio which is what my phone originally came with. This didn't work, so I restored my ClockworkMod Recovery backup (which I assumed would contain the /efs folder) and I'm still not getting connections!

Have I seriously messed up my phone here?

Edit: Was going to post some info on it, but just discovered that Baseband Version is Unknown, previously this was I9020XXJK8 I believe. I take it then that the ROM backup doesn't touch /efs at all then? Bugger. Anybody know what I can do short of sending it back?
[Desire HD General] hassanhassan:
To me it seems like they've gone back a step in terms of aesthetics, compared to honeycomb for example. It just looks boring.

What do you think?
[Desire HD General] acidspider:
I dislike the colour blue. Therefore I'm not liking ics right now either.
[Desire HD General] joooe:
Simple and fast. That's the real deal. :D

And color is certainly not an excuse. :D
[Desire HD General] hassanhassan:
Who said anything about colour?
[Desire HD General] Pootsy:
I'm waiting for a Camera fix before trying it out although the simplicity is a real plus point.
[Desire HD General] joooe:
acidspider, just above my first post. :rolleyes:
[Desire HD General] shad0wboss:
actually, i thought that ICS was suppose to be slower than GB and Froyo, haven't tested it out but...what do you guys think?
[Desire HD General] fillyo:
ICS is so much better, don't kid yourselves. Everything is much more fluid. I actually miss certain sense elements, as I was an HTC guy.

Fillyo
[Desire HD General] lurerpå:
I have gone back to cm7
[Desire HD General] lurerpå:
The ics feels a little young..just organising contacts was ....i cant find a easy way to delete a contact from the list. Ics needs work and more tweaks