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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tygger:
Thanks. I went ahead and just rooted. Haven't been following the different ROMs... is Calk's the best?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ind3lible:
I also got a question about this. I am on baseband Ek02. I am rooted and have the blazer rom installed. My kernal says El29 and build number says same Gingerbread El29. So when I do get the OTA should I unroot? or just click update?

Thanks,
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ja5oN:
This might be up for debate, but I'm gonna say yes. It's the best...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ja5oN:
EL29 is the most current you should not get the update, if you do try any ota update at this point, it will fail.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schwab002:
I put the file you posted in /system/apps and used TB to freeze system updates, as well as a cache and dalvik wipe with reboot. Am I all set so the update won't install and screw up Calk's rom for me? And get rid of the notifications?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JonSCSL:
What if your a stock root and want the update? Should I unroot then update and then reroot?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
I don't know if this will work so try at your own risk. I read about a recent ota for the epic 4g that the notifications were getting on some people's nerves. Someone brought up the idea and a few people said it worked.

If you are on a custom rom and the ota nag screen pops up, let it update. It will fail and I'm guessing it will try to flash but give you an exclamation mark when trying to update. When you get the mark, pull the battery them put it back in. They are saying in that post that the nag screen will stop appearing after that. I haven't tried it yet because I don't need to. If you do decide to do it, I think it would be a good idea to nandroid before everything and have all the files you need to flash it back to where you want it if something goes wrong. I don't know for sure but I don't think it will brick a phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
Somebody was asking about cal's 2.8.1. I have the trexcell 3800 battery in the phone now. I did properly break in and condition the battery when I first got it. Here is a screen shot. I went off the charger at 8am and have not been plugged in at all during the day. I used the phone quite a bit too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Lancair360:
Depends on what your taste and personal preferences are. All the ROMs found here are at least as good as the stock ROM.....most are better. For a really awesome appearance and stability with speed and increased battery life I'd recommend Strongsteve's odex blue ROM.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AngelMayLaugh:
I figured I would ask here instead of making my own thread. Would it be best to download an OTA on a brand new phone and then doing all this rooting and flashing and ROMing? I'm asking because I don't have the phone yet but I'll be doing all this cool stuff as soon as i get it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TheHighlightGuy:
A lot of members that went from calk's ROM to the blazer ROM are showing battery improvements, one member even said his tripled. I'm currently using it and couldn't be happier!
[Networking] LFrank342:
with verizon being the number one service provider, that also comes with the ability to charge whatever they want...basically.

anyway, i found that student rate offers an 8-10% discount on recurring monthly charges from verizon.

discounts are available to new customers and/or if you are adding a line and upgrade.

to get your discount

:

purchase your wireless device at verizon wireless, amazon wireless or wirefly.com using student rate's links.

[google student rate and their wireless promos are on the front page]

:):p;):D:o:):cool:
[Networking] randyking:
this is awesome! can you go to a verizon store and apply the discount that way??
[Networking] rolodev:
interesting

Enviado desde mi GT-I9000 usando Tapatalk
[Networking] magsbrown:
in order to get the discount you have to go through student rate.

go to their site and click the link.
[Networking] DeeReynolds:
I think that this is the deal the OP was referring to - LINK to deal
[Networking] samryderdie:
any little discount is better than no discount.

if you do not have an opportunity to use a college discount or an employee discount, going through student rate is the best way to go.
[Networking] patsummz88:
i made a purchase through student rate and am very happy.

i did not combine promos but i was able to get an iphone at a discounted price and opted to get a lowered monthly bill. i should expect to see the discounted applied within 2-3 billing cycles.
[Networking] randyking:
i signed up yesterday with student rate and used this link.

i just followed the instructions and i should expect to see the discount applied within 2-3 billing cycles.

i have purchased puma sneakers and stuff for my girlfriend from the site, so i trust it.
[Networking] samryderdie:
you can, but i think you're limited to the number of lines that can get the discount
[Networking] patsummz88:
is this promotion still going??
[Networking] samryderdie:
they have more than just cell phone deals and you don't have to be a student to use them
[Networking] 4ktvs:
Never mind
[Networking] LFrank342:
these are on-going promotions that [sr] has with verizon, at&t, t-mobile, etc.

your discount varies upon eligibility.
[Networking] randyking:
i used a deal with student rate a while back and the deal is still the same. i was able to to get the discount off my monthly bill within 2 cycles.
[Networking] MissyThinks:
i have signed up for cell phone contracts via student rate before and they have always met expectations.

I have signed up for 3 phones with them and always got a discounted bill within 2 billing cycles, a discounted phone and whatever else that happened to be mentioned within the deal.

When my contract is up I am going to use them again! Thanks!:):):):)
[Networking] Renzo011:
has anyone recently used this deal? or any of their student rate deals?
[Networking] proxus01:
wow
[Networking] adolfo778:
they also got this for tmo my bill went from 130 to 115
[Networking] boosterp:
Hell, if you work for many companies, federal or stat government, or a student you can receive both discounts on data an the voice/text plan. Many times accessories such as cases, bluetooth, batteries, etc also get a nice little discount. Enter in you email addy at vzw.com then choose employees and you get one back with your discount.
[Networking] zero visual:
studentrate.com has a bunch of student discounts.
[Networking] LFrank342:
Family Plan

I think it's great that Verizon and student rate are offering this for a family plan...I'm all for stacking up ways to make my bill cheaper:laugh::good:
[Networking] Tricksie:
good deal. What is the best phone to get with this discount?
[Networking] Lizzy345:
Well, that totally depends. There should be threads out there that will compare and contrast the phones, but I'll probably upgrade to the new iphone due to its enhanced internet speed capabilities and compatible apps.
[Networking] APGordon:
ok, so I definitely need a discount on my bill so I'm going to go ahead and get a new phone, something recent but not the newest model. Suggestions anyone?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DranzerV:
Hello everyone! I've encountered a substantial problem with my galaxy s2 and I would like your help, if possible.

This problem is related to the mobile network. Each time I try to connect to a website I get some kind of error, from 'Data connectivity problem' to 'Server failed to communicate' and even the traditional 'Web page not available'.

Note: There are a couple of websites that seem to work, such as: m.orange, m.facebook.com and m.yahoo.com.

At this point I would like to mention that Wi-Fi works as intended, with no problems whatsoever.

As for the mobile network, I believe I have the right settings resembled in the APN settings. Data connection is turned on, and I have tried both GSM and 3G. I have also tried different internet browsers, such as Opera, with the same result: only m.orange, m.facebook and m.yahoo seem to work.

It is quite frustrating at times not to have access to a mobile network. I would like to add that this problem remains to any apps that need a network connection in order to run. Therefore, I cannot run anything (Android Market, Google Maps, Youtube app, etc etc).

Thank you for your time. Please advise!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
First of all, double check APN settings, see if your provider has an app in the market, or sometimes you can send an SMS and they'll sms you settings.

Secondly, try another modem, you may have a weak modem, before doing this download speedtest and check your connection speed and post that up. To see hows well it's connecting.

Thirdly, check your operators website to make sure they are not having network difficulties in your area.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Is their a setting that turns standard web pages off because that's what it looks like .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JRO001:
Visit the webpage of your service provider. Usually on their support page you can have their data/mms settings sent to you by sms which then will be "auto-installed" on your phone. Good luck!
[Epic 4G Apps] samsungepicgeek:
Will Team Syndicate's "ICS Launcher"(https://market.android.com/details?...sMSwyLDEsIm1vYmkuU3luZGljYXRlQXBwcy5JQ1N2MiJd) get updated, because right now I cant edit the icons in the dock or in the app drawer.:mad::mad:
[Epic 4G Apps] slayer450:
The only prob I have is it force closes like ten times a day. Other than that I think it's great. For the dock just drop the app you want where you want it.
[Epic 4G Apps] samsungepicgeek:
Ya I know but in the app drawer you can't edit where the icons are, like in Go launcher for example.Same goes for the dock.
[Epic 4G Apps] jworkcoo:
It has potential but there is NO support for the launcher from the developer. Here is the thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1268003 good luck.
[Epic 4G Apps] zanderman112:
Also, "Will this get updated" questions for market apps are pointless. No one here is in charge of it...

Sent from something with a Ｋモ尺れモㄥ.
[Epic 4G Apps] slayer450:
Very true, e-mail the dev.
[Epic 4G Apps] Kkthnxbye:
I fixed the FC by hitting menu button going into launcher settings.. then Launcher controls then *check* system persistent.. Ive never had a force close since then and im running the latest CM7 nightly 39 =D Hope this helps.
[Epic 4G Apps] rompnit:
Just use Go Launcher with an ICS theme... looks and functions almost the same. I was running an older version of the ICS launcher, before it hit the market and it was much better.
[Epic 4G Apps] tkeyes:
go to their website: http://syndicateapps.com/main/ICS_Releases.html

and picked the 3th one, that the one i use and it doesnt fc.
[Off-topic] michaelg117:
Awhile ago I posted asking if anybody was a Glover, well.. I am and I posted a video on YouTube. I'd really appreciate it if my fellow xda-ers could go check it out and maybe subscribe (;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gISUZjl6rKo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thanks guys.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Roadkill263732:
Hello there my fellow XDA-ers,

So I bought a Flyer not too long ago, mainly for notes/browsing/video/music.

And all is working well, with the normal browser, opera browser and BSPlayer.

For music I use both the standard HTC Music Player (I'm on stock Gingerbread btw, but it's S-Off and rooted) and Spotify. Spotify is working well, but for local music I prefer to use the HTC Music Player, since I really like the look and layout in landscape. Spotify is just an oversized phone version (and only portrait, but I've heard of a fix for this) =\

But in the HTC Music Player, if I have... say.. compilation albums, it just shows 1 random album cover for every song in the compilation, even though all the songs (in the album/compilation) have a different album cover. I know that each song has a different cover art, since each song has its own correct art in iTunes, Spotify PC, Spotify Mobile and on my iPod Touch.

This is more of a general question about Android I think, since I have this problem on both my Sensation and Flyer.

I don't know much about how all this works, but all my files are 320kbps MP3's and have album art.

I google'd around a bit, but couldn't find anything that worked. So what could I do to make every song have its own cover art?

Also, YAY ICS is coming to the Flyer :D
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Droff:
If you have folder structure for your music and all songs from a compilation are in one folder and you have an album art file in that folder, then that's probably what player will show. I haven't used HTC's music player, but I know that this is what some players do.

Also you need to check info tags of the songs in compilation. If Album tag shows something like "Top Hits #1", then that's the album art that you're going to get. If tags are good and have correct Artist, Song, Album info, then album art is an easy fix. If tags are messed up, then you might have a problem.

I used to have a big collection of songs and many were made a decade ago, some from compilation CDs. Most of those files had tags messed in one way or another. When I decided to organize my music library I remember I used a tagging program first (maybe it was "tag&rename). In some files I had to fill in Artist and Song info from the filename. Files copied from iPods I had to rename, using Artist and Song info from the tag. I also erased "album" tags from messed up files (compilations), year and some other stuff. I replaced "album artist" field with "artist", so it doesn't show there something like "various artists". Then I used Winamp to pull up the tags automatically from the internet. It did pretty good job and fixed more than 90% of files. All above is done automatically and you don't have to do much there, other than telling program what to do next. After tagging is done, the best thing to do next(but not necessary) is to use another program (don't remember what I used) to pull the album art from the internet and store it in the music file itself. Last step is recommended, but not necessary, because most better android players (Like Player PRO) can get the art from the internet themselves.

Nowadays, music files usually tagged properly and if you ripped files from CD, many programs will tag songs properly when creating a file. You still might have messed up tags if it was a compilation CD.

You said that all your files have proper art (I assume in iTunes), so I assume that they are tagged properly and the only issue is the location of the song and art files.

I don't remember how iTunes organizes files. But I think it puts song files into album folder (which is in Artist folder) and puts album art file into album folder. When you copy songs into another compilation folder you loose the art. If files are tagged properly, then you can delete the album art file in the compilation folder and let good player (I recommend Player PRO) get all the art from the internet. HTC's Music player probably is not that smart. If you don't have art embedded into the file, then you need to make sure that folder structure is preserved. Songs and album art file from different albums need to be in different folders.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] foobar66:
If you're on Linux, use "easytag". As previous post said, embedd the tags (even album art picture) inside the files, then it will use the album art from the file (not from the folder where the file is in). This way you can just copy files across platforms and not loose the album art.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Roadkill263732:
Thanks for the responses guys, but concerning the tags and embedded art, everything is correct I think. I made the folders myself (artist > album > music files) and in the MP3 tags, the artist and album (compilation) are the same, so they appear to be from the same 'artist' and compilation/album. The album/cover art is also included/embedded in the MP3's themselves. Because I made the folders myself, there are no other .jpgs to overwrite the art from the MP3.

Sorry that I forgot to mention that.

But as far as I know, everything is clean and organized. It really seems like the music player is just randomly selecting one of the artworks, since if I remove the entire folder from my Flyer, then re-add the exact same folder from my PC, it will have another randomly selected artwork for every file.

One of the possible solutions I read about was to put every file in a separate folder inside the album folder. So it would be Artist>Album>SongFolder>Song. The files all still had the same artist and album in their tags, so in the player they were still organized in the same artist and album. But still it would select a random artwork embedded in one of the songs and use it for every song.

Sure it's not really that big of a deal for most people, but I do find it very annoying, since I really like all the different artworks (and the HTC Music Player) =\

If anyone knows a tablet optimized (or Flyer optimized, since well.. mine isn't Honeycomb xd) Music Player that doesn't have this problem, suggestions would be appreciated as well.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] slep595@aol.com:
Same HTC Music Plaer Issue

I know this is from January, but the album art is rlly bothering me so...

I just got my HTC phone and I have the same problem, every album without cover art has the same random one. I'm kinda a noob when it comes to phones so I'm not sure how to fix the issue but will downloading a different music player fix the problem? Or did you end up finding a way to fix it?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] redpoint73:
Probably not. Its sounds like the ID tags on your music files are screwed up. How do you organize and play music on your computer?

You might try one of these apps to fix the tags: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fix+mp3+tag&c=apps
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Samuka97:
Hi. I've just recently tried out an app from the market that would let me control emulators and some games with a Wii remote, but it wasn't compatible with my G2x. However, I stumbled upon what is most commonly known as "OTG" cable, but discovered they were worthless for the G2x as of now because 2.3 doesn't have USB hosting.

What I wanted to know is, number one, will the G2x have USB hosting when the official 4.0 update comes out, or is it missing some special hardware needed for that? And number two, is there any risks in just getting a cheap MicroUSB to Female USB cable from a trusted seller? Like, can it damage any internal parts because of different voltages between devices or something like that? Or is the worst thing that can happen is the cable simply not working?

I'd really appreciate an answer on this one, because USB hosting seems to open up a lot of possibilities with our devices.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] oOo B0XeR oOo:
The short answer as of right now is NO there aren't any common ways to enable USB Host. With that said, can the Tegra2 chip in the G2x support host mode?...yes. Will it require a custom kernel?...yes. So basically your phone needs to be rooted to say the least and a kernel framework to enable and support it. I'm actually looking into this as we speak but it's looking like it'll be a while.

As for the cable... no most generic micro-USB cable won't work as is. The OTG cables have either a 'grounded' 4th pin or a disconnected 4th in some usb host modes. But either way you either need an OTG cable or if you search online you can find several ways to splice and solder back generic USB.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Zangarkhan:
I have been looking for a while, but there doesn't seem to a custom kernel that supports USB Host mode. I already have USB OTG adapter (mini Male to 4 pin USB female) + arduino board etc.. So are there any custom kernels out there?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Klathmon:
this^^^

Nothing had really changed on this front, if you want to use Android as an ardi interface, I'd suggest you grab a cheapo phone that supports it out of the box.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] player911:
I bring you back to life!!!

Any update on this? Seems ICS/JB roms are out now... any strides in getting OTG to work? I'm looking to make a G2x into a dedicated TV gamer unit to replace my MK808 and forgot about OTG for my air mouse. I have a Bluetooth mouse to get me by but the airmouse was awesome.

I guess I can look for a Bluetooth airmouse as a last resort.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Core Memory:
No OTG happiness for the G2X with any ROM and/or Kernel. There is a board from Sparkfun which provides an interface that enables a non-OTG phone to work like one for interfacing to Arduino, etc.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10748?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19967110&postcount=8
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inode86:
My Nexus S is stuck on the google screen.

I have downloaded the drivers for Android ADB and have gotten fastboot talking to the device but for some reason ADB doesn't talk to the device (though it does with my HTC HD2).

The phone is still locked and has no custom bootloader on it.

I can list devices attached with Fastboot and it shows the Nexus's serial number but when I try to do "Fastboot oem unlock" it comes on the phones screen to unlock the bootloader and when I select yes it hangs there and cmd says:

...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.582s

I am running windows 7 64bit.

The only difference I notice from the tutorials and mine is that the driver says

Instead of Samsung Android Device.

I had to install the drivers manually as PDAnet couldn't pick up the device and I found the drivers on one of the many topics on this.

Any idea's would be much appreciated, I have been trying to fix this for over a week :confused:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrackDaddy:
If fastboot recognises your phone, have you tried flashing latest cwm.img recovery through it? (fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo.img) from your sdk tools folder? It could be that you never had USB debugging ticked in settings!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inode86:
I have tried flashing the latest recovery .img to it but it comes up with the exact same error.

I don't think USB debugging was enabled before it bricked. I have no idea where to do from here as the phone was bought second hand so no warranty. :(
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inode86:
bump........