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[Android General] espio123:
There are still some countries that do not have paid apps available for them and google is not pushing this.For example; i am living Turkey and i had spent more than 150$ on apps for my ipod touch in months but now i have bought a galaxy s 2 and i don't have google paid apps available to buy. I have posted on android market boards, also contacted phone manufacturers and carriers about this but all of them point their fingers at google. So since google is not willing to listen willing buyers i think it is time for developpers to talk with google and tell them you want more customer base and countries like Turkey where there is a huge potential (75 million population with huge proliretaion of and android devices through carriers) are great for this puposes.

As a customer i have to tell you that i am sick of google making me have to be pirating paid apps and downloading untrusted apk's from torrent sites, if you take this cause seriously i am sure in long term you will be profiting from this.
[Android General] iridaki:
Instead of resorting to piracy, download a perfectly legal and legit Market unlocker app (such as this) so you can view and buy paid apps.

You know what I am sick and tired of?

People using anything other than their cheapness as an excuse for pirating.

Google knows damn well that they are losing money due to restricted countries but there are tons of legal issues to be sorted out.

In the meantime, you be a dear and stop ripping them and your favorite developers off.
[Android General] kately:
Yeah, it's terrible and annoying.
[Android General] jesusice:
I think we should protest their horrible music widget! Rank Music 1 star until we get a decent widget!
[Android General] espio123:
If i was after piracy i wouldn't be posting this on here and i didn't mind paying my hard earned $'s on ios and i am willing to do the same here but if nobody does anything about this i will be leaving android and looking for new platform.

Also i have looked up solutions to unlock market but they require rooting and i am not going to jeopordize my warranty on a thousand dollar phone.

I did ask my carrier to make rooting legal so that i could have full experience but unsurprisingly they don't give a crap.

Google obviously isn't giving a crap about this issue, carriers are not giving a crap, manufacturars are also not giving any crap about it.

Developpers are the ones that are being screwed over this. So obviously if they take this serious in long term it will be better for them.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] g2uzer:
So I dropped my phone in a bowl of soup... Yes lmao! But anyways my back cover save it big time, only the top half of my phone when in, I pulled the battery off, sim card and sd card, wipe it and I checked it and both water marks are still white :-) then I put it in a bag with rice. 24 hrs later I put the battery in, it turned on and everything works, except it was showing the headphones icon, I clean out the headphone hole again, turn it off, turn it back on and it was gone, I unroot it just incase it started to act up I could swap it out.( i have insurace) It's been a full day and no issues

OK so my question is should I root it again now or wait to see if something stops working? I think by now something should of been affected already but what do you think?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] wyldkard:
if you have insurance and won't cost you anything to replace the phone, then use it.

Other than that, rooting or unrooting won't matter on a phone that's been dropped in water.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mt3g:
I'm sure he is asking about the rooting of the phone is cause trying to swap a phone with root/custom rom will not go well for him.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] g2uzer:
Sorry I guess I didn't make my question clear, what i was really asking was that my phone is working right now, but does my phone run a high risk of something going bad in the next few days or I'm just lucky and nothing broke?

Might be a dumb question but I never had any phone dropped in liquid so I'm not aware if the phone stops working right away or it takes a few days for it to go bad

Don't want to root and then something stops working and I won't be able to flash stock.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] NekoNyapii:
I would try to root it, after all it's dry now and everything functions.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] g2uzer:
Thanks, I wasn't sure if it takes a while for the phone to malfunction or not lol.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] I.R.Chevy:
My experience has been if it turns on the next day its all good for many more bowls of soup lol. Or washer and dryer like my olllld bb

Making bad decision's one at a time.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] g2uzer:
Lmao, I hope it don't happen again lol, but yea everything working good, I haven't tried hdmi output, don't have a cable and I never used it lol, so I'll keep this phone. (rooted of course lol) till some thing else goes wrong, then ill swap it out, thanks for the replies
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canyon789:
I totally messed up while trying to install the Simple Honey ROM. I was trying out an ICS rom for a lil while then decided to go back to GB....I ODIN'd back to Eclair, then flashed this rom without flashing GB Bootloader. Now, i am stuck in a bootloop and i cannot get into download mode!!! There are times where I almost get into download mode but a rainbow appears and then it goes into Kernel panic upload mode. The only thing I have not tried yet is using a USB Jig because I have just bought one and it is shipping in the mail. Is there any other way to get it into to download mode? I cannot post in the dev forum because I don't have enough post. Please someone assist me in fixing this issue.

I have tried the following.

1. Install Samsung USB Drivers.

2. Power off the Phone.

3. Pull the Battery.

4. Plug USB cable into Phone.

5. Plug USB cable into PC.

6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.

7. Re-insert the battery.

8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.

Tried the following with odin:

As for download mode;

1. pull the battery,

2. put it back in;

3. then, with the phone still off, plug your usb into the computer,

4. turn on odin3,

5. hold the center of the volume buttons,

6. plug the usb to the phone while holding the volume botton

tried holding both volumes without a battery then put the battery in and while still holding plug into usb to see if odin showed a yellow com button. Rainbow occurred and kernel panic upload mode appears.

If odin does detect my phone, the longest it will detect my phone for is around 30 seconds then it will either reboot or go into kernel panic upload mode.

cannot try this posted by Raymond PJR post #9492 p950 on the simple honey thread because I cannot get it into download mode

The bootlooping probably has nothing to do with the GB Bootloaders, but is a known issue that is resolved by immediately flahsing Bullet then back to Talon if you want. So, get the Bullet .tar, start Odin on your PC, get into download mode, connect to your pc and flash Bullet. Then if you want to be able to see what is going on in recovery, consider flahsing the GB Bootloaders. Some say they can still make out the menus under the rainbows, but I don't know. I just went ahead and flashed them. READ, READ, READ, every OP before flahsing, (GB Bootloaders OP, Bullet OP, and if you've never used Odin, the OP of any thread you read on instructions. And watch any related videos on YouTube!

Bootloaders: http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1117990

Bullet Kernels: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/639-kerne...es-edt6242011/

also tried this because I could not get download mode or recovery mode. So I tried this trick through odin but it still did not get it into recovery mode after this.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9663212&postcount=53

Rom used:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1021383&page=950

USB Jig for people who may have a similar problem:

http://usbjig.com/

Version of Odin used:

1.85

Please any suggestions would be helpful thank you!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayprime:
Wait for the jig it will save your life :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canyon789:
is there any other way that it can be saved without a jig though?
[General Questions and Answers] TheShamsMan:
Hey guys!

Got a Galaxy Gio here running 2.2 on Vodafone in Hungary, but I am missing the APN information for data. The phone itself works, just the data.

Does anyone have said APN information?

Thanks!!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snipes1836:
My phone has had very bad battery life when wifi is on. And after reading online, and my own experience, I think the cause is Google Maps. Is there a way to automatically kill it after it stops, like some sort of task killer app?

Whenever I use my task killer, it shows google maps running, even after I killed it.

I don't even understand why google maps automatically runs, or why it needs to use any of my wifi...

Also, my phone is not rooted, nor will I be rooting it until the warranty expires.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
First of all, I've said it a lot and I'll say it again:

just because an app appears in the running list, doesn't mean that it is actually using processing power, thus draining the battery.

So, I really doubt that if you haven't signed in to Latitude (which means location updates every so often), Google Maps is doing any harm to your battery.

You probably don't believe me anyway, so I'll just move on to my next answer:

NO, if you are not rooted, you can't remove Google Maps, it's a system app, part of the Google Services Framework, the backbone of Android OS.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snipes1836:
Is there a way I can have an app automatically kill it as soon as it starts? And it seems that Google Maps is the only thing that could be possibly taking up my battery. Losing 4% an hour on standby is not normal.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
If you were to use an app to kill it as soon as it starts, it would try again and again to restart and that's where you would definetely see the drain.

When you go to Settings->About Phone->Battery Use, do you actually see Google Maps in the stats? And if yes, how much percent of the battery does it say there that it takes?

And 4% in an hour could be due to many, many things.

Check out this thread to help you find out more about your issue.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] somedude67:
Freeze it with titanium, unfreeze when you want to use it. That's what i do,.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rashid.fairus:
as i know,maps service is only location by using gps,so go to location n security setting,turn off "use gps satellites",if its still running,use iridaki advice-ignore it,it cant eat your battery!!:D

sent from my LT18i FXP103 SuperCharged
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snipes1836:
Google maps is not in the battery usage, unless I open maps and use it.

The things that are using that battery are : display, cell standby, phone idle, wifi, android os, android system.

But if I turn wifi off, the battery drain problem goes away :S

I will download betterbatterystats and use it, will post on how it goes.
[LG Optimus 2x] dickeplatte:
Hello,

my phone just bricked :mad:. I had a lot of trouble with it. And finally cm7 got better and better until i could finally use the phone without problems. Till now....

The screen went black. Even after pulling out the battery the screen remains blank (the backlight, too) and it does not boot.

But nvflash recovery mode works. I flashed a new recovery, but it still does not boot. So i want to backup my data with nvflash. I am not sure how to do this. Can anyone help me? Which partition is the data partition, and interalsd?

I think i have to send it to lg as it is still in warranty, so deleting everything concerning cm7 would be a good idea. How can i do that? Just format everything?
[LG Optimus 2x] rototrol:
There's a useful post over at MoDaCo:

http://android.modaco.com/topic/335...k-rom-release-v10b-dated-1300166062-15032011/

This pretty much explains it all.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daftman6:
Good evening,

sorry for the question. But i have a very serious problem. I tried to flash the FX105 Rom , everything went good.. but i Forget to save the Rom in the root of the Sdcard... i wiped all cache and the folder where it used to be "ROM"... So now i cant select it to flash... how can i put the file in the root of SD card now? if i connect to my Laptop i have only ADB access..windows 7 can not mount my sdcard, i want to move the .zip file in to the root directory, so i can select it from FXP Recovery Mod...please help me, im very stuck now :(

Please
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dp94:
Have you tried the mount options in CWM?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rashid.fairus:
take out sd card,put on cardreader,connect to pc,transfer..

sent from my LT18i FXP103 SuperCharged
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daftman6:
hi, i have no card reader for micro sd...

I try this ways:

1)phone is off, pluged to pc, menu key is pressed, then i turn on the phone, the LED is blue... on fastboot shell: fastboot devices.. i get numbers/letters.. but if i try to do this :

adb shell

adb mount sdcard

cd sdcard

adb push <filename> /sdcard/

fast boot says: no device found error...

in CW option i tried the following scenario... usb device plugged to my phone... i normally turn on the device... then on mount options: i select Mount sdcard.. then CW reboots thats it, nothing happens on my pc...

Please guys if you have any idea, please help me
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dp94:
Afaik, you have to boot into recovery, go under mount options, select mount sd card and then connect it to your PC. Usually it should detect your device.

I've always done the same.

And if you don't have a card reader, I don't think it's too expensive to buy one. ;)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daftman6:
Thank you guys, ive solved the problem.

Now i have FXP Ice Cream Sandwich on my Arc! :) really great rom.

Thanks!:)
[HTC EVO 3D] aagbulos:
Has anybody tried the AndroMedia and HighlightCam video editor apps? They can both be found on the Market.

I have both and like them both.

However, AndroMedia is a little buggy here and there (sometimes won't render - uninstall, deleting file folder on SD card, reinstalling fixes it). It has a simple interface and it is almost a full-fledged editor with fancy pans and zooms too! Transitions between clips are plentiful as well.

HighlightCam is cool but requires you to pay for credits to create a finished movie. It's very cool though...you can put a bunch of clips together, add music, and it will edit the video for you based on what your focus is on (like action for example). Takes a little long to create (wifi or 4G is recommended) but the finished product is very cool!

Any thoughts?
[HTC EVO 3D] rockness77:
Went and downloaded Andromedia and I liked the results I got. It was really easy to use. Thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] SH4YD33:
Same here thanks for the heads up.
[HTC EVO 3D] jrmatics:
Yeah thanx for this, trying out andromedia and I'm liking it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warlordxxx:
Ok first my apologies for starting another thread (there is some excellent information in the forum but i'm finding bits in different orders and i'm getting confused as to which one i need to do first)

Ok i'll start off by saying i have gingerbread right now on my desire it's currently rooted with s-off and clockwork recovery installed.

I'm going to be attempting to flash this lovely looking ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1322921

Now i'm going to guess at the order in which i have to flash (or partition etc) things and hopefully i won't be too far from where i need to be..

1. Use Gparted to partition SD card

2. Do nandroid backup incase things go wrong

3. Flash Upgrade (downgrade?) Hboot to CM7 r2

4. Flash ROM

i hope thats the correct order - couple of questions have i got the order right or am i barking up the wrong tree? and what happens (the steps if possible) between flashing the Hboot and the ROM can both be done from clockwork?

last question i promise the ROM asks for "Bravo Hboot: CM7 R2/DATA++/BRAVO SENSE/N1 TABLE" i know cm7 r2 is the hboot i know what DATA++ does i know bravo sense is sense and i have no idea what N1 table is. From that section does it mean i have to do something extra or it just means cm7 r2 is required?

Thanks for any and all input

Mark
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy3434:
thats the right order :) the other are just a list of Hboots you can use, you have deceided on cm7 r2 so thats fine, I would use ext4 of 1GB or 1.5GB, smaller or larger can sometimes cause problems. Good luck, have fun :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warlordxxx:
Thanks muchly Andy - can the Hboot and ROM both be done from clockwork or am i better off going for something automated like android flasher ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddiehk6:
it can be confusing but hboot isnt flashed from recovery like a ROM. i haven't used it, but android flasher is supposed to make it very easy to flash hboots. if that doesnt work the safest way is through typing fastboot command lines.

the CM7 R2/DATA++/BRAVO SENSE/N1 TABLE bit is just different partition table sizes, you can see them on alpharev. basically the ROM must fit into the system partition (145MB in the case of cm7r2)

after you've done that, boot into recovery. make sure you do a full wipe (factory/data reset) before flashing the rom.

i know you've got your nandroid backup, but make sure you also have made a titanium backup of your apps and data to be able to restore afterwards. use 'sms backup and restore' for sms, and google for contacts.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy3434:
You can flash Hboot from cwm just make sure you have the flashable zip and rename it, all instructions on http://alpharev.nl/ and agree titanium back up is good idea and full wipe is always good to do before trying new ROMs
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warlordxxx:
Thanks Eddie from what i understand the Hboot comes in a pb99 img ready to boot (apart from renaming to zip) from fastboot mode as listed on the alpharev site

"3) Flash HBOOT with your phone in fastboot mode (Back+POWER) -> 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img' (change into the correct filename for the HBOOT you downloaded)

4) 'fastboot reboot-bootloader'

5) 'fastboot erase cache'

6) Boot recovery, wipe everything and restore."

Not worried about the apps as i flashed the stock gingerbread and don't have much space for any that i actually want lol i have no sms that i want to keep and google for contacts is probably the only one i'll need :)

Thanks again

Mark
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warlordxxx:
Cross post thanks again Andy
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddiehk6:
yeh that's another way, i've just become used to typing in the commands as you've quoted from alpharev

looks like you're all set to go, good luck!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twisted_forever:
You can do it in ur phone also. download the correct PB99IMG file and remane it to PB99IMG.zip i.e. download the Data++ hboot and rename it to PB99IMG.zip and put it to ur sd card root(/SD) and after the nandroid backup go to fastboot or bootloader from the recovery power menu or by pressing power+Volume down button for 3 seconds.

In the bootloader u will see a prompt that an update is found. Install it by the volume button and u r done. reboot into recovery and flash the rom.:D

What is ur hboot version anyway.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ascot17:
You don't say of you are using an ext partition at the moment..

If you do Step 1 then step 2, you might not be able to backup if you have just wiped your partition. I would suggest:

1) Nandroid backup

2) Copy new ROM to SD card

3) Copy all SD card data to laptop

4) Partition with Gparted

5) Copy all SD card data back to SD card (in card reader).

6) Flash New hboot through fastboot

7) Full wipe of all partitions except SD card (important after new hboot)!

8) Flash ROM
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warlordxxx:
Thanks for the info i have an ext4 partition made through Gparted the nandroid backup worked fine afterwards as that's the order i did it in lol only made a couple of mistakes - flashed the hboot - wouldn't boot at all (it tried rebooting the phone itself and stuck on the HTC splash) it then wouldnt go into recovery so reflashed clockwork and then it was fine wiped caches and data installed ROM from zip from sd card - one thing i will say though is put your ROM on the SD card before flashing the new hboot as that would have made things a whole lot easier - had to pull the battery then the card copy over by usb adapter and put back in to flash it..

But important thing is it worked i now have a lovely new ROM lots of space for apps all my contacts back on... And i just wanted to say thanks for taking the time out to offer some help all of you it's very much appreciated :)
[Motorola Triumph] jaaydogg:
How would i intergrade a file manager app into a rom so that when i flash it the app will be a system app ? 2nd do gingerbread apps work with with ICS ?
[Motorola Triumph] Haro912:
Put the app in the system folder of the rom
[Motorola Triumph] jaaydogg:
i need an file manager app that will work with ICS, i've tried a couple of different ones no luck
[Motorola Triumph] euts001:
androxplorer, es file manager, astro, etc. are some.

and the system applications are in system->app
[Networking] umirin:
when I am at work or around outside at my work I cannot connect to the 4G network. No wireless is around, so 4G is on. I try to browse a site like this one, nothing happens. it just loads and never gets to the next page.

yet I pick up my phone right now and it instantly works using browser.

:confused:
[Networking] Wixej:
Most likely the room operator try another sim card and operator
[Networking] umirin:
what does that mean?

I was able to get 4G at work fine today, watched youtube.

is my phone defect? why would internet get stuck loading?
[Networking] Jesushaxyou:
4G is still a new system. It's buggy and the signal is awkward. You're fine in one spot but move two steps to the left and you won't have it anymore. Just gotta hope that where you're standing has reception.
[Networking] umirin:
I don't actually understand how you get internet at all if it's not wireless. I suppose I could wikipedia that.

anyway, can I go down to 3G or 2G if I am not getting internet on 4G?
[Networking] Jesushaxyou:
Yea, just turn off the 4g option. You'll go to 3g.
[Networking] 4ktvs:
I bet it's verzion the most, "Verizon Wireless has the nation’s fastest, most reliable 4G network". It's starting too make me a bit mad, but any way I hope turning the 4g off works for you.

I have been geting the same crap so yea.
[Networking] umirin:
not Verizon it's Rogers. I live in Canada currently.
[Networking] bamberbee1:
Hi

Is it clear
[Networking] magooYFZ:
Rogers will not work everywhere in canada. It has verrrry low coverage.

Sorry
[Networking] dej2gp3:
Verizon customer with 4G issues

I am almost always in 4G areas with Verizon, Fayetteville and Charlotte, NC, and Charleston, SC. The speeds are generally pretty good (varies between 14 Mbps to 6, starting to trend lower more consistently with more customers hopping on). I will generally lose signal on the lower floor of any multi-story building. But there seem to be noticeable outages, both from my phone (Samsung Droid Charge) and from the network.

I can generally tell which one it is by restarting my phone, so that may be a good way to diagnose whether the outages you're experiencing are hardware or network based. I can vouch for the fact that 4G coverage in Fayetteville has almost daily down times that vary from about 5-10 minutes.
[Networking] AFAinHD:
Wow I thought 4G freezing was just a SideKick 4G problem.

My fix is to just turn mobile data off then back on.

Sent from the phone everyone has forgotten about!