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[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] hudl:
Have been on vacation, so couldn't answer your posts. First let me clarify that my intentions on this post have not been to start a war by calling people "iPeople" or to badmouth this tablet which I really love btw. And I also want to tell you that I "invented" something (I'm coding a converter gui for free) - so, don't judge people which you don't know.

I wanted to give my impressions on my first use and my diasappointment, that even this great piece of hardware is not able to get a smooth experience without modding. So I blame the software for it, because apple is able to get it smooth even on a lower end hardware. I also blame Samsung with TW for this bad first experience and I hope ICS will fix this (I will install CM9 anyway later if it supports this device).

Unfortunately I also think that Google has to improve the experience throughout the whole system. Not only the launcher, but also the api for 3rd party apps to even give 'untalented' devs of apps the possibislity to make e.g. a long list scroll buttery smooth. If you compare the pinch to zoom on iOS with Android, there IS a difference. Dolphin gives me the best experience on this device in this aspect but it also is not perfect. It's about the look and feel - not the tech specs...

Yes, other launchers are faster, but I love the look of the stock launcher. I have no performance problems with games or videos, but with scroll lists and zooming. Some people won't find this annoying, but I do because I waited for years for Android to improve and the hardware to be able to handle it and I thought now is the time. But it is not...

The iphone was/is not a success because it has huge tech specs, but because people are just happy with using it and they don't get annoyed by the system. This is what I want for Android because imo it has sooo much more to offer than any other system!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
Is it me, or did a bunch of posts just vanish or something?

Edit: Nevermind, I apparently just had this thread confused with another virtually identical one. :p
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Peahnuts:
What I did to basically 'smoothen out the tab' was 4 things.

1. Delete all the widgets off of the Touch Wiz Launcher and made ADW Launcher EX my primary launcher. ADW is aesthetically more pleasing and if you prefer the stock launcher you can make it more or less very identical with the range of settings.

2. Root and freeze resource hungry apps eg. Social Hub with Titanium Backup Pro if you don't use them. I also went as far as deleting some stock apps such as Music Hub and some other bloatware.

3. Lower the rate at which background apps update. eg. Google Currents, Email, Twitter etc. (this will also save battery)

4. Don't use a task killer. Just use the one that comes with the tab. Me personally I don't even use it. I even forgot it was there the past 2 weeks lol. Also don't use the RAM manager. If anything this will make it more laggy.

My tabs buttery smooth most of the time. I have large APW widgets for Facebook and Twitter and 3 homescreens. I also use a live wallpaper. Then again maybe using a single core 600mhz android 2.1 device for nearly 2 years kind of makes other devices seem... speedy. lol.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] EarlZ:
I got the tab earlier and Im now trying out TW and its insanely and irritatingly slow!! I just switched to ADW ex with a very basic config and the difference is massive!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] got556:
JUst give task650 a few weeks to start kicking out some new ROMS and all should be solved. I've strictly ran GalaxyTask roms w/ pershoot kernels on my 10.1 Galaxies and they're smooth as butter.

The main culprit is TouchWiz and this has been this way on every Sammy device I've owned (check my sig...I've had a ...few). Shame Samsung does this as I truly believe Sammy would do well for themselves to ditch it, and also it would help Android (the whole community) out immensely.

ADW EX should take care of most of the lag and turning off animations, etc. Lots of widgets will always lag down any honeycomb tablet.

We're operating at Edge technology here (as in at the frontline) so give it a few months for the software to catch up with all this hardware pushing.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Shlomikalfa:
All the launchers are better then the stock TW one which is extremely CRAP!

also... why is honeycomb soooooo slow?! and How come there is no Chrome in it?!?

Crazy google and their android...

I LOVE THE DEVICE though :)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] EarlZ:
Is there a way we can remove the top bar from adw launcher ex? I dont want a double burn in lol!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] arkistan:
In the ADW settings:

General Behavior > Gestures > Swipe Down Actions > Show/Hide Status Bar

Once you set this option you can swipe down anywhere on the home screen to toggle on/off the top bar.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] jabbermacy:
Jeezus, how many times does it have to be said? TW sucks, use ADW launcher. Use 'big font' to increase font size. Any other gripes about this sweet little machine? :p

Oh, I forgot! Flash the black status bar MOD for you burnouts (I mean burn-INs)... ;)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] emprize:
Why dont u simply disable stauts bar from adw setting?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] EarlZ:
I ticked the disable status bar settings and it still there, I dont have the tab with my right now but I'll see if the gestures work, ill hide it then disable it.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Peahnuts:
I understand that companies want to differentiate themselves from each other seeing as how they're all using the same OS, but the extra stuff the add is really just slowing the phone down. A good example of this would obviously be HTC and Samsung with all their effects which would be nice, if they didn't slow down every second or so.

Sony seems to be taking the right direction. Most of their customizations are in the form of widgets and while I'm not really a fan of their aesthetics, I like how they provide their own identity without bloating up the phone.

While this isn't really a problem for most XDA users because we're comfortable with rooting and putting roms on our devices, most of the public just want a phone that looks good and functions well. And I'm afraid while most Android manufacturers cover the looks, it seems to be at the cost of the function and smoothness. Which is probably one of the multitude of reasons that steer people towards the iPhone. (Don't get me wrong the iPhone is a great product, just not my thing lol.)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] thrawnTHX:
Regarding performance, does anyone have a definitive list of which default Tab 7.7 apps are safe to freeze with Titanium Backup? I know someone mentioned the various Samsung Hub apps...there's got to be more that can be safely frozen, right?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] monakh:
Why not just freeze them and see what happens? What's the worse that could take place? Instability? Try it out and see and also let us know.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] thrawnTHX:
Well, I'm somewhat new to root access and I was hoping someone else has already gotten their hands dirty with some trial and error in case anything truly horrid happens.

Anyway, I did some searching and found some forum posts regarding this topic on Samsung Galaxy S2 international. Here's the stuff they deemed totally safe:

AllShare - DLNA wireless media, for watching videos on your TV over wifi.

Ap Mobile - Associated Press news, for the Samsung news widget.

Home Screen Tips - the widget

Music Hub

Social Hub - both entries (one with 3 people and a speech bubble icon, one

with an envelope icon)

Suggests - Samsung's app suggestion app

Yahoo finance - widget

Someone else mentioned freezing all of the following without any ill effects, although some of them sound a tad risky to me:

Accuweather

Allshare

Android Live Wallpapers

Ap Mobile

Bluetooth Test

Buddies Now

ChocoUKor

com.orange.authentication.simcard

com.sec.android.app.lcdtest

days

Digital Clock

Dual Clock

Email 1.0

Email 3.0.0.1

Factory Test

Game Hub

Google Search 1.1.2

Helv Neue S

Home Screen Tips

Kobo 2.6.422

Live Wallpaper Picker

Maps 5.4.0

Various Live Wallpapers

Music 1.1.1

Music Hub

News and Weather

Samsung Account

Samsung Apps

Self Test Mode

Setup Wizard

SNS 1.5

SNS Disclaimer

SNSAccountFB

SNSAccountLi

SNSAccountMS

SNSAccountTW

Social Hub 2.0

Social Hub 7.52

Software Update

Sound Player 1.0

Suggests 1.0

Swype

TWlauncher 2.3.3

VPN Services

Wi-Fi Sharing

Wi-Fi Sharing Manager

Wlan Test

Yahoo Finance

Zinio Reader

Ultimately, I opted to freeze the following with no instability:

Allshare

AP Mobile

all of the Hubs

Kobo

Yahoo Finance

Zinio Reader

Hopefully someone can add with their testing.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] EarlZ:
On the list above, I've uninstalled all of them execept

Maps

Sound Player

TWLauncher

Wi-Fi Sharing and Manager

Wlan Test

Self Test

Factory Test

I've also uninstalled a lot more not from the list... Wish we had a very detailed information on the other APK's Im sure I can trip down more than 55 APK's
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
I started getting "generic network failure" messages when a friend of mine sends me mms from his iPhone 4S. Has anyone else having this problem, any idea what causes it? Thanks.
[HTC Amaze 4G] kronickhigh:
That always happens when the apn settings are not quite correct, think it's a conflict between htc sense and the tmobile network
[HTC Amaze 4G] kronickhigh:
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1976?noredirect=true

Although it does not reference the amaze i know this works for phones running sense
[Hardware Hacking General] SilverTipp:
Any codec experts want to throw their knowledge in there to get video/sound acceleration working for the ICS android development on the HP Touchpad.

I have been following the different ROMS and developers on here, rootzwiki, and even twitter and haven't seen a hand raised on working on this area yet or have some knowledge.

Just thought I would throw this out to the general community to see if anyone knows of someone. :)

Cheers!
[HTC Sensation] chuz:
Hi all,

I have a problem with my Sensation due to my own fault.

I want to flash ARHD ICS rom to my phone, and I started with rooting my Sensation. I followed all instruction til installing the Recovery (PG58IMG).

I downloaded two versions of PG58IMG (one for ICS and one for the other), but I copied the firmware for ICS version to my SD card and already installed it. Now, my phone already S-off but cannot reboot into homescreen. It keeps rebooting it self in white hTC screen (after I installed the ICS firmware).

I don't know how to fix. I tried to read the troubleshoot in the post but I still cannot fix it. Does anyone have a solution??

Thanks in advance
[HTC Sensation] runderekrun:
If I understand you correctly you flashed the firmware upgrade BEFORE you flashed the new ICS rom? If so you'll need to get your sdcard card out (and get your computer to read it) so you can rename the PG85img on your sdcard so you can get back into recovery so you can flash the new ICS rom.
[HTC Sensation] chuz:
Yes, I flashed the upgraded firmware before not only I flashed ICS rom, but also I get rooted. Now, I can't flash any rom as well as su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip or su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip.

It still keep bootlooping. I tried to flash the other firmware, but it showed 'CID incorrect'. I don't know how to fix now :(
[HTC Sensation] Jonny:
Did you check MD5 Sums before you flashed the ROM because it sounds like a bad download so re-download the ROM and reflash
[HTC Sensation] chuz:
I did check MD5 sums for all files I downloaded and it is corrected.

Now, I'm curious that whether it is possible to flash the upgraded firmware before being rooted.
[HTC Sensation] airzone:
And of course you need to be using the right version of the firmware for the rom you want to flash. Mike's latest uses 3.24 per here. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1459767

I don't know if you can get into fastboot or not, but you should be able to check the CID of your phone there, and download the right firmware for your phone. If your phone is carrier independent (i.e. didn't get on contract) then the HTC__xxx variety should be good.
[HTC Sensation] chuz:
Thank you so much for your link. I can boot my Sensation into the homescreen now. For my problem, I have to download and flash the older version (3.17) to fix it.

Thanks all of you for your reply again. :)
[HTC Sensation] zxr24rs:
+1 for me, solve with a new download .
[HTC Sensation] Eki-sensation:
Just flash the Mod, the bootloop is normal.

I got the same problem, before i flashed Revolution Rom i used that radio package. After the radio package flash, my phone wass stuck in a bootloop.

I took the memory card out en removed the zip file en flashed the revolution rom. After that my phone started normal.

SOrry for the bad enlgish.

Good luck mate.
[HTC Sensation] Kawirider594:
hey, guys i just had the same problem, kinda. lol

anyways my phone is rooted, s-off and superCID

when i went to install the new ics rom i did everything this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1459767

said to do and when the new root booted up for the first time, it would go up to the beats audio logo,( the ics rom with beats audio (xe)) then like restart back to the htc startup logo, then beats again then htc again, it just kept doing this..??

so i just deleated everything and restored back to origional backup rom.

so what did i do wrong?

a bad download link/file? can u give me a good one?

thanks, any help is greatly appreciated as iam totally lost right now...

edit:

also do i even need this file (PG58IMG.zip.) to flash the ics rom if my phone is superCID ??? iam confused on that part.
[HTC Sensation] Kawirider594:
nevermind, figured it out and got it work! the new ics is pretty sweet!!

thanks for everything- towards all the developers and testers on here :)
[HTC Sensation] airzone:
Cool. The answer is yes of course. The firmware file contains a specific radio / hboot / etc version. The ROM you download and install is dependent on certain combinations of the firmware versions you have. The super cid just allows you to flash any of the firmwares available here... Otherwise you have to find the specific one for your region and/or carrier.

Also, don't forget you can use an adb logcat while your phone is booting to see if you can diagnose any boot-looping issues. Just run that command on your PC with your phone attached via USB cable
[HTC Sensation] xdaco:
To do so,

1. Download the correct firmware version ( PG58IMG.zip V3.24 ) and copy it to the root of your SDCARD.

Be 200% sure that the downloaded zip file is not corrupted. ( Check the MD5 checksum after you download)

2. Pull Back the battery and wait for a minute.

3. Put the battery and press POWER+VOLUME Down Key together.

4. Your phone will detect the firmware.

5. Follow the screen and complete the flashing.

6. Download the ICS based ROM of your favor.

7. Boot into recovery and flash your rom.
[HTC Sensation] PaulGiz:
No you didn't do everything the thread said to do because you're stuck in a bootloop. And yes, you must have correct firmware to run any ICS ROM.

1. SuperCID.

2. Load correct firmware for ROM version you wish to flash (there are 3 different firmwares, 3.06, 3.12 and 3.24. Make sure you've got the right one.

Put PG58IMG.zip on the root of your damn SD card.

Put the ROM you want on the root of your damn SD card.

Put a wipe or superwipe script on the root of your damn SD card.

So far it's easy, no?

Boot to bootloader, select FASTBOOT, select yes to update.

Watch the phone. You should see it flash some partitions, reboot itself, then flash the radio and some other crap.

When done you should be at correct HBOOT and radio.

Now, pull the battery. Pull the SD card.

Insert the battery. Start the phone with power + Volume down.

Move cursor to recovery.

Insert SD card and select recovery.

Flash the wipe script, flash the ROM.

Now if you did everything exactly like this, you will boot to normal phone in about 10 minutes or so.

This has been spelled out 50 times in 50 threads, including threads devoted to nothing but this procedure.

Your phone is a machine. It can only do what you tell it to do. If you screw up, it's screwed up. If you do everything exactly right, in the right order, carefully checking each step, your phone will behave.

Try again.

Do it right. Do it carefully.

P.
[Motorola Atrix 2] dk-v1:
Didn't see the thread in the Dev section.

Lock/Delete thread mods.
[HTC Sensation XL] Broetchen:
Hi Guys,

I just received my Dock and the MHL-Adapter. I bought both with the idea of using all together to have a sound dock with my receiver (not having HDMI in/out). Result: no sound out via receiver when using both, dock and MHL. Without dock, there is no problem. Can anybody help?
[HTC Sensation XL] jeandujardin01:
no MHL on Sensation XL :(
[HTC Sensation XL] Broetchen:
I'm sorry, it's the flyer!
[HTC Sensation XL] MinecraftZombi.es:
In which case, if it's like any of the other HTC Docks, it probably only has the data and power wires connected, and not the extra pins used by the flyer for the MHL connection.
[General Questions and Answers] a.vandelay:
i know much fuss is always made about devices getting or not getting updates to newer versions of android. but i don't understand why it's as big of a (technical) issue as it is.

android is based on linux, correct? anyone with a linux-based desktop regularly updates the kernel and various system packages without thinking twice. and the devices continue to work fine. i can run any version of ubuntu i want on my laptop, and they all work fine.

the problem with building the android osp for an arbitrary device is drivers, correct? is it because manufacturers don't release the source code for drivers? i can understand it isn't possible to reverse engineer or transfer a binary blob from one system to another.

but, manufacturers have these drivers (of course); why is it so difficult to package their drivers with newer versions of android? the kernel can't change so much that drivers need to be re-written with every version, or it would have died a long time ago.

this isn't meant to inspire flaming, i'm just curious what it really takes to build android for a device (and have it 100% working). if a device existed with 100% open source drivers, would it be trivial to build android for that device? how many proprietary drivers does an average device have? are they standardized at all beyond the ARM ISA?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] hshsh:
Hi

Excuse me for my bad English writing.

......

I active internal android pass code on may NST. but I can't remove it !!! :)

however i like it .

for do it you need install ADW louncher . but you don't need any additional program and after uninstalling this launcher , pass code still exist .

in " ADW launcher desktop " do this steps :

Menu > Add > Custom Shortcut > Pick your activity > Activities >

next find "Settings" and collapse it . ( it is your android settings )

next find " Passcode(.ChooseLockPin) " > OK

Click on Shortcut you create ........ WOW !

select passcode.

remember you can't back to previous state !!!

if anyone could remove passcode please notify me . :(
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] GabrialDestruir:
This is awesome! I'll work on trying to figure out how to disable the lock now.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Torimu.Joji:
Look HERE, Might help.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Googie2149:
If you notice, he was the second to last person to post in that thread.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] GabrialDestruir:
I was able to disable the lock using sqlite3

modifying

/data/data/com.android.provider.settings/databases/settings.db

When you create a screen lock it adds 4 new entries into the system table

lock_pin_hash

lockscreen.pinneverchosen

lock_pin_autolock

lock_pin_visible_pin

I deleted the value of the first one and set the other 3 to 0 using sqlite database browser

You might be able to just remove the value on lock_pin_hash and that might disable it I just went ahead and changed them all just in case.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] hshsh:
thanks

i test it. though this passcode is better than "drag to unlock" !
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cceerrtt:
could anyone post a screenshot, please? thanks.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] hshsh:
after turn on nook , this page will appear :

View attachment 886103

enter passcode. then :

View attachment 886104

select launcher.

if your nook goes to screensaver , after push "n" button passcode request will appear again.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Googie2149:
You can press that small box below the choices to set one as default so you don't have to select one every time.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] hshsh:
ok . its true. i only use adw launcher .

it was for test and example ...
[General Questions and Answers] rbeavers:
Is there a way to differentiate and turn off the gmail notification

from the SMS notification?

I am missing text messages because I don't want the other notification.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] spacerace8:
In settings->sound->ringtones and notifications you can change 'default notifications' and 'SMS' received'. That should help you differentiate the two sounds.
[General Questions and Answers] rbeavers:
Thanks

I wish. 'default notifications' only.

Tried message and mail apps. settings, they are there but changing them do nothing.

After some More googling found Tone Picker app that lets me make an mp3 into a notifications for 'SMS' received' but have to turn data off so I don't get email and news notifications.

If anyone finds any thing better please let me know.
[General Questions and Answers] spacerace8:
What phone and Android version are you using?
[General Questions and Answers] rbeavers:
Moto Photon, stock Gingerbread, rooted with cwm bootstrap
[General Questions and Answers] spacerace8:
open Gmail app->menu->label settings

notification settings should be there. i'm on ICS so i hope it's the same for you. best of luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greatdude:
I decided to root my Galaxy S I9000 the other day to delete some of the really annoying bloatware and free up some space.

Knowing my n00bie, idiotic self, I didn't back up any of the things I deleted and now my Android App Store no longer downloads anything.

After some research I came to the conclusion that the reason was because I deleted the "DownloadsProvider.apk" app. I've tried re-downloading the files off the internet but when I put it back into that same system files folder and change its permissions to match all the other apps, I find that my problem is still not solved.

I figured this may be due to an Android update around last year which gave a "Downloads" application at the devices application menu. But after replacing the file, this "Download" application is not there like it use to be (before I made changes) so I figured it may be an outdated version.

I also forgot if it had an ".odex" file previously along with the the ".apk" file and each time I try to get the files from random sources of the internet, the file size is always different.

Maybe someone could provide a full set of stock apps for this version of Android? Not sure if that's how to fix this but I really am struggling and need some serious expert help.

I'm on Android 2.3.6 and Baseband I9000XXJVU if that's helpful.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greatdude:
I really need help, no one has replied. Great.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] screen:
I think that your best bet would be to back up important data and restore to a stock rom. But I'd say wait till someone else confirms this before actually doing it :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greatdude:
I'd be happy to do that but I can't find any source that offers a full set of up-to-date stock roms. Either that or they aren't compatible with Galaxy S/Android 2.3.6
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] screen:
An other option.could be a.custom ROM. Or try and actually install the download manager apk.