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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] S_rob7488:
Trying to see what there is for visual voicemail.. I've used good voice previously on Evo and just came back from an iPhone. Really miss this feature. Any suggestions? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mindstar1:
I use Google Voice exclusively. It has visual voicemail and it also lets you text/call from your computer which is a huge time saver.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] S_rob7488:
I was trying to use google voice but I couldn't get it to validate.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt0720:
google voice is great, I had issues getting it to work until I created a new google voice number instead of just a fowarding/voice mail number and then added the device through the web platform. It has worked ever since.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
There is no build in visual voicemail for android afaik. Apple came up with their own protocol for that. As for 3rd party options, there is google voice like everybody mentioned but if you can't/don't want to use google voice then there are some apps on the market which require you to forward your unanswered calls to their number. There is always the privacy issue though which is why I do not use them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Esteway.619:
I use Google voice on Verizon there's a YouTube video that I followed and work very well. Just go to your Google/voice.com and get a Google voice number and set it up like that.

Here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNR8CtMR-w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
... visual voicemail for gnex. Its on the market.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] S_rob7488:
For $2.99 a month? Is it worth it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Teksu:
Im currently using google voice as well. if that doesn't work for you, another great service is "youmail" check it out at youmail.com
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickerbob:
To use Google Voice for voice mail you have to enable conditional call forwarding. For Verizon this is as easy as dialing *71 and then the 10 digit number. For Sprint I don't think it is that easy. You may want to call their customer care. Hopefully you can get it working, I'm not sure I could live without mine. :)

http://support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=17268
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] S_rob7488:
Thanks for the info. Will try gv again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChickenGod:
PF Voicemail+ it's free on the market and I've been using since the OG Droid days. It's perfect. I like the fact that it'll let you play the voicemail either over speaker or through the actual headset. Try it out :O

https://market.android.com/details?...vbS5waG9uZWZ1c2lvbi52b2ljZW1haWxwbHVzLmFuZCJd
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chuckdz3:
I use google voice. It is not the best at transcribing the voicemail, but you can play, pause, and delete right from the app.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlazinGTI:
+1 been using this since my G1 and it is the best way to roll.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] davejc:
Yes, I know, rebooting an old Thread. But it's better than starting a new one, right??

Based on reading this thread, as well as some other looking around I have done, it seems the only real options for free VVM are Google Voice, Youmail, or Visual Voicemail Plus.

I cannot use Google Voice. Not that I don't like it. I love using GV. However, my cell number is tied to the GV account that I use for work, so that I basically have a dual line cell phone (my VZW Number for normal stuff and the GV number for work stuff). With that, I cannot give my cell number to another GV account to get VoiceMail.

The market reviews for both YouMail and Visual Voicemail Plus leave much to be desired. Seems that for every review that says it is great, is a review that says it is crap. But, most people just review the app when it is causing issues, so it is not always a great idea to put stake in reviews. Wondering what the opinion is of people here.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] zurui:
I'm looking for something like MS paint. I want to be able to take my png screenshots that I make and draw boxes/circles around things and draw straight lines and arrows with a line tool. Anyone know of an app like this? It seems a lot of the image editing apps are for photo retouching and effects filters.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Doktaphex:
Skitch would be what you are looking for, but doesn't the inbuilt supernote also allow this?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] zurui:
Thanks, skitch works perfect for what i need.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] greyhulk:
When I went into the AT&T store to get an LTE phone, I had my heart set on the Vivid. I had already owned the SG2, so I wanted something a little different. The Nitro wasn't really a consideration because of the camera shutter lag and the horrible battery life. I absolutely love sense and I read that the Vivid had a great camera.

Below are the issues that drove me to give up my Vivid in favor of a Skyrocket:

Duplicate Text messages! - This was the biggest reason. A majority of my text messages came in as duplicates. It did this from day one (before I installed anything) and did it from everyone who sent me texts, regardless of carrier or phone type. Most annoying were when multi-part texts got duplicated. So, a two part text came in 4 times and completely out of order.

Youtube and Picasa issues - When signed in to Youtube using my default Gmail account, I couldn't upload videos. I found a workaround by rolling back to an older version of the Youtube app that let me enter my Youtube username (rather than gmail address) and that allowed me to upload videos. However, logged in that way, I would get a "sync error" for Youtube every time I viewed my Picasa albums. On top of that, I couldn't upload anything to Picasa natively. I had to use the Picasatool app. All of this works fine on the Skyrocket.

The weight - I'm not a wuss. In fact, I'm kind of a bodybuilder. But when it comes to a phone, the heavier it is, the more unwiledy it becomes. Something about the weight of the Vivid and the way it was distributed made it awkward to hold and use. And it felt like a brick in my jeans.

Keyboard lag - I could tell from day one that something was off. It was almost imperceptible, but I made a lot more typing mistakes than normal and the keys just didn't quite register when they should. Despite that, I probably wouldn't have really noticed until I typed on the Skyrocket. It was night and day difference. Typing on the Skyrocket is like typing on an iPhone or WP7 device, and that says a lot. I tried different keyboards on the Vivid, but they didn't help. My only guess is that it might have to do with the amount of resources that Sense uses.

Long-winded post, I know. The moral is, all of these issues are non-existent with the Skyrocket. I do miss the higher resolution, but that's it. The Skyrocket feels better in my hand and pocket, and it's much faster and smoother. Most importantly, I don't get tons of duplicate texts all day long.

That's my rant. I hope it helps other people who are trying to decide between these two phones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] niezek:
I had the vivid first as well, and I had similar issues the camera did seem alittle better but wasn't enough. sense 3.0 is just too laggy and too busy. With the sky rocket I never looked back I only regret not getting the white one haha.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aimfire72:
In the same boat, returning my Vivid for the Skyrocket this afternoon, lol. Same issues as you guys, Sense looks really good but way too quirky/buggy for me. I kind of find Touchwiz to be closer to stock.

The screen on the Vivid also bothers me... it looks nice, but hard to view in direct sunlight, found myself squinting at it a lot. That, and even though it's 4.5", couldn't stand how narrow it is. It feels cramped at times. Would rather have the slightly wider screen of the Skyrocket.

Lastly, not a whole lot of developer support for it, maybe 3 roms, and I wasn't really crazy about any of them. Also kind of a pain to install roms/kernels, compared to Samsung phones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] greyhulk:
I originally wanted the Vivid for the opposite reason: I felt that the Skyrocket was a touch too wide for my hand and that the narrower Vivid would be perfect. Unfortunately, the weight of the device made it worse.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aimfire72:
Just got the Skyrocket this afternoon... like night and day compared to the Vivid! Everything just feels way more responsive, even on factory stock rom. Feels so much better in the hand, not like a clunky brick, lol. Audio sounds *much* better as well through headphone jack. Streamed Spotify all the way home through car stereo, much more clear and crisp vs. Vivid.

Kinda mad at myself now for wasting so much time with the Vivid last week, feels like junk compared to Skyrocket, lol. Very happy with this phone so far! :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] l Frosty l:
I switched from the vivid to the skyrocket (unwillingly). My vivid took the easy way out; And what i mean by that is after i unlocked the bootloader, the phone just, i guess its called around here, the Sleep of Death. It wouldnt turn on or charge.

But after reading some other posts here i do have to say the duplicate messages did happen a lot for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Infekxion:
You guys just answered all my questions about this very subject. I am selling my Vivid for all these reasons and buying a SR. Never once have I played around with an SR but if you look at my signature you know why "I can haz Skyrocket?" NAOW! The only good Vivid dev has actually left XDA also.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Lucidmike:
Welcome aboard!

I love the weight of the skyrocket, or the lack thereof. I'm not sure if it's any lighter than what I thought was a heavy phone which was the iPhone 3G. But it certainly feels lighter it in my hands.

---------- Post added at 12:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 AM ----------

You get used to the size rather quickly. I thought the Skyrocket was a slightly wide for my hands for the first week or two. Now I feel I could go wider, and every other phone seems too small.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jedah:
I felt the same. I still do feel it's kinda wide for one-handed use, but it's great for typing. I can bang out messages like a blackberry w/o having to rotate to landscape.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Scythe024:
I actually have the duplicate txt issue with my skyrocket :o(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SassyMrsK:
I have no problems with my white sky :-P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jnewell05:
Well vivid just got ICS update. Or so a few people posted receiving it on the Vivid forums. Almost makes me want to switch to a vivid but ill stick with skyrocket hopefully we get the ICS update before my 30 days are up....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cashyftw:
Yeah they got ics, but it looks exactly like GB.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Fortune090:
When we get it, until someone goes through it, it will be the same for us. Touchwiz-ed ICS is AWFULLY ugly. Guess they decided to do the same with Sense too.. I really don't get it. Stock ICS is honestly just pretty on its own...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chocodough:
So I'm still new to flashing. Currently I have a regular AT&T GS2 rooted and running UnNamed 1.3.2. I really like it and have no problems with it.

I'm getting a Skyrocket from work next week and the first thing I plan on doing is rooting and putting on a custom ROM.

But for starters I just want to put on a stock rom which just has all the usual bloatware already removed. I'm not looking for all the flare at the moment.

I've looked through the DEV section and just can't seem to find anything that stands out. So I'm just looking for some suggestions on a ROM to try that fits what I am looking for.

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sulpher:
Take a look at Space Pirate...

It's rock solid and has ridiculous idle battery life... i love setting my phone down for a couple hours and having it at the same battery percent when i pick it back up :D
[Repurposing Old Devices] portsample:
I've got several older Android phones that I've retired from use and are now collecting dust in my closet.

I'd like to use these units as something other than a cell phone (or a paper weight). I'd like to disable the cellular network component and use the phone either as a music player, or as a satellite enabled GPS receiver.

Are there any custom ROMs for this? While I can get these devices functioning as described above, however whenever they are rebooted I get the "new phone" messages looking for service providers, or complaining that the device is missing the SIMM card.

Thanks in advance for relevant information. Don't flame me TOO badly if I'm being tragically unhip and noobish w/this request.
[Repurposing Old Devices] torikorocks:
Idk if its much help but I use my old Droid x for a camera and games. I got past the activation screen by pressing the 4 corners on the screen around the android guy. If I'm not explaining it well you can find it on Google by searching for something like using Android phone without activating.

Sent from my DROID RAZR
[Repurposing Old Devices] adverbius:
I would think it's possible, but it will depend entirely on the device and its support within the community. Search the forum for your device(s) and determine if it can be "rooted" first. Most can, although what you can do beyond that will often depend on how popular the device was. The device forum will have advice on what to do to get the functionality you want.

Good luck!
[Repurposing Old Devices] uros0104:
Why not stick a large memory card inside and use it for torrents?
[Repurposing Old Devices] lufc:
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions &

Read the Forum Rules Ref Posting

Moving to Q&A
[Repurposing Old Devices] plainjane:
Android for Autism.

It's something to look into if you're the generous type.

Supersonic Evo 4G | MIUI | Tapatalk
[Repurposing Old Devices] portsample:
Thanks for the responses.

Ideally I was planning on using the audio player in my car, something that would boot up into the standard phone desktop and skip the "Where's my SIMM card? Where's my carrier??" device panic.

Same for the GPS unit.

The devices are a G1 and an older Motorola Droid, the G1 is rooted but not the Droid yet. Thanks again.
[Repurposing Old Devices] Oracle365:
Repurpose old android

A couple of ideas that I like are using the phone as a bit-torrent device, or maybe as a pirate box. But one idea I like a lot and would love to hear something from the developers is about a device on Kickstarter called Twine (I can't post links yet so you will have to look it up), how hard would it be to use old android devices in this same fashion?
[Repurposing Old Devices] Gamesoul Master:
I went through the same thought process for my old HTC Hero. Currently, I have CM7.2 installed on it (because it runs smoother and has plenty of options to potentially reduce unneeded battery use) and I keep it clean and in airplane mode. Even that alone allows me to get some pretty good battery life on it to go towards being used as a music player and as a backup device for geocaching.

That in mind, I'd say finding the most barebones ROM will do the trick for you. Or find the newest fully developed version of CM for each device and use that.
[Repurposing Old Devices] dopiate:
you could try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2644588
[Repurposing Old Devices] dopiate:
Follow the link I posted, you would be surprised how much you have to disable/freeze before it stops complaining.

Some processes you can not disable unless you are rooted.

____________________

Sent from my Nexus 7 (and you care why?)
[Repurposing Old Devices] FanboyStudios:
This does not work on all phones....
[Repurposing Old Devices] dandrake47:
Really liked your tutorial video! Thank you!
[Repurposing Old Devices] GasLoop:
Do you have to resurrect this thread from 2012?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] realism51:
Been trying to find the most recent Stock Rom for the Galaxy tab 10.1.

Had rooted mine and tried a few Custom ROMS which three kept rebooting and the 4th one by TASK (latest one) was great then kept slowing down to the point apps just crash. Did a restore to my backup that I did right after applying root, and didnt keep any of the original stock roms apps like task manager and weather widget.

Not thrilled about how when you save a ROM it doesnt save the apps too, or at least when you put another ROM on it removes the other apps. Either way.

Looking for the download for Stock Rom.

*Note, I will root the Tab again, is there a way to install stock ROM and still keep root so I dont have to do it all over again?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wewewi999:
There are LOADS of stock roms, my friend. Take a look over the forum.

Or samfirmware.com

Can hardly help you more since you provide no info at all on what model you have;

7500, 7510.. wifi or 3G.. country.. languages you need...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] realism51:
Okay... So can anyone else provide me a link for a wifi only version, forum perusing in this massive site will be a huge pain.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AceTrader:
Read through the UNROOTING PROCESS section

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1474971
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
I'm curious how renaming them works. I know i have to put it a certain way or it won't restore. So let's say I take my backup called

BDESW-20120204-2244 can I just rename it to Express by itself or no?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
If you rename the folder, the md5's wont match, therefore it wont restore. I found this out the hard way before.

You can however just add text AFTER the folder name to indicate what rom backup it is. That way, when you want to restore it, just remove that text, leaving the original name. Just be sure the leave the original folder name intact.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
well i found this post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1131784 so i added -express to the end of the name and about to see if it tries to restore :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KommodoreHeinz:
I rename mine all the time and no issues. Just do not add spaces that seems to screw it up.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcusva79:
What I do evo I just change 20120204-2222 to a rom that i am running, like cm7 ill put CM720204-2222. Never had any issues.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popper668:
you can rename it to "turdburgler" if you want :eek:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Will32:
I leave the letters, they tell what's backed up, and replace the numbers with a description.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDM Civic EG8:
I rename them so I know which backup it is.And before I started using firerat and was partitioned I made sure I put Sdext at the end.

Sent From My Evo 4G Amped Up On Verizon Tower Power!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ben.nesheim:
i just guess then its a surprise :) oh hey im back on warm 2.2 lol

jk i usually dont keep that many back ups so im not much help other than for smartass comments :P
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
Renamed them and they restored fine
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moreno4xl:
I leave the date portion so I know that it's the lastest backup I've done and just rename the number at the end for example nandroid backup BDESW-20120206-1274 I'll just rename it to let's say according to the Rom I'm using BDESW-20120206-MIUI
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raafaell:
I actually never rename, but thanks for asking the question, now I know too. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFschizoid:
i didn't think that it would have any issues, since (at least with amon ra) the MD5 is inside the backup folder, with the *whatever*.img backup image
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Racing19969:
I know this has been posted in other sections of XDA, for other phones, and being discussed in the MIUI thread itself, but just in case you didn't know, this is potentialy awesome.

MIUI going open source! http://www.androidcentral.com/miui-rom-going-open-source

I like certain aspects of MIUI myself (system setting anyone? freaking awesome!), but since I live in a "better than average 4G" area, I don't use it.

This might change everything.

Discuss? Interest? Opinions? Further information?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Are.Two:
I would love for a Dev here to pick it up and see if they can make it happen for this device.

Sent from R2's G2
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Racing19969:
I have downloaded all the files they have available. Converted the chinese files to english and will start working with it this week.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] digitallure:
This would be great!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] lainvalenajr:
Best of luck. I love MIUI on my g2 back then. I always followed the devs work on the phone. So many haters said it would not work but now MIUI is a supported Rom for the g2.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] doc_v15:
Dude that is awesome! Do it!

But just in case you want some shortcut, go ask raver3x who have been developing MIUI for SGS 4G. Maybe he would like to team uo with you
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] baonguyen312:
Omg, I love MIUI. I will be your crazy fan if you make my dream happen :D . Can't wait more...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] doc_v15:
Same here!!! Cant hardly wait!

Im officialy your followers man!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] chris31jct:
wow this sure brings some old stories lol... good luck with dev'ing the MIUI for this phone and thanks! i have never been on a miui rom before cuz' this is my first smartphone but i liked what raver did so i would love to try it :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Racing19969:
So I finally was able to get it to build...

I used Valhalla final to work with.... Seems like most of the apps FC and the status bar is not working yet. I am going to try flashing to a stock rom with stock kernels and build a rom and see how that works....

Here are some screenshots I took for you to look at...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] goddi2010:
Well isn't that nifty, good work
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] goddi2010:
Well isn't that nifty
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Racing19969:
And a few more
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] geekilized:
@ redd123,

Was it really necessary to quote the whole damn thing?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Racing19969:
guess he got excited...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] eollie:
Im not sure about the xda app but the tapatalk app sometimes doesnt show a respond/post option and the only way to reply is quoting somebody. But IIRC the tapatalk one shows the links. Its easy to backspace delete them.

Still no reason to quote like that. Especially when you only post one word replies...I mean just hit thanks and be done with it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] reddd123:
wait our phone has a flashlight?

and ya i am excited! HOPE!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] RaverX3X:
raceing if ya need help with the 2.3.7 port let me know ill help u with libs framework files etc :P
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Racing19969:
Thanks, I'll let ya know...

And very nice work on the above post...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] RaverX3X:
thanks man ya just let me know :P n nice work by u to been haivng a thought tho

i think me u desexton bryan etc all need to get in irc for a few days and just hammer this **** out...... were all working at the same goal and most of us are great in one area and not onthers so hey ya never know :P
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] HolyGhostBoy1:
So awesome u guys are great!!!!! so excited
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] doc_v15:
Do it man! Make it happen, for the love of MIUI
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Lubcrayon:
Wow...Racing and Raver. Never thought this day would come :) I love you all.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] josepresas:
What's this? =D
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Furik:
Wow, i'm so excited for what's in store.

You guys are great!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] eollie:
It is a MIUI theme.