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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
Devices with locked bootloader will get ICS officially from SE in March/April.

You can't just flash a zip and expect to get ICS, your best shot is an ICS theme for GB.

For a full ROM you need a new custom kernel too ---> unlocked bootloader.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] datagubben:
I think you should unlock your phone now.

I unlocked mine yesteday with Alejandrissimo, it was fast and easy (except the plastic stuff under the SIM-card) so now I can do everything like the big boys (and girls/Iris). :)
[Kindle Fire General] cu6apum:
Hi there.

Well, first of all, I am (hopefully) not insane. :D Second, I'm a network engineer for 20+ years, so my technical skills are not subject to any doubt. Third, I'm absolutely new to android, thus I don't exactly know the API and especially hardware interfaces.

OK.

I bought a Fire, axed the native shell, installed TWRP2 and CM7. Downloaded a nice ereader, a video player, and a local maps application, called Yandex Maps, I like it for instant and quite precise traffic info. Tapped the location button and found the crossfire within 30 meters around the actual location.

Then I drove to work and, while checking with traffic info, pressed "locate me" again. And the Maps has found me right in place.

"GPS is working" I said to myself.... and some days after, browsing this forum, found out that Fire HAS NO GPS SENSOR.

Need to say that I have the same IP network at home and at work (I'm the ISP in both places). And even if its location can be found via RIPE, it is declared to reside in my office. Not my home, which is 12km away.

Digging further, I installed Google Maps. This app refused to find my location. Tried Navitel - same result. But Yandex does its best - in an anonymous internet cafe (third place!) with free wifi it pinned me RIGHT on the building.

I googled for the radio chip of the kindle. According to ifixit, it's a hybrid with TI WL1271 inside. According to TI, WL1283, the chip that does have GPS in addition to wifi and BT, is pin-compatible with older WL1271 - so there *is* a small chance that WL1271 is replaced with 1283/81 in most recent devices.

That's the ONLY explanation I can believe in. Otherwise I'm totally lost. I even have posted the same issue to BT/GPS thread. Heard no answer there.

Your ideas?!
[Kindle Fire General] airmaxx23:
Have you tried doing this with wifi turned off? Do you get the same results?
[Kindle Fire General] Sambena:
Just to clarify, you say your map app is showing you your current location without any wifi connection? i.e it updates as you drive?

From my own experience, apps like google maps can approximate your location based off your wifi. (I assume this is done because google collects wifi locations.)

Your assumptions that the kindle fire may have GPS could infact be correct. We know that the chipset does infact have BT even though there may never be working drivers for it.

Also, since amazon doesn't spec the KF for either BT or GPS the chips they get could be of lower quality. Since the only thing they need working is the wifi. This could mean the even if there is GPS or BT, there is no guarantee that they would even work. and if they did, they wouldn't work on everyone's KF.
[Kindle Fire General] cu6apum:
airmaxx23, unfortunately this is the only app that shows my location correctly, AND does not have offline map cache; even if I fill the cache manually, it requires internet connection to start. As of now, I cannot find a hacked version to try. Still looking for an alternative.

Sambena , no. Still no offline experience, see the post. Google can't locate, for the wifi at home does NOT have my location info.

Is there any way in CM7 to display exact hardware config without desoldering the device? As I suggest from above, the standard GPS API is unavailable (Google, Navitel) but Yandex is able to find some low-level interface (famous Russian coders!)
[Kindle Fire General] afazel:
You could get into a shell and look at lspci > lspci.txt

You could also run dmesg > dmesg.txt& and then try to find your location via your maps app. Between that and a location, you should be able to see what's going on.
[Kindle Fire General] P8ntBal1551:
I'm sorry to burst your beautiful little bubble here but the kfire doesn't have any GPS. What you are seeing is Google being a clever bigger. You see, when they rolled down nearly all the steers in North America, they took snapstops of the wifi, and coordinated with the GPS location. The reason you can transfer between your home network and your work with the same IP is because they used they use the Mac addresses of the networks in range, and cross reference it with their database to give you an approximation of where you are

tldr; android uses the Mac address of in range also to approximate where you are
[Kindle Fire General] cu6apum:
I will have no disappointment even if my fire has no gps. :) I was buying the cheapest 7" tablet and I'm fine with it.

Please keep in mind that I'm almost an antipode to North America: Moscow Russia here. So neither Google, nor Amazon are aware of my IP, MAC, or even street address. I can imagine (although it's hardly probable) that Yandex is polling public wifi places for their locations, but none of mine are public!

The VERY only lifelike hypothesis that goes in groove with your idea is that Yandex cached the location of my iphone at home (the phone does have GPS and Yandex maps installed) and locates me based on the IP subnet. But: a) I never used the phone to locate the cafe I mentioned before. b) I cannot even imagine the cache size that Yandex has to have in this case.

I think this time you missed the goal. Any other thoughts?
[Kindle Fire General] Starfire70:
It doesn't matter if Google knows your MAC or not when you have WiFi on it polls for acess points and bases your location off the signal strength of all of them.
[Kindle Fire General] cu6apum:
You cracked the case!!!

Maybe you can teach me also, why it does NOT work here?!

:D
[Kindle Fire General] cu6apum:
Indeed, thank you.

dmesg says it's a TI WL-1273, sadly... ven=0x104c, dev=0x9066. Well, at least it's proven to support BT and FM radio. :D

Kindle has no GPS, and Yandex is smart enough to cache locations even in NATted networks. Thanks for attention.
[Kindle Fire General] P8ntBal1551:
It's not the Mac address of your device, it's the Mac address of the APs, they broadcast it with the probe signals. Its also more reliable to go on than the name of their AP. People change the name all the time, but who would change the Mac?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
I'd like to know if it's safe to start breaking into it. I know rooting won't hurt it, but what about custom ROMs, or even updating to Gingerbread? I don't want to mess up the current settings that have been applied for the phone to work on nTelos.

Running Froyo 2.2.1 EC05

Baseband version S:D700.0.55.EC05
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ÜBER™:
Actually if you stay on stock modded roms meaning you stay away from CM7 or any other AOSP ROM then you'll be fine I however have no idea to prove this but have only seen people on cricket and boost mobile have problems only on aosp roms never any stock roms :D

If you need the latest stock rom ill be happy to help you odin it and root it as well let me know if you have any other questions.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xopher.hunter:
Better take Biggoron up on hs offer. He can practically do it for you remotely with teamviewer
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
Thanks a lot Biggoron, I'll look into that tonight. I have to go buy a better data cable because apparently the stock Samsungs have problems when installing the phone to a computer :confused:

I got the 64 bit drivers on my XP 64 bit PC and it will not mount the SD or pull up the debugging driver.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ÜBER™:
Yeah, stock cables are really cheap I recommend a blackberry I have one and has never failed me :D got it with my old blackberry bold ;).

That and 64bit seems to have issues idk what it is but seems to complicate things pm me if you want me to remote flash stock el30 and root it for ya ;)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
Thank you very much, I'll be sending a PM in a moment. So what are some good stock ROMs? :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
Ok...got another question. I keep randomly getting the "Error 67: Registration error. Your Sprint data service username and/or password may be incorrect. Please try again"

Since I'm not on a Sprint plan, is there an apk or file I can delete to get rid of this thing? It's driving me freakin' insane!

Also, I was flipping through the phone and found this: W_RF_AUTH. What the hell is it? The permissions on it are sketchy as hell, do not want. OK to delete???
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
Ususal rule of thumb, if you don't know what it is don't delete it... freeze it with titanium backup and if strange things begin to happen then unfreeze... iif not its probably safe to delete...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
I FC'd it and nothing has happened so far. Can't freeze with free version. I can't seem to find where it's stored on my device either. Root explorer searched every directory in my phone and nothing. I think I'm gonna back my phone up and use TB to uninstall it...if it causes any undesired effects I'll revert to my backup.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
There's a good idea too... that's why backups are so important...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
W_RF_AUTH is part of WiMAX. :eek:

Uninstalled all of the WiMAX stuff after backing them up since I don't need it. Also uninstalled Samsung account 1.0. So far, no more annoying Error 67 :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ÜBER™:
Good glad you got some help thanks flastnoles :D see we both do each others bidding.

Sent From My Thugnificent SPH-D700 because its more than Magnificent
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
Just a little update...I'm still getting Error 67 :mad:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
Haha... that we do! Seems likee when I log off you log on... and vica versa... works out pretty good! Glad you got it worked out bud...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VirtueToVice:
Actually I'm still getting error 67. It's driving me nuts! Sometimes it pops up every 5 mins, sometimes it'll stay away for a couple hours. Either way it sucks :mad:

However, removing WiMAX files hasn't caused me a single problem.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ÜBER™:
Have you googled anything to get rid of it? What is error 67 anyways?

For error 67, and this applies to most sprint phones that use Vision, Powervision, EVDO, Etc. Error 67 indicates that the username or password stored in your phone is incorrect. this condition is very rarely related to the coverage in an area, usually occurs after recent device swap, or attempting to use modem/hotspot while your account does not have a valid modem/hotspot plan.

Before going through too much effort, you should power your phone off, then back on, update your profile (this varies by model support.sprint.com has guides for most phones) and determine that the feature that you are attempting to use should work ( for example to use hotspot, you must be subscribed to hotspot. to use phone's web browser the web service should not be blocked, Etc.) if you still have trouble with error 67 after following this information please feel free to send me a private message.

When I odined el30 I don't think I had you flash the latest el30 modem delta so flash this : http://db.tt/oL0nSl3s

Then do the profile update as well as the prl update and reboot and see if your phone stops displaying the error 67 ;)

Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0 :sly:
[General Questions and Answers] pehap:
Hi guys,

There is a new BBC News app for tablets. Can someone from UK download it and post it here please?

market.android.com/details?id=bbc.mobile.news.uk&feature=search_resul t#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImJiYy5tb2JpbGUubmV3cy51ayJd

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomdroid3:
So i just flashed the new 'code name droid' ROM and its sweet but it also comes with a overclocked kernel up to 1350 mhz and the ability to under-volt. I've heard under-volting can save on battery so i want to try it out!

SO my first question is , what are the pros and cons of playing with voltage?

second, is the amount i can change the voltage determined by each individual kernal? if so what about this one?

AND THIRD what should i under-volt my phone to and why?

also if anyone wants to share what they have volted their phone at please share! :)

thanks alot! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DonXoB:
The worst thing that could happen is that your phone will not boot. Then you have to reflash. Just decrease the voltage carefully. If you notice instability, you undervolted too much.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
Let me quote myself from the franco kernel thread.

1. It could cause some instabilities but hey you're flashing custom recoveries so that shouldn't bother you too much.

2. Some kernel are setting a minimal voltage it's like the deepest possible voltage. I don't know if any kernel for the GNEX is having this function.

3. No body can help you with your values since every phone is different. Maybe yours is very good so you can go deeper the most of us.
[Milestone 2 General] gexk:
Hello everybody,

I`m in love with will5 miui for milestone 2 and i really want to try this ROM, but im a newbie in this things, so i will explain how i tried to flash this rom and please say to me if im doing something wrong =) ty:

1- I Rooted my device with DooMLoRD v4

2- Moved the rom and Bootmenu v0.8.6 to my SD Card

3- Enabled USB Debuging

5- Installed Droid 2 Bootstrap

6- Boot with bootstrap in recovery mod and from there (install zip from sdcard)

the bootmenu and clicked in "Reboot System now"

7- Than in bootmenu set default boot to normal and went to "Custom Recovery".

8- So i "Wipe data/Factory Reset" than "Wipe Dalvik Cache", "Wipe Baterry Stats" and did "Wipe data/Factory Reset" again

9- So "Apply update from sdcard" and "reboot system now"

But my phone didnt boot, the motorola logo appears for 2 segonds and the screen come black, the screen is on, I can see the light but it is complet black. And my fone stay dead, so i removed the battery and installed the retail rom again, but i really wanna try MIUI can some one help me? ty

My fone was previous in Gingerbread and I read some thing that MIUI didnt support GB Kernel. Is the problem there? If this the problem theres any way to install MIUI?
[Milestone 2 General] DreadPirateDan:
Hey there, sounds like you possibly came from the official gingerbread version on android os. If you've done a system update in the past couple months, then yeah you have.

Once you have officially updated to gingerbread, you can no longer use this rom (dowgrade issues - ie you can't downgrade)

Please have a read through this thread I created, look for bold titles that apply to you and have a read (there is a specific section for ROM's and compatibility + how to install). I've linked to a fair few essential threads from these forums so it might be worth while having a deep read up on all stuff ms2 related :)
[Milestone 2 General] gexk:
So no chance to install MIUI =/ bad news. Thanks you m8 any rom recomendation for long battery? ty
[Milestone 2 General] DreadPirateDan:
Well it all depends really.. if you are a really heavy user (ie long periods of gaming or web browsing) no rom is going to help :p

The guys getting days usage out of there phones aren't really using them that much so if you don't get anything like that - this could be the reason.

I've never experienced any specifically bad roms for battery life, nor noticed that any give a significant increase from 1 to the other (though all of them seem far better than stock).

I can easily drain to shut off in 4-6 hours most days :p. I use my phone for work though so it's nearly constant use, then I smash some games or internet in my break.

I'd probably recommend endless7's defy port of cm7 since it's compatible with GB, and less ram heavy than argen2stone. But you'll never know till you take the plunge yourself :)
[Milestone 2 General] gexk:
Ok man thank you for the help
[HTC EVO 3D] P.Mobile:
i been using setcpu for a while now and want to no how to use advanced settings.. just looking to make my phone run better.. thanks :)
[HTC EVO 3D] EniGmA1987:
I havent used setCPU for a long time so Im not sure if you mean some advance settings in the app itself?

Are you talking about like adjusting the governor settings? Modifying voltages? adjusting I/O scheduler? Tweaking kernel settings? Tweaking VM settings?
[HTC EVO 3D] P.Mobile:
if u go into advanced it has sampling rate..... up threshold......... ignore nice load....... powersave bias...
[HTC EVO 3D] sitlet:
I really wouldn't mess with those unless you want to brick your device and fry your processor.
[HTC EVO 3D] EniGmA1987:
Ah so governor settings then. None of the actual advanced things :p

Sampling rate has an impact on battery life and smoothness. Set it to around 15000-20000 for good smoothness on a governor, 50000 or so if you want decent smoothness but better battery.

This is how often it samples the load to the CPU to choose if speed should be ramped up or down.

UpThreshold also has a big effect on smoothness as this tells how much load % is needed on the CPU to increase the speed.

Powersave bias is basically slowing the CPU down a certain number of frequency steps. SO lets say you ahve your CPU set at default max speed of 1188000, a powersave bias of 50 would mean your new max speed is 1134000 which is the next step down.

Governor settings change how your governor reacts. Only some governors can be modified and some to more extent than others. I think Conservative has the most adjustment, but the best sampling rate it cna have is only 200,000. So that makes it kind of useless for any sort of smoothness. If you tweaked conservative to give great smoothness then you would be better off with OnDemand as at the same smoothness OnDemand would give better battery life since it can stay at a slower speed more often as its sampling rate is much better.

Thats kinda terrible advice. All this is doing is changing governor settings. He didnt say anything about wanting to mess with voltages.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xdaman85:
If any one's interested, we've done a review of the UK Razr at our site,

hope it helps:

http://hemorrdroids.net/motorola-razr-review/

:)
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
SCS for theme chooser available in two versions...

Free

SCS - CM9

ALL Paid links were removed as per XDA rules...

​

If you get a "Theme Improperly Compiled" error message... follow these steps:

Apply system theme

Reboot

Apply SCS (theme applies)

Reboot

Enjoy :)

Follow me on Twitter and G+ for updates on this and all my themes!
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
Changelog & Misc Info

Free Changelog:

[B][U]Changelog 1.5.0:[/U][/B]
[list]
[*]New Battery
[*]New Keyboard
[*]Added basic icons
[/list]
[B][U]Changelog 1.0.3:[/U][/B]
[LIST]
[*]Added DeskClock widget
[*]New Pulldown image
[*]Fixed stuck battery
[*]New Navigation buttons and "pressed" animation!
[/LIST]
[B][U]Changelog 1.0.2:[/U][/B]
[LIST]
[*]Initial release
[/LIST]

Paid Changelog:

[B][U]Changelog 3.1.1:[/U][/B]
[list]
[*] Updated to CM10 compatible
[*] New Notification Toggles
[*] Wallpaper Cleanup/Fix
[*] Cleaned up A LOT of images/code (+3mb)
[*] Font colors system wide
[*] Add animated notification support for:
- Mms
~Sms
~failed
~no sim
- Gmail
- Alarm
[*] Add pulsing pulldown anim
[*] Modify Signals (data/wifi)
[*] Cleaned Battery xml+images
[*] New Nav buttons
[*] New Status bar
[*] New Bluetooth notification
[*] Fixed Download bar
[*] Added Google Now Voice Icon
[*] Update Contacts/Phone
[*] New App Drawer Icon
[*] Update Mms Images to xhdpi
[*] Pandora Widget
[*] Google Music Widget
[*] New On/Off Switches
[*] Fix Settings Icon
[/list]

[U][B]Changelog 3.0.0:[/B][/U]
[list]
[*]New Battery
[*]New Calculator
[*]New Keyboard
[*]Added more icons
[*]Misc edits...
[/list]
[B][U]Changelog 2.0.6:[/U][/B]
[LIST]
[*]Updated/Added app icons
[*]New Pulldown image
[*]Fixed stuck battery
[*]New Navigation buttons and "pressed" animation!
[/LIST]
[B][U]Changelog 2.0.3:[/U][/B]
[LIST]
[*]Initial release
[/LIST]

Themes/Updates:

02.03.12 - b1.0 - Theme release for oICSv43 (19.8mb)

02.03.12 - vhgomez36 - Follow link for flashing instructions!

02.13.12 - b2.0 (23.71mb) - Complete theme (details) release for Codename Android 1.3.3...

05.28.12 - Theme Chooser release!!!

Themed Add-ons:

Camera - 02.15.12 screenies

Phone & People App - 02.08.12

Gmail 4.0.3 - 02.08.12

GTalk - 02.08.12

MMS - 02.08.12

Music - 02.15.12 screenies (themed from this Music.apk)

PLEASE pay close attention to which file you're downloading!!

moved the first post here to clean up the clutter :D
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
If you would like to help contribute to this theme the following colors were used here:

Blue - 1245e0

Yellow - f8d318

Green - 39ef16

Teal - 13e7e3
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
download link is up... includes the following:

contacts.apk

framework-res.apk

gmail.apk

launcher2.apk

mms.apk

phone.apk

settings.apk

systemui.apk

wimaxsettings.apk
[Android Themes] zeeraf:
between you and denver i dont think ill ever leave oics !!! im not a fan of bright colors but this looks insane .... whill be trying it out later
[Android Themes] denverg:
Dude, that is sick. Nice work!
[Android Themes] zeeraf:
+1 just downloaded will be flashing shortly
[Android Themes] dirt:
+2 downloading now!
[Android Themes] zeeraf:
hey dynasty , is it possible to change the stock browers icon to something that matches the theme more ?? it looks out of place lol ..... also my camera icon and gtalk icon are still stock

edit: nevermind i see those two (camera and gtalk) will be coming soon
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
Thx guys... I'll be out of town til Tuesday night... So maybe Wednesday I'll be able to do those! Unless someone wants to do them and I'll update the thread if they get posted...

This is fully open... So if anyone wants to use/edit/etc, feel free to... Just give credit where it's due :-)
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
Anyone trying this one out? Feedback, areas to fix? Anything lol
[Android Themes] solesonfire:
Love it man
[Android Themes] dirt:
since u asked... the 3-4 screens for adding a contact to the people app (by adding all info or from call log) could use a darker background.

other than this issue that i've noticed with all the inverted people I've tried (no homo) everything looks great!
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
K, other than changing some colors i didn't really mess with that apk... I'll look into it!
[Android Themes] zeeraf:
loving the theme , only one suggestion i would make..... when writing ah text or email , the suggested text is hard to see .... that dark blue over the grey makes it a little difficult
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
Thanx... This i did notice... Was planning on changing it to the teal I'm using already... Have to wait til Wednesday tho :-/
[Android Themes] dirt:
thanks! no need to rush it for me... take ur time
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
back home... hopefully i can address some of these issues tomorrow!!
[Android Themes] jonahchavarria:
NS4G ONLY?

any chance this works on NS3G?
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
i really have no idea... i'm not sure the differences between the two...
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
new Mms with teal text to replace the dark blue text is up in post #2... just install from recovery!!
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
i updated Post#2 with Gtalk and camera along with adding all apks individually!
[Android Themes] jonahchavarria:
guess ill try it....

alright well ill make a backup and install the zip, can you send me a link to the flashable zip for the whole theme? only see the zips to the apps you added in.
[Android Themes] the1dynasty:
download b1.0 on post#2 for the complete theme... then just update each one with the newer versions of each apk from that same post!! thanks and don't forget to let us know how it goes!!