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[XPERIA X8 General] B.Jay:
Sorry to "crash" the party, but I'd never buy a Sony (Ericsson) ever again.

Why? Simple...

- Lousiest support I've ever seen.

They may release the one or another ROM update for their phones, but, in terms of W/X8, dropping support after just a year with lousy excuses like "oh sorry, Froyo won't run satisfactory on your devices and Gingerbread is well beyond the capabilities" is what I take as "****ing the customer over big time".

- Somewhat solid hardware packed into cheap-ass plastic.

I don't know about you but my major gripe with the X8 has always been the back cover which just crackles/crunches when you hold the phone.

That being said ... I wouldn't opt for something else than a Samsung or Motorola. I'm deeply satisfied with my Galaxy S2. Sturdy design, nice looking and so far a great support from Samsung.

That's of course my opinion, your mileage may vary.
[XPERIA X8 General] wc_how:
I agree with you, SE definitely worst support for their smartphones.

But too bad, i love only SE designs phones.

I satisfy with my X8 now, my daily usages are only Opera Mini, calls, whatsapp and text. The phone's performance is ok for me, the only bad thing is the screen is too small.

I will not buy any phone within next 9months, and since my contract is end on Jan 2013 too.

I think i will buy Arc S for next, or similar to USD 250-300 around end of the year.
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
Yes. Very good point. They don't really care about their designs etc
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
so far, the xperia arc and other are drawing. 6 votes each. interesting
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
Is this gonna be one of those threads that won't get replied at. Lol. Keep voting
[XPERIA X8 General] Chris95X8:
SE is all about the design of their phones. I seek performance.

Voting for Samsung, HTC and Motorola!
[XPERIA X8 General] MRqtH2:
Depending the price and screen size either Mini Pro or Pro if a hardware keyboard is something you want. I realised after I had bought my X8 that it would have been nice with X8 with hardware keyboard and it seems Sony (Ericsson) thought the same thing since they released the Mini Pro
[XPERIA X8 General] n1kolaa:
ray or mini form 2011 :)
[XPERIA X8 General] newdon07:
m also not very satisfied with my xperia x8, but i still love SE :D..................eagerly waiting for sony xperia s :)
[XPERIA X8 General] darkvoid101:
i really like motorola droid razr max because its battery lasts longer.. 3300mah!! that would really last longer..but sad its only for verizon huhuhu..it wouldnt work here in the phils.

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could anyone suggested me a phone with a good battery?? anyone??
[XPERIA X8 General] kust0r:
Maybe the moto defy+, btw seems that motorole has some models with good battery.

I'm satisfied with my x8 too, it was a very cheap purchase, even if locked with a 12 month contract. And I like the clean layout.

But as others have said, YMMV... It's full of mobile phones out there.
[XPERIA X8 General] backspaceyyz:
+1.. Maybe the next ICS phone from Moto.
[XPERIA X8 General] darkvoid101:
i am planning to save some money to buy a new phone because my x8 is kinda old its almost a year using it..its been almost a year and i am really satisfied with what my x8 has done much for me..i want to buy moto phones because it has good battery
[XPERIA X8 General] dipusen:
Dear wilbso, I will go for ARC or ARC S in next few months.

Just because of the Design keeping the worst service quality aside. I have voted for ARC also.
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
thank you for voting. good choice :)
[XPERIA X8 General] codfreak:
The new Xperias look really good, but sadly they aren´t dual-core-phones.

ATM, I need a new PC, so I won´t buy a new phone in the near future.

My contract ends in November, and I think that until then, smartphones with tegra 3 will be available, so my next phone will mist probably be a quad-core phone, maybe a HTC or Samsung.
[Verizon Droid Charge] xprog:
I have been using xScope Pro w/pure black theme for the longest time now, I was tired at the time of dolphin's rendering issues. xScope still works well for me, its a super lightweight browser that renders very fast. Some of the UI just seems kinda dated, like all the pages(bookmarks, downloads, settings, etc) are like basic html text pages.

But now there seems to be alot of other browsers out there that may be a bit more clean and still be pretty quick. Over the last few days I've played with a bunch of browsers; stock browser, xScope, opera mini, opera mobile, skyfire, dolphin hd, dolphin mini, boat browser, and boat browser mini... so many choices.

I like dolphin mini, boat and boat mini the most as far as ui/features/speed. They all have a similar ram footprint, mini versions little less ram usage. But I noticed both dolphin hd & dolphin mini browsers tend to use more cpu when I was playing with them. Even well after the page was loaded and the browser was in the background I would see 2-4% usage pretty frequently. Enough to make it a strong negative against. Still haven't picked one for sure, but boat browser is looking better and better.

Kinda curious what everyone else uses.
[Verizon Droid Charge] buhohitr:
I'm kind on the same boat as you're, but at the end I'm back to xScope. It's the fastest and very low over head. My main goal is speed, not bells and whistles. I used this browser to open facebook and it's the fastest. Facebook app is nice but it run as a service and used up a lot of battery while idling and cpu also. I would save about 2hrs battery life after uninstall facebook.
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
Dolphin or Opera when on my Charge, stock one on GNex

blazing through on my Galaxy Nexus via XDA app :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidBlaze:
I was also using xScope pro with the pure black theme for a while, but like you I eventually got tired of it. I am now using Maxthon with the black theme and so far I like it. It is feature-rich, with great performance, and the UI is an improvement over xScope. You should give Maxthon a try and see what you think.

PS the pure black theme for xscope is better looking than the black theme for maxthon however :(

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So jealous of your GNex lol. I want that phone so bad :(
[Verizon Droid Charge] buhohitr:
The speed of Maxthon is great but the pinch zoom in faceboock is not working well at all compare to xscope.
[Verizon Droid Charge] the sandman89:
I have been using Dolphin HD for the longest time now. I tried other browsers out of curiosity but always went back to Dolphin because of it's speed. Boat Browser is my second option, it's kinda like Dolphin but IMO not as fast
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
opera and dolphin.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Dolphin Mini here. Dolphin without the useless features.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DirgeExtinction:
UC Browser seems good so far.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mtmerrick:
Dolphin

HD

its fast, supports flash (if you want), and it has the best bookmarks manager i've ever seen on android
[Verizon Droid Charge] emtee_skull:
+1

Dolphin HD

sent by genetically altered carrier pigeon with premium xda app.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
I just use stock. It has the best interface of all of them, and it's smooth as silk on EP4. Dolphin annoys the crap out of me because half the time when I try to scroll, it decides to open up a menu bar instead.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
which is why Mini is better.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Does Mini support Flash?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Cilraaz:
I use Mirin. I used Dolphin HD until their whole privacy debacle. After that, I just don't trust them. I may have to try some of the others being mentioned, though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Yes. Ondemand or always on. Only thing I don't like is the lack of support of GIF or MJPG.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wscaddie56:
Doesn't anybody use skyfire anymore?

I rejected dolphin for the scroll issue mentioned above, I'll have to give mini a try. Haven't used an opera browser since the omnia days!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Cilraaz:
I was so excited for Skyfire's release. It really sucks that it was a bloated piece of junk.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Opera mobile here.
[Verizon Droid Charge] rand4ll:
Used to use opera until I tried boat browser on my Transformer Prime. It blows away all other browsers IMO
[Verizon Droid Charge] PeterGunz:
Amen to that. I switched from Opera to Boat. Opera has the smoothest scrolling, but overall Boat is king.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ronot:
Dolphin hd all the way
[Verizon Droid Charge] ambrar12:
Much to my shock I've discovered that the stock browser in the stock ROM, with imoseyen 4.0 and ext lagfix, is incredibly smooth. It was a really nice surprise. It's a bit sluggish but I imagine samsung's optimizations require a lot of processing power.
[Verizon Droid Charge] nismology:
The lack of full screen support and proper text wrapping are dealbreakers for me. That and it gobbles up memory like free brownies.
[Verizon Droid Charge] rand4ll:
If you haven't tried boat give it a go. Has smoothness of opera but actually supports flash really well. I used dolphin long ago but feel it's being passed up with the nice features of other browsers. One thing I really liked on opera and now boat is the launch page and it's icon style page launches. Opera only had 9 bit boat can support a ton!
[Verizon Droid Charge] ambrar12:
It does indeed ravenously consume memory. That explains the crashes after opening up a few tabs. But I'm not sure what you mean by "proper text wrapping". After double tapping the screen the text on most websites seems to wrap fine for me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
Do you have issue with Dolphin failing to animate emoticons? It never works for me on Charge, works fine on DX.

I found out animated emoticons work good on Opera Mobile but OM always gets unloaded when placed in the background. It's so annoying.

What other browser supports animated emoticons?
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
[NECRO]

Opera mobile just got a nice update (between midnight and now) to support WebGL and HTML5. I don't know how much of a difference that will make on the Charge but it should def. help tablet users. It also added support for Android Beam.

EDIT: After using it for a while I noticed that it got a well-needed overall speed boost, as well (except for that notorious startup time).
[Verizon Droid Charge] PeterGunz:
I love Opera, but it's that unfortunately long startup time that made me switch to Boat. When I click on links in Twitter, I don't like having to wait for the browser to start.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Scratch the start time. I just wiped my old data and it starts up really fast.

Sent from my pocket-sized, Linux-based computer using electromagnetic radiation... and Tapatalk.
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
Yeah, is there a way to stop Opera from doing that? That is why I don't use it much more often.

I like Opera Mobile quite a bit otherwise, it even supports SVG.

Also, I don't know what happened lately, but Dolphin HD now will lag the phone to where I sometimes have to pull the battery. This won't happen if I don't use Opera :/
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Opera just takes up a lot of RAM, something this phone doesn't have. I think it caches images of the entire webpage to achieve that super-smooth scrolling at the cost of memory.

On a new phone like the razr or nexus I would expect Opera to be perfect.
[Verizon Droid Charge] slane35:
I use dolphin, like the screen cut, page to pdf, and box add ons.
[Verizon Droid Charge] blueis300:
I started using dolphin on my other phone also. Seems faster than Opera.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Dolphin Mini all day, every day.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BleedsOrangeandBlue:
I use opera on my phone because its fast and smooth.

I do use Boat on my kindle because it seems to handle flash better.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbossmaher:
exuse me for my english

i bayed a new x8 phone before 5 days !

i think my phone is draining battry

so please how much days can you x8 phone can work without charging !
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bolussimo:
It depends :) My record was nearly 5 days without charging :) But I wasn't using it at all :) Just to check what time is it. Now it's more than 2 days (200+ SMS, phone calls, WiFi).

If You think Your phone is draining battery - turn off gsm data, use only 2g, turn off GPS etc :) Smartphones are not old phones, like Nokia 3310 :P
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camiyong:
+1

right answer
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NikeApache:
Agree for the above Answer..

Tip:Dont charge too often..charge only when it is <5/10 %
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbossmaher:
every think is ok , evry think is desactivated ; i can use my phone only for one days , making normal thinks

like checking time or opening some apps ( not games)

please tell me how to solve this problem

my phone is new !!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbossmaher:
for exemple my phone is 100/100 charged in 01:00 am

now it is 11:24 am , my phone have only 80/100 in charge ; and i have using it only for a couple minutes ; making one call !
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bolussimo:
What apps did You install? Download any task killer / task manager / ram manager. It should help.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbossmaher:
im using advanced task killer latest version !
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B.Jay:
GingerDX on Stock Kernel with smartass CPU governor at default min/max CPU speeds (no overclock) and occasional usage - up to three days.

Now the question is ...

- Did you turn off GPS as recommended?

Turn off "Mock Locations" if it's enabled - it's a known bug in Gingerbread that having this setting enabled can cause battery drain.

- Do you turn off Wifi when not needed?

Since most people set the "Wifi sleep policy" to "Never" because of connection issues this can also be the source of your problem.

- Do you turn off 2G/3G when not needed?

Like with WiFi it should only be turned on when you need to access the Internet. Letting either WiFi or 2G/3G "sit there" because you have to be logged into Skype/GTalk/MSN/... does not help battery life.

If you're on the Stock ROM - that beast had a worse battery life for me than any custom ROM.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbossmaher:
im sure that all off thinks are turned off

i turn WIFi only for some times then i turn it offf !

i still get the battery drain

!!!

what is the solution !
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mayank77:
Turning off *Background data* and not just only *sync* provided a boost to my battery life.

I suggest the above
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wesley621375:
Actually,I think that you must dimmer the backlight of your phone~~
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] just kidding:
My battery has lost 10% in one night。
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungGalaxySII.:
Battery drain is normal for our x8
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibrahimrashid:
overclock your phone. you can set to lower cpu speed when the screen turn off. this help my phone not drain the battery at night.:D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saipro:
Highly variable but

- battery capacity

- ROM type

- kernel

- 3G/HSDPA

- WiFi

- Android version

- screen-on time

- apps

- overclocking

to mention a few. Not to mention the inherently variable nature if X8 hardware.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neriyous:
My xperia 8's battery takes for 2 days max. And without wi-fi. This is smart phone, it's normal when battery charges out fast. Becides between the price and quality i think it's the best choice.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nunogilberto:
that's weird...

if you already turned off data, wifi, GPS, sync, bluetooth and everything else, it should be last longer...

please make sure again you already turned them off and only turn them on only when needed...
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikkopt:
What firmware is installed on your phone?

Sent from the bathroom using the toilet
[Wildfire General] yohaim:
Hey,

I've got CM7.0.3 and use S2E to move applications to my EXT3 partition.

For some odd reason,only a small part of my application were moved,and now the phone's memory is narrowed down to about 28MB.

Can I use the CM7 default APP2SD function,or will I get problems and FC if I do so while S2E is still working in the background?

Thanks.
[Wildfire General] Lesicnik1:
Try this thing:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1233340

It reduces the amount of memory in the /system and /cache folders and relocates it to the /data folder, thusly giving you more space for apps!
[Wildfire General] yohaim:
Thanks,but it doesn't work the way I want it to.

I'll do a Nandroid backup,and then try the App2SD in CM7.
[Wildfire General] Scratch0805:
I think the apps have moved but data is still in the phone memory for stability. The same will happen with cm7 app2sd feature.
[Wildfire General] iNDigo69:
I once had another problem... I switched to disk mode just fine, but then the computer didn't show the removable device..or it showed it, but grayed out. Just for future reference, I was on Windows 8 Developer Preview, so I kind of shoulda seen it coming...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mavermc:
So I've been a bit frustrated, struggling with this for 2 days now.

I was running 893 and eclispe 2.0 I wanted to go to 2.1RC but I needed to be on 901. So I decided lets do the RELEASED update thing. Well it did get me back to 886 (with no signal probably because of a radio firmware mismatch) But when it tries do 893 it gets that assert failed thing half way through. So I tried the safepath, same problem trying to get to 893.

I seem to be able to root and and forever root it just fine so I tried doing the updates OTA but they would just reboot half way through the update (probably the same error) and say failed.

Tried to manually load the zip files then use the stock and boostsrapper recovery to install them and I get the same failed assert error

So then I tried RSDlight and this file

targa_cdma_targa-user-2.3.4-5.5.1_84_DBN-55-110814-Verizon-US.tar

But it fails at 1/15 doesn't go anywhere from there.

I'm not sure what else to try or do, I did have a boot loop of that fastboot flashfailed this but the FixCDT seems to take care of that whenever that happens.

So at least I'm able to get root but for the life of me I can't find anyway to get any upgrade to work on this, I've been fallowing tutorials all day trying to find something to get it to work.

If you guys have any ideas I'm open to try them, if you want any specific error messages let me know and i'll go and replicate them (I've tried this tutorials and 2 different computers 2 times)

Thanks for the help
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mavermc:
to anyone else having these problems, few days of hardcore trial and error

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13485-unbrick-your-bionic-here/

downloaded the flash me, ran the xml through rsdlite and bam, got back on the 886 with a working radio, gonna try to root, 4eva root, update to 901 then bootstrap then eclispe 2.1RC this baby
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mavermc:
Ok Path Saver worked, no fails, when it told me I had to manually go in and update 893 and without rebooting i ran the 901 update as well, rebooted, installed bootstrapper for bionic (still had root) did a wipe, installed eclipse 2.1RC, booted fine, got 4g in a few seconds.

:) happy I can get back my GPS Navigation so I can find my way around

If anyone wants the files I used just PM me and I'll find a way to ship them over but there should be mirrors all over the place
[Android Apps and Games] toxicpaulution:
Any free app to lookup numbers that call/text you? I keep getting calls and texts from numbers that are out of my state and I'm just curious? I was hoping a free app or something :p if this is somehow against the rules I'm sorry and just delete it xD lol
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
1. You don't need Blackrose for MIUI. Use A2SD and partition your SD card. How? Search. Help - Wiki link is in my signature.

2. You don't need to switch from default MIUI kernel, unless you want to overclock.

3. Doesn't matter, as long as you're on one of the Gingerbread radios. Any of the latest will be good enough. No difference in baseband builds between different N1 models.

4. You're going to eat a lot of pain with screen touch craziness, which is the most painful part of this phone. The second most painful part is sub-par GPU, but unless you game a lot, you won't notice it - MIUI is smooth. So I'm really in doubt you'll want to keep this phone for a long time. In any case, press the power button gently and closer to the inside of the phone, and avoid pressing it as much as you can (use ROMs with trackball wake and screen lock widget).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyrovice:
Thanks for the tip. It occurs to me that I jumped the gun and flashed a ROM before I should have- not that anything bad has happened. Just thinking I'll probably go round two here shortly once I learn all the ins and outs (like Apps2SD...and popping in an SD that bigger than the included 4GB one to make it worthwhile). Thanks for the tips bro.

Not worried about OCing. UVing might be nice...but I'm thinking unnecessary for battery life- First discharge gave me 1 day 12 hours after WHALE-HEAVY use...and even then I still had 20% left.

This is something I'm actually in awe regarding.

Awesome. Now, real quick- did MIUI include a GB radio upon flashing it? I haven't flashed one specifically yet...should I head over to the Kernel/Radio thread and pick one out? Also, just to clarify/double-check, you're saying that a T-Mo N1 = Vodafone UK N1 etc etc? Same hardware and everything? (Obviously excluding N1's designed for AT&T's freq's?)

Ha! Yep, I've definitely gotten some odd touches from the screen even after my little time with it. I've found I am ALWAYS hitting the home button...or the area that REGISTERS as the home button...whenever I go to press the space bar when typing. Quite possible it's due to having only used Android phones w/ larger, 4" screens...so I'm used to "reaching down farther" for the space bar, so to speak. And about trackball/volume wake & screenlock widget- already on it, ha! Not only is it a lot more convenient, but I figured it's something I should get used to in light of the power button's frailty.

It occurs to me- how wiggly is the trackball supposed to be? When I got my phone and started playing with it, I noticed a slight amount of give before it'd click (to select). Is this normal? While it always returns to it's normal amount of...portruding (sp?)/portrusion, should there be NO give before it clicks? Thanks for the input.

Also...about the screen...are there any mods/hacks to make it more accurate/less glitchy? Fix multitouch snapping? Etc?

Lastly, I'd always rock the V6 supercharger script on my Atrix. Now that I'm on MIUI, do they have it baked in? If not, is it compatible? Does it make a difference?

Thanks for the info/input so far bro I really appreciate it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
No rom should include a radio, and as a general rule you should always flash radios from fastboot to avoid any problems.

What can be done has already been done as far as tweaks.