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[Motorola Droid X2] DaveRichardson:
The vast majority of the roadbumps were overcoming obstacles Moto put there (locked bootloader, for one, obviously).

Moto software engineers have bootloader access and can get proprietary drivers from Nvidia and the rest. If we had an unlocked bootloader and all the proprietary libs we could hope for, I have no doubt in my mind there'd be an XDA brewed ICS rom at least as stable as any official rom Motorola has ever put out in less than two weeks.

They should have a dedicated software team of 5-10 software engineers for every phone they put out for a full two years after they first go on sale. I'm a realist and understand there's miles of bureaucratic overhead, but the process is broken if after their step-by-step, six month process, the outcome is **** like Motoblur 2.3.4.
[Motorola Droid X2] iBolski:
That's if the person is dedicated 24-hours a day for those two-weeks. You have to remember, the developers of the ROMs we see are either full-time students or employees. They don't live and breath writing the ROMs 24-hours a day. Also, the locked bootloader is preventing us from being able to replace the kernel. The kernel is where a lot of the changes have occurred in ICS, including hardware acceleration, better multitasking, etc. Without that kernel, we won't get all of the benefits. So, we still need an ICS kernel to really reap the benefits which means an unlocked bootloader. But, you still have to port it to the appropriate hardware.

ICS at this time is STILL causing issues for a lot of other developers (Cyanogenmod group, cell phone manufacturers) because ICS is a complete rewrite from the ground up. Yes, they could get an ICS ROM out there in two weeks, but the quality may not be up to snuff. It would probably be an alpha. Look at what DZK has had to endure for over a month now with CM9. There are SO many driver issues and that IS because it's not all open-sourced.

One thing to remember, Android runs on various pieces of hardware that are all different underneath based on hardware (GPU, CPU, memory). So, you have to take the base Android code and port it to your particular piece of hardware.

With iPhone, it's the same hardware so they don't have to port it to different platforms to make it run. It's one of the reasons Jobs wanted to control the hardware AND the software. I can understand his thinking, but I also like to have choice on which way I wish to go. I chose Android and with it, comes the baggage of fragmentation which is what we are seeing here.

I understand why it's taking time. I just want Motorola to come out with timely updates as to where the X2 stands. And, if at a point they decide they aren't going to spend the time and resources on getting ICS for the X2 and other devices, then they should unlock the bootloader to allow other developers to do it.
[Motorola Droid X2] CarlosBattousai:
I understand that Moto has many phones there working on porting ICS to,but they still have development teams!!!! I can't believe how slowly their processing on the devices they've promise ICS on.

I get that's in alot of work ICS is totally different from GB and because of that your going to run in to TONS and TONS of issues, but the fact most independent developers are ahead of a company's development team is unforgivable.

I feel like Moto grabbed 3 or 4 guy gave them an Android for dummy's book and told them to get to work on ICS.....
[Motorola Droid X2] DaveRichardson:
If we had the resources Moto devs do (bootloader access and proprietary drivers) there would be a huge team of devs interested in the DX2 and together they'd pump it out fast. But that's not really my point.

My point is, Moto does (or should) have a team of devs who's job is to provide software updates to the DX2. I also understand Android must be adapted for the various components of various platforms...but that's why they hire software engineers! If Moto gave their guys the green light and tasked them with having a release-quality ICS ready for the DX2 before February is over, they could do it.

It seems so obvious: hire enough developers so they have a five man team for every mid to high end phone released in the last two years, forget Blur, never lock bootloaders, and get AOSP updates out within two months of Google publishing source.

BAM. They'd be brand differentiated, they'd get **** TONS of fantastic press from blogs and even mainstream media, they could advertise the hell out of their fast AOSP updates.
[Motorola Droid X2] Stuckinabox:
Exactly. 2nd init took ages, but look at MIUI. If we had the ICS drivers the alpha would probably be out with many more features working.

Did you quote the wrong person? Because I can't match anything you're saying to what he said.

If, anything the fact that our devs are doing this in their spare time makes moto look even more pathetic.
[Motorola Droid X2] lvlaniac:
Sorry to go way off topic. What we did with our old VB apps is turned them into .NET web apps. Granted not all apps can be converted but it helps with the ones that can.
[Motorola Droid X2] ztotherad:
well the droid x is getting a soak test, wonder what that is going to be

nevermind it's nothing but a bug fix..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasterfullDON:
Hi All

Has anyone developed an overclocked stable kernel for the ICS 4.03 compatable with the initial XXLPB ??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neo.:
use #search#

It's been answered numerous times.

Answer: No, It's not possible due to kernel sources not being available at this moment.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
How do I rate a thread lower than 1 star?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasterfullDON:
Thanks for your response.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vwgtiturbo1:
I can't seem to figure out whats wrong with my phone. I have a draining issue with my battery and i don't know if my battery indicator is not accurate. I used odin and went back to stock on a full indicated battery. Then I flashed VB and adrenaline shots 1.4-1 and camera tweak and scrolling mod and booted the phone and let set for 10 minutes before I reloaded all my apps. My battery was indicating it was at 100% ok so i unplugged the battery and wham it dropped to 79% plugged it back in and it started charged from where it left off at 79%. After a few min and the phone goes to sleep mode and indicates 100% i unplug the phone and it charged from where it left off at 79%. So i kept unplugging it and plugging it back in every few minutes till i got to 100%. So sounds ok now but i had to reboot my system and wham again down to 79% and even with the uv settings my battery drains fast. I tried calibrating the battery and also charged it with the phone being off and no results. All I want is a full charge as I work long shifts lol. thanks and i hope this is understandable the way i tried to describe it.

Also Thanks to the devs on here who dedicate their time to making this device do what it was meant to do..
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Try letting the phone die completely. After about ten minutes power it back on then let it die completely again. Leave it off for an hour then plug into wall charger. Let it charge to 100% while off. After it hits 100% unplug it and leave it sit for an hour while off. Then turn it on and use normally.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] lumin30:
Not to contradict hechoen :o - but take note that Samsung recommends against completely discharging your battery in the manual for the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Vlad_z:
+1 (edit: on previous calibration routing)

also you may try to "jump start" MAX17042 (fuel gauge) chip... when your phone at 100% on a charger (verify this by looking at battery voltage - OS Monitor / Misc tab. or other similar apps) - voltage should be around 4.15 - 4.2V. When you disconnect charger - what would be the voltage then? If around 4.0V then may be your battery is going south.

To "jump start" FG - turn off the phone, pull battery out and wait for 5 - 10 min. - just to be sure internal circuits got completely discharged.

When you install battery, FG chip will use "average" model for new lipo... see if it makes difference.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mikeflash:
Yeah I've heard that this kind of batteries last longer if charged continuously (short and often charges) instead of full charges after letting it die. Something about battery cycles or some.

I'd recommend fully charging and battery calibration from market. Also, reflash rom but not tweaks yet, and see how it behaves. Then install tweaks/mods and see if the battery continues to decrease rapidly. If it does, get an app for battery info, check its health.. Your battery might be dying for good.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] lumin30:
Google has also debunked the battery calibration myth. There is a thread about it in the General Section with a link to the article.

To add to the recommendations...

Check how often your phone is set to sync. Big battery drainer. Auto starting apps. And display brightness.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] goddi2010:
if all fails you could try to reflash and see if that fixes it
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Vlad_z:
+1 on that too... glad to see that finally common sense based on knowledge prevails "Battery Calibration by wiping batterystats file" apps myths.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mikeflash:
Wait, I didn't say battery calibration is going to make your battery last longer. It doesn't do that.

But it's a fact that after installing a rom a battery calibration is needed. Normally, developers code their install scripts to perform a battery calibration when installing the rom, so this is not needed afterwards, I still do it anyways when charging the first time to 100%.

I for one had the issue for the first time when installing a rom (don't remember which one) and after rebooting or shutting down the phone, the battery would go from >90% to <20% for no reason at all. Someone here at XDA suggested battery calibration app (or, manually at CWM/advanced, clear battery stats) and the issue was gone. Maybe the rom is misreading battery data and that could cause this kind of issues... which a battery calibration would fix it.

Just saying.. if there's an option for it in CWM, then chances are it is needed for some reason!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] stephen_w:
Indeed. It's on our wiki, too, under the batterystats.bin Buzz Word entry.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vwgtiturbo1:
So i think I needed to do a factory reset. I re flashed vahnilla black and then did a factory reset in the rom. Before I re flashed the rom I

had 60% as soon I restarted the phone on the freshly flashed rom it dropped to 1% then I did a factory restart within the rom and when I rebooted the battery indicated 20% and I am in 16% charge now, only went down 4% within the last 6 hours. So I will run it till it dies tonight and charge it with the phone off to see the results tomorrow.

Thanks Raver for the help in this matter. Will keep everyone posted on the end results.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
No contradiction at all. You shouldn't fully discharge all the time. But once in a while it's actually good for the battery. Especially lithium ion. Take a look at this. For those of you who don't like to read that much just skip to the bottom.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/inner_workings_of_a_smart_battery
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thomas.raines:
Forgot link?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Sure did. Sorry about that.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Vlad_z:
so you call hechoen (guy who posted calibration routing) Raver...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vwgtiturbo1:
no actually raver answered a few questions for me through pm. but hechoen thank you and i will do that when my battery is fully charged. thanks again to everyone for the info! will update tomorrow!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vwgtiturbo1:
I fully charged my battery last night while it being off and let it sit for a hour before turning it on. Well great seemed to now indicate it's fully charged after a hour I threw on adrenaline shots 14-1 with camera and scrolling mod. Let it air for 30min went into recoveryand fix perms. When I rebooted the phone the battery dropped again from 80 to 60 and then went back up to 75. Then I rebooted again it dropped to 25% and then I rebooted again and now it indicates 59% I believe this battery is heading south. What do you guys think?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vwgtiturbo1:
I have calibrated the battery. Everything seems to of been working fine until I added adrenaline shots. Once I rebooted after installing adrenaline shots my battery started acting up again. I pulled the battery out for 10 min and popped back in and now I'm indicating 56% after 4 hours of heavy use with wifi on. :/
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] eollie:
Is this a factory battery? Or a aftermarket ebay/amazon battery?

Im sure people will disagree but some of those aftermarket batteries are not the greatest quality.

Do you live in a town that had a battery store, like the interstate battery shop or something of the likes? Most of those places can do a brief diagnostic of the battery and tell you if it is bad. Or if you have a volt meter fully charge it and test it that way.

It really sounds like the battery is being stupid. There should not be any reason installing A.S. could cause a instant battery drain. If that were the case your phone would be so hot you could not hold it. Because draining that much juice in that little of time would indicate you have a short or something of that nature.
[Continuum Android Development] JB_Da_Greatest:
I think my phone is getting froyo at this very minute as I type. I switched back to stock DL17 because I was having issues with the cooked roms. I just decided to push check for updates.... To my surprise it FINALLY started to really update. WILL UPDATE POST AS SOON AS I KNOW!!!! This is WWWAAAAYYYY overdue if it is.
[Continuum Android Development] JB_Da_Greatest:
FROYO!!!!

Just got that update from Verizon. Its official they finally gave us froyo. We are super behind in Android releases.
[Continuum Android Development] Txwolf1980:
I saw this mentioned over at a, last night. So, here is my question: are all of your stats the same as the leak? (firmware, baseband, build, and kernel)? If not, I may revert, and root with soc, then do a system dump and deodex it. That way we'll have a true stock to work from.
[Continuum Android Development] JB_Da_Greatest:
Its EC09 instead of 07
[Continuum Android Development] Txwolf1980:
Really... What is the firmware version?
[Continuum Android Development] JB_Da_Greatest:
Its 2.2.2
[Continuum Android Development] ciscogee:
cool... fascinate runs ec09... and now us it looks like... goin back to dl17 now :)

how long usually are sources released after ota?
[Continuum Android Development] JB_Da_Greatest:
I was shocked when my continuum started upgrading. :p
[Continuum Android Development] ciscogee:
me too... running ec09 rooted. gonna deodex. and find that tut on making flashable odin rom :)

EDIT:

my superoneclick root didnt stick :(
[Continuum Android Development] trailblazer101:
Oh my gosh!

This sucks, now I have to port everything! Lmaooooo just kidding, this is awesome :)
[Continuum Android Development] ciscogee:
i had the same initial thought... and second thought :D
[Continuum Android Development] trailblazer101:
We need to extract the update.zip! It's located in the fota folder! I'll do it when I get home if no one else has then yet :P I'm stuck on EC07 until then :P
[Continuum Android Development] ciscogee:
what do u mean? i just restored back to ec07 cause i have phone data i need to copy :(.

i had to reflash test4 to get back in recovery. i nandroided ec09. and will restore later this evening. i got alotta errands with me moving this weekend.
[Continuum Android Development] Txwolf1980:
ciscogee, can you link up a good dl17? The one I have is 7z extension. Md5 is invalid when I remove the extension, and trying to flash the individual files in heimdall keeps bricking me.
[Continuum Android Development] JB_Da_Greatest:
Im Crazy excited lol. They was thinking about us..... I think lol
[Continuum Android Development] ciscogee:
U get it figured out buddy?
[Continuum Android Development] trailblazer101:
Oh gosh, i forgot how freaking ugly Eclair was o_O
[Continuum Android Development] ciscogee:
right! lol
[Continuum Android Development] turboblue385:
updating as we speak. holy guacomole that is the longest freaking process I have ever went through with this phone. hope like heck it's worth it

---------- Post added at 02:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:23 AM ----------

and I really hope it doesn't take long to theme this thing out. it's not nearly as slick as what I'm used to.

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holy crap. bloat run amuck. someone smarter than me, fix it PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
[Continuum Android Development] abby_nitewolf:
Ahhh i posted too late, lol. Yeah i was messing with my phone at 5am and noticed coming through, i thought it was just a dream
[HTC ChaCha] imanh:
Hi

I like my phone but this problem runs me crazy..

When i talk wih someone on the call with my phone , the phone auto mutes the call in the middle of the call ... i think the sensor donot make the screen off and the screen contacts with my ear and it makes the call muted or even turns on the speakerphone!!!!!...:eek:

any solution for this ????

thanks
[HTC ChaCha] imanh:
opsss wrong section of the site... how to transfer or delet this thread ... mybad
[Motorola Photon 4G] epitome3:
Since the Multiupload link is down I was wondering if someone that already has downloaded Skinny4g could upload it somewhere so I can download it. I know there are a few others that posted on the jokers roms thread that would like it also. So posting a mirror over there would be great.

Thanks
[Nokia Lumia 800] Maszt:
Hi

I have account on XDA for about 4 years, but I'm kind of new here (because it's my first post :>), so Hello everybody.

I'm willing to buy this fancy lumia 800 and while browsing the web and searching some informations about it I noticed an article about Nokia and EA deal.

So my question is if anybody knows if these free games are released by now or when are they going to release these games?

It is not the must to have this phone, but I'm just curious about it?

Sorry for my bad Englisch and things, but it's not my native :].

Best regards for you.

PS: I have played with Lumia in lokal store and audio quality with my bose IE was enough good for me.
[Nokia Lumia 800] prjkthack:
As far as I know, there were no 'free' games announce. They simply announced that a number of EA games would be exclusively available to Nokia customers first, and that's about it. I assume that means they will continue to cost something, but that only Nokia customers will have access to them for some time.

Although if they are free that would be awesome.

As for dates, nothing was ever announced, but people anticipate sometime in 2012. I assume that they would probably be announced to release alongside one of Nokia's phone launches sometime this year. Maybe we'll hear more at MWC.
[Nokia Lumia 800] Maszt:
I found some news with quotation from EA, and it says that games will be for free.

As example:

Uh, I'm not able to post links...

But I don't think that these games are going to be exclusive only to the nokia phones.

Maybe they are going to sell them in marketplace and only nokia users will have it without paying and with some extras. That's the way I interpret what they said.

Here you have this quotation from EA:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SharpHawk:
I've recently switched to CM9 ICS, and I can't find a way to show how many unread texts I have on the dock messaging app icon.

I've tried using the stock CM9 ICS Trebuchet launcher and ADW Launcher (normal and EX), enabling notifications on the latter. I've also tried the stock messaging app, Handcent, and GO SMS. I turned on "Show unread count" where applicable.

However I still can't get the number to display on the dock icon. If I create a widget for GO SMS and place it on a homescreen, then it will display the number, but I can't place said widget on the dock.

What am I doing wrong?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Nothing. That is a Touchwiz feature. CM9 is non-touchwiz.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SharpHawk:
Woah, Samsung actually got something right? :O

Are there any other ways of accomplishing this?

Also, I can't believe I didn't notice it gone on CM7...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xopher.hunter:
Just about every custom launcher I know of can do this. Not sure about any ics specific launcher though.

Sent from my CM7.2 OG Epic
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SharpHawk:
Launcher Pro seems to work, you just need to use their custom icon when making a shortcut.

ADW Launcher I still can't get to work. Guess I'll stick with Launcher Pro.

BTW thanks for helping me realize the issue was with the launcher. I originally assumed it was a problem with the messaging programs themselves.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Thanks for helping me learn other launchers can do this too. Zeam cannot.
[Off-topic] spikey68:
And just how happy were the Samsung people? Click here...

I can get the devs "sense" of achievement but the hundreds of followers comments of yipeeeeeee, and awesome... etc etc etc ... Why not just buy an HTC?

I am near the end of my 3 month trial of a Nexus S and it has lasted pricisely 2 weeks, its up for sale. I just do not like it. Its featureless and slow. My Desire HD -using rcmix runny- is so much smoother and quicker to the touch I just don't get how they done so well. On Saturdy, else before, I will pickup my Evo 3d dual core and go again -after 4 years- with htc. At $330 (£229 in Asda UK), I just can't say no.

I know there are lots of fans out there for Samsung, but what do you like about it?

Me on Nexus S. Buttons, wkd for reboots to recovery when had to rip battery out. Nice and easy. Like the longer thinner screen too. And Amoled is very good. That is it.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
I think you're confusing 'Samsung' with Vanilla Android. What you experienced with the Nexus S isn't your normal Samsung experience. The Nexus phones are pure, unadulterated Android. They may seem plain to some but they're designed to be. They are developers phones. They're easy to mod, to theme and easy to use.

If i bought a Nexus S i would have MIUI on it in a heartbeat personally, but that's the whole point of what we do here. Buy a phone you like and have it your way. Vanilla, Sense, MIUI, iphone themed... whatever. I can understand wanting a Nexus S and putting Sense on it, if you're a fan of both!

Some people buy HTC but get rid of Sense as quickly as humanly possible. Different strokes for different folks.
[Off-topic] spikey68:
Another example of Samsung letting someone else do all the work. MIUI -for me- is boring, too much concentration on being an iphone rather than itself. I used to use first MIUI roms when it took weeks to get a translation out of Shen. It might be time to try it again.

I am one of the ones that strips Sense immediately. The point was that my HD runs faster and smoother with sense that the NS runs without it at all. I tried many roms and the lag is terrible, as was the stock rom. Now performance with the Oxygen or absolution roms... That is special. I just think the build quality is better. I guess I am disappointed with no singing OR dancing.

Orb3000, if you are around please explain what it is about HTC that we love so much.
[Off-topic] MacaronyMax:
lolwut?! I don't think you understood, They're phones 'promoted' by google, with clean android, it's how they're meant to be, in no way is that Samsung letting someone else do all the work?! What's all the work?! All UI's from manafacture's are for android, which is what the Nexus S has, just not skined, the Nexus One, that didn't have any custom UI, does that mean HTC is letting someone else do all the work. And finally, by another.. What else have they done?