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[Windows 8 General] hiqasim:
Windows 8 Consumer preview is expected to release this month by Microsoft and every Windows fan is eagerly waiting for this release.

While we are not yet sure about the exact release date of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, some sources over the web have leaked Windows 8 Consumer Preview wallpapers to the web and these wallpapers are now available for download from the link below:

http://windows8mods.com/2012/02/07/download-windows-8-consumer-preview-wallpapers/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enp82003:
wrong forum sorry :/
[Fascinate General] theizzardking:
hey guys, and sorry for a question i know must have been asked before, but i am unable to find.

What roms are the best and most up to date as of now?

i was going to go with cm7 but saw we had cm9 and a few others out there, my real question is, anything better then cm7 out there?

this will be used for my wife, who just wants it to work, as little freezes and hang ups as possible, feature set means nothing next to speed and reliability.

this is my last attempt to make this phone usable for her before i take my 12 gauge to it. please please help! i have to her hear whine everyday with the 2.6.1(think that's it) kernel on there (hasn't been updated in over a year, so anything should be an improvement, it's just hard to get the phone off her long enough to toy with it)
[Fascinate General] bobloblaw1:
In that case I would use either Superclean 3 or Geewiz

Both are stock EH03 based Touchwiz ROMS. Neither has bleeding edge features but they both just work and are the most up to date ROMs that come from the Samsung/Verizon base. Personally, I have found these ROMS to be the best on battery longevity.
[Fascinate General] theizzardking:
cool, i already d/l'd the geewhiz but it's not taking like the other rom's i'm used to, flashed stock rom E3 and booted in to recovery and tried to update with gwiz through recovery, signature error of some sort, will try again with the other one you mentioned ..... or do i need to load the kernel using odin then flash rom through recovery?
[Fascinate General] droidstyle:
I would also recomend giving Team Hacksung ICS build 6.5 w/ Icy Glitch v14 b4 kernel a try! No doubt superclean and geewiz are great roms, but I think you will like ICS 4.0.3 the best...just sayin.
[Fascinate General] theizzardking:
i thought i saw that as a beta build, been around long enough to be proven?

[KERNEL][CM9][1/29/12] Icy Glitch V14 - BETA - LiveOC - Voodoo - DIDLE - USBhost
[Fascinate General] theizzardking:
gotta bail from work will be back on with the tablet in about an hour.
[Fascinate General] bobloblaw1:
ICS still has some issues and while it's good enough for 99% of people if this is for pure stability for a nontechnical user I'd say to go for the ROMs I mentioned earlier. Some issues on ICS are MMS doesn't work with wifi on, the datadata issue, the ui is a bit different from Touchwiz ROMs, phantom ring still occurs, CWM and nandroids still have some issues, and it's on a pretty rapid release cycle which would mean that you would need to update her phone fairly often.

ICS is great and it's what I'm running but I think the more mature EH03 ROMS are appropriate in this case.

EDIT:

The link you have goes to Glitch which is a kernel. That is part of the operating system but isn't the entire ICS OS. ICS ROM development is centered over at the rootzwiki developer forum. AOKP, Gummy, and teamhacksung's build are the premier builds.
[Fascinate General] theizzardking:
Yeah, i figured if the kernel was in beta the rom would be as well, got her on super clean and she likes it , still can't tell the difference between that and a 2.6.1 build that was beta around a year ago,lol, thanks for the help and ics is sick , but bob nailed it in regards to my intentions.

That said , thanks to the both of you for bothering with this b.s. question in the first place , i was at work trying to sort her phone out , she needs her phone , life is chaos and time is short, thanks for making it all a little more easy. Also great to see such great support still going on for this, envious with my charge in regards to roms.

Hope i don't need to post here again for a while if you get what I'm saying, haha !! Thanks a ton !
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enp82003:
So my USB host wire came today! i plugged in my flash drive and nothing... No messages no LED lights... nothing.... I tried plugging in a keyboard and nothing happen either... I am using calkulins e4gt 2.9. I tried looking in the ROM's thread with the search feature I found someone asking the same question but no replies...

Does anyone have any ideas?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lafester:
who said usb host was working?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ImaWinRAR:
USB host support has not been included in any ROMs/kernels as of today. hopefully some devs start to take an interest (like jamcar, who is trying to get it working on his DARKSTAR rom) but DO NOT pester the devs for this tho, if you ask once and it goes ignored, leave it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enp82003:
Samsung....

http://www.samsung.com/us/article/tips--tricks-epic-4g-touch#USB
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enp82003:
I won't and thank you as for the stock firmware does it have the USB host feature?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] WhiteWidows:
Everyone tweet this question of why it dose not work to Samsung John. Its on the feature list on Samsung's official page for the ET4G

http://www.samsung.com/us/article/tips--tricks-epic-4g-touch#USB

Samsung Johns Twitter account

https://twitter.com/#!/SamsungJohn

Retweet

https://twitter.com/#!/Wh1t3W1d0W/status/174288683300683776
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ImaWinRAR:
if by stock firmware you mean Android 2.3.x i dont believe so - it was only working with the initial stock firmware for the int'l version at release then for whatever reason Samsung decided to disable the feature and every update after that had it disabled. but from conversing with jamcar:

it seems much more likely that with all the buzz and releases/tune ups for ics roms, some devs might add the necessary drivers/etc to wake it up
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
and yet his 4.0.3 based rom doesnt have it :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ImaWinRAR:
afaik, hes the only one trying to incorporate it. and for that he gets props:p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] im0rtalz:
I thought usb host would have to be enabled by the kernel not just the rom. Such as how it works on the tmobile version by flashing a custom recovery kernel. Darkstar rom might support it, but it has to be done in the kernel also, but I may be wrong.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enp82003:
I hate when they have a feature then take it away.... WTF is the reasoning behind it?! people would buy less Samsung laptops or something?! Arg... Now i wish i went with another brand...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ImaWinRAR:
i actually think its the other way around. according to jamcar, its already present in the kernel. and i think because he saw that, he thought it would already be supported in his rom when it evidently is not (dont mean to put so much pressure on him:D)

that is what everyones mind was flaming:p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DaKlown:
To shed some light on this situation the international galaxy s2 has had this feature from day 1. It was also used in the marketing of the s2 as a feature Samsung was proud of. Long story short sprint had Samsung pull it from our device. I have no info as to why Sprint had them do this. Kind of like how Sprint had them pull the nfc chip without any explanation i guess...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enp82003:
Nfc chip? What is that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Near Field Communication I believe. My NS4G has it. I believe you can transfer data wireless to nearby device....I think. I am never around anyone who also has it. I disable it because it does use battery...even though its not in use
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enp82003:
Would it be possible to down grade my kernal or go to the eu version so i could get usb host support?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
There is no EU version this is not a gsm phone .....cdma only can't use kernels from them
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DaKlown:
No you cant use a gsm kernel on a cdma phone but the usb host code is a part of android since honeycomb. ICS has it too. Hopefully it will get re-enabled once we have a stable ICS OTA.
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
Lulz :D

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[Off-topic] dexter93:
Still hiding? :p
[Off-topic] M_T_M:
Hmm....this noob thinks he can mock me in front of these other noobs and get away with it :cool:

Must think of a master plan....BRB
[Off-topic] dexter93:
man you banned me at the right moment. I was for once doing dev work and almost bricked my phone trying sth and couldnt give feedback :mad:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1468791&page=9

thanks for lifting it though. But you still owe me an answer :p
[Off-topic] M_T_M:
ban who? I did wut? :confused::confused::confused:

Are you liking frogs again? :confused: :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] dexter93:
i know it was you... anyway. waiting pm... :p
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Feoen:
Hi everyone. I've never been into rooting my technology, so I wait the hard wait for OTA updates.

Well, now that ICS is out for my TF101 I'm extremely happy... My Transformer has gotten me through thick and thin, and it deserves this kind of treatment! :p

Thing being, I'm not sure how to handle the update. Would things go smoother if I reformatted/factory reset the Transformer before doing the 4.0 update?

Even if I don't, should I maybe back up all my data before moving to ICS?

Lastly, will ICS have all of the Asus-installed apps like that one handwriting-note-taking app they added in an earlier update?

Thank you.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tweaked:
Yes.........always best to format.

Yes.....always back up....

Yes.....the apps are there..

Why are you not rooting?...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Feoen:
Great, thank you. :D

I've had no experience rooting. The most I've ever done was put custom firmware on a PSP, and that got to be a headache and a half when the head developer quit development of new firmwares and I couldn't play newer games, etc.

Long story short, while I realize things are far more standardized on technology now, I don't really know what functionality I am going to get out of rooting an Android device. It does what I need without doing that, and tbh I don't really have the time to invest learning about rooting and its advantages, etc.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horndroid:
Lol

Why do people act like rooting is some complicated process that requires a degree in computer science.

Rooting a TF is friggin easy and simple. It takes less than 5 minutes to look up how to do it--you are already on this forum. The actual rooting process takes like a minute.Mod edit
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Feoen:
I actually have a minor in computer science... lol

It's not that rooting is difficult, but I don't see any advantages to it since flashing custom rome is where things get tricky and I don't have the patience or willingness to learn the process.

I'm doing a factory reset on my TF101 right now. Am I supposed to go into the bios thing and reset those Caches too? Or can I just ignore that?

Edit: That sounded completely uninformed lmao. I mean the Dalvik cache and such in the recovery menu.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horndroid:
Flashing a custom ROM is not tricky.

Yes you should wipe those caches. You won't lose anything.

The vast majority of people who did factory reset

before upgrading

to ICS aren't having the issues that people are complaining about on this forum.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gahh Its Lee:
I have to send my phone back as I'm getting a replacement so I wanna take EVERYTHING off the SD card however I can't get any of my titanium backup files to go. Does anyone have any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mudferret:
Have you tried to adb pull yet? Did this just the other day.

adb pull /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/

Will copy the folder to your cpu; Android\android-sdk\platform-tools, unless you direct it elsewhere. This assumes you have the Android SDK installed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gahh Its Lee:
Didn't even think of that I'll give it a try thanks man. Could I do adb pull /sdcard?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mudferret:
Should be able to; might take a while though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gahh Its Lee:
Thanks a ton
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] petsasj:
unfortunately that doesn't work. Mtp's a *****, really. Adb pull doesn't work on folders recursively, so it'll pull all of the folders without any of the contents. Been there, done that :-(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gahh Its Lee:
Damn. I really would rather keep all my stuff...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mwalt2:
adb pull will work just fine. I've pulled my entire sdcard partition using it. It pulls all folders and files no problem. Just use the following:

adb pull /mnt/sdcard C:\whateverlocationyouwant

That will pull everything and put it in 'whateverlocationyouwant' under your C:\. You can obviously change or leave off the C:\whateverlocationyouwant. I just like it to put all content into a separate directory rather than platform-tools.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gtizon:
Nice to see you here Petsasj! I have moved to the GNex as well!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dj4n90:
because of the problems with linux and MPT I use ES File Explorer and transfer files over lan (samba) to & from my windows machines & (s)ftp to my tux.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] danger-rat:
Easiest way is to mount a stick through an OTG cable...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zer0_Cool:
Try Airdroid, it's free/easy. I use it since my phone is on wifi when I'm at home on my computer anyway.

Market Link:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl=en
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBM12G:
Hello, the new HTC ICS phones use three capacitive buttons Home, back, and a multitasking button. How would this work in legacy apps that require a menu button? I ask because I would love to have the captivate menu button function as a multitasking button without changing any of the other buttons. Is this possible?
[Nokia Lumia 900] Thresher:
...I know as a community most are not fond of a proprietary connector on a device.

I ride the fence ont hat one.

What I think we can agree on though, is that data and charge cables should not be on the tops of devices as this makes for incredibly stupid dock and mounting options in vehicles.

Am I wrong? This is sort of a big deal to me. I have been dealing with Samsung Focus data on top and it is awful.
[Nokia Lumia 900] alodar1:
If you have a dock, ok I see your point. No dock, don't care...top bottom side...who cares.
[Nokia Lumia 900] Thresher:
How do you connect in your car? This is my major area of issue. For me it is a power cable and stereo plug right now. Wish it was on the bottom of my phone, could at least fabricate a easy-in, easy-out method.
[Nokia Lumia 900] jettrue:
I personally love and prefer the top micro usb. So that when I am at my desk I don't have a cable curving around the bottom or side. I don't have a dock or a stand, so as far as laying flat on a desktop I am looking forward to it.

my car has Bluetooth, and I don't see a problem with plugging it in via the top in my car phone mount. Much better than a side connection imo.
[Nokia Lumia 900] Seed 2.0:
I totally agree, Docks can be made to work no matter where the port is. I believe the Lumia 800 has a car dock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_u8qi2lRkQ&feature=youtu.be
[Nokia Lumia 900] alodar1:
I already have a dock for the 900. It comes standard equipment in my dodge durango. 1 of 8 cup holders.
[Nokia Lumia 900] KQ17:
This, exactly.
[HTC ChaCha] g0rnex:
hello,

Where can i find stock rom for htc chacha?

I unlocked, rooted and then flashed cm7 2 weeks ago. Having huge battery drain, camera app bugs, slow phone..

so i want to flash the stock rom from htc back, where can i find it? or does som1 have a solution for all my problems with cm7?

thanks in advance.
[HTC ChaCha] rangercaptain:
What rom? Spain, US? If you have CWR perhaps someone can send you their backup? It should be after a factory reset so the backup doesn't have personal data.
[HTC ChaCha] g0rnex:
Europe, i'm from belgium
[HTC ChaCha] g0rnex:
what u mean use som1's backup.

Make a nandroid backup on an other phone. put on my sd and restore that backup?
[HTC ChaCha] g0rnex:
no reply?

put a nandroid from other phone on mine?
[HTC ChaCha] rangercaptain:
Right. You can use someone elses backup for your restore.
[HTC ChaCha] ladyhaly:
Same problem. I'd like to flash back to stock ROM (mine is Asia WWE) but RUUs won't let me do it... Tomorrow I will have someone buy me a Kingston 2 GB microSD and make it a "gold card" (won't work on my Samsung 2 GB). Will try to see if I can flash HTC ChaCha WWE 1.57 from there but if anyone could give me a zip file of the stock ChaCha ROM which my phone would allow me to flash via CMW, then please...

Or a Nandroid backup... Please please can anybody provide me one?
[HTC ChaCha] g0rnex:
I still din't find one also no nandroid backup.

But i have flashed "superdroid" (its almost the same as stock just less unusefull apps :p so even better for me.)
[HTC ChaCha] ladyhaly:
Alex C. has a clean Nandroid backup of his European HTC ChaCha from December 2011. I am using it now. It's sad that I don't have Plurk anymore among my stock apps list but oh well.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cyco13:
Hi There

I installed the Hyperdroid CM7 - 5.8.0 yesterday and everything seems to work fine so far, only issue is when installing apps.

Suddenly got an out of memory warning, when i look in the app screen i can see 7.9Mb used and 3.4 free, seem to be missing some memory here.

When i check in phone details i get 214Mb available out of 410Mb. Did i mess up when installing the ROM?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cyco13:
fixed

consider this tread closed, issue is fixed
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] spridell:
For anyone holding out for the Verizon versioin:

It looks like March 1

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/02/27/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-launching-on-verizon-march-1/

$500 on contract is insane.

Stick with the International version for about $60 more.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rmm200:
You have something against crippled devices?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] unremarked:
Crippled?

10char
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
You dont get the full potentisl if the device if you buy a branded model (att, vetizon, tmobile) an unlocked ersion is the way to go. I learned my leasin when i bought the iriginsl tab for tmobile. Getting the 7.7 international unlocked verision is the way to go.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] burhanistan:
Wow, Verizon will sell dozens! And their launch is so well-timed to overshadow Apple's upcoming iPad 3 event!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] charliechocolate:
Is it even possible to get an unlocked international LTE version?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] 05GT:
Currently trying out the LTE version from Verizon. Not all that bad.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] MileHighAko:
Price is steep - but this is replacing my old Mifi device, so when I combine that with the price of the device and the contract it's all the same to me.

So far so good - and happy with it's performance as hot spot for my laptop.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] 05GT:
I don't think their will be much a developer seen for it though. That's the only thing that kind of sucks.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] maretus:
Yea I'm kind of considering picking up the lte version. I'm already paying for a tablet plan so I could just move it to that line. However, the lack of developer support for the verizon version is holding me back. Not to mention it will probably be months before it sees ICS which will really help with HCs performance...

Would love to see some or A dev jump on for this device. That happens and I'll spring the 700 for that beautiful samoled goodness.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Balano:
Hey XDA. Right now, i have a LG O2X, just turning a year old. My dad just orderd an arc s for a small price. He really doesnt care what phone it is, he just wants to go read the news on the fly.

So, should i choose the Arc? Btw, my mom has a pair of livesound headphones laying around.

So:

Arc S:

Better screen?

Fully working ics

Sleek

Good headphones

but:

Slower

not so much for gaming.

viewing angles?

LG:

Fast with custom rom ( using temasek kang):

Good screen?

but:

thick, heavy

not much support from nvidia.

What would you choose?

I listen to music for about 1.5-2 hours per day while surfing the web on 3G. I play occasionally.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariolcneto:
I think you're asking this in the wrong place... Most of us will prefer the ARC, since we have it... :p

Anyway...

The ARC community works really hard and we always have updates and improved roms here... I'm to a point where I flash a new rom, kernel, bb every week... Because of that, the phone gets better everyday, so I don't think it's drastically slower... You can always OC it too... The ARC S with DOOM's kernel you can go up to 2ghz... And still get good battery life... Just to know, my 7 home screen on ICS are full of widgets (I don't keep icons or anything else on them)... I keep 4 e-mail accounts with the sinc on the whole day, a twitter account with the updates for every 5 minutes, a facebook account every 30 minutes, samething with LinkedIn and G+... I listen to music for 2h-2h30 everyday, Around 3h/4h of calls and I still get a whole 24h on my battery...

Right now I have ICElite by zdzihu and it's great... It's still a bit laggy, but I'm sure they're working to fix it... I also had Arconium which was a great ROM and many other MIUIs that had a perfect smooth experience... Still, ICS is great to work, the UI is the best I've seen up to now...

The screen is great and the design of the phone is top!!! It fits on your hand perfectly... Everywhere I go, people who are not much into phones ask me what phone it is... I just love it...

I will need a separate phone for work in June and I'm really thinking about getting an ARC S and have two ARCs...

For reference, I always check Engadget for these questions and I think they have a post about the two phones...

I hope I helped...

Cheers!!!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anuragkanase:
I would like to say, SE Xperia Arc S, is not worth the price.

Just like all the other Sony handsets released with out-dated specs, they only work with because of their magnificent looks.

I own an Arc S, it dint proved powerful. 1.4Ghz is no upto mark.

The phone calling feature in Stock Rom itself is very slow, it doesn't respond quick and the SE interface is comparative slow. Tried many custom Launchers, but when returning back to home, it was lagging.

My previous phones have been HTC WF, WFS, Evo 4g, I would say they worked quite well with the specs they had.

One more thing I have noticed in Arc S, the applications quickly close while multitasking. E.g. Using Browser and Opera Mobile simultaneously, one of them closes, and this din't happened with Evo 4G, also, Market and Opera dint go well.

I have expressed cons above.

The Pros,

Really awesome display. Though, AMOLED was much richer, I liked the display.

If you are going to choose custom ROMs, the phone Rocks. Just as mariolcneto said, many mods are available which makes the phone even better. But, its upto you, if you want to customize, root, the phone, the phone will provide you everything.

Camera is quiet reliable, but the best part is, its too quick to shoot. Very quick indeed.

Sound quality is promising.

LG O2X, is quiet powerful, lacks the community support though.

Choose the phone according to your needs.

All the best.