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[Android General] :
victory

I believe that ics is a huge improvement from Gingerbread and it is hitting apple on one of their greatest stuff. Slickness. and doing that but staying android. That's its greatest win in order to make people come on the platform
[Android General] sudkcoce:
There's an alternative: HTC one ;-)
[Android General] manlisten:
One thing I really don't like about ICS are the on-screen buttons, at least on phones. The bottom portion of the home screen looks a cluttered mess with 5 dock icons and then 3 navigation icons directly below. I'm glad that companies such as HTC are sticking with hardware buttons.

Other than that there's no way I think Gingerbread looks better by any measure. The stock ICS apps all blow away their Gingerbread counterparts, IMO.
[Android General] chosen14u:
I think the features in ICS and the look of the o/s is fantastic and a step in the right direction for a mature, and awesome o/s!
[Android General] laminor:
I agree :cool:
[Android General] shockem:
Yes, yea you are the only one :P
[Android General] deyna:
I loved the look of gb except for the main icon bar having only two user changeable buttons. The black and green theme was nice but I prefer nice blues over greens. Ics in my opinion is a step up.

That said, I don't like the menu button being moved to the top right. I'm left-handed and, even though I have decent sized hands, it is a real stretch for me to hold the phone single handedly by the bottom half for typing then reach the top right corner for the menu button. I'm on AOKP Milestone 3 at the moment and it has let me replace the multitasking button with a menu button and use a long-press of the home button to bring up the multitasking menu.

I really hated the idea of on-screen buttons. Then I used them. When watching a movie on my old Nexus S, the buttons would stay lit even when the movie was full screen; while a small gripe this was still a little annoying. On the Galaxy Nexus, the buttons go away in full screen; the difference that that small change makes is amazing.
[Android General] MikeyMike01:
It does have quite a bit of work needed. It's much better than Gingerbread which was horrendous.

Maybe next time Google. :rolleyes:

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Android General] riptide666:
The thing I dislike most is the lack of text boxes. The line indicating the boxes in ICS makes me confused. I find myself looking for a place to enter text and after a while I remember that they have changed to the idiotic lines instead of the more familiar textboxes.
[Android General] ljordan2:
Actually there's a feature called bld(back light dimmer). Which turns off the buttons lights.

Sent from my Nexus S from Tapatalk
[Android General] molesarecoming:
the great thing about software buttons is: they aren't fixed. switch a nexus to tablet mode and ice cream sandwich will look diferent (see attachments)

(statusbar & navbar combined. push-notifications and curtain on the lower right. saves space and allows apps to display two-row settings.)

you also get fine control in custom roms, aokp for instance lets you set the navbar size, or, if you want, you can hide the whole thing and get all the screen revenue.

don't see where the gripe is anyway, hardware buttons take space, too - much more even. they're slow to use and wear out. couldnt be happier speeding through the settings in ICS like nothing.
[Android General] ArmorD:
I've always said Android is ugly as hell(although I've been a fanboy since 08). But when ICS came out I was mind=blown. The blue & greyish look is very elegant. Everything looks better. Only thing I don't like in ICS is the multitasking system. The previous one was way faster and snappier.
[Android General] bkensey:
From a UI designer's perspective...

Here is my perspective as an Android developer and UI designer. The whole implementation of the menu button pre 3.0 was a mess from a UI perspective, and here's the reason why: There was never any indication of whether there was a menu or not. Items were just stashed in a hidden corner of the UI, and the user never knew what, if anything, was there. The reason why Google is pushing the Action bar and the 3-dot menu button that you see in ICS is that it solves the problem. If there is enough space on screen to place all of the menu items, then there is no menu overflow, and if not, it is there to catch the overflow. I understand if you don't like the change, but I think Google's decision was a smart one.
[Android General] iconaw1:
+ 1

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Android General] dEris:
Looks better when you actually play with it on your phone and not look at screenshots.
[Android General] HaloMediaz:
I wish there would be themes for it like CM7 had. If CM9 would have themes like red and such I would flash it in a heartbeat. Untill then I'll be using the highly custumizabke kang rom :D
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
I know this post is over in the Note forum, but the fix works just the same for the 7.7

Thought you all would like to know! ;)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
*bump* Just keeping this up on the front page ;)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] teiglin:
Shameless self-promotion? Yeesh. :P

Borrowing the IMEI from an in-store model is clever though.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
Just doing what I do best here! Trying to help ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] shane6374:
Hey guys, My girlfriend has the A500 and we are struggling to get it to connect to my rooted Nexus S over the wifi AP built in the rom. The phone works fine with my laptop. Any ideas?
[Acer Iconia A500] julz:
What os do you have on the phone and on your a500? I've been able to tether via wifi from my nexus s on Gingerbread and ics to my a500 on honeycomb and now ics. Are you using the right password ?
[Acer Iconia A500] shane6374:
Honeycomb on the tab and ics on the nexus. Yeah, password is fine.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
You need to mod the ad-hoc wifi file on the Acer a500 tablet if you have it rooted. if not you can try pda.net app. i HAVE not use the pda method so have no knowledge .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1517109

I posted a guide at the thread above on how to enable this.

Good luck.
[Acer Iconia A500] asesino:
I'm not having any problems powering my A200 w/my rooted SGS2 on the latest wifi-tether
[Acer Iconia A500] shane6374:
I'm thinking about picking one of those up for myself. I see the A200 has root now, just waiting to see if it gets a custom recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] asesino:
Really good tablet if u ask me at a very fair $
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] MimKoRn:
Hello,

I've looked for a way to modify the keypad on my HTC and I found that one must change the leo-keypad.kl file when rooted. I've done so several times with r/w option, keeping a backup file and changing the leo-keypad.kl in several ways.

What I'm trying to achieve is to exchange the function of call and endcall button. Reason? I already had to change the digitizer since pressing the endcall button to turn off the screen is so frequent, it actually damages the flex cable from digitizer making the touch screen unresponsive. Replacing the digitizer cost money, time and a little bit of functionality of the phone. I don't want this to happen again, thus I want to turn off the screen with the call button.

Changing of the file did not help. What I've done was that I located the row with CALL and changed it to ENDCALL and ENDCALL changing to CALL. Then I tried to change both or one of them for POWER. POWER for CALL, etc. Nothing has changed whatsoever. Each time I rebooted the phone and checked, whether the file did not change on it's own. It was changed, but buttons work still the same.

Any ideas?

(using Hyperdroid, ES File Explorer with root option and writing ability)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shanman-2:
Try using KeynumberTracker from the market. This will give you the correct key number to modify, then get ButtonRemapper from the market and remap the keys....or just edit it yourself and save using root-explorer..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rubledub:
im sure you've noticed that ANY button will unlock the phone when running Hyperdroid. (not to insult) i too, ran into the problem you are describing and found that mashing the physical buttons (any for any reason) just seemed hard on my precious Leo.

i downloaded "screen off and lock" from the market. it IS an ON-screen alternative (and a useful one at that) to trying to remap the physical keys. i simply replaced my launchers contact icon with the 'screen off' one (that way it will show on any home screen) and i simply go to the other end of the spectrum (using the green CALL button) to bring it off standby.

hope this helps. cheers

oh, almost forgot ... "screen off and lock" REQUIRES root!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] elesbb:
You might want to try editing qwerty.kl also . I was trying to disable the front keys during sleep and at first i only edited the leo-keypad.kl file and that wasnt holding . So i also edited the qwerty.kl file and it worked .
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] MimKoRn:
Thanx!

Thank you all for prompt answers and useful ideas. I decided to go for the quoted way and it works great for me. Now the call button kills the screen.

I also considered a touch screen alternative as rubledub mentioned (thanx for that), but I wanted to be able to turn off the screen even when I'm not on homescreen, so I went for the first mentioned alternative. However, the idea is cool, so I'll probably get it too, just to have both alternatives at hand.

Thanx a lot again. You probably saved my phone and my nerves. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Axel85:
I simply put lock screen widget on my screen,it s free from market and works great,now i use end key only to boot the phone
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tgallen:
Thanks.

I just wanted to say thanks for this post. I was struggling with some button remapping issues and this was the cause. I only edited the keypad.kl and not the qwerty.kl as well.

So thanks again man.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bad.bid:
could you elaborate a bit on that? i dont know where the kwerty.kl resides (yes, i m well versed with editing things in system files with root explorer)

did you find the key number and change with another key number? if so, to set an empty key (that doesnt work on pressing) what do i replace it with?

would be appreciated
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Kameirus:
why doesnt any one use button remapper it works perfect for me i have my call button set to

shut off screen and as shutdown or restart phone i dont use my end call key for anything now
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shuvabrata:
Is there a collection of English themes for MiLocker for our Galaxy SII?

Please point me to a post or an URL. All I can find is Chinese language themes in MiLocker?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] GANJDROID:
Go to Android Themes on xda. There's a whole thread devoted to MIUI lockscreens. Just download them, then move them to MIUI/themes on your SD card.

Edit: Thread link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1288096

Sent from my GT-I9100
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] inmnbob:
I have two Flyers. One has a sprint data plan. The other just wifi. The wifi only tablet is able to run Telenav by simply entering my Sprint cell phone number at a prompt. The other tablet with the Sprint data plan only prompts me with pay options. Thoughts about this?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hollywood528:
I ordered this battery off eBay a few weeks ago from HK.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/170700946395?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

I received the battery a little over a week ago. I immediately charged the battery overnight (at least 12 hour charge) and popped it in the morning. Throughout the day I normally; check my email, a few couple minute phone calls, some web browsing, updating apps through the market, maybe a few videos, and streaming music, and texting pretty much all day.

The battery seemed to be doing just as good as stock. Now after a few charge cycles I believe the battery is doing better.

I can easily get a day out of it on average.

Two days I was sick, so I just text a few times throughout the day and played a few games on the phone.. I got 48 hours out of the battery.

I tried killing the battery one day by watching videos, streaming music and playing games for maybe 6 hours and I still had about 25% left.

For only $6 shipped (it takes about 2 weeks to get from HK) I believe it is a good deal. I keep my stock battery charged as a backup, but so far haven't needed it. When I get home from work I normally still have 30 - 40% left and just throw it on the charger and take it off when I wake up.

It sure is nice not to have to worry about bringing a charger everywhere I go.

I am really surprised that the 450mAh increase made that much difference.

The battery also feels a little lighter.. I don't have a scale to weigh it on, but it does feel slightly lighter :)

Running R3velation ROM, Overclocked to 1.6GHZ - ondemand (voltage control), Undervolted -50v @ 100,200,400, sync is set at once a day I believe, automatic brightness, using WIFI only when needed, and GPS almost never

Overall... very satisfied. :D:D:D

PS.. my wife got her 3500mAh battery for her captivate. She is easily getting 2 days out of her battery.. I wish I could use it on my Infuse, but I use the Otterbox case... so it will not fit..
[Samsung Infuse 4G] daytonasportster:
I got 2 of these for backup for my wifes and my phone. I use mine all the time. A bit better than the stock battery and for the price was very hard to beat.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] scyld:
Great find, thanks!

On the eBay page, the vendor says:

Did you bother with this, or did you just charge it up and pop it in?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hollywood528:
I just popped it in my phone and charged it for 10 to 12 hours

I searched a little on google about batteries and didn't find anything like the Ebay seller said to do.

No problems so far. And still getting a day out of the battery.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997
[Samsung Infuse 4G] domoking:
This battery need extra back cover or use the ordinary stock back cover?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] alose:
Thanks for sharing. I had one of the double sized batteries with the extra back, but the battery wore out after only 6 months. I might just go for one of these.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] ZzFDKzZ:
I bought this battery after reading this thread. The battery is slightly more heavier. The battery life seems to last longer when the cell phone is in use but when the phone is on standby the battery dies quicker then the oem battery. Weird.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
That is wierd, i have the same batteries....came as a two pack with charger...after a few cycle of charge...works great....i try to rotate the two batteries..
[Samsung Infuse 4G] PoXFreak:
Those of you needing to know whats going on inside your battery, you need to find "Spare Parts" on the Market/Play Store.

There is a very in-depth app inside called simply "Battery Information"

There you will not only find your % of charge, but battery voltage and temperature, battery health and time since last boot.

Li-Ion batteries are tricky as they require no more than 4.2v, anything more can destroy the battery. Also, the cell is made to operate to no less than 3.0v, any less and the cell will "go to sleep", meaning it won't take a charge unless forced to do so.

Just some FYI, I did my homework on Li-Ion technology and figured I'd share a little...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tegxsi:
Looking for a hi-capacity battery

I'll have a look at this....
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bawb3:
So my sister just bought a Transformer tonight, It has never been rooted or anything.

It will not detect any updates on the "search for update" OTA thing.

I also downloaded the ICS firmware directly from Asus's website, extracted it on a microSD card, and the trasnformer still doesnt show theres any update.

In the manual update guide it says put the extracted ASUS folder on the SD card, however there is no ASUS folder in the update downloaded from their site.

No idea whats going on.

Any help is appreciated.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Did you unzipped the file you download from Asus website? You can't leave it whole, there's another zip inside that zip.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bawb3:
Yep I followed all the instructions
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horndroid:
Reading that gives me the feeling that you probably didn't do it right. There is no reason it won't work.

Can you post the EXACT steps you took?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjl:
I'm having the same issue

There is no ASUS directory in the zip.

Inside the second zip there is a file called blob and a directory called Meta-Inf with a bunch if files in.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bawb3:
Okay, I go to asus's tf101 site, download sectiion > firmware.

Download the US SKU 4.0.3 firmware update which is ~300mb

Extract that zip which yields a file with another ZIP inside of it. There is no ASUS folder.

Like the above poster said, the second zip file looks like a recovery update script that you would flash in CWM with a meta-inf with the signatures, and a blob file.

EDIT[SOLVED]:

Okay I figured it out. I downloaded the 3.2.1 update from asus, which does have the ASUS folder. This one worked and launched the update wizard.

It seems that the update wizard looks for the directory /ASUS/Update/US_epad-user-x.x.x.xx.zip file on the root of the microSd card.

So I put the ICS update which is US_epad-user-9.2.1.11.zip into the ASUS/Update/ Directory in the microSD card that I initially extracted from the 3.2 update. Sure it enough it launched the update wizard and allowed me to select that file for the update.

ASUS Didnt properly upload the ICS update it seems.

I still dont know why the OTA didnt acknowledge an update.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deryldoucette:
OK, this is just getting dumb now.

OK, this is just getting really really stupid now. ASUS I AM SERIOUSLY STARTING TO HATE YOU.

OK I have done the following across MULTIPLE reboots and really getting ticked off now. This would NOT be an issue if the recovery mode didn't give me a damned green droid with yellow triangle with ! in the middle of it.

I have:

Way 1

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1 - Extracted WW_epad-user-9.2.1.11.zip from the original WW_epaduser9_2_1_11UpdateLauncher.zip from ASUS site.

2 - Copied extracted WW_epad-user-9.2.1.11.zip to EP101_SDUPDATE.zip

3 - Put both zips on root of microSD. Failed. Tried with copy on /sdcard/ as well, both with and without leaving the original 2 on the microSD.

Way 2

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Extracted the WW zip both to the / of the tablet and to the root of the microSD, trying both with and without leaving the originals on the microSD.

Way 3

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Same exact as Way 1 and Way 2 but with removing the .zip extension from both files, and with swapping removal of the extension between the 2 files on both the tablet and the microSD.

Way 4

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Tried all permutations of Way 1, 2, and 3 with both 8.6.5.21 and 8.6.6.21.

NONE of these ways worked.

I grabbed NVFLASH with 8.6.5.13 and that flashed just fine, except that the recovery mode is still giving me the triangular ! droid image.

I absolutely positively can not root or otherwise do anything to this tablet.

The tablet is a ASUS 32GB Transformer HD Tablet (Serial #: B50KAS#####) with a 2GB microSD formatted with FAT32. (I've tried formatting NTFS and FAT32) This is not a Prime! This is the original Transformer!

I even found an article for how to create your own and tried that as well!.

(Wow really guys? You can't post outside links?? Really? What the heck is that retardation supposed to prevent? I mean really!)

All I get for that mess is the USB connection is dropped even before NVFLASH can do anything. I have Windows 7 Ultimate, Mac OS X Lion, and several distributions of Linux (ArchLinux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and OpenSUSE). I've tried on them all!! This has been a great many hours trying to figure this out, searching like crazy through these forums. (Incidently, the 10 posts requirement in order to post in the 'experienced' area is just nuts.)

I even tried both the renaming WW portion of the zip name to US as described in other areas in this forum and it still failed! I'm a programmer by trade, and I have never run up against something as stubborn as this! The recovery mode is what is breaking all of this. I absolutely can not get a stable, working recovery mode on this tablet! Heck, I'd be happy with the stock 8.6.5.21 on here or ICS (the 9.2.1.11) without ever again attempting to root the pup! Can anyone assist in getting the recovery mode back to normal? Is there a way to use NVFLASH to write the original recovery mode back such that I stop getting that dang Droid With Yellow ! Triangle image?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
Do you have CWM Recovery installed? If so, it will not do the OTA updates, but you can just go into CWM Recovery and then choose the 9.2.1.11 firmware and when it is done flashing, you will have an unrooted stock ICS (with stock recovery).
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deryldoucette:
CWM

Unable to root. RazorClaw tells me I'm missing the required file (though it doesn't tell me what file that its) and says Too bad!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gls9:
Razorclaw only works on 8.6.5.19.

Not certain on which version you try to run razorclaw.

use Vipermod on 8.6.5.21 or higher.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deryldoucette:
was 8.6.5.13 which is what i was able to nvflash back to the tablet. Do you know if there is a more recent nvflash packaged 8.6? Looking to see if I can at least put 8.6.5.21 on here. Currently still running the 8.6.5.13
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaveBG:
Mine also wont OTA, i have put the downloads in ASUS/Update and nothing... does not detect updates.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny1st:
Just bought my tf101 yesterday, same problem. Called support and they told me the update was not pushed to my device yet and a manual update would probably fail.how long ago was ics released?

found it, february 24th... It should be pushed to my device by now, right?