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[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
So, it doesn't cost them anything to ship you a device and get yours sent back? What about power at the warehouse they're sent to, or the person that inspects them when they come in, and the people who package them up and send them out? What about the phones that come in are DOA and can't be fixed?

If you pay for car insurance your whole life, but never have an accident, do you go out and steal a car "because you are due a new one"? What about homeowners insurance? You get a free house after 10 years of no claims? I didn't think so. Why should it be any different with phone insurance? Because you think so? It's fraud, plain and simple, and regardless of what you want to believe, it is the reason insurance costs are so high for EVERYTHING, and why electronics prices are going up, because so many people break something themselves and get "warranty" replacements when it's something they caused themselves.

People complain about the measures Samsung is taking to prevent/reduce Odin flashes of devices, but they likely have gotten several phones that are worse coming in because of people flashing stuff they shouldn't be and making things worse, and harder to fix. Blame no one but yourself for the actions that OEMs and Carriers are taking to curb phone hacking, cause actions like this are the exact reason they do it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Yep you get what you pay for... they actually use the money to make their service the best instead of sitting on it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] charlie_c:
Carriers don't make money on equipment because it's (almost) all subsidized (which means they take a loss on it). If VZW spends $200 to get your service for a year or two (such as, VZW buys device for $400, sells for $199 with contract). If they subsidize a device that someone then abuses and that person takes advantage of that warranty process when they're really not entitled to it, it just deepens VZW's loss on the device.

Asurion is a totally different company. You're not giving your money to VZW every month for insurance, you're giving it to an insurance company. Manufacturer warranties are "free" after the purchase of the device and the carrier will never make money on them as it's included in the cost of the device they've already taken a loss on.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jager420:
The loss they take is nothing in comparison to what they make off us in that 2 years...Im just sayin when I see a loop hole I take it...And Verizon has plenty of times screwed with me, so its a give and take relationship. I was taught if someone hits you, you kick em..

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What can I say...I have pirate tendencies
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsungepicgeek:
Almost every 5 minutes or sometimes every 1 minute, a popup appears on my phone saying: "Unfortunately, clock has stopped". Has anyone else receiving this message? How can I fix it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Speedin07si:
That happened when I first installed alpha 0. I wiped all data and reinstalled fixed the issue.

Sent from a CM9 powered Epic.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboysid:
CM9 Clock Bug Fix

Open the Terminal Emulator and type:

$ su

# cd /data/data/com.android.deskclock/databases

# mv alarms.db alarms.db.bak

Problem solved.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] autom8r:
So, I have a T989D and I'm a budding Android developer (almost finished my first major release). Once my first app is released to the masses, I will have plenty of time to develop ROMs while I'm updating my app.

This being said, I know absolutely nothing about ROM development, but quite a bit about the Android framework, java, etc. etc. I assume most ROM development is cracking open the source and tweaking to your hearts content, however, there must be some very specific things which I'm not sure my skills will translate into effectively?

So, what I really want to know from other Developers turned ROM makers is, how much of my skills are transferrable and what are the quirks/pitfalls I'm going to have to learn?

I'm quite excited to get involved and develop some ROMs for this phone, a nice kickstart would be appreciated.

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] A Dustman:
This seems to be a problem that all galaxy phones are plagued with. Thought I would bring it to the attention of the people here to see if anyone can figure out some sort of solution.

Here's a description of the issue:

When the phone is mounted in the OEM car dock with a 3.5mm aux out to the cars stereo, no call audio can be heard. Call audio only comes through the phones speakers, making it very difficult to hear the conversation. No matter what settings you have, this can not be changed.

Here's a link to a thread with the same problem in the t-mobile GSII forums

Any help on this is greatly appreciated
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] StarLog:
Does your car radio have Blue Tooth?

That is how I got around the issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dakleenupman:
I dont use the car dock but do have the headphone cable attached to my head unit and the call audio comes through my speakers. Not sure if that helps....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] the5:
I decided to do a comparison between the ttwo batteries.

Ordered from here -http://www.ebay.com/itm/Trexcell-Samsung-Galaxy-Nexus-3800mAh-Extended-Battery-Cover-FOR-VERIZON-/280838395763?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item416345d773

It got to me in two days! Thats quick shipping

here are some pics showing the thickness and diffrences-

And now for the diffrence between covers and batts-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mototireguy:
Curious to see how long this 3800mah battery lasts. Maybe twice the stock 1900mah battery?

Fair to say charge time from near-zero to full will take twice the time?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slackwaresupport:
hiya.. i got one also.. and im pretty displeased with the performance of mine.. anyone else chime in??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] acwildfire:
i got one of these for £10.

its not pretty, but i wasnt buying it for the look!

pretty happy with it. it easily doubles the time i get with stock battery. and more !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slackwaresupport:
hmm.. something is up with mine then.. i am on LiQUIDSMOOTH-v1.1 with franco milestone 2 kernel..
[Acer Iconia A500] danielnn:
Hi I just purchased a used A500 for $100.00 from a friend it currently has a

Build number ACER_A500_4.017.07_EMEA_CUS7

On Device Version 07_EMEA_CUS7

It is currently rooted verified with terminal emulator su=# and it has ClockworkMod v5.0.0.0

A system update of 7.0006.01 is coming up, should I update or can I just Flash a Rom like FLEXREAPER-R10-ICS-0.022.00.

I've had Motorola, Samsung and Htc phones and have always felt comfortable flashing Roms but after reading hundreds of posts I am a bit confused, new learning curve with Acer.

Can I flash back and forward from Honeycomb to ICS without limitations?

Does this thing have a locked Bootloader?

Do I loose root if I take the update?

Thank you for any help Acer Newb...
[Acer Iconia A500] dxwilliams40:
You will lose root if you take the update. Just flash one of the ics roms based on the acer leak. Civato has a really stable rom which I am currently using. The others are decent as well. Just make a nandroid back up. There are also some well written instructions in the development forum if you get into trouble.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Darrien13:
Does listing to music wear down the speaker? Like cause it to sound as loud anymore and bust the speaker? Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rocket321:
Phone speakers are just like any other speaker. You can blow it by turning too loud. It will have a slight break in period. They should not wear out or break if used within spec for many years.

The exception would be if you got a bad apple with a manufacturing defect.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zonlicht:
Exactly, by the time your speakers break Epic 4G Touch would be an ancient relic.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] OMG_VTEC:
I was wondering when lazy was gonna make it's way to aosp...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
The name of the new governor says it all....

You just answered your own question. I took my own sweet time releasing it. It was built like 2 weeks ago. I was being lazy.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jlokos:
Tiny, this new thread is great, as is the work you and Chad have done on these kernels. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Yeah, the old way was sloppy. Tired of it. I think this thread is cleaner than the sense one and it took me less time to write it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Pons:
To help out users (and document the probable future deviation), how about adding a tag to each kernel stating whether it works with froyo (which I believe is none), GB, ICS, or a multiple (which is only the last couple or so, I think).

Great work, by the way.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Done. 10char
[Droid Incredible Android Development] imparables:
Nice.....great work to you and Chad. Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] chocolate8175:
Thanks for the thread tiny, I was wondering what the benefits of the lazy governor were
[Droid Incredible Android Development] azradiohead:
I'm running my CPU at 128/806 Mhz with Lazy and it's been nice and smooth all day. Battery life has been as good or better than SA2 for me.

It also seemed to drop my ping time and increase the throughput in SpeedTest. I was getting really discouraged with ICS and >400ms ping times but I'm attributing the Lazy governor with right around 100ms ping and smoother data rates. When I switch back to the SA2 governor that I've been running for months data gets choppy again. The system itself seems smooth enough with SA2 but data has been very choppy.

Thank you to all you great developers for all your time, effort, and hard work. We really do appreciate it. :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
The ROM/kernel/governor have no impact on data signal or speed so what you're seeing is coincidental. Network speed varies on so many factors outside of the control of the ROM or kernel. I'm glad to hear you like the new kernel and the lazy governor. I'm a fan of the dev of the lazy governor's work and run his kernel on my nexus.

My concern is that others will assume it will improve network performance and be disappointed when it doesn't.

Thank you for your compliments!

I just want to make sure I clarified this matter.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
I was looking around for something good that would make sense but I couldn't find anything so far.

Basically I added this governor on a whim. So far it seems to like lower frequencies even more than smartassv2 without too much sacrifice on speed. It might have better battery life. It seems smooth on Nil's Business Sense 3.5 though.

Interesting post here on smartassv2 from the developer of the lazy governor:

User:

and smartassV2 too but let him fix find the cause of the reboots before

Dev:

I will not integrate any new stuff until I have the cause for reboot problems tracked down. I will look into lulzactive, but I definitely will not include smartass since it is an inefficient governor.

Not sure why he said it was inefficient but could see no post about it.

Needless to say, I like lazy and lagfree so far. Give lazy and lagfree a try for a week and see what you think.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] RebelShadow:
may be placibo effect but I have noticed this too and confirmed with speedtest.

Sent from my incredible incredible.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
How does it fare with ondemand or lagfree? I still think its placebo. I can't test on my phone as I don't have data on the incredible.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] reeseman04:
Running GB and just installed the new Incredikernel, I saw no appreciable difference with data usage on Lazy, Lagfree, SAV2, Ondemand. Depending on your wireless signal, just moving your body by even a few inches could have an impact on data speeds (high frequency shadowing of transmission waves). The ping, might have some more sway by the CPU of the device if the program doesn't get as much processor in when communicating with the server, but not in the order of milliseconds (would be my though).
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jlokos:
I'm using your latest GB kernel with the lazy governor on Warm TwoPointThree 3.5 rom. It is very smooth with very good battery life (undervolted).
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Better than SAV2? I can't really comment myself but I like it so far.

Also, try to keep Sense kernel talk in the sense thread and aosp kernel talk in the AOSP thread. It makes tracking easier. But I also brought up the comment in this thread so it makes sense why you posted here.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jlokos:
I have used both the GB and AOSP versions of the lazy governor. The GB version appears to make the Sense 3.5 rom smoother. As far as battery life, I haven't been able to tell if its better than SA2 since I have a much longer history with SA2. In any event, thanks for adding this governor to both versions (as I switch between the new ICS roms and Sense 3.5); it's another great choice for us to experiment with.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] watt9493:
Could you make lulzactive possible tiny?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thekendog:
Maybe use incredicontrol and uncheck force audio boost? I switched over to mamarleys new kernel and noticed a difference in audio.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mamarley:
That should do it. My kernel doesn't have audio boost at all because I don't think it works very well.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Pons:
I could be wrong, but I thought audio boost only affected audio during a phone call. I'll have to check again when I get home from work.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thekendog:
I agree. I couldn't hardly use Volume+ with it on because it made everything sound terribly distorted. Loving your kernel by the way!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mamarley:
Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] nfiniti9:
So I had a single reboot yesterday when I got a vox. I have not have any reboots on invisiblek cm9 yet and i just flashed hw2 the night before so I'm not positive its related. However battery life is really great.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] normanx:
So far so good on mine... no freezes or anything.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 10roller:
thanks!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Gorilla*:
IM having all sorts of problems now.. Unresponsive soft touch buttons, freeze on unplug from power, I honestly think the New incredikernel HWA beta2 is to blame..

Im gonna run Marleys kernel and see what happens.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mamarley:
I just posted a new version of my kernel that should fix the battery life issues from the last version and fix WiFi tethering.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26795416
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Without any evidence or logs this is just empty blames.

last_kmsg please if you get reboots. And provide a logcat if you can. I like logs to support complaints.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] omniatic:
Flashed it with the rom yesterday. Didn't even try the stock kernel.

No lockups, no freezes, no reboots, no kidding. Excellent speed and performance at 128/1075 on SAv2.

Don't have any complaints...just thought you'd like to know.

Thanks

...sorry...I was on the phone...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] McDastardly:
Hi Tiny

I had a reboot after unplugging my charger this morning as well. I'm running beta 2. Sorry but I don't know what a last_kmsg is :(. I'll install logcat and see what I can grab if it happens again.

Outside of this, I've had a few random reboots as well while the phone was sitting idle but since then I've set the CPU minimum to 245 and haven't had any since.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Shano56:
you do "adb pull /proc/last_kmsg" after a kernel issue
[Droid Incredible Android Development] McDastardly:
Here's mine. Hope it helps!

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1XC1sBJlE3iOG8xdmFoYkdoRGs
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dbrits:
Attached is my last_kmsg file and log. My phone froze and did a soft reboot when I plugged it into my wall charger. When I unplugged it so I could save my logs and such the phone froze again and did another soft reboot.

EDIT: Just wanted to let you know that I experienced a similar charger freeze and soft reboot on mamarley's kernel. I'm the only common denominator in this situation so the problem is probably my phone.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Not sure why it's reporting the recovery kernel but the last_kmsg is from that one so it's really useless to me:

Linux version 2.6.37.6-cyanogenmod+ (jistone@folkvangr) (gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) ) #3 PREEMPT Thu Jul 28 17:43:16 PDT 2011

Above is at the beginning and end of the last_kmsg log. You didn't boot recovery did you? I'll check logcat but I'm not sure if I'll see anything after a reboot.

Edit: can't really see anything that stands out from a scan of your logcat :(
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dbrits:
No, I didn't boot into recovery. There were two successive soft reboots but I don't know if that makes a difference.

Blast. Oh well. I'm back on the stock kernel so we'll see how this goes...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Are you running stock kernel settings? (no manual UV tweaking, no mods, 245/998 SAv2) Just want to cover the basics.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dbrits:
Yup. (Sorry, should have noted that info to begin with. I'm usually better at that type of thing.) No tweaking, no mods of any sort, 245/998 smartassv2. I've used the same setting on all three kernels I've used today.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] enomele:
From what I can tell the lockups while on the charge seem to happen when the screens on and I plug it in
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Try this kernel if you are getting charger related freezes. No fast charge though but this is just a test:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/31805083/incredikernel-ics-hwa-beta2-nofastcharge.zip

Edit: Just a clarification, the whole point of this is for those with freezing issues to test to see if the fast charge (wall/usb either) has issues. If your phone is fine with beta2 then no need to test. FYI, I think the stock evervolv kernel didnt' have this fast charge function either, maybe for the crashing reason.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] miketwoms:
just tried this out. Last thing I did before booting into Recovery to install was disconnect from charger and immediately turn screen off. This resulted in the screen staying off, frozen with the charging led on until it rebooted.

I installed the new test kernel, plugged the phone in, and performed the same test - disconnected and immediately turned the screen off. Same result.

I am using the latest invisiblek CM9 kang, plugged into USB on a PC.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] josephpalozzi:
pop and lockin

First off let me say thanks for all of the work you've done with the kernel so far.

Secondly, sadly it is still locking on my AMOLED dinc. Plugged it in with screen on and it immediately became unresponsive. I have always been able to do a hard reset using the three button combo though so it can't be completely frozen.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Grab a last_kmsg after a reboot since you can restart with the three button combo. Not sure if it will determine anything but it's my best shot for a kernel related issue.

Seems that this fix didn't help? Anyone having lockup issues on SLCD inc?

It's gotta be some kind of incompatibility issue with ICS but not 100% likely to be related to something specific to this kernel as mamarley's has had lockups and maybe even stock for some people.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Shano56:
Tiny you see this
[Droid Incredible Android Development] burnmatoaka:
SLCD here. Had the power plug freeze issue on all the ICS roms I've tried regardless of kernel. What's frustrating is that I can't reliably and consistently reproduce it. Don't know what factors specifically contribute to it other than plugging and/or unplugging. (Enjoying the HWA beta2, btw.)

Tiny, I can give your test kernel a run if you think it might help. I doubt if display hardware has any thing to do with it, but am happy to give it a shot if it would help at all.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
I think shano has the issue as well and he has slcd also. I also doubt display is related. Try it out. I'm away and cannot do any troubleshooting but ill check from time to time.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] McDastardly:
I've switched back to CM7.2 for the time being and I've started to notice that connected to the WiFi at work, my phone stays awake for most of the time because of the kernel wakelock wlan_rx_wake. I don't get the wakelock while I'm at home. I'm currently using the 03/21/2012 version of Incredikernel. Anyone have any ideas as to why?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jtcarnes:
Man, I'm using beta 2 and I'm freezing when connecting/disconnecting the charger 3 or 4 times a day.

How do I get back to the stock kernel?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] polarimetric:
Reflash the .zip of whatever ROM you're running and it'll flash you back to the stock kernel. Wipe cache and dalvik for good measure but you shouldn't have to full wipe.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Those with freezes, did they overclock or mess with voltages?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] bobAbooE:
Not here, just left it the way it came.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Shano56:
tiny: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27626025&postcount=359
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Thanks. I commented in that thread.

Also since I'm expecting people to ask if I'll build with the linaro toolchain, I'll answer now. Most likely not at this time. There was a gnex dev that did that and his own benchmarking and the benchmarking of the users has shown no performance gain.

Short story is I don't think it will help and don't expect me to do it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] enomele:
I haven't had a plug in freeze in a few days on 6/15 invisiblek kang with beta2.

On a side note, is there a terminal command to enable fast charge? I haven't been able to get incredicontrol to work for a long time.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mcflyrk01:
yes, seconded. it works sporadically for me, sometimes it freezes when i'm trying to change settings, sometimes i'll have to randomly toggle fast charge to get it to work again. i'd prefer not to use it if i didn't have to.

EDIT: nevermind. mamarley has a zip in his kernel thread that will enable fast charge.