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[General Questions and Answers] bweN diorD:
1. yes

2. not that im aware of, but that doesn't mean there is not. most of them are junk though.

3. you could try ebay. sometimes people sell extra parts cheap, but i dont know how you would tell if it is authentic other than contacting the seller. many of the supposed oem stuff is just aftermarket china junk.
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
It really doesn't matter, as long as it's from a good brand. You're not going to damage anything if you use an LG cable on a Samsung phone. You're not going to damage anything if you use some crappy no-name cable, but you should stick with reputable names just for the assurance of longevity and steady connection (especially if you need it to connect to a computer). If you want to find an OEM Samsung cable, just find the cheapest/quickest to ship, and it'll work just fine.

The actual charger though, can be a different matter. ALWAYS go with a reputable charger, preferably the one that came with the device. But even the latter isn't all that important. Mainly you should worry about the charger malfunctioning and cooking your phone. But if you go with something name brand, it's extremely unlikely that you'll damage your battery.

The long shipping time is because you're requesting a specific part with a specific number. Just find yourself the quickest/cheapest Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, HTC, or other name brand cable, and you'll be just fine with it.
[General Questions and Answers] bweN diorD:
contrary to what planterz posted, on some phones, newer ones more predominantly, some will not charge properly or as quickly as possible if you don't use the proper factory cable. case and point is the lg g2 i have. fast charging doesn't work with crappy aftermarket or non lg cables.
[General Questions and Answers] YLNdroid:
[MENTION=5749364]Planterz[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4132606]bweN diorD[/MENTION], thank you very much for your replies.

:)

I have been charging my device alternately, sometimes using the stock cable of a BlackBerry Bold 9700, but mostly the stock cable of a Sony Xperia E (C1504).

:silly:

The Samsung OEM cable is available for purchase online at Mobile Fun India, http://in.mobilefun.com/46026-samsung-micro-usb-sync-charge-cable-black.htm. But, the shipping charge amounts to slightly above half the price of the OEM cable.

I have also looked at the Belkin MIXIT Micro-USB to USB ChargeSync Cable (F2CU012bt04), http://www.belkin.com/us/F2CU012-Belkin/p/P-F2CU012/, which I am very inclined to purchase.

:fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] YLNdroid:
Hello everyone.

:)

How can the integrity of a Lithium Ion cellphone battery be tested? What is the apt 'hardware' method to do so? Also, would using an app (software interface) yield a convincingly accurate result?

:confused:

The stock OEM battery of my device (Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000) has begun draining rapidly, and thus, I am keen on assessing its capacity related aspects and diagnosing its charge storing/retaining ability.

:fingers-crossed:

I await your valuable guidance.

:good:
[LG Optimus Black] zyfkurmom:
Can anyone teach me what each folder in the system partition do? like the bin,etc,fonts,framework,lib,media,tts,usr,vendor,xbin folders
[LG Optimus Black] foggydisaster:
i dont know much for there but all i cn help u with is:

/system/media -> all system sounds of your rom + bootanimation.zip

/system/fonts -> are your system fonts

/system/tts -> Pico TTS (Text-To-Speech) engine

/system/lib -> AFAIK its folder for libraries (they are like drivers?)

hope i partly helped you. thats all i know:)

(Correct me if im wrong)
[LG Optimus Black] zyfkurmom:
Thanks ! but i still need to know the other folders:(
[LG Optimus Black] foggydisaster:
If i find more information ill post it here for u ASAP
[LG Optimus Black] zyfkurmom:
Thank you!
[LG Optimus Black] foggydisaster:
Dude! i found out more:D

So:

/system/bin (and xbin seem same) -> Lots of binnaries&scripts (SU binnary there too)

/system/usr -> Your user settings but dont mess up there it will brick your phone

/system/framework -> recources for standart apps(For example samsung has its own framework so we cannot install samsung apps)

/system/vendor -> "Flavor" of android for LINUX system

/system/etc -> I dont know yet :O someone said its RW but he can only read it so let me find info for ETC folder

So dealing with ETC folder? (:

As usuall corect me if wrong and ill be happy if i helped you (:
[LG Optimus Black] gabriele.lanaro:
/etc folder is a Unix folder that contains system configuration files. It's actually very important since it contains files such as:

gps.conf (no need to explain..)

asound.conf(i think it's alsa sound configurations)

init.d (initialization scripts, setting up modules, mounting partitions etc..)

resolv.conf (it contains Domain Name Servers DNS)

etc...
[LG Optimus Black] foggydisaster:
Thanks dude(: now we have complete list for u:) so hope we helped u
[General Questions and Answers] stephendt0:
I'm curious to know why people actually spend the time on their phones and risk bricking and voiding the warranty on their phone to install the latest stable or beta ROM for their device. Is it because the stock ROM doesn't let you do your daily tasks? Or is it slow? Or is it buggy in some way?

For example, I have a HTC Desire. The reason why I installed custom roms was that I bought it second-hand with Oxygen (gingerbread 2.3.4) already pre-installed. It had some bugs as it was a beta version, but overall it was pretty good.

I then found Cyanogenmod 7.1, where I was able to get around the major issue of apps filling the tiny internal memory using scripts to put entire apps on the SD card. I was stoked, and it ran really well with no major issues. It felt like a new phone.

However, I just got my dad a HTC Desire HD, and it has the stock Sense 3.0 on there (Gingerbread 2.3.5). I was going to install Cyanogenmod, but now I'm wondering if it's truly worth the effort for a basic user.

So why do YOU install a custom ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] johnnyb15613:
I install custom ROM's, Radios, Kernals, etc for one simple reason......

every Android phone that I have ever had the pleasure of tinkering with, works better when rooted and ROMmed. It truly gives you the customization that makes you feel like the phone belongs to and was built for YOU!!!:)
[General Questions and Answers] Android_Monsters:
I have ics on all my phones
[General Questions and Answers] sickorwuut:
Simply to remove all the bloatware and removing sense. I love the pure android ICS experience. Also my phone flys faster without sense :-)
[General Questions and Answers] stephendt0:
How do you know for sure? I'm the same, I just flash it without thinking, like I did with my new Samsung Galaxy S2 just a few days ago (ICS, woo!). I was just about the flash this HTC Desire HD and I thought hey... who knows, maybe stock ROMs are pretty good? Or are they generally rubbish?
[General Questions and Answers] johnnyb15613:
Well, my D1 ran stock for two months before it got pimped, so I gave it a very thorough chance! My wifes Eris ran stock for four months until she was ready to throw it off a wall, so it got its fair chance too! Then she moved to a D2G, which ran exceptionally well out of the box, I was kind of upset that she didnt like her experience. It did however, run a lot smoother once root and Liberty was added! And now for our GNex's........I ran stock ICS for two weeks and I must truly say, this device doesn't need root or anything else to kick ass, it just does! However, the developer support is just too incredible, and when you add ICSourcery to a GNex, you'll know why it must be rooted and running that ROM!!!
[General Questions and Answers] Kailkti:
To get rid of crap I didn't need.

$1 gets you a reply
[General Questions and Answers] Jaguar10301:
well i have a GN, so bricking or wrecking it is low on the list, its so easy to root, unlock, flash. I love stock ICS, but I do like the extra features I get with CM9.
[General Questions and Answers] Keion:
AOKP on my transformer prime? Dem features.

Sent from my tf9001 with XDA XD.
[General Questions and Answers] JonSchimmy:
The main reason I rooted my phone and through a rom in there is to get the portable wifi for my tablet.
[General Questions and Answers] oz42:
Reason: to learn more about Android phones, and to get rid of bloatware.
[General Questions and Answers] yossi2010:
make my defy better than 2.1

make my defy fast and have the new software as moto wont do this for us!

still no full hwa but still better than stuck with 2.1

oh and get rid of 2.1 motoblur.... it was crap. the new one rocks but i cant put it on the defy.

BUT if i had an htc or just a sgs2 ics or other ultra super powered phone i would just root change launcher and stay stock!(unless cm9 it waay better like it is now)

in short i want minimalistic beautifull smooth android experience! most importantly fast!(iphone is smooth,not always, but sloooow)

defy running ics latest cm9
[General Questions and Answers] rsd_raul:
because roms are a whole world, it's not just performance or bugs, is the option to change to customize toggles, positions, color, overclock and every little part of you phone...

for example, the resurrection remix or any AOKP let you put calendar events on lockscreen, show wheather in a special panel in the statusbar, hide your battery icon and put a line to measure it, you can even put a navigation bar like nexus

... it's not just cool and waaaaaaay better than stock rom, it is although handy
[General Questions and Answers] karl85:
To get rid of the bloat-ware on the stock firmware!
[General Questions and Answers] g60madman:
There is tons of reason to update to a custom ROM. The big deal for me was getting rid of the bloat, also having more features with CM7.
[General Questions and Answers] watt9493:
So I could have stock aosp OR sense 3.5. I like both, especially on the thunderbolt (similar to the HD) nothing seems to slow these phones down.

Sent from my ADR6400L
[General Questions and Answers] frankgrasshopper:
There are many reasons. For example, the phone looks, feels and works like i want.

And one more reason is, that the original software is not so perfect as the most users want.
[General Questions and Answers] Allanitomwesh:
Overflowing options. Change everything down to the boot image.And speed,and BATTERY TWEAKS!!!!

Sent from my $99 phone using Gingerbread 2.3.7 cause it's root
[General Questions and Answers] dagger780:
The reason why i'm using a custom rom is the phones OS feel more smooth and stable and all the bloatware from HTC,Samsung etc. were removed so the performance is much better
[General Questions and Answers] hengsheng120:
I mostly wanted a better experience on my phone. Windows mobile was not really fluid as I wanted and I thought a big phone like the hd2 could be something really good with Android so I looked up android for hd2 and ended up here.
[General Questions and Answers] 1c3_5n0w:
I installed a custom ROM because I love stock's simplicity, awesomeness and for overclock. Using CyanogenMod9 FXP119 by the way.
[General Questions and Answers] SimonTS:
I installed a custom ROM (well, multiple ROMs over time) because I got my first smartphone (HTC Desire S) just over a year ago and I hate Sense!! :eek:

I know, evrybody else seems to love it - but I just think it is bloated and over-hyped. I am now running Reaper and it is light, smooth, so damn quick and does everything I want. I like being able to put the apps I want on top of a fairly basic system and that's why I invalidated my warranty to achieve it.
[General Questions and Answers] ba3cool:
Battery life

^ That says it all really. I hoped to get 24 use hours out of my Galaxy S2 with Emails, IMs, and skype on push.
[General Questions and Answers] stephendt0:
Did you achieve that? Because i can barely get 15 hours myself! :(
[General Questions and Answers] bomrad23:
i did it to improve my battery life .. its not to bad now with resurrection remix's rom .. its lasting me a day with heavy usage. also like the full customization it comes with!:)
[General Questions and Answers] trevd:
+1 For Sense being crap.

+1 For Tinkering and Sense (No Pun Intended) of ownership

I feel old typing this sentence but "The First Time" I Installed a custom rom it was to bring some much needed functionality to My HTC Hero on Android 1.6. Back in those dark days we didn't even have bluethooth! LOL :D

Now It's to run an unsupported OS's or to add missing hardware functionality.

I've Got The HTC One Rom on a desire HD just as a test

I had ICS on my HTC Sensation for months before HTC got round to the official one.

My Archos G9 Tab/My Dads Motorola xoom only have rooted roms so I can install additional kernel modules to add 3G Dongle Functionality.

I put a custom rom on a Galaxy Tab for a friend to work around internal memory corruption and to get it to boot from the external SD Card.

And the biggest one of all is for the shear enjoyment of making stuff do what the manufacturer either tried to stop you doing or said couldn't be done.

With regard to the OP. Rooting/Custom Roms are not for everyone...

Some people, would you believe just want they phone to work as a phone, crazy I know, I often suggest buying an IPhone to those people because android is not for them :)

I always ask 2 questions before I do anything with devices, especially other people

1. Can You afford to be without it.

2. Will you gain any benefit from doing it

The second point obviously is always yes as is the nature of custom roms, but people don't miss what they didn't know they were missing.
[General Questions and Answers] whodisname:
The only reason i rooted my phone was to remove twitter. Then i just went nuts!'''
[General Questions and Answers] martinlaw284:
I didnt want my phone to be like everyone elses like an iphone.. I wanted to sqeeze to full potential out of my phone. I have a custom rom with beats now. Galaxy ace cost me 30 pounds mint condition so cant be mad at that lol
[General Questions and Answers] martinlaw284:
lol fair enough. But twitter aint that bad. I had the pre-installed bloatware like vodafone games etc grrrrrrr
[General Questions and Answers] martinlaw284:
Same here
[General Questions and Answers] Orange_furball:
Amen.

Also I feel that it gives me a reason to say mine is better than yours to people running stock. I flash a new tomorrow at least twice a week. And my phone doesn't have tons of support either. I just find it that fun.
[General Questions and Answers] martinlaw284:
Yeah same here
[General Questions and Answers] arybaguss:
It seems cool rooted my phone...:o
[General Questions and Answers] ThatAzianGuy:
Because I hate bloatware and TouchWiz on my GSII... Also rooting my phone allows me to put custom ROMs on, mods, and themes. Basically, you can only use your phone to its fullest potential if you root it.
[General Questions and Answers] joeclown:
i installed custom rom because stock device was getting heavier and bad battery performance..

i thought a lot to before done it, but when i install custom rom :eek: that was fast, stable and has much more better battery performance..

you should do it ;)
[General Questions and Answers] bucd:
I have a G2X and stock rom was horrible, from locking up to SOD and horrible battery life.....oh..and it's kinda fun. :)

-D
[General Questions and Answers] starbuck5250:
Get my money's worth

In my case, it's a Kindle Fire, and I rooted it (which voids the warranty) in order to get my money's worth. I mean, seriously; it's an Android tablet that Amazon deliberately crippled. And they quietly unroot it with every update they push down the wire.

Plus I'm an inveterate tinkerer...
[General Questions and Answers] PedroBustamonte:
My 1st Android phone was the Motorola Droid with Android 2.1.

I saw a picture on the internet with Android and a black status bar and wanted it! (or no I NEEDED it!! :D)

I really had no idea in that time and I tripped over customs roms. So after I learned about the extra features you get for example with cyanogenmod I decided to use it. It just allows you to do more stuff with your phone!
[General Questions and Answers] badboys8908:
I rooted my Galaxy S2 with CF-Root just one week after getting it.

Reason:

1. Stock firmware full of bloatware.

2. very, very laggy.

3. To be different from others.

...and also I love Jkay's 15 toggles, CRT effect, Voltage Control, Voodoo Louder, Market Enabler, Super Manager, BLN, Custom Boot Animation,...plus many, many, many more which I cannot recall flashing...:rolleyes:
[General Questions and Answers] deliriume:
same here. i love to customize my own UI and i definitely don't like the stock touchwiz on my S2.

besides, i get better battery life (1.5 days compared to 8 hours), better DPI, faster surfing speed and way more responsive phone!
[General Questions and Answers] Contingency™:
Like many others I did so for UI customization. By doing so I've learned WAY more than just UI customizing. If your phone isn't rooted and you havent tried out anything but the stock rom, then your missing out.
[General Questions and Answers] D1358531:
I flashed a custom ROM on my phone because something happened with the stock ROM and I couldn't get it back. :D
[General Questions and Answers] Android311:
Got tired if HTC sense
[General Questions and Answers] SPBoss:
TC beware HTC phones are harder to root than most other phones.

Sent from my Galaxy SII i9100 running ICS Remix Rom 1.8.1 with Siyah Kernel
[General Questions and Answers] antilol15:
Mmm it boosts the performance, the stability and everything is better and customizable :)

rodrigo hernandez ®
[General Questions and Answers] ceyrekoto:
Bcoz I need to use need rooted apps and custom roms better than official roms I can play with my phone but official Roms doesn't allow root access...

That's why I'm rooted my phone and that's why using custom Rom...
[General Questions and Answers] whodisname:
Bcuz they don't want me to have it like that. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Allanitomwesh:
No they don't. We've showed them yah!:p

Imetumwa kutoka U8150 kutumia XDA
[General Questions and Answers] manoranjan2050:
I read all post its really good info for me ........ It solve my ???? Also .......
[General Questions and Answers] tadeas482:
I saw it in many forums and I wanted to try. The interface of some roms helped me, too. :D
[General Questions and Answers] whodisname:
Hahaha! Stock sux custom RULES!!!! My phone so fast it gets to work before I do;)
[General Questions and Answers] mArtinko5MB:
Because official one was soooooo laggy and slow
[General Questions and Answers] janek-kowal:
Because official roms are so outdated...
[General Questions and Answers] marx1201:
First of all, you wait too long, to get a newer Official Version. Than you get a complete new system, which most of the people don't have, so your device is more custom. And last but not least, I love to try new roms and to flash.
[General Questions and Answers] Allanitomwesh:
Lol :D

Imetumwa kutoka U8150 kutumia XDA
[General Questions and Answers] haramizuki:
+1 lots of tweaks and awesomeness on custom roms :thumbup:
[General Questions and Answers] elpresidente408:
Once I got my Android tablet with Honeycomb, I got tired of using Gingerbread on my phone. I also didn't like Sense's calendar. ICS is much more integrated with Google. Got some performance tweaks out of it too
[General Questions and Answers] mendoozer666:
I like custom roms because I have an innate urge to get the most out of anything for what I paid. Customization is cool. Besides that, if I wasn't running a custom rom, my Huawei Ascend2 wouldn't even have multi-touch. My phone is way better than stock, and I'll keep modding it til I get a new phone (hopefully this year). :D
[General Questions and Answers] imderick:
because it's more fast, stable and updated... :)
[General Questions and Answers] hectormcesar:
It's very simple, if I knew that I couldn't root and customized any Android phone, I would have stayed with iphone.
[General Questions and Answers] FromLimbo:
I'm doing it because you get more out of your phone then usual. Some of my friends don't want to mess around with their precious phones but i always like to customize my phone. Custom themes, sounds, bootanimation, better CPU speed, removal of bloatware, etc.. the list goes on :D
[General Questions and Answers] stephendt0:
Do people bother rooting tablets much? I personally love running Adfree on my tablet, which requires root.
[General Questions and Answers] gunz.jones:
Rooted, rommed, kerneled and even setup to run ubuntu. There are a lot of tablets seeing dev love and users are always looking for something the OEM didn't provide. My phones always see love to kill bloat and enjoy new OS options or just little tweaks from devs and other users. My KF and tf 201 both have AOKP and custom kernels with OC. It's all just a matter of taste and availability. I have given stock on each device a thorough work over...never too impressed.
[General Questions and Answers] ejnice11:
looking to trade a mint condition htc rezound for iphone 4
[HTC Amaze 4G] kered424:
I spent half a day making this through trial and error. I think it's pretty awesome. I made both portrait and landscape, depending on which one you prefer. Both pictures below are the same frame. I had to crop the picture in portrait mode to prevent stretching/distortion.

Landscape:

Portrait:

Video:

http://youtu.be/ogQcuOMIITw

If you like my splash screen, you can get the template here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25536718&postcount=72

Instructions:

To use the animation, you'll need to rename the zip file to TMOUS_bootanimation.zip and put it into system/customize/resources. To use the sound file, put the mp3 file (not the zip) into the same folder. If it's not working try editing the default.xml file. Instructions on editing the xml file can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1237070

Download:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6543358/XDA/Dirt_boot_animation.zip
[HTC Amaze 4G] ziggy46:
#1- that is a badass video game lol

#2- I really like this :p
[HTC Amaze 4G] eioous:
Awesome man. I like that fade to the HTC screen.
[HTC Amaze 4G] elrazo69:
It doesn't say what we have to change in the xml file. Also i only have the Ringtone xml, is that the right xml?
[HTC Amaze 4G] kered424:
You can find default.xml in system/customize/CID

Scroll down until you find info about boot animations

It should become apparent what you need to edit
[HTC Amaze 4G] AndroidAutobot:
Wow. Not only is it a bad ass bootscreen but you chose Ken Block's car from when he was still driving for Subaru (f--- a ford POS Fiesta lol). Soooo much win! You have very good taste =). Just in time for Oregon Trail Rally tomorrow too =) (not that Block's competing in it, much less for Subaru but still =))

This boot animation is SO legitimate that it has me abandoning my Mario bootscreen that matches my custom splash screen I made for myself. GOOD WORK!!!! THANK YOU!!! =) =) =)

I gotta say, the portrait mode looks excellent. Thank you =). It's not some cheesy port of a landscape boot animation that makes it obvious that it was originally intended for landscape mode as other portrait ported bootscreens are. Great work =)
[HTC Amaze 4G] kered424:
Thanks :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] freakboy13:
Nice job gonna try this on my hox in a couple weeks so

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Amaze 4G] Tiago12:
Link

The downloads links is broken. Can you update newly?
[HTC Amaze 4G] mattius10:
Please update the link...I would love to have this!
[HTC Amaze 4G] kered424:
Sorry for the delay. If the links go down next time, send me a PM =)

Here's a dropbox link

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6543358/XDA/Dirt_boot_animation.zip