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[Eee Pad Transformer General] iheartandroi:
Seriously.... am i the only person annoyed by people proclaiming that a new tablet/ software update is actually faster than the older unit? This bugs the crap out of me. Of course its going to seem faster its a brand new fresh out the box/ no apps downloaded/ tons of memory unused/ little brother hasn't used it as his own personal Frisbee tablet. We should have a rule that if your going to post something about a new tablet or upgrade that you either thoroughly put it through some decent testing ( not play with it for 2 days and claim its gods gift to earth) or reset your old tablet and test how they perform on the same OS under the SAME conditions. So no more of this "OOOOO i just got the new update its SOOOOOOO much faster and smoother than....." no **** Sherlock everything seems faster after an update. Thanks :).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] pierrekid:
hahahaha this is too funny. I get where your coming from though and completely agree.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Thing O Doom:
I wipe like every day. So everything is so fast >:D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] st0nedpenguin:
Except after an OS update I have the same apps installed on the device as before and it still runs faster?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] locutus7o9:
Also add a rule for meaningful forum post titles then?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] carlvk:
Thanks for that?

However no matter how little time there is most of us wipe after each visit.;-)

I'll get my coat.....
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rican408:
i got my tab on honeycomb, loaded everything up and logged in to gmail. used it a little bit, noticed lots of lag.

a day later i loaded ics, much much faster. and a week later...ITS STILL MUCH MUCH faster.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Hmong_Xiong:
Thats a lot of wiping ;)

+1 for ICS! Xoom ICS is faster than the HC for it

Sent from my SCH-I500
[Eee Pad Transformer General] I2IEAILiiTY:
Where does the Xoom come into this? I thought we were in the Transformer forums. Lol
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Hmong_Xiong:
I know, it was just an example of why I think ICS is quicker than HC

Sent from my SCH-I500
[Eee Pad Transformer General] I2IEAILiiTY:
Lol, alright. How did you end up in these forums anyways? You don't have transformer in your sig :confused: just saying. lol
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Hmong_Xiong:
Thinking about getting another tab ;)

Sent from my SCH-I500
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrfordwrench:
I cant see what there is to gain by unlocking and installing a rom that only works on an unlocked phone. Why should I give up 4g? Wish I knew how to make my own rom.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
Questions should be in Q&A or general, but to answer your question, not everyone lives in a wimax area so what is the point of 4g when there is no signal to use?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
^ this. I'll probably need someone to change my diapers for me by the time sprint has 4g in my area. Oops tmi?
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
a good sprint locked rom would prolly be a good idea actually since a lot of new users prolly gunna end up with this 2.3.5 bootloader and even later as sprint moves to ics
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Whats wrong with mine? Im the only one actually works on them and it seems people dont appreciate them thats why I dont put more time to them
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
I live in a 4g area and sprints 4g isn't good anyway so long live the unlocked roms! I mean if you stand in the middle of the street and don't move then it's awesome.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrfordwrench:
I like yours rocko...have tried them all but the most stable is 2.4..on it now. Tried the 3.5 but it does not have 4g for sprint.

Keep up the good work :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Ill work on that sprint leaked one have a couple testers probably 2night
[Motorola Photon 4G] mof9336:
Since I also live in a 4g area I'm not willing to give up my 4g by staying perm unlocked. Ive been reading and learning and am testing a locked rom just adding the tweaks hope to be ready in a few days.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrfordwrench:
I dont live in a 4g area, but most of my daylight time is in a 4g area and I use it. Lets face it! We have to pay for it. It should work. There is no way to compromise for me to give up 4g for some of the custom roms out there. I had an Evo before my Photon and I will say that when the time comes I will ditch this Photon and get a Samsung or HTC phone. Shame on Motorola for locking down their phones. Even the company I work for has given up on motorola and went to other radio manufacturers. It just seem there are more people developing on HTC and Samsung for the very reason that they are "OPEN" and not locked down.

Just my 2 cents...
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
i can honestly say ive never flashed any of your roms. right now my ideal one would be the 2.3.5 with fixed hdmi.. with that id be happy :/

you need to look up what open is, as it stands htcs "unlock is getting more and more locked down
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrfordwrench:
I understand what you mean about htc being more locked down...that is why htc was second in my choices of my next phone. But I know that whatever man can lock down can be unlocked. It just take the desire too do it. If I was more of a developer and more advanced in this particular field I could spend more time working on it. But I am still learning and trying to figure it all out.

But thanks for your observations, and you developmental skills. We all appreciate it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Back to the subject... what advantages do an unlocked bootloader with no 4G have over a locked bootloader with 4G.. rocko's rom is pretty nice and extremely smooth and he achieved that with a locked bootloader. Why flash a gingerbread rom that's made for an unlocked bootloader... I can kinda understand the purpose for an ICS rom because of its custom drivers
[Motorola Photon 4G] tetrabyt:
In the defense of unlocking, I don't remember when was the last time I wasn't on a ICS base rom. I have full 4g in my area and everywhere I have to go to work. but I like customizability and choices. sprint 3g is fast as **** here so I don't miss 4g at all. I don't think I've even run a kernel that can't be overclocked to 1.4 in a while also... so, I stay unlocked. Also, Rocko's roms are sweet.. locked or unlocked thanks for all the hard work...
[Motorola Photon 4G] MadFlava:
I plan to ditch my Photon in a couple of weeks for an HTC One but I fully expect it to be locked down after HTC locked down the One for ATT. Im not real sure how I feel about that but the bottom line is I hate this phone. Its laggy, the screen sucks for gaming.. its a great PHONE but its a lousy smart device.
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
I'll give ya $100 for it right now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MadFlava:
I have an Otterbox Defender that needs to go with it. If you want to adjust the price a little, we can make it happen. You can check my feedback on Ebay if you want and Ill give you my contact info.. Im a straight shooter. Id even be willing to go back to my OG Epic 4G just to get rid of this thing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
Rocko,

Your Blur build is what i use when i need to go back to blur :) Great build! Id run it as my daily, but im a CM addict.

To the OP,

its all in the name of "bc they can." 4G(WIMAX) for me is over rated, 3G downloads emails and all that jazz plenty fast enough. id rather have the latest software then 4G, and ive been glued to CM since my EVO.

MadFlava,

screen sucks for gaming... Solitaire works great on my photon ha ha obviously im not a big gamer. I dont plan to make a move to a different phone unless the devs move. Ill follow them ;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
[rant mode enabled]

(if this affects my chances of ever getting dev status I'm not sure if I care as I've been waiting for almost a year)

Almost every day there's a "I can't find it" thread or post for a file that I personally hosted. Where can these files be found? In a STICKIED thread that I try to maintain and keep up to date. This leads me to believe that the money spent hosting and the work involved in the stickied thread is ignored and unappreciated by many.

People are still flashing 2.3.5electrify pudding on photons after it has been said many times "don't do it". Again this goes back to the previous paragraph. I'm now to the point that if you bork your phone considering that the information is obviously available, you deserve it.

Nobody is developing for locked? Since when? There's three locked ROM's/mods that I know of right now without looking. Rocko Locked to start, which I have said is a bloody good ROM for those that want eyecandy. Imperium Locked is for those that want a barebones ROM that was updated less than a week ago. Here's a surprise for folks. The Deblur/Debloat Script is an ODEXED version of Imperium Locked without the theme change! How many Locked ROMs do you want, or is it that reading and searching are to much of a bother.

Other annoying things are "I don't like the way it looks" complaints and the general lack of "thanks" or support. If you don't like the way a ROM looks then flash a theme. That's what they are there for. If you can't be bothered to flash a theme (and don't say there are none) then don't flash anything. Developing takes effort, time and money. If you are not developing, hitting the "thanks" button or donating then you are leeching, plain and simple.

Also. Why is this thread in the development section? I don't see any development work posted.

[end of rant]

Photon Locked vs unlocked;

Locked ROMs give you the benefit of being very close to the stock base in many cases. Things like PRL and profile updates work and in some cases you can choose to accept an OTA update with little to no issues. You also loose fewer stock features with locked like 4G. The drawback is that battery life is shorter, it runs slower and fine tuning is almost impossible.

Unlocked ROM's give you more choice and greater flexibility with things like full themes, kernels and overclocking/undervolting. It then becomes a choice of need vs want. My daily is my own ROM that is underclocked to 750MhZ single core and NOT undervolted. With the tuning of profiles, my battery fall off is 1% every three hours, video playback is around six hours and during a call my phone never breaks 456MhZ. In short, battery life is insane with a standby mode of 10 days before I get a low battery prompt. This cannot be done with locked. The only thing I loose is 4G but considering the impact 4G has on battery life I can actually transfer more data than if I did have 4G just at a slower rate.

If LTE proves to be more battery friendly then I may change my position but for now I personally choose flexibility and the ability to fine tune over 4G any day.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MadFlava:
The DeBlur tool is awesome. I just had to flash back because Im going to participate in the SOAK if I get chosen. Everyone should run the DeBlur tool.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Loki. That is exactly the answer this thread needed! It is annoying that when someone does not know the answer or does know the answer but would rather troll than give it is just unacceptable on xda and the moderators need to do a better job of moderating spam and trolls. Hell I got *****ed out by the moderator on the Xperia x10 thread because I got mad that people weren't answering my question but instead telling me to ignore the problem. Eventually I found the solution and when i posted the fix people started giving so many thanks including the ones that trolled me. Its situations like that and people in the community that need to understand what kind of website this is. Its not a playground. Its not a torrent site. Its a development forum. And the number one rule should always be READ READ READ READ READ RESEARCH!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] bray424:
I live in a 4G area and I still gladly sacrifice it for ICS. WiMax 4g has been pretty underwhelming, and 3/4 of the time my phone is running on WiFi anyways. In fact the only thing I would say I miss from the factory Gingerbread rom is how well the camera and in particular camcorder work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
**** it, Loki. Granted, i know having the recognized developer status is cool and all but you don't need the status for all the folks who actually frequent these forums to know that you are just as good a dev as anyone around here. So don't be so hard on yourself. Also, you tend to tell it like it is, which is just what this forum needs to weed out all of the illiterate noobs making stupid ass threads in incorrect sections.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Speaking of which.. who is the moderator for the photon forum?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
+1
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
wardfan220 and Moscow Desire
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Wow.. according to their statistics they haven't shown their faces on the photon forum in a very very long time (not at all for as far as I can see)

Is there a way to petition for a new moderator or moderators who are more active in these forums? I've seen it done for other devices and succeeded.

I know its not that important because compared to some device forums I've been in this is one of the most behaved. But sometimes I do miss some type of moderation (cleanup)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
flag what ever threads/posts you feel are needed and you should get a response in a couple days at most.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tmaurice:
Question - does anyone have any idea what is different with the Saurom rom that allows me to get LTE speed (18-20 down, 4.2 up) with the status notification switching to LTE for data, while no other ROM does? (Baltmore area). I tried a couple of the new UCLD3 roms today, achieved somewhat decent 4G speeds, but no LTE. I kept the UCLD3 modem and went back to the Saurom rom, and boom - back up to LTE speeds again with proper switching when making calls.

I'd really like to know what Saurom rom has (in the build.prop maybe?) that the others don't. Would love to switch to an ICS for daily, but download speed is the priority.

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Android The Greek:
Mabey an overclocked kernel.....

"Since God created man, and man created the Galaxy Note, the Galaxy Note are like a gift from God, Randal!*"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] cmjkxa:
I'm getting lte speeds with the latest ics leak.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
I played with the ATT version today.

1) The thing is gorgeous (they only had the white colored one). Its curves and black/white contrast on those are beautiful. It felt a bit taller than ET, but otherwise it felt slightly skinnier and thinner, although this could have been an illusion due to a different aspect ratio. The case had an awesome feeling texture.

The screen pops out just a little over the case, and it looks like a jewlery gem.

2) The display was amazing. Much brighter than ET and less pixelated. Definitely much better display than what's in Galaxy Nexus. I think the blacks were darker than in Evo3D display, but I'm not sure about that.

3) Camera was very good. It takes pix instantaneously. I got some very good shots just by pointing it and pressing the shutter button 3-4 times quickly. No messing around with trying to focus and stuff. The video recording was amazing on the screen, better than ET. I didn't get a chance to see it on a large monitor.

4) The UI was very snappy. I think the scrolling and swiping in desktop and menus was smoother than in ET. There's still a small delay between pressing on an app and it opening, but it's a smaller delay than in ET (felt like maybe quarter a sec to open a dialer). Once apps were loaded into ram, switching was instantaneous, much faster than ET.

Loading of webpages was easily twice faster than ET (on the same wifi), and scrolling was on par with ET or very slightly less smooth. It felt like your standard not optimized for gpu browser (like any browser on ET other than vanilla), but because the phone is much faster it was still very smooth. Much smoother than other browsers on ET. Pinch to zoom was about the same.

I ran a couple of benchmarks. Most of graphics benchmarks were running at 60fps. I noticed a couple of instances where the phone was much faster than ET. In quadrant, in test where a moon is rotating around a planet - that was running at a solid 60fps. Also, in nenamark2, the fps counter seemed to be stuck at 57fps throughout the benchmarks. On ET, it goes up and down to, sometimes down to 35fps (average 53).

----

Overall, it felt like a next gen phone compared to ET. Kinda like switching from Evo3D to ET. Everything felt better than ET. The biggest difference was web browsing. It felt like night and day. It was actually fun to browse on the thing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Cool story bro.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] _MetalHead_:
I'm going to go check it out tomorrow. I really want to go back to Android and I've been drooling over the One X since it was first announced. It looks sexy as hell and pretty much all the reviews have been extremely positive. I just hope they get that damn locked bootloader taken care of because if I do get it, I will want to get rid of Sense post haste.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mexiking713:
Hows does it compare size wise? Haven't checked it out

Sent from my Galaxy S2 Epic Touch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
From gsmarena:

ET -

Dimensions	130 x 70 x 10 mm

Weight	130 g

One X -

Dimensions	134.8 x 69.9 x 8.9 mm

Weight	129 g

So I was right :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ophois:
If you get the AT&T version, have fun.

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-blames-att-for-one-x-bootloader-lock-05226366/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
I guess I didn't emphasize it enough.

This thread is definitely not about an ATT phone.

It's about Evo LTE. Evo LTE has the same hardware.

I thought it was obvious. I guess I was wrong.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Wow, another HTC thread. Are you guys being paid to infiltrate our forum and draw us over to the dark side? lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
I'm sick of hearing about any other phone whether its an iPhone HTC or even another Samsung. This is the epic touch forum.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Majin101:
Agreed go away.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Dan Hesse: "Wow, the HTC One X is an amazing phone, let's sell an ugly sprint htc one X evo 4g lte instead."
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
Next time you play with a display phone, Bluetooth file transfer the pictures and videos you took on it to your phone. That way you can look at them better at home on better equipment PC/1080p screen. Don't make the videos too long at highest resolution or its going to take a very long time to transfer over slow ass Bluetooth. Take the same pictures and videos at the same resolutions on your phone too so you can compare them with the other phone. I did this with the gnote and 4s. Interesting comparison results you will find, yes? God, I'm talking like Yoda unintentionally again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Poor guy needs to catch a break, he's already taken a major pay cut in an attempt to offset the god awful price they paid for the iPhone deal.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] FrameCityJackal:
You guys do know this is the general sub forum....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jayharper08:
This would probably go better in the One X section. ;)

---Jay--- From the AOKP powered E4GT
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] DannyDrama:
Good for you.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] takeitkool:
what stock u need, do u mean stock ROM, please be clear
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] jayc1980:
Lots of stock available, but be clear on how your cooking your phone, roasting, grilling, frying?? I always find its easier to eat the s2 boiled servers with boiled potatoes and a side of fresh green salad. And remember, always white wine with this, red wine is for HTC phones!!

However if I have this all wrong and you want a stock firmware, search on forum or I will make it very easy, samfirmware is the place yo go (flash using Odin)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Coderedpl:
I've been reading around a bit and some say that if you are on the .21 update then you should be able to use the GPS Dongle with no issue.

But I've also read that people are not getting any locks with the GPS dongle on?

Is there something special the roms need to have added for it to work? From what i've read there was some pushed update to those who didnt unlock for the dongle but I haven't heard much about it in the custom roms.

Anybody know?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tedr108:
Any stock rom should do it for you. From personal experience, I can say that the Virtuous ROM works quite well with the dongle.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] painter_:
I am looking for this set of icons. I have been using them for a long while and recently lost the SD card they were stored on. I just spent two hours looking for them with no luck.

The icons are in the launcher bar.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tregrad:
how do i delete this pile of garbage? I rooted my phone but have yet to install a rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evilone69tmg:
You can use titanium backup to unstall it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tregrad:
ok, which brings me back to my original question, "how". I dont know what it is called or where its located.

and the damn thing just takes over while using my blue tooth headset to pause and play etc.

thanks you for the help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tregrad:
tried ti bu 5 times and it still leaves it in there, now what?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popper668:
use a file manager ( i prefer root explorer) go to system apps, find music / music player and delete it. i am pretty sure it will not return again. but it will be "gone" for good.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popper668:
View attachment 1047797

for sure this works
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tregrad:
sweet! that did the trick, thank you very much!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovekeiiy:
the stock music player for most roms is just called "music." With TB, just go the app list, look for music, tap app, then tap uninstall, tap ok, tap ok. It'll be in your removed app list at the bottom. From there if you want, you can delete permanently.
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
I decided to paint the back battery cover and screen bezel of this phone gloss black so everything matches and is glossy im going to use high heat engine enamel because it has a kind of rugged rubbery texture to it and ive alrfeady succesfully painted a black bery torch with it i will post picks as soon as i am done maybe even a video of the bezel during the painting.

Edit**** okay so im not sure if the paint will melt the plastic can anyone confirm wether or not usuing rustolium on plastic is a bad idea.
[Epic 4G General] coryshad:
Cool, interested in seeing how it turns out, and how it holds up.
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
I think itl hold up pretty gud engine enamel goes on moving parts to and its gotta handle the vibration without chipping so im sure it can take a little bending and sliding in and out of my pocket.
[Epic 4G General] frostedunit:
Have you tried vinyl dye? I don't know about gloss, but it does great for colors and is very durable because it goes on from the inside out.
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
Well if im not mistaken i do beleive our screen bezels are either aluminum or die cast metal (highly unlikely). They r prolly plastic tho

Edit* wish i cud at least save the galaxy s log but maybe ill make a stencile that says "Shadow" and have the "S" as the sharp as "S" in "GALAXY*SHARP ASS* s" haha
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
Bump sorry if this annoys people but id like an answer by today and i doubt it will get answered on page 2 haha
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I have sprayed rustoleum on plastic lawn chairs. It did not melt but also did not adhere too well. It peeled a little too easily.
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
Hmmm well its engine enamel wud that make any difference?

Edit* i decided to do a mock up paint job i took the battery cover of an old phone that is plastic and painted it im gunna see see what happens
[Epic 4G General] Kitteh298:
cool, let us know :)