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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sputnik767:
A few problems with that theory. One, it assumes that the average person know how to replace RAM, CPU, screen, etc. Two, it assumes that the average person knows how to use basic tools and actually has the tiny tools necessary to work on a phone, and the capability or know-how to actually disassemble the device and know what to replace. Not to mention the fact that the phone's tiny connectors are easily damaged by improper handling. The problem of lacking standards has already been mentioned. But the biggest problem is size. You are very wrong if you think that making everything replaceable will not make the phone significantly bigger. Let me give you an example: I still have an 8 year old Dell laptop, on which I was able to replace the CPU to upgrade it. It was a large computer and had a socket for the CPU that made it easily swappable. On my current macbook pro, the CPU is soldered to the board, and the only thing I can replace myself is the RAM and HD. I swapped the HD for an SSD. On the macbook air, everything is soldered and not replaceable. Essentially, to make things as small as possible, you have to permanently attach as many things as possible AND use as many proprietary components as possible. You can't use many standardized components if size is an issue. While this is a good idea in theory, it is absolutely impossible in practice and would not result in increased sales if implemented. It would result in a bulky device leaving most people questioning why they should buy this over the competition. And then they will go and buy the competition. If you want more people to buy Apple, institute this. Hell, given that option, I'd buy Apple myself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gilbydakid:
You lost me right here. I wouldn't trust any of them boiling water, let alone with my phone.

Sent from my sprint Samsung galaxy s2 Epic 4g touch with ics using cm9 on the blazing slow now network
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
How many "average" people do you know that swap out computer components? No assumption here at all. This would be a thing only for enthusiasts - like installing a high end graphics card, water cooling, 16GB of RAM, a new motherboard, moving to Ivy Bridge, and so on.

No "average" person goes much beyond swapping out a monitor at best. Maybe installing more RAM if they're feeling really froggy.

The reason for size in a desktop is due to the wires and a lot of time, cooling requirements. In a phone there are very few wires running all over the place, no fans to route them around. No CPU heat sink to worry about melting wires. The HDD and optical drives are large and require space along with, you guessed it, more wires. RAM stands vertically and it's large by todays standards. Desktops are not made with simple upgrades in mind. They are made to allow the user to add to them. Well most anyway (remember Gateway and Compaq?).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sputnik767:
If you are purposefully making an upgradeable device, you are automatically sacrificing size. It's a fact that to make devices as small as possible, which is most ideal in a portable device, there can't be room for upgrades. If you look at the current ultraportable notebooks (Apple and otherwise), they generally have non-replaceable components. There's just not enough room for connectors and sockets in those devices. So, to make such a device successful, it has to appeal to the average person, not the enthusiast market. Only few companies can market a product to enthusiasts, and it generally involves hand-made cars for half million dollars each. And simply put, there's really no need for such a device. A computer is one thing, but your phone is something that gets used and abused on a regular basis. And by the time your contract expires, technology is so far ahead that upgrading would be as useful as maxing out the RAM on an 8 year old computer. If you look at the most successful gadget company out there, it would be Apple. Like them or not, their success is undeniable. Underlying that success is the theory of providing a quality product that appeals to the average customer. And that's key. Even if you could keep the exact same size but make it upgradeable, there is absolutely no way that you will ever have market out there that would warrant such a device. I'm not going to spend $200 on a phone and drop hundreds of dollars more on upgrades, only to have a worthless device 2 years down the line when the contract expires and you're due for an upgrade. And lastly, most people do not have time to tinker with their phones. We have enough things to worry about, and most of us want a device that works well out of the box, and is sufficient until time to upgrade. From what I can see, only two companies actually realize this simple concept. One is obviously Apple, and the other is Samsung. I can honestly say that the E4GT is just about perfect out of the box, if only Sprint kept their hands off of it and did not load it down with crap.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
I would say the market is and would be plenty big. Look at computers for example. While the average person doesn't tinker with them much, there are plenty of people that do. There's a billion dollar market for it. Those are the same people that would tinker with their phones - you know, us. We already do this so to say that no one would have the time is ludicrous. People seem to have more than enough time to mess with their computers, cars, home theaters, and phones already.

I'm sure at the time graphics card makers may have thought exactly like you do. Who would want to spend XXX dollars on one when they could get a console for less that has more standardization and games. There are plenty of cars also that can be upgraded. Actually every car can except those $500,000 cars you mentioned. The ones that get upgraded and modified the most are the cheaper ones like Civics, Mustangs, Camaros, and the like. How often to you see a Aston Martin that's has custom performance upgrades?

Ultra portable laptops are difficult to upgrade, yes. They are purposely made that way. Most people that get them are getting them for a specific purpose which doesn't entail a Radeon graphics card and water cooling. A smartphone is different. Everybody has one and not all people get them just to tag friends on Facebook and figure out new idiotic way of shortening an already short word in texts. There's no reason with modern manufacturing processes and the small components available to us that an upgradeable phone would need to be any larger than they currently are. Yes, you may need to remove one part to get to another but do we not do that already with laptops?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
You can't even do most of the things the op is asking for on a laptop... even things like upgrading the screen (resolution not size, obviously) or changing your video card... since you mentioned having geek squad do this work for you I wouldn't recommend you open your et4g up but if you did you'd find an impossibly tiny logic board that makes this form factor possible... furthermore the public at large would not be capable of doing these mods much less understanding why they are necessary.... for example look at the Xbox 360... say you catch a rrod... are you calling Microsoft all like wtf???? Replace this!!!(99% of people) or are you checking the secondary error code and breaking out the rework station and reflowing the troublesome chip like I would (maybe 1% of people...probably less).... long story short in order to have these form factors the device needs to be essentially disposable with a rather short life expectancy.... hell it was a pain to route 1 tiny 30 gauge wire through this thing when modding it to work with a touchstone, not really condusive to user replaceable parts...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Logix:
agreed!
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] Sterist:
anyone having the same problem?

i enabled the setting and installed swype, then played a game for a while and thereafter i get as far as the cancel/install window and when i try to tap install it does absolutely nothing. it doesn't even highlight to show that my finger is on it; although the cancel button works perfectly! :silly:

edit: scratch that!

i waited til i got home to post this and it's working now... but it was happening exactly as described above. if you experience this be avoided that it will fix itself! rebooting did not fix it earlier though... just time apparently.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stolichnaya:
well i'm gonna sell my galaxy s, so i switched from slim ics to value pack using odin

now the phone is perfect, although the battery stats are messed up

example:

phone is at 100%

shutdown phone

power up

battery is at 48%??

and sometimes it's at 4%

any tips??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajoslaf:
If this issue never appeared before, try going to CWM->advanced->Wipe Battery Stats
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ben36:
If i disable or root uninstall will it screw anything up? As it never actually seems to tell me of updates either way
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
It should not screw anything up when updating with PCC. You won't get notifications on the phone though, only on PC.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ben36:
My bootloader is unlocked so I believe I won't anyway will i?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] gm007:
I think you will get FC when you access the software update in the settings.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ben36:
I'll leave it then!
[LG Optimus 2x] tiwiz:
Hello everyone,

I don't want to do anything but share some screenshots I just took from my V20S.

As you can see in screenshot, there is a small and invalid update onto their servers. Too small to be ICS, but the invalid flag made me think it could even be an unfinished upload... what do you think?

I was almost hopeless, so I'd really like to see that happen, since LG confirmed this update for June... and June is near to be over! :(

Tiwiz
[LG Optimus 2x] lopiop:
what does it say there invalid update
[LG Optimus 2x] tiwiz:
Sorry, I forgot it's in Italian. It says in the first screenshot that the software package is invalid, and it was referred to the update (test it, maybe you get the same error)

Tiwiz
[LG Optimus 2x] msedek:
Interesting do you have the latest latest stock firmware?
[LG Optimus 2x] xtrustkillx:
Maybe they are needed binaries uber compressed with nvidias proprietary algorithm so no one can decompress them.
[LG Optimus 2x] Supupa:
It does look interesting none the less.
[LG Optimus 2x] Pascalwb:
I don't expect anything. Like it was with ZTE mimosa, but it would be big surprise, if it was ics.
[LG Optimus 2x] Flix123:
Oh no, an other useless discussion about ICS...

Please, don't start new ICS discussions just because of an unvalid update with less than 1MB! It doesn't have anything to do with an ICS update!
[LG Optimus 2x] tonyp:
And if you feel the need to do so at least do it in the ICS All discussions here thread.

Close requested.
[LG Optimus 2x] G1ForFun:
Thread closed. Please post all ICS related discussion in the proper thread found below. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347118
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Sh4itan:
Hey guys,

i've just finished a chat with the german Moto Support team...

And i'm very disappointed!

so what happened?

i've registered for chatting and got Stefan as my chat partner.

First thing he did was redirecting to another chat partner... while i was the ONLY ONE chatting to Motorola... 'cause it was 10:01 my chat started... And chat opened at 10:00...

So now i talked to Nicole...

After my first question of how they want to deliver the ICS OTA in Q2 she asked me if i have an unbranded device...

...whyever that was important...

the following facts were given to me while chatting with Nicole:

she has no idea what she's doing

development process is over (maybe)

retail version can't be delivered

she has no idea what she's doing (2nd time)

retail OTA not available because of the carriers

retail OTA can only be delivered while delivering branded OTA's

carriers are adding stuff for a branded ICS now

she has no idea if there's a SOAK test or not

she has no idea what she's doing (3rd time)

support team is responsible for providing information about ICS updates

support team has

no

information about ICS updates

i no more believe in any official GSM OTA for germany in Q2

... or maybe german chat support members are totally unqualified ...

PS: sorry, but my english isn't the best :p
[Motorola Droid RAZR] samanderson:
I suspect that you just got someone with very limited knowledge of the ICS update schedule. We're seeing it happen for members on here so it must be in the pipeline for us non US RAZR owners, the question is when? I'm tempted to flash a non UK leak but am trying to remain patient as I'm sure that we'll have something soon :o) Hear your frustration though and feel it too! Hang on in there!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Sh4itan:
Hey there,

i don't know. But it seems everyone of the german support team is blessed with that limited knowledge...

I'm knocking on that 'door' every few days and i had most of them in a conversation... And no one was able to tell me anything :mad:

But... I keep trying ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] vash_h:
They are probably watching euro 2012 football thus not paying attention to the chat.. Lol

Sent from my XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sRDennyCrane:
Online chat support? Really??

These people are notoriously incapable of fixing anything. Their names are always fakes, since you're communicating with someone in some far off land and you'd be hard pressed to pronounce or even recognize their real name. Their answers are picked from a premade list... it's so bad, it's often assumed they're chat 'bots and not people at all... but they are.

"I am sorry you are having difficulties with your ICS for Motorola Razr today. I will do my best to resolve your question"

These people have no knowledge of updates at all. They're just a buffer zone to skim off problems before they go to phone support. Employees at the retail store level are a better source and you know how much THEY know, right?

The first person you talk to on phone support is barely better. Try to get past this person quickly and politely. When it's clear that they do not know, ask to talk to someone else. That will bring you to tier 2 support and they're the ones that have the most knowledge. But, they're less of them around, so plan on being on hold for awhile. And, when they finally talk to you, it's clear this is the first person who has even a basic clue.

...and they won't be able to answer you about ICS, either. At this point, you've wasted more time than it would have taken to plant an inside made at the Motorola's corporate offices to spy for you.
[HTC Wildfire S] kantry123:
hey folks isn't there any custom kernel for WFS supporting UV..?

bcz all other kernels are OC but not UV kernel..:(:(:(
[HTC Wildfire S] csoulr666:
Questions in the Q and A section

And no....there are no Kernels that support UV
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] chiel54:
Does anyone have experience with the traffic information option in the Sygic navigation app for Android. I'm using this app on my DHD and I am doubting whether or not to expand it with traffic info (EUR 10/p year).

Is it any good, up to date, quick etc? Preferably a reaction on this from The Netherlands.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] love_story99000:
i'm using ginger dx 27 and Nokia Bluetooth BH-105 .

??

calls works fine but music audio doesn't work any solutions??
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackRabbit1703:
what do you mean?

your Bluetooth device or your music app :laugh:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomertwo:
Hey guys it's been a while and I have long since jumped the smartphone boat due to economic reasons but I still held onto my first generation droid incredible to use as an MP3 player in my car & as a camera since it does take pretty decent pictures for a cell phone. At least it's cheaper than buying a brand new ipod touch for sure.

This morning I remembered after hooking it up to my computer that I could turn off the Verizon CD image mount through one of the hidden menus accessed by the dial pad but I couldn't remember which one it was at the time so I tired at first the ##778 and flipped through the sections to find what I was looking for and then things got interesting.

Under my security section I found that the HDR AN AUTH Password and PPP PASSWORD had been set to something that looks like leet speak to me along with some random symbols "UBINuHDX:n'!" along with a few extra characters that I cannot reproduce on my computer at this time. In my mind I read this as "u been hacked" which doesn't make any sense as the phone is on stock firmware with security turned on and it's on the latest firmware.

Here are the detailed software specs for my phone.

Android version: 2.3.4

Baseband: 2.15.10.07.07

Build number: 4.08.605.2 CL185897 release-keys

Has been rooted in the past?: Yes with unrevoked & S-OFF

Current status: Unrooted with stock firmware and S-ON

The phone has been on stock firmware with S-ON for 7 months now and I just now found this.

Has anyone else notice this recently or has any clue as to what happened and what I need to do to fix the phone so that its not hacked like this? I know I can factory reset but how will I get past the activation screen to continue using it as an MP3 player for my car?

Hope someone can help me but for now I'm isolating the phone off my wireless and changing all my passwords once more since this thing has been directly connected to my computer several times and who knows how long this has been like this. :(
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
This is normal. The password is encrypted, making it look like weird characters. Only verizon has the key to decrypt it, and was issued by verizion ota. The only people who have access to changing this info is verizion, and anyone who physicly has access to the phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardmh:
Dear all

I have a Hisense T92 acquired in China. Now back in UK I would like to flash it to a rom which doesn't have chinese characters in half the apps on it and will work here.

But there seems to be very little information about this device out there (in English anyway).

The 'About phone' page says:

Model: HS-T92

Android version: 2.2.2

Baseband version: TTD_CP_01.06.053_P8:TTD_TVRTD_MSA_1.08.046_P2

Kernel version: 2.6.32.9

Build version: T-92-eng 2.2.2 FRG83G eng.202011127.195056

Hardware version: V2.00

Software version: T536.6.01.03.00

Release date: Tue Dec 27 20:03:24 CST 2011

It has a 4" screen and I believe a Marvell 800mhz processor and 512 Mb + 512 Mb of ram (whatever that means).

I have managed to get the USB driver for it, and it is rooted (I ran unlockroot which reported it was rooted already, but I rooted it again for good measure).

One thing which seems unusual about this phone is it has an extendable antenna like for FM radio, but I didn't find an app in it which seems to use it.

Suggestions?

Thanks

Richard
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kimlotte:
Hisense T92

Hey richardmh

I recently bought the same kind of phone although I would say that it has applications that work well with the aerial. I have an application called mobile TV that works with the aerial. However I have noted that once this application is on the internet too is. Therefore I don't whether it is provided online or not. I had problems, I still have problems with connecting it to my laptop, I guess it's the usb driver thing that I don't seem to get. Is it possible you can tell me where to get it?

All in all I would think the best thing is to totally format the phone and reinstall the software again, is it what you are calling "flashing?". If you are successful please post the steps you used so that you can help me too. And you never know, if you install a radio or tv application that needs the aerial, it might actually work. By the way I initially thought it was a light pen since typing on this phone is not an easy thing to do.

Thanks

Kimlotte
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardmh:
I didn't try the tv apps, do they work with digital tv? We don't have analogue in UK any more.

The USB driver I found on a Chinese website (with help from Google translate) I can't remember where, but it is attached to this post. If it is too big or something tell me and I can make alternative arrangements for you to get it. It worked for me, but I guess the usual cautions about downloading anything from China apply....

I agree, best thing is to wipe the phone and start again. However.... I have done this to other phones but I am not an android expert and have always followed exact instructions I found somewhere online and it worked.... But if you don't know what you are doing it appears it is quite easy to convert your nice phone into a useless brick.

Trouble is - I didn't find any instructions how to do it to this phone yet. If you find something, please let me know.

Regards

Richard
[HTC Incredible S] phonetech101:
Hello i would like to know how to do this any help would be great.

Im running "son of a *****" rom if thats any help.
[HTC Incredible S] Lasantha:
rom tooll box lite>root browser>/system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3 change that .mp3 2 what ever you want...Thats what I did on a niks rom,Ithink its the same
[HTC Incredible S] vizzy:
Can that also change boot IMG ?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deformat:
Yeah, is there any file explorer for non-HTC phones out there? I'm tempted to get a lumia 800.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
Several (and most don't rely on device-specific code the way TouchXplorer does). Hell, WP7 Root Tools has been out for over a year, though it used to be Samsung-only. However, all of the file browsers require at least interop-unlock, and most require root-unlock (or full-unlock). Only a very few Lumia 800s can be unlocked that far; it requires an older bootloader that new models don't come with anymore,a nd nobody has found a way to flash the old bootloader back onto them (the Lumia 710 can be reverted, but not yet the 800; the 900 and 610 never used the relevant bootloader).

Aside from the Lumia 710, two of the gen2 HTC phones (Titan and Radar) can be full-unlocked using custom ROMs. Currently there are no custom ROMs for the gen2 Samsungs, but if you get one with old enough firmware (unlikely, but you may get lucky) you can use WindowBreak and then install Root Tools.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deformat:
Meh, so my best bet is to wait and see what WP8 comes up with?

The only reason is mostly using other formats (e.g. PDF) for different things. I'm not a huge internet user, and I'm not too jolly that I gotta move some files in the cloud and then download them to my phone.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZetaZynK:
I wouldn't hold my breath for a WP8 file browser. Microsoft does not seem to be interested in giving anyone this capability. Furthermore, it could take very long time until there will be any WP8 unlock, due to the inclusion of Secure Boot (if there will be any at all - in case Microsoft implements proper bottom-up validation it could be possible that no application can run on SYSTEM privileges unless signed).

Be that as it may, why is a file browser so important to you? I don't find it too helpful in WP (except for hacking/developmental purposes) as you have IsolatedStorages (which are a mess to dig in from a file explorer), other folders like Windows and the Zune content store (of which the latter could be accessed per USB if wanted).

Anyways, the HTC Titan is a very nice phone to have, and so is the Lumia 800. I wouldn't purchase too much after what is unlocked yet, but rather after what you find best value in.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhericurls:
My S3 seems to display text with a halo/anti-aliasing effect. This is noticeable on white text on dark background. You can see it quite clearly in apps such as Whatsapp.

Is this normal?

Edit: Found another thread discussing this topic

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27856548#post27856548