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[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
First, it's impossible to unlock two devices simultaneously (you'd need the help of two different VZW users for that). You only get one unlock every 10 months, which means the person who calls for an unlock for you forfeits their unlock option for 10 months.

Second, the phone must be activated on a VZW line of service.

There are other requirements. Try getting past these two first.
[Droid 2 Global General] rikimontano:
i can help you, i have a real verizon contact who sells the REAL codes, $43 trough paypal, guaranteed, i tried at last 8 codes from different sellers and i found the real one!
[Droid 2 Global General] jianC:
43? That's worth half the phone :eek:

and I thought that ~$20 for an unlock code was expensive (seller claims to have new database ebay) << Tried and doesn't work, seller just refunded my money..
[Droid 2 Global General] dcnyrs:
We'd be happy to help any and all who need assistance with a device unlock. We have direct access to At&t devices but are willing to help with other companies devices as well as long as you have the imei #. We only bill $25 per device payment through PayPal. We will verify we can assist before your billed.

Email de8154@att.net for assistance
[Droid 2 Global General] silver6054:
So do you have access to Verizon's DB? As the poster said, these phones have had their codes changed from the Motorola settings.
[Droid 2 Global General] dcnyrs:
as the post stated, we work primarily with At&t phones but if you have the imei I will be happy to try to assist you
[Droid 2 Global General] Yianaki:
They don't necessarily give you one unlock code every 10 months. I got a used droid 2 global from Ebay activated it on my line they unlocked it. Less than a week later I called them and got the unlock code for my own incredible 2 also activated on same line. I only have 1 line of service. Both times I had to be kicked up to their "Unlock department" because I didn't have a foreign sim. I have had Verizon service for 3 years come dec. so maybe that had something to do with it.
[Droid 2 Global General] NemeZZiZZ:
Well, maybe you will agree to help me with my phone for some payment - or maybe both of them in future? :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Aimann:
Hi,

Is There anyone who's Wi-Fi is going when they open any apps in ICS ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] hhhhyy36:
hello , i've noticed when using ICS a lack of wifi network at the same spot when GB was fully indicated ... but not completely losing it so i suppose you re-flash your device using flash tool OR you can just use PC companion just google it ..

and re install the firmware from there should fix the problem

Before doing any of the above i highly recommend you to BACKUP all you data , contacts , messages and calendar .
[General Questions and Answers] marvelgt:
Hey,

is it possible to see your whatsapp messages on the lockscreen, like on an iphone? I know the pop up function but thats not the same ;)

Sorry for my bad english

greets
[General Questions and Answers] bade chender:
you can download NiLS from playstore!!!!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] Brooklyn8807:
So I have the latest Pandora version from the market with unlimited skips and no ads,(not my work). I was wondering if it was ok to share it here (themes and apps section)?. I'm not sure since its a free app but with premium account features.
[HTC Amaze 4G] saulcho009:
If its normally payed for, then I don't think its a good idea to post.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Double0EK:
Warez

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[HTC Amaze 4G] Dark Nightmare:
Are you by any chance a part of the adt group?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Brooklyn8807:
No I'm not.

I actually just came across the Pandora mod on another forum known for mods and such. just wanted to share with everyone here but I didn't want to break any rules.:)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Dark Nightmare:
Oh, cool. I actually know the guy that made that mod, lol.
[HTC Amaze 4G] blakesurf:
Can you share the mod thread link?
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
I have a modded apk also but I never shared it cause its not allowed
[HTC Amaze 4G] Dark Nightmare:
No we cannot.
[HTC Amaze 4G] eioous:
How about just the forum name so I can go browse what's going on over there.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3one:
http://androidsu.com/superuser/

in this link u can see this

ARM devices (2.0 – 4.1)

md5: 4d4e95c12bcc91acd55700bbafc0dd9e

Superuser-3.1.2-arm-signed.zip

ARM devices is nexus s?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moqwai.:
Yes, ARMv7-processor

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1596800
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Newfie Chick:
Thanks for the post

NC
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seaders:
I have one of the custom ROMs on my phone for as long as I can remember and the current one that's there has caused a few issues. I can't even actually remember exactly which one was the last one I put on, but one way or another, it's fairly buggy. I'm ok with that, I'm going to be upgrading my phone soon anyway, but until I do that, I currently can't use a lot of the 'Sense' People / Contact app stuff, with it coming up with a 'Force Close' message as soon as I try to open it.

Well, as soon as I plugged in my USB and got LogCat up and running, I got the full detail about what was going wrong,

E/DatabaseUtils(354):

android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: no such column: vip:

while compiling:

SELECT _id, lookup, photo_id, display_name, starred, custom_ringtone, agg_presence.mode AS contact_presence, send_to_voicemail, vip, default_action, agg_presence.chat_capability AS contact_chat_capability, status_update_id FROM view_htc_contacts LEFT OUTER JOIN agg_presence ON (_id = presence_contact_id) WHERE (_id=? AND lookup=?)

I've googled this problem and only found 3 results about the 'vip' column thing, then I tried deleting and editing the view_htc_contacts view. The 'vip' column is in the regular 'contacts' db, so I thought I'd be able to just edit that view so that it would get it easily, but that's proved to difficult and elusive to do.

Anybody be able to possibly help me out with this?

Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nlooooo:
First of all go to settings/about phone and find the information about rom you are using. Then download it again and flash it with dalvik cache wiping.

But my oppinion is to do backup of your stuff, find a better rom and flash it cause you already said it's buggy.

Sent from my HTC Desire via flashes and thunders
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seaders:
Thanks for the reply, but 'tis a bit too much effort to re-flash it (even though it's supposed to be a simple enough process, I've always seemed to run into problems, as in the last time I got that faulty busybox version that rewrote my 'ash' binary).

I eventually got the database edited, but it just came up with another similar error, and another after that, so I ended up wiping the data from 'People' and after backing up my contacts, 'Contacts Storage', and forcing both to stop, when I then started People back up, it must have recreated the views correctly, so it seems all's working fine now.
[HTC Sensation] atrako1973:
I have a Vodafone Ireland sensation ,with the latest ics build, I keep having weird battery issue, it takes up to 5 to charge to 100% but yesterday when it reached 80 % I rebooted the phone and on startup it went to 100% ,average battery temperature is around 35 to 45 when in use and battery widget identifies the capacity as 1580 mah although it 1520 mah,same app on my Desire hd gives the right battery capacity ,and on my hd2 it give the right.mah reading too .the phone feels hot on the SIM card and memory card area when taking cover off, so decided to dev unlock ,and installed custom roms but the issue still there both my old phone last a day longer than my sensation.

I really appreciate your advice and guidance
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

The Sensation has notoriously bad battery reporting.

It does take a while sometimes to fully charge,not always.

It is not really comparable to Desire which has single core and different CPU.

Your best bet is to experiment with different combinations of ROM/kernel.

People seem to be able to get 2-3 days out of some of them.

It also depends largely on how you use your phone...

:)
[HTC Sensation] fr0zenblood75:
This started happening to me again a couple of weeks ago. So I bought an anker battery and the problem went away. I switch both batteries every day and I don't get anymore reboots and messed up battery stats.
[HTC Sensation] tomer1981:
Had that problem too... I suppose everyone have it. I also bought 2 Anker batteries, charged fully, wiped batt-stats, and all is good now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rulinglionadi:
Mamy of us want to learn how to cook a Rom or create Themes...

There are threads which teach how to do it but they concentrate only on that specific phone

Would be great if someone can make some time and create a thread explaining everything in detail

Just a request.... :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
That's because every device is different. The only device-independent theming method is the T-Mobile theme engine included in CM7 and CM9.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rulinglionadi:
So those who do Themes and Cook Roms for NOTE..

How do they do it..

I checked framework.res which will have all theme related imagea...so i open them and edit it to my wish..

Replace them with original and make a zip using 7zip and rename it as framework.res? ??

So if someone can just give the basics for this phone..

Ill try to sum it up and put it in one for others..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Bryce2010:
I too wish there was some straight forward step by step instructions for simple theming - i.e. battery, signal mods. Used to be so easy with metamorph or uot kitchen.

I have rocket ROM with mini-dark theme by trinev but am totally lost on how to change my battery & signals. Don't understand why it suddenly has become so difficult
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] baz77:
Hate to say it, but its not a modern os. Its oldschool coding www.xda-developers.com/android/sage-advice-from-cyanogen-still-valid-today/

A piece from the master himself :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
Right.

One of the reasons I'm not sharing my N00B.ROM (on XDA or any other web forum) is deodexing, zipaligning and tweaking little bit is not development. I had asked Original_Ganjaman in March if I could write a guide in dev section but I'm still holding.

----

@OP

This might help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rulinglionadi:
I totally agree...

But learning java and working on a linux based pc is not piece of cake either..

For example...i am a 20year old learning Multimedia and Animation

I know nothing about coding other than HTMl basics...so learning to build my own Rom would not be an easy task..

So working on a already built rom and tweaking it with some visual graphics is what i can do...

That is why i am asking for a small guide for Theming a Rom and some basics as to how to make it work...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rulinglionadi:
If not for sharing we can use it for our own.... Please consider making a thread :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
Please read Thering1975's posts in the thread I posted above.

Trust me this would make you learn more things.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] baz77:
In the link I posted there are some more links
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rulinglionadi:
Yep i have bookmarked those....right now its 2AM ova here :p

So will have a look at it in the morning...

I just want to give something back to XDA other than just downloading the Roms for free..

I cannot donate because i am still a student..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rulinglionadi:
Its 2AM ova here :p

Will go through all of them in detail in the morning...

Yes baz77 there are some more links as to How or From Where to stary...

I also found a stickied thread in Android Themes section...

I guess its time to stop asking questions and get to work :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] baz77:
Good stuff same here I want to learn coding but never get round to it lol
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rulinglionadi:
Try going through all the mentioned threads...

You might learn something..

I will try to put it all into one thread once my exams get over...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
I have been using the same rom since the day I received my Galaxy Note so I am used to it by now since I have been using it for over four months. I even flashed a couple other Gingerbread roms which were nice but I came back to the Solaris Prime rom qickly after flashing. After waiting since the first ICS leak I got bored and flased a custom ICS rom with the intention of playing with it for a while then flashing back to Gingerbread. The screen was bright on every Gingerbread rom I flashed, but on the ICS rom I flashed it was nowhere near as bright. I always use full brightness and never use auto adjust which is what I set it to on the ICS rom. This is the ICS rom I tried out http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1686320 Now my question is, has anyone else noticed this or is it maybe only a problem with this rom? Are ICS roms not as bright as Gingerbread roms cause I need the screen to be very bright? I noticed the brightness was very dim compared to Gingerbread roms I have used within five seconds of setting the brightness to full and turning off auto adjust. If all the ICS roms are like this I think I will stay with Gingerbread cause this is a deal breaker for me.

EDIT: I figured it out. It is the Auto Adjust Screen Power setting, when checked the screen becomes dim when unchecked the screen is vived and bright. I guess this setting is not in all roms.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Agoattamer:
Hard to compare since I can only load one ROM at a time. But I never noticed the difference in brightness. I leave mine turned up also as I am frequently outside with my work and play. The 15 toggle mod is not somehow overiding your brightness setting in ICS?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] mike208:
I believe I have noticed the same issue. I thought maybe it was just me, but apparently I am not the only one. I am rooted and running BlackStar rom right now, and I can compare it side by side with my girlfriends stock unrooted note and hers seems noticeably brighter. But even that I chalked up to her not having a screen protector and me having one. But I wouldn't think the screen protector would inhibit the brightness much if at all.

I also have gotten to the point of using full brightness, becuase auto brightness is unusable at times, even indoors.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] mike208:
Are we the only 2? LOL. I have noticed another issue with the backlight today. The screen seemed dim, but every once in a while would get bright for like half a second then go back to dim. I have it set to full brightness, but I tried covering the sensor, or at least what I think is the sensor(gonna have to google that) and it didn't change anything.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] erick161:
Well did you compare when you both stock? Not every screen is created equally. I've seen identical phones next to each other and both have completely different temperatures on the screen (one bluish and one yellowish).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] JB calhoun:
The devs on custom roms turn down the brightness due to ocer heating..even if u can move the bar all the way to bright its still not the same
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
This is not anything that I needed to compare. It was noticable and since it happened I have read about other devices having the same issue after upgrading to ICS. It seem like the only devices this happens with are Samsung devices cause every device I found with this issue was a Samsung device. Not sure if they are putting a limit on brightness cause I know a lot of people said the contrast was too high on the Note but there is clearly something making the screen look washed out with ICS. I want my screen to be bright like it is capable of. I want my whites to be white like they are on Gingerbread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
This is not anything that I needed to compare. It was noticable and since it happened I have read about other devices having the same issue after upgrading to ICS. It seem like the only devices this happens with are Samsung devices cause every device I found with this issue was a Samsung device. Not sure if they are putting a limit on brightness cause I know a lot of people said the contrast was too high on the Note but there is clearly something making the screen look washed out with ICS. I want my screen to be bright like it is capable of. I have also read lots of people sayin that for some reason after rooting ICS their screens are not as bright but they cannot figure out why rooting would cause this to happen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
That makes no sense. I need a dev to tell me they limit the brightness we can use before I would beleive that. And not only that the problem seems to be happening on official firmware upgrades not just custom roms. I do not think its a coincidence that all the devices I have found this problem happening on after updating to ICS were Samsung devices.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
I recreated the problem so people can see it happening on their devices. Try this

1: Turn full brightness on and turn off auto adjust.

2: Open the default browser, and Gmail and leave them running.

3: Now go to home and long press the home button and the app icons will popup. Pay attention to Gmail and the browser, and you will notice the task manager icons are much brighter than the apps.

4: Without taking your eyes off the task icons open the browser and you will notice it gets dimmer then the task icons.

5: Now hit the menu button and when it pops up the browser will get brighter. Hit it again it will get dimmer.

6: Now hit the tab button and you will also see the tab icon is much brighter than the app itself.

I have noticed the apps that have the black menu popup get lighter and darker when you push the menu button but the ones with the white menu popup stay the same when you push the menu button. The weird thing is it seems like the system menus, app menus and the launcher are all as bright as they should be its just the actual apps that are washed out. I have only tried two AOKP roms so maybe this is a problem with those roms but it is very noticeable especially on apps that have white backgrounds. I cannot figure out why the whole system is bright til I open an app then the app gets dimmer then the rest of the system.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gregsarg:
This ICS rom I'm using (FJ ucle2#6...is not "darker" per sey .

I'm leaning more toward darker theme features perhaps ?

But I prefer the dark background popups with white letters etc. And I suppose it's possible that the ICS leaks are reduced to improve battery life ?

I honestly can't say, but I do know that my stock GB was like looking into the sun at night for me.

My eyes don't do bright very well ....g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ariot:
I have the same problem!!!

I use my Galaxy Note (ATT) at full brightness and I have had it for 4 months. Got bored and decided to root it yesterday and installed an ICS rom. The screens were noticeably darker even at full brightness. It was depressing me and I wanted to go back to Gingerbread, but the MDSUM of my nand backup was incorrect for some reason, so I have not been able to do that. Looking around now for some Gingerbread roms to flash today!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
Try this Gingerbread rom its great http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1563390
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ariot:
Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ariot:
Just an FYI, - I was downloading another rom from the same team as the one you recommended when I saw your update, so I went ahead and flashed the one I already downloaded. Took me back to 2.3.6, but it did NOT fix my screen brightness issue. I therefore went ahead and took my phone completely back to stock,unrooted and it's all good now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
Thats the rom I use and its super bright. Try it out I promise you will like it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dkelley:
just pointing out - I agree about the brightness thing.

specially so in my favorite new rom, the latest from team perfection (the one released at the end of june 2012). it's an amazing rom, but it is quite dramatically dimmer in autobrightness modes than GB roms and is in fact so fim in autobrightness modes that I can't see it very well with my old eyes. I had no problem with other roms, and the stock gb rom is MUCH bright in auto mode.

then I take it out of autobrightness and go outside in the sun. it's almost unreadable in the sun outdoors (walking around). reverted to stock nandroid in autobrightness mode - I can read it ok in the sun. reverted to nandroid of the new ics rom. crank the brightness, can't read it, autobrightness is no brighter (maybe even dimmer) in the sun.

this isn't acceptible - the display on the note is amazing, why take away one of the best features of the note?

I cant' even use the phone in the sun when walking now.

I hope someone can find a way to change the brightness levels after the fact - that would be a really helpful tweak for those of us who can easily tell the difference (between readable and unreadable) in our roms.

I've looked through build.prop files but can't see anything there obviously related to screen brightness, so it must be something in teh roms or kernels.

cheers

Don
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] porkenhimer:
I mentioned this on one if the rom threads and they got mad for some reason. They acted like I was making the issue up. I do not know how I noticed the ICS roms are not as bright as the Gingerbread roms but not many others have noticed. It is insanely evident that the ICS roms do not match up in brightness when compared to Gingerbread. I have also searched the web about the issue and all the devices with this problem are made by Samsung. The big bright screen should not suffer with an upgrade. I want my screen to be just as bright on ICS as it is on Gingerbread. With this issue ICS is a big turn off for me. I am beginning to think that all the reports of over saturation on the screen of newer Samsung devices have forced Samsung to put something in the newer ICS software to control the problem that some had with the saturation being too bright. I really hope someone else notices so it can be taken seriously and someone will give it some attention and fix it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dkelley:
cool, yea I read that... LoL, I felt bad for you.

I think I may have found the possible culprit, if devs are doing this on purpose at least.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1541180

I'll look at this tomorrow and see if I can brighten up my new favorite rom, team perfection (the june 28th or whatever latest rc1 version is).

PS: I killed my flash of that rom by accident this afternoon and now am reinstalling the whole damned thing and all of my apps again. all in an effort to brighten up the display. {stupid}

cheers

Don

---------- Post added at 04:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:24 PM ----------

side note:

in my attempt (and final success) to download apkmanager/apktool, I came across ******* (an ad website - edit: "adf .ly" without the space). I've hit it before too.

It is very unsual for me to get so angry with a website developer that I get violently negative feelings of aggression toward them, but in this case I can strongly and confidently say that the developers of ******* need to be forcefully removed from existence. or at least their crap advertising code does.

as you were, gentlemen.

now I'm off to start hacking away at the brightness framework apk.

Cheers

Don