[Bravo Android Development] skeevydude:
try different basebands to improve 3g. i get full 3g in places where everyone else is on att edge using Argentina Claro.

try the app Sim Manager from the Play Store.

UPDATE -- no longer typing on phone

Hopefully you'll be able to backup more contacts than I was able to -- 6. I've never messed with sim contacts (usually just rely on Google's Sync, it works for me perfectly). As for the 3g, the different basebands work better or worse depending on where you live. In Arkansas, USA and Dominican Republic the baseband Argentina\Claro works the best (much better performance than the stock ATT Bravo baseband).

Its been a bit slow due to Thanksgiving and the holiday season in general, plus I've been having some Ubuntu issues and haven't had the time to resolve them (on my first boot, my onboard wifi worked just fine and it hasn't worked once since then -- cat5 and Bravo tethered work just fine; my network connects but that's all it does -- wifi works just fine on PS3, 2 iPhones, a Bravo, a Defy, and 2 laptops so I doubt that my wifi is the problem. I'll end up switching back to pure Debian -- I've never liked Ubuntu much since the 7.10 release. I'm also having some other issues as well, but Ubuntu's always had some issue with me...no matter which version I run. :(

Also very slow since we don't have many rom chefs here. I have work and family keeping me occupied; Josuearisty has some PC issues and that's making it hard for him to help out; not sure about Aleeyt but it may be school or all the crap going on in the Ukraine; Quarx deals with the Defy & 3 or 5 other phones and hasn't had the time for the Bravo; there's one other public Bravo git fork, Haifen, and he's never posted here on XDA (has an account but never posted here); and all the other Bravo chefs are gone. Simply put, I think I'm the last one left. Somebody prove me wrong.

I really need to write a detailed faq\tutorial\guide for the Bravo on rom porting\cooking for us -- its not hard, but there's a few little quirks that'll screw with ya. If I can port a rom within my first week of having my first android phone, anyone can. Bravo was my first and Defy is my 2nd. Except for the Note 2, I don't see a phone worth getting (unless Sony updates the Xperia Play -- a ps controller built in to a phone with the power of the Note2 would be the shiznit). Since I don't have 4g in my area (nor would I use it if I did -- all 4g means to me is being able to hit my bandwidth quota even faster), 4g phones aren't anything special for me, noone I know has an android phone with beam; so I don't need that "feature", imho we have the best battery life of any android phone out there, thanks to all the devs we're able to run the latest and greatest roms on XDA with almost full functionality (usually cause of HW limitations); so I have no need to upgrade (and I can, I've been eligible for a subsidized phone for a half a month now; haven't yet cause I'm waiting until January\February to see if the Note2 price drops).

If anyone here really wants to take over on the Bravo CM7 porting and kanging, let me know and I'll help ya out. Porting can be done with any pc and only takes about 30 minutes from start to bootable port -- its good testing that I can't do. Kanging roms from source requires a decent Linux PC (dual core 64bit @ 2.4ghz or better with at least 2 gigs of ram -- my old pc) or a bad ass windows PC (quad core @ 2.8ghz or better with at least 16 gigs of ram) that can run a VirtualBox Linux install at full speed. Current PC is Quad Core @ 2.4ghz with 3 gigs of ram -- compiles CM10\PA in 1-1.5 hours (Linux, not Windows running VirtualBox -- that would be a nightmare for me). While I might be able to make a flashable port zip, I haven't cause there's a lot of different combinations of libs and drivers to try and it would be a nightmare to help and give support to. CM7 needs someone who can run it for more than 30 minutes going -- well, features xy&z work for me, time to upload rom and go flash CM10. I'd like to be able to concentrate on CM10, CM10 based roms, and a full Bravo support in the custom kernel. Currently I find myself jumping back and forth between 7 & 10 & PA and have a bunch of crap half finished.

CM10\PA need the exact same thing for full Bravo support -- a bootable Bravo ramdisk tweaked so the Defy kernel boots it or a patched Defy kernel that boots the Bravo ramdisk as is. Since I can't get UART output, I can only guess on the things I've been trying.

I hope this helps explain why its been so slow these past 2 months. Gotta go to work now, Later.

//I really need to update my photo -- I have a full beard now :p