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[Nexus 7 General] Alarmmy:
You dont need network for GPS to work. It is a standalone GPS chip. All you need is an offline navigation app such as Copilot, sygic. I often use my asus transformer as gps device without the need of any connection.
[Nexus 7 General] urfate:
Mine works great with offline maps...
[Nexus 7 General] nyijedi:
Offline maps works great, but there's no turn-by-turn navigation w/ offline maps, which stinks.
[Nexus 7 General] nooomoto:
Agree. I used my xoom tethered to my phone for navigation/in car entertainment during trips. Tablets rock at this. I plan on doing the same with my nexus.
[Nexus 7 General] kumqwat:
There seems to be some confusion here as to GPS and AGPS.

They are both exactly the same as they both lock on to the geostationary satellites in the sky. The only difference with AGPS is that it uses your approximate location and downloads information on where the satellites should be, thus enabling a faster lock.

Back to the question. Any device that runs android that has GPS and WiFi helps improves google's Wifi location database. I bet that's the real reason!
[Nexus 7 General] Dragoon0309:
Navigon has that feature.
[Nexus 7 General] Doktaphex:
For all those still wondering about the barometer in several android devices, it actually helps in getting a faster, more accurate lock with GPS as it senses current air pressure and therefore helps with height above sea level, thus enabling a more accurate GPS lock.

This was the reason stated for it's inclusion in the Xoom tab and has been the reason stated for it's inclusion in all other android devices that contain one.
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
No, aGPS does nothing of the sort.

When you "cold boot" a GPS without any sort of memory, it has no idea where it is. It has to listen for sats, and as it slowly picks up satelites it downloads an almanac of where other sats are, etc, eventually getting enough data to be able to determine its location. That's called ephemeris data.

aGPS downloads the almanac for you over your data connection.
[Nexus 7 General] mi7chy:
Silly question. Like asking what's the point of having AC in a car if you live in a city that's usually cold. Well, duh! Resale value, if you travel, etc. In the Nexus 7's case it's a required component of Google Now.
[Nexus 7 General] Chinpokomon:
Not so strange. The barometer provides a faster GPS lock since the GPS will be able to determine altitude more quickly... at least that's what I've read.
[Nexus 7 General] uberNoobZA:
the point of GPS is so that you can use the myriad of GPS enabled apps out there
[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
Exactly. I am amazed at just how location aware everything is nowdays, cool and spooky at the same time :D I can see it now, you take your phone to Greenland, it's 50 below out and a white out is roaring away, and your phone pops up and says "Why u no take me to Hawaii, huh?" LOL
[Nexus 7 General] kumqwat:
Seems very similar to me!
[Nexus 7 General] compact_bijou:
Barometric pressure is not a useful indicator of height above sea level as barometric pressure can rise and fall independently of altitude.

To the OP:

GPS is incredibly useful for use with satellite tracking apps and with Google Sky.

Many other utility apps use GPS and don't use wi-fi or GPRS
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Sure, if you remove the most incorrect part of the post...

aGPS = Downloaded data. It's a single file. It locks onto nothing, it doesn't approximate anything, the GPS and software use it to have data to start finding satellites with and generally makes the process much faster.

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[Nexus 7 General] RufusEVO:
One of the first things I did on my shiny new Nexus was use Google Maps to store most of western Massachusetts offline.

I'm pretty sure the Navigation app is working fine without an internet connection during my commute. I use it as my primary GPS every day, and I know it's not tethered to my phone on every trip.

I'll say this, though, I usually start my trip in my driveway, which is within range of my home wi-fi router, so it might be downloading the trip quickly before I leave?
[Nexus 7 General] AQ_OC:
Have offline map-based nav for all of my mobile devices. iDevices and Android.
[Nexus 7 General] adit9989:
Are you joking yes ? Do you use a PND (standalone GPS) in your car ? GPS does not require any network connection.It uses sattelites only.The network connection may be used to speed-up finding the position from a cold start.This used to be slow with older GPS chips which sometime could take up to 2 minutes to calculate the position from a cold start.Newer chips need 20-30 seconds so if you can wait this you don't need any other data. Also the software can keep your previous position so as long as you don't turn off the GPS and fly oversseas it will use this as a start next time when you boot.

Network is necessary if the navigation app you use does not keeps the maps offline. I am using PNDs for years with REAL navigation software (Sorry but Google navigation is a small kid for now comparing with a few big companies like NavNGo, TomTom, Garmin. If you ever used one of that software you will never touch something like Google Navigation (for now, they may improve). Some of that standalone softwre is available for Android, you can keep full maps , pois terrain for countrie or continents, or evan most of the world if you wish, as long as you have storage (you will need close to 16GB space to keep all details for all world with a

navigation program, but you will fit all Europe or all North America in around 2 GB usually, depends of the software).

This fits even inside NEXUS7 8GB memory without problems (most PNDs have 2-4GB storage only and they usually come with either Europe al NA maps).

I tested NEXUS7 GPS, the chip and implementation is quite good and fast, finds 11 sats at home and at least 9 in an industrial building without problems. It matches or even beats a standalone PND with latest Sirf chip, so no problem here. If you don't have a PND you can use your Nexus, just install a decent navigation app (most decent ones are NOT free they will cost around $50 but they are worth it).You can get a chep cradle for car on eBay also so you are set. It also chrges via standard Micro usb just get a 2A ,5V USB car adapter on eBay and you are set, you have a full blown navigation device for you car.

I already have a PND in car ( I have a few in fact..I like the best IGo8/Primo software, which is not available on Android, for now) , but for traveling on Europe,without a car mostly walking in a big city I don't need navigation but need maps with location shown, a tablet is better that the PND which is mostly designed for driving and also has a short battery life maybe 1-2 hour only because in car you have it allways connected. On a tablet I can keep also the full guide about the city and any other info I need, which you can't on a PND.Different use for different situation, but I would not buy a tablet without a GPS. I don't need network access, I can leave with WiFi spots and anyway I don't think you would like to use a network access in roaming mode (and it may not work at all if you travel fro NA to Europe anyway).For this Google maps with offline modes comes handy and there are alos apps for many big cityies of the world with offline maps pois and guides many free in Google Play.
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Yes, it caches the route and works just fine as long as you don't deviate from the route. Not sure what happens if you do deviate.... I know Waze unfortunately seems to just give up, but as I recall, Google Navigation tends to keep the old route and waits for you to go back to it.

It will not, however, update the route to accommodate for your deviation.
[Nexus 7 General] shuflie:
It might be a good enough question but maybe not for this forum. I try and answer anyway. Using a barometer you can get a short term prediction of the weather, usfeul if you are using the GPS with marine navigational software if you are sailing and want to know if there is a storm on the way.
[Nexus 7 General] animatechnica:
Geo caching - nuff said :)
[HTC Radar] DarkSeL:
So the flashlight DOES work in apps like Flashlight (Torch) and other apps I download.

It's just NOT working in the camera app. I reset camera settings like 3 times. I have not recently had an update.

Any thoughts?

The last time i remember using the flashlight in the camera was 4 days ago, and it worked then.

Just to be clear, when I enable the flashlight, the picture is taken normally, just without the flashlight..
[HTC Radar] DarkSeL:
Update: It felt like working by itself all the sudden. Please ignore this topic, sorry!
[HTC Radar] rhiez.all:
i got same problem few days ago..

but i think the flashligt won't work if the battery level low.. i dont know, its true or not, i bought this htc radar 1 week ago..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
I can't seem to find init.d on my phone. I go to system/etc but there is no init.d. How do you enable init.d scripting? Sorry if this is a noob question. TIA to who's willing to answer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soap:
What Rom/android version are you running?

The Creator of Suds N' Bubbles
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bennyboy78:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1710980
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
Haha sorry. Stock rom, rooted, RA recovery, Underworld v0.8 SBCnoHav.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bennyboy78:
Make a nand and try the script. Should work on any device with even stock roms
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
Thanks guys for your help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
Well another question I guess. What init.d script Smurfed, V6, etc. has a good balance of speed, stability, and battery saving?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soap:
Depends on which one your phone likes best. Each has different effects.

The Creator of Suds N' Bubbles
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
True, I've heard that before. Okay final thing. Should I take any other precautions before flashing that init.d zip other than make a Nandroid?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soap:
Back up the files in init.d you delete. Either move them to a safe place or copy them to a separate folder on your computer. Then you should be good to go. :)

The Creator of Suds N' Bubbles
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
Okay, well I'll flash that zip tomorrow after 13 hours my batteries almost dead lol. Thanks, again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
I tried to flash the init.d zip file provided in the link and I got an error in recovery.

E: error couldn't open /tmp/recovery.log (not sure this is fully correct)

Not sure why I'm getting this error.

I searched xda and Google before asking and only found this post and one other but it was only targeted to the Desire HD. Don't understand why there isn't a stock init.d folder or a recovery.log.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soap:
Redownload the zip and try again.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
Okay, flashed the file. It said completed but right afterwards it had the same error.

E: can't open /tmp/recovery.log

So I tried the test zip provided by the OP and it failed with the same error.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soap:
Most likely outdated or could be your recovery. What recovery are you using?

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeedToMod:
RA supersonic recovery. Not sure of the version. I followed this guide.

http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-hacks/how-to-root-htc-evo-4g-on-hboot-2-18-with-s-off/

I didn't go through with the s-off part as I read that you didn't need to unless you wanted to flash a full rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soap:
Upgrade to smelkusmod recovery. PM me and I'll walk you though it and we will problem solve your zip file not taking.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moors:
hi At present i am using Quarx CM9 nightly(10th July) and apex launcher.on my defy plus BL7.If i want to install CM 10 BY Quarx do i have to use a different kernel while flashing?:confused:

Is this method OK?

DL CM 10 zip to SD card

open CW recovery

Wipe data /fact reset

wipe cache and dalvik cache

Instal Zip from Sd

installGapps:confused:

reboot

Please tell me if i miss anything.Thanks.moorie
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekguy:
Yeah it's fine. But make sure you get the Defy+ version. Your kernel is fine. No need to flash any kernel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Axelssj99:
Is it possible to install CM10 directly on Rooted GB BL7 Defy+ (with 2ndinit ofcourse) without upgrading to CM9 first?
[General Questions and Answers] mscreater:
if someone want to prot miui to espresso can pm me. Still have some bugs, if you want to join in me PM me.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JDunc:
I saw a ICS bloat removal thread in this section but couldn't find it. Anyone have a link for a ICS bloat removal thread?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsm3omg:
Just got an Arrive from sprint and I havent been to keen in the windows 7 series. My last phone was HTC Touch Pro 2...

Wondering how to unlock or jailbreak on Arrive kind of confused compared to how easy it was on W 6.5 Thanks also sorry for being a noob :eek:

Also I updated it to 7.5 Mango
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legacyweapon:
Hi,

I am also a former Touch Pro 2 user. The flashing is still very easy. Check out our subforums for HTC Arrive/7 Pro at: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1083

Step 1: Downgrade.

Your version of the phone is too secure for flashing custom ROMs. Downgrade using one of the stock ROMs in one of these links:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1427907

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/HTC_7_Pro/Shipped_Roms

Step 2: SPL

You're going to want to use this tool: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16189671

Follow these instructions: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16189677#post16189677

Step 3: Custom ROM

Choose a ROM to install for Gold_C/GoldC/Arrive from this forum:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1086

The stickies are very outdated and new members aren't allowed to post in development sections so it's very difficult to help unless we've been on XDA for a while for another device.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsm3omg:
Thanks also have another question...

Whats the difference between unlocks ex. Interlop and Developer

I just want to dl some free apps that i dont have to pay for thanks alot
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Localhorst86:
developer unlock allows you to sideload 3 apps, interop does not have this restriction. Also, interop apps can access restricted areas of the phone (file explorer, registry, etc.)

Free apps can be downloaded from the marketplace.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
There's a good explanation of the unlock types on a thread in the dev&hacking sub-orum, but the basic gist of it is as follows:

Full-unlock: All apps run with full permissions, can sideload and run anything even native EXEs and drivers. Requires a custom ROM (and therefore bootloader unlock) at this time.

Bootloader-unlock: Allows flashing custom ROMs. Has no impact on the running OS. On HTC phones, generally requires SPL downgrade via GoldCard. See HSPL and MAGLDR.

Root-unlock: Specific apps can run with full permissions. Does not currently allow native EXEs. Known methods require Interop Unlock, and usually use WP7 Root Tools. Expected by most modern homebrew libraries.

Interop-unlock: Allows sideloading all apps, and apps are allowed to access high-privilege system components (drivers, etc.) Currently requires device-specific hacks; sometimes can be done without dev-unlock first. Can be sufficient for registry and sometimes filesystem access by older homebrew libraries. Required for WP7 Root Tools.

Dev-unlock: Allows sideloading a limited number of apps. Apps with ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES can't be loaded or run. Available officially from Microsoft (developer account or "AppHub"), or unofficially through some device-specific hacks. Used to be available from ChevronWP7.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsm3omg:
Thanks I used the Lead Rom on my HTC Arrive... Thanks for the info once again
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Braaank:
Hi everybody, im hhere to request an app who can crack WEP or WPA networks, i searched in google but with no results, i have a Samsung galaxy tab 10.1 with overcome 10. Honeycomb 3.1

(Sorry if my english it isnt good)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Braaank:
Cracking WEP means getting the network key of a wireless network.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] UKseagull:
Isn't this illegal?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] PVLMTREE:
Not quite. (;
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jay Rock:
I didn't know you could crack networks with mobile devices.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] stubborn_d0nkey:
It can be, it can be greyish, or it can be legal. It depends.

Edit: its best to assume its illegal , unless you know for sure its legal ( like if you are cracking your own WiFi)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] sueder:
If you find something (not illegal), let us know.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] BretonGirl:
So you want to steal other people's bandwidth and hack into their networks?

Reported.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Braaank:
I dont want to steal other people's bandwidht, i just to have access to public networks at stores or something like that. Please close my post i dont need it anymore.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tdiliplane:
that was helpful? why was he reported? there was nothing wrong with this thread...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jay Rock:
Lol its part of hacking. Nothing wrong with it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] BretonGirl:
Um, if someone has their WiFi network secured, it's NOT public and unless they give you the passkey, you're not entitled to hack into it to use it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Step666:
This is exactly right.

If it's not your network and you don't know the password, clearly you're not supposed to be using it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Excelsior1:
When does the credit expire?

When I buy this at Staples, do I get this credit?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenndroid:
I bought mine at staples yesterday. I was worried about the play store credit too. Once I linked my Google account to it I got an email from Google telling me that I got my credit. So don't worry. You also get transformers as promised.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yurtcan:
My account linked with Nexus 7 (seen in my devices at playstore), my google wallet is linked with non-US card and I did not get 25$ balance.:(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thankyousam:
My UK Play credit is valid until June 2013 according to the email confirmation.
[Fascinate General] swbf2lord:
I have been running AOKP on my Fascinate for a while now, but something wierd is going on with the device. After about a week of running AOKP (I tried the Hacksung ICS builds as well), the Fascinate begins to bootloop, so I have to go through and ODIN (cannot wipe and reflash because it continues to bootloop after wipe and reflash) then flash AOKP again. The process repeats itself after roughly a week of use.
[Fascinate General] swbf2lord:
I went back and Odin'ed to 2.3.5, but ever since then, I have been unable to install a working recovery on my device. I can flash the recovery fine (Voodoo, and CWM fixed for CM7), but when it boots up, and I try to flash a file, the screen goes black for a minute, then goes back to the recovery menu, like it is rebooting recovery. I've tried Heimdall and Odin.
[Fascinate General] swbf2lord:
Anyone got any tips? Am I just forgetting something?
[Fascinate General] V00D00.:
in odin did you use the atlas.pit repartition file when you flashed back to stock?

if not then try that. also, which CWM are you trying to flash?

I know my fassy had problems with certain versions, but a 2.5.x version always worked for me no matter what happened to my phone.
[Fascinate General] TomFreeloader:
This guide always worked for me.... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
[Motorola Atrix HD] MACKSnare519:
What are you guys using for screen shots?
[Motorola Atrix HD] Markyzz:
Power + Volume down simultaneously.

Sent from my phone.
[Motorola Atrix HD] MACKSnare519:
Thanks, I ended up finding it...tried to get back here and edit my post.
[Motorola Atrix HD] heifeif:
..in german..

:cyclops:
[Motorola Atrix HD] topdawg661:
Kinda basic got to love the kanye bear :b
[Motorola Atrix HD] Dark9781:
Here's my home screen.

Sent from my Atrix HD Maxx
[Motorola Atrix HD] SirHoover2010:
Nice Background :)
[Motorola Atrix HD] Dark9781:
It's the Halloween HD lwp from the play store. Picked it up a few weeks ago for $0.25 when they had that sale.

Sent from my Atrix HD Maxx
[Motorola Atrix HD] L7iharsha:
My AHD HomeScreen
[Motorola Atrix HD] Markyzz:
You've got mail.

Sent from my phone.
[Motorola Atrix HD] grafyman:
My homescreen.. :p
[Motorola Atrix HD] ATGAdmin:
I guess there must be a need to have one of these threads in here and in themes and apps?!?

No third party launchers or icons, everything done through modding the system files:

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[Motorola Atrix HD] SirHoover2010:
How did you do all that?
[Motorola Atrix HD] ATGAdmin:
Modified some system files, actually quite a few this time around.

Getting a ROM ready if we ever get a recovery lol ;)

Sent from my A H Delicious!
[Motorola Atrix HD] SirHoover2010:
I want to learn how to create roms and was going to start working this week, but college is kicking my butt lol. Once i take this big exam to keep a good grade in this class i will start to work on one myself
[Motorola Atrix HD] aerohp:
I'll second that... i wanna be able to change the background for the app list so that it matches my wallpaper
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krycus21:
i was stuck in safe mode and now my phone wont boot up, im stuck at the boot loader. any ideas?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krycus21:
found out what was going on, my volume down button is broke. is there any way i could modify the bootloader to a different button?