yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Thanks for the great responses guys, just another reason I love this forum.

I should have given a few more details, I am running stock 2.3.3 on T-Mobile in the US.

Few questions for a techie (but virgin ROMer):

1. Is the 2.3.4 stock available OTA? I haven't seen any available upgrades.

2. What does baseband refer to? (trying to educate myself on the terms)

3. Any favorite ROMs? My must haves are stability and speed, other than that any goodies/awesomeness is welcome but the first two are absolute.

I am tempted to stick to stock ROMs as I haven't flashed one myself yet and this phone is my lifeblood b/c of work.

On a scale of 1-10 where 1 is "I did it with on accident when I dropped it down the stairs" and 10 is "the most difficult thing you will ever do in your life" what is the difficulty for a ROM virgin to sucessfully flash to 2.3.4 (if it is not available OTA) or CM7/other ROMs,etc?

I am technical, 12 year IT professional with MCSA/CCNA, etc but haven't done much research into the ROM biz. If its not too difficult is there a "Must read" guide for noobs?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
Difficulty is pretty low. If you can follow instructions, and understand what you're doing, then you should be good to go. If you want 2.3.4, you're gonna need to use LG's ****ty software. Either you use KDZ flasher, or LG's official PC suite. Both crashed on me constantly on Win7 x64. I was lucky/unlucky, it crashed right after writing the baseband (low level radio firmware). It hadn't even partitioned anything yet if I tried to turn it on, not even a backlight was showing. So I had to use NVflash to completely repartition it to stock. After that, I flashed CWM (clockworkmod), the custom recovery. Nowadays, TWRP is available. TWRP is awesome, and they have awesome Devs. TWRP (teamwin recovery project) is touch based rather than CWM and traditional volume key and power button navigation. There is CWM touch, but it's extremely experimental and I find it too glitchy compared to TWRP. TWRP is a work in progress however and there may be issues (I had one but it was easily fixed with one command when I spoke with the Devs on irc) I haven't had any serious ones though. IMO it's easier to NVflash in a Linux environment, because there is no messing around with drivers. But after drivers are installed on windows, the difficulty level plateaus.

As for my favorite ROM, that would currently temasek cm7 builds. They're stable, fast and they're customizable as f***.

I don't have any links right now, because I'm on my phone, (I can grab them later/soonish) you're going to want tga_gunman's thread named something along the lines of "One click recovery flasher" that's for CWM recovery. If you want TWRP, there's a thread that has TWRP in the title.

Also look for "ROM for recovery under NVflash" or something similar to that. That will take you back to complete stock 2.3.3 no matter what happened software wise, unless you somehow managed to break the baseband. The baseband is the only thing that cannot be fixed by NVflash, only can be fixed by LG's ****ty PC software.

For temasek's cm7 builds, the thread is not created by temasek, but the builds are by him. It should be at build 133 or 134.

If you need anything else, PM me maybe.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Good deal, I'm planning on following this thread from the general section (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1594650).

I'm leaving out of state but will work on it over the weekend.

Thanks for all your help and support everybody, any additional comments are welcome before I start flashing this weekend.

Q - Do I need to get the owain's baseband flash fix or not with the ROM you sugested, the comments on the thread are confusing me a bit. If so where can I download the correct one, can't seem to find it in the Dev threads.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
You only need that baseband fix if you have the latest baseband (March 2012) from v21y. It should be available in owain's hopto.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Help a noobie out, what/where is owain's hopto? :)

Edit: I'll test without the fix, to be sure and flash the baseband if needed, i understood from the comments in the ROM's thread that its needed for Bluetooth calls.

I might have found the baseband fix link (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1776843) can anyone confirm?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
That's the one :)

Edit: if you need Bluetooth calling on the new baseband, don't flash any cm ROMs. Stay on the old one if you need/want Bluetooth calling.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Firstly thanks for all the good Q/A, like a good forum noobie, I'm marking thanks each reply.

I want to make sure I understand your comment. This is what I understood, let me know if I'm off/on. The CM Roms do not work with BT calling, so I should stick with stock if that's important to me? I would assume then for me to get beyond my current issues (OP) my best bet would be to Flash the 2.3.4 stock?

Thanks again for the info and time.

***edit***

Nix the above. I completely read it wrong, thought you were saying all CM ROMs didn't work with Bluetooth. Just so on the current Baseband.

I'm on Jul 15 2011 Baseband currently, so I'll attempt the CM7 ROM this weekend when I'm back home and able to devote more focus. Coming from stock 2.3.3 do I need to flash a kernel as well or will that be in the ROM <---showing my ROM noobness but unashamed to learn.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
If you decide to get the newer baseband (you get it with 2.3.4 kdz, only way to get new baseband) and bt calling is important, do not go to cm. If you don't mind staying on the older baseband, bt calling will work fine on cm.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Lol, I feel so dumb, its like learning a new language while being held underwater.

kdz=?

I'm trying to understand why I would decide to get the newer baseband? If I do I can use BT calling but can't use CM7 ROMs, if I don't I can use CM7 ROMs and BT calls should work fine. Dont see the upside to upgrading the baseband, unless it has issues?

BTW as I haven't seen it, I get happy feelings when I look at your avatar
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
KDZ = LG's proprietary file type to update their phones via PC officially. A lot of people say the new baseband gives them better gps and call quality. Basically if you don't change baseband to the new one, everything will work perfectly. If you DO switch, everything will work perfectly, but only on stock. Everything will work on cm except Bluetooth calling with the new baseband. I don't think it's worth restricting yourself to stock because of the new baseband and and bt calling. My recommendation? Don't change baseband, just go to cm. Also, soon we might start to see android 4.1.1 jelly bean. They won't be stable for a while though.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Too much fun.

Couldn't wait, just finished flashing CWM, then backed up, then wiped like 400x then dropped the CM7 ROM you sugested.

Longest 10 minutes of my life letting it sit.

Working great, I'll update here with any additional info or create a new thread.

TY TY TY all
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Update -

Still working great, only two issues.

* Cellular network is only showing E, played with the settings but can't seem to get any G networks.

* Google apps/play isn't installed, I think I have this one figured out to download/flash from here (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1049154) (http://goo.im/gapps/) but I'm confused about which one to DL.

help plox?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] cainG2x:
If it's cm7 get the latest gb one, if it's cm9 get the latest ics one... It has gb or ics in the name of the file.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Much thanks, i'll do that now.

Any ideas on being stuck on EDGE network only?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
Yeah goo.im/gapps is the best. For the cell network, try going settings> wireless>mobile>network operators and select "select automatically"
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Yeah, did that, no go. Also tried the various settings on network preferences (gsm/wcdma auto, wcdma only, gsm only, gsm/wcda prefered), still nada.

Another note, the camera is laggy, looks like I need a LG mod, this the one you would recomment (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1166531) CM7_Camera.zip?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
How with auto wcdma preferred. Camera was mostly laggy with low light. But LG cam is nice, just front camera is rotated in other apps. If you want it, go to temasek's hopto and grab it from his p990 folder.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
NP, I can play with the camera a bit more before deciding.

Still not getting anything but EDGE network, I'm going to try flashing again.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tahahawa:
Just a question, you wiped right?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
Yep, did the following wipes:

1. wipe data/factory reset

2. wipe cache partition

3. advanced/wipe delvik cache

4. advanced/wipe battery stats

insatll rom from zip, then

1. wipe data/factory reset

2. wipe cache partition

3. advanced/wipe delvik cache

4. advanced/wipe battery status

reboot system now

I did do a nandroid backup before so I can always roll back but i love the smoothness, just need my data networks...

Just tried CM7 official, same thing, stuck on edge...everything else is fine, I'll play with the camera

Then tried the helfire phoenix ROM, same thing

Restored to nandroid backup, 2, 3, 4G all available...

Am I missing something??
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mog44net:
gonna start a new thread in hopes others that could have the same issue might find it easier

resolved - did the same as before but it magically worked this time, full 4g
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lionclaw:
Has anyone else had issues tethering on 4g? It seems like everytime I start up FoxFi and connect to it with another device, my 4g drops to 3g.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] michael291986:
Yes. Does it on WiFi tether also. Temporary fix is to force 4G only or CDMA/4G only until the update is released for the 4G threshold fix.
[Motorola Atrix HD] ranfot:
How do I change home screen page in Atrix HD (4.0.4), so its not the first one, but the middle or 3rd .

I found a way to do it for other phones, but it had to be rooted... any way to do it without rooting?
[Motorola Atrix HD] helldogg75:
Touch home. Press and hold screen you want to move. Move it where you'd like it.
[Motorola Atrix HD] staffman28:
I think what Ranfot is asking is how to change the default home screen from 1st position to 3rd so his phone wakes up to the 3rd position all the time. Other then loading a different launcher I couldn't find a way on stock. Maybe someone else has figured it out.

Sent from my BIG A$$ Galaxy Note using the XDA App.
[Motorola Atrix HD] busarov:
I too have not found a way to do this. Kinda silly if you ask me. It'd be so easy to do, and it seems every phone has the ability to do it EXCEPT the AHD. lol, good job Motorola.
[Motorola Atrix HD] ferrojasaguilar:
Anyone ever figure out if this is possible? Thanks guys
[Motorola Atrix HD] BreakShadow:
Not possible, because of the quick toggles screen feature.

It's designed that way
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] IE-coRe:
Youtube videos show that it runs pretty smooth on p but u and sola only have 512 mb of ram and xperia 11 devices run ics awefull. The launcher is very laggy there. Can any xperia p user confirm that is is as fast/faster than gingerbread and do you think less ram will make it run less smooth?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] soulhackereborn:
as far as this video shows, its pretty fast on P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyZx8MGHXm8&feature=related

All phones are good unless you don't over-clog em with plenty of apps and garbage !!! :p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tadeas482:
I trust, that Sony will make nearly as smooth as it is on Xperia P. :good:
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] menachemt:
Hello. I need help!! I want my htc sense 3.6 back on my phone but I am not sure how to uninstall MIUI ROM. In other words, I wanted what I had right after I rooted my phone, before I installed MIUI ROM. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Bigtjmc:
If you made a recovery file in the recovery then just install the file if not then relock the bootloader and run the Stock ruu file and then just re unlock root ect.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] LaZiODROID:
I imagine you would have rooted your phone, unlocked bootloader (maybe), and flashed a custom recovery (like clockworkmod or wcx). I don't think any of those things would have changed during your use of MIUI.

Easiest way? Relock your bootloader (if you had unlocked it), and then run the stock RUU for your phone to revert your phone to stock. Then you can unlock bootloader again and then root your stock rom (I believe there is the all-in-one tool that makes rooting quite easy).

Or... if you want to try another custom rom, download the rom zip, copy it on your SDCard, and....

1) Pull the battery, and re-insert

2) Boot phone by holding VOLDOWN and POWER. You are in bootloader. At this screen you can see if you are S-ON or S-OFF (good to know for the later steps)

3) Choose recovery

4) If you're in WCX recovery or ClockWorkMod recovery, then you can do the 4 wipes (Data/Cache/Dalvik/System). ** But if you see you are NOT in a custom recovery, stop now.

5) Then you can flash the custom rom zip.

6) *At this point - if you are S-OFF, then the rom's kernel would have flashed with the rom, so you're done.

*But if you're S-ON, you will now need to flash the rom's kernel manually via fastboot. (on your computer, just extract the boot.img from the rom's zip, put it in the same folder where your fastboot.exe is, and run

fastboot flash boot boot.img
[General Questions and Answers] nozborne:
I have dug around a little bit, but haven't really come up with a good answer. In fact most threads are from '11. Hopefully there is something a little newer that somebody has found.

I have a TF300 and love it, but want to try and leverage it more for work. One of the biggest challenges I have is with notes. I don't necessarily want to get the dock. I would like to be able to take notes more efficiently than typing on the virtual keyboard. Are there any good apps out there that convert handwriting to text and would be compatible with my device? Thanks.
[HTC One X] biohazardta:
As title, does anyone know what's going on with my phone?Thanks,

Recovery: 5.8.4.0
[HTC One X] epp1907:
Same problem and it started after root....

I have updated kernel but nothing .....
[HTC One X] asefzaman:
Which ROM are you on?
[HTC One X] biohazardta:
MaFei D5.0(Made By Chinese)(1.29.708.9)

But I've tried to flash few other ROMs but still have the same problem,

And If I turn off my phone again after reboots, it won't reboot again until I do so.
[HTC One X] Babydollll:
It's the recovery. When I switched to TWRP on my One X it stopped happening.
[HTC One X] biohazardta:
Sorry, what is TWRP?
[HTC One X] Babydollll:
T: Team

W: Win

R: Recovery

P: Project

Go look in the development forums.
[HTC EVO 3D] Marta9227:
Had to relock s-on hboot 1.5 long story. After accepting stock ics update can I unlock again? will they give me a new code or is it a one time thing? Didn't save old email.
[HTC EVO 3D] plaidcounty:
You'll get a new code. Just follow the same steps as before.
[HTC EVO 3D] awesomejosh19:
Best suggestion is to save it to your fastboot file easiest way to save the coffee for later the you should be able to use the same one. I've done every update through the RUU and never gotten a new code. Its been the same since day one.
[HTC EVO 3D] nohoy:
Just out of curiosity, is it actually a new code or is it just going through the same process? I thought the ID that you had to send in was essentially just a unique ID for the phone itself.
[HTC EVO 3D] Marta9227:
Will it work on hboot 1.58?
[HTC EVO 3D] ZWYATT:
You already have a thread running in q&a. Why not ask this there and give a courtesy update, to the people that were trying to help you, that you are up and running again?

sudo passwd root
[HTC EVO 3D] Marta9227:
Sorry pmed them wasn't thinking anyone besides those couple people who initially responded would be interested :) still new to all this.
[HTC EVO 3D] awesomejosh19:
just curious did you ever get this issue figured out yet because im on hboot 1.58 been using the same code about 10x's now no problem.
[HTC EVO 3D] Marta9227:
I unlocked on hboot 1.5 to be safe :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Kenzibit:
I feel itchy to post when I read irritating news. Just read this http://www.wpcentral.com/switching-xbox-live-boosted-wordament-and-can-help-other-games-too and I know it's not yet official but if this happens to be true, Screw WP & Microsoft.

Why is MS always making ziggy decisions? Xbox on Android and iOS? Then why bother buy a WP? Xbox Live is an advantage to WP and keeps on attracting fans to the OS and we are just gonna make it all available, WP is dead for sure....NO DOUBT. I have friends, colleagues who just bought WP because of Xbox, bringing more people to the platform and thus boosting sales. These mobile OSs (Android and iOS) don't create anything for WP so why all these support to them. I always ask and gonna ask again, which people make decisions at Microsoft? Would like to meet them one day. WP platform has nothing as compared to Android and iOS, and we trying to give away the little gold we have to these other platforms...are we slaves?

Please MS, have some pride and be distinct...you have fans like us here who would love to be distinct, iconized and have features on our beloved OS to boast with and make other OSs jealous....finally attracting more customers. Moving our precious Xbox and tasty achievements to our competitors will do us no good, will just kill WP, and I will have nothing to boast with to my rich droid and iOs fanboys...it'll be just like porting Xbox achievements to Playstation and Nintendo, why will you attract customers from these platforms then?

MICROSOFT, PLEASE MAKE US PROUD SONS, SOME DECISIONS YOU MAKE KILLS THE SPIRIT IN MOST OF US....IS IT BECAUSE OF THE BENJAMINS??

JUST PRAY ALL THIS IS FALSE GIMMICK.
[Windows Phone 7 General] kirin0ichiban:
That's not what it says at all. Its trying to explain the benefits of adding Xbox Live functionality to games on Windows Phone. They even updated it to clarify that.

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
not only is there no inference to xbox live for IOS/android , but the questions and answeres read like a defensive politician in recovery mode:

Q: “You’re bringing functionality [from] the Xbox to mobile?”

A: “Absolutely. The same people who engage on the console are the same users who have the Live account who engage on the mobile titles. We find there’s a great deal of migration between the separate screens.”

no where even close to answering the question. this is just another attempt at marketing instead of answering very simple, very precise questions.

another example of a wtf moment:

Q: “What [is the] number of games you’re looking for right now [for Xbox Live on Windows Phone]?”

A: “Again, it’s a relatively curated portfolio. We’re interested in all phenomenal IP, but specifically things that would be debuting on the Windows platform. [So being exclusive to Windows Phone] is a plus.”

simple question, vague, pointless markrtspeak answer again.

and the biggest wtf of the q/a session:

Q: “What are the device sales numbers for Windows [Phone] right now?”

A: “High. Very high. I can [elaborate] more when contacted directly.”

reallllllly? very very high? is this an actual person answering questions or a robot with only positive, computer generated marketing doublespeak responses availible?

did I miss something, or was he just asked, directly, how the sales were?

interview? ha!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcool13:
Is anyone else hearing a random beeping, maybe 10 second intrvals, whether charging or not? I initially thought it was some type of notification for roaming, but I checked when it was doing it and I was not roaming. Nothing to do with wifi either as it's happened whether turned on or off, connected or not. I believe it is some type of notification, but I just can't figure what it is for. It's not any of the installed notification sounds, so not some type of default that I could have missed. It's annoying, random, and frustrating me.........Restart or battery pully won't make it stop.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mustbepbs:
I can't see beeps, Daredevil. Not all of us are so fortunate to have sound vision.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcool13:
Really, you actually took time to type an a$$hole response? Nice to see you do serve a purpose here.........Thanks for your help!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mustbepbs:
Try a factory reset. And also, chill. It wasn't an attack on your family. It was a light hearted joke.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcool13:
All good, I'm over myself already..........
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] scriller:
LMAO!!! good one.

Lol u gotta admit his response even tho asshole-ish was at least a lil bit funny. But about ur problem no I'm not getting that or have ever got that. If its not an installed sound then its definitely an app.

But beeping at 10 second intervals is crazy that means if its really an app then its updating a little bit too much.

Why Dont you uninstall ur apps one at a time and see which one fixes the problem when removed?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Dawg5:
Saw this in another thread. People say they stopped this with a reboot. The cause is being looked into. Hope this helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcool13:
Yeah, I'll be a lot clearer on my wording going forward!!!!

I've tried everything suggested here, no luck. Can't replicate it, reboot-reset-battery pull won't stop it. I do believe it has something to do with Mobile Network State. Settings/About Device/Status. MNS is disconnected, no beeping. Last time it did it I checked there thinking it was roaming notification. Was not roaming, but MNS showed as connected. Beeping stopped when that eventually went back to disconnected. I'm using Synergy Rom,r60.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] hanybanoub:
Hi all

I'm debating between these two.

Anyone with experience of the Ion - specifically:

Battery life

Capacitive buttons

Official ICS

I used to have the S but the power button placement, annoying capacitive buttons and yellow tints did my head in.

Sold it and got the P - whose battery life is very disappointing. Its at 17% now at 4pm from being unplugged at 7am and not a great deal of usage (ICS too). Thankfully I can return to Sony within my 14 day trial.

I'm looking at the Acro S in its thread too.

Those in a similar situation, your advice is welcome.

Thanks.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] MinhBao92:
As far as I know the Acro S is very similar to S except for the higher battery

Ion cannot unlock bootloader. Correct me if I'm wrong :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] hanybanoub:
I'm not sure either to be honest.

What about official ICS for it? It seems that new ones being sold in India come with ICS already installed.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] heeroyun:
They both very similiar in term of performance. Capacitive buttons are definitely better than the Xperia S. ICS is smooth and fast. Battery is decent, if you're ok with the better of the Xperia then you don't have to worry about this.

So when in come to decision: bigger screen and 4G LTE vs Water proof. And the Ion cannot unlock bootloader as it's a carrier phone.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] HooLIMAN87:
There is also Ion hspa version without carrier. ;)

Sent from my LT26i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] hanybanoub:
Very helpful thank you. A few Qs please:

ICS official?

Battery? What time unplugged in morning & when plug in at night?

Is it just slightly too big? Wide?

LTE only bands 4 & 17 I think. Dunno if compatible in UK?

Thank you! I presume we can install custom ROMS on ION H if doesn't have carrier - Yes/No?

Official ICS on H version? Battery on H?

Sorry for Qs lol :)