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[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] espressoe:
You are right, it would be a more fair comparison of Cingular if I used their network, but I do not intending to use Cingular, so I wanted to compare it to how I would be using it. In North America, the fequencies used are 850 and 1900 MHz. In Europe, they use 900 / 1800 MHz.

For people that only use AT&T / Cingular service, the phone may be acceptable on the 850 MHz band. I did not test this fequency, as I feel that it should perform well on all bands, especially since I am comparing it to 2 other phones that are tri-band / quad-band phones. I don't have Cingular service and didn't feel like paying approx. $65 to test it when I would have to pay T-Mobile $200 to break my contract due to the HP6315 fiasco.

Does anybody have test results for the SX66 on the Cingular network?

The other comparison that I wanted to make was using the identical SIM card (and hence the identical tower and parameters) on each of the phones. I then sat at my desk at home and left a message on my voicemail. I then walked to a window where I could see the tower off in the distance and placed another call to voicemail and left a message. I repeated this for each phone 3 times over 3 days inbetween looking for additional information on how to improve signal strength.

In addition, I talked about 2 hours on each phone and asked the person I called how the voice sounded. With the SX66, I received a lot of "what did you say?" and I noticed entire sentences dropped out of the conversation.

With the HP6315, I received about 1/4 as many of the "what did you say" and I had words that were garbled, but not missing entirely.

With the Sony-Ericsson T610 (also integral antenna), I received absolutely no "waht did you say" and I never had a single word garbled. I was even able to take the phone into the basement, into the garage, and even lay down in bed with the phone between my head and the pillow without a problem.

Hope that helps clarify what I was testing and how to interpret my results. From what I've seen, people in heavily populated areas don't have any problems with either the HP6315 or the SX66. Unfortunately, I live on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, and they typically place towers here at quite a distance since there isn't much to get in the way.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] espressoe:
New update!

I went through all of my voice recordings tonight and realized that the voice quality was typically excellent for the first 30 minutes of calling and then it started to cut in a out or garble voice. The garbling consists of a single word every 2 or 3 sentences all the way to 5 seconds of garbled voice. The transmission side seems to be worse than the reception side.

So, it's actually starting to look like it might be a thermal issue. That could potentially explain why some people don't have a problem at all (they are close the tower and aren't transmitting at high power and/or they don't have long conversations).

To verify this, I called a friend tonight and talked to him for 36 minutes. I told him at the beginning that I was doing a voice-quality test so that he would report any problems. Every 5 minutes, I would ask him how the voice quality was. Everything was excellent and the signal strength was at 4 bars all the way up to about 30 minutes. At that point, the signal strength started going wild and the garbling continued.

I finished the call with him and left a voicemail and the voicemail was perfectly clear for about 30 seconds and then it was garbled as well.

I let the phone sit for 1 hour and then left another voice message that didn't have any problems.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] mierwins:
Have others had problems with heat? Maybe you got a bad unit?

That's one problem I thought of is that if I buy this at a Cingular store for $650 w/ no plan unlocked and have a problem with it, will they be willing to exchange it or will they only do it if I'm a Cingular customer. I would hate to get stuck with another $650 paperweight.

Keep us posted on what you do with regard to getting it swapped out from either Siemens or Cingular.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] Guest:
I just went ahead and returned it since Cingular doesn't even have support on the device, yet... Their image is a couple of months behind I-Mate's images, too, and I was unable to burn in the I-Mate image due to the country code problems.

If I get one of these, I'll get the PDA2k instead. I'm currently thinking I'll just hold out for the XDA IV that should have both 3G UMTS and GSM as that phone should be current for quite a few years and it will have a 480x640 screen :)))
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Citadel69:
My wife recently purchased the Lg Optimus L9 and wants to be able to tether it to her ipad. Is this possible for this phone. We have T-mo and unlimited data plan. It's saying "our plan doesn't support tethering to another device" but previously she was using a blackberry and my old G2 and it worked fine. The phone isn't rooted and I'm not even sure she would want me to root it but she probably would if this was the only way. Thanks in advance for any info/help.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Deleted member 2530995:
What model of L9? You can try first update to jellybean (use ROM not from t-mobile). Cause I have V20D Baltics for P760 and tethering works fine with my laptop without root (but I don't know about ipad cause I don't have one).

EDIT: But it more sounds as your data plan doesn't support tethering. I'm not really sure how it works in t-mobile but tethering is additionally paid option. Maybe you used your limit for tethering? Cause as I see unlimited data plan has limited tethering e.g. http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-unlimited-plans-may-get-tethering-bundled-starting-wednesday
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] kevev:
2 options:

1.) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2201062

This requires root and works.

2.) Try "FoxFi" & "FoxFi AddOn" from the Play Store.

I could not get these to work with Jelly Bean but you may have better luck.
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[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Note2Hunter:
I was wondering if I can use my hdtv thingy (sorry I can't think of the name right now) to connect with hdmi to display port cable to my monitor
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Double0EK:
Yes
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Note2Hunter:
How about via to hdmi or dvi t hdmi? Do they both work?
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] fosselman:
I don't think you can go HDMI to displayport with a cheap passive adapter. You need an expensive active adapter. HDMI to DVI may work as long as it is single and not dual link dvi.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Double0EK:
Sorry, I wasn't understanding your question earlier...

What I would try is to use a known working mhl adaptor for the Note 2 first then plug that to the HDMI to DVI adaptor. In their theory it should work. There's some DVI adaptors on Amazon you can try workout breaking the bank.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlun44:
I have tried three different ROM's so far on my SGH-T889 (Note 2).

First, the latest MIUI ROM, which is aesthetically pleasing, full with the usual tools, but a little buggy. The most important thing is that the it deals with my low T-Mobile signal (in certain areas) very well. This seemed to be the case with when I used the MIUI Rom on my Galaxy 1. With the MIUI Rom I am able to get H and H+ data connection in certain locations when other Rom's I can only get an unusable Edge.

Second,

I used the latest Cynagom nightly Rom which is really nice and some cool features but did not perform well with my weak signal in certain areas and was missing some of the features I have seen on some of these Rom's.

Lastly and currently I am on the Jedi-X Rom which is a really stable ROM with all the customization tools built in. But again, it does not work well with low and weak signal in certain areas.

Is there a place where I can find all the different .zip modems to use with these Rom's above for experimentation.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] RonnieRuff:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2102380

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlun44:
Modem compatibility

Okay, thanks for the response.

So, the modem used in the MIUI Rom is from the list of stock modems in the link you sent?

and I am assuming that these can all be flashed to any Rom I decide to use?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] RonnieRuff:
ROMs do not include modems. The modem you are using if you have not flashed one is the one that you had when you were on stock.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlun44:
Latest stock modem

So I guess I have the latest modem because before I started flashing Roms I took the Over the Air (LTE) update.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pappaellio:
Hi,

I have the older Tmobile Note 2 firmware. I have it VERY customized.

BUT i want LTE.

Is there any way to update to LTE and not update the other phone firmware?

If i flash an "updated modem"....does that mean I will get the LTE without the firmware update???

Sorry if this sounds stupid...im a newb

Thank u in advance.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlun44:
Hopefully the member who answered my question can answers yours.

I wonder as well if the latest modem would give you LTE on your old stock Rom.

If it did, would the icon for data connection indicate it? Wouldn't the icon for LTE be built in to the Rom?

I guess you did not want to take the Over the Air update sent your phone from T-mobile?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pappaellio:
I have a Rooted/Customized stock rom. I recently learned of the LTE update. Because im rooted, I updated my firmware via Kies.

I HATE the update. my phone is slower and EVERYTHING i had customized is now FCKED up.

I wish I could ONLY update the LTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it possible to update ONLY the LTE .... and if so ... with the 4G LTE notification get updated as well?????
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jijus:
I did OTA last week and Google play store would time out !

so got the modem from T889UVBMB4 from the above posted link and flashed using CWM

now I am back blazing fast ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pappaellio:
BUMP

Is it possible to update ONLY the LTE on the TMobile Note 2 .... and if so ... will the "4G LTE" notification get updated as well?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlun44:
Latest modem and LTE

That is funny. Before I started flashing Roms on my Note 2 I took the Over the Air update and Google play and everything worked great. I mean, LTE is only is certain locations right now but eventually I imagine you would want that latest modem (that came with the OTA update) because it is what allows you to have LTE.

I just flashed the latest modem while on MIUI. It took a second to register on the Tmobile network but it's working great.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] RonnieRuff:
You can go to settings "about phone" to be sure

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That would depend on the ROM

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jamalkhaffaf:
Why it would depend on the ROM. From what I know the ROM wouldnt interfere with the modem. Usually, I just flash what ever modem I want and everything works fine.

Anyway, if I am correct then you guys can just download the LTE modem (UVBMD1) and flash it through your custom recovery (CWM/TWRP). And you should be fine and your data should be intact. Just make sure you do a nand back-up.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] truthkillszz:
You both are correct. You can just flash the modem and not touch the ROM and you should get LTE. But if the ROM you have does not have the icons for LTE it won't show you getting LTE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mongo41:
Isn't there a different apn for the LTE to work?
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skellums:
Hi all,

I was following the "main thread" a while ago before these phones had their own section, but hadn't checked for updates since early to mid January (before the bootloader was unlocked). Now I see that it's unlocked, there is unfortunately no support for the Canadian (Bell) variant, the E617G.

I extracted the bootloader from my wife's phone and did a binary comprison to the various unlocked bootloaders for the E610, 612 and 615 and it's almost identical byte for byte to the E610. Aside from the edited messages and the tail end of the files where the checks appear to be located, there is one location (byte 0xB476) that is different.

I'm not really experienced in this sort of work, but could that one byte be what's causing the random reboots for the E617 variants? Before I try truncating the file I extracted to removed what appears to be the secure checks and flashing it, does anybody have any other reasons why the E617 has been "left out in the cold"?

I've attached some screenshots of the comparison to the E610 emmc_appsboot.bin

First Difference

Differences in Messages

Apparent Secure Checks?

In the 3rd screenshot, you can see in the E610 file, after 0x40F07 the file is blank, but in mine the file continues on (it's 4MB of null padding by the looks of it).
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingDaedrix:
Hey, I have the E617-G too and I'm looking for a way to unlock the bootloader. have you made any progress on doing it? I would forever be in debt to you if you did hahahahh!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skellums:
Sorry for the lack of reply, I've been busy for the past few weeks!

I went ahead and truncated the backup I made, and changed the one byte that was different... So far I haven't had any problems. I was able to flash the recovery image and make a CWM backup.

I made a few other slight modifications (changed the messages in the file, from "Russia" to "Canada" :P), but other than that the files are identical.

I've attached my modified file if you want to give it a go. The instructions are the same as the other unlock instructions here.

Make sure you don't skip making a backup just in case!!!

As usual with things of this nature: I claim no resposibility for any damage to your phone, loss of data, etc!! Flash at your own risk!

All credit to the original devs of the unlock, fix is the same, just different source files were used.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingDaedrix:
thanks a lot! I was looking to put a Windows Phone 7 ROM on it, is that possible? Sorry, I'm kind of a noob with phones, more into building computers and such.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skellums:
Unfortunately no. Windows Phone 7 is not open source so there is no easy/legal way to port the OS over. There are launchers that have been made so the Android interface mimics Windows Phone 7, but it's still Android running under the hood.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ris066:
Help!

I have followed the instruction you posted but i still cant boot into recovery. I have used adb command reboot bootloader and it gets stuck on a black and white screen tht says fastboot processing.

I am not sure if there something wrong with my device. :confused:
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingDaedrix:
Thanks!

Me again, just replying to confirm that following the steps posted I successfully unlocked the bootloader of the phone. Not very much use however as there is very few ROMs for the model. Thanks a lot though OP!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuffMcBigHuge:
I also successfully unlocked the bootloader using your binary. Thank you!

I wrote an article here on getting it all running with CM10.1 on the L5 E617G!
[Networking] funhat:
I'm looking to get my xda2 networked with my pc some how, so I can share my pc's internet connection around my house, I was thinking of a wifi card + wireless router, but that's going to be quite expensive.

Could use a bluetooth dongle for my pc and connect with that and share my pc's broadband connection, or is this not possible?
[Networking] Webspider:
You can get the internet shared on the XDA II with a bluetooth dongle, but don't expect to get your full bandwidth.

I ran a speed test on my XDA II using bluetooth (via activesync passthrough) and only got 556kbps (near the desktop).

But Bear in mind that the speed deteriorates quite quickly the further from the computer you get.

It works fine for streaming radio and skype and I can get a range of about 15m (thats throught a floor and a wall - thin ones) and still listen to the radio.

Of course wi-fi has the advantages of speed, distance, and you can then use hotspots. But is rather pricey - mainly the SD wi-fi card, wireless router would probably turn out cheaper.
[Networking] funhat:
All i'm really interested in is the ability to lay in bed, browse a few webpages and sit on msn, not a lot else really, so the bandwidth hopefully should be ok
[Networking] Webspider:
Yes, in fact thats all i use it for really, well and skype and radio. Browsing is a bit slow on non ppc or wap sites.....the graphics really slow it down.....flash stuff loads ok tho
[Networking] Rudegar:
when you connects with activesync with bluetooht and have network shareing enabled in activesync you have access to your pc's internet connection.....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hand76:
Was getting low storage error and moved a bunch of apps to sd card and my data/data folder showed I had like 80mb free and error went away. Couple days later error came back without adding any new apps and I was under 15mb free, figured this was weird and restarted my phone and it went back to 78mb free.

So what could cause this? Is something not clearing out right here on its own? Btw I am on a stock deodexed rom.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekweezle:
if you don;t install the EXT4 fix, the stock configuration is for the Data partition to be a paltry 149 mb. That can get filled up pretty quickly-mostly by apps like the messaging app, Google Maps and anything else that needs to stored data in this "high performance/secure" location. i put it in quotes because it;s the "official reason" for doing this but I think it;s crap. in reality it;s a design flaw by HTC that never got fixed. also, files from the Playstore get cached to this partion which is why the free space available can jump up and down. there is only so much moving apps to SD Card will fix. the problem is certain apps accumulate data over time.

If you do install it you will have 749 mb available. if you have a rooted Dinc, I think there is no reason not to install it. then again I am not certain if your ROM is compatible. I hear that Touch of Blue has this fix integrated into it if you want to stay on Gingerbread.

this thread probably has all the info you need

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1488351
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hand76:
Thnaks man but it's not that, something is just "wrong" with it lol.

It will say I have close to 80mb free and just a few hours later be full. I noticed If I go into Titanium Backup and do some stuff (like removing orphan data) or something it seems to fix it and the low on storage space error goes away and frees up like 60-70mb instantly. This never used to be like this.

Wonder if it's just a sign of an aging cpu or phone not calculating how much free space is there properly.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekweezle:
did you install the fix? if you did not, then do it. the Dinc is a very well known device. Us users have beaten this device to death over the last 3 years. there is not too much new going on. it could be possible that your device is failing and if it is, get a new one.

before I rooted my Dinc, it was a daily struggle for me to keep this partition from filling up. for me the combo of data being consumed by Amazon App store, Google Play store and mostly my email client with 4 email accounts. 149 mb is just too small.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] dexterboy1106:
Is there a WiFi tether app for stock I was on cm and that worked great
[Sprint LG Optimus G] elmonster213:
Irrelevant but what made you go back to stock?
[Sprint LG Optimus G] dexterboy1106:
Some of the bugs on cm but I thinlk I'm going back I hate the roam question on stock
[Sprint LG Optimus G] elmonster213:
Ah. Well as for your question, I haven't found any wifi tethering apps that work. I currently use Pdanet as either usb tether or Bluetooth tether.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] ryocho:
this works for me

Only thing is you need to turn off wifi and restart your phone before turning on the tethering, and you'll need to restart the phone after to turn wifi back on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kent9272:
I can't figure out the icon to the right of the Smart stay icon? Does anyone know what it is or what it does?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ThugosaurusRex:
Gps I believe.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kent9272:
Unfortunately it's not, it's something else and it's not an icon in the manual.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbh87:
It isn't GPS, it's for e911. And it can't be turned off if the OP is curious.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] MutantPlatypus:
Oh huh, I always thought it was GPS. Maybe this should be stickied...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] DroidHead214:
erchiKl taken

The symbol stands for:Location E911: Indicates Global Positioning Service (GPS)

for 911 is set to On for emergency calls only;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jonasmckee:
if you go to Settings, More, About you will see the menu item called Icon Glossary.. all the icons are explained there.. and don't share this with att friends.. it's not there.. apparently.. How does verizon get this cool little detail right and miss so many other things?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kent9272:
I looked there and it isn't listed in the glossary.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jonasmckee:
has to be something you installed eh?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] wolfgrrl:
This is the correct answer.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] azjaffo:
Is there a way to suppress this icon from displaying while leaving the e911 service active? I was able to do so on my samsung droid charge (2 phones ago) and would like to do the same with my new S4.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] onearmsysiphus:
Prism would NOT approve.
[Xperia Tablet Z General] SWFlyerUK:
Hi folks,

Downloaded Xperia Privilege from Google Play. Photo Editor is going free plus £20 PSN voucher :)