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[G1 General] Chahk:
Really? All smartphones are free with a 2-year contract? AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile disagree.http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/packages/PackageDetail.aspx
[G1 General] brummiesteven:
OMDZZ I did not realise it was like that in the USA! Feel sorry for yas:

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/phones/blackberry/

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/phones/android/tmobile-g1/

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/phones/windowsos/

http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phones/Pay_Monthly/O2

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/nokia-n97?WT_ref=Homepage-Layer2-PayM-Phones-10

I CBA To link anymore lol.
[G1 General] The Reverend Gridlock:
Wait, I am in the damn wrong market, my g1 cost me $150 with a 2 year contract, damn you lucky bastards
[G1 General] brummiesteven:
:eek:

Before I settled for a G1 I was going to get a Nokia 5800 which was new at the time, 300 Minutes, Unlimited Texts, Unlimited o2 Calls for £20 a month, free phone. 18 Month Contract

It's nothing "special" almost all of our phones are free on contracts unless you want a brand new mega expensive phone (IE Nokia N97) on a dirt cheap £20 a month tarrif for a 12 month contract.

12 month contracts were the norm, this has slowly changed to 18 months int he past few years. We do have 2 year contracts and you can get some cheap and good deals on them but the majority go for an 18 month.
[G1 General] AverageCanadian:
Just be happy you're not in Canada. When the Android phones first came out they were $179.99 on a 3 year contract. Yeah that's right, we got 3 year contracts here folks.

Also we have S.A.F. and e911 fee plus crap plans
[G1 General] supremeteam256:
You still lucky. I got impatient. T-Mobile was sold out and I was waiting to get mine. I camped out in front of T-Mobile waiting for the UPS truck to come for a couple of hours. Then decided to check out the hood store and see if they had any and they said they had 4. By the time I got there which was right down the street they had 1 left. So I got it and when they went to ring me up it was like $350. And I was like dam it ain't that much at T-Mobile and they was like we aint T-Mobile. I got it anyways then about an hour later T-Mobile called me and said they got them in and got one for me. It was already to late at that time and I couldn't return it to the store since they got the ol no refund policy. Oh well I was happy with it.
[G1 General] Chahk:
Holy crap... That's it, I'm moving to the UK!
[G1 General] brummiesteven:
Don't worry... Mobile phones are pretty much the only things we exceed you on. Games, Movies, all other gadgets are generally released much earlier and for much cheaper in the US.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krishath:
Hello guys, I've got a 2GB MicroSD in my G1... if I buy a brand-new 4GB MicroSDHC class 6, will I have some improvement in general performance of my phone? I have done the partitioning and all that kind of things... thank you! :)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fingerlickin:
assuming you are using a class 4 or lower then the answer you will get from XDA is mostly yes.

Some will agree and some will claim placebo effect but my personal opinion is the faster the better.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krishath:
I've done some test and the maximum speed of my card is 6,4 mb/s.... will the new card improve the GENERAL performance of the ANDROID operative system? Or I will have only some stupid improvement in camera photo saving?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xplosiv757:
Depends.. the only advantage I see in upgrading your card without using it to store your cache or expanding the amount of apps you can have installed is watching and recording, video and photos, and more space for music or whatever miscellaneous files you choose to store and access
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krishath:
Ok thank you :)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] te_quiero_forever_girl:
I've heard a lot that using swap will eventually kill your sd card no matter what. Is that true ? I am currently using Cyanogen Mod 4.0.4 with 32Mb swap. I flashed JAC's hero yesterday, but reflashed the CM just after an hour cuz it was freaking SLOW. Can anyone tell me another way to speed it up ? I dun wanna reformat the entire SD card to get a bigger SWAP size or change the swappiness since they are very tiring and confusing. I would be glad if someone could show me a detailed tutorial on how to modify all the stuffs about swap like swappiness, compcache with swap, with backing swap,... ( :eek: this is really confusing ). Thanks in advance
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crpercodani:
Ok well you will most likely need to repartition to increase your swap size if you wannas go hero, I would do a 96mb swap. If you need a guide on doing that lemme know but if you did it once it's the same thing again, just change the numbers a bit to allow for a 96mb linuw-swap. Now for changing swappiness the easiest way I think is to goto Terminal Emulator and type: echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

That will give you a swappiness of 60, I would go with 80 or 100 though as it will speed up hero quite a bit. As for killing your sd, don't worry about it cuz it will take over a year and by then I doubt you will have the same phone or sd, and eve if you do it doesn't kill your sd it just shrinks it's maximum size, slowly.

Anything else fire away.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Reverend Gridlock:
An sdcard can only take some much read/write cycles so eventually it will start corrupting sectors of your sd but it would prob be a long time before you would notice, sd cards are cheap and will be cheaper by the time you wear out your card, as for repartioning, you can use parted in the recovery manager, I do not have the commands for it but if you look in a few posts here, this has been covered a couple times this past week
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Reverend Gridlock:
Hey codani, long time no see, I would stay and chat but I going to play some poker, it was pushed back and I have to get going

Gridlock for president 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crpercodani:
kitten time mofo
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] te_quiero_forever_girl:
Thanks guys, for all the information. My only last concern is how to change the swap's type, I mean like swap with backing up, compcache with swap, etc

Thanks again.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crpercodani:
Well for hero I don;t think you need to bother with anything besides a linux-swap, and honestly I have never tried anything but that myself so if you are really interested in it I would say wait for someone who knows more about backing swap and compcache to reply.

Try a 96mb linux-swap with 100 swappiness and see how that does. Oh btw when you do terminal emulator and adjust the swappiness make sure yout type su and hit enter first.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolimit78:
I've been looking for this forever. Thank you sir!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vr24:
You wouldn't change swappiness like this in JacHero

If you wish to go with Hero, the instructions on how to format your SD card are right on the first page of JacHero...

If you want a FAAAAST Hero, and I mean FAST... like, 100% usable with no lag hero.... then use 96mb linux swap with 80 swappiness... turn off backing swap and compcache. You'll be blown away at how usable it is.

To do this, format your card as per the instructions, make sure you have 96mb linux swap.... flash the Hero rom. After booting into Hero, go to the market and download "text edit" -

Then...

go to terminal and:

su

rwsystem

cp /system/bin/user.conf /sdcard/user.conf

Open up text edit, press menu, then "open" and select your sd card and open the user.conf file. and set the en_compcache_CC and backing swap to "0" instad of 1, I can't think of the specific names, but it's obvious. Then set linux-swap to 1, and linux swap swappiness to 80. Save the file.. then

back in terminal,

su

rwsystem

cp /sdcard/user.conf /system/bin/user.conf

and that's it, I don't think you need to reboot the phone, but do it anyways... it'll be laggy for about 20 seconds while the swap builds up, then bam, lightning fast.

Hope this helps.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolimit78:
I tried this and I did notice a difference in speed. But it also created a problem with loading screens (which I didn't have before) But This is still good advice as now I can mess with this on my phone. Other people may have better luck with these settings. I've also noticed that what works for one, may not work for someone else :)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crpercodani:
Either way will work, only downside to how I explained it was if you reboot you will lose the setting. The OP wanted the simplest way to do it and the way you explained is a bit more complicated although it may be permanent.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsnow247:
How do I verify swappieness? I.e. see what it's set at now.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolimit78:
su

vi /system/etc/user.conf

That'll open the file and your looking for swappiness
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chahk:
Assuming you use userinit.sh + user.conf setup, you should be able to do the following:

adb shell sh /system/sd/userinit.sh -s

in command prompt (the location of userinit.sh script might be different on your ROM).

This will list the status of the compcache module, linux swap, etc. See documentation here.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grumpymonkey:
I recently got a G1, and it has the old firmware(v1.1)

heres what it says on settings->about phone:

Questions

1.can I update to cupcake without having to setup my phone?(i dont have data plan)

2.Whenever I try to download something on the market, it just says 'starting download' and never starts

3.Can I develop apps with the current android sdk that will work on firmware 1.1 AND 1.5?

I do not have a data plan, and I had to go to a T-Mobile store and fight with the people there until they finally let me use a SIM card to set it up...and I do NOT want to go through that again :p

also, I'm a C++ programmer with 3 years experience, but no experience at all in Java...so will it be hard, or easy to start developing apps for android?

PLEASE help me with this, even if you can only answer one of the questions it will be GREATLY appreciated since this phone is more complicated than a rubiks cube!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] te_quiero_forever_girl:
Yes, you can update it and it won't ask for a re-avtivation, dun worry buddy !

The market stuff is crazy sometimes ! Just reboot the phone, and everything will be ok ( make sure your wifi connection is strong enough )

Since I am only a highschool's senior, I can't answer the last question ! Sorry :p
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fingerlickin:
When you start a project using eclipse with the SDK installed correctly it will ask you 1.1, 1.5, or API.

Search the forums about activating without a dataplan there are instructions on how to do it.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Reverend Gridlock:
You need the current sdk for cupcake, there is also a ndk for making native c apps too now, so hope you make something good
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grumpymonkey:
thanks for the replies.

I rebooted the phone and the downloads worked thx :D

do you know how to install the cupcake update? I went to setting and system updates, but it said my phone was up-to-date

..ima freshman :( lol
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Reverend Gridlock:
Since you are on a modded rom, you cannot receive updates, pick out a new rom and go into recovery and flash it, since I am going to assume you are on an old recovery, you are gonna have to rename it to update.zip and put it on the root of your sd
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] te_quiero_forever_girl:
You can manually install the update using the threads here, or at t-mobile.com/forums ( go the development section ). The update feature of the phone sucks badly, don't trust it :D

btw, u make me feel old :((
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grumpymonkey:
I found on google that if you place update.zip on your phone and boot by pressing home+power, you can update it like that, but will that make me have to setup my phone again? I dont have a data plan, so i'll just stay with 1.1 if I have to
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamPI:
I haven't really started with android development yet, but I've given it a look over. I'm coming from c#.net and most of the syntax is the same, as they are both have roots in C you shouldn't have a problem there. So it's mostly just learning the platform and it's library. .net is managed though like android.

Eclipse isn't really in the same league as Visual Studio though.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
if you flash a rom that is based on the adp phone (cyanogen's comes to mind)

you can skip singing into your google account until you have wifi set up.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grumpymonkey:
so if i just do the update.zip trick with the cyanogen thing I wont have to sign in with google at all??!?!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
yes no signing into google, but you won't be able to use the market.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grumpymonkey:
so whats the point of it if I cant download anything? or is there another way to get market apps? cause i'd like to have stuff like shazam, ringdroid, and all that cool stuff
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] te_quiero_forever_girl:
Well, not until you sign in to your Google Account using Wifi
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grumpymonkey:
really?..I want to try it, but I'm scared to do it since I JUST fixed it today, and if i get stuck at the setup screen again I'm screwed! TT_TT

I'll flip a coin..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] te_quiero_forever_girl:
99% sure about this, I've been flashing ROMs, Radio and stuffs regarding my G1 for a while. At first it was kinda scared indeed, but as long as you get through the first time, the left is as easy as eating an apple pie :). Ask me and I will answer if I can
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
all you do is

put the update.zip on the root of your sdcard (i.e. no folders)

power down your phone and boot into recovery with home and power

(optional but may be required if your phone doesn't boot all the way up.)

wipe your phone.

flash the rom

reboot and wait for phone to boot up

choose to skip signing into google

set up your wifi

open the market and you can sign into google on wifi and be able to download apps.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grumpymonkey:
OMG IT WORKED! thanks to all of you :D :D :D

hopefully it wont crash in the future!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
no problem and if i just went home apparently i could tell you you're welcome in person lol
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] angelsarmiento:
Hi everyone,

For the past week I have been charging my Tytn II purchased unlock with factory ROM while I use my laptop. This has led to the phone powering on and off haphazardly. Today, though, I started being unable to make and receive calls. After doing about seven soft resets, the phone got locked in the Windows Mobile screen befor switching on fully. Now, it mostly gets stuck there (sometimes showing a message saying something about improper switching off and/or unsigned application).

The very few times when it does get to Windows, it freezes with very basic actions (pressing start menu, opening contacts, etc.)

The question is: is there any way I can back up my personal information before attempting a hard reset? Failing that, do you know of any service centre close to Paris, France?

Thanks in advance!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
try pimbackup to backup your stuff, but good luck if it's locking up on you.. Check with htc for repair locations.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] nuclear:
Just got this baby and I need an extended or regular battery with back door. Looking for good cheap deals.

By mistake I bought the one for the GSM version of Touch Pro and it doesn't fit in this one... but it was only $10 including the back door and a 2400mah battery.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Deleted member 2008801:
Im looking for a new rom for my s620 Dash aka Excalibur something that uses less memory. can some one help me or direct me. Im running 3vo rom 6.5 at the moment. Thanks
[Touch Cruise 2 General] mikekarim:
Hi all,

I just bought a new HTC Cruise or T4242 china model, and the guy who sell this to me told me that the phone has touchflo 3d and i assumed that all the applications that an original HTC would have.

Anyway, it has wm6.1 i tried to use the gps and simply the software does not run, i tried to install the footprints but aparently i supposed to upgrade the rom or something like that... I AM COMPLETELY NEW at this.

What i want is to have this phone working as an original or better, with all the htc software like gps, footprint, the touchflo 3d or whatever works, and take all advantage possible of having this device.

COULD ANYBODY PLEASE HELP ME TO FIND THE RIGHT ROM, SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT HOW TO INSTALL IT (I dont have the knowledge, but i learn fast), AND ALL THE SOFTWARE RELATED...

Thanks in advance, i hope someone can really help me!!!
[Touch Cruise 2 General] Mauvan:
there is no rom upgrade available (yet), at least not from HTC.

something tells me that something went wrong during installation, because all of it should work.

only one thing: don't overestimate touchflo. it is not 3D i.m.o., maybe 2D....:rolleyes:
[Touch Cruise 2 General] torrentonly:
mikekarim: Try to perform hard reset. Device will go into factory setting and everything must work then.
[Touch Cruise 2 General] Daradkeh:
HTC T4242+ (I need support)

Hi All,

I also have bought an HTC T4242+ via the internet from China, and when I received the phone I found WM6.1 loaded in the phone and I have a problem with it as my voice is breaking or not hearable when I do a phone call!!! I asked many people and they told that I have to upgrade the ROM but infact, I found that there is no Boot Loader in the phone and did not know how to do that, I contacted my supplier who sent me a .rar file and he told me to open it to be UPR file and load it on the TFT card by a TFT card reader, then to press three buttons together, the power, Middle and green buttons until I see bar showing upgrading, then to restart the phone!!! I did all that many times but nothing happend, the bar showed no progress at all!!!! anybody can help to instruct me to how to upgrade the ROM..................??????????? I will appreciate your help guys
[Touch Cruise 2 General] Baga12:
I'm afaraid that's one of the negative sides of the fake touch cruise, my friend... I had such fake iolite, I had to sell it because of this issue, and to buy the original.
[Touch Cruise 2 General] Autopiolet:
Hi there, to format the tft card to fat, not fat 16, not fat 32

and try it out.

I hope it works.
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] ChiefWilNel:
I got a Jack I love it so far it is replacing my blackjack I which had the bogart wm 6.1 anyway I still have the same issues, like copying url's and pasting. what are the short cuts for copy/paste, like control-v and contol-c on computer's I did send a url to txt msg, but i couldnt select the txt to put it on a website. I tried the latest fennec browser on this phone but It appeared to be frozen.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Niemer:
Does anyone know what the deal is with the 2nd status LED, the one on the left of the earpiece. What is it for?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hgarcia85:
Thats the bluetooth LED.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kchau:
my bluetooth is on, and ive never noticed it blinking. under what circumstances does it blink?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pack:
Ive wondered this same thing ever since Ive gotten this phone... I have never seen it blink and with bt the right one is lit for me...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DMaverick50:
I activated my phone yesterday and received maybe 30 or so texts since then. The notification light only lit up after one of them, which i received a few hours ago. When I got the phone I just assumed it would light up for texts like my g1 did but after it didnt i was disappointed.

So, is the green light on the right supposed to light up for text/email/voicemail/etc...notifications? thanks and sorry for asking such a stupid question and doing it in the wrong thread :o
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] bonesy:
The light sensor is on the left, LED on the right. If you put backlight to auto you can test by coverint the left side.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] screamsoflust:
is there even an auto for brightness?or is it during calls only?

confused
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] snudel:
i don't have this backlight auto settings.

where can i enable that?

i just have a slider where i can change the brightness manually
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kchau:
yeah where is that setting for auto backlight, i would love to have that.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] zzup:
Settings -> Display -> disable Auto Brightness, and tap it off.. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kchau:
i dont have that.

maybe the mytouch didnt come with that sensor?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] snudel:
me neither.

i dont have that option there.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nmesisca:
dude, as far as I know the Magic doesnt have any light senson.

the option quoted above doesnt exist :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] CLLC:
I don't think so :)

This has been the second time I have heard the one on the left is a light sensor by two different people , Maybe it is a light sensor but maybe some of the stock versions of android like mine {Vodafone UK 32B board} currently doesn't support the hardware??
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nmesisca:
I can see both the LEDs alright but the there is no obvious way to set the one on the left as far as I know.

Italian (TIM) HTC Magic (32A).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] snudel:
i now upgraded to hero rom and voila, the option is there.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] chris-steenkamp:
Which model do you have? As far as I know, the Hero is the only device that has the light sensor, that's why the auto-backlight feature is only available in the Hero roms and not the stock Magic/Sapphire/MyTouch roms... I don't even think that the other thing is an LED, it looks like one but I'm sure I read somewhere that someone opened up his device to check and noticed that there are no wires connecting it up to anything!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kchau:
does it work?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hgarcia85:
The Magic/Sapphire does NOT have a light sensor. The Hero is currently the only Android device with a sensor thats why you see that option with a Hero ROM.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] snudel:
no it doesnt work. as my predecessor already noticed ;)
[G1 Android Development] Escaladez2:
I'm not sure, but would it be possible for the G1/Android to detect what power source it's plugged into? From what I understand, a lot of wall-warts speak somewhat to the device. If minute differences could be found, they could be "labeled". Applications for this would be power based setting changes. For example, plugged into my computer-> screen on, bedside charger-> backlight off/ringer silent, Car charger-> GPS, bluetooth on, blah blah, etc. Anyone have any thoughts about this?
[G1 Android Development] Pinesal:
Sounds like a neat locale plug in if this is possible.

I know devices can tell the difference between a USB plug and an electrical outlet

Not sure about the car charger though.
[G1 Android Development] kingcliff00:
doesnt the app power manager do the job?? idk about the car charger one tho
[G1 Android Development] Escaladez2:
Z

The reason I think this may be possible is that I had a RAZR a few phones ago, and it would only work with Motorola power supplies, but my BB pearl I got after it would work with it as well. And if I recall, iPhones require some kind of handshake to work with a usb plug. Just an idea and was wondering about it's plausibility.