yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] Xenithflare:
From what I know, it also applies to upgrade customers, because an upgrade is a new contract. So if you upgrade to a smartphone, your ETF rises as well. Though you have to consider... if you're willing to upgrade, what are the chances you'll cancel your contract? :p Not likely, I'd say. Though there are circumstances, I'll admit.

First Verizon raised their ETF, now AT&T... I guarantee T-Mobile and Sprint will follow suit soon, that's always the way things go in this industry. So I wouldn't freak out about this, people. After all, you have to consider WHY they're raising ETFs... it's because of all the people commiting fraud around this country. Hell, I just had a guy the other day want to buy an iPhone from me, and blatantly said he was going to cancel his contract and keep the phone, allowing him the phone cheaper than if he'd bought it full price. The textbook definition of fraud XD

Now that I think about it, I should've let him... since Radioshack has ownership of the device if the contract is cancelled within 90 days ;D Would've been a kick in the pants for him, getting what he deserved.
[EVO 4G General] dsims7_2000:
AT&T ETF

Funny you mention this Friday I found that my contract is up today, May 23. I had to get a manager because she insisted that after today, my ETF was $175.00. No, No, I completed the terms of the contract for THIS phone, now Im just paying for its usage and can walk anytime I want! If I get a new phone (now) then I will be married to AT&T for another 2-years and ETF would apply.
[EVO 4G General] khov07:
This brings an interesting question into the foray: would you prefer to pay the full, un-subsidized cost of a smartphone if it meant you had no contract and no ETF's? I would think that monthly fees would be lower if handsets were un-subsidized.

Or is the current state of affairs preferable: lower unit cost, but strapped to a contract and ETF's?

What say you?
[EVO 4G General] dsims7_2000:
I would think AT&T or T-Mobile would, they are both GSM and if you pay full price, they could care less where you take it or what you do with it . You can even sell it overseas as GSM is pretty starndard Globally.

Sprint and Verzion are CDMA. If im sprint, IMO, I would not cut on a Verzion phone, I want you to purchase one of mine, I dont care what you paid for it. and vice versa.
[EVO 4G General] nikoskavliaris:
well the carrier companies do that just for one and only reason. People don't care what kind of service they have anymore (basically because now it's almost standar for all the carrier services. Except if you live in a area where one carrier is working) Now all they want is the meanest, badest, sickest, phone there is on the market. We see that switch of interest with iphone. Att got soooooo many new lines cause of apple. I bet if apple knew that it would have that much of success. They would've sell the phone bythemselves. To all the carriers. Anyway i believe that's my thoughts about the new ETFS. Because now they try to get the best phones on the market. And since everybody would compete on that area. They just raise it up. As far the fraud that member Xenithflare said. I believe that the same companies are fraud! As member dsims7_2000 said, they told him that he had to pay the ETF even when he was off the contract. Now if it was somebody else he would've pay it and they wouldn't say anything to him. So they are the fraud. I know that because it happent to me before ;p
[EVO 4G General] crazy talk:
1 year contracts. like T-mo has.
[EVO 4G General] crazy talk:
dude, that was back in November.
[EVO 4G General] dsims7_2000:
No, David is ALOT Smarter now!!!

No, I can walk from AT&T anytime I want, free, after comversation with Management. I paid AT&T my debt for this phone. How do I know this......

I paid Sprint $130.00 when I left with Treo, assuming I would have bad credit and no one would want me although I had that phone 30 months, 6 past my contract.
[EVO 4G General] chazglenn3:
My bad. I am with AT&T. I read just the other day about Verizon going to $350. Didn't know it was old news.
[EVO 4G General] weedahoe:
I was going to say the same thing. VZW already did this so its nothing new to me. Glad my contract is almost over too.
[EVO 4G General] Xenithflare:
I just want to point out that the issue of changing ETF rates is rather confusing to most average customer service employees :P The one thing I always, always tell people when they have to call CS is: if you get an unfavorable response (within reason of course), hang up and call again. You'll get a different rep who might actually know what they're talking about. More often than not their employees have things mixed up or confused, and trying to talk sense into someone like that is more hassle than it's worth.

So if you had someone tell you your ETF is the new higher rate, and you hadn't signed a new contract since the date it went into effect, hang up and talk to a different rep. Ask for a manager, point out the date of your last contract renewal, anything. Though, keep in mind T-Mobile counts changing their plans as a contract renewal, which is... archaic, to say the least.
[Nexus One General] readk:
Hey All,

On 2.2 now and they changed the USB mass storage interface a little.

When I plug the phone in, it connects fine. I can put files on the SD card etc.

If I click the "Turn off" button to turn off USB storage on the phone, it crashes the phone (just freezes up and sits there, the progress indicator won't even spin).

I have tried unmounting the phone in windows too first of course and it won't help. Just unplugging the cable seems to work but then it thinks its still connected.

Anyone have any ideas? This definitely was fine pre-2.2
[Nexus One General] smot13:
I get the same. First time I've had to do a pull the battery restart on the N1 :/
[Nexus One General] readk:
Yes pulling the battery is the only way to restore the phone :( i've tried it a dozen times and it seems to be a serious problem.
[Nexus One General] joshuapurcell:
I think this started after applying the CM root mods... I am using the kernel .34 version and I am having the same issue. I was running without this mod for a while and didn't have this issue, so either it's related to the root mod or it's some weird issue that doesn't show itself until something else happens.
[Nexus One General] readk:
I also have the .34 kernel from CM for root.
[Nexus One General] polluted:
It's definitely the CM root mod.
[Nexus One General] readk:
Yeah its been confirmed on that thread. Known issue I guess.
[Nexus One General] peyek17:
This thread needs a bump!
[Nexus One General] JamieD81:
this is a well known issue with .34 kernals

just apply CM's root mod stock kernal, and it will work fine

all .34 kernals have this problem and im sure lots of people are looking into it.
[Nexus One General] readk:
Yes there is a workaround if its really bugging you, revert to an earlier 33 or stock kernel (I did).
[Nexus One General] leyvatron:
I can't see the pics I am receiving through my messaging app...it says download unsuccessful.

I have US T-mobile

I've had this proxy settings with Enoms Rom and always worked.

I'm thinking its Froyo...

Anyone else?

APN:

MMSC: http://216.155.174.84/servlets/mms

MMS port: 8080
[Nexus One General] air2k57:
I'm on t-mobile as well, works fine. I've gotten a fee mms to download just fine after I installed froyo.
[Nexus One General] temperbad:
Works for me too on t-mobile
[Nexus One General] leyvatron:
What proxy settings?

THanks.
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
Name: T-Mobile US

APN: epc.tmobile.com

Proxy: 216.155.165.050

Port: 8080

Username: (leave this blank)

Password: (leave this blank)

Server: (leave this blank)

MMSC: http://mms.msg.english.t-

mobile.com/mms/wapenc

MMS Proxy: 216.155.165.50

MMS Port: 8080

MMS Protocol: WAP 2.0 (don't know if this is important)

MCC: 310

MNC: 260

APN Type: (leave this blank)
[Nexus One General] leyvatron:
Thank you!!!

Works great!

Changed MMSC and worked with ease.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] itandy:
Last week, when I tried to restore a Nandroid backup in Ra_hero 1.6.2 recovery, the process failed. After checking the recovery log, I found that the system stopped the restore process because the data.img md5 checksum is mismatched.

I then cross-checked the md5 of that data.img with the one in the nandroid.md5 in my PC and found them to be different. I then created another nandroid backup and the md5 is also mismatched.

There's no error message during the backup process. Anyone knows what's the problem?

(I'm currently using VillainROM 5.5)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] StratOS_HTC:
Have the same problem here with Wildfire.Guess it's the problem because I made a backup from SD to HD ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] itandy:
Actually, I've no idea of the cause of this problem. But I remember after upgrading to another VillainROM version, the MD5 checksums are correct again and it's been no problem ever since.

Are you using a custom ROM too?
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Just wondering, where does this come from? I've seen this in multiple threads now, but have never seen any official source?
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
I read this somewhere on a reputable blog can't remember which one. That is why it is still beta apparently.
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
Adobe hasn't pulled the trigger on tapping into the hardware yet.
[Nexus One General] BlueScreenJunky:
semi related question but I don't feel like creating a thread for that : Is Flash included in the FroYo update ? I thought it would but I just installed Paul's pre-rooted FroYo update, and I don't seem to have flash :-/
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
It is not included. But it is supported. Go to the market and search for it. Then download it.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Can you link where this was posted?

Again, I've heard this so many times now, but I've yet to see where this information is coming from! :D
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
I've mostly heard it from interviews with adobe people, and presentations of the beta from months ago.

A quick search brought this first link up.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?&entry_id=64059

Even on computers, flash isn't tapping into hardware. It's the reason people hate flash. It's a huge resource hog as it calls on too much ram and cpu instead of asking for the graphics side of the computer.
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
Yup, that's what I read. Beta = software only.
[Nexus One General] BlueScreenJunky:
Oh thanks Markdental, got it ^^
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Hmm, not exactly official...

Did Adobe (or Google) ever say it themselves?

OR is there a way for us to determine this ourselves?
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
Flash has always been based on software, on any platform.

10.1 is supposed to bring relief to computers, phones, laptops and netbooks alike. The beta is still based on software. The end goal of 10.1 is to have it hook into hardware, but that hasn't happened yet.
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
I think Paul is just looking for some proof that this is the case. Not just more people saying the same thing.
[Nexus One General] F-Forward:
In the release notes (new user, cant link) it says:

but under Known Issues it says

which makes me believe that GPU acceleration is in place, but not for that many videos yet.
[Nexus One General] ram130:
Hmm if so..what sites or video player would be H.264 based?
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
Sure I guess, but all that stuff is based on engineers and employees displaying the betas.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Yes! Exactly. :D

You can always just remove the http://www. part to provide a text link. :cool:

Anyway, found it: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player_10.1_for_Android

As you said "Flash on Android supports software decoding for all the same H.264 profiles as Flash on the desktop, and uses the hardware decoder for videos using H.264 Baseline Profile and Level <= 3.2."

So... Wouldn't that be proof right there that Flash on Android already *

DOES

* support hardware decoding?
[Nexus One General] Eclair~:
Engadget states that; "according to Adobe, the pre-release beta they have doesn't support hardware acceleration" - unless they are using a different beta, there currently is no hardware acceleration in the version of Flash we are currently using.

http://i.engadget.com/2010/05/20/android-2-2-froyo-beta-hands-on-flash-10-1-wifi-hotspots-an/
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
There is an official statement from Adobe that the final version will be hardware accelerated using the H.264 codec. This does reqiure websites to update their flash content to support the mobile version... however some sites won't if they already use H.264 for their video encoding in their flash. Games are the big one that will need to be updated and optimized.

I am at work, so can't really search too much for it, I am limited to only a handful of phone websites, with my phone I can find info, but copying over a link is a lot of work.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Any idea which site it was?

And work on a Sunday! Boo. Also, a neat trick: open up the Gmail app, hit compose, paste whatever you want, and save as draft. Boom, now it's in Gmail on your desktop. :D Great way to transfer data back and forth easily.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
I can't login to my gmail at work, though. I guess I could post it with my phone, but to be honest a little too lazy.

It was on Adobe's website, and there were a couple news articles about it as well...

http://www.24worldnews.com/adobe-flash-10-1-for-android/14512/

I hope that works for you for now, it should be a news brief of the Adobe announcement.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Hmm, from that article:

"The performance of the new Flash is also improved. It is equipped with hardware acceleration with H.264 video decoding, advanced memory management, a sleep mode to slow down the Flash player whenever an Android-powered device enters screensaver mode."

In trying to show sources of Adobe saying it's not hardware accelerated, we're finding more sources of people saying it IS! (Including the previous link from labs.adobe.com.)

The point is people should stop saying it's not hardware accelerated; it looks like it is!
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
It is when using H.264, other aspects are not hardware accelerated as of this time is my take on it... just H.264, and not even 100% of the time.

Oddly, that Adobe Labs link opens, but if I google it, then click on it I am blocked. Gotta love "firewalls".
[Nexus One General] bluehaze:
Seems to me like it is already hardware accelerated, the difference in performance between flash 10.1 from the market and the psuedo flash 10.1 from the desire rom is night and day, the only thing I could see accounting for that big a difference is hardware acceleration. The biggest problem seems to be with flash over 3g, it works great over wifi but 3g makes it a bit choppy and the sound loses sync. Either way it seems like it still has a ways to go before its out of beta, trying to use the flash interfaces on hulu and other video sites is pretty much impossible all you can do is pinch and zoom to change the size of the video and the same for most games on kongregate.

Also Flash 10.1 is definitely hardware accelerated on netbooks and laptop/desktop, I cant play HD video on my netbook without having flash 10.1installed so I know this much for a fact.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikebeatrice:
This could be a total coincidence, but I had flashed 2.2 earlier today and everything was working great until I decided to load adfree on it. Once I did that, even though I could connect to my 3g data (according to the status bar) no data would be transmitted. Doesn't matter if it's in the browser, weatherbug, gmail, etc...

If I jump on wifi, everything can connect.

I've tried rebooting multiple times and using the "Revert" button in AdFree.

Is there a problem with T-mobile's 3g connection right now, or did I somehow hose my DNS settings for T-mob? I've searched around on how to flush the dns and couldn't find anything, so that's about where I'm at...

Any ideas?... total coincidence, or what? It happened upon reboot after installing adfree.

Thanks...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogdobber:
I"m running adfree on froyo with no problems...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Markdental:
Yup, adfree working great here too
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikebeatrice:
after messing around a bit, I found by setting a custom ip if 0.0.0.0 everything works fine. as soon as I change to 127.0.0.1, i can no longer access anything when on the phone's data connection.... weird, eh?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] omnikai:
When the road gets rough my Magic bounces a lot in its windshield mount. Unfortunately the trackpad on this device is kind of loose, so it starts shifting the view in Google maps :S

Is there a way to disable the trackpad altogether (I have root)? I don't use it anyway.

Thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] acids7n:
if you're serious about not using it then crazy glue it

or use some other type of epoxy that will "gum" it up
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] omnikai:
I appreciate the response, but I'm sure everyone will understand when I say that I don't wish to permanently modify my hardware like that :)

I was hoping for a software solution.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] digitaljeff:
No app is available to do that. If its that big of a deal I would use some tape to hold the trackball in place.

You doing rally or something?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] omnikai:
Nope :) just driving in Washington and maps keep "drifting" around when there's any rough pavement. I can only assume I have a defective trackpad or something.

Oh well, thanks for the suggestions guys.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] acids7n:
sorry couldnt be of more help, your issue is unique, i know you've already thought of the normal solutions like warranty, sending it in to get fixed, getting it fixed by third party etc, there are housing kits on ebay with new trackballs, i've also seen aftermarket trackballs that light up different colors, but all of this costs money and or you sending your phone in (making it not available to you)

all the best
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] omnikai:
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I may look into aftermarket trackballs like you suggested.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] acids7n:
http://www.truesupplier.com/brand-n...l-joystick-blue-color-with-blac-pr-19559.html
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] XERO_Racer:
i just recetly uploaded a random video with H.263 format just to see how good the quality it would turn out and it looks like youtube messed up the video because its fine on my TP2

heres the video and ull see why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNc2lEc52k

anybody got tips of how to make it better?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mansn:
I found this site while browsing reddit:

http://filevo.com/

Reddit discussion:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/c70zv/hi_reddit_ive_made_a_filesharing_site_which_i/

Perhaps the devs can start uploading to this site and see how well it works :-)

PS: I am in no way affiliated with this site. I just want to get the best experience for all XDA users.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] jacko5:
This works great on my HTC Touch HD phone.

It used to be a fee paying service, but it is free now.

To update the speed camera databse you have to connect to GPS.

Enjoy,

http://www.radarfree.com/pocketpc_en.html
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] bagr3210:
What if you come threw, how does it work? And maybe even some skins
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
Okay so this tip comes from personal experience,k before I figured out how to fic the problem that this one created for me.

So, I did a backup before I flashed a mod someone did earlier. Well, the mod did nto work, and it broke some stuff on the phone, so I wanted to do a restore. That was an absolute no-go. I got this error message:

(image link)

So, I got a little worried that I had lots bigger problems. Long story short, I was missing the md5 file that nand creates when it makes a backup.

TIP: When doing a NANDROID backup, verify it's completeness by pressing your "back" key on your phone once the backup is complete. Scroll to USB-MS and select it. This *should* make a box pop up on your computer, meaning that you have access to your SD contents now.

In the SD card, navigate to nandroid/(Hero Serial Number)/XXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXX/ and make sure there is a nandroid.md5 file in there, as well as 3 other files, boot, data, and system.

If any of these are missing, press "Back" hard key to close USB-MS, and do another backup. Delete the current one if you do not have enough room.

The xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxx above will be a folder, mine's named: BDS-20100523-0334, which is BDS-(year)(mo)(day)-(time). year 4 digits, month 2, day 2, and time 4 digits. If you have multiple ones, choose the most recent one, which would be the nandroid you just made.
[Hero CDMA General] Powers16:
Nice tip thanks, I do have a question though.

I thought the whole point of having a recovery in the Hero was to flash roms regardless of what breaks, even nandroid? I mean if your nandroid breaks you can just go into recovery enable usb drive and copy another rom over?
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
Yeah you should be able to flash any Rom regardless of whether you made a backup or not. I am just saying, its a helpful top to make sure your backup completed properly in case you ever want to go back to your old Rom, in your case, or if you're flashing an update that says will work with any Rom, or your just testing the update, and that update breaks. Same goes with current Rom modifications that you may want to try out.

Long story short, if you know you night need to nandroid backup or want to restore if you're just testing something, be sure to follow the tip above. One more step to save you problems.

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[Click Android Development] rwmanos:
Hey the update.zip for nexus's one update is out

here is the link android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-passion-FRF50-from-ERE27.1e519a24.zip

and here the prerooted from modaco romraid.com/paul/nexusone/update-nexusone-FRF50-signed.zip

i've started porting. :D help devs .

Does anyone know how to not flash the new radio cause when i remove the radio.img it always says line 70 installation abonded cause it couldn't find radio.img. any help ? don't worry figured it out
[Click Android Development] djemm1996:
Yeah. I want froyo. :)

Ohh.. is that real to made 2.2 on Tattoo?? :D

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[Click Android Development] svprm:
I'm waiting for 2.2 on tattoo.

Developers pls help the Tattoo user.

Thanks in advance.
[Click Android Development] mikifafi:
I'm sorry to say it, but you'll have the same problems as with the 2.1 porting...: the drivers for the camera, sensors, FM radio, etc....
[Click Android Development] rwmanos:
don't tell me xD and what do you believe about the new kernel ? anyway i can always try . and if i don't do it i'm loser :P.
[Click Android Development] alberto88a:
you are brave!

:D:D:D i hope you will be a winner :o
[Click Android Development] TheSSJ:
Guys, I'm confident that we can at least look at the source of 1.6 Tattoo regarding the camera and port it to the new Kernel...I won't stop researching until a decent ROM is created by all of us!

First I will download the source code of the tattoo ROM, then I will build a VM featuring Ubuntu and get all necessary dev-tools to decently start programming that son of a b****! :D
[Click Android Development] alberto88a:
yeahhhh :D:D:D
[Click Android Development] maro89:
I belive in you!...You can do it!
[Click Android Development] dejandekic:
If there is source code for HTC's 1.6 camera drivers, then it should be easy to port those drivers for 2.1 or 2.2, even if the Android has changed. It's more easy than reverse engineering binary drivers, no?

We just don't have a man who can (or want) to do it.