yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] merak69:
It's basing your location on the information from the cell phone tower. It isn't meant to give you a precise location like GPS can (this is why its called aGPS). The point is to give a general location so that apps that need to know what city you are in (weather apps for example) can figure it out to show you information for where you currently are.

If you want precise information, turn on full GPS and you are good to go.

My point was disabling location services entirely will not save you any more battery life vs leaving network location on (excluding full GPS obviously). What will save you battery is turning off your other services (Facebook, Twitter, News, etc) to only update when you manually say so or setting their update schedules to much longer frequencies.

Your phone doesn't communicate with Google. Sprint has their own aGPS servers but I think you might misunderstand what their purpose is. The "a" part of aGPS means Assisted, but only assisted in the fact of giving the chip the information it needs to lock on to the true GPS signals faster based on your current location.

For example: If you used a GPS device that wasn't assisted and its known internal satellite database was out of date, it'd have to search for awhile to location any/all satellites in the sky. On the flip side, an assisted chip can use the network server to download satellite info (ids, frequencies, etc) to show which satellites are visible for your given rough location. This enables hardware lock to happen faster.

However those aGPS servers are optional since the chip has a hybrid mode of operation:

a) If you have true GPS on, obviously it uses GPS to determine your location, down to potentially 3-4 meters.

b) If the chip can't get a satellite lock or you have true GPS turned off, the chip uses multiple known tower locations in combination to triangulate your location (based on signal strength to known towers). The fewer the towers it has access to, the less and less accurate your known location becomes. This works even with 3G and 4G disabled because it transmits the data over 1xRTT (you can easily test this in Google Maps).

In the second situation (b), I've seen where tower triangulation has narrowed my location down to 100 meters. I've also seen where it can't get a lock on multiple towers reliably such that the chip puts my "center" location as the actual location of the tower with an accuracy rating of 2000 meters. This is what Pixelpop is mentioning above about accuracy.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bedoig:
You're correct that aGPS doesn't go through Google. It's presumably handled by the radio and Android is never aware of it at all.

Cell tower location/triangulation is different however. The OP is correct that it does go through Google, as the US CDMA carriers are totally unwilling to allow outside access to this information like GSM carriers do. Google built and maintains their own database of tower info, and that is what populates your rough location in Android. It is not aGPS data from Sprint's servers that is allowing that.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] willy900wonka:
You want a hack? Well use the last known position, if it's historical then post a message "wtf turn on location services, if you want picture phone to work".

The app may not work but it won't crash as it has a location. More so it blames the user. lol

Post a little line to the location service enable semaphore, "who turned off the lights?"
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ohwut:
You can get location assisted position from Wi-Max just like you can get it off Wi-Fi. As far as I know there is no app to disable Mobile Network Location on demand. If your having issues with it than users are going in and disabling it by hand through the settings. The problem probably is that 90% of the know it all bloggers advise to disable network position because they think it does something for battery life.

I'm also willing to bet good money that Google is handling the network location. Why else would they have a location server(supl.google.com). Only to let Nokia users use it?

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[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] baiatul:
I've noticed that there are areas where the GPS doesn't work, even outside with no sky obstacles. One of them is on 113 st. between Broadway and Amsterdam avenue (NYC), right next to a building tagged "Cell Motion Laboratories." I've been there twice since I have EVO and the GPS is off like 10 buildings when I'm in the building next door. From outside, it just looks like any other Columbia University residence.

(Yes, my location settings were enabled and GPS was on).

ZIP 10027.

I just searched that lab, and it has nothing to do with cellphones, but with real cells (biological lab for kids, I think).
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] merak69:
What you are talking about for triangulation is software level functionality part of Google Maps and Google Maps only and yes it contacts their servers to try and guess where you are. Google does build out their own "database of tower info" just like they collect all sorts of other statistical information (you agree to this when you turn on location services), but part of the aGPS standard is that every cell phone tower, GSM or CDMA, transmits its coordinates to your handset.

What I'm talking about is all strictly in the hardware, but perhaps the word "triangulation" was the incorrect choice of word when talking about aGPS, however it is similar... The aGPS functionality in our phones is tightly integrated into the radio chip (Qualcomm RTR6500 CDMA2000) and this chip does not need to contact Google or Sprint to determine your rough location from a tower (turn off all internet access and you'll see what I mean). It can contact Sprints servers through the network (when it is able) to further plot your location based on the data transmitted to/from the aGPS server.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] gbm85:
When you first use the EVO, there is a screen that asks if you want to share anonymous location data. That setting is also tied to network-based location services. That is, if you disable anonymous location sharing, it also disables NBLS entirely. You can thank either Google or HTC (not sure which) for their greed on that one.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] redzee:
I just checked and mine was set to off. not sure what sets it to that as I never touch that setting.

Just adding my 2 cents.
[XPERIA X10 General] damirbusic:
So, I have decided to buy white X10 and I hope to sell this one soon. Now I want to backup all the things and settings, photos, phonebook etc. on my new phone. Can I do this: use My Backup Pro app and backup everything on SD card and then insert SD card in my new phone, install Astro and then My Backup Pro on this new handset and Restore everything ? Will I get everything just like on my black phone ?

And another thing, my black phone is not branded, white one is, what are the differences ? Will I have some stupid apps from T-Mobile or something ? If I debrand it, then I have like black non branded phone or it will have some traces ? Will that void warranty ?

Tnx for all answers
[XPERIA X10 General] damirbusic:
Anyone knows ?
[XPERIA X10 General] murtz:
I think My Backup backs up apps and data, but doesnt put the widgets/shortcuts back on the homescreens (wont be too much hassle to do it yourself!)

Your situation is similar to mine, I'm actually considering going from my white one to the black one!
[XPERIA X10 General] damirbusic:
I would be happy to make this swap with you if you are in Croatia ;-) I think that it should backup widgets also...havent tried yet...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t0ol:
are there any games similar to Scorched Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)) for android??

I remember getting hella lot of fun back in 90s with it
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hummeroid:
Haha, man I'd love this too, I remember networking all our computers to play multiplayer in school... the nostalgia factor alone would make it worth 99 cents to me!

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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malicious85:
Armored Strike

:D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anstosa:
Did you even try to actually find it yourself? Because if you search "Scorched Earth" in the Market, Armored Strike is the first result....
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t0ol:
doh.. true =) but sadly its more Worms-like than scorched-like...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee..."

*unleashes Death's Head*

God I wish there was a proper port with networked multiplayer :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quomar:
Barrage
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BillMaury:
There's a page for a port at sourceforge but it appears to be dead and the files are gone. Too bad, the apps out there are OK but even the paid versions don't match the original. I wasted so much time on that game as a kid, I'd love to do it again.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] supernovaox:
hi,

I did a bad back-up from my original Rom.

And now 2.1 is in the air, i would like to have the original rom back.. if somebody can help me ?

The S/N from my phone is HT98ZL900286

The official HTC site dont give me a working update for my divice..

I would like it to have it on this version.

2.73.405.5 ( ready to update ===> 2.1 )

Sorry for my bad Eng, im from Belgium.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bluesax:
Have you looked at HTC France?

Worst case you will have to update via Goldcard.

Anyway, I don't think it's a good idea to publish s/numbers.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] supernovaox:
i did try all official HTC's on this forum.

non of it works on my hero, every time, not the correct version..

thats wy i posted the SN, maybe someone knows What rom i need :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bluesax:
I suggest installing 2.73.405.5 using Goldcard:

http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/18/how-to-downgrade-your-htc-hero-so-it-can-be-rooted/
[Hero, G2 Touch General] supernovaox:
ty, ill try that !

ill let you know if it works.

grtzz
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jmagano:
Just look for RUU_Hero_HTC_WWE_2.73.405.5_WWE_release_signed_NoDriver, download and instal it.
[HD2 General] tomparrish:
I have just discovered that when you dial 611 and it opens the "My Account" app with the US T-Mobile 2.13 rom update that it will disable your speakerphone until you reboot the handset. Now if you call directly T-Mobile via the 1-800-866-2453 number, it doesn't activate the "My Account" app and hence the speakerphone is not affected. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
[HD2 General] NickPP:
Yes, and I thought I was going crazy. :D
[HD2 General] shehrammajid:
same here...lol just disable the Tmobile Help app...start it and go to tips and tricks...then more tricks...then disable care assist :)
[HD2 General] tomparrish:
o u t s t a n d i n g
[HD2 General] toreone:
I THOUGHT IT WAS MY PHONE FLIPPING OUT!?!?!?!?! Nice...the only thing..that is not an option on my help app?!
[HD2 General] chrisredfield1:
I've had the phone for 3 months now and it just started happening on my HD2 right now. I was freaking out thinking I was going to have to hard reset just for my speakerphone not working! (I use it a lot) For users that have a slightly different setup go to the "T-Mobile Help" App, like the above poster said, and the difference is when you go to "Tips & Tricks," you'll see "Top Tips." Click that & then click "Call Care Assist." Then you can disable it from there.

So, in short:

T-Mobile Help > Tips & Tricks > Top Tips > Call Care Assist > Disable.

But thanks to shehrammajid for his super helpful post!

& to tomparrish for addressing it in the fist place!
[HD2 General] Spacechimp:
Had my phone only a few hours and there's no sound coming from the speakers. Both HTC and I reckon it's hardware, but I'm happy to see if a ROM update will do the trick. Phone shipped by my insurers as unbranded, hence the ROM is currently 1.66 - HTC recommend calling Vodafone to get it branded as one of their's because my serial number is incompatible with Vodafone updates on the HTC support site.

Haven't yet phoned Vodafone because I'm fed up calling Vodafone/HTC/Lloyds insurers already. Hence my question to you experts: is it feasible for the rebranding to be done (over the phone)? Apparently Vodafone have to comply because I pay them my bills.

Any advice appreciated - thanks.

SC

PS I doubt this'll fix it anyway, which means sending it back to Lloyds so they can send me another one
[HD2 General] M3PH:
the 1.72 roms (the branded ones) are identical to the unbranded 1.66 roms except for... well.... the branding and i believe they are also operator locked which is nothig but a hinderence.

I'm sorry to hear you got a dud and i would just save the time and send it back to lloyds and have them send you a new one.
[HD2 General] Spacechimp:
After another morning of struggling with this phone I'm beginning to think this is the worst phone I've ever owned.

- Sense failed to launch and had to do a factory reset - phone is even worse than yesterday now

- Wireless drops every 1-5 minutes (wireless laptop/mbp works fine though)

- Normal data connection drops when download apps

- Won't connect to Windows Live ID at all

- Default Facebook app won't connect at all

- Numerous browser crashes

- Browser now loads pages in pretty much text only mode regardless of settings - images aren't displaying - won't load pages where I want to download CAB files, e.g. .NET for Cookies Home Tab

This is just a rant for now and I'm sure people will say stuff like "Send it back and get a different phone" - but having done so much research into the HD2 and really wanting to like it, I still want to believe it'll change. But for now, I'm really p155ed off.

EDIT: When typing, text sometimes no longer appears in the window, instead it appears in the green "dictionary" box and only appears in the sentence when I press space, etc - WTF is that all about?
[G1 General] uries62:
I have been testing out the Sense UI's released to the G1 recently, and have stuck with using King's Slide at this point and wanted to point out what I have done to see if anyone is interested, or if this is possible to modify in the update.zip before flashing.

Initially on loading, everything worked fine, however the whole system got bogged down as Rosie started doing its thing. I thought I would try running ADW instead and experiment with what I could remove from /system/app to speed up the whole experience. By doing this I was mostly concerned with maintaining the HTC styled experience by keeping all of their apk's except those associated with Rosie.

At this point, I have renamed the following apk's to apr's to see what still works:

243 /system/app/Bluetooth.apr

72 /system/app/FlashLitePlugin.apr

150 /system/app/FlashPlayer.apr

1208 /system/app/Hoops.apr

1113 /system/app/HtcClockWidget.apr

539 /system/app/HtcPhotoWidget.apr

1580 /system/app/Jbed.apr

903 /system/app/LightShow.apr

1423 /system/app/NatureTheme.apr

1248 /system/app/Palazzo.apr

251 /system/app/ProfileManager.apr

1135 /system/app/Surf.apr

81 /system/app/WidgetDownloadManager.apr

993 /system/app/Wildflower.apr

278 /system/app/com.htc.FriendStreamWidget.apr

251 /system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.apr

406 /system/app/com.htc.WeatherWidget.apr

326 /system/app/mytouchmusic-signed.apr

556 /system/app/vvm-signed.apr

1611 /system/app/HTCSetupWizard.apr

4459 /system/app/HTC_IME.apr

111 /system/app/HtcDm.apr

181 /system/app/HtcStreamPlayer.apr

1054 /system/app/Rosie.apr

This comes out with about 20 MB of free space with all of the HTC apps like calendar, contacts, weather, and expecially the great dialer still working. The only thing you miss out on is the Sense experience, and flash, which didn't work in this build anyway.

I realize there are a ton of dependancies that still exist in /system/lib which might also be deleted, and will concentrate on that next. What I am hoping for from this experiment is a HTC build that doesn't take a Herculean effort to fit on a G1.

I also would like some advice as to how these modifications might actually be done in the update.zip (will deleting the .apk in the zip be enough) to prevent me from having to modify the rom in ADP the entire time.
[G1 General] mssmison:
As this is less of a developement post and more of a tips/tricks post I'm going to move it to the 'general' section.
[HD2 General] hazard99:
Ive done some looking around and only found a plugin that allows you to update your twitter status.

What I would like is a today screen plugin aka widget like the one you find on android platform.

It allows you to see tweets without fully accessing the app.

I would like to be able to just look at the today screen and see all my

all tweets that come through.

I think maybe spb mobile shell may have this function. but the images are not crisp like the htc sense.

Also how do winmo widgets work? From what I seen they just look like normal app icons am I wrong?
[HD2 General] paulrgod:
Hi Mate,

I dont think there's anything really like that for Winmo Sense as it doesn't work with widgets like the Android version of Sense does. Instead Sense on Winmo uses tabs, which can be really quickly selected and it does have a useful Twitter tab - you could move this next to your home tab so it's easy to view?

If you don't want to use Sense I know there's a plug in you can get for Windows Titanium Home (disable Sense and enable Windows default in settings tab > menu > All Settings > Home > Items) It's not really all too functional though as it only allows one tweet to be shown on your home screen, they can be scrolled though.

Here's the thread for it :- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=511919

Hope it helps!

Cheers

Paul
[HD2 General] jason370:
]seems my hotmail account doesnt want to delete or allow me to chance email addresses. when i try to delete it gives the a grayed out delete box. every other email account can be deleted with this same box which is not grayed out. anyone familiar with this or have a way i can delete and then recreate my account?

thanks

jason
[HD2 General] tuppaacc:
NO works just fine for ME!
[HD2 General] jason370:
thanks for that very helpful response. ill be sure to return the favor.

UPDATE:

i figured it out. you have to use the live update icon and go into the "switch accounts" prompt. then simply click through without actually creating an account and it will delete the current account.

i cant believe how backwards this is but thats how to do it.

best,

jason
[HD2 General] toreone:
I was not even able to get the hotmail working on the updated ROM until i decided to try using the windows live app. O_o
[HD2 General] konga143:
jason370, you the man.
[Click General] benjih:
Hello i have a problem with my tattoo all of a sudden it cant recieve any fm channels on the radio, a known problem or?? tried everything: reflashed to stock,flashed a bunch of custom roms. But still nothing only static noise.

RMA or what?
[Click General] duckyman:
I have exactly the same problem. FM Radio doesn't find any channels anymore. Tried a hard reset but with no result.
[Click General] fiftyhillswest:
Have you tried a different headset? Since they operate as antenna, it could be that they are broken and that's why you cant receive anymore...
[Click General] benjih:
tried 3 different headsets htc orig. and to other...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chowlala:
FUEL MOAR SPECULASHUNZ TO DA COMING OF DA FROYO!!!!!!

Lol. Sorry, couldn't resist it.

Update time guys. =)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gundamboy:
Sky map forces my nexus to reboot every time I try to update it ._.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] diablos991:
Google listen updated as well.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chowlala:
Boggle. What are you on?

Froyo?

Tried uninstalling it?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gundamboy:
yup, now I don't have the app anymore
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chowlala:
Boggle x 10.

Reinstall! Lol!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gundamboy:
i'll wait for the froyo update ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] rivera618:
I'm also unable to update sky map. Fails every time Uninstalled old version and played with pm setInstallLocation and still nothing. Running stock froyo
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] t0ol:
Can't update skymap. Reboots all the time
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chowlala:
Weird.

I'm running stock Froyo with pershoot's kernel. Didn't have a prob updating the app and running it.

Tried over wifi?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] t0ol:
Ya.. still not working.. I'm using modaco r17
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] rori~:
Update, no probs here.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
To those of you that get reboots: the app is trying to install on the SD card, and since you probably didn't wipe when you installed Froyo, this doesn't work for you.

I'm just saying. I didn't wipe either and the Nexus was consistently rebooting on every "move to SD" attempt.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] JDMSirEK4:
so what do we have to do to get it installed???
[Nexus One General] ROBIN50N:
Now...........
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
Shame Google Earth isn't one of them, what a hog!
[Nexus One General] junkiehyjinx:
Agreed

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[Nexus One General] frozengash:
google earth is crazy big. almost half the size of a rom
[Nexus One General] TittieBaby:
sky maps can now, but its so small, almost not worth it
[Nexus One General] DMaverick50:
Is there any sort of pattern as far as how long it usually is between google updating its apps and an ota update hitting the air? Also, im pretty sure historically google doesnt necessarily update all of its apps before the release. Point is that im getting excited
[Nexus One General] subramanianv:
Looks like they are rolling out the changes one by one. Google earth might be last one. When we see an update for that we can safely assume Froyo is minutes away.

Well.. may be not!

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[Nexus One General] hycian:
Didn't get what you mean until I hopped on to Android Market, wow it seems the 2.2 OTA update is coming real soon!
[Hero CDMA General] xxxk15:
sorry but how do i get to adb shell from the command propt??
[Hero CDMA General] wadeheisen:
cd to the sdk\tools folder. That is where the commands you need are.

adb remount

adb shell
[Hero CDMA General] xxxk15:
but once i am in the tools folder what program do i use because when i click on them they come up and go away real fast??
[Hero CDMA General] animal7296:
What are you trying yo do? What rom are you running? Are you rooted? Need more info please.
[Hero CDMA General] Papa Smurf151:
Go to a command promt. In other words go to start and search for this

Cmd

Then type commands mentioned above
[Hero CDMA General] mrinehart93:
The easiest way is to just hold down SHIFT and then right click on blank space, and then select Open Command Window Here. Also, I'd HIGHLY recommend adding ADB to your PATH.
[Hero CDMA General] xxxk15:
well i am running 2.09.1 DC and i am rooted. when i download apps it tells me "Insufficient Storage Available" I have enough internal memory so i searched that and one person said they fixed it by

cd /data/data

rm -rf info.lamatricexiste.network

So i wanted to try it but i am really confussed on how about going to do this
[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
I assume you used a kitchen to root?

FWIW This is really basic knowledge that you will need as you use your phone.

So if you are a PC:

0. Click Start

1. Click RUN

2. type CMD in the box press enter

3. In the command prompt type

cd C:\AndroidSDK\Tools

this is just a guess and where most people have it. It MAY be different for you.

4. Type

adb remount
adb shell

5. You should see a "#"

6. Now type

cd /data/data
rm -rf info.lamatricexiste.network
[Hero CDMA General] xxxk15:
ok i understand but my command propt comes up with stuff in it

C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>

How do i get rid of this??
[Hero CDMA General] Papa Smurf151:
Nothing just type the commands that were given and UT will take u to the right directory
[Hero CDMA General] xxxk15:
o ok thanks it worked!!