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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaD FroYo:
I have no idea why Google is slowing up the update for the Euro builds but personally, I don't buy the "improving the user experience / fixing a glitch with the emergency calls" statement by them.

At the end of the day, if FroYo for Euro phones happens to be released without the tethering feature, then I'll be 100% sure it was due to a Vodafone specific request and the latter being (directly or indirectly) responsible for the delay.

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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Nokia has been doing this for ages. Different countries work differenly for things. Emergency calls for one.

You don't need a sim card to call emergency numbers in some parts of europe. In the US you do. That has to be addressed.

Some companies do global firmware, some don't. Google in this case doesn't. (It's a good thing).

It's funny how much the ecosystem has gone from "I just bought a phone, it'll be like this forever" to "I just bought a phone that's getting FREE feature updates", and yet people still ***** and complain because it's not happening fast enough.

AOSP code was finalized 8 days ago. Google finalized and released their hardware dependent build in 5 days. They're choosing to localized it for optimization, and people want to lynch them!

The phone has received two OS updates in it's 7 moths, they've implemented a ton of features.

Lol, Has any other phone manufacturer been this speedy with substantial firmware updates, that aren't your typical bug fixes?

Have some perspective people.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcar87:
nothing makes sense to me regarding this. the american nexus one was also sold on the UK via the online store, right? that american nexus one is supposed to work on any gsm network on the supported bands, emergency calls and all. Are they implying that UK users using a nexus one bought from google may have problems with emergency calls that vodafone-nexus-one users will not have?

And for the record, I dont think the vodafone nexus one is modified in any other way apart from locales and special cellular network settings. But apparently that's enough to warrant an additional 3 weeks wait
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattinglis:
looks like the theories were right.

http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/...ny-epf21b-builds-managed-update-frf85b-3.html
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] braingravyuk:
Interesting post, I've actually contacted HTC over the issue with the Froyo build, if they are truly tweaking for Vodafone's network (am sure this ain't really happening) then surely that could lead to issues arising using the phone on a different network, in my case O2.

Be nice if they come back and state they will honour the warranty on hardware defects.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcar87:
Are the current EPF21B or EPF30 builds different to the stock american 2.1 builds in any 'crippled' way? The only thing that I believe vodafone might lock is the wifi tethering. Which would be odd.

Also, I thought that vodafone had limited-time exclusivity of the nexus one in Europe. The phone isn't even carried locked, unlike the HTC magic back in the day.

Let's also remember that the 'with Google' branding on the phone actually meant something. I doubt vodafone can cripple the phone in the same way other carriers are crippling phones without the 'with Google' branding (mostly all those HTC sense phones)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyellx:
If the phone is crippled, i will root and go with the US Version.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxe:
Hey, would be nice you could post htcs answer here, cause i'm in exactley the same situation like you are. I got a n1 sold by vodafone but my carrier is o2. Now I'm in the situation i have to decide if i root my phone or not.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyellx:
same here with "netzclub" owned by O2
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DerSeppel:
Selfquote from another thread:

Just read this on a german IT News Website:

The delay has most likely to do with the wireless tethering feature.

Tethereing is possible but Vodafone uses a different billing for tethering.

Tethered connections cost 45 cent per MB unless you have a special tarrif.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big_adventure:
OK, I'm going to say what I think and what I know here, in two separate statements:

1. I THINK that Vodaphone is requiring a feature-limited version. They do not want free tethering, so I imagine that they are either going to remove the feature or just build some kind of a tag or cookie into tethered traffic, making it easy for them to charge for it / block it for those who don't pay a surcharge. No, this will not stop those who want to root from circumventing this restriction, but that's going to be no more than 5 or 10 percent of users probably. They don't need to get many people paying for this to make it worthwhile.

2. I KNOW that the 2.2 firmware does not need any optimization to work perfectly in Germany, or on Voda's 3G or GSM networks. I also KNOW that we will all know exactly what we're going to see out of Voda's version in just a couple of weeks, so flaming back and forth is probably about as productive as (and less satisfying than) masturbating.

But I completely agree with many that I would never again buy a phone tied to a carrier. And I will probably never buy another one too closely tied to a manufacturer, to avoid Sense-less delays.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AverageCanadian:
I wonder what kind of testing this person did with the emergency calling. I doubt there is any issue in actually calling emergency lines, where the issue likely lies is in locating where the call originated from.

Canada had a similar issue with the G1/Dream and its E911 services. Depending on the laws of the countries where Vodafone operates there *could* be very stiff penalties for not having proper location information being sent to emergency services.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyellx:
Qoute for truth.
[Android Software Development] cspannos:
So, I hear Google restricts programmers from being able to Answer or Decline a phone call from within their apps. Can someone explain this to me? If the phone is rooted, wouldn't they be able to get around this anyway?

The reason I ask is that I'm dying for someone to come out with a Full Screen Caller ID that will work on my EVO. The EVO has no hardware buttons to accept or decline a phone call, so any app made for a full screen caller id function would need soft keys on the screen to be able to accept or reject the call.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
[Android Software Development] zer0day:
The security is enforced at a software level so root doesn't bypass it but you still need root to flash the custom build. I's possible but likely to open up security holes on your phone, especially if modifying a sensitive piece of code like that.
[Streak 5 General] wondercoolguy:
Question I'm across the ponder over here in the states. I am really excited about the streak. Ive been using Android since G1 and one thing with Android is they all suck the battery down. What sort of battery life are you guys seeing?
[Streak 5 General] craigdabbs:
lasts me the whole day easily
[Streak 5 General] wondercoolguy:
would you say that you have mild, moderate, or alot of usage?
[Streak 5 General] Nik_Doof:
I'd say about 18 hours constant usage, as a nice example I got the low battery warning and still listened to another 2 hours of podcasts.

For example, i unplugged mine 7am this morning, its now 11pm and the battery is on 37% with some good usage today.
[Streak 5 General] kupboard:
I get almost 2 days out of mine, or, 1.5x the life of my G1.
[Streak 5 General] Dogmann:
Hi wondercoolguy

Well I've owned my Streak for a little over 3 weeks now and from the first charge battery life has been great as it's has a 1530aMh Li-ion Polymer battery. But not only is it long lasting but mains charging it is pretty fast to although i never run it to dead as that's bad for it and it charges from around 35% to full in about an hour below is the kind of use i put it through.

I have both background Data and Auto-Sync on as well as under My Location Use wireless networks and share with Google both on i only turn on and enable GPS satellites when i actually need it.

I am also ruining real time Push E-Mail which is in use 16hrs a day and WiFi is on 12-14hrs a day and my screen most of the time is on full brightness and i have my Network Mode set to GSM/WCDMA Auto. I listen to Music over Bluetooth for 1 to 2hrs most days and will browse the Web and forums for 1-2hrs per day to. I may also stream a TV show or watch a Video for 1-2 hrs a day to. Now with that type of use most times when i come to charge my Streak after 16hrs i have around 38% or more of battery left. Hope that helps give you some idea of what it's like to own and use one.

Marc
[Streak 5 General] wondercoolguy:
@Dogmann

Thanks for giving me the over view what your day is like with Streak. I'm currently using a Nexus one and it can drink the battery if it really wants to. It sounds like you use it as much as I use my N1 only I got to stay by a charger mid day.

It sounds like with juice defender app my fourth coming streak should last days. If you don't know what juice defender is download it (free) and see how long your battery lasts. I use another app called battery left and it tells you how much time you have on your battery based on usage history the max it estimates is 9hours and thats before I start using it.
[Streak 5 General] Dogmann:
@wondercoolguy

Two things i forgot to mention the first is I'm in areas with good Network cover most of the time so my Streaks isn't constantly switching bands or searching for towers.

The other thing is i am not and don't use a Task Killer at all i can and have had as many as 25 odd Active Applications running and around 35 odd Inactive (cached) Applications and still have more than 100 MB of free Ram as i just let the OS get on with it and handle it.

Free Ram is only an issue if you have none and want or need to open another app otherwise free Ram is just wasted and doing nothing it doesn't make your device faster nor does it extend your battery life.

In my opinion constantly killing apps and connections actually uses more battery not less the only thing i turn on is the GPS when i need it and off when i don't. Other then that i just let the OS do what it's meant to and don't bother thinking about what's running or not as unless i have a problem what's the point. I have read all about Juice defender and all the different Task Killers but just can't see the point maybe if i was having issues i may view it differently but for now i just don't need them.

Marc
[Streak 5 General] Rhysd2:
I had a nexus 1 and work with a few guys that still have them. During the day we have about the same usage and my dell streak consistently has better battery life than their nexus 1. I then switch over to using it heavily when I get home and even then the battery lifes great.

on medium to lower usage times it will last 2 days easily
[Streak 5 General] wondercoolguy:
@Dogmann

Why do you consider Juice Defener a task killer? All it does it turn off your 3g when your phone is asleep. How could this hurt your battery life when its not connected during sleepy time?

It is july 1st and maybe we will finally get our Streak this month. You guys have talked me into it. I'll get my streak :-) I still may wait till 2.2 drops on it. I don't know if you guys got the Samsung Behold 2 over there but it bombed hard in the states and Samsung is going to leave the phone on 1.6. I'm afraid that it might happen to the Streak here in the states.
[Streak 5 General] Dogmann:
@wondercoolguy

I don't consider it a Task Killer which is why i said

"I have read all about Juice defender and all the different Task Killers"

That didn't mean i thought it was a Task Killer and I do understand exactly what it is and the the other part of the app that goes with it as before i got my Streak i was reading about all sorts of problems some where having with their battery life on various devices and looked into this app.

Although obviously not Streaks though as they hadn't been released yet and i got mine as soon as it was available, so whilst i do understand what it does if I'm not having any problems with battery life so don't need it why bother?

Now obviously if i was having an issue with battery life then of course i would of considered using it but as i don't i have no need to use it. I prefer to only install apps that i actually need and want rather then just everything i can as believe in the less is more philosophy when it comes to installing apps.

Seriously i wouldn't worry about the Streak not getting 2.2 as that's just not going to happen the Streak is Dells premium smart phone/tablet and they have many more smart phones and tablets coming later this year.

They seem to have serious intentions about becoming a major player and aren't stupid enough to not support their devices and kill their chances. In fact they have already just released a small update for the Streak which although is hard to see what they have changed could in fact be a way of them checking and preparing for the 2.2 OTA update that is coming to make sure the delivery method works is my guess.

By all means wait it out if you want to but IMO you'll be missing out on using a great device as it is and one that is only going to get even better with 2.2 and what ever comes after that.

Marc
[Streak 5 General] wondercoolguy:
@Dogmann

Since I've been with Android day one with the G1 battery life has always been an issue, because I've gone from g1, to mytouch, and finally to my nexus one. Each one of them having battery life issues which were confirmed by all the forums out there trying to figure out how to make it better. So I just assume that my monster phone will have the same issues.

From what you are telling me it does not so and it is on Android 1.6 (or 1.5 can’t remember) either way when it goes to 2.2 the battery life will be even better.

Currently I'm rolling with my Nexus One and I love it so waiting 30 to 45 extra days for my Monster Phone won’t be too bad. Supposed to hit the states this month, I'm sure toward the end. 2.2 is supposed to hit in Sept we'll see
[Streak 5 General] shEEEsh:
Just received my USA unlocked yesterday and so I played with it for about 8 hours. Took that long for the battery bar to go red. I am not using 3G, don't think I can, I don't know ... don't care. With my Nexus One 3g drained my battery .. bought an extended battery .. same thing .. I won't be surfing the web etc .. I will do mostly business things - facebook, twitter, etc .. I do not feel the need for 3g .. I would have to be in the city to get it anyway ..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeBrWade:
This might be a stupid question but I can I take a nand backup from one phone and restore it to another phone?

Not sure if there are any identifiers etc that won't match up.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrono:
Worked fine with me, nand backed up from my first one and restored on my second one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeBrWade:
Basically I wanna get mine all setup for my wife then back it up and dump it to hers. I realize I will not be able to set up the Google account sync etc but that's and easy fix on hers. Second question. Will my full nand rootand recovery follow? Guessing at least no on the recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Albaholic:
I think you would need to do the NAND unlock too. I dont think the nandroid backup includes the engineering SPL... could be wrong though. You would also need to have the same recovery that you used to make the Nandroid backup
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubensun:
Hey Guys,

Was running CM 5.08 on my Dream.

My class 4 memory card died.

My class 6 memory card is still on its way (shipping).

(don't know when I'll be getting it).

In the meantime. I'll be running on the class 2 mem card that the phone ships with.

Any suggestions on what rom I should be running?

(probably won't want to be running APPS2SD or Swap)

So probably want to run a rom that's nice, trim and snappy.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
Take your pick. You shouldn't be using swap anyways. Apps2sd won't hurt -- it'll just *might* run external applications slower than they would internally. Note that the SDCARD's CLASS is not an indication of its MAXIMUM speed -- it is an indication of its MINIMUM speed. A lot of C2 cards are actually FASTER than a lot of C6 cards.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubensun:
thanks for your response.

speak of the devil.

my new transcend memory card just came in the mail.

Still would be a good thing to know for future's sake.

Is it true, that I shouldn't be running swap? What does that mean? Feel like most people run their Dream / G1s with swap.
[HD2 General] Kevc44485:
evo core series rom. 2 gig memory card. i will open opera browser and maybe facebook and then try to open a picture and my phone gives me a warning saying unable to start or something like that. how could that be? how could i not have enough memory to open a picture on my hd2 i could do it on my old a** dash. i cant open more than two applications on an hd2? what gives?
[HD2 General] erick10:
Is it Opera Mobile 10? It is known that Opera Mobile 10 gives this error. If your using Opera 9.7, then I have no idea why.
[HD2 General] sniff15:
I Get this out of memory thing too, it's not just opera use any program and sooner or later you'll hit the 200mb ram free and then albums or opera or igo wont start because it's out of memory.

very sad

i had 64mb ram and 128mb ram devices before this never had those problems even opera could be ran on 64mb ram(9.3) down to 7mb free without problems...

sense i think is the problem.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fecht:
What is the Latest PRI Version?

Also just got a new phone due to some screen seperation, they updated it and I can't root :\ no way yet to root with the new OTA right?

Thanks,

fecht
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirchuk:
Right, no root with the latest OTA. Just give it time, it was only released recently.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fecht:
Thanks Sirchuck, any clue on the PRI version

fecht
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbenmoshe:
pri version, ota

Hey guys, been a noobi, where can I find all the definition for some of the abbraviations such as:

OTA

PRI

etc... ( I know this one )
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jadehawk:
OTA (Over The Air )

PRI (Primary Rate Interface (I think, not sure))

PRL (Prefer Roaming List)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbenmoshe:
thanks, it really helps when you understand most of the terms in an article.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robl45:
i'm thinking of getting an evo in the next week or so. was wondering if there are any fully functional roms that don't have issues. cameras not working and the like. Would just like to have a device that has full framerate, wireless N, rooted to use free wifi.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirchuk:
The only ROMs that don't have a working camera are the Froyo (2.2) ROMs, all the above work in the 2.1 ROMs. I suggest Fresh 5.3.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myersn024:
I'll give another vote for Fresh 0.5.3. I'm running Fresh 0.3 right now and the only reason I haven't updated is because I don't want to have to back everything up and then restore it all again. Fresh 0.5.3 is supposed to be the last version that will require a full data wipe.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robl45:
does this do the full refresh rate do you know? and I still add whatever programs I want to it right?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thorpe24:
for the fps thing it's a kernel if i remember correctly and i believe it's for hardware version 0003 and an epson panel, not sure if it breaks the camera.... anyone?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seventyfive:
the fps unlock breaks the camera... even the author who made the kernel says "make a backup for when you're done playing" which implies he doesn't expect people to use it full time.

I've been using the DamgeControl rom (3.2.2). So far so good... I'm gonna try out a Sense + JIT rom tonight and see how it goes. Supposedly it yields 9mflops...

If you wanna get an Evo i would say now is the time before they start shipping ones that are already flashed to whatever OTA update they just pushed out. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but i think that as of now there's now way to root the newest phones flashed to the newest OTA update. Luckily there are roms that hacked in the update so you can keep root.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robl45:
i thought somewhere they said that you still root the newest ones. i'm waiting for the white ones.

i'm beginning to think i'm better off just getting the epic 4g.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nenn:
+1 for fresh 0.5.3

it doesnt support the hacked kernel for full fps on either epson or nova panels.

if you do use a rom that supports the kernel, you will lose camera and possibly other things.

you can add whtever software you want yes, and you'll have wifi tethering as well.
[HD2 General] gamepro56:
Everytime i plug my battery to charge, it shows 99% but when I unplug it, it shows the percentage it was before.

This has happened to me before and im gettin tired of it..What is the problem?
[HD2 General] HkDng:
I got this issue once, reflash the rom will solve it. Hope it help.
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
A hard reset sounds like the way forward. Or you could just buy a spare off of eBay for ~£5 and see if it's the battery, I should think a hard reset will fix the problem though.
[Android Software Development] pazvanti:
I am used to work with Flash and if we want to position an item at certain coordinates on the stage we just modify the .x and .y values. But I can't manage to find a way to this to a TextView (or any other item for that matter).

I did manage to get the width and height of the stage using this:

Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
stageWidth = display.getWidth();
stageHeight = display.getHeight();

But, if I want for example to position a TextView called tv at the coordinates like this:

tv.x = stageWidth - tv.width - 30

tv.y = stageHeight - tv.height - 30

I don't know how to do it.

Thanks, and sorry if this is a stupid answer...maybe I am to used in working with Flash.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Phantasm4489:
Released today I believe. Haven't had much time to play with it, but looks pretty good.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] kevor:
And it works great :)
[EVO 4G General] cocobongo77:
I talked today with sprint supervisor and confirm the Froyo 2.2 will be available for July for sure but dont have a specific day. Also they working for a another patch to fix the last update 1.47.651.1

Good News ;):cool::rolleyes:

PS : I wil continue eating donut and coffe for the waiting
[EVO 4G General] phinnaeus:
Cool!

But doubtful, those Sprint customer service reps really just tell you what you want to hear, it is almost never factual.
[EVO 4G General] cocobongo77:
I got confirmation from supervisor not from a representative. I think supervisor got more accurate info than representative that just talk rumors
[EVO 4G General] Vandam500:
Most of the time most people that work at Sprint (Including supervisors) have no idea what they are talking about. Anyways, its more up to HTC then Sprint as to when it will be available since they are the ones that have to do most of the work.
[EVO 4G General] beesneazy:
Man, LBJ / Bosh coming to the Bulls sometime in July ... 2.2 as well?

hah I love speculating.
[EVO 4G General] rutter9:
Yea they really have no idea. Some said August, July, September, October. They just say whatever they feel like. I used to work for Spring and generally we know more then they do.
[EVO 4G General] seriousblack25:
is it best to actually talk to the HTC representative over Sprint???:confused: