yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
hello, i was wondering if anyone knows if it would be possible to apply the fonts from the samsung vibrant to our nexus. i was playing with the vibrant at the t-mob store today and i must say in my opinion thats the best looking android setup ive seen so far, really cool. sorry im rambling, but just really curious about that font question.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdgiese90:
If you are rooted and can get into clockwork recovery, you can flash just about any font you want. You just need to grab an "edify" font pack and flash it like you would a ROM. It's not quite as easy as using the UI, but it has the same end result.

And if you knew this already, then I'm sorry I wasted your time by you reading this. :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doraemon6688:
Maybe because you haven't seen an HTC (Sense UI) ...
[EVO 4G General] lamboh:
http://con.st/10009371 with an evo

move or delete if repost...
[EVO 4G General] backdown:
Well seeing how they're supposed to shut the account down if you go over a spending limit, I call bull****.

Sent from my Evo, using the xda app
[EVO 4G General] manooti:
not everyone gets that spending limit. people on iffy credit get put on it. if you have awesome credit then theres no spending limit so they can catch you with a 11k phone bill. my friend has a 600 dollar overdue bill meanwhile i have a 150 limit
[EVO 4G General] rican408:
I have heard of this on Verizon as well I believe it. If ur going out of the country turn off everything or leave ur phone at home...
[EVO 4G General] lamboh:
pow............
[EVO 4G General] jahnile:
This is insane, ridiculous unbelievable.. Good luck to Stacey and her Family...
[EVO 4G General] DomSim:
what she probably failed to realize is that the evo background syncs a whole lot. so while she may have only been on facebook for a couple of minutes, htc sense was on it all day. plus sense weather was collecting data for location and weather etc etc..
[EVO 4G General] logie:
While I feel sympathy for how outrageous the bill is, she should have known international data roaming is $$$
[EVO 4G General] thisguyinoc:
When I was in Cancun last month, I was in airplane mode the entire time. What an idiot!
[EVO 4G General] omegasun18:
i want to feel sorry for her but her numbers dont eve match up she listed both 600 mb and 4.7 gb as how much data she used. 5 mintues of face book pushing emails background data from weather etc wont run either of those ina week. now if she was using qik or something to broadcast her vacation to the world for a few hours maybe.

while its easy to feel sorry for her and blame sprint the question is who is on the account? it sounds like it was a shared plan and that her parents had enabled international roaming and were told the charges when they did however they didnt tell their daughter.

with the discrepency in the amount of data used in her story, the fact she said she wasnt internationally set up but still thought to get on facebook and the fact sprint has confirmed the phone esn wasnt duplicated etc i tend to think she is giving a partial story, and is upset as anyone would be with the bill.

My guess she knew she was going to get charged but didnt realize exactly how much it would cost her and used it anyway. Then came home to a big bill and so downplays her usage to try to get it reduced and is upset as anyone would be with the extreme charges.

thats at least what i would bet the case is.
[EVO 4G General] scriptx:
facebook sync loop for the loss!
[EVO 4G General] engagedtosmile:
Sorry, seems iffy to me. Only using FB 5 times a day and text messages? There is no way that is even close to that sort of data usage.

Screenshots or it didn't happen.
[EVO 4G General] Deleted member 2643295:
I don't really curse much but; That is a REALLY STUPID *****. I am sorry to say. After reading what happened from the orignal thread starter and the other posters in the sprint user forum, she is at fault because like a majority of consumers, she doesn't read the documents provided to her and expects the company to clean up the mess she started and made.

I really hate when consumers get away with things like this. They are purposely clueless too take advantage of companies. I am no company lobbyist, but I guess I should be dumb too if it will get me a freebie.

Sent from my phone bone
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
It's her fault and sprints. Sprint should have shut off service after $1k or 2k of charges and got verbal confirmation before restoring service. If they can protect themselves from users who abuse their service with large data usages then why not with excessive charges.
[EVO 4G General] dglowe343:
Same here, went on a cruise to the Bahamas and left the phone turned off. My buddy had his on airplane mode and just used it for taking pics. Whether or not the rates are correct, its pretty stupid to use the phone for anything other than emergencies when you're in another country. Even with international calling, I don't think that applies to data. I could be wrong though. Seriously, you couldn't stay off Facebook for a frickin week?!?
[EVO 4G General] spy_owl2:
Because in one instance they would be limiting access to their equipment from heavy users who were previously promised "unlimited" service (if this was indeed the case with Sprint); but in the other instance they have no incentive to do so - they are simply counting money.

I agree, however, that it would be ethical to:

1. Put an end to ridiculous international roaming charges somehow

2. Provide adequate warning to customers where #1 is not possible (due to politics, etc.); if one can get a free text message when the monthly bill is due, there's no reason something like that can't be set up for roaming:

"Hey customer, as a courtesy notice, as of mm/dd/yyyy you have accumulated $X in roaming charges. You can turn off your phone, or keep using it according to your roaming agreement - link here."

where X can be 300, 500, 1000, etc. or several of the above.
[EVO 4G General] Aridon:
Stupid.

/10chars
[EVO 4G General] dallashigh:
"College student does something stupid that costs them a lot of money"

This isn't news... hell, it's an everyday occurrence!!
[EVO 4G General] asj2583:
i used to be a escalation supervisor for a sprint call center and i can tell you that this is valid charge. at most they'll probably meet her half way...those intl charges can suck but that what she gets for being a dumb *****! btw i seen higher!
[EVO 4G General] ipclark1:
Decided to use my ip hone instead of my evo last month in cancun. Even with all international features enabled, I still ran up a 1400 dollar bill . Was my fault I paid it. Just my experience.
[EVO 4G General] SilverZero:
Background data? Gmail push? If you don't set it up differently, the Evo will be using data all the time. Not sure it would be that much, but I haven't done the math.
[EVO 4G General] notown775:
wait the ridiculous part is she's only saying she racked up 9,000+ of the bill.. LOL the rest of the family was in it for 2gs.. WTF

sent from my satan fone
[EVO 4G General] bassic:
That's one of my biggest problems with the EVO, and Android in general. There's so much nonsense background crap going on that you really don't have control.

I've roamed internationally with my Blackberries in the past and I know what I'm getting myself into; my emails synchronize, and when I run Google talk or Yahoo IM, I know they're not going to be using a whole lot of data. There's nothing on the blackberry that is going to synchronize in the background.

Android on the other hand, and especially all the Sprint crapware that comes preinstalled, could be accessing lots of data without the users explicit knowledge. I disabled synchronization of Weather, News, and Facebook, yet these applications are constantly starting on their own (along with Sprint Nascar, Sprint NFL, Sprint TV, Sprint Navigation) and presumably sending/receiving data to phone home and/or check for updates.

Don't forget about any games or apps that are ad supported. Suppose you want to get your emails when you're roaming and you leave your data on. These apps will be sending/receiving data to retrieve the advertisements, along with any other data.

These are things you have to be aware of with any smartphone such as one that runs Android, and may not be a wise choice if you have a limited data plan. Fortunately us EVO users are safe, at least for now.

On one of my recent roaming trips, I disabled all roaming data and just used the WiFi and it worked fine.
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
there is no way she got either 600mb or 5gb in 1 week. a normal page is about 20-40kbs, a mobile version is probably half that. The weather, youtube, and everything else probably used up a maximum of 50-100mbs for the whole weekend.

Unless she was on there streaming youtube vids, and movies, there's no way she would use up more than 100-200mbs of data in that short period of time (and that's me being a little generous with those numbers, would probably go with 50-75, but it depends on what widgets and things she was using)
[EVO 4G General] illogic6:
People don't understand what uses data on their phone. $5 says that this chick was rocking Pandora the entire vacation.

Back when I was a CSR for AT&T, I saw accounts that were flagged for 'high usage'. Typically what would happen is that the account owners would be contacted. Many, many times the account holders shrug off the warning because they're in vacation fantasy land. Once they got home, every single last one of them cry fowl.

I'm not pointing fingers, but it was my experience that this situation was the customer's fault 100% of the time during the time I worked for ma bell.

Just sayin'.
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
I'm still surprised she was able to get and keep that good enough of a signal in another country to use that much data....
[EVO 4G General] andrej.marinic:
If your phone has the option to turn off data while roaming, use it. No need to turn on flight mode. If not, simply delete all APNs. Buying a local pay-as-you-go sim is still the best option though.
[EVO 4G General] felacio:
I was in Japan w couple years ago for a week.. I had my iPhone in airplane mode (wifi on though) for the entire trip EXCEPT when I called my dad back in the states to wish him a happy birthday. That 2minute phone call cost me like.. 8 dollars I think. Lol. I knew exactly what I was getting into. But. Come on. How thoughtful is that.

Also.. isn't the Evo, by default. Set ON Data Roaming Guard and Call Guard?. Those must have kicked on. Proclaiming that she will be charged for roaming.

...in 1943, I killed a drifter.
[EVO 4G General] Sporkman:
How's this sprints fault? She's the idiot
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
Sorry for the bump, but I talked to a sprint representative about roaming outside of the usa, and I quote:

"htc evo does NOT have the capability to roam outside the USA network. The only sprint phones that are internationally enabled are the touch pro, and the blackberry bold (could of said curve, forgot which one it was)."
[EVO 4G General] dallashigh:
Those are ones that can roam on GSM. However, most of their phones are capable of roaming in CDMA countries.
[EVO 4G General] Freelancerx:
shes obviously lying about using the phone 5 min a day lol, that crazy broad was probably video chatting with all her crazy broad friends on qik lol
[EVO 4G General] cornelious2:
I definitely was roaming in Canada when I went to Niagara.
[EVO 4G General] ricomilion:
move to boostmobile unlimited.
[EVO 4G General] pb4life754:
I u go to Sprint's international roaming Canada and Mexico and Pakistan and infantry any some others have cdma roaming agreements with Sprint in Canada its mainly the boarder same with Mexico but they have coverage in those major vacation spots for this reason she is at fault

International Roaming in Mexico

Pricing Information

Voice Pricing: $1.69/minute

Data Pricing: $0.016/KB (GSM)

Special Data Pricing: 1x/Ev Data: $0.002/KB

Text Pricing: Send: $0.50/recipient; Received: $0.15/msg

from sprints site
[EVO 4G General] bzxzlg:
Reminds me of a similiar issue where a kid racked up $$$$ doing texts while on a summer trip in Europe a couple of years ago ... That was on AT&T I think ...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinny9:
Hello buddies,

I have purchased the handset in the month of July.

I dont know if this is a problem which I observed yesterday as I wanted to change the sim card.

After I change sim card I observed that battery is around 2%. Earlier it was above 50%.

Now today this problem happened again as when I removed the sim card and replace it, the battery again drains out.

Otherwise battery performs normally. no sudden discharge.

Guys pls tell me wat shd I do?

thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roaringhere:
Maybe once you remove the battery to remove your SIM card, the battery contact did not sit properly in the phone once you put it back in. So, you're getting higher resistance which leads to higher battery drain...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zenghelis:
Maybe once. But it's weird it happened twice.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaolinde:
i have 3 battery and exchange rapidly, sometimes when i change a full charged battery the battery level low like 2% but the level will increase over time untill where it should be.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinny9:
so u r saying that after replacing the sim i should leave the phone for few mins and observe...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinny9:
and guys one thing more.....

i'm not changing the sim card, its the same sim card.

i was actually restarting the phone....after replacing the same sim card.

i will try again
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted politiks:
ive been messing around with the VZW_bootanimation.zip and i cant seem to figure out how to change the splash screen that comes up after the first one. i've tried to replace the image, using the same exact settings and keeping it in png format, but it just stays blank until the droid animation pops up. im using the new leaked bootanimation that came with the froyo leak.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zerf:
Here is a walk through Ive written up for changing your boot animation to one that you got off a site. Is that what your looking to do?

Plug in phone

reboot to recovery

adb reboot recovery

Once booted in to recovery do

adb shell
mount -a

It will give you this error. Thats fine (It's just saying it couldnt mount the sdcard which we dont need right now.)

~ # mount -a
mount -a
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1 on /sdcard failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 on /sd-ext failed: No such file or directory

now type exit to get back to your computer prompt.

Now push your bootanimation.zip you want to /system/customize/resource

adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource

now now get back in to adb shell and type

cd /system/customize/resource

then ls *.zip and it should look like this. l = lowercase L

/system/customize/resource # ls *.zip
ls *.zip
bootanimation.zip VZW_bootanimation.zip

Now we want to rename the vzw boot animation to .back to save it

mv VZW_bootanimation.zip VZW_bootanimation.back

Then we want to rename the new bootanimation to the vzw bootanimation

mv bootanimation.zip VZW_bootanimation.zip

OPTIONAL STEP: IF YOU DONT WANT THE DROID SOUND ON BOOT

mv Droid.mp3 Droid.back

type exit and adb reboot . It should now boot with your new boot animation.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted politiks:
Thanks for trying to help, but what I'm trying to do is change the image that comes up during the new animation "htc quietly brilliant". I already have the bootanimation I just want to switch out the png

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Just My II Sense
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Honestly77:
It's possible that one is hardware dependent. It was on the G1 I thought...at least I never saw it changed.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted politiks:
What do you mean by hardware dependant?

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Just My II Sense
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
There are two folders in the bootanimation.

One contains the Quietly Brilliant image. The other is the boot animation.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted politiks:
Yea and I have tried switching the one in the folder with the quietly brilliant but when I do it just stays blank for that part of the splash. Is there a certain format you need the picture to be in besides 8 bit rgb png?

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Just My II Sense
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDanger:
I remember transparencies being a big issue in bootanimations... yours contain any transparencies?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted politiks:
Nope no transparencies

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Just My II Sense
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldman_58:
There is a Desc txt file that has to be changed as well it dictates screen size and the order of use...

480 800 15

p 1 0 android

p 1 0 eye

p 0 0 loading

The trick is not to un-zip the entire file but extract (or delete) only the things that require change and push the change back into the zip to overwrite the existing file...

Have Fun
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jumbotron:
Thank you, gonna give it a shot.

I will def try this...although I read somewhere each ROM is not created equal, even between versions. ie Virtuous2.6 - the files are named VZW_bootanimation.zip and VZW_Droid.mp3...meanwhile Virtuous2.7 is bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3.

Tried to, adb push to /system/media/; /system/customize/resource/; /system/data/local/ withouth any luck.

Do you know if I'm doing anything wrong? Updated the WINUSB.inf file to make sure ADB interface recognizes my commands. Still noob, so just not connecting all the dots.

You got any advice? PM me if you do!

Thanks again, I'm gonna try this.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luvit:
I have the same problem.. I barely have time to troubleshoot it... I converted the r2d2 boot image to png and chose the same 8bit color depth as the original vzwbootanimation.zip. I'm at a loss.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeymop:
Skyraider has an animation instead of the HTC logo...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hextall:
Quick question (and my first... hi).

Can one just replace these files using root explorer?

For example, the quietly brilliant image is in a folder called android... can I just replace that with another png file?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
I'm definitely interested in this as well - if it's this simple, it would solve a lot of problems. If not.. can anyone point me to a thread on creating your own boot animations?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luniz7:
No you can't, at least on the sense roms. Not sure in ruby or cm tho, probably the same way.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luniz7:
You need to zip the the folders and the desc.txt in a "store" state

Here's a black one I did of the htc quietly brilliant with the htc in green.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9231506/bootanimation.zip
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
Do you have a guide for doing this? I want to use the stock boot animation (minus that annoying Drooooidd sound), but replace the "Quietly Brilliant" screen with a custom png. Is there a quick guide you can point me to, or would you mind giving the details of how this might be done? Thanks

EDIT: Want to replace "Quietly Brilliant" with this image

Any chance of that happening?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
Working!

Success! :D I used a combination of zerf's ADB instructions and luniz7's suggestions and I got it working!

What you're going to need:

WinRAR

"Droid Incredible Official Boot Animation" from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=759691

1. Unzip the DROIDINC_Boot and then unzip the "bootanimation" file to your Desktop. There should be three files, and folder labeled "android," another labeled "VZW" and a file named "desc"

2. Inside the "android" folder, replace the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" image with the 480x800 png of your choice and give it the EXACT SAME NAME:

"wvga_htc_bootup_android_104f_15fps_005spf"

No changes need to be made to either the "VZW" folder or the "desc" file

3. Somewhere on your computer (I did it in Documents), right click, go to the "New" menu, and click "WinRAR ZIP Archive" - make sure it's "ZIP archive" and not just "archive" (first is .zip, second .rar). Name it "bootanimation"

4. Double click on the bootanimation.zip you just created to open WinRAR. It will show you the contents of the zip folder you just created. It's empty - but we're going to change that :D

5. In the upper left corner you'll see an image of a bundle of books tied together with "Add" underneath. Click this, and navigate to the desktop where you unzipped with original "bootanimation" (now with your custom png). Click on the

"android" folder and "OK." IMPORTANT! Before you click "OK" the second time, be sure to change the "Compression Method" (in the bottom left corner) from "Normal" to "Store." Alright, now you can click OK :D

6. Repeat step 5 for the "VZW" folder and "desc" file

7. When finished, simply close WinRAR

8. Move the "bootanimation.zip" file you just finished editing to your "tools" folder in your Android SDK

9. Follow zerf's ADB instructions (earlier in this thread) and you're good to go!

As proof, I've uploaded my modified bootanimation with the "unrevoked" splash image in place of "HTC Quietly Brilliant." Hope this helps!

- Zoon0n
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fuzzynco:
You have the same rom/config I have, where do I put the bootanimation.zip file.

There seem to be a multitude of places? Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
For Virtuous 3.0.1, put it in /system/media. Be sure before you push it to rename the original file "bootanimation.back" like in zerf's instructions so you can always revert if need be
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fuzzynco:
Thanks

Maybe there should be a FAQ or sticky with

which ROMs use what location / filenames,

or the OP about the ROM should say

where to put and what to call the

boot animation file and sound file for

that ROM?