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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] distortedloop:
So, XFJM6 has some legitimate changes to it that improve it over XWJM6...?

I'm a little burned out on flashing roms on my SGS, so I didn't even consider trying XF when richtofen posted it since I'd just gone through getting my phone back the way I like it after flashing XW. Also, as a Mac user, it's just tedious to have to find a Windows box to use Odin on. :rolleyes:

Have you noticed other good stuff with XF? Lag? Did you lag fix it? Looks like I'll have to flash it for myself to see.

But should you happen to post an update.zip with GPS related fixes before I get around to Odining my phone, I'll give it a try while out and about.

Thanks again for your relentless pursuit of this!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] TravUK:
With regards to an update.zip package, I'm not sure you'll be able to get all the changes into one. Some of the low level firmware updates may not be visible as a distinct file.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] TravUK:
OK, well I'll sit tight for a day and see what you reckon, I've never flashed a ROM till now as I knew they weren't fixed, but am cautiously optimistic its arriving soon.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] cba1986:
What is the program that you use to record a track?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] aurelm:
Well. I couldn't wait so I installed XFJM6.

conclusion (at least for today's results). I call it 100% fixed. No jumping around, no lag behind, no losing signal. In fact the reuslts are better than with a sirf star3 eten x600 device, wich I was very satisfied with. Much better than with iphone 3g (I cannot compare it with iphone 4 or 3gs because I don't have one on me).

The precision is still off, when you are under a building or in very inapropriate areas it shows a 5m/10m precision but you are 50m off. But that is a rare case and the position, off as it is it is constant and does not jump around. When you slowly get off that area the cursor goes back to the correct position (in good areas it is 1-2m accurate). I tired it in all the areas that with any other drivers and firmwares the gps went completly crazy and right now it is just a little bit off, like 5 meters on the side of the road, but very consistant and not losing signal.

I tried it on foot and in a tram & bus, all of them got good results (unexpected was that the bus/tram results were better, even if I was under the metal roof. On foot the results were not perfect (but still very very good) because I was walking many times near a tall building block.

With google maps the update rate of the posiition makes it seem it lags behind, but with motonav was alway on the spot (again much better than with Iphone 3g, that lagged 1 or 2 seconds behind).

The firmware itself is also ok, no issues until now, backed up everything and restored it to the previous settings, rooted, one click lag fix). Works smooth and I do not see a reason why one would not flash it (except not being interested in the gps).

So now in the hope that tommorow the gps will work as well I can finaly find some peace of mind :)

I will try and upload a mytracks track, as with previous firmwares the software would crash. Seems to be working now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] andrewluecke:
Will be interesting to see the tracks.. Because, it's finally coming to a time that we can expect fixes to be integrated (at least initial fixes), but would want to see the tracks first.. I'm also curious to hear if your accuracy bubble encloses you at all time (or at least most of it), because if it doesn't, it probably isn't fixed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Bajo76:
Okay i created a update.zip with the GPS fix from I9000XFJM6 firmware.

TEST IT ON YOUR OWN RISK. I DO NOT GUARANTEE IT WILL NOT BRICK YOUR PHONE :p

Working good on my stock I9000XXJF3 Firmware :D

link
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] distortedloop:
Fair enough. That's always part of the frustration with these things, works for some, doesn't for others.

I noticed what appeared to be significantly more accurate (in fact almost perfect) showing of my vehicle's position on the map the other day while using Google Navigate as opposed to just using Google Maps without the navigation. At the same time, I did notice that a couple of times the blue dot turned to a very large blue circle and figured that meant the accuracy on the fix had lessoned. Seems like the app you use certainly does impact the PERCEPTION of how accurate the GPS is, whether the actual location data is spot on or not.

This was with XWJM6 and no GPS hacks.

I'll be flashing/lag-fixing to XFJM6 this morning. /sigh
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ml78:
XFJ got the GPS changes and XWJ does not contain GPS changes right?

Edit

Nevermind that seems to be the case XFJ beeing the GPS fix/changed one...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Case_:
Yes, I am well aware of that, but the only way to know for sure is for us to try :)

Not sure if it's the best idea to copy the files on /data as well and libgps.so doesn't need to be copied, it's still unchanged. But thanks, I'll add it to the first post if you don't mind.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mdkboom:
does it work properly?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] distortedloop:
I flashed XFJM6 today. Initial GPS test (yes it's just a lock test) has one major improvement:

9 sats locked, 32 feet accuracy in under 5 seconds. 11 locked in under 10. This is in my living room just now. 9-11 held for several minutes until I turned it off. It used to take a minute or two to get a lock of 4 or 5 in the house.

I will test on the road when I go out tonight.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mdkboom:
Seems better than the epic gps files.. While I could lock 5 satelites after 10 minutes, I can now lock 3 to 4 satelites within 30s.. But damn, it still looses lock easily.. This test is of course at home..
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] TravUK:
Did you flash or use update.zip ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] appelflap:
@ Case_ you should definitely look at the new HK froyo rom gps fix. Maybe you can make a package of the relevant GPS files of that fw.

The GPS is performing amazingly well on that firmware, got a 11 on 11 lock fix, very stable and very quick.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] CommanderROR:
Yes, please do that, I just got my Galaxy S yesterday and also have the GPS jumpiness. A simple update.zip or one-click fix would be ideal...I'm used to flashing WM phones, but not up to the challenge with Android yet... :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Bajo76:
I just wanted to have the same files and the result is near to perfect for me.

I get stable locks on over 8 satelites.

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

A track under very hard conditions, dense forest.

track

Of course you can add it to first page if it can help somebody.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] andrewluecke:
Looks good.. Use satellite, not map view, and you'll notice at times, it's more accurate than Google's own street mapping.. Still gets dodgy on corners a bit and under trees, but Samsung probably aren't finished optimising yet either. Whilst not as accurate as a Garmin forerunner, it looks as though it could be accurate enough for fitness purposes now.

I'll wait until the official firmware gets released (as this is still possibly a work in progress).. And I'd still like to still see tracks in city environments with plenty of 90deg turns before judging whether to reinstall my phone's ROM prematurely.
[Touch Pro CDMA] nxb:
I have a Sprint Herman TP with the latest WM 6.5 Energy rom. Something is up with the capacitive area. The wheel is hard to scroll with and sensitivity is twitchy.

I installed G scroll and the gesture buttons pop up randomly when I try to use the "dpad" or scroll. I thought it was a hardware problem and then I ran android off the sd card. Under that it works fairly well, sensitivity is different and the individual buttons even light up when you go over them.

Is there any way to adjust the sensitivity or behavior of the smart touch area?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshbobo:
Do you have to root and/or flash your Evo with a new ROM to get a white status bar? Or is there an app or something that can do that?

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafroehlich2:
You are talking about the AOSP bar. To get that you either need to flash a theme or be running Cyanogen. In both cases you must be rooted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshbobo:
Thanks for your reply rafroehlich2.

Wow. This is not fun. My phone was backordered twice so I got it 2 weeks ago. It came with 2.2 on it and if I'm reading posts right, it seems that it is unrootable...at least for now. I have found all these apps and themes that I want to use but all require a rooted phone.

Ugh. Someones got to help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafroehlich2:
With the large amount of talent searching for a root method its only a matter of time. Just keep track of the threads you like so when you get root you'll be able to flash. I wouldn't be surprised if within a month 2.2 is defeated...and that's on the high end.

Sent from my PC36100
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miniera77:
Hallo guys,

in order to try different roms on my phone, I would like to know witch is the best way to backup my current ROM, is there a way to create a ROM zip file with all my settings, accounts, apps, contacts, sms, ... witch I could reflash in case I need?

I've tried ROM Manager but is going to create me many files.

What about Nandroid backup (on Hboot/Recovery menu)?

And Titanium backup?

Should I use one of those backups to restore my system data and user data in case of a new rom flash?

thanks a lot

regards

Miniera77
[HD2 General] greg1fraser:
sounds like a radio that is incompatible with your rom out ur fone into bootloader connect thru usb and flash a new radio
[HD2 General] muddcat:
i probably did but is it anyway u think how i can turn it bak on. it want charge. the usb card works i tried charge something else with it n it work
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
sounds like tmous phone meets radio version x.xx.51.x (or 2.04.50.x or 2.05.50.x radio) and if it is that then its dead, broke, gone.
[HD2 General] muddcat:
i do have insurance on this phone. u think i can take it bak n get a new one.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
lots of people have.
[HD2 General] muddcat:
ok. thank you
[HD2 General] fred_up:
Can you get into bootloader mode (press and hold the volume-down button and press the power button)?
[HD2 General] muddcat:
I tried to do that but the battery is dead n gone. so im just gone buy a new battery today. if that doesnt work. the phone is dead n gone.
[HD2 General] SiL3nTKiLL:
put a diff radio and see what happens...if u cant do it, try to take it to a repair shop and see what happens
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
don't waste your money on a battery. flashing a ..51.. radio kills tmous phones. they stop turning on, no bootloader, no charging, nothing. totally unresponsive.
[XPERIA X10 General] lawless_benji:
Hey guys,

So wasn't sure if it was worth mentioning (hope it's not a waste of time) of a reply I had from SE when I emailed them to ask how I update software and apps such as office suite without having to purchase them off the android market. The reply was that the only way to update such software is through their own software updates. Then they went on to say that there is a big software update which will add new features will be arriving in Q4.

I asked if this was the android 2.1 update that they proudly announced to customer's would be arriving in Q3? To which i got no response.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up and tell u not to get too excited about the update being with us in Q3.
[XPERIA X10 General] ddewbofh:
I can't tell where you're from but if you emailed support and they said Q4 you're likely from the US. SE is doing a staggered rollout where some parts, likely just Europe, will get it in Q3 while the US will get it in Q4. This is for the unbranded updates of course, for branded updates you'll have to ask the various providers. :)
[XPERIA X10 General] piercewei:
SE has made a lot of answers to the update questions on twitters. Before Q3 was the only reply.
[XPERIA X10 General] iead1:
http://twitter.com/SonyEricssonUK/status/21569476347

I'm so angry, because in my made up fantasy world, Android 2.1 was supposed to be released for the X10 in January 1997.

Can we, for the love of Solid Snake, please stop with the "I DON'T THIENK DAT 2.1 IS COMEING IN Q3, DESPIET HUNDERDSZ OF CONFURRMATIONS SAYYING Q3!" threads?

Like, I assume most of the members of this board are adults, correct? You may have even purchased the phone with your own money. Awesome. Now, let's have intelligent discussion. If you have some sort of irrefutable proof that 2.1 will be delayed, please, bring it up. If all you have is an email with some customer support guy in India who knows nothing except for what's provided to him by Sony, keep it to yourself. Front line customer service reps know far less than you do, because they don't get paid enough to care. If you managed to run into the CEO of SE and he said "Android 2.1 is delayed", that's proof, and please bring it here.

Here's a final question: Why in God's name would they announce 2.1 was coming out in Q4 only to speed it up to Q3 and then delay it back to Q4? Wouldn't it be safer and result in less customer backlash to have just kept it as Q4? It's safe to say that a majority of markets will get 2.1 in Q3. Lesser markets, like say, Antarctica or Canada (;)) will probably get it in Q4.
[XPERIA X10 General] lawless_benji:
IM from te UK.

And I guess forums are still fill of people who wanna make users look small and burn them. Cheers for that. That was my 1st post on this forum, and if it's full of idiots like u, it will be my last too.
[XPERIA X10 General] iead1:
Totally cool with me. Users that just post topics without checking if there aren't several on the first page on the same subject are usually unneeded.

But, that's flaming. Just look at the threads before you post? Ain't hard.
[XPERIA X10 General] citsym:
Thanks for posting the link. That should help alley concerns that SE is going to mess again again. Anyway, let's not be too harsh on the thread creator. I don't think he wanted to spread misinformation or create panic. He is just a concerned X10 owner.
[XPERIA X10 General] Mano1982:
Haha well said :D And if 2.1 is not released in any part of the world til 1 October, Than anyone can make a thread. BUt til then, please be patient ;)
[XPERIA X10 General] iead1:
It just boggles my mind that it wasn't posted in any of the other threads for the same topic. Talk from a customer service rep? We have that thread. Talk about 2.1? There's several.

It's awesome that someone wants to post, and their opinion is always wanted, but, when that opinion is thrown wildly out there without even considering the fact that many people are discussing the topic in other threads it gets to me. Pet peeve. I think what makes it worse is the fact that a new "2.1 is delayed" thread has popped up every single day this week, and all of them were still on the front page of the forum when this was posted.

Anyway, my bad. Just looooooook around before you post!
[XPERIA X10 General] RSchmauk:
But when the firts devices are updated and someone uploads the firmware, everyone will be able to flash it, right?
[XPERIA X10 General] kud0s:
I think they will release it in Canada, before the states. Reason? Theyeant to release it an ecomonomic economy where people can actually afford 2 dollar apps.

Oh snap, oh no he didn't. :)
[XPERIA X10 General] rynoon:
...

*puts on diplomat hat*

This man in no way represents Canada or Canadians, nor does he represent the quality of our education.
[XPERIA X10 General] ptesmoke:
lol!! too true my beaver eating friend :)
[XPERIA X10 General] RumpleStealthSkin:
Teehee! Must be some ginko-biloba-sniffing asian in the PoCo area.
[XPERIA X10 General] chai_archer:
here, in Thailand, they say it gonna be around 24 Sep
[Windows Phone 7 General] joeltimothyoh:
Hey guys, we all know windows phone 7's people hub integrates facebook with your contacts. However I can't quite see how it would be done.

Correct me if I'm wrong here. One problem I forsee is this - contact duplicates. Most of my facebook contacts do not even put up their mobile phones on their facebook profile. Now I have a separate list of contacts with just their names and mobile numbers(the traditional way of storing contacts). Could anyone explain to me how windows phone 7 will be able to integrate facebook contacts with such a list of contacts? Every phone allow us to name a contact with an attached number/s, versus facebook contacts whose names are named by them. It would be convenient if we could search for through our contacts by the names on our own list of contacts we've created, rather than fake names given by our facebook contacts. As such wouldn't we face a problem of contact duplicates? And even if windows phone 7 gave us an option to integrate the two separate contact's information into one, wouldn't we have to do that for almost every single contact?

Could someone clarify on this issue?
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
WP7 will let you link contact information from multiple sources to one contact card.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samy.3660:
Hi,

I have been unable to run any AOSP roms, including cyanogen, neophyte, deforst, open desire etc it always hangs and gets totally unusable. Any idea whats wrong??

I have tried removing ext3 partition on my sd card still no luck??

Any help would be appreciated. Thankyou
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kikloo:
Hello,

Is there any lightweight key pad lock program ?

Thanks.
[HD2 General] Cerv3r:
I just bought me the HD2 T-Mobile version :)

Someone please refer me to a place to get started to run android :)
[HD2 General] greg1fraser:
try the android develpoment section where it says everything you need to know
[HD2 General] jdwrrzmm:
Oh my God.
[HD2 General] Cerv3r:
is there anything i need to do before i install android? i dont want to brick i just got this today
[Captivate General] S4NDM4NN:
Topic pretty much says it all. I would really like to replace the tutorial button with a speech to text button on the swype keyboard. Anybody know if this is possible?

Thanks,

Travis
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
That tutorial button serves a number of purposes and shouldn't be replaced.
[Captivate General] a_fuegon:
Yes, it's like swype's main menu. I mainly use it to delete gibberish words that I end up adding when I'm on a swyping marathon. It's also useful to correct a word that's already been swyped.
[Captivate General] S4NDM4NN:
Not to sound like an ass, but my question was not what the button was for. I know that already, I have only actually used it once after a few weeks with the phone. There is also another way to get to that same menu. So for ME, changing the key would be useful. I was under the impression that making my phone more usable for ME was what android was all about. If I wanted to be told how to hold/use my phone I would have just bought an iphone 4.

Again I do not want to be an ass, but this is the 2nd time(first not at xda) I have been told the purpose of something instead of getting an answer to my question.

So please anybody, is there a way that I can change the swype key to something else(speech to text)? If so what do I need to go about doing.

I would just like a straight yes or no answer, and some direction.

Thanks,

Travis
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
You probably shouldn't have called it the "tutorial key" then. It made you sound like you had no idea what you were talking about.
[Captivate General] Wes33:
Hello, I believe the captivate and vibrant are similar so this may be of use to you:

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=742084

I know it's not changing the swype button to a voice button, but it is adding a voice button which is half of what you asked for :)

Best of luck!
[HD2 General] coolbeer1990:
i was checking everywhere about the hd2 being a tft screen and was very upset because of its limitations of 65 k colours - but i found out this ! now am very happy! " Our complaint is that HTC continues to only use 65K color displays. With devices like the iPhone, Pre and DROID sporting 16M colors we don’t think that at least 262K is too much to ask for. You won’t look at the HTC EVO 4G and lament the display, but we’d bet if shoppers put it side-by-side with the Pre the difference would be noticeable to a discerning eye."

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=2957&idPhone2=3427#results

http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-EVO-4G-phone-p_4382.html

http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-EVO-4G-Review-review-r_2450.html
[Desire General] whulfcastle:
Hi

It seems im suffering from the reboot issue by using google maps. ...So I need to send the phone back. Issue is ive installed the WWE Froyo update via goldcard.

Is there anyway to reflash it to its original Tmobile Rom?

Many thanks gents!
[Android Software Development] AndroidWill:
I'm creating a small team, contract to start, that would be interested in possibly relocating (for privacy and security reasons) to make an app for a thriving industry (not porn).

- no commitment needed at this early a stage, just a "Yes I'd be interested and am capable of developing full-time for Windows crossover application", portfolio required

- the applicant would need good network knowledge as well

- I have at least one member, likely two, that are willing to go on a moment's notice

- I have a way (this is the biggest question mark at this time) into the industry and am relatively confident it isn't already developed for Android (second biggest issue)

Any developers qualified and interested in developing full-time for this burgeoning platform, send me a PM.

Thanks for your time,

Will
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Thyrus:
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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] -the_mole-:
holy freaking crap. i've been waiting for this. glad to see it. i'll back-up and flash tomorrow morning. looks great :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Thyrus:
Good to hear. Let us know as we are so much into the copying and testing, we need some "unbiased" feedback and whether our guides and files work as expected :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] djosiah:
if im completely honest, i dont think you did the original concept justice. i think the changes you made dont really 'fit' the theme and think you should have kept it to exactly how it looked in the concept but that's just me. great work on putting it together though, i know quite a few people have been waiting for it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Thyrus:
thats fine - we dont mind if you or others now modify it back into the original theme or improve our theme. Sometimes, in order to improve somthing, one needs to create something.

We (he_stheone and I) have seen too many concepts die since nobody gave it an intial shot or a mega-project fail since it was all "too much work" - and creating and porting a theme is a massive undertaking, once thats done, the rest is tweaking - which we are happy to see you guys do based on our "interpretation" if you like.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sauudmir:
can someone port for G1 CM6 rc3? been waiting for it a long time...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Nick_Hrh:
Is there a way to change the battery icon. Tried to use metamorph but it didint change.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Thyrus:
always, just go to the framework-res and modify the batt_stat pngs. we are in the process of making them more elegant for the theme already, but that could take a couple of days.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jonata:
hi, good work !

possible to have transparent statusbar ?

tks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] hsrn:
I think that r0ark did nice additions to the original ElegantSteel concept.

Could you ask him to share his statusbar icons and his mods and add them to this theme.

That would make this theme complete and I would root my nexus one just to apply a theme for the first time.

nice to see that this theme is being worked on and ported to nexus one.

i'll follow this thread for sure.