yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] Paul22000:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.wsandroid

http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=remote+wipe
[Android Apps and Games] spazoid:
Get wave secure.....way better
[Android Apps and Games] lowspeed:
not free though...

What are the free options out there? The search in appbrain is really lacking.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perdurabo2:
It seems like the forums have gone to complete hell lately with flames junk topics like "lol, socks" and "omfg 2.2 root!!???".

Is xda-devs short of moderators to lock and delete crap topics and flames? I thought the forum rules spoke against this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Hey, great thread... :rolleyes:

2.5 MILLION members

100 or so moderators

Care to calculate the member to moderator ratio?

Maybe you could start a new thread with the answer..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uniquenameevo:
You were being facetious I assume. I'd be more than willing to do that math, but since you were able to find letters on a keyboard I assume you also can do it :)

P.S. I came in when I saw "lol, socks" in the preview. I still don't get it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perdurabo2:
It would be more accurate to calculate the # of forums/moderator ratio.

I'm interested in any alternative suggestions you might have. If you care to look at the threads, it's only a relatively small handful of trolls and junk topic creators.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
My point is threads like this do nothing to help the situation.

We had a day long "town hall" meeting several months ago where the mods and users came together to discuss ways of improving things.

If you think a thread is junk or is in the wrong forum USE THE REPORT BUTTON

The mods don't have time to read every single thread and determine if it is legit or a waste of space. They asked us members for our help and said the best thing we can do to help is use the report button as it is intended.

Not to mention that with all the bullcrap threads that get started every day you are going to complain about the mods???

If you are going to complain about anyone it should be about the jerks that come in here with tunnel vision on the "New Thread" button and start new threads without reading ANYTHING

Is it an inconvenience? Does it clutter the forum in a HUGE way?

Yes and Yes, but complaining about the moderation is the wrong perspective.

Reminder: The mods here are V O L O U N T E E R S ! ! ! Help them out, go on a bullcrap thread reporting frenzy.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perdurabo2:
Calm down. Having a bad day?

Also, if you're going to spell out "VOLUNTEERS" at least spell it correctly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HondaCop:
LMAO!! I literally spit my lunch out hahahahahaha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Having a great day, I just dont understand why you complain about the mods regarding a problem that you are contributing to with this very thread.

Take your own advice:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] echoside:
I think this is my 5th reply to this type of topic.

Your just adding to what your complaining about. A thread like this pops up almost daily.....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilde88:
The moderators are out not making new threads in a wrong place.

Alternative to thread-making altogether, just send them a personal message to get your issue resolved.

I like to type things... And you are reading this...

I don't know why you are reading this, but you did! Gratz@@ Level 2
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilde88:
hey why did you edit the original post?>
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perdurabo2:
I'm not sure that I did. Is there a way to see a version history?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toastcfh:
im right here, everyday and night. i would suggest reporting posts that are in violation of forum rules. i do my best to read as many threads i can and at least drop in and check out the conversations taking place. that said i cant read every post in every forum. the solution to this isnt to start a thread in the spirit of complaining about things not going the way u want them to. the solution would be to take action and report the posts that are out of line. this is a community and every member of the community can report people. at the second a post is reported most likely a moderator will handle the situation.

so please instead of complaining. do something to help out. contribute something to the community. dont add to the problem by flaming back or starting threads to complain about it.

that said... this thread is closed and ill leave my answer for everyone to see. i alone cant see everything. but we all together can bring those who are here for the wrong reason to light, so they can be dealt with.

PS this was posted in the wrong section. Questions need to be posted in Q&A. hence the title of the subforum(Q&A)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ramalingam:
i have o2 xda atom life. Can i upgrade it to windows mobile 7 or android?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orb3000:
Welcome to forums

You won´t be able to upgrade to WP7...

Have a deep <read on the Wiki to locate your devices section and you can see what options to upgrade you have
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] madnish30:
Please read the rules and then post.

Thread closed.
[Desire General] UpSpin:
Some custom ROMs, which are not based on HTC roms, but compiled form Android Source support the Bluetooth HID profile, thus support well known and common normal Bluetooth keyboards.

I've tested Cyanogenmod and OpenDesire.

However, I was unsatisfied with the keyboard layout. I've found no key for return, needed some special 'Umlaute' for my German layout, etc.

Here's what I've found to fix all this:

1. Description what can be changed:

Android Open Source Project: Keymaps and Keyboard Input

Until now I don't know the internal differences between the key map and character map files. Sure, both look different, both can and must be changed for different reasons. The key map if you want to change actions and also alter phone buttons, the character map for modifying the full layout. But with the key map you could also alter parts of the layout, so it's not that clear for me. However.

2. Altering Key Map Layout

So I took a look at this file, changed it, and it worked ;)

Here a nice explanation of this file, explained are the different commands, too.

[GUIDE] How to Remap Hardkey Actions || Custom App Launching

What we not know, the key number of our physical BT keyboard, so what's the number of ESC? For this, I've found following site, which seems to contain the correct scan codes, used in Android: (note, the values are in HEX!!)

http://www.marjorie.de/ps2/scancode-set1.htm

So if we take a look at ESC:

Key: ESC Make: 01 --> in decimal, stays 01

We just have to add following line to the key map layout file:

key 1 BACK WAKE_DROPPED

and we have a back key.

3. Altering Character Map file

To change characters and change the whole layout, it seems as if we have to alter the character Map file. (/system/usr/keychar/qwerty.kcm.bin)

Sadly, this fact makes editing the file somehow difficult:

I have no idea what this tool is, nor how to revert it back, so we have to edit the binary file. Luckily, one user's done the hard work already, again:

Changing to a non-english keyboard layout [cupcake support]

The easiest method is to use some kind of hexeditor, so you see what you do and can enter the character code of special characters easily, I used the one in Notepad++

Then you can alter the layout just as you like. Because I have a special english keyboard with which I want to type german Umlaute, too, I changed

A.2.a.A.#..

to

A.2.a.A.ä.Ä.

So I can type an 'ä' by holding the 'Alt' key and pressing a. Typing 'Ä' by holding Shift+Alt and typing 'a'.

Unlimited possibilities :D

Tips:

To alter both files you can use ADB and an editor on your computer.

Or you can alter the files directly on the phone, without any additional hardware. You only need Root Explorer to open, change and save the files directly on the phone.

Drawbacks of changing the layout:

Haven't seen some yet ;)
[Captivate General] gunnyman:
They all are saying AT&T is evil, I'm crazy blah blah vampire emergency blah...

OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE???? :D

Seriously. All Cellular carriers in the US are evil. Just in different ways. Why all the AT&T hate? Where's the gotchas?
[Captivate General] mesasone:
Are they paying for your phone or wireless bill?
[Captivate General] fugeelama:
Ditto. Plenty of people have legitimate reasons to complain about AT&T (dropped calls, lack of coverage, etc) but plenty of people have never had a single issue with them. Personally I just switched to AT&T for the Captivate (formerly with T-Mobile) and I've been happy so far. I get at least the same if not better coverage and my bill is actually cheaper thanks to a 21% discount from my employer.
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
it's fashionable to hate at&t. If you listened to these people, at&t would have worse coverage than tmobile. Anyone who's ever owned both outside of a major metro area knows that's a joke.
[Captivate General] Jack45:
AT&T issues are market-based and are not universal. If any of your "friends" are iPhone 4 users, their problems

are

universal.
[Captivate General] Kagoshema:
i dont have any real complaints with service anymore (one perk of the iphone)

but i dont think ive had one single interaction with att that they didnt mess up (ex. adding a line and putting a messaging block on the whole account. wtf?)
[Captivate General] id10terrordfw:
I was one of those that had trouble with at&t. I had each iPhone generation, and all 3g versions would drop calls. Now I will say I worked for apple retail at the genius bar for this time period, and it was all to frequent in terms of customers complaining. I bought the hype that it was at&T's sucky network causing all the issues.

Then the iPhone 4 hit. I had one. Returned it due to lack of satisfaction with he fix for the search grip as well as the proximity sensor issue. I immediately went and got the captivate.

I haven't dropped a single call since. Not one. Even in areas that were guaranteed to drop on 3 successive generations of iPhone. I have yet to have any issue.

That tells me something.

That I will not go back. No matter what.
[Captivate General] richierich1212:
Same, my wife and I were disgusted with our iPhone 3Gs, both dropped calls and limited customization, and poor performance with the iOS 4 update. It was so bad we thought it was AT&T's network and were contemplating on switching carriers. I decided to try out the Captivate, and it's been awesome.

And your buddies are jealous, that's all :D
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
My experience is similar. I have had at&t for years.i never had a problem with them until I had an iphone. The three I had dropped calls constantly. Now I have the captivate and at&t is great again.
[Captivate General] gunnyman:
thanks all. You'll never get a die hard apple fanboi to admit the iphone problems are problems with the phone. Thanks for the positive stories :)
[Captivate General] mesasone:
Yeah, when I had my first gen iPhone, I occasionally dropped calls and just generally had bad quality. I figured it was AT&T's infamous network. I almost switched carriers, but I was prepaid at that time and had built up nearly a 500 dollar balance on my account, so I didn't want to lose that. So, I gave the Blackberry Bold (9000) a try - turns out it was the iPhone all along. I got great reception and fantastic call quality on my Bold.

I haven't made many calls with my Captivate - frankly, the voice/phone portion of my cellphone is fairly low on my priorities :p - but while it doesn't really seem to quite be up to the level of my Bold, it's still far ahead of my iPhone.
[Captivate General] quarlow:
Same story here.

Had a WinMo phone for years (HTC Hermes) then switched to iPhone, started dropping calls, and losing data. It wasn't too big, and at about the same time I moved into a basement apt. I chalked it up to all the concrete that I could not talk on the phone when home. We moved again, and on my commute to and from work there were 3 spots that would lose signal EVERY time. Calls would drop, Pandora would stop playing, etc. Then I got my HTC Aria, same commute, far fewer dropped calls, then my Captivate (day 30 of my Aria return window) and haven't dropped a call since on the commute. AT&T having network issues? I think not.

I am giddy at the chance of a Verizon iPhone, so all the people complaining about AT&T will see that the iPhone on any network sucks.
[Captivate General] coldfuzion76:
I've had at&t for years, because until recently it was all we had I'm my area that was any count at all. Recently Verizon has moved in, and I did consider switching because of hardware choices. But I waited it out, and decided to go ahead with my Captivate, and I'm loving it. My friends all have iPhones and so did I. I never had the problems that they seem to have, but I'm happier now anyway being away from the tyranny of Steve Jobs.
[Captivate General] myrddin201:
i had to switch to at&t because of work. i do a lot of international travel and at&t's list of countries is about 5x bigger than any other carrier for reduced roaming rates. and GSM is more universal and i didn't want verizon's blackberry offerings.

i had minor issues with call drops, but that's because i'm usually in large metal/concrete airplane hangers.

so far though, no issues with captive. even with one bar, no call quality issues either in the states...or as of so far hong kong.:)

oh and my entire office but 2 others have iphones and i got nothing but flack for not getting one. glad i didn't
[Captivate General] dmnall:
I have been with ATT since 1998 and the only issues I have ever had with dropped calls was with the following phones since the Cingular/ATT Merger: Nokia N-Gage QD, Motorola V551 *just close to my house*, Motorola V3 *close to my house and when the phone was at the end of its life*, Samsung Sync *bought it used of fleabay worst cell ever*, Nokia N55 *would drop in typical black hole areas*, Motorola Razr2 *POS never could get a good voice call on it no matter what area I was in*, Blackberry Curve 8300 *dropped calls in blackhole areas*, BB 8310 *same as 8300*, BB Bold 9000 Same as the previous BBs, and now the Captivate *same as the BB in terms of dropped calls which equals about 2 dropped calls in the past 5 weeks or so*...

Now funny thing when I talk to a couple of my friends who actually have the iPhone, they drop randomly and it is pretty funny where I dont have the issue with my Captivate. Even my friend who is also a snake breeder *boas, pythons and other snakes*, told me today he likes his iPhone 3G besides the dropping call issue and asked me how Android is treating me, I said I love it and not going back to BB...

HTH,

Charlie
[Captivate General] notasimpleway:
Gunny, wtf Re you doing here in the ATT phone section? Shouldn't you be in the Hero section? >¦(

LOL :P

Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.
[Captivate General] gunnyman:
LOL notasimpleway. Got tired of having an out of date phone and super slow EVDO. :D
[Desire General] jullejul:
hi i have the ota froyo with bootloader 0.80. i want to hack or something like that so i can change the cpu speed to 1305 Mhz. thanks in adnvade
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
Have a read here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=505419

You'll need root access of course, which i believe can be done with unrevoked for desire with hboot 0.80
[Desire General] Kickasskev:
this will kill your battery
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
If you mean Sense Froyo, that's a no go. Still waiting for HTC to deliver the goods.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortal300:
Always Include:

Carrier: T-Mobile USA

Phone: Nexus One..

Running: Cyanogen 6 RC2 + Froyo Radio + Amon recovery

I seriously don't understand what's going on. I live in Los Angeles and when I run the Speedtest.net application on my N1, I NEVER have seen my download speed go above 2.0 Mb/s on "HSPA".

I see people posting pictures of their speed tests in Las Vegas getting more than

4.0 download and 1.5 upload.

Is something wrong with my phone here? I run tests infront of friends and look retarded when my speed level dips down to 0.98 and there running some crappy AT&T thats beating me!!!

(Is GPS supposed to be on when selecting a server because its selecting some Arizona servers when im in Los Angeles!!!)

Thanks for the 'noob' help. =P
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeEsAw12:
Which FroYo radio? Have you tried the Korean radio?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whoisthedrizzle:
Honestly, Los Angeles and all of SoCal have very inconsistent signal strength, this is even more true the further West you are. The closer you are to the beach the worse signal will be either because you're just too far from a tower or there's just a big ****ing hill blocking your signal. Vegas is just big open flat space in the middle of the desert vs. SoCal's endless maze of mini mountains and valleys. I was just out in Vegas last month also, and my speeds were only slighly better than LA (but at the same time reception is not the best inside casinos).

check if you're in a dead zone: http://deadcellzones.com/t-mobile.html

According to the T-Mo HSPA+ zone info these CA cities currently should have live HSPA+:

Anaheim

Burbank

Glendale

Irvine

Los Angeles

Long Beach

Ontario

Future:

Oakland

Sacramento

San Diego

San Francisco

San Jose

Now, anyone from LA knows "Los Angeles" is a pretty vague description of it's coverage. My guess is it's probably limited to downtown LA since you could be in the middle of Hollywood and have a "Los Angeles" mailing address/zip code. However, I live on the border of Burbank and I've never gotten above 3.5Mb down, and only once or twice. I average around 2-2.5; and that's with -60 to -70dbm, arguably some of the strongest coverage I get in SoCal. Actually, when I head into Burbank for errands or in the direction of the airport, signal is terrible.

If you're speed is really just unbearably ****ty compared to what it should be on just HSPA, not HSPA+ you should call T-Mobile and hopefully you get someone on the phone who can do some of their OTA black magic.

Edit: Just noticed the T-Mobile website explicitly lists those live cities as having HSPA+ coverage. The best I get anywhere in LA is HSDPA, even Burbank - so I'll be calling up T-Mobile today myself to see what's up with that.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bestofrhcp:
I knnow for sure la description is vague. I live in Pomona and the fastest I get is a 1.5mb/1mb. Last week I was super surprised a the speed I was gettinng in Rowland heights! I was at a restaurant. And I wanted to check my speeds .. I was getting almost 5mb/3mb. That's the fastest I've seen on my nexus.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zephyron:
what the hell, I get less than 1mb/s download from there >.< actually anywhere for that matter... what should I do? call t-mobile? anyone know what I should ask them?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bachviet:
Even though the software (HSPA+) is in place for Los Angeles area but some of back haul has not been upgraded yet.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whoisthedrizzle:
Perhaps the problem is that our phones simply do not support HSPA+, which they do not. They support up to ~7M down on HSDPA.

T-mobile is just running around saying they've upgraded their network and to enjoy faster speeds, yet at the same time is saying the G2 will be the first device on their network to be able to even use HSPA+.

Anyone care to clue me in on how a HSDPA rated phone is going to have improved network speed on a network it isn't compatible with and isn't completely live?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akalior88:
I got a text message saying that its up in my area I am in the west valley of the san fernando valley I get 4 dl speeds at work in calabasas but at home in encino I get 700 kb at best I think its tower to tower
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortal300:
Yeah this is nuts. I live in Glendale and I never see above 1.0mb/s....just ridiculous.

Mountains and everything are ruining the reception and yeah I love closer to the water!

What the heck is going on Tmo!?!?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whoisthedrizzle:
Just today?

I'm in the valley on the edge of burbank/studio city and get decent speed, but not HSPA+ and yeah encino/sherman oaks sucks ass out but the 405/101.

Your phone will hate you as it switches from 3G-Edge all day in that area.

Natural topography?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortal300:
I am using regular froyo radio recommended in cyanogens cm6 thread. Can I flash Korean radio on top? If I get issues can I just go back and flash regular froyo radio?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeEsAw12:
Yeah, you can do all that.

A lot of people have reported faster speeds on the new radio.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erikiksaz:
The radio increased my download speeds. I usually top out at about 700Kbps down/ 1300 up around Placentia.

After installing, those numbers flip-flopped :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortal300:
I can flash the radio without doing a wipe and clean install of CM6-RC3?

So in other words im using CM6 right now with Froyo radio...I can just throw the update.zip and flash that korean radio and it will still continue to work?? (And also go backwards incase I dont like the difference..)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sg1dan:
yes, you can install the latest radio 5.08 and then go back to the 4.xx if you choose so. ROM is not associated with radio. radio controls all the wireless/signals in the cellphone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeEsAw12:
Yes sir.

You DO NOT have to wipe.

and you can go back whenever you please.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irishrally:
I'd also like to know the answer to this question. I'm strongly considering picking up the Nexus S and would like to know if when hspa+ comes to the city where I live if my N1 or NS would see a big jump in download speed despite not "having hspa+"?

On my N1 I get no more than 1Mb/s down. If that number would jump to 7Mb/s when hspa+ comes to town and can definitely rationalize the Nexus S not being hspa+ compatible. 7 times my current speed will do.

Can someone please explain how this really works?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaker.the.skater:
does it affect battery to keep gps always enabled? or should I only keep it on when I need it?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeathstarsOG:
Yes. People have shown up to 1% battery loss per minute while using GPS. I'm sure if your not using Maps or somthing it won't be as severe, but will definately still effect battery life. Enable when you need it, disable when you don't.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaker.the.skater:
ok thanks, that's what I figured
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shrivel:
This should only be true if an app is actively using the GPS. If it's active but not in use, I doubt it would have any noticeable impact on battery life. I leave it always active and have excellent battery life.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disturkis4u:
I always left it on with my mytouch and never noticed a decrease..unless it was being used which you can see in your notification bar..with this phone I generally leave it off because sometimes it crashes my google maps =(