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[Galaxy S I9000 General] zipolly:
gps

Ive had my i9000 for about 4 months now and used the gps with navigon software on numerous journeys some lasting a few hours and can honestly say i have never experienced any problems with the gps , it works flawlessly and while its not as good as my tom tom it still hasnt let me down , i recently updated my firmware to the new relaese via kies and this has not affected the gps , the only fault i can find with this fantastic phone is the compass application which is very inacurate and unreliable but other than that this phone is superb and without a doubt the best phone i have ever used. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] duongla:
I just bought SGS 4 days ago. GPS works fine. Compare to my old Motorola Milestone, SGS fixes more quickly but not accurate as Milestone.

I also found that the compass does not work properly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aurelm:
Bleah...

Thanks for the reply. But can't the files be updated ? Or there are some more tweaks underneath the firmware that are not present in the main gps files ?

And why the hell would Samsung not release this beta fw WITH the gps fix ? Are there more teams working on separate things ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Case_:
I didn't actually try that when I was on JPC (had other things to worry about, like figuring out all the messed up things flashing that firmware did to my phone...), but I don't think mixing 2.1 and 2.2 system files would be a good idea...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] boomerbubba:
This can be deleted. Posted in error.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] White Hawk:
I just wanted to put in my tuppence-worth on the GPS issue:

I upgraded directly from a G1 to an SGS. I have run extensive tests with both phones side-by-side, while driving in a car, riding in trains, and walking.

While walking, the SGS has a lot of trouble keeping tabs on my position while the G1 nails it perfectly.

While train-riding or driving, the SGS rarely gets a lock, and when it does, it loses it again quickly. The G1 works flawlessly ~99% of the time.

I have tried one GPS fix involving altering the settings from the factory test menu... and only once did I get a golden ninety minutes of good behaviour. I admit that for a little while there, I thought someone had cracked the problem, but they hadn't, and the issue crept back in without so much as a bunch of flowers or a card to mitigate its misdeeds.

The GPS on the SGS has only gotten worse since I started, and now it is unable to determine my location under Google Navigation at all. The G1 does this brilliantly (running CyanogenMod 5.0.8), and it has renewed my appreciation of it immensely.

Even while the SGS is still dithering over whether I am standing in my garden or on the roof of a house a hundred yards away, the G1 has already locked my position to the highest accuracy. If I walk from one end of my house to the other (indoors!!), the G1 shows relative movement. The SGS continues to show me flying around the area like Superman on LSD even if I'm standing/walking in the garden.

The long and the short of it is that there IS a problem with the GPS, it is not fixable by a couple of fumbling tweaks, and it has been recognised as a software bug by Samsung, who have promised to fix it (sooner or later).

I am of the opinion that any so-called fixes are temporary at best, and a complete waste of time otherwise.

With this in mind, I have to agree with several other posters and declare this 'fix' another cry of wolf.

I love my SGS - I really do. The GPS problems suck badly, but I'm not going to kid myself that I can do anything about it until the progenitors of this particular example of suck have pulled their manually opposable digits from their respective rectal orifices and done something affirmative to rectify it. I am also not going to throw this marvellous piece of technology out of the window just because it doesn't know where the window is - it still does everything else better than anything else I've used.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I nearly forgot to mention that I DID try a couple of the leaked firmwares, but my testing got no further than determining that the SD card issues were still apparent or that Flash had not been implemented. If the firmwares I tried actually did fix the GPS in any meaningful way, they introduced other (show-stopping) issues that made the exercise pointless. I'm happy to wait and see if the official FroYo update contains the appropriate fixes WITHOUT crippling something else in the process.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TMReuffurth:
I use quite a lot SportyPal to Track my Cycling and Running Workouts every Weekend with my SGS. Unfortunetely like everyone knows the GPS is very unprecise many times. So i installed today Tracker Booster from the first Post and well, i post 3 Screenshots from Sportypal and then everybody can take it´s own conclusion.

As for me i will use Tracker Booster now each time i use GPS until it realy gets fixed

Edit: Just to let you know that the Daytime was almost the same in every Workout. Weather Conditions where the same too.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamZA:
Hey guys,

Just wondering if there is a HTC People or HTC Dialler app which is extracted from the HTC ROM's either in apk format or as a zip which I can flash? I've searched the forum but not found anything - wondering if they can be extracted since I assume that they can work without HTC Sense (e.g. when using different launchers)

I want to use OpenDesire but don't like the stock Android contacts/dialler.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kubilay.demir:
Hey, you can use Launcher Pro for sense like widgets. Otherwise sense widgets cannot use with default launcher on froyo.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamZA:
Hi - thanks for your answer - I know that I can use Launcher Pro etc but what i'm really interested in is the actual phone app and the contacts app which are on the HTC ROM's. When using a Sense ROM, if i change launcher to, for example, Launcher Pro, then i can still use the HTC Phone and Contacts app - thats what i'm after on a non-Sense ROM.

The only sense integration is with Facebook Sync I think - which I could live without.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kubilay.demir:
:D there is no option using sense widgets on froyo.Only with launcher pro but i dont like it,i like sense widgets but i dont like sense,only widgets that i like.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voodoodror:
I like to know if there's a way too, I don't like android's contacts\dialer either.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolfd:
As far as I'm aware, the HTC dialler and phone .apk are too deeply integrated with sense to work as a standalone app on non-sense roms. Simply removing the apk won't work.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamZA:
Cheers Rolfd - that would explain why no one has done it!

Does anyone know of any alternatives which offer smart dialling by typing in the name, etc?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beidl:
Market: Dialer One
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolfd:
You could try Dialer One on the market.

Edit: I'm too slow!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamZA:
Thanks guys - I'll try Dialler One on my next visit to Senseless Froyo!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyuk:
Dialer one is the best in the market I think as a replacement for HTC's dialer however you could also check out "NubDial" some people prefer that.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SudevG:
Yes "Dialer One" is providing very "Sensi"ble way to use phonepad. Thanks
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex.m:
Since getting my incredible I've struggled with how to best use the 8 gigs of internal storage on the phone... especially since many apps still don't recognize/use it.

Currently I only use the internal storage for pictures taken by the phone and manually copied videos (I found mVideoPlayer can be setup to index files within /emmc).

My question is really one of personal preference... how do you use those 8 gigs? What apps have you found that make use of that storage? Have you found any work arounds to trick a program that doesn't support the internal storage to store files there anyhow?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ACD168:
I don't use it for a thing. Lol, I have a 16GB SD card. and three 2GB SD cards haha.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMBosstones86:
just put some music on it today, mostly that and pictures
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Berzerker7:
5GB of Music/pictures. SDCard is mostly for nandroid backups :P
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UgXvibe:
I only put custom ringtones and apps on Internal.. Everything else i.e. movies, mp3's, etc go on the 16 Gb SD Card.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex.m:
For those of you that put music on the internal storage do you use an app to sync the music? Manually copy the music?

I currently use TuneSync because I love the wireless sync, but it only syncs to the sdcard.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Issemann:
How safe is it to use the internal memory for pics? (I know this area is untouched if I wipe and flash a new ROM). But should I be worried about losing my pics?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luvit:
I don't use my internal storage just so I can see my incredible complain that there is no space left...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Troy89:
I wouldn't be I use my internal storage for videos and my camera pics and have had no problems
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cjkholt:
Can anyone help me out? I need white text in the G2 google voice widget.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rori~:
Check my sig....black, or smoked widgets.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cjkholt:
Hey man, thanks a ton! I appreciate it! Great work!
[Droid Incredible General] jaredkent:
I got my OTA update today, unfortunately something went wrong. I told it to install now, and the screen with the android and caution symbol showed up. After 10-15 minutes I hit the power button. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to wait for that screen to clear or if that screen wasn't a good sign. Well hitting power took me to recovery and said that there was an error with the install.

What did I do wrong. Was I just supposed to wait longer? I had previously rooted my phone with unrevoked, but was running the stock ROM, should I have unrooted it? Was it some other error?

Any insight into what happened so when the update comes back around I can do it right. Also is there anyway to get the OTA update back, or do I just have to wait patiently again.
[Droid Incredible General] dalepl:
You can not update a rooted phone. Go to my post on updating 2.2 made easy and you canupdate to 2.2 and reroot the phone. This is the OTA update.
[Droid Incredible General] fygar66:
I'm sort of in the same boat. I had rooted with unrevoked and was running cyanogenmod. I reverted back to stock (retaining root). I received the OTA notification, it downloaded and started installing, but showed the <!> with the android.

I thought...ok...I'll return back completely to stock (no root) and now I'm sitting waiting for another OTA notification.

It's been three days now, and still no notification. I've tried checking for updates so many times that I've lost count.

Does anyone know whether or not a failed update gets another OTA notification? -or- why the software shows up-to-date when it's still at 2.1u1?

Thanks
[Droid Incredible General] UgXvibe:
Either take it to Verizon for them to push it onto the phone or use one of the methods here.
[Droid Incredible General] dalepl:
Go to this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=771178
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaker.the.skater:
in every keyboard that has a button set aside for smileys, emoticons, whatever you want to call it. they are always dumb ones with hyphens in them. is there any way to change them?

for instance make :-) look like :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaker.the.skater:
is this possible?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the3dman:
You would probably have to edit the images in the res folder inside the .apk file for whichever sms/mms program you use. So yes it could be done. Anything is possible!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaker.the.skater:
poop. ok. that's beyond my ability.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the3dman:
Just keep reading on here had you will be doing stuff like this in no time. All you really need is a copy of the gimp and 7zip (to open the apk).
[Desire General] DjLukeW:
is now up and running :)

from twitter -

@htc

Just in time for your weekend adventures, Peep and Friend Stream are up and running! Thanks to @Twitter, and to you all for your patience
[Desire General] MalayaleeRemo:
no its not. its still not working for me. do i have to restart my phone or something?
[Desire General] andycted:
It does and I'm baffled how that happens. They brought back normal auth ?

Sent from videotext, using the remote
[Desire General] malabisabe:
HTC Peep is back!!!

But, im using tweedeck, mutch better.
[Desire General] ddic:
Indeed, it's alive again! But how they manage to fix this authorisation issue?
[Desire General] foxmeister:
I would hazard a guess that it's one of two things:

1. Peep always did support OAuth, but there was some problem at the Twitter end which didn't affect all clients.

2. Twitter switched basic authentication back on.

Given the problems that have been reported with the Twitter APIs, I'm leaning more to towards 1.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] AndroHero:
or htc and twitter set up a vpn, peep still connects to the server it always did, then the server, connects to twitters servers using OAuth retreves the info, then sends it bk to us lol
[Desire General] Kameo:
Working fine for me since yesterday.
[Desire General] lukeap69:
Yup, working fine now...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gbhil:
Without going into too much detail, looking for a developer who can confirm some questions about exactly what the removal of third party sources (the unknown sources box in settings>applications) can and can't affect.

Specifically -- can the removal of this portion of the Android code affect the ability to receive an OTA update.

Anyone with a clue what I might be digging at, and want's to discuss in private, holler. I completely understand and will gladly give my contact info, figured I would come ask the best and brightest.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] evilkorn:
There is really nothing more to explain. With that disabled you can only install applications from the Market, which eliminates community shared programs.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] aar4ijs:
hello.

all day i tried to upgrade my radio in htc tytn (hermes 200). i tried different radio versions, such as 1.47 ; 1.50 ; 1.51.

at the moment i have radio version 1.03.03.10

somehow i cant upgrade it. all the times radio upgrading ends with 3 color screen.

please help me! it would be very nice, if someone can write step-by-step instruction :)

p.s. i tried to upgrade radio from this instructions xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hermes_ExtractedRadioRoms (upgrade instructions at the bottom in that site) and i tried to upgrade radio just by opening that radio ruuwrapper.exe

please, help! :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] moh0:
You should use the SD card method. It's safer and easier. Here's a guide from the wiki:

xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hermes_SDCardFlashing

Basically rename the radio rom to HERMIMG.nhb and dump it onto the root of your sd card. Then boot into bootloader mode and follow instructions from there. Also make sure you're phone has a sufficient battery charge and is plugged into a charger.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] aar4ijs:
hmm.. something isnt working anyway.

- i deleted all files from my 2 gb micro sd card.

- i downloaded radio version 1.54.30.10, extracted in new folder on my desktop.

- renamed "RUU_signed.nbh" to "HERMING.nbh"

- copy-pasted it to my empty micro sd memory card

- pushed "ok" and "on/off" buttons and reset button with stylus.

then there shows 3 colored screen and thats all. i even waited more than 30 minutes, but nothing happened.

i tried all this with radio version 1.47.30.10 too, but its the same result.

what im doing wrong?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] moh0:
Sorry for the late response. You must name it "HERMIMG.nbh" not "HERMING.nbh"

You did everything else right though. Once you rename the file properly and return to the color band screen, there will be on screen instructions.
[Hero CDMA General] xxxk15:
i just rewiped and flashed Dc 2.09.1 and we realized that the photo app and the phone app wasnt on the phone that comes with the phone...should i look for those apk and install them...i dont think i rewipe would work but idk...Is there anything i can do??
[Hero CDMA General] chromiumleaf:
Sounds like it may just be a bad install, cuz I used to use DC 2.09 for a while and that never happened to me.

Try re-downloading the DC 2.09 .zip, then put that new one onto your SD card and overwrite or delete the old zip. Re-wipe everything, then re-flash the new zip and see if that fixes it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Raykoid666:
What's the difference here?

thanks a lot in advance!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] BenF1:
291. :p

I don't know I've always used 512 and have had no problems.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Darkstriker:
Use 512.pit for now. Older FWs have issues when using 803.pit
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] richardbroder:
Good question... I always wanted to know, never discovered, but never bothered in creating a topic to find out... either way, I have randomly used 512 and 803, same results... used 803 with my last JPC flash....
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] zeu569:
i get errors when using 512 with JPC, or 803 with JG4. But 803 works fine with JPC, 512 with the older 2.1 roms.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] anurajnr:
I used 512 with my jpc and now my phone is flying

Had real issues when 803 was used..i also used the csc file which came with hk froyo
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] yaocheng:
no success of using 512 for all of the roms

513 is good for me for any android 2.1

i flash JPC using the new 803, which is no issue at all.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] HazzBazz:
Its to do with partitions. I heard natter that group roMs werent functioning due to512 do maybe 803 its the alternative partition layout forfroyo
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] HorusEyE:
Sorry to dig up, but i would like to know the difference if anyone knows...

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] giannisgx89:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=999097&highlight=pit+files
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ppeterpp:
I am using 512 for every flash. No issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] darckengel:
I use my own custom pit file with no issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] umberto1978:
The pit file maps and sets the dimension of the various partitions in our nand.

With old early rom --> pit 513;

With eclair, froyo 2.2.1 and gingerbread -->pit 512;

with froyo 2.2 (some beta) --> pit 803.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] O-T:
As usual on XDA - avoid SEARCH, start a thread asking answered topics.

Thank you giannisgx89 for link to Ramads GUIDE: The reality of PIT files.

Please read the guide. You will probably be better served there.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeeed:
Hi all, long time listener, first time caller..

I have a US t-mo HD2 using cookie energy 23127 Aug 28. I use gmail exchange active sync for mail, contacts and calendar, and have since I got the phone. Today, after I noticed I got priority folders in gmail, I no longer get "internet pictures blocked" warning, only the "tap to scroll right" option. There are image placeholders in the messages. I've changed nothing on my phone, and emails from the past (like even earlier today) still offer "internet pictures blocked" and let me get the pictures, just not on new mails since I got priority folders.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

update: turned off email push and set it up as imap, issue sorta resolved. I miss push mail though.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] WeeklyWars:
One, whenever I press the home button, it shows the 5 home screens, how can I get it back to going to just showing the 'main' one?

Also, when I click the app thing on the bottom it gives me an ugly black screen, how can I change that?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] JamesBarnes:
#1: Settings>System Prefs>Home Button Binding

#2: Settings>Drawer Settings> Background Colour

:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] steven1234:
On mattc 1.7 at least... go to settings, wireless and network, mobile networks, network operators, and click select automatically. Before I did this my bars/data would jump around randomly and sometimes i would have 2-3 bars when I should have had full service but after this I got full bars and constant 3G... tmo US btw.
[XPERIA X10 General] sweetfish:
OK, this is a strange situation. I'm currently using awn launcher and for some reason I can't change my default home button to awn, I also can't remove what ever default home is. I've tried going to setting- manager apps- home and awn launcher and both of them the change default option is greyed out.i don't know what to do.i tried restarting, but nothing worked. Please help me.
[XPERIA X10 General] xGary:
AWN Launcher? Im kinda confused but it seems that you have tried:

Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Home>Clear defaults?

If that doesn't work another way you can clear defaults is download another home laucher. Try and install another home like PandaHome or scan this:

After you install it it should ask you again what you want to set your default home as.

Gary~
[XPERIA X10 General] sweetfish:
Haha, sorry I was thinking of a dock for linux. What I mean was adw... OK problem solved. Thank you so much.
[Android Software Development] bbrown35:
Hey,

I'm a "noob" and not SUPER technically advanced when it comes to phones, but I have a decent idea how to do things with it.

I got an Incredible used from someone and it was already rooted by him. I was told the other night that you need to have the phone unrooted in order to get the official OTA 2.2 update. That night I attempted to unroot it, but turns out I was doing it wrong. I went to bed, and woke up with the OTA update on my phone asking if I wanted to install it, so I said Install Now, and it went to the Boot screen and I dont know if I did something wrong, or it just wouldnt work because my phone was rooted.

So now, 3 days later I've got it Unrooted finally, and I've tried several different update.zip files that I've downloaded from different forums, etc. None of them will work, and they all say Installation Aborted.

Also, when I am in the recovery screen, it says E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command

I've tried several different sd cards thinking that was the problem, and same failure everytime. I have a feeling it is my phone itself..

Any ideas, help, advice??

Greatly appreciated..
[Android Software Development] ejdavis72:
Just download the Verizon 2.2 Froyo update RUU. Run it on your computer with your phone connected and you'll get it. You didn't need to unroot either cause it will automatically zap that.
[Android Software Development] bbrown35:
Hey, sorry but I don't know what an RUU is, and where/how I get it.. also, I have a macbook, is that a problem?

Thanks!
[Android Software Development] ejdavis72:
I'm not sure if Mac is a problem but I'm sure you can find someone with a PC that will let you use it. I will private message you the link cause xda won't let me post a link here cause I'm too new to the forums. Check your inbox.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barnacles10:
anyone else have this issue? every single pm I send never shows in my outbox. I'm at like 100 inbox, 0 outbox..