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[Epic 4G General] Kelvala:
I got mine yesterday...bought the farm!

Phone, extra charger w/battery (actually its a nice battery holder and phone holder), Body Glove case and screen protector.

Coming from a rooted Hero, this thing is SICK! I haven't been able to put it down...the wife was telling me to turn off my nightlight last night....lol :p
[Epic 4G General] jokarak:
Got mine yesterday (Sep. 2nd). Incredible phone - I had a rooted G1, so the Epic is a speed demon in comparison. Love the screen, although the colors seem a bit too saturated (wish there was a saturation control as well as brightness). The keyboard is fantastic, responsiveness is amazing. The better CPU and extra memory makes things like Wifi move so much faster - browsing is near desktop speeds on wifi.

No 4G where I live, so can't comment on that.

Wasn't too thrilled with touchwiz - none of the special widgets interested me, so I installed ADW. I guess I'm just too used to it now after CM5 and 6. Interestingly, the default google news/weather and calendar widgets are not to be found. I downloaded the news/weather from somewhere and grabbed a calendar reminder widget from the market.

Camera is very nice, although I prefer the 2.2 camera app. It takes very nice pictures, and having the flash is great. Don't really like the way the lens protrudes (I can imagine scratching it in no time), but I guess that is the price you pay for having a physical keyboard - less room for the lens.

Can't wait for Sprint to release 2.2 and for the community to get a clean ROM going. I'm probably rooting the phone is about a week and getting rid of the bloatware.
[Epic 4G General] clockcycle:
I think the signal bar is misleading.. as you can not tell if it is showing the 3G signal or the 1x signal... Perhaps one phone had a better 3G radio or vice versa better 1X radio... I know the older Winmo phones would switch out between showing either of the signals.. lol
[Epic 4G General] billyp707:
Bought mine the day it came. Full price too. TW needs some work. I'm coming from Hero land and this phone kicks ass. No, realy, the phone (making calls that is) works so much better. No lag when making a call is so nice. The Hero was way too under powered. This phone on the other hand can chugg through most anything. I wish samy give us the ability to customize the UI a bit deeper but other than that this phone is a great joy!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] b4b4j4g4:
Hey Community!

Yesterday I've bricked my HTC Magic the hard way when trying to flash SPL 2.22.23.02 - I can neither access recovery/fastboot mode nor establish a usb connection between my phone and my PC. I just can't do anything. It's probably dead.

I've read some interesting threads in the forum telling me that I have bricked my phone and there is no way to get my phone back to life again since it is "truly bricked". :(

Well, today I gave up researching and decided to go to my carrier and tell them a "fake story" in order to get a new phone. :/

I still "have" warranty on my phone so there shouldn't be any problem.. BUT: I have previously flashed Cyanogenmod so my warranty is void. But since it is bricked, no one can see that Cyanogenmod was previously installed on my phone, right? Or is there any way HTC or my carriers engineers can read the content of my bricked phone?

Well, I hope someone can help me and tell me wether it is a good idea or not. :/
[General Questions and Answers] wm_ftw:
I can't decide between the Droid Incredible and the Droid 2. The Droid 2 is getting good reviews that mention its battery life positively (something I really care about), has a physical keyboard etc. etc. On the other hand, the Incredible has an AMOLED screen (supporting the battery saving pixel turn-off modes), a higher res camera and Sense UI.

My only fear with the Incredible is that every single review points out its short battery life. I know it lacks a physical keyboard but I think I can manage that, especially since I used to have a Touch.

Which direction should I go? :confused:

Here's my past history: PPC6900 > Q9c > PPC6950 > Pre > G1
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Just trying to understand how the choice of Windows Mobile ROM affects the performance and battery life of the Android if the haret.exe file shuts down the Windows Mobile portion of the phone. If this is the case, wouldn't the Windows Mobile ROM portion not matter unless it is running in the background?

Just trying to understand what is going on with this WinMo-Android compatibility issue. :confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] polo735:
There are a few registry tweaks that can be made in WM. These pertain mostly to the SD card. They must affect the way android picks up the system once it is handed off by windows.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kabuk1:
Your choice of rom has a pretty significant effect on how well Android will run. Running Android off the SD card is essentially running 2 OSes at the same time, Android-over-Windows, so therefore the efficiency of your WM rom has a direct effect on your android rom.

I've been running Shubcraft 1.4d for the past week over 3 different WM roms with different results on each one. Running over the stock T-Mo rom was some serious butt-hurt. It was slow, buggy, the battery life sucked, the volume was too low, and nobody could understand me cause of the robot voice thing. On VBN rom it ran much better but the battery life was still kinda crappy. On ChuckyDroid(my current rom), it runs FANTASTIC & battery life is great(for Android anyway, it's still not as good as WM but I can easily make it through the day with moderate use). I get about 1% an hour battery loss with my current combo.

Your radio can have a big effect too. The wrong radio can give you the robot voice problem and cause compatibility issues.

You should also fully format your SD card before attempting to run Android. There's an sd format program listed in one of the threads on here & it is awesome. I used it last night & while it took about 4 hours to completely erase & format, I have noticed a HUGE difference in the way my phone runs now. I'm topping out the charts in benchmark tests now.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tsrzealot:
Sorry to disagree, but I think you're only partly right. It is correct that your WinMo hoice affects or can affect android performance in some ways. What is not correct is that Android runs over WinMo. From my understanding, Windows Mobile only initializes drivers for the hardware (this is why different ROMs may indeed result in different android performance). Booting the Linux kernel then completely shuts down Windows Mobile. Android is not an "App" running in WinMo, but a completely independent OS once the Linux kernel has been booted. BTW, I'm not trying to be a smartass here, just trying to clear this up ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xpoloxp:
another thread with the same old question...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] polo735:
I agree with tsrzealot. It is not android-over-windows. It is not windows running emulation software running android. That is 100% incorrect. Android cannot boot directly from the phone's hardware, it requires windows to start the boot process and nothing more. There is some difference in how each winmo hands off the hardware to android.
[Captivate General] locsplitter:
Keep getting this error while trying to import my contacts that I'm trying to get off my google sync.

Any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] katsuru:
Hello,

We all know our bluetooth 3.0 is missing something like HID ( am i correct? )

And because of that we can't connect bluetooth devices to it, like Keyboards and Game controllers... Even heard some bluetooth stereo sets won't connect to it, like BMW's embedded ones ( am I correct again? xD )

Has samsung said anything about this HUGE issue? I find it HUGE because it is the only wall i "see" between using the full potential of this device or not using it and think how it would be if i could....

Best regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
BT is not damaged, so there is no fixing

but it can be improved to include more profiles to support more devices

supposedly in 2.2 we might get additional hardware support like the BT keyboards, mouse and such
[Galaxy S I9000 General] katsuru:
That would mean a profile which would allow us to finally connect a WiiMote ?

And in my opinion the BT is damaged, and needs fixing, it is unacceptable not being able to connect a Bluetooth headset to your 450€ Device :o

That is how i see things, others may not see it that way, but hey, we are free to have our own opinions right? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
as it is right now

the BT is able to connect to standard mono headsets, and stereo headsets

as well as GPS satellite, and Car Stereos (i use it all the time great base/sub!)

it has profiles to transfer files via BT

from my point of view it's pretty complete, with the minor exception of the missing HID keyboard/mouse/game controllers support

the missing BT Profile is more like a missing Driver to support those last 3 devices
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ickyboo:
Just install blue input or get apps from google to install kb hid. Bt isn't missing anything in sgs. Screw wii input. How many. Normal bt devices do you know can accept wii as input without 3rd party drivers

Typed with bloodied fingers on a Apple Newton 2100. Hail Fuhrer Jobs!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
install this app/driver

Wiimote controller

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.ccpcreations.android.WiiUseAndroid
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BronzedDroid:
I'm pretty sure that Vibrant/SGS isn't supported by that application, AllGamer.

Quote: "This app doesn't work on phones with HTC Sense UI and some newer Samsung phones."

and:

"This worked fantastically on my G1, but sadly, I can't say the same for my Vibrant. Curse uou Touchwiz!"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] katsuru:
Every single Vanilla Android phone? Plus other devices which weren't meant to run Android but do run it Vanilla?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ickyboo:
Where is your proof? If that's the case then why did they make wii 3rd party driver? Seriously if you are going to ***** over a small thing like wii remote and kb hid (fixable if you find my bt kb fix in other postings ) then return the sgs and get a more mature phone like the google nexus one god phone. It seems everyone is whining and *****ing over nothing cosidering this phone is brand new without mature software. Every phone has bugs.

Typed with bloodied fingers on a Apple Newton 2100. Hail Fuhrer Jobs!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
agree with ickyboo

my though exactly :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SquidgyB:
Ironically enough, your "fix" was posted on the forum for the product on dealextreme, doesn't say what phone the fix is for, and doesn't work on the SGS.

BT is missing something in the SGS - the 3rd party apps you believe would fix the issue don't work. hcitool doesn't recognise a local BT device, and so can't connect to anything, all the wiimote apps error on connection - this is not a lack of profiles, it's a lack of (or at the very least, different; different enough to cause a whole host of devices and 3rd party apps to be incompatible with the SGS) implementation one way or another.

Please, try your fixes before you go preaching "screw wii input".
[Galaxy S I9000 General] katsuru:
My proof?

G1, Magic, Desire, Nexus , Milestone and X10 Mini Pro all have HID drivers... I tested them all.

You should know that by now, every Vanilla android device and devices with vanilla intact BT connect to wiimotes...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Phk:
Hey!

How do you use your Galaxy as an MP3 player for car audio?! You said good Bass, but isn't bluetooth audio only MONO?

Thanks :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hiraj_panosian:
I tried as well, it was stereo and worked great!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Phk:
WOW!! How did you do it?! GOD! =))))
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mickeko:
Perhaps he connected it to something with proper bluetooth compatibility, so it didn't matter that the SGS has BT3.0 as backward compatibility worked as it should?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Phk:
I'm trying to "stream" some MP3 to my car audio but i don't know how :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
your car needs to have a Bluetooth 2.0+ receiver unit
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Phk:
Yes, the car is new, just came out from the shop :)

But i have it paired, i pickup calls, but then HOW do i play Audio to the car? Which program should i use and what options must i have?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Valeo:
Er, you do know that bass frequencies don't only exist in stereo signals, right? :rolleyes: :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Phk:
Yes, LOL, what i meant is that i thought bluetooth audio sucked totally.. So i wouldn't expect a good rating from anyone..

Anyway, which program can i use to broadcast the mp3? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
you don't any app

it is part of the phone Bluetooth funtions
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psalm462:
I have rooted with EVO3, but I have not done anything else. Can I receive the update or do I need to go back to stock? Can I receive the OTA with the root at all?

Thanks in advance!!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khakhi:
guys i dont know why but my X1 has became too slow, i have installed plenty of apps on it.

what could be the cause?

what is the solution?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] altae:
Backup your data and perform a hard reset. It will erase your internal storage and restore factory defaults.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metk@:
Where did you installed this apps? If on your SD card, this might be a problem.

Have you tried softreset device?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luirhy:
You have answered your own question. You have too many apps installed. Try removing some of them. Also delete temp files regularly
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hwy7.fox:
Try running HTC Addicts - cleanRAM (V2.5) on your X1.

It got rid of some of my clutter.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
NOTE: By the way, feel free to post up your "scientific" and anecdotal battery tests in this thread so that we have a formal benchmark for comparison. Thanks!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aussiebum:
Hmm, do you mind downloading Current Widget and telling me what power consumption figure it reports after your HD2 is on standby (ie. screen off)?

On my HD2, running Miri v17, with WM power tweaks and a couple of widgets running,

darkstone's HD2Froyo v2 uses a massive 60ma during standby.... in comparison his HD2Froyo v1 build only uses 14ma. Someone posted that Bangsters uses 9-10ma on standby, while shubicraft 1.5 uses 44ma (not sure if they tested with or without widgets though)

To me that looks like certain Android builds are using more power than others, but I haven't quite figured out why yet. Would be helpful if we can get a list of the Android builds that are known to have low standby/screen off power consumption, then we can figure out what makes these particular builds so energy saving!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aarons6:
im using energy froyostone witch i believe is based on v1 with sense? its 56ma on standby.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Sounds good I will download Current Widget pretty much on the build for tomorrow then :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
My build:

Android ROM: FroyoStone Series V1: Sense Version

WM: Energy.Leo.23127.Sense2.5.Aug.28

Sandisk 1GB card

Radio: 2.12.50.02_2

SPL: HSPL3_PKG

NOTE: The display brightness (default) is twice as high as the first build I tested yesterday...

I also modified the WM with autoboot using the program FD DroidBoot and also using the energy tweak that you can download the .cab file at RT @xdadevelopers Post: Increase Battery Life [WinMo registry tweaks - Need confirmation] http://bit.ly/9gnTvO. I use SetCPU at 245/768 when operational and 245/245 when screen off with ondemand at 100%. 3G speed was used for this experiment for web browsing and apps.

I will update with the results in this post soon... I also decided to use the Batteryminder app so that I have a more scientific way of quantifying what is going on with my Android build.

Timeline to be posted here:

September 1, 2010

8:50 AM- 97% 13 hours 4 minutes

9:00 AM- 95% 20 hours 5 minutes

9:34 AM- 90% 19 hours 23 minutes

9:40 AM- 88% 19 hours 21 minutes (49 m 43 s since unplugged)

**6.81 hours of estimated battery life**

9:49 AM- 85% 18 hours 18 minutes

10:02 AM- 80% 17 hours 12 minutes (1 h 12 m 33 s since unplugged)

**6.08 hours of estimated battery life**

10:17 AM- 77% 16 hours 8 minutes

10:26 AM- 75% 16 hours 5 minutes (1 h 36 m 17 s since unplugged)

11:06 AM- 66% 14 hours 5 minutes (2 h 15 m 51 s since unplugged)

**6.80 hours of estimated battery life**

11:40 AM- 59% 12 hours 6 minutes

12:23 PM- 52% 11 hours 21 minutes

12:36 PM- 50% 10 hours 11 minutes (3 h 36 m 21 s since unplugged)

**7.53 hours of estimated battery life**

1:05 PM- 43% 9 hours 2 minutes

2:16 PM- 36% 7 hours 0 minutes

2:24 PM- 33% 7 hours 15 minutes (5 h 33 m 42 s since unplugged)

**8.35 hours of estimated battery life**

2:51 PM- 25% 5 hours 6 minutes (6 h 0 m 56 s since unplugged)

**8.02 hours of estimated battery life**

3:05 PM- 21% 4 hours 9 minutes

3:19 PM- 16% 3 hours 5 minutes

3:40 PM- 10% 2 hours 9 minutes (6 h 49 m 45 s since unplugged)

3:47 PM- 7% 1 hour 7 minutes

3:52 PM- 5% 1 hour 6 minutes (7 h 2 m 2 s since unplugged)

4:00 PM- 2% 2 minutes

4:02 PM- 1% 13 minutes

4:05 PM- 0% phone dead :(

8:50 AM to 4:05 PM = 7 hours 15 minutes of battery life

RATING: not a very good or efficient build of Android based on battery life. 3G web surfing sucks down battery life but this is definitely not my favorite Desire build :( Hope that battery life can improve for this one.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aussiebum:
before you start.. can you let me know if this "fix" will help? It's certainly fixed my standby batt drain with HD2Froyo v2... => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770903
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
I tried this fix for a test phone last week and it didn't seem to help matters much. It depends on the build. I used the energy modification .cab file at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7614810#post7614810 and ran that instead and it helps a little better.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aussiebum:
Oh, I should be more specific - I was referring to my posts in that thread that I just posted today - at least for HD2Froyo V2 build, removing the "new" /system/lib/hw/lights.qsd8k.so and restoring the original one (from the android build which the particular hd2 android build was derived from) drastically lowered my standby power drain. With setcpu, etc I'm hovering around 7-9ma at the moment.

Some people have reported problems trying this out on Shubcraft 1.5 builds so a word of caution :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Ah, I would try this fix although since I am doing a build by build comparison, I can only use the same tweak on all the builds so the results are comparable. Chalk it up to the scientific method here :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
I got 7 mA based on Current Widget on standby when using this particular build which is pretty good in fact ;). I presume that is the usual amount using SetCPU program?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] caveman89x:
hey guys where can I dl setCPU ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
My build:

Android ROM: HtcClay's SuperHD2 V1.1

WM: Energy.Leo.23127.Sense2.5.Aug.28

Sandisk 2GB card

Radio: 2.12.50.02_2

SPL: HSPL3_PKG

I also modified the WM with autoboot using the program FD DroidBoot and also using the energy tweak that you can download the .cab file at RT @xdadevelopers Post: Increase Battery Life [WinMo registry tweaks - Need confirmation] http://bit.ly/9gnTvO. I use SetCPU at 245/768 when operational and 245/245 when screen off with ondemand at 100%. No 3G but only EDGE was used for this experiment for web browsing.

I will update with the results in this post soon... I also decided to use the Batteryminder app so that I have a more scientific way of quantifying what is going on with my Android build.

Timeline to be posted here:

September 2, 2010

7:57 AM- 95% 15 hours 7 minutes

8:12 AM- 93% 20 hours 19 minutes

8:47 AM- 89% 19 hours 5 minutes (50 minutes 9 seconds since unplugged)

9:01 AM- 84% 18 hours 4 minutes

**the phone crashed and the screen locked in dimness; had to reboot**

9:23 AM- 79% 17 hours 15 minutes (15 minutes 22 seconds since unplugged; reset/reboot screen dark in near sleep)

9:32 AM- 76% 16 hours 18 minutes

9:35 AM- 75% 16 hours 4 minutes

10:02 AM- 68% 14 hours 7 minutes

10:08 AM- 66% 14 hours 6 minutes

10:23 AM- 63% 13 hours 21 minutes

10:33 AM- 61% 13 hours 23 minutes

11:01 AM- 59% 12 hours 10 minutes

11:29 AM- 51% 11 hours 10 minutes

11:32 AM- 50% 10 hours 9 minutes

11:51 AM- 46% 10 hours 4 minutes (2 hours 45 minutes 3 seconds since unplugged reboot)

12:07 PM- 42% 9 hours 12 minutes

12:11 PM- 39% 8 hours 10 minutes

12:38 PM- 37% 8 hours 7 minutes

12:52 PM- 33% 7 hours 14 minutes

12:57 PM- 32% 7 hours 0 minutes

1:23 PM- 25% 5 hours 5 minutes (4 hours 16 minutes 13 seconds since unplugged reboot)

1:49 PM- 21% 4 hours 5 minutes

2:00 PM- 16% 3 hours 4 minutes

2:17 PM- 11% 2 hours 0 minutes (5 hours 9 minutes 37 seconds since unplugged reboot)

2:20 PM- 10% 2 hours 11 minutes (5 hours 13 minutes 18 seconds since unplugged reboot)

2:32 PM- 6% 1 hour 16 minutes

2:33 PM- 5% 1 hour 5 minutes (5 hours 25 minutes 9 seconds since unplugged reboot)

2:36 PM- 4% 4 minutes

2:40 PM- 2% 2 minutes

2:43 PM- 1% 12 minutes (5 hours 35 minutes 58 seconds since unplugged reboot)

2:44 PM- 0% phone dead :(

7:57 AM to 2:44 PM = 6 hours 47 minutes of battery life for this build.

Rating: Not a stable build with the Energy ROM and the battery life is terrible even with the tweaks. I don't like the interface either so no go. Will test with other ROM's too later on.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lude219:
Nothing that we don't already know. Running on mem card = fast drainage. Android is a nice novelty to play with, but until there is a NAND resolution, i'll be sticking by wm6.5 for my 2.5 days on moderate use.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sichroteph:
7ma is a fat drainage for you? I couldn't get less than 22ma on wm, some get 4 but I never could have that number after a lot of customizations... Android battery life is GOOD bro
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] proofhitter:
10 hours of battery life seem kind of weak to me. I'm using Shubcraft 1.4 with setCPU 1036/245 and my phone has been unplugged since yesterday around 8:30 that's 24 hours ago and I still have 44% left.

Data always on (3G or EDGE depending on the coverage, email syncing every hour, facebook too), I made a few calls, sent a few texts, played a couple games (not for long, I was just showing them off :cool:), did a little browsing and updated 10 apps from the market over Wifi (I turned it off just after). During the night I let the phone on but obviously didn't use it during my approx. 6 hours of sleep.

I'm really surprised that you guys don't get the same battery life since I got all my settings in a thread on xda and nothing more.

If it is of any interest to you I'm using WM chuckyROM WWE tabastic (I don't remember the exact version) and 2.10.50.28_2 Radio.