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[Galaxy S I9000 General] yarod_g14:
All gamer has a good sugestion here BUT we are going to get people flaming the fact that Android shouldnt need task managers.....

Ho hum..

TBH in my experience, I have found (after a couple of hard resets) that there appears to be a size limit for installed apps. Once I get over this size limit, I get LAGTASTIC, phone slows to a snails pace, then I remove a few of the apps and I am back at light speed again....

I cant say what the limit is, but I know when I have hit it - I would then uninstall a lame app or two and get back running.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
Yes a lot of people "claims" that, but yet you do a search in Android Market, you see LOTS of Task Manager / Killer apps for every phone.

they were not designed for Galaxy S, they were designed long ago for all the other phones that had and still have the same problems of memory management causing lags

Android is not robust enough to survive without one

heck not even Windows 7 or Windows Mobiles phone
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Frostshock:
I just read that possibly the phone freezes while trying to find a signal. As this problem has only recently started, and I just recently moved into university, and many buildings receive little to no wireless signal, I think it's more than a coincidence. I'll try going to plane mode before entering lecture halls and basements.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i don't think that is the case with the Galaxy S

however back then my Treo 650 did suffer from that.

if you believe that is the problem then try this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7999389&postcount=28

more cool apps here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7999389
[EVO 4G General] rebelpcr2:
Not sure if anyone else has had the problem, but I downloaded the wallpaper app Flikie HD. It was cropping the wallpapers too much and the wallpapers ending up looking crappy so I uninstalled. Now when I go to set ANY wallpaper it doesn't let me crop the picture to the proper resolution. The green crop box is really narrow and not very tall at all. Any way to fix this problem? Any help is appreciated!
[EVO 4G General] apristel:
You can adjust the size of the green crop box...
[EVO 4G General] rebelpcr2:
I know, the green box doesn't get very big. It gets wide but not tall. Very narrow.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RueTheDay:
....that doesn't require Danger SPL?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
DangerSPL is never needed. Look for MTD custum partition implementation of Firerat and you are fine.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] azn_sammurai:
on my hd2 when i boot up android and try to call people i get this robotic sound and the music goes to fast how do i fix this problem?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bikrbikr:
are you using a stock winmo rom? if yes then you need to load a custom rom
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gilb6363:
a custom rom? where can i get that? sorry am new to the htc thing :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] st40611:
Here's the flashing guide.

Just be careful - use the right guide according to your HD2 model (aka. is it a T-mobile model or not?)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bikrbikr:
No need to be sorry, we all have to start somehwere. This is a good thread to look it. Check out step 2 for some roms that work well with android builds.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=732380

Im currently using energy GTX with shubcraft 1.5, and it works near flawlessly for me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gilb6363:
ty

wow ok thx !!!:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damis648:
I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this. Can someone explain the basics of what PDA/PHONE/CSC are? Right now by dialing *#*#1234#*#* I get:

PDA: i897UCJF6

PHONE: i897UCJH3

CSC: i897ATTJF6

I flashed the JH3 ROM from JF6 using the PDA option, was that correct? Also, can someone explain the proper way to flash with Odin? Thanks in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdbsubscribe:
I realize development isnt the best area for this, but i would be interested in an ‘idiots guide’ to odin, etc. As well.

Ive moded android phones before but it hasn’t been with odin :eek:;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imb951:
+1 the stickied Odin thread is not very detailed on what you're actually doing when you use the program.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommyb227:
+1 This would be nice
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] votum:
+10000

I have flashed WM thousands of times...android is a whole different monster and ODIN seems like such a shoddy program...no one ever puts a tutorial in their rom threads and I end up spending hours reading just to make sure I have everything set...

And am I the only one that has to run odin liek 30 times before it actually takes? Even the 1 click restore odin takes me several times pulling the battery for it to even start loading...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damis648:
I hate to bump this, but could someone at least explain what PDA/PHONE/CSC are?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
If you clicked PDA in odin and pointed to the right ucjh3, you should be on jhs pda AND modem, i think, though i don't believe there's much difference. As for explanation, see below....

See below...

See below...

keep going down.....

Ok, I'll try to explain:

Odin - PDA=Kernel - The brain or core

- Phone:= modem - self explanatory

- CSC = Carrier specific options - usually ignore this

Most of the time, the package you download is all-in-one, which would go in the PDA box. It basically "wipes" the existing system (not data,like your music and stuff) and installs whatever you tell it to. In other words, stock is UCJF6. The "leaked" newer firmwares are jh2, jh3 and jh7. They are complete files. To upgrade to the jh3 for instance, you would download it, unzip the zip so that it was now showing as a .tar, and point odin PDA to it. Then connect phone in d/l mode and click start in odin when it says added. It will reprogram the firmware and reboot, at which time you close odin and disconnect cable. You have just flashed!
[G1 Android Development] Original Android <3ers!:
You think we can get this on the G1?

http://bit.ly/cNzpfv
[G1 Android Development] RandumAccess:
simple answer: nope :D
[G1 Android Development] asb123:
Something ive learned with g1 dev, never say "nope", way to many times stuff which had been said impossible has been done.

But

1) OP do you know what you can over clock your g1 (not to 1 ghz though)

2) whats the full clock speed of the cpu 4 the moment?
[G1 Android Development] shadowch31:
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sorry but really? Are you being at all serious?

A processor clocked at 384mhz (g1) being overclocked to over a gig? What you gonna use to keep it cool? Liquid nitrogen?

:D :D :D
[G1 Android Development] etu_aty:
true that... even at 576 mhz it gets way too hot while using wifi... besides, the phone just locks up when you go over 650 mhz or so. i have tried. i dont think it can handle it.
[G1 Android Development] r3s-rt:
Reread what you quoted. He said you can't do that. :P
[G1 Android Development] bestofrhcp:
ummm... i have mine at 825mhz

its possible, but not yet
[G1 Android Development] Original Android <3ers!:
this guy just treated all of your lives! I love you bestofrhcp!
[G1 Android Development] mejorguille:
The thing is the moment runs at 800 Mhz stock so 1006-800= 200 Mhz overclock, or a 25% overclock. Our G1's were built for 385, but I've gotten mine stable up to 729, so an 89% overclock. Granted, the CPU inside the G1 was designed for 528 but HTC underclocked it for battery purposes, so it's only a 38% overclock. The samsung moment has a really crappy samsung chip (pre-hummingbird), but it should be able to squeeze out a few more mhz. I don't have much hope for anything more than 729 on our phones, at least not without an overvolt kernel and some sort of liquid cooling system.
[G1 Android Development] robuser007:
Processor	Qualcomm® MSM7201A™, 528 MHz
[G1 Android Development] lbcoder:
I am really getting sick of all the overclocking nonsense.

There is MORE TO SPEED THAN CLOCK RATE!!!!

You can clock these CPUs as fast as you want, but the overall effect on performance will be measurably negligible. You may, at most, THINK that it is faster when in fact, it is NOT.
[G1 Android Development] mejorguille:
Hehe It might be placebo but Raging Thunder 2 is MUCH more playable at 700 Mhz than at 528.

It is true that there is more to speed than clock rate, I'm not going to argue about that. A Core 2 due at 3.3 Ghz doesn't compare to a Core i3 at 2.2 Ghz, since the core i3 has more cores and is a more efficient platform. But a Core i3 at 1.6 Ghz in a netbook won't compare to a Core i3 at 2.4 Ghz in a desktop. Clock speed can make a big difference in performance. You can optimize all you want but using brute force helps out. Of course I only overclock when I want to play some 3D racing games and I'm close to a power source. I usually run it at 352 or 480.
[G1 Android Development] protomanez:
Can you cook bacon on it?

1ghz would probably fry the whole motherboard :| What we really need is some ram, which will be no problem when I upgrade.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Why would you want to OC that much, I'm sure your battery last all of about 4 hours tops
[Streak 5 General] keatonreckard:
Looks like the streak might have usb host... if you look in the sdcard settings it has the option to unmount ums (usb mass storage) devices and the option to format them.

Im on the 8105 2.1 o2 rom on a us att dell streak.

Ill make a cable soon to test but was wondering if anyone else tried th already
[Streak 5 General] undrwater:
If the option can be found in 1.6, I may already have the hardware to test it.

This would be a beautiful thing!
[Streak 5 General] joshgantt:
I just so happened to have the correct hardware on hand to try this so I gave it a go, looks like it does! I'm actually typing this message with a USB keyboard- I can't get it to mount a USB drive yet, but I intend to brush up on my Linux commands and syntax tomorrow and try again- if I can get it to mount external storage, all of my dreams have officially come true (minus the Froyo, that is).

Edit: I'm on the MoDaCo custom ROM r2, 2.1 build 8105, for those interested.
[Streak 5 General] 0TheRain0:
Hey there, real interested in what you did to mod your cable to handle this. Was it a matter of tying the OTG pin to ground?

Did the streak supply power over usb? Many android devices cant, but I believe given the right cable mod the streak can.
[Streak 5 General] joshgantt:
I didn't have to do any mods on mine, I have the home dock (which converts the Streak's port to miniUSB) and a dongle that has male miniUSB on one end and female standard USB on the other. Streak on the dock, dongle in the back of the dock, and keyboard into the dongle.

I don't know if it supplied power or not, what would be the best way to check? Multimeter across the power/gnd should give 5V regardless of if it's powered, do I need to check the amperage as well? I was thinking I might just try firing up the ol' G1 and plugging it in, to see if it charges.
[Streak 5 General] 0TheRain0:
A good test would be to not have the dock plugged in to any power source. Dock your Streak, then use your adaptor with USB keyboard. Does it work? if so, the power is being supplied by the Streak.

If not, it doesn't prove that there is no way to get powered USB host out of the Streak, it would just show that it may require different connections (a modded cable or dock).
[Streak 5 General] joshgantt:
Then yes, it supplies power, my dock was unplugged the whole time. Rejoice! I foresee emulators with a USB gamepad in my near future...
[Streak 5 General] 0TheRain0:
That's great to hear! Game controller for EMU's is what I'm looking to do with it as well :)

Funny though, I tried the same with a gender changer a week or so ago and it didn't work for me. I think the difference must be that the cable you're plugging in to the dock must ground the OTG pin.

Unfortunately that probably means I'd either have to get a dock, or dissect and solder my USB cable to get the same.
[Streak 5 General] keatonreckard:
Glad to see it works as i suspected. now all we need is some to make it mirror the display over the hdmi out
[Streak 5 General] samstables:
Ah, I wondered what that meant. I have the home dock and saw Win7 did something funny... it's all a bit beyond my abilities so I look forward to someone doing interesting things with it :)
[Streak 5 General] mrmrmrmr:
how can we make a usb cable with "usb host" feature ?
[Streak 5 General] keatonreckard:
EiHter using the media dock with a male mini usb to female usb adapter, or i think using the standard usb cable with a female to female adapter placed on the end should work too.
[Streak 5 General] 0TheRain0:
Unfortunately I don't think a female to female adaptor alone will do the trick with the Streak USB Cable. I have one here, and it's not working.

I believe the reason is the USB OTG pin needs to be grounded to identify that we are in USB OTG mode (pin 4 as identified here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI).

I think the reason it's working with the dock for that person is because the dock exposes that pin at the mini B port and the cable adaptor he's using is an OTG cable that grounds the pin.

I haven't tried modding my cable for this yet, but will soon. My soldering iron is in storage right now unfortunately.
[Streak 5 General] mrmrmrmr:
Ok; I understand that we have to connect OTG pin (no 4 on PDMI) to GND (no 2 on PDMI)

Is that correct ?

Is there a way to do it on the other end (not the PDMI side but USB side) ?

Because I don't want to break my only Dell Streak data cable...
[Streak 5 General] 0TheRain0:
Unfortunately, no. only 4 wires run through the cable and are exposed at the other end. You would need a 5th (the USB ID, aka OTG lead).

So I just finished creating my own modded cable and it is working great.

I've attached pictures of the build here. I found that this only works in Android 2.1 (8150 build for me, may work with other 2.1 builds). 1.6 seems like it doesn't have the drivers for this.

DISCLAIMER: If you try to duplicate what I did here, you're taking the risk of damaging your cable beyond repair, and if you do something incorrectly and plug the cable in to your Streak, there is a definite possibility you will damage your streak permanently. So anything you do, do so carefully and at your own risk!

I will say this; this cable is HARD to de-shield! It has metal shield all around the parts we need to get to, and I had to cut with metal clippers and desolder parts of it to get the shielding off. Not pretty, and pretty risky for damaging the cable. I would advise you buy an extra cable before trying this. I didn't have an extra, but I was really risking not being able to charge my device or something if I broke my cable.

After removing the shielding you can see that there is a small PCB with traces marked 1 3 on the left, and then 2 5 on the right. These correspond to the PDMI specification at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI .

For my build, I chose to solder a switch to bridge the OTG pin 4 to GND pin 2. This way, my cable can still be used as a normal USB cable as well. In one image I have flipped the opened PDMI connector over and you can see an orange wire I have soldered on to pin4. (One side of the PDMI connector has ODD pins, like 1,3,5,7... the other side has EVEN 2,4,6,8...). Pin 2 is the first pin on the right on the EVEN side, and pin 4 is the second.

As was stated in earlier posts, you can use a female to female gender changer for the other end of the USB cable, rather than soldering on your own connector or something.

Note that having the cable in OTG mode when plugging your streak in to your computer or power adapter over USB could damage something because OTG mode will start outputting power over the same pins that it's usually inputting from!!!
[Streak 5 General] mrmrmrmr:
0TheRain0,

This is great !

Thanks for sharing your findings.

I sent you a PM; please check it when you have time...
[Streak 5 General] Linuxslate:
When I built my Dell Streak Mini USB adapter, I brought out PDMI pin 4 to the OTG pin on the Mini USB.

I tried it with 2 different cheap Mini USB to Standard USB ("A") female adapters, and tried several devices including a Apple Mini Keyboard/Hub, and USB Flash drives.

I also tried the same components on the Dell Home Dock.

They did not work, but I suspect that the Mini USB to Standard USB female adapters do not short the OTG pin to ground.

What we need is some that do. Then it would be plug and play at least for dock owners.

Edit:

These claim to enable USB host mode when Connected to a N800:

http://www.electronicproductonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2043

Therefore Should require no modification to use with the dock, as long as the dock brings out pin 4, which as far as I remember, my testing said it did.
[Streak 5 General] bluefrog:
This thread is currently of great interest. Should it, in theory, be possible to hook up my Canon digi SLRs as mass storage devices then?

Sometimes being able to get the image onto a bigger screen has it's benefits. The Streak's screen is actually very well calibrated as well, compared to my hardware calibrated monitor!

In the ideal world i'd be able to tether and shoot using the streak (like I can with my laptop) but I'm realistic and know that's not likely to happen!

What I DON'T get is why Dell have put in USB host functionality without implementing it in the lead? :confused:
[Streak 5 General] rts-kuruption:
Well, I was going to hold off on cutting up a cable to try something, but I just had a cable go through the washer and dryer... and it was looking pretty bad and actually cut through the jacket and shielding on the wire... so I cut off the PDMI lead and about 3" of cable (right before the break).

Inside the jacket are 4 wires. Black, White, Green, Red. Obviously they correspond to the USB 2.0 spec... so I guess in some way, VDC, Ground, Data+, Data-... but no OTG wire.

Would anyone that opened up the connector know how these wire colors correspond?

What I really want is for my 80GB iPod to have it's music available to the Streak in my car, so here's what I was planning:

1) Cut up the Dell PDMI cable (done).

2) Cut up an old iPod to Firewire cable I have laying around

3) Splice VDC+ and Ground on the iPod and PDMI to the corresponding VDC+/Ground USB end of the original Dell Cable. This will plug into a 12V->USB Adapter (probably the Dell one) to power and charge both devices.

4) Splice the corresponding PDMI and iPod data transfer wires.

5) Ground OTG on Streak side and add a micro switch, like TheRain did...

I can then wrap this up in some custom cable thing shround thing that I'll figure out.
[Streak 5 General] rts-kuruption:
Little bit of research led me to the micro-AB receptacle that basically determines if a device is acting as a host or slave. So, I would say the preferred way to do this, instead of wiring in a switch, would be to find a receptacle and hack into it... so here's one you can get cheap:

http://www.retractablecables.com/US...ro_AB_Female_Adapter_for_USB_OTG_Devices.html

This should be able to wire up something that basically puts the device into OTG mode when you connect a micro-A cable to the device, and a slave device when you connect a micro-B cable.

So solder/wire that up.. connect the Streak with a micro-A cable to a powered USB hub, connect the peripherals to the hub, and you should be good to go without a micro switch.

On an edit note, I also found a bare micro-AB female that you can buy... but it's more expensive than the previous adapter, so uh I guess it depends on how much time you want to spend tearing the adapter apart. ;)

http://ntcdistributing.com/products/usb-connectors.htm
[Streak 5 General] bluefrog:
it's definitely sounding temtping now.

Could I make up essentially an adapter lead with a full size USB SOCKET at one end and a mini usb plug at the other? Then I could plug the streak lead into the socket and the mini usb plug into my camera.

And would it NEED power or would the connection work and the camera show as an external storage device doing this?

Wanna be able to use it halfway up a hill or the like, for checking and backing up pics :)
[Streak 5 General] rts-kuruption:
You can buy a micro-USB to standard-USB cable, so why make an adapter? The problem is, and the reason for this thread pretty much, is that standard USB connectors do not have the OTG (On-The-Go) leads, so it requires hacking the PDMI connector.

Once you get the PDMI connector into a micro-AD female port, you basically made it universally adoptable, whether you're using it as a host or slave device.

But that requires cutting stuff apart and soldering.

No need for power unless you want to charge, from what I understand.
[Streak 5 General] bluefrog:
thanks for that - i might just have to have a go, when i've got the spare readies for another PDMI / USB lead!

I've loads of USB to mini USB leads but they all have male standard ends. I'd need a female one for what I want to do.... I've not searched for one yet though.

I think Plan A would be to do as you suggest though, but with a mini a/b rather than a micro and then use a double ended mini usb lead? Camera's connection is a mini usb port.......
[Streak 5 General] rts-kuruption:
Mini USB connectors are deprecated, Micro USB connectors are better (have a higher connect/disconnect cycle count).
[Streak 5 General] 0TheRain0:
Yes I agree that is a better way of making this a switchable cable. I think this is also what linuxslate was getting at.

Honestly my cable is pretty hacked up now that I've basically brute forced it open :) so for me I'm probably going to remove the switching all together and just have a host cable and buy a new standard cable from dell.
[Streak 5 General] bluefrog:
@rts-kuruption

OK micro at the phone end then, but the camera has mini usb and i'm not about to hack into a £1200 SLR body :D

All the advice is much appreciated - ANOTHER thing I can turn my iphone owning friends "green" with (assuming it'll work!!). :)
[Streak 5 General] mrmrmrmr:
I didn't understand how the following connector will help us. Can you explain ?

http://www.retractablecables.com/US...ro_AB_Female_Adapter_for_USB_OTG_Devices.html

Is there a way to do without opening the PDMI side ?

I really don't want to play with the original cable. But if that's the only way, where can we find a spare cable or at least a connector ?
[Streak 5 General] SAman1:
So effectively, by shorting a single pin to ground on the propritory Dell USB plug, we can connect an external USB hard disk/flash-drive to the Streak and play media off it directly via a single usb cable??? :eek:

Would be interesting if that would work...
[Streak 5 General] rts-kuruption:
You can get a micro to mini cable if you search google, or find an adapter for a micro to a mini. Google is your friend. ;)

The point is to get a micro-AB USB female receptacle. Then you can make a cable/dongle that allows your Streak to be a USB host or guest depending on which cable you plugged in. This is how the USB specification works for USB OTG. The micro-AB connector was intended to allow a device to be bother a host and a guest depending on which cable was plugged in.

Regarding hacking the cable, it's a pain... I haven't located PDMI connectors from an electronics supplier, but they should be available soon.

It works, it should work, anyway.... the trick, I believe, it somehow powering the two devices at the same time.
[Streak 5 General] 0TheRain0:
Thats exactly the case, at least for usb keyboards. I haven't tested anything else but that at least does work.
[Streak 5 General] SAman1:
WOW, that's great! Any chance you can try an external drive/flashdrive to confirm that it sees & can access the files on the drive? I'm assuming once connected it will just show up as a 2nd SD card in the file explorer and allow you to navigate into it? Or perhaps Android has some limitations in that area?

Would be interesting to know.

Thanks