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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Matterhorn:
This app is working great over 3G. I have a T-mobile unlimited data plan and making international calls on the road works great. If they aren't online (free) then it is .02 a minute with Skype. The voice quality is the BEST I've EVER heard with a phone IP connection.

Edit: I have also used this version of Skype with a good Edge connection and the voice quality is still pretty good.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] the orange bandit:
I have an ungodly amount of minutes, but that's not why I wanted this - the only place where I normally have WiFi is at home - thus, having a version to let me make Skype calls over 3G lets me use it anywhere, as opposed to only being able to use the app to call my Skype contacts while at home (where I have a perfectly good netbook for Skype).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] nexusdue:
Does this use data while running in the background (ie not on a call)?

The old skype app (WinMo) would suck the battery back then, eg 5 hours of skype in the background (with no calls being made and the phone being on standby) and the battery would go from 100% to 10%.

Hope this is more of a "push" approach to skype?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dailydR1ver:
Can some one post up a new link or pm me this file...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Matterhorn:
Yes, Skype will suck your battery if you use it online all of the time. If you can't plug in your phone during the day then I wouldn't leave Skype online. I use Skype to make international calls and close it down when I don't need it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Febby:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=800834

original thread as far as i can recall.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] danguyf:
Is anyone updating this somewhere as Skype updates?
[G2 and Desire Z General] djquestt:
I just read an article on android spin that said htc put a chip in the g2 to keep it from being rooted permantly

Is this true ????
[G2 and Desire Z General] Fuskand:
You should probably use the search function.

Currently, the NAND is locked, preventing permanent read/write functions from what I understand.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SuperDave81:
No, there's already a thread on this...
[G2 and Desire Z General] j.books:
check the development section. devs are working on it. they seem to be confident that it will get rooted
[G2 and Desire Z General] papeshfoo:
Well, we don't know if its true. If we knew, I'm sure people would have mentioned it by now.

Just give it time, I'm sure root will come soon enough. Let The masters on this board work their magic.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dator97:
some phones are able to let you check from time to time if there is an update with mt3gs did the phone never have that ability if it did; did they remove it if not how do i check manually
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
Before they did the update I could of sworn the Slide had the ability to do manual updates. I could be wrong though.

sent from Mytouch Slide 3g using XDA App

www.GoTeamFriday.com
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fsjon:
I've been using Vito's SMS Chat for quite a while. It works great but one thing bugged me.

When I received a message, SMS Chat automatically dismiss the notification and hence the status LED lights would never stay lit. Anyone experiencing this problem?

Is there anyway to have SMS Chat dismiss the message notification after I click on the dismiss icon? I'm using version 1.25.

Much thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] herrwinkler:
The links are in the post.

http://goo.gl/GWlr
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] ellessidil:
Long story short, I used to have this app on my myTouch Slide, and loved it. My roommate who has a Vibrant was never able to find the app on the marketplace even though I could pull it up with a search with no issues. I upgrade to my G2 recently, and have found that I can no longer find it with a search of the marketplace, nor can I find an apk to download anywhere, everything always links to the marketplace link, which pulls up nothing for me.

Does anyone have access to the apk file for this application? I attempted to contact the developer but have had no response in almost a week now, and I really want to continue to use the application if I can.

Anyone else having an issue finding this app in the marketplace? I can find other apps by the dev for other football teams, but oddly UofMichigan is not in the list now.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] rpmccormick:
Why don't you just get the apk off your mytouch slide? Use Astro (or Titanium if you have root) to save it to SD, then move the sdcard over and restore to the G2 (or if you are familiar with adb, just adb pull it from /data/app and then adb install it).
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] ShaunMichael80:
I would like this as well.... Go Blue!!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] ellessidil:
The slide was sold to pay for the G2, so sadly not an option, otherwise I would have already done so. I didnt think the app would end up hidden on the new phone, so no backup was made ahead of time. This is the only app so far that I have not been able to locate on the marketplace.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] ellessidil:
Found a link to it, here you go for anyone interested:

http://www.brothersoft.com/mobile/michigan-football-fanbuddy-download-74299.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneponyshow42:
This is the voice to text from a voicemail i got after talking to Google tech support about the fameous "MIA" 2GB. Read and tell me if you think they are saying what I think they are saying...

*note* some editing for employee protection. No time wasted editing Google Voice ;)

Hi *** This *** again I'm sorry I was able to reach, I won't be able to call back again. But I do want to give you a court we did on your phone now to do it here on the voicemail. Basically what the the reps is supposed to get together with some of our technical spec guys and what we think is going on on that. G. 2 is that there is about. 2 gig cap of information that's available on that phone that's not gonna be available for applications that you downloaded onto the phone itself. And so what is going out of the for this is of course out of the 4 gig available to come to the phone itself as we believe that is available for the upgrade to the rear of the the next release of the Adroit to the 3.0 version. And win that does come out. You know that that extra space would be available to use that and it's being reserved for that purpose and that's why you see the limitation of the 1.2 gigabyte that's on the phone itself. But don't worry about it again. We do believe the draw it in the G 2 is working the way it should be. And again, I'm, I do m interested to know about the about the application. If you if you did put the forget card as the *** at continue to work and also i wanna know. Does the mid those the app blood. Get it. Does he have to go on to the memory card. I would like to know if if that particular apt goes on to your memory card with you do it, so if you could call back and what that that those kinds of pieces of information. I'd appreciate it if you can just tell him that you'd like to have somebody to update the article that I opened called. She 2 ma'am reissued. And this tell him the response to my questions and I appreciate it. Thank you very much talk again. That number is ***. My name is *** at the with the P, D 8 department. Thank you ma'am appreciate your time. Bye.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MacaronyMax:
I'm thinking wrong section :) ?

Look here http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=750
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] humphrey_wong:
I bought the Captivate last week and on the fourth day of use, my android email failed. the message line is shown but when you click on it, you get a message

『Sorry!, The application Email (process com. android.email) has stopped unexectedly. Please try again.』

It's what's happen?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kovjanos:
I got the same but only with a few builds. My workaround was:

- Search for alternative email app. (like the one with the hacked exchange policy)

- remove the email app's apk from system/app

- install Your new one.

I hope it helps.

R, Janos
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JanssoN:
Guys, it's the wrong section. Please post in next time in the general section.

And another tip: Use the search function.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] motoman234:
This is the HD2 forum. Not captivate.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] malaeus:
go to settings, applications,manage applications, all. look through the list and find Email app. tap it, then press clear data, (this will delete all your emails and settings, so be sure you back up what you can if you need it) . then restart the app, and it should be fixed.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] neo.25:
Update him
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyham:
I see some posters comparing various aspects of the G2 to the G1. For me, the G1 absolutely sucked and didn't come anywhere close to the Iphone (gasp!.....G1 "the Iphone killer"....what a joke). It was slow, would lock up the apps a lot for up to a half a minute, stall on the internet among other things. Two of my friends had it too and they were very unhappy with it.

I can't see how anyone can compare anything betwen the G1 and G2...the G2 just blowing it away in all aspects.

Have my G2 for about a week now and it's wonderful!

Any comments?

Thanks for your input.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smasraum:
What a weird thread. It seems obvious and logical to compare the G1 and G2 since the G2 is being marketed as the decendent of the G1 (at least, that's what the name implies). It's sort of like comparing the new ZR1 to the old ZR1 or the new Mustang GT to an older Mustang GT (or even the 6cyl versions).

The new one should be better, but, at the time that the G1 came out, it kicked butt. I had relatively few problems with mine, both when I was running stock OS and when I had it rooted running 2.1. Actually, with Cyanogen's 5.0.8, it ran fast most of the time.

It's obviously not in the same ballpark as the G2, but the G2 is a comparable when scaled to the time.

You do realize that the G1 shouldn't be compared to the iphone 4 or the 3GS, it should be compared to the original iphone, and compared to that, it was in the same league and was a good comparison.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihateusernames:
I must say I agree. I have been using the G1 since day 1. It has been rooted since JF and currently running CM 6.0. When I went to buy it I actually decided to go look at the Iphone before I pulled the trigger and still decided to get the G1. It was a great phone. I have never seen a phone that could carry on as long as the G1 did thanks to the great group of programmers here at XDA.

Now I wonder if the G2 will COMPARE to the G1 as far as modability(word?) goes. Is that so wrong. Also, I wonder, can the hinge on the G2 COMPARE to the bullet proof hinge on the G1. I have been slamming that thing open and closed for 2 years now and it still works the same as it did when new.

Obviously a 2 year old phone is not going to compare very well to the latest and greatest as far as processing speed is concerned but I will be COMPARING the G2 to the G1 on a daily basis as I have become so comfortable with my G1 that I only hope I can be as comfortable with the new G2.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyham:
This was comparing to the Original Iphone

I was comparing the G1 to the original IPhone. Everyone at work had one except me and two others with the G1. It was unanimous the IPhone was a superior unit.

The G1 was an absolute dog in performance compared to it. The Iphone connected to wireless lans faster and with more download and upload speeds. It also ran faster on the 3g networks. As I mentioned earlier, the G1 would hang on the internet and many, many times would take a long time for the apps to show after selecting the icons.

I noticed most replies had their phones modified in some way... rooted or whatever.

The G1's we all had were kept stock and the Iphones too.

In my experience, there is no comparison betwen the G1 and G2 in performance. Everything the G1 was not, the G2 is.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jorsher:
The G1 was epic when it came out...2 years ago.

The iPhone has received more recent updates than the officially Android 1.6 G1. Not really an apples-to-apples (lulz) comparison. G1 with Froyo (as well as anything else with Froyo), is CONSIDERABLY more responsive.

Also, since it was the first Android phone, I don't think HTC and T-Mobile were willing to take as big of a risk with it, and the hardware wasn't really top-of-the-line like the G2 hardware is (for the most part).

At the time of the G1, phone specs were important but to be quite honest I don't remember people comparing specs as much then as they do since Android. I know it happened with the WinMo/Nokia people, but it just didn't seem as big of a deal as it does now that people are moving from their dumbphones and the smartphone market is growing and much more competitive.

G1 was a great phone. By today's standards it sucks, but it was still a well-built device that introduced Android.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyham:
Good point

Good point Jorsher. It was the first Adroid phone. It was just horribly frustrating watching the original IPhone performing way better than our G1's. I also watched the IPhone owner's frustrations when they first got it.

While their performance kept getting better with the Apple updates....I anxiously waited for the the few updates from HTC/TMo that turned out very disappointing.

I had the G1 for almost two years...not happy for one and a half.

But the G2....wow!!!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jorsher:
Yeah, I was disappointed at the lack of updates. I think it just kind of got brushed under the rug when more competent hardware came out. In the end, it didn't bother me too much, thanks to the devs here.

I remember that when I got it, I was amazed... I could deal with the not-so-fast hardware simply because there was nothing else like it. Now that there are powerful Android devices on every carrier, it made it a lot more intolerable to continue using the outdated G1.

Currently with the G2, I don't see how I could possibly be dissatisfied with the performance. However, I'm sure that by time I'm due for an upgrade, I'll be singing a different tune...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcX4ever:
The G1 will poop on your G2's HSPA+ :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX05OO-X55g
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihateusernames:
I actually had no issue with my G1 until about 2 months ago when a coworker was talking about how he had made the move to android. I asked what he was using and he pulled out the Nexus one and let me play around with it. That was the point I realized I needed a new phone.

I will say that when I showed him my G1 running Froyo, he was amazed. He was surprised at how snappy it was considering its age. I guess I was always satisfied with it since I didn't really have anything to compare it to.:o
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polarbearmc:
i'm gonna come out as the only person that agrees with the poster... my G1 has been pure crap since I got it... it kinda ran good when it was new, but once I rooted it, it maybe stayed good for a month or two. i've spent all of 2010 wiping, repartitioning, reformatting, reflashing, and trying every possible rom with no luck. everything I tried was horrible. for the last 6 months, even when completely cleaning everything out and doing a totally fresh start multiple times, my G1 ran like my old T-Mobile Wing...

and now that I have G2, it's not even in the same league. I mean it's like comparing a quadcore PC to an Atari 2600. except the Atari 2600 didn't lock up and freeze as much.

I love you G2.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smasraum:
good grief, you do both realize that it's not a direct comparison, and I don't think ANYONE means it to be. It's more of a then vs now comparison. Kind of like comparing a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO to a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO. You can't really compare the 2 directly. But, if you think about what each was compared to the competition when they were current...

Like I said, comparing the 1994(?) Corvette ZR1, to a current Corvette ZR1. They can't be compared directly, but at the time that each was new, they were the peak of their evolution.

When the G1 came out, it was awesome. When the G2 came out, it was awesome.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zurginator:
Give it 2 years, you'll all be complaining about how much the G2 sucked.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polarbearmc:
haha yea probably :-) but honestly i can't imagine how. if i touch buttons and the apps i'm trying to run just instantly pop up (rather than sitting there for 5-15 seconds), there's nothing to complain about anymore :-)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zurginator:
But they don't. At the time of G1, everyone thought it was fast and snappy. When the G3 hits, we won't be able to live with the lagfest that is the G2.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcX4ever:
You cant imagine how slow the G2 will be because you are still using Froyo 2.2... Just imagine if you install The Rocky Road Android 5.1 that requires atleast 2.3Ghz dual core, 2Gb RAM, 10 Gig internal memory, and a micro mobile ATI HD8200 or equivalent.

Just look at the future harder.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zurginator:
Kinda like back in the N64 days: "how can graphics get any more realistic!?"

It happens. Can't wait to see Crysis 12 running on phones. :D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihateusernames:
I get wood just thinking about the 250 GTO.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Vasichko:
I just got a droid x and read that the bootloader is encrypted. Just want an opinion on if you guys think it will be cracked eventually or should I just dump the phone for a Fascinate or a Evo 4G? I love the look and feel of the X but seems like Motorola wants to be a bunch of *****es and run customers off with this.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
Thats why I will never have a motorola. Htc comes unlocked

Redemption 2.0.5 greysky theme king kernel oc-uv #5. Various boot animations.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bitbang3r:
You might as well keep it for now since you already paid for it, but plan to dump it when the day comes that it stops you from doing something you really want to do. It's VERY unlikely it will ever be truly cracked -- at least, not until long after the phone has ceased to be useful as a high-end Android phone. In the meantime, it IS a nice phone, it's just forced to limp around what's basically a congenital birth defect that will ultimately cause its premature death.

It HAS been rooted, and apparently it's possible to launch custom versions of Android kind of the same way it used to be done from WinMo... boot into stock, do a scripted rooting and become God, kill everything, and relaunch Android from your own files.

Motorola has decades of experience with military-grade encryption. It's something they understand very, very well, and it's VERY unlikely anyone will trivially hack it. This isn't 40-bit CSS on a DVD, or a root cert that's shared by lots of different parties.
[G2 and Desire Z General] j.books:
thanks for this.

auto-brightness works for me. also, wireless network location is kind of necessary because gps won't locate you when indoors. when you're indoors you don't really need an exact location anyway because you probably know where you are. but using wireless networks to get your approximate location enables you to quickly search for things nearby.

one more thing I might add - my G2 seems to constantly switch between edge and hspa. I think I recall this being an issue for the N1 too. if I'm not mistaken, switching taxes the battery. so I set the phone to only use 3G (or only 2G depending if I want to use less battery). you have to have Anycut. then crete a shortcut to "phone info." here you can control the radio behavior. WCDMA is 3G, while GSM is 2G.

also, question: anybody ever have any luck conditioning their battery? I keep hearing that it improves battery life but it's never really helped me
[G2 and Desire Z General] joebobjoe:
Thanks for the tips! Though, what are you sources saying that WiFi sleep uses more battery? Auto-brightness does work for me, it is just very slow to make changes and tends to be on the brighter side.
[G2 and Desire Z General] epeets:
most of these tips are pretty much universal for most of the current and past android phones.

LET IT BE KNOWN the main reason for battery drain (slow or fast) is APPS. They drain more than talking on the phone. They also are the main reason your screen (the next big battery killer) would stay on. In other words, don't complain about battery usage if you're using your phone constantly throughout the day @ work or home. ITS NOT GONNA BE GREAT!
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
As an Electrical engineer, I work with wi-fi chipsets... The process is that when wifi is "sleeping" it temporarily goes to OFF when you lock the phone. [exception: when not using apps like pandora]. So when you turn the phone back ON, WiFi turns back ON and searches for the AP you were connected to. >> this process of turning OFF, ON, and SEARCHING, requires a more battery power than staying connected. When you are connected the router and phone are exchanging information (packets) on AS needed basis like when we use 3G/2G.

i did try Auto Brightness, its a bit Bright for me, i'm gonna continue to use it for the next few days, see how I like it. :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z General] swags:
Auto-brightness seems to be buggy on the software side. The light sensor is very quick to detect changes, but the brightness doesn't drop back once it goes up. I feel that the brightness gets set to full at too low of a light level too. Using a screen protector and case does help a little by blocking some of the light, but it's not enough.
[G2 and Desire Z General] raqua:
Actually, having GPS on consumes battery even when it is not used. And quite a lot. I have seen mayor battery boost after I started to turn it off when I do not use it. (on G1).