yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] reddragon72:
Just tested against N1 in a real life situation using C:Geo on both phones and the N1 had me rock solid on a Geocache and the Vibrant had me 15 feet off of it plus after trying to get my bearings it decided to start wondering off and I ended up in another county in 3 minutes. The N1 GPS just works and work rock solid, the Vibrants GPS is obviously not a hardware issue but a software issue. The reason I say that is because when I got the Vibrant Geocaching was a no go at all, wouldn't even lock onto enough sat's to be useful. Now at least it has me within 15 feet of my caches.

So all in all it has improved, but it is still not as good as my old N1.
[Vibrant General] elkavayo:
Gps on the vibrant sucks. I honestly believe it's a hardware issue. JI6 update addressed a stupid software issue that prevented the gps to lock onto satellites probably due to wrong time information, but even after that, performance is really lacking.

I have a nexus one, and it gets a fix in less than 5 seconds with an accuracy of 2 m (6 feet). Once it gets a fix, it doesn't wander all over the map. It stays put.

The vabrant ( before and after JI6) doesn't get an accuracy better than 6 meters (20 ft). That's not to bad, but in google maps, it starts jumping all over the map until it settles -usually- at the farthest place from the actual location.

After JI6, the gps locks very quickly, definitely an improvement, but it it's more important the accuracy than the TTF.

In google navigation, when you stop at a red light, the inaccuracies og the gps and its constant jumping from place to place, triggers re-route after re-route. This is uncomfortable and dangerous when you are driving in an unfamiliar area.

The phone is great, but could have been better had some minimal QA been done.
[Vibrant General] maggi101:
This saddens me. I used to be able to cache almost exclusively off of my G1, unless under heavy cover.
[Vibrant General] said323:
:D

studing
[Vibrant General] kgbkny:
After manually flashing the updated (the OTA bricked my phone), I tested the GPS on its own, as well as side by side with my wife's G2. While JI6 allows the Vibrant to get a satellite lock in seconds, the accuracy of the GPS is virtually nonexistent, with the location bouncing all over the place. Forget about stopping at a red light - the cursor will start jumping around, sometimes placing me 2-3 blocks away from my actual location. While driving on a local highway (with a clear view of the sky), the GPS would frequently lose signal, although it would lock on again in a few seconds. Although the Vibrant can now get a satellite lock, the accuracy has not been fixed. The G2 does not suffer from these issues, reporting accuracy of 4-6 feet and getting a much quicker satellite lock than the Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] tf442:
I am starting to think it is definitely a hardware issue. With GPS test I am getting locks on 9 of 10 or 10 of 12 satellites, but the bar is not very high for the signal on any satellite. Driving down the road it losses signal randomly. My G1 and HD2 had much better GPS performance.

I guess I will live with this until it is time to get another upgrade phone for the cheap price. Maybe the new Mytouch when it comes out. I have extra lines on my account just so I can get early upgrades. An extra line using the same minutes is $5 a month. It is worth it to me to keep getting new phones and selling the other phone on ebay.
[Vibrant General] djf8:
Just did a side by side test with my Vibrant running Bionix 1.7 with the JI6 modem.bin vs. my wife’s brand new G2. My Vibrant instantly saw 13 satellites and took around 10 seconds to lock 11 of those 13. Initially it showed 90 ft. accuracy and after around 20-30 seconds it was bouncing between 18-25 ft. on accuracy. On my wife’s G2 as soon as I opened up GPS Test it saw 11 satellites and locked all 11. It initially showed 20 ft. on accuracy and then after 2-3 seconds it showed 12 ft. on accuracy. I watched it for about 2-3 minutes and it didn't really move as far as how many satellites it had locked or its accuracy.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Gps will never be as good as other phones lets face it, but it does the job, it haven't failed me yet since ji2 and up..... Not perfect but usable... I'd rather have a not so great gps that still works vs a n1s multi touch bug that don't get real mt......

Take the good with the bad
[Vibrant General] tenbeau:
I just flashed the ji6 and although the GPS is improved it is far from being fixed. With my Nexus One and G2 I get a fix within 5 seconds and usually locks on all birds. With the Vibrant it takes much longer and the best it can do is 5 out of 12 birds. This GPS is a real shame as it takes a marvelous phone and makes it less than stellar IMO. I would love to use the Vibrant as my Main Phone but with the GPS still not quite right it is not happening as I use GPS everyday throughout the day/.
[Vibrant General] nobius1836:
For those that have gotten the update, what are your GPS settings now? Is it a different server?
[Vibrant General] bobn4burton:
Agreed with most comments already posted. The update helped to lock faster, but accuracy really sucks. Google navigation only works about 70% of the time. I find my location drifting to side streets quite often which keeps triggering re-routes all the time. I lose lock randomly (although it does regain lock fairly quickly).

Overall, compared to all other android smart phones I've used, the accuracy/reliability of gps is horrible.

I've also lost all hope in a software fix. With all the press it got and the two plus months to release a fix with marginal improvement...means one of two things.

1-samsung software engineers suck or

2-its a hardware issue and they've done the best they can with software to optimize the broken hardware.

Although both may be true to some degree ;) ... I think we are dealing with case #2...
[Vibrant General] jrharvey:
Roomates Nexus one sees 7 satellites, 10 seconds lock.

My vibrant JI6 sees 9 satellites, 4.5 minute lock
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
GPS is no worse than the other phones I currently have access to.

Google Maps doesn't jump around like Google Navigation. Google needs to implement smoothing software into their navigation program. Copliot works great with JI6 and Google Navigation gets Parkinson's disease at stop lights. Like I said, same place and Google Maps shows me as stationary while Google Navigation is all over the place
[Vibrant General] jrharvey:
Agreed. With CoPilot it works perfect. I havnt noticed any jumping around at all. The only problem I have had with the GPS since JI6 is that it sometimes takes 3-5 minutes to get a lock on my location.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
Try to delete your GPS Data and make sure it's all stock under lbstestmode. I get locks fairly quickly.
[Vibrant General] m509272:
I got the identical behavior last night. Is the GPS that flawed that it thinks it's moving when it's not? If they could at least have the software not move the pointer when you're standing still that would likely make a huge difference. Instead it moves you onto another street and starts speaking out "corrections".
[Desire Themes and Apps] astrovale:
How do you place a sound in a bootanimation?

I know that the sound name should be andorid_audio.mp3, but I don't know where it should be placed.

Thanks for any reply/help you can provide.

Astro
[Desire Themes and Apps] fllash:
I'm pretty sure that the sound should be placed in the same directory as the bootanimation.zip, but not inside the zip.
[Desire Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
as far as sence roms go, it should be in either /data/local, or /system/customise/resource
[Desire Themes and Apps] astrovale:
I tried inside the data\local directory, where the bootanimation.zip is placed, but it did not work.

Can you confirm that the naming is right though , i.e. that it should be called android_audio.mp3?

Thanks for your help flash.

Astro
[Desire Themes and Apps] astrovale:
Thanks AndroHero,

I'm running the Aurax so a sense rom.

I haven't tried the system/customize/resource folder so I will give it a shot, since the data/local folder did not work for me.

Thanks for your help man!

Astro
[Desire Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
If your using auroxtsence then it is /system/customise/resource, i used to use that rom :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] astrovale:
It worked!

Thanks AH

Astro
[EVO 4G General] munsterrr:
So someone pulled an "Iphone4 leak" on me and stole my phone off the bar last night. I went through Asurion and spent the billion dollar deductible where they give you the option to shut the old phone off right then and there.

I started thinking about this and yes it sounds good for you to screw the person that screwed you BUT any carrier could take advantage of this. They could let the thief activate their own line on it then they just got another subscriber. As a company it would make sense to me.

I dunno this is just my theory.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
They shut it off because yours is shipped activated

Sent from my Evo beeesshh
[EVO 4G General] mrono:
I'd love to see the tech that they use to 'brick' them, espec with a custom rom on it

What they were likely talking about is deactivating the phone and blacklisting the ISN
[EVO 4G General] munsterrr:
Both are correct.

The activation thing is an option when you file your claim.

Im saying do you really think it gets blacklisted?
[EVO 4G General] JUST2SUAVE:
It still can be taking to a Arab hood cell phone store and flashed to cricket
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Yes they do blacklist them as soon as they are reported stolen

Sent from my Evo beeesshh
[EVO 4G General] LLaufman:
So I'm guessing you didn't have any type of security app on the phone (ex:Lookout)?

With Lookout you can use the locator on the phone and/or have the phone "scream" (blast a loud siren) regardless of the volume setting, you can also wipe the phone remotely.
[EVO 4G General] munsterrr:
i do/did install lookout and wiped it.

Sucks that i lost my class 10 memory card too.
[EVO 4G General] intel i7 quad:
probely blacklist but i would like to see what they have up there sleve:confused:
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
I don't think Sprint will brick the phone... what they will do is ban the esn from being used on the Sprint network..... but that doesn't mean that its banned from being used on metro pcs, Verizon.... or other cdma networks.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Correct, the phone is not bricked just blacklisted. You can still connect through wifi and use all the phone's services.
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
Yeah and any data on the phone is accessible...like contacts, pictures and all that.
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
Dupilicate post...sorry.
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
Hi there! This was my experience with Android:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=792004

I had a couple problems when I was with WM. Sleep of death and so on.

Changed SD card and it seemed to be working fine.

Now, I need my phone so switched back to WM.

Install wizard went fine. But now it doesn't boot :(

Linux Kernel keep saying me "block xxx bad" where xxx is a number (578, 543 and 643).

What can I do?

Pleeease help! =(

Thanks a lot!
[Touch Cruise General] ion_plugged:
hi

same thing nappened on my polaris 200. 2 bad blocks on nand. android works fine. task 28 helps (format nand). is there a solution to skip bad sectors?
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
Android works, too. But it doesn't take too much to hang and start with those force-closes errors.

I did task 29. I don't know if it's the same.
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
Hi! I was out for exams at University.

Last thing I tried was doing task 2a at MTTY.

I know, BIG BIG mistake. Polaris is dead since then.

I'm living now with a Siemens A56@C56 LOL.

Is there any new with this? Is there any procedure I can do to bring it back?

I don't have enough money to send it to service :(
[Touch Cruise General] dertester123:
Seems the polaris gets to an end because of hardware reasons.

i have the first bad block as well.. dont know.. i cant get wifi to work atm i hope its working after wimo flash again.

As far as i know after your 2A the device is dead.

I think repair would be more than buying a new device.

Maby you can try your luck on a wildfire. Here in germany was a action, offering it for 100€ and many people bought more thanh one device to set it on ebay.
[Touch Cruise General] meknb:
There is a patched version of frankenkaiser for the polaris to recover from a task 2a.
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
I read somewhere that bad blocks are common, even if the device is brand new. The point is that it seems there are certain blocks that cause bad functionality if they're damaged. :/

Buying a new phone isn't a solution for me, since I don't have enough money for that. :(

You're right, wrong forum.

Thanks for moving!

I tried the patched version made by jpg001. But it gets stuck in

Just be patient while I'm working ...
7e 4e 7e

I'll give a try again tonight with every FrankenKaiser version possible.

I really need my Polaris back :(
[Touch Cruise General] meknb:
Those numbers don't look right

Just be patient while I'm working ...
7e 4e 7e

are the motoq drivers installed ?are using the right port ? don't try another frankenkaiser version as they will flash the kaiser spl which won't work you need a copy of a original spl.nb.
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
That happens in step 10.

MotoQ drivers installed works with mtty, QPST and the step 7 of the guide.

I'll try downloading new ones tonight :)
[Touch Cruise General] meknb:
The drivers seem fine if you can connect with mtty ect.What is your SECU_FLAG "security unlocked" in mtty try setinfo 8,the button combo for 8b is keep your finger on the green send button and the power button,that will boot into oemsbl on a security unlocked polaris.
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
Thanks A LOT for your response.

I'm not at home right now. Tonight I'll post the results, but as far as I remember, every field was blank.
[Touch Cruise General] ion_plugged:
Faulty nand

Well i am here after a task 2a. android and wm wont flash, redio did not change and i formated the nand. i have moto q drivers and i am connected to mtty but i don't have a workuing frakin kaiser for polari (some dll mising and corrupted archives) and i don't have an original spl. from where can i take one?
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
Ok, this is my output:

SetHTCRegionInfo: block=0, CID=, PID=, IMEI=, SECU_FLAG=0

oemsbl 1

Later I'll screenshot every step. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Here you are:

CYGWIN1.DLL: http://www.mediafire.com/?l7m92ix5cdknmum

And for SPL, you should extract it by using "NBHEXTRACT" (search this forums for it), and run it with your stock ROM. It will give you the original SPL file.

Regards!
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
Sorry for double-posting. I'm acting like a total noob. I am. :P

This is what I did:

Notes:

- I usually get some error after typing the first command.

- CYGWIN1.DLL used is the same as I posted before. Got it from the Internet.

4) Connect MTTY COM4.

Type "setboot".

Type "radata 90000000 1". Nothing is echoed to screen.

Close MTTY.

5) Replug USB cable.

(I called FrankenKaiser.exe as fkaiser, for faster typing)

6) Run FrankenKaiser in a DOS box: fkaiser.exe /dev/com4 SSPL.nb.

Got "7e 02 6a d3 7e"

Replug USB cable.

7) Run MTTY and type:

echo_on
setboot 1
mb 9debbc
mw 9debbc 1 31313131
mw 9debc0 1 31313131
mw 9debe4 1 00000000
mb 9debbc

(as I did this many many times, nothing is changed).

setinfo
powerdown

Close MTTY

8a) Unplug usb cable, remove and reinsert battery, replug usb cable.

Connect with MTTY:

echo_on
setboot 1

Close MTTY.

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8b) Unplug usb cable, remove and reinsert battery, replug usb cable.

Connect with MTTY:

echo_on
dload

Close MTTY.

Right before "dload" command, I'm pressing Send (green button) and power button all togheter.

9) Replug USB cable and then wait 10 seconds.

10) Run FrankenKaiser in a DOS box: FKaiser.exe /dev/com4 SSPL2.nb

NOTE: My SSPL2.nb was extracted from HERE (XDA FTP) with NBHExtract.exe.

Get "7e 4e 7e", not "7e 02 6a d3 7e" :(

11) Replug USB cable, wait 10 seconds.

Run MTTY:

echo_on
setboot 0
cego

Pressing camera button right before typing "cego".

MTTY doesn't show anything. Typed 3 times "echo_on", and nothing. Tried anyway to proceed, but unsuccessfully :(.

Here is the link of the extracted SPL from the original ROM, and the extracted SMI.BIN from QPST, if it helps for something. :)

Original SPL: http://www.mediafire.com/?pt4958k9isw77k2

SMI.BIN: http://www.mediafire.com/?bmupdccl78sicu0
[Touch Cruise General] meknb:
Your phone is security unlocked so you wont need to run the mb mw commands in step 7 again that's just for security unlocking, its just step 10 where it's failing you could try setboot 1 before dload ie

echo_on
setboot 1
dload

Do you know which radio version you have?
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
Thank you very much for your response.

As MTTY says, my radio version is 1.59.46. It should work with FrankenKaiser.

Maybe the SSPL2.nb I'm using is not the correct one.

I'll try right now :)

EDIT: I tried with setboot, without doing all the steps, but FrankenKaiser keeps me throwing "7e 4e 7e". :(
[Touch Cruise General] meknb:
The only other thing i can think of is try booting with the power button and the end key "red one" i cant remember what mode that boots.If you have qpst you can check what mode your phone is in once you find out its in dload mode run frankenkaiser.

The original spl's are all here
[Touch Cruise General] Padlite:
You're right, thanks. I'll check with QPST which mode is my phone in.

By now, I tried the following combinations:

Power + Camera + Send

Power + Camera + End

Camera + Reset press

And still "No phone". I'll let you know any news :)

EDIT: Tried every combination possible, still nothing.

When i enter "dload", any command written on mtty won't response. And QPST still saying "No Phone".

I know the device is security unlocked because if I write "h" I get this command list:

For a help screen, use command ? or h
Available monitor commands are:
? [command]
h [command]
mb [StartAddr [Count [Filler]]]
mh [StartAddr [Count [Filler]]]
mw [StartAddr [Count [Filler]]]
setboot [0/1/2/3]
setatcmd [0:SIO/1:UART/2:USB/3:DPRAM]
setsmdloop [0:disable/1:enable]
setmpatch [0x1: CPU Freq/0x2: acoustic/0x4: simdoor/0x8: RTC]
setiot [0:Disable/1:Enable]
eraseall [erase all setting flags]
setdiag [0:USB/1:UART/2:DPRAM/3:SIO]
partition
checksum
format
setinfo
readadc
cego
setgpio
getgpio
gpio
version
powerdown
platformid
radata
showexplog [n]
usbdppulldown [n]
usbdmpulldown [n]
usbdppullup [n]
usbdmpullup [n]
Headsetpullhigh [n]
rfid
wpmic [PM_VREG] [0/1]

:(
[Touch Cruise General] meknb:
Have you checked the port's on qpst under add new port untick show serial and usb/qc diagnostic ports.I've just checked on mine if i power on with my finger on the end key it say *download* in qpst.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] thoughtlesskyle:
all of the tutorials i have seen on how to odex is pushing a script to the phone after its installed i am looking to do this before first boot. any help its appreciated
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ghghgh14702:
here is the script from an and build, try in linux and see what happens (of course edit for your folder structure)

#!/system/bin/sh

#

# system/app odex-er by Paul O'Brien @ www.MoDaCo.com

#

# experimental - nandroid backup before you run this script!

#

# version 0.1, 29th January 2010

# updated by Martin Johnson, M.J.Johnson @ massey.ac.nz June 2010 for Vogue

#

rm /tmp.odex

cd /data/app

# Check for and delete leftover .odex files after uninstalled apps

for filename in *.odex

do

name=`basename $filename .odex`

if [ ! -f $name.apk -a -f $filename ]

then

rm $filename

echo "Removed $filename"

fi

done;

# Loop through all installed apps

for filename in *.apk

do

name=`basename $filename .apk`

if [ ! -f $name.odex -o $filename -nt $name.odex ]

then

# step 1 - odex the apk

rm -f /tmp.odex

/system/bin/dexopt-wrapper $filename /tmp.odex

# step 2 - did we succesfully odex?

if [ $? -eq 0 ]

then

# step 3 - remove the classes.dex from the apk

/system/bin/zip -d $filename classes.dex

# continue only if classes.dex was present

if [ $? -eq 0 ]

then

# step 4 - zipalign, just in case

/system/bin/zipalign -f -v 4 $filename /$filename.new

mv -f /$filename.new $filename

mv -f /tmp.odex $name.odex

touch $name.odex

echo "Odexed $filename"

else

echo "Error $filename did not contain classes.dex"

fi

else

echo "Error creating odex from $filename"

fi

else

echo "Nothing to do: $filename"

fi

done;
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vNa5h:
Any more thoughts?? :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverslotcar:
I am currently running eclair 2.1 with the jh7 update rooted with OCLF and I need to know when to wipe data and cache with CWrecovery and also when to factory reset. My goal is to have a clean switch to Cog 2.2.5 without having to use Odin back to stock. So please tell me when to do these things to have a clean install. Like before or after i install the new rom??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhiannon224:
You have to use Odin to flash to stock first or something may end up corrupted during the Cog flash. I would back up all files from your internal SD to your PC first and remove your SIM and external SD card . I believe that a Master Clear wipes everything but a factory reset leaves everything on your internal intact. Things have less chance of corruption and run smoother when done this way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fabio84:
Hi friend i have read if downgrade firmware it's possible have network error and IMEI corrupt.

Please write for me procedure step by step for save EFS directory and restore if have problem.

Which program need use ?

Thankssssss
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kuntri:
Hey! Looking for Adblocker.apk and DSPManager.apk

anyone have it to share or have any directdownloads?

thanks in advance!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] asctony:
ADBLOCKER: http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=ADBLOCKER
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kuntri:
Im sorry, It should AdsFree
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Henchmin:
I'm trying to change the myFaves softkey to open text messages or something else. I've searched around, haven't found an answer. I was able to successfully remap the genius key, thank you :)

running latest CRMod.

Thank you for your help
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
The only way to do that is rooting. By the looks of your signature, you're rooted. The stock rom won't allow it which sucks.

sent from Mytouch Slide 3g using XDA App

www.GoTeamFriday.com
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Henchmin:
Right, so I'm wondering what I need to edit in this rooted rom in order to do that. I was hoping it was something similar as modifying the genius button.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
Maybe the developer of the rom have to enable it. Whatever rom your using, you should ask the developer.

www.goteamfriday.com
[Vibrant General] BRodz:
Hey XDA community,

I have been reading a lot of positive things about JI6 and that the GPS is finally fixed. I am kind of a sceptic because I have been reading for a while that compass is seriously messed up on all Galaxy S phones and that it may actually be a hardware issue that can't be fixed with software. I have read that people are getting locks to satellites and that it locks quickly, but has anyone tested the compass to see if that has been addressed also?

If anyone has tested this on JI6 can you tell us how well the compass is working with the GPS and also how the accuracy seems after updating?
[Vibrant General] dex1701:
The compass was perfect in the JI5 release, so it's not a hardware problem. I'm running the leaked JI6 and the compass is ok, but not as good as it was in JI5. I'm going to flash the official JI6 tonight...hopefully it'll be good again.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Compass is prefect on official ji6. Gps is as good as from ji2 on which is not perfect but reliable...