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[Vibrant General] Wearespacepeople:
So I applied the update on Tuesday through Mini Kies. First experience with this update, it's been great. My phone seems to faster, really I hardly experience any kind of lag or slowdown (and this is in comparison with my stock vibrant running OCLF). Battery life even seems to be better, but that is probably to do with conditioning. So everything has been good except for the fact that my phone has froze on me TWICE today. I'm thinking it's something to do with the apps though. I was in Layar and it was working for a bit when suddenly, it froze, I didn't have to pull the battery I just held the power button down for a good 5-10 seconds and it restarted. The other time was in a game, which kind of concerns me. I suppose I can reinstall both and see how that goes. I'm thinking it has more to do with the apps possibly being corrupted. The first thing I did was install the 2.2 market on my phone and I ran the update all function on like 15 apps that needed updating. Not a good idea imo, the market went crazy and forced closed a couple of times. I'm not entirely sure what is going but it seems like my phone is only freezing in certain apps. I hope it's not just some random freeze that can happen at anytime, that wouldn't be no good.
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
You guys complaining about battery life... i would Love to have your times. I got 3 hours and 8 minutes today on a fully charged battery.
[Vibrant General] chui101:
Unless you have Wifi+Bluetooth on and are watching movies or something, I don't think that should happen. It kind of sounds like you need to wipe the battery stats - it might not know the difference between full and empty anymore.
[Vibrant General] Thegreatheed:
Call T-mobile and have them send you a replacement battery. I was getting about 8 hours on a charge with light to moderate use, now I'm getting 15-20 hours on a charge, changing nothing but my battery. 3 hours is an obviously bad battery.
[Vibrant General] Maazer:
The update on my Vibrant has been useless for me. I run the phone very light; two screens, one calendar widget, and bluetooth & wifi off. I travel the states everyday and constantly need GPS, and the update hasn't done squat! Battery meter is inaccurate, and where is Flash?

Quick bit if you aren't aware: I hated how they made it harder to bypass the lock screen. No Lock in the market is free and works wonders.
[Vibrant General] MilkPudding:
It really makes me wonder if I was using a different & far superior phone than everyone else when I read posts like this.

Froyo is just the new kid in town. I wonder how many people actually know the real difference in user experience between Eclair and Froyo. It will be Gingerbread very soon.
[Vibrant General] tissimo:
JI6 has been great for me. The battery life its the same or better then JFD with JAC's OC/UV kernel. It fixed a few minor bugs I encountered and overall made the phone much smoother.

Sent from my SGS Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] presence06:
Flash won't come until we get Froyo.. where have you been? This update had nothing to do with Flash or Froyo, mostly GPS and Mediahub...
[Vibrant General] MisterJohnnyT:
WRETCHED battery after OTA update

My Vibrant battery used to last a full 2 days with moderate use... now, after the OTA update, my battery does not even last 20 hours with LIGHT use! If I unplug it with a full charge before going to bed, it loses 30% of it's charge just sitting on my nightstand in standby mode! *! W T F !* ??????

What good is a working gps, if the phone is dead when I go to use it????

I SHALL DEMAND A FULL REFUND FOR THIS TRASH :mad:
[Vibrant General] splat matt:
I'm pretty happy with mine GPS works awesome!
[Vibrant General] yipcanjo:
I *totally* notice the lock screen change! Harder to swipe away. Thought it was fine before, personally.

I guess I'm glad to hear that I'm not the *only* one seeing poor battery life since this update. I'll see if things improve at all today... having disabled a few startup items using Autostarts.
[Vibrant General] MadNosf:
What GPS improvement? Same issues

My first post so hopefully i don't sound too n00b. What app is that? I keep hearing ppl have so many locks on the satellite but i have no clue what they are talking about :( How do i check what my GPS settings are?

I notice no difference in the GPS signal after the update. THe only fix i have is to shut down the phone and restart it to get a signal in less than a minute otherwise it takes long or does not even find my location with an open sky.

Thanks in advance
[Vibrant General] Bernardos70:
Thinking of reflashing JI6. Phone is lagging 10x more than before. I flashed through Odin, but I really dislike the speed of this update. Market is very slow, installation of any programs is extremely slow, black screens everywhere, even swype lagged a couple of times, which it never ever ever did before. Is it a straight up process? Just put it in download mode and flash again? Do I need to do anything other than what I've already done when I flashed through Odin the first time?
[Vibrant General] Ilmoran:
GPS Test

From Chartcross Limited.

Edit: Quoted the wrong post.
[Vibrant General] ProximaC:
Flash back to stock and then install JI6 via KIES Mini before you start putting anything on it.

the OTA bricked my phone, and once I did manage to get it back up I was having lots of problems with lag.

I flattened it and used KIES Mini and my phone is screaming again. My GPS is getting accuracy down to 13 to 16 feet which is better than ever before. At the best, when I had the JI5 GPS files on it it was getting 20-25 feet on a good day.

It was well worth the time to rebuild it from scratch.
[Vibrant General] yipcanjo:
What a difference a day makes...

So, since yesterday I've performed the following: use Autostarts to *disable* Visual Voicemail (I use YouMail) + TeleNav GPS + Daily Briefing. I've also rebooted and charged (of course). For the sake of transparency, I did remove the Angry Birds beta and install the final version. Pretty sure that's NOT part of the issue :)

Anyhow, I'm current at 68% battery life (now 6h 37m since unplugged). 46% of that is Voice Calls (13m), 18% is Display (18m), 14% is Cell Standby, 10% is Phone Idle, and finally 6% is Bluetooth. I've had wi-fi and Bluetooth turned on all day long. This is *way* more in line with what I'd expect, if not still slightly down a bit in overall battery life.

As a comparison, my stats yesterday were (taken from 1st post): 26% battery life (now 8h 4m since unplugged). 34% of the usage is "display", which has been on for 28m total. 22% is cell standby. 15% is phone idle. 10% is voice calls (2m 10s of that). 8% is the Android System.

Any guesses as to whether or not disabling those Startup apps was the difference here?
[Vibrant General] mmalott:
If you look at the official changelog released by Samsung, it appears that this release was more targeted towards making Samsung and Tmo happy. They just happened to throw a couple user fixes in there.
[Vibrant General] snorge:
I am very happy with this update, it is the first time my Vibrant has been able to keep a signal throughout my home. I tried a few of the custom roms floating around here but each one seemed to add as many bugs as it claimed to fix. This update will definitely hold me over for as long as it takes for 2.2 to be released.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
to anyone complaining about the lock screen or gps or anything like that: you are on xda, you realize you can change/fix problems like these really really easily....?
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
Glad you got it sorted out. I knew there were things causing it to mess up. It's your phone, you have to know what is running on it.
[Vibrant General] Shrivel:
4% per hour equates to more than a full day on standby. While I acknowledge that I'm getting a little better than this, I'm curious why you think this is unacceptable?
[Vibrant General] aliensite:
Battery life before update was about 11 hrs. After update it was like 6 hrs and phone had severe lag (never had lag before), especially with Dolphin HD browser.

Using xScope 6 now, no lag and phone lasts at least 13 hrs. GPS now works except for jumping around at stop lights. I am now satisified with its performance.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Battery drain is less of an issue in froyo if u use messagimg apps that utilize c2dm. In eclair, those issues are particular problems - almost umusable.

Flash, air, performance increases... Not everyone cares that much about looks. Performance and functionality mean more to some of is.

Thats not to say the ui should be crap, tho.

So yea, froyo is a big upgrade for most consumers, and why should we care about an os this phone will never see? Especially when manu of us will abandon this platform asap after the experience we've tasted through this phone and its update churn...
[Vibrant General] jreilly801:
I have noticed that my phone freezes alot more, especially on the homescreens since the update. I find myself getting very frustrated while trying to do anything on my phone since the update...

Also I have not noticed an extreme difference in battery.
[Vibrant General] t1n0m3n:
JI6 broke several lag fixes = no stock JI6 for me. Bionix 1.9.1 + Jac Kernal + Tayutama lagfix is super freaking fast though. This combo without the lag fix is usable too, not nearly as fast though. Stock JI6 frustrates the hell out of me.
[Droid X General] quic:
So i've been looking to theme my X and someone told me to use Rom Manager for themeing because it's easy. But if all i did was a basic root and i didn't change bootloader or i'm not deoxed or whatever else you can possibly do to this phone will this mess my phone up? Or is it fine to use to theme my phone with just a basic root?
[Droid X General] Zaphod-Beeblebrox:
Rom Manager will need the Bootloader in order to do the installs. Rom Manager basically boots into recovery and installs the .zip file you downloaded.

If you don't Deodex your phone and install a theme, I do not think it will 'break', but your theme is likely to be half-a$$ed. Themes replace images (which should still work even if not de-odex) and they edit certain parts of other files (services.jar for example) to change the colors of some text. If your phone is Odexed, the coding for those colors will not be in the right place and thus won't change.
[Droid X General] quic:
so i have the stock 2.2 and it's rooted but i can't deodex the phone yet right?
[Droid X General] Zaphod-Beeblebrox:
You can Deodex. You can either follow the manual process (there is a thread in the Themes section.

Or if you want to download Rom Manager/Bootstrap, you can then either load a complete system (Nandroid backup) of a 2.2/rooted/deodexed system (There's one of these in the Themes section as well)

Or there is a version of the 928Droid Black Glass that supposedly will Deodex your system while it installs the theme ...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesubliminaljuggalo:
I did quite a bit of searching before writing up this question, but if I missed something, I apologize. I did a search for "cdma" through the EVO forums and opened anything resembling using the EVO on another CDMA network.

I live in Alaska, so no Sprint network up here, but we do have ACS Wireless (Now Alaska Communications). I'm really interested and buying an EVO, but if it's not compatible with my provider, what's the point right?

I currently have a Hero, so I have the ACS PRL file and the ACS APN .xml file that I use when flashing custom ROMs, not sure if they go hand-in-hand, but that's all I got network-wise. Could I use APN Backup & Restore on the EVO with the ACS information and it'd be good to go?

Sorry for the ignorance, but assistance is greatly appreciated. (:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lokifish:
Unlike GSM phones CDMA phones are already technically "unlocked". The issue is that CDMA carriers use an auth/not-auth list. For example: ESN#1234 is on Sprint's auth list but ESN#1235 is not, it's on Cellular South auth list.

What you need to do is ask your carrier if they will allow to swap out your phone with a Sprint branded phone and if so can they assist you in doing so. This is best done at a store vs over the phone. Also search the MetroPCS threads the princple is the same but with a different carrier.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesubliminaljuggalo:
Alright, well, I contacted ACS and after dealing with the t1 techs (who are all just a bunch of natural born Einsteins) and moving onto the manager, she said that they'll transfer the ESN, but they won't help me troubleshoot anything etc, etc.

She also told me to be wary because she won a Motorola Milestone from whatever (it wasn't set up by ACS) and that when she tried to hook it up to the ACS network, she's getting a voice only connection, no data. Which I thought was weird because ACS actually offers the Milestone in their phone lineup.

Since she's obviously not an XDA visitor, I'm not really hanging on what she's said as long as I got confirmation that they'll transfer the ESN information (That's all I need, right?). My next question is that if I have the same issue, is this a simple APN fix that I can do? Or can I obtain network information from my Hero and use it to setup my EVO should a problem like this occur?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesubliminaljuggalo:
Could I follow one of the various Metro Guides?

I'm not sure what the QPST/EPST files are and how I should go about modifying them for ACS or if I even need to.

I just don't know which information I need to research and what files I need to substitute with my network settings instead of Metro's and also if any of the information can be pulled from my current Hero.

Again, any assistance is much appreciated! I, too, wish to be an EVO user. (:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lokifish:
Well it's good news hat they will do the ESN swap. From what I've been able to gather from carrier swap threads here and on other forums You could run into the opposite of what the T1 tech told you or you could get some mixed bag of services available. You could also have everything work just fine. My suggestion at this point would be to search and query various EVO carrier swap threads and pick the brains of the people in those threads to see if they could give you a generic list of what's needed. I'd also suggest doing this across multiple threads/forums and compare results as multiple sources saying the same thing will most likely be the correct course of action.

I will say again that there's no guarantee that all services will work.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sdobron:
Anyone have a link? Could only find the captivate stock J16 kernel.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoss_n2:
light sensor drivers now are nearly not functional , is that is the best that we could get as i heard there are hardware issues , or there is still some development happening on this issues , same on light notifications and backligt drivers
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JanssoN:
Did you tried the hastarin 7.1 kernel? It comes with a patch for the lights. But I think the light sensor doesn't work properly. However, the notifications work.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ktz2kool:
I'd like to find out if they are working on this too. Every time I walk into direct sunlight my phone touchscreen stops working until I lock and unlock it. Then after a few more seconds it will stop working again, making using my phone outside ridiculous.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] v-b-n:
The latest Stock Evo tree (Oct 15 build) and Hastarin 7.3 include the latest commit of reduced lightsensor reaction time and I have been testing for last 3 hours and its almost comparable to WM now ... try it out :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoss_n2:
i tried it and it is notworking good , it takes time to get bright and nwvwr dim again untill i close the screen ,and led notifications are very random
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] v-b-n:
I am using mdeejay's 3.6 HD build and Stock Evo kernel from Oct 15 and its working perfectly till now...even rebooted 3-4 times :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoss_n2:
it works good when brightening the screen but it doesn't dim the light untill i turn the screen off, i think it is a problem with the screen led drivers as they also don't dim when left without use it only turns off
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] v-b-n:
You tried covering the light sensor with your fingers...you should see the effect.... wierd works fine for me....this Android game is one hell of a migrane :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TML1504:
@all who have problems:

hastarin mentioned in his kernel thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=787588) that it is important to look in the build.prop file of your build to set the name of the module right:

" Originally Posted by memin1857

I talked to gauner1986 (author of the new lights file) and the filename comes from the build.prop file.

It is the ro.board.platform=xxxxxx line in the build.prop file.

xxxxx is also your lights filename. (lights.xxxxx.so)

For example my desire hd build has msm7x30

others I have seen are htcleo, default, qsd8k, ace, bravo.

So you have to rename the lights.htcleo.so that is in hastarins root\system\lib\hw folder to match your builds filename if you want it to work."

you took that into condideration? ;)

regards,

markus
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoss_n2:
i have dezire z rom , rename it to what , and i have light sensor working same as windows in brightening but it don't dim light it brightness it only nd it is only functioning in very bright ligt , does renaming solve this issues
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] v-b-n:
Thats for the LED and keypad button lights .... totally different from the lightsensor screen issue :confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] memin1857:
New kernels fixed light sensor issue. Try hastarin 7.5 kernel
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jonboyuk:
Agreed. It works PERFECTLY for me now :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] echardcore:
So I am experiencing what others are as well. When I am in direct sunlight, light sensor will not trigger full brightness. Just sayin is all. Current setup in sig.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoss_n2:
on kernel released in 4 nov light sensor have been improved allot but it seems to not work in zero light conditions , other wise it works perfect
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JanssoN:
When you boot your phone just hold it under a bright light at the time you get the HTC screen and wait till it has finished booting. That works fine for me.
[General Topics] Issemann:
Might anyone know of a free weather widget that spans (4x1) across the screen?
[General Topics] Dasuper1:
Yep, weather and toggle widget. Same as HTC incredible, i love it. Has skins and many options, in the market.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeydangerous:
Here's the story:

A while back, I rooted my Nexus One without unlocking using the bait and switch method, and had been using various custom ROMs.

Recently, the power button hasn't been working well, so I called HTC to get a swap. Obviously, before sending my phone back, I need to unroot it.

I tried to restore my phone using the method in the XDA guides, but it hung on each step, and it didn't actually do anything. So, I flashed the non-rooted stock ERE27 through ROM Manager (this, I suspect was a huge mistake.)

Now, I have an rooted phone, that fails on any update attempt and so is stuck on 2.1, and worse, Clockwork Recovery is still on there. I've tried to unroot my phone again using both the bait and switch method, and the freenexus method, but both have run into errors. I've also tried installing Universal Androot and clicking Unroot, but it just tells me my phone isn't rooted.

So, I can't root my phone to attempt to flash the recovery, and I can't find a way to remove Clockwork Recovery, but I need to send this phone back to HTC within the next 7 days, or else I'm gonna be out $530.

Any ideas?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carnegie0107:
First: hate to be a douche, but someone's gotta say it: this is the wrong subforum for a question thread. Take a quick glance over the rules stickied at the top of the forum. There's a Q&A forum for things like this.

Second: HTC has typically honored the warranty for known hardware problems (of which the power button is probably the biggest) even for unlocked/rooted devices. They find for me, no problems. So relax.

Last, try using ClockworkMod recovery to flash CM 6 stable, then from that ROM, try flashing back to stock recovery. After that you should be able to flash a stock OTA ROM. You can't change recovery without root access, which you can't get on a stock ROM. So you have to change recovery first. And on your new phone, you should really just fastboot OEM unlock. Trying to deceive HTC makes them not want to give us this option anymore.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsm86:
Yup no worries I had to send mine in because the trackball got stuck and they got it under warranty ... I had my phone running a custom recovery and rom and they didn't even ask about it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edfernandez2:
Is there a guaranteed way to fix the repeated boot loop on htc evo without turning the phone in for repair?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mohawka:
I would say restore your back up or if u just rooted wipe and reflash

Ignorance is bliss but servitude is its partner
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edfernandez2:
It's at stock non-root. I went back to RUU to make it stop boot loop but it still does it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mohawka:
Idk then. But I'm sure if u search around the xda site surely the answer is there. Personally I'm kinda new at this customization stuff but if I had questions this is the place I got my answers. And if nobody else answers u and u can't find it for self there is always taking it in and having the tech support chk it out

Ignorance is bliss but servitude is its partner
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamikam:
u installed the ruu.... u on a non-rooted phone.... very strange.

i would say try to install the ruu one more time and if that doesn't help... back to the store... im not sure what u can do more.

there are a few fastboot command that might do something for u but i think if the ruu actually installed correctly there should be no boot loops, and everything that can be done from fastboot won't really help.

google fastboot commands and a quick how to use it, maybe u should format somethings on the phone before installing the ruu and that could help.

but if u not sure about how to use fastboot after reading a little about what u can do with it... dont mess with it.
[Droid X Android Development] byproxy:
What's the baseband and kernel versions for the 2.2 OTA? I want to see if this update stuck or not.

Thanks!
[Droid X Android Development] zanix:
This is what I have, I updated to the official OTA

Baseband: BP_C01.09.07P

Kernel: 2.6.32.9-ga42712e
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mthode:
here is a tun.ko for VPN. Build by scotty2

worksforme
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] thatruth132:
where does this need to be pushed

and exactly does it do lol
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mthode:
Ah, sorry, it can be stored anywhere where it persists reboot.

You need root to insmod it though and right now this needs to be done manually.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] smasraum:
Yep, I'm no expert on the inner workings of linux/android, but. I installed VPN Connections v0.99 from here. Then I used the tun.ko from above. I don't know that it'll be persistent, but I'll set up a script in ghost script to move it from my sdcard to /system/lib/modules/ if I need to reboot.

It absolutely works for me.

Thanks for posting it.