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[Nexus One General] cb474:
I just got a Nexus One and am using the CyanogenMod (although I also have this problem with Enomther's ROM). It seems like a silly question, but for the life of my I can't add contacts to the favorites list in the phone app.

If I choosed the add to favorites option, in the context menu, in the contacts list. It appears to work, but then the contact does not appear in the favorites list. Alternatively, if I go to specific contact and hit the star, to make it yellow, still nothing happens. It doesn't appear in my favorites and the next time I go to that contact the star isn't yellow anymore.

Am I missing something completely obvious? Thanks for any help.

[Oops, sorry I guess I should have put this question in the Nexus One Q&A section. I'd delete it and redo it but don't see an option to delete the thread. If a moderator would move this I'd be grateful.]
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspers25:
ok well im running the stock rom and JT_Rom beta 2.0 and im testing out other

ROMs such as calkulins evio 2 and others.

but is kingxkernel bfs 4? the best?

i need something really good. overclock?

i want to have the best battery life.

how can i do this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snrbobo:
yes

i would likke to know the sam ething

I am running CM6 and would like to use the best battery saving kernel!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lehalter:
I am having great results with King's #11 CFS
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspers25:
Really good battery life? I'm just starting to use kings CFS #9.

Sent From My HTC EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nivron:
King's #11 CFS has been running fantastic for me. I am using the Azarel v2.3 ROM with it. Strangely enough, the first time I loaded Kings with Azarel, the phone was super laggy. I gave it a reboot or two and now it rocks. I have never had good battery life, even with stock 3.29 or other ROMs and kernels. I could make it throughout the day with moderate use and have about 15% left. I have been unplugged today for six hours and have 80% left with slightly less than moderate use... Slow day.

I'm also on radio 2.15.00.09.01 and PRI 1.34 on a HW rev. 003 EVO. The 1.77 PRI dropped my signal strength here in Ocala, FL.

Of course, make sure you wipe your cache/dalvik before you flash the new kernel.

Hope this helps!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspers25:
Yeah,i did so. How long til the battery life shows progress. This is the first kernel I'm testing. Kings cfs#9. How can I calibrate the battery ? I wiped the battery stats to make it better to .

Sent From My HTC EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryedunn:
Perf Test

Since battery life seems to be the biggest gripe, It would be nice to have some type of non-biased performance test / graphs for some of the ROMS and kernels.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nivron:
The Common misconceptions and other useful information... post at the top of this sub-forum has great information, including manners to calibrate your battery.

The problem with testing ROMs and kernels is that everyone's phone is slightly different. Some can't over/underclock to the same degree as others' phones. Sometimes a particular kernel will cause your EVO to force close applications or have other strange problems such as rebooting.

If you search the forums, you will see that there was one person in particular that did a graph of performance testing with various ROMs and kernels.

My advice would be, if you are confident enough, to go ahead and test each of the "leading" ROMs and kernels and see which one works best for you. You can also refer to the Wiki which has ROM/kernel information available.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspers25:
I wanna know how if it works best for you. I wouldn't know what to test.

Sent From My HTC EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bender1077:
Flash ROM.Flash kernel. Use a few days. Note battery life. Repeat.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nivron:
Those are definitely the best steps. Personally the new 3.3 ROMs kernel is supposed to be awesome for battery. I like the Azarel and myn ROMs and have had good luck with Kings #11 and netarchy's kernels. Your mileage WILL vary which is why you should do your own testing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspers25:
Which netarchy kernel do you use? Link please.

Sent From My HTC EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspers25:
When do you start to see change I'm barry life from the kernel? How long til it kicks in?

Sent From My HTC EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quocamole:
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790559

battery life is priority for me. kings #6 bfs and baked snack 6 are my favorite kernels.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspers25:
Wow thank you! What's baked snack 6 url?

Sent From My HTC EVO
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ethan.r.besbris:
Is there anyway to port this feature from the desire roms to skyraider 3.3.2?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] westicle:
So I have an immature, annoying coworker who always sends idiotic spam messages; is there any way to block these? I need to keep his number for work related calls, I just dont need foolish pictures sent to me. I'm just using the stock messaging app. Any advice is appreciated
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn328:
If you download handcent you can just add him to blacklist.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dpeeps74:
Sprint has a place to block texts on their web site.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c00ller:
You can use SMS Filter, a free, 30 kb app and add his or her number. No more sms messages from that number as long as he's in that app's blacklist. You can use it with any SMS client; it is a system wide effect.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] westicle:
Awesome man, thanks for the heads up.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yadnom:
You can also send a text to 9999 to block. Its the same as logging into the sprint website to block.

Just send a text to 9999 with: Block phonenumber

ex: Block 5551112222 will block all texts from 5551112222. Allow 5551112222 will allow texts from the number again.

Info here:

http://www.techgeekandmore.com/2010/05/05/sprint-cell-phone-text-message-spam-block-how-to/
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] westicle:
Great advice, thanks for the info
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleeplessfreek:
I was actually sent here from the Vibrant forum because my bell one wasnt considered a vibrant.. (eventhough bell says it is!)

Can anyone point in the direction?

I need to get these files so i can use Odin and unbrick my softbricked vibrant.

I was basically listening to music and the phone stopped working and its not stuck on the start up screen. For some odd reason, when this happened, i also 3 button recovery option...
[Captivate General] Vicvondoom:
Hi everyone. Just introducing myself here.

Captivate will be my first smart phone, and I know Android is the ****. Unfortunately, there are tons of iZombies around me, and that's pretty annoying.

Anyhow I'm waiting for mine from Future Shop, where the shipment is still delayed.

What are differences that I have to be aware of for the Rogers lock Captivate?

Cheers!
[Captivate General] smurfgod:
First of..Welcome

Second..What are you coming from??
[Captivate General] Shovelhead84:
Welcome aboard. I expect you will have a lot of fun with your new device.

Be sure to check out a bunch of those sticky posts before your phone comes in. There's a lot of good info here and once that phone is in your hand it will be hard to slow down. ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Daveon93:
Im using skinny EVO, v1.5 and anything I drag to my SDCard doesnt show up in any type of file manager or anything!? Why?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Dblfstr:
More specific please.

When/how are you dragging files to SD card. are you in WinMo and you in Android. IS this from your PC to SD or while in one of the OSs?

How old is this Skinny EVO?

Did you ask in the Skinny EVO thread?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ties0:
Hey guys, I was just wondering how much you guys pay for the data plan? I heard T-Mobile has an unlimited Android web plan for $20, does that include the HSPA+ network? I also hear some people getting it for $10 saying it's a really crappy phone. Also will the g1 data plan work for the g2's hspa+ network?

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] nguyen925:
As far as I know there are three available data plans.

$10 should be the regular plan for basic phones, not smart phones

$20 should be for the phones that support wifi but have a 5gb limit before throttling

$30 should be the android data plan with the hrsp+ deal and I've heard that you can hit 10gb before tombile considers throttle your speed

That's just based on what I've read on forums and junk.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ties0:
Thanks for the reply, oh man $30 a month for HSPA+? Looks like I'll just stick with the $20 after a month or two. Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] MassimoM2:
and if you buy a phone at full price, the cheapest data plan can be $25 (no unlimited text). the cheapest call plan is $29.99.

actually, if you make 2-year contract, the cheapest total plan will be $79.99? month-to-month is $25 cheaper a month over next 24 months. so total 2 year saving will be about $600.

it can cover the full price of phone.

in addition, you can add/drop data plan anytime and they charge daily proportion of $25. if you are usually just home/office where wifi is there on weekdays but going out of town on weekend, you can add data plan online on friday and cut on sunday.

moreover, even if you don't have a data plan, you can access to the internet for $1.99/MB for emergency.

and T-mo has no interest installment. if you buy G2 now, you pay $70+ for first payment + tax, then start paying $25 from january for 19 months.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ties0:
Thanks for the reply, MassimoM2! Sadly, I can not get the contract as I might switch carriers any time. The emergency $1.99/MB is interesting, I have a g1 without a data plan, and it tells me I will need a data plan to use the internet. :confused:

My main plan is to buy it for the full retail price and see whichever is the cheapest way to get internet. Looks like I will get the 24.99 plan since I already have text, thanks! :D
[Fascinate General] jeffreymeyer99:
I just rooted using the super one click root and was wondering what the best lag fix was for the fascinate?
[Fascinate General] suppliesidejesus:
It's all the same lagfix, it's the kernels that are different.

I use Dirk's kernels.

Sent from my Fascinate using the XDA app
[Fascinate General] Floormatt:
Voodoo has shown much greater success for me vs. Ryanza's 1 click lagfix. Voodoo is ext4 vs. running loop commands in an ext2 partition for the other. Not to mention the fact that you are giving up about .7 GB with one click lagfix. Quadrant scores are higher on RyanZA's but quadrant scores don't translate directly into real world results. Voodoo and OC until Froyo's arrival. BIG DISCLAIMER!!!!! RTFM before doing anything with either or you will soft brick your phone. Nothing hard about applying voodoo or fixing it if you do happen to brick it if you read the manual.
[Fascinate General] dustinface:
Old lagfix is old. If you want one, definitely use voodoo. Your options are from Dirk and jt, each with overclock kernels available as well.
[Fascinate General] Protonus:
I wouldn't recommend doing any lag fix at this time.

Ryanza's 1 click fix is a "fake" lag fix. It's mainly for faking/improving quadrant scores. Don't even bother. Has little to no real world performance increases.

Voodoo is a true lag fix, however, the current version that exists in the kernels that our out for device (such as jt's and dirk's) are buggy. You may install them ok, and they will work just fine, and they definetly help. However, many people are noticing slowdowns after some usage, that start to negate the improvements. But worse, many people, including myself, are unable to get the "disable_lagfix" working, to shut voodoo off, which is required prior to flashing non-voodoo kernels, or using CWM, etc. If you're one of these people like I was, your phone basically bricks after disabling voodoo and you have to use Adrynalyn's voodoo uninstaller which involves wiping your phone, so you'll lose all your data. I didn't believe that it was a problem until it happened to me, I thought it was just noobs being noobs. however, many skilled people including myself have not gotten voodoo to disable in it's current form.

While there are backup utilities like Ti Backup that work awesome, setting your phone back up from scratch even with backups can be a pain. If you don't like doing such things, I wouldn't bother messing with voodoo for now.

There IS a new voodoo base kernel in development/out now by supercurio. However, it needs to be ported over to the Fascinate for it to work on our phone. This version contains many fixes/improvements, and will hopefully resolve the issues people (like me) have had disabling voodoo. There are no kernels out yet for our phone that yet have this new voodoo.

There is also z4mod on the horizon which is an alternative to voodoo, that allows for greater compatability and may replace the voodoo project for our phones. That should be out soon too.

Basically: if you don't mind the potential to need to wipe your phone to get rid of voodoo, and are a trigger happy flasher - go ahead and flash any kernel you want. But if you wait even a week, I'm sure there will be better kernels out there. Birdmans project looks promising. I'm running his test20 kernel right now.
[Fascinate General] aes55:
^ well said ^

the disable_lagfix worked for me, luckily; now i'm running a clean rom with no voodoo and no overclock - works great without either of these (more stable and still very fast!)
[Fascinate General] zeroxg4:
I've found that the "slowdowns" really only occur on the Overclocked Voodoo kernels. I've been on the 0.2 Voodoo kernel (with no OC) and have found that it's been consistently fast with no lag, lockups, or slowdowns whatsoever (I've been running it for weeks). It's been stable as a rock. Your point is well noted on the reported removal issues (as well as your own experience) and the effects of the OC'd kernels though.
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
FWIW, I'm one of the apparently few people that actually did notice real-world performance increases using the "old" lag fix. It is most noticeable with applications that do a lot of read/writes to the /data/data and cache directories (web browsers, for example). There is, of course, still lag when installing or loading applications themselves, because those don't get stored in the virtual partition, but that's not quite as big of a deal.

I will say that it is without a doubt much less risky than the voodoo one, as I have enabled and disabled it two or three times without any issues whatsoever. I'm very nervous about messing around with voodoo as it appears there's a good chance of bricking my phone. I have decided to wait until Froyo comes out, and see if there is still any lag after that that would warrant a lag fix of any kind. If there is still lag, I'll probably wait for an actual custom Froyo ROM instead of just swapping kernels around. Until then, my phone is fast enough.
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
Lolwut?

I think you are confused on how the lag fix works.
[Fascinate General] jeffreymeyer99:
Thanks

guys i really appreciate all of your input you have been really helpful...i am coming from the original droid and i was flash happy but the fascinate seems a bit more complicated as of now i am trying to research alot right now and really hoping for some froyo because i truly do miss it. so i think i might just keep it rooted and give it a few weeks and see whats on the horizon
[Fascinate General] SDC_Bolts:
I hear you, I am in the same boat. A little harder to find the info here as well. But there is a lot of great info here and helpful people!
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Nope, I went through every line of code in the setup script, and I know exactly how it works. It simply creates a virtual ext2 partition within a data file that contains your /data/data, /data/system, and /data/dalvik-cache directories. The apps themselves (apk files) are stored in /data/app, so they're still on the physical RFS partition, which has slower read/write times.
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
Now I definitely know you are confused.

I'll give you a hint:

pssst: RFS is only slow on writing.
[Fascinate General] Mageta:
This is getting interesting... Popcorn anyone?
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
No worries, I am done. Some of these guys are interesting because they don't actually know what the lag fix is for ;)
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Okay, I admit, I didn't know it was just the write speed that was an issue. However, I don't appreciate the fact that you made it sound like everything I said was incorrect, because that's not true. While loading apps may not be any faster, I still see my phone slow to a crawl when installing new apps, during which there are obviously write operations occurring. But like I said before, not that big of a deal. The data and cache folders are what really matter, as data frequently gets written to those directories.

I'm well aware that the virtual ext2 partition is not as good as a true physical ext4 partition, but it's still better than RFS, and the extra benefit Voodoo brings is not worth the risk of bricking my phone, in my opinion. Anyway, 'nuff said.
[Fascinate General] nmyeti:
Thinking of moving from my incredible to a fascinate and i see a lot of posts about "lag." After playing with one in the store I'm wondering if it is lag associated with the UI (swipe between home screens for instance) which seems way slower than the incredible or lag only associated with installing programs. I love the hardware, but honestly Touchwiz seems a bit slow overall for a phone with such outstanding hardware. Does the "lag fix" improve this as well?
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
Voodoo has yet to brick a phone.
[Fascinate General] Protonus:
That is mostly the crappy Verizon bloatware and all the crap that runs all the time as a result. Flash a ROM like jt's clean rom and you'll see how fast TouchWiz can really be.

that being said, ditch touchwiz anyways and get Launcher Pro, which is all around better...

The lag fixes help with the reading and writing of data to the internal memory of the phone, which is formatted using a propiretary RFS format, rather than a more common / faster one like ext4. So you'll see the speed improvements doing things like writing/reading from a database (such as pulling up a list of all your installed programs), or when installing an app from the market, etc. While the phone with a clean ROM (like JT1134's super clean) is VERY fast, and even faster over clocked, you'll notice on the stock kernel, sometimes it doesn't seem as fast as it should be doing somethings, for a moment, like it pauses. This is the "lag" in question.

It's really not that bad, either way, once you have a clean ROM, and a better kernel loaded.

I can pretty much guarantee you'll love the Fascinate vs. an Incredible once you hack it up a bit :-) Get the kickstand case ;-)
[Fascinate General] azturbomini:
Just sent you a PM...
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Not permanently, no, but I've seen lots of reports from people who had issues uninstalling it, even when following the directions to the letter. I know I could fix my phone if anything goes wrong. However, rely on my phone too much to have it out of commission for too long, therefore I do my research ahead of time, and only implement tweaks that I'm reasonably certain will not cause issues that I don't have time to deal with right now. But anyway, like I said, enough said. On to the next topic.....
[Fascinate General] blazingwolf:
So your saying his post is correct right? Bricking means to be completely unrecoverable. Not just some of the time but all of the time.
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Okay, I will concede that, and I apologize for using improper terminology. Just keep in mind that I'm not the only one to use that term incorrectly. ;-)
[Fascinate General] dalrym05:
I'm running otb voodoo ov overclocked at 1.3ghz with no issues. I reboot my phone once a day at night when I plug in for charge. I myself think most of the slwdoen issues are from people running to low voltages while overclocked and using task killers to kill system processes. After playing around with it for a few days I have jo issues never kill system processes and don't have any issues. As for battery life I'm not sure how much its been impacting running over volts because I have the huge samsung extended battery.
[Fascinate General] bruteforce037:
Thanks for the good info!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thoughtlesskyle:
so before any of us have to answer this question again please read this thread

so with dzo's port of the newest kernel he started including a wlan.ko compatible with the newer 2.6.32.nbh's into his builds. this left small fragmentation issue with people still using the older kernel

so when you use android on any of the phones in our project your nbh/ zImage is where your kernel is

so you have 2 options for your .nbh/zImage their are

2.6.25 (older kernel)

2.6.32 (newest kernel)

the older 2.6.25 kernels are available on dzo's site (should be a link to it in the first post of this thread) the last one he made was 26-07-2010 (what i use on my touch)

the newest kernels 2.6.32 are avalible for download from the kaiser kernel thread

if using a 2.6.25 kernel you need an update for the wifi this is attached to this post

now those instructions are assuming you have a kaiser if you have a polaris you need the wifi update for it reguardless the one for the 2.6.32 kernel that is also attached

for older polaris kernels i am not sure where the wifi update is for it but a forum search should find it easily if you know what your looking for

and lastly if your on a vogue, wifi will never ever work ever so stop asking

i think that should cover it if i missed anything everybody feel free to chime in (also if this could get stickied that be great)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] scooter1556:
Good stuff, glad to get that off your chest? :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thoughtlesskyle:
Haha does it show?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ASPHALT5:
perfectly working
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] aceoyame:
This should be stickied tbh. This question is one that pops up the most followed by questions about .nbh's. Such as how do I edit them, how do I use a vogue rom on my kaiser, etc.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] zenity:
Mind awfully if I link this in my mini-faq, since it's definitly a frequently asked question ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thoughtlesskyle:
please do, i wrote this for the intent of not having to answer it again so if people use the FAQ like they should to start it will make for way less hassles
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] zenity:
well it's sitting at near 7000 views, so it's getting looked at ;)

Just thought it would help keep it from getting buried :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] n2rjt:
Help my WIFI doesn't work!

Just kidding :)

Thank you for organizing all of the answers in one place.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] art87:
Sorry for bothering you but i can't install this update.

I just get "failed to extract" message after each attempt.

Hope someone can help me to solve this problem.

I've got kaiser with .25 kernel installed on it, system stored on nand and data on ext2.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thoughtlesskyle:
Did you open the zip you downloaded or try to. flash it as is, if you flashed it as is that's your problem