yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dimebagdan65:
Easy, killer...

The guy used to work for Sony and Dell (verified) yet you think it's far fetched that when he schooled a VZW manager the manager offered him a position? Way to contribute to the thread (Granted, not much of a theme and app thread to begin with, but still... Bashing an app doesn't mean it should go in the app thread, that's more General or Q&A) lol :slow clap:

Please folks, follow the Thumper rule... "If you can't say somethin' nice (Or constructive/helpful/intelligent/witty/funny/etc), don't say anything at all"

Of course, as we all know, the Android community has become the Android Family and every family has a few uncles like you, kind sir ^_^
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] smkd13:
and one more funny thing.

STRAIGHT FROM VERIZON. RT @VZWSupport @smkd13 Android as a built in task killer. I don't suggest to download it. *MB (via @smkd13)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] smkd13:
It is the one where andy is talking about how the file system works on androinf and his they do multitasking.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fader01:
HAHA I forgot I posted that but its nice that you followed your own criticism and added so much to this thread. In the future I will remember that douchebagdan64 said to post nice.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] smkd13:
This thread is off topic and needs to either be moved or deleted. This is not a race for popularity nor is it a place to bash on other people. We are all here to learn or share not talk s**t. If you don't have anything nice to say please refrain from saying it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] studiorat:
They Tried to get me as well Funny story I rooted mine in VZW while waiting for a Tech for my wifes Droid X...lol True story! the Manager walked up and asked what I was Doing because I had my droid hooked up to their display netbook I logged in to unrevoked and did it right there... while telling the manager I was Rooting my droid he laughed and walked away in disbelief
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] smkd13:
that is awesome bro. I got a good chuckle out of that one.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Carnage9270:
While a agree that a task manager isn't necessary for our phones, it does serve a use. It kills programs that don't shut down when you close them. They remain open in the background until they are force closed by the os when more memory is needed. These running apps require cpu power whether they are in the foreground or the background. More cpu power = more battery drain. Closing them manually every so often keeps them from staying open for days at a time.

But like i said, it definately isn't necessary, but it's far from worthless.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dscribe:
Recommended read:

http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] wisenick:
I work for verizon and my store is probably the only one educated on why atk is bad. I even made a print out explaining it to customers. Every time a customer comes in from another store they have atk and I remove it for them. Ppl are ignorant, not dumb ignorant.

Btw side note everybody at my store is rooted and we also root customers phones for $30 and show them how to use wireless tether. In fact today alone I think I rooted two moto droid 2s and a droid x
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] wisenick:
For that I recommend a free app called system panel. It shows you what is using your cpu, you might be surprised
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] wisenick:
+10

Like I said I work for verizon and I pretty much quote this everyday, I even made a paraphrased version for customers to read when im not there
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dimebagdan65:
I sincerely hope you're using one of the multiple ROMs that has my boot animation baked in by default, talk about irony haha
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] smkd13:
and here is the video that explains it for the most part.

vvvvvvvv FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW vvvvvvvvvv

Multitasking explained.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crombej:
Real life experience...

Hi All,

I know Android is an awesome OS. I know Linux is an awesome OS. I know people (experts) say ATK isn't necessary and since they're experts, they're always right.

I've had my Incredible since 4/29 - the day they came out.

I've been bummed with an average of 8 hours of "good use" since I had it. My son has the same phone and similar battery life. We turn down the screen, turn off WiFi, blah blah blah to help, play with Juice Plotter, yada yada. Bottom line - after 8 hours I'm in the "red" and need to recharge or it'll shut off.

A month ago, I decide to put on ATK just for the heck of it. BAM! 15 hours of use my first day! A couple days later I texted my son... "1am here and still at 39% battery!" Heck I never made it past 6pm before needing a charge.

I don't care what the "experts" say or the OS zealots. I changed NOTHING but installing ATK and now for the past month my battery life has basically doubled. In fact, I forgot to plug in last week one night and 30 hours later my phone was still running. That was impossible before.

There are no words anyone can write which will change my real-world experience. It WORKS. I did play with setting which apps it killed, level of aggressiveness, etc. but no matter how I use it, it WORKS. Sorry guys.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Gahh Its Lee:
Just saying I installed ATK the day I got my phone and was getting maybe seven or eight hours out of a charge without anything on and screen brightness down all the way. I uninstalled it and now get a good 10 hours with my screen on auto and I no longer ever turn 3g off. Without it I have more battery life while using features that drain battery. I leave auto brightness 3g and gps on always.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] colonel187:
The only problem with your theory is that the background apps are idle thus not using any power unless they are set to sync at regular intervals.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] colonel187:
You knowingly void customers warranty as a representative of vzw? And charge them for it. I hope you advise them first. That's kinda messed up.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dimebagdan65:
Please folks, enough with the voided warranty, as we all know rooting is reversible... And if you didn't know that, stop posting and go back to reading for a bit longer...
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] MajorDishes:
[redacted]
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dimebagdan65:
Woohoo! An honest,intelligent, non spiteful post! And here I thought this thread was doomed :-) I recently stopped using ATK's and SetCPU as well just to see if there's a difference and after about a week, battery life is sucking... I've been up for maybe half an hour, down 20% already. It looks like it all depends on the user as to whether or not they have any kind of benefit. Ohh well lol
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] najaboy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] smkd13:
That my friend is the best post I have ever seen. I agree with it because it is true because all of the open source stuff really has people confused because they are all use to the windows normalcy that they produce anecdotal evidence to support their theory that it is the same.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Cryous:
I know that many Verizon stores have issues with atk, but at my store they say that what ever you do don't install any task killer. My friends uncle is the owner of the regional Verizon stores and he said that corporate says not to teach that anymore but some stores missed the memo

Sent from my HTC Incredible
[Droid Incredible Accessories] localceleb:
I know that this type of case was made to help improve apple's crappy phone, but i really like it's minimalistic design and it actually does help protect against surface scratches. do they offer anything like this for the droid incredibles?
[Droid Incredible Accessories] localceleb:
I guess not...
[Droid Incredible Accessories] XideXL:
You could just buy one of the vzw silicon cases and cut out the entire back, leaving only the outer band.

Sent from my Droid Incredible
[Droid Incredible Accessories] wedgemoose:
Local, i have asked a few times on different forums. Like you i love that style case. But i have no luck at all. i did a pretty good search myself also with no luck

hopefully one day
[Android Themes] Pesti13nce:
I just rooted my Droid2 and i'm having a hell of a time finding a MM Black Notification bar for D2. I've searched and found a few (I think) but when i flash them via MM (Using Bootstrap) I get nothing, and it's driving me crazy. Does one exist? doesn't anyone have one that works well?

I appreciate the help sorry for being a noob with this stuff.
[Android Themes] shawn13165:
I've been looking for the same thing. If you find one can you point me in the right direction. I would prefer one that looks like sense ui from the galaxy s phones, but would settle for anything similar.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayman07:
anyone know how to get the "H" symbol for MIUI when i am actually in the HSPA zone? I would like to know when i am in it or when i am just in 3G. I didn't see any of the ROM's supporting it. Let me know. Thanks!

Ayman
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cespo2:
hey does anyone know a way i can disable the camera on my evo. My work does not allow us to have cameras on our phones. I thought instead of putting epoxy or something over it i could just delete the firmware any ideas?

-chris
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mntbkr:
Question, are you rooted?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iceman99393:
Use a rom where the camera dosent work anyway
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cespo2:
I sorry guys I'm a bit of a noob.... when t comes to this type of programing/developing... were can I get a rom to do this... or do i have to develop my own ?

rooted meaning it is not unlocked?

-Chris
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonyz2897:
Why not just get a silicone case for your phone and sandwich a piece of black plastic (cut from a trash bag) between the case and the phone so that it covers the lens? That will render the camera inoperable but is easy enough to undo if you want to use it when you're not at work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akastixx:
Front camera also for the loss. I'd go to whoever your camera nazi person is and discuss your options before potentially messing up your phone for nothing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cespo2:
yeah i spoke to the camera nazi lol and he told me i need to disable it so that i am unable to reverse it.... So i know people have got away with deleting the firmware. I would rather do it this way so that if i wanted i could hard restart it and get everything back.The other option is putting epoxy over both cameras... i was hopping it didn't get to that... any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] envoykrawkwarrior7:
Well the easiest, albeit time consuming would be to root and nandroidyour current firmware, and load up a second Rom, Luke the desire hd Rom and back that one up two and just switch between the two accordingly through nand restore
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rodriguez92:
got this from techradar website is this true or what??

12. Don't drain the battery

The old advice to completely drain your battery to ensure proper operation doesn't stand any more, thanks to modern lithium-ion batteries. They don't have the charge memory issues that affected previous generation cells, and in fact perform better if you regularly charge them and keep them topped up.

Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...y-life-how-to-improve-it-697772#ixzz14BOnEVuP
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamVib:
It's perfectly fine to drain the battery.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icandy75:
You drain the battery to train the rom so it will learn the highs and low. That makes your battery icon more accurate from what I understand. So essentially it's not the battery we are conditioning it's the rom.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayprime:
+1 I completely agree

Friends don't let friends flash drunk
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sir Incognito:
Digging the signature man.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rodriguez92:
Thanks everyone for not coming out like jerks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterotaku:
All you really have to do is train the phones charging system. LiIon batteries do not have the sorts of memory issues that old fashioned NiCad's did.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icandy75:
No worries, like you see if you post in the right section you wont get flamed. :)
[General Questions and Answers] rebeldanja:
i want to install the fro yo build from dark stone v3.1 on my hd2 USA version .i have the newest 3.14.531.1 ROM with radio version 2.15.50.14 .....my spl version is 2.10 .0000

what do i need to do to achieve this ....can i just put the android build on my sd card? or do i have to flash the hspl change the rom then flash android? much thanks for your help guys i appreciate it
[Fascinate General] mackeydesigns:
Our cousin from a slightly different mother launchers in a matter of a week or so. It will be interesting to see what this launchers with (2.2, Bing, etc).

This could possibly fall in line with the supposed Galaxy S 2.2 roll out over the month. It will also be interesting to see how the secondary display instead of soft keys plays out.
[Fascinate General] Mean Bro Greene:
http://i.engadget.com/2010/11/02/full-samsung-continuum-specs-leak-out-in-verizon-comparison-char/

This thing is kind of ridiculous. It seems to literally be the same device as the fascinate, but with an added 96x480 ticker. I could see how that would be useful, but the thing just looks silly. If that spec sheet is to be believed, it's launching with 2.1 which essentially guarantees bing as the integrated search engine.
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
I remember reading somewhere recently that the Continuum would only have a 3.4 inch screen, not 4 inches like ours. I'm sure that was done to make room for the smaller screen without making the phone too big to handle. I dunno about you, but I'd take the 4 inch screen over a smaller one with a ticker screen any day.
[Fascinate General] cynikalJ:
Right now I wouldn't change my Fascinate for any phone on any network. I love this phone. I do want 2.2 though lol
[Fascinate General] Jrex:
Definitely Agree'd!!
[Fascinate General] ryude:
Samsung wanted to make sure to compete with itself, just in case anyone was thinking twice about buying an iPhone.
[Fascinate General] adiliyo:
it has a smaller screen and still has 2.1 + bing, so i don't see the draw as the ticker, while a neat idea, duplicates the function of the notification bar, and seems pointless (to me at least)

plus in some of the early videos, it seemed like a fatter phone.

from what's known to be in the pipeline on verizon for the rest of the 2nd generation android phones, i don't see anything enticing.
[Fascinate General] ryude:
The only phone that can tempt me away from this is a 4g LTE phone, hopefully it will come next year.
[Fascinate General] RacerXFD:
I promise that you week be saying that you want gingerbread after we get froyo. Also, I don't see any major changes for the fascinate change with froyo.
[Fascinate General] Sophos1:
Idk, I moved from an htc desire running cyanogen 6.1 (froyo 2.2) to a samsung mesmerize running 2.1 and there are definitely things I miss about froyo. One of the biggest is chrome-to-phone but there are also many small ui improvements that I miss. The hardware on the Mesmerize/Fascinate more than makes the switch worth it though ;)

~ Sophos
[Fascinate General] dlongb13:
This stuff really clutters up the development forum on XDA. Post this in general. This is why most of our devs are now releasing things on other websites FYI. So please, keep it in general or even just the android section. And to say its fascinate related because you wonder what it will do to the development of our phone is complete crap. I could literally relate my last crap I took to the development of this phone if I really wanted to. Kthanxbai
[Fascinate General] mackeydesigns:
Quite true, I could have posted it in general, but figured it could also play a role in Android development if the system is different.

Having admins on hand to move stuff around helps as well.
[Fascinate General] logan302:
Continuum Root

Okay I've had my Continuum for a day now and I'm ready to root. Anyone tried any of the other Galaxy S roots yet? Anyone have one? I'm upgrading from a hacked Omnia, so I'm new to the whole rooting thing.
[Fascinate General] Imagiohio:
You may want to try the z4root app in the market...
[Fascinate General] ksizzle9:
Z4 WILL work on the continuim
[Fascinate General] solo24:
I am attempting to root my Samsung Continuum using z4root right now, been going to about 30 mins now, just says "Running exploit in order to obtain root access" at the bottom of the screen and the circle in the middle is spinning lik3 it is doing something. How long should this process take?

Can a admin create a Continuum forum?
[Fascinate General] slvrevoix:
You will have to restart the program. I used this on my girfriends phone and it took like 2 mins tops.
[Fascinate General] PhoenixPath:
Hell, took 3 tries on my fascinate...

Sent from my stupidfast blackish hole.
[Fascinate General] solo24:
I have tried z4root like 6 times on my Continuum with no success. I did a factory reset and cleared cache hoping that would help but still no success. USB debugging is turned on. Any suggestions? thanks.

SoLo
[Fascinate General] smminco:
how long do you let it run? just keep trying. it worked fine on my continuum.

otherwise, just go to rootzwiki and use the adb method. i did that on a buddy's continuum, and that worked just fine too.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehpwnerer1918:
My wife had a rooted 2.1 update 1 Droid Inc that she refused to let me upgrade to 2.2. She was having trouble so I used the RUU to roll it back to stock 2.1 update 1. I would like to get her up and running with the stock 2.2. It does not show when I do a check for update on the phone. Is there a venue I can use to download that somewhere? Thanks in advance.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camalus:
Search Google for Droid incredible 2.2 ruu. Plenty of links there with instructions.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lafester:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=713251
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] AngelDevoid:
Does anyone know why my default camera icon does not change when i apply a theme using any theme launcher. I currentky have android 1.6 and using adw launcher. Anyone else noticed this or has no problems. And if u have a solution please share thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatesmarch123:
I'm totally at a loss. I keep getting a notification that my internal memory its nearly full...yet I'm showing 11gigs free. Any ideas?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kryptyx:
This might help...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brian_v3ntura:
+1 i wonder this too. i get the same notification when tryign to download a 32mb file even tho i i have well over 10gb internal and 6gb external sd

this was an extremely stupid response...not only was it ignorant,it WASNT even "being a smartass" as this is the Q&A section.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterotaku:
The internal memory you're speaking of is the internal storage, of which we have about 14gigs to play with in total. This memory is formatted with the FAT32 filesystem, a filesystem which is often prone to allocation table corruption. This can lead to a filesystem reporting it's free space incorrectly.

The solution would be to backup any data on the internal storage to a known safe source (say to your PC temporarily) and then format the internal storage, which can easily be done from the phone's settings menu. Afterwards, copy all of the saved data back.

If the problem persists after this, then you will have to go on an errant file hunt, because files can also become corrupted individually and misreport their size. Such a file if found should be deleted.

Hope that was clear. Best of luck! :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgmike:
Just a thought....how many nandroid back ups have you saved and still have on your internal sd?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayprime:
Are sure it's not the phone memory where the apps are stored. Because some people who use a lag fix like oclf don't realize it could take up to half of phone internal storage.

Friends don't let friends flash drunk
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatesmarch123:
Thx For the input...I just did a factory reset through the dialer. Quick and painless.

Construction thumbs and swype don't mix!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blasian shadows:
only 2 gigs of space is dedicated to apps. remember our phones have a 16 gig internal sd card. and 2 gigs of rom if im not mistaken. since its an internal sd card that means apps are installed to the phones memory,not the internal sd card.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AssyrianBLOOD:
tittle

thanks in advance
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oavon:
I have French generic, I didn't want to wait so I changed to nordic and it works:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=826580
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ctp3:
Where is the guy that had the sims 3 download on here?? I would greatly appreciate it if I could get it.....
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rodriguez92:
it doesnt work for me but here it is

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=774078&highlight=sims+apk
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es7241:
That's just so it would show the game in the launcher you have to install the actual game first but I forgot where I got it from ... I think you should start googling
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbeez34:
sigh.

First of all this in no way has anything to do with android development. I'm not the person who had this posted originally. Here it is anyway. So - after you download this, please remove your post.

http://db.tt/E7YZ8pS
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ctp3:
First of all, u take this forum stuff a bit too serious dont u think... I was just asking a question....nobody got hurt....dont shoot!!! Get a life....u not the owner of the site... Remember that sht
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ctp3:
And thanks to rodriguez and es7...somethin somethin....lol
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rodriguez92:
how is this illegal? the game comes with the phone
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Master™:
Please limit yourself on the cursing on this forum & remember that there are minors here..

Yes, this is the wrong section for your thread & I have reported it to be moved.

Take some time to read the RULES before starting a flame war next time..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captainkrtek:
Closing thread, too much OT and flaming
[EVO 4G General] ms79723:
Hey try this out..this is going to sound weird but stick with me.

Im on rooted OTA stock running netarchy's 4.2 kernel. The battery life is the bees knees while the phone is idle, but while the phone was on it was sucking (that's to be expected right?)

But then I started charging up my phone recently from 57%, so I get to 92% so i can send a text (my chord is effed up, so i cant just pick it up and send it while its charging or else it will short out) and I noticed that the whole time im typing im still on 92%. Big whoop most of y'all are thinking, but this text was 11 texts...

I think unless we are using a wall charger, we should stop charging our batteries to 100%..I say this because there is something wonky going on when we do charge to "100%." I lost 8% in 20mins from 100% while my phone was idle on this kernel, yet whenever I half-ass charge it, i can hold it like there's no tomorrow.

So i propose that if your phone is 50% at night, charge it until you reach about 85% before sleeping; then in the morning plug it back up to the charger and make sure you dont hit 100% or anything close, try to get it to 95% then start your day. I think this will give some killer battery life.

Just a thought.