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[General Topics] cott789:
Well, this is my first post ever in the XDA forums, but I just thought some people might want to know this:

I have a Sprint epic 4g (galaxy s) and even though Sprint has promised 4G in South Florida by the end of the year, no date was actually given, as we all know. I go outside and push the 4g button every day hoping to get a connection, as in when they may be testing it as many NYC users have reported connectivity before "official launch". I live in Boynton Beach, FL which is in Palm Beach County, which is in-between West Palm Beach, and Ft. Lauderdale. According to Sprint, when they say the "Miami Metro" they define it as "Miami north to Port St. Lucie (which is 40 miles north of me, therfore I am well in the defined area). While I still did not get a signal outside my house today, I started a new job in Delray Beach today (which is the next town south in-between Boynton Beach and Boca Raton) and while at work, guess what!! a strong 4G signal!!!!! All throughout Delray Beach, I used Speed Test and the FCC test to test speeds and I was getting approx 7mb/sec download and 3mb/sec upload with a ping of around 121ms. After work I drove around to see if I can hold the signal (oh, and BTW many people have mentioned that they get 4G outside but as soon as they go inside a building or a car it goes away, that was NOT the case at all with me. Strong signal regardless of inside or outside) So, even though it has not been "officially launched" in the South Florida metro, it is obviously being prepared as promised, so even though Clearwire is pulling out of the Miami metro as declared on their own webpage due to funding issues, Sprint was telling the truth that it will not stop owners of 4g enabled phones (evo and epic) of getting the service that was promised. I am very, very happy. When I pushed that 4g button and it didn't say "4g disconnected" I was in shock! So any of you in the South Florida area, (West palm beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami) it really is here (sorta) and it should not be long! I was most amazed that it did not drain the battery in my epic any faster than 3g.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mycorrhiza:
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I seriously hate the Galaxy S for it's GPS. I mean really hate. Although having improved the fixing with newer firmwares, it is still atrocious while navigating: skipping all over the place and giving wrong directions and above certain speeds (around 140-160Km/h) loses gps altogether.

For me its basically unusable and I was very close to throwing it out of my car window a lot of the time!

Luckily I still had my Holux GPSlim 236 from the times were integrated GPS was still a myth and alongside Bluetooth GPS Provider it works like a charm. Pinpoint accuracy all the time. Finally my Galaxy S feels like my Milestone did GPS-wise.

Of course it is not practical to carry around a GPS receiver all the time, but for those reliant on in-car navigation it's a good solution as gps receivers should be pretty cheap now.

For anyone interested I recommend a Sirf based chip as the app support NMEA.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
Any chance of posting a sample Mytrack recording?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] compuse:
haha and that one is over 5 years old!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mycorrhiza:
And ironically it is so much better albeit much larger than the GPS in the brand new Galaxy S.

I will try to record my next trip when I use the GPS with myTrack.

On the trip I recently tested the Holux on it was 99% accurate almost all of the time. No wrong location, no location skipping and it even registered correctly when I was stopping at an intersection.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Oletros:
I will try my Holux M-241 with its MTK chipset
[Galaxy S I9000 General] padlad:
I was hoping my old R74 would do the job when in the car but the galaxy cannot even 'see' it. Gutted :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mycorrhiza:
You mean the bluetooth our the app?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BottleB:
You shouldnt be driving at 140-160km/h
[Galaxy S I9000 General] padlad:
Both. As i understand it, the app will only work with the bluetooth gps as long as the Galaxy can 'see' the gps unit via bluetooth, which it can't.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dvance:
Why not? Maybe he was on a derestricted toll road like the Nurburgring for example, or he was simply on the German Autobahn, where there's plenty of place where there is no speed limit. Or you're suggesting that you shouldn't drive at that speed anyway? :eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nemethb:
The only problem I see with the SGS GPS (maybe other people have different problems) is that it just drops all the Satellite locks for some unexplained reason. Once it loses lock it usually can't regain it because you're moving or whatever. When it is locked though I get very good accuracy and it's quick to update. Funny thing is you can watch it in GPS test. I could have GPS test open with 11 satellites in view, and 7 or 8 locked with 20-40+ SNR and then all of a sudden the signals are dropped while the satellites are still clearly in view.

Anyway...I hope Froyo fixes it for me. It's probably different for everyone else.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mycorrhiza:
I live in germany ;)

As for froyo: it doesn't fix the main problem...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] theraider:
I tried this guide and it worked for me:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tsinc:
Unbelievable! :eek:

Even if I had all of the other settings allready as described, my gps was unstable (gps test). The only thing I changed was the FQDN (which was something like supl.google.com) and now it is stable and more accurate. It doesn't continously change the sats used for fix.

I can assure you it worked for me! :cool:

(stock eclair 2.1 JM2/JM1/JM1)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mycorrhiza:
With my device I tried everything. It did improve the fixing, but skipping and losing gps is and was always present and I don't really see any improvement since the stock firmware.

Furtonately I do not care anymore since my gps mouse works :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Natanael_L:
YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never had a GPS fix INDOORS before!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] progene81:
this work for gb too?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jose.celestino:
For gingerbread you can use AngryGPS I guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
i would not recommend using such app(s)

they will not make SGS1 JVR gps any better
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
from what ive spotted my gps was working normaly

but after last time it landed on the ground it takes a bit longer to obtain fix and stay on it

probably will have to dissasemble my unit and check all the connections

it is not a big change but still noticable
[Galaxy S I9000 General] boldeagle:
Does these instructions/secret codes still work on the Galaxy S after I've installed CM 10.1.2? I desperately need to improve the GPS...

Any advise will be greatly appreciated!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] theraider:
Try.. I don't have a Galaxy S anymore..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dax47:
sgs is crap

Hi !

Have you tried it ?

Can U recommend an android that works without freezes / Massive LAG / no problems with GPS and Camera and etc ?

Also one that does not drain the baterry so quickly..

10x

PS : can anyone help me to unlock phone , so i can use it with any carrier ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] edNigma:
Any other useful codes for Samsung gravity smart (android 2.2.2 Froyo)?

:fingers-crossed:

Thank you! i am looking for Any help i can get with my poor sgh-t589 and it's built-in handicaps.
[General Questions and Answers] brudis1:
Hello guys, I'm trying to unroot my evo that is running 2.2 so that can return it due to the body being cracked from getting dropped on my my tiled kitchen floor. I'm using the two step method that requires me to flash unrevoked-forever-son.zip and then flash pc36img from bootloader. when I try this I get an error that says update faild. what am I doing wrong. any help is appreciated.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] 12793080:
HTC SAPP310 (my tuch 3g) can unlock or not?

Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G

HBoot-1.33.0013(SAPP31000)

CPLD-13

RADIO-2.22.22.02

Pls help me.

thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] johnson8cyl:
U can get unlock code from T-Mobile
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] andrewkz:
Can you remove sim lock from htc sapp310, imei - 351771047036703, thanks for all, my e-mail g.andrew@mail.ru
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] Dies:
Howdy,

I noticed on my phone that my screen locker looked wierd so i soft reset the phone then played a game of madden and looked down at my phone and it was at the orange windows boot screen hung up at it. I soft rest again then it would flake out at the verizon splash screen i soft reset a bunch of times and still the same results. I yanked the battery and let it sit for an hour and still nothing i replaced the battery and nothing.

So i proceeded to go into bootloader and hooked it to pc and reflashed with the stock MR2 verizon rom and now its hung up on the white htc screen with the red writing at the bottom.

Only thing done to the phone was HArd-SPL a week or 2 ago with no rom flashes after was on the stock rom.

Ive searched the topic also and am thinking i might have to do a task 29?

ATM im going to try and flash the first stock VZW rom and see where that goes but likely same outcome.

so do i have a brick or is there a fancy way to get it working?
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] Dies:
got it working with the MR1 update so im good
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradleyG:
okay im getting completely frantic right now, i tried to flash the newest cognition ROM from stock 2.1 rooted from recover and it all loaded fine but i kept getting force closes com.android.phone or something and then i was like okay ill just restore my last backup and did that but now it wont boot past the at&t world phone screen and i cant get into recovery. ive read other threads about this but theyre all different situations so i wanted help for my specific situation. i love all the devs help and hard work on this site and i hope my phone is not bricked because ive only had it for about 2 weeks. so please a fast response would be appreciated, i would like to have my phone fixed by tonight thanks in advance guys :) oh and also i am able to get into download mode i just dont know what that does.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradleyG:
no one knows? :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradleyG:
nevermind everyone i got it using odin :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinichi21:
Just reflash use this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818439 or you can search for odin one click by DG.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Odin. You will be fine. Just search and read. Be careful what you do and try your best to understand what you are doing before you panic.

You were getting fc on cog so instead of reading and re -flashing you panicked then flashed a 2. 1 back up over 2. 2 with voodoo lagfix active. :O it is not the end of the world. I do hope you have a PC and not a MAC. Odin will flash you back to stock but you will need to search and read. Good luck

Captivate

Cog 2.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carrottop432:
I think I'm in a similar boat... tried to flash back to JH7 after getting tired of froyo versions that I didn't like. Now I'm stuck at the AT&T screen and nothing works... no matter what button I hold while I power the phone on, I get nothing. Any advice?

Update: I think I may have something here... found a guide talking about JTAG stuff that suggested holding both volume buttons while plugging in the USB cable... seems to have gotten me to the "downloading..." screen. That's a plus.
[EVO 4G General] razorseal:
We got my gf an evo about a month ago, and she said she didn't wanna get it because her last one (hero) was an htc, and she had a problem where it would lose signal and people would call, and she would never know because of the loss of signal. I told her that HTC has come a long way and that the loss of signal wouldnt be a problem... well come now, she is having the same damn problem... I called her yesterday and it wasn't going through. called her on tango (via wifi) and she picked up. I told her I couldnt get through... she cycled airplane mode and it fixed the problem... problem is, it just happened again... and it keeps happening. she loses all her bars, and then we gotta recycle airplane mode to get it to work again. but if you don't know you lost signal, people call you and you're missing the call.

FYI, I have the epic and I had full bars when she lost her signal...

I tried updating the PRL, and it was trying to update/check for updates for a little too long. my epic did it too...

anyways,

android 2.2

baseband 2.15.00.09.01

kernel 2.6.32.15-ge2fb08e

build number 3.29.651.5

pri 1.77_003

prl 60671

any help is appreciated guys...

edit: just did it again. it did it 3 nights since 3 hours i've been here. just did the last 2 within 10 mins of each other.

btw, I'm trying to do a PRL update, but it won't work... same with my epic. none of the updates are working.

on my verizon, I could dial *228 to update something that fixed these problems, but it won't work on on verizon.
[EVO 4G General] RTC88:
Sound like it isn't a phone problem, but more likely a network problem. Seems to me that the sprint cellular signal isn't that strong in your area or that maybe the network went down or is under maintenance.
[EVO 4G General] razorseal:
my epic is picking up signals just fine though... both sprint phones.
[EVO 4G General] razorseal:
bump?

10 char
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrissv:
I was messing around with my G1 and accidentally deleted my contacts by going to settings - application - manages- contact and I hit the clear button. Is there any way I can recover or roll my G1 back a day like Computers?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnson8cyl:
U should be able to go to your contacts. Press menu and select import from sim card right? Have u tried that
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrissv:
My sim card doesn't have any of the numbers that were updated in the past 4 years
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnson8cyl:
Wow. Did u make a nandroid backup at any time u can go back to temp? Back them up with any app? Can u wipe reflash rom and sign back into Google to sync contacts back? If not its time for a mass email
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrissv:
I didn't do none of that. So I guess there is no way to roll back time like computers.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnson8cyl:
Well try backing everythin up with titanium backup. Wiping everything in recovery. Reflashing your rom. Signing back into Google account and let it sync and see if that works. If not they are gone. There is a way to roll back but unfortunately for u its called a nandroid restore. U have to do a nandroid backup so u have a backup to restore though
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mt3g:
if you have a data plan and never unchecked contacts sync

menu>settings>accounts and sync>click on your gmail account>uncheck and recheck contacts, let it sync and your contacts should come back... if not then check your computer go on your gmail account and see if you have the contacts there... other wise you are screwed...
[EVO 4G Accessories] PGRtoo:
Can you help me out here? I'm a new Evo owner, but I have a background in electronics which spans nearly 50 years and a fairly comprehensive "technical" knowledge of lithium polymer batteries, chargers, and battery management protocols.

And I want to understand the issues that so many of you are experiencing with your Evo batteries. Why? Because I'm experiencing some of 'em too and if I understand what's happening I might be able to offer solutions. I already have a couple of theories and I even have some ideas for workarounds, but I'm missing a few pieces of the puzzle which I'm hoping you can help me find.

What I'd like to know is how long does it take you to recharge a dead or nearly depleted battery in your Evo. For this information to be useful I'll also need to know the size of the battery (in mAh) and the output of the charger (in mA).

Please note that I'm just as interested in how long it takes to charge a stock battery as I am in how long it takes to charge an extended battery. Likewise for wimpy chargers and high-output chargers. The more diverse the data is the more useful it will be.

So there you have it. Can you help me out? I'll be sharing my conclusions so you might be helping yourself too.

Pete
[EVO 4G Accessories] PGRtoo:
Reserved for data summary
[EVO 4G Accessories] Nefariouss:
2 hrs and 20 minutes roughly from dead to full. Stock battery, stock charging cable and adapter.
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
same, 2 hr 20 min dead to full 1500mAh charging at 1A. i average about 30hrs battery life.
[EVO 4G Accessories] PGRtoo:
Interesting. In round figures a 2:20 (2.3hr) charge time for a 1500mAh battery indicates a ~650mA charge rate. This suggests that HTC has built a ~650mA charging current regulator into the Evo because a 1000mA (1A) charge rate would charge a 1500mAh battery in a little over 1.5hr.

The regulated charge rate isn't at all surprising. In fact, it's standard practice in consumer electronics devices. Most LiPo cells can safely be charged at 1C, which would be 1500mA (1.5A) for a 1500mAh battery, but they can react explosively when pushed harder. The folks who engineer consumer electronics also tend to stay well below maximum rates because they need to assume (among other things) that some people will continue to use batteries that are worn out or damaged and really should be replaced.

My primary reason for posting this thread and asking this question is to get enough evidence to determine whether the Evo could be charged faster with more powerful chargers, and the answer seems to be no. It can obviously be charged slower if someone uses a charger with an output below 650mA, but I'd be surprised if it could be charged any faster with a more powerful charger.

And FWIW, a dead 3500mAh battery would take about 5.4hrs to charge at a 650mA charge rate. My guess is this is even how long it will take in Seidio's external charger because the engineers would have to assume that people will also be charging OEM batteries in them.

But this is all assumption based on common engineering practices and 2 reports (so far). I'd sure like to have some more data to work with; especially data for different chargers and battery capacities. Another question I'd like to answer is whether the Evo has a mAh cap or a time limit on a charge cycle. The mAh cap could be tough, but a time limit might be pretty easy to work around.

I suppose I should add one more thing: My job as a maintenance supervisor for a pharmaceutical manufacturing and analytical lab requires that I'm reachable by phone at all times, so the experimentation I can do with my own phone is pretty limited. For example, I can't turn it off to charge the battery and I feel real uneasy about running the battery dead for testing purposes. My phone use habits seem to be served pretty well by the 1500mAh OEM battery but I'd like to have the reserve of an extended battery.

But not at the expense of having to remove the battery from the phone to charge it. That's a deal-breaker for me.

The bottom line is: Please keep posting your charge times and don't forget to include the output of the charger and the mAh rating of the battery. In return, I'll share any conclusions I come to so we can discuss them and possibly come up with a workable solution.

Pete
[EVO 4G Accessories] sk63:
I'm draining my Sprint OEM extended battery (2600 mAh) and will post the results.
[EVO 4G Accessories] PGRtoo:
That will be an interesting comparison.

If my calculation of a 650mAh charge rate is correct then it should take a little over 4 hours to charge, but that could be affected by whether the phone is on or off and what processes and apps are running if it's on.

I'm particularly interested in whether it will fully-charge or whether a mAh or time limit will interrupt the charge cycle before that happens.

Pete
[EVO 4G Accessories] sk63:
It finally died and I started charging it at 12:25 without turning it back on. Using the stock AC charger.

Anecdotally, I use the Current Widget and when charging it hovers around 650mAh. And when discharging it's usually under 400mAh and with the screen off, well under 100mAh.

I believe the widget monitors the current in/out of the battery and that while charging, the current needed to run the phone bypasses the battery directly so the widget doesn't register it. Though I would need a multimeter to confirm.

I've also got the stock battery I'm draining using a Hero. After the extended finishes charging them I'll swap and charge while the phone is on and compare the rate.

EDIT: Extended took almost exactly 4 hours charge. Now testing the charge rate of the stock battery with the phone on.
[EVO 4G Accessories] nhutpham:
Glad to see someone doing this, as a lot of different information is posted on this board about batteries and charging.

I just wanted to add that when looking at current widget logs, the charging rate does seem to change depending on the battery life, as you get close to full the charging rate does seem to gradually decrease until it is quite low, at least according to current widget. I have seen other users say that it is only the last ten percent that the phone does this, but I can't be too sure as using my phone usually interrupts the log and such.

At least the current widget logs give some indication of the charging rate changing under different conditions, if not at least the phone using more or less current for these conditions.
[EVO 4G Accessories] PGRtoo:
Boy, I hit those two nails right on the head didn't I? :) That's the nice thing about electricity: It can easily be predicted with mathematics.

I'll be looking as soon as I post this, but where does one find this "current widget" and does it run on a non-rooted phone?

And sk63: Almost exactly? :D Thanks for the info!

Pete
[EVO 4G Accessories] sk63:
It was like 4 hours +/- 5 minutes missed the exact moment when the light when green.

Stock battery with phone turned on took close to four hours as well. Phone usage didn't seem particularly high, maybe there was an issue in swapping the batteries.
[EVO 4G Accessories] mitchellvii:
So I'm guessing the 800 ma aftermarket charging cable I bought would be sufficient?

** As a sidenote, I wonder if this 650 ma limitation is hardware or software enforced? If software enforced, could we turn it off to hit closer to 1 amp? Couldn't a developer write an app to fix this? If not an app, perhaps a kernel?

This is kind of like a CPU being rated at 3.0 Ghz when it can safely run at 3.8 Ghz by people that know what they are doing. The 650 ma limitation is just "idiot" proofing.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Chuki82:
If current widget is accurate, when charging I've seen my log read up to 900mah, I always figured this was how much current going into the battery. The more I use the phone the lower it goes.
[EVO 4G Accessories] whats77inaname:
2:20 hours for a full charge? Dang, it only takes me about 1:27 to charge my dead battery to 100% with the phone on, stock battery.