yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hEx44:
I have the same problem after upgrading to Froyo there is occasionaly very long wait when returning to home screen.

When this is happening also applications are reloading, it looks that the launcher crashes or it is killed.

Any solution?
[EVO 4G Accessories] chevy454:
Im looking to get another case for my evo and im stuck between the otterbox commuter and the seidio active..which one will be the better buy? i have the innocase surface II in pearl but it gets dirty to quickly, if i do decide to go with the otter is there a holster to fit?
[EVO 4G Accessories] DarKEvo25:
OtterBox Rocks

Hey i have the otterbox commuter case....and its awesome, Just sucks for me a bit case i have 3 MicroSD Cards so its a bit of a pain to remove the case over and over :mad::mad::mad::mad:, I however, haven't seen the seidio case at all..... I'm wondering how the defender case handles...
[EVO 4G Accessories] _MetalHead_:
Seidio cases look nice but their build quality is just ****. I have gone through 3 of their Active Limited Ed. cases already. The first one had busted tabs, and the other two had paint peeling within a week. I still use it but can't in good conscience recommend it.

I have the Otterbox Commuter as well, and it's nice but not as rugged as the Seidio.
[EVO 4G Accessories] cbrown245:
I bought the otterbox commuter and the rubber skin wasn't tight and seemed stretched out a little. So I bought the seidio innocase rugged and I love it, I have 2 sd cards and 4 batteries so long story short do you want a quality case or the abilty to access the batteries and sd cards, lol something has to give, i chose quality.
[General Questions and Answers] bearcatext:
I am pretty new into android development and have a couple questions I'm sure you guys can answer pretty quickly but have so far not been able to figure out. How do I have a set background in a live wallpaper besides just creating something from canvas, I have it already loaded in the hdpi I just need to figure out how to call it. Also, is it possible to have something appear enlarge a little bit in the center of the screen then fall off the screen? I'm trying to create a time lapse of a tree where it goes through all the weather changes. Any sites you could link me too or answers you would have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for anything you guys are able to do.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] GTFO!:
Hey, is there an application that replaces the battery icon on the upper menu? I saw this circular battery icon on some homescreens, but I have no clue how to get it. Do I have to root the phone and flash it? I am currently running on Rogers stock rom. Please help and thank you!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] viny2cool:
Yes you have to root and flash the phone. Not sure which rom tho. Try galaxy s tweaker app free from market place. You can easily root your phone and put lag fix too.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] mcord11758:
There are tons of options but root is required. Read, read,read

Captivate

Cog 2.4
[Captivate Themes and Apps] axis01:
Fancy widgets (free) just released a update that puts a batt. % number below the digital clock. Not as nice as having one in the top bar but you don't have to do anything to your phone to get it.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MikeyMike01:
It's in the framework-res.apk of a ROM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opn6:
Is there any way to turn up the volume on the mic of the Bluetooth headset. People always tell me i sound far away.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897

Cog 2.1. 6
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soypoi:
I would love a reply to this as well and it appears we are running the same rom cog 2.16. I wonder if it might have something to do with the rom?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opn6:
Well i remember on one of my old samsung phones there was numbers you dail and open a setting page for different volumes. I don't know if this phone as anything like that. I was looking into maybe a app but no luck. Tried different Bluetooth headset with same result.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897

Cog 2.1. 6
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opn6:
Wow Noone know damn..

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897

Cog 2.1. 6
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opn6:
After some goggling I found this .

mic settings via the code menu.

Go to dial> *#197328640#

This brings up a service menu.

Click [5] audio you get this .

[1] HANDSET

[2] HEADSET

[3] SPEAKER

[4] BLUETOOTH

[5] HANDSET VT

[6] HEADSET VT

[7] SPEAKER VT

[8] BLUETOOTH VT.

Look promising. But were to next ? any info on this would be helpful,thanks.

Update app for the codes

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=748859&highlight=sgs+info
[Networking] blakcshadow:
is there any way to enable access to QNC or Q2N using a Droid Eris? I have PagePlus as a wireless carrier, a Verizon MVNO and they lack a data plan. Data through QNC is free however.

Is the Eris just not compatible with them, or do I need to use a custom ROM. My Eris is running stock 2.1 rooted
[Epic 4G General] curving_edge:
What's going on? To let you know, I am 25 years old and trying to rationalize my decision. Maybe you can help...

Got my Epic 2 days ago. Horrible battery life and ect... tried all the fixins without root due to a 'could be' voided warranty.

I don't want a phone that I have to hack to get it to work 'right'. That isn't the way to do things.

I am to much of an idiot to figure out how to root, delete bloatware, and etc... How am I supposed to figure this stuff out with people telling you that your a 'noob' and 'search' for it...

I might as well return the Epic and get a 'dumb' phone that does the basic phone call and text...

What do you think?
[Epic 4G General] westicle:
Return it and get a htc phone. I had the epic for 3 days, and really liked some of it, but really hated even more of it. Plus they fight too damn much here in the epic section.
[Epic 4G General] Toast95135:
These new smartphones don't get anywhere close to the battery life of old non-smart phones. I could get up to a week on my old feature phone, but a day to maybe two (when we get 2.2) is about what you can expect if you tweak a few things. Get used to plugging in your phone every night, all the power these phones have comes at a price. Plus I'm sure you're playing with your phone a lot right now since you just got it :P.

If you're getting bad battery life when the screen is off go into Settings>About Phone>Battery Use>Cell Standby and see what the "Time without signal says". If it's 50% or more then you have the bug, it's a common Android bug for phones without Froyo. Just toggle airplane mode on for a few seconds after you reboot your phone and it should go away.

The GPS is kind of fussy at the moment, the Epic has a problem with clearing old data out of the cache and so it has a hard time picking up satellites. There's a few workarounds to this like going into the GPS menu and changing how it starts up (personally it didn't work for me), rebooting the phone always works, but if you use the GPS a lot then it works fine. For me it worked about 70% of the time until I rooted and installed a program to clear the phone's cache every few hours, now it works 100%.

Don't be intimidated by rooting either, it's really easy now with all the good One Click setups. I did it on my Mac and it took no more then 10 minutes, unrooting is just as easy. I honestly wouldn't worry about voiding the warranty, until you get into flashing roms/kernals you won't be messing anything up if you want to root to get rid of bloatware etc.

Sprint's other phones like the Evo are nice too, but the Evo has it's own set of problems. Personally I love my SAMOLED screen :D and we should be getting Froyo soon.
[Epic 4G General] MaxPatlick:
I've only had mine for about a week or so now and I really like it. I've discovered that particularly hungry apps will kill the battery in a hurry!

other than that, this being my first smartphone I've kinda been under the assumption that if you want to carry around a powerful computer in your pocket, you're going to have to make the trade off that it will burn a lot of battery when you use it. Especially since I'm still in the "open it up every few minutes just to be amazed at the amoled screen" phase where my display is consistently the #1 battery killer by a LONG shot..

so I'd say you should give it a chance but if you don't need or want a smart phone then don't drive yourself crazy with one and get a feature phone that can text and call if that's all you really need.
[Epic 4G General] curving_edge:
Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't mind rooting the phone and have seen it done on youtube. That shouldn't be too hard. But how would I go about getting all the extra crap on there off? Does this alone improve battery life? If not, what do I delete?

Is waiting for 2.2 really going to be God sent for our phones? And will 2.2 erase all my hard work rooting it?

Thank You for your time... It means alot.
[Epic 4G General] GXnext:
Try this... go into the "Account & sync" settings by pressing the menu button> settings> account & sync. then uncheck "auto-sync" that should increase battery, if that didn't increase battery enough for you uncheck background data as well. finally if your still not satisfied re-enable "background data" by checking it again and go to the android market and download 'QUICK SETTINGS" by Sergej Shafarenaka open it press the hardware menu button> customize and drag "Mobile data" (not the one that says APN) into "Visible settings" that way whenever you open "quick settings" you can toggle 3g on and off. with 3g off you can still text and receive and make phone calls and your battery will last over 2 days without charging. hope this help :) I have never rooted my epic btw.

For example this is how I have mines set up.

And only because I don't feel like trying to produce evidence of 2+ days with my phone due to the fact that I actually like using all of the fun battery killing apps that run in the background because I have a spare battery anyway.. the only time I really ever try to maximize my battery life (and no this does NOT mean by not using my phone, because trust me i'm the perfect example of that windows phone ad :P im always in my phone! and i never let it die without a spare lol) is on the weekends I when I party all day & night, or some sort of rare special occasion where I know I'm not going to see a outlet for a long time.

anyway heres a example of whats possible by doing the last things i suggested (despite the fact whoever screen captured this achieved it a different way) basically disable internet whenever your not using it. just goes to show there are many ways to maximize your battery. this is just one of the ways I do it... and I feel this is highly effective.

These smartphones needs a one click "energy saver mode" that just does all the tweaks for you, basically turning your "smartphone" into a "dumbphone" lol because I honestly have little doubt this phone would last nearly a weak if it did.
[Epic 4G General] bomix:
Get a dumb phone the battery will last you a week! oh and you can make and receive calls from it. My vote
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
There are so many threads on here where people tell you exactly how to get amazing battery life out of your phone. It must be a defunct battery because I cannot comprehend how anyone could be having problems with their battery after the number of times its been answered on this forum alone.

Disable DRM

toggle airplane mode

wifi never sleep

juicedefender + ultimate juice

Easily 20-24 hours of battery life for medium use.
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
If u want batt life get a dumb phone. If u want geautures get a smartphone. I can't live without a smartphone bc I use it like a computer to stay connected all day when I'm away from home. If u feel u don't really need all the feutures get a dumb phone.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] curving_edge:
Thank You for your replies thus far. I am pleased to inform you that I went back to the sprint store and got a brand new replacement. New battery and everything.

I have followed all of your directions as well. I will post soon and let you know how everything is.

I have alot of confidence in the epic but wish the battery wasn't giving me a epic headache!:rolleyes:

Wish me luck, I owe you guys alot of respect. Will keep you posted...
[Epic 4G General] dhero1:
Sounds like you're not smartphone friendly. Many people I know are not. But luckily there's a large and varied assortment of devices to choose from. Get a phone that makes phone calls, and maybe messages well, and be happy. :)
[Epic 4G General] curving_edge:
I have had the phone off the charger since yesterday at 11pm and it is now 2 pm eastern time today. Looks great and promising. I will follow up on the research. I also have seen 'how to' root the epic on youtube. Thats easy, just working on how to get the bloatware off and other items to tweak...

-Curv
[Epic 4G General] Zardos66:
I have no idea how people get more than a day out of their phones, no matter the model. Every phone I've ever owned ranging from dumb, quick messeging and smart, I've had to charge every night. Its been like this for 6+ years for me.

Getting more than a day out of a phone is unrealistic to me.

Sent from my bathroom, with toilet paper.
[Epic 4G General] sryans2004:
When I first got my phone it took me awhile to learn the basics on how to root and what not, hence the fact it was my first android device (other then the evo, which I didnt root or anything) Root is easy and once you do that you can flash different ROM's/Kernel's to help improve your battery life. I enjoy flashing to new things and once android 2.2 comes out there will be bigger and better things in stored for us.

Now what I didnt realize when I first tried to root my phone was to download SDK manager? It took me the longest time to root, I followed every direction I found which a lot of them never stated to download SDK because they assumed we knew. If you really want to have fun and root your phone then here is what I suggest.

1. Search Google for "SDK Android" click the first link to download it. (may take up to 30+ mins to download everything)

2. Read the Wiki in the Epic Android Development Section. Learn what rooting does to your phone. It also explains how to root your device.

That's how I rooted my phone, now changing ROM's/Kernels is another thing but that too is VERY easy. If you need help I will be willing to help you, I too am and noob and speak NOOB language lol.
[Epic 4G General] curving_edge:
Hey sry... Thanks for the hand up on this situation. Should I wait till 2.2 or maybe try a root now? I might as well do it now and get familiar with it...

Pm me if you like, I will try the root this weekend. Thanks alot!:eek:
[Epic 4G General] sauron0101:
If you care about battery life and want a smartphone, Blackberries are the way to go. Just don't expect anywhere near the features, customizability, or power of Android. Also, don't expect anywhere nearly as good hardware.

Everything is a compromise. I imagine though that you if hold out on the Epic, the Epic equal of this, an EVO extended battery will come out.
[Epic 4G General] Eazail70x7:
My old flip phone has worse battery life than my Moment
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esteef:
Either I'm crazy or the Sense UI uses a crap load of the phones memory. I don't use task killers much but I have it so I could see the memory available and to force close apps once in a while.

I used to have around 200+ with stock G2, with the sense UI I'm down to like only 100 or 90. Is this normal?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeroSX:
Sense is a memory hog. It's normal.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sv3nt3k:
I'd say that's normal, considering how graphic intensive it looks. Is it causing a problem with performance? Or are you just noticing that it's using more memory and there's no performance issue?

And given that you're still using Android 2.2, it'll manage memory for you in case it needs more resources to run something.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theophile2:
I got an el cheapo FM transmitter that has a 1/8" lead for the audio. It works great, except when I plug it in to the N1, whatever is playing starts rapidly skipping tracks, pausing, playing, pausing again, etc. I'm assuming that for some reason, the N1 thinks it's getting signals from one of those headphone-line adapters with transport controls on it. Is there any way to tell the phone to ignore transport commands from external headphones?

Or is this a different problem entirely?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starkruzr:
We should be able to completely analyze the EMMC now and get our full 4GB storage back, right? What's stopping us?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] havikx:
i was just thinkin the same thing while i was at work.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdTeach1680:
My guess is whats stopping you is the dependancy on people who know what they are doing. What is stopping them is their own personal interests. 1.whatever GB is way more than enough storage than most need so i would say....

1. Further exploration for understanding of this device

2. Stable easy to install recovery w/o buggies

3. ROM'S

Root just happened ,those of us that are in need of these very generouse and intelligent people should just be patient and see what goodies they have in store when they get around to it ;-)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starkruzr:
I'm entirely patient to HAVE it, but it would be good to have a least a brief confirmation that the 4GB storage is actually there and will ultimately be accessible.

I wonder this because I'm thinking about the possibility of eventually putting MeeGo in the G2. No reason not to; it's got all the speed and RAM necessary. I think it would come down to a question of internal storage.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkadesi:
Not to bust the OP's chops or anything, its actually 3.7 GB.... and im guessing you can account for atleast 700 MB for ROM and recovery stuff....

So USER accessible should be around 2.9 GB? Correct me If i'm wrong....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] havikx:
negative. on stock rom after data reset, i only started with 1.9Gigs. everytime. thats is a far cry from the 4GB advertixed. plus i dont think recovery images are that large.

can you access the emmc chip thru root explorer after S-off perm#?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sundar2012:
i believe someone was saying that this is just a bug in the hardware, reporting the wrong size - unrelated to S-ON.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] havikx:
really. interesting. i'll put money on a dev coming up with a way to patch it.
[Desire HD General] afrcom15:
WTF!!!

I just pushed the recovery from the first post of the permaroot thread, rebooted and the device is completely dead, will not switch on at all, no indication of charge when I plug it in.

Got a bad feeling about this.

MOD Edit:

Moved to General.

Cheers,

M_T_M
[Desire HD General] El_Nino9:
hello afrcom

what recovery did you push? i take it you are not a noob as you have 55 post but you have not clarified your level of understanding with the device. i would like to help you though.

i have flashed the engineering spl 0.85.2001 onto the phone. i have not yet pushed any custom recovery as i am trying to set up the environment to build a recovery. there is no recovery image for the desire hd as far as i know yet.

also thank you m_t_m for moving this thread as it was not development :) please post in the right sections.

try these steps.

a) take battery out

b)after a minute or so or maybe 5 minutes put the battery in and put the covery on.

c) hold power on and volume down together to load hboot.

d) if hboot loads then you are ok as far as i am aware we can then navigate to fastboot and then flash an official ruu over

e) if nothing happens post back. or maybe try make a video of your phone not working so other people can see what is going on.

define clearly what guide you used i.e. links

as far as i can see both permanent roots are fine

even though the evostance guide has updated to include visionary method now but i see no reason why as that does NOT flash anything on your phone.

remember after all you chose to flash things on your phone so you can blame nobody else :) just thought i'd remind you but yes we/i am here to help as much as i can
[Desire HD General] Doktaphex:
Is it possible that when flashing recovery and reading this in the guide:

dd if=/sdcard/hboot_eng.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

This will install engineering hboot

dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21

This will install an unsecured recovery (not clockwork yet)

You mistakenly flashed recovery to the Hboot address? If so I vote that the guide is modified thusly:

dd if=/sdcard/hboot_eng.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 HBOOT

This will install engineering hboot

dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21 RECOVERY

This will install an unsecured recovery (not clockwork yet)
[Desire HD General] El_Nino9:
lol i didnt even see the recovery part..why would anyone in there right mind flash recovery like that?

once s-off has been confirmed flash recovery in the following method:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img rather then that way!!!!

theres not much i can say if the users flashed to the wrong partition apart 4m.. brick
[Desire HD General] xmoo:
Yeah but then again, if his device won't power on.

He can't do ****.... right???

Try removing the battery/power for couple of hours.

This will reset the internal something... (worked on my HD2 once)

And than, try again.
[Desire HD General] Doktaphex:
I didn't want to be the one to say it.
[Desire HD General] El_Nino9:
lol well its the truth :s i do feel sorry for the user but hey i am trying to help

what xmoo is saying may work but i doubt it as hboot has been written over by the "recover.img" file on that block rather then the other block it was ment to be on,thus writing over hboot

guess the warnings arent big enough about the hboot instructions that it can seriously mess up your device. i know that Apache14 stressed about that point even to the point stating check the md5 checksum once on your SD CARD to make sure it isn't corrupted cos it will brick your device.

know anyone who can JTag?so they can re-write to that block with the correct hboot?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aodmisery:
i have an x10a unlocked and im tired of att bs so im leaving them will my x10 work on sprints network or just tmobile?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alankstiyo:
depends on the bands, not sure but guess both can work

if any of them accept an HTC HD2 then the x10 will be working on their network
[General Questions and Answers] rami1985:
Dear all ,,

yeasterday i'm upgrade my HTC-HD-MINI T5555 to the newer Rom , but i'm facing some error with my application ,, so i need the old Rom for my htc-hd-mini

the old ROM : 1.07.707.1 for Europe

i need this Rom ass soon as posiable

best regards.
[EVO 4G General] jdh10475:
The title says it all which file explorer do you prefer root explorer or SU? Maybe one has an advantage over the other what are your thoughts?
[EVO 4G General] nukedukem:
Root explorer is good in that you can easily edit permissions. It has corrupted a file on my SD card from time to time though. Haven't tried SU. Right now, I actually use ES file explorer because I'm running cyanogenmod which allows me to mount the filesystem r/w using ESFile Explorer. EStrongs feels more polished than root explorer IMO, plus it's free.
[EVO 4G General] gqstatus0685:
+1

Sent while sitting on the toilet.
[Fascinate General] tblaine27:
Just got my fascinate...

when I answer calls, it automatically turns speaker phone on... any idea?

when I press the Home button, its going to the desk dock app instead of the home page of icons... any idea?
[Vibrant Accessories] takato23:
Wich is the best case for vibrant? there are too many.. wich tpu brand fit better, and wich is the best screen protector? not the most expensive...
[Vibrant Accessories] ShinyBuddha:
Here and Realook.

~SB