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[Fascinate General] soba49:
Salivating for Froyo is the most common post I have seen since [recently] joining this forum. I bought mine from best buy's free phone Friday event, for $0, signing a 2 year contract for $30 extra a month was an easy decision. The only things this phone is missing are a front camera (which the sprint epic has in addition to a qwerty that makes the phone a lot thicker than this one) and a dual core processor (which the droid pro has). I'm addicted to the look of this super amoled screen myself. Another thing to be aware of is the phone can be a little sluggish in finding GPS satellites out of the box.

So it's all about what your concerns are. I think it is worth knowing what you are getting into. I happen to love this phone and wish I bought it earlier

If you are waiting for another phone, the HTC Icredible Pro / mecha popped up in rumors tonight, but isn't likely to be on shelves immediately (not even expected this year), and you'll have to wait for root.

The Fascinate has a lot going for it. Galaxy phones are apparently making a big splash in Japan. The previous (wonderfully written) post also pointed out the compatible nexus s and continuum hardware. The Fascinate is also easily routed and readily Clockwork modded, with several roms already available including debinged browsing and voodoo lagfix.

The point being,most of what people want from Froyo can already be modded on this phone. The people I have seen posting here at XDA are also quite wonderful and inspire a lot of confidence.

(One thing I am hoping to get out of Froyo that I have not found yet is a way to do wifi calls while using a bluetooth headset as an audio source)

EDIT: I recall reading pre-release data that said the Droid Pro was going to be a dual core. Phonescoop lists the Droid 2 Global and Droid Pro as having 1.2 and 1 GHz TI OMAPs. My info was totally wrong. I read it incorrectly, and should not have posted unchecked information like that -- thanks for catching me.
[Fascinate General] phoenx06:
The Droid Pro doesn't have a dual-core processor
[Fascinate General] BingoDanny:
Answer is simple if any dev trully wanted to work on the phone they could've. A stock 2.1 was no where to be seen. Fascinate is not popular enough sadly.

So I'm. Jumpin ship. I have a brand new in box...ready to sell fascinate.
[Fascinate General] SupraLance:
Thanks for the info guys. I'm coming from Symbian on AT&T, so I'm going to miss Flash support until 2.2, but Verizon is a must have so Symbian is out. Re: Continuum, the ticker is nice but not worth the drop to 3.5"; dedicated camera button is a bigger pull. But the Fascinate is cheaper at $40 w/2year contract. A one year contract would be way better, but that's a big jump to $270 since I would have to buy from Verizon to get the 1year. Probably cheaper to pay the remaining ETF at 1 year, which I might do.

Original question still stands. As nice a ship as the Fascinate is, it will sink if the developers here jump off. I'm hesitant to come aboard if it looks like that might happen, and all the people jumping off are making me wonder.
[Fascinate General] andmer:
Have you even looked in the development and themes forums? there is a lot of activity. There's even more that is just published directly to ROM Manager / IRC.
[Fascinate General] mailaliasgar:
I did think about getting the one year contract too but finally decided against it. I would have to spend 270 now for the phone with a one year contract + about the same next year when I upgrade. So that's like 500+ out of my pocket. I can just buy a new phone next year with that money so its not like I'll save anything.

However the one year contract does give you the freedom to switch carriers.

Also, my logic applies only if you get the phone for free (BestBuy - free phone fridays, LetsTalk, etc.)

Just my 2 cents :)
[Fascinate General] thatdudebutch:
Just come to irc
[Fascinate General] BingoDanny:
there are no true roms yet..... everything is touchwiz based!!!
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Or, a simpler explanation is that nobody wants to waste time on 2.1 with 2.2 so close to release. I know I wouldn't if I was a dev. Tweaking the original Touchwiz ROM is relatively easy, so they're probably just playing around with it for right now. When we get a proper Froyo kernel and base ROM, then the real development will begin. There's probably more development on other US variants because they've been out longer. We're too close to the Froyo release to mess with Eclair very much anymore.
[Fascinate General] suppliesidejesus:
If you can flash it in CWM, then it is a true ROM. If you think that the stock build is the same as running jt's Super-Clean or SonofSkywalker's Blackhole, then you really should try them. They are amazing.

Sent from my Fascinate using the XDA app
[Fascinate General] godihatework:
Thumbs up to this. Blackhole is lightning fast.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Virtualsk:
Hi ,

I was using JP6 (via Reg. Hack...), as we know that, Samsung has released official Froyo update... I downgraded to Eclair i.e., (DDJG4) ... Now, i can use all functions of Galaxy S , except Mobile Network.

My Phone application is not working anymore...it just shows me, Not available icon for network signal.... More over, i cannot do Factory Reset from Settings menu...its doing nothing....

Please help ! :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
No idea what you did but it sounds like you screwed up your IMEI, do a search for fixes but unless you have a backup file you might be out of luck
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seking:
I also faced the same problem see this thread. It will solve your problem

**IF YOUR SIMCARD DOESN'T WORK AFTER THIS, EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING**

- adb shell

- su

- busybox chown 1001:1001 /efs/nv_data.bin

- reboot

You can also do this from the Terminal Emulator if you don't have ADB on your PC! Like this:

-su

-chown 1001:1001 /efs/nv_data.bin

-reboot

I hope it's easy to follow my steps, it works guaranteed.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780509
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Virtualsk:
Solved ... using same link...

Last friday, i fixed it using the same command...Actually, few weeks back I also restored by Product code refering to this thread.... Now i am waiting for official Froyo.... :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] usernome:
When I try "chown" I get "no such user" .
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xCruciaLx:
Hi, I tried using this and I got this error:

Any idea how to remove the read-only for the files in the efs folder?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Virtualsk:
You have to rooted....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raviakumarin:
sori to disturb but....no option.

I am not a techie guy like u...so..please help me out. I am using my samsung i9000 which is bought from Ireland and now I am using in India. Its smifree and unlocked so using it nisely. But unfortunately...i lost ime imei and network when I tried to upgrade my firmware or something. I dont know what is the base version and i dont know what to do now....?

please help me guys.....as my phone not ringing due to missing imei or some other problem.

Thanks & Regards,

Ravi
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Virtualsk:
Try to follow the thread and see if that helps. If not than there is one thread in sgs ii section check that out.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
I've never had an Android phone, but something tells me the Captivate won't be the phone to have for 2 years.

But is it worth getting for 200 dollars? To mess around with and experiment with? I mean I'd use it as my main phone and all, but it's gotten such bad press, I'm not sure what to think of it. Not to mention the guy I am buying it from is switching to Sprint or Verizon because of a lack of HTC Android Phones on ATT.

So, should I go for it? It is a brand new Galaxy S, or a refurbished one... I don't know actually. It is in a box that was sent to him to replace his bricked Galaxy S from when he canceled an update.

And, is the GPS really that bad? Considering my Touch Pro's GPS is horrible, I don't expect much!
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Off contract? Yes.

If I could switch to Verizon, Sprint, or T-Mobile, I'd be goner than gone.
[Captivate General] faroid:
Go for it. It's a good deal.
[Captivate General] rajendra82:
Yes yes yes.
[Captivate General] KewlRobD:
Any chance you will share where you can get this phone for $200 off contract. I paid that for min on contract. I would love to get one for my wife but she has another year before she is eligible for an upgrade.
[Captivate General] veive:
If you go to at&t's site, login and try to buy this phone without a contract they will charge you over $400.
[Captivate General] driike:
hehe. i'm just gonna pay the breach of contract and switch to sprint for the evo or the epic. not sure wich, but i'm tossing mine up on craigs list. oh, and overstock.com is advertising them for .01 with new contract...
[Captivate General] edessa:
Paid $120 for mine after I called AT&T and told them that my crenelation is less than $100 or they can sell me the new phone for $120. The never thought twice and overnighted the phone to me for the $120.
[Captivate General] Athailias:
I paid 230 for mine the first week it came out. I eventually went to best buy and got 80 bucks from them when they put it on sale :D
[Captivate General] shiftylock:
I paid $200 for mine. Totally worth it.
[Captivate General] kr3w1337:
Coming from an x10 user, this phone is really good. Of course there is better, there always is hurting the price that you're getting is really good too.
[Captivate General] NunHugger:
I would give a resounding "heck yeah". Get it. If you don't like it, you will most likely be able to sell for a profit.

sent from my Cap using teh XDA app.
[Captivate General] sold1erjjt:
Is anyone else bugged that there isn't any ROM's available in ROM Manager?

All I want is to be able to flash on the go, not spend an hour figuring out how to Flash a ROM. so just wondering... What gives?

With the Nexus One it is easy to find a ROM in ROM manager, and instantly flash it. Now it seems ROM Manager is almost pointless, besides the updates for CWM.
[Captivate General] baseballfanz:
there's ROM all over the forum.

ROM manager is only a tool to install ROM and backup. They don't make ROMs
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
Um.. this isn't the Nexus 1.

ROM's currently haven't matured as most are based off of "leaked" or i9000 ROMs and are "take and baked" to work with the Captivate.

And for now... since none of these are final nor is their a Cyanogen ROM for this phone.. your stuck doing CWM and spending the 2 minutes it takes to reboot into recovery and select "Install from SD Card" rather than while your in the the bathroom of your favorite coffee house.
[Captivate General] darquegt:
I think he's more bummed at the fact that the functionality is there, but we can't use it. It would be nice to have a "ROM Shop" where all of these could be stored with descriptions that somebody could browse based on the model of their phone rather than trying to find one here or elsewhere, copy to the phone, reboot to recovery, and update from there.

I'm with the OP. When I had my myTouch, I used CM6 and was able to see ROMs straight from there and flash directly. It would be very convenient to have something like this for the non HTC Android phones.
[Captivate General] sparker366:
This has nothing to do with Rom Manager Perse but with the developers of the roms not releasing them to rom manager. If the developers of the roms link them to rom manager then they would appear in there.

So with that said you should inquire with the rom developers as to why they are not linking them.
[Captivate General] sold1erjjt:
Yeah it's not that i have to have it, its just it really does cut down on time, as well as it is easier to flash roms, if you know you have direct compatibility. Hopefully some Developers will release on ROM Manager.
[Captivate General] sold1erjjt:
Yeah and i understand there is ROM's all over this forum, but if you have had any experience actually using ROM manager to download instantly to your phone and flash, it is way nice. They don't make ROM's, they post the ones already out there.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shentok:
I have a rooted unrevoked 2.1 CDMA Hero. The mobile internet occasionally stops working every 3-4 hours. I can temporarily fix it by disabling and re-enabling the mobile internet. Is there a cause for this or is it an inherent fault with either this rom or the Hero? It's also happening to a friend of mine who has a CDMA Hero that is not rooted & running 2.1.

Also, I'm sorry if this has been asked before. The search function is currently disabled for me.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user7618:
I've always had this issue. not very often, but often enough to annoy me. I believe it is more a Sprint network issue than anything. Try updating your prl, that may help.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shentok:
Thank you very much for the reply! I'll see if this helps.
[Nexus One General] vivanshah:
http://www.google.com/events/developerday/2010/moscow/

happening tomorrow in Moscow. maybe we'll hear something? :D
[Nexus One General] drrogern:
thanks for the update:)

lets hope theres something new, cause i'd be happy to donate my left nut for a release date:p
[Nexus One General] AbsoluteDesignz:
well it is 12:30pm on the 12th in Moscow....anyone know what time this event is supposed to take place?

according to the agenda it's already going on....
[Nexus One General] Amritttt:
any links available to watch live.
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
There is also another one on the 16th.
[Nexus One General] daijizai:
And three that already passed without fanfare...

Stop reading into the innocent.
[HD2 General] TopOfNewYork:
I just wanted to make a thread letting these chefs know that an smooth and great and you can make winmo

THE KEY TO GREAT BUILDS/ROMS is compatibility with other operating systems

Make your roms seamless with andriod and win mo 7 when it finally gets ported

we are all running mulitple operating systems, the base win mo unit that we are going to use is going to be the rom that works best with mulitple operating systems....

that means setting it up so that all you sys info doesnt mess with andriod or win mo 7

now i realize that it easier said than done, the point of my post is to encourage chefs to integrate operating systems rather than trying to mess so hard with win mo sense or crap like that, the phone has to work flawlessly in winmo, thats what we want but we also want the option of going to other operating systems and then when those get buggy to go back to a bug-less win mo so chef please keep that in mind, i feel like all the roms i run are all about making winmo better, screw win mo its crap, just make it work, fast, smooth, realiable with other operating systems that is what is going to make your rom a successful addition to the community...

btw ive been drinking alot forgive the typos and nonsensical crap, u all get the point
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlankDEP:
This is my first post here and I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me. I've checked other threads and have not found anything that seems like a solution.

Before rooting my phone, I would get keyboard lag randomly when trying to type an SMS. The lag only occurred with the landscape keyboard and only sometimes. To describe it, I would be hitting the keys, typing fine, and then it suddenly no letters would show up when I hit them. A few seconds later, the letters would all show, with no correction or word suggestion.

About a week ago I rooted my phone and I have been running Virtuous v3.1 with INCredible REVOlution theme and the HTC_IME keyboard. I had the stock kernel running and had the same keyboard lag. I switched to the Virtuous custom Kernel and continued to have the problem. I am currently running Adrynalyne's battery.zip kernel for battery life, but continue to have the lag.

Before it is suggested, I switched back to the stock, touch input keyboard and have the lag there too.

If there are any suggestions as to what I can do, please help

(side note: I tried MIUI for a short time and did not notice keyboard lag there, though I only had it running for a few hours)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baram:
no answers here but I've had the same issue with swype on cm6 and desire z port. it'll lag randomly and the trace stops then it'll jump and catch up
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gahh Its Lee:
Are you using the stock messaging app?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlankDEP:
I'm using the stock messenger app.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gahh Its Lee:
Oh I have no idea I randomly get a lot of lag using handcent but it feels like that's caused by messages getting "stuck" and not fully coming.through
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlankDEP:
I've tried flashing Cyanogenmod and there was no keyboard lag there either, seems to only happen with any sense based roms. It really sucks because I really like Virtuous but I might have to get used to MIUI or Cyanogenmod just so that I can type my texts without lag...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejdavis72:
I'm running the stock sense 2.2 and I don't have any lag at all. Backup your ROM and try it out. :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlankDEP:
It seems that any sense rom, stock or not, makes the keyboard lag, any AOSP rom does not. Looks like I'll be sticking with cyanogenmod for a while.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] gottijr:
How would you recover your sms with Titanium Backup?

is that something possible or we have to use something else?

thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Ssantos6981:
I was wondering that too. I have the paid version, love it, but I thought I backed up the messages as well. Apperently not though.

Did I miss the setting?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] ThaGeNeCySt:
There's a free program in the market that I used to back up and restore my SMS called SMS Backup & Restore (by Ritesh Sahu)
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] chewy106:
I've had no problems with SMS Backup+ from the market - it stores the texts and MMS to your Gmail and allows for backup and restore. Makes it real simple.

Titanium does backup the SMS data, but I don't remember where it does, and on my myTouch3G 1.2 it was kind of buggy restoring it (though it mostly works). I think it's the data from Dialer Storage 2.2 that houses the SMS/MMS?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] wilnotdie:
Handcent now backups sms/mms

I used to use SMS backup from above post, but it wasnt able to do mms' (at that time) so I tried Mybackuppro (in the market) and it works perfect. plus it does other backups too. I ended up buying it.

I used to have problems with Titanium with sms/mms, but I havent tried any recent versions.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] wolfmon:
I use MyPhoneExplorer. It syncs everything on your phone to your PC.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] minotauri:
this could be outdated info now, but when i used titanium backup to backup sms/mms, it would make a backup of the phone dialer and the associated files from /system. This is not the best way to backup the sms's since a new rom may have made modifications to this.

i recommend sms backup and restore, which is what i use myself. titanium backup is great for apps and app data though!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] marvzuno:
Sorry for bumping and old thread but this brings up a question. Would any of these be able to create a backup of your SMS/MMS and convert them over to a text file of some sort so you can print up records of them? I remember when I had a Blackberry I used to be able to do this with software I purchased for it. This would be a great feature I would be interested in using. I tried searching for something that discussed this but came up with nothing. Sorry if its been covered before. Thanks in advance.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] flak0:
To back up texts just make a back up of Dialer Storage [SMS/MMS] and restore.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] daaango:
I think marvzuno wants something that can backup AND convert the message to a text file to be read on a computer or something, not only a backup...
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] marvzuno:
I'm looking for something more like the poster below was talking about. Thanks for the info though. This will be useful just for the backup process.

Yes, Something that would convert the backup file into something I would be able to view on a computer. ANy suggestions or ideas on this?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] detox702:
I'd like to put in my vote for SMSBackup+. The restore feature doesn't always work perfectly, but the backup has never failed me. stores it as plain text in your gmail, which is then searcheable.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Saintfyre:
Love SMS Backup+, saves them to Gmail and can also pull them back to the device as other people have said, works great, no issues!
[HTC Aria General] Milx:
ROM manager create partition gave me an error when I try to activate a2sd, it rebooted after few sec a Android logo with a ! In triangles cone out.. using fr007..any idea how to fix ?
[HTC Aria General] Noz85:
Reflash fr007
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] uchihanatsu:
hi anyone how to edit or change the GDE? i found some thread here about editing GDE theme but the droid explorer cant work on x10 mini pro.. any xda team can help?
[Android Software Development] isvogor:
Hello,

inside my app, I need a way to turn off the lights on the standard android phone keys (home, menu, back, search) - how can I do this programmatically? (I don't need the instructions saying go to settings and set lower sleep time, I need to do this with Java)

Thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psionicmatrix:
Hi, so i successfully flashed my phone with JPA and wanted to install the CF chain root. unfortunately while flashing it got stucked at zimage. so i turned off my phone (removed the battery) and tried to reflash.. same thing happened. I tried reflashing back to JPA and im stuck at the S logo.. tried reflashing back to JM6 and same thing.

When i try to go to recovery mode, i keep getting this connect to pc image. When i connect my phone to the pc nothing happens, Odin cant see my device either. Please any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickthephreak:
you could try the homemade jig from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551

helped me to get into download mode, when i bricked my phone with 3 button mode disabled.

hope that helps.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funcrazy1:
How to install custom themes on my new vibrant? I can't seem to find this anywhere. Anyone care to help?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frizzmmm:
Thanks for your post of a question in the correct section, but if I am correct there is a theme and apps section for this board. If you spend a little time with the search feature in that section you might have your answer. Most of the themes listed there ( agreed there arent many ) are applied through the use of meta-morph. If you need more help be sure to click the RED text in my sig, it will help out loads.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jomatt:
am curious that can i get those themes from the official channel like market..bec i just started to play with android eco system. and won't be comfortable using rooting & any other type of customizations..

May i know if the launcher can make any significance in the appearance?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nomadrider123:
No you need to be rooted some use metamorph others clockwork. There are easy to follow directions to get this done. Launchers will only make minor changes
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
If you ain't rooted. then you ain't having unprotected sex are ya?

root now.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jomatt:
which would be the best launcher with more addon themes ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nomadrider123:
There are several free ones on the market you can try. Or one to buy is adw ex