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[G2 and Desire Z General] jonhitch:
Hi All,

I've had my DZ for about a week now and on the whole have been very happy with it.

I have however had some issues with reception and internet connectivity.

Firstly the phone appears to lose signal more often than my previous phones. I thought if anything it should probably be better than my Tytn/TytnII.

Secondly sometimes it will appear to get 'stuck' on G instead of moving to 3G or H when I get to an area of improved reception. On these occasions I need to either reboot (and its fine) or turn flight mode on and off.

Other than this it's a great phone so if anyone is able to help (do I need to change any APN settings?) then that would be great.

Thanks - Jon
[G2 and Desire Z General] vinokirk:
+1

I'm on T-mobile, and my Streak gets a lot better reception than my DZ.
[G2 and Desire Z General] salemfox:
I'm same network as you and I'm having no problems, it's even roaming to T-Mobile with greater ease than my Pro2 did!
[G2 and Desire Z General] pizza65:
I'm kinda the same. I had a hero on Orange which did the same thing, like you I cycled mobile network on/off to fix it. I suspect its somewhat dependent on where you are in the country though. My phone is sim free and I was going to switch to 3, everyone using them seems to report great 3g service. Anyone with experience?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atkailash:
So the rom/theme I'm using uses green for a highlight/select color, but I like the blue (or possibly purple or something for some). I was wondering what elements where would need to be edited?

It's not the only thing I'd want to edit, so really the starting point should be sufficient.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MysteryEmotionz:
You need to read the how to theme threads. Your awnsers are in there. The green highlights arte either controlled by images or xml code. Everything is found in the framework-res.apk that would need to be changed. In order to edit an xml file you need to de compile the apk. Images can just be dragged and dropped using 7zip our winrar

Sent from my Emotionless Beast of an ACS Epic using the XDA App
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atkailash:
Cool I forgot there's non-device parts of the forums too, lol thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeisRisen:
The theming how to has been really great so far, there is a section of the How To that lists all the tools you will need her. I am working on switching my color from blue to red! I am playing with shades of red and trying to figure out a way to change the highlighting shape on the keypad.. want to change it from a square / rectangle to a star.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atkailash:
I cracked open the framework-res from emotionless today, gonna have to try it on my desktop instead of my netbook so I can do editing. Thanks for the link, think I stubled across it (way too many sites/forums and some are so nonspecific)

My next challenge is bootani, I broke the one on baked snack 1.6 somehow.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeisRisen:
There is alot of information about this in either the Extreme kernel thread or the ACS Rom thread.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MysteryEmotionz:
Try the final version of my theme. It's galaxy blue now. I think as a theme it flows alot better now. You might enjoy it

Sent from my Emotionless Beast of an ACS Epic using the XDA App
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atkailash:
It was downloading as I typed my last message, I thought that was funny. I do like it more. Still gonna tinker though, just to learn and just cause.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Luke3113:
Hi Guys!

I've seen soo many post: "Use a Task Killer for better battery life!"

But I've probably seen that much post: "DON'T use a Task Killer... The continuous killing of tasks drains the battery! Android manages the Tasks internal..."

So now I'm confused :D

Should you use a Task Killer or shouldn't you?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Reno_79:
I haven't used a task killer in ages. With the latter kernels and builds they are pretty irrelevant I feel. There is better memory management and CPU usage with the latest kernels to make task-killers all but obsolete.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JanssoN:
You don't have to use them anymore. If you want to have more free RAM you could use Auto Killer (free in the market). There you can set the presets to Optimum. But I have to say that my data drops have reduced since I don't use it anymore.

It's a little off topic but what I wanted to ask you, do you have lots of drops in the Swisscom network? Because I think those drops only happen if you have a bad network connectivity. Btw. I'm working for Sunrise ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XenSA:
agreed i only see the use for a task killer if it gets stuck on exit of the program or task
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Luke3113:
Ok... It seems I won't need a task killer... But I'm using now AutoKiller with preset to Optimum

About the drops... I'm using this build (PPP) now for about one day^^ - But until now it's working like a charm :) (mobilespeedtest.com gives me a bandwith of ~2000kbps - 2Mb file tested)

In previous builds (RMNet) it worked quite good too, but sometimes it wasn't really fast... But I haven't had a full data-drop (You would need to reboot to solve it don't you?)

EDGE-Data doesn't work at all... (But E-Data Logo is in notification-bar). Probably an APN-Setting is missing or I don't know. I don't really miss it in daily use. Just in trains it's sometimes annoying...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] salonluden:
What happens to programs that you "close" is that they are put in the RAM and saved for later use to switch quickly to them. However, most programs don't use the CPU (therefore don't really waste much battery life). Therefore, actually closing and opening the app wastes MORE battery life than just leaving it "open". The only time you really need a task killeris if you start running out of RAM (which is HARD on the HD2).
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] souljaboy:
theres a game named pocket legends , theres no exit button(as most of the android apps) , if i put it in the bg with home button , my phone will stutter all over , even contacts list is laggy becuz of high cpu usage ... what would u guys do who have no taskiller in a situation like that ??

end of story
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Luke3113:
This is kinda true, but I was more talking about Automatic Task killer.

I use SystemPanel Lite as my Taskmanager and System control
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] the_scotsman:
If a program doesn't have an exit button, use the back button, as this will normally close the application or game instead of pressing home, as this leaves the app open.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JanssoN:
Same for me, I'm using PPP now for about 1 month (mattc 1.8, a little older but this build is it really worth, soooo smooth). And you are right, here in Swiss the connection is always very good (except you live somewhere in the "pampa" ;))

If you have a drop, just go to airplane mode and back, that always solved for me. EDGE does work for me, but it is veeeeery slow.. kinda annoying. And as you said, this only happens in trains. :mad:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thehumble1:
It's really pretty simple I think.

(Have a task killer ATK free for me).

Set it to ignore almost everything.

Don't have it auto kill

Still don't have it auto kill

Open it when you need it to kill buggy, stuck apps.

Is there anything you can argue with about this approach? It seems that people are arguing past each other because one side says "don't have a task killer" and the other side says "how can I kill problem apps then?". These aren't mutually exclusive.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rafpigna:
quoted!

Never used task killer, only AutoMemory Killer to optimize Froyo memory management. coming from computer we thing that "more free ram you have, more fast it will be", this is not true on Android.

It works in the same speed if you have 200mb free ram or if you have 5mb free.

When it reaches some values, the system automatically freeup ram closing not more necessary tasks.

You can change those value when the system act, using Auto Memory Killer
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Reno_79:
I'd close it manually, Settings > Applications > Manage Applications then force stop it. Sounds to me like that's one buggy piece of software tho. If it's in the background it shouldn't use CPU time, only a bit of ram to suspend it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] souljaboy:
yep , thats what i did ... but i also have a Close All Apps button on my 7th screen hidden from view with a i use from time to time when a browser gets stupid etc
[Fascinate General] jrobinsky:
IS anyone else having a problem with GPS on their phone? I was having a problem with mine, and i even did a complete wipe of my phone (odin and all) and its still having a problem. When i try to use navigation, it just says searching for GPS constantly.
[Fascinate General] soba49:
Yes. If you nose around the Fascinate forum a bit, you'll find more users of these phones with GPS issues. There are a couple of fixes. I haven't tried them. Sometimes it locks on immediately, other times or can take a minute or ten. The I01 OTA update seemed to help a little. For me I just leave the GPS powered on extra much, and the wifi gives google maps a hint toward where I am. Once it does l lock onto the satellites, it works very well.
[Fascinate General] jrobinsky:
it used to work fine, i was using it all weekend, now it wont lock at all. ill have to try somewhere else maybe its bc of where i am atm.
[Fascinate General] janorton05:
I was browsing through the fascinate forum a day or two ago and ran across a thread with a free app from the market its called GPS Booster. I can honestly say it 100% works. Before when i would open google maps it would put me up to 4 streets away from my actual location. Now i was able to zoom in and it put me in the right room of my apartment.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=825375&highlight=gps

the above link is where i came across it
[Fascinate General] prylex3:
I will have to check this out. My phone has never had accuracy issues, just problems locking. I spent five days in New Orleans, primarily downtown and in the French Quarter, and could only get it to lock twice! Talk about aggravating.
[Windows Mobile Themes] pokpsy:
I need android taskbar for wqvga

But It should be very similar like real android taskbar

hmm.. My phone is b7300...

please ...;;

P.S ... where is the Android Theme?
[Windows Mobile Themes] ai6908:
Start making them. Its really not that big of a deal. It just takes a lot of time!

Search, and get reshacker. You should be able to do it yourself.
[Windows Mobile Themes] JaCoL_JcL:
1. this one for:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=626188

2. and this one for:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=697530
[Windows Mobile Themes] pokpsy:
Thank you !
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] TheJesus:
I was bored and had Photoshop open and thought of this idea.

(Forgive my lazy designing, I was just throwing it together)

My idea was that they could be pulled down to reveal a quick view of those things or any option someone picked.

I rethought it as making widgets for messaging, settings, and email for quick views.

Any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phandroid:
Hi folks!

Now this is really starting to bother me. Since I'm on JPO there's no notification sound playing when I receive a message and I just can't do anything about it.

Does anyone have any idea whatsoever what I can do about it?

Maybe reinstall the sms app? Could someone upload the stock one from the SGS i9000?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phandroid:
Puhleez! Bump...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Donald Nice:
Hey dear devs,

so ive got a little problem. Im a flashjunkie and tried all the different firmwares. All eclair firmwares JM1/3/5/8/9 went fine for me and i had no problems, but since the first froyo (JPC) ive tested, ive got a little problem with froyo.

First some things about me and my phone. I live in germany, my provider is o2, and i also bought a brandet o2-phone. The first day i got it, i flashed to JM5 and unbrandet it, but now to my problem:

My phone hangs somtimes and very sporadic (1-2 times a week) normally after longer calls >10 minutes.

But let me explain a little deeper. It first appears with JPC (my first froyo).

Im doing a longer call and when i finish i take the phone of my ear and have a look an the display to end the call. But i cant click the hangup button. The green listener symbol in the upper left corner is there and blinking. The only thing i can do is to press the menu-button to get back to my homescreen. All is working fine then, but i cant do or recieve any calls because the upper-left green listener symbol is still there and blinking.

When i try to go to flightmode the phone normally hangs completely, only a reboot is fixing the problem. I also had the prob one time within a call. I was on the phone and suddenly my partner was gone.. i didnt hear anything and he also didnt hear anything. Same symptoms: green listener symbol blinking, and when trying to switch to flight mode, the phone crashes. Only reboot is working.

This problem appears in ALL froyo firmwares i tested (JPC, JPK, JPM, JPO), and yes a wiped, i cleared all caches, i reflashed all the firmwares, flashed with kies, flashed with odin (with and without repartition). So i did all the stuff we all used to do to get this problem fixed...

I first thought it was a failure of the beta-firwares, but also the JPO has the problem. There is one thing that might have to do with it... I live a little bit outside of the town and in my house i have a low signal. The problem appears in 9 of 10 cases in the house until now. That might be bad luck, because its very sporadic, and normally i do longer calls only when im at home... But it may also be part of the problem, perhaps because my phone wants to change the to another umts-provider, that has a better signal?

I also thougt that it may be a sim-problem, because my sim is about 5 years old. But i ordered a brandnew sim from o2 and yesterday i had the failure again. It only appears after or right in the call.

Has anyone experienced same problems? Or can help me find out what problem i have?

Thx for all answers

Cheers, Donald!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lebasti:
hi!

yes, i can second that! i have exactly the same problem with my o2-germany-provided SGS, even though I unbranded it by applying the scandinavian froyo-beta via registry hack. So far I did not find any solution. Sometimes this even happens during rahter short calls of 10-15 min. Too bad :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neyvin:
Yes i can confirm the Problem. I'm with O2 Germany too. First I thought it is a Problem with both party's hanging up the same time. But I couldn't reproduce the problem at will...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Donald Nice:
So, the only thing, we can do at the moment is to wait for official o2 brandet firmware. Does anyone know when it will be released?

Greetz DN
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neyvin:
Until now i haven't heard about a release date...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] diamond69:
also on jf3!!!

i've got the same problem! but i had this bug already on stock eclair jf3! :confused:

so i updated via kies to official jpo ( i also tried jpc, jpm, jp6) and my phone still hangs sometimes. is it possible thats just a strange behavior on sgs with o2 germany?

or is there anybody else (other country or carrier) getting the same issues?

i get this bug every third call (when calling longer than 30 minutes)

....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Donald Nice:
hmm.. perhaps we found something that causes this o2-bug... There is a discussion in the german forum android-hilfe and there is mentioned that the homezone-indicator signal might be the failure, that you might have enabled.

So what about you? Have you also enabled this feature?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neyvin:
Today i called the O2 hot line and they told me that O2 did not receive the Froyo update from Samsung yet. So they haven't had a chance to test the Froyo release. That mens we have to wait for Samsung to give the update to German carryers for testing. I mean if they encounter the problem too they will fix it since it is a real annoying bug.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] a3nalin:
Look also at this boards and threads about the same issue:

ht_tp_: / /_ww w._ handy-faq._ de/forum/ samsung_i9000_galaxy_s_forum /174359-probleme_empfang.html (german, translate. google. de may help ;))

ht_tp_:_//_forum._o2online._de/t5/ Handys-und-Zubeh%C3%B6r/ Galaxy-S-Froyo-o2-WCDMA-massive-Probleme/ m-p/58562#M7640

(remove spaces between first parts of the links, as - unfortunately - I'm not allowed to post links cause of my "newbie" status :rolleyes: )

I've got the same issues (hang after/while phonecall, aborted call, no net service and so on..)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] KR|anton:
Same problem here!

BUT mine locks up every 30 Minutes!

And I use drei.at (Austrian Provider) NOT O2.

So it seems, that its not a specific Problem within O2 only

Andy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nazrazr:
happened to me once...but SGS unbranded with O2 sim...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] logicmann:
Hey,

i have the same prob. When the phone lies all the night and some1 wants to call me at the next morning i'm not reachable. every morning. 100%

now i installed the i9000xxjm3 modem. lets see if it fix the prob;-)

Greets

logicmann
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andip71:
Hi,

there is finally news on that.

O2 meanwhile confirmed the issue to be connected to the homezone display in the Froyo firmwares.

They propose a solution where they delete the homezone data from the SIM card without affecting the homezone functionality as such. Just the homezone icon will not be displayed anymore.

So the assumption it has something to do with the O2 homezone became true.

Here is the thread (sorry, its German) in the official O2 forum:

http://forum.o2online.de/t5/Geräte-...-o2-WCDMA-massive-Probleme/td-p/45714/page/27

I just wonder if some clever developer here could even remove the homezone icon functionality out of the firmware. I somehow do not trust O2 to come up with their solution quickly enough...

Thanks

Andi
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malicenfz:
Is there any stock ROM zip file I can download OTA?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparker366:
No you will not get any ota's if you are flashed to a different rom rooted or other wise modified. Even if you are stock and got the 2.1.1 update ota you can't go back to 2.1 ota.

You will have to get the odin 1 click restore from here flash back to stock and see if you can get the 2.1 update ota again or you can use odin and flash jh7 which can be found here
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android602:
Thanx to blackprince310 that posted a tutorial video on youtube on how to perm root your g2..so now there's a video for all of us.. Subscribe to his youtube channel.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU9zn_BEth4

[youtube]tU9zn_BEth4[/youtube]
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xionas:
I spent a whole day learning ADB before I felt comfortable enough to go through and root my G2 lol. Wish I had seen this vid would have been a great help but I can send it to my friends who haven't taken the plunge yet.

Thanks for the heads up.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apollostees:
Dude that was time well spent.

ADB is essential to android all together, there may be one click root options and other quick fix packages but if your seriouse with android you need to know ADB.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevencpoynter:
+1 for adb knowledge.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luis86dr:
Yeah adb is very usefull. Spending time to learn the commands will help you greatly in the future and also save you a lot of time.

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinistersai4d4d:
I fixed it as well but I did differently.. maybe it will help those still having trouble.. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID.

1) The first problem I had was I had Visionary 11 AND 12 (+plus) installed and both were set to root on boot. This was just a left over quirk from after doing the perm root since I just assumed it had to be set to root on boot, and after installing Vis12 I forgot to uninstall Vis11. Apparently Vis12 doesn't overwrite Vis11 so having both apps root on boot was a bad thing.

2) So I deleted both visionary apps (When they tried to root on boot I backed out of them and just uninstalled them)

3) Then I rebooted and was still not permrooted (although S was off)!

4) Sooo I reinstalled Visionary 12(+Plus)... and checked root on boot AND the r/w partition setting. Then rebooted..

5) With the lone visionary now installed and working solo it rebooted and ran on root and I was rooted..

So now i"m like, ok.. it rooted with visionary, but I don't want visionary in order to root...

6) So I uninstalled visionary 12 (for the second time) and rebooted and now the root stuck.

I think that visionary 12 needs to run after the first reboot with those two settings checked... run on boot and the partition setting. After that happens once I think it makes the root stick.. or at least it did for me.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keele8:
I had same issue with S-off but no root. I did the manual method and got S-off but root never stuck. I tried the manual method again and again but when I rebooted the apps would say root access could not be gained. What ended up working was I went into Visionary 12 and pushed the temp root button. Once I had temp root I then pushed the perm root button. It did it's thing and rebooted. Once it rebooted I had root that stuck. Don't know if this will help anyone having this issue but it was the only thing that worked for me. As a side note, it was like seeing an old childhood friend when I flashed Cyanogens bacon bits.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CG05:
How are you guys downloading visionary, now that its been pulled from the market?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xzxxzx:
Download here.

visonary r13 is here. [post #133]
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xionas:
Yea gotta say I don't regret a single minute of searching reading and learning. I just wish I could have had the root and THEN learned how to use ADB simply because I'm an impatient chump at times. Learning how to use it seemed to open up my eyes to things though now I have a better grasp on everything I found confusing when I first came back to browsing the Android forums.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibby80:
thanks this video was great worked perfect
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elbarto7:
shibby, what version of visionary are you using? i cant download r11.

:confused:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android602:
I downloaded r13..followed the video did exactly what he said..it did not work but I simply went back into visionary temp rooted my phone than I pressed perm root and it worked..r13 gives you diffr choices..it has a button for temp or perm rooting..now to download bacon bits and overclock
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibby80:
i used r11 i believe you have to download on your pc then transfer to your phone it wouldn't work when i downloaded it with the phone
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elbarto7:
Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibby80:
i sent you a pm