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[G2 and Desire Z General] amack10:
So I'm running the stock ota that came on the phone perm rooted and oc. Now I'm sure most of u use dolphin browser cus the standered android browser will not let u change user agnets. So I downloaded dolphin so I could do this. For sites like ufc.com or spike tv both of witch u have to be on none mobile sites to watch episodes of TUF and other figts. As well as southparkstudios to watch episodes. Well neither of the sites have an option to switch to normal mode so I use dolphin and change my browser to desktop. Well wehn I do that and navigate to a page in dolphin it gives me the tmo tethering plan page everytime and I can not navigate away exactly like if u try to tehther and get the tmo page. Wtf is the point in adding flash player to ur os if u can't even go to non mobile sites.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ibemad1:
You can change user agents in the stock browser. Just type about:debug in the search box in the browser, then go to settings. It's at the very bottom of the options list I believe. As far as trying to use desktop user agents on a mobile network, you obviously can't do that ^_^ Look for a "view desktop site" or "full site" option at the bottom of the page. Get mad at T-Mobile for not letting you do that, don't get mad at google.
[G2 and Desire Z General] amack10:
I've always been able to use the desktop user agent in dolphin till they started sniffing user agents. And some site won't allow u to change to non mobile sites like I stated. Ufc.com southparkstudios.com. etc. I called tmo and they have no clue they were so confused wen I told them. Then I tried to explain how their sniffing out user agents and got even more confused.

Edit: what ur telling me to do in the stock browser about:debug is the same as changin my user agent in dolphin
[G2 and Desire Z General] ibemad1:
I know this. I was just telling you that you could change user agents from the stock browser.

As for tmobile being clueless, I would personally spend all day on the phone with them, get to the higher ups who actually know what a user agent string is, and make sure they hear your complaint. If we get enough people to bother them we just might get them to remove the user agent check.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2 running Cyanogenmod.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Orite:
It's weird because I'm tethering right now and all the sites you listed come up just fine for me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] amack10:
Hmm well I was on stock rom having these issues I just no flashed cyan and changed my user agent to ie6 and its not doin it. Weird oh well cyan fixed it rite up=) I sttill have to changer my user agent to android in my chrome browser wen tethering
[Omnia II General] full2softwares:
I am using omnia 2 and my phone is not going into sleep mode.i have checked the option to auto turn off after a minute but it is not working. Please tell me software which can do this

Device info:

PDA I8000NXXIJ9

CSC I800ATOOIJ8

PHONE I800XXIJ4

wm 6.5

Ce OS 5.2.21863 (Build 21863.5.0.67)

Please also tell me if my phone consist of original or custom firmware. If it is custom than please let me know how to swith to india original fw.
[Omnia II General] full2softwares:
ANY HELP...........
[Galaxy Tab General] beestee:
EDIT: Found some help centered around titanium backup here:

Titanium Backup User Guide

It seems to cover a lot of the general knowledge really well. Hope this is helpful to someone else!

Original Post:

Plain and simple, what do I need to know about restoring or backing up my Tab before digging into the system directory or elsewhere and screwing it up? I'm looking for general ideas, not necessarily detailed steps since those seem to be abundantly available in this very generous community.

It would also be nice to know the risks involved, and why one method may be chosen over another.

If there are already general guides on this subject that you are aware of, please point me to them and I will be happy to read them.

Thank you! :)
[Galaxy Tab General] beestee:
Bump...check the edit above if you had the same question.
[Galaxy Tab General] sliblue:
Thanks for this. Furthuring my education :-)
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
Hmmph?

Is it just personal stuff and user setting you're looking to protect as you mod?

As far as I was aware TB only does that?

I don't worry about it though because mines all sync'd to my various accounts.
[Galaxy Tab General] murphycr:
I wouldn't play around with it too much until we release Clockwork for Tab ;)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptgay49:
Should we start a Gingerbread thread (a/k/a Android 2.3)? If so, mod, which forum would be the "best" place or do you think there "should" be a Gingerbread thread in the other forums? Thanks in advance.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blulitespecial:
Isn't Gingerbread 3.0? why does everyone say 2.3?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptgay49:
Google has changed the numbering scheme it will use for the next several versions of their OS. Gingerbread is now 2.3.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrogenus:
OFF TOPIC...

The wife and I were trying to determine what the next few "flavors" would be.

Gingerbread

Honeycomb

Ice Cream... all confirmed.

Jellybean (Jell-O if they could get permission to use it)

Key Lime Pie/Kissel (KitKat if they could get permission to use it)

Lollipop

Mocha

Neopolitan

Oreo (if they could get permission to use it)

We moved on to other conversation after that.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] egobuster1:
have we even got a confirmed date on when gingerbread is gonna be released
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptgay49:
What I've read is "soon" for the Nexus platform; possible by the end of the year for other phones.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] egobuster1:
alright so its all still speculation. havent we all learned how long it took froyo to come out after it was supposed to
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrogenus:
Not that it matters. I will have to wait for my chef to cook up the next iteration of his rom to include the best features of the update. I shall be running 2.2 for a while.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DS36:
Yes start the thread

The .32 source codes for has just been released
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptgay49:
Will Start New Gingerbread Thread

I will start a new thread in the "General" forum entitled "All Things Gingerbread (aka Android 2.3 [not 3.0])"
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esteef:
Anyone running CM6 RC1 on their G2 having wifi tethering problems?

I tried both the built in hot spot and the googles wireless tethering and my PC cannot connect to either of them.

it worked when I was using the stock rom.

Any feedback/suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esteef:
wifi tethering

Wired tethering seems to work after I downloaded HTC sync and it installed the drivers, but now my PC wont recognize my phone as USB storage.

ughh what a mess.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheesewaf3r:
I don't think this helps too much, but wireless tethering is definitely working on my G2 right now!

It's just plain CM 6.1 RC1.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinythetiger:
I haven't seen any similar threads and I'm sorry if there is already an existing one.

My X10 USB port has suddenly gone wonky. At first the phone had no problems charging, but when trying to connect to the computer, the cable had to be held in a certain position or it would not connect. This later began to affect charging as the usb cable had to be held in a certain position to charge. Now even after wiggling around the USB cable and reinserting the battery, the phone will not charge.

Given that the USB port used to work while being held in a certain position, it seems that this is a hardware issue. After finding nothing here, I searched the interwebs and found that poorly soldered USB ports are actually a fairly common problem on the X10.

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem or has any insights?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fightingroost12:
this happened to me too, are you using the usb that came with your phone? because when mine broke i bought a new cable and everything worked fine so try the cable on a different phone and see if it charges
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinythetiger:
I have tried 3 different USB cables, including the one that is included with the phone. Thanks for your input.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x10Mike:
My last x10 went down the same way. I had to buy an external battery charger which was a royal pain. SE refused all knowledge of this defect.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fightingroost12:
whoa not cool o.O how long have u had your device?? will se fix it?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pentiumvi:
The problem is most likely due the actual design of the phone, where the USB connector is not properly strain-relief. This causes the solder joints to break, and ripping off the solder pads after a while. You used to be able to charge your phone because the pads very only "lifted" but after a while they become completely broken. I'm currently still in the process of trying to figure out whether it would be possible to repair those connections by finding an alternate location to solder the connector pins.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinythetiger:
I've had my x10 since April when it launched. Other than this it has been rock solid, but this is really disappointing considering how tank my old W810i was.

I also think that there is either a problem with the design or the manufacture of the phone because it's somewhat common, as it does appear that the soldering of the USB port is not very good.

Looking around the internet, it doesn't seem like SE acknowledges this problem, but luckily it's still under warranty with Rogers for a replacement. I still want to get this issue out on this forum though, because I think it should be something that people are aware of.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HyperionX10:
I had the same problem a while ago. Called Orange France and they replaced my phone without any comments. If your phone is still under warranty you should go to your provider.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dizarmstrong:
Hey guys. I need help returning my x10 back to stock without a usb cable. I have an AT&T x10a, but unfortunately the other day one of the pins in my usb module (ground, I believe-pin 1) snapped off. I can't charge or connect my phone at all.

Is there any way of flashing the phone back to stock AT&T firmware using like a terminal emulator so I can send it back to AT&T? Btw - the phone is running Nordic 2.1 and it's rooted. Thanks for anyone who can help.

Sent from my X10a
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinythetiger:
I was looking through the forums for a method like this too but couldn't find one so far. Perhaps you could figure out what makes it look like it's on stock firmware:

i.e. change the boot screen, change the model to x10a, unroot and make it look as much as possible like stock.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Z3X:
Look at the "broken usb connector" thread
[Fascinate General] phoenx06:
Via twitter:

blink_c Logan Carriveau

@GalaxySsupport Is the Fascinate still on track to receive 2.2 by the end of the year as you all stated it would? Thanks in advance

2 hours ago Favorite Reply Delete

in reply to @blink_c ↑

@GalaxySsupport

Galaxy S support

@blink_c Hi Logan. That's the plan--the update should be out for your Fascinate by the end of the year. Thanks for keeping up with us! ^Mary

This both gives me hope and pisses me off at the same time. If we are about to get a maintenance update, I don't see how we will get 2.2 before the end of the year. Why bullsh*t us? Anyways, just thought I'd share.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trhonda2000:
I've had my Evo since July and its still in the "honeymoon" phase of our relationship. She's been rooted via unrevoked and all is lovely. Of course like I'm sure many of us I went on an app spree initially and sometimes still to this day downloading a little of everything free. Now after months with my phone I finally found an app I want to purchase, however when I go to do so and enter my credit card information I get a service error. So I figured maybe it had something to do with my Google Shopping profile, so went to attempt to set one of those up and I get an error there too. I've tried with multiple credit cards with no such luck. Does this have anything to do with me being rooted or has anyone else ran into this problem?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blkout01:
I doubt it has anything to do with you being rooted. The only time I ran in to this error was when I had poor data connection but that doesn't sound like what your running in to. Have you tried creating a new Google account and seeing if it will work on a fresh account?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trhonda2000:
I'm going to try and create a different account and see if that works.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bielinsk:
Try using a different card. There were some apps I couldn't use my Amex for and had to use MC.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blkout01:
Did this work? I'm curious to see what fixes or even more so what the cause of this was.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strapt:
ok so i have my phone rooted

I have ADB working right

I go to the terminal in the phone and type "su" and it takes me to the # just fine, also works in ADB (after adb shell).

When i type "free" to see the memory it says "permission denied" on the phone, and in ADB. In ADB, I have tried it from the # which gives me "not found", and then tried it at the $ and that says "permission denied".

I can reboot my phone from ADB, but not in terminal on the phone.

I'm not real sure why i get "permission denied" if my phone is rooted right

any ideas and help would be great thanks
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cal3thousand:
Similar issue Kinda

when I type in 'free' after 'su', I get:

free: not found :mad:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustrho:
It worked just fine for me.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strapt:
when you rooted your phone .. did you use the visonary temp way .. or the new way thru ADB?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strapt:
Also those who are or are not having the permission denied...was your root done pre or post update? Mine was post and do you have a recovery flashed?
[Fascinate General] jmorehouse:
Used the search feature to no avail. The stock calendar app is not honoring any of my alarms/reminders setup in my Google calendar. I installed Gemini, and turned on the Notifications, but it tells me to disable any other notifications. Problem is, I can't find an option to do that anywhere.

Long story short, if anyone knows of ANY calendar app for the Fascinate that will honor alarms/reminders, please let me know. I am in desperate need of one.

TIA!
[Fascinate General] ktez:
I have been using Jorte and it seems to work just fine - but I don't have a lot of Google calendar notifications so I'm not sure about that part. But its free in the market so it can't hurt to try :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] .hide:
can we view facebook video on android? i am on shubcraft 2.0 and it cant play it. or its not support yet? i am on 1.41 facebook app.

if i am having multi android rom on my sdcard. will i need to install app individuality on each rom? if yes, install in internal or external memory?

thanks for your time readign and help. any reply will be appreciated.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] .hide:
upz for help~~~
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexuz:
Hello,

I would like to know if i loose my warranty ( HD2 vodafone branded NL) if i flash a new radio.

I would install hspl then the new radio (2.15) and then put back my original spl, after this would i loose my warranty? (after all steps)

Sorry i f posted this in the wrong forum

Thanx in advance
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
To be able to flash a radio you need to use HSPL!

If you return your device back to HTC (ex fore reparation) and thy see you have still HSPL install on it you will loose your warranty sir.

But when you remove your HSPL then there is no problem anymore. (You can't see it that HSPL was install after you remove it.)

But what we alway's say's. when you need to return your device fore reparation; just flash the stock rom again. ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexuz:
yeah i know i need hspl but is there a problem if i use the 2.15 radio with my stock vodafone rom??? do i loose my warranty (of course i would change the hspl with the original one and keep the new radio.)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
No sir, your radio will not brake your warranty.

Beside, the new official HTC stock ROM have the 2.15 radio integrated. ;)
[Galaxy Tab General] ConceptVBS:
http://current.com/participate/samsung-galaxy-tab-submissions/
[Galaxy Tab General] TurckBoatTruck:
First person to submit a video riffing on the "Can you hear me now" Verizon commercials... to show the irony that that US-based Tabs can't hear you now as they can't make traditional voice calls... won't win the $10k, but will win my heart.
[Galaxy Tab General] ConceptVBS:
Yes, according to this guy.

http://forum.androidcentral.com/galaxy-tab/44768-bettery-life-results.html

Anyone feel the same way?
[Galaxy Tab General] ftgg99:
its better than i expected, but i doubt its better than sammys tests
[Galaxy Tab General] qazzi76:
Same here it seem way better than I expected but I haven't tested the battery life thoroughly yet but indeed it is very good.
[Galaxy Tab General] calin75:
Tomorrow I will be flying back home. I'll be in the air for about 6 hours. I have 2 movies to watch, plus I'll be playing games and will listen to music. I am planning not to charge my tab until I get home. Let's see how it goes. I will update.
[Galaxy Tab General] beestee:
Being that my battery use is ~80% display, i should probably consider turning down the brightness. Still, I have been playing with it here and there throught the day (about 7 hours away from the charger now) and the battery level is still 75%

Somebody needs to find a way to mod the autobrightness to have a few options...I like the feature, but it is just a bit too dim for me.
[Galaxy Tab General] raymentchen:
My tab lost 10% battery for one hour medium usage (display on, 30% brightness, reading mainly). Dose it mean I have a battery issue here?:confused:
[Galaxy Tab General] crazy talk:
no. it just depends on what your doing. Wifi signal strength, Cell radio strength. the position of the moon and sun, etc.

BTW, battery life does not decrease linearly. so the numbers in that post are ridiculous.

the discharge curve will look something similar to this in most cases

(red line, also note phones cut off the extreme ends of the scale with regards to voltage to promote cell life)

it takes a few days for the battery (more specifically the charging circuitry) to get into a 'groove' when it comes to properly charging the battery and displaying the correct percentage.

if you want to know more about the Batteries in our phones and Tablets look at RCcar and RC plane sites. they use the same batteries as phones do so pretty much everything you learn there will apply here (except our phones don't draw 20+amps! :eek:)

http://www.fmadirect.com/lipo_handbook/fma_lipo_handbook_section2.htm
[Galaxy Tab General] le3ky:
Mine can easily last and day and a half, very impressed with the battery
[Galaxy Tab General] raymentchen:
Well, I understand you saying here. But 10% (90% to 80%) per hour for reading ebook only is far away from having a good battery at 4000mah. I will give it a few more days to check.
[Galaxy Tab General] nnick:
Well? How did that go?
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
That's 10 hours at that usage, give or take, and right around what I'm seeing, 10% per hour of actual usage as an ebook, about 2-5% per hour if it's just sitting there connected, and about 15-20%/hour with heavy surfing or game playing.

I expect if I'm careful and keep the connectivity to a bare minimum, I can stretch 12 hours out of it when travelling.

Oh, and everyone...let the battery run down to zero at least once, preferably twice. We're talking total discharge to the point the phone turns itself off, then charge to 100%. This doesn't hurt or help the battery, but it does help make the actual battery monitoring more accurate.
[Galaxy Tab General] ayman07:
honestly im not too impressed with the battery. i think the standby time sucks too. the iPad doesnt do a lot of things right, but the one thing it seems to do is to last for days. i realize the battery is close to twice as big but i was just use to that. i mean sure i dont use my ipad anymore, but it seems to last forever. anway, when i first got my tab, i managed to drain it in less than 6 hours. that was right out of the box (so it proly wasnt full all the way, but close to it). i was mad when that happened. that was with the brightness on auto and everything turned off except wifi. i could be just expecting too much. i thought conditioning the battery would be good for it. so i let it die all the way and recharged it to full. today, i wouldnt say i used the tablet like i usually would (i am a HEAVY user) and its been less than 12 hours and its already at 21%. this time it was running on 3G and brightness on low (not all the way, but about 30% or so). i dont even set the brightness to the highest cuz its too bright, auto seems to work the best. maybe im just being a tough critic. i mean my nexus only lasts like 5 hours now a days cuz i just use it too much. but im so use to just picking up another battery and moving along.
[Galaxy Tab General] geogetski666:
been having a good battery life after draining the battery to 3% twice then charging it to full again and now it almost last me 2 days :) better than my old nexus one :) using it primarily for comic book reading and bluetooth stereo music almost 6hrs. per day and a little gaming of angry birds and a little video and youtube + browsing calling and texting really don't like games too much :)

@croak

i've read a forum sometime ago that it's bad to drain li-ion to 0% so i think its better to drain it to near zero before charging again as i've read it may damage the cells if you drain it to 0% :)
[Galaxy Tab General] ayman07:
how often should we condition the battery? (let it drain near 0 and charge up)
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
Doesn't hurt a lithium ion battery much at all, it's just another charge cycle.

But if you don't go down to the point that the device shuts off at least once, your battery meter can and often will be off by a good bit. There's never any confirmation. When yours was reading 3%, it might have actually been 8%, or it may have been 1% or less, but until you zero it out, you'll never know, and neither will the device. It'll still know when it's at 100%, but any reading below that can be inaccurate.

And keep in mind, this is NOT zero charge, it is not completely drained (the device does the auto-shutdown specifically to AVOID a complete drain).
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
Lithium Ion batteries don't need to be conditioned. But if you want to calibrate the battery meter, you'll need to do it at least once.