yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Well, technically you could potentially improve the EVO's camera with better software but the same can be said with the iPhone 4's camera. The thing is that all things being equal software-wise, the iPhone 4's camera has HW features that make the quality better. So you could say that it's probable that the iPhone 4 has better camera software AND hardware.
[EVO 4G General] engagedtosmile:
TrueFocus ISP is an embedded image processing engine. Like I said, the hardware is similiar, the software isn't.
[EVO 4G General] BrianDigital:
They also use ati
[EVO 4G General] aph:
There I fixed the links for you. Wow the Evo looks terrible there, but it's mostly levels, particularly white balance.

Software does a lot more than people realize. It does the post-processing, which includes white balance.
[EVO 4G General] aph:
This looks correct to me. Just compare the features list, even the sensor size, and you will see that the iPhone's sensor is just better.

Heck, the Evo doesn't even support auto-focus on the sensor, so it has to fudge it on the software side.

I know this is the Evo forum and we all love our Evos, but to me it's clear that HTC messed this one up for cost savings on their end, and I'm okay with that.
[EVO 4G General] aph:
Arrogant or not this guy does know what he's talking about. And the reason Apple isn't using better CPU's is because of ongoing patent litigation between Intel and nVidia. They opted to use nVidia's GPU so they can't use i3/i5 until the suit is resolved. They could have gone the other way, with a better CPU and a crappy GPU but didn't, on purpose. They know what they are doing.

By the way I have a very similar netbook setup for CS5 and it works great.
[EVO 4G General] DoctorComrade:
iPhone camera over saturates its colors.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] convolution:
Since CM and Virtuous updates itself once every 2 weeks or so, I don't want to keep on reinstalling everything over and over and over again.

Is there a way to keep all my settings on all my apps AND have my ROM upgraded from CM 6.0 to 6.1?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkeee:
Yes you can keep everything if you're upgrading from CM 6 to CM 6.1. When you flash from recovery, all you'll want to do is to wipe cache... you don't need to wipe the phone unless the upgrade is causing you trouble. When switching roms entirely, you may need to wipe the phone.

But I flash the nightlies all the time, and wiping the cache is sufficient.

If you are switching roms, use titanium backup. The batch operation definitely makes restoring apps and data quicker.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortlived:
Same is true for virtuous. Only need wipe for major changes. If i remember right its major.minor.bugfix i forget the last one but anyway only wipe on the major updates.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] convolution:
1. How do I wipe cache only?

I rebooted into recovery and i saw several wipe options but didn't know which one i had to wipe.

2. I was actually already at 6.1 RV3. Is there any point at all in upgrading to RV4? Or can I wait until it's at like 6.2 or something.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortlived:
I cant answer number 1. Id guess if there is an option for wipe cache then select that. To answer number 2. RC4 will be more stable then RC3 or more features at least. If you dont want to help test these then i would wait until the official stable release. Fyi 6.1 has been released you should install that one.
[Epic 4G General] herbthehammer:
I've been trying to get a custom hosts file to the phone but things aren't working out very well. Root explorer is saying that in /system/etc there's not enough free space to complete the operation. I've also tried with other file managers to no avail. I've tried adb push, shell cp and it says permission denied. I know I'm rooted. I looked in /system/etc and there isn't a stock hosts file, in fact a search says there isn't a hosts file in / and sub directories. I've tried su and sudo and it still gives me the finger. Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm doing everything the same way I've done it with my moment, evo, and epic with 2.1 and now it's not working. I thought that maybe there's a update needed for root explorer like was needed when the epic was first released except other file managers aren't working either. Argh
[Epic 4G General] jimmyz:
I would try running the rageagainstthemachine exploit and then immediately try to adb push to system- right after the exploit abd should run as root and you should not get the permission denied (after reboot abd will no longer run as root)
[Epic 4G General] herbthehammer:
I opened up the run.bat and edited it. I added the push of the hosts file after the rage and root files and chmod it for good measure. Saved the bat then ran it. Permission denied. It's not letting me push the file into /system/etc in one click 2.5.2

damn

stubborn bugger!

Is it possible that an updated exploit is needed? I tried and failed to run ryanza's z4root prog too. Some progs aren't showing up in the market either... I'm sure that's in a post somewhere else too
[Epic 4G General] jimmyz:
try doing it manually- that exploit should work- I'm assuming for protected apps to show in market u will have to wait till google officially recognizes this rom
[Epic 4G General] herbthehammer:
Here's what I found out. The version tar I was using was the odin one. I flashed it on top of di18 with everything erased. For some reason there wasn't a hosts file. I got pissed off and clockworked the di18 I had then entered username and password then nandroided a restore point I had before upgrading. It worked fine as it did before. I ran sprint navigation to get the gps working. Then I dl the update 90 mb file that was hosted on google. I applied that in clockwork on top of everything without erasing everything. Then I had to one click and the pus of hosts failed again because it was a read only filesystem. Things didn't look right and it appeared the one click didn't take the first time. I suspect it was because I let the phone lock and turn off screen. Rebooted phone and one clicked again. This time it took. Looked in /system/etc and there was a hosts file. I don't know if it was stock or one lft over from di18. I tried again to copy modded hosts over on top of existing one with root explorer. It took this time. There must have been something wrong with the odin flash. Noobs clockwork modded update locked up my phone hard at the stock recovery screen. Anyways I'm going to give this a try and see what happens. Browsing in stock and dolphin seem much slower putting the page together and moving around. We will have to wait and see if someone runs a diff between this update and the one that comes with sprint and see what's up.
[Epic 4G General] herbthehammer:
I need to try and remove flash out of here because the web pages are almost bringng the phone to its knees with flash advertisements.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
You try the ondemand setting for plugins within the browser?
[Epic 4G General] herbthehammer:
I just checked in stock browser and it was on demand. I will try off and see what happens.
[Epic 4G General] BThomas22x:
Here... flash this and problems solved :)

http://db.tt/EDNJNdk

Sent from my VIPERrom [TRiNiTY] DK28 3.0
[Epic 4G General] thejusticemoose:
Now that we have to option to install apps to our sd card I have a couple questions.

1) Where are the apps stored? I tried finding them in root explorer on my sd card after i moved them but i could not.

2) When i get my 32gb card is there any special process i have to undergo now that I have moved apps to my sd card? As in should i move them all back to my phone before switching cards or if copy my entire card over to my new one will they be included?
[Epic 4G General] thetoady:
I believe the apps are encrypted on the sd card.

install terminal, run terminal,

in terminal run "mount" (assuming this works even if not rooted)

see things like

/dev/block/dm-6 /mnt/asec/com.adobe.reader-1 ....

this implies the device mapper subsystem is in use. don't have any more info at this time.

within the /mnt/asec/*/ directory there is a file pkg.apk, though it doesn't seem like a traditional apk as not unzippable (or at least unzip -l pkg.apk seems to fail within terminal)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBrondos:
I got a new Android Tablet through eBay from Honk Kong with some decent features. It came from Honk Kong and I concerned about some of the things that are on it and I'd just like to root it . . . but I can't find any details about this model or find better instructions. :( Can anyone help me get this unit rooted?

Here are some of the other tech specs:

Processor Mode: "Telechip Tcc8902" High-performance ARM 11 Processors.

Frequency 800MHZ support for hardware 2D/3D graphics acceleration"

RAM/Technology:DDR

RAM Installed Size:256MB

Built-NandFlash:2G NAND FLASH

Display Diagonal Size:7" touch panel

Max Resolution:800X480

Display Technology:TFT

Camera: 1.3M pixel

Input/ Output Connectors

Audio/Video:Built in 2×0.5W stereo speaker,1× Integrated microphone, earphone×1

USB Port: USB 1.1 High speed interface and USB2.0 OTG

Memory Card:1x TF card slot. Maximum capacity of 32GB

Communications

Wireless Connection: WIFI

Wireless Protocol:802.11 b/g Wireless network.

General

Gravity Sensor: 4 Directions.

Battery Type: Built in 7.4V1500MAH Li-ion Battery

Run Time (up to) WIFI off/on:4 Hours /5 Hours

Power Device Type:AC Adapter

Voltage required:100/240V

Dimensions / W x D x H 193mm(L) x115mm(W) x14.3mm(H)

Software

Operating System:Android 2.1 (but I think upgraded to 2.2)

IM Software:Google Talk

Browser:Android Browser

Media player:Video Player, Audio Player,

Mail:Gmail,POP3/IMAP/SMTP

Audio:MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC,AAC+

Video:MP4 for android

Image:Jpeg, Gif

Other Software:Google Maps,Calendar,Gmail, Google Talk, Market and

many free software for Android.:(
[HD2 General] emissary:
Just got an hd2 and it had this problem where when pressing power button touch screen does not work

Here is what to do press power button fast swipe finger on screen to see if it start to work or press power button hard maybe power button is dirty

Post your results
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] Javi97100:
Hey everyone I really want to delete the latin ime keyboard on my rooted htc aria running cyanogen 6.1 rc2. I want to get the droidx keyboard but have have to uninstall latin keyboard. Any ideas?
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] CallMeAria:
havent tried this myself but you could use adb to rm the old latinIME from /system/app and then push the droidx keyboard to /system/app to replace it.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] zervic:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Barebones
[G Tablet General] Elric W:
I have at most Beautiful widgets and marketplace and it is says I only have 100mb left in ram.

Is this normal for ZPad to use that much in system resources?

Using ZPadClean 1125_2_2.

I do not recall my tnt rom using quite that much with nothing running.

I would presume it is something I am missing though.
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
I would check to see if something you installed is still running. I think a stock build of zpad has about 350mb free on boot.

However, if you run for some time, open and close some items. They will not exit from memory until something needs it. This is how android is setup, so that the second time you start something it is already in memory and ready to run.
[G Tablet General] Elric W:
I appreciate the reply. That may be the ideal, but when it gets down to 60mb.. it crawls and starting up new programs takes a few seconds.

I will continue to tinker at it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
My camera works but when I switch to camcorder and press record it says cannot record and all buttons dissapear...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
Are you using a rooted rom? Is your battery low when your trying to record?

www.goteamfriday.com
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
I'm on stock rooted and oclf lay fix
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
Try rebooting to see if it helps. If not go to settings then applications, then click on manage applications, then click the all tab, then look for camcorder (if you can not find camcorder then look for camera) and click clear data. If that does not work then I advise you reflash the rom. It could be a simple glitch.

www.goteamfriday.com
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
Dude! I didn't know clearing data fixed it thanks so much best forum ever.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
I'm guessing it worked. Your welcome sir. I'm just glad that I could help.

www.goteamfriday.com
[Vibrant General] coolmib:
The GPS on my Vibrant was working fine until yesterday. Starting last night, the phone has shown difficulties for searching GPS, or positioning me thousands of miles away.

What should I do now, folks?

I'm on the latest JK6.
[Vibrant General] nysfinest318:
GPS is going haywire...

Im having the same issue with my gps. I havent made any changes that I can remembe so I'm not sure what is causing it. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx
[Vibrant General] BurningArmada:
+1 on this. Gps was working flawlessly for a while now but since yesterday, not even the gps restore from samsung in the market can get it back in line...
[Vibrant General] 651stp:
wrong thread but, same thing happened to me, shows that im in mexico most times when im in minnesota. o_O
[Vibrant General] coolmib:
wow, so I'm not alone on this...

what's happening? aliens coming?
[Vibrant General] wxaxgxs:
Same thing here, only it tells me I'm either in Santa Monica or NYC (technically in the ocean) when I'm actually in Minnesota.

I hadn't tested GPS since switching to JK6, though.... JK6 related or something else?
[Vibrant General] coolmib:
In fact, I flashed back to JK2 tonight. The GPS seems to be still lousy (strangely, the baseband remained at JK6 without changing back)
[Vibrant General] adrianmole:
Same here. It was working fine until late last night. The locations I got range from Bay Area to NYC but I was in LA.
[Vibrant General] naack:
check if you have " mock location" ticked or not.

its in the same place as the debugging option.

cheers.
[Vibrant General] coolmib:
I'm in Phoenix. But I've got Chicago, Cleveland, Miami, and LA.
[Vibrant General] coolmib:
My mock location is unchecked
[Vibrant General] ocfury:
I am also having the gps go crazy as of the past 2 days and I have had great gps before(for this phone). I was on V5 jk2 and after flashing jk6 modem the gps started acting up, I'm assuming this new modem could be the issue

Update * today everything is working and I did not change a thing, I have no idea what the issue was

Sent from my vibrant
[Vibrant General] ZX3ZX4:
I just had that problem tonight. I'm wondering if something weird happened system-wide that messed up a lot of phones. Before I saw this thread, I posted in the "Vibrant General" forum on this matter. After re-booting to try to get it to behave -- with no luck -- I went into my dialer-accessed GPS settings and found that two of them had been mysteriously changed. I got the GPS back with some changes. Here's what I know:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=862594
[Vibrant General] ZachLL88:
Same thing happened to me tonight, my gps had been working great. Till tonight when i tried using it, it kept saying i was in New York, than Cali, etc. When in fact i live in Oregon. So when i got home i asked my Gf who has the vibrant as well if her gps was acting up, she tested it and it was not acting up, so i started messing with some setting and got it to work perfectly.

I messed with the settings in "My Location Sources"

There are 2 settings in there for gps related stuff.

"Use Wireless Networks"

"Use GPS satellites"

What i noticed was if i uncheck gps satellites i could use the google app, "places" (that comes with there Google map app) that it would find lets say gas stations near my location. So i tried to navigate there, and it asked me to hit the check button for the GPS satellites, i went into settings and checked it than went to navigate to it, within 5secs it planned a route with no troubles at all.

Now it works great, so for me to able to get my gps to work, i just have to go into the settings and check both boxes (i uncheck to save battery life, when im done).

Hopefully this makes sense, sometimes i tend to go on and on lol.

Any questions feel free to ask.

I am new to this site, so be kind!! =)
[Vibrant General] bvc:
mine doesn't work either...
[Vibrant General] ZX3ZX4:
Zach-

It sounds like there was nothing much wrong with the phone. If I'm understanding your post you had your GPS on, but it seemed like you couldn't connect, right? So you turned it off momentarily and, when you accessed an app that needed it, it told you to turn it on. When you had "Use GPS Satellites" unchecked and "Use Wireless Networks" checked, it means that the GPS is not on or being used at all, and your phone was taking location readings off cell towers (which is not nearly as accurate as location by GPS). The test of your GPS is to have the "Use Wireless Networks" setting unchecked and the "Use GPS satellites" checked. If you turn the GPS on from the task bar at the top, you'll see that the box "Use GPS Satellites" is switched on, and is switched back off when you turn off the GPS from the task bar...so there is no reason to bother to go into the Location and Security Settings to toggle your GPS on/off. If I am not understanding your post, please clarify.

If you actually want to see how well your GPS works and how many satellites it locks on, download the free app "GPS Test."

Two other things: 1) many of us find that the GPS actually works better with the "Use Wireless Networks" box left unchecked, and 2) turn your GPS off when you aren't in need of it because it can be a significant drain on the battery.
[Vibrant General] tenbeau:
ame thing happened to me.Last night I could not get my Gps to lock in jk6. I had been in V5 and had the same thing happen the night before. I tried gpsrestore and rebooting and pulling the battery etc. I flashed back to v5 and still the same result. Either no lock or it showed that I was in Long Island and actually I am in central fl. I tried changing some settings (auto config and ms based) to no avail. I than flashed back to V5 and at first it was the same and then after rebooting twice and pulling the battery it just mysteriously began to function again. I wont use the word work as it has never really worked well. It actually saw 11 and locked on 7 which is a new record for me. Like I said earlier in the post it had happened to me the same way the night before and thats when I flashed to jk6.After flashing it seemed to be operating as usual until las night. Strange that it would happen in both v5 and jk6 and at night both times, and that flashing to the other rom and pulling the battery would right the issue Does anyone have any idea what the issue is here?.

Edit: Just went out and used Cardio Trainer and it worked quite well as the gps seemed to function as well as it ever has.
[Vibrant General] samnada:
Same problem everyone else is describing. My GPS has been working very well, then yesterday locks were taking a very long time and sometimes the location accuracy was 1000's of meters off. Tried again just now and it's back to quick locks with good accuracy.

Based on posts here and the TMO forum it seems to have been widespread.
[Vibrant General] CzarDestructo:
Same problem everyone else is having however I have another problem as well.

Around the exact same time I had an issue with the GPS my ability to connect to a few different wireless networks was affected as well! I can't get on my home network at all, just gets hung up on 'obtaining IP address'. My old G1 running 2.2 can hop on the network without incident.

What the hell is Samsung up to?
[Vibrant General] ikevinnyii:
Im having the exact same problems, i was on axura 2.05 when i first found my gps wasnt working i thought it was just temporary, got home tried again didnt work, flashed axura final, still didnt work, went back to stock jfd still didnt work, ji6 still didnt work, i thought my phones gps was bad or broke somehow i was in the 14 day window went to the tmobile store for an exchange (those guys are really clueless he told me that it was apps problem (google maps) and that my phone didnt have an actual gps -.- seriously where do they hire these guys) after shutting him up by simply showing the drop down GPS button he gave me a new phone. Fresh out the box stock ji6 and still no luck with gps, flashed axura 2.1 (jk6)now and obviously still not working so from what i went through its not the baseband difference since i went through jfd,ji6,jk2,fresh ji6,and jk6 and amazingly still no luck. Grr im mad

Edit : When using wifi my location locks instantly but with the GPS i cant get a lock and it would say im in Puerto Rico or Houston accurate to like 12200 meters lol and im in NY :T closest i got the NY i was somewhere in the water :P
[Vibrant General] CzarDestructo:
This seemed to work for me. I'll do more testing to verify:

1) Get into LBSTestMode (*#3214789650#)

2) Delete GPS Data

3) Set Server FQDN type back to 'Auto Config'

4) Reboot
[Vibrant General] ikevinnyii:
SNOW

Ive got it to work, i tried what the post above me said to do and i got it to lock a few blocks away from where i was, better but not exactly fixed. Go to the apps market and download "GPS Restore" this is a fix by samsung if u tinkered around in the settings like i did and something got messed up. It didnt work from my room and it told me to go under open sky, so i went out of my house ran it again and BAM GPS is working again, it also started to snow while running the GPS restore (yay first snow in NY :) and GPS seems to be working fine for now! good luck guys
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
Wow i thought it was just me...
[Vibrant General] adrianmole:
I tried the method above and also used Samsung GPS restore. Deleted GPS Data and then reboot. But still nothing is showing up. I tried to run the app GPS Status and I can't even find a satellite. I'll continue to try. But does anyone know how this happened?

Edit:

After multiply times of deleting data, restoring data, I was finally able to locate myself using GPS. It took a while to find most of the satellites but at least it's working.
[Vibrant General] bbm21:
me too... only i lost all cell service and had to wipe my sdcard and odin back to stock
[Vibrant General] ikevinnyii:
well it turns out my fix was only temporary :mad: when you first run the gps restore it works fine but coming back to it like an hour later it cant lock on to my location anymore :T did anyone find a more permanent fix?? I dont want to have to run gps restore everytime to use the gps
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] BoiPhresh:
Can we please get the 4 lockscreen options on the stock jk6 Rom please? Thanks in advance for anyone that does this
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] TheSneakerWhore:
+1

10 chars.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] geoffcorey:
i'm sure it's being worked on. it took a bit for the choice screen to be released for jk2, so you should at least give any dev working on it more than just a few days...
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] BoiPhresh:
I'm just opening up a spot to find it on here for when its available
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] justlovejoy:
im waiting for this too
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PDY05:
okay story is i rooted the phone so i can delete the bloatware off of the phone at the same time i also decided to delete the default live wallpapers because i didn't care for them. now when i do install a live wallpaper the option to choose it, when you get to the "select wallpaper from" menu, the live wallpaper's is never an option. how do i get that option back?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PDY05:
okay fixed it. found a dump of all of the original vibrant app/files and copied over the live wallpapers and livewallpaperpicker apk and odex files into the /system/app folder and it works again!!