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[Defy General] heygrl:
The myTouch 4G, Vibrant and G2 are high-end because of the features.

The camera on the DEFY blows, it sucks so bad compared to the camera and it's interface on my Samsung Vibrant. The myTouch 4G/G2 aren't much better when it comes to the camera, though..

Regular LCD vs SLCD and SAMOLED displays.

Better graphics power.

Better multimedia on the Vibrant.

etc. there are multiple reasons why, most things are just a bit better on the "high-end" devices.
[Defy General] jellydonut:
What he said - the camera is fairly useless. The screen is of normal type - not having experienced anything 'special' I think the screen is beautiful but I guess AMOLED would have me rethink that. :p

The build quality is not 'premium' - get an anodized aluminium HTC in one hand and this plastic phone in the other and you'll quickly decide which aesthetic and feel you prefer. On the other hand I find it much more attractive than, for instance, the Sony Ericsson piano gloss plastic phones.

Other than that, well, I guess it's been crippled like some ridiculous teenphone with useless BLUR, but I don't know - do the Droids have this as well?

To me it's more than good enough but this is my first Android device so what do I know?

One thing, it's IP67 rated - dustproof, water resistant, scratchproof Gorilla Glass.. No other smartphones have any IP or MIL rating at all let alone IP67.
[Defy General] Higgsy:
Simple because whoever made thay statement/assessment in the first place had been smoking crack. With a little tweaking it is an an amazing device.
[Defy General] crazyVII:
I just can confirm that :-)

To the statement above, the device is plastic, but that's also the reason why its so light weighted :-) my old hero was smaller but also heavier ... that s strange.. :-\

And for the camera. I just use my phone to take photos for three generation of mobile phones now... and really got Jo idea what you can't like with the camera. (there are few options, but the pictures are taken fast and Sharp, what more to expect ?) :-)

Under the line, I'd say: It's a great device. And as mentioned many times before.. maybe just MOTOblur makes the whole device.. midRange .. :-\

One more thing, HTC devices maybe feel better (from the case or somehow, I know what u mean, but I really like how my defy feels, backside really feels good, front is just display )

But the thing: this device just looks male :-) :-) :-D

That's the reason why ive chosen it compared To the HTC desire and many other devices out there :-)

Greets
[Defy General] rbeier1221:
As far as I am concerned I got a great phone for half the price of an high end phone...they can call it midrange if they want to. :P
[Defy General] bobbyphoenix:
+1

I would like to see all those hi-end phones get dropped in water, and still work. Or get tossed around by a small child in a sandbox, and have no scratches on it. To me the Defy is very hi-end because of its everyday usefulness. No need to baby it.
[Defy General] Dalamak:
doesn't hold a candle to my G2, but with root and recovery, milestone OC, and blur removed, its a nice device, if you owned a "high end" device you would see the difference, but all in all, thanks to DEV and Chef support this is a really good pone
[Epic 4G General] riotkid976:
I'm working on a new homescreen set up for my epic, and i've taken a bunch of inspiration from here. I've got my new dock how I want it, but my problem is the damn wallpaper.

i have a .png at 480px x 800px but the phone keeps forcing me to crop it. I need it to be full resolution and not scroll (which i have told LP to prevent).

How can i accomplish this?

(I'll throw in the wallpaper just for funsies...)
[Epic 4G General] digger44:
multipicture live wallpaper will do what you want
[Epic 4G General] riotkid976:
I've been testing that today; but i'm not happy with the results.

for starters, its slow. sometimes its as many as 10sec before my wallpaper renders (which defeats the shortcuts I built into it).

also, the registration is off. it isn't a complete deal breaker, but i spent a good bit of time tweaking the layout in Illustrator, so i want it to be *how* i designed it...

(screens attached for clarity)
[Epic 4G General] SemiGamer:
Change the image size to 960x800. Wont have to crop.
[Epic 4G General] buckminst:
I ran into the cropping thing when I first got my Epic, too. If you tap-hold in the cropping area, IIRC, you can drag it to expand the area it's using for cropping.

Just drag the cropping area's corners so it covers the entire 960x800 image, and you're good. =)
[Epic 4G General] riotkid976:
awesome. that got me where i needed to be!
[Epic 4G General] SemiGamer:
Your welcome :)
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
hello everyone i am in big trouble,

I was making a custom rom for my home use and i changed some icons. I also accidentally deleted my launcher2.apk file so i have no way of getting to any apps from the homescreen and it just shows a black screen with a status bar on my homescreen. There is nothing i can do and since i wiped by defealt it dosen't have USB debugging on and no service so i can't get a txt and go to the messaging app and then somewhere from there. So i am freaking stuck on a black screen. the lock screen is fine but i also can't get to the bootstrap recovery. I am thinking of doing a a wipe using RSD lite but i tried that a while ago on my dell and it didn't work (a few weeks ago). it would get to 99% and then just stop and say failed. If i get it bricked I would be fine because I could go into verizon and say that my phone just stopped booting on after using it for a while and the battery ran out or something like that but right now it still boots up. What can i do?!!?!?!?!? i desperatley need my phone or my parents are going to murder me (but i guess a new phone would be a good christmass present even though it would be a huge bummer not to have a smartphone and just have a little normal slider phone or something like that). I am supposed to be pretty good with tech stuff since i made roms before except right now i'm stumped since rsd lite usually dosen't work.

thanks,

ljbaumer
[Droid 2 General] Spitemare:
If you do SBF then follow these instructions to the letter (I just SBF'd my Droid2 last night):

Get the 2.3.20 SBF file

Get RSDLite 4.8 or 4.9

Install the latest Motorola drivers

Start RSDLite and select the SBF file

Turn on your phone while holding the up key on the keyboard. This should boot up into a screen with just some text

Connect your phone to your computer

Start the SBF

Eventually RSDLite will tell you to manually power up your phone. Your phone should be in a boot loop at the Droid eye logo at this point

Disconnect your phone and pull the battery

Wait 30 seconds or so and put the battery back in. Turn on the phone while holding up on the keyboard

Connect the phone to your computer. RSDLite should say 'SUCCESS' at this point

Disconnect your phone and turn it off

Turn your phone back on while holding the 'X' key on the keyboard

When you get the Android dude with an exclamation point in a triangle push the search key (magnifying glass) on the keyboard

Select both 'Clear cache' and 'Clear data' on from the list. Clearing the data might take a minute or two so just sit tight

Reboot the phone. It might take a few minutes to boot back into stock Blur. You'll get the account setup screen when it's done
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
thanks for the fast reply. downloading the stuff right now and going to try in 30 minutes once the download is done. the sbf is VRZ_A955_2.3.20.zip right?
[Droid 2 General] Spitemare:
Yup. It should contain a file named VRZ_A955_2.3.20_1FF_01.sbf that's 434MB.
[Droid 2 General] jgc1986:
Just wondering, how would I sbf my Droid 2 on a MacBook. I just ditched Windows and got a new MacBook Pro and I am trying to figure it out. :)
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
I was trying to figure out the same thing but I just gave up so I am moving the files over to my 7 year old dell inspiron 6000 and hoping it will work!
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
flashing right now..... scared out of my wits.... plzzzz work.....

status: interface Ap-OS: flashing code group 39 executed: 27%

doing some crazy stuff.... this is pretty cool.
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
OMG dude your freaking awesome!!!! you just saved my phone!!!

thank you so much!

ljbaumer
[Droid 2 General] Spitemare:
No problem. :)
[Captivate General] bradleyG:
I was about to update some apps from the market when to my surprise, the market appeared to receive the New update with the carousel. To my understanding this version was just for devices running 2.2+? Anybody else have any ideas. Oh btw Im rrunning stock jh7

Sent from my captivate so excuse the spelling mistakes(:
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
I got the new Market update and I'm still on the stock 2.1. There goes that theory.:D
[Captivate General] wpnyc2009:
Same here. :) I'm on a rooted NookColor and I got the new market fine.
[Captivate General] bradleyG:
Well i guess its a little Christmas surprise :) if only it were a firmware update haha.

Sent from my captivate so excuse the spelling mistakes(:
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
I'd still like to know why I can't have my Market purchases billed to my AT$T account like I could with my Tilt 2.:mad:
[Captivate General] skippyg:
Because its not affiliated in any way to at&t. Its Google's app store. Kind of like how appworld, iTunes and the palm app stores operate.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Well, the Windows Marketplace is not affiliated with AT$T (it is run by Microsoft), but they were able to bill AT$T for my purchases through them. I would get an e-mail receipt from Microsoft and then the charge would appear on my AT$T bill. I'm sure Google could do the same if they wanted to.
[Captivate General] panflute:
Carosel

I wish they hadn't have done it. The carosel slows down my phone. In fact, it STOPS my phone while the products for the carosel are loading, as if we didn't have enough things causing lags.
[Captivate General] bradleyG:
Yes i noticed it is a bit slower too. However, i just installed the One click lag fix and did all that and the market is now extremely fast for some reason. all the images in the carousel pop up almost instantly. I have come to enjoy it now with the lag fix.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Just noticed that I can now choose to have purchases billed to my wireless account. I bought an app about 5 minutes ago and selected to bill to my AT$T account. The phone has since been saying "Authorizing purchase..." without any confirmation, but at least the choice is now there.:confused:
[Captivate General] zelendel:
Glad that you got the option you wanted. I am not sure about it my self as now ATT can add taxes to the app that is billed to them plus with the 15 min return on apps now, if att servers dont push it back within that time I see answering alot of why was I billed for these apps lol
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
I never paid any tax on purchases before, but that was on WinMo where the purchases went directly through Microsoft and were only billed to AT$T. I also liked having 24 hours to ask for a refund instead of just 15 minutes with Android. Oh well, can't have everything.;)
[Captivate General] jayrod88:
Are you on a stock ROM or custom ROM? I don't have this option yet. I am running auxura 2.5
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Stock ROM. You should see an AT$T logo in front of the credit card logos. If so, then the option is in the drop-down box.
[Captivate General] jayrod88:
I may have to flash to stock to see. Lets just say that my company may be buying my apps..... maybe.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
I presume carriers do not do this for free. They would be charging a percentage. This option of not having carrier bill in a reduces the overall price.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Like I said, AT$T never added anything to my purchases from Windows Marketplace and I expect they won't with Android Market. They have a vested interest in keeping us happy with our phones and if this little convenience helps with that, I'm sure they're glad to do it. Billing to the carrier account also denies the credit card company their 2.9% transaction fee.
[Captivate General] bradleyG:
I think what he meant is that they would take a percentage of whatever the app costs. So for example the app costed .99 then at&t would get .11 or something from that sale.

Sent from my captivate so excuse the spelling mistakes(:
[Captivate General] miniskin1488:
How did you get the carrier billing option??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Biofall:
Thanks, I linked this to someone

10char
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Savage001:
:( PLEASE HELP!! So I had loaded several ROMs (Axura's, Ginger clone, Nero v1/Beta). All seemed well till this afternoon. My phone had powered down by itself. I turned it back on and it was frozen at the boot screen. Thinking all I had to do is flash back to stock with Odin. Well being in the rush I was in I accidentally didn't uncheck the re-partition check box. I reflashed and now the phone is going into the recovery mode with an error in red.:confused:

This is the exact error I get in red:

E:Can't mount /devblock/stl10

(invalid argument)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA:

copy default media content failed.

Anyone have any suggestions? Please, please, please HELP!!

The last ROM I ran was Nero v1. I tried to nandorid recover to no success.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shreddintyres:
I had the same problem earlier, instead of using the JI6 tar file use the JFD stock tar file, it solved my problem easy enough. Just use the same 512.pit file and odin v1.7 and you should be in the clear. i cant post the tar file but here is a link to where you can download it : www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/T959UVJFD.tar and www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/s1_odin_20100512.rar

Hope this helps.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Savage001:
Wow! I've been trying to find that exact JFD.tar. I also figured that may be the thing I needed to get this up and running. Thanks for the help. I'll update if it works or not.

Rock'n the G1 till I either get this solved or get another Vibrant. :cool:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungVibrant:
ya same thing has happend to me, seems like you figured out the solutino. You need a tar file with the dbdata in it. JFD has it, but some others don't.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Savage001:
YES!!! Loading the stock JFD.tar worked. :D Talk about some stressful hours. I've been at this for 6 hours trying to get this figured out. Thanks for the help!!

I can put the G1 back in it's resting place. It was kind of wierd and neat at the some time having my G1 back in the swing of things.

Thanks again!!
[Fascinate General] revolt1:
i have dj05 on my phone which lag fix is the most stable and easiest to install through rom manager

thanks in advance
[Fascinate General] TheSonicEmerald:
nemesis2all has a couple of lagfix voodoo kernels in the development section.

Rockin' DJ05, Minimal Icognito, Clocked at 1.3Ghz
[Fascinate General] revolt1:
what about any in rom manager
[Fascinate General] TheSonicEmerald:
Jt has a voodoo5 kernel in his section in Rom Manager. I think its under DJ05 kernels.

Rockin' DJ05, Minimal Icognito, Clocked at 1.3Ghz
[Fascinate General] imnuts:
Just make sure it's a voodoo5 kernel and you'll be good. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheapusenet:
So i've bought a used captivate off ebay which came with ucji6 froyo on it. i've been reading wikis and threads for a week now, i just managed to get it rooted via adb.

i've seen people saying their devices got re-sim locked after flashing. i did not have this phone when it was 2.1, so i don't have the sim unlock code. I need to know what I can safely flash without resetting the simlock.

pointing me in the right direction would be really really helpful.

thanksguys.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

The program on this thread, odin, allows you to flash bank to 2.1. You can but flash anything from ji6 directly. Learn how to use odin, flash stock, then choose any rom available.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cerjam:
but will it retain sim unlock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
On stock you should be able to get the sim unlock code, thus flashing other roms you should be able to reuse it to unlock
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalex12:
I got simlock after such flashed. And unlock with help www communityhosting net/ sgsunlock/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Cygnes:
Hey guys,

Seems I need like 80mb of free space in order to install a 20mb file. Any work around for this? If my phone drops lower then 20mb everything goes to hell lol but if I have 40mb free then why cant I install a large file like this 20mb one? Boy-o-boy I sure need 2.2

Thanx,

-Cyg
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vladstercr:
Why dont you install CM6 or other 2.2 roms? Most of them work flawless!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Cygnes:
Ive got a Milestone so locked boot loader. Cant do anything like that as of yet. Its powerful weak.
[Vibrant Android Development] roguly:
Mod Edit: Linking to other forums in this manner is not allowed, and most definitely not when it requires registration to view anything.
[Vibrant Android Development] gozilar84:
wow~~just flashed the R1 today morning and now the R2 just arrived!!

what a busy day!!:D
[Vibrant Android Development] Shaul305:
whew. tell me about it LOL
[Vibrant Android Development] justlovejoy:
im waiting to hear more about battery life before I leave my settings made today. more than half my sdcard is roms.
[Vibrant Android Development] ProfeKarma:
Have spent hours tinkering with R1..
[Vibrant Android Development] androidcee123:
I too have this ROM, Final v.2, and it's really put to together!
[Vibrant Android Development] roguly:
how fast is it?
[Vibrant Android Development] cnote74:
The rom is awesome and blazing fast thanks eugene for this awesome rom
[Vibrant Android Development] big nazty:
im looking at the rar file and its a **** load of files wtf do i do with that ****
[Vibrant Android Development] texasrocket:
just put the folder on the internal sd card and flash through clockwork recovery. the whole folder don't move anything out of it.
[Vibrant Android Development] big nazty:
thank you i will try it never tried it that way with cm
[Vibrant Android Development] Poser:
Impressively quick...

1067 quadrant... but ROM feel snappy and responsive
[Vibrant Android Development] shovelhead83:
Me likey!
[Vibrant Android Development] caubecari:
Some problems that I had after flash from R1 to R2.

When in camcorder mode the brightness too dark compare to camera mode. The market sometime have problem with network and crash.

GPS it took to 2-3 minutes inside the house to find the signal. R1 is definite faster about 15 seconds. R2 is little bit lagger with Igo navigation maybe I have to Odin back.
[Vibrant Android Development] xgoochx:
This ROM friggin ROCKS!!!! Who need to worry about getting 2.2 or buying a Nexus S. Great work as always Eugene :D
[Vibrant Android Development] barch27:
How/from where do we get Swype on this ROM? I tried one posted by TGA Gunman elsewhere but that complains that Swpye is not configured for this device ...
[Vibrant Android Development] xgoochx:
I just did one and got a 1218
[Vibrant Android Development] rayvil30:
Is this rom already rooted on install? I want to be able to go back if not happy with it. Best to clear data and cache I hear.
[Vibrant Android Development] anthonys2r:
Yep, root installed.
[Vibrant Android Development] blanked:
Does this rom have the toggle buttons (like wifi and rotation) on the notification pulldown? R1 didn't for me but maybe I needed to go to stock before flashing...

Sent by carrier pigeon
[Vibrant Android Development] Smartassassin:
I don't know if you are supposed to do this, but my workaround to this is in bootmode. When I get this message, I scroll down to where is says toggle sig, I hit the power button to toggle it to allow. Then I go back to download zip. Find the rom to use and flash it direct from bootscreen. It will download then. Then reboot and works fine....at least for me it did. Hope that made sense
[Vibrant Android Development] Smartassassin:
Or do this.
[Vibrant Android Development] BoomBoomPOW:
Here's a video of the pinch to rotate feature in the Google maps 5 update..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI8YTQD4h10&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Edit, I tried to perform the pinch to.rotate but it didn't work =[

Gonna reinstall maps to try to fix it

[GC_R2 w/ JL4 Voodoo]
[Vibrant Android Development] bce461734:
Hello everyone.

I flush my phone last night with this rom version. Everything is working great. Except, one minor issue with the new map version that it kept uninstalled itself. Right after the installation, it works. However, after I rebooted my phone, the map app disappeared from the phone. Anyone have any ideas.

Thanks
[Vibrant Android Development] iynfynity:
great rom but my battery life is not good. i slept for like 7 hours from 85 now it's 75.
[Vibrant Android Development] bce461734:
Yeah, I agree, this animal shoveling the power like it never have lunch for so long lol
[Vibrant Android Development] dex1701:
It locks pretty quickly, but the accuracy isn't as good as it was on Ginger Clone Final for me. It was rock solid for me on GCF and on R2 I'm getting a lot of jumping around, spinning, and drifting at stop lights.

It also seems like the battery life isn't as good as GCF. I've only been unplugged for 2 hours, haven't used the phone much, and I'm down to 65% already.

Otherwise another awesome ROM! :)
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
Google Earth

If you are having issues with Google Earth Force Closing, can't update from the Market or getting graphical glitches, do the following:

rm /system/app/Earth.apk && rm /system/lib/libembeddedearth.so

Then download and install it from the Market. After that, open the app and hit: Menu -> Settings -> Clear data cache. Open and then restart Earth, all should be well. ;)
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
Just:

rm /system/app/Copy\ of\ Maps.apk && /system/app/Maps.apk

Then re-install it via the Market. ;)
[Vibrant Android Development] benedict77:
Anyone?:confused:
[Vibrant Android Development] iynfynity:
i updated my maps from the market which is the version 5. now i can rotate it and much smoother.
[Vibrant Android Development] jmatic:
I don't think you need to disable voodoo when you ODIN... I'm not fully sure though. Somebody confirm?
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
No, as long he selects the option to reformat. ;)
[Vibrant Android Development] ProfeKarma:
I just lost the Music Player app that came with this rom. How can I re-install it?
[Vibrant Android Development] benedict77:
Do you mean by ticking on re-partition option in ODIN?
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
Yes, make sure to use the 512pit. :cool:
[Vibrant Android Development] BoomBoomPOW:
This in turn will reformat/erase the internal storage?

In the past, I've Odin back to stock JFD from a previous voodoo kernel lagfix enabled rom and never checked on re-partition. Everything is still A-Okay! =]

[GC_R2 w/ JL4 Voodoo]
[Vibrant Android Development] benedict77:
Cool..I will give a shot to try voodoo for the 1st time. Wish me luck :p

Thanks mate.
[Vibrant Android Development] benedict77:
Whoopss...I'm now back to confuse MODE...:D
[Vibrant Android Development] BoomBoomPOW:
Lol sorry for confusing you! =X

I've done Odin without re-partition on countless times and never encountered a problem, even coming from a voodoo enabled rom. =D

Do what your heart tells you..follow your <3 lol [no homogenize]

[GC_R2 w/ JL4 Voodoo]
[Vibrant Android Development] steelefriese:
I need help with this too

My computer wont acknowledge that my phone is plugged into the computer, and yes its mounted
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
Read... :)
[Vibrant Android Development] benedict77:
Follow my heart...uumm well...that's a new method.. the problem is I never fully trust what my heart say..lol..

Thanks mate.. wish me luck.:D