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[G2 and Desire Z General] victorinoxs:
honestly, it's not good either...it's almost like it's taken by a blackberry...:( probably even worse than the Torch. The camera quality is not even remotely close to the old Nexus One...
[G2 and Desire Z General] RavenFB:
Funny, but I've noticed that tweaking the custom settings in CM6.1.1 camera app has resulted in silky-smooth results for me. Low-level conditions are still a little iffy, but you can make some adjustments to offset it. I especially like that the focal point in video mode can be adressed to any place within the frame with the Touch Focus feature.

HTC Vision/T-Mobile G2 w/Cyanogenmod 6.1.1&G2 Fast kernel.
[G2 and Desire Z General] lthnnpwr:
So, that indeed is worth trying -- installing CM, and playing around with the cam.

Can't wait to do it -- will just have to wait till they crack 1.72 for root.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Crey23:
So raven what adjustments did you make? I am rnning 6.1. 1 with pershoots kernel (your's is Flippy's right?) And i did see an improvement, but nothing worth writing home about.

I also am a father of a 15 month baby, and sadly feel that my BB8900 took much better pics (quicker too) and better vids. I was really disappointed with the quality, lag, and blurriness of the G2's cams... htc really cheapped out on his one.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TL24:
I'm with you Crey... I came from a BB9700 and even though the video wasn't 720p it was still pretty good and recorded just fine at low lighting. The pictures turned out great too on the BB9700 - it basically goes to show everyone AGAIN that megapixels don't mean ****.

I really hope it's a software issue because that's the reason why we buy the newest phone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] moolash:
720p recording

Folks, I do not get you.

I am amazed by the video quality. I came from a HTC Kaiser, a Touch Pro 2, earlier a SE P990i, etc etc, I never had a phone recording in 720p. This phone just kicks ass!

It is a phone, guys, not a camcorder. The iPhone4 might be the best at night shooting, I just do not give a **** about iOS. You shouldn't be complaining, especially coming from BB's.

Ohh, I am from Europe, I have the new 1.72 firmware. This might be different, I might upload some sample videos.

If there's light, there good quality, if not, you'll never get it right. The sample linked in taken of that bridge is at night, all right, but it is a well lit object and it is shot with almost not moving the cam, do not believe the hype!
[G2 and Desire Z General] TL24:
I think you're not understanding the point here, we paid good money for what we thought was a decent phone (which it is besides the camera). When you advertise a phone and say "720p @ 30fps" then we expect the video's to be at 720p @ 30fps not 720p @ 30fps in good lighting conditions and 720p @ 10fps at low light conditions.

Yeah we clearly get the point that this is a phone and not a camcorder, but with today's technology you CAN and SHOULD be able to get great 720p videos on demand - just look at the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy S line.

Also who the hell carries a camcorder with them everywhere they go? Isn't that the whole point behind having a do-it-all phone? So that you can talk, text, take pictures & videos of precious moments if & when they happen?

HTC half-assed with this one and I'm pretty disappointed - I'm sure a lot of you agree with me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tvdang7:
but take one with slightly moving subject. no good.
[G2 and Desire Z General] moolash:
720p videos

Yep, I get you, too, buddy. I always dreamed of the same thing, like capture any moment when it happens. I always have my phone with me, (cause I am a geek and a PDA guy anyway) so why not have a good camera built in rather than carry a phone, a GPS, a camera and ****.

What I am trying to point out, that this one has a DECENT camera, I guess. It captures crisp clear, faces are recognizable, not like in old times. Considering it is a phone, doing a whole lot of other things, so not being a camera, it is making even more decent vids. For me!

In bad light conditions, you cannot make good pictures even with a non-professional camera(!), say a camera for 3rd the price of this phone.

Here's a video for you, with the European Desire Z with the 1.72 firmware, for those who don't have it.

I HAVE TO point out, this wasn't shot for this test, I just digged up some of my few videos. I have the phone since Xmas.

It even proves the opposite of what I am saying, you can see the brightness/contrast adjustments by the lens as I turn and the light direction changes.

I like the quality of this, whatever you think. But I welcome the argument :D:D

http://vimeo.com/18541631
[G2 and Desire Z General] moolash:
720p sample

Here's another one, shot earlier (than my other sample above).

This is in sunnier weather, sunny winter I could say.

It is very short, sorry.

http://vimeo.com/18542486
[G2 and Desire Z General] RavenFB:
I played around with the saturation and exposure settings, and changed the "white mode" out of automatic to cloudy. I've played around with it some more, and it seems in low light, ANY white mode other than Automatic improves framerate.

EDIT: yes, I am using Flippy's Kernel.

HTC Vision/T-Mobile G2 w/Cyanogenmod 6.1.1&G2 Fast kernel.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damonkashu:
I put some new sounds via bluetooth into my media folder on my internal SD. However the system does not seem to recognize them, is there a way to rescan or remount the internal SD without having to plug it into a computer?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barch27:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bero-sdrescan-jBBB.aspx
[Nexus S General] debro012:
For those who are complaing, because they still can not convince themseleves to keep a phone they spent $587 on; you should have thought about that before buying. if you could not afford it, you should have left it there for someone else to purchase. But stop filling this section with complaints, and waiting for others to to agree with you, so you can build up enough reasons to take it back... i must say, i really enjoy mine. I came from a G1, and THIS is the perfect upgrade for me. True, those coming from the N1 may feel as if it was not a significant offering to require them to move to the NS, but there is absolutley no reason to strike up a new thread everytime you think about the ratio of how much money you spent to the upgrades you are getting. #nogorillaglass... #volumekeyloose... WTF?
[Nexus S General] onthecouchagain:
I'm not understanding this call for people to stop voicing their complaints and opinions about their purchases (or about anything, in general). No one is telling people who like it to "stop praising it." Isn't this an open forum to share and discuss our interests in mobile technology, including both negative and positive opinions?

I, for one, find feedback from both points of views valuable in helping my Nexus S decision.
[Nexus S General] Slapinfunk:
I said this at the time the Nexus ONE came out...

I am glad to pay $600 for a phone... Hell, I used to pay $900-$1200 for unlocked HTC phones before android...
[Nexus S General] ll_l_x_l_ll:
its a good phone. no one said otherwise. BUT. if you have anything from Galaxy S, EVO, Desire HD, hell. even the Nexus 1 or Desire. then its not worth the upgrade.

they all can run the same thing. its just a lil bit faster u cant amost notice it.

and honestly. i think the Desire HD is a much better phone - the front facing camera. next gen prcoessor and more than 250M Ram more. " which is where it should matters, Ram. since i can run many apps without getting low on me"

a 4.3 screen with high DPI and nice aluminum body > plastic body and 4.0 screen. you can argue if you want if you like the super amoled screen. but i hate the pinkish tint most of the phones has, or the pattern grid you see in dark gray colors in low brightness.
[Nexus S General] debro012:
Right now its to the point there is more negative than positive feedback, and the negative feedback is over petty things, or things that people knew the phone lacked BEFORE they purchased. Im not saying they should not have an opinion, but damn, every thread is a complaint. Like i said, its like people are doing it in order to justify spending $600 or not spending $600... you not liking your phone should not be determined by the number of people who also agree with your negative findings.
[Nexus S General] ztm.000:
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AGREED

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] ikon8:
I picked mine up earlier today and have been playing with it for the last 2 hours and all I can say is WOW, I came from a nexus1 and the super amoled screen on this phone blows the n1s screen away, I honestly didn't think it'd be that big of a difference, 4" vs 3.7" is the perfect size I think 4.3" is too big. Also I just finished setting up noled and this app is ****in awesome, I'll have to wait and see how it affects battery life but it makes me completely forget about having a notification led. Overall I am very pleased with this phone, especially the screen, it's goddamn amazing, I love how the blacks just blend in with the bezel and you can't tell where the screen begins or ends.
[Nexus S General] ikon8:
For you, coming from a G1, this is a gigantic leap in performance and screen quality. I'm coming from an N1 running cm6.1-nightlies oc'd and I'm still very happy with the NS, I can't wait for the custom roms and oc'ing to come.
[Nexus S General] debro012:
At least you are happy. And im sure it didnt take you creating a thread to see how many other people were complaining before you were satisfied with your device.
[Nexus S General] DKYang:
There is a difference between voicing an opinion and going into every topic voicing the same damn opinion. When people start going into different topics and whine about the same thing, it gets very annoying (especially when it has been mentioned a million times when the specs were first released) and that's when opinions become whiners or complainers. I'm fine if a person keeps complaining in one or couple topics, but going into every single topic to complain about this or that is not cool. Especially when the person doesn't even have the device.

There are only a couple of topics where I can read through a topic without reading about a person whining because it's Samsung or whatever their reason is. It's just becoming annoying. More annoying than the Vibrant or myTouch4G forums when those devices first launched (and I thought those were bad, especially the Vibrant forum).
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
Doesn't this argument go the other way too? What I mean is if there's an abnormally high general trend of people upset about the nexus s for this or that, doesn't that mean there's some truth behind it and Samsung or Google perhaps failed a little on certain things? I'm just saying its not like people want to be disappointed, they want to be the opposite! Do other phones get the same treatment? I don't think quite as bad as we've seen with the S. So perhaps there's a bit of truth in something if you see enough people feeling the same way. Just saying...
[Nexus S General] D_Rob:
Long story short, I agree. This phone is great and battery life is amazing. I thought my G2 was great but WOW. It is what it is, some will like it some wont, but I don't understand why someone would post just to down the device, thats not voicing your opinion, its just *****ing. You don't like it, don't buy it. You don't want it, take it back. But don't make a thread just to bleed all over the forum. I can understand if your pissed at something that isn't working out for you, but obvious, never said it had it things are just pointless. If your on this forum you should damn sure know what Google is so Google it before your purchase. If not it wont be long before somebody's mad at this phone because they cant find Safari or figure out how to set up live tiles.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
ATT sync is OFF.

Google Sync is ON.

I sign into Google, go to Google Contacts... nothing.

I flash a new rom, I sign into my account on my phone - all my contacts are there. With their painstakingly-manually assigned photos.

Are my contacts being saved in some dark sector of my phone? Are they hidden on some Google Sever? Where can I find them?!
[Captivate General] Yuna:
You might not looking goot at Google contacts ;) look carefuly
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
I type "Google Contacts" into Google, and click on the first link. Where should I be looking?
[Captivate General] Yuna:
go to Gmail, and on left check Contacts...

Maybe your error is that you search for something not being logged in into gmail, or another account?
[Captivate General] matthewvl:
If you are using any 2.1 rom then any contact appears on your phone when you sign into google... not Just 'my contacts' or any other group, so check the all contacts tab or whatever it's called. Every contact in your gmail account will appear, even your Craigslist adult services email addresses that you love to send to (the local police know about you). I would venture to say that 99% this is a Google issue and not a phone issue as there is no way your phone pulls these out of the blue. Also if its that much of a problem, hit the menu button in the contacts list and then go to display or settings (can't remember what) and unselect Google contacts.
[Captivate General] JeremyE77:
COuld be on the SIM card. :)
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
Well my phone's OS is totally busted, so I guess we'll find out the hard way :P
[Captivate General] diablo009:
Use titanium backup and backup something called "contacts storage" (not the contacts app) and take a backup of it. This is the place where phone contacts are copied to, no matter where else they might be backed up the system. This has been a life saver for me many times, even today.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
Looks like I'll have to get Titanium Backup when I get my rom flashed, as Google didn't save my contacts anywhere. Time to redownload all my pictures... *sigh*
[Captivate General] imeraz:
Did you go to mail.google.com and sign in?
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
Yes I did. They weren't saved on there before, and now that my phone had some issue and I reflashed it back to stock and logged back into my account, there are no contacts either.
[Captivate General] imeraz:
When you add a new contact does it ask you where you want to save the contact to? choices would be phone, SIM or google.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
I copied all my contacts over from SIM. I figured it would then put then onto my Google Contacts, but I guess I was wrong. It's not a big deal.
[Captivate General] imeraz:
Hmmm...strange, would think it would have too. Sorry I couldn't help out.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
It's too late for anyone to help anyway. It's not a problem. It could have been a Perception issue?
[Captivate General] bwolmarans:
turn google sync on

yes, that one, the one under sync thingy setting somewhere on your phone, that you have turned off I bet. Let it sync like a crazy wild ass Then check in Gmail contacts on the left and voila. Wizard Magic of the totally not evil google.

Basically, never turn the google sync off, or your'e f-d on contacts and it seems a few other things too.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
I had Google Sync on since day one and it never did anything. I even turned it on and off to force the issue.

I have my new flash, and all my contact photos deleted. I have reupped a few of them, and nothing in my Google Contacts yet either. Do I need to "star" them in Android?
[Captivate General] wretchedlocket:
Going forward, when you create a new contact and it asks where you want it saved, choose Google. This will automatically save the contact to your Gmail account. When you flash your again and sign in after flashing, your contacts will be there
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
I like my accounts saved to my SIM card in case anything happens. I would also like them saved to Google as a redundant backup. Why is this not possible?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] debo65:
After i turn the phone off. Why cant i get android to come back up . I have to remove all the files from SD card and recopy all the android file back to SD card to get it to start back up any suggestions to get android back up with out having to remove files
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] s-danny:
I have the same problem.

I have the 3.14.404 rom. And I have tried the 3.14.531.

After multiple formats further now I still cannot boot after the second boot.

The first restart works and then I can use the applications. After that its over

Reboot or taking the batteries out is EXIT

The 3.14 rom is clean (after hard reset and a clean install) immediatly boot to froyo 2.2. The screen hangs at the boot logo (green HTC letters)
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eunkipark92:
can someone make like google status bar and and setting menus of gingerbread?

been trying for hours but keep having some problems.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eunkipark92:
i am in progress of editing the gingerbread theme for mytouch 4g users.

the the3dman man is helping me out alot.

all i need to do is the change the system font color.

like when in the home screen when u click menubutton six box box pops up at the bottom?

it needs to be changed to white.

the3rdman told me i have to change the setting in styles.xml but i cant seem to find it

does anyone knows where its located? or is it called diffterent for mytouch 4g
[Vibrant General] boodies:
They are getting the video ready as we speak woot ^_^

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=877800
[Vibrant General] Bernardos70:
D'oh, I didn't search and I ended up posting another thread about it. Sucks. Hopefully they'll see yors came earlier and delete/merge mine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdp07d:
Hello Everybody!

I'm sure this has been covered but I haven't found a tutorial or guide for the samsung captivate. I had ACL surgery today and I've decided i have the time to invest in creating a rom based on the things I like from other roms. Where do I start this process? Can i just mix files from within the .zips from other roms? or is there a file that tells the rom which files to install/access?

I've really enjoyed a lot of the ROM's that I have been flashing on my phone but I keep running into the same problem on all of them except one. Text messages occasionally go to the wrong person...and this is scary and unacceptable for me.

Some links to other threads or websites would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokhentix:
Well, rom cooking is pretty easy.

As long as you know that component x is compatible with rom y, all you need to do is open the ROM in winrar/7z and drop the new file in, replacing the old one. No reason to unpack / repack. The only thing that can be a problem is the update-script, which resides in META-INF/com/google/android. It's a script that tells the phone "this is what you're doing with all of the stuff in this zip", if you modify a ROM like Axura or Perception, the update-script shouldn't need to be changed.

If you DO want to unpack and repack it, that's fine. Make sure you don't compress them into a sub directory (Update.zip > update > updates/system/meta-inf). Compress the updates/system/meta-inf/data whatever into it's own folder named whatever.zip, then sign the .zip via SignApk;

java -jar Signapk.jar certification.pem key.pk8 update.zip updatesigned.zip

Then flash it with CWM. Be aware however that in order for kernels(zImage) and modems(Modem.bin) and SBL(secondary boot loader) to be installed via CWM, the redband_ua exploit must be present in the updates folder; and the necessary commands for red_band must be present in the update-script.
[Captivate General] Soulweaver:
My google maps keeps saying checking navigation availability. Anyone know how to fix it.
[Captivate General] Yuna:
+1 same issue
[Captivate General] Soulweaver:
anyone? ................
[Captivate General] dq13:
my google maps works, this only happens on my google navigation GPS thing
[Captivate General] Dani897:
did you clear app data>uninstall>reinstall?

i dont care for google nav any way, it seem problematic on the captivate. a few times it worked perfectly and other times it causes the gps to crash on some roms. on others the positioning becomes eratic one trip not the next. the most stable my gps has been on a nav program is with navdroyd.
[Captivate General] nappent:
I was noticing the same problem when Google maps did a recent update. Try going into the market place and uninstall the update. If that doesn't work try upgrading to a 2.2.1 rom like Preception or Darky's. When I went from a 2.2 to a 2.2.1 it seemed to fix the problem.
[Captivate General] psloan:
I was having this problem with navigation. It stopped after I went into places and did a navigate from there. After that I could go into navigation without the issue.
[Captivate General] ZeroG1:
I also did something similar to this. Instead of Places, i picked a random location from within Google Maps (long press) and then chose to navigate to it. Worked fine after that.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mmeyer4663:
Novice Android user here.

Very interesting. Just got a notification for an OTA update on my T-Mobile US HD2 running Froyo 3.2.

I selected to download the upgrade, which the phone did.

A screen then popped up asking if I wanted to install the system SW update. Upgrade version showing on the screen is 2.29.205.2 (28.87 MB).

Tried to select "Install now" but phone just reboots and ends up in the same place.

And will never complete, darnit!

Here is the filename of the upgrade file that was downloaded to the micro SD card.

OTA_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.2-2.10.405.2_R_P_release8gn61bgo3rswcw24.zip

Is this something useful or old news?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dogntbone:
3.2?? hmmm, idk man, probably was not supposed to happen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] motoman234:
It's old. I have heard people talking about this from Darkstones build. I don't think it's even possible to upgrade anyways.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] marbed40:
the same but different Froyo build. When tap instal phone reboot and of course load winmo (energy) when run android & situation repeat and loops. So I did ignore this update that's it.
[HD2 Accessories] unixass:
is anywhere to buy a EB case for oem eb ?y know mugen power has just for their extended battery case .
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnoopDawg:
I started this quest to migrate just the mms.apk from the EPIC.

I tried yanking the mms.apk from /system/apps/mms.apk

Tried signing it and it still wouldn't install, when doing a logcat, there was a cert error. I used zipsign, got past that.

[C:\getsome]adb install mms-signed.apk
1564 KB/s (1523846 bytes in 0.951s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/mms-signed.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY]

Should I look in AndroidManifest.xml or another file to located the shared library?

Just to guide some of the conversations.

I am not interested in using handcent or chompsms.

This is an event to get a better understanding of the whole Android OS

My eventual destination will be for tweaking ROMs and fine tuning them

Not afraid of the command line, know cmd shell and bash

Can read code if needed
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuggyunlimited:
I'll be watching this thread. I would love to see it on the evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freeza:
Have you tried looking in /system/lib or system/framework of the Epic 4G to see if there are any libraries that might be attached to Mms.apk?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuggyunlimited:
Any progress?