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[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArchosGamer:
While it has built in GPS it doesn't have quite a few things that the Archos 70 and 101 have.

The 70 and 101 have capacitive screens while the Huawei is the less versatile resistive screen.

The Archos Gen8's have hdmi out while the Huawei does not.

The Archos have internal storage (8g and 16g) and supports SD cards up to 32gb, but the Huawei lacks internal storage and is limited to 16gb sd cards.

The Gen 8's are running Android 2.2 (which has JIT and flash support) while the Huawei is stuck running 2.1

The Gen 8's support many video formats that the Huawei does not.

There are additional advantages to the Archo's Gen8's over the Huawei, but for most people the list above is enough to see that the Huawei is lacking in quite a few areas.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeadpoolSA:
I bought the Archos 101 mostly for the things you want them for. Reading comics and PDFs with some web browsing and simple document work. Repligo works fine for PDF, though I prefer EZPDF Reader. Has a better interface. Quality is good, full size and res. ACV works really great for comics and is free. Reading in landscape or portrait is a snap. Scrolling is smooth as is page transitions.

I had an iPad before and reading comics and PDFs was definitely not as convenient as it was with the 101. The widescreen is more conducive to reading I found and the device is actually a bit lighter as well.

And if you care, the video capabilities of the Archos blow the iPad out of the water. I'm not sorry about returning my iPad at all.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercantigo:
Thank you for the quick reply, guys.

(and sorry for the wrong forum ;) )

Well, I can't test an Archos on the store, since I live in Brazil, and they don't sell it on the stores yet. :( My brother will gonna bring me a tablet in January, so, that's why i'm asking some simple questions.

I believe that Archos will be my better - and cheaper - choice. I'm little afraid about the comic resizing (since here, in Brazil, comic formats are different from the USA. They're most like 4:3 aspect ratio).

Last two questions:

About magazines (like MAD Magazine :D ), mostly then are readable at full screen?

And, most important... Does Repligo or EZPDF (or any pdf reader) have the "lock scrolling" feature, like GoodReader for iPhone? Let me clarify: if I use lock scrolling, It's not posible to make horizontal scroll, only vertical. It's useful for pdfs that have big and uniform margins.

Tks again!
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faldiin:
Sorry about the P.S. Part. It was not meant as a flame. I was saying that so we could get more comments for you. There is always a different opinion depending on what each uses the device for.

Like for me, I find no use in the HDMI out. I don't use it and you need a special cable. 16GB of storage, Well I never use the 8 I have in mine. Since all my stuff is compressed and on my 16gb stick. I am happy. So each has the plus and minus for what you use it for. I read the Newspaper on mine with the App. I have not tried Magazines. I would love to thou. I need to look in that. I like reading books on mine but the software buttons get int eh way of my reader. This is the down fall of the way the device was made. I still like mine thou.

Faldiin

P.S. Have your brother check it for errors before coming down. I got mine with dead pixels out of the box. Waiting to get mine back from the shop. Shipping from Brazil is probably not cheap.
[Droid X General] jdub200:
I'm new to this stuff just rooted my droid X and now I'm get a pop-up saying to update to 2.3.340 should I do this? I've just been hitting install later. Will this mess up my root? Is there a way to disable OTA messages and just update my rooted droid manually?

Thanks For The Help!!!
[Droid X General] zwade01:
If you're already rooted you can do it manually multiple ways (search the forum). Also, if you accept it you can reroot with z4root app.
[Droid X General] jdub200:
Thanks for your help. Install and Reroot worked great.

:D Cheers!!!
[Droid X General] Ryan456789:
Z4 worked for u? Awesome! It didn't on my droid1 after the recent update.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] zcz9g1:
Just got an Optimus one from Orange and I've noticed the GPS cant get a lock indoors. My old Nokia was able to do this so I'm just wondering if I have a faulty unit with a weak GPS antenna. Anyone else with a Optimus One able to get a GPS lock indoors.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] zorxd:
Indoor GPS lock means nothing.

Does it works well outside? Is it precise? That's what you should be looking for.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] zcz9g1:
It does work outside. It's just a lot of phones I've used recently have been able to get a lock indoors so I'm wondering if the GPS in my unit is faulty. Anyone with an Optimus one care to comment?

Cheers.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mr_ace_sk:
... i have experience with lot of gps receivers (over 100 :D ) , & my opinion is, that optimus one has one of the best gps (fast, precision...) ;) much better than nokia, mio etc....
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mihnea90210:
Same here ;) I agree with you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramdom:
[Q] Problems with clockworkmod -> white screen -> can't reflash recovery with AmonRa!

I rooted with the boss edition and it was all working fine, with Fresh ROM and I presume the default AmonRa recovery that comes with it. Anyways, I installed ROMupdater to to try to see what other ROMs I could try and then it said I should flash clockworkmod recovery and I did (mistake), then I got the white screen after this. I can still access stuff through adb but the sdcard isn't mounted when it is stuck and if I boot in recovery, i'm not sure what the adb commands are safe to ensure a new recovery is put in place (i.e., back to AmonRa which is what I am sure I had before).

Anyways, I do believe I have all my nandroid recoveries with Titanium backups, so I could wipe and reinstall but I as wondering if there was an easier way. The flash_image gives me the error of:

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x001c0000

[many times]

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x001e0000

error writing recovery: No space left on device

I have the ~# prompt, but can't su:

/sbin/sh: su: not found

I still have S-OFF.

Also, for my RSA keys, I have this (the begin RSA line is missing):

RSA-REQUEST

RSA-REPLY

RSA-REJECT

RSA-ACK

RSA-REQUEST

RSA-REPLY

RSA-REJECT

RSA-ACK

RSA-1024

RSA

ReRSA

RSA requests

RSA replies

-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

~ #

Thanks for your help!

--Ram
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sm0kinace:
i'm not sure how much this will help you, but try "sudo" instead of "su". "sudo su" might give you su permissions for the entire session.

this post also mentions something about a white screen

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=644781
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroneeyedboh:
what hboot do you have? if its 2.02 or 2.10 then you're kinda screwed. YOu cannot flash any new roms and your 4g is gone. In the savior method of rooting ( its under the dev part here ) he states that eh clockwork is not ready for these versions of hboot. They partitions are off or something. And what it does it kill your ability to flash roms and kills your 4g.

And yeah your RSA keys are messed up too I believe because it should say start and end or something like that.. run this too so you can check your MAC

Now run this

adb shell

wimax_mtd

Then scroll up and make sure everything says pass etc etc, nothing bad like fails and all. Also make sure the numbers add up too.

then run this after the above command is done and you checked it

ls /data/misc/wimax/

You should get numbers.tree.xml

then that means your 4G XML files is still good too. Then match those numbers with the numbers on the back of your phone under WiMAX.

Also what was your problem again with the phone?
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
My Cappy starts with about 165mb of free RAM, but it quickly goes away as I use apps. I have Task Killer installed and set to kill apps every 30 minutes, but once I get down to about 90mb of RAM it is impossible to get anywhere near what I boot with free. I'm used to memory leakage on my WinMo phones, but this is way worse. I had CleanRAM on my Tilt 2 (from XDA) and it worked pretty good and allows scheduling. Is there a similar app for Android?
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
I'd get rid of Task Killer, you don't need it.
[Captivate General] Pirateghost:
its not leaking memory...it handles memory differently than windows of yore....stop fretting about how much memory you have available and just reboot your phone once every few days....thats not needed, but if it makes you feel better to look at useless numbers...
[Captivate General] nybmx:
Yeah you need to stop looking at this as either a windows pc or an old device (think g1). Get rid of the task killer and never look at how much free ram you have again. Its not important at all. I've had this phone for months and I literally have no idea how much ram it uses on average because I have never checked or cared. My phone has been running smooth since day one. Yours will too.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Available RAM is a useless number? Having unused apps continue to run in the background is nothing to worry about?

Does anyone have anything usefull to respond with?
[Captivate General] diablo009:
If you look at Window 7, there is a concept called pre-fetch. This allows the OS to load the programs into memory based on past usage, and frequency of usage. This lets us open the program much faster, than fetch when requested. This info is loaded to memory, and kept there, until some other program comes in that needs more memory.

And just 'cos a program is present in RAM doesn't mean it would use CPU.

And, based on my observation of android, I see that I have close to 180 MB free when the phone boots up. But this quickly reduces to around 120-150 in less than an hour based on what I use. After like a day this I see that free RAM is about 80-120 MB. And even after 3-4 days of no reboots, the free memory is still present at the same 80-120 levels. I am not sure what kind of memory management android uses, but its very effective, and never caused any noticeable lag in the system.

And, I do not use any task killers, not free up RAM in task manager.
[Captivate General] matthewvl:
Your concerns are flawed in the fact that the Linux kernel handles memory different than what you are used to. Simply speaking, Linux keeps memory used by applications on need to basis. It keeps it loaded until something else needs to use it. It will take from something else at the required time. A system actually performs faster when there is less memory available because that means that applications are able to be recalled quicker. It's not like it can only load from what is left available.

You will also notice that many applications take up memory but are using 0 CPU. This speaks to the fact that it simply loaded into memory and not taking up resources required for other operations.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Lot to learn about this Android, I see. So, why are there so many task killers on Market and other RAM-related programs if it is not important? Should I really not be concerned when I see a program I hardly use being shown as running on startup?
[Captivate General] diablo009:
When I got my android phone, the first thing I did was put up things like task killer, start up auditor, etc. But as weeks passed, I realized these were more of deteriorating performance, than improve it. So got rid of them. Android can handle itself.
[Captivate General] jaju123:
Autokiller optimises memory by changing values in android rather than kills apps. I reccomemd it, definately makes the phone faster. Set it to agressive.
[Captivate General] nybmx:
It started with the combination of old versions of android (think cupcake and doughnut) and phones like the G1. Older versions didn't handle ram as well as they do in eclair and up. If you combine this with the fact that those older phones had less ram, and likely didn't use any gpu acceleration (unsure of this though), then task killers and other programs were considered necessary to get a fluid feeling experience.

They are still in the market now for 2 reasons.

1. Because some people still have those old phones and still run old versions of android. (less likely)

2. Habit. If people are used to using them and tell others they are necessary because they've always worked, why would a developer pull his money making app from the market? (much more likely)
[Captivate General] matt310:
So when Pandora or Grooveshark freeze, which happens all the time, and leaves my phone utterly useless until they're done doing whatever it is they're doing, how is using a task killer to...kill the process...not useful? It's much faster than rebooting the phone. I also think it's much faster than going into each application's individual settings to use the 'force stop' command. Is there a different way to kill a stuck app other than these methods?
[Captivate General] jsmith8858:
Along with what everyone else said, remember that a memory leak is a LEAK, something that is continuously draining, not a one-time thing. So, if memory goes to 80MB free and holds, that's not a leak, that's simply memory that is being used. If free memory drops to 75, then 60, then 55, 50, 45, and so on, then you have a true leak to worry about.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Well, what we Windows Mobile users often also refer to as leaks is the bad habit of some apps to not release their memory when closed. For instance, a program that carves out 25mb of RAM when started and returns less then half of that when closed.
[Captivate General] YoungGun821:
Anyone else know much about "Autokiller"?
[Captivate General] bradleyG:
i used to use a task killer with my G1, and continued to do so with my captivate but i saw a few things like this: http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/ and decided to get rid of my task killers and my phone seemed actually a little faster and seemed my battery life increased.
[Captivate General] nybmx:
It is useful in those situations but realistically when people give that argument they are just looking for a reason to keep it. Android has the ability to kill tasks built in. If you're on 2.1 then yeah it's buried deeper in the menu but not a big deal. I can't imagine an app freezing enough to warrant having a task killer for. If you're on 2.2 it's much more easily accessible.

When we talk about task killers we're talking about people using them to kill open tasks that aren't causing issues simply to see more free ram available.
[Fascinate General] Amberlina:
I had to get a replacement because the vibration conked out on my fascinate (not due to a DI01/DJ05 mixup). It's just dying a not so peaceful death. Anywho, I've got the stock nandroid flashed and I'm back on stock kernel, but I want to remove the superuser apk so that I don't have any traces of root when I send it back. All of the threads in the sticky take you back to stock WITH root. I have a Mac without boot camp, but I'm going to use a friends computer this evening to work on this, so I've got one shot to make sure I do this right and git 'er done.

I'm familiar with adb, so I tried using some instructions on Android Forums Fascinate ADB or SU Terminal Unroot Method, but no dice. When I hit the line saying "rm /sdcard/Superuser.apk" it errors out because superuser is in the system not the sdcard. Any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated, as i've got to send the replacement back tomorrow.
[Fascinate General] cseeley:
Their is a DI01 image over in the Development thread that will get you to stock without root. Flash it with Odin, and you will be all set.

Thanks,

Chris
[Fascinate General] Amberlina:
Awesome, just found the thread. They really need to sticky that with the rest! Hopefully I should be golden by tonight.
[Android Software Development] Nilxchaos:
Is it possible to have more than a single instance of one application?

I want to have two audiogalaxy applications on my phone, one hooked to my account, one to my fathers.

I imagine it would have to include some apk editing, which I have tried to no avail.

Also, a random but slightly related question, where are the apk files used by the phone stored? /sys/ ?
[Android Software Development] Nilxchaos:
Realized this us the wrong forum, just wasn't sure, since there isn't a Q/A section.

REQUEST: MOVE TO GENERAL
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] vrah:
It's been over 2,5 years now since I bought my TyTN II and been using it all this time without problems. But few days ago, my messaging app - tmail.exe - suddenly started to drastically slow down (for example: showing or deleting a message takes ~30 seconds, sending takes even more time).

Interesting thing is, that after deleting a few messages it started working normally. Received another messages, and slowing down returned. Also deleting e-mail accounts I've had configured helped for a while.

tmail.exe seems to be using 90+% of CPU during any task. There's lots of free memory, since no other app is open.

I did not install any new software for months now. Messaging app database is in the phone memory, not storage card.

Been googling and reading posts for hours now, but couldn't find any solid answer. Any suggestions (preferably other than doing a hard reset)?

Thanks in advance.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Hakim Rahman:
should try to install the application that can clean up the files that are temporary in your device ... among other applications, such as the Clean Ram, Oxios memory and so forth. make sure your device have installed the NET CF to be always support to all applications and performance your device...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] vrah:
Installed Oxios Memory and launched it, result:

49248 KB free (before)

49864 KB free (after)

__________________

616 KB released

It confirms what I've said - lots of free memory.

Well, tmail.exe is native to WM, so should work properly with preinstalled NET CF. Either way - according to cgacutil I've had installed version 2.0.7045.0 before, now i have both it and 3.5.7283.0.

All in all, I didn't notice any change, but thanks anyway. Any other ideas?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Hakim Rahman:
alright ...!!! try to reduce the cache on the display screen, If you delete the cache, it will alleviate the working memory system. Well .. to clear the cache when the internet, you can go to internet option and clear the cache. Meanwhile, when the cache is related to the screen, then you can delete it through the registry editor. How, entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ GDI \ GLYPHCACHE .-> Change the value limit of 8192 (default) to 16384 or 32768.8. you can use a registry cleaner and SpeedBooster maybe this can help
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] vrah:
Changed to 32768 and restarted the device. Unfortunately it didn't fix the problem.

I think its more of an issue of tmail itself. I've kept googling on that and found a post stating, that when number of stored messages hits some threshold - it starts to slow down. Still, even if it is true (is it?), then I wonder why it does slow down so rapidly - from normal work to extreme slowness. For example yesterday deleting ~15 SMS took my phone approx. 2 hours (doh!).

Perhaps there is some kind of indexing service on all messages that is the reason behind this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Hakim Rahman:
if so !! try to uninstall tmail.exe and use Flexmail :D:D thus the performance of your device is not struggling anymore
[Windows Phone 7 General] silvertonesx24:
Does anyone have multiple HD7s on the same wifi network? We have three devices and they all connect perfectly by themselves as long as no other one is connected. But they only sporadically connect, if at all, when one device has connected and the other tries to hop on. If you turn the connected device off, the other one trying to connect connects immediately.

The router is a Netgear 108g WGT624. Changing the router settings make no apparent difference. It doesn't matter if it's WEP, WPA, no security, no MAC address filtering, changing the password, nothing at all. The only contingency is whether or not another HD7 is connected.

Might it have anything to do with how close the MAC addresses are? All three devices have identical MAC addresses through the first 6 numbers.

If anyone has a multiple HD7s working on the same network, please post your wireless setup.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
that could possibly be the issue (having close mac addresses). but if they're all unique i don't see how this should be an issue. have you tried using the HD7s on a different router (not made by netgear)? if not, i'd suggest that to see if it's your router or something else. let us know how it goes...
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Unplug the router for 15-30 seconds.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
if you send me your hd7's I'll be happy to test for you!!! :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] LJKelley:
My household has two WP7 devices and I don't have any WiFi issues. They both sync thru WiFi as well.

My WiFi is handled by an Apple Airport Extreme. Routing is done in the basement by a Linksys router.
[Windows Phone 7 General] rob_p:
I've not noticed any issues with having our 2 connected to the network at home, then again, I've not checked they're both connected at the same time.

I know that I used to have issues where my TP2 and my wife's Hero couldn't connect at the same time which was mighty strange. Sounds like this could be a similar issue you're having, sadly I can't offer an explanation of why it happens though :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] silvertonesx24:
I'm not sure what the problem was exactly but getting a new wireless router solved the issue, all 3 HD7s connect great now :)

The new router is a Netgear WNDR3400-100NAS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] scottt:
Have 2 hd7 and 1 will connect without problems, the other one needs wifi turned off and then back on before it will connect,

Belkin router, and have played with all the settings on the router.:mad:
[Windows Phone 7 General] silvertonesx24:
That sounds like the same thing that I had. A new router was the only solution I could find: $80 at Best Buy.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Unplug the router for 15-30 seconds. If that doesn't work see if there is a new firmware update for your router. If that fails you need a new one.
[Desire Themes and Apps] highway04:
jz watch the movie tron legacy from the cinema.... found out tat the nokia N8's theme inside the movie its quite cool... it is possible to customize one???
[Desire Themes and Apps] Jiia:
I haven't seen the movie but are you sure it was a theme and not just some lame hightech cgi placed on the screen? Of course pretty much any kind of graphics can be copied but we sould still have to work within the boundaries that custom launchers like LP+ and ADW set us. Unless of course someone makes a whole new launcher for it. Do you have any pictures or videos of it? I saw the trailer but couldn't spot the theme in it.
[Desire Themes and Apps] highway04:
its cgi btw... but its cool to look at n to use... will try to seek some screen shot... its jz a idea thou...
[Desire Themes and Apps] highway04:
sorry dude... its my bad... its something looks like this... the only i could find from net
[Desire Themes and Apps] natious:
Looks horrible lol
[Desire Themes and Apps] bedobela:
Same opinion. Doesn't really look nice...
[Desire Themes and Apps] psy07:
that screenshot was from the movie.. the moment he's hackingthe door security =.=
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolf90:
For some reason my phone is not charging at all ..even when I turn it off it is not showing the charging icon or anything....please help

Running ginger clone r1