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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PeartFan40:
I had the Galaxy S and now own the Nexus S and they are NOTHING alike. They may share similar internal hardware, but that's where it ends. The Nexus S has a front facing camera, a better design, gorilla glass, a flash, a faster camera, Gingerbread, etc. When I had the Galaxy S, I ran Quadrant and got an average score of 1,250; and that was with a custom ROM and an OC'd Kernel. On the Nexus S, I'm hitting scores of 2,600 (2,900 with Bionix NS1 ROM and Trinity 1.2ghz Kernel). The Galaxy S always felt a bit sluggish to me, even with custom ROMS. The nexus S is very snappy and responsive. There are plenty of phones on the market who share the same processors, etc and perform better. To say the Nexus S is the same as the Galaxy is untrue, IMO. I love the Nexus S and plan on keeping it for a while. (or until another Nexus incarnation is released). Good Luck!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
You'd be best off saying which Galaxy S phone you had, since several models (like my i9000 Galaxy S) have different hardware (like a FFC) and much better ROM support. Also, you've got the Gorilla Glass part backwards, the Nexus S doesn't have Gorilla Glass, while the Galaxy S phones do. Some versions of the SGS have a flash (the Captivate for one), and the SGS phones can do 720p video at full framerate (faster camera). Also, on the software side, the Galaxy S phones have full hardware video codec support, you can throw almost any video you can fit on the phone at it and it will play; something the NS won't do to the annoyance of many here.

While the Nexus S is clearly a nice step forward, I don't think it's fair to say the NS and SGS are "NOTHING alike." Same screen, same hardware for the most part; many who've custom ROM'd their i9k or T-Mo Vibrant have fairly said it's not a worthwhile upgrade.

I think the i9000 is the current winner in ROM support, with some decent stuff out for the Vibrant, but the others really lacking (which is why I haven't bothered with the Verizon Fascinate, despite desperately wanting to switch to Verizon service). Clearly the heavy hitters (Cyanogen and TW) are going to put the NS out in the lead eventually, but that's still some time away.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiral.v:
I'm not bickering, I just wanted to know why google/samsung are removing key features from their flagship phone.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgymnop:
Yes, and that's the reason why I return today my Nexus S. I had enough. I want to use my phone now and not in 3 months when we get an update. I am fine with Froyo on a fast phone. If a stable gingerbread comes out I can root my phone if I feel like doing so. But at the moment it is just trouble.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiral.v:
Excited about the galaxy nexus.
[General Questions and Answers] cGonHTCDesire:
Hi folks,

I just registered to this forum today though been using the HTC desire for close to a month now...

Recently for some reason my phone conked on me since my internal memory came down to literally zero because of the huge number of contacts on my phone.

Currently the Storage contacts consumes close to 60.4 MB which is huge... on the day my phone started shutting down all my running apps due to lack of space, it went up sunddenly to 80 Mb? Does anyone know how this happens?

I have synced my phone contacts to my gmail account. When i check the setting I have close to 1753 contacts on Gmail, while only 210 contacts on the phone. I have another 1400 contacts on my FB (Thankfully not syncing that at the moment).

I started porting my contacts on my phone to Gmail and I see storage contacts date increase... Is this correct? That if I save all my contacts on the phone instead I can save some space?

When my phone conked on me, I was kind of difficult to get to the screen to uninstall some app to free space... after several attempts I was able to do so... It would be nice we had a short cut to delete some apps in the case of such an event...

Any thoughts and tips would be greatly appreciated... Thanks for taking the time to respond

Regards

Siji
[General Questions and Answers] Diamond_dawg:
A suggestion would be to install task manager as it kills all the apps when not in use and increases the memory
[Nexus S General] musashiken:
Ok, I don't really care for the Nexus S, but this new ninja unboxing is awesome!!!

Click here to watch awesome video

Hint: there's a reason why I didn't embed the youtube video here...
[Nexus S General] daeshawn:
lol that was sick!!! amazing!
[Nexus S General] Mokurex:
Don't really need a hint, the url easily gave it away lol

really cool though.
[Nexus S General] Poolmunch:
Nice, I spotted it was like that within a second though.
[Nexus S General] madj42:
Anyone else notice you can take the nun chucks and use them on the page?
[Nexus S General] khaytsus:
WTF?? HTML5 gone crazy? Maybe I'm behind here, but I've never seen a youtube video do that.
[Nexus S General] madj42:
There have been a couple of others that have done the same thing. Some banner ads did it before as well. If you right click the entire page it's one giant flash vid.
[Nexus S General] negroplasty:
This is great; confused the **** out of me for a minute there.
[Nexus S General] wdfowty:
That literally blew my mind right there. Have you seen the AT AT Day Afternoon vid he did? Best channel on youtube, hands down.
[Nexus S General] supperbas:
This is not HTML 5, or not the 'video' you see

Check out this page's source, ninja-takeover.appspot.com/unboxing2/

Basically it embeds this swf file ninja-takeover.appspot.com/unboxing2/ninja_main.swf, still every impressive though but it's not 'the' HTML 5 you're talking about just a 'flash hack'
[Nexus S General] khaytsus:
Aha okay, I figured the whole page was part of it, but it looked very much like it as doing something "out of the box", literally ;)
[Desire HD General] andreasy:
I have this issue with my HTC BT Headset which when paired and connected will receive all sounds including games and system sounds. Sometimes even the ringer will only sound in the headset and not on the phone (this happened at rare occasions).

I have edited the settings of my headset and unchecked the option for media but then it comes back again when I connect again.

Now, I want to be able to divert audio back to the device when for example I play a game or play a media clip. The only thing I see on the screen in the message that audio is being played on the BT headset.

I am sure there must be a key sequence to bypass this but I can't figure it out.
[Desire HD General] mjt:
Sorry I have no solution, but just to say I have similar issues. My HTC headset picks up the audio from Copilot.... which I suppose is no bad thing in itself, except that the sound drops out all the time... which is pretty useless on satnav! Not sure whether this is a problem with the phone or the headset (whihc is otherwise working fine). I'd just like to switch off the A2DP feature too.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] newhtchd2:
Hey,

im looking for an app to mount/mapp Samba/Linux/Windows Shares.

I know, that this tool ment to do it but i dont need the whole other functions.

Anyone knows a "stand alone" tool/app (for WinMo 6.5 of course!) to do the job?

Thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Petulinek:
Resco Explorer can map network drives...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] newhtchd2:
thanks for the reply! i'll check it out.

btw: resco is a paid app - if there is any, i prefer a free one :-)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] p107r0:
1. Network shares paths are stored under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Comm\Redir\Connections\], where each key defines one shared folder, for example lets say you want to map \\Data\Data as folder Q on your device, the registry key would look like this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Comm\Redir\Connections\Q]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"RemoteName"="\\Data\Data"

you can prepare as many reg entries as you need this way and import it to registry

2. If you want to see the Network folder in 'My Device' in file explorer,

set the following registry entry to 1:

[HKLM\Comm\Redir]
RegisterFSRoot=1

more info here

3. probably (have no way to check it now), you can also access non-mapped network paths directly from File Explorer - check "Go To\ Open Path\New Path..."
[Streak 5 General] vlamers:
Hello,

after updating to 318 official 2.2 rom I want to install the performance fix. But i can´t install the clockworth recovery. Always get black screen. On the next reboot the standard recovery is there again.

Which other option I have to install the performance fix? Root Manager and copy the files manually??

Greetings Volker
[Streak 5 General] Xonarial:
Hi,

Try this img: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=462375&d=1292167781

It worked for me :).
[Desire HD General] andreasy:
I tried to video record my son while he was speaking but at playback I could hardly hear his voice. He was about 1 meter apart and I could hear him as if he was 20m away. My voice sounded ok though. I assume that the microphone used for audio recording is the same as the phone mic with higher volume control.

Is everyone experiencing the same?

Also, Ihaven't found any controls to configure audio levels for different circumstances (i.e. phone ringer, speakerphone, speaker during conversation, etc.) Is it necessary to only configure volume when you are in that area (i.e only during conversation or during playback) and not all at once in a special control panel? (I hope you understand the last part as I don't know how to explain better)
[Desire HD General] quark_star:
I also feel that the playback volume for recorded video is too low (even on max volume). The audio quality is also not as good as I would hope. I have yet to test playback on a PC though.
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
Unfortunately anything related to Desire HD sound is low at the bottom line no matter recording or speaker it is.
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
agreed that recording volume is too low. But one thing i did find is that when you hold your phone to record, the natural position where your right hand holds the phone actually covers the microphone (well at least for me). So make sure your hand isnt covering that and it might improve sound a little.

But when i playback a recording on my laptop it sounds ok when i max the volume.. definitely audible.
[Desire HD General] adnaansolomon:
Im also getting this low mic problem, made sure i was not covering mic, still low volume. Even took the case off, still no joy, cant believe they did not test this before launch

Please HTC sort this out
[Desire HD General] quark_star:
After playing back recorded videos on my laptop, i'd agree with SupremeBeaver that the volume is ok. The sound quality seems much better too, so i'm not too fussed now :)
[Streak 5 General] asher73:
Has anyone in Europe or anywhere for that matter, gone from O2 2.1 (build 8105) to Froyo? Or from any of DJ-Steve's incarnations to Froyo? Tired of waiting for AT&crap to get their heads out their collective a**:mad:. Sorry if this was posted somewhere else. Thanks in advance.
[Streak 5 General] RavenY2K3:
I have, a couple of times actually.

Just follow the guides, takes time but you'll get there.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] er86:
Do we know when BestBuy loses their exclusivity? They refuse to sell me a phone without a name, phone and address...evil.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
Pretty sure that's quite normal?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crachel:
ground control, this is major tom
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DKYang:
I usually get asked that when making a big purchase. It's not like they are going to spam you with phone calls or ads. Well, they didn't do that to me yet.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emuneee:
Make up a phone # and address lol.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itmustbejj:
Well they need something to match with the DNA imprint your phone takes and sends to the CIA. So they can track you down when the world is taken over by our lizard-men overlords....

Or maybe they just want to send you coupons?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crachel:
Make one up? lol, you don't know how deep this goes..

er86: did you look directly into the Nexus S?? it has a front facing camera and if my suspicions are correct, your address and phone number are the least of your worries at this point: THEY'VE NOW GOT RETINA SCANS. Your position is being triangulated as we speak.. if I knew where you were, I could direct you to a friendly for safe harbor.. time is our biggest enemy now
[General Questions and Answers] duckredbeard:
If you haven't looked into an app called Tasker, you should. Complete automation of your Android. If your android can do something, you can set up Tasker to do it for you whenever you want it done. For example, Tasker sends my wife an SMS message as I leave my daughter's school to let her know that I have her. Tasker also changes my WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS settings whenever I get home or leave home. Tasker also adjusts ringtone volumes based on time of day. There are thousands of useful functions to configure.

One thing I like is that it will create a notification when events happen. Tasker gives a few dozen icons that can be used in that notification, but I'd like to add some to the app. The developer says that the icons to be used are limited to those that are "packaged with the app". I want to add some to that package.

I have read a few articles about adb pulling the app, editing the contents in windows, then pushing it back to the phone. Sounds like that is what I need to do. However, I can't seem to find the app in Root Explorer. Tasker is not an app that can be moved to SD, so it is somewhere in /system/app, right?

Anyone here using Tasker that can point me in the right direction?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marqmarecki:
I found files that should help to open rmvb file on Leo.

What i've done:

1. I coppied dll's and ax file to windows folder

2. I added registry file to Leo registry

Now media player should open the rmvb file but ... while the file is opening media player is closing .

Any suggestions ? I hope that i write clearly ... My primary language isn't English ;)
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] chuddly:
im trying to connect my cell phone via bluetooth as a test for work. It says its paired but wont connect to it(cant view or move files). Down the road i am wanting to connect a bluetooth scan gun to it to read bar codes (for inventory). Im also needing a full keyboard (mainly he F3 key) because that is how our inventory program is written. but of course i dont want to carry a full board, I would like to have it on the pop up android board. anyone know anything that can help me out?
[Captivate General] thingsmeanalot:
Greetings,

I flashed my captivate to Axura a few days ago and I love it. However I've noticed that my home button seems to have a mind of its own. It triggers on its own without my touching it, and it triggers many times in a row. Almost seems like a hardware problem, but it could be related to the Axura mod.

Has anyone had this problem and know if there is a solution to it? Or do you think this is a hardware issue, in which case, what should I do about it?

Thanks for the information and advice everyone!
[Captivate General] MaxRabbit:
I used to have this problem with the default 2.1 firmware. I haven't had it a single time since I've been using Cognition ROM.
[Captivate General] mykwalkr:
I had the same problem, but after flashing back to stock, a master clear, and loading a new ROM everything is working like it should.
[EVO 4G General] nYdGeo:
I’m wondering if my phone or battery is defective. Up until about a month and a half ago, my hardware version 003 Evo used to sleep for 19-20 hours and have 89-91% charge left. I could easily get a full day (for me, 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM) with light to moderate use and still have plenty of charge left. I once got the warning at 15% charge at the end of a 3-hour + phone call and right at about the 20-hour mark. Then things changed.

I now have Azrael 2.1 DC installed with the Azreal Theme, animations, and wallpapers using stock HTC #11 kernel as distributed. The only things synching are Facebook for HTC Sense (synching contacts once a day), Google (normal), News (manual-synch only), Qik (disabled), and weather (every hour). The main Facebook app has everything unchecked and is not running.

I removed the big Favorites (people), Bookmarks, and Friend Stream widgets from the main screens.

The non-default items running has been reduced now to just a few items, but ones that I’ve used all along:

Brightness Toggle Widget, Dr Web Anti-Virus , Documents To Go, and Swype. (Note: Each of these has been through one or more updates since this all began.)

At the current time, if I take my phone off of the charger at 6:00 AM and maybe view/delete a few of the overnight SPAM email, by 8:00 AM (2-hours later) the charge is between 78-82%. If I make no calls or just spend a minute or two on the phone, view/delete 2-5 emails, maybe send a text or two and don’t charge it of course, by the time 5:00 PM rolls around the charge is down to 15-20%. Sometimes it’s less.

I powered on the screen just now and power was at 91%. I viewed two emails, deleting one, in about 30-seconds. Power now at 89%. The phone has been unplugged for 2-hours.

Since I bought SetCPU I installed that temporarily and verified that the CPU isn’t constantly running at 1GHz, but is scaling using On Demand.

Have made backups, tried different kernels, different ROMs (Sense and ASOP) and kernels…it’s all the same, more or less. To add more confusion, my wife’s Evo (completely stock) is now only getting slightly better battery life than mine. Our Evos were pre-ordered and shipped on release day. I’m wondering if either one or both of our phones is screwing up, using far too much power far to quickly, or if it’s the batteries…maybe a bad lot?

I’ve attached a screenshot of the SpareParts battery screen after a full charge. Can someone let me know if the voltage, etc, looks correct? I have several other screen caps showing various info that I can upload later that may help.

If anyone has heard anything that might help to explain this behavior I would greatly appreciate hearing it. Thank you for your time.
[EVO 4G General] nYdGeo:
New observation. Put SetCPU back on my Evo, and just sat there and watched it for a while. I've observed that the CPU appears to alternate between 245MHz and 998MHz, spending more time at 998MHz than anything else.

I plugged in my Evo, set the screen to not shut off when plugged in, removed SetCPU, installed System Panel, and observed the CPU activity for about 20-minutes.

While the CPU load was very often in the 10-15% range with frequent brief visits to higher demand, the CPU Clock Speed never dropped below 661MHz during that entire 20-minutes and spent a lot of time all over the higher frequencies.

Tried killing everything that I could, even the things that restart; nothing made much difference. Going to wipe eveything, and try some different ROMs and see if I observe the same behavior.
[EVO 4G General] devnulldroid:
4G may be running in background trying to connect and throwing log errors every 2 secs. Doesnt matter if you turned it off..it keeps going and is a know defect at medium level of support at google site and known for a few months.

Verify using aLogcat or other free log app.

Errors will look similar to

and wont stop unless you reboot the phone after you use 4G.. every time.
[EVO 4G General] nYdGeo:
Thank you for the reply! Unfortunately, I live in the Greater New Orleans, LA area, one of Sprint's red-headed step-children, where we will probably get 4G right after Tenney, MN gets it.

Last night, after a nand-backup, I wiped everything twice as usual, and install CM 6.1.1, the latest Google Apps, updated everything and built a normal installation. I left the kernel that it came with.

Using the default 'On Demand' CPU governer, once it settles down it does spend more time down at 245MHz, butif it rises at all, it prettymuch goes straight to 998MHz and back again. I set the governer to 'Conservative' and it appears to be working. The CPU does ramp up on occasion but does not necessarily immediately go all the way to 998MHz...in fact it rarely makes it to that speed.

I'll spend a bit of time like this and observe what sort of battery life I get. One odd thing...while sitting on the charger this morning, my Evo spontaniously rebooted itself...we'll see.

Thank you for your time.
[EVO 4G General] dagnasty:
I have been having the exact same problem with my 0003 phone with Nova screen. I used to get fantastic battery live. I would take it off the charger and it would sit at 100% for at least an hour. Nowadays, I take it off the charger and by the time it takes to get to work (10 mins) it will be around 92%. I have tried 3 different batteries, numerous ROMs and kernels with no changes. The only thing I can think of is that a month or 2 ago my daughter knocked my (naked aside from screen protector) phone off of the counter and it fell bottom left corner first onto the tile floor, cracking the screen. I actually went by the Sprint store yesterday and talked about getting the screen replaced. According to him, they don't have parts for the Evo so I am getting a new phone. Hopefully that takes care of my issue. I know that doesn't really help you but just wanted to let you know, I have the same issue
[EVO 4G General] nYdGeo:
Thank you for your reply! I've been fortunate and have not dropped mine yet. Trying a new 3.70 ROM on my phone and have updated my wife's stock Evo to the same release. Going to observe whether or not this makes any difference.
[EVO 4G General] geekykid:
try doing a full erase and wiping your battery stats (in recovery). see how that works for you.
[EVO 4G General] nYdGeo:
Thank you for your input. When I created the ROM, I did a multiple complete wipe, and then started flashing. I recently redid everything again with Azrael X v3.0. After a few days, I recharged with the phone off for a few hours after the light was green, and then reset the battery stats. Unfortunately, no change resulted.

I recently flashed the "SBC-net-4.1.9.1-more-havs-v7" kernel, and this has had an effect. When I remove the phone from the charger, usage starts there instead of zooming down to the 88%-92% range. I've disconnected from the charger, and made a short 2-3 minute phone call, and it was still at 100%!

I've charged the phone for a few hours after the light was green, and then again reset the battery stats (though the post for the SBC kernels says that since the battery gets and stays fully charged, no more need to reset the stats).

I am strongly suspecting that the battery is the problem. In order to test this I've ordered a 3500 mah battery. Once I have it installed, I'll fully charge, and then use/charge for several days. I'll observe the battery life during this part, but will then flash to a rooted, but otherwise completely stock ROM, and live with that long enough to observe accurate battery usage.

I'll use the info that I gather during that time to compare with others with the same type of battery. This isn't an exact science of course, but If they get a full day with very heavy usage and I get a full day with little to no usage, I know that my phone is borked, etc.

Thank you for your time, and Happy New Year to everyone!