yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Android Development] azranger:
Rred

The AGPS has nothing to do with GPS tracking it is for the cold fix to help the device get that first fix, this is what most of the so called GPS fixes have implemented. Standalone mode means you are not using AGPS. AGPS is an extra dataset feed into the chip to tell it where the sats are, without it the chip has to get it from the sats so the first lock is faster with AGPS - doesn't have to wait for the data.

I have not looked at the datasheet for the broadcom chip but it either does the processing onboard or passes the data through to a more powerful CPU which requires up to 10mips to process the data.

To see the the bounce that I am talking about go in your driveway and turn on My Tracks then watch the location the gps says your are and the blue circle of reported accuracy. Sometimes (very few from my experience) you, the gps location and the blue circle will all coincide in the same area. Most of the time gps loc and accy circle of 10-15 meters will be at a location 3-4 house down the street and bouncing by 10 meters with each update.

Now when you are driving the gps is much more accurate and at times dead on but then it drifts (sometimes by a whole lot), but still less accurate than a 2 year old phone with just a gps chip.

So my theroy is while the nav app is idle (in a fixed location) the kernal is not paying much attention to the gps chip because it's not requesting the cycles, now while moving in a car it is constantly hitting the cpu and gets more time but still sharing to many cycles to keep it completly accurate, if another service or background app requests cycles it is at the expense of the GPS chip. Other phones I have used gave a much higher priority to the GPS, was hard to get it to do anything else but the GPS app when running.

Your GPS location is determined solely by the amount of time it takes the ping from the sats to reach your device. The device then takes at least 3 different sat pings and converts that timing data to lat,lon,elev,speed,etc.. Every ~10mins it sends an update signal to the gps receiver so it can sync the clocks.

Now the old HTC Topaz (ATT PURE) I had was able to track me inside the house down to the spot I was standing at even while walking. Yes during driving the nav app get lost from time to time but that's mostly due to map errors and not tracking errors.

I love this phone but it couldn't track a M1A1 tank if it was glued to it!!
[Captivate Android Development] darknight201:
so what's the solution? If a good portion of the problem really is that the kernel isn't giving high enough priority to the gps operations, shouldn't all the custom kernels out there be able to easily remedy the problem?
[Captivate Android Development] Krynn!:
It's lots more than just CPU issues. Da_G already tried that by re-nicing the processes associated with the GPS giving them a higher priority, and did not get any better results.

Timing could very well be a problem, but it looks like in our case EM interference is a much bigger issue.

Try this: fire up My Tracks, start it recording, then return to your home screen. And if you're feeling really thorough, shut down your data connection. Now go for a drive. Once you're done, take a look at your track. Chances are, it'll be pretty damn close to spot on. Every time I've done that, I've seen results that deviate no farther than 5m from my actual position. Usually, they're less than 3m. I won't say that doing this test is by any means conclusive, but it does kinda point strongly at there being some interference issues.

Now it's possible that Samsung might be able to fix this with a combination of GPS drivers and cell modems. I remain hopeful of this, but I'm beginning to suspect that it's a forlorn hope.... And that there might not ever be a fix at all.

On a side note, there's a guy on the Vibrant side of things who's gotten fed up and is filing a class-action suit regarding the GPS issues and lack of official FroYo. For more info... In addition, a quick google search showed a similar lawsuit popping up for the Epic. I wouldn't be surprised to see one for all of the variants eventually. Or one encompassing all of them.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rakinisbat:
Hi

i just got my desire hd and i am running on a stock rom but i want to change to a custom rom but there is so many choices and the differences seem be the close to same

Plz HELP a N00B out!:o
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hdpaddy:
Try, try, try

Just a little bit harder.

I've positive experiences with android revolution hd.

sent from Desire HD paddy
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quarintus:
. Every ROM is different. I do not know what you are looking for.

Are you looking for nice graphics and speed?

I would choose the Core ROM (my favorite)

Speedy & stock like:

HD evolution

Extra or different apps:

Leedroid.

But these questions aren't liked here much, because most of the time it ends up debating what ROM is better. But the case is: no Rom is the best. They are all different. You should just try some ROMS.

Be sure to read a lot about rooting and flashing ;). (although, you said you have done that).
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rixsta:
The first thing should always be do you want a sense rom or not...until you decide that then its pointless listing roms.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumsforjs:
Is it even possible to do that on our g2's just curious wish I knew how anybody mind explaining.? Thanks.! :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urfavoritemazn:
would also like to know.

bump
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dietotherhythm:
well i know a browser called skyfire allows you to watch hulu on flash enabled devices pretty well but as far as netflix, i've never been a subscriber so i have no idea.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dadewy:
Nope, no netflix. Netflix claims they can't because the content providers require DRM and there just isn't any on Android.

Ahh the price of freedom :D:D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] collins521:
Netflix said there will be a app coming after the new year, they said that a little while ago
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumsforjs:
I remember trying skyfire but it didn't work. Well Netflix doesn't work tryed that. Hopefully Netflix pulls it together I was watching it on my friends iPhone 4 and it looked good. Hopefully we will have it after new years late Christmas present haha. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] llxxjinxxll:
Netflix is slated to release for our phones in the coming months i believe. Hulu can be played on our phones via a modified browser.apk i remember seeing these floating around in the nexus one forums. I'm sure you could find it there or somewhere here. However using the modified browser.apk will not allow you to play netflix because the desktop netflix client is based off of microsoft silverlight and not flash.

Hope this helped.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumsforjs:
Thanks it helped a lot I'm going to look in the nexus forums. Yea Netflix runs off silverlight. Well hopefully Netflix gets there grove on soon.
[Touch2 General] coniliakis:
I would like to know which version of opera is being used in the latest rom available for Mega. I've been using 9.5 opera mobile but whenever I try to upgrade it to 9.7 or 10 the hardware zoombar isn't working anymore. So I would like to know which version of 9.7 is being shipped with more recent roms.

thank you!
[Touch2 General] JeroenGijselaar:
Hi, Opera 9.5 is still shipped with all the new ROMs for HTC MEGA Touch2, this because Opera 9.5 is the only Opera browser that supports the zoombar.
[Droid 2 Global General] Uxorious:
Update just got pushed to my D2G.

Find it here on megaupload ... I can't post URLs yet, so sorry about the format.

www[dot]megaupload[dot]com/?d=R7THKZ2V

Blur_Version.2.4.29.A956.Verizon.en.US.zip

(I guess the name of the file is the currently installed one. The date of the file was today, and the contents mention 2.4.330)

I had root when I updated, and the update succeeded ... however I lost root after the update.

z4root re-established root.

Versions after update are:

System version: 2.4.330.A956.Verizon.en.US (new)

Android version: 2.2

Baseband version: N_01.48.05R (new)

Kernel version: 2.6.32.9-g9e2c63d (new)

PRL version: 52169
[Droid 2 Global General] evilp8ntballer7:
great thanks for that i have been looking for this bc i cant get the update over wifi only afaik, have you tried using z4root after the update?
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
Yes - z4root works fine after the new update.
[Droid 2 Global General] Vexorg:
I just downloaded the update OTA and tried to install it, i got an update failed message not sure why. Do you have to restore the phone to factory settings (unroot) before you can install the update?

I watched my phone try and install it this time and an icon appeared on the sceeen that looked like a cigarette box with an arrow coming out of it.. what does this mean? haha
[Droid 2 Global General] evilp8ntballer7:
i wouldnt think you would have to do a hard reset before you do the update
[Droid 2 Global General] Uxorious:
Mine was rooted, but I had not changed any of the standard packages.

The only thing I used root for was to underclock it for slightly better battery life.

If you have removed/replaced any packages on the phone, you probably need to restore them back to the system default again. A device wipe might not even fix that as the packages will still be the replaced versions.
[Droid 2 Global General] Vexorg:
Hmm i froze a bunch of programs with titanium back and up and renamed a few things with root explorer , perhaps this is why.
[Droid 2 Global General] droidbandunlock:
Official OTA update from VZW will always fail if you have changed anything at all in the system directory. The updater script has checksum routines for all parts of the system and must be completely stock or it won't work.

This is true for all new Motorola phones from VZW.
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
^^^ that is exactly the case! Restore all stock and try again.

Being rooted will not fail the update, but altering anything in /system will.
[Droid 2 Global General] Vexorg:
Ok hmm i have made various restore points with rom manager since starting, im just not sure how to restore my backups? Where do you go within the rom manager directory?
[Droid 2 Global General] evilp8ntballer7:
I deleted some stock apps would a hardreset restore them? So I could do the update
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
No, hardreset will not bring the deleted stock apps back. You need to manually restore them.
[Droid 2 Global General] Vexorg:
Hmm anyone on how to restore your old back ups using rom manager? .. i cant seem to find a decent guide
[Droid 2 Global General] sinistersai4d4d:
Anybody noticing lower call volume since the update?
[Droid 2 Global General] newk8600:
with koush's bootstrap recovery it's just reboot into recovery. go to backup and restore and choose your backup to restore. If you only have Rom manager you might be out of luck because afaik it's recovery doesn't work on the D2, D2G, or DX.
[Droid 2 Global General] Cozmo85:
My wifes droid 2 global had lots of apps frozen. Update installed fine from OTA. Lost root, havn't tried to reroot yet.
[Droid 2 Global General] Vexorg:
Ah i realize what ive done wrong ... i didnt know you had to have bootstrap installed along with clockwork recoveryy in order to make a backup hmm. Going to need a rom of stock d2g lol.
[Legend General] 50-3:
hey forum

as you can guess i'm bricked and don't have a file manager or terminal program on my phone.... fell like an idiot for even trying this rom now, any way of moving the mtd0.img and flash_image to /data without them?

regards scott
[Legend General] TheGrammarFreak:
adb shell
mv path/to/file new/path/to/file

You may need chmod 755 if the file is meant to be executable, not sure though. ;)
[Legend General] 50-3:
might sound stupid but how to i adb to phone i keep typing adb devices hoping it will pop-up but there is non... is there a mode i should be in?
[Legend General] TheGrammarFreak:
USB debugging on, phone plugged into PC... The phone needs to be on too, either in recovery mode or normal usage. If you want to be writing stuff to /system you need to be in recovery mode. Be sure to mount /system too.
[Legend General] 50-3:
just went into recovery mode (power off>hold + back>bootloader>recovery (i belive thats recovery mode)) still no devices same with the phone turned on normal usage
[Legend General] 50-3:
another quastion if i could get my hand on nandroid files from someelses htc legend would it work on mine???
[Legend General] TheGrammarFreak:
You need to be in clockworkmod recovery. Look into fake flash.

You can use someone else's nandroid, but you'll end up with all their data. Personal stuff too...

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Legend General] ogo2:
Fake flash is the best!

1. Just find the clockwork recovery ZIP file and put it in the root of your SD card as "update.zip" with small letters and without the quotes.

2. Power down your phone.

3. Hold Volume down and press Power.

4. Select Recovery and press Power again.

5. When you see the screen with the exclamation mark, hold Volume up and press Power.

6. From the menu screen select Install Update.zip from the SD card. Do not wory, the flash is not real. That's why it is called Fake flash. :)

7. Now you should be in the Clockwork Recovery.
[Legend General] 50-3:
Thx Guy I'm up and running going to keep clockwork and a ROM on my SD card all the time now :p
[General Questions and Answers] swiblet:
I really hope that there isn't a thread that answers this. If there is, I couldn't find one.

I flashed CM6.1 a few days ago, and I've found most of the fixes to my problems. I found the marketplace app in the google apps zip, I found the visual voicemail and sprint navigation apks, and I even found how to semi-sync facebook apps as well.

For the life of me, I can't get Flash 10.1 and Bluetooth working. I found the apk for flash and tried to install it. It crashes my phone back to the Cyanogen loading screen, and that's it. Whenever I go to m.flash.com, it says "the requested file cannot be found" or something along this lines. But Bluetooth is the big issue, I need it for my work. When I turn on bluetooth, it usually doesn't find my Jabra Extreme headset at all. Once in a while, it finds it, but it says "unable to pair with device". I have tried connecting it through the Bluetooth File Transfer app as well. Nothing.

Is there some kind of zip I can flash to make either of these things work for me? (especially the bluetooth) Thank you very much!
[General Questions and Answers] swiblet:
Come on, guys, one of you must know something about this....
[General Questions and Answers] DarrellRaines:
I would go to your.phones forums and cynogens forums on their website to ask. You might get a quicker answer there.
[General Questions and Answers] MacaronyMax:
Your Hero shouldn't have Flash 10.1 working anyway.... :D

Oh and maybe flash a new rom to fix the bluetooth :)
[General Questions and Answers] Shidell:
6.1 broke my BT as well. Try 6.0 RC1 and see if that works--that's the last that worked for me. They switched to a new BT stack after 6.0 RC1 which I think is the culprit for some of us.
[General Questions and Answers] deliberate187:
CM6.1 is running FroYo which may not be compatible all the way yet with your device. Unless 6.1.1 is out for your Hero yet, it might be best to stick with 6.0.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] masa1977:
dear frinds

can someone help me and tell me whitch builds have internet pass through

i know that mdj froyo hd v4.3 and 4.4....4.6 have it but i like to know about the other builds:p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] harry655:
Desire Z does.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] masa1977:
thank u harry first

r u mean desire z v 1.72.466?how about its bug
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gottley:
Core Droid has it but wat does internet pass thru do how does it work
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shadiku:
Desire HD builds have it but it's never worked for me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ntikas:
mdj froyo hd v4.6
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] leogeeko:
It allows your phone to use the Internet Connection of your Computer. Pretty usefull where there is no 3G or free Wifi available.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Galactus:
as someone above posted desire hd builds have it. All i had to do was download HTC Sync from the official HTC website and voila :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] heresandyboy:
I have internet pass through working and use it everyday now to use my LAN connection on my phone. I use [UPD][BUILD][10.12.10]-=MDJ Revolution HD v.1.2=-[kernel:MDJ S7.7HD UTF8 Edition]. (Updated with MDJ S8 kernel from the 4.6 HD build for stability) Steps below, Should be same for other HD Builds:

1. Download HTC Sync from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785187

2. Install it, reboot. Connect your phone and choose HTC Sync mode.

3. Phone connects and HTC Sync recognises it. Do a sync.

4. Pass through will not work yet, HTC Sync needs to update, it will do this automatically. I had to reboot pc and connect HTC Sync to phone again and it popped up with an auto update. Once updated, change the USB mode to Internet pass through, i Disabled other data connections first to make sure. Works great!

Edit: I also had trouble with my firewall, simply added the running htc's exe's to the allowed list.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] masa1977:
hi dear friends

there are no other builds with this option plz if u used a build with this option tell me about its bug and share ur experince

also plz interduce rom with link
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n3ph:
How can I flash the Stock Recovery ROM for my Desire Z?

Basically, I want to remove what ClockWorkMod did. Even when I turned Fast Boot off, turned off the phone, it wouldn't, and will startup ClockWorkMod instead. That said, I can't boot into HBOOT at all since wanting to go into HBOOT means I'm required to turn the phone off completely first.

I'm also having trouble finding my shipped ROM (1.34.707.5), and from the other threads I read, it seemed like a bad idea to grab other DZ ROMs and try flashing it.

Can anyone help/guide me with this? Thanks!

Edit: Prior to this, I was trying to overclock my DZ using this guide for noobs http: //androidforums.com/desire-z-all-things-root/233729-ultimate-guide-rooting-overclocking-your-bell-desire-z-newb-friendly.html. I followed every step, inclusive of the backup.

Kudos to Blue1k for the guide and gtrab for the amazing overclock script
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keinengel:
adb reboot bootloader

will get you into fastboot usb.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ganii:
Hm,fastboot at settings menu deactivated.

Turned phone off,then holding trackpad down and turning phone

on works for me!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n3ph:
Thanks keinengel for the tip!

@Ganli I can't turn phone off using the menu (and with Fast Boot turned off). I tried removing the battery and I got into HBOOT successfully.

That said, I didn't like the way ClockWorkMod disabled my turning off phone (I do appreciate the backup features it provided). Is there anyway I could restore the original recovery back?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
There's a known issue with ClockworkMod where, when you have your phone turned off and you plug in the charger, it automatically then starts up in Clockwork. Is this what you're seeing ? Because if not, that sounds very odd (Clockwork disabling turning off your phone :confused: ).

You can flash a new recovery from fastboot, if you have the eng hboot installed. I presume you can take the recovery.img file from one of the stock ROMs, then do "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img".
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n3ph:
Bingo. It turned off completely when I non-fast boot powered it down without the charger plugged in!

I would like to flash the original recovery like what you mentioned. I am afraid of hardware incompatibilities as mine has a different software version than the ones I've seen here. I wonder if I could use them. (By the way, I haven't seen any recovery.img around, only PC10IMGs)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
The PC10IMG is a zip file containing various stuff to make up a ROM, mainly these are partition images. One of them is recovery.img. So you can get recovery.img from one of those ROM images.

What ROM are you running exactly ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n3ph:
Stock ROM. Probably one of the Asian version.

Baseband

12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.02_M

Kernel

2.6.32.21-gd2764ed

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Tue Oct 26 16:04:03 CST 2010

Build number

1.34.707.5 CL273326 release-keys

Software

1.34.707.5

I haven't seen any ROM with this version on XDA yet. I saw about the RUU in other threads. Will I be able to select flashing only the recovery from RUU? Or is it a full flash only?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
I have never tried the RUU. At a complete guess I would think it is only a full flash.

You can run the RUU then leave it at the first screen, then open up another window and find where Windows has put the temp files it has extracted from the RUU. Amongst those will be the ROM image, which you can open up (it's a zip file) and find the "recovery.img" file, which you can flash via fastboot if you have the eng hboot installed.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n3ph:
Understood. One more question, my HBOOT is stock. Not sure if this is different from "eng hboot" By Fastboot, you meant this program http: //xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=463627 right?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidcues:
Im confused here and just thinking out loud for myself but maybe to provoke some logic here --

without clockworkmod you are unable to flash any roms. you must have clockworkmod to tinker with your phone. no clockworkmod = unroot, or semi root psuedo root whatever.

the only way people can flash stuff is with clockworkmod. its the only recovery available at this time.

if i am missing something or being redundant, my sincere regards.

??
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You can tell which hboot you have if you shut down the phone (fully, not HTC's confusingly-named "fast boot" mode, which is a sleep state) and then hold Volume down and then hold Power till it turns on.

If it says "SHIP" on the first line, it is the stock hboot. The engineering hboot says "ENG". The eng hboot gives you more options.

No need to install that program, if you go through the steps in my adb guide to setup adb via the SDK, you will have fastboot too.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Yes, the only recovery options we have at the moment are stock recovery or ClockworkMod recovery (installed from ROM Manager). Maybe we will get some more custom recoveries in the future, who knows ?

But you don't need ClockworkMod to flash a ROM. You can flash stock ROMs on a stock phone, though only ones designed specifically for your sub-model of phone (e.g. European ROMs if it's a European phone, T-Mobile ROMs if it's a G2, etc, etc).

If you get S-OFF then you can flash custom ROMs to your phone, or stock ROMs from a different stock Vision (e.g. flashing a stock European ROM onto an Asian DZ).

ClockworkMod is very very useful for letting you do a full backup (nandroid backup) of your ROM.

You can also flash other ways, e.g. flashing from your SD card via hboot, or if you have the eng hboot installed then you can use the fastboot mode/utility to flash too.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidcues:
thank you i stand corrected.