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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lawliett:
Hey guys. Recently, I've been wondering if I should update the firmware on my phone. I'm still running on JPO with Doc's ROM and the older version of optimized LP. Everything runs like a charm at the moment and I'm not sure whether I want to risk updating and having to go through redownloading ROMs, firmwares and such again. What do you think?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuptup:
Well to be honest its a matter of opinion, if your perfectly happy with your current rom then you may aswell stay with it imo.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lawliett:
I guess the major thing I'm curious about is whether there are any major improvements in the newer versions. Like GPS improvements, lag reductions etc.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] howzit:
Hey mate, I'm on Doc's 6.2 and my GPS is screwed. I get a lock that's within 3100m (?!!) and doesn't get any better with waiting.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrorblind:
Im having the same thoughts... im still on stock JPA 2.2 i was wondering if i should do the reghack and get the 2.2.1

Is it worth if im happy with the current setup

-TB-
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w98seeng:
I'm on JL2 stock but rooted. I have great GPS reception. Last night it was 10 sats seen, 10 sats used and accuracy of 31.8 (feet about 10 meters). I get no lag and the phone runs great.

If you are happy with what you have, keep it. If not, try the JL2 (Bell) rom.

As far as "having to go through redownloading ROMs, firmwares and such again", just use Rom Manager to back-up your current rom. It will back-up everything including settings.

Ian
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kewjoe:
I'm on Darkyy's 7.6 Rom, with Speedmod K12F Kernal and the Stock JL2 Modem. Everything is great. GPS locks in seconds and is pinpoint accurate. Battary life is good. No lag. The phone is perfect.
[Nook Color General] CBJamo:
Does anyone know if the square app/device works with the NC? I have a suspicion that the hardware won't work right. Does it need a combined mic and headphone jack to work or will the headphone jack work?
[Nook Color General] charlezhunt:
I downloaded the app with the intention of trying it but it will not let me past the location settings page. It says it required to protect the seller and buyer by recording the location of each transaction.

With the device plugged into the headphone jack, I did not hear the unlock sound so if there was a way to spoof the GPS, then it may work.
[Nook Color General] CBJamo:
If bt is unlocked would a bt GPS work?
[Nook Color General] kevank:
Just installed the Square app. It loads OK and I was able to processes a transaction. (It didn't bother me for a location.) However, my square reader doesn't work. The app doesn't recognize that it is plugged in.

K
[Nook Color General] dmathis:
That was my experience as well. I realize that this is an old thread, but has anyone looked into this more deeply? I was hoping to use my NookColor as a POS terminal with my pen making business.
[Nook Color General] joenathane:
The card reader acts as a "microphone", but the Nook doesn't have those connections, only headphone, so the card reader is a no go on the Nook.
[Nook Color General] dmathis:
Rats!

Thanks for letting me know.
[Droid 2 General] :
I got a pretty big problem with my rooted Milestone 2 every time i open the Google calender and click on the add icon in the right corner it does a force close same with the sms app what can i do?
[Droid 2 General] Shellite:
Have you frozen/removed any apps using Titanium Backup?

Only time I have experienced an issue like that was when I removed some of the motoblur system apps.
[Droid Incredible General] stromness:
I installed OMGB-6 when it was released. Then flashed invisiblek #21 kernel and the new market. Since I last charged it, I've talked on it for about an hour, used the web-browser (Skyfire) fairly moderately, sent a few emails (Gmail), and spent a total of about an hour of GPS through the application WAZE. I'm left at 22% battery left after about 22 hours of use.

I've been fairly lazy with regards to changing the screen brightness, so it's been on about 50% brightness. I've left sync and gps on during the whole time.

I've been using Watchdog as a smart task manager. I have SetCPU installed, but I haven't used it at all.

Here are some pics:
[Droid Incredible General] rllong1:
I have not installed the kernel but my battery life is terrible. I barely have any apps and I do not use my phone a lot. I love the rom (favorite by far). Should I try to install the kernel.
[Droid Incredible General] Pons:
Can't hurt, just nandroid first, or have a spare kernel handy.
[Droid Incredible General] shoman24v:
I chewed through my battery in about 10 hrs today with the same kernel.

Guess I use mine a lot more. I've also got 26 hrs out if it when I barely use it.

Don't think you get great battery life when you don't use it much.

I'm in CM 6.1 but that wont really matter.

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Tab
[Droid Incredible General] stromness:
True, I haven't been using it all that much. But compared to other ROM's I've used, this get much better battery. Everything else I've tried out got me a max of ~12 hours even on idle the whole time.

Definitely try to install the kernel. Can't hurt! Just make sure you always have a nandroid backup available.
[Droid Incredible General] NeverSummer2010:
Stock Battery?
[Droid Incredible General] h3rmanmunst3r:
50% Brightness?!?!?! Wow....battery life is not worth looking at a dull screen. 100% all the way for me...im using 1800mah from ChiChitech that I got for $20. Seems to help enough.

I'm also running a Gingerbread ROM (Evervolv a17) but can't tell what difference it's making on battery.
[Droid Incredible General] pete_kowalski83:
the screen is not dull when it's set low...lol 100% brightness is like staring at the sun for me.
[Droid Incredible General] grayrest:
gr.ayre.st/s/screenshots/android/incbattery_0.png

gr.ayre.st/s/screenshots/android/incbattery_1.png

gr.ayre.st/s/screenshots/android/incbattery_2.png

Edit: I made some screenshots but XDA's spam prevention (no external links for new accounts) prevents me from actually linking them. You can copypasta if you're interested in the details.

Hydra 1.13 overclock kernel, stock ROM, stock battery, auto-brightness. I'm currently at 20% battery after 2.5 days. Light usage over the weekend, but there is an hour and a half of talk time in there and a half hour of reading.

The trick to DI battery life is keeping the data network usage/standby under control. If you're trying to send/receive data with no signal, the phone will burn through its battery in 4 hours and I've used 20% in 15 minutes trying to book a flight on a low signal connection.

Realizing this took me a few months since I live in NYC and as such, go through a lot of signal shadows. Some days my phone would be at 50% battery after 12 hours, other times it'd be dead after 6. I now realize that the short days were caused by sync services trying to run when I was in a shadow. You can diagnose this for yourself by going to the cell standby section of the battery usage. If you're over 10% or so without a signal, you have this problem.

You can handle this manually by holding down the power (on the stock rom) and enabling/disabling mobile network. This is a pain in the ass.

I handle this with some simple Locale rules along with the Mobile Signal and Mobile Data plugins. The first is to shut off the data when there's no signal. The second is to shut off the data at work where I'm usually but not always on a wireless network. The third is to shut down the data during my normal sleep hours and airplane mode if I'm at home.

These easily got me to 36 hours so I grabbed an undervolt kernel, which gets me to 2 days of regular use. Daily I do about 15m of talk, 40m reading news/email on the subway, and another 30 mins browsing/messaging/misc. My monthly data use is ~350MB.
[Droid Incredible General] trebores1:
While it is likely true that the OP and others have good battery life under their specific use conditions, battery life in general on smart phones is mediocre to poor at best. I have friends with various different models of smartphone (including iphone) and across the board battery life is not good. The exception is blackberry, but I don't consider those competitive from a tech and feature standpoint. Obviously different people are going to have different opinions and experiences based on the various factors that influence battery longevity.

The solution is to stop worrying about it, get a spare or two or three and pop in a new battery when one dies. This imo is one of the best things about the Dinc and Android phones in general. Just my 2c.
[Nook Color General] foethalove:
Does anyone know how to change the system font? The font used throughout the system such as in the setting areas. The default font seems very unfinished.
[Nook Color General] wretchedlocket:
1) copy the fonts you want to use, to the NC (internal SD card, not external)

2) using adb, follow the steps below

D:\>adb shell
# su
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblkp2 /system
# cat /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf > /media/Old-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans.ttf
# cat /system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf > /media/Old-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
# cat /media/New-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf > /system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
# cat /media/New-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans.ttf > /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf
# mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mmcblkp2 /system
# sync
# reboot

Let me know if you find a font that looks decent. I've tried both Segoe and the stock DroidSans fonts and neither made a big difference. DroidSans looks better than Segoe though.
[Nook Color General] wretchedlocket:
I found a thread with a ton of fonts. It includes previews as well

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=801160
[Nook Color General] paleh0rse:
How would one install the fonts found in those zip files if we unzip them to a new fonts directory on our sdcards? (IOW, what commands from above?)
[Nook Color General] aludal:
Great find, wretchedlocket. Tons of junk, but there are some pearls like Cardo, Calluna, etc. Actually, the NC font repertoir is not that bad. it's just stock ("system") Android (Ascender's) Droid[whatever] are bland and poor compared to refined, expensive fonts of iPad/WP7.

Some ideas about better tablet readability you may find in my blog http://fineoils.blogspot.com, just scroll down -- a lot, lol.
[Nook Color General] wretchedlocket:
Download the zip file containing the fonts you choose and extract the fonts. Rename the regular and bold face fonts to DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-bold.ttf. Copy to sdcard afterward.
[Nook Color General] wretchedlocket:
I will have to read through you blog. I actually just discoverd the Zegoe font. Seems to render nicely on our displays. I certainly wouldn't recommend anything that strays too far away from a rounded Sans style font. They get old, real fast. The Zegoe font has good readability on most all of the standard Android UI. Beyond that, it appears that B&N forces their fonts to be used when it comes to the stock NC apps and UI.
[Nook Color General] aludal:
Yeah, Zegoe (Segoe for WP7) is a jem. Some may prefer Apple Helvetica of iPhone, and then, one needs to own iPhone, to kinda share it with NC. But for me, Helvetica is getting older and blander, Segoe (a tweaked Frutiger) is well-hinted and pre-kerned. "Free"/"donated" DroidSans by Ascender is quite poor and bland in comparison.

However, choice of Georgia for a default "ereader" serif in NC shows quite a taste of B&N designers. One day (and with the advent of Android 3.0) the choice of NC fonts will be wider and easier, plus hinting will become more sophisticated -- apart from present dumb "autohint" (stuck in light hinting for many Android devices of 2.0...2.2 versions)
[Nook Color General] wretchedlocket:
Android's font rendering reminds me of how Linux desktop distros in the old days. It's only been the last couple of years that font rendering started.to improve under gnome and KDE. Hopefully, Android will get there soon, as well. Hopefully, some decent design will start to take place within Android apps as well. I sometimes feel like Android app designers are afraid padding and margins.
[Nook Color General] aludal:
Yeah... those old days. I was into Linux fonts/readability since 2001. Worked on png fonts for extremely fast Links-hacked browser (was present in earlier versions of so called Damn Small Linux), re-cut around 400 glyphs for it. So I know a little about fonts. Tried to be helpful for my imaginary project of Google browser back in 2004 (I called it "Googler", it should be based on Google Earth, plus geolocation URL protocols), was rebuffed, wrote about in my older blog goolocalizations.blogspot.com -- together with a Nostradamus satire on Google -- got kicked out of AdWords, with >$200 in earnings confiscated. Access to it was reinstalled at its 5th anniversary though. But no AdWords though -- anymore. Oh well. So far, my predictions in my Goolocalization fossil of a blog are pretty close, so one day we might see Google Earth instead of Chrome, who knows?

As for the default Android Serif, I think it's a shame they use some obscure Ascender cutter with its bland product. They have a beautiful (if a tidbit "accidental") "Google" font (title of Google search engine), all it takes is ordering to some ITC, or Monotype to re-cut it into a full Unicode ~60,000 glyphs, and here we go, how is it difficult to understand. When someone has a brand worth of ~$200 bln, one needs the whole 9 yards, and not just swastika of their letter "G". Android 3.0 tablets (Xoom, and whatever else) will show up with 3 mln free Google books OCR'ed, what font they will be in?

Thank you for reading this far, but don't forget to visit my dead goolocalizations.blogspot.com blog.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajbodnar:
Phone fall out of my top pocket straight into open tih of thinners, So quickly take batt out quick, then got the air and quicky when over it, the phone works ok but the ear phone speaker is very quite has anyone change it or can some one tell how to pull the phone apart please thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAMBO04:
This shouldn't be in the Android dev section! PLEASE post it in the relevant Q&A section.

But to answer your Q, i'm not entirely sure. The Q&A section has it all there, even a thread to replace the SGS screen so i'm guessing it tells you how to open it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iammodo:
unlucky

To take the phone part

Take battery out

remove 7 screws

take plastic case off

unplug mainboard from 3 connections

thats it,

the rest is one part.

thats right dig,lcd,vib motor,ear piece all one part.

if your near blackpool uk, I can sort it out. as have a new lying about.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajbodnar:
Thank you sorry for posting in wrong section but i/m only new to thr forum. I/ll leave in australia but one more Q/ is their much pressure on the cover to take off after the 7 screws are off and also were can i buy the new part from thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iammodo:
little but of force is needed yes. also ebay would be your best bet for parts.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mccabeross:
Am after a copy of all the files that were on the UK Desire Z SD Card when shipped.

Did anyone taken a backup of their SD Card out the box?

Apologies if this has been posted before - Did a search and couldn't come up with anything...

Chairs.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cwirth7:
I am also highly interested
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
I think the only real "content" that you may have lost are the HTC Navigation pre-loaded maps. The user manuals and HTC Sync are on there too, but these can easily be downloaded.

The UK phones come with maps for the UK, Ireland and France.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mccabeross:
Thanks Mr Weavie.

Doesn't HTC Navigation use Google Maps though?

I am running the Virtuous ROM atm and have wiped the SD Card and it still works fine... or am I missing something?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
No, HTC Navigation has its own maps on the SD card. Which is good because it doesn't matter if you have a signal or not. However, the downside is you have to pay if you want to use the navigation.

Google Maps is a totally separate application. So it downloads the maps as you go, so you need a signal. But the navigation is free.

You might have lost HTC Navigation, I have no idea if it is built into Virtuous (maybe it is there, since it's a Sense ROM ?). But if you wiped the SD card you will have lost all the data for Navigation, e.g. the maps themselves.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoeki:
Is netherlands fine to?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Sorry I don't know exactly which maps are on the Netherlands phones, if that's what you are asking.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoeki:
Neither do I. The MicroSD card I got with the phone hasn't even been used. I replaced it with a 16GB MicroSD from the start.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
If it was a Desire Z, your factory-supplied HTC card would have had some stuff on it, particularly those maps for HTC Navigation. If you don't use HTC Navigation though, that won't matter.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mccabeross:
So.... does anyone have a copy of these maps or know where I can obtain them?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You have a Desire Z and had them originally ? If so then I will upload a copy of my Navigation directory from my SD card, and PM you the address for download (I'm not going to post them up directly for everyone, because that's going to get into the area of warez).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mccabeross:
Yes, original Desire Z bought from Carphone Warehouse. I upgraded the SD Card to 16GB but copied all of what I thought was on there but did so under Ubuntu and I wasn't showing hidden files/folders (doh! schoolboy error I know).

If you could Mr Wevie (Can I call you Stevie?), that would be grand!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
I don't mind too much what you call me, as long as it's not too rude lol.

Yeah, the Navigation stuff is in a directory called ".data", and as you might have seen, when it starts with a dot it's effectively hidden unless you use the right options.

The file is pretty big, it's about 900 MB. Uploading it now (it's going to take a long time !).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mccabeross:
Thanks mate, you are a star! :cool:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jin 06:
I too am in need of the data for the maps, unfortunately the laptop I backed my SD card on, had an old HDD which died on me on the night after I rooted my Desire Z after I had flashed it. :(

It would really make my day if you could PM the data to me, I've recently moved to a new neighbourhood and before I rooted my phone I would greatly rely on the offline maps on my phone to help to me to get to places.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bahmanxda:
You can Download them from your phone cant you?

i am a bit surprise to see this threat. but i again i might be thinking about something else

i am pretty sure after flashing a sense rom the first time that you want to use

htc maps ,it will ask you, if you want to download the maps deosnt it?

just make sure you are on wifi because the files are over 500 mb each.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slapshot30:
Is it possible to pre-load the maps for Google Maps also? I thought I read somewhere you could...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fantomas.CZ:
Hi all, I'd like to ask here, whether anyone has succeeded in getting the bluetooth tethering going.

I'm using Samsung Galaxy S, currently the Darky's 7.5 ROM and I've had so far no luck getting it going other way than via USB. I was trying the TetherBlu app, but it was not able to create a PAN interface and always crashed with this "Cannot create connection: unknown interface" (or something like that).

Then I tried the PdaNet, the USB connection works pretty nice, but the bluetooth DUN seems impossible to get on JPY software, on JPU I was able to get the connection always some time after pairing, but next day all was gone and in order to get a connection, I had to pair the devices again.

So my question is, can someone recommend me an app, ROM, fix or whatever, which would get me a working bluetooth tethering, like e. g. on iPhone?

Thank you all!
[Off-topic] olyloh6696:
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[Off-topic] jaszek:
I would like to thank every one in this thread.
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[Off-topic] T.C.P:
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[Off-topic] MacaronyMax:
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[Off-topic] jaszek:
Screw this, I didn't get thanked.
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[Off-topic] jaszek:
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[Off-topic] Mr. Clown:
Eventhough this is a offtopic thread, there's no sense in abusing the thank you button. Please use it correctly.

On that note thread closed.
[Android Apps and Games] broknindarkagain:
Hey,

I'm looking for an app that will allow me to track my kids phone via GPS.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] spyderman33:
google latitude on maps
[Android Apps and Games] broknindarkagain:
thanks looking into it now.

I have one phone that its working on, but teh other phone I can't seem to get google maps to show the "latitude" layer. hmm
[Android Apps and Games] jowett69:
try lookout, its also a virus checker
[Android Apps and Games] coolboykl:
Hi

We may just have answer for you, we just launch secq.me (Prodounce as secure Me) to Android Market, which taken preventative measure on tracking your love one.

To see a short presentation about our service and a demo, go to youtube, and search for "secq.me"

Cheers

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[XPERIA X10 General] quailallstar:
Has anyone here purchased the international version of the X10, the X10i for use on the T-Mobile USA network?

Looking for feedback, things you do and dont like about the phone.

Thanks!
[XPERIA X10 General] totalundone:
Using it on TMO-US here.

You can get the majority of the likes and dislikes just from browsing these forums, so i'll try to keep this abridged

TMO-US specific

dislikes: MMS. With 1.6 I was able to receive full size photos and after upgrading to 2.1, it's all been resized to 160x120. I don't see how TMO loses the phone's info...

likes: Works fine, 3G is fast, I haven't had any dropped calls (nor have I with other phones in the last 7 years), I can hear fine through the earpiece (it was VERY poor for me with 1.6), reception is great

Xperia X10 specific

likes: I can see the screen under daylight (I came form an N85... daylight = screen dissapeared), nearly perfect size, more pixels the better

dislikes: no dual-touch yet, might be stuck on 2.1 forever, camera is brilliant and terrible at times but always slow