yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] DaleGT:
[Q] How do I Import a contact.vcf into "Phone Group" NOT "Google Group"?

Hi

I have a bunch of contacts on my Desktop. I exported them into a .vcf file & copied it to the /sdcard directory.

I can import the .vcf ono my Epic, but the contact ONLY go in to the "Google Contacts" group.

I can create contacts manually, and select to put them on my phone -- NOT in the Google Group. That's where I want them.

How do I IMPORT the whole .vcf into the Phone group, NOT the Google Group? I can't find it so far.

Dale
[Epic 4G General] ossy81:
Hi dale,

Did you find a sollution for this issue?

Osman
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
Mind you this video is using an Epic running Eclair.

http://youtu.be/Ck0YTuaan74

BTW: there is a Q & A subforum for questions. ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draciel882:
My power/sleep button only works about 10% of the time due to water damage, so I need to remap my device wake button to preferably my trackpad or home button and I also need a widget that I can put in a 1x1 spot on my homescreen so i can put my device to sleep with out the button. Please help. I tried searching but nothing really came up. Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Dennis_:
Custom rom for trackball wake, plus search market for the widget
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draciel882:
Well, I've tried flashing roms, but I don't really like any, I would prefer to keep the stock rom for now if possible.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dream_th:
You should give a try to LeeDroid ROM if you want Sense. It's like stock but with some extra features and it still based on stock rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draciel882:
So I flashed the latest LeeDroid ROM and it wouldn't boot. It just continually went through the RAM check and never fully booted so I flashed my backup that I made and now I can't call or text. When I try to make a call, it says my phone isn't registered on the network. Did the LeeDroid ROM mess up my radio or what?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Dennis_:
Most likely you messed up your backup and lost your APN if you are GSM. not sure with CDMA since I don't have one our really know much about the ready it it's set up.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dream_th:
I don't believe LeeDroid or any other rom messes with your radio unless you install radio rom separately.

If you didn't install a newest radio rom which Lee provides in his site then it might not be bad idea since i believe it's from the latest OTA update. Anyway i strongly suggest that you look for answers in respective ROM's thread, most of the issues are covered there.
[G Tablet General] Skyydragon:
I'm just curious, and still have not found the answer I was looking for via search.

Can the 1.3mp camera be replaced with a better a 5mp camera on the G Tablet?...

Assuming The hardware exists, and that it is compatible, is possible I am sure a new kernel is needed, what about the possibility of adding 720 recording like the hd2(android version) or the nexus one?

Any thoughts would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.
[G Tablet General] KnightCrusader:
I would personally love to see the addition of a 5 or 8MP rear-facing camera. Yeah, I know it would involve some massive hardware hacking, but it would be a nice addition. :-)
[G Tablet General] rayden25:
Is that pain and suffering really worth the upgrade? There would be no way to use the camera effectively because you would have to have you back to what you were shooting. My opinion would be to go buy an HD video camera for $150. Cheaper and easier than hacking your tablet up.
[G Tablet General] joshua.lyon:
This is one thing that frustrates me about my G-tablet. I took some videos of the family out in the snow the other day and it was a real pain trying to capture the video since the camera only faces forward. The video turned out alright since we were outside and in good light. I've found that unless you are in really good lighting, the camera does not perform well. The quality didn't even compare to most of the devices that are out on the market now (latest Android 720p phones, iPhone/iPod Touch).

I'm looking forward to the NI Adam's swivel camera. It should be really nice for not only video chatting (front-facing) but also being able to film other things from different angles. For example, it would be nice to angle the camera almost completely to the back to film other people in front of you or angle the camera perpendicular to the device if you want to lay it on the table and do a timed photo or something similar. The camera is supposed to be higher resolution on the NI Adam, but higher MP doesn't necessarily equal higher quality so I'm crossing my fingers.
[G Tablet General] levrin:
I wonder if now that we have kernel source there wouldn't be some way to add support for usb webcams? I imagine the only reason no one has done it yet is because most android devices don't have usb ports.
[G Tablet General] jfholijr:
The FF camera is only meant for video chatting.
[G Tablet General] Skyydragon:
First off, thanks for the replies. I was looking for feedback and info and I need more, please keep them coming.

Second, I too like the idea of a rear cam pics and video, and yes I understand I wouldn't be able to take pics without my back facing, I still want it to be a web cam; The question is can I replace that cam with a better one, even if it may only be a 2.0 or 3mp? If you are going to do video chat, or maybe even streaming videos would a higher mp camera help or hurt?

Third from my understanding there may be room for a rear camera, as well as room for modules that can be added like gps. If I can get any more info and can keep the cost reasonable, I may look into both.

I like the g tab cause its a Do It Yourself-er that has tons of potential, and since I have some time on my hands, I am looking to make any one(or more) of these a potential project.

Thanks Again for the input
[G Tablet General] jfholijr:
There's no way to install a rear facing camera. All these projects you mentioned have been looked into by others and have basically determined not worth it.
[G Tablet General] Skyydragon:
If they all have been looked into and determined not worth the trouble, then I will concentrate my efforts elsewhere, I wont waste my time.

Apologies for wasting valuable thread space on this, and thanks for the input.
[G Tablet General] insight3fl:
FWIW, My Odroid T had a functioning USB webcam running android 2.1 and then 2.2. There were some driver issues, but they got them worked out.
[G Tablet General] nababan:
Could this camera firmware can updated to Karbonn Titanium S5 ?
[Wildfire General] redrage1359:
Hi friends,

I would like to know step by step procedure on how to unroot the wildpuzzle ROM to original factory settings. We are getting an OTA foryo update for wildfire but unable to install this (wildpuzzle rom already wiped).

Please guide.

Attached is the error file while installing the OTA.

View attachment 474819

Awaiting your replies.

(This is a first time post here, kindly excuse if i have posted in the wrong section).

Regards

Dilip
[Wildfire General] redrage1359:
Also the orginal RU for the phone which is a HTC India/Asia wildfire is not available anywhere. Could some post the link where i could get it ?

The RU required is 1.25.720.1
[Wildfire General] kevin2516:
Why do you want to unroot to get the OTA, when Wildpuzzle is now based on the OTA anyway.

And if you do unroot and update to official froyo, you won't be able to root again cause of the updated hboot.

anyway, it's here. http://b3b5bebc.ultrafiles.net/
[Wildfire General] nlovers2000:
RUU for asia/india

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=888946
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] yeahman45:
as seen on

http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/certified_devices/smartphones.html

the mythouch is a certified flash smartphone but reading everywhere it's not flash 10.1 but flash lite... question: how well does flash lite works? does it display flash 10.1 content?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] keinengel:
That's the MyTouch 4G, it's closer to the Desire than to the Magic.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] yeahman45:
oic... and what is the "T-Mobile® G2™ with Google" plz? is it the HTC Hero?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] keinengel:
That would be the Desire Z.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] AdrianK:
LOL, no. The Hero was branded by tmo uk as the 'G2 Touch' :P

If it's not arm v7 it will never run flash content officially (ignoring the pile of poop that is flesh light).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] yeahman45:
Ok thx for the replies.. lol easily got confused with all these namings
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
Hi

Is it possible to use gfree on a non-rooted phone just to do the SIM unlock?

I guess I could do temp root + SIM unlock, right?

Bell Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goozy:
I'm wondering the same thing. I just wanted a sim unlock for the time being so can I just temp root the phone?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wayde187:
The phone needs to be temp rooted (use rage) and then you can do the subsidy unlock method. Once that is complete it will stick with the phone after reboot if I'm not mistaken. You will just lose your temp root. But why wouldn't you want full root? Its really not that much more work. Especially if you already have adb on your computer.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
If you don't disable the NAND write protection via a permanent root method, then any changes you make via a temp root will not be written to permanent storage. So you'll lose those changes after a reboot.

So you need perm root to use gfree and make it stick. In fact gfree makes the root permanent for you. See the Wiki for details.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
so I need to do s-off + sim unlock?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
gfree_verify returns simlock=00, even without S-OFF

So I think it means it worked, no? Anyways why would there be an option to do only SIM unlock in gfree if you can't do it without S-OFF?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You're right. Sorry, I misunderstood the question, at least partially. gfree turns off the NAND write-protection so that it can make its changes, so you can run it with temp root if you really want. But then you've very nearly achieved permanent root, all you need are the su and Superuser.apk files, plus running the "root" script.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
I know, thanks

But I am a minimalist. I only enable features that I use.

There should be a simpler "how to". It's as easy as:

on computer:

get gfree and rage executables

adb push gfree /data/local/tmp

adb push rage /data/local/tmp

adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/*

on phone:

download and open terminal emulator

/data/local/tmp/rage

menu->reset terminal

open terminal emulator (force close)

open terminal emulator again

/data/local/tmp/gfree -S

reboot
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guhl99:
Your right, you are a minimalist :-)

And this is exactly what you need to do to get sim-unlocked

I still would recommend you to -s off -c 11111111 too to get radio s-off and super-cid. In case you install the newer firmware versions by OTA you will not be able to:

- temp-root anymore because htc patched the exploit that rage used.

- not be able to change s-on/s-off perm-root because wpthis and gfree do not work on higher radio firmware versions

- not be able to downgrade to a lower firmware version (because this needs either radio s-off/super-cid or temp-root to be able to edit the version info in the misc partition 17

Just my suggestion - have fun - Guhl
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
Ok so basically if I do S-OFF and remove carrier id now you are saying that it would be permanent, even if I upgrade to a newer firmware?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guhl99:
Yes for now this is permanent, the new updates to not change this.

But the new updates prevent you from rooting and changing any of these.

But if you are S-OFF you can downgrade and then you can change everything you want again.

Or let me summarize it like this:

- If you are radio s-off/super-cid you are safe because you will keep it and you still can downgrade
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goozy:
Thanks for the info. I ended up doing all three options with gfree.

Quick question: if I ever have to send my phone in for warranty, is there a way to reverse these things?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Yes. gfree has options to un-do those actions, see the Wiki for details.
[Captivate General] desmopilot:
Hey all, first post here. Currently I'm interested in the Rogers Galaxy S Captivate (seem to be a million different versions of the galaxy which is quite confusing). Beyond a few basic reviews/unboxings I can't really find much information on this phone. Without doing a long drawn out post I'll cut to my questions quick (I apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong forum and the noobish questions):

- What are peoples general experiences with this phone? Loves and hates?

- Froyo support, is there an official Froyo build from rogers or is it limited to 3rd party ROMs etc?

- When it comes to 3rd party ROMs etc, just how mod-able is this phone?

- Is WiFi tethering possible/available with a 3rd party ROM?

Thanks ahead of time.
[Captivate General] disellusional:
1) random shutdown issue with one of my phones. GPS problem with second. Third was fine (GPS/no shutdowns) but the build is "creaky". GPS is really fast and accurate and no problems. Battery lasts decent, depends how much you have the screen on for. Right now I can last 4 hours on idle with wifi/3G on and lose maybe 1%. Of course, nothing is really going on.

2-4 No clue yet. Haven't flashed. Kind of waiting for Froyo release from Rogers.
[Captivate General] xnoctis93:
bought a captivate directly from rogers the day it came out off-contract. GPS worked perfectly, even weeks after, navigation and all still locked fast and accurately. However, as far as I am concerned, the 2.2 froyo release by rogers is still not out..so i rooted the phone through download mode with a .zip (took 5 seconds), and since then, have flashed every rom you could imagine. All running great, the phone has restart once..randomly, but other then that, battery life and all has been super good. Haven't had any problems, so i'd say it's pretty good :p if you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask. and btw, wifi tethering is possible, at least with froyo on any of the main 3rd party roms.
[Captivate General] brendanmurphy:
Wifi tethering was in stock rom just so you know. Go into wifi settings :p
[Captivate General] Jeffu:
I think you should be okay since you're getting it much later than most other people... I think I'm included as well. I had the shutdown problem but a factory reset fixed it, so I think it was just a software issue on my end. GPS is still spotty, works great and accurately but sometimes doesn't. I also have the slight problem with search popping up randomly, but I am not too bothered by that.

Otherwise it's fine, I love this phone. Everyone is so intrigued when I pull it out. :P
[Captivate General] desmopilot:
Thanks a lot. In your opinion, what's the best 2.2 ROM? One I've heard mentioned the most is Cognition.
[Captivate General] gin032:
In general, the phone is really quite good. The Rogers stock GPS doesn't have the issues that the AT&T GPS appears to have, but the modem is HSDPA not HSUPA so upload speed is limited to around 300-400 Kbps and download is limited to around 5Mbps max). Rogers also don't put on a load of bloatware which is really quite nice. Stock Rogers phone even comes with tethering enabled (USB or WiFi using MyAP). With my phone I can't really say I had any "Hates"..a few minor annoyances, such as

- the contact groups (in stock) never syncs the Google Groups

- the calendar app has no "conference call" option, I had this on my OpenEtna phone

No official Froyo support as yet. Rogers saying early 2011. Froyo is only available in custom ROMs based on a leaked ROM and now also based on the GT-i9000 (e.g. Galaxy S "Vibrant" from Bell...as well as some stuff from the Telus "Fascinate" too), as there are official Froyo builds for that (which are not without their own problems too).

Very easy, particularly from rogers as they have not prevented you from loading software in any way, so you can simply download z4root or oclf or the like, directly to your phone from it's browser and run it locally to root your phone. There are a few ways to install the ROMs but they are mostly detailed in their own announcement threads and pretty much cover the bases. There is also a ROM installer HowTo in the QnA or Question section of the Samsung Captivate forum.

- Is WiFi tethering possible/available with a 3rd party ROM?

Thanks ahead of time.[/QUOTE]
[Captivate General] gin032:
All of the ROMs that the Chefs put out are really quite good. It mostly comes dow to a personal preference. One thing to be aware of is the ROM limitations. These are usually listed in their announce thread too:

Note that if you want HSUPA (up to 5.6 Mbps up/7.4 Mbps down) then you need one of the i9000 based modems. You can often put different modems from different ROMs into your own phone, but there are some limitations. The modem should come from the same build (e.g. don't put a 2.1 modem in a 2.2 ROM), some modems are HSDPA only (e.g. the Rogers and AT&T based ones) and that the modem bin is used for more than modem processing, it appears to be used in DSP so it affects that voice call handling. With some modems as a result, you may not be heard on a voice call..so test. It's not to big a deal as you can easily swap out a modem for another.

Cogntion and Perception are ROMs both by DesignGears. I liked them both but couldn't get the combination of features I wanted (which they NOW have) and I couldn't get hold of DesignGears to provide me with his set-up for compiling the kernal (one of the few chefs that compiles his own kernels...most use kernels from other people). To my thinking Perception is more "active" than Cognition leading to cognition being (considered by some) more stable...but it's just a matter of preference. I think that Cognition is not capable of HSUPA but Perception is...though withough checking I may have that the wrong way around.

Axura 2.5 is what I am currently running, though there will be no more development on the "old" Axura because AdamHolden, the latest Axura chef received too many negative comments for his liking and quit. He is starting a new ROM with a team rather than as an individual (see here).

I hear good comments about Assonance, but haven't tried it since using Axura as it fit all my needs.

There are also many others. Just take a browse through the "Captivate Android Development" forum and you will see a number of [ROM] threads. Take a quick read of atleast the first 3-4 posts on the thread as those are used to identify the current version, features, state and issues.
[Captivate General] Punxx:
I love my SGS. Feels very snappy with some tweaking and a different launcher, battery life is 24-48 hours with average usage (again with some settings tweaks). No GPS or Shutdown issues on my side and I bought the phone when it was first available. A few people at my work have the phone and I've heard no issues with it at all. One tiny issue I have seen is that some texts seem to come in with an incorrect time stamp. They seem to be about 5 hours off. This can be easily fixed with a simple app so I don't even think about it anymore.

As has been mentioned before, no Froyo yet but that's pretty standard for Rogers. On the plus side there is a Gingerbread ROM being made which looks very sexy in the I9000 forums by supercurio and others.

I rooted my phone in a matter of minutes with z4 root, very simple, one click. I have tried to lag fix my device using oclf but it failed. I know it's not the phone though since a friend of mine has the same phone and his works great. If you like quadrant stats, he's right up there. I personally haven't used any ROM's yet but I will be in the near future. From what I can see there are a lot of ROM's available and it seems like a pretty simple process.

Haven't bothered, I don't need it so I don't know.

I definitely recommend this phone
[Captivate General] slntdth93:
No issues for a (relatively) simple user that just wants froyo. Love how un-branded rogers left this phone compared to my SE dumbphones and whatnot.

Never tried thethering (as i have no idea how much data i have left)

GPS Test gets a lock within 15 or so seconds with 50ft accuracy (lowers down to around 30 after a bit)

I think i had one of the newer batches (purchased from corporate - early December)
[Captivate General] desmopilot:
Thanks a lot for the replies all! Looks like i'll be hopping one the Captivate wagon pretty soon.
[Captivate General] desmopilot:
nevermind, my mistake.
[Captivate General] gunstar3035:
The Captivate is amazing with Rogers, my wife and I both have one and they are fast, solid build, and just a joy to use.

If you want to see a video of mine, just search on youtube "gunstar1981"

Its a really great phone, hope you get yours soon!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ronald_delgeano:
Hi there,

i know some answer about data.img such as here

But i still confused

what are the diffrences between 512mb & 1gb data ?

what's inside ?

thanks

Ronald
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Stephen:
Mainly the amount of space available for installing programs etc.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ronald_delgeano:
oh ic..

so on my word :) , when i installed apps, it will installed there, is this right ? or ? sorry for this silly question :)

thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] orangekid:
basically yeah that is where you install apps to (if not on "SD") and it has wifi settings, etc...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dharvey4651:
Okay. I believe the most simple way to put it is like this:

On your stock HD2, you have a certain amount of memory on the device itself(512mb for unlocked HD2, 1024mb for TMOUS), this is where the OS is contained and also allows you space to install apps, store photos, music, etc...

The data.img that you either download from the thread or created by the Android build you're using is more or less exactly what is described above. It is "device memory" but contained in a single file so that it can be placed on the SD card.

Hope this clears things up for you.

EDIT:: Thread moved to Q&A forum.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cybercrash:
Hello,

will the Android-made-data file expand during use?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Archer:
No. There are guides in this forum on how to increase the size of one, rather than have to start again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ronald_delgeano:
Clear enough

thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuaveCanadian:
Hello all,

I went to uninstall a bloatware app on my phone tonight (the Y! Finance Widget) with TI.

Everything was going OK, until my phone rebooted. Now I see a black screen that looks like this:

E: Missing bitmap indeterminate1

(code -7)

E: Missing bitmap indeterminate2

(code -7)

E: Missing bitmap indeterminate3

(code -7)

E: Missing bitmap indeterminate4

(code -7)

E: Missing bitmap indeterminate5

(code -7)

E: Missing bitmap indeterminate6

(code -7)

--Install from package...

Finding update package...

And it's been sitting on this screen for over an hour. Is that normal? If so, how long should I wait?

If not, how can I get my phone to reboot properly? I can't seem to get the thing into download mode.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScratchSF:
Not sure why you are seeing this message. I'm not sure if it has something to do with freezing applications or something else. If you did a Nandroid first, you might see if you can restore using that. If you can't even get into the CWM screen, you might need to use ODIN to flash a stable ROM.

Here's what I was able to find: http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=191

Good luck.