yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] oshizzle1991:
if you are on ATT they will just put the charge on your phone bill, but im not sure about other carriers.
[Android Apps and Games] agentaaron:
T-Mobile will allow you to charge your bill as well
[Android Apps and Games] shrooms90:
Thx for the replys...

But no luck:( im with swisscom and normaly they allow me to buy things on my phone bill but not in android market:(

And paypal is fine,but so far ive seen one app that allowed me to pay with paypal...
[Android Apps and Games] I-Heine-I:
I know, don't get why google still won't let us pay with paypal for example, imagine the growth in app purchases when everyone can purchase them. Would prevent piracy too. But I've been told they give away free credit cards with everything you can buy in the USA... :p
[Android Apps and Games] shorty1483:
Wirecard, just google it.

Registered on Monday, transferred 20 €, Thursday it was on the Wirecard account and I paid my first app with this virtual prepaid credit card.
[Android Apps and Games] Poapfel:
Try an other market e.g App Center, just Google it ;)
[Android Apps and Games] shrooms90:
Ok sounds good will give app center a shot, otherwise ill make a wirecard account.

Thx a lot:)
[Android Apps and Games] SeeHarrier:
im from mexico,

i use debit card but talk with the banker to get the card with i can make electronic buys :D
[Android Apps and Games] shrooms90:
Thx guys i think im gonna use wirecard. Alternative market apps didnt help, since most of the apps i was looking for were linket to the market.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazdaz:
Hi,

Is QuickSSHD the only sshd available on Android 2.2 ?

QuickSSHD (commercial) is based upon DropBear which is free, does anyone still develop DropBear ?

Is there a free sshd version available ? After a few searches, i did'nt see one.

Are there any patches for Android to work with OpenSSH to cross compile, I suppose that would be quite involved and then you'd need to know how to package an .apk file.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin@TeslaCoil:
QuickSSHd has two components, the Android side (user interface, system service, etc) and the dropbear side. The dropbear side is all open source and my changes are here:

https://github.com/barryk/android_external_dropbear

Build instructions here:

http://teslacoilsw.com/dropbear
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berserker_devel:
Here it is http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=921801 ;)
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
so here i got 3 Android phones

all sitting on the same spot

2 of them (SGS / XT720) shows 3 or 4 bars signal strength, but SNS only shows 1 bar, 2 at best.

however a quick test using 3G speedtest confirms the same download/upload speed as the 2 other phones.

and there's no problem calling even when it only shows 1 bar.

Can any body confirm this?
[Nexus S General] dinan:
Go to settings > about phone > status and post the signal strength of each of them (should be in dBa). If they're the same, then ya either the SGS phones are overinflating their strength or the Nexus is reporting lower than it should.
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
your prolly just holding it wrong

*sarcasm*
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
I c wut u did thur!

Touche, good sir, touche. :)
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
SGS -97 dBm 8 asu

SNS -107 dBm 5 asu

XT720 -84 dBm 7 asu

does that mean anything to you guys?
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
seems like it is displaying signal strength wrong, I believe it is the farther from 0 the better the signal

im at -75 and full bars 3G
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
anyways... that's what i'm saying the actual usage is good, and 3G speed is good

but the bar indicator is always like in 1 bar or 2 bar... which is kinda wrong
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
try restarting your phone? so it re-associates itself with the network
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
that would have been the first thing i do when i try to nail a bug :)

that's why i wanted to hear the experiences from the rest of you

just trying to find out if this is a bug specific to my phone, or if it's something that is affecting everyone
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
-97db with three bars displayed here.
[Nexus S General] dinan:
The farther it is from 0 in the negative, the worse the strength is. The best strength I've ever seen on an android phone was -69. Worst is in the -100's so it looks like the Nexus is actually getting worse signal, not just reporting worse...maybe an antenna problem =(
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
quite the opposite, 0 is just a reference point, the farther from zero the better
[Nexus S General] Bmerz:
Mine is -101 with 2 bars.
[Nexus S General] dinan:
I'm not sure where you're getting this from, but you're saying -100dbm is better signal reception than -70dbm? If that's the case then the signal strength reporting is completely reversed... as I have full bars in my apartment and it shows -72dbm, and at work I have 1 to 0 bars and it says -101dbm. It's been like this for all of my phones.

Also speed tests at home give me 500k/s down and 50k/s up while at work I only get 60k/s down and 20k/s up...
[Nexus S General] clubtech:
It seems like the SNS is getting far worse ACTUAL reception than the other two phone.

-107 is very bad comparing to -97 and -84.

Are all 3 phones on the same carrier?
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
XT720 and SNS both are on Wind 1700/2100

SGS is on Fido 850/1900
[Nexus S General] clubtech:
That's interesting as there is a huge difference between the SNS and the XT720.

-84dbm means very good reception and -107 is at the end of the workable spectrum (at -113 you basically can not place calls).

I am also noticing very bad reception on my SNS but i thought that it is due to T-Mobile's crappy network. i have no other T-mobile device to compare it with though so i start to wonder if its the Nexus S that has crappy reception or T-mobile.

Try to do more tests in other locations with the XT720 and the SNS and see if you always see such a huge difference when both devices are in exactly the same spot.

I am interested in your findings.
[Nexus S General] clubtech:
And as for your initial question, there is no bug in the signal indicator as -107db is very bad signal so the indicator is correct.
[Nexus S General] Faruk88:
Okay please allow me to clear up some misunderstanding in this thread...

First of all, dBm is a logarithmic measure of signal strength with respect to 1mW. So, a smaller (i.e. more negative) reading means that you have lower signal strength.

Just to give an example: -50dBm is a much better signal than -100dBm.

Alright, so now let's move on to the next issue: You can't compare signal strength on two phones which are running on different networks. Why? It's possible that you have a strong signal from Fido and a weak signal from Wind, or vice-versa. If you want to compare the RF capabilities of two phones, you should make sure that they are connected to the same network and even the same cell (you can check the service menu to make sure that they are on the same cell).

And finally: The Settings>About Phone>Status is usually not a very accurate measure of signal strength, since they are rounded off to some pre-determined list of values (So for example, if it is jumping between -100 and -110, it might actually be jumping between -104 and -105). You should instead go to the phone's service menu (i.e. you type in some code into the keypad) where you will get an exact measurement.
[Nexus S General] NGiE5:
My friend happened to have the XT720 while I have SNS, and we happened to be at a same location where my SNS can't maintain the connection (only able to connect at one room spot with 0 bars and unable to hear a thing due to choppy voice when I tried to check voicemail) and XT720 still got 2~3 bars anywhere in the room and able to make phone calls. We are both from same carrier. We left our phone on table side by side without touching it. So despite the bars on phone nor the signal number in setting menu, real life experience tells me XT720 does have better reception than SNS sadly D: I was embarassed that night when other friends laughted at my supposely better phone :(
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
Where is the antenna located? Make sure your hand is not covering the antenna. On my nexus one in very weak signal areas you have to keep the antenna clear from your hand. The dBm will drop 12dBm just by your hand holding near the antenna.

Also the dBm readings in the settings seem to be accurate to whole numbers, you can see it fluctuate -106, -107, -105dBm. So it is not rounding between -110 and -100dBm I really don't think.
[Nexus S General] Tulips:
Nexus S Bad signal?

Does anyone experience bad signal (GSM) with this phone? I had Galaxy s before with no problem.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
What network were you using the Galaxy S on? Which model SGS?
[Nexus S General] Tulips:
Galaxy S is i9000, using Nexus S on Telenor Norway.

When i use speekermode (not holding) the NS in my hand at home it works ok but when i pick it up the phonecall drops.
[Nexus S General] idavid_:
that's probably because the antenna is in that bump on the bottom. you probably cover it thats why it loses signal
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
"You're holding it wrong." ;)

Steve Jobs mockery aside, I agree. It's worth trying a different grip to see if that's the problem.

OP, how many bars do you have on the signal indicator?
[Nexus S General] Tulips:
I did a small test (not very scientific):

NS	Phone on table	In my hand

4 BAR -89dbm 12 asu	3 bar -95dbm 10asu

GalaxyS 4 BAR -87dbm 13asu	3 bar -95dbm 9asu

I dont see the problem.
[Nexus S General] idavid_:
that could be the problem, but on my father's galaxy s (which has a similar antenna) i can barely lower the signal for 1 bar so i'm not sure :confused:
[Nexus S General] thejron:
I have noticeably better Wifi and tower signal vs my N1
[Nexus S General] funstuffalex:
105 whit 1 bar

also i was on a street betwen 2 5 meter tall buildings whit 2bars and my 3g data was dead....as soon as i drived out of that area i got it back.....

really crapy signal on this phone
[Nexus S General] boredme:
I am using my Samsung Nexus S for a week now,

three times I can't call out then I think is there a singnal problem with SNS? I search then read this thread and report my experience:

1.my carrier is CMCC ,run GSM(EDGE), I have use it's service for 10 years and live in my current spot for 3 years, my previous device: Nokia 6110N, SGS I9k(both them got no similar problem)

2.three times: two for a long time about 20 mins ,in the sector, signal bar sometime turn white somtime green(2-4bars); the "news & weather" show nothing but "reconnect" , the importance thing is I dial someone number, no sound(normal it play a music before it be picked up) for about 3s or 30s then it quit out of the dialing UI auto,videlicet again,either stay playing "dialing" for a long time but no sound or suddenly shut down. even I call the carrier's service hotline, the same status, and i reboot NS there's no a change ,so I belive It's a real signal problem ,on EDGE at least.

the rest one time, it's last only 2 mins then it saved.

anyone can tell what I should do??
[Nexus S General] savante:
[Q] Weak HSDPA/radio reception?

Hey guys, I'm just curious if there is something wrong with my NS.

Everyone is raving about the Nexus S battery life, but mine is really subpar. Definitely not nearly as good as most people seem to state theirs is.

My battery use graph seems to show sharpest declines when the signal is spotty, which makes sense.

I also noticed that I rarely ever get HSDPA reception as well (Using Bionix ROM with the H indicator). I'm coming from a Nexus One running CM 6.1 and in Chicago I almost always got HSDPA in the same exact spots. Even when my NS gets HSDPA, it never locks onto it for long.

In my house:

NS - UMTS Signal Strength -69dBM 22asu

N1 - HSDPA Signal Strength -71 dBm 21asu

So the signals appear to have the same strength in the same spot but the N1 is receiving HSDPA and the NS is receiving UMTS.

Maybe I'm stretching by trying to connect my battery issues with my signal, but I still can't understand why the NS doesn't get HSDPA.

I had to upgrade to the t-mobile 4g data plan when I got the NS but I kept my previous sim.

Is this normal from you guys' experience?
[Nexus S General] rashad1:
My data signal is fine, I get a crappy WiFi confection where I normally wouldn't though
[Nexus S General] Bronk93:
I've read this is because the manufacturer used a low power wifi chip to conserve battery life, I get the same thing.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] sjtscott:
I concur on that one. Data fine, but experienced low bars on Wifi and had it dropping out where my Macbook still had a full signal working perfectly and obviously connected to the same router.
[Nexus S General] TokyoGuy:
My battery also seems to be basically on-par with what the Galaxy S offered unfortunately. I think it might have to do with the type of network transmission (as where I am it's basically 99.99% HSPA) and the applications you have running in the background.
[Nexus S General] savante:
Yeah, I figured that. I've basically eliminated all my programs that were roguely using the battery. The screen easily is the highest drains anywhere from 35% - 50% depending on usage but Cell Standby and Android OS are usually in the 13%-17% range as well.

As I said, my battery usage graph at time shows sharp declines and the signal always seems to be sketchy where those declines occur although I've never really had issues previously with signals in Chicago. And I've never actually seen a low signal indicated on my phone when looking at it, just UMTS a lot more then HSDPA.

Maybe T-Mob is messing with the network here.

I'm also using green power to turn off my data for ten minutes and turn it on for one, while the screen is off. I thought that would make things better, and for a while it did.
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
on tmobile's network, the phone will say "UMTS" when the phone is idle on 3g, and switch to "HSDPA" only when you actively transfer data. so there is no difference i dont think between your 2 devices.

and your dBm looks near identical, so all seems fine.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Where are you seeing UMTS and/or HSPA? Not in the notification bar (on mine); all it ever says there is 3G or E. Which setting are you digging into? Is it a dialer code?
[Nexus S General] savante:
edit::

---
[Nexus S General] tintingkc:
My signal never shows to be as strong as my Vibrant but the speeds and signal when viewed in the menu show otherwise. The wifi is pretty weak though.

The thing I didn't like it the battery meter. Like the Vibrant when it was released, is real bad for accuracy.

Its new so I guess and hope updates fix the little things.
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
i just did another test, inside the server room, which is far away from any window, at the center of the building and shielded

SNS only got -109 dBm, 2 asu in average, worse was -111 dBm, 1 asu

XT720 constanly gets -98 dBm, 7 asu
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
you go into main settings, about, and its in there under status i believe.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Ah, of course, under the About/Status. I've seen that before, but I've never seen it say UMTS. My phone appears to be idle right now, and it says HSPA. If I switch to 2G only, it says EDGE (obviously). Curious that I've never seen UMTS.

I noticed something else interesting while testing that out. I was getting -87 dBm on 3G, switched to 2G only and signal jumped to -75 dBm and holding.
[Nexus S General] robstunner:
-87dBm 12asu on full bars.
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
hmmm i dunno, maybe it's been changed or something?

about the different dBm reading on 2G, that is because the 2G netwoek is a seperate network than 3G, different tower/hardware. so its very possible for one to have different signal strength over the other. the interesting part is if both cell's are physically on the same cell site/tower yet one is much stronger dBm. perhaps due to frequency difference...though that doesnt seem right as both networks are in the same ballpark frequency range. who knows...
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Yeah, I should have checked the tower. Antennas app shows a different tower being used.
[Nexus S General] desiregeek:
I can confirm that this is correct. I just got my new Nexus S. I am in Taipei,Taiwan and we have good reception here in the city. Using my phone I pick up UMTS and reception is pretty poor also the Wifi reception sucks. At my shop it will not connect to my D-Link while my HTC Desire did connect with no problems,my current MBP connects with no problems and my current Iphone 4 also connects with no problems. At home everything connects but the new Nexus S has difficulty holding and keeping a connection with my airport Express which is literally 3 feet away from it :rolleyes: Even then it shows 1 bar missing and says connection is good instead of being excellent.

What I feel is that reception of both phone and wifi are poor on this device. I ave tried this phone with 2 different carriers and 4 different Wifi devices. I think that maybe the Koreans did this to the Google phone on purpose just like HTC did to the old Google Nexus One phone so that when HTC released their HTC Desire after people would think that their product was better than the Nexus One phone and I bet that Samsung did the same freakin thing to Google becaue they want the people to buy their phone instead after they release their own phone (what ever phone will replace the Galaxy S). Bottom line is they stuck a poor Wifi chip in there and a poor GSM chip in there for bad reception.
[Nexus S General] desiregeek:
I also get better reception if I switch to 2G or basic GSM instead of WCDMA only or WCDMA preferred.
[About XDA developers] YOSEFE:
A happy & Healthy New Year to all of you at XDA-DEVELOPERS.COM Community.
[About XDA developers] jojo464:
bro,you and family and the rest of XDA all the best for 2011 and most of all a healty one
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Feliz Año for you all:)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMightiest1981:
I'm just curious if after wiping data and cache when flashing a new rom will you still be able to run titanium and restore apps and data. Now I've made a backup copy of the internal storage and placed it on my pc, but the transfer rate is so slow that I'm compelled to ask my question.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtone:
yea you'll be fine running titanium.. and wiping data will not touch your music/photos
[Fascinate General] spaceman1:
Just got a Fascinate. Can't get the memory driver to install properly. Heck, the usb drivers wont either.

How does this work or is it busted atm? I have Win 7 32 and Vista 64. Both have the same issue. Just can't get the Fascinate to talk to either.

Thanks
[Fascinate General] devistator18:
Did you download the drivers from samsung? I have win 7 64-bit on two of my computers and it worked perfectly after installing the drivers from here: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SCH-I500RKAVZW
[Fascinate General] spaceman1:
Nope. That does not install successfully. Weird.
[Fascinate General] jiggaman508:
I had the same problem I had to go to my device manager while my phone was plugged in and point the computer to the folder with the drivers in it...it didn't install automatically like I thought out would...
[Fascinate General] Mylt1:
how many times do you have to ask the same question? see your other thrad for the answer.
[Fascinate General] spaceman1:
Sorry about the double post. I did that one on the phone and thought it did not post.

I am using the cable that came with the phone. Regardless, the Samsung software will not install on either of my PCs. Is there a known issue with antivirus? Or am I just one of the unlucky that gets a stupid issue that takes forever to figure out?
[Fascinate General] spaceman1:
The file got corrupted somehow. ReDLed it and cleaned the Reg. before I unzipped and installed it.

Took 45! minutes to install!! Still does not work. Sees the phone as a removable storage device. When I click on it the message is please insert a memory disk in it? oooook

I turned off usb debugging on the phone but same problem.

I do see the drivers as installed on my pc. No idea wtf to do now.
[Fascinate General] spaceman1:
Both pcs recognize it as Samsung but neither will work with it. Do I need to get my old XP desktop in the closet just for this phone? lol
[Fascinate General] spaceman1:
Changed usb setting from mass storage to sync with media center. Works now.
[Fascinate General] uzumaki82:
Same exact problem here on Win7 32bit w/ Samsung drivers and this setting fixed it. Thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Lcallen80:
hello all, i have the evo 4g im rooted but want to upgrade to the 3.70 and dont want to lose it. i was told to flash the ROM steelrev. and radios. but im not sure how to do this. do i download it to my desktop first then into my phone? also how do i do a nandroid backup? im sorry but i have no idea on how to do this stuff. i have clockwork now but it said that theres a update and when i try to update it says there a error. i have 2.5.0.1 and the update is for 3.0.0.2 (talking bout clockwork). can someone please me help me out? thanks!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ZiCoN:
Hey there

*Stubborn as I am, I have searched and tested numerous keyboards until I found the keyboards I couldn't get to work. Started a thread in the themes and apps section with the keyboards. I have them all working on Darky's v7.7. This way for the thread ==> Working european keybords for JPY with most languages*

I just laid my heavily modified HTC Desire to rest and got me this wonderful new toy. Started out with a root and a flash.... and then the keyboard hell started.

I've been used to the HTC keyboard where almost all languages are included (and found it for my Galaxy and the scandinavian languages are in there, thank god), but why is it the samsung and swype keyboards are so difficult to get to work?

I'm currently using Darkys 7.7 (Kudos to the Dev.. nice ROM!) but none of the scandinavian languages are in there. Tried putting in the JPM keyboard, got the language, but XT9 doesn't work...

Does anyone have an insite to this? I've seen a lot of people asking, but noone seems to get a strait answer. The HTC_IME works fine, but I would like to keep things "themed" all the way..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AsgardCurse:
I got the same problem,..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ZiCoN:
Solved... 10char
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kkeller416:
so i was having issues with the error message when trying to install nand

after clicking daf.exe nothing would sync and i would get the

USB init failed

Info: .\RSPL\RSPL.cpp (723)

however when i used cm6.1_1.02 it used a file called andr_install.exe

that seemed to install fine for me

so i copied it to the folder of other nand builds it it has installed those fine

just a possible work around for others having issues

good luck
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] joshkoss:
Post the issue you are having in the specific thread you got the rom from.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronlkh:
Wonder if there is any callback application available or anyone can do such application where you make a call, the phone will actually call to the callback triggering server, then after xx sec, it will hang up the call. then upon any incoming call within xx sec , it will answer , pause then send the string of numbers made earlier to the call with option to add suffix.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlCaponeee:
In which the folder are the files responsible for the phone language?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlCaponeee:
Refresh...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Karl:
Does anyone know where i can find info on extracting kernel from a rom

i unzip rom and cant find a zimage any place

i tried using dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen aswell but i still cant find a zimage :confused: