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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutezak:
Mine also shows 5 meter as best 'accuracy'. Mind you it is not the accuracy, but it is better to interpret it as a 'probable error'. Thus your position may very well be outside the 'accuracy circle' - and it is a guess, which may not be comparable to other phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
+1

You can get a 5m accuracy and still be 500m off if you happen to have a Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checkers2884:
It has to be something to do with the firmware. Why are all of the readings perfectly divisible by 16.4 feet? I only see this with the Galaxy S phones too. As far as the guess about government restricting accuracy, my friend's htc incredible bounces between 3 and 6 feet, and this lucky SOB gets down to 1 foot towards the end of the video!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5scZhN8i0I&feature=player_embedded
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Yes, I can't get any better than 5meter as well.

Now, when I use my handheld mapping Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx GPS, as long as I have a clear view of the sky it'll be accurate to 3 meters, sometimes up to 2 meter accuracy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milsjg:
Well, I would bet some $ that the HTC is "faking" the accuracy (happy meter). The GPS on any phone has a very hard time getting a reading with an accuracy better than 5 meters independent of the GPS hardware. The accuracy is a statistical figure which will give you the probability (95%) of you being with in the that distance from your true location (so 1 in 20 readings could be 100 miles away in a one foot accuracy even if it is not likely).

The hardware, even if the phone could get a perfect reception and calculation, is not the main problem, for a one or even 10 footer. The problem in these scenarios is the space weather, accuracy of satellites etc. Ordinary earthly weather do not affect the GPS so much as some seems to believe. Anyway, 1 feet is hard to get even with a professional DGPS (differential GPS) and impossible with a GPS in a phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotsos44:
I get 5m and sometimes without any reason it jumps to 10m.

Every other smartphone(cheap or not) i used gets accuracy under 3m and most of the time 1m !! I am wondering , what the hell did samsung with the gps chip... I didn't believe that the gps was that bad until i saw other phones...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checkers2884:
The main problem with being capped at 5 meters is that in residential areas where streets may be tighter any GPS app will bounce you around like crazy. Basically Google Maps uses the accuracy of 5 meters which is a radius meaning the circle in which Google Maps will think you're in could really be 10 meters wide. Since 10 meters can be on multiple streets at once in Google Maps, it will start bouncing you around.... And heaven help you if you have an accuracy higher than 10 meters, you might as well guess where you are.

Whether other GPS phones are "faking" their accuracy or not (and I don't think they really are), Samsung has CLEARLY developed their GPS firmware to only be accurate in intervals of 5 meters which makes NO sense at all because a phone can easily get more accurate than 5 meters of accuracy seeing as I've never had this problem of bouncing around navigation maps on much MUCH crappier phones than the Galaxy S...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milsjg:
Google accuracy + GPS and you will understand why you do not get under 5 meters. It is near impossible to get lower readings. The phones that get 1 feet are miracles. A dedicated GPS with good antenna sometimes get 3 meters.

Look at this page in german http://www.kowoma.de/gps/gpsmonitor/gpsmonitor.php. Translate it to english and you will be enlighten. He uses a dedicated Garmin antenna on the roof to mesure the error. With 95% he get around 4 meters 2010, with 50% he get 2 meters. You have to scroll to the bottom to get the figures from the archive.

Well you may argue that it is an old GPS but the technology has not been going towards more precision but to smaller and less battery draining components so the accuracy will be roughly the same. It is way better that you try to enlighten yourself about the GPS then nag on SGS so we can skip the rather uneducated guesses. I am not saying tha SGS is a good GPS but you seems to expect some magic that do not exist on any phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nirvana388:
I regularly get 5m which is approx 15ft.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checkers2884:
Thanks for the info Nirvana. If I had that accuracy constantly I'm sure I'd get more accurate navigation. How does your phone handle Google Maps Navigation? Does your location jump around or does it uneccessarily reroute?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checkers2884:
Well my point about the firmware only incrementing by 5 meters at a time still is valid. No other phone does that. It screws up Google Maps if you're not within 32.8 feet (10 meters). Believe GPS Test or don't if you want, but head to head navigation tests will prove the Galaxy S falls short of most mobile phones with GPS in speed and accuracy. I've never read as many complaints about GPS on any other line of phones than the Galaxy S line.

And as far as me believing in "magical phones" capable of pinpoint GPS accuracy, well then I suppose all of the HTC Android devices must have been made by freakin' Dumbledore himself because I've never once seen them bounce around a city so drastically while using Google Maps for navigation like the Galaxy S bounces around... My sister's G1 is better than my Galaxy S for crying out loud... But what do I know, I don't even speak German lol...

Sheesh..... Tough crowd.....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milsjg:
Read the last line "I am not saying tha SGS is a good GPS but you seems to expect some magic that do not exist on any phone.".

However there are some issues with the GPS but I think they are within the tolerance at least for me. HTC may make better GPS phones but all I am trying to say is that there are so many misconceptions floating around the forum that and I just want to keep the discussion on a certain level.

My GPS for one thing do give bigger "false true location" for the first minutes than what is shown as an error. I tolerate that because I know that it takes time to adjust to true location. I think HTC is better in that sense. However my SGS has an extremely good sensitivity. I can get an lock in the basement with concrete walls on every sida (just a a hole for staircase on one side). To my knowledge no HTC unit has accomplish that. On the other hand there seems to be some trouble with Maps and MyTracks (especially) which seems to be way to slow in updating speed. If you use the built in test program for GPS and use http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html to manually set position you get much better readings. This pointing in the direction that there is some software problems. An educated guess is that the GPS has to low priority (read Hardcore thread) or the file system is to slow. We will see what happens with Gingerbread. I suppose it is going to have a faster file system and some prioritizing tweaks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checkers2884:
You make some valid points.... I still won't buy another sgs device but that's my choice. As far as gingerbread is concerned we're getting ahead of ourselves haha..... we don't have to go there though. At least not in this thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djsubtronic:
That's 1 meter not 1 foot.
[HD7 General] jemop:
Hi, every time I charge my phone It's very dificult to use, because it turns really sensitive I suppose.

It's almost impposible to write an SMS, because the letters I haven't even touch appear on screen by them self. Or it starts jumping back and forward in the menus. It's difficult to select an icon.

I just have to disconnect it from charger so that I can do anything.

Does any one have this issue? and how did you solve it.:confused:
[HD7 General] Rouz.:
I remember someone had this issue with HD2 when he was using a custom charger (not the original one)

If you are using the stock charger and you still have this problem, then you might wanna send your device back to service center, since i certainly don't have this problem.
[HD7 General] Jim Coleman:
What he says. No issue using my own HD7 while charging, although I'm using a cheap third party charger. But definitely try it with the charger that came with your phone. If no joy, you have a faulty phone and should take it back.
[Droid 2 Global General] stealthstealer:
If i buy the Droid 2 Global from America and unlock it, will the 3G/UMTS work with my T-mobile UK sim.

Frequencies are: My current UK T-Mobile Pulse which of course works fine GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 HSDPA 900 / 2100

Droid 2 Global GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 UMTS: 850/ 1900/ 2100

is the omission of the 900mhz UMTS band a problem?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thirdlane:
My Evo has been acting up lately. It randomly reboots at least 10-20 times a day. I thought it was probably an app causing the reboots so I wiped my phone and still does this. It especially doesn't like to stay on with the Navi on. It started on Myns RLS 4 and after flashing Fresh 3.5 and still does this. I've tried flashing different kernels from stock to Netarchys to kings to ziggys to alleviate this issue. I've even resorted to flashing the stock rom and kernel combo but no go. HW version 0002, latest radios, latest PRI, running Fresh 3.5, with Nets 4.19 CFS nohavs. Anybody running similar combos with the same problems please let me know what I could do to fix this issue other than to unroot and go to Sprint for a new Evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
No fix because its a hardware problem unrest install a ruu and return it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
Yep, get it back to "normal" and take it in. Mine was in the same boat, it wouldn't reboot if I just let the phone sit there but once I launched the browser or navigation it would just reboot. Then it started boot looping. Maddening. Sprint was cool and seems like most haven't had issues returning / receiving with this issue.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thirdlane:
I was hoping it was a software issue. I've had this phone since launch day and has been rooted since I got it. No problems until a couple of days ago. Looks like I'm going to have to unroot and return to stock so I can try to get another Evo from Sprint. I hope Sprint doesn't try to jerk me. Thanks guys
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
They jerked me . But I proved it in front of them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thirdlane:
How'd you do that. Only problem I'm foreseeing is replicating the reboots. It hasn't randomly rebooted as of 11 am today. I made sure to talked to Sprint tech support so they can document my problem. As soon as I get home I'm unrooting and going to stock. Tech Guy told me Sprint repair center should just swap my phone the same day
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
I took about 10 minutes of gaming and gps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
HAH one guy tried to get me out of there, I left my phone there for 2 hours and they couldn't get it to reboot. They gave me a new battery and said that was the problem. LOL I got it to reboot in two minutes in front of him. Suffice to say that was that. Be polite but firm.

SWYPED from my SUPASONIC
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thirdlane:
OK. I appreciate your help guys. Surprisingly my phone hasn't done a single reboot since I posted my question. Funny
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thirdlane:
So finally after taking my phone to a 3rd party repair center, raising hell with Sprint, and taking it to a corporate store I got my new Evo. First store I took it to were no help. Told me my phone had liquid damage without even opening my phone, I never dropped it in water or exposed it to water. Called Sprint and customer service was no help, call got escalated to customer priority service next day and they told me to take it into a corporate store. Tech reset my phone and my phone still randomly rebooted in the Store so they had to give me a replacement phone. New phone was a version 0003 and had the radio and rom that shipped on launch date. Rooted my phone and installed Flipz's rom with net's kernel immediately after getting home. Problem free since. I noticed that new phone uses a different panel. Screen seem to look more natural in terms of color. Previous Evo had a screen that was unusually bright and had light leakage around the capacitive buttons. Battery life is fantastic for some reason because I was running the exact same setup previously and I was getting around 9-12 hours on a full charge. I'm getting between 12-17 hours between charges in the past 5 days I've had this replacement phone.
[Nexus S General] nolovelust:
Anyone using this option? Is it accessible via pc
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
backing up what exactly?

obviously your contacts and such of that sort is available to you, but other than that i wouldnt know
[Nexus S General] nolovelust:
Backup I'm talking about is in Privacy settings called "Backup my data"
[Nexus S General] zorak950:
Sounds like it's just for if you break/lose/replace your phone. I doubt you can access whatever's stored via a web browser.
[Nexus S General] onthecouchagain:
I personally have it disabled.
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
also what it does is, if u get another device, it will automagically download your apps and such
[Nexus S General] nolovelust:
I really hate selling my soul to google but that feature is tempting
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
You sold your soul to google the minute you turned on an Android device...
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
This backup setting is not available to you anywhere online. But it backs up your settings, current wallpaper, etc.
[Nexus S General] icandy75:
I've been using this feature for quite some time (nexus 1 day 1 of 2.2) and yes it backs up all the apps you download from the market and transfers them to your new phone. It's automatic and a bit surprising if you forgot you enabled it. It did not work with my Vibrant for some reason but has worked with my NS, HD2, MyTouch (both 3 and 4g) and several other devices running 2.2 or better.
[Nexus S General] nolovelust:
not yet :D. I still use my N900

does it backup default email app settings too?
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
backs up everything, including WEP/WPA keys..which is awesomely handy
[Nexus S General] diversificationied:
It doesn't back up "everything", it backs up select system settings, not application settings.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mos Sincere:
I've tried rooting my device using the Unrevoked method which says it has worked fine.. but when I go into my menu I don't have Super User access.. I also can't use Titanium. I was mostly doing it on order to be able to move my apps over (as most posts I'm comng across seem to need root) but a few rooting methods I've tried just don't seem to work. :confused:

I have a desire with FroYo installed. Any help would be much appreciated!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spile:
I rooted my Desire 2.2 but this does not give me the ability to move all apps to SD. In fact in 2.2 you can move apps that will move already from the manage apps tool in settings. In my experience rooting is pointless in 2.2 if all you want to do is move apps to SD
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
That is sooooo not true, infact the main advatage to rooting and using apps2sd is the dalvik cache getting moved to the SD-EXT, my dalvik cache is 75mb+ and froyo apps2sd isnt able to move it ...... so thats over 70mb i have extra over a unrooted froyo user :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spile:
But surely dalvic cache isn't an application?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmetek:
it's not but it uses valuable internal memory? :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Borat38:
I can vouch for the OP saying he couldn't transfer all apps to SD card even after unrEVOked. I rooted my Desire 2.2 w/ unrEVOked 3.22, and although I got the little black ninja in the apps menu, not all apps are movable by either the System settings or Apps2SD.

From poking around in the forums, I came to understand that one needs a custom ROM as well for moving all files to external drive. (Correct me if I'm wrong here)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robster1122:
removed lol
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mos Sincere:
My problem is I just can't seem to get Unrevoked to make a difference (even though I got the 'Triumphant' screen at the end a number of times).

Someone told me that they managed to hack the apps without rooting, but I can't seem to find any info on doing such. :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
What A2SD+ does is make Android think the EXT partition on the SD card is the internal memory by using a symlink. Using a custom ROM with A2SD+ in it and making an EXT partition on your SD card means the internal memory is just used by app data and not the app itself. This means you can install more apps!! :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
The dalvik cache is used by the dalvik vm to run all applications with optimal bytecode, think of it as androids version of a registry :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigMrB:
Unrevoked would not root my 2.2 I had to downgrade to a lower hboot.. then used a gold card. If your rooted you should have superuser access, and the other most crucial thing you can do is access recovery so you can use nandroid.. I would install a custom rom.. recommend auraxTsense 8.2... awesome! It has apps2sd + too
[EVO 4G General] randyreed1971:
Hello. My EVO is updated with all the new firmware and such as I just got it. I have my EVO rooted using the unrevoked method. The PC36IMG is the only thing I can flash to. When I remove the PC36IMG from my sd card and try to flash another ROM I get errors. When I put the PC36IMG back on the card it will find that image and load it and it goes back to sprint lovers. What do I have to do to flash another ROM?
[EVO 4G General] sKunkman:
It would help if you said what kind of errors you got.

Did you do a nandroid backup before you tried to flash? If you can't, you didn't root correctly or somehow broke your root.

The bootloader will always look for PC36IMG because it's the default recovery image name. Remove it and it will just tell you it's missing, at which point you flash a different ROM in the recovery menu (go to install zip from SD card).

Obviously you can flash to sprint lovers so I guess you got it rooted ok at some point.

Have you tried doing a full data/cache wipe before flashing to the new rom?
[EVO 4G General] randyreed1971:
I cannot remember what errors I got at the time. I finally got my phone back to sprint lovers. Everytime I try to do a backup it will not do it, it will just reboot and loop on the white Sprint evo screen. I've tried to flash fresh and others and I get errors. I put the PC3IMG back on and it will find it, and load sprint lovers back on. I don't know what else to do at this point except just stay where I am at and hope nothing goes wrong.
[EVO 4G General] randyreed1971:
Oh. I did do a android backup but when I tried to go to it, it says it does not match MS5 or something like that?
[EVO 4G General] Blitzpwnage:
MD5 checksum is corrupt? File is maybe bad download. Re download it
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] armo89:
Which iPhone theme is the best your general opinions? and what launcher does it use?

I'm using ADW at the minute, didn't want to buy one of the themes in case there is a better one out there
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] IcyWildfire:
You got a Wildfire for it to look like an iPhone?
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] maaz_obaid:
u should try "iclone"
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kevin2516:
Just use desktop visualizer and use suave icons hehe I love them.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
Where i can download the iclone for wildfire???
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kevin2516:
The market. Type in iClone :rolleyes:
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] TiiXiboy:
No results..
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kevin2516:
Eh, i get the results just fine. did you flash the cm6.1 permissions fix from sympnotic's patched market thread?
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
Pls, insert a download link, because a didn't want buy it... And i can't see the paid items...

THX
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kevin2516:
Google for it, I'm not going to help you dl a paid app for free. Although others might.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
Hi again!

I can download free from a website!

I install this to the my wildfire...

I start it, and it write this:

The application iClone(process com.kingyo.iClone) has stoped unecpectedy.

Pleade try again.

Force Close

PLS HELP!!!!

I use CyanogenMod 6.0
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
Hi!

I install the application, and i start it , it write this:

The application IClone (Process com.kingyo.IClone)

has stopped unexpectedly.

Please try again.

Force Close!

HELP TO ME PLS!
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
Ops!

Sorry, me internet browser slow, and i wrote 3 time!

SORRY!!!!!!!!!
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kevin2516:
Bl it won't work then. or you can buy the one from the market.

Try reinstalling.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
i buy it...

NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!

Help pls.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] Plantronics:
Here have you Iclone ----> http://www.multiupload.com/0XMD3495AM ;)
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] ChefAnton:
!!!

Hmmm, sounds like it works fine, iPhone clone, heh, heh, heh.

But seriously, contact the developer, should be a contact on the Market page for the app...
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
This version not work to, on htc wildfire cm.6.1 ...

I think the problem the screen very small, and stop because this.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] maaz_obaid:
there's a new version of ADW Launcher by the name "ADW Launcher EX"... download that and in the UI settings, select "iphoneish".
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
Thx, i try it!
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] waldo9:
THANX!

It work fine!

Thx again!
[G Tablet General] DrDr3z85:
So I just got a G-tablet and I'm a flashaholic on the Evo so I wanted to do the same with the G-Tab so I went and followed all the steps but after I mount system and data and o back to install zip from sd card I cant find the rom. When I click on the folder rom it tells me that there is no files in there. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong as I followed the steps and even went back and re read them at least 10 times. Thank you for your help
[G Tablet General] mzimand:
Do you have a micro SD card(SD Card2) in the tablet if so that may be where the backup went. Check SD Card 2 and you should see a ClockworkMod Folder.
[G Tablet General] muerteman:
The mistake I was making when I first tried to flash was id drop the file with the name of the rom that you download here right into the card. My recovery was not seeing. I then realised that you have to unzip this file and put the update.zip that you want to flash onto the card and only that. Hope that helps.
[Nook Color General] DevalB:
I checked the nook site, and it does not show support for .mobi files. The majority of my ebook collection is already in that format, and I would hate to have to convert each and every book over to epub, etc.

Does the Nook Color support .mobi files, rooted or not? I did read that someone was able to get the Kindle reader app on the NC, which reads the .mobi files, so I happy with that, but I just want to make sure before I make the purchase.

Thanks! and Happy Holidays!
[Nook Color General] zdrifter:
The NC supports epub ... a rooted NC can install the Kindle app so that would be a route .. a better route might be to use Calibre (free DL) .. this PC app can convert mobi files to epub and can do so in bulk so you needn't do them one by one .. also the Calibre software (runs on your PC) can connect and send files to the NC, so pretty handy.