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[Android Software Development] niraj87:
We can very much download apps to the PC. Some of the sites provide downloading only on scanning the QR code from the phone, but there r many many other sites wer u can download the apks on ur PC, like I do since I have no GPRS/3G/WiFi accounts on my phone yet.

A great list of such sites :

www.download.pandaapp.com

www.getandroidstuff.com

www.androidsoft4u.com

www.andappstore.com

www.mobiles24.com

www.bestandroiddownloads.com

www.freeware4android.net

www.slideme.org

www.android-themes.com

www.freewarelovers.com

www.androiddownloadz.com

www.downloadandroid.info

www.freeapk.com

www.androidappsfree.blogspot.com

www.mobile.softpedia.com
[Android Software Development] sujal:
Hey!

I was looking for something like Apple's App Store, something official. But anyways, thanks alot! :)
[Android Software Development] Michael.Rose:
With minor hacking you can install the official Android Market on you PC inside the official Android Emulator as well as x86 port of Android running on PC hardware. There are a lot of guides explaining how to do this online.

Here is an example:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2186...ndroid-market-in-the-google-android-emulator/

p.s. This is off topic... I know people use this all the time and I certainly don't have the best grammar myself, but I just wanted to point out that "alot" is not a word in the English language. No one seems to mind little things like that when posting online, but I happen to see students using it all the time in their papers and it is wrong. They use "alot" and when it should just be "a lot".
[Nexus S General] Jayrod1980:
OK, so before this phone I previously had a vibrant and then the mytouch4g. I live in a so called 4g area. The nexus s seems right in line with my vibrant and I can get a tick under 6mbps down. The upload here is faster on my nexus than the vibrant or the mytouch, at around 1.7mbps. The mytouch at Max could pull about 7.5mbps. I can't remember if I ever got more than that. I'm not making this threat to complain about the speeds of this phone.

My question is, if this phones radio can get a theoretical Max of 7.2mbps download, is that an unrealistic number even when the tower can pump out higher speeds? For example, the mytouch has a Max of 14.4mbps but even in a 4g area it never pulled down close to that. I'm thinking the speed of the radio is like alot of things where you have the theoretical Max and then you have the functional limit. Am I wrong saying that? Has anyone gotten a 7mbps download speed off the phone? Or conversely, if anyone has owned a g2 or mytouch4g, have you reached speeds anywhere close to those maxes? Is tmo even pumping out that much bandwidth yet?
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
closest ive gotten on my nexus is 6.5 down and 3 up
[Nexus S General] Jayrod1980:
Wow that's an amazing upload speed!
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
And i by no means live in a small city.

Corona is 30-40 mins from LA, population like 160,000 people. so it isnt some podunk town
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
Damn you live in corona and get those speeds? I'm down in temecula, but on ATT. I see around 3 Mbps but have been thinking of switching.

Anyway theoretical max is most always limited by the backhaul to the tower, depending on how many T1 or more connections it has. But you should be able to get pretty damn close to max if all things were right in the perfect conditions.
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
ya the speeds out here are pretty damn good :)
[Nexus S General] big_adventure:
You will definitely run into the limit of the processor using SpeedTest.

You can show this if your home DSL / cable is fast enough. I get 17-19Mbps down and .9mbps up over WiFi through my DSL (Free, in France, ASDL 2+, and I live 800m from my CO in Paris, I'm using WiFi N from an AirPort Extreme) using my MacBook Pro (core i7, 8GB RAM so it can take it. :-) ), running SpeedTest to a Paris server in Chrome. Using the same WiFi, I can get up to 8.5mbps down and .9 up on my Nexus S, connecting to the same server through the SpeedTest App.

I therefore know that while my connection can support much higher speeds, the phone's hardware/software can't handle them. For reference, an iPhone 4, right next to the NS, pulls up to 6.9mbps down. My N1 can do about 6.5 at best, and my old faithful milestone at stock clocking couldn't do better than about 4.5. Given that the Hummingbird processor in the NS is at 1ghz, and the hardware-similar iPhone's A4 (the GPU, much better in the NS as a SGX540 versus the iPhone's SGX535, isn't engaged at all by speedtest) is running at roughly 750-800mhz, those scores seem to indicate that the processor is the bottleneck with this test on these devices. Idem for the N1 versus the Moto - it is generally 1.4x to 1.5x faster with most CPU kinds of stuff compared to the Milestone, and the 6.5 to 4.5 ratio tends to follow that. I can't tell you why the N1 is slower consistently than the iPhone 4 at this test over WiFi, but it most definitely is.

Over 3G, I get wildly variant service all over Paris. I've seen up to 6mbps with the iPhone 4, the NS, and the N1, and up to (still) about 4.5 with the Milestone.

3G radio signal is something else entirely - the Moto is by far the best, then the NS, and then you have to fall a long, long way before you get to the iPhone and the N1.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
San Fernando Valley here.

Never seen more than 3Mb/s on the NS on the down side, usually 1.5-2Mb/s on the up. My N1 in the same locations routinely pulled 4Mb/s down, about 1.5-2Mbs up. Highest I recall ever seeing is 4.4Mb/s on the N1 down.

One thing I've noticed with the Speedtest app is that the default server for me, Los Angeles, is often very slow for all devices. I can pull faster speeds if I test against Bullhead City or other Az cities.

I concur with @big_adventure that the phone's software seems to limit it rather than the wireless technology. I'm on a 30Mb/s FIOS line at the house, the laptop gets 32 down, 20 up, the Nexus S on the same WiFi node maxes out 12Mb/s down and 7Mb/s up.

I'll try to run some tests today to see if my N1 can still get the 4Mb/s speeds it used to average at my office. I'll also run some tethering tests and see what the laptop can pull over the tether for comparison.
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
running speed tests on a mobile phone, the bottleneck is ALWAYS the mobile hardware. the combination of cpu, memory type and speed, are ALWAYS the bottleneck when speed testing on a phone. so its the whole package that matters. maybe the nexus 1 has slower RAM memory but faster CPU, but the iphone 4 has slower CPU but faster memory, etc.
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
I'm getting 2.7-3.8mbs download and ~1.7 upload(never seems to change much) here in different parts of North Dallas.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
I just did about a dozen tests between the two phones (Nexus S and Nexus 1), from my office, where I used to get 4.0Mb/s on the N1 in Speedtest app on the phone.

I ran a couple of tests against 3 different servers (Los Angeles, Lake Havasu, Bullhead City) on each phone, and again on my laptop tethered via wifi hotspot to the Nexus S.

I threw in a few extra tests on the NS after a reboot of the phone (to swap the sim back and forth between the two phones).

The results were pretty much the same for each method.

I peaked out at 2.9Mb/s down on both phones, and 2.8Mb/s on the tethered laptop.

Upload speeds more interesting, the Nexus One maxed out at 1.3Mb/s on every test to every servier, the Nexus S got 1.7Mb/s on every test to every server, and on the tethered laptop as well.

Both phones show full bars and 3G and I used the Antennas app from the Market to confirm that both phones were connected to the same cell tower.

Perhaps not the best field testing, but good enough to show me that if either phone has an advantage over the other, in my area, it's actually the NS because it's getting 40% faster uploads and comparable downloads.

It also shows me that my fears that the NS wasn't getting the 4.0Mb/s I am used to in this location is not because of the device, it seems to be a change in the quality of service here.

As a final point of interest, I ran the same tests using my iPhone 4 on AT&T. Averaged about 1.9Mb/s on the down, 1.0 on the up. This was interesting because this phone was averaging 2.6-ish down last time I tested it here. It seems that both AT&T and T-Mo aren't serving up what they used to here near the Van Nuys Airport.

This also speaks to what I've said consistently about T-Mo vs AT&T...when I can get service from T-Mo it's much faster than what AT&T gives me, but the problem with T-Mo is too many areas that I can't get signal from them around here where AT&T is available on the phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
I'm not sure if this is a phone problem or a ROM problem. I'm on CM6.1.1 for 2 weeks already. Recently the phone starts to present symptoms of sleeping beauty where it dies off and only way to wake it up is removing battery.

Situation:

I put recurrent alarm to ring at 8.30am, the phone dies at 8.00am. Happened twice within this week already...

Today:

2 days ago

The alarm rang while not charging.

The day before:

The alarm rang while charging.

The day before:

As you can see I woke up at 10am when the alarm failed to go off.

The sleeping beauty syndrome happened a few times within the first week of having the phone and never occurred again, so I brushed it off as breaking in period. But this is too much.

The phone is about one month old now.

Anything I can do before sending it off for warranty claims?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jinxman:
even after gingerbread update this problem continues, and mine is not a rooted. this type of unreliability for a smartphone is completely unacceptable. has htc any answer to it? a 500 euro device that just dies on you haphazardly?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
lol that's a bit of an overreaction... This definitely isn't a wide spread issue man. If your phone is messing up, you should send it in for replacement.

OP, are you underclocking or using a screen-off profile? There could be any number of things that're causing your phone to lock up and crash while sleeping.

on another note, any specific reason why you're still running CM6? CM7 has been in stable for several months now...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jinxman:
no cm6 or cm7, like I said, its unrooted. there are quite a few threads in other forums regarding this problem. its just crappy hardware sold expensively, that's the sad part. even heard of people exchanging the hardware and still facing this problem, one reason why I don't think that its worth bothering to send it for repairs
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
I know you're unrooted. And that's why I said that you should request a replacement phone... and if that replacement has the issue, replace it again! that's why they replace it when its broken.

And like I said, no matter how many forum posts you see about the issue, it really isn't as widespread as you think.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperDave81:
***SOLUTION***

Buy a 10 dollar alarm clock that plugs into the wall. Never be late for work again.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
Thissssss. I know custom ROMs are stable, and stock ROMs are supposed to be even more stable, but ffs I'd never rely on one as my only alarm clock.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noob1015:
Try turning gps off tell me what happens.... reason is I'm currious if that's the issue I have similar problems when my gps is on and never have any issues with it off.
[Epic 4G General] dwayne210:
plzz help y doesnt my computer recognize my epic 4g
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Why did you make a new thread when people are trying to help you on the other one you posted. You just made this thread like 20 mins ago. WTF???
[Epic 4G General] knock.back:
people like you are the reason so many of the good devs are leaving the epic or leaving xda entirely.. double posting is a big no no... somebody ban this guy...
[Nook Color General] cubstuff:
I have seen others ask this same question, but have yet to see a fix. I have bought books through computer on Kindle. When I open Kindle on the NC I can see the archived books. It lets me click on them and download them to NC. They are then in my Kindle "home" to open. I have had 2 books that actually open and let me read. The others give me an error stating "Invalid book. Please remove from device and reload" or something to that effect. I do so, and then get same error message. HELP!
[Nook Color General] alphahere:
No problems here.

Try clearing your data for the kindle app.

Sent from my LogicPD Zoom2
[Nook Color General] k8108:
Try uninstalling then reinstalling kindle. I just bought a book and its working fine.

One thing I had to do tho, was to actually go into my acct at amazon and get it sent to the right device. I have kindle on my phone, too and i had to designate my nook as the sync recipient (listed as android 2).
[Nook Color General] compuguy1088:
I'm having a similar problem. Reinstalling and wiping the app's data doesn't seem to do anything.....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Exodeity:
Did a few searches ( cool little auto-search feature when you make a new thread, hadn't posted in a while, :P ) and the only thread about it had no replies, and wasn't posted in the android section, so I'll give it a shot.

Would it be possible to have a NAND version of android, have it's system in the RAM? You know, fast fast, quick quick, etc. etc.

Thanks! :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] abhinayp:
Is there any free texting app for wp7?

Im coming from iPhone, so i was pretty much used to apps like TextFree or Text now.

Is there anything similar yet in Wp7? or any app on the way?

Thanks,

Abhinay
[Windows Phone 7 General] darrylsaladino:
I have a question about a texting app for WP7. I don't have a plan with SMS messaging and I am wondering if there exists a free app on the market that has the ability to text a phone through internet without using the SMS feature. I know that both Android and iOS have an app of the sort.

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[Windows Phone 7 General] ycavan:
Look for an app called "Text Me". There's a free version & a paid version. The free version doesn't do attachments, but it works really well.

Everyone you wanna "text" has to have Text Me & it's available for iphones as well.
[Windows Phone 7 General] abhinayp:
@ycavan

thnx dude.. cant believe i missed it.. lol.. though buggy, it does the work..

thnx:)
[Windows Phone 7 General] CreepinJesus:
Not really a free text app then is it... if everyone has to have the application it's basically the same as the Facebook messages!

Be careful with those free text apps though - it's quite common for the receiver to be charged for the messages. I know in the US they get charged anyway (wtf) but elsewhere it's different.
[Windows Phone 7 General] GenkaiMade:
I don't understand why people don't just email each other... it all uses data anyway...
[Windows Phone 7 General] CreepinJesus:
Or even call! Sometimes it's cheaper - depends if there's a connection charge on your tariff. There wasn't on my old network, and a minute's worth of call was cheaper than a SMS so... no brainer.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
does the rest of the world not have unlimited text messaging? Or are y'all just too cheap?

What about google voice?
[Windows Phone 7 General] CreepinJesus:
Yeh, we do, but I don't have enough friends to justify the unlimited text package :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] zukа:
I think in a perfect world - if everyone was an XDA nerd - we'd all email each other. Majority of my friends still don't have smartphones, though, and those that do still prefer to text. My email's set to manual check anyway because push is stressful (sometimes I like forgetting about work and who I have to pay on ebay)

What's annoying, though, is that I read somewhere that text messages are the most marked up product of all time, and yet nobody seems bothered by this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Its because no alternative has a monopoly on it. If 70% of smartphone users used whatsapp sms would be cheaper cause most people would start cancelling their sms packages.

Im and free texting apps are fragmented, so most people have to fall back to sms, anyways.

Also, some of those apps arw battery-aggressive (on OSes that multitask).

That is why lots of BB users stay with RIM for BBM.
[Windows Phone 7 General] chizzwhizz:
Tiny text is kinda similar to BBM...i use that to talk to my friends that have a wp7
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Bbm preinstalled. Getting people to all install and use these apps is very difficult.

The bigger your contact list, it gets exponentially more difficult - to the point where it isn't worth it.

Was like that for me and whatsapp. No one else wants to install/buy it, so why bother keeping it installes myself?
[Windows Phone 7 General] pjbcool100:
My app called "Free Texting" just got approved today. Go check it out :-)
[Windows Phone 7 General] thesecondsfade:
Use Google Voice. GoVoice is a great app for utilizing Google Voice for texting, voicemails, and outgoing calls. I haven't paid for SMS on my cell plan for years and I use texting through GoVoice all day. The $2.99 paid version supports immediate Push notifications too. I think the free one might support Push in the future, but $2.99 is not a bad investment in the interim... considering that the cheapest SMS plan on any cell carrier is like $5 a month and that's not even for unlimited.
[Windows Phone 7 General] thesecondsfade:
No trial or ad-supported version?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Marvin_S:
Does this only work in the us? I have never heard anybody here using it.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] blueren:
Hi all! This is my first post here in this forum.

I got myself the O1 and read a lot of articles about the mods you can do to it. Although I didn't clearly understand anything. Custom roms are basically versions of the OS which have been tweaked to make better use of the phone's capabilities right?

I've already rooted my phone and have toyed around with various apps.

I read a post regarding the custom recovery installations. I believe this is the first step when it comes to flashing? I understood NOTHING of it.

Q1. COuld someone explain to me in simple words as to what exactly i'm supposed to do? I don't want to try out things with half knowledge and then end up with a brick.

Q2. Would I be losing my warranty in any of the procedures? If so, is it possible to revert back to my original settings?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] staticxx:
i have the same questions
[Optimus One, P500, V General] The_ERROR:
check http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=900905

I'm updating it when I have time...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] blueren:
^ Thanks for the heads up. But it still isn't clear to me as to where exactly i'm supposed to type that code you've mentioned. Could you throw some light on that?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] The_ERROR:
This will be answered in Android specifics... :) Anyway, for insert commands, you have to use adb shell. Most simple way how to do that is installation of "Terminal Emulator" app from market. Then you can type here all commands ;)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] blueren:
Alright thanks! :) I'll post back here once I get some results

Update I installed it. Thanks for your walkthrough! :) Where do I proceed from here? Before I do anything at all, I'd like to make a full backup of whatever there is on my phone.
[Captivate General] rexrbgh:
I'm coming from the Vibrant forums, and am looking for the best rom to flash onto my friends Captivate. Which rom in your opinion is the best for day to day use? Also are there any roms that still utilize the Touchwiz launcher?
[Captivate General] Connor1:
Assonance is the best.

Sent using smoke signals.
[Captivate General] rexrbgh:
Do you know of any roms that contain the Touchwiz launcher?
[Captivate General] gflare:
I'm pretty sure DG has kept a modified version of the TW Launcher in his latest Perception build. And considering it's a DesignGears Rom, you know it's pretty solid.

I'm personally using Auxura at the moment. My next step is going Phoenix (same dev) or Perception.
[Captivate General] rexrbgh:
Alright thanks for the reply. Do you know if Odining back to stock is absolutely necessary? In the Vibrant forums it's totally optional and only precautionary, but it seems like nearly every Dev has it listed as a MUST DO in this forum.
[Captivate General] newter55:
Follow the more rational conventional wisdom
[Captivate General] s44:
It's paranoid and unnecessary unless you know/suspect that the ROMs use kernels with conflicting filesystems. Just wipe /data and /cache.
[Captivate General] zelendel:
Ok guys we all know that best rom threads dont work, Best bet is to try them each over time and make your own mind up.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] psufan5:
Anyone have any swype themes preferably black? Need one for the keyboard with the microphone (newer version).

Thanks.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] donharden2002:
Look at the new phoenix rom, it's worth down loading. Swype is black with white lettering and some orange in it. It looks awesome.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sorodrigo:
there is a rom or kernel for extended battery?

would be good for those who have

thanks

:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tritran18518:
desire stock sense rom from cotulla, and many other roms like: MDJ, ...:D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ClydeB1:
Are you sure of that? I've been known to be wrong before LOL, but AFAIK the current kernels don't support EB and the rom just boots and switches itself off. Are you running with an EB currently on a NAND build? It will be great to get confirmation that it does indeed work as I'm currently telling other users that EB is not supported yet.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] famewolf:
Some of the kernels compiled by others do not support EB but I've got the "original" nand rom booted on a cheap ebay version....authentic one purchased but won't be here for several weeks so can't confirm about the E400.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sorodrigo:
mdj has support?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tritran18518:
Maybe I use the cheap EB from eBay, not the one from HTC
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sorodrigo:
my batt is original
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Derek0228:
Not yet, supposedly the ones with hastarin kernel at least let the rom boot fine, but I can't confirm since I left my extended battery in another country and am waiting for my family to send it back to me :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hd2k10:
AFAIK 'Official' EBs need the special Kernel to boot, knock-off ones don't, you just get wrong readings (die in normal time, pop battery out, put back in and have 60% left) --- I have the 2400mAh Ebay-Knockoff and can confirm it working with any EB or Non-EB kernel.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matmar:
Nand not compatible

Tried Desir HD ROM's, desire ROM from cotulla and none are compatible with eb.

it boots until lock screen then re-start from begining....:mad:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matmar:
on the other hand...

NAND drain less battery than SD builts....;)