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[Vibrant Android Development] ThC23:
How come this is just 2.2 and not 2.2.1?

Just curious!

Rockin that Nero 4.1 w/Voodoo + s.b.g.2.3
[Vibrant Android Development] xpgroup:
Switched back to JL5 because it works better for me.
[Vibrant Android Development] kcp877:
Flashed the modem back, with zero bars 3g is still working, doesn't seem right to hold at zero bars though, what do you think?
[Vibrant Android Development] kcp877:
Removed the yahoo app, at 908 when I took that screen shot I put the phone down with 19 on the battery, went back just before 10 and it was dead, plugged it in now had zero battery. Back again to jl4
[Vibrant Android Development] shovelhead83:
Why jl4 over jl5?
[Vibrant Android Development] FitzMichael:
Nice strong signal i don't need wifi calling :d
[Vibrant Android Development] hitman818:
Is the battery better than jl5?
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
Sounds like you need to change your kernel to ka5 and remove any other apps that are causing battery drain. I would start checking into that. I will post any findings I can after its fully charged. :-)
[Vibrant Android Development] hurrpancakes:
Here are my test results after running the speedtest.net 10 times in the same spot on each modem.

JL5: Download/Upload (all numbers in kbps)

775/1231

495/964

1387/1165

986/1101

1764/789

1224/1241

1223/1262

717/1120

916/1154

1215/1337

JL5 Average: 1070/1136

KA5:

1436/1292

1407/1264

1268/1297

1353/1312

1605/1167

1427/984

1448/1300

576/1267

1761/1210

1461/1170

KA5 Average 1374/1226

As you can see, speeds to seem to be improved over JL5, which is a good sign.

In regards signal strength, I cannot say anything about any changes, because I find that the network signal bars aren't that reliable an indicator.
[Vibrant Android Development] hitman818:
Is battery the same you think?
[Vibrant Android Development] hurrpancakes:
I've only had it on for about 15 minutes, all I've done is run those speedtests. I can report back in an hour on how much battery has drained from it being idle.

EDIT: Well, after an hour, and a few text messages, my battery has gone down 10%, which is about what I've experienced normally.

Running Nero 4.1 with Dragon OC Kernel at 1GHz
[Vibrant Android Development] theBIGmack:
Anyone know if this can be flashed on top of Axura 2.2.6 ?
[Vibrant Android Development] ThC23:
This is just the modem, you should be fine!

Rockin that Nero 4.1 w/Voodoo + s.b.g.2.3
[Vibrant Android Development] BruceElliott:
I think that you should try looking at the signal strength by going to Settings--> About phone--->Status and monitor the "Signal strength" meter. (It updates dynamically.)

The "bars" indication is roughly as useless as the stock battery indicator compared to an "accurate" battery indicator which shows battery level in numerical percentage.

For reference, three bars at my office corresponds to about -91 dBm. Four bars corresponds to about -85 dBm. So, in my case, a four-bar signal is over twice as strong as a 3-bar signal (logarithmic scale). Two bars is -103 dBm (I had to shield the phone by putting it in the refrigerator to decrease the signal strenth that much, lol.

My guess is that Samsung simply changed the relationship between absolute signal strength and the "bars" indicator. However, zero bars with a relatively strong signal may indicate that the modem coding person made a mistake.

Don't worry about the number of bars. 3G is what you want. If Samsung can decode 3G with a weaker signal, so much the better.
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
After 2.5 hours of HEAVY usage, I have used 18% of the battery life. Standing @ 82%. I have this modem and the KA5 kernel w/ Voodoo5 injection. :D The only thing that stinks about this modem, the slower speeds...
[Vibrant Android Development] epakrat75:
After ~ 8 hours of standby time and several hours of usage this modem is definitely NOT slower than JL5 for me and battery life is so far unchanged. 5% drop over 1 hour with my normal use.

If you want to stop relying on the bars then download the free widget from the market called, "Mobile Signal Widget" by Empirical. It can show a real-time mobile signal for both the carrier network and WiFi. Lastly, you can freeze / thaw the widget as you see fit. I didn't develop it, I just use it.
[Vibrant Android Development] Scoobyracing03:
wrong thread please ignore
[Vibrant Android Development] epakrat75:
Even though you've now managed to root successfully, this wasn't the place for your queries. Not only is this the wrong forum (not development related) but your questions also have little to do with the thread topic. This is a discussion about the "modem" portion of the KA5 leak alone so it's not even a "general ROM" thread.

Also, this is highly recommended reading for those new to the Vibrant, rooting on the Vibrant, etc...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=849028

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=771111

Help yourself so you can help others like yourself later, I say.
[Vibrant Android Development] kcp877:
Ok, on a full charge, wiped batt stats, reflashed the ka5 and giving it another try. Since 630 am i'm down about 5 an hour, but its basically sitting, not being used. I ran three speed tests in a place where I've struggled to get over 400 kbps on any modem and I'm just over 800 consistently, so something is working better. I'm not sold on the battery yet, but I'm giving it a day. I'm thinking that it would probably work better flashing the whole KA5 build, but I really don't feel like redoing all my settings again. It is a real pain. I've had readings as low as 200kbps on jl5 at this location and frequent data drops before I went back to the JL4 build with this modem.

Also, meant to mention this yesterday. I had two wifi calls yesterday and the sound quality was better, don't know if this was related to the modem or my switch from nero jl5 build back to the deodexed jl4 I'm on, but the calls were clearer and louder.

edit....Hate editing when I make a mistake, but don't want others reading and not considering it based on my battery complaint. Well, I reinstalled my yahoo mail app to read a could emails and forgot to remove it after I was done. I thought it was off when I was testing the modem and it was in fact on. Back on KA5 without yahoo mail app installed and it's 100% no difference in battery for me, I've been sitting at the same level for 45 minutes idle. Also, I flashed the kernel w\voodoo as well. No issues. Nice and fast.
[Vibrant Android Development] OaklandR:
Wow! I am new to all this as I just bought a Vibrant Tuesday.

I just installed this modem and I have speeds that I never had at my work. Before this I was getting about 2Mps after I let it sit for a while I ran a test and got 4.5Mps.

I have noticed that my signal bar hasn't changed much at all. I also haven't had it long enough to comment on the battery. I'll see how it does today.

Thanks!
[Vibrant Android Development] nelson0140:
This modem works great for me...sitting on the pot at the fire station I rarely had service. Couldn't use the internet or text. This new modem is letting me do both now! Hahaha
[Vibrant Android Development] epakrat75:
I made a prior post to this thread about a Mobile Signal Widget available in the market. Those signal bars in the notification area are not very accurate. Have a look here...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10593713&postcount=89
[Vibrant Android Development] anikan4:
Weird issue... It's all normal signal and data but my Wify won't work. It's stuck on connecting to Wify. Going back Jl5 for now. Oh yeah I'm running Axura 2.5.7 with TW's DoW OC	Kernel.

Edit: changed kernel back to vodoo jl5 and all works well.
[Vibrant Android Development] kponti:
I am starting to think the Speedtest app is highly inaccurate, for one it always thinks I am either in Ohio, Utah or Washington and I cannot choose any servers in Tx when that is happening.

So far I have consistently had the fastest download speeds with JL1, JL4/JL5/KA5 have all given me approximately the same (slower) download speeds. HOWEVER, when I am actually doing something online (browsing, downloading apps, etc) it seems JL4/JL5 (haven't tried it with KA5 yet) runs right through the tasks and JL1 takes the f'ing longest..... Might be cos JL1 picks the best servers for the fastest download speeds???

My upload speeds have been somewhat consistent between all 4 at 1-2mbps
[Vibrant Android Development] deeoh1084:
day 2 so far its working pretty good!! better signal and GPS is so much better for me than JL5 it locks to my location within 10 seconds when i'm outside driving or walking i was surprised with the GPS b/c i wasn't expecting better gps signals with this one because we all know this phone doesn't work well but boy i was wrong with this new modem!! amazing how one little modem can change ur phone dramatically only negative feed back i have with this modem was the battery life but i just flashed it yesterday so we'll see how day 2 is with this modem :D
[Vibrant Android Development] jree:
I have shot up almost 2mbps download. Upload is still relativley the same but D/L is just nutty.

For the passed two hours, unplugged, wifi running, a couple of text messages, surfing the web, going through photos, a couple of speed and quadrant tests and my battery is down 11%.
[Vibrant Android Development] kponti:
Another observation:

You definitely need to wipe battery stats after flashing this modem. I have consistently gone from 30-40% battery to 1% battery immediately after flashing this modem (three times now). I do not know if the upper limits of how charged the battery can get or the lower limits have been changed in the system itself with this modem configuration???
[Vibrant Android Development] Wes33:
Speed test was a little higher, but the real world feel was much improved for me! Youtube videos are snappier, web browsing and app downloads are quicker, even when I use wifi it seems like I get better connection out at the limits of my router's range.

Still new but the battery use seems the same. :D

Nero 4.1
[Vibrant Android Development] gforceriders:
I don't seem to get over four bars every where I go. Kind of weird people.
[Vibrant Android Development] popsi26:
I honestly think the battery is worse, my download about the same, and my upload speed got horrible...used to get about 1.80 mbps now only about .053 which is a pretty terrible difference.
[Vibrant Android Development] mk262:
Non-scientific but I did all the tests from my desk.

Last two are KA5 wireless/gsm respectively, previous two before those are JL5. I'd say this modem is pretty good!
[Vibrant Android Development] wuzy:
3G signal in dB doesn't seem to have changed, but JL5 would show 4 bars even at -90 to 88dB. I think KA5 actually fixes displaying false bars and now gives a more accurage indication.
[Vibrant Android Development] OaklandR:
No battery issues compared to the day before. It went down 3% in the last 2 hours here at work. So far this has been good.
[Vibrant Android Development] deeoh1084:
+1 battery life seems better than yesterday now it's been 5 hours and my battery is still 88% with light web usage, text messages and 5 speed tests and quad score :D nice~
[Vibrant Android Development] RoZm X:
I get this on the jl5

Disable data 70 percent of the time...

Idle for many hours..

When I use my phone it's texting, xda app or some research.. What am I doing wrong?
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
I am getting awful battery life..., GPS is stinking great now... 4 meters in 5 seconds... and data speed as dropped substantially... :(
[Vibrant Android Development] smashpunks:
Im liking this. Get a little better signal, better gps and batter seems pretty good. Took the phone off the charger at 6 am, at 1030 it was at 99.... not bad.. Seems good to me.
[Vibrant Android Development] Corvette Dave:
New Modem works great!

I performed the hardware fix and am now running Nero 4.1 with KA5 modem with great improvement on cell and GPS. I can get a lock even when in my house!!!

Cant wait for the Nero release with KA5!!!

Great Job Team Whiskey!

:)
[Vibrant Android Development] serendipityguy:
Please add this modem to future builds because it is very solid.

It's not like a placebo, but on a full charged battery, I'm zipping though web pages from the genie widget and the images from the email are very fast...

Would like to add that Navigation loaded up inside my computer room which in the past could only receive a signal for this app outside.

Please add this modem to future builds because it is very solid.
[Vibrant Android Development] Dbryon:
Holy **** never got above .5 m dl now getting 2.6m dl
[Vibrant Android Development] gopheer:
Wow getting about 6megs and full bars from speed test. Was getting about 5 megs with 2 bars on jl5
[Vibrant Android Development] EricDET:
I've had this since last night... With mixed results. 3G speeds tend to be much better when I'm receiving them but now I'm not getting 3G in places I used to get it... 2G speeds have seemed to take a dive on me. Which is huge because I don't get 3G in my house. This modem did net me my highest download speed I've ever had on this phone though... 3mbps... I'm on a local carrier though not T-mobile. But the 2G in my house has suffered greatly. IMO JK6 still offers the best 2G experience but this is the way to go for 3G from now on. My gps is still occasionally right with this modem as well.

Also I've noticed the bars are actually quite a bit more accurate... As theres not much -db difference but the bars are always 1 or 2 lower than before. It will hold 3G on 0 bars but the same -db stats as JL5 on 1-2 bars.

Edit: This was flashed over Nero v4.1 w. Voodoo Enabled.
[Vibrant Android Development] ohnoezmahfone:
These modem files

It doesn't make sense to me that the modem file would change so drastically from build to build, or even between major releases. I would expect that the radios would be configured with about the same settings as has worked in the past on other phones, then there would be one clean-up release to fix issues, and that would be it for modem files, right? It's not like this is bleeding edge technology.

But then, I don't understand why Samsung is still sitting on the 2.2 update-- it's as stable and issue-free as any software is going to be at time of release.
[Vibrant Android Development] kcp877:
Didn't make sense to me either but try it and see what you think then.
[Vibrant Android Development] kcp877:
I can confirm that wifi calling on this modem is much improved, no more distant sounding calls, give it a try
[Vibrant Android Development] BruceElliott:
These download speed tests assume that the path between the carrier and the test server is much much faster than the path from the carrier to your phone. When that is not the case, such as when the Internet is very congested, a download test is meaningless (as to the carrier downlink speed) because it includes significant path latencies other than the wireless downlink latency. In that case, you are testing the speed of the entire path between your phone and the server, not just the carrier-to-phone downlink speed. If the Internet is working well and the test servers have good bandwidth to the Internet, the choice of servers should not matter.

Some download tests allow selection of a test server location so that you can confirm consistency of results by trying several of them.

One of the more reliable sites is http://testmy.net/. You can access that in your phone browser or on your computer by tethering.
[Vibrant Android Development] BruceElliott:
Al contrar...modems are not about "settings." Modems implement extremely complex algorithms to decode data symbols and thus recover voice and data from the wireless link in the face of low signal-to-noise ratios, multi-path interference, etc. These algorithms are, have been for many years, and will continue to be a very hot topic in the wireless engineering world for the obvious reasons of going faster and further.

For radios in hand-held devices, these functions are now largely implemented in software modems. So, you can expect to see a continuous stream of modem releases as algorithm development evolves at an ever-increasing rate. This is good news!

Also good news is that the Nexus S hardware is very similar to Galaxy S. Hopefully that will extend the flow of modem releases for Vibrant further out into the future than would otherwise be the case at the point when Sumsung decides that software development for the Vibrant is finished.

Edit: Another thought... Decoding algorithms eat cpu cycles, potentially lots of them. I have not used the KA5 modem enough to have an opinion on battery life. However, it certainly would not be surprising to see some slight hit to battery life as a trade-off against working harder on the decoding to recover more coherency from the noise.
[Vibrant Android Development] BruceElliott:
Haha :rolleyes: Try modifying framework-res.apk. :D
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
After some toying around, I have had the phone up for 7.5 hours and am @ 81% battery life with moderate usage: 20+ txts, 20+ minutes browsing, Email, Plume (Twitter), etc. Seems fairly well with battery life now. :) To correct all the issues I had, I actually bump charged my phone for an hour... :eek:
[Vibrant Android Development] tribalb:
modem has done improvement for me. where i use to get 2-3 meg d/l speeds i now have 4+... still gonna run with it for another day to test battery...still too new to give acurate battery life drainage. but so far so good on reception and data speeds for me.
[Vibrant Android Development] Lethal_NFS:
This modem did not work well for me either. My speeds dropped by 2/3. Back to JL5 which is still a great modem to use.
[Vibrant Android Development] Orochi77:
Those of you with Nero 4.1 roms and say that GPS is great with this modem, are you using default SUPL settings that came witth the rom or are you using google as your supl?

Thanks.
[Vibrant Android Development] jonwilly:
Plus 1 to slight speed increase in data and plus 1 on battery life takes a slight hit. GPS seems solid for vibrant.
[Vibrant Android Development] kcp877:
To those complaining of slow speeds, are you giving it 15 minutes after flashing? It takes a few minutes to get settled in
[Vibrant Android Development] ThC23:
I agree, rebooting a couple of times helps out a lot!

Rockin that Nero V5 w/ S.b.g 2.4
[Vibrant Android Development] RoZm X:
I don't think my battery life has ever been better on my vibrant.. Nearly eight hours and I'm at 76 percent.. It's been idle most the time but I've been browsing texting and whatnot.. And it's been on for 7.5 hours. Pretty good. My battery would die a lot quicker most times.. Buy one thing....

My downloading speed decreased to 2.2mbs from 5.3 >:o
[Nook Color General] aenima4six2:
Currently, all of my content/books are missing form the library. Anyone else having similar issues ?

Here is the odd part..

If I wipe data and start over, all of my books come back into the library, however, within 30 seconds of being online, they all disappear.
[Nook Color General] aenima4six2:
guess I'm alone lol
[Nook Color General] likearaptor:
Do you have an we card in the nook? Did you root it at one point? And if you did root it when you say you reset the nook did you wipe the data and do the 8 failed boot wipe?

Sent from my NookColor
[Nook Color General] aenima4six2:
what's a we card? if you meant SD card, then yes. I have an 8gb class 10. it is rooted, and I did wipe system and data, with stock recovery and clockwork.
[Flipout and Charm General] ghostwheel:
I just discovered yesterday that the new market app works much better in portrait mode, because then the green fluff scrolls up, and doesn't just stay around taking up half of our tiny screen....
[Flipout and Charm General] zerghase:
orly?

btw. is it only me or is the uninstall button missing in portrait mode?
[HD Mini General] peteok:
Hi,

I am trying to solve one problem with my contact list. I used to have SonyEricsson W810 and all my contacts in the format surname-name-title within. I synchronized these contacts with PC and then with HTC HD mini. But problem occured. In HD mini these contacts are in format title-surname-name, so searching is impossible.

I´ve tried to synchronize contacts with Outlook (in belief that I can change these formats), but unseccefully. Sync calls error 85010014.

So my question is:

Is there any possibility to change formats of these contacts at once? Or is there any program for contact management?

Thank you for any idea ;)

P.
[HD Mini General] RoSo:
you can export all your contacts from outlook to an excel file , then you have to change titles in excel easily and then import them to outlook and finally sync them with your device.
[HD Mini General] Benjos:
Contact changer

you can use Contact changer .
[Desire General] roachyuk:
is there anyway to use these or unblock any settings on the phone so i can use voip on the t mobile network on the desire...thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zo_nati:
I have stock evo rom, when I cut my 4g on, I cant get mms over 4g, I know its suppose to go into dual mode but it dosent, do anyone have this problem? Is there a fix, this is my 2nd evo and I dont want to wipe my phone clean or deal with a new evo and redo all my settings and apps. I searched the threads cant find anything on this issue, so if its already out there with fix, please point me to it, thanks!
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] nidalius:
Hi , lot of developper Jerpelea , Zdzihu & TripNRaVeRs and i dont forget Binary & Maxrfon & goroh "

try hardly to put custom rom for our X10 ,

strategy : why focusing on 2.2 or 2.1 AOSP : 2.3.1 is more attractive we have a lot of delay stop viewing the past :

Synergy : each developer work hard but alone "not enough fast" maybe the creation of one Dev-team & one project " avoid the personal conflicts" is a better way to escape from SE Curse they develop 2.1 and 2.2 is already in the Market

PS: i am very proud by our Devs , I only think that 1+1+1+1 ..... is better than BIG One

its a democracy but consensus is better
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] RaDi:
+1

agree with u , all of them are proffisor alone but if thy work together we don`t know what they can do !
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] FabricioGS:
I support your initiative. I would love to have ONE great ROM (with full hardware support) rather than several "half implemented" ROMs like we have today.

IMO most developers here prefer to work alone (don't know if it's related to donations...), but it's really easy to see that if all of them join a single project we would definetly have a better and more optimized ROM.

One good thing is that Google seems to slow down the new major releases to two a year, so our developers will also have more time to debug and keep up.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] chiefy009:
I can only assume that they have put a lot of time looking at and understanding how the previous versions run, now they have an understanding they are putting it to good use and developing us a custom rom free of charge. To inhance our phones

I dare say they are probably looking at the gingerbread stuff now but you can only you can only do what you can do, there is no point stopping a development everytime new software came out because that way you would never have anything finished.

Patience is key, these guys do have lives, there is a order to everything and just because you dont understand it doesnt mean it is wrong

the dev's are amazing and i wish i had the knowledge to help more, icecream is coming out in the summer will the devs be expected to down tools and move on from gingerbread then?

just be patient and let the devs do their magic