yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Arc General] thorstenn:
Lol dont take my word for it. Dont know anything about that stuff, maybe I mixed up what different thing mean and what they are etc. All I say is that an "insider" said it was totally locked down (again his words not mine), maybe I should have left it at that :P. Hope you get the picture anyway. Cheers
[Xperia Arc General] stan.s:
I went through the entire bootloader cracking thread last night and it could explain the situation, but without personally examining the code, some of which hasn't been decompiled... Though the guys working on it are aware of the offset checking.
[Xperia Arc General] stan.s:
As both you and I suspected the 4th quarter results dropped the profitability significantly. @engadgetmobileSony Ericsson ships 9 million Xperia Android phones, but latest earnings disappoint http://engt.co/gDAn3X
[Xperia Arc General] yodafone:
If I may jump in on this. There are such people in the US, but I daresay they are few and far between here in Asia. iOS is the ruling OS here in mindshare and new units sold, with BlackBerry OS a close second.

The net effect is that people here now see software as the most important thing. Whenever I show my X10, Desire, Desire HD, Nexus S and what have you to people here, the first comment is invariably "Does it have Android Gingerbread", rather than "Wow, that AMOLED display is nice" or "Wow, it has an 8 MP camera?"

The X10 was made by an OEM that was not really committed to providing good software because it was devoting most of its resources to a certain customer (ahem, ahem) who made their own software and only needed them to focus on the hardware. This customer also made phones with another outfit in Taiwan, who is great at hardware and QC... but, as you might expect, also sucks at software.

Anyway, this OEM was a little slow to jump into Android, and SE, among other phone makers, suffered as a result.

Maybe SE has switched OEMs for the Xperia Arc. If so, there's hope yet.

(FWIW, I used to be in mobile phone development. Our company was just a startup, but we have dealt with the largest OEMs and I have personally seen some of their facilities and processes.)
[Xperia Arc General] legend221:
Sony threw up a huge F*** Y** when they said that 2.1 is good enough and pretty much gave up on releasing Froyo for their latest social experiment the x10. I would not trust anything they would try to sell me after that bold and arrogant move and I'm not even a disgruntled ex Sony Smartphone owner either.

Read it for yourself here: www.slashgear.com/sony-ericsson-confirm-no-froyo-for-xperia-x10-06123921/

Sent from my HTC Dream - Weighing my options for my next device and or Network
[Xperia Arc General] legend221:
If anyone here is on AT&T or willing to unlock the phone and go on their carrier note that the Inspire 4G is going to be released with the same specs as the Arc minus the same mAh battery or gingerbread.

This will come soon enough though...

Sent from my HTC Dream - Weighing whats out there for my next Android and or Network
[Xperia Arc General] unknown13x:
Sorry to break the HTC biggy news, but there's something else coming instead of the arc to AT&T. It might also be on sale before that HTC of yours :)
[Xperia Arc General] legend221:
Yeah I just saw the commerical, the Xperia Play.

Same company, same problem..
[Xperia Arc General] unknown13x:
Wow, the phones haven't been on the shelves, and you're already saying that. It's pretty much settle which mindset you're coming from, especially from HTC...
[Xperia Arc General] HYPER-X10:
So just to clarify, The Inspire 4G will have "the same specs" except: worse resolution, smaller battery, no gingerbread, and worse camera?

How would this appeal to any one interested in the Arc? :confused:
[Xperia Arc General] fiscidtox:
Nice to see someone who knows what he's talking about finally on these forums... SE could sell people a turd and they would buy it, sound like the same type of people that support apple.

@Unknown13x, you work for sony, so of course you're here trying to talk down every other brand of phone...
[Xperia Arc General] unknown13x:
:rolleyes:
[Xperia Arc General] stan.s:
But I'm sure most of us will take a look at the Galaxy S 2. Hopefully, Samsung will have fixed the GPS and WiFi issues they had with the first Galaxy phones.

Since I have two X10a's on my plan- I have one and my kid at college has one- I'm getting more and more annoyed at the inability to hear at either end of the conversation if there is any background noise. I'm better off texting.
[Xperia Arc General] stonie79:
Hi all! All of you are right to say the support of se is bad, but on the other side a normal user don't care about updates.

And you have to think about the dev's to make custom roms and hacks for se devices - if your phone is up to date you woud not change anything of your system thats how a normal user think.

I'm afan of custom roms and hacking into systems

I like se phones and the sw inside - now workig a week with a borrowed htc legend and i hate it froyo on it

Today i get my x10 back and i would be happy again.
[Xperia Arc General] Blomkungen:
Oh it's this thread again

SE made a mistake

SE has always been the company that updated their phones for years when it was an OS they were familiar with

They ****ed up the x10 series but the x10 still sold like gold for them and 90% of the buyers are very happy with it

And the goal is to be the biggest android player

Guess what

They are getting there

The neo will sell ALOT

Look at the price and the hardware and the fact that it's the latest android version
[Xperia Arc General] Shutterspark:
There's hope for SE yet.

Just announced an upgrade to stock 2.3 for X10s. So much for all this slagging off on Sony Ericsson. :D

They clearly misjudged the importance and demand for updates to the OS a year ago, and now they're correcting the mistake.

http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/2011/03/25/update-on-xperia%E2%84%A2-x10/

Personally I don't find it hard to forgive a huge and established company like SE for screwing it up by playing it safe, and assuming that Android would follow the typical traditional mobile OS' pattern of minor updates throughout it's shelf life, with a new version every now and then.

Let's hope this is only the first step they've taken in coming out from under their rock;)
[Xperia Arc General] Ambroos:
Very good news for all X10 owners ^^ They'll basically be getting the same software we get on our Arcs when they're launched!
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
Guess that article counts for sh!t now then!!!
[Xperia Arc General] teamshao:
They just don't get the super thin shell :P
[Xperia Arc General] mith500:
Since the point of this thread is not valid anymore...maybe it should be closed/deleted?
[Venue Pro General] tbvnz:
The intent of this thread is not to be an actual poll of service quality (well sorta...), but as a potential alternative to Dell/T-Mobile customer service. I have only owned only one smartphone (HTC Touch Pro, Windows mobile 6.1) and thanks to you guys here at XDA and the knowledge you've shared with me everyone I showed my phone to assumed I was an absolute genius! (NOT! though numbers say I am). I am now ready for my next smartphone and I am a T-mobile subscriber (yeah I think I may be kinda' smart but definitely not wealthy) and I was considering the HTC HD7. That is until I stumbled upon the Venue. I am a diehard Windows user (sorry Stevie J.) and I want to stick to the brand (even though the new GUI looks like a bunch of post-it notes stuck on a Black/Whiteboard). To the point, in researching the phone as an educated consumer I've been bounced around by Dell and T-mobile customer service regarding specifics of the Venue. I was even advanced to level 3 of T-Mobile's Cust. serv. and no one even knew what the Venue was. My inquiries: GPS turn by Turn Apps, Returns, upgrade eligibility pricing, T-mobile exclusive apps, data plans. No one could help! So I'm relying on you guys. The phone doesn't have to be perfect, if it's worth it, but it would be nice if this thread could evolve into a potential review for potential owners or a guide for newbies. Thanks in advance for your advice/help. P.S. I believe this to be one of the most sharing and helpful forums I've been associated with! (no smoke blowing intended).
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jrcalderon:
Hello

After many reading Im here to ask for help, lets see if a brillant mind can help me out.

I want to update my ROM to the latest WP7 and I need HSPL 3 to be able to do it.

I have flahsed my HD2 with many ROMS, I think the latest one I flashed was RUU_Leo_S_HTC_SPA_3.14.412.2_Radio_15.42.50.11U_2.15.50.14_LEO_S_Ship though Im not sure.This flash made my SPL change to SPL-3.03.

Because HSPL 3 can not be flashed with SPL-3.03 (maybe Im wrong, but this is my though after reading many post) I think I have to flash via ActiveSync any stock rom (with my current CID) to go back to a previous SPL that support HSPL3 and then be able to install it.

How can I find out my current CID to know what stock ROM I need? I have tryed many but it seems none is good.

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards

[FIXED - GOLD CARD SOLUTION]
[Streak 5 General] jon_570:
I just ordered a dell streak. standard att one and its the carbon black one. I had one about a month ago and due to bills i sold it. Got what i paid for it. Well i purchased another and when i ordered it from dell i never received shipping. I called them today. A week after i ordered. They tell me the phone order is on hold due to the phone being unavailable. Anyone have any info on this or had the same problems?
[Streak 5 General] alien502:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=882465
[Streak 5 General] paincorp:
I've been having to get mine replaced (I'll be on my fourth when I get my next replacement next week) and I just got a call saying they're on back order. Maybe because there's a new one or they're going to start loading them with froyo?
[XPERIA X10 General] Misleadingg:
No seriously, im not BSing! the battery life problem of xperia (and potentially any android phone, haven't tested on anything yet) is solved!!!

It does not require you to turn off any cellphone function!!!

I discovered this trick by pure luck the day before yesterday.

I used setcpu (i think any overclock will work but lets be specific for now) to set my phone's cpu to "performance" (by default i think it is kept on "ondemand") just to give a speed boost as im doing stuff. The phone was charging so i didnt have to worry to much about battery life anyway

after that i FORGOT TO TURN PERFORMANCE OFF, went to school with that setting.

I checked my phone at around 14:00, when my battery is usually down to 65% (horrible i know, i like to keep everything running 3G wifi bluetooth gps lots of widgets tasks in the background) to my surprise, my battery is at 86%

i used the same setting yesterday just to make sure that performance really saves battery and sure enough, it is just shockingly good

So basically, to save battery all you have to do is:

1. get an overclock app

2. do two settings

default=performance

when screen off=powersave

3. let it make you cry!

It should drain very little battery while idling and use a bit more power than usual when youre using the phone since you get the neat performance boost

So everybody do what i said and report back!

if it really works a charm for everybody, i believe that this method deserves to shine in the android development section.

lol please keep this post at the top! i feel guilty for keeping something this good to myself...
[XPERIA X10 General] arj154:
thanks for that, ive set my phone to when screen off powersave and ive made a simular profile for when the battery is at 25%, its already running juice-defender so hopefully they wont conflict.
[XPERIA X10 General] Misleadingg:
People, this really will work! Please just try it and you will know what I mean
[XPERIA X10 General] tukangdezain:
Did you mean overclock widget? Should i search in other resource than the market?
[XPERIA X10 General] Product F(RED):
The difference between performance and ondemand is marginal; Performance would keep your CPU @ 998 MHz (or whatever you set the Max to). OnDemand jumps between the Max in the Min (usually 245 MHz). But you already can tell that it's on the max 99% of the time since if the phone was at 245 MHz, it would lag like hell. I don't see how this works, but ok, I'll try it.
[XPERIA X10 General] loneLEE:
If only there are solutions for people like me who won't condone to hacking our beloved phones =/
[XPERIA X10 General] mrljlamon:
Um I used juice defender and upstart killer (only for software) and lost only ten % in 9 hours with at least 40 texts and a short phonecall and refreshed my weather twice. At this rate my phone would last more than 2 days even 3 :-)

I meant autostart killer sorry.... dam HTC keyboard
[XPERIA X10 General] Product F(RED):
I don't mean this in an insulting tone, but then why are you here?
[XPERIA X10 General] mrljlamon:
i just gave a solution. im not hacked either lol
[XPERIA X10 General] arj154:
my phone actually lasted a full 24hours and it seems like it could've lasted another 12 hours really. Thanks!
[XPERIA X10 General] AlexPranee:
Oke i give it an try, i let you know if its realy works,

AlexPranee
[XPERIA X10 General] goothu99:
so if i text a lot under these settings, does that mean my battery will die even faster within the, for ex., 10 min of texting time?
[XPERIA X10 General] vlissine:
Apologies for stupid question, but where do I set powersave on screen=off? there is no such setting in setcpu.
[XPERIA X10 General] dogwoofer:
Go to the Profiles tab > Add Profile > Condition: Screen Off | Scaling: powersave >Save
[XPERIA X10 General] hemo1001:
and use advance task killer then change kill frequency to (when screen off) . and kill level (aggressive ) .
[XPERIA X10 General] vlissine:
Thank you. Should I also lower the max frequency in this profile?
[XPERIA X10 General] loneLEE:
I used juice defender (free) before, but in the end after hearing bad reviews, I uninstalled it. As for task killers, it's been debated that it does more harm than good. =/
[XPERIA X10 General] Product F(RED):
Task killers are bad man, especially if you're on 2.2. That will actually kill your battery faster. Turn off auto kill. Only use a task killer to end a task that is stuck. The reason they are bad is because when you kill a task, it ends, but then starts right back up again. Keep doing this over and over, and your battery gets drained. If you need to end a task, don't be lazy, use Force Close in the Application section of Settings.
[XPERIA X10 General] hemo1001:
thanks for the useful info i didn't notice that before . anyway you can disable the auto killing and that will make it easier to FC apps . and i removed every app that keep auto lunching it self and the battry stays around 2 or 2.5 days now .
[XPERIA X10 General] dogwoofer:
This really does seem to work - The battery only went down 1% in the 8 hours I was asleep with this setting on
[XPERIA X10 General] hibiskus:
i installed app simillar to set cpu from market, which already had preinstalled profiles, so I adjusted settings nad, each time I unlocked phone (screen on) it showed me "blabla app has administrator privilegies" which was rly anoying, plus phone was very sluggish. Havent noticed anny significant improvement
[XPERIA X10 General] yonnah:
i don't know why people complains about battery, this is the battery life of all smartphones with 4" display, and 1ghz processor.

i have a galaxy s, both have 1500mah battery, and x10's battery lasts way longer ...
[XPERIA X10 General] yvaditya:
adds a few hours if you are not a heavy sms user...

mine is

Default : performance with max at 768

Screen off : powersaver with max at 576

It does work if you dont turn on sceen frequently.
[XPERIA X10 General] mrljlamon:
probably wouldnt be so good for me since i text and stuff allotttt...

but as i said my method works for me. my battery lasts 24 hours +
[Captivate Accessories] buddy17:
My girlfriend found a nice skin from skinit.com for her Captivate, but we were looking for some reviews or pictures of them on the phone before we tried it out. We have used Zagg before, and they were pretty good, but nothing special on an original iphone.

I did some searching but the only thing i have found so far was some 8 year old kid on youtube that doesn't even know what a colon is lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPXzsztRwg4
[Captivate Accessories] bedwa:
They're good. I made one for my N1 with bruce lee on the back. Looks nice.
[Captivate Accessories] buddy17:
thanks for the reply...i have had a few friends with the skins from there on other phones.

i'm hoping some people with the captivate could tell me how it fits and such.
[Captivate Accessories] Weselers:
They fit well, I didn't use the top or bottom part of back, just the part over the backplate. Front fits well but makes buttons a little difficult to push sometimes, I like it personally so none of my friends can use my phone correctly only me :p
[Captivate Accessories] joe1011phosphate:
The skins from SkinIt and decalgirl are great but those are the only 2 good ones. I tried three others and they sucked.lol So only go through those two.
[Captivate Accessories] SeanHacker:
skingaurds.com

i've gotten a couple from skingaurds that i really like. they come in all different colors. they fit perfect. no bubbles, they don't scratch, and havent come off or peeled yet in the months that i've been using them. i dont use the front or the back with some colors because thats the way i like it. here are some pics.
[Captivate Accessories] jbimmer3:
Are they just vinyl stickers?
[Captivate Accessories] SeanHacker:
awesome skins. i made one of my ex girlfriend naked.
[Captivate Accessories] agentfusion:
I just made an awesome Tux (Penguin Mascot for Linux) Skin at UniqueSkins.com, and it came out great. Haven't tried skinit though.

Only problem is the front part of the skin isn't transparent around the front capacitive buttons so you can't see them. Luckily for me the skin is black, so I was able to leave off the front part with no problem. (Next skin I make, I am going to actually design the front to have the Armani logo over where the AT&T logo is and put the buttons on the skin image so I know where to cut them out with an exacto)
[Captivate Accessories] wvumaniac79:
I got a skinit one time, and it was terrible and started peeling after a couple weeks
[Captivate Accessories] cincyrob:
now that looks nice. and my fav color is red..lol is that just a stick on type thing or is it a hard protective cover type?
[Captivate Accessories] supermercado321:
Fit great compared to some of the other skins for the Captivate
[Captivate Accessories] rons_sacramental:
It is just stick on thng
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruscik:
Ok so was thinking how to pay for US apps if you do not live in UK.

Did anyone try the prepaid mastercard cards from US?

If they work then it would be not that hard to find a friend or a friend of a friend in US that could post one up for you, then you topit up online and use as needed ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Peew971:
The Marketplace is international, you have access to all the apps that exist worldwide unless the service doesn't exist in your country like Netflix. If you want a US app it's most likely available in the UK marketplace too.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruscik:
Check the forum there is plenty off apps available only in US, the same apps with services.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PGleo86:
Is there any reason why it takes so long to generate/check MD5's? It's kinda getting on my nerves, because I make a nandroid before EVERY zip I flash, even tiny little battery mods and such. Anyone?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gahh Its Lee:
I'd like to know this too
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PGleo86:
Shameless self-bump
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nedrubwerd:
Each partition CWM backs up is stored as one fairly large file. The sheer amount of data there makes reducing the signature of a 100+MB file to a hash of just 32 characters a rather daunting task in the context of the processing power these devices have. Trust me, it's well worth the wait :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PGleo86:
Thanks for clearing that up :D
[Nexus One General] raheel78:
Hi,

I have N1 already rooted with desire Rom. Now I want an advance Rom based on gingerbread for my phone.

Any pointers, most welcome.
[Nexus One General] Know-Fear:
<points to the Development section>
[Nexus One General] crachel:
char * response = "Check dev section";
[Nexus One General] raheel78:
I posted in dev section but moderator moved it here.

Can anyone plz give me link to specific thread in dev section related to my query?
[Nexus One General] raheel78:
I see that you probably have gingerbread with your N1 - is it the desire HD one?

MicroMod777 Current Gingerbread
[Nexus One General] Know-Fear:
No, I am running the MicroMod Gingerbread ROM. It is AOSP Gingerbread with a few mods added for convenience.

If you looked in the dev section at the threads there, you would see a couple of Desire ROMs by Micromod and a couple by EviL. Both are clearly listed [ROM] XXX-Desire - whatever.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] watcher01:
Hi all,

I have strange issue with froyo roms - it doesn't matter if it is TastyFroyo 1.1 or Elelinux-6.2.0-RC0-Hero. I can not install application from market or locally, straight from sd. I found here workaround - I have to copy apks to internal phone memory, unmount sd and install apps from where they are. After installation I can mount again SD and move application to SD.

This is very annoying, I tried to search forum, but I couldn't find a solution.

BR
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matejdro:
Hello! I have some annoying problems with wifi.

1. Sometimes network that i want to connect to, is simply listed as "Not in range". Turning wifi off and on usually fix that.

2. Sometimes network is detected, but phone won't automatically connect to it (it will just show Remembered at the network and disconnected at the top). I have to manually click on the network and select Connect. After that phone will eventually connect to the network, but it will take much longer than normal.

These issues are resolvable manually, but it's annoying. I want my phone to automatically connect after i just turn on wifi.

Any ideas, what could be wrong? Does maybe have to do something with SuperPower program that i have installed?

My specs are in the signature. Similar issues were also happening with RAFDROID HD 1.0 and darkstone's Froyo SuperRAM.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matejdro:
3. Sometimes when browsing the web or watching youtube videos, phone will simply disconnect and one of the above issues will occur. So no automatic reconnect.

Also i forgot to mention that in issue 1, phone don't see any network, not just mine.

Please help, it's very annoying.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matejdro:
Bump. Anyone?

This issue is annoying as i have to reboot my phone frequently to fix this.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adhouse12783:
Can someone please tell me how I can uninstall the gingerbread theme from my epic 4g? I installed it, and at first I received a bunch of force closes, and then when I proceeded to turn the phone off, and back on again, I got nothing but a blank screen. Any suggestions?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MysteryEmotionz:
Re flash your rom and you'll be good

Sent From Da Hood.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtuansdiamm:
Wipe cache and dalvik cache first
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] castro08:
Well I havent had any issues with my gingerbread theme, but I do want to get rid of it. Do i have to do a full wipe and flash the rom again??
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
Yes

Sent from my awesome epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MysteryEmotionz:
No. just wipe cache and dalvik no need to wipe data unless switching roms

Sent From Da Hood.