yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willverduzco:
Actually, to expand upon this, the Orion will have a Cortex A9 which actually has "the same features that Qualcomms have that allow high linpack benchmarks," along with more features not found in the Snapdragon.

To be more specific, the Snapdragon has elements of speculative execution with branch prediction, which is most important area in which it differs from the Cortex A8 reference design. This causes its floating point performance (very important in 3D calculations) to be very high. Unfortunately for Qualcomm, though, even the Adreno 205 falls short in terms of performance. Thus, even though the Scorpion CPU core in the Snapdragon is better at 3D than the Hummingbird's Cortex A8, the Snapdragon's GPU is so castrated that it's much slower in games overall. As a side note, the Cortex A8 in the Hummingbird actually has 2 times the L2 cache compared to the reference A8 design.

The Cortex A9 in the Tegra 2, on the other hand, supports full out of order execution (in addition to speculative execution and branch prediction found in the Snapdragon's Scorpion CPU core). This yields roughly 25% higher IPC compared to the Cortex A8, which is why the CPU section of Tegra 2 benchmarks seem to be roughly that much faster than our Hummingbird. Benchmarks have been mixed for its GPU, as I pointed out here, though that could have been due to a higher screen resolution or immature drivers.

Bottom line is that while the CPU will be ~25% better per clock cycle than our Cortex A8 (when only using one core), its GPU is roughly on the same level--sometimes performing better, sometimes worse. Another thing to remember is that since the Hummingbird uses a PowerVR architecture, it is tile-based deferred rendering. This basically means that fillrate and memory bandwidth are much less of an issue than they are in traditional rendering methods.

What will differentiate Tegra 2 though (in my humble opinion) is software tailored for its strengths, which is what Tegra Zone will likely bring. Sure the Hummingbird's fast, and perhaps even better for GPU rendering, but the code optimized for the Tegra 2's GPU may perform better on a Tegra 2 than on our possibly-faster SGX 540.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gogol:
Relax, just wait until all that Tegra 2 phones released.

Certainly there will be some reviews, comparisons, benchmarks, etc.

In the mean time, enjoy your Nexus S. It is fast enough for current apps that are available :) You don't need dual core to run Angry Birds :P

Then we can wait the next Nexus 3 !
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anderdroid:
Err what? GPU relates to the smoothness in transitions of the home screen, the smoothness of the browser, the smoothness of everything. It's not just about games good sir. Compare screen swiping with a live wallpaper on G2 vs Galaxy S on stock Launcher2 and prepare to see why GPU matters.

Or use a phone that doesn't even have a GPU. Like a Wildfire. Then throw it out the window.

Going further, you can't count Quadrant 3d scores on the Nexus S because it doesn't render properly due to Gingerbread incompatibility.

The other reason the Optimus 2x scores higher is the i/o part. If we do the same ext4 lagfix that is probably built into the 2x we get the same i/o as it, and about the same Quadrant, maybe a little lower due to the GPU not running properly ever on Quadrant with Gingerbread.

As for CPU, yes the Tegra2 will be better. It's an A9. However the differences will be subtle at best until the end of 2011 when things are optimized for the Tegra2, which by then both the Qualcomm and Orion god processors will be out.

As far as processing power between the Hummingbird and Snapdragon, it definitely is more powerful than the Nexus One's processor, and GPU knocks it off it's feet.

As for the 2nd gen Snapdragon vs Hummingbird, they're probably about equal processors. The GPU gives the Hummingbird the edge and you will notice it if you take a Live wallpaper and compare Launcher2.apk screen swipes on a G2 vs Nexus S. It is very nudgy on the G2, but smooth on Nexus S.

What causes the Snap Dragon to score so high in Linpack for instance is the FPU aka float processing unit which isn't really worth caring about when it comes to every day tasks.

But yes, the Tegra2 will definitely be a bit more powerful than the Hummingbird. But it won't be tons tons tons rapejob over 9000. This is why Google released the Nexus S with the Hummingbird without second thought.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
well yes, i was referring to the original snapdragon in the nexus one. i think the snapdragon in the G2 and evo shift is just the same snapdragon CPU with an improved GPU. so there's kinda 2 separate topics, CPU vs CPU, and then the GPU vs GPU. i believe the hummingbird and snapdragon CPU vs CPU is rather close, sometimes the snapdragon beats it, sometimes the hummingbird does. then add in the GPU, i believe the hummingbird GPU is better than the new snapddragon adreno. not sure by how much though.

but an example of why it's important for the GPU to actually be taken advantage of in code, the nexus s web browser doesnt seem to be using the GPU properly, so relying soley on CPU vs CPU, we see the nexus one perform BETTER on some types of web pages as the snapdragon seems to be either coded properly, or it is just better for those certain types of tasks. basically my opinion is snapdragon is a better CPU, but the hummingbird has the better GPU.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayrod1980:
Edited... I was ranting very off topic
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _-mike-_:
The Nexus S really looks great, but I have doubts if I should really buy it when it's available in Germany/Austria or Switzerland...

The point is I start studying software development in the autumn 2011 and can't afford a new phone each year and would use the phone for about 2 years.

So my question is:

Will I have fun with this phone (as a developer) for the following 2 years or should I buy a more powerful phone?

Note: Currently I have a Nokia 5800 and I definitely want a new one because the bugs are annoying even with ported C6-Firmware it is not really satisfying...

thanks you very much!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdK14:
I was wondering how to remove the clock/date from the lockscreen in CM6 or change it to a widget that I like. I am running MattedBlues Theme with my own personal touches if that matters. I used adb to pull the framework-res.apk. I then extracted that and found keyguard_tab_unlock or something along those lines. But now I have no idea what to do with the xml... Help?

I was just thinking about it now and in CM6 isn't there an option to remove the date/time from the lockscreen? Does that mean that when I installed MattedBlues it changed the framework files so that CM6 can no longer remove the clock/date on its own? Would I be able to pull the framework files for the keyguard from a CM6 standard install, push them into the MattedBlues install, sign it, and then install that theme and be able to use the built-in feature again?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
Mattedblues shouldn't prevent you from using any CM settings. If you want to use a widget on the lockscreen you can get widgetlocker in the market. It allows you to customize your lockscreen with widgets and other things. I don't think you can just edit the framework in CM6 to allow that though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atoosa:
After I install a ROM or MOD from an SD card. Can I move them some place else or is there data the phone reaches back to the card for? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evolishesh:
Yes. you can either delete them or keep them on you computer
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rocklee99:
When you turn on your phone and you get to your homescreen after turning it on, it loads for a minute with a white picture with "HTC" there, how can i change that? is that a splash or something?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adam1422:
That is indeed a splash screen! You can find quite a few of them here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708173
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rocklee99:
also, what is the screen called when i boot up the phone and it says "htc evo 4g" in white?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
When you first boot up, and see the white screen that says "htc EVO 4g", THAT is the splash screen, it is shown before the boot animation plays. You can find a bunch of different splash screens in the themes and apps section. As far as the other screen you mentioned, where after the phone actually boots into the rom, it will show a different HTC screen for a second or two while it loads the homescreen? Is that the one you mean? If so, I actually have no idea what it's called. Whatever it is, I know it can be modified, because I run Myn's rom, and with that rom, it shows "Myns warm two point two" in the bottom corner.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roscoenr:
it is home_screen.9.png in the rosie.apk to get the rosie apk use root explorer or ES file manager navigate to system/app and pull out the rosie.apk. then you can use 7zip to replace the image. Or you can use ninjamorph off the market open. place the image you want on to your sdcard must be 480x800 ninjamorph start new project and navigate to same location now in ninjamorph go to res/drawable-hdpi and find home_screen.9.png clicj on it. now find the image you want and press it. Go back to the ninjamorph home and click fish project press ok then reboot after finished. You will most likely have to put your widgets back on the screen after reboot
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ChiGGz:
Hey everyone,

I have this weird issue with failed text messages whenever I go snowboarding. I have full bars but it sometimestakes multiple tries to get a text message to go through. Does anyone know why?

Does text messaging only work for certain frequencies?

I have a Bell Mobility i9000 with 2.2 Hamster Rom.

thanks everyone!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Devhux:
I've noticed ever since 2.2 that sometimes it takes 2 tries to send a text. It fails at first, then sends successfully when I click Re-Send.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
I've been getting this but its a netowrk operator issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
I spent the weekend in melbourne at the australian open, sending text to friends during the boring match ...

and I have never been able to sent a text without trying 2,3 and sometimes 10 times

I had also a full signal, able to go on the web ...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ChiGGz:
This is starting to look like a more common issue than I thought it would be. Please also state what Android version you are running and your network carrier
[Galaxy S I9000 General] moophone:
It happens to me infrequently. Make sure you have 850 - thats the main culprit. I'd also flash a Bell modem. I use JL2 with 2.2.1.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ChiGGz:
Is 850mhz the minimum required for text messaging? How do I check for this?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] robbiev80:
Bell really sucks in some areas. I live in a newer area and my texts fail quite frequently when I'm home. Anywhere else, it'll send it fine.

I'm running Darky's 9.0 rom, speedmod K12q-T4 and JL2 modem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ChiGGz:
Wierd thing is, I get full signal and the text are failing, what gives?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stringbeans:
I ported my phone over from bell to rogers and this happens to me as well. I'm using one of doc rambones roms. How do I check us I have the 850 band?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nirvana388:
I've had this happening since day 1, I've had it happen on 2 versions of 2.1 and 2 versions of 2.2, I'm on Bell.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nirvana388:
It won't be an 850 band problem, I'm on the stock rom and that's all it uses really.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mistermoot:
I'm finding my data connection drops out when I still have 2 or sometimes even 3 bars. At the same time that happens I can't send text messages although phone calls generally work regardless. I never had these issues with my old Samsung I7500 which ran on the same network.

Bell, Darkys 9.2, JL2 Modem

(Modem is set to WCDMA Only) 850 and 1900, 850 is confirmed working.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cow_like_object:
The messages will only fail to send when you're on 850. That's a fact, I've tested it many times. There was a point in time where, in certain areas texts and calls would not go through unless I disabled 850
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cow_like_object:
Bell as well BTW.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deezy7:
Happens to me as well quite often.

Bell unlocked on Rogers.

Bone stock no roms, no lagfix..only started happening after 2.2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yakkamut:
I get failed texts sent, and I also get multiple texts received, sometimes up to 4 of the same. Anyone else get that?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] contalyst:
This started happening to me out of the blue about 5 days ago. However, my phone would tell me that it didnt send but the recepient actually gets it and each subsequent text when I retry to send it even tho it keeps telling me it didnt get sent...

Probably more annoying for the person im texting but its a bit of a pita on my end too.

Stock froyo 2.2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GibMcFragger:
I'm on Bell and I get random failed texts (sending) and occasionally I receive the same texts twice. That and if I get a long text that ends up getting split into two, I sometimes get part 2 ahead of part 1.

This happened on Eclair, stock FroYo, custom FroYo rom, rooted and non rooted.

Oh yea, happens using Handcent and the stock messaging app.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kirby001:
Hey so this is happening to my SGS and my friends SGS were on bell with stock firmware, Does ANYONE have any suggestions its really ruining the phones for us as its super annoying, Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] terranq:
Sounds like a network issue. I have the i9000m on SaskTel, and this has never happened to me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kirby001:
Could it be the band the phones are running on?

Right now they are running on the 1900mhz band, would forcing it to switch over to the 850mhz band help?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] buntoo:
If it is related to band frequency then how could we force it to switch to 850MHz..?

p.s. I personally think that it is related to network(carrier).. As I often get same message 3-6 times on my SGS-i9000 but only from one particular network in my country. Also sometimes I get sending failed nd I've to resend it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] designfears:
My texts started to fail like crazy so I went to an AT&T store and showed them. I asked for a new SIM card and that fixed the problem completely. Haven't had a text fail to send yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] terranq:
Where I am, there's only 1900 available and as I said, I don't have this issue. It sounds like a carrier issue

GT-I9000m with insanity 7.2 and Valle honeycomb theme
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJustin:
Same here, failed texts that need to be resent. Sometimes don't get first part of 2 part texts too. On bell network
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lyon huntington:
Ditto

I9000M darkyV10.rc5.3 darkcore2.1 UGKC1 BMC
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Intratech:
Never had this issue and I've used stock rom, Doc's Rom and Criskelo's rom.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bugeyed1:
I have been looking for a while, but can't find what I want.

I like Beautiful Home Weather's clock, but not the date & weather.

I like Beautiful Weather, for the 5 day display, but no clock.

I tried WP Clock & lock Art, but they are live wallpaper & show on all screens & don't act right in landscape.

I tried "Make your own clock", but couldn't get it to look right. Want clock to not show the leading 0, as in 03:30 & I couldn't get rid of the background. I am still working with Make your own, but struggling with how to change the appearance.

I would be happy with Beautiful Widgets Home if it had the 5 day weather & bigger date field.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Update: I am figuring out "Make my own clock" & it just may just work for me.

Thanks,

kev
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] seeddemon:
try fancy widget. free and paid versions
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] miss__michelle:
try minimalistic text... works great!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] JackOnan:
I like the original fancy widget- the one that looks like HTC Sense- b4 the cease and desist. Post a screen for us of your clock when you've finished tweaking it.

Sent from my nootered Nookor
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] MrOtsKrad:
My favs are "Classic Clock 4X4" with "Date Widget Free"

In Fiesta Clock and Sierra Clock 4x4 are nice too,
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bugeyed1:
I have settled on "Make your Clock". It's pretty much, just about the only thing I need sometimes.

Thanks,

kev
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] 3matthew3:
Try SimiClock Widget... really nice basic Time/Date.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/simi-clock-widget/com.th.android.widget.gTabsimiClock
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Here is a new LP on the market.... Time and Date Contrast LP.
[G Tablet General] EwanG:
Saw someone alude to a similar problem in another thread and claim they didn't have the same problem with TnT, but I can't find the thread again so...

Issue is that a reboot is just fine, but if the machine powers off, then when it comes up it give a "Preparing SD Card" message twice. Which I presume is once for the internal card, and once for the external.

The problem is that after it does that, all the files on my internal SD Card are fine, but SDCard2 has the file structure (all the directories and subdirectories are still there), but no files. Kind of makes using the external card a pain.

FWIW the external card is a Class 6 Kensington 16GB card.

If this "is" a Vegan issue, would I be better off going to Cyanogen, or is TnT and the Stock firmware the only choice to avoid this?

TIA!
[G Tablet General] need2hack:
VeGAN Issue

I experienced the same issue on my g tab running vegan 5.1 beta today. I have a patriot micro sd card for what it's worth. I guess I'll rely more on internal memory for now...
[G Tablet General] japhule:
It's a well documented bug with the TNT build used by Vegan. You can prevent this be creating an empty file called ".nomedia" in the root of your /sdcard2 folder.

You can do this using es file explorer by browsing to /sdcard2, press Menu> New > File and name it ".nomedia" without the quotes and this will prevent your files from being deleted.
[G Tablet General] restes77:
Hi there!

I was wondering these days...which i have lived the very same situation about my G Tablet and a sdcard2 erasing issue.

Is this a Vegan only issue?

If i replace for another type of ROM, will i have the same?? And which rom would be strongly recommended these days?

I have been loving Vegan so far.....im with my tablet for 2 weeks only and i really have chosen GTablet for the powerfull hardware and customization options related to the Roms....Vegan runs flawlessly and its a nice system version... but as someone else has already mentioned, its a pain to have to deal with this type of card being erased.

Btw i have done the .nomedia file, but creating it through windows 7 DOS command line..... it worked for 1 reboot.... on the second time i turned gtablet off and got it back on...... the files were again gone, dead, wipped out lol:D

Any help would be great....

Thanks
[G Tablet General] adam.porter77:
I had the same issues. I used RootExplorer to create the .nomedia file in the root of the sdcard AND in the folder with my movies. No more erased data, going on 2 weeks now.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] juergeli0815:
i had the Problem when i was flashing a NAND-ROM via DFT that i got this error-messages:

i thought my NAND-Memory was corrupted and searched this forum and saw, that there are many peolpe having this problem without a solution.

Here is the way it worked for me:

1. i flashed back to WinMo 6.5

2. i flashed a 2.15_50 Radio-ROM (before 2.14_50)

3. if flashed MAGLDR 1.11

after this the error-messages went away and i was able to flash all NAND-ROMs.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Lord60:
I've had that error several times too. I found the issue to be various things.

One time it was related to the HSPL not being correct. Reflashing that part solved the issue on on device. In another instance, the phone wasn't properly communicating with the PC, so rebooting the PC and restarting activsync resolved it on that device.

I don't believe going back to WinMo is necessary, but if it worked for you, cool.

I've flashed and reflashed 3 different devices with various mods looking for the one I like best and I've found patience is the key factor all the way around.

Happy flashing.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] swyecso:
Thats not necessary all you have to do is right click on DAF.exe and run as administrator
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] juergeli0815:
i always run DAF as admin and if it would have been this easy, there wouldnt be so much people having trouble with it.

i also did the usual things like reboot PC, flashing magldr 1.11/1.12, task29 and so on, but i didnt get rid of this error-messages. Therefore i was thinking that my nand was defective and i wanted to know, if i can flash a WinMo-ROM. After the Winmo-Rom-flashing was no problem i decided to give it a last try and it worked.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] wooshi:
Remove your SD card before launching the flash... It solves the problem for me!
[Nook Color General] Fishfoot:
Hey Guys,

Bought my nook color a few weeks ago. I'm in love. I've been reading more and generally just enjoying the device. But I'm wondering how you have setup your nook.

What’s your launcher? Must have apps? Are you using 2.2 or the stock system? What ebook reader? Keyboard? What else?

Thanks

Fishfoot

Sent from my Rooted Nook
[Nook Color General] phantom9000:
zeam launcher rooted 2.1 with 1.1gz kernal
[Nook Color General] Fishfoot:
Cool. Why the kernel upgrade? Any must have apps?

Sent from my Rooted Nook
[Nook Color General] eyecrispy:
Rooted stock 1.0.0 using Autonooter

OC'd to 1.1 ghz

Zeam and various Widgets and live wallpapers

Sent from my Nook Color
[Nook Color General] phantom9000:
i upgraded the kernal because it is much faster than the stock one i got a 1213 quadrant score. my fave apps are angry birds doodle jump astro fancy widgets and dropbox for wireless printing
[Nook Color General] mattcosta7:
1.1ghz kernel, autonootered, adw launcher ex.

Must apps are spare parts, setcpu, and for new kernel you need rom manager / clockwork recovery.

I use repligo reader for annotating pdfs for work and school, angry birds for relaxation, beautiful widget for weather and toggle switching, setting profile to turn off Wifi when screen is off helps eliminate reboots.

The must haves depend on your needs, there's one for everything

Sent from nookcolor
[Nook Color General] Fishfoot:
I just added the gingerbread keyboard. WOW, I'm typing at iPhone speeds now.

Sent from my Rooted Nook
[Nook Color General] Fishfoot:
I found a thread about using the 1.1ghz kernel. Is it stable? Do you have a simple install guide?

Sent from my Rooted Nook
[Nook Color General] phantom9000:
yeah it has been really stable so far. just follow the clockwork thread to install clockwork then just flash the kernel from clockwork
[Nook Color General] rainmakerrc:
Don't forget to wipe the cache and dalvik cache as well before flashing the new kernel.
[Nook Color General] timmyjoe42:
How do you get the gingerbread keyboard? I change the keyboard setting in the Nook Color Tools to that and no keyboard gets displayed.
[Nook Color General] t140568:
Installation instructions are here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=880068

:)

It's pretty simple, really.

1. Download your kernel of choice here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=925451

2. Using Clockwork Recovery, do a backup. (A MUST- just in case something gets boogered up.)

3. Using Clockwork Recovery, wipe Cache partition as well as Dalvik Cache.

4. Flash your desired kernel.

5. Reboot and enjoy.

I've found the OMAP kernels in the above link to be the most stable, and fortunately the fastest.