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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] krace:
for what it's worth, in case people wonder how this one feels...

picked up mine two days ago, after my G1 finally drove me up the wall with its sluggishness. quite a change of pace, must say.

+ speed: frickin' A! 4G and a 1GHz processor really do deliver. after watching a nice HD youtube movie in flash embed, i'm officially impressed. the interface feels VERY responsive, quite a departure from the android experience i'd gotten used to.

+ design: really solid, both hardware and themes. don't know about ghetto appeal people have been mentioning, i'm a well-over-30 white bloke, and i like it (granted, i got a black one, not the die-hipster-die pink one ;)

+ ergonomics: it's a departure from a classical four-buttons-in-the-bottom form factor, and it will take some time getting used to (home button ends up being in the upper right corner in vertical one-hand mode). on/off button on the side can be a bit confusing initially. hardware keyboard is amazingly good though. an added nice touch for desktop warriors: the layout of this phone makes it very convenient for desk operation: charger slot in the back, headphone in the front, screen slanted with keyboard open... really nice touch. if you're left-handed, though, i'd advise to switch off ambient light sensor in desktop mode: you'll be constantly covering the sensor, thus making the screen dim.

+ battery: i don't think i've heard of a single android phone with a decent battery life since androids have been released. been carrying my old G1 with a fat battery like a brick (and constantly deflecting jokes) -- but this one surprised me again. i haven't really pushed it far yet, but it definitely feels like it can last.

- bloatware: a crap ton of preinstalled junk, including TeleNav (i can has google maps for free, hello-o!), and a dozen different markets for TV/video/god-knows-what other kinds of content. buy Buy BUY, yeah right. desperately waiting for a custom ROM to wipe this **** out. also, having more options to configure the screen layouts may actually do this one some good (designers apparently sacrificed some screen real estate in favor of the looks).

already rooted it (easy, adb/rageagainsthecage), set up busybox 1.18.4 (thanks Stericson!)

will probably play around a bit trying to get rid of bloatwarez.

bottomline: highly recommend it, especially to those texting/messaging a lot (and those with special IT needs, like SSH ;)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] madsc13n41s4:
Any news when people might start coming out with the custom ROMs? I'm hoping to buy a SK4G in July, and I'm more than positive T-Mobile will throw a bunch of crap on it that I would want to remove.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] vicmora5:
Development is in the process..

As for the bloatware, surprisingly there wasn't that much of those apps in my opinion.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LesserAnimal:
any word on the progress of a working recovery?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
To all who keep asking for a working recovery/ROM:

Please wait patiently, development takes time. Jellette is working on a working CWM port for us, krylon360 is also working on CWM for us, as he has completed the work on the SGS4G version of CWM.

Asking for progress/ETA's does not help anyone, it only annoys the Devs who volunteer their time to help us. When there is a working CWM, then we can begin working on ROMs, but for now there are no roms ported yet, as there is no CWM ported yet. When there is a working CWM, I'm sure there will be a stickied post, so for now, quit asking.

ROMs will take time to port after there is a working version of CWM, but as soon as CWM works, people will begin porting ROMs.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bburke88:
Good post sduvick. People need to take the time to look through the posts before asking questions and looking dumb.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LesserAnimal:
I apologize. I'm used to the G1 forums. There people often asked far to frequently when whats the ETA whats the eta whats the eta over and over. I get how it can be annoying. The only reason i asked is for the G1 it was never a question of if but when and knowing eventually something would happen was usually enough to keep me quiet. Here, not if but when doesn't seem to apply. I'm instead wondering IF itll happen at all. I know these things take time but there doesn't seem to be hardly any interest or discussion in development at all for the sidekick and while i know there are two people working on it more than half the projects i've seen started anywhere on xda end up abandoned due to lack of interest with out so much as a word about it happening. I figure once a recovery is in place things will probably start to build momentum. I'm just afraid of that never happening. Hence my curiosity if there was still work in progress. I'm willing to wait a few month if that is what it takes but if things look grim ill probably have to trade in for a ****tier keyboard. as the sk4gs instability is far too much for me to handle for an entire contract.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bburke88:
It is being worked on. We have two well known devs working on porting a working CWM recovery. The phone has only been out for a month or so. it may take some time. as for the phone being unreliable, IMO that is untrue... while i do have FCs from time to time, previous phones ive had were more unreliable.

just give it some time and things will come around.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LesserAnimal:
i dunno i regularly go to use my phone and itll just be off for no reason. Turn it on to full battery and it wasn't even in my pocket where the power button can get pushed. i just find it sort of annoying how it happens at least a few times a day.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylerfromnj:
Mines perfect and I have zero problems with it. I'm just wondering if there is a quick send key shortcut I can use because pressing reply on the touch screen is annoying as eff.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
there is one rom at the moment its called smooth maximus x made by ayoteddy.

its very smooth and stable.

its is featured after honeycomb

very minimal bloatware.

kernel:2.6.32.9 bali

battery life is amazing.

amazing look quick very responsive easy to install.

i would suggest it to anyone.

click this link for the offical thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127479
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] novalol:
whether it can upgrade android 2.2 to 4.0 about SK 4G ?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ncmacasl:
Doubtful, we are still hoping for Gingerbread, though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Killerfish1450:
Can someone clarify how tethering works as far as your data plan works? I would assume if you tethered your laptop off your captivate for internet you would blow through even the 2 gb data plan pretty quick. How are people doing this without having a huge bill?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boborone:
my grandpa loves me

go to my profile and look at threads started by me, look for one about throttling data
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeMarzo:
If you're like me and have an "Old" data plane thats still Unlimited, It doesn't matter :-D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Killerfish1450:
Yea I figured that's what it was. I was screwed out of my unlimited plan when I came over from blackberry since they are separate packages like the iphone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xstop:
You'd be surprise how far 2gb goes with average use of tethering. Have you tried monitoring your data while tethering? If your not doing a lot of streaming or downloading, you should be ok with web browsing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Killerfish1450:
I haven't tethered yet, I'm getting a laptop and was curious.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xstop:
Then go for it my friend, just be sure to monitor your data every so often *3282#

Have fun :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] frettfreak:
I am talking about the Application "Launcher Pro Icons"

Ok, so i like the app, and its cool that you can change teh color of the icons and stuff, but...

Does anyone know why not everything that is on the website, is in the app? Its a little disappointing that i was willing to pay for the app, but its not even updated with everything that i can already get for free on his website....??? And thanks to the amazing 15min (BS!!) return policy on the market now, i am kinda stuck.

thanks!
[Fascinate General] tclore77:
It's really a shame to start off in a place with a post that has someone mad at themselves for performing a soft brick on their relatively new Verizon Samsung Fascinate. I have to admit I love the phone, but after seeing some videos about DarkyMod I was so impressed I felt compelled to try it.

All I've done, far as I know, is Rooted the phone, but I also used Odin and apparently flashed the incorrect kernel. So what happens now is when I power on my Fascinate, I get a Galaxy S (GT-i9000) screen. At this point, the phone reboots. I know I'm an idiot for having used the wrong Odin kernel, but after attempting to decipher the post in the Darky's installation for "first timers" I apparently choose the incorrect kernel.

At any rate, I suppose I could ask for an experienced modder for the right kernel, the one that would allow me to perform the flash after I had installed the ROM Manager, etc.. But I doubt that would help. What I'm looking for is a file which has been removed from the forums here, and was originally in someone's Dropbox account.

I believe that the file that I'm looking for is the "Stock-i500-VZW-Kernel.tar.md5"... I might be incorrect, as I had mentioned I believed I had successfully "rooted" the phone, but when I used Odin to flash the kernel, I think that's where I went wrong. Can anyone help me find this file? Or should I get the modified kernel, which will allow me to perform the backups and then the flashing to this mod? Thanks ahead of time, I do apologize for the length of the post.

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T.C.

Samsung Fascinate (Verizon) DL09

:confused:
[Fascinate General] kdaz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867648

thats full d101 thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=885262

thats full dj05 thread

both should be able to get you back to stock through odin then you can restart what you did. personally i keep both handy since i already had to use them due to an error that cause the phone to freeze up completely at the samsung logo. hope that helps
[Fascinate General] tclore77:
Thank you kdaz!

I'll give that download a shot real fast and see what happens. I'm assuming you've modded/rooted your Samsung Fascinate? Which of those Odin kernels did you use to successfully start changing things? I never did get past the "update.zip" part, it always came back with an error.

Thanks for taking the time to write a response, I really feel bad to post and have my first ever be a soft bricked phone, haha!
[Fascinate General] tclore77:
Quick thank you...

After looking all over the forums here, and elsewhere... I did find what I was looking for, though I didn't manage to restore the kernel and save my settings, I did unbrick the phone by reapplying the DL01 firmware with the Odin software. The forums here were a huge help, and I just wanted to say thanks!
[Fascinate General] kdaz:
haha glad you got it working. yes i have rooted and modded mine. got it last thursday brand new and was modding it on friday when i got back from vacation. friday night i feared that i had totally bricked it but luckily found both of those files on the forums. i believe i used the dl05 one then imediately updated to the dl09 radio and now running blaze voodoo kernel clocked at 1.2ghz and i honestly forget what rom lol waiting to use aosp
[Fascinate General] comradesven:
Thank god these phones are so easy to unbrick with Odin. Almost impossible to truly brick, though sometimes you might lose some data here and there or it won't save your data etc. That's why you might need to odin the full stock rom more than once ;)
[Fascinate General] tclore77:
Thanks for the responses guys, kudos!

I had really hoped to start using Darky's ROM but it turned out that I didn't have the right modem file, or at least, that's what Darky said. At any rate I was kind of curious which custom ROMs you guys are using and why? The names alone should be sufficient, there's so much information here on these forums.

I admit I'm worried to reflash but at the same time, I know how to do it and if something goes wrong I just use Odin and apply DL01, or whatever the original ROM is called. Any thoughts about good and fast custom ROMs on the VZW Fascinate, guys?
[Fascinate General] comradesven:
Look for the full DL09 Odin, DI01 is really old and DJ05 was killed inside VZ before it was ever released to the general public.

As you have discovered, the Fascinate is its own animal and you cannot flash stuff made for other Galaxy S phones to it unless you feel like breaking your phone on purpose. Most of us are running one derivative or another of DL09 that has been hacked up in various ways to remove the stock bloatware, add root/themes, add new functionality into the kernel, etc. Some of us are using AOSP or CyanogenMod froyo-based roms which (still) have many/most things broken. We are finally about to have official updates to 2.2 and that is the missing piece that was needed to get full custom development working. Big changes will be coming before we know it.
[Fascinate General] tclore77:
Gotcha!@

I had just read earlier that there was a Froyo leak, I'll be really curious to see whether or not it speeds things up or not. It sounds like the custom ROMs are here for our VZW Fascinate but what I'm really looking (and waiting for like everyone else) is just Froyo. I'm grateful to everyone here who reached out and helped.

I'm not sure if my rooting days are done, but I got pretty scared when I thought I'd bricked this thing. Can't thank you guys, and the community, enough. :D
[Fascinate General] kdaz:
im currently running OTB ul1300 kernel which has the voltage turned down and processor speed of 1.3ghz and im currently running the dl09 supah clean rom. was running kaoscinate yesterday but missed being able to use my camera. the flashablility of this phone is great..i love just switching roms and kernels almost completely at will. cant wait until they get the leaked froyo out to use but im enjoying trying everything else until then.
[Fascinate General] kent1146:
If you really want a boost in your phone speed, you should look into getting custom ROMs and kernels, not Froyo. There are a bunch of kernels out there that are overclocked (and even undervolted, to save battery life too) that will significantly improve your performance.

The best thing you can do with your phone is to get yourself a custom ROM - something like Blackhole 3.0 by sonofskywalker or SuperClean 0.4. Those will get rid of the bloatware crap that Verizon puts on your phone, and (more importantly) change the default search from that P.O.S. Bing back to Google.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daddynic12:
I'm looking for the stock camera app from the Samsung Epic that has the good panoramic pictire setting. Does any one know if there is a way to get it on our Evo's? I absolutely love the way the panoramic option works. Thanks everyone that builds roms and themes.

Sent from my Fast as F*ck Az'ed out Evo using the XDA app.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RnFstRuckHrd:
I am actually looking for our good old stock camera app for the Evo. I personally think they did a great job with it. I am currently using CM7 and pretty disappointed with the camera. Any clue on how to get the stock camera?

By the way, never used the epic camera bit this panoramic option sounds intriguing I may need to check it out too if someone knows how to her this apk.

sent from my HTC Evo 4G rooted with unrEvoked, running the latest CM7 nightly build.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daddynic12:
Yeah it's pretty cool. It automatically takes 8 pictures that are lined up to make one long picture. I love they part of my wifes Epic.

Sent from my Fast as F*ck Az'ed out Evo using the XDA app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thnikk:
Is there any way to keep it themed though updates? Or is there a way to keep it from updating?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
Try freezing the market updater using titanium backup.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyro509:
thanks for the quick reply. I'll search for that syndacate rom.
[Nook Color General] acomiskey:
Autonootered 1.0.1 NC was sitting on the table in my house, just picked it up to see an update notification that it was updated to 1.0.0 and I lost root.

WTF?
[Nook Color General] Homer_S_xda:
You did block OTA updates, right?

Homer
[Nook Color General] acomiskey:
Didn't know I had to :mad:

So, I'm looking at rerooting? I assume I'll lose everything?
[Nook Color General] slugbug2010:
How do we block OTA updates???
[Nook Color General] Homer_S_xda:
Wow,

Went to edit my post with the link and there were two replies in like 3 minutes! Yes, you should block OTA updates. Never let a rooted device update itself without knowing the exact impact. Learned that through years of enjoying a hacked DirectTivo (for saving recordings, NOT theft of service).

Homer
[Nook Color General] acomiskey:
That should be stickied for us newbs.

Why would it upgrade from 1.0.1 to 1.0.0?

Good time to try out froyo I suppose....
[Nook Color General] slugbug2010:
I know not to accept an OTA update, but I've not experienced a device updating itself without "asking". My Evo tells me or I go ask, which of course I never do.

Where do we block OTAs?

I just got my NC yesterday, rooted it last night, I'm running stock rooted, Zeam, Opera browser, DLed a bunch-o-Apps, and that's about as far as I have gotten.
[Nook Color General] Homer_S_xda:
Something convinced it to revert to stock. Best bet is to do a back to factory reset, make it update to 1.0.1 (unless you have some earthshaking app that won't run on 1.0.1) and block OTA updates via renaming. Then don't change it until you really need to, like a superROM comes out or B&N gets 2.2 released and the community digests it and posts new rooting instructions.

Mine is at 1.0.1 and rooted. To be honest, what I run 99% of the time is Nookie Froyo off a fast SD card. I'm waiting until B&N releases a new FW to play around with the internal install again.

Homer
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Pretty sure that's been determined that it does NOT block OTAs at all..
[Nook Color General] Homer_S_xda:
Good news,

There is one coming to test it. 1.1.0 was released today for manual downloads. OTA to come.

Homer
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanda97:
Hello, I am trying to update to Froyo via Kies and of course I am having problems. Shock. I am having a MTP error when I try to connect my phone to my computer. I tried searching for answers first but all the posts were old ones or about Kies not Kies Mini. I don't have a second launcher running, it is stock, I tried to remove the cache files. I even tried the 16 character thing but there seems to be too many files exceeding that rule and I don't want to delete all of them. All I friggin want is Froyo installed.

Thanks in advance!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Virtuososteve:
first I would flash back to stock using odin and try again. I was running nero v5 before.

Just from my personal experience, tmobiles 2.2 sucks I had it on for 5 min below I knew I hated it . The roms here are 10^pi times better
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :No-Frost::
Hi, I have a problem with my DHD...

I use custom rigntones for some of my contacts, but since a couple of days they are not working anymore. I use an MP3 for my girlfriend (a complete song) and it used to be right, everytime I received a call from her the song was played...

But since a couple of day now, the only ringtone played is the set as default for all my contacts and I can't get any other ringtone to work with a specified contact...

Anyone has a clue about this??

PS: I'm running a rooted DHD with factory rom with some default apps removed...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] clauswl:
I hope Microsoft reads this, but I hope the developers can accomplish this, here are some ideas:

Have WP7 use internal memory for its main functions/rom, make the SD card available for programs, games, music, photos, videos etc...

This whole "making the sd as part of the phone" or striping data accros is way too sensitive. As I already experienced, this striping is very sensitive and the chain can easily be broken [as with a raid0(striping) storage system on a PC].

Also a ledgable partition to the os would be a plus (fat32, ntfs or even ext).

With this method the data on the sd card does not get lost each time the phone malfunctions/the storrage system gets disconected.

This is one of the major negative points with wp7, otherwise I really like it a lot, even for my business it just seems easier and better to navigat than wm 6.5.x.

What are other peoples thoughts??

Can the developer (if Microsoft refuses) accomlplish that???

P.s. Let me know ifmy threads are in the wrong Forum, but I thought both threads are valid ponts in regards to development and WP7 nand/rom issues.

OK, sorry for that, but I think maybe this one should be in the Q&A section??
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] THUDUK:
If we get a future build that is :(
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] alfa-batsi:
Usefull features

I do agree WP7 works great on HD2. There are some issues I would like to raise though:

1. I was unable to add custom TTF Fonts, like in WM6.5 to be able to read in Georgian.

2. Interactive USSD Feature does not work. That is, you can enable certain features that operator provides through *xxx# combination. I do not know if that works in original WP&, but in DFT release when the interactice menu comes up, the keyboard is locked, so there is no way to choose the desired option.

If anyone know answer to either issue please reply.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] ssconceptz:
I dont think its a really big deal and it works the way they want it to, its almost like a hard drive that is built for the phone only. Microsoft will be releasing an updated WP7 that even includes the copy paste fuction. Maybe they can include the ability to send contacts, but since WP7 isnt open source I do not see any customization if much at all happening.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] stephandelaat:
Except all the known issues, i'd like to have 2 improvement on the keyboard;

-Make the keyboard larger, there is some unused space on the right and left side of the keyboard.

-I'd like the keyboard to vibrate when buttons are pushed
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] evolutionqy7:
i dont really think MS will see this :)

if you do want to give feedback find Windows phone on facebook or twitter where they have posted a short questionnaire and feedback box :) thats the place to do it ;)

i dont really care about the SD card. Its one thing less to buy after you buy it. And this way you wont have any issues with damaging the card.

Windows Phone 7 wasnt designed for removable SD cards. It was intended for real internal storage though manufacturers went cheap for the first gen which is quite disappointing as if they used normal flash storage i think the performance would have been far better and the whole over blown deal with the SD card thing wouldn't have existed in the first place
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] clauswl:
I agree. 16gb of internal nand storage would be awesome and more reliable. An extra sd card would be cool also just so one can quickly copy/read pics and docs etc wihout having to install zune software.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] ksingh86:
ive been having quite a few major issues with WP7. its a shame because i do like it.

The main one being that every now and again it will restart by itself but sometimes it will do kind of a "hard reset" where everything goes back to factory settings, however if you restart it, it will go back to normal. i dont know if thats something to do with the SD card or something else??
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Bimboy:
This happened to me until I changed my SD card...