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[Droid Incredible General] jdmba:
Grrr

I too am itching to get an updated radio. I am usually somewhere between -85 and -92. BUT, the 11.19 stories lead more to the negative, so that is out; and the 9.02 ... well, its been out for 4 months, and no actual update.

As much as it pains me, I think we need to just sit and wait until an Incredible radio is released instead of these Evo ones.
[Droid Incredible General] userjf:
Although you are obviously correct, it really shouldn't be that way. We are all using the same radio hardware. If certain radio firmware causes my radio to connect better to one verizon tower and worse to another verizon tower, that indicates a problem with verizon somewhere. A properly built radio+firmware should connect as good as possible to any tower.

It seems that generally people have better GPS connection with the newer firmwares... but GPS does not connect to verizon towers.

Perhaps some of the verizon towers need updated firmware.
[Droid Incredible General] superchilpil:
11.19 is perfect for mine

I live in Texas tho so there's my geo
[Droid Incredible General] dpwhitty11:
Same here.

Also, as a test for 7.xx and 11.19:

My mom and brother both have DIncs. Theirs are the SLCD and the 7.xx radio, mine is AMOLED and 11.19 radio. I open up the setting to look at signal strength, and mine (11.19) is always highest.

:)

*EDIT*

Also, 11.19 tends to read the actual signal strength more efficiently that the others, i.e. it changes from 3G to 1x when in weak service, something the other 2 radios are much slower to do.
[Droid Incredible General] gtdrew:
In my area 7.28 has been the best. I noticed large decreases in signal strength when using gps with 11.19.

Overall, I did not notice much difference between the three, but I know that 7.28 works and it eliminates a variable when troubleshooting.
[Droid Incredible General] jackbtha1:
Im in WI and 11.19 is the way to go in my area. Went from -95 db with the stock radio to -60 with 11.19. It also improved my battery life and 3G speed.
[HD2 General] jookdakang23:
When i disassemble my hd2 and then reassemble it does the whole housing have to be on it before it will power up? Because i recently purchased a LCD + Digitizer combo and watch the video on how to fix it and did. Now when i go to power on my HD2 without the back housing on it just vibrates and no screen turns on?! Can anyone tell me what maybe the problem =)
[HD2 General] TheATHEiST:
Important question yet you didn't feel the need to put a descriptive title for you topic?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robert_tlse:
Is it possible to reformat the phone to an original state ? That is have all the extra file system entries that where added by custom roms to be deleted and have the file system in an original state.

I did an flash with Odin and a low level original rom, but i had the impression it still left symlinks and the likes on the phone ..does odin just overwrite files, or can i really do a clean format ?

Thanks in advance !

Robert
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
do a hard reset by typing in *#2767*3855# then flash a stock ROM via ODIN and that should do it. you could also wipe cache and dalvik cache and factory rest in recovery mode too. just to be sure nothing custom is left behind.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robert_tlse:
Thanks, will try next time :)
[Legend General] knudsen81:
Hello i was thinking why do my legend not auto download apps from market that i had on my phone before hard reset on stock 2.2 sense rom.... but then i install cm 6.1 or 7.0 my apps from market will auto download why thats?????
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neatoburrito:
I recently upgraded from Cog 3.02 (first ROM install ever, thanks to all the help from XDA and reddit) to 3.04. I'm wondering if I didn't overwrite some of the newer features of 3.04 with a system backup I made after installing 3.02. I noticed that in first post of the Cognition thread, the dev mentions that it includes "hacked camera (from armani captivate)" and "better gallery (from armani captivate)."

While I certainly notice a difference in the gallery/camera apps from stock 2.1, I don't notice a difference from Cog 3.02. Titanim Backup shows both the Camera and Camera Firmware apps as version 1.0 and Gallery is version 1.1.30682. Are these in fact the Armani Captivate versions or should I reinstall 3.04?

Thanks in advance.

e: meant to post this in the questions forum, gj nub
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daverup:
If you restored system apps and/or settings in 3.04 from a TiBu backup made when running 3.02, you have messed it up.

Flash stock, flash 3.04, restore only user apps and user data.

I really don't restore much besides user data using TiBu, reinstalling from the market seems to work best for me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrikantk:
hi how to i flash 3.04. I am new to flashing. Had rooted my phone, upgraded it to 2.2 froyo. I need steps as to how to flash 3.04 on my captivate. Help appreciated.

Thanks

Shrikant
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystalhand:
You should probably make a new thread if you have any questions and not hijack a dead thread.

As for how to do it there are lots of instructions out there as well as youtube step by step descriptions. Spendsome time looking around
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Gerr1985:
[ICONS]Custom icons and Colors for Contacts/Messaging/Market

These are in no way orginal icons from me, I only edited them slightly then changed colors for more choices. I made these to use with Launcher Pro. The pink ones I made for my girl, so I figured others may want to do the same.

Screenshot

Download Here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?djgbi7hf210gcmw

Screenshot of icons in action:
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] msong06:
Ah, can u add the basic plain colors in too? I been looking for something like this but couldnt find it. Please.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Gerr1985:
Sure any basic colors you had in mind?

Red, yellow, brown, orange?
[Nexus S General] checho_acosta:
My GPS status app stills all the time searching for my position, also other apps can't found my position, they can do it only with the A-GPS
[Nexus S General] kenvan19:
Are you on stock? Can you usually get a gps signal where you are? I had immense issues with gps on my epic but have had none on the nexus unless I'm in my house.

Sent from my CM7 Nexus S!
[Nexus S General] Frostlord:
which GPS are you using?
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
im assuming the one with the LEO satellites :p

*smart ass hat off*

:)
[Nexus S General] Frostlord:
there are a few GPS that is available in my region, A-GPS, papago, Garmin, etc etc

shouldnt there be difference among these GPS? or are they all sharing the same satellite? :eek:
[Nexus S General] jmoserak77:
Nexus S GPS

I am running stock in AK and have only had issues in concrete buildings. Locks on in less than 5 seconds in my house and while driving.
[Nexus S General] sagech:
My Nexus S' gps reception and accuracy is noticeably inferior to my Nexus One. The difference is very obvious indoors, my Nexus S will struggle to even detect satellites while my Nexus One can get a fix fairly quickly.

When I'm outside the house, my Nexus S can get a fix, but it gets the fix slower than my Nexus One by probably 10 seconds. Subsequent fixes will be almost instant though. If I don't use the GPS for a while, the first fix will take longer again.

The Nexus S will usually get 10m accuracy, and it sometimes jumps between 10m and 30m accuracy. I rarely get 5m accuracy with it. On the Nexus One, I consistently get between 1 to 3m accuracy.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Yes, they all share the same satellites. I believe the US GPS sats are the only ones currently covering the globe, but Russia has some supplemental satellites that cover their area.

You're confusing brands of devices and technologies and GPS all at the same time.

GPS is the 24 global positioning satellites ran by the US military. They provide the radio signals that all GPS receivers/navigators use.

Garmin, Magellan, etc are brands of devices that intercept and interpret those signals to give you your position.

A-GPS is "assisted" GPS in cell phones, where the phone can use the cellular network tower location information to "assist" the GPS in figuring out where it is if it's having trouble finding the satellites or hasn't locked onto them yet.

The difference in performance, in my opinion, is primarily antenna design and bad software in non-dedicated devices like our smartphones.
[Nexus S General] tommyz2kool:
Totally agree. N1 had awesome GPS. It would lock on very quick and the position indicated onscreen corresponded to your actual position. I was hoping the GPS issues would be sorted out by samsung by now, but I guess not :mad:
[Nexus S General] Frostlord:
thanks for all the inpit :D

what is the average lock time? i never use GPS device before :p

is it below 10 seconds?
[Nexus S General] checho_acosta:
I'm using GPS status app, but also it happened to me with all the LBS apps .... I used to live in Bogotá and it took 10 to 20 seconds to find the signal. But now here I'm in London and it never find the signal so I can't determine my location ....any idea of what's happening or how to fix it?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsu:
I'm having an issue where the timestamp on my msgs are now incorrect after flashing to a new rom. I was told that htis happened if I am outside the USA (I am from canada on rogers), but this never happened before to me from flashing to a AT&T rom.

Is there an actual fix to it?

If i flash to a different rom will my timestamp be fixed?

how about if flash stock, will it fix the issue?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickm50:
I had the same problem. I can't figure it out either, but I found a work around.

I downloaded Handcent SMS from the market. set it up the way Ilike it, and disabled the notifications from the default SMS app.

I now have correct time stamps, and the sms has different skins to look like HTC, IPhone etc.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsu:
Thanks but i was looking for an actual fix rather than a work around. Do u know if it will go back to normal if i flashed another rom?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Finally we have a method to obtain root that does not involve installing the SDE and that works on at least three different firmware versions. 2.0.71, 2.1.02, 2.1.03, 2.1.08. For all the details see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=928767

This program has the possibility to execute a script after root is acquired. See the readme.txt of Archangel v2.

NOTE: For windows users. Please use Notepad++ to edit the extraroot.sh and convert the file to unix format. In the menu choose "Format" -> "Convert to UNIX Format". This option is available with version v5.1.4 of Notepad++ it has been reported that it's not available in other versions.

Please post the firmware version, your script and a little description here.

Firmware 2.1.02, 2.1.03, 2.1.04,2.1.08 - Disable Swap

Swap is automatically enabled in these firmware versions.

swapoff /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

To verify that swap is turned off go to the Terminal Emulator and type free

/ $ free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 243824 230972 12852 0 4332
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 243824 230972 12852

Another way to turn off swap permanently without using the a script is to disable the swap service. This can be done from within the Terminal Emulator with the following commands

$su
#setprop persist.sys.archos.swapctl.en 0

Then reboot the device.

This only needs to be done once.

Firmware 2.0.71, 2.1.02, 2.1.03, 2.1.04, 2.1.08 - Disable ads

Disable ads. This was posted by archaism1 here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10941853#post10941853

cat <<EOF >/tmp/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com pagead.l.google.com googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 api.admob.com mm.admob.com r.admob.com mob.adwhirl.com cus.adwhirl.com met.adwhirl.com
EOF
mount --bind /tmp/hosts /etc/hosts

I have not tested this myself because I think the devs of applications need the ads to make some money.

Firmware 2.1.02, 2.1.03, 2.1.04, 2.1.08 - Swap on sd-card

Disable swap on internal storage and create a swap file on sd-card. The swap is 256Mb big to change the size just adjust the 256 value in the script.

ATTENTION: it can take a few minutes the first time the script is executed.

swapoff /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
if [ ! -f /sdcard/sdcard/myswap ]
then
echo "Creating swap file"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdcard/sdcard/myswap bs=1M count=256
mkswap /sdcard/sdcard/myswap
fi
swapon /sdcard/sdcard/myswap

And here the result of free

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 243824 241432 2392 0 6232
Swap: 262136 320 261816
Total: 505960 241752 264208

WARNING: if you use a swapfile, which is described here, you can't use a usb connection to copy files without disabling the swap with the following command.

$su
#swapoff /sdcard/sdcard/myswap

Credit for this goes to http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=42718

Hondaracer posted some scripts I'll include them as attachments
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Advanced stuff.

Loading kernel modules.

There was a post in another thread about CifsManager here

chulri was so kind as to build the module. You can download it here.

Unzip the downloaded file and place it in a directory under /sdcard I suggest /sdcard/modules/

Add the following code to the extraroot.sh

insmod /sdcard/modules/cifs.ko

and reboot.

Now you can install CifsManager and start mapping drives.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Disable swap without using scripts

In Terminal Emulator execute following commands

$su
#setprop persist.sys.archos.swapctl.en 0
[Gen8 Android Development] ben.daccache:
I have to create a file named extraroot.sh and and put it in /sdcard/sdcard ?

Do I need to make it executable ? (chmod +x)

Does it work only with permanent root ?

Thanks :)
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
You don't need to make it executable it's executed with sh /sdcard/sdcard/extraroot.sh

And you don't need the permanent root option either. It is also executed when you push the button.
[Gen8 Android Development] popy2006:
Have tried your "Disable ads" script and it works perfect :D

No ads.

Why disable swap? Is there any reason?

cu

pOpY

PS: is there any way to increase the app storage size without using urkdroid?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Good to know.

There is some concern that swap on internal flash may reduce the lifetime of the flash. i just posted a way to enable swap on the sd-card . This is safer as the sdcard can be replaced the internal flash can not be replaced.

I'll look into it but i doubt it.
[Gen8 Android Development] popy2006:
oh, thats a good reason to disable swap on the internal flash.

But i dont have an sdcard yet :o

Why then archos enables the swap default?

cu

pOpY
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
I have no idea why this was enabled by default. You have to ask Archos.
[Gen8 Android Development] Mod57:
Swap

Will Swapper for Root or Swapper 2 (for root user) do the same thing for us noob's?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
From what I can see all the commands to manage swap are present on the archos so both will probably work.

I'll get back to you.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Swapper for root is no solution as the swap file is created on the internal flash.

Swapper 2 on the other hand is working fine. But remember to place the swap on the external sd-card /sdcard/sdcard/swapfile.swp

I still placed

swapoff /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

in the extraroot.sh to be sure the internal swap was off.
[Gen8 Android Development] Mod57:
Swap

Thank you.
[Gen8 Android Development] argie:
Probably the realization that they screwed up with only 256MB of RAM.

ARCHOS PRESIDENT: We get lots of complaints about the small RAM... what could we do?

ARCHOS ENGINEER: We can always use some of the internal flash for a swap.

ARCHOS PRESIDENT: Won't that decrease the life of the flash memory?

ARCHOS ENGINEER: Yes, but by then we'll have Gen9 out.

ARCHOS PRESIDENT: Great... go with it...
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
LOL Good one.

I'v been doing some testing with swap and i'v seen not a lot of improvement.

Some tests I did.

Disable swap

install the flash plugin.

Go to the site of archosfans with the stock browser

Play the first flash video on the site.

The result is that after the video has started all apps in the background are killed off by the android memory manager and even ADW launcher is killed.

So second test

Enable swap

Go to the site of archosfans with the stock browser

Play the first flash video on the site.

Check with the command free via adb

The result is exactly the same as above and only 10Mb swap is used.

So for me swap is useless under android.

I suspect the android memory manager kicks in before the linux kernel has time to swap out the programs to free memory.

I also suspect that non of the real android apps are swapped out to those 10Mb but only the real linux programs are swapped out. I can't verify it at the moment as the top command thats installed does not show if a program is in swap or not.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Confirmation that it works on 2.1.04 from ShadowZephyr
[Gen8 Android Development] smile_gerard:
I'm kinda lost when it comes to the extraroot.sh file. I created a sdcard folder in the sdcard, copy and pasted the script into a .txt file and renamed it to .sh. I'm guessing its wrong since nothing is happening. Could any kind soul shine a light on this?
[Gen8 Android Development] liutszho:
Do these scripts work with the overclock zimage? Can i just point to the extraboot.sh in the init.rc?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
What do you mean when you say nothing is happening? What do you expect to happen? You won't see anything on the screen. And the script will only be run when the Archangel script tries to root the device.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Why would you want these scripts to run on a fully rooted device. You can do anything you want on your device if it's fully rooted.

These scripts only make sense when used together with the Archangel root app.
[Gen8 Android Development] smile_gerard:
When i use a terminal and type "free" it still shows "swap 62520"

I am able to disable swap if i do it manually. Just don't know how to get the script working.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Make sure the name of the file and directory are exactly like this

/sdcard/sdcard/extraroot.sh

Remember case is important.

There could be another problem did you create that file on a windows machine?

If yes it could be the line endings are wrong.

Install something like Notepad++ and open the file then use the format menu "Convert to UNIX Format" save the file and reupload to the device then reroot your device to activate the script
[Gen8 Android Development] smile_gerard:
Alright got it right this time round.

Turns out i had to put the file into the root folder of the microsd.

And also had to use notepad++

It works now thanks for the help.
[Gen8 Android Development] liutszho:
Oh damn, so there are no steps to get these on a fully rooed device?

Not sure what I need to edit,

Edit: nevermind figured it out, make the extraroot.sh, then execute it in terminal
[Gen8 Android Development] Caste23:
It is interesting to create a 512Mo swapfile ? totally useless ?

Thank for your advice....
[Gen8 Android Development] godashram:
I tried the swap as well with the gun bros beta... and it made a difference. It ran smoother.

Gotta try dungeon defenders next...
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Can you check how much swap is used?

in terminal emulator (from the market) or via adb type free
[Gen8 Android Development] godashram:
With 64mb swap it was a bit smoother... with 256 it was even better. No real difference if swap is located on internal or sd card for me
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
The big question is how much swap is used....
[Gen8 Android Development] Caste23:
Hi,

I tried to set 256 Mo and 64 Mo;

I launched a lot of apps in background to do some tests.

I got the same performance because I only use 17Mo of swap .

Hope it help...

PS : To know how much swap RAM i use, I launch "free" in terminal emulator
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Yep as suspected. The swap will not work because the android part does not seem to know it has swap. The swap is only used by the native linux programs that run.
[Gen8 Android Development] CarsnGadgets:
wdl1908,

I have created a new file in notepad++ and directly pasted in the script from your 1st post to stop the 32mb swap and create a new 256mb one on the sdcard.

I have gone to the encoding menu, and I have tried both ANSI and UTF-8 formats,

but the script doesnt do anything on reboot? (the swap is still 32mb, I checked with the terminal)

the file is in /sdcard/sdcard

which encoding format do I use in notepad++? there isnt an option to 'convert to unix format'

thanks.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
What version of Notepad++ do you use? I got the v5.1.4 Portable apps edition on my work pc. At home I use linux so no problem there.
[Gen8 Android Development] CarsnGadgets:
Im at work now, so cant check my home pc which has it installed, but its the latest version 5.8.7 from the website.

I have just downloaded 5.1.4, so I'll try that later.

thanks.
[Gen8 Android Development] liutszho:
Did you try setcpu ? Or Root explorer?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
You have root access but that does not mean you can copy files over the existing ones. The Filesystem is still read-only. Changing that needs a lot more changes and for the moment an SDE install.

You could possibly try the mount --bind trick maybe that will work but if the files you'r trying to replace are already loaded by the system then there is probably nothing that can be done.
[Gen8 Android Development] smile_gerard:
I've had problems with it too... I ended up downloading a swap file and dropping it into the root of my sd card. I then just keyed in this:

swapoff /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

swapon /sdcard/sdcard/swap512

swap512 is the name of the swap file that i had. Weirdly the swapoff would not work but i was able to get the 512mb swap file i had put in to work. But if i just used swapoff /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 it would work. Don't know why can't get both to work together. So i just use gscript to execute swapoff /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
[Gen8 Android Development] CarsnGadgets:
I downloaded v5.1.4 in the end and used that to format the file in unix format and it worked fine.

odd that the latest version doesnt have that option.

its working perfect now.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Note added for windows users and Notepad++
[Gen8 Android Development] rokkywoof:
Should that not be "swapoff /sdcard/sdcard/myswap" ?? That is the only way I know of to disable swapping in Linux (and that is what you show earlier to disable the original swap).

HTH
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Corrected in the first post.

Thanks
[Gen8 Android Development] Hondaracer:
Here are some pre-made extraroot.sh files for those who don't have NotePad++ or other reason.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Thx i'v added them to the first post.

In the second post I'v added some advanced stuff so take a look.
[Gen8 Android Development] jan_tsui:
I have partition my external sd card to two partition, one is swap partition, and the other is data partition.

After that I use below extraroot.sh for auto run in boot time.

extraroot.sh:

swapoff /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

swapon /dev/block/vold/179\:17

In this case when I plug the usb cable, I can mount the disk to window.
[Gen8 Android Development] liutszho:
Wow thats smart! I didnt think about that at all! Gonna give it a try, even make the swap partition ext4 and see if that helps lol
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Hmm a swap partition can not be formatted as ext4. The only way to format a swap partition is with mkswap.