yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Adam General] legaleagll:
There have been continuing reports of issues with the GPS not functioning on the Adam units and I thought it was generally broken until someone over in Europe indicated they had no issues. I have come to believe that the issue is with the Longitude/Latitude differences are to blame, specifically that the Latitude in the Western Hemisphere is a negative number.

I watched Inspiron41's video where he said he was in New York, NY and took the Longitude and Latitude for NY, NY from Google maps and changed the negative to a positive and it took me to right where the "Locate Me" took him on his Adam.

Is this something that would be fixable by modifying a program found in the data that was included in the unbricking files?
[Adam General] inspiron41:
you're absolutely correct.

these are suppose to be my approximate coordinates: 40.72, -73.44 (i slightly adjusted for my privacy)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40.72,+-74.44&aq=&sll=40.72,73.44&sspn=0.553717,1.40625&ie=UTF8&z=16

and if you change invert the longitude number you get: 40.72, 73.44

which puts me exactly

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40.72,+73.44&aq=&sll=41.062786,74.674072&sspn=4.406604,7.064209&ie=UTF8&ll=40.859525,73.539734&spn=1.10511,1.766052&z=9

which is in Kyrgyzstan!!! Someone just messed up with a number. I'm sure it's a simple fix
[Adam General] SamWhite:
The way you describe it, it sounds like there's probably some sort of mathematical pattern to the inaccuracies - so I'd presume that once figured out it should be an (hopefully easy) software fix.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Adam General] longspot2002:
Shame on you, legaleagll, for making the idea sound like it was yours.

from legaleagll on notioninkaddicts forum "@longspot2002 I think you solved the mystery. I watched Inspiron41's video where he said he was in New York, NY and took the Longitude and Latitude for NY, NY from Google maps and changed the negative to a positive and it took me to right where the "Locate Me" took him on his Adam."
[Adam General] Sirchuk:
So who's idea was it? You just quoted what the OP said on a different forum..?
[Adam General] longspot2002:
It was mine.
[Adam General] amarko5:
just for clarity

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Today 07:50 PM #22

longspot2002

My hypothesis regarding the GPS issue

The problem with the GPS is this - longitude needs to be a negative number in the western hemisphere. When I take the coordinates for Charlotte, NC (Latitude: 35.2269444, Longitude: -80.8433333) and remove the minus sign, it places me in.....you guesses it, China.

Try this to confirm my hypothesis, find the lat/lon where your Adam thinks you are, the do a Google Maps search on those coordinate, but with a negative longitude.

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Today 08:03 PM #23

legaleagll

Junior Member

@longspot2002 I think you solved the mystery. I watched Inspiron41's video where he said he was in New York, NY and took the Longitude and Latitude for NY, NY from Google maps and changed the negative to a positive and it took me to right where the "Locate Me" took him on his Adam.

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Longspots suggestion. but he was travelling and asked someone to post on XDA here.

looks like legaleagll tried to take the credit :(
[Adam General] Sirchuk:
Ahhh k I see now. Anyhow, I hope the issue gets fixed soon.
[Adam General] legaleagll:
Seriously. You think I am trying to take credit for it. I didn't realize we were in grade school and got rewards or points for finding issues and taking credit. Give me a break and troll someone else. I just wanted to get a solution to a problem and posted it here. I didn't think anyone here would care or need to know the entire background on how I came to believe that this is what the problem was and didn't know I was stepping on your toes by failing to do provide the credit. I didn't claim I solved the problem and didn't try to get anyone to give me credit. But in any event, please forgive my lack of etiquette and apparent attempt to steal your karma from the internet gods by failing to identify the entire process from another forum.

For any who care and are concerned about due credit, I raised the issue with GPS on Notion Addicts and asked whether anyone knew of any that were working. A number of responses came with information regarding potential problems and where it was or wasn't working. Longspot suggested that that might be the problem. I went and reviewed the videos that were out there and found one where they said where they were, transposed the long and lat and posted in that forum that I thought longspot solved the mystery. Again, I wasn't trying to claim nor do I need credit for any part of this, I just want to make sure the problem gets identified and solved.

My apologies, and please let us return to our regularly scheduled program and hopefully find someone smarter than I to come up with a fix for this.
[Adam General] legaleagll:
I also posted the same general information in Notioninkhacks.com, feel free to go over there and make sure I didn't try and steal your thunder.
[Adam General] legaleagll:
For what its worth, I posted long before longspot asked someone else to post in xda. Check the times.
[Adam General] droidsector:
This is the version of my app Maverick with inverted longitude, could be useful until NI released fix for GPS:

codesector.com /files/maverick.pro.28.adam.signed.apk
[Adam General] inspiron41:
btw folks, this is what is coded in the gps.conf file

_____________________________________________________

# GPS configuration

#Network time Protocal

#sample: north-america.poll.ntp.org 0.pool.ntp.org 1.poll.ntp.org

NTP_SERVER=

#SUPL - Secure User Plane Location for A-GPS

#sample:

#	SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com

#	SUPL_PORT=7276

SUPL_HOST=

SUPL_PORT=

#C2K: what is C2K

#C2K_HOST=default

#C2K_PORT=0

C2K_HSOT=

C2K_PORT=
[Adam General] clockcycle:
Anyone see the irony in this? Bad math/calculations by engineers? Just funny, at least it sounds like possibly a software fix and not a hardware issue.

-CC
[Adam General] inspiron41:
**** happens as they say it. remeber the Beagle 2 lander for Mars sent out by the UK? they messed that up because they used the wrong metric system
[Adam General] clockcycle:
Hubble Telescope, British and US foot, inches are slightly different.. What a botch up!

Good thing there weren't any public blogs for 14 yo to post their impatience, immaturity and intolerance back then ;)

-CC
[Adam General] johnboatcat:
This is the gps.conf from my HD2 on Android

and it works perfectly.

NTP_SERVER=us.pool.ntp.org

XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com

SUPL_PORT=7276

I had to change the "north-america.poll.ntp.org" to "us.pool.ntp.org" to get it to work on the HD2 (no Adam till Feb. 14 or so) . Also "pool" is spelled wrong in yours. Poll should be pool. The us.pool line works better than the north-american.pool. Locks sats much faster.

Also this app might help to fix it faster.

How to fix slow GPS signal lock-on issue on rooted Android?

http://www.jayceooi.com/2011/01/29/how-to-fix-slow-gps-signal-lock-on-issue-on-rooted-android/
[Adam General] inspiron41:
i tried editing the gps.conf file and no luck. this device must really use a different conf file to find my position. i didnt spell anything from my original post, that was a straight cut and past from gps.conf. I noticed HOST was spelt HSOT too...
[Adam General] johnboatcat:
Did you go into your file and see if it saved it.

I remember we had a heck of a time getting that file edited. When you save it it would wipe it clean. I edited the file on the PC and copied it over and it worked I think. I would just correct the spelling in yours first. Probably have to reboot for sure. Try a search for gps.conf in the HD2 android forum. That is where I found it originally.

Also might download that app and try it.
[Adam General] inspiron41:
i fixed all the spelling and rebooted it. Adam doesnt wipe any of your corrections. nice for developers. but it still says i'm on the other side of the world. and i search for the mention of GPS...no luck. but on a side note, it's super fast now with the locking...even faster than the ipad
[Adam General] johnboatcat:
Glad to see it is easy to edit the file.

What did you use to edit it?

Maybe some of the European folks who have working GPS can send in their gps.conf files to see if there is any differences.
[Adam General] inspiron41:
Root Manager

im just saying something else must be output the GPS coordinates to Google Maps, OsmAnd and Marvick. I edited gps.conf to those exact settings. Yes there's a different when i use the GPS on those applications. It seems like Adam is using gps.conf to locate me much much much faster. I'm *guessing* android is using gps.conf to get my coordinates, but some other file is inverting my longitude coordinates.

i'm trying to look through the developer's page find out how LocationManager works.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationManager.html
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wizputer:
This service is the bane of my battery life. If I'm vigilant and regularly "disable" it from Settings->Applications->Services I can get about 48hrs of battery life. Though for the days I forget about it, I only get 36hrs and 100% wake time.

Does anyone know how to permanently disable the service (short of uninstalling Google Voice)?
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloverdale:
I have uninstalled it due to this, but have you tried Autorun Manager (in the market)?
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesusice:
Weird... usually I have 3 GV processes running, one of course being the damn unneeded/wanted Widget Service. Just checked and I've just got the Call Log Service running and no other GV nonsense :) Maybe it's because I rebooted 20mins ago..?

EDIT: Opened GV and again I have the 3 services. Stopped the Widget Service and it doesn't seem to want to come back after opening GV several times again.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wizputer:
Trying to avoid using another app to control another app's behavior.

For me it randomly pops back up. Though 100% of the time after getting a new voicemail.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarspants:
Doesn't show up in mine, though I don't have notifications turned on. I just have notifications sent through gmail and only open voice if the translation sucks or it actually is important (which it never is). That way, you have one less service constantly polling for new information.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wizputer:
Hmm, I may just go this route until the GVoice team gets their act together.

Unfortunate really....
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] ydizzle:
I am running Iced Glacier right now and I changed the screen density to 200. The problem is that on the themed version of the ROM there is a little Android on the transparent lockscreen and when I changed the density it is now in the middle of the screen awkwardly.

So I was wondering if there is any way I can change it to a transparent lockscreen and I would also like the menu to be transparent or not have shadow drops.
[Android Themes] rhamej:
What image is this? The title image in red. I can't find it for the life of me :confused:
[Android Themes] ACD168:
Might help to list the phone and ROM.
[Android Themes] rhamej:
My bad. KayosFroyo v39. HTC Eris.
[Android Themes] DRTMI:
If you mean the red outlined part, I believe that would be

title_bar_portrait

At least that what it looks like.
[Android Themes] rhamej:
Which is weird. Because mine is not colored black :-/ It's #333333.

Maybe my 9patch got messed up. Ill re-do it when I get back to work Monday and see if that's it. Thanks.
[Android Themes] rhamej:
Ok, that's not it. I replaced the one from kayosfroyo and that one is the title bar in the notifications drop down. Anyone else have a clue? Is it maybe in an xml file?
[Android Themes] rhamej:
Bumpity bump
[Android Themes] rhamej:
Found it. dark_header.9.png. Little rascal was only a pixle wide.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lhernana2j:
I have looked all over and have not found the answer. When I connect the phone to Zune it was happening before (started when I flashed to a custom ROM), it syncs fine with Zune but always disconnects my internet. I unplug the phone and my internet comes back on. Anyone have the answer to this? Thanks.
[Streak 5 General] -viperboy-:
Hi, I am trying to load Steven's ROM on here, I got the device rooted but everytime I try to get Clockwork or even StreakMod recovery, it doesn't work. I usually do custom ROMs for all my friend's Android phones (EVO, Eris, Incredible, Aria, etc) and none are as much of a pain as the Streak. The only other one I have done before had the same problem where I flash recovery in fastboot, pull the battery, reboot into recovery and I get to the Dell recovery. I choose the update.pkg and I get the black screen. I tried the 2 versions in the Clockwork thread, 3 versions in the streak .pdf posted on here, and the StreakMod version. All do the SAME THING!

I would appreciate a little bit of direction if someone could help me. The phone is an ATT Streak running 1.6 build 6601. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: The only thing I thought of was updating it to 2.1 and than trying?? Should I do that?
[Streak 5 General] p00kienrayray:
I assume youre using qdl repair tool? Did u put the recovery file in the qdl directory. I just wanna make sure.
[Streak 5 General] -viperboy-:
No, I wasn't. I am just using command prompt and doing the commands manually.
[Streak 5 General] tenorntex:
Are you able to successfully install from QDL? If so, then you need to fastboot the recovery files. QDL will overwrite whatever recovery you have in it.
[Streak 5 General] p00kienrayray:
Try using qdl if u can my dude. If it doesnt work, then come back here. Qdl makes everything easy.

P.s. When u choose update.pkg, u get to a blank black screen? Theres no picture at all?
[Streak 5 General] -viperboy-:
Just read this...

http://android.modaco.com/content/d...24010/warning-white-dell-streak-is-different/

I didn't know the color mattered but this is a white one. Got QDL installed and setup and ran it as it is and it might still be doing someone on the phone but it's been at the Dell logo for a while. It also wouldn't take my recovery.img - I put it in the images folder and it said it couldn't flash it. Ugh, this is so annoying.
[Streak 5 General] p00kienrayray:
Did u follow the tutorial from the streakdroid site? Installed correct drivers? Thats a common problem. And did qdl say that it failed?

Also with qdl, u put the recovery after qdl succeeds.

I have the white one and qdl failed twice. I just restarted the process and it went thru the 3rd time.
[Streak 5 General] -viperboy-:
I got it to work through QDL, finally. I followed everything but finally found a .zip with official Froyo 2.2 in .img formats and threw that into the images folder and it flashed and worked. I gave it back to my friend that way cause she needed it back. I will trt getting clockwork on there another time. Thanks alot everyone!
[Streak 5 General] p00kienrayray:
Cool so right now its running 2.2 with stock recovery? Its pretty easy to flash a custom recovery after that. Just make sure the recovery file is in the qdl directory and run the command in fastboot.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] g0nk:
With the laptop dock, it has 2 USB ports. I've seen video of demonstrators using a mouse with the laptop dock, so there's 1 port used up. I am curious if anyone has seen any type of information on if you can plug a USB Memory stick, or portable USB based hard drive into the USB ports of the Laptop Dock and if it would be usable.

I think it would be awesome if I could plug a 500GB hard drive with all my media and play music/movies/pictures on the Laptop Dock through the phone.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] glitterbug:
I saw a CES video and the moto rep said you could hookup an external drive.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] LockeCPM4:
Thank you for the info. This is looking like a more promising device more and more every day!
[Atrix 4G Accessories] swornenemy:
I wonder if the USB ports will support other devices like a USB serial dongle.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Sogarth:
Confirmed. I plugged in a USB drive into the lapdock on a lark, and it detected it and mounted the drive just fine. Based on what the folks in the "Dock without dock" thread are saying, it may actually be possible to plug the Atrix into a USB hub and have it detect USB drives that way too (since they're hooking up keyboards and mice via that mechanism if I'm reading it correctly). :D
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Ririal:
I've noticed that the phone does NOT recognize NTFS formatted drives, only FAT32. I haven't tested exFAT or any linux file systems yet. Just FYI.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] shawnbuck:
Could you try a few Linux filesystems as well? I'm curious to see what this kernel supports.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Ririal:
If you know of a simple way to format them under Windows, I'd be happy to. I can't find a tool that lets me format, only read-only access to mounted drives. I don't have access to a linux box while at work.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Sogarth:
Anything in particular you're looking for? You can always check /proc/config.gz for the full kernel configuration. Here are some of the entries you're probably looking for:

CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT4_FS is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_GFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_OCFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BTRFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NILFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
[G Tablet General] rjpear:
Hi Folks.. I was able to install Clockwork and then the Notion Ink Rom..But when I wanted to do another..I copied the ZIP file to the SD card but it would not show up in Clockwork.. When I poked around a bit it looked like the stuff that clockwork saw (when I browsed for the ZIP in Clockwork) was on the System and not the SD... Any ideas whats happening there?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s15274n:
The update today for Beautiful Widgets was massive. I am hoping some of you talented folk plan on making some clock/weather skins for it.

Would be very cool to have some that matched the more popular themes for the Vibrant.

Also love how the battery status can be incorporated now. Here is the Smaller one with the Battery.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papaniz:
Hi there,

I emailed Virgin Mobile the other day and asked if they can unlock my phone for me, and they said they currently don't let their members unlock their phones yet. I'm just wondering if there's any service that unlocks a Virgin Mobile phone, but not for GSM network, I'm WCDMA. Thanks for the help.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Pigeon:
There are a number of websites that provide unlock codes for typically between $5 and $30. I heard good things about this one, but haven't used it myself:

http://www.mobileincanada.com/How-To-Unlock-Your-Cellphone

Just a quick note: if you plan on switching to Bell, you may not need to unlock your phone. This is according to a few posters on Howard Forums.

Cheers.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papaniz:
Thanks so much for the help!
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lanpirate:
Same here. My Legend was from Virgin mobile, now on Bell. I didnt need to do anything but switch sim cards.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papaniz:
Yeah, Bell and Virgin are the same network. Bell owns Virgin. But I didn't know that I didn't have to switch SIM cards. Thanks for the help again.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hibanzai:
Would a bell phone work on virgin though? Seems weird you don't have to unlock phones. I used unlock roger phones to use on Fido, and Rogers own Fido. Same as bell owning virgin. Maybe they just didn't bother, and people don't really check.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papaniz:
Well my friend and I tried with our phones, he used my Virgin Mobile SIM card in his Bell phone and it worked. But I can't really be %100 it'll work, it was on a Blackberry. If you have a friend on Bell try it out, or you can even email Bell. But the reason you don't have to switch SIM cards between Bell and Virgin is because they're the same company so either way whether with Virgin or Bell, the money is still going to the same people.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnycanuk:
unlock virgin mobile iphone 4

I want to unlock the iphone that I bought for 220 and although he said it was with bell it is really with virgin. I called customer support and they said that if I was on pay as you go for 30 days they would unlock it for $75. I suppose this is the best way...
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asovse1:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, $75? Go on Kijiji to find some software unlocks for much cheaper, or code unlocks for slightly cheaper. No Canadian should feed Robelus more money, and at that price it's just makes me cringe!
[Streak 5 General] robber_swe:
Hi!

I have an 02 Dell Streak with Stephen Hyde 1.5.1 rom. One day the phone just dont boot up. All i get is the Dell logo. Ive tried to downgrade to android stock 1.6, 2.1, 2.2 etc. Tried numerous of files with no succes.

When i now put a update file on my sdcard i only get this message> "Android system recovery utility - GAUSB1A110421. To perform an emergency software recovery, you will need to insert a microSD card containing an update file. (/sdcard/update.pkg). To download an update file, and for further instructions, visit dell.com. Press the Volume down button to power off."

What im i doing wrong and how can i fix it?

/Deserate Rob.
[Streak 5 General] spdivr:
I had that problem and this is the link that got it fixed for me:

http://streakdroid.com/?page_id=92

Hope it helps, at least more than the usual "search for xxx" stuff that leads to tons of broken links and unanswered questions....
[Streak 5 General] robber_swe:
Thanx!

But there are alot of downloads there, what should i do?

"This page contains links to various guides and tutorials that you may find useful when dealing with your Streak."

/R
[Streak 5 General] robber_swe:
Ive tried the QDLTool on all my usbports and they all give a new message :(

Im gonna try on my GFs computer.

/Robin
[Streak 5 General] robber_swe:
Ive tried it again and it worked!

Thanx alot! :)

/R
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slide407:
do anyone have the ps3 Brew pro app ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snandlal:
Ps3-haxs.....
[XPERIA X8 General] achrafus:
Hello,

as explained in the instructions I root my E15i xperia x8 in 2.1 then I installed xrecovery. the system boot well on Xrecovery. I even created a backup.

The problem is that after trying to flash a custom ROM>> error while formatting the boot .... apparently the rom was not ok. After rebooting the phone boot loop on the Sony Ericsson logo.

I tried to go on xrecovery = faillure, and the only way to stop this is to disconnect the battery.

can you please help me to RESET my phone.

thank you,
[XPERIA X8 General] danielfonseca890:
Use SEUS - > http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/sup...s/detailed/updateservice/xperiax8?cc=gb&lc=en
[XPERIA X8 General] achrafus:
Thanks very much. it works great.

i tried another rom and now it's ok.

good night
[XPERIA X8 General] rajesh patel:
thank you so much
[XPERIA X8 General] venculda:
Hello, i have same problem as "achrafus". My phone after instaling MiniCM7-2.2.0-shakira is stucked at Sony Ericsson loading logo. It appears white, but after 2 sec it goes gray(maybe contrast). I cant go to xrecorvery, cant turn off the phone. I just can turn it on and then disconnect battery. :mad: Is there any way how to solve that problem ? ( Sorry for my english.)

Thank you so much.
[XPERIA X8 General] Mayank77:
It's a soft brick. Use PCC/SEUS to recover whenever you have a soft brick.