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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgarlock:
I am on my 4th replacement Eris (trackball issues, and charging port issues). It's mint, and I take good care of it, so it's not that I am abusing it by any means, but my charging/usb port is on its way out. I've had to exchange 2 others because of the well known trackball issues.

So, Verizon has offered me early upgrade pricing on any phone of my choice! Question is, which one is closest to my Eris (size) and feel. When the Eris came out, I admit, I liked the way it looked, and felt compare to the Droid 1.

Of course, I rooted it, since there is no way I could stand being stuck on 2.1, with Sense. I really want the Nexus S, but I'm on Verizon, and not able to move (company phone). I would prefer the most "google" experience, but if it's an HTC phone with Sense, I can live. I'll probably just root it anyway. So, here are my requirements:

* FAST!! (After having an Eris for so long, I yearn for speed!!)

* Most Vanilla Google like

* "smaller" form factor like the Eris

* Good dev community for rooting (like the Eris)

Actually, now that I think of it, my requirement for being Vanilla, is not really a requirement, since I can always root it :-)

Here are some of the phones I have thought about:

* DINC (but, should I go for something even faster, or wait?)

* Samsung Facinate

* Droid 2 Global (don't really like the form factor, but 1.2Ghz is nice!!)

I don't really think there is much choice. Although I am a diehard Mac OS X guy (Mostly because it's Unix), the iPhone just doesn't do it for me anymore. I like Android widgets, and the notifications too much, and the iPhone sucks at those (or doesn't have it)

Any chance of the Nexus S coming to Verizon? I like that the Nexus phones are always on the bleeding edge of Android releases, which is what I really want the most :-)

So, what does everyone recommend? Wait? Get a new phone now? Replace the Eris for the 5th time? :confused:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtacydima:
Can you wait out for the vzw Thunderbolt?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playpolo4life:
Personally I would get another Eris and wait for the new phones to come out. BTW next time, post questions like this in the Q&A or General sections.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheatman1:
droid x

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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlazinDANDAMAN:
The Verizon iPhone....

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J/K...I'd wait for the new LTE phones to come out before getting one. They just leaked that the LTE pricing will be the same 29.99 for unlimited.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ngc604:
dinc is too old now. almost at the end of its life and so is the droid x. Samsung has horrible support as you can see by kaos having to go over to their forums to help them get froyo and its near the end of its life. Most of the fast phones that verizon has have a EOL in march. The d2g is the same processor as the x and d2 but overclocked. i had a x for 29 days and hated it. and that thing ran all day at 1.35. If you can handle the 4.3" screen wait for the thunderbolt. My experience with the x and looking at the rest of verizons going ons has made me realize i am leaving them. I have determined that its time to move to a mobile carrier that has similar views that i do in how handsets should be ran. That is why i am switching to tmobile and getting the G2. Tmobile is owned by a german company and for some reason the Europeans seem to be more accepting of all things unix. They have a good relationship with google and they have released 4 vanilla pure android phones. no one else has released any that i can think of.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dabomb697:
I would get the DINC but only if you can without having to use your upgrade.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theblorg:
Currently on my 7th one, nd verizon has yet to offer me this. Just get the iphone, much more reliable
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lesismore1:
I'm still on my first, but I'm saving my upgrade for the Droid Bionic. And how do you go through 4-7 Eris's?!?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neederishelp:
track ball going out, screen unresponsive, phone restarting randomly... i'm about to be on my third.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lifyre:
The build quality was very uneven on the Eris. Most of the ones people are getting now have already failed in the past and will fail again. If you're on your first one like I am (over 12 months now) count yourself lucky and just ride it out. Unless things change I'll be changing carriers after this contract is up as it is anyway.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erismaster:
Do the verizon trade in credit thing. Eris is worth 132 to verizon. Then buy some used phone online (I recently got a mint droid for 130, I'm pleasantly surprised by how much faster it is over the eris and has a great dev community and super easy to root and is still supported by verizon. For now) and wait till the thunderbolt, bionic, x 2, droid 3, or the Inc 2 comes out and get that and use your promo pricing
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neederishelp:
not anymore, they changed it today to 32 :(
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgarlock:
That must be because of the iPhone? $100 drop is steep! :eek:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iloveandroid:
Get the Thunderbolt
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erismaster:
Dangg. Whew I'm glad I did it last week haha.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elitenls:
Replace it with another Eris; then wait for the Thunderbolt (SVDO) or the Droid Bonic - or jump ship like me and just get an iPhone. *shrug* /2c
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I only read your first post and haven't read anyone else's answers. IMHO, Either go for the Incredible or wait for the next HTC Android phone on Verizon, the Incredible's successor, whatever it will be. Shouldn't be too much longer, but I understand it's hard to be patient.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markalyea2:
boooooooo!!!!!!!!! -8974624 :)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markalyea2:
im keeping my eye on the bionic myself. wait it out just a little longer.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zalatorisaurus:
I got a like new incredible on ebay for a pretty great price last night :D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fryman0789:
$32 trade-in hurts now. I was hoping I could still get that $132 to have a little extra cash. I would jump on the Thunderbolt, but my little town won't get LTE until at least 2012... but with Verizon's upgrade system changing it looks like I'll have it until then.

DInc is probably going to hit EOL when TB launches if it hasn't already. Looks like I'm getting a Thunderbolt.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgarlock:
Thank you very much to all that replied so far. I also realize I should have posted this in a different forum, but I was hoping to see what phones devs liked, as I will most likely root my new phone.

So far, it looks like the consensus is to try and wait for the Thunderbolt or Bionic. If anything, like a few people said, I can get another Eris if mine totally becomes unable to charge (like Eris #3 for me) One of the Eris's I had, lasted one week! It was almost like they shipped me a known bad one, as the trackball died very fast.

On another note, not one of the Eris's I sent back, did I "unroot" and put the stock rom back on. It was my way of saying "this phone is a helluva lot better with hacked ROM, instead of stock!" Nothing was ever said to me by Verizon.

Anyone else send back their Eris, and not unroot it? All of my issues were clearly hardware. One of them I couldn't even do anything in the Recovery! The trackball was completely gone...

Regardless, after reading about the Thunderbolt, I think I may go for that one.

What about the R2D2 Droid with the 1.2Ghz processor?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgarlock:
Wow, I just searched Ebay to see what Eris's and Incredibles are going for, and in my Incredible search, a few of them say "Droid Incredible" but show a picture of the Eris! And, there are bids of $200!!! WTF? I would be incredibly pissed if I paid $200 for a used Eris, when they are now worth $32!

:eek:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djclark:
Droid X.

Went from an eris to this. Install LauncherPro and you'll have a fast Android phone. I even like Motorolas MMS app better than standard android.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbird22tg:
I'm on my 3rd first one the speaker died and the second one the screen was un responsive. my current one is awsome even overclocks to 768 with no problem.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tiwey:
ok we've al heard of the upcoming sual core smartphones ranging from th droid bionic, to the atrix 4g, the Lg optimus 2x, and the list goes on. many phones have given us much grief from attempting to crack the bootloader (xperia x10 and the droids come to mind). nonetheless, which phone do you guys think will be the best buy? they all have their benifits.

which company do you guys think put in the LEAST efoort in locking their beast of a dual-core phone?

i'm gonna be eligible for an upgrade/carrier switch soon...en easy to crack phone will be the deciding facotr...but where o' where shall i go?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] snwboard333:
HTC is always a safe bet
[Fascinate General] hitman_dreams:
So it's been a while since I've decided to flash a new ROM. With the addition of Froyo now, I went ahead and installed the leak with no problems. I had a question about my clockwork recovery though. When I first boot into recovery I get a screen with red lettering and options for voodoo...that was the first kernel I used after rooting. I then moved to a non voodoo kernel with DJ05. I also have the update.zip that takes me into what looks like yet another recovery that has green lettering with no voodoo options. If I use rom manager to boot into recovery, it takes me into the green one. I have a feeling I don't need the red one anymore...is there a way to clean all of this up so that I only have one clockwork recovery or is this the norm? Thanks in advance, I went through all of the clockwork installs, but nothing jumped out at me to whether or not this is normal or how to clean it up a bit.
[Fascinate General] F34RDR01D:
i know this doesn't help you.. but where did you get the update.zip from.. i really need that lol.
[Fascinate General] jiggaman508:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=913470

The update.zip is in that thread :)
[Fascinate General] martian21:
The Green Recovery exists solely as an update.zip on the SDcard and does NOT modify the phone in any way. It also does not have support for ROMS and Nandroids (backups) when using Voodoo. The Red Recovery replaces the stock (blue) recovery on the phone (it DOES modify the phone's memory) and DOES support Voodoo.

Unless the Red Recovery is causing you some sort of problems I would highly suggest that you just leave it alone. There would be more risk in modifying your phone's memory again to go back to stock (blue) recovery.

I know all the different recoveries get confusing (red, blue, green) but each one does serve a purpose. I suspect that once Froyo is officially released and the kernel source is available we will get an updated Red recovery (or maybe they will pick a new color) that replaces the stock (blue) recovery and handles everything and there will no longer be a need for the green (update.zip based) recovery.

Martian21
[Fascinate General] hitman_dreams:
Thanks Martian21, that does help. I figured taking out the red cw would be a pain, and everything is working just fine. I can nandroid and install Roms so I guess I'll just leave it. I suppose this way I can do voodoo later if I feel like it.
[Fascinate General] jamezelle:
yea we know its a mess right now, were working on it.
[Fascinate General] hitman_dreams:
That's cool. I wasn't trying to complain, was just seeing if I did something wrong to clutter it up. I can wait.
[G2 and Desire Z General] IntegraR:
Hi,

I originally uses the stock rom (localized for hong kong).

The difference between this variant and the European version is that the "sym" button is also the key for swapping between chinese and english input method when using hardware keyboard.

When I flash to Virtuous 0.9, the sym button is used as ".com" function so I'm not able to change the input method.

I've also tried the european swapping method of "alt+spacebar" but failed.

Can anyone suggest a mod for that? Thanks and sorry for my poor English!

I can provide a dump for the hong kong rom if it helps.
[G2 and Desire Z General] chris2busy:
go into setting refered for keyboards and select touch input..find the submenu for hardware keyboard and select the 2 languages you want (in your case english and chinese)..close everything and go to any space that you can type, to test (e.g sms) then start typing..probably the default language to type would be english...now hit the magnifying lense button which is near the bottom right corner of the hardware keyboard (looks like a search button)..try typing , and you will see that the language has changed :)

now i dunno if this is a bug or snything else, but if you REtry to switch the same way back to english it seems to stuck..you can just tap anywhere in the text and then try to type and everything is great...really,not an important issue..Sorry if i am not being very detailed right now but i am currently on cm , not virtuous, so i just told you what i remember from heart..

Give me feedback if this worked for you or not and i can go for a quick nandroid to see it out myself..

Enjoy Spring Festival mate :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] IntegraR:
Thank you for the detailed reply!

In the hardware keyboard settings, I could only find "Default language" and "Prediction".

The "default language" has three options, "English", "倉頡" and "拼音" respectively, where the last two are Chinese input methods.

It just pop out a search menu when i pressed the magnifying button.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
[G2 and Desire Z General] chris2busy:
Okay..some things i might forgot..make sure android keyboard is un-ticked and you are using the htc ime..also did you try typing into an area that you are supposed to type text in, or like in browser url are, sms contact name input field , email address input area?if you use the lense button in one of these it is mapped to do other things, like check ur contact list, or your email address favourites..

try a notepad..or a reply in this forum for example..or an sms typing area.
[G2 and Desire Z General] IntegraR:
Sorry but there's no option for "android keyboard" in sense-based roms.

I've tried the magnifying glass in sms typing area. It just pops out the "search message" screen.

While the address bar comes out when I tried to press the button when replying forum messages.

Appreciate your help very much! Thank you!
[G2 and Desire Z General] IntegraR:
bump for advice.... thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] conizius:
Hey,

There could be an other way. You could try to get your language change button back.

In /system/usr/keylayout you'll find the layouts of the keyboard. If you have a copy/backup of your original keyboard layout, you could just use that one instead.

I havent tried it myself, but there is a change to TAB. But I don't know which value it should be in your case.

Mybe it helps you, good luck

- coni
[Streak 5 General] maan1976:
while using QDL tool to update,qdl tool stopped and phone bricked now computer no longer recognize Qualcomm Diagnostic 9002.

phone is black screen nothing , no lights no sign of life.

please help
[Streak 5 General] RussianSolja:
This is why I am scared to root the streak O.o
[Streak 5 General] LorD ClockaN:
BIG LOL

you don't have to use QDL to root!!
[Streak 5 General] stormtrooper1:
LOL QDL to root huh?

Sent from my Dell Streak

AT&T DJ_Steve STREAKDROID v1.6.1

******Superuser Rooted*******
[Streak 5 General] brianlp:
Did you follow the correct steps for QDL on what I'm guessing is 64 bit Win 7?

The problem is your PC. Uninstall QDL, reinstall, then try again.
[Streak 5 General] RussianSolja:
lol don't laugh at me lol. I rooted my steak using zroot. Worked out pretty well. :)
[Streak 5 General] sirxcaliburuk:
Your Dell Streak is 'Bricked'. This happened to me and I've returned my phone to O2 and they've replaced it with a completely brand new one. Be careful next time you play around with your Streak, I learned my lesson.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justlovejoy:
I am in Brooklyn Manhattan and Queens. I have simple mobile and I get less than edge type of data. my phone has h and indicates hsdpa not hspa+ but my data is .12-.20 mbps. I have called simple on this a few times to no avail. does anyone have any related issues or fixes or recommendations to offer. please help.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ELBdelorean:
Did you try calling T-Mobile since it's their towers?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justlovejoy:
Tmobile says they can't help me cause its not their service. and that they are not technically affilated and have no access to their service information but if I'd like to switch they'd be more. Than happy to help me get started.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ELBdelorean:
I don't think Simple has much control over the towers.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justlovejoy:
so then t-mobile would have the right info on this but simple is promoting it.

here's a screen
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ELBdelorean:
I don't know if it matters that much, but you said you live in New York. The server you are taking the speed test with is located in Georgia.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justlovejoy:
I have tried a few different servers but always stays the same.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alnova1:
I'm not in N.Y. but in Virginia I was getting poor internet and then I decided to use the Nexus one settings for the internet and mms and it working great now...don't know if this will help but just thought I would offer it up.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justlovejoy:
got a screen shot or instructions or something to be more specific. apn files or something cause I thought they were the same.
[EVO Shift 4G General] veidt_industries:
When you plug in the phone and it brings up the list, with share internet at the bottom. Is there any way to make that option free, or replace it within the menu with something that is free?
[EVO Shift 4G General] cloverdale:
Yes, but it needs to be written into a custom ROM.
[EVO Shift 4G General] anthonyf27:
ya, I know that lots of custom roms have that option, but why not just use wireless tether? If you're still on stock rom, just go into the market and download it. It's free and works great.
[EVO Shift 4G General] grunge315:
Why not just use the once sprint bundles with the phone? The sprint mobile hotspot one.

Is there some disadvantage to that?
[EVO Shift 4G General] BuddahWolf01:
the mobile hotspot is unavailable in the same way usb tether is unavailabe. Sprint does not want you to use your phone for tethering without paying them an extra $30 a month.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Evo_Shift:
Can't you use EasyTether from the market? Doesn't require root. Try the free version and if you like it you could buy the $10 version that allows https access. I have never used it but the description states it can do this without root probably because it is using USB so cannot work as a hotspot for multiple PCs at one time and you did state you cared about the USB tethering vs wireless.
[EVO Shift 4G General] BuddahWolf01:
I believe barnecle ? I think is the name, also allows usb.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Mr.J.K:
Barnacle is for root as are all wireless tether apps..
[EVO Shift 4G General] veidt_industries:
Why USB tether?

I would like USB tether because most of the time when I don't have internet, I also don't have power. Why would I plug my phone into my computer, only to turn on the computer's wifi and turn on the phones wifi to make the connection?

If I can only have the 3g/4g radio going, and no wifi on either device, I get better battery life all around.
[EVO Shift 4G General] cloverdale:
Here is what I use for USB tethering. It requires a little bit of setup (and adb), but does not require root, and is completely free. In my opinion it works much better than EasyTether or PDA Net

http://code.google.com/p/azilink/

I use Ubuntu, so I can help with setup if anyone needs it. For OSX and Windows, you are on your own.
[Fascinate General] Kamar234:
I don't have the ability to do this myself, and I remember people saying that they were waiting for 2.2. So, has anyone heard any updates about this?
[Fascinate General] CxanDroid:
I got the feeling Jamezelle (twitter link) is toying with the Idea. He's involved with the D1 MIUI port over on DroidForums, and he recently got a Fascinate.

I sure hope so!
[Fascinate General] Kamar234:
That would be great!
[G Tablet General] jlh11364:
I have done the Market fix, am running TNT light 4.2 and when I try to find certain apps on the market either through the Market app or from Appbrain, I get either " No matches found" on Market or " the requested Item could not be found" on Appbrain. I am signed into both and am able to download some apps, but not others. I have done the fix using Titanium three times. I think I am missing something simple.
[G Tablet General] dgondrez:
I never use the titanium fix. Just open up market, exit, go to settings > applications > system applications > Market clear cashe then force stop. Go to google services framework, clear data, force stop. exit out of settings. Open the market You should get an error when you open it up. Reboot your g tab. Allow it time to load and get an internet connection. You should have the full market. If you get an error again you may have to redo the steps. There have been times I have had to redo the steps two or three times. Follow the directions to the letter.
[G Tablet General] jlh11364:
Thanks,

I did it without the Titanium fix and it works perfectly. Being new to the Droid world, this is very wierd compared to my WM days.
[G Tablet General] seymour_butts:
try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l-nySibzeA

works everytime in my vegan5.1

sometimes, dont know why, i lose acess to all apps in market... i do that again and works all the time
[G Tablet General] DeathCry:
I am pretty sure there is no such thing as 'full market' on the g-tablet. The fix, whether the titanium or regular fix gets you some apps. The mahimahi build.prop fix gets you even more apps (tv.com was always my standard.) But there are a bunch of apps that will not show... Firefox would be one for me. Now that the market is available on the web, all the apps are available, they just aren't available to be downloaded on g-tab.
[G Tablet General] portudork:
Is there a documented way somewhere to, as an example, modify our build.prop file to look like a Galaxy Tab or Galaxy S phone? I have had a hell of a time side loading some apps that the market wont let me download normally (like Facebook) but that work fine on the tablet.

I think I have the market working fine for what I am "supposed" to be able to see and download (I can see TV.com as an app for example).

Would be nice though to just have access to everything and be able to choose what I want and if it doesn't work very well I can just uninstall it. Maybe that's wishful thinking, I don't know. Would love to be able to "spoof" my phone to be a Galaxy Tab, or S though and any help to that end would be greatly appreciated.
[Nook Color General] 71CH:
Hello. I have a problem that I am perplexed by. It seems that when I format my sdcard on my computer and then put it in the nook, it automatically partitions my card to where only 200 mb is usable. When I put the card back in the computer the other 7 gb or so is visible but not usable when I put something on that partition and put it in the nook. I saw this when using Root Explorer.

I am running froyo 0.5.9 emmc and would loooove some help.

Thanks.