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[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] matimont:
Hi,

I have a blackjackII smartphone and was trying to figure out how to use A-GPS.

I opened a file called gpstest.exe in the Windows folder (Is a hidden file so I had to use a tool name totalcommander to be able to see it) and was wondering if that would control the use of Assisted GPS, meaning that will download satellite ephemerides to faster lock.

Is there any tool such as quickGPS for the SGH-I617 phone?

any one has used A-GPS on this phone succesfully?

thank you,
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] sokran:
you need an aplication to use it because it is not independent as GPS.... try googlemap, garmin or tomtom....

also you need to update your gps information..... :):):)
[Gen8 General] flagge:
hey guys

is the archos 70 modable?

is it getting faster?

is it easy to root?

mfg flagge
[Gen8 General] HerrieMan:
Read this forum and you'll know.
[Gen8 General] flagge:
but here is no faq oder something like this

are all gen8 roms working on all devices?

mfg
[Gen8 General] ExploreMN:
Read:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=895599

for info on modding and rooting
[Gen8 General] findusBS:
The Archos 70 IT is easy to root.

I have done it with the help of the link of ExploreMN and installed UrukDroid 0.4.2.

A few days later I did the update to UrikDroid 0.5.

Both without pain.

However, I am a software developer by trade.

But I have only little knowledge of LINUX.

A little special in my case:

I removed the stock firmware right after having installed the SDE, because I don't want to have a dual boot system. And I never regret this.
[Galaxy Tab General] jcr81:
I found a U.S. Cellular Galaxy tab on Ebay for a good price but I don't have U.S. Cellular service in my area. Does anyone know if an AT&T sim would work in it and if so if I'd be able to get 3g service if I unlock it?
[Galaxy Tab General] pwiw39167:
U.S Cellular is a cdma carrier. Just like Verizon and Sprint. So the answer would be No.
[Galaxy Tab General] jcr81:
I could just use it as a wifi only device though right?
[Galaxy Tab General] 05GT:
Yea,

You could use wifi only!
[Galaxy Tab General] TheChampJT:
Plus you can connect to your phone with ad hoc, no extra charge, no sense in paying for a data plan
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienwolf426:
I've read through the other considering Nexus S posts and have some questions, and would really appreciate it if someone could take the time to answer them.

1) The phone doesn't have a MicroSD card slot but has 16G internal memory... Does that mean that 16G is used by the system, cache and data partitions? so ideally i only have about 14G of internal memory, which will end up getting eaten by bigger apps like some of the gameloft games etc? or is there an extra system partition?

2) follow on from the previous question: Does that also mean that when i plug in the phone using a usb cable as a mass storage, i can't use the phone because everything is on the one partition?

3) I've been seeing a lot of posts about various issues and bugs with the phone? are they really that prominent or is the phone just not as good as the Nexus One was?

4) How cheap does the phone feel? Because generally speaking Samsung phones feel plasticy and cheap. I have a HTC Desire and that phone actually feels like an expensive phone and i'm currently using the Nokia N8 and the same applies there. And before you point out to stay with the HTC Desire, I need a phone with 1700/2100 band and my Desire doesn't have that band (stupid mistake on my part to buy a cheaper phone from Asia :P)

5) Is the phone really worth it, or should i just wait a few months and get the HTC Pyramid when it comes on T-Mobile? This is a matter of opinion, but I've always have HTC phones and feel like they make good quality phones ... but I want to get a pure google phone, to escape all the bloatware ...

6) Follow on to the previous question would be ... or should i just get a Nexus one ... same as the HTC Desire but at least has the bands I need and also has the pure google phone experience.

Anyways, thanks for reading the wall of text and much appreciation to whoever who answers the questions.

Cheers
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
1) yes, you don't really get 16 GB, is more like 14.9 GB

yes, i'm having a hard time with Gameloft games, and my large collection of MP3, as i like to bluetooth stream to my car, and stereo mono head phone.

2) yes, anything that is on App2SD (installed the SD card) will not be accessible in mass storage mode, it's very annoying, and this also causes the losing Ring Tone BUG (Known Issue)

3) they'll be fixed eventually.... many of those has work around

4) the phone does not feel cheap at all, it's excellent quality compared to the Galaxy S line

5) this phone is the best you can get with direct Google upgrades and updates without Interference from Telcos

you don't get updates if Telcos don't pay (the problem with all other non Google phones)

6) Nexus One does not have 2.3 officially, only this Nexus S has 2.3, and it's confirmed will get 2.4
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benifactor:
Link for the confirmation?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienwolf426:
I suppose i can live with not having an ad card slot .. I just find it stupid that it is the ONE android phone without a slot...

Does your point 2 mean that that effectively, there is a smaller data partition that is not mounted as mass storage when i plug it in with USB .. Or does it mean that the system partition is big enough that the OS installs everything on that ... So, you don't lose the functionality of your phone while plugged in as storage ...

Thanks in advance for any more clarification

Cheers
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
you only get 1GB of the memory for apps and internal storage. the rest of the 16GB is identical to an SD card in terms of functionality, its just internal rather than being a card.

i still would think 1GB is rather limiting in the grand scheme of things. why not 4GB, for large games and whatnot?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
re: funtionality

it was already mentioned in the original reply that you do LOOSE funtuonality, when mounted as a USB stick, and the cause that you lose ringtones settings known bug
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irishrally:
I much prefer the internal 16gb storage on the NS over the 16gb card I had in my N1. With the 1gb partition for apps I never have to worry about using apps2sd and I have enough space left over. At the moment I have ~10gb of music carefully selected from the master collection with plenty of room left over for games, backups and other media. Of course the read/write speeds on the NS internal memory is much faster than on the 16gb class 6 card I had in the N1. Unless you have to have your entire music/media collection on your phone at all times, you won't have a problem with 16gb internal storage.

As far as build quality, the NS is solid and even sexier than the N1. I love the N1 and build quality (especially the cold feel when the phone has been asleep for awhile and you touch the metal housing - greater conductivity and heat transfer from your hot hand to cold phone) but the NS feels very solid in hand, is more durable if dropped, lighter, and the all black look (especially combined with the deep dark black of the SAMOLED) of the NS is very sleek looking.

NS worth it, or should you wait? If you are a true android geek and would sell your first born to try out the 2013 version of android today then go with the NS. If you don't have to have the latest and greatest and aren't then a higher spec'd phone might make more sense. Then again, with the developer support around here there usually isn't much time to wait to get the new android releases ported, but on the other side if you won't root then a higher spec'd phone may not perform as well.

I sold my N1 recently. I think the NS is a better phone in many respects but I really loved the N1 and having owned it for a year already I was wanted to try latest edition.

Some really nice phones coming out that I would recommend to people but I'm not planning on picking up anything before the next nexus towards the end of this year that should sport a dual core processor etc. and the latest version of android. But ****, it's only February, new toy novelty wears off quickly.

I'm not proof reading this.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diversificationied:
Just wait for the Nexus N by Nokia on friday.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienwolf426:
What are you talking about? As far as i know, nokia is as anti-android as most of us are anti-apple ... i highly doubt google will release a nexus phone with them when a nokia exec compared putting android on his phones to 'peeing in your pants to remain warm in the winter'

Post a link to this Nexus N or it never happened.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Nokia is actually siding with Microsoft for a weird change

i wonder why they are doing that, as they have a very strong hold with their own OS on their phones

hard core Nokia fans won't be happy switching to Microsoft for OS
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diversificationied:
That was a little joke....voila.

Nokia will jump on android, right after they fail so hard with this windows marriage. It's a shame really cause Nokia and Android were made for each other and Google knew it, too bad the big wigs at Nokia were too arrogant to play ball.

/end off topic
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vro25:
Not gonna happen.

(Bah, alienwolf426 beat me to it...)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
have you guys not followed the recent nokia news and read the leaked memo yesterday from the CEO? seems highly likely that nokia will in fact chose android or WP7 this friday, and abandon its symbian OS. interesting times!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
Ya its pretty clear that Nokia is considering its options now especially that they're under new management. That internal memo leaked yesterday was just brilliant. Loved it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pookguy88:
I'm surprised it took them (Nokia) so long to realize. I mean anyone can see they've been on a sinking boat for a looong time now.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
But it was a slowly sinking ship. Internationally, they'd held onto the top spot in phone sales up until very recently so they could just sit on their haunches and pretend that the phone world had moved on and becoming irrelevant.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
so was that memo BEfore, or AFter this news?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/04/nokia-microsoft-announcing-partnership-next-week-possibly-invo/

if i were the CTO of Nokia

I'll actually release both Android series and Windows series, and keep Symbian OS for the non Smartphone line of product

it's best to keep your paths open, and see which one sells better in the long run.

obviously anyone partnering with Microsoft would usually be subject to some dark clause, that you're not allowed to sell competitors products blah blah blah....

that actually was true in several occasion with the Wintel (windows + intel) partnership back in mid 90s and early 2000s, until AMD won the injunction with the governments in NA and EU, back then Dell, Compaq, etc were not allowed to sell non windows / intel stuff, or if they do, it had to be less than 1.9% market share and some stuff like that, those were the dark times in the IT industry
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derfasaurus:
Dual Mount SD Widget. It's awesome!

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.protocol.x.USB
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/

I don't know. Why don't you look at the dates of the two articles?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j0hnZ:
Well the only opinion on your question I have is for number 4. This phone feels no better or worse than my Vibrant does. I do think it looks a lot better than the Vibrant though, except the screen on my Nexus is bad and putting them side by side makes me want to throw the Nexus at the wall.

I have to say I miss TouchWiz though, mainly the music player, video player, and calendar apps. I can do without the rest.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sammy_user:
I have a question about Wp7 lack of multitasking. Do you mean its not possible for example to listen to internet radio using a third party app and browse the xda forums at the same time, for example?

Thanks for the clarification.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Csulton1:
i havent heard much about the multitasking.... sorry
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Audio:
That's right. The only thing that runs in the background that i'm aware of is the Zune music player (which has a radio if you want). I haven't found anything else.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emigrating:
Correct. Neither can you use it for GPS navigation while surfing the web or speaking on the phone. Your milage may vary as to how much it affects you though.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
Well you can do things while calling so at least this is good.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrantYegge:
Yes, multitasking is very limited to wp7. I am sure they might add a few features to it so that we don't feel completely controlled.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Gate Keeper:
also the other noticeable thing is the web browser being able to multi task. for example, you can download a large file, and go off and do something else, and it will keep downloading.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiwas:
For crying out loud! Please stop calling background scheduling for multitasking! Multitasking is, always has been, and always will be, the ability to do more than one thing. WP7 can multitask just fine, and so can apps. Period. They can.

What you're asking about is something completely different, and you're even contradicting yourself. As some of the native apps, and some made by OEMs, can run in the background, there's no doubt about the OS supporting background scheduling. It's there.

What's actually happening is that MS is protecting us from lousy programmers by not letting most programs run in the background. There's mostly no use for it anyway, unless you want some lousy piece of s.... software eating up your battery, devouring your data plan.

Hell, if you want to, I'll be glad to write a program that will fill up the file storage, using battery like crazy and even using way more data than you can afford. Only down side is that it won't run in the background to f.... up the performance of your other apps.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] premiumdude:
Huh? Am I missing something? Why would you need to use the GPS while you are surfing the web?

From my experience it goes like this: surfing the web->home button->maps[back to home][back to explorer]...and just like that you are back to exactly back to where you were having done MULTIple TASKs at once ; )
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emigrating:
Show me one app that can multitask please?! and by app I mean any third-party or OEM addon to the core OS.

Sure, on WM and Android there is/was a mantra that everything should run in the background - always. But that's not to say that multitasking is evil, it's not. It just needs to be controlled.

Microsoft could quite easily have allowed third-party apps to multitask (or at least register a small service running in the background) if your app needed it - they have "technical exceptions" when submitting to the marketplace, this would be a great opportunity for you to describe why your app needed real multitasking and it would be up to the testers to [dis]agree.

That was just an example, although it's something that's bugged me more than once. But okay, I'll agree it isn't the most common scenario. How about this instead, you're driving along using Navigon and you want to change your tunes, so you press home, then zune, find an artist/album and press play, go back home and then back to the satnav app only to discover you've missed a turn because it didn't tell you you needed to turn off the turnpike at the last exit. Now you're stuck driving another xx miles to get back to where you need to be.

If you don't drive, perhaps you map your morning runs using a GPS tracker. So you're on your way and the phone rings. Since you've got a headset you continue running while talking only to have your entire statistics screwed up because the phone stopped tracking you while on the phone.

Or even better, you're using some third-party app to sync your Hotmail or Exchange tasks to your phone. Problem is, the app cannot multitask so it will never notify you of [over]due tasks unless you constantly keep the app open...

While I definitely agree you don't need your RSS reader or Angry Birds clone running in the background, all the time, there are scenarios where real multitasking is important.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartyLK:
Wholeheartedly agree. Excellent examples. Was able to put myself in those scenarios and see how important deep multitasking is. Thank you for helping me see that.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
it cannot multi-task anything besides Zune, therefore, I guess technically you could say that it can multi-task like .1% of all the apps available.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
lol,

I think it's as simple as like with Android I can have google maps open and have turn-by-turn open in the background, so the british lady still gives me audio directions while I play Angry Birds or surf the web (as a passenger in a car) like going to a party or something.

Also let's say I'm at the gym and want to use Pandora (which WP7 doesn't even have or I sure as hell can't find it in the app store) in the background while im texting/emailing between bench sets, just simple **** like that I wish WP7 could do.

It's not life or death but it is the reason I use Android more than WP7 on my HD2, although I do like WP7 more at times as well, but it sure as hell can't multi-task for any practical purpose.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartyLK:
I hear ya there. I keep the sim card in my HD2...running Android...for purposes of using TbT voice nav and other things WP7 doesn't give me.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
exactly.

I'm glad I've got dual-boot rocking on my HD2, as much as I do like WP7, I don't think I could use it as a daily without being able to restart the phone and load up android whenever I want to, maybe when the OS is more matured and actually CAN multi-task and offer more of the apps I like.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anthonok:
Somebody needs to just make something like the jailbroken iphone app backgrounder that lets you choose what multitasks. It worked fine back before apple had "fast app switching"
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
that's true. I used backgrounder + Proswitcher forever before iOS4 came out and it worked great, smooth, and had awesome palm pre-like task switching, and you could background any app, it really didn't hurt battery life much at all. I would love to see this on WP7 if it could be implemented till MS gets their act together.

kinda like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAVyaNQdnw
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anthonok:
Yep it was great. I coudlnt live without it. Also this way only people with unlocked phones (thus meaning they more than likely have knowledge of how things work) will be using this and shouldnt complain if there device gets slow or anything. They would know the consequences.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
well if the 3GS can handle it so well on a 600mhz processor and 256mb ram, I'm sure a WP7 device with 1ghz and 576mb ram could handle it just fine with no slow-downs.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mKTank:
I've seen your post history and, no offense, but you're starting to remind me of the fanboys at MacRumors, thinking that their phones are perfect until Apple changes one thing. Then suddenly it is revolutionary and intuitive.

Multitasking would greatly benefit WP7. Live with it. Apps don't even run under lock properly. But I'd like to be able to run a music app and surf at the same time. Want a gimped experience? Fine with me. Just don't go whining when people want to make the most out of their experience with their phones.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeremyLeroy96:
(CDMA)

For some reason unrevoked was unable to S-OFF my device. To this day i still don't know why, but thats not the point.

I wanted to jailbreak my PS3 and unrevoked was unable to flash custom recovery so i had to flash it from fastboot. So i had to S-OFF my device with a ZIP. I flashed it, went all okay.

I then decided that i needed to have more recent nandroid of sense. I went back to sense only to find that i could not receive MMS messages at all (no notification or anything) I try to send one and i get an error after about 3 seconds!

I also have reports of people saying that unrevoked broke there MMS aswell, i wonder if thats the reason why?

So is there any hope for my phone? :(
[Desire General] tht13:
topad while in my pocket my phone recieved a little pressure from a metal bar under a table at lunch, this resulted in a "tree" crack spreading from the edge above the menu button, however when feeling it you cannot feel the crack so i assume the crack is on the bottom side of the glass, there is no bleeding of the AMOLED, and on boot screen looks fine, however the touch doesnt work, i assume this is because the glass is providing constant pressure causing it to be ineffective, or is it the digitiser aswell? :/

i found two links to parts (a replacement front body panel, and a digitiser, cannot provide link because of 8 message forum rule) , and i would appreciate an opinion on if i should try to fix it my self or send it to the repair centre as htc support has suggested i do

Cheers :)
[Desire General] nokli:
depends on whether you wanna risk messing it up I suppose.

more info here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=677877
[Desire General] tht13:
Ive looked at the phone and it seems that to replace the bezel its just 4 screws, no hastle, but the digitizer might be a bit harder not sure though :/

do you know of any sites with DIY guides, because youtube hasnt got anything...:/

but atm im thinking of sending the phone to HTC and getting a quote, then ill see what to do from there :)
[Desire General] Mindmaster121:
Look here: http://tjworld.net/blog/htc-desire-tear-down
[Android Software Development] gungh0:
Does anyone know how I can get Eclipse to check my code & see if all the API calls will work on a specific revision ? I've just written some code that used -

.getTextContent()

on an XML node. Worked fine on my (2.2) phone, but others were getting "Force Close" errors. I eventually worked out they had Andy 2.1, and getTextContent() was introduced in 2.2. OK, I rewrote it to use

.getNodeValue()

as I want it to run on their phones.

Is there any way I can get Eclipse to check my code against the Min SDK Version, to ensure all of it will work ? Sorry if its an obvious question, but its really annoying me. Thanks.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Howster88:
I tried to upgrade my US Dell Streak (Build 6601) but seemed to have got it stuck in a state where when I turn it on only a empty battery and an exclimation mark show up.

I am able to still fastboot which is kind of strange but I am not able to do a factory reset.

I had changed the system.img, boot.img and amss.mbn using the fastload.

Is there anyway I can get my Streak up and running again?

Thanks in advance.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alperin1:
Have a look at this thread and see if you can get going with the QDL tool.

http://forum.pocketables.net/showthread.php?t=8715