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[G2 and Desire Z General] Steve.Beanz:
I have both the G2 and the MT4G. Both are amazing phones with excellent hardware (minus them stupid hinges). Right now the mytouch is my weapon of choice, but it took a long time for that to happen. I still use my G2 here and there. Both are rooted with Cyanogen nightlys. My best advice to you would be play with your wifes phone here and there. do some comparisons of what you like to do with the phones. One major factor is ffc vs real keyboard. Personally I would pick the keyboard cause I don't know many people who really are gonna get that much use outta the ffc. I mean its cool but how often is it really goin to get used. The reason I am using the mytouch though is because of it's 768(or something like that) RAM. G2 comes with only 512(I believe). This offers more more functionality for what I like to do with my phones and its future. It is a very tough decision, and good luck with whichever you choose.

On a side note, I am somewhat disappointed in the G2 only because the G1 was so iconic and the G2 just seems like a semi-improved nexus1. Plus the G1 was a class of it's own whereas the G2 has a twin called the desire z. A phone with that type of history/background should be another single Icon. This is just my opinion though. The phone is great for what it is.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TakoLuffer:
I would like to correct your g1 statement the g1 is actually a triplet having the dev 1(android site) and the htc dream(Europe)http://mobilenewz.net/2009/02/google-blocking-paid-market-apps-from-dev-phone-1-users/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream

but then again the G2 and Dezire z are like good twin and bad twin (hence Stock and Sense)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Kohr-Ah:
I love my g2 except for my first one had a busted hinge and the replacement they sent the phone wouldn't stay shut. It had the loosest hinge.

My case I got the g2 for a business device because I email a lot and wanted a physical kb (and not the limitations of a blackberry) but I now worry about my 3rd replacement being a possible dud too. I guess ill wait and see.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Steve.Beanz:
@TakoLuffer Thanks for the correction. Although I still feel that the G2 is a little disappointing. But that is just my 2 cents. It is a great phone, don't get me wrong. To me it just seems it comes up short to what it could/should have been.
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
Just curious to see, like me, how many people have trouble with their physical keyboard skipping keys. I have not been able to find a solution to completely remedy this issue.
[Epic 4G General] Magic Oreo:
I do but only happens when I type fast. :X
[Epic 4G General] asiangolfer76:
Same here. I heard that taking swipe off of the phone helps this but I havent tried it...
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
It does help, but it still happens.
[Epic 4G General] yogi2010:
same as above: not a real problem if i slow down just a tad. i want to say that the issue is worse on the DK28 roms than on DI18, but that might not be true at all. maybe for me tho...

p.s. i didn't vote in the poll because neither choice is accurate for me.... for me it would be somewhere in the middle of those two choices.
[Epic 4G General] ms79723:
I havent noticed it...does it depend on the soft keyboard used? I use the Droid X Multitouch and dont notice sht.

Hey, you know what would be really weird? Is if it depended on whether or not the soft keyboard supported multitouch.
[Epic 4G General] XtaC318:
I'm gonna lean towards a software issue. I've uninstalled swype and its seemed to work.

I only skip keys now when I'm in one of those phases where I can type oddly fast
[Epic 4G General] monkey804:
It's horrible. If I don't proof read what I typed, I'd look like a retard talking. Never had this problem with my G1. :(
[Epic 4G General] hazridi:
Doesn't happen for me, period.
[Epic 4G General] diego1985:
Yeah but not enough for me to jump out a window about.
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
Looks like people get varying results even when removing Swype. My question is, why do we need to remove one feature to make another work like it's suppose to? Has it gotten so bad that we must compromise one feature for another on such an "Epic" device?

I'm sure most will just say deal with it. But man I hate paying so much for a device and it doesn't even work right. The main selling point for me was the keyboard. I'm old school and just can't get used to the frustration of swype or SIP keyboards. But it is nice to have swype available when you type 3 or 4 words at a time. Often times I can't have my cake and eat it too but this is a phone for geezus pete. Can't I have the best of both worlds!?

/rant
[Epic 4G General] viperacr99:
I get the skips on dk28. I don't remember it on stock rom.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Same hear

Sent from my ComBadge
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
EXACTLY. It's a joke.
[Epic 4G General] ryno502:
Well, look on the bright side, maybe this is what is taking Sprint/Samsung so long to get Froyo out.

Maybe they actually LISTENED to the users?

Nah..I doubt it.
[Epic 4G General] tenaciousj:
I get the keypad skips quite often, usually every other message.

2.1 stock rom, rooted, swype on.
[Epic 4G General] sleebus.jones:
Mine skips, DK28, all keyboards turned off except swype and the hardware keyboard. I hte talkng lie ths!
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
Skips on all roms and keyboards

Sent from my Epic P.O.S.
[Epic 4G General] formula84:
Skips for me as well, funny just the other day i went into sprint and looked at the demo and I could not get it to skip if i tried. Mine was terrible as it skipped like crazy, I am on DK28 and think it is worse.
[Epic 4G General] pdong:
Lol. If they release a 2.2 rom that has a kb that doesn't skip, all will be forgiven. :rolleyes:
[Epic 4G General] PokeAsheep:
I have it happen often enough that I've basically become an expert in using the back button or just type r...e...a...l...l...y... s...l...o...w... I have tried disabling swype, uninstalling it, reinstalling it... yeah, I loe the physical features of the keyboard but the letter skipping is the MOST annoying thing ever....ever.

(More annoying than having to hold the phone without moving near a car window for a good 15minutes to pick up a decent gps signal...)

Epic is as Epic does
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
Thanks for the responses everyone... I'm glad I am not the only one.
[Epic 4G General] giantmidget:
I have had the same problem. Lucky for me I'm a tech at a Sprint store. I opened my phone & noticed the ribbon to the keyboard was not on all the way. Once I reconnected the ribbon I have had no problems.
[Epic 4G General] formula84:
Be great of you could show us some pics, i would be willing to take mine apart. This may be why some have it and others dont.
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
Might want to refer to this video:

http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Sp...Galaxy-S-SPH-D700-Take-Apar-p/taprtvdo029.htm

I was thinking about taking mine apart but I'm hesitant.
[Epic 4G General] giantmidget:
Its pretty easy if you follow the video
[Epic 4G General] Arapho:
Mine does not skip. I have tested it out, typing 1-0 for a few secs as fast as possible and hitting 8 keys at once, everything registers. dk28.
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
As someone had pointed out to me, this really isn't a good test. try typing 1 and 0 with one hand, it will never skip. Some of the errors can be due to inconsistently alternating 1 and 0, thus not showing the true problem that it does skip.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
So have samsungjohn answerd any one any where about why our keyboards don't work ? I saw him say he wanted tech Qs

Sent from my ComBadge
[Epic 4G General] aleph23:
Everyone that owns a Samsung Epic.
[Epic 4G General] jtw78:
I've had the usual dropped letter using the keyboard, but mine's now doing a new trick. It will stick a letter for a couple dozen presses and then finish the word I was typing. For example runninnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng, where I had finished typing the word, but it stuck on a letter for a while, then finished the word later. Weird, weird stuff.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
How do I remove swype

sent from my epic 4g with no 4g
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Delete the .apk from /system/app
[Epic 4G General] JPhantom95:
An interesting test that I've seen someone point out on another forum is that if you quickly press and hold the Q and then A keys with your left thumb and then quickly press the L key with your right thumb you will type "QAOL" Somehow the letter O sneaks in. I've done this several times in succession and never not had O show up.

This works with other three button combos, such as if you try it with the "3" "X" and "M" keys I end up with "3X8M."
[Epic 4G General] abrcrmdl23:
My keyboard is horrible it messes up on key presses all the time I get better results from the on screen keyboard.
[Epic 4G General] cconwing:
Mine always messes up...i bought the phone thinking the hard keys would be the bulk of my typing but since it skips so much im forced to use swype...which I do like...just not for long messages/emails...

I really hope froyo comes soon and fixes it :/
[Epic 4G General] Sesquipedalian:
Mine always skips. It skips the least on DI18, I think. EB13 is almost a joke. Can't use the keyboard at all on EB13. I skips a letter ever other word almost. Had the phone replaced once over this issue, and it didn't do any good. I just got a replacement that not only skips, but has a crappy GPS and the soft buttons aren't sensitive.
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
It seems, from the look of the poll, this is a pretty extensive problem. I was told that it would be fixed with an "update" coming soon (update from eb13).

EDIT: For those that DON'T have the skipping keys problem, try this test and report results!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] justin911:
Hey Peoples

Ive got android 2.2 (updated from telco) and i've noticed occasionaly the phone dialer will crash.

Someones it will not answer a call when I try slide my finger over answer (or hangup if i want to not answer).

Also after a call it doesnt always want to hang up when i press the hang up button, and the call stays connected.

The above problems are quite random but somewhat anoying. Just wondering if anyone else has the same problems ? And does anyone know of any other dialer software I should try using ?

Thanks heaps

Justin
[Galaxy S I9000 General] giac96:
I am having the same random problem. Randomly sms apps (the built in one and, i.e., handcent, stop working. Any suggestion or tip?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
Factory reset would be my first step .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yani2000:
Uf! I do not have such severe problems as justin911 (OP).

But I do get dialer crashes and after that the Dialer app is draining my battery thru partial wake.

Once it crashed when I was in contacts and searching for somebody, other times I got called by someone and after 2-3 sec of talk time my phone automatically hung up the call (I called him back 5 times, same thing happened, then I just rebooted the phone and it worked).

For me to get the dialer back and working normally I have to reboot the phone.

This problem occurs randomly and it started doing this in v2.2.1 (Doc's XWJS3+speedmod kernel), but thankfully up until now it only occured 3 times.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yani2000:
Hi!

I finally found a solution to phone dialer crashes (I did not have a dialer crash for over a week now).

According to marcedli and his post the solution is the "Memo.apk" file that needs to be in "/system/app" (everyone should have it, because it is Samsungs own app).

I did not have it because I flashed my own rom from Doc's Kitchen and I do not use it, but apperantly it is needed by the phone app. :confused:

I copied "Memo.apk" into "/system/app" folder, rebooted my phone and everything works now and I never had a dialer crash that it would then force my phone to stay awake.

If anyone uses the XWJS5 FW, here is the link to CWM updatable version for "Memo.apk" (or just extract the file and copy it using Root Explorer):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0A36K4P3

@justin911 (OP):

It is also possible that in your telco's ROM, "Memo.apk" file (it is "Memo" app in the app drawer) is not included, if it is included it is also possible that some other file was not included into the ROM that is needed by the dialer app or some telco's app is messing with the dialer app, not sure.

The solution would be that you flash Darky's ROM or use Doc's ROM Kitchen.

I hope I helped you or at least guided you on a right track!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yani2000:
After two weeks I got the partial wake of Dialer again.

It woke up my phone for 3h and drained my battery.

There is obviously something else going on for these Dialer crashes. :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Radulianho:
i have the same prob.

i just do a factory reset and dialer crash prob disappear.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] taurui:
I'm having similar problems.

Sometimes, my phone just won't call anyone. When I call a number, there's just a long almost silent noise - and then it just hangs up without any error message. Almost seems like it doesn't get a "line free" signal.

Reboot fixes it, but it annoys the hell out of me.

Flashed to JPY via spoofed Kies...

Anyone got an idea what this could be? :/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yani2000:
It's me again!

And this time I'm for 100% sure how to fix the partial wake usage on "Dialer"!

"Phone/Dialer" drains your battery when you're making a phone call thru the dialer/call log/favorites and then when you finish your call you just push the "power" button to end the call and/or lock & turn off display (and you do NOT wait for the phone app to go back to home screen or you do NOT press the "back" button). The phone app is now still working in the background thinking you're still on the phone and it's waking your phone up.

To "fix" this when ending a call thru Phone/Dialer always press the "back" button or make sure that you're in your "home screen" and not in the phone app (dialer/call log/favorites).

And I don't know if the Phone/Dialer is still running if you press the "home" button instead of the "back" button.

And I don't know if "Memo.apk" fix helped.

And I'm sorry, but I don't know any other solutions for your Phone/Dialer problems.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RorixRebel:
i had this problems on 2.2 which made me go for a change....now i just flashed 2.3.3 ill test it out for the week hoping to get rid of that problem
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awca22:
Hi my problem is that i cant access the android market nor any other google app....... I can login to youtube but when i log to youtube the market just keep on crashing... I used Axura and Bionix and non of them work.... I need market so i can unlock my vibrant! Please help me i had already search around the forum and google it...:confused:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RidoKilos:
Logging into youtube is the only fix I know of...

Is it force closing or what exactly do you mean by "crashing" ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awca22:
I tried that and it got logged in but in any custom rom i use by doing this..... The market just force close and i cant download anything from the market.

UPDATE:

I restore to stock eclair 2.1 and market works.... Could it be something on my network, phone or in 2.2.... i really want a 2.2 rom.

UPDATE

In 2.1 i tried unlock my vibrant with samsung galaxy s unlock and it didnt work.... saying no code is found... :/ What should i do i need to unlock my phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bl4ckpheniX:
To fix the market after flashing any ROM you go to settings>application > market> and clear the cache.

That will do it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivnazegura:
thanx this help me!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] folchibas:
I'm having the same problem. I have a Samsung Captivate and just installed Serendipity 6.4. I wiped the market data on the apps list but still cannot access anything with a google login. It keeps saying my username or password is incorrect, which is incorrect. The same username and password gives me access to all my accounts online, so why not my phone???
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spnmamun:
Also i' faced this problem....

Anyone please can help....
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
I put this together for my theme, but I figured I would share a stock version for those who don't do themes or might want to use it as a base for their theme/rom. I edited the text below the mobile data and auto rotation icons to read "Data" and "Rotation" so that everything would fit neatly on one line. All that was edited was the twframework-res.apk so feel free to flash the zip over your deodexed rom (even if you have applied an accurate battery/reboot options mod). You probably will not want to flash it over a theme, as it will change most of the expanded statusbar (minus a few .pngs that are dependent on the framework-res.apk).

Big thanks to DtachD for helping me sort out an issue with the padding.
[Fascinate Android Development] psykdup:
Awesome! I don't see it available for your theme yet. Hope it will be soon ;).
[Fascinate Android Development] garywojdan81:
Great work sir. I like the cleaner look but I seem to have a problem with the auto-rotate button: once I turm it off it won't come back on even though auto rotate works.
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
I just reflashed to test and had a couple of the guys on irc as well and none of us have that issue. I'm assuming you flashed it over a deodexed rom. If not, that's your problem.
[Fascinate Android Development] mastamoon:
Flashed this over Superclean 2.3 non-voodoo.. looks great.
[Fascinate Android Development] garywojdan81:
Nope, flashed it over superclean 2.3 voodoo. Could it be voodoo?
[Fascinate Android Development] mastamoon:
Are you flashing with Rom Manager/Green CWM or booting into Red CWM and flashing?
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
voodoo should have no effect on it whatsoever ..... try reflashing it. It's worked fine for everyone who has tried it.
[Fascinate Android Development] garywojdan81:
Nope, still the same. Just reflashed using the new red cwm included in sc 2.3 & on reboot the auto button shows on but once you toggle it off it stays off even though the auto-rotate works. I forgot to mention that I am using adw launcher (not ex) though. I will try it on the gb launcher that came with the rom & also try to re-d/l it as well.

UPDATE: Just tried it on stock launcher & tried a fresh d/l flashed after a dalvik & cache wipe-still the same. Button goes off & never comes back on even though the feature itself toggles-not a biggie as long as the functionality remains.
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
Thanks man.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Very clean. I like it a lot.

Would you be opposed if it was included in superclean 2.4? Full credit given, of course.
[Fascinate Android Development] uslacson1:
Flashed on 2.3 Voodoo, no issues.
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
Not at all. Appreciate it.
[Fascinate Android Development] garywojdan81:
Works now after 2 consecutive reboots. Thanks again for your work.
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
Glad you got it working right. Thanks.
[Fascinate Android Development] tnez:
Awesome mod! Looks a lot better now
[Fascinate Android Development] renf:
Do you think you could share which files twframework-res.apk you modded? I'd like to incorporate this into a rom and your help would be much appreciated.
[Fascinate Android Development] tonu42:
Come on really? This is an old thread why revive it?
[Fascinate Android Development] kidserious:
Because he obviously wants to know the method used here to implement this on a current rom. It seems to me he has a very good reason to "revive" this thread.
[Fascinate Android Development] nitsuj17:
renf has a valid question..just wants the edits from a previous mod to be able to use with newer stuff..i dont see why you are attacking him over it

in fact almost all of your posts go like that...why bother :confused:

@renf...i have the edits saved somewhere for my own use ill try and dig them up at some point
[Fascinate Android Development] andmer:
File:

tw-framework-res.apk\res\values\strings.xml

indicator_* are the ones you wanna mess with.

This was a great find by ben. thanks again man.
[Fascinate Android Development] nitsuj17:
who needs to find your notes when ya have andmer :D
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
You also need to go to .../layout/status_bar_expanded.xml and change the padding for the edited strings for correct spacing. I just used the dip values from the 3 others and made them all match. DtachD helped me figure that out :)

EDIT: you'll also notice in there that Samsung disabled the sound for the Mobile Data button by adding this....

android:soundEffectsEnabled="false"

I'm not sure why they decided to do that for just that one button, but I always just removed it for uniformity.
[Fascinate Android Development] thedoman:
I can't flash with cwm3 it says scripting is wrong. Is there a work around?
[Fascinate Android Development] renf:
I've done the xml edits you and Andmer mentioned but I'm still getting the uneven look. I think there might be another xml file that needs editing because even when I copy-paste your strings.xml and status_bar_expanded.xml's in their entirety, it's still a no go.

Thank you guys for the help and thanks bendbowden for this great mod.
[Fascinate Android Development] bendbowden:
No, that is all that was edited. I'm not sure what you are using to edit the xmls, but if you are using apkmanager make sure you delete both the resources.arsc and status_bar_expanded.xml from the keep folder when prompted to during the compile. My guess is your only deleting the resources.arsc ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] renf:
Ah thanks, I'm sure this is what I was doing wrong. I'll be able to confirm that when I have some time.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nutzzer:
All,

Been on CM7 since build 32 and cannot get GPS to work. I believe I got it to work twice. I have tried everything from deleting the SPL lines from gps.conf, and downloaded GPS Status and nothing worked. I have gone as far as to doing wipes between nightly builds fresh install and still nothing. It's driving me crazy.

Any info would be great! Thanks!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stryke504:
I had the same issue. What actually worked for me was I just let it sit for twenty minutes searching for GPS and eventually it found it on it's own and has been working with no issue since. Although when it did find it at first it had me in a location jumping from street to street but it eventually locked into my position.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verysick:
Restart ur phone when nav is searching 4 location, it works 4me on every build
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jggimi:
This should be moved to the Q&A sub forum. I'll request that.

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For me, the usual process has been to enable the GPS and then reboot as I'm heading out the door to the car. Reboots seem to have been the key.

But on #39, even that has not worked. There were a number of GPS related patches yesterday, so I'm hopeful that the nightly was built before all of the commits hit the source tree and #40 will fix it.

I've asked in the main thread about it. Its possible others with #39 have functioning GPS, and the restore procedure I use after installation may have hosed something.

Symptom: GPS Status shows no sats, and never receives sat information. A-GPS reset/reload has no impact.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nutzzer:
Ok, so you saying install #40 and see what happens? I'm still on #38, guess I'll update tonight.

Thanks!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortskoolbus:
Yes, according to the CM7 nightly thread tonights build should address the GPS issues people are seeing. Try it out.