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[Desire Accessories] OpusX11:
I've heard that the Transcend and Wintec cards are the same. If that is true, I've heard the Wintec cards are decent with apps2sd, but I've not yet heard any reviews of data2ext/sd/whatever
[Desire Accessories] 325i.:
Thank you, any other views?
[Desire Accessories] ZigmaDK:
Not entirely on topic, but I used a 32GB class 10 kingston with data2ext roms and they all became unstable and laggy after a short while.

Now I'm using ReflexTSense 1.8 LITE A2SD+ version and it is running smooth as never before. Incredible!

No lags when installing apps, and I can play higher bitrate movies :)
[Desire Accessories] 325i.:
Or any views on this?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B003Y3ARSA/ref=mp_s_a_6?qid=1297927491&sr=8-6
[Desire Accessories] kl_arnet:
I've got this one but cheaper version (costed me about 25 pounds). Difference is only red ugly looking USB adapter wich is useless for me any way:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/16GB-AData-...1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297928074&sr=1-1-fkmr2

and can recommend this further.

Working on StarBurst smoothly. No lags, F/Cs, reboots at all.
[Desire Accessories] 325i.:
Any link to the one you got?

I have currently got a 8gb class 4. I have done a test with http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2...standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/

I got 4.79 writing speed and 18.5 reading speed so im looking for a card better than this.
[Desire Accessories] kl_arnet:
What kind of link you need? Benchmark? Retail?

Full benchmark is in topic "Does desire sports class 10 card?"

Swyped via StarBurst Desire.
[Fascinate General] kipnukmals:
This is not a complaint or a cry for help, just an observation. I have flashed my phone multiple times with DL01,DL05,DL09,used Odin, installed CWRecovery, If you have been here long enough then you know the deal. Just trying all that is available out there. I have tried many themes, many roms, etc., and have never really been satisfied. I have gone back to Stock recovery multiple times through Odin, through the phone software trying to get the phone just right. I recently flashed the EB01 software that was posted at Android Central. Prior to flashing this EB01 update i cleaned out all folders on my sd card so there was nothing left over from previous installs. I did a data wipe,etc.I went back to stock recovery through phone software etc and had the typical Verizon and Samsung bloatware like i should have. So basically i was at a place where i thought i was in a pretty clean state other than having the Verizon and Samsung Bloatware which i was going to eliminate when i flashed the Debloated,Deodexed version of EB01. After re flashing the Debloated,Deodexed EB01 this last time i click on the applications icon and low and behold i have all of the approximately 15 apps that i installed from the market about a month ago show up on the phone. Like i said this is just an observation, not sure why or how they reapppeared when they should have been gone long ago as many times as i have flashed back to stock and clean out my folders. Thats all.
[Fascinate General] neh4pres:
Couldnt that info be held on googles servers?

Rocking dj05 and jt's voodoo 5
[Fascinate General] kipnukmals:
I didnt think of that but you are probably right !!! Good call.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] MasterN02:
Has anyone found a radar widget for the GTab? Of all the weather widgets I have located, none of them actually offer an on-screen updating radar. I would even be happy with a hyperlink widget that can display the radar picture from a website and be set to update at certain intervals. Anyone have any ideas?

God Bless!
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Rumbleweed:
Look at weatherbug works great
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] smalis:
Rainy Days
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] MasterN02:
Thanks for the replies! However, neither of these apps offers a radar widget for the homescreens. This is what I'm really looking for.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] pqrs:
Weatherbug can do it.. At least the pay version can, even animated so you can track storms! Its what i use...;)
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] MasterN02:
Cool! It's not currently available in the Market...might be worth buying when it comes around again.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] reynwrap582:
I ended up using a webcam widget linked to a doppler radar image on a weather website. I can't remember the exact name of the widget, but there are a few of them on the market. It refreshes the image every few minutes to keep it up to date. It doesn't do anything like zooming or animations (it -might- if the image you link to is an animated gif or something), but it's just a quick reference for me, and if I need more details or animations I just jump into weatherbug.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] MasterN02:
This is EXACTLY what I'm looking for!!! Thanks!!! I will try to find something that does that!

EDIT: I found Webcam Widget on the Market. It work PERFECTLY! You simply plug in the address and it automatically updates every 30 minutes. VERY basic...but, you can run multiple instances of the widget and it resizes well while keeping the aspect ratio of the radar image. Thanks again for the jump start in the right direction!
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Polycron:
Which webcam widget did you nd up using?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] MasterN02:
The actual app is called Webcam Widget...I tried some others, but this one works fine and is VERY simple.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lbhocky19:
just tried two different cwm builds.

flashed, said it installed. hit red button then green to reboot.

boots into android logo. then stays there and wont actually boot android. 2 different builds...

whats the problem?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lbhocky19:
cwm says cant find cache.

is that supposed to be found?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] solide54:
Which CWM builds did you try? Also, which CWM partition did you install?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jvillejoe:
Depending on the build you need to flash the correct recovery system or it will not boot.:D

Most HD sense builds use 400 MB recovery system.

Most regular sense builds use 250 recovery system.

Most non sense builds use the 150 MB recovery system.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] baggypants1:
I've been having the same problem. I have a 400mb partition and I tried installing cwm on the AD NAND and from SD. (I've been doing this for 2 years but would probably still classify as a noob.) I wipe everything first but it won't go past the splash screen so I'm forced to use only DTF ROM's. I have a leo1024.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TheATHEiST:
Can you guys please be more descriptive of what you are doing and how you are doing it?

How are you installing CWR?

What partition you are using?

What rom you are flashing via recovery?

When are you getting stuck on splash?

Are you trying top boot CWR via magldr using "AD Recovery" menu option?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] sLiKK:
Do you think the official netflix app will work on vibrant? Its been reported it will be chip dependant or something like that.

*** Sent from my Samsung Vibrant (Bionix-V-1.2.1) using xda app
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Senorkabob:
Only working on snapdragon devices right now.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dcaples002:
What's snapdragon?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] rel500:
thats the processor

snapdragon ex = nexux one

hummingbird = Galaxy phones
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dasunsrule32:
Well, almost, galaxy s = a8 cortex, hummingbird is the chip set.

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] raerae28:
They should be able to get one for the Galaxy, heck the Ipad is A9 right, so shouldnt be too hard.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dasunsrule32:
Not without some major hackage, it will only work with some drm instructions built into next gen cpu's.

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] erod188:
Im not a tech doctor so please bare with me. What's the difference in processors I mean ****ty phones like the hd7 has netflix. Can someone clear up the smoke?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dasunsrule32:
Drm

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] jrosarioaz:
Netflix App

Its not about performance because the hummingbird processor is superior to the snapdragon, i guess its the next gen qualcomm snapdragon processors. That is the one bad thing about andriod, several processors and andriod versions so longer to make apps compared to ios.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] sLiKK:
Why are they only developing one for snapdragon processors.... thats BS.... Netflix is a big company and they can afford to make their app available for most if not all devices. I mean it will only work to increase their customer base.

Never really got whey Netflix has been so slow (and continues to be so slow) in developing an android app. Same goes for Hulu.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] jdm4u:
From what I understand is that netflix will be releasing an app on certain android phones, not all, mainly because they don't want people to hack and find a way to bypass the monthly membership and stream videos for free since android is open source. Not sure how correct that is but that's what I read on an article on android central a while back.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Mr_Tricorder:
From a purely technical point of view any phone with an ARM Cortex A8 processor should be capable of running Netflix just fine provided it has an adequate data connection (this includes Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors for the Nexus One, EVO, DInc, etc... ; TI's OMAP processors for the Droid X and Droid 2; and Samsung's Hummingbird processors for the Galaxy S and related phones). The problem that is holding them back is incorporating DRM into the devices to suit Netflix's business model. So far, only Qualcomm has struck a deal with Netflix, so right now only phones that use Qualcomm's next generation chipset will be able to use Netflix. This has nothing to do with the performance capabilities of the hardware itself and is nothing more than a business strategy.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Argusi:
This won't be of interest to most of you, but for anyone running PlayOn, they just released an Android app. You can find it here.

The downside for most, is there is a trial for Playon, but after that you have to pay for the PC application. It runs on your home PC and let's you stream Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, etc to Xbox, PS3 (now Android) and others. It's a niche software, but in my case, I use it. You can port forward your router and connect from the outside, but I haven't tried that yet and don't know if I will.

The app itself is in its first release, so it has some downsides that I have seen. It's slow as molasses. It can't find some links sometimes, but when it works and connects, it seems to work well. I consider it to be a beta build. Long story short, if you don't have PlayOn, look if you want, but don't get your hopes up. If you do use PlayOn, try the app, hopefully it will get better.

Note: Allshare will connect and browse PlayOn, but the streams come back in an "unsupported format".
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] copeless:
I have used playon outside the home it works fairly well except if you want to FF or rewind.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] SethHikari:
The Nexus S is the only phone there that does not have the snapdragon, has the humming bird right? So... I am not seeing any hardware difference that would make an effect, if it could play on the Nexus S, should work on Galaxy S devices.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Mr_Tricorder:
I can practically guarantee you that the reason why this works on the Nexus S but not the Galaxy S has nothing to do with hardware compatibility and everything to do with licensing. Whatever is holding back the Netflix app from working on our phones, it's a legal issue and not a technical issue.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] CM Wave:
It's definitely not a Snapdragon vs. Hummingbird issue because it works on the Nexus S.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] nickmcminn60:
Missing Lib Files?...you know the new gtalk has a lib file that goes with it or it doesnt work properly......just a thought.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Tynen:
That's not true. It works on Nexus S which has a hummingbird
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucasite:
Hey everyone,

Ive currently got CM7 ROM installed, with widgetlocker and launcherpro.

Even though widgetlocker is enabled, it doesnt seem to entirely lock the phone.

When on the locker screen, if I press back, it will return to the home page.

Have I got some setting wrong?

Should I have widgetlocker as my default home screen, or launcherpro?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamblesuk:
Basically, I have rooted my Desire HD, and turned ENG S-Off. I now want to turn Radio S-Off.

I have used Easy Radio Tool, and it confirmed the process with SuperCID and Unlock.

However, if I go to Bootloader, it says "ACE PVT ENG S-OFF" but in the System Info it confirms SuperCID by showing "CID-11111111"

I just want to know if I am able to flash the radio yet, or if something has gone wrong?

Thanks,
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamblesuk:
Sorry, found the answer here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=889390

I ran Radio S-OFF on top of ENG S-OFF and nothing was meant to change apart from the SuperCID.
[Nook Color General] trentonw:
You think we should expect a fully stable hc rom when the source is released?

I'm not sure why there aren't any ginger roms running on the nc,

Is anyone anxiously waiting for the source to be released so they can build the rom?...

I'm hoping it will come out next week along with the xoom... as ginger came out with nexus s.....
[Nook Color General] trentonw:
bump.........
[Nook Color General] vista1984:
i think we need the drivers, especially for the video , no the rom,,
[Nook Color General] luigi90210:
well the honeycomb preview v4 seems to be extremely stable for a sdk port(besides for a few minor bugs of course) but when aosp gets released honeycomb will be fully stable(after a few builds of course lol)

and if you want a gingerbread rom i read that CM7 will be released soon
[Nook Color General] secfincorp:
CM7 is out and working

check the post "CM7 is coming" there is a post that links to how to do it. I have it running and it great for the first release. I will go to honeycomb though when it gets the kinks worked out. I just love the interface.
[Vibrant General] bosslabs:
Thank you for sharing ur experience, I recently noticed that my data speeds have gone down after unlocking my vibrant using the method you mentioned above.Damn, I get edge speeds when I am on a HSPA network. Dunno whats the problem,called up simple mobile,am not data throttled.Sigh..
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
man this is scary, but your phone still works at JFD right?
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
It didn't for a while. Now, both phones are fully functional. I had a copy of the /efs folder of my old phone, but not an image of the partition. The problem is, when the partition gets screwed, you can't write to it, making the /efs useless.

That's why I'm trying to get people to make the backup. It takes a few minutes, but can be a lifesaver. I do believe you can flash a foreign stl3 partition and overwrite the /efs like I did, but unless you had a friend, no one would share it w/ you as it contains their imei info. Better to just back up your own. And if you lose your /efs, game over.
[Vibrant General] draikz:
How exactly do you back up a partition?
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Very cool of you to post this up. Is there any reason to back up your efs partition if you have no reason to unlock?

<---backing it up anyway.
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
It's not the unlocking. It seems that over time, some people (such as myself) screwed up the efs partition by just flashing/odin'ing various roms. It shouldn't happen, but it does. Consider that no roms write to the stl3 layer, yet mine was working one day, then one odin later, it didn't. I'm sure the number of people this happens to is quite small, but when it happens, it happens. It's like a 6 mb backup which isn't that big of a deal.
[Vibrant General] mingkee:
It's better to be safe than sorry.

I did an experiment on my Galaxy Tab, that I move the /efs folder to memory card.

Soon I found the reception goes way worse (at least 10dBm less) and the serial number changed to 00000000, then I immediately copied (restore) the folder and everything was back to normal.

I tried to examine the files with hex editor but I found nothing spectular.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
That's really weird. I've never really looked into the occurrence because I always assumed it was isolated only to those that did some weird hacking in an attempt to unlock, or to those that were developing and found themselves doing some nasty, nasty things.

I just created efs_dev-block-st13.img and efs-backup.tar.gz so hopefully I'm all safe and sound now. :D

Thanks again! Once I get beyond GPS stuff I find myself clueless.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
You need to read the two links in the OP and download adb. You also need root and busybox.
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
all you need is to root your phone, such as w/ superoneclick which will put busybox on there. Then all you need is adb.exe.

Open up a command prompt where adb.exe is located. You can adb su or just go adb shell and then su.

The only commands you need are:

cat /dev/block/stl3 > /sdcard/stl3.bin (backs up sector management layer of partition)

cat /dev/block/bml3 > /sdcard/bml3.bin (backs up block management layer of partition)

tar zcvf /sdcard/efs-backup.tar.gz /efs (tars /efs folder)

cp stl3.bin efs.rfs (just makes copy of stl3.bin to new name efs.rfs)

tar -cf efs.tar efs.rfs (makes an odin flashable tar of partition)

I kept a copy of stl3.bin, bml3.bin, efs-backup.tar, and efs.tar.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
I've got backups of stl3.bin, bml3.bin and efs-backup.tar.gz

When I try to make the partition an odin flashable tar it tells me: "No such file or directory". :eek:
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
You have to cd into the directory, or else it should be:

cp /sdcard/stl3.bin /sdcard/efs.rfs (just makes copy of stl3.bin to new name efs.rfs)

tar -cf /sdcard/efs.tar /sdcard/efs.rfs (makes an odin flashable tar of partition)
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
This is kind of old news, but nevertheless important.

Months ago in the Q&A section there were two threads about the importance of the EFS, and how a corrupted nv_data.bin and EFS can cause many problems including losing the ability to use a different carriers sim, yet nobody paid attention to those threads, but I thought the info was vital.

Would using ROM Manager and backing up your current rom, also backup the /efs?
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Yeah, I did. I'll do it again and post up exactly what I type and put in. Maybe it's just operator error.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Here ya go.

It might have been operator error because that time I watched efs.tar get written to /sdcard
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
It should be efs.rfs, not efs/rfs. It's a file, not a directory.
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
Nandroid does not back up the /efs partition, at least not that I can tell. All those files in the backup folder are of the various partitions, and efs partition is not part of it.

The reason I made this thread to begin with is because when I had this problem, I looked high and low, and found scant info. In the future, if someone else has this problem, this will come up in a search and won't have some lame magical fix that may or may not work.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Pinky slip!!! :D For whatever reason, it took 3 tries but I finally got it to backup. Thanks for the help! I would never think to back this stuff up. Everyone does Nandroid's like crazy, which is good, but losing this stuff is losing your phone!
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Excellent write-up vnamee thank you..........
[Vibrant General] draikz:
Wait, so if I have the EFS folder backed up, I'm safe?

Because I'm confused if the EFS partiton you're talking about and the EFS folder from root is all the same.

So right now on my computer I have a folder called efs_CLEAN.

In it, it has: .android[folder], imei [folder], .emei, .nv_data.bak, nv_data.bak.md5, .nv_state, .nv2.bak, .nv2.bak.md5, nv.txt, nv_data.bin, nv_data.bin.md5

So are those the only things I need or do I have to back up this thing called an " efs partition"?

-confuzzled-
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
The /efs folder is just data. That needs to be written within a partition. If that partition is screwed, then the data has nowhere to go. So you have have the backup data but no way to write it as the partition is messed up, and without a backup of that, no way to fix the partition.

The reason why I think a backup should be done is that while you can fix the partition using someone else's image, it does contain imei data and such, sensitive info that people don't want floating on the internet. Getting one can be a pain, so why not make your own?
[Vibrant General] draikz:
Oh haha, that's a biggie.

Thanks!
[Streak 5 General] harshkolli:
Hi Guys......

I have a White Best buy Streak Locked ATT. I am running DJ steve 1.7.0 on baseband GAUSB1A131800. Can some body help me to get back to Att Stock 1.6 (Build 6601) with the original baseband. How do I downgrade it?....I used QDL tool to get to 2.2 . From there it was easy to get to Steves 1.4.1 Since then I ve tried all versions of Steve.

Is there a tutorial that i can get back???....
[Streak 5 General] Cyberburnout:
There is an upgrade and downgrade guide in the android development section. Easy to follow too.
[Vibrant General] leechdweler:
I apologize in advance if this has been posted before as I do not frequent this site much.

So I just tried to download 2.2 via kies and ended up bricking my phone. I followed it step by step so I don't know where I went wrong.

So in the process of me trying to unbrick my phone I tried to get into recovery mode with no success.

I got fed up trying to access download mode by vol. up/down and plugging in usb and decided to just go ahead and open Odin with the usb plugged into my phone and laptop still not in download mode.

On Odin it was on ID: COM 10 so i said screw it, I put in the pit and pda and hit start.

What do you know. it worked !

My phone is up and running now and I'm now trying to find an alternative way to get 2.2 on my vibrant.

Just wanted to share.
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
If you weren't in DL mode then what screen were you on?
[Vibrant General] oka1:
The com number is unimportant. There is a deodexed stock version of 2.2 in the dev forum posted you could use that instead of Kies...... I would
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
I have only been able to access the phone via odin in download mode and the computer-phone mode, whatever its called.

These are the techniques I use to access d/l mode consistently. It depends on which software was installed prior to crash however, as they seem to alter the method somehow.

phone off then vol + and vol -, and plug in usb, the most common one. If that doesn't work, its usually phone off then vol - and power. This seems to be for the older versions of android. Also, keep the back cover off, because if it doesn't work, just pop the battery out and in.
[Vibrant General] BruceElliott:
The ID: COM 10 means that Odin is communicating with your phone in download mode. lol
[Vibrant General] Arkasai:
I thought I noticed this too a while back (when odin 1.8 leaked), but I figured my memory from the previous night's flashing was inaccurate. I'll remember to try if I've tried everything else to no avail.
[Vibrant General] leechdweler:
The screen on my phone: picture of a phone and a computer next to it.

So I guess this mean that I don't need to be on download mode on my phone in order to unbrick it. Sweet!

Now only if I could find an easy way to update to 2.2
[Vibrant General] Raistline:
There is a very easy way to get to 2.2.

Root you phone, install CWM and flash a 2.2 rom. There is a Stock 2.2 ROM that will bring you back to un-rooted status if you are worried about warranty.