yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xoom General] bmangold:
I agree that by itself the screen looks ok. But for $800 we expected a little more. I really expected it to at least meet the iPad if not slightly outperform it.

Motorola has never been big on the screen specs, they have always been pretty content to stick to standard LCDs. The Samsung and LG may very well have better screen quality and could cost less.

I can hold out with my Viewsonic Gtab a while longer to see how this shakes out, especially it gets a Honeycomb ROM in the near future. :D
[Xoom General] Paradox5582:
I would like to humbly point out that being a systems engineer doesn't necessarily qualify you as an expert of consumer level UI. I know many IT pros who would rather stare at a linux terminal than a beautifully designed interface.

I have a Xoom infront of me, and have used it for the better part of six hours, and would have to disagree with a few of your points. Playing with a device in a store with it tethered down and under horrible retail halogen lighting is not a good representation of any device.
[Xoom General] roebeet:
x2. Two issues with the Xoom I demoed at Best Buy was that auto-brightness was turned on, and the lighting was terrible (enhanced glare).

I tested the thing for at least 10 minutes and at least several minutes was just the screen, since I'm a GTAB owner and have a hatred for the screen angles. I turned off auto-brightness, cranked up the brightness all the way, ignored the bad glare from the lights and looked at some wallpapers online. Then, I went over to the iPad and did the same, checking the angles. I could not see a noticeable difference.
[Xoom General] ggoldfingerd:
I wish the screen was better, but it works. The brightness is a bit on the low side when in well lite areas. It's maximum brights is about equal to ~40% on my Epic 4G. I'm probably over critical because I'm used to a SAMOLD display.
[Xoom General] arrtoodeetoo:
Screen brightness makes a world of difference on any screen. For a few days after I got my Droid, I kept thinking the screen didn't hold a candle to my year old iPod touch. Then I discovered the brightness setting and it was like having a new phone.

Also, I did a screen density hack that spread everything out, and that helped a ton, too. I'm sure after the devs get a crack at things, the XOOM will be a beast.
[Xoom General] bmangold:
Point taken. I didn't mean to profess that any of us were consumer device experts. We are just avid technology geeks.

However, Nick and I are enterprise level architects and as such we have been evaluating many enterprise level products. I own the architectural guidance for infrastructure security, so I look at and devices with an eye to enterprise supportability, scalability and security and I have been evaluating devices such as the Cisco Cius, the HP Slate and the Avaya Flare with a view to enterprise deployment models.

I cannot comment on my thoughts of the Cius or Flare due to NDA. I can tell you that the Slate is in interesting device but it doesn't directly compete with true consumer tablets either. Windows tablets are really in a different category, more akin to an ultra mobile netbook.

As far as your UI vs terminal statement, we are a 100% Cisco shop and I spend my day happily staring at Cisco IOS (the real IOS) and ASA CLI. Our comments on the UI are merely our observations as end users and consumers ourselves.

The last point I will make is that screen quality is highly subjective and everyone tends to have their personal preference. For instance I am much less picky than Cory or Nick when it comes to screen quality but we all agreed that the iPad screen quality was better, in the lighting conditions we had.
[Xoom General] bmangold:
Very true, and I certainly hope that with some tweaking the screen quality can be improved. We did turn on and off auto brightness and adjust the brightness at different intervals to see the effect. With full brightness it looked nice, but it had a somewhat blue hue at full brightness.

Trust me I wanted very badly to be able to say that the Xoom had a better screen that the iPad, nothing would have made me happier but I just can't. They were comparable but as far as color, brightness and black/white contrast, the iPad had the Xoom beat. I still prefer 16:9 to 4:3 either way.
[Xoom General] bmangold:
We had the iPad, Gtab and Xoom touching side by side and we played with all three for about 30 minutes. We pulled up probably a dozen websites and compared side by side, change brightnesses and angles to reduce glare or increase glare. Like I said it was close, but when the iPad is right beside it, I saw a difference in just about every way.

My poor Gtab just kept looking crappier and crappier as we evaluated all three. Build quality no longer feels good, feels like a chubby plastic tablet. Screen bothers me now. The only saving grace is that VEGAn1.0.0 Beta 5.1.1 is just about as optimized as Honeycomb. With the help of Dolphin I was able to best the Xoom in several subjective web browsing tests.

The other sad thing is I had more tablet optimized apps than the Xoom comes with stock with the Norton and Galaxy app ports plus the few tablet apps out on the market. The Xoom apps were much more polished but there were still relatively few of them.
[Xoom General] lpasq:
Thank you OP. Thoughtful and helpful. I will pass purchasing this hardware mostly due to price-point. I can afford the expense but the speaker location, display clarity, and brightness do not justify price. The OS is an impressive beginning to what will hopefully mature into a robust platform for productivity and business applications. Let's see what Sammy brings. Moto/VZW/Google fumbled IMO. I disagree with their pricing to compete with the superior iPad; when a strategy to undercut Apple pricing would have put this more dynamic OS and this quality device in position to gather rapid marketshare that would include android loyalists, android adopters, and the low hanging fruit represented by the potentially millions willing to join the tablet band wagon for a reasonable cost to see if these gadgets do hopefully become more than a sophisticated electronic content readers.

...sent from NxS
[Xoom General] Neo3D:
I agree, screen quality is subjective unless you're doing a proper calibration of both (ie, set them to the same brightness levels) and running the same image tests on both.

Hopefully, Samsung will release a tab with a SAMOLED screen! I have an Evo and my friend the Galaxy S, we put the same wallpaper on both our phones and the SGS blows mine away.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Read the Anandtech review of the Xoom. They go in depth and discuss the screen with valid measurements and say that its slightly worse than the iPad's screen.
[Xoom General] bmangold:
Yes, I agree I love Anandtech. They do some great, through reviews. Here's the much debated part about the screen:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4191/motorola-xoom-review-first-honeycomb-tablet-arrives/2
[Xoom General] Paradox5582:
I'm glad you took the post the way I intended it. I realized that after I posted the friendly tone may not have been obvious.
[Xoom General] kcrudup:
Well, the good news is that in every case tested the Xoom's screen fared better than the one on my EVO 4G, and I really like my EVO's screen.
[Xoom General] Jrockttu:
I turned off the auto-brightness and cranked the brightness all the way up last night. It made the screen look much better. On my N1, this drains the battery way too fast, on the Xoom it didn't seem to make a noticeable difference. It obviously makes a quantifiable difference in battery life, but the life is still amazing enough to not be annoying.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
Here is what comes up when i install setcpu with root :)
[Xoom General] Eclair~:
Does SetCPU function properly?

Imagine the battery life we could get if it does~
[Xoom General] socomdark:
ho lee sh it
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
The first time i opened it, it fc'ed...it has worked every since. I'm coping files over now and will play with it later.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
Ok it does not allow me to change the cpu speed...it appears to work, but doesn't change.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinatosk:
Since 2.3.3 update which I did manually... I can no longer get root...

- I enable USB Debugging

- reboot the phone into the bootloader

- I do "./fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.5-crespo.img"

- on the phone I select the "RECOVERY"

- on the phone when clockwork mod is loaded. I select "install zip from sdcard" and then "choose zip from sdcard" and ofcourse I go to select the "su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip" from the sdcard.

- It says it was successful, reboot and "ClockSync", "MyBackup Pro", "ShootMe" can't get access to root...

anyone else having no root since update?

any suggestions

thanks

update 1: forgot to mention... my bootloader is unlocked... it has been since the day I purchased it
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NVMENOR:
You forgot to mount system partition before applying update
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinatosk:
phew!!! was panicing...

was like

"WHAT... NOT ROOT!??!"

thanks... I did forget that. :p
[EVO 4G General] orris:
All of the sudden it either closes right after opening with no error or it just gets stuck loading and gives me a network error. Anyone have the same issue?
[EVO 4G General] DraginMagik:
Gmail Update Pulled From Android Market Due to Stability Issues

http://phandroid.com/2011/02/24/gmail-update-pulled-from-android-market-due-to-stability-issues/
[EVO 4G General] HondaCop:
Ummm no

- My name is HondaCop and I approve this message.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imspot:
does my Battery need to be 100% to flash kernel especially with Red Recovery?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] offdutyninja808:
No, it doesn't have to be full. But I wouldn't recommend flashing anything running on fumes, either.

Sent from my nuclear powered submarine!
[Captivate General] norsairius:
I had tons of problems trying to update via Kies Mini while using Windows 7 64-bit. It was VERY frustrating. You can read my full story here:

http://androidforums.com/2336420-post20.html

Some of you may have more success than others and myself, but if you're having issues, READ ON!

That said, I found another solution on AT&T's Facebook page from a "Spike Falana".

1. Basically, go here: http://dls.scione-music.de/KIES/ (click link)

2. Download an older version of Kies (non-Mini). Spike used Kies_1.5.3.10083_66.exe, and so I did too.

3. Install Kies, run it. DO NOT let it update.

4. Plug in your phone, Kies will recognize it.

5. Update your firmware.

I have no idea why the US has been stuck with Kies Mini, but this solution works so well it's mind-boggling. The update took less time than it took to write this post to complete.

My phone was successfully updated to Froyo (official) 2.2, I897UCKB1 in less than 20 minutes if you include the download time.

Crazy. Just crazy. NO IDEA why Kies Mini won't work when the full version of Kies works so perfectly.
[Captivate General] KewlRobD:
Before you jump through to many hoops uninstall IE9 if you have it installed. That worked for me.
[Captivate General] norsairius:
now that's an interesting thought.... I wish I had heard of such an idea for a solution before I tried what I did, but at least I found something that worked, haha.

thanks for the pointer though!
[Captivate General] byteme2008:
For what it is worth, I have a 64 bit Windows 7 system and I was able to install with Kies Mini without issue. I do not have IE9 mind you, but just in case anyone else is having issues I used the following method which differs from what I have seen some post:

Obviously install Kies Mini and the Captivate drivers from the Samsung website if you haven't already (make sure you have uninstalled any previous version of Kies you might have).

Turn off debugging if you have this selected.

Set the phone to ask what to do when it is connected via USB.

Plug the phone into your computer USB connection.

Wait while it loads the drivers etc. The phone should eventually say connected, but do not start Kies Mini yet.

For me, after up to around 10 seconds after the phone says it is connected, the Windows autoplay selection box will pop asking what you want do (view files, play media, etc.)

Once that box pops up, then start Kies Mini.

You should be good to go - at least that is the most reliable way I have found. If I try and launch Kies as soon as the phone says 'Connected' though and don't wait for the autoplay box to pop up then Kies won't see the phone.

Hopefully this may help someone.
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
I updated to EB13 from DI18 originally using ODIN and the eb13.tar. Things were fine, no real bugs except the known video camera bug and screen lag. I was able to fix the screen lag once I rooted and ran the sensorcalibutil_yamaha scrpit. My TWS was only 2% and had no 3G data problems whatsoever.

Recently I decided to try out the deodexed rom from the dev section, but when I started it up I kept getting the "buz...buzz-buzz-buzz" over and over. I though I must have done something wrong, so I formatted my sd card, wiped my phone, cache and dalvik cache. I then used ODIN to re-install the eb13.tar and I re-rooted using oneclick root.

This time around, I now have 55% TWS in the same location as before and 3G data drops like crazy. Also for some reason the market app won't update itself to the new version and is stuck on the original, old style. Also interestingly, on this flash I had zero lag problems and my compass and gps work flawlessly.

I'm not sure what is going on or why this would happen, anybody else experience something like this??? I am worried because I have a phone interview in the morning and can't afford signal drops when I have full coverage. I am going to re-do the whole process and hope that fixes it :(
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
I odin'd two times trying to fix this again, no dice. I never should have messed with things because all was good until I started messing about.

Found a solution for now though, I Odin'd back to DI18 and am calling it a night. I can't afford a spotty data connection for my interview in the morning. I'll report back once I start tinkering again
[Epic 4G General] arashed31:
Odin to DI18 and don't do anything. Just turn off your phone.

Copy the EB13 update.zip to the memory card and delete your "Android" folder as well as any app specific folders for cache or whatever.

Put in your memory card and boot into recovery. Flash the update.zip and reboot.

Once the phone is on you can use the OneClickRoot 2.5.5 to get root and recovery.

I still get the TWS problem but airplane mode fixes that.
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
thanks, tried this but it didn't correct any of the problems. My market refuses to update to the new version for some reason. When I Odin'd back to DI18, the market ap updated itself on the second launch, no problem.

As far as TWS goes, the issue is still persisting. I did notice that if you are using the data connection for something like shoutcast radio (internet radio) there is no drop at all, and the signal is almost boosted. But if you aren't actively using the connection it drops, connects, drops, connects, over and over. It is absolutely killing my battery life.

Edit: Fixed the market update problem by clearing market cache and data. Now if we can find a fix for the camera lag and TWS problem, I will be a happy camper
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techcruncher:
my friend just bought his atrix, and we were dorking around with it, but when we connected it to his tv it went into HD dock mode. How do we get it to just output the (Atrix's) screen content to a tv, (possibly with HDMI mirroring) so I can use the browser, or watch flash content on the big screen?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neer2005:
As of now this is not possible.
[HTC Inspire 4G] rhhebert:
Hi folks. Today when I moved an app to the SD card, the Inspire restarted and then it couldnt read the SD card. I had to take that out and put it back in.

Anyone else have some glitches with that app?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jc8081:
Which one in your guys opinion has better battery? Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aseercte:
Myns with the right kernel

rocking the **** out of cm7
[Atrix 4G General] acPIZZA:
Where are you guys? I have known XDA to be a place of organization... a place to be used as a top-notch resource... but 3/4 of the threads in this Atrix forum are rediculous! It is non-stop, people posting each and every little issue or question in a brand new, seperate thread! Please help clean up this forum, myself, and a ton of other people are counting on this place as a main source of information for our device!

Thank you very much.

And to the trolling posters out there:

-It doesn't matter which phone you came from! It doesn't need to be a thread!

-If you really don't like the Atrix and are returning it - go for it! Nobody cares what you are going back to. This is a place for people who have, and plan on keeping the device!

-If you dislike an aspect of the device, you don't need to make a thread about it!

-If you have a very general question, use the search function first please!

-If the search function fails, try google!

-If you don't own the device, please don't post your trolls here!

-If you are thinking about getting the device, read the Engadget review, it is helpful.

-If you are posting a comment that seems to be very general, chances are - it is! Try attaching that comment to a thread already in existence (ie, if you want to talk about a particular case under the accessory forum, post it to case thread, instead of asking a specific question on a specific case in a new thread.

-Please read the OP! Chances are, your question's answer is in that post...
[Atrix 4G General] joewoo:
Lots of whiny little *****es lately... +1 OP
[Atrix 4G General] acPIZZA:
Seriously!

And to break my own rules, I am coming from the Inspire forums... which are completely moderated, organized (and de-*****ed). It's enough already - this is a place for people who plan on having the Atrix for some time and want to discuss and make their experiences better.
[Atrix 4G General] joyo22:
So much *****ing and fanatism! I agree. Some moderation is needed urgently!

By the way, Atrix is a great phone as well as many other Android devices. 1,000 posts of comparison are not enpugh for people to understand what the phone is and how it works?
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Completely agree with this. Another +1
[Atrix 4G General] stunno:
well said OP!

I'm sat here using a wildfire, waiting (not so) patiently for the Atrix to be launched in the UK. I assumed that the wildfire board was so bad because it was a cheap phone, but no, this board is going the same way!

hopefully it will get sorted out before I get mine, and the fan boy agitators move back to their own turf
[Xoom General] gogol:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/45605?tstart=0#

I read mark-d who answered this has "Motorola" icon in his avatar.

There you go :)
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
This explains alot. I started to open mine up to look too :)
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Well this is disappointing. I was expecting the Galaxy tab 10.1 to have 24 hours of video playback, lol.
[Xoom General] martonikaj:
Definitely. Well the iPad has something like a 6200mAh battery too and it gets like ~10 or 11 hours of playback depending.
[Xoom General] Old MuckenMire:
this is great news!
[Xoom General] ChrisDos:
It may have two batteries, I don't know. Though the guy doesn't know much about electricity. If there are two 3250mah batteries, they would have to be in parallel to show 3250mah, not series. If they were in series, it would show 6500mah.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
***CRICKET USERS ONLY***​

Im writing this tutorial because I had a lot of problems getting MMS working with FROYO ROM's. I know theres cricket users that cannot get MMS working so here we go:

Download the Cricket V10 zip to the root of your card found here Cricket V10 (Thanks Token)

Download any Froyo ROM to the root of your card.

Download APN Backup & Restore from the market and backup your APN's.

Make sure your 3G Internet/MMS is working before you continue to flash FROYO.

BACKUP! current 2.1 ROM and then flash Froyo Rom like you would normally do.

Then flash the Cricket V10 zip.

Boot into phone download autostart root, and APN Backup & Restore from the Market. Open up APN B&R and delete current APN's and then restore the ones you backed up earlier. Once that is done reboot your phone.

Once phone is booted up grant autostart root permission and make sure you have working internet.

Now we get to the part where we get MMS working.

Delete the mms.apk located in system/app

Drop the attached mms.apk into system/app

Delete the telephony.db file located in data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases

Drop the attached telephony.db in data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases (Be sure to rename the telephony.db file you downloaded back to telephony.db before dropping it back into data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases)

Once this is done Reboot your phone and you should have working MMS with Froyo ROM's.

EDIT:Updated with new GB Mms.apk

Thanks goes to Token for his Cricket V10 Zip and for his help.

Thanks to Conap for the Mms.apk

Thanks to endoki for all his help/testing

formatted by: pxldtz
[Droid Eris Android Development] darkmage1991:
i gave up on tazz ginger, i will be trying this on kaos froyo 39
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
I wish I had my old ERIS so I can try to get MMS working with Gingerbread...Let me know if the above method works for you.
[Droid Eris Android Development] darkmage1991:
worked like a charm on kaos froyo :) thanks bigshot
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
That's great! Enjoy!
[Droid Eris Android Development] meanm50:
Tested good on FroShed V10 and GSB (all)
[Droid Eris Android Development] PimpTwzt:
This is awesome! Just what I have been waiting for for months!

Installing GSB 2.1 right now. Will check report on if it works.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
If you follow the directions it should work with no problems ...
[Droid Eris Android Development] PimpTwzt:
Ya I was trying to figure out why the 3g kept cutting out and going to 1x but I think Cricket might be having some problems at the moment because they have changed servers a couple times tonight. Im in California yet the closest server on speedtest was in Kansas. an hour or so ago it was Maine and now its Missouri.

Anyways mms works along with everything else on GSB 2.1
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
I guess theres an issue with GB and data. They have been talking about it in Tokens thread.
[Droid Eris Android Development] PimpTwzt:
Ya I have read that. Today it seems fine though. Hasnt been switching back and forth.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
I cant wait for Gingerbread to come out for my Droid X! I got my hopes up when they "supposedly" cracked the bootloader, but oh well.
[Droid Eris Android Development] PimpTwzt:
Im gonna need to shop for a new phone this year. My Eris' touchscreen at the bottom requires a harder push to respond these days... plus I just want something faster. Hard to listen to .Flac music and have Navigation running at the same time without it stuttering.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
I wanna try the Thunderbolt!
[Droid Eris Android Development] PimpTwzt:
Im wanting an Incredible, its like a faster sexier version of an Eris..
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
My wife has the Incredible. Its fast and it seems like the camera is better then mine. I definately would recommend the DInc, but im hooked on my Droid X.
[Droid Eris Android Development] killacammiami:
wats in the telephony db ??? can i modify it to work with metropcs?
[Droid Eris Android Development] bigshotrob22:
I believe they are IP tables and yes you can modify them but I done know metropcs. You might wanna ask in Tokens thread for someone to give you a Metro telephony.db file.