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[Captivate General] Jsmokey:
You can also get the Heimdall suite and open the drivers folder and run Zandig. Then connect your phone in download mode it should show gadget serial in the device window click install and it should complete and you're good to go, this is how I did it after 3 days trying to get my phone to stop showing the device malfunction error which is due to another problem on my main xp machine, a sony which I can't get usb 2.0 drivers for from sony or anywhere else to work correctly even though all 8 ports are 2.0 according to support, my manual, and previous xp install and that's after installing xp 4 times to get the graphics driver to install right so I could then install the right ati driver which everyone online with this model sony seems to have to do, but back on topic. I hopped on my windows server 2k3 machine which had correctly working usb 2.0 drivers ran zandig with my cappy in dl mode and BAM finally working gadget serial driver, just make sure you have zandig.exe open, and connect your phone in DL mode or you'll just install the equivalent of the standard samsung drivers which you prolly already have, I haven't been able to test this on a win7 machine but from what I've read the heimdall driver should work on them and worked great on both xp and server 2k3 on my home server machine.
[Captivate General] boborone:
Best first post I've seen in quite some time. Thanks for that.
[Captivate General] Jsmokey:
Thanks I appreciate that I just wanna give back as much as I've received from the forums here its a great place to start. If anyone runs into any problem with this let me know and I'll see if I can reproduce and come up with something.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Migital Warfare:
I've been downloading and reencoding a lot of HD movies lately since I just purchased an AppleTV, and I got to thinking. There are USB H.264 hardware encoders that speed up the process of encoding movies, and all they really do is add to the processing power to speed up the encoding process. Is there some way we could use the processor in our phone to do the same thing?

Here is a link to one of these USB Encoders at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Elgato-10020196-Turbo-264-Encoder-Accelerator/dp/B0021AEPTY/ref=pd_sim_e_3

I'm no developer, but it would be awesome if someone could figure this out!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Triketra:
I would think that even if this was possible the simple fact that you would be using a USB cord to attach the phone to the computer would negate any help that the phone would give you. it's like using a flash stick with windows 7 for readyboost, sure it will give you more memory but it's 100 fold slower than ram and is more like the page file on your computer.

if you have an insane amount of ram in your computer, I would actually suggest turning your paging file off, and that should speed things up a bit as it won't be loading your process' and information into a pagefile, instead it will be using strictly the awesomesauce of your ram's ability to communicate with the CPU alot faster than a page file can. And don't worry if your computer runs out of ram on Ubuntu or Windows 7 it will automatically add a page file back so that the computer doesn't freeze. I'm using windows 7 Premium and convert files alot with no paging file with only 4gigs of ddr3 with a athlon ll x2 p340 cpu and it's quicker than with, also makes games and programs alot snappier to
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Migital Warfare:
I can't imagine that these USB encoder keys that I linked to above are useless, so USB is probably not the bottleneck you assume it is.

Also, I'm running Snow Leopard on a MBP, using 64bit Handbrake with 4gb of RAM. Running OS X without a paging file is a terrible idea, so that won't help. It's not that my computer is encoding movies slowly, it's that if I could be doing it faster with a little help from my Epic so I have 3 cores crunching data, why not?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hasseo:
I haven't seen anyone ask this before, so I figured it was worth a shot.

On the TouchWiz Lockscreen, when you have a new text, you can pull it down to see the message. Now, I want to know if it's possible to, instead of having it go to the stock messaging app, having it go to Handcent... is there any way to do this?

Thanks,

Hasseo

Sent from the Epic that bites.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leftkidney:
I think you are talking about the pull down menu at the top that shows notifications - if so then you should only have to turn off notifications for the stock app and you will only get the handcent ones

the lock screen, I only get the handcent notifications - its not something that can be "pulled down" but you can set it to have the popup show and thats sorta the same - but its been so long since I used the stock messaging app the new design sucks and I stopped months ago when 2.2 came out the DK28 version and the messaging app was changed - I went to handcent and never went back - I dont know whats the matter with people but there is no reason why we shouldnt be able to change the stock messaging app back to the way it was before

if you are talking about the icon at the bottom of the screen - you can just change it with the handcent app

this is one of the major features in 2.2 IMO for these phones - the ability to change the bottom icons
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zanderman112:
He's talking about the Lockscreen. Like, when you get a new text, you can slide the unlock circle down to go straight to the new text, or up to just unlock. As far as I know, you can only do that with the stock messaging app, as it only appears if you have notifications enabled for it. It also is the same for missed calls.

Sent from my always stock, froyo Epic
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hasseo:
This is exactly what I meant xD.

And gah ok. This is the one thing that frustrates me about the TouchWiz lockscreen!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zanderman112:
Ya, wish there were better third party locks for free.

Sent from my always stock, froyo Epic
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] --__LoRiS__--:
Can anyone port the desire HD camera app for Cyanogenmod 7?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmylxgo:
I posted this in the HD2 Android NAND forum...but think it might be better asked here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackwing182:
did you solve this man?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] optiknerv:
Yes I need help also.
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[Epic 4G General] cnuckols1:
I just noticed that some high end games are being released for tegra2 chips only. Shouldn't the hummingbird be fast enough to run these games. Our phones is on part with the iphone 4 correct? Take samurai 2, that game looks sweet but won't even show up in the market for me. It's only an iphone port. What do you guys think?
[Epic 4G General] abrognlie:
Yes, the hummingbird is fast, but the Tegra 2 chipset is ridiculously faster.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Not ridiculously faster. Incrementally faster.
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
Our gpu is more advanced than the iphone gpu

And I think the tegra 2 uses the same gpu as the humingbird, just clocked faster
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
*copy*

Here is a GPU comparison for some of the leading smartphones:

* Motorola Droid: TI OMAP3430 with PowerVR SGX530 = 7-14 million(?) triangles/sec

* Nexus One: Qualcomm QSD8x50 with Adreno 200 = 22 million triangles/sec

* iPhone 3G S: 600 MHz Cortex-A8 with PowerVR SGX535 = 7 million triangles/sec

* Samsung Galaxy S: S5PC110 with PowerVR SGX540 = 90 million triangles/sec

And for comparison a few consoles:

* PS3: 250 million triangles/sec

* Xbox 360: 500 million triangles/sec

*paste*

Tegra2 does ~85-90 mil/sec. Right on par with our phones. HOWEVER They have a different set of APIs that game designers can use to make calls directly to some Tegra2 specific stuff. That's not saying ours don't have the ass to do it, but we just don't have the same ****. Pretty simple enough answer eh?
[Epic 4G General] cnuckols1:
My main point is that our phones are capable of running amazing games but we are not getting the opportunity. There is only one phone with a tegra2 chip but how many hummingbird phones as there?
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
There are half a dozen incoming phones with tegra 2 not to mention 4 tablets while only the galaxy s has hummingbird
[Epic 4G General] globalninja:
I'm jealous we won't see games like that for our phones.

Sent from my Epic 4g.
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
Tegra 2is gonna be the new snapdragon

I'm waiting for an exynos tablet :drool:
[Epic 4G General] bjhill2112:
Isn't there a way to trick the Market into thinking we're one of those phones? Of course the apps may not work if they are using any of those APIs...
[Epic 4G General] arashed31:
That's what I was going to say but I'm going to extend it a little further. I read somewhere that nVidia's Tegra GPU renders things the same way that desktop GPUs do. Meaning that depending on the game either the SGX540 or Tegra 2 will beat out the other drastically.
[Epic 4G General] arashed31:
nVidia's Tegra Zone game market app showed up for me and I downloaded that. There's Fruit Ninja THD for $5.
[Epic 4G General] castro08:
I type tegra zone and was able to.download the app and it worked but i only saw like 7 games there and none were really special.
[Epic 4G General] cnuckols1:
The scary thing is that all the awesome games are going to be made exculsivley for tetra 2 chips leaving our awesome phones behind. There is only 1 tetra 2 phone out now with several soon to arrive. We have close 10 different hummingbirds variants out. Why no love?

Sent from my Nook color using the xda app.
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
Nvidia is paying these devs to bring their game into nvidias world to temp buyers.
[Epic 4G General] cnuckols1:
That makes sense and is something Samsung should have done.

Sent from my Nook color using the xda app.
[Epic 4G General] Electrofreak:
If we're talking GPUs, no, it's not ridiculously faster. It does perform better, but not amazingly so.

No. The Tegra 2 GPU is an NVIDIA GPU, while the Hummingbird's PowerVR SGX540 is an Imagination Technologies GPU.

NVIDIA's Tegra 2 GPU has desktop GPU roots (it's based off of GeForce), but it does not render things the same way that desktop GPUs do. It's highly customized for power efficiency. Details here.

This.
[Epic 4G General] victorythagr8:
I wish Samsung pays developer good money to create games for their phone.
[Epic 4G General] Tirregius:
The data I have compiled comparing the Tegra 2 to the Hummingbird puts the Tegra 2 ahead by somewhere between 15-35% depending upon the application.

The "Tegra 2" only applications is just a way for an alliance between hardware and software devs. to sell more units. The SGX540 is in the same class of GPU compliance-wise and performance-wise and can certainly run most applications on-par with Tegra 2.

This reminds me of when you had to have Vista to get DX10 compliance. No reason other than Microsoft trying to give Vista sales a kick.
[Epic 4G General] algorhythm:
Welcome to market fragmentation... this was one of the reasons I waited so long to switch to Android from iOS. Only small groups of devices can run certain apps.
[Epic 4G General] Tirregius:
As the open Android platform matures the hardware will end up being more diverse but also having more computational overhead, such that they will tend to be a bit ahead of the curve in terms of performance. I'm guessing that this idea of supporting just one type of chip (on Android) for the sake of sales is going to come and go very quickly. Within 2 generations (1 year) it will be obvious to the consumer that the hardware is a non-issue for current devices running the latest software. As it is right now, this kind of power in the phone is relatively new and as such they can exploit the consumer's lack of knowledge. No so in the very near future.

I hope we have learned all we need to know about standardization in terms of compatibility (or lack thereof) from the foibles and successes on the x86 PC. Most phones will have to have pretty standard capabilities to please the devs in terms of helping them maximize revenue, which, in turn is a very smart move for hardware/carrier companies. Apple will almost surely make the bittersweet choice of claiming the niche/expensive market in a similar way to Mac. Apple will see it market share diminish and stabilize among the "new" artsy demographic to whom Macs appealed most.

As for the big picture - this is "PC vs. Mac" all over again. Open platform vs. slave platform. Both have their good and bad points.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
fragmentation is a myth..generally speaking...top end phones can run 90% of the apps just fine...

If something is "optimized" for Tegra 2 means it will run better on a Tegra 2..but doesn't mean it won't run well on a Hummingbird..there are "standards" you know such as OpenGL and etc...

The only people who are generally effected by the fragmentation are those that buy old phone or low end phones...but this is the same for those that buy old iphones...Those that buy high end phones, are pretty much unaffected :/
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
Who cares? Gaming on Android sucks anyway.

There, I said it, and you all know I'm right.
[Epic 4G General] brian2220:
somewhat right

but some people dont have ipads or iphones and or gaming systems and love that there phone can play games when an where they want.

Android is starting to pick up and as that happens dev companies will see the $ and start making games and you know im right :p
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
The problem is that I do have an iOS device, and I've usually already beaten or gotten bored of the games by the time they come to android.

Anyway, Jerry at androidcentral had this to say
[Epic 4G General] cteneyck:
I wouldn't worry to much about it. This same thing happened when Intel introduced mmx. AMD was able to replicate it with their chips not long after. The same thing will happen with qualcom/adreno and cortex/hummingbird.
[Epic 4G General] faceless:
not the same at all. vista overhauled the way video card drivers functioned. it would take a complete redesign of parts of the core OS for that to work out... oh wait that's basically what Vista was. maybe they should have given away Vista for free...
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
ok..so? it is possible that the lesser versions are purposely limited to accommodate weaker devices..a fair comparison would be to ru the beefed up version on both...
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
you can't. The beefed up version only runs on Tegra devices.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Chances are that limitation is hard coded and has nothing to do with the specs..it might be possible to make it think your using a Tegra 2 for example...its also possible Tegra 2 just has a head start exclusive and it'll be available for everyone in time...

That said I heard the Xperia Play Playstaion games will work on all devices via their engine...
[Epic 4G General] snowmanwithahat:
Well actually.... that's completely untrue. Vista and Windows 7 are fundamentally built in a much different way than XP was. It's impossible to implement some of the functionality in XP that DX10 and 11 brought to the table without hacking up the existing framework.

As for the Tegra 2 though, it is true that there's no reason games would run on that, but not run on our phones (albeit slower)
[Epic 4G General] Tirregius:
There were quickly some work-arounds that allowed the DX10 features to be used in games such as Crysis. Were they not using the DX10 features?

I do recall that they had made some big changes to how the driver utilized memory, and was significantly more efficient. (OT - it wasn't always better, or introduced issues for many systems.)

I stand corrected insofar as there were changes to the driver that reportedly were not possible on the XP OS. However, the restriction of the visuals feature set, specifically was likely not necessary as was evidenced by the DX10 work-arounds that were all over the place.
[Epic 4G General] sauron0101:
A bit off topic, but not too much. Anyone have any idea how these GPUs stand relative to each other? We know the following:

- Tegra 2

- Power VR SGX 540 (our phone)

- Power VR SGX 543 (iPad 2 and likely iPhone 5)

- Power VR SGX 545

- Mali 400
[Epic 4G General] flash_c4:
Seriously? They obviously can't pay their own developers to get even consistent and useable updates for their phones and you think they could ever go so far as to get involved with supporting others?
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
This is so easy... if the marketplace made gaming an important differentiator for cellphone sales, sammy and everyone else would behave like Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, et al in this respect.

Right now, high-end graphics games are not a major sales driver for phones. Most sales are driven by communications value propositions, not gaming. Hard as it if to accept for us tech geeks, the overwhelming majority of Epic customers do not ask about, nor care whether the phone runs Major Gamegasm HD when they decided to buy one.

So, these things are relatively unimportant to Samsung. Issues like this are front and center for a company like Nvidia, since graphics is their raison d'etre.

Sent from my mind using telepathitalk
[Epic 4G General] WandererTJ:
I want Android apps so bad-ass that they have their own TV Commercials.

That aside, I was able to find a Samurai II: Vengence .apk on the interweb and I was able to successfully install it on my Captivate, but I couldn't get it to open b/c it said device not supported (pure B.S.)

Is There Any Possible Way to Trick the system into allowing us to be able to play Tegra2 THD Games on our non-Tegra phones. I honestly believe that there is an exploit out there, I just don't know what.

I want to be able to blow my friend's and there iphones out of the water with my android and pure awesome. I believe this is a just belief.
[Epic 4G General] dario3040:
Well as i see it: SGX 540 > Tegra 2.

its 90 Million polygons vs 71 Million.

And yes the Hummingbird is fully capable of delivering the same graphics or even better ones.

And the Hummingbird cripples the Tegra 2 in single threaded tasks.

But as already said earlier: Only the galaxy line uses the SGX 540.

But that might change with the Omap 4
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
I have more games, as well as more games I like better, than on my grandkids PSP.

Heck, I have a bunch for SNESoid, all play awesome :cool:

I guess it all depends on what you like ;)
[Off-topic] Excused:
SubTotal: $3,694.00

Tax: $287.69

Shipping Charge: $18.00

Total: $3,999.69

Specs:

2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7

Intel HD Graphics 3000

AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1GB GDDR5

8GB 1333MHZ DDR3 SDRAM - 2X4GB

512GB Solid State Drive

8x Double-Layer SuperDrive

MBP 17" HR Glossy WS Display

Will I be happy with this Macbook pro? Do you like your mac?
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
What he said...........

$4000 - You could have had 2 laptops 2 phones and still gone out for a slap up meal afterwards........................
[Off-topic] TheGrammarFreak:
And have change to spare
[Off-topic] MacaronyMax:
Niice Specs there :D
[Off-topic] Excused:
I just wanted a Macbook to develop on, play games, and watch movies, and I had to have the 1980x1200 resolution or it would of been pointless to get. I wanted the max the device out so that I wouldnt have to worry about not having the hardware needed to do whatever I needed to do.
[Off-topic] TheGrammarFreak:
If it fulfills your needs, it's a great purchase
[Off-topic] Excused:
Does anyone actually use mac here? Do you like yours?
[Off-topic] MacaronyMax:
I have a macbook Air :)
[Off-topic] Excused:
I looked at the Macbook Air, I love it.. I just need more processing power, ram, and GPU than what it offeres. Its still a great computer.
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
Nah no change..........

Im talking a SLAP-UP meal..........

Fresh pan fried swans hearts wrapped in gold leaf............monkey brain soup in a diamond encrusted bowl.......etc etc :D
[Off-topic] EuroSpeed:
I have a 13 inch black Macbook that I got about three years ago, love it. It still runs like the first day I got it. I will definitely purchase another mac in the future.
[Off-topic] domineus:
4000 for a non sandybridged mac...

...

you so got ripped off...

imho if I'm spending 2000 it's because it is a convertible tablet pc not an overpriced pos...
[Off-topic] Excused:
Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.30GHz Benchmarked @ 7,286 is pretty good.
[Off-topic] Floraaa:
Did you get the OnetoOne when you bought your mac?
[Off-topic] Excused:
Nope. Why?
[Off-topic] yaheath:
The MB pros are sweet machines. They're solid and well-engineered, and will generally last longer than the cheaper windows laptops which makes them worth the extra money in my opinion.
[Off-topic] JackieOoo:
I just got a macbook pro 13" about a month ago. Purchases that onetoone. It's pretty awesome. You go to like "class" at the mac store and they help you with anything you need.
[Off-topic] souljaboy:
ill tell ya wat i think , in your place id feel like i just bought a $2000 lappy , got home , and reaized i left my wallet ontop of the car in the parking lot with another $2000 in it ... thats how id feel
[Off-topic] kdj67f:
Bwahahahaha!
[Off-topic] husam666:
I just don't get it,

why won't you n00bs leave our off-topic in peace.

Who cares if you are idiot enough to pay $4000 for a screen and a keyboard with an eaten apple on them :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wowjam:
The details of my Galaxy S

Model number: GT-I9000

Carier: Optus (Australia)

Firmware version: 2.2.1

Baseband version: I9000XXJPY

Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 hardcore at speedmod-k13c-500hz #24

Build number: Darky's v9.3.XWJS5

I bought rooted second hand phone.

Currently I can't touch with the seller :-(

When I bought this phone,

kernel was 2.6.32.9 curio at carton#6

and build number was Darkys Raw Steel Edition v2.2

This phone has usb connection problem.

I googled many many ways to connect with pc.

There is no way :-(

I tried with several OS and Computer, desktops and notebooks.

OS was XP, Win7 32bit and 64bit

I connected it all usb port, back and front.

Install/uninstall KIES and drivers.

Turn ON/OFF debug mode

Change usb mode to kies, mass storage, media

But I couldn't.

So when I need to transfer files, I'm using ftp.

But the phone can go to recovery mode and download mode.

So I could update rom with CWM.

In the download mode, it couldn't be connected with ODIN.

I think this phone has hardware problem.

So I want to restore this one to factory status.

Then I will visit service center.

I think if i bring this rooted phone to the center, they will charge some cost.

Isn't it?

Is it possible to restore factory firmware without using usb?

Is there any way reflash the official firmware using CWM?

Please help me.

This phone drive me crazy. :-(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Official firmware .

One network supplied firmware as came with the phone . Not unless you have a backup .

Stock firmware as provided to the networks for customization by Samsung .

Flash via Odin

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=846913

This phone has usb connection problem.

Probably rom not hardware problem .

CWM you would need to build a custom rom from stock .

I think if i bring this rooted phone to the center, they will charge some cost.

Isn't it?

Its not the rooting thats the problem its the non standard rom

jje