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[Xoom General] funnycreature:
All,

after all these threads about pros and cons (especially in comparison with other tablet platforms) I wanted to list a few reasons why I decided that the Xoom was the right choice (and I hope I won't be disappointed when I receive it today). I know that probably all of them are more related to Honeycomb but that's OK ;)

1. It felt very snappy and smooth when I was playing with it at Costco. No comparison to my Nook Color running the HC preview.

2. The feeling of the OS is almost virtual reality; flipping through different home screens in 3D is so cool

3. In the morning when I turn on my gadget I'd like to be greeted with a number of gadgets to make my day: Weather, emails, news, maybe even traffic (although that won't make my day) etc. I do NOT want to have to open half a dozen apps for each purpose!

4. I try to customize everything just to be special :D My iPhone is jailbroken but when I see the screenshots that others post here I start drooling.

5. Google Maps 3D... I know, not Xoom-specific but still something sooo cool!

6. I got the 25% off steal. I would most likely NOT have paid full price.

I might add things to the list tonight.

Hope that this helps other to make up their minds and evaluate what's important for them! Enjoy your weekend with hopefully lots of Xoom-time!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paparasee:
I'm using the Nexus S.

When I try to install Google Books, I get a message saying that it is already installed and if I want to upgrade the app. But when I look in my programs, I do not see Books.

How do I get to open the application?

Thanks
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrivelfig:
What do you mean by "my programs"? The app drawer? Or Market?

I see it in the app drawer, but to see it in Market I need to fake a US sim card with MarketEnabler.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJTaurus:
Same thing happened to my NS after 2.3.3 update.

The app dissapeared from the apps list....
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paparasee:
Yeah, its not appearing in my apps drawer ... and yeah, I'm not in the US. So could that be the reason? If that's the reason, I'll manually install it, overwrite and see if it appears!

Thanks to DJTaurus for confirming that it does not appear for you too and to shrivelfig for suggesting the Market enabler.
[Nexus S General] rajeevkr:
Someone Please Help

I was Rooting my Nexus S using the step by step guide to ROOT Nexus S using clockwork Mod posted by AllGamer and am stuck in the 2nd Part now.

I have unlocked the phone now but the next step is not working. Everytime I hit the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img I get an error saying unable to load recovery.img

I have checked everything, its all fine. i tried downloading the recovery image from other sources and tried it as well, still no luck.

Someone please help me with this!

Thanks in advance!

Cheers.

PS. Im using a Nexus S running on Gingerbread 2.3.3
[Nexus S General] .cruiser:
You may try this > http://jaxov.com/2011/02/how-to-root-android-2-3-3-gingerbread-on-nexus-s/

If your PC already has the phone driver and fastboot, you can skip several steps including downloading the sdk.

I used this yesterday to root my ns and to install a custom rom.

Cheers!
[Nexus S General] krohnjw:
Is cwm downloaded to the directory you are ruining the command from and also named recovery.img?
[Nexus S General] rajeevkr:
Thanks a ton bro!

Worked like a charm, my phone is rooted now Finally!
[Nexus S General] rajeevkr:
Thanks for the help mate.

Had made a silly mistake, i didnt navigate to the directory first, had some issues there thats all.

all sorted now! Cheers!!
[Desire HD General] Boradan:
Man, there are some idiots out there on ebay ......

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HTC-Desire-HD-box-earphones-charger-instructions-/110653917008

Gotta do that with MY box :)
[Desire HD General] Basil3:
Reminds me of when the xbox 360 first came out. Plenty of empty boxes fetching a fair profit on eBay.
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
What the... Cool, I even have an unused official HTC seal sticker, so I might sell that one, too :D
[Desire HD General] frosty_ice:
You are a bad, bad man :p
[Desire HD General] KJR:
I've just had a look and it seems to have been removed!
[Desire HD General] JustByZero:
Yeah looks like someone caught on to the idea.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
not sure if everyone knows this. there is an app called spare parts that has to great features.

speed up animations and menus I believe. check it out on the market. I load it with all my android phones.

same concept as tweaking windows settings to make things pop faster.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] wildcat777:
Yeah i use it to make all apps convert to full screen on my SGT,nice little app
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
How do you do that? is that compatibly mode?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] okayokayokay:
Unchecking compatability mode made most apps run full screen on my Wits A-81.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] eowyn:
They are on Steve's ROMs
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Egypt1337:
There is an option to change font size but when u exit the app or even rotate it after u change the font it will go back to normal (running 1.8.1)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] RussianSolja:
I love spareparts, One of my favorite apps. Speeds everything up.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androf:
First allow me to apologize for my clumsy English and this long boring post

I m a total noob when it comes to android, recently I bought a DHD and I would love to root it

However the first thing I would like to be 100% aware of is the worst case scenario

I m a PC technician so it would be very kind of you if you answered my Q by comparing the DHD to a computer

If you own a new laptop then u can mess with OS as much as u want, then u can recover the laptop to its factory defaults by using the recovery function

-in some laptops the OS has to be healthy and you'll have to able to log into your account in order to restore the system

-in some laptops you can restore the OS from outside the OS using a hot key cause the recover partition is a standalone partition and hot key is managed by a software which works in a layer above the OS

-in some laptops its even better! u can create recovery disk so you mess with the OS and HDD itself then you can restore the HDD to its factory defaults

-the only thing that might force u to go for a hardware solution is when u mess with CHIPS like the BIOS

if something went wrong while you are upgrading that chip u wont be able to fix it at home with any software but you'll have to take the chip out are reprogram it using a EPROM programmer

After this boring long introduction here comes my Q: how bad can I damage my DHD? I've read the word "brick" here and there, is that the worst case scenario?

I know less than nothing about the internal architecture of mobile phones but I always imagined old mobile phones it as a Read-Only chip that loads the OS into a RAM where u can mess as much as u want and once u reboot you are back to life

I m not sure if I m making any sense so I'll try to compare my Q to the iPhone

you can mess with the iPhone as much as you want (as long as u don't use a tool that upgrades the boot loader) and you can always restore the OS from a (higher) level using a third party application

Same thing with BBs right? u can always (inject) the OS back into the device using an executable OS file

What about android devices?

I apologize again for boring you

Thanks
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaymondErasmus:
Rooting wont necessarily brick your phone or damage it as all as when you root your phone you are basically gaining 'admin' rights on your phone.

The danger of 'bricking' or damaging your phone comes in when you start to remove the security off your phone so that you can flash a custom recovery, new radio or kernal.

This a very basic and minimalistic answer to your question but that is basically the just of it.

If you follow all the instructions to the point nothing should go wrong and if it does there is allways someone that can help ;)

Running a PD98IMG.zip or RUU will revert your phone back to stock

Oh and once you have performed radio and/or eng s-off there are also very specific instructions to revert this back to stock over on the development section aswel.

Good luck!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androf:
RaymondErasmus thank you very much for your most-welcomed answer but can u be more specific?

tbh there are loads of tutorials all over the Internet but I m looking for simple in-depth details, in other words I m trying to understand which parts of the phone I m messing with

Regards
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkoljo:
Okay, I'll try to explain it.. These phones have @secuflag, which is written deep in the internal memory. It tells your phone it's security state, S-ON or S-OFF. When security is off, your device's internal memory becomes read/write instead of read only. It allows you to flash ROMs (OS package) and do other exciting modifications to the software.

When security is off, you can do literally anything, even delete your phone's bootloader, so that it becomes just a pile of hardware with nothing to boot. That is called a brick. When you have the bootloader intact (always), you can recover your phone from any state. Usually people have ClockworkMod installed, which is a custom recovery application. It allows you to even format the internal memory of your phone, and then flash anything you want. Without ClockworkMod you can still go to bootloader no matter what, and send a whole OS into the phone using RUU USB connection.

Rooting itself does not turn security off, but S-OFF obviously does. Without S-OFF, you cannot hurt your device in any serious way.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androf:
jkoljo your answer is just awesome! Kiitos man!

This is exactly the type of answers I was seeking for, I was right about joining this great forum

Can you share more details? any diagrams to explain the relationship between the components/registers of the internal memory? and more details regarding the process of booting up in Android phones?

Thanks again man
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkoljo:
Sure mate, about the boot procedure first:

The ARM SOC gets powered up

PBL (primary boot loader) starts running. It sets up partitions, for example, and initializes hardware. It executes DBL.

DBL, device boot loader checks bootloader (hboot) in case of corruption and such things, then executes OSBL

OSBL, operating system bootloader, hboot, sets up rest of the hardware system. It checks secuflag and sets internal memory accordingly, for example. It has the ability to read and write firmware. Then it basically executes linux kernel.

Kernel starts running, initializes your system (drivers etc) and starts booting up Android.

For end user, hboot and recovery act as the base of the device. Hboot provides access to various partitions like radio firmware, and clockworkmod recovery provides extensive control of /system, /data and such system related partitions. Hboot has the ability to boot up clockworkmod, regardless of the state of the system (corrupted and broken / fully healthy).

You might be interested in this.

For very extensive information about low level stuff, check this out.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androf:
For the record, seraph1024 posted a wonderful thread that helped me to understand some stuff

[Newbie Guide] adb/fastboot/bootloader/android 101
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] govillainrom:
In Cyanogen Mod 7 version 12 is the apps2sd automatically enabled or do i need to create a partition on the sd card?

and if i need a partition then what type of partition do i need ext 3 or ext4??
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rampage56:
rooting wont harm your phone if you followed the rooting process religiously;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KsenZ:
Is it possible to port MeeGo to Hero?
[Android Apps and Games] kiltedthrower:
What is the correct wording on getting your user apps to show back up? Under preferences I have it showing as titaniumbackup/external_sd But it's only showing system apps.
[Android Apps and Games] 3rdstring:
Do you have the Filter set to system apps only? In TB Menu >> Filters
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
I traded my evo for an EPIC 4g. Why you ask? Simple Sprint is cheeping the EVO name with the EVO Sh!tless.... IT is not an evo at all. It has smaller screen that is not the premium screen sizes of 4" and above as google said phone with 4" and above screens are premium. It has a slower cpu and all. To me this is like going into a Jag dealer and seeing a Ford for sales right next to my Jag.... Yep it ticked me off so much I had to trade my evo...
[Epic 4G General] Vertig0:
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[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Welcome. Best decision you made. Now its time for you yo root and put dome custom roms and kernels on.

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
The shift is faster than the evo in compute and graphics.....oh well, welcome to the best sprint phone! Epic bests them both anyway.
[Epic 4G General] Jayavarman:
Yes, my Epic has attracted the attention of women, even while in bed.

Unfortunately, it attracts men, too.
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
I used the stock root with eb13 with clocks work mod 3 with ext4. I like touchwiz, so what is a good ext 4 custom. After doing my ext4 conversion my quadrant score went from 949 to 1516....

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
[Personal Preference] Syndicate ROM is simply the best one you'll get here. [/Personal Preference]
[Epic 4G General] shahin26:
Are you seeing any difference in battery life after converting to EXT4?
[Epic 4G General] philowneus:
Ahahahaha priceless
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
Yes better battery. The acs frozen rom being the best is not an opinion its a fact!!!!! Too bad for bonsai........lol
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
just bought new standard 1500 battery battery life still sucks
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
You're kidding right? Because if this was the reason you switched then you're an idiot.
[Epic 4G General] nubsors:
Not nice.

I think he made the right decision regardless of the reason. The epic has a beautiful screen, great roms, and just got upgraded to 2.2 and 2.3 is around the corner either by official release or by CM 7. I'm just loving stock EB13 rooted right now.
[Epic 4G General] piscesjoey:
I did the same just a week ago, & I have no regrets.

Epic 4G on Tapatalk
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
jbadboy2007, I've asked you not to trash others when supporting SRF at least once in the SRF thread. Try to keep yourself under control elsewhere, too.

So much this. The hardware keyboard is great, physically, too - the key skipping's no good, but thanks to mkasick that's much improved. Call me a fanboy, but the SAMOLED screen looks demonstrably better to me than just about anything else on the market. Even the iPhone's high-res IPS display can't match. I've seen several, they look... dull.
[Epic 4G General] professoroak:
Cosign!!! So many times one of my iPhone 4 buddies will ask me about my phone and stare in amazement at my gorgeous screen with custom theme/icons/etc. It's as if they never thought that something could be better than their Apple product.. haha. If there's anything that will keep me attached to Samsung, it's their Super AMOLED screens. The S-AMOLED Plus screens are undoubtedly going to be a lot better in the future as well.
[Epic 4G General] Quis89:
You traded your EVO because Sprint released the EVO Shift?? That might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The name EVO is not synonomous with 4" screen and 1 ghz processor. Not to mention if you've played with the Shift you'd know its a really nice phone if you don't need the size of the EVO or a few other features.

Welcome to the Epic world...but your reasoning exudes ignorance....
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
Matter of opinion. ACS didn't even have an eb13 when Bonsai was running. Ext 4 has its problems and issues and I don't think battery life is positive or negative in relation to RFS.

Sent from Bonsai 6
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
evo once meant the best of the best for non keyboards. ]

epic is best of the best for keyboards

now sprint made the evo cheaper by having the evo sh!tless in the mix... Its a lesser device. google said only devices with 4" and above screens and at least 1ghz cpu are premium devices....

i played with the sh!tless and as the queen says.... we are not amused. It has a slower cpu and much much much much smaller screen the well wont get the ladies attention. With the Epic women always want your number....
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
TBH, I think Sprint/HTC are trying to live on the brand name of the original EVO by slapping the EVO name on the Shift, due to how well the original EVO sold. Sort of like how Verizon uses the Droid name on various devices on their network.
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
that is also like how GM used the corvette name for the compact Chevy called the Chevette... They thought the name would help... well no one was impressed....
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
Don't forget about another famous Chevy classic called the Corvair!
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
and i think ralph nader loved that one
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
You do realize that with the Shift having a keyboard it makes it more like an Epic than anything else?
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
thats carzy. thats like saying a mustang is a competitor to the Ford GT-500 (mid engine supercar)
[Epic 4G General] azyouthinkeyeiz:
Everything you have uttered out in this thread is "carzy"..

The shift is technically a better phone with a smaller processor.. What good is a Snapdragon if you don't have the memory to use it... They "slapped" the name on it because it matches the quality of the EVO..
[Epic 4G General] westicle:
dzuchowski is a troll. He was boed out of the evo forums...don't get caught up in his foolish threads...

Scent phrum mie fone!
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
But from your OP you're basing it solely on looks

/troll feeding session
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
so since i traded my evo for a much better phone, i am a troll? How so... I love the epic 4g.... sprint tv works great on 3g no issues, on the evo i would be smaller and also have small blocks all over the place... could not watch anything and that happened on two evos....
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
no it does not match the quality of the evo... it has a lesser cpu thus a lesser quality cpu....
[Epic 4G General] Radeon138:
I use bonsai 3.0.0 and the Genocide kernel. My epic works extremely fast and is very smooth. I got a quadrant score of 2415 and my smartbench score was 1401/3025.
[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
Bonsai4all come with touchwiz and its the fastes rom I've ever tried
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
Doesn't evolution shift have a better CPU?

Sent from XDA app with 2.2 powered Epic 4g
[Epic 4G General] Radeon138:
The EVO shift uses a Qualcomm MSM7630 clocked at 800MHz where the EVO uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 clocked at 1.0GHz.
[Epic 4G General] westicle:
and gpu....

Scent phrum mie fone!
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
you do know that clock speed doesnt count for schnit anymore right?

800mhz matches and/or outperforms evo's older 1ghz
[Epic 4G General] Quis89:
Wow.......

I'm done. This response permeates idiocy....
[Epic 4G General] SirThumpaLot:
Although the 1g clock speed of the EVO's 1st generation Snapdragon processor is technically clocked above the Shift's 800Mhz 2nd generation Snapdragon processor, the 2nd generation processor actually runs more efficiently than the other. This is the reason that the Shift gets better overall benchmark scores vs the Evo with both in unmodded form. I'm not huge on physical qwertys anyway so technically I should've gotten the Evo but I just wanted that faster processor. Which is why I chose to get the Shift instead of the Evo. Essentially the 2nd gen processor handles more of a load faster while consuming less juice.

With that said, the Epic 4G has an amazing display, colors really pop, etc. Plus it sports a pretty snappy processor and touchwiz isn't that bad of a UI. I personally am kind of partial to HTC phones which is why I ended up getting the Shift with no regrets whatsoever, however, I could see why someone would want the epic 4G as well. It's one hell of a device.

All three devices (Evo, Evo Shift, Epic 4G) have their advantages & disadvantages vs eachother. Its a matter of which better suits ur needs and/or overall mobile habits.

Just the $0.02 of a senseless Shift owner...
[Epic 4G General] herzzreh:
In all honesty... what he said!
[Epic 4G General] herzzreh:
First, what's with the ****tingom OPs thread? Second, what's withthe stupid **** measuring contest? Both ROMs are ripped off and based on the same software made by Sammy. How can one be better than other? By a changed theme and a few configuration files? It's not like they were build from absolute scratch. If they were, I apologize and disregard, but otherwise, this stands. Oh, this also goes for the dude you were replying to.
[Epic 4G General] herzzreh:
Trying to compensate for something else with a bigger screen? Don't worry, man, it's not as small as it seems... it's probably just average and you simply have an uncalled for complex. No homo, but want to send me a pic and I will judge and let you know for sure? I'll show my gay friend as well, he's probably a better expert than I ever can be in the matters dealing with those things.
[Epic 4G General] boominz28:
im not going to defend either rom , but you should research before you post.
[Epic 4G General] Lord-Anubis:
Which is funny, because in my town, the Ford dealer owns the Jag dealer.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Everyone will have their favorite ROM... I have settled on Bonsai after trying them all. Great battery, very stable, fast, everything works. Combined with Juice Defender, I get sick battery life -- with normal usage, 15 hours out more. Sitting around on standby, it'll go several days.

Sent from my mind using telepathitalk
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
umm dont you know clock speed isnt where it matters anymore? 800mhz 2nd gen matches and sometimes outperforms the older 1ghz in Evo
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
I think it's fair to give the developers soem credit, considering a lot of their roms are MORE STABLE than the actual stock, itself. And who is the CORPORATION making all of the money off this? I think it's funny that these devs that make roms on their free time have the better software than the professionals. Even if they used the base, they've sure made me enjoy my phone a lot more. Not only that, but Sammy took Android base from Google! It's just a chain/domino effect.
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
yep the developers deserve a shot out...
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Herzzreh where are your custom roms and kernels? Exactly. Jbadboy your comments are not necessary. Nobody cares what u have to say. Why do u feel the need to insult the developers of bonsai rom? I sure as hell don't see you making one.

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] reksp13:
As the title states "Will this phone be as Supported as other Galaxy S Phones?" I have 5 days to make up my mind about keeping it or getting back my Vibrant. I have no compaints about this phone. It rocks as is. I just want to know if this phone will have as many Devs working on it as there are the Vibrant or does no one really care for Developing. There is still no ROMs or even a working CWR yet. Is this phone going to just get passed over? What would you do? Stay with this Phone or go back to the Vibrant? Thanks for your input
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] dcam1075:
Team Whiskey has already said they are going to develop for it. They are just waiting for a working CWR then it is off to the races!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] reksp13:
Can you tell me where that's posted please? This way I can see what they are saying. My gut is telling me to go back to my Vibrant because there are so many Great Dev's working on that phone and I feel they all won't be working on this one.

Also, I am surprised that only one person replyed to this topic. Thanks in advanced