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[General Topics] bharathbala2003:
From my experience of using T-Mobile i wouldn't suggest it to anyone! i was in the US for 6 months and i wanted a number on rolling contract and only choice was tmobile :( since i had a phone which was not purchased from t-mobile they wouldn't support it.. i couldn't use data plan for almost a month before i could get to configure it manually..

but then coming to the topic.. i think it all started with apple and at&t .. they took away the choice from customers and when other operators saw customers still wanted iphone they started a similar trend and now it sux! i got my android unlocked from the box for about 250$ but it gives me the ability to upgrade, customize and do all sorts of stuff!
[General Topics] Saulog01:
i have a galaxy s with android 2.1 and still waiting to get an update. supposed to come soon
[General Topics] xaccers:
It's been available in the UK apparently since November last year, so your carrier is probably still testing it.

It also looks like Samsung have developed an update to Gingerbread for the galaxy s too.

So much for the idea that android phones are left to rot.

I can understand why carriers need to test new releases, look at the recent WP7 issue where 10% of phones were reportedly affected. Had sufficient testing been done anywhere through the update process this wouldn't have happened.

O2 took 5 months to release their last HD2 update, and it's reportedly one of the most stable and energy frugal stock ROMs.
[General Topics] Omnichron:
meh.. my phone is obsolete. I don't wait for updates, I like to get into my phone rip it's guts out and customize the way I like it. Thank God for open source and all those who make it possible with their priceless and relentless work.:D
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
Thats an OEM issue affecting only one phone and even then only about 1/3 of those phones are affected. It's caused by the crap drivers that Samsung builds.
[General Topics] xaccers:
Microsoft stated that it affected 1 in 10 users before the update was responsibly pulled.

As I said, with so few model handsets on the market, it should have been picked up in testing, similarly with the alleged hard drive space issue, it's not rocket science to have the system requirements checked before starting the update, most MS products for Windows do that so I am amazed it was missed.

With it being restricted to Samsung, it does seem to knock the wind out of the user error excuse, or is it a coincidence that Samsung handset owners have computers with little free disk space...

This was the first update on a phone system which isn't doing as well as hoped, having reports of updates bricking phones would do them no favours so they should have made damn sure that such problems would be picked up.

They weren't, someone wasn't on the ball, obviously at Samsung if that is the case, but also within MS and the carriers for not doing sufficient testing.

Now I can imagine the carriers are really only interested in whether the update will work with any bloat* they've added to their handsets, and if they have the same bloat on all WP7 handsets I can understand why they would only test one handset, so it could be missed, but MS have the resources to hand, and the reputation to damage, so should have done better.

People aren't going to remember samsung were the phones that had issues, they're going to remember WP7 had issues, after all, they're meant to be the same underneath.

*carrier specific apps, both good and space wasting.
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
Per microsoft about 36 percent of omnia 7 owners were the ones who caught the butt end of the deal. I do agree that everyone should've done more testing. It's likely that they tested one phone of each, had them run smoothly, then pushed it off to the side thinking there'd be no difference. No other phones were affected except a few unlocked Samsung Focuses and the general implication is that was due to registry editing. As soon as they re-locked their devices the update went through seamlessly.
[Atrix 4G General] azwildfire:
So watching Hulu on the multimedia dock with webtop is fun - until the GD screensaver kicks in.

Anyone know how to adjust the time ? 1 hour would be nice so i can watch House without the puzzle going into action :P
[Atrix 4G General] azwildfire:
bump - anyone?
[Nook Color General] jblues1969:
OK, I've made the SD card to flash CM7 onto my EMMC.

Now I've got cold feet. Once I do this, will I be able to use Clockwork to restore my backed up rooted-1.1 image, or will I have to restore to stock first?
[Nook Color General] jblues1969:
Can anyone clarify what the restore path is once you install CM7?
[Nook Color General] mooja:
Heres a post with all that info

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11535969&postcount=151
[Nook Color General] jblues1969:
Thank you! That was exactly what I needed!
[Galaxy Tab General] Bobby Buggs:
Am I paranoid or is this possible. I tried to pair a samsung bluetooth ear piece I used on my Incred and it will not detect it. It detects my bluetooth home printer but not the ear piece. Could it be Verizon will not allow it to work since they dont want this used as a phone??
[Galaxy Tab General] Lindarose84:
Not possible- yes Verizon blocks the bluetooth profile necessary to pair headsets/ear pieces. If you have an A2DP ear piece (used for listening to music) then I believe you should be able to pair that, but the mic on the piece will not work (you can only hear through it).

I had the Sprint tab and this annoyance was one of the reasons why I returned it for the ATT version. Really dumb that the CDMA devices block this.
[Galaxy Tab General] Bobby Buggs:
What a F#*k job for the CDMA users.Has anyone been able to address this in custom Roms or anything like that.
[Galaxy Tab General] mikeyqq:
I have the exact same problem with mine. I have Bell Canada to thank I think.

That being said...

I have called samsung and they indicated that the headset and handsfree profiles were non functional and encouraged me to root the device and configure as I please.

So I have edited the /system/etc/bluetooth folder

changed the audio.conf to enable headset, and autoconnect

didn't work

deleted the auto_pairing.conf and still got no where.

I am fresh out of ideas, except the init.rc but I am too unfamiliar to do this yet

I learn slowly with a touchscreen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] armand0986:
Hi i need some help, i was flashing gingerbread to my phone when the stupid PC decided to restart now my phone won't start up, i get nothing on the screen, after a few tries i managed to put my phone on download mode but odin is not recognizing it, i don't know what to do, can someone help me? :confused:

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] armand0986:
Managed to put it in download mode and reinstalled froyo but now it wont start up, i keep getting...

"update media. please wait

E:Can’t mount /dev/block/stl10

(Invalid Argument)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can’t mount DBDATA:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed"

any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aadis:
remove bettary and try to put phone on download mode and try i9000xwjm5 filmware with csc+pda+modem+512 it will work for sure

some filmware cause this problem,if you need more help pm me on yahoo massange on dharm_sinojiya
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aadis:
U DIDNT BRICK YR PHONE,IF YR PHONE IS IN DOWNLOAD MODE OR RECOVERY MODE MEANS YOU "still alive"" eazy solution do it what ever i say,yr phone will be alright
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] armand0986:
Thanks for the reply, but i just finished rooting darky's rom resurrection and everything seems to be working fine now, but i'll keep you suggestion in mind if the phone starts to actup again, thanks again.
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
Im a huge fan of BitModDev's Metro UI Pro launcher . He updates it like mad, but you can now add your own FULL tiles to the launcher. I have spent a little bit of time editing/resizing some images that have turned out pretty well so far .

My goal is to start a thread for us all to share our tiles with each other. For standard tiles, the size is 120 x 120. For wide tiles, the size is 246 x 120.

Im by no means a Photoshop guru, but so far i have :

Dropbox

Market

IMDB

Angry Birds

Twitter

Zune

MMA Underground

Twitter

TV Show Stream

DOWNLOAD

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11620804/Icons/MetroTiles.zip

Lets keep this thing going. Those are just the apps i use most often, but im working on several more right now that i will upload when i can.

Here is a video so you can get an idea of what you can do. I made it for a contacts beta, but nonetheless applies here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OBocFG4Oo

Get Metro UI Launcher here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=chrisman.android.home.metroui.stable&feature=search_result

LETS GET BUSY!!
[Android Themes] Bowsa2511:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11764250#post11764250

I started a thread with some :)

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/10275021/1/Metro UI?h=45404e

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10275021/Metro UI.rar
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
Nice , care to post yours in here? I didnt see you had one going already. Id appreciate it.

Also, in his newest update , if you long press your Contacts tile , go to Item Count and select people. That will get the pictures to show up on the tile, the app im running when i click that isnt released yet. but can go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818607 if you want to donate and take part .

Good work on your tiles BTW , ADD THEM!! haha
[Android Themes] ronnybej60:
your quick dude. thanks. maybe a mod can combine the threads since it would make it easier for everyone. good job guys. keep those tiles coming!!
[Android Themes] Bowsa2511:
Damn, I have the contacts app with some FB pictures synced.. the people count doesn't work for me :(
[Android Themes] timmy16744:
yeah same with me bowsa, i emailed the OP today asking if theres a solution and hopefully if there isn't it will be implemented soon and know the dev it will be tomorrow seeing how quick he is haha.
[Android Themes] dsmitty166:
I've done a music and people icons. Check them out!

http://hotfile.com/dl/108407633/2074ba8/Music.jpg.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/108407635/3974715/People.jpg.html
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
Nice! I think ill use that for my gallery instead of people though. Thanks :)
[Android Themes] eunice3:
Lucas, I can't get the contacts tile to show pics. What am I doing wrong bro?

The options are : edit,delete,merge, and delete duplicate....????
[Android Themes] eunice3:
Nvm, I'm an idiot...LOL I was using the wrong launcher
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
Haha all good man. You should switch to metro pro though .. its the most advanced for sure.
[Android Themes] cjcarter1254:
Dang this is some really cool stuff thanks guys
[Android Themes] eunice3:
You think it'll be better than drizzy's?
[Android Themes] syrenz:
I think Launcher 7 is better than Metro UI personally and it's free. Does Metro UI even have any live tiles yet?

Anyways, I'm pretty impressed with the WP7 UI, though I like widgets. Keep switching back and forth.

More tiles are good.
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
i dunno man .. hard to say .. im trying real hard to get involved over there . He posted my sounds to his OP , so im trying to get in nice so i can get an early release . No doubt that the contacts is nearly done .. messaging too .. but i think the launcher will be a while . Until then i am loving metro ui pro ... dude releases like 2 updates a day haha .
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
while i will say Launcher 7 is a bit smoother and has drag and drop... Metro ui has the Live people tile which i love , and i know for a fact he is working on fb , twitter, and music . The thing about launcher 7 (last time i ran it) , is you couldnt set FULL tile custom icons to 1x1 icons . Only 2x1 , and thats a deal breaker for me . Makes it look way to fake with a baby icon chillin in the middle of a big blue tile .
[Android Themes] dsmitty166:
FTW Metro UI Updated and added drag and drop support to the tiles now!
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
Oh sh*t! ! Thanks. About to update now
[Android Themes] skribbler86:
Yea the lack of full tile images on 1x1 tiles ruined launcher 7 for me too. It is smoother and has fade animation which is a plus for me. It also does have live people tiles. Launcher 7 live people tile actually seems to be a little bit better than metro ui people tile. They both have good qualities. I just wish that either of them advance and gain all the qualities of both combined. But for now im sticking with metro ui, or at least until launcher 7 gives full image tile support on 1x1 tiles
[Android Themes] eunice3:
do you have to have the pro version to do the contacts pics?
[Android Themes] dsmitty166:
I think so, the pro version gives you a lot of things!
[Android Themes] eunice3:
Is there any other way I can get it other than Google Checkout(Market)? My account was compromised and someone stole $500 bucks from my account. Of course the bank reconciled everything but I just dont trust em no more. Maybe app brain, or something like that....anybody knows???
[Android Themes] cjcarter1254:
I could be wrong but I don't think the contacts thing is in the pro version or at least I haven't found it. I think it's just in beta and the only way you can have it right now is to donate.
[Android Themes] eunice3:
Yeah I got that thanks, my question is I don't want to use the market. So I guess I could donate to the dev the cost of the app and he could send me a link, apk or something...thanks for the suggestion
[Android Themes] michd43:
Launcher 7 has full image support for 1x1 tiles now. (pics below) :D
[Android Themes] lucas.scott:
Yep . Switched to it already ... he has made some really good progress since last time I checked it out . Ill be sticking with launcher seven for a while im guessing . Unless the metro dev does something drastic .
[Android Themes] amucinom:
I have the donate version of launcher 7 but my contacts tile doesnt work. its not showing any contacts, just bleeping squares in the tile. what do i do? :(
[Android Themes] kiltedthrower:
Now that Launcher 7 supports full tiles, I think it's better than metro UI. I would like metro ui better if it supported widgets so I can have a calendar and a to do at a glance widget.
[Xoom General] g2theno:
anyone care to let me in on the secret of the status light???? Mine continually flashes white
[Xoom General] Pihrana:
Mine flashes white when I have a new E-mail or notification.......
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
I'm sooooo glad that for only $10 a month, I'm getting 'premium' 4G data, which lets me watch 'HQ' youtube videos and do other thing that's sprint's suckass 100kbps 3G network wouldn't be able to pull off. At this rate, I'm planning on getting an extra 1/10th of a HQ youtube video per month!

Let's just face it: Sprint fing sucks.

Oh, and here's some 3G speeds:
[EVO 4G General] swaze:
Sucks for you but my 12 mbps download speed is fing great!

Sent from my HTC EVO
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
I'm getting 8Mbps+ here. Maybe you're in a ****ty covered area? You know no carrier covers 100% of the US right? Especially on 4G
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Yeah, well it's like this everywhere I've been in Idaho. I drive around using antennas and speedtest...maybe one out of 10 towers is actually acceptable, good service, perfect service, or almost no service - it doesn't matter, it just sucks.
[EVO 4G General] aweskelo:
Agree - speeds suck lately
[EVO 4G General] AZTECHKA:
Count your blessings... We gets no 4G in San Diego... And I still have to pay the premium data fee.

p.
[EVO 4G General] NYCguy2020:
Have been getting similar speeds(for the last 3 months) here in New York frickin City.what a great service and a truely "data rich experience" i have...

thanks a million,Sprint!
[EVO 4G General] Angel Slayer:
Sucks to be you. Took this speed test last night.
[EVO 4G General] rockky:
OK, you guys getting 8M download etc on the bogus Speedtest:

Clear cache

Time your download for any graphic-heavy site on 4G..say desktop crackberry.com.

Clear cache again

Download the same site on 3G.

Report results.

Speedtest does NOT correlate with real world surfing results.

4G's a crock....is realworld 8M type speed only under perfect conditions...which is rare.
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
well no duh? did you just figure this out, or did someone help you?
[EVO 4G General] rockky:
Sigh...guess you gotta reply to the dicks...

It IS a 'duh' (a junior high expression for others here with even average intelligence), Einstein. Do you see the number of speedtest pics in this thread, or on most posts that use it to illustrate data speeds?
[EVO 4G General] zikronix:
I just got off the phone *****ing to them about this ****.
[EVO 4G General] oskr7:
Man that sucks. These are the average speeds i get at home.

~300kb/s on 3G (Half bars of signal)

~4.3Mb/s on 4G (This is with only 2 bars on 4G)

So i cant complain...
[EVO 4G General] zcarman:
Flippin sad... That's all I can say... I am averaging 2.5Mbps indoors (we have crappy indoor coverage) and well...

Yes, don't use speedtest.net as the servers are so inaccurate it's not even funny! Try going straight from your browser to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest and see what you get. The results seem to be much more consistent.
[EVO 4G General] iitreatedii:
You do realize your bars are for mobile reception... not 3g service right...sigh, if only everyone knew...
[EVO 4G General] iitreatedii:
Meant above post to be quoted
[EVO 4G General] donatom3:
You do realize that is not as good of a test as speedtest as your test takes into account the rendering performance of the mobile cpu. The only way to not factor in cpu performance is to tether off of a pc. Anyway the speedtest app does not cache so your point is a bit invalid. Plus how are you getting 440ms on 4g that seems really off. I've had speeds between 2.5 down up to the 6 I show there on 4G throughout Orange County.

Full Disclosure I am running CM7 nightly with wimax.
[EVO 4G General] DoctorComrade:
3G speeds from work...

1.3 down ... I get not even half that at home. I'm convinced my job doesn't want me home.

Sent from my Evo powered by moar gees.
[EVO 4G General] Ryjabo:
OP, I live in Utah, so not too far off from Idaho. Those were the best I EVER saw on 3G with T-Mobile (if I ever had a 3G signal). I average 1.2-1.8mbps on 3G and 5-8mbps on 4G.
[EVO 4G General] live2ride96:
Perhaps, but I do in fact get pages loading faster on 4G than on 3G. Also, with ANY kind of streaming there's a huge difference on 4G. Youtube will typically give me an error 3-4 times or more on 3G. 4G loads it up right away. And I've tried it in several spots. This is just my personal experience though, so YMMV.
[EVO 4G General] foghorn67:
I had the same thing. Have you guys tried using a signal strength widget?

I did that, it said I'm only getting a 1x signal. This is despite the fact the notification bar says 3G.

I compared speeds with other Sprint phones. My EVO was a week old. They just exchanged it for a new. Now I get decent 3G with EVDO reporting on the signal strength widget.
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Maybe I'll call and see what I can get out of it...I do have a launch evo....
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
my speeds are just as bad as the OP mines a launch day evo as well and with the signal widget from elixir mins is between 29-39% never above
[EVO 4G General] sand1303:
Mine aren't quite as bad as op but I usually get about 2mbps on 4g. Sometimes less and YouTube can't keep up. I think its bull that I pay 10 for premium and it doesn't always feel like premium to me. I'm in Austin tx

Sent from my rooted HTC EVO using the xda app!
[EVO 4G General] Jfree3000:
Meh, 4g in the Metro Atlanta area is a joke. No building penetration and a weak ass signal outside.
[EVO 4G General] craigbailey1986:
Don't know why I live about 5 miles from city of Atlanta and my area (conley ga) i am averaging 1.2 on 3g and 4.6 on 4G download time. And thats from this morning.. but I am beginning to come to the conclusion that no 2 phones have the same reception, even with the exact same setup.
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
Ditto. Try using 4G inside in Smyrna, Marietta, Roswell, Dunwoody or NW Atlanta and you'd be wasting your time.
[EVO 4G General] acerbusconfig:
The speeds are not the only issue: Bob Azzi of Sprint reported at the Mobile World Congress that LTE could eventually complement WiMAX

Way to inspire confidence in the network
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
I could care less about 4G, since sprint can't even get 3G to work, nevertheless their 4G network.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aptmowe:
Hi, I have an issue that I haven't been able to find an answer for yet and am looking for some help...

I'm running CM7-RC1. I wiped Cache and Dalvik-Cache and then flashed SavagedZen-0.1.2-CFS-HAVS-WiMAX-GB-signed using RA-supersonic-v2.3. Afterwards all my downloaded apps were missing...they were no longer in my sd-ext folder. So I Nandroid restored and flashed the kernel without wiping yet the same thing happened. Any ideas on why this is happening and how to prevent it? Thanks in advance!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acerbusconfig:
How is the fix applied for 1.0.

I downloaded the zip but should it be installed from SD like the Google packet?
[Android Software Development] turnerpctech:
Hi just asking if anyone knows any links or archives or anything i can read through, im looking to build my own ROM. any help would be much appreciated and dont mind donating to someone that can help me start to learn.

Thanks
[Android Software Development] elegos:
Well, first of all you need to be able to compile Android. This is pretty easy and it's explained directly in the developers google website. If you're not running a Nexus One or a Nexus S, you can't actually compile a working android copy for your own phone "as is" from AOSP. Because of this, you firstly need to change / create some dirs and files in order to add the support for your particular device. I'd start searching on CM repositories for this (I've got the Nexus One and thus I don't have such problems).

After you've compiled Android for your device and your changes (for example root), you'll have some disk images (you can find them all under out/target/product/PHONE_MODEL/, they are the .img files). You can directly flash them via fastboot ("fastboot flash boot boot.img" etc.). You can though create an update.zip file, and this can be made extracting the system.img file in a folder. Remember that you'll have to recreate the symlinks (to toolbox and/or busybox if you want to include it in your build) and set permissions, as zip doesn't save the permissions of the files once compressed.

Thus so far, if you succeed making every single step you should have your ROM on your phone :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tylerHTC:
Hey guys I know yall are going to tell me I should use the search function but I have and saw all the forums telling me I have to pay to have it done. all im saying is this phone has been out for a good while now and was wondering if anyone has found a way to unlock it for free?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] XtriFe:
If you got the ATT version (fuze) theres a guy that sells unlock codes for $1.75 on ebay. Really cheap, i just bought one today and got it in about an hour.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] engelsione:
I just flashed my Evo with KIngs Unleashed Ultra!!! Amazing ROM!!

came with HULU, but....does not work!! any help?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Did you install the modified flash player apk?

Edit: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695965

The apk is in the first post. Un-install the flash player on your phone, then install that one. DO NOT update, or you will have to re-do it again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Yeah, need the edited Flash and then do not let it update from the Market.