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[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sphuyal:
Welcome on board ARHD user :cool:

You flash theme from CWM. Changing themes means giving new look to your phone, so unfortunately you ll have to personalize everything once again. Flashing themes would not remove your data but only your personalized home screen. You can however try mybackup and see if that helps you restore your settings.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dansharpy:
Thanks for the reply!! :) Just flashed a new theme (revolution) and loving it.

One more question though, im trying to flash a different boot screen and animated framework to the theme but its not working :(

Im putting the zip on my sd card and flashing via CWM as i did with the theme but its not applying for some reason, is there something im missing?? Both the bootscreen and framework are made for the theme by the way!

Thanks
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sphuyal:
have you replaced the bootanimation.zip file? i do not know if you need to flash the bootanimation. I have flashed splashscreen but not the bootanimation so i do not exactly know. But i m sure if you replace bootanimation.zip file in /system folder it would work.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dansharpy:
Thanks again for the reply. For some reason i went back to recovery 2.5.1.3 to flash something else and just tried the boot animation just in case it made a difference and its all working fine now!! :)

Cheers
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milenko:
Im having the same problem, Im running DHD Revolution Gingerbread beta 3.1 and the boot animations never work. Even if I do replace the bootanimation.zip file. Changed permissions to the zip file too.

Seems there is a difference in opinion on which bootanimation file to replace. I replaced the one in system/customize/resource.

Any ideas?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dansharpy:
Gingerbread works completely differently i think. There is script that also needs to be modified to change the boot animation, i dont know what or where im afraid!

I was on gingerbread for a few days (i think it was mike's second beta) and didnt like it much, so im back on froyo leedroid for now. Might change when there is a few more themes about, bugs are all sorted and custom kernels are available!! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cocopara:
Well, I know exactly how to flash a kernel. However I run the stable voodo kernel which comes with Darkys 9.02 EXTREME edition. I am going to download the custom OC'ing kernel (voodo) someone suggested me in my other thread.

Though*;

Having Voodo Stable kernel, is it SAFE to re-flash the kernel to another version of Voodo (made for overclocking)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
Should be. But if you can spare the time, remove the lagfix first.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wkapga:
better safe than sorry!

disable lagfix before flashing, just to be on the sure side.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ataky:
If you want to flash any kernel over another disable al tweaks an turn lagfix off. Doing it this way things never can go wrong
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cocopara:
Any good 500-1000 HZ kernel?. With overclock. Also as Overclock is enabled in stock ROM, why is NONE using this oppertunity?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vishug30:
Hello All,

I have been following XDA from a long time. I have tried all the roms on my X10 posted by diff devs. Here is my experience,

1) For 2.1, Bluesparks Rom worked the best and gave the maximum battery back with the best 843 QUADRANT SCORE.:p

2) in 2.2 segment, I tried FreeX10 beta 4 and CM 6.1.3 v4.1, although both roms work almost similarly, i find FreeX10 more clean and some how looks better on x10( after applying the semipertal HC theme):D.. CM rom makes the phone look cheap and the set of icons just dont look good.

Also the battery life is almost similar for the two roms But its was about 70% of the one with 2.1 rom.:eek:

Also, one problem with the 2.2 roms is the dialer(not the battery issue) , the dialer looks bad..stock 2.1 dialer is awesome with big picture of the caller:P..My view.

3) Gingerbread scene is still not set.. roms r not very stable..IN my view best would be to wait for the rom designed for ARC to be made fully functional on x10 and then use it. they tend to heat the phone as well.

GUys please post your experiences and share the ways, how u worked out your problems so that we all can use the device the way it is meant to :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InternationalPlayer71:
Don't forget 2.2 TripNMIUI with Arc home and widgets..It looks fantastic in my opinion!! and all work fast and properly!! :) ..howerever..i think that cm6.1 is more personalizable than Free X10..but anyway they are two good roms!! You are right saying that the dialer of 2.2 and 2.3 is not so nice like in 2.1..I hope that Trip can fix his TripNArc rom so we can have the SE awesome dialer back again!! :)
[Trophy General] Niall M:
As per the title, just updated my Trophy.

Nice and painless and was signed into Zune as a Guest on my work PC.

As expected not much to report about the phone itself, but 1.5 weeks after issue by MS isn't too bad in all reality and might keep the doom mongers in check who were suggested we might not see this for months!

Niall
[Trophy General] DominikZ:
Same here in Austria. Update went smooth and without problems.
[Trophy General] Avandor:
Vodafone Portugal... my update came in yesterday and went smooth.

:cool:
[Trophy General] Lokatho:
Vodafone Netherlands, received the update today.

No problems installing the update.
[Nexus One General] arek1:
Hi,

Is it possibble to push Google News & Weather to use localized version of news? Before upgarde in 2.2.1 news in my phone was taken from popular news websites in Poland but after upgrade it take it from NY Times, Washington Post etc. In setting I can only change weather localization but not for news.

Any solution?

Best wishes
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
Yes, mine is still displaying localised content. I've not had to do anything to get it there either.

However, I do remember a while ago there was a problem with it that meant people in the UK were getting US news, it was eventually fixed.
[Nexus One General] arek1:
Ok, found solution. Installed "Localemore2" from market and now have licalised news :)
[Nexus One General] peliROJO:
it's called "MoreLocale 2", but as a US user I don't really see a use for this.
[Nexus One General] RrOoSsSsOo:
useful observation
[Nexus One General] peliROJO:
I'm used to that.
[Nexus One General] hycian:
Thanks, a very nice tip to help me get rid of all those US stuff from my news app.

On a side note, can you maintain different locale profiles for each app? Say, a localised profile for the news & weather app and another locale for youtube feeds and so on? In my place, the localised youtube contents are just outright trash.
[Nexus One General] arek1:
I think it is not possible. MoreLocale 2 just add another country in some ini files inside Android and it is for whole system not only for one application.
[Galaxy 3 General] ilievski.ace:
http :// opensource.samsung.com/

I recive the email
[Galaxy 3 General] Rapier07:
Yea its available on the site..

Sent from my Lestatious G3 !
[Galaxy 3 General] Regii:
Could somebody explain to me what advantages that brings to us? As far as I can see both Kyrillos and Lestatious are already based on 2.2... so what're the perspectives?

Sorry if that question came up too often, but I'm still new to XDA and flashing and so on...
[Galaxy 3 General] radmor11:
For now it gives us nothing. Maybe someone someday will take this source code and create awesome custom rom with many nice tweaks but it takes much time and probably many versions to create a stable rom.

In fact I would be too afraid to install that kind of rom in early version. God knows what could happen with phone when someone outside Samsung and without heavy testing procedures changes source code without any responsibility (you know this clause -> "you use this rom on your own risk").

Beside what I wrote above if they released source code it's highly probable that official firmware exists somewhere and we will finally get it soon.

That's my 2 cents
[Galaxy 3 General] Kaleptik:
All of the galaxy 3 roms only run the risk of bootloops and not booting. Take the precaution to open the .tar file and make sure that boot.bin and sbl.bin are not present. It will prevent a hard brick.

Sent from my Lestatious v1.2 Galaxy 3 FROYO
[Trophy General] stoper3:
Hi!

I got a htc trophy on it if you can switch to android?

If so, how please help.
[Trophy General] s@int:
impossible yet
[Galaxy S II General] d3sm0nd:
The Tegra2 version is confirmed now.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/confirmed-tegra-2-equipped-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-is-coming/

So what do you think - which version will be better and which will you get?

I know the benchmarks so far are speaking for Tegra 2 but is this true?
[Galaxy S II General] ryude:
Tegra 2 version will have more compatibility with other tegra 2 devices, so it's possible to get new versions of CyanogenMod quickly. Exynos is unique though, makes you feel special knowing that you're using something different.
[Galaxy S II General] d3sm0nd:
Makes sense.. I just wonder if Tegra 2 will be performing better than Exynos.

I've already reordered a version with Exynos but I might cancel it...

So I guess we will also need a new dev forum for the new version as ROMs wouldn't be compatible? :/
[Galaxy S II General] Hero Yu:
How will the average consumer know the difference when buying the hand set, will out be clearly stated on the box?
[Galaxy S II General] Toss3:
Probably going to be region-dependant on whether you get the exynos or tegra 2. The biggest gripe I have with the tegra 2 is that it doesn't support h264 high-profile encodes. I'll probably get the exynos version if possible.
[Galaxy S II General] WhiteHartMart:
I read Exynos is for US and UK. The rest getting Tegra 2.

Not sure how true that is though?
[Galaxy S II General] ryude:
Everything I read points to USA and UK getting exynos with everywhere else getting tegra 2.
[Galaxy S II General] erahk64:
Is that just people guessing or is there any info from Samsung ?

GT-I9100, which is the Exynos model, is the version that is mentioned on Samsungs swedish site.

So that indicates the info may be wrong.
[Galaxy S II General] d3sm0nd:
I also preordered a I9100 in Switzerland.. so this means nothing.

I think Tegra 2 will come after all Exynos are shipped.
[Galaxy S II General] kingzero666:
I dont really care what version i get. The only advantage is see is there will be more games optimized for tegra2. Thought i dont really care about that. I wont be playing those games anyway. I like casual games more, like angry birds or cut the ropes and similar games.

Btw preordered at amazon germany.
[Galaxy S II General] karayemis:
It seems that Samsung will be unable to provide enough Exynos chips for all. I also heard that they are planning to use the exynos for the new iphone 5.

Nobody knows witch one of the chipsets is the best. There are still no test results... Beacause there is no phone running exynos on the market. We have to wait to see witch one is better.
[Galaxy S II General] CowMix:
which is more power efficient? thats the biggest decider for me.
[Galaxy S II General] karayemis:
One is called i9100 and the other i9103 .
[Galaxy S II General] kingzero666:
Latest rumors say both versions might come under the same version name.
[Galaxy S II General] buttes:
Will Tegra2 games run on Exynos?
[Galaxy S II General] martino2k6:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/samsungs-exynos-4210-flexes-3d-gaming-muscle-at-gdc-2011-video/

Not sure whether that should make me feel impressed or not. The wait continues...
[Galaxy S II General] silverwolf0:
Another fun one. The peeps said they had it since August of last year. It is running a 1366x768 display, if that means anything for benchmarks.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/07/odroid-a-tablet-fits-1366-x-768-res-on-a-10-inch-screen-dual-co/
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
Androidandme released an article this morning on this.

One of the replies made by 'Magnet Man' read as follows:-

The Mali 400 MP wipes the floor with the GeforceULV found in the Tegra 250. It has a superior fill rate, superior sustained geometry, and tile-based rendering, meaning that it will generally perform better and require less bandwidth for scenes with frequent overdraw. Interestingly it does this at a lower clock rate!

The benchmarks displayed are weak indications of actual performance for T20 or Mali 400MP. They don’t take into account shader performance or HD targets.
[Galaxy S II General] sarge78:
From what I can see Exynos has 3 advantages over Tegra 2.

Fully pipelined NEON MPE (vs non-vector floating point unit in Tegra 2)

From early tests the ISP and vid encode/decode look better.

I think it has a dual-channel LPDDR2 memory controller too?

Tegra 2 advantages.

Flash GPU acceleration.

Honeycomb and game support.
[Galaxy S II General] erahk64:
Do you have link to reliable source about the Flash GPU acceleration ?

I thought most GPU's could be used for video acceleration, is this a specific

accelerator for flash ?

Exynos could have a faster GPU if the info at the Samsung Barcelona press conference is true (5 times more powerful GPU than the previous application processor).

That will be revealed when SW/drivers are finished.

Exynos/Orion supports DDR2 and DDR3 RAM according to the blockdiagram in the link.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/support/brochures/downloads/systemlsi/Orion.pdf
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
Well a 50% bump in resolution (between ODROID tablet and GSII) is pretty different from a 4x one (between iPhone 4 and 3GS) where you have to rewrite alot of lines of codes in the drivers department, especially if you go with the same GPU.

In this table you can see that at the overall both are pretty much equivalent

(+ are for the Exynos and - for the A5 chip)

And in those technical tests the overall is more important to reflect the balance between the different workloads which the GPUs will be submitted. Because every architecture have their pros and their cons.

All in all you will never see any difference in real life gaming performance since there is no game out there yet that can request such power, maybe in one year :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
I m on mobile device so can't see detailed comparison, but if you guys r comparing Egypt scores, which are near to 60 FPS already. Do keep in mind that those won't scale with resolution. This device is capped at 60FPS. So even lowering resolution can't make it push more FPS. So it wont gain much as it would when GPU is actually able to push lot more FPS in certain scenes.

So in all graphics tests this device will suffer at avg FPS thanks to limited max FPS.

Magically posted from thin air!
[Galaxy S II General] alex9898:
This is a video of the final SGSII running GLBenchmark :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKAz-N1iyY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Just to prove that results are not fake.
[Galaxy S II General] asgard:
Hi, I just preordered SGS2. Came across this Youtube in which I noticed something pretty obvious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLXNDtZdG9g

Notice the stall on the I/O @ 2 of 4 - which is EXACTLY the same slow behaviour as a non lag fixed SGS 1. To me this SCREAMS of similar problems with this phone irregardless of whether RFS is used or EXT4, and why... I can't easily answer that.

A lag fixed SGS 1 with binds smokes that Youtube SGS 2 on I/O.

HMMMM!!!! Thoughts?
[Galaxy S II General] i9100:
This is the first phone they put this chip in. They could be playing safe for the launch.
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
almost all of the quadrant tests done on a stock device that I saw (and I saw a bunch of them) has that stall on that part of the test, wether it's only on the writes part (2/4) of I/O test or only on the reads part (3/4)

EDIT : I picked the first one that I found

[youtube]hQMe6AylO_Y[/youtube]
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
We'll see. No reviewer complained about a laggy behaviour or similar behaviour as original SGS. If it's only a stall in some benchmark app, I really do not care. I have seen phones who were stuck alot longer at that point.
[Galaxy S II General] alex9898:
It's not a problem, all phone with stock ROM do that and it's normal.

Looking at it's final score in quadrant, i think i/o are pretty good.
[Galaxy S II General] epicfailguy2:
Can anyone tell if TEGRA optimized games (Tegrazone games) will work on the exynos ?

I mean, if you get an exynos that is like one year performance ahead of games and cannot even play 2011 games with it, it is totally pointless... Will have a GalaxyS 3 with tegra4 by then lol...

So if I want to have tegra2 games I need to take the tegra 2 version of the SGSII right ? Or I'm stuck like with my SGS SGX540 with ****ty games because no one wants to develop anymore on SGX (iphones and pads) and mali-400 (lol orion lost in the empty galaxy) for android ?

Because in the end you don't give a fck about benchmarks and fillrates that cannot be reached because there are no developpers.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
It has nothing to do with performances(well it's not the main point) but with marketing, money & stuff like that. Nvidia's trying to fragment the Android market.
[Galaxy S II General] TheMathMan:
Mine stalls at part 2 of I/O but.the system is not laggy like the SGS at all.
[Galaxy S II General] Jamie706:
When using binds quadrant kinda bypasses the test. Its not accurate. Sgs 2 is super fast but could be even faster with tweaking just like the original sgs.
[Galaxy S II General] Jamie706:
My theory is that all 4 core of the cpu isn't being used nor is the second core. I believe the benchmark of the cpu is an equivalent of a single core a9 cortex at 1.2ghz with neon 128bit support. Maybe once android 2.4 hits we will see a boost in the score. Probally not alot though but a significant amount.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
CPU got 2 cores GPU got 4 cores.
[Galaxy S II General] Jamie706:
My bad typo. The thing is I believe they are not being used 100% by quadrant. Gpu nor cpu. Look at the htc sensation vs the thunderbolt.
[Galaxy S II General] DesktopMan:
To check if both cpu cores are enabled simply:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Can also check if the kernel supports SMP:

busybox uname -a

It's pretty clear that both CPUs are active from the benchmarks though.

The GPU does scaling internally so the OS doesn't care how many cores it has.
[Galaxy S II General] wc326:
My Own LG 2x Tegra2 device vs The SGS CPU post result from a page back

Uploaded with ImageShack.us
[Galaxy S II General] KingKuba13:
Why are smartbench 2011 scores so low? Not even beating the original Galaxy.
[Galaxy S II General] i9100:
It could be the 60fps Vsync limit. Those graphics tests don't look very heavy.
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
Well that's simply not true, the productivity scores are alot bigger than any other phone on the market, original galaxy S included.

For the games scores, they are low because of the fps cap (Vsync) SGS2 can't go over 60fps.

Now if you try a heavier benchmark (like the glbenchmark above) you can easily see Exynos beating pretty much everything on the smartphone market
[Galaxy S II General] hugobitola:
Could anyone please answer this?

Like his opinion, I don't give a sh*t whose is faster, I just want to be able to play the coolest games.

Will Tegrazone games work on Exynos?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
No. But people will hack the games to work before too long if the devs themselves don't release SGS2 support.

As to the Tegra version of the SGS2 having an easier time of getting CM support: this is FALSE, the cpu/gpu are the easiest pieces to port, it's stuff like camera and that which are hard to port. Those will be shared with the other SGS2 models.
[Galaxy S II General] ll_l_x_l_ll:
no it will not pervent you from playing games/apps that are not specific for tegra 2..

and this thread is old as hell
[Galaxy S II General] nytorious:
Just tried installing Fruit Ninja THD (game was last updated February 24, 2011) with Galaxy S2 (Exynos) got a pop up saying I had an unsupported device:

'This game was written to take advantage of the NVIDIA Tegra mobile processor.' 'Please install the game on a Tegra powered device.'

Although Guerrilla Bob THD (game was last updated April 29, 2011) installs fine and runs ok. Maybe the newer Tegra games are more compatible with Exynos? Guess I have to wait to play my beloved Fruit Ninja in HD :/
[Galaxy S II General] otacon888:
Did you try using Chainfire 3D?
[Galaxy S II General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
Lot's of negatives in that one there... sooo, I think what you meant to say was "Yes you can play games."

As for being capable of playing tegrazone games, try Chainfire 3D ^_^
[Galaxy S II General] BackfireNL:
Uhh... no! i live in The Netherlands and i have the Exynos version... as the rest over here!
[Galaxy S II General] arronov:
i worried if the processor was actually overclocked from 1ghz to 1.2ghz? so the real speed actually 1ghz... and samsung overclocked it... like galaxy ace (from 600mhz to 800mhz)
[Galaxy S II General] crush:
That might be possible, it was my first thought as well that they overclocked to stand out of competition from the worlds first dual core phone(o2x). But i may be wrong.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Processors are made not exactly for a specific Mhz, in this case the Exynos is actually made to scale upto 1.6Ghz, samsung selling it at 1.2Ghz is not underclocking nor overclocking, its just how the CPU's are binned.
[Galaxy S II General] AndreiLux:
By the way since this thread popped up: It should be clear by now that the Exynos is superior in every single way and by leads to the Tegra.

I'm now hitting the VSYNC cap in GLBenchmark in all tests, 54fps in Electopia, and while 3DMark Mobile isn't public anymore that one also gets quadruple the speed over the second in place.

As for games compatibility, developers are slowly adding native support and anything what cannot be played can be made playable via Chainfire3D. I have yet to find a game which I couldn't run (And all runs perfect).
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
Wasn't it rather unclear from the anandtech review? Seemed like tegra won some, exynos won others, with no clear winner.
[Galaxy S II General] tjtj4444:
Anandtech has only tested an early dev-board with exynos, other tests have shown that those tests are not relevant.

A shame that Anandtech hasn't reviewed sgs2 yet.
[Galaxy S II General] i9100:
Anand got 16FPS on Egypt on the prototype while on stock KF3 firmware it is now screaming VSYNC limited at 60FPS. Not even Anand use those numbers anymore, but unfortunately the old article is still up without any warning so people keep using it as a reference to show others having a fighting chance.

I'm sorry, for now, there is nothing quite like the Exynos 4210 in the superphone space.
[Galaxy S II General] ghost77:
Its a pain having to register on glbenchmark and sideload just to run this Egypt benchmark :p

Looking at Anandtech scores noone even comes close to Exynos :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
Anandtech testing an early version of the phone. The clock speed was slower at 1 GHz and the firmware of the phone was also old.

I am running Galaxy on Fire 2 THD meant for Tegra2. On the Tegra, it runs just fine, with a hint of slowdown when there are large objects in view (planets) or many small objects (fighters). When run on the SGSII through CF3D, there is zero slow down. I can even set it to use 4xMSAA and there is not a hint of slowdown (12xMSAA starts showing some slowdown). The Exynos is much faster than Tegra2 even when running a Tegra2-optimised game!
[Galaxy S II General] nraudigy2:
Tegra 2 is very weak compares to MALI 400. Check out Nenamark2.
[Galaxy S II General] :
[No source to quote, just plain guess] I believe there are more Exynos powered devices than Tegra2 devices running at this time. I know that many devices have Tegra2, but how many were sold?