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[Galaxy Tab General] Guitar4Him:
Bluetooth keyboard and mouse will work with the T-Mobile version.
[Galaxy Tab General] daveymark:
info about devices I've gathered from these forums so far:

Verizon and Sprint have no Bluetooth HID support (this means you can't pair a mouse or keybaord - not sure about bluetooth headsets though), and VZN/Sprint only have 2GB of internal storage. tmo/att tabs have 16GB internal storage.

Tmobile has the fastest 3g data, but Verizon has the most data coverage on the continental us map, and is generally the slowest 3G data. Tmobile has the cheapest prepaid option at $10 for 7 days/150mb. ATT prepaid will cost minimum of $20 for 1 month/250mb. verizon i believe starts at $20/month, and with sprint there is no prepaid option.

Tmobile can be hacked to use voice minutes and data, but only edge works with that voice hack enabled, no 3G. You can turn off the voice hack and get 3G data speeds without resetting. ATT voice and 3G will work without the hack(still needs to be flashed though).

Sprint tablets usually sells for the cheapest. AT&T tablets generally sells for most expensive.

AT&T 3G also works in Europe, as well as tmobile 3g.

Tmobile has the most search results in the galaxy tab forum, tmobile is mentioned twice as much as any of the other carriers.

GSM models have more xda development support than CDMA.

As stated previously, there is no switch hacking necessary for the modem on the AT&T model if you want to use voice minutes. Just flash rom, modem and go. If you have the euro version you don't even need to flash to use this capability. Tmobile, on the other hand, requires a switch hack in order to use minutes from your plan.

Tmobile is a great choice if you don't plan on using it as a phone, and are in an area with 3G coverage. Tmobile is an ok choice if you do plan to use voice minutes. Note that in order to use voice with 3G on AT&T, you need to have a contract plan which starts at $55/month. Some people don't use the phone minutes but instead use skype or some other VOIP service over 3G. For VOIP in the continental US, Tmobile is probably the better choice due to faster speeds if you're not moving around too much. IF you plan on traveling all over the place then ATT is probably the better choice.

with ATT and tmobile you can surf 3G AND talk at the same time when using cellular voice minutes. you cannot talk and surf at the same time with EDGE.
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
Small correction here - TMo US Tab *does* have 3G in Europe.

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] daveymark:
thanks for pointing that out. after researching it more it looks like there is confusion with tmobile because in the U.S. tmobile uses 1700 frequency AND 2100 frequency, and in europe/asia it's just the 2100 frequency that is used.
[Galaxy Tab General] Guitar4Him:
I have a Droid X (Verizon) and a Galaxy Tablet (T-Mobile). Here's what I've observed. Verizon's 3G service coverage is pretty much everywhere. I can't find anywhere that I don't have 3G with the Droid X. T-Mobile's 3G coverage is more limited. For example, I work in Greensboro, NC and live in Burlington, NC. I have 3G coverage in Greensboro but lose it and go on EDGE when I get to Burlington. However, in the places where I have 3G with T-Mobile, it's 3 - 6 times faster than Verizon's. It really smokes.....where it's available. If they could get their coverage as widespread as Verizon's, they would definitely be the carrier of choice.

One additional observation....about a mile from my home in Burlington, there's a T-Mobile store. They've got all kinds of flyers in their windows about how fast their 3G and 4G speeds are. Interesting thing is that where this store is located and for about 12 miles going towards Greensboro, you don't have anything but EDGE. So, if you go into the store and want to see an example of their "blazing speeds" they can't provide it....unless they're doing it with WiFi and fooling the customer.
[Galaxy Tab General] daveymark:
Well said, lack of 3G coverage is one of the reasons I did not go with a Tmobile Tab. I was going to originally pick up a verizon model since it seems to work in more places. Unfortunately the lack of Bluetooth HID support and no coverage in europe forced me to avoid VZW. ATT has more 3G coverage than tmobile and has the option of voice with 3G, so I went that route.

here are two up to date maps of current 3G coverage, ATT vs Tmobile:

TMobile:

http://www.cellularmaps.com/image/tm_3g_10c.jpg

ATT:

http://www.cellularmaps.com/image/att_3g_11a.jpg

as you can see ATT is the clear winner here, for now.

for reference, here's verizon's 3G coverage:

http://www.cellularmaps.com/image/vzw_3g_c.jpg
[Droid 2 Accessories] phillybizzle:
Hi there,

I have searched high and low for a printable template for the Droid 2. I was forced to buy the Zagg universal screen protectors, and I want to cut it exactly to the Droid 2. Can anyone help??
[Droid 2 Accessories] -Gilgamesh-:
I am not sure where you can get a template, but it might just be allot easier to buy some are made to fit the D2 and save yourself the trouble?

IE: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0033ETD3U (Use these on my phone)
[Droid 2 Accessories] phillybizzle:
that was my original plan, but I am leaving for a cross country roadtrip and i needed something right away, otherwise I'd love to sit and wait for shipping on a pre-cut one :D
[Droid 2 Accessories] botnryan:
use your phone as the template.

??
[Galaxy Tab General] kgdg:
Hi Guys,

I just got a Tab that was purchased in the Middle East last month. It already has the phone functionality.

It's still stock, I haven't even rooted it yet, but I plan to....

I wanted to ask if by putting one of the roms on this forum (after rooting it), will I lose the phone functionality?

Would that mean that I am limited to this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=933028 rom from Galaxyer if I want to retain phone capability?

Thanks in advance,

KG
[Galaxy Tab General] corodius:
Alterbridge86's Overcome ROM and Kernel has no Modem.bin included, which means your original is saved, so if you have phone calling prior you most certainly will not lose it using Overcome ROM (as long as its a GSM tab, ie. one with a sim card, but being where you are id imagine it is).

The ROM can be found over here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=932082

I also humbly suggest this guide for Installing the ROM, of course you would be directed to the same from the ROM page anyway :P

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=973402

Good Luck and make sure to read, and re-read, all instructions first to make sure you get it all right :)
[Galaxy Tab General] Galaxyer:
Hi

You will lost arabic support only!

If you are looking for updating with official rom that support arabic:-

http://hotfile.com/dl/109292691/6006995/P1000JPJM5.rar.html

pw : samfirmware.com and you have to flash with Odin

or I suggest you:-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=933028

supported for some theming....
[Galaxy Tab General] kgdg:
Thanks Galaxyer and corodius!

So I am only limited to the Overcome Rom and Galaxyer rom only?

I am just trying to know if I can only install certain ROM's that will allow me to retain phone functionality...
[Galaxy Tab General] rangercaptain:
Many roms will have phone function. I think only two were recommended to you because they have arabic language. If that's not a concern, flash any.
[Galaxy Tab General] deadhead85:
So will this work with a South Korean Tab Model Number SHW-M180S? I have a sim card and phone capabilities, but want to install Overcome.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab General] rangercaptain:
You can flash the Overcome rom and kernal. But it doesn't have Korean language.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
Lost this somewhere took awhile to find.

Now open up the framework-res.apk. (In windows 7-zip will open this without having to change the extension to .zip) (Do not extract)

Now go into the res/layout folder and extract the following three files to the folder you made on the desktop

status_bar_expanded.xml

status_bar.xml

status_bar_latest_event_content.xml

Here is what these files control

status_bar_expanded.xml

Controls the text color for:

1) Clear Button

status_bar.xml

Controls the text color for:

1) USB Connected and Preparing SDcard

2) USB Debugging and Status Bar Notifications

status_bar_latest_event_content.xml

Controls the text color for:

1) Title text in pull down bar for Ongoing and Notifications

2) Description text in the pull down bar under Ongoing and Notifications

3) Text notifications time stamp in the pull down bar under notifications

Open status_bar_expaned.xml with your Hex Editor

Do a search for 08 00 00 1C

The next four 2 digit segments control color and alpha (Transparency) in this order BGRA (Blue, Green, Red, Alpha) (Sorry I had this reversed earlier)

In Hex FF would be the darkest and 00 would be the lightest, so if you set the next four 2 digit segments like this -> FF 00 00 FF then your USB Connected and Preparing SDcard text would be red. I suggest not messing with the alpha, just leave it FF

you will find two areas in this file where 08 00 00 1C appear and in the section above I show the order in which you find 08 00 00 1C and what they control. REMEMBER TO EDIT THE FOUR 2 DIGIT SEGMENTS FOLLOWING 08 00 00 1C

Save the file and edit the other two files (status_bar_expanded.xml has one instance of 08 00 00 1C, and status_bar_latest_event_content.xml has three instances of 08 00 00 1C)

All instances of 08 00 00 1C are in the order that I have outlined above

When you are done open up the framework-res.apk and go into the layout folder

Drag your newly edited files into the res/layout folder, wait for it to update then exit

I use FF FF FF FF for white text on black background.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=674157
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
thanks to the hoffster...

Date

1. Date and notification ticker

Files that have to be edited:

/system/framework/framework-res.apk

DECOMPILED_DIR/res/layout/status_bar.xml

What you have to do:

Extract the framework-res.apk from your phone/rom zip file

Decompile your framework-res.apk using apkmanager

Edit the file DECOMPILED_DIR/res/layout/status_bar.xml

Search for <com.android.server.status.TickerView

As child nodes you will see TWO <TextView> tags. If not present, you must add android:textColor="#ffffffff" to the attributes. It will set your color. the four bytes mean: transparency, Red, Green, Blue (where transparency means: FF no transparency and 00 fully transparent). You have to set the color for both <TextView>s as Android will alternate between them when the notification ticker should show more than one line.

The color for the date will be in the <com.android.server.status.DateView>

Save the file

IN APKManager choose the option to compile your framework

Answer yes when you get asked if it is a system apk and if you want to copy files from the original framework. After the original framework has been extracted, change to your "keep"-Directory and delete the files resources.arsc and res/layout/status_bar.xml.

Let apkmanager continue its work.

now you have a new apk file in your place-here-for-modding directory, which you can push on your phone (DO IT IN RECOVERY): adb push unsignedframework.apk-filename /system/framework/framework-res.apk
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] alperin1:
You are aware these files are compiled and you cannot simply extract them and begin to work on them. They need to be decompiled and compiled to work.

I will keep working with this to see where it gets me. :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
these are more of reference for me later one when I have to cook a new framework-res.apk and services.odex

with the above directions you can hexedit to change colors...

I now know it is easier using apk manager.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] rachelm920:
If you don't have /res/layout/status_bar.xml

It is located in system-ui.apk instead
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] TheManii:
system-ui only exists on GB based roms, the streak has no GB stable roms.

Streakdroid 2.0 isnt exactly stable
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] helllmonkey:
Ok, Im confused. I tried doing all of the following and everything seemed to work, except that my modified XMLs are not in the new compiled apk. Where do you put them in to get compiled with everything else? When I rebooted my phone, the text is back to white (the color is was before).
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] TheManii:
did you recompile it?

Half the xmls end up being compressed into resources.arsc only a handful become binary xmls inside res\<various dirs>
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] helllmonkey:
Yes, I get an unsignedframework-res.apk. There is no resources.arsc file and the status_bar.xml, status_bar_extneded.xml, and status_bar_latest_event_content.xml are missing from the layout folder.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] TheManii:
You might be decompling/recompiling it wrong then
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] helllmonkey:
I got it taken care of in another thread. Some of the PNGs in the drawable-hdmi folder were incompatable. I fixed them and it it compiled just. Now I just gotta put it on the phone and see if it works.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cradve:
Does TiKL work for anybody else? I heard some where that it wasn't working on the Xoom but I decided to try anyway and it works great. Not sure If anybody else had tried.
[HD2 General] T-Macgnolia:
I say no because Windows Phone 7 is still very much still work in progress or as some would say still a infant OS. I mean don't get me wrong I am not knocking WP7 but what I am saying is it is still missing a lot of features of Win Mo and Andriod for that matter. Plus if you love the customization you can do through out Win Mo on the HD2 you will find WP7 very dull cause you have almost no customizationability of it. When I say costamization of the HD2 i mean a stock HD2. I am not even talking about a HD2 with all the bells and whistles and eye candy or one running Andriod. Plus WP7 is to much lick the iOS to me as far as hoe Windows tried to lock everytging down. I mean the "internal" 16GB of memiry is not really internal memory. It iz a SD card but they designed the HD7 and all WP7 devices were you have to void your warranty fo change the card to a bigger card are even remove it to put in a card reader, no more hot swap. Plus WP7 portitions the card in such a fashion that unless you totally reformated it that it is no good for anything else. Not to mention no MP3 support for ringtones on WP7. i highly suggest you keep your HD2 atleast until the first real update for WP7 comes out then see if you might like it. Oh and by the way the person that wants to trade with you probably hates the WP7 and is hopping they can get over on you and convience you to trade you excalibure of phones the HD2.
[HD2 General] Tachi91:
Well... Its all choice and preference

I've been in a similar position.. You see the Pros/cons and you might be alright with the trade or still have doubts....

WP7 on the HD7 is still knew and there is still more stuff on the way with WP7... The Chances of the HD7 getting any other OS is virtually ZERO.. but hey in a year or two the HD7 might be booting up an Android Build for the first time in a room with a developer or something

While the HD2 is an established phone with different OS's you gotta remember at some point the HD2 was like the HD7 locked down to WM6 and people saying its impossible to put anything else

TAKE the risk and see how it goes.. You might regret it right away or in time..

Right now the HD2 is the better phone.. Has more ROMS then you can count (lol) while the HD7 just has WP7 (for now)

If you want to then go ahead... just make sure your okay with your decision... I traded my HD2 for a Pre+ just for the fact that i wanted to try webOS out.. It took like a weeks time until i started regretting it.. but i knew what i was doing from the start and dealt with it.. Now I still have my Pre+ and bought a new HD2 last month.. Since its a great phone..

Would I trade for an HD7.... I would say no but then ill still think about it very much
[HD2 General] THUDUK:
I was also contemplating this move, trade in my hd2 for an hd7, but now I read that the main update that will bring multi tasking is not coming till 2012, I am beginning to give up on wp7, plus I have rediscovered just how flexibly and fast android can be with a very good sd build, I would say NO to the swap, the hd2 gives you more choices, still unsure which direction the wp7 platform is heading down or sideways
[HD2 General] orangekid:
I think this would be a bad move unless you flipped the HD7 for another HD2 + cash or something.

The HD7 is a nice phone, but it doesn't really run WP7 any better than the HD2 does, other than the multi-touch bug they're trying to fix. The OS just lacks too much right now, and by the time it is actually useable as a daily phone there will dual-core phones with much better hardware all around and the QSD chip will be archaic.

You would probably have traders-remorse in about a week when you can't load up any build of Android you want, I just can't see that it would be worth it. I don't know a single person who owns a WP7 phone and I have a pretty large group of friends, everyone is iOS or Android, it's just not ready for prime-time yet and this is not the device you want, get the next gen one.
[EVO 4G General] benpfeil:
I'm running the EVO-NonSense ROM, and recently I've noticed that the 4g turns on every time I reboot my phone. Is there a way that I can disable this?

I'm also having skype start now too, I'd like to disable that as well.
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
That is usually caused by a 3rd party widget, be it SwitchPro or System Info Widget. Are you using either of those? In the past all I had to do was delete and reinstall and that problem went away.
[EVO 4G General] benpfeil:
I am not using either or those two or anything similar to my knowledge.
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
Well what widget are you using to turn on and off your 4G?
[EVO 4G General] benpfeil:
In the drag down of the notification bar, there is a 4g toggle. I use that to turn it off when it's turned on at startup.
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
Hmmm not sure then. Do you have beautiful widgets installed? Not sure if that has a 4G widget or not but thats the only other thing I can think of.
[EVO 4G General] Hulkanator:
I am having the same problem with the g4 only on start up too.but I am Running Sprint lovers Rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
I'll make this short. I am a Bell i9000m user (JL2) I tried to flash seeARMS rom and it ended up messing up my phone (the buttons at the bottom stopped working) I also flashed super optimized kernal.

So now basically I have to get back to my stock (JL2)

I have the rom via samsungfirmares.com (stock JL2)

Here is my question.

Can I just flash this via ODIN (pda only) and I will be back at stock ?

Because I watched this video for i9000m users:

http://wn.com/How_to_Flash_A_Galaxy_S_Phone_back_to_Stock_Froyo

In it, the author says to use JPU (a "full rom") and he flashes the modem, pit, partition, pda, etc. -- THEN he flashes to JL2

What's the difference ?

Do I HAVE to use a full rom like JPU first then go to JL2 ?

I want to basically go back to stock vanilla.

If i flash JL2 via PDA only what will happen to the kernal and stuff ? will I still have the super optimized kernel?

Help guys
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] utsmaster18:
Hey

I had just done this today. Once you get the JL2 rom from samfirmware, you'll notice that it only has one file inside the extract. That's the only file you need. In other cases you might have 3 files but if you check on the samfirmware website, it also says that in their case, the PDA file is all you need.

Once you have extracted the file, open odin, get into download mode in your phone, connect the phone. Once the box turns yellow, just click on PDA and select the .tar file. Make sure nothing else has been selected. Click start.

Also make sure that you have no lagfix or tweaks enabled just in case as this might screw it up.

Hope that helps
[Xoom General] MynticeLX:
Now that the SBF has been released, will the tweaking begin with custom roms? I've been amazed about the limited discussion around roms.
[Xoom General] chaoscentral:
the roms will most likely pick up once 3.0 hits AOSP, right now the srouce hasn't been released as far as I know
[Xoom General] PaulG1488:
the recovery hasnt even been released yet either so still got to wait a bit longer
[Xoom General] xlGmanlx:
I think were all just waiting for source to be dropped then its game on
[Xoom General] MynticeLX:
ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the replies.
[Xoom General] Ainvar:
Also I remembering reading that the recovery portion will not be released till we get SD Card working so we can create backups.

Link to info I was referring to.

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2011/02/motorola-xoom-rooted.html

I also built up a recovery, but due to a nonfunctional SD card slot (until they release a firmware update that enables the slot), nothing really works. That will come later.
[Xoom General] c0t0d0s2:
you could always deposit an image via fastboot
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtrubambinoxpr:
I have no idea why.. I can't send text messages while I'm on the phone..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt2053:
***incorrect info removed, my bad***
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoMaMa7467:
I have done it before while on the phone, have you tried a profile update, maybe a setting is not correct.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
This is inaccurate. Simultaneous data and voice is not available unless connected to wifi or 4g. You are able to text and talk. I just had my share today.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gpz1100:
Interesting, I thought because of the reasons below you could not text while talking. I just tried sending a text while talking... And it worked! I initially had wifi on, but disabled it during the convo. Tried sending the text again, successfully. Go figure. Maybe texts do go through, but you can't browse.

Sprint uses cdma. Voice uses this network for its transmissions. exts are sent using cdma (1x actually). If you're talking you can't be texting. Now if you're on 4g or wifi, texts may piggy back via that network instead.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kent_Davis:
I don't remember having a problem doing a text amd talking on the phone. Now I need to try this out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacoballen22:
I hang up on a girl if I hear her Texting. Just saying.

Swyped from my sexy EVO.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phatmanxxl:
I can receive texts but they don't send while talking.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacoballen22:
I wish I was popular enough to have a reason to do this -.-

Swyped from my sexy EVO.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkrodgers:
LOL...me too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dased14:
I can get text while talking, sending them on 3g while talking it puts it in a pause like state until call is done. Now with wifi or 4g connections I can text,surf net same time no problem
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtrubambinoxpr:
guys im serious.. i used to be able to do this and now i cant.. everything is updated and idk y.. maybe its the rom im using?? i was using myns but switched cuz of some problems..

funny thing is i can get them in but cant send..

nd for ya that say you wish you knew enough people to try it out with PM me nd ill give you my number so you can see.. idc.. i just wanna know why this is wacked..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrWicked1:
Impossible on a cdma network unless you are on 4g or wifi
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtrubambinoxpr:
bro i am telling you! i used to text AND talk perfectly fine with no problem..

i used to text other people when my girlfriend would annoy me on the phone..

perfectly fine.. and even with WIFI on it does NOT work..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dased14:
im using myns rls5 and i cant do it without wifi or 4g on, so if i needed to do that then i just turn one of them on
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtrubambinoxpr:
ok so i just called my friend and with no WIFI or 4G on the text went through. sometimes it doesnt nd then it does so in your face all the none believers!