yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
I'm getting the Galaxy S II. Samsung is the only Android manufacture (just about) that puts an emphasis on sound quality and music playback.

The Galaxy S 4G is just a mid-life cycle refresh for the original. Get over it folks. It's not even marketed as if it was the next best thing.

anyone getting "7-10 mb" on a Galaxy S Vibrant is using the wrong methods to test network speed as these speeds aren't even possible on a Vibrant.

To add, the modem is capable of much higher speeds only when you have an excellent to good signal. Then it falls back to slower 14.4Mbps speed
[Vibrant General] :
Is lg any better? Just asking really dont know , i think im going to just get a mytouch 4g and wait for a dual core from htc
[Vibrant General] slackerlack:
From videos that I have seen, the new Nexus S has the same GPS problems as the old Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] FATEOWNZYOU:
Im pretty satisfied with just a vibrant for now. But have.u guys ever seen the speed on the 4g?... it gets like 12mbps data in good area's.. no other 4g phone comes close at all. Shoot I get 10mbps on my wifi, and I feel its quick as hell.. btw anyone have any links for the sgs2?.. wanna check it out
[Vibrant General] bxrdj:
I just upgraded from Vibrant to 4g because i dropped my phone and due to a nice hookup at tmo got this one for free:

Impressions:

- Samsung finally put in a gps that works

- Sound and the actual headphones that come with the phone are better than any other I have ever experienced on a cell phone!

- 4G speeds are really nice, I am able to stream video and do video chat normally with people without loosing signal or quality

- Battery life has improved, for example Left it over night @ 100% unplugged with wifi on - by the morning I had around 90% left!

I understand that as an upgrade this phone might not be better than vibrant due to cost or whatever, but as a phone I am keeping this because it just works and works pretty well so far without any issues at all.

Only negative i can think of is the lack of ROMS for this phone, going to miss upgrading the OS every few weeks, it was actually fun to upgrade and explore all the improvements.
[Vibrant General] brian_v3ntura:
can u explain how exactly you for a free hook up for the vibrant 4g.
[Vibrant General] turbosix:
he probably has a friend that works for tmobile. #notyours
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
That's not possible on a Vibrant, sorry.
[Vibrant General] kponti:
And for all the dual core nuthuggers...see just how great dual cores perform against single cores outside of benchmarks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0e5z6vvf0A&feature=related
[Vibrant General] yentlequible:
I just sold my Captivate and picked up the Vibrant 4g since I have to change my plan. I bought it off contract for $250 basically brand new. You guys think this is a good deal or should I resell it and go to the original vibrant? This 4g one didn't come with the sd card so I have no memory right now, the guy must have kept it for himself...
[Vibrant General] darkknight49:
Samsung and TMO really ticked me off when they put out the 4G. I only had the vibrant 6 months by that point. Its not that the vibrant is a bad phone, its just it never was fully realized and even the 4g still has its faults (I.e. no internal 16GB).

Id wait for the SGS II.

Sent from my HTC Vision
[Vibrant General] Henchman:
Keep the 4g. Sell it when the dual cores get released.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JpYarn:
Hey all,

Just had a question and wasn't sure if anyone was actively pursuing this yet.

Has anyone found a way to re-enable the wifi hotspot support within the AT&T 2.2 build that was just released this last week? With one of my past Streaks I was on Dell Unlocked 2.2 build and had some hardware charging issues after putting in all that work to take a ATT 1.6 to Dell (U) 2.2. I'd really like to avoid going backwards from my new att 2.2 to just go forwards to the dell 2.2 that had some stability issues.

I am aware that everyone has different opinions on which one is better so please focus any answers around how would it be possible to restore a native froyo feature to this ATT lockware OS.

Thanks All,

JpYarn
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RussianSolja:
it can't be done. At&t does not want you to use your phone as a wifi hotspot so they removed that feature in the phone. Only way to get it back would be to downgrade back to the stock rom you had before.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eowyn:
If you don't have unlimited data plan go for 340, it's fast and stable, if you have unlimited data plan 318 + performance fix is my first choice although I never had any issues with any of DJ Steve's ROMs they are all kind to my Streak and my Streak loves them back, but having read all the others are posting, would really give you second thoughts. Maybe it is just a matter of following instructions, if you didn't get it right it will be a disaster indeed. I just don't get it,English is just a second language to me but I am able to always get it right, guess that is my advantage, having English as secondlanguage.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carhigh:
Dont install the performance fix. Its a battery eater
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin02:
I don't have battery issues with 318 plus the performance fix. From 24-36 hours with no problems.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lzonly:
3Color-Screen Messages:

"PC99100 SS-BC

SPL_0.43.0000 8G XC

MicroP(LED) 0x01

TOUCH A3(v2)"
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
should that say PB99100?if so, thats a nexus. If you have a hd2,,,,, did you flash a nexus rom??
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stirkac:
maybe prerelease/dev device? how much ram does it state in settings->about phone->hardware?

i cannot find any other reason for leo to have 0.xx spl. correct me if i'm wong, but other device's rom isn't possible to flash without brick.

EDIT:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708637 check here

btw i don't think you need cracking anything if you have dev device(has MFG SPL and secutiry unlock default)
[General Questions and Answers] Icewind:
Hi I have Samsung Omnia running WM6.5. Sometimes the phone instead of receiving an sms only turn on the backlight, but the sms is not received. I have to manually type : #35*barring code*16#[SEND] like turning down sms barrier, but I didn't turn this barrier on, ever. After that the sms is immediately received I only discovered it randomly. If I don't do that, sms wont be received. I have like 3000+ sms in my phone so, maybe this is creating difficulties for WM to handle them. I want to find a way how solve this problem without deleting all sms.

Any idea ? Thx

found this unresolved topic, same problem : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=550501
[General Questions and Answers] Kent_Davis:
WOW the memories

I remember awhile back there was a phone (Samsung Impression) that would receive a certain number of messages and then it not take anymore. AT&T blamed Samsung and it was a software issue.

My point is that this is not indicative of ANDROID but a long time Samsung problem if my memory serves me correctly

Google it is all over the place
[General Questions and Answers] LivetheRiceLife:
Hmm, your problem rings a few bells, but I concur with Kent.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Went on a 180 mile trip today through SoCal and I was stunned at how good my GPS is now working. I'd done some tests locally, but never far enough of a drive to consider the results of any significance. Today, I headed east from the San Fernando Valley, through Pasadena, out to San Bernardino, then north through the Pacheco Pass into Hesperia in the high desert. From city to boonies and from about 350 feet elevation to over 3,500. My Cappy got a lock within seconds while sitting in my driveway and never once dropped lock the whole way there and back. Watching the screen the position marker remained steady on the road and did not wander at all. GPS is important to me and I finally have the performance I was getting on my Tilt 2. Yes, I had to go to a custom ROM to get it (Andromeda 1.2), but it runs so well on so many levels that I'm OK with that. Screw stock Froyo (which I tried along with Cog 4.x and GPS was mediocre at best on both).
[Captivate General] ldd2142:
I drove about 175 miles today using it, and never lost a lock also... I was using my girlfriends phone with stock 2.2. Was accurate to 10 meters whole trip... Had never had anything close to that before upgrade
[Captivate General] xhozt:
Mine is horable.. just don't know What rom to go to
[Captivate General] Nerz:
Mine works good on any rom as long as I don't put the phone in my lap. Seems that the antenna gets a weak signal if placed back down and gets the dreaded large blue circle and looses accuracy. If I hold the phone up though it is balls on accurate.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Stock, I could lose GPS by just flipping the visor down. Today, I had the phone in my car mount, I put it on the seat at one point, put it to my head to answer a call...didn't lose lock once. All while playing MP3s via BT through the radio.
[Captivate General] Mr_Ditters:
Im on stock 2.1 and my GPS has always worked fine in my car. I have trouble getting a lock indoors. I went on a 7 hour drive Thursday and didn't lose a lock once.

I wonder if some peoples GPS's are just junk and its the luck of the draw.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
That may be for some, but I've had stock Froyo and Cog 4.1 on this same phone and neither had the GPS work as well as it does on Andromeda.
[Captivate General] Gerle:
Not the best habit in California, pretty steep fines for that.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
I was offroad at the time.;)
[Captivate General] YoungGun821:
Mine works pretty well most of the time.. seems to have a slight 'drifing' issue when stopped tho.. say at a stop light.. kinda strange..
[Captivate General] hbgregg:
hate to poop on the whiner party, but stock 2.1 and now stock 2.2 have worked as expected. totally. this is a gnarly phone.
[Captivate General] ruger94:
FireFly is by far the best results I have ever had with GPS...locks super quick and stays!
[Captivate General] retnuh:
It seems a lot of the Captivates' GPS, like mine, worked great when the new phone was used for the first 2 to 3 weeks, then it would degrade. Load a new rom on the phone and again it would work fine for 2 to 3 weeks then deteriorate again. I'm always interested in knowing how long the current rom has been installed and how much the GPS has been utilized. The fact that it worked good when new, makes me think the hardware is not the problem. I'm no programmer but I always wondered if the deterioration was the result of some "file" that grew in size as the GPS was utilized. And, as the "file" grew, time/power requirements increased causing the GPS to deteriorate. How could it ever work correctly if it is a hardware issue?

retnuh
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Oh, well, then I guess your singular experience negates that of the many other users whose GPS has been total crap. It must be all their fault and not the device.:rolleyes:

At one point I had 3 Captivates in my possession and all had stock Eclair, Froyo, Cog 4.x and Andromeda on them at various times. This was typical of their GPS performance (the phone with Andromeda is on the left).
[Captivate General] fldude99:
I've had fairly good gps performance but I'm not picky. However, in the last couple days it won't get a lock no matter what..just flashes. I'm not that picky, but I don't like that it doesn't even get a lock
[Captivate General] rbtconsultants:
My first captivate, bought in September, was exchanged at Best Buy on day 30. The GPS on stock eclair never was very stable from day 1, slow to lock, very unreliable on the move much of the time, although not always.

My second captivate had very good GPS on stock eclair. Not perfect, but fast lock and rarely wandered, for three months. Then one day, out of the blue, it turned into my first captivate. I factory reset it. No joy. I exchanged it at ATT warranty center, told them the GPS wasn't working.

The third captivate GPS on stock eclair was an order of magnitude better than the second one ever was. Locks instantly, indoors or out, always good to 5 meters no matter the conditions, it's just unreal. Still is with Froyo.

So, I can say I have had wildly varying experiences with the same software. That tells me there is hardware variance. I haven't tried software fixes, ever, so I can at least be a reference point from that perspective.

Bob
[Captivate General] Soccer_Dad:
I haven't noticed that before, but I've had the current ROM (Paragon) for a couple weeks, and now I can't get a lock - worked great at the start, after a master clear. Maybe the old Samsung GPS reset app would work here.

What you have proposed is something we should all keep in the back of our minds...
[Captivate General] opcow:
My 1008 build had mediocre (at best) GPS. The I sent it in for repair and when I got it back (and installed Andromeda) the GPS worked so well I was beside myself with joy. The GPS remained fabulous for almost 2 month then, while running Cog 4.1 with Adam's GPS fix (and still working great--I got 10 sats while sitting on my toilet!), nirvana ended. I'm lucky to get 4 sats and locking is painfully slow.

It's been this way for about a week. I'm going to complain to Samsung and see if I can send it back for repair again.
[Captivate General] mbc663:
Isn't paragon a kernel?
[Captivate General] looslip:
I'm not as lucky as you with Andromeda 1.2. I live in the SF bay area and can barely get a lock. Any suggestions?
[Captivate General] NoSlo:
Are you guys "checking" the use wireless connection also? Thats the only way it will lock in a decent amount of time.

Mine is stock with froyo and used the gps last week. Could have beeen related to a low battery, but i'm in central IL and was heading north towards Chicago area....at one point it said my location was within 40 meters and showed me near Houston, TX! About 10 minutes later i looked again and was within 40 meters somewhere in Pennsylvania.
[Captivate General] dwgibson:
GPS was FUBARed

I like every one else was having problems with my GPS......with the phone pointing North the GPS would say it was pointing South. I was using one of the GPS programs out on the Market....which one seems irrelevant at this point. It popped up a screen that said to rotate the phone around the six axis to calibrate. Once I did that it has worked flawlessly. the top of the phone is now North and it is accurate. have done this several times if it appears to be wrong and it has cleared up the problem. Not for sure if this helps.....just something that I did not think about until I was prompted.

I does make sense though since your asked to do several circles in a parking lot with your compass on you mirror in the car to calibrate.

Just my 2 cents worth of assistance.
[Captivate General] qwertyaas:
Posted in another thread but...

GPS results I'm getting now on SN - wireless not checked. Refurb 1007. Keeps lock in a car or bus unlike my other Captivate. Hope it doesn't degrade...

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/277/snap20110308125809.png

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/21/snap20110308102213.png
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jianC:
On my newly compiled Android 2.2.2 build, whenever i type "su" in the terminal it says:

link_image[2033]: failed to link su

CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE

I tried everything possible, I have busybox working, but not su. I have the su binary in the /bin folder and correctly symlinked to the /xbin folder and the permissions correctly applied in the update-script but it still will not execute. Any solutions?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jianC:
Anyone.. (bumped because of massive amount of threads created each day in this section..)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] YamYam75:
Having recently bought an ePad V2, it was my first introduction to Android. Therefore having rooted, upgraded firmware, etc I've hit the same issue in trying to get Root Explorer working.

I've found a potential fix at h**p://zenpad.doubtechdotcom/?p=50 but haven't had chance to give it a go yet. You'll have to fill in the gaps of the URL as this is my first post and won't let me give external links.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] YamYam75:
Ignore my last post as I sorted my problem (originally being unable to mount R/W in RootExplorer). Here's what I did:

1. Uninstalled RootExplorer and Superuser.

2. Unrooted using Universal AndRoot.

3. Rooted NOT installing SuperUser.

4. Installed Busybox Installer from Market (noob fail as I never installed it before!).

5. Installed Busybox.

6. Installed latest version of RootExplorer.

Now I can mount R/W in RootExplorer and therefore I'm guessing my SU problem has gone away.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dk_zero-cool:
Applying Host name

If you want to set a custom hostname for your phone, you can create an init script (If your ROM supports it).

#!/system/bin/sh

# Get the hostname if it exists, or set it to localhost
if [ -f /system/etc/hostname ]; then
_HOSTNAME=$(cat /system/etc/hostname)

if [ -z $_HOSTNAME ]; then
_HOSTNAME=localhost
fi
else
_HOSTNAME=localhost
fi

# Update the Hostname
echo "$_HOSTNAME" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname

# Update the hosts file
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" > /etc/hosts

# If the hostname is not localhost, we add one more line to the hosts file
if [ "$_HOSTNAME" != "localhost" ]; then
echo "127.0.0.1 $_HOSTNAME" >> /etc/hosts
fi

This will look in /system/etc/ for the regular linux hostname file. If it exists, it will take the hostname from that file and set as the global hostname.

If it does not exist, "localhost" is used instead. Also it creates the /system/etc/hosts file.

Add or Edit your hostname like this.

echo "myhostname" > /system/etc/hostname

Note: Remember to delete the hosts and hostname files in your debian /etc/ dir when using merged environment. Otherwise they will overwrite the once in /system/etc/ as debian has first priority.

Manipulating the Android Permissions

Androids permissions works by providing a User ID for each application. This user (Application) can then get a range of different permissions by being added to groups with the permissions required by the app. For an example an app that needs to write to the SD Card, should be a member of Androids sdcard_rw group which translates into 1015 in a Linux group id. Using the numeric values of the Android groups, we can assign these permissions to shell users, daemons etc.

An example:

I had problems with my Http Server because I wanted my www folder on my sdcard. But, the www-data user and group could not be allowed to write to the SD Card, which I needed it to do, because Android controls what permissions the SD Card should have, not even root can change that.

What I did was creating a system group that I named sdcard_rw (Same name as the android, just to better keep track of the groups) with the same Id as the Android sdcard_rw (1015). I then assigned that group to my www-data user (gpasswd -a www-data sdcard_rw) and now my lighttpd had Read/Write access to my sdcard.

You can use the same example for creating a regular SSH User by using the Android shell group or for any other type of user that needs some Android permissions to work properly.

[Edit: 2011-03-08 21:13]

- Added an permission example
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mnjm9b:
Great...

I was just looking into this myself for the last few days.

strange how there isn't more of this being talked about.

at least I have been unable to find anything.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jbr7rr:
Omg this sounds awesome,

Will try this when u get home and will report back :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dk_zero-cool:
I'm still trying to work out some problems with User Rights on SD Card. Can't get lighttpd to be allowed to create files in my SD Card www dir (Does not matter what user and group I set it to use). I can't even get the root account to be allowed to change permissions on SD Card files and folders. It's not the biggest problem, but will report back when I figure it out.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fubaya:
Nice! I've been constantly disappointed for the past year at how un-Linuxy Android is under the hood and unimpressed with the old chroot tricks. This looks much better and I'll try it soon.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dk_zero-cool:
I have added a new /system/bin/sh script that can be found in Part 1. This script will automatically look for bash and, if that exists, try to find bash.bashrc, .profile or .bashrc in /etc or the users home dir. If bash does not exist, it looks for sh instead. If you have both one of the Android specific compiled bash, then Debians bash is used when available as this is made to work in a real linux environment. Android bash does not seam to work that way. Also debians packages gets updates via APT.

Also I changed the way groups and users is created in Part 3. Manually inserting them to /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group did not seam to be enough. The users and groups where only half registered. For an example the command "login" gave me a lot of errors, and i had problems with user rights. By using adduser and addgroup in a chroot before the first merge, the user management seams to work as it should now.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] no1msd:
I was playing with Debian on my phone just a few days ago too. I've found that same G1 article you mentioned, and installed Lenny in a chroot environment. Background daemons work fine for me, I've installed OpenSSH and I'm using ConnectBot connecting to 127.0.0.1 to get a terminal, so I don't have to chroot every time. I even have X with tightvnc server + android-vnc-viewer. Running the desktop Firefox on my phone is fun ;) Although not very useful. I'm still thinking about what awesome things we could do with this that we couldn't otherwise.

Anyway, great howto.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fubaya:
Do you have any details on the Thalamus kernel? What phone is it for? Overclocked, audio hack, etc? Or is it just a vanilla kernel with the extra module?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] travellingwithoutmoving:
What applications can we dream up?

The first thing that springs to mind is could this be used to create a low power server running bittorrent and the like?

Would a cheap device like the Vodafone 845 be under-powered for this?

Can you connect to a usb hub to allow multiple devices to be connected to it? I'm thinking usb network adapters, external storage, etc.

How much additional effort on top of this guide would be needed?

Just curious... :-)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] owen.chen:
:D will not... - -!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dk_zero-cool:
Well I learned one thing. Don't make Shell scripts when you are tired. I started a shell loop on phone bootup with my /system/bin/sh fix (Which had been changed). When using the merged environment, you need (for now) to enter /bin/login when you open a new shell and login as user with the password you created in Part 3. This will make Debian take over the user management which among other things will make sure that the right variables etc. exists. I have tried to locate where android controls new shell sessions, but I cant seam to find it.

When you make Debian take over, you can use your Linux shell as any other. .bashrc, .profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile files, change default shell (bash, sh, ash) in /etc/passwd and so on.

#9 Well the kernel is the same that is found in the Oxygen 2.0.1, so it's an gingerbread rom (2.3.3). If it works only in Oxygen, I don't know but I don't think so.

#10 He he, Could not say. For now I'm just trying to make it work as I want it to work. After that I might start playing around with different things.