yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DKYang:
It is a legit company and all. I bought my keyboard cover for the macbook from them on ebay and they have some video reviews of it on youtube. A lot of user reviews (who got it for free), so I'm not surprised that they are giving it away to get a review in return.

Ask him for a phone number or refer him to the user who recently made a video of the Casemate Pop case in the accessory section.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple Drama Llama:
I know its a legit company, I was just concerned because they had 0 feedback from the forum and it I have never purchased anything from them as well as it being a PM here and not something more professional like an e-mail. Oh well. I'd like to get a free case, I may do it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DKYang:
How do you expect them to email you when you don't allow it via your profile? ;)

Even with 0 feedback, they have to start somewhere. If you don't want to give them your address, then try to get a temporary PO Box, business address, or something similar. It can't really be a scam if you're only going to give them your name and address (well, none that I have heard of yet using just those two information).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
That seems way too much work just to get a

free

case.

And you seem pretty open to a stranger asking for your name and address. Sorry but this is the internet, gotta be cautious.

If you really need a case, I'd recommend the Case-Mate Pop case. There's a coupon in the Pop thread that reduces it to $27
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] [hfm]:
I think there's a marketplace they can post in instead off spamming forum members.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DKYang:
How'd you get that idea? If you work somewhere you could use that address. Oh and I know it's the internet, what do you think I'm using right now? Also, what's too much work? Registering on a forum? Copy/pasting the letter and edit the name? Is it so rare for a company to have a rep register on a forum?

Anyways, I agree that it seems shady and all, but a quick Google search led me to this xda member receiving the product. Of course, he's the only one so far that I can find via quick search.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914272

And then Rearth's official blog posted that review along with other user reviews plus the link to the review (most to AndroidForums):

http://rearthusa.com/blog/?cat=120

You could just give them a call and ask for Blake.

http://www.bbb.org/north-east-louis...ing-services/rearth-usa-in-monroe-la-90004664

It's the OP's choice anyways, you can send him my way if you don't want to do it. I'm kind of interested on how good this case is after looking at some reviews of the Evo version.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
If i worked for a company, I wouldn't be suspicious by mass emailing users of a forum telling them to send me their addresses. It's just not very trustworthy.

It's the internet, people can pose as other people. Again, this is just for a free case, you shouldn't have to go through a WHOLE hassle process just to verify something. They could just went to the market place or the general forum and make a general post in regards for people to test out their product.

Approaching users of a forum via Private Message is not a good practice. It's suspicious. Especially when they never made any posts or contributed to XDA. They have no recognition around this community.

I could easily make a spoof account and say im a representative from Case-Mate and that I want you to test a upcoming case that we haven't announced. I want you to test our Case-Mate Barely There case before we announce it.

Would you easily just give someone your address? It could be a friend of yours who simply hates you and wants your address. It's not a smart idea to be so free to give your address away.

Ordering something online? Yeah. If they're a massive corporation and its something I can trust, I have no fear of giving my address away. To a stranger? not happening.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DKYang:
I understand why it seems shady, didn't I say that in my previous post? *Looks back* Why yes I did. ;) So no need to waste your time to explain it. Geez. :p

Anyways, I provided information for the OP to go by. So that's that. It's his choice to make anyways. If you consider a quick 2 minute search such a hassle, then okay whatever, that's just you. :p
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blake@RearthUSA:
In reply to the suspiciousness regarding the method of contact. I apologize if it made anyone feel uncomfortable. Additionally, I didn't mass spam anyone. I sought through the entire forum and selected around 10 individuals who I felt would contribute a worthy review to the community. I could post my own review of the product but that doesn't carry as much credit does it? :p

Again, I apologize for this chosen method of contact. However, you won't have to worry about that method anymore in the future. We are setting up our official review request option on our new Website, and we will allow users (such as yourselves) to come and request to review one of our products if you like. But of course, we will only select a number of reviewers per week and will include only those individuals we feel will truly post a worth while review for others to view.

And I assure you all that I will be contributing much more to this community from here on out. :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robstunner:
Well, we will see if its a scam, If he wanted my address he can easily look that up on the web. (note sarcasm)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarkusPO:
doesn't sound like a scam, just a company trying to get xda publicity for their product by sending out a few free ones. op has over 2k messages to his name, so has some reputation here. you should actually be kinda honoured. if in doubt, set up a new email address and contact them asking for a phone #.

it's called marketing and all that jazz ;)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robstunner:
yea, not too worried at all :)

i just gotta get my Nexus S soon. enroute, here Tuesday :)

(had a t-mo NS, now the white AT&T NS)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peeturr:
Probably not a scam. I bought their case and love it. Great service as well. Consider yourself lucky to have the opportunity to receive a case in exchange for a review.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robstunner:
Yes I'm pretty excited. New phone and a free case, sounds good to me. I'll also do a case mate pop case and incipio feather review. :)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compnird:
I want to know if anyone else is having this strangeness before I call VZW;

Without moving an inch my signal goes from 2 bars of 4G to 2 bars of 3G and then back again. I set the phone down and wait a couple minutes and it jumps to 4G again. Very sporadic.

When I run Speedtest sitting at my desk showing 4G I get 6.5MB down and 25+ Up. Then, 3 seconds later when it jumps to 3G I am getting less than 1mb down and 500k up.

I have powered down, pulled the battery and held power button, the powered back on. (Several Times) Same results.

So far it's only inside my building so it could very well be environment related. I just want to toss it out there and see if I am the only one.

Thanks!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WINGZERO619:
LoL, I feel your pain. It's the building you're in. I was thinking the same thing. As soon as I step outside, it's 4G central. You're not going crazy or anything.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycomputerisjunk:
When I'm on the edge of 4G coverage, mine does the same thing.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WINGZERO619:
So far, when I'm at work is when I have that problem. It's quite annoying actually. Every other building seems to be fine outside of where I work.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jords12:
Better get a new job then. :)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WINGZERO619:
You ain't lying! I was like WTH! I honestly thought I broke the thing until I started walking out of the building. Kinda sad that it doesn't really work indoors at work. Like you said, time to get a new job... not yet, I like what I do lol!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paladin732:
When I'm in an edge of 4G area I notice it doing the same thing, it has having a hard time deciding what to do. Rebooting or putting in airplane/taking airplane off seems to fix it
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compnird:
Thanks folks! Glad to know it isn't just me. I did notice it happened when I was at the gym too. But in the car, truck or outside... Epic Awesomeness!

Always good to know I am not crazy, or at very lest not alone in my insanity.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Same thing happened to me yesterday, although slightly more weird.

I was happily tethering away at the office on a nice strong, fast 4G signal for a few hours, then all of a sudden data dropped out completely. Restart the phone and it only shows 1TTX, but eventually flickers up to 3G, but won't go back to 4G despite numerous reboots. Eventually it settled back down to 4G and all was well.

I guess it was some kind of tower problem, as my location doesn't appear to be anywhere near a non-4G area (see map below). The area my office is in (near the 405 fwy and Van Nuys Airport) has excellent maximum speed coverages by AT&T and even T-Mobile; it would be shocking to me to learn that VZW in the same area isn't full 4G (it's not as map shows).

Hopefully this was just a fluke, but it has me nervous and I'll be keeping an eye on the performance during my 30 day test period.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mi7chy:
This is very similiar to what happened to me last night at a restaurant around 8:30pm in Tustin CA. Had one or two bars of signal, was streaming YouTube fine, data connectivity cut out even though signal was same, cycled through airplane mode, after a short period it came back at 1x then eventually back to LTE. I thought the LTE equipment bounced at that tower but it now sounds like it happened on a wider scale.

I guess it helps to post the following info to help correlate:

Occurrence: 1

Date and time: Fri 3/19/2011 ~8:30pm pacific time

ROM: 1.12.605.9 non-rooted
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bunklung:
Same here. I'm still trying to figure out the battery life hand over from 3G to 4G and back. It does NOT appear to be graceful.

I too have had to revert to airplane mode to get 4G back up. What end up happening too is that 4G will be listed, but push notification stalls badly even though it seems like a solid signal.

Last night I turned off 4G the entire night and push was working fine in the morning, nearly instantaneous.

This morning I turned off 3G and forced 4G and after 4 hours everything seems fine with no push notification latency. So perhaps the hand off on the phone is real bad between 3G and 4G.

I used phone info from the market to toggle 3G and 4G, dev=SC@Taiwan.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
I've had a couple of instances I suspect over the last three days, but only the one that mentioned above where I can be sure. For me it was:

Fri 3/19 ~2:00 PM Pacific

stock rom unrooted at the time.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ApplCobbler:
I would expect that to go away as they expand coverage, remember that this network is still being rapidly expanded.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ckamc:
Its 30 days for a defective exchange but 14 days to exchange or return the phone completely FYI
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ckamc:
Here is a thing I have noticed and a friend got me thinking

If you pick up a call on 4G and travel into a non 4G area... your call will drop. Its weird because no one said this phone could support LTE voice.

But if you pick up a call on 3G and travel into a 4G area everything is fine, just be stuck on 3G until you end the call. Same goes for data, I tested this out with pandora and stays stuck on 3G until i stop.

The manager at the corporate store told me they were not having any problems with signal hand off's but I think he was lying or didn't know. I work as an agent at the edge of a 4G boarder and get tons of returns or questions about the service on the 4G air cards for people who live in the area or near the boarder.

Signal just drops before it decides what its going to try next, super annoying
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forpar:
Mine was switching all over the place and then would completely shut off with no data connection. I kept getting a retry. Finally I took the cover off and just put it back on and now it seems to be working fine. I guess the antenna was not connecting properly.?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrb123:
you guys should try an evo on Sprint 4g and laugh at the wimax coverage.
[Wildfire General] btrst:
any way to make it smoother like it was on 6.1 ? it was bugging me since cm7 was released.
[Wildfire General] nhnt11:
its MUCH smoother with latest kernel.
[Wildfire General] sevarii:
If you want cm7 i prefer for you for now #18 release. It is working on old kernel but IT WORK... I'm using this release but i flashed kernel 4.1 you should too. The new kernel is amazing fast and smooth but is still bootloop and we must weit.
[Wildfire General] FrydaeXIII:
Im using RC2 with 4.2 kernel,but the notification bar is still laggish/choppy.
[Wildfire General] nhnt11:
i meant arco's new kernel, not hcdr.kernel
[Wildfire General] TiiXiboy:
can u possibly link me?
[Wildfire General] nhnt11:
i dont have a flashable version of it, but it's included in the latest nightlies (but be careful, if you dont follow instructions in the thread you may bootloop - nightly #25 seems to be your best bet)
[Wildfire General] btrst:
i dont think choppiness went away with #21 and later. im using smartass governor and still pretty laggy. not close to cm6 or sense pulldowns. i wonder if other devices with cm7 has this issue?
[Wildfire General] nhnt11:
well its waaaay smoother than before for me, i dunno why its choppy for you.
[Wildfire General] btrst:
ive watched some videos on youtube with other devices pulldowns on cm7 and only wildfire seems to have this problem. maybe its related to lack of gpu or armv6 cpu i dont know.
[Wildfire General] btrst:
can you take a quick video of your pulldown animation if you have a camera i really doubt its smooth as i think.
[Wildfire General] nhnt11:
here's a vid:http://www.mediafire.com/?3e17kzqy21754pk

Sorry its sort of big for like 30 seconds but i recorded with my ipod nano, and considering that its a VGA recording of a QVGA screen and that the point of it is the smoothness, i didn't want to sacrifice quality any more.
[Wildfire General] btrst:
yea its slightly better on your device can you tell me your performance settings and cpu speeds?
[Wildfire General] nhnt11:
JIT on, surface dithering on..

cpu is at 691/264 smartass, although i get the same smoothness on 518/264 ondemand as well. BTW, its actually a little smoother than it is in the video.
[Wildfire General] jjblaster3:
Moved thread to general as it is not about devving
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cccentipede:
I rooted my Mytouch 3G 1.2 and have routinely upgraded the CM roms as they were released with no problems. I went to unroot the thing so i could sell it on ebay, but ran into problems. Currently it will load into Hboot, but will hang while unzipping system files. It appears to go into Fastboot, but I can't get a computer (fastboot commander or command prompt) to communicate with it. It shows fastboot and changes to Fastboot USB when connected to a computer, but that's all I get. I've tried various drivers and sappimg files. I have read that if it shows any signs of life then it can be saved. I have searched for hours trying to find solutions but haven't made any progress. Current Fastboot screen shows Sapphire RE Unknown 32A Eng S-Off H

HBOOT 1.33.2010

CPLD-13

Radio- 3.22.20.17

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
You need to get AndroidSDK installed. Is the computer detecting the phone? Does anything for the phone show up in Control Panel?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cccentipede:
I have AndroidSDK installed on my computer, but adb devices doesn't list anything.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
What about "fastboot devices"?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
You have the wrong hboot and radio for a 1.2... can you confirm this does have a headphone jack?

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
He flashed the engineering SPL used for the goldcard method and didn't do anything after. Hopefully he'll still be able to get fastboot working so we can get him straightened out.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cccentipede:
That sounds about right Kevin and DonJuan. I've got a new baby and my attention to detail and directions isn't what it should be right now:)

I found that part of the problem I was having was with my wretched Vista laptop and a driver issue. When working on my XP desktop I can see the device in fastboot devices. I do have the headphone jack and realized that I do have the wrong radio. I think I'm sort of lost as to where my phone exists right now in the process of unrooting.

Thank you both for your fast replies.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Use the "Old school" rooting guide in my signature starting at Step #4. That will put you back on CM. I would leave it rooted to sell it unless you've got a buyer requesting for it to be stock as you may pull more interest. If your dead set on going back stock, you should be able to stop at Step #9 in the guide, turn the phone off, download this file, rename it to "sappimg.zip", put it on the root of your SD card, with it in the phone, turn it on holding volume down+power, and then follow the instructions on screen.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cccentipede:
Awesome, I'm in Amon-Ra's recovery. Can I use it to restore a clockworkmod backup or are the two recovery methods incompatible? I guess part of my question should be whether my phone is technically rooted or unrooted at this point. Could I load a recovery from step nine of your guide and be done with it?

I tried using the stock img that you linked to (because I see stock MyTouch phones on eBay selling more often than rooted ones) but it gave me the Main version is older" message which is what got me started down this road in the first place. At this point, if I could get back to my backed up CM6.1 I would call it good.

P.S. I really appreciate your time and will donate.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
If I'm not mistaken both recoveries use the nandroid backup. Just try restoring and see if it'll take. If not then you may just end up having to re-flash it. So what you were actually trying to do is flash the engineering SPL to bypass the version check. You flashed an entire sappimg which changes pretty much everything. Instead you should have used the engineering ZIP that's floating around which you would have flashed from recovery and it would've only changed the SPL.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cccentipede:
I got everything back to where I started with your guidance. I guess you were right DonJuan, my CM6.1 MyTouch sold within 30 minutes on ebay for $125. Thanks again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoofly:
When I have everything turned off, WIFI, GPS, 4G, it dies a few percent a minute

I don't have a signal in my room, and I read that it takes a lot of battery searching for one,

but even when I'm at a restaurant or someone else s house it goes down that fast

It's rooted, I was thinking of trying to unroot it, and take it to sprint

Would they be able to tell?

is there anything I can try to stop the battery from dying that quick, without another battery.

I have two battery's, but its annoying to keep switching them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maek_it_happen:
Go to settings /applications/running services. And check from there ...after that go to manage applications and see what's in the running tab
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoofly:
not a lot

calendar

connect to pc service

dmservice app

google services framework

google messages service

htc dm

htc iq service

agent service

network locations service

messages

tranaction service

pvmservice start

pvwmdrmservice

voicemail

i dont know what most of that is
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bielinsk:
It must not have always been like this. What changed?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Check spare parts for partial wake lock.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoofly:
I dont know what changed, Its always been a short battery, but not an hour.

I switched roms, but I switched last night again, and that didn't fix it

Whats a partial wake lock?

I looked in spare parts. I didn't see anything like that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
In spare parts, click battery history, you'll also see a running versus awake time, where it says other usage, click it, then select partial wake lock, and on the second tab, you can click since last boot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoofly:
android system

calendar

UID 10022

music

voice mail

dialer

media

internet

none of them are very full
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
Calibrate your batter, do a complete wipe + stock rom. If it still lasts less then an hour or even less then 5 hours then you have a bad battery or bad phone

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoofly:
If i have a bad phone, and I unroot it, can sprint tell?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
As long as your bootloader is s-on and you deleted all your "rooting" files off the phone/sdcard, they won't know.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emcp422:
i would install process manager from market, it tells you apps running in real time, and how much cpu its being used, it might help you pinpoint if its an app doing this, also could use catlog, this app lets you see the log on your phone you might be able to see the problem there too
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tropicalbrit:
It could possibly be the PRI and NV on your phone. Several people have voiced concerns about horrible battery life, and one of the problems that's been pointed out is the PRI and NV versions (1.90 is the culprit). A way to fix this is to flash the 1.77 versions.

Do this to see what you are on:

Go to settings, then to about phone, then to software information.

Here's a link to download different versions. Thank Calkulin for this, he is the man. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715485

Put the .zip folders on the root of your sd card, go into recovery mode (factory reset and clear the dalvik cache and such I think, if I remember correctly, you might want to check with someone more knowledgeable than me) and flash those .zip folders and hopefully that'll help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
You got it right, except when flashing, he would just need to wipe cache and dalvik, no need to wipe factory/data, flash the pri or nv, reboot, wipe cache and dalvik, flash nv, then reboot again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tropicalbrit:
And that's why I'm a junior member, just rooted a couple weeks ago, and now addicted to flashing ROMs and scouring over the XDA forums... Thanks man
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadwrong03:
im kind of confused as to how this would work.. say if u have mp3s picture and videos on the phone. can you use touchxplorer to access and move these files to different folders?

also with the use of touchxplorer is there some kind of temporary internet file folder? because on wp7 if u try to download a mp3 link off of a hosted site, the mp3 somewhat downloads it plays the song but its not added to the device memory, i havent tested pictures or movie files but im assuming it maybe similiar as well. with touchxplorer is it possible to locate the mp3 that would play from the download link if so where would it be located? and would u be able to add the mp3 to ur library with touchxplorer?