Android: Phone News and Discussion Thread
#2926
Safety Car
So Samsung just updated the international Galaxy S phones to 2.3.4. I'm really liking their attitude about updates. They beat every other manufacturer out there to the latest Android OS besides the Nexus phones. I guess they're trying to correct their past mistakes. The builds should be ported to the US variants if they haven't been done already and this should speed up a stable build of CM 7.1.
#2928
Safety Car
I didn't know HTC Clay was still with Android. I remember a while back he said he would stop making ROMs for religious purposes and stick to WP7 to avoid spending too much time making ROMs. I guess he got bored of WP7. lol. I remember his work on the MT3G and his themes were awesome. I got bored of MIUI as well but I may get back to it in the future when I get tired of CM7. lol.
#2929
Safety Car
The Matted Blues Theme is now compatible with the Theme Manager for CM7. No more having to flash it manually every time I flash a new nightly.
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
#2930
...only root would open the door to really enjoy that screen with at least enough speed and mods to keep your interest juices flowing... with the number of cool rigs out there, seems like soon there will be a bottle neck of Twinkie phones and no one to buy them... I know that since I rooted my EVO my interest in a new rig has diminished ( not disappeared )... LOL ... I have 5 lines that are eligible for updates rite now and I'm like... so what
#2931
Needs more Lemon Pledge
Gb is not playing as nice on my DroidX as the previous OS... Then again Verizon is messing with it, too...
When GB first installed, holding the Home button brought up a display with each of the home pages so I could tap and pick. Now it's back to the Verizon "most recently used" listing...
Also, stuff freezes up for a short period of time where it didn't use to...
When GB first installed, holding the Home button brought up a display with each of the home pages so I could tap and pick. Now it's back to the Verizon "most recently used" listing...
Also, stuff freezes up for a short period of time where it didn't use to...
#2932
Safety Car
Gb is not playing as nice on my DroidX as the previous OS... Then again Verizon is messing with it, too...
When GB first installed, holding the Home button brought up a display with each of the home pages so I could tap and pick. Now it's back to the Verizon "most recently used" listing...
Also, stuff freezes up for a short period of time where it didn't use to...
When GB first installed, holding the Home button brought up a display with each of the home pages so I could tap and pick. Now it's back to the Verizon "most recently used" listing...
Also, stuff freezes up for a short period of time where it didn't use to...
#2933
Needs more Lemon Pledge
Didn't know about the pinch on the home page, will try that, although holding the home button did it for a day or two...
#2934
Safety Car
Yeah not sure about the pinch to zoom on the stock Moto launcher. Its a feature of Sense, TouchWiz, ADW, Launcher Pro, GoLauncher, and all the other 3rd Party Home Launchers. You could also try pressing the Home button twice and that usually activates the Homescreen Preview. Maybe Motorola changed it in GB.
#2935
i heart latin chicks
iTrader: (2)
brought it back from the dead!
Day 1:
what happened was, my phone was rooted with unrevoked3 on the android 2.2 version; well the evo had an update for 2.3.3, so of course I wanted it. I downloaded it (while rooted) and tried to install and it kept locking up half way. Then I thought about how I had to remove root in order to update. So, I backed up everything on rom manager. Ok, right? So then I just tried to format everything back to stock, like the phone came out of the box. Cleared all data. Well, when I did that, root was still there; so I thought forget it, I dont have my laptop, I'll just do the recovery on my rom manager. Good, right? No. It would start, and go to the all white htc EVO 4G screen and stop. It stopped there until I took the battery out. A friend that I work with had his laptop, and had bAd droid... tried to load that, it worked (that is a terrible rom). Thought ok, its not bricked, what can it be? Maybe something on the SD that I erased by accident; so there is a kid who purchased an EVO the day before, so we copied all of his SD shit and put it on my SD. Fired up the EVO, stuck. Shit. So it got to the end of the day and I had to meet a girl for the Braves game, so I put the shitty bad droid back on so I could use it as a phone.
Day 2 (yesterday):
I can't stand bad droid, so my friend and I go on a hunt for a stock evo rom... we found one!. Completely format the phone, so all it has is HTC on it in black when you start the phone (this is how Sprint recieves the phone). Load the Sprint rom, I think it was 1.9... nothing, crashes half way. SHIT! Find another one, this is 2.1.... crashes half way, SHIT! Found a 2.2 (guy claimed his friend worked at Sprint, and it was directly from him...) It worked! back from the dead, and 2.3.3 loaded.
Now just hunting for a 2.3.3 root
Cliffs:
-fucked my phone up trying to un-root and load 2.3.3
-got to the point where only gay bad droid would load
-completely formatted the phone back to where htc shipps them out
-found a stock Sprint rom and loaded it
-back form the dead
Day 1:
what happened was, my phone was rooted with unrevoked3 on the android 2.2 version; well the evo had an update for 2.3.3, so of course I wanted it. I downloaded it (while rooted) and tried to install and it kept locking up half way. Then I thought about how I had to remove root in order to update. So, I backed up everything on rom manager. Ok, right? So then I just tried to format everything back to stock, like the phone came out of the box. Cleared all data. Well, when I did that, root was still there; so I thought forget it, I dont have my laptop, I'll just do the recovery on my rom manager. Good, right? No. It would start, and go to the all white htc EVO 4G screen and stop. It stopped there until I took the battery out. A friend that I work with had his laptop, and had bAd droid... tried to load that, it worked (that is a terrible rom). Thought ok, its not bricked, what can it be? Maybe something on the SD that I erased by accident; so there is a kid who purchased an EVO the day before, so we copied all of his SD shit and put it on my SD. Fired up the EVO, stuck. Shit. So it got to the end of the day and I had to meet a girl for the Braves game, so I put the shitty bad droid back on so I could use it as a phone.
Day 2 (yesterday):
I can't stand bad droid, so my friend and I go on a hunt for a stock evo rom... we found one!. Completely format the phone, so all it has is HTC on it in black when you start the phone (this is how Sprint recieves the phone). Load the Sprint rom, I think it was 1.9... nothing, crashes half way. SHIT! Find another one, this is 2.1.... crashes half way, SHIT! Found a 2.2 (guy claimed his friend worked at Sprint, and it was directly from him...) It worked! back from the dead, and 2.3.3 loaded.
Now just hunting for a 2.3.3 root
Cliffs:
-fucked my phone up trying to un-root and load 2.3.3
-got to the point where only gay bad droid would load
-completely formatted the phone back to where htc shipps them out
-found a stock Sprint rom and loaded it
-back form the dead
#2936
I shoot people
...so, I'm back in California for a few weeks...I popped in the AT&T sim card into the Nexus ONE, and it looks like I can make calls (and probably text too, I haven't tried it), but no data... I thought I would at least get EDGE, no?
#2937
Safety Car
Name: AT&T (or whatever name you like)
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
Port: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
User name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM (Not sure if it's case sensitive, but I left it all capital letters)
Password: CINGULAR1 (Not sure if it's case sensitive, but I left it all capital letters)
Sever: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: none
APN type: internet+mms
Don't forget to select it as well after you save the info above. Then you should get EDGE.
#2938
Needs more Lemon Pledge
Also, 2.3.3 (no root or anything) did something to the keyboard sensitivity in certain areas, so that now I only get the correct response form the OSK spacebar 1 in 5 or less times... it's like only part of the visual button (top half) responds. Very frustrating...
#2939
Safety Car
Well the latest nightly kinda borked my recovery so I had to restart from scratch. Decided to try out the Sense ROM:
They haven't been able to get Data to work yet so unfortunately I can't use it as a daily yet. Just playing around with it for the time being. This build is a Hybrid Sense 2.1 and Sense 3.0 build. Sense on a SAMLOED screen is awesome I must say. The colors they use is perfect for the screen.
Gonna keep this on for a bit then on to the Honeycomb build. hehe. I'll probably go back to CM7 later.
They haven't been able to get Data to work yet so unfortunately I can't use it as a daily yet. Just playing around with it for the time being. This build is a Hybrid Sense 2.1 and Sense 3.0 build. Sense on a SAMLOED screen is awesome I must say. The colors they use is perfect for the screen.
Gonna keep this on for a bit then on to the Honeycomb build. hehe. I'll probably go back to CM7 later.
#2940
I disagree with unanimity
iTrader: (2)
I wanted to try out a sense ROM the other day, but for whatever reason, when I tried to dl a siulmagic sense ROM from ROM manager, the dl always failed.
The past few ROMs, I have been having some annoying wifi issues....sometimes when I am right next to my router and turn my wifi on and touch my network and select connect, it will start to connect and then just stop saying the network is out of range. then the wifi just shuts off. Sometimes forgetting the network and re-adding works, but most times I have to reboot. Doesn't happen all the time though. Seems pretty random.
The past few ROMs, I have been having some annoying wifi issues....sometimes when I am right next to my router and turn my wifi on and touch my network and select connect, it will start to connect and then just stop saying the network is out of range. then the wifi just shuts off. Sometimes forgetting the network and re-adding works, but most times I have to reboot. Doesn't happen all the time though. Seems pretty random.
#2941
Suzuka Master
When the keyboard keeps messing up like that, restart the phone or go into the manage apps and force stop it.
#2942
I shoot people
Gotta set up your APN settings in the Settings --> Wireless Networks --> Mobile Networks --> Access Point Names --> Menu --> New APN:
Name: AT&T (or whatever name you like)
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
Port: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
User name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM (Not sure if it's case sensitive, but I left it all capital letters)
Password: CINGULAR1 (Not sure if it's case sensitive, but I left it all capital letters)
Sever: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: none
APN type: internet+mms
Don't forget to select it as well after you save the info above. Then you should get EDGE.
Name: AT&T (or whatever name you like)
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
Port: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
User name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM (Not sure if it's case sensitive, but I left it all capital letters)
Password: CINGULAR1 (Not sure if it's case sensitive, but I left it all capital letters)
Sever: leave blank (Will read: <not set>)
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: none
APN type: internet+mms
Don't forget to select it as well after you save the info above. Then you should get EDGE.
#2943
Needs more Lemon Pledge
even, root my keyboard has problems. Thats really the only glitchy thing I encounter. SOmetimes I wont be able to click a letter, for some reason its mostly "a" and i have to go into landscape mode to click it.
When the keyboard keeps messing up like that, restart the phone or go into the manage apps and force stop it.
When the keyboard keeps messing up like that, restart the phone or go into the manage apps and force stop it.
#2944
Safety Car
Hmm...That's all usually. Just make sure the green dot is on the AT&T APN when you select it. How new is the AT&T Sim Card? If its old, it might not be registering properly to their network.
#2945
Safety Car
The past few ROMs, I have been having some annoying wifi issues....sometimes when I am right next to my router and turn my wifi on and touch my network and select connect, it will start to connect and then just stop saying the network is out of range. then the wifi just shuts off. Sometimes forgetting the network and re-adding works, but most times I have to reboot. Doesn't happen all the time though. Seems pretty random.
even, root my keyboard has problems. Thats really the only glitchy thing I encounter. SOmetimes I wont be able to click a letter, for some reason its mostly "a" and i have to go into landscape mode to click it.
When the keyboard keeps messing up like that, restart the phone or go into the manage apps and force stop it.
When the keyboard keeps messing up like that, restart the phone or go into the manage apps and force stop it.
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
See if it registers when you press on the corners/spacebar area. If it does, then its not the ROM, its most likely the keyboard. Might have to use a third party one. If it doesn't, then its more likely a ROM issue.
#2946
I shoot people
You asked if it's "old"? Let's just say it doesn't even say "AT&T" on it, it says "Cingular"! That's okay... I'm only in town for about 3 weeks, I can live w/o browser on my phone... worst case, I can just stop by a Starbucks and use their wifi...
but there's another issue... so, finally I got my Nexus ONE to update to 2.3.4, I had to pay someone to do it, because I just couldn't... I suck at these things... and it even took this guy a LONG time...
When it was done... for some reason, the Home button and Search button wouldn't work... I looked online, and found out that by doing a factory reset, it should help... and it did....
But the issue now is the keyboard... it won't do word completion or pull up word suggestions... WTF?
#2947
I shoot people
ugh, never mind, I did another factory reset and it works now, I think the "Swype" beta is what screwed up the keyboard (with the word completion and suggestion). I think I'll leave out the Swype for now... it's harder to use than I thought anyway
#2948
i heart latin chicks
iTrader: (2)
vibrate does not work on ringer anymore, also.
#2949
Safety Car
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
As for the keyboard, my only suggestion is to try another keyboard. The stock keyboard sucks any ways. Check out SwiftKey Beta X, Smart Keyboard Pro, Better Keyboard Pro, Keyboard from Gingerbread:
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
I prefer to use Smart Keyboard Pro over all of them. SwiftKey came second because after a while it started predicting what I wanted to say without even typing a letter. Its good if you type pretty much the same thing over and over but okay if you dont.
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#2951
Lol. Yeah there's your problem. AT&T should've replaced those sim cards for free a long time ago and they should still do it. Just walk into a store and tell them its not picking up data. I used to have Cingular as well before AT&T bought them out and they've replaced my sim card three times all for free.
For the vibrate on ringer, check your sound settings. Settings --> Sound --> Vibrate and see what setting you have in there. Also download AudioManager from the market and make sure the vibrate option is checked on the ringer.
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
As for the keyboard, my only suggestion is to try another keyboard. The stock keyboard sucks any ways. Check out SwiftKey Beta X, Smart Keyboard Pro, Better Keyboard Pro, Keyboard from Gingerbread:
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
I prefer to use Smart Keyboard Pro over all of them. SwiftKey came second because after a while it started predicting what I wanted to say without even typing a letter. Its good if you type pretty much the same thing over and over but okay if you dont.
For the vibrate on ringer, check your sound settings. Settings --> Sound --> Vibrate and see what setting you have in there. Also download AudioManager from the market and make sure the vibrate option is checked on the ringer.
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
As for the keyboard, my only suggestion is to try another keyboard. The stock keyboard sucks any ways. Check out SwiftKey Beta X, Smart Keyboard Pro, Better Keyboard Pro, Keyboard from Gingerbread:
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
I prefer to use Smart Keyboard Pro over all of them. SwiftKey came second because after a while it started predicting what I wanted to say without even typing a letter. Its good if you type pretty much the same thing over and over but okay if you dont.
#2953
Suzuka Master
I'll try that app out, but i'm pretty sure its just gingerbreads keyboard that has issues. I had the same thing before i was rooted, and the problem never went away when i rooted and went on a custom ROM.
It doesnt happen all the time. Just once in a while. Maybe a couple times a month??
It doesnt happen all the time. Just once in a while. Maybe a couple times a month??
#2955
Safety Car
Went back to MIUI for now. Here's my current set up:
My Wallpaper:
MIUI 1.6.10
FuguMod Kernel
Screen Density at 220
Dark Blue Theme
Aeolus HD icons
Helvetica Neue Font (This is the iPhone 4 font. Wasn't pleased with how WebOS and WP7's font looked with my set up.)
UV -25, -50, -50, -75, -100, -125 mV
My Wallpaper:
MIUI 1.6.10
FuguMod Kernel
Screen Density at 220
Dark Blue Theme
Aeolus HD icons
Helvetica Neue Font (This is the iPhone 4 font. Wasn't pleased with how WebOS and WP7's font looked with my set up.)
UV -25, -50, -50, -75, -100, -125 mV
#2956
Suzuka Master
I like MIUI's notification dropdown. But i prefer having all my apps in an app drawer
#2957
Suzuka Master
People were talking about a feature that if you put your phone upside down the speaker phone turns on.
Which phones have that, i think thats a really cool feature
Which phones have that, i think thats a really cool feature
#2959
Safety Car
I'm not sure which phones have that feature. Like CocheseUGA, I've only seen the flip the phone to silent feature. MIUI incorporates it, I know Sense UI as well. There's also another cool feature in MIUI where if you pick up the phone, the ringer volume goes down a few notches.
#2960
I shoot people
Lol. Yeah there's your problem. AT&T should've replaced those sim cards for free a long time ago and they should still do it. Just walk into a store and tell them its not picking up data. I used to have Cingular as well before AT&T bought them out and they've replaced my sim card three times all for free.