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Android Thread - 2011 Edition | Stuffed on Gingerbread, Hungry for Honeycomb!
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Circle T
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Is there no Gingerbread ROMs over on the Epic side of things? The Captivate has had GB stuff for quite a while now.The Faceless Master said:
It is nice, though, seeing Samsung actually starting to update their stuff more regularly. I'm all about custom ROMs, but the faster they update the stock firmware/kernels, the faster sweet custom ROMs come out.
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Damn, thats crazy.
Got sick of T-Mobile MySense and bloat pretty quickly. Found a rom (Royal Panache) which is pretty much stock gingerbread with Sense 2.1.
Rooting was not as daunting once you've read a dozen guides. So happy I took the plunge.
Now is there anything like Airprint? Anything that's available once rooted?
Rooting was not as daunting once you've read a dozen guides. So happy I took the plunge.
Now is there anything like Airprint? Anything that's available once rooted?
BattleMonkey said:
Personally, the lack of stock sd card support is less an issue than the lack of 3.1 support for the eee. At the very least, I can solve 1 of those problems on my own. Cant do anything about the performance disparity at the moment however.
To be fair though, soon as 3.1 hits the eee, there would be almost nothing the xoom has over it.
The Faceless Master
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there's a CM7 alpha and a leaked ED12 build, but neither is ready for daily use. ACS currently has a leaked EE03 build that they're testing and waiting on their source to OK the release on it, and it's supposed to be stable AND THE FM RADIO IS ENABLED!!!Circle T said:
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
True but the iPhone 4 is also .7" smaller. Though it is pushing more pixels.SimleuqiR said:
No idea why manufacturers are slimming phones down so much. Use that space for battery life! It is far more beneficial.
TouchMyBox
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Bboy AJ said:
Someone listen to this man. I want a 4.5 inch phone that's an inch thick that can play video for 24 hours.
The Faceless Master
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indeed.Copernicus said:
http://www.buy.com/listing/sellerlistings.asp?sku=216459490
http://www.buy.com/listing/sellerlistings.asp?sku=217390470
Laguna X said:
AT&T Customers To Be Very Angry Again!
Sanic
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Any kind of tips for battery life? I haven't done any solid testing, but it's looking like I would get under 2 hours of near constant use of apps or such that use data, or general internet browsing on my Nexus S. This is a bit on the poor side, especially when i'm used to about double that.
I checked the battery page in settings and everything seems to be operating normally, nothing sapping the battery. Outside of doing the obvious like messing with screen brightness, i'm out of luck, aren't I?
I checked the battery page in settings and everything seems to be operating normally, nothing sapping the battery. Outside of doing the obvious like messing with screen brightness, i'm out of luck, aren't I?
Pandoracell said:
Anyone who has battery issues I implore to install Spare Parts. Its from the Android Source Repository but someone has placed it on the market. There is a section where you can see how long your phone has been "awake" for (as opposed to sleep which it should be if the screen is off) and can check what apps are keeping it from sleeping.
Majority of the time people have some app (facebook is a big offender for me) that is keeping the phone from sleeping and thus draining the battery 24/7
Hi, AndroidGAF
My W800 stopped working and I need a new phone. Seems like a couple of new stuff will come soon to Yurop, right?
How much of an improvement will the new HTC or Galaxy 2 be compared to, lets say, the Desire HD my brother has? Or the Nexus S. Galaxy whatever. I´m not got with phones.
I want it for
-web browsing
-watching vids
-phone calls (really)
-taking pictures of my cat being cute or other random stuff I don´t want to get my digicam for
Yeah. I guess that makes improved battery life and screen quality more important than dual-cores, but I might be wrong.
PS: The Desire HD is pretty cool already, but I don´t really like having to click the button to activate it every time. It´s just a tad to big for one handed use to check the time or stuff.
My W800 stopped working and I need a new phone. Seems like a couple of new stuff will come soon to Yurop, right?
How much of an improvement will the new HTC or Galaxy 2 be compared to, lets say, the Desire HD my brother has? Or the Nexus S. Galaxy whatever. I´m not got with phones.
I want it for
-web browsing
-watching vids
-phone calls (really)
-taking pictures of my cat being cute or other random stuff I don´t want to get my digicam for
Yeah. I guess that makes improved battery life and screen quality more important than dual-cores, but I might be wrong.
PS: The Desire HD is pretty cool already, but I don´t really like having to click the button to activate it every time. It´s just a tad to big for one handed use to check the time or stuff.
Pctx said:
good to know. but i don't have to pay anything. i once surfed 3 days with the hotspot and watched a ton of youtube vids and stuff all day without any problems afterwards. Paying for tethering is a US thing i think. Here in germany i personaly don't know a carrier where you have to pay for it.
Angelus Errare
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Xoom purchased and updated, I have 14 days to enjoy this :lol. Hopefully it does.
Edit: Was playingw ith it before 3.1 the performance increase is no joke. 3.1 is very nice! I sat at the lock screen for a few seconds just playing with the animation for shits and giggles, so much better.
Asus is suppose to have Transformers in plenty of stock on 20th, so that's 4 days with the xoom then I'll take it back and get the Transformer and use the money I get back to buy...random shit.
Edit: Was playingw ith it before 3.1 the performance increase is no joke. 3.1 is very nice! I sat at the lock screen for a few seconds just playing with the animation for shits and giggles, so much better.
Asus is suppose to have Transformers in plenty of stock on 20th, so that's 4 days with the xoom then I'll take it back and get the Transformer and use the money I get back to buy...random shit.
The Faceless Master said:
Good! I was trying early I9000 Gingerbread roms on my Captivate all weekend, and they all seem to have the same problems. Google Music doesn't work, battery drain's terrible, and browser scrolling sticks. I guess I'll switch back to Froyo until this comes out.
CaptainStrong
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Just put 2.3 on my original droid
http://www.peteralfonso.com/2011/02/download-stock-rooted-gingerbread.html
All good and love gingerbread, but I have a question for anyone using the new GOOGLE MUSIC app.
How do you set ringtones with an MP3 now? When there was a Music app, you just long pressed the song playing and set as ringtone use to be an option...i can't find it anymore. I have the mp3s on the SD card, how the heck do I set them to a ringtone?
http://www.peteralfonso.com/2011/02/download-stock-rooted-gingerbread.html
All good and love gingerbread, but I have a question for anyone using the new GOOGLE MUSIC app.
How do you set ringtones with an MP3 now? When there was a Music app, you just long pressed the song playing and set as ringtone use to be an option...i can't find it anymore. I have the mp3s on the SD card, how the heck do I set them to a ringtone?
Pandoracell said:
Depends. It's possible you have duplicated them in your google account by importing them. (You don't need to, it's part of your gmail contact list). The other reason is if they exist on your sim card, they will show up twice.
Need more details, account type/phone/etc.
Sanic
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Copernicus said:
...aaaand I just figured it out. I guess what happened was that before the contacts could be restored from my google account, I restored them from USB and those contacts were added to the 'other contacts' label, and thus the contacts were duplicated twice on my google account. Which would explain why deleting the contact database and backups didn't fix the problem.
Circle T
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Aside from the Music issue, which sucks, I haven't had any of those issues on my Captivate. Battery life has increased with every different ROM I've tried, both Froyo and GB (Darky --> Serendipity --> CM7 --> GR-12). I think most of that is because the battery life was so shit to start with, so improving on that was easy. I can easily get a full day of heavy use out of GR-12 now, though. And I'm not sure what browser you use, but I've been using Miren for a while, after someone here on GAF suggested it. It works fine for me, with no lag or odd scrolling. Pinch zooming works fine too, very smooth.Nif said:
Most of the ROMs do have issues, for sure, but for me the improvements they bring much outweigh the negatives that stock Froyo has.
The Faceless Master
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can't you set mp3's as ringtones in the android settings and also in the profile views?CaptainStrong said:
Urban Scholar
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Hey guys I was trying to if I could get gingerbread running on my samsung galaxy indulge. Some searching around shows that's not happening. Anyone suggestions in the meantime?
TouchMyBox
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I think I'm gonna start rubbing one out every time I see Tegra 3 mentioned in this thread from now on.
It boggles my mind that of all the stupid shit people nitpick about regarding these smartphones, capacitive back and home buttons hardly ever get a mention.
DMeisterJ said:
It boggles my mind that of all the stupid shit people nitpick about regarding these smartphones, capacitive back and home buttons hardly ever get a mention.
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Goddamn it android is so stupidly designed.
Someone sends me a picture in an mms
i click the picture to open it in the gallery app. but i cant do shit it with it there! i press the menu button and nothing happens!
i have to press the picture and hold it and then save it and then back out to the menu screen and RELOAD the goddamn gallery app and its retarded ui and animations THEN i can select what i want to do with it. im done. im out. maybe this will be easier in the future but as of now i have had enough frustrations with android. its a platform with great potential and great ideology to some extent but it just doesnt work for me as well as i would like.
is there something about android that i just do not understand on a fundamental level? why doesnt this make sense to me?
if i use astro to view photos from mms there is an immediate share function, however it CRASHES the gmail process everytime. its broken.
Someone sends me a picture in an mms
i click the picture to open it in the gallery app. but i cant do shit it with it there! i press the menu button and nothing happens!
i have to press the picture and hold it and then save it and then back out to the menu screen and RELOAD the goddamn gallery app and its retarded ui and animations THEN i can select what i want to do with it. im done. im out. maybe this will be easier in the future but as of now i have had enough frustrations with android. its a platform with great potential and great ideology to some extent but it just doesnt work for me as well as i would like.
is there something about android that i just do not understand on a fundamental level? why doesnt this make sense to me?
if i use astro to view photos from mms there is an immediate share function, however it CRASHES the gmail process everytime. its broken.
The Faceless Master
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Amazilla is not playing games!Jayayess1190 said:
hope they don't skimp on the little things like with Tegra 2!TouchMyBox said:
wait, are we supposed to be for or against capacitive buttons?
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You need to understand that the fact there is no set guideline for how the MENU buttons are positioned from device to device is a representation of the many, many problems with android. While you may think its a nitpick, to me it is a functional anecdote to demonstrate just how weak android is once you start to analyze the way a user interacts with it. If a functionality as basic and primal as where you press to do something varies from device to device how android succeed as a whole?TouchMyBox said:
or are you in fact agreeing with me? there are a couple ways i can interprate your statement.
apologies if i misread you at first.
cartoon_soldier
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Jayayess1190 said:
I am in for this.
CaptainStrong said:
why not put GPA 15 on it? he's had like 4 versions since that came out, all with improvements.
I was using his GPA 13, which was great, except for one little thing: messaging would get kicked out of memory. I moved to Ultimate Droid 3.3.1, also GB based, which has a 'lock messenger app in memory' option, but it's had it's own fair of problems.
I will probably try his GPA 15 and mess around with autostarts to see if i can't whitelist messaging, but missing texts to me was just unacceptable. Hope you have better luck than I did, but we've finally reached the point where the absolute hardware limitations of this phone are showing themselves.
Edit: and to answer your question about music: are you using the stock app? i believe UD 3.3.1 has the stock GB music app and when i long press a song i see a 'use as phone ringtone' option.
Also, check out Peter Alfonso's low voltage kernals as well, if you're not already using one (version two is out and they runn 600-1.3 ghz i think, OG droid only)
Jtwo said:
I'd tell you to stop using the default messaging app, but with all the frustration you've shared with us the last couple of pages, I think its best for your sanity if you just leave the ecosystem all together. Try ios or windows phone 7. I'm sure one of those will better suite your os functionality needs.
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Yeah, I think I am going back to iOS. I'm still open to ice cream being a completely different ballgame, but thats just one potential future for android. It could still have the same problems.kinggroin said:
Its a difficult conundrum, my first smart phone experience was the sidekick2 back in 2004, aside from a brief six months with a blackberry pearl, I used the SK2 until the day the original iphone launched. I used the iphone until the day the droid1 launched. I left ios because I had different, but just as frustrating issues with iOS as I'm having with android right now.
I am very aware of the fact that a part of my frustration is with the device itself, not android. But the experience ive had with android over the last 19 months has been way more frustrating than anything else.
There is nothing novel for me about the concept of a smartphone because its more or less been the only type of cellphone I have ever known. I had a dumbphone for a year before I got the sidekick, but I was like 16 and in highschool and only used it to call my parents. it wasnt until i got the sidekick that I realized how useful it is to have an internet connection in your pocket.
since then though, i have only been able to be critical of smartphone OSs because they ultimately dont adhere perfectly to the way I wish to use them, so I focus on the negatives instead of the positives, because focusing on the positives doesnt force you to be a more effective user.
the whole thing is a problem, the reason i use the default messaging app is because the appmarket is a horror to use. its just a web of problems that lead to my frustration, not just the bad messaging app. i see people throw around handcent from time to time, what would you personally recommend i try?
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