[butre]

if you don't understand what the radio does, don't change it. you'll probably end up bricking your phone

[nicatronTg]

Best camera app if you don't have sense?

[Chris220]

MisterMooth posted:

Gingerbread basically just adds a nicer UI, a much improved keyboard, and lots of other little features (one I really like is the battery graph that's built-in).

A radio is a separate firmware that controls stuff like wi-fi, GPS, network, etc. They're kinda "permanent", as in flashing a different ROM won't change the firmware. Lots of ROMs mention recommended radio firmware to use with that ROM, so it's strongly recommended you just stick with them. However, it doesn't hurt to use other radios

I see, thank you very much :)

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ButtsexV2 posted:

if you don't understand what the radio does, don't change it. you'll probably end up bricking your phone

Elaborate? As far as I can see it's pretty much the same process as flashing a custom rom

Edited:

nicatronTg posted:

Best camera app if you don't have sense?

I've found Camera 360 to be very good

[aVoN]

MisterMooth posted:

Gingerbread basically just adds a nicer UI, a much improved keyboard, and lots of other little features (one I really like is the battery graph that's built-in).

And most important: It the conditional garage collector is now a concurrent garbage collector. This will get rid of the lags you get sometimes when the GC was running.

[PyroCF]

Radios are sort of like the phone's drivers. It is the same process as flashing a ROM but some people do it via Android SDK.

[Chris220]

I was still annoyed at CM's failure to work for me, so I tried doing it one last time.. and it worked!

Configuring it now :)

[shian]

How do I install Gingerbread? Sorry for sounding like a idiot. :saddowns:

[Oscar_SP]

HTC Desire, or HTC Legend? I'm leaning towards the Desire but I want your opinion. Is the Desire more bulky? Does the higher resolution and better specs make up for it?

[Mr. Sun]

guys, I was thinking about buying an Android tablet but I have a question. can I update the firmware because some of them come with 2.1 or 2.2 and I know theres a new update coming/has came
I'm new to the Android scene.

[Rashy]

Mr. Sun posted:

guys, I was thinking about buying an Android tablet but I have a question. can I update the firmware because some of them come with 2.1 or 2.2 and I know theres a new update coming/has came
I'm new to the Android scene.

I would wait till the Android 3.0 tablets begin to show up.

[Ezhik]

Don't buy a tablet yet. Wait for Android 3.0.
Get a phone for now. I suggest HTC Desire. Desire HD if you need a big screen.

[Robber]

shian posted:

How do I install Gingerbread? Sorry for sounding like a idiot. :saddowns:

On what?

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Oscar_SP posted:

HTC Desire, or HTC Legend? I'm leaning towards the Desire but I want your opinion. Is the Desire more bulky? Does the higher resolution and better specs make up for it?

The Legend's only advantage is the price, if that's not a problem get the Desire.

[Mr. Sun]

But I'm not looking into spending a ton of money on a tablet. I have about $250 to spend and don't really need to wait for 3.0 overpriced ones if I can just get an older (but just as capable) tablet that I can upgrade which brings me back to the question:
Say if I get a tablet with 2.2 installed. Can I buy it, then upgrade it to 2.3 and then on as updates come out? I read there might be a limit based on specs off of what I've read on Amazon. Apparently on some tablets its dangerous to upgrade yourself? or is that just for people who have no idea how to install Operation Systems?
I'm not looking to do major stuff on this. Just play some games with friends, watch movies, videos, surf the web and such and whatever the Marketplace has to offer that I will use.

actually... after review the list of tablets I was interested in, I had to cut a ton after reading reviews or seeing they were coming from China. Right now I am only really interested in one and thats the Advent Vega and its either not released yet or incredibly hard to find. And the Archos 101. so I think I will wait till 3.0 tablets come out.

yea so just nevermind my posts. that was a bad mistake on my part. I should have researched better to realize theres hardly any quality ones out.

[PiXeN]

Just reinstalled CyanogenMod on my GT540, it's now OC'ed at 845MHz :smug:

[Rashy]

PiXeN posted:

Just reinstalled CyanogenMod on my GT540, it's now OC'ed at 845MHz :smug:

My GT540 gets hot as it is. Does CyanogenMod use less ram than the LG Home?

[Calkkuna]

:sigh: why can't Market support Paypal

[Libertas]

Paypal has been losing trust online for a while now sadly, their usage fees and account freezing can't be helping.

[NotYou3]

is there any way to use the flash while recording video on the htc wildfire's default camera? it works fine in camera mode but the flash button is greyed out in video mode
is it not supported?
if not, anyone recommend any camera apps which support flash in video?

[ilolled]

NotYou3 posted:

is there any way to use the flash while recording video on the htc wildfire's default camera? it works fine in camera mode but the flash button is greyed out in video mode
is it not supported?
if not, anyone recommend any camera apps which support flash in video?

You could always run a flashlight app in the background while you record, I did that on my D1

[aVoN]

Oscar_SP posted:

HTC Desire, or HTC Legend? I'm leaning towards the Desire but I want your opinion. Is the Desire more bulky? Does the higher resolution and better specs make up for it?

Definitely, the Desire has a way better resolution. I once held both in my hands at once. While you can see every pixel on the Legend, the desire resolution is so high that you barely see any pixel. But the legend is better looking.

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Ezhik posted:

Don't buy a tablet yet. Wait for Android 3.0.
Get a phone for now. I suggest HTC Desire. Desire HD if you need a big screen.

Another alternative with a better screen would be the Nexus S. It's also better looking than the normal Desire.

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Mr. Sun posted:

But I'm not looking into spending a ton of money on a tablet. I have about $250 to spend and don't really need to wait for 3.0 overpriced ones if I can just get an older (but just as capable) tablet that I can upgrade which brings me back to the question:
Say if I get a tablet with 2.2 installed. Can I buy it, then upgrade it to 2.3 and then on as updates come out? I read there might be a limit based on specs off of what I've read on Amazon. Apparently on some tablets its dangerous to upgrade yourself? or is that just for people who have no idea how to install Operation Systems?
I'm not looking to do major stuff on this. Just play some games with friends, watch movies, videos, surf the web and such and whatever the Marketplace has to offer that I will use.

actually... after review the list of tablets I was interested in, I had to cut a ton after reading reviews or seeing they were coming from China. Right now I am only really interested in one and thats the Advent Vega and its either not released yet or incredibly hard to find. And the Archos 101. so I think I will wait till 3.0 tablets come out.

yea so just nevermind my posts. that was a bad mistake on my part. I should have researched better to realize theres hardly any quality ones out.

Waiting for a 3.0 tablet is the right choice, yes. It offers so much more good software quality and the tablets using 3.0 in the future will also be better and slim compared to the current one. In my eyes, nearly all current Android Tablets are prototypes because Android wasn't really developed for tablets so far (resolution etc). That's where 3.0 will be perfect for.

[Ralbane]

Calkkuna posted:

:sigh: why can't Market support Paypal

probably because paypal is literally the worst online service known to mankind

[Chris220]

Oscar_SP posted:

HTC Desire, or HTC Legend? I'm leaning towards the Desire but I want your opinion. Is the Desire more bulky? Does the higher resolution and better specs make up for it?

Definitely the Desire

[Mr.Dounut]

What's the actual resolution for wallpapers to the EVO, if I wanted to take a wallpaper from my computer and put it on my phone, what resolution would I want it to be?

[AugustBurnsRed]

960x800

[robopm]

anyone find that handecent and the native sms conflict with eachother?

[Mr.Dounut]

robopm posted:

anyone find that handecent and the native sms conflict with eachother?

yeah but if you remove the notifications from the native version and make handecent sms the default you should be fine

but I have trouble downloading video/pictures sometimes with handecent

[Inplabth]

Anyone have a recommendation for a ROM for my Droid 2 Global?

[Xion12]

Fission. It's as vanilla as you can get with the D2G. It's also what I use.

Edited:

Forgot the link so here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851623

[Strikebango]

Does dps manager works on every rom?

[PiXeN]

Rashy posted:

My GT540 gets hot as it is. Does CyanogenMod use less ram than the LG Home?

I think Cyanogen uses ADW as a default launcher. Dunno how much memory it uses, too lazy to check out. But I can guarantee that memory is not a problem, even with many apps running.

[shian]

Is SPB TV for android free? Do I have to pay?

Edited:

Also, where can I download SPB mobile shell for android?

[Killuah]

Got me the gingerbread keyboard and whoah it's so ... beautiful.

[NotYou3]

ilolled posted:

You could always run a flashlight app in the background while you record, I did that on my D1

i tried this with the default flashlight app (which owns) but it turns off if you minimise it

[Sam Za Nemesis]

Got kwaak3 working on my tablet after some nags!

[PiXeN]

Samuelgames posted:

Got kwaak3 working on my tablet after some nags!

You know that quake3droid is a more recent version of Kwaak3 right ?

[Sam Za Nemesis]

PiXeN posted:

You know that quake3droid is a more recent version of Kwaak3 right ?

I don't really want to pay for a port, I'll stick with Kwaak3

[Chris220]

One thing I've noticed is how, on xPiano, I can only press 2 keys at the same time ("multi-touch") whereas on my girlfriend's iTouch you can press 3 (maybe 4, I can't remember)

Is that a fault of the app? Or just the Desire's hardware?

[punkrjp]

Chris220 posted:

One thing I've noticed is how, on xPiano, I can only press 2 keys at the same time ("multi-touch") whereas on my girlfriend's iTouch you can press 3 (maybe 4, I can't remember)

Is that a fault of the app? Or just the Desire's hardware?

It's not the apps fault, as I can use 4+ "keys" on my Galaxy S.

[Strikebango]

Somewhere i saw someone running the newest ubuntu on an android phone isnt it called ubuntu phone or something?

[PyroCF]

Strikebango posted:

Somewhere i saw someone running the newest ubuntu on an android phone isnt it called ubuntu phone or something?

You can run ubuntu on many phones.