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    All Things Android - Apps, Phones, Tablets - Discussion

    Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by H.A.L. 9000, Aug 1, 2010.

  1. Johnny T

    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Lol...ask the dev? :p You can use Widget locker to customise you lock screen otherwise.

    Performance is good, still an early port so a few widgets here and there doesn't work. The friends stream widget is also a lag fest. Other than that, it's pretty good! I will report back again in a few days.
     
    Johnny T, May 17, 2011
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    I honestly don't like HTC's new lockscreen. It almost seems as if you would need a lockscreen for the lockscreen now. Information on the lockscreen is fine, but why would i need to access like every function of my phone from the lockscreen? I just don't like it. HTC sense is just getting more and more bloated
     
    mrXniick, May 17, 2011
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  3. Phistachio

    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Lol... Lock the lockscreen :p


    Well, the down part is handy, upper part is disposable.
     
    Phistachio, May 17, 2011
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  4. Johnny T

    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I do like it after spending half the day with it. Though admittedly it is alittle to easy to open one of those four app short cuts.
     
    Johnny T, May 17, 2011
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  5. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Some command prompt stuff.

    Heres a guide for it

    [How-To] Root the LG Optimus V - Android Forums

    THats without a custom recovery. Which needed a few lines of commands put in from the phone. Didnt take that long though, it was worth it. Its not really hard, just more time consuming than some other phones.
     
    ahl395, May 17, 2011
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  6. ahl395

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    Hey HAL, do you happen to have a flashable zip (or data files that i can just move to location) for the camera.apk for gingerbread?

    i think you posted something like that on this thread before :p

    I screwed up my camera.apk and really dont wanna have to flash the whole ROM again to fix it :eek:
     
    ahl395, May 17, 2011
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  7. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Which ROM and kernel are you on and I can whip you one up real quick. :)
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 17, 2011
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  8. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    ahl395, May 17, 2011
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  9. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Before I finish the zip, I have another package that's been really popular... it replaces stock music with Google Music 3.0. It also changes system fonts to Zegoe UI and replaces ADW with the stock Nexus S launcher... would you want that one (with the camera fix of course) or just the camera fix?
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 17, 2011
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  10. ahl395

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    Sounds good to me :D

    I'm using LauncherPro anyway... so ill just backup my settings for it before i flash incase it takes it off.
     
    ahl395, May 17, 2011
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  11. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Ok... Try this: Download Me!

    That should work on any CM7 install.

    It replaces stock music with Google Music 3.0
    Replaces stock fonts with Zegoe UI Light
    Replaces camera
    Replaces ADW Launcher with Launcher2

    :)
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 17, 2011
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  12. mrXniick

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    So this would work on the nexus one as well? Do i need to wipe if coming from a CM7 nightly
     
    mrXniick, May 17, 2011
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  13. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Nope, no wipe... and yep, it works on a Nexus One. :) As long as you're using clockwork mod recovery 3 and up (which if you're on Gingerbread you're using CWM3). You would have to re-apply this after installing a nightly though, because a nightly will overwrite my changes.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 17, 2011
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  14. mrXniick

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    Awesome, will back up and give it a try. Thanks a lot!

    Edit: Just flashed it, love the new font. Thanks again!
     
    mrXniick, May 18, 2011
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  15. ahl395

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    Sweet, thanks alot man :D
     
    ahl395, May 18, 2011
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    mrXniick, May 18, 2011
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    ^ damn lol thats crazy :eek:


    @HAL: can you replace your services.jar in CM7 and is it hard?
     
    ahl395, May 18, 2011
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  18. Step666

    Step666 Professional chubby Chris Pratt impersonator

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    Not as great on paper as the 4.8" 1920x1080 display that was mentioned a wee while back but I think it was probably overkill...
     
    Step666, May 18, 2011
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  19. mrXniick

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    I agree, and I am perfectly fine with overkill ;)
     
    mrXniick, May 18, 2011
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  20. Step666

    Step666 Professional chubby Chris Pratt impersonator

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    I think I'll compromise if it means I can avoid overkilling my battery :rolleyes:
     
    Step666, May 18, 2011
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    mrXniick, May 18, 2011
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  22. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Usually the services.jar goes with a theme... what were you going to do with it? You can use smali/baksmali to decompile/recompile changes into it. :)
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 18, 2011
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  23. ahl395

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    To do a work around on T-Mobie's throttling :rolleyes:

    I have a services.jar i need to replace the current one with.

    Would i still use Smali/Baksmali? i figured i just use Root Explorer or something lol :p

    Theres a guide oon how to do it with Froyo, i just dont know if the same applies for gingerbread
     
    ahl395, May 18, 2011
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  24. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    If you're using CM7, throttling doesn't apply. :) CM7 doesn't have any of the carrier or OEM restrictions.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 18, 2011
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  25. ahl395

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    Really?! O_O T-Mobile cannot throttle me running CM7? :eek:

    That is awesome... :D XD although ill have to test to be 100% sure when i get the new plan :p

    Now i see why carriers want the devices' bootloaders locked :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
     
    ahl395, May 18, 2011
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  26. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Well, we can throttle on the network side of things... but I'm not sure about T-Mobile's capabilities. Even though your device isn't configured to throttle, doesn't mean the network isn't as well. Though with them touting unlimited, my bets are on them using services.jar to throttle.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 18, 2011
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  27. ahl395

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    Yeah, theres a guide on XDA of how to get rid of the throttle which is what i was referring to.

    Although its from a few months ago, im hoping the same thing applies, it would do wonders for me :D :rolleyes:
     
    ahl395, May 18, 2011
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  28. Step666

    Step666 Professional chubby Chris Pratt impersonator

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    Step666, May 19, 2011
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  29. Step666

    Step666 Professional chubby Chris Pratt impersonator

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    Texty rocks.
    That is all.
     
    Step666, May 20, 2011
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  30. Phistachio

    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Phistachio, May 20, 2011
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  31. Step666

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    Turns out it's just 2.3.3.
    Still, it's a step in the right direction.
     
    Step666, May 20, 2011
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  32. Phistachio

    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Yep, it shows that SE is supporting their phones, as they promised.
     
    Phistachio, May 20, 2011
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  33. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    And when are you getting the Arc? You've been talking about it for a while... you better hurry. It's getting surpassed, spec wise, every day by some other new phone that comes out... :rolleyes:
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 20, 2011
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  34. Phistachio

    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Haha, it's on the 24th July, my birthday :p
     
    Phistachio, May 20, 2011
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    mrXniick, May 20, 2011
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    H.A.L. 9000, May 20, 2011
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    Fede is a talented man, I just wish he'd hurry up with the new version of LauncherPro ;)
     
    Step666, May 20, 2011
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  38. TofuTurkey

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    TofuTurkey, May 22, 2011
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    ahl395 Ahlball

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    ahl395, May 22, 2011
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    Yeah it's quite funny :D I sent their tech support an email, hopefully they just forgot to put the info in...
     
    TofuTurkey, May 22, 2011
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    Phistachio, May 22, 2011
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  43. Step666

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    Not really.
    Compare it to the benchmarks of the TI OMAP 4430 in the Optimus 3D and it's nothing to write home about - and that's in spite of the OMAP CPU being clocked at 1GHz as opposed to the MSM8660's 1.5GHz.

    Heck, in one benchmark, it's beaten by a Tegra2 handset.
     
    Step666, May 22, 2011
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  44. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Exactly.

    The MSM8660 is still using the Cortex A8 CPU architecture. The Adreno 220 might not be that bad, but it doesn't have the CPU power or the bus bandwidth to really push the GPU that hard. The OMAP 44xx series, on the other hand, will whoop up on just about anything shy of the iPad 2's SGX543MP2. The OMAP 44xx has the CPU power, with Cortex A9, and well more than enough bus bandwidth to push the SGX540 for what it can really do. CPU wise, the OMAP 44xx series at 1GHz, will probably be close (or maybe even outclass) the MSM8660 at 1.5GHz.

    CPU architectures in mobile devices is a big thing. Major changes with each new architecture and instruction set. Another reason the OMAP 44xx series does so good is it now features 64-bit and 128-bit NEON/SIMD VFP's on each core, and SoC performance scales linearly with core count.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 22, 2011
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  45. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    I get horrible data speeds on CM7 o_O

    Here comes the test of whether or not i can get around the data cap....
     
    ahl395, May 22, 2011
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  46. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Yea, they're working on RIL right now. It's been a real problem so far. RIL = Radio Interface Layer.

    Sidenote:

    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mcr2uWkJkzI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mcr2uWkJkzI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width='560' height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
     
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  47. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Man... i might go back to Froyo because of it. (if it does turn out that i can avoid the throttle) cuz i wanna use it as my main source of internet. :rolleyes:
     
    ahl395, May 22, 2011
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    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Throttling in affect!

    so... my ping is definetly affected, doubled and tripled. my upload is barely affected. My download was taken from ~2 to ~1.
    I was supposed to be throttled to 2G speeds... so now im just getting slow 3G speeds. Weird... so i semi-avoided the throttle lol. Need to try it on a Froyo ROM. Because 1Mbits isnt gonna help me tethering :rolleyes:


    EDIT;

    a REBOOT fixed all that! :D

    [​IMG]


    ...............


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    ..............


    [​IMG]

    (and a modem change fixed the data speeds)
     
    ahl395, May 22, 2011
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  49. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Jesus, that's on 3G? And you say 1 Mb/s download is slow?

    This is what I'm getting right now, and it's on the good side of average for me (it's well after midnight here, and it's much worse around 8-10PM):

    [​IMG]

    Do I have something configured wrong or what? Should there really be this enormous of a difference if we're both on 3G :confused:
     
    Mastershroom, May 23, 2011
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  50. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    I'm telling you, that's not 3G. At most that's dismal 1xEV Rev0. Personally, I think that's 1xRTT.

    OR...

    You are indeed provisioned under 1xEV Rev.A and the tower you're connected to is being slammed with traffic, or has terrible backhaul. Since VM is basically prepaid Sprint service, their backhaul and tower capacity has minimum limits imposed by the FCC. I would place a few calls to customer service for VM and see if they can figure out if you're just provisioned wrong or what the problem is. Because you should be getting around 1-2Mbps down and around .2-.5Mbps up.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, May 23, 2011
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