If you have a question about your Android phone, post it here.

Please include the following information:

1. Which phone you have.
2. Whether you're rooted or not.
3. Whether you're running a custom ROM or not.

I, or someone else, will do our best to answer it for you.

Battery Issues:

• Why Does My Battery Drop 10% Right After I Unplug It?
• Step-by-Step List of Battery Tweak Settings
• HTC's Official How To Improve Battery Life
• In-Depth Battery Guide
  
• Battery Calibration:
  IF NOT ROOTED:
  1. Turn ON & charge for 8+ hours.
  2. Unplug & turn OFF. Charge for 1 hour.
  3. Turn ON, fully boot, & wait 2 minutes with phone active. Turn OFF & charge for 1 hour.
  4. Turn ON and continue on your merry way.
  
  IF ROOTED:
  1. Turn ON & charge for 8+ hours.
  2. Unplug & turn OFF. Charge for 1 hour.
  3. Turn ON, fully boot, & wait 2 minutes with phone active. Turn OFF & charge for 1 hour.
  4. While still plugged in, turn ON and boot into Recovery. Delete Battery Stats.
  5. Turn ON and boot fully, then unplug.
  6. Use normally. DO NOT CHARGE until the battery has been depleted fully and the phone turns off the phone automatically.
  7. Recharge fully.

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AppBrain & Useful Apps

Is there any way to try an app before paying for it? Some apps seem cool but I'm not sure if I will like them until I try them.

The Android Market has a 15 minute refund window. It used to be 24 hours but Google recently changed this, as developers were getting fucked over with people exploiting the longer window.

So buy the app, try it out and if you don't like it, Uninstall it within 15 minutes for a refund. But if you buy it again later, then that purchase will be non-refundable.

Good to know, thanks. 15 min isn't a lot of time but I can see why it's needed.

HTC EVO - Rooted with Unrevoked forever
Myn's TwopointTwo rev4. rom
kernel #17

Can I load new SBC Kernel on Myn's TwopointTwo rev4. rom with kernel #17? And what version I should use so many to pick?

Looks like SBC can preserve the battery pretty good.

ps: Every man and every horny women should have this app.
Highly recommended Adult Movies HD_1.2

http://www.4shared.com/file/Lb04RZu1...vies_HD_12.htm

I can't beat level 1-4 of Angry Birds seasonal game, what's the best method used?

when will androids be realistic enough for sexual purposes? you know, sexbot. Doing the dishes and laundry would be also nice. Followed by the extinction of the human race as procreation grinds to a halt.


wait is this thread about phones? wtf?

Yes. Myn himself posted that he just flashed "SBC-net-4.2.2-more-havs.zip" the other day and has been using it since.

Note that each Evo will have a different result with any given Kernel. This is due to subtle hardware differences between different phones. Your only option is to try them out and figure out which ones work best for you.

I've been running Myn's with Netarchy's different kernels, with great success. Ziggy's and KingKlick's kernels have always resulted in random reboots for me, so I've stopped testing those. Your phone's results may differ.


Sadly, I even have an answer for this. Go to YouTube and search "Angry Birds Seasons Walkthrough."

What is the difference in roms with HAVS and NO-HAVS

What's your favorite keyboard and do different keyboards have different autocomplete? The new iPhone autocomplete works way better than my stock Evo. Unrooted. Thanks. Good thread.

I use swype and not going to anything else.
I wan to try gingerbread keyboard.

Great thread post bek! Should probably end up being very helpful for many.

I just flashed SBC on EVO, will see if it's better than #17 kernel.
Bek should I flash new radio and WIMax? I know it's been a problem with stock kernel and new radio updates, it wouldn't boot all the way.

you forgot post coital sammich making

I hope you guys like it

Im using the identical setup as you, with the newest SBC V7 on the Myn RLS4. with the old radios for now. Waiting for RLS5, hopefully that has the newer radios that wont mess anything up. Rooting and flashing is as addicting as riding. So far so good.

I want to try VirusREvolution Rom but the setup of my phone is so nice and I wan to keep it that way.
I know when you do backup via Ra_Recovery it will preserve you screen layout ect.
Those two are my favorite setups with Vanilla lock screen to get two different wallpapers (one for lockscreen and another one as a background)

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To be clear, HAVS are not a feature of a ROM, but are a feature of a kernel. This is important, since different kernels can be combined with different ROMs.

HAVS: Hybrid Adaptive Voltage Scaling, basically tries to undervolt as much as possible to conserve power, but adapts to things like cpu load and temperature.

No HAVS: Static voltage scaling, every cpu speed pulls a specific amount of power from the battery, no variation

CFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completely_Fair_Scheduler

BFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Fuck_Scheduler

I was using Swype Beta for a while, but one of their recent releases pissed me off - it introduced a bug that prioritized names in my contacts over regular words. It's been fixed since. But I switched to SwiftKey and have been using that since. The awesome feature of SwiftKey is that it analyzes your SMS history and uses that to "learn" how you type, to better improve the autocomplete prediction. And that works very well.

I'm currently on Radio 2.15.00.11.19, WiMAX 27167_R01, but am NOT on the latest PRI 1.90. I'm still on 1.77. When I tried out 1.90, I ran into CPU issues, as many others on Myn's have as well. It's been documented elsewhere that you need to run it against a 3.70 based ROM, which Myn's RLS 4 is not. Myn was on vacation for the last 2 weeks, so has not been able to put RLS 5 together just yet.

From here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485

I really like Myn's Rom, had pretty good battery and rest is all good.
I subscribed to Myan's Rom post.
I have the same radio and WiMax as you do.


ps: thx for the HAVS info

All these rules and crap, no wonder why I HATE my Droid 2. My battery on my iP4 last so much longer and I don't have to do all these steps.

Haters' gonna hate.

It.has.begun !!!!!

Regarding the samsung epic, if anybody needs help rooting it, deleting stock sprint apps, adding custom roms to it let me know. Been doing a lot of reading the past couple days, got my phone rooted, wireless tether installed so I dont have to pay sprint for theres, all the sprint apps removed I dont want. Havent added any roms yet just to see what kind of battery life I can get out of the stock phone. Right now with my extended battery I can get 3 full days. 4g on half my day, pandora streaming for a few hours each day. The normal facebook, email checks every once in a while. Still gonna hold off on 2.2 right now just because theres rumors everywhere about it comming out this month.

Unrooted Galaxy S here, on US Cell.

My questions are n00bish:
1) What are some of the more popular apps?
2) Is there an easy way to get rid of ad content (both on websites & within apps)?
3) Looks like lots of apps are free while similar apps have a small fee. What do you get (if anything) when purchasing the fee based version vs the freebies?

1. Depends on what you want to do with your phone. Certainly games like angry bird are really popular right now. Also sports apps that give you live listening and even sometimes footage of the game. Really depends what you are into.

2. There is no way to remove the ads. Most of the payed apps are ad free and thats the incentive they use to get you to pay for it.

3. Payed app could allow you to use 100% of the apps functions while the free one might be limited in what it can do. Also payed apps most of the time dont have ads whichs refers to question 2 as well.

1. I've been meaning to update the earlier FAQ post with some info about this.

Hop over to AppBrain.com. You can browse popular apps at the top. It's an extremely useful website for browsing apps via web browser. If you set up an account like many have, you can queue up apps to install on your phone. You can also share your app lists with others. Here's mine if you want to see what I have:

http://www.appbrain.com/user/Bek/app...he-htc-evo-4g/

2. You need to root, in order to use any of the available ad-removal apps out there.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/adfree-a...android.adfree

3. All depends on the app & the choice of the developer. Some apps offer 100% of their features with or without ads. Others withhold features until you buy the app.

Hope this helps to get you started!

Will my sim card from my android phone (samsung galaxy S tmobile) work on samsung galaxy tab tmobile also. I know the phone feature will not be working, but what about internet?

I believe the answer is yes.

But more interesting, the T-Mobile Tab was hacked a month ago & is capable of making phone calls too.