I am wondering if this is a valid idea....
When my TILT stopped getting on the network I switched to a new phone, but I still have mostly functional TILT with software like TOMTOM on it.
I have as best I can turned off as many phone features as I can... but it seems there might be some use for a ROM with the phone stuff disabled [to save power and prevent calls that will screw up your current phone situation] and leaving the device usable as a small MID with wifi.
I mean, these things cost lots of money and it seems silly to just toss them out... I can still use my TILT as a GPS, media player, games, sketching, lots, really, in fact I rarely used it's phone features before...
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Just got my Fuze Saturday. Due to family gatherings and work alligators, haven't had much time to dink with it, but here are some items that y'all may find interesting. Let me start out by saying that I played with the demo model in the AT&T store a few weeks ago, and saw the lag and other things that have been reported here.
My Fuze (for now) is completely stock. No tweaks, no apps, no SD card. Only thing I've done is sync contacts. I wanted to have a chance to play with it like this, so I'd have a baseline feel before mods.
ROM - 1.95.502.5 WWE
Radio - 1.02.25.32
I put a full charge (wall charger) on it after getting it, so as of noon Sunday it had a full battery. Since then, I definitely haven't been power using it, haven't used or played with GPS, no BT pairing, but I am in a 3G area (have left it on) and had wifi enabled half of the time. I've done about 30 texts, half a dozen short calls, manual email tx/rx half a dozen times a day, played with most of the goodies (stock games, weather, camera(w & w/o flash), video recording, CV, browsers, etc.) The battery finally showed low message this morning (Tuesday), so I'm recharging for the first time since the initial charge Sunday. Maybe my expectations are low, coming from an original iPhone, but so far the battery life appears to be much better that expected.
Most of the lag is either gone or minimal (unless I've got everything on the phone opened up at the same time, which has happened a couple time during this 'exploration' stage). So far, nothing has hiccuped or hung, so no need for a reset.
I'm sure that during the next few days, now that I have some down time to really ring it out, I'll find the clay feet (yes, I'm actually wimping out and going thru the users guide to try everything out before I start updating). I do miss the iPhone big screen, I'm adjusting to having to 'press' the touch screen (it's response is also much better than the demo unit), but I am very happy with my decision to get this guy. Personally, I love the form factor, It's heaven having a real keyboard (and the row of punctuation across the top), not to mention it's feature set and potential.
If there's anything that someone wants me to check out with this ROM version, let me know. Be forewarned I'm not a noobie to smartphones (I'm a junkie) but I am a noobie to twiddling them. That's one of the reasons I got this...I see it as a new hobby
here is a little battery burner test, enable the HSDPA and listen to music while broswering the internet, make sure the light sensor is on so it could turn up the brightness on ur screen and tell us how much batter life you get, if u get bored of broswering the internet, watch live tv, via orb or slingbox media player.
Get NATF's rom, v3.2 best rom out right now...
So,
I have and HTC Titan, and I've done a bunch of stuff to it, including getting aGPS and Touchflo, etc. Three things about it, though, have irked me for the duration of owning it, and the only thing preventing me from doing a whole ROM flash was that I was not too far from my "new every two" deal on Verizon. Well, I am now eligible for an upgrade, but I am too poor to get a "cool" new phone, because I can't pay for data...I thought about going for the Kin2m, which now does not require a plan, but...it seems like that would be a mistake. So, for the time being, I am sticking with my xv6800, and I am wondering if anyone can please help me out with the three items below:
1) Volume! I have tried tweaking the registry to no avail. No matter what I do, I can't get the volume loud enough on calls. I can't make calls outside or where there is any noise.
2) Speed...it lags when I do anything. I would get rid of Touchflo, but it doesn't seem to make much difference --still laggy. My laptop has the ability to use a flash card for RAM...is this possible with a phone?
3) Interface...this is least important, but it just seems like it would be nice if it operated like a touchscreen phone (since it is touchscreen). If I use opera-mobile, it works just like an Iphone...is there any way to get the same functionality on an HTC phone (like, flick around menus with ease)?
Is there a ROM out there that will definitively solve the above problems, or am I truly doomed to a sad, sad existence..?
Please help!
Hey All,
Pardon this fundamental query. Just looking for basic layman's counsel. I've had a Sprint TP2 for under 1 year; it's the best I can do on my $30 SERO plan without paying more for access to newer phones. I've been basically content, as I only use it for texting, email, GPS/Google Maps, light occasional web surfing, and music --> bluetooth FM transmitter --> car stereo (plus the rare actual phone call. I actually hate talking on the phone, but sometimes ya gotta just do some talkin'). I had the first TP before this, and I did flash it other ROMs, although I was never 100% convinced that there was much real improvement. I've noticed that the GPS is consistently inferior on the TP2 than it was on the original TP; it can never pinpoint my locale with any greater accuracy than within about 1/4mi, which is kinda ridiculous. The TP got me within a few hundred feet. I figure this is a hardware issue, though, as I've never found a .cab or app that can fix that on the TP2.
So, the TP2 can be a tad sluggish, sometimes a tad buggy, but it gets the job done. I recently took a trip to Florida (from CT) and my phone completely stopped working; froze up, lost track of time, couldn't get into SD card, couldn't get online -- nothing. Took it into Sprint and they wiped and reinstalled everything, now it's back to normal. I bought it used on eBay after all, and turned off the insurance within a few months, so I'm on my own; Sprint won't replace or do anything if I brick it or if anything else happens.
I'm about to get a 7" Android 2.2 tablet that I intend to use for web/games/GPS/movies, and will install a .cab on the TP2 that hopefully allows me to use it as a wifi hotspot. Other than that, I can't see much real need to do any tinkering, but there's this whole world of excitement around custom ROMs and Android, and so I have to ask -- is it mainly for techie satisfaction, or are there genuine gains to be made? Could my TP2 really be made into a better device even for my simple purposes? Would flashing make my GPS work better, my music sound better, my 3G or wifi web experience faster, or my general OS more stable while traveling? Will it make my device live longer?
I don't mean to question the very raison d'être of the culture that abounds on this and other sites. Just wondering if y'all think its necessary for a guy like me to go messing with this stuff.
The hunt continues...
I wanted to take a quick poll to see if perhaps Bluetooth might be causing some of the reboots/freezes we've been experiencing?
If you do use bluetooth can you please reply with what profiles? i.e. Headset, A2DP (stereo), computer, other phones, etc. Also do you leave it on all the time or turn it on/off as needed.
I've never used bluetooth on my phone and still get reboots/freezes.
I don't understand why people would keep a non-working phone. Swap the thing out. Trust me, you will save yourself a ton of misery. Trying to fix a broken phone through patches and tricks is pointless. Swap it out!
jcbofkc said:
I don't understand why people would keep a non-working phone. Swap the thing out. Trust me, you will save yourself a ton of misery. Trying to fix a broken phone through patches and tricks is pointless. Swap it out!
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I agree if it was consistent. As I said, I was on a recent trip abroad and used my G2X extensively (same app/software load) and it ran flawlessly for 3 days straight. It only rebooted/froze when I was back home!!
I actually used it even more than normal on this trip including the following:
- Constant wifi calling and low signal wifi APs, jumping from Wifi AP to Wifi AP
- Take about 20 minutes total of 1080p videos
- Tons of pictures including different modes
- Lots of browsing, games, apps use
- Tons of texting
- Quite a bit of phone calls
It handled it perfectly - only thing I didn't turn on during this time was Bluetooth. While when I'm at home I use BT quite extensively.
The point is, if my phone rebooted every few hours or even every day no matter what, I'd swap it in a heartbeat but this inconsistency makes it seem it's a software bug and not so much a hardware bug.
jcbofkc said:
I don't understand why people would keep a non-working phone. Swap the thing out. Trust me, you will save yourself a ton of misery. Trying to fix a broken phone through patches and tricks is pointless. Swap it out!
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If it is trully software related, have you made a backup and tried other ROMs? Just a thought.
Having trolled through the General forums for a while, I'm coming up empty on concrete ideas on what to do with a recently retired Sprint HTC EVO 4G.
The phone ran Cyanogen 9 for the last two months of its life, and, it received a brand new OEM battery. It's still in great physical shape, and ready to do some work for its new owner, my 4 year-old son.
Here's what I'd like to figure out:
* How to turn this thing into a glorified micro-tablet
* Turn off all radios, save for WIFI
* Extend battery life as much as possible
My initial thought was to simply shut off everything I could to eek out as much battery life as possible. I was disappointed to see that after a few short hours of game play, the device still ran out of juice just about as fast as it did when it was on Sprint's CDMA network. Pisser.
Next, I thought I would hunt down a ROM that didn't have any of the "phone" features we typically find on a ROM. IE: Zero comms support other than WIFI. Well, this tactic has proven pretty much impossible. Every ROM I've come across seems to be a fully-functional ROM. Dag nabbit.
I now turn to XDA for enlightenment.
* Bonus: My 6 year-old has a 1st generation Kindle Fire. I love it's stripped down Android OS, with all of its parental controls, and *really* easy UI. Is there any way to get Kindle's OS, or one very similar to it?
In closing, does anybody know of a ROM for Android phones that has no phone-like services?
before reading that it was for your son i'd have said to transform it in a torrent box.
Anyway the only way you could turn off radio (what's the purpose tho, just don't insert a sim) it's to mess with the phone's imei. Once it's corrupted it can't go online on mobile networks but just on wifi.
Hope that helps
Kids Toy OR...
In the past I let my little nephews and cousins play angry birds etc on my old android. I left a dead SIM card in to get rid of the annoying notification and BAM... instant mobile gaming platform they can drop, kick, and drool on for all I care. Would it be a good backup phone in case my current one goes for a swim? ...sure. But they get more use out of it this way.
Also you could try and type *#*#4636#*#* in the phone's dialer screen. What you'll see is the phone testing menu, if you choose the first sub-menu, you can scroll down to turn off the radio.
This isn't permanent tho, it resets in case of reboot. If the phone was rooted you could write a script to run this settings at every start-up.