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problems of the G2x?

thinking of possibly buying a G2x.... but before buying I wanna hear what problems it has and complaints ppl on here have with it unrooted AND rooted. Or is it good enuff to just go ahead n buy.
cause I enjoyed n LOVED my G2 but I kinda wanna try something new which is why I'm looking at this device.

Anyone?
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random reboots, battery pulls due to freezing, terrible battery life.
just wait till gingerbread is out then get the phone.

the only problem I've had with my phone is just the gps taking a long time to lock.. Other than I've been problem free and great battery life

My first one was crashing all the time. I just got a new one and it hasn't crashed yet, but the backlight is too intense and bleeds through. Wait for the S2.
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rvdangel630 said:
random reboots, battery pulls due to freezing, terrible battery life.
just wait till gingerbread is out then get the phone.
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Any word when gingerbread will be out for the phone?
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lbingham said:
My first one was crashing all the time. I just got a new one and it hasn't crashed yet, but the backlight is too intense and bleeds through. Wait for the S2.
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Couldn't you just lower the brightness??
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Anyone else? are there many roms for this device?
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yo dude get the phone its awesome yea there mite be a little bleed but its common with lcds u wont see it with gingerbread i had the leaked gingerbread version n wont see it in everyday tasks maybe at bootup n thats literally a second long n thats sayin u get one with bleed , theres so many developers working with this phone theres like 4 different roms out fauxs asop rom u got cyanogenmod u have eagleblood froyo and gingerbread and bionix so thats like 5 , and we have a bunch of custom kernels the phone is sick quick i get great battery life, umm the camera is awesome imo, game playing is sick on here especially with the hdmi mirroring and my gps works fine to many ****in peeps complain about this phone let me tell u something stare at something to long n ull find a flaw bro i love this phone its quality yea it got a couple lil issues nothing gingerbread or a custom rom cant fix n gingerbread will be here soon thats all we know

THANK YOU. Pretty much answered all my questions.
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[Q] Gingerbread power on/off "tv style" screen collapse effect

I just got a Sensation from Telstra in Australia...
Great phone, but as usual, heaps of their bloatware on there.
One thing I know Gingerbread does, which I had on my custom rom for the HTC Desire, was the power on/off "tv style" screen collapse effect.
Does anyone have this on the Sensation ? Not sure if it should be there and telstra stuffed it up, or HTC has removed it.
Anyway to get it to happen before the phone is rooted?
Warmly, Marty

Nope... I don't have it on mine (Swiss Carrier). I like that effect but seems like it has been removed by HTC. Correct me if I'm wrong

swissman said:
Nope... I don't have it on mine (Swiss Carrier). I like that effect but seems like it has been removed by HTC. Correct me if I'm wrong
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Well, That sucks!!!
Ok, next question....
Does anyone know if its possible to "load" that effect in an apk?

artymarty said:
Well, That sucks!!!
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Sorry for the negative answer... I wish I could have started the day with good news (6am here)!
The apk would be great and welcome
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I just sent a tech support email to HTC to ask where the setting is to turn this on...(ie: It's a feature of Gingerbread, HTC Sensation runs Gingerbread so how do I do it?....) if everyone else does the same...
Marty
PS. and this is WHY they should not lock the bloody bootloader - I would just put on a custom sense3 rom that had it added back...

artymarty said:
I just got a Sensation from Telstra in Australia...
Great phone, but as usual, heaps of their bloatware on there.
One thing I know Gingerbread does, which I had on my custom rom for the HTC Desire, was the power on/off "tv style" screen collapse effect.
Does anyone have this on the Sensation ? Not sure if it should be there and telstra stuffed it up, or HTC has removed it.
Anyway to get it to happen before the phone is rooted?
Warmly, Marty
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I have actually taken the framework-res.apk and decompiled it or whatever with apk manager and I have added the necessary fix, but this being my first time messing with that, it failed couldn't get it to build again :/ I read that it was an issue with sense, blur and so on Roms but I tried :/ maybe someone more talented than I can do it
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jassycliq said:
I have actually taken the framework-res.apk and decompiled it or whatever with apk manager and I have added the necessary fix, but this being my first time messing with that, it failed couldn't get it to build again :/ I read that it was an issue with sense, blur and so on Roms but I tried :/ maybe someone more talented than I can do it
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Adusting the framework.apk - that would not work until you have s-off or root anyway would it?

They removed the affect that you get when you reach the bottom of a menu. Not sure why they did that.

We have temp root already which let's us change the system files until next reboot. So I was thinking it might work, don't know until I'd be able to finish compiling that thing :/
Idk I'm just a noob when it comes to that lol
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jassycliq said:
We have temp root already which let's us change the system files until next reboot. So I was thinking it might work, don't know until I'd be able to finish compiling that thing :/
Idk I'm just a noob when it comes to that lol
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Ill try doing it, lets see if I can pull it off.
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theres a free app on the market for the tv effect called screen off and lock

New HTC Battery Widget

Just downloaded the new HTC Battery widget.
Nothing fancy, it's just a battery icon that sits on your home screen displaying how much battery power is left as a percentage.
When clicked on basic info opens in a new window such as health, voltage and temperature.
Just thought I'd pass it on just in case anyone is interested.

Lol its not new bro, its been around since I was using Android on my HD2. But yes I noticed it wasnt available for the sensation when I first looked on hub so I just ripped the .apk from my desire hd
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vincepg13 said:
Lol its not new bro, its been around since I was using Android on my HD2. But yes I noticed it wasnt available for the sensation when I first looked on hub so I just ripped the .apk from my desire hd
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I did the samething and now today there was an update for it
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vincepg13 said:
Lol its not new bro, its been around since I was using Android on my HD2. But yes I noticed it wasnt available for the sensation when I first looked on hub so I just ripped the .apk from my desire hd
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Oh my bad. Got the notice this morning and it said new.... guess its just new to Sensation.
This is my first HTC phone since the original T-mobile Dash so the hub among other things are new to me.

RaViCa said:
Oh my bad. Got the notice this morning and it said new.... guess its just new to Sensation.
This is my first HTC phone since the original T-mobile Dash so the hub among other things are new to me.
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I got the same notification too
Had added the widget this morning, it's handy having % battery meter, but I hadn't tapped it to find out the other info was available so thanks for that

Get the battery monitor widget from android market..It's way much better....
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Have u ever tried Battery Circle from Market?
I think it is the better for use with stock rom.
https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.blinkenlights.battery&feature=search_result&hl=en

piratashitzu said:
Have u ever tried Battery Circle from Market?
I think it is the better for use with stock rom.
https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.blinkenlights.battery&feature=search_result&hl=en
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Perfect!

Does this widget hogs a lot of battery usage I mean does it drains the battery if u use the widget?
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vincepg13 said:
I just ripped the .apk from my desire hd
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Any chance you have a download link for that .apk file?
They seem to have removed it from the market on my sensation, .. its not coming up on a search on there now.

I think if you get the OTA update it will show on your HTC hub. But ill try to rip the apk and let you know.
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I use battery circle.
It's too legit!

piratashitzu said:
Have u ever tried Battery Circle from Market?
I think it is the better for use with stock rom.
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Just installed. That's the bees knees man.

Does this widget consumes battery usage?
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RaViCa said:
Just downloaded the new HTC Battery widget.
Nothing fancy, it's just a battery icon that sits on your home screen displaying how much battery power is left as a percentage.
When clicked on basic info opens in a new window such as health, voltage and temperature.
Just thought I'd pass it on just in case anyone is interested.
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Thanks for the info, i've been waiting for this since i got my Sensation.
I used to always use it on my DHD

jhobert said:
I think if you get the OTA update it will show on your HTC hub.
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Just grabbed it off the HTC Hub, thanks for the tip. I was looking for it on the market like a spanner

HTC Battery Widget v2.60
Here it is HTC Battery Widget v2.60 for anyone who is looking for is as apk (downloaded from Desire S HTC hub).

Thanks dejan
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Nice
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[QUESTION] ICS on OLDER PHONE LIKE US

hello we all own a DS but as the following link says that even we get ICS then ,
"What'll happen on phones that do have physical
buttons, then? Will Ice Cream Sandwich work on
those types of devices?
Yep -- only instead of getting the on-screen
navigation buttons, you'll use your phone's physical
buttons in the same way you do now. The menu key
will load any contextual on-screen menus, and long-
pressing the home key will load the multitasking tool,
just like it has in past Android releases."
reference:http://blogs.computerworld.com/19133/android_ice_cream_sandwich_faq
I'd seen superkids ICS but there I see those on screen keys present.
someone make it go ...
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Well it will obviously work on those devices because Google will update the nexus s which has capacitive buttons
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SDK port is working on the original HTC Desire.

dan-fish said:
Well it will obviously work on those devices because Google will update the nexus s which has capacitive buttons
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i know it will work but as we already have capacitive buttons so the on screen buttons seem obsolete taking up space of our screen without any freaking need . so devs should make it go away somehow . dont look at me I am not a developer i just dont wanna loose my pixels over those obsolete onscreen button for us ...
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rayulove69 said:
i know it will work but as we already have capacitive buttons so the on screen buttons seem obsolete taking up space of our screen without any freaking need . so devs should make it go away somehow . dont look at me I am not a developer i just dont wanna loose my pixels over those obsolete onscreen button for us ...
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if you use sense you have onscreen buttons anyway.whats the problem?

djisgod said:
if you use sense you have onscreen buttons anyway.whats the problem?
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that is like dock like only in homescreen but we are talking like almost everywhere onscreen back home and multitasking button..isnt it a bit of clutter for us?
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rayulove69 said:
that is like dock like only in homescreen but we are talking like almost everywhere onscreen back home and multitasking button..isnt it a bit of clutter for us?
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You won't get the software buttons on phones with hardware buttons.

TonyLeMesmer said:
You won't get the software buttons on phones with hardware buttons.
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i saw different on desire s port and even on samsung galaxy s 2 port . saw on youtube
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rayulove69 said:
i saw different on desire s port and even on samsung galaxy s 2 port . saw on youtube
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They're sdk ports. Also the files have to be changed for our devices because they're all based on the galaxy nexus
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Superkid will remove these once the whole lot is working I should assume. No need to worry! We are not running on old phones, so there is a slight possibility we will get an OTA update

i personally think htc will update the desire s to ICS since they did upgrade the ds to sense 3 and they said they won't. Also sony ericson is promising ics on every phone with a 1ghz processor released in 2011, and if they deliver htc will be under fire for not giving ics to both the desire s and incredible s. Also htc will lose the excuse of saying the hardware is too old/slow to support ics since the current list only consists of dual core phones.

I've tested Superkid Alpha ICS but it won't stop crashing! We'll get ICS but wait for it a bit longer... ^^

It crashes because of wallpaper, and i deleted the phisical bottons already, check last page in my post

I'll calm down and looking forward to have that ROM to wear on my DS. I'm sure all DS owners are looking at this thread and do a following up information how an ics goes far...
I hope to test it soon or one days

May I add one more question , Ive read somewhere that the nexus prime is capable of Portable mass storage (external harddisk) is this coz of ics or is it hardware related? If software will it mean that if we get our ics update we will also have the same thing? That would be neat!
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Mario Christian Oquias said:
May I add one more question , Ive read somewhere that the nexus prime is capable of Portable mass storage (external harddisk) is this coz of ics or is it hardware related? If software will it mean that if we get our ics update we will also have the same thing? That would be neat!
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To my understanding that's a hardware thing so even if we do get ics it wont be there as you need usb host support to be able to use portable hdd, gamepad etc.
Sent from a darkly dreaming freak named Ray with a hTC Desire S in his hand which's rom is changed by the owner more than his clothes !

Just to keep you informed, i've tested 2.3.1 of SuperIce from Superkid and it's really really good but it lacks hardware accelaration!
I gives a greap overview of what could be ICS on our desire s

I will wait for official release because I didn't find anything that works...

Capacitive buttons not too responsive !

Hey guys , so i bought an HTC One S (S4) , and i realized that the capacitive buttons are a bit laggy , i don't know how to explain this .. but when i for example click back or home the action itself is done after like half a second .. i had the S3 version , and i didn't notice this on that one !! is it that a normal thing ? is it Sense ?? or is there something wrong with the device ?
P.S Running stock ROM !

Mine is and always has been instantly responsive from the capacitive buttons on stock and custom roms. It's the s4 as well. Not sure what would cause that.
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is the mobile doing this since you bought?

sinlimites said:
is the mobile doing this since you bought?
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yes it is !

Hiken_Ace said:
yes it is !
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I would use guarantee in order to check it

I also bought One S a little time ago and it was lagging as hell (buttons and whole system too). Factory reset didn't helpen at all. But when I installed different RUU it become smuth as butter.
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