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[Q] VEGAn Observations/Questions

Naturally I bought a g Tablet Saturday and Woot has them today for almost $100 less! Oh well. Big big big improvement from my old FlyTouch2 which was a great idea poorly executed.
Immediately flashed VEGAn with supplements etc. All working VERY well but a few questions/observations.
1) If I wanted to hook this up to a USB or Bluetooth modem (well, actually a BlackBerry) it looks like there is no setup for this? Yes, I know if I could find a way to make the BB broadcast WiFi but its corporate so that's a nonstarter.
2) When I hold down the power button, the menu that comes up it clipped off at the bottom. Is that normal?
3) Screen lock on Kindle software is not getting the accelerometer fix somehow. The trick was to put the thing in portrait UPSIDE DOWN and lock the screen. That caused it to lock it 180 degrees off. But then when it is locked you can go back to right side up (to me, right side up is with the buttons to the top). Of course, if you want to lock it another way you have to experiment.
4) Camera Fun shows camera upside down. No big deal -- again accelerometer I think.
5) Sometimes I am sure the machine is asleep and when I turn it on it is booting from the birds screen. Anyone else seeing this?
6) I don't understand the .nomedia thing although I've read a lot about it. I don't seem to get files erased, but nothing shows up in Video. But if I navigate to the folder (on /mnt/sdcard2) and play videos that's fine. Then later the files will show up in video. Whoops spoke to soon. Now they are gone. What's up with that?
7) My old tablet had GPS but without the external antenna it was worthless. But it still managed to find rough location with WiFi somehow. I assume by figuring out the geographic location of the IP. That doesn't seem to work on this machine. Yes Use Wireless networks is checked in Location and security.
8) What's with the little plastic cover? How hard is it to take out? I don't want a little rubber dingle rolling around inside.
8) In System Preferences, About Device | Status consistently crashes.
9) Does the audio jack support a headset or just headphones? Yeah I know -- I could just try it.
If it matters I'm using Launcher Pro.
Still and all the VEGAn ROM is superb. Compared to the FlyTouch this is super fast, the screen is a joy, and the battery life wonderful. And with the woot deal only about $80 more than a FlyTouch2.

Ok I'll answer some of my own questions:
5) I think this is the unresponsive power button problem. If you press and wait it seems ok. If you press, get impatient and press again you might reboot.
9) No, at least not with a Blackberry headset.

Most of these are answered on the forum somewhere, but I'll give it a shot..
wd5gnr said:
Naturally I bought a g Tablet Saturday and Woot has them today for almost $100 less! Oh well. Big big big improvement from my old FlyTouch2 which was a great idea poorly executed.
Immediately flashed VEGAn with supplements etc. All working VERY well but a few questions/observations.
2) When I hold down the power button, the menu that comes up it clipped off at the bottom. Is that normal?
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wd5gnr said:
5) Sometimes I am sure the machine is asleep and when I turn it on it is booting from the birds screen. Anyone else seeing this?
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I get this sometimes, too. It is a known issue, and there may be solutions out there... I just deal with it.
wd5gnr said:
8) In System Preferences, About Device | Status consistently crashes.
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Known issue.

These aren't much help (maybe reassurance?)
1) Pretty sure it's wifi only. Have trawled the internet looking for a usb or bluetooth alternative because wifi hammers the phone battery
2) It happens on mine as well, so it's not just you
5) Same here - I just turn it off when not in use now
7) Only GPS functionality seems to come with the need for an external GPS unit
8) Think this is normal
(Re reading above, it looks like I'm negative re VEGAn - this is not the case. It is way better than what came standard and does everything I need it to do)

Yeah I like it too. Haven't tried the others, but very satisfied with Vegan.

Another observation: Long pressing the Menu button (hardware) brings up the keyboard. However, long pressing the menu button on the status bar does NOT have that behavior.

Clemsyns newest kernel will fix sleep issues. Also has some other great improvements too.
Buttons on status bar do not respond to long presses. Home doesn't bring up its usual long press of recent apps either. Funny, i Never even tried long press on status bar keys before now.
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I have Pershoot's kernel. I'll try changing. I presume I shouldn't need to clear too many things in CWM after flashing a kernel. Maybe the Dalvik cache?

[Q] Couple Q's from a new Infuse user

Just got my Infuse today (coming from an iPhone). Immediately rooted, unlocked and installed CW Recovery.
Couple quick questions.
#1) How do I get the damned <OPTION/HOME/PREV/SEARCH> bar to stay lit up? It is driving me nuts. It goes out in like 2 seconds after I have touched it. No idea why they did that.
#2) Internal SD vs the microSD card. When I connect via USB MASS STORAGE I don't see any of the folders that I KNOW are on it (Titanium Backup and some others). Are there limitations as to what can be saved on the external SD card?
#3) How do I get ClockworkMod to save backups to the external SD card and not the internal card?
#4) I thought this had SWYPE keyboard option. Can't seem to find it. Never mind! Found SWYPE
Thanks!

you cant control the hard key backlights. when you hit the screen or one of the buttons, theyll light up. my dell streak had a different behavior, turning on only when you hit the actual buttons (not the screen) and staying on for 10 seconds. its just what the hardware is set to do. are you plugging your phone into a mac? i noticed on my macs, itll double up one of the sd cards until you eject that one then you can read and write to the other. i dont have this problem in windows. theres not limitations to the file system except for the 4gb max file size (fat32).

The Jack of Clubs said:
you cant control the hard key backlights. when you hit the screen or one of the buttons, theyll light up. my dell streak had a different behavior, turning on only when you hit the actual buttons (not the screen) and staying on for 10 seconds. its just what the hardware is set to do. are you plugging your phone into a mac? i noticed on my macs, itll double up one of the sd cards until you eject that one then you can read and write to the other. i dont have this problem in windows. theres not limitations to the file system except for the 4gb max file size (fat32).
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Wow, is that annoying. I either hit the wrong dark button and end up at "HOME" or touch the screen and screw up something else or touch a button and change the volume. Sometimes ya wonder who designed these things. I'm sure those buttons use very little power.
As for the SD issue the problem is folders on the EXTERNAL SD CARD created by for one example Titanium Backup are not visible unless I turn on USB DEBUGGING. If I use it as mass storage they don't show up. Other folders do the same. Hard to explain but I have figured it out and it another strange behavior.
Using a Win7 PC not a Mac.

Keep the Lights On will allow your capacitive touch keys to stay lit. It's still a bit buggy since it hasn't been updated for the Infuse; sometimes the backlights will stay on even after you turn the screen off.

^^
Thanks! There's an app for that!
Edit: Doesn't work very well ..... but it's better than nothing.

If someone ever gets BLN kernel mods working properly this might be more easily tunable from userland. However so far all BLN porting attempts have resulted in bugginess.
I might look into seeing if the timeout can be tweaked up a little as an interim solution. (Depends on if it's userland or kernel. If it's kernel I can probably tweak it, if it's userland someone else will have to do it.)

Entropy512 said:
If someone ever gets BLN kernel mods working properly this might be more easily tunable from userland. However so far all BLN porting attempts have resulted in bugginess.
I might look into seeing if the timeout can be tweaked up a little as an interim solution. (Depends on if it's userland or kernel. If it's kernel I can probably tweak it, if it's userland someone else will have to do it.)
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That sounds promising. I find this "feature" is really a dumb-ass design and probably the most annoying thing I have found (so far) in my first 48hrs with this device.

#1 Some phones have the option, some don't. Check the system settings or third party apps. I know the Samsung Galaxy SII has the option to change the duration of the lights, so check that out.
#2 You need a true file explorer, not just going through it in windows. Root Explorer is great on the infuse (or any android for that matter) and is worth the $5. It lets you truly go through the entire phone.
#3 I'm pretty sure CWM only backs up internal, but I'm not sure. Try using titanium and moving your data to the internal, and then backing it up that way.
#4 Long press on an empty text field and a menu should pop up. Tap "Input Method" and then you can select which keyboard you want to use. Swype is great btw

[Q] Reboot option in power menu

Hey guys just a quick question. The fact that there is no reboot option when you hold the power but down really bugs me. I hate having to power my phone off, wait 5-10 seconds, then power back on. Not too big of a deal really, but I would like to have a reboot option in the power menu. Is there any way to do this? I know there are plenty of reboot apps/widgets, but I really want something in the power menu.
Also, probably the only thing I don't like about this phone is that I can't pull the battery out. I thought pulling the battery cleared some cache or some crap like that, and it was something you should do every now and then. Since I don't have the option to do that, is there a certain amount of time to leave the phone off for to get the effects of pulling the battery out? I know I probably sound like a total noob, hopefully someone knows what I'm trying to say, and if I have no idea what I'm talking about hopefully someone can educate me on battery pulls.
One more thing while i'm here. I just updated to jellybean the other day, didn't realize I couldn't root so I SBF'ed back to ICS, rooted, used voodoo keeper to protect root, then updated. Before I did all this I backed up everything with Titanium Backup, but when I installed it on jellybean it said I didn't have any backups to restore. It said it was saving to my SD card, but my SD card isn't located in /sdcard.....its located in /mnt/external1. Is this standard for the Razr HD? Did I screw something up? Seems to me that the SD card should be located under /sdcard.
Man i'm thinking of all kinds of questions. I am in the military and recently got orders to Spangdahlem AB, Germany. Will my Razr HD work over there? I know it is CMDA and GSM compatible, but I don't know much about either of those. Ideally, I would like to sign up for a phone contract when I get over there and just throw their sim card in my phone and be on my marry way.
Thanks!

if your rooted theres an app called quickboot that you can use to just reboot, thats what I do, don't see why they left that out
reboot is good enough, or power off for a few seconds
go to preferences, then "Detect" tell it to search whole device, then you have to press "use this location" or however its worded

DertyDOH said:
if your rooted theres an app called quickboot that you can use to just reboot, thats what I do, don't see why they left that out
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Not exactly what I was looking for, but will work for the time being. Thanks!

There is also an app called "power toggles" that will allow you to have toggles in your notification pull down, it has boot options
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The SwitchPro Widget (paid) have a reboot button and really a great deal (last button on right). It have a 3g toggle button too and you can place it under the notification area. Try it. Good Luck.

Diagnostics & Scans.

Is there anyway to run a diagnostics scan for my Pure XL? I'm also wondering if there is a malware scan i can download to use. My phone has been a little glitchy and i'm trying to figure out whats wrong. Any sort of help would be appreciated.

XaqAttack said:
Is there anyway to run a diagnostics scan for my Pure XL? I'm also wondering if there is a malware scan i can download to use. My phone has been a little glitchy and i'm trying to figure out whats wrong. Any sort of help would be appreciated.
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If you could define what "a little glitchy" means, it might be easier to narrow down what the problem is.
But anyways...
To scan your phone for malware, download a well-known antivirus/anti-malware app from the Google Play Store (Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, etc.). The Pure XL also comes with McAfee pre-installed into the system, if you want to bother using that. I'd also recommend uninstalling any apps you sideloaded onto your phone (.apk files downloaded from somewhere on the internet which you installed on your phone), as it's the easiest way to get infected.
If you want to test your Pure XL's hardware and stuff, first shut down your phone, then power it up while holding the Volume Down button until you feel the short vibration and the white BLU screen appear. After you enter the factory test mode, use the Volume Down button to navigate down, Power button to enter a submenu/item, and the Volume Up button to navigate back a submenu.

Short Circuit said:
If you could define what "a little glitchy" means, it might be easier to narrow down what the problem is.
But anyways...
To scan your phone for malware, download a well-known antivirus/anti-malware app from the Google Play Store (Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, etc.). The Pure XL also comes with McAfee pre-installed into the system, if you want to bother using that. I'd also recommend uninstalling any apps you sideloaded onto your phone (.apk files downloaded from somewhere on the internet which you installed on your phone), as it's the easiest way to get infected.
If you want to test your Pure XL's hardware and stuff, first shut down your phone, then power it up while holding the Volume Down button until you feel the short vibration and the white BLU screen appear. After you enter the factory test mode, use the Volume Down button to navigate down, Power button to enter a submenu/item, and the Volume Up button to navigate back a submenu.
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Ya, whenever I exit out of certain apps, The phone will start to vibrate constantly. Even after I've shut down the apps and have done a full restart.

Screen having 'Phantom Touch' problems

A while back, My old Stylo 2 stopped working due to a very strange (I assume hardware-related) bug that made the phone constantly press the same spots over and over and over, and the screen was entirely unresponsive otherwise. Only those few spots ( 1. About 25% up the bottom right side, 2. The very top right corner, and most prominently 3. Just right of the multitasking button, within its 'hitbox'.) have any effects on the screen at all, and I cannot find places on the screen that are 'touchable' due to the multitasking button being hit over and over and it constantly switching me between apps.
More than anything, I just want to change my USB mode to file transfer to get my pictures off the phone, but even as easy as that is in Android 7 (pull down the top menu, select USB settings, change to file transfer right?) I can't even get the top menu down most of the time, let alone get to the USB settings. On the rare occasion that I do get all the way there, either the multitasking button starts acting up again or the screen stops responding to everything altogether, making the one thing I need to select un-selectable. Much to my dismay, it also seems that I have USB Debugging turned off (I honestly have no idea why or how this was turned off, as I use ADB frequently), so I can't even use ADB to get a screen control app to run. Are there any ways to either force USB Debugging to be on via console (Win8) or otherwise, or control the screen and disable touch without the need for a third-party app?

Yes
007manyo said:
A while back, My old Stylo 2 stopped working due to a very strange (I assume hardware-related) bug that made the phone constantly press the same spots over and over and over, and the screen was entirely unresponsive otherwise. Only those few spots ( 1. About 25% up the bottom right side, 2. The very top right corner, and most prominently 3. Just right of the multitasking button, within its 'hitbox'.) have any effects on the screen at all, and I cannot find places on the screen that are 'touchable' due to the multitasking button being hit over and over and it constantly switching me between apps.
More than anything, I just want to change my USB mode to file transfer to get my pictures off the phone, but even as easy as that is in Android 7 (pull down the top menu, select USB settings, change to file transfer right?) I can't even get the top menu down most of the time, let alone get to the USB settings. On the rare occasion that I do get all the way there, either the multitasking button starts acting up again or the screen stops responding to everything altogether, making the one thing I need to select un-selectable. Much to my dismay, it also seems that I have USB Debugging turned off (I honestly have no idea why or how this was turned off, as I use ADB frequently), so I can't even use ADB to get a screen control app to run. Are there any ways to either force USB Debugging to be on via console (Win8) or otherwise, or control the screen and disable touch without the need for a third-party app?
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Yes, but I'd appreciate a thanks for the solution! I give and give ...
First, what model number is your Stylo? For instance I have the Cricket variety (H634). Once you figure that out check out my link below with particular attention paid to the "how to enable usb debugging via dialup" step. I just tried it with my Stylo (H634), works great. The link pertains to the LG G6 but it will work on your LG Stylo as well.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-g6/how-to/frp-unlock-lg-g6-using-headphone-jack-t3616166
Or just try this ...
Dial *#546368#*_ _ _# (Field Test Mode). Enter your devices model number in the three blanks. Mine for instance would be *#546368#*634# (H634 being the Cricket model number). Go to SVC>LDB> Enable usb debugging
Happy USB'n!