Hey guys,
I have a Vibrant on Tmo, so dont know too much about things on the Fascinate. On my Vibrant Im rooted and have fun with different roms. My friend has a Fascinate and is not rooted and does not really want to. He has kind of been on the fence with his experience with Android on the Fascinate, but I kept telling him it would get better when 2.2 got sent.
So he finally got the OTA 2.2 update and now he says its buggy. for example he said that after the update when he opened the camera app, it would just close and give him an error; but that issue has kind of resolved itself. he said those types of bugs and that when he unlocks the screen, sometimes it just kind of freezes...
So Im trying to keep him on android. He is not rooted and does not want to be, so what should I do to help him? Do a factor data reset to start with a clean slate? If so, what will he loose; all apps, pictures,...ect?
thanks
Do a hard reset and he will lose apps not pictures, also make sure he syncs Google contacts before resetting so he won't lose contacts
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My girlfriend's Droid is running an older version of Bionix, I think it's 1.7 or something close to it (2.1-update1, Kernel version 2.6.29, Build number ECLAIR.UVJI6) and keeps getting a notification that an update is ready from T-Mobile. I haven't been following Android news so I don't know if this is the 2.2 update (or if the 2.2 update is even out for her phone yet), or just an update to 2.1 or what, but it's driving her nuts. Even when she postpones it it sends her several texts a day, and the max she can postpone it is 24 hours. Is there anyway to get rid of this notification? Custom ROMs for my Droid would do this by default, so I'm clueless how to fix it.
Secondly, she likes this ROM a lot, but it's about 3 months old now, have there been any major changes in current ROMs that would warrant me upgrading her phone? She is content with it as is, and I have a hard time hacking the Vibrant for some reason, though I never had any problems with my Droid. Basically what I'm saying here is, I WILL upgrade it if there's anything worth upgrading it for. Thanks in advance for any help with these questions!
Wait till bionix frost comes out and then re-flash her phone
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If you go ka7 or higher its froyo. This should be your standard.
But my wife runs jl5 with a ka7 modem and loves it.
So.....
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One thing I've learned when updating the wifes stuff: if it aint broke, dont fix it. If shes happy with the way it is. Leave it. Upgrading to a better version she might not notice is onl going to cause you a headache. Some app isnt playing nice with new build, some small bug in the rom, etc. It's your funeral!
da_dragon2k3 said:
One thing I've learned when updating the wifes stuff: if it aint broke, dont fix it. If shes happy with the way it is. Leave it. Upgrading to a better version she might not notice is onl going to cause you a headache. Some app isnt playing nice with new build, some small bug in the rom, etc. It's your funeral!
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AMEN to that!
I updated my wife's Moto Cliq to 2.1 and I regret it everyday! Should have left her at 1.5...
There are a lot of 2.2 roms out there in the development section that are running 2.2 roms so smooth and fast and with bloatware removed. Try Bionix or Axura or Trigger. You don' t have to wait for ota froyo. My friend's phone did the ota update and it' s full of bugs
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Can't believe I typed 'my girlfriend's droid' in the first post, I hate when people refer to every Android phone as a 'droid', and I just did it myself, LOL. Anyway, thanks for the input guys. I'll probably wait until someone builds a 2.2 rom from source and upgrade her.
So there's no way to get rid of this upgrade notification? That sucks.
When is frost coming out?
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Bump, just looking for confirmation that there's no way to disable OTA update notifications?
turn off device management service using titanium backup. freeze it.
A week ago I Odin'd back to stock and upgraded to the official 2.2 VIA Kies Mini. I have not rooted since or really even restored any of my old apps. No mods, just a stock Vibrant now. While I was playing WordFeud the phone locked up for about 20 to 30 seconds then on the screen it stated a screenshot has been taken. I then checked the Gallery and sure enough there was a picture of the screen. My question is has anyone seen this or know what happened. I checked the WorFeud app help and it didn't mention anything about a screen capture feature. Is there some sort of button combination on the new 2.2 Release that allows for screen captures to be taken? I was pretty confused by this, please let me know your thoughts and/or experiences.
OK, I see others have encountered this too and I would of found that if I searched correctly, as in spell correctly. OK, I see that people are saying to hold the back button and hit the home or menu button. I have tried these methods and have yet to make it work again. Either way, since this is sort of covered already, without a clear answer though, MODS feel free to delete.
Crap, didn't see your thread.
I encountered the same thing today and it was pretty nice. Still trying to figure out how to do it. Its a nice feature!
I did it too....im not rooted at this time. Cant figure it out.....
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Yeah I've done that too accidentally. Don't know how though.
Updating to Stock 2.2 from Kies is probably your first mistake, that ROM is so bad I couldn't stand it for more than a day. Flashed Trigger and reborn I was. Plan into getting a custom ROM for your phone because screenshots are not the only thing you will encounter annoying from Samsung's Froyo.
I ended up with screen shots in my gallery and I have no idea how they got there. There was never a notification or anything.
There is something built in, but I don't think the Vibrant really supports multitouch on the capacitive buttons. My girlfriend can do this on command, but only in the mms app. She clicks back, and when she feels a delayed haptic feedback, she pushes home and it works everytime.
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Yes I have had the same thing happen, it definitely a timing thing I tried to master but only get 10% effective so I stay with shoot me,, just a weird glitch in the phone
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Updating to Stock 2.2 from Kies is probably your first mistake, that ROM is so bad I couldn't stand it for more than a day. Flashed Trigger and reborn I was. Plan into getting a custom ROM for your phone because screenshots are not the only thing you will encounter annoying from Samsung's Froyo.
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Yeah, I was rocking Macnut R14 for a while after trying a few others. I updated to Samsung 2.2 to test out because a friend was thinking of trying it and asked if I would try it first. I was bored of it within a hour I think but gave it a few days. Bionix and DOW Kernal on it now.
I updated the phone at tmobile because it wouldn't update from my computer at home. I was running stock j16 and now the phone has these problems, any help would be appreciated
gps no longer works wont lock and takes a long time to find sats thirty minutes or more. I cleared the caches and still no worky, worked fine on j16.
alarm clock wont work?
ringer will work and then not work?
Phone is lags and is glitchy, it has not froze like it did when new.
I am thinking about loading a rom on this phone as it is my third vibrant, and the other two had issues and this one worked fine with a little lag. and now it sucks as bad as the two that got returned. I did load a rom on one of them before I returned it and it kept freezing up to the point that I had to pull the battery.
any suggestions would be appreciated
I've heard of issues with phones that upgraded form 2.1 -> 2.2. My father's being one. He refuses to root his phone or install a custom ROM but he said that the Samsung GPS Restore app from the market helped him.
Not sure about the alarms or ringer issues. Make sure you go into settings and set the ringtone for each one again.
However, I would recommend installing a custom ROM. It will give you a fresh install (always good!) and more than likely a much faster/more enjoyable phone .
Root the phone and install a custom rom there is benefit using the stock.. If it is giving you problems just abandon and load something decent like, Axura, EDT, Trigger or Bionix
I was thinking of loading honey 2.4, but when I read all of the info on the roms, it gets confusing with all of the different kernals and lag fixes etc. I tried axura (I hope I spelled it right) and it was really buggy on the phone I sent back. It kept freezing and falling a sleep to where I had to pull the battery and re boot. I have been hesitant ever since. I use this phone a lot and really depend on it for business. My G1 was a lot mor dependable. lol.
Jusr root it and install a custom rom. Bionix-v 1.3.1 is great. And you cannot brick these phones unlesss your a complete idiot... phone is worth owning once a custom rom is on. Before that these things are grass
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Well my work just got a bunch of iPhones and the CEO got one of the. He had the Samsung before so I got it as an upgrade over my crackberry.
Now I really want to install a custom rom/kernel on the phone but I am hesitating because its really not my phone and my work owns it.
What do you guys think should I stick with stock or should I root the phone and install a rom?
Stock. There's nothing like explaining to the boss how you f'd up company equipment.
I dont know if one should/should not install custom roms on a work phone, as I don't have one. But I can tell you that if you do decide to root and install one of the custom roms, it's not that hard to unroot and go back to stock later on when you need to return the phone. There are several threads here that will guide you through the process too.
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Stock. There's nothing like explaining to the boss how you f'd up company equipment.
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I guess your right I just hate being stuck on 2.1 when I know I can have a nice Froyo install. It's just so hard not to do because I have done it with all my other devices.
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I guess your right I just hate being stuck on 2.1 when I know I can have a nice Froyo install. It's just so hard not to do because I have done it with all my other devices.
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I hear you...but who's to say he won't ask for it out the blue someday?
Idk, at this point, the fascinate is practically impossible to brick. You also say you have experience rooting and customizing other phones, correct? I say go for it. The only reason I could see not to is due to security issues. Work passwords and etc.. I really don't know too much about all of that tho.
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I have a rooted android work phone. All you have to do is read what ppl are saying about the roms and FOLLOW DIRECTIONS and youll be fine.
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Well my work just got a bunch of iPhones and the CEO got one of the. He had the Samsung before so I got it as an upgrade over my crackberry.
Now I really want to install a custom rom/kernel on the phone but I am hesitating because its really not my phone and my work owns it.
What do you guys think should I stick with stock or should I root the phone and install a rom?
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Used my fascinating voodoo powers
I seriously discourage doing anything to it. It's not yours for one, and (no disrespect to the devs ofcourse, their work is amazing) there really isnt anything spectacular for this phone at the moment due to samsung's failure to provide any source code. To be more specific... our kernels suck.
And oh yea this shouldve been in the Q&A section so be ready for ashasaur to move this thread. (hes really good at doing that )
Depends on your comfort level, and of course, your corporate policies.
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I would say root your phone at the most. It's fairly easy to recover from just rooting, but flashing roms/kernels/modems is much more risky. At least with rooting, you could fairly easily freeze the bloat with TiBu and have a more functional phone. Thawing everything and un-rooting would have you a stock phone back fairly quickly, and you could also still receive OTA updates as well.
I say go for it if anything goes wrong all you have to do is odin back to stock it removes everything its as simple as plugging the phone in load the stock file and click start I've done this countless times
We pick our work cell phones specifically because of the potential customization we can do. I hate being stuck with some company's version of what they think will be useful to me in my job. I can Odin this phone back to stock/factory defaults in less than 5 minutes if need be, so customizing this phone and expanding its abilities, and recovering from those customizations quickly, were what attracted me to it.
Android is Android, whether it's Samsung's stock version or one of the dev's version of it. Your phone is still going to perform the same tasks you need it to for your job. As long as you are both competent with the technologies involved and confident in your ability to restore to stock, I don't see why you should hesitate from exploring the options that are out there, especially when Froyo source drops and we see an explosion of dev-created customizations/enhancements.
Really? If your asking for advice on whether to mess with a business owned phone, it makes me wonder are you the ceo's mail clerk?
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Personally for a work phone, I'd update it for better usage in my work.
Increasing battery life usage duration.
Less irritating buggy glitches.
Removing the idiotic TW/BING/VZW craps. (too many add-on hacks from google default causing reliability and dependability problems)
Adding Backup and Restore nandroid for possible failures and migrations.
I suggest DJ05 + SuperClean + Blaze v2.3.1R2.
sorry ahead of time for the rambling and wall of text.
i have a few questions i suppose. im currently running the latest 4.1.2 release on my razr. stock. i went through 2 phones recently because the update was wreacking havoc on them. before the update i loved my razr. only issue i had was battery life, but i cant lie, was my fault for playing battery hogging games ALOT. lol. so, i got my latest replacement phone. i have the same apps as before, minus a few ive ditched. the phone is feeling laggy/sluggish now. it may partly be from tsf shell, which i love but would ditch if need be to get my phone back, even though it never caused lag before the update.
From reading around the razr isnt getting another update antime soon, if at all. its pretty much on its last leg, as theyre moving away from it im sure. ive tried numerous things to get it running a bit smoother and its helped to an extent, but there is still some lag.
my question is, whats the best way to go from here to getting it running better. ive been rooted before and tried different custom roms, so im not against it, if thats the way to go. if it is, what custom rom is best? if there isnt a 'best' which would you recommend i try? i guess a 4.2.2 rom will probly be suggested. what are the major differences in the 2?
thanks for any opinions and advice.
If it is running slow, you could always use an app like is monitor to see if an app has gone rogue and is using up lots of ram or CPU. I doubt its tsf, as I used that for a very long time on mine without issues.
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Hey there!
First off, for the lagging problem, I'm positive that your phone probably needs to be cleaned up. The stock JB that you currently have is supposed to be the most stable one there is.
For cleaning up, just get SD Maid, and clean up using all the options available.
WAIT! Can I get one thing straight? You did do a factory reset before upgrading to JB 4.1.1 from ICS, right?
A LOT of problems sprout from this simple fact actually. A factory reset is mandatory when upgrading from one kernel and ROM to another, be it stock or not.
In Custom ROMs, we tend to always encourage full wipes before flashing one ROM over another unless we are only doing a minor, from let's say, Liquidsmooth v2.4 to v2.7. Then, only the cache and dalvik has to be wiped.
Yep. Hope this helped. If the answer to my above question is no (you didn't full wipe), the nI would just recommend you to use TiB, backup all your apps and data, then factory reset and then restore using TiB. That should help.
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the phone im talking about came from the manufacturer by verizon with 4.1.2 on it, so im not sure if it was upgraded that way.
if i have to factory reset, whats the vest way of saving game data so i dont have to start all over?
im currently not rooted. will root if its needed.
thanks for the previous info.
Hmmm. A sticky situation, TBH.
Maybe you can try rooting and then this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.sdm
But I haven't quite got experience working with RAZRs which came with 4.1.1 installed..
So try out the app after rooting, and if that doesnt help, factory reset. Backup your apps and their data using Titanium Backup which is available for rooted phones.
If even after that things are laggy, then i suggest getting Liquidsmooth or MoKee Rom. They are pretty fast and lagless.