One of cyanogen's haxored scores.

[Edited on August 17, 2010 at 11:48 PM. Reason : new page over 9000!]

8/17/2010 11:47:37 PM

first time Verizon user
first time smartphone owner
bear with me....

how do i transfer my contact list from my old AT&T phone to my new Droid X?

8/18/2010 10:24:37 AM

What kind of AT&T phone did you have?

8/18/2010 10:30:35 AM

old BB Pearl

8/18/2010 10:56:53 AM

If the phone were still active on AT&T, the easiest way would have been to use google sync and sync the contacts with the gmail account you have on the Droid X. The other option is to plug the BB into your computer, open Blackberry Desktop Manager and export the contacts to a CSV file, then import them into google. http://newbbie.com/2008/01/19/managing-contacts-in-the-address-book-using-excel/ gives decent directions on how to export them from the blackberry itself and then just log into your gmail account on a computer, open Contacts, hit the More Actions drop down and choose import.

8/18/2010 12:05:58 PM

man ever since I did this manual update of Android 2.2, my motorola droid has just been running like shit. Everything is slow, the touch screen barely responds the first time I touch it, and its driving me insane.

Anyone know how to revert back to 2.1? My phone was not even close to this retarded before this update.

8/18/2010 12:23:47 PM

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/hacking-help/37717-unroot-unbrick-using-sbf-post-ikithme.html

Believe you'll need to go back to 2.0 or 2.0.1 and then manually update to 2.1

8/18/2010 12:32:19 PM

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"how do i transfer my contact list from my old AT&T phone to my new Droid X?"

Why you worried about syncing contacts?

Switching phones is a cathartic experience. You should be manually going through your phone and only adding numbers you need to your new one. Cut all the junk and bad energy out of your life.






[Edited on August 18, 2010 at 12:36 PM. Reason : qq]

8/18/2010 12:35:10 PM

^I actually totally agree with that

8/18/2010 1:33:49 PM

If that blackberry can do wifi (Idk much about blackberries) use wifi to get on Google Sync and upload your contacts. If not, use the Blackberry Desktop Manager mentioned above, that's a great solution I hadn't thought of. If for some reason you can't do that, you might be manually typing those things into Gmail.

8/18/2010 1:55:57 PM

^^yea I'm actually doing that as well. I'm manually transferring contacts to my Droid X tonight from my current phone. Should be a good filter; if I don't feel like putting in the effort to transfer their number, I probably don't need it

they attempted delivery a bit ago and it should be heading to the fed ex station this afternoon. I'm going to have to run by the office tonight on my way home to pick it up. Luckily the fedex location is actually almost on my normal way home

[Edited on August 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2010 1:56:50 PM

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"man ever since I did this manual update of Android 2.2, my motorola droid has just been running like shit. Everything is slow, the touch screen barely responds the first time I touch it, and its driving me insane. Anyone know how to revert back to 2.1? My phone was not even close to this retarded before this update."

Freakin root that thing, install the most recent unofficial 2.2 version, install low voltage overclocked kernel and crank the bitch up from 600 to about 1100 MHz. Sluggishness and freezing is nonexistent, and you get flash and all the optimizations of 2.2.

http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-discussions/

8/18/2010 4:08:04 PM

yeah Volcom, if you have a droid, that NEEDS to be rooted and in my opinion running cyanogen's latest/greatest.

8/18/2010 5:07:52 PM

when you guys first got your phones, did you charge it all the way up before ever turning it on? Or is putting the battery in and charging it several hours while you are messing with it fine too for the first charge?

8/18/2010 6:14:31 PM

well I screwed up as soon as getting the phone. I opened the phone and see a big tab that says "Pull"...so I pull...turns out that wasn't supposed to come out and now I can't get my battery out

My last phone had something like that that I *was* supposed to pull out and this also said pull on it. Oh well. I'll figure something out.

[Edited on August 18, 2010 at 7:10 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2010 6:58:12 PM

ha, apparently some people have been told that they voided their warranties by removing that tab. As for using it when you get it, you should be fine. It may take a couple charging cycles for the battery life to improve.

And for anyone who's been iffy on rooting, it doesn't really get much easier. EasyRoot has 2.0.1, 2.1 and 2.2 support so you can root on any of them. http://www.unstableapps.com/?p=61

8/18/2010 7:29:56 PM

^hopefully I won't have to use the warranty heh. I finally got the battery out and put that plastic sticker back in. It was partly stupid on my part and partly stupid on motorola's part to stick that there imo haha.

I have it charging now, haven't turned it on yet. I'll let it charge for a little while longer while I go run and then turn it on and activate it and just leave it plugged in.

And thanks for the root info ^.

8/18/2010 7:41:33 PM

^^Does that support Incredible? If so, what cool stuff should I do after I root this sucker?

8/19/2010 12:24:31 AM

you'll need Unrevoked. There's a link to the file in the video description

8/19/2010 1:57:08 AM

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"well I screwed up as soon as getting the phone. I opened the phone and see a big tab that says "Pull"...so I pull...turns out that wasn't supposed to come out and now I can't get my battery out My last phone had something like that that I *was* supposed to pull out and this also said pull on it. Oh well. I'll figure something out. "

I did the same thing. You definitely can get the battery out. I got it out and replaced that sticker. I hope you kept it.


http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/08/droid-x-recovery.html

Not a true recovery but probably the best we'll get unless Motorola unlocks the bootloader.

8/19/2010 2:27:33 AM

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"I did the same thing. You definitely can get the battery out. I got it out and replaced that sticker. I hope you kept it. "

oh yea I definitely kept it and got it out not too long after I posted that. I guess I meant that at the time my efforts had been in vain (I was being a little too gentle with the phone since it was brand new. Eventually I just had to get a little rougher and it popped right out.) I then replaced the sticker

8/19/2010 8:04:21 AM

aha I did the same thing with the "pull" sticker

mayhaps they should give you a heads up on that kind of thing...

8/19/2010 8:49:45 AM

hahah yea. All I saw was "Pull" so..I did just that. My next step was to view the Motorola assembly and startup instructions on their site and the first picture I see was:



and I was like



Anyway, really like it so far. It is almost over-whelming at first though coming from just a touch-screen multimedia phone.

Anyone know any good apps for sound profiles? I know there are GPS location ones that do automatically change and that is pretty cool but seems like a waste of battery. I'd like to just be able to set "Work," "Home," "Sleep" and just toggle between them via a widget or something.

[Edited on August 19, 2010 at 9:17 AM. Reason : ]

8/19/2010 9:14:33 AM

Quick Profiles is free and lets you create profiles and adjust the ringer, notifications, etc.

Decided to switch from Sapphire 1.0 to CM 6 RC3 last night and wow. It seems to be slightly smoother than Sapphire and has tons of options. Still has the same damn wifi bug where it'll lose data connection for a while and the only fix is either to disable/re-enable wifi or wait til it decides to work again.

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/4408-droid-cm6-rc3/

8/19/2010 9:29:26 AM

^thanks a lot. That it does exactly what I wanted. Widget is only with pro version but it is super easy to change regardless.

8/19/2010 9:59:59 AM

I just did the 2.2 update on my Motorola Droid (the older one that came out a year ago). The biggest difference I can see is that the web browser is much faster. The camera is a lot easier to use too--it's quicker to get the flash and other settings configured.

8/19/2010 3:15:11 PM

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"man ever since I did this manual update of Android 2.2, my motorola droid has just been running like shit. Everything is slow, the touch screen barely responds the first time I touch it, and its driving me insane. Anyone know how to revert back to 2.1? My phone was not even close to this retarded before this update."

installed launcher pro and it fixed everything

8/19/2010 3:23:15 PM

has froyo been rooted on the evo yet

8/19/2010 3:31:08 PM

Like if you fucked up and installed 2.2 before they patched it?

The OTA has been patched since the day it was released IIRC. First that wave of 'unofficals' came out and they were patched that weekend and then 'official' leaked and it too was patched. Luckily I took a dive and rooted/NAND unlocked while I still had 2.1

From checking xda, it looks like for right now if you're stock 2.2 you might be SOL. Advance exchange for a 2.1 device?

[Edited on August 19, 2010 at 4:12 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2010 4:04:44 PM

when did they patch it?

is that update available for manual install?

8/19/2010 4:09:08 PM

first day, and I had it down to 15% by 3:00pm...however, I had it off the charger by 6:30am, it was my first charge, and because it was my first day I was downloading a lot of stuff and obviously have been using it a ton more than I will on a regular basis. So I can't complain much about the battery. I suspect I will have absolutely no problem getting by on a normal day without charging until later at night when I am home.

I do have the brightness turned down, wifi off, gps off, etc. I'll probably have to decide which apps I actually like/will use from what I have downloaded at some point so that I don't have stuff synching that I don't even need.

[Edited on August 19, 2010 at 4:42 PM. Reason : ]

8/19/2010 4:31:22 PM

anyone know how to sync gmail contact groups with android (I have a droid x)

8/19/2010 6:48:13 PM

What are you trying to do with the groups? Like be able to email a distribution group or something?

8/19/2010 6:56:41 PM

well that would be nice, but I don't think that's possible yet. mainly for contact organization/filtering/searching

8/19/2010 7:17:12 PM

If you go into contacts and hit the menu button, does it give you a Display Options? If so you can select your gmail account and choose to display contacts by Group

8/19/2010 7:49:12 PM

^nah, I can only select built in groups (all, favorites, facebook, gmail account, phone). I can create new groups on the device... but that would be a pain to do for so many groups & contacts... especially considering that it's already been done in gmail.

8/19/2010 8:06:10 PM

hmm...it definitely works on stock android on the original droid. Guess that's another thing that Motorola Blur'd up on the Droid X

8/19/2010 8:19:53 PM

^persistent googling has led me to the sam econclusion

8/19/2010 8:28:14 PM

You sure there isn't an option to create a new group or something?

[Edited on August 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM. Reason : asdfgf]

8/19/2010 9:19:39 PM

sigh, yes, I posted that above. but I don't want to create groups on the phone, I want my gmail groups to sync, and apparently, that functionality is missing.

8/19/2010 10:39:14 PM

I just checked on my Incredible and couldn't find that option. *shrug*

8/19/2010 10:55:15 PM

Quote :

"man ever since I did this manual update of Android 2.2, my motorola droid has just been running like shit. Everything is slow, the touch screen barely responds the first time I touch it, and its driving me insane. Anyone know how to revert back to 2.1? My phone was not even close to this retarded before this update."

You can revert a Droid1 back to 2.1 using an SBF. http://www.droidforums.net/forum/hacking-help/37717-unroot-unbrick-using-sbf-post-ikithme.html

There's the post on how to get back to 2.0.1 then you can just update back to 2.1 (you'd have to find the 2.1 manual update). If you go this route be extremely careful, if you fuck up your phone its permanently bricked.

Alternately you can buy easy root (or root it yourself), install ROM manager, and flash a non shit rom onto yours and remove motorola's shitty software from the equation altogether. This route is much less dangerous and lets you run whatever kind of software you want. I'm currently running Cyanogen's CM6 RC3 on the Droid1 I have. It's based off of 2.2 and is awesome. OC'd to 900mhz I get better benchmark scores than on my Droid X.


Fake edit: I saw that you installed launcher pro and the issue went away but I typed all this shit up so whatever.

8/20/2010 5:13:49 AM

I got 2.2 pushed to my Droid last night.

8/20/2010 8:41:52 AM

unrevoked

EVO Froyo 2.2 users stuck without root: don't worry, we haven't forgotten about you.

8/20/2010 9:23:03 AM

I wish verizon would hurry up and push 2.2 on the droid x

8/20/2010 10:23:41 AM

What's the TWW consensus on ATK? I've gone out on several other forums to try and educate myself but read all sorts of things on both sides from people saying you don't need it/causes the phone to run sluggish/uses more battery vs people saying it kept the phone running smoother/extended their battery life etc. I'm sure I definitely have stuff running in the background that I don't need, even/especially when the phone is idle I assume. While the phone is idle, all I care about is getting notified that I have a call, text, astrid task, or possibly email, though I don't need it real-time updating me on email, once an hour or so is fine. Which leads me to my next point:

With Gmail, is there a way to change the way it pushes email to my device in order to optimize battery performance? I have my additional hotmail account "fetch" once an hour instead of all the time and would like to do something similar with my Gmail so that it is not always looking for new email. I just don't see that option (or maybe it wouldn't help save battery anyway since it is a push and not a fetch/sync?).

Finally, what all is affected by Background Data being turned off? My normal picture/text messaging change shouldn't change correct? Looks to me like it is just status widgets like weather, social, rss feeds etc. as well as email fetching that would actually get affected. Does this affect Gmail pushing emails to my phone?

Just trying to figure out what is and isn't worth messing with to extend the battery; hopefully finding that sweet-spot where I am not crippling the phone to save the battery but also not running the battery down with apps and data snyching that isn't useful to me. Read some Droid X forums and got a few answers there but in general you all have been more helpful here

[Edited on August 20, 2010 at 10:47 AM. Reason : ]

8/20/2010 10:38:27 AM

I'd recommend against using it to just kill everything that's running all willy nilly. Some of the tards running ATK on the droid have been bitching for 2 weeks that they haven't received the froyo update. Told them to uninstall ATK and the update magically appeared. The benefits are usually negligible and most apps have where you can adjust the sync intervals in the settings.

And for anyone adventurous, apparently Froyo has been leaked for the Droid X. http://www.droid-life.com/2010/08/20/download-droid-x-android-2-2-for-all-users/

8/20/2010 12:32:06 PM

^thanks . You're probably right about just trying (when available) to adjust the sync frequency for the different apps themselves.

[Edited on August 20, 2010 at 12:38 PM. Reason : ]

8/20/2010 12:34:55 PM

nm

[Edited on August 20, 2010 at 1:41 PM. Reason : there's an option for that!]

8/20/2010 1:38:23 PM

Quoted from the article at droid-life.

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"If you update to this, it is not an easy process to get it back to stock 2.1 and requires RSD Lite and an SBF file which I know you all love so much. Do so at your own risk!"

Not really difficult though as long as you have a pc

Full directions @ http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-x-discussion/4112-mydroidworld-exlusive-droid-x-froyo-everyone-including-non-rooted-phones.html

Blur'd Froyo on the Droid X

8/20/2010 1:43:58 PM