Recent content by Freerobots

this is great news! I'm a SW dev who's been sponging of the android dev efforts of others for quite some time now (sorry I don't have time to contribute myself!) - the Ubuntu Touch project is quite interesting to me, and I hope to eventually free up some time to contribue. I'm surprised to...

Could be the battery... I agree with the other posters. I had the experience of lots of random reboots a while back when I was working my way through sverhagen's 9.1r3+ ROMs. But, it just turned out that my stock battery had given up the ghost. Swapping to one of the gold batteries fixed the...

Anyone have any success with this camera? Just wondering. I installed the zip and followed the instructions in the OP for this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966606 Panorama crashed the camera app and Sphere didn't seem to ever end, it kept having me take photos of...

another data point On my "gold" battery, after a few charge/discharge cycles, Battery Monitor reports it as 1546 mAh. For comparison, my aging stock battery is measured as 1314 mAh. So it looks like my goldy is simply about as good as a new stock battery. Which is fine, since it was such a...

Yay! The repair was successful! Not having a cell phone really made me aware of how useful one is. Next time I upgrade I'll keep my old device around as a backup. So some notes: The screen assembly was really difficult to remove, due to the large amount of adhesive. When I took it off, the...

I ordered a new LCD and digitizer, and will probably have some time to do the repair mid-late next week. I went with the Sony version of the LCD based upon discussion in the following thread (in the 3rd post iynnoji says they tried a Hitachi LCD but it did not work)...

First, the story: I dropped my phone and broke the screen. The screen is always black now, but from the sounds the phone makes, it sounds like it is still working. This place has instructions for replacing the touch screen digitizer and the LCD; they also sell these replacement parts (for $40...