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    Root magical vanishing drivers:HELP!

    so I'm trying to root my phone and i'm having a bit of an issue with connecting to my computer. I went over and watched the unlockr videos and followed the procedures there and this was my result; step 1: install the SDK, open command prompt, make sure phone is connected and ready to go. I...
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    Help touch screen issues.

    been having issues with my nexus S, apart from battery life which i got the phone exchanged for, recently the screen has been acting up. it's so bad that i can try to pull down the notification bar and it pulls up the app tray. i tried a hard reset and it worked for a while after that but now is...
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    to wait or cave, that is my question.

    when android stopped being a t-mo only item and went to all 3 carriers i left verizon and their money magnets for sprint.(that's a long story but lets just say that despite their attempts to imagine themselves as the android kings, before the phones were released every rep would respond to my...
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    custom boot animation

    sorry, i know this has been posted, but i can't find it in the sprint hero forums. i'm wanting to change my boot animation. i've found instructions in other forums using the search feature. so, is this one of those things that's pretty standard(both the fascinate and optimus instructions are...
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    new charging standards and NFC

    i didn't see anything here about this, though i wish i would have, as it is at least tangentially related to the topic at hand, and i only got a little tiny glimpse from G4 AOTS CES 2011. what they said was that cell phones were moving to a new charging standard that would allow you to set your...
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    Nfc

    well, the only thing truely unique about the nexus S phone will be the addition of NFC, which the google folks seem absolutely giddy about. my question is this, what exactly is NFC? i know that it stands for "near field communications" and i know what it does, so the question is this; did they...
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    explain it as you would to a child.

    ok. so i just rooted my phone the other day. now im looking for a rom to install froyo. here's the problem. while i do love my phone, and i would rate myself ever so slightly above average in my knowledge of "what android is and does"i am by no means a developer, nor do i comprehend a lot of...
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    where will android go next?

    so, one of the recent articles was about the next step for the android OS. now that they have a solid hold on the phone market, what is the next step for proliferation of our beloved OS? there are a lot of possibilities, so i decided to start this thread so it could actually find an interactive...
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    idea's for android marketing.

    got this idea in the articles and posted it there more briefly, but here is the basic gist. more famous robots to market our beloved OS. first, transformers. the optimus is already on it's way(or is it out? i loose track) verizon and motorola have used the "droid" moniker to capitalize on the...
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    which phone should i settle for?

    to establish a baseline, i am with sprint, i have 4G coverage in my area and i have no intention of going back to verizon. my upgrade is available in october, so far these are the options i have. 1. the epic 4G: member of the Galaxy S family, 4G phone, newest in the line of android phones for...
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    phone petition:

    been looking at features that should be standard on phones, the basics that dont seem to be so basic right now(ok, the worldphone thing isnt basic, but from what i've seen in forums a LOT of people would like to see it standardized). it is not specific to any carrier or manufacturer(i do mention...
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    to the pholks that run phandroid

    first off, i love the site. it's the best place to get android news, and have it all consolidated and not dilluted with other things. i really hope that this is the right forum for this, i would try the "contact us" button, but there is no delivery confirmation and i never get a reply, which...
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    nexus one still out there?

    just arrived in korea last night, turned on the TV in the hotel and what do you know? a nexus one commercial. in fact android can be seen all over the place here.
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    Dream Phone

    ok, not your typical "forum game" but what features make up your dream phone? assumptions being you start with the standards, latest android, best possible processor etc. price = free(just to make money not an object, we're talking dream phone here not affordaphone) 1. 4G 2. LED flash 3...