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[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tposey:
Am I just stupid? Are there ways to change the stock background images in classic home? I downloaded photo gallery live wallpaper, but it just sits there. Any ideas?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimcpl:
Have you tried longpressing on the homescreen? A popup should appear, w choices for shortcuts, wallpaper, and luve wallpaper.

Jim
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wond3r:
My friend has a Desire and he isnt pleased with the battery life at all.

I told him to root and install a custom ROM and it will help, as it did with me (Motorola Milestone).

Do the custom ROMS for the desire have better battery life? How many hours can you get out of it?

He hardly gets a day and doesnt even use much data, mostly texts, maybe short calls, and just brief stints of data
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bla.k.offee:
i use oxygen 2.0.2 and had the same usage as your friend, more or less.

my battery stands for almost 20 hours.

do check the auto-sync options and 2G-3G network setting.

turn-off the GPS, WiFi bluetooth if it isnt used.

and maybe your friend could install Juice Defender from market to conserve battery.

hope that helps
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juicebox666:
I second the vote for Oxygen. I heavily use data for Twitter, Facebook, four email accounts and several short browsing sessions daily. I also make a handful of calls (often with Bluetooth)	and SMS a lot. I jump on and off MSN with imo.im beta (my current multi-protocol IM client at the moment) and get almost 20 hours a day. I've always had battery life problems in the past.

Your friend won't regret it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calyco:
Another vote for oxygen. Phone out of the box for me I only get about 24 hours. On oxygen 2.0 with moderate use - wifi always on, browsing forums and email, calls, no widgets except for weather and date, I got 2 days 9 hours! That's also with setcpu and rokee mod (check oxygen forum). Very happy so far and don't think I will be upgrading anytime soon unless I can get better battery life.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briga69:
I am using the RCMIXHD and for now I haven't seen a huge improvement ... but I keep everything on and still have to tweak around :).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AciDCooL:
AuraxTSense v8.4

Standby Time 8day's.

With checking time/date and mail from time to time.

Google latititude enabled and face book enabled.

Allmost no wifi involved btw.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wond3r:
So with oxygen, since he doesnt leave wifi or data on all the time, and only sparingly uses it, I assume he would get a lot more than 20 hours of use?

wow the auraxtsense sounds good
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matty Matt:
I would agree with the people suggesting oxygen, although i haven't tried the most recent one I have tried other AOSP ROMs (Such as Cyanogenmod and Redux) but you do however sacrifice the incredible camera for a terrible AOSP one, so I personally like to use Sense ROMs for that reason. There are some Kernels that can improve the cpu usage-thus improving battery life when using HTC sense based roms. I would either recommend either LeeDroid or AuraxTsense (the one i currently use) and with heavy use i can easily get a working day from it (from 9am to 5pm) and it'll only JUST reach the 20% mark for me which is fine :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ooie:
Using the Redux 1.1.0 rom with newest radio (32.54) and coutts99 2.6.38 CFS HAVS kernel. Battery life has never been better, 2 days since recharge, couple of games of Worms and 3d table tennis, some emails, browsing for maybe one hour, listened to a Brian Eno CD and maybe 15 minutes of talking on the phone. 56% left!

I was positively shocked. I reckon the largest cause for this was the new radio and kernel, Wi-Fi reception seems to be a bit weaker TBH than with 32.49 but this battery life is definetely worth it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dzam72:
I was having severe battery issues with my desire - looked at logs via currentwidget etc - found I'm use around 55ma on standby !!

Long story short and after lots of research I found I was a victim of the usb brick bug... anyway, unbricked and now my use is around 4 to 6 ma standby on CM7 RC4..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] System of a pWne!^:
I'm running Cyanogen since the Release Candidate 1 with the latest RADIO and this kernel: http://mirror.couttstech.com/android/index.php?dir=bravo/kernel/aosp-2.6.38/CFS/ (CFS, HAVS, Ginger).

I only use 3G when idle and WiFi for downloading updates.

Sync is on

Bluetooth and GPS are off.

Underclocked to 800 MHz when active, Max 256 when idle. Min-Frequency set to 128 MHz.

Undervolted by 50-100 mV.

I'm listening about 30 minutes/day to online radio (via 3G)

Trillian is enabled in background (ICQ,MSN,AIM,GoogleTalk)

With this, my desire loses around 40-50% in 14 hours (around 3% hour). Most battery hog is the online radio (drains 15%).

If I do not listen to online radio and if I disable Trillian but keeping everything else enabled, the drain is around 1%/hour (tested over night).

For me this is the best I could get and I'm fine with it (Also: My battery only has 85% of original capacity left).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ItsDace:
vote for Oxygen2 or CM7. Try this Kernel too. Sync only every 3h-6h (FB/Twitter/Weather/...)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fraktal75:
In my case Oxygen 2.0.2 is draining approximately 1% of battery every 4 hours on standby with wifi on. Kinda hard to beat that I guess.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaa:
I am using InsertCoin 2.0.1 Data2Ext

My Settings:

-Syncs: FB 6hr, Push e-mail for yahoo and googlemail, News 4 hrs, weather 3 hrs, and htc sense based on change.

-2G/3G set to auto

-CPU freq: 384-1075MHz with interactive...yes I am OCing a bit.

-Night in the City live wallpaper.

-WiFi always on at home.

-(not really a setting) GSM signal strength is somehow always full at home.

-advance task killer every 1 hr.

I have tested the battery life at home and it resulted with those settings above about 25% reduction in 12-14Hrs on standby.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ItsDace:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-view-on-task-managers-for-android/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaa:
I know that one.

I have tried not to use any task killer but the battery usage is somehow better with task killer running.

On the other hand, if I set the task killer faster than 1 hr, the battery life is drained drastically.

Longer than 1 hr will not give me any effect on battery life.

I also know those are only based on subjective judgement.

Sent from HTC desire with InsertCoin 2.0.1 Data2EXT
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kazgor:
oh i was going to post something like this.

Using Stock 2.2 Rom.

I've found i actually get better usage with WIFI always on rather than OFF and switching between 3G to WiFi and then tun it off.

so switch phone on at 7am @ 100%, switch off at 11:30pm and im around 85% usage.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bomaster:
I think I might have this problem as well, been doing a search, but not sure where to look, did you follow the procedures for usb brick, or are you talking about something else. I downloaded the current app and it shows 44amp all the time, any info on where to look for a cure is appreciated.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dzam72:
Yeah - followed procedures for USB brick and worked fine.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=691187
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bomaster:
Having a little trouble with usb brick procedure, I think my cache was corrupted, so I unrooted and thought I would start again. So far unrooted, replaced original battery back in taking out 3000 mah one, and funny the amps go down, when gone into idle, but they do shoot up to 130 something or more when doing things. Then I replaced it with the 3000 amp one, and it still stays at 44mah, so I think it is the battery, it won't go down in amps for some reason, well atleast I have a backup battery incase.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Charlie.millea:
How do you do it? Awesome screen and phone and no way to watch movies, double twist doesn't work, astro doesn't work

My evo is rooted with auto root and warm 2.2 mod

Pleads don't waste time trekking me to search the forums, I've searches all over and I'm on my phone and its a pain, call me a name and answer me instead lol
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] m7ia:
I don't have an Evo, but I would definitely recommend VitalPlayer... however I keep Vitalplayer rockplayer and moboplayer (not sure which ones are two words) around so that I can play pretty much anything. If you're just playing local files on the phone, should be able to handle anything you throw at it.

I use it along with cifsmanager to stream video from my network, and it's pretty much perfect unless you want to play 1080P. It can do 720P but I hope you have a good wireless signal with low latency and good bandwidth.

I have a Samsung Captivate
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] PokeAsheep:
Mvideo player. It plays mkv's among the multitudes of other types it plays... looks great, nice controls/organization....

Yup. Use it all the time
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] m7ia:
Hmm, haven't heard of mvideo, I'll give it a try
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rocket321:
I use handbrake on my pc to encode videos and then put them on my sd card. If you start with ipod setting then increase the resolution to match your phone and maybe increase the bitrate quality a bit higer. Looks great on my epic, I followed a guide written for the evo so should be good to go.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Johnnyboy84:
I'm going to give M video a try I haven't heard of it until now.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] m7ia:
Any particular reason you do that? The Epic has plenty of internal storage space right? So why go through the conversion step?

Unless I'm mistaken I thought the Epic had 16gb.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ScrapSilicon:
when you can take a 4gb file down to 700 to 900mb without losing much (if any) quality I'd venture to say that that would be more of said files in same amount of space that one file would've resided in
[Defy General] confusedfella:
My Motorola defy finally arrived by mail today, but unfortunately the market app isn't included and there is no way I can ship it back. If I install another rom will the market app work?

Thanks,
[Defy General] fritolays:
Yup for sure.

Or give this apk a shot...

http://m.cfa.aero/misc/Vending.zip
[Defy General] scrannel:
Where are you located? If you search around you'll find phones designed for the UAE often come w/o market as it's apparently not allowed. Also, most (if not all) who have this issue find they cannot add market. Perhaps rooting will make it work.

Also of note, some people who have ordered their phones over the internet have gotten "Saudi" phones even if they are not in that market. And, apparently, the manufacturers sometimes will not support the phone.
[Defy General] confusedfella:
It gave a 403 permission denied , is it included in the update.zip in mirror?

I ordered it from the internet and I think its from the gulf region because of the arabic manual. I wanted to ask If I flashed another rom will it work and which rom should I flash ,that is stable and fast.

and now to flashing I just start the phone while pressing up volume and ON. Then connect to my pc, start RSD lite and flash the rom?
[Defy General] fritolays:
Heh oops, fixed now. No its not in the update.zip.
[Defy General] confusedfella:
It gave a Parse error.

Thanks, I'll try flashing the 3.4.3-11-stock uk tmobile If I flash it theres no way going back right?
[Defy General] fritolays:
What version are you on now ?

If your on 2.34.1 CEE or less you can use a downgradable method.
[Defy General] confusedfella:
It's moto_version.2.54.0.mb525.retail.en.ME1.
[Defy General] fritolays:
Then no, it would be a one way trip. I would make a backup of your current rom beforehand but thats all you can do.

Maybe try higgys way but I donno.
[Defy General] confusedfella:
Thanks for the help buddy, a few last questions, to booting into clockwork recovery is vol down and Power button right? and is flashing between other 2.2 roms possible? like the US one or indian one.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deion123:
the button used to launch all the apps i have has disapeared is there anyway i can bring the menu back on the quicklauch bar next to my internet and phone
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabenoob:
Hey guys, I really want to use JT's froyo aosp as my daily driver, but I can't do without MMS, anyone know a way to have MMS's sent to my e-mail or something similar so that I can view them in that format instead of through the mms app on the phone? In the same fashion, know of a way I can send from an email or something that would get received as an MMS?

I really doubt there's a way to do this for free, but if there is, I'd love to know
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piperat:
go onto your phone and email a phone # to try it. Seems like i remember doing that before. You have to put the 1 in front of area code though.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zparlet:
you can send emails to number@vzwpix.com (assuming you have verzion). For example if the persons number was 123-456-7890. You can email 1234567890@vzwpix.com and they will get it as a mms.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crookshanks:
Other carriers:

@txt.att.net

@messaging.sprintpcs.com

@tmomail.net

As far as receiving them, you could just have your friends e-mail pics or whatever to you.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabenoob:
Just got around to reading this now, thank you guys. Anyone know of a more solid fix for the mms? could I possibly make it so mms sent to my phone is sent to my email ?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaleV:
Handcent SMS free on android market and it does sms and mms, i use it everyday and like it better than the stock one anyway.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crookshanks:
That won't work in AOSP.

Edit: I just saw you live in Hinesville. You military?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaleV:
Yes I'm Army, And yes it does work in AOSP, i am running Vinilla froyo AOSP v0.9.3 with a voodoo rom and i was using handcent this morning so what doesnt work? handcent ot mms? if it's mms than there is always the stock mms zip through CWR but i havent tried that yet to see if it works with AOSP or not.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crookshanks:
I know the sms portion of handcent works but mms won't. I wish it did, I liked the AOSP rom. It's speedy.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaleV:
In the sent message settings on handcent it has an option to convert to mms but not until it is 3 or more messages long and i really don't feel like typing that ling to see if it works, but now it looks like i am going to have to put some time and energy into investigating this. thanks for the info, since i have a pretty slow afternoon today i will see if i can find anything out with it. i will post results of my tests here, if i cant get to it before the weekend i will definitely work on it then. You have peaked my curiosity sir, so now i must investigate, I'm kinda OCD that way. any here i thought i was gonna get bored today.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crookshanks:
I think it has something to do with how Samsung ties everything to touchwiz. None of the roms without touchwiz - MIUI, CM or AOSP - seem to have working mms.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kozdoba:
Hello,

Just got my Motorola XOOM and found strange bug. Please check somebody could you upload photos from your galary to Picasa web albums directly from Galary apk?

I tried to reboot, factory reset, clear chach, but nothing helps me :confused:
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ama761156:
I can't seem to do it on verizom xoom
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willverduzco:
Thread moved to general. This does not belong in development by any stretch of the imagination.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dch921:
Just tried it again and I uploaded without issue. Is your picasa pics syncing to your gallery? Also when you try to upload them are you clicking on the share option.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kozdoba:
Yes I could see my albums from Picasa, but I couldn't upload photos from Gallery to Picasa. It shows "fail to retrieve account information".
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wd5gnr:
With VEGAn 5.11 and Pershoot kernel. I want to do a few things when it boots up. I don't see the usual /etc/init.d kind of structure.

I did find init.rc and even found a link that describes its peculiar syntax. But editing that file (after remounting) doesn't "take" -- I assume it is on initfs and gets copied to a RAM disk on boot.

Is there anywhere easily user writeable where you can stick something in the boot sequence? Seems like that would be a common enough thing to need to do.

Thanks!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roebeet:
The init.rc is in the ramdisk, and the ramdisk is in the boot.img (found in all the stock and modded ROMs).

Here's a good guide on how unpack / repack that file: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack,_Edit,_and_Re-Pack_Boot_Images

(obviously it's a bit technical) What I can tell you is that you don't need any cmdline options for the boot.img

Here's a real quick breakdown of what I do (Ubuntu user):

./unpack-bootimg.pl boot.img

go to the extracted ramdisk folder, make my changes and then:

find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ../newramdisk.cpio.gz
cd ..
mkbootimg --kernel boot.img-kernel.gz --ramdisk newramdisk.cpio.gz -o newboot.img

"newboot.img" being my new boot.img. That's how the boot.img in all my mods are created.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wd5gnr:
Thank you and yeah I figured that was it. Technical is not an issue as I sling unix/linux for ages. Salute to you for all your work on this platform.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wd5gnr:
Well I cheated a little. Here's what I did:

I noticed that you had added to the bottom of /init.rc a one shot service for /system/etc/shuttle_ins.sh.

So I just remounted rw for /system and added the following to the TOP of /system/etc/shuttle_ins.sh:

# added by aaw

if [ -f /system/etc/rc.local ]; then

sh /system/etc/rc.local &

fi

# end aaw

So now I can put what I want in rc.local -- start up sshd or whatever. In this case here's what I actually wanted:

#!/bin/sh

# this is run at the end of the init.rc sequence if it exists

until mount | grep -m1 sdcard2 ; do sleep 5 ; done # wait for sdcard2 mount

mkdir /mnt/sdcard/sdcard2 # make mount point (might fail, but who cares?)

mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/sdcard2

Of course, this assumes I will always have sdcard2 or it spins. Could put a timeout in I guess, but for me this is always the case. Now things like players that only look in /sdcard can find stuff on sdcard2 as well.

A bit of a hack. I wonder if the release DEVs would consider adding an rc.local in user land in a nicer way? Maybe have a system rc.0 that does the -f test for rc.local and that way if you wanted to add an rc.local you could but if you didn't no harm or foul.

Or did I miss a smarter way to do this?

Thanks for the help (and the great releases, of course!).
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wd5gnr:
I found this in the market: https://market.android.com/details?id=os.tools.scriptmanager

Lets you run scripts at boot time. Haven't tried it for that though, but it could work instead of my rc.local fix. A little different since I assume it runs late (after Android is up) unlike the rc.local which runs before Android, unless I'm mistaken.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bindoy:
I have trouble downloading large files using this ROM since when my screen turns off, WIFI is also disabled. How can I change it. I've been looking in the settings but to no avail.

Edit: Found it...you have to click menu when in the WIFI Settings, then choose advanced.

Edit2: Wifi is disabled when screen is turn off even if the Wifi sleep policy is changed to Never.

Any ideas?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
then that is some kind of bug. because setting wifi sleep policy to never should behave as such.

related note, setting wifi sleep to never greatly increases batteyr life, as said thru the forums, because back on 3g the data kills your battery much faster. so allowing wifi to stay on makes a huge improvement on battery.

for example if you leave wifi on overnight, you might lose 5% total. but if it switches back to 3g overnight, you might lose 20%.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweetpiggy:
is this bug confirmed?

me too have same problem with SuperAosp :( (i will test with other rom....)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waffle_:
Hello everyone,

Does anyone have a guide for one-click rooting or fast rooting without the hassles? I'd really appreciate it!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aqualls:
If you have android sdk installed use super one click. Easy as hell.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waffle_:
Link please? I'm having all kinds of troubles.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aqualls:
Here ya go. Haven't been on in a few. Extract to sdk tools folder. Right click and run as admin.
[General Questions and Answers] MrHiddenDevil:
okay well i had rooted my mytouch slide 3g. I can flash roms on it and go to the recovery and everything. But when i go to the rom manager or the wifi tether it says it can find some folder n then it doesnt work.. What is wrong or what did i do wrong.. Most appreciated if you answer :D
[General Questions and Answers] plainjane:
Did you make sure busybox is installed?

If you're not sure, go into Titanium Backup Root. Choose menu > problems? and it should install the most recent version of Busybox. You can also download Root Checker from the market & it'll tell you if you're rooted & if you have busybox. I know on the Evo, it will say s-off in the bootloader if you're rooted (s-on if you're not).

Although it certainly sounds like you're rooted. Make sure you have Superuser installed as well. If you've confirmed all of these, I would suggest asking in the q&a forum for your device & giving the exact message you receive with those apps. Someone over there could probably help more than I can.
[General Questions and Answers] MrHiddenDevil:
thanks ill try getting busybox, i had did not know i needed it
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apwhitelaw:
I want to root my Xoom so I can wireless tether from my phone. If I can't do this, I don't even want the Xoom. So, if I root it and I still don't like it(because I still have a few days before I can take it back), is there a way I can get it back to the stock software and all so I can return it? I have the wifi model.

I saw some other posts on this but I wasn't quite clear on whether they would work or not. Some were only for Verizon model and stuff so I wasn't sure.

Thanks.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Earthbrain:
Why would you want to root the Xoom?

Wouldn't you just be able to connect wi-fi by just allowing your cell phone to output wi-fi signal? I can do this without rooting my Xoom.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laredo7mm:
Hmmm, I guess I am confused by your question. Do you want to use your phone to act as the modem for your Xoom or your Xoom to act as a modem for your phone?

If it is the latter, that doesn't make much sense. So it must be the former and in that case you would need to have a rooted phone to tether your Xoom to. Your Xoom can then remain stock.

:confused:
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apwhitelaw:
My phone is rooted. I want to use my phone's internet to tether to my Xoom. Wifi tether apps create an ad hoc wifi network for your device to be able to connect to, and if you have not heard, Motorola disabled the functionality to connect to ad hoc networks in the Xoom. Therefore, it must be rooted.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laredo7mm:
My stock Xoom tethers just fine to my rooted Evo so I guess I wont be of much help. :o