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[G Tablet Accessories] PhillyPhan:
Protectors Protect

My experience with screen protectors on cell phones is that they are only good to protect the screen from damage. All of them will show fingerprints, smudges, grease and oil. This is esp. true with a touch screen. it's like wearing glasses you got to clean them alot. So save time money and headache by putting a microfiber cloth in the bag with your Gtab.
[G Tablet Accessories] Naieve:
I went with the Exim anti-glare screen protectors, but did have to wait for shipping from China. I bought a complete skinomi skin set, and promptly botched the wet application of the screen protector, but since I wanted the anti-glare it just meant a week wait for the Chinese Air Mail which I had already ordered.

Overall I like the Exim, it was easy to install without any bubbles, though you might want to trim the corners a bit as its a very tight fit. I ended up cutting them off after applying it because I had the screen on perfectly without a single dust mote making a raised area. I don't mind a poorly cut corner, but do wish I had just done a quick trimming beforehand as I wasn't perfectly centered.

2 for $12.99... Was worth the wait.
[G Tablet Accessories] Gemni69:
Hey Naieve,

does it really help with the anti glare issue? Also does it have any issues with the touch screen interface? Is the screen protector to thick that it doesnt detect your finger movement on the screen? Any help on the finger print issues haha?
[G Tablet Accessories] Naieve:
It helps some with the glare, definitely diffuses the light, but it looks more like a compromise in between a clear protector and some of the very heavy anti-glare screen protectors I've seen. I like it because of this actually. As to issues with the touch screen, I spent some time googling before buying, and while I forget where I read it the fact is there is no difference while using this protector. Even a light touch still works just fine. I wonder if that is the reason this AG protector diffuses less light, as I have heard of some AG protectors being too thick and screwing up touch. It does still show fingeprints, but its not that bad and is easy to clean. Definitely less noticeable than just the screen itself.
[G Tablet Accessories] emersonlp:
I said I would update once my Aurum arrived. Like others have mentioned, there is no cutout for the camera or sensor - I don't know what effect that has nor do I really care. I never use the camera anyway.

The protector itself fits perfectly on the screen - it is so perfect that I had trouble aligning it properly and i would get halfway done installing it and notice it was running off the side of the screen slightly.

It took a few minutes to install because I did want it to be perfect. Now that it is installed I am really happy with it. My fingers slide better across the screen and there are far less fingerprints. I am happy with my purchase.
[General Questions and Answers] rykerwilliams:
I have seen some threads for kids apps. I am interested in finding/building a kids ROM.

My child has a prepaid SIM card and RAZR to be used for certain situations. I would want to be able to let my child carry the phone all the time but restrict what numbers could be called.

So my idea, which can't be an original one, is leverage Android power to install a rooted ROM but run in user mode when I give it to my child. User mode could restrict calling to the phone book only or restrict wi-fi/data access; basically anything that you wanted to restrict or remove. Maybe there could be a ROM builder.

I have many scenarios in mind but maybe they could all be solved by software apps instead of getting into a custom ROM? I'm tech savvy, but haven't ever done a ROM. If the answer is to develop a custom ROM, what device should I choose that would get the most community support? I figure it would be a low end phone, since the point is to make a children's rom.
[General Questions and Answers] dexter93:
May I ask how old is your child?

[Sig] dId you know? If you Insert a Coin on your Desire, then it levels up to HD, Z or S :[/Sig]
[General Questions and Answers] lvav06:
i was thinking of my son when you mentioned this, it is a great i dea, and i also thought if the original att kid's phone that was out a few years back. it was revamped and it sucked. but good luck on either building one or have some one make one ( put a bounty on it?)
[General Questions and Answers] rykerwilliams:
Phones and ROMs

My child is 8 years old. I figure in a few years that it would be fine, but it seems like there would be more of a market for this.

I would put up a bounty for it but I'd prefer to make this a community effort too.

So I will change tack here and ask what the best ROM might be for me to start with and what phones might be recommended? I'm figuring that CM would be easiest to start with, generically?

Thoughts?
[General Questions and Answers] sneitzel:
I think that is a very good idea.

A good part of that could be accoimplished with a kids theme on an existing ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] olyloh6696:
im sorry but the RAZR is a dumb-phone! it doesnt support 3rd party modding. im afraid you are mistaking the word 'ROM' and actually don't know what it means! You will have no luck finding such ROM for the RAZR... A bootloader of any sort does not exist!

You need a smartphone if you want such a job done, but it requires a investment into a smartphone which are generally more expensive and not intended for 'kids'
[General Questions and Answers] rykerwilliams:
I understand...

@olyloh6696: Thanks for looking in on the thread!

You misunderstood what I was explaining. She _currently_ has a RAZR. I want to figure out what the best GSM _android_ phone would be to do the project I'm describing would be. I would of course have to get the new phone; I do understand that the RAZR does not support android (dumbphone).

Any thoughts on phone model or something out there like this already?
[General Questions and Answers] olyloh6696:
hi

well i guess the best option for a relatively cheap phone (that has android) is the zte blade (in my sig) it is a british phone, but gsm, so i think it should work in the us. if you read reviews for it, it has specs of the desire, nexus one, etc in a cheap budget range. read some revies on it! it also cost £100. Not sure what your budget is though. before you set out to buy the phone, you may need to look up a rom that supports the requirements you want, or you could request one/build your own.

good luck
[General Questions and Answers] Product F(RED):
Unrelated, but the RAZR does support modding lol. Back in the day, pre-Android, I used to hack the hell out of my Razr. There's even a hidden feature called Club Lights that uses the phone's microphone to detect music and make the lights on the phone go with the beat. Youtube it.
[General Questions and Answers] LuvDog:
That's a great idea... it would be great on a tablet too.

I'm always worried that my son is going to click around in the market and download tons of apps without know it.
[General Questions and Answers] rykerwilliams:
Remove Dialer.app, replace with custom Dialer.app

Is the source for the Dialer.app known, i.e. part of the main trunk of the Android sources? I was just thinking that it might not be too hard to just modify that original source to limit it only to the "contacts" tab, that way you can only call the contacts tab.

Another feature I thought of is using some kind of Dynamic DNS client to be able to dial in to the phone.

I was thinking that there could be a "phone home" app that would call home and report the currently used minutes and GPS coordinates, or similar.

Just trying to get the features set worked out and find out if there is existing apps that do this stuff.
[General Questions and Answers] nvrpunk:
2018, quick google search for Kids Custom ROM.... dead thread no progress. There is definitely a market for this, since it's easy to shove a phone into an OtterBox like case and let them have at it with safe guards. My kid has had an Ipad since age 2 without issue. Now she asks for my phone on occasion (years later). It would be easier to just take a custom ROM shove it on a cheap device and give it to her.

Sure, I am a minority, definitely but I can't consider myself the only person who would want to do this.
[General Questions and Answers] edika:
This is what I'm looking for my child. I'm a software engeneer but I've never works on Android. I think it's not a great works for an Android developer.

I'll follow this post for news.
[General Questions and Answers] shmily77:
digging this one up again. anyway to take something like at Nexux 5x and put a totally stripped down version of android on it to achieve something like the lightphone?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Per capita, there are very few people that actually root or flash custom ROMs, the number of kids that could/would use such a ROM is even less than that, this means it is not worth a developers time and hard work to build a ROM for this purpose, especially considering the plethora of different devices out there in the world. There would not be enough kids using "this" or "that" device with "this" or "that" custom ROM. To be as convenient for kids as what you are asking about, there would have to be a "kids ROM" for a large number of devices. This is not a reasonable expectation by any standard.

Add to that, the fact that rooting devices and flashing ROMs can quickly go bad if the user is not familiar with certain aspects of using a device that is rooted or flashed with a custom ROM, this makes for some rather difficult issues to solve due to user error, ignorance and inexperience of the user.

If you want a "safe" or "basic" ROM for a device, you'll have to learn how to build it yourself because I can promise you that no developer is willing to put that much time and effort into building ROMs that will only be used by a small number of users.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] mentalcase:
The newest update bricked the device and i'm looking to get some files off the phone before using the sbf to restore. Is there a way to have ADB access if you are not able to successfully boot into the OS?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] jojojohnson7410:
Hey, as an avid flasher (gosh i believe i did it over 15 times just this month =O), I noticed that even if you reflash everything on your phone, only your apps are erased as well as some data. If you're looking to back up stuff in the internal SD card, you should be fine as flashing won't touch that. As for if you're looking to grab some user data, I don't believe there's a way to do that, but I could totally be wrong. Sorry if that didn't help =\
[Atrix 4G Android Development] malfuncion:
if you reboot holding arrow down, it seems like I saw a USB enumeration option if you keep pressing down volume through the option. That may be a way to get the stuff off, depends what you want to do though.

I can also confirm SBF'n back to factory will retain SD info. I did it this morning to update to latest OTA.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Antij:
Accidentally rooted and bricked ... but now the battery won't charge ... so RDS says battery is too low to flash ... any suggestions?

My only thought is to go to the ATT store and ask if they can swap batteries, but I don't see why they would.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] malfuncion:
If you plug it into the wall it should charge with the phone turned off. If the battery is completely dead- it will appear nothing is happening. Just leave it plugged in for a while, drink a beer, do something around the house, then come back. It should show a charging light at this point or have tried to turn itself on.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] norcal einstein:
I will also 2nd that SBF flash will keep the files on /sdcard/ level intact.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Antij:
Thanks for the quick reply...I feel silly asking, but how do you turn it off? As soon as I plug it in it turns on and gives the message "Failed to boot 2 / Starting RSD mode / Battery too low to flash." I press power, nothing happens. I hold down power, nothing happens. I hold Vol Down and press power, nothing happens. I charge overnight 12+ hours with the screen on, it gets warm, but otherwise nothing happens. I charge with the USB to the computer, the screen stays off, and it seems to get a little bit of charge (enough so that it doesn't shut off as soon as it's unplugged), but hours of trying to charge this way nets the same error message. She's bricked. I guess you can't flash without a battery in place?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] incognito53:
Edit: Or just buy this spare battery desktop charger

My next best suggestion for you is to find a way to get 3.7 volts of power to those battery pins. Either with a regulated power supply or another lithium cell battery. I'm not sure whether or not the detection circuit will allow the phone to boot or not or if that is charge-related only, but it would be an alternative to keeping a bricked phone. If you choose to try to run this without a battery keep in mind wall wart type power is unstable (read: voltage changes) at different current draws.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Antij:
Went to the store near closing time (10 min) and they gave me a fresh battery instead of going through warranty, said that could take days with no phone. Fortunately he didn't test the battery and, upon putting a new one in, he only looked at it long enough to see the dual core logo and not the Failed to Boot message.

Flashing worked perfectly after I had a fresh battery, thankfully. No longer bricked, no longer using 6-yo crackberry! :D
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Milk195:
Hey guys,

I'm used to my Android phones (Eris, Incredible, Thunderbolt) and their ridiculously responsive touchscreens and using this tablet is really not responding well. The edges of the screen force me to push quite hard to get it to sense my touch and I find myself touching app icons twice sometimes three times in order to get them to register - but then in some areas (usually towards the middle) the screen is much more responsive...? Also (strangely) once the touch is registered - I can for example drag the icon around the home screen quite easily but the initial touch took awhile to register?? Hope that makes sense. I haven't seen anything about this so far so I was wondering if it's something to do with the ROM, something common, etc...please let me know if you have any input!

THANKS!

P.S. - FYI I'm quite happy with the device over all for it's price point. I went with Vegan Beta 5.1.1 and it's very "stock-ish" and I like that - also I'm quite confident my unit was brand new as there are no dead pixels or anything else wrong that I've noticed so far and the packaging had all the tell tale signs of a product being brand new. Woot does NOT mess around with shady stuff - very rarely will you find someone with bad things to say about them and I've never gotten a High end games that wouldn't run on my phones run great on it and there are no dead pixels or anything else wrong that I've noticed so far. Woot does NOT mess around with shady/refurb stuff unless they say it outright.

As for the touch screen again let me know how senstive yours is because it's the only thing that's got me a little bummed out.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasco13:
There is a calibration fix app floating around. I think roebeet posted it. Search for touch screen calibration.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magqccom:
Try using a multitouch testing app from the market to get a true visual clue to how your touchscreen responds (there are a few, search for multitouch test). Run the calibration app and compare.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbmboy:
This Made my Screen much more Responsive!

There is a a tool to recalibrate the screen.... I have read that it is in TNT lite, and I am running Calkulin's ROM and it is in this as well (I don't know if Vegan has it or not... but you can check with a root explorer program).

First, the way to check (as best I know... still a newb) use a root explorer program, and look in system/bin... there should be a file in there called TSCalibration... I believe if this is there, then you have the tool you need...

From here, you need to create a file called Calibration.ini on the root of your SDcard (/sdcard). The easy way to do this is to connect the Gtab to a computer, and create it the INI file with your computer... put it on the root of the SDcard (internal memory)... oh, and yes... the ini file is blank, this is how it should be.

Now shutdown your Gtab, and restart it... let it sit for a minute or two after bootup, and DO NOT TOUCH THE SCREEN DURING BOOTUP...

That is it! From what I have read, the TSCalibration file looks for Calibration.ini on the SDcard... if it see's it, it re-calibrates the screen... after this is done, it's a good idea to delete the Calibration.ini file, otherwise it will re-calibrate on every bootup.

A couple of notes:

From what I have read, the Stock TSCalibration looks in /sdcard2 (external), instead of /sdcard... the hacked version in most ROMS fixed this...

I am one of the (many) wooter's that just got their G Tablet... I will say that right out of the box, the dock on the right side of the screen was a pain to get to work... I ran this calibration and now it works like a dream!! I was really surprised that even a brand new device needed to be re-calibrated.

If I screwed any of this up, please correct me! Thanks, and good luck!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Milk195:
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! This worked PERFECTLY! My tablet now responds perfectly acoss the entire screen. You just made my week! :D
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brown14you:
Thank You! Thank You!

Thank You so much for this post. You have saved my G-Tab from going back on eBay where I got it brand new couple of days ago!!! WOW. This is quite the FIX. The G-Tab is now very responsive. Now, if I can find a fix for the dismal viewing angles. Ughh.:rolleyes:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mantara:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=934500

Here is a link to the app. Don't forget to take the calibration.ini out of the root. Some have reported perminent sensitivity problems caused by recalibrating constantly. The app lets you recalibrate with a touch and is simple and easy to use.
[Atrix 4G General] Rantatron:
So I'm new to Motoblur, but not Android phones.

At the moment I have two Gmail accounts and a Facebook account linked to my Motoblur account. As a result, I have ALL my contacts from all of those accounts in my contact lists, even though I have a "Cell Contacts" list under one of my Gmail accounts.

On my Milestone/Droid, I could select this group from Contacts > Menu, but apparently here I cannot. Any attempt at deleting all my contacts won't let me delete my primary Gmail account, saying other apps are using it. This is leading to frustration. Using Motorola Phone Tools won't let me delete Facebook contacts, as it says they were imported by a third party source.

Am I screwed here? Any solutions?
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
download Contact Remover from the market and you can delete all or selected contacts in one swoop.
[Atrix 4G General] Rantatron:
But won't that just make them come back when my contacts re-sync?
[Atrix 4G General] Supish:
make it so it doesn't sync contacts?
[Atrix 4G General] drock212:
When you delete contacts you don't want they do not come back (I've done this a couple of times) I also went in and liked all contacts that belong together to make it less messy
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] ced357:
Is there someone who can create a theme to replace the sun by earth planet?

Like on image

I had it on hd2 but I have no reply from jagualarani after various PM

Can someone make this for htc sense 2.1 or Beautifull Widget?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superj3211:
my buddy just got a new captivate from att and it gives an error every time that i try to rot it or put cwm on it. does anyone know if they have blocked it or anything like that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoenix-Lead:
We need the error before we can proceed. Also, please get this moved to the Q&A before it gets shut down.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superj3211:
who can move it?

also it is saying

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted.

and these are the same root and cwm files i have used on my phone many times.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoenix-Lead:
Try the attached update.zip for your CWM recovery. In regards to rooting, do you plan on putting a custom ROM on the device? If so don't waste your time unless you need a Tibu backup as all ROMS these days come rooted. Also, you are the only one besides a moderator who can move the thread.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
sounds like 3e recovery here.....dont think a new update.zip is going to help at all....he needs to read the 3e recovery threads that are countless on these forums right now
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
[facepalm] another one these?

quickest way to root and cwm is to odin flash the speed mod kernel(you want the .tar version), that gives cwm, then flash a custom rom, that gives root and busybox and theming and removes bloat, and other tweeks, ect. ect.

if you dont want to lose apps, you can root from cwm in speedmod and install titanium backup. then do the custom rom thing, or flash a more att rom friendly kernel like firebird(that way you dont loose bluetooth calling).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Thread Moved
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiteguypl:
disregard, currently removing my foot from my mouth.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
odin is also the quickest way to fix a soft brick

also if the phone has 3-button recovery and can use odin you will not brick it by flashing a kernel.(not to mention if it doesn't have 3-button working you want to odin flash it to fix that) maybe you get a boot loop but never a brick.

the odin related bricks to worry about is when you (or your computer) interupt odin while flashing a boot.bin or sbl.bin.

these are not flashed when you flash a kernel. also kernel flashing in odin take about 1.5 seconds if i had to guess, hard to interupt it in the middle of a 2 second proceedure
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickm50:
Totally agree with dani on this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiteguypl:
I stand corrected. I blame sleep deprivation. Hell I didn't even notice the op said new captivate. 3e fix.

Edit: love that I dropped the newbie bomb in there too, icing on the cake. Go figure.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
no problem. and the facepalm was because i literally just completed answering a similar thread before i wrote that. seems a lot of people are trying to root with the new 2.2 roms, maybe they are still finding the old link found in tech articles from last summer. how i found xda in september was googling "captivate root" and i was linked here from engadget or something. but i think if you did that now you would find a lot of dated information.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiteguypl:
Yeah most of it doesn't mention that 3e is locked down.
[Defy General] cgogos:
Hello,

I have a T-Mobile Motorola Defy that is Rooted and has system recovery installed. I am running the stock OS. Details:

Firmware Version 2.1-update1

Baseband Verison: EPU93ST2_U_03.04.02

Kernel Version: 2.6.29 emk037(at symobl)il93lnxdroid12 #1

Build Number: JORDN_U3_6.36.0

Recovery Version: GoAPK Defy Recovery v2.5.1.2

Question is how do I install from here the Pays-ROM Defy v5.1 Froyo with Ginger feeling [3.4.3-11 based!]

Wanna make sure I install this correctly where everything works good. I have already performed a back up of the current stock rom.

Thanks to all for the help!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MtGoat:
I just rooted and installed inspire revolution hd rom on my new inspire phone using ace-hack-kit-v9 and my phone has no sound. I followed the both part 1 and 2 of the video tutorial from start to finish. After the rom installation, I try to change the sound and nothing. Please help.