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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reptile64:
But I did that and the result was... duplicate contacts!!!! one with dashes and one without!!! Θα τρελαθώ!!!!
[Android Themes] broconz:
I am currently using ADWLauncher with the main dock bar off(extended desktop) and using the Hidden Dockbar. I was wondering if an app exists that lets you create custom notifications for your dock bar. I searched all through ADW but did not see an option for it.

I would love to be able to have a custom notification font size/type.

Thanks in advance.

(ex: If I have two SMS messages a number 2 will show in the column/row corner above text messages.)
[Android Themes] Vpr2006:
There's an app in the market ADWNotifier. I've been using it for a while and it works great. I think you have to have EX version of Launcher, but I believe the Notifier is free.

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.adw.launcher.notifications&feature=search_result
[Android Themes] broconz:
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that app out and it does work great. Only thing is they use the bubble and only bubble. Are there any other apps that are more customizable?

If not ill stick with ADW Notifier.
[Android Themes] **Knurpsi**:
Hi!

If I remember correctly, there only is the bubble, but you can customize it's color and size. :)
[Android Themes] broconz:
hmm, I know I have seen people them in custom themes or whatnot. I guess the next question is how do i replace it manually?
[Android Themes] rori~:
you cant replace the bubbles, unless u modify the java code
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbm21:
So I installed cm7 (great rom) and I followed the steps right but after secound boot it says my sdcard needs reformatting. My SD card has been screwy foe a while so I formatted it and then rebooted and it had wiped my internal sdcard so I thought whatever i had to much crap anyway but mow there are not contacts on my sim card?! Any sugestions?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gears1979:
Have you installed gapps onto your phone?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbm21:
I did... I think it might be a bad flash or something

Edit: ya reflash fixed of thanks for your help though
[G Tablet General] cwee477:
Hey Everyone i'm not sure this is the right place for this but, i was looking to buy android tablet but not sure which one to get i have around $300 to spend, can anyone recommend the best for that price.

i've viewsonic g and it seems to be in my price range should i go with this or another thanx in advance
[G Tablet General] -BoneZ-:
The Viewsonic G-Tablet is the best Android tablet for that price. You just can't go wrong and there's tons of support here for it.
[G Tablet General] regalpimpin:
Got mine a little over a week ago from woot for 285 shipped. Then they had them on there again today during the woot off.

Tigerdirect had them for 299 as well, not sure if they still do.

I'd looked at the archos 101 and the g tablet. In my opinion you cant go wrong with the g tab for the price. Absolutely no complaints here.

There is the screen viewing angle issue. But that hasn't really bothered me since i actually look at the device while im working on it.

The other option would be to wait a month until the Transformer comes out. It will be a little above your price range but from the looks of it, totally worth it.

Otherwise just keep your eyes peeled for any random deals, there will be quite a few of them this year.
[G Tablet General] cwee477:
thanks guys for your input... trying to debate if should pull the trigger,

wish i could have like a comparison to others
[G Tablet General] twistedrotors:
Not really sure how much of a comparison can be had. You're in the G Tablet forum for one and there really is no perfect tablet for everyone.

As I'm sure you've read, right now the G Tablet is the best you can buy for the price but you absolutely have to get rid of the stock firmware. If you're ok with hacking it, then it's the best. In my opinion. :D

-John
[G Tablet General] shojus:
G-Tablet

Looking at the xoom now and can get you a really good deal on my old g-tab that has tnt-lite 4.25 on it with a few other apps and it's practically brand new! With box and everything! $225.00 takes it.... Sorry if this is the wrong forum???
[G Tablet General] dgstan:
Yes, if you like the looks of the gTab, you really need to be willing to put in an hour or so to research and install the modified ROMs in order to increase the tablet's ease of use. If the thought of that scares you, it might not be the device for you (although many people use the stock version with good results).

I bought the tablet because I like hacking around and thought that this well-supported and easily-hacked hardware would be the ideal platform for my first exposure to the Android OS.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychosonic:
After updating to 2.3.3 using COS-DS, my phone seemed to work fine. I initially had a battery drain with nothing taking up large battery usage, so I reset the battery stats and all was well.

However, after unplugging my phone from charging all night (100% upon unplug), I checked my phone two hours later and saw that my charge was down to 22%. Upon checking Battery Usage, I found that Android OS is using 76%! The only thing I've done today was answer a couple SMS messages. I don't have Sync, GPS, or Wifi on, but I do have Mobiledata and 3G+2G on, as well as Background Data. The only widget I have is Google Voice, which I've removed to no avail. I've tried rebooting (twice), but it stays the same. I've turned off data, gone to 2G-only, and turned off background data, and it still continues. In Spare Parts, under Battery history it says that the only thing using up the battery is Suspend in CPU, and Battery Status says that the battery's health is good. Something really strange is that after the initial power-off upon the discovery of this issue, I immediately plugged it into the charger. After about 3 minutes I turned it back on, and found that it's already charged back up to 86%. WHAT.

Also, I haven't plugged it into the computer once in the last few days, so it's not USB-bug related. Any ideas on what's going on here?

EDIT: Ok, it's been a couple hours since this began, but just now I checked the phone (it was on the charger) and suddenly EVERYTHING is gone from the Battery Usage page, save for Display and Android OS, and Android OS is back down to 5% now. Really bloody weird, but the issue seems to have resolved itself.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chocolate Columbo:
I've had similar issues. When my battery runs flat, dead. I plug it up and switched it on, and it shown "Charging (32%)". I get different but similar results with different ROMs. It could simply mean the battery is wasted couldn't it?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeenAndroidized:
Have you gone into the Recovery mode and wipe the Battery Status? I was having similiar issue (but not a fast drain), I did maybe about 5 wiped and reboot the phone. My problem seem to go away.

I went from 1 day or less from 100% to having to recharge, to 2 and 1/2 days then charge.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychosonic:
The issue came back later that night, and has been happening ever since.

I've done the bump charge + stats wipe, where I let it charge to 100%, shutdown until green LED, wipe stats, restart, let drain to 0, restart and use. I've tried this about 3 or 4 times, and the issue persists. I've removed my 2 widgets (two sound effects widgets), and it persists.

Also, I've downloaded OS Monitor, and it shows the CPU to be resting at its min, 246.

I'm hoping it's just the battery at this point, and have already ordered another one. I'll let you guys know if that fixes it.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeenAndroidized:
In that case it might be your battery that need to be replace. How old is the battery?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychosonic:
I really have no idea. I bought this G1 used on eBay 9 months ago.

2 things to note:

1. It actually stopped booting last night even while on the charger: I restarted, and it kept getting stuck on the splash image. So I superwiped, reflashed, and the drain is still there even with no user-installed apps.

2. About a month ago, (when I was back on a stable Froyo, which I had been on since I got the phone 9 months ago) it started to randomly shut off. It seemed like if it got just a little too hot (battery got to maybe 30 C, never was able to check what the temp was when this happened), it would shut down and wouldn't get past the boot screen without a reset. I had to either charge it or wait an hour for it to successfully boot again.

In retrospect, this is sounding more and more like the battery. The only thing that's strange is that Android OS takes up such high percentage. Oh well, hopefully the new battery gets here today or tomorrow, hopefully that fixes everything.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeenAndroidized:
Since you have brought the G1 9 months ago, more than likely it's had been over two year or more (about the same age as mine more or less). I doubt that the seller would be giving you a brand new battery.

I noticed the reboot on mine G1 too. Ever so often, my G1 will reboot on me. But I do not have the problem getting stuck at the splash or boot screen. But then I am using the SuperAosp ROM not Froyo.

Let me know how the new battery will work out, I might have to end up getting it myself. Eventhough my battery life got better after I did the wipe battery status, sometime it still drain depending on the day I guess.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heeter:
I noticed the same result with COSDS.

I moved to Ginger Yoshi with much better results.

Better, but not as good as stock, obviously.

COSDS turned into a real hog on me by the time the second or third reboot happened.

Heeter
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeenAndroidized:
I'll stay with SuperAosp, I take the performance over the battery life any day. :D My battery status an't that bad. Once in the while I used it up in a day or less, other I can stick around for a few days.

The rebooting part was not too bad on my end. Just once in a while. Nothing I can't handle. ;)

@ psychosonic - You might want to try that if you want, Gingerbread Yoshi was one of my first choice before I found what I had. :D
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychosonic:
Alright, got my battery. After calibrating it for one day, then using it today post-calibration, it's functioning phenomenally. After using wifi + internet for a period of time, and sms throughout the day, it's still at 70% 6 hours after charge. Essentially, the only thing that drains the battery is heavy internet use, which seems to make it go down 1% per 2 or 3 minutes.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeenAndroidized:
Internet usage seem to take a lot out of the battery for sure. I know mine take a lot more than 1% every 2 or 3 mins when I use my internet.

Let see how will the new battery pan out. See if it will last you 2 or more days. Keep using it as such, and see where it goes.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pontusbredin:
Android OS Battery bug

Hi!

1. Install SystemPanelLite Task Manager from the market.

2. Run SystemPanel and open settings and check the "System processes" option. Close settings.

3. Scroll down in the process list until you find the process "android.process.media". If you have a CPU usage of more then 10-30s and the process usage gauge to the left moves up and down you probably have the Android OS battery bug.

At this point you can try the following;

- Shut down your phone. (Not just turn it of. The complete shut-down-power-off-thingy)

- Remove your external SD card.

- Start up your phone again.

- When the scan media is complete, do step 3 above again. If you don't see the problem at step 3 your SD card has a corrupt filesystem. And needs to be reformated. Follow these steps;

- Backup your data first!!!

- Settings -> SD card & phone storage

- Unmount SD card

- Format SD card

- Restore files from your backup.

If the problem persists your internal SD card might have a corrupt filesystem and needs to be reformated. Follow these steps;

- Backup your data first!!!

- Settings -> SD card & phone storage

- Format internal storage

- Restore files from your backup.

More details; What happens when you have a corrupt filesystem is that android.process.media tries to read a file but fails over and over again. The filesystem might not look corrupt to you. And you can read and write files on the SD card without problems. But at some point the android.process.media failes to read the files and loops like crazy, draining your battery.

I had a corrupt filesystem (FAT32) on my external SD card. I also had Android OS battery usage of 60-70% and a fast draining battery. I hope this can help others.

Best regards,

/Pontus
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ak Ankit:
cos & yoshi

cos dds sucks battery.... yoshi"s awesome..!! fr battery!!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cripgballerkundikusu11:
if you applied a theme in theme chooser it could have affected it
[Nook Color General] BlizzofOZ:
I'm a noob with not enough privilages to post over in the developer's forum, so posting here.

I've successfully imaged and booted to CM7 using verygreen's project:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000957

Next step was to try adding/installing gapps and using recover. I've tried a few different times doing a few different things, but all end up rebooting (with SD in the NC) to the original boot of the NC, as if out of the box. I get the hand going over to the android and having to "Set Language" and wifi.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong and it looks like others got it to work.

Any help?
[Nook Color General] robedney:
Have you actually booted into CM7? The nook boots first to the SD card, so if you can't boot now into CM7 that means that something has changed on the SD card. In other words, on boot the nook looks for something useful (like a bootable OS) on the card and if it can't find it boots to internal (original B&N OS).

So, do a normal power up and see if you boot into CM7 on the sd card. If so, see below about booting in recovery (once you've added the google files). If not, something's amiss with the image on the card.

YOu may be having a problem booting into recovery -- this is pretty common. It can be tricky timing the release of the buttons. Follow the directions on verygreen's post carefully. Push the N button first, then power, count off about 6 seconds and make sure that you see the message before releasing. Took me a few tries to get the recovery screen instead of booting normally.

I can tell you that I've done this a few times and it does indeed work. The only tricky part is timing to button thing when booting into recovery.
[Nook Color General] BlizzofOZ:
Yep, I did boot into CM7... The wallpaper changed and there were new icons, of which I can't remember at the moment.

I know what you are saying about entering recovery mode... I think I got that set. I can see when entering recovery mode, as the penquin icon is shown and then all the messages come up, including expanding the zip files.

My problem is getting the gapps included. I've tried just copying over the gapps zip file and do recovery with that. I've tried copying both the CM7 nightly and the gapps zips and do recovery. I also noticed the instructions:

•Get u-boot.zip file from attachment in this post: http://xdaforums.com/show...&postcount=153

•Unpack the u-boot.bin file and put it onto parttion 1 of the SD card instead of the one there.

•Rename file named uRecImage on the first partition to uRecImg (doh!)

•Get this uRamdisk file, rename it to uRecRam and then put the result to the 1st partition on the uSD card instead of the file with the same name there

I've also done that... still boots to as if it is a brand new, out of the box Nook. I take it that means the SD is messed up. So I'm doing something wrong in how to get the gapps on.
[Nook Color General] danbutter:
Sounds like the easiest way for you is to start over.

Re-image your card with verygreen's 1.1 from the beginning of his post.

Then download the version of CM7 you want (verygreen's or rc4 or whatever)

add this .zip to the sd card, download gapps and also add this to the sd card.

Insert into nook and boot.

You have to put these zips on the sd card BEFORE you boot into CM7 the first time. This is why you have to re-image.

This is what I did and everything worked great. Skip the gapps login until you have wifi setup of course and everything should be fine.
[Nook Color General] robedney:
Yup, sounds like danbutter has it right. I know how frustrating this is, but it really is worth it.

You may have problems prepping your SD card to re-image because of partitioning. One way to start with a really clean slate is to download Paragon Partition Manager (the free addition) and totally wipe all the existing partitions. Windows disk manager won't do it.
[Nook Color General] danbutter:
I don't know exactly what it is with this, but I have never had this issue and I have re flashed a couple sd cards many many times playing with this and all I have ever done was select the new image and write it to the card.

Is this something to do with certain card readers or what?

I'm using a five year old HP laptop and its built in card reader.

Just curious :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] sharky56:
Hi, I have the following problem: when I connect the PDA to the computer via USB the device gets very slow and freezes sometimes and also is unable to sync with WMDC. The other problem I have is: the Wifi can't connect to any network and it barely finds any networks. I've tried to fix it with MTTY but whitout any luck. I'm starting to think that it's a hardware problem, although the bluetooth and phone are working. What do you suggest? Thanks!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] sharky56:
Anyone????
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninjai117:
Sometimes if I attempt to charge when the battery is over 90% capacity, it doesn't. It keeps depleting down to 89%, and then it will start charging up to 100 again. I'm just going to go ahead and assume this is a hardware issue since it's happened to me in CM7 & MIUI, but is it common? Is there a known fix for it? I'd really like to avoid shipping my phone to HTC.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
this is built into the battery driver code to do this. if you charge to full, then unplug, use 5% and try to charge back up to 100%, it wont let you do it. you must drain it to below 90%, then it will allow you to charge back up to 100%.

its just the way the ds2784 fuel gauge chip and driver are designed, no worries. also the n1 and desire both use this same chip and driver etc.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninjai117:
Why would it be designed to do this?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Because it's better for the life of the battery...
[HTC Inspire 4G] starshooter10:
so as i sit here drooling over my new inspire I have noticed that it feels like the lens has play in it or something.

am i crazy?

should I call HTC?
[HTC Inspire 4G] pachkamil:
This is normal mine does this as well. Its just the design of the phone itself. Remember you have a year warrenty so if the camera breaks it should be covered.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
Not entirely true.

While it is indeed a separate part from the actual body of the phone -- any separate part will have some play if you try hard enough -- there are instances of there being too much play, as in, when you move the phone, you can hear it rattle. It will even begin to resonant slightly when you've got a call/other audio going the the external speaker.

I returned my 1st inspire for this reason alone. The csr at the store agreed with me, that that wasn't the way the lens cover was supposed to be, swapped out my phone, no hassle (within my 30 days). The new one has no play in it.

My mom also recently got an inspire, and hers rattled *worse* than my first one did. She returned for a good on as well. There's been other stories, so I think it was a minor manufacturing deficiency with some of these phones.

You shouldn't hear it rattle or be able to jiggle it around with your finger.

It's not a crisis, and it probably won't actually fall off, but if it's lose now, chances are it will get looser before it gets tighter, as time goes on.
[HTC Inspire 4G] pachkamil:
Well mine dosnt rattle but if I try to move the lens it will move a little. I've tried out my friends inspire and it had the same thing. Also both of the display units at at&t had the camera move. And the camera is covered by warranty if it wobbles or is loose. I asked
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
I think a batch of the actual lens cover part was machined a little off-spec.

Other webcam type cameras have a removable lens cover, but it and the point mates with on the camera body are threaded, so you can screw/unscrew it, which is what I *thought* might be the case with this phone, until I got tired of endlessly spinning the cover in the hope that it would eventually thread on and tighten. Just kept free-spinning, so I assume its a snap-in/press-fit type.

But yeah, you'll know it if its too loose. It will start to drive you nuts, and you'll start thinking the phone is about ready to fall into pieces. ;)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Roland_D:
Yes mine too... I didn't push hard actually for obvious reasons... -_-

but definitely I felt like the glass of the camera was prone to sink in the body of the phone...I guess the lens is not hooked to the external cover of the phone... That's normal though
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s.t.s:
Hi all

I am afraid I need help, seems all I ask for ... I have never fully got my head round all of this android tinkering.

I have been running quite happily on a custom ROM but the time has come for me to try and get back to stock since I am trying to unlock the phone for use on another network. The code Orange have given me doesn't seem to work when using a different network SIM, but I got the code to enable me to use a custom Radio and rom ahead of Orange's release of Froyo.

So ... I have tried a couple of the WWE and Europe RUUs from the stock ROM thread

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed

RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.1_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121684

RUU-MoDaCo-Bravo-1.15.405.4-release

both fail to complete saying "ERROR[131]: CUSTOMER ID ERROR" I guess that means Orange variant. I have googled but I can't see anywhere that I can get hold of the Orange original eclair or the new Froyo ROMs. Any help on getting this sorted would be much appreciated as I presume others have hit issues when using Orange Desires

I also seem to have lost the ability to get into recovery mode ... and thus update my current ROM to anything else :(

Any ideas on what my best steps may be now?

Cheers

Sam
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt.xx:
You need to create a goldcard in order to flash a branded handset to an unbranded ROM. Same story if you try to use another carriers branded ROM (not sure why you would, but hey.)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=954723&highlight=goldcard

Always make sure that you have the Goldcard in your phone when performing OTA updates.

Another important point is that you need the HTC software / drivers installed on your computer and also make sure you phone has USB Debugging enabled when creating your goldcard.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] use4all@live.com:
How do i go from TNTLite 4.4 to Vegan 5.1.1?

Do I have to go back to Stock ROM and then install Vegan? or shuld I upgrade to TNTLite 5.0?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetguy35:
I just did this process yesterday. I did not go back to stock. I just partitioned and finished the install the normal way. Went from tnt 4.4 to vegan 5.1.1 with no problems.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snooks570:
So do the reverse I could just partition and install tntlite?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] use4all@live.com:
How do you like Vegan vs. TNTL?

Is the partitioning done by using CWM? In other words how do I do partition? and I assume that erases all of the data? thanks for your help in defining the process.