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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorrich:
Hi,

New to forums and have what may be a dumb question but feel I should ask :)

I have been using my clock app as my alarm clock at night. I am curious if this is bad for my screen over the long-term? The app appears to move the clock around to avoid burn-in (or at least that out what I assume it is for).... Any comments? I don't keep my phones forever, but I'd hope to use it for 2 to 3 years.

Any info would be great! Thanks.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makiaveli22:
When using the clock app how do you get the screen to stay on do you use the docking station.

I use the clock app set the brightness to minimum to save battery power then the screen turns off after a couple of minutes.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorrich:
No I do not use a dock, I just stand it up against the lamp on my night stand.

I haven't set anything special, but you are right in the sense that the screen will eventually dim, but my clock stays lit and moves around every few minutes.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorrich:
Oh and I have mine plugged in to the wall too....just picked up that you said "too save battery power". I bet it is programmed to turn the screen off when it is on battery, and leaves it on when plugged in.
[Android Software Development] .Bambino:
I have a few weather themes for beautiful widgets but it looks nothing like what it suppose to look like. Is it a certian setting I have to put? I have no idea why it does not look as shown.
[Android Software Development] SiNJiN76:
I think some of your thoughts for wanting to explain what it is you need help with...never made it to your fingers for typing...:p

At least post pics...
[Android Software Development] .Bambino:
Well I can't post a picture of what it looks like on my phone because I don't have a camera besides my phone. But I can tell you the widget that I want has the five day forecast. The one I have has the time and only the current weather for some reason.
[Android Software Development] SiNJiN76:
The widget you want is the Beautiful Weather 4x1. This widget is just the Weather. It's the last one in the widgets list.
[Android Software Development] .Bambino:
Wow! Thanks SiNJiN76. I feel kinda like a noob now. SMH. Thanks again. Not sure why I didn't look down that far.
[General Topics] JamesRF:
This will be my first android phone. I've been researching android phones and reading threads all over this forum for awhile now, and its time for one. I've changed my mind so many times I can't count. I have several phones in mind...

Motorola Atrix-I like how its dual core, but I've read that it is locked and can't be rooted...But it seems like it would last a long time before needing an upgrade.

Motorola Bravo-I like this phone alot, it's perfect size for me...main problem is that I'm not sure how rootable it is and how hackable it is.

I mainly want a phone with the ability to take all the crap att loads on the rom and make it faster, and have the ability to custimize it and load third party apps and such...
[General Topics] jlt220:
You my friend are in luck when it comes to knowing rootablity

Got this through Lifehacker earlier today

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/root_friendly

I can't vouch 100% on accuracy, but it seems pretty good.

As for how "good" of a device you need just ask yourself what you are going to do with it and settle for what's available now, there will always be a honeymoon phase followed buy the buyers remorse when you see the new cooler thing in a month or so. but then you will learn to love the one you chose.
[General Topics] inconceeeivable:
Good find. I wonder where the HTC Inspire falls on that list...seems like it's rooted? Would absolutely be my choice on AT&T at the moment, despite the Atrix being more powerful.
[General Topics] JamesRF:
The Inspire looks like a great phone, but it's pretty big and I dont have big hands so I'm not sure it would be very easy to use the phone, such as texting...
[General Topics] jackdowsan:
Xperia Arc is a good choice!
[General Topics] FLAC Vest:
Well if you're picking between the two, the Atrix should be a great phone for what you want. Of course, the Galaxy S 2 should be coming out next month (not so sure about the states) and that's going to be a "better" phone overall. IMO of course.

I had the Atrix and ended up taking it back because of the locked bootloader, bad cameras, and overall "clunky" build. Here's hoping to a better phone being released soon.
[General Topics] Harboe:
I have to agree. Although it's not dual core, it performs very well. And the camera is great, with a dedicated button, which not many phones have today. :-)
[General Topics] milox22:
Have you considered Galaxy S 2 - it'll arriving soon (May 1st).
[HTC Inspire 4G] gahanAR:
Maybe, its just my phone not being flashed properly, but the past few ROMs have had some serious trouble running it stable. With CM7, it constantly hit the skip requiring a reboot to get rid of it. And now even with a modified stock ROM it wont play properly (keeps going to artist station selection). Anybody have an idea as to why this is happening?!
[HTC Inspire 4G] sugardaddy1979:
Have you tried clearing the data or reinstalling Pandora? Works fine for me on cm7
[HTC Inspire 4G] kirk123:
I dont think clearing data or reinstalling will work since hes flashed ROMs several times and has the same negative result.

It maybe your data connection.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gahanAR:
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times with no luck and the same result as previously stated. Surely the Pandora has been removed since I have to re-enter my login info. Guess I will keep trying. Thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] etherghost:
I was having the same issues with Pandora and the RCMix ROM. I bet that it had something to do with ad blocking, so I signed up for the Pandora One one day free trial, and Pandora works fine again.
[HTC Inspire 4G] harlenm:
Or just use Slacker, which I think is better than Pandora anyway.
[HTC Inspire 4G] TXRangerXDA:
I've been having issues as well. Haven't thought of the ad blocking, but I have tried Pandora One and its the same. Long time between songs, and it will often freeze during a song, and then skip the rest of that song. Have had the issue with both Saga and CoreDroid. Might go back to a Froyo ROM to see if that is the difference.
[HTC Inspire 4G] satah:
Data connection maybe the culprit. It does this to me when I loose signal for a short instant. Try Pandora over wifi and see if its still there.
[HTC Inspire 4G] etherghost:
It still does it over WiFi for me

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] Androidude:
Try the Unlimited Pandora app. No ads, unlimited skips...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=977182&highlight=pandora

edit: Looks like that thread has caught some ****. Check the last post for a link.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
Before i noticed that there was a option on bluetooth

when you long pressed a song, it would say send to bluetooth or something, i'm now running MIUI, how can i send songs through WIFI?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesd86:
Send songs where? If you are wanting to send songs in between your computer and your phone, there are a few ftp programs on the market for that.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdesai:
You can use samba server

Read it somewhere here
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
No not pc to phone.

Phone to phone.

I know it can be done I've done it before, on a different rom
[Nook Color General] theox88:
I purchased my nook color today. I was trying to format the sd for CM7. I think I used the wrong image. My 16 Gb card now says it is 32 Mbs. How do i reformat it to 16 Gbs?
[Nook Color General] skeeterpro:
Get SDFormatter. Free and works like a charm

http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
I just tried to flash the Telstra (Australia) SBF. No info comes up in file properties and it gives an instant 'failed flash' message.

I am a bit stuck- i can only flash the China Froyo and the GB Froyo, the only 'Fixed' SBF I can ever flash is the 2.2GB_NoCG_31_39.sbf -(Higgsy fix). The China rom is the first and only Froyo rom I flashed with the above fix.

1a. :I want to know why I cannot flash 'fixed SBF's' that come with JBoogie, ADXLmod, barebones etc roms.

1b :Why do I still have to use the 'Higgsy fix' 2.2GB_NoCG_31_39.sbf? It appears that I am somehow locked to it.

1c :Is it because of the Telstra rom I am on- with all rom flashing instructions, it is mentioned eg 'if you are on 2,21 or 2.34 fw etc- no reference is ever made to the 2.26 fw.

2: I want to know how flashing a rom without the corresponding SBF actually affects the operating of the rom- eg: I get random reboots, black screens, freezups=- is this likely an issue with the rom or because I cannot flash the fixed SBF.

3. Will restoring a Telstra nanodroid on top of the China Froyo SBF that I am running, then applying the fixed Telstra SBF that racca graciously provided make my Defy exactly like stock- or will there still be remnants of the China Froyo etc rattling around under the hood and potentially affecting stability and continuing to affect my ability to flash fixed SBF's as per Q 1 & 2.

4. Does anyone have a FullTelstra SBF that works unlike the one already posted on XDA.

I have tried renamimg and moving sbf to root folder as per a suggestion for 64 bit windows, though i am only on 32bit, it didn't work for me- 'start' is still greyed out in RSDLite..

I have also tried different rsdlite versions.

I welcome any other suggestions or questions.. At least I would like to know what is going on and how it affects my phone as I have spent hours and hours searching these and other forums and am none the wiser..

Cheers

Gavin
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Accidental 2nd post-ignore.
[Defy Android Development] racca:
what exactly are you trying to do?

i can't make much out of your long and pointless statements.

be specific about what you need, then maybe we can help.

all i can understand is that you might want the fixed sbf, so here it is.

http://mir.cr/6MJBVDCN
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Thanks for that, pointless is a bit harsh though, long maybe- i was trying to give some background to prevent 'have you tried that, just do this- when it is clearly not applicable to my situation.

I will try to put it in point form.

I hope that is a bit clearer, but it is a complicated situation- there are alot of threads dancing around similar themes, but I cannot find specific answers to these questions- i can't see how I could provide less information without having 5 pages of people directing me to posts that I have already looked at but aren't applicable, so yes it is a bit long, but by doing this much misdirected effort is saved by myself and those helping.

Thanks again
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Looking at my original post again, it was hard to see what I was asking, thanks racca.
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
I just restored the Telstra factory reset nanodroid- the start button was greyed out with the Telstra SBF , so i can't use it. Had to use the 'Higgsy fix' to get it to boot. Weird, i just don't understand it.

To be honest, with all the eventual issues with any rom i use, i would prefer to go back to stock (i will have to put up with the grey status bar, short battery life and no flash). I am tired of getting crashes at the most inopportune times.

Can't wait until the bootloader is fully cracked- I have put Gingervillain (CM7 base) on her Desire, which is much more stable than any rom when i was using it.

Update- it just won't boot now, have to reflash the China Froyo SBF, looks like I am stuck with daily @ 3x daily reboots, bluetooth that works 60% of the time, dropped calls etc....
[Defy Android Development] dave79:
Change SBF file name

Hey there,

I kinda have the same issues as you do, I think...

The RDS lite gave me an instant ROM-flash error when trying various SBF's. I simply renamed the file name to an SBF file name that was working, yes it got a little confusing... first I renamed the original working SBF to *.old.

Suddenly the flash process was working, I've renamed SBF-files on 4 different occasions in order to get it to work.

I'm not quite sure whether you have this issue or you have something different going on, but feel free to try it.

//Dave
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Sounds like a plan, I will give it a go. Thanks.
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Thanks Dave69 and Racca, i just renamed the TElstra fixed sbf to the higgsy fix; restored the stock nanodroid and flashed it and it worked. It at least gives me the confidence to flash others now, but will sit on this for a bit- don't have time for more tinkering this weekend.
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Titanium wouldn't work with the Telstra rom- said it had restored apps, but wouldn't restore evn one.

Thankfully I got Barebones running, SBF and all. Looks great. Thanks guys.

I would still like to know what's going on though, I haven't tried the TElstra full SBF with the rename yet- it had a different issue than others- just failed. May try again later.
[Defy Android Development] samorgs:
Sounds like you have the same problem as me, was on the telstra on. Not being careful enough I flashed a non downgradable 3.4.2_155-002 sbf. So now I can't downgrade back to the stock Telstra one. I have tried both nandroid backups and flashing the stock telstra sbf and neither work. so am stuck on this rom running JBoogie GingerBlur

Not compaining, for a blur rom it is quite fast, only thing is I can't downgrade back to telstra if the phone needs to be returned for anything.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Try following the renaming method-though i had titanium issues, it os enough to get me through a warranty claim- i did it before with the same nanodroid backup from xda. Btw, i just flashed the 3.42 out of frustration and it let me go back with the renamed fixed sbf.

I am very impressed with barebones, even the xda app is quicker...
[Defy Android Development] racca:
ok, now where do i begin. i'll just say what i can think of instead of answering every single question.

sbf's contains various code groups as you may noticed while flashing it slipts into smaller pieces.

out of those, cg31&39 are non-downgradable and the pair of them must match. all other partitions on the phone are either not flashed by the sbf (e.g. bootloader/mbmloader, pds), useless (cdrom) or downgradable (kernel, recovery, lbl, devtree).

there are no hardware incompatibilities except the chinese ones, but if you don't update cg31(cdt) to match your /system(cg39) you might have some minor issues (i singles these out because they are not downgradable, of course you'll have issues if you don't match all other things).

you might have a chance fooling tel$tra by flashing the sbf i provided (stock 2.26.0) and restore the nandroid. it should be almost identical except you'll get busted when they try to do flash their service sbf.

the bottom line is,

1. if you flashed any sbf larger than 50MB it must have cg39 in it, and you can't downgrade.

2. you must use matching kernel/devtree with the system: the chinese ones will not be compatible with any other roms, you can't mix match froyo with eclair.
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Thanks racca, it makes things a bit clearer. I didn't think I had flashed the GB rom, but I must have-it was 3 or 4 mths ago- it explains why I used the Higgsy fix...i think the China one came out very shortly after..

I should probably try flashing a 2.1 rom b4 restoring the telstra nano if I want stock-( with Telstra, we will have to wait until 3 mths + after the rest of the world gets Froyo for them to fill it to the brim with bloat ware..)..

It looks like the Higgsy fix didn't work for our devices anyway-i suspect my phone believes it is a 3.42 fw now.

In any case, I am relieved to have a way to flash the fixed sbf's now.. Barebones is very impressive, no hint of an issue, but need to run it for a week to really see.

Thanks.
[Defy Android Development] seefu:
I have a Telstra phone too and after a week of owning it back in January, I had already installed a 2.2 De-blurred ROM. I did have radio issues at first and also remember a non-stop reboot issue. I think it was the USB debugging somehow but I could be wrong.

Now I install new ROMs with ease when the need strikes me.
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
Are you able to flash the fixed sbfs for roms you install?
[Defy Android Development] samorgs:
I've just put the CM7 rom on mine, best rom I've used. Also flashed a fixed rom with it.

Next thing i tried was restoring a nandroid backup of the default telstra rom, then flashed a fixed stock telstra sbf, this worked and was able to at least make the phone look like it was stock. Whether or not that would be enough if i had to send the phone in for repairs. Can only try if it needs to go in.

CM7 is by far the fastest rom I've tried. Only used for a day so far and no problems yet. Highly recommend this one.

Cheers
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
I flashed the fixed sbf by renaming after restoring the telstra nano and it worked, but didn't run properly, I did it a couple of months ago with just the nano after having jboogies blurless ginger and it passed for warranty. Haven't tried renaming the full telstra sbf yet. I might over the long weekend.
[Defy Android Development] samorgs:
That's what I was hoping, but for now I'm staying with cm7.

Will go back to the telstra one only if it needs warranty work.
[Defy Android Development] superfastmonkey:
You'll be fine.

On a side note, it's ridiculous that Optus have official froyo already, Telstra due in July.
[Defy Android Development] samorgs:
Was supposed to have been Q2 2011 not start of Q3. But that's typical telstra....
[General Topics] mxp0:
Hope this is the right place to post this question. I'm so curious my cat has one life left.

How would you root a droid from scratch?

What's the process?

I realize the process would fill volumes, so all i'm looking for is some pointers on where I can find this info.
[General Topics] jlt220:
http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=670

Assuming you mean the moto droid 1

If not just search the device and all that info is in the development section, read the first few posts or "stickies" to learn more

Hope this helps
[General Topics] mxp0:
It did help and thanks.

Please correct me where this is wrong but it seems that:

Rooting is simply the process of granting yourself superuser privileges on the phone.

If that's correct, then what, on a stock phone, is preventing me from getting root access to the phone?

How do I find whatever it is that's blocking root access?

How do I change the 'blocker' to allow root access?

A specific example on the process would be very informative.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erik077:
Several times I had situations people calling me, phone rings I dont answer but I can hear them talking. Then if I answer or call them back they were supprised that I know what they said couple minutes before. Anyone had this situation before?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
That is odd, and no, I've never experienced that. Do you hear them over speaker phone, or just through the ear piece?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Happened to me once. I think I was on CM. Phone was acting weird at that point anyway. Reboot and all was well. Hasn't happened since.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erik077:
Ear piece I beleive. Happened 4 times in last month lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Are you running the rom in your signature? If so, perhaps it's a bug because it's a port? Have you checked at all in Virus's thread to see if anyone else using that rom has reported it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erik077:
Forget to mention this happens with different rom's, like calkulin and fresh not just one of them (never with last one from sig)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
This used to happen to me all the time. It would happen pretty much every time the phone rang on CM6, and about 50% of the time on CM7. I kind of liked it until people learned to not talk while they were calling me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lcorona056248:
it happend to me on destoryer v2 i think it has something to do with your software cause unlike erik077 it only happened on cm based roms
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NinetyWt:
I have searched previous threads and can't figure this out, so excuse me if it's been asked and answered, I can't find it.

I got one of the Woot G Tablets. It had the verson 1.1-3389, as they all apparently did. As soon as I got WiFi working, it did the automatic OTA update to 3588.

A few days later I installed Clockwork Mod on it. Later still I rooted it using SuperOneClick. Got the Market going, etc. etc.

Yesterday it gave me a notice about the 4349 update. I tapped on "clear" because I wan't interested in that. Later the ! icon lit up again. This time I checked it and it said "Click here to download update 1.1-3588".

Huh???

So I checked and sure enough the version is listed as 3389. Now, I don't guess it matters how that happened. I'm just wondering, if I let it do an OTA upgrade to 3588 will I lose root?

I also hope that I don't get in an unending loop of update --> root ---> lose update ----> update ----> root ---> lose update and so forth.

Thanks in advance. :)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] butchconner:
NinetyWt,

I don't think the root installation had anything to do with this

phenomenon. This sounds more like something either didn't

install and you just didn't realize it -- or something reinstalled

and old version and you didn't know it.

I am surprised that you got the update notice with CWM

installed. Usually if you have CWM on board, it won't

update.

I can suggest a course of action, but I can't guarantee

that you might not have to do some adjustments/re-installs

as a result.

1. Let it try to do the Update to 3588 -- but watch to make

sure it downloads, and watch to make sure it installs and

watch to make sure it reports that it installed. After it's

all finished, if it says it updated check that in Setting/About.

Make sure you are satisfied it updated.

2. If you are successful, then shut down. Then boot into

recovery by simultaneously pressing Power/Volume + until

you see the "Recovery Key Pressed" message. If CWM is

still installed you will get the green menu. If not, it may

look for an update and not find one. Main thing is to

find out if CWM is still installed. If not, we're good to go.

3. If success to here, then I'd play with the tablet, install

a few things, check configurations and make sure everything

is working right.

4. All things to here done, you should have a working, stock

tablet that you can do what you want to with. (BTW, don't

add any Enhancement Packs, etc. until you know things are right

Hope this helps. Let us know if it works and gets you going!!

Rev
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NinetyWt:
Alrighty, thanks for the suggestions, neighbor. :)

1. Told it to do the update, it starts, then I get a gapps error. Force close that. (I bet I just lost Market.) Continuing to download ... done. "Apply update", something threw a force close error but I couldn't read it as the tablet started rebooting.

Now I have the android with yellow exclamation point. Trying to boot to clockwork... it's still there. (I have bekit 0.8). Will try to reboot from here.

2. Tablet boots fine, but install of 3588 is not successful (throws error "update was not applied... try again later".

Looks like, if I want 3588 back, I have to uninstall CWM.

Hah, the alert is back. :p