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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sansui12:
Hi,I'm new to XDA Forums.

I want to dual boot the preloaded Win Mobile 6.5 and Android (preferably 2.2)

Can someone guide me through the process

Specs

Service: EDGE, GPRS Class12, GSM 850/900/1800/1900

Main Display: 3.2” WQVGA Touch Panel, 240x400 pixels

CPU: MT6516 at 416MHz

Wi-Fi: WLAN 802.11b/g

Modem: Mediatek

Memory: ROM 256MB, RAM 128MB
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunil.idtr:
How to install Android on Gigabyte GSmart S1205

I have also same mobile Gigabyte GSmart S1205 and want to install Android.

Please help us.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apexofservice:
I added some files to /system/media/audio/ringtones using terminal emulator and busybox mv:

#busybox mv thisfile.mp3 /system/media/audio/ringtones

After that, all my ringtones appear in my menu twice (except the one I just added, which appears once).

Then I added another few files using the same method, after reboot, all my original ringtones show up three times, the ones from the first round show up twice and the ones I had just added show up once.

It seems that everytime I touch this directory (/system/media/audio/ringtones) android is appending to the menu everything that's in the file, but it's not doing the right thing with things that are already in the list.

I doubled checked that these files do not appear more than once in the filesystem. Has anyone seen this? It may be related to the question asked in this thread (which was never solved or replied to):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=968091

Anyone else experienced this? Know how to fix? I love each one of you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CuriousTech:
Most likely there are multiple instances of the same files or you're confusing media scanner, which runs and boot or when USB is disconnected. It won't detect changes to sdcard/media until it runs again.

The system directory structure is like this:

/system/media/audio/alarms

/system/media/audio/notifications

/system/media/audio/ringtones

And different apps may list 1, 2 or all of these, plus others found by media scanner such as:

/sdcard/media/audio/alarms

/sdcard/media/audio/notifications

/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones

And possibly /sdcard/external_sd/media/*

Just try to keep it organized and don't add anything to root so it's not as much trouble keeping out the duplicates and you won't lose any when flashing new roms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red_81:
1. go into settings --> applications --> manage applications --> all --> media container. Force a stop and clear data

2. Repeat for the media storage

3. Reboot

When your phone comes back up it will do a full media scan. If you still have duplicates after this point then you have extra media directories as CuriousTech suggested.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apexofservice:
Well I followed your advice and did a force stop and clear data, then rebooted.

Now, when I go into setting > sounds, the set ringtone option is totally greyed out, not available. But when I.open a term and do

su

ls /system/media/audio/ringtones

I see the whole list of files.

Maybe my permissions are wrong?

Idk, ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apexofservice:
Okay, permissions on each of the files in /system/media/audio/ringtones are each set to rwxrwxr-x

, which seems pretty permissive, so I guess this ism't the issue. Owner is root, grp is root.

I'm stumped.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apexofservice:
okay, this thread has become a conversation with myself, but i'm still updating as I get new info just for the record.

so, this is quite st00pid, but it turns out that you can't set a ringtone or notification tone if the volume on the ringer is set to 0. well, i guess that makes sense in some way, but i certainly found it vexing.

finally, i have to report that i'm still seeing doubles in the list of apps. i'm going to do a find command from the root and see if I really do have doubles still around.

many thanks to all who contributed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CuriousTech:
Well, at least it's not tripples. ;)

I was trying to find an app that shows where media files are but no luck. Ringdroid will show them all but not where they are located. We need something simple like Galery which shows I have 5 ShootMe snapshots in cache. lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apexofservice:
Well, if you just want to know where media files are you can just get a shell and say

$find / -name "*ogg"

to find all ogg files (for example).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red_81:
Did you ever find another directory that had the same files? By the way, the name in the list of available ringtones comes from Tag data in the .ogg file.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ehasalm:
I had the same problem with my I9000, I picked one ringtone (for example one which named Sunshine, which is doubled) and made find / -name *Sunshine*, and I found it in the system/audio/ringtones, but also in sdcard/ringtones, I deleted the folder, then made clear cache of the media storage in setting>applicaiton>all, rebooted and the problem was solved.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbuck:
Thanks! This works for me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MnCC:
Solved it for me too, thanks dude.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hugothebas:
Thats and old thread, but this solution worked for me. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raship:
Want to put *.ogg files in system media audio ringtones folder but not working

I have accidentally deleted the stock ringtones in this one. Now there is no ringtones in my mobile.

Some how my phone was not playing my custom ringtones from my SD card. I checked in the settings and it was showing only stock ringtones.

My device is rooted, so I went to system/media/audio/ringtones and deleted stock ringtones. Now there is no ringtones in the settings mebu￼

Even tried different ringtones in system ringtones location, with all kind of formats, tried setting permissions to rw-r-r, restarted fone everytime applying new settings. But didn't work out. Tried downloading ringtones app, but none helped.

Can anybody help me out? I hope flashing the rom or restore from back up is not the only option. After back up I had done many changes
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
You can grab them off the ROM you're using and copy them in the ringtones folder.

Also, using an app like Zedge should work getting custom ringtones.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raship:
Thank you bro. It helped. Finally my mobile has 'a' ringtone.... :):p

Btw do you know, why it is not playing from the SD card? If there is any way, I can change default folder to SD card. I have placed many folders on SD cards. i.e. /ringtones

/media/ringtones

/media/audio/ringtones

So, I guess I am not missing out SD card location, but my OS is reading only from system location. :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Anything ROM related will run from the internal unless you partition your external SD to do otherwise. That being said, .ogg files are extremely small so it shouldn't really matter.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raship:
Yes. But I am using stock rom and I have not done any changes related to rom.

It started happening with the accidentally selecting .nomedia option in MX Player. Then after my SystemUI stopped working and I had to restore from backup. The reason why I am inclined to SD card location is, it can play any file and I can customize my ringtones. In system folder, I am limited to just stock roms(after restore). Btw your suggested app has given me nice ringtones. But I am still missing my custom made tones.

I would appreciate if a way to restore the default location is found :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
A .nomedia is a simple file that can be deleted using any file explorer.

You can use ringtone maker app to create custom ones and use them as your ringtone, you don't need an external SD for that.

P.S.: You should quote my post so I get a notification of your reply. That way I can reply faster.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raship:
Ok. I will quote from now. Just a newbie in forums and all
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raship:
Hi

It's me again. I have found out the issue. Its .nomedia files are causing the issue.

Now issue has become problem. These files are not only reset my ringtones but also hiding all my gallery files. I googled it, and found others got their files back by deleting .nomedia by any file explorer. So I did the same, yet my gallery not showing any images. ALL DELETED FILES COMES BACK ON RESTART. I have flashed factory reset yet problem persist.

Any clue how to stop these no media files reappearing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
What did you use to hide them? To add the nomedia file? Use the same app to remove it. Or uninstall that app if it's from a 3rd party and remove the nomedia with a file explorer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raship:
It all happened after my daughter accidently selected recognise .nomedia in MX player pro. Then after I have uninstalled it by force stop, clear data, uninstall, yet no luck. In fact when I reinstall it, its configuration is there, all viewed, new notification is there. If I am able to remove it completely then I guess it can solve problem. Also I am using clean master, I think it may be the reason for .nomedia files. Btw I tried to uninstall both, given restarts... Etc... But no luck

I everyday check in es file explorer, .nomedia files comes even phone is not restarted. But when day is changed. i.e. The date of files creation is changing. Also they are found by deep search option with hidden files visible option.

.nomedia is giving me hard time. I will make detailed post if found solution...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronash:
Hey, for an application I am writing I need to use the data which is given in Sensor.TYPE_ROTATION_VECTOR. The bad news are that I program, among others, to my G1 device, which runs Android 1.6, i.e. API Level 4, and not 9 as needed. Nevertheless, I am pretty positive that my phone does have a sort of gyroscope, which means it should be possible for me to get the exact orientation of the phone. So, the question is, how do I do it?

Thank you in advance,

Ron
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onewayvn:
Hi everyone,

I have a HTC Mozart. Yesterday when i have uprade my phone. StEP 9 of 10 (rebooting...) and it's still not run. It only show HTC screen name. Not connect to PC.

Please help me.
[General Questions and Answers] ravishankarg:
Hi,

Open Intents File manager is unable to display the NTFS formatted files, When I digged into internals I understand that NTFS files are only accessible to Super User (root). How to make FileManager run as root.

Thanks in advance,

Ravi
[General Questions and Answers] MacaronyMax:
I didn't know Android could read them, like at all. Although as far as I know, you would need to change the source of the app to get it to do that, Have you tryed root explorer, as that has root permissions.
[General Questions and Answers] ravishankarg:
Hi Max,

Thanks for the reply. Root explorer solved my issue. I have one more question. Is "root explorer" open source, Where can I get the source code of it.

If not How to give root permissions to application?

Thanks in advance,

Ravi
[General Questions and Answers] ravishankarg:
Hi,

I tried and succeeded with uid and gid (giving uid and gid of File manager to mount).

ex: mount -t ntfs -o uid=10013,gid=10013 /dev/block/sdb1 /mnt/sdcard

My requirement here is to mount it at boot time. I tried editing init and init.rc scripts but I have no luck. Please help me in making it work..

Thanks in advance

Ravishankar
[General Questions and Answers] ravishankarg:
To make NTFS file system available to all... use umask=022 which assigns permissions to you to have read/write access for files, and read/write/search for directories you own. All others have read access only to your files, and read/search access to your directories.

ex: mount -t ntfs -o umask=022 <device path> <mount point>

Thanks,

Ravishankar
[Epic 4G Accessories] ezsoulja:
Basically i just wanted to show how i managed to get the 3500 battery plus the backing to fit my original holster purchased from Best Buy for $39.99 which can be bought off ebay for much cheaper :mad:

Pretty much how it looks stock with the holster and casing

Same as above

Full body shot of the case over stock battery

with the 3500 in the epic showing the size difference

side view of the back battery covers.. clearly bigger :p

now with the 3500 custom battery cover on,

Uhhooo a little to big to fit in the holster, notice it has a hard time even having it go into the clip as well as the base that holds the phone in is just not shaped right ..

Now lets melt down some gold...... Well plastic :cool:... pretty much bring the flame to the oval part of the bottom just bring the flame side to side to get it nice and hot, DO NOT LET IT SIT IN ONE SPOT... You will then see bubbles and actually burn the plastic and it wont be pretty anymore and may even fall off cause the plastic is so weak now.... but heat it up to the point where you have the phone sitting in it like the picture above and push the phone into the holster to where its snug, you will notice the plastic move and adjust, once youve done this to both sides and the phone is in snug, let it cool down so it remolds back to the new state of adjustments, it should stay intact of the new mold you set it so next time its much easier to put in like it was an original

SNUG!!!!!

Aftermarket battery with back and i still get to use my holster :)

P.S. IM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BURN YOUR PINKY... YOUR MOM TOLD YOU NOT TO PLAY WITH FIRE, I JUST GAVE YOU THE DIRECTIONS IF YOU FELT LIKE GOING AGAINST HER WORD.. :D:D
[Epic 4G Accessories] mapcom1:
where are the pics?
[Epic 4G Accessories] chairface:
yeah all the pics are broken for me...
[Epic 4G Accessories] || Acer ||:
Please update pics.
[myTouch 4G General] nighthawk626:
i made this post because people might be wondering about how to charge their phones.

(i say these things from experience so if different for anyone then let me know)

make it a habit not to charger until its at least 15% or less. i always charged my g1 and left it plugged in even at 100 and after weeks the battery life went to hell. i went through 3 batteries that way.

Also try not to use the phone while its charging. i cant really explain what the hell causes that but i know from experience of two other phones that the phone overheats and messes up the battery. so that means avoid over-night charging. i charge mine either before i go to sleep of first thing when i wake up.

also when ur charging ur phone, DO NOT put it under anything, like between a pillow the bed. ur phone will overheat like to the point of too hot to touch. also from experience. :D
[myTouch 4G General] bmakk2055:
Thanks man,that why my old battery started die'n so fast
[myTouch 4G General] aferstilo:
yeah i never charge phone unless battery is on red and once fully charged unplug
[myTouch 4G General] sckboy78:
Also try battery calibration. Its amazing!
[myTouch 4G General] marseillesw:
Yeah battery calibration worked great for me
[myTouch 4G General] Phandemic:
What do you mean by Battery Calibration?
[myTouch 4G General] Streetz180:
What is battery calibrabration
[myTouch 4G General] syl0n:
I normally do this to calibrate battery:

1. Charge to 100 % with phone on

2. Unplug and turn off

3. Charge to 100% when off (i normally leave it for 10-15 minutes)

4. Then unplug, turn it on, then after fully booted turn it back off

5. put it back on charger till it fully charges again

6. boot into recovery and wipe battery stats

now use your phone as normally and give it 3-4 full charge cycles till the battery is properly calibrated.
[myTouch 4G General] sckboy78:
Battery calibration is a app on the market. Check it out! It saves you from having to go into recovery and wiping battery stats
[myTouch 4G General] Saad1115:
i follow all of this and i usually get around 20 hours of battery life. and ive only calibrated my battery once. :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azrull:
I've downloaded it. But how to install? The file that I extracted did not have .ftf file
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-FACE:
Maaan, every single custom rom has to be installed trough a recovery. Use xrec or FreeXperia rec.

Edit: And make sure you are runing baseband 49 or 52 before flashing. (52 is recomended)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regencyhood:
You need to use xrec, to flash ROMs
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smradikovski:
As above, us xRecovery. Go to install custom zips, and find the ROM zip, and install it. It will take a while. But make sure you have the right BB version. Use Flashtool to install different BaseBands.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azrull:
hoho..thanks..it worked.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
Please read the threads when you download anything. All questions can be answered by simply reading and guides to install anything on these forums are readily available.

Sent From My *Super Fly X10*

If I (or anyone for that matter!) help you, dont be afraid to press THANKS!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arlie37:
Help for you...

Here, try this... :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10738467

^^ this is the flash tool you must use if you don't have the proper baseband. MIUI is at its best with .49 or .52 baseband

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=960527

^^Go here if you don't have proper baseband. They have both .49 and .52

The link (which obviously leads to another webpage) also has a tutorial link at the bottom of the post. It will guide you thru the flashing process if your not sure how to do it.

But as the others have said above, you simply use xRecovery to flash the ROM. Just like you would with any other ROM, follow these steps...

1. Boot into xRecovery

2. Go to install custom.zip

3. Go to downloads folder (or whatever folder you put the ROM in)

4. Find the .zip file that is your ROM

5. Then simply install it! :D

Also, when you put the .zip file of the ROM on your SD Card, its preferable to create a folder called "downloads" (no quotes) and then put the .zip file of the ROM in that folder. For some reason whenever you put the .zip file in any other folder, it wont find it. (Just from personal experience) ;)

If you have any more questions just PM me or whatever. Good Luck

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WesternWarriors:
How do you unlock the Inspire htc for t-mobile?
[Android Apps and Games] mkioshi:
Well since I'm always looking for the lightest launcher (not that my phone is slow but I want a launcher just to play my 3d intensive games), I decided to post my findings about various Launchers here, I'll add more as I test them, this is using Task Manager when the Launcher is running as the main app (because if I launch GO for example and it isn't the default one, it will show the same RAM usage but 0% CPU usage), I measured at least five times each so I could get an average - that's using a Milestone 2 (Droid 2) non overclocked, rooted:

Home (Motorola): CPU 5%ish, RAM 20-25 MB

Go Launcher: CPU 10-12%, RAM 20-31 MB

Launcher 7: CPU 10-12%, RAM 22-25MB

Regina Launcher 3D: CPU 1-5%, RAM 15-25MB

Zeam: CPU 0%, RAM 9-12 MB

Zeam would always give me 0% CPU no matter what except when it was starting (drawing icons, app drawer and all) when it gave me 40%ish CPU and 50mb RAM.

LauncherPro would never appear on Task Manager so if anyone has a tip on which program to use to measure its RAM and CPU consumption I'd love a suggestion.

Since Dungeon Hunter 2 is the only game that constantly gives me slowdowns (other demanding games like Eternal Legacy, Reckless Racing and Spider Man Total Mayhem almost never show slowdowns, Hero of Sparta does but al reviews say it was badly coded compared to the iPhone version so I thought there was no point in using it to test Launchers), I used that game as a 'benchmark'.

I was only able to play it without it slowing down constantly when I performed certain actions (the animation of the trasure flipping when you open a chest) and having 90% smooth battles even using the fairy spells (which are full of effects) using Zeam. The game was almost unplayable using default Motorola Blur Home (although I tested Spider Man, which is the fastest action 3D game I have, and it worked flawlessly), and I'd say LauncherPro, even leaving all widgets (facebook, twitter, sms, calendar) on, delivered an experience almost as good as Zeam, same can be said for Regina Launcher although the Launcher itself slows down because it's all 3D and stuff. Performance under Launcher7 wasn't good.

I'm going to test ADW and the Gingerbread launchers now (have 4 of them, one by Steve Lin, one by someguy373 - sorry forgot the name, HELauncher and another one called Gingerbread Launcher like the 373 guy's one), but I'm hoping someone will come with better way to test hi-end game performance under several launchers (since in my case it's the only thing that seems to be affected by them, I charge my phone daily and since Droid2's battery sucks anyway I can't say I have noticed battery differences among them).
[Android Apps and Games] MacaronyMax:
Awesome info :) Although I'm surprised at the moto home using up so little resources though :eek:

And to see Launcher Pro, If you're using Advanced Task manager go into Settings then change the security level to low so you can see all the Apps and processes running, Launcher Pro should be one of them :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] mkioshi:
Oh thanks, I'll install advanced Task Man to see, there are other launchers I can't see as well such as the gingerbread ones.
[Android Apps and Games] TheDeadCPU:
LauncherPro has a debug feature IIRC, it should be in the Advanced settings.
[Android Apps and Games] mkioshi:
Yeah it's showing me 15-25mb most of the time.
[Android Apps and Games] dubyajaysmith:
With atrix I use adw paid version with every animation possible but HTC magic 32b I needed all the resources I could get and use zeam. Thanks for the info
[Android Apps and Games] SwimDrewid:
Try GO, too. It appears to consume little overhead while offering the best features of adw ex and lpp (plus I like its task management widget).

I'm curious to find out what its footprint is in comparison to the others
[Android Apps and Games] khangster1406:
You can try Home Manager for the RAM usage (about 28 -32MB on my phone - X8, stock 2.1). Still no clue to the CPU consumption tho.
[Android Apps and Games] wporta:
Thanks

Thank you so much for this info, is very very helpfull.

Currently I'm using ADW Ex, but I will look for either Zeam of LauncherPro.

Zeam is a very good launcher, I hope to get more features in the next updates.

Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] pendevous:
This pretty much sums up why I use the Zeam Launcher over other feature-heavy launchers like LPP, GO or ADW. Of course, the results are more or less expected except for the MotoBlur. @_@

If anyone can provide the info regarding the usage of the Touchwiz and Sense, I'll really appreciate it. I'm itching to go back to my home launcher again. XD
[Android Apps and Games] ValdreZ:
Have you tried HeLauncher?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.handlerexploit.launcher_reloaded&feature=search_result

Seems like it might be light but im not sure...
[Android Apps and Games] CallMeAria:
With the built in launcherpro memory useage display the highest I see is 10.x MB, and for the most part it hovers around 9.5-9.8MB.

EDIT: I found launcherpro in Task Manager as android.process.acore. Task manager has it consuming about 28MB of memory and 0-1% CPU.

Sent from my cm7 Aria.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Ryko91:
I was wondering if anyone now a way to create a virtual sdcard using phone memory because I have lost my 2gb card that came with phone. Please dont ask me why dont I just buy another, I have my own reasons not to.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: or maybe a way to take pictures in internal memory