yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] knowlesy:
Hi I've done a quick search around the net and the forums so If this has been asked / done before I do apologies. so my question

Is there an application like flash earth (once was with nasa and google maps and ordinance survey) but for android so essentially an pp that incorporates many different types of map data so there is different imagery

I do know that this forum produced a live wallpaper that had a similar effect but not a dedicated map.

Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Marinelli.Tv:
Hi,

Someone can tell me why AppBrain Market application ask a root permission. Second request in 6 months.

I have contacted the AppBrain support, but there are never replied...

Thank you

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] PMGRANDS:
That's a New one to me man?

What Version of Appbrain are you using?

*Sent on My*

Fast as its Ever Been....

"Sprint" Hero.... Running My, *ExEnHeroC* Rom, w/Kifno's Twist, Also The XDA-BLUE.apk!! "Page 10" of My Thread!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=957867

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WTMLMK6M

http://www.mediafire.com/?bb1axugm0bw7oro

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/profile?user=PMGRANDS
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Marinelli.Tv:
No, this is the last version...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] XdaMathijs:
Hi Marinelli,

AppBrain never asks for root permission. Do you have a (bigger) screenshot to show what you mean? Can it be that a different app was asking for root permission?

Best, Mathijs / AppBrain team.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Marinelli.Tv:
Very strange ... the request appear only two times in last month and since the last update it's ok...

Original screenshot : View attachment 638824
[Atrix 4G General] southerlandt:
This is an article from engadget yesterday. I can't posts links yet so here you go.

"Select AT&T android devices may get app sideloading as early as tomorrow...

It's a classic romantic tale of "network meets OS, network disables OS," and just like any love story, this one is building up to a happy ending. Fourteen months after AT&T introduced a lineup of crippled Android phones that weren't allowed to install third-party apps, the carrier extended an olive branch to fans of the OS by quietly slipping the sideloading capability onto the Samsung Infuse 4G; now, the network is reportedly updating three members of its Android lineup --the HTC Inspire 4G, HTC Aria, and Samsung Captivate --sometime today. We're sure there were many Atrix users scanning this short list with fingers crossed, but unfortunately your phone did not make the cut this time. No word on why your favs were left out, but at least four devices with Amazon Appstore access is still better than zero. At present time we haven't seen the updates get pushed to our phones, however, so we'd love to hear if any of you have seen differently down in comments below."

I'm rooted, have sideloading enabled, and love the phone but why not AT&T? What do you have against us??
[Atrix 4G General] roharia:
I heard it would beincluded in our next OTA
[Atrix 4G General] NoNameAtAll:
"And as for the Motorola Atrix 4G? AT&T says it's working with Moto, which will provide the update for non-market apps in a future maintenance release."

http://www.androidcentral.com/att-confirms-third-party-apps-coming-existing-phones

We're included.
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
Doesn't really matter either way since Gladroot does it for you.

There's much more important things that this device needs, like Gingerbread and a freakin update for Bell users... *sigh*
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Desaf:
Hi guys,

I am using Insertcoin 1.0.3, but my memory keeps getting full. I have a lot of apps I use and it seems that I can't install any apps anymore.

I am S-OFF and use the cm HBOOT.

Which Rom could you guys suggest with d2ext. I know how to set up partitions etc. but I don't know which rom is good for d2ext. maybe Miui or other ones. I prefer 2.3.4. roms.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fr_78:
Make a bigger partition ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Desaf:
I have an 1gb partition
[Vibrant General] goldeman:
i no longer own a vibrant but i remember always having gps issues. im not going to search to see if this was posted but thought it might help

this is from another thread and i found it pretty useful

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=953630

if you already knew or know about this disregard
[Vibrant General] hd2life:
Will test it, cant hurt it just changes you gps.conf file. I allways edit it to europe ntp. Cant get one gps lock in Europe, it helped on hd2 back in the days.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 22andy2:
Hi All,

I just purchased my Captivate yesterday from Costco (Expecting to still get the 2.4 Eclair) but unfortunately I got the Froyo 2.2 on my new captivate.

I tried rooting it using superoneClick and it just gets stuck on "Waiting for Device". I have drivers properly installed on my windows 7 64 bit machine (because I can use the phone and access its internal SD card).

Can anyone have suggestion or faced similar problems?

I have tried disabling/re-enabling usb debgging while it says "Waiting for the device"
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverslotcar:
Search the forum. There are a few threads floating around on different ways to root the stock froyo build. I don't know why the superoneclick wont work in your case but a search will turn up some info for you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 22andy2:
thanks. I will search the the threads and will post my results here in this thread for someone like me struggling with the same problem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olo567:
If you were planning on flashing a custom ROM after rooting anyway, you could use Odin one-click from download mode to flash 2.1 eclair, and then go from there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PeteSeiler2010:
Are you sure you are enabling debugging? I just used superoneclick on my phone last night after I flashe dback to stock.

First thing I do is change the phone in settings to - Ask on Connection, then I enable debugging.

Also you could try a different USB port on your computer and also make sure you have all of your necessary drivers installed.

I hope you get it figured out!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 22andy2:
PeteSeiler2010: I haven't tried different USB port yet. I will try tonight and see if it goes through.

For usb debugging, I tried that as I mentioned. Let me just conform what I did. When it says "Waiting for device" for several seconds, I disconnected USB cable from either phone or computer (because it says that if you are stuck on "waiting for device", disable and re-enable usb debugging) because without disconnecting the cable, phone didn't let me disable the USB debugging..

So looks like I am missing something here??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
want a much easier method? install speedmod kernel using odin, reboot into recovery, advanced features (not the CWM version), and choose the option that says something like "root phone" and choose the "simple" option. congratulations, you are now rooted and running a custom kernel with CWM that can install a custom ROM.

next time, please do not post this in development as this has NOTHING to do with development. Q&A or general next time, please.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axis01:
How did someone with no posts, post a question in this section? I thought you had to have a minimum of 10 posts to post in here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 22andy2:
I am sorry if I have missed that rule for the new posting but I am new (just two days old) into the android world and for the xda forums as well..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdwolf85:
So why is your join date Dec 2007?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 22andy2:
thats when I just registered.. I will be the active member now as I officially own the android phone.

I really appreciate all of you guys work and I didn't mean to offend any one by posting the thread here.

I already apologize for missing the rule for the 10 minimum posts on forum before posting.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 22andy2:
I rooted my device successfully by using odin. Thanks all of you for the suggestions.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rick SJ:
Hi All. Long time follower on XDA for the G1 (9 months after the G1 debut) but first time posting. I just recently did the 2708+hboot hack for the 14mb to flash and test the lastest ROMs. I've tried everything that is currently available for download on XDA development and found that Laszlo 5.2 to be the smoothest and fastest (just as fast as Super CSDI).

I read through the entire post to see if anyone has experienced the same thing as I did, but no one really did. This ROM is amazing and everything is working great, but one thing. My question is--The Audible selection and screen lock sound do not work. One person ask about the screen lock sound not working, but no one answered. Is anyone else getting this problem besides me and is there a fix. I flash it several times and on 3 different G1s and get the same results. Maybe the download of the ROM I'm flashing is slightly corrupt. Any thoughts??? Thanks everyone for all your help through these years keeping the G1 alive and still amazing.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldrifta:
im not sure exactly what it is your talking about but i know besides what your saying i have no complaints about this rom... buuuuuuut it is getting old and hasn't had an update since i remember.. so im sure **** will be hitting the fan soon... all we can do is hope a better rom comes out or hope somebody has the balls to try messing with lazlo rom to improve on its minor bugs and issues

wish i could help you more but i have no idea what that is haha
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnson8cyl:
Well do u get the sounds he's asking about. I wonder if the ogg files are present. I'm not on fbl atm so I'm not sure

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[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldrifta:
im not using that rom at the moment but as far as i know the sounds were working.. is he using a kernel with it? maybe its messing with it..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamPI:
Don't know what you mean by "Audible selection", but I would guess for the lock/unlock sound you need to install the audio from addons (since it contains the file). Type "addons" in terminal and follow the on-screen prompts.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edward0119:
The Audible selection and screen lock sound

what is this?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnson8cyl:
Sounds when u unlock

sent from my transparent xda app by the impaler747
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rick SJ:
Hi Adam, your the Man!

Thank you so much. Your suggestion fixed it. I was playing with Super Aosp 6.0 when you made the suggestion and I was very hesitant to flash again to find out that it might do nothing. But the speed of Laszlo was just to good to not find out, so I did and I'm glad I did.

I'm surprised that hardly anyone knew what I was talking about. So to clarify, if you go into Setting>Sound and then scoll down a bit you will see Audible selection and Screen lock sound options. The Audible selection is when it makes a 'Click' type sound when you select something. That extra audible feedback is very helpful.

I was going to just put up with Laszlo 5.2 even without sound if I had too, but I'm glad I don't.

Now I can finally stay with this for awhile to see if it is stable as well as fast.

Thanks again.

Rick
[HTC Inspire 4G] acidburn2k2:
So I got a notification that my system has an update, more specifically System Upgrade 1.84.502.11. Is this something we can install on our rooted and rommed phones? and what would the process be? Or do we just have to wait for new ROMs to come out with the update built into it?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickovtyme:
SearchSearchSearch....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1058042

By now...all living ROM's have the updates included in one form, fashion or another.

ReadReadRead....
[HTC Inspire 4G] Mr. Clown:
thread closed.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wave_sailor:
How do you setup vpn with google?

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20063792-12.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Just out of curiosity, I always just use the default whenever i flash a new kernel, since Sense based ROMS don't come with the ability to change Governors, but OS Moniter gives you that ability.

What IS the difference between smartass, ondemand, powersave, conservative (what I'm on) and performance?

I guess I just never bothered to wonder about it before.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealmethod:
Sense roms can't change the governor stock, but if you install SetCPU then you can change it.

Each governor changes the frequency at a different type.

Performance will increase it faster when needed compared to the rest.

Conservative and powersave will scale up at a slower rate.

Smartass is like ondemand but should also automatically change the frequency when the screen is off and uses other variables to determine clock speed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirmx:
Nice read: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Thanks and I know Sense ROMS can't change the governor, but if you use OS Monitor, you can change it there, like I posted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovethyEVO:
Wrong.

Performance locks the cpu speed at the max freq. Powersave locks the cpu speed at the min freq. Ondemand scales to the max freq whenever a load is detected and slowly scales down according to the load. Smartass is not like ondemand. Smartass scales to the highest freq needed to accomodate a load and then scales down immediately when that load has been completed. Interactive is the inspiration for smartass. Interactive takes over the idle loop and scales to the highest freq needed to complete the load. The difference from smartass is that interactive must see that the load has changed from the first value for a certain amount of time before it decides to scale.

Op, this information could have easily been found in the forums by searching. However most people don't word it the way I have just done. Also, sense or aosp has nothing to do with changing governors. You can change the governors using terminal emulator. The apps just make it easier for users to do it without typing command lines.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Actually, I should have said, I did search, but all I found were maxi-technical terms and definitions, nothing in layman's terms
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Durkbeef:
Hey yall, I'm trying to unroot my phone because for some reason, Whenever I try a new rom, any and all tethering is broken. It works on my current rom (Froyo sense) but I wanna give some of the new ones a try.

Tethering is the biggest thing for me on my phone cause that is what I use as my internet connection on a daily basis.

So basically, I figure rerooting may help my issue, any help?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
Rooting and unrooting won't change that. Have you looked for workarounds?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Durkbeef:
What do you mean by workarounds? Take CM7 for example, Although it is known the Wireless Tether app doesn't work on CM7. I tried using the native tethering and barnacle with no results. This is after multiple restarts and wipes, etc.

I figure that a clean wipe and reroot may help. Sometimes reformatting a computer helps issues, why shouldn't this be the same?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xm0is3sx:
Both wireless and USB tethering work for me with the built in options
[Android Apps and Games] fr3quency:
Launcher that when I slide it up(with movement, animation etc, Like Android 1.5), it will show the app drawer? I got Launcher Pro atm
[Android Apps and Games] Cal8192:
Zeam Launcher

Minimal, fast, works exceptionally well on the last few phones Ive used including the Galaxy S series and the G2X.
[Android Apps and Games] dbilliter:
ADW can do this.
[Android Apps and Games] johnson8cyl:
So can GoLauncher EX. Also very themeable. A bit heavier than zeam though

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[Android Apps and Games] syrenz:
I'm understanding the request differently than you guys. I think you might be looking for Launcher + maybe https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.intuitit.android.p.launcher&feature=search_result.

Or maybe I'm the one misunderstanding the request... :shrug:
[Android Apps and Games] ratchet789:
guys hes looking for an launcher that opens up and down most launchers dont do this anymore its a very miss feature i think.

Edit: like 1.5 and 1.6 like vanilla android.
[Android Apps and Games] johnson8cyl:
Well when I slide my finger up on the home screen my app drawer opens. Slide my finger down and my notification bar pulls down. That's what I get from the op anyway

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[Android Apps and Games] ksmullins88:
Adw ex ftw
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sorrowuk:
When recording in 1080p using the camera it is zoomed in. When using 720p you can see a lot more in the picture, where as 1080p seems to zoom in on the central object.

Now I was just wondering is it possible to mod this to make 1080p video record without being zoomed in (like how 720p does it) or is it impossible and it has to work that way ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lycan_codex:
Check out the video recording review in gsmarena.com

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-review-597p9.php
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zxz88:
Here's a thread about it if you want more detail.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=959475
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilboa1:
when the sensor chip (the camera) cannot crank for example 30FPS at 1080P resolution, "zooming" is a trick.

The sensor has less surface to scan with the zooming and can then crank out the said fps at said resolution.

The exynos chip however does "real" 1080p encoding and the image is really 1080p, but appears zoomed, and therefore contains slightly less details than if the sensor did not zoom (since parts of the field of view are not viewable)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sorrowuk:
So would it ever be possible to have 1080p video without 'zooming' by modding the firmware/ in a custom rom?

Or is it hardware limitation ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanwray:
Physical Hardware limitation

Native res of sensor = 3264x2448

HD Video = 1920x1080

3264 / 1920 = 1.7

so the only way to record 1920 is to bin the .7 thus cutting out much of the screen.

now 720p HD only has a horizontal res of 1280 that goes into said sensor 2.55, so you only need to cut out the .55 (less than full hd) and then read alternate pixels and bin the rest.

Hope that makes sense
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrSlump76:
I think that even binning the 0.7 factor should give a better result than the actual "zoomed in" effect. In the other hand whe should have the zoom function at 1080P resoultion too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanwray:
Look at the calculations, you cant zoom in 1080 cause the sensor res aint enough! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrSlump76:
Humm... i'm still dubtfull about this limitation. Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think that the htc sensation is able to apply digital zoom @ 1080P, and it should have an 8Mpixel camera too, isn't it?

I can't post a link but if you searc for "HTC Sensation takes FULL HD 1080p videos " in youtube you will find a video taken with htc sensation with digital zoom!

I don't think that the galaxy s2 hardware is unable to do the same thiks that htc sensation does...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanwray:
Oh, digital zoom is easy, but a bit pointless. So no point zooming if your source resolution drops, why not record native at the lower res and increase on pc? You will get better result that a phone attempting bilinear calculations .. So probably excluded cause of it being pointless.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrSlump76:
Hi :)

digital zoom during video recording is not applied by a simple bilinear calculation. Its quite the opposite:

No zoom -> use the whole sensor area and then "downsample" it to obtain the desired dimensions

Zoom->Sample the exact dimension from the center of the sensor.

Infact, if you watch two videos of the same scene taken with the sgs2 720P and then 1080P, you will notice that the 1080P gives a zoomed effect, becouse samsung only uses the rectangle on the center of the sensor to sample the frames, while with 720P uses the whole sensor area.

Power limitations? Unskilled Samsung's engineers? Who knows..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kohiiou:
I don't think that it's neither power limitations or unskilled samsung engineers. At 1080p, it uses most of the sensor, so zooming in will decrease the quality of the image to the point of being pointless at filming 1080p.

The reason why 720p uses the entire sensor area is because it does something called pixel binning. It uses the adjacent pixels to determine which color/info is more accurate (so a single pixel in the middle uses the ones around it to determine which color is closer to the actual source).

See here for more info:

http://www.svi.nl/PixelBinning

With pixel binning, you get less noise but at a cost of lower resolution. Therefore, they implemented zoom for 720p and the reason why 720p uses the entire sensor.

So the reason for why the 720p uses the entire sensor and 1080p only uses a section IS due to hardware limitations. 1080p needs at least a 12.4MP resolution for pixel binning.

As there is pixel binning, 720p will produce higher quality zooms than if 1080p could've zoomed using crop and bilinear enlargement (which will create pixelated images). That is why I assume they didn't include 1080p zoom - for quality purposes.

BTW - pixel binning is a technique also used by the iPhone 4. :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanwray:
Thats wrong! It's only correct if the sensor has the physical resolution that surpasses the target res by 2 exactly! Look at my previous post, I explain it a bit better. Your taking about sensor crop and pixel binning, not digital zoom.

Oh and bilinear is not simple, when you think of the amount of subpixel influence you have to create.

Neways, point is digital zoom creates pixels from thin air, well, programatically. So the detail is not present, hence why digital zoom is a consumer buzz than a valued feature.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrSlump76:
Thanks for your replies guys. I would like to bring two more arguments for my theory:

1) The 720P recordings that we can find in the net shows a low quality zoom

2) In the other hand, there are some videos taken with the htc sensation that shows an almost perfect zoom @ 1080P

The question is:

if the htc product uses virtually the same sensor of the sgs2, how can they implement the zoom??

Here a video sample with digital zoom @1080P:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZDcpggOHRc&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP9E838D931C71486D

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanwray:
The answer is: Digital Zoom lol

Tis easy to see in the video that detail is lost, pixel get bigger then filtered etc. So Digital Zoom is a software feature, not hardware!

Also people seem to forget a few very important things regarding capture quality, the bitrate of the encoding profile in use. From what I see the sgs2 has a variable 10-14mbit profile active for full HD. Some of my pro cameras use 35-50mbit. So I'm going to look into how to mod this if i can since the hardware should be able to handle a higher rate, busy at the mo though.