yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Beefvvl:
If your happy with just stock then that's cool. If your lazy just to delete/freeze bloatware. Your going to have to still restore your apps when you do a custom ROM anyways. Might as well put it into practice. There's also the Bali Kernel which helps with battery life and flashing themes is cake. But then again I'm used to flashing when I had my Vibrant and TeamWhiskey Roms and themes when they used to push them out almost every week or so.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] fatherof4:
I agree with beefvvl! It is not a big deal at all to delete and freeze your bloatware. What does it take like 5mins max???? And really after flashing a new rom i think most people if they know a lil something can take care of the bloatware and restore apps and launcher setup in like 10 or 15 mins. I agree u might as well put it in to practice anyways. Practice=Speed!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
Practice = speed = and KNOWLEDGE.

For this Noob anyway. Lol..

I do anything I can to practice so as not to brick in the very near future. And to get my black belt in modding! ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
@ fatherof4

Thanks for you post!
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hugges:
First post, hope I'm not noobing it up right away but I think I should post this here. Also, I did search with as many keywords as I could with no results pertaining to my issue.

The problems started when i rooted my recently updated fascinate (2.2 ED01). I followed the instructions on the android central site using ODIN. Everything went fine until I realized I could not get some of my apps to restore via TB. They kept failing. So i restarted the phone. All my customized screens settings, phone settings, and many of my apps were then gone. So did the root process over again, same results. So I said screw it and wiped it back to stock, rooted, then loaded it back up. Went fine for a few days until my PC would not react when I plugged in my phone. Drivers were fine, port was fine so I thought, ill restart the phone. BAD IDEA. It reverted back again.

I assume I missed a step in cleaning up after the root that is causing the phone to jump backwards after each reset.

Any Ideas?

Thanks
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
I'm betting you have zero internal memory if you look. Search on here for how to fix that and you'll be good.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hugges:
I checked into 0 internal problem, sounds like what my problem was.

In the mean time a buddy of mine here at work put the community ROM on my phone and that seemed to get it out of the wipe loop.

Thanks for the help.
[Droid Incredible General] al2x:
Is there any app or any mod that can control the backlight given to the Android softkeys (home, menu, back, search)? I think there was one a little ways back, but several searches have found me nothing....

Also is there anyway to set them to a profile where say all day backlight would be forced off until say 12am then they turn on for a few hours? thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] setexascustoms:
There's one in the market called LEDs Hack. Works well, and requires root of course. :D As far as the second part, you might could set a profile in tasker to control it, not sure though.
[Droid Incredible General] poontab:
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.deskangel.adjbrightness
[Droid Incredible General] byrong:
LEDs Hack indeed works.

There's also Screen Filter

Both will integrate with Tasker (which would take care of your time-of-day needs, or any other context profiles)

For those running CM7, the backlights can also be controlled through the Auto-Brightness settings
[Droid Incredible General] itrx:
Leds hack works, I've experienced some bugs renabling the lights, sometimes a reboot being necessary.
[Droid Incredible General] refthemc:
Any info on setting it up to keep the softkey lights off after turning the screen back on? Me Lazy :)
[Droid Incredible General] poontab:
^Yes it can lock that.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andddy:
hi, il probably annoy a million people however,iv just started to tinker round with roms (this morning lol) and i extracted the zips from a x10 rom and a desire hd rom,and just tried to move a few apks from the desire to the x10, but i put it bk asa zip n then it came up as (bad) in xrec when tried to install...any tips?? im probably a million miles away but dont ask dont learn right? cheers:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eejayyeahuuh:
Which ROMs do not have choppy video playback?

I am pretty sure none of the sense 2.1 ROMs play normal.

sent by way of Hylian Running Man.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bob318:
Does anyone try Plants vs zombie on gtablet with CM7? does it work? Thanks.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nullunit2000:
It's free today on the Amazon App Store. Give it a shot and find out. :D
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linuxslate:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1104067
[Off-topic] bb360:
I have a driod 1 and it's rooted and I use it for wifi to tether it to my xbox 360 but when I try to use it. It says I need to change my NAT type to open..can anyone help me? I use barnacle wifi tether and before I used wireless tether.
[Off-topic] Simon_WM:
it would be Very Very Very Very slow
[Off-topic] kapone86:
Not necessarily, I used wireless tether on my optimus phone to play on xbox live, I had it workin good one day but somedays it sux, ur service makes it faster, and make sure to turn background data off while using it, but, for the NAT TYPE, I donte know, its supposed to be somean option used change on ur modem, which is ur phone, and I cant figure that out on mine either, can anyone help used out?
[Thunderbolt General] Wacky2bakky:
Wanting to get some peoples opinions on if i should go ahead and flash a GB rom and GB radio? I am currently running Das BAMF 1.7 and loving it. If there is something better out there, I am wanting it lol. I always like to try new things but definitley dont want to brick my TB.
[Thunderbolt General] Legacystar:
Wrong forum bud
[Thunderbolt General] lrs421:
A lot of threads about gb in general. Start there.
[Thunderbolt General] michaelkahl:
I'd say recommend....no

Are GB and Sense 3.0 aspects really cool? Absolutely Yes.

I don't think to many people would recommend you do so. That being said, until things get sorted out with the bricked devices it's a known and documented risk that you are taking.

If it wasn't for the brick scare then I'd recommend it. Otherwise, 1.7 is running good and why mess with a good thing ;)
[Thunderbolt General] miketoasty:
I am considering the same thing this morning aswell. Out of 200+ people running GB only 5 or so have had the bootloop issue. I may make the jump here in a few minutes just because I feel like we would have seen more problems right away if it was a radio issue, because the longer its out the more people mess with it and to me it just seems like a few people messed with the wrong thing and caused this.

And of course INB4 "Wrong thread n00bz!" you should have posted this in the general thread.
[Thunderbolt General] MisterDonut:
If i was appealing to your logical side, then I wouldn't recommend it.

If i was appealing to your emotional side, then flash that *****.

pros and cons

pros and cons
[Thunderbolt General] psufan5:
Too many bugs that effect my daily use.

SMS Messages being way out of order.

Camera slow and choppy when filming anything.

Battery doesnt always charge full over night. Wake up and its still amber.

Random Reboots
[Thunderbolt General] turbosrrgood:
Lets take the bricking issues out of the equation for a minute.

What's out there now is the sense ALPHA leak, or CM7 alpha.There are no GB ROM's out there right now completely developed for the thunderbolt. Dev's have done a great job getting these to work reasonably well considering what they have to work with. Until there is a high level release/leak we won't likely see any GB ROM's that are stable, efficient, and bug free.

Now if you are a tweaker, and are dying to see what the new features are, sure give it a shot. Other than that there really is nothing to be gained by going with GB at the moment. The Froyo ROM's are built of off completed, released code. At the moment they perform better, are more efficient, have more support, less bugs, and are stable.

Short awnser, nah...Just wait a bit until there is a better leak.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Scougar:
Hi guys,

Sense UI won't let me add a brightness control to the main screen. Can anyone suggest a decent and simple app to manually control screen brightness please?

I would have loved to have used the LUMOS auto back light app but that needs HTC drivers I believe :-( D'oh.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Lyrus:
Try MVBklight 1.4.3

It's quite old but I've never found something better. I just use it also on my HD2 when I want to override the sensor. For the TG01 I think it's perfect.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Scougar:
I'll check it out. Thanks for that :-) EDIT: Could only find 1.4.2 on XDA.. so googled it and got 1.4.3.

UPDATE: Can't get it to work. Maybe I need to edit the english config file to add in the TG01 or something?
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Lyrus:
ok, I'll give you all settings for TG01. But please hold on. I got to retrieve from my archive. My TG01 is under repair and I don't have settings close at hand. Please come back later.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Scougar:
Fab, really appreciate that :-)
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Lyrus:
Here you are.

Attached you find screenshots of configuration for TG01.

As you can see minimum brightness value is 57, maximum is 255. You got to take it in account if you want also to use links to control brightness via command parameters.

I remember I had problem with links (I dont remember exactly what). So I also attached (syntactically) corrected links. But you have to localize the name of your program folder inside them.

MVBklight provides even a today plug-in. I am afraid it doesn't work. But I think it would not be so usefull, especially if you use Sense.

In the configuration you can see the use of a vga skin. Be sure to provide it (one is included in the package you downloaded). I tried to custominze the skin with other images but I didn't success, probably due to a wrong image format. I accualty spent few minutes on this, so if you get it right and achieve a nicer skin, let me know!

So, add a link to Popup.exe in your Sense UI and enjoy your brightness slider.

Please, ask if you need more.

P.S.

Ehi, remember that with MVBklight you get a torch too.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Scougar:
Thanks for that :-) I'll download and try these tomorrow :-) Odd that minimum is 57! (or is that the minimum YOU want it to ever be?)
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Lyrus:
It's not me.

On TG01 values below 57 have no effect. As for values over 255. It depends on device.

On HD2 minimum is 1 and maximum is 10. So on HD2 you can just change brightness by steps of 10% while on TG01 variation is much more smooth.

Again, it depends on hardware of device.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Scougar:
Fantastic. Finally got it working with those settings :-) I will have a go at some other skins perhaps :-) Now have brightness control on the screen.

The big mistake was me not swapping to 'manual', so it never saved my changes.

UPDATE: just playing around with the icon/images for better one's. Strangely, not every icon seems to work even if it's in the same size and format, it's really odd. Trying to change the bar's.. let's see what happens.

UPDATE2: Really struggling with these images. Even if I only edit them and save as the original type.. they won't show up. Bizarre. It's a little bit annoying actually. I'll have to keep trying as I want it to fit more into the them of black/white Sense UI.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Lyrus:
I played right now with Resco Photo Manager.

Just doodled on left.bmp and saved.

It works.

Can't do more tests. I am at work...

Let's keep on trying. It's a long time I'd like to change the skin!
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Pere:
Could you share some pictures or a video? It sounds interesting! I'm using an free program called Metrix from http://www.apoxsoft.com/products/metrix/ and it works perfectly. But it's a Today plug-in, so it doesn't work on Sense.

Although it seems a little dated, it can be fully configurated. If any interested I can give you the TG01 parameters for brightness control

Best Regards
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Scougar:
I am trying the following files. (THe 'RIGHTOLD.BMP' should be right.bmp btw) The only one that actually displays is the SLDR one :-( Annoying.

Trying to mess with them some more to see if I can make them work.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Lyrus:
@Pere

Here you are a screenshot.

It's the easiest way to control brightness. I have the link in the bulb on the left of the screen but on TG01 also double tapping the zoom bar so the slider will pop up on whatever application is running in that moment.

Metrix is nice. But it's only a plugin for the today. I really need a popup instead.

@Scougar

Yes, your sldr.bmp works. Not the others. I tried to resave them from Resco Photo Manager but with no success.

The strange thing is that the left.bmp attached is the original with some doodling and saved from RPM. It works but the doodling results in a trasparency as you can see in attached screenshot where I changed the color of the background to make it clear.

I think that there is something to understand regarding how trasparency is handled. Could be that our images are treated for some reason as totally trasparent?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cxl98904:
To install adams 2.2 Tom or the alpha honeycomb do use CWM or do you rename them to update.zip?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sridhar618:
When I receive a meeting invite via MS Exchange the meeting details are not displayed (date, time, location). All I see is who sent the request and the message they typed in the body of the invite. Anybody else facing this problem with the default calendar or have a solution?

Yes! I have tried touchdown but its a bit expensive to pay just for this functionality since all the other functionalities work out of the box on the default app.

I have a ticket opened to android at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15666.
[General Topics] qipengart:
Heard that Google is going to try to shift Android phones away from physical buttons (home, menu, search, etc.) but I really prefer the physical buttons especially when I have a phone in an Otterbox and I go snowshoeing and have to use gloves on.

Perhaps we need both virtual and physical buttons but I really prefer physical buttons. Any takers?
[General Topics] mallend:
Agreed. I also prefer physical keyboards over their virtual counterparts.
[General Topics] il buono:
Also agree. Though I love the virtual keys I find myself in situations where physical keys are a necessity. This is one of things setting Android phones apart from Apple with consumers who aren't comfortable with virtual keys.
[General Topics] galaxys:
physical buttons are old school in a progressive high tech device development...
[General Topics] PharmCAT:
There will always be a demand for buttons; For example, Japan: http://www.everythingandroid.org/fo...ese-android-flip-phone-with-16mp-camera.2438/
[General Topics] echelonMCRhartgrenade:
+1 agreed. I live in Hawaii where the humidity is always high no matter what time of the day. My phone's capacitive buttons sometimes activates without pressing due to moisture collecting under the buttons causing extreme frustration sometimes! :mad:

Sent from a boy who lives in the City of the Damned, whose parents are Rage and Love.
[General Topics] scarpachi:
No - keep them!
[General Topics] orb3000:
Having both options should be an option!

But watch what are they doing here

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[General Topics] sark14:
By all means, get rid of the physical buttons...IF YOU WANT TO TURN INTO APPLE. Sheesh, just leave well enough alone. Buttons work and they aren't ugly or bulkiy if the design is done right.
[General Topics] Dogen83:
One man's "well enough" is another man's "not enough" - hence we get the evolution of devices. My grandfather wishes everything still had a rotary dial. "Well enough" for him peaked in 1965. Manufacturers want devices that look futuristic... so buttons are gonna go. The question is, can we make touch screens that work as intuitively and as well as buttons? That's really your only hope.
[General Topics] vbetts:
The Blackberry Storm I believe comes with something like this.

Too bad it's a blackberry.
[General Topics] C4m3r0n:
Having both is the best option. Should be configurable.
[General Topics] sawvellra26:
I feel like "physical buttons" are a way of the past. It's almost as if they are outdated. Plus this allows for many physical ware and tear.
[General Topics] FLAC Vest:
I think it depends on what type of phone you're making. When you're making a slate phone like the SGS2 or something like that, having one or no buttons looks best. However when making a larger, more durable and maybe heftier phone buttons are great.

Meh, having no buttons gives a sense of a premium or advanced product.
[General Topics] Patrick V.:
I think it depends on the design. The Desire HD has very nice touch keys, but if the phone had physical buttons the design would be ugly
[General Topics] orb3000:
Yeah agree.

I still have and use my beloved HTC Universal

So far not any device I´ve tested (tested a lot) has that fantastic keyboard!

Hope in the future we can have options with great physical keyboards...
[General Topics] TigOldBitties:
Couldn't have said it any better myself, I find myself using both. I've even reverted back to my trusty G1 in certain situations.
[General Topics] sirkay:
agree. frequently used physical buttons to closing apps by long-press.
[General Topics] rogier666:
Physical buttons are more expensive than virtual keys. Expect that physical buttons will become limited to premium business-oriented phones, and cheaper phones will only get virtual keys.

Plastic instead of wood and metal, expensive concert tickets vs. cheap music downloads, processed food vs. fresh produce... physical buttons vs. virtual keys is just a variation on the same old theme.
[General Topics] pixowl:
I support this!
[General Topics] epsilo:
I like buttons!
[General Topics] BananaPhone69:
Use a constant format for a list like this. Either good vs bad or bad vs good for every comparisson. When you alternate between the two it can be confusing. Parallel structure is your friend.

However, I still disagree with your point. The reason for the elimination of physical buttons is very simple; they are fault points. Any moving part on a device is a high likelyhood area for breakdown. Pushing too hard or just general usage inevitably causes physical buttons to wear down. By eliminating them, you effectively increas the viable lifespan of a device.
[General Topics] TheBiles:
I think the on-screen menu will work just as well as capacitive buttons. I personally can't stand actual physical buttons that I have to press. They just get dirty and wear out.

--

Sent from my Droid Bionic.
[General Topics] rogier666:
Even with buttons the physical lifetime of a phone is much longer than its commercial lifetime. All the buttons on my ten year old Nokia still work.

Phone manufacturers want to sell you a new phone when your contract runs out: usually 2 years, which coincides with the warranty on your phone. It's not in their interest to prolong the physical lifespan of your phone beyond the commercial lifespan, but it is in their interest to reduce manufacturing cost by eliminating buttons.
[General Topics] 5136614:
Agree with you.

We need phys butt to enter fastboot,recovery...etc on our Android phone! What happen if they gone? We wont able save our phone from brick,corrupt flash without these mode T_T
[General Topics] Saxysaxplayer:
Just like we have full touchscreen phones and phones with a keyboard, this will be the same way. Some people will have phones with a full touch display and some will get buttons, It's that simple, they will give us options. Of course, they full touch phones will probably be the better devices, with a few exception, and we'll still have power on/off and volume button.. we just won't have the android buttons on the bottom.
[General Topics] bdroc:
i love the idea of on screen buttons because when im surfing in bed at night and those capacitive buttons light up, im blinded. I'm just worried about screen burn-in with amoled
[General Topics] TheBiles:
Unless you keep your screen on for hours at a time, burn in shouldn't even be an option.
[General Topics] Sjael:
I personally hate on-screen keys, but not because I'm a hardware button fanatic, but because I'm a resolution junkie. That button bar is gonna wipe out at least 80 vertical pixels. Sure, they'll be hidden for videos and such, but I can't imagine it'll be going anywhere for web browsing (where the back button is used a lot..)

Until the Prime gets some kind of hack that lets me swipe up from the bottom of the screen to show the button bar, which then autohides after a short period of disuse. Why this couldn't be a standard function of HC/ICS... :mad:

AMOLED burn-in is a little different to standard lcd or plasma burn-in though. The blue subpixels wear out and diminish in brightness quite a bit faster than the green/red ones, so when you have the same image sitting on screen in the same place for prolonged periods (like status bar clocks and on-screen keys,) you can end up with a ghost image there when it's displaying colors that use blue, because those blue subpixels can no longer produce enough light.

Unless Sammy have fixed that by now. Which I would hope, seeing as the on-screen keys appear to be white or possibly pale blue...
[General Topics] ifatalityx:
I agree with reasons why to have physical hardware buttons, but I think they make the phone look ugly now. Ever since I got done with my G1 and myTouch 3G Slide I have never bought a phone with physical hardware buttons. Just not liking it anymore.
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
Onscreen doesn't look good on android, capacitive does. The uniformity afforded by WP7 makes it better for onscreen in my opinion, i saw some falsified screenshots of a Nokia WP7 that was all screen and I got a bit excited.
[General Topics] dinged:
As great as everyone likes virtual key, there's a compelling argument for physical keys.

Remember the days when virtual keys became so "progressive" in the 90's with Television/Home Entertainment Remotes? - They looked cool, were expensive and were the next big thing in remote technology. That didn't last so long as consumers discovered that they couldn't go to certain functions by tactile feel.

I miss the days when I could not look down and T9 text, dial a number or choose a favorite contact shortcut to call.
[General Topics] Sjael:
As do I, friend. :(

At least now it's eleven thousand times easier to scroll through your contact list with one swipe, rather than hitting the (always too small) down arrow 30 times. :D
[General Topics] Europa.:
Same here. I can't imagine using a phone without physical buttons.

And actually, i'd always thought touch screen was for seniors who can't see clearly or type. But I had to alter my concept as almost everyone owns a touch screen nowadays...
[General Topics] Mr.Wrong:
I would exchange physical buttons for a better screen. I am used to it.
[General Topics] Dripz167:
Physical (Not capacitive) buttons for life. I love those on a phone, esp one with a physical qwerty.
[General Topics] JamesC1982:
No thanks! I found that I needed a proper keyboard until I owned a phone with a decent touchscreen. Once that happened, that was it for me. I'd never go back.
[General Topics] Gaugerer:
There are a few occasions when the on screen keyboard fails to appear when trying to enter information into an input box which never happens with a physical keyboard. Switching browsers and changing screen orientation sometimes helps but when that fails you are stuck.