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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Lol I gave away and sold my old LX 2008, and Sidekick 3. Never had the Sidekick LX 09 or Sidekick Slide or Sidekick iD.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
Yeah. 6MB of email storage was not enough. It's laughable really. Plus, I never understood why the variable fetching interval for POP and IMAP accounts was so long and convoluted. It's probably part of why people started pressing Menu + U (I think that was the fetch request shortcut) so often at one point where that had to be cut off. One wonders what the thought process was at the top of both companies making these decisions.

Still, the basic user experience was still great in spite of all these things. I used to like setting up calendar appointments on my Sidekick because the interface was so well designed. The keyboard shortcuts made the device so much quicker to use instead of today where you have to touch the screen repeatedly on phones to do anything, but, like you said, there was not enough real innovation over the course of the lifespan of the line that made it to the end-users. It was the first modern smartphone though - cloud storage, multi-tasking, an app store, dedicated clients for social networking sites, good web browsing, push email, etc. Oh! It generally didn't LAG like Android. Like you said, so many missed opportunities...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] SidekickColor:
What I find ultimately hilarious is that, even after paying for Danger, Microsoft ultimately ended up with nothing as T-Mobile retained the rights to the name... I wish that the SK4G had been closer to the quality of the last SK [in terms of software stability, integration, spell check, AND I MISS THE FREAKING ABILITY TO UNDO]... also, just got a warranty replacement [digitizer futzed out] and this SK keeps dropping my letter L.

I think another thing which hurt Danger was the fact that every aspect of your phone experience was backed up so switching phones was easy BUT if you changed versions you had to fork over $$ once again for programs or ringtones you had already purchased... Three Sidekicks in, that was horribly annoying.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
I agree! People were able to carry over everything they had purchased on the SK2 to the SK3, but that was the only time that happened I'm aware of.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] SidekickColor:
Yea... unfortunatey I skipped the SK2 which was dumb because they let us trade in the color and get the 2 for [$50, free? I do not remember] but my color held out until the 3 arrived.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] nitthin21:
do u know the full name of that guy who got hired by Danger..?? is he available on google plus or facebook??
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
I don't know. orange808 might know. You may want to PM him and ask. For all we know, HE may be that guy! Though, in all seriousness, if you can't find the guy on g+ by searching, he may not want to be found. Just my 2 cents. YMMV.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
This may have been posted on here before, but since this thread is about the legacy Sidekick devices, does anyone have the old Danger SDK?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] quickzilver2010:
tigzy.com/hiptop_sdk.zip
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] dark_phoenix:
guys help!

i have a sidekick 2008 (t-mobile + unlocked+ using in india) i want to use internet on that device. if there is new firmware then please advise me the steps to flash it.....

Sent from my A15 using my thumbs
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] shadowscott:
To my knowledge there is no way to flash a new firmware to get internet. The only way is to buy the different version of the sidekick, the one sold in another country other than United states that never ran on the danger servers

Sent from my Sidekick 4G using Gingerbread
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
I always wondered why it seems few people ever REALLY tried to hack into the old Hiptop/Sidekick devices. Maybe Orange808 would know more than myself?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] orange808:
Danger had a pretty strongly worded contract for developers and they locked us out of most of the features as the Danger OS evolved. The only flashable recovery that ever hit the streets was for the Sidekick Color. (And, they denied that ever existed the moment they took it down.) After that, it was all OTA. We didn't get much to work with.

Honestly, everybody was busy building software to sell; we didn't have much time or motivation to hack the device. Not to mention, getting your stuff tossed out of the store for violating the dev contract would have been suicidal. You are right, though; nobody really tried.

Regardless, using that old dated Opera Mini browser on the Sidekick would be a painful experience these days. (I bet they are still using the Opera Mini (4.0?) that was available for the Sidekick 2.) Later ports of Opera Mini 5.0 were completely unofficial and buggy..

It's a shame Danger lost steam and Microsoft killed them...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
It makes me wonder what's going to happen with Android now that Andy Rubin has left the project. Android is such a "Danger 2.0" right down to certain small visual elements especially in the Nexus devices (the 'X' in Nexus and the menu button icon before they got rid of it being two things taken from the Sidekick. The G1's keyboard was almost identical to the Sidekick's.). A few other things as well that are more technical, but you probably get the point. Ah, Danger...I wonder why they and T-Mobile were so concerned about keeping unauthorized development away from the device. Oh well. We'll probably never know at this point.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] orange808:
The idea was to maximize revenue from the Catalog. T-Mo owned a large share of Danger for the Hiptop era. (T-Mobile owned the Sidekick name from the beginning and branded the Hiptop devices with their name.)

With T-Mobile holding such a powerful position, they wanted to maximize the revenue from the Catalog. As a result, they locked the device down to make sure users had to purchase all their software and ringtones.

In Canada, Hiptop owners got MMS and the ability to import ringtones first. T-Mo vetoed those features for their US users. Software was different issue; nobody wanted people running free stuff.

Developers weren't complaining. We could install anything we wanted and do what we wanted--as long we didn't do anything to hack the OS and share it publically. It was also in our best interest to make sure people had to pay for downloads.

In many ways, dealing with Danger was like Apple. To sell software you had to pass their official approval process--and resubmit updates for every OS update. The OS was locked down and the idea was to sell software exclusively through the Catalog.

It's too bad Steve Jobs invented the entire business model, after Danger did it, because I honestly thought Danger rolled it out first. (They did!) I must be mistaken, Steve Jobs "invented" everything he borrowed... :)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] XDAModder:
Do you think there is any way we can exploit the LX phones? At least try to run some custom code? Maybe a Webkit exploit or something? I have taken apart my sidekicks efficiently, and if chips need to be identified, maybe I can help. I plan to create some apps for it, just for the fun of it. Any guide or tips can definitely help. Btw sorry for the long outdated bump
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LUV_U_GRL:
hey, i too am following a cold trail to revive these great phones. i have a few sidekicks of different generations but am particularly interested in working with the 2009 lx model. from what i know, the 2009 lx model runs on DangerOS 5.0 which is apparently based off of NetBSD which is open source. my main goal is to get to the dangerOS source code to understand it. Luckily i found the hiptop SDK download here so i will be going through that and searching the files in the phone while its connected to my computer.

i understand that dangerOS is like android in an infant state written in java. i wonder if theres a way to impliment a custom firmware or customize the os to implient internet functionality without dealing with danger's servers at all even if i can run a linux distro on the device or something.

im gathering research if you want to talk you can email me at blueberry.py@protonmail.com
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] draygun:
Looks like this may be the end of an era. @orange808 hasn't logged on since 2017. It's been over a decade since Danger closed down their servers, and finding any devs that have the ability to crack this are probably onto bigger and better things, if they'd even break their contracts. Although, the most anyone would get is a cease and desist, and whoever owns Danger at this point has probably forgotten that they even own the asset... shame because the community here would go crazy with mods and could revive the brand.

Unless there really is a hero out there that can crack the software, I think we are left with mods... I've thought about making my 2009 LX a Frankenstein phone by replacing the internals with an Android phone, and rigging it up to a similar size LCD or TFT display.. I'm sure eventually it could happen. The part that is beyond me would be hooking up the keyboards and buttons to the guts, all of which I believe are soldered and are part of the motherboard.

If anyone has ideas don't let the dream die. Man, it's crazy this was the seemingly the only device of it's time that never got modded. It's in the prime era of gadget exploits.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marchking:
why did you stop modifying the GRP Cyanogen 7 gingerbread...

just curious
[Eee Pad Transformer General] twirtle2:
Thanks so much for this lol. i never knew that function existed and i've been using it from day one.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] californiarailroader:
EXCELLENT post, thank you! On the News360, I LOVE it, but it doesn't show my local newspapers (Mendocino County in Northwestern California), the nearest it shows are in the San Francisco Bay Area, over 100 miles south of me, maybe I need to shoot off an email to them.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] CarsnGadgets:
your welcome :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] shotto:
Always interested to read TF users tips and some very useful ones here, many thanks :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] biiggmike23:
Thanks for this! as a newbie, I needed this
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mihaid:
I tried to do a backup of the sd card and I think I may have taken the card out whilst android was still running. When copying the stuff from the sd card, data.img would not copy, some error. Now when booting in Android it gets stuck on the circle boot screen. I would guess that the data.img got corrupted. What happens if I just deleted it, would android create a new one when booting? I am using android on sd card Core droid with 1GB data image. Will I lose settings/programs?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mutil:
unfortunately you will lose your data. next time instead of taking off your card use usb transfer.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mihaid:
SHould I delete it and Android will recreate one?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mutil:
delete all the files related to the rom. the best format the sd card.then put a new sd rom and flash from beginning. the rom will create a new data.img.if you arent using titanium backup (from the market) i recommend you to use it in the future for similar cases to this.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] trex3300:
format your card and do a clean intall
[Android Themes] Sebz4n:
Hello!

I am trying to find a way, to swap out the widget icon and text on my "Advanced Task Killer" app. I would like to use minimalistic text, to trigger the autokill action the widget normally does, but under activities there is no such activity, only the option to LAUNCH the task killer app.

How can I do this? I've found an application called xShorcut, that allows me to launch applications with a string/command, so does anybody know what the "kill" command is for the Advanced Task Killer? Is there a way to grab said activity, via an app or so?
[Android Themes] Sebz4n:
No wise heads, that is able to shed some lights on this matter?
[Android Themes] zHk3R:
Maybe this helps?.. Sorry I can't contribute more.
[Android Themes] Sebz4n:
As far as I can understand, this app can trigger the widget at specific times (e.g. 2 pm), but it doesn't allow my to create another widget, so I can have another design on it
[Android Themes] Sebz4n:
Still nobody?
[Android Themes] FaithCry:
To be honest I think it would help if you posted in a general or q&a forum in your phone's section... Themes isn't really the best spot to post about these things.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2000a:
Hi,

Does anyone know how to maintain the 2G setting (data) after a reboot?

I just bought a Nexus One, and it is running CM7.0.3, but after a reboot, the 2G box is unchecked and it uses H... This drains the battery quickly, and I do not use data much.

I had a Nexus One, and never came across this issue.

Ideas would appreciated.

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] RADLOUNI:
Hi Guys

I bought the SGS II but i started to regret this decision after a couple of days

Everyone wants something out of a phone and Sensation might be a perfect fit for one person, while the SGS II for another

I owned the desire HD before and I really appreciated how smooth the interface was, and the number of business widgets readily available with sense (email, calendar, people, friend stream). I also appreciated how social networking is integrated into sense

In all honesty SGS II is a beast when it comes to speed, but it UI is way behind sense. Out of the box it does not offer the widgets i want,and 3rd party widgets are not as good or do not offer functionality or integration with sense

Amazingly, SGS II UI also becomes laggy when you fillout 7 screens with widgets. I had 7 screens of widgets on the DHD and the scrolling was very smooth

SO MY QUESTION IS

is this smoothness retained in sense 3.0. Do they still have the same nice sense widgets integrated with the system and is sense still smooth even after you fill out 7 screens with widgets ?

Thx
[HTC Sensation] idesmond:
Yes everything is integrated very well. So far no lag with filling 7 screens with widgets
[HTC Sensation] xl VipeR lx:
same here. 7 Screens filled. No lag

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e with my finger using telepathy
[HTC Sensation] betelgeuse74:
Went from Desire HD til Sensation, and I am very pleased.

The form factor of the Sensation, although the difference is not huge on paper, is all in favour of the Sensation. It's much more manageable, and feels better in my hand.

The build quality is better, and to me it feels like an "improved" Desire HD, where all small quirks have been fixed (like battery and Sim card covers, and power/volume buttons)

In short the Sensation feels like a better quality device.

I have always liked Sense, and Sense 3.0 is a very good improvement, with nice new features. (I used Sense 3 addons on my DHD, and I would never go back to Sense 2.1 now)

It is to early for me to conclude battery performance, since the battery only have 2-3 cycles completed, but I have complaints on performance so far.

Speed of dual core is also hard to comment, as my Desire HD ran custom ROM, so it was fast. The Sensation does not feel slow at all, but about the same as the single core 1Ghz DHD. My guess is that when HTC opens the bootloader and custom ROMs are created, it will be noticably faster!
[HTC Sensation] redbullcat:
To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if Sense 3.0 is ported to SGS II and TouchWiz 4.0 is ported to Sensation :)

I've always said I don't really mind what software the phone is running (as long as it's Android!) because I or another dev can port the software I'd like :)
[HTC Sensation] lightforce:
i personally hate widgets and sense. So on my sensation I went with launcher pro and like 2 widgets. I dunno its just personal preference i guess everything is.
[HTC Sensation] karnovaran:
You should be surprised if that happens, because Sense has never been successfully ported to a non-HTC phone. Mildly functional versions have made it to the original Motorola Droid and some Galaxy S variants, but they have never been daily drivers. There are just too many proprietary HTC bits for developers to reverse engineer.
[HTC Sensation] Lightning N1:
That was all before HTC opened the DEV Center for Sense:eek:, it may get quite a bit easier to work with Sense.:D
[HTC Sensation] redbullcat:
Always time for a first, though :)
[XPERIA X2 General] deer:
dear brothers!!

i dont think that android can work at x1 but cant be at x2 !

x2 is better more than x1!!

so can any one explan tome why plz!!

because every thing and devices are better at x2 than x1!

thanks
[Galaxy S II General] andyiacovou:
I have been one of the unlucky ones experiencing serious / ridiculous battery drain. I was losing around 10-15% an hour just on idle....

With minimal use I was having to recharge everyday after just 8-9 hours.

So what have I done?

Last night I flashed the latest version of Lightning ROM, available on these forums. Not only is it an excellent ROM, but it appears to have fixed the issue. The only other thing I have changed is to uninstall the Beautiful Widgets App. No other changes.

After nearly 4 hours battery is showing 91%, to compare I have normally been on 60% after 4 hours.

Hope this helps someone!
[Galaxy S II General] MartinNH:
I'm on my 24th hour now and only down to 44 percent on Litening. Great rom :-)
[Galaxy S II General] DoPower:
But, how has been the use? Data On? 2G/3G? etc..
[Galaxy S II General] Robsso:
do we need another thread for this? I had the same issue, all I did was to factory reset and install only the necessary things. Now, I'm pretty much on par with you and I still have beautiful widget on (I just can't live without it :) )

But it's all about the usage scenario - I can have 99% after 4hrs as well as below 50% depending on this.
[Galaxy S II General] psp888:
I'm on stock KE7, phone on for 21 hours and still have 72% left.

sync on, 3g on. weather updating every 3hrs.

Dont see what the problem is with stock....?!?!?
[Galaxy S II General] DoPower:
The main consuming part is the screen.
[Galaxy S II General] andyiacovou:
There is just no consistency here and Google need to find a way to get to grips with this. I am using exactly the same usage pattern as before (data on, 3 hour updates, lattitude) and am now receiving 75% increase in battery life by simply flashing a different ROM.

You cannot imagine how frustrating it is, hearing how wonderful other people's battery life is when you are struggling to get half a day.

The reason for another thread is because I'm so relieved and wanted to share
[Galaxy S II General] JLowe:
Never had any battery drain with my KE2 stock.

Have a great battery life with the following settings:

1. rooted

2. deleted all not necessary apps with root explorer or if not shure freezed in Titanium Backup

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...SENVeXlqUm5vV0E&single=true&gid=0&output=html

3. disabled automatic background transactions in settings

4. disabled all animations in settings (keep it simple)

5. use a dark background image / also for lockscreen

6. using a light launcher (zeam launcher gives definetely bet battery live compare ADW Launcher EX or Go Launcher EX)

7. recharge battery when it's empty for around 8 hours (i.e. at night)

8. Disable HSDPA and just use 3G (no speed difference but battery) with *#301279#

9.Thumbnails and some database's could get corrupted making the media scanner running berserk, resulting in battery drain.

Delete the following:

dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media

dbdata/databases/com.cooliris.media

And clear the thumbnails folders on sd cards.​

thanks nitr8

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10346661&postcount=2125

with these kind of settings a get with moderate use and constant 3G-signal for Email checking (K9) around 2 days.
[Galaxy S II General] mur76:
why not get a nokia instead, LOL, we should not have to do all this crippling for battery life. sort it Samsung.
[Galaxy S II General] abumhmmd1:
SGS2 & battery --- let's think quietly
[Galaxy S II General] simacca:
That's a bit much. You may as well get a basic phone :)
[Galaxy S II General] yaronAD:
+1 :)

there are some who thinks they have bought a battery saver instad of the best smartphone in the world......:eek:

why to"keep it simple" :confused:?

knock yourself out!!! with a grate pice of technology :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
"batterycalibration" - Check the market place... Ignore the negative comments from people who dont understand how battery stats work :p

P.S. Incase your wondering... Yes it does work :D
[Galaxy S II General] crippenx:
As ridiculous as this seems and as skeptical as I was, I tried this .... and it worked?!

Thanks for the advice .. I guess something with up with VillainRom or something because just changing to Lightning rom has solved things for me right away!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cptzbug:
Hello all, This is my first Android Phone using iphone 4 as my main and SGS2 as secondary, i have a few things i would like to know how to do. Please dont flame me being an apple fan and what not im just here to learn.

what i have : Samsung Galaxy S 2, Flashed and rooted.

what i cant figure out.

and yes i did search with no luck

1) is it possible to have folders like in Ios? i tried looking and tried a few and they just dont work?

2) Best app to protect Pictures and Videos ( Password) i tried Gallery Pro looking for something like Video Vault ( IOS ) Link = collect 3 ( cant post a link)

what i like about Video safe is it has Duel system one pw will open something and the main pw will open other files

3) application that would hide / pw a folder with apps inside of it

eg, Folder name = Social Under social Folder a bunch of chat programs and to access that folder you need to enter a pw.

4) not looking for a app lock that would protect an app with a pw since the apps name / icon will be visible.

5) i bought the phone from Clove, and its EU version, is it possible to add something so that i am able to read arabic? ( websites, chat, etc) arabic keyboard is nice but not necessary.

thanks all will post more as i start looking for things that i cant find or dont understand :)

Thank you all in advanced!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Greenie-UK:
Hi There, in relation to your First question, there is an App free on the market called "application Folder" which creates folders which have a very similar look and Feel to the iOS counterparts.

As for the Password lock questions, im not aware of Any apps that can lock specific folders, suggest Searching the forum or the Android Market !

Arabic Keyboards can be downloaded off the android market, Download a new Keyboard (like swiftkey or Gingerbread keyboard) and see if they have arabic Localisation !

hope that helps
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] JJEgan:
is it possible to add something so that i am able to read arabic? ( websites, chat, etc) arabic keyboard is nice but not necessary.

Topic in Dev section for Arabic .

Applications .

http://www.appbrain.com/

thanks all will post more as i start looking for things that i cant find or dont understand

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1066631

jje
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Greenie-UK:
Check this out for Getting your SGS2 arabic :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1063205
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] yamanote:
If you're using TouchWiz, open the applications menu, hit the Menu button, Edit, the tap and hold the app you want to place into a folder. Drag it into the folder above 'Add Folder'. Repeat for the other apps you want to place into the folder. When you're done, press Menu, tap Save, and Yes. Your new folder will be the last icon in the application menu.

To rename the folder name, open the folder then tap and hold the Folder 1 text on the top. It should pop up a box where you can change the name.

Cheers