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[Eee Pad Transformer General] frosty5689:
It's better for Lithium-Ion batteries to drain little and top-up as often as you can so I plug it in whenever I'm not using it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] degeneration:
I hear a lot of back and forth about this. Do you have a source for this info? (Not doubting you, just, like I said, I constantly hear people changing their minds on this)

EDIT: Nevermind, maybe I am thinking way back or something. I am finding most info points to "Don't deep drain if you don't have to"... just google lithium ion battery care if you thought the same as me.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] wakjagner:
I'm curious, i just got my transformer today, in the instructions it says to charge it for 8 hours. But I had full charge after 3 hours. Do I still need to charge it for another 5 hours?

--Jak
[Eee Pad Transformer General] xufuchang:
yes you should, the battery needs overcharged for premiere usage. but after that don't overcharging your battery in daily usage which the OP is asking.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aryantes:
I charge mine a few hours at night, but unplug it overnight. Since I have the dock, I don't even come close to running out of battery during the day so I leave it uncharged until night time again.

In this case, my Tablet is always 100% and my dock battery drains and gets recharged. I have no idea what my battery life will be later on hehe.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] fredderf81:
Lithium ion are good for about 300 to 400 charge cycles...usually closer to 300. It is a good idea to charge fully and then simply let it run down. ...i am a tech at a lathe national company. We see trouble tickets from users about batteries on laptops frequently. If the device sits plugged in all the time your battery will last a little over a year before it's about 50% effective. I have no source for my data, just experience.

Hope that helps
[Eee Pad Transformer General] fredderf81:
*sigh* lathe = local :)
[EVO Shift 4G General] gascan555:
Ok, so if you all haven't seen what Radioshack is doing, see the link below:

http://radioshackwireless.com/templ...=10059&r=radioshack&mobilesiteproductid=60144

Now it says you can trade in your Evo Shift for a discount towards the Evo 3D. Does this not confuse anyone else? The Shift hasn't been out for more than a year so how can someone upgrade their phone without renewing their contract? Does it just mention that for if you're going to shell out the $599 or so to get the phone out of contract? No one really does that so I assume not. Anyone able to help clarify? Thanks much.
[EVO Shift 4G General] crump84:
Looks like they are just going to give a $100 credit if you trade in your EVO or Shift. Which I'm assuming would be $100 off the off contract price. So you'll still be paying $499.
[EVO Shift 4G General] DWake014:
Even if I had the money I'd be wary to jump ship from the shift. Any reports on the battery life of the 3d?
[EVO Shift 4G General] crump84:
I'm sure battery life won't be any where near what I get on my Shift.

Honestly the 3D doesn't really appeal to me, pretty sure I'll be sticking with my Shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
Well dual core cpu's are suppose to eat less battery life, but with the 3D stuff I dunno how badly battery life will be affected.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
No thanks. I'll keep my Shift. Already saw a few hands on reviews. Not that impressed.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Jedman67:
is it just me or does this ad seem a bit shifty? :p
[EVO Shift 4G General] lilgrass71:
I wonder what they do with the trade ins
[EVO Shift 4G General] pwrmedia:
If the 3D comes with an acceptable radio that can transmit 3G speeds that don't make me want to pee myself everytime I try to perform basic data functions, I'd be tempted to jump early. For as many nice qualities about the Shift, I have experienced the WORST 3G speeds of any Sprint phone I've ever owned in over 11 years. Even the Hero wasn't as bad.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Enraged21:
+1 to the 3G speeds on the shift. slower than a turtle.

________

Evo SHIFT

Evervolv ROM
[EVO Shift 4G General] sconig:
It is a good deal

Radioshack always has some kind of better then the rest deal on new phones. When the Shift came out you could trade in any phone for $50 off the purchase, even a junk one. All that on top of the full upgrade price which made the phone about $50. They are probably betting alot of people bought the Shift because they didn't want to wait 6 months for anything else.

I find it funny when people say "I am not getting this phone because it has 3D", you do know that filming and taking pictures in 3D is an option. It's not like you are forced to take pictures in 3D. If you dont like it then don't use it, but the option is still there. If I didnt know there was the Motorola Photon coming out soon I would get this phone just cause it is one of the fastest phones on the market right now.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Stuke00:
Sprint will give you $115 credit... https://secure2.sprintbuyback.com/c...onid=F34BF989BC4D67B6E3251D07097ABDD4.server1
[EVO Shift 4G General] craven667:
they changed there page lol
[EVO Shift 4G General] kbrn:
I have no problems with my shift and 3g I can even watch youtube videos in hq without any lag. (not even using the "3g fix")
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
Ditto. Subsonic, Netflix, YouTube... all stream perfectly.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nautyicars:
Samsungs new app Smart View which allows you to sling video from your Samsung Smart TV to your phone. Apparently only works on the Galaxy II but people have had success with the Galaxy Tab 10.1. When loading the APK that I downloaded I get Application not installed. Any help would be cool. Ive got a Slingbox hooked up to a cablebox but the quality is horrible.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/md9ewt < Download Link

A little bit of Info about the App.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/02/samsung-smart-view-shrinks-smart-tv-down-for-your-galaxy-s-ii/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dblfstr:
Can you just post the apk here on xda?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dblfstr:
Development here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1261060
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Since there's been some interest in comparing the 2.2 ROMs with the 2.1, here are some stock eclair nandroid images based on the Cincinnati Bell 2.1 ROM that can be used in OpenRecovery without flashing SBFs. You can use these to switch between 2.1 and other 2.2 ROMs without bothering with RSD Lite/sbf_flash.

Of course gallery key, camera and FM radio work well on these. Although, I've been having market problems (paid apps fail to download). Hopefully that will resolve itself if/when market decides to self-update... In the interim, I recommend using something like Titanium Backup to migrate your paid apps.

Eclair Strikes Back v2 (2011.06.23)

This is a tweaked version of CBW_eclair_STR_U2_04_1E_1.zip with some tricks we've been using in 2.2 (expanded apns-conf.xml, JIT from FrozenEclair, memhack to move dalvik-cache to /cache, egl.cfg hack to disable software rendering).

eclair-strikes-back-v2-beta.zip (the beta is now final ;))

Changes since v1:

ext-partition support compatible with the stock221-derived ROMs*

Automatic swap support for fjfalcon's fastboot kernel

Automatic support for link2sd (either FAT extra partition or stock221's /sd-ext/link2sd method)

Additional cpu governors (conservative, interactive)

Market upgraded to 2.2.7

*dalvik-cache on /sd-ext is not supported by default on this ROM.

Previous release: Eclair Strikes Back v1

eclair-strikes-back.zip

2011-06-16 Update to fix market on ESB v1 (upgrades market to 2.2.7)

Stock 2.1 (Cincinnati Bell)

This is a rooted version of Cincinnati Bell's STR_U2_04.1E.1 with OpenRecovery support pre-installed.

CBW_eclair_STR_U2_04_1E_1.zip
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
Hey Mioze do you have the app2ext script that is in the Bluesteel rom? Might try your eclair nands with it and see what i get.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] syrenz:
I've finally successfully downloaded and installed a paid app from the market now on Eclair Strikes Back. Market is still old one though... not sure why it's taking so long to update to new one. When I did a factory reset on stock 2.1 soon after I bought the phone the market updated itself pretty quickly IIRC.

Still, this feels so smooth and fast....

EDIT:

And don't seem to be having downloading issues with any apps, be it paid or free anymore. Maybe you'll have to manually replace the market.apk with the new one though, since I'm not sure it's ever going to self-update.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Tavinsky:
And what about moving applications to the sd? available or will be applied app2sd?. Open recovery will still work? I have some applications that are supported only from 2.2, they can no longer be installed .... of course there will have to sacrifice something.

I at the continuing problems of delay in opening and closing apps, malfunction of the camera, out of trouble and delay an application to load the launcher and would return to around 2.1, but I also like the space for application installation and open recovery.

PS: It's easy to return to 2.1?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ndempist:
download on process :D

kinda miss the haptic feedback hahaha..

thx a lot Mioze..
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] syrenz:
I'm pretty sure you can only move apps to SD for 2.2... since I never used it (I never have so many apps installed at once that it's neccesary) I don't mind losing that functionality.

There are a few apps from 2.2 that I like, most notably the new gmail and youtube apps, but those are minor sacrifices for me really.

Open recovery is installed in both those links. I find the camera works much better on 2.1, seems much faster in taking and processing pictures.

In any case, it is indeed very easy to return to 2.1 and then return back to a 2.2 ROM if you don't like it. You take one of those links (I'm using eclair strikes back) and flash it through nandroid just as you would any other ROM that we have here. And you can flash back the same way if you don't like it.

Be advised, there are currently some issues around the android market for some reason (just see the posts above)... I'm thinking we might have to replace the market apk.

Anyways, I personally am loving it.

EDIT:

Oh, you might have to setup the APN's as well.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I intend to make an updated eclair-strikes-back to add app2ext support and additional governors but I probably won't have time until later in the week. I view link2sd as the eclair equivalent of froyo's native app2sd, though. Link2sd may already work with fat as the second partition, but I haven't tested it yet because of the market problem. The market problem is #1 on my list when I get time.

And yes, these 2.1 ROMs will keep OpenRecovery intact and you can just flash between 2.1 and 2.2 ROMs the same way you would switch between 2.2 ROMs.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Tavinsky:
Thanks for the work Mioze7Ae! Let's try it, you know, always gives a bit of fear making a mistake, but gradually removes the fear. I do not know that flashing. It's like applying an Update? I apply a copy nandroid?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] syrenz:
I know how you feel. I always used to have fear/apprehension when flashing a ROM. I've done it enough times now that it's all gone by now though.

Anyways:

Download the ROM. Unzip it. Copy and paste the folder (should contain 4 things in it boot.img etc...) into your SD card under OpenRecovery/Nandroid/ (if you've gone to a 2.2 ROM you should see that ROM in the same place where you're putting this). Anyways, launch open recovery and do recovery boot or hold volume up while pressing power on (if your phone is off). If you get an image and nothing happens, you may have to go into open recovery and select install recovery system before doing this - if you have a bunch of weird pictures in your gallery including Darth Maul then you don't have to worry about this. Then navigate - using the volume keys to move up and down and the camera button to select - to Nandroid, select restore, select Eclair strikes back, select restore all. Once that's done, make sure to wipe data/factory reset and then wipe/clear dalvik cache and cache. Then reboot and it should work. (First reboots are long).

You may have to setup your APN's also.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Tavinsky:
Excellent. Thanks, sounds simple ... downloading ..... then tell how it worked.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
They actually go in nandroid/openrecovery/, it's the updates.zip that go in OpenRecovery/updates/ so it's easy to remember that wrong. I'm always adb push'ing to them so I only noticed the mistake because I've got the muscle memory from typing them all the time. Gotta love the consistency ;)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khankuan:
hey mioze7ae, using it right now :) btw, is it possible to change the read_ahead settings to 2048 instead of 128? i can manually replace the file but once reboot, it changes back.

thanks!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Manual market update

I replaced /system/app/Vending.apk with the 2.2.7 com.android.vending.apk found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=875067

After doing this and rebuilding dalvik-cache I have the new market and I am able to install paid apps! I'll make an update for it tomorrow, I have to crash.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
Two things you can get from market before you flash. APN backup/ restore and SD speed Increase. You can backup your APNs and then once you get to the eclairs, restore them. SD Speed Increase will kick up your SD cache to 2048, instead of 128. Both are free.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] syrenz:
Much appreciated... Didn't know there was such an app and it's a pain to re-enter all that stuff... :p
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] androidlover123:
I just want to check; is it completely safe to remove those wierd pics in the gallery?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] syrenz:
Yes. But if you have to use open recovery for whatever reason, you'll need them. You can either click install recovery as needed (which creates the pics) and delete them after, or the best thing to do is get an app that just hides the pics from gallery - so they are there when you need them, but don't interfere. I saw an app "Gallery Excluder" or something floating around in the XDA Android Apps section - that would work. Or a gallery like QuickPic let's you hide things as well.

EDIT:

Nevermind, Gallery Excluder hides folders only. There are other apps though, I believe.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Just an update on progress with ESB

I've done some testing and Link2SD already works with the released eclair-strikes-back but currently only when using FAT for the second partition.

To get ext support in, I'm trying to get the darktremor a2sd scripts to work. They look high quality and robust and should handle swap gracefully when booting the custom kernel as well (current status--some rare hung boots with a flaky SD card when using the latest beta scripts, will try the stable release next). There's also a GUI in the market for managing the SD card (currently only Froyo+, I'm inquiring whether the developer can add eclair support).
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
I am hoping that the ext will come through. If I am using the sd-ext/app folder on the Steelblue ROM, can I leave all my apps in there and flash your eclair with ext support (when ready) or will I have to use Titanium-migrate? I would think that it really wouldn't matter for most of the apps, except FroYo specific ones like Flash 10.3 but not sure.

p.s. Are you going to call your next version "Return of the Eclair"?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] sohrab.naushad:
MD5 Check failed. Does this have something to do with the fact that I bought my phone in the middle east?
[General Questions and Answers] nibras_reeza:
So,

Korean and Chinese working but Indic languages(more specifically Sinhala and Tamil) are not viewable even on web browser.

Any fixes? The only workaround was to enable remote rendering in Opera Mini.
[General Questions and Answers] nagabushan.c:
Even I'm also desperate to get the feature. Still no luck.
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Hi guys,

I've been changing roms on my phone lately and found out that there were some roms that have some apps on the rom that I don't want on it.

Or just the other way around, that it doesn't have some apps on it that I do want when I install a new rom.

After a while I got irritated by this and thought that I could create a program that could help people like me by adding/removing apps from the rom without diving into the rom zip file and maybe delete files that I shouldn't touch.

It's finally finished and it works, i've tested it on my HTC Desire multiple times now :D.

let me know what you think! And if you have any tips/questions check my website to get my e-mail address!

you can find more info/screenshots at beardman.eu

And here's the Download link!

Updates:

V1.5

- It's even bigger

- You are able to change your boot animation

- You are able to change sounds (Alarms, notifications, ringtones)

- Code optimization

V1.4

- It’s a bit bigger

- You can now maximize the window

- It no longer looks like it’s frozen when you unpack/save a rom

- Bar at the top of the program with the “settings”

- Progress bar on the bottom to show the unpacking/saving progress

- Report bug option for when you’ve found something that isn’t working!

- Code optimization

V1.3

- Extra tab for some settings which can be turned on and off as you wish

- Changelog is now included

- Check for update is included

- You can open the last rom as how you left it, no need to drop it on there again

- Automatically remove the safe to remove apps

- Automatically load previous edited rom

- Small bugfixes

V1.2

- Information is shown while extracting rom

- When saving rom, a location and file name is asked

- When right clicking on an item in the System list a pop-up will show which allows the user to mark an app as safe/unsafe to remove

- Items will be colored red or green or black depending on if they are safe or unsafe to remove

- Option to delete all the safe to remove items

V1.1

- Added compatible with update-script

Todo:

- Save state

- get your own list of apps to remove automatically

This program is supposed to work on most devices, if you've tested it and it works let me know!

Working devices:

- HTC Desire
[Desire General] Lothaen:
is that like the rom kitchen?

but works on windows??
[Desire General] Chrusb:
I don't really know, I haven't looked into it. The only thing you can change so far is adding and removing apps to the system and user partition. If you have a tip on what I should add, let me know!

Yes, it works on windows.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
I haven't really dabbled in it much - but when i did it looked like you needed a linux VM/boot to play around with it much...

one thing that might be sensible is to try and code in a flag to identify apps that shouldn't be removed, because of fc etc.? even if they are just flagged as italics or something with a warning that they may cause fc if you don't have a default launcher or something :)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Well, it works on windows because you'll need to download a rom first, and then you open the rom zip file with this program and you'll just basically edit the files in the rom zip file!

Thanks, that's a good one! I'll look into it soon!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
something like this is always good for getting rid of htc stocks (stock.apk and the widget too com.htc.stockwidget.apk - oh and plurk too nowadays) :)

and the apps that annoy you because you replace them instantly with an updated/different version from market, like quickoffice, the google apps that are out of date very quickly...

if you can make the app recommend ones not to remove, perhaps its worth highlighting ones that are recommended to remove too? :)

list could be provided quickly by people using the app as to which ones are commonly removed :)

edit: especially as you have a nice little log of apps that are removed:
[Desire General] Lothaen:
Think you might need a save as button or something though

also i am getting an error when saving:

was playing about with this rom if it helps: Cool-AceS-v7.zip

--- oh

and if it helps, it might be an idea to put a 'please wait' box popup or something when loading a rom - it took a minute or so when i tried it - and the app window hangs (as well as the explorer one I dragged the .zip from) - if a progress bar can be made that'd be better, but it'd be good just to tell people that it's doing something and not just crashing :)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Thanks for the error report, gonna look into it in a hour or so!

Think that's a good idea, i'll see what I can do for it :D.

-edit:

Found what the problem is, currently it only works when a rom is using the updater-script, not the update-script.

Think i'll be able to fix it this week :D.
[Desire General] Meaple:
Not to disappoint you or anything but what you can do with this program you can do it anyway. I was hoping for a proper full on program really, not just deleteing applications. I can do this anyway by opening rom.zip and deleteing the apps myself.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
Probably a nice little app for newbies though.

Had another idea, to set your own list of defined apks to remove so you can have quick open and deletion (and addition) of apk list, and recompile of a zip.
[Desire General] Chrusb:
I'm not disappointed by your comment, and I know that (:

What would you like to see this program do? Any tips?
[Desire General] f0xy:
But in the outset its doing what he intended it to do :)
[Desire General] Lothaen:
indeed.

not everyone is familiar and happy to start ripping open zips and deleting stuff so for those people this will be a nice way to get stuff done without the fear of screwing it up :)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
And you can add apps to the user data partition. If the rom hasn't included the data install in the updater-script that will be added :D!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
does the download link include the fix to actually recompile the rom/zip now?
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Not yet, if I have some time I'll try to fix it today!
[Desire General] jullman:
thank you for this program, I'll try it
[Desire General] Chrusb:
New version is now online!

Now compatible with update-script

Check main post for link!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
when saving I got the error 'rom file is in use by another process' or similar

I guess that's because I opened it in the app and it is trying to save over the top?

'save as' feature would fix it :)

or is it cause the .zip is in the same folder as the .exe ?
[Desire General] Lothaen:
yes it is.

a save as and/or an option to rename the .zip when recompiling the zip would be best probably - or an error that says 'do not have the .zip you want to edit in the same folder as the .exe' :)
[Desire General] jokk3:
if you remove alot of apps for example stock.apk etc. can i save that somehow in the program and if there are any updates of the rom i can open the new rom zip in the program and remove those apps i did in the first way...
[Desire General] Lothaen:
bit like this suggestion? :) You probably said it better but it's what I meant
[Desire General] jokk3:
oh i didnt get that, thought i was explaning badly tho... my eng isnt the best...
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Hm, I kinda knew that was going to happen! Gonna make a save as feature in it soon! Also, the recommended for removal etc is also almost done :D
[Desire General] Lothaen:
nice work :)

as a workaround you just don't have the zip and exe in the same place :)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
New version is online!

Check the main post!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
nice work - is that red for unsafe, green for safe, black for unknown i guess? :)

(you don't get that in opening the zip yourself!)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Exactly, red is for unsafe, green for safe, black for unknown.

What do you mean by your last sentence?