yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] CheesyNutz:
lol 3.0 was just released a few hours ago give it some time

from my phone duh
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] polo79:
ok. was I rude?
[Nexus S General] rault18:
As I've been reading through this part of xda dev I found out that tons of peeps are having issues with the back button been either non responsive or works randomly

I don't use my search button at all...My question is....is there a way to reassign the functions of those buttons and pretty much reverse them??(back for search and search for back)

Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] CrazyPeter:
I don't understand how if Android is Opensource and borrows code from Linux kernel and other OpenSource projects, how Google can legally hold back the honeycomb sourcecode?

I'm not really interested in Honeycomb source myself, nor the OS dev scene, but what I DO care about, is that some of my favorite apps are broken on my Tablet, and the developers all point the finger at Google, saying the flash API changed in Honeycomb, and they need the source to get it working.

The biggest broken apps for me are:

Opera Mobile 11

BBC iPlayer App

Opera even come out and tell us why Flash does not work on Opera Mobile 11 on Honeycomb:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.opera.browser&feature=search_result

(What's New Tab)

"Flash not supported on Android 3.x due to Google not releasing necessary platform code"
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SilentMobius:
"Open source" doesn't mean what you think it means.

The Linux kernel source is available under the GPLv2, this mean that is you ship a product you must provide the source, hence its the device manufacturers responsibility to give us the kernel source because it's them we buy the product from.

The Android framework and the Dalvik virtual machine are all available under an Apache licence, this allows anyone to take the source code and make a closed proprietary product and/or addition (Like Blur/Sense/Touchwiz) without this Android would not have caught on anywhere near as fast, but it also means that there is no requirement for future derivative products to have source code released. Even if the person doing that is Google.

All the API's that people _should_ be using are documented, the problem is that the products you mention are trying to mimic the native browser and use internal only method calls, if you step out of the approved API box then you have problems like this.

Why BBC iPlayer needs flash I don't know, all 3.1 tablets can play the flashhigh and flashhd (h.264) iPlayer streams natively I use get-iplayer and transfer the files to my Transformer for viewing and it works beautifully. I guess the Android app team are just lazy (or iPhone developers who don't know Android very well)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] brunes:
While this is true, it is not the real reason why Google can hold back the souce code. Google owns the copyright to DalVik and the Android platform. All contributions checked into the Android tree in the end have their copyright assigned to Google, regardless of who wrote them.

Because they own the copyright, they can do whatever the heck they want with the code, whenever they want. A copyright owner can not violate their own license, the license is only applicable for other people (who have no copyright to the code) to use it in their projects.

It's a subtle but very important distinction, because even if Android was all GPL they still would not have to be releasing any changes, because they own it.

The only part of the code Google is obligated to release, is their kernel changes (because it is Linux, which is GPL and they don't have the full copyright to) - and they do release these, always.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] seshmaru:
Actually no, just because they hold the rights doesn't mean they don't have to obey the license. It's just that Android is released under the Apache license which states that source must be released, but doesn't say WHEN the source has to be released, so they can hold it back as long as they deem fit.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] foxmeister:
Actually, no!

The ASL is not a copy left licence, so if Google so wish they do not have to release the source code for Honeycomb ever. In much the same way, I can download Android code from AOSP, create my own unique version, and I don't have to contribute my code back to AOSP, nor do I need to supply it to anyone on demand (with the exception of GPL'd kernel code of course).

Regards,

Dave
[Eee Pad Transformer General] seshmaru:
It's correct that it is not copyleft, and I was aware of this. All android releases however are released under the Apache license, which means the source for android itself has to be there, but any further modifications can use whatever they want. So yes google has to make Honeycomb open source eventually since it was released under the Apache license. Any derivatives of honeycomb wouldn't need to provide the source though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] foxmeister:
No they don't! That is the *whole* point. Honeycomb, at this point in time, is *not* an open source project because no source has been released, and the license of its antecedents is not a copyleft licence.

Honeycomb is, broadly speaking, a derivative of an earlier Android build (Froyo/Gingerbread whatever), and in this respect it is no different to say HTC's Sense builds which are also not open source.

Regards,

Dave
[Eee Pad Transformer General] david279:
Hey ice cream will be open sourced. I don't think they want honeycomb plopped onto phones so they won't push it to aosp. Ice Cream will be a hybrid.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] case0:
Have also wondered this myself.. but reading all of this has made me more confused than I was before.. who's right? :S
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SilentMobius:
It's correct that Google hold the copyright for the bulk of the android framework, and as the copyright owners they are not subject to license terms, so they don't need to release anything but that only works for Google products. If the licence had been GPL then manufacturers would need to supply source with their products, not Google but ASUS/Samsung/HTC/etc/etc.

Short version: Google don't need to release anything, app developers shouldn't use internal APIs and rely on having platform source to make things work.

That said I want to change some of the browser behaviour and plumb back in handling for the .mkv file extension (because the container parsing is already in there) So I'd love to get my hands on the HC source, no matter how messy.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Divine_Madcat:
And yet, it didn't seem to worry them when the first flurry of tablets came out with a phone (Froyo/GB) OS. Sorry, but to me, that excuse doesn't fly.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] seshmaru:
Actually they did worry, that's exactly why they made honeycomb you derptard and exactly the reason they aren't releasing the source to honeycomb.

And yes they don't want manufacturers shoehorning a tablet OS into a phone just so they can say OH OUR PHONE HAS ANDROID 3.0 INSTEAD OF 2.3.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Divine_Madcat:
Derptard... certainly a new one for the books. haha
[General Questions and Answers] alextan90818:
HELP ME PLEASEEE :confused::confused:

I tried rooting my phone by following the instruction

(Download the unrEVOked modified USB driver and expand it somewhere you will remember.

Turn off your phone, then boot it into the HBOOT menu by holding power and volume down.

On your phone, you will have to select HBOOT USB at that menu by pressing volume down four times, then power. Wait until the screen flashes through an “SD Checking” message before pressing buttons; otherwise, the phone will ignore keypresses.

Connect the phone to your Windows machine with a USB cable and wait for the phone to say HBOOT USB PLUG on screen.

Open Device Manager.

Click Start, then right click on Computer, then click Properties, then click Device Manager.

Under Other devices, you should now see the Android 1.0 device.

Right click on Android 1.0 and click Update Driver Software:

Click on Browse my computer for driver software.

Click on Browse and select the Android USB Driver folder on on your computer, click ok, then click next.

You should get a status bar indicating that the driver is installing. If you get any warnings, just click Ok.

Your driver should install.

Click Close and make sure Android Bootloader Interface is listed under Android Phone.)

But after i successfully update my driver from Android 1.0 to Android bootloader interface, i dont know what to do just now and i select fastboot from my phone. Im not sure whether my phone isit rooted?

Anyone help please :x

:confused::confused::confused::confused:
[General Questions and Answers] Maximilian Mary:
Now that you've connected the phone to your computer, the next step is to do the actual rooting.

If you have an Evo, check the stickies in the Evo forum for more details.
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
Hey does anyone know about a video player that plays VIDEO_TS.....I need to play some of my movies....?!
[Acer Iconia A500] amtzone:
look for MoboPlayer in the market....the best so far for me..:D:D:D
[Acer Iconia A500] Jeffrey5088:
I'm using RockPlayer. Sweet~ And stable. Able to play Video_TS files like VOB and even rmvb.
[Acer Iconia A500] t-dkp:
MOBO I use it works very well and is available on the MARKET

François
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
I used rock player.....it doesn't play the video_ts folder as a whole...i have to select files....gonna try mobo now.....and the movie has a menu in the beginning...so how to select to play movie or view scenes...??..??
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
I tried mobo....didn't work out for me...it cannot play the video_ts folder as a whole!
[Acer Iconia A500] project.in.process:
i have alot of movies with -TS files, too

so this is something i'm gonna be looking into as well. i thought Mobo was gonna be the solution :(
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
anyone tried VPlayer ?
[Acer Iconia A500] bdwinsalt:
I have. Plays AVI very well.
[Acer Iconia A500] Bec07:
Try Mplayer. If it will be as good as the pc one it will rock. SO far it's a bit rough but will work where others fail.

Watch out what settings you tick, not all processing methods are supported by tegra.
[Acer Iconia A500] ahsya:
I used MoboPlayer and when plays DivX video, the movie plays but the screen getting so dark. I almost couldn't see the movie.

MP4s or MPGs plays normally.

Any help?
[Acer Iconia A500] Bec07:
Try RockPlayer, seems the best so far.
[Acer Iconia A500] sweborn:
You don't answer his question.... he asked for a player that plays vob files in a folder. Not the best media player.
[Acer Iconia A500] scottxray:
moboplayer dark screen

I have the same problem. mobo goes dark whenever I start a video..however the trick is the control screen for moboplayer that displays once after you install it and the correct codec.

Brightness control is done by using your finger to slide up/down on the left side of the screen ( landscape mode ).

volume is on the screen right side ( up /down) and forward back in the video is at the top ( left right)

After I reinstalled it and actually read what the control screen says instead of just clicking on pass I find it to be satisfactory to just bring the brightness back up.

I have only had my A500 for 2 days so I'm new. Hope this helps.
[Acer Iconia A500] Bec07:
Neither did you, so stop being useless.

PS. I did mention mPlayer a few posts back, if that doesn't do it...
[Acer Iconia A500] jbrownusn:
I favor Buzz however I haven't tried much else...
[Acer Iconia A500] arifi1:
I'm new to android.Is it impossible to install movie codecs on android tablets so that we can play all movie formats.Like .ts .mkv etc.
[Acer Iconia A500] Bec07:
I hope you don't torture yourself with updates on your pc when there's VLC and SMplayer.

No, one size should fit all, look for mplayer or rockplayer.
[Acer Iconia A500] arifi1:
Thanks.I downloaded moboplayer and it seems for me better than other players i tried.
[Acer Iconia A500] NotBillable:
is there a vdo player that was built from ground up specific for the tegra processor as opposed to a regular android smartphone player?
[Acer Iconia A500] arifi1:
After some days of using Moboplayer,i found out the movies lose sync with sound after a couple of minutes playing a movie.

Has anyone else experienced this too?
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
Try vplayer guys.....the new updated version plays video_ts(in parts).....
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kooksta:
I had simply honey 3.3 installed and I was trying to flash a gb bootloadrr to get rid of the rainbows at boot and when I got into dl mode and the whole odin process it was going well until I got the BIG RED FAIL!!! SO I unplugged it thinking it would be ok since Ive done it before. But now my phone doesn't turn on at all doesn't charge tried 3 button combo tried everything!! Except the jig! Can someone help me please?? Im... one sad panda..:-( using my girlfriends phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
i hard bricked a few month ago when odin froze, i thought id just get the phone ! pc screen like i did first time it froze so i unplugged but it wouldnt do anything apart from get quite hot when it stayed plugged in

i tried everything for like a week but still nothing, i tried a home-made jig aswell but that didnt do anything either (probably just bad making skills, cos it didnt work when i soft bricked other day) anyway in the end i just took it to a phone shop and they fixed it

wasnt expensive though and it took them like a day
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sdobron:
You're sol until you can get to a shop with jtag. You know the risks with bootloader flashing and got bit. Phone is dead if you did in fact have a bad bootloader flashed. You can try removing battery, external as, and sim then replacing them and try to get back into download mode. Unlikely though.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nakagusukumike:
try this:

turn the phone on until the battery runs out.

repeat

repeat

repeat

pull the battery.

volume up and down, put the battery in, plug in the USB cable (at no point do you touch the power button on the phone).

Launch ODIN on your computer.

Your phone at the Phone!PC screen?

ODIN look like it's connected?

Try to flash in ODIN just like that.

I flashed a new 2.2 image to my phone from the phone!PC screen before, not realizing that it was actually in download mode, just didn't look like it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kooksta:
Thanks for your replies. The phone doesn't turn on period. Gonna look around for a phone I guess. Im actually at T-Mobile looking for a new phone.. I had good times with this phone... :'(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
i got mine fixed for £15 thats like $25

dont know how much it will be wherever you can get it fixed though
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moped_Ryder:
FYI - for those reading this -

If you get an error from flashing the boot loaders don't reboot / turn off phone!. You also remembered to uncheck auto reboot right?

If you get a fail you need to unplug / replug and try again while in download mode.

per the bootloader OP:

"Its not a problem really... Disconnect and reconnect your phone, in the same Download mode, restart ODIN and reflash the tar file. Please do not turn off your phone, or change mode or remove battery. It might not return to life. This is the sole reason why I have asked you to uncheck Auto-reboot."
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] connexion2005:
Pm sent. I can repair this with JTAG. Anyone else in a similar issue just PM me for help...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iynfynity:
wow! this is genius!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kooksta:
Farewell vibrant... We had a good run. :,)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sajjan:
post your average battery life...i want some tips from the ones who have best battery lifes..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] digkong:
to get the best juice out of ur o1..

use devoif froyo-final..

i got about 3 and a half battery..:D
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sajjan:
3 and a half days ?? are you kidding??
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mkoyskip:
My battery only lasts maybe up to 12 hours... if I'm lucky

Tried removing widgets, using a batter saver... tried charging the battery, deleting the battery stats file, discharging it recharging it... shortened display on time, turned down volumes

I don't know what's up? I've tried wiping and reinstalling ROM's... I don't even use it as much as I'd like because of the battery life

Optimus V (VM670)

AOSPmod 20110601

16gb sdcard w/1gb ext4 partition
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ccdreadcc:
Don't use battery savers, they increase it drain...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Somyab:
Mine on devoid froyo only lasts one day..tried wiping battery stats many times..but same result..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Vip_blast:
Mine is on devoid.final with franco.kernel v16.1, and I get about one and a half day of battery on average use. I play at times, send quite a number of texts and make a call once or twice a day. I developed the habit of bringing my USB cable to charge my phone at work now. :/
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sajjan:
my phone doesnt last even for about 18 hours if i am using it on average basis by which i mean 1 hour gaming...2 hours of time pass by simply changing settings and all...but i do text quite often and have around 100 apps installed on my phone...will it help if i keep only which are necessary and use titanium backup for others which i only use once in a while.....

my last hopes are on froyo final and the above mentioned solution...i am going to try it soon...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Layio:
In my experience most of the battery takes 3G mode, especially when active HSDPA. If I am using only 2G mode phone can withstand more than 2 days, which is a good result, but in the 3G just 1,5 day. Remember that at the time did not use the Internet to disable the Internet connection, it should help you.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] jan.petras:
20-24 hours.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] divyanshu308:
I'm using nessy right now and getting the best battery.

I call a lot so this is the right rom for me after around two to three hours of talk I'm still left with some juice. Turn my sync and use apn off application , least screen display brightness got a widget for turning it high when I need it. Use mostly wifi for internet.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] FnH84:
on CM7... 12 hours and it's dead. without wifi
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sajjan:
well my battery life has improved by these steps:

1. Wiped all my data,cache,battery stats ,everything(though i don't think this is necessary).

2.Flashed froyo final.(I am now on devoid forever and will test my battery life on it)

3. Checked 2g networks only in settings-networks-mobile networks.(Dunno how much that helped me :D)

4.Install only apps which are necessary (i have around 50 installed)..and the rest you can restore via titanium when you need it....

and now my phone eats just around 1% per hour of idle time....(it's improved)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] haroonak:
I get around 2 days backup on Devoid final with franco 16.1. Only 2G, 1-2 hours calls, sms, bit of wifi tethering, Browsing on edge for 1-2 hours,facebook, and no gaming:D

In Cm7 maximum around 20hours that too without wifi, or any fancy stuff. Just 30minutes browsing on 2g.:rolleyes:
[Optimus One, P500, V General] digkong:
Dude uninstall..that watchdog thing it runs in the background and eats up battery... don't use any kind of app..that is so called battery saver.. they should rather be called battery eaters... and yeah it is always recommended.. to wipe cache.. that saves battery..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] soberspine:
IMO it is hard to compare battery use when the phone is active because it depends on too many factors: widgets, wi-fi usage, 3g/2g, app, brightness, etc.

What can I tell is that my phone in sleep use 0.6315% battery/hour

Anyhow I charge my phone every day because I play a lot with it.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mprou:
I'm using OpenOptimus 1.172.1 and franco's kernel 16.1

My routine usage goes like this: 6am to 7pm (13h) plays non stop music (fmradio or poweramp). No wifi no data, 2g only.

During that time, I use 3g data for browsing, chat, emails and youtubing for a couple of hours more or less

7pm to 10pm: 2g only, no data, wifi on. I do a few browsing around 30min top, synch stuff with dropbox etc

Finally after 16-17h of usage it has around 30% - 40% of juice left in it. Then I put it for charge, go to sleep and start over again next day:p

On weekends it's a completely different story. Especially when i'm fooling around with GB roms i might have to charge it 2 times a day:D
[Optimus One, P500, V General] hosseinriasati:
My battery

Hi

My battery lasted 2 days on CyanogenMod7

Now that I have Gingerbread 2.3.4 by andy572, it lasts 4 days on a minimal usage :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] jan.petras:
That's weird. I flashed and reflashed andy's rom two times and I had the same issue. 10% battery drain every 2 hours. IN IDLE.

That meant my phone was dead in 20h in idle mode, 12-14 hours if used for texting and calls.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] zsnorbi:
I am also using Andy's rom and kernel, with a normal use, daily 30-40 minutes with wifi on, 30-40 minutes talk and 9-10 sms. I mention that 3g is off data is usually off so since the last full recharge passed 3 days and i am still at 28%. :D performance is also great. Love this rom
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Kurmashev:
Only WiFi Internet + Calls + SMS = 3 days
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ViTAMiNCHEG:
40h uptime and still have 59% of battery on andy's GB rom.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] haroonak:
Man im shifting to that....
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sajjan:
void# forever..is quite a relief....in 8 hours idle time it used just 2% of battery...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ViTAMiNCHEG:
You won't be disappointed. Go for it :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] hosseinriasati:
Vitamincheg, do you use Andy's kernel? Or Franco? or mic?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] gkarthik16:
I've tried andy's ROM, Mik's ROM, openOptimus and void #forever.. I get one and a half days of battery backup on an average on all these ROMs. In a single day, I text a lot, make 5 to 6 calls of around 10 mins duration, average of 4 hours of internet usage (2G data) and around 3 hours of monkeying around with the phone :D
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ViTAMiNCHEG:
The answer on your question is in my signature. :) Yes, I'm using andy's kernel which comes built-in his GB rom. ;)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] cupliz:
More or less 15hour

-On void. 4eva.

-oc on 480/748.

-2G on standby.

-3G 2-4hr total if i need it.

-Music player 2-3hour with earphone.

-not using wifi or gps.

-game angry bird and other small game on 1-2hr.

I think its good batt drain for 2.3.x rom... with very performance..

Sent from my LG-P500
[Optimus One, P500, V General] :
I don't get it why it failed for me. Andy said "it's a user problem"

But... I had nothing installed....
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kkevin94:
Anyone wanna help me? I have no idea why on every Gingerbread ROM I get 10-13 hours with NO USE. I have tried with and without wifi. Wiped battery stats dozens of times. About 20 texts a day. maybe 5 minutes of talk time. I look at my Battery Use, and it alwasy says Cell Standby and Android System are using the most. I have background sync off. WHAT IS IT!!!!?????!?!?!?!??!!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!!?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Kira.Lawliet:
On void.#forever I got 4% drain on battery after 8hrs of idle overnight with normal settings (2g+3g signals, wifi off, data off, background data sync on, regular background app settings,)

After 1-2hrs of wifi browsing + gaming + other stuffs and 4-5hrs nonstop background music w/headphones and a couple of sms now and then my phone can easily reach a day and a half's use.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] digkong:
Dude it might be some apps that run in background and eat batter.. get android assistant and watch dog and see what is eating up ur battery Coz according to ur usage it should easily last two days..