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[General Topics] Mr.whiskers:
Hey guys, so I saw that N64oid version 2.0 has been released on slideme today and i was wondering what you guys think of it? Do you notice any speed inprovments? Any games that didn't used to work but now do? Totally mind blowing?! Worth the wait? What do you think?
[General Topics] matb321:
n64oid 2.0

I dont know but I wish I didn't buy it the first time on the android market just to have to buy it again... :(
[General Topics] Mr.whiskers:
Yeah but its only 4 dollars...thats less then one meal at McDonalds!
[General Topics] ante0:
But still... It's not like you go to McDonalds, buy a meal, then they come and take your meal away forcing you to buy another one?
[General Topics] t600p36:
i regret buying it too on the android market $6 wasted
[Thunderbolt General] jgalan14:
Man I finally got off 4G LTE and I saw the new 3g icon, I think it looks ugly , who else thinks the same?

Lol I know I notice the smallest things ha ha plus I have nothing else to do today till later on... Lmao
[Thunderbolt General] g00s3y:
Yo dat icon iz phat

They made it ugly so you never want to leave 4G LTE.
[Thunderbolt General] setexascustoms:
It matches the 4G icon now...
[Android Apps and Games] ryanjoehere:
Hi all,

Need some help.

I have installed Droidwall and at the same time has added L2TP/IPSec PSK VPN.

May i know what are the processes / apps to allow in the Droidwall so as to connect the vpn successfully.

i tried many combinations in the droidwall without success...:D:D

and at the end i resort to turning off droidwall while connecting the vpn...

please help...thanks in advance
[Android Apps and Games] ryanjoehere:
anyone can help?
[Android Apps and Games] AiFJ:
The same problem. Has anyone solved?
[Android Apps and Games] abrakadabra_srb:
I have cm7 with pershoot kernel and in droidwall i have vpn networking and android system which includes vpn services set to enabled and my vpn works.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingme23:
Someone pointed me to the MikG thread to figure out how to solve the issue of not being able to download apps from the market but there is hundreds and hundreds of pages, can someone link me to a fix or explain it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I would go into applications, clear the cache, force stop the market, attempt to download, or re-flash the rom.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] koornneef:
Name: Tiny eBook Reader, Mango release.

Tiny eBook Reader allows you to read eBooks with the formatting you choose. We've put most of the features that were in the Windows Mobile version and made a Windows Phone 7 reader. We've taken the lastest submission to Marketplace (it's still going through testing) and compiled it for Mango.

It has most of the fixes that will be in the NoDo Marketplace version, but is compiled for 7.1 beta 2 and uses Mango extended Back tile.

Pin the app and it will display the last opened eBook on the back of the tile.

Another app to show off the cool new features of Mango.

Any bugs, feedback, please email using address in app About, and put MANGO in the subject.

(these are screencaps from the emulator, with photo book backgrounds.)

Download Link:

*This will not run on NoDo devices*

Anyone interested in playing with this version of Tiny eBook Reader for Mango you can download the XAP here:

http://www.goldencrater.com/Tiny_eBook_Reader-Mango.xap

Of course, "since only registered developers have Mango", you'll know how to sideload the app. And, until Marketplace starts accepting Mango verisons for submission...

Enjoy!!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] dkp1977:
Nice, I'll give that a shot tomorrow. I have already tried the version that's available on the marketplace, but opening a book always results in a sudden close of the app. Could be related to the mango beta, so with this new build I'll find out if that's the case or not.

[Edit]

Even with the new version I still can't read any books. :(
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] biper4x4:
Woow great application. Can't wait for newer version.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] dalmate:
which formats your app support?

I need reading prc format, can it read that format?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] koornneef:
@dkp1977 : thanks for working back and forth with us to get those bugs out of the code!

@biper4x4 : thanks.

@dalmate : You can't read PRC directly. The converter we have will soon support .ePub. However, using the site below, you can convert PRC to LIT and then drop the LIT into the converter tool that will drop the book onto your Dropbox account for you. A 2 step process, I know. Not ideal, but we're working on adding more formats.

http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/ebook/EPUB-to-LIT.html
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] dkp1977:
You're welcome. I'm enjoying using Tiny eBook Reader. :) Gotta find out though on which step all the umlauts get lost. Either it happens when converting from ePub to LIT (which I currently do with Calibre) or with the Tiny eBook Converter tool.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] koornneef:
Update available.

Update to the Mango beta of Tiny eBook Reader with all the fixes and changes made in the Marketplace (NoDo) version.

Same URL as above.

Also updates Dropbox, Coding4Fun, and a few other DLLs for Mango compatibility -- so all the prompt and password boxes should work again without crashing.

Now supports the back-tile (as before) and fast task switching.

Again, this version is MANGO only. It's also the pubCenter supported (free) version.

You can play this version 'till December. By then, Mango should be out (for everyone but out AT&T Focus!)

BIG thanks to all those submitting problem reports, files that don't work, and general comments!

ePub conversion is causing grief. Keep finding files that don't work. Sorry if it's taking a bit, but better to get it right than buggy!

Have a good one!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] adiliyo:
so what format works best with the reader? i can convert my files, but would like to know what would be best to convert to?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] koornneef:
The Windows Phone 7 version takes only .TeBR format directly.

The short answer is: If you can download a LIT file directly, go for that file and open it in the Converter.

Most formats compress as a stream, and so become slow near the end of a large book. TeBR format is uses chunkified compression to provide fast response even in very large books.

The converter program will best convert .LIT files into TeBR with Table of Contents, Cover Image, etc. all intact. That c++ code for LIT has been in the Windows Mobile version of the Reader for years and is pretty robust and stable.

In fact, you should be able to 'Open' a LIT file via File Explorer or Internet Explorer and it will open in the converter, convert and arrive in your DropBox.

But you can also build a book by dropping several HTML or TXT files into the converter. It will treat each file as a chapter in the Table of Contents. Drop a PNG or JPG as the first item and that will be the cover image.

FictionBook (FB2) is the least supported and converts the text and contents only. No images.

When ePub is (finally) supported, it should be on par with LIT files.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] keres7:
Hi koornneef,

the app is really nice but not so the lit-tebr converter (I presume that the problem is the converter).

I'm Italian thus in my language there are a lot of chars like à, ò, ù, etc. and they are not visible (accented vowels are replaced by spaces) in the final converted ebook.

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] koornneef:
Hi keres7

We've come across a few ways that the text in LIT files are encoded.. Maybe a new one, or we broke the code somewhere.

If it's possible, could you send a copy of one of the LIT files to support at

info

@

goldencrater.com

I'll get one of the guys to take a look at it. If you're having a problem, then others are too.

thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] keres7:
koornneef, I sent to the email indicated two LIT files.

Let me know if you have received them and if you are experiencing the same issue.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sensboston:
Truly I don't see any reason to create e-reader without epub support. We are living in XXI century now; time of txt, asc, tec etc. etc. texts is gone (thanks, Lord!) epub + OPDS - what's how the e-reading suppose to work today.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Pharmako:
We all appreciate developer's hard work and are grateful and donate / buy when available, however with all the converting, I just don't feel moved to support this app. I would like to have full .rtf, .fb2, .lit, .txt, .pdf etc support without converting. All my ebooks which I enjoyed when back at WM 6.5 are either .rtf, .fb2 or .txt. :( I hope that a newer version of this reader would support them all. If I missed something regarding formats on previous posts, please let me know.

P.S. I don't mean any disrespect or harm with my comments.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] koornneef:
@Pharmako

Thanks for your comments.

No disrespect taken. Feedback from users is appreciated. We're looking to make the best product you people want to use.

It's been a few hard decisions with many internal arguments. Let me outline some of the thoughts and maybe with user feedback we can come to solutions that everyone likes.

In PocketPC/WM5+ it was easy to support file types. Everyone had access to the file system -- users and code alike. Not so in WP7, so we had to create a way to get the books from your desktop to the phone.

At first we were going to use the Tine Reader Online servers to handle books. So, the decision was made that if we had to push the files into the cloud, we might as well just convert them into internal format. After talking with users, we decided to go first with a non-subscription (free) model -- hence Dropbox (SkyDrive was not available due to its Terms.)

Even Zune and iTunes will convert some content before placing on the device. Not that what they are doing is right for everyone, but this does seem to be the trend in the market.

Once we removed all the logic for HTML, paragraph reflowing (now done in the converter), and LIT, we found that we could repaginate a book almost 3 times faster. Change the font, and jump to the end of the book and you'll see what I mean. The reading paginates one page in front of your current page. If you jump ahead, it's got to figure out all the pages that come before.

We also handle Unicode character storage better than HTML, ePub and LIT do – it’s just in the way we store it.

We figured (originally) that if you needed a program to get the files to the service then who cared what format they were actually read in. And the program could later add new formats (as we did with adding ePub after the release.) I suppose with Dropbox, it's a little more obvious what we're doing now.

I was just looking at the converter and there are a few things broken. You should be able to open a ePub or LIT directly from the web and have it convert and put in Dropbox -- or even double click a file on the local drive. It looks like this isn't working. Also, the 'open' dialog doesn’t list FB2, ePub and LIT formats. These will have to be fixed.

Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?

Do we need to add bulk operations? (either multiple file drop or select a folder?)

Text is a bit harder to streamline. You may want to include author and a cover image. You'll definitely was the title. Too often I see text files as BOOK0023a.txt or some such. Not much help if we use the file name as a title. Thoughts?

We might be able to figure out the MOBI format. Trying to choose between that and Palmdoc/PDB. These can be all added without changing the reader itself.

What are the thoughts on this board?

BTW. The reader is being localized into 6 languages. Just waiting on the translations.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Pharmako:
Thank you for the reply. I think that I got a grip on how things go on WP7 after your thoughts. I think that, yes a: "Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?" would help, I mean if the converter is built in within the app in WP.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sulehri:
How can I sync ebooks with my Windows Phone?? Is the dropbox sync the only way??
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] SincereSoprano:
So where can we get the books to use with app. I can only find like amazon ebooks and what not.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] DavidinCT:
Can this read PDF books ? I need something better than the Adobe PDF reader....

How do I upload my books to this ?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] henry084:
Well, the e-book conversion tools seemed to encounter errors with Chinese or Japanese ebooks conversion.........though the software in WP7 was able to show Chinese or Japanese fonts.

Hope there will be workarounds on the software.

(By directly clicking the .epub file will perform the conversion, however all characters are changed to 8bit ASCII characters, this will make the converted books simply unreadable.)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] pomszi5:
does it have search function?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PHug:
Hi.

Have Boostmobile Epic that came unrooted.

Downloaded drivers and phone shows in device manager under com ports.

Tried 11 USB cables then saw a video from qbking and bought a blackberry to use its cable making it 12 cables, none work.

Tried 2 computers with Vista and Win 7 x64.

Epic won't communicate with either comp with debugging on or off.

As i said in topic, one click root won't work. Says Phone is not connected.

I also cannot sideload content onto SD card because it does not show in My Computer.

It has been flashed to boost so i assume it has communicated with a PC in the past.

What can i do to fix this?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbadboy2007:
Reboot pc and phone then try again. If that doesn't work then uninstall drivers from pc then install again. Reboot pc after install after reboot plug in epic then wait for it to finish installing drivers then reboot both again then use odin.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
You can also connect the phone with usb debugging on, then go into device manager on the computer and look for "other" or samsung android in USB section. Click on that and select update drivers and let windows update search and install drivers...it takes awhile.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PHug:
just did the uninstall drivers then reboot both thing.

Driver installation shows device ready to use as...

SAMSUNG USB Composite Device

SAMSUNG Mobile Modem #2

SAMSUNG Mobile Modem Diagnostic Serial Port (WDM) (COM5)

All ready to use.

But Still not showing in my computer for file transfer or working in usb debugging mode for root.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Try the update driver choice in device manager. The CDC driver is missing. I think it loads 5 drivers if I remember correctly with USB on...yeah the mass storage driver is missing too. Let Windows update find them all.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PHug:
Hi, thanks for help.

Just tried uninstalling everything and letting windows find drivers. Windows found a different driver package from S3 studio or something but I still get no mass storage or root.

I've read you can root and install roms without a computer Guess that will have to be my route.

As far as mass storage goes... It's annoying but I pulled the back off and put SD card directly into computer
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbadboy2007:
You are sliding down the pulldown on your epic screen and pushing mount sd card for mass storage right?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PHug:
Yeah, the robot pic turns from green to orange but it never actually connects to either computer.

Going to my brothers house soon to check his 2 computers, he says his Thunderbolt will only work on one.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Some computers are finicky and will only work on the USB port used to install the drivers. Odin only works on the left side of my laptop and mass storage works on the right...go figure!

The fact that the phone thinks it connects and the computer probably makes the connection noise shows there is still a driver problem. Did you reboot the computer and phone after the full driver installation?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PHug:
Yes I restarted both several times while installing/uninstalling

Drivers... I have just accepted that I need to remove the card to sideload content.

On a side note, I am now afraid to root my phone and change the roms because I'm on boostmobile and will be unable to connect phone to a computer to fix if something goes wrong.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ungovernable1977:
after you install drivers, reboot, then plug in your phone w debugging on, it should install a bunch of drivers, then take forever on modem, unplug and replug the usb from the phone really fast, this should trip it up into moving to the next device... there should be at least two or three more. If you have GB loaded for some reason the RNDIS drivers are wonky. Make sure you use a USB port on your motherboard, not on a PCI, not on a front port... the drivers are acting weird lately, like they changed em up a bit... idunno... but once you get a setup, dont mess with it! Hope somethin helps... Its almost guaranteed the drivers, unless the Boost is the issue, idunno...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxDRKAxx:
ive had that same problem ever sense ive got the phone, what if you havent given up there is another way for you to connect to your computer. It is very simple and fast it is how i connect now and it works every time.

1. Have computer on and Phone off

2. Boot your phone into ClockworkMod 3.1.0.1 (Power/camera/volume down)(it must be this version of clockwork)

3. Go to mounts and storage

4. On the bottom of the menu you must click mount usb storage.

5. Plug your phone into the computer and your computer should recognize your phone now.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] megabiteg:
Also if your on Vista / Win7 you should run the command line (cmd) or the bat file to root with admin rights: Right click cmd or the run.bat and select run as administrator and that hould help.

Sent from an Epic with 4G
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazfanatic:
I don't think the drivers for samsung are 64 bit compatable. If you got the drivers from samsung it should state that.

Sent from my lean mean drunken machine useing XDA Premium and a 12 pack of Sam Lager
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
The ones installed through Windows Update run fine on my 64 bit Windows 7 Laptop.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazfanatic:
good to know.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tje77:
Hey guys I spend a good part of Friday trying to install a custom Kernel to my infuse. I tried using clockworkmod and odin to install the zip from my sd card. I had no luck. Every time the install from zip option was not available. I'm puzzled. Has anyone had this issue or see anyone else that had this problem. Thanks for any help.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] knight4led:
Try moving the zip to your internal card if it isn't already. I know that CWM doesn't really like using the removable card.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] slider2828:
He is correct.... CWM ONLY reads the internal card....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tje77:
Thanks guys. I will try moving it today. I will let you know what happens.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tje77:
UPDATE

Stupid mistake on my part. I transfered the files and REMOVED my phone from the usb cable and vola. Flashed. Thanks for the help!!

Sometimes you just have to walk away and come back another day to see it more clear.
[General Topics] Ferrum Master:
Is there a possibility to use phone camera to PC as a dediced device, for example for skype?

Is it technically possible?
[Gen8 General] Rockstar52:
Ok sorry if this has all ready been covered, but I did a search and could not find anything. I am trying to re-size the wallpaper to use the entire screen when in landscape mode with out cutting off part of the photo. After downloading apktools, and recompiling the launcher2.apk and opening the wallpaper_chooser.xml file I find this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical"> <ImageView android:layout_height="0.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1.0" android:scaleType="fitCenter" android:id="@id/wallpaper"/> <Gallery android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:id="@id/gallery"/> <Button android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@id/set" android:text="@string/wallpaper_instructions" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"/> </LinearLayout>

Now correct me if I am wrong but can I set this:

"android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"/>"

to this:

android:layout_gravity="fill_parent"/>

recompile the .xml and .apk would this cause the wallpaper to re-size it's self to fill the window instead of cutting it off?

Any suggestions or inputs from more experienced programmers?
[Gen8 General] Mr. Clown:
Moved to proper forum
[Gen8 General] msticninja:
The problem is that the parent is probably all of your homescreens combined, not just the screen you're currently on. You could try that though. Launcher Pro has a setting to do this by default, but if you want to use the stock launcher, also try setting layout_height and layout_width to the resolution of your device. (eg. on my A101, it would be layout_height="600px" and "layout_width="1024px"). Dip is Device Independent Pixels, which can get wonky if you change the LCD Density setting, so I tend to use pix instead for my personal compiling.

There's probably some stuff on google on this topic. I'll try to find some time to look if you can't find anything.
[Gen8 General] Rockstar52:
Thanks. I tried the the full_parent code but when I went to recompile it, it said the code is invalid, so I changed it to full_center, now after recompiling the apk Android won't accept an unsigned apk.
[Gen8 General] msticninja:
That's a system app, so it should not be signed to begin with. You must over write the original manually, don't try to install.

Use APKManager from :http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695701and follow the instructions. 9 for decompile, edit the files, 11 to recompile, yes to system app, yes to keep originals, go into keep folder and delete resources.arsc and the files you modified, then go back to script and let it complete. I like to use Winrar to recompress the apk to 0 (no) compression, but it's not necessary. APKTools doesn't remake the resources.arsc automatically, so if you modify xml, APKManager is a much more stable and simple way to recompile. Just remember to delete the resources.arsc and any files you modified from the "keep" folder when the script is paused.
[Gen8 General] Rockstar52:
ok thanks, I'll give it a shot and report back.
[Gen8 General] Rockstar52:
ok was able to use APKMananger, I took the framework-res.apk unpacked and replaced some photos. I then rezipped and copied the new one back to system/framework but each time it goes into a bootloop?
[Gen8 General] msticninja:
Tell me your exact process in APKManager, and the files you are changing. Make sure you are hitting Y to system app and then deleting changed files in Keep folder. If you do a full decompile and recompile, it will always bootloop, because some XMLs do not reencode correctly, even if you haven't changed them.
[Gen8 General] Rockstar52:
My bad, I am able to dcompile, edit the .xml and recompile the Launcher.apk. Which I copy from the folder /system/app/. I get the boot loop when I try to edit the (Android System) framework-res.apk from the folder /system/framework. All I am trying to do in there is replace some of the system icons to my own custom ones, making sure that I use the same image type, px size, overall file size.