yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Dropbox, Root Explorer, Roam Control, and Netflix
[Epic 4G General] piscesjoey:
Forgot about Dropbox! Also Cachemate, PicSay, Sportstap, Yellowbook, Amazon
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
ES File Explorer is like the swiss army knives of apps in my opinion. Has root explorer, zip extraction, dropbox access, picture viewer (although I still prefer QuickPic), bluetooth and wifi transfer, LAN and FTP access, just added streaming capabilities....and it's free. There are probably features I'm missing.
[Epic 4G General] diego1985:
Most important one which is obvious XDA app.
[Epic 4G General] Aneirin:
Please just pick a few of your favorites.
[Epic 4G General] Aneirin:
Please try to narrow this down to the best of the best.
[Epic 4G General] stilesja:
Screen filter to dim the screen while I am surfing xda at night and my wife is sleeping.

Haven't seen it mentioned but I am fond of boatbrowser mini.

HulloMail this is a free voicemail replacement I found while trying out gingerbread and my Google voice was.flaking out on me. It's got a great simple interface and allows you to create custom voicemail greetings per caller.
[Epic 4G General] Grompy:
Does no one seriously use pocket at all? I really like pocket for storing passwords and logins. It's automatically backed up with dropbox another must have app. I store wifi passwords for everyplace I might connect to so that I have them when I flash a new rom (titanium backup will handle this though) and store other logons for work that change constantly.

My faves:

Dropbox

Pocket

Titanium backup (paid)

root explorer(paid)

Amazon appstore (free app of the day!)

Autostarts (paid) - toggle whether an app can be triggered on event.

tv now(paid)

Seek droid (paid) - incase I lose my phone.

Tiny flashlight

Xda app of course!
[Epic 4G General] JPhantom95:
File Explorer is infinitely better than any paid or free file explorer you can find.
[Epic 4G General] tazfanatic:
Thanks

Just wanted to say thanks to OP for starting this list. I now have some apps to test to see what if I like.
[Epic 4G General] misterlee622:
1. Xda premium

2. Picsay pro

3. Netflix

4. Words with friends

5. Google+
[Epic 4G General] hayzooos:
Just an FYI, but SwiftKey X is the free app of the day today on Amazon. I know people have previously raved about that keyboard.
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
I prefer KeePass as it's open source and there's a version for just about any kind of device (PC, Linux, Mac, iPhone, PalmOS, BlackBerry,Windows Phone 7, etc) and a whole mess of plugins and tools that work with PC version. I keep the database file in my dropbox folder and point the app there so all of my devices are easily synced. Oh, and it's free.
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
If anyone has not at least heard of these apps, you really need to check them out. All are free apps.

Quick Profiles (Make preset sound profiles)

Missed Reminder (to fix notification LED)

Simple Calendar Widget (agenda on home screen, looks great, lots of options)

Super Manager (basically a free root explorer)

TeslaLED (flashlight)
[Epic 4G General] PokeAsheep:
If rooted:

1- Titanium Backup

2- Astro

3- wifi Tether

If not:

1- Astro

2- Smart Keyboard

3- Quickpic

Epic is Epic.
[Epic 4G General] dewey1973:
Here are a few I haven't seen mentioned:

App 2 SD - So I never have to check if an app can be moved to the SD card.

DoggCatcher Podcast Player - Because I'm a podcast junkie. (Best paid app I have ever purchased.)

DropSpace - For the piece of mind of having my pics synced to DropBox.

Galaxy Dock Sound Redirector - So my car and desk docks actually do what I bought them to do.

LastPass Password Mgr Premium - For remembering and auto-filling passwords. (Free for LastPass Premium customers.)

Toddler Lock - To keep my kids busy without worrying about a call to China.
[Epic 4G General] Aneirin:
Sorry it took a while. I have updated the list and rearranged based on votes. Should I add in all of the apps with single votes or continue to try to keep it condensed? I want to make this as helpful as possible for those who may also be new to Android, and don't know what the good apps are for various things. I have also been contemplating breaking it out based on type of app as well and adding mini descriptions. What all do you think?
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
We have had it with this dammned bug (black squares on CRT white animation, pixelated as karendar says), lets hope we get it right this time uh!:mad:

update: seems the only way to break the CRT is taking a screenshot from the samsung included screencapture and music app...that is holding down the home button and pressing power at the same time..... this is for the pixelated effect.

I also own a Galaxy tab, which doesnt have the smooth animation on CRT effect either, this feels like there is something on framework.jar and even on the surfaceflinger.cpp (where the animation is stored) that differs from the one HTC uses.....I dont know any coding of drivers, neither how to edit cpp files, I do know however how to decompile jar files, took a look inside and at first glance everything seems the same.

I feel the CRT effect is as good as is going to get, until someone comes along and breaks the surfaceflinger apart and compare it to the HTC one. There are more important things to do and fix regarding the S2 than the CRT off animation (which ain that bad withouth pixels to begin with), so, if anyone is willing to invest time on cpp coding, pm me and Ill help it whatever way I can.

Now, CRT pixelated effect is indeed fixed with blur set to slow, which means the surfaceflinger is unable to handle the overload when set to fast which then leads me to the following:

Have two theories about the screencapture pixelating the CRT animation

1.- the white flash that it uses to take the screenshot corrupts the animation or overloads surfaceflinger.

2.- the screen is resized while taking the screenshot wich again corrupts the animation or overloads surfaceflinger.

Thanks everyone who tested it, and I already see it is being implemented on ROMS and themes, which honestly makes me happy to have been on any help :D

Continue on with experimenting then.......

so straight to the point..... based on this;)

false

did the following:D (dont have to be a genius to do it;))

decompiling framework-res.apk, navigate to res/values/bools.xml

change the following[/B]

from

false

to

true

and of course, enable CRT effect

from

true

to

false

then compile back

Have been testing it on my device and have not had the bug ever since......Obviously this needs more testers than myself (lol), reason for this thread.....

I am providing an example for VillainRom v2.1, CWR flashable zip, with only the two mods explained above, nothing else, but feel free to mod the framework on you desired rom

and if working....pls give credits....!:p

btw, should work on CM7 too.(edit, just saw CM7 already has this config and bug still exists there, but i also know surfaceflinger is not optimized yet)

Needs feedback working or not!;)

Mods, I think this is the wrong subforum right?, sorry, pls change it to the right one....(I think it is

Galaxy S II Original Android Development)

@pulser_gt, if working feel free to add it to VRtweaks;)

:)mirror

http://www.multiupload.com/P6TLZBYECR
[Galaxy S II General] mrvirginia:
i think you meant true on that first bit :D

looks promising, though!

edit: oh so it's true to false lol i couldn't remember :p
[Galaxy S II General] kryptoner:
Ok, I tried this on Villain Rom 2.1 lite, a very good try by doctorcete, but somehow this fix didn't work for me
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
what happens, u have the squared bugs on CRT?....I always had the bug when long pressing power button, now i dont have it, been using it, and havent bumped into it....is lite version odexed aswell?, maybe that has to do with it too?
[Galaxy S II General] eiraku:
Does this fix the sudden brightness changes bug thing?
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
I dont know about that....maybe?:o

but it is intended to prevent the squared display that sometimes happens on CRT screen off effect.
[Galaxy S II General] kryptoner:
Yeah, I still see the screen turning off weirdly, I mean its not like what we saw on nexus s... I think villain 2.1 lite is same as original rom, only apps are removed... but I'm not sure, because it was not mentioned in the rom thread and it was themed
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
do u mean the smoothness of the animation, or u see the black squares inside the white fliping crt animation?.......if so, how are u reproducing it?
[Galaxy S II General] Nebucatnetzer:
Give it a try. How does the animation work is it like the boot animation?

Greetz Nebucatnetzer
[Galaxy S II General] kryptoner:
I mean the smoothness, its still not very smooth, maybe its my view, we need more testers... this should be in original development...
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
ah ok....its intended to fix those ugly black squares, about the smoothness, if this is fixed, that is the next step.....

(u made me wipe the phone just to retest, lol)
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
How is this any different to the CRT animation off thats been around for some time, I never noticed it bug out on me.. can you guys put up a video on how this "fix" looks like?
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
it aint different.....for instance, if long pressing power button, then presseng back, and turn off phone (just hit the power button, standby), The white flipping image becomes distorted, with black squares, this aims to prevent those black squares, as I said, same animation, just not distorted...:)
[Galaxy S II General] kryptoner:
he already said its for testing.. just try it and post whether you feel any improvements or not... If this post gets enough positive responses, then it can be a major fix... so please try
[Galaxy S II General] gerard_f:
It works! In my case, the bug appears when I activate the alarm. Now doesn't, thank you!
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Finally, two feedbacks...thanks....im glad to be of any help
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
Hey Doc!

Does this use the odex framework? I ask because i had the extended power menu mod posted in the Villian thread installed which deodexed the browser before this, well i flashed through cwm and wiped cache and now i get a few random force closes and when i try to enter the power menu i get booted to the boot screen.

Gonna try again now on a fresh install.

Not sure if im being dumb or or it was to do with odex.

I will say the crt seems to be working a treat from what ive seen lol :D
[Galaxy S II General] Jak974:
No more black squares on Cog 1.15 great job !

Thx m8
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Im doing a battery life testing right now and rebooting the phone is not part of the test, sorry I cant be of much help yet.
[Galaxy S II General] Unclean009:
On cognition 1.15, this fixed it for me when opening the power menu!
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Steve!!, nive to see you.....no it doesnt bro.....its default, its irigunal plus those two strings changes only....i tried extended pwrmenu too.....fc aswell, they are dependent...ita only for stock

Those mods include android.policy and framework, besides framework-res.....they are best friends and they dont like to hang out with other jars or apks.....they are odex....lol
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
Good to see you to doc :)

Thanks for the fast response. So atm there is no way to have both epm and crt fix?

I must say i have the power menu installed but i never use it lol i very rarely reboot my phone anyways, crt animation is waaaaaaay more important :D been trying to break it so much i'm gonna wear my power button out lol

Thumbs up from me so far mate working perfect! i would hit the thanx button but ive used them all today :)

your doing some killer things for the sgs2 comunity thanks keep up the good work bro!
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
u know what, u got me thinking, test this one and see if it fixes something for you.....this aint got CRT effect, just slowed down blur.:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
so you want, what?

CRT+extendedpowermenu, sure it can be done, but it will make your browser lag and loose hardware acceleration...u sure u want that?

I could do it, but i dont recommend it...hardware acceleration is way more important than overscroll, advanced power menu, etc.
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
Full hardware acceleration or just in the browser?

can live without the browser as i'm on opera anyways :)
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Someone had a ROM that was odex/deodex fusion... Had some odex items (Like browser) and deodexed the rest.

To be honest, the browser is so secondary to alot of people, as there are replacement browsers...
[Galaxy S II General] tigerminx:
Any chance we could get a fix for Lite'ning Rom 2.2. Have this exact problem with the CRT Animation. Works for a while after a reboot then goes all distorted...

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Ill try....upload to me framework-res.apk from /system/framework/...of lightning
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
ooh yeaa man !! U DID IT !!!!:D:D:D
[Galaxy S II General] Atomicman:
Working on cognition 1.15 - yeah! Thanks a lot.

one thing: Which apktool are you using? i got compile errors... :-/
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
For those asking about the fluidity of the CRT off animation, from what I've noticed the code for the animation is burried deep into the SurfaceFlinger.cpp code... So unless we get the code to slow down the animation's timing, that will not be fixed anytime soon...

doctorcete's fix does correct the pixelated CRT off animation though, confirmed here. Quick way of testing if animation gets corrupted: Hold power button to open power menu, release power and then hit power to lock screen. The old method instantly corrupted the CRT off animation.
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Pixelated! That's the word I was looking for...hahaha
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
:(

OPS ! not working. (VillainRomv2.1)

To test CRT:

Hold home and press power button. The phone will do screen shoot.

After just try press Power....to check your CRT.
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
maybe lets delete screenShot apk???
[Galaxy S II General] kahvitahra:
That is true.

But this is still lot better than the old crt :)
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
Im sorry my opinion its the same thing :D
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
Damn man you had to go and break it didnt you :p

happens this end aswell im afraid :(
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
lol !

Im going to DELETE that screenCapture apk

5 min
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
jep, just confirmed its distorted again after taking a screenshot......but this time is different.....not squares anymore, now horizontal lines....but you now what, that same bug i get on my galaxy tab.....uhmm...
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
or you could just not use it to take a screenshots :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
hahahaha :)
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
WORKING !!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH WORKING !!

People

Delete from system/app

ScreehCaptureService.apk !!

AND NO MORE CRT LAGGY !
[Galaxy S II General] kahvitahra:
Are you on high or something? :D
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
no dude im happy :D:p;)
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
lol, yeah I know that sounds funny, but it seems, blur set to true actually makes things better, that kind of distortion now (the horizontal) i get it on the galaxy tab, even on the hd2:mad:......that kind of multidevice bug (cause is even on cm7 and stock) may very well be located inside surfaceflinger as karendar says, or services.jar.........
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
I dont understand :confused: surely you have just removed the screen capture service? aka the same as just not using it? i dont see what you have acomplished :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
damn man ....

ok It's your CHOICE my friend !

or you got screenCapture.apk (and never use it, because it's )

or you got CRT animation witch is never gonna be laggy again:p
[Galaxy S II General] Nebucatnetzer:
No app no possibility to mess up the animation accidentally?
[Galaxy S II General] hax1:
works fine on cognition s2 1.15.

thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
What do you mean "Never gonna be laggy again"? The CRT off was never laggy to me? It got pixelated. And it shut down too quickly, but never lagged...
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
Ok fair point on the messing it up accidently. I do use it every once in a while so ill just reboot after i have and im back on track :)

avetny what do you mean by lag? my animation is rather quick.
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
Hold home and press power button, the phone will do ScreenShot.

After just press power button to SEE YOUR CRT LAGGY :)
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Don't see it. I'm on CM7. ;) haha...

Don't feel like reinstalling a stock ROM just to try it out, I'll take your word for it.
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
Im pretty sure he means pixelated. I'm on stock and i don't see it i just see horrible fuzz lol
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
Oh cyanogen its another story !;) is it still first build!
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
yes, u guys are using two different words for the same thing.....karendar, remember the flip animation bug we had on hyperdroid?.....this is something similar, we have to reduce the speed of the flip animation of the CRT by 50 (about 10 0 15% of current)...problem is where to find either the smali or the xml that points to it....or should I slow down all the animations?, Im seeing this same bug as I type on my galaxy tab.....exact same effect...
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Way ahead of you for slowing down animations, tried with spare parts, it's a no-go.
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
yeah, i did try that myself, no go, cause speed seems hardcoded on crt animation, not like cm7, where is dependant on framework, that is why when slowing down animations, crt doesnt work.....at least that is my theory, im copiling new framework now for test....will test it first, now we got this screencapture bug, although everything else seems working fine right?
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Still first build, still pretty amazing. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Yeah, like I said it's most likely something we can set through timing on surfaceflinger.cpp... Very little documentation on the CRT off effect.
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Well, slowed doen the fastest animation timing, which was set at 150....set that at 200....didnt worked....seems i got to burry my head into the smali now.....
[Galaxy S II General] kahvitahra:
Take a deep breath ;)
[Galaxy S II General] mynamesteve:
I read that....

And thought this lol :D
[Galaxy S II General] bruflot:
No lag :)

And no, I haven't tried to do fix it.
[Galaxy S II General] genivos:
Uhm .. is it just me or there is not written in the OP (or I don't see) what to change here? I would like to know what should be changed :D Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] kahvitahra:
You need to change sf_slowBlur to "true"

And animateScreenLights to "false"

So bools.xml would look like this.

<bool name="config_sf_limitedAlpha">false</bool>
<bool name="config_sf_slowBlur">true</bool>
<bool name="config_emulateExternalStorage">true</bool>
<bool name="config_caseSensitiveExternalStorage">false</bool>
<bool name="config_externalStorageRemovable">false</bool>
<bool name="config_hasExternalStorage">true</bool>
<bool name="config_externalStorageRemovableSd">true</bool>
<bool name="config_hasExternalStorageSd">true</bool>
<bool name="config_tether_dun_required">false</bool>
<bool name="config_bypass_keyguard_if_slider_open">true</bool>
<bool name="config_automatic_brightness_available">true</bool>
<bool name="config_annoy_dianne">true</bool>
<bool name="config_unplugTurnsOnScreen">true</bool>
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">false</bool>
<bool name="config_deskDockEnablesAccelerometer">false</bool>
[Galaxy S II General] genivos:
Thanks for the fast reply! Will take a look at it later ;)
[Galaxy S II General] prodygee:
So does this make the CRT effect look like it should as in (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv1p4TvRw4)? (look at the clock..)

Or is this just another white flash?
[Galaxy S II General] prodygee:
Double-post, I'm such a criminal!

Flashing your zip for Cognition 1.15..

I'm curious..

*sigh* Another white flash, it's just not how it should look. Dammit! I think we won't get this until the CM7 guys worked it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv1p4TvRw4 <- again, this is the original CRT effect.
[Galaxy S II General] EyeTech:
Here I'm just getting white flash, but still with big white squares some of the time. On my galaxy tab 7inch I get a perfect crt effect, where the screen contents are squeezed into the final dot. My tab is running overcome Jupiter rom, which is a gingerbread rom, modified from stock, not cm7. Though my cm7 hd2 also has the perfect effect. Shame it's so crappy on the sgs2
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Can you make this fix for the stock XXKG2 that recently came out ?
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Not today as i am at wotk...if u are unable to do it yourself cause u dont know how or any reason, upload ur framework-res.apk and ill do it for u...im curious about what effects will have on stock odexed.
[Galaxy S II General] djase:
for lite'ning 2.2 ?

cheer
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Im using a stock but deodexed XXKG2, I tried opening the files with Notepad++ and I get an encoded result, must be doing something wrong?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LAIVBJFJ
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Yes, apk needs to be decompiled (not decompressed or extracted) using tools like apktool.....otherwise xml are encoded and res/values filder wont even be visible....
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
This wasnt the case with SGS1, anyway when you have time please do the changes and I'll test it. Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] prodygee:
Finally someone who knows what I'm talking about :) Weird stuff, even CM7 doesn't have the correct animation. Must be something with the hardware, or coding that needs to be rewritten.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I went back to stock XXKG2 Odex ROM as the browser lag was driving me insane!
[Galaxy S II General] bruflot:
Dude.. Change what from true to false?

I know how to enable the CRT effect, but what else?

Maybe telling us would be a smart idea?
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
LOL, I dont have a clue why it was deleted as it was ok yesterday......will edit first post, but it is the blur option inside the bools.xml,

this is what is supposed to say...

WTF yet it gets deleted again...will have to copy paste as text

thanks for telling anyhow.....
[Galaxy S II General] sicopat:
Here is the moded stock odexed framework-res.apk for OXA-XXKG2 with :

- CRT effect + fix

- SIP enabled on 3G

link attached at the end of post
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Sicopath thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] gerard_f:
I post the CRT fix for stock odexed KG1 and KG2 with aosp icons and batery percentage if anyone cares.
[Galaxy S II General] lynx2k50:
Can you please also excatly the same for VR 2.1?

Would be great.

And can you show me a picture of the used battery icons?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] maximusl:
need fixed crt for stock kg1 will test it. and maybe with modded battery colours? orange and red when discharged. pls
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
After performing a screenshot the CRT animation adds some pixelated boxes.
[Galaxy S II General] gerard_f:
Post your framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk and I will do it.

The KG1 have the cm7 battery style and the KG2 have the circle battery style.
[Galaxy S II General] maximusl:
here is my stock kg1 can someone add crt effect to it as well as orange and red colours when battery drained?
[Galaxy S II General] sicopat:
I used the method shown in the first post.
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
First post updated with my opinion, ideas welcomed
[Galaxy S II General] XDA mark:
Im still bad at this stuff... Guess you can't do this with root explorer :P

Im on KE2. Anybody willing to help me out?
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Bad news...using music app also pixelates crt...:-(
[Galaxy S II General] hann0r:
Nice work man.. Now my crt Screen off looks great. Im on KG1 without a crt bug.

Thanks man
[Galaxy S II General] maximusl:
please posr stock kg1 with crt please