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[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] bizon69:
Hi, I found a way to change SMS Themes(should work in any 2.3.3 rom).

The method may slightly convoluted but it works and the required Root and Root Explorer.

1. Download the MMS.apk file from http://hotfile.com/dl/125135991/4e5073b/Mms.apk.html by vertcam9.

2. Copy the file on the memory card.

3. Turn Root Explorer, go to SDcard and select Copy on MMS.apk click back button then go to the root.

4. Find the system/app/ set the mount at Mount R/O and find there oryginal MMS.apk file and change name to MMS.apk.bak.

5. After this paste previously copied file MMS.apk Paste option and change the permissions for Owner = Read, Write, Group = Read, Others = Read.

6. Restart the phone.

7. In the list of messages click on the option key and choose Send Again in the lower right corner. Menu appears on the skin changes click there and choose Theme what you like.

8. We go to the message and placed a check if the skin, if everything went ok should be changed.

9. Turn Root explorer go to system/app/ find there file and delete the MMS.apk

10. Change the oryginal file name to MMS.apk.bak to MMS.apk and restart the phone.

After this, we have the original MMS.apk with message theme.

If you want another theme repeat steps 1 to 10
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] fery6767:
not work in 2.3.4
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] bizon69:
Read! (should work in any 2.3.3 rom)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] MEHRDAD595:
noway for working on 2.3.4?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] devilsking:
Must we do step 9 and 10? I got working mms.apk with theme from step 8.
[HTC Sensation] RADLOUNI:
Hi Guys

Have not tried this yet, but i have been contemplating to try and fool the new HTC RUU (1.45.xxx.x) into not installing the new hboot by doing the following:

1- start the RUU exe and locate the associated ROM.zip

2- delete the hboot from ROM.zip

3- continue with the RUU installation

4- so the RUU will not find the hboot when completing the upgrade and will not upgrade the hboot

I am trying to do this since i like pure stock ROMs without modifications (but rooted ofcourse)

has anyone tried this yet ?????

The question is whether the RUU will complete the upgrade without updating the hboot or will simply give an error message and stop the upgrade process when it cannot find the hboot file ?????
[HTC Sensation] bonesy:
I think HTC sign there ROM.zip with a signature different to any other so you can't do things like that.Seems like a pretty big flaw
[HTC Sensation] Trekest:
May I ask why? Revolutionary does support 1.18 (opened the RUU, that's the version in there).

Besides, before applying the OTA update I restored to 1.35 using the official RUU and S-Off sticked. Can't see why it would not with a newer RUU, but either way 1.18 is supported by Revolutionary if you're not sure.
[HTC Sensation] bakron1:
I have an HTC Sensation that I really want to turn S=Off and perma-root real bad but I have not found any method using Mac OS (Snow Leopard) ???? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have fastboot installed on my Mac and have rooted several Nexus S models but this is my first time around with the HTC Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] SN4K3B1T3:
Your going to have to install either Linux or Windows on the Mac with boot camp, alpharevx doesn't work with Mac and its a completely different can of beans than Nexus s. Nexus s has an unlockable bootloader from factory, sensation doesn't, thus sensation NEEDS alpharevx to unlock the boot loader, s-off, and perma-root

sent from Christ All Mighty
[HTC Sensation] BonesRed:
Go to a library or find a person with a PC... it shouldn't be that hard, everyone in the world but you has one...

And this is not the proper place to post this Dawg. Shoulda gone in Q & A, it kinda clutters up the DEV forum if we post threads liek this that don't belong here.
[HTC Sensation] jermx:
Bootcamp. Or borrow a friend's notebook for like 5-10mins. You won't require it after revolutionary.
[HTC Sensation] bakron1:
Thanks for your help, I apologize for putting the tread in the wrong forum.
[HTC Sensation] bonesy:
We need to stop answering questions on the development forums, make them be posted in q&a for answer
[HTC Sensation] leyvatron:
PC and your set. It really easy to do.
[Motorola Droid X2] MarshallCS:
Hello

I'm on the perooted version of gingerbread for my X2. I have the normal horizontal battery inditactor, but between that and the clock, I have what looks like a vertical battery outline with a check in it.

What is it, and how can I remove it? I'm assuming its some sort of vestiges of Motoblur.

Thanks

Marshall
[Motorola Droid X2] ihavenolife008:
its the icon showing that there is an active alarm set
[Motorola Droid X2] Steroid Droid:
Sounds like the alarm icon... turn off any alarms see if it goes away
[Motorola Droid X2] three west:
yeah, the genious that thought the little clipboard with a checkmark on it was a better clock icon than the froyo icon needs a performance review...
[Motorola Droid X2] MarshallCS:
That was it! Thanks everyone.

Who the hell thought that that icon was appropriate for an active alarm?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h20wakebum:
Hi all,

I've search the other posts similar to my issue but haven't found the answer.

Recently, I moved apps to SD card in MIUI using the move to SD card function from with Programs (not apps 2 sd).

I rebooted into recovery to flash a hotfix for the ROM, wiped cache, dalvik and ran caulkin clear temp.

Upon rebooting, apps on CD card are not accesable (error launching activity) as well when I look at the apps in programs, I get a screenshot with com.program name etc (very similar to this screenshot http://i.imgur.com/YSfEl.png

I tried fixing permissions via terminal but i get this error (for apps on SD):

/mnt/asec/com.realarcade.CL4-1/pkg.apk does not exist (103 of 143). Reinstall...

/mnt/asec/com.amazon.mShop.android-1/pkg.apk does not exist (104 of 143). Reinstall...

/mnt/asec/com.dragonplay.blackjack-2/pkg.apk does not exist (105 of 143). Reinstall...

/mnt/asec/com.poynt.android-1/pkg.apk does not exist (106 of 143). Reinstall...

/mnt/asec/dk.logisoft.aircontrol-1/pkg.apk does not exist (107 of 143). Reinstall...

The only fix I have found was to uninstall and reinstall all apps on SD.

I've had to do this twice in the past week and would like to avoid this!!!

I did find in one of the other posts the mention that I should be backing up the SD-ext (amon ra). IF I got this error again, could i simply restore that backup (only the sd-ext)?

Thanks again, I really am stuck on this one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
Since you're using the built in Android method of moving apps, you're not using the ext partition (if you even have one). Instead you can backup .android_secure, but I've never had a need to move apps so I'm not really familiar with it.

I'm thinking it might be the clear temp zip that's doing it. You should be able to open it up & see if it's wiping .android_secure. If so, you can either not use it or try backing up & restoring afterwards.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h20wakebum:
I think it's the clear temp!!

I just flashed a new kernel, wiped cache and dalvik (didn't run the clear temp and i'm ok!!)

thanks agaiin
[General Questions and Answers] markthema3:
I know this probably belongs in one of the Development threads, but I can't post there yet.

I have an ASUS Transformer TF101. As such, I have a fairly easy way to install Ubuntu. My question is if It would be feasible to directly copy a C library (with the .so extension) from the Ubuntu image and use it for Android development. For example, could I (depending on the library of course, unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to build Gnome 3/Gnome Shell into a launcher anytime soon) use that C library using Calls to System.loadLibrary? I would think that since it is compiled for arm it should work, but I could be way off.
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
No it doesnt, this is a question.

Developement forums are only for things that you created or released.

You are mixing things up.

You could MAYBE make a C binary that could call functions out of the C library.

But you can't integrate it into an app.

Apps are made with java, so you can't call C library functions from within your java app (like a launcher).

I might be wrong here and it is possible but it would be a very weird solution.
[General Questions and Answers] markthema3:
Thanks for the info on development threads.

As for the rest, do some research on the NDK and System.loadLibrary(libName). Not to be a smart-ass but these tools are fairly widely used. I know for sure that Autodesk Sketchbook uses quite a few native libs (just open up the apk and look in the libs folder).
[General Questions and Answers] markthema3:
Though Gnome 3 would make for one seriously bad-ass launcher.
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
Ok, so I've been experiencing this for the past few weeks now, and I'm getting sick of it. I plug up my phone to charge it overnight, or just to charge it when I know I will be in a place for a while. After a while, the phones battery will say 100%. But when I take the charger out, the battery isn't fully charged. It IMMEDIATELY jumps down to around 40% - 70%. I can get it fully charged after unplugging and replugging the charger in, sometimes numerous times of unplugging and replugging. Also, my battery has died on numerous occasions on between 10% - 15%. I calibrated my battery the first day I got it (as a replacement) and got decent juice from it, a noticeable improvement from the old battery. Am I the only one experiencing these issues? Is there a fix for it???

*NOTE* I'm on my 2nd battery (replacement) and this is also a replacement phone. Also running GummyCharged 1.8 GBE on EP1Q, RFS, w/Minimal Gummy theme, if that matters. Also, its not just my phone, my wifes Charge phone has the same setup and it does it also. So it may just be something wrong Gingerbreak. Never did it on FroYo. Gonna Odin back to FroYo and report back.

Sent from my Droid Charge, GummyCharged 1.8 GBE, Minimal Gummy v1.1 theme.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
This is because you cannot leave the phone plugged in to charge for an extended period of time. Once the battery reaches 100%, it stops charging. It will start charging again later, after the percentage goes down to a certain set level. This is why you have the huge initial drop-off after taking it off the charger. If you want to leave the phone plugged in for an extended period of time, turn it off and plug it in to allow it to charge, then it won't discharge as quickly. Otherwise, this is normal behavior for all android phones, and trying to make it so that the phone stays at 100% full charge is bad for both the battery and phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bobthesalesclerk:
I've been having some strange problems. My phone will die with between 4-8 percent battery left. I can turn it back on and once it drops another percent or two it will turn off again. I have calibrated it and my battery life is good but this is a strange issue. Upgrading to rc2 today.

Droid Charge/Gummy 1.9RC 2.3.4
[Verizon Droid Charge] Khanusma:
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I have the exact same problem. It will just go from 50% to 100% in a second and then unplug and plug back in to make it work. i haven't been able to figure it out either. 2nd phone and 2nd battery as well with same issue. I guess it has to do with my habits somehow.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Khanusma:
I believe the use case he is suggesting is a little different than what you are describing. When the phone is plugged in at say 12%, it charges for a while and gets to say 63%. At that point it jumps to 100% immediately. The phone must then be unplugged from the charger and re-plugged in and then it will continue properly to 100%.

Hopefully that is a little clearer.
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
I mean, usually I turn it off to charge. And I have that No Moar Powah app installed. So I set it to reboot at 100%, it does and when I take the charger out, it immediately drops to between said percentages. almost like clockwork. Very annoying. I understand what u mean Imnuts, but my Vibrant, HD2, or others never experienced this issue. Also, my first Charge, would keep a charge if I left it on the charger once it hit 100%. Maybe an issue with the charger itself? A Verizon rep told me to bring in the charger itself if the issue persists.
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
Almost exactly my issue. I'm not understandings what the problem is. I'm assuming u have that issue also???
[Verizon Droid Charge] vi3tboiii54:
Hmm i have the opposite of that problem every time i unplug my phone from charging overnight the battery meter would always read 100% never below that.

Also does anyone know which battery meter i should follow for battery calibration? The battery meter in the status bar, the battery level in system settings/about phone/status, the battery percentage at the lock screen or the battery meter on the screen when the phones off? They're all giving me different readings for some odd reason.
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
Sometimes I get that too, but for the most part, its the false readings from the lockscreen, and the about phone settings. I may send off for a new phone, run stock for a few days to calibrate my battery then root on a full charge.

Sent from ur moms room... With my Droid Charge ;-)
[Verizon Droid Charge] skipwagner:
I see what you're saying, but on the other hand I charge my phone overnight with no problems. Never did this before, but I don't have time to sit around for 6 hours for it to charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
Well I went back to FroYo GummyCharged v1.9 and lo and behold, the charging issues VANISHED. Charged my phone overnight last night and when I removed the charger, 100%. No drop immediately back down to 56% or some weird number. Maybe its a Gingerbreak leak issue. I've noticed that it only happens to my phone on Gingerbread. Also must mention, my wifes phone does it also. She's on Gingerbread. She complains that I broke her phone lol.

*EDIT* CONFIRMED. 2nd nite in a row, no issues charging.
[Verizon Droid Charge] scriz:
Imnuts...ill have to disagree with you. This is the only android phone I've had this problem on, and I've had 6 different android phones. also, it only started happening for me when i went to Gingerbread. Going to flash back to Froyo and i will update.
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
Same here with me. It only started when I went to Gingerbread. Also happened on my wifes phone, also on GB. I went back to FroYo 2 days ago, and boom, no more charging issues. I can leave it on all nite and not get the random percentage drops. I gotta calibrate my battery now.
[Verizon Droid Charge] scriz:
Flashed back to Froyo and charged overnight, unplugged an hour ago and now I'm sitting at 96%.

Gingerbread be buggin' yo.
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
So it was a Gingerbread bug (GingerBug???) right? My battery life seems way better also. 6+ hrs off the charger and I am sitting on 73%. Not bad for me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
The mis-information in this thread regarding Li-ion batteries is getting out of hand.

I think many of us are thinking about ni-cad batteries in which all the "bad" things we are talking about in this thread apply.

for a Li-Ion Battery, there is no "memory" effect. this means you can charge it at any point during the discharge phase. You also do not need to allow the battery to drain fully and charge to full to "condition" the battery. Li-Ion batteries can be charged at any point up to any point (from 30% to 70%, then 50% to 90%) and it will not effect the batteries performance.

Li-Batteries also do not suffer from overcharging. The charging circuits in cell phones will charge the battery until it is full, and then trickle charge from then on. And because Li-ion batteries do not have memories, this type of charging will not effect performance.

Li-Ion batteries can only be charged a finite number of times. However, the number of times does not translate to the number of times you happen to plug it in. The batteries have a rated number of "charge cycles", this is when the power from the battery has been exhausted and then re-filled. If you always charge your battery at 50% - 100% then every 2 charges you are using 1 full charge cycle. The batteries in the charge are 1600mAh and have approx 500 charge cycles. if you discharged and charged your phone from 0 to 100% every day, your battery would last 500 days before it would start to suffer from poor performance.

the OP in this thread is having software related issues related to the phone mis-representing the correct charge level of the battery, and then stopping the charge cycle prematurely.

Remember, it is perfectly OK, and expected of you to charge your battery as many times as you need to. Keep the thing on the charger any chance you get, it is not going to hurt it, its designed to be used that way. This is why Li-Ion took over as the battery tech of choice compared to Ni-cad.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery (not a definitive reference, just a starting point for people interested)

http://www.geek.com/smartphone-buyers-guide/battery/ (A Few good sentences in this about the topic

http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipods.html (Another good source, Ipod also uses li-ion batteries - as do almost all consumer electronics)

Experience:

Electrical Engineer/Nuclear Physics Double Major

UC Davis, California

College of Engineering
[Verizon Droid Charge] youngpettyboi:
This coming from a person WHO KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT is very beneficial to us. Knowing that there is no way to actually "condition" a Li-Ion battery means that us who are actually suffer from poor battery life either have defective units or defective batteries. I hear of this miraculous 2 day battery life, yet I struggle to get thru a full 7 or 8 hrs with moderate usage. And this is a replacement unit AND battery. None of my other phones had that issue of immediately droping percentages like that, so I figured it was a software issue, that's why I went back to FroYo to test it out. Seems I was right. Gingerbread has a software issue that keeps the battery on some phones from reaching a full charge. Also my phone would be boiling hot during the charging process. Since reverting back, I've had no issues. Thanks for the insight. Coning from a knowledgeable source, it means a lot. Thanks!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sfork:
This took me all day to figure out so I'm making a guide. The 2 Big problems I had were getting the S-on patch to work and the newer Hboot that came with gingerbread refusing to downgrade to an older PC36IMG.zip.

The main reason I wanted to return to stock was for a repair, last time i did everything except s-on and the guy noticed it and black listed my esn.

Make sure you are prepared before you continue! Once you flash your radio your phone wont boot into the OS.

First, you need to flash an older radio for the S-ON patch to even work. I found flashing EVO_Radio_2.15.00.07.28.zip worked best. Do this in your custom recovery

Follow djR3Z's guide to turn S-ON but do not go past step 7!

Download this file I got this off a youtube video for the incredible and replaced the files with their EVO specific counterparts

Open the zip and move flash_image and mtd0.img to your sdk/tools/ folder

boot into your custom recovery and mount /system/

open up a command prompt in your tools folder

(in windows7 hold shift and right click on /tools/ there will be an option to "open command window")

Run the commands in the commands.txt file. FYI you can paste into command prompt with right click.

After this you can move your stock PC36IMG.zip to the root of your SD card and reboot into your Hboot Bootloader. If everything was done correctly it should now accept PC36IMG and downgrade to stock.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldpreowner:
Great job! Do you think there will be an easier way in the future? I don't think I would be able to do this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
If you run the 3.70 RUU while still s-off, will it replace the hboot with an older version? It seems like it should, but I'm confused by the 6.16 hboot.

I haven't actually ran revolutionary, so this is all theory, but I thought unrooting/s-on would work like this:

Run the RUU for 3.70. I don't have much experience with RUUs, but if they don't include radios, you would then need to reflash recovery and downgrade the radio. After reflashing etc, then flash the s-on zip. Then rerun the RUU for 3.70 to get rid of your custom recovery, or run the RUU for 4.24, since once you're s-on you can't downgrade & every RUU will be a downgrade from 6.16 hboot.

Now this may be entirely wrong, but I was just curious if it would work. I've been rooted for a while, and unrooting and s-on would be much easier for me. Even though it sounds like a pain, it still sounds more noob friendly than the version in the OP.

Either way, great job on putting this together. I know that a lot of people are curious about unrooting from revolutionary, so hopefully you've cleared some confusion.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain_Throwback:
I can't get this step to work, try as I have to get S-ON back, it won't go. Doesn't the Revolutionary HBOOT prevent this from working?

The unrevoked-son zip flashes fine, and says it worked, but I'm still S-OFF. What did you do to get it to work?

@plainjane

HBOOT will not update to an older version. If that were possible, the GB OTA wouldn't have had to be rooted at all, since everyone would've been able to downgrade to a rootable HBOOT version.

It's that fact that makes me wary of this method working at all. Can the steps after the "S-ON" portion be completed (which I assume finds a way to downgrade HBOOT), and then run the S-ON tool & flash the stock PC36IMG? I think that's what I'll try now, since I can't get it working in the order specified here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
You can downgrade via RUU if you're s-off. My suggestion was to run the RUU while still s-off, because s-on won't allow you to downgrade. Or, if the RUU won't replace the bootloader, then flash an older hboot.

Then, if you're still s-off, flash the s-on tool. I don't know if this root method uses unrevoked forever or if it's just an always s-off hboot. I do know that it's a different hboot version.

If anyone has a chance to try to run the 3.70 RUU and see if it downgrades the hboot, I'd like to know. If it doesn't, but the RUU completes, then you should be able to flash recovery and then flash an older hboot - I believe 2.10 is the one that shipped with 3.70. Mine is 2.02, and I never updated to 3.70 (I believe it was 3.30 when I rooted).

Again, it's just a theory. If I get curious enough then I may unroot and update just to try revolutionary and try to unroot again, but I'd rather not get stuck with a horrendously obvious 6.16 hboot that can't be replaced/unrooted if I don't have to.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain_Throwback:
What I was saying is, at least with the Revolutionary HBOOT (6.16), it will not downgrade, either using the 3.70 Froyo RUU or the 4.24 GB RUU or PC36IMG.zip files flashed through Fastboot. It bypasses the Bootloader update every time.

Have you somehow gotten HBOOT to downgrade while S-OFF?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shortydoggg:
Hboot 6.16 will not downgrade or flash S-ON currently.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] jchavez1993:
Hey guyz ##847446# doesn't work on iho on optimus v how do I get into the programming menu??? Thanks
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Whyzor:
Only works on Froyo ROMs I believe. You could flash one or restore one, program it or activate it there, then flash back to IHO.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] jchavez1993:
would recovering from clockwork on the backup den reflashing help