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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] LincolnBlack:
I'm using ADW over the top over Touchwiz with just a single homescreen and I've had a very difficult time getting the wallpapers to look any decent even with Wallpaper Wizardrii.

I've been doing some mucking around with both Wallpaper Wizardrii and the Touchwiz wallpaper chooser and seem to have come up with a method that gets the wallpaper in the right spot.

I open my chosen wallpaper in Wallpaper Wizardrii and set it as the wallpaper using the 'exact' setting. This adds big useful margins around the image. I then open Root Explorer and browse to the WallpaperWizardrii folder on the SD Card (I use Root Explorer because Gallery doesn't seem to refresh the images properly, even when using SDRescan). I then select the current_wallpaper.jpg and open it in gallery. From there I can set this image as the wallpaper using the Touchwiz wallpaper cooser and I can use the big new margins to hang the wallpaper selection box over so I'm getting all my image onto the screen.

Below is how I crop the image in the Touchwiz wallpaper chooser to get it to fit properly in landscape.

Hope this helps some!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] daniel_1983x:
its works, however the wallpaper will become "zoomed in" again after a restart of the device... but works again once u start the wizardrii app..

and doesnt work again once u turn your screen to Portrait on homescreen..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] LincolnBlack:
I noticed this also, where it looked to crop the right third of the image off.

funnily enough, when I then chose an unrelated image and set that as a wallpaper, it still has 1/3 of the image missing.

Must be a bug somewhere down the line...

If I could find another app that would allow me to add the margins onto an image, removing Wallpaper Wizardrii might stop it from happening?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] mroneeyedboh:
hey bro an update that wizardrii app doesnt work after a reboot. when it reboots, it only shows 3/4 from left to right. On the right there is a big black block where the wall paper should be. And yes I set it up unscrollable etc.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] mroneeyedboh:
Whoa this is a lot of work for a wallpaper haha. There has to be a way that is easier. None the less nice find!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] LincolnBlack:
Thanks.

Lol, yeah it's a lot of work just to get the wallpaper right!

After a restart, or whenever the wallpaper goes screwy, I find opening the Wallpaper Wizardrii app and then backing out back to the homescreen seems to fix it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Step666:
That's just a long-winded and less precise version of my original post.

It takes all of a couple of clicks in a program like GIMP to adjust the size of an image from 1280x800 to the correct size to fit the wallpaper selection tool and if you do it my way, then there's none of this guesswork trying to get the selection box in the right place, you just drag it to the edges of the image and it fits.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] LincolnBlack:
Actually, I followed your single-line instruction about using Wallpaper Wizardrii in OP. I would have been happy reading your post, having it work, and getting on with my day. But it didn't work. So I did some playing myself, got it to work, and elaborated it here.

Information is power right?

I'm also well aware that transferring my wallpaper to my PC, changing the canvas size, and sending it back to my tablet is far more accurate and less fiddly. But I'm not that anal about my wallpapers nor do I want to get up off the lounge and turn on my PC just to change my wallpaper.

As a side to the issue of 1/3rd of the image blacking out, force stopping Wallpaper Wizardrii seems to fix it after you've set the wallpaper with it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Step666:
Didn't see this post before...

There should be an option in Wallpaper Wizardrii to take a 1280x800 image and fit it perfectly as your wallpaper.

That's the only reason why I could imagine anyone would want to use it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Step666:
It took a bit longer than I had expected but I finally found a TouchWiz ROM I was prepared to put on my Tab and I can conclusively state that TouchWiz messes with the way you select/crop wallpapers.

Whilst using ADW, the template I posted previously fits as I said it would, as soon as I disable ADW and switch back to the stock TouchWiz launcher, it changes the aspect ratio of the crop/selection tool, thus rendering the template unsuitable.

It's a wee bit late just now but I'll try and work out tomorrow what the correct aspect ratio is for TouchWiz.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] gbrandwood:
1920x1408 seems to work well for me with a stock touchwiz rom (3.1)

Here is a sample template that I created:

Works for me!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Kayak83:
I cannot for the life of me get a custom wallpaper to fit. So frustrating. Had the same issue with my nook color. My old work around then was to open a market launcher, set the wallpaper then switch back to the stock launcher. Tried that this time with launcherpro on my galaxy tab and it didn't work. Still cropped to hell.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] shmigao:
I still don't understand why wallpaper Chooser for lock screen allows to choose the full picture (one frame) but the home screen not

Seems totally over engineered, make the lockschreen wp look nice, home screen not

I remwber in one phone rom a while back a dev actually modded the wallpaper Chooser so it would be just one frame, like the lock screen wp chooser
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] rusliii:
I have ADW launcher and I just downloaded Multi Live Wallpaper. I am trying to give a different picture for each screen and it keeps using the same picture for all of them. I Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] dllb:
Hit "Add Individual Settings +" for each screen in settings: so you'll end up with 5 of those lines in MLW settings screen right below Common Settings entry. Then go into each one and change Picture Source to select desired image for that screen. That's the procedure anyways.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] rusliii:
already did that..buat didnt work

but already found the answer from other xda forum and now its working :)

(ADW setting --- General Behavior Animation and Effects -- Desktop Behavior -- Wallpaper scrolling enable)

thanks :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] ljudevit:
Mickey

Thanks a lot ! :fingers-crossed:
[Dell Streak 7] RusGrizzly:
Folks, please be gentle if I'm asking something obvious... I'm new to Android. The question is if there is a way to disable some non-OS services (such as Skype, HeyTell, Google BlogService, HeyWire etc) from starting after my ROOTED DS7 is powered off/on. I'm UNIX guy, so was looking for something like /etc/rcX.d start scripts but was not able to find it. Advanced Task Killer for Froyo cant disable those permanently as well. Basically I need to stop it manually every time I turning on my DS7.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
[Dell Streak 7] stevedebi:
It has been a while since I went into an android installation, but the install packages have the extension .apk. There is a folder on the device that contains the .apk files that are installed when the device is reset. If you go into that folder you can rename the .apk to .bak or whatever, and then do a hard reset, the programs won't install. Maybe someone with a rooted device can provide the directory names.
[Dell Streak 7] RusGrizzly:
Thank you for the reply. There is a directory /system/app with bunch of apk(s) in it. However if I rename those which are starting after the reboot wouldn't it disable app permanently? It is not my goal, honestly. I just trying to find the way to use those on demand basis. Thank you again.
[Dell Streak 7] RusGrizzly:
My fault. Sorry.
[Dell Streak 7] otnos:
Titanium backup can freeze those app so they won't run, and then un-freeze them if you want. :)
[Dell Streak 7] RusGrizzly:
Thanks a lot! Worked as a charm! :-)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motoyola:
As the title say, is there a way to flash an android phone without changing the bootloader to s-off. If not then is it possible to flash the original boot after flashing the custom rom just to make the s-on again with a custom rom?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Not all android devices have a bootloader with S-ON. Usually HTC android devices for the most part are the ones with locked bootloaders. If it's this case, then no. It's not possible to flash anything (unofficially) without the bootloader being unlocked. Also, I'm not sure about all but (from the devices I know of with this situation) it's not possible to gain S-ON yet. Like for the HTC Aria. It is able to be S-OFF'ed but not vice versa as yet. There are rumors about a tool being made to reverse this and make S-On possible again but flashing the official firmware will NOT make it S-ON again.
[HTC Sensation] vincepg13:
Title explains it all really, I'm wondering if its even possible to port sense 2.1 to the sensation.

I like sense 3 and all but its just not stable, I would prefer to have sense 2....I miss my desire hd became of it.

But obviously this phone has many hardware advancements so I wanted to see if it was possible to have sense 2 on it, then its like the best of both worlds
[HTC Sensation] Archyy:
should be possible since its a sense rom but id say a new kernel would be needed?
[HTC Sensation] TcG71:
Possible ? Sure, but I don't think that You'll find a developer which will try to port 2.1 on a device already coming with Sense 3.0.
[HTC Sensation] MrShotgun:
Sense 2.1 is only build for older devices and not for sensation for evo. 3d
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quentin2260:
Hello,

I have updated my wildfire whith the last nightly (177) and when i reboot i have a forceclosed message "com.android.systemui".

Someone can help me please ?

Sorry for my bad english, i am french.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ErwinP:
Hello quentin2260

You can try this: go into recovery, whipe /cache and the dalviks chache and try to flash the nightly it again.

Erwin
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quentin2260:
I tried it but it doesn't work :( i have another forceclosed "android.process.media".

Wipe data/factory can solve my problem ? but i loose all my data/contact ...
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ErwinP:
You can always try, yes.

You can sync your contacs with the google servers so you will not loose them after a flash.

For your apps: look for "titanium backup". You can backup your apps + data, and after a full whipe you can restore it all. Just don't restore system apps, as you having problems with them!

Good luck!

Erwin
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C4NCER:
try running repair permissions from rom manager and then rebooting
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george1234567890:
If you didn't completely wipe everything before install you will get this.

wipe all then reinstall

backup stuff first though
[HTC EVO 3D] yankeesamurai:
Per the Instructions

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1202654

How to Flash

Download

Move to SD

Boot into Recovery

Wipe data/Factory reset(in some cases you can just wipe cache and dalvik cache

Flash ROM

ENJOY

---------------------------

(BOOTLOADER 1.5)

PUT ALL ZIPPED FILE / FILES ON SD CARD

R&R BATTERY

BOOTLOADER

RECOVERY MODE - GET BLACK SCREEN W/ EVO PIC AND RED DELTA TRIANGLE WITH EXCLAMATION MARK IN CENTER

NEVER LEAVES THAT SCREEN

UP VOL BUTTON

GET RECOVERY MENU

CHOOSE WIPE- IT SAYS CLEARING CACHE

RECOVERY MENU AGIAN

CHOOSE ONLY OPTION - INSTALL UPDATE FROM SD CARD

IT DOES SOME STUFF AND REBOOTS BACK TO ORIGINAL SPRINT

THIS IS SUCH TOTAL CRAP SPRINT UPDATE HAS JACKED UP THIS ROOT...

WHAT IS WRONG WHY ISNT THIS ROM TAKING..

THANKS IN ADVANCE...
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
The screen with the "EVO PIC AND RED DELTA TRIANGLE WITH EXCLAMATION MARK IN CENTER" is the stock recovery. In order to load custom ROMs you will first have to load a custom recovery.

There are mainly two custom recoveries available for the EVO 3D. Clockworkmod and Teamwin Recovery Project.

I've linked both of them to save you the hassle of searching. Hope that helps!
[HTC EVO 3D] yankeesamurai:
Thnks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
I just answered you again in the d3rp thread, that ROM says it's using a kernel based on the 2.3.3 OTA, which in your case will not work. The HTC unlock method only supports kernels (and ROMs that have them) based on the latest 2.3.4 OTA. Try another ROM that is based on the 2.08 OTA with the stock kernel, it should work then. Also, yes like Joey and I both said, get a custom recovery too :)
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
Everything above is spot on. Unlock bootloader. Flash custom recovery. Then proceed to load ROMs and/or kernels through the custom recovery!

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I don't see how this is possible.

Sorry to the OP as this post might take the thread off topic but I think this suggestion might be incorrect and might result in greater time and labor to adhere to when it is not necessary.

The above quote implies the latest hboot version (with HTC unlock) scans kernels and ROMs to check which version they're reporting internally? I'm fairly certain the bootloader operates independently of the android version loaded in the boot or system partition.

The only possible way I can think of for the bootloader not to load an "older" version kernel would be if they changed the cmdline passed from the bootloader to the kernel ... maybe they did do this .. although I can't see them putting the extra time and effort into coding it .. but maybe it is part of the new "unlockable" bootloader they've released.

If the HTC unlock method supports kernel and ROM flashing, it wouldn't know the difference between an android 1.5 kernel and ROM and an android 2.3.4 kernel and ROM.

As long as the kernel and ROM are designed for the same version of android, they should load, boot and operate fine assuming they've been flashed properly.
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
Yeah I guess i'm not one hundred percent, but from what I've been hearing, people who have an htc unlocked cannot flash kernels, or older versions of them in ROMs. I believe it had something to do with how s-off changes the writesecureflag or whatever.
[Defy General] measel:
I'm using CM7RC1v2 and I'm having troubles choosing a different navigation app in the contacts by clicking the address...it always opens Google Maps.

I tried deleting the default settings...but it's greyed out.

I deleted Google Maps but then nothing opened when clicking the address....

I tried deleting the default settings from my other navigation app but that was greyed out as well.

Any idea?
[Defy General] measel:
So, no clue anyone?
[Defy General] measel:
Hello again,

right now I installed cm7 from scratch (not only due to this bug but performance issues). Unfortunately it had no impact: I still cannot link any navigation app to my contacts addresses!

edit: seems to be a bug in the navi software...another one worked.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herzzreh:
Sprint has significantly deteriorated over the past six months in my area. Speeds are on par with GPRS speeds. This, the latest Airave snafu and the ability to get out of contract nailed the coffin.

Where is the best place to sell my two Epics and an Evo? What would be a fair price? Phones are in good condition, just normal wear and tear marks. Definitely not flawless.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtuansdiamm:
Xda market place is a gloss place to sell your phones and I would match someone else's price

But it should be around one hundred

I heard somewhere that sprint was selling refurbs for 120
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herzzreh:
Thanks!

geez... Why do CDMA phones lose their value so badly?!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orb360:
1. ESN... Having to check if it's clean or stolen and useless chases away a lot of buyers who don't want to hassle with finding out the used phone you sold them is a fancy brick.

2. Since there are a lot of returns on the Epic 4G, refurb prices went down quickly... Why buy from a private party when you can buy a warranteed refurb?

3. All phone prices drop quickly... New phones come out every 3 months or so that significantly devalue everything else currently on the market. And it's not just phones... ALL tech devalues at a pretty quick clip. Although Apple products seem to hold their value pretty well... Never figured out what makes them so special though.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xboxfanj:
There's a guy in the Sense thread in Android Development (a few pages back within the thread) bubby323 and he will trade your epic for his touchpad.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Root:
1 million dollars!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unknown Zone:
I picked up an Epic on ebay for a friend of mine, and the selling prices were going for 150-200 on most of the phones.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MajicManDroid:
I did the same For my girlfriend and I. Both phones were flawless and sprint gave us no issues activating them.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdelano:
I bought one from eBay for 155, only had a 2gb sd card (phone it replaced had a 16gb anyway) but had a case.

(wife killed her transform, which was good because that phone suuucckkeeddd!)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnnyEpic:
I paid 150 on Craigslist last week.

I'd suggest you hurry up considering Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch Eenie meenie mie ney moe's (long name, shheeesh) is about to release, and I bet Epics and Evos will be hot cakes. Cheap ones at that...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xboxfanj:
PM bubby323, he said he'd trade a TouchPad for it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phoenixv5:
As the title says, I have some questions about rooting and hacking an HTC Desire Z and also some application recommendations.

1) I used SuperOneClick to root an old Galaxy 551 Running Android 2.2.

Will the same thing work for an HTC Desire Z running 2.2? What about 2.3?

2) When I rooted my Galaxy 551, the wireless stopped working (started working after an unroot+restore)! Will there be any such risks if I root/hack/mod a Desire Z?

3) Is it possible to dual boot HTC Desire Z with Windows mobile 7 and Android 2.3? If so can someone point me to a howto (which is known to work for HTC Desire Z)! Also are there any risks (I'm not talking about recoverable bricks, but about something like wireless not working!) involved?

4) I saw a guide in the forum on running ubuntu within android!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=962023

It didn't work on Galaxy 551 (rooted and NOT custom romed)!

Is there any way to work ubuntu from a rooted Desire Z without installing a custom rom?

5) Last, I need recommendations for the following applications:

a) Media player (mkv,avi,rmvb supported)

b) Torrent

c) Comic book reader

d) Task manager (I really liked the one in Galaxy 551)

e) File Browser

f) Mobile TV (should be free, and should work decently from EDGE)

g) MMORPG/RPG (preferably with keybboard support)

h) Custom ROM (not exactly an app, but stil....)

At the moment I have vplayer & file expert.

And RPGs Zenonia, Dink, Pocket Legends, Star Legends, and Dungeon Defenders (any other good RPGs/MMOs?)

If I posted in the wrong forum, sorry.

I'm still kinda new to rooting, so some of my questions may be stupid (sorry for that too)!:)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilcuber:
1) best to follow the guide on the xda wiki for the htc vision. it is the guide i used and i rooted with no problem :)

2) there are risks to rooting but if you follow the exact steps you should be fine. also u should try changing radios on ur samsung galaxy if the wireless stops working

3) it is possible to dual boot but it would be very slow as the desire z dosent have sufficient enough memory

4) i dont know

5)

A) mobo player?

c) marvel comics app

d) autokiller memory optimizer

e) es file explorer or root explorer

g) ur opinion. zeonia is pretty good

h) virtuous unity
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbmryu:
Hello, I posted in another topic, but nobody gave me a reply..

So I am trying again...

The problem is that I really want to root my G2 because I want to use htc sense...

But I read that to root my phone, since it is a android 2.3.4, I have to downgrade it.

Is that right or we have a new way?

And if it is really necessary, The only method is that with the cmd? That is really complicated, but if is the only way I will read again the topic and make some questions...

please reply!

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phoenixv5:
1) Thanks I'll figure it out from there.

2) Like I asked risks or risks like bricking? (Cause bricking can be avoided if you do things right). And what do you mean 'changing radios'?

3) Slow? Two OSes running NON simultaneously will be slow?

4) Still waiting for it!

5) Thanks a lot. Although for task manager, I kinda want something that does NOT autokill :).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilcuber:
2) well there is always a change you will get bricked. i cannot tell if your phone will be bricked or not. also radios are how your phone is connected to cell towers. there are diffrent radios for diffrent parts of the world.

3) it would be slow because even though only one os is running at a time, there is still an amout of ram that is specifically alocated for the other os.

5) the advanced taskmanager can be set not to auto kill.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ditamae:
Watchdog is a great task manager. Lite version does the job for me.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phoenixv5:
2) So it was not caused by rooting? (It was wierd that rooting could cause Wifi of all things to stop working!) Anyways, I have no idea how to change radios, and like I said, after unrooting and resetting it started working again!

3) Too bad, I really wanted to try it! I guess it will be impossible to set it to allocate ram during boot like a PC or something!:(

Edit: Also, how do you update to 2.3 anyway? I can't find an update option in HTC Sync or anywhere in the phone!

Another Edit: NVM, got the answer!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
1) No super one click. Gonna have to follow the guide in the DZ/G2 wiki, downgrade, root, and flash a custom ROM (or pre-rooted OTA build).

2) There are risks in rooting any device. If you follow the proper guide to root and take your time (don't be stupid!) there are no known issues or regular problems that people have faced with rooting this device.

3) No.

4) That's a serious hack to get it running. Some people are getting it to kinda work.

5) Recommendations

a) I use Google Music for music. RockPlayer works pretty well for other media (admittedly I don't watch that much video on my phone).

b) There are a few out there, but why would you want to torrent on your phone?

c) don't read comics. sorry.

d)

DONT

use a task killer. If you must use an app to watch tasks, use something like WatchDog to monitor for tasks running wild, but never kills anything unless you say so, and doesn't suck memory.

e) I use the built-in file browser in CM7. I also use File Expert as a good root explorer.

f) Mobile TV? on EDGE? Good luck.

g) Dungeon Defenders is a cool MMORPG apparently. I've dabbled in it a little its pretty fun

h) I LOVE my CM7 nightlies. Very stable and solid.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
You will have to downgrade to 2.2, root, and flash a custom ROM (there are many custom HTC Sense ROMs in the dev section).

The guides are pretty comprehensive. Do your research before starting, and ask questions about specific parts you have troubles with.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptesmoke:
+1 he nailed every point.

while sense looks pretty, cm7 nightlies are the cutting edge in features. ive tried to like other roms but always end up going back to cm. unrivaled stability and performance imo.

p.s follow the wiki you cant go wrong, step by step, and dont be scared of a command prompt, its your friend!