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[Atrix 4G General] Bender B. Rodgriguez:
The majority is not always right.. But I do understand why people use ROM manager.

I can only say why I prefer ROM toolbox..

1.There are more functions and options in ROM toolbox

2. I don't use CWM, I use ROM Racer recovery instead. As an Atrix user, this seems more suited to our device than CWM.

3. Koush has openly expressed his dislike for the Atrix and said he doesn't want to develop for it.Also, I heard he ebay'ed his free development Atrix. (Not 100% on the truth in that though). Now I have no problem with any of that, it was his choice and personal preference. But that doesn't mean I have to support him either.

In the end, it all comes down to personal preference. Some will like Rom Manager better others will prefer ROM toolbox. The purpose of this thread was to get the opinions of both sides, and to show some people they had another option if they didn't know it existed.
[Atrix 4G General] live4nyy:
+1

In the spirit of Android, we do have a

choice

. If I wanted conformity I would have kept my iPhone:rolleyes:
[Atrix 4G General] dgowe15:
I'm not arguing or saying either is bad I'm just saying that rom racer and tenfar made custom versions of cwm recovery to work for our phone but that's what each individual phones cwm recovery is a custom cwm recovery, rom racer and tenfar just beat koush to the punch. But I agree with everyone here they are both great tools for there respective users.
[Atrix 4G General] live4nyy:
I kinda figured that was a main point you were trying to make, that the custom recoveries we have been using were still variations of CWM. And that's a very good point. :)

I'm also glad there was no bad blood left from this conversation, it's a great find for people who are looking for a little more simplicity basically. Personally, I use Rom Manager because it has worked for me in the past (especially when I had the N1) and continues to be a reliable product.
[Atrix 4G General] Phalanx7621:
Just to throw my 2 cents in, I've only ever installed Rom Manager once or twice, one of the times being because I had to in order to install the lastest pre beta of CM7, cause they tell you you need to because of the ext-4 that ROM manager's CWM supports. I've always used ROM Racer's, and before that I used the bootstrap of CWM. ROM manager allows you to install ROM's, which I just do by flashing. Plus I like to wipe EVERYTHING before a new flash, which means I"m gonna have to reboot into fastboot mode and erase all my stuff anyway. It allows you to keep updated with all the new different kinds of ROMS, which is definitely a plus and keeps things simple, but I'm the type to go online and read a bunch of forum posts about a ROM before just randomly trying it so I'm gonna proabably just push it to my external SD card and flash it from there. Also, if I'm not mistaken, ROM Manager doesn't even support external SD card flashing? Only internal? Well I wipe the internal SD card with every wipe. Which doesn't really work too well if yer using ROM Manager cause the ROM has to be ON the internal sd card. I just prefer ROMracer or another alternative, but ROM Manger for some people has become, as a previous poster said, their "go-to" application. And there's nothing wrong with that. To each his own.
[Atrix 4G General] Auxilium:
I believe in the most recent version of ROM Manager, it's set to sd-ext by default now. Doesn't allow you to change where you're flashing from.

But I agree, I prefer RomRacer's CWM.
[Atrix 4G General] live4nyy:
Well, I actually use Romracer's recovery in conjunction with Rom Manager. CWM is up to version 5.0.1.0 now which is actually working with the Atrix but, like I've said before, I just usually stick with what works so I'll continue to use Romracer's until it doesn't work.
[HTC EVO 3D] requiem420:
Please delete this post. Sorry
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tommixoft:
Is there any config file or system file where we can set minimal brightness? cause default 8-11% is to bright for me. I mean it's ok for the eyes i just worried about battery.

PLEASE don't suggest me those stupid apps for dumb people. Apps can do nothing, all apps is just replicas of stuff that is already in system.

In CM7 ROM i see custom values for brightness but those seems like don't work cause nothing changes :(

So is there any way to get minimal brightness to be even more minimal?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Enc0der:
'Tasker' has an option to set brightness as any number value. It also has a warning message that says to avoid setting it to zero because it will make the device useless.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ryronz:
AFAIK it doesn't actually reduce the backlight, just makes the screen darker. So its same amount of battery usage, It only decreases battery usage on a AMOLED screen.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tommixoft:
SAD... :( cause brighness is good, but at night when you're in the dark it may be even more less bright and save some battery.. strange..maybe it's limited by Android API. I used CM7 options there is very nice module where you can set your own values in automatic adjustment of light but even if i set 5 it does not reduce light.

Maybe it's the lowest possible value for hardware..
[myTouch 4G Accessories] PatchesDM:
Hey, I record videos of my band with my MyTouch 4g (HTC Glacier) and when My band goes on, well I'm on stage, lol, anyone know of a case with a tripod or a kickstand, something of that nature?
[myTouch 4G Accessories] Ace42:
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Glove-Hy...HDQS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1315070166&sr=8-4

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Glove-Ki...RBFO/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1315070166&sr=8-5

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Glove-Pr...JFU0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1315070166&sr=8-3
[myTouch 4G Accessories] crawler9:
Actually looks pretty cool. I might buy one next time I have a little extra money to spend on gadgets.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musashiro:
im rooted now using cf-root...whos using overcome kratos? can i flash overcome directly from stock GB?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongski55:
The authors of overcome always advice to wipe tab first. You can try directly but don't ask the people in overcome if you damage your tab.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
You will still loose all data anyway as kratos needs to format part of internal sd card to ext4. Easier to do a backup of contacts,sms and apps then restock and go then flash kratos...
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techlvr:
I installed the Kratos rom right over my stock Gingerbread install. It worked fine and I did not loose any data or apps. You just have to make sure to get the no wipe version of the file.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
Isn't Motorola supposed to give us a unlocked bootloader by law???

They gave us the source

I wanna mod my phone .. but not at the risk off permanently losing features

Sry im just super picky and super impatient ..lol

Or am I totally wrong and the devs will save us all like they always have

Much love to all the devs!!!!

Ps anyone know if deck plans on doing anything with the photon??? I had a EVO last loved it...ran calk's stuff til I finally stopped hating cm based stuff....them ran decks stuff ...loved both if those guys work...super super smooth and rock solid and better than stock battery performance

I love this photon ..first Motorola phone I haven't taken back right away

Cheers again to all the devs!!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chatch15117:
Instructions + download: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17254652&postcount=7

I have finally found a way to control the Zune software running on Windows. The Zune API is horrible so there are few(if any) programs that interface with the software externally. Today I came across the SendMessage method. The idea is your Android device is a big remote control for the Zune software. If you already have a media remote then this application isn't needed. I only have a remote on my laptop, not desktop so that's why I'm bothering to write it. I thought I would share it on XDA for free.

http://pastebin.com/C85isGsW - that was my test program. When I opened it my music paused(yay!).

Anyways this will be a 2-part system. The Windows app will run in the background(either as a service or in the system tray) and listen on some random TCP port for a connection. It will be relatively small, using less than 50MB RAM. This one uses 27MB right now(yes, C# is bloated).

The Android app will simply connect over the wifis or even over the internet(just remember to forward ports) and after a quick handshake it will be able to send and receive data from the service/app in tray. First I'll start with simple play/pause buttons and a volume slider and eventually I'll add all the interfaces listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646275(v=vs.85).aspx

Step 1: install service or open the Windows program

Step 2: type computer IP in android app

Step 3: press play/pause or control volume etc. It will save the IP so you don't have to keep typing it in. In fact I will have a dropdown list so you can select different computers(HTPC, basement computer etc.)

I just started writing the program so it will by done by the end of the weekend. Figured I would create the thread since I know it will work.

inb4 zune sucks
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jhanford:
Interested in seeing this.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] bhuggans:
yes dude yes!!! imso amped for this! thanks so much.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chatch15117:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMjNrd1d4FM

Got it working with an ASP site...

now the annoying part... I tried setting it up with a default IIS instance and it doesn't have permissions to use the user32.dll!!! I tried forced impersonation and tons of different tricks but for some reason it isn't getting as high permissions as the ASP.NET debugging server.

So I need to either fix the android app so it will communicate with the service, or I need to find a way to get the IIS instance enough permissions to interact with the desktop. I did set the IIS Admin service to "interact with desktop" but nothing happened.

I also tried setting up Apache 2.2 with mod_asp installed but it has the same result... blocked from interacting.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chatch15117:
Ok I got it working but it's really really makeshift right now...

ASP website --> loopback on port 13000 --> C# app(that will actually interface with the Zune software)

I couldn't make the API call from the C# code in the ASP site because IIS doesn't have enough permissions. So since my only drawback before was that I couldn't communicate between .NET TcpListener and Java, I can just use the ASP site to make the TcpClient connection.

The good thing is you can access this interface from anything with a web browser. Just make http://computer-ip:port/ZuneControl a favorite on any device and you can control Zune from it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haVLCOY0l6U
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chatch15117:
If you're really eager to try the alpha build with IIS that's fine...

Just set up IIS like I do in the video and add port 13000 to your inbound and outbound firewall rule. I'll work on the UI when I get some time next weekend.

Here is the code for the C# app. http://pastebin.com/08kCjKQW

The web code is in the RAR file. I just copied and pasted out of that pastebin with some extra buttons.

http://tunerspotter.com/\dropbox\misc\ZuneControl.rar

In that ZuneControl folder, ZuneControl.exe is the app. Click start, then minimize it after you set up IIS. It will work for Apache installations also. I have Apache on port 82. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-aspdotnet/

Instruction video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClCQhmQxC7Q
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chatch15117:
Well i've been using the web interface for a few days and it kicks ass. Does exactly what i want. I can be in bed and change songs/volume from another tab in Opera.

Next weekend Ill see if i can get the program to listen on port 81 as a web service so instead of setting up IIS or apache all you have to do is open the app and click start(then minimize it)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jordan4jc:
hey are you still working on this? I would really love something like this!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chatch15117:
well i gave up on the app and just turned it into a ASP site + windows application. so yeah i've been using it for a few months. works great, i can pull up on any web capable device and adjust my music. Whether it's my zune, tablet, computer, or phone, i can adjust volume, go back/next, and pause/play from any device. i set up port forwarding with dyndns.org so it works over 3G
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] PatchesDM:
I want to find a super mario brothers and other NES themes but I've looked everywhere and no luck. Ideas?
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] Etrick:
Google android +mario +theme

(with the pluses)

Adw and other launchers have various mario themes. Lots of icons available. Sounds available all over the net.

Wallpaper is easy. Beautiful widgets has a sense like clock with mario theme, even has weather animations.

Probably best off with cm7, buy adw-ex, buy beautiful widget.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] RavenWulf:
also one of our members has a LWP that used to be in the market until Nintendo made him pull it you can still find it here though... hasn't been updated in a year but link still works

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=710647
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -SmithTech-:
First a little background.

I am rooted with permanent s-off

For the 1.70.xx, 2.10.xx, 2.11.xx RUU's I have extracted the rom.zip from the exe

then opened it up and replaced the recovery.img with clockwork recovery.img

then flashed and installed busybox.

this has worked great for me.

my question is can I remove or replace the boot.img and recovery.img in the 1.12 and 1.05 RUU's and keep root? I've read in the forums there is some issue particularly with versions prior to 1.12.xx that appear to be related to the boot.img.

Also does anyone know what the "Official" release versions were up to 1.70.xx?

Im doing some research on the visual changes between versions and want to go back to the very first day 1 release and work up through each of the "Official" OTA releases.

Thanks,

John
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBO1018:
Release firmware: 1.12.605.6

MR1 (first OTA): 1.13.605.7

MR2 (second OTA) 1.70.605.0

Edit: I would steer clear of builds prior to the release firmware per JCase's warning thread. If you are using the hard patched hboot (either manually applied or from using Revolutionary) it may not be an issue but just to be on the safe side I would avoid it. They are just extremely buggy pre-release firmware anyway.

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -SmithTech-:
Thanks for the info.

So the 1.05.xx firmware was never released then?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBO1018:
Nope 1.12.605.6 is the oldest that came on shipping models. (I.E. not dev/test phones.)

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
[HTC EVO 3D] PMGRANDS:
This like the Fifth, Sixth time I tried to post a ScreenShots and I keep getting a Stupid Ass Error Popup! What the Hell is causing this? I'll Try to post the ScreenShot of the Error, but who knows if it will even Allow me to? Wtf?
[HTC EVO 3D] jayharper08:
Only time I've gotten that is when I tried to edit one of my post to add another picture.
[HTC EVO 3D] PMGRANDS:
Why after you post a picture Can't go back and Edit the post as in (Add Pics) if its already has a post with pics?

I Didn't know that...

Thanx for the Info man!
[HTC EVO 3D] jayharper08:
Not sure but all in all I think its still a good app :) Maybe they will address it in an update. And no problem!
[HTC EVO 3D] PMGRANDS:
Hopefully man...
[HTC EVO 3D] METHOD1911:
Getting the same thing I stopped using it because of that.
[HTC EVO 3D] jayharper08:
Has anyone tried it thru the tapatalk app? I have tapatalk pro, I'll have to redownload it and see if it does the same.
[HTC EVO 3D] METHOD1911:
It doesn't not in tapatalk
[HTC EVO 3D] PMGRANDS:
It Doesn't do it in Tapatalk at All?

Is everything the same in the Tapatalk app? Does it have all the features like the thanks button, and the all other updates of the Newest XDA Premium app?
[HTC EVO 3D] fr0st420:
I get that error with Tapatalk whenever I try to post a picture.
[HTC EVO 3D] METHOD1911:
My tapatalk has all the features yes now for some Damn reason I cannot save anything posted. Ugh

Rooted Evo 3D in full affect
[HTC EVO 3D] PMGRANDS:
That's when I also was getting the Damn Error... But come to find out, If you ever get that Error again just post a Brand New Reply under the post that's giving the Error and it should Allow you to post the picture or whatever else it previously was Denying you from!
[HTC EVO 3D] Khilbron:
The XDA App and the Tapatalk are are the same thing. XDA Paid, or negotiated a deal with Tapatalk for a Self-Branded standalone version of the App. This is a service that Tapatalk offers to forum owners at the rate of $999 per forum per platform (android, ios, blackberry). Which is why they look 100% identical minus the rebranding, and carry the same features.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] lodxcol:
upon buying my phone, the first day i logged into the facebook app, using it as my contact list as well as Google contacts. I had them both set to Sync All. however, upon logging out of the facebook app (something i had never done before) and logging back in, the pictures are no longer available. i am running cyanogenmod nightly 56
[Motorola Droid X2] 0vermind:
Update: I am now encouraging modifications. I strongly encourage anyone and everyone to play around with these scripts and modify them. If you modify it for a different device, awesome! Post it for everyone, please. :-) If you find something interesting and you improve something, please post it. We should all be able to benefit from each others work.

I have created these scripts to help speed up the Droid x2 in all areas and to help conserve battery life. Not going to include a huge description this time. If you want to read the entire description behind these scripts visit my original thread for v1.

Installation

Depending on your comfort level, you may either unzip and move the scripts to init.d, or you may flash the zip file.

Speedy confirmed working on:

Droid X2 all roms, Droid 3 all roms. Report if you have any problems. Please flash the universal if you are NOT coming from either of these two phones.

After installation, you should reboot at least twice, then check in /data for a ".ItWorks" file. If this file does not exist, check to make sure your file manager is showing hidden files (ES File Explorer has this issue!), also double-check to make sure you have the latest busybox installed, you could also try running Fix Permissions in ROM Manager.

If your system appears slow, you may need to boot back into recovery and wipe dalvik, and cache partition.

Any feedback you can provide will definitely help future development.

Disputes

See something you feel you should be credited for? PM me and we'll talk. Replies to this thread that are hateful, argumentative, or just plain trolling, will in fact be deleted. Yes this is my own work, except where I have given credit. :)

*** Download ***

See post #2.

Press THANKS! :)
[Motorola Droid X2] nitwit:
Glad to see your continued efforts, thank you!

Im doing a complete wipe tonight and going to Eclipse 0.5 so I'll try these out as part of that update.

Do you happen to know if the method of rebooting the phone to fix the battery life issue is really necessary if we have your scripts in place?
[Motorola Droid X2] KurioHonoo:
Ignore this
[Motorola Droid X2] L2_n19h7m4r3:
This is great! Mike, thanks!!! Glad to see your further development/tweaking of these scripts.

EDIT: Installed over v1 on Eclipse 0.5, had to download and flash your init.d re-hack, installed v2 and we're off to the races!
[Motorola Droid X2] X0dus:
Busy Box 1.19 good to go for use with these scripts?
[Motorola Droid X2] donlad:
I have installed RoadRunner and I am sad to report that now doubleTwist skips more than before with Speedy. :/

EDIT: I made sure the scripts were still running by deleting the zipalign log in /data/ and rebooting, and it reappeared.
[Motorola Droid X2] MrWilliams2:
Bummer. I've just flashed Eclipse v0.5 and flashed the new speedy scripts. I'm recalibrating my battery now. I'll test for skips with PowerAmp Pro tomorrow and report back. Thanks 0vermind!
[Motorola Droid X2] Elite49:
Thanks will deff. check this out later today. Deff. need that guide for making our own priority list since I use none of those.

I do notice I still get audio skips. I DO use Stock Music with Equalizer with its new version and it still skips.

As for NitWit, I think we still need too. I'm pretty sure that would of been a big feature if that was in this script. Hopefully someone can fix that crap.
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
cani just flash over v1?
[Motorola Droid X2] booked:
Same question. Install over v1?
[Motorola Droid X2] L2_n19h7m4r3:
Read above. Worked for me.
[Motorola Droid X2] slinker1:
X2 reinstall over v1 worked fine so far :)
[Motorola Droid X2] 0vermind:
Yes. The flashable zip cleans everything up first.

EDIT: Those are are running v2, please let me know if you notice any differences, good or bad. Any feedback you can provide will definitely help future development.
[Motorola Droid X2] MrWilliams2:
The phone is running superbly! Everything is extremely quick and lag free. However, the audio issues still remain. I would be comfortable saying the skipping isn't quite as bad, but it's still aggravating. I'm using PowerAmp Pro.

EDIT: Running Eclipse v0.5 and Speedy v2.
[Motorola Droid X2] 0vermind:
I'm sorry to hear that. I'll definitely be doing some more investigation. That's probably my main goal right now is to get rid of audio skipping and lag.
[Motorola Droid X2] donlad:
There you go.
[Motorola Droid X2] 0vermind:
Is this with the screen on or off?
[Motorola Droid X2] donlad:
This is while using the phone. Example: while web-browsing, opening up other apps, etc.
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
So far with v2 on my phone i have noticed more memory usage, with v1 95-101mb now 74-79mb available avg...
[Motorola Droid X2] Elite49:
Been using v4 and I see that after a full 100% charge and on standbye while asleep it went from 100 to 60 in 7 hours. Normally it would go down 10% at most, looks like I'll reset battery calibration and if that doesn't work then go back to v3. It has to be this since it's the only thing I've installed on my phone in past week.
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
I have noticed with v4 my memory management has been horrible...like usually 80-90 available now it goes down to like 20-30mb during normal operation.
[Motorola Droid X2] X0dus:
That is very, very bad. Yikes! Does it improve if you remove all scripts?
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
Well i switched back to V6 and it back to 80-90mb

Whats weird is that V1 speedy script i thought worked the best i might even go back to that. The only thing i didn't like about V1 was the deepsleeper script, it seemed to make the phone laggy when reeving calls. I might splice all the best parts of these scripts together and make a super script...lol V3/4 has great battery life but V2 seemed ok and V3 was slow and V4 seemed good at first but after about a day it got really laggy and clogged up.
[Motorola Droid X2] Elite49:
Wow something must be wrong with your phone itself. Mines still at 160 - 200 after hours of being on. As I stated before, with all the stuff. Only bad thing is battery life so far.
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
Really...what are you using to see those numbers? I can't imagine a DX2 running heavy still having 180-200mb free unless everything is killed. When i kill everything i get 180-200mb but at the end of a day with email/web/txt ect its sitting at around 90mb free, which from what ive read is right about where it should be. I have been told that having too much free memory can be worst than not having enough sometimes because none of your apps are running and they always have to startup.