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[Nook Color General] leskerr:
Hi,

When I try to do a print screen using menu + volume down, the picture that is captured includes the "silence ringtone" window that pops up (relating to the pressing of the volume key). Can the display of volume be switched off?

Also, is there any way to select different key combinations? I am using a soft key for menu (Button Savior), and hitting that with the volume down key is more miss than hit - about 2 in 25 attempts!

BTW, I am using MIUI 1.8.5 ROM.

TIA

Elkay
[Nook Color General] wangcliff:
I even cannot do screen shot by using Menu+Volume- buttons. Actually I want to know if there is a way to define sofkey in Button Savior.
[Nook Color General] leskerr:
I haven't been able to repeat a capture, but I have 2 screenshots as evidence it is possible.

I haven't found any way of defining a softkey in Button Savior.

Les
[Acer Iconia A500] mroneeyedboh:
I was wondering how the scene is on the a500. I'm interested in one, but I know nothing about them to reallu distinguish what's what yet. Its pretty much between this, an xoom or the HP touchpad.

Sure this could be biased but I hope someone can offer me good advice based on knowledge not fan boys.

Can Netflix be played on all of those? Any other issues? I'd want to root whatever I get. I know HP TP isn't android.....yet :)
[Acer Iconia A500] cfrock:
Well the HP is out of the question as it's been discontinued. The Xoom is more expensive and offers nothing the Acer doesn't; yet the Acer has Standard & Micro usb and better sound. There are others reasons but really with the choices you provided the choice is clear.
[Acer Iconia A500] engine95:
Well, my opinion, and I had the HP TouchPad, and now the Iconia, is to go with the Iconia. The HP fiasco has messed up webOS enough that everything done to it will be from the after market so to speak. Plus to get Android on it will take a long time. I had it for a month and just was not happy with it.

Now I have the Iconia and love it compared to any other tablet mainly because of all the accessory ports. Development with the Iconia is a little difficult as there are many versions because of the world distribution. But the Roms seem to be multilanguage.

I don't now much about the Zoom but I have read complaints about it. Mainly expandability.

Short opinion, but hope it helps somewhat.
[Acer Iconia A500] mroneeyedboh:
Yeah I have a 3.41 fw jailbroke ps3 that I'm looking to trade. They guy with the Acer said he rather get money than trade. I have someone offering a 32gb HP TP. So yeaH. Supposedly they are close to getting cm on the TP.

Sent from a miui HTC evo.
[HTC Inspire 4G] NicHD4G:
I have added a bunch of songs to my google account but there is no music on my android device it is not showing up.. And it's not on wifi download only
[HTC Inspire 4G] biglittlegato:
What version of Google Music are you running?

Sent from my Inspire 4G using the power of the dark side
[HTC Inspire 4G] NicHD4G:
Version 3.0.1
[HTC Inspire 4G] biglittlegato:
That version worked for me.

Sent from my Inspire 4G using the power of the dark side
[HTC Inspire 4G] hungmung:
Go to menu then library options and make sure you have show all checked not just show local.

Sent through the power of Cthulhu!
[HTC Inspire 4G] NicHD4G:
I have all selected.. Thanks though.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jamesyboy:
I'm struggling to recognize the benefit of a custom kernel on prime.

Also, Revolver has piqued my interest. I've seen other posts that are similar to this, but not quite as detailed as i'd like.

What does a custom kernel bring you? I have Prime 1.8.4 and haven't even really recognized the difference between in and the stock firmware.

Please be patient, i'm new to the Android OS.

So, to rehash, im looking for information on:

The benefits of Prime.

The benefits of a custom kernel + prime or revolver.

The benefits of Revolver.

Revolver + a custom kernel.

I'm appreciate the fact that you guys may not have time to indulge a noob like me. 8-) If anyone can help me find the resources i need, i'd greatly greatly greatly appreciate it!!!!

The guides & how-to's on this site are amazing, and i realize that most of this stuff is geared toward developers (i plan on developing, and have just begun my studies. I shall be as amazing as you all one day!!!) but i'm missing quite a bit of information. Few of the guides i've seen speak of what the software actually is/is intended to do/be, or how it's different.

P.S. If anyone has any idea if there is a ROM/ Android dev wiki, i'd appreciate the location of it.

If not, i think ill start one!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdfuogh:
I saw a thread that kinda talked about what a kernel is, but I think, for me, I use Clemsyn kernel because it allows me to overclock (overclocking at 1400~1504 atm) up to 1600ghz. That lets your tablet run faster than the factory setting (which sets it lower for less chance of a burn out). Other than that, I don't really know either and I'd like to hear some replies too =D.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gottahavit:
its basically similar to the benefits of a custom rom. it lets you...

1) overclock

2) adds support for kernel modules like ntfs, cifs, 3g.....

3) can allow for optimizations
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chatch15117:
clemsyn is always playing with bus speeds and memory timings to squeeze the most performance out of the tablet. he also adds modules and functionality like the poster above said.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wimpanzee:
I like custom roms because they do awesome things, like compile tun and cifs support into the kernel. now, i have been on prime for some time, but a lot of things seemed to be a little snappier over the stock rom.

i don't bother overclocking.
[LG Optimus Black] antonio1475:
This is a simple app for NOVA (v7 mainly) that lets you manually check and see the 3 things you can receive in NOVA via d2u interface, whenever you want in case you missed the message or you want to check if new themes are available. There are the 3 tabs for:

·Messages (sent by knzo)

·Theme Updates alert/log

·NOVA Updates alert

Screenshots:

It's not the most useful app in the world right now, just a basic app that also intended to have an internal functionality that I'm not able to put.

DOWNLOAD:

http://bit.ly/appnova1​

:)
[LG Optimus Black] fortunat0:
good work!

Installing right now ;)
[LG Optimus Black] netum:
Icon larger text such as to reduce, with "-" ;)
[LG Optimus Black] antonio1475:
What? :confused:
[LG Optimus Black] Yusei:
very nice

updating W7 v15 :D
[LG Optimus Black] antonio1475:
Actually there is no v15. The file was created to be launched when theme updates (tomorrow or so). So no v15 yet. Just edited the updates.html.

Sorry :)
[LG Optimus Black] Yusei:
i noticed this lool

tricked me like a jedi :D
[LG Optimus Black] antonio1475:
You two made me feel bad and I just got into making the next themes updates :p
[LG Optimus Black] knzo:
Nice. Does this work on Nova ROM?
[LG Optimus Black] Yusei:
c'mon then :D

may the force be with you
[LG Optimus Black] antonio1475:
I think it doesn't in v7... Back to NOVA 4.5

:p (just kidding, in case anyone doesn't get it)
[LG Optimus Black] Yusei:
soooooooooo, you are a sith :D

go for it antonio

you two made a great work in this rom

tell me when you gona trade your OB, cuz i do the same :D
[LG Optimus Black] netum:
It would be nice if in the Messages tab, the link was active and could open it in browser.

If copy a link to the clipboard and paste into browser, because of the transfer line is obtained by mistake. In the place of transfer to a new line is added space character "%20"

http://xdaforums.com/%20showthread.php?t=1241460
[LG Optimus Black] Huexxx:
Good idea!

Then, with this app, can I disable d2u and check by myself the updates with the app?
[LG Optimus Black] spyb0y:
ha ha ha ha
[LG Optimus Black] antonio1475:
Yes you can, is one of the purposes of this app in case you want to disable d2u (wich I love and I'm excited for, but I understand ot everyone will like the background service)

:)
[LG Optimus Black] antonio1475:
That's knzo's file, I can't handle it. But in case he doesn't read this, I will remind him.

:)
[LG Optimus Black] gomez_pt:
Great app :D many thanks
[LG Optimus Black] fatcobrah:
i like it :)))))))
[LG Optimus Black] expectro:
good job, already installed
[LG Optimus Black] vali_m30:
Please help

flash nova end mesage : E :cant open/cache/recovery/last_log
[LG Optimus Black] Huexxx:
It doesn't mind.
[LG Optimus Black] vali_m30:
bat dosen t work nova.freez black screen
[LG Optimus Black] officialreloaded:
Well, i flashed NOVA for the first time at v8. So, since then i was hoping to see updates through this app. But since knzo now declared that NOVA is discontinued (very sad), can i uninstall this Update Checker app ?
[LG Optimus Black] Huexxx:
Of course.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reggie cheeks:
Is there such a thing as all 4 of these on one Rom for diNC?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reggie cheeks:
I'll take that as a no.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeramyEggs:
Isn't the new ota leak gingerbread? If it is stock, wouldn't have tv out? Then as long as you r rooted, you could download hulu with the flash 10.3 mod, and have what you are looking for?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reggie cheeks:
:) yes, thanks. And that's what I'll do.
[Android Software Development] nik3r:
Hello I am desperately trying to run a shell script from my java app.

I tried to use http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Runtime.html#exec%28java.lang.String%29 Runtime Exec to run it and it works except nothing really happens and the script is not executed.

My command was "/system/bin/sh /data/local/test.sh", of course properly chmodded. I tried running the test.sh directly, even tried opening a SH instance and pushing commands to the console via output buffer - nothing works.

When I try to run SU for example using any of these methods, I get prompted for superuser access, so it does work, just doesn't work like I want.

Anybody has any idea what's wrong? Or alternative way to run a script post-boot? (init.d executes too early in the startup process for my needs)
[Android Software Development] Gene Poole:
Are you capturing the error stream, or just the output stream?
[Android Software Development] nik3r:
This is everything I tried:

String[] str = { "/system/bin/sh", "/data/local/test.sh" };
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(str);
p.waitFor();

Process p2 = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/system/bin/sh /data/local/test.sh");
p2.waitFor();

Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process p = runtime.exec("/system/bin/sh");
OutputStream os = p.getOutputStream();

String str = "/data/local/test.sh";
byte[] cmds = str.getBytes();

os.write(cmds);
os.flush();
os.close();

calling just "/system/bin/sh" or "su" works - it actually waits indefinitely in each approach but once I try to execute a script it won't budge. I also attempted to run other parametrized commands like "setprop persist.sys.use_dithering 0" and it also failed. I'll try to intercept the error stream, good point.
[Android Software Development] Gene Poole:
You need the "-c" option to execute a script:

Sorry I missed that in your first post.

String[] str = { "/system/bin/sh", [COLOR="Red"]"-c",[/COLOR] "/data/local/test.sh" };
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(str);
p.waitFor();
[Android Software Development] nik3r:
nope, this is what I have

String[] str = { "/system/bin/sh", "-c", "/data/local/test.sh" };
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(str);
p.waitFor();

still no effect, the /data/local/test.sh is 0777 and only contains

echo "success" > /data/local/testresult.txt

The same command works from ADB even without the -c switch but with the exec command nothing happens.
[Android Software Development] nik3r:
finally progress

Update: according to the error output the file gets executed BUT it doesn't have permission to write in /data/local/ same problem if I try to write to this dir with java API.

My script needs to write there so I have only one question - is there a permission that would allow me to execute a script with access right to /data partition without root?

I want to modify the userdata partition after first boot of the ROM but I can't ask the user for root, I want to execute my tweaks and reboot the device before even the android login wizard appears so asking for root that has a prompt with timeout is not an option.

I know of an alternative way to do it but it's even more hacky than this and I would like to avoid someone vomiting over my code :D
[Android Software Development] Gene Poole:
Does it need to be /data/local? /data/local/tmp is world-writable on most devices.
[Android Software Development] nik3r:
In the end it needs to be /data/data/ actually, I want to mess with default settings of apps, system settings database for example... does that mean I need root or game over? Is there no permission for app to get access to the userdata partition?
[Android Software Development] Gene Poole:
As far as I know, the Dalvik system was set up that way on purpose to prevent errant apps from causing any problems elsewhere, and to maintain decent security (look how out of control Windows has become), so to answer your question, Yes, I believe you will need root.
[Android Software Development] HomerSp:
No, you can't write to /data/data without root (as that would be a major security risk).
[Android Software Development] nik3r:
Ok thanks guys I will try my dirty workaround :)
[Thunderbolt General] brisdaddy1207:
I keep getting an error message saying failure trying to update newer version. Need help or a different like to the full Ruu. Thank you in advance
[Thunderbolt General] brisdaddy1207:
Means to say link to re download the update.
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
More info please. What did you do?
[Thunderbolt General] Lyondellic:
What makes you believe that the update is for GB v2.3? Is this an OTA update from Verizon?
[Thunderbolt General] brisdaddy1207:
Sorry my question wasn't worded good. So here it goes LOL, I downloaded one of the leaks of Gb for the TB and I placed the file on my SD card and renamed it and shut the phone off held power and volume. Then I went through the steps and it started updating itself the when it finished it said error failure to update software to new. Once again thank you for responding to this I really appreciate all and any help.
[Thunderbolt General] 00negative:
Rooted or unrooted currently? I assume unrooted?
[Thunderbolt General] cryptid:
If you downloaded the RUU_Mecha_GINGERBREAD_S_VERIZON_WWE_2.10.605.1_Radio_0.01.78.0802w_3_NV_8K_1.41_9K_1.64_release_209273_signed.exe

Do not place on the SD card, is a Windows application to update your TB via Data cable.

Takes about 10-15 mins.

This is exactly as I did and worked without any problems.

On a further note...

A couple of days ago I rooted using the Revolutionary tool and flashed Clockwork recovery using ROM Manager then created a backup. Now I no longer have problems with constant ads, no verizon bloatware, and a full backup img of my rooted Gingerbread TB.
[Thunderbolt General] brisdaddy1207:
Unrooted can't don't know much about rooting with the method used. Actually I'm kinda scared, now I did root my Eris and my Incredible and LG Ally. But don't glum have to know adb.
[Thunderbolt General] brisdaddy1207:
Sorry about the can't in my last post meant to say don't.
[Thunderbolt General] brisdaddy1207:
Also don't know much about adb. Sorry about the funny post everyone knows the spell correct makes us sound like we can't talk. And thank's everyone for the post, I waited to post this on here,but couldn't find any info anywhere.
[Thunderbolt General] 00negative:
There should be an unrooted zip file that you could flash via hboot floating around here some where or might look on Rootzwiki site as well.

I would also check the md5 of the files to make sure they match the numbers posted by the OP before I attempted to flash it
[Thunderbolt General] brisdaddy1207:
You guys were awesome thanks again. Nice to know when someone gets stuck there are people willing to help. And think I'm going to attempt rooting my TB. I know if I get stuck ill be ok.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] brett_day:
What is your absolute favorite application/game? The one you just cannot live without. I am excepting to see a lot of mainstream apps being called out, so to go along with that question, what is your favorite non mainstream app/game?

My fave mainstream app would have to be Facebook (lots of friends from england)

My fave non mainstream app would have to be SwingGame

I am hoping that we will all be able to find some apps that we have never heard of before through this thread.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Chadashcroft22:
Netflix and before that came I would say YouTube app impressed me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] asdfuogh:
Reddita. I don't think I've ever wasted more time in my life than the period of AR (after reddita).
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] hardy81:
gReader. Looks, feels and works great
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] fliparsenal:
Pulse. Never have I wasted so much time during work cause of this app. Best RSS reader!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] brett_day:
I agree. Pulse is really quite amazing. The UI is beautiful
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Q.Entity:
Pulse. Great app.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ajamils:
I would have to agree with Pulse as well. Was recently introduced to this app and absolutely love it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Stardate Tab 10.1:
+ on pulse. Save sooo much time with it.

Multipicture live wallpaper.

1- because I was going out of my mind when honeycomb cropped my pics

2- runs great with adw ex
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] manaskb:
Feedly :

Love it the away it allows me the add the feeds, read the same feeds on my phone and on the tablet , and also on my desktop (Firefox addon).

Beautiful interface on both android and desktop. Another nice feature is the suggestions of other feeds that I would like. Stopped using pulse once I found Feedly
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ravizzle:
The browser is my fav. Its the one app I couldn't live without.

Sent from my Samsung Epic
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Beards:
I'm greedy, I have two ~ Evernote & Dropbox

Both serve me exceptionally well on all my devices; allowing data to be shared simple and easy.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gf_gollum:
Evernote: Totally useful - not a timewaster - your information available transparently on every device you own, simply awesome.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] skydirt:
It used to be Pulse, until I found News360.

Honestly though, the browser gets 99% of the usage on my tablet. I use the default browser cause I;m a chrome user on PC and having synced bookmarks is a necessity. Opera Mobile would be great if I could add more than 9 speed dial buttons:rolleyes:

If I may ask my own question about "Your absolute favorite app"

What is your favorite sports app?

I'm trying to find a good one for tablet. All the amazing sports apps, Score Mobile, Fox etc suck for the tablet... they wont even go into landscape mode!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] CarsnGadgets:
For those who use Pulse, try out Taptu, its very similar but somehow cleaner and faster in my opinion. (news 360 is awesome though.)

But my favorite app is... either Dropbox or Youtube :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] random_noise:
I love Pulse.

Can't help but think that if you could hide the window which slides out from the left when you click a story by sliding it back, instead of hitting the back button it would be so much better.

Going to d/l Taptu & check it out as well. Cheers for the suggestion :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] reidar.ostrem:
Have you tried d9 reader? XDA creation, very good.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jtrosky:
For all of the folks that like Pulse - Check out News Republic - it's a really nice (and free) news app (I like it better than Pulse)!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gripnrip:
Besides the browser and Facebook (Friendcaster for tablets) the app I keep coming back and spending lots of time in is Age of Zombies. The Survival mode is addicting. It's the only game I've found on the Android Market that I keep coming back to play. Everything else I get bored of after 5-10 minutes.

Still can't replace console gaming though.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] SwiftLegend:
Have to agree with Pulse. Its just so clean and epic...and epic.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] lovercannes:
android market ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] eksasol:
I wish they had implement RSS support for Opera Mobile, but I've figure out how to enable adblocking for it so its my fav app now. Ofcourse RootExplorer and QuickSettings are essential too.

Can't say I use any unknown app, but some essential ones are:

Splasptop Remote to control my Windows PC.

ezPDF to read my class texts (the reason I had spare money to buy this tablet is because I decided to buy ebooks version).

And Font Changer believe it or not, at least everytime after flashing a rom (right now I'm using Calibri, but for larger readable text Ubuntu Bold is good.) Just need a "good" app to increase the font size.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] bighulk666:
Tumblr, Wizz, Pulse (just found the app thanks to this thread), FriendCaster.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chell24:
I love the Netflix app :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Stardate Tab 10.1:
+2 for News Republic. Not for the reader part of the app though. But for it's Widgets. Great scrollable Widgets.

I have a couple of the Widgets for my entertainment screen. Here is my sports screen with four of the Widgets.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] TNPaparazzi:
Poop log. Nuff said lol... That and the browser lol
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] newtybar:
Pulse - it's great when I am in the toilet.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] AlexTheStampede:
Opera user here. Aside from being my most used app, you can have more than 9 buttons in the speed dial... thing is, not from Opera mobile. You either manually edit a config file or using Opera desktop, config anything you want, import all the bookmarks you need, sign up for Opera Link and get everything synced to the Transfrormer. Needless to say, I'm also a very happy Opera desktop user XD

My most used app that isn't mainstream... uhm. TV Guide Italy. Helps deciding if there is anything on tv lol.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] fliparsenal:
You guys should try wifi file explorer. Cut my file transfer with USB in half, no need to connect it to a computer any longer. Uploaded a 2 g video file on my transformer as fast as if I had used USB.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] :
NASIOC
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] SwiftLegend:
Can I ask what everyone uses for a web browser? The stock browser is nice, but kinda slow and Dolphin annoys me sometimes. Anyone know of a browser that has a night mode (invert colors of webpage)? I usually am the last one to bed in my house and my TF's screen is bright as **** so it usually annoys my sleeping sister.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Keystone:
On both my transformer and Desire HD I use Juice Defender Ultimate Beta to alter the automatic brightness levels to a much lower bottom threshold than stock plus change the colour temperature to a much lower level for night reading.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Aelyus:
Not a clue about Night Mode, but I use Miren Browser, Dolphin Pad and the Stock one.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] krypta:
i use maxthon for tabs! always used dolphin on my DHD and TF, but the maxthon is quiet better (for me)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Beards:
Install Screen Filter and that will sort out your screen brightness issues.