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[Motorola Droid Bionic] KahilYoung:
Wallpaper Guidelines?

Is there a certain guideline for creating wallpapers for the bionic? I've created wallpapers in the past for different devices and they look great, but they look like crap on my bionic. I've done some searching and it seems that a lot of people are noticing that too. Guessing its just a matter of the type of display the bionic has. Some images look great on the bionic, while some look terrible. So I'm wondering if there is some sort of specifics for how you create and save the image files to ensure they look great on the bionic's screen? Is it the image's pixel per inch? Is it the color profile? Is it the image mode as in RGB or CMYK? Or the image mode as in 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit? I'm trying to find the magic combo here.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dirtyfingers:
I dont think any wallpaper will ever look "great" on the bionics screen, especially compared to other phones. The colors just look too far off to me.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] KahilYoung:
Yeah, but still...would like to know the how and why. I can find and load some images that I find as wallpaper and they look great. Others look really bad...to the point where it is all pixelated and the color is off.

There has to be some kind of standards we can follow.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BleedingEdj:
1080 x 960 is the best size, especially if you want your wallpaper to scroll with your desktop. 24 or 32 bit color depth also works well. Using smaller images and/or lower color depth can cause banding and dithering in wall paper images. I think that's part of the reason a lot of people complained about the Bionics display - Google pulled in wall paper from their previous phones back-up and those images got scaled to fit the QHD screen on the Bionic. Happed to me anyway. I had some favorite wall papers on my Droid 2 that were 960 x 854. When my Bionic pulled down my Google data it tried to scale those images and some of them looked like crap-easpecially if they had gradient areas. After re-sizing them to 1080 x 960on my PC and replacing the 960 x 854 versions they looked much better.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] KahilYoung:
I've tried that and it doesn't work 99% of the time. Most of the time they still look like crap. In the past, if I've ever had a banding issue, all I had to do was add a little noise to the image to help break it up a bit. Seems like no matter what I try the images will look great on a computer screen or on other devices, but not on my Bionic. Still can't figure out why some images I find look good while others don't...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenavm:
Hello-

I am new to the boards as a poster, i've been reading for a while now and I must thank everyone especially in the development section of the forum for their incredible amount of help and expertise.

It has officially come time for my first noob question-

Can anyone help me out or lead me to a guide perhaps that will allow me to use OpenOffice on my webtop? This is really what I bought the lapdock for-it just came in yesterday.

I managed to get webtop2sd working on my own, lxterminal is functional. That's all I've got so far in fear of ruining anything else. :p

I'm not at all well-versed in any linux script or anything of the sort. I know windows like the back of my hand.. just so happens that my windows PC totally bit the dust(motherboard) last night and I'm forced into learning this stuff a little quicker. Why not, right?

I have done some searching, all of it leads me to a bunch of lingo and commands I don't understand yet. If anyone can point me in the direction of some help or provide me with a little one-on-one that would be awesome. I'm looking forward to helping others with these kinds of issues down the road.

Thank you!

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Also, I'm not sure if it's any help, but i'm running GB on Alien #4 with faux123's undefined 1.3ghz kernel.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omni_angel7:
See "EASY METHOD" in the original thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093790

Assuming you have webtop2sd and the linux addon installed properly

(with the linux image on your external SD), do the following:

1) Click the Penguin. You will get a window that says it has found an image in you external SD card.

2) Simply press "okay" on that window.

3) Once it shows the Pdmenu, select DebianMenus>Applications>Shells>Bash. it will bring up an xterm script which reads "root@localhost:/#"

4) To get open office, you must type "apt-get install openoffice.org" without the quotes.

5) Agree to install/update, and it will read "root@localhost:/#" once it is done.

6) At this point, and from now on, you can do steps 1-3 and simply type "openoffice.org" into xterm. It will take a second, but it will load a fully functional OpenOffice.

Basically you just need to know the package names to use this same structure for other programs. I use "openoffice.org", "iceweasel" (a firefox alternative, since my firefox keeps breaking), and "geany" (a C++ IDE for my programming classes). These are installed using "apt-get install packagename" and run using "packagename" in the bash script as well.

Good luck, and PM me if you have any problems because I likely will forget to return to this thread. Hit that thanks button!

-omni
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paravorheim:
Follow the guide in Alex's thread in the dev forum. I just installed open office yesterday haha.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenavm:
+1 to both of you, I'll get started on that and hopefully that will open doors for the rest of the stuff. Thanks a ton
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenavm:
Hello again all-

I didn't want to be that guy posting 95823094820394 threads about the same thing so I just figured I'd bump the one i created with some explanation:

I have webtop2sd properly(i believe, anyway) installed. LXterminal is functional. I also have linuxdisk in sdcard(-ext)/WebTopMOD . I'm not sure what to do from here. the help given above gave instructions to click the penguin while in webtop and run certain commands, but the penguin only brings up the webtop configurator. i have no other icons to click.

My goal, again, is just to get open office running on my webtop, for now. That's really it, the rest i'm sure will come with time. Thank you again for any help.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenavm:
I seem to have figured it out for the most part using Alex's guide. However, the installation threw a couple errors, couldn't really tell you what they were because they were epic and I'm clueless as far as linux for the time being. However, my educated guess and deduction points towards insufficient memory. I set up my webtop partition to be 1GB, because I'm using a 16GB sd card that's virtually full of music. Is 1GB skimping it if I want to install openoffice/other linux packages? What size partition is recommended?

Thank you!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omni_angel7:
4GB is recommended, though I would think based on the package sizes that openoffice.org would squeeze into a 1gb partition. With this phone I would definitely recommend an external SD. My 32GB holds my webtopmod, music, and every hack, mod, bootanimation, theme, kernel, radio, and zip I've ever flashed. Do it.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feriy:
Also openoffice worked, But i think it dosent match the atrix ubuntu core perfectly.

An error name:"openoffice Writer2laterx dose not configured" happened again and again. :confused::confused:
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenavm:
i am using an external SD, a 16 GB one. i'm about to make a 4GB partition and start from scratch. eventually, i'm picking up a 32 no doubt.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pederb:
After making a full re-installation of everything I can't get open office to install? I tried both via terminal and Synaptic both fail with error messages.

"dpkg error processing tzdata" Error code (1) error in package

Any ideas?

Cheers
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teeth_03:
my guide links a fix for that, but I use a different method than the one previously posted

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1397583&highlight=guide+webtop
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pederb:
Thxs, I will check it out

Cheers
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VGenius:
Cant open files from sdcard

Hello, I finally got openoffice installed, but I dont know how I can open files located in my sdcard. Can anyone please help me with this?
[HTC Incredible S] x2002dude:
Hey Folks,

Just wanted to hear some opinions on whether having a task manger is worth it. I've heard from both sides of the camp, stating newer versions of android can handle the load fine, and that more and more apps are running unnecessary background services.

I just did a clean wipe and reload of CM7 and I'm wondering whether I want my advanced task manager anymore.

Thoughts?
[HTC Incredible S] Saenzscene:
For me, I prefer no task killer. If I must close apps I go into running services and stop them that way. Usually they stop without me doing that.
[HTC Incredible S] UKseagull:
I don't use one, not needed.
[HTC Incredible S] fatexo:
i never ever felt the need of having a task killer on my Inc S

the apps close by themselves when not in use.
[HTC Incredible S] veitograf:
v6 supercharger

just use v6 supercharger it is better than all the taskillers you may find.
[HTC Incredible S] System92:
I don't use one. I'm running CM7 and as Saenzscene said, I stop programs in the running services menu. However I never really had the need to do it as RAM was never a problem.

But I have noticed while running certain programs that if you press the "home" button, the program may keep running in the background afterwards. Whereas if you press the "back" button it will close the program's running service. Can anyone confirm this?
[HTC Incredible S] jkolner:
Never had the need for a TaskManager with CM7 or ARHD.

/ Jess Kölner /

/ Sent from my phone /
[HTC Incredible S] scoobysnacks:
if you're using a task manager or task killer since froyo, urdoinitwrong
[HTC Incredible S] djbenny1:
I'm using advanced task killer simply to kill anything that may not be shut down even tho I mean to.

As someone said above, it's possible that some alps stay open and keep your phone awake. I have a large ignore list which I use to ensure nothing important gets closed down, only the rogue apps, now my phone never stays awake when it shouldn't.
[HTC Incredible S] Rivinence:
No Task Manager. Using CM7 nightly 103.
[HTC Incredible S] itandy:
Yes, some apps like to run as a service process if you quit the app. FriendCaster is one example. I think they do this to handle sync process in the background.
[HTC Incredible S] yusuf_lei:
I don't need anyone!
[HTC Incredible S] regoooolar:
My choice is no task manager, android is good.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] melboogz85:
im using eaglesblood 1.09 and netflix works just fine for me everything works fine for me no problems with this rom hope this helps those who want netflix and its not working on your g2x try eaglesblood rom
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jcbofkc:
It still does not work on EB 2.3.3.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] phburks:
Its based on cm7. Netflix has worked on cm7 and cm7 for quite some time.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Ethan5150:
Does anyone have any idea when Netflix will actually get their act together and release a real solution?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] camineroga:
Where did u get the rom
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mmapcpro:
You're running Eaglesblood 1.9, not 1.09...BIG difference.

1.x (and now 2.x) versions are 2.3.5 based and netflix works.

1.0x versions are 2.3.3 based, and netflix doesn't work.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hmm2k8:
Works for stock rom, update available on market now.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Razorblood:
Confirmed Xboard Stock tweaked 2.3.3 Works. Pause for a few seconds at start or else video will be slow and eventually will rapidly catch up to sound and it will play perfectly for then on. Small time to buffer should help.

Sent from my LG-P999
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Rome1977:
Yep it works on eaglesblood 1.07 2.3.3 rom
[T-Mobile LG G2x] KingDavid63:
Yeah they updated today should work for weapon!

Sent from my .357 Revolver!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jose makalolot:
Netflix 1.4.1 works with 2.3.3 based roms.

Sent from my Calculator with Android.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] maciek82:
Yup sure does! Thought I would never see the day where I can run hbogo, Netflix, and Bluetooth all on the same ROM.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Eroc162:
Updated this morning and working on stock rom. Yeahhhh

G2X & G-Slate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bclark1000:
I have been running the stock from the nightlies but I have been wondering if another kernel might give me better battery life.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kletiz:
Anyone that allows you to undervolt should give you better battery life.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miami_Son:
This is a post for the CM7 sticky in Q&A. Did you look in there first?
[LG Thrill 4G] samomamo:
Hi can someone post the marketupdate.apk please. If you are rooted you can install antek from market find the marketupdater.apk backup and then post it please.
[LG Thrill 4G] cheeseitlvr:
Here you are, requested Market file
[LG Thrill 4G] samomamo:
Thank you very much
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yippieh:
Hi,

what languages does Android support, i.e. which one are installed (both UI and dictionaries). I pretend to buy the Huawei Ideos X3 in Germany and would like to know if I can change to portuguese.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LanceAmr:
As stated above I'm getting either one of them but not sure which to get though .

Need some light from u guys and sry if the post was posted before , using my phone D:
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kristenm:
I purchased an ipad2 and traded it for a Xoom as soon as I could. It was a great deal.

The Motorola Xoom is just a nicer piece of equipment. Its heavily customizable. And it has support now to add a SD card which can effectively double your hard drive space.

Oh yeah, and you don't have to use itunes.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okantomi:
What kristenm said. Ipad2 is for those that just want what's in the box. Xoom is for those that want to make the device really, truly their own.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LanceAmr:
Hmm hmmm . Its a win win for xoom when comes to customability . How bout its office apps ? Cuz i am going to do docs editing and ppt editing .
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okantomi:
I like the Office Suite Pro app. It's for a tablet and with some limited testing, seems most capable and most like MS Office of the 5 available decent office apps. It's available for a free 30 day trial, so check it out. There are also good peripheral apps for printing, scanning, working with pdfs, etc. I would recommend the Hacker's keyboard (just like a pc keyboard), or use the Moto BT keyboard and mouse of your choice (I use MS BT mouse) for much better editing experience.

Hacker's keyboard also incorporates a keypad if you need to enter a lot of numbers.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Plagiarising:
I own an iPad 2 currently, and I am really considering selling it for a Xoom. Even jailbroken, it just doesn't offer the functionality I want/need. Since the 3.2 update, I think Honeycomb is much better suited for me.

Other than that, I think the iPad is a great device. As long as you don't want to do anything too advanced, it is one of the best tablets on the market. However, since Apple essentially killed the use of USB devices, my personal usage has been hindered drastically.

USBOTG, SD card support, and a useable file system are the biggest reasons, I feel, to go with the Xoom. If you don't need those things, check out the iPad.

On a side note: I have used many Xooms in stores, and I just don't see the big stink about the screen. Yeah, it's not quite as sharp or bright as the iPad or GT 10.1, but honestly, I don't see a big enough difference to warrant how much noise is being made about it.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LanceAmr:
Thx will have a look at the app :D . Hope its good.

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Hmm hmmm , seems that ipad still limits i see . My main concern is office work and internet browsing =l . But thx for the heads up :D
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Xoom definitely or any other Android 3.2 tablet for that matter. I just purchased a 1TB External Seagate drive and loaded it with about 400GB's of movies, shows, anime, etc and I'm loving it. Just the ability to do more things than the iPad 2 are worth it.

I owned the iPad 2 for a week. It was lame and I hated that I couldn't plug in a PS2/PS3, WiiMote, Xbox controller to it to play my emulators. You just get more options with third party peripherals.

I love my Xoom and I also own the 1st Gen iPad. My 2 year old plays with the iPad and knows how to navigate it and play her games. That right there tells you a lot. I don't even look at the thing when I get home.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebikowa:
100% agree...

Simply wanna play great apps? - ipad2

Wanna 'play' the device? xoom

greedy? take both :)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockhumper:
unless you buy an iFAD you're NOT COOL and have no STATUS!..at least that is what mindless "individuals"who only want to be unique in a group (oxymorons...) Would want you to think....open source rules all. Let the mindless drones who only want a giant iPod touch have them...I will keep my xoom with expandable storage, otg support, custom recovery, rooting, overclocked dual processing, awesome stargate theme, developer supported community, wifi tethering wonderfulness, etc etc etc etc
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xel666:
I was thinking between gt 10.1 and ipad 2 and it was (FOR ME) still a hard choice. The price was the same, gt had better hardware, but the tablet was supposed to be a toy, so I chose ipad.

for or so, you can buy cck, which allows you to use sd cards and usb.

with iFile, available in cydia u can totally manage your file system on the ipad.

with some plugins in safari you can download any file, even torrents

You can install an ssh client on the ipad

I'm not an apple fan, I use android phone and it's great, but for entertainment my weapon of choice was apple. Because of the apps (more games) and 4:3 screen which is better for web viewing.

Another thing was the battery which is said to last about 2 hrs longer than the GT's (dunno how about xoom, though)

It has access to dropbox, good vnc clients, office apps (quickoffice or pages, the second one seems very intuitive, haven't used it for real yet).

Both cams are sh*tty, and it's a very delicate word to describe them :P

The ipad isn't as customizable as any android, which everyone knows, but, for myself, it's a very nice toy. I'm still trying to turn it into work device ;)

Summarizing, it all depends on what you want to do with the tablet, ipad is better for games, has better tailored apps(because of the sick apple policy), seems better for web browsing because of screen proportions.

Android is better for films, and ofc customization, connecting external devices, (but there are also some apps for the apple allowing to do some of that stuff), dlna. And, of course, android has flash, which I don't use but sometimes can come handy. there is though iSwifter, a browser that supports flash enough to watch online movies.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenfly:
The iPad is a TOY for people who sold their souls to steve jobs. Xoom is a great corporate, multimedia, Productivity, gaming, Personal device all packed into one extremely well built device
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hewlett2011:
No question: XOOM.....
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seattleboi1982:
i would have to say both have their merits. I have both the iPad 2 and the Xoom. the Xoom is a very nicely build device. However, most people look for apps to play on the device. when i got my Xoom and looked for well written native HC apps, i was sorely disappointed. yes, HC is great for customization, but the lack of natively written apps are what hurt HC in the long run. Most people don't care about how much you can customize a device, they just want it to work, have a great experience and lots of native apps. And i can hear you say, well you can run regular android apps on it. Yes, you can. however, they all have a stretched look. I can also hear you say "iPad does that with iPhone apps too. Yes, it is true, however, they double in pixel, not stretch. i love my Xoom and i love my iPad, but for a device that has a better fit, finish and works right without having to resort to what i said above, I'm sorry to say, my iPad 2 has first dibs in my shoulder bag.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Plagiarising:
Just because someone uses an Apple product doesn't mean they "sold their soul to Steve Jobs." That logic doesn't work, and could be turned around to use as a weapon against ANY company.

The way I see it, if you want something that solely relies on apps to accomplish a task, the iPad is a fantastic product. The quality of apps for it are great, something that Android has not accomplished yet, but I feel will come eventually. My biggest gripe is the fact that I don't really use apps on my iPad. The things I want to do with it are mostly done with a web browser and in the file system. I know this makes me the minority, but I just don't need thousands of apps on a tablet.

I was initially going to buy a Xoom, but with the $800 launch price tag, I couldn't justify it. Now that the WiFi model is readily available, I think now is as good of a time as any to pick up a Xoom.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I stopped playing games on my iPad because stupid in app purchases in order to get further in the game. It seems like mostgames are heading in that direction.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrGreem:
Lol Ipad 2 is no match for xoom!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AstroDigital:
These type of threads are usually started by Apple Fanboys that are personally insulted everybody does not like to live by every Apple whim.

The best tablet is one where you get all of your content slaved to a PC ( um Mac ), where you get to use only one method that counts for buying stuff ( iTunes ). where you get the best interface in the world a grid of icons and folders containing icons. Things like having a variety of hardware manufactures and customizing are not important they confuse people. The best tablet has "Facetime"...... and is advertised by 100s of commercials that say this is so.

I am not much of an Apple fan I sold my iPad2 to get my Xoom and never been happier.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Nutzzer:
All,

I'm trying to tweak my Galaxy Tab with ADW EX and Desktop Visualizer. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to create a shortcut to a specific screen ie screen 1,2,3,4.... with Desktop Visualizer.

I know how to create a shortcut in ADW EX to a specific screen, but can't figure out how to do it in Desktop Visualizer.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] joedoe:
Create shortcuts in ADW EX to specific screens, remove icons and text from them and place them under Desktop Visualizer widgets (allow widgets overlapping option in ADW EX should be selected).
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] jonnyg1097:
I accomplished mine without using desktop visualizer since I couldnt figure out a way to do it with it. I did it by going to Launcher actions > Screen 2 (as an example) and then deleting the text and changing the icon to transparent. I also removed the glow from the icons so you dont see each individual icon when you press one.

Note: I put the "button" on the wallpaper and then this over top to make it work properly.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Nutzzer:
Joedoe,

I created the ADW EX shortcut with the specific screen. I can remove the text, but when you click on the icons, it forced you to pick an icon. How did you remove the icons.

Also, I check the overlapping option in ADW, but I don't understand how this can effect Desktop Visualizer. Can you please explain?

Thanks!