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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mandy007:
I think Go laucher is the one that consumes less RAM, you should try it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fulloflove:
I have an GT540, it has an MSM7227 CPU 600MHz with adreno 200 like you. The screen is only 480x320 but the amount of RAM is so limited that the launcher and SMS apps be killed constantly. So I must choose the lightest launcher. this topic is very helpful to me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1newbie:
FASTER THAN LIGHT (FTL) launcher...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Avilove.Cullen:
Holo launcher :(

Si usted le da sentido a continuación, obtener el respeto .. Mi mente joven que ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WoozyBE:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pierrox.lightning_launcher&hl=nl

Lightning launcher
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Here are a few Android Launchers you might consider. I didn't know about Lightning Launcher until this thread, so thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] mingolianbeef:
Okay, so just getting straight to the point, here are my 2 questions:

1. Why dont ROM devs release the MD5 image (The nand image created when you back up your phone) rather than releasing the zip file? Is it because the MD5 is larger, or is it just a preference. My thought process was that if you release the MD5 rather than the ZIP, then you wouldn't have to worry about signing the zip and things like that. Just release and flash, I could be wrong though. Any thoughts?

2. Would it be possible to simply build MIUI or CM7 on top of a Sense build rom? Like have sense as the base of the roms, but (deodex) and add MIUI apps to the rom to give it the MIUI look and feel. Same with CM7. I ask because I know that a lot of roms that aren't sense do not have the 3D capabilities that Sense Roms have (HTC being stingy with the source for 3D, i guess!), and if you did it this way, it would be the best of both worlds. So is it possible?

I was just sitting at work and thinking about these questions, and figured why not come to XDA and get some insight I might have missed.

Thanks,

Ognimnella
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
1) There is no such thing as an "MD5" image. MD5 is a hash value generated by using an algorythm .. I'm sure there are better articles on google explaining md5 and the md5sum value.

We only use the md5sum value in the custom recovery as a way to verify when restoring the image from your /sdcard is still the same as it was when the custom recovery dumped it from the partition in the backup process.

We also use the md5sum value to verify the file downloads correctly. If you check out my stock ROM thread - [ROM] joeykrim-original-1.2.0 Odex *Stock Rooted 2.08.651.2* - you will see I provide the md5sum value under each download link. This allows the user, after they have downloaded the .zip file to make sure their md5sum hash matches mine. If it matches, it was downloaded correctly. If not, there was an error somewhere in the download.

2) Unfortunately it is a bit more complicated then simply overlaying AOSP/CM/MIUI apps on top of the stock Sense ROM. Since none of the HTC Sense ROM is open source, it is near impossible for any developer to compile them from scratch. All changes being made to the stock Sense ROM by Sense ROM developers are through reverse engineering, making changes to the smali code and compiling back.

AOSP/CM/MIUI all claim, and probably most do, compile all their apk and other files straight from the source code giving them full control over all features/functions.

The reverse engineering process is very difficult and sometimes the code can be incomplete making it near impossible or extremely time consuming to create from scratch.

I tried my best to articulate the definitions and major issues correctly. I'm sure if somebody can add more detail or a different aspect they will. Hope that helps!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdajunkman:
I have a question that is more android-in-general than Nook specific. I am trying this out on my Nook first, as it is an unbrickable device, before tinkering with my target device (a phone). My phone also does not have Clockworkmod recovery support, so a bricked device would be fatal.

I am attempting to increase the memory available for installed apps. My phone has limited space, but a bunch of pre-installed junk that I thought I might be able to get rid of in order to make more space for more apps. Knowing that simply deleting these pre-installed apps from the /system folder does really nothing, I set about making and editing an image file from the /system partition, then reflashing this image back to phone. As I am trying this on the Nook first, here is what I did:

1. Adb into the Nook and dd the system partition to a system.img file on the sd card.

2. Copy the system.img file to my desktop and mount the image.

3. Edit the image, removing the LiveWallpapers.apk file (a hefty ~3M file), then save the result back out as a new system.img.

4. Copy the new system.img to the sd card, then adb back into the Nook and dd the system.img from the sd card back to the system partition.

Everything appeared to work fine. The Nook boots, runs fine, and the LiveWallpapers.apk file is nowhere to be seen. Problem is, there is no difference in the available memory on the device.

In retrospect, I suppose I should not have expected there to be a difference. I am under the impression that the system partition is a read-only partition, and that extra space on this partition is not available for installation of apps. I am guessing that in order to increase the memory available, I would need to resize the data partition.

So, ultimately, my question is whether or not this is correct. Do I need to resize the data partition in order to actually get more memory available for apps, or is there an easier way? If I would need to resize the partition, how would I go about doing this, and would I need to take this extra space away from the system partition (the extra memory would need to come from somewhere, I imagine). I would envision removing bloatware from the system partition, shrinking that partition as I would no longer need that much space, and giving that extra memory to the data partition. Bear in mind that I need to do all of this through adb as I will not have Clockworkmod recovery on my target device.

Alternatively, I could be out my gourd and none of this makes any sense. Feel free to let me know if this is the case.

Thanks!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stolenmoment:
You've got it right.

The Nook emmc has partitions for boot, rom, system, data, and media. Originally data was 1g and media (/emmc under CM7) was 5g, newer models have reversed this. Data is where apps and their data go.

There are threads here about repartitioning newer Nooks with lots of good discussion. It sounds like you are capable (or want to be capable) of creating a custom partition scheme; there's enough info there for you to do that.

Experimenting with an 8g SD card might be a good place to get familiar with the tools. The "size-agnostic" installer will use a pre-partitioned SD if it finds one IIRC.

Good luck!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blue6IX:
I just wanted to re-iterate the importance of what you said here.

I have sent several people off to buy Nook Colors who were interested in developing for android, for this very reason.

Nothing else you can get your hands on ( to my knowledge ) is as safe of a dev-tool as the Nook Color, because of the first boot to sd-card.

It doesn't matter what you do to it, at the end of the day you'll have a working device unless you throw it down the stairs or something.

Bonus points for running an sd-install directly, because when you hose it you just reflash a new microsd card.

Can't reformat the card because windows only reads the boot partition? No problem - if you still have your Nook Color with it's stock software just boot it up and pop the microsd card in. The B & N software in the Nook Color will just format the card, without a care in the world for any existing partition schemes or whatnot.

You're on the right track for what you're trying to do, as the previous poster has pointed out, so just wanted to give you another vote of confidence letting you know you're doing all the right things for all the right reasons.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdajunkman:
Thanks for the replies!

You know, I actually did the repartition of my Nook using the CWR zip file. I hadn't thought to go look through the original thread for the manual instructions. As you pointed out, I found the directions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13971291&postcount=110

The only problem is that his instructions require that you boot from the SD card in order to manipulate your interal memory. This is fine and good on the Nook, but not possible with my phone. Any idea what would happen if I tried to repartition the internal memory while booting from the internal memory? Seems that this would not be possible....or at least wrought with peril. I think that my phone can boot into a fastboot mode, but have not tried that...anyone know if this would help?

Perhaps I am just playing with fire here and need to settle for cramped memory space on my phone. I am just too accustomed to my 5GB of available app space on my Nook.

Thanks again.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdajunkman:
Well, after some more Googling, I think I might abandon the repartitioning bit. I think I am likely to brick my phone, even though I think I could do it manually on the Nook. In addition, it appears that many phones are set up so that the kernel resets the internal memory partitioning on boot....so I might also need to mess with the kernel to get this to stick. This is beyond my skill set and really not worth my turning my phone into a paperweight.

I thought of a bit of a workaround, however. As I can extract and edit the image of the system partition, I will simply install the apps that I will eventually want on my phone on my Nook instead, extract the apk's from the Nook, then insert them into the system image file from my phone. Reflashing the system image then puts these apps into the system partition instead of the data partition, effectively saving me hoards of space on my data partition. A bit laborious, but for several core apps that I know I will want and that are memory hogs, I think it will be worth it.

Anyone see any problem with this approach?
[Desire Themes and Apps] jelmer-p:
Hi, I am very happy with my Better Keyboard. It's got a lot of functions, settings and skins to download. I tried a lot of keyboards and this one I think is the best.

For word prediction you need a language pack. First we could download it from the market via the settings in Better Keyboard. Only that isn't possible anymore. All the language packs disapeared from the market.

Can anyone provide me with the dutch language pack? Or does anyone know why they disapeared from the market?

Thanks
[Desire Themes and Apps] slikkie:
http://content15.wuala.com/rawconte...randroid.betterkeyboard.languagepack.apk?dl=1
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] tamalsen:
I have an hd2 and i have everything i need to shift to windows phone 7. I have also used the microsoft exchange server to save all my contacts and calendar, but am having no luck with the sms and tasks.

I know there is an app in xda itself called smssyncup. But its not exactly importing the sms. So my question is , can anyone tell me any other method to saving my tasks and sms?

my tasks are very important and i would like to be able to save them.

Also, out of curiosity, is there any way to save the google map favorites as well as footprints for use in windows phone 7?

Many thanks in advance...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Masterslice:
Maybe I can try to help you with the Tasks.

When you are working on WinMo6.5 you can sync your Tasks with your Exchange Server, now they are up to date on your Server.

After this in WP7 as I know, is the only way to sync Tasks with the Tool "Bring the Wine" available in the Marketplace. WP7 itself has no possibility to sync Tasks, but "Bring the Wine" will help you.

You can config your Exchange Server with User and PW in this Tool and you will be able to sync your Tasks.

Greets
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] tamalsen:
I tried syncing with the exchange server, but other than birthday reminders, nothing else gets transferred. it says, all other reminders failed to be synced. But thanks for directing me to bring the wine. I will look into it immediately.

But does anyone know if there is any other way to take all the tasks? Would windows live sync all the tasks?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minibraun:
Here is my problem,

it all started when I switched form a 2 GB sd card to a 16 GB SDHC card.

At first i didn't even notice, but then i realized that when i open the camera and snap a photo, it plays the little animation minimizing the picture to the left bottom corner indicating that the picture is saved. Then i take another one...

Later i go to the gallery, and the first picture i took isn't there, but the second, third, fourth ....are there.

This happens when i don't use the camera for a few hours, and then turn it on. It just won't save the first picture. Its like it doesn't mount the sdcard in time for the first picture. I have no idea what's going on, and i missed some awesome pictures. Please help.

I am using JBoogie3 Blurry Ginger based on (2.3.4)Defy+

Edit: the problem has been solved, you just have to put CM7 on your phone
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farsight73:
Perhaps quick reformat the 16 GB SDHC card would do the trick..

Backup first.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minibraun:
That was the first thing i tried, and no luck. I also tried the infamous hp usb disk storage format tool.

I also tried to clean the camera cache... no luck.

Cleared dalvik cache... had big hopes on this... and yes, it works, but it worked for a day or two, then reverted back to its "won't take first picture" self.

Tried fixing permissions... works, but just like above, only for a day or two

I am out of ideas, and i'll probably move to another rom, maybe the problem will go away.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBelter:
Sounds like a class 10 card, it will never work, buy a class 6 for a better chance or a class 4 to make 100% sure.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minibraun:
FUUUUUUU!!!!!! it is a class 10 card, i figured faster is better

now that that is out of the way, can someone please explain why it behaves the way it does?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cha0seng:
Lol. I was about to order a class 10 16gb tomorrow. Thank youuuuuu lol.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crakeron:
Have a search about "mmcfix", the Defy has a problem with sd cards due to a malfunctioning kernel module. This is fixed in CM7, but may not be for your ROM. Ask your Dev if he has included it or not ;)

Sent from my CM7 Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minibraun:
Thanks for the info i'll keep that in mind, but i already switched to MS2Ginger 2.0

It's been a few days now, and it works perfectly, this rom is just amazing, especially the 720p stock camera recording, just love it.

Thanks for all the suggestions, hopefully this will be the end of this problem.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minibraun:
Final answer - CM7

Unfortunately, MS2Ginger 2.0 filed to save images about a week from the day of installation. And I had such high hopes.

After that I tried almost every MMCfix, patch, modules, trick and hack to try to achieve a normal working sd card, but they all ended in failure.

Since CM7 already has the mmcfix pre-installed, it was my last hope.

And it works. Been using it about a month now, and its still snapping and saving pictures like a boss.

So if you own a sd class 10 card, and have a defy, cm7 is your savior.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crakeron:
How did you "try MMCfix" ?

Sent from my 1Ghz CM7 + CM9 Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minibraun:
I tried using the zip files (I think I found 3 different versions), then applied them using custom recovery.

I also tried to put the required modules in manually, just copying the files in there right place, and I remember that you had to edit a file, so the modules can load at start up.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gstarplaya58:
Try Delete Data in Apps. Maybe help
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minibraun:
The problem has been solved, so there is no need for suggestions any more.

But if you are curious, data reset of any kind, just postponed the problem for another few days, and after that you are back to square one.
[General Questions and Answers] Antalor:
Hello,

i want to install the Mango Update 7.5 on my Trophy, is it possible?

Infoscreen:

Software: Windows phone 7.5

OS Version: 7.10.7720.68

FW Version Number: 2250.21.40600.77

Hardware version: 0003

Bootloader Version: 4.6.2250.0(129125)

Chip SOC Version: 2.2.5.0

Bootloader Screen Info:

PC 40100 SS-BC (4K)

SPL-4.6.2250.0(129185) MNG

MicroP(LED) 0x09

TOUCH A1(v10,20)

Is it possible, or do i have installed the actually Version of Mango (7.5) ?

Thx for Anserws.

regards

Antalor
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] siddhu0302:
Unable to mount system files from RO to RW in Root explorer Somebody help me i have rooted my device. Super user granted permission to ROOT EXPLORER
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] PlusAndroid:
- Close the app

- Go to Task Manager

- Exit All Apps and click on clear memory

Now try Mounting R/W
[Desire HD Android Development] vastloper:
Hi all.

I hope we can create a script here for getting the Desire HD back to ship s-on for people like me who are not able to use adb in recovery mode.

I have been browsing around everywhere but didn't find anything that can do the job.

The scripts i have seen all seem to reset the phone to recovery and use adb to set s-on again.

My phone has a wierd problem with usb.

It works fine in bootloader mode but not in data mode and not with adb.

It keeps saying unknown device.

I have tried to fix it with the mtd0 files but that didnt seem to work.

Other people say it has to be the drivers but a differend desire hd works fine on my computer and the results are the same on 2 other computers.

I was thinking about creating something like son.zip that can copy the requiered files to the correct places on the phone and then execute for example son.sh to execute the requiered commands to set s-on again.

However i think i need some help creating son.zip since i keep getting errors trying to execute it in recovery.

Any helpfull tips are welcome to create a tool that can set s-on again.

Greetings from a Vastloper from Holland.
[Desire HD Android Development] Gene Poole:
First, you'll need to install the radio and boot.img that work with gfree. You can build a recovery from CWM that has the correct kernel, but the only way to get the radio is from HBOOT or fastboot. I wrote a complete s-on kit for the Inspire4G but it should work with the DHD if it has the correct DHD RUU Rom.zip. Here's my Inspire tool:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1208507

If you know your way around a rom image, you can replace the "rom.zip" file in the data image with whatever is the correct HTC signed RUU rom.zip for your DHD and it should work.
[Desire HD Android Development] vastloper:
Thanks for the first posted tip.

I will go have a look at that.

I think i allready have the correct radio installed but i can still install anything i want so that should not be a problem.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poohtbear:
Hi.

I'm trying to hack aapt to generate for each layout named xxx_layout.xml an extra num in R named R.id.xxx_layout_max_id which will contain the max id for that layout (since each id is an in num and each layout has several id's in it i assume one of them is the biggest).

I need it for adding custom components dynamically in runtime but for layouts like RelativeLayout which requires ID's.

Did anyone hacked appt before to know which file in aapt directory contains the code to genereate ids ?

10x.
[TouchPad General] joenathane:
Also posted this to Rootzwiki, want to see some discussion on this, pretty exciting, the Touchpad could turn out to be on the best purchases i've ever made.

http://www.winrumors.com/hp-testing-windows-8-on-touchpad-devices/
[TouchPad General] N3m3515:
there is already a thread about that:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1229761
[TouchPad General] joenathane:
I guess I didn't do my due diligence... I looked around at some of the other post about Windows 8 but they didn't seem to contain any links or references just hopeful thinking on a community driven effort.
[TouchPad General] Colchiro:
It's a mod's problem now... :D
[TouchPad General] dalethefarmer:
Nooo there isn't another thread on this... That thread was locked for no reason. Please leave this thread open as this discussion is in the category it belongs in, not under webOS development...

anyway Joe if you find any other news please update your original post, I'm very interested in getting windows 8 on my tp.

I did get a 32gb touchpad in anticipation of windows 8, don't know how big the rom/image? Is going to be ;)

Thanks for posting that information, really interesting.
[TouchPad General] joenathane:
if this thread doesn't get closed then i'll keep it up to date with any new information.

If the Touchpad does get Windows 8, i'll be in heaven, i have to have Windows to do my work, and current laptops suck, they generate too much heat, take forever to boot and the battery life is a joke.

I do wonder what HP's strategy would be bringing Windows 8 to the Touchpad, unless they are going to start selling them for $500± again, I dont see how it could be profitable for them, with webOS they get to lock you into their market...
[TouchPad General] pflatlyne:
My guess is they are using the touchpad hardware because its.readily available. They are probably using it to evaluate and test windows 8. Its pure speculation,but what's probably going on is that there is a person who thinks hp should consider producing such a device. As the touchpad is dead,there are now engineering resources available to explore such projects. They most likely are letting the R&D people keep doing there jobs. If they stopped that,that whole.division they are considing selling would,just like WebOS,become worthless in a very short time. Think of it as HP trying not to repeat the same mistake twice.

It does not mean HP is planning such a device,dozens of such projects are started and abandoned all the time. It also does not mean they are planing on releasing a touchpad version of windows. A device with windows 8 might have similar hardware or perhaps not,but chances are,its just an evaluation. MS probably has most of the drivers they need so its probably an easy thing for them to do with help from Microsoft and presumably qualcom.
[TouchPad General] Pongopuffian:
HP's perception of good timing is..............bad.

If that's true of course. It goes without saying that if people wanted a Windows 8 tablet, they're gonna go for those new tablets, this one doesn't even have a back camera. There's a stack of reasons why this rumor is simply, false- IMHO.

Now of course if they could get it on there with just a download, I might consider.

But still- Windows 8 won't be here any time soon.

We'll be "lucky" if it comes out by next year. You know what that means....
[TouchPad General] dalethefarmer:
I for one don't need a camera on a tablet other than the ffc. Have one on my galaxy tab literally used it once. Only reason I see a use for a back cam on these things is maybe for gaming and/or AR type applications.
[TouchPad General] joenathane:
@pflatlyne&@DreamOWD you both make some good points.

It probably would be retarded for HP to push the Touchpad as a Windows 8 Tablet, they would be wise to introduce some new hardware, a standard USB port and a camera that doesn't look like vomit are probably on the list, but I hoping they continue with their idiocracy(which lead to us getting this tablet for $99 :)) and release Windows 8 on the Touchpad.

So the question may very well be, how dumb is HP?