yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[TouchPad Accessories] Troute:
I have one just like this, it works very well if a little squeaky. It's a bit heavy in the hand mind you, I think it's solid aluminium.
[TouchPad Accessories] nomadman:
i live in asia and sometimes its not ideal to use a touchpad in a humid environment. i went accessory shopping today and found a 10 dollar stylus at the local store. it states it is made for ipads. i tested it and it works great on my touchpad. the size and weight is perfect. the pressure is perfect when working with the tablet. glad i didnt have to order from amazon and wait.

~ Sent from my TouchPad
[TouchPad Accessories] macone78:
hi i use accu-pen Dagi 506 with transparent head, found on ebay.
[TouchPad Accessories] exquisitus:
cheap 1.6

works very well

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/fashion-stylus-pen-for-iphone-ipad-silver-81282
[TouchPad Accessories] Drachen808:
So about 7 months ago I bought a Boxwave for my nook color. I thought, "this is great, now I can take notes in my classes". When I got it and tried it, it sucked. As it turns out there didn't seem to be any styli which did anything on the nook color (from what I read). I just got that Boxwave and tried it on my touchpad...perfection. It is exactly what I was hoping for.. Now I need ICS to hurry up and get here so that I can use the ASUS supernote app (exactly what I have always imagined in a not taking app).
[TouchPad Accessories] kudosmog:
I've tried 3 or 4 different brands and didn't like any of them. Ranging from cheap ebay junk to 20+ dollar ones(best buy etc). I've not tried the Gomatic brand though, and they look interesting.

If it had a pen digitizer it would be so much nicer. No idea what type of technology would have been necessary to achieve that, but as it is, none of the dumb old stylus's have been nice enough for me to take notes with.
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
This isn't a guide, more an informative post and discussion for Android application and platform developers, AND regular users. Maybe a guide in the future will be a goal of mine.

Some of you may or may not know what VMware is, what it is for, or never used it. Trying to keep the OP brief; VMware is a virtualization solution(s) for desktops and servers. In layman's terms it allows an operating system to be run inside another operating system, instead of setting your desktop to dual boot (have an option at startup to load either windows or Mac as example). There are many applications and benefits to this kind of solution that I won't get into in the OP.

Currently there are solutions available and being built, but are not yet completely optimized, but you can do it. For a developer this means you can be developing Android applications or platforms on whatever OS you want by virtualizing the OS and software currently supported. It also means that you can replace the Android virtual emulator with an Android OS inside VMware for application development, but also means you can load your Android platform into VMware for testing while you develop. Why would you want to do this? Well we all know how painful slow the emulator is, and it is just made worse if your hardware is slow. Because the emulator emulates software running on an arm processor inside an x86 environment things are slow, which means your development is slowed. Using VMware however you are using binary translation to "port" your platform to x86 processing. Currently this solution is not completely optimized, or "official" but it will be. That means less development time, more support, and a more convenient option!

The other edge of the sword is also a VMware virtual machine environment inside Android's Dalvik virtual machine. For users, and developers in certain scenarios this opens even more possibilities. Imagine having the ability to use your personal Android, and that pesky dumbed down corporate phone running together, the corporate advice running inside your personal device, or vice versa. Also, the ability to run any other OS in your device. Windows, Linux and UNIX distributions, solaris, Mac, whatever you wish. This opens lots more doors for Android devices.

Now not everything is complete, but it will be. It sounds like VMware will end up and be the de facto standard for virtualization for Android, as the solution is in the works for google to put VMware into the Android core, in the kernel. Now that would be sweet, because if you have used VMware you probably agree with me that it is THE virtualization solution in any application or solution you need it in.

Maybe this isn't as exciting to others as it is for me. What do you guys think? Let the topic begin!

The following links are meant more to cite my sources, but each one of them is a more detailed read into the topic, and well worth reading to inform yourself and see what is in the works:

http://i.downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/15/android-dalvik-vmware-virtualization/

http://gigaom.com/2011/09/27/vmware-mobilize-201/

http://www.android-x86.org/

Run ICS in x86!
[HTC EVO 3D] DoctorComrade:
I use VMware and vSphere at work to manage a bunch of our servers. I'll have to check in with the guy at work who actually implements/sells this to customers to see what he thinks. It seems interesting for sure though.
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
I don't know if it applies to what your doing, but it is pretty cool to be able to use VMware on your mobile device. If you are managing virtual servers there is already an official solution from VMware you can download from the Android market. It is called VMware view, for Android. Pretty cool.
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
There is a thread currently at top, with 30 people saying the solution wanted is impossible. You are wrong guys, not impossible at all. You can have windows and Android booting on the same device. Arm processor, x86, doesn't matter with this solution.
[HTC EVO 3D] EGOvoruhk:
Nothing is impossible, but where are you going to get a bootloader, Windows binaries, and SoC drivers?
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
Well in terms of doing dual boot natively, I agree, probably never going to happen...ever. However if you run it in a virtual machine, just like Android runs in the Dalvik virtual machine, it can be done.

The bootloader and drivers are already built and would be taken care of by VMware. You make or hint at a valid point, there would never be enough desire for anyone to do it natively. It isn't impossible, but just would never see anyone take the time to do it
[HTC EVO 3D] gborn:
Ice Cream Sandwich x86 in VMware

Currently a thread about running ICS x86 in Virtualbox is spreaded here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19815659#post19815659

And I managed at least to create a version of ice cream sandwich running in VMware workstation 7 (should run also in VMware player 3 and 4 and in Workstation 8 as well). The steps to convert the Virtualbox image to VMware are described here.

http://www.borncity.com/blog/2011/11/29/running-ice-cream-sandwich-in-vmware/
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
Bingo! Awesome contribution! Yeah this is one of the two examples I speak of, Android running on an x86 CPU (instead of arm like our phones and tablets) running as virtualization of hardware. Great reply to back me up, and even a guide to boot, AND ics!! If you must play with ICS before it gets to evo 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
Added the ICS in VMware to OP.
[HTC EVO 3D] halrulez:
I have tried this a few way and in no way can i get it to work on VMWARE gets stuck on found androidx86
[HTC EVO 3D] digitaljeff:
works fine, just make sure you follow the steps to the t and convert the .vdi images to .vmdk to run smoothly in vmwareplayer (the link to instructions is kinda hidden away)

i used virtualbox to convert, then vmplayer to run the vmdk

thanks for the info... fun to play around with
[HTC EVO 3D] Sad Panda:
No problemo
[HTC EVO 3D] digitaljeff:
heres some links to the vmdk images to work in vmplayer, dont thank me, thank the guy who wrote the guide on converting vdi to vmdk

ICS vmdk

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FZWH3G20

SD card vmdk

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=15TLJZ87
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] AlexSochi8:
I'm running on completely stock gingerbread... and I noticed that since doing the upgrade from froyo the new stock manager doesn't really close backround apps..

Example: I go into the stock manager to close apps and it shows only 2 running when I have plenty more... OK so I exit them... then go to free ram... and it frees some ram... now I go to stock browser and it still displays my last webpage instead of resetting to mu homepage.....

And it doesn't feel like it freed up ram space because on froyo when I closed all the apparently and freed ram it was flying after that....

Does anyone else notice this..

And would you recommend any good 3rd party task managers?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TheKucho:
Maybe Advanced Task Killer? It's on the market.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Logix:
its 2011 why do we need a taskkiller on our phone
[Nokia Lumia 800] Gahgah:
My Lumia 800 just said there's an update available.

It is the 7740 update.

I'm on Deutsche Telekom!

Installing now!
[Nokia Lumia 800] Jragar:
I have just started installing the update, Vodafone UK - forgot to write down my firmware to see if the nokia changes made it into this update

does anyone have the original firmware to confirm to?
[Nokia Lumia 800] alecksander:
H3G Italy here, no update.

OS Version: 7.10.7720.68

Firmware Revision: 1600.2475.7720.11414

Radio: 1.6.00.24

Bootloader: 7.35.0.0
[Nokia Lumia 800] Jragar:
Thanks

Update has been installed, and no firmware bonuses. Lets hope theres something on the way from Nokia soon

OS Version: 7.10.7740.16

Firmware: 1600.2475.7720.11414

Radio: 1.6.00.24

Bootloader 7.35.0.0
[Nokia Lumia 800] alecksander:
You're wellcome sexy.

I hope in 7740 they fixed battery, the sound volume and the volume of keyboard...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chriskay:
I have an HTC 7 Mozart with a fully patched, debranded stock rom. Only recently have I noticed that the headphone sound turns mono when hitting the search button while listening to music. Once the search results show up, it flips back to stereo.

Anyone else experienced that?

And that keyboard bug starts to get to me...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arimozuki:
Thats normal. Now, whether it is a feature or a bug is unknown to me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] musikalharmony:
I really love the devs and themers they do an awesome job.. but I'd like to request a ddifferent colored theme.. I have many ideas for a theme I would like a more feminine theme like purple and black or pink and black the battery ikon could be like purple ics batt with no % and notification bar transparent with a hint of purplish black the dialer the same I have many more ideas I'm running calkulins latest Rom if anyone is up to the challenge ill be very grateful thank you guys <3
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
Have you tried this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1358232
[LG Optimus 2x] Kevven:
As the title states, im having problems with the timer function after the update.

Before i could set the timer and let it run in the background while the screen is off.

But now, as soon as i press the power-button and the screen goes blank, the timer stoppes! This is really bugging me since its a function a use alot.

Anybody has any ideas as to why this happens? Can you test and report back to me if you are noticing the same?

Thx!

*Edit*

The timer actually resets when i hit the home button and the screen is turned off using the power-button. It resumes from start again when i re-enter the timer. Is this how it should be?
[LG Optimus 2x] mh1337:
Sounds like a VT_ALARM signal
[LG Optimus 2x] Kevven:
@mh1337

Im sorry.

I dont quite understand what you mean?
[LG Optimus 2x] Kevven:
Once again my timer got reset.

I had the timer going, and i recieved a call. When i returned to check the timer, it had reset to start, but was counting down.

The button under the time said start, even though the timer was running. So this seems like a bug to me. Any thoughts?
[LG Optimus 2x] vik_x:
I get the same issue on mine. I'm running GB as well. 2.2 was fine.
[LG Optimus 2x] Kevven:
Thank you for reporting in. "Glad" to hear im not the only one with the problem.

This is the the third thing the GB updage has damaged for me. 1 is the battery time (lost about 10 hours) 2 is gps issu, and 3 is the timer problem..
[LG Optimus 2x] kingvortex:
Not that it's any help to you, but this is not happening with v20G (UK open).
[LG Optimus 2x] Kevven:
Okei.

Have you had any other problems? Gps problems, battery problems after GB update?

Im trying to figure out if there is a connection between the bugs im now facing after the GB update. Cause everything worket fine before.
[LG Optimus 2x] kingvortex:
The battery seems slightly better if anything, but I can't be sure on that as I only updated yesterday.

Will try the GPS out and let you know, as I'm out and about a bit later on today.
[LG Optimus 2x] kingvortex:
GPS took around 30 seconds to get a lock while outside, which is slower than it was on 2.2, but when it did get a lock it was accurate and remained so as I walked into my local town.
[LG Optimus 2x] Kevven:
Okey. Thank you for sharing!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] penguinlogik:
Is there any way to reduce the size of the upper portion of the notifications menu in portrait mode? It's stupid that it takes up half of the screen for just the toggles and the AT&T bar which makes it really hard to navigate between GPS and my music player using the notifications...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nyydynasty:
i'm not aware of a way to change the sizes without some programming knowledge. You might want to wait for a dev to answer this one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Seanbest:
I think it's too big as well.

Sent from my SGSII (Cognition X2) using the XDA App
[HTC Sensation] Roktar:
Hi tomorrow i have to send my Sensation to the USA to repair it's defect: dust under the screen.

It's rooted and has the Leedroid ROM.

Do you think i have to restore the original ROM before sending it?;)
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
Yes, as they'll take one look at it and send it back as you've invalidated the warranty
[HTC Sensation] Roktar:
I tried the S-On following this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 but i get the "Security Warning message".

If i try to flash the stock RUU again, it says me "Error 132:Signature error".

Have i bricked the phone?

How can i repair it?
[HTC Sensation] M pro:
No need to s-on. just restore your rom from the backup you did before you flashed the custom rom

and as long as you can get to hboot screen then your not bricked I beleave
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
Read the guide again, it's all covered in there

JUST REMEMBER TO SET IT BACK TO THE CORRECT CID BEFORE SETTING TO S-ON OTHERWISE YOU WILL HAVE TO S-OFF AGAIN TO CHANGE IT
[HTC Sensation] Roktar:
chill, i read the guide.

The fact is that i don't remember the original cid...

nevermind,i succeeded flashing another version of the RUU (1.29 instead of the 1.27)

thank you anyway :)
[HTC Sensation] Roktar:
will they check my cid for the warranty?
[Kindle Fire General] pestilent:
Has anyone tried to side-load/use the nook app on the fire? My fire is on the way, so I haven't tested yet. Coming from a nook, I really want to be able to carry over my existing library.

Also, has anyone found a good epub reader? I have a ton of unlocked epub files on my nook that I would also like to utilize.
[Kindle Fire General] Glasairmell:
When you get market running just down load the Nook reader. Or side load it. Works fine.
[Kindle Fire General] sgood1971:
aldiko and fbreader are both great epub readers. There are many many more though. I can confirm aldiko plays well with the KF.
[Kindle Fire General] pedroren:
I did it, I installed directly from the Android Market. You could sideload it too.

The app opens, I can sign in, but I haven't been able to download any of my books to the Kindle Fire.
[Kindle Fire General] butterflygirl:
yes. It works.

edit: able to download and read free books. Can't seem to download the one purchased book I have from BN
[Kindle Fire General] hariustrk:
I have been able to load purchased books no problem over the wire with nook reader.
[Kindle Fire General] misfit313:
the nook app works great for epubs, i was using aldiko but decided to try the nook app and like it much better. you can add all of your epubs super easy with something like root explorer.
[Kindle Fire General] thekitch:
Working great for me. I actually llike it better than the kindle reader. It is especially nice for magazines.
[Kindle Fire General] Captain1995:
Yes. I sideloaded the Nook app and it works great. I did this before I rooted the Fire. You just need the apk
[Kindle Fire General] pestilent:
Has anyone tried copying the cache over from another device? I'm going to give that a try tomorrow to get my purchased books.

Edit: I downloaded/TB/Side Loaded the nook app on my fire and tried to download/read purchased books. So far I have downloaded and opened 3 books, I had previously purchased, without issue.
[Android Apps and Games] pdppdp:
Is there an app that has the ability to show me different homescreens depending on which part of the phone is at top and bottom?

So if I hold my device with hardware keys at the bottom it shows me screen a and if I turn it around and they're on top it shows me screen b.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratluci:
I noticed this especily when theres no much light. This is only part of taken picture. With room light, flash...

Also on display, when I wanna take pics those stripes show, dancing going up and down if you know what i mean. :)

Is this normal for HTC desire camera? I know that quality is not like on real camera offcourse. :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parva4:
I very rarely use the flash, even at night as it's only of any real use on fairly close-up facial images in poor light, and even then it's far from great. I find that a bit of messing around with the settings I can get great pictures in low light conditions.

The best thing that you can do is set the cameras 10 second countdown and sit the phone somewhere in a suitable position to capture the photo. If I'm unable to do this then I'll hold the camera but rest it on a balcony or wall. It's near impossible to get a good shot in low light without doing the above.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratluci:
Thanks for reply.

I just wanna know if those pinkish lines that showing on display when taking pics are normal? When wanna take pic (doesnt have nothing with flash) on display i see moving lines, espacialy on dark places?

Know that quality of camera isn't great..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parva4:
Mine doesn't seem to suffer that from what I've seen.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaidbackNikez:
Try cleaning the lenscover. It's not normal really. Could be the CRT's updatefrequency but I doubt it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratluci:
I cleaned lenscover, even take pictures without cover. And problem stays.

On bright day , you can't see those lines, maybe it's to much light for them appear.

But when its dark, they shows.

I noticed that those pinkish lines dance more on bottom of the screen , where is mic for talking, and buttons.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Its probably something to do with the kernel. I had something like this when I used Insertcoin Sense 2.1 & 3.0 hybrid.

Sent from HTC Desire via XDA App
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratluci:
What you mean about kernel?

Mine is 2.6.32.15-gf5a401c

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

I didn't do anything to the phone, i bought it this way, so i don't know if anything was installed.

Is it fixable? And how?

If need any more information, im here :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Okay, looks like you are using the stock rom and kernel that came with the phone so I don't really know why you would get this kind of problem. To tell you honestly the first thing I did when I got my phone was root it and flash a custom rom so I never really knew how the stock camera performs under low light conditions.

I do however experience this when I used custom Sense roms before.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratluci:
I bought this phone of seller who sad that he didn't do anything to the phone. And then i found out this

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-off

HBOOT-6.93.1002

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:10

It's not rooted (don't see superuser icon?, i think thats how you know it's rooted :o )

Maybe this have something with camera??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eatbacon:
It does say S-OFF so maybe you should reflash the stock RUU just to be sure. You never know what the last user did with it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
But you have to flash downgrader before you flash RUU, because you use one of alpharev's r2 hboots (probably CM7r2) and these ones have an overwrite protection against RUU and OTA.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beltezor:
I had this problem when I flashed a ROM with Sense

As soon as I flashed the CM7, I had no more problems with the camera.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ymmit:
I had this problem when my Desire was stock. I broke the screen and had it replaced. The tech damaged the flex cable when he was replacing the screen which resulted in the funny lines and other camera issues and screen hangs. Luckily another tech seen it when I returned and it was replaced again.

I'd say your trouble is hardware related.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratluci:
Thanks for answers.

So you think is fixable that way?

But unfortunatly I can't do downgrade, and flash RUU, because my computer restarts sometime (something to do with motherboard), so I'll have to wait to get other computer for about month and then try do downgrade.

I'm afraid that will restart in middle of process, and brick phone or something. If phone can be broke that way???? If not I'll do downgrade right away.. :)

I don't have any other problem with display. As i read, you have?

Only when I start camera it show those moving lines, on taken picture when there is light you almost can't notice them.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ymmit:
Yes but only when using the camera. Lines, image off centre weird colours and sometimes just freezing when running any camera app.

It could be software related bit I thought I'd share what my problem was in case it was useful.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big_mason:
Hey, have you checked the ISO on the camera settings? Very high ISO can cause that problem...try Auto or 100.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratluci:
Yes i tried to change ISO settings. Problem stays.

I also found out when sometime i take close up photo with flash, i don't see those lines, photo is clean...
[Motorola Droid X2] AtLemacks:
Hey guys, this is from P3Droid's Twitter, don't jump on any new moto updates!

P3Droid

Service Announcement: Don't take any moto updates the root path has been patched !!! You've been warned.
[Motorola Droid X2] Staggo:
... Motorola wants businesses to buy their phones. I bought a phone with a freaking Tegra2 for freaking games and power. Not business. Besides, if they wanted to be business friendly they would have faster, better updates.
[Motorola Droid X2] ImgBurn:
What The****

Moto there you go again.:mad:
[Motorola Droid X2] reaktorblue:
I wish they would spend their time working on things that matter instead of this kind of crap. It'll eventually be root-able again but in the meantime, it's a pain in the ass.
[Motorola Droid X2] iBolski:
From what I hear, Zergrush root method will root 2.3.5 devices.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1312859
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
true. but I wonder if any newer 2.3.5 leaks will have it patched.

I wonder if the forever root mod will hold up tho?

Motorola is pissin me off wit this junk for real
[Motorola Droid X2] AtLemacks:
I am sure P3 would have tried Zergrush before he posted that.
[Motorola Droid X2] IDMA.DROID.X2:
Your right, if moto was putting their resources towards better development, they would have better/faster updates for all their devices. But they want to control how people use their devices >:(