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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] d-iivil:
Oh yeah, at least with 403 roms the correct path seems to be /system/media
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] copkay:
So I've actually never made my own boot animation before, and my Nexus isn't yet rooted to try this myself, but it seemed like a cool project to redraw this one from scratch at full 1280 x 720, 60fps, with a bit larger gear logo (and I'm bored). If someone's willing to check out my modification (attached) and let me know if I've modified things correctly (the desc.txt, in particular), then here's an attached freebie. :D

EDIT: Here's a modified version that should look spiffy! Zipped the first attachment incorrectly, but this one I've tested (at a reduced size) on the Fascinate running ICS, and it works perfectly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Stretlow:
Really like this
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stephensonbrady:
Just loaded this on my LG Nitro.. Looks really awesome with the high res! thanks for posting!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] johnp357:
has anyone tried this on a GN?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] b72orguj:
Works perfectly in Galaxy Nexus. Thanx
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kalavere:
Loving this little animation, thanks. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
I am absolutely in love with this.

simple and elagant.

The only way It can be improved imo is if someone moves the google logo in this animation to the exact same position as the google logo that appears before it.

I'd do it myself but unfortunately I lack the expertise!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diogo.fellix:
It looks really great on my Zopo C2, with full hd resolution.

Thanks!:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] genejg:
I know this is the GNex thread, but I have not been able to find this for the 2nd gen Nexus 7. Now I know it has been some time since this thread was updated, but I was wondering if anyone would be willing to make this animation compatible with my N7... The current one looks nice, but is just way too small. Great work, though! If I could root my RAZR Maxx HD, I'd love to use this as well if I could!

Thanks in advance to anyone who does this! :)

Edit: I also put a request in to the following thread; if you resize it before anyone there, please do post it. Thanks! :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2456313
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tattevajoo:
Hi,

Could someone get me the sygic installer from market? I know it's not supposed to fully work/support Galaxy Nexus yet, but I'd like to try it for myself.

Since Galaxy Nexus is the only device I have. I can't get it myself from android market and the browser based market won't let me download it either, saying my device isn't supported.

apk in question.

https://market.android.com/details?...lt#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zeWdpYy5hdXJhIl0.

THANK YOU!! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkhShadow:
Here you go
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tattevajoo:
Thank you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hella356:
Hi, I recently broke my HD2, and just got SGS2. On the HD2 I had Kumar's ROM. I'm new to Android, and I'm finding the Window Shade quite annoying. On the HD2, when I got a new message, voicemail, etc., I would tap on the notification bar which opened the notification window. On Android this requires swiping the bar, which is not easy using just one hand, and is simply more input than necessary. Is there any way around this?

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mintharis:
I grab the notification bar with my thumb and flick down. One handed.

Sent from my SGH-T989D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] The_Biz:
Use adw ex and set the gestures. Use swipe down for notifications.

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Deebo took your bike too?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hella356:
Thanks, Biz. I installed ADW EX & tried that setting, but it didn't change anything. I'm using the updated stock ROM, perhaps using one of the modded ROMs could affect this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] The_Biz:
ROM wouldn't matter much. Did you go in the ADW settings and look for screen gestures? Change the swipe down to show notifications. That way when you just swipe down on the home screen, that whole thing will shoot down.

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Deebo took your bike too?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hella356:
Thanks for the help, Biz. Yes, I tried several settings. The one you are referring to DOES work in that manner, which is a little better, but I'm just hoping to find a way to not have to swipe at all. I realize it's a small thing, but it's something that will aggravate me to no end, and as far as I can tell applies to all Android phones. I thought these things were supposed to be more configurable than this. I am amazed that there may be no way around performing dozens of extra motions every day to accomplish something so simple.

May sound crazy, but I'm missing my perfectly configured (but lesser hardware equipped and no longer available) Windows Mobile 6.5 HD2. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] The_Biz:
OK. On the homescreen using adw ex, you can hold down and add a launcher action anywhere on the screen you want. You can add a show notifications action wherever you like and edit it and use a blank png for its icon. Then when you click that part of the screen, the notifications bar will drop.

It's similar to what you want, you just don't necessarily click the notifications bar.

I hope this helps you more and you start to enjoy android. As I had a hd2 before the sensation and love this way more than both of them combined.

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Deebo took your bike too?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hella356:
Thank you, sir. I have been messing with that ADW EX launcher setting, and it's a step in the right direction. Still not at all what I'm looking for, but better than the stock setup. Any idea if there is some way to get the window shade to simply open and close, rather than the animated and slow way it moves now? That's another annoyance; I just want the thing to work quickly without any superfluous animations and such. It opened and closed instantly on my HD2.

Really appreciate all your help!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] The_Biz:
Don't know of a way to do that man. Sorry. :-(

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Deebo took your bike too?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GideonX:
Why not just set your home button to go home and open notifications? It's in adw settings as well.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hella356:
Thanks, GideonX. That's another OK option, but still an irritating kludge. I realize it's just a swipe or a couple presses of the Home button or aiming my finger at an icon, but I'm used to a single tap on the bar & no swipe, and find any extra required motions wasteful. Also, unnecessary transition effects are a pet peeve, they serve only to slow things down, IMO. I'm really astounded that the Android bar is that unconfigurable, even with 3rd party apps.

Sorry for venting my frustrations on you guys! I really do appreciate your input. :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] stanislavshulgin:
Hello. I bought an used Milestone in bad condition: heavily damaged housing, non-working side buttons and touchscreen. I have replaced side buttons flex, housing and digitizer, but the touchscreen doesn't work anyway. I've noticed some suspicious places on the motherboard, I've rounded them in the second photo. Looks for me like some parts are missing.. What are these parts and can they make digitizer non-functional? Thank you
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] stanislavshulgin:
The flex between two halves of the phone looks suspicious too. I've ordered a new one and waiting for it to arrive. I hope that helps, but if not.. I don't know what to do
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ben_duder:
I'm not sure what specifically those areas of the motherboard do but I have a bricked Milestone motherboard in a drawer so I thought I'd take a photo to show you that yours is normal - as far as I know nothing is missing from those areas! From their size I'd say they were just connectors for small components, maybe on the other side of the board... Anyway, see attached. If you need them I can take photos of other parts for you to compare with.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] stanislavshulgin:
Thank you! I hope that it's ok. Now I'll just have to wait for my flex to arrive. I really hope it will help
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
Hi, I was following the steps given in the below thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1034145&fb_source=message

I rooted my phone successfully. Then downloaded "cm-7.1.0-RC1-Cooper-KANG-10.10.11-Grif_07" (98MB) and put it into the root of my SD card. Then I wiped the cache and partition. And then I updated from my SD card selecting the above file (for CM mode 7). Error in caching messages came. And now my phone is not rebooting. The screen is freezed at GALAXY ACE GT - S5830 and I don't know what to do. Can someone please help me

Here's the recovery mode screenshot at present
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] redlag:
Install CWM4 first and then try again.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
Can you tell me how ?

I am anything but an expert on these matters.

I wiped data/factory. I wiped cache partition. Also, I didn't flash custom recovery as I was told not to. Is the problem due to any one of the above three ?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] domnic79:
Ur facing the problem bcoz ur flashing it with stock recovery. Flash it with cwm 4.0.0.9. Here's d link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1168417

Sent from Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 using Jusada's awsum ICSunday2 + Slaidmod script.

Dont jus say thanks, use d 'THANKS' button. [XDA RULE]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
Now I don't have to wipe anything?

It will be really helpful if you can tell me how to flash CWM 4.0.0.9
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] redlag:
flash the link domnic gave first and reboot recovey. you will have a new recovery.

select install zip and select your rom.

Happy Flashing!

Flash cwm4 same way you tried flashing that rom.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
I flashed it. But the error messages were still coming and when I rebooted the screen still gets freezed at GALAXY ACE GT-S5830 and nothing else is happening.

When I go into the recovery mode, Clock Work Recovery Mode 4.0.0.9 screen is coming , but what are the next steps? Install CM 7?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] amrith.28:
First of all, put CWM Recovery as mentioned by dominic79.

then, reboot into Recovery. U will be in CWM recovery now.

Now, wipe data, wipe cache, goto advanced>wipe dalvik cache.

now, go back to main menu in recovery.

choose install zip from sd card.

choose the ROM from ur sd card, and select Yes.

It should work.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
Well, I didn't wipe data or cache or dalvik cache. I installed the ROM from SD card and it worked. I am using CW 7 now and I hope it will be working fine (though I didn't wipe data/cache/dalvik cache like you mentioned)

Thanks a ton
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] amrith.28:
its just a standard procedure i follow while flashing new ROMs :P

u should follow the Instructions as per the ROM that u are flashing :)

u are using CM 7.1 by Grif right ? Well, u do need to wipe (according to the instructions).
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
Yeah. But I thought since I wiped it before , I didn't need to wipe it again. Before in the sense that before flashing CWM 4.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] rylegolas:
Thats ok...if u dnt get any problem its fine (bootloops, phone restarting by itself)....

But if u get these problems then do the wipes first then reinstall the rom again

Sent from my GT-S5830
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
@ rylegolas

sure i will :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] reyyy96:
if its not working though , clean flash back via odin . then install that zip on recovery again.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] egregious:
Alright. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shakes The AssClown:
Are there any links showing Google's voice activated personal assistant? I was hoping to see some video of it in action. Read a lot of articles on it, but no video.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
no, not yet. probably next year.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
okay, this is to try to simplify the install for most windows users...

for starters get over to the teamwin website and download the official rc0 which comes with firefirefire bootloader so you can easily get into recovery with our 1 power button.

after youve downloaded the recovery file, put this file in the directory that your adb and fastboot is in, connect your device and open a cmd window

cd to the directory adb and fastboot is in, for me i typed

cd c:\sdk_tools (enter)

c:\sdk_tools becomes the directory, so now

adb shell (enter)

su (enter)

idme bootmode 4002 (enter)

so now your bootmode is set. now type in:

exit (enter)

exit (enter)

adb reboot (enter)

it should reboot to the splash screen of kindle fire in fastboot mode, now type in

fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img (enter)

it should install, show team wins image, then reboot to the yellow triangle of firefirefire...

this is okay. from here, on windows, my computer did NOT read the device anymore and it was stuck in fastboot and wouldn't take commands. this issue is related to the drivers for some reason... what i did was reboot my pc, reconnected my device and it came up as a unknown device. this is okay!

go to devices and right click the one with an xclimation mark and click update drivers. choose manually and then choose out of available drivers. you need to select android phone or something android related depending on what drivers you had installed previously. i chose my asus android device since thats what i had when i first got adb working. after u choose android device choose adb generic and it should install fine.

after this get back in ur cmd prompt, cd to the proper directory and type this in

fastboot devices (enter)

u should get a listed device.

from here you can then change bootmode to properly reboot ur device

fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000 (enter)

fastboot reboot (enter)...

should be done! enjoy!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] krelvinaz:
After the fastboot of the img file, I also had it just stick. I didn't have to reboot the PC though, I just reinstalled the device. As soon as the device was installed (I still had the cmd box open), it output:

downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY [ 3.053s]
booting... OKAY [ 0.013s]
finished. total time: 3.085s

and finished that process. The screen did some stuff, and then sat at a Reboot button... I finished the steps without any issues.

SUCCESS!!!

I've used the app Quick Boot a couple times now to go into Recovery Works great.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
when using apps to boot to recovery, can u get out of recovery without issue? someone said it gets stuck in the wrong bootmode?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] krelvinaz:
I just tell TWRP to reboot and don't touch anything... it ends up booting into the OS normally (takes a while).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sl0ttedpig:
Yep, if you do everything right and have FFF and TWRP installed correctly, you should be able to flip between ROMS without too much trouble, and without have to use fastboot again.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Link3737:
Hmm...while attempting to reinstall the drivers for the Fire, I'm at a road block. :(

I see the kindle in device manager, and am informed that it's not installed correctly, but while manually choosing the drivers I'm greeted with the following (attached).

This is after choosing Android Phone from the available drivers.

Any ideas, guys?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
reboot ur device and reconnect to ur PC.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] leglerreddin:
Bricked?

Ive looked all over for a solution and cant find one anywhere. right after i did adb reboot, the device hung on the kindle fire screen, ive turned it off and back on, and nothing, ive restarted the computer, but adb just wont see the device, ive even tried reinstalling the drivers, and it went from unknown device to android adb interface, but adb still doesnt recognize it. ive rooted many devices, but this kindle fire is throwing me for a loop, please help
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
ur device is in fastboot, its time to do the fastboot commands to flash twrp.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ckong1:
when the device is in fastboot it is unrecognizable with adb, just enter the fastboot commands and you'll be fine.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] leglerreddin:
I wish that was the case, i have tried a million different fastboot and adb commands, ive rebooted, used another os, the drivers are installed as an android composite adb interfaced, its still not registering as an adb or fastboot device. :(
[Kindle Fire Android Development] CrackMonkey91:
EDIT: FORGET WHAT I SAID!!!

just go here http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12363-how-to-windows-install-twrp-20-on-your-kindle-fire/ that will fix everything just have to add a couple things to the original way of installing drivers
[Kindle Fire Android Development] uunnzz:
I still had issues installing drivers after it booted to the yellow fire triangle (on Win7 x64 - even after adding the other device id to both x86 and x64 sections of the inf and ini of the drivers). Rebooting my computer with the Kindle plugged in caused the Kindle to reboot normally after which I used a terminal to set the boot mode to 4000:

Steps I took after doing step 'fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img' (enter):

- Reboot computer with Kindle plugged in. (Causes it to reboot normally)

- Open the terminal app. (I used Terminal Emulator)

- Type 'su', press enter. (Superuser will pop-up - select allow)

- Type 'idme bootmode 4000', press enter.

After this I was able to reboot normally without getting stuck on the yellow fire triangle and boot into recovery by pressing power on the fire icon.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
this my friend, is interesting.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StartYouth:
Hey XDA,

I recently upgraded my Nexus S to ICS 4.0.3.

LOVE IT.

It's smooth, and bugless. The browser finally seemed to have caught up with Safari!

There is one small annoyance, however. When the phone starts, everything is great and dandy. I use PlayerPro, AudioManager and some other widgets on my homescreens.

After a while I find the widgets don't seem to refresh anymore. They are stuck on one static screen no matter what I do.

It's really annoying, as I don't know which album I'm on, or what my current audio settings are.

Is this a ICS bug? Or is there some setting I should change?

I'm using JuiceDefender in the BG. I had autokiller, but since uninstalled it.

It is rooted, with a unlocked bootloader.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cykless:
ice cream sandwich:

works camera?

and usb?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StartYouth:
Correct, everything works. why wouldn't it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StartYouth:
Thanks. Gotcha. Anyone have any idea? it's driving me crazy.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Metalrullz:
Same issue here - stock Nexus S 4.0.3, not rooted. I don't know what caused this, but just restarted the phone and now it is ok. We'll see if it will happen again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smartmale2006:
If u hav installed beautiful widgets then..

Well after lots of trial and error.. the only solution i found is..

1. uninstall beautiful widgets animation

2. clear data beautiful widgets from settings - apps - beautiful widgets

3. uninstall beautiful widgets..

Living without beautiful widgets is better than facing that refresh problem.. :D:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxxM4yh3Mxxx:
I run ICS on my SGA and the widget refresh works fine
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dreeck:
View the thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1400110

edit : link removed
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] robertsydbrink:
Not true and ive posten respons in the original thread.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dreeck:
Yes, is TRUE
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
So says you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dreeck:
that's what I say, but it is mostly what you hear with your ears and see with your eyes : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1400110
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Hogun:
It's an issue with Android's sound system. More info here: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
From the video, it appears that this relates to a particular app (mini piano), so in that case, I'm not sure why it's Google's responsibility to improve the responsiveness of a third party piece of software.

That said, there are some very basic reasons for why iOS will invariably be smoother and more responsive than Android almost 100% of the time.

Put simply, iOS and Android both began their respective development at totally different times. Android started development during a time when the market was saturated with keyboard-centric devices like Blackberry's and such. There wasn't a whole lot of touch-screen proliferation, and even then, those devices with touch screens were still very proprietary and basically none of them offered multi-touch. As such, Android was never originally designed for multi-touch screens; that kind of functionality is more of an evolutionary adaptation than anything else really. Android's core design principles focus on multi-tasking and cloud service connectivity in order to maximize productivity. That's why Android has always more effortlessly been good at both of those things.

iOS on the other hand was designed from ground up to be used on a multi-touch user interface. As such, iOS products have been more focused on being UI-centric, while other functions take a lower priority. Basically, when the user interacts with the screen of an iOS device, the system will drop everything it's doing (if need be) just to make sure that the UI runs smoothly. For example, say you try to interact with a webpage as it's loading on an iOS device. The device will actually stop loading the page, as long as you are touching the device to interact with it. As soon as you're no longer touching it, the page will continue to load. This is also why multi-tasking was more of an afterthought than a core principle with iOS. Apple could have easily implemented some form of multi-tasking right with their first iPhone, but considering the resource limitations at the time, that would have come at the cost of an interface that wouldn't have been as smooth or responsive.

So, to sum up:

Generally speaking, iOS will almost ALWAYS have a smoother and more responsive touch interface than Android has (unless Google basically rebuilds Android for touch screens from ground up).

That said, Android will almost ALWAYS be a better at multi-tasking and integrating cloud services than iOS (unless Apple decides to basically rebuild iOS from ground up with a bigger focus on those services).

Which is better than the other? Well, that's up to you really; it's totally subjective. If you want a simple to use UI which is smooth and responsive, then maybe iOS is better suited for you. If a more diverse ecosystem with endless customization options and very powerful multi-tasking beasts are important enough that you can accept a reasonable cost in the UI smoothness, then Android is your best bet.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Dont forget to give credits to Andrew Munn as the source of your "reply"

which can be found here:

https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/VDkV9XaJRGS

Also its not true that when you touch the screen on an iOS device every thing stops, at least not on my experience.. the page still continues to load, installation still continues and things still run in the background, simply put iOS has a better frame work for keeping 60fps on the UI at any given time, nothing is stopped or placed in real time as per several replies on that article.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
I actually didn't know about this article. Thanks! Most of what I know comes from my Apple Fanboy friend, so we banter a lot. Maybe he read that article :P
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Cyrus-R:
There are still room for improvement for the touch interface. Hope it gets better on ICS update. :)