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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daveid:
As many "intents" as an application has, it can have direct shortcuts to. In this case, they have the two main intents, contacts/dialer, and they want both to be separately accessible. Just like maps has maps, places, latitude, and navigation.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henrik.dk:
thanks. got it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sieger007:
I am in a very similar spot if not exactly the same and so I thought it be fitting to put my situation over here.

I upgraded to Android 7 from Android 6 and I am running on is Samsung j7 rooted phone. immediately after installation I could see that was a phone icon being offered by my launcher which is Nova. I am not sure what happened but right now there is no phone app icon at all that natively belongs to the Android 7 OS I have to use a third party dialler tone and that in turn invokes the phone app. I am not sure what I am missing but there are three phone apps in system directory they all have different APK locations and APK names but they all refer to the same Android package is that not strange ?

my questions

-how do I invoke an APK file that does not have a shortcut offered by my launcher and I have confirmed that there are no hidden apps.

I have disabled the original Home Launcher icon or else uninstalled it because I do not need the launcher from Samsung since I am using Nova

-there are three apps that refer to the same package which of these three are dispensable and can be uninstalled how do I figure that out.
[HTC Inspire 4G] greentrees89:
my phones power/usb port is broken, i still have manufactures warranty, should i send it in to be fixed? and what should i do to it before i send it in, what steps should i take and how do i do that, dont worry im not an idiot you wont be wasting your time if you help me, i catch on quickly, my phone is S-off and fully rooted, with a custom ROM installed i know i probably shouldent send it in like that, where should i start, is there a better alternative to sending it in? by the way i do pay for mobile insurance thru AT&T, all help is greatly appreciated, thank you very much
[HTC Inspire 4G] MMM-BACONSTRIPS:
There are good number of threads out there that can help you, I recommend searching. In short, any time you're going to send your phone in to AT&T, it's a good idea to unroot and install a stock RUU. I'm not 100% on the rules or whatever, but rooting voids warranty and if AT&T sees it they may reject your warranty claim, assuming you go the route to send it in. Search for Gene's tool to unroot, or use the AAHK (I believe there is a step in there to unroot). I've used Gene's tool and I know it works fine.

The only alternative I can think of is taking it to a 3rd party to have it fixed. You probably won't have to unroot then but if you're paying for insurance you might as well use it and not pay out of pocket..unless of course the fix would be relatively cheap but honestly can't see that being the case. Hope that helps! :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] shugga101:
If the phone is under manufacters warranty then spend the $5 for shipping to have to sent to the HTC department address they give you. Its much cheaper and a better route to go than yo have ATT charge you $150 for the phone insurance coverage. I had to send mine in. I unrooted it and put it back to complete stock. That was all I needed to do. Because they never said my warranty was voided when they received my phone upon looking at it and testing it, or whatever they do.

So just unroot and return to complete stock and you'll be fine.
[HTC Inspire 4G] greentrees89:
will i be able to unroot and flash stock RUU without hooking up to my pc via USB?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
My S-ON tool will work without USB. Just get it on your SD card somehow (via adapter, or download from phone):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
[HTC Inspire 4G] HTC_Phone:
I talked to ATT today and they gave me the number for the warranty replacement hotline. I've noticed that my phone has become increasingly hard to turn on via the power button (Its become slightly recessed), the battery door doesn't fit onto the phone, making the top volume key hard to press, and the vibration feels as if something has become lose inside the device.

My question is, what if when the manufacturers test the device, they decide that nothing was initially wrong. Will I get some sort of weird bill?

My device is completely spotless, minus the details mentioned above.
[HTC EVO 3D] z50king:
My device randomly changes the wallpaper crop selection from the tall rectangle like I want and the short fat rectangle like I don't want. I am using ADW EX and running viperROM. After reboots or even after just pressing home the wallpaper will go from the tall rectangle crap to the short fat rectangle crop. Sometimes it fixes itself after a few seconds and sometimes now. It just happened a few minutes ago and now the crop selection for the wallpaper is short and fat when it used to be tall rectangle.

Why does it randomly change back and forth? I am runnning ADW EX and it randomly switches crop boxes both when I have Sense and it's features frozen and when i have them present. it is currently staying in the short fat box, even after reboot and whatnot.
[HTC EVO 3D] z50king:
So I was effing with it a lot and I unfroze Sense, again, and launched sense and could get the tall rectangle when from the home screen I hit menu, wallpaper, gallery, folder, picture, then crop came up in the tall rectangle.

Also with Sense launched, if I went to Gallery, folder, picture, menu, set as, wallpaper, the short fat crop box came up.

wtf is this?
[HTC EVO 3D] hitman4274:
Lol idk its odd I've been messigg with this too, not as much as you have tho, I didn't think it was that big of a deal, prolly has something to do with adw, as when I moved on to cleanrom 2.9.5 I've never seen the short fat one again LOL

Shot from my sharp shooter in 3d

cleanrom2.9.5
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
I find his videos pretty entertaining ...check it out!

It's a go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_cKHyuyRw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dw3bb10:
Floss is DOPE!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
Stock fresh out of the box.....just keeping it real...haha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TurboTsi:
Lol I opened it up and just had to watch the whole thing. He kept it real though.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TurboTsi:
Btw what launcher is he using to have all those little icons on the home screen?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Biker1:
The guy does make entertaining and informative videos.

And of course, he keeps it real :)

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ADW Launcher EX has that capability.

Up to 10x10 icon density on both portrait and landscape modes.

I've been using it since day one on my SE4GT (never gave TW a chance :() as well as on my Evo 4G.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluefire808:
I just made the switch to ADW Launcher EX 3-4 days ago. I will never ever go back to anything else. I used rom toolbox to permanently change density to 200 and use 7x7 icons and changed the dock icon scale to 8. I chqnged several other things too. Greatest launcher ever :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mship:
I think he just made every geek on every forum who has a samsung phone scream at the scream when he said that Touchwiz is a win. I personally have no problem with Touchwiz, but there is some serious hate for it.

This is one of the best Android reviews I have watched. I liked that he did not focus on the specs and the scores, **** that people who dont go on these forums really dont care about.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fataldesain:
I want the nexus even though the epic is better.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cruckus:
I have both and both are the best on their carrier but the epic has better hardware and the nexus has better software that guy is funny he gave most the wins to the epic then choose the nexus but he's pretty spot on with his review.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ppcpirate:
"everybody knows...."

haha.

and how does he buy all these phones and use them daily? nexus is on verizon and epic is on sprint.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] quick99si:
Damn man I wanna be the boss in mah hood, finna pick me up one of them nexuses so I can get with the breastesses

Sho 'nuff
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mazook98:
Dude is straight baller.

I was only recently introduced to "Flossy's World", and I've watched every vid he's done, and just for the straight entertainment factor alone 'it's a win'. My favorite parts of his vids: When he does video tests from his car and he pans around, and there are devices lying all OVER the place: he's got like 3 phones and a tablet mounted on his dash, 2 phones in a drinkholder, 1 chilling in the ashtray, a couple more on the passenger seat, and more on the floorboards and such... freaking hilarious.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wbyrd:
Anyone know what lockscreen he's using?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MrDowntown12:
Man, I wanna be the boss of my hood.

That was actually a pretty good, straitforward review. XDA should employ that guy. It would be awsome, and look good for the diversity. Instead of a bunch of white nerdy guys haha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Henri Blanche:
Yeah, never heard of this guy before but I appreciated the frankness of his review. I think the bottom line here is that each phone has advantages over the other and it really depends on the functions and capabilities that matter to you most.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] G1-8701:
he does have nice reviews, but i disagreed with a few things in the video like the photon and nexus camera over the epic, i've seen all three and i promise they don't look as good as the epic.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
I know huh?...haha Music blasting the whole way, speeding, lol!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Biker1:
Meant to press the quote button ;)

In NYC, the King and the NYPD would throw him in jail for 20 years, for using all those phones while driving LMAO!

The guy is good. One of the best regarding his real world reviews.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xisaacbx:
Been watching himself for a wile now and have to agree with him being one of the better reviewers. He pays full price for each phone he gets, so if the phone is trash you know damn well he'll be upset lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
I saw him in a Wendy's reviewing something before.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
With live wallpapers going, Touchwiz is much smoother than ADW EX when swiping screens and opening apps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
Yeah I agree, it's even smooth when running microbes lw which is known to juice pretty hard.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Beejis:
He only chose the Nexus for the "Floss Factor", which makes sense. I would too if that was important to me, but it isn't.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hayabusa1300cc:
Flossy is tight, I've been subscribed since before I got my photon.

I watched my first vid of him thinking it would be a lame review, but I was so wrong. My fav reviewer next to Aaron.

I love his real approach and love for gadgets. He has to by a matching tab with every phone lol.

He also gives shootout to our very own QbKing77

.: sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch :.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] OMGLadyGaga:
Nice, I've been watching this guys reviews since my blackberry days because as people have mentioned, he "keeps it real". He really had nothing but good things to say about bout devices, both are a go. He's more knowledgeable than the average consumer and less knowledgeable than the hardcore android geek, which hits the sweet spot when making a review in real world usability.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EL TEJANO:
Ever since discovering Flossy on youtube I've thoroughly enjoyed watching his reviews. There are some who get into all the specs and technical stuff, but Flossy is entertaining as well as knowledgeable.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Zorachus:
I agree, he tells it like the average cool tech geek would appreciate, he's beyond the mom and pop average smartphone iPhone style buyers, but doesn't go super technical either to scare away people.

I say if your gonna go crazy technical only one site even does that right = Anandtech gets insanely detailed and mathematical about gadgets and tech. No one can beat them so don't even try.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BrandoKC:
Subscribed- Flossy Carter you've entered Noah Kravitz territory. Actually I think that you have overtaken him. Outstanding reviews!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Zorachus:
There is only question I have to ask you.

Does your phone have the "Floss factor" ?

Lol quote of the year my man. Hey, just keeping it real, no BS.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
Gotta check out his latest video on a pov cam.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BigE04GTO:
His reviews are very entertaining.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ma$etas:
hes mentioned a couple of times in his videos Xda and shout outs to qbking but wonder if hes actually a member of Xda?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] refthemc:
Not sure if this was already posted or not but one feature I really miss from my HTC Incredible was that when it was charging a small red LED would begin to light up. On the Galaxy Nexus nothing lights up to let you know the phone is charging. I tried Light Flow, which is a great app by the way, but I really just wanted that one simple feature; the ability to have the phone light the LED when it was charging. A quick Market search found me this:

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.chatchatmeow.gnl

Hope this helps someone out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] n4sa:
Works well, thanks for the link :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sphinxy:
Thanks, i've missed this from my HTC Hero!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tossero:
Thank you but I`m not sure what you meant .I`m using LightFlow and it`s doing that just fine .

Cheers~
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] liltbrockie:
OP is just advertising a much simpler solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nesty-Online:
Great, installed missing this also...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] apratomo:
seems nice feature, but what happen if there's message/email coming in? will it blink per notification color or it will override everything else?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] atticus182:
True, but lightflow can do this plus a ton more stuff, and if you install this lightflow doesn't work. So my choice is still lightflow :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] esoomenona:
Actually, this goes a little bit farther than lightflow does when it comes to the actual charging of the phone. It changes color while charging, based on the current percentage. I could see how that might be useful to some people. Personally, I like lightflow a lot more, because I like my led to notify me of much more information. For charging, I have solid white while charging, solid green when fully charged, and solid red when battery is low.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] prkchop:
led wont work when charging

whenever my phone is plugged in, none of the led notifications work, lightflow or GalaxyNexusLED app, any solutions?

the notifications do work when my phone is not plugged in
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] amneris1:
works great nice app!!!

works great nice app!!! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tristan202:
Not working properly for me. If plugged in when phone boots, it doesn't trigger. And when unplugging, it keeps blinking until next reboot.

Running MCR 8 with franco nightly #7.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GoRRaN:
i think the app lightflow is the best..

you can manage for each notification different color of the light
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Royal2000H:
Hey,

I want to modify some images in SystemUI.apk, namely the "softkey" bar... but I want to animate the png's, which requires adding XML files for animation.

The apk's are obviously compiled, not just a zip, so I can't just throw in an xml file.

How would I go about doing this?

Use apk-tool to decompile, add in the xml files, then recompile? I heard this introduces some errors.

Is there a way to get the source of the SystemUI.apk since this is a dev phone?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Royal2000H:
This is similar but not quite the same

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11891313&postcount=2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] djmcnz:
Source is in ASOP so that's easy... http://source.android.com/

But you're correct about apktool - just get the latest, decode the apk, edit the xml and encode the result... move edited stuff from new apk to source apk and tada!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
I thought I would start a thread with links to all the mods that work for the Ray and that people might find useful.

I didnt find anything here already in the Ray forums so here you go:

Battery Percentage Mod with Reboot options in power menu

:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1329542

download battery mod V2 from op and flash through recovery

Status Bar Widgets

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1295254

Follow the instructions on the OP

Reboot option in power menu only

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1094730

download RebootOptions_4.0.2.A.0.42 and flash

Battery Icons Mods

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1284651

Follow the instructions on the op of the thread

Samsung Galaxy S2 theme

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1162548

Download and flash

Apps you can remove

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1089470

A list of all the apps and bloatware you can remove

The Alternative easier guide to unlock your boot loader

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1034087

This guide is a little easier to understand than SE's, you still require the unlock key, but this guide is easier to follow

DSP manager audio control app

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1367725

Allows you to modify the sound to the speaker , headphones

Status bar widgets that you can choose and reorder

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1392472

Link provided by braddybrad

ICS theme

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1328427

Download and flash through recovery

Boot Animations

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1053250

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1397606

Huge selection of Boot animations

Important

Download the package and extract the bootanimation from \system\media and copy it to SD card

Open Root Explorer copy bootanimation.zip from SD card and go to \system\media and replace the existing one. Make sure you give proper permission.

MIUI MODS

This the extended setting mod created by Andy Thomson, it allows you to change your notifications in your status bar, centralise clock and show carrier etc etc

flash this first

http://www.mediafire.com/?b29urrl5mu05od7

Install this after

http://www.mediafire.com/?06fkqxssgn1eee1

An app called miui control will appear on your desktop

this is only for miui version 1.12.30

Timescape for MIUI and CM7

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1301777

Follow instructions on the thread linked above

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please share any mods you find and I will add to op

I will update the op with further mod's/themes as and when I find them.

If they are in the op on this thread then they will work on your Ray as I have tested them on a rooted, stock RAY with 4.02.A.0.42 firmware.

Extras

ICONS

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824656

700+ Icons for your customising your home screens

If this helps hit thanks, please hit thanks in the original threads where the mods are as well.

Thanks :D

Credit

Andy Thomson for extended settings for Miui
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] fathur.midhian:
nice share dude :D , i will try this
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Bazonga:
Keep it coming, nice initiative!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] braddybrad:
nice! very helpfull and very much appreciated

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improved status bar widget : choose which widget and order them:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1392472
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MarkMRL:
It's cool that basically every mod for the Arc works on the Ray too.

I wonder why the Ray still hasn't gotten real support while the Arc has all sorts of cool stuff for it. They are basically the same phone, the only difference I can think of is the front camera in the Ray and automatic led flash on the Arc (and of course the Arc is bigger but the screen resolution is the same).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
Not sure but maybe I should start flashing Roms to see what works ?

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MarkMRL:
Roms surely won't work, but modifications to the interface and things that don't use system features will probably work, as proven by this thread.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
Will.find some.more stuff

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lukewong01:
Nice share!!...great to see Ray member's active..;D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
Ics theme added to op

Boot Animations added

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Bazonga:
Did you try everything?

Because eg the boot animations, they even have to be adapted from the Arc to work on the Ray and you are linking Samsung ones..

I use these: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1397606
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
Got the.animations from a arc thread just linked direct to it can remove if needs be ?

I tried a few

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Bazonga:
O allright sorry, didn't know that ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] gluem:
You linked the files in the wrong order, but I flashed the overscroll apk first. Now I can no longer boot to MIUI... It stays at the FreeXperia screen. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
No sorry all worked for me may have to flash rom over the top you won't lose anything

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] gluem:
The order is wrong though. In the first post you have

"flash [miuisettings.apk link] first

install [overscroll.zip link=] after"

So I think you probably have it backwards. Also, after I flashed overclock.zip, flashed miui1230.zip, and installed the miuisettings.apk, that miuisettings app doesn't work.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
It does because i did it,

Flash the overscroll zip first

install miui settings normally, like any other apk, you will find a app on your desktop called miui control

Swapped links round sorry about that
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
Timescape apk link added for MIUI and CM7 roms
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] gluem:
Would you happen to know if the stock Xperia keyboard apk is available? Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
I will try to find one for you

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] noesix:
Hi, I've looked for a few days but I havent found anything to know how to do this, and I was wondering if you could help me...

I want to modify the defalult miui lockscreen (the one you slide down, and you can directly go to calls or sms). I want to change those two options, having in one of them a switch between sound/silent and in the other one a shortcut to directly open whatsapp.

Would it be possible?

Thanks in advice! :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiefy009:
It is but.you need to go to the miui lock screen thread to find out about the XML

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] noesix:
I've been able to do it (at leats the whatsapp shortcut, the switch between sound/silence seems imposible), but with other lockscreen, modifying the manifest.xml, but I can't do it in the default lockscreen because I can't find it's manifest.xml anywhere...

help?