yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taylorhou:
on the right track. you hit it on the nail in regards to the usecase of the device, however there is a need to be able to ping a device at any time and get a timely status update (including location info) which makes things a little more difficult.

we see two potential routes

1. keep the radio always on and connected (of course battery drain but how bad is it really? - examples being the dumb phones in the past with 300h of standby but still being connected to the networks)

2. have the radios power up every so often to check to see if there is a command awaiting it, if so, execute, if not, power back down.

going route 2 would mean you can't get an on demand ping ability, but worst case, longest wait time = one power down-up cycle of the radio (let's use an example of 5 minutes)

of course, we'd like to go with route 1, but typically in an emergency, its the user of the device that initiates whereas a ping is more for information (parent looking for child or device - yes it might be an emergency, but probably not life-threatening)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cvs26:
You might want to have a look at SONY's $150 android watch.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onexuan:
try "One Power Guard" download from onexuan.com,It can help you extend battery life .

Discuss from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889740
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Raul77:
Hi Guys, I just got my A100 last week and liking it so far, i want to install ICS on it, i am very familliar with Android since i got an android phone and have flashed tons of custom Roms on it. however i searched the A100 forum and cant find a single post / thread about proper instruction on how to install A500 roms on A100 or how to do different things for new owners,

for example i am interested in installing the FLEXREAPER ROm (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1517181) what are the steps i need to follow? i have already rooted the device and all set, but what is unblocking the BL ?

Can someone please be kind enough to write a step by step instruction on how to flash a A500 rom on A100 ?

Thank you in advance.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
Unlocking the bootloader allows you to flash a custom recovery which is required to flash custom roms. See this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1558595. All you need to do is restore your boot.img after flashing an A500 rom (so flash it like any other custom rom, then restore the boot.img from your a100 rom's nandroid backup).
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Raul77:
Thanks for the help.

so

i first unlock the bootloader, then flash my custom rom then BEFORE rebooting flash back by boot.img and reboot, correct? how do i backup my boot.img?

are you on any ICS rom urself? how is the screen ? i had the Morse code issue on this video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDXfj6TchM&list=UUHqepxR6_suYYKySqKxymDg&index=16&feature=plcp

but then installed the HC custom build prob by crossix and its so much better, have you tested this on ICS ?

Thank you so much,
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
- Unlock the bootloader

- Flash CWM Recovery

- Nandroid, then flash the a500 rom, then restore your boot.img from the nandroid backup

Yes, I am running ICS (I wanted to wait for the official release, but I was tempted by the development :D). The screen is not as good as HC with crossix's modded build.prop. It cannot be used on ICS since it was coded for honeycomb. A few changes should make it compatible, but I haven't tried it.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] blmvxer:
You can flash my rom Tabooyay it comes with the fixed boot.img, and i'm updating it possibly tonight.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Raul77:
Thanks guys,

well I honestly was about to return the A100 before i tried the crossix build.Prob, it was almost impossible to use it !!! I will give ICS a try i guess but Screen is huge i think,

just one final question, if i want to go back to Stock HC I can right?

Thanks,
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
Yes, you can. See here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23008670&postcount=5.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pintek:
Here is the process I took

Flashed ICS leak 009

Unlocked the bootloader

Flashed thor's recovery via fastboot (adb reboot bootloader then fastboot flash thorsrecovery)

Then I let the tablet fully boot up an did this

ADB reboot recovery

Then made a nandroid for box stock ICS

Then I downloaded Flexreapers rom an all the files/folders with the exception of these

-EC

-Meta INF

-system

Finally I did a factory reset an let the tablet boot up all the way an manually installed in the modified acer ring.apk I modified an replaced the old acer ring.apk an rebooted.

Happy ending

There is alot more i've done since but this is the basics of getting the a500 rom working.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Raul77:
Holy smoke that sounds complicated !!!

Questions

1-) how is the screen?

2-) when you say "Then I downloaded Flexreapers rom an all the files/folders with the exception of these" so you downloaded the zip, unzipped it, removed those folders and rezipped it?

3-) Where did you download the Acer Ring?

Thank you,
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Raul77:
btw where can i find your ROM ?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
His rom can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24164784&postcount=88.
[Fascinate Android Development] sunilromy:
Hello,

I dont know if it's really silly to post this,

but flashing CM9 and using three key recovery can lay you into recovery to recovery bootloop.

before, I use to flash [EH03] stock rom to overcome the problem.

I just notice a simple way, maybe some might be aware of this.

Here it goes,

First flash the following recovery from odin :-

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=556634&d=1301538947

and then once you are in recovery then flash a glitch kernel from recovery :-

dowload link :- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1488976

This breaks the loop. ;)

I dont know how it works but seriously it worked for me.

if it doesnt then flash ths build, and you are done. this can also be use to switching cm9 roms easily rather then again going to stock.

Please hit thanks if it works. ;) ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] jeraspie28:
Silly? Not at all!! I've been wondering about this issue. So many times I would just say screw it and odin back to EH03 stock and start all over because I couldn't get the right CWM to flash.

Thanks!!!!
[Fascinate Android Development] sageDieu:
it also works to flash a gingerbread rom (I keep a stable cm7 rom on my card just in case) and you don't even have to wipe data, just flash cm7, boot, recovery, then flash back to ics. that way you can save yourself if you're away from a computer.
[Fascinate Android Development] sunilromy:
Cool. I shld update that too ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] 00ffej:
Thanks you just saved me a bunch of time :D
[Fascinate Android Development] Eris _2.1_2010:
Thnx for the tip. Such a pain in the arse when your away from home bootlooping and can't do anything lol

Sent from my Devious AOKP Mez
[Fascinate Android Development] vlucchetti:
LOL! And I just got caught in multiple loops where I had to go back to Odin several times this morning.

Will give it a go if I get looped again.
[Fascinate Android Development] pdubsfc:
Would you happen to have a link or maybe direct me to a stable cm7 rom, so that I can follow your method if I get into a bind? Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] TtWEAK:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=fascinatemtd
[Fascinate Android Development] pdubsfc:
Much appreciated. Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] Eris _2.1_2010:
Awesome thank you so much for finding this. You saved my a$$.
[Fascinate Android Development] 00ffej:
EDIT: Never mind
[Fascinate Android Development] vlucchetti:
Had an unfortunate reason to give this a try. Did not work for me.

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If you are in a boot loop where recovery does not come up, how do you get to a point to flash?
[Fascinate Android Development] sunilromy:
hello,

you need to flash recovery from odin, so that you can flash a rom. it is mentioned on first post.
[LG Optimus 3D] BigBadSheep:
Under which conditions can be possible such a thing, playing Tegra dedicated games on LG Optimus 3D without the help of ChainFire3D? I am asking because, after flashing my phone with ThiaiZ's O3D GB V2.6.1 Prada ROM, for pure curiosity I've installed a game, the Pinball HDfor Tegra game...and it works, very well and very stable. Also Stellar Escape, AirAttack HD, Guerrila Bob HD (all of these runs well) and Arma 2: Firing range - some lag at loading and some graphics problems, always at beginning of the game.

So I was wondering if it's possible. For those who won't believe it soon, as fast as I'll find a program to record all the screen on my phone, I'll post on youtube.
[LG Optimus 3D] jimakos29:
there are non tegra versions of these games so if u installed from market (ooops google play...) then they are non tegra versions cause the tegra versions of these games won't even appear on market for our device. Only known tegra version to run on all phones was that samurai crap game I don't even recall its name. So unless the versions u installed are the THD versions, they are not tegra versions.
[LG Optimus 3D] BigBadSheep:
I've made the video

Here it is...finally I made it to make the video: w*w.you**be.com/watch?v=7-Ozhgth8tI

Sorry but I'm not allowed yet to post links. Just replace the missing letters to go to youtube

Now tell me...how come?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] mayhay:
Hi! I have some questions about custom ROMs

-How can i add "data" of app like Spare Parts to ROM read my settings if app will be system.

-Is it possible to hide app, like a lot of these systems app?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] kurotsugi:
I can't undestand the first question. I hope it's not because my bad english (lol)

if you mean 'is it posible to put sparepart.apk into my system app?' the answer is yes. its easy. jush push it to system/app. reboot. done.

for the second one...yes, its possible to hide some app from the drawer. it could esily done by using go launcher or other 3rd launcher app.

btw, next time please put your question in FAQ thread. more experienced user only answer any question there. they will ignore this kind of post.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] mayhay:
Ok i get this to FAQ, btw this what you answered is all what i know, and not this what i want
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] kurotsugi:
my mistake...sorry. I couldn't really understand your question. :D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] mayhay:
It can be cause of my bad english ;p
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] static28:
I cant get your first question.. haha :) peace.

the second one. If i understand you correctly. "you want to hide system apps fomr your application drawer right? "

it can be possible by using launchers which has capabilities of grouping apps. like ADW. just just go to app drawer >>> press option button >>> click choose group >> add new >> select the apps which you want to see in your app drawer >>>> walllla ! DONE :)

did I get your question? :)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] ronnieryan:
1. use titanium backup to keep all your settings and data

2. use titanium backup tp freeze system files/ delete them permanently
[HTC One X] McSic:
Hey guys,

I received my Htc One X today.

It's great and all, I love it, but one thing that really annoys me is the menu button (3 dots) which is placed on the screen and resizes the screen (basically makes the screen smaller) on many games and apps, also, it's almost always visible in almost every app/game - very annoying.

I'd suggest if someone could fix that button, like.. remove the button completely from the screen and let apps use the full HD mode, like they're supposed to - and use a hardware button such as volume up/down (if pressed for like 3 seconds) for it.

That would be great and it would really improve the software, I think HTC messed that one up.

A picture to show those buttons:

blog.notebooksbilliger.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/vellamoquer.jpg

And they're always there, always on that side (if not build into the app - which it isn't in most cases), and very annoying when gaming.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance if any pro programmer is going to fix this!
[HTC One X] det66:
That's not an HTC feature the 3 dots are ICS
[HTC One X] MaXmeOliver:
The button appears when an app isn't optimized for ICS.
[HTC One X] McSic:
Oh ok. Thanks for the replies.
[HTC One X] k0rner:
Maybe, modifying /system/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl to change that hardware key to MENU from APP_SWITCH will do the trick.

Or, something like this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21501238

However, my One X is still not here, so can't try that.
[HTC One X] Rycon33:
yup some apps are still not following ICS guidelines atm

i was really surprised that even the XDA app is not even optimized for ICS, what the ... :D
[HTC One X] myself11:
The best possible Solution would be long press Task manager to open Menu. But even after that it would be probably necessary to disable the menu bar from poping up.
[HTC One X] eeeeeee:
Re-map task manager to the menu button, and use long press for task manager.

I don't think one can make too much use of the task manager anyways.
[HTC One X] knoxploration:
I'm not very surprised; the XDA app is sadly pretty mediocre. Most annoying thing is that it insists on showing only thumbnails of images, with no way to see the full image unless you open the thread in your web browser (and even if you do so, it won't take you right to the post you were reading; it'll start you at the top of that page of the thread and make you scroll.)
[HTC One X] McSic:
I absolutely agree. Would be nice if someone could do that and remove the digital menu button / let apps use the full screen.
[HTC One X] Rycon33:
very true indeed, even on their premium version, their handling of images is a pain
[HTC One X] knoxploration:
Incidentally, everybody complaining about the menu button would do well to consider that on many phones, you *never* get that real-estate back, because *all* of the buttons are on that bar. The way HTC has done it, if the app is properly coded you get to use the full screen real estate, and you're not wasting battery power on backlighting a bar that's always unavailable to the apps, and always black.
[HTC One X] qpop:
When I've used ICS on my HTC Dz, the button isn't there, so it is definitely possible to instruct ICS not to use the button, if a hardware button is available.

I am pretty sure that it's possible to cook into the ROM.
[HTC One X] MaXmeOliver:
Yeah, but as you said, your DZ has a hardware menu button. But it's probably possible to use the multitask button as a menu button and keep the multitask menu that way is has been - you open it by long pressing home.
[HTC One X] Alex240188:
Well I am running ICS on my nexus one and something has been done to that rom in order to not show the three dots, as it has a hardware menu button there is no need for the software one, and whatever they have done prevents it from displaying it so hopefully it could be done here
[HTC One X] qpop:
Well I tweeted the following to Paul O'brien :

And got this reply:
[HTC One X] Rycon33:
^^^ that's great news

yes, once permanent root is achieved, modders here will find a way on optimizing our One X
[HTC One X] McSic:
Yay! Can't wait. Didn't think that many people would agree :)
[HTC One X] qpop:
Permanent root has already been achieved; and S-Off achieved by HTCDev route. It'll likely be as good as it gets for a while at least.
[HTC One X] Sashtheflash:
The free version does :)
[HTC One X] knoxploration:
I'm not sure what you're saying it does, but not for me, it doesn't. I use the free version. I took one look at how badly-designed it is (it's only barely better than just using the stock or Chrome browser on my tablet), and decided there was not a chance I was going to pay for it.
[HTC One X] fi3ry_icy:
i just realized something...

the softkey hides the arrow keys on the keyboard...

way to go HTC!!
[HTC One X] ChefChaudart:
I got a question on same theme ;

While on home screen, how can I access option menu ?:confused:
[HTC One X] qpop:
I'm guessing a long-press on the screen, which (IIRC) is the ICS-compliant method of getting to options
[HTC One X] Rycon33:
yup, a bit troublesome now compare to the physical menu last time

pull down the notification panel, you can access the settings there(press the setting icon)

or put a copy of the settings icon to the homescreen or dock

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nope, it's quite different for HTC
[HTC One X] ChefChaudart:
Long press brings "Add options"
[HTC One X] The Jones:
What do you mean by softkey here?
[HTC One X] jameslfc5:
Best solution would probably be for someone to make the menu bar either smaller (shorter) or translucent

The smaller bar has been achieved on the Galaxy Nexus Nav Bar so I don't think that should be too difficult
[HTC One X] uQwerty:
solution?

Does anyone know how this guy managed to remove the "menu bar": youtube.com/watch?v=N0oZ9vgOYUE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Also, here someone suggested a solution: forums.techarena.in/portable-devices/1460586.htm#post5605919

The silly menu bar is one of the few things that I'd love to see fixed before I buy a one x... hope it gets fixed soon :)
[HTC One X] qpop:
I'm sure Paul O'Brien has fixed previous phones' issues with this by moving the menu button up to the top right of apps, but I might be imagining it.

Either way, the obvious solution is to remap multitask button to multitask/menu, and Paul and others are working on it.
[HTC One X] SvenSSSvensson:
Yeah, I'm signing up on the long press for activities and single click for menu-button.

This can be flashed later i guess?
[HTC One X] Kataklysto:
Totally agree with the idea of long pressing the task manager button to open the menu!

I hope htc will give as a ota update where they fix this issue, so that i don't have to flash my device :p
[HTC One X] qpop:
Very unlikely. If they were going to do that why not include it on release?

Far more likely is that they'll say "Well, ICS guidelines are this...blablabla" and expect app developers to deal with it.
[HTC One X] knoxploration:
Hopefully configurable, because I'd like the opposite way around, both because I switch apps more often than I use menus, and because the primary function should match the button label. Short tap for app switcher, long press for menu.
[HTC One X] Born Twitchy:
+1

Long pressing the home butting like on a samsung works as well...
[HTC One X] schoolsux:
Long press HOME to activate multitasking of apps. Remap and use APP_TASKMANAGER for

menu/settings instead. Remove the 3 software dots apperaring. AND THE PHONE WOULD BE PERFECT! Atleast until most apps is ICS menu fixed. Hate the way it is right now.
[HTC One X] blubbers:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1582506

enjoy
[HTC One X] psinno:
Not as surprising as Youtube.
[HTC One X] pikubik:
That bugs me the most, I have to say. Youtube, and also Google Reader, have the menu button in the action bar (or whatever that thing at the top is called), but also show the superfluous black bar. Both trigger the same action. I hope Google fixes these bugs in their own apps soon...
[HTC One X] ahyin:
I see everyone have the menu button always showing then I'm curious why my menu button have a arrow which I can click and hide the 3 dot menu.

I bought my phone together with my friend and his phone doesn't have a arrow to hide.

The only diff between is the HTC SDK API mine is 4.10 . Is is 4.11
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yonnootz:
Hi!

I have a Huawei U8160 and i instaled on it ICS from this tuturial http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1364780

At first open my phone is power on and it remain with the start image. I rest the phone but it have that problem.

What can i do?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giritrobbins:
I think this is the wrong forum for this.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yonnootz:
Excuse me that i posted in a wrong forum.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giritrobbins:
No problem just take a look around, use the search and you might find something.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
Moved to Android Q&A for you :)
[Vibrant General] swehes:
So on this issue found in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1507219 I am looking to see if there is a possibility to create a tar file that formats the SDcard as it is corrupted, when running it in Odin? It seems to be the only solution that I can think of after testing odin back to stock, to Eugene's Froyo, and such.

If any of our developers has any other ideas, please feel free to share them.

Also This has happened to three of four of us so far. Using Euphoria and Passion.

Thanks!
[Vibrant General] Sugartibbs:
I have corrupted files on my sd card and my phone will not power off, it has been suggested I try backing up my files, running them through windows then restoring them, though I have yet to figure out how this is done or if it would help. Im all ears.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] BobTeh1337Builder:
Hiiii first post here but anyways,

I have a SGH-I957 ATT LTE version and had filled the hard drive space to maximum... about like 70ish megabytes remaining (I know, stupid). It was running slow and it wouldn't delete full stacks of files for some reason so I restarted it and it got stuck in a bootloop. I've tried booting to recovery and rebooting again and I don't really want to factory wipe.

Any suggestions?? Please help lol
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] orlandoxpolice:
Try clearing cache and dalvik. If that fails clear data factory reset. If that fails odin back to stock
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] BobTeh1337Builder:
Hey thanks,

Factory reset = wipe of all data correct :(? is there any way to save some stuff off of the partition through recovery somehow? I have CWM Recovery5.x + Rooted

Edit: Performed the factory reset// ALL DATA STILL IN TACT OK!!
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] orlandoxpolice:
you could have made a nandroid.

so does it all work?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] BobTeh1337Builder:
All okay and back up and running after installing all of my apps again
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nutzzer:
All,

I'm currently on the Crossbreed Rom with Franco Kernel. Overall, its a great set up and smooth, until say a week of regular using my phone, I can see it would slow down/lag from switching apps, typing, scrolling and the problem won't fix itself until I reboot. I'm looking at the battery logs and don't see anything unusual, the Android OS is always top then the screen. And again, after a reboot, thing is great until another week or 2 then reboot again. I don't believe I need to reboot all the time.

Any pointers? Could it be an app that is slowing it down?

Thanks for any info!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hemulen:
Well, I usually reboot my phone every now and then. Maybe thats all it takes?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WiredPirate:
You should reboot your phone every week, no big deal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hEaTLoE:
Try clearing the Dalvik and any very large text message threads.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Shouldn't be happening. Doesn't happen to me on stock.

Shouldn't at all be necessary, and is not a requirement of owning this (or any) phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nutzzer:
I agree with martonikaj, we really shouldn't need to reboot every week on our phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
This is a problem with your current setup, as it is not an issue on stock. You need to do some investigation.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shayla28:
I'm not sure if my opinion is going to matter here - but I thought it was good practise to fully drain your devices battery once in a 14 day period - just to keep the calibration fresh.

In saying that - I doubt that this timeline is normal - I saw a comment in another thread that made sense, you have a Windows box, leave it on 24/7 (most of the time in stand-by) but you'll notice it getting slower and slower and the cache builds up and RAM gets chewed and you resolve it by rebooting the machine. It is VERY easy to see that from about 2010, mobile devices ARE pocket sized computers.

It makes sense that you'd have to power cycle every now and then.