yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vishalmullur:
Ok so I am learning coding Android apps. I wanted to know if learning math helps in anything other than developing math related apps. I have seen seen cube live wallpaper code and from what i see i think math is required for animation.

But still I would like to know if my math should be strong for this development.

Thanks a lot :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_R:
It really depends on what kind of an application you are developing.

You don't need to be great at Math to implement something like a spinning cube. For this specific kind of application you'd need to have some knowledge of matrices and transformations in 3d. Even if you don't know the math behind something, you can always learn it :)

So, if you are considering developing something that you think needs a good knowledge of some mathematical concepts, I'd say just get to developing it without worrying too much about what knowledge you need. If and when you find yourself stuck on something because you don't understand a mathematical concept, it is at this point that you should worry about learning it.

Another way of looking at this is "We are programmers, not mathematicians".

There are many programmers out there who use math libraries, which abstracts all of the complex mathematics behind the code. Hence allowing them to focus on the application they are developing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucaoldb:
Well, I am a lawyer and not a coder, though I like math very much, I can code in bash, some python, basic skills of c, c++ and java. In Italy all the coders who are 35 or older are able to code in several languages and environments and use math a lot, while younger coders are usually focused on one or two languages and don't use math very much. That's the trend that has been reported by my sister's husband, who's a Linux developer.

Just think that a young engineer of his team isn't able to make simple bash scripts to test a patch written in c++ by creating a couple of symbolic links.

The world more and more requires people highly specialized, but widely ignorant....

My suggestion is always to be curious, because math is the world itself and even when you put in your wifi mask a stupid sequence of numbers 192.xxx and so on, that's math.

I hope I wasn't a bore, but I like to know what is hidden behind what I do:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vishalmullur:
Thanks a lot. I will do that. Learn something after I am stuck. That's the best approach I think personally.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vishalmullur:
I agree we should be curious but I think if I start learning at once I may soon get bored. That's my opinion though. But I agree after sometime knowing more is better.
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] hackdima:
iv created this theme by putting some themes together =)

http://www.multiupload.nl/SQXRQOHNT1

http://www.4shared.com/rar/9Bz8PXJf/NEW_AOKP_ICS_with_settings.html

http://www.mediafire.com/?oqwk36hgyoutwjr

just copy systemui.apk to system change the premisions and replace the original systemui.apk in ur /system/app

For ICS 562 only
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] iqlogic:
Can U please reupload to another server? 4shared, mediafire, ... :o

Many thanks
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] hackdima:
iv addet 4shared link ;)
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] ghayath ameer:
Will give it a try and tell u my feedback

Thanks 4 your work
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Marmalade83:
works great und looks good..

thx und Danke :)
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] adriancristina:
Yes it is working indeed but needs few updates: the clock, alarm and all the icons on the upper bar among with battery to be in that blue collor, the lines that splits when drop down status bar to be in blue collor also and one minor note, under your operator name to be SONY , all in blue. That is al lfrom my side point of view..otherwise perfect.
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] hackdima:
il update this in the next time
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] earlyberd:
So the Galaxy S3 will soon be available, and by far my favorite feature is the Smart Stay that tracks your eyes to keep the screen on as long as you continue to stare at it.

Now, we all know that ICS has built in face recognition via the face unlock, and obviously it has the capability to track your eye movement so that way it knows when you're blinking. I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung is is just re-using that capability for the Smart Stay, the question is whether this can be implemented on the Galaxy Nexus without any significant performance hits.

You basically have to figure that the front facing camera is close to being always on as soon as you turn on the screen, which begs the question of what sort of processing power it would take to keep that service constantly running in the background. Obviously the S3 isn't going to have any problems managing that thanks to its brand new processor, but the Nexus is now almost a year behind in terms of processor hardware.

What do you guys think? Would you still use it if it made a significant impact on the battery life or general performance of the OS? Any developers care to comment on the feasibility of implementing it on the Nexus?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
no i wouldnt use it. it would cause a strain in the battery life. if it could be activated for CERTAIN apps like dice player, youtube etc etc i might consider it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] earlyberd:
Well, I already use Tasker to adjust the screen timeout to different values for each of my apps. And of course, most video players will keep the screen on by default while a video is playing.

The point of this is to eliminate the need to manually set the timeouts for 99% of your apps. There are only a few that you're going to want to keep the screen on indefinitely, but for the rest it might actually yield better power savings, because then instead of a default 30 second timeout the screen might end up turning off more quickly and frequently, negating the power loss from keeping the FFC on.

Basically Smart Stay is doing for your screen what stock Android and most ARM processors already do for background apps and your CPU cycles. Anything that's not in focus gets turned off or gets lower priority, in turn leading to massive battery savings over the traditional "always on" approach with old x86 processors.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mr_schticker:
I too would really like to see this ripped from the GSIII rom to play around with. I doubt it would save a measurable amount of battery life but its possible and I love playing with new features.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dentalguru:
any one with SMART STAY APK FOR GN
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Alexander T.:
No significant battery drain increase

In fact, the front facing camera is not always on. It just turns on and checks your face presence at the very last moment just before the screen timer runs out. So, if your face is detected, then the timer is reset and the camera goes standby till next check, else - the screen goes off.

Turning on camera for a very short period will not affect battery.

I would love to have this feature on my GNex too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] housry23:
It is not an apk. It is a feature built into the framework of Touchwiz. It would take some major hacking to get it to work on our cameras and AOSP for that matter. I'm not saying it won't be done, but it will not be as easy as just installing an apk. The eye icon showing that it is on is in a place that is reserved for system stuff(right half of the notification bar). I really want this too and think it is a great feature. You have no idea how many times I have been reading blogs and/or certain webpages and the screen starts to dim and I have to hurry up and finish reading or touch the screen which interrupts my reading. It is an easy task, but this smart stay feature just makes so much sense to me.

Hopefully it'll be a built in Android feature on Jelly Bean!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RichAP:
I wonder if this works well in low light situations, like reading in bed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Alexander T.:
I doubt it will. But then again, that's useful feature. Hope, it'll become de-facto for future Android releases, so that all coming flagship smartphones, including nexus line, will have it just right out-of-the-box.

Отправлено с моего Galaxy Nexus через Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
From Cyanogen (Steve) on his Google Plus page of him describing the SGS3:

2. Smart Stay. Probably my favorite feature. When the phone is about to time out and turn off the display while you are reading, the camera will snap a picture (with zero shutter lag) and do a face-detect. If it finds a face, it stays awake. It works brilliantly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] munkiii:
I've found Screebl Pro to be perfect for keeping the screen on while i am using the phone.

Well worth the money.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
My life was so hard till smart stay. Thanks samsung!

...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] theking_13:
Lol this. Saves me the effort of using the power button and RISK breaking it. :cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kareem8585:
i found it :D

there is an app in android market called ISeeYou , give it a try
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] A3tiu5:
Are there any news about this feature? Are there any roms that support it? i'm looking for it...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slg60:
Also looking forward to have that in Cyanogen!

This is the only feature which is useful in Touchwiz!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] infinit22:
I've had an s3 and note 2, its a gimmick
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
root for this specs besides risking the JuoPunutbear???

specs

Doubleshot PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-1.45.0013

MICROP-0353

eMMC-boot

Nov 21 2011,20:20:47

**MY BOOTLOADER IS UNLOCKED**

AOS: 2.3.4 ("GINGERBREAD")

HTC SCENE VER: 3.0

SOFTWARE NUMBER: 1.55.531.3

KERNEL VERSION:

2.6.35.13-ge4be2bc

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 17 18:32:14 CST 2011

Baseband Version:

11.59.3504.00U_11.16.3504.20_2

Build Number:

1.55.531.3 CL210454 release-keys

Browser Version:

WebKit/533.1

i need t a tutorial im android stupid i need details

i really need bulletproof cause now my htc mt4gs is freezing and overheating and have to constantly remove the battery
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
you can flash roms if your already unlocked.....s off and root are two different things.you can root with mr root then flash a rom through cwm. however there is one more step to flashing a rom which is flashing the kernel. which you can find out in how to flash roms s on unlocked in development
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] HappyKhicken:
I told you exactly how to do it in the last thread you made. Upgrade to the newest OTA, unlock using the HTC Dev tool, flash CWM, then flash the superuser .zip through CWM. There you go, now you have a rooted phone that is still S-ON Unlocked.

The only real benefit to doing S-OFF is the ability to flash kernels without being connected to a PC.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
You couldn't even post in your old thread huh?

Sorry, but this question does not deserve a shiny new thread

Especially when you already got an answer last time ^^^^
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
ok sorry

im a pain just send me a link and ill do my best.......sorry for the inconvinance
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] HappyKhicken:
The link to what?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
...

how to root???:confused::confused:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
It's in dev. If you can't find it, then it may not be wise to root your device.

Sent from a digital distance.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] blackknightavalon:
I'm just glad I never unrooted just to get the updated bootloader.

Sent from Spaceball One.
[Kindle Fire General] feistygoat10:
Warning to all of those still running the stock Rom, amazon is pushing a new update and as usual it breaks your root.
[Kindle Fire General] dude2k5:
Just got my refurby one, Left mine on my table while getting root instructions. Rebooted automatically. Should have turned wifi off. Damnit. Still got Google framework but market force closes
[Kindle Fire General] Alizone:
updated to 6.3.1 and used kindle utility to root and flash rom
[Kindle Fire General] jkhayworth:
Hey, anybody know what new content Amazon has included in the update?
[Kindle Fire General] Regionativo:
More information here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403957,00.asp

and here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_k6_updatesi?nodeId=200790620
[Kindle Fire General] shravbits:
Wow. I just rooted yesterday. Hopefully OTA root keeper can save me
[Kindle Fire General] Dumpstar72:
Link for those who may not know what you are talking about.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper&hl=en

I will be installing it today as the Kindle I rooted I have done for someone now techincial and I need to make it easy for them to reroot if requires (ie when they say the fire is stuffed, I can point to this app!)
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
doubt that app stops it.
[Kindle Fire General] shravbits:
Let us see. This may help.....
[Kindle Fire General] shravbits:
Unrooted. Great! Back to square one.....
[Kindle Fire General] jwhistler:
HA HA... I just rooted yesterday myself! WTF!
[Kindle Fire General] dmpaul1:
bricked by 6.3.1 update

Rooted 6.3 bricked by 6.3.1 update. Stuck at cmw, please help.
[Kindle Fire General] shravbits:
Did you back up?
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
told ya lol. try jcases 6.3 root method. it may still work.
[Kindle Fire General] shravbits:
Send from my (sadly unrooted) Kindle Fire using Tapatalk.... :( :(
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
hard reset, and at startup get into cwm and flash cm7 for now. while in cwm mount sdxard to ur pc and delete the bin in kindleupdates folder
[Kindle Fire General] jwhistler:
Rooted no more after only one day. I've had my Kindle for a month and took me this long to take the plunge to root.

Back to square one! Does KFU .9.5 work as before?
[Kindle Fire General] dude2k5:
Tried rooting through the 3.x method, got stuck on the kindle fire logo on one command and nothing happened for minutes. Reset, nothing. No light whatsoever. Bricked. Damn.
[Kindle Fire General] MS Gray Man:
Are you saying the Kindle Utility still worked for you like normal?
[Kindle Fire General] jcase:
not bricked, you are in fastboot mode, flash recovery, flash firefirefire and set the bootmode back to 4000

Kindle Fires are damn near impossible to brick.
[Kindle Fire General] karipay:
It did for me. After I received the 6.3.1 update I downloaded KFU V0.9.5 and perm rooted my KF again (i rooted my KF 6.3 before using V0.9.4) . Didn't give me any problems so I'm back to being rooted permanently until amazon drops another version :^)
[Kindle Fire General] jwhistler:
Same experience here.
[Kindle Fire General] berighteous:
I read an article on here somewhere the first week I got my Kindle Fire saying how to block these updates. I did what it said (can't remember - deleting something, blocking access to something else) and I haven't received any updates ever. I manually updated to 6.2.1 for some reason, but I never get them and the option to update is always greyed out.

whatever the method was (I read it first on here) should be found and stickied as the first thing you do once you turn on the kindle the first time before turning on Wifi.
[Kindle Fire General] bigschmoove:
The least intrusive way seems to be to rename /etc/otacerts.zip to /etc/otacerts.zip.bak using e.g., Root Explorer.
[Kindle Fire General] glenntx:
Mine is cycling on the yellow triangle fire logo. Says to "press power button for recovery" but just recycles. Any ideas?
[Kindle Fire General] dude2k5:
I need one of those fastboot cables huh? Tried making one but didn't work. I'll try ordering one for the next kindle fire I suppose.
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1623244

No, he's telling you that you are already in fastboot mode. A factory cable would put you into fastboot mode, so that's not really helpful here. Read this...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1552547

The 3rd post has the fastboot commands you need to get out of fastboot mode and boot the device normally.
[Kindle Fire General] bahlsie:
I too use CWM and I also had a problem with the last update. I found that if you follow the instructions here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1568340 you can install TWRP and the update will go through like it should. (You can actually skip the step about disabling root check)

After you get TWRP installed and the update goes through as Amazon plans it, you can use KFU to re-root. I just did it on my fiancee's KF and all is good.

On another note, I noticed when hers rebooted that the Parental Controls were turned on and I had to turn them off. Is that the default for this update?
[Kindle Fire General] dude2k5:
I'm trying to get it connected to my PC but it's not even registering when I plug it in. Nothing shows up and when I refresh the device manager, same thing. It seems "off" for good. Every time I try to run a command it says "Waiting for device"

Bleh, I see you can run Ubuntu and run some commands while shorting the board on the inside. I might as well just wait for my next one (which may be brand new instead of refurby) and I'll disable the wifi when I get it so updates won't go. Then I can custom rom I guess.

edit: Opened it up, tried the shorting method with Ubuntu, never worked. God damnit. At least Amazon is shipping another one. Still, what the hell happen, the power won't even register no matter what I do. But I can feel the chips are warm, so it's doing something like fastboot. I just have no way of getting out of it I guess.
[Kindle Fire General] glenntx:
Changing my recovery over to TWRP fixed it for me too after getting out of the bootloop. Thanks for pointing me to the thread I should have gone and looked for on my own instead of flippin out a bit and posting without searching first. Lesson learned.
[Kindle Fire General] seethru:
Mine is just sitting at the yellow fire logo telling me to press power for recovery. Pressing power does nothing. If I hold it it obviously powers the device off.

Adb doesn't see the device.
[Kindle Fire General] Thepooch:
Took 6.3.1 on my daughters kindle rooted using KFU worked flawlessly just as it always has guess the third time is a charm:D

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Thanks used your method back in February to root my kindle worked perfect:-) :D

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Did you get trwrp installed or just the bootloader?just hold the power button till it glows orange the release should put you into twrp then hit reboot then system should restart
[Kindle Fire General] Max-ML:
Unable to root

Unable to root mine after 6.3.1. pushed.

When I try to install permanent root with superuser thru KFU it just installs TWRP. I see "Install Complete" and Reboot button on my KF skreen. If I reboot - it goes OK but no root installed.

If I try again - all the same. KFU again is trying to install TWRP (which is already there).

KF not stuck. I can enter TWRP (v.2.0) or ROM. All works - except no root is here. :confused:
[Kindle Fire General] speedingcheetah:
Updated

How nice...i am just sitting here reading my Cisco book on my KF...and BAM...restarts...goes into recover...says installing update...about 10 min later..hello 6.3.1..and no root, bootloader or recovery...OTA root keeper failed to restore root.

Annoyed...had to dig up the Virtual Machine that i had used KFU in the past with...rooted fine...installed recovery and boot loader(v.1.4a)...all seems good...going to rename that file someone mentioned earlier, to disable ota's...

EDIT:: it was mentioned to rename /etc/otacerts.zip.....I am looking there and that .zip is no where to be found!!

Found it..it is in /etc/security/otacerts.zip
[Kindle Fire General] Thepooch:
Yeah OTA root keeper is useless tryed twice with it on the kindle failed both times to protect root
[Kindle Fire General] JimCo06:
Don't know what I did right (or wrong) but I didn't get the 6.3.1 push. My kf is rooted using kfu 9.5 with fff1.3 and twrp 2.1.1 indtalled and I flashed MoDaCo gr8. So far nothing has changed, fingers crossed.
[Kindle Fire General] Max-ML:
Done

KFU 0.9.5 works.

I had to uninstall and re-install drivers - after that I got root. :)
[Kindle Fire General] SilverPosition:
If you clear the cache while in CWM, you can reboot into Kindle mode again. However, your KF is going to search for the OTA and you're going to end up in the same place. Soon (we hope) this update will be incorporated into a flashable .zip as was the case in the last update. Once this happens, boot up your Kindle and transfer the zip to your SD card. Then go back into recovery (cwm), clear the cache and the dalvik and flash the zip. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1573508

Sorry, this was in reply to whoever posted earlier about getting stuck in CWM Recovery.
[Kindle Fire General] brutah:
I had same problem. fixed it with kfu 9.5 by doing option 3. I know it just hangs in waiting mode just unplug the usb hard power down the kindle, and plug the usb back in. Mine powered up at this point and did its correct thing.
[Kindle Fire General] cylence_xix:
After putting the otacerts.zip file back in place to allow the update to happen, I'm seeing something I haven't encountered before - on restart, the fire gets dumped into recovery mode, and the TWRP console says the update can't find /mnt/sdcard/kindleupdates/(whatever the name of the file is.. away from my tablet right now..). Forcing it back to normal bootmode gets me back to the unupdated os, after which I can repeat the entire process all over again. I've moved the otacerts.zip file and removed the update file, so am stable @ 6.3 for now, but wondering what I can do to facilitate the update.

I've seen mixed reports from previous updates about being able to rename the update .bin file to update.zip and being able to apply it via TWRP's install option, has anyone actually done that successfully with a "minor" update like this? Any other suggestions?
[Kindle Fire General] Bmcd37:
I didn't get the 6.3.1 push either. I am running MoDaCo GR8. So far so good.
[Kindle Fire General] CaptainMorgan63:
Same here, no update with MoDaCo Gr8.

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I have Amazon's OTA silent install locked in quarantine, so far no update.
[Kindle Fire General] Laquox:
Yes it does work that way, but it can be a pain the arse because the update.bin (renamed to update.zip) uses it's own loader and overwrites your recovery like twrp or fff

Just to confirm KFU 9.5 does indeed work flawlessly with this new update. Just did a quick check on mine and sure enough it was updated lost root. Ran KFU 9.5 and it installed root and the loaders/recovery just fine.

As an aside though I notice a lot more lag in this update than before. Anyone else seeing this? Generally every program seems "less" responsive. Going to fiddle with it and see what the issue might be.
[Kindle Fire General] ericmb20:
just rooted my kf yesterday with kfu - everything was fine until today i get home and go to play with my new toy and realize nothing is working right - apparently at some point during the day i was updated to 6.3.1 and now have no root - tried kfu again and its showing adb as offline - anyone have any suggestions on how to get root back?
[Kindle Fire General] Laquox:
This might be a silly question but have you rebooted the Kindle and the comp? I know sometimes ADB is twitchy and the device itself needs a reboot before it wants to play nice.
[Kindle Fire General] cylence_xix:
Thanks. I went ahead and tried it before I came back and saw your post, but in any case the update.zip method did get me to 7.3.1 and KFU re-gained me root and TWRP, so back in business.

I haven't seen any lack of responsiveness so far, in fact possibly the opposite, as a few apps I used to gripe about seem to be opening up quicker.
[Kindle Fire General] ericmb20:
yes i did try rebooting both - thanks for the quick response - any other ideas?