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[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Hi Chaoticaa, thanks for your interest in the app!

It's designed this way so that you can see a new wallpaper whenever you go back to the home screen. If it waited till you were on the home screen before downloading a wallpaper, you would have to wait a while to see the actual results. Its very likely that you would have actually navigated away from the home screen by the time the wallpaper changed.

If you are concerned about bandwidth, you can use the option that only auto downloads new wallpapers over WiFi, or use a longer interval. I have mine set to 1 hour and I find it pretty good as I get to see a new wallpaper almost every time I pick up my phone.

You can go into the app and press the big green button to get a new wallpaper. You can also re-select any wallpaper from the last 10 you had. I have plans to add either a widget or a low priority notification (or maybe both) which will let you do the same without having to go into the app in a future update. Also, in case you get some embarrassing wallpaper, you can long-tap it in the app and select 'Remove from History'.
[Android Apps and Games] Jonnyredcorn:
When I first downloaded it I was using my Galaxy S3 which is running an AOSP AOKP ROM, however when I downloaded and tried it out on my Galaxy Note 2 which is running a Touchwiz ROM I don't see how to set the app to set both the Lockscreen and homescreen wallpaper. The app just sets the homescreen wallpaper.
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
You can use the share button in the app (turquoise colored button), to export the currently selected wallpaper to other apps on your device. This way you can save the picture somewhere on your phone.

You can also long-tap on a wallpaper thumbnail and then tap 'View Wallpaper' to see the original image on Flickr. You can then save the image from that website. Please be mindful of the image owner's copyright though - however its usually ok to keep the images for personal (non-commercial, non-promotional) use.
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
That's a good catch! I am hiding the option for devices that didn't support 3G. But Android doesn't provide a good way to detect these devices. So I was checking if the device supports phone functionality. However, it looks like tablets like yours will fail this test even though they support 3G functionality. I'll look into finding some better way to detect which devices have 3G capability. Look out for it in the next update :)

As for the resolution, the size of the images downloaded is related to the display size. The image size picked is always one that's larger than the screen's dimensions. However, care is taken not too choose something ridiculously larger as that would just be a bandwidth hog. Sometimes Flickr might not have the correct sized image, in which case a smaller resolution image has to be downloaded. But most of the time, you should be getting a high-res, crisp image.
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Thanks for trying out the app IvanAugustoBD! But I wonder if you're missing out on the point of the app. As elfaure mentions in his post, the idea of the app is to keep providing a fresh stream of images to keep your visual senses stimulated at all time. This is hard to do if you keep seeing images from a pre-determined set. The advantage of using Flickr is that you get an endless stream of new gorgeous images.

Having said that, I realize that some people might prefer seeing the same set of images e.g. if it is pictures of their loved ones. But truthfully, this sort of feature is very low on my list.

If this is truly what you want, you might be able to find other apps in the store that cycle through images in your own photo gallery. But I believe you will have a better experience using Gainos than those apps. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Right on! This was my main motivation for making this app.

This should be pretty easy to do. In my next update I'll make it so that the images have unique names. I'll probably use the current date/time for the image name.

The share function is handled by the Android system itself. It does looks like they don't provide any functionality to save images directly to sd card. I'll take a look at what other possibilities exist. For the time being, you're best off saving them to some other app like Dropbox or Google Drive.
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
I've had a few Galaxy Note 2 users complain about this issue. They all seem to be using Samsung's TouchWiz. I looked into it and found out that Samsung has modified the Android API functionality in Touchwiz so that the wallpaper changing function only changes the home screen wallpaper. In all likelihood they have a separate function for setting the lock screen wallpaper, but it is not documented any where and Samsung has said that they do not make it public either. So the way it stands right now, there is no way I can fix this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] Chaoticaa:
I guess I didn't explain my suggestion clearly. Let me try explaining in a different way.

Set wallpaper to change every 10 minutes.

Load homescreen, 10 minute timer starts.

10 minutes later, download next wallpaper and set it as the wallpaper.

Don't start 10 minute timer again until I've seen this wallpaper.
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
OK, I see what you are taking about. It's really hard to detect when the user is on the home screen on Android, as the system does not directly provide this information. There are some hacks that can be done to get this information, but they mostly involve continuously polling the device to check if the home screen is currently visible. However this approach will lead to major battery drain and so I don't want to do this.

If you're afraid you will lose out on seeing some wallpapers, I'd suggest paying with the time interval to find something that suits your needs. Remember that you can always go into the app and re-select any of your last 10 wallpapers in case you missed out on something that you really liked.
[Android Apps and Games] kenkiller:
How about detecting screen on instead of homescreen? I kinda understand his point, no point changing wallpapers in the background/screen off when the user can't even see them.
[Android Apps and Games] IsoNick:
Have installed it. Love it so far.
[Android Apps and Games] charlatan01:
Love the app, thanks so much!
[Android Apps and Games] Geo1997:
thx, exactly what I was searching
[Android Apps and Games] Chaoticaa:
It's not just the timing. What about when I'm sleeping? I could miss so many with my usual interval.

Genius idea. At least this much would be good enough.
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Hmm, yes, I think this can be done. I'll add it to my list of features for a future update.
[Android Apps and Games] kenkiller:
Nice. Shouldn't be hard to implement, and for some, it could even be an option instead of a fixed interval.

For example, if the app detects screen on, it basically knows that 3hrs later it has the go ahead to change the wallpaper, instead of changing it every 3hrs regardless user has seen it or not.
[Android Apps and Games] floepie:
Fantastic! I've always wondered why something like this hasn't popped up until now. Sort of like the Bing desktop. But, of course, greed sets in once you've played around with it a bit more, making you wonder if it would be possible to filter images to a predominant color. Not sure how that could be accomplished, but just a suggestion. I have transparent widgets on my homescreen with white text, and while it's easy to move on to a different wallpaper that would make that text more legible, as android users, we're always conniving ways to become even more lazy.

Also, is there a way to select a background to keep it as a permanent copy to be scanned by the media scanner?

EDIT: I see that you can share to dropbox and use dropsync to have a hard copy. Downloading from Flickr seems hit or miss.
[Android Apps and Games] TexasRules777:
Great app!! Use multi live wallpaper now but am going to try this out for a bit. If we're putting out suggestions how about a double tap to change pics that you have downloaded? Otherwise great app! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Glad you like the app! I've experienced the same problem myself some times when the wallpaper colours conflict with some widgets. I haven't come up with a good solution for it yet since the images are picked at random. Determining the wallpaper image's 'average color' could be one option, but I'm afraid it will slow down the process further and would result in multiple image downloads till the right one is found. Also, as you mention, just switching to the next wallpaper isn't that hard to do and hence I haven't put much thought into this problem. Anyway, I'll investigate some options and check how well they work.

Right now you can export images using the Share button. But please respect the original image owner's copyright when using these images. You can find the full details of the copyright on the Flickr page of the photo.
[Android Apps and Games] Chaoticaa:
I really admire your respect to the copyright of the artists. :)
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
There are plans to add a widget (or a system tray notification) that will let you change the wallpaper.

A few people have mentioned double-tap to change pics. Are you talking about double-tapping on the wallpaper on the home screen to change it? If so, I won't be able to do that since this app isn't really a Live Wallpaper. It just mimics the 'live' behaviour by changing your actual wallpaper at regular intervals. Since this isn't a live wallpaper, there is no way of knowing if you have double-tapped on your home screen.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidSon:
Thanks man, very nice. Also, is it possible to save pics directly instead of navigating to the webpage?
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Right now you can only export images using the Share button. You can 'share' to something like Dropbox, to save a copy of it for yourself.
[Android Apps and Games] elfaure:
There is an app on the market called "Send To SD" that you can install to share anything to SD card. I use this to share wallpapers to SD so I can save them locally.
[Android Apps and Games] cajhin:
Thanks alinium_

Nice one. I was looking for an app like this, and I enjoy having new beautiful backgrounds twice a day.

Possible improvements:

- Most of all: a way to archive good backgrounds (save to sd)

'Share' does not count because a) I'm lazy b) cannot easily use as wallpaper c) img is spoiled by the src url text - pleeease don't do that

- Option to show a) only new backgrounds b) only favorite (saved) backgrounds c) both, shuffled (maybe 70% new 30% faves, randomized

- Rename option " Auto download on wifi o...[ ] "

Maybe to " Auto download on data [ ] "

- A quick way to view the picture, not as background but in an image viewer

misc:

- not sure, shouldn't the Play icon [>] be a Next [>>|] icon?

- image filters (there's a lot of black+white. I prefer color)

- (maybe) notification for new backgrounds, with option to skip the image

- (if there were 1000s of users): gather feedback about how popular the pictures are (skipped / saved), then let me subscribe to channels like "pic of the week"

It's already good the way it is, but I hope you keep polishing it anyway. Thanks for sharing!
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Thanks for taking the time to write down your many suggestions! Some of these are already under development. I've added the rest to my list of features under consideration. I'll comment on a few:

- export images: This seems to be a popular request. However, I'm not sure of all the legal implications of this and if it violates the copyrights of the original image owner on Flickr. I embed the url to the original image for now and leave it up to the user to respect the copyright. If I were to remove that url, then I would probably have to add stricter checks in my app and restrict exporting of certain types of images (e.g. ones that are 'All Rights Reserved'). I'm also currently embedding some promotional text for the app in the image export too - I can probably get rid of that with an in-app purchase that will also get rid of the ads.

- favorite backgrounds: I'm planning on adding a feature to 'favorite' images and then adding an option to select images from your own favorties stream. I haven't worked out all the details yet, but it will probably have some customizable setting for shuffling between different sources (favorites & flickr)

- image filters: yes, I'm noticing a lot of black & white images in my feed too and I'm not a big fan of those. But this would be a pretty complicated feature to implement, so I'm going to leave it for a bit later.

Thanks again for your feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] diogo.sena:
I have a suggestion,

You should make an option for when its time to change wallpaper, and i'm not connected to wifi,

change to one random picture already downloaded.
[Android Apps and Games] floepie:
Sadly, the service seems to shut down some time after a reboot, as no new backgrounds are retrieved. After a reboot, a fresh wallpaper is applied, but more often than not, it's not refreshed. I'm not able to determine any sort of pattern however to determine when the service stops. Running stock CM 10.1 on Nexus 4. Thanks...
[Android Apps and Games] Infy_AsiX:
improvement ideas

that idea sounds like a useful improvement.

The screen on detection sounds like a good idea. It seems like a waste of bandwidth and power to have the wallpaper downloaded and changed when it won't even be seen. Even at an hourly interval that's several times overnight when asleep.

I'd like to be able to use the 10-15min interval. Perhaps an option to have it only download and change with the screen on would be most appropriate. Combined with a random selection of already downloaded (increased to 20 maybe) when off wifi would work really well in my opinion.

In any case I really appreciate what you've done. Running an S3 with calibrated colours, it's a no brainer to have quality photographs on the screen to appreciate the ability. In short of manually downloading photos off a service and have them rotate, you've accomplished it in a very useful simplified manner. There's nothing out there like it, good job.
[Android Apps and Games] alinium_:
Version 2.0 is out now with one of the most requested features of selecting images based on a search term:

Specify a tag to get images matching that search criteria only

Added support for 500px (requires in-app purchase)

Purchasing 500px upgrade removes ads from app and promo text in shared image

Lots of improvements under the hood:

Repeat images are not downloaded any more

Shared images have a unique filename now

On some devices, the wallpaper image would not fill the full screen. This should be fixed now

Sorry if your requested feature didn't make it into this release. I do take all suggestions under strong consideration and it's mostly time constraints that prevents me from getting more features in. As it is, this update took me much longer to get out than I would have liked.

Anyway, keep the suggestions coming. The next update will add support for DeviantArt images and whatever other user-requested feature requests I can squeeze in :)

Get it from Google Play
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soljakid:
ive always been a fan of emoji, and i was a fan of how the emoji keyboard worked on ios. I was wondering if there was any way of installing an emoji language into the samsung keyboard (like you would do with english or Portuguese). I know some emiji are supported by android from the get go but for an unroot user like me, i havent found any way of being able to input those into text fields.

currently on stock 4.1.2 unroot w/gt-n7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UtkarshGupta:
You can root. It's no big issue.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soljakid:
i know i know :/ but i've had the sudden death syndrome happen to me within like 8 days of getting my phone and luckily i wasnt rooted so it was still under warranty. I will eventually root. but for now i wanna stay in warranty if anything ever happens again. *paranoid :eek:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UtkarshGupta:
If you update to latest rom then you won't have this issue.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spycedtx:
iOS emoji is mostly used via sms. I would recommend the easiest path of using a messaging app (I'm partial to handcent sms) that better supports emoji (color!) and its respective input method.

If you have other uses for emoji, you're mileage "stock" may vary.

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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] whalesplaho:
i guess it will need internet connection right?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vikramam:
Thanks dude, this is amazing:):)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] satvikvg:
nope just turn on your wifi tethering option in your phone and connect your computer to that network..

else just connect your phone and pc to the same wifi network.. enjoy..
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tadhara:
Not sure if it's internet connection. My guess is that it only needs to be in the same network via wifi. But it's only a guess.
[General Questions and Answers] Adster013:
Hi,

Is there anyway to set the VPN for specific apps. VPN works great, but I only want to use it for mail or a specific browser so that I can get my work email through the VPN and use the phone as normal for everything else.

Cheers
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrjayviper:
the problem started late today when I can never download playerpro or zplayer successfully on 3G (I was at the gym at the time). music suddenly stopped playing, keyboard won't show immediately and other weird issues.

I had no problems whatsoever earlier in the morning.

I've installed Feb 22 and 24 nightly (with full wipe and together with Dec 12 gapps) and I can never get "fix permission" to work on a fresh install.

I'm just wondering if this is a sign my phone is dying? :/

thanks
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] DvineLord:
you could check the memory with this app eMMC Brickbug Check
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Wampcia:
Spammer
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fabidesca:
niiiice

thank you
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MaxPayne3004:
Yes agree. Don't put all the apps here. Why not logmein or teamviewer ect....
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] DiceZA:
Hello!

My Flyer is running Dexters Jellybean 4.1.1 ROM and im loving it! My only running issue is the HW Keys.

After doing some searching (on Google and this Forum) it seems largely unanswered. I did find the thread on Flashing the alternative boot.img, which i have done (a few times) and that made no difference whatsoever. This was done via "fastboot flash boot boot.img" after renaming the boothtckey.img file.

Now, is there a way to enable the Flyer Hardware Keys? Have I missed something so huge that I should be shunned?

If I have, please give a link to the thread, cos my Googling skills are lacking then....

Thanks for reading!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] xd@t:
Hmm...

Yes I am having the same issues; I honestly joined XDA to search and solve the problem. Have you had any luck since your post? Otherwise, do you think deleting the "boot-htckeys.img" file will solve anything?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] DiceZA:
Unfortunately not hey, decided that I can live with it.

I have no idea whether deleting that file will make a difference or not. The pessimist in me tells me that it will be worse case and cause your device to burst into flames, explode - scarring your face permanently. But thats just me.

Try it and see!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] moleazm:
Hey!

I found that flashing the boothtckey.img file via fastboot flash boot boot.img instead of the boot.img file allowed the HW keys to work. Let me know if that helps! Good luck!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuDarb:
Hi am a noob so pls bare with me ( an yes ive watched the noob vid ) with all this droid jargon but thought i'd try anyway an root my g3 i9300 phone. Which I did successfully in Dec using sgs3 toolbox. I never got time to flash a custom rom till yesterday. I found the Omega v44 Jelly Bean rom an thought it looked good so i used it. As I went through the motions of the the installing it thru clockwork recovery CWM. When it came to full wipe or no wipe i clicked no wipe. I was a little unsure, anyway it worked and the rom was installed. It worked fine but stalled on 1 or 2 apps so I thought it must have been because I never fully wiped, so here come's my mistake...............

I thought i'd do the process again ( installing the rom thru CWM ) and do a full wipe see if that helps. It ran its course and then rebooted then got a message saying fix root? I clicked stupidly click yes thinking there was a problem. Rebooted only to find it go back to clockwork CWM.

Now when it reboots and the samsung i9300 logo comes up with no red (!) in top left. Then it reboots to the logo again on its own again with the red (!) this time an goes straight back into CWM. I think ive created two roms on one phone one rooted one not. Is this fixable? I know it sounds pretty bad but we live an learn from our mistakes, even on the epic proportion.

Also its not accessible thru usb anymore.

Thanks for anyone if you can help

Stu :crying:

A very shameful noob
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drew071:
Go to recovery holding power, home and vol up.

Go to mounts and storage and formst system, data and cache.

Then go to first page and go to install zip. Select and install your rom. Then go to advanced and clear Dalvik cache. After that reboot.

Drew071
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KK43:
Would appreciate any recommendations of a good backup & restore app to make a factory reset as painless as possible. Please let me know what will not be backed up so I can do this separately. Is Kies a good option?

Reason I want to reset is cause my phone has become slow & laggy, especially gmail, and read that some of the recent firmware updates may cause this & a reset can help, so thought I'd give it a try.

It's an international s3, not locked to any carrier and all stock firmware.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Titanium pro
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KK43:
Says phone needs to be rooted, mine isn't
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
Carbon is the only solution then
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KK43:
thanks will give it a try
[HTC Sensation] usman farhat:
Hi,

I bought HTC Sensation as a second-hand (used) phone, and I got a charger which has written "Made in China" on it.

Although it does look like the same as I see in unboxing videos, i have some confusions. So, I tried to charge my phone with it and left it overnight. The battery was half charged in that long time and was losing charge percentage if used heavily while charging.

Since then, I did some attempts and notices following results:

>I used my brother's Sony Xperia Arc's charger on my phone and the results (charging speed) are better now.

>I also used Samsung's USB cable to charge via pc and it is also giving good results.

>When I used HTC's (so called) usb cable which I am using for charger to 'connect and charge' via laptop, it shows same result as when connected to charger.

>It was written Charging (USB) when charging via HTC charger and Charging (AC) when charging via Sony's charger.

>I can also see a noticeable difference that HTC's (again, so called) charger has output of 200mA and Sony's original charger has output of 850mA.

I understand that this makes a big difference.

Now, I want to ask that does HTC really give chargers of 200mA?

Finally, coming back to the title, how can I recognize if my charger is fake or not? Any indications etc.?

(I am trying to attach some pictures of it).

Aaaaaand, one more question!

Does battery always drop down by 10-15% or even 30% if I use camera for less than 10 minutes or is 'my' battery having problems?