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[HTC Amaze 4G] hatim_rajput:
all the ROMS like speed rom,energy or viper amaze are not stock...they are custom ROMS,to resolve your problem you should flash a stock ROM first,stock ROM is the software that came with your phone straight out the box,untouched/unmodded/etc

after flashing stock all issues would be resolved,then after flashing 4ext recovery,now you are ready to flash a custom ROM like speed rom (which appers to me is the nearest to jelly bean working ROM)...and has a great battery life too... :D

[note] i posted earlier a link to download your desired stock RUU (ROM) :cowboy:

dont you know where the thanks button is...its just under my post on the left side.. :p hit it... :D :D :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] Valde_Edius:
Phone is working great now, had a call this morning and it was crystal clear! Thanks again!
[HTC Amaze 4G] hatim_rajput:
no problem valde :highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] BachuArg:
Today, in Android´s Official Blog the new Google Play was announced.

A fresh new look for Google Play

Whether you’re in the mood to listen to Justin Timberlake’s new album, read Harlan Coben’s latest bestseller or discover a new game to play, you want the experience of finding and making your purchase to be quick and easy. Today we’ve started rolling out a redesigned Google Play store on Android phones and tablets that is simple, clean and — most importantly — helps you find great entertainment, fast.

The new design focuses on bigger images that jump off the page. Similarly themed content is grouped together so you can hone in on a magazine to read or an app to try. As you move down the page, new recommendations continue to appear so there is always more to see and explore. We’ve also simplified purchasing so you can breeze through checkout and get to enjoying your movie rental or other content.

The redesigned Google Play store app starts rolling out today for Android phones and tablets running Android 2.2 (Froyo) and above. People around the world should see it over the next few weeks. Get ready for a simpler Google Play.

Posted by Michael Siliski, group product manager for Google Play

Original link: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/a-fresh-new-look-for-google-play.html
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Lim Wee Huat:
B-boy's blacked out 4.0.25... Flashed on my i9003, no probs... Sure looking better than stock 4.0.25...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1231787
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jkg669:
New Google Play

The change in layout is looking good and the application is faster than the previous one.
[Transformer TF300T Themes and Apps] TigerDNA:
Is it possible to flash 4.2.2 specifically the native messaging app on a 4.2.1 ROM rooted custom ROM of course?

2 sorry wrong forum
[Transformer TF300T Themes and Apps] cmendonc2:
If you do, chances are you'll get a lot of force closes in the Play Store.

As for the Messaging app, do you mean this:http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/misc/how-to-install-the-cyanogenmod-10-1-mms-application-on-any-android-4-1-rom-includes-emoji-and-quick-reply-functionality/?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] jazlee:
I notice that there are some start up app on my windows folder. I am wondering if I really need these? Anyone know what they do?

AFlashman

BPInsert

BTIcon

CFLashMan

CheckAutoRun

HandsFree

MMReg

NFlashMan

Poutlook

stk

TFlashMan

USSD

I know what others do but do I need all these app running when windows startup?

thanks
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Jos:
I only have

CheckAutoRun

in my startup folder.

Moved the rest into a new folder, so I can quickly put things back.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] jazlee:
do you

Do you know what they do? If I move them I will have no problem with my xda?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] abbas:
You may have problem if you do. You may remove the stk (software toolkit) safely. What to do is move them one at a time to a place where you can retrieve them back and soft reset your device after each removal. You will get some errors on startup, note them and see what programe or function eg bluetooth you may miss.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] AndroidSon:
I was wondering if anyone know what this process is for because this is the first time I've seen it. I am running JediXP12 which is 4.1.2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] NightHawkUndead:
System UI.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] AndroidSon:
is it exclusive to the Jedi-XP rom? I haven't seen it on other roms.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] NightHawkUndead:
That is your main system ui. (Status bar) Just looks like its been edited from stock, which made it jumble random letters.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] AndroidSon:
Oh okay thank you. Just wanted to make sure, its not a malware :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pgxperetz:
Before this last week, I was able to connect my Galaxy Nexus (GSM model) to my XPLOD car deck, select BT Audio on the deck, press the button, and receive a voice prompt to make a call. It was very convenient for when I had to make a call while driving.

Some time during this last week, the feature stopped working. When I press the button on the deck to initiate a call, the screen flashes gray (like the background of the voice dialer prompt), then returns to the previous screen and I hear no audio prompt.

When I try to make a call using my Bluetooth headphones (LG HBS700), the phone does the same thing (flashes the Voice Dialer, returns to previous screen--like a force close), but I still hear the prompt and can respond and make a call. But when I try to make a second call, there's no response--no flash of gray, no prompt, nothing.

I installed the TeamSpeak open beta app recently, but thought I had made a call using my car audio deck after. It's worth noting that the TeamSpeak app includes permissions to pair with Bluetooth devices. Unfortunately, even after uninstalling the TeamSpeak app, I still experience the same issue.

I can't think of any other changes I've made that might affect voice dialing and all my searches (the last 45 minutes) don't turn up anything related to my issue.

Could someone here offer a fix or point me in the right direction?

Using the Voice Dialer prompt while driving is a wonderful convenience (and a major safety feature as well) and I really, really, really don't want to have to wipe and reload my phone to get it back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pgxperetz:
Okay, so it turns out that a recent (April 3) Google Search update is at fault.

I uninstalled Google Search updates (Settings > Apps > Google Search > Uninstall Updates) and it fixed the issue (though it reverted it to the buggy but less buggy version of Google Search that came installed with my phone).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tshelby73:
I had the same issue but nobody chimed in on my thread. At least I know I'm not the only one with Google search update issue with Bluetooth. Thanks for posting your issue. I ended up uninstalling update as you did. I actually ended up going back to stock ROM before I figured out it was search and not the ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hwaiting:
I've got similar issues. Pressing the button on my earpiece results in the Voice dialer prompt but only through the phone's earpiece and not through the Bluetooth earpiece. Voice commands can only be spoken to through the phone's mic also and not the Bluetooth mic. If you have your phone in your pocket and you shout loud enough, the phone's mic will pick it up and the call will subsequently work through Bluetooth when it connects.

Things were fine before but something screwed it up.

I just tried uninstalling the Google Search/Now update like the OP and it works again. So definitely Google Search/Now is the culprit.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Media Utilities

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*** Public Open Beta ***

If you ever wanted to use a single widget or have a single place to control all of your media applications, then you are in luck. Media Utilities is designed to give you unified tools for all of your media applications.

Do you like Pandora or Spotify, but wish each had notification controls? Media Utilities provides unified notification controls that let you control the most recently started media application as well as easily jump to it.

Hate having to search for your media application just because you paused it? All of the controls keep track of the last running media application to let you easily resume or launch it.

There are several widgets available on the Play store that let you play/pause any media application. But few show you all of the meta data. Media Utilities gets all the meta data including cover art from your favorite media application (Pandora, Spotify, Songza, etc.) and displays it in a clean, unified widget.

Media Utilities provides several different widgets to satisfy your particular needs, from a classic, single row design to a larger widget that displays cover art with hidden controls for the ultimate in clean design.

Media Utilities is now in open beta. Feature requests and feedback are encouraged and would be greatly appreciated.

Widgets

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3x3

Large cover art controls on bottom.

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2x2

Large cover art, controls hidden in the cover art.

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2x2

Large cover art, controls hidden in the cover art. Clean version no title no current app.

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3x1

Highly configurable standard music controls

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1x1

Resizable coverart selecting the cover art launches current application.

Designed to be used with other widgets to design your own music screen.

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1x1

Designed to look like a desktop icon. Shows the current application. Selecting launches the current applications.

Designed to be used with other widgets to design your own music screen.

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2x1

Standard music controls. Highly configurable and resizable both vertical and horizontally.

Designed to be used with other widgets to design your own music screen.

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2x1

Just text, Title, track, album.

Hidden controls.

Designed to be used with other widgets to design your own music screen.

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4x2

Highly configurable standard music controls

Note: the lower one will be available in the next version

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3x1

Cover Art on the left large text on the right, hidden music controls under the text.

Highly configurable.

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Example widget config page.

Current Configuration

- Optional Gradient

- Background color

- Background transparency

- Border color

- Border width

- Optional show current running music application

- Optional show your music application *NEW*

- Text color
[Android Apps and Games] lordpipa:
Playstore? Where's the download link?
[Android Apps and Games] mhdsanto85:
sounds great...... but where is the DL link??
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Sorry new to the forms can post links yet. Ill update with links in the next day or so.

Iam a recent convert from iphone to android just getting into all of the forms now.

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"Media Utilities"
[Android Apps and Games] mhdsanto85:
Ok... I'll be waiting!

Is it compatible with walkman app?
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Not familier with "walkman app" is that built into the sony phones?

Will be interested to know if it works. I expect the controls to work, not so sure about the cover art though.
[Android Apps and Games] mhdsanto85:
Yeah, it is.. It works great on my cm10.1 rom, but the widget.... It works only with the Xperia launcher and I don't like it.... So it would be perfect if I could use a generic music widget...
[Android Apps and Games] arman68:
Great idea!

I tried it on my x86 motorola razr i, and it works fine.

MusiXMatch works well (album art, metadata, controls)

TuneIn Radio works partially: album art and metadata are ok, but when I pressed the controls while tunein was playing music, it controlled the previous player, musixmatch, instead.

I was testing the widgets with Launcher8 and there is a bit of the problem with some of the widgets getting truncated. Have a look at the screenshot below:

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The widgets are from top to bottom: Big layout 1 (resized to 2x3), Big layout 2 (resized to 2x2), Layout 1 (resized to 4x1), Layout 2 (resized to 3x1).

Also, what impact does the scrolling text have on battery consumption?

One suggestion: it would be very useful if there was a way to go from the widget to the media player selection menu. Maybe another button; or if music is playing the button could jump straight to the player, and if not go to the player list (unless there is only 1 player available).

Another suggestion: transparent background option.
[Android Apps and Games] mhdsanto85:
Running flawlessly here! All that I needed... I'm using aosp launcher + walkman app.

Suggestions:

-a previous track button in a 4x1 or 4x2 widget.

-Artist name

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Thanks for all of the comments Ill go through them in detail tonight (On the east coast).

Appreciate the widget feedback, The ones I created so far are mostly designed to get feedback to see what people with better design sense then me think.

The transparency comments looks like a common thread so Ill look at adding that soon.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
It nice to see what everyone is using for media players, havent tried a lot these before.

For musixMatch make sure you configure it to use "Native ICS lockscreen" instead of its own custom, never seen that before. That should get you cover art etc.

Looking into why it played the wrong media application, pretty sure its because TuneIn aggressively unregisters itself and musixMatch never unregisters. I have a few ideas Ill try.

Never seen widgets with borders before, I use the Nexus 7 and a GSIII. Ill see about adding a border to mitigate that.

The scrolling shouldn't really affect the battery, it should only scroll if the widget is visible, you should notice that its always starting to scroll when you unlock or go back to the home screen. This may be different for different launchers so if thats not the case get back to me.

Was thinking the same thing about launching different media applications instead of just the last one. Thought that might just be me though so good to see other people thought the same thing. Really like your suggestion with different behavior for paused vs playing, not really necessary for most widgets since selecting the cover art does the same thing.
[Android Apps and Games] arman68:
Yours are not the only widgets affected by the extra borders from launcher 8. It really annoys me, and I wish the launcher had a way to configure the borders or eliminate them completely for widgets. I stick with that launcher though because apart from that small annoyance, it is great, looks fantastic and i love it.

Some widgets are able to cope very well with the borders, so I know it should be possible to handle. One that does it in a very unique and clever way is AIX weather: have a look at its calibration function.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Thanks Ill take a look at that. Should not be that difficult once I add configuration for the widgets.

Things that need configuration so far:

- Transparency

- Border

- Background color

- Other ????

Does "launcher 8" support resizable widgets? Ill grab it give it a try myself as well.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
launcher 8 is sexy I can see why you like it. Ill add a few quick widgets and post an update (mostly for me).

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[Android Apps and Games] arman68:
I have tried the new update. You added a lot of widgets! I guess this is just for testing, to see what works and what doesn't. So after testing them, here are my comments; first screenshot of the widgets I think are worthwhile:

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Top left: album art only. Looks good, but no useful functionality. Not for me, but I can see why some people would want it.

Top right: album art with controls. This is my favorite. I love the design and hidden functionality. I think it could be improved though: when nothing is playing, instead of darkening the album art, how about displaying only the album art in standard colours (no title, no shortcut to mediaplayer), and having all the touch events launch the mediaplayer selection (or mediaplayer if only one)?

Second row: transparent controls only. Resizes well down to 2x1. Simple and functional, there is a use for it.

Third and fourth rows: transparent metadata with controls and shortcut, but no album art. Resizes well to 3 wide, but not 4 wide. 1 high looks kind of squished. 2 high looks too spaced. Shortcut icon looks a bit out of place (stands out too much, and clashes with the clean design).

Fifth row: album art, metadata, controls and shortcut. Ideal width is 4, 3 looks squashed. Same comment as the previous widget for the height. I wish it was transparent.

I think what you need is combine the last 2 widgets (3rd,4th + 5th row) into a single 4x1 widget, with the following features:

Album art on the left, resize to fit in a square with 100% of widget height. Touch event should launch the mediaplayer or selection menu.

Only show song title, to give more space to the controls.

Previous, Play/Pause, Next buttons

No mediaplayer shortcut, since this is already handled by the album art. I was hesitating whether an indication of which player is active would be useful, but actually the album art already kind of perform this function since it shows what would play.

Transparency option.

You could also expand the above into a 4x2 widget, with bigger album art (of course) and more metadata shown (artist and album).

There is one more widget which is worth keeping as well: it is the other big layout, with the controls at the bottom.

Yes. I think Microsoft designers did an awesome job on that tile interface for phones. It looks good, provides good user customisation options, and is very functional. Here is another picture showing how well one of your widgets fits in it:

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[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
With launcher 8 is there a way to show number of unread emails?
[Android Apps and Games] arman68:
OT but here is the answer anyway:

Launcher 8 has built-in mechanism for call and sms counter, but not gmail. There is a way to show it for gmail though, and since I prefer the way it looks, I also use the same method for calls and sms.

You need to setup a SMS Unread Count widget, either with a custom image (if you do not want the default one), or a blank image, and then setting the widget image from the launcher 8 properties. See the screenshot below for details and example:

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[Android Apps and Games] drakenabarion:
Trying this out and its very nice so far. I cab resize the 2x2 app to 1x2 which would work best for me anyway. Like a few already mentioned, transparency would be nice.

I would also be interested in disabling cover art on some instances of the widget and enabling it on others (kinda like displaying the art in one part of the screen while having more invisible controls on a different part of the screen).

As for bugs, when I start up the music from the widget, it defaults to Google music and re adds it to the media players lists and it does this even when I remove Google music from the media player lists (I want it to default to Mort player). If I launch Mort player from the app drawer, the widget controls the player as expected.

I noticed no other but at this point.

Edit: I just noticed there is a widget that has just controls and one that has just album art. That is mostly what I like. :) But perhaps on the widget without the art, still have the track title scrolling. It scrolls nicely on the album art+controls widget.
[Android Apps and Games] drakenabarion:
Sorry for double post but apparently I can't add images to post edits.

Here is a screenshot which the 2x2 cover art+controls widget resized to 1x2. It works nice with pause/play on the left side of the image and next track on the right, but no visual button. Its not I like it.

What I am suggesting is a widget like that with no cover art and transparent background but keeping the title scrolling and being controlled by pressing the relevant side of the widget without the buttons. I think it would be nice and functional. However even with the cover are as it is, it's very good. Nice to Control like this.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Interesting idea.

So just just the title, album etc with hidden controls and no coverart?

Would probably remove the current media application as well in view, would clutter up the text?

Visible

+-------------------------------+

| Track

| Artist - Album

+--------------------------------+

Hidden

+-----------------------------------+

| Previous | Play | Next

| | |

+-----------------------------------+
[Android Apps and Games] benjdm:
My only specific request would be a large text widget that was 4x2 with the buttons below the text instead of embedded in it. But I feel greedy even mentioning it. :)
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
:) already done. Anything with widget configuration was basically free.
[Android Apps and Games] stopeject:
Thanks for your answer. I set up a profile which fires up a notification when New Metadata is triggered. It looks like the problem I'm having is limited to PowerAmp, other players I use (Mort Player Audiobooks, Pandora, Di.fm) return some data. I haven't done extensive testing, but basics seem to work. Poweramp however just returns ---. I also noticed that "New Metadata" profile stays on for quite a while with PowerAmp.
[Android Apps and Games] stopeject:
"Use alternative data collection" option helps with PowerAmp.

...However it breaks the other players.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Try enabling "ICS Lock Screen" in PowerAmp and disabling "Use alternative data collection" seems to help.

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[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
BTW "Auto show/hide based on if required" should work really well for Pandora adds notification controls just to music apps that dont already have them like "Pandora".
[Android Apps and Games] Northernmost:
Here's a thought for a new small (ha ha) feature: expose playback control via DLNA. The idea would be for Media Utilities to expose itself as a DLNA control point thus allowing other devices to control playback. This wouldn't be something to run constantly for battery usage (i.e. enabled only when on WiFi and something is playing).

There's a great open source DLNA library (IIRC as used by BubbleUPnP) here http://4thline.org/projects/cling/core/manual/cling-core-manual.html
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
You with the small ideas ;)

Not sure I would ever be able to reliably determine the list of playable music, so it would limited to selecting the media app and controlling it. Would be kind of cool to stream it the TV though.
[Android Apps and Games] drakenabarion:
This work great for me so any additional requests make me just feel greedy. :D

But since you ask:

You say you are bringing a "hide when not active" option. How about also having a resting state too, where it does not show the last track and maybe says "touch to initialise" or "press to start". Ok I haven't fully thought that through. :D

Your widgets look great at the moment with the optional controls styles. But sometimes those buttons slightly overlap some of the title text in the 3x2 small over art widget.

But, like I say, I feel greedy suggesting some of these things. ;)

Edit : just to mention that Google play music takes control of the widgets when it's launched and won't give it up until after a reboot, even when it's removed from the list of players. Will I guess it is because you cannot fully exit Google play music once it is started.