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[G1 Apps and Games] Dladu:
Yeah, I don't know about bricking the phone because it would suck if eventually you did get it back. Then you're stuck with a brick phone maybe theres away around it though which could work not sure how you'd implement this though. I mean the idea is there just going to be abit hard to execute because the problem is with all these theft problems, if they have the phone off when the sms is sent then it doesn't work.
[G1 Apps and Games] andonnguyen:
I wouldn't mind having this. If someone snatched my G1 out of my hands and got away, I would just use my friend's cell 1 minute later to make my phone a paper weight, then have peace of mind. lol
[G1 Apps and Games] tubaking182:
i am noting the issues, what i am planning is something similar to SMS commander, when the phone gets a text that says a certain thing it does something. if the phone is off then the text will still arrive when the phone is powered on, hell i could probably even remove the recovery screen and then the person would need to fastboot the phone.

sms commander just "listens" for the text of an incoming message and if it matches a certain phrase it runs a command. obviously i would need root, but at this point if you haven't rooted your phone this(if it works) woulud do it.

with that said, i am researching the APIs to see what would need to be done, i used to have something like this on my old 8525 and i never had to use it, but i'm paranoid about stuff like this
[G1 Apps and Games] Drizzy Drake Rogers:
i love this idea, there was this time when i had sold my touch pro on craigslist but the buyer had ripped me off! so that just pissed me off!

(good name ideas)

Cold-Droid

Lock Me

Ban-Droid

Dream Lock

Use me...Not!

Where's My owner

or just a plain app called

"Brick"

This app would be cool if it detected the owners sim card so if it were ever replaced it would say wrong sim card enter passkey (which they will not know)

and if they were to ever put the sim card back in then still it will tell you(sim card has been removed please eneter passkey)

or something like that! just an idea!

kind of like sim lock but instead of sim being locked, the device will be locked!
[G1 Apps and Games] maxisma:
Why you would want to destroy a phone?

Just remote wipe your data, thats enough. Write that as an app!

Not bricking!
[G1 Apps and Games] omario117:
Have you guys used/considered Mobile Defense?
[G1 Apps and Games] Setnev:
So here is my idea for this application.

Instead of completely bricking the phone, make it so that if the SIM card is removed, or the secret SMS message is sent that it does a complete phone lock and displays a message on-screen stating "This phone is suspected to have been lost/stolen. Please call XXX number to return the property.". All the while sending precise GPS locations updated every x minutes to a preset Email address and/or send a SMS to a preset phone number. This way the real owner may be able to easily recover the phone and none of the information is exposed. The only way to unlock it is to put in a code to unlock it. After x amount of days without being recovered, the program will issue a recoverable brick all the while showing the same message. After x more days after the soft brick, the phone will format all ROM and be unrecoverable. By that time, the real owner would have already gotten his/her replacement G1 if they had insurance, and the thief will have a fancy paperweight.
[G1 Apps and Games] kekele:
Great idea
[G1 Apps and Games] Proxin:
Is this going to get anywhere?
[G1 Apps and Games] kvizz:
that'd be funny if you could lock the phone at a screen that has a customized text.

Like F**K YOU B*TICH

or maybe

If Found Contact -

ETC. and it just stays at that screen. wonder if thats possible

edit- i shoulda read page 2 haha. same idea as Setnev lol.
[General Topics] citrix80:
how many times i can flush my device ? if i flushe my device too many times, will it get damaged?
[General Topics] orb3000:
Not that I´m aware of it

and flashed more than 52 times

I think there is no problem...
[General Topics] galaxys:
You can flash without issues the OS Rom as many times as there are stars in the sky ;)
[General Topics] stepw:
How romantic...

Here's a funny answer:

- you can only flUsh your device once, it will be damp and dead then

Here's a serious answer:

- modern NAND flash ICs withstand about 10000 erase/program cycles
[General Topics] + Que PPC:
flush? like this flush?

Just once dude jajaja as stepw says just once! :p :D
[General Topics] -Jonny-:
ha ha! .
[General Topics] corepda:
It seems guyz got a great way to show their creativity. :D

I think you can flush your device as many times as your operator gives back the same in insurance. :D

If you were talking about flashing I think that NAND answer in the third post seems quite interesting.
[General Questions and Answers] furry:
All my mp3 files are not being recognized within file explorer?? Properties still shows them as MP3s but I can't play them therefore they are not recognized as ringtones or songs

It started when I tried Nitrogen player but did not like it so I took it off and now all my mp3 files will not play. If I go through media player or S2P I can play them but my phone will not recognize any of these so it will not play them as ringtones anymore... I reinstalled Nitrogen and they can play through file explorer BUT still no ringtones... What the ... did I do?

I did a reg restore and and I removed all of Nitrogen through SK files search but still no go... Ahy ideas
[General Questions and Answers] furry:
Edit: I changed all my mp3s in the system to wmas and its working. i dont get it.
[General Questions and Answers] Tirinoarim:
My guess would be that its screwed up the file associations on the uninstall. To re-associate, go to an MP3 file in file manager and open the context menu (either press & hold on the file on screen or hold your dpad button). You should get a menu with an "Open With Program..." option. Select that, choose "Windows Media" and tick the "Associate selected program with this file type" box.

Rich
[General Questions and Answers] Tirinoarim:
Some versions of WinMo/File Explorer dont appear to have the "Open With" option. In this case you should be able to use an external file association program such as BadSchwii's

More information here...

http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/forum/topic/17100
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] WM-Sef:
Hello,

The phone's RAM and other storage places (as memory card) can be defragmented witch This program. I've tried it, but it stucks on gwes.exe :confused: The phone is simply crashed, every time I try to defragment the RAM. on this file. I need to open the phone and do a soft-reset.

Any solutions for this one?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] doktor_ppc:
I don't think that you need to defrag your phone device :rolleyes:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
It's a scam, defragmenting is not required, nor effective, on flash storage. The idea behind defragging is to minimize the distance the read/write head on a mechanical drive needs to go, thus making the drive perform better.

If you actually want the device's performance increased, search for Advanced Config and Cleanram, and apply the recommended memory tweaks.

Dave
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bigjezza:
Too True! Same theory applies to a desktop OS. If Windows 7 detects that it is installed on a flash device, it disables defrag.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] WM-Sef:
Thanks :) That worked like a charm. But, where I can find the recommend memory tweaks for Advanced Config Tool? Can't find it myself, so if someone can provide a link I'm happy ;)

Edit: Another question. IS there any oftware for updating album arts automatically? I have many tracks, but none of them has a cover...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Bright.Light:
wrong for the micro SD...

The memory is different to disk, so there is (almost) no seek time. However, when two bits are on the same memory 'line' it is sometimes slower to retrieve both of them than when they're on two different lines. So, defragging can change the access time. (But it will not get significantly better as when used on hard disks)
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] donbonone:
hey i was on Touch X rom, and now its time to get back to oldschool, cuz i want to run Pointui as main interface on my device.

im searching for a rom with:

- R3AA

- Rhodium Dialer (and when i get incoming calls, should be also like the touch x rom)

- Comm Manager

- Volume Control

- ee ok the mainstuff of touch x 10. but without TF3D ;)

- Additional Apps like (Backup,RSSFeeds,NoData)

- FAST and LITE Rom

- Windows Mobile 6.1

- Youtube

- Language: German or English.

if the one or another app is not inside that doesnt matter.

please give me some advice :) there are too many roms to check now.

ill post it on the x1 main forum too. so dont wonder.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] buchman:
Why not just use the Touch X rom, but disable FT3D? you can run whatever you'd like then
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] donbonone:
yeah ill try, but seems to be abit buggi.. for example if i open contacts on wm 6.1 today screen it loads the contact manager of TF3D and then it automaticly start TF3D..

and also , i think it takes some space and performance if its on the memory of the phone..
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] quetzalquatl:
Jack's Lite?
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] donbonone:
link?

cuz the version i saw, was with TF3D
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] quetzalquatl:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=495708
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] donbonone:
my friend seems that is TF3D too
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] jackleung:
Are you sure you are referring the lite version? (I have Lite, Medium and Full all in that single thread). The lite doesn't have TF3D or any dialer (just plain WM 6.1 dialer)

But one thing for sure is you won't get Rhodium Dialer w/o TF3D since they are TF3D's contact is part of the Rhodium Dialer.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] donbonone:
ah okay thanks my friend :)

yeah its no problem, for me is only important to get the fullscreen incoming call, i can do with S2U so thanks my friend ill test it..

is it fast ?
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] YYYYY:
You can give my medium version a try

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=513764
[XPERIA X1 General] donbonone:
hey i was on Touch X rom, and now its time to get back to oldschool, cuz i want to run Pointui as main interface on my device.

im searching for a rom with:

- R3AA

- Rhodium Dialer

- Comm Manager

- Volume Control

- ee ok the mainstuff of touch x 10. but without TF3D ;)

- Additional Apps like (Backup,RSSFeeds,NoData)

- FAST and LITE Rom

- Windows Mobile 6.1

- Language: German or English.

if the one or another app is not inside that doesnt matter.

please give me some advice :) there are too many roms to check now.
[XPERIA X1 General] melaskalany:
Greetings all! :)

I have the entire collection of MDB's Beautiful Voices Compilations, which consists of 40 gapless albums - so far - of Chillout bliss of different genres; essential for driving down the crazy streets of Cairo. I recently lost my iPod so I gave my X1 a try as a music player in my car today; copied one of the albums to my memory card and I was all set. The sound quality through AUX was pretty much the same (if not slightly better when it comes to bass) as that of the lost gadget.

Moving on to the important point, I noticed when playing this gapless album while the phone was on the “Media Panel” (Bluetooth Headset connected) that the files don't switch smoothly; sound stops for almost two seconds between tracks. The freeze is also there if I play the album from the “On the Road Panel”. I didn’t experience any noise what so ever when both players would move on to the next track.

I used the search function and couldn't find any threads about this. Has anyone else encountered the same problem? Is it well known? Is there a fix?! It's something that I can live with but I have like a 100 gapless albums in my library so it would be nice if I can manage to fix it. :)

Running R3A Generic UK ROM, no junk, no cracked software! :cool:

Note: Gapless Albums:

I'm quite sure you're all familiar with the term but for those who are not gapless albums are supposed to sound like one long connected track with no breaks what so ever, like listening to a live concert, or an Electronic music set, e.g. Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise, etc...
[XPERIA X1 General] Trudi:
I know only 2 players who play gapless : Pocket Music, and Pocket Player. I use Pocket Player, it's pretty as nice as my iPod nano 2G.
[XPERIA X1 General] JKingDev:
+1 for pocket player. The only thing I don't like about it is that it takes a few seconds to open and is a tad slow to redraw when switching orientation. Great player though. Media browser as nice and easy to use as an ipod. Download the free fully functional trial. To turn gapless on, turn crossfade on and drag the overlap slider to zero.
[XPERIA X1 General] melaskalany:
Thank you all!

Thanks for the tip. I purchased Pocket Player. It sure works its way around gapless albums. But I'm in love with SE's media panel. I hope someone may find a solution for that soon. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] philicibine:
I am wondering if there is any way to schedule the hours when the phone checks my email...

Bloomin thing is goin off at all hours and keepin me up!

I dont need to know I have an email at 4am! Seems a silly feature not 2 have! :confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] chefgon:
I think you can set Locale to turn your notification sounds off at certain times, but I've never tried it myself since I never have notification sounds on anyway.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] TheRookie:
Locale works great. I set up mine to switch all notifications off (apart from alarm for obvious reason) betwen 10pm and 7am on weekdays, but only if phone is charging.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] bachviet:
I use Locale to switch my phone to silent/no vibrate at night (after 10 PM).
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLCJ:
Hello,

I was browsing through all settings and I was trying the default Windows Keyboard, but now I cannot get the normal keyboard back? I say that it should chose this keyboard, press OK and try it but it's still the Windows keyboard. If you open settings again it also says Windows keyboard. Any way to fix this? :)

Regards,

NLCJ
[G1 Android Development] SimonNWalker:
I started looking at Android Development and got the whole Dev kit and the Eclipse enrionment setup and working fine.

The question I have is that I would try different apps I develop on the different ROMs available.

How do I get any of the new ROMs, like the HERO ROM ZIP files I can download to run in the emulator or is it even possible?

Im assuming that the system.img file in the SDK id the file I need to replace or re-create, but how is this done?

I am a noob to the develop stuff so step by step instructions would be much appreciated.

I also think this would be great for other developers and ROM makers to be able to test in this way.

Thanks

Simon
[G1 Android Development] theslam08:
Hopefully THIS one dont get closed, it IS asking a development question...anyway,

I would like to know this as well. I would like to test things myself (getting better at manipulating them), and would like to know what he is asking as well.

Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] ivanmmj:
I don't think this would work, as the ROMs are hardware depending, me thinks. Or at the least the kernel and drivers are.
[G1 Android Development] ggolemg:
maybe this will help, maybe not, just an emulator primer, so maybe people can jump on board with this

under <sdk path>/tools

to list out your AVD(android virtual device)

android list targets

will return:

Available Android targets:

id:1

Name: Android 1.1

Type: platform

API level: 2

Skins: HVGA (default), HVGA-L, HVGA-P, QVGA-L, QVGA-P

id:2

Name: Android 1.5

Type: platform

API level: 3

Skins: HVGA (default), HVGA-L, HVGA-P, QVGA-L, QVGA-P

id:3

Name: Google APIs

Type: add-on

Vendor: Google Inc.

Description: Android + Google APIs

Based on Android 1.5 (API level 3)

Libraries:

* com.google.android.maps (maps.jar)

API for Google Maps

Skins: HVGA (default), HVGA-L, QVGA-P, HVGA-P, QVGA-L

from here we choose our integer target, lets say 2

creating an AVD:

android create avd -n your_chosen_name_here -t 2

to run your newly created AVD:

emulator -avd your_chosen_name_here

maybe this will help, but I'm guessing everyone here already knows all of this.

references:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html#starting
[G1 Android Development] SimonNWalker:
Yeah, I understand that you can specify the AVD.

The only thing now is to edit the AVD to point to a different image. This is easy!

The system image file is a *.img file.

So how do we get our ROM images compiled into the IMG file format?

There must be a tool, but I cant find anything.

And what hardware does the emulator, emulate? Maybe it ignores the hardware specific calls throu an API so the ROM image target hardware shouldn't matter.
[G1 Android Development] ross75:
I just started messing around with rom's and after I build one I put system.img userdata.img and ramdisk.img from my /mydroid/out folder into the sdk's image folder and start the and it uses the new rom when I start the emulator
[G1 Android Development] ggolemg:
thats the easy part

do a nandroid backup

copy the sdk/platforms/android-1.5

to something like sdk/platforms/MINE

go to your AVD directory AVD/whateveryoucalledit

open up the config.ini

edit:

skin.name=HVGA

skin.path=platforms\MINE\skins\HVGA

image.sysdir.1=platforms\MINE\images\

go to your nandroid backup on your sdcard

copy system.img

go to sdk/platforms/MINE/images/

and paste the nandroid system.img

now run your AVD and it will boot that system.img

im running CyanogenMod rom right now in the emulator

hint* number pad 7 with numlock off in the emulator is how to open up the hardware keyboard
[G1 Android Development] SimonNWalker:
Awesome. I'll be giving this a try later.

One question: The apps are in the system.img file on the SDK images as far as I can tell. What do you do with all the apps in the new ROMs?
[G1 Android Development] ggolemg:
whatever you want to do with them, they're all there, even android market works perfectly
[G1 Android Development] SimonNWalker:
And where are you guys getting the system.img file from?

The ROM zip files dont have them.

Sorry....Im noob to this. LOL
[G1 Android Development] SimonNWalker:
OK, Im confused. Can you just unzip the ROM files and place in the folder that you point using the same folder structure?

OR

Do you have to have a system.img ?
[G1 Android Development] SimonNWalker:
Another thought:

I dont want to have to install all the ROMs just to create a Nandroid backup to get the images. There must be a way to create the images from the raw files in the ZIP files.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: The same technology used by Nandroid itself!
[G1 Android Development] ggolemg:
so it seems like it would be just as much fun doing a nandroid backup

*edit*

so now the real question is, how do we go about ripping out the nandroid functionality to be able to do this locally?

*edit 2*

it is the mkfs.yaffs2 tool

Usage:

mkfs.yaffs2 yourdir yourimage
[G1 Android Development] SimonNWalker:
Is this for Linux (which I don't have) and if so, is there a Windows version?
[G1 Android Development] ggolemg:
short answer: yes its only for linux

long answer is a plea for help i posted in the nandroid thread about it:

hopefully someone knows the answer, I'm still trying though.

so on windows we would adb push the update.zip to the sdcard on the emulator

unzip it on the sdcard, there are apps for that

adb shell mkfs.yaffs2 sdcard/<extractedzipfilename>/system/ sdcard/system.img

adb pull the newly created system.img and proceed to load it in the emulator

i know im missing a ton here, please someone correct me
[G1 Android Development] Minker17:
I'd love to be able to run these images in the emulator on windows!
[G1 Android Development] Visti:
Hm, the emulator just hangs on the ANDROID.. message, similar to when the standard system.img was in.
[G1 Android Development] johnnylicious:
anyone figure out how to do this on a mac?

thanks if anyone can.
[G1 Android Development] rsxtypes72:
I found this somewhere else and take no credit for it. I did shorten the steps.

Of course this is once you have the sdk installed on your mac

1. Run Terminal, and change to the 'tools' directory of the SDK (or add the tools directory to the path settings in ~/.profile).

2. Type './android list target'

3. Note the 'id' number of the '1.5' target (in my case it's '2')

4. Type './android create avd -n enhanced -t 2' (substitute 2 with the target number determined above if required)

5. You will be prompted to create a hardware profile. {You can leave as default no}

6. Use nandroid to create a backup then copy system.img

7. Copy file to ~/.android/avd/enhanced.avd/system.img

8. You're ready! Type './emulator -avd enhanced' to run! Note: inital boot may take a few minutes!
[G1 Android Development] shaneaus:
Can anyone post up the

Android Yaffs2 Tool (Both X86 And ARM)

for download? The above link doesn't work. I did a google search and all the D/L links are referring to the same location.

thanks!