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[Nexus One General] mikeybags:
This is going to seem like something so stupid and petty....

I was wondering if there's a way to change the background from when you're in a call. Like if you pull the phone away from your face, it has the person's pic in the middle, the "end" button on the bottom, etc. It has a nasty green background that just really annoys me. Anyway you can change that and just make it black or something? Or is that something I'll have to wait for a theme for?
[G1 General] Klyentel:
First and foremost...hello to you all my fellow dream users. This is officially my first thread I've ever created as a member on xda. Yet I am far from a noob. I've been around for quite some time, even before becoming a member. Needless to say, I wanted to share a common thought with you all.

Lets face it, we all are not perfect. 50% of us or more dont make up our bed right away as soon as we wake up out of it. Hell, Im sure a lot of us dont seperate our laundry as we produce it not just as we wash it. Throughout the long hard work week for some of us, (especially those with kids, have two myself), we just dont always find the time to pick up here and there as we would like to, or wash the dishes as we use them instead of letting a sink pile up first. But im sure, if there is any ounce of humane sanity and hygiene in your body, eventually you'll get around to it right? Right.

So getting to the point...must it be a written rule that you only wipe your cache, ext, etc. right before flashing a rom? I dont think so. Your phone is always something you have time for, even if its just 5 min out of a smoke break at work. So you are always using it. So it should be pretty piled up. Would it kill you to turn off your G1 one or two nights out of the week right before bed, boot into recovery, wipe your dalvik, wipe your ext, repair your ext, fix your permissions, reboot it and let that puppy charge for another long day of use tomorrow?. I should say so. It wouldn't hurt. Now as far as wiping data, I dont know, thats too much. But I personally found that if you randomly wipe your system clean(other than data) once or twice a week or every other day, when comes time to flash that new awesome rom you've been impatiently waiting for the dev to post, you will be able to do so with no wipe at all. And more than likely, you wont have any problems with it, atleast none on your behalf. Just a thought...... why wouldn't you? hmmmm:confused:
[G1 General] antonio91282:
wiping

I like wiping my card but i had a few questions. When wiping your ext. I believe your wiping a portion of your sd card and i think it may ware out your card.(not sure) i probably flash about 6 to 10 roms a week. Can i overflash my G1? Or wipe it out from wiping it so much?
[G1 General] Klyentel:
How many times can you wipe a baby's ass before it stops working? Exactly.:) Wipe away my friend. Just remember ALWAYS BACKUP before wiping. Its like wearing your seatbelt, for safety. You can not ruin your card for wiping, if anything that'll help it. That is...for a good quality card as far as I know....maybe there are some cheap under market sd cards that cant take the hard use, but I recommend not buying cheap stuff:D
[G1 General] jubeh:
I think you don't understand what wiping does. Give me a minute, I'm at work, and I'll explain.
[G1 General] Klyentel:
take your time...as Im am awaiting to be enlightened. Wipe means to erase-delete-remove-vanish-clean-destroy......if you got any more definition do feel free to post em:D
[G1 General] Klyentel:
Wow....thank you. I mean really...thank you. I did not know half the stuff you just posted.

Thats very interesting, although it was only thoughtful thinking, I dont actually wipe that many times, but its just that i get tired of reading all these post of people having problems after flashing a perfectly good rom, all because their ext is corrupted or they didn't wipe like prompted or something. I figure if I can get people to think of ways to keep their phones running perfectly fine consistently as opposed to flashing so many times they dont even remember what stable really means, then it will post a lot less questions on the forum. Thats all.

but dude you're really smart, you must be a dev. Thanx for your time.
[G1 General] akapoor:
:O

I'm voting to make this to be post of the month. Great info.
[G1 General] :
Honestly, one of the best posts I have ever seen here. Kudos to you for taking the time to spell that all out.
[G1 General] lbcoder:
I've been using my ADP1 since December 2008. In the time I have owned it and used it DAILY, and HEAVILY, I have NOT ONCE wiped it.

NEVER.

It is snappy and fast.

I do keep it clean, but not by doing anything drastic.

And this is despite several OS upgrades, trying out a few custom roms, apps2sd with a TON of apps installed, etc., etc., etc.
[HD2 General] HarrisAIU:
Evening all,

I've had HTC phones for the past few years and have never required 10% of their capabilities. Having split with my "technical support guru", and having received the HD2, I thought it was about time I start taking advantage of my new device.

I'm pretty much out of my depth these days, and there are far too many post for me to search through to get my answers, as I'm not even sure of the specific questions.

Firstly, is it possible for me to watch some videos I bought from iTunes on the HD2? I copied the files over, but it can't read them, they're in MV4 file type. Some cleverclogs rolled their eyes when I asked, saying something about codecs, but this was French to me. I'm assuming I have to change the file type, but do I do this from my computer or on my HD2?

My SMS have the same problem that most have so I don't need to as questions, I've installed the SMS quick fix so fingers crossed (I'm patient).

The phone get's crackly every now and then, I'm assuming this will be fixed in the new rom update (again, French).

I would ask why the 3G icon up at the top, turns to E, G and H, but I don't think that's a problem so will leave it for the minute.

No pink issues on the camera.

Is there a short cut to Task Manager on this device? (can there be?)

If someone could take a few moments to explain how I can watch video's on the device, with all the gorey details, I'd be most grateful.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
HI,

MV4 (sure you didn't mean m4v ?) is a filetype, and no, you shouldn't need to change them manually.

Look around for an alternative player that plays that filetype and you should be good to go. (Can't be more specific, sorry, I'm ok with the default player so haven't needed to instal a new one yet - There are plenty of threads that talk about players)

E.G.H = Edge, 3G, HSDPA, (I think...) and is an indicator of what type/speed of connection you have to your provider, and no, so long as it's working I shouldn't worry about it.

Taskmanager link, press an empty slot in your quicklinks on the home screen, choose programs - scroll down to task manager and click, , sorted. Link to taskmanager on your homescreen.

Happy playing
[HD2 General] HarrisAIU:
Cheers Sam.

So if I'm needing a different media player, are there any that can be recommended?

You're right, M4V file type... attention to detail
[HD2 General] wacky.banana:
Harris,

I have just sent you a PM. For media player look for Coreplayer on here.

WB
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] b1ck132:
Hello,

Today I ran into a new problem, that I have been trying to figure out for hours, but couldn't find a solution.

I have a T-Mobile Touch Pro 2, sim unlocked-security unlocked, and hardSPLed.

While device is on, the signal suddenly drops off, like as if it's re-starting the radio, and then gets the signal back in 2-3 seconds.

Whenever this happens the activesync connection also gets interrupted, WMDC says device is disconnected, while the TP2 still thinks it's syncing.

I would appreciate any suggestion, and solution, or at least any idea about why this could be happening.

What I tried so far to solve the problem:

1-I hard-reseted the device. Not even sure how many times.

2-Tried with different stock ROMs, WM 6.5 Europe, WM 6.5 T-Mobile.

3-Tried flashing a few Radio ROMs.

4-Tried setting the device to chose only GSM, and GSM900/1800 manually.

So far, I started focusing on the SIM card. The only thing that changed since Saturday, is the SIM card, as I changed providers, but it's still awkward that the problem started just today.

Thank you.

New Symptom : After losing signal, sometimes it can't connect back to network, and asks for PIN again. happened twice so far.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] b1ck132:
Update: Ok, the problem is beyond SIM card, since I just removed the SIM card, and decided to see, what happens when I try to Sync.

The device continues to do hiccups, the USB connection drops on computer side, even though device doesn't recognize that, and device asks for a SIM PIN, as if I just booted it.

Any help would really be appreciated at this point, since I'm out of ideas about what to do.

And no, warranty isn't an option for me, since it's a US device, and I'm not living in the US =(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] b1ck132:
So, I flashed back to 6.1 stock TMOUS ROM, problem still there, went to 6.5 TMOUS, problem is still valid.

Can't seem to figure out any solution for the night, and calling it a day. Suggestions are more then appreciated =) Thank you.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] b1ck132:
Well, I need to bump this thread, as the problem is still there, with no solution, but it just metamorphed into something else.

I asked for a solution from HTC, but all they said was to try with another operator SIM, which didn't help of course.

But after countless hard-resets and flashing, now the connection can keep up for a few more minutes.(sometimes around an hour, but usually good enough to finish up a 15 min sync)

But, now after coming off the suspend mode, it sometimes give me a "A problem with device.exe occured" error, and after I get that error, I lose voice in calls. (As in, I can recieve calls, or make calls, but in both cases, can't hear the other side, and they can't hear me either)

So, what could possibly be the reason for device.exe error? I heard that some companies, just change devices that gets the error, but it's pretty impossible for my device to changed. (=> TMOUS Rhodium user in Turkey)

So any ideas, or solutions? Or anything you want me to try? I'm pretty open to do anything at this moment, since If I can't solve the problem the device will turn into a 600$ paperweight. And an ugly one too, for the price =p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] b1ck132:
Just another symptom:

Before all these started in the WMDC, no matter what ROM was on the device, the device picture would be a T-Mobile TP2.

But now, on WMDC, picture of the device is an unbranded HTC TP2.

Today, hoping to be able to turn everything back to the beginning, I flashed WM 6.1 TMOUS ROM, and re-flashed the stock SPL. After connecting the device to WMDC, the picture was still an unbranded TP2 picture.

The problem of hiccups with network signal came back with the stock ROM, and is driving me crazy.

And, I decided to flash the leaked TMOUS 6.5 ROM, which didn't help anything at all. (The picture isn't a TMobile one still)

So, I'm thnking that the flashing progress, at one point just fiddled with a part, that we don't know about yet, which contains device information.

Anyone with any ideas? =I
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cjm1979:
Try flashing a different radio to the phone. Nearly all cooked roms wont come with a radio. If it is an official stock rom that you are flashing they normally have Rom, Radio and Splash. If you put the rom on your sd card and try to flash from there what does it say when the grey screen comes up and tells you what is in the .nbh file?

Also i hard reset before and after flashing, especially after seems to help.

Could be faulty phone if you have tried other providers sims and its the same.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] Inferis:
Everytime I flash a new ROM my X1 restarts directly after flashing?

And then it will go through the setup process..

But since I read that we should always do a hard reset before installing, why just don't shut the phone down after a flash? So we can start immediatly with an hard reset?

For now, as soon the flash is done, I'll put out battery and makes a hard reset by holding the 2 menu buttons down when I start my X1.

Has I misunderstood something?
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] kjk:
You don't need to pull out battery. Just hold down 2 menu buttons and push reset button with stylus to hard reset.

you can do that at any time and don't need to turn off x1 first.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] Draken Korin:
that happens if someone doesn't check sticky section and use some search

that's already answered innumerable times and ages ago as well...but not, a new thread for everything these days, what redundant nonsense
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] Inferis:
Can you tell me what to search for? Every thread contains a lots of post. It takes a long time to search one thread.

My question is that why does the flashprogram restart X1 after flash when its better to do a hard reset first? Maybe the developer can change that?
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] celarbi:
I know what you mean buddy. when you flash rom with SD method, the phone won't restart afterflashing, and you can hard reset after flashing.

IF YOU USE PC method, it will restart after flashing. That is my experience:D
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] deepthroat:
do you understand what you're asking here mate? just READ and it is worth to build the understanding
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] Jonny4911:
you do know that when you use pc to flash you can hold the two silver softkeys just when its about to restart (at 100%) and it'll go to hard reset... forget about pulling the battery...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] chikoo:
Here's the deal.

When I am in the HTC text message screen (the one with the nice SEND button), I type in a message and send it, it shows up in the message list asap. However, when the person replies back to me, I have to get out of that HTC Text messaging screen, and come back into it in order to see the updated message thread.

Is this Normal?

see attached screenshots for my version of WM and TF3D.

Thanks!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] chikoo:
Found the solution...

In Settings -> System ->Text messaging

Select Threaded view. Mine was set to classic view.

Soft Reset. and HTC text messaging works perfect.

Phew!
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] mafiaboi:
i need a wm5 rom for my xda orbit can any one help ?:cool:
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] mvenneker:
original orbit wm5 rom is posted as a topic by me..

look a bit further instead of making topics immediately....
[Nexus One General] iVisionX01:
I noticed that when I turn my brightness down my phone gets a purplish tint but it goes away as the brightness goes up. Is this because its special type of LED screen or the over saturation of colors?
[Nexus One General] melterx12:
can you post some pics please?
[Nexus One General] staulkor:
Normal for AMOLED screens. They tend to get a red tinge to them when they dim down.
[Nexus One General] iVisionX01:
Alright I guess the technology isn't perfect yet definently not a deal breaker
[Nexus One General] d3cryp7:
I was wondering why the light grey look pink in gmail app
[Nexus One General] tjobrien21:
I see it as well. A little annoying, but not a giant problem. The blazing speed of the phone kinda makes up for it. :)
[Nexus One General] eug89:
does anybody of you also noticed this thing: http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-tech-issues-bug-reports/1199-amoled-display-issue.html ???
[Nexus One General] flarbear:
I did notice this as well. Some of the red pixels on the edges of text seemed to have drifted a little too far from the body of the glyph. I actually thought the same thing as this poster - sounds like they need to tweak their "subpixel LCD text" algorithms to match the different layout of the OLED screen.

I'd add to his analysis that subpixel LCD text algorithms typicall employee adjustments for the non-linear response of the pixels (steps of brightness near the dim end of the scale are not the same perceived size as steps of brightness near the bright end of the scale) and OLED may not only have different non-linear response, but it may have different response in each of its R, G, and B pixel elements...

This all should be tweakable in software and is bound to be improved as OLED screens gain popularity.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3bass:
i have hero 2.73.405.5 and i try to root this phone but nobody need to help me i use all step like flash rec ver 1.13 and 1.12 program and when i open it i just have to choice

1- download recovery image (not active ) and i wrights the rom location but nothing happened

2-backup recovery image and give me failed

pleas help me to root this phone
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
you asked here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=609371 and here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5195950 for help. in both cases help was offered:

and

in the second thread you had at least the decency to answer once:

but that was it. so how is this thread going to look like?
[Nexus One General] firedup:
Is it possible to have emails in full HTML with images etc on the Nexus like you get with the iphone?
[Nexus One General] parrot5:
Yes. It's a smartphone alright? ;)
[Nexus One General] firedup:
Can't see a option in exchange email to enable this??
[Nexus One General] parrot5:
I haven't seen an option either.... Emails are just laid out as it would be on the desktop.
[Nexus One General] bnoel:
I believe you need Exchange 2007 in order to view email in HTML
[Nexus One General] awesomeindeed:
My exchange account displays in HTML. But I am using 2007... so.
[Nexus One General] TheMathMan:
Has anyone tried playing converted avi files on it?

I used to have a Hero but it went back as some converted videos for it just wouldnt play smoothly. I'm guessing it was because the Hero was known for being way underpowered and laggy!

Would love to know. Don't mind ripping movies but enjoying the hassle free CorePlayer on my HD2 at the mo... however, with evidence of good movie playing I could easily be swayed by the sexy looking N1!!
[Nexus One General] charkosh:
1. get handbrake or http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

2. convert to H264

3. __________

4. Profit
[Nexus One General] TheMathMan:
What is point 3??
[myTouch 3G, Magic Themes and Wallpapers] Noob01:
all mytouch themes are either way outdated or i cant find them. :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic Themes and Wallpapers] oaussieo:
Download Cyanogen's installer from Android Market, there you will find some themes for your currnet Rom..

Hope this helps
[myTouch 3G, Magic Themes and Wallpapers] Noob01:
nvm i got it. i just had to look in the android themes and wallpapers section. thanks anyway
[myTouch 3G, Magic Themes and Wallpapers] Infinite76:
look at the theme section in the general android area. there are some there. I am running a buuf theme.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Shidell:
Legacy GPS development has been removed--please reference the latest thread by jnadke for current GPS development: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624042
[Touch CDMA Android Development] polyrhythmic:
Just tested this on my Kaiser. Once GPS got a lock it remained locked at that position until I rebooted. I guess it holds position a litle to well :) Congrats on the progress though!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] berardi:
great work! any chance of a rootfs for those of us who have not yet mastered adb? :)

If it's a lot of work, don't bother but thought I'd check :)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bzo:
unfortunately, 1.2 is not working too well for me. Tried navigation on the same route as yesterday with 1.1, and after a bunch of erratic readings, Google Navigation and the Android OS locked up within a few minutes. Had to press the reset button to recover.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Shidell:
Regarding rootfs, it wouldn't be logical to build a new rootfs for each release of this library--I'd be compiling it too often. If you can install the drivers for your phone, using ADB and ADB File Explorer as I detailed above should be very straightforward.

As for the GPS locking/not moving, I take you tried driving somewhere, and still no luck/hard lock? Did a restart seem to fix anything?

I've had pretty good success with v1.2 in regards to maintaining bearing and quickly self-correcting when the bearing indicator (arrow) would otherwise spin, turn sideways, etc. There is still some improvement to be done (especially at slow/stopped speeds), but while traveling in a vehicle, you should get fairly consistent, accurate results.

If you had difficulties, give your phone a reboot and try it once more, and let me know if the locking is persistent?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] hellovx7600:
I'll make a rootfs with the newest libgps.so when I get home from work tonight.

EDIT: Sorry I never got around to making the file last night, kinda busy. I'll make sure I set some time aside tonight to do it.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bzo:
ok, gave 1.2 another try on another route. Worked better this time - heading is stable and I only lost signal twice. However I'm at a 135 degree offset from the actual heading now (as compared to 90 degreees on 1.1).

I think the reason I had the freeze/crash last time was because the nav app kept trying to recalculate the route and got confused because the heading was one way while the actual travel was another.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Shidell:
So you're constantly 135 degrees offset, pointing in the wrong direction?

What device do you have? Are you running from NAND or SD? What Android build?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bzo:
yeah, pretty much constant 135 degree offset. Kinda bizarre that it would be another 45 degrees off from before.

Sprint Vogue, ext2 on SD, Eclair (zenulator build)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Shidell:
Interesting. I'm using a Sprint Vogue as well, but was using plemen's AOSP 1.6 build. I'll put up Zen's Eclair and test as well. I'll report back on it later today.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] myn:
What does the cupcake 1.5 gps lib do?

Since this GPS works (correct me if I am wrong), can we not borrow the logic from it?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Shidell:
As far as I'm aware, the libgps in cupcake is the same code that srwalter originally ported. This thread is for improving that code (which should be compatible for all versions of Android), to make it more accurate and consistent.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bchi49:
Hi, could someone upload a version of rootfs.img that has the gps lib updated? I won't have access tto computer unti Friday night when I travel back to town. Thx. I'm using aosp 1.6 on 2 extfs partition. Thx.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] hellovx7600:
I'm gonna be making one in a couple hours. See post number 6 :)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bchi49:
thanks! :-)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] r3dpnt:
I've been using this for a few days now along the same route. The pointer always starts out pointing correctly in the direction of travel. After a few miles along the highway it will turn 90 degrees so it's like i'm sliding sideways. Notifications happen at an appropriate time and seem accurate.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jnadke:
Are you using the latest code? 1.2? I posted a fix that's supposed to correct that.

Unless the fix wasn't necessary, and the other person who posted the glitch was experiencing something else.

Shidell: Undo my last change (swapping adjLongitude and adjLatitude in atan2). I'm pretty sure the original version was correct, there must have been issues elsewhere causing problems.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Shidell:
Working on it right now. Are we sure that this calculation is accurate?

/* Nautical miles per second */

location.speed = 60 * position_delta / time_delta;

/* Convert to meters per second (assuming near sea level) */

location.speed *= 1853.0;

Also, any ideas on what we can look for/at to determine how to expose more from the GPS driver and access elevation/velocity?