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[Nexus One General] m00moo:
Hi guys,

I know this is an issue for many alike myself, I HATE how some android apps and the system automatically create folder on the SDcard (tmp, LOST.DIR, albumthumbs, adobe etc) and even worse have stupid names for some of them. Im quite the perfectionist so i really would like to have them gone (hidden) or at least renamed. As hiding them is the easier option I want to know if this is even possible?

I've tried mounting my SDcard and changing those files to hidden, but in Android they still display. I've tried the '.' method of hiding but this causes errors for some apps as the folders aren't being located correctly.

I've searched around with no solution as of yet so if anybody has a way please let us know.

no stupid comments about hiding your porn and **** please.
[Nexus One General] theomajigga:
I hate to not be any help, but I would also like a way to do this.

I hate looking into my SD card and seeing a bunch of random sh!t.

so bump i guess
[Nexus One General] mykenyc:
Even though it don't bother me i don't understand why developers don't do like linux apps and use /sdcard/.twidroid type of folder?
[Nexus One General] jairuncaloth:
This drives me insane as well. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it. This is on the developers of the apps to fix.
[Nexus One General] frandavid100:
Does Google actually recommend a specific folder to put these files, something like .config or .cache like in Linux?
[Nexus One General] suhas_sm:
It would have been so easier if all these folder went inside a single folder like program files .. I m too frustated bocs these app folders :(
[Nexus One General] britoso:
They recommend /Android/data/<package_name>/files/

see: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal

One option is to override what the below two routines return. (AOSP code)

getExternalStorageDirectory() and

getExternalFilesDir()

i.e. set it to /sdcard/data/

ps: I remember asking this a year ago, still bugs me that nobody has done it yet.
[Nexus One General] dronarg:
+1 This would be a good idea.
[General Topics] dglowen23:
My messaging keeps force closing on my Samsung galaxy is any one else havin this problem? Btw its not rooted... Yet
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
OK, I'm at work and as I'm the Android expert, I pretty much deal with Heros and Moments all day. 7 days a week. So I've compiled a short list of problems that I was wondering if you guys might be able to help me out with. I kinda feel bad constantly having to hard reset my customers Heros, even though everything is backed up to google. So, since you guys have delved into the OS and programming, perhaps you have some fixes aside from hard reset (And that won't void the warranty, preferably) for these problems.

1. Picture mail. Customer just gets a download button. When they touch it, either they get downloading........ or download unsuccessful. After suspending/restoring account, deprogramminga nd reprogramming the phone, and switching the phone off the account and back on, I can get about 50% of their picmail to go through, still have to hard reset. Any thoughts on causes of this? Or a fix?

2. Youtube. Using either the browser or the youtube application, the video will not play. Will occasionally play after 4 or 5 tries, but with no consistency. Doesn't seem to happen on every phone. Hard reset does not fix this. It's listed in our known issues, with no fix. I would appreciate any of your advice. I already give my customer the workaround to use a diff browser and d/l in mp4 format, i'd like to know if I can be more help.

3. When attempting to sign into google or access Market, error "A reliable data connection could not be established. Your SIM card may not be provisioned for data. This may be a temporary problem." Etc. Once again, I do all troubleshooting on our side, customer can browse internet and use data based apps, just not contact googles servers. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

That is pretty much it. The only problem I actually cannot fix is the Youtube, other than that a hard reset will take care of it but your average sprint customer has never done a backup and has forgotten the gmail they created when they activated the phone. Thanks in advance for help and if anyone needs any help on my side or info hit me up.
[Hero CDMA General] gbhil:
Tell Sprint to get off their ass and roll out the 2.1 update. That fixes every issue you listed as well as others.

Be thankful that some very malicious exploits are still being kept hush hush. Your bosses promised fixes in November when they were shown how to crash any Sprint Android device to the point where a hard reset and a trip to the store is needed to fix it.

Fixes were promised "soon" back in November. It's almost March and I'm about to spill my guts and make things much worse.

I'll help anyone who is honest. Sprint and HTC have spent a ****load of resources on other projects instead of fixing a buggy POS system they took my 500 bucks for. That's not honest.
[Hero CDMA General] linkinx64:
+1 what he said :)
[Hero CDMA General] TaurusBullba R.I.P.:
Both posts don't actually address his questions, rather your gripes with Sprint and or HTC. Please stay on topic and help if you can.
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
Gee, that was entirely unhelpful. I am actually trying to help people. I come in on all my off days because no one else here is as comfortable with Android as I am. I am also the top Aircard guy because while most of these guys can fix your Blackberry, they don't know jack about Windows or Mac. So I spend the daylight hours every day trying to help people. I figured since you guys have gotten further into the OS than I ahve you might be able to offer some assistance to your fellow Hero users. Instead, I get an extremely rude message essentially spitting in my face and telling me to piss off because of the company I work for. I honestly had much higher expectations. I've been reading these forums for months and have come to have a high degree of respect for all of you, which is why I decided to start posting. That's really dissapointing. And, for the record, Sprint doesn't write Operating Systems. They just tell the manufacturer what they want (Sprint Nav, Nascar, etc.) and what they wont allow (phone as modem, bluetooth file transfer) and then get the updates whenever they make one. You guys are eagerly awaiting a Sprint 2.1? So is Sprint. I promise you.

And by the way, I realize I'm apparently a horrible person for working to feed my family and all, but I'm an Industrial Electrician, Journeyman. Also A control specialist, fiber optic terminator, and IT tech. The economy crashed, I got laid off from the electrical union cause we had no work, sat on the books for 6 months, and when the union couldnt find me work I came here. Sprint was impressed with my technical abilities (and the fact that someone with my experience/education would be willing to do tech support) and gave me a job. Don't think I'm some evil corporate asshole whos trying to get over on you, cause I'm not. If you don't want to offer your assistance that I think I very respectfully asked for, ok. You aren't hurting me, my Hero works just fine. You're just hurting every other Hero user that calls in needing help.
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
Oh, and since I can't play with my phone at work (new policy, it bloody sucks, I used to sit here and flash roms and stuff all day from this site) I am just reading the forums and trying to help out. This thread is aptly named for it, so if anyone needs any tech help (as far as not getting sms, mms, calls not coming through, internet down, etc) hit me up in here I'm already giving out tech advice in the picture mail thread. Lol.
[Hero CDMA General] red250:
How about the texts out of order problem?

I've noticed on mine, it's only when I get texts from other sprint users and it's not every time. Like just now, I sent a text to a friend with sprint, my phone says I sent it at 5:40pm, she replied 2 minutes later, but the time stamp on her text says 5:39pm. I have yet to have this issue with people on other carriers, only people that also use sprint.
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
Yeah, thats a weird issue. Mine does the same thing. I havent found a fix yet. When using the normal messaging app this causes new txt messages to go to the top of the thread, which is a pain in the ass if you have several hundred txts. Using Handcent keeps that from happening, but the time still comes in wrong. I'm gonna check this out today and see if I can dig something up.
[Hero CDMA General] gbhil:
Not true. His questions were answered in the first sentence of my original reply.

All these issues are a direct result of the process that was used to force Android to work with hardware and a system it was not designed for. They are all fixed in later versions of the operating system.

To the OP - I don't hold you responsible for anything Sprint does. But since you identified yourself as someone who does tech support for them, I simply told you the same thing I tell any Sprint employee. Fix your **** and soon. Pass that along please.

Too bad Sprint network and software engineers don't care about the issues enough to seek feedback like you have done. If they did, I would have told them the same thing.
[Hero CDMA General] jmanley69:
Is the customer using the stock messaging app or Handcent? I notice that if I click the "download" button on the pop-up notification then I never get the picture mail. Close the pop-up notification and open the SMS app of your choice (stock, handcent or other) and the picture mail should be there.

I would think that a hard reset fixes it because it uninstalls the custom messaging app that the customer has installed that is hijacking the download.

I've noticed that many movies don't play on the browser because Youtube tries to launch "Youtube Mobile" and it blocks a lot of videos that would otherwise play in the Youtube app.

It may be an issue with the data connection. Does your store have a WiFi hotspot? If so, try disabling the Sprint Data connection and enable (and associate) the WiFi... then see if it views ok. If so, you may need to reprovision the Vision account or reset the Vision credentials.

I suspect the customer has loaded a custom ROM and is not telling you... but before they came into the store, they restored from nand. There is a known issue with some custom ROMs that will put bad data in your Google account (held on Google's servers). Try creating a new gmail account, do a hard reset, configure the new gmail account as the phone's primary Google account, and see if the market runs. If so... explain to the customer that they have (i believe permanently) screwed up their Google account and they should create a new one. They can still use their old gmail account for mail as a secondary account but as far as Market and all the other Google apps on the phone, they should use the new one. Also advise them to check with the ROM manufacturer before they load custom ROMs.

For example, MoDaCo doesn't have this problem but some of the earlier (and possibly the current) Fresh ROMs caused this problem.
[Hero CDMA General] troyboytn:
Is there really such a serious exploit? Maybe its time Engadget and the other big guys in the tech press know about it and its specifics. Could be one hell of a bargaining chip to force an early release of 2.1
[Hero CDMA General] HERNANDEZ4LIFE:
I suspect the customer has loaded a custom ROM and is not telling you... but before they came into the store, they restored from nand. There is a known issue with some custom ROMs that will put bad data in your Google account (held on Google's servers). Try creating a new gmail account, do a hard reset, configure the new gmail account as the phone's primary Google account, and see if the market runs. If so... explain to the customer that they have (i believe permanently) screwed up their Google account and they should create a new one. They can still use their old gmail account for mail as a secondary account but as far as Market and all the other Google apps on the phone, they should use the new one. Also advise them to check with the ROM manufacturer before they load custom ROMs.

For example, MoDaCo doesn't have this problem but some of the earlier (and possibly the current) Fresh ROMs caused this problem.[/QUOTE]

This doesn't seem to be totally accurate since in my case I've been using Fresh roms since the first release and have never had any market related issues. To me this would imply there's a bit more going with that. Just thought that this should be noted.
[Hero CDMA General] jmanley69:
Again??? this is your first post in this thread... and if you have to start out by saying that you're not trying to be a jerk, then you probably are. It's kinda like saying "all due respect" when you have no intention of showing respect.

If you search this forum you'll find the evidence to my statements. I've been using MoDaCo's ROM and have seen numerous people that switched from Fresh and can't get the the market to work. I'm not any way devaluing the Fresh ROM or their work. I'm simply saying that there was a setting in a file (I can't remember what file exactly - you'd have to search that answer out yourself) that messed up the market for a bunch of people. This may have been an isolated issue to one version of Fresh (hence when I said "some"). If you weren't affected then you're a lucky one, but that doesn't mean that other people aren't affected. Also, my thread was informational to show that this guy's customers may have loaded a custom ROM... The ROM could have been from Fresh or anybody else (or even customized by his customers themselves).
[Hero CDMA General] HERNANDEZ4LIFE:
I have had this issue with two Heros with and without third party msg apps. Also the first thing I do in setting up my msg apps is to disable the popup notificacion (just bugs me) and I have had the same thing happen. In fact I've had my msg app (whether it be stock, CHOMP, or Handcent) open and waiting for test mms msgs I sent to myself and still experienced the same problem. Again, just thought it should be noted.
[Hero CDMA General] HERNANDEZ4LIFE:
Lol. Thought I edited the post. To early in the morning I guess. My point was simply that what you stated isnt necessarily true in all cases, specifically mine. And so to me this would be evidence the rom is not the issue and that there may be more to it. Thats all I was saying. Didnt mean to offend.
[Hero CDMA General] KBizzle:
The only time i have heard that a Fresh ROM messed up the market was Fresh 2.1. Its just an AOSP rom and it was known for messing up the market but a fix was posted.
[Hero CDMA General] abcdfv:
I just lost a lot of respect for you gbhil. What are you going to do next? Threaten the class president to try and get Obama to sign a bill?
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
LOL. Yeah, I'm really just gonna call up the CEO and the development department...everyone in tech support has their number....
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
Oh, and in response to the latest posts.....Aside from the youtube issue, a hard reset takes care of all the issue I listed. I thought I mentioned that. So that rules out the phone being permanently screwed up by bad roms. Plus, I assure you, the people that call in with these issues don't even know how to get into the phones settings, and it takes them about 10 minutes to type their google username and password. And the "cannot establish a reliable data connection" issue with google and android market isnt just the market. It happens when they try to sign into Google, sometimes when they just bought the phone and are doing it during the activation process. It also happens on the Samsung moment, so I think its safe to say it isn't a rom flashing issue. And the picmail happened on my hero before I even rooted it, and occurs on the stock app and handcent. When they call in with it happenning on stock messaging app, I have them download handcent as part of troubleshooting. As I said, after all troubleshooting is done, they maybe get half their MMS.
[Hero CDMA General] jmanley69:
Do you actually work for Sprint? or are you reselling their services?

Sprint recommends that you do not even TRY to use data until 4 hours after activating the phone. It takes some time for the account to properly provision through all their systems and if you attempt to use data before the account has provisioned completely then it screws up the vision profile to the point where you MUST call Sprint and have them fix it (i.e. nothing you can do to fix it).

I ask if you work for Sprint because if you do, you'd know that and wouldn't have people trying to connect to Google right away.

Now, I know that people are going to say that this is part of the setup process for the Hero (enter your account information), and that they did it out of the box with no problem, and the Sprint reps set the phone up for them in the store, and Best Buy will set the phone up for you and they don't have problems, and a whole bunch of "it didn't cause problems for me"... but that doesn't change the fact that Sprint says quite clearly "do not try to use the vision data until 4 hours after activating the account".

So... if you're having data problems, and you don't want to use my suggestion from before to reset the Vision Profile, then call Sprint and have them do their magic little fix.
[Hero CDMA General] HERNANDEZ4LIFE:
I've always been told it MAY BE up to 4 hrs before I would be able to use data after activation. I've never been told not to attempt if for any specific period of time or it would screw everything up. Seems like if it were that critical Sprint would be a lot more clear on that point and wouldn't do it themselves during set up.
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
Um...You really shouldn't post on things that you know nothing about. All smart phones actually require data to program. When you turn on your hero, straight out of the box, and it says "hands-free activation" It is downloading the programming through the internet connection. The HTC Hero is logged in and using data at all times once turned on, unless you disable your data connection from the phone.

Back in the days of Razrs and Rumors, the way to program a phone was to manually enter the MDN and MSID into the service screen. This does not work for smart phones. If you ever tried to use data right after purchasing your smart phone and it didn't work, typically an erre 67 or 1012, it's because the dumbfuck at the sprint store manually programmed your phone for VOICE and TXT only by manually entering this info into the service edit screen. Your phones DATA will never work, in this event, until you update your data profile. No call to ME required. Just got o Settings>about phone>system updates>update profile.

YOU sound like the asshole at the sprint store who generates half my calls by cancelling hands-free activation, manually programming, showing you the phone can make a call, then sending you out the door saying "Your data should be working within 4 hours. If it doesn't, call tech support." He just made his commision off your ass and you have a phone that cant get on the internet until you call us to tell you how to properly program your device. Gotta love those pricks.

SO, to sum up: As soon as your phone is activated, data services are available. This is not 1998, people. You cant even turn a Palm Pre on without data, because it won't let you create a profile. Anyone who has ever owned one can back me up on this.

I do know what I'm doing and what I'm talking about. I activate, fix, hard reset, re-program, and fix hundreds of phones a week. And I just love someone like you who tries to tell ME what's wrong and what needs to be done, because you read something on google or heard something from a friend. You might know a whole lot about programming ROMS and flashing and .apks, and I'm really proud of you for that, but don't assume you know jack about out data network.

And I don't sell phones. That would require me lying to the customers. I'm the guy at the other end of the line who performs out "magic fix" on your phone.

For the record, I really had a lot more respect for everyone on these forums before I started really reading all the threads and posting. Now I'm starting to realize that the people I was looking up to and thought were really great are (some of them anyway) condescending, bickering, know-it-all pricks. It's very dissapointing.
[Hero CDMA General] abcdfv:
I have a question.

My phone has never switched to 3G, is there a 3G specific map for Sprint?
[Hero CDMA General] bron019:
There is still some nice people on this forums i was shocked when i saw the reply you got
[Hero CDMA General] jtmercutio:
I activate them all day... even the reclaim, exclaim, Lotus, blackberrys, sanyos, etc etc are pretty much "hands-free" activating.

I find with trying to open MMS messages in handcent, it usually has the "play button" icon, and with most I can press and hold and it will give me an option to open them.

With a lot of youtube videos I try to pull up (that say "video can not be played") If you click ok, and try to open the video again (and try it a few times) it should work... should, lol...

I am not a "tech" (our store doesnt even have tech, we are solely a corporate retail store) but everyone that comes in with a hero or moment in their hand saying "I have an issue" is sent directly to me lol... I am thankful for the knowledgable people on this site.
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
You phone should always be on 3g. It never actually says "3G" at the top. 3G is split into two levels, 1X and EV. 1X is slightly better than dialup speed, EV is around DSL speeds. Here where I'm from we only have 1X so I force my phone to roam on Verizon. But at the top of your phone you should have either 1X or EV. if you have neither of these, but your internet is working, you're on wifi. Lol.
[Hero CDMA General] abcdfv:
They got force roaming to work?
[Hero CDMA General] sirstanley:
Force roam is easy, and happens to people by accident. It's just a matter of applying the right PRL file or editing one. I get calls every day from people that are angry because their hero downloaded a bad PRL and is stuck in roaming mode on verizon. I wouldn't say a word if I was them. Lol.
[Hero CDMA General] HERNANDEZ4LIFE:
I came across this in another forum. I haven't had to try it.... yet, but I read that turning mobile network off then back on again may fix this. Well, temporarily anyway. It's still a re-occurring issue( which sucks!). But if it works it would be a lot easier than a hard reset.... I'll post confirmation when I have it. :)
[Hero CDMA General] Bp3dots:
You talk about how rude some people have been to you, but then you throw out something offensive like this. Maybe the guys you work around need to lie to sell a phone, but good salespeople do not. We work for a living just like you.