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[About XDA developers] Livven:
Should there be a dedicated section where all xda-members can submit their stuff through a pre-defined form? Like with the following features:

Subcategories

for themes: WM 6.5, Titanium, Sense, WAD, Mobile Shell, lockscreen, boot animations, icons etc.

for ROMs: per device (every device gets its own subcategory)

Pre-defined fields, for example

compability (WM 5, 6, 6.5, 6.5.3)

resolution (QVGA, WVGA etc.)

CAB install (yes/no)

for ROMs: build, free RAM etc.

Filter by fields (for example only WM 6.5.3 and QVGA)

additionally presets for common devices, like WM 6.5 and WVGA for HD2 (already implemented in the current frontpage)

Rating system (which should not be placed in some drop-down nearly out of view like on the forums)

Sort by rating, views last x days, last update etc.

Featured entries which show up on front page

Provide file hosting space

I think you get the idea, it's vaguely similar to freewarepocketpc.net. The main benefit would be that it's a lot easier, especially for new people, to find the things they're looking for, and a forum thread isn't exactly the best and easiest-to-maintain way to show off your apps/themes/ROMs. Fields additionally ensure consistency among all posts.

Also, right now the more posts, the more attention a thread gets. This poses the problem that, for example, an app where many users post to report a problem gets more attention than another app where everything just works fine, as only a small minority bothers to post a "thank you". As almost no one rates threads (on the average there is less than one rating for 10,000 views) and even fewer people sort threads by views or rating, these apps (or themes or whatever) do not get the attention they deserve. With a rating system and the ability to sort by it, this problem could be solved.

Of course, the implementation of such a system could be somewhat challenging. I only want to hear what others think of this idea.

What do you think? Like the idea or not? Leave a comment and vote, thanks :)!
[About XDA developers] Badwolve1:
I think this is a brilliant idea, it's like an app store, but with apps ETC... will support in anyway i can
[About XDA developers] noskill.:
Yea idd! Like an app store, but with apps!

No seriously, good idea. The more active a post is, the more visitors it will get. Lots of good stuff after page 10 of the dev category aswell haha.
[About XDA developers] Livven:
Yep, not only that but also the consistency and accessability, especially for new people, will be a great advantage. I also contacted svetius and he seems to like this idea, so I hope this will be done in the future. Thanks for your support guys!
[About XDA developers] Badwolve1:
We need to put this in our Sigs :D who has photoshop (He says to the theme designer :p)
[About XDA developers] donnaw:
I think it's a great idea - especially for noobies. I don't have developers skills but have learned much over the years just reading and browsing threads. Enough to even add some simplistic help here and there. But most people don't have time to look through many threads hoping to find some glitter of gold they are looking for. This might slow down the "Is there an app for this?" threads. Not everyone has time to just sit and browse but those of us who want to might not have so many uninformative threads to look at.

I would suggest a link to the initial thread where support could be given and all the "Thank you" responses kept in the new posting. And with all the needed information posted up front it might also stop all the "Will this work on my XXXX?

Hope it can happen!
[About XDA developers] rori~:
That´s a great idea, I miss this database here..would help a lot!
[About XDA developers] galaxys:
A very good idea to have a database here & it's references!
[About XDA developers] jamieeeee:
yeah it would be great :)
[About XDA developers] svetius:
We've gotten many requests for this, and it's clearly something we would like to do. There are two (obvious) issues:

1. Figuring out the best implementation method -- Can we somehow use Wordpress (which is what the portal runs on now)? If not, what CMS? Exactly how should the database be structured? That's not exactly a simple question given all the different permutations of devices/operating systems/resolutions that are supported by different software.

2. Figuring out how to keep it updated -- Do we rely on the devs to post their creations both in the forums and the database? Or do we have volunteers scan the forums daily to pull stuff into a app database? That sounds like a boring job :(. Anyway, we don't want to spend the time building something unless we have a sustainable and affordable model for keeping it going.

Anyway, if anyone is serious about helping us implement something (conceptual design, development, etc), send me a detailed PM. Or we can discuss it here.

As it is, this is definitely on my list to figure out, but there are also 5 or 6 other things (some front-end stuff like the forum re-design and other back-end server stuff). Plus to the extent all these projects have some cost, we like to spread them out.
[About XDA developers] Livven:
1. I don't think WordPress, as a blogging tool, is suited for something like this. Drupal, with the module CCK, provides this kind of funtionality out of the box, and you won't need to worry about how the database is structured. Then we'd just need a custom theme (perhaps the same ones who are currently redesigning the forum).

2. If new things are only posted in the new section, then a forum thread with a summary, link etc. should be created automatically in the right subforum. So, threads will only be used for discussion, not for presentation.

For any further discussion of this idea, I'd like to suggest we keep it in this thread, so everyone can see it and comment.
[About XDA developers] mic_888:
Great idea! As already mentioned, I guess the maintenance/upkeep would be the sticking point.
[About XDA developers] jamieeeee:
i think ppcmods.com is making some progress on this subject :)
[About XDA developers] Livven:
That shouldn't be a problem as the entries will be maintained by the respective creators like forum threads.
[About XDA developers] Simon_WM:
So, whens it going to be up n running?

willing to BETA test
[About XDA developers] BillTheCat:
YES! I'd strongly recommend Joomla and DocMan or any other similar component. I've used it successfully on other sites and it's terrific.
[About XDA developers] flyboyovyick:
app store, what a great idea!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] kkruse:
I have been testing this out for about a week now. My main goal is to fix the "VPN" support on the hero so its actually usable. So far what i have done is recompiled the kernel from toasts-eclair, created a boot.img, modules and a gumbo.sh to load the VPN modules.

This does include MT and OpenGL support in kernel.

This has been tested on DarchDroid v1 and the new Eris 2.1 hero rom by flipz and toast.

Everything works from the kernel side but I am still trying to see if anyone has a "WORKING" VpnServices.apk for this or can point me in the right direction.

boot.img installl

copy boot.img to /sdcard/

cat /dev/zero > /dev/mtd/mtd2

flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img

adb remount

cd /system/lib

unzip /sdcard/modules.zip

Now push the gumbo.sh.txt to /system/init.d/gumbo.sh

if it doesnt exist create the init.d dir.

now reboot and you should have all the VPN kernel drivers for IPSEC/L2TP/PPTP

Also note depending on your rom, (non-aosp) you may have to boot into recovery to use flash_image.

Included the kernel config file from my kernel so if anyone wants to change the kernel. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
O.k guys this thread will based on video tutorials,so you ask how to make something and ill make a video on showing how to make it. :)

This is going to be fun and very useful for those trying to learn and even for those who know and have got stuck on some parts. =) O.k guys I do know a lot of other things besides just graphics like editing the .xml and stuff but this is mainly graphic photo shop work.

Subscribe To My Channel----> www.youtube.com/MrManup456

Watch Videos On Site----> http://www.nexus-nation.com/root-your-nexus-one/theme-guide
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] overground:
Thank you, bro....subscribed already. Great first tutorial. Thanks again!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] steven178s:
How do you make a rom lol
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
Well these are going to be all graphic based,but once I am done getting my ubuntu setup I was thinking of making a few of those as well.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] frankzua77:
!!

Wow cool manup - I have always been impressed on your work, can you show us how to do icons, I have learned by my self, but your an expert ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
creating icons from scratch is harder work,now you can edit icons or take two and make it your own. ill do a video on this in a sec.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] frankzua77:
!!

By the way, it loos like your using photoshop right?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ced 8525:
make a tutorial about oc and uv ing (the steps involved) can't seem to figure it out
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
@frankzua77

Done check it the tutorial is up on my channel,I hope this is what you wanted. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lincore:
Could you please make following tutorials: "how to edit notification text color" and "how to edit luncher2 appdraw selection"
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
Well the selection is more java code not really graphics at all and there is a colorchanger app that does that. And the white notification text is a statusbar.xml edit now the time on the bar Is in service.jar. I really dont mess with java at all,but the statusbar.xml I can prob do a guide but the program works better than spending time to hex edit. The progress bars as well is a .xml.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
I think my next guide will be on adding guides and signing .9.png unless I get a request.

Bro and if you want a guide on editing that .xml ill do,but I wanted to stay more into the making themes and graphic part.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] frankzua77:
!!

Thanks BRO! you rock homie!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
np bro! ill try to keep them coming.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] duylong186:
Hi manup456,

I want to request a tutorial on how to optimize graphics (icons, wallpaper..etc) for devices like the nexus one.

For example, if you use PS and save an image the normal way (jpeg, png,...) it comes out quite large compared to the original. Then there are options for coloring, transparency... all that's stuff.

Anyway, If you could show me how to save icons so that they are displayed well and still have small size, that would be awesome.

thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] icegad:
If you can do a vid on editing the progress horizontal xml will be cool:cool:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] daveid:
How did you get the dots on the bottom of the launcher (that represent the different screens) to be as clean as they are in NexDeep? I am trying to port it over to the newer 7 screen Launcher found here, but having some issues getting them to look as nice.

Thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
@daveid

Well the dots on the modded launcher I made from scratch thats why there so clean.

@icegad

I can do this will be the first video I do tomorrow.

@duylong186

Well to optimize a icon in cs4 you would save for web and devices and use png-28 that will optimize the icon,but threre are also programs that can optimize a icon even more.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manup456:
Oh and checkout my new video I posted tomorrow ill have a few more.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Ryanmo5:
You know this is one I need to learn, would greatly appreciate a video for editing .9.png images!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] wolvie77:
animated wallpaper tutorial

Hi! Can the nexus one support flash or mp4 animated wallpaper like nokia? If yes, how to create? or is there a way to create Live wallpaper to work like a flash or mp4 animated wallpaper. i don't need the interactive part. just an animated wallpaper to put on the homescreen. i don't have any programming background. hope its not too tough
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] daveid:
Would you mind terribly creating some for the 7 screen launcher? It's only two more sets? I am giving it a try myself, but I am better at modifying images than creating new ones (except with a camera of course)...

Thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] icegad:
Not theme related bro
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] d.cortez:
would like to know how to have the transparent notification screen and use the black (vs. white) background with white text for the notifications. my simple investigation suggests there are some background png differences between the Desire and the other ROMs... thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xombe:
EDIT: I'm an idiot.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MFK DGAF:
I followed your videos exactly. The only thing I didnt do was create the guides because

1. I want to see how it looked on my phone with out them

2. I'm not to sure how the image is suppose to look with the guides on there. I tried it out on the Gmail icon and to get it looking perfect I had to put guides around the whole thing, not just one or two on top and left.

but I was able to flash it but when I try to run the apps that I changed their icons I get force closes, any ideas?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] rydr1:
Great idea, thanks man.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] -J450N:
Will chk this out once im on a cpu that doesnt block utube :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pananza:
Finally with this Eris leak we can have a stable working 2.1 ROM on the Hero. But I'm terrefied to find that true multitouch does not work on the Hero. I've tried multitouch paint, pong multi touch, Multitouch Vis Test, Multitouch visualizer and they all fail miserably. You can twinch, but that's about it. If you try to cross axis'es with the two fingers the reading get stuck.

I hope this is a driver issue and not a hardware limitation of the Hero, but I suspect it's the latter :(

Perhaps this is why HTC has delayed the Hero update so many times, they franticaly try to find a fix for this issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
It is a problem with the HTC sensors and is the same on all HTC phones with touch screens

It is not likely to be fixed ever.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Revoked:
This should be fixable, because it works fine on AOSP 2.1 roms, even on a Hero...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
then how come it can't be fixed on the nexus one?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Revoked:
AH I missed that issue, dont know anything about that.

I was talking about the fact that multitouch doesnt seem to work in the current leaked build in Maps. This leads me to believe that they havent implemented the native 2.1 multitouch.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
we were talking about the inherent problem with all htc multitouch devices, it works for pinch zoom ok but when you get the "touch axis" too close the phone becomes confused over where your actually touching the screen.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fabioccoelho:
Maybe a hardware problem fixed on HTC Desire? Or HTC Market?

:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Its very unlikely to get fixed it is just how htc do things. They might change it for the furture but devices already out are stuck like it.

Motorola have it working fine though.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fabioccoelho:
Is true dude.

:(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] X-Ter:
I think Google underestimated the usefulness of multitouch. It makes the whole mobile phone experience much better. Keyboard works better, games can be more fun etc.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tsekh501:
Apple: I'm suing you stealing our patented multitouch functionality.

HTC: No, we didn't. See? Our multitouch doesn't work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pananza:
>Apple: I'm suing you stealing our patented multitouch functionality.

>

>HTC: No, we didn't. See? Our multitouch doesn't work.

:)
[Nexus One General] mathieu92:
Ok, so I am using the original sleeve that came with the phone, which protect it well enough to my mind.

Some stuff were pissing me off though, like having to take the phone out of it to check for new notifications, or the fact that the sound (notifications/ringtones) was attenuated a lot by it. So much in fact that even at max volume, I missed a couple of calls.

So I did cut a round area where the trackball is located, which allows me to see if I have new notifications without getting the phone out of it.

I also cut it where the speaker output is located. Now I can finally hear my phone ringing, in its sleeve, in my pocket.

Did cut it with normal scissors and burned the edges (to avoid the holes to grow) with a lighter.

It is a dumb trick, but improved a lot my overall experience, so I just wanted to share it here :)

I ll try to post pics later on, as I am at work right now and cannot do it.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
[Nexus One General] jp_macaroni:
:D

the trackball hole in the sleeve...haha I can picture it.
[Nexus One General] teleknEsis:
I'm sure Apple has already patented that and now it's only a matter of time before they sue you ;)
[Nexus One General] Namuna:
Yes! Definitely put up some pics of your ghetto-fabulous new sleeve! :D
[Nexus One General] velazcod:
great idea, bc yeah, it's an issue, but so ghetto, haha, I'd like to see pics
[Nexus One General] McFroger3:
DID YOU CUT UP THE POOR ANDROID GUYS FACE?!?!?!?!?

Or did you use the back of it?
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
I thought the Android WAS the back? lol!
[Nexus One General] mathieu92:
I just gave him a lightning mouth :)

It suits him pretty well, I must say
[Nexus One General] Eclair~:
Roflmao, I just had to say that was funny..
[Nexus One General] McFroger3:
I always assumed the android guy was for the front lol
[Nexus One General] PISSANDVINEGAR:
Pics now please :d
[Nexus One General] jongie123:
Lol, real ghetto but usefully.
[Nexus One General] jongie123:
Meant usefull before the flames come lol.Damm autocorrect
[Nexus One General] Talderon:
+1 for me too
[Nexus One General] lolittle:
Pictures ?? :) might hav to do this ghetto mod lol
[Nexus One General] cheetah2k:
Glory Hole? :D
[Nexus One General] tropmonky:
:eek:

Wow... I gotta see this!
[Nexus One General] bmj1086:
It corrected it because "useful" is spelled with one "l" while "usefully" is spelled with two. ;)

You got out smarted by Android. XD
[Nexus One General] Huey85:
oh god that is great!
[Nexus One General] jongie123:
Lol!!!your right. By the way looking at the pictures looks better than I thought.
[Nexus One General] liam.lah:
Nice, you should set the trackball to red, so it looks like the android is smoking.
[Nexus One General] thisiskyleadams:
haha, this is genius and I can say that I will be doing this the moment I have scissors readily available.
[Nexus One General] nephroid:
Turned out nicely!
[Nexus One General] bjornbb:
Good tip :).

Did the same with my sleeve now.

Used a belt hole punch plier to get circular holes.
[Nexus One General] redmongoose:
Fantastic idea, looks great, might just give it a go myself :D
[Nexus One General] Goonzy:
iam going to try this myself but super glue some clear plastic over the glory hole :D and put some mesh like meterial on the inside of the case for the speaker...

TO PREVENT DUST!!!! ITS A ************
[Nexus One General] GNOve:
Lol android geeks make me laugh. Thats why i love this community so ****ing resourceful.

Back in iphone land your just dumbed down. Let an iphoner try this it would extreme thinking overlord
[Nexus One General] dhavalg:
awesome job mate.

I to have a knack of doing such stuff with sleeves...

How did you use the lighter, WOuld havee burnt the sleeve itself????

I am planning to do this too so any special tips on that ????

Love to hear from you....
[Nexus One General] dhavalg:
Now thats a neat job....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] thevuman:
Yes!!!! Finally... the java one was good, but had problems running on winmo.

Now... there's a real cab for it. yessss!!! I hate Opera Mobile and it's slowness. Finally!!

http://m.opera.com/next or http://www.opera.com/mini/next/
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Rhodium500:
here is the cab
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] crusher11590:
Okay, question. why use the mini 5, when you can use the opera mobile beta 10?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] djdanska:
When i am in the many areas i go to where t-mobile is gprs here in Illinois, it will TOTALLY come in handy. Much faster!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] acidbath5546:
Yeah it would definetly help if your boosting 2g gprs signal..

If your like me an run 3g most of the time, then opera beta 10 is the best :)

Just my opinion...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] slimslim:
And it's quite faster than Opera Mobile. I'd like to make it default browser. I have already tried the registry settings, it won't work. Any ideas?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] stormrain:
I love opera mini in general, but this version for some unknown reason cannot accept my facebook username and pass. Thus I cannot login to that page, it just keeps refreshing when I hit Login.

This is only in FB, in other pages that require logging in everything goes fine..

Anyone else experiencing this?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] block:
great browser but how do u open email links and bookmarks from outside the browser I click em and it just opens the browser start screen not the page I want!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] drpal181:
I had to turn the password autosave off in the settings so facebook could acepted password.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] norritt:
This release is brilliant! It is great for multitasking, which is a huge plus. Is there a way to make it the new default browser? (for opening links out of other applications, in my case MoTweets?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
No problem here logging into faecesbook, but I don't think I've tried logging back into it yet.

I've never used Opera Mini, but it is pretty nice.. It doesn't draw very well though, I've tried several sites and it looks really bad.. Like http://geocaching.com the site is kind of organized in columns and the columns are quite narrow, and winds up drawing on top of itself.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] freaknormel:
Opera 10 beta 3 launched Veeeryy slow. It was the only reason for me , for deleting it for ever. Im going to try out the mini version.. thanks for the hint

I have installed opera mini 5 now, but on some pages, like

www.openingstijden.nu or m.opentot.nl it doesnt give any search Results.. can somebody test and confirm this please.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] cirrob:
Because this version doesnt eat up 90% of the device's resources to run. I am constantly amazed that people use opera beta 10. You can run opera beta 10 and sense UI.... THATS IT. try to run anything else and your system starts complaining about memory.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] DADDYDC650:
I don't know what ROM you're running but I'm running WM 6.1 and when I run Opera 10, my ram is at 61 percent. I have no trouble running multiple apps when it's running.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] sirphunkee:
I think that Opera 10 (and other versions of the "full" client) suffer more from the resource drain experienced overall in 6.5 vs 6.1; I'm running 6.1 as well, and I can run opera 10 and a bunch of other stuff (text, gmaps, music, etc) all at the same time.

Also, anybody using Opera 10 on 6.5 should try running the dynamic proxy resource and nopushinternet cabs to address memory use.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] token2k6:
eff this thing! I cannot log into ANY websites, redbox, netflix, CAG..nothing that I have to input a user name or password and check a box to remember me. I guess I'll try to play w/ the 'save password' settings, but I'm back to using Skyfire until I figure it out..argh!!