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[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] scirio:
What's needed to get AOSP contacts.apk to work with my awesome DCv2.06 setup? I imagine some framework is not in place - something deep like that?

Attempted to install (thought it would fail or at least not work if it did install) and it said 'Not Installed' and an OK button.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] stuckinstupid2:
You have to push it in to system/app ... installing from a file explorer should only work for the email apk.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] imekul:
Wondering the same thing myself!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] RavenII:
stuckinstupid...PLEASE change your name (Because you're stuckonsmart!), because you just got me the dialer I've always wanted! I didn't think to pull it from anyone, and further more, I didn't think to push it. I kept installing it.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] kratos313:
thanks for the AOSP dialer i been looking for it for awhile now thanks

now im trying to decide on which MMS app i want to use i like the AOSP one better than the HTC one but it won't let you send V-cards(contact card) via MMS.

Can i have Both on the Phone If so How Do i get Both on the Phone? Rename one of them?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Tipharet:
Would I pull and replace or install these?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] stuckinstupid2:
Naw, you're going to have to choose one or the other...renaming the apk won't rename the actual app

Mms --> push/replace mms.apk in system/app

contacts--> push/without replacing anything...you have to keep the HTC dialer alongside the AOSP dialer

music--> push and delete HTCmusc.apk in system/app

email--> push/without replacing anything OR simply install with file browser...you can have both HTC mail and AOSP mail at the same time

REMEMBER TO BACKUP REPLACED APKS TO SDCARD
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Tipharet:
What about the browser?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chubbzlou:
Which rom you are using would this work on Flipz?

Never mind It does work on Flipz 2.1d
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] stuckinstupid2:
For the browser, remove the existing browser.apk, replace it with the AOSP browser.apk, THEN you must place these files in the corresponding paths in your rom:

Those files can be found in Darchvanilla (in those paths).
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ccapasso:
Lol. Was just about to say I just pushed Contacts.apk to my phone (running Fresh 2.0d) and it works perfectly :).

EDIT** Only thing I have found not working with Contacts.apk from AOSP is how they are listed. If you go into contacts, you can see them listed correctly (alphabetically) but the displayed alphabet is technically incorrect (if that makes any sense). For example, the names are in the correct order, but the "A" is listed under "W" even though it is up top as it should be.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] scirio:
Just added it. Use the Contacts.apk that someone attached above and you have to push it to your phone as a /system/app through ADB. Nothing to it. Works great, no modification needed.

Most importantly it allows you to select which groups from your contacts in google that you want to sync. An option that broke or was removed in all 2.1 based roms out right now.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] imekul:
Thanks for posting this.

I'm still having some trouble getting Contacts.apk on my Hero. I'm running DC 2.072.

I'm able to successfully push the Contacts.apk from this thread with the command adb push Contacts.apk /sytem/app while in recovery mode. When I rebooted, though, I couldn't find it on the phone. There's no "Contacts" app, and the only "Phone" app is the HTC one.

Any suggestions?? I have also previously tried installing the APK by copying it to the SD card and then using an app installer, but the install would either fail, or I would get an FC when launching the phone app.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] scirio:
I have the same problem but you can turn of alphabetical line splits in the preferences. not a fix but a display tweak thats lets you ignore the problem :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] scirio:
Do this:

1. Part One - make /system/app read/write

2. Install as system app

3. Clean up (lock down /system/app to read-only again - like you were never there ;)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] bud1i9ht:
Would someone please upload these two files here (com.cyanogenmod.android.jar & com.cyanogenmod.android.xml)? Dont want to wait to get home to download the whole DarchVanilla rom and it would take too long on the phone.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] imekul:
All sorts of weirdness is going on. When I type "su," I get /sbin/sh: su: not found. When I type "adb push asroot2 /data/local/" in an effort to re-root, I get the message failed to copy 'asroot2' to '/data/local/': Is a directory.

I'm a bit perplexed now, because that obviously had worked just fine before when I initially rooted my phone and flashed the recovery image. :confused: Looks like I need to sort that out before I can worry about this dialer.

EDIT: I was doing all of that while in recovery mode. I decided to boot up the phone, and then all of these commands worked perfectly! :-) My bad. I guess I just assumed that it would work in recovery mode.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] andyriot:
just thought id throw it out there that all those commands for read/write are totally unnecessary. a simple "adb remount" will do instead of your 6 separate commands.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] scirio:
Oh, word? Edited then.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] jakejm79:
Anybody having any problem with sending MMS with the AOSP MMS app while connected to wifi? It appears that it doesn't disable the wifi connection to enable the EV connection, regular SMS works fine and MMS (send/download) will work fine as soon as I toggle wifi off.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Papa Smurf151:
here i signed these so that you can flash them instead of pushing
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thajacka:
thanks, im gonna try this now.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Ska8erMush:
hey, so the AOSP Music.apk thats linked in the first post has the clear/black widget. Any way to get the stock widget for music? the one with the background that looks like the power control widget? (still with the new speaker icon for music.apk)

also i have a power widget with blue indicators and want to get the green indicators instead. is there something i can push to replace the power widget so it lights green when somethings turned on?

thanks!!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] regionx8:
I don't know if anyone else is having this problem but it appears i can't send Pictures using the aosp mms.apk I have no problem receiving pictures and i can send pictures through handcent. Once i send it through handcent it then appears in the message thread in the aosp mms.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] drbgotenks:
I have an issue with aosp mms. When I use 'enter' to send my message, it sends two identical messages. Anyone else experience this? I am running Fresh 2.0d.

It does not do this with the stock htc.

Thanks
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] feld:
i'm seeing this too. weird.....
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] FussyQBert:
I can't get these apps to install on Fresh 2.3.3. I'm only trying to do contacts and mms.

First, I removed the htc apks. Then, I copied in the asop apks with Root Explorer and rebooted, saw no Contacts or Mms

Next I tried to flash the zips someone posted on page 3 or so, still no Contacts or Mms in my apps drawer. Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: I got the Mms apk to work. I nandroided to a known good config and then reflashed the mms apk and installed it fine. It's working great so far other than its not notifying me via sound/haptic but the green led comes on. Still nothing on the contacts apk. I'd really love to use the ASOP contacts. Thanks!
[Nexus One General] vegetaleb:
I noticed that when using Desire ROM the screen was more readable under direct sunlight, I am using now Enom 1.8.1 with full brightness and it's 20% less readable...

I am crazy or not?
[Nexus One General] St.Jimmy!:
It might be due to the color scheme they use. You can see vivid colors better than darker ones.
[Nexus One General] jerrycycle:
I notice the difference too when I was running Desire rom.
[Desire General] jannen:
I think I need help. I think Im loosing memory on my Desire. Like anyone I have installed apps then deleted them. At the moment I have about 20mb something worth of apps installed after receiving as new, but my available memory is at only 56mb.

Where is this going to? Does deleted apps leave something in the memory?

I have tried to clear all caches I found, but 56mb is worrying me. Anyone else with this prob?
[Desire General] Aitese:
Yes, I have found this to be the case. I have about 65 apps installed but I've tried and uninstalled loads more. I backed up my apps and flashed a Generic ROM. Before I started I had about 15MB of space left.

I reinstalled ALL the same apps...and suddenly had about 50MB, with the same apps. I could only conclude old apps I had uninstalled had left loads of rubbish behind.
[Desire General] jannen:
Im seriously thinking of hard resetting, to confirm the uninstalled apps really leave all the rubbish behind.

Wonder if there is anything else on Android that uses more and more memory...? I tried look around with Astro all the folders, but didnt spot anything. Looks like the phone keeps eating memory just like Windows does... :(
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
Firstly, if you're talking about RAM, 56MB is plenty.

Second, Android probably doesn't clear stuff like you think it does. One way to see how much RAM you really have is to just do a soft reset - i.e. turn the phone off and on.

On a fresh restart I have about 200+MB RAM. After a day or a few days, Android will hold it steady at around 35MB. Never really dropping below 9% (for long).

Have you done a soft reset and seen what values you have?
[Desire General] jannen:
It's under settings, SD card and phone memory. stays about the same after soft reset. I just uninstalled most apps... got about 70mb now. how do u get 200mb??! it is RAM I'm talking about....
[Desire General] totorip:
do ou have facebook linked with phone contact?

check the app called "contact list" it was 30mb because of that sync for me
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
Maybe someone can correct me on this, but I'm pretty sure you're talking about ROM. Apps are installed into ROM and when they are run, loaded into RAM.

When I just restarted my phone now, I get 220MB RAM and I have 20MB ROM. The RAM is so high because I obviously have just turned it on and not run anything.
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
Oh and I have 78 apps installed (including ones that were there from the start). Don't know how many widgets I have though.
[Desire General] Dexil:
LOL you're talking about ROM and not RAM, so Cleargrey is pretty right
[Desire General] Aitese:
Up until Cleargrey brought it up no one had made the distinction...we simply referred to phone storage, which is pretty unambiguous. It's only Cleargrey who muddied the waters by bringing up how much free RAM he had...no one had mentioned it up to that point, so who is your LOL actually aimed at?
[Desire General] jannen:
Sorry for the confusion... I blame XT9 lol. Rom is the word. I don't use Facebook believe or not. I'm on T-Mobile if that explains... think got just over 100mb free when phone was new. certainly not over 200!

If I install copilot now its 20 know... that would leave me with just 30 to install other apps. too little!
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
Then I think you have just run into the issue that is core to Android currently. You have a limited amount of space to install apps. I can't remember what the number is but it's something like 150MB (ROM).

Android currently only caches to the SD card. So we look to the next Android version to save us!
[Desire General] jannen:
My issue goes actually further than that... What I ment is when I uninstall an app I have less memory left that when I installed it.

For example let say I have 80Mb free, I install an app of 5mb. Uninstalling it I have 70mb left. Thats the point... the Mbs are just fading away.
[Desire General] mikes69:
Take a look in Settings->Applications->Manage Applications

Lets you see what's hogging the space!

I have a G1 and used to see similar behaviour with K9Mail from the Market - I had a big IMAP Inbox (1000s of messages) and I think K9 stored it's database in ROM/Flash (which is even more limited on the G1).

Can't wait for the Desire - same problems...faster! :)
[Desire General] Aitese:
That's not really going to help when the thing taking up the space isn't on that list. That's what he's saying...he installs X app...it supposedly uses Y amount of space. He removes X app and would expect Y amount of space to become available but instead he has Y - 10.
[Desire General] jannen:
Thanks... thats exactly what I ment. I uninstalled most stuff now.

Seems uninstalling doesnt uninstall everything - leaveing rubbish behind...

I noticed similar issues on other Android users just by Googling, but didnt find any answer to this.

To me looks like in the near future I wont have any memory left and no apps installed. Thats what Im afraid of!
[Desire General] mikes69:
Yes, may just be a bug (don't have one yet, can't comment).

However, Manage Applications shows the total size of all the Apps and some system stuff on the Flash/ROM including the Data that they've saved there.

I would look at things like 'Browser' and 'Work Email' (unless renamed now) - the Browser app on my G1 for example has nearly 9MB of 'Cache' usage at the mo'...
[Desire General] watercool:
did you restart afterwards? I had 70 left, after a restart I had 89...
[Desire General] jannen:
Yes restarted 3 times just today. Doesent seem to help...
[Desire General] oshun:
i used a rooted htc hero before. i had the same problem but only with apps not installed from the market. i found out that there was kept a copy of the .apk files in a directory called data/drm/tmp as far as i remember. i deleted all files inside and got my space back...but i am not sure we have access to this directory without root access...

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] firedup:
I have the same problem now. Only have about 20 apps and have removed loads but getting the 'running out of storage' notification'
[Desire General] tibey:
Interessting... unfortunatly i see nothing in /data, probably because i'm not root, any workaround ?
[Desire General] tibey:
By the way can somebody tells me how many space left there is in phone storage on a clean fresh-installed phone ?
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I actually just did a hard reset and then checked. 141MB free
[Desire General] mr.vandalay:
if i remember correctly it's around 120mb , now after a week of use and around 10 games installed i'm on 45mb.

i remember it was the same thing on hd2...so i made a rom without all the microsoft and htc crap and i had 260mb free...

guess it's only a matter of time before desire gets rooted and someone makes a rom
[Desire General] FloatingFatMan:
Eh, whut? You DO know what ROM stands for, right? Read Only Memory. You CANNOT write to ROM normally, no way no how. The ROM (it's actually NAND Flash ROM or EPROM) is the area of memory that the firmware and Android OS itself is installed to on the device.)

What is being discussed here is Phone memory, and Storage memory. BOTH of them are RAM (Random Access Memory), but one is used for running the OS and applications (Phone memory), and the the area of RAM where those applications are stored (Storage memory). Neither of these are ROM.
[Desire General] tibey:
Thanks ohyeahar & mr.vandalay's for the response.

After 2 days of use and something like 15 apps installed, i got 45mbyte left.

The total of all the space used by application (in application manager) is 70mb, so there is some space "lost in the wild"...25mb according to ohyeahar free space value. I agree sms, contacts, mails and extra settings may takes some place but it still seems a lot.

FloatingFatMan you're just playing with words, i agree that "phone storage" isn't really rom but everybody call it this way because it's the place where the os, commonly called "rom" by everybody here (which is writables...i know..) is.

And for most people "ram" is the memory you put on the pc which looks like a thin chocolate tablet and is volatile, so you might confuse a lot of people saying internal storage is ram, "flash memory" is more appropriate i think, enven if yes, flash memory can have a random access so it can be called ram.

In a nutshell, let just say 'Internal storage' for phone memory, and "SD card" for...the sd card, that would simplify a lot ^_^
[Desire General] FloatingFatMan:
^ Sorry, I just have a major bugbear with people dumbing tings down and using completely the wrong words to describe what things are. Blame the microelectronics engineer in me. ;)
[Desire General] mr.vandalay:
chocolate tablet :D

one thing i forgot to say is that if you don't want to install huge games that are 50mb and up than as small as 120 or 140mb sounds it's enough for me... i only installed one app - remote desktop, everything else is already there and about 10 games... i change them on a daily basis...

also when desire gets rooted we'll be able to install apps to sd card :)
[Desire General] OnlinePredator:
Noticed this issue on mine, although as described earlier I sued the manage apps and sorted by size. Seems my news apps were holding a lot in their cache (25mb for one of them!) so I just cleared it and changed the settings on the widget. I have 35.55mb available (internal phone storage), and after adding up the applications in manage applications, I have used ~109mb of internal phone storage. That would equate to ~ 144ishmb of internal phone storage?
[HD2 General] eric0825:
Hello everyone...i just got my telstra hd2 yestoday. the spl number is 1.66.0000..i have tried hspl2, but it doesnt work...what can i do right now? thanks
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
a little research would have told you that

1 - hspl2 doesnt work on any telstra

2 - you need to find the earlier telstra rom (1.48 or 1.49 i think, it does exist) flash that from sd card to downgrade your spl to 1.42.0000 and then use hspl not hspl2
[HD2 General] eric0825:
Thank you very much..i will try...
[Desire General] Cpt_Chaos:
Hi Everyone,

I am seriously thinking about switching over to the Desire and Android but I have absolutely no clue about Android and my experience is only with Palm OS and WinMo.

Can anyone out there give me their experiences and advice about switching over to Android. How is it different from WinMo. How difficult is it to get apps (this is one reason I am hesitating, I have so many WinMo apps).

Is it an easy system to use, etc. I would welcome any feedback you have. Thanks!!!
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Before the Desire, my last 3 devices were Windows Mobile (ie, Touch Dual, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2).

The jump to Android has been a godsend for me. I no longer have to worry about RAM usage. Everything is finger optimized and there's plenty of eye-candy. Performance has been top notched. This last statement may vary from user to user but my Desire has been able to do everything my Touch Pro2 can do; it just does everything faster and prettier.

There are several things that Windows Mobile has over Android at this moment though. So you should put these into consideration.

-Exchange support. You can sync email, contacts, and calendar in Android. But not notes and tasks. (There's no native notes and tasks applications)

-Microsoft Office. You can view Office files but you'll need to spend some money if you want the ability to edit. (Docs-to-go cost me USD10 and it's quite worth it.)
[Desire General] Cpt_Chaos:
Thanks for the initial thoughts. It helps.

How are the apps out there for Android? Are they limited because it is a new OS or is there a wide range?

Do you happen to know what Navi programs are compatible?
[Desire General] samsanchez88:
I have recently switched over from a touch hd and i have to say i am loving the desire and android. It's very obviously better adapted to finger use and a smartphone, it's faster (much faster) and doesn't have the erratic behaviour, winmo sometimes can offer.

The apps market makes it really easy to find apps (i believe there are 30.000apps on the official market plus some others out there on the web) and they are easy to install, keep updated on thier own and always offer high quality intergation with the os (say goodbye to low res icons for your apps).

Just as an example, i can tell you (and i'm sure it's the same for you) that with winmo, with every rom i included fixes, tweaks and programs that did the things my phone wouldn't allow (automatic locking, screen off in calls, perfomance boost, etc etc) and sice android, i have installed no fixes at all (and havn't needed any!!!)

As far as navigation goes there are many competent navigation programs; i'm using copilot wich has radars and works very well, sygic is also quite satisfying, i believe igo amigo is also ready for the desire's resolution now and unless i'm mistaken, i think tom tom might be floating around (and thet's only to state some, n-drive and others are also available).

On the whole, i'm very pleased with the change, apart from a better os, better screen (beautiful colours) and very senistive with good multitouch, in my case i'm glad to have the harware buttons back (touch hd is resistive buttons), very nice form factor and overall good use.
[Desire General] Aitese:
Well, before you do here are some voices of unhappiness from WinMo users.

Some of their complaints are not valid but one of them may be a deal breaker for you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=667055

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=667265
[Desire General] cgrec92:
Read my Sig

Best choice I've ever made, infinitely better than the hd2

Would recommend the desire to anyone

First Android phone and I'm loving it so much
[Desire General] TieT:
Android is my favorite, after symbian ;)

But im using my android phone only 1 week so my thaughts can change !
[Desire General] Cpt_Chaos:
Thanks everyone, for your continued help and experiences. It makes my decision easier.

For you WinMo users out there, how expensive was replacing your apps on Android. For me this is one thing that I am finding difficult to let go of, even though it doesnt seem like a lasting excuse. I guess at some point you have to do it.

Can someone give me the address of the apps store. Does anyone know what the payment methods are? I am not a big fan of credit cards. Are there alternatives?

Thanks. my decision is coming a lot closer.
[Desire General] Cpt_Chaos:
Hi ohyeahar,

I had a quick question about Syncing. You said that Outlook Calendar syncs. Do you know if all of the tweaks that you can make in Outlook such as categories and the notes field, does that also sync?

For me that is an important factor because of work. I think I can live without the tasks and notes (plus, who knows, maybe some future app will take care of that).

I think my questions are almost over and after watching a few review videos, I am also thinking that I am going to abandon WinMo forever, and take the Droid HTC Desire plunge.

Thanks for all of your comments and support.
[Desire General] Shockwave Pyrotechnics:
I destroyed my HTC HD2 by shutting the back door of my estate on it. It craked the screen and smashed the camera, and it was the best thing that could have happened. I went for the Desire, and it makes the HD2 on winmo look like a calculator. Android is excellent, and will NEVER go back to Winmo. Put android on an HD2 and that might be nice.