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[Desire General] iang123:
abats. no problem. I'll have a dig around see what I can find. was just after a few good points.

cheers

Ian

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[Desire General] Aitese:
My best advice is don't do anything if you don't need to. Don't root just because you can. Think to yourself "am I happy with everything my phone can do NOW?" if yes, then leave it and enjoy your phone. If the answer is, no, I need it to do X, Y and Z, then you need to research. Can X, Y or Z be achieved with a third party app? If yes, then again, leave it and get the app. If no, then see if it IS possible, if you have Root access. Then and only then should you consider it.

I've personally not found anything compelling enough to Root yet, so I haven't.
[Desire General] HTC Dude:
+1

So far I'm happy enough with the system 'as is'
[Desire General] jayshah:
Yeah, I heard that too but the Wifi tether is actually the main thing I need. That'll never become standard (given it's basically forbidden on at least T-Mo UK) so you'll always have to root.

I fully agree with what Aitese said. I really don't see the point in rooting, and taking the risk, if you won't use it. I've rebooted my device around 5 times in the last hour, making sure recovery works and installing Busybox as I'm not putting A2SD on it yet. Rooting isn't just something you should do because others have, it isn't for the faint hearted.
[Desire General] firedup:
I think in the past devices have had to be rooted as early ROMS were crap on some early HTC devices. Its almost like when a new device comes out people now automatically race to get it rooted without really knowing why! For this device though, I dont see the point. Works well as is!:D
[Desire General] vicster:
MarketEnabler? for people outside "authorized" zones, giving them the ability to get paid Apps.... wich is a huge downside atm
[Desire General] iang123:
Yeah, I think this device is spot on as is, just with the exception of only being able to install apps into main memory. The HD2 I felt needed custom ROMS found my self flashing a bit on that and had a much better ROM on then stock.

I can't beleive the difference between the 2 os's though it's a nice change from windows mobile, which was just horrible to be honest in my experience.

Cheers

Ian
[Desire General] farnsbarns:
BTW - LED tourch doesn't require root on the Desire

Not so. Tmo UK are fine with it. HD2 supports it out of the box!
[Desire General] fredfox_uk:
I used my Desire on T-mo most of last week in the evening while working away. ~700MB went through it according to my T-mo account page, all listed as costing £0.00 :D No special software (i.e. PDAnet) just HTC sync installed, and to be honest don't know if that's even needed.
[Desire General] farnsbarns:
My point was that Tmo don't have an issue with WiFi tethering in general. They certainly can't detect / stop you doing it.
[Desire General] Mokurex:
There's probably not enough reason to root until Froyo comes out.
[Desire General] fredfox_uk:
Yes - sorry, I didn't make it clear - I'm agreeing with you :) Although I wasn't using WiFi, just the cable, I didn't know you could tether with WiFi.
[Desire General] farnsbarns:
No no! I realized you were aggreeing with me! It was me that wasn't clear. I had realized you probably meant you had tethered using a cable and was just saying that Tmobile don't have a specific issue with WiFi Tethering as demonstrated by the fact that the HD2 supports it out of the box.
[Desire General] A|ex:
For me i need to be able to root in order to install language packs as i am stuck to europe, i can see chars etc but i do not get the keyboard. I rather use a default android keyboard than 3rd party
[Desire Themes and Apps] totorip:
i tried many, grouptext, easysms, but all are crap imho

i need to send over 100sms a week , same one which count for 2 or 3 it depends, to a big group

it crash in every app i tested or bug
[Desire General] Mark One:
Just noticed (taken me 3 days) that my desire seems to record all audio in .amr format. This is fine on the device but as soon as it goes anywhere else there are problems.

The stock voice recorder does what i need quite well - but it records in amr format so although the "share" option makes it easy as pie to email someone a voice note, chances are they're not going to be able to open in at their end.

Same seems to be true for Evernote - I record a voice note but I can't listen to it on my PC. Opening a voice note through their web interface (firefox/win7 32) requires a plugin that cannot be found and installing their desktop software doesn't help either - it won't play any audio files.

Am I missing something fundamental here?

Know a good audio note app that records in MP3 or WAV with an easy "share" feature?

With evernote, how do you listen to audio notes on your PC?

Many Thanks, M
[Desire General] blackadder1000:
Loads on media players can play .amr, even if it is a slightly annoying format to be recording in. It is, however, the standard format for mobile phone recording since it's good at recording speech.

VLC will play it, so will Media Player Classic these are pretty standard audio players.

If you want to convert the files just shove 'amr to mp3' into google, there are loads of converters (some open source).

Probably the best bet is to use Audacity (free audio editor) and ffmpeg (codecs) to open and re-encode files. You can also edit the files to your liking (remove noise etc.)
[Desire General] Mark One:
Well that may be the view from the leading edge but NONE of the 12 people I sent audio notes to (before I realised they were recording as amr) were able to open them and they're certainly not going to download a 3rd party app to accommodate me.

And I certainly don't want to bugger about with transcoding on the desktop - I want to share straight from my mobile - but I can't find a single app that does something as simple as record to an MP3 file on Android. Any suggestions?

While there is a lot to love about this device / platform I am becoming increasingly aware of this sort of niggle as I scratch the surface.
[Desire General] th3:
Recordoid allows you to choose a few options like the format (between .3gp and. wav). I tend to use the app as a dictaphone. It has no sharing options though but I found it best for my purpose.

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[Desire General] Mark One:
Thanks for the tip - will give it a go.

If I can get a wav or mp3 to a directory I can set up an Astro shortcut to it that will make sharing easy enough.
[Desire General] th3:
Well, I can only offer some notes from a different usage;

Recordoid records to /sdcard/dictaphone/ both through the widget and the app in .3GP and .WAV

HiFiCorder records to /sdcard/HiFiRecordings/ in .MP3 and .OGG (including very high quality)

Rehearsal Assistant records to /sdcard/urbanstew.RehearsalAssistant// in .3GP and .WAV

Virtual Recorder records to /sdcard/VirtualRecorder/ in .PCM

Voice Recorder (by Mamoru Tokashiki) records to /sdcard/com.tokasiki.android.voicerecorder/ in .3GP

Simple Note records to /sdcard/simplenote/ in .3GP

VoiceTask records to /sdcard/VoiceTask/ in .AMR

Voice Recorder [default] records to /sdcard/My Documents/My Recordings/ in .AMR

Most of them if not all feature options directly in the app to send through mail. Try them and see which suits you best. They are each positioned for slightly different uses.

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[Desire General] Primos:
VoiceTask - send your recording via mail in MP3 format

VoiceTask - application is a simple and handy voice recorder with possibility of sending recordings to any E-mail inbox in MP3 format. Application is designed for easy summarization of phone conversations and any other audio recordings.

The app is recording in the .amr format, but when you send the recording to mail, it is transocded into MP3.

Files are send to one email address (which you input on setup - no additional configurations needed).

And best of all... App is FREE!

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Sending to multiple mail addreses is coming soon!!
[Desire General] Mark One:
Interesting, thanks - will take a look ..

Your app I presume?
[Desire General] Mark One:
I think it has potential - UI not too responsive (took me a few taps to start/stop recording).

Really needs some options on quality setting (as default is poor) and as some some else has commented I would prefer it to exit cleanly rather than running in background.
[Desire General] Primos:
VoiceTask 1.1 (bugfixes, sending to multiple addresses) is out!!

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Mark One:

Yes, I am developer of that app...

On my phone responsiveness is o.k.

Application doesn't exit cleanly like you said... This thing could be fixed..

I hope I'll have time to fix this until next release...
[Desire General] th3:
Thanks for the details, will test.

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[Touch2 ROM Development] soheil1223:
My HTC Mega often power off automaticaly and I cant soft reset it!!only by removing the battery I can power on the device!!!Please help me!!!!
[Touch2 ROM Development] mirost1:
This thread is not for ROM section, but for General mate, next time post in the right section. Go to General, there is a big thread about that and read whats wrong.
[Touch2 ROM Development] bizon69:
Maybe reinstall ROM
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] kc333:
Hi,Frieds..

My NIKI100's bluetooth doesn't work suddenlly :(. There is always on in comm manager,but i cann't turn it off anyway.

I find out the Bluetooth address is 00:00:00:00:00:00 in device's information. I have been try to change some SPL(1.16hard/1.15hard and now is 1.22hard), some ROMs (WM6.5/WM6.1/WM6.0) and Radios(1.58//1.65/1.71), it still doesn't work.

Any body can told me what's wrong with my NIKI.How can i do....

THANK YOU...:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Rataplan:
Did you try your original rom ?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] kc333:
Thank you for your reply,Rataplan..:)

As you said, I tried it. But no effect. It's really awful. Is it problem with hardware?

Have you any idea :)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Rataplan:
If it doesn't work with the original rom, I'm afraid it could be an hardware issue,

I will search the site and see if it could be another problem.

Keep you informed
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] kc333:
Thank you for your help. Waiting for your good news... :)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] kc333:
my Niki's Blue LED does always flashing when i turn on the phone. but BT doesn't work.....what's wrong on it...:confused: It is disapear when i turn on the comm manager UI. I found BT's status is ON, i can not turn it off anyway....:(
[Android Apps and Games] HaggleLad:
I've just released my first app to the market. I would appreciate if some people could test it for me on different Android versions/phones?

In-App Wifi Toggle

Once installed you can enable or disable your Wifi connection instantly from any context (ie in the Browser application, from the home screen) by either

a) Long pressing the Search button

b) Pressing the Call button

A nice toast message is displayed stating whether the Wifi connection was enabled or disabled.

I wrote this app because I was fed up of launching an app, realising it would benefit from Wifi being enabled, having to return to the home screen, activate Wifi with the Power Control widget, long press the home button and select the app again to return. This app bypasses all of that with a single button press and doesn't interupt the application you're already in.

Would appreciate your feedback! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] titsmaster:
Great job on this, was thinking about it yesterday.

I long-pressed the search button, cause I prefer having my call button free if I have to make a call in a hurry.
[Android Apps and Games] HaggleLad:
Thanks for your feedback!

I would appreciate if people could tell me what phone/version and what button they are using to activate?

ATM Confirmed working on:

- Nexus One with Long Press of Search

- HTC Desire with Long Press of Search

- HTC G1 with Call Button

There are a lot of handsets out there that don't have a search button, which is why I wired up the call button as well. I appreciate that a lot of users would prefer to keep this wired to their main phone/contacts app however. I am currently looking into getting my app to hook the Camera button also but its not as easy as I would like.

Also, if you do find this app useful it'd be great if you could rate and leave a comment in the Android market, thx!

Also would anyone have any requirement for an equivalent app that toggles bluetooth or GPS? If so let me know, shouldn't be too hard to throw together.
[Android Apps and Games] mobzd:
On HTC Legend works OK with search button long press.
[Android Apps and Games] titsmaster:
My attempt was on a HTC Magic on Cyanogen 2.0.7 test2
[Android Apps and Games] sharpinho:
Confirmed working on my GSM Hero, rooted running Villain 5.3. It works using both long press search and call button. Good app, saves me having to go back to home screen to turn on/of wifi!:D

Edit: When in Sense UI, everytime I press the phone soft button or call hardware button, I get the "complete using action" dialogue, which asks me to chose whether I want to access the dialer or In-App Wifi Toggle. Is there anyway you can make it so that its disabled on the home screen or when in Sense?
[Android Apps and Games] TiNNiT:
Conform on HTC Legend, 2.1 Sense

Sent from my HTC Legend using the XDA mobile application.
[Android Apps and Games] HaggleLad:
When the "Complete using action" dialogue appears you should get a list of potential apps and also a check box labelled "Use by default for this action". If you mark the check box before selecting your desired app you won't be prompted for the app again.

Note also: Once you've selected a default, you can only clear it by going into "Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > [App in Questions]" and hitting the "Clear Defaults" button.
[Android Apps and Games] StefanSarzio:
One can use Tasker (http://tasker.dinglisch.net/) to automatically have Wifi (or GPS, or whatever) enabled when using specific apps.
[Android Apps and Games] bronxknight28:
Why on certain apps when you can have it whenever you want from a simple press ;)

Edit: works on sprint hero! Good job
[Android Apps and Games] poor_red_neck:
WOW

Fantastic app!!! I've been waiting for this for a while!

I can confirm it works great on HTC Hero with FreshToast 2b2.

Long press call key as well as short press. I decided to keep short press going to the phone and long press for the wifi toggle.

THANK YOU!!! 5 Stars from me!
[Android Apps and Games] bigbuffalo:
Works great on Desire. Nice job!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Hexjibber:
Great idea and app, thanks a lot!

Would definitely be able to make use of a GPS one as well on my Desire as I use RunKeeper a lot but hate having to turn GPS on and off all the time! There is a feature in the app to turn on GPS but it takes you to the phone security settings for some reason?

Cheers! :)
[Android Apps and Games] ramcosca:
Fastest five stars I've ever given to something from the Market. Great job.

I was worried that it would affect my call button's usage but had totally forgotten that if Android has two different functions for the same button it asks you which function you want to use [and lets you set the default].

Long-press search button on myTouch 3G.

Great work!
[Android Apps and Games] HaggleLad:
Just thought I would let you know that I have now released "In-App Bluetooth Toggle" to the market now.

I have also added an "In-App Toggle Donate" version so that anyone who wants to say thanks can purchase for 99p. The donate app combines both the bluetooth and wifi apps into one. Any donations are gratefully recieved.

As always I appreciate any feedback.

I will be looking into a GPS toggle in the near future however this will take longer as some hacking is involved.
[Android Apps and Games] rprata:
Installed on my Nexus One running CM 5.0.6, works with long-press on search button just fine.. thanks for the app, great idea.
[Android Apps and Games] mercado79:
Working as expected on my Sprint CDMA Hero running Fresh Toast 2.1 w/ custom GodMode x.29 kernel. Both long press shortcuts work (search and call).

As for an equivalent app, I don't really need bluetooth since I often have to re-open an app to get it to recognize a bluetooth connection I start after instead of prior to opening it. GPS on the other hand might be nice.

Thanks for the useful app! I was honestly thinking that an app like this would be great to have last week. :)
[Android Apps and Games] timehunter:
Okay, so the HTC Incredible has no call button, and a long press of the search button is defaulted to activating the voice input for search. How about a long press of the Back button (which is the only button that does not already have a long press function)?
[Android Apps and Games] spiicoly:
Just installed on my HTC Incredible works with the long pressing of the search button. When you press the search button long it brings up (complete action using either the search or In-app wifi). It will turn on and off the wifi but doesn't connect the wifi stays in 3g mode. I have to go into settings/wireless & Networks/WI-FI settings and then it connects. So lets say if the WiFi is turned on and i use IN-APP WIFI it will turn it off just fine. If i try to turn it back on using IN-APP WIFI it will not revert unless i go into wifi settings. Great idea though sir i hope you can get it to work on the incredible

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Update i uninstalled it Cycled my phone off and on reinstalled it worked fine for awhile then went back to Lagging. Don't know if it conflicts with HTC's Wifi widget.
[Android Apps and Games] feyisetan:
HTC Desire...All go

I have in stalled this on HTC desire (non rooted) and it seemless. Great job!
[Android Apps and Games] xanaviarai:
Works 100%!

MT3G - Eclair Cyanogen 5.0.7 t5
[Android Apps and Games] avimak:
Hi,

great idea!

Can you please add long-press the trackball button as an intent?

I'm aleady using long-press the search button to launch the dialer and there is no "call" button on the nexus.

Thanks ;)
[Android Apps and Games] tatrai:
Great app, working fine on non-rooted HTC Legend... An absolute 5 star app for me, to be honest, I didn't even realise how much I missed it until I found it here...:o

keep up your work!

thankfully:)

tatrai
[Android Apps and Games] luckycook82:
Great Job!!

I really like this, But I was wondering if there was a way to set it up to give us a long press on the track ball as an option. I have a nexus one and I already have my search button set up for voice search when I long press.. and I don't have a call button. Anything else and I would be using this all the time. I absolutely hate that the only way to toggle wifi is to go to my home screen.. This is a beauty of an app. Keep up the great work.
[Android Apps and Games] damjand:
Working on my Desire, great work!!! :):)
[Android Apps and Games] lubeix:
Confirmed Working!

thanks, this app is a real time saver, confirmed working on motorola milestone using the "long press search button" i can't test the call buttons because i don't have them on my phone
[Android Apps and Games] blejach:
works on htc magic with CM 5.0.7
[Android Apps and Games] mblaster:
Works partially on G1 (SuperBadCM5 1.3)

-Search butten doesn't work, but this seems to be known

-doesn't work in opera mini, as it remaps call button to 'mouse pointer right'

Very useful app, would be great though if it worked in opera. Thougth about using long press menu? It doesn't seem to be mapped to anything.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Are you sure it is a dirty hack and not just an allowed but rare behavior? This blog entry [ android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/12/back-and-other-hard-keys-three-stories.html ] suggests onKeyLongPress is legit to capture long key presses in app, though it calls them hard keys but then later it says the virtual keys look like hard keys so I'd assume onKeyLongPress would work for overriding them in app and is a support (non-hack) method of doing so. Still nothing you can do about it, and it doesn't look like Opera needs the long press.
[Android Apps and Games] 4luk88:
Hey could you make a gps one aswel thanks heaps

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Sent from my Nexus One
[Android Apps and Games] HaggleLad:
Thanks for the link, an interesting article. Unfortunately that relates to capturing key events when your application is the application in focus and don't think it applies to a 'listen always' situation. This is presumably the technique that Opera abuses. Also it only applies for 2.0+ devices and my application is backwards compatible to 1.5.

Please note I am a complete novice Android developer, coding complex hooks has a learning curve, takes time and effort and at the end of the day I am just providing these apps for free.

A GPS toggle is definitely something I would love to implement but unfortunately Google have deliberately removed the ability to enable/disable a users GPS connection from the Android API. Developers are recommended that their app instead direct to the GPS settings screen if GPS is required. If you search for "toggle GPS" in the market you will see that those app's listed do exactly this, even Google Maps does this.

There are app's out there that are using some kind of hack to enable the GPS. The "Setting Profiles" app that I use is able to enable/disable GPS for instance but I have absolutely no idea how its done and my emails to the developers have been unanswered. I will continue investigating and see whether I can suss it out.
[Android Apps and Games] alovell83:
I think it's good you did this, this can come in handy for people that don't like/have room for extra widgets. However, I really like the Android Power Control widget. I think this comes stock, but it might have come in the "Spare Parts" app, it allows single click to (de-)active: wifi, gps, bt, brightness +1 more which I think is a sync button, but I'm not sure. So, if you haven't used it, test it out and see if you can make that better! Then, I'll be out there promoting your stuff. If not, maybe it'll still help you with what you've got going on. GL
[Android Apps and Games] HaggleLad:
I am fully aware of the stock power control thanks, its on my home screen and I use it everyday. Don't see the relevance of this to my app however, I had a specific need to toggle wifi from with-in an application and the power control widget (or any widget for that matter) just wasn't cutting it so 'I made this'.
[Android Apps and Games] masterpfa:
Hope I'm not too late to the party

HTC Hero Long press on search - OK

HTC Hero Long press on Dial - OK

Great app :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] mdneilson:
I am also a learning developer. Have you considered open sourcing this. I would be more than happy to help just for experience (you can keep the donations) :D
[Android Apps and Games] enragedpaza:
Confirmed

Evo 4g

long press search button

Great work man, will buy when I got the extra money to spend.
[Android Apps and Games] Albert Poon:
Great Job!

Would love to see In-App Mobile/Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth together~
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] kc333:
Hi,Frieds..

My NIKI100's bluetooth doesn't work suddenlly :(. There is always on in comm manager,but i cann't turn it off anyway.

I find out the Bluetooth address is 00:00:00:00:00:00 in device's information. I have been try to change some SPL(1.16hard/1.15hard and now is 1.22hard), some ROMs (WM6.5/WM6.1/WM6.0) and Radios(1.58//1.65/1.71), it still doesn't work.

Any body can told me what's wrong with my NIKI.How can i do....

THANK YOU...:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] salim950:
what happened before it stopped working, did you drop it, wet it. it might help to find out whats wrong by finding out what caused it.