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[Droid Eris Android Development] AnomynousPierson:
The linux kernel is licensed under the GNU General Public License and it i available from kernel.org

The bulk of Android however is released under the apache license. I do not believe there is any legal requirement to provide source code to changes made to it, but I could be wrong. However, the android source code itself is available from google.

Additions to android, such as HTC Sense, use completely different and most likely closed-source licenses. There is no legal requirement to provide sources for them, depending on license of course.
[Desire General] TeCH-Guruz:
Thought I would post as I'm not sure if anyone has tried this yet but I used the nexus 1 bootloader anamation found here and it works perfectly.

So for anyone who wants to do it them selves heres a guide once you have rooted your desire follow these steps.

1. Put the nexus-bios-boot.zip onto your sd card.

2. Load up into ubuntu.

3. Turn off your desire.

4. Turn it on again while holding down the 'volume down' button this time. The screen will look similar to before, but will say 'HBOOT' instead of 'FASTBOOT'. Use the volume buttons and the power button to select the 'RECOVERY' option. You should then see a screen with a red triangle - at this point, plug it into your usb.

5. Now you need to unzip the 'push files' zip that you downloaded.

6. copy pushfiles folder to the desktop

7. open terminal

8. type this into the terminal window

cd ~/Desktop/pushfiles

9. then type

sudo ./recovery-linux.sh

10. In the recovery image (moving around using the optical trackball), select 'Flash zip from sdcard' and choose the nexus-bios-boot.zip

11. Confirm then reboot desire.

I would like to point out that none of this is my own work I simply compiled all of the above information from others work to make a simple guide. All credits goto Paul @ MoDaCo for rooting and his guide and I am unsure of who actually made the boot screen. But the link is at the top of the post.

Below are all of the files you will need to get started

and here is a quick vid
[Desire General] hystryxen:
nice one, thanks
[Desire General] fdrzrich:
Installed this too, looks smart!
[Desire General] TeCH-Guruz:
Dont know if anyone noticed but as its booting it says nexus one lol I have posted in the original thread maybe someone who knows what they are doing will edit it and make one specifically for the desire.
[Desire General] mojavaid36:
Hi,

Great work!

Would this work for all Boot screens for Android?

Regards

Mo
[Desire General] TeCH-Guruz:
I'm honestly not sure this is my first android phone. I saw the boot animation thread a few weeks ago an thought as soon as we have root I'm going to try it and to my sunrise it worked. I would guess any existing nexus one animations would work on the desire fine but I an not 100% sure. If you find any others I would be happy to try them and post my results.

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[Desire General] mojavaid36:
Umm How about..

These over at modaco?

Green Android is Very Cool....

Regards

MoJo
[Desire General] TeCH-Guruz:
As soon as I get my pc up and running again (can't believe I still use Windows) I will test them out and let you know if they are working ;)

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[Desire General] mojavaid36:
Thanks buddy.

I'm looking forward to it.
[Desire General] Guitarfreak26:
It would be nice to have a bootup with the actual android on the screen lol
[Desire General] JonesWTF:
I quite like the Open Eclair boot animation. The one with the logo exploding into a million androids that fly at the screen.

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[Desire General] juanjitos:
as you can restore the original boot?

Thanks
[Desire General] TeCH-Guruz:
I have not tried but as the boot animation is loaded onto the rom I would guess if you restored an original rom I would set it back to "how it was ment to be". I am jus grabbing the files I need now and will test a few more out and post my results + vids.
[Desire General] TeCH-Guruz:
I have just tried all three and get the same message saying... E: No signiture E: Verification failed

I also tried another from the original thread I linked to the nexus-boot-apple 1 and it worked fine. Possible they need signing properly and then they would work but dont really know enough about android phones atm to really sepectualte.

Edit: Just been told that the files you linked to do not get flashed but you push them over via adb.
[Desire General] vastloper:
bootanimation.zip

Just a wierd question.

I tried to create a bunch of png files to create an animation.

Numbered from 00001 to 00009

I placed those in a folder named android.

Edited the desc.txt file to:

480 800 1

p 1 1 android

Zipped this to bootanimation.zip and placed this zip file in /data/local

When rebooting the phone i get a nice black screen.

Now what am i doing wrong in this progress?

Greetings from a vastloper
[Desire General] blackadder1000:
You need to re-sign the package. To do that just zip up the 'data' and 'META-INF' directories then use the following guide to sign it:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3175518&postcount=2
[Desire General] vastloper:
i signed it also.

Didnt work either.

Do i need to change the meta.inf file ?

Thanks for the reply
[Desire General] blackadder1000:
It shouldn't be a file called meta.inf, it should be a directory named META-INF.

If you use nexus-bios-boot.zip as an example (from Post #1) then in the META-INF directory should be a few signature files:

CERT.RSA

CERT.SF

MANIFEST.MF

(delete these - they will be recreated when you sign the file)

and subdirectories com -> google -> android containing the update-script

(which can be left alone)

Do you have the update-script in the correct place? Zip it all up, sign and apply. Any change?
[Desire General] blackadder1000:
Might be a problem with bootanimation.zip actually.

http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-droid/25774-custom-boot-animation-figured-out.html

I think the folder with the .pngs needs to be called part0 and part1:

"the folder part 0 is the part that does not loop. part 1 will loop after part 0 plays and while phone is still loading."
[Desire General] blackadder1000:
Final tidbit...

You could always just use adb to push the bootanimation.zip to the correct place.

No need to worry about signing or update-script! Of course you have to do this from recovery mode after mounting the system, so the full code you would run:

adb shell mount /system

followed by:

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/
[Droid Incredible General] daftlush:
I hate to say it but I am having 3g issues. By that I mean no 3g and one to two bars. Usually I have perfect reception.

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[Droid Incredible General] BzBz:
i've noticed on the incredible that my displayed signal strength isn't as strong as it is on my droid. haven't noticed a difference in call reception or data speeds though...yet.
[Droid Incredible General] tbaker077:
Eris users have noticed the same thing as you bzbz when compared to the Droid. Could be the cpu or something else HTC vs Motorola.
[Droid Incredible General] peanut_butter:
I noticed the same thing but my download/upload speeds are just as fast if not faster. I gave my Droid to my mom and took her upgrade so I have both side by side, off WiFi downloading a movie and the Incredible is actually 20-50kbs faster than my old Droid and yes the Droid is over clocked with petes 1ghz kernel.
[Droid Incredible General] Humpa:
I have had the Incredible for a couple of days, and I've noticed a lower displayed signal strength than I'd see on my Droid in the same locations.

But I've not experienced any reception issues, and my internet speed seems the same or faster.

This is what I expected. We all know that you can't count on those reception bars to compare different phones, and also that Moto tends to have better radios/reception than everyone else anyway. As long as you're phone's radio is close to Moto's in the ability to make/receive calls, then normally you're not doing bad. ;)
[Droid Incredible General] BzBz:
well it's good to know that the signal strength concern may be more of a "cosmetic" issue than a legitimate performance issue.
[Droid Incredible General] designerfx:
how is the quality on said reception? Other people's replies seem to indicate good quality even with less bars.
[Droid Incredible General] t41n7ed:
This...

It is definitely cosmetic, the newest radio i have installed on my eris does the same. The reception on my eris is better then my friends with the older radio, but he has more 3G bars.
[Droid Incredible General] bishop0114:
It may just be the way HTC displays the signal. I know on the Touch Pro 2 and Touch Pro, the signal indicator frequently shows incorrect (lower) signal strength but works fine.
[Droid Incredible General] ecopile:
I compared signal strength between my BB Curve 8330 and my new Incredible.

In spite of the indicated signal strength being lower on the Incredible, the dBm was the same. It's only one location and one user, but I suspect it's not an actual signal strength issue.
[Droid Incredible General] zeke1988:
i used my incredible all day. i work in a downtown area with many tall building surrounded and i still got a good 3g signal and speed.

from Boston.
[Droid Incredible General] hoop762:
the 3G speeds on my incredible are slower that my 2G G1 running on AT&T. i get les than 200 kbps downstream. My friend with a droid standing in the same room will get aound 1100 Kbps. What gives??
[Droid Incredible General] two_cents:
if you are haveing a tough time with a signal.. I update my roaming towers... I had an issue today where I couldn't get much.. I did *228 option 2 and it updated my roaming towers and have had no problems since... sometimes you need to do that with a new phone so it knows exactly what towers to look for
[Droid Incredible General] hoop762:
tried the *228 to update. Update was successful but no improvment. still have very slow data speeds and terrible call quality. reception stays about around -100 dBm
[Droid Incredible General] rckeystone:
I'm also noticing what appears to be poor reception. I was getting better reception with my Droid than I am with Incredible. I've tried the *228 last night and this morning but that hasn't helped. Hopefully there will eventually be some kind of software fix for this. I'm seeing other threads on other sites with the same kind of complaints so I don't think it's a select few who are experiencing this issue.
[Droid Incredible General] t41n7ed:
Your speed will depend on what tower your connected to. on my Eris, I've gone from 1mbps/0.70mbps in New York, NY to 2mbps/2mbps in West Haven, CT. It's not the phone. The newer radio on the Incredible will show less bars, but your signal strength will be fine .(dBm)
[Droid Incredible General] qquag:
My phone keeps dropping 3G my droid never has done this in the location the incredible is. I will go into airplane mode then back out and I will have 3g again
[Droid Incredible General] rckeystone:
Over at Androidforums there is a thread going regarding reception issues. On page 2 is some help in running a debug on the phone that will give you dbm levels and some other info. I'm not sure how to use the info the debug gives but perhaps it may be of some use to someone here.

The link is http://androidforums.com/htc-incredible/70223-weak-signal-strength.html
[Droid Incredible General] n0-0ne:
You don't need to go into field test mode like this guy said, all you need to do is from the home screen > menu > setting > about phone > network.

Here you will see signal strength (typical between -100 to -80dBm) the closer to 0 you are the better your signal is (ie: 80dBm > 90dBm)

Hope that clears up some confusion. I've tested both the motodroid and the incredible side by side in a location with low signal and can say that my incredible gets better signal than the droid, even though the "bars" don't indicate as such.
[Droid Incredible General] zeke1988:
my signal always stays at -81, is that a good thing?

im a new android and 3g user :p
[Droid Incredible General] k.electron:
good to hear that boston has been trouble free. expecting my inc soon.
[Droid Incredible General] rckeystone:
n0-0ne,

Thanks for this tip. Makes things easier.
[Droid Incredible General] hoop762:
i called verizon customer service this morning and explained to them my issues. My signal would vary between -95 and -99 dBm. While my room mate in the same room would get about 70-75 on his incredible. CSR pushed an update to my phone that didnt help. Long story short they are sending me a new one. Maybe just a QC issue???
[Droid Incredible General] mrmomoman:
I am between 63 to 75 dBm showing 2 bars on the signal. So the reception is good the bars are not. As suspected as I was getting very good download speeds.

I am getting 2.2 Mb/s over 3G - download

I am getting .35 Mb/s over 3G - upload

I am new to Verizon so not sure if that is good or not.
[Droid Incredible General] iamrobk:
Reception does seem to be a bit of an issue. Some people are reporting the same dB levels as their Droids, some report it to be a bit worse, and some report that their dB levels are a LOT worse. So there does seem to be some sort of QC issue here. But regardless, the way it shows the bars is completely different than the Droid and other phones. It's really tough to get it above 2 bars.
[Droid Incredible General] tdavis42:
I am having horrible reception issues as well. where I would get 4 3G bars I am getting 1 with the incredible. obviously a hardware issue not software. I guess it could be the drivers(hopefully).

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[Droid Incredible General] n0-0ne:
Did you read the thread at all? Don't trust the bars, they are cosmetic only and do not indicate your true reception.
[Droid Incredible General] Honestly77:
I get full 3g bars in wash state. 44db. Woot.
[Droid Incredible General] tdavis42:
meant to say 1x. chill!

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[Droid Incredible General] rockehill10:
It is a bug with the bars

I live in an area with poor reception so I bought the Network Expander from Verizon to see if it would increase my cell phone reception. My wife has an LG Env and when she moves from one end of the house to the middle room where the Expander is, her bars go from 2 - 5. On the Droid Incredible I have only 1 bar and the signal strength is -102 dBm in the same room where my wife has 2 bars. When I move to where the Expander is, the bar stays at 1 but the dBm goes to -53 dBm, meaning signal strength has increased considerably but no change in bars.

Bottom line: it's a software glitch.
[Droid Incredible General] daftlush:
As far as i know, the way CDMA works is that the bars are tower congestion. Therefore, if you have one bar, you are as good as full bars.

So, the only problem I have with my reception on the Inc is when 3g keeps dropping out. This kills my bat.

Im only posting this because i see a lot of chatter about level of bars. Its the 3g that matters, in my opinion.
[Droid Incredible General] chris61292:
quick fix is to put the phone in airplane mode, put phone to sleep for a minute, then turn airplane mode back off. I was having my bars jump all over the place until i did a *#*#4636#*#* thing to change my phone from gsm to cdma
[Droid Incredible General] giantcrazy:
Anyone else experiencing these issues? I'm in NYC where Verizon coverage is generally pretty good, and I've had a ton of problems with coverage on my two phones, both ranging -95 to -100dbm in signal strength, even after a *228 option 2. I'm ready to send them back, because the call quality suffers miserably when that happens and one of the phones is experiencing random lockups.
[Droid Incredible General] jbh00jh:
I live in the suburbs 15 miles out of town , still have 2-3 bars , haven't dropped a call yet , calls are clear.
[Droid Incredible General] rushless:
At&t must have FAST 2G :eek:

Tmo 3G (2G is a joke) is about three times slower than VZW 3G. Thats is compared to a G1 and N900. N900, BTW has one of the weakest 2G radios of any phone i have owned.

Incredible's 3G signal bars are bunk. One time I have checked bars and they showed 4 with -89dBm and later in the day 1 bar with similar dBm level. I have also checked and had 2 bars and the dBm showed -64. The bars

only seem to be correct when they show 1X. Incredible 3G bars do not correlate to any convention of logic.

I live in KY and most areas have great reception. Stark contrast of Tmo which I just left, after seven years. Places I would get NO signal with Tmo, I get -65dBm and fast 3G with VZW :) Better have, for $30 more a month family total bill :(
[Droid Incredible General] hoop762:
AT&T 2G on my G1 would normally run between 250 and 300Kbps. Bought a TMO sim for it and used TMO 3G in the seatlle area, got usually 2.5Mbps down. TMO is awesome up there, sadly not where i live (Arkansas).

After getting my THIRD incredible my reception issues are finally solved, tho i have notice my reception (dBm) is about 20% better when i hold my phone at the top, as opposed to my hand covering the bottom of the phone. Its wierd to watch signal strength change so drastically by moving my hand 2 inches...
[Droid Incredible General] giantcrazy:
Could be I just got a couple from a bad batch. My signal strength has been putrid overall (and I'm referring to dbm measurements, not just going by the bars on the notification bar).

My wife's phone has been freezing up intermittently, and I have no idea why. I figured she might've had a bad app or something, so I did a hard reset, installed only a few apps and played wait and see. Two hours later, lockups again.

I just hope they have some phones in stock to swap for. It's a real kick in the butt to move to Verizon for better coverage, and have the coverage at home be markedly worse than what it was with T-Mobile.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] othelil:
With the recent influx of Droid devices generated by them being handed out to many individuals through Google's developer channels, I imagine I'm not the only one wondering whether or not it would be possible to get service for this device by anyone other than Verizon. I'm hoping that someone can explain to me what it might take to make this possible.

As I understand it, VZW uses both 1900 and 850 while Sprint uses only 1900 with roaming possible on 850. That means the device should be compatible between the two networks from a frequency standpoint. What I'm not sure about is whether any of the software instructions coded into the VZW/Sprint devices are important to the correct operation of the phone on the network, or if they are identical and it only matters which network accepts the device's ESN.

In short:

- Would any software modifications to the device be necessary for appropriate functionality on the Sprint network?

- If so, could those modifications be derived from existing Sprint Android platforms like the Hero/Moment?

I have been given a free Droid, but I have no plan on ever switching to Verizon. It will remain a development only device if I can't modify it to work with my existing Sprint account.

Thanks in advance for any information.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] adrianh85:
the only way to get this to work is via esn swapping !! and that is illegal!! so.... good luck google it!! sprint will not add esns to there network from other carriers !! verizon does is sometimes but sprint will not do it!! sorry are u willing to sell it?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] othelil:
Illegal, huh? Good 'ol US; the only country that feels the need to so tightly bind our devices to specific carriers. I vastly prefer the unlocked GSM phone model that Europe operates under. Le sigh.

Thanks for the info. I'm unlikely to sell, as I can find uses even for a device that doesn't have service. I just thought I could kill the proverbial two birds with one stone if I could make it work. C'est la vie.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Cirkustanz:
You're forgetting the fact that there are at least TWO major nationwide GSM carriers in the US.

Japan has better game-shows than the US does, but I'm not going to say, "good ol' US" when complaining about it. But, I wouldn't even complain about it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] othelil:
I'm not forgetting at all. The difference is that phones here, even for those two carriers, are sold locked rather than unlocked. Many consumers don't even know they have a choice, nor are they aware that their phones can be unlocked. The fact that the phones can be unlocked, and maybe could be used somewhere else in the world (depending on whether or not they support non-US bands), hardly excuses the fact that a tiny number of consumers would ever even realize that, or go through the hoops and hurdles necessary to unlock their phones.

This is a far cry from a market with many options for carriers where phones are sold unlocked and can be easily moved between any available carrier. The Wikipedia listing of mobile network operators in Europe (which I can't post) is quite illuminating when you realize that countries a tiny fraction of our size have a lot more than 2 choices that the phones they purchase, their property, can operate on. I would say cheering that at least we have two choices seems a little silly when the competition level here for carriers is so much weaker than elsewhere in the world.

Let's just say I'm more than a bit frustrated that what I've been gifted is, in the absence of one particular company's service, a brick. The phone belongs to me, yet whether or not I can use it as more than an alarm clock is dictated by only one company. It seems a little silly, and more than a tad bit frustrating. I would have much preferred an unlocked GSM phone; not only would I have two networks, albeit only one with 3G, to choose from, but my international options would have been wonderful.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Mr_Vicious:
Ok, so long story short.. there is no way to get the Droid A855 on gsm even if its unlocked? I know I just might be in the wrong forum but I have been searching all freaking day and honestly every site is starting to look the same to me 10:1 I'll prolly just sell the phone back off
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Dave Lister:
No, because the A855 does not have a GSM radio in it. Without the capable hardware, what you want to do is impossible.
[Omnia II General] Agam3mnon:
Hi,

On the i8000's is there an option to disable the setup/provisioning of APN's/data connection settings when a SIM card is inserted?

We are building a bunch of devices that have a private APN set and when the SIM is inserted it then provisions the phone with the public APN & we can't use our application until we provision the settings again.

HTC devices had an option to disable "Connection Setup". I'm really hoping Samsung have something as well.

Is anyone aware of a registry setting or another option?

Cheers
[Omnia II General] jh787:
Don't really know what you mean when you say private APN(Too technical for me) but How about putting it into flight mode and then re-enabling once you have input your settings?

Does it not ask you "A new sim card has been detected do you wish to change your settings to **Name of network**" on start up?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] hh93220:
Bepe at el,

First of all, thank you all for your great job to make WM mobile more funny than only a mobile.

Recently, China Mobile and Dopod joint-released a GSM & TD-SCDMA dual-band WM65 mobile. But the users are suffering because there are so many customized application inside which are useless for most of us. Unfortunately, we can not have our own ROM due to there is no SSPL or unlock technology.

Is it possible for you to have a look and advice whether this mobile is able to hack?