yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] scottter:
Any chance for an APK for those of us without data?
[Android Apps and Games] asmanthebell:
Nice

Good Work Buddy works perfectly on Xperia X10i
[Android Apps and Games] RabugenTom:
Thanks for the replies ! I've added the apk posted on the market.

I'm working on an improved version !
[Android Apps and Games] computercolin:
Agreed, Great work RabugenTom. Love the custom wheel selection.

Have to admit, though, I'm dying to have multiple timers. I'm not sure off the top of my head how they would fit in with your snazzy countdown timeline, but I'm sure it could be done.

+1 for release of the source
[Android Apps and Games] Wickedchild:
Love the app... Mightve been nice if it worked with 30sec increments as well but that might just be me, and there are other more robust timer apps for when you need that i guess.

One thing I noticed though... If the app is open and showing on the screen (IE - not in the background while working on something else or on one of the home screens), Tapping the app notification (in the notifications pane) will "reopen" the apps interface, and this can be done multiple times.

Basically you end up with multiple instances of the same timer... So if youre looking to go back to whatever was open before - home screen or other - by pressing the back button, youll just close the last instance you "opened" via the notification, taking you back to the previous instance of that same timer, and so on until you reach the first one that was opened when you started the app.

It doesnt seem to affect the functionality of the app in any way that ive seen, but it is rather odd.

Sort of like tapping the notification calls on the wrong "show" function, opening a new window rather than un-hiding the original.
[Android Apps and Games] RabugenTom:
Thanks for the feedbacks !

I'm working on an improved version with pause mode, multiple timers and 30s increments. I will maybe release the source later, after a lot of cleaning !

For the notifications, it's the behavior of android which works by intents. Theses are sort of messages send to applications. Intents depends on something they call Context. This is very powerful since you can launch (or do whatever you want to) an application in different ways, and the behavior of the application can depend on the intent. For example, when you launch an application from the launcher on the home screen, you actually send an intent to the application.

In the Tick! case, when you click on the notification, you send an intent to bring back to foreground (if hidden) or relaunch (if closed) the application GUI (which is different from the counting "engine" which is a background process called Service). The intent sent from the notification is different from the one you used to launch it, thats why it relaunch the GUI because the system thinks it is a different context (which is the case).

You can try it : launch from the launcher, launch a timer, go back to the home screen. Now, the GUI is no more in foreground. If you open the notification bar an click on the notification it will relaunch the GUI as expected, and if you continue to click on it again, it will do nothing (as expected). That's because the second time you launched the app, you did it by sending an intent from the notificiation bar, which is different from the one from the launcher.

Now, i don't find this behavior very annoying, and I don't want to write 100 lines of code to handle differents cases! A trivial solution may exist, but I'm too novice with Android to look at it. If someone knows this easy solution, it will be a pleasure to implement it !
[Android Apps and Games] bugmenever:
Very nice timer. However I have found two problems:

1. When selecting the notification tone, "Default" plays my ringtone when previewing, but when used for real it plays the default notification sound instead.

2. I used Tick for a five minute countdown several hours ago, and afterwards I exited the program and cleared the notification, but it still prevented my phone from sleeping all these hours, draining the battery severely. I had to use a process killer to get my phone to sleep.

Do you really need to keep the phone from sleeping, even during the countdown? A timer is just an alarm with a countdown, and alarms work even when the phone is sleeping. You just have to update the progress every time the phone wakes up. Right?
[Android Apps and Games] RabugenTom:
Hi,

1-I will look on the notification problem. It is quite strange since it always worked for me. Note that the parameter are set for the notification at the launch of the counter. Every change you make will affect only new countdowns. When you exit the app, it always save the last parameters, even made during a countdown, and restore them at a relaunch. So it is strange, and since i've improved again the counting engine, I hope this will be solved in the coming release.

2-You're right, I've found conditions when the wake-lock is not released at the end of the countdown. It's set now. However, the wake-lock requested is partial and does only concern the CPU, not the screen. I've tested again your version on my unplugged G2 and it behave just well.

The CPU is required to fire an alarm even in sleep mode. Thats because i don't use the alarm service of the device which only check every new minute if there is something to do.

And when it's in sleep mode, only a tiny service is counting. The GUI is stopped and it's memory given back.

May I ask what model of phone you use?
[Android Apps and Games] bugmenever:
I'm using an HTC Desire.
[Android Apps and Games] RabugenTom:
I've just added here (and on the market) the version 1.3 which resolves a lot of issues (for exemple, the service exits as soon as it's no more used, thanks to bugmenever) and adds a pause mode (long click on the button)
[Android Apps and Games] Wickedchild:
im fairly certain there is something simple out there to handle this, but as opposed to you being novice with android, i have 0 experience programming for it. and youre right, its not THAT annoying, and certainly not worth most your work time at this point.

Happy to hear about all those plans though! look forward to seeing them in action :)

keep up the good work!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] auau465121:
I am on a share plan with my wife i have the main line my contract is not up until Oct. but hers is up now she wants a purple blackberry curve B.S phone which i'm getting off of ebay.My question is can i activate the curve on her line but use her upgrade to get the EVO for me and transfer the phone over to my line?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rennat:
As long as she is eligible for an upgrade you can get the phone. The contact you have to sign is not for the phone or plan. It just states that you will pay for that line for 2 years or pay the fee. But what ever you can get the Evo for here on her line is what u will have to pay.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shizs14:
Yes. I did that to my wife line. I bought a phone for her in Craigslist and use her upgrade.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] auau465121:
Thanks

Thats good to know i wonder if bestbuy will do it for me or will I have to come home and do it myself on Sprint's website?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chuckhriczko:
I believe BB can do the upgrade for you. Then when you get home call Sprint or hit the net for an ESN swap. Then you'll be fine.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] auau465121:
Thanks will do Evo here I come baby
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halorin:
I'm shocked this isn't talked about more. Is there an app that had this or any mention of it happening?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMaverick50:
The more pinch to zoom the merrier but I'm not sure I see much of a benefit of it in email...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
Actually there has been many times where I receive emails that aren't properly formatted to the screen and without pinch to zoom it is a pain to get into perspective.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halorin:
Yeah, HTML heavy emails are generally zoomed too far in and I have to pan around a lot to look at the whole image.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aybarrap1:
I do not know if I just missed some announcement but the MySpace App that used to be available from Windows Marketplace Mobile is no longer available. I noticed for a while prior it would just not let me connect via the app. Any one have any information as to what happened? Just curious. While I am not a big fan of Myspace I do find it useful on occasion.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ciedric:
last time, about a month ago, I wanna log in to myspace, using the app. It can't get connection.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Inman:
Shape's IM+ supports MySpace and FaceBook.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aybarrap1:
Still no MySpace App support

Is anyone aware if MySpace and Microsoft had a fallout. The MySpace app is no longer on the Windows Marketplace and the couple cabs found floating around are not letting me connect. I don't feel comfortable flashing the phone with a new ROM so that is not an option I am considering. I found the app more convenient than using the web browser. Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] Rennat:
I will be getting the Evo when it will be coming out and I and probably 100 other people are worried about the battery life of this monster. What we know is this guy has a huge screen, a WiMax radio and a 1 GHz processor that will suck up the battery life crazy. However, HTC has made sure to put in a 1500 mAh battery that is almost as big as the phone. Coming from the Pre this is comforting but I am still kinda skeptical about the battery life if this monster.

So the purpose of this thread is for all of those lucky people who already have a Evo to post there experiences with the life of this superphone. What I need of you is normal daily battery life with 3G and 4G, normal screen brighness, how much you use internet, email check frequency, and anything else you what to mention. This will really help alot of people out here who are potential Evo owners.

Oh, and Thanks in advance!!!!

EDIT to moderators: This maybe a good thread to make a sticky.
[EVO 4G General] Mecha2142:
http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BACY35HEV4-BK

This is the beast of a battery I'm planning to get for my future Evo. Can't wait to see what 2000 mAh of juice will do to its durability :D.
[EVO 4G General] robertc1965:
Keep in mind: this battery will add 25-33% to the thickness.
[EVO 4G General] Akulamenuri:
The extra 3 to 4 mm of thickness would make the Evo as thick as the G1 which to me is no problem at all considering my current phone is the G1 WITH an extended battery.
[EVO 4G General] Mecha2142:
Not much of a problem for me; if anything, it will make the Evo easier to hold in the hand.
[EVO 4G General] sdc177:
That just may be perfect for the protruding camera lens many are worried about!
[EVO 4G General] chuckhriczko:
Well I live in a 3g area and work in a 4g area. I have a 2 hour drive each way and half way I hit 4g. Right now if I just stay on 3g the battery can last me all day with normal usage. I usually only charge the device while I'm driving home from work so I can listen to my music or podcasts. I'd say on normal usage you get about 12 hours. That's what I get at least. But here's a solution for you. The Evo takes a normal HTC Hero or Touch Pro 2 battery. I bought a TP2 battery on eBay for about $5. Now all I need to do is make sure I keep one charged and the other charged and in my car. Then I can swap if I need to.

Also note that as of now, 4g sucks battery big time. I think this is a bug in the software so once they fix that then we'll be fine. But right now if you leave 4g on permanently you probably only get about 4 hrs. Just a warning.
[EVO 4G General] Rennat:
Thx for the comments so far! My experience with the Pre, which had alot of battery bugs at the start, says that after all the bugs are worked out it will give you 1-3 hours more. So with 4G running 5-6 hours strait is an ok deal. Just the most important thing to me right now is just to have at least 12 hours of usage with a far amount of browsing on 4G at the time.
[EVO 4G General] drewX2:
I previously owned an HD2, which is nearly identical to the EVO 4G except for OS, and thought battery life was pretty good. Got at least a day out of it and I was on it all the time (wifi connection mostly).
[EVO 4G General] turn:
this is pretty surprising that people are getting this much out of the battery.

i was figuring maybe four or so hours max. i can't even last a whole day on my droid with low usage, but the fact i dropped it in the toilet could have something to do with it.
[EVO 4G General] chuckhriczko:
Ha ha. Yeah toilets and phones usually don't mix. Unless it's WinMo in which case thats where it belongs :)

But yeah my battery has been very good to me. Definitely can't complain. On a side note it does take a considerable longer amount of time to charge than the Hero I was using but that only makes sense.
[EVO 4G General] plmiller0905:
Yesterday I took my Evo to work with me for the first time since receiving it Friday. It had a full charge when I left the house at about 340pm. At about 1030pm, I got the message to connect the phone to the charger. In between that time span, I did some web browsing and sent some text messages (I love the Evo keyboard). I didn't make any calls because I'm still carrying my Palm Pre with me until the 4th when I can get my service switched to my Evo. But anyway the Evo lasted a lot longer than my Palm Pre. It probably would have even lasted longer but I had some programs pulling information every 15mins and some every 2 hours. So I set all them to pull information at longer intervals. So I'm going to see how long it'll take before I get that message again. But so far the battery that came with Evo serves me fine. ;)
[EVO 4G General] liquidkernel:
I have the Hero 1800mAh battery in my Hero and it's been a champ so far. Going to grab another one for my Evo once I pick it up this Friday.
[EVO 4G General] jigglywiggly:
What are you doing with a phone in a bathroom? Jerk off material?
[EVO 4G General] rockstar1o9:
As the owner of a Sprint Hero, I was very happy to discover that the battery is interchangeable with my Evo.
[EVO 4G General] TheBiles:
When I actually tested out the battery (second day of ownership): I was at 36% remaining after 14 hours of moderate use (auto-backlight, occasional texting, reading emails, installed a few apps, browsing XDA, etc). Some observations: The first 10-15% will drain more quickly than the others, incredibly intense apps like 3D gaming will extremely quickly drain the battery (like 6% in half of an hour), and keep your brightness on 20% or so because auto seems to always keep it very bright.

Yesterday I tried the typical "full discharge" test since people seem to rave about it, and I don't see any harm. I will see how this goes today.
[EVO 4G General] chuckhriczko:
Ha ha. Ironic how someone named jigglywiggly said this :P And honestly, why not? That should be a selling point of this phone ha ha
[EVO 4G General] TheBiles:
Hell, that's the whole purpose of the kickstand, right?
[EVO 4G General] chuckhriczko:
Ha ha. Amen brother
[EVO 4G General] turn:
i had it on top of the toilet playing music while i showered...or so the story goes. lolol
[EVO 4G General] cpnichols:
that was in the engadge review... I believe the quote was "use the kickstand, set up the device, play some movies, take off your pants,.. whatever you want."
[EVO 4G General] GHOST99K:
if any evo battery issue jus go to sprint store and pick up another evo battery for free.my friend have done that couple of times with his palm pre and they did not charge em any $ at the spot or in his bill.
[EVO 4G General] nachyochez:
That's because the Pre's original set of batteries had a defect (If your battery says "japan" on it, take it to the local service center and they'll swap it into a "korea" model!) They probably gave him the replacement to avoid the inventory issues associted with swapping it, it really depends on which store you go to!

As for battery life....I'm impressed but not enough to brag. Originally with heavy use (auto-sync gmail when I received email, live wallpaper, CONSTANTLY checking my Pocket Empires ((Server 2, Phoenix. Add Gythos and join my alliance!))) I got MAYBE 4 hours of battery.

Once I turned off Stock, Friendstream, Peep, Weather (debating on getting it back just for the screen animations!) and gmail auto-sync I jumped up to about 8-9 hours. Sadly I use GTalk to keep my g'f from detonating my wibrate motor with text messages, so turning it off is a no go. And I can't give up my live wallpapers!!

Make sure to leave 4g and Wi-Fi off when not in use, turn off Stock, Peep, Friendstream, GTalk and Weather (unless you NEED to know it's raining outside tight that second!).

Of note: Even if you never open them the apps list above WILL auto sync. You have to manually turn them off or they'll drain your battery!
[Droid Eris Android Development] evilsway:
ok, i had my girls eris running 2.1 for a while now, and she didnt like how it was running so i was going to try and load sensable 3.0 for her to see if she liked it better. somehow i got to the hboot menu instead of the recover menu and went through an update process there. now i dont have root, and i dont have a custom recovery.

firmware 2.1

baseband 2.69.29

build 2.19.605.1

browser webkit 3.1

prl 65120

eri version 5

so what do i do? is there a way to get root back? am i running the same 2.1 leak that i had on there before? or is this the offial update? all of my exp in this is for the moto droid, so im kinda a newb on the eris. please help!
[Droid Eris Android Development] memert:
I did the same thing. Just reroot like you normally would.
[Droid Eris Android Development] mib12890:
If you accidentally flashed one of the leaked versions, or if you had a leaked version already installed no you cant root right now.

If you just flashed back to the original rooted 2.1 rom then just re install the recovery img like you did before

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[Droid Eris Android Development] evilsway:
great. ill try tonight. thanks guys
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android.activate:
Hi,

I have paid TitaniumBackup and I backed up some programs using Titaniumbackup when I was using Paul's Froyo. Due to problems I downgraded to CM 5.0.7.1 but when I try to restore the backups using TitaniumBackup, it executes the script and displays success message immediately but the restore does not happen and the app is still missing.

Please help
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkKrai:
Is there an ADB push nautilus script out there?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firestrife23:
That'll be handy, but i'm no scripting expert. I suspect it'll be bit tricky since adb is terminal only, I'm sure someone will have to figure out a way to pipe the output from terminal to GUI pop up dialog box to display progress bar, with success or failure message.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firestrife23:
this one seem to work but no progress bar or success/fail message tho. YMMV

#/bin/sh
adb push $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS /sdcard

save this as adb_push.sh

be sure to set this file with permission:

chmod a+x adb_push.sh

think of this as rough draft, not perfect. Above code will push straight to sdcard. Suppose you could create few scripts like this..

ADB - Push to System APP

#/bin/sh
adb remount
adb push $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS /system/app

ADB - Install APK

#/bin/sh
adb install $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS

EDIT: Forgot to mention this, it'll work only if you've already set path to Android's SDK tools folder in .bashrc
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkKrai:
awesome, thanks! I'll test it in a minute :)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pi3ch:
Simple scrip to push files to your android device.

Just put it in your Nautilus script dir (HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts) and make it executable (chmod +x Push\ sdcard). also set path for ADB inside script (ADB=...)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nixternal:
I did something similar a while back for both Konqueror and Dolphin in KDE, but I realized, I just don't use a file manager since I prefer the command line instead. I had a working ADB zsh completion script, but somehow forgot to back it up before my previous hard drive failure.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herrlado:
https://code.google.com/p/send-to-android/
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidifyme:
this is interesting
[Droid Eris Android Development] pkopalek:
**********UPDATE JULY 2010********************8

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728529

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728529

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728529

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728529

This is no longer the latest Eris Radio, but I cannot change the title of this thread. So.

toastcfh's old thread with Radios was great, but its original post had been missing the latest "leakv3" / OTA Radio, which is the most efficient, least buggy, and most receptive radio out there. It's 100% stable and useable. Here is a link to a flashable zip that Hero users were linking to (which I have since re-uploaded, about a month ago.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN, be advised that some (such as jcase and marisa, very smart people) are of the school of thought which says DO NOT flash a radio if you don't need to:

This is excellent advice, and very sound as, YOU MAY BRICK YOUR PHONE! I, as anyone else here, am not responsible for what you do with your phone. Be careful. I can only show you exactly what I did, and have done to many Eris's, with 100% success. Onward we go.

Radio for HTC Droid Eris OTA version (2.42.01.04.27):

Here is the flashable .zip file for 2.42.01.04.27

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728529

Note: Always check the md5 hash before flashing something as important as a Radio (check the md5 AFTER you put it on your SD card - to make sure it's ok AFTER transferring to your SD card!). Things like this can happen:

If you download with Google Chrome, go to something else. Chrome randomly corrupts downloads (yes, Google knows about it)

AFTER YOU PUT IT ON YOUR SD CARD, make sure you check it using this command in adb: (you may need to unmount your sd card first if it won't work)

adb shell md5sum /sdcard/2.42.01.04.27.zip

and make sure it matches the MD5 listed above! If it doesn't, DO NOT FLASH THIS!

*thanks to firestrife23 for that

Flash from Recovery.

Anyone saying 2.41.xxx is better probably had an odd experience that made them feel that way. They can use whatever they want. But the this is the latest and greatest radio, useable with ANY ROM.

I personally recommend upgrading/shifting to this radio for anyone, especially those on 2.40.xxx. This one will do you better for battery life, reception, and transfer speed.

Godspeed.
[Droid Eris Android Development] sawah:
The upload is an img. Do you have a zip available?
[Droid Eris Android Development] CK420:
Here is the same radio, but flashable zip that pkopalek uploaded two weeks ago. Just flashed it and am waiting for the phone to reboot. I've been only getting 1 bar on my current radio at my house so i hope this helps. Will post back

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6469408&postcount=113

EDIT: Still getting the same amount of bars as before the flash. Will keep testing tho to see how it holds up. Thanks. I did see the 3G symbol turn to a "1X" for like 5 seconds and then i had 4 bars. But then it went back to 3G and had 1 bar again
[Droid Eris Android Development] jcase:
If you have no issues, don't bother flashing a radio. Sure if your signal is crud. go ahead but if you getting good signal and no issues, stay put.