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[Android Themes] Andrizoid:
Im having a little issue with port im trying to do for the eris. i have the theme successfully-enough-ported over, but themed apps came along with it but i cant seem to get them working.

i tried the simplest thing i could do to figure out where the issue is, i re-sized one png from the themed app, and used it to replace the png in the original app, resigned and pushed it to my phone. rebooted and now im stuck in a boot loop! :eek:

any ideas on what im doing wrong?
[Android Themes] B6gSix:
FIRST OFF THOSE SO CALLED" MEDICAL JOINTS NEED TO BE ROLLED BETTER" who ever rolled those is fired from smokin

but aye bro i think this may be wrong section but if not im lookin for a answer for u bro dnt trip

ohh ok i kinda understand wut u saying i was in same situation the other day. ok i jus started back over with a fresh copy of what ever rom. then i i would add one file at a time then sign and flash then boot to see if it worked properly. it takes a while with this method but at least u can figure out were u going wrong at. i finally did.
[Android Themes] Andrizoid:
its a pic i pulled off the internet, super prego joints.

ive tried your idea, i changed one png image, resized it for my phone and dropped it in. just that one changed png caused my phone to bootloop. its odd, everything matches up, i dont see why it would be killing it like that.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Sangrita:
Hello all,

I'm having some serious issues with my Magic.

I used theunlockr.com's goldcard method of rooting the magic, and i managed to root the phone successfully, however i reverted back to unrooted as i could not boot any custom ROM's (particularity Cyanogen's 5.0.7), they would just hang at the vodafone's splash screen. So i have reverted back to an unrooted state using the .nbh I got from these boards, Amon_RA's [How-To] Root and un-root the T-Mobile myTouch 3G (sorry i am unable to post the link due to forum restrictions)

Now i am running 1.5 unrooted, but my problems get worse here.

Current details:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H

HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-3.22.20.17

I can use fastboot and boot to a custom recovery image, but i can only boot to 32A recoveries (Amon_RA's), have tried several versions, still can only boot to the 32A's.

while in the recovery menu, i am unable to apply any Zip files, they either come back as corrupted or verification failure (not signed). I have tried many different files many different times.

I am unable to flash the recovery partition using the fastboot command with the SDK, i am using windows XP.

Can anyone offer any help? I have spent countless hours searching for a reason why this would be happening.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] 5[Strogino]:
You did wrong way to unroot. Flashed 32A RUU to your 32B Magic

and got 3.22.20.17 radio (32A, but works on 32B too with restrictions)

To get your Magic fully 32B - you must flash official RUU for 32B Magics ... or ...

this nbh for UK Vodafone.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4884067&postcount=1

p.s. nbh for UK, so you probably need create goldcard as you have Vodafone NZ

Goldcard avoids Customer ID check
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Sangrita:
Thanks for the advice, but it doesn't seem to work.

I tried to apply the smappimg using my normal micro SD, i got "Signature Incorrect".

I tried to apply the smappimg using my Goldcard, I got "Main Version Older".

I even re-downloaded the file and i also re-created my Goldcard, using the guide from theunlokr.com.

Any other ideas?
[Nexus One General] AbsoluteDesignz:
List things you wish Android would change (stock) that'll make it perfect...note, nothing about apps or third party skins...I'll start with 3 though I can think of a lot more

1. Better looking notification bar...I like the look of the icons, but the notification bar still has that 1.0 feel to it...not a fan

2. Better looking and more functional media app...and movie player

3. Better looking buttons and selection actions.

(doesn't matter if desired changes are superficial or system deep)
[Nexus One General] AbsoluteDesignz:
PS. I can't wait until this UI refresh that Gingerbread guarantees...ALSO...

am I the only person who loves when Apple announces new ****, because Android then does better and so on and so forth....the Apple, Android beef should be encouraged by fanboys on all sides...we all benefit greatly.
[Nexus One General] mythamp:
The dialer needs to be more functional. I cannot afford to scroll down 500 of my contacts to find a name, a simple keypad/numberpad on the contact section would suffice just like it works for sense ui.
[Nexus One General] AndroidPerson:
Have you tried google gestures or voice dial? They work great but I dont have enough contacts to justify using them, wish I did but for me its quick to scroll.

Also the tab on the right is handy but im sure youve probably tried these things
[Nexus One General] The Jones:
Have you tried Dialer One? It is pretty awesome.

But I agree, the default dialer should work a lot better.

To add to the general discussion, I dont think there is much wrong with the media player but I would like the addition of an EQ and the ability to scroll through the playing song with more accuracy - something the iPhone does particularly well.

I also think the market needs massive improvements to make Android truly great. There may be 50,000 apps but when so many are themes and porn, that number becomes meaningless. I would rather there were only a few thousand really good and useful apps instead.
[Nexus One General] Lemim0uth:
The UI should natively support themes to change icons, colors, etc
[Nexus One General] gllu:
Perfect is yet far away. With basic features like call recording missing, it's take some time.
[Nexus One General] codesplice:
When it's something provided only by third-party apps on other phones, I don't think it should be called a "basic feature".
[Nexus One General] Wisefire:
I'm pretty sure recording a call, in America at least, is illegal unless you notify the person being recorded..
[Nexus One General] OutlawPro:
Negative Ghost Rider...

In the US, it is determined by the state that you live in. Many states have what is called "single party" laws, which means that as long as one person is aware the call is being recorded (you), then it's legal.
[Nexus One General] krabman:
I cant take my android phone to work. The inability to go to work is easily the largest single weakness of the phone imo. Millions of people need exchange (fully functioning and not through a third party server work around) and to connect to stand alone installations of outlook, often both. It rankles that I am still going to have to buy a winmo phone when when 7 hits to replace my old winmo phone because my 39 mflops N1 is a no go for work.
[Nexus One General] baimo:
Decent copy and paste functionality would be nice. yikes even apple gives you that
[Nexus One General] crachel:
Sync Tasks with Google Calendar

Sync Sports Calendars

Set "Peak Times" for Google Sync
[Nexus One General] Jep4444:
i managed to find a workaround for that one, i found an exportable calendar for my local baseball team that did the trick, shows up just fine on my phone, its only googles native sports calendars that dont work in android
[Nexus One General] codesplice:
I sure would like support for wireless proxy servers, and for the phone to properly pull default gateway information via DHCP like it is supposed to.
[Nexus One General] Vandam500:
Since when is call recording a "basic feature"...wow
[Nexus One General] jmbrown32:
As much as I love Android, I think the UI could use a lot of work. It lacks cohesiveness, and can be quite bland.

This guy can change all of that, however: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
[Nexus One General] kd78:
How about these two simple features:

1) Native support for sound profiles. Coming from a blackberry this was shocking.

2) Unified gmail/hosted gmail inbox option. Not everyone would enable it but again a blackberry user is used to getting to all messages in one box. Currently I am constantly changing between 4 accounts in gmail. Super annoying.

Android is the best mobile OS out there but I think it isn't ready to be called perfect.
[Nexus One General] attn1:
Tried Touchdown? It's a $20.00 app, and it's one time.
[Nexus One General] attn1:
It's only as bland as you make it.
[Nexus One General] yjagota:
I made a thread a while ago for some issues in only Dialer/Contact applications:

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7023

I love Android but it lacks some really basic features. Too bad.

BTW: Dialer One just rocks. Can't use the phone without it. Speed dial, T9 Search, Log merge, all present in the application.

PS: I am a new user, so I removed the http part so that I can post the link.
[Nexus One General] frandavid100:
I would recommend you not to use the dialer at all. Bring out the Global search, type the first letter of your contact and voilà. It's pretty much instantaneous in Froyo.
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
yes and besides, it is not illegal to record any call. what is illegal is using that recording in a court of law or similar without the other party knowing they were recorded.

so i can sit and record every call i make all day long as long as i dont USE those recordings.

at least that's my understanding.
[Nexus One General] codesplice:
OutlawPro is right on this; it's legal to record a call as long as one party on the call is advised of the recording. If you're a party on the call, you can record the call all day long. However, it IS illegal to record a call between two other people without one of them consenting.

I can record a call that I make to Bob, but I can't record a call that Joe makes to Bob, even if he's using my phone.

edit: should add that such a call recording (between you and Bob) would be generally be admissible in a court of law... you know, if you're really interested in that sort of thing.
[Nexus One General] evilkorn:
So what would be the point then of recording the call. To me that feature would be like a gotcha thing for lawyers and the like TO use in court against you.

What is the average Tom, ****, and Harry going to use with a buch of mp3's of calls? The worst part is people seem to keep talking about it like it's a necessary function of life.

Phone application is fine for me when you include gesture search and even holding down the search key and go from there. Like 'AndroidPerson' said above, I think it's acceptable because I don't have a boat load of contacts or pulling contacts from multiple sources.

The one thing I think is needed is a bit of market filtering. If I can filter users that spam html applications, themes, sound boards, and other useless things I would be able to find new applications easier.
[Nexus One General] xManMythLegend:
I find Sense UI contacts/dialer to be horrific. Its the reason I refuse to switch.

The dialer page having contacts appear as you dial may be useful but as mentioned Googe gestures does an amazing job of this.

I already typed down my *wish list*... after playing with Froyo lets see..

1. Deeper access to hardware/sw. Ability to make top tier games , add codecs , EQ etc have been gimped by limited access. That needs to change..I know steps have been taken but it really REALLY shouldnt be a task for someone to have divx movies or extra bass. Wimmo devices have had it for YEARS.

2. UI tweaks. Sense UI has a better browser based copy paste. No ability to choose "send from" in Gmail app. Universal inbox option.

3. Messaging. Id love to see a universal messenger like BBM. Google could integrate it with Buzz and give people easy ways to communicate universally within Google environment.

4. Visual tweaks. WebOS task switching cards is still the hallmark of great task switching. The notification bar,settings menus can be better looking. Caller id pics are small and ugly. The gallery still using low bit depth is inexcusable.
[Nexus One General] krabman:
Doesnt search call logs and when you have a large number of contacts you often have to hit a good chunk of the first name to get it on screen or drop the keyboard and scroll to it. Once you do you still have to select it and then which number of the contact to dial. Its usually faster in dialer one for me to get to a contact than the search. An added bonus is speed dial on dialer one which makes any contact called frequent enough to be worth one a strictly 2 touch affair to execute a dial. Exactly half of the least possible clicks via search to dial and without giving up space on the homescreen for a direct dial which is the only possible way to dial quicker.
[Nexus One General] ChillRays:
Even though i'm only 11 days away from ordering my n1... I guess i'll throw my opinion into this.

I wouldn't mind having 360 rotation and a better music player. I've seen the player on the N1 and it doesn't look too hot but i'm willing to live with it because the phone is so awesome.
[Nexus One General] MrCDWJR:
for those who feel that call recording is so important than please elaborate on why exactly you need this so bad.
[Nexus One General] frandavid100:
Should it? I thought you were looking for the person's name...

Never had to type more than two characters to find the one I was looking for. You must have a looooong contact list, all named the same.

Well, there's your solution. Yours and mine are obviously different user cases, in my case the global search serves my needs 100%.
[Nexus One General] pokey9000:
After FroYoing those are my two greatest gripes. I should only have to open one program for mail, and I should be able to get a combined inbox for GMail and my Exchange. More importantly, why does it think that I want to use the same music volume setting on my headphones as I do when connected to my car's bluetooth?
[Nexus One General] krabman:
lol If it was just a personal contact (in other words short) list it would be quite easily searched with the search feature nor would searching the call logs be a real neccessity. But you a right, different needs will require different solutions. I am not recommending mine, only pointing out what benefits it possesses over the built in search feature of which many people seem unaware.
[Nexus One General] :
2.2 splits the volumes further.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
I have used BB, and sell them... wasn't the fact that they combined all of them a HUGE complaint by many users for a long time, until 5.0 allowed you too properly split up your inboxes, especially regarding SMS/MMS from all the emails, et al?

Personally, I don't want 1 inbox for my work emails, private emails, SMS/MMS, etc. I like it split up so I don't get lost trying in the hundreds of incoming/outgoing messages.

Then again, different strokes for different folks. Just saying, I find it interesting a feature that was longed for for such a long time on BB's is a "shortfall" on Android.
[Nexus One General] krabman:
Agree, in my mind its important to have the option. This I think would fall into the catagory of better work tools which was what I view as the area most lacking with android.
[Nexus One General] Jep4444:
well i think in both cases the shortfall is not providing the option for both
[Nexus One General] gllu:
There are millions of reasons, I'll throw just a few

1. Talking to my boss, he says do so and so, I remember only half of it, then listen to the call and remember.

2.Someone calls me and asks me to call him back at a number that I can't write fast enough

3.I call customer service and they propose me $10 a month unlimited internet, then I get a bill with $100.

4.After an important call I am not sure if I've explained my point correctly - I go back and check.

5.Free of charge voice mail

Most of the people in this thread are complaining about things that may be done on an alternative way, maybe less intuitive than it should be. Call recording is a dead end currently, a real bummer. And lets not forget it's widely supported both in simbian and wm.
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
there are TONS of reasons to record a call. maybe i have a phone interview and i want to see how i did after the fact but i wont remember it all. just record the call for later. or maybe your girlfriend tells you a bunch of things to do and you cant remember them all, so record the call so you can make a list of all your errands. there are so many other reasons why you would want to record a call.

my 5 year old nephew just learned how to make phone calls, so he always calls me and leaves the cutest messages. so i sometimes record them to have later just cause it will be funny years from now.

open your mind and you will find tons of things you can use it for. none of the above is "illegal" as many would try to say.

the illegality comes into play if you try to record a company's help service and then sue them using the recording. THATS illegal stuff. but recording my mom wishing me a happy bday...no.
[Nexus One General] :
Pretty sure most of those situations are illegal to do in the majority of the country.
[Nexus One General] MrCDWJR:
imo call recording shouldn't be considered a "basic feature" but thats just imo.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
Federal law is set that in a phone call, if one of the parties records it, it is legal, and they do not have to notify, with very few exceptions (businesses can't record, then us in court, unless they notified you it was being recorded)... this is known as the one party notification statue. In some states, there is a two party statue (I want to say 11). If you do a quick google search, you can find out if you are in one of those states, or if you are dealing with someone in one of those states.

Even dual party notification state statues, in practice thus far, have allowed for individual to record private phone calls without notification, so long but they are just exempt from court, unlike single party notification states. And then there are other caveats, of course.

What most people are thinking of regarding taping without permission, is recording audio without permission of either party. This is highly illegal. And thankfully, video taping without sound laws are starting to become widespread.
[Nexus One General] :
Are you a lawyer, or studying by chance? I've seen a few of your post regarding statutes/laws/etc and you seem well versed in them.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
My mom was a professor of law prior to passing away.
[Nexus One General] krabman:
I personally have only wanted to record a coversation (retroactively) when it went like this... Me "Do you mind if I stay down at the bar with the guys for a while?" Her, " [lie] Sure, go ahead, have fun!" Then later on it turns out it wasn't ok. I wouldn't have minded recording a couple of those. lol
[Nexus One General] steezedout:
I don't think I've ever had the need for recording a call...? No offense but tell the other end to slow down or repeat. I don't think the majority of people need this. Sure it may be cool, but I don't see the widespread benefit from it. Unless you make ridiculously funny prank calls.

@krabman you know you still wouldn't be right and lose that argument right? :D:D
[Nexus One General] xXJay_RXx:
all i want is the ability to customize the notification bar. thats all im asking for GOOGLE!!!!! :(
[Nexus One General] Vision77:
IMO I think the UI is slowly heading in the right direction(I hope Mr WebOS fixes that).....The media player needs a ton of work as it is not pleasant on the eyes at all.....sometimes I feel like I'm being punished when I use the music app LOL. The sense UI is more intuitive than the stock UI....

sidebar: Can anyone recommend a functional+nice looking Music app?:)

sidebar2: Has anyone here had the privilege of using the TatUI?
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Blackmail obviously :D

And just in case you guys that want call recording don't know, Google Voice does this.
[Nexus One General] ap3604:
Paul once again to the rescue :)

How does the man do it?
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
His own words folks!
[Nexus One General] JanetPanic:
I would recommend everyone not a lawyer to be very careful about giving legal advice, even sons of lawyers.

http://www.callcorder.com/phone-recording-law-america.htm

Specifically Maryland for me:

http://www.rcfp.org/taping/states/maryland.html

So no, it is by all appearances not legal within Maryland to record converstaions without the consent of both parties. In cases where one party is not in a two party consent state the question is more open but has not been decided by case law at this stage as far as I can find.

(I did work as a paralegal for a number of years but am not in any way qualified to provide legal advice. OTOH I am willing to google to back up my arguments.)

On topic exchange support is improved in froyo. I am actually using the native support instead of touchdown now. This does bring up one feature that I would like though, the ability to set contacts from exchange as "phone only" by default. All the exchange contacts I had with the company (a couple hundred) merged with a similar number of contacts I had in google. Now I have a mess of contacts that is simply not worth the effort of cleaning up in my online gmail.

The on screen keyboard and bluetooth dialing could be improved as well. I also would vote for a dialer closer to Dialer One.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
LOL! :D

Video from Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LipDc2sFvQY
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
Where did I give actual legal advice? Being that you are a paralegal, you should know even better that telling someone something isn't illegal in all places, and too look it up isn't giving legal advice, it is telling them to educate themselves... I am not going to get anymore complicated than that, since I don't care to have a legal debate on here. I simply pointed out most places you can record your phone conversations, but you should look up your specific state to be sure.
[Nexus One General] ChillRays:
What was that number again?
[Nexus One General] khaytsus:
As you say, it's by state.. My state it's legal if at least one of the parties is aware of the recording. Depends on how early in the morning it is, but I'm aware of most things.

BTW, some already good reasons for recording calls, here's another.. I had a plumber come out and do some work for me, gave me an estimate, a few weeks later I got the bill and it was horribly wrong, like hundreds more than it should have been. I called him up, he clearly remembered my service and agreed there was a mistake, he mumbled some math and said "send in a check for $145", so I did.

About three months later they send me a nasty letter saying I still owe them like $680 and they don't take "partial payments". I tried to talk with the plumber I'd talked to previously, but he was no longer there... I grabbed the work ticket he worked on and brought it to them, they said it didn't have enough information on there and I was clearly written down as $800ish + some fees that they'd tacked on for late payments. So it occurred to me to play back the recording I'd made while I was there in the office and after a few false starts (me calling them originally, him calling me back to say he was on his way, etc) I found the call to him to figure out the payment problems.. Finally they went digging through their work orders and dug out my statement, <1hr + parts...

Of course I wish they'd just done that in the first place, but this time it saved me a bad credit score, because I sure as hell wasn't giving them $825 for a new drain in my tub..
[Nexus One General] PrawnPoBoy:
Android already has this in Google Talk. What does it lack?

The lead designer of WebOS just left Palm for Google to help with UI development of Android, so I suspect some great improvements will be made here. I don't expect the card system would fit the Android way of multitasking, but I'm still looking forward to seeing what they can come up with.
[Nexus One General] gllu:
Man, no offense but I don't give a crap what's not legal in Maryland. Where I live and call, it's quite legal and as I said - symbian and WM support the feature perfectly.