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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Couldn't care less for most visuals. Besides "I have a cooler looking phone" comparison battles and eating more CPU (and battery), it does nothing.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
I don't need another "feature" on my phone that will make people say "ooh, so it's like an iPhone?"

The kinetic scrolling on my girlfriend's iPhone 3G has always annoyed the piss out of me anyway. Get to where I'm scrolling and then stop, please... I don't need you to bounce around afterwards to celebrate the fact that I haven't thrown you to the ground yet.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chowlala:
That's right. We hella don't need another "feature" that looks like that crap sizzle from Steve Job's ass. What we need is a Death Star laser beam that will emit itself from the audio jack, automatically targeting morons, bad road drivers and idiotic iphone users.

Peace out.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclair~:
Its such a minuscule detail, do you honestly believe people will ask "Is it like an iPhone?", unless you purposely demonstrate the feature and make a direct comparison? Though, you may actually know people that would do such a thing, it sounds so unlikely.. I guess techies would probably do it.. can't see a typical person caring much, or calling it out as such.. too many scenarios to properly make a point here.

Wait, so it could be like making a folder on a Mac, and saying ooh its like Windows.. I can actually imagine a few doing that.. I'm rambling, and whatever..
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brut.all:
I think this isn't important, whether Android will look like iPhone or not. It's important how usable and productive it is. Many of fancy animations degrade usability, so I don't like them. If this scrolling feature is quick, say less than 0.5s, then it's ok, but if it takes more, it would annoy me quite a bit.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
Yes, people will ask. People just look at the form factor and think it has approximately the same shape as an iPhone. They see the slide-to-unlock screen and think that's like an iPhone too. iPhone fanbois will always see those similarities and will always point out, "Well, they just stole that from the iPhone," and use that argument to suggest that the iPhone is a better product. I'm a tech guy, and I work with tech guys, many of whom are iPhone fans, and these are the sort of things they love to use as fodder. Heck, they even seen the ability to swipe left and right between home screens and they think that's an iPhone maneuvre as well.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trinode:
Show them the pattern unlock and ask if they copied that.. point out it's all about choice, and that's what android gives us.

I just thought of my engraving I should have had:

"I are no iSheep."
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
There are plenty of things I can show them that an Android phone can do that an iPhone can't - multitasking, for example. Regardless of how much more it can do, they'll notice the things that Android "stole" from Apple.

Back on topic, this bouncy-scrolling doesn't improve the interface; it doesn't make it easier to use; it doesn't make using a menu more efficient... all it does is make it look like an iPhone. I don't need gratuitous eye candy. If I did, I'd buy an Apple.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daswolven:
Get ADW launcher from the market. It has settings to control the scrolling and responsiveness of the homescreens and app drawer. good stuff.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcforpres:
Any time you touch the screen of your phone, iPhone fanbois will claim it was ripped off, since we all know Apple invented the touchscreen phone.:rolleyes:

What is sad, they probably have a patent on the use of a touchscreen on a phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
Teehee sarcasm, but pinch to zoom was never patented by apple, at least its generally known that apple's vague attempt at the patent cannot hold up in court. This is why apple never sued palm for the pre being the first to enable pinch to zoom other than apple.

But the kinetic snap back looks to be much more specifically called out in apple's patent.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brut.all:
I think they should sue Nature and Physics for using their patents. But ohhh, N&P guys were using this feature millennia before Apple even existed...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] te_quiero_forever_girl:
He is talking about the scrolling of the whole UI in a whole, specifically in broswer and contacts
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JanetPanic:
+1

Android is not the iPhone. They have some things in common and in other areas the design choices are different. It is not beneficial to the platform to copy features without good reason. Pinch to zoom is a logical and intuitive way to interact with a limited space screen. More importantly it was deemed a significant missing feature in Android by many vocal users. Fingerworks predates the iPhone by close to a decade and is where I first ran into pinch to zoom BTW. It is possible Apple bought them out though.

Bouncy (elastic?) scrolling is, IMHO, less significant and less intuitive than P2Z. At the very least it does not have nearly the vocal support P2Z had. From my point of view bouncy scrolling is not needed and I would prefer to no have it on android, or at least have it as a feature that can be disabled. Like "wobbly windows" it is a feature that (to me) is neat for a little while but then gets old.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shmigao:
I have 1600+ contacts. I actually like scrolling through them and then zap with on finger touch the scrolling stops instantaneously.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dudyk:
I like that it stops at once, I usually can tell were the scroll ends with no snapback...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supergodie:
Currently samsung galaxy S has implemented this feature. :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arkain123:
I've seen a few people comment something along these lines when they see any threads referencing iPhone. Personally I've always thought Android users were the grown ups in the fanboy fights, the ones who just smile while Apple people scream and rave about how Android sucks, confident that the cloud+open will eventually win out just because it's a better philosophy than "nothing gets updated or released without Steve Jobs' signature".

The way I see it, iOS is a well run monarchy and Android is an incipient but surprisingly successful democracy. Eventually freedom wins.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big_adventure:
It's patented, but there is a fair amount of prior art, which is why Apple hasn't sued anyone on this yet (though I hear they worked out some kind of mutual licensing scheme with Palm for some features).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amdathlonuk:
Class!

:D:D:D:D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
Hasn't any nexus users running launcher pro compared next to the iPhone and seen that both phones are equally smooth now? I'm talking about home screens scrolling. Same with gmail app scrolling, and web browser on most pages. Some pages, like this forum's new theme, is a little choppy. But most web sites are literally smooth as butter, and just as smooth as the iPhone.

Hasn't anyone done this? Cause I have this week and both phones are the same.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supergodie:
Any news about this? :confused:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
yes launcher pro is the answer to this thread. launcher pro is hitting up around 50 fps swiping between homescreens, probably closer to 60 fps. next to my ipod touch (3rd gen) the nexus one is literally just as smooth. the only thing left is a few scrolling lists here and there are smooth, but have that slight skip once in a while. no big deal really, they are still smooth when doesnt skip like that.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyodji:
Not yet

Launcher Pro is not the answer to this thread... it does mimic the 'snap back' on the homescreen, and it really is quite smooth and nice, there's nothing wrong with it... but I think what the original poster is looking for is for this snap back behavior on any/all lists and scrollable panes.

Having moved to a droid from an iPhone I totally understand...when you hit the bottom (or top) of a list and it just stops moving, it's like it's no longer responding to your touch... it just feels a lot more natural if you can continue to drag the list and have it snap back when you 'let go'... hoping this gets added at some point.

/droid2 running Froyo
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
It's more natural.. What, if it's a list of crap on a big wheel? It's a UI design, Android doesn't have to duplicate it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyodji:
yeah but there's two aspects to UI... Look and Feel. This is much more about the Feel... as it stands, it 'Feels' like the phone is no longer responding to my touch when I hit the end of a list. I just really enjoy the feedback this feature gives, that it is indeed responding to your touch, you just happen to have hit the end of a list.

In fact, after I posted last night I saw that LauncherPro has already implemented this in the 3D drawer (preferences/Advanced Settings/Use 3D drawer)... enable that and then look at the app drawer (talk about a list of crap...there's a lot shizz in that list considering i've only purchase 3 apps since getting the phone), scroll to the top and bottom and see how you can drag it past the bottom/top then it settles back in? That would be nice in all menus/lists. That's all I'm saying. I'm in no way advocating that Droid needs to be more like iOS.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krad1992:
Gonna like this... :P
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemolivier:
If you use N1 ou Desire, you can try MIUI rom, who have this kinetic scroll*: look here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789566

I’m not an apple fan-boy at all (never use iphone, don’t like the Apple™ politic®). But I like the kinetic scroll efect. Is a good trick to now you’re at the end of a list. Very intuitiv. I’d like to see this as an option in OpenDesire, for exemple.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brut.all:
CyanogenMod team has added overscrolling feature, it's in nightlies. For me it behaves weirdly, not as smooth as on iPhone, but I don't really care, cause I don't even like this feature. I'm glad I can disable it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rt1oo:
I have a quick question on creating a bootscreen animation

I have 2 .gifs that I would like to combine into an image. I've downloaded a few animations off of this forum, off the bootscreen repository. I've struggled through transparency issues (hint: in photoshop, select "Save for web and devices" and un-check transparency). I've sort of figured out update-script by copying one I downloaded off here, successfully signed stuff, and I've actually seen my gifs pop up (but all messed up and off center, with transparency issues stated above). So i changed the XML in textedit and set both X & Y cropping to 0.

My problem is that as soon as my boot1.gif finishes, the screen goes black and boot2.gif doesn't show. in addition, any boot.mp3 sounds immediately stop.

Both boot1.gif and boot2.gif are 320x480

I have both .gif files set to repeat forever, and had the first one set to repeat once and there is no change.

files are attached: boot1.gif, boot2.gif, and my update.zip

relevant xml file:

-snip-
<BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation
image="/system/media/bootscreen/boot1.gif"
image2="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif"
loopimage="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif"
audio="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3"
useAudio="0"
/>
</BootConfiguration>
-snip-

If someone could just take a look at this and tell me what I've done wrong that would be exceedingly helpful :)

Boot1.gif ........................................................... boot2.gif

warning this update.zip is not necessarily in working condition. It won't mess up anything too important on your phone if you do flash it (will probably mess up your bootscreen), but I just wanted to be sure to post this warning !!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notasimpleway:
I will look at it in a bit. I am mobile at the moment.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notasimpleway:
Also, did you use Image Ready?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rt1oo:
no. photoshop
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdotcarlisle:
Mine were doing the same thing. What pseudo had told me is that photoshop optimizes the image, after you create. Open the gif in gimp then go to filter animation and un-optimize. A new windo will open then do the file save as boot1 and file extension gif and you should be all set.

heres a flashable zip of the second image, the first has a 403 forbidden message.

edit: saw the update.zip i unoptimized in gimp and resigned, should work for yo
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rt1oo:
hey thanks :) I looked around and found that there were a few options in PS, original vs. optimized and so I selected original. I'll see if this works...booting now...

all the xml was right though?

...flashed my own zip now, it was a success! thanks very much for the optimization tips! ;)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdotcarlisle:
np. you cant unoptimize in PS. You'll have to dl gimp and do it its the only way I could get to work. at least its free. and weird as it sounds its deoptimizing, actually makes a lil bigger.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rt1oo:
I have CS5... and was able to. it's working now anyway
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notasimpleway:
Did you get everything worked out?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rt1oo:
yep it's all great. Thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SooSpecial:
Hi folks,

My N1 suddenly won't vibrate.

During an incoming call, if I shake the phone it would vibrate for a second and then stops again. Obviously a hardware issue I would say. And now it won't vibrate at all. I guess it was loose and now totally dead.

The thing is I'm currently out of the US for 6 months or so. I called up Google and they required a local address. No body is at my place there.

What do you think I should do? Is there any way I can ship the phone to HTC internationally?

Cheers.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dudebro:
are you on a desire rom? there is an option on by default to silence ring on pickup.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spirit32:
i had this problem a while ago, but after resetting my phone, its back to normal.
[Touch Pro CDMA] quesok1:
So I want to provide as much info as possible to fully understand what's going on. So yesterday I unlocked my HTC Pro (Sprint carrier) and flashed a new rom (NFSFAN's WM 6.5.5) After successfully flashing the rom I hard reset my phone just as instructed. After attempting to go online, access email, and doing anything that had to do with data connections I realized I didn't have the data plan on my phone. So I called Sprint to have the data plan on my phone. But for some reason I'm still having trouble accessing anything data related, internet, email, etc. I called technical support and they told me I had to update profile by going to the start menu then settings. But I didn't see this option in settings. Keep in mind that I don't have the stock Sprint rom which is what they were guiding me with. I told them my phone is customized so everything is different. So they told me to either browse through the phone until I find this option or hard reset it and go back to the stock Sprint rom (which is my last resort). The error I keep getting is "Cannot connect, dialed: #777, check your connection settings."

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
[Touch Pro CDMA] brian1085:
iam also having problems with data and im using boost service but i do have data connection but when i try to use any data it doesnt respond . and i cant find this option to update profile either. any help?
[Touch Pro CDMA] k177a:
Boost Data fix

(1)ReApply stock shipped rom for sprint 1 in following link: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=42741

(2)update prl

(3)do hard reset when complete

That should do it!!!

You can flash to whatever rom you want after this without data worries as long as rom is data capable i assume
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djind:
Hey all,

My apologies if this question has been asked before. I have had a G1 for a while, but switched to the Desire recently. I never had the need to enable apps2sd, but since my lil bro got the G1 now he wants to install a lot more. He is new to Android and curious about every app. I am seeing some errors with the a2sd though.

I have installed the latest CM4 and enabled a2sd by partitioning the sdcard as 0 mb swap, 512 ext3.

The sdcard secondary is showing normally the correct values, but after a restart it states that there is no sdcard secondary and apps do not work obviously. The forceclose immediately after launch.

Am I doing something wrong with the settings or what? Is it normal for this to happen?

Also, is it safe to connect the sdcard to the pc, if a2sd is enabled? I remember him having problems with apps launching after transfering some music files via usb.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhatP:
Is the EXT partition showing up when you run 'print' in parted?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djind:
I cannot check it right now. I don't have access to his phone since I won't be home for a week or two. I assume parted should be used within terminal, right?

su and then parted /dev/block/mmcblk0? According to him, this is not found.

But the secondary sd is showing, which should mean apps should work?

I let him install an app, and asked him about the memory. Only phone memory was reduced, meaning it didn't touch the sd secondary.

I can remember me having the same error, when I wanted to try out this a2sd, but never looked into it since I didn't need it.

edit: I just remembered it should be done in recovery. He is more of a noob than I am, so proabably doing it when I get home.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhatP:
Depending on which ROM he is using, he may have to enable A2SD. For example, I'm running Cyanogen Mod 5.0.7 - DS and need to enable it under Application Settings. Good luck, I'm no expert but I've been through my fair share of problems with this phone for 2 years now.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omeraa:
delete dalvik cache

Delete your dalvik cache....this helped me
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djind:
Hmm thnx for all the answers. I think I will just flash CM5 for him. I had deleted everything from personal settings to dalvik cache and battery settings and what not. The issue was still there. Either that or just forget about a2sd.
[HD2 General] ronzogonzo:
Since I am not yet eligible to add links to my posts, I can only tell you to go to youtube and search for "InvenSense MotionProcessing". I guarantee it'll be worth it and maybe someone could post the link. Awesome one handed motion command tech. Check it out! :cool:
[HD2 General] Oberoth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ta-wAdvh8

this is the link, but i dont think it is really useable...
[HD2 General] lude219:
That looks like a lot of work. Goddamn...

So rather than pressing the call button and then speakerphone button, I have to do a 7-step of shaking, turning, girating, tilt shaking, etc...to activate the speakerphone after my call is connected?

What about to those people with old age, osteoporosis, or Alzheimer? THEY WOULDNT EVEN BE ABLE TO USE THE PHONE AT ALL!!
[HD2 General] ronzogonzo:
uh no, if u listen to the demo, u can setup 1 motion to do whatever u want in the same way u would set up a speed dial contact or a hot key, whatever. I know i would like it.
[HD2 General] lude219:
Yea, for you. If it's for mass-market, it would not. Imagine if you give it to your old grandma who has the memory of a pebble and expect her to memorize the different "hotkey" that she has set up and expect her to do it right...
[HD2 General] ronzogonzo:
how many "grandmas" do you know of that use smartphones? I bet you only need 1 hand.
[HD2 General] lude219:
How many people in their 50s and 60s using an iphone? Don't be retarded. This is not about smartphone and more about the technology in your original post. Sooner or later, every quasi-smartphones out there will have a accelerometer and can do what that technology describes.
[HD2 General] ronzogonzo:
I don't get your point. I think most people could figure it out quite easily and would be in the majority for the simple reason that they like new tech, and for those who can't, probably wouldn't even be interested in even a ground level smartphone. And you're right, sooner or later, every quasi-smartphones out there will have a accelerometer and probably most of the owners won't even use the tech. I know a lot of people in their 50/60's that have iphones because they're the "thing to have" and most of them have no idea what the phone is capable of. I agree, it's not for everybody. But I disagree and I still think that most people would love it including me but I just got my Hd2 about a month ago so I can wait. ;)
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
I was a Nintendo fan until I wasted money on the Wii... Motion controls don't do it for me personally and just imagine tilting the phone so you can see the screen clearly without a reflection from bright sunlight and the phone going crazy... :p
[HD2 General] secano:
Parkinsons would be the worst one!
[HD2 General] DrATty:
My mother has it. She's not so good with technology but at least with this she could hold the phone 'still' and wait for the feature she wants to pop up.
[HD2 General] 10332007:
Its neat to show, but not really applicable.

Just about everything shown there can be done already much faster and easier and with more stable results. Why scroll around the screen by holding a button and tilting the phone when I could just tap the one I want...?

I have enough problems waking my phone up in my pocket with out my jogging motion dialing out hanging up and dialing out again ever time I take a step.

It is neat tech, but I dont see it taking off in that form at all. Aspects of it I am sure will find their way into phones, but most of that is just for show IMO.
[HD2 General] ronzogonzo:
I think people are forgetting that apps are customizable. Just because it can do all those thing doesn't mean it just has an on/off switch and it's all or nothing. Don't you think it would have settings for enabling/disabling the different functions? I mean as far as jogging goes, wouldn't you just shut the function off much in the same way you would put your phone in airplane mode when you get on a plane?

I like doing one-handed operations and got into the habit when I had an iphone. And yes, you can do it already but I find because of the Hd2's larger screen, it's not as comfortable in my hand and sometimes feels like it might slip so to be able to answer the phone by a simple motion of my wrist like Captain Kirk answering his communication device would be pretty cool. And to go from one quicklink page to another by a simple tilt would be cool also. I would probably still choose an app with my thumb but that's my point. To have the different options would be nice. I would probably use the zoom function also. The reason I sold my iphone is because I got tired of chasing the next jailbreak in order to get the phone the way I wanted it instead of the way Apple would allow me. And the Hd2's hardware was too good to pass up and I have no regrets and the more options I have, the more I like it. I'm not gonna sell my Hd2 if that tech came out on a phone tomorrow but to me, if your spending a considerable amount of money on a phone, it should pretty much do anything I want it to short of cooking my dinner! :p
[HD2 General] xaccers:
So you tilt the phone to get up the photo you want to show a friend, hand it over and they tilt the phone and suddenly they've scrolled through your album and are seeing those pics you took of your gf last night instead ;)
[HD2 General] ronzogonzo:
Ha! Let's hope they already thought of that in the research and development department! :eek: