yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Off-topic] Purple Drama Llama:
Uh... The magnetic poles wouldn't switch overnight... It would take some time for that to happen, even if that occured. A geomagnetic reversal is a cycle. They've switched about 60 times during the last 65 million years. The latter few million years of the Cretaceous and the first couple of million years of the Paleocene both occurred during one slice of "reversed" polarity known to its fans as chron 29R. ("Reversed" means the polarity then was to the south.) The subsequent average between reversals has been a bit over a million years.
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Merge

Here....................
[Off-topic] galaxys:
Concerns for 2012...I wouldn't sweat the small stuff ;) Just try focusing on 2010 :eek:
[Off-topic] flyboyovyick:
Sorry Orb. I wasn't thinking last night.
[Off-topic] Austin021296:
look at the old legends, and prophecies... the world is at its worst it's been at so far. Wars and conflicts all over we barely hear about, the air, water and land are all polluted, the stocks are at their lowest, and there is so much hate. I'm not saying that there is no love or beauty left in the world, but it is being diminished

If anything does happen like nuclear war or World war 3 that it will begin around 2012 and by 2017 the world will be a whole different place then what it is today.
[Off-topic] the-equinoxe:
As Orb pointed out:

there already is a thread for this "argument"..
[Android Software Development] lucas.scott:
I have been an Android user for several months now . I came over from Windows Mobile . One of the main reasons i came to Android was for the open source capabilities (which i suppose now were only in my head). I feel I could REALLY customize my WM phones. Through much work of course , but I really felt like they were MINE . This has not been the case for me thus for with my Moto Droid.

Sure , there are several home screen replacement apps out there , but they really all do the same thing , they all just put their own tweaks on the already "blah" UI . Dont get me wrong , I love my Droid , but there are some simply BEAUTIFUL themes and skins being made for other devices that we cannot come close to . There are Windows Phone 7 / Zune HD themes for iphone and windows mobile that are stunning . The only thing we have that is even kind of "outside the box" is Slidescreen Pro , which I am using now .

I suppose my question is why? Is the OS just too new for these kinds of things to be happening for us? Or are the devs anti everything but the Android look ? Have read a lot of people expressing interest in such themes , most are met with coy responses . Telling the thread starter to "buy an iphone" or get a "WP7 phone" . I love android , but i feel like Microsoft made a hell of an UI with their Zune HD / WP7 . I would like to see something like that for us Android users , instead of looking like SPB Mobile Shell that i was running on my WM phone 3 years ago haha .

If there are devs out there willing to work on this , I am more than willing to pay for it . Im sure other people would be willing as well . Im happy to drop a couple hundred bucks if we can get it off the ground and running . I put the EZune HD theme on my girlfriends iPhone the other day and was shocked at how awesome it was . Something must be done .. Thanks .
[Android Software Development] dancer_69:
I agree with that. I thought that with android the UI customising will be much more easy and flexible and I expected to see a lot and different home replacements. But all are at the same pattern. The only app that I can compare with wm apps(wisbar advance desktop, pointui home, throttle launcher) is sweeter home, which unfortunately it's not so stable at this stage and a little heavy.

I would like to see more apps with this flexibility and ability to really change the look of android' s home screen.

And I think that generaly this happens in android developing. You can find a lot of apps of a kind but all looks and do almost the same things. I find more imagination and creativity in development of a close and unflexible OS as wm.
[Android Software Development] dan.expo:
If you make one let me know :P
[Android Software Development] ari-free:
yes sweeter home has the most potential

sweeterskins.com

sweeterskins.net

For example, the obligatory LCARS theme
[Android Software Development] lucas.scott:
Gotta say , i heard of Sweeter Home and just kept on moving . I got it today and it really does have potential . Some pretty cool outside the box themes . Hopefully it picks up steam . Good call guys .
[Android Software Development] TREYisRAD:
Not a complete replacement, and still lacks quite a number of features, but SlideScreen is pretty nice looking
[Android Software Development] lucas.scott:
yes , slide screen is my favorite by far...
[Android Software Development] TREYisRAD:
They need to let you choose default apps, it keeps launching into the sense apps instead of Handcent, etc
[Android Software Development] ari-free:
the thing about sweeter home that is so cool is that is has a GUI system for creating themes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwQez-dUdY
[Android Software Development] TREYisRAD:
Are there any homescreens that are text-only? (looking for a terminal look, but not matrix)
[Android Software Development] ari-free:
ok they are really PNG's but the effect is the same. The 'text' can go over any background including live wallpaper.
[Android Software Development] FireZenk:
I'm working on one now, some screenshots:
[Android Software Development] lucas.scott:
what do you mean by that? The only thing i have not been able to change what it launches is the twitter app .
[Android Software Development] TREYisRAD:
I set handcent as the default texting app, but it still opens the stock one.
[Android Software Development] Leshy01:
Make sure you're opening the handcent program itself. The icon for messages on the home screen is the shortcut for that program. Not always the shortcut for messages in general.

Also, go to application settings, find "messages" and click it to remove default settings. Now when you select handcent you should be able to chose it as default
[Android Software Development] FireZenk:
More tests...

Do you think? what is your opinion? :)
[Android Software Development] lucas.scott:
looking good so far . I would like to learn how to make themes for sweeter home . Have some pretty good ideas , and lots of graphic designer friends . If i had the know-how , pretty sure i could pop out a really cool Windows Phone 7 skin .
[Android Software Development] dancer_69:
It's not so hard. Sweeter home has a theme editor as part of the app. You can create a theme on the device. And there is a wiki with documentation on how you can make themes.

http://www.sweeterhome.com/

http://sweeterskins.net/
[Android Software Development] Vermithrax:
Here is a demonstration at MWC 2010 showing a suite of tools that allows you to design home replacements for Android:

Offsite link to electronics-videos.com

I hope that it is okay to post external links... :cool:?

Mods please remove if needed

I would say that it adds potential to what Android could become... :cool:

L8r
[Android Software Development] ari-free:
don't forget to check out lemonnz's sweeter home videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/lemonNZ
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] master1454:
Is there a cab that can disable the SMS msg I get after a phone call or missed one?

And yes, I have searched high & low for a solution on this site & can't find it.

Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] master1454:
So, my situation is unique? No one else has had this issue?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Aaron McCarthy:
It's not an sms message.. it's just a pop up... and its dependent on what rom you are using really on how you turn on and off your notifications. If you are running a custom rom like Energy or something go to their thread and ask how to disable the particular notification.

usually its settings\sounds and notifications\ then go to the notifications tab and in there you can change what your phone does for different events.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stevedebi:
You want to turn off the "missed call" icon on the task bar? I don't recall anyone requesting this before...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ridolfo:
No, he wants to turn of the message that comes in with details about the missed call (date/time).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] master1454:
The missed call notification was off. Actually, it shows as a SMS message with the phone number that called or the call that I made. It definitely seems like a ROM issue - just flashed to Jackos' (so far perfect IMO) ROM & haven't had that issue at all. Thanks - I think I've found the solution.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] master1454:
Hey guys, the damn notification is back again! What the hell is that?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Sparkz914:
Are you using Youmail for your Voicemail?
[Desire General] ewans:
I use my work email as a central source for contacts, managing them in Outlook. I sync with my Desire using HTC Sync, which works well and creates them on the phone as contacts with a type 'phone'. I would like to then sync these with gmail, but can't find a way to do it - and yes I've searched everywhere!

So the ideal would be - I add a contact in Outlook, which sync's with the phone using HTC Sync, which then wireless syncs with gmail - shouldn't be too hard, should it?
[Desire General] ruleamsterdam:
You could just export the Outlook contacts to a vCard and import that to Gmail.
[Desire General] ewans:
That's my point - I could do it that way but it's a lot of manual effort. Surely there is some way of automating it?
[Desire General] LBTaylor1984:
Google are still working on the sync app, they've released the api to the community, unfortunately the only people working I'm it are corps wanting to make money, so until google pullover socks up. You either buy an app like 4team sync2, or manually update everything. There is a lb app called GO sync contacts, but while its free the dev has open

Sourced it, and gave up. There is an issue with it, so until someone fixes it. You need to buy one of these apps.

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[Desire General] ferus:
When I converted my phone contacts to Google contacts I did 3 things:

1. Exported all phone contacts to vcf file.

2. Copied the vcf file to my desktop

3. Imported the vcf file to my Google accounts (via Google contacts web UI).

It took about 1 minute. :)

I presume exporting all contacts to vcf in Outlook takes about the same time. ;)
[Desire General] ewans:
But the problem is I update my contacts daily (i'm a sales guy) so I want to keep them updated in all 3 places automatically by just updating Outlook. If either HTC Sync could create them on the phone as 'google' contacts, or I could sync 'phone' contacts to gmail, this would work.

If one of the apps mentioned above does this I'd be happy to pay for it.
[Desire General] crazy_horse_uk:
Have you tried Companion Link?

chuk
[Desire General] LBTaylor1984:
If your willing to pay go for 4team sync2 it works very well, silent operation. And forwards all details you, can set sync times too. From memory its about $25

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[Desire General] pascanu:
http://www.soocial.com/
[Desire General] ewans:
Thanks guys, Companion Link, 4team and Soocial may work, I'm going to look at these in more detail.

Shame that all I really need to do is to set the contact type to 'Google' when I sync and it would work, or sync contact type of 'phone' with Gmail.
[Desire General] Rob Pomeroy:
How about making the PC the central sync point? i.e. use both GO Contact Sync and HTC Sync on the PC running Outlook.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] chrisportela:
I have T-mobile unlimited Messaging plan which includes email. It worked without wifi or t-mobile data for a long time and all of a sudden it can not connect to the gmail server. I've tried reflashing my rom, flashing other roms but all with no success. Help?!
[Networking] zanthos:
Hi all

I try to connect to a Windows Network share.

I succeded to map the share using Resco Explorer and HTC Network Tool, but I can only access the mounted share if I have a program that opens the path directly.

-> I don't see "\Network\..." in any other program, not even in Resco Explorer.

If I try to create a folder in "\" (my root) that is called "Network" I get an error (since it seems to exist).

How can that be? How can I make "\Network\..." visible/accessible?

I'm using a Toshiba G900 device with a custom 6.5.3 ROM...

Thanks for all hints!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] momentarylapseofreason:
I was sitting here while the rain slams my house like a freight train and debating on looking into relocking the bootloader a bit more in-depth. However, over the past several months, HTC has been AWESOME about sending users with unlocked phones new (or refurrbed) phones due to hardware issues (ie dust under screens and broken power buttons)

So what are your thoughts? Is this something we should start a "think tank" on or shall we just leave it be?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] temperbad:
I say ye's. Better safe then sorry.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuff:
Well, all I can see is the Security feature needs to be shut off for the bootloader to be re-locked. (According to the message output from using the ADB command).

But how to do that, I have no idea.

Might take some data usage from one of the few that are actually able to lock/unlock it. (Like the Holiday N1's or the ones handed out)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] frifox:
Engadget article, last video:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/15/exclusive-motorola-droid-x-preview/

It plays DivX videos natively, and with very good quality as well... not sure how it is with android, but should we expect an Evo port of that player sometime soon? I know it was done in winmo world, but since i'm relatively new to android scene, wanted to ask before forking out $10 for yxplayer.

Thanks!

EDIT:

Galaxy S is also "DivX HD Certified Android Smartphone":

Galaxy S (I9000) Product Specifications, Video: HD(720p@30fps) video playing & recordingCodec: mpeg4, H.264, H.263, H263Sorenson, DivX HD/ XviD, VC-1Format: 3gp (mp4), WMV (asf), AVI (divx), MKV, FLV

another opportunity for a great divx player port to evo?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mrono:
There was a thread about rock video player floating around but I can't find it anymore. amazing player, handles whatever I throw at it besides the 720 stuff our phones don't have the power to play.

Mod. edit: That's because it is still a beta and the developer didn't consent it's distribution. It was therefore removed as warez according the forum rules.http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6805512#post6805512http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6805512#post6805512
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] frifox:
yes, i have it, use it every day... but i found yxlpayer to handle h264/MKV's much better, without major stuttering. most releases (i'd say ~80% of all) on the scene right now are high profile h264 in MKV's so i have a need for yxplayer more than rockplayer.

since Droid X and Galaxy S plays DivX and MKVs (galaxy s, at least) natively, i would imagine its performance being MUCH better than yxplayer/rockplayer. that's why i was hoping for an Evo port ;)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] angeltk:
Our phones can handle 720p h264 base profile just fine with HW acceleration, It's just that rockplayer seems like it's more or less a software implementation.

But yes I would LOVE to see some sweet h264 High Profile HW decoding support, this phone was meant and advertised to be a powerhouse media player and it pains me to see it only crippled by lack of SW support. (Sorry youtube HQ, you're only useful if I wanted to see lolcats, for everything else, I'm sick of having to go through a conversion process) If only AirVideo developers would at least say SOMETHING about a possible android port...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flexgrip:
Or you could do what I did and write a transcoder using ffmpeg to get tv and movies streamed. I'm able to get native res x264 to my phone from my own script, even over 3g. Just can't get seeking to work because I don't know a way to move the the atom chunks to the front of the single pass encoding process before it starts encoding. I don't actually think its possible over http which is why I'm thinking about moving it to an app.

But apart from that I have x264 hw from the HTC player and xvid from rockplayer. What is the problem? They work fine. I don't care that its two apps.

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[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] frifox:
i wrote a batch script for myself that re-encodes (not streams) my vids into evo-supported format. just drag&drop all vids and they are properly encoded regardless of the input format. as far as streaming, i use Orb. the problems with both, i don't always want to spend time (if i have any at all) to re-encode, and streaming doesnt produce enjoyable 800x480 quality with real-time encoding (tho orb allows seeking, which is a +, but not enough to compensate for quality loss).

that i know, but hw-accelerated h264 playback is limited only to baseline profiles. many scene releases are either main or high profiles, and in addition to that, inside mkv's which stock player doesnt do.

i have no difficulty going through loops and hoop to get my vids played on Evo, but most of the time i'm simply wasting time/quality while doing it... that being said, DroidX/GalaxyS most likely incorporates hardware accelerated playback (or a dam good software-based decoding algorithm), and seeing how silky smooth it plays 720p DivX/AVI files, I would LOVE to have a player on my Evo with such good decoding performance... thats why asking about an Evo port. DEVS, please respond :cool:

... oh and also, let's not even mention SUBs (A.S.S. inside MKV's)... those things are ALWAYS a problem, no matter which player you use :P
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] angeltk:
Mind elaborating on the process for this a bit? I know that AirVideo essentially does the same thing on the iDevices but with a pretty complicated script that can raise or lower quality based on bandwidth constraints. Also they use some sort of framserver to serve subtitles embedded into an mkv/ogm container before transcoding it on the fly. I really don't know enough about encoding to get into this (though I'd love to learn more) but I would love to be able to have SOME sort of solution to this.

Orb quality is absolute crap on any mobile device I've been on, and that includes WiMo 6.x, The iPod Touch and of course Android. Unfortunately I couldn't use Orb 2.5x because of the lack of subtitle support and their fix "soon" is worse than Blizzard's "soon" on game releases.

My current solution is a batch script to convert the h264 high profiles to ffmpeg mp4s (simply because the conversion takes 4 minutes compared to 9 if I converted it to h264 baseline) and proceeding to manually rip out the A.S.S./SRT files from the mkvs manually and using mVideoPlayer/meridian to softload everything. It's a long process that I simply don't want to do to enjoy some video :(
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] frifox:
did some more research... Samsung Galaxy S (i9000) & Motorola Droid X both have something in common: Cortex-A8 w/ NEON™.

What's that? Simply put, hardware acceleration for "watching

any

video in

any

format". Soft codec standards include MPEG-4, H.264, On2 VP6/7/8, Real, AVS, and more. This explains the above mobile's ability to playback 720p high profile h264 in MKVs with no problem at all.

As far as I know, Evo sports QSD8650, a chipset from 2007, which doesn't include Cortex-A8. Conclusion? No hardware accelerated Main/High profile H264, MKV, DivX, etc playback for HTC Evo no matter how hard we try...

Seriously, the MAIN reason I bought Evo is for its 1GHz and 4.3" screen hoping to finally escape the dreaded days of horrible video playback on my Touch Pro. I LOVE Evo, but this... @#$@#$!

anyways, our last hopes lay in the hands of CorePlayer devs, since they're working on android port. their player was the only thing that kept me winmo somewhat bearable for video playback. CorePlayer plays pretty much everything you throw at it since they use their own video decoders, not android's, to play back avi/mkv/mp4/etc...

PS: most of the time, video re-encoding is NOT an option for me... no computer at home besides Evo :P
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Aridon:
I loved core player.

Rock player is simply outstanding. I highly recommend everyone pick it up once it his market. Much better than yxplayer.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] frifox:
720p h264 (high-profile) video, both rockplayer & yxplayer = 0.5 to 3 fps playback. unacceptable.

PS: different sources report differently, but according to some - Droid X runs same chipset as Evo, QSD8650. So AVI/MKV/DivX (not sure bout main/high h264) support Evo port could still be possible... just need some dumps from Droid X and start cooking :)

EDIT: Droid X runs OMAP3630, which also has Cortex-A8... dam, why does Evo just has to be different? Cortex-A8 = hardware accelerated ALL video playback, and Evo doesn't have it :(
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] frifox:
Not sure if this will help, but.... Galaxy S (i8000) /system dump:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=704817

the goodies:

/system/lib/libs264domxoc.so

/system/lib/libsac3domxoc.so

/system/lib/libsdiv3domxoc.so

/system/lib/libsflacdomxoc.so

/system/lib/libsvc1domxoc.so

/system/lib/libswmv8domxoc.so

/system/lib/libsavidocn.so

/system/lib/libsmkvdocn.so

/system/lib/libsflvdocn.so

/system/lib/libswmfdocn.so

wonder how much of the above is cortex-a8 specific... :confused:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] djuniah:
droid x native playback

I've seen it mentioned in a few places that the DX will play divx/mkv files natively, but i really havent had much luck with it at all. All of the MKV files i've tried (3 or 4) have failed to play. Since mkv is just a container, does anyone have some specifics about which decoders the dx has?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] r0man:
Unless I'm holding my phone the touchscreen doesn't work. Seems to be the same problem as the HTC EVO. T-Mo support is giving me the silent treatment, is there any way to correct this problem? I need to be able to use it without holding it for GPS in my car due to local laws.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamrock11:
after rooting and flashing ROMS, im confused on somethings. When flashing a new ROM do you ALWAYS have to wipe? Also, when you make a Nandroid back up, wipe and flash a new ROM, can you restore from that backup so you dont have to download all your apps//set up your screens all over again? Please help.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] one-of-four:
If you are switching to a completely new rom, then yes, you have to do a complete wipe. If you are upgrading a rom, adding mods or something similar then you don't need to do a data wipe. If you are switching from a rom that uses apps2sd from one that uses it you should probably wipe your ext partition as well.

To answer your second question, a nandroid backup backs up EVERYTHING on your phone, so using a nandroid restore will knock out your new rom and put everything back the way it was, including apps and settings. If you nandroid back from your new rom (lets say your phone gets stuck in a boot-loop or something...) you should do a data wipe and wipe ext partition, then nandroid.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamrock11:
what does wipe ext partition wipe
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamrock11:
also...

I want to use stock Android 2.1 ROM but want to use SetCPU to overclock. I tried flashing this kernel: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=690238 but was stuck on the white/green HTC Screen. I then tried this kernel: http://forum.androidcentral.com/162759-post49.html and it got rid of super user permission so I couldnt use SetCPU. Is there another kernel I can use? If so can you PLEASE provide download link? One more thing, how do I compile this: http://xdaforums.com/show...ghlight=kernel