yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA General] DirtyShroomz:
Hah me too I was stuck... Like I didn't know how to individually click
[Hero CDMA General] ravizzle:
Apparently they will be making swype available for everyone tomorrow!!!

cant post links, so replace DOT with .

techcrunchDOTcom/2010/06/15/want-swype-yes-you-do-get-it-tomorrow-for-android-phones/
[Hero CDMA General] Droidish:
Good call. Apparently they release for everyone today.
[Hero CDMA General] jbreakfield:
Yep, I can confirm that... I never had Swype before, but I registered on the Swype Beta website and downloaded it today. Working great so far. :)
[Hero CDMA General] chromiumleaf:
Works for me too. No need to try Beta yet ;)
[Hero CDMA General] pyropup55:
yeah my version of swype died the same day as the TS did, found a verison that worked later on that day, then got my beta invite that night. It was swype over-load
[myTouch 3G Slide General] richierich118:
Hi i cannot set custom ringtones for my contacts on mts. I come from a g1 had all my contacts on google and everything sync ok with my contacts i just cannot set custom ringtones. I am using mp3's for the music and ringdroid to cut the songs. One song has worked and that was only to set my default ringtone
[myTouch 3G Slide General] tubaking182:
it took me a while to figure this out, i also came from the G1. all you have to do is go to contacts, just touch the name you want to change the ring tone for(not long press) and scroll down and you should see the option of ring tone in there
[myTouch 3G Slide General] fermunky:
Yeah, strangely enough it is not an option while "editing" a contact. Yet only when "viewing" contact details. Strange.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] richierich118:
Yes it is strange thanks for they help guys
[myTouch 3G Slide General] RavenWulf:
a way of setting tones for multi contacts

I found while browsing my sd card with Astro file manager that if I started playing the song and paused it, then hit the menu key it would come with "set as ringtone" touching that would bring up choices of Phone ringtone, Contact ringtone and Notification sound. selecting contact lets you assign multiple contacts at once. just remember to hit save in the lower left corner of the screen before exiting... wife was getting irritated because "it wasn't working after many tries" because she didn't see the save button
[myTouch 3G Slide General] rnrstar:
thanks for the info...one issue i hope you can help with tho: once you have changed the contact's ringtone, does it stay changed or does it revert back to the default ringtone at some point? also, what is the speed of the sd card you are using? i ask bc lots of people have issues with the phone not doing ringtones properly. some say its the speed of the sdcard and some also say you have to create ringtone/notifications folders (via astro or some other file explorer) and place your sounds in there. i know on my mytouch3g with stock sd card (speed 2), individual ringtones never worked properly. only custom notifications and phone ringtone worked...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
I was in a class that is from 7AM-11AM. The classroom has no signal whatsoever so at 7AM I put airplane mode on, didn't turn on Wifi, closed all open tasks and just for the heck of it turned off background data.

When I put all this into effect, I was at 91%. At 9AM I see that my battery went down to 81%. How is this possible? I was in airplane mode so nothing was synching or downloading, no programs were running in the background or anything at all. On my previous phone (Nexus One) under the same situation the battery would have been at 90%.

Phone Idle- 34%

Cell Standby- 30% (Time without signal 85%)

Am I missing something here? Can someone please elaborate why this went down so much for basically doing nothing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auramaster:
Did you drain your battery completely the first 5 to 10 times charges, when you first got your evo? Many people claim that's how to he the maxium battery performance from your battery on any phone
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strung:
Normal. I lose about 10% every 2 hours.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
Hmm I haven't. Gonna do it when I get home!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
Yeah but I wasn't even using it and it was in Airplane mode. That can't be right
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChrisChavez:
WOW... sounds like its your CPU thats still killing the battery??? You don't have it rooted or running any cutoms ROMs on it?

We SERIOUSLY need to get a UV kernel on here and underclock this thing when its asleep... So many battery drain issues.

Your issue is REALLY strange though.. I was in LA yesterday and mine didn't drop that fast for like 2 and a half hours... Very interesting......
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
I know right! I have yet to root it. Maybe one of the many custom roms will help huh? and yeah, we do need some kernels! I miss Kmobs kernel I used to use for my N1 :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nagrom Nniuq:
This is bogus. Don't bother doing this. That was something that was needed back in 1999 back in the days of NiCad and NiMH batteries... It doesn't help LiIon one bit.

20 hours of battery life is pretty good. I think the record is like 62 with everything completely hacked down. I get about 4-6 in full on usage.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
I understand that 20 hours of battery life is good but If I was using the device in those 2 hours I wouldn't be worried. But I wasn't, it was completely IDLE with all the radios turned off and programs killed (advanced task manager).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freelancerx:
that is NOT normal lol when my phone is on standby i loose about a percent per hour overnight....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rutter9:
Deactivate any syncs you don't use. Make sure your phone is set to CDMA. See what processes your phone is running that are killing the battery and disable them.

I get about 27 hours on my battery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
I fixed the problem. I rooted 2 days ago (evening) after getting such bad battery life and I flashed Damage Control 3.0.

Today after 2 hours and 30 minutes of being under the same exact conditions as my original post (30 minutes more this time) with Airplane Mode, Wifi Off, Tasks Killed,etc I only lost 1%:D:D:D.

I went from 93% to 92% in 2 hrs/30 minutes which is a hell of a improvement in comparison to losing 10% in less time (2hrs) with the same exact circumstances.

I am extremely happy now:). Oh and by the way, yesterday I got 14 hours of usage with this ROM which for me was unheard of before (4-5 hours)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nagrom Nniuq:
Very cool.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
Very cool is a understatement in my eyes:p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] utexascg:
Issue may be directly related to the latest google maps update which enables google latitude by default and keeps your gps truly active 24/7. Since disabling latitude in google maps my battery has been

outstanding.

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[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bjaxon:
Hey everyone I was wondering if I could get someone to put together a boot animation for my Evo?

I would like to get the basic Droid logo where it spells it out like the widely known animation seen on the Incredible and Droid commercials, and the red eye while its loading. I also want the robotic voice that says Droid.

I would be willing to provide all the screens for it, and the sound file. I just don't know how to put it together to make it work.

If anyone is willing to help me it would be much apreciated.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
I can do it for you. Actually, I have the majority of it done already. I've already created the sound bite and the red eye you're talking about. The only thing I would need to add is the Droid logo. But it wouldn't hurt if you provided me with a new set of files.

Here's a little bit of what I've created already.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bjaxon:
That's great thanks a million. I will send you the files when I get home.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Sounds good!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] tmm2279:
Awesome!

I look forward to trying this one.:D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] timothydonohue:
this is the one i have

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fezcpSb5xoQ

is that the sort of thing you want?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] camdz:
Id love that exact boot animation, only saying HTC EVO instead of HTC Incredible..and having it only play "droid". Without the rest of the sound effects. I have no idea how to go about doing that though :(
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bjaxon9:
Ok everyone. I have taken the incredible boot, removed all the incredible stuff and have optimized it for our phone. It should be ready tonight. I have fixed it so the red doesn't cut off in the box.

we shall see. Cross your fingers.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] michaelvibe:
I am the proud new owner of an HTC EVO and am keeping my eye on this thread lol....the regular bootup is boring
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Myself and bjaxon9 are currently working on this. I've gotten it to boot up and everything, I just need to fix the frame rates and I'll upload it.

I should have this done sometime tomorrow. Sorry to keep you waiting.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] michaelvibe:
Sorry, I wasn't trying to sound rushy....Just wanted to let you know that you have another fan following the project!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
No no, I never took it that way. I'm happy to see someone else is interested!:D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mrmomoman:
Hurry up will ya!!! Sheesh....

:) - It's always nice to have options!!

Thanks!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Now you're not getting it. I'm going to cross your off the list. Sorry.:p

So much for your options.:D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Alright guys. Sorry it's taken so long. This is still a work in progress, however I figured most people would at least like to see what I've created and test it out for themselves, so I've decided to post it up.

Here's what the animation looks like:

Also, there is a soundbite that will accompany it, which is the regular "Drroooiiidd" everyone is familiar with. I've made it so that each time the animation loops, the sound is played. (Which can be annoying if you're not into that).

**Download the EvoRedEye folder -- Extract it first, then take the following files from inside the folder and place them both in your AndroidSDK\tools folder, then run the following command(s):

adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
adb push SPC_animation_final.mp3 /system/customize/resource -- optional
adb shell reboot

If you don't want the soundbite or it gets too annoying, you can choose not to install it or if you want to remove it; again run the following command(s):

adb shell
cd /system/customize/resource
rm SPC_animation_final.mp3
reboot

Like I said earlier, this is still a work in progress. This new bootscreen method is a little tricky and I've had to fool around for a couple of days just trying to get it this far. I'll continue updating and releasing new stuff though.

Feedback is always appreciated, thank you!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mrmomoman:
I would give this a try but I am not allowed now :(

I will have to sneak in as an anonymous user and grab the zip.

DROID! DROID! DROID!

All I want is an animated droid bot waving at me ;)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
What do you mean you're not allowed? I'll look into creating what you want. Hopefully should have it sometime later today or over the weekend. I still to make modifications to the one I posted.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Rydah:
how do you make these??? do i need to be rooted??? soory. im sure the answers out there. im just kinda confused...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
To make these bootscreens, you'll do:

1. Software (Gimp, Photoshop, Pain.net, etc)

2. Knowledge of how to create a .gif file or animation

3. Basic knowledge of ADB

And yes, you do have to be rooted.

To create bootscreens for the Evo, you'll need to create you animation in one of the following programs above, then you'll want to export your animation as a set of images, which should be .png. After you've created your animation, you need set specific values in the desc file. After all of that, you would zip up your animation into a file called bootanimation.zip
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Fixter:
I flash this today. Right now. It flashed perfect. You might consider that the animation just says droid 3 times or something and it justs keeps doing the flashing image while it boots. Cause the droid sound is really good.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
I'll see what I can do. However the problem is the values that you enter for the animation to loop as loop the sound, so essentially the value being set is universal and can't be specified to one or the another.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll make the revision, if you want it done for you specifically, say so -- and I'll upload a new one.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] MikeBrWade:
I would like a boot screen that shows linux/android booting up console wise. IE system messages, etc like when you are booting up a linux box with "quiet" turned off.

I have been trying to put one together but my "gif" skills aren't that great, or if anyone has a suggestion on a program for linux to go from video->gif that doesn't suck like most of the ones I have played with from normal google-fu.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Could you post/PM me either your GIF file or the pictures you are using, I'll see what I can do.

Edit: If it's a video, post the link please.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Hey guys, here's a new bootscreen created by: bjaxon

This is NOT my work, I am posting for bjaxon because he is a new user.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bjaxon:
Thanks for putting that up.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
No problem!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] thenewguy821:
Great job on the Bootscreen. Another funny option would be the Android "Watering" the Apple logo, and the logo washing away till the phone fully boots. That would be sure to get a few of the "iPeople" going... lol
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] nugzo:
Any progress on this one customized for the EVO? I've tried a bunch of different animations and i keep thinking about this one. i wont be happy i dont think untill its done lol. Thanks for your efforts!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bjaxon:
We tried everything, but because of the amount of frames it needs you never saw the whole thing boot., since the evo boots so fast. Plus with the size and animation it lagged a lot. I think thats why is even small on the incredible. We spent 4 days trying to get it to display and flow correctly. I think making it larger is a no go.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Yup!

At this point, our best bet would be to shrink the animation and see if we could get it to play correctly. I'll take look at the animation being requested again, but as of right now -- its on "hold". I apologize for that.

I've been developing some other bootscreens to see how the animation would play, currently I think I've made my best bootscreen so far. I'll post it a little bit. Thanks for your interest!

EDIT:: Here's my latest bootscreen::
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] masterninja:
Great Job! Thanks!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
No problem! Glad you like it!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chefgon:
I've downloaded and installed 3 completely different versions of Swype (WVGA854, WVGA800, and HVGA) on various handsets over the last couple of months and all of them expired this morning. The keyboard still pops up, but as soon as you try to swipe a word on it you get a trial expiration message. My phone is like an unusable hunk of worthless plastic without Swype because I've grown so dependant on it. I would pay $50 for a genuine license without hesitation if they would just let me.

Does anybody have a still-working version of Swype for the Nexus One that they might be able to point me towards a download for? There are download pages all over the internet and all over these forums, but since all of mine just expired a few hours ago there's no way of knowing if any of those will still work unless they are dated today.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kstyle311:
Same thing happened just a min ago on my MT3G. In for info.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
Checked this thread by any chance?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulvand:
Tried that thread, installed the .apk but it's expired too :(

Edit: I'm a noob. The file from uploading.com is the older version. Just follow the updated section and you're good.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccunningham83:
Anybody checked this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=703033
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chuckhriczko:
Ok so I customized a boot.img (init.rc file) and repacked it using mkbootfs and mkbootimg. For the life of me, I can't get these boot imgs to boot. Any ideas why? The same exact stuff worked fine on my Hero.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeykrim:
well some more detail would be really helpful in troubleshooting. hopefully you're able to get something ... im still new to the style HTC uses for their kernels.

is the kernel booting and not loading the init.rc properly (possible adb output?) or is the kernel not even loading properly? how far along with the boot screens do you get?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffolkes:
are you using --cmdline and --base?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chuckhriczko:
Good call. I should probably post the commands I used. lol

Ok so I did change my init.rc but for testing purposes I just unpacked the stock boot.img and immediately repacked it. the commands are as follows:

$ mkbootfs boot.img-ramdisk | gzip > ramdisk-boot
$ mkbootimg --kernel boot.img-kernel --ramdisk ramdisk-boot --cmdline "no_console_suspend=1 console=null" -o newBoot.img --base 0x19200000

Then generates a boot.img file successfully but it still does not boot. Any ideas?

Edit: And of course I renamed newBoot.img to boot.img and included it in an update.zip which all flashed with no errors. Just never gets past the first HTC Evo 4G boot screen
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeykrim:
im still beginning in building boot.img files for HTC android phones. my experience is with building a straight zImage kernel file with an initramfs compiled into the zImage kernel file for a Samsung android phone.

hopefully somebody can comment with some better insight, on mkbootfs, etc as I'm also very curious what the best command is for our EVO.

my only comment is a side note to the flashing process and hopefully this method will speed up testing for you and everybody else. i wrote the commands ROM and recovery/normal android mode independent. this is how i would quickly test kernels on my samsung android based phone, assuming it works the same on HTC?

adb push boot.img /sdcard/boot.img

adb push flash_image /sdcard/flash_image (only have to do once)

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image (only have to do once)

chmod 755 /data/flash_image (only have to do once)

/data/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img

reboot the phone to test ... hopefully that simplifies the kernel testing process!

thanks for posting up all your detail, its insightful and helpful!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toastcfh:
--base 0x20000000 <~ change to

btw moving thread to q&a
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chuckhriczko:
Worked perfectly. Thanks Toast.
[HD2 General] arizmin:
I just realised today, when taking pictures with setting to superfine, 5MP resolution but when i viewed the images are at low quality setting. I guess the image file should be around 500Kb but i'm getting only at 45Kb.. Does anyone face similar problem? This just happened, my previous photos taken at similar setting i'm getting a good high resolution, ie file size ~500Kb. Pls help???
[Nexus One General] llxxjinxxll:
I just stumbled upon this feature today and it blew my mind

hold any button on the top two rows for a brief moment (usually like half a second) slide your finger up and BAM! an extended keyboard for numbers and symbols!~

why didn't they showcase stuff like this during google i/o? sugar coat it and call it 'magical' and 'amazing'?...oh wait thats...not google
[Nexus One General] musashiken:
Hey that's pretty cool. In fact you don't even have to hold, just swipe up straight away..

Erm unfortunately, a quick search shows that you're not the first to find out about it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=687067

Well, hey at least I just found out about this feature in your thread eh.
[Nexus One General] codesplice:
May 23rd called and said they want their news back. :p
[Android Software Development] Malafor:
As most of us dont have a Tv-out plug on our phones, Would it be possible to have the android phone to transmit video/audio over wifi to a wifi video receiver box connected to your Tv?

Ive allways wanted to be able to hook up my HTC Desire to the Tv and play some Snes emulators on it, And unfortunatley it doesent have Tv-out like the Incredible or Evo.

This idea cant be to crazy right? Wifi is capable to send video/audio and there are loads of wifi video/audio receiver on the market.
[Android Software Development] Malafor:
Noone thinks this can be done?
[Android Software Development] sc0rpp:
you must be ****ing sick freak but genius to have it done :D! the idea is ****ing crazy and i think its not possible!:S
[Android Software Development] elmicha:
I'm not sure what you mean by "wifi video receiver box", but if you mean a UPnP/DLNA media player, check out Twonky Server Mobile and AndroMote.
[Android Software Development] Vorbeth:
He want's to do it the other way, have the android screen on TV.
[Android Software Development] Malafor:
Yeah exactly, If you search for "TV Output on DROID Incredible by HTC" on Youtube you will see what I wanna achieve, But I want to do it through Wifi instead since most phones dont have a Tv-Out plug.
[Android Software Development] elmicha:
Apparently I missed the part of the question that says that you want to play some Snes emulators, sorry. As I already typed the following before I re-read your question, I'll post it nevertheless. UPnP media servers are only for media files, not for showing the screen of your phone.

TwonkyServer Mobile is a UPnP media server. It reads the media files on your phone and delivers it to UPnP media renderers, i.e. a box that you can connect to your TV and receive UPnP media streams. Some TVs already have a UPnP media renderer built-in. There's also software that acts as a UPnP media renderer, so you could connect a HTPC to your TV.

AndroMote is a UPnP control point, i.e. a remote control that tells your UPnP media renderer what it should play. The files are served by your UPnP media server (e.g. Twonky Server Mobile). AndroMote is also a media renderer (to play videos on the phone screen), but you don't have to use that.

You could also ignore AndroMote altogether and use the UPnP control point (remote control) that probably comes with your UPnP media renderer.
[Android Software Development] Malafor:
These seem quite cool, Tobad that they dont support playing back programs/emulators running on the phone or they would be perfect.
[Android Software Development] Mr.Fr33man:
HTC itselft promotes this little box ist called "HTC Link"

Review is here http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/30/htc-media-link-dlna-streamer-review/