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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _avatar:
I'll bite, I needed to kill a few hours. Here's a LWP that supports user generated layers with parallax scrolling:

http://files.clangen.org/parallax/Parallax_0.0.2.apk

It works by scanning the /sdcard/.parallax/themes/ directory. Every subdirectory within this root is considered a theme, and a theme is just a directory of sorted .png files.

A sample theme can be found here:

http://files.clangen.org/parallax/smb1.zip

To install:

1. Download and install Parallax.apk from above

2. Download the sample theme, then extract it to the root of your sdcard. After extracting you should have a /sdcard/.parallax/themes/smb1 directory.

3. On your phone: Home > Menu > Wallpapers > Live Wallpapers > Parallax

4. Click settings, select your theme from the list.

This has only been tested with a N1 running Froyo.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DBBGBA:
that my friend is exactly what i had in mind! this is really cool!!!!! how many layers can i create?

by the way it works really well on N1 and stock beta froyo
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _avatar:
As many as you want, but beware that more than a few will eat up a good amount of RAM, and take longer to draw.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DBBGBA:
I figured so, but I wasn't planning to use more than 3 with some 4 rare exeptions. This is pure gold!!! :p

I just noticed that a 480x800 image on a N1 will just stay in the middle of the screen and not even try to move, while a 3360x800 will have a different background for each screen (if you have 7 screens like I do).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _avatar:
Yup, that's right. The images all need to be at least the size of the screen's resolution, and if they're too big they will scroll a lot.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _avatar:
Updated the build to support different layers for landscape and portrait orientations. This is an optional feature. If you want to do this, name all your portrait files [layer].portrait.png, and landscape files [layer].landscape.png.

If layers for the current orientation cannot be found, all images in the theme will be used.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noiz7:
Just put this on my N1 and it is amazing, can't wait to get home and make my own backgrounds
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seriks82:
fantasic work man! works on CM 5.0.8 test5 here

gonna have some fun with this
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Musenkishi:
God damnit! I've had this idea ever since I played Oboro Muramasa (AWESOME graphics and an awesome theme) on my Wii some months ago... I finally got some spare time (done with studies) so I was going to learn how to do this.:p

Oh well... I might as well start looking into either converting some of the game's backgrounds or make my own.

_avatar, I don't hate you, I love you for this app :)

Although... is there a way to make it more smooth? Using froyo and launcher pro makes my N1 completely lag-free when using a "dead" wallpaper OR the live wallpaper "Game of life". Switching screens with Parallax is a little laggy.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _avatar:
There's no lag for for me using the SMB1 theme, but I also don't use LauncherPro. I doubt I can make it much smoother without some serious hacking. Anyone else experiencing lag problems?

Also, everyone please post your themes if you have time, I'd like to check them out. :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrganizedFellow:
:) As promised, I'd like to donate for further development of Parallax ;)

Could you provide me with your PayPal (via PM if you want).

A cool ten beans are comin' your way!!!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DBBGBA:
here's a tokyo temple theme that I did to test the software.

[check post under this one for link]

It works pretty well on a N1 portrait mode, try landscape and there are a bunch of problems, but I didn't have the second version of the software when I made it.

By the way I noticed that if i make the png files with my mac there are resource fork files that make parallax crash big time.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DBBGBA:
Here's 3 themes I made, all of them works in portrait, not sure about landscape, I never use my launcher in landscape:

Tokyo Temple

Bird

Tropical Tank

Anybody else made themes??
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clarkster:
Not sure what technique you are using, but I find the way to get the smoothest scrolling is to run the drawing in a thread with low priority, instead of updating at a constant framerate.

This has the side effect of the wallpaper lowering framerate when sliding your icons, but at least the icons appear just as smooth as a static wallpaper.

I haven't downloaded your wallpaper, but thought I would just point that out in case it helps.

(as an example, the Mario wallpaper scrolls super smooth despite being a CPU hog, but you notice the framerate dive on the wallpaper when sliding from screen to screen)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DBBGBA:
I've used this live wallpaper since it was made and I still use it. I really like the added depth of field that it gives.

I never noticed any lag except when in the launcher there's a bouncing option enabled. I don't remember how it's called in LauncherPro but on ADWLauncher you go Screen Preferences > Desktop overshoot and you choose something like 10 or 0. I found out with 10 the lag is minimal and the launcher still has a smooth feeling.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adam B.:
I'm getting the following error on my original droid:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidneylopsides:
Thanks for the tip! I just made my first wallpaper for this and was getting frustrated at the lag, turning off the desktop overshoot sorted it!

Great idea this, loving it!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryant22:
This is a really cool idea, so i've tried it out myself.

I made a wallpaper with 4 layers, but only the last two are actually being loaded into the app. have i done something wrong.

Running on u20i [xperia x10 mini pro] :)

[-EDIT-]

Man, i feel like a fool. I forgot to remove the white background from one of the images bhich blocked the layers below out
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muteman3:
Beec nop walls:)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frogacuda:
I love this, at least in concept, but the scrolling speed is uneven and jerky, even on my Galaxy S II Skyrocket, which seems more than equipped for the task. Is there something I can do to smooth this out?

I'll give you a Punch Out theme I made if you can help *bats eyelashes*
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android Theme:
great idea but on my ZTE Blade got some lags too (tested on diferent launchers)

Dah... topis is dead i think :(
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgg1:
Great idea!

I was trying to set this up on my GS3 and noticed 2 things.

1. Only works if i place the themes on the internal sd card (i.e., sdcard0), not external. Any way to change this or make an option of where to place the image files?

2. The test image doesn't seem to move at all. No discernible parallax. Is there a setting somewhere that needs to be tweaked? If so I can't find it.

Thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhuozhi211:
3 years later, this APK still rocks!

Any chance if someone can revive this, and add gyro so that it will be interactive when you tilt the phone?

Was searching for a decent live wallpaper with parallax effect (well on the back of iOS7 release i admit), and found this.

The existing parallax live wallpapers only do 1 layer and the effect is pretty flat when you tilt it.

I think this APK will be a hit with enhanced gyro feature, tilting multiple layers in different speed, to enhance the parallax effect.

** it works on my S4
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vio2k:
Bump! For this awesome and best live wallpaper.

Same problem here. Don`t know how to fix this for my new LG G2. Can`t find themes :( Can anyone help? This is best LWP in existence (outside performance). Is there somewhere a newer version? Some alternative?
[Droid Incredible General] areghas:
I rooted following the 10 minute root video, however forgot to remove a lot of those junk system apps, like CityID. I cannot get back into SU while in recovery, no matter what I do. How do I get back into the shell in recovery so I can remove all the bloatware?
[Droid Incredible General] areghas:
I can get the error message:

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory

however i cannot seem to get back into the shell where I can access SU and remove the bloatware, anyone have any ideas on what im missing?
[Droid Incredible General] blw1230:
I'm in the exact same boat as you. I don't know where to go from here.
[Droid Incredible General] worm-:
run update.zip and let it fail again then you caN adb shell su
[Droid Incredible General] th3drow:
hmm doesnt seem to work for me
[Droid Incredible General] ejlax:
in order to get the back to adb shell in recovery, you have to go through the whole root process again. Then once you have snuck in the payload-update.zip and it has successfully installed it, you are able to do adb shell.
[Droid Incredible General] vapehooka:
i had to run do the hole process over again to get su so i could remove cityid after root.

i used the 1.bat file as in the utube video for noobs.
[Droid Incredible General] th3drow:
not cool lol, took me 3 hours to get the things to work with my sd card haha not worth it.
[Droid Incredible General] madman34:
that is the only way

They are correct, you must do it all again, but look for a PNY 4gig class 4 sd. I tried hundreds of times over a 3 day period to do it and it worked first time and every time with this card.
[Droid Incredible General] qwho:
when I run terminal emulator in the OS on the phone, and type su, the super user app grants it permission. Would we be able to delete system apps from there?

There is also another terminal app in the market for 1.99, listed as being for that purpose, so, has anyone tried it?

I don't have anything else I want to delete at the moment, since I got rid of cityid at the recovery adb prompt.
[Droid Incredible General] E30kid:
The nand is locked down when you are in the main OS, so no, it would not work. You would need to do the re-root to gain access to /system/ as recovery is the only place where we are able to access it right now.
[Droid Incredible General] mixpix405:
I can get su access while in the OS. No problem on that. And I tried to delete teeter.apk, but got the "read only" message. So, I mounted it as read-write with

/system/bin/mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

that went fine too, but when I tried to delete teeter.apk, i got "rm failed, directory not empty"... but I'm not trying to delete a directory...

I guess the "nand is locked" and that's why, but... "the nand is locked" doesn't mean much to me, as I have no clue what that means :)
[Legend General] QkSi1ver:
Hi,

sorry if this has been posted before:

I'd like to know if I buy this phone from Carriers different from my local BELL carrier , would it be possible to unlock the Legend myself for FREE?

I know i can pay $20 to buy some unlock code to unlock the phone from several websites but im wondering if its something i can generate somehow using tools that the members has developped from xda?

Thanks
[Legend General] Joeball88:
I am also wondering if I can unlock this bad boy for use on our Telus network here in Canada... Virgin Mobile has it as of right now, and Bell is going to get it on the 16th (that may solve your problem, OP) but I'm looking at buying it outright and unlocking it for Telus... Possible? and possibly free? or do I have to pay for unlocking? (never unlocked a phone before)
[Legend General] QkSi1ver:
Been googling and so far nothing but PAID unlock codes...

but to answer your question... that's what the "unlocking" is for... once you unlock your phone you can use it on any carrier and therefore not locked to a specific carrier... yes Virgin has it so you can buy Virgin's Legend and use it on Telus once unlocked of course. You'll probably have some Virgin's and Bell's software on it which you cant use.
[Legend General] evil_lcf:
you can flash it with a unbranded firmware, "RUU", it's a exe file, lanch it from pc and it installs the new firmware just like a firmware update ;) should work this way
[Legend General] rewen:
I have the Virgin Legend and there are only two signs of any carrier customizations: A Self Serve App (it's actually a shortcut to Bell's site, and it doesn't even work) and a TV & Music App (which can't connect). I am guessing that they don't work because it's probably identical to the Bell Legend which has those on it, I don't think they're intended for the Virgin model, or at least they're not tapped into the system properly yet.
[Legend General] echow:
you can unlock for $10 at cellunlock.net with coupon code crackb50. got this from howard forums.
[Legend General] rewen:
Thanks for the coupon code. I just used it now. $10 is a lot more reasonable than $20 (regular price was actually $30 but it was $10 off before the coupon).

I was going to get a Rebel SIM II shipped to me but Koodo released SIM cards today and I want to get this thing unlocked before the weekend. Hope typing in a number doesn't void the warranty. :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krypton1984:
Hello,

I bought a Nexus one and as I don't live in a country that sells it my cousin brought it to me.

The device doesn't work and self Reboots giving me 20 seconds of use.

Tryed working with/without a sim,

Did a Factory Reset,

Formated the Sd-Card on my Pc,

and still in the same spot.

any ideas on what else to try before giving up?

anyone had this problem and fixed it?

My phone is not ROOTed and is on Version 1 of 2.1

didn't have enough time to get other info like Baseband and stuff.

I'm not willing to root the phone.

** If i send it back it will make the phone very expensive as i will have to pay costums fee when they mail it back to me :(

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mokurex:
Sounds like a DOA. Really bad luck.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P00r:
If you send it back you should not pay duty to get it back usually, unless you live in a very tax hungry country! Between US and CAN you would not get duty.

Beside try speaking with cust support, DOA are usually well handled by company and so far HTC seem to be handling repair quite well as per the few post about broken screen I have seen.

Did you try running the phone WITHOUT an SD card ? good luck!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supernine:
If the boots, has never been rooted (boot unlock), no immediate physical damage, and has no signs of liquid damage or tampering (check void sticker).... it's likely just a software issue. Reload original firmware, or load a new firmware... Don't give up, sounds like the phone is still okay.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbkkt1:
Was it bnib?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaD FroYo:
So it seems.

Where are you from, Krypton1984 ?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Looks like some rogue app is loading at boot, causing reset. Possibly corrupt ROM image - but not sure. Might be software, might be hardware. But here's one thing to try:

If you're on a T-Mobile-compatible phone (900/1700/2100), do yourself a favor and flash stock Froyo. No need to root for that. The guide is in the sticky thread. In case of corrupted ROM image it'll do the trick.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuff:
I think you should factory reset it. Maybe even download the official 2.1 rom and install it. See if it fixes it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdd48:
Try a battery trade in first. Believe it or not, my first N1 seemed dead, and support gave me a swap for a new unit. When the new unit came in, it was still "dead" with the battery that originally shipped with the device. A new battery is what caused my N1 to finally come to life. The batteries that ship with N1's have QC issues, because I was one of many to report a DOA battery in the Google support forums.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krypton1984:
its brand new,

I didn't pay customs on the way in because my cousin brought it to me, so if i send it back i will and it makes the phone very expensive.

what if when i try to change firmware the phone reboots again without finishing?

i dont want to brick the phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badomen:
Well booting to the bootloader will answer the hardware software question.

1. Turn off the phone.

2. Now press (and hold) the Trackball and turn on the phone.

Once you're in the loader let it sit for a while. If it stays up it's a software problem and a new ROM should sort it out. If it reboots while in the bootloader it sounds like a DOA phone.

Good luck.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flybyme:
You can also try a full factory reset through the bootloader. Search for the instructions as i do not know them off the top of my head
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] attn1:
Yeah, North America is all one big happy family. We've got NAFTA and everything now.

OP, I am assuming you've allowed the battery to charge full?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padhi87:
i am having a similar issue. The phone reboots randomly and gets stuck at the static X logo screen. i have to remove the battery and let it be aside for at least 10 minutes before i am able to get the phone up and running again.

i tried updating to froyo. it installed but then froze up again on reboot. i did the battery thing and then started it up, went on fine..froyo had been successfully installed, but my random reboot problem STILL DID NOT GO AWAY..

can this be sorted by installing the original rom image?? or do i have to go in for a swap?!?

i don't want to swap coz they send out refurbished devices,,but its the last option...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wesbalmer:
You'll probably need to swap based on what you're saying. I, though, actually think Refurbished devices are just as good or even better than new. Think about it, if you keep getting dust under the screen maybe a refurbished phone will already have the fix? For that scenario it works out.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chordmasta:
I really think this is a bad RAM issue.

I had this happen to my Nexus (ATT). It was prior to flashing froyo. I tried everything, flashing back to stock (including radio), cyan's latest, Paul's (stock) Froyo (with and without radio). Same result. Seemingly random reboots.

I thought initially that it was a software issue - It would not reboot while in fastboot/Amon's Recovery. But having tried every software combination, I've concluded that it MUST be hardware, unless I'm missing something big.

The phone, for the most part, would be fine as long as I DON'T TOUCH IT. It would stay idle for a long period of time (24hrs+), then I would use it Everything from web browsing to downloading apps to making calls, and it would reboot. It's frustrating because it seems that it's rebooting for no reason except that I'm touching it.

Sent in for a replacement, it arrives today. Hopefully it will not suffer this problem.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krypton1984:
After talking with HTC they told me i need to swap the phone.

Because i'm out of america i need to send it to someone in the US amd then they send him the new divice after he sends my old one,

I am not satisfide with google's (first guy I talked with) and HTC because none of whome understand the severity and the hard feeling of getting a BRAND NEW IN BOX paper-weight. nothing about we'll compensate you or nada.

For me it tells me the brand is not strong enough to manage an outer state service and i wouldn't recomend them for countries that they don't cell it for.

If you where born in a HTC GOOGLE compatible country enjoy!

As i'm am probably less lucky and still in 2010 nationality counts :(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] jopherr:
I have an At&t tilt 2 (Rhod300) and my bezel on my device is really scratched up.

i saw this on ebay and i wondered if it will work/look fine on my tilt2 even though it says its only for Rhod100

http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-TOUCH-PRO2-...ewItem&pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item5ada1d9853

if not can anyone point me to a faceplate that will work with tilt2. i cannot find any that explicitly says "works only with tilt2"
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] fone_fanatic:
not sure but i would think so.

I know the CDMA rhodium back covers don't fit right on the GSM rhodiums, but thats due to the part where the mini-usb being wider to accommodate for the 3.5mm headsets.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] GastJT:
I wouldn't think so. If you look at the hardware-keys, you'll see that they are a bit different with the European version. I'm not sure, but I think so.

Sorry for my bad English. I'm Dutch ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] dbtfree:
I highly doubt it. Look at the cut outs at the top of the plate. The big square is probably (from what I can read) for the proximity sensor. On the Tilt2's the proximity sensor is on the left. I ran into this when looking for gel skins for my tilt 2. A lot of them wouls have that cutout on the right, meaning my tilt's proximity sensor would be blocked.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] Reefermattness:
That big square cutout you are talking about is for the front facing camera for the European TP2.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] dbtfree:
Ah, I see you're right. I'm stupid. . . . That must have been the same reason the rest of the cases I was looking at had the cutout there. But I still don't understand how those cases would have worked on my unit because the proximity sensor would have been covered all of the time. . .
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robin04:
reserved......
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Makkar1:
extra apps link don't work :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robin04:
sorry, solve immediately :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joaann:
Can you make an update.zip to disable JIT?

I like JIT but.. it's not compatible with Tapatalk Pro :(

If you can do this or can you tell me how to disable, I'll try it in a moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robin04:
update esiste già, guarda il primo post (JIT_off)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robin04:
update already exists, see the first post (JIT_off)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Titou1309:
Can you put HTC widget (sense) ????

Thx
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joaann:
Oh, thanks, I didn't look that before. :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Makkar1:
mi sono accorto adesso che sei italiano hahahaha

grazie!:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 1immortal:
does it matter if the ext2 partition will be the first or second ? does it have to be ext2 or can i use the one i have now , ext3 ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaabrysz:
First i would like to thank you for your hard work!

I'll try this new 5.0.7 ROM.

Just one question, why not use the new CM5.0.8?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robin04:
yep, you can use ext3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] varial:
I had a good giggle at this, not because of you personally! but because using 5.0.8 would of course be unstable among others things :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robin04:
I mentioned this in the thread ezhero. CyanogenMod 5.0.8 is still in beta.

however, is already a week that I'm playing around
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaabrysz:
Ok i didn't know it was beta.

Thanks:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Makkar1:
cannot enter my google account :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] varial:
O heck, maybe this should be a beta ROM if there is bugs ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaabrysz:
Anyone know where i can get a weather and news widget for this rom ?? Other than that this ROM is great :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] +BroNNoS+:
Same here!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Pagan:
Gallery 3d is having the same issue as with the hacked one in another rom. Kills 3d and gives transparent pictures