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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amw2320:
Thanks codemonk and webs, that was awesome.

Onepanda, i'll give your question a shot.

Flashing is really just putting files on you phone. Generally it refers to replacing the andriod system files. You can flash a kernel, a ROM, drivers, or just an update to one of those.

Recovery is a mode you can put your phone into from boot. This is where you flash the files from. You cant just replace system files while they are running, so you boot into recovery mode and flash them from there.

Recovery mode also has a few other features allowing you to reset settings (cache) and make backups.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorroman:
Hi there, i just bought an htc desire from ebay but it comes locked to orange network, but since is now mine i would like to unlock it to any network... does anyone ever done this? Can you please share a solution... many thanks :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnSteveDoe:
Htccode.com
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aindow:
Buy an unlock code from one of the many sellers on ebay for about 10 quid. Insert a non Orange sim in the phone and enter the unlock code when prompted, and then enter it a second time. Job done :-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
go here http://www.htcunlock.com/HTC/Desire :rolleyes: only £12.99 :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorroman:
many thanks guys :cool:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shanofran:
Hi there, I too have an Orange branded Desire which I would like to get unlocked.

Could you pls tell me which service you used, and were u able to get the phone unlocked?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
The only drawback to buying a phone on eBay is watch out for fraud, if they claim on their insurance saying the Desire was lost or stolen, itll get IMEI Blocked, so no matter what network its on its fooked!

there is a thread on this somewhere im sure of it

EDIT -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=702760
[General Questions and Answers] ahmadssb:
hi everyone

it is simple question and I know it is stupid but i was wondering how they can profit from there websites

Google , facebook, myspace , twiter , hotmail ,yahoo , gmail , youtube ...

also the blogs like : engadget , pocketnow ... etc

and also this great site xda-developers

Except for advertisements and Premium User

All services are free for visitors and users and this is what everyone wants

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coz now if i'll make website for news or or tutorials anythings I'll don't much as I want give the mew information for people but if I have a lot of visitors ,users and topics I'll need to upgrade my website from the hosting and buy more

if I am wwebsitsorking at company I'll keep some of my salary for my website and the profit from the advertisements and upgrade the websit until 3,4 ,5, or 10 years after that I'll cant stop and I want everyone get benefits from me

this is what in my mind now

but as we know All services are free for us specially like e-mails (gmail-hotmail-yahoo-maktoob) and the other website

is there anyone can tell me the secret of those websites

sorry for my bad English
[General Questions and Answers] AthenaLod:
Read this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-does-facebook-make-money-2010-5

You can find similar articles for all other websites you listed.

The simple answer is: ads.
[General Questions and Answers] ahmadssb:
thank u for your link

but there are some website don't put a lot of ads. or the ads. are so cheap to get $500,000 in one year

also as I know google ads. will give them some money to put there ads. in their websites

but google have a lot of services and all s free

how I can I expect that the just ads. what it let them one of big company in this world
[General Questions and Answers] sirphunkee:
+1

the more traffic a site generates, the more they can charge for a set amount of ad space.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaliLove310:
I'm on stock FRF83 and I can't download any of my purchased apps and can't update google maps. I've wiped multiple times but the problem does not go away. When I try updating maps the download icon appears on the status bar for a split second and I get a download unsuccessful under the download status bar in the app market page. Also, some apps say downloading but if i click the app to see the download bar progress, the bar is just all grey with no process. They all just hang on downloading with no progress. Also, the market shows 2 google maps under currently downloading sometimes. Only app that was able to update was the talkback app. Any help on fixing these market issues? Thank you
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vrykyl:
I have the exact same issue - was running unrooted FRF72 and updated to FRF83 - all my paid apps I bought when I had a desire showed up straight away...but I havent been able to install any of them! I get the exact same symptoms / error as you :(
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakraider:
same exact problem as the OP on my FRF83 N1. I really hope I can downgrade without rooting!

btw, I can't download anything from the browser either.

came from unrooted FRF72 as well.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Same issue for me. I just got my phone back from HTC for the power button repair. They reverted me back to ERE27 from FRF50. (LAME)

I'm trying to download all my apps again because for some reason they aren't restoring and I'm having the "download unsuccessful" problem with a few of them.

Must be a market problem. Not just FRF83

EDIT: Mine are installing no problem now.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DvTonder:
I installed FRF83 earlier today and could download and install apps with no problems until about an hour ago where I noticed that an app I just purchased would not authenticate the purchase. Free apps download fine. Suspect it is a market problem not Froyo.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hjaltih:
I had this happening earlier tonight but it seems to be ok now.

I saw reports about this happening with people on Cyanogen 5.xx mods aswell so it is not connected to the FRF83 update
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakraider:
yep, just tried again a few mins ago and the Market is working fine once again.

whew, that was a scare. :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kermee:
It was a market issue. Not an FRF83 issue.

Cheers,

Kermee
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DvTonder:
Market still not authorizing my purchase even though I got an email confirmation from Google can also not get a refund. Get a server error message.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smokeaire:
It was a Market issue. I'm running cm5.0.8, and one minute the Market was downloading fine and the next the same issues reported here. About a hour later every thing was fine.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victorhooi:
heya,

I have a Nexus One, with 2.2 FRF83. I've been using it for a few weeks, installed a few Apps etc.

I also have another Nexus One, that I just bought for a friend, it also has 2.2 FRF83, but it's a fresh factory restore.

I've noticed that her's appears snappier, for instance swiping through home screen, opening up apps, the zoom effects when you go to Applications etc.

Is it somehow possible to find out why exactly this slowdown is occurring? I know Android, with the way it handles memory management and background processes is suppose to be quite clever, and it shouldn't matter what you have installed/running. But would uninstalling apps help? Or is it a misbehaving app? Or some setting I've set?

The apps I have installed are:

ACV

Adobe Flash Player 10.1

Astrid Tasks

ASTRO

Athg2sms V1.2

Barcode Scanner

CadreBible

Calculator

ConnectBot

Credit Usage

DNS Lookup

Dropbox

Gesture Search

Go! Sydney

GPS Status

GTD Timer

handyCalc

Maps [brut]

Maps

Meebo IM

Memory

MyBackup Pro

OI Countdown

OI File Manager

OI Safe

Pkt Auctions eBay

Replica Island

Shopper

Shuffle

SMS Backup & Restore

SNesoid Lite

StopWatch

SuperGNES Lite

Swype

SystemPanel Lite

Terminal Emulator

TwitPic Share

URL Shortener

White Noise

Using SystemPanel Lite, I have

/system - 145Mb capacity, 24.9Mb available

/data - 196.3 Mb capacity, 92.9 Mb available

/cache - 95.0 Mb capacity, 92.8 Mb available

/mnt/sdcard - 3831.5 Mb available, 1138.9 Available

In my Active Applications list right now, I have

Amazon Mp3 - Background - 9.3 Mb

Android Live Wallpapers - Visible - 8.8 Mb

Camera - Background - 11.0 Mb

Clock - Background - 10.0 Mb

Gallery - Background - 11.6 Mb

Gesture Search - Service - 8.8 Mb

Google Mail - Background - 9.6 Mb

Google Voice - Background - 8.9 Mb

Market - Background - 10.8 Mb

Messaging - Background - 12.3 Mb

Music - Background - 8.6 Mb

My Uploads - Background - 8.8 Mb

News and Weather - Service - 10.5 Mb

OI Countdown - Background - 8.7 Mb

Settings - Background 0 14.2 Mb

Swype - Visible - 16.4 Mb

SystemPanel Lite - Foreground - 12.5 Mb

Twitter - Service - 13.5 Mb

Voice Search - Background - 8.8 Mb

I also have around 2000 SMSes, but I'm not sure why that would affect say, scrolling through Settings, or swiping through home screens.

Let me know if there's any other info I can provide.

Cheers,

Victor
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vjoom:
Same here

I have the lagginess issue too. My start to get lag after few hours of use. My mflop is 1.0 and im on froyo 2.2. I tried to uninstall all the apps but still doesnt help. I also tried all the Rom and Kernal and still have to same issue. Hopefully someone can point us to the right direction. Its getting real frustating..
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irishrally:
Oh man, 1 MFLOP, that's no good, and didn't think it was possible on the N1. Wipe and start over and you should be fine.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watercool:
1 mflop @ linkpack? 2.1 has 3-4 i think and 2.2 should have 35-40.

I would also do a complete wipe and start from scratch.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vjoom:
I wiped and start from scratch numerous times. When i first using it, it would get around 38-40 mflop. Then it would go down the drain from there. Sometime i can't reach 1 mflop. Hope i dont have a hardware issue.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vietl3oi4eva:
so for some reason after i downloaded the droid x multitouch keyboard

from droid-life and put it on my sd card no apps from the market will download.

it keeps on saying download unsuccessful every time i try.

any idea why this is happening and how to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feefeeboomboom:
Well this is Hero wide atm for w/e reason
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerry43812:
I had this problem until I reflashed my ROM I was using, which was a leaked version of 2.1 on RegawMOD. The latest is fine for me every time I flash it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
I thought I would provide information that I've been compiling and will continue to compile on which apps are safe to remove. I'm going to be testing what other apps can be removed. I suggest pulling your entire app directory before you start removing apps as well as doing a nandroid backup first. I've attached a bat file for windows users.

To mount \system folder:

1. Reboot into recovery mode ( power device down then hold power button + volume -)

2. choose partitions

3. choose mount \system

NOTE: Remove Facebook account from device before remove friendstream widget. Do not remove Friendstream.apk

adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcTwitter.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFootprintsWidget.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFootprints.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/Stock.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/com.htc.StockWidget.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/VVM.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/Quickoffice.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/PDFViewer.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/Calculator.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/Mail.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/htcmailwidgets.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/htcmsgwidgets.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcRingtoneTrimmer.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/Flickr.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/CityID.*
adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/com.htc.FriendStreamWidget.*

I updated this post with the recovery directory. Just unzip to root of C: drive and run the bat file and it should push all the removed apps back to your device. You must be in recovery mode to do this and you must mount \system directory as well.

Change log

removal_V2.zip

-removed the removal of frienstream.apk

Restore_V2.zip

-First Restore batch file was incorrect. If you downloaded restore_v1 replace with restore_V2
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
Very nice, just what I've been waiting for.

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] zerf:
Talking from previous experience I wouldnt just remove the apps unless you first have a backup to restore from. It is safer to just mv example.apk example.apkback then to rm the apk.

Also when removing VVM.apk I saw on Killa200 that it did something with the sms apk.

Here is killa200's findings so far.

http://bluraynetworks.com/android/
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
I 100% agree. Although i was never able to get the mv to work so i just pulled all apps to my desktop and then i push them back if i need to restore them.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] j1000:
Worked great Thanks. I just edited the file for the ones I wanted to keep and then ran the .bat while in recovery.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
Excellent list as well. I'm not sure about VVM.apk. I removed it and i still have the htc messaging app. I don't use that message app but its still there and opens just fine.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] WhammyDroid:
For us noobs, what is the command to mount the /system directory?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yojoe600:
you mount it with the recovery on the phone.. click partitions on the custom recovery
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
Added mounting information to first post. I'm a NOOB to android as well :)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
I noticed i kept seeing the syncing notification even though nothing was actually syncing so i pushed friendstream(See recovery.bat) back onto the device and that seemed to fix it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Xystence:
I also removed the Teeter game without any issues using the following:

/system/bin/rm /system/app/teeter.*
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] 0mie:
Is it just me or is the

adb shell /system/bin/rm /system/app/VVM.*

not working? :(

No such file or directory everytime =/ and the icon is still on my phone...also want to remove the messaging application. I don't even use messaging
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] skaterA223:
Thanks man i removed a couple apps that bothered me.

Sent from my Droid Incredible
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
I do not think you can remove the text messaging app. I'm not sure else besides never being able to text will happen. the VVM should remove just fine. Do an " cd /system/app" and then an "ls " and make sure its present. Also son't forget to mount /system

.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yojoe600:
havent used it but may later thanks
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GooTz66:
Can I delete files in the Backup folder of the Restore and then run restore so it will just put back the apps that i want?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
sure. It will just error when it hits the push command for that file. What i would recommend is to delete the commands from restore.bat that restore the programs you don't want to restore. Then you will have the backups on ur computer just in case u ever decide to remove them.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GooTz66:
Awesome. Thanks! :)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GooTz66:
Question regarding FB/FriendStream. So if I remove my FB for HTC Sense then delete FriendStream and re-add my FB account will it work normally or will it still hangup when it trys to sync.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
Actually you have to keep the friendstream.apk. I didn't have sync issues but i did have a sync icon preset all the time. Others have reported sync issues.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] JETC86:
From what I've been reading....fb for htc sense does not sync up if you do not have the apk for friendstream installed...
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GooTz66:
Thanks for the quick response. The sync icon would stay up and it would constantly be trying to sync even after i canceled. I guess I'll just have to leave FriendStream on, oh well.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
And if you use a task manager it appears you can't kill it without causing Sense to crash and reload.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] JETC86:
Ok, I've removed TONS of stock apps that came with the phone. My only problem is now trying to remove the google talk. I have removed gtalkservice.apk but I still see the gtalk app at the all programs section. Anyone know the filename for that?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] invisiblek:
remove Talk.apk ?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] JETC86:
That worked...thanks! Removed GSD and the culmination of other things people have removed that didn't affect the stability of the gutted HTC Sense. Also has been factory resetted as well.

ClockWorkMod Nandbackup is about 230mb big :)

-=edit=-

whoops..I think gtalkservice.apk is required by something :3
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
yes i believe u can remove talk.apk but u need the service
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yzdirtrider13:
Can someone post the Sense facebook APK (and odex if I need it)? Facebook.apk is not contained in the restore file linked in the OP.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
Couldn't find an odex
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yzdirtrider13:
Is that the stock sense apk and not the one from the market? It won't allow me to add it under accounts & sync like the sense version would.. I remember the market version having this problem though.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
I'm thinking you are needing the HTCfacebook.apk. I will have to upload that when I get home. Thats where all my backups are.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yzdirtrider13:
EDIT: Found them.

For future reference, if you deleted the sense facebook app and broke friendstream, you can find it here:

showthread.php?t=709223
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] WhammyDroid:
whatever you put didn't work.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
I don't understand your comment? The mounting information on the first post should work just fine assuming you have custom recovery.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hand76:
Guys can someone tell me if I can get rid of the Car Panel app and the Latitude app?

If so does anyone know what the name or command line would be for me to remove them?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
I'm like 98% sure you can get rid of the car panel app but i don't know of a latitude app?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
forgot to post the name of the navigation panel app.

HtcNaviPanel.apk
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hand76:
Awesome I will go try that thanks!

Just did it and everything worked out great. Thanks so much man!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Xxq TZ pxX:
This worked flawlessly! Finally, I'm able to get CityID, Twitter, stocks, flickr, etc. off my Inc. Thanks so much Bxsteez!!!!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Xxq TZ pxX:
Does removing this remove the Navigation app? or the Car Panel app?

On my Inc they are 2 separate apps.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
It should remove the car panel app. The navigation app is google maps.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Xxq TZ pxX:
Ok, I just did it and you were right. Navigation is still there and the gay car panel is gone! Thanks again for all of this and you're help!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crackers8199:
in deleting apps, i've got a bunch of weird widgets listed when i long-press my home screen...how do i get rid of these?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
You are going to have to do a wipe. Thats the only way i've found to remove those bogus widgets.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crackers8199:
a wipe? of the entire phone?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
Yes. You have to do a factory restore via the custom recovery.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hand76:
I have removed much to this point but just a couple of apps still remain.

I still have Latitude, again not sure if anyone knows how to remove that.

But I also have a useless "Search People" app (for contacts) Anyone know of a way to get rid of that one?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crackers8199:
i guess i'll just deal with it then until someone finds a better way. a wipe back to factory settings seems to defeat the purpose of removing apps, no?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
No when you do the wipe the applications won't be there. That gives the apps removed as well as the cleanup of the widgets.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crackers8199:
i am confused...if i am wiping the phone back (using a factory restore via the custom firmware as you said), wouldn't all the apps be there again?

if i'm misunderstanding, what exactly does a wipe do?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
No the apps would not come back. The wipe would clean all your personal data and all non system apps.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hand76:
Does anyone know what the name of the HTC Bookmarks widget is? I want to remove. but can't find the name in multiple threads or forums....weird.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GooTz66:
htcbookmarkwidget.apk

You can use Astro and advance search ".apk" to find all the .apk files on your device
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hand76:
Hmmmm thought I tried that one already just by guessing but I will try it again.

Also thanks for the astro tip!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GooTz66:
No worries, anytime. Also I forgot to mention in my last post that when you use Astro and do an advanced search, change the search field from "/sdcard" to "/" and it will list all .apk's on your device.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] kirk1978:
If some of us aren't comfortable using this method, can we use Titanium Backup and remove our unwanted apps individually?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shoman24v:
I did a nandroid backup before I removed apps. I assume if something messes up I can just restore that and all is well?

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA App
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] kirk1978:
Anyone? Please!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
Never used Titanium Backup so I'm not sure. I know you can remove the apps individually but I just do a nandroid backup.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Bxsteez:
Yes that is correct.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] The_Law2:
After removing CityID, VVM, Skype, and My Verizon according to the first post, my phone memory did not drop a single MB, 597MB before and after. Are we really not actually deleting these apps from the phone when we are doing this?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] palomosan:
Noob question, all of this commands are done on the phone or in windows commands.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] das7771:
The remove commands are done in the windows command prompt
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Θmega:
I know this is an old question but I thought I'd clear something up: You DO NOT have to wipe your phone in order to get rid of the weird widgets listed.

Go into your phone Settings -> Applications -> HTC Sense and click "Clear Data". It will remove the weird widgets from the list but you'll also lose your homescreen setup.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] palomosan:
Thanks for the info, now to do some damage.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] clambert11:
How about an update for what has been added in Froyo? Getting ready to uninstall some of this stuff now.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GooTz66:
You can edit the list to add more apps you want to remove. Use Astro to search ".apk" in "/" for app names