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[Windows Mobile Software Development] ocman:
The most important thing to me is ram usage, the lower it is the best it is,

the png file limitation to display an icon should be reconsidered, the ability to display native icon is much more important, or, much easily to program, you can make your app request the "HKLM\Security\StartInfo\Start\myprog.lnk" key to read the icon you should display, if nothing is entered, lets just start the native icon.

This is important to make your startmenu replacement user friendly. nobody likes assigning manually an icon to an app, having the ability to do it is good, but the most important for the users is that your program automaticaly displays the native icon like the start menu does.

To use cpl, you just have to use a ctlpnl.exe command line, like this :

ctpnl.exe mycpl.cpl

if cpl has multiple tab, ctpnl.exe mycpl.cpl,1 ( where the number is the tab you want to be open)

for cpl files, I thinks its the big part of the job :-(
[Windows Mobile Software Development] vinvv:
What I meant with:

My program uses the icons set in HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start, but if it's an older program, there might not be a high resolution icon, and in that case I won't display any icon. That's something I will fix ofcourse.

I'll have a look at the cpl files, and I guess google will help me there as well. :)

Also looking for a way to show my startmenu instead of the winmo startmenu, but no luck so far. If anybody knows how to catch when the winmo startmenu is activated in c#, please let me know. :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] tito12:
Hi guys

Have you ever heard of iPhoneToday http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633618 ? It's so light and configurable :D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Farmer Ted:
XTask has a good looking, light start menu replacement.

If you leave out the start_icon.png's, then the native icons are used. The 6.5 start menu also slows down boot time dramatically. Just delete all the shortcuts, soft reset, and check the millisecondtoidlethread in hkcu/performance. Boot time may be 20-30 seconds faster.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Biges:
This certainly looks very interesting! Please continue, I also hate the honeycomb (as many people around).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
I like this

Hi m8

I also hate the startmenu but this is cose it eats arround 30mb of ram...

There is a way to disable the default startmenu ....

Look this post its working fine on Blackstone NRG roms.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7911317&postcount=16270

I just dont like the replacement menu or the quickmenu

Your app can be assigned to startmenu button with ameba

If can i help with your project on this just let know
[Windows Mobile Software Development] claus1953:
Also keep in mind that many shells (Throttle Launcher, Mobile Shell etc) read the data to load program shortcuts from the start menu, so that the replacement has to take care of that too.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] space77:
what do you think about wisbar 4? would this be an alternative to quick menu? i was using this prog. a year ago and i was totaly impressed. now i use it again together with the new energy rom from august 28. after the replacement from the start menu i have real nice and fast blackstone
[Nexus One General] blas4me:
I've been hearing complaints about battery life with the N1. Fortunately I have'nt had that problem, but I did notice that my batteries don't fully charge even though the power indicator is green. I have two batteries, a standard and extended, and I checked the status in my settings and it said the battery was charged, but it only read as 94%. It would'nt charge past that while the phone was on. So, I turned the phone off and the indicator turned red, telling me the real state of the battery, so I let it charge in off mode until the battery light turned green, and it charged 100%. I notice with all rechargables when we first get the battery the first thing we do is throw it on the charger, when we should actually use the battery until it's dead, then give it a full charge. I did that with both my batteries, the one that came with the phone took about 5 or 6 hours to fully charge, and the extended one took a couple of hours. My battery indicator has about 5 bars in it, now I lose about one bar every hour, and my drainage never goes below 50%. And it's not like my phone is idle, because you know I have to show off my latest gadget, and I push android on everybody I know. So I let them browse the web, tweet, go on facebook, wifi tether, play games that support flash, take pictures, listen to music, explore the app market and play with all the apps we have, not to mention I'm making and recieving calls and checking my emails, and still my battery never goes below 50%. Idle I never go below 70%. Try my little method and see if it works for you;)

Rooted N1 with locked bootloader

FRF83 eViL n-One-shOt Noir IV Redeux (I took out some apps in my kitchen)

Kernel version:2.6.34-925mVCFS-OC-Monks-062610

8GB class 6 sdcard

512 ext3 partition/no swap
[Nexus One General] cr0wnest:
Thats how i usually charge my batteries too, and i dont get the same results. Maybe i need to shut off my phone.

Slow charging your battery also helps, too bad the battery doesnt charge that way. I use a third party dock/charger for HTC desire (Which uses same batt as N1) and it charges really really slow. The battery is cool throughout. And the battery life is astounding. Though not as long as yours. :\
[Nexus One General] itslinx:
Since i've had this latest Froyo update.. my battery has been GREAT. The best it's ever been by farrrrrr. When I manually updated the last time, my battery was horrible for a while.
[Nexus One General] robwscott83:
What is this "extended" battery???
[Nexus One General] Mokurex:
For me, I think the battery is average. It's not great,but it's not horrendous either. It's just that there's so much you can do with the phone, that you start using it more, hence the fast draining of battery.

At first I felt the battery was really bad, but when I come to think of it, I surf on the web, play games, etc. for like 5 hours each day. ( I know I'm a bad student.) This is with auto-sync, auto brightness, and my battery is almost dead around 5pm. It could be better, but oh well...
[Nexus One General] mrbkkt1:
Froyo has greatly improved battery life to ridiculous levels.
[Nexus One General] solidmac:
Yes froyo has doubled my battery life by 5_6 hours
[Nexus One General] blas4me:
Extended battery

It came with my phone. I purchased my phone on ebay, and It was used, I got a dock and extended battery. I don't know if the dock came standard. I think it was a good deal though, I just visited the site where the guy bought the battery, and it cost $70 and I know the dock cost about $40. I won the bid @ $454, compared to the $580 I would have paid @ googles site. Check the link to see pricing.

http://seidioonline.com
[Nexus One General] MTGap:
Check out this post that includes instructions from an HTC rep for better battery life:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6996422&postcount=100

I can confirm it works and so can others. It seems it is best to charge the phone when it is off.
[HD2 General] RicardoPT:
hi, i'm new one arround here....I have a desire, but I want know hoe do you compare disere to the htc hd.....I already have a htc p3600, but I trie this with android and I can install my favorit programs :(....ndrive and tomtom :(
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryjabo:
I'm currently running the ROM & kernel you see in my signature.

Obviously I've already got the FroYo radio, and the kernel mentioned... do I have to get rid of those to use a different ROM? If I want to switch to a different ROM (just to play around) do I just flash it? What, exactly, do I have to wipe before doing so?

Just rooted a few days ago for the first time, and though I'm getting the hang of it, I sill have much to learn.
[Windows Mobile Themes] hwoarang626:
please i have sense UI running on SPB mobile shell 3.5.5 and i only need the page sms widget ,, please can you tell me how can i get it on my existing theme please
[Windows Mobile Themes] rjrocks:
do u mean 2 say 3d viewer mezzaging???? if yes then press and hold messaging icon on spb mobileshell, then click on default action and select 3d viewer
[Windows Mobile Themes] hwoarang626:
thanks for the reply but no i know the 3d message viewer ,, i meant the page sms that you see in some themes ,, when you scroll to a page in spbms it has a message viewer like tf3d message ,,,
[Android Software Development] fergie_uk:
Hello,

My name is David Ferguson and I run a small software company and I would like to develop a PDA solution for mobile engineers using the android development platform. Basically I have written some back office software that already integrates into a PDA solution from Masternaught ThreeX (windows mobile) but I really would like to have our own solution, I'm assuming with the new Direct Push technology of android 2.2 this is a possibility.

Basically one of my customers have around 60 engineers servicing gas equipments and this is all done virtually real time using Windows PDA's and would like to reproduce in Android.

Is this something as developers any one on here would be interested in?

If so please PM me or email info@verticalsoft.co.uk

Kind regards

David
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] topdnbass:
What happened to them?

My g1 had some sick animations at one point, zoomed into apps when i opened them, and zoomed out when i closed.

Now that I got an evo 4g I can't seem to reproduce those effects.

It's not a "huge" deal, but having them certainly adds to the eyecandy factor.

I think i did it with an apk called dev tools..

I can't seem to find it, and spare parts only lets me changing the speed of windows animations and sideways shift animations.

Thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] nicandris:
i'm pretty sure its in spare parts... at least for nexus... is your phone rooted?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] flynny:
From what Ive read, all of the really neat effects have been dropped from the OS as of 2.01 onwards.

There is an app you can install called Spare Parts, which if you have 1.6 or below will allow you to turn on the animation effects of the screen rotate etc but it also points out that they just wont work in anything 1.6+

Atleast thats what I think, im no dev, just one man annoyed at the lack of eyecandy ;(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] chmckay:
Did you try Home > Menu > Settings > Display > Animation? Make sure that you have "All animations" checked. That will at least get you started.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] topdnbass:
I have the "All animations" checked.

It's not that I don't have animations.

The window animation is set to slow in spare parts, which is step 1.

Step 2 is Transition animations, which only shows when going from one part of an app to another is also set to slow.

Step 3 and what I'm trying to accomplish here is the "zooming" animation when you open an app.

I believe the Droid has this, and I really miss it from my G1.

Why is it not here, and how do i get it back?

Almost forgot the auto-rotate animation.. That was cool as well..

Gingerbread or Android 3.0 will focus on eyecandy, supposedly, but until then at least some basic animations would be cool.

P.S. I'm not rooted, yet.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] topdnbass:
Turns out with launcherpro I get the desired animations. Is this part of the launcher? Or is sense blocking the OS level animations

Sent from my Evo 4G
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] theEastonator:
The zoom animations unfortunately are not present in sense ui - thats why you see them when you use launcher pro.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cryshop:
I know what you're talking about. I got an HTC Legend, which has Sense UI but no Live wallpaper, then I flashed a patch file to get Live Wallpaper works on my Legend...and tada..I got "zooming in/out" effect also. Just dont know why :p And I'm not using any other launcher but Sense.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=689168

I think you can pm that guy to get what you want. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] nznxwc:
My device (Touch Pro 2) has a data connection and WiFi. Is it possible to restrict which applications use the data connection? Ideally I would like ActiveSync to use the data connection so I can keep my email, calendar and contacts current. Other applications should only be able to use WiFi.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bartkevin:
Hi all you dutch people out here.

Im trying to look into making a Hyves Widget, or integrating the Hyves status updates etc. Into the Friendstream widget of HTC.

I know its probably not going to be easy. Just wondering if any1 here tried it already or concidered doing so!

any suggestions/tips apreciated
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supernielz:
Did you make any progress?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolemnWishing:
The G1 has delivery reports for SMS but no read reports (it does have it for MMS though). I use the default messaging application on SuperD (1.6 base rom). Id really like to be able to receive reports indicating whether or not my messages have been read. Is there anyway to do this? Does Android 2.1 have it or are there any applications on the market that support this?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renegadEEE:
Since the first day I had my Nexus One I have been searching for ways to make the UI of my device smoother and faster cause in some ways it didn't feel smooth at all. One of the main problems is the live wallpapers that take a lot of the CPU, certainly the more heavy ones with 3D effects. With the live wallpaper 'water' it's even so bad that scrolling trough apps is extremely laggy.

Of course this shouldn't be an issue for a device with this power so people already started complaining a long time ago and still are (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914). I hoped that Froyo would bring some GPU acceleration to make everything smooth but google just seems to ignore it. Is there hope for the future? Cause this is really a bummer for many Android users.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cr0wnest:
Download LauncherPro Beta from market place, it speeds things up and makes the entire experience smoother. Customisable too. Only problem is, it still lags when you run live wallpapers.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jz9833:
use launcher pro, it makes the phone alot smoother
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renegadEEE:
Stock launcher in Froyo without live wallpapers works smooth for me too. It's the live wallpapers that are the problem. It's really a shame that google implented them without any GPU acceleration. So now you're device will be slow if you use them so basically most people won't use any which I think is a shame cause I really like them.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mokurex:
I agree on the live wallpaper issue. Stock launcher+live wallpapers lag even more than in Eclair. When I set a live wallpaper and turn on the screen, i have to wait like a second before the screen becomes responsive. Anyone has this problem? This wasn't present in Eclair...Google please don't tell me this is the final version. It was a joke right? T____T
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b0dge:
I'm using Eclair with LauncherPro and even with the Starfield3D live wallpaper, I get very little to no lag.

I actually only started using LauncherPro yesterday, but it seems fantastic so far...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clarkster:
If you think that the water paper isn't using the GPU, you are mistaken about what the GPU is. The water wallpaper is using hardware accelerated opengl to render.

What you are actually complaining about is the framerate of the launcher on top of the wallpaper. The standard launcher does not use the GPU, but the wallpaper does. What is happening is that the wallpaper is taking most of the phones power to draw. Notice how the water wallpaper is delayed when scrolling between screens? You slide one over, and then the wallpaper follows an instant later?

That is because it is running on a lower priority thread. The system giving more attention to the scrolling than the wallpaper when you move it. Then the wallpaper is allowed to catch up.

The issue is not that the wallpaper doesn't use acceleration, but the fact that running both takes a lot of power.

Run Launcher Pro or ADW.Launcher(I find is better on live wallpapers) and that will pretty much give you the best your phone can handle.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkDvr:
Just get a LauncherPro. I use it, and never want to come back to stock one.

It looks and feels the same, but it's extremely fast and smooth.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
i agree with launcher pro, just install it and at least try it out and see how smooth the UI and everything will be.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclair~:
Why exactly are alternative Launchers faster than stock? Would someone mind explaining that?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkDvr:
Well, LauncherPro downsamples the wallpaper and icon/widget resolution when you're scrolling screens (which you'd NEVER notice if I didn't tell you... and you can turn it off)... but the real mystery is that when you enable "3D app drawer" in its settings.. you get the same "stock" app drawer with 3D effect, but it's HELLA fast. I mean FAST, no matter how many apps u got there. I don't know how he achieved that one, stock drawer with same effect just DIES there. Which is quite embarrassing for google, I must say.

Oh, and I tried ADW launcher and Home++ - they are both way slower. Don't know why. Even ADW integrated in latest Cyan 5 is still way slower than LauncherPro.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclair~:
I knew that the quality of wallpapers/widgets etc. was downgraded when scrolling. Even with that turned off, it is still smoother? Is everything still being downsampled even with that feature removed? Or is there another reason why it so smooth?

Also, I notice things quickly when they aren't an exact replica (which isn't that hard). The 3D app drawer present in Launcher Pro isn't exactly a perfect copy of the default 2.2 one.. since I'm not developer, I'm just going to guess here and assume it's so smooth.. well because it isn't as nicely put together as Google's version~

Default (Left) Launcher Pro (Right)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
ok i just disabled launcher pro just out of curiosity and used to stock froyo launcher, and it was SLOW AS HELL. it was like the phone was in slow motion. so then i uninstalled launcher pro, rebooted the phone, and it STILL is in slow motion. is this how everybody has been experiencing froyo? why is it like this? it obviously seems like a bug. my 2.1 ROMs were normal.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtw4991:
I'm on Froyo 85B and just installed Launcher Pro beta. It does seem smoother and faster than stock also. I assume it just replaced the stock launcher when it installed.....are there any settings for it? If so, I can't seem to find them?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclair~:
Menu on home screen (Launcher Pro) > Preferences

New to Android?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erikiksaz:
Maybe try a complete wipe and start from new?

I don't see how adding on another loader would fix slow stock wallpapers. The stock live wallpapers shouldn't lag.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMaverick50:
Having to download third party applications to achieve basic functions rubs me raw
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
No something is just not right with the launcher install. I first used froyo and the stock launcher was just as smooth as 2.1. I tried my stock launcher today and its so slow its like slow motion. Something is not right and got goof ed up. This isn't a representation of froyo.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoyBawang2:
So when are we going to experience a GPU accelerated UI in Android? Doesn't Froyo has it already?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pfannenwender:
just read on slashdot, that chrome is gaining experimental gpu acceleration.

this is relevant in because chrome and android both use skia for drawing 2d stuff.

so this is hopefully an indicator, that we can expect gpu acceleration for android 3.0.

and i think acceleration is badly needed if android expands to devices with way higher resolutions than your average smartphone.
[HD2 General] mantis123:
Hi, all:

I uses Dutty's ROM and TomTom navigator 7.9. I did the below to make the navipanel work on TomTom, but it doesn't work well after I used the below method:

To make TomTom replace copilot:

-You have to install tomtom to your SD card

-Locate the install dir of tomtom after you have installed it

-Locate the navigator.exe and copy it to another folder

-Rename the navigator.exe in the tomtom folder to copilot.exe

-Rename the navigator.exe you made copy off to splashscreen.exe

-Copy the splashscreen.exe back to same folder as the new copilot.exe is

-Rename the tomtom folder (or what ever the name is) to copilot.

-Copy the new copilot folder, and then locate the original copilot folder on device storage (Program Files/CoPilot) and paste the new folder over the original (DO NOT DELETE THE ORIGINAL FOLDER FIRST)

-Soft reset

However, However, the "Go Home, Address, Recent" don't work. Instead, presse any icon on Navipanel, TomTom will starts. I wonder if anyone could make Navipanel fully works with TomTom?? Thanks in advance.
[HD2 General] ProjektFuze:
it doesn't necessarily have to be tom tom right?? could i use your little tutorial and make it work with google maps?? or waze?? or bing?? those are my preferred gps programs.. and they work phenomanal... especially google maps.. since i can visually track my friends progress to our destination...
[HD2 General] extrapurifier:
Fully support that question :D Is there any honorable developer out who could modify NaviPanel.exe to send the right command line syntax to TomTom Navigator.exe?
[HD2 General] livanov:
If TomTom supports command line parameters at all .....

For Garmin Mobile XT it is possible via SDK or QueLaunchApp.

Edit: I just tested this. Navipanel.exe does not use command line to pass data to Copilot. Sorry folks.
[HD2 General] extrapurifier:
So... may could you tell us how NaviPanel.exe does execute CoPilot with special functions if it is not done by parameters?
[HD2 General] livanov:
Nope. No command line parameters. I logged splashscreen.exe and copilot.exe.

I guess they use some kind of API (similar to Automation) or something ?!?

Or Post Message function. Not sure ....
[HD2 General] wergor:
damn. i would really like it if navipanel could be used with other navigation programs, would need it for my future motorcycle :cool:
[HD2 General] kroolas:
What to do if I have no copilot installed. Can I still link navipanel to tomtom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] exssrerion:
Did Android have EMS package track app? (Eng)

I can't find EMS package track app in my market.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] chachi:
I've just bookmarked track-trace.com/post as a shortcut
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] exssrerion:
thank you for another sol.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ursika:
I have a problem with wi fi connection. The phone (hd2) was connecting ok to wi fi, till a few days ago. Now it starts to connecting, but it never connect to wi fi. I tried to another wi fi, the problem is the same. Is it posible to fix this and how? I would rather fix this without doing a hard reset if it is posible.

Thanx a lot.

Ursika
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kev007:
check if you are assigned a valid ip address (starting with something like 192.168/16.x.x)

if not, try applying one manually

as a last resort use apps like wifiprofiles or commmgrpro (i say last resort because both were released before the hd2 came out, i'm not sure whether they're compatible)