yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] unCoRrUpTeD:
Had ADW Launcher, but found the ones I mentioned before and liked it better. I am going to post some screen shots of them. They are nice. I'm running froyo which is an AOSP ROM. No Sense.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] TheSeanTeam:
I've tried ADW and LP in the past, but for some reason I keep going back to Helix. It's pretty responsive and is nice and clean.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] bsnipes:
Home++ in the market seems to be pretty good. Seems to be faster than Zeam.. up to 7 screens and has a nice powerbar at the bottom.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] xxproblemzxx:
IMO its between launcherpro and adw. Check any poll on this site and you'll see everyone else agrees. i personally use and lover launcherpro (3d gallery, fast, 3-7 screens, scrollable widgets, pinch to zoom home screens, 5 row home screens, dock shortcuts, and the list goes on and on lol even though this one is long enough)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] typeadam:
Tried 'em all. LauncherPro wins for 1 reason only (for me, anyway) - 5 rows of icons on the home screens!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] unCoRrUpTeD:
Just put launcher pro on. I like it. It might be the one to keep.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] daPorkchop:
ADW has this as well. I like LPb though the best. He keeps coming up with new sweet features. Love the scrolling dock bar. 3d app drawer could use some help. Just seemed clunky for me...but it was alright.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gomorrah:
ADW FTW. The gestures alone make it better. Plus, its open source so you can do whatever you want to it.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] bob2300nx:
Same here I prefer launcherpro to ADW. I like how customizable the dock is in launcherpro, you can have the dots just like ADW or you can have all icons. I know you maybe able to do the same with ADW since its open source but customizing on launcherpro is so simple.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] UnknownDude:
Try Launcher Pro. Trust me it is good!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] il Duce:
You fail for resurrecting a year old thread, and all you added was crap people said a year ago....
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] rast4man:
Zeam FTW or Launcher7 for something different :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] _Sparks:
all of us have different needs,

why don't u install all the launchers you are considering and test all of them and finally choose your launcher.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] spleef:
i use adw launcher ex runs smooth with alot of eye candy and settings to play with just my 2 cents
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jarth:
So I have a problem and both google and the forum search have failed me.

Several games (Paper Airplane, Gem Miner, Blow Up) will just show a white screen past their main menu. Text still shows up normally, but the game never seems to actually run and nothing responds on the touch screen. Other 3d games seem to work just fine. I'm also having a problem with some graphics in other apps being off-center and chopped off (the map pointers in the Weather Channel map and sprites in some 2d games like the trees and tanks in Armored Strike).

Currently using FRF85B, all versions of 2.2 have had this problem from FRF50 up. I can't remember if the stock 2.1 had it when I got it, I didn't use 2.1 for long before the FRF50 update showed up.

I've of course tried uninstalling and reinstalling the apps (with and without a reboot in between) and shuffling them either to or from the sd card.

Anyone else anywhere have this problem?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jarth:
Bumping for hope
[XPERIA X10 General] Keegan_P:
I hope this doesn't belong on the development forum, but I have a few questions about rooting my x10a.

1) A nightmare from Rogers

I know this dude who owns an iPhone, and one day I asked him, why haven't you jailbroken it yet? "Well" he replied, "I had for one point, for about a week, that was, until my telephone company (Rogers Canada) sent me a 'cease and desist' letter telling me to stop modifying my hardware." I am concerned about something like this happening to me, if my company, Rogers again, would be able to track down if I had rooted my phone, or maybe my friend was making something up.

2) Warranty

Would this void my warranty with the SE and/or Rogers?

3) Backup

And if it would void my warranty, would I be able to recover an unrooted phone, with no traces it was ever rooted, if it ever did have a problem? Even if it bricked?

Thanks a lot for helping a noob like me out!
[XPERIA X10 General] Straf:
YOu get a "cease and desist" letter from your ISP when they detect you flooding an university servers, trying to get dumps. Not when you change your phone's firmware, or hack it. Otherwise, there would be 1 milion? iphone users threatened with this.

THats what i think.
[XPERIA X10 General] Keegan_P:
That's what he called it to simplify the explination, but he does say that they sent hum a warning letter.
[XPERIA X10 General] Tri3Dent:
You will not get any letter from Rogers because you flashed or rooted your phone. They have no evidence of this. Flashing the firmware would indeed void your warranty but you can easily flash it back to the original firmware to gain your warranty back. They cannot check if you have flashed or rooted. As long as you can get back to the original firmware, warranty continues. Of course, NEVER say you flashed and/or rooted the phone.

And yes you can go back to the original rogers firmware using the flash/brick tool.
[XPERIA X10 General] SWKB:
AFAIK carriers dont give a hoot what you do to YOUR phone as long as you keep paying the bill.You own the phone after all and if you want to debrand it etc you are perfectly entitled to do so.Up to you if you want to lose warrenty..If you drop the phone off a cliff do they say "ok you dont need to pay anymore then" ? I think not.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Jay321:
i see that we have the capabilities to use animated wallpaper but our stock ones suck booty lol...is there any good ones out there cause i saw some that android uses and theres were pretty cool and im a loyal wm user soo we must compete lol...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] dragonlord785:
agreed! anyone know of any good ones?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] husker91:
I dont but figured I'd bump the post up as I too am very interested
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] develop1:
Interested in this also.

bump
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] phdeez:
Another bump.... I searched previous threads and couldn't find anything useful...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] The Jack of Clubs:
there was a thread full of them but alot of them where just regular ugly wallpapers that people put then threw the animations from the stock ones on top. i wouldnt bother. wait till someone fixes android.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] aredman:
Hello all, I am new here but is there really no other real animated themes out there for win 6.5?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] get_ur_tilt_on:
yeah,, i have been looking also, cant find any animated wallpapers that are decent........
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] drewmaloy:
to the top. :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] JGuinan007:
Pass on the live pappers

Where are the live pappers:confused:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] develop1:
Bump.

I really like the Nexus One's live wallpaper. Possible to get it on our TP2's?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] khoyifish:
Apparently you can get some Live Wallpapers with Throttle Launcher. If that's something you are willing to do. I tried Throttle Launcher .8 and It was buggy and wouldnt work well. But it is just a suggestion. :cool:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=552799
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] K2SXS:
tp2

i have seen a very cool feature on a friends galaxy S. a rotating wallpaper. when he switched screen by dragging behind was a wallpaper of earth which rotated with the screen.

that would be a really cool feature to put on the touch pro 2.

Cheers.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] bwnotredame06:
You can get that with SPB Mobile Shell

I've had it for awhile it gets better every time, when android came along, i was like wow I already have this !
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] niiiick:
idea 1: on orientation change, set keyboard.

unfortunately, swype is unreasonable to try to use in landscape mode (for me, at least) and isn't that great as a tap-to-type keyboard. given the amount of people that love swype, would it be possible to somehow set swype to be the keyboard ONLY in portrait mode, but when switched to landscape mode, change the keyboard to another keyboard? maybe the htc ime or the droid x keyboard whenever it gets ported reliably?

idea 2: i use slidescreen (pro) and i love it. it keeps things organized and central for me so that i can easily manage everything. unfortunately i lose the benefit of the regular launcher features. how difficult is it to add a handler for a double-tap of the home button to launch [an app of your choice] adw.launcher?

ideas, comments, suggestions?

if nothing else...how can i go about figuring out how to implement it myself?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dictionary:
For number 2, try either quick desk, or power strip, in the market.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vomer:
Hi guys,

Which ROM do you recommend we should use now that both a universal one and one specific to GSM nexus one is out?

Any benefit in using the universal since it was released later (the link at least)?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Criimson:
Hello everyone

Great forum. Was able to root/nand unlock and flash DC with ease from all of the information here, even with the EVO being my first smartphone. Thank you all.

Now my question is about trying to get the HTC Sync to work with my Windows Vista. I have Home Premium and nothin I have tried is working. The computer sees the HTC and I have tried several drivers, but it will not initialize the driver and HTC Sync won't connect. I can run as a HDD and that works fine, but trying to sync or charge only will not allow me to run CMD tools.

I have the beautiful Scetched Android boot image through using a root file manager, but would like to create a custom splash screen.

And I guess I need to sync to flash.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Criim
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirchuk:
Are you running the latest version of the software? Haven't heard any specific issues with Vista 32. Also check that you aren't using any kind of extension cable between your computer and your USB cable. Try another USB port as well.

Here's a link to HTC Sync:

http://www.htc.com/us/support/evo-sprint/downloads/

Edit: Also, just to make sure, you are not using HTC sync to apply a custom boot video right? Cause as far as I know, you don't use it for that. I've never used HTC sync for anything other than the USB drivers for ADB. I thought once you made the video that you applied it via either a ROM image or by uploading it using ADB, HTC SYNC is just a backup/syncing program for the phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Criimson:
It is the USB cable that came with the EVO plugged right into the computer and have tried 2 different slots. I am not really trying for the sync. It is just a good indicator for if the driver is working correctly, which it isn't for some reason.

I just wanted it to connect so I can run commands at the CMD prompt.

I already have the boot video and root/nand unlocked through file managers and the term emu. Now I want to flash a new splash screen, but to do that I think I *have* to flash it from the PC. If you know of a way to do it in some other way, I'd love to hear how.

Going to take a nap, but was thinking about trying to uninstall my AntiVirus, just in case one of the services was screwing with the driver. I had it turned off, but it might have had a service that was still there.

Criim

Edit:

Well I tried unistalling my AVG, rebooting into safe mode to remove any instances of the HTC driver, and then did a fresh install of the above file. Still shows an error in the device manager with my EVO plugged in.

"Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)"

I even tried to plug it into all 8 of my USB slots just in case.

I'm stumped.

Criim
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bobby_C:
I'm having the same problem. I just rooted my Evo and now I can't connect to HTC Sync at all. Device manager shows "My HTC" installed properly. Evo connects to pc fine but times out when trying to connect to HTC Sync.

I've tried downgrading to HTC Sync 2.0.31. I'm currently trying with 2.0.40 with same results. Nothing.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] bmfc187:
First off, im not posting this for any kind of credit i just want to share it...i got the original bios boot from here...all i did was change the word Sapphire to Espresso...

since it goes in /data you dont have to reboot into recovery, just plug in usb and

adb push {path/to}/bootanimation.zip /data/local

when its done,

adb reboot

unplug and...

Enjoy!

-BMFC
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] turboyo:
How do we back up the old/stock one?
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] bmfc187:
If you have the stock mytouch slide one, you don't have to because its a .gif in /system/customize/resource/ and it won't be overwritten or messed with at all...

If you have another bootanimation in .zip format and you wanna back it up just

adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip /path/to/wherever/

-BMFC
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] sk8rbebop:
I have a tutorial and explanation here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708316
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] eugene373:
You can Place the File in data or system/media. It will work in either place.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] bmfc187:
thats good to know...do you know whether one spot overrides the other? and if so, which one? i.e. if i have a bootanimation.zip in /data/local and i push another bootanimation.zip to /system/media, which one will show up?

-BMFC
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] sk8rbebop:
The data local bootanimation.zip. It is a user defined animation that can be accessed on both root and unrooted devices. The animation in system is only accessable with root and will act as a default fall back if nothing is in local.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] turboyo:
Ahh I understand now .. so lets say I install this one in data/local.. then later want the stock stuff back I just delete this from /data/local and the stock one will start coming up again from /system/media
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] bmfc187:
that is correct! well actually the STOCK one is in /system/customize/resource/ and its something like mytough_v8_final.gif or something like that...

so even if you push it to /system/media the stock one will still be untouched in its directory, itll just get overridden by the new one.

but yeah...

-BMFC
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Gootah:
uuuhhh...

Does it still say "Press TRACKBALL for help" at the bottom? You should change it to "Optical" or somethin OP, that would be dope.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] bmfc187:
No it says "press volume up + power to enter recovery" or somethin, ...

-BMFC

Sent from my ROOTED MyTouch3G Slide
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] eleeo037037:
Is there any way to change the boot animation by just using my phone via terminal or root explorer??
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] fermunky:
Not sure why mine didn't work. Running SMR5r1, pushed to data/local/ and on reboot, I get the usual MyTouch3GSlide boot screen, then blank, then lock screen...
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] bmfc187:
Yeah me too...I did this when I was on slideMEROOT2 and it worked fine...then about a week after that I switched to 5r1 and bootanims don't work on 5r1...sucks, I know...I haven't tried any other roms lately, been working on theming 5r1, so I dunno what roms have bootanims working or not...

-BMFC

Sent from my ROOTED myTouch3G Slide
[Droid Eris Android Development] Raikalo:
I searched around and couldn't get a clear answer. I'm a noob at anything command prompt/terminal related.

I was screwing around with adb last night after figuring out that I can remove program .apks with the rm <com.whatever.program> command. I got a little trigger happy and removed things that I don't use, just to test it out. I made a nandroid backup before I started. The phone runs fine, but now the Market won't download anything. It just sits on the Starting download... screen.

One of the .apks I removed was GmailProvider.apk. Whether this is the problem or not, I'd like to reinstall it for practice. I can always nand restore later.

So my question is... How can I use adb push to reinstall an apk?

I tried:

adb push C:\GmailProvider.apk

adb install C:\GmailProvider.apk

adb install C:\GmailProvider.apk \system\app

And about every variation of the 3, in and out of the adb shell.

It didn't work, and I'm at a loss to do anything else. So does anyone have any suggestions?
[Droid Eris Android Development] t2noob:
You have to push it abs then give it permissions.

So after pushing the apk give it permissions by doing this.

Adb push C:/gmailprovider.apk /system/app/gmailprovider.apk
adb shell
Chmod 775 /system/nameofapp.apk
Exit
Adb reboot

Your phone needs to be rebooted so I added the adb reboot, but you can just turn it off and on like you would normally or use that command.hope it helps.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Raikalo:
# Chmod 775 /system/GmailProvider.apk

Chmod: not found

What's Chmod do, anyway?

EDIT: Forgot to cd to the directory...lemme try again.

EDIT2: Same error.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Raikalo:
Okay, I tried:

# install /system/app/GmailProvider.apk [-cdDsp]

With no errors. Lemme see if it worked.

EDIT: I can see it, but the Market still isn't downloading apps. Lemme try an actual program.
[Droid Eris Android Development] t2noob:
Ok I see two things that might be wrong with what you did.

Try not capatalizing the first letter(Not sure if this is a big deal but better to make sure.) and fix your path, GmailProvider.apk should be in the system/app folder.

adb shell
chmod 775 /system/app/GmailProvider.apk
adb reboot

The chmod command (abbreviated from change mode) is a shell command and C language function in Unix and Unix-like environments. When executed, it can change file system modes of files and directories. The modes include permissions and special modes

EDIt:

Yea you might be able to see it but the app might not have the right permissions to be used. Therefore it might be the reason why you can't download apps from market.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Raikalo:
Excellent.

adb push C:/GmailProvider.apk /system/app/GmailProvider.apk
adb shell
chmod 775 /system/app/GmailProvider.apk
adb reboot

Worked like a charm. The capitalization was required; it gave an error without it. I installed Gmail.apk again using the same method and ran the program, and it worked. Thanks! :D

EDIT: GASP! Market works. :D

You're a lifesaver. Well, ROMsaver. I guess this means that GmailProvider.apk and gtalkservice.apk can't be removed from the phone.
[Droid Eris Android Development] thenestor:
I just want to take this moment to make a Public Service Announcement: Everyone please remember to do a Nandroid backup before making any changes to your /system area. ;)
[Droid Eris Android Development] t2noob:
Don't know what to tell ya, you can start adding back the apks you deleted or do that nand restore since you already know how to install back a system apk, so you learned what you wanted

:D

EDIT: I see you got it to work so that's good news, but like Nestor pointed out always use nand backup before you do any changes to the system area, I've learned to do this the hard way lol.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Raikalo:
It's a good reminder :P

Thanks a ton guys :D I'll nand backup in a few to have a better restore point.

Learning android-related things ftw!
[Droid Eris Android Development] Raikalo:
Oh, one more thing.

I saw something about adding an Environmental Variable to windows that involved adb? Could someone explain that?

There's an example. I tried this and it didn't do anything.
[Droid Eris Android Development] t2noob:
i think Thefuzz4.net explained this better

To make life easier, lets add a global path to the android SDK tools. Right-click My Computer > Properties,

click on Advanced, then click on Environment Variables.

Doubleclick on PATH, then at the end of the Variable value, add a semi colon ";" and then c:\AndroidSDK\tools

Doing The above ^^ will let you run adb from anywhere on your computer, like your desktop. You won't have to change to the directory and the run adb anymore, you can just run adb from anywhere on the command prompt. Its basically a little trick for us lazy people that hate having to "cd C:/android/tools" before running adb.
[Droid Eris Android Development] kaneda31:
Does anyone know of a good resourse for adb and/or shell commands. Every time i try to goole it i just get links to different forums with just basic stuff, push, pull, ect. Id like to find something much more complete including chmod and the like
[Droid Eris Android Development] Raikalo:
Thanks t2. Makes sense now. I hate CDing to the directory, so shortcuts are also ftw.

@above -- couldn't find a real resource so I resorted to asking specific questions on xda. :p if you find a resource lemme know.

ALSO -- chmod 775 /system/app/RandomProgram.apk.....what does the "775" do?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Spencer_Moore:
the different numbers are different permission settings. I forgot the other numbers, but their are others that set the applications for different permissions in the system. Someone correct me if I am mistaken though.
[Droid Eris Android Development] kaneda31:
Finally found some explanation of chmod at catcode.com/teachmod/ . not sure if it directly applies to andriod, but seems to make sense to me now
[Droid Eris Android Development] gonnapushthru06:
wrong thread
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weipingchong:
Hi guys,

I'm planning to get a new SD card for my G1 to replace my current 4GB SD Card.

Currently, I'm running Cyanogen 5.0.8 DS and Apps2SD.

If I change to a new SD card, will anything be lost? or is there anything that I will have to take note of in particular?

Thanks!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayor721:
Yea same. i wanna use a 16GB cause my 4GB is almost full. and i dont want to lose all my apps i have installed from Apps2SD. cause ik in ubuntu when u mount it shows the the partition part of the SD card. but idk how i would transfer apps from my 4GB to my 16GB
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolemnWishing:
You will lose all your applications on your SD card, which should be 98% of them. To prevent this from happening, go to the Market and download an application called Backup for Root, it is free. Check APK's and anything else you want and hit backup. The backup will be created on your (old) SD card. Take your SD card and put it in your computer and open it up, you will see that there is a new folder in it called Backup, copy the contents onto your computer. Put the new SD card, fully partitioned, into your phone. Go to the market and reinstall Backup for Root and also place the contents from the backup folder onto your new SD card, check all that apply in the application and hit restore.

Another option:

Using your recovery image, create a backup using Nandroid or BART (I use BART). The backup will be on your old SD card. Take that backup and put it on your computer. Put the BART/Nandroid backup onto your new SD card into your phone and through the recovery window restore it. Make sure your SD card is partitioned in the exact same way, I have not done this method before so be careful. However, if this method works it will ensure that all applications stay intact as opposed to the previous method where some applications just seem to break, it is inevitable.