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[Desire General] Whiterin:
I don't think they do emit light on blacks. I have noticed that in a completely dark room I can't see blacks on my Desire at all, it emits no visual light. Maybe the black you were testing isn't pure black.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] JayceAndTheNews:
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

Couldn't help myself :)
[Desire General] tincmulc:
I do agree that it is much better than any lcd. BUT black should be no light at all. When you turn off the screen when all the pixels are supposed to be off, you see a change. You can also see the outline of the screen when it is in any of the previously mentioned methods of darkness.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] MightySashiman:
I did the following test :

- found a room where I could be in complete darkness

- used the following enclosed file (a pure RGB=(0,0,0) 800x480 png file) and displayed it fullscreen on my phone.

- use the palm of a hand to cover the 4 lit buttons

- the screen is pretty damn BLACK ! (an LCD screen, next to it, also displaying black pixels, would look like a torchlight)

- After a minute or so, the eyes getting used to the darkness, I could very slightly see the screen. I don't know how the phone is built, but I'm guessing it's a light "leak" coming from the LED(s) of the 4 buttons.

I tried this procedure at various brightness settings (from min to max) : the remaining light coming from the screen did not change.

Is there a mod to kill the buttons backlight ?
[Desire General] Flaggie:
It is possible to kill the backlights, but have not tried it myself.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=704977&highlight=buttons+backlight
[Desire General] MightySashiman:
Ok, switched off the buttons backlight thx to Flaggie. The screen indeed still emits some light when displaying a full screen black picture. Strange.

It would be interesting to get an explanation from HTC about this, but i'm pretty sure it pointless hoping they would reply to such a question. I'll give it a try...
[Desire General] kekkle:
Perhaps you hae one of those new Desire models with a LCD screen? :P
[Desire General] MightySashiman:
No, I bought it the day it came out. Try out on your own. The test I detailed is pretty straight forward...
[Desire General] tincmulc:
That is what I thought at first, but than the amount of light on dark would change when you change the brightness.

I want to know what HTC has to say about this.

PS: I bought my phone in June.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] AndroHero:
OMG does any of you know how a led screen works? lol Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode its name clearly states that the pixels are self-illuminating so clearly unless the screen is of the display is always going to give some light off :rolleyes:
[Desire General] tincmulc:
It is actually the other way around. They are self emitting, they can turn off. LCDs, however have a backlight, which doesn't turn off, so some light still passes through.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] RXP:
OLED can havae infinate contrast ratios. I have a cowon s9, it has an OLED screen and in a pitch black room you cannot tell it's on. The desire does emit some light even on true black :-/
[Desire General] MightySashiman:
OMG please read the Wikipedia article...
[Desire General] vlasac:
Unlike over saturated colors and Pentile jagginess which are clearly visible and to some point distracting (at least to me) this seem like pure academic issue, since it can be visible only in total darkness and even then it is not visible unless screen is completely black.

What would be practical purpose in looking at black screen in darkness?
[Desire General] tincmulc:
I agree. This is an academic issue, but aren't you a bit disturbed by the fact that there has been soo much talk about this oled screen and its pure black, and it was all a lie?

I think the problem might be in the image to screen processing where it gets converted to the pentile matrix(and over saturated).

Sent from my HTC Desire
[General Topics] alexmullins:
Hey guys. Well I previously owned a HTC Fuze that i got on contract in late 2008 when the phone came out. I then jumped on the iPhone bandwagon and got an iPhone 3GS(flame me :)) in July 2009. For some reason AT&T messed up my contract and instead of it ending next year(when it should) it will end in a month or so. I guess they forgot to renew it when I got the iPhone. Anyway now that I'm over the iPhone craze I'm looking for an Android phone. I was looking at the HTC Aria or just picking up the Nexus One. If yall could help recommend me an Android phone or have advice I would sure like to here it. Thanks!
[General Topics] irccar:
samsung i9000? SUPER amoled, 1ghz, android 2.1 and so on
[General Topics] orb3000:
HTC definitely!

WM: Leo

Android: Expresso, Nexus1
[General Topics] irccar:
why definitely HTC?
[General Topics] orb3000:
Because on my personal experience HTC brings the best designed and top of the line phones with a warranty and quality that make me stick to it.

Of course there are some other good manufacturers but as I said on my experience I´ll go with HTC all the way:cool:
[Windows Mobile] 5haddex:
Can someone please let me know how to change the ROM name at the boot screen on the HD2.

Im using oskitchen and no matter what I change I always get the 1.72.blah numbers and not my Rom name.
[Windows Mobile] bzh_info:
I think it's in OEM\\mxipupdate_OEMVERSION_100.provxml file...

(ecuse my poor english...)
[Windows Mobile] goldlocke:
no, information entered in that provxml will only show in the OS.

eg. in the manila settingstab -> "software info".

OP (and me) are searching for a way to show at the bootscreen. ;)
[Windows Mobile] operators:
You mean the initial red numbers?

They are in nk.exe.

To change the red numbers,

open nk.exe with a hex editor,

search for the string appearing on your device as Unicode and edit as fitted.

In EVK you can change with Xipporterex and ROM Tool.
[Windows Mobile] MR.liang:
How about change the Unicode 2.14 to 3.04 in nk.exe? I hex it, but red numbers is 2.04 not 3.04.
[Windows Mobile] operators:
It's correct.

You can't change only the first number.

Or use nk.exe from 3.04. :)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elcarnal7:
I have a (Sprint) HTC Hero rooted, running Fresh rom 2.3.3. I have read somewhere that people have managed to change the Ev-Do icon in the taskbar to say 3G. I know that it does not make a difference, but i would like to know if someone can post a step by step guide on how to do this.:confused:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpp44345:
It depends on the ROM. There is no other way of changing it unless there is a kernel out there that changes it. I have never heard of it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sina702:
Hi, I have managed to build a theme for this exact purpose. The attached file I posted is to be used with MetaMorph, which is downloaded from the Android Market, and you place the file onto your sd card, and choose new theme, and select it. Hit apply all and your EV-DO Icon will be changed to 3g, and the 6 Bars used to display signal will be reduced to 4 for a nicer appeal. I have tested it on Fresh 2.3.3 and it works great.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neuro_genesis:
this should be in Q&A
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elcarnal7:
Thank you! Exactly what I needed. Had to install 3 times before it showed 3g icon but worth it. Can you show me exactly how you did it?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sina702:
Well I'm not much of a developer, but all I did was modify a metamorph theme for the sense taskbar. I made it into a zip file, and replaced the EvDo taskbar icons and the Status icons with the 3g ones, and then repacked it, so the 3g bars show up. Its pretty simple, glad I could help ;)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VinceOB:
Wut?

OP,

The icons are in com.htc.resources.apk in the res/mdpi folder. I also believe the 3G icons are in there as well, but you just have to pull them out and change the name. This also belongs in Q&A.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nilemann:
There is a metamorph on here in themes that will change nothing but the evdo to 3g. I can't upload the file from the phone but will try to upload it in a little while.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrinehart93:
Like vince said, that is where the icons are stored at. Once in there, all that's needed is a simple renaming. Rename the 3G icons to the EvDO icons, and the EvDO icons to the 3G icons. Now Android thinks it's displaying 3G icons, but it's really displaying the EvDO icons. Just think of it as fooling Android.

1. Unzip com.htc.resources.apk

2. Navigate into res/mdpi

3. Rename the 3G and EvDO icons as stated above

4. Drag them OUT of the unzipped folder.

5. Find the original, untouched com.htc.resources.apk (NOT unzipped)

6. Open com.htc.resources.apk as an ARCHIVE (not unzipping it!)

7. Navigate to res/mdpi inside of the archive

8. Drag the changed files into there

9. adb push the modified com.htc.resources.apk to your phone.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sina702:
Did you not see my post for that file already?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
Could yall elaborate on how to execute the above instructions? Do I need something more than my phone and a computer? The instructions seem easy enough. Is it a matter of pulling files? Im new at that.

Id like to do this by the instructions above. Thank you.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chubbzlou:
You need sdk installed on your pc the open terminal go to where the androidb files are installed and type adb remount hit enter type adb pull system/framework/htc.resources. apk to where you want to file to go. Once you pulled the files you want to modify then follow the prior post steps.

Ex:

Adb remount

Adb pull system/framework/htc.resources.apk c:\desktop\themes\
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
Thanks! How is easy is this?! Im gonna try this out as soon as I finish dl'ing some updates. Had to do my semi-annual xp pro reinstall...
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chubbzlou:
If you could install xp or use a pc should be a piece of cake.

Check out how to create themes in the sticky should guide you better.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
well, i pulled comhtcresources but thats as far as ive gotten...any help is appreciated, ill check that guide to see if the answer is there...thank you
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrinehart93:
All it takes is a basic knowledge and understanding of how to work with files.

Now that you've pulled it, I'd recommend downloading a program called 7zip. It is an EXTREMELY lightweight, fast, and flexible archive manager. It also integrates with Windows Explorer in the right-click menu (very useful).

With 7zip, extract the com.htc.resources.apk file just like you would a .zip file. Once inside, navigate to res/mdpi or similar folder (I'm not sure how HTC arranges their files... haven't used an HTC ROM in ages!). Once inside, look for the icons that you want to mess with. Copy the icons out, and then do your editing to them. Once they are edited, you need to find the ORIGINAL, unzipped com.htc.resources.apk file. Right click that, and then go to 7zip, then go to Open Archive. The file will now be OPEN, but not unzipped. Navigate in there to the folder location where you got the files that you modified from. Now drag the modified icons into that folder location. Congratulations, you just modified your phone by yourself!! :)

Now all that's left is to push the file back to your phone.

adb remount
adb push com.htc.resources.apk /system/framework

Some things to keep in mind, are that you must use the Open Archive method to modify the .apk itself, otherwise you will have to resign the file (pain in the ***). Every graphic -MUST- be a .png file. That's all I can really think of. Have fun :)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
thank you veryvery much. im rebooting now. i hope i did it right. i have to go out now but ill be back for some more hacking. and questions if i messed it up. again, thanks all
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
Well, it worked. Thank you!

It really couldnt have been easier.

I prefer to change things like this within the system rather than having an app or something or other... what else can we change this way??
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chubbzlou:
You could create a whole new theme all the status bar icon, clocks, dialer ect. What ever you like to change just pull the apk's edit the png's and push them back. You can also pull all the apk's and edit them create a signed zip and load them via recovery.

Check out this Post it will help you out creating themes. Glad it worked out for you.

HAVE FUN :)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
another question... is there a way to change the signal bars to the fatter, fewer, shorter variety? is there the files already in there like the 3g files? thank you thank you
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
has anyone come across this? id love to figure out how to change the bars style. stands to reason if the evdo can be changed to 3g, that the bars can be altered as well. thank you thank you
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
I got it. just like the 3g/evdo, I only switched the 4signal with the 6signal by renaming their file names.

Now for the vanilla lock... hopefully with menu-menu disabled...
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
apparently a backup doesnt keep the 'bars' alteration. it held the 3g icon but the bars were reset
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c00ller:
This was mentioned in another thread, but did you try option 2 here for vanilla lock

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=665652

And to get menu-menu disabled flipz made a fix you can flash on top of that

http://geekfor.me/fixes/bugfixes-requests-lock-screens/

scroll down to feature request

by backup do you mean nandroid backup?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
yeah, a nandroid backup.

i tried those fixes but i couldnt get the screen 'unjumbled'. perhaps its cause i use the odex version.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c00ller:
that must be it, use the de-odex lol
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
please and thank you

regarding the bars. i renamed the files and have the vanilla bars, only four...but when i got to work today(strong signal area) my phone displayed 5 bars in the sprint 6 bar style but when i received lower signal reception, it displays the vanilla bars when i have 4 or less bars.

how can i remedy this, is it as simple as deleting the 6signal_5, 6signal_6 files?? will that display nothing as the files arent there or will it just max at 4 bars(vanilla)?? to me, that sounds like the most logical solution, no?

thank you so much for your help.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
anybody wanna take a guess...

perhaps i should just try it. is it possible i would have to make 6signal_5, 6signal_6 the same picture as the 4bars? photoshop? thank you thank you

edit: that did exactly what i thought, when the phone gets 5 or 6 bars the displays disappears because the file osnt there. looks like photoshop is the answer...
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c00ller:
You should probably just interpolate (or extrapolate, however you look at it) with the boundary conditions that 4signal_0 = 6signal_0 and 4signal_4 = 6signal_6.

E.g., maybe you'll make it so these share the same icon:

4signal_0 : 6signal_0 and 6signal_1

4signal_1 : 6signal_2

4signal_2 : 6signal_3

4signal_3 : 6signal_4

4signal_4 : 6signal_5 and 6signal_6

It's not perfect since it's 7 bars (0-6) being fit into 5 bars (0-4) but IMO it's easier than photoshop.

Or you could be as accurate as possible and find out the dBm levels that correspond to each bar for each respective scale... yeah.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
help! please and thank you

im pretty good with computers and related junk but that there seems like it wont work. or that it is beyond me at the moment. i wont give up though.

how would i get the device to recognise the 4sig files as the last two 6sig files?

if theres a will, theres a way?? hopefully that applies to android
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
alright well, i think i may have gotten it. i just opened the files and saved the 4bars .png image as 6signal_5 and 6.png in paint. Ive gotta get into a stronger signal area, ill see if it worked then. thank you.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c00ller:
No, it's the other way around. When you get really good signal, your phone will call the 6signal_5 or 6signal_6 and for both of those events, it will get the 4signal_4 image. It sounds like it should work.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
thank you thank you

when i edited the files in paint, i was left with the 4signal bar styles when i received the greater signal. although for the 5th and 6th bar, there were white dots in the four corners of the bars display. prolly cause of the paint program. i opened this image in photoshop and clone stamped the adjacent color for the top and bottom corners and stamped it over the dots in the corner---which were very easy to see once maginfied 400x. i basically edited, saved and named the same image(image of the four vanila bars full) for both cdma_sys_6signal_5.png and cdma_sys_6signal_6.png. ive only gotten about -85dbm at my residence but thats enough to display the 5th bar and everything looks good. 4 vanilla bars...ill know for sure when i head to work. stronger signal area there.

i knew what needed to be done its just that im lazy. i hate doing the same things over and over, so each day i tried one other method and then slept on it. next day, one other method. just took a little time, perserverance and bandwidth. thanks for helping me along the way. hopefully they will stick and i wont have any graphical glitches that bother me...

thank you thank you

edit: wow. sprint has the hero at 149 online price after discounts! sprint must have realized they have a gem there. or nobody wants to pay a ten dollar evo fee and they are buying the hero instead, if thats the case, smart of them to raise the price(from a business standpoint any). who cares? i like my hero cause its faster and more responsive than my friends' evo's
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androidious:
EVDO to 3G

Okay, I must be crazy whacked up or somtehing

I have done everything stated in this thread, BUT, every single time, no matter if I do this via metamorph, OR by pushing the newly fixed stuff, I constantly get a FC on my launcherpro.acore

EVERY TIME! What am I doing wrong and how the heck can I fix this?!

Btw, I'm using the Stock .6 rom by nfinitefx45 with a2sd enabled as well as cached from sd.

Thanks guys

I know the 3g icon is there, and working, but I just get massive FC's every time, ever after I've cleared dalvik (or so it says I did via Clockworkmod)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] redd12345:
If anyone is interested in porting apk's for the touchwiz 3.0, this is a repost of the work that Daneshm90 in the dream/g1 section did.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzmw5w2ojyjj4jy

I don't take any credit for his work, I just appreciate the TouchWiz 3.0 platform and would love to see the widgets ported to get a change of pace from SenseUI.

This is where the thread shows his work (Page 4)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=724694&page=4

Thanks to all the Dev's for their hard work.

Red.
[Nexus One Accessories] ultra99:
Are there REAL differences between class 2 and class 4 sd cards? I need to know because these are the only 2 options i have. Theoretically yes, but practically?
[Nexus One Accessories] Amritttt:
class 2= 2 mbps transfer speed

class 4= 4 mbps

class 6= 6 mbps (the best)

buy it from some vendor dont buy it from ebay most of them are fake
[Nexus One Accessories] 3RR0R404:
What about class 10 ? :D
[Nexus One Accessories] crachel:
Here is a chart on cyanogen's Wiki that I think is a pretty firm 'there is no noticeable difference'

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=SDCardSpeedTests
[Nexus One Accessories] ultra99:
ya, wow, not much of a difference bt class 2 and 4. :eek:
[Windows Mobile] shafizal:
hello to all i have cooked a rom with htc sense ...when sense is activated if i click settings from start menu it takes to settings of manila tab it does not goes to normal settings ...is it possible to disable this and get the normal settings when i click "settings" with manila activated

thanks to all
[Windows Mobile] mirolg:
HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\HideSettings\=0

then you have Standard Settings
[Windows Mobile] shafizal:
Thanks for the reply ...but now i have two settings in startmenu ...thé one take to normal settings and second one goes to manila tab settings ...how Will delete the second one .......
[Windows Mobile] williyung:
Delete this line in your initflashfiles.dat:

(Under Setting Improvements)

Directory("\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"):-File("Settings.lnk","\Windows\Settings.lnk")
[Windows Mobile] shafizal:
thanks bro and now its ok ...finally my settings take to the original settings...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shidell:
What utility can I use to package a kernel & system for applying as a ROM in Recovery

I'd like to make a stock AOSP Froyo build with kernel for the EVO, as that's all I truly desire, and it doesn't seem to be available.

Can anyone tip me off on how to package the kernel with the system and build the META-INF directory so that it'll be applied appropriately?

Thanks much. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
Well, I use dsixda's kitchen for my needs, it may be able to help for you:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5626292&postcount=1

But there are a ton of guides, kernel and update related here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6738713&postcount=1

...oh yes and cm 6 will be coming to evo soon :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shidell:
Your second link is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Elegantai! :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
you are very welcome, glad I could help :D
[Desire General] jimmymagix:
I'm trying to reinstall my apps after rooting to stock. All go on fine apart from Google Earth.

I can't see it in Market so I'm trying to install from a backup I made of all my apps before the root. It seems to think about it and then flashes up with a small orange triangle and says "Application not installed".

So, what is the problem and how do I install it?

Firmware is 2.1 update 1.

Build 1.15.405.4

Please help!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] potna:
i have tilt 2 with a energy rom and wifi rtouer is built in.

on past roms, i would fire up this app and "start" it and everything would work.

well in a newer rom the wifi router app throws up a error saying it could not connect or something like that. so then i noticed that there were some settings that i could change, i can change the internet settings the options are:

att isp gprs, media net, wap.cingular, isp.cingular

it was on gprs and i changed it to media net and it seems to be working.

i dont have a teather plan, nor do i want one. i might use this app or one like to to connect to my lapptop maybe 3 or 4 times a year.

my question is, can i use media net with no problems or extra fees on my bill, or do i need to use one of the other settings?

thanks
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 804010:
I bricked my G1 - and picked up a used one with a cracked screen to replace the mother board with. Have gone through the disassembly thread - and have taken phones apart before.

Quick question for anyone who has already done this. All things being equal, cosmetic condition, etc - which is an easier process

replacing motherboard - or replacing a cracked screen.

Is one safer than the other ??

Any feedback greatly appreciated - thanks