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[EVO 4G General] superlinkx:
Nope, all OTA's I've gotten on Android (from G1 to Hero to Evo) have never required a reset. They all work fine, though I usually reset them for performance reasons. With this OTA, people's phones will update but will keep all their data. You may wish to reset afterwards, but it won't automatically wipe. Still backup anything you don't want to lose, since many things can go wrong during the update process.
[EVO 4G General] Doward:
You don't need root (at least on Android 2.1, OTA 1.47) in order to take screenshots.

I'll be flashing the latest update. I don't run my phone rooted, simply because as a developer, I don't expect the majority of Evo (or Android) users to be rooted, so by releasing apps requiring root I SEVERELY cut into my available market.

That said, I think there's also a bit of laziness going on in Android development. I'm seeing apps that say they require root, yet I can create the same functionality WITHOUT needing root.

Sure, it's easier with root, but why put your Average Joe out in the cold? These are still phones, after all, and look at your 'average' phone user.

On the other hand, I would kill to have sudo available on Android, with all the STOCK file permissions.

Why the hell don't we have su/sudo?

That way I can still develop apps for average user, and if I'm experimenting I can drop to root if needed.
[EVO 4G General] SilverZero:
Really? You don't see the parallel? When Apple released the 3.1.3 update, it plugged an exploit that was being used to jailbreak and unlock iPhones. They also started signing all their software for the 3GS so you couldn't go back if you did update. Regardless of whether there was a way to do it that was being withheld, users couldn't jailbreak until iOS4 came out. That was a long wait for some people. You know what, never mind. :rolleyes:

My insight is to do a full root. It's not hard, even though the guides are so long and verbose. Heck, I'll zip you up all the files and write a simple step-by-step for you if you want. PM me. Or somebody else is going to say "just use SimpleRoot" or something. But you're never going to learn if you don't put in the discipline. :)
[EVO 4G General] redrazr7791:
Just let it go man ;)

Some people who have never owned the iPhone or have HAD to jailberak it, wouldn't understand what is about to happen. I am not an optimistic person, but I am hoping that the maturity level here at XDA will prevent the 1,000+ threads of "I updated my ROOTED EVO and now I am screwed!" :p
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] RT360:
i need to know the correct OC kernel to use for my rooted droid w/CM6 rom
[Vibrant General] Anderdroid:
Is there any way to set swype up so that when you go into landscape it puts the spacebar at the bottom center of the screen?

Or even better. Have it use Swype on Portrait and Stock Android keyboard on Landscape.

I'm not a fan of the spacebar on the right nor swyping with landscape.. I like to type with my thumbs.

Any solution?
[Vibrant General] AndroidZ28:
I too want a separate keyboard in landscape, but after realizing it probably won't happen I set my default to htc_ime and then when I want to text portrait I just long press and temporarily set to swype. I like it that way since swype doesn't do urls to well for me (nonstandard words)

As far as the location of the space, i think if it was centered it would interfere with the swiping?
[Vibrant General] Anderdroid:
The point is that I wouldn't swype when I'm in landscape, I'd type on the swype keyboard. I prefer a middle space for that.

I guess I'll just go with your method, though.

I actually don't have my Vibrant yet. It's coming today. Pumped as hell.
[Vibrant General] Anderdroid:
So, no solution?
[Droid Incredible General] Lcsglvr:
Does anyone know if the battery "bug" in the calendar has been fixed? Was it not the case that on ECLAIR the calendar prevented the phone from sleeping properly?
[Droid Incredible General] Lcsglvr:
No idea, yet? I've been tracking it but didn't know if someone else had any idea yet.
[Droid Incredible General] KoopaT23:
Is it possible to make the phone rotate counter-clockwise, in Froyo, like how it was in 2.1? I've always loved that so it won't rotate when on your side or something.
[Droid Incredible General] theotherrogue:
I recommend installing the AutoRotate widget (by curvefish) in the market. I use it regularly.
[Droid Incredible General] KoopaT23:
Thanks! I'll check it out.
[Vibrant General] Anderdroid:
Is there any way to change the taskbar at the top from black to gray like stock android?
[Vibrant General] AndroidZ28:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=730175

The dark grey it is now is useless, I'd turn it black and spare battery and burn in problems...
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
Hey thats my morph... The text is still white... And it should have the h symbol... It works though.. What are these burn in and battery problems you talk about?

I don't think it was ever proven a black led uses less power than white and my g1 has had a white bar for almost 2 years and no burn in problems...
[Vibrant General] AndroidZ28:
G1 was LCD pixels were lit regardless of color displayed.

On an AMOLED screen pixels represent black by turning off. Black cannot be burned in and will not use battery. The symbols could still burn in eventually but fortunately the time is always changing as are the signal bars on tmobile ;)

There is plenty of proof floating around from the nexus one (also amoled) saving battery by having a black theme. I'm not gonna dig it up, it's there. They ran multiple tests on identical phones black saved most then red, I think green and blue were mid and of course white is the worst.
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
So your saying lcd screens don't have burn in? Or that oled is worse? Not meaning to put words in your mouth... I just enjoy a white/light look..

I still think that is a marketing ploy by apple not to buy oled screens..

I think the phone will be obselete by the time it starts to deteriorate...
[Vibrant General] AndroidZ28:
LCD does have burn in, the difference is on LCD any color can cause it, so on a g1 making the bar black has no benefit.

I'm not trying to tell you what to like, believe me I love android's ability to let us have this choice/conversation.

Clearly google agrees with you on preferring a white look: first the notification bar, then the market, now maps.

I agree deterioration will probably not be an issue for most, as long as you don't set it to stay awake while charging and leave it in a browser window or something all day every day.
[Vibrant General] AndroidZ28:
Also, what did apple say about oled? I dint know they had a stance on it. I figured they would be going there soon for either phones or laptops
[Vibrant General] Anderdroid:
You think there'd be an easy way to do this.. I don't know why but I'm highly turned off by the black bar. Brings back memories of the WinMo nightmare. Lol
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
I'll send a message to cloverdale and manup... See if one of them went to change the xml so we can have black font in the status bar...
[Vibrant General] MrGibbage:
Actually modern LCD displays do not suffer from burn in. I have had an LCD monitor on my windows computer with the exact same taskbar displayed for months and even years, with zero burn in. I have no idea about OLED though.

What's more, even if LCD did suffer burn in, changing the taskbar to black would then cause the taskbar area to not burn in while the rest of the screen did, leading to a situation where you could still see the spot on the screen where the taskbar resided. That's why a lot of plasma TVs and dvd players have the option of putting grey bars on the side of an image that does not fill the screen, with the idea that the grey is closest to what the rest of the display is showing.

The bottom line is I don't think anyone needs to worry about burning in their LCD screen. This is the Vibrant forum, so we should be concerned only about OLED here. So, does anyone have a real answer about burn in on OLED screens? Wikipedia seems to think so http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_LED.
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
So the life is 5 years at 8 hours a day? Half life is about 30 months... Like I said before... We will probably have a new phone by the time out screen starts to be less "vibrant"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soundwavedj:
I already rooted my evo and was testing new roms out. I always did nandroid backups so I could flip easily between the roms and did the wipe in between.

I suddenly started receiving a ton of force close messages in multiple roms so I went back to the original nandroid backup right after rooting and deleted the others(and titanium back ups)

The system looks rooted but now i am getting messages specifically when I open up wifi tethering. It says "your phone is in an unknown state" try to reboot. I have done it several times and no luck an it wont connect

Part 2

I have my Rom manager open and pressed on "flash clockworkmod recovery" and am getting an error message saying "an error occured while attempting to run priviledged commands!"

I feel like I might have lost root. I am not sure what to do I feel like i might brick it trying to root it again

PLEASE HELP
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] campchi:
your phone is not brick, since you still can turn on. but once you have rooted your phone you will need the superuser app installed otherwise you get tons of errors.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegasun18:
When you launch into the hboot

(power off hold vol down and power on till you get a menu)

what number hboot does it say at the top?

If you showing version 0.79.0000 then something went wrong. If it says 0.76.2000 you are defiantly still rooted. Look and see if you have SuperUser in apps. if you dont that is probably the problem as suggested above if you are for sure rooted and have SuperUser get back to us.

You can always "start over" by following this thread. if you have root and are having a lot of problems it may help resolve them if you cant figure it out otherwise.
[Captivate Accessories] E_man5112:
Not sure if they all work. Anyone got any recommendations of what I should (or shouldn't) use? Looking at amazon (I'm a prime member, free 2-day shipping). This is the one I'm look to use.
[Captivate Accessories] jasonyump:
that one is only for sound. thats a 3.5mm to rca(red and white). you want a 3.5mm to rca(yellow red and white.). so you can use it for video out.

HERE'S the one i just ordered. its gonna arrive for me tomorrow, i can let you know how it works.
[Captivate Accessories] <insertwittyusernamehere>:
I got one on eBay for $2.50. I'll post my findings as well once I get the cable.
[Captivate Accessories] E_man5112:
Awesome, thanks. Just bought the same one. Now I just got to find a half decent media player to go with it.
[Captivate Accessories] jasonyump:
no problem. it was the same one they used in a review of the captivates video out which seemed to work really well. have you tried rockplayer for movies? i've found the captivates default video player works pretty good. and the music players pretty nice too.
[Captivate Accessories] jasonyump:
Okay mine just arrived here. the build quality of the cables pretty good. its thick. but word of warning. the yellow cable isnt video. lol. for me, The Red Rca plug was for video and the white and yellow were for audio. other then that it works great. deifinitely worth 3.50 lol
[Captivate Accessories] tikicult:
I am gonna get this one to hook it up in my truck:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10831&cs_id=1083101&p_id=6229&seq=1&format=2
[Captivate Accessories] ctalbot:
Don't know if you guys saw the announcement about the micro usb to HDMI cable:

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/07/29/galaxy-froyo-microusb-hdmi/

http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/...l&subsubtype=data-cables-kits&tab=accFeatures
[Captivate Accessories] E_man5112:
Thanks for the review. As for video players, the default doesn't remember position (unless it's a setting I haven't found) and I just got rockbox, so haven't tried it too hard yet.

I saw those, but between the fact that they aren't out yet, $4 for the RCA cable is fine for a holdover, and I don't think we know what those cables will transmit. I know there are restrictions on what the other HDMI equipped phones can play through to the TV.
[Captivate Accessories] tikicult:
My head unit doesn't accept HDMI ;)
[Captivate Accessories] Serisium:
Anyone know if there's a cable that will convert video it from the 3.5mm jack to a female ipod? A lot of newer workout machines have monitors, but they only have an ipod dock/cable.
[Captivate Accessories] sevenvt:
Internet search ftw

Amazon has one. Can't link.

Edit: Looks unavailable but they exist somewhere.

amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/190-1100774-6693342?a=B002SCZBIO
[Captivate Accessories] weav2k4:
Just got the following in from Amazon today and it works great! The colors match up too.. so yellow goes to yellow not the red to yellow as a bunch are having to do.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGQ2ZU/ref=oss_product

Mine shipped from United Integral.

Can't be beat for 3 bux shipping included!!!
[Captivate Accessories] SkitchBeatz:
Thanks for the info!
[Desire General] gogol:
How good is it?

Anyone has a sample 720p video file that was created using HTC Desire?

Thanks.
[Desire General] remy2501:
I am curious too... anyone got a sample?
[Desire General] Daanlt:
It sucs, upscaled video, low fps
[Desire General] myth1001:
Not impressed by it at all. Seems worse than my previous N95.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] zaphyr:
The image is crisp, but the fps is too low. I'm hoping it will get better when we get the official 2.2 update, but for now 480p is what you want to use
[Desire General] tommo123:
well, i don't know. i took one a few days ago (i forget which rom now) and the 720p one was relatively ok (low fps - 20 ish according to mpc-hc), but no tearing.

old vids i took on stock 480p was a tear fest on movement and unusable. as i've mentioned before though, i'd rather have a higher fps recorded with 480p. would make for a far smoother playback experience
[Desire General] SiL3nTKiLL:
ehh not impressed
[Desire General] andycted:
I don't know, for my part I'm surely very impressed and happy with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugjI5ygsXzQ

This wasn't even in perfect light conditions and with the leaked rom from some weeks ago...

Remember to select hd in the video
[Desire General] snaven:
have you got p0rn on in the background?!?! :)
[Desire General] andycted:
Hehe it sure sounds like that. No, it's a bunch of idiots in the garden below me, I think it was a girl shouting, but nothing more...

not sent from an iToilet
[Desire General] lee815:
Here is an example of the 720p video.... You will have to change the youtube setting to 720p to see the full quallity. Notice how jumpy it is.. like someone else said my old N95 was better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA_IiPl-W7o
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
Yes, all 720p recorded looks CRAP. I'm just hoping the official 2.2 is improved or optimized. No offense to the chefs, but I have seen some aspects of pre release roms not living up to the official versions. i.e. seen some slow sluggish unstable hero 2.1 roms. the offical one is 100% perfect.

we know the hardware of the Desire whould easily be able to handle 720 recording so lets wait and see.
[Desire General] leecavturbo:
glad its not just me.

yes sharp picture when not moving but what use is that :mad:
[Desire General] le3ky:
no one has released a video of official 720p recording, leaked roms mean nothing so we're just going to have to wait.
[Desire General] andycted:
I previously had recorded choppy videos. Installed mcr, replaced my sd card with my new class 6 one and it went away.

not sent from an iToilet
[Desire General] th3:
Video recording on the Desire suffers drastically due to the lack of any stabilization. Extremely shaky unless you have it mounted perfectly still. I hope the final Desire release has some improvements over the leaked in this regard.

YouTube re-encoded vids are kinda pointless to judge quality from. Here's an original someone had shot a while back before they had higher bitrate recording available: http://db.tt/v7oVpw

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- Sent via my HTC Desire -
[Desire General] alangelakis:
totaly agree!
[Desire General] erklat:
You don't feel a bit late, do you? :D
[Nexus One General] Coderedpl:
So the power button on my nexus one completely stopped working. I shut off the device and could not turn it back on. After popping battery in an out a few times I finally somehow, got it to turn on. Now i'm going to need to make sure it stays on all the time.

Now my question. To me this looks like a manufacturers hardware defect, so would the unlocked bootloader and me being the second owner of the device make any sort of difference here?

Any other way to turn the device on when its completely shut off?

Update #1: 7/30/10

Called HTC, then i got transferred to Nexus one department then back to HTC. Described my problem to everyone. They were nice to say they will get that taken care of. Told him i got the phone as a gift, updated my info, and I'm doing the swap option. He also said that any "physical" damage to the device might be charged, aka broken screen or w.e, regular wear and tear is fine. Mentioned nothing at all about software. I'm flashing back to stock either way. Will update as time goes
[Nexus One General] david1171:
Same power button problem. Haven't checked into warranty with bootloader being unlocked, but if you plug up the usb cord, wait for the little led light to come on, take out the battery and put it back in as soon as the light goes off, then it will power the phone back on.
[Nexus One General] Coderedpl:
Ah i guess that's how i got lucky with turning it on then.

Hmm, i might give them a call tomorrow and see what they say.
[Nexus One General] david1171:
Let us know what they say if you don't mind.
[Nexus One General] futango:
No worries with HTC. I was a second owner of my first N1. I traded my Iphone 3GS for it. Unlocked the bootloader first 10 minutes i had the thing. Few weeks later. I saw dust under the screen. Called up HTC. Gave them IMEI. Told them my girl got it for me for my birthday. They gave me an address.(original owners). I said nope and gave them mine. Went through the process. I had them put a hold on my credit card for $525. They sent a replacement phone next day. I packed mine up and sent it back. I had to do this twice because the replacement after 3 weeks started getting dust again and i could tell the power button wasnt really working well also.

Now im a second owner of another N1. I traded my tmobile N1 for a ATT N1. woot.
[Nexus One General] MaximReapage:
You can also root the phone and put trackball wake on it....also, when the phone is off completely, the trackball WILL boot it - tested this myself today.
[Nexus One General] Coderedpl:
Honestly when my phone was off I tried booting by pressing trackball and holding, just pressing and nothing. How did you do it? is there a specific process? I already have trackball wake selected thankfully before this even happened.

Another question is, how in the hell would i get into recovery or any of those functions now?
[Nexus One General] futango:
You download quick boot and user that to get into recovery or bootloader.
[Nexus One General] Coderedpl:
I ended up receiving the new nexus one, but i sold it already so yea :P
[Nexus One General] thebluest:
Hi,

I've a nexus one with a broken on-off button, so now I can't boot my phone at all.

there is a rom to boot with trackball or any hardware button ?

thx
[Nexus One General] Lordjinji:
Read the thread

Read the Thread and there is a suggestion on how to turn it on ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Paul22000:
I use NewsRob to read Google Reader Engadget.com articles, but it never downloads the comments and is unable to do so. I have to open each article in the browser in order to read the comments, and use Home Long Press to swap back and forth between the two apps constantly.

Is there any Google Reader app that allows you to see the full webpage within the app? The free-er the better. :cool:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xManMythLegend:
I use NewsRoom does the same thing. I can just press back and it goes back to App. Outside of comments its all there though , images etc.

Even the stupid Geniewidget leaves the app now.

I hate it. Should be self contained.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] justinhub2003:
it doesn't allow comment viewing but most dont however I for sure reccommend Pulse, very pretty and intergrates with google reader. I reviewed it here on Droiddog

http://www.droiddog.com/android-blog/2010/07/app-review-pulse/
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Yaotl:
Google Reader itself doesn't show comments if they aren't in the RSS feed.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] legendary1022:
The engadget app does that. Its pretty decent and you can post and reply within the app.
[Droid Incredible General] JAYNO20:
Is there any way to make it so when i press and hold the power button and choose either silent or vibrant only that it will also mute media? I am hoping for the ability to change something through adb shell or something because I use the power button method all the time I just really want it to mute/unmute the media volume too...
[Vibrant Android Development] heygrl:
Disable (and do not enable even after we're done here) Use Wireless Networks under Settings ---> Location and Security.

Go into LbsTestMode (*#*#1472365#*#*)

Go to Application Settings

Enable MS-Based Mode

Increase Accuracy to 100

Leave the rest stock

Return to the main LbsTestMode menu

Go to SUPL/CP Settings

Select the Serve FQDN Type drop down menu

Hit AUTO Config

Exit to the dialer and reboot your Vibrant twice for good measure.

If the accuracy of your location degrades try using the stock www.spirent-lcs.com settings again.

Now from what I can tell, Google Maps works much better with these settings. The first lock takes 15-40 seconds depending on your view of the sky(indoors/out). You may get a "Location Unavailable" message from the first hit of My Location but it should come around shortly after.

The accuracy is good enough for in-car tracking. Haven't testing walking yet

I'll report back if I find that the GPS eventually ****s the bed and takes much longer for the subsequent fresh fixes.. which seems to be the trend for a new Vibrant. Also, moving your hand away from the GPS antenna will make things quicker. It's to the far right of the camera.
[Vibrant Android Development] twistkill:
lemme give this thing a shot...hope this works :)
[Vibrant Android Development] heygrl:
I must've deleted which MS - Mode but make sure it's MS-Based and not Assisted. Make sure you leave Wireless Networks off completely as well because this will prevent a GPS fix in GMaps for some reason.

Let me know if it works any better!
[Vibrant Android Development] skater4690:
I gotta say so far this is the best fix yet I did everything but had to reboot a third time cause for some reason I wasn't connecting to data, but after that it was golden I did the satellite test and it got 14 satellites in about 5 seconds so it seems to me that this works the best. Thanks for the find, but what does skyhook do you have the option to turn it on or off what's the difference?
[Vibrant Android Development] sync3:
Thanks

Thank you sir for this fix..i just tested this and i got my gps lock with in 10 sec...Cheers!

edit...

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/press/skyhooksamsung.php

seems to be some sort of location based software...might be worth a shot
[Vibrant Android Development] glensta:
Nice Fix - thanks, works well
[Vibrant Android Development] jkcheng122:
will this method help at all with My Location being set to Pawcatuck, CT (when I'm in Houston, TX) while indoors? Problem occurs randomly.
[Vibrant Android Development] rodrigos122:
WOW it works took less than 10 seconds to get a signal indoors.

Thanks.