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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
Follow Kevin's instructions, works for any .exe file you want to create a shortcut for. But I would just skip creating one for that particular file. For one, Total Commander is a much better file explorer and can do more, and the OEM file explorer can cause you to delete things by accident if you aren't real careful.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stevedebi:
I'm not sure, but I think that many programs use the file explorer to open files, rather than opening it themselves. Or at least this appears to be the case.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
He didn't delete the program, just the shortcut for it. Once you have Total Commander installed you no longer need the stock shortcut. Like I said, TC is a much better file explorer.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
You guys are just brilliant!!!!

Thanks so very much

was on the verge of hard resetting the device to start again!!

thanks again
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
Me again

new phone ( old one was stolen) so now i have to delete the shortcuts again

try as i mighti cant remember and i have done a search with no joy

so if someone could help me out (again)

I would be so grateful

thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
Delete which shortcuts? Most shortcuts that you see in the start menu are listed in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
its the shortcut icons in the programs page

it is accesse by the windows button

its got facebook icons windows market place icones etc

its the icons i want to dump
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
The shortcuts (*.lnk files) are located in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs.

The icons for the programs are located (normally) in \Windows.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
thanks so how do i delete them?

sorry i know i am being thick
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
Long press and select delete.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
using what programme

Thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
Any file browser application on the device. File Explorer is on every ROM. You could even do it from your PC if you rather.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
Install Total Commander. Unzip file, connect device to PC, run the EXE file.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
thanks miami son

am i correct in thinking ( from the advice you gave me about a year ago) that you cant actually delete the program but you can delete the icon file (png?)

thanks all
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
It sounds like you're just trying to remove some links from your start menu. Is that correct? If it is, then just navigate to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs and delete the ones you don't want to appear in the Start Menu. In File Explorer, tap and hold on the one you want to delete until the menu pops up. Select delete and then tap yes. In Total Commander, do the exact same thing. I don't think I can explain that better without making a video of it. :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
well i would like to delete the progs but I was under the impression that they were installed on the rom and, as such, they cannot be deleted

(certainly when you delete the icon and then do a hard reset the icon re appears)

i will try to combine (my bad) memory and the instructions and see where i can go

thanks all
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
You can't uninstall apps that are cooked into the ROM whether you use stock or custom ROMs. Deleting the link files as I've instructed will prevent them from showing up in your start menu. If you hard reset, they will be right back where they started.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
Thanks for all your help guys

i can start to sort out the phone now

thanks again
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
If there is one thing I can criticize Android on is their Notification Bar. I hate how unorganized and cluttered it is. Android could really learn a thing or so from Palm. The clock, reception, data icons, etc should have its own location far away from app notifications.

Anyways, why do we need an icon to tell us that GPS is OFF? I think we can get a hint that it is OFF if there is no icon there: like most other apps.

Well, is there a way to remove that icon? While at it, is there a way to remove the alarms notification icon as well? I'd rather save that space for other notifications.
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
You could replace the .png with a transparent one. That way you would still see the icon that indicates when it is on.

There is a way, most likely a .smali edit in services.jar, to remove the icon and the space it takes up but that's beyond my skill level atm.

Replacing the .png with a transparent one is super easy but it will continue to occupy that space, although you wouldn't even notice until your GPS comes on and you see the empty space between data and gps.

It's not cleared out but it was a little big for my taste, for example:

That's ON, the OFF icon is now the same only grey instead of that huge icon with the slash.
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
Making it transparent is pointless if the space is still occupied. =/

I hope someone is capable of making the changes to the .jar as you mentioned. Any dev out there listening?!?!?
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
I would agree with you if we were talking about the time or the battery icon but considering if is the far left of the system icons you would never notice the space is still occupied. That said, considering you would never see the difference the .smali edit would hardly be worth the time it would take to figure out.
[EVO 4G General] xlrdxrevengex:
its not that big of a deal to me. since i keep my notification area clean. if you are running apps that constantly show icons up there maybe check there settings to see if you can disable them. next if you do decide to remove it you are going to need to be rooted
[EVO 4G General] ifly4vamerica:
If you go here you may be able to do it, Theming requires a deodexed rom though. There are lots of them that don't have that.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=746061

I know it just says clock and battery, but below it shows a screen shot with no gps icon either, If you check the Theme forum I think you can pretty much modify your task bar however you would like. Good Luck
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
Perfect! Now, is this possible with Fresh 3.1.0.1 ?!
[EVO 4G General] ifly4vamerica:
That is the million dollar question for you! Let me know if it works. Nandroid backup and try it out, whats the worat that could happen?

Evo Sent
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mb02:
I figured out how to make my notification bar transparent, as well as the drag-down bar and status header bar. did it by pulling framework-res.apk, opened with 7-zip, edited the files from within 7-zip (didnt extract them at all), saved the changes, closed up and pushed the framework back to the phone. upon bootup however, once i unlocked the phone i got blasted with a stampede of FCs, all standard google apps and services that run on startup. even after pushing the stock, unchanged framework back, FCs continue. anyone know whats happening?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yojoe600:
I think you need to edit the services.Jar file as well
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] invisiblek:
try a fix permissions maybe?

what rom?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mb02:
im on the stock 8/1 2.2 leak. i figured out a temporary fix, i just modified the files in the smooth sense icons update zip since im using that on my phone, and did the update in recovery that way. it worked, but the only mod that worked was to the notification bar itself, not the drop-down bar or the header, so a services.jar edit is necessary to. which sucks because i dont know how to edit jar files or even navigate them to find what i need to edit lol. im gonna try to combine the smooth icons framework with the services.jar from the 50% shade backgroung update.zip and see how that runs. ill at least have a transparent status background/notification bar. i'll just have to learn java language and figure out the .jar setups on these phones myself and try editing then. i'll get back to you guys in a month :P
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] bisbers:
Have you checked out http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=744256 , which includes which lines to modify in the services.jar as well as the file to make transparent for the drop down?

Need to merge these two into one...

Heck - I'm very tempt to give it a try - i want mostly transparent top bar with 'frosted' icons - basically so if using default launcher pro, the top and bottom of the home screen match.

Plus, with that setup, it will open up a lot of the screen real estate.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mb02:
yea i have the combined smooth sense icons and 50% shaded status background. i modded it to have a transparent top status bar, but the actual pull down bar itself (the one that materializes when you drag down your status bar) is services.jar related, im guessing, because i edited that in the framework and it didnt affect it. same with the status header, where it says Verizon Wireless.

after modding the status bar though, i was reminded that the individual icons had there own blackish square backgrounds that need to be eliminated, so im gonna be working on those hopefully today (gonna take FOREVER). when all is finished i'll post up screenshots and find out what everyone thinks, then possibly post up a zip of my own (with permission from jercick who did the smooth icons and whoever did the 50% shade) containing these mods.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Stephen:
I have done a lot of testing receintly and have found a few things that may help people who are having issues getting android to work, eg not booting or robot voice. This is what I have come up with so far.

Getting android working properly seems to depend on two things. Both windows rom and radio.

I have found the following in testing.

Having the wrong radio will stop haret from booting. I installed the standard htc hd2 o2 stock rom which is ver 1.72. I then tried to boot using the default radio which was 2.7.51.22

When I booted android it got to the stage just before linux loads and hung at that point.

I then simply installed the radio 2.12 and it booted perfectly also there was no robot voice and worked very well.

I also tried a couple of tmous roms and it did not seem to be compatable. It would boot up and run ok but I got robot voice. I built a standard rom using standard hd2 stock rom 1.66 and cured the robot issue.

I then built a tmous rom to get the 576mb hack with the same settings as the 1.66 using the same radio and got the robot voice again.

If anybody knows how to fix this that would be great. I know there are 576mb enabled roms out there that are android compatable I would be interested to know how they work. Eg thinking of energy roms!

Hope this helps when you are trying to get android working. I am currently using 1.4 which is awsme and the work that has been carried out so far in such a short amount of time is staggering. Keep up the good work folkes!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Breakthecycle2:
I don't personally see how the Windows Rom would effect anything with the Android side of things. I used a stock T-Mobile US rom until a few days ago and nothing has changed since I flashed a different WinMo rom. The only logical thing that COULD effect Android performance is the radio.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Hatefly:
I was wondering about this as well. I have got Robot Voice from day one on every single build. I updated my Radio from 2.10 to 2.12 and still RbV. (I do get better battery life now though - go figure)

Anyway. I'm really confused as to what the ROM would have to do with it. As far as I know, the ROM is just some software windows uses to get everything non-radio working on your phone. Sense Haret completely shuts down Windows when it launches Android, how can the ROM have anything to do with it?

Someone please explain this!

I have seen pretty much every combination on both sides say it works, and then others that say it doesn't.

Something is amiss, and I wish I knew what it was. :confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Breakthecycle2:
YEah. I would like some more info on this as well.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Stephen:
I am just reporting what I heave lernt over the last couple of weeks, some not all tmous roms do seem to cause robot voice. As I said I built both a tomus rom and and 1.66 release rom with exactly the same settings and radio yet I got robot voice when using tmous and didn't when I used the 1.66 rom!

It is a very odd issue :)

Both were built using the same windows os 2189
[HD2 General] sausagedog:
has anyone noticed that if you take a pic witb the led o. the bottom it is a different quality than on top
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neoKushan:
I don't know how I managed it, but recently I somehow accidentally synchronised all my contacts with my gmail contacts - to which there are HUNDREDS. Literally every person I have ever sent an email to or received an email from, all sorts, all jumbled together. It's even mixed in with all the people I follow on twitter and I can't get rid of them (I tried deleting the twitter account off the phone completely and even though it says it'll remove all twitter contacts, it doesn't).

It's looking as though I'm going to have to manually go through them all and delete every contact I don't want, then manually link all the contacts together that should be linked (facebook-google-sim-etc.).

What's the best way to do this? I have over 900 contacts now, whereas before I had maybe 40 or 50. Is there an app or a piece of sync software that'll let me do it from a computer? Doing from the phone is extremely slow and tedious =\
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nzdcoy:
delete all the unnecessary contacts out of gmail?

when I synced gmail contacts to my phone and latter my FB account, it automagically linked the contacts that it found numbers in common with, I didnt have to do anything there!

are all the contacts on gmail now or between the different services?
[Wildfire General] tseecharan:
hi.

i purchased the HTC wildfire 2 weeks ago n am quite pleased with the phone.

yesterday had a little accident n the phone fell down from my bed. now i have a permanent picture of a fingerprint on the screen. the phone works, just that picture is always present and i cant find a way to get rid of it. already tried factory reset n no change

would be very grateful if anyone could plz let me know if there is a solution for my problem. thx
[Wildfire General] kogaht:
can you post a picture?
[Wildfire General] Skye Menjou:
Screen probably broken.

Send it to a repair center.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Estimated Prophet:
I've tried the espresso rosie.apk from DC 3.2.3 and the one from the latest fresh, but both of them totally break sense. Anybody know if there's a version that works on DC 3.5?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
I have a quick question about WiFi tether. I have tether working with netarchy's "Burnt Droid" ROM, and my computer connects. Near me, there are about 7 other WiFi networks being used. (Most WPA encrypted, some WEP). Almost all, except my home network, are on channel 6. I have my home network on channel 11 there are 2 others here on channel 1. I tried to change the channel on my EVO to broadcast on Channel 11 also. In the EVO, it says it is broadcasting on channel 11, but when I run "inSSIDer" on my laptop, it still shows my phone broadcasting on channel 6. I have tried to reboot the phone after changing channels, and have tried to reinstall binaries.

What do I have to do to change the broadcast channel in the Tether app?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahnile:
Menu, settings, change channel. Can be done once the app is lunch.

BTW hope u were/are referring to the wireless tether app and not WiFi tether.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
Ok, what is the difference between wireless tether app and wifi tether? I am using the "Android Wifi Tether 2.0.5 pre 4" I have heard bad results from pre 6, and pre 7 does not broadcast. (Not found with laptop, OR running inSSIDer app). Pre 4 works perfect for me, is seen by my laptop and connects both unsecured and secured.

I should have given more details in my original question. The steps I have taken are: Open Wifi tether app, Click Menu, Click settings, select Change Channel... From there, I selected channel 11. I have tried changing the channel both with the Wifi started and while stopped, with no difference in results.

My laptop still can see the "Android Tether" and connects.

I go into "inSSIDer" which is an app that will detect all the Wireless networks in your area, the signal strength, type of encryption, AND broadcast channel. The app shows my EVO as broadcasting on channel 6. REGARDLESS of what channel I select in settings, it will still show as broadcasting on channel 6. I have tried to re-install binaries, re-start the tether app, reboot the phone, nothing works.

Yes, I know i can just use channel 6 since it works, but with all the other "traffic" on the channel, it would be preferable to change to a less busy channel.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahnile:
Ok we are referring to the same app the app name is wireless tether, peps just call it WiFi tether. But if u change it to Chan 11 and u stop and restart it should be on Chan 11. The other app may be reading the Chan incorrectly. Try a different app to see if it reads it. If the next app reads it as Chan 6 then it's an issue with wireless tether aka WiFi tether.

Try that and you would def.ly narrow down the possibilities.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
I just tried it through 2 other WiFi channel scanners. They all keep showing my EVO as broadcasting on channel 6.

I have tried changing the channel both while tethered, and when tether was off. I have tried re-installing the binaries after a channel change, I have force closed and restarted the tether app, I have rebooted the phone...

Looks like even though the option is shown in the app, it is locked into channel 6.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dees_Troy:
Someone else has already submitted this as a bug:

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=495
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
The new version, pre 8, now allows you to change channels.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shagdaddy:
I have a question as well, (noob here, so forgive me if i sound painfully ignorant lol) but my wifi tether isnt broadcasting. I have a samsung captivate(rooted through Unleash The Beast) running 2.1. It says wifi started but my computer cant see it. It has run before using the same firmware, so i cant figure it out. Iv reinstalled it multiple times. Also, on the bottom when i start it it stays at 0.0kb downloaded and 0.0kb uploaded, and im pretty sure its supposed to say at least 0.4 or 0.3 when you start it. Any suggestions?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namelessbanana:
I am having the same issue with my Epic 4g after root I cant get the wifi tether to work. It just doesnt broadcast.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolig2278:
I can see my braodcast from the evo but my laptop will not configre an IP connection. What is also weird is that my evo will not work with my home wifi as it also does not configure its IP address.
[Captivate General] ewingr:
Panic Mode- Lost most contacts->Restore OK on phone, but when Synch, they are gone ag

Subject says most of it. I don't know how, but most contacts are gone.

I did a restore from a Titanium backup on my phone, and they came back, and I breathed a sige of relief.

But as soon as the phone synched, they were gone again. Apparently the contacts in Google Mail take precedence.

Desperately hoping that someone has a solution for me.
[Captivate General] nbs11:
Not sure why that is happening, but you can try copying your contacts from your phone to your computer and then to gmail. Then sync.
[Captivate General] ewingr:
I had this suggestion on another forum I frequent:

Turn off sync and restore again. Then set your sync to merge instead of overwrite.

Sounds good, but I don't see a selection to do that. Any suggestions for that?

[EDIT]

Well, I got them back, While browsing around through the menus, I saw an export capability. So I turned off synchronization, restored again, exported. Then took that file to my PC and imported it into Google.

When all was said and done, I had to Clear the contacts on the device, and synch from Google again, and now I"m back. Whewh...
[Desire General] the_ahmadzais:
Hello which 1 is better? And whats the difference I wana buy 1 tmr cant decide which 1. So please help me out guys picking 1.
[Desire General] antipesto93:
I am going to say the desire. It's a great phone. And HTC sense is great. It also think the desire gets updates so much faster.

I did try the x10 but it feels like a girl version of the desire
[Desire General] joshptyltd:
definetely the desire. Much faster than the xperia, xperia only has android 1.6, and is sceduled to get 2.1 sometime this year, while the desire already has 2.2. Better build quality on desire. Only buy xperia if you want a good camera. (Although Camera 360 on my desire i find is absolutely great, and makes my phone camera seem pro!)
[Desire General] infazz:
Desire!!!

x10 have **** battery and old android :)
[Desire General] tommo123:
i've had a quick go on a mates x10. it's laggy. seriously laggy. i thought it was the old 1.6 droidy, but the dell streak has 1.6 as well and that responds just fine.

must be sonys addons since (at least afaik) all 3 have the same 1ghz snappie cpu

barr the camera, the desire is the better phone IMO.
[Desire General] the_ahmadzais:
Lol I lied guys sorry to just wanted to get some.info I do have.x10 but dont like the 1.6 seems like it will take forever for sony to.get 2.1 and desire u guys said have 2.2 can u store apps on sd card? And I heard desire u cant see if it sunny out? But indoor and at night its gorgeois and does the camera have flash
[Desire General] oursoul:
I use mine outdoors all the time, can see the screen fine. The only thing that annoys me at all about my Desire is the camera..

I imagine the X10 has a good camera. Always had SE phones before my Desire and I miss the camera big time.
[Desire General] aindow:
Yes i can install apps to SD on my Desire running 2.2. It can only be done if the software developer has enabled it for their apps though. I think there's a workaround somewhere on here though.
[Vibrant General] koreanjhee:
I was wondering how we could set video screens to whatever place in the videos we wanted.

I don't want to have to open my video player or my galley to black screens. I'd rather set the scene so I know what I'm looking at.

For example I don't want to see a black screen where avatar is, but would rather see a screen shot. Anyone know if this is possible?

Sent from my Vibrant, Samsung
[Vibrant General] jkcheng122:
Think the correct way to ask this is how you can customize the thumbnails in Gallery for video files. As for answer though I don't know but it certainly would be helpful since Gallery doesn't show file names.
[Vibrant General] koreanjhee:
Right, that's what I'm saying exactly. I didn't know how to put it so I described it.

My question is how can we edit the thumbnails for our gallery and video player, etc.?