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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohr:
No offense... but if you don't even know what "root" is, and aren't familiar with the Unix-based software platform, and think you can just fiddle with something in a hidden menu on your phone, you have absolutely no chance at discovering a root method. Zero. It'd be nice if it could work that way though...

Obtaining root is essentially hacking into your own phone. In order to do that, you have to know what potential vulnerabilities there are in the software running on the phone, and how to exploit them to give you precisely what you want. It's a lot of trial and error, reverse engineering, and sometimes, just plain educated guessing backed by experience.

Also, this comment baffles me:

You claim you do things similiar to rooting a phone because you work in the satellite industry, but you don't even know what rooting involoves?? I admire your confidence, but I wish it was more well-placed...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] envoykrawkwarrior7:
well the difference im working on already administrator devices running through a root menu commonly, and to me, technology is technology, no matter how different the usage or device its still just a chip computing algorithms the way it was set up by someone else, which means that anyone else can change what someone else did.
[HD2 General] devilman:
I've bought an aftrrmarket battery and I have problems cahrging it.

It often shows itself as "fully charged", the led blinks from orange to green and it does not charge.

Whe in windows mobile, it shows 100% (not true) , but if i tap the battery icon i see the real percentage.

It does not recharge also when the phone is off.

BUT

I have noticed that when i am into android mode (one of the ported builds) the battery charges ...

SO

I think there is something preventing WM to charge the battery when it is 100%, and this control is missing in android.

now the question:

is it possible to "force" the charging in WM so that it bypasses the "100%" problem (like in android?).

Thank you in advance
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I think an orange and green light means theres a problem and it cant charge,

I have an unofficial battery that does that too......
[HD2 General] devilman:
no, as i told you, there is something more.

when i am in wm or the phone is off, cahrging is almost impossible (orange and green led, wm icon showing 100% charge even if the battery is 1%).

BUT

if i switch to boot mode (vol down on startup, hspl screen) or if i am in android, THE BATTERY CHARGES.
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
So you are trusting android, in beta on these phones, over the default battery charging software?

I hope you don't blow up your battery.

Do you still have the original battery? Does it charge properly in WinMo?
[HD2 General] Faelok:
I don't know if this is any help but... I also bought a very *ahem* low priced battery and experienced the same problem you mention. This was before android was stable so I have yet to try that, but I was able to fully charge the battery in winmo by putting the phone next to the air-conditioner. My thought when I read your post is perhaps that winmo is running the phone hotter and inhibiting battery charging. Somehow, I feel as though I'm grasping at straws...
[HD2 General] jdwrrzmm:
'Force' and 'lithium-ion battery' should probably never be in the same sentence.
[HD2 General] fred_up:
The flashing LED is an indication of overheating, thus the system stops charging until the temperature drops.

Try charging it someplace cooler.

If that doesn't work, the a method I read about is to run the phone until it totally flattens the battery, then put it on a full charge for at least 4 hours.
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
or, turn the phone off while charging will help keep it cooler as well.
[HD2 General] fred_up:
Darn, I knew I forgot something :)
[HD2 General] ephestione:
I have one original battery which the phone came with, and THREE oem chinese batteries which look exactly the same, except for the lower barcode which is tinier than the one on the original battery.

I only charge them outside of the phone, with an ac mains charger, and they go to full 100% since it's what the phone say when I switch them.

Whenever I charge them in the phone (only time it happens is when I'm in my car and use the lighter charger) it's just math, they end up in the green-orange led loop, and they stop charging.

It's well known and it's related to overheating, but at least they do not drop as well, which means I can go on and use them for gps navigation or any other task and the battery will stay at the percentage at which I left it.

I also have the same behaviour of OP, that is, taskbar icon says the battery is 100% and NOT charging, info panel after tapping taskbar reports real percentage, S2U2 reports real percentage in green, which means S2U2 sees it as charging. Anyway, as soon as I go home, I wait for the battery to drain to at least 10%, switch it out and slap it into the mains charger.

My oem batteries last up to 3 days.
[HD2 General] optiknerv:
I have the official HTC extended battery and with the latest chucky rom i have been using it wont charge in the phone anymore. It always used to with no problems. There is something missing software wise that prevents it from charging.
[HD2 General] rp-x1:
Is the middle pin of the battery contacts bent or different to the others?
[HD2 General] xaccers:
The green/amber flashing means "charging problem" which can be due to overheating, but also can be due to an incompatible battery.

When I got my HD2 with the original O2 ROM, the HTC large capacity battery wasn't compatible, this required a ROM update.

If you're running stock, make sure you've got the latest ROM.
[HD2 General] optiknerv:
Nope it seems fine. It charges the standard battery ok.

As I said im running Chucky ROM. I had something like 21st July chucky ROM on and it charged. Update to the 11th August ROM and it wont charge. Tried the 5th August the same. Havent had chance to go back to the 21st July one to check.

Incidentally I dont have green amber flashing lights. I have alternate Green and Red flashing.

The battery charges perfectly well in my desk charger and runs the phone fine it just wont charge in the phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v8pwrdz28:
is this possible? the camera/camcorder app wont even open while using N1 Torch.

N1 running CM 5.0.8.1
[Desire General] melhookv12:
I have updated to 2.2, and lost Swype, i have e mailed them, but they never seem to reply, anyone know a workaround ? I registered, but have lost my password.

I have used the search function on here, but found nothing. Please help me !!!

Melv
[Desire General] TremF:
I'm sorry I can't help with Swype but can I suggest also giving Swiftkey a try?

I find it faster and more accurate than Swype (accuracy could be just me) as it can predict your next word quite accurately. All you do then is select the word rather than typing anything. Clicking one word is faster than swyping the word out? :)

It's available free on the App Market and the latest version also has Speech to text input :)
[Desire General] @MARK:
I had to uninstall it then reinstall it again using the "Swype Installer" found in the apps screen.

Worked fine after that.
[Desire General] melhookv12:
all sorted, thanks anyway guys.
[Desire General] tommo123:
just an FYI, i've found that every now and then, it kinda runs out. so when swapping roms you get a copy of swype that's not fully functional. running the old installer again isn't enough and you have to get a new beta mail sent out and install it from scratch.

that worked for me. (just in case someone tries what worked for the OP and it doesn't work).
[Desire General] tolis626:
Hi guys!

Well,today I updated Linpack on my Desire to version 1.14 and saw some changes I didn't like.While I got normally a peak of 40,3 MFLOPS before the update,now I get a "measly" 33 give or take something.It is surely more accurate than before,but why did the results deteriorate?Did anyone notice the same or is it just me?

(I also checked on my Hero and all was fine,I got a 5+ with both running FroydVillain @768)

Thanks! :)
[Desire General] sjauquet:
yes I noticed that also...

probably a new measuring rule wich is more correct.

But then they should erase previous records
[Desire General] AndroHero:
Yeah they have changed the mesurement standards so the nxt gen of devices dnt get stupud results lol
[Desire General] andycted:
It takes longer so I think it's an average of many samples, which is consistent with the fact that you rarely would see many 40+ together.
[Desire General] Kinma:
From their website:
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
Basically the new linpack better detects when your phone is at the "optimum" clock speed and takes its measurements from that, its scores should be a lot more accurate so you no longer need to take an average of like 20 runs, just more like 3-5 runs.
[Desire General] tolis626:
But it deteriorated whatsoever...I don't like 33!I like 40 MFLOPS!Is that bad? :(
[Desire General] sbdags:
It's calculating harder so tough you'll have to live with it ;)

Every one will have gone down.
[Desire General] Lukehluke:
I don't think that it matter that much and it should run the same.
[Desire Accessories] toyface:
I don't know if these has been posted before (excuse me if it has, I'm new).

I've just bought the Clingo Parabolic Sound Sphere. I was looking for something similar to my old Griffin AirCurve for my old iPhone (luckily I've left all that behind), to amplify the sound, without power to get good enough volume on Audiobooks when in bed, and also alarms in the morning.

I bought it from mobile fun in the UK, cost £15 and some shipping

I don't know where you'd get it in the states, but it can only be a quick Google away :)

If you search YouTube for "clingo sound" the first result is a really good demo vid : )

Toyface
[Desire Accessories] Singh400:
Here is a link: http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/clingo-parabolic-sound-sphere-p25474.htm
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebarten:
Help, Help, Help

Hi guys, could someone please help me?

I updated my phone with the Froyo OTA official update I received on my phone.

The installation rebooted a couple of times and finally got to the point where I see the HTC Sense scene. I don't have data or mobile network connection.

That means: no outgoing/incoming phone calls. After about 30 seconds I get the triangle warning pop up message stating:

Sorry!

Process system is not

Responding.

Followed by the following buttons:

'Force Close' & 'Wait'

And then - no matter what I do the phone eventually reboots.

And that goes for ever. Unless I power off the phone.

Another thing I noticed:

The notification bar is inactive as well (except for showing the time and battery status): i.e. can not be draged down.

I didn't root my phone and it was bought unlocked and unbranded!

My phone is basicaly bricked.

Help .... Please, please, please...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1977:
Can you reboot into recovery mode? See if you can try updating again using the method I tried: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7475688&postcount=2

The only difference with me was that I had to debrand my phone prior to doing the above, but come to think about it you are already unbranded so it shouldnt be a problem.
[Desire General] firedragon925:
Hi,

New to the forum - since I've used so many of the threads to gather new ROMs and sort out problems on my desire, I've decided to share what I've learned. Don't know if this is old news but it's new for me.

Have a rooted Desire and have installed a few different ROMs (opendesire, leedroid, pinkolin's one etc.). Like others, I recently partitioned my SDCARD with one FAT32 and one ext3/4 partition (and a small swap partition) to allow storage of more apps without impacting phone mem too much. Don't ask about swap - old 'nix habits. This worked fine until I tried to install a new ROM recently (went through the Recovery/ClockworkMod method, not ROM Manager).

Thought I had bricked the phone as it booted but got stuck on the loading screen.

Tried wiping all caches/data. No change.

Tried to reflash old ROM and Radio - no luck. ROM installed but same problem.

Tried RUU (including PB99IMG.zip) - no luck. Got CID error.

Noticed that in ClockworkMod, when I tried to mount /sd-ext/ the phone didn't like it - couldn't find the device.

Put SDCARD into a reader and deleted the ext3/4 and swap partitions, then installed the ROM from the FAT32 partition. Phone booted no problem.

Have a hypothesis that, with ext partition present, when ROM is installed, it takes this into account and links the ext partition as a device which then tries to mount as /sd-ext/ which it can't do as it doesn't understand the filesystem until finished booting. Can't mount /sd-ext/ until full boot, can't boot unless /sd-ext/ mounted. Therefore, no booting properly.

With no ext partition present, has to create /sd-ext/ itself and then mounts it which allows full boot into Android.

Would suggest that anyone flashing a new ROM who has an ext partition present either hides or deletes the partition (after backing up apps) to ensure that android doesn't get confused.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayshah:
To my great despair, my MicroSD card failed over the weekend. I didn't really have any up-to-date backups that were off-SD (i.e., within a week or two) so it was a rather inconvenient for me and I have no plans to allow this to happen again.

Does the ability exist to, say, make nightly nandroid backups then store them remotely (whether it be FTP/SCP/Rapidshare/Rsync or some other crafty way)? I'm only asking because I'm about to hack a little something together (which I might release, if anyone would actually use it?) but wanted to be sure that I hadn't overlooked something.

I managed to pull together a one script to reboot into recovery and take a nandroid from what was already given in the rommanager scripts (which should be the tougher part), just making it autonomous (and adding things like, only if on charge, perhaps?) then figuring the best way to store said backups off-device (I don't have a NAS yet, may invest in one) using whatever method I can think of (seems appropriate: .img files needn't keep their attributes and a FAT32 filesystem on the SD doesn't support it anyway).

TL;DR - Any way to automatically backup (nandroid + SD contents incrementally) off-device? May develop if there's a need/want

Cheers :)

Jay
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayshah:
Take it that it doesn't exist?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ted in PC:
I know this is an old thread... but just FYI

...I use SugarSync to backup my Nandroid backups remotely. You can get (As of April 2011) a free 5GB account (link for 5gb free account in small print at the bottom of their website) and download the SugarSync app from the Android Market. Once I created my SugarSync account and installed the app on my phone, I used the app to select my Nandroid folder from my SD card and SYNC it. I dont know if it automatically does the sync/upload of the Nandroid folder on my SD card, so I just manually launch the SugarSyc app and tell the folder to Sync at least once a day.

Just wanted to update this post since it was the first one I came to on the subject when I googled it.

Ted
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LA_:
Wish to have the same solution what jayshah described. Have somebody found something similar?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Terepin:
You can sync two-way and instantly with Dropsync PRO.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LA_:
does Dropsync PRO make nandroid backup? if no, what does it sync?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raikesy:
I don't think any apps exist that will automatically do NANDROID backups. I would use this so I look forward to what you may produce.

I think it should include options such as:

Only if battery above xx%

Only if charging

Only if SD has xxMB free space

Etc.

As for syncing, I currently use titanium media sync to specify certain folders on SD card to monitor and sync to my home FTP. You can also set it to sync to your Dropbox should you wish. So that should take care of the remote backup functionality.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intika:
Hello

i made a solution for it... setup in 5 min ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1678859

héhé :D
[Droid X Themes and Apps] nemesis000000:
looking for a good battery widget... ive been using battery status donate but im getting tired of the size... 1x2, looking for something similar thats skinable in a 1x1

any thoughts? opinions?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] teknogeek:
Have you tried Battery Left? It has a 1x1 or a 1x2. It also gives readings in 1% increments.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] dr154:
have u tried batterylife?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] meshdub:
I really like Battery Indicator. It displays an icon with the percentage in status bar.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] nemesis000000:
Thank you guys, trying all suggestions as we speak

Sent from my DROIDX
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] migueltherocker:
I've tried to make my own boot animation, but I really can't get it to work.

My desc.txt is fine as far as i can tell, i've tried everything i've read on how to fix it. I just get a black screen when booting.

I was hoping maybe someone here could take a look at it and see what I did wrong?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Six6Sicks:
1st, you have to pack in in the zip in store mode, uncompressed.

2nd, you're desc file was incorrect.

The first 2 numbers are the resolution, yours were way off.

Fixed version attached.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Houka420:
Six6sicks beat me to it.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] migueltherocker:
I had tried it with 480 and 320, but it didn't work either. The values I had in the desc.txt attached were taken from another bootanimation to see if it would work.

But either way, thanks guys! :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kenosis:
Hi all milestone and droid users...

Which browser do you use to surf internet and why?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ej2095:
Just wondering if any one know of n e emulators for Android?

Megadrive

Snes etc etc
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] wordsworse:
Yeah check market - snesoid , gensoid ect.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ryan562:
psx4droid.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bangsters:
psx4droid doesn't seem to be working with shubcraft build :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mr_billionaire:
that GBA one, ohhh,

Gameboid, its cool if u wanna get your pokemon/Super Mario on.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ahijada:
this still hold true? been kinda frustrated for the past 24hrs now, just downloading different FF7 and twisted metal 2 roms and ALL won't load =(
[HD2 General] HD2TM:
Ok, Newbie here. I have the Energy Sense ROM on my TMO HD2 and I have searched but no luck at finding what all I need for the HD Walls. Any help would be appreciated.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Are you sure that ROM doesn't have Cookie's Home Tab (CHT) baked in? If it does, you don't need HDWall beacuse that functionality is included in CHT's latest version.

If the ROM doesn't have that already, I'd recommend you just getting CHT anyway, it incorporates HDWall's methods, among others, and is a great tool to have around in general.

I used to use HDWall by itself all the time, but it's fairly complicated, and it's so much easier now just to use CHT to get the same effect.
[HD2 General] HD2TM:
ya its got the latest cht already. i kinda thought that but wasnt sure.so what else do i need to create wallpapers? is there a cab for the program i need on the desktop? sorry for the lack of knowledge, just couldnt find anything on it.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Check out the CHT thread, there's info there on the different ways you can do that, it's done through the CHT interface.

EDIT: Here's the link to it http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=625483

You'll also want to check out the companion tool for that, Cookie's Home Tab Editor (CHTE). You probably have that as well on your ROM, it extends the functionality of CHT: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633590
[HD2 General] HD2TM:
Thanks! Now I just need to find the program for my desktop to create the wallpaper and create a cab file right? If so where can I find these at? If I overlooked it my apologies.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
No, you don't even have to do that, you just need to have the image you want to use saved on your phone somewhere (like in a "wallpapers" folder on your SD card, for example), and then you use the options in CHT to choose that image and apply it as the background on your phone. CHT will apply it on all tabs, and even skin the top and bottom bars for you, like HDWall would do.
[HD2 General] DECIM8:
I switched from using HDwalls to strictly CHT a while ago. It is much less problematic and easier to change wallpapers.

I don't suggest keeping your wallpaper in your SD card but copy it to the "wallpapers" folder in my documents. If you have it plugged into your computer (i do a lot) and reboot the phone it won't find the wallpaper on your SD card as it can't see the SD card because it it plugged in. Yeah, clear as mud.. anyway.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Very good point decim8, and I hadn't though of that...I had assumed that it cached the final wallpaper somewhere on the phone, but it's probably true that having it on the SD card will prevent the image from being usable whenever you're connected in disk drive mode to a pc over usb.
[HD2 General] HD2TM:
ok, I think Im a retard. I open CHTE and switch to HD wallpaper, reset the phone. I have saved the photo I want under the wallpaper folder on the device, and cant seem to figure out how to set it. The set wallpaper option goes away once I set it to HD and when I go to the photo and try and set it to the wallpaper the only option is todays background and I only see it when Im in the start menu. All tabs are black background and cant change to anything else.
[HD2 General] jimbonics:
From your home screen...

Hit the Menu soft key and then Set Wallpaper at the top.

Under the Home Tab section, tap the first thing, Portrait... and browse to the location you saved the image. Repeat as needed for the other sections.

Worst case, hit Albums, All...
[HD2 General] HD2TM:
It doesnt give me the option to set the wallpaper from my home screen (not able to be selected). It is an optoon when Im not trying to use HD though.
[HD2 General] DECIM8:
Sounds to me like you still have HDWall selected in CHTE.

Select Menu (soft key at bottom of home screen)

Select Co0kie's Home Tab Editor

Select Miscellaneous settings

Scroll down to the "wallpaper Mode" section. "HQ Wallpaper" should be selected, not "HDWall"

Please double check that this is the case. With this option selected you should be able to select "set wallpaper" with the Menu softkey.

EDIT: I have landscape on my home screen enabled via BSB tweaks and "set wallpaper" is not available from the menu when in landscape mode. Works fine in portrait.
[HD2 General] HD2TM:
Thanks!!!!!!! See I told you I was a retard. I did have HD selected instead oft the HQ like I should have. Thanks for all the help:D

Edit: The wallpaper is working correctly BUT when I try to set the Skin Taskbar and Softkey bar it gives me an error. Says "Out of Memory Exception"? The phone is no where near out of memory. I cant win for losing.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] asad510:
i want to know the easiest way to make a update.zip