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[General Questions and Answers] G-ThGraf:
Hi, u need speak english in this forum! Please translate your post!

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[General Questions and Answers] Mr. Clown:
As G-ThGraf states, this is an english speaking forum (eventhough members are from different nationalities). You can use a google translator.

Blackberrys are not supported here, but you can visit forums that support them. I own a BB 8520, you can go to www.crackberry.com it's possible that you can get an answer there.
[General Topics] Meza1:
I'm visiting the states and staying in California for 6 weeks very soon. I'd like to use my new (English) Galaxy S while there, can people recommend how to do this?

Can you get pay-as-you-go Sim cards in the states?

thanks for the advice
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJDuckett:
Title's pretty on it. I had gotten a black google search from somewhere, but I don't remember where, and now that I'm 2.2, I figured I'd jsut edit it myself.

Can someone tell me the apk that I need to look in to edit the background PNG? Any help would be appreciated.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Have you tried:

GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk

or

QuickLookup.apk
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJDuckett:
Tried Googlequicksearch. Will try the other in a second. Right now I'm tricking out the radio lol.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJDuckett:
Nope, not quick search either
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebryanexperience:
Just use the search softly and use the screen space for something else. Hint - tap to open search window. Long press to use voice search. No need to be redundant.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Riptide9:
Its in the GoogleQuickSearch.apk

Look at the search_floater.9.png that is the background... it just expands across (I changed mine to glass)

Is this what you are talking about? Manup456's is Black just check his apk
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laydros:
Bugless Beast 0.4 had the translucent black search box, and I thought the mod was part of his launcher2.apk. The previous post seems to prove me wrong.

It also had a translucent version of the power switch, which i think is in settings.apk, but it might be part of the framework.

I'd love to see something like that, it was really slick.

Let me know if you throw something together.

Edit: attached the BB 0.4 Launcher2.apk.

Edit2: Riptide, thats badass.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJDuckett:
I think that's the ticket. And naw, I don't want it to look like manups. I don't even want it transparent. Thanks for the heads up rip! You the man! :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJDuckett:
Ok, here it goes: I wanted it to flow with my top taskbar, and got the result I was looking for:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Riptide9:
Came out nice. Great job!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcmagic:
Could you share you transparent one with the icons on it?

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Riptide9:
Here you go...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcmagic:
Thank you very much.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leeh41:
Unable to install the transparent one. Ideas? Looked in data/app and system/app but dint find the previous one installed. I have the updated search and voice.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJDuckett:
You don't install system apps, you adb push them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leeh41:
Got it, but I currently have the latest Google search installed, so theoretically this should overwrite the exiting file right?

The problem is I don't see the existing Google search in the /system/app folder. I pushed the above Google search, but no change. I can't tell if it even overwrote the previous. I also dont know which existing APK file I need to remove to uninstall the existing Google search).

Not sure if all that made sense.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwd3885:
is it possible to install this without root?
[Desire General] hoss_n2:
sorry iam new to desire but has any one noticed a lag during scrolling in sense apps drawer when using live wallpapers on the latest froyo espcially the water one ( not a big lag but some ) but allot slower than static wallpapers
[Desire General] hoss_n2:
any one :confused:
[Desire General] jamesmcuk:
I can't find an app called app drawer. can you provide link and I will download and test
[Desire General] hoss_n2:
the application menue i mean , the list of applications
[Desire General] jamesmcuk:
Hi again, I can confirm there is noticiable slowdown when using the water theme. Very minor but still there! Using the stock Sense Live Wallpaper I get smooth and fast scroll. Using Water Live Paper I get a slower and slightly rough scroll
[Desire General] hoss_n2:
Is there any fix for that
[Desire General] jamesmcuk:
not that i know for sure but!. from a programmer point of view i would imagine that the phone is processing the ripples of the water even when it is not displaying them, hence the slowdown. I think a fix would need to come from HTC. However there are some really clever buggers on here and I am happy to be corrected on this.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] mulletcutter:
Relaced the digitizer and got it back together but touchscreen does not work and im getting "the process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. please try again" what does that mean? Phone boots up fine, the error constantly comes up, i can use thetrack pad to force close it.. seconds later it reappears. Any sugesstions?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Armyjon88:
Have you tried reloading the stock img?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] mulletcutter:
From what I'm being told the digitized is bad....so hopefully they send meout a new one.
[Epic 4G General] mchild99:
As far as I can tell from reading around, WIMAX upload speeds are actually slower than that of EVDO speeds. In the age of sharing so much media including high-def pics and vids, doesn't this seem like a step back?
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
I don't see how 1-1.5mpbs up is slower than 100-300kbps up...
[Epic 4G General] mchild99:
I guess i was looking at the peak speeds. My bad. It shows 1.8 Mbps peak upload for EVDO rev. a

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[Epic 4G General] sasha101:
You get that speed probably standing right next too the tower
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
And if nobody is using the tower....
[Epic 4G General] entropism:
I get about 2.5mbps down 800kbps up on my Hero, and I live in a VERY good area as far as data speeds go.
[Epic 4G General] rufflez2010:
Sprint is capping upload to 1mbps on wimax. Honestly, I've never gotten more than 250 upload, even when I lived next to a tower Sprint used. I don't upload videos, so it doesn't bother me, but I'd like to once I get the epic.
[Epic 4G General] DevilDogVIKING:
I'm guessing since it's on a hero its 3g and not 4g right? Wasn't the topic about 4g upload?
[Epic 4G General] entropism:
Yeah it was, sorry. That's that I get for posting at 3am...
[Epic 4G General] arcadia2uk:
When switching from 3G to 4G my upload speed is multiplied 2- 3 times. However, my upload speed in 4G is only about 5- 10% compared to 3G

3G:

download: 1100kbps

upload: 900kbps

4G:

download: 2,500-3,500 kbps

upload: <80kbps

Have I missed a setting somewhere?

I have a tower less than a mile away, living in down-town Boston.

Thanks in advance,

arc
[Epic 4G General] rufflez2010:
You must be on an edge of 4g coverage... or indoors or something all jacked up. My last 4G test out on the road was:

7223 down

1119 up (capped)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jon C:
I've been obsessing over the N1 since launch. Android is super neat, and unlocked phones rock. The only thing that really held me back from the purchase was the multitouch issue. I could easily see having to reset my screen with a lock cycle would drive me crazy. That said, I love the idea of the N1, and wish to escape my iPhone prison.

I recently purchased a Galaxy S phone, but am annoyed by the lack of support (saw this coming) and non-functioning locational services. The GPS and Compass are totally and utterly busted. Sadly, Google stopped selling the N1 on the day I decided to order one. However, I have been given a second chance, by purchasing the dev phone (which I am now considering).

So, let's make this like ripping off a bandage. Have mercy, internet. I have questions that require honest answers. I'm sorry if you've heard it all before, but this kind of information is annoyingly hard to dig up. Lightning Round, Go!:

Is the multitouch problem with the N1 (inverse axis swapping when two points cross) still present with 2.2?

Do any custom ROMs, apps or tweaks solve this issue? I read that the Moto Droid had a software setting ticked that allows proper multitouch (a sort of software hack), that google had not opted to enable by default? Sounds a bit silly to me, but what's the deal?

Does your screen still lose track of your fingers (inputing the wrong characters on the keyboard), causing you to lock cycle your screen to reset the digitizer?

Are the touch-buttons difficult to use?

A fellow N1 owner I met told me that his phone showed no signs of the multitouch 'bug', when using 'Multitouch Vis Test'. He said he was running the Modaco ROM. Is it true that something in this ROM fixes the multitouch problem?

Thank you, Princes of Internet.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msavic6:
Personally i dont experience any multitouch issues on my n1. Im running stock froyo 2.2. I have only had to re-lock my screen once and it never happened again. The capicative buttons below the screen take a bit of time to get used to at first it might take you a couple of tries to register a click but a few hours of use you get the hang of it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jon C:
Thanks for the reply.

Would you mind taking the 'Multitouch Vis Test' app for a spin, to see if the problem is gone, or if you just don't notice it?

If the issue is gone, would you mind making a youtube vid of it?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diversificationied:
The multitouch on the n1 will not be "fixed" unless google/htc decided to use different hardware. If you can live with a device that can only do pinch to zoom, but not true multitouch, then the n1 is fine.

Honestly at this point, I'd hold off until you see the rest of HTC's lineup that's coming up before december.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dogiedogie:
1) It was possibly noticable in 2.1, in 2.2 in months now I havn't see it once. You can see with the visualiser you really have to know how to force it to get it to go, its just not something which will occur with correct commands you'll be doing.

2) Its down to the hardware, I'm not aware of any custom ROMs which have anything/anything significant.

3) The only time I EVER get this is with beta super bundles of ROMs, which is either the fault of the ROM, something going skitz in dalvic, how I installed it, or just a self generating bug. All of which are easily fixable. However if you were to stay with stock or more tested ROMs, you'd literally never see this.

4) For me they just work, at the start yes they wouldnt act the same a touch screen, but now they'll act like I want maybe 99% of the time. Sure friends using it to start with have to get used to it, but its not 'broken' if you will. The only thing I will mention is if your using it in weird orientations, there is a chance of hitting the buttons [mainly search] without meaning to with parts of your hand.

5) Again, this problem ONLY shows up if you know how to 'break' it. With 2.2+ its really hard to do it if you handed the phone to someone who's never used it before, because also again you wont be doing any commands which would conflict with the limitations, so you have to be misusing it in the first place to get the bug.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergey.povzner:
Agree with this.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smashpunks:
Multitouch is completely crap on the n1. I loved it otherwise, yes every now and again it goes wack and registers the wrong thing... the capacitive buttons also suck and are hard to get used to... on Multitouch test its wacky and registers the wrong finger and won't register more than 2...

Great device, but galaxy is better.. I don't have any gps issues so can't complain about that.

No. No roms will fix the Multitouch issue. Nor make it any better.. if your into gaming with controls on the same axis forget about it, if ya want Multitouch keyboard forget about it...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
I still have yet to ever experience the actual axis switch issue using this phone in real world. Sure the issue exists, but it just doesn't effect a single thing unless you use a certain game. But even that works fine, watch YouTube videos showing emulators on the nexus.

The point is, if you're looking for a reason to not get the nexus, The axis switch issue is not the reason that should sway your decision.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tardman91:
I recently came from an iPhone and I haven't noticed any difference in the multi-touch screen (except maybe in the typing on occasion, which I just attributed to my big fingers). I'd say for a good 95%+ of what you would do on the phone you can't tell any difference between the iPhone or N1 multitouch.

With the touch buttons on the bottom of the screen... Sometimes I hit one while typing, which takes me back to the home screen, but since the N1 has true multitasking all I have to do is reopen the app. A minor inconvenience. Or I could just type in landscape mode and not have any trouble at all.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smashpunks:
Games like toonWarz or nova will mess up. Has the controls on bottom right and shooting on bottom right. So when your running using the left controls and shoot real quick with the right, it'll now wig out and keep shooting even when you let go and the dude will walk a different way be cause now the sensor thinks your touching in a different spot..

Now you can let go of the left finger then shoot but when ya need precision in some shooting games you will be dead if you do that....

Pinch to zoom is fine and emulators with controls on the top and bottom vs just the bottom ( same axis), but for games like nova, heavy gunner, modern combat, ps1 emulator (unless it has opposite axis controls) which mine don't, took Warz, etc. It will not work properly ....
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
this is a good explanation of what is effected. if you're a big gamer then consider it, but things like pinch to zoom in the browser, maps, pics, works just as great as ever.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jon C:
Thanks for the feedback, guys.

Coming from the Galaxy S, I imagine I will miss a few things. One of them being: media playback and overall storage.

I guess with the N1, I'd need to find a non-bootlegged 32GB microSD card. But my other question would be: is there an easy way to play all of the content that the Galaxy S can handle, or is the GPU in the Samsung phone so much better that the N1 can't keep up?

I really like that about the SGS: I just drop movies (mp4, xvid, divx and so forth) onto the internal ROM and they play without issue. Media capabilities are very nice.

Does the N1 play lots of videos like this out of the box? If not, is there a decent media application?

Also, about HTC's other devices: I'd love to wait, but I'm worried that the newer phones won't have nice accessories. The N1 has that awesome car dock, that I would use all of the time. The SGS doesn't have any accessories like that, and it makes me sad. Most of HTC's N1 follow-up lacked similar docks and cradles.

If I return this SGS (likely), I will probably be jumping to the N1, just for that 'official' feel of it (very sturdy, solid first-party accessories).

You have no idea how sad I was, when Google announced they were giving up on creating their own phones. Hate them all you want: but Apple really has that system (solid build, quality integration / lack of fragmentation) nailed. I was really hoping that Google could bring that unification to Android with their own branded devices. :(

Loving Android, though. Never going back to iOS.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjm128:
Anyone saying the n1 doesn't suffer from multitouch issues is sadly mistaken. The one thing that bugs me about the n1 is the touch screen issue. You won't be able to play games like nova, or certain games on emulators (when using dpad plus buttons that are at the same level it has issues) and it does have issues when crossing the axises.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
everyone said the issue exists it just doesnt show up unless you...play....games. otherwise its a non issue.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Atento:
The N1's touchscreen is totaly crap. There is a thread about touchscreen issues at oficial forum. It has more than 2000 posts explaning all problems of nexus one touchscreen. Check it out.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smashpunks:
The gpu is OK. But definitely a lot less powerful than the sgs, you will notice in movies, live wallpapers and especially games... there's a decent video player called rockplayer that plays a lot of stuff like avi and xvid , but its not ad good as the sgs player ...

Put it this way, either stay sgs and have a not so well navigation but awesome everything elsex or go nexus with good GPS but a old touch sensor that will hardly recognize both fingers on anything other than pinch to zoom.....
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liam.lah:
The only real world scenario i have encountered the axis switch is when you do a pinch on an album in the gallery to have it flick through them, it switches often when doing that.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LevitateJay:
Nexus One multi-touch sucks for games. I've tried some fancy gameloft games that req two fingers on screen, or PS & gameboy emulators that req this and it drives me insane. Can be so frustrating for gaming and is the only thing that I find a let down for this device. I wish I knew before I purchased it because the gaming although not the only thing I brought it for is something that I thought would be cool on my phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasrups:
Simply put, don't get the N1 if mobile gaming is important to you. I'm not talking about simple single tap games, but the intricate ones (PSX Emu, EA Sports, Gamesloft, etc). If you could live without it, the touchscreen is fine for regular day to day use.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killermojo:
Or just root and carry your favorite bluetooth game controller. I have a mini bt keyboard that works great for emulators
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjm128:
It does sometimes show up in pinch to zoom for me, but i almost never use that anyways. It's all about rule #2 the double tap!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norazi:
theres 2 seperate issues with the n1 touchscreen which sometimes get confused for the same thing here.

1. the actual "multi-touch" is not true multitouch and only supports 2 points. you see this being an issue when you cross axis but id say its not an issue in 99% of normal situations.. this is a hardware issue and will never be fixed

2. the touch screen needs to be calibrated better. randomly, a single touch (not multitouch) will register about 20-50pixels down from where your finger actually touched... this is a huge issue because it will cause you to mistype letters on the keyboard and hit the wrong icon. i believe this is a software issue since it goes away when you sleep+wake the phone... yet has not been fixed as of yet
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flarbear:
I'd like to point out that I get bitten by the issue a lot and I don't play games. While the "axis crossing" issue is the most obvious example of the limitations of the hardware, the inability to accurately associate the coordinates of the touches with specific fingers does show up in other situations.

The most typical example that happens to me at least once a day is that I am trying to hit a soft button at the bottom of the screen and instead I get the notification shade pulled down. This tends to happen because it sees one of my fingers hovering near the top of the screen and while the impression is faint enough that it isn't registering a touch, when it suddenly sees my touch at the bottom of the screen it somehow assumes that the two were related and I must have dragged down the screen so it opens the notification area.

I've also had this happen where I try to hit a button on one side of the screen and that button highlights, but as I am lifting off of the button it suddenly highlights a button on the opposite side of the screen where my fingers have gotten a little too close to the bezel and that is the button it activates.

So, you could be extra careful to keep your fingers clear of the sides of the digitizer to avoid these problems, but honestly I've never liked "just don't hold your phone that way" as an effective response to a problem like this (sorry Mr. Jobs). True, you can solve the problem by retraining yourself, but one slip and it bites you again, whereas a different piece of hardware would also solve the problem... ;-)

For me, the touchscreen issues are the #1 item on my list when I consider whether to upgrade or not (I haven't yet, but there may be a phone soon that sends me over the edge and the Galaxy S is pretty close). And, that is true even though I am not a gamer...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smashpunks:
I had all those issues another one is no way can you have a Multitouch keyboard. Wont work since your always on the same axis..

I was never a gamer with my n1, maybe because of the issue. Ever since I got my vibrant I play games because a .3 inch bigger screen is a noticeable nice diff and also the flawless multitouch that actually works...

The gpu in the n1 gets 12.5 fps on neno mark 1 vs the sgs 45 fps ....

No contest IMO, the sgs is just a all around better experience..
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] zeroprobe:
Hi,

I'm really fed up of entering in my password each time I want to access a VPN. Is it possible to mod Android for this option? Just need some sort of VPN launcher application.

I like to connect to a VPN so I can FTP and VNC to my phone over the internet.
[Desire General] ChemicalKicks:
Hello,

Need some help.

Unbranded my desire today which went well. It asked me if I wanted to update the software OTA which I clicked yes to. This is where it all went wrong, phone now comes up with Network locked unlock sim.

Can anyone help me get round this, I read a thread a couple of days ago where someone had the same problem but I can't for the life of me find it. Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
[Desire General] jamesmcuk:
Hi there mate. I dont know the answer to your problem but can say that no one else has ever posted that exact error. Can you confirm the EXACT wording of the error and and numbers it may throw. If its already correct (including any punctuation) it seems you have a very unique problem.
[Desire General] ChemicalKicks:
It may not have been here but I think it was.

Basically it was a branded Orange Desire.

After much reading I decided that I wanted to get of all the Orange stuff that comes bundled and cannot be removed.

I followed a guide to de-brand the phone which worked perfectly. When I first turned the phone on and checked the software update it said 1 update was available, I chose to download and install the update. When I checked the phone version it was 2.1update 1 (I think).

Turned the phone off and on again and went back into the software update and was offered another update which I assumed was Froyo, chose to download and install that via wifi. Everything seemed to work but when the phone rebooted it came up with the following message "SIM network unlock PIN" there is no other error code and it wants an 8 digit code.

Called Orange and played dumb and they said that they would send me a new phone but I've told them to hold off for now.

Thank in advance.