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[Galaxy S I9000 General] fakekullu:
I have been experimenting with brightness on my sgs and how it relates to battery life. So should I keep the brightness on auto or the lowest?

I have noticed that when my brightness is set on lowest, the phone will sometime turn the brightness up a lot for no reason. I think it should be on auto brightness.

Ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Adevem:
on the notification bar up there if you sweep it left our right it'll adjust the brightness too, just found that or. pretty damned annoying.

my brightness is on it's lowest always, unless I need to see in the sun.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
Yeah.. In Froyo they don't have that "feature" (hopefully they don't enable it either).

I keep my light down to minimum too. I've had no probs looking at the screen here, but then again, it is winter and I am an evening person..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Adevem:
I'd say lowest setting is the best, the screen isn't difficult to see even at it's lowest. brightest just makes everything look more vibrant and awesome. you can have a separate brightness setting for the browser too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i set mine to manual

the auto doesn't work well, i like it bright, and in auto mode, it is not bright enough for me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] _JKay_:
You are right. If you have your brightness set to Manual, you can adjust brightness by sliding left or right on the notification bar at the top.

It's a problem because you can by accident set it to high and therefore drain your battery fast.

I have setup Tasker to set brightness to 40 once every hour. 40 is about 16% of full brightness.

Regards,

Jkay
[Desire General] infazz:
Hey,

Have a couple of questions :)

Is it worth flashing custom ROM ?

Is there a lot of speed or tweek improvements ?

Is it better to have Sense rom or naked android?

What rom You can advise for flashing ?

And what criteria most important on choosing custom Rom ?

Thank You very very much for answers! :)
[Desire General] x01a4:
Here we go:

1. You are asking this question in THIS forum? You've got to be kidding ;)

2. Yes

3. If you need sense and its widgets and apps, then stick with it. I don't like sense so i choose a faster rom without it.

4. This depends on your taste... I love DeFrost

5. Depends on your personal taste (battery, speed, appearance....)
[Desire General] EddyOS:
1. Depends what you want to use your phone for

2. Yes, if you need them

3. I prefer Sense, don't like stock Android

4. I'm on stock FroYo for Sense (the official HTC 2.2 release)

5. Depends on what you want to use your phone for - my Quadrant score is 2nd only to the Nexus One 2.2+
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Double-post rubbishness
[Desire General] kmetek:
yes it's much better....and rooted

just damn hard which to choose.
[Desire General] dezborders:
1. Yes, but only if you are aware and willing to accept the voiding of your warranty.

2. I haven't noticed any speed difference between rooted and non rooted, but obviously, you can 'tweak' the OS much more on rooted ROM.

3. I like Sense. Some love it, some hate it. See point 5 for further comment.

4. I use the first released and cleanest/least-modified rooted HTC 2.2 at... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741663

5. Personally, I want a rooted ROM with A2SD+/EXT support and nothing else changed from the official OTA.

P.S. no matter which ROM you go for, it's CRITICAL that you do a full-wipe, including Davlik cache, and that you also install the 5.09.00.20 Radio.
[Desire General] dezborders:
sorry, duplicate post
[Desire General] infazz:
Thanks every one!! now i must to think what rom i want to flash :)
[Desire General] SavageCore:
IMO the sense keyboard is much much better, dunno if you can get it on stock, never checked.
[Desire General] x01a4:
There is actually a modded (better) version out: HTC_IME

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624416
[Desire General] zeussn:
I prefer Swype :D
[Desire General] SavageCore:
:D I was wondering what that was, comes with LeeDrOid. Will give it a look over, thanks.

I tried SlideIT, didn't really take to it.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meanm50:
Is there an .apk or .zip to flash that will give me the dialer found in KaosFroyo?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] dvdscr:
hi.

i was looking for a automatic call recorder application for the last couple of days but nothing was working on the milestone.

i need something that does not turn the speakerphone when doing the recording.

everything i found was either not working or crashed.

can you recomend anything?

thanks.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] isey78:
Google Voice
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] daxie:
google voice records calls?!!?

EDIT: I stand corrected, yes it does :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] SpiritFyre:
Very nice.. im gonna try it tomarrow morning :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] chopitol:
google voice in my country is not enabled

some other app?

thanks

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en mi pais google voice no esta habilitado

algún otro app?

gracias
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] caquiltro:
Get MarketEnabler and switch to someother provider before launching the MarketApp.

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Usa MarketEnabler y cambiate a otro proveedor antes de correr el MarketApp

code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] gGabi:
Call recorder :) free on market
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] linuques:
i don't think there is such app that works for milestone...

there's no way to record both sides of conversation on a regular call
[Captivate General] Lucke:
so far, this is my only issue with this phone. after restarting it, i'll have (via ATK) ~175M free with no programs being shown as running. after a day or two, it'll drop to ~90M free with no programs being shown as running.

is this due to a memory leak?

is this normal for 2.1?

is it the phone itself?

will it be addressed by 2.2, when available?

this is my first android device, and i've gotten used to it pretty quickly, but i've never seen anything like this.

thanks in advance
[Captivate General] dewt:
Don't know if this is going to be fixed anytime soon, but I use minfree to set the limits for memory usage and it seems to work pretty well.
[Captivate General] skinien:
I was thinking the same thing. When I reboot my phone and do a task-kill, I'll have about 120 - 140 MB free. As the day goes by, it drops to 60 - 90 after a task-kill. Either something isn't freeing memory or ATK isn't reporting everything that's running.
[Captivate General] tytdfn:
I use auokiller(need root) and TaskOs(root not needed). The first one works pretty well at keeping everything above 100mb using my settings and the second one can end running apps and take the mem back up to the 150mb i get on boot
[Vibrant General] DLarva:
Anyone else having the following issue:

When I connect via USB to something other than a wall outlet (e.g. PC, USB port in Car, etc.), sometimes it seems my wifi or 3g connections stop working. They display like they are working, but none of my apps are able to get anything from the net.

Any ideas what could cause this?

The only way I can recover from the situation is to reboot.
[Vibrant General] johnnycs:
I have only noticed this when connecting the USB to my PC. I had assumed it was due to my tethering that the data was restricted to just the PC. If I notice the same issue when not tethering, I'll update the thread.
[Vibrant General] EvilPickle:
having the same issue..

Samsung Vibrant

Rooted

Frankin-Twiz (Eugene373) ROM

lose connection every couple of min when the phone is plugged into the computer via USB. If its plugged into the wall, no problems.

Anyone have any ideas?
[HD2 General] xavierperez:
Well I installed the emulator on my phone all good how can i get the games now? i dont have the ps1 and no games on me. please help
[HD2 General] rumpleforeskin:
You could try looking in some charity or game shops for used games or even ebay (only couple of £ delivered because the games are pretty old now).

plenty of bargain PS1 games about. there is a guide on the FPSECE page about how to convert the disks to be used by your phone.
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
or search online for psx ROMs and see what google finds...
[HD2 General] rumpleforeskin:
a google search for PSX roms leads to alot of illegally hosted content :(
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
That's why nrfitchett4 didn't link any.;) He's smart enough not to post links to warez, etc!:D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Does anyone recall what the key sequences were to direct-boot (from a cold start) into the recovery boot when there is a 1.46 or 1.47 bootloader present on the Eris?

It's been many months since I've had that on my phone - and I can't remember whether the thing that differs from the 1.49.xxxx bootloaders is the initial Vol-Up+End at coldstart, or whether it was a different keystroke combination once the recovery boot splash screen was showing (to get the menu to come up).

????

I can certainly roll back to MR1 or MR2, to test things, but it would save me some trouble if anybody remembers off the top of their head.

(Yes, I am aware that you can get there via the HBOOT menu, and through adb, and through fastboot, and through a shell prompt with a stock HTC OS - I'm looking for the coldstart method)

bftb0
[Android Software Development] metaltoiletry:
Hello,

I'm new to developing software in Java, but especially with Android. I am going through a tutorial on how to create an RSS Feed Reader and so far I've got it mostly working, but I've got a few bugs I can't seem to figure out.

I wanted to post images, but it wouldn't let me, but anyway:

main activity - title, pubdate both work, as does each article's title.

after clicking on a title, the other activity is launched and the article is shown:

showdescription activity is launched - title, pubdate, link all work and display correctly.

bug: description does not always display everything or even display at all depending on the xml source.

I'm wondering if my problem is somewhere these code snippets, as this tutorial was written some time ago.

These are pretty basic, so I'm doubting the problem is in here.

This is where I believe the problem exists, in the onItemClick method or the ShowDescription class.

Originally the tutorial called for "startSubActivity" for starting the ShowDescription activity, but that doesn't seem to exist anymore?

The XML source I'm using can't be displayed because I can't link in outside pages, but I can PM it to you if you'd like.

I have tried using a .replaceAll("\\<.*?>","") but it didn't seem to change much about whether the <description> tag's content is displayed or not.

Anyway, if anyone takes the time to look at this, it'd be greatly appreciated, and thank you!

If you need me to post anymore code let me know.
[Android Software Development] metaltoiletry:
So I think I've figured it out, well somewhat.

While stepping through the code, the <description> tag's content consists of a single < character. Then the parser goes through two more tags that contain, p and > before actually hitting the content I want.

So it looks something like this:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makskylan:
I installed the newest radio and now I can not download anything from the market. Any suggestions?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makskylan:
I had an error with google sign in. Once I signed in I was able to download apps again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adevem:
it was working fine with both restoring and backing up my roms before (jm5), but once I've flashed over to jg8 it's stopped working.

one thing that's different is that I applied RyanZA's lag fix that makes use of ext2.

to be honest I don't even think that's the cause but I'm just putting putting it there for information's sake.

any help is appreciated, thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dendrosfx:
had this on my phone right today as well...was trying to do a backup after a flash -

it's not that it stopped but it just really takes an awful long wait to finish that part of it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adevem:
really? I guess I'm not a man of patience but the first backup went by faster! I shall give it another try when I'm not using the phone, thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metadan:
Yeah,i did this last night. Was worried it wasn't going to complete however just left it to it a bit and it does get through it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanZA:
Yeah my EXT2 doesn't play nice with backup programs. Someone could make a new backup program that supports it, I guess, but that's probably not going to happen. It should be just temporary until either samsung gives us a better update, or someone cooks up a custom rom that won't need it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adevem:
well then, I'd rather have no lag than anything! damned samsung...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bellroid:
I can confirm this

I have a Bell Vibrant. I first applied the OCLF. Pressed Volume up, plus center button, plus power and booted into recovery.

Applied update.

Rebooted.

Went back into OCLF and played with all the other optimizations.

Installed Rom Manager.

Tried going straight to backup - rebooted into recovery and failed.

Installed nandroid recovery. Rebooted into nandroid recovery -> Great Success!

Clicked backup and everything seemed to be going well till it got to the file

linux.ex2

Then it seemed to be stuck for 3-5 minutes. I was reading this forum page when it got going again.

Great Success!

Thank you all!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wayne_zmh:
For me, it stopped for about 5-7mins. It went again after I had a cigi.:-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VinceAshbySmith:
Hi all ive been following the progress of the froyo roms very closely and just wondered what people's favourite are currently? I'm thinking either Cronos Droid 2.1.3, FusionRom 2.2 or FroydVillain 1.1.9. Are there any benefits drawbacks of each? All seem to look quite similar, i know someone will answer "just try them" but i would rather try the best one out there first and then try the others! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] L0cke:
Well, there's a guy called 'dkelley' floating around who has tried almost every ROM and gives a good honest review of what they're like. If you look at most of the ROM threads you will see his comments in there somewhere about what they're like. He currently thinks that Cronos is the best, but it is really all down to personal preference.

I am currently using the latest CyanogenMod but there are a couple of things I don't like, the LED notifications for exmaple, but that's me. Ninpo is working on a new FroydVillain so that will be worth a look.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
There isn't really a "best" - they'll all be different in their own way. Just try until you find one that feels right.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joyfulprozac:
I can only speak about Froydvillain. It is rock solid and fast, especially with the overclockable kernels Ninpo has made available. I've been using it from the 1.1.0 release through 1.1.1, then 1.1.9 briefly until the release of 1.2.0 late last night which is the best yet.

There was a bug with 3d Gallery in landscape mode and with notification LEDs but so far with 1.2.0 the gallery works ok. There also seems to be support for trackball illumination notification. All in all this is an accomplished ROM that works beautifully on my G2 Touch (Hero).
[Vibrant General] SuperMiguel:
So i did the fix, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728894, and i was able to get a gps signal after 10 seconds after i did, but now it wont connect at all, i left it outside of my house for 10 minutes and didnt connect :S
[Vibrant General] Jon C:
:(

Locational services on the Galaxy S phones is totally broken. Your only option is to play the waiting game - hoping that Samsung will fix the issue in an OTA - or to return the phone and repurchase it if or when the issue is fixed.

I'm going down road #2. $500+ is too risky to potentially be stuck with a phone that doesn't work as advertised. I'm going to miss this phone...
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
I understand. Personally, after trying the phone on contract extension and being dissatisfied with GPS performance, I decided to risk buying a gray-market Vibrant and hope for such a fix. If the fix does not materialize fairly soon, I can probably sell it used and recover most of my investment. But based upon what is known with certainity today, I could not commit to a two-year contract renewal.

[BTW, I'm not sure why this rates a new thread. The OP is just one of many commenters with GPS woes, there is nothing really new here, and there are lots of GPS threads already.]
[Vibrant General] SuperMiguel:
so no fix for this yet?
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
The short answer is no. The long answer is also no, but there is some hope for a future fix. There are lots of threads to browse and read, though.

You might try some of the other mitigating configuration changes that are published in those threads. Just setting the GPS mode to MS Based will probably help accelerate getting the lock, at least emporarily, but won't help with ultimate accuracy. At a minimum that seems to need a firmware/driver fix from Samsung and Broadcom, which is what we are all waiting for. Also reboot frequently, or even try a factory reset (which means reinstalling all your apps and data). This seems to help suppress some of the bugs temporarily.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
I performed a search and didn't see this posted anywhere....then again I might have missed it. I found it on the nexus one forum. Make sure to backup before flashing file.

Download
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] thefoss:
How do I replace Sense Messaging with AOSP?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
Flash the file I posted on the first post
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] neles86:
Nice. I'll give it a try..now all we need is the Android keyboard
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ekt8750:
Flashed sucessfully. Looks and works great. Is there a widget that goes along with this or no?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
no widget that I know of. I could check
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] cds36:
does this have all the features as the HTC sense messenger? "pics,vid,calender,contact,slide".
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jvs60:
Force closing for me. Not working
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
really? haven't had any issues on my end. what rom are you using?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jvs60:
Baked Snack 1.3
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jvs60:
Looks like im going to have to wipe and reflash my rom
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
did you backup before flashing this? if not what rom are you running i can zip up your mms.apk file
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jvs60:
Im running baked snack 1.3 themed
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Leukay:
Within a thread is the whole background black using the black background setting? Or is there a white outline around the thread?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
http://www.4shared.com/file/X1aZxoIG/EVO22-MMS-signed.html
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jvs60:
I didnt backup
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
it has a white outline why?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Leukay:
Just wondering, it's supposed to be all black. I've been trying to find a stock 2.2 mms.apk that displays correctly with the sense roms
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
i attached a pic
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jvs60:
Thanks it worked
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Leukay:
Yep, that's the same problem I was having with it. That white outline shouldn't be there. A lot of people can probably put up with it, but I just really prefer the all black background. Thanks for uploading the screenie
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
no problem
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
Cool no prob
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] wickettaker:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=743781

^ is my current rom and the AOSP messaging apk keeps force closing/freezing..any way to make it work on this rom? Thank you for the efforts my friend. :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
Try this

http://www.4shared.com/file/X1aZxoIG/EVO22-MMS-signed.html
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] wickettaker:
This link is for htc sense messaging..unless I am missing something? lol. is there a way to make the AOSP messaging app (the one you posted in the first post) to work with my rom?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
Sorry...got mixed up...download the file on the first post. Flash it like u would a rom. Make sure u backup
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Success100:
this is exactly what i have been looking for since handcent doesnt work so well on 2.2 for me. thanks so much. for anyone who doesnt want the black background, there is an option in the settings menu to change it to white
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Success100:
Has anyone gotten mms to work with this?

Sent from my Damn EVO!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
i received pics but didn't try sending.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] fgarcia10:
I was able to send a picture and and a recorded sound but I could not download the pictures that someone send me.

I like it better than the sense one but I need MMS.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] defjeff:
If you hold down the image while in the thread, it will bring up options. One option is saving to the SD card, this worked for me.

Thanks for this, loving this so much better then the stock text !!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Matt_TX:
Is there any way to install this if not rooted?

Thanks.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] onlinespending:
I thought the AOSP messaging app had a light or white background. Does anyone have that version? It's much easier to read an app with a light background when outside during the day.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] herbthehammer:
I forgot where I got this apk from. I think it might have been from a N1. This one you just install like any other apk and it overwrites the original. I suppose you could do a nandroid or rename the original file to mms.apk.old then install the new one. This one doesn't have the problems with the white frame like the one in the first post that you flash like a rom. I also have a couple pics to show you what it looks like.

Here's how I installed it:

I used root explorer to navigate to /system/app. Clicked the button to make me have rw in that directory. I renamed Mms.apk by adding .old after the apk. Copied the attached file to the same directory. Renamed it to Mms.apk. Installed it on top of itself. Set directory back to ro. Rebooted. Went into the messaging app settings and changed the last field to make sure there was a check mark. You might need to uncheck it then check it then restart the program to make it stick. Reboot again to make sure everything took.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Saturn2K:
Does anyone know of an AOSP mms.apk that has an option for splitting SMS messages at 160 characters?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] herbthehammer:
I tried the app I posted in fresh 3.1.0.2 last night and it worked. This morning I flashed a stock rooted froyo rom e2 deodexed and the same app is fc'ing

Misspelled courtesy of swype.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] dadoc04:
None are working for me on the latest Fresh rom...

Force close when i attempt to send text or mms.... thx for trying tho

Sent from my HTC Evo
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] chocmatic:
No prob....I was just trying to share something I found over at the n1 forum that was suppose to work on the EVO. Looks like it works for some and not others.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] defjeff:
So I got this installed and its running great. My only issue is that I can no longer send any MMS. I've wiped and reflashed the ROM. I am currently running XxXViRuSXxX espresso and I am loving it. Anyone have any suggestions on what could be causing this??
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] zachmcd:
Does anyone know if this is possible on the vibrant?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TheDave1022:
I havent downloaded this. But in Cyan's rom, there it is in options to toggle it from black to white.