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[General Questions and Answers] mal93:
WIche Program is using Spb to record the mobile screen like here?

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] mal93:
no one knows?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] pharmartacist:
ive been long time not to use my blue angel. by the way i want to use it again, but my battery running out if i want upgrade, a half time upgrade its stuck, do a litte testing to my battery it is ok or not,..please anyone advice thks
[Desire Themes and Apps] LBTaylor1984:
Hey all,

i briefly used the multitouch keyboard from the droid x in opendesire. Now i'm not bothered by the multitouch, but the colour scheme i adore.

so the question is, is there a theme for the htc and android keyboard, to look the same/similar? as i said not bothered about multitouch, I know people are trying to port to desire 2.2 but i more concerned about these colours on the stock keyboards. As i'm more concerned about being able to apply the skin to any Roms i choose as they will all use the stock keyboards :) Thanks

TIA

Luke.
[Desire Themes and Apps] aunder90:
yea there way a thread that you can upload your keyboard to and customize it online. im really sorry but i cant reamember the site its deff in here somewere tho. i hope this helps?
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] XiaoSiuMai:
Hi guys. I was just browsing through the screenshot thread and I saw everyone have different lockscreen wallpapers. I tried to look at it through search but I didn't see any for mt3gs. Can anyone help me out? I'm rooted and running #TeamFenix 1.8
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Ace42:
press menu on homescreen and there will be an option for pics, or you can goto gallery and change the wallpaper after selecting an image.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] XiaoSiuMai:
that changes all the wallpapers at once. I was wondering if you can change the wallpaper on only the lockscreen and the default one will be on home
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] TrueBlue_Drew:
Unfortunatly you are running a CM based rom so there is no way to change your lockscreen wallpaper. Because there really isnt one. It dims your homescreen when locked and thats it. If you want a lockscreen wallpaper you will need to switch to a rom that allows it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] XiaoSiuMai:
okay guys. thanks for your help
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] Ace42:
Oops thought team fenix was a rom based on stock.

Yeah all Vanilla roms use one picture for both home and ls.
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] zerolgk5:
withdrawn.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoungSinema:
Before the flaming begins, I searched everywhere and couldn't find the exact answer I was looking for. So, I want to do a nandroid restore, but I would like to know if I would have all the apps that I had before wiping my phone back. I could've sworn that I restored my phone in the past and didn't have any of my apps. If that is what is going to happen when I do a nandroid restore, how can I get my apps back, or do I need to reinstall them? Thank you for your help.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoungSinema:
NVM, I figured it out. It worked perfectly. I guess it doesn't work on a different ROM or something because after I flashed the ROM that I backed up, it worked. Mods, this can be locked/deleted or whatever.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] endebe:
Hello,

i have a big problem. I got a new HTC Magic from Vodafone Austria. This one is a

PVT 32A Device

HBOOT-1.76.0009 (SAPP1000)

CPLD-12

RADIO-6.35.08.29

I tried to install a Perfect SPL but i made a big mistake.

1.) I installed androod and rooted my phone

2.) I installed ROM Manger

3.) After i launched this app it asked me which recovery should be installed. I selected Magic

After this i tried to flash a Engineer hboot but now the phone only reboots after the HTC MAGIC Logo is displayed on the screen. This reboot is in a loop and no fastboot or recovery is working. Only when i press on the joybutton the device goes black and a blue led is lighting. I also have no CID and no Gold Card for my phone. I read so many posts about bricked phones but i found no solution. Someone said it should work with an SAPPIMG.NBH on a FAT32 formated SD Card. Other one said, i should use a Gold Card and but a SAPPIMG.ZIP on it. So i tried to make a Gold Card with my HTC Desire but this also doesn't work.

So has someone a solution for this problem? I can't send it back to HTC because i have no invoice.

Sorry for my bad english.

Thanks for your help

regards
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mumilover:
Take out the battery...

Put it back in, hold the back button + power...

Do you see the fastboot?

if not... your out of luck
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] endebe:
Hi,

no fastboot

regards

endebe
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mrlynch:
Over the last few days i've had what appears to be a keyboard input bug occur twice.

The first time it happened was in messaging and the second time in the browser.

What happens is I end up with a couple of characters in the text that cant be edited or deleted. They can't be selected and if I try and delete them it just deletes the characters behind. The only way to get around it is to exit input field and start again.

Has anyone had anything similar? By the way i'm using Swype if that makes a difference?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crypt0kiddie:
I suppose its not a huge deal, but on 2.1, all my backed up .apk files look like icons when I use Astro or ES File Manager or any install/uninstaller apps.

In 2.2 they just look like default android apk icons.

I normally can tell what is what by icon but when they all look the same, it's a pain in the ass.

Does anyone know WHY 2.2 has this issue? Why can't it see the programmers icon properly or is the issue IN the programs (file managers) I'm using. So far they all have this issue it seems though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjl09:
bump

yea i use my appcontrol and my linda file manager and efile....and it shows the android default icon for all of them...i think its 2.2 or i think the file managers havent updated there apps maybe
[Captivate General] Raleran:
I'm attempting to try to increase my battery life so it lasts longer than 12 hours (~13 seems to be my limit). (I'll admit I'm a bit jealous of those who can run the phone 24+ hours) Though it's somewhat painful, I'm shutting down most the programs I have running in the background. However there seems to be a number that like to restart even after I think I've disabled their startup, widgets, notifications, etc.

Is there a way to make sure programs that you install don't run? Or at least don't launch during start up? Perhaps something like msconfig in windows?

Thanks.
[Captivate General] asrrin29:
Killing background tasks will only decrease your battery life. When an application goes to the background, it sits in memory but does NOT consume any CPU power. since the memory is in solid state, it requires no power to stay in that state. By constantly killing background applications, it will need to start up, reinitialize, and consume more power then if you had just left it alone. Also, long term performance will be negatively affected, even if you do expereince a small short term performance gain. the Android OS is designed at the core level to have applications behave this way, and modifying that behavior will make for a worse experience.
[Captivate General] Raleran:
Eh, this is the first I've heard this. I don't remember reading this in the various battery optimization guides.

Still is there a was to stop things short of uninstalling? For example, I want to stop using the Yahoo Mail app but don't want to install yet. I went through all the options I could to disable checking/notifications, etc but it still pops back into memory constantly.
[Captivate General] Streaker:
I assume youve tried the obvious, turn off WiFi (3G) and screen when not actively using it?! Those are the big batt.-eaters
[Captivate General] Bjd223:
Documentation? As far as I have read an application does not go into any type of dehydrated state when running in the background / minimized. It can do anything it wants including using CPU cycles.

I do agree that most applications do not need to be killed with a task killer but leaving 3D games (for example) running in the background could hurt your battery. Also not all applications are progammed with ther same fore thought and skill level.

I get about 33% more runtime out of my battery using a task killer to kill specific applications that I know I do not want running in the background.
[Captivate General] Raleran:
I leave wifi on since I'm usually in range. It's more efficient than 3g right? I alway sleep the device when I'm done. I still have huge percentages on the screen when looking at the battery usage. I'm trying a completely black screen now.
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Mainly your widgets and icons and stuff still cover large portions of it, so: a black screen will help, not but alot.

Also, to keep items in RAM, to the second poster... What do you think is keeping those items in RAM?

Ummm... It's the CPU.

Task Killers won't help you on RAM usage at all (Because Android will automatically shuffle them out if it has to, or so I've read... I've yet to hit max memory). Task Killers DO help you as far as battery use goes, though... Keeping the browser killed if you aren't using it, etc.
[Captivate General] asrrin29:
I should clarify. I guess the term I meant to use is "suspended." If a program is actively "running" in the background, it will use CPU cycles. But if you simply stopped using a program, say for example the xda app, and returned to your homescreen, the application stays "suspended" in the background and consumes no CPU cycles until you go back to it. Now services that are updating, such as email or SMS, will use CPU cycles in the background because they are still actively running. But if you want to conserve battery life you can simply disable the notifications from most of these programs.
[Captivate General] TexUs:
The app itself at that point may not be but the Android OS still does to maintain that suspended state.
[Captivate General] mesasone:
I have some applications I rarely use or even some that I've never used but may want to in the future. I see absolutely no benefit in keeping these applications in the background. Further more, I've noticed a signficant drain on the battery when extra applications are running in the background. I'm sure it's not all of them, but I've yet to discover who exactly the culpit is. Right now I suspect it's the NPR app, perhaps due to data use?

The point is, there are perfectly good reasons to keep some apps in the background, and perfectly good reasons to kill others - or perferrably not have them start up at all unless I do it myself. Could be due to data usage (especially if you do not have unlimited data), could be due to concerns about excessive cpu usage. There really should be a clear method in which you can stop applications from opening on their own.
[Captivate General] Shuggins:
You can use the program "Autostarts" to keep applications from starting at startup. With it you can also prevent things from launching under a number of other situations. That might be what you are looking for. Just do a google search for the APK as I don't think it is in the market.
[Captivate General] jsmith8858:
To me, it's not a matter of "task killer or not", but rather when and where to use one. And I think it's simple: Don't bother, unless you suspect a specific app is doing something you don't want it to do in the background. Then, just kill that specific app and leave everything else alone. A Task manager that shows CPU% for each process can be handy for this as well.

I generally try to avoid killing tasks, but one night I had 50% battery on my phone and after about 2 hours or so I took it out of my pocket to make a phone call, and it was very hot and had about 12% of batter left -- something was running wild that shouldn't have been (I think it was Pandora, even though it was not currently playing any music!) So, background apps do occasionally run out of control, and you do need to occasionally kill them, but do it on an "as needed" basis.
[Captivate General] mwxiao:
Unless the background process is syncing data, it won't eat your battery. So instead of wasting your time, you should focus on other energy hogs. Things like screen brightness, bluetooth, wifi, and gps.
[Captivate General] durrence:
I installed Advanced Task Killer from the Market. It lets you kill all running applications including itself.

durrence
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Or an auto-killer would've killed it before it killed your battery by 38% lol
[Captivate General] designgears:
Task Killings are bad, mmmkay...
[Captivate General] ConceptVBS:
Slightly off topic:

To help conserve battery power,

Use an all black desktop background since the black areas dont use battery power.
[Captivate General] Raleran:
Hmm, people in this thread have said a few things that I haven't heard or seen much before. Specifically that killing apps could decrease battery life. When I first downloaded advanced task killer I tended to kill most things. I slowly backed off and now I've been watching what launches and what tends to come back and not kill those (mail apps, widgets, performance watchers, etc). The second is that not having a black background doesn't necessarily improve battery life. Makes sense considering I have icons everywhere on my screen.

@Shuggins - Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for. I've downloaded it but now I have to, er charge my battery a bit before I can take a close look at it.

@jsmith8858 - Are you running setCPU? A couple days ago I noticed my battery running pretty hot. I stopped using setCPU and the battery cooled down a lot. I've used setCPU since them without the heat issue so I'm not sure what was going on.

Well during todays iteration I ran for about 12 hours (typical). I had a couple short phone calls, 2 email accounts syncing as well as other bg syncing processes. I did eat up 30% in an hour messing with a game. I'd probably have 13-14 hours if I didn't play anything (but if I didn't what's the point of the phone :). Still, as much as I love it the screen is killing me. Guess there's nothing to do about it though (usually brightness is all the way down, turn it off when I'm not using it, using a darker background). I didn't kill any of my background processes today. I'm going to set up that Autostarts program and start auto-killing various programs tomorrow.
[Captivate General] swee08315:
You can try using autokiller and art it to extreme, but I don't recommend this
[Captivate General] Raleran:
Naw, I'm not being very aggressive. I'm basically leaving every program that starts itself alone and only killing items like the browser and others that I start myself. So far I've been running for 2 hours and used 12% power. Use has been a little web browsing, mail checking, and flipping around though various option screens.

Now I guess is the screen. The only thing I can think is if there's a way to get it dimmer. Especially at night... the brightness seems to vary between bright and searing. With my previous phones I could make them pretty dim. However 0-100% on the phones brightness scale seems to feel like 60-100% in real-use terms.
[Captivate General] swee08315:
Yard you can't make it any dimmer

But I think that when you push back to exit an App, rather than home, it closses it out of the memory
[Captivate General] Bjd223:
The newest leaked captivate rom from samsung firmwares supposedly has a lower brightness setting which some have said has made a decent difference on battery life. Also the auto brightness setting is supposed to be better. Hopefully they carry this over to the next official rom.

Anyway I thought that applications that were closed stayed in memory until a reboot or the system started running low on availiable ram.

Google recommends that applications do not have a close (really close) button and users simply back out of them.
[Captivate General] Lucke:
just download watchdog. it alerts you to any programs/services that might have gone haywire.

after uninstalling both ATK and autokiller, my battery life has stabilized quite a bit.
[Captivate General] Archpope:
You didn't say how long you've had your phone, but you can't base battery life over the life of the device on anything you do the first week, because you likely never out it down. The best advice I've found on here is to make sure you condition your battery. Drain it down as far as it will go, then fully charge it before you use it again. My first day, I got barely 10 hours of battery life, but by the end of the week, it could easily go 36 hours, and that was with fairly heavy usage.
[Captivate General] PMad:
Me and my wife both have the Captivate, she got it first and was immediately having battery life issues. She would unplug her phone at 6am in the morning and head to work, and by noon her battery would be almost dead.

So I installed advanced task killer for her, occasional use of this app would allow her battery to last until around 5-6pm before wanting to die.

So then I got my phone and tried out another app called Task Manager by Rhythm Software. After the annoying setup of this app on my phone and my wife's, her's will now last from 6am to Midnight, and still have about 25-30% battery life left, and same with mine which is usually unplugged at 6:30am.

With this app, our battery issues have vanished. The bad part is that you have to go into the settings for this app, and choose which apps to auto kill (but they have to be currently running). So i went through and ran each app and closed them all, than went through and did a tap-hold on each app that i wanted to never leave open, such as settings and my browser, but other things like my txt/mms programs, pandora, Trillian (or other instant messaging apps), i would add to the ignore list, and now, everytime my screen shuts off, the app kills all the open programs i have set to auto kill, and it works beautifully! It even has a widget you can put on your desktop that shows you how much memory you currently have available, and if you tap it, it will kill any app that isnt on your ignore list.

I would say this is a must-have app for anybody who is having battery problems! Its so beautiful! *sniff*
[Captivate General] glio1337:
I have Watchdog installed to check for programs using 75% or more of the CPU and alert me. So far no games I've played have tripped that alarm so I think it's a fair number to put it at.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mathmo:
Just got an SE Xperia X1 :D

All excited to try it out, however it has just got freshly put on an WM6.5 (an english one, as the previous owner was using a WM6.5 Chinese one on it). This one seems to be operating a little oddly, and slowly. I'm almost certain it is an HTC ROM as it has a "HTC Calendar".

So I'm thinking I should replace it, what is the best option? It looks like the Android options are a little shaky, which won't do as I'll be using this phone every day (intensively, sending hundreds if not thousands of txts per month, and various calls, apps, etc...).

So... is there an excellent WM6.5 option? With SE panels?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkoljo:
Go for UnOff Infinite or X1.5, then read a lot about different roms and make a decision yourself. The best rom is a rom that fits your needs best.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mathmo:
Which ROM would make it the most similar to the Xperia X2?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma1nz:
Greetings to fellow NZer!!!! I tried a few ROMs and decided to stick with 6.1-based for speed and stability. I also wanted TF3D. I suggest you look at descriptions, pictures and read comments. If the thread consists of thousands of posts - read the last 5 pages or so, they will be most likely to be for the updated version in the first post.

Last time I went to Auckland, I noticed the abysmal Voda coverage, even in the middle of the city, hopefully whatever radio you have on will work well.

I also tried a bunch of others without problems, have to find the exact names, which escapes me now... Try a few each day, flashing is done in minutes, so play around, see how it looks and whether it performs to your expectations. Read ahead on the bugs, of course.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma1nz:
Go into the ROM section and check what's there!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mathmo:
Cool you're in NZ too, I haven't noticed any trouble before now.. but I've been using a Sony Ericsson Aino on XT, the Xperia X1 however will be VF.

From what I've seen I'll lose all my data each time I switch ROMs, am I right? (txts, emails, photos, contacts)

Would be handy if there was a stickied thread with the say the "top five" ROMs as voted by the community, would make it much easier to decide on things for a newbie as the ROM forum can be intimidatingly large to get started with :P

Just out of curiosity, may I ask what WM6.1 are you using?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonus:
Jerpleas ROM. The Unoff ROMS don't work so well with panels.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma1nz:
NUTS 10.9 - never a glitch. And yes, you will lose everything you have, similar to reinstalling Windows after a fresh format.

The best thing if you want to try many ROMs is to install just your 'can't live without' things and settings in order to check they all work. I have all my .CABs on a card, so it's a more or less set procedure. Speaking of VFNZ, some ROMs will run automatic setup and quite a few of them have wrong settings, so I recommend keeping the .CAB and skip the automated process. The only ROM i had seen with correct settings so far was the latest NRGY Cookie GTX.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mathmo:
thanks for that! Unfortunately my battery died and I discovered the charger is not compatible with NZ powerpoints! So my experimenting shall have to wait until next week.... but I've filled up a bookmark folder with a dozen links to ROMs I've got my eyes on.

Still don't know which one I'll try first! I'll simply have to play spin the bottle.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma1nz:
Do what I did - see the largest number of replies to the thread with the last pages containing a lot of thanks :) And screenshots, of course.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dna_voluntatis:
I've used 826x and also valkyrie v7, really nice ROM, smooth and also stable
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexshee:
hi

i also using Val V7.0. no complain. but need to view chinese wording and type chinese. any one can help?:)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ncw2k69:
rom?

what is the fastst rom wm6.1 / 6.5 that support sense 2.1? like jack 3.x for the speed and energy rom for sense design... but without cookietab, simple and clean sense 2.1
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strboy:
Make sure you check out EnergyRoms also, I'm tried all his roms, some still have the SoD bug but The "Energy Photon" and no problems at all...but flash flash flash....its the only way to be sure
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Russell.Eclair:
Just my opinion,

Jerpelea's is the best for non HTC Stuffs, look like X2 stuffs inside.

Energy ROM or x826 Williyung for best HTC Stuff inside.