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[Vibrant General] MrGibbage:
That's what I was afraid of. I am pretty heavily invested into Locale. Been using it since day one for the G1, and I have a lot of paid plugins. I really hate to change now. But I guess the writing is on the wall...
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I'm using the black glass metamorph for swype, and it seems a lot more accurate. I added it to the sticky if you want to try it. Really encourage it, seems like the alignment is better.
[Vibrant General] db3:
my first experience with an onscreen keyboard was with the vibrant. i didn't understand swype at first, but typing with my thumbs was so slow and inaccurate, i gave swype another chance. i found i was pressing too hard. all of a sudden, i can write full sentences in seconds with no mistakes. i wish i could swype on my desktop.
[Vibrant General] Dougefresh91:
When I enable word prediction in swype it doesn't seen to do anything differently. Anyone know what the point of this option is?
[Vibrant General] RaindropBebop:
Speaking of virtual dpad, how do you even get to it using Swype? I've been trying to figure this out for days...
[Vibrant General] bromat80:
right here
[Vibrant General] LTonthetrack_G1:
I use SMART KEYBOARD PRO!.....its a damn good keyboard....:D
[Vibrant General] os2baba:
Tried SwiftKey. Still have it on the phone, but Swype is much much faster for me. Having to type and look at the suggestions and pick the correct suggestion takes much more time for me. Also, it hasn't been completely accurate. The other problem is that with Swype I have got used to not entering any spaces between words since Swype does that automatically. That messes up the words in SwiftKey. But it did take me a couple of days to get used to Swype so I guess it could be a matter of learning the new keyboard idioms.

In any event, it's just fantastic that there are so many keyboards that appeal to different people at different levels. Choice. Perfect example of why so many of us use Android.
[Vibrant General] murse:
Great feedback from everyone. I'm going to give Swype another try, but I have gotten pretty fast on the stock keyboard. It's actually quite good. But, like mentioned above, what makes Android great are all the choices.
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
For those who think stock keyboard is faster than Swype, you havent given Swype a fair chance. I can txt faster with one hand using Swype than 2 hands using the stock keyboard.

Swype is awesome.
[Vibrant General] Col.Kernel:
It's not going to be accurate with prediction at first. It has to learn your style.

As for a space after the words, if you tap the word it adds it for you.

I should probably give Swype another try.
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
You dont have to tap the word for a space.

ex. Hello Cindy

You just trace Hello then lift your finger up, then trace Cindy. It will add the space for you. There is a video on youtube of a guy comparing Swype and some other keyboard, he kept pressing the space key after each Swyped word. This caused a considerable slowdown on Swypes performance in his test. Incompetent people should not produce video reviews. Learn how a program works before reviewing it.
[Vibrant General] FlipnKraut:
Most of the locale plug ins work for tasker
[Vibrant General] dex1701:
It takes some getting used to, but I love Swype. I've tried several other keyboards, and some are very nice. Swype was a clear winner for me when I discovered I had gotten good enough with it to text one-handed with my thumb on the hand I'm holding my phone in. It's hard to top that.
[Vibrant General] Propheous:
Maybe that wad my problem with swype in that I kept hitting space I will have to give it another try.
[Vibrant General] ryan562:
X2
[Vibrant General] RonLirit:
Hello. I discovered this sliding style keyboard a couple of months ago and have been using it ever since. It is called SlideIT. Since I bought it I haven't used anything else. It works great and is much more accurate then the ones I tried before. Sending emails is much faster now, and I can tweet with one hand in about 5 seconds! I recommended it to all my family, and even my father manages to use it on the new tablet we got him for his birthday, and he used to have trouble using a mouse!
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
Wow, if this isnt a sales pitch then I dont know what is....
[Vibrant General] hazard99:
Certainly does come across like one seeing as how his join date is feb 2011 and he has exactly 1 post.

Things that make you go hmmmmm.
[Vibrant General] Settai:
Swype is the best, I text faster using it then I did on my G1. I tried Swiftkey and it was pretty good, but I text using one hand mostly and when it comes to one hand texting Swype is unmatched
[Vibrant General] nomadrider123:
I give him credit to find a 6 month old post lol
[Vibrant General] soltheman:
I use the swype keyboard but I don't tend to use the swype functionality. I'm just not a fan of it, but it looks aesthetically more pleasing than the android/gingerbread keyboards available with my ROM.

Plus I like to drink, and swype isn't exactly the most cohesive option when you're seeing double.

lol @ the grave dig
[Vibrant General] doug7:
Swype is the best by far. Once you get accustomed to it typing will be second nature. It is way faster than any soft or hard keyboard.

Swype has set the last two world records for speed texting.

Slide-it is also good for phones without swype.
[Vibrant General] swehes:
Swype is great but I am now using the gingerbread keyboard as it supports Swedish as well as english. I haven't got Swype to work with Swedish yet.
[Vibrant General] bstromberg:
i loved swype on my G1 because i could type with one hand very quickly. then on the vibrant i was initially using only swype, but after a while i started to hate it. it got really frustrating trying to type really simple words like 'pretty' (came out as poetry or peru 9 times out of 10) or 'really' (ended up with rashly most of the time) or 'good' (either god or goods 9 times out of 10). the screen on the vibrant is much wider than the G1 which made portrait thumb typing much easier. i left swype behind months ago. the best tip i can give about the swype keyboard is to get rid of it and use either better keyboard or just the GB keyboard. way better, faster and more accurate IMO.
[Vibrant General] wearmaize:
I can't seem to choose Swype or Swiftkey and always end up switching back and forth every couple of weeks XD

My biggest complaint with Swiftkey is the location of the settings/voice input button. I hit it accidentally way too often, but when I disable it I miss having the voice recognition.
[Vibrant General] zer0nine:
I use Smart Keyboard Pro most of the time. If I'm lazy I'll use Swype. :p
[Vibrant General] fatihaky:
I want to use swype in Turkish but our Vibrants doesn't have that option whereas the i9000 one supports it.

How can i switch to the i9000 swype version? Do I have uninstall mine then find swype.apk for that? Or is there an elegant way to add language pack?

Maybe our developers may utilize i9000 swype for their ROMs.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dialbat:
So, i have bugged folks on this forum about getting 3G to work on other carriers, and it turns out - it does work! At first i found out my settings were set to GSM only, but now i also found this weird inconsistency possibly a bug.

If i have Data Off after using 3G or GPRS for some time, when i turn it back on, phone would not connect to data service. After enabling it will simply time out.

I found that if i switch from GSM to WCDMA, and than back, 3G network would connect and work.

I don't know if it's specifically my phone, or a bug, so i'm just throwing it out there.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
What carrier are you getting 3G to work? I doubt its working if its anything that doesn't run on tmobiles bands..the icon will come up and stuff but your either getting edge speeds or not getting any connection. I've had this phone show me 3G with full bars and just time out.. I can eveven put in a sim with a sidekick plan or other data plan and it shows 3G but it does not work
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dialbat:
Well, i'm overseas and i have used it on Russian carrier Beeline and carriers in two other countries. Now, i do set my connection to WCDMA only, which gives me 3G icon. When i set it to GSM only, i see GPRS icon show up.

So, it does work, i use fring, online radio, google maps. But as far as speed concerned, i have not tested it.

Just ran a speed test using Speedtest.net tool, I get 3951kbps download, and 655 upload :)

thats 3G :)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abadasstanker69:
So is it possible?? If so, where can I get the .apk?? I love the Froyo roms...the speed is amazing but, I miss friendstream and just the sense look in general. Would it slow the rom down any? Has anyone tried it?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadgetcraze:
same query here
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlaqkAudio:
You're probably going to have to wait until HTC updates the Legend to 2.2 and someone ports it over to the Hero. I know nfinite is interested in porting it over once a ROM is released/leaked
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neonjam:
Yeah, it's not very simple to do and Sense itself is closed source so we will almost surely have to wait until another MDPI device gets FroYo Sense.

Please also note that there is a Q&A forum for the Hero, this forum section is for actual development for the Hero.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatguythatdid:
I know it aint sense but damn look at it. This is the latest version of froyo
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn1482:
Sense 2.2 on youtube well have it soon
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bray424:
Just because there is Sense running on 2.2 doesn't mean it's going to be running on Hero any time soon. Sprint has said they have no plans of releasing a 2.2 update, so to get 2.2 on a Hero you're gonna need either a Cyanogen or AOSP rom. Then you've got to pull a 2.2 compatible Sense build from a phone that has the same graphic resolution as the Hero (I believe this is why everyone keeps mentioning the Legend). And THEN you've got to make the two play nice together. I'm not saying it's not going to happen, and I'm not even saying it wont be soon, I'm just saying the fact that other more modern phones are getting 2.2 Sense has very little to do with it coming to the Hero.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattshaver:
What I never understood is why someone just does not load the images into photoshop. Splice them together and resize the canvas to the images get smaller but proportional to themselves. Then, when you done, repackage them and bam.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlaqkAudio:
Because it's not just the images are the wrong size, the framework is compiled for a different processor.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abadasstanker69:
I can Photoshop anything. I'm a designer. But Photoshop doesn't give you functionality meaning just because I change dimensions or image size or even the actual data size of each image on something like friendstream, without HTC framework it will not function. I understand sense is not open source but if that was such a problem we wouldn't have things like the buffed rom. Its gotta be do-able. I'd be willing to help with the images. Sadly until next quarter that's all I'm good for
[EVO 4G General] mmoss2:
Google Voice only seems to work for Google contacts, and mine are were in Exchange. So I opened the HTC email program, chose import/export, exported all my exchange contacts to my SD card, went to import/export again, and this time imported all of the exchange contacts from my SD card to my gmail account. It seems to have taken a minute or two for the contacts to sync, but now it works 10 times better ... Only gets it wrong maybe 1 in 10 times. When I say "send text to John Smith", the text message is now addressed to John Smith rather than having "John Smith" appear in the body of my text message. Also works for email and for voice dialing. See if this helps (I can tell you it works for me!).

EDIT: I apologize ... I did this quickly, and my original instructions were wrong. I did the import/export through PEOPLE and NOT through EMAIL. From your list of applications, open "People", click "Menu", and click "Import/Export" and follow the instructions.
[EVO 4G General] frankiedog:
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

This has been bugging me since I installed it.
[EVO 4G General] d j a:
Where are you getting the import / export settings? I'm using a 2.2 sense ROM with Exchange setup and I can't find that anywhere. Not sure it would work so well anyway, putting my contacts into GMail would give me about 400 duplicates! Kinda frustrating, wish there was a way this could work better.

Side note, why can't you navigate to a contact via voice search? Or can you? (Assuming you have address info listed for the person..)
[EVO 4G General] mmoss2:
I appologize ... see my revised original post ... I did this through "People" and not through "E-Mail" .....
[EVO 4G General] stevieraveon:
When I import it adds the people to my Phone contacts not Gmail

Edit: duh I should have chosen Gmail contacts when importing
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
Hello folks :)

I need a OpenVPN connection to my Server and as like (nearly) evertime nobody has a solution or the same problems.

Or I get answers like "It works for me" or "I don't know" or other less helpful hints.

So I want discribe you how I solved this Problem :)

I use the [BUILD][21.08.2010][Xcelsior's Android FroYo V1.00a][Kernel: htc-msm-2.6.32 #82] ROM with the [Kernel][Latest GIT][Overclocking][Undervolting][Extbatts] michyprima@ubuntu #56 (r6) Kernel.

1. Copy your OpenVPN config (incl. certificates) to a folder called "openvpn" into the root of your SD Card.

- Please change the extension of your config file to "conf"

2. Make a link from "/bin" to "/system/xbin/bb"

- With adb:

adb shell ln -s /bin /system/xbin/bb

- Or from Terminal:

ln -s /bin /system/xbin/bb

3. Install "OpenVPN Installer" from market.

- Run it

- OpenVPN directory "/system/bin"

- ifconfig/route directory "/system/xbin/bb"

4. Install "OpenVPN Settings" from market.

5. Open OpenVPN Settings:

- Then you should see your config.

- Tap and hold your config and then select "Preferences"

- Check "Use VPN DNS Server" (optional)

- Enter a VPN DNS Server (optional)

- "Script Security Level" -> "Build-in + scripts"

- Go back to the main OpenVPN Settings screen

6. Open the menu (press the windows button on your phone)

- Select "Advanced"

- Check "Load tun kernel module"

- Tap on "TUN module settings"

- "Load module using" -> insmod

- "Path to tun module" -> /system/lib/modules/tun.ko

- leave the rest as default :)

- If you can't see your config, change the "Path to configurations" to /mnt/sdcard/openvpn

7. Open "OpenVPN Settings" and enable OpenVPN (if it is not yet enabled) and then tap on your config (sometimes twice :p)

8. Enjoy :)

My Configs:

Server Config (Windows, bridged):

dev tap
dev-node Chris
proto tcp-server
port 443
server-bridge 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.99
tls-server
dh dh384.pem
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
status Chris.log
ping 15
ping-restart 60
push "ping 15"
push "ping-restart 60"
push "redirect-gateway def1"
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"
comp-lzo
verb 3
script-security 2

Client Config (Android 2.2):

remote little.britain.usa 443 #address changed :D
client
proto tcp
tls-client
ca ca.crt
cert Chris.crt
key Chris.key
http-proxy star.trek.ds9 80 #address changed :D
http-proxy-retry
http-proxy-option AGENT HTC_Touch_HD_T8282 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)
dev tap
dev-node /dev/tun
resolv-retry infinite
persist-key
persist-tun
script-security 2
verb 3
log status.log
comp-lzo

The http-proxy* commands only for those who have to tunnel through a proxy. :)

And now... Try it and let me know if it works for you, too :)

I've noticed, that OpenVPN needs a lot of energy.

Maybe the ecryption is the reason. No... That was not the reason...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aldoyh:
Hello, thnx for the useful information.

I'm trying this on SE X10 with Donut, apparently it doesn't have /system/xbin/bb

How do I proceed then?

Where shall I set the link to?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
The folder "/system/xbin/bb" does not exist. Only "/system/xbin".

I you run the command "ln -s /bin /system/xbin/bb" it will be created.

Like a shortcut to a folder in windows :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 183.amir:
Hi

I have recently bought a VPN service to change my IP to USA. :p

I connect to it using openvpn-2.1.3 client in my laptop (windows 7).

But I don't know how to connect my htc desire using openvpn!

They only provide me an application which downloads the settings and starts the openvpn itself. I know nothing about its configuration. I only provide a user-name and password and Vola! :D

here is the link to that application:

www(dot)speedex(dot)info(dot)tm/SPEEDEXVPN.exe

I would appreciate it if you can help me making the config file for desire.

and here is the config in openvpn client in my laptop:

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote-random
remote 216.155.148.9 1194
remote 216.155.148.9 5000
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
ns-cert-type server
tls-auth ta.key 1
comp-lzo
auth-user-pass
verb 3

I'm looking forward to hear from you guys :o

and I'm currently using modaco custom ROMs r9 with openvpn option
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
Hi :)

Did you try to follow my tutorial?

Your config seems to be ok...

maybe you can add "script-security 2" to your config... It is necessary in the new openvpn versions :)

But don't forget to copy the certificates to the openvpn folder on your SD card, too :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 183.amir:
the reason that I want to use openvpn is to access Android market and facebook in my phone. So, I couldn't install "OpenVPN Installer" (but I think modaco r9 already has it and it says "includes the OpenVPN binary, settings application and tunnel module.") and I can't tap and hold my config in openvpn setting program.

And one more thing, I don't know if there is any certificate?! I couldn't find any certificate in here:

C:\Program Files\OpenVPN

and I don't know how this speedex program configures my openvpn!

AND, I don't know where I should provide the user-name and password?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
I couldn't use the market without OpenVPN, too.

But I connect via WLAN to download the necessary applications and then all works fine :)

The certificates are in "config" in the OpenVPN Folder and there should be your config file, too.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stassano:
I tried the "ln -s /bin /system/xbin/bb" command using Terminal directly on my Froyo Galaxy S i9000 and got an error: Link failed, permission denied...

What can I do to make it work?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
Hi,

Maybe you should type "su" (for admin rights) before starting to link the "bin" folder.

I'll hope this will solve your problem. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stassano:
I just noticed there is no root on my phone... I will try to figure out how to do that soon as I just bought it 2 days ago in HK but already had JP2 firmware on it.

Thanks for your fast reply!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chrisgto4:
What does any of this have to do with android development. And how is your phone not rooted?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
Do you mean my tutorial?

Maybe he means, that he/she has no su access :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stassano:
I rooted my phone after installing JPA and got the tun.ko from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=793712&highlight=tun.ko but now I get following error:

Linux ifconfig failed: could not excecute external program

I have not found a solution to it yet... anyone?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
First you should install only the right modules for your Kernel.

Mostly you can download the modules together with the kernel.

Your error message could be a sign of missing busybox.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mschoenknecht:
Hello Guys,

I tried to start the conf with su but at Get Config -> I become an Error Message

FATAL: Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically

Anyone knows this Error?

greetz
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stassano:
busybox is installed properly, I checked it through titanium backup: root access => OK (BusyBox 1.17.1 from system)

so it should be the wrong modules I downloaded... just for my info... what modules do I need exactly? is tun.ko enough or should I add more?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
Yeah tun.ko should be eaugh...

But you should install "OpenVPN Installer" from market and set the right directory to Busybox. you can set a shortcut from your busybox installation (in my case "/bin") to /system/xbin/bb (that should be available in the "OpenVPN Installer" Setup process).

You should also check if you have already a folder "bb" in "xbin" and delete it if it contains a file called "placeholder". Then all should be fine if your config is correct :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
Check you busybox installation :)

Take a look in my last post :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mschoenknecht:
Which one is the right install dir of busybox? i can choose /bin/ and /system/xbin/

My phone is rooted BusyBox v. 1.17.1 but my VPN could not execute external program!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mschoenknecht:
It's working...

What I've done: ?!

1. Copy my Config and Certifikates on my SDCARD

2. ln -s /bin/route /system/xbin/route

3. ln -s /bin/ifconfig /system/xbin/ifconfig

4. OpenVPN Installer -> /system/xbin

5. OpenVPN Settings -> insmod -> /system/lib/modules/tun.ko

6. The Connection is successfully establish but there is still an error when i type route (Terminal) the route which normally its pushed isn't there!

any idea??? thx a lot for ur help

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=37445 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route 192.168.12.0 255.255.255.0 vpn_gateway,route 192.168.18.0 255.255.255.0 vpn_gateway,route 10.40.7.1,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 10.40.7.6 10.40.7.5'

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=37811 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:1: route (2.1.1)

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=38146 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:2: route (2.1.1)

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=38391 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:3: route (2.1.1)

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=38726 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:6: ifconfig (2.1.1)

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=38940 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=50292 TUN/TAP device tun1 opened

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=50628 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100

Tue Oct 26 18:24:58 2010 us=51147 Initialization Sequence Completed

greez
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crusoe86:
You should use the following command to link "route" and "ifconfig":

ln -s /bin /system/xbin/bb

This folder is setable in the OpenVPN Installer and does not touch the original "route" and "ifconfig" command if they are in /system/xbin, too. :)

That could maybe solve you route and ifconfig problem :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ladidaaa:
The command

adb shell ln -s /bin /system/xbin/bb

also didn't work on my Legend!

But when i typed

adb shell mount /system

and after that

adb shell ln -s /bin /system/xbin/bb

It worked!

Maybe this helps someone!