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[Vibrant General] :
I have a Zagg on mine currently and the only thing I like about it is it doesn't show fingerprints easily and I can use a shirt, paper towel, whatever to wipe it clean and don't have to worry about it scratching the surface.

With that being said it has terrible orange peel and if the background is all white you can definitely see the imperfections of the protector plastic. No rainbow effect but you can see vertical lines in places. It's annoying on this screen.

I also like the Skinomi protectors but they're just as bad as the Zagg at imperfections/distortions. They do have less orange peel effect so they're a little more smooth but that isn't saying much. Maybe I'll give realook a try.
[Vibrant General] acjames:
I have installed Skinomis installed on my iPad, Zund HD, and my Vibrant. I would put it on the windshield of my car if they made one that fits it.
[Vibrant General] xaisomboun:
BestSkinsEver has served me well in the past with my G1.

Got it again for my Vibrant as soon as they came out with it on their website..

Doesnt distort your screen in anyway and it covers the whole body.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I do NOT think a SP is needed on our phones, but for $10 I thought it was worth seeing why you guys speak so highly of the RealLook.

They come in a package of 2.... anyone want to split the costs with me? PM me if so... Hope this is okay to post?
[Vibrant General] TDS1234:
I've had the phone for about 3 weeks now and I haven't seen a single scratch on it. While I was selling one I even put a pen with a metal end to it to show off the screen. My screen is flawless and I wouldn't buy a screen protector its a waste of money and effort. Some say why not put a 10 dollar on a 500 device. My response is quality, you're putting a crappy peice of plastic over one of the best screens available on the market. Your peice of plastic will get scratched way before the screen and you're going to get a blurry screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goyal.sanchit:
Hello everyone.

I was adding some files to the Galaxy S. Now I want some of them to be hidden so that they do not show in gallery or video player (incase of videos) for everyone and I can make them visible when I want them. Is it possible? If yes can someone please tell how to go about it or is there any app for it?

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] praveen6585:
keep a blank file with the extension .nomedia in the folder that you want to exclude from media scanning..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SGSI:
You could also use "Vaulty Free" app that moves selected images and videos into a virtual vault which then requires a password to open and view. This also ensures that they do not show up in gallery and video player.

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sensi_:
put the files you want to be hidden in a folder, and put a dot '.' before the name, like this:

.folder

this will hide it if you have, 'show hidden files' unchecked in options
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goyal.sanchit:
I tried vaulty free. It looked to be a good app which would do the job but somehow when I locked videos through vaulty free they showed as "Images" in the vault! which wouldnt play. Also it took quite some time for 1 video too be transfered which was about 40 mb. So I guess it would take too much time if the quantity and size is large.

I had known about the nomedia trick but it displayed the files in the "my files" option. Adding a . before the name looks promising.

When done with nomedia file I guess it would solve the purpose. Would have to try this combination.

Thanks for the help folks.

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SGSI:
The default action when you login to Vaulty is to display the stored images. Click Menu --> Videos to see and play the videos. Yes it does take a long time to transfer large videos.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goyal.sanchit:
Did that but it doesnt show anything when "videos" is selected and when images is selected files are show but they dont play!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SGSI:
Strange!! It works for me perfectly. I am assuming that you are able to play those videos outside vaulty using the stock video player.

How did you add the videos to vaulty?

The way I added is while the video was playing in the stock video player --> Menu --> Share Video --> Vaulty Free.

The only issue I have with Vaulty is I can play only one video at a time after which I will have to reenter the password.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goyal.sanchit:
Hmm yeah that is strange indeed. The videos work fine in the stock player but arent recognised in the vaulty free. It may work again if I reinstall the app but I will first try the other method as I would have large no. of files and adding them with Vaulty would take much time and as you just said it wont help if I have to enter the pass again and again after watching each video!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdave196:
Why not just use Skyfire and stream your porn? :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djglenn1337:
Lol! Exactly what I was thinking....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goyal.sanchit:
Haha good one! But we dont have the same kind of broadband speeds that people get in other countries!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sensi_:
my method works and to anyone who picks up your phone, they arent going to have a clue
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goyal.sanchit:
Exactly. Thats looks easy and fast and I would be trying it 1st and hopefully it will do the job! :)
[General Questions and Answers] cbauerscgun:
Hi - This is probably a newbie question, and off the beaten path for XDA because it's more about US wireless carriers... but here goes:

If I sign up for a new standard 2-year contract with TMobile with their 5/10 GB-capped "unlimited" plan, and then at some point down the road (say 6-12 months) they introduce Tiered data plans (as AT&T did), will I be able to keep my unlimited plan until the end of the 2-year contract? Or will they be able to force me, mid-contract, to switch to a tiered plan?

FYI - I'm on the verge of getting my first ever smartphone. I've done all my other research (Already decided on Android over iOS, and as for a handset am planning on the Vibrant), and now this is the last question to answer before I head off to the T-Mobile store.

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Captainkrtek:
Well since im on VZW im not sure of my answer but based on what happened with AT&T when they introduced no unlimited data plans to new customers; so if you have one now on AT&T they let you keep it but new users cannot get unlimited plans. So i presume if on T-mobile that they give you an unlimited plan they will let you keep it even if they switch.

Cheers!
[Vibrant General] AlexSochi8:
My friend showed me a website where he watches a bunch of films for free on his iphone 4.. (iphonemoviez.net)

So I wanted to see if I can stream it too from my vibrant... The funny thing is when I want to stream a mp4 movie the stock video player doesnt open the movie... but on my friends iphone it launches quicktime and plays it.

Here is my question I know that vibrant is obviously able to play mp4 format so what 3rd party app I can use to stream those movies????

Thanks!
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Try Rock Player though...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleeperRam:
I've already installed unrevoked3 and now I'm trying to load Forever. I'm not sure how to actually perform the bold steps below. I'm sure I'm making this more difficult than it actually is, but I just can't find instructions on how to do this. :o How do I load this on the "root of my SD card"??
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stu_Gotti:
The root just means along side all of the other folders, apps and such on your SD card... not inside of anything, like folders, etc...

That help any? :]
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stu_Gotti:
May help... post it to where you see the red circle and along side files that resemble the few shown in the image.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleeperRam:
Thanks for the help. I'm not seeing the Droid device in "My Computer" like what you're showing above---that's where I'm stumped I guess. The computer is recognizing something is connected (audible tone) but nothing shows up.

The phone is set to "charge only" ---should I change to "Disk Drive"? There's also another icon showing "USB debugging connected".
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachString:
Yea you need to set it to "Disk Drive" and depending on your computer operation system you may get an automatic prompt to open the newly connected drives, if not go to "my computer" and they will be there.

when you set it to "disk drive" it will mount both your sd card and internal phone storage (make sure you put the file on the sd card)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhantomVirus:
Your other option - and I JUSt did this - it to put the Micro SD card into a SD adapter and put it into the PC (assuming PC).

Copy EVERYTHING off of it - FORMAT it on the PC making sure it's formatted as FAT32

Put the files back on that you copied a moment ago and make sure you include unrevoked-forever.zip

Power off the phone

Since you Rooted the phone with unrEVOked you can run custom ZIP files - so let's do that - Power on the phone holding power and VOL down keys.

Choose RECOVERY and press the Power button

It will boot into the ClockWorkMod Recovery v2.5.0.5 (green letters / black screen)​

Press the Volume Down 4 times and press the optical mouse

Choose the second option Choose ZIP from SD card and press the optical mouse again

Using the Volume Up/Down keys highlight the ZIP file you want to apply (unrevoked-forever.zip)

Let it do it's thing

Reboot normally when it's done
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleeperRam:
Thanks guys. I didn't realize two drives would be displayed and I was apparently looking at the wrong one anyway. Now that I loaded the phone with the Zip file (or I thought), I'm still not 100% certain it loaded correctly---in fact it still shows "S-On". Another question about the procedures below.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachString:
No need for it to be plugged in... Just get into recovery and install

Phantoms directions are correct and seem to be a little clearer than what you quoted so if you follow that you will have s-off in no time.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleeperRam:
I tried to format the SD card to FAT32 but get the message "The disk is right protected"? I'm logged in as the administrator so what's possibly going on??
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachString:
Do you have your sd card in a card reader? cuz it might not format the card if your using the phone as "disk drive"

Its a good idea to have your card formatted as fat32... but I don't think it needs to be fat32 to install unrevoked forever... Just need fat32 for a pb31img.zip file.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleeperRam:
Yes, I was using it in a card reader.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mecrosis:
I'm getting an error installing unrevoked. I have my card format to FAT32, which I had to do to install the leaked Froyo OTA. I have unrevoked 3, but when trying to install Forever, it gives me an E: error saying it can't opent he zip file because it's bad. I've downloaded it several times with no success. It is definately in the root and I have base band 2.05.00.06.11. Which I beleive is on the supported list for Droid Incredibles.

Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] dietmarlechner:
hello, i liked youtubeplay very much because it made it simple to download free videos, but during some weeks it seems to be, that this program is not able to download anymore. it would be great, if someone could update the programcode, to make it possible again.

lg

dietmar
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterWolfe:
Ola,

I tried to use the following instructions to root my desire, which is using android 2.1 and bootloader .83.

I used the easy method in a linux live cd. from the htcdesire site.

It hung on the screen that said "Checking for root files" and stayed there for about an hour. I never got the success message.

I had the recovery manager on the phone screen, so I selected reboot, and the phone came back fine.

I tried using unrevoked again and had the same issue.

So I am not entirely sure if I am rooted or not. I am assuming not, since I do not have a superuser app in my listing of phone applications.

Anyone have a solution to this issue?

Thanks!

MW
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
I think you missed root permissions. A 100% safe way:

Get an Ubuntu live cd (you can use any as long as sudo or su works there), extract unrevoked, then run the following commands in the terminal:

cd /path/to/unrevoked

chmod +x reflash

sudo ./reflash

If it asks you for a password, use "ubuntu" or "root". Unrevoked should start working.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adroit9:
This happened to me with my Desire as well. It turns out I was rooted.

Try turning your phone off, then hold the power and volume down buttons, then once you reach the boot screen, go ahead and select recovery. If you've successfully rooted your device, you should now be in whichever recovery mod you used unrEVOked to flash. For me, it was ClockWorkMod.

Go ahead and start following some custom ROM guides!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterWolfe:
I do have the clockwork recovery mod on the phone, but when I tried to install titanium backup, it told me I do not have root permissions.

The tip with chmod'ing the flash file also did not work. I still get the same error.

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
If you have clockwork mod, then flash any rooted rom from here. I recommend Pinky Desire, Neophyte mod or LeeDroid. These are my favorites, though, you can choose any you like
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterWolfe:
I tried what you suggested, but the install failed due to not having root permissions, which hearkens back to unrevoked not working correctly.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
Then try running unrevoked under Linux, as I suggested in post #2
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterWolfe:
I ran it in linux the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth time I attempted to root the phone. Each time the process gets stuck on 'checking for root files', and hangs indefinitely.

Clockwork mod was installed, but the phone was not rooted.

Clockwork requires the phone to be rooted in order to flash roms.

I'll try unrevoked again tonight, but I am not expecting a different result.

Maybe this is a bug that will be dealt with in a future release.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naguz:
This is very strange. If it has written ClockworkMod to your recovery partition, wether the ROM currently installed is rooted or not shouldnt have anything to say. You ARE trying to flash the zip from Clockwork Recovery by entering the bootloader when booting the phone, and not trough ROM Manager or similar? Sory for asking, but the thing some people does...

It would help to know what guide you have followed "the htcdesire site" isnæt really telling me anything.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
Have you tried re-downloading it? Maybe the files inside are corrupt
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterWolfe:
Thanks for the assistance.

I haven't had a chance to re-do the unrevoked again yet. if it should work with clockwork on, then it is likely a file corruption issue as you mentioned. I'll try again and report back.

myhtcdesire.com/modding/how-to-root-your-desire-easily-method-1 is the rooting method I used and will try using the same method again.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterWolfe:
Success.

Looks like it was a corrupted clockworkmod issue.

Thanks for all your help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hamzadelyon:
I've juste used your method and it worked, thank you very much!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjplayground:
Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?

I am on the original HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade rom downloaded from HTC development

I have tried the Windows method to root my phone with unrevoked.

When I run unrevoked it follows the following cycle:

unrevoked3 app: Pushing recovery

unrevoked3 app: Installing unrevoked services

Phone: Rebooting phone...

unrevoked3 app: Wait for bootloader

unrevoked3 app: Running pre-boot sequence

Phone: Reboot phone

unrevoked3 app: Waiting for reboot

Phone: Phone reboots to normal, not to bootloader. I do not know if this is correct

unrevoked3 app: Waiting for system to settle (might be a minute)

unrevoked3 app: Running root...

After awhile (on screen I have to enter pin for sim card but I do nothing)

unrevoked3 app: Error: failed to get root. Is yuor firmware too new?

Phone: Reboot phone

Could somebody tell me what is wrong and how to solve it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
with the gingerbread ruu u need http://revolutionary.io/ to make it s-off and then allow root

here a complete guide http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/index.php/HTC_Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjplayground:
So first I have to s-off the device first and after that run the unrevoked app?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
After s-off it will also install a CWM recovery, so u can simply flash from the recovery the super user zip contained in the guide above (or alternative if u want change ur rom, directly flash one of the rooted roms from the dev section )

Unrevoked is not needed anymore, run revolutionary is very simple, fast and stable
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjplayground:
Will try that! Keep you posted.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjplayground:
Thank you it worked very well!!!!

One question left: Now I can install ClockWork again so I can download roms and install them. ClockWorks has it's own bootloader right? Will this be a problem? Do I have to flash the clockwork mod?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
As far as I know ckockworkmod (cwm) does not have its own bootloader, because it's a recovery. After running revolutionary successfully, you can just boot into cwm from bootloader. Or flash every you want from fastboot.

SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjplayground:
What I means is:

When your start Rom Manager at the top of the screen there is the option

"Flash ClockworkMod Recovery

You must have the ClockworkMod Recovery installed on to flash and restore ROMS!"

Do I have to click on this and install it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
No, you don't. You already have recovery. ;)

And a good advise for the future: Don't use rom manager! It causes very many system problems. Just do all operations directly from recovery.

SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjplayground:
Just download the zip and boot in recovery -> choose install from sd and go
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gold_sprinter:
Do I have to unlock my device everytime I upgrade firmware or change ROM? I am playing around trying to find the ROM I like most. But don't want to Root, and unlock after.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testulous:
unlike the iPhones, your i9000 will remain unlocked once you've unlocked it. Firmware upgrades are for legit reasons, not just to lock your phone down again.

Rooting is affected by firmware upgrades but is easy to fix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skorzo:
So...

If I make a nandroid of my current rom (Vodafone Spain stock Rom).. will this "save" the lock/unlock status, or is the status NOT depending on ROM?

I need to know this because of warranty .

Thaaaaaanks...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
I've exported my address book and now when I import it I get a parse error. I'm getting frustrated here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Palmetto_X:
Have you tried to import using gmail contacts? I have always used that.

I did see that when you open the contacts > menu > more > import/ export > import from SD card or Export to SD card.............searching for vcard
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
I am able to export all the contacts but importing the resulting vcf file fails with a parse error.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MIKE DEGUZMAN:
i exported to my sd card... then imported.. got an error importing the first time around... tried again, and i was successful...

just a lot of clutter because it double loaded half of my contacts
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
What are you exporting from? Vcard isn't as universal as it should be. You could try creating a contact on the phone, then export it - import on your pc and try to find out what is different.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
I'm using the import/export feature built into the phone. I chalked it up to having 500 some odd contacts. :o
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
So you are trying to export contacts on the phone and re-import them - like the group/ringtone fix - making dupes on phone of the ones in google?

Someone on another forum, found that birthday's with no year caused a problem for google contacts. It could be something like this, but I don't know where to start looking.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] locsplitter:
Having same issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sgb02:
Captivate cannot read vcards it sends to itself through email

I created a new contact on my Captivate, sent namecard for the contact using email, sent the email to myself. After receiving the email on my phone, I clicked Open using Contacts. I then get an error:

Reading of vCard has failed ... I/O error.

WTF ? Crazy !!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daverup:
I had some trouble trying to put contacts directly into the phone.

So, I just loaded them into the gmail website contacts from the PC.

Since then, no problems, and they stay synced up.

In any standard .vcf file, you should be able to open it with a text editor to eliminate corrupted entries. Just compare files that import to those that don't and you will figure out what is breaking import.
[Off-topic] gudda1:
anybody listen to him? He is getting pretty popular these days. Its nice to see him finally gaining the recognition that he deserves.
[Off-topic] Original Android <3ers!:
I downloaded his mixtape. He's pretty damn good. I like "Goon Hate". Goon ask song.
[Off-topic] piscesjoey:
I been on Wiz since I first heard "Oh Yeah" a couple years ago. He finally getting the recognition that he deserves.
[Off-topic] gudda1:
which mixtape? I was downloading them from http://khalifafans.com and there are quite a few.. I like Flight School and Kush and Orange Juice the most.
[Off-topic] Original Android <3ers!:
I got it from datpiff... it's called Taylor Gang. I need that Kush and OJ but my DL speeds are slow for now. Dky.

HE DECLINED A DEAL WITH RICK ROSS AND AN OFFER FROM DRAKE?! YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HE WOULD'VE MADE?!?!?!?!?!
[Off-topic] souljaboy:
wiz is some nice **** but a bit too stoner stlye for me ... also J.Cole is the other up and comming hottie

also i dl-ed roscoe dash mixtape **** is crazy if ya like the sing along stle music really puts ya in a good mood before partyin
[Off-topic] Original Android <3ers!:
Big Sean is beast... or maybe I'm just repping for the D?

And Roscoe Dash is AMAZING! Even though I only understand 5 words from each verse.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] muzicman0:
Hi, hopefully this isn't a stupid question...so I'm new to the HD2 Android scene, but not to Android...had a G1, Nexus and a Vibrant. So I just put Darkstone 2.1 Froyo on my HD2, and it runs pretty good (just ordered a class 10 card, hopefully that will make it even better!)...my question is, when there is a Darkstone V2.2 or 3.0, or whatever, do I have to start from scratch, or is there a way to update without wiping my existing android installation?

mm0