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[Android Apps and Games] DagsJT:
I had a Nexus One previously and, at the time, I didn't know what DropBox was. It turns out that all of my photos were automatically being sent to my DropBox even though I hadn't registered on the site.

Now I've got a Galaxy S and I've noticed that some photos taken with this camera are uploading to DropBox as well. What's making photos upload? How come not all photos from my Galaxy S are uploading? And how do I access these photos on a PC, as I haven't registered with my email address on the site?

Edit: I've also just noticed that I can't delete photos from my dropbox on the phone, long-pressing only gives me an option to view details or set as wallpaper.
[Android Apps and Games] mrwl:
Are you sure your photos are being uploaded to DropBox as in www.dropbox.com and not just to your "My Dropbox" folder in Picasa?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] pjdpinheiro:
Hi;

You can find a working version of Droidx Multitouch keyboard for MT3G with Froyo at:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=764021

And a flashable version at:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7827701#post7827701
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] css626:
it works,thanks for the head's up :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] RootNBoot:
thanks, cant wait to try this out.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] nomadman:
flashable installed correctly but kept getting an fc every time i tried to use the kb.

@pjdpinheiro, please list your steps

thanks

nm, I got it to work. i ssh'ed the files over to the device but permissions weren't set correcty on the 2 files which fc every time i tried to type. then tried to installed with flashable but it kept the same perms. corrected perms on the files and reboot, went to keyboard setting and adjusted lang and chose multi touch. all works well.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] vadlapatlap:
Installation instruction

Please tell me how to install this key board. I have tried flash and ASTRO. Both didn't working
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] lagu805:
use adb.. the link has instructions on what to do ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] tkess:
curious

This is my new favorite keyboard, but I wonder: is there a way to better calibrate it? something like the clicker apk for htc soft kb perhaps?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] n2droid:
great stuff. works as expected :) thanks. I flashed with AmonRa's 1.7 recovery, not a single FC so far. shift+letter works so multitouch is on (right?)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] stevew84:
To apply the Flashed version, do i have to be rooted? I keep trying to root this thing but im not having any luck. I have the OTA 2.2 update running old Mytouch 3g.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] n2droid:
nice keyboard and everything, but i cannot switch to default or any other keyboard for that matter. Constantly FCing. Any ideas on how to uninstall?
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
I've written up a full review of the GPS:

http://briefmobile.com/samsung-epic-4g-gps-test

YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7PBst2OBCw&feature=player_embedded

I tested the GPS with Google Navigation, Maps, and My Tracks applications.

Observations overall:

- Accuracy was slightly off (as shown by My Tracks... worked perfectly in Google Navigation)

- Worked reliably over hours of navigating to and from destinations --- NEVER lost my car

- Compass seems off in My Tracks, shows correctly in Google Navigation

Check out my article for more details. Overall... thumbs up. GPS works well. Always worked with navigation perfectly.
[Epic 4G General] afreed1:
Glad to see it works but still concerned about the lack of accuracy. The Evo my wife has seems to have a much more accurate lock than what was shown in the video.
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
1) Thanks for this test. So far I see no results that would appear to be a hard stop. But in the other thread, you mentioned that your Epic GPS accuracy was not as good as your G1. So I am still concerned. I think performance on this new, expensive, high-end Android should be at least as good as the performance of the oldest Android model.

Also, driving is the least demanding test of the low-level GPS, and there are many applications for it besides vehicular navigation. On other Galaxy S platforms, the GPS tracks seem to get smoothed or interpolated, which in driving tests seems okay most of the time because the motion of the vehicle ovewhelms the underlying errrors in the smoothing algorithm. The result is that the GPS seems great while moving pretty straight, but can veer off-course on turns, corners and stops. You did mention similar symptoms. (And then navigation programs mask errors further by snap-to behavior layered onto the smoothed GPS output.)

I know it must seem that I am never satisfied, but I am always interested in more rigorous testing. Often a better My Tracks test is over a walking course, preferably along with a benchmark device such as the G1. And the whole track -- not just isolated snapshots -- then can be shared with us via upload to Google.

For example, look at my own tests of the Vibrant vs G1 here.

(If you are worried about your own privacy, just test in some location other than your home. I went to an apartment complex in my neighborhood.)

2) Another set of GPS-bug symptoms reported on other Galaxy S platforms is the failure to use and lock on to enough satellites. That is best seen not through tracking or navigation apps, but by utilities that read and report the detailed performance of the GPS from the Android system. The two most popular utilities for this testing are GPS Test and GPS Status. Among other things, they will tell you how many satellites the GPS thinks it sees, their signal strength as SNR, and how many are actually being used for a fix. Could you try those utilites and report the results?

3) You haven't told us exactly how your test unit came into your hands. But we do know from other intelligence that at least some pre-sales demo units were selectively shipped before the latest Samsung software was installed. So it is useful to know the build date of your unit, as shown by internal file date stamps. (Perhaps this can clear up some confusion about other reported tests.)

4) From the latest build dumps we have seen, it appears that the Epic -- uniquely among Samsung S variants -- has a system utility called GpsSetup. Can you see any evidence that this utility is installed on your unit? If so, what does it do? Are there configurable settings? If so, what are the default settings, and what settings are you using?

Thanks again for your work.
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
Regarding the compass ...

From the review:

I think this simply means that the compass sensor -- and/or the low-level software that drives it -- remain bad on the tested Epic unit. In My Tracks, the compass is driven by the on-board magnetometer of the phone and is supposed to move when the phone's physical orientation changes. In Google Navigation, the compass is fixed relative to the maps streamed from the app's servers.

The FUBAR compass on Samsung S phones is sort of related to the GPS bugs, because some apps read both sensors. So users often perceive them as the same problem. But they are two separate issues.
[Epic 4G General] coocood:
Looks like it's the defective compass spoils the accuracy.
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
I know it's not going to prove much, but here is a video with another user saying the GPS is fine on the Epic:

http://androidandme.com/2010/08/news/sprint-epic-4g-qa-part-1/

6 minutes in.

It's also a good video worth watching if you'd just like to see the phone in action some more. I'll post this in the reviews thread as well I suppose.
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
With the correct gps settings no sgs phone has issues standing still. You wont see anything wrong with the gps until you use it while driving. Everyone with a sgs phone should know this. If I had a sgs phone & a epic the first thing I would do would test the gps while driving and post a video. I think its weird how no one will do this. I am getting a epic first thing tues am and will post video of speed of the epic vs sgs phone with lag fix, gps test while driving & video\pic quality. Since these are the main things in question.
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
Actually, in my experience the opposite tends to be true about SGS phones. Driving tests tend to obscure the accuracy problems. Standing still and walking tracks are tougher tests of accuracy. And videos are not as detailed as actual My Tracks output uploaded to Google, where we can all zoom in an explore ther results in detail on a map or satellite background. Some problems that can show up driving are the cases where the GPS track veers off-road on turns and stops.

I have seen plenty of driving "reviews" and "tests" of the GPS in other variants of the phone that erroneously report everything is fine (which is why I still take the OP's results with a grain of salt, no offense). My own testing with Vibrants showed relatively decent tracking while driving, but very poor accuracy when stopped or moving as a pedestrian.

EDIT: I finally found and watched the newly linked Youtube video here, and was totally unimpressed by this reviewer. He was cluelessly misinformed about the status of the GPS problems on other platforms, and his andecdotal report of using the GPS on the Epic through Google Navigate app proved nothing at all.

BTW, for a good summary of the GPS problems on Samsung Galaxy S phones generally, see this post at the international I9000 forum. These issues are much more complex than superficial reviews engage.
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
I understand what you are saying. Going over 60 mph the gps performs better then when going slow and making turns or tracking a run. But standing still I have never had it not lock and work. The only videos of the epic are of standing still lock times.
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
I'm not talking about an apparent locking problem. I'm talking about the other symptom of the GPS bug: lack of accuracy.

There are many reports -- and I have experienced this myself on Vibrants -- where the satellite signal appears to lock. But the accuracy of the lat/lon coordinates being reported is all over the place. And they can be outside the theoretical range of accuracy being reported. For example, GPS Test or GPS Status --reading the ouptut of the Android listeners, which in turn are reading the onboard GPS chip -- may say the fix is supposed to bee accurate within 20 feet. But the coordinates are a couple hundred feet away from the actual location, and meandering over time.
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
I agree with this. Driving programs "snap" to streets obscuring lateral positioning inaccuracy.

I absolutely agree. Where are the important tests????:

TTFF (time to first fix) from RTN (factory start) with several different devices, eg touch Pro 2, Evo, etc in same location.

TTFF from cold, warm and hot starts with competing models in same place. IE how well is assistance and cache working

Number of birds and SNR, ie how good is actual autonomous gps hardware "

HDOP, VDOP PDOP ""

I am seeing multiple poorly done youtubes that could easily be tower triangulation which under good conditions will get you >30' standing still but blow once you start moving. These guys are not just not reporting SNR, they are not even reporting number of sats and HDOP!

The ops tests (and thank you) are not too bad, but there is no data. For example he says: "Also, the GPS occasionally took more than 10 seconds to “lock on” with a cold start." That is the average for top smartphones for an actual cold start. a cold start is no current Ephemeris or almanac stored. starting up a data connection and pulling assistance data (almanac and ephemeris) of visible birds is a agps "cold start" and typically takes at least ten seconds (a few minutes in standalone gps)./
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
New '98 feet' bug on Epic GPS

Now that the Epic is out, we are starting to see the usual confusing mix of anecdotal impressions of GPS performance.

Over on another forum, one interesting fact is emerging: There seems to be a new bug, unique to the Epic's implementation of GPS: The imputed accuracy is being reported by several different testers in different scenarios, always at 98 feet! It is as if this number is hard-coded into the GPS firmware.

See Testing the GPS Satellite usage on your new Epic, the right way. Have "use wireless networks" off and Epic GPS - does yours work or not?
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
The gps has most of the same issues the others have but the epic doesn't lag when it does work.

Some gps videos I made while working Tuesday. Epic gps worked 1\3.

epic gps fail 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7HUQAKg6Lc

epic gps fail 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV1Na51Dy5A
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
A 'known issue' with Epic GPS?

FYI, a user on another forum is reporting that Sprint tech support acknowledged a "known issue" with the GPS.
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
Thank you for the link. I have had the same issue where it wont lock and takes over 5 mins then when it does lock it takes 3-5 mins for it to get your correct location. It looks like the only thing they improved was agps but gps still needs the new driver coming out in September. I really hope Samsung fixes the gps issues.
[Epic 4G General] kgold708:
I went into my local sprint store that had 2 epics on display with my wife. We were there to decide if they're worth almost $800(waiting for price drop). So I loaded gps status on both demo epics, accuracy 98ft, they also displayed 1-2 less sats than my g1 which had @20-60ft accuracy sitting on the counter 10" lower and directly between the epics. I know this is a static test and doesn't mean much, when I asked the sales people if I could drive around....just kidding.
[Epic 4G General] vooman:
I talked to a sprint district manager at work today and he confirmed the epics have a gps issue and button issue.. He said a fix is coming out for the gps issue, but the buttton issue is only on some first batch of epics and to take mine back..
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
Yet another confrirmation of the new '98 feet' bug!
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
I got my captivate for $50 from amazon. Im sure the epic will drop to $50-100 with in 1 month on amazon. Its at $200 now with free activation.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Epic-..._1_4?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1283358779&sr=8-4
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
What I am finding is poor Signal to Noise, on average about 10db lower on average for the same birds than Touch Pro2 and Treo Pro are showing while keeping them all in the same spot. For example one satellite is showing me as very healthy 41 on Treo Pro (HTC made Palm), 39 on Touch Pro 2, and same bird is 27 on Epic. It also seems to jump to usage of some of the really bad snr birds.

I am also wondering about what is going on with trigger of almanac and ephemeris population over 3g. I am getting inconsistent results on that.

There is a third problem which is that with 4 >17 SNR birds in view, which should be adequate and give hdop of <2, position still seems to jump and be incorrect by an average of 30' to 60'

Can anyone tell me what your SNR values are? best would be compared to other known good gps smartphones in same location.
[Epic 4G General] sling:
Those claiming Epic GPS is great have no clue on how it works.

Satellite navigation receivers operate by line of sight with global positioning satellites. This means that at least three satellites must be in "view" of a receiver in order to calculate longitude and latitude. A fourth satellite must also be within line of sight to calculate altitude. On average, eight satellites are continuously within line of sight of every position on Earth; the more satellites in view, the more accurate the positioning.

How to Test how many satellite locs you have.

Enable telanv wait for satellite loc then go into Telanav menu & select (Share & more) , (Diagnostic Tools) & (GPS Status) You will then see pop up that provides your satellite loc info.

You will find epic is only providing 10% 1 satellite loc which is pathetic.

If Samsung considers that a fix they shouldn't be in the smartphone business..same for those giving it positive reviews
[Epic 4G General] codyppc:
i cant get any better than 10% and one satellite either. the gps in the epic is the worst of any gps phone i have own. which is every gps device sprint has ever sold. lol
[Epic 4G General] nicknomo:
that doesn't make any sense to me. You need 3 satellites to triangulate position... so how does the system know where you are if you only have one satellite locked on? That should be impossible. If its giving you a position with wifi locator turned off, and it says it only sees one satellite, then the software is incorrectly reporting the number of satellites...
[Epic 4G General] jfenton57:
I downloaded and installed GPS test from the market and have found that once this is activated, all of my other GPS programs work dead nuts. GM locates me in under 5 seconds and places me exactly where I am. Sprint Nav takes no time at all to pull up a route and get me on my way...much faster than what I was used to seeing with my BB 9659 and BB Tour.

It's almost as if the phone itself isn't initializing something when using some navigation programs and you need to initiate with a program such as GPS test.

On my front porch I have 11 sats in view most of the time and it's using between 8 and 11 of them.
[Epic 4G General] Kelvala:
Inside my cave with HORRIBLE reception, I am getting:

80%

Number of Satellites: 4

Accuracy: 26 meters

This is "use wireless location" = OFF
[G1 Apps and Games] ATZ-007:
Hi Guys,

I’m running Froyo on my G1, so I was wondering is there any HTC_IME that would run on my device?

I have searched for it on xda-developers and google, but couldn’t find any. Also tried “htc_ime_jonasl_lowres_27.zip” but keep getting Force Close.

Any help / suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
[G1 Apps and Games] am03ba:
Strangely enough the the HTC IME 1.5 is working on Froyo, been using it for 3 days now and its good.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624416

theres the like, then just download low res 1.5

:)
[G1 Apps and Games] ATZ-007:
Thanks for your advice

It works…

Shame Google voice doesn’t work
[G1 Apps and Games] Pfeffernuss:
What about this one? Works just great over here :)

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=391485&d=1283183156
[HD Mini General] Eddy & the T-Bolts:
Hi

When I used the twitter application and ask it to "update now" from the menu the phone crashed and went back to the "loading htc sense" message that comes on when you turn on the phone.

it's has now changed and is now displaying "Download Error" "you have reached Twitter access limits for the moment" and no longer does the crashing thing as above.

Any ideas of how to sort this, I've had the battery in and out and turned the thing on and off a few times, with no success.
[HD Mini General] bart3385:
I didn't try out Twitter.

But from my experience, i found that some of the homescreen tabs are buggy or bloated. So i'm minimizing it to the bare basics. I removed twitter, footprints, weather (resource hog), calendar (crippled, super slow, and useless), people (slow, redundant to the call function), mail, stocks.

Generally, avoid homescreen tabs that needs constant updates.

These tabs seems to be programmed for eye-candy anyway, rather than real productivity.
[Android Software Development] SweetAsThePunch:
Hi,

is there a tweak / app for android to create a whitelist of apps which are allowed(!) to rotate the screen?

For instance, I only want my navigation app to be able to rotate the screen.

Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papalazarou:
Hi guys,

I have an unlocked Desire that I bought from ebay. I can't be certain if it's been factory unlocked or if someone along the way unlocked it. Regardless, it's not rooted, so it would have had to have been using an unlock code?

Anyway the issue that I have is that I can't sync my contacts. Most of my contacts have no phone numbers associated, except for a few which I guess it may have grabbed from FB, or ones that were on my SIM? My prev phone was a Magic, I never had this issue with it.

Either way, I have plenty of contacts that I can view through gmail that have numbers associated, that don't have them on my phone.

I also only have the people app, not the standard contacts app from google that should let me sync. Is that normal on the Sense run Desire? If so, how do I sync my contacts? I've been through accounts/sync and of course am signed in to my google account, so I don't know what the deal is?

Is there an issue, or am I just not syncing correctly? Is it some settings in my google account that I need to adjust online?

Thanks for any assistance guys.

*EDIT* so in the 30 seconds since I posted this, I signed out of my FB app, and back in, and then suddenly my google account started syncing and BLAM, there they are. Mods, please delete?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyuk:
yeah facebook is a bastard at times :)

This thread should remain here, but maybe locked, others might want to read it having the same issue.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FAndroidHTC:
I am trying to remove some apps I dont use or want like the mail app and others and I know i have nand protection unlocked becasue I can run nand backup and restore. But when i run adb shell and rm Mail.apk i get message of rm failed for Mail.apk, read only file system. I am a noob with adb but is it possible i dont have nand unlocked?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDSL:
Being able to NAND backup and restore doesn't have anything to do with having NAND unlocked.

You obviously don't have full root.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v_lestat:
download or find (please pay for it on the market)

root explorer, run it, this will put you on the / directory which is the root of the phone, not the sd card, and up in the top right corner it says mount r/o or mount r/w

by default it is read only r/o

hit the button and beside it you will see small text saying 'mounted r/w'

if it lets you mount r/w then you should be good to go.

just navigate to your /system/app filder, long press on the apk file you want to delete and choose delete, it will error out if you dont have r/w access, but make sure the upper right corner still says 'mounted r/w' - sometimes when you mount the phone in the opening page, it doesnt mount everything as r/w so you might have to mount the /system/app folder.

so, if you have it mounted r/w and it says so, and it wont let you delete or rename anything, then you know that you do not have a full root, just the partial root and you will have to go thru and reroot it for full access.

there are simpler ways i imagine but root explorer is the king of file explorers as far as i am concerned.

the only thing it needs is a built in FTP and SMB (windows network) explorer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafroehlich2:
Would you be running the stock rooted ROM?

Sent from my PC36100
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v_lestat:
stock rooted rom doesnt matter, thats what i run from time to time and i can delete/move/rename anythign i want anywhere on the phone (ok i havent tried every folder but have not hit a file/folder i couldnt alter yet, because i have full root access.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafroehlich2:
I asked because I had a similar problem when I had stock rooted. Once I changed it went away.

Sent from my PC36100
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v_lestat:
hmmm wierd.

maybe a bad rooted rom?

someone correct me here but do you have SuperUser installed?

doesnt he have to have superuser installed to do it via root explorer, or login to a terminal via adb with 'su' to rename/move/delete

if you didnt type su, and then get the $ prompt you cant do what you are trying to do. ... ???

i dont think you need to type su to do the following command but it probably wouldn't hurt ??

i am very adb green but do know enough to run some commands, its just that i prefer to do it with root explorer rather than command prompt.