yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] khatta:
Works on my XDAndroid on Sprint Touch Pro2

The App even works on XDAndroid on my Sprint Touch pro2. Awesome !! :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gthing:
Some initial thoughts:

The widget seems to perform faster then Google's at coming up with search suggestions. I also actually like the way the search results look more than Google. You can click anywhere on the result to go to the page, rather than just the title. Seems a bit more mobile friendly.

The Bing app also has a built-in browser. The search widget seems to be the only way to access it, or through the search box at the top of the app. It seems very capable and feels very fast. Might just be placebo effect, but it might be faster at loading pages then the built in browser. It is probably using the same engine as the built in browser, so who knows.

The browser does have a "favorites" feature which I assume is like bookmarks, but I'm unable to figure out how to add something to it. Also, the search box doesn't go away as you scroll down the page - a feature that used to bother me on the default browser but I have come to like. There appears to be no way to open a result in the default browser, if you wanted its features like saving images, adding bookmarks, etc. which is a drawback.

The image search is really cool, definitely better than Google's (as was the desktop version until recently), although it seems to be mysteriously lacking the feature to save or send images or set wallpapers from the images you find. You can pretty much search and view, that's it.

Movies feature is nice. Don't know if I'd use it over Flickster. It does have all the info available on one page, which is nice, but doesn't have movie trailers and you can't search by theater, just by movie.

Maps is okay. Google Maps is just such a mature product with Latitude, layers, labs, etc. that I couldn't see myself switching to Bing maps any time soon. Another poster said it had better traffic data, but it doesn't have Navigation (just directions). Might be a sufficient alternative if for some reason Google Maps is bugging out or something.

The news section just shows headlines for articles which link to the original articles on their respective pages. The interface looks the same to the search results. Nice for some simple browsing maybe.

The last thing is the picture of the day. Today's is of some mountains in China somewhere. The image actually looks a bit crappy, like it is compressed weird or something, but that might just be today. If you dismiss the menu at the bottom of the app, you will get highlight spots where you can click and learn more about the image. A nice feature, but they have it on their home page, too, and I never use it (or Bing, for that matter).

I'll play around with it a little more to see if it sticks. Overall I'd say it's a nice initial offering from Bing, and better than the crap that usually comes out of Microsoft. Missing features like the ability to save images, open links in a full featured browser, and add favorites(?) are the biggest drawbacks.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jopherr:
when i downloaded the file it saved as a .cab

do i change it to .apk?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KiamatDusk:
I tried DLing this straight to my Evo but it won't install. Do I need to DL it to my computer and install it via HTC Sync?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] derrickmadden:
is there any way someone could put up the .apk file up? ii want it, but I'm not on verizon.

Sent From My Thoughts Using My Mind. And My Moment.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KiamatDusk:
It's posted on the OP.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jopherr:
he posted a cab file
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Theaccomplice88:
Tried this and didn't work on my Xperia X10a :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mattspfld:
Works great on rooted Evo. Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gotshores:
It works-non rooted Evo

I downloaded it on my non-rooted evo, went through Astro, clicked on it and installed. Works fine, and it's pretty quick too.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] McHale:
works great on stock 2.2 Froyo on Nexus One.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KiamatDusk:
Downloaded it to my computer and sideloaded it to my Evo 4G. Works great!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cmjrjd:
I have not rooted my EVO so I guess my real question was whether it needed to be rooted to install the Bing app.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Maverick777:
Works great on my Samsung Vibrant so far. Will need to do more useability testing later today.

Thanks for the post!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gthing:
Hmm... not sure what you're seeing but it is definitely an .apk file. Maybe your system is adding .cab for some reason? What if you rename it with an .apk extension?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Raheem387:
Can't get it to install on stock 2.2 HTC EVO says no program to open this file stall unsuccessful
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] etking:
You can also use MyMarket and set the MyMarket provider to USA-Verizon to be able to download bing on any network in any country.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] catttman:
TV.com

I am looking for the TV.com app,... it dont show up any more on the market on my apad thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mattrb:
Someone already got it installed on EVO. Just so you all know, all apk's can install on a stock EVO. You just need to use astro. Some apks just need a little push to be opened.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sanxxx:
I installed on a non rooted Evo. It installed alright and app comes up, but when i go to any of the options I get this message "Due to a temporary connection or service issue, we can't get the results. Please try again". Anyone else seeing this?

Edit: Found the answer on another thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7954854#post7954854). The app for some reason does not work on 4G. I switched to 3G and it works alright. Strange though...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hkfan:
can someone upload new bing 2.0 apk
[G1 Android Development] noiseordinance:
Hi there. I have a G1 running Super D-blk 1.10.4. I upgraded it from the official Android 1.6 release and really liked it for the first month. Lately, however, I receive constant errors that say "The application SD Updater (process cmupdaterapp.ui) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." This prevents many programs from running. Just this morning, all my contacts have disappeared. They show up when I log into GMail fortunately, but it's obvious my phone is behaving very weird.

Honestly, I don't remember what tutorial I read to even put this version of Android on my phone, but if anyone has any suggestions on what I should upgrade to, or how to return to Android 1.6, I'd be ecstatic....

Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] thecolorifix:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=528334
[G1 Android Development] thecolorifix:
also: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=519523
[G1 Android Development] thecolorifix:
and finally: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=479704
[G1 Android Development] adobrakic:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Super D(onut) version 1.6? Also, I'm assuming that you have a G1, Donut is the best version of Android (imo) to run on your G1. The newer (2.x) versions are just too much to run on this machine.

With that said, I think you should at least try starting with Super D from the beginning. Wipe what's in the memory, and start from scratch. If your contacts are stored in gmail, then they'll just be reloaded again. Granted, you'll lose all of your apps, but since they weren't running correctly anyway that shouldn't really matter.

Also, cmupdaterapp.ui is just an app that checks for updates to your Super D. I've always killed that process when my phone boots up anyway (manually updating yourself isn't hard), and I'm not even sure why it starts up by itself when rebooting the phone.

@thecolorifix, you ever meet the "edit post" button?
[G1 Android Development] noiseordinance:
Thank you for the suggestion, adobrakic. I can't seem to kill the cmupdaterapp since it's what appears to be causing all my applications to crash, including my application-closing utility. At any rate, I'll take your suggestion about reseting the phone. Would you recommend just doing the factory reset within the phone menu? Do I need to reformat my SD card or anything?
[G1 Android Development] adobrakic:
The way I go about killing that process is in TasKiller, bring up the context menu for that specific process (holding down on it for a few seconds) and then going to "force-kill," rather than the standard procedure.

Also, I'd recommend wiping your phone by turning the phone off, and turning it back on while holding home + end key. A menu should come up, of which the 5th-or-so option says "wipe." Go into that, then do the factory wipe, cache, and dalvik-cache.
[G1 Android Development] crypysmoker:
A. Download Rom Manager from market.

B.Run rom manager, top says "Flash Clockwork recovery" Pick G1 (Duh lol)

Z. Go to downloads and let it download Cyanogen 6.0.0 stable and Gapps (Use Wifi)

14. Once its downloaded, click wipe and backup.

@#.Let it do its thing and reboot

170. WAIT!!! it will take between 2-15 min to boot.

23/45%.Skip google sign in at begining

*&.let it settle for about 10 min, Go to market, sign into google account, Re-download Rom manager

D. Go back into Rom manager, Run "Fix Permissions"

14L. Now do whatever you want, fix config for launcher, settings blah blah.

At some point in there before flashing the new rom, you may want to download Titanium Backup and backup all your apps.

If none of this helped,..... Sell your phone ;P:confused:
[G1 Android Development] adobrakic:
A note for the post above me, CM6 is Froyo (2.2), which does not run as well as 1.6 does on a G1 and causes lag.
[G1 Android Development] shadowch31:
As my little merkat friend would say 'Simples!'

This is an easy fix fella and will have your rom running beautifully again, may I also be as bold as too suggest checking out my Setup Guide for Donut in my sig :)

Goto Terminal Emulator (words in brackets are instructions and not to be typed) and enter…

su (enter)

(Give app permission if it asks for it)

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system (enter)

rm /system/app/sdupdatebeta2.apk (enter)

reboot (enter)

Phone will reboot and life should be good again :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ztm.000:
I just saw a couple posts regarding CM6, but I'm running TheOfficial ROM from Enom and I love it. Flashed to CM6 just to give it a shot and I am indifferent on the matter... Maybe someone can provide some input on to why i should use CM6.

Thanks a lot

Zach
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osugsxr:
Both are very solid roms to use, last few months I've been using enomter's rom and changed a few things on that. CM6 just came out and its been awhile since I used a rom from cyanogen so I flashed it and currently been running that. Also changed a few things, added enomthers, kang o rama wallpapers, changed the phone to galaxy s phone, not sure what else Ive done so far.

Its all personal preference, I loved used enomthers themed version, cm6 has a themed version out as well and its very simliar to enomthers. Detail and very good looking eye candy and both run smooth. As of now I ll stick with cm6 till enmother gets updated reasons are:

Power widget:custom, choose what you want in the bar

power button: reboot, recovery bootloader (really liking this)

dial pad (prefered the custom) did push galax s dial pad on for now

cyanogen mod settings simple to use and like location

battery life is pretty solid as well
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snlu178:
Of the two I prefer Cyanogen. But I am running InnovationOS and think it is by far the best.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ztm.000:
hmm...

i may run cyanogen for a bit.

what does InnovationOS do that makes it better?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blueman101:
flash one for a week then switch to the other and see which you prefer. Both roms have so many little things that make each unique it would be much easier for you just try both and see for yourself which is better.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ztm.000:
alright. where do i get these roms? (cyano comes on rom manager)

thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blueman101:
Here is the Enom one, he has said that he will update with a newer Alpha version tonight, best for you to just go with the 2.11.3 stable rom.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=614427

just place it on the root of your sd card and (if your using rom manager) select install from sd card(be sure to both backup and wipe) the wipe wont touch your sdcard, only the phones internal memory

Also there is a themed version and a non themed version, ill let you pick

-cheers
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snlu178:
I like InnovationOS because it has a sense like feel without all the glut. But it doesn't have all the tweaks of the others.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lengz:
Enom fort the old style apps2sd
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ztm.000:
Yeah, thats another thing with Cyanogen i missed/mow have again was/is apps to sd. There is no way for me to activate apps2sd besides just the normal default way froyo lets you on TheOfficial. Cyanogen lets you go to town with apps2sd in 6.0.0.

I'm not sure how i am liking cyanogenmod 6.0.0 vs TheOfficial. There are a couple things i like and dislike, and a couple things that are the same.

I like the render effects in cm (it has cool renders, not just solid colors)

i DISLIKE ADWLauncher replacing the stock launcher. i have never liked this.

the trackball alerts are about the same.

I dont know. ill post more things as i see them, but i dont know where to be in terms of ROMs. InnovationOS just doesnt sound like my cup of tea
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigacgomez:
Well, it's just a personal preference... both are amazing ROMs... IMHO, enomther's is rock-stable... cyanogenmod 6 is more bleeding-edge (but super-stable none-the-less)... & you can remove adw launcher quite easily if you wish...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
Not exactly sure what any of that meant, but in case you said: You can't use the ext partition apps2sd with Enom, that is incorrect. You certainly can, it's in his custom Spare Parts tool, like all of his other customization items.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chobie:
I think he meant that for CM. I'm using Micromod now which is enom based.

The only thing that's holding me back from CM is that apps2ext.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bendary:
with the release of froyostone rom for the hd2 which is sense + 2.2 officially from htc, I believe it would be much easier to port sense to the captivate and completely remove touchwiz.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pongothemagnificent:
First your posting in the wrong captivate forum section...second the Android os isn't something that can be magically ported to XX device just because XXX device has it or its working on it, for starters the hd2 is a non native android device, which means its running an android port, with the help of a half working linux kernel, loaded with haret bootloader, android 2.2 is coming in September so just sit tight and be patient, or you can download CM6 vibrant source and port it over to the captivate(you would have to make the captivates kernel compatible with 2.2, meaning backporting/patching etc) which ever you like.

Rafyvitto
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
Yeah it ought to be about as easy as loading OS X on a Commodore 64.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dressanderc:
Well, maybe Steve can call Xerox for some help with that...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
I LOL'ed +tenchars
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abezapata:
ROFL thats some good stuff guys.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] designgears:
who wants sense anyways, it's just a big shiney TURD!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
+1

where's some good ol' fashioned AOSP when you need it?

*hint hint* DG *hint*
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ozy944:
Personally, I cant wait till all manufacturers realize we don't want to be forced into sense, touch wiz etc.

Make it default if you have to, but provide an option to enjoy raw, unadulterated android!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
I guess we wait and see what Gingerbread does about that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJGonzo:
To the OP, why don't YOU port Android 2.2 to the Captivate AND also port Sense?? :p

Joking aside I am going to be cooking for the Captivate soon. I'm just waiting for Froyo so I can get my hands dirty with Android ;).

Maybe even a Sense port?? :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pongothemagnificent:
I've been working on porting sense to our the device for some weeks now but roms fail to boot, changing libs etc, got no clue of what else to try.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
Sense is so deeply entangled into Android, kinda like trying to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 95, It is virtually impossible to get it working without all the kernel extensions HTC added to the OS.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaredc74:
Just a historical footnote. Internet explorer was very easy to remove from windows 95. The original release of win95 didn't even include internet explorer. It was only available as part of the plus! Pack of addons. The SR1 release had IE v2 included but it could be easily deleted. It wasn't until IE 4 that active desktop became a part of the package and began making it difficult to seperate from the OS. IE 4 came sr2.5 but was an optional upgrade for most win95 instalations.

But i knew what you meant.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
haha, I was literally going to add almost exactly this.

Sense seems only to be portable to devices that can run off of HTC-based ROMs. It seems to be much easier to remove it than to try and bring it over (I haven't heard of it being brought to a device that wasn't HTC based). The widgets haven't even been ported to the best of my knowledge to work on non-Sense launchers. And, as proven by our phones, they could have made Sense even MORE integrated considering removing touchwiz launcher causes massive force closes. Also, Sense is proprietary and cosed source, so we don't have any low-level access to remove the HTC restrictions (short of binary hacking, which I know nothing about and could indeed be wrong about)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJGonzo:
Well how the huck did they get Sense on the HD2?? It doesn't even come with android from factory! We need someone to shed a little more light in this. Maybe its because they use some Qualcomm specific images or something.

You got a PM ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
notice how I said I can't see it being ported to a non-HTC device. The HD2 is indeed an HTC device and I believe the ROM that has Sense is one built off of an HTC ROM for another device. Much like how the Legend ROMs were able to be fairly easily/quickly ported to the Aria. In fact, many of the internals of the HD2 resemble a lot of the Android hardware produced by HTC (qualcomm snapdragon and all that good stuff I believe)... the difficulty of getting android on that device had nothing to do with the ROMs, but actually getting haret to boot a linux kernel properly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJGonzo:
Unless they ported the whole ROM and re used drivers, I don't quite understand how they got it to work.

They got Sense 2.5 working from The HD2 onto the Omnia II (winmo), so its quite possible. We just need a team of developers willing to do the work. I can offer hosting and testing and little technical help since I am new at Android but I think we can get it to work if we start to tinker with it.

Maybe a ROM port is in order?

Maybe we should wait for a Froyo kernel though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying it hasn't been done. There are (correct me if I'm wrong) absolutely no non-HTC android devices with the Sense UI. I know nothing about the HD2/Omnia II Sense port, but that's WinMo... not even remotely close to Android in terms of interoperability. I also feel like any ROMs designed to bring Sense UI to non-HTC android devices would be hit with C&D's since it's their proprietary software (hence why both Fancy Widget and Beautiful Widgets got in trouble originally when they launched on the market).

Don't get me wrong, good luck in porting it, hell even I like the look of it and would love the option, but considering how long Sense has been out for android (and numerous devices) and we don't see it on any non-HTC android devices, I have to believe it's been tried and just doesn't work (which is why you also don't see MotoBLUR/NinjaBLUR anywhere else either... or even TouchWiz on the EVO)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
Also I think the HD2 and the Desire are the same hardware. If not the Desire it's another phone. That also makes porting Android pretty painless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJGonzo:
Proving you naysayers wrong:

http://modmymobile.com/forums/554-m...10-motosense-htc-sense-ui-port-milestone.html

:p:p:D:D

I'm not worried about the C&D. There IS ways around that. If you want to get technical, shoot me a PM.

Now, is there any INTEREST?

Anybody want to get involved?

Maybe we can get the Milestone people to help us. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
Like I said, feel free to prove me wrong and I see you have... I'll admit I'm interested in this, but I still feel like our devices specifically will be incompatible. The milestone/droid that they show has had the full ROM imported (notice it even says it's based off of the HTC Desire). DG and the guys over in the i9000 forum only recently discovered the redband_ua tool to flash kernels, so modifying an entire ROM would be a massive undertaking and I wish you the best of luck in figuring it out/finding devs to work on it.

Again, I think our devices are just too incompatible based on how the devices are built (we can't even run a i9000 kernel without our phones going crazy). Hummingbird processor, entirely new GPU (closest would be the EVO I think), and the development platform for flashing is vividly different from how HTC and motorola treat their phones.

Seriously though, get it running/working and I'll be one of your biggest fans, it just seems mostly insurmountable (the only reason the Nexus One ever got Sense was because of a leaked Desire ROM and they're basically the same hardware, and it's the de facto reference android device).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJGonzo:
EVO would not be the closest phone to the Samsung. Actually since the moto has a Cortex CPU, that would be the closest :p

I proved the fact that there IS people with HTC Sense on an non-HTC phone and that it IS possible. Can I do it alone? Probably not since I haven't even built an AOSP ROM yet (working on it though).

But someone has ported a whole ROM to another device. That means that it is possible and they might possibly help us out or give us hints.