yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willverduzco:
Try Opera Mobile (not mini) for smoother web scrolling. It's not hardware accelerated yet, but it zooms and scrolls an order of magnitude smoother than the stock browser. It will get hardware acceleration soon, as that is one of their key advertised features. The next beta of Firefox Mobile will have it as well.

There was a rumor a while back that 3.0 (which at the time was thought to be Gingerbread, before we found out 2.3 would be Gingerbread, that there would be a hardware accelerated UI. The basis of this rumor was that the next UX would be similar to that of the Gallery 3D appilcation.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
The reason you came up empty is because there are no Gingerbread specs available, not even highlights. You know, it's Google behind the OS, if you run a search for specs and you see no official info - means there is none.

And perhaps the reason for reacting like that is that this thread is "only" no.23947659234 Gingerbread thread, while there is absolutely no real information available, and it gets really annoying that the forum is full of speculations and misinformation.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gravufo:
+1

Stop being jerks guys.

Honestly, GPU Acceleration would be fantastic...although CM is doing a great job making the N1 very smooth (and probably other ROMs and kernels) it would still be nice to have such a feature...even just to show off to my iPhone 4 friends ;) haha
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyellx:
cm nightly super bounce + adw/LP = win
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Might wanna take a look at the kernel improvements in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=841599
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gravufo:
Do you think that this will be included in the next CM nightly?

I have no experience in flashing kernels, so wouldn't wanna mess to much with that, especially since I don't have lots of time these next weeks (exams)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
I would assume that CM picks up on this eventually, but I would also assume that there's a pretty long 'to do' list...

You can flash the kernel zips just like update zips. I've currently got the wildmonks CM version (non mm), and it seems to be working. I can't really say I've challenged it much, but no stuttering today, so far... xD
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gravufo:
thanks for the reply,

so basically, most kernels work with CM right? Btw, can you link me to the one you're using?

Also, when I want to flash a new nightly, do I have to flash the kernel again? And will that prevent me from getting new features that CM made?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Here's the links:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9264847&postcount=23

Third and fourth are optimized for CM. Fourth is also optimized for Google Goggles, which I don't use, so I have the third on installed.

If there is a kernel in the nightlies, it will overwrite, so just add this on like you do with the gapps.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gravufo:
I see, thanks a lot for the info! Really helpful ^^
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Override new features, maybe... Depends what they are. The camera tweaks are in a lot of kernels, as are the FM tweaks. Battery savings will probably be different, but I couldn't say for better or worse...

You can always reflash a nightly, to restore the CM kernel...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilentMobius:
They do, Dianne Hackborn commented on this. I used to be just as vocal when I owned a G1 asking when they were going to use the GPU, but then I actually did the work and looked into it.

The surfaceflinger does all 2d gfx compositing in android and that does uses all available acceleration.

Reasons why the N1 stutters:

1) More is going on in the background (than the iphone).

2) The 1st-gen snapdragon has poor 2d acceleration.

3) Garbage collection during scrolling will cause stutter (App devs can minimise this).

Now I have a better idea what I'm talking about I am however lobbying for view objects to be (optionally) able to be rendered onto their own opengles texture rather than the system gl content. That would allow App devs to optimise those elements that remain static in content but scroll over other context. however that would probably involve a lot of surgery on the current framework and surfaceflinger.

"Hardware acceleration" isn't a universal panacea that just suddenly makes everything smooth.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roberto188:
Still Skeptical

Thanks for the information! But perhaps I'm talking about something different. I in fact really don't ever encountering stuttering unless i'm browsing a VERY intense webpage (which is to be expected). Virtually all the scrolling I do is quite smooth (No stutter), it's just that it kinda seems like the N1 is dropping frames to do it. You mean to tell me that the N1 can't scroll a simple text file smoothly? Garbage collection, poor 2d rendering? It's text! Maybe what i'm complaining about isn't the actual rendering, as much as the step size with which the N1 scrolls. I feel like the scroll "precision" or the amount of frames displayed per second when scrolling is low. Perhaps thats built into the OS? I'm not super tech savvy so I'm not sure. Either way, don't get it twisted, I've owned my N1 for about a year now, and LOVE IT! Just curious what is the reason for the observed behavior.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilentMobius:
Its not "text" it's a full screen bitmap, just like any other bitmap. in the case of a web page it's completely offloading the rendering to the webkit lib and then copying segments of the resulting bitmap into your viewport.

Interesting fact: The Android webkit browser renders the _whole_ page in one meaning when it's loaded you can scroll around at will. The iPhone browser only renders "near" the current viewport so its possible to scroll faster than it can keep up with and scroll into a blank region of the page, shortly after you stop scrolling the rendering will catch up.

Interestingly The latest Firefox Beta for Android uses the same render-as-you-go approach, and it's pretty smooth.
[Vibrant General] John512:
Nvidias Tegra 2 is the Crown holder with 2.1 Build now....
[Vibrant General] tubaking182:
hat's funny, my vibrant score 2200+ and last i checked that was still a bigger number than 1900. and this isn't really development
[Vibrant General] ConceptVBS:
That chip is dual core.
[Vibrant General] ryan562:
Doesn't come close to my Vibrant's score :cool:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] java_saint:
I just installed froyo 2.2 without root. I tried the uninstall techniques to downgrade but it didn't work, giving me a Main version error. Is there a way I can root froyo 2.2 directly?

My recovery seems abit glitchy and flashes the htc screen sometimes and fails to load at times
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
No, there's no method for 2.2 yet. Use the downgrade tool, it's floating around here.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fsiukei:
You have to downgrade your HBOOT version to 0.8x first. There are some post floating in this forum, you can have a look.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karikian:
Sorry, I looked everywhere and when I found it, I don't have enough privileges to see the thread... can somebody help me to find this?

Thank you so much!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnstarz:
http://swype.uservoice.com/forums/55960-swype-for-android-beta/suggestions/530365-voice-input-button
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
Except there are actually several working builds actually out there right now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karikian:
so... no one?

so, no one with real information?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jordant2:
Here you go

http://rapidshare.com/files/415179230/swypebluemicsigned1.apk.html
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodelyfe:
no other colors? maybe even a dark grey?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ep3n3wp:
Got a problem parsing the package... Boo..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karikian:
Thanks! It's it availble in the market yet? If so under what name?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jordant2:
Unfortunately, that's the only color I have.

No one else has reported an error and it's been downloaded quite a few times.

Not in the market yet. There is something similar called SlideIt ir something like that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnstarz:
sweet, thanks. works great, but the color scheme is NASTY!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miketunes:
What build is this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffsanace:
Thanx, been looking for this for a while in this color scheme. Looks awesome with Riptides Clean & Clear theme.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bizdady:
Can someone post a screenie? thanks i wanna check out the so called color.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodelyfe:
the keyboard is black and special keys are blue
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grad20_09:
it's version 1.56
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samzebian:
is there a copy of 1.60.36.8214 with the mic, because I think that's the newest build, and I remember before I upgraded, the older version (1.56) had a mic icon on it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helton566:
Does anyone have that version? 160¿
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crotchety:
Actually 1.61.37.8128 is floating around this site as of about 2 weeks ago maybe. Not 100% sure if it has the mic though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
The version of 1.61 that I have does not include the mic.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twigums:
The swype link here is a fine color combo, black and blue, and works!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twigums:
Yep same. and i havent found one that does.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryno23:
The Swype keyboard is Black with the special keys being blue? If so where do I get this bad boy. Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EVOme:
Yeah this works. It's 1.56, but it has the mic and it's black/blue.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryno23:
Can you post the apk file?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EVOme:
You kidding me??? It's in post #5.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jfizz88:
This didn't parse for me either
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PPCUserT:
my astro says "could not open (file) as APK file"

file size also says 49kb.

*EDIT*

installed and good to go. Blue is extremely bright. thats the price to pay for the mic i suppose. Over on android central someone posted the same version but themed it in green (android green, very good match) and red (droid red/big red-red). Unfortunately, despite being the same version, there is no mic on those.

thansk for the apk!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PPCUserT:
for those that couldnt get it to work, this may or may not help:

when i tried to download directly from rapid share to my phone/sd, it would not work, no install, parsing error, can not be opened as apk, etc. however, i downloaded the file to my pc and emailed it to my gmail. clicked install in the email and it worked perfectly. the file is on my sd and can be reinstalled and everything.

why this is, idk, i'm not leete like that.

hope that helps
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglenest608:
I am still unable to get this to install. I tried it the gmail way and still no luck. I am running Fresh -evo-3.2.0. Any suggestions? I had the Swype without the mic installed but cannot seem to uninstall it from my phone...maybe that is the issue...don't know.

Thanks in advance for any help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Testrunner:
You can use titanium backup to remove stubborn apps.

Swype will NOT install if there is a version already on your phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglenest608:
I have never used this before. Would you be able to either explain how to delete swype using this or point me in the direction of some kind of instructions?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglenest608:
Nevermind....I figured it out, lol. I just kept playing with it until I finally found what I was looking for!

Appreciate your help and thanks again!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tstretch:
agh! trial period over?!

Downloaded this 3 days ago and have been loving it but I upgraded to Fresh is 3.2 Rom lsat nite and now my trial period has expired. Think that might have been coincidence tho. Anyway, does anyone know how to keep this version working?

One more thing. I noticed you guys keep talking about the bright blue keys. Mine never had that. It looked like the standard swype kb but DID have the microphone button. Did I possibly install this on top of another version and that is messing it up?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adanedhels:
Ditto on the trial period ending. Man i wish they would just release this as a buyable app already.

Anyway... Is anyone working on a newer version that has a mic key and has the extra languages trimed out?

Sent from the world's greatest phone the EVO!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffsanace:
Same here, this one was perfect with my theme. Now I lose the mic and have to look at the ugliest keyboard in the world!! You would think Swype would have stepped it up by now. Why no mic anyway? Other devices have it, come on quit being greedy!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
i am a beta member, and even though it downloads and installs, everytime I boot, it goes away..

On CM6 9-17, and snap 7.6

I guess it doesnt like Cyanogen...

went back to swiftkey in the market; something is better than nothing
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluebeast213:
Yeah, mine died too.

I tried transferring the license.dat from a newer version......but it didn't fix it.

Anyone know how to?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tstretch:
I didn't like SwiftKey too much. I absolutely LOVE better keyboard tho. That and someone's mod of the original Touch Input with gestures and smile's and all.. its okay but Better Keyboard just seems to do the best job with knowing what I type...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saturn2K:
Can we find out what server Swype connects to in order to verify stuff? We could try to block it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluebeast213:
It doesn't have a mic, but I just created a Carbon Fiber themed new version.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=786417
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglenest608:
Mine stopped working as well! Had to revert back to older version.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FATCAT_01:
Does anyone know where to get an older version of swype that will work, my trial period has also ended.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparker366:
Not a great searcher tried to see if people had similar issues. It seems that when the phone goes into sleep mode and I press the power button to restore the screen and then swipe to get to the desktop I have to click the icons 2x in order for them to launch.

Not sure if this occured before I had beautiful widgets installed but it happens on both tw and launcher pro. TW doesn't have any BW on it just my LP.
[Vibrant Accessories] hockeyrcks9901:
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[Vibrant Accessories] g1ftmfw:
id prolly buy one at $30 just because it is bad ass!!!! id prefer $20 or $25 but whatever, lol still kinda cool
[Vibrant Accessories] hockeyrcks9901:
Well I'm unemployed starting last Friday so I have to make a couple of bucks on each one. I think it will end up being around $5 profit on each one so I won't be making much.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant Accessories] NoDataFound:
Not trying to hijack this... but these are awesome. I built one last year for my G1 and other devices. Well worth it.
[Vibrant Accessories] gravis86:
http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/solder.html
[Vibrant Accessories] tjhart85:
Since it looks like you're basically buying the LadyAda kit [that circuit definitely looks like one of hers] and building it, I could see $30 being a decent price (as long as you're using the v3 of the kit) IF you're throwing in the batteries.

I can't see paying an extra $10 just for you building the kit though (sorry, but I know how easy it is to solder those).

Unless you can get those parts significantly cheaper than what LadyAda is selling her kits for, I don't see this being very profitable for you.

Newegg has the same basic thing in a (admittedly less cool looking case) for $20.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875999294&Tpk=N82E16875999294

I've seen similar [not identical] items got for as low as $2 in the past: http://www.goldengadgets.com/emergency-aa-mobile-phone-charger.html
[Vibrant Accessories] hockeyrcks9901:
The only part coming from ladyada is the pcb. Like I said, this is an open source design and I was simply offering to make it for people who don't know how to solder.

Again, if you're interested in this let me know. I'll figure out a concrete price later tonight maybe. I'll have to see what shipping is going to look like. I'm not going to make much money on these at all.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant Accessories] frankencat:
Sheesh, give the guy a break, he's just trying to make a buck. It's a good idea. People do the same thing on the diy guitar pedal effects forums - basically building kits for people who either don't know how or who just don't want to deal with it.

Good luck to the OP.
[Vibrant Accessories] joelevi:
Do you have a website to sell them from yet?

I'm on board for 3!
[Vibrant Accessories] horizons1:
It's cool, but I'd like to see what TSA airport security would make of this.
[Vibrant Accessories] LostAlone:
First off, this is cool as hell.

Secondly, since the tin basically doesn't make any difference to performance, you could put it anything right ? Cigarette tin ? Old Gameboy ? Broken effects pedal ? Is it harder to add more batteries for extra capacity if you have the space ?

Finally, is entering the realms of crazy hard to add a 9v jack to this and make the whole unit rechargeable without replacing the batteries ?

Did anyone else see this and their brain connected straight to Steampunk Altoids Tin Etching ? Oh the possibilities :) Now I just need to make friends with someone who owns chemicals and won't end up dissolving me with them.

If you do go into making these, then I'd be interested as long as they'll let you ship them airmail. I can't see it being a problem, since you can ship most anything, but home made circuitry might be a problem for obvious reasons. Keep updating tho, is a cool project :)
[Vibrant Accessories] hockeyrcks9901:
I've heard/read of people flying with these before and I can't see it being a problem as long as you don't try to hide it. Just open it up and they might ask you to connect it to your phone to show that it actually works.

On the topic of adding extra batteries, you can easily add a third AA but doing more than that will raise the voltage over the input voltage of the chip. You could theoretically put 4 batteries; two sets of series in parallel. However, it is generally regarded as bad practice to put batteries in parallel for reasons I won't go into. It is not possible to use a 9V battery with this particular circuit because the voltage is too high. There are ways to reduce it but it complicates the circuit and wastes a lot of energy. Besides that, 9V batteries do not have as much capacity as AAs.

There is supposed to be a new "version" of this being made that will include recharging abilities but I don't have an eta.

I'm working out a pricing right now for a lot of 10. I figure that is a good starting point and buying in quantities greater than 10 reduces the cost of materials quite a bit. I'll post that tonight.
[Vibrant Accessories] gallymimus:
You could do it pretty easily adding a 5-12V jack, a diode and a current limiting resistor to slow charge (overnight) the batteries. That would be the easiest/cheapest. Fast charging would require a little more intelligence.

You could, for instance, make it chargable from a USB port pretty easily.
[Vibrant Accessories] hockeyrcks9901:
Okay everyone,

Looks like if I make 10 of these at a time, the price will be $30. That will include everything except Altoids tin and Batteries with USPS Flat Rate shipping. The circuit will be soldered and tested before being shipped.

For those who would like me to include the Altoids tin and mount the circuitry, it will make the price $35. $2 of that is for the tin itself, and the other $3 is for the work with a dremel and securing the circuit to the tin. If you don't need me to cut the tin and install the circuit, then it will be $32. I have not found Altoids Gum tins around me, but as soon as I find them, I'll see what they cost.

For those who want it shipped some other method, I can add/subtract the cost for that method of shipping. For example, if UPS Overnight adds $10, then I will add $10 to the final price. But if something like UPS Ground is only $2, then I will subtract the difference between the USPS Flat Rate and the UPS Ground.

As you can see, I'm going to be very flexible with this. I can even add a solar cell and Lithium Battery, that would add $55. Quite expensive but for those who want a neat gadget it's available. But, I have not built the Solar Version before and while it is supposed to be pretty easy, I may take a little longer to test it. I've heard it takes around 2 days to charge the battery that way. The lithium battery is 1200mAh at 3.7V or 4.4Wh minus some inefficiencies.

As of right now, Paypal would be the best way to pay. Cash is always accepted but I strongly advice against sending cash through the mail. Just send me a PM if your interested and I will give you my paypal email. As soon I have 10 confirmed buyers, I'll place the order for parts and ship them as soon as they're completed. I'm unemployed so it won't take long to make but I do have classes Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. I also plan on testing each circuit on my own phone before shipping to verify it works.
[Vibrant Accessories] hockeyrcks9901:
I know it's generally bad taste to double post but this was completely unrelated to my previous post.

I just ran my phone down to 80% as read by BatteryLife Widget, placed it on the Altoids charger and roughly 20 minutes later my screen lit up with the "Battery Full" screen.

Tomorrow/overnight tonight I will run my phone down to 25% and see how full it will charge using two AA Energizer Rechargeables.

Keep in mind the max charge rate with this is 500mA vs the 700mA of the wall charger so it is not as quick as using your wall wart.
[Vibrant Accessories] mornixuur:
First let me say that the offer and tin is way cool! I would be one of those people who would take on the offer because i have no solder skills or intention to learn them at all.

But from a practical point of view wouldn't it be much cheaper and easier to carry two spare batteries for your device? I always carry a charged one with me (for htc desire).
[Vibrant Accessories] hockeyrcks9901:
Sure, you could carry an extra battery but this allows you to charge without turning the phone off. It can also charge almost any device that can charge from usb. So if you have an ipod or other mp3 player, it can charge that too.

Also, for someone like me, when I go camping, I can just bring a few extra AAs and keep my phone going all weekend.

There also is no gadget/nerdy factor of switching batteries but pulling out an Altoids tin and charging your phone is definitely that.

But yes, you could certainly carry two extra batteries and accomplish generally the same thing.

As for the cheaper part, I have no idea. It probably is cheaper for two ebay batteries but personally I don't trust anything but oem quality and some extended battery manufacturers but those haven't been made yet.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant Accessories] metalman3797:
i have a mini solar cell that fits perfectly over the top tin, how would I integrate that into the charger to charge the batteries only when im not using it?