yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible General] Mark0266:
This worked great.

Went back to stock 2.1

Followed the directions here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7933281#post7933281

did a *#*#checkin#*#*

waited about 20 minutes and there was the update
[Android Apps and Games] the3dman:
Upon finding out that I can't upload my programs made in app inventor to the market (currently google restricts this), I decided to help some other AI developers out and allow them to post their apps for download on my website: www.xxthe3dmanxx.com

Curently I am only accepting apps that fall under these requirements.

1) The app must be useful to the android community (no fart or porn type apps)

2) The app must be free (currently I have no way to accept paid apps)

3) OpenSource is recommended but not required.

4) The app must have been made by you.

5) Only app inventor made apps will be accepted.

If you are interested send me a pm with a description of your app and your name for (application credit), if your app is a beta please list known issues with it. If I approve your app I will send you info on where you can send your app. Also if you would like, once your app gets approved you can also send me an icon for your app and I will replace the stock app inventor icon for you (currently there is no way to do this inside app inventor).

Please allow 2 days for a response from me.
[Android Apps and Games] PoTi_96:
hey =D

I can't even get into the appinventor D=

Does some1 know how to get in there?
[Android Apps and Games] the3dman:
App inventor is currently available by invite from google only. Go HERE and fill out the form then wait for your invite. Hope that helps.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaKatsMeow:
I'll preference this post by saying I am a newbie. I'm learning how to tweak my HD2.

That being said, I activated voice notifications and it reads the head line and sender of each of my emails, incoming calls, etc.

I do not know how to DEACTIVATE.

Please point me in the right direction. Its getting me in trouble when in meetings at work.:confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Koolkidz:
How did you activate it in the first place?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xnifex:
Did you try the voice command settings?

Settings Tab>All Settings>Personal>Voice Command
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gupta.anurag08:
Can anyone suggesr me which is the best task killer available in the market..m using task killer from rhythm software..
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TrietHocNhanSinh:
I'm running on the Advanced Task Killer, I do not have any issues with them. What's your problem?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gupta.anurag08:
I tried 2 3 task killers and all were showing different 'available memory' :(
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dundun1701:
Yeah, ATK is the best task killer app I've been using :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dundun1701:
It is because different task killer have different security policy, which allow them to show the system apps or not. So, in the lower security policy, you can see more running apps and gain more memory after kill them :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrtim123:
i do have a question. why are you using a task killer?

I'm not having a dig at people that use them, but more trying to educate people that they are not required :)

"free memory" is not indicative of a healthy system in linux based machines.

please remember the way in which linux based OS's (which Android is) handles memory. Basically, if you have a heap of free memory it is simply wasted, the OS is not running any more efficiently. It is actually slower.

Here is a quick overview. Written for the desktop computer perspective, but translates over to a mobile phone OS quite well.

"Traditional Unix tools like 'top' often report a surprisingly small amount of free memory after a system has been running for a while. For instance, after about 3 hours of uptime, the machine I'm writing this on reports under 60 MB of free memory, even though I have 512 MB of RAM on the system. Where does it all go?

The biggest place it's being used is in the disk cache, which is currently over 290 MB. This is reported by top as "cached". Cached memory is essentially free, in that it can be replaced quickly if a running (or newly starting) program needs the memory.

The reason Linux uses so much memory for disk cache is because the RAM is wasted if it isn't used. Keeping the cache means that if something needs the same data again, there's a good chance it will still be in the cache in memory. Fetching the information from there is around 1,000 times quicker than getting it from the hard disk. If it's not found in the cache, the hard disk needs to be read anyway, but in that case nothing has been lost in time."

Read more here - http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/Linux Memory Management.htm
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gupta.anurag08:
So u mean to say that we shud not use task killers?

Wat if i exit a game in btw then wat happens..will it get automatically killed??
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dundun1701:
Nope, that is the reason why i have to use task killer :)

For me, it help me save much of battery :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavriel18:
Since I stopped using a task killer my battery is better.

Don't use a task killer for a week and watch the difference.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrtim123:
yes and yes!

if your phone requires the resources, it will kill tasks that are no longer required. its all automatic. let it do it itself and you will have a much happier phone :)

AND better battery life, because the android OS is not continually restarting processes that your task killer deems unnecessary. I would trust the actual OS over a 3rd party app. It is designed that way for a reason (see my previous post).
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pco.vaz:
The idea is absolutely right if memory is being used for apps you are likely to open frequently. ATK allows you to unselect the apps you want to keep running. That way you can unselect the ones you use the most and then use the widget to kill everything else.

I notice when I press the home screen many apps don't kill them selfs and after a while I have loads of apps running and the system starts to lag, specially when I try to run something else.

There are advantages in both approaches and I find a mixed combination (available with ATK) makes it best, although the user need to use some common sense to do it right. Killing everything means the system will be more responsive but regularly used apps will take longer to start up. Not killing means the apps you use a lot "startup" faster when you use them repeatedly (as in fact they never stop running) but after a bit the system will lag when using other apps and may need to use pagefile/swap to atone for the lack of free RAM. That causes page faults which make the system even slower.

The iphone developers aren't complete idiots for killing every app. They have a priority for system responsiveness and they did achieve it at the cost of background running apps. I like the possibility to choose what I want to keep running and kill the apps I'm not likely to use again and it's one of the reasons I picked android.

A little Offtopic to both ifanboys and ihaters:

I never owned any apple product as I think of them as over priced. That said I think the iphone has great merit and I doubt very much we would have Android if the iphone didn't pave the way. Besides I jailbreak my brother's 3G and made it multitask enabled. Now it runs apps in background and there is little diference between it and my android. Except for the extra 200€ it cost, the lower hardware specs and expensive service provider contract my brother pays for a mandatory 24 months, while my X10 cost ~65% initially and came free of any contract. :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrtim123:
well said, PCO :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Thats what I and others have found, which is why some people choose to use one, myself included. Someone posted a link to an article last week with similar information posted here about the OS handling itself, but the comments section of the article were full of comments similar to what pco and myself have said, so it's all down to personal preference whether or not you choose to use one.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lord Takyon:
I did use a task killer for a while, then stopped. Personally my phone is better without. I have nothing except weather that updates automatically, I do it manually when I need it.

It is one of those things, just like on a laptop, everyone has different configurations and usage patterns that results will vary.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavriel18:
Don't apps exit when you keep hitting the back button? And for games doesn't hitting exit shut down the app?

I thought its a feature that apps don't close when you hit the home button?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pco.vaz:
The browser for instance doesn't. Same with many other. I think it's up to each individual developer to program that behavior for his app.

I got Visual task switcher and I notice lots of apps just stay running forever.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johndub71:
Task killer caused probs for me. A daily switch off doesnt hurt, but have run mine for 7 days and been ok. Even a bberry cant do that!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxStyle:
Guys, don't use home button to exit apps.

Will just send them in background.

Use the back button... this won't exit (most of) the apps but will put them in a "sleep" state so, next time when you will use it, it will load faster.

So, again, home button will put the app in background, still running.

Test it with an audio player for ex.

Or a browser... send it in background with home button and the player will still play or the browser will still have that page loaded.

With back button, after all views are "closed" the app will close too (well, put in sleep state).

I use ATK only to kill the apps i use once in a while ... the rest of the stuff, is always in memory.

My X10 has usually about 25Mb free :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunawan-1:
Actually I used ATK to kill application that need to connect to internet, and in my case there is extra charge payment. But after i used ATK I don't notice that the battery live is longer. So I ever ask someone in my thread about after ATK kill applications and so forth....

And somebody told me to quit using ATK and now I realize that the battery last longer than before.

But one thing still bother me is:

Setting - Wireless control - mobile network - mms & data (no checklist)

means: I can not access internet and receive or send mms either.

Actually I only need MMS, not internet.

May be somebody can help me solve this problem.

Thanks.

But my conclusion:

NO NEED ADVANCE TASK KILLER.

After I uninstall ATK, my phone still running smooth and the battery last longer.

May be we just need best Cache cleaner. But I still trying some of that.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante-fu:
@pco.vaz

I don't want to be mean, but you are wrong.

Even those iOS versions that are not multitasking enabled keep apps in memory. Leaving an app on an iPhone resets its UI state and halts its processes, but parts of the app are left in the memory. You can see the difference in loading speed if you decide to reopen it.

There were apps that could show memory usage and clean it on the App Store, but Apple removed them. You can still get them through Cydia and see for yourself how memory management on iTouch devices actually works. Basically the iPhone goes as low as 3-4 megs of free memory and handles it in smiliar way as Android.

On both Android and iOS, apps that are in background are paused after a while and do not use processor cycles. Memory they keep occupying is overwritten if needed by another process.

I do not recommend using task killer to people who do not know what they are doing exactly. Killing even simple processes often causes phone instability and drains battery faster, as others have already said.

If you feel your phone is stalled, perform a simple reboot. There are apps that run in background (in most cases you are warned about this) or are poorly coded that could cause this behavior. Other than that, inbuilt application manager is able to force close apps pretty well, if you need to kill a single app causing problems :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lord Takyon:
Currently trying atk to manually terminate a few processes. Generally I am leaving most things untouched.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Long press centre button of phone a pop up comes with some apps..what r these?

Prev used apps or apps still running in background?

I am alreay using task killer..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N@n0:
XDA_UC

Hi,

I came across this a while back on the Energy ROM thread(Q&A part).

Works like a charm(I have 2 accounts, one Exchange and my gmail), but the ROM that you Flash must be UC capable. The xml files configs the email accounts on 1st boot.

Im not allowed to post links yet(first post ever) so just copy & paste the address below, or go look in the Energy ROM thread. :)

xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7333558&postcount=19477

Hope this helps. :)
[Epic 4G General] MobileAllStar:
Any recommendations on where to get free high quality movie downloads for free that I can load on to my precious Epic would be greatly appreciated!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] the3dman:
Upon finding out that I can't upload my programs made in app inventor to the market (currently google restricts this), I decided to help some other AI developers out and allow them to post their apps for download on my website: www.xxthe3dmanxx.com

Curently I am only accepting apps that fall under these requirements.

1) The app must be useful to the android community (no fart or porn type apps)

2) The app must be free (currently I have no way to accept paid apps)

3) OpenSource is recommended but not required.

4) The app must have been made by you.

5) Only app inventor made apps will be accepted.

If you are interested send me a pm with a description of your app and your name for (application credit), if your app is a beta please list known issues with it. If I approve your app I will send you info on where you can send your app. Also if you would like, once your app gets approved you can also send me an icon for your app and I will replace the stock app inventor icon for you (currently there is no way to do this inside app inventor).

Please allow 2 days for a response from me.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] spcfnz:
Thats a great offer,

OK well I'm trying to make a simple app that lets people record voice messages, like " there is ice on the road here" and allow other users to be able to see such warnings before they get to the point in question. I thought it could be used with a compass to determin the direction of travel.

With out building a whole navigation system, do you thinkthis could be achieved ?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] the3dman:
I like the idea. Sounds difficult but just about anything is possible. Its gonna require a nice database. Let me know how it goes.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Julianmgn:
a friend of mine had the idea of making an app and thought that id bring it to life, well the idea is that it lets u choose which keyboard u want to use in landscape mode and portrait mode, example being swype in portrait and stock keyboard in landscape... can this be done?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] the3dman:
Possibly the app would have to recognize which way the phone is and auto switch the default keyboard for you.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ttabbal:
Except that Andriod security stuff restricts that. You can't auto-change the keyboard, you can pop up the dialog to select one, but you can't change it without user intervention.

It makes sense, as keyboards can steal passwords and such, so you don't want to allow a trojan to install a keylogger AND enable it. It would be nice if they would let you pick keyboards to enable switching between though.

This could be bypassed, but it would require a full custom ROM built from source.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] the3dman:
That makes perfect sense. Its always the simple sounding apps that become difficult lol.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] pittphan:
Is there any other way to use app inventor other than getting an invite? Google is stalling on me.

: (

sent from my Vibrant.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] The K-Zoo Kid:
I you could use tasker to pull up input method.. that's what I do

Sent from my Vibrant
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] the3dman:
No currently there is no other way. It took google 4 weeks to get my invite. Just keep waiting.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] couchpotato7:
Hi,

I'm new to android from being a long time nokia fanboy. With the lack of new devices and more importantly a new OS from nokia, I made the switch to android.

Gripes and dislikes will probably come more and more in time with android, but for now I am enjoying it.

First up... When holding the menu key it brings up a 'task switcher' like interface. It seems these are only my previous running apps and not the ones that are actually running.

Already I wish it was like a real task switcher, only displaying the apps that are actually running. Or am I missing something?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
thats just a list a recently run apps, android will auto kill apps when your device needs more ram, try downloading a task manager from the market
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ik Desire:
Or better yet, don't use a task manager, only a minfree manager if you have to. Killing tasks results in more battery usage. Android handles memory management quite well.

Sent from my Evil Lair using Doomsday Device
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
Android doesn't doesn't have a true task manager by default, but this is fine because as Steve Jobs said:

Hmmmm - that iOS4 app drawer allows you to "manage" your tasks........ ;)

Take a look at TaskOS on the Market, if you want something similar to the WebOS and iOS "not a task manager" task manager! :)

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aridoasis:
i just rebooted my phone after transferring some files, and now i'm greeted with gapps (com.google.process.gapps) and gtalk FC.

is there any way to fix this?

i'm putting off flashing to another firmware as last resort... btw, i'm on JM6...
[Hero CDMA General] StephenMilone:
hi everyone,

ive been using a slew of custom roms since our lovely heroes got rooted snd on everyone I setup my work email and calendar along w/ my gmail. When using sense roms it didnt seem to be a problem, same battery life/responsiveness with or without it.

I'm now using CM6, flashing the dailies actually. and after one flash my phone was extremely laggy and the power control widget wasnt working so i wiped, and it was running flawless, fantastic battery life to boot, best i ever had.

I then decided to resetup my exchange email, and boom the phone is garbage. laggy beyond normal use and watching the battery percentage drop from 94 to 89 in the matter of minutes, i chalked it up to it resycning the emails, so i waited it out about an hour, battery life was 67%...so that pinpointed my culprit...

even after setting all my accounts not to sync [i didnt see an option to pinpoint 1], i get the same responsiveness from my phone. It's only after removing it from my accounts and sync section the phone returns to normal.

ps i've only set the calendar (not contacts) to sync, and 3 days of email syncing every hour (longest delay, the sense roms let you pick longer or manual)

anyone have any thoughts? and please dont say use touchdown, i tried it and its not for me. thanks for reading.
[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
Exchange Sync on mine drains the battery to, if its set to PUSH email, if you set it at an interval - even 10 minutes its not so bad. I have mine set to 1 hour and 1 day (About 100 emails a day), so it checks it 6-7 times through the work day, and then I can manually refresh when I am at home. I wish I could set a schedule on it - I don't need the exchange email between 8-5 because the people who email me are 30 feet away and they usually just yell after they send the email. After 5 if it switched to push on its own, it would be awesome.

That being said, the phone is still completely usable with exchange setup, just a battery whore.

EDIT:

I have noticed that even though it is set to an interval, if you are in the email app, or open it it seems to force a sync regardless of settings. I wonder if it does this in the background. I have never paid close enough attention to see.
[Hero CDMA General] StephenMilone:
thanks for the reply, good to know im not the only one whose corporate email sync is a battery hog.

in the mean time i've actually found a bit of a workaround i figure i share for anyone else in my situation. since i barely checked my email but used the calendar alot. I downloaded Google Calendar Sync software on my work pc and set it up to do a 1 way sync and put my Outlook calendar on my google calendar, which syncs with my phone obviously.

So far so good, but i hope the exchange sync issues dont go unnoticed within the CM6 dev team.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] messerschmidtastropuf38:
I tried to root my phone, followed the steps exactly, but after the Galaxy S text I heard only the sound and nothing more seen then (black screen). Yesterday morning it booted up and now I am keeping it on. He seems to function normal, but I observed this morning that the Swype is broken. I can't go nor in Swype settings neither select it as input method. I hope that there are not many bugs like this.

About the root, in my "About phone" it says that it is rooted and I have the MCR and superuser apps in my phone though I did a factory reset before. I am sure that the phone failed at scripts in MCR because after it finished it was laggy and force closed every app. Now my phone seems to work good (like the first day).

Now, the questions:

1. Do you think that when I will reboot it (I will need it some time in the future) it will have the black screen problem?

2. Is it normal to have those 2 apps in my menu if I did factory reset?

3. I found on my sdcard a folder named "resources" in the "ase" and it has 2 files: playlogos1 and userinit.sh, both 0KB. This sounds me like a problem with the boot scripts. Am I right?

4. When the official update 2.2 will be available (via Kies), the phone will reflash? I mean, it updates the 2.1 or reinstalls the OS?(I am a little afraid of reflashing and I prefer the second one)

5. Do I need to worry about other problems in the future?!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devabhishek:
if you have so many doubts why dont you flash a official firmware back again..??

using odin ... what ever region you are in.. just check the latest firmware for ur region and flash back to that firmware...(once you flash to the orignal firmware using odin , its just like the orignal/stock device)

and i dont think you should require any kind of a lag fix , cozz all the latest official firmwares are definitely improved a lot in terms of speed and stability