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[Desire General] /rant/:
Good eveneing dear community

I realize that FroYo was a major leap forward for quite a few of us, especially those limited in phone storage (I'm talking about Nexus One and Desire owners in particular). However, I think there is something seriously wrong with those App2SD capabilities.

I recently got the impression that moving applications to SD storage is killing SD cards too fast. Just after the first official FroYo OTA, I discovered and used the posibility to force move applications to SD storage using ADB shell. The result was that virtually any application could be moved out of the phone's internal storage. So far, so good.

But considering that we get updates from the market every few hours, SD cards are under much more pressure now than they were designed to, aren't they? I'm saying this, because in the exact same configuration I mentioned above, my cards keep dying. Before the OTA, I bought an expensive class 10 Kingston microSDHC card and the performance was indeed remarkable. However, after the OTA and my ADB stunt, my card would get mounted as read-only every few days now. In addition to that, I can't run any applications on the card anymore and the entire system becomes unstable. Unmounting the card using the Android system settings is not possible and neither is formatting. Instead, my phone would sometimes reboot. At first I thought this was a problem with my Kingston SD.

When I ran some tests and did the same things with the official 4 GB card that shipped with my phone as well as with another 8 GB card that came with an older Nokia phone of mine I realized that it wasn't a problem specific to my Kingston card. All of them showed the exact same behavior. This is not just annoying, it also causes data loss, which in my case is unnacceptable!

Has anybody experienced the same? Is this a problem of Android 2.2 or is it just the way microSDHC works? What, besides mounting said damaged cards in a Laptop in attempt fix, can we do about it?

Thank you for any suggestions.

My next phone must have at least 8 GB of internal storage...
[Desire General] nawoa:
Define "dying".

If by dying you mean Android reports there's something wrong with your card, then more likely the problem is software-related rather than the SD being overused.

I got the "your card is fubar" message from my phone but it was as a result of me damaging the file system with a sketchy file manager app. I put it in my computer, did a scandisk. This found the problem, fixed it, I put it back in my phone, voila, perfect again.

Or your problem might be related to the method you're forcibly moving the apps to your SD card. Since you're doing it with ADB rather than through the operating system itself, it's possible apps are corrupting your card's file system as a result of not realizing where they're located. Just a guess.

In any case, SD cards don't (and won't) die from the sort of use you're describing. What might be harmful is storing frequently-used cache on your SD card, but that's not something that you're doing.

Keep in mind that SD cards are intended to be used in cameras, camcorders, etc, and these things write a lot more frequently and aggressively to the card than a little app storage here and there.

I'm not exactly an expert but I'm definitely what I'd call an enthusiast, and let me tell you with certainty: you really have nothing to worry about. Your problem is most likely a software (or related file system issue) or else caused by a one-in-a-thousand random hardware defect. Android, or more specifically, app to SD, isn't a problem.

Maybe you've heard of solid state drives for computers, these are becoming more common. I use one in fact. They operate using technology similar to SD card storage and if ANYTHING was going to stress these things, it would be running a whole computer off them, temp files and all.

Finally, if you're still a little afraid, let me remind you that in fact your phone itself uses the same kind of flash storage as an SD card. Every phone, MP3 player, and similar device does. So in a sense, if wearing out your storage is a concern for you, isn't it better to wear out a replaceable SD card than your phone's irreplaceable internal storage? :)

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So now assuming you trust me that there's nothing to worry about, I would suggest you stop forcibly moving apps to your SD card as a possible long-term solution. If you stop getting card problems, you know what the problem was. Since this means you'll run low on storage, I'd then suggest you install a custom OS that allows you to force-move apps from within Android itself, such as Cyanogenmod.
[Desire General] elmalote:
I've been using this mod since it came out and have had no problems. As mentioned above it must be software related to your phone.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] /rant/:
Thank you so much for calming me down. I just got the impression that my cards are toast. However, as long as there is a possibility to fix this using my laptop, I'm on the good side.

I disabled that ADB stunt, let's look what the next few days bring.
[Desire General] Semicuda:
Just an idea: if your phone (or the sd slot, for that matter) would be somehow messed up, wouldn't that show the same symptoms? It would even explain why _every_ card acts that way. Maybe it's a bad contact in the slot, who knows...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stereoprologic:
Some of you guys might know di.fm, I really like listening to their streams and I recently discovered that there's an app for streaming to an android phone.

However I'm having problems with the streaming on my Desire. The app itself runs fine, but as soon as my device locks due to the 1 minute display timeout or I lock it manually, the streaming will just stop randomly after 30-60 seconds.

As soon I unlock my device and use it, the music returns instantly.

I was hoping one of you guys might help or have been experiencing similar problems.

Here's a link to the app: di.fm/apps/android/

I'm running the following official HTC ROM on my phone:

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.10.405.2_R_Radio_32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_142828_signed.exe
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolfd:
Is it happening on data, or wifi? Have you got juicedefender installed?

It sounds like it's dropping the connection once your phone goes to sleep. If it's only on wifi try this.. Press Menu, then tap settings>wireless and networks>wifi settings>press menu>tap advanced>wifi sleep policy, and set to Never.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stereoprologic:
WiFi sleep policy is set to never. However this is only happening on WiFi. It works fine when I'm on mobile internet.

Thanks for pointing out there are advanced WiFi settings though, I wasn't aware of that.

Problem solved, please close this thread.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] drunkdrumer:
I'm looking for a link for the shapewriter keyboard. I had it on my last Eris but cracked the screen and now when I used the link from the last one I had it says its only a 30 day trial app, which I know is a lie but still can't figure it out. Any ideas?

Eris using XDA App
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] drunkdrumer:
Never mind.. Google handled it for me.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Sjums:
hey gais ^^

have you ever wondered if it was possible to play World War on your computer ?

ohh well, yes ofc it is :P though, there are some security we need to pass first :D

It's simple, you goto wwar.storm8.com/home.php, by sending the right cookies with the request you'll access your home screen :)

to get there cookies.. (the way i did)

root your phone

get "Shark for root users" (from market)

install wireshark on your laptop/PC

start sniffing (on the phone)

start WW (be sure it was totally closed so you get the splash screen)

go back to "shark" and stop sniffing

open astro to send the "shark_12345677.pcap"-file to your mail

open the newly mailed file in wireshark

find the first "GET" http request and copy that link (including values on the URL)

Paste it into your browser

Done

Now you get a pretty empty window <3 well, there's this HTML tag that makes everything "go away" :) i have a greasymonkey script to give me back the right stuff :P

var all = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
all[0].setAttribute("style", "display: block");

set to be acivated on: http://wwar.storm8.com/*

just some background knowledge :)

now the stylesheet need a major fix :D It's only "mobile" friendly xD

I'm not that far yet ;)

baaiii :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] MartiDiamond:
Isnt it also possible to run world war in and emulator? Or won't the internet work then?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Sjums:
not sure about that, but that will still be "annoying" because you have to start up a program ^^

But perhaps someone could make a UI (similar to the game) so your could get an .exe ^^
[Desire Themes and Apps] TorbenKB:
I'd like to see a simular, yet less "nerd-like" solution for iMobsters. :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] preveza:
I was wondering if it would be possible to have 2different world war accounts on the same android phone. Do you have any sollutions?
[Desire Themes and Apps] stsilver:
hi folks,

i cannot really imagine how it would be possible on a single phone, but you can easily have them on PC through SDK and virtual phones. you will, however, face a problem with making an application (world war game in our case) recognise a virtual phone as a real one. search for an Android HP dev system image on the internet for that puprose. after that you'll be able to create as many as you want (you can reg all your phones to 1 google acc, that's alright)

and after all, as all you get from linking accs is just a number of units used in a battle - there's no really a point in keeping dozens of active accs
[Desire Themes and Apps] KooolaNL:
i tried it but i cant seem to find the first request u talk about
[Windows Mobile Themes] Chal:
just a few wooden wallpaper

normal resolution 480×800

cookies home tab wide portrait 960×800

downloads are at the end of this article

http://blog.is-a-geek.org/?p=1009
[Windows Mobile Themes] ericv99:
awesome thank you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldash:
I have no idea what is going on, but my 3G speeds have gone to ****. I've tried everything to get them back... I just don't get it...

This is with 2 'coverage' bars on CM6...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigant262:
How long ago were you getting good speeds? Because it could just be the Sprint network, because they have gotten a lot of new people because of the new phones to come out, and that could be the cause.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldash:
I've had my phone since Aug 11th... So almost a month and a half... My speeds have just got worse and worse as time has gone on... Maybe the network is overloaded, I don't know... but man it sucks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKyleOfEarth:
Try rebooting. I was having that same issue some weeks back. I was hitting > 14.4kbps on 3g and 3.2mbps on 4g. I did a quick restart and 3g shot back up to 600ish kbps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomh1979:
sometimes this is the case, not just the evo, but having to reboot the wife's hero also.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jjday7:
I notice that at night my speeds drop dramatically. I can play youtube vids in the day time without any stutter but once it's about 8pm the numbers on speedtest drop and I have constant buffering. I don't know if it's because everyone is home and bandwith is being used a little heavier or if sprint automatically drops the bandwith at night.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldash:
I've tried rebooting multiple times with no luck... looks like I'm either being capped or in high usage area...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
your ping is pretty terrible too - did you try other servers?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uniquenameevo:
My 3G got really bad right before the unofficial launch of 4G here. Not quite as low as what you show, but BAD compared to what it was.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfrandy:
Welcome to Sprint, mine is exactly the same. I can rarely get over 500 kbps at night but can usually get 1 mbps or better during the day. The weird one is that at night my upload speed is almost always higher then my download speeds.

Night before last I noticed my browser was unusually sluggish so I did a speed test. Download was 39 kbps upload was 150 kbps, did a test the following morning and it was 1101 kbps down and 550 kbps up.

This is in a very rural area, so I seriously doubt if the tower I am connecting to is getting overwhelmed with bandwidth usage.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldash:
Haha, I can hope my man...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmylanman:
Wow, yeah that's pretty bad. I am getting 960Kbps (1040 max) down and 88Kbps (158 max) up speed on one bar (-89dBm)... ran Speedtest right now to check what I'm getting.

Stuff might very well be congested over there, although one way to for-sure rule out bandwidth capping is are you doing anything to cause them to cap your bandwidth?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcellerate:
I'm consistently hitting right around 400 kbs down and 800 kbs up, the only time I hit higher is when I'm roaming then it's 1 mb down.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldash:
Not that I can think of.. I use my phone a lot, but it's not like I'm browsing torrents or anything... Most of my bandwidth is probably youtube and ROM downloads...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldash:
Does the rom you run have any affect on 3G speeds? I've been running CM6 forever though basically...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmylanman:
I'm on CM6, the 9/19 nightly I think (or 9/20 I can't remember). I don't think it has any affect on 3G speeds. I flashed the latest radio and PRI if that makes a difference (didn't notice one).
[Legend Themes and Apps] ananthm2k5:
Are there any apps to do this ?? And if there are which one is the best and which one would you recommend ???
[Legend Themes and Apps] kdma:
gameboid search on market something like 1,99-2,99 $ its worth it
[Legend Themes and Apps] rajasyaitan:
There are quite a few. As you know there is no 'the best' in anything. I recommend GameBoid though. Been using it and no problem so far.
[Legend Themes and Apps] ms_green:
There also is a lite version of the programme which is free.

Another free one is gba emulator free. Both are working well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexluckett:
I turned my phone on earlier as normal, and in the bottom-left corner it said Safe Mode. Firstly, how the heck did I turn safe mode on?! And what is it for?

I know what safe mode is for on Windows, is it roughly the same for android?

I'm using VillainROM 12.0 :)!

Thanks,

Alex
[Vibrant General] allthrottle:
I recently picked up a xbox 360 slim and was wondering if anyone knows how I could stream content from my phone to the xbox. I've tried allshare and neither my my laptop nor the xbox will show my phone. I can see the xbox listed on allshare but can't get the xbox to show my media. I've also tried plugging the phone in with a usb cable and the xbox wouldn't show my phone listed in media device options.

Any suggestions on another method that may work?
[Vibrant General] vgz01:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=727382&highlight=allshare

That should get you started. Xbox 360-specific stuff on Page 2. Basically, on XP use WMP to get AllShare working from your phone. If you're using Windows 7, here's the info as copied from member Gravis86, on Page 2:

"You don't even need to use WMP if you are on Windows 7. All you need to do is go to Control Panel > Home Group and check the libraries you want to share. I'm sharing my pictures, music, and videos folders. Then check "Stream my Pictures, Music,....."

and hit "Save Changes" on the bottom.

Congratulations! Now your stuff is shared with your phone, Xbox 360, PS3, other computers, and anything else on you network. No software needed."
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-ThGraf:
Hello, i did some search about it but any solution works....

On my HD2 active sync is always running in background without reason... How to fix it ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DN41:
for me, the process is also always running. but only, if i had AS activated...i can exit this process with the taskmanager..

doesnt this work for you?

DN41
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-ThGraf:
yeah sure i can close it but after X times it will self open again

I test with an account and without account, he don't try to sync for it just open.... ??
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p107r0:
once upon a time I found this ("Fake Server Trick") - not tested though
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-ThGraf:
I use Activ for Gmail.... but i think i found a solution !

With antoher task manager i will post it tomorow if it's works ... For now after 1hour activsync keep close :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fighter7139:
There is also this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=423540
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-ThGraf:
This is what i'm testing :D

After about 2hours now ActiveSync keep close :P
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-ThGraf:
The method i use (the same one from fighter7139) wroks great

It's solve ! Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] marioos2010:
Hy.

It`s there any program / service like " Mycrosoft My Phone " for Android ?

I don`t wanna backup my contacts and

my sms

( especially that ) on phone but i want to have all this data on a personal account, just like MMP service.

Could i ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryank930:
I have the setting checked to keep screen on while on AC, but it still auto dims to about 10% after 30 seconds or so. I want to stop it from doing this and just keep the screen at 90% all the time. Auto-brightness is already off, and that didn't change anything.

I'm trying to setup a tasker profile to turn the brightness to 90% during the day when in the car. Everything works fine, I can see the screen get brighter, BUT it still dims after 30 seconds and I can't see the display when it's bright out unless I touch the screen, then it comes back to full brightness again.

Help please?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigmoogle:
settings - display - screen timeout - never turn off
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryank930:
I don't have that option. Only goes to 30 min. I'm running CM6.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxy6:
But the screen still dims to about 10% (even with Sense and even while plugged in).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryank930:
Exactly.

I've temporarily resolved this by having tasker open car home, then opening pandora.

When car home is running, it won't dim the screen.

Now I have to figure out how to make it do this without car home open.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonwon:
bump

Did anyone ever find a solution?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awesomeindeed:
Settings > Applications > Development > Stay Awake (Screen will never sleep while charging)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonwon:
This is true but the screen still dims.

Still searching for an answer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spalding1028:
I had the same problem. After some searching I found this over on android forums and it's working like a champ for me. Hope this helps! (I don't think there's any system setting that will change this, unfortunately)

Download the app "Setting Profiles Lite". Lite is free and only lets you create 1 rule at a time, but multiple profiles (Actions you want it to do when the rule is happening)

1. Create a profile that simply changes the screen time out to "Screen Never Times out" Save it as whatever name you want.

2. Create a rule. Under conditions add a condition for Battery that when "plugged into any charger", hit OK. Now add an action to Activate Profile, and choose the profile you made above.

Bam! When plugged into the charger, the screen timeout goes to never, and the screen stays bright, unplug it and time out goes back to whatever you had it set at!

I have been using this for about 10 min now so I'm a rookie but it seems to be working! Make sure if you screw around in it that you don't accidentally disable the rule (I did that because I tried to make another and the Lite won't let you make 2 rules, and it disabled the first one. Just had to long press to enable it again)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayharper08:
Nice find :D Going to try it now....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonwon:
SOLVED

Works great! Thank you for coming up with a fix!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zmore:
THANK YOU!

From time to time I've searched for a solution to this annoying problem, but came up dry. For months I've been using the built-in Power Control widget to manually toggle between Auto-bright when on battery, and Full-bright when on the charger, but NEVER AGAIN :)

I mean, if your phone's on the charger, why wouldn't you want to take advantage of the plentiful juice pouring out of the charger to power the screen? (Maybe, and I don't know if this is true, but maybe the battery will charge slightly slower with the display sucking a bit more of the available 0.5 max amps over USB.)

IMO, this problem is really worthy of being solved by a standalone app, apart from the more general Settings Profile Lite (but now that it's solved... I don't feel the urge to code it anymore.)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zmore:
ChargeBright app

FWIW, I did finally end up writing my own app to solve this problem. Check out the ChargeBright app @ market.android.com if interested.

Settings Profile Lite was overkill since I only needed to tweak one setting: display brightness when charging. ChargeBright saves resources and is better tailored to the specific task in any case.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrodcbass:
Worked like a charm! Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] focused313:
2 years later and this still works like a charm. THANKS.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i_have_desire:
Is there a custom no sense rom for desire with a good battery life?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolfd:
Moved to Q&A, as this is not development.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alsajosora:
I have just tried to root my Desire using unrevoked 3 and it seems to go throught the motions but ends on an

"internal error couldn't find misc" error message......

I am running a stock O2 Froyo Desire with HBoot .93.......Any ideas?

I have a Win7 x64 box, and have all the correct drivers loaded for my phone.

If I run unrEVOked I get the above error message......So my next step was to run in Virtual XP mode to see if maybe it was a X64 issue....Still the same error.....

Last night I reset my phone to factory defaults and re-ran unrEVOked.....No joy....So after trawling through more forum posts I came across how to run unrEVOked from an Ubuntu live cd.....So I downloaded and burnt off the live cd, ran the script as specified (really neat and easy to use BTW) to get the latest version of unrEVOked and run it.......Guess what......Still the SAME error message......Methinks maybe something screwy with the O2 version of Froyo?

Anyone else had the same issue? Are running an O2 rom?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rensje:
I'm having a really annoying problem with my Desire, whenever I try to lock it my screen automatically switches on again. And when I keep trying to lock it, my phone reboots. This problem occurred yesterday and not for any apparent reason, I didn't do anything with my phone that I don't normally do.

My phone is rooted so I thought it would easily be fixable with a complete reset/wipe and installing a new rom, but unfortunately it didn't fix anything.

So now I'm losing hope and I'm starting to get afraid it's an hardware issue unable to be fixed by me. So has anyone ever experienced this problem, and more importantly have you found a way to fix it?

Specs:

Dutch Vodafone HTC Desire

about 4 months old

ROM: AuraxTSense v7.6.1 Sense-FroYo 2.2 Official OTA
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Banaander:
RENS is ****ing homo

Rens is a fag with his small penis:d
[HD2 General] demroger:
that is it??