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[Android Themes] ASimmons:
So just a tip adb can be accessed anywhere you want. same with file you want adb to access. so if you open a cmd on your windows box and adb is in c:\android then your adb command would be "android/adb <command>" or if your in the android folder and you want adb to see a file else where use a relative path, so if you want a file on the c:\ you would do "adb push ../file system/app" notice the ../ in front of the file name this tells cmd to backup one dir so with this you cann backup all the way to c:\ and then go forward to anyfolder on your computer.

Also for the signing Java needs to be in your classpath. try this...

Its needed for the signer to work properly goto a command prompt and type in java -version. if you get and error back java is not in your classpath and needs to be.

just right click on my computer, then goto properties, then click on the advanced tab, at the bottom click on the "Environment Variable" button.

Now click on the new button... the one on the bottom for system variable and put in this

variable name: JAVA_HOME

variable value: C:\<path-to-where-java-is>

Now click ok and select the path system variable and then click edit. IMPORTANT only append to the end of the value this... ;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

then click ok and ok out of all those windows and open a new command prompt and type java -version you should get no error if you do your path to java was wrong follow the steps above again and make sure the path is correct.
[Android Themes] fifthstreetjammer:
aight man thanks again, i will definitely give this a try when i get off work and back on my home pc. ive already done all the editing to the png's in the apk just need to sign the damn thing so i can install it. also i've read that i need to remove the original apk before installing, correct? if so how do i remove system apk's, like googlequicksearchbox.apk. im assuming root explorer will let me delete that and then use adb to push, or should i use adb to remove as well?
[Android Themes] ASimmons:
nope no need to remove it a flashable will over write your apk and you won't lose any user data.
[Android Themes] fifthstreetjammer:
ok, i open the start menu, search "java" right click on properties file locations shows C:\users\brenda so thats exactly what i typed into variable value.

my variable on path looks like this prior to any editing..%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Teleca Shared;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\...then i obviously just added ;%JAVA_HOME%\bin to the end of that...still the same errors

ive attached the photos for maybe im just an idiot and missing something, i appreciate you trying to help, and if you don't need to invest anymore of your time with it its cool or any other directions are welcome and if any other screenies would help tell me...thanks again man:cool:
[Android Themes] lovethyEVO:
Search the evo theme forum for a thread by regaw_leinad about a zip signer. That might be able to get you somewhere with your signing. If not you can always try to uninstall java completely and the sdk if you have it and start over from scratch. Good luck.
[Android Themes] ASimmons:
thats not java then I can assure you that java will almost always be in program files/java/jre<version>/... then in the jre directory you will see a bin folder. Java is just a program like any other the system variable you are entering are so that java can be seen by other program with out having to type in the full path to where java is ie instead of c:/program files/java/jre/bin/java.exe you can just do java.exe.

So the signer scripts that people setup can't guess where java is as with most programs that use java so the common practice is to put java in your system path. So you make a JAVA_HOME system variable. this will point to where the jre is on your system, Then you take that variable and append it to the path variable, the path variable is what is used by cmd in windows for all the programs that are short cutted so you don't have to type out the fullpath. Think about telnet or netstat when in cmd you dont have to say windows/system/telnet just telnet that because the windows/system is in your path.

So in short don't uninstall java just find out where java is installed and fix your JAVA_HOME variable, your path setup look correct since all you need is JAVA_HOME/bin.
[Android Themes] fifthstreetjammer:
big shout out to both of you for your time

i got my java **** straight, i can run the scripts, ive spent the last hour theming ultimate droid on the incredible orange, and some how i've managed to make it happen. you guys helped out alot and can't wait to pass it along. it no where near what i want it to be, but now i know how to make it happen it won't be nuthin to get it how i want it. it's just a matter of finding where within the rom's are the exact widgets and different parts i wana customize, and i'm sure ill be asking and getting that info of here too, but it's 330 and i gota be at the airport at 6 so im crashing. can't say enough about your help and this site :cool:
[Android Themes] fifthstreetjammer:
Here are some screenies

i themed the phone dialer, the google search widget, pandora, and springpad widget for starters. couple of other mods but im busy and dont have a ton of time. thanks again:cool:
[Android Themes] kenp004:
theme disapears

I have followed your instruction on the first page. works great until I try to sign it. I place the ziped folder in place-apk-here for signing folder. click on the script the cmd screen comes up and everything seems to work. I choose number 16 to sign it it says it is signing and lists the name of my theme but when it is done the place apk... folder is empty and I can not find my new theme anywhere. What am I doing wrong, any Ideas?

after several more attempts I ended up pushing the framework-res.apk to my phone and then rebooting. Something went wrong because i got stuck in a boot loop. maybe I am not meant to be able to theme.

attached is my framework file. it is a combination of impalled blue, cm 6.1.0 stable release and flip n blue. plus some of my own color modifications.
[Android Themes] ASimmons:
This is a bug in the apk manager... theres an option to up the memory args for Java. Up them to 512 and then run option 16. The signer runs out if memory when trying to sign the file and deletes it.
[Streak 5 General] mrdegriz:
Does anyone smarter than me know exactly what the GPL rules are on what people have to release? Seems to me that Dell have been somewhat remiss?
[Streak 5 General] fards:
the latest version seems ok

the included oem file allows it to build, and it boot. that's what the GPL says..
[Streak 5 General] smokku:
The exact GPLv2 wording is:

It's yet to see whether "all modules" is covered, but at the first glance it looks fine.
[Streak 5 General] mrdegriz:
Ahh, at last. I should probably catch up with news before ranting.. :D
[Streak 5 General] sooby77:
I observed with the System Panel app that the Streak CPU automatically scale. Is this a normal Android OS behavior? Anyone else noticed this? I'm using the O2 2.1 beta version ROM. Perhaps this is why we have a pretty decent battery life?
[Streak 5 General] OrionBG:
Every bile device scales the CPU! At least Android and Windows Mobile based ones! Symbian too. This is normal behavior for a mobile device!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newnoise1024:
for some reason my contacts on my desire are read only, i cant edit them at all.

any ideas as to what would cause this?
[Captivate General] superballz00:
Voice calls are using way more of the battery than anything else. I just finished a 26min call and the batter went down 14%. Under battery usage it saids 35min of voice calls accounts for 29% usage while display on time of 1h42min only acconts for 20%. Cell standby time of 2d 10h32min accounts for 29% with 0% for time without signal. I have the data turned off unless I'm browsing the web so shouldn't voice call w/o 3g use even less battery? I remember my LG Vu using way more battery when calling with 3g on. My reception ranges between 3 and 5 bars. Battery life is great if I don't do voice calls. I can go 3 days with moderate use if I don't do voice calls. Does this seem normal?
[Captivate General] roadrash7:
I think its normal for voice calls to drain the most battery. 14% for 26 minutes is not right though it should be like about 5 or 6ish% with no web browsing during calls. Check your percentage and then do a 25 minute call and see how far it goes down it wont be 14% if it is you got problems holmes
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
The official spec says 5 hours or so of talk time. So, 26 minutes using 14% battery seems close enough.
[Captivate General] ianwood:
Normal? Yes. Signal strength indicators can be misleading with respect to the amount of power the phone will consume while active. Signal quality will vary a lot depending on a number of factors which influences power consumption.
[Captivate General] superballz00:
I just fully charged it and made a 30min call. Battery went from 100% to 85%. If the drain rate holds I can only get a bit over 3hrs of talk time with a full charge. That would made the Captivate by far the worse phone I've ever owned in terms of talk time. Good thing I rarely make calls or else I would return it for something else.
[Captivate General] krazydonutboy:
I have noticed awful battery use from calls too. Right now, my phone's Been unplugged since 630 am (it's now 930 pm). 26 minutes of calls used 29% battery. 2 hours 15 minutes of display on used 32%. Extrapolating the usage, that's about an hour and a half of talk time, ~1%/minute. Seems extreme.
[Captivate General] JPS81:
The current specs for modern smartphones I believe will radiate up to 1 Watt in the 1800/1900Hz band and 2W in the 850/900 band. If your signal is very strong (few obstructions) then you will not radiate that much power (minimum I think is 150mW), however if a signal fails, your phone will continually step up its power output to try to be able to send/recieve properly until it hits 2W or 1W (depending on which band you're on).

That's up to 2 Joules/sec.

The stock battery is 1500mAh, which is 5400 Coulombs (an Ampere being Coulomb/sec, a mAh being 3.6 Coulombs).

If I remember correctly, our phone runs at 3.7V (I believe most cellphones these days operate between 3-4V), which is 3.7 Joules per Coulomb (one Volt being one J/C).

That means that:

5400 Coulombs * 3.7 J/C = 19980 Joules

(19980 J) / (2 J/s) = 9990 seconds or 166.5 minutes of max talk time on max power.

14% of your battery would be 756 Coulombs (0.14 * 1500 * 3.6). That's 2797.2 Joules. At max power that's only 1398.6 seconds or 23.31 minutes.

So your rate of 35 minutes of voice calls for 14% of your battery is actually considerable under max power, and that's not even including other drains on battery (OS, speaker/mic, etc).

Note that this doesn't mean the Captivate is somehow horribly inefficient: these are standard ballpark figures for all phones. If you had to use up max power for a phone call, NO PHONE, not the Droid X, not the iPhone 4, not the Galaxy S line, would last very long. It's a simple matter of physics.

Note that the maximum talk time advertised by any company is well above that, as it should be, because it would be ridiculous for a phone to have to go 100% all the time. I believe for our phone, Samsung claims 350 minutes of talk time, which would mean somewhere in the neighborhood of half power in the lower band, which seems pretty reasonable.

Note that my simple math doesn't take into account a lot of little variables, but the ballpark figures seem very reasonable. I'm not an RF Electrical Engineer (yet, I'm actually about three semesters away from being one), so take my numbers with a rather large grain of salt.
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
@JPS81 - your logic is solid to me.

Most people don't understand that signal bars mean little, and low signal areas will really suck the juice from a phone - even when not on a call.

Just about all phones have a 1500 mAh battery these days and most are rated at about 5 hours talk time. This site (link below) actually tested the most popular phones and the Captivate did a bit better then its rating while the iPhone 4 did worse. I don't know if comparing different carriers together is valid, but certainly an iPhone versus a Captivate on AT&T in the same physical location is a valid test.

http://www.tested.com/news/manufacturer-cell-phone-talk-time-claimstested/955/
[Desire General] nixey55:
I have a orange Desire debranded and rooted.

I really would like to get rid of the rubbish like stocks a tweeter etc.

Can someone please recommend a Custom Rom that is fast and stable with sense, and if possible bluetooth voice dialing capabilities.

I appreciate your advice,

Thanks
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milancex:
when i record a video with camera, when watching, it's realllly slow, it skip every 1 second.. it plays, 1st, 3rd, 5th... why that?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] altae:
It's a known problem of the Xperia X1. If you watch the movie on a desktop pc it runs smoothly. Bad engineering I would say.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milancex:
Yeah that's the problem, it is also problem on XPeria X10, but there it records at 720p HD
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] altae:
For me it helped to overclock the processor to 672 MHz using WinmoSpeed. Now all videos recorded with my Xperia X1 run smoothly.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
For those of you who like the Samsung's iPhone-style keyboard from the other Galaxy S models (yet another thing mysteriously removed for Verizon), I've attached the .so and .apk files from the latest Captivate deodexing. Just copy 'em into /system/lib and /system/app respectively, reboot, and they should work. (Or you could use adb, but that's not working for me right now.) You may want to remove the LatinIME stock android apk/odex that the Fascinate ships with -- the Samsung apk includes the Android keyboard as well.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
Here tossed it in a flashable zip for clockwork, haven't tested it but should work.

Thanks s44, for this.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] spotmark:
Does it support Swype?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Swype is its own app.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] kvaughan:
THANK YOU! I've been waiting for this
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tats_06:
There is no text prediction...otherwise it looks nice. :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] kvaughan:
Yes there is you have to turn it on under XT9 settings
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tats_06:
Thanks!!! Found it.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] CouchSpud:
Thanks a bunch dude. This keyboard is pretty sweet.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] erasmogjr:
Thank you I have been waiting for this. Any way to turn off the sound on click I must be blind lol
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] taypotts:
I don't hear any sound?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] erasmogjr:
I used the update.zip and if all volume is up there is a click feedback for typing I can live with it but it is a little annoying and if I turn system volume off using audiomanager widget the sound is off and my headache goes away lol.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] taypotts:
Found it.. go into settings > sounds and display and uncheck audible touch tones. That will turn the sound on or off
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Yeah, if you're a non-swyper (totally different feel) this is definitely the one to use.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] DUNC4N:
Trying it now, seems to lag a little bit for me.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] azalvarez03:
Awesome!!! thanks this keyboard rocks!!!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ckochinsky125:
it works i just did it through clockwork
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] htcincpa:
Choose keyboard

I installed this, but can't get it to switch over to the new keyboard. Is there something special you have to do to choose the keyboard as default?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Long-press in any text entry field to bring up the keyboard selection menu.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] htcincpa:
Thanks

Thanks, that worked and this keyboard is awesome.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hd0120:
I tried to copy the 2 files to the phone via adb but it failed (failed to copy read-only files). Can someone please show me another way to transfer these files?

Thanks a lot.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
If you flashed Clockwork, you can use the zip in the second post -- just have Clockwork flash it from its recovery mode (which you get to by running its update.zip out of the initial recovery mode). Otherwise, if you have root, just copy the files to the sd card by traditional means (mount the sd card over usb or just push them over bluetooth if your PC is paired) and use a terminal app to su then "busybox cp" the files into /system (a pain to type in) or move the files with Root Explorer (paid app).
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hd0120:
I got them to work. Thanks a lot.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Redboneqt:
I'm new to the forum and the rooting language. I have root explorer but don't know how to move the file over. Can someone explain like I was a two year old?

Sent from my Fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Hee. OK, open Root Explorer. You should start in "/". Make sure you're mounted in read/write mode -- "Mounted as r/w" should be in the active (dark, left) tab. If not, tap the "mount as r/w" tab to switch.

Now scroll down and tap on /sdcard to switch directories. Long-press on one of the files to bring up the context menu. Pick "Move". Scroll up to the top of the directory and tap the ".." folder to go up a directory level. Tap /system and then either /lib or /app depending on which file you picked. Once you're inside the proper directory hit the paste button that's been at the bottom of your screen since you started the Move process. Navigate back to /sdcard and repeat with the other file.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Irishpride:
How do you remove the captivate keyboard if you installed it through CW?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] TheAlmightyDrew:
So you drop the .so file into the /system/lib and .apk into the /system/app folder? Then you remove the LatinIME.apk file from the /system/app folder?

That is all I have to do?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Yep. There's also a LatinIME.odex and a tutorial for LatinIME (forgot the exact name, but it's obvious) that you can also remove from /system/app.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] TheAlmightyDrew:
And you don't need to be rooted right?

I just plugged in my Fascinate to my computer and I don't even have an app folder.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
You either need to be rooted or flash the Clockwork kernel and use the .zip in the second post. (See post 22 for more.) Or you could use adb, but you might as well grab permanent root access at that point.

Mounting the phone over USB only gives you access to /sdcard and its subdirectories, not /system.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Redboneqt:
New problem. I don't know where the file downloaded.

Sent from my Fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Redboneqt:
I got everything installed but I haven't rebooted to see if it works. Should I uninstall the latin and samsung apk mentioned?

Sent from my Fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Redboneqt:
OMG. The app won't install from the system folder. It goes through the motions then says application not installed. Help please...

Sent from my Fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
You don't install stuff that's in /system. You just put it into the right directory and reboot.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Redboneqt:
I gave it to my IT guy and he installed. I don't like it much. Kinda like the swype keyboard better. Thanks for the assistance everyone. The step by step was very thorough.

Sent from my Fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] mackeydesigns:
my wife prefers this one, so I put it on her phone, i switched back to swype when I realized I can't swype on this one, LOL
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] caminator:
quick question for you all...after reading this thread, I just learned that I can change between swype and the android kb. I've been using the swype since I go tthe phone and enjoy swying, but I also type 50% of the time too. I HATE the swype kb. I'm not sure why, but it seems really hard to type on it for me. Here's the question..

Is there a way to use the swype, but with a different keyboard that is better than they swype kb?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] sumfknguy:
flashing it worked just fine.. I love everything about it except the damn sound!! Anyone know if it would be possible to disable the sound??
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
that will do the trick :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] SirFenwick:
Try Ultra Keyboard on the market. Its very customizable and has a ton of features including a swype type deal.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] earl26:
Will somebody post pictures? Thankyou :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] mcDragon:
Works great Thanks a bunch to all the posters who went to great lengths to make noobs, like self, understand the process to achieve the final goal. I hated the Fascinate KB with the Mic next to the space bar. Really annoying. This KB is much nicer to deal with.

McDragon
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] BAleR:
Do I need to have a deodexed rom to use this?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
No.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] BAleR:
the only file i see is the system.7z
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Yeah, I packed the two files into a 7zip archive (if you don't have the 7zip program, you should anyway). Either extract and manually install directly with Root Explorer or adb, or use Clockwork (if you have that installed) to flash the zip version (don't unpack this!) a few posts after - Clockwork will put files into their directories straight from an archive.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] BAleR:
So if and when 2.2 comes out will i have to put all this back?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] crusecontrl:
Thank you very much
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] larsdennert:
Isn't there a Samsung keyboard that has cursor controls so you can actually position the cursor in text? I know swype does but it doesn't do correction as well as the Android keyboard.

Someone should write an app that turns the volume rocker into a left/right arrow when the keyboard is active!!!!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ktez:
Smart Keyboard Pro and the trial version have this feature - not the volume rocker but there is a key that will bring up an arrow pad. It does come in handy when your have clumsy fingers!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Well crap, this doesn't seem to work with DJ05. Or has anyone succeeded?

Edit- never mind, just tried again with Frostman's zip (post #2) thru Clockwork and it works. Not sure how it failed before: I probably deleted something important in the process. Moral: don't try this after pulling an all-nighter.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] kenshell:
Thanks

I like this much better then the old kb
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] thedubixcube:
I can't seem to get this to take, even through CWM. Odd.

EDIT: Never mind. Missed post 19.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Dumbinho:
Has anybody figured out how to turn off the sound besides the system volume?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] TxMoose:
Did anyone have the keyboard freeze on screen? Mine did and when I hit the back key it drew everything above the keyboard, as in I could only see the bottom half of my home screen/any app I could get to launch. Also, the only way to fix it was a reboot, but the power button was not working so I had to pull the battery... After that it was fine.