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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
Whilst your knowledge is great, the fact that you're unnecessarily bringing up an old thread from 2010 is not. I understand the need for 10 posts, and using your knowledge to help others in order to get 10 posts is the best way of doing it, but do it on new threads rather than old ones please.
[HTC Aria General] JimHorn:
The date entry scheme in Android, with its scrolling vertical numbers, is consistent with its time entry. But often I really miss a simple calendar approach. Yes, it's not difficult to say three weeks from today is the same as adding 21 modulo whatever the current month's length is - but selecting (for instance) the third Thursday of February of next year isn't really feasible with the current entry method (unless you memorize Conway's Doomsday Algorithm).

Any suggestions? Time for me to dive into Android code to write a freebie extension?

Jim Horn, Hood River, Oregon USA
[HTC Aria General] CGG318:
You could always scroll through the months on the actual calendar.
[HTC Aria General] JimHorn:
True, but that means leaving the date entry field and the whole appointment you've already started entering, going back to calendar (vs agenda) view, scrolling around to find the information, going back to agenda view, reselecting what you've started entering, then entering what you've hopefully not forgotten while doing all this.

All of which defeats the purpose of having a computer in the phone to help you out rather than get in the way. In Outlook / Palm / etc. when you need to select a date you get the calendar view immediately and you tap the appropriate date. Simpler, faster and easier than vertical scrolling ribbons.
[HTC Aria General] CGG318:
No offense, but I really don't see what is so hard about selecting the date before entering information. All seems pretty intuitive to me.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] mingkee:
Please make a special version for froyo, which can route the internet to wifi as AP or router.

Since somebody is able to enable mobile hotspot (though DHCP is disabled), root-free wifi internet sharing is possible.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orb3000:
Thanks, this will be very useful;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
Hi, I have also wrote my own Window API wrapper which allows for enabling and disabling windows, getting the full exe file path from a given window class, a simple class for restarting an application and more will be uploaded soon. :) All this is used in my Touch Tools 2.0 Suite!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orb3000:
Great to know!, looking forward for your release:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] v3patel:
Can you add

wifi on/off/toggle

bluetooth on/off/toggle

gprs on/off/toggle
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Corias:
VisualStyleHelper needs WindowHelper class, which is not included. :( Google search for WindowHelper shows C# class only, no VB code.

Here it is:

Public Class WindowHelper

Private Const GW_HWNDFIRST As UInteger = 0
Private Const GW_HWNDLAST As UInteger = 1
Private Const GW_HWNDNEXT As UInteger = 2
Private Const GW_HWNDPREV As UInteger = 3
Private Const GW_OWNER As UInteger = 4
Private Const GW_CHILD As UInteger = 5

<DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
Public Shared Function GetWindow(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal uCmd As UInteger) As IntPtr
End Function

<DllImport("coredll.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
Public Shared Function GetWindowText(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, <Out()> ByVal lpString As StringBuilder, ByVal nMaxCount As Integer) As Integer
End Function

<DllImport("coredll.dll", SetLastError:=True, CharSet:=CharSet.Auto)> _
Public Shared Function GetWindowTextLength(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr) As Integer
End Function

<DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
Public Shared Function GetParent(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr) As IntPtr
End Function

<DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
Public Shared Function GetWindowLong(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal cmd As Integer) As Integer
End Function

<DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
Public Shared Function GetActiveWindow() As IntPtr
End Function

<DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
Public Shared Function SetWindowLong(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal nIndex As Integer, ByVal newWndProc As IntPtr) As Integer
End Function

End Class
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
@Corias

Lol, how could I have missed including the Window Helper Class! I will prepare some files and include all my classes in them so it will give everyone better understanding.

BR

Gaz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Corias:
Good. I tried to convert VC# Window helper, everything works except EnumChildWindows (VB reports missing type Window). Any ideas on it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mumtaz64:
Awesome work, will try it when i finish the main skeleton of my little program. Will post soon.

... and thank you :)
[General Questions and Answers] rydyd:
Hi there, so i just installed Villianrom 12, and RA-Hero v.1.7.0.1, I'm trying to update through VillianRom updater, so it downloads and offer to install, but when it reaches the recovery mode, it just hangs at copying files, I've left it for 1 whole hour and nothing has changed. Other people seem to have this problem,but have solved it somehow.

Can someone please tell me what to do? I'm new to this whole thing so please be easy on the words :)

Thanks in advance.

(I'm running VillianRom 12 on HTC Hero GSM and I've partitioned my SD card too.)

Thanks

Also, the updates are:INCR:Fixed APNs List

and INCR:More Locales Enabled
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
edit: *Burn in may not be noticeable at the early stages unless you examine the screen, I used "Screen Test" app from market, please download this or something equivalent, and examine your screen closely before you vote."

So this may not apply to those who just purchased their phone, but for those of you who got your phone around launch time, examine your phone for burn in. Use "Screen Test" from the market, and go through each color, looking for burn in. Oh this is a new addition, I noticed my burn in his worse when the screen is set to the lowest brightness setting. So repeat the test after you dim your screen.

I've had my phone over 2 months, downloaded "screen test" and guess what. The AM/PM up in the notification bar has burned in!

When you download "Screen Test" app, you will notice two things about your screen. Do not be alarmed, the following is normal.

1) Very thin green vertical line along left side of screen

2)Thin gray-shady horizontal bar on top, this is not the notification bar burning in.

What is not normal....BURN IN!

Can't believe the AM/PM is burnt in after 2 months. Shame.

Samsung has to update this by having the time hop around the notification bar instead of staying stationary.

Maybe a dev can work on this?
[Vibrant General] Squirrelmaster22:
Got mine on launch day. No burn in.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Did you examine the screen using "Screen Test" or an equivalent app?
[Vibrant General] speedysilwady:
got mine on launch and my PM is burned in =/
[Vibrant General] Squirrelmaster22:
Screen test, from the market as you suggested.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
:( They really need to change the time and AM/PM stamp from being stationary, they need to make it hop around the notification bar, or something. This is horrible, 2 months and AM/PM is burning in!

I'm sure the signal bars, wifi, and other stuff in notification bar will start to burn in next.

I'm also worried about the battery full message that stays on all night, that will start to burn the screen too.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
No burn in here. Got my phone the third week of August.
[Vibrant General] speedysilwady:
i always thought leds burned cooler so the idea of burn in never even occured to me on this phone or any other phone for that matter...i doubt a warranty calim would fix it because i think all these vibrants will eventually have burn in...it wouldnt be easy i think to have an animated notification bar, but CM6 does have an option to remove and modify stuff on the notification bar like time and signal, wifi etc.
[Vibrant General] vinnydakid:
For making me notice this, I hate you.

I don't always complain, but when I do, I #BlameWes
[Vibrant General] axion68:
I have the green line on the left side and the gray bar up top, but no am/pm.

Do you guys leave the display on while it charges?

My display is only on while I use the phone, I got it around release date
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
Not totally for me, but I can see it faintly coming in. I have had this phone (my third one) for almost 2 months now.
[Vibrant General] dbm0361:
I use beautiful widget works great had since day one in august screen is perfect
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
I'm kind of curious why an AMOLED screen would get burn-in. There's no backlight, so the only image we see is coming from emitting pixels. Is there a coating on the glass that burns in?
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Good question. Could the following be a possibility?

LED's eventually start to die off. Could areas that are always lit, for example the AM/PM is always on, thus those LED's are dying, which makes that area unable to to fully brighten, giving the impression of burning in, since the surrounding LED's are still bright.

That's just a guess on my part.

Also, are you sure Amoled's don't burn in, or is that just a guess/opinion/question on your part?
[Vibrant General] qreffie:
I can't really vote since I've only had it for a month and a few days, but I don't have any burn in. It's probably because it never disabled orientation flip and I do watch a some kind of video on the phone daily.
[Vibrant General] Tpavey:
Had mine since day one. No burn in. my phone barely makes it to the charger most nights and some it needs an afternoon charge so I definitely use the phone quite a bit.
[Vibrant General] DonutYankee:
Damn it. Did screen test. Area where signal bars and time would be are clearly suffering from burn in. Awesome! This, combined with the generally bad software is making me consider selling this and never buying a Samsung phone ever again. (Sad, because their TV's are the best of the bunch.) To be fair, it's only noticeable when you look for it during a white screen and only in that area. Still, really Samsung? I've had this phone for 2 and a half months.
[Vibrant General] smutek:
Had my phone for about a month and a half now, ran screen test and am seeing burn in

.
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
Got my Vibrant the day it launched - July 15th - no burn in, I use it quite a bit, but have the screen timeout after 30 secs.
[Vibrant General] valkster:
Surely is burning in. Barely see it, but it is visible.

Sent via Galaxy S and Tapatalk
[Vibrant General] DuckmanEG:
Have a slight AM/PM showing up in landscape mode. Use alot of internet :)
[Vibrant General] FastKatt:
This bites. I have the "PM" burn in on the top left corner. Shows up clear as day with the screen test app. What's worse is I can see it on the wall paper if I hide the notification bar in ADW.

I remember reading that some plasma TVs had a "white out" mode (screen at full brightness and completely white for a period of time) that could be used if something burned into the screen. Knowing this isn't plasma, I still wonder if the technique would work or if it would just further damage the screen.
[Vibrant General] pdefazio:
I work in television, and burn-in is definitely a problem on plasma screens and CRT screens. Not so much on LCD and LED screens. They don't have the phosphors that plasmas and CRTs do. The phosphors are what "burn."

However, it is possible to "overuse" pixels that will wear faster than others - so to speak. This is not technically burn-in. Burn in is something you can see when the screen is off (e.g. ever go to an ATM. Take note of the screen. They usually have burn-in)

On a LCD or LED screen - it takes hours, if not days, of a continual static image to effect the pixels. It's very difficult to do.

Set your screen timeout to 30 seconds and you should be fine.
[Vibrant General] Emama:
Am i lucky as i use 24-h and no burn in is found in my phone, bought this in the launched day

But quite a shock that so many ppl here got burn in already, it is only like three-month phone!!
[Vibrant General] FastKatt:
I wouldn't count on thais being the solution. My timeout is and has been 30 seconds since I got the phone back in July. This is the result of normal daily use.

Not sure if it makes a difference but I use the phone primarily inside so my brightness is also turned all the way down when I do use it.
[Vibrant General] adm1jtg:
Maybe I am missing the point but if you cant see the "burn-in" without a special program what does it truly matter?
[Vibrant General] pdefazio:
Are you seeing the PM when the screen is off? If no, then what you are seeing is not "burn-in." It is probably something called image persistence, and it can be corrected. Do a google search for solutions.
[Vibrant General] pdefazio:
To those of you that are having this problem - do you have this setting applied?:

menu > applications > development > stay awake

Just trying to find a rhyme or reason.
[Vibrant General] swehes:
No burn in

I have had the phone since it came out and I don't have any "burn in". And I use the phone quite often.
[Vibrant General] FastKatt:
I do not have this setting applied.

I'll check out image persistence to see if that offers a solution. Thanks.
[Vibrant General] FastKatt:
As I mentioned, I see it anytime the notification bar isn't visible. Right now it's not very noticeable but it is there. This is after 2.5 months of use. I typically keep a phone for two years. I am concerned about how much worse this may get with 22 months to go if there isn't a "fix".
[Vibrant General] pdefazio:
I humbly stand corrected. Upon further investigation, the O (organic) in the OLED screen makes its different in this regard than your regular LED screen(which is really just a LCD screen with slightly different technology.)

This from Wikipedia:

Plasma displays are highly susceptible to burn-in, while LCD-type displays are generally less so. Because of the more rapid luminance degradation of current organic compounds used in OLED-type displays, OLED is even more susceptible to burn-in than plasma.[citation needed] In addition, the wide variation in luminance degradation with OLED [1] will cause noticeable color drift over time (where one of the red-green-blue colors becomes more prominent).

In the case of LCDs, the mechanics of burn-in are different than plasma and OLED, which develop burn-in from luminance degradation of the light-emitting pixels. For LCDs, burn-in develops in some cases because pixels permanently lose their ability to return to their relaxed state after a continued static usage profile. In more typical usage profiles this image persistence in LCD is only transient. All major LCD manufacturers' warranties exclude coverage for burn-in (permanent image persistence) as a result.[citation needed]

Both plasma-type and LCD-type displays exhibit a similar phenomenon called transient image persistence, which is sometimes confused with screen burn but is not permanent. In the case of plasma-type displays transient image persistence is caused by charge build-up in the pixel cells (not cumulative luminance degradation as with burn-in), which can be seen sometimes when a bright image that was set against a dark background is replaced by a dark background only; this image retention is usually released once a typical-brightness image is displayed and does not inhibit the display's typical viewing image quality.

I guess we just need to be careful with keeping our screens on for hours at a time!
[Vibrant General] qreffie:
I just changed the time to the 24 hour setting which should eliminate the problem until there is a fix.
[Vibrant General] gstboi04:
nope dont see any burn in, got my phone end of july.
[Vibrant General] darksandz93:
MOTHERF******.........i have it too.......wow...
[Vibrant General] n0r4d:
Had my captivate less than a month and the screen is never on unless i use it. But i do have the same b

urn in...this is kind of lame.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Because this is the early signs of burn in, actually for me....I don't even need to run the screen test app to notice it. For example, when I start up angry birds....the angry birds start up is a white page with the company logo, guess what i see burned into my screen, I see the stupid AM/PM. In my case at least, it is becoming evident in everyday use.

I also have to add, my brightness tends to usually be low, and my phone is also set to quickly dim itself after like 30 seconds.

This just SHOULD NOT be happening for a 2 month phone.
[Vibrant General] PsychoCemia:
Meh. It's a phone. It uses new screen technology (AMOLED) that hasn't been put in the field before, and it's already been proven that the technology it's based on (OLED) is more susceptible to burn-in than any other screen technology.

Sooo...what do you expect? I'm sure you can still see everything, and any girl you're trying to pick up with your phone won't notice at all. Calm down. Have a drink. You'll live.
[Vibrant General] smutek:
Not sure, but I have a feeling he expects that a 2 month old, 500 dollar phone should not have screen burn in already.

Difficult concept, I know.
[Vibrant General] pdefazio:
Whether or not the AMOLED screen is suseptible to burn in is almost besides the point. A constant static image must be on the screen for an amount of time that is outside of what most would consider normal usage for burn in to occur. I'm talking many hours or even days. That is why manufacturers do not accept burn in as a warranty claim. In 99% of cases it is the end users fault.
[Vibrant General] Onemoa:
Ok I just did a test on a few different colors, I notice that everyone is saying whites and blues it shows up on most I have had my Vibrant for a month and a few days now. I do not notice any type of burn in all I see is one awesome screen. I will update if anything comes up. I have used this phone pretty hardcore for the past month and when browsing the web I would never turn it to the side.. there have been times I have been using the browser for maybe 45mins with out the screen going off and I looked at the top and focused on that really hard after checking out the rest of the phone. So Im not sure of these people talking about it happening with in a few days unless there screen stays on for more then at least a few hours. I really would like to know more about this and I know it has been a prob for some people on the Nexus one I did find a google video, really short that did show some shadowing near the top, it really didnt seem like anything that would bother anyone or even be noticeable unless you tried to find it. I did see a picture and that was the worst one I have seen. it was on a blue screen and it was some kind of update or something posted right in the middle of the phone, now somthing to that lvl would bother me but a little bit of shadowing in very small areas does not seem that bad and you have to have a blue back round and be looking for it if you really wanted to let it bother you as I said before.. I would like to see pics if anyone has any of there own pm me or just post them here I will add this to bookmarks, thanks.
[Vibrant General] FastKatt:
I'm not sure what point you're driving at but the statement above isn't correct. I use this phone for business email, personal email, calendar and scheduling, research via web when I'm not near a computer, and occasionally reading a book when the opportunity presents itself - and of course XDA. The screen is NEVER on if I'm not actively using the phone.

This is normal use for me with a device that has these capabilities. The point of this phone too me (and the additional cost for it's features and data plan) is to put the tools I need at my fingertips literally. If it can't handle it then I might as well pull the old moto razr out of the box, carry a netbook, and save myself the cost of this "advanced" technology and the data plan.
[Vibrant General] MrGibbage:
I can very faintly see where the status/notification bar is at the top. I have had my phone set to leave the display on while charging, and I charge my phone more or less continuously. So, I guess it is time to change that setting :)

Now, I wonder if the burn-in is temporary, like a plasma tv??? I have a plasma tv, and if I watch CNN for an hour, the text area at the bottom, and the CNN logo will persist faintly when I change channels. But it only stays there for five or ten minutes. And you can only see it on mostly grey scenes. So, if I think of a good screen-saver program--something that turns the pixels on and off for a while--I could run that on my phone to see if it makes a difference after a while. What would be a good app for that?
[Vibrant General] pdefazio:
This is my point: It doesn't matter how much you use your phone during the course of the day. What does matter is how long a constant static image is on your screen. This is the case with all screens with this kind of technology (TVs, computer monitors, mobile phones, etc.)

I am not saying you should use your phone less. I am saying that you should take precaution (flipping from portrait to landscape mode, making sure the phone doesn't "stay awake" when charging, auto-brightness, 30-second timeout, etc.) if something like the possibility of burn-in concerns you.
[Vibrant General] OolonColuphid:
This is like those audiophiles who only notice changes in their audio setup by using really sensitive spectrum analyzers. Who cares? If you have to use a special app to see it, it's not there, as far as I'm concerned.
[Vibrant General] pdefazio:
and furthermore...

And I am not sure of your point here. So you spent $500 on a phone. Do you expect it to be immune from all technological limitations? Burn-in can occur on $30,000 HD production monitors. So what? You just have to be careful. Why do you think they call screen savers SAVERS?
[Vibrant General] FastKatt:
Did you bother to read? There are people here that can see it during normal use. If you don't have the issue good for you. If you have it and don't care good for you. That doesn't negate the experiences of others.
[Vibrant General] rshemeld:
no burn in screen

no burn in screen, i got my phone on launch day
[Vibrant General] lincoln131:
I first noticed it during the splash screen for the new XDA App.
[Vibrant General] FastKatt:
I have never had burn-in on any other device (tv, monitors, other touch screen phones) and I expect, for the money, it should be somewhat more durable than too show deterioration after 2 months. Since it is MY money I am comfortable with my expectations and won't lower them to the "good enough" standard.

Fine, this phone is not capable of performing the way I expect. I will put my money in support of other vendors and technologies next time which, if this rate of deterioration continues, will be probably only six months away.

Thankfully, I purchased it off contract using my credit card instead of cash. If your statements that companies won't warranty is true I'll have to call the credit card company and have then recover my $500.