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[Captivate General] z28james:
Hey guys,

I am coming from a G1 which I got from craigslist that I did not think twice about rooting. Now, I bought my captivate brand new and am over all pleased. The thing that drives me crazy is I would flash my g1 constantly. I liked the tinkering aspect. My question is at this point, are the custom roms out for the captivate worth rooting?

Keep in mind, I really do not notice lag on my phone and the GPS works fine for what I use it for. I also use the sideload wonder machine to load non market apps.
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
If you like to tweak - Designgears and others are pushing ROM builds like crazy.

Personally I will probably never run the phone stock again.
[Captivate General] z28james:
Right on, looks likes I am going to root my phone when i get home and see what I can load up. Thanks. :)
[Captivate General] little8020:
If you are happy with your phone and it does what you need it to do there is no reason to do anything. Look at what the custom ROMs have to offer and if there is anything you really think you would miss not having.

I'm personally running Con 2.2beta4 and have been running what dg has been putting out since SRE 1.2 or so, but I'm the kind of person who likes to tinker
[Captivate General] dptnl:
Well, that's up to you, if you're pleased with your current setup, there's no need to.

Keep in mind stock rom with no lag fix gave me 900 on quadrant..

i9000 jg8 eclair rom (not recommanded unless you have a good reason for that specific rom) with reoriented kernel gave me 2200, and now, with cognition beta 4 I get about 1900 with lag fix, but it feels fast enough for me

and there's awesome flash support.

Stock setup is not using half of the potential of this phone if you ask me,

but if you're happy with it there's no need to risk it, you can always

brick it by accident if you flash (even though I flashed it a lot and unbricked it too many times :D but seems like some people managed to brick it completely..)

Unlike most of you guys I don't have a warranty, I'm living outside the u.s so I can't just go to at&t store and I paid for this phone

more than 650$ in cash and I still take the risk and flash it, I admit, I'm addicted.
[Captivate General] z28james:
So, I went ahead and rooted my phone and I have loaded a few roms already. Now I remember why I like android phones so much, heh.
[Captivate General] orlandoxpolice:
quadrant doesnt matter.

if you like customization i say root. if you are in the know, then you should definitely root and customize
[Captivate General] z28james:
I ended up at the stock firmware rooted, OCLF (honestly, besides the benchmarks, the phone does seem to be less laggy), stock lock screen and minus all of the ATT bloatware.

I feel silly for not rooting my phone before because this is exactly how I wish the phone was from the get go.
[Captivate General] orlandoxpolice:
yea im running cog 2.1.7 and it is blazing fast
[Captivate General] SiL3nTKiLL:
hell yeah its worth rooting! im still debating to go to 2.2 or not, but im on cog 2.1.5 right now and its hella worth it
[General Questions and Answers] Fif23:
How do I extract png images from cab files ?

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .passi.:
Hi guys ^^

I have a problem. Always after turning off my galaxy s it takes about 5 - 10 secs and then it vibrates. After that i can reboot again.

First i had JPH, now i have JPK and same problem.

How can i turn this off ? is it kind of a bug ?

THANKS

PS: I searched for this problem but didnt find anything
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Byr0x:
its a 'feature' so you know the device is fully turned of...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .passi.:
thanks,

Thread can be closed
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sargasso:
I wonder though what is happening in those last seconds. When I issue a reboot the device skips proper shutdown.
[XPERIA X10 General] Sikiduck:
Hi guys.

I saw a friend of mine, he had pictures from Facebook on phone contacts. A name in contacts had a picture from the contacts name from Facebook.

Is this possible for me?

Thanks :)
[XPERIA X10 General] Skumtomten:
I would also like to have this feature, the pictures of your contacts facebook automatically added as contact picture :-)
[XPERIA X10 General] Manishalexin:
Facebook And Twitter Sync with Pictures

There are many Apps that syncs Facebook Pics with your Contacts in your Phone with Android 1.6, but with Android 2.1, this would be default feature! For now, you can use this app to sync Facebook and Twitter Seamlessly with your Xperia X10. I like this app because it gives you options for perfect matches and potential matches as well. Let me know how did you find this app,

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[XPERIA X10 General] skimminstones:
syncmypics will do it
[XPERIA X10 General] alankstiyo:
I use facebook sync and it dl all the pics for my contacts, but you have to associate them manually and it is boring (when u have 300 friends on fb)
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
syncmypics is the best one I've used - it manually associates the photos and gives you the chance to correct any errors (there were no errors on my phone.).!!
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
sorry.. it's called "syncmypix"
[XPERIA X10 General] downesey:
+1 for facebook sync. It permanently adds the picture to the contact, so you can even sync your contacts to gmail and re import them, all with fb pictures, i use it for now, until eclair obv
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaGeNeCySt:
According to BatteryLife... my first G2 would hover around 78 degrees Fahrenheit, and webbrowsing and things like that would bring it up to 88 degrees... When I got my replacement and got a gel case to go along with it.. the battery was above 90 degrees and passed 100 during a phone call... I thought it was the case (might have been), since it's been off, the temperature stays around 85 degrees... is this normal? I'm planning on taking the case back and exchanging for a regular leather holster
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] buzz killington:
I don't mean the opera mini available in the market, but the full Opera Mobile like the one we have in winmo. It runs circles around the android webkit browser, like a Ferrari vs a schoolbus :)

Only news I've found was last December when they released it to oems, but I haven't seen any phone that has it yet. I wouldn't even care if it comes in 40mb package like firefox, just as long as I get it.

Anyone has any new info or insights?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mini_robot:
opera10 doesnt support flash like webkit does though...although, it was very responsive and fast.

id rather use opera mini for fast browsin w/out flash content. and den use webkit for flash contents.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] anxifer:
Well actually after 2 months of repair I switched from winmob ro android and Im missing the tab function - imho I dont surf so often on websites with flash on my HD2. Greetings
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] buzz killington:
Yeah flash is not a big deal to me either. It's nice to occasionally open a video, but it's much smoother to load it in a youtube app.

I understand the hold up is probably because Opera doesn't want to use the android native code for their browser, just hope they come up with something soon.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hitekredneck:
Go to Android Market, install Adobe Flash, then install Dolphin Browser. It doesn't get any better than this! Tabs, pinch to zoom, gestures, it has everything I need and it is blazing fast.

I do like Opera Mini, other than the fact that it does not support Flash. As far as Opera Mobile goes, I don't know when we will see a version of it for Android, I have been waiting too, just like everyone here. :)

HTR
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mini_robot:
like someone suggested. try dolphin or dolphin hd browser for tab functions.
[Galaxy Tab General] ConceptVBS:
Sprint

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010...print-for-399/comment-page-2/#comment-1040561

T-Mobile

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/09/samsung-galaxy-tab-stars-in-leaked-slide-t-mobile-version-to-co/
[Galaxy Tab General] LostAlone:
Getting close :). I'm still banging my head to find out when my network is going to have them ready for order.

I'd like to take this occasion to point out that $599 price point. That would be... wait for it *drum roll* ...

Cheaper than the equivalent (16GB +3G) iPad.

That would mean that the Wifi version should cost less than a stock galaxy.

That would mean that the Tab is priced even more competitively than I've been preaching about for a month *looks smug*
[Galaxy Tab General] AnttiV:
I'd like to point out the contract-price.. $399 with 24 month contract... IF that would be just simply converted to euros (about 290€) I'd buy TWO :D

Unfortunately, knowing where I live, it's probably close to 599€ with 24 month contract... (I'll still buy on :))
[Galaxy Tab General] LostAlone:
In all honesty, assuming the US hardware is identical and the price here in the UK is higher, I might even import me a US one and flash it onto the euro ROM.

Only reason I've been thinking of buying on contract was because I figured I might need to cover the costs. But £375 for an unlocked GSM version I can happily do upfront, even with a bit extra in tax and shipping, particularly if british retailers stick with the £599 price point (which I've always thought was crazy, but they might).

Then I can just swap my SIM from my galaxy into it.

Either way, thats a damn fine price.

Edit- Oh and I'm with you on buying two at that price. Could sell one still boxed and make a tidy profit, or an awesome christmas gift for my fiancee.
[Galaxy Tab General] johnnewhouse:
i find your maths interesting.

also a leaked tmobile slide is stating $649.99, which is more than the larger screened ipad with 3g.

i dont look smug though as i never wanted this thing to cost more than the Apple product. i think if you really want to get a Tab, then i would seriously wait until after christmas, as there is no way its going to sell well at this price so its got to come down.

Samsung are kidding themselves if they think they have the same blind support that Apple enjoy.

p.s. i dont know how it works in the US, but the tmobile slide also states the $649.99 as 'dealer price'. dealer price in the UK would be the price the reseller pays the manufacturer, before they add on their margin, its not the price to the end consumer. it may work different in the US though
[Galaxy Tab General] LostAlone:
My math was done from the BGR report (the t-mo slide was edited in later) where it says $599 is the full retail price. I ran $599 through XE.com and got £375. Don't know what else I can say... Full retail price = the price.

Also, Engadget is heavily pro apple. They never criticize their pricing and always say iProducts are 'better', even getting specs wrong on the competitors and not changing opinions when shown they're wrong.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggarrow:
I have a Droid Eris running Kaos Froyo v36. I'm trying to connect to my corporate VPN using VPN Connetions App. Everytime I try to connect to the Network it FC's and gives me an error:

The application VPN Connections (process org.codeandroid.vpnc_frontend) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Any help would be appreciated
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricsim78:
I have read the posts on here but I still cannot seem to get mine to work. This is a multi-part question.

I have tried to mimic the file names, sizes of the images, made sure they were in PNG format, and used the text file and directory structure of a few different working boot animations. When I try and use it with my ROM, all it does is show a black screen where the boot animation should be.

I think I have an idea of what is wrong, does a boot nimation have to be signed before it is usable (like most other zip files do) or can you just make the folder and text file, zip it using 7-Zip and you are good to go?

I have no idea what I am doing wrong. That is about the only thing I can think of. I have tried different sized images, renaming my files different, and I still get the same results.

Any help greatly appreciated greatly!

(Before anyone says anything, I did a search and tried finding my answers and I am still stumped.)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
can't help you with the issue itself, but you should drop a quick post linking to this thread in the Custom Boot Animations and Splash Screens sticky (in themes & apps), and ask someone there to take a look. Pseudoremora's a genius with this stuff.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovethyEVO:
Send me what you have (pm or post here doesnt matter) and I can take a look at it.

I edited a couple of bootanimations to my liking and I have a decent handle on how they work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricsim78:
Thank you lovethyevo, I will attach it to this thread. Thank you very much and if you can help me, I will be most grateful!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovethyEVO:
Is this for sense based or cm? I can probably get it to work for sense based but cm places the files in a different area if I remember correctly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricsim78:
Yes, this is a Sense based ROM, I do not use CM and think I read the same (that CM stores it in a different place).

Thanks again! :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricsim78:
Thank you, I will see what LovethyEVO comes up with and then ask there if he cannot get it. I wasn't sure if it was better to post here or there.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovethyEVO:
Update: Got about 98% of the animation to play. For some reason it's not playing the images that spell out the rom name.

Working on it though just letting you know.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovethyEVO:
100% working on my evo. All images play correctly. Enjoy.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] easy9:
would you guys be able to post the animation. I love looking at this kind of stuff.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mizzos4:
I think the most important thing is to make sure that you have

no compression

for your zip file. I would set my pngs to 480x480 at 24 bit-depth and reuse the desc.txt files from other working boot animations.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
nice one, lovethyevo - hey, have you guys had luck with something other than after effects to make the png's?

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovethyEVO:
Pngs for the evo can be 480x800 but at that size it would look better in 32 bit.

I use and used gimp to fix the pngs on this animation. Very nice program but like everything else it takes a while to learn the basic stuff.
[Droid 2 General] draya1986:
I've noticed on my droid2, whenever I wipe or swap themes out, that I end up losing images from my SD card. Last night, I installed 2.45 and when I checked my SD card afterwards, I lost about 40 images... I know it's not the ROM because I've had this issue from just swapping out themes. Has anyone else experienced this?

I was also curious if anyone knew where I could get one of my fav wallpapers. I lost it last night during the install. Pic below:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TiGeR.:
yeah, root but really need warranty back :confused:

called HTC and told me need to pay 200+ to get the warranty back if rooted :(
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bennettm89:
After you did "fastboot oem unlock"...

... You weren't prompted with a big WARNING?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TiGeR.:
i know what i did, just hope there will be a way go back.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JHaste:
sorry chief but careful hands are your only warranty now :P
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AL1982:
Can anybody advise me to find stable+all working+normal battery consumption android build.

I like mdeejay's builds, but the camera issue (dark flash/not working) in his builds really making me nervious, as I often use camera.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mmafighter077:
try this...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=801554
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] joshkoss:
You will want to run the builds until you find one that works best for you.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Ok here's my problem.

I've been playing around with a ton of ROMs lately. Which means i've been doing a lot of backing up, restoring, nandroid, you know the drill. But once I restored my nandroid backup today and tried to access ROM Manager to install a ROM, it won't boot into recovery automatically. This also goes for every other root app. Wireless Tether, Root Explorer, Titanium Backup, Busybox, etc. I removed all superuser permissions that were contained inside the app to see if that would help, but sadly, it didn't. But the thing that confuses me is I boot into HBOOT, my phone is still S-OFF, and I can get into clockwork recovery just fine.

My device is the HTC Incredible Stock Froyo firmware with Hydra kernal and Clockwork Recovery 2.5.0.5

Any way to fix this???
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TheShoura:
I had the pleasure of testing a SenseUI based "NXSense" ROM on my N1

Problem is, I had several widgets I really freakin' loved

-the HTC Clock

Beautiful widgets and Weather clock donate are popular recomendations as alternatives but I fail to find them succeeding at one thing: integration. Also, they all cost money which I'm not really okay with considering there should be a way to rip the apk from the SenseUI roms??

The HTC clock thing was using GPS/location to get weather, i hit the date and it opened up calander, i press the time and it brings up my alarm clock and an already inbuilt timer and stop watch. I absolutely loved this.

-Friend Stream

I've used other social network apps.. This one is just so much more simpler. Add accounts, post from widget, done. all networks update. Nothing I've used yet is this well done.

-Activesync Widget for the inbuilt mail app... man that thing was a nice setup. I'm willing to pay for alternatives as this one is work related. My MS Exchange email was so easy to read from this widget
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] glitzbd:
Bingo

Well I think you hit the nail on the head - integration - in fact from my understanding the HTC widgets are very integrated into Sense. And as such there is not a way to port them... something to do with the Framework if I recall reading that somewhere correctly. However Beautiful Widgets does basically the same as the HTC clock but does cost money, and Fancy Widget is identical in look, no idea about functionality. As far as friend stream I know of no alternative, however LauncherPro Plus (also pay) has some widgets that look like it, but of course they are not the app.

However, I am pretty much permanently converted to Sense ROMs and won't be leaving NXSense anytime soon haha
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TheShoura:
Welp I guess HTC sense rom it is.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] b33zy682:
launcherpro plus has some sense widgets including on similar to friend stream. it also has facebook twitter calendar bookmarks and people sense widgets too :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
From my understanding - using friendstream 'n stuff without porting the HTC Sense environment wont work, so either use a sense rom like MicroMods, or live without friendstreem :/
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bigdog_nick:
Yup launcher pro plus has it and I love it. Plus I'm using beautiful Widgets for my clock and it does exactly what you say
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TheShoura:
So I bought launcher Pro Plus and ended up flashing to a SENSE UI ROM

I still have a conflict. I just dumped $3 on Launcher Pro Plus, and I'm not exactly happy with its widgets. It doesn't have a FRIEND STREAM widget, it has a FACEBOOK widget :| Not really happy about that

Now when I'm using Launcher Pro Plus, which by the way is way superior as a launcher to any stock launcher, I cannot use any HTC Widgets. Instead they're locked to the HTC Launcher. Very, VERY angry with this.

Is there any way I can get the HTC sense widgets on Launcher Pro? The stock launcher sucks, it lags, its slow, I can't add rows or columns (#1 reason why I like Launcher Pro), and the list goes on.

Someone please help
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Paul22000:
For Launcher Pro Plus, there is a Twitter Widget, a Facebook Widget, and a Friends Widget which combines the two.

There is no way to use HTC Widgets with a different launcher than the HTC Launcher. Likewise, there is no way to use the Launcher Pro Widgets with a different launcher than Launcher Pro.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TheShoura:
Well here's the thing, the HTC Sense Friendstream also has Google Buzz and Flickr Updates in there *pulls hair out* D:

I think I'll stick with the Sense based ROM as I absolutely love the Gallery integration with my Flickr.. but man oh man I really am upset at the lack of those widgets.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] b33zy682:
launcherpro does have a friendstream like widget that has both facebook and twitter on one widget.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] petkovmt:
A month ago I bought used HTC Touch Diamond. The touch screen was cracked so I decided to replace it but it turns out that I had to replace the lcd too. Well I bought it- touch screen with lcd and then replaced it by myself.

That's where my problems started. The phone was so hot that I thought that it's going melt and the battery was drained for 2-3 hours completely. Last times when I was trying to launch the camera I was getting a error- device.exe can't start or something like that.

I've put on the processor under the cover termopaste for better cooling and detached the main camera- know my phone is never getting hot even with gps tracking and the battery life is good but I don't have a camera.

Also right below the battery in the middle there is a screw- I removed it because when I put it my external speaker doesn't work. I had a problem with the internal speaker too and it turns out that when I connect the pin on the internal speaker closest to the vga camera with the panel the speaker work. So I soldered the spot where right pin (the one closest to the vga camera) of the speaker makes the contact with the board with the closest part that makes contact with the panel and there is no more problem with the internal speaker.

Is it possible to keep this battery life and temperature and to have working camera ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amh82:
Right, I've flashed my HD2 with a new ROM, and before I did that, I backed up naything I wanted to keep from my SD card. One of those being the Copilot folder.

Stupidly, I didn't do the de-activate license thing before I did, and also didn't think to check the internal memory.

So when I rebooted with a new ROM, I had no Copilot, and just a load of map data in my SD card.

I have copied the Copilot folder from internal memory from another HD2 and copied it across to mine, Copilot will now boot up, but I have no idea what my license code is now!!

Is there anyway of retrieving it? Will it be within a file on my SD card?

Feel annoyed that the one app I paid for and use a lot, I have done a poor job of backing up!!