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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] phuongt:
HD2 is a large phone , so everytime I want to press the hardware buttons , I have to reposition my hand and the buttons are kinda hard to press as well.I'm having wrist pain from pressing the back and home button on the HD2. Does anyone know any virtual or on screen back button apps ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] FanoXDA:
Virtual on-screen BACK-HOME-MENU-SEARCH Key Wanted!

I feel the same and I want it too. May some talented guys write an APP to replace the Hardware keys (HOME, MENU, BACK and SEARCH) with Software ones. Thanks so much!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] koningarjen:
Goog point. But designwise not very much. It would ruin the nice ui i spend so much time in:P:P
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] M..N:
I believe the latest archos android tablets have something like this.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] BELMOT:
I like it as it is :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
"You're holding it wrong"
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ramius71:
Hmmm...sounds like a thing that Apple would answer if this was about one of their products. :p;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] javolin13:
Man up and get bigger hands sissy!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Fedr0:
True dat bro. :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] akbisw:
when people comment that my phone is TOO big, I just say, "It complements me :p"
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
Is it...?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] akbisw:
Its big but its thin. Which is very awesome because its easy to pull it out of your jeans without much work. and with the kickstand battery cover its awesome too. plus you want the harware call, back button, so when u get a call in winter times outside you wont have to pull ur hands out of your jeans
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
Realistically, I don't think an onscreen back button would be a very easy app to code.

It would have to show over every screen, so a stationary widget wouldn't suffice, and worse yet, it would have to show over every app, which would be even tougher.

Consider that there are like a hundred alarm clock apps in the market, and maybe four of them work properly all the time, and of those four, three of them probably use so much system resources that they slow your phone down and drain the battery.

Maybe an exaggeration, but theres alot of truth in it.

We would all probably be better off buying a couple spare sets of hard keys, and somebody write a real good tut on how to replace them, than to hold our breath for an onscreen back button
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Danation:
To answer the original poster's question:

Well.... it depends on what you're trying to accomplish with the back button.

If you're main concern is going back and forth between views in a single app, or overall use of the back button I suggest some key remapping.

If you are right handed, the back button might indeed be uncomfortable to press one handed. But if you switch it with the home key or the green key, you might get less sore, since your hand won't have to move so awkwardly. Of course, the pictures on the buttons wouldn't match their function (which bothers some) but it's an idea nonetheless.

Another, perhaps more intriguing remap idea would be to remap the volume down key to be a back key (you can always use a widget for real volume control.)

If you're only concerned about app switching, I suggest trying the app "Smart Taskbar (sidebar)" from the market. That might help you. It has an on-screen dot that you press to open a list of apps, shortcuts, etc. That way you don't have to use as many physical buttons to navigate between apps.

Anyway, in conclusion, if I were in your situation, I'd remap volume down to be the back button. Here is a thread that helps with remapping.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] daemonfly:
A few other threads on basically the same topic, but due to many people's HD2 hardware buttons failing due to excessive use from Andriod. Software buttons are the answer to this, but nothing has come out yet.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nikko-63:
Hi, sorry for my english level.

I am looking for a virtual/on screen back button (I think that the physical back button is cheap - endurance problems ?).

I don't want to create a new topic... do you have information ? I don't find it in this topic.

Thx in advance
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nikko-63:
Is it virtual next and previous buttons ? Thx.

(down right and down left)

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] clio94:
go to market and search for zmooth or button savior.or if you have cm or typhoon rom look for tablet tweaks http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1031607
[Fascinate Android Development] myprelude:
I checked the phone and it showed that the program storage is 0.00B/0.00/B. Is there any way to fix this???

edit:

never mind, i fixed it already.
[Fascinate Android Development] Kamar234:
How did you fix it. I am having this issue and can't seem to solve it.
[Fascinate Android Development] ksizzle9:
Wipe data/cache in recovery. Boom fixed. Or I this k u can just do it into he privacy menu. Factory data reset
[Fascinate Android Development] AtropineNa:
Is there a difference in wiping data in recovery compared to privacy Factory Reset?
[Fascinate Android Development] myprelude:
I reinstalled voodoo
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fraijo11:
My Samsung vibrant thinks it connected to usb when its not connected to anything:confused: Also everytime it turns off completely wont boot back up normally, it just shows a little circle spinning like its connected to charge:(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12paq:
Did you try powering off then take the battery, simm and sd out, put them back then power back up?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Check if you are hardware locked by trying to get into recovery . If you can get into recovery , then i would say backup your apps with titanium , then flash to stock with true stock firmare from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=739091 . Use 512pit and tar provided . Dont use Odin v 1.0 use Odin3 v 1.3 .
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fraijo11:
I have odined my phone and evrything, I've even nandroid it and nothing is seemin to work.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Were you on a custom rom ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fraijo11:
Yeah hybridR3 with voodoo lag fix. Everything messed up when i tried using metamorph
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Its probly the voodoo lagfix if you can get adb to work you can push the disable file .
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fraijo11:
Well ive already disabled the lagfix. But it keeps thinking its connected to usb when its not connected to anything.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Did you try the unbrickable froyo to stock fix ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fraijo11:
Yeah i did i dont know what else to do:(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Try flashing the stk kernal just the tar in pda section .
[Hero, G2 Touch General] idroid84:
Anyone who knew me I am andrewb84uk. I am off to say bye to the Hero users and off to the San Francisco threads if they ever make one! It's been a pleasure to talk to a few of you and many thanks for all the assistance and knowledge I have gained.

Hope to speak to you some time to come, I may still visit the Hero threads now and again...

For now iDroid84 aka andrewb84uk.....

:o:o:o:o
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ddotpatel:
I remember reading this post a few weeks ago,... So dug it up,... I just wanted to ask, did you find any active sanFrancisco forums? Thanks.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakalrtb:
I installed the eVil rom on my N1 and I am now constantly getting the low error message. I could not care less about it but it looks like it's preventing the phone from downloading any updates or new apps. Yes I still think I have more than 200MB available. I've zapped lots of apps and slim down what's on the phone to the barebone. I do not want to go through any A2SD workaround, also because I do not really have much on the phone and whatever I can move to the SD has already been moved.

Is there an alternative solution to this bugging message ?

P_
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dai323:
There isnt actually a workaround for this. You simply need more space. While its debatable how much space in enough space, most people would agree that you should keep at least 50mb internal space on a Nexus One. I have 132 apps installed and have 150mb free on mine.

Apps2sd/apps2ext is definetely worth the small amount of time it takes to setup.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
You can't have more than 200MB available, since all the app storage space is 196MB.

Apps2EXT doesn't work in the same way as Froyo's Apps2SD, and frees MUCH more space - including Dalvik-cache.

With this message showing, you don't get any text messages (SMS) - they're lost.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakalrtb:
Can't I just move the dalvik-cache manually and create a sim link to it.

P_
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
You can (move it to /cache). You also can do it to the "data/data" folder. You also can completely replicate all the work of Apps2EXT, and you can manually repartition the SD card and write the boot scripts that will mount the EXT partition. The question is - why would you want to waste your time doing that, when somebody already created something that you need.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
First off, I suspect you're not looking at the right thing.. Settings->SD Card and Phone Storage and look at Internal Phone Storage for available space.. It's <20, yes?

You can try clearing Browser cache from the Settings->Applications...

How many apps do you have installed? Any HUGE apps, like Nook, Google Earth, Flash, etc? If so, maybe you do need to do apps2ext to free up space.

If that's not enough, then DO NOT move dalvik-cache to /cache, it's NOT BIG ENOUGH. If you're running out of space using apps2ext your dalvik-cache is probably 100M or more, and /cache has 96M, and you do not want to run out of space for dalvik-cache. If you must, move it to the SD card.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Would be nice to have a local list of working boot animations here. I figured I'd throw a few out there that I've played with so far. It's a bit of a pain searching threads to find all of them, so if anyone knows of a good collection thread in another forum, a link would be great.

Android Scribble

Star Wars R2D2

Android BIOS Boot Animation
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] RacerXFD:
Good thread. I'm sure there's more. Please link!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] taypotts:
Cyborg Creation
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] taypotts:
Ok just go here for them. haha!

http://droidboots.com/downloads/boot-animations/
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Florynce:
So you're telling me all these work for the fascinate?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ksizzle9:
So is it safe to flash these over voodoo wolven?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Awesome page!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
I wouldn't flash any of them. Make sure you only have the bootanimation.zip portion, and drop it in your system/media folder, replacing the existing one with it. I have a folder on my SDCard to store them by name, so I can copy and rename when I want.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] aroy002:
How do you change the bootup sound? I went to data/local and didn't see anything there...what folder do you have to drop the mp3 in?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] CouchSpud:
Find a wav file you see fitting for your bootup sound. Download it to your SD card. Rename the file "PowerOn.wav" (this can also be done in the next step). Use Root Explorer or what have you to copy it from your SD card and paste it into system\etc. Reboot and enjoy.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Irishpride:
Love the Android Skribble, thanks for posting these.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
i've been using this one:

halo reach auntie dot

thanks for the info about where to put the boot audio. now to find something that fits. i can't stand the verizon portion of the boot audio!!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Thank you for this. :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] spotmark:
You can also replace the shutdown sound with an ogg file of your choice. Make sure it is named shutdown.ogg and place it in the system/media/audio/ui folder. I have replaced both my startup and shutdown sounds with the "Droid" sound.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] spotmark:
You need to either delete them, or tack .old on the end of them, so that there is only one file named bootanimation.zip in you system/media folder.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Phateless:
lol, those are awesome. I like the R2D2 the best, very cute. :D
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ryanbeu:
Where did you guys get the droid sound files? Can you please post a link to where I could grab them? THanks!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] CouchSpud:
Does anybody know if it's at all possible to extend the amount of time the boot up sound can play? The boot animation I have works great with this drumloop I have behind it, but it gets cut off at about 8-10 seconds.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] F34RDR01D:
ugh, newb ? here.. how do I access the system/media folder?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] CouchSpud:
You can access it through an app called Root Explorer which you can download from the market. Open it up and scroll down until you find system. Then do the same to find media.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
the easiest way is with root explorer. otherwise, you can use adb (you'd have to mount it as R/W first)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] F34RDR01D:
Thanks for the info. Got it all working. Again, thanks.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] spotmark:
Here you go. After you unzip it, you will have an android_audio.mp3. You will have to convert it to a wav named PowerOn and an ogg named shutdown, and then place them in the appropriate folders.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ellisz:
What is the start up sound called? I tried renaming the VerizonWireless.ogg file and replacing it with renamed droid.ogg file but I did not appear to work.

edit: Sorry for asking a question that was answered right above mine. Had a moment I guess.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
it's called "PowerOn.wav" and is in /system/etc
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ellisz:
Are you able to use root explorer to copy from the SD card and paste into system/xxx? I can never get it to work. I get a message but I can't read it as it flashes on the screen to fast. When I open root explorer, I am in R/W mode.

I have to go into adb shell an do: mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system

then do a cat command to move the file.

I can re-name with root explorer just fine but I cant paste files into the system folder.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
try clicking the write access button and going from R/O to R/W (just cycle it regardless of which mode it's in) and see if that helps.

maybe make sure root explorer has root access too (from the superuser app)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] saps:
Hey guys looking for some help here.

So I have jt's 1200 and 1000 kernels with the bootzip. But Im using Dirrk's 1200LV. So I wanna add the urinationzip. So I go into Root Explorer which does have SU permission of course. I copy it out of jt's kernel. I then paste it in data/local and reboot. Stock boot screen. So then I paste it in system/media overwritting the existing, still stock boot screen. I tried to do it R/O and R/W. Upon reboot the zip I want is still in both data/local and system/media. I don't get it. Why is this not sticking?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] jspidah:
I'm kind of confused, but for the opposite reason.

I replaced the urination animation inside jt's 1200 bootzip before I flashed the thing with something I found (that is awesome) instead of putting it in /system/media or data/local.

It stuck.

Later I read that you shouldn't be flashing bootanimations. Did I screw things up?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Define 'It Stuck'
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] jspidah:
The change stuck. It works. i got it to work, I just want to see if i did it the right way.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Some are meant to be flashed, some aren't.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] NKT:
I'm looking in my /system/media folder but there is no bootanimation.zip:

Do I have to rename the bootanimation.zip file to what's in my /system/media?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Are you running a kernel with the bootanimation fix?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] NKT:
yes, I'm running D012 LV1200.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] NKT:
Do I just put the .zip into the /data/local folder? There's nothing in there currently.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
yes, either put it there or in /system/media
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] NKT:
Ok, I tried both locations. It's still using the default Galaxy S/Verizonwireless boot animation. I just copied the bootanimation.zip into each and rebooted.

Do I need to rename the 2 boot animation files in /system/media (bootsamsung/bootsamsungloop)?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] spotmark:
It doesn't sound like you have the kernel installed. After you downloaded it, did you install it with Clockwork?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] NKT:
Yes I loaded it via CWM. Here's a screen shot from setcpu
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] NKT:
Found my issue. I was running D012 which is not compatible with the bootanimations. I flashed D02 and all is well.

Got me a little cyborg now :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] spaciorek:
you are renaming to bootanimation.zip correct?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] SirKronan:
I've got nothing now. My boot animation disappeared completely. So I flashed to one of the D02 builds (SV 1200). Replaced the bootanimation.zip file, rebooted, and nothing. Just a black screen. Phone still works fine, but I can't get ANY bootanimation.zip files to work. The boot animation changing programs, even the one from n8, are not helping at all. No matter whether I clear the cache, re-apply the custom kernal, I'm stuck with no animations at all and just a black screen.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] NKT:
Where did you put the zip file? I placed mine in the /data/local folder. There was nothing in there, according to Root Explorer, so I didn't rename anything.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] SirKronan:
I tried putting it there. I already had another zip that was working so I replaced it with the new one, one I made entirely from scratch. It worked, but kept flashing back to parts of the old one. I opened up the zip file and sure enough, there were a bunch of png's from the other animation. No idea how they got in MY zip file, but they were their. It would do some frames of my new animation, then some of the old one.

I fixed it, made a new zip, confirmed it was made correctly. And then installed it.

Black screen. Reflashed the eorking kernal and repeated the process. Black screen. Tried it with a different kernal. Black screen. Tried to change with those boot animation changers. Black screen. Tried sticking several different boot animations there, including trying them in the system/media folder as well. Black screen.

I'm stumped. Phone still bots up just fine, but I can't get any animations to play at all.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] spotmark:
This might sound simple, but often times it's the simple things we overlook. Your boot animation file doesn't have two.zip extensions on it, does it? When you look at it in Root Explorer, if it looks like bootanimation.zip.zip, you need to get rid of one of the .zips.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] SirKronan:
No, I checked that too. Thanks though. I did an odin restore among other things to clean house and now I can't root for the life of me.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] s44:
Here are some from the Captivate forum.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] notta:
Test a bootanimation

Would anyone be willing to test out this boot animation for me. I was bored so I decide to try it, but I want to make sure they play fine. Everything seems choppy in an emulator. Go easy on me this is a first. :eek:

This is not a flashable zip!
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] stammeister:
Hee fellows i have a little problem while routing my xperia x10i

i'm following a nice guide from synlar it's called: Newbies Guide to Rooting X10 and giving you the newest firmware!

"Note: This next step can take a while!

Open step2.cmd, don't press anything!

On the phone, a list of buttons will come up eventually. Press the 6th option (something about update from SDcard). ONLY PRESS IT ONCE!

Leave your phone alone. Go to the washroom or eat a snack.

You'll see the progress on the phone screen, as it installs the package. Leave everything alone."

im getting an error about that my device cant be found.

check image:

can't upload a picture of the error something with newb user :)

- I changed the device id in the text file

- tried it on 2 different pc's

and the flashing worked great i put the phone in debug mode i see in the left corner an exclamation but it won't work :(

please help me
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] jaston28009:
hey try this its the only thing i got to work it was fast and quick and all you need is x10root.apk,

Win 7 x64

AT&T Xperia X10a

I was trying to root my X10a, using the one click method (X10Root.1.0.8.apk), and got hung up when trying to side load the app. ADB nor SWM could find the device. I finally got ADB to find my device. Here is how I got it to work.

Xperia- have debugging on

- have titanium backup free installed

- have busy body free installed

- do NOT mound SD

- have allow mock locations on

- have stay awake on

PC- have pc companion installed BUT terminate the process

- have the android sdk installed. (when installing I just installed everything)

- have android-sdk_r07-windows folder in C:/

- I changed the folder name above (android-sdk_r07-windows) to sdk

- have X10Root.1.0.8.apk file in C:/

- if google calander sync installed exit it.

With X10 plugged in and all above met.

Open command prompt

Type or copy and paste(if you changed folder name) cd C:\sdk\tools

Hit enter

Type adb kill-server

Hit enter

Type adb shell

Hit enter

Type adb install C:\X10Root.1.0.8.apk

Hit enter

Now the app should be on your phone. I hope this helps some AT&T X10 owners out there. Everyone keep up the good work.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] stammeister:
thank u for ur reply im going to test it tonight when im home from work

Will let you know
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] SXUsr:
I would now just run SEUS then the One Click Root. That guide only gets you to 023 so when you've run steps 1-5 your phone should have been debranded, so running SEUS will update you to 026.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] stammeister:
so according to your post i have to connect phone then update via seus, and then what i need to download apk en how do i get that working on my phone

thanks for reply
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] SXUsr:
Yes, if the first steps were successful, run seus then download the one click root apk.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] mattiL:
1. Update phone with SEUS to latest version (probably 026)

2. Root with http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7913568&postcount=338

For additional help read the same thread from the beginning, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=740240