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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ultramag69:
Believe there's an R2D2 boot screen out there from the Droid, not sure if it was working properly though on the HD2...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sleef:
The boot screen is way cool but you only see it once in a while.

I'm wondering if the differing screen sizes would make this idea impossible. I'm far from being knowledgeable about this. Is it possible to extract the visual elements from it for use on any vanilla froyo build?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Reno_79:
Google for driod star wars apk and you should find all the live wallpapers and other stuff that's out there. I've had them and got bored of them lol really didn't fit with my minimalist tastes despite being a massive star wars nut.

I'm in a good mood so I thought I'd post a few bits of what is available that I've had kicking around for a while:

http://depositfiles.com/files/dl0vbvaj6

I've also got the boot animation if anyone wants it but that's not uploaded anywhere yet.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sleef:
Whoa! Thanks, duder! I'll be checking this stuff out in t minus 10...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Reno_79:
No problems :) happy to give back to the community for once lol.

And I didn't realise "dude" was a verb. Hmm, "to dude" (v) to act in any way awesome or legendary" I should add that to the Colllins dictionary :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sleef:
Ha! I just say duder instead of dude sometimes but I'm hip to your idea.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dwest3784:
force closing

I get force close error on the Star Wars ESB Asteroids, Star Wars ESB R2-D2, Star Wars ESB Space Slug:confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pReXx:
Pics please :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marmle:
I had the slug working before... make sure your DPI is set to 240 also may depend on the build you are using. When i had it working i was using one of darkstones froyo builds.
[Surround General] CyK1:
Hey guys i'm thinking of getting the surround and wanted to ask people who already have it what happens when you play music/phone rings when the phone is closed? Does the sound come from the hidden speakers? won't that sound muffled? or what? thx!
[Surround General] frejos:
From what I can tell, even when the phone is closed the sound still comes from the same speakers. So the sound does seem muffled by the front plate of the phone. However, the quality of the sound is still great for a phone even with the speaker closed. If I'm listening to something, I usually leave the speaker slid out though.
[Surround General] CyK1:
So it sounds like you like your phone! would you recommend it?

and on a related note, why is there a speaker grill on the back of the phone too? (see attached pic)
[Surround General] frejos:
I like the weight and feel of the phone compared to the other thiner/lighter models. It feels like a solid well made phone. I definitely use my phone more for music now and really like the Zune integration. The large speaker bar provides crisp clear sound that remains clear at the highest volume. There are three different sound modes (changed by pressing the silver square button on the speaker bar): Normal, Dolby Mobile, and SRS Enhanced.

Overall I like the Surround, I'm a bit disappointed in the lack of customization (true for all WP7 devices) but I expect that will improve over time. I'm also looking forward to some more great apps.

As for the back cover, that appears to be a vent hole as there is no speaker (at least visibly) behind it.

If you are going to get a WP7 and enjoy using your phone for music/media then I think the Surround is a great choice.
[Surround General] frejos:
Also found this review which has some good pictures of the back cover removed.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4015/htc-surround-review-pocket-boombox
[Surround General] dnguyen29:
Hey there,

You don't really notice any muffling of the sound until you slide the speaker out, and even though, I wouldn't say it makes a HUGE difference - a difference yes. I think the phone, while it has a nice solid quality feel, is a bit thick for my liking. Coming from an iPhone 4, then Samsung Galaxy S (super thin), and now this, the Surround almost feels like the Tilt 2. I just ordered the Samsung Focus (I think the HD7 is awesome, but I wouldn't be able to enjoy 3G since I'm on AT&T). I hope the Focus is thinner.
[Surround General] ARHMogul:
That speaker looking grill is just that, it allows the sound to have an alternative venue to escape in the event that the speakers are covered. Thats what helps keep the sound crisp and clear when the phone is in the closed position. Think if it as a ported sub-woofer box... Well at least thats what the HTC rep told me :D
[Surround General] XeNoMoRpH1030:
I thought that's what it was for too, but I don't know if it's very helpful.

If you get this phone and use the alarm like me, just get use to leaving the speaker open. It's not really a big deal.
[Surround General] panflute:
speaker sound

The speakers sound FINE whether open or closed. There is a grill on the back that helps when the case is closed. I think all this stems from a couple of dim witted no talent reviewers who trashed the entire phone on this one caveat.

Despeite what a few of them say, the phone has great audio, great video, great everything, the phone is NOT bulky, the screen is plenty bright with good saturation, the zune software does a great job of converting videos.

The only limitations of the phone are those of the OS and that will certainly improve over time. In fact there are already 2500 apps available, many for free, that extend the abilities of the phone and you can bet your whiskers MS is working on upgrades right now. Someone just put out an app where you can vote on what improvements you want to see next. There are new apps appearing every day so having the phone is fun....that's what we do here...tinker and maximize our toys until the next one comes out ))))
[Surround General] XeNoMoRpH1030:
Not to be a pain, but can you stay on topic? We are talking about the sound when you do not slide the speaker out. No offense intended, just saying...

I failed to mention that the sound is definitely muffled when closed. Is it still loud? Yes, it's fine, but definitely better when slid out.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] willows:
SMS with emoji for samsung galaxy s, tried on my samsung galaxy s with Froyo 2.2 extract file and read readme.txt for instruction how to install.

link

http://hotfile.com/dl/83834808/e8b266b/emoji.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/432059280/emoji.rar
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
http://adrynalyne.us/files/fascinate/gps.zip

Mirror: http://galaxysense.com/adrynalyne/gps.zip

Looking for some users to test GPS lock times with this.

Requirements: DI01 software and modem.

Credit: PhoenixPath

Make a backup in Clockwork first. This installs with clockwork!
[Fascinate Android Development] Mean Sixteen:
I would love to test this but i don't know what "modem"

Means.

Sent from my stupidfast Fascinate
[Fascinate Android Development] cckeeler:
if you are running DI01, you will be fine.
[Fascinate Android Development] spyd3r05:
If you don't know what modem is... at this point in time you are probably fine ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] slvrevoix:
It still took around 2 mins to latch.
[Fascinate Android Development] PhoenixPath:
Strange business. Multiple reboots and a battery pull and I am still getting instalock. Just the modifications listed in my sig plus the dj05 gpssetup.apk.

Sent from my stupidfast blackish hole...
[Fascinate Android Development] zachsx:
about the same here:rolleyes:
[Fascinate Android Development] iifuzz:
dj05 gpssetup.apk?
[Fascinate Android Development] Protonus:
Holy $h!T! This is the real deal GPS fix! I can lock 3 sats indoors, in a basement - never locked indoors before with this phone. Furthermore, I can lock 7 sats just walking outside. Gets initial lock in like 10 seconds from a cold start. Did have to shut off my wifi for some reason before it would turn on GPS at all. And, once GPS is turned on, the toggle in the pulldown for GPS stops working, always shows it as being turned on. Have to enable/disable it thru the settings->Location menu.

But that's a small trade off for how well this works!
[Fascinate Android Development] Mean Sixteen:
My baseband is dio1 so i am downloading now.

Sent from my stupidfast Fascinate
[Fascinate Android Development] mamoru16:
Worked for me. Installation was a little scary, got stuck on bootscreen but a battery pull later, it loaded up just fine. Locking onto GPS sats indoors and outdoors very fast. Rebooted a couple of times and it locked on again very well.

GPS icon in the notification bar acts a little weird when trying to turn it off/on, but if you must toggle it, the "Power Control" widget does the trick. I never turn mine off since it doesn't run unless you use an app that utilizes it.

Perfect! Thanks Adrynalyne!!!
[Fascinate Android Development] pinecone:
Initially looking good! Got a lock fairly quickly indoors. Will restart and test it outside. Thanks!

Edit tested outside after a reboot and lock was instant! This is the best fix by far!

Edit 2: Tested while moving on the road. Lock was slower, but where before GPS Test showed 10 in view and maybe 0-1 in use, the number in use climbed steadily and lock was about 30 seconds
[Fascinate Android Development] CrushD:
For those of you noting the inability to turn on/off gps through notifications, I believe that is an issue with the latest StupidFast kernel. I run a stock system and my friend runs SuperDark and we both had that issue, after I reverted to an older StupidFast kernel I got my notification GPS control back.
[Fascinate Android Development] DroidBlaze:
Yup this works! I got a lock within 10 seconds indoors. Thanks for this.
[Fascinate Android Development] mamoru16:
Good call. That's what I was using! Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] aroy002:
hey guys, I wanna try this out but 1 question-

Is this fix pulled from the DJ05 release, or is it a mod of the DI01? How does it work? thanks
[Fascinate Android Development] bdube:
believe it is pulled from dj05 however i dont know for sure...do know that it works great on blackhole 1.3 with stupidfast kernel...got a lock in 10 seconds if that!
[Fascinate Android Development] wizang:
This is great thank you.
[Fascinate Android Development] Mean Sixteen:
Tried maps and navigation and saw no improvement.

Hope this helps.

Sent from my stupidfast Fascinate
[Fascinate Android Development] PhoenixPath:
It is the DJ05 gpssetup.apk, pulled directly from the /system/apps folder.
[Fascinate Android Development] bleeeeeeek:
gonna try this out..
[Fascinate Android Development] theraptscallion:
Using standalone GPS only, there was no improvement whatsoever.

Using aGPS and Google assist, locked in around 90 seconds (my usual average).

Running DI01 on superclean with Stupidfast 1.0.36

EDIT: After clearing cache and reflashing, it seems to have reduced lock time to about 40 seconds. I'll gladly leave it on my phone and make sure it gets included in my system backups until DI05 pushes.
[Fascinate Android Development] Protonus:
Just tried it again on my drive home from the office and ya...this is great. From a warm start, while driving, I turned on g maps. 15 seconds till lock, It was 7 sats, eventually hit 10 about a min later. Gave me 1 meter accuracy! Signal levels look much better in GPS status too.
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
Leave it off and see how your first cold lock goes tomorrow morning

Big thanks to the people who spent their time working on this for us peons still rocking D101

OK to flash if running Voodoo?
[Fascinate Android Development] spyd3r05:
Apk's shouldn't mess with anything related to kernel should be good to go.. but as always backup!!!
[Fascinate Android Development] Redwing:
Installed, nearly instant locks after repeated cold starts. Still haven't tested while moving.

Well done.
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
Test it tomorrow morning...it's not actually a cold start unless it's been off a while
[Fascinate Android Development] dustinface:
Downloaded, tested, didn't help in my case. :( Thanks for the hard work though!
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
Where is this supposed to install and under what name? The gpssetup in my system/app still has a timestamp from August after flashing this.
[Fascinate Android Development] alnova1:
This seems to work great! Im getting a lock almost instantly. I used my Golfshot golf gps app last weekend and it took me 2 minutes to get my area courses to show up using the gps...just tested it indoors and they showed up almost instantly! GPS test says Im locked on to 9 of 10 indoors..I never had that before..thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] Jdella681:
Darn.. Not helping mine too much.. using voodoo btw

Edit: just for fun I replaced the apk file in my system folder with this one and now get navigation in seconds..fluke?
[Fascinate Android Development] ktez:
I tried this and even though I was not able to get a lock in GPS Status, when I went to Google maps, it instantly showed my location accurately. This is a first, usually it shows me in a neighbor's yard even when I'm outside! I will try it a a few more situations and see how it works.
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
Is it in your system folder? Did you erase/move/rename the old one?

I flashed this twice...

Edit: called in my tech support and pushed apk manually. Will report back
[Fascinate Android Development] upsidedownaaron:
Success my old pueblo friend!
[Fascinate Android Development] CrushD:
No improvement, waited til' morning to get a cold lock and been 3 minutes without a GPS lock, which is worse than normal. Wonder how many people stating good results are actually having a cold lock, but this could be a real fix for some people. I've noticed the GPS performance depending on location, with unmodified GPS files, it takes long to get locks at home, but when at the neighboring city, cold locks are always under 20 seconds.

I personally have noticeably quicker, consistently under a minute at home, locks using Mesmerize's GPSSetup app along with modified framework files to include location related classes from the Mesmerize as well, but from seeing my GPS performance depending on location, don't really think it'd be a fix all.
[Fascinate Android Development] Jdella681:
Ok..so after a few hours I tried to use google nav.. No luck.. I was really excited too ;(
[Fascinate Android Development] chuck670:
*sigh* nope still cant get a lock. :(
[Fascinate Android Development] iceman1183:
You appear to have fixed my gps my friend....I'll try with a cold start in the AM, but for now things are looking promising
[Fascinate Android Development] gardndj:
Flashed this morning. Also pushed apk to /system/app. Went from 5+ to under 1 minute. Tried it again 10 hours later and 200 miles away - under 1 minute. Will continue to test, but so far so good.
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
So it would seem this is only part of the improvements in the DJ05. JT said the code change was in the lib files, any way to bring that over or is that asking for a brick?
[Fascinate Android Development] uslacson1:
Works on mine after freezing GPS booster on TB, locks in seconds.
[Fascinate Android Development] rice247:
Thank you!!!! Flashed it once, turned GPS on and opened maps, it locked on and got my location within a few seconds as opposed to a few minutes before.

It's not as accurate as my Incredible was or my wife's Droid Pro but it's a night and day diference. Now I don't have to sell this on Craigslist lol.
[Fascinate Android Development] PhoenixPath:
I pulled the DJ05 apk directly out of the clean .3 rom and pasted it into my system/apps folder. (no gpssetup was there....i was using blackhole rom, which does not include it.)

Have had instalock ever since...
[Fascinate Android Development] slvrevoix:
Would you mind sending the apk to me, pretty please?
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
The apk is in the zip in the OP. You can extract it in Root Explorer.
[Fascinate Android Development] slvrevoix:
lol I did originally. But I was scared to put it in the system/app because it didnt say apk. I will do it again thank you =)
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
Whoa, wait. It should definitely say apk. The apk itself is what you want to move to system, not that whole zip

also I was advised that doing it by cut/paste/overwrite original in Root Explorer would jack up the permissions. And to fix by long clicking, then check off all of first column, and only check off first one in the second column.
[Fascinate Android Development] slvrevoix:
lol sorry, [Joe dirt] "I'm new , I don't know what to do![/joe dirt]...... I just went back in to the sd extraction folder and I went all the way into the app folder and found the apk.

It still didn't work. So I erased it then tried doing another Clockwork flash and still no worky.

I will just wait for Dj05... I was just bored hahah

Thanks for your help though :D
[Fascinate Android Development] keith.mcintyre26:
I was having issues so I used clockwork's fix permissions script and all is well. Immediate locks now.
[Fascinate Android Development] slvrevoix:
IT WORKS. I just erased Titainium back up , ( too much typing to tell you what went wrong) reflashed gps.zip, fixed permissions, reboot. It is soo fast now. Even more accurate than my Droid X....

Thanks everyone!
[Fascinate Android Development] SteveC485:
Can't say really whether this works or not. I have to be outside to get lock first time. After that, I can use maps or earth inside. It will see more satellites more quickly, both indoors and outdoors. I does lock a bit quicker outside, but indoors is a waste of time. Unlike my old Droid 1 which would get instant lock anywhere, even on the john in a Wal Mart ;).

Also seems to work better with Google Earth than with Google Maps. The location is spot on with earth, and off by a hundred feet or so with maps.

This is my second SF. The first had a flawless GPS (darn the luck). This one "sees" satellites pretty quickly, but does not seem to be able to lock on worth a damn.

Stupid Fast 1.2.3 and Blackhole 1.3

I really hope some dev can get their teeth into this gps thing, fix it and incorporate more gps oriented ROM packages.
[Fascinate Android Development] gardndj:
Just an update. Have attempted a fix two more times from cold starts (5+ hours gps off) in two new locations, one indoors. Each time I get a lock in under a minute, so it appears this is the fix. I should note that I also fixed permissions after I flashed and moved apk to the app folder. Thanks.
[Fascinate Android Development] NOsquid:
55 sec lock for me this morning in GPS Status :)

Traveling across the country this week, will test more.

Thanks a lot guys! It's not instant but it's borderline useable now.
[Fascinate Android Development] Protonus:
Did a cold start test this AM, hadn't used GPS since Saturday afternoon. Started gmaps, while driving/moving, it took about 1 minute to achieve initial lock, not bad, and about 30 seconds to achieve a 7 sat lock which gave me 4 meter accuracy. Not bad at all. Maintained the lock while indoors, to 3 sats. Still say this is fixed. Pretty on par with what I saw with my TP2 and xv6800 (once aGPS was fixed.)

Guys who want to test accuracy or really see how well this is working: Accuracy is dependent mainly on how many satellites you have locked. You can see how many your phone can see total (it can see sats it can't lock if the signal level is too low), and how many are actually locked, using the free GPS Status program in the market.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
If there is a willing tester, I will put a somewhat more complicated package. I'm not sure there is a need though now that dj05 is completely safe. I released the d101 modem on irc last night. That way, anyone can roll back. Links can be found at #samsung-fascinate or #redrum_chaos, my old dev channel.
[Fascinate Android Development] slvrevoix:
If it is completely safe do you know when it will be released? Or will someone get fired because its not officially released from verizon?
[Fascinate Android Development] s44:
Can you post this into one of the "I screwed up Odin" threads, or is it actually traceable back to the leaker somehow?

This is sort of huge.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
I'd rather keep it on IRC for now. A certain amount of anonymity there, as well as safer for my source, than posting to forums.
[Fascinate Android Development] AlgorithmX:
+1 Flashing the zip with cwm showed no improvement to gps. After copying and pasting the apk, fixing permissions and rebooting it locks in under a minute everytime.

Thanks!

Sent from my StupidFast, SuperDark Fascinate.
[Fascinate Android Development] luis2k10:
this worked on my phone. thanks
[Fascinate Android Development] Skyeclad:
Wish I could say that this apk has definitely improved my gps performance but I'm not sure if it is. I did copy the apk into the app folder and fixed permissions like others did but it seems about the same to me.
[Fascinate Android Development] slvrevoix:
Yeah I got all excited. It worked 1 time then stopped. I can't wait for the real thing though .
[Fascinate Android Development] luis2k10:
so what difference is there in flashing it or replacing the apk? I flashed and gps started working flawlessly afterwards. did I just get lucky?
[Fascinate Android Development] Skyeclad:
The first time I installed this apk I use clockwork flash but that didn't seem to put the app in the application folder so I moved it there instead. I noticed when everybody was saying that they were manually moving the apk to the app folder that the apk that was already there was an older version.

I just tried my GPS now and I was given a lock in 45 seconds. That's not much different than I was getting before. Maybe there's more to this fix than just this apk?
[Fascinate Android Development] capngalaxy:
This app absolutely helped! I went from two to three minute lock times to nearly instant lock.

Flashed from clockwork.

Running stupid fast 1.0.36 kernel and zinc 2.1.3 rom
[Fascinate Android Development] ktez:
I first tried this a couple days ago and it locked in less than a minute from inside my house. Today I tried it again outside at work and it locked on precisely in less than 5 seconds. I'm liking it!
[Fascinate Android Development] johnnyv5:
Put gpssetup.apk in system/app and using gstest i get lock on multiple satelites in less then 30 seconds...
[Fascinate Android Development] chelper:
Could someone explain a couple things I've read others say has helped.

First, when you are saying that clearing cache helped, do you mean through the GPS Status app or something else?

Second, give a description on how to fix the permissions on the GpsSetup.apk file. I am using Root Explorer and I see the three columns. Right now everything is checked, except the "Others - Write" option. I read that the first column needs to be unchecked, but just to be clear, I would like for someone to tell me everything that needs to be checked.

I am still having no change after several times flashing. After my last time flashing, the timestamp of the GpsSetup.apk is Aug 08 13:00:00. Does that look right?

The GPS issue has been driving me crazy, so I really hope this fix will work for me. I have hope and a lot of confidence in the people in this forum. Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] RacerXFD:
Not sure what you mean because I just flashed the zip using CWM and my GPS significantly improved. I get locks withing seconds while moving now.

When it's a dead cold start where I haven't used my GPS in days, I will not get a lock for close to a min or two, but typically, it'll pick up by two. This is a drastic difference from where it was before that where I could stand outside in the clear for five-ten min and not get a lock at all.
[Fascinate Android Development] Mu9enx:
Flashed with cwm, now I can get 1 lock from a "cold" start just by opening gps test, and maps locks on