yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bpk:
I put the source up at

http: // git.hoopajoo.net

(take out the spaces I can't post links apparently)

That page has a list of my public git urls available, the last one is SoftKeys

if anyone wants to check it out, I'm currently looking at remembering the last launcher picked and defaulting to that for people that use launchers.

-- the rest of this is just for people looking in to the source, to provide some background to why I did it this way and alternate ideas I had --

If any devs look at it I thought I'd post some of my reasons for doing it this way:

1) I looked at creating a custom init service bound to a keycode at first, this would have made it so you didn't need superuser but would have required modifying your ramdisk. Even just making a daemon and communicating through some kind of pipe would require modifying the ramdisk to get it in init. In the end I abandoned the idea because it seemed easier for most normal people to just install an apk.

2) I looked at binding this to the camera button and remapping it in the keylayout, that would preserve the default home screen selections, but would require modifying a file in your /system/ so people would need to adb their stuff. Again I thought an apk would be easier and adding in shell commands would just complicate things for people and I'm not very good at support :p

3) I spent a LOT of time looking through git repos from aosp to find out if there was some way to bind to the long-press home and take over the recent apps list, since it doesn't even work. This would preserve your home settings and not even remove an existing function. After several hours grepping through the core.git stuff I decided this was just easier to do. If figured good enough is usually good enough. Though if someone can figure this out it would be sweet.

4) I really was hoping that we could just pull whatever archos is doing since that seems ideal, completely soft buttons. However after downloading the aos firmware I found it was encrypted and apparently currently can only be decrypted by the devices using the public key stored on them somewhere and I'm not aware of anyone having dumped their system images yet.

Also I've been looking through the superuser source to see how they handle the popups, they do a good job of not killing the running app and being all around unobtrusive, doing it their way for the popup buttons would be really sweet since it never seems to break the currently running app.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Pinesal:
Great except one thing!

I have LauncherPro so when I click the home button, it always gives me a choice between LauncherPro and the original home. Can you make it so I can set a default? I want to just go straight to launcher pro then I select home.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Droidish:
The thread is one page long and your question was already discussed.

One page was too much reading?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] kabi:
How about double click home button for menu and hold the button for back? Just my 2 cents.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] nemith:
I have taken the source code and modified it to a be a row across the bottom of the screen, I think this looks a little bit better

Note the bar at the bottom of both. Ignore that ghosting on the second image.

If anyone is good at graphics I can use some images to create a fancier looking bottom bar.

I am going to play to play with doing stuff like this. For example. Press Home for the menu. Press Home again to make the meny disappear. Double tap home for menu. Long Press for back.

I think next on my plate is setting a default launcher application to use when you hit the soft Home button.

Here is the github respository for anyone interested: https://github.com/bennetb01/SoftKeys
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] lovelacer:
I can't get this to install. The first one instaled fine but when I kick this off it says it will replace the first version then "application not installed" should I remove the first one manually?

Great work BTW. Thanks
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] chuffykow:
You can uninstall the first one via the following:

adb uninstall net.hoopajoo.android.SoftKeys

Install the second one normally via:

adb install SoftKeys.apk
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] lovelacer:
Interestingly enough the adb uninstall command resulted in a failure as well. I just uninstalled via long press at my app screen and was able to install via root explorer on the nook.

Thanks for the help though.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bpk:
I do like those buttons, I'm not much for making things look nice, typically I just do back end stuff. If you want to rebase against head and post your git repo I'll merge those changes in to main.

I started using launcher pro and realized it does suck way too much to have to select your launcher every time. It's just 1 button press but I'm too lazy.

And for people re-installing, from adb you have to do:

adb install -r <APK>

Also to remove packages I use appremover, or you can use astro file manager with the package manager under the menu.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] kaicherry:
Thanks very much for this, sir.

About those images: what size do ya need? i can do them right now.

-K
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] deeoh:
I didn't want to start a new thread for this piece of information, so this looks like a good place to discuss it. My wife noticed that you can always access the back button by swiping from right to left across the notification toolbar. This worked on her non-root NC as well as my rooted one. Pretty cool!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
In this thread i had posted individually themed roms but do to requests to have certain parts of one theme and another theme i have moved everything over to my metamoprh pagehttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=892343 Here you will find the batteries, status bars, dockbars, signal icons even a lockscreen or two.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
[Rom] Lite & Themed

ok this can probably be closed
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Mikey:
Has there been any modifications.........other then themeing these roms?

I might just throw this thread in the theme forum, if its a themes stock rom :)
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
Yeah u can throw it in the themed section its an entire rom download that's been themed and deodexed
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
I've started getting things together any suggestions before i finish up
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] KiNG OMaR:
BLUE :cool:
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Jarheadflip:
Nice whens the release date
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
Not sure yet been going back and forth with the battery display and dockbar and can't decide wich I like the most, here is the second version
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Jarheadflip:
That second version of battery is sweet use that one
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
Keep the fire design but use second battery?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Jarheadflip:
Yup
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
I will try to post later today
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Jarheadflip:
Thanks apreciate the work
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
Uploading to mediafire at this moment
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Jarheadflip:
Is it done uploading
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
Yes click the download link on the first post
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Jarheadflip:
Cool goin to download now
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
Let me know what you think, if there is anything that i need to change. The only thing that comes to my mind is speeding up the bootanimation it doesnt load all of it. But im open to suggestions if you guys have any ideas
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Jarheadflip:
Roms nice are you able to make themes for cm roms i kinda miss the cm settings :) the rom is great though
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shadyx513:
Yea I cnan throw these images into a cyanogen rom it will take a week or so for my next day
[Vibrant General] molson24:
Okay here is the run down...

I bought a rooted vibrant phone with Froyo2.2 installed already off ebay.

I just received the phone today so I used Odin to flash back everything to the original firmware and roms, so that I can unlock my phone.

As apparently, you it has not been tested on froyo2.2 and I did not want to try it. Everything worked well, and it flashed back succesfully according to Odin.

I have all the firmware from Samsung downloaded and installed. Now I am trying to Unlock my phone using the downloaded 1 click script that is available on the forums on this site. But it is giving me an error when i run it.

*It says "server not running"* Error: Unable to find file

I seem not to be able to connect my device using the massage storage with USB...

I am not sure if that is the reason... I can connect through the PC Route way... But I am pretty sure you need to do it through the massage storage. I tried turning both on and off the Debuggage mode, but still dident work.

Any ideas or thoughts?
[Vibrant General] molson24:
The phone did not come with the original sim card from Tmobile... So there is no Sim card inside the phone.

Does this make a difference?

Any help would be awesome...

Thanks in Advance!
[G Tablet General] copritch:
Viewsonic if your reading this, this is how to do it! :mad:

B&N

androidcentral.com/nook-color-sdk-released

Samsung

androidcentral.com/smasung-galaxy-tab-source-code-released
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] genesis123:
http://blog.gameloft.com/index.php/2010/12/03/dungeon-hunter-for-free/

Gameloft is giving out dragon hunter for free today, however the Hd2 is not supported.. wonder why :rolleyes:. Does anyone know a workaround for this, like changing out device to identify as a Desire?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jagger2k:
Yea i got it on my phone, Visit the link on your phone browser, then when you get the messege saying your device is not supported, Click on your device name, change it to HTC, Then HTC EVO 4G. Works a treat. :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Fedr0:
It depends on the build you are using actually. My mobile was identified as a Nexus One.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
I chose evo but suddenly its not free?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
Offer off?:(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tjones25:
Try typing this site www.gameloft.com/free-hd-game into the browser on the phone, make sure to enable mobile view of web pages first...
[General Topics] mo73:
:D

Hello,

Just thought i'd introduce myself as a newbie to the wonderful world of Android! Just recently got a HTC Desire HD and am slowly getting my head round the potential that these machines have now! WOW! Must admit that there's a whole lot of stuff that i've been reading on these pages that is WAY over my head at the moment,but the whole ethos of the site seems to be very friendly and helpful so i do hope that my relative ignorance won't put too many people off when i'm asking daft questions!

If anyone has any suggestions for links for me to have a look at and where best to start sussing things out then that'd be very much appreciated!

Thanks again,Mo.:)
[General Topics] kompheak:
welcome!!

32b myTouch 3g 2.2.1

Cyanogen Nightly 269

Hboot - 1.33.0006

Radio - 2.22.19.26i

Kernel - 2.6.35.9

ADW 1.3.3

ClockworkMod Recovery

Slideit keyboard
[General Topics] Andidecosta:
Hi GUys

How r u??

I am new here.
[General Topics] orb3000:
Welcome to you too!
[General Topics] kompheak:
the best place to get answers for you android need

32b myTouch 3g 2.2.1

Cyanogen Nightly 263

Hboot - 1.33.0006

Radio - 2.22.19.26i

Kernel - 2.6.35.9

ADW 1.3.3

ClockworkMod Recovery

Slideit keyboard
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
Not so much a bug as a real doh! moment.

Froyo for the Galaxy S lets you take Screenshots
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
Problem is the keystroke is Back key and Home button.

Anyone got any tips for preventing the back button from taking you back as soon as you touch it? I managed to take a screenshot of one app but now all I get is screenshots of my home page as the back buttons quits the app.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thecresta:
It's a pain when the phone locks up sometimes, mostly in when cycling through my emails. I try clicking the home button to get back to the homescreen, but the back button seems to be stuck 'on', so I end up taking loads of screenshots of my emails!

I was in a queue the other day and it happened, and the camera 'shutter' sound kept going off. People thought I was taking photos of them! :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
I'm hoping someone finds a way to change the keystrokes. Whoever chose the back key and the home key just hasn't mastered joined-up-thinking yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Odia:
Maybe you have not mastered pressing two buttons at the same time.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3rings:
it's not about pressing the two buttons at the same time, screen capture happens only if you press the back button first, holding on and pressing the home key.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
Quite. The back button always takes you back, which in most programs is to one of the home pages.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
I have discovered Screen Shot It, which seems to be the only one that works on non-rooted phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Maddmatt:
When I hold down the back button it doesn't go back. Maybe just a bug in the specific firmware you're using.

It only goes back for me if I tap it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] msri3here:
Same here...

dont release the back button before you press the Home button.

It doesnt go back..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seltaeb:
THIS. I tried reproducing the problem in various applications (and even the lock screen). As long as you don't release the Back button before you press Home, it always takes a screen-shot instead of going back or triggering the Home button action.

Conceivably, an application might be able to map the 'on-hold' event for the Back key for something else, but at least I haven't come across any app like that (well, maybe ScummVM - but I don't have that installed right now).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Taomyn:
It does appear to be hit'n'miss depending on what application you are in. From many it works as described, but I just tried in the game "Scrambled Net" and hitting the back button and keeping it down still takes me back. Will be keeping ShootMe for now as a backup, though I prefer its use of "shake" to peform the shot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
I have been holding the back button. Results are varied. Just tried it in Tapatalk. When in a thread pressing and holding the back button takes you back to the threads screen. Then you can take a screenshot. Accuweather worked for me once but the back button always takes me back to the home screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] groaner:
Screenshot it works on unrooted Samsung Galaxy S with Froyo (i9000M)

Woot!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Emexrulsier:
The correct method to take a screen shot it to hold the back button then press the home key. When I have seen people failing to take screen shots it's because they have been trying to press the buttons at the same time.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RambJoe:
Some apps take you back before you release the button.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZibIeT:
Hey Guys,

Im having a bit of a problem, ive tryied 2 different rootet stock ROMS, the latest is Pay's. My app2sd wont function, so when i try to set install location to sd-card, it still use my internal memory.

can somebody tell me what im doing wrong?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZibIeT:
I've now tried to take a original HTC Rom, and made it rooted as the only thing, but still, when i try to use app2SD, it use the internal memory.. the only thing done to this HTC official 2.2 is the root
[Defy General] NaizA:
I've reviewed some solutions on here regarding the UK rom version and loading it to the device. My concern is for the warranty on the device does anyone have the T-Mobile rom available to load on the defy? I'd assume that'd fix my issue where the phone has a boot loop and a wipe is not fixing it. I tried talking to motorola and that was a complete fail (see conversation below).

Reymer: Hi, my name is Reymer. How may I help you?

James: i am using a motorola defy. all of sudden today it stopped working. it boot loops showing the motorola boot screen and tmobile screen but then keeps doing this over and over again. i tried to do a factory reset but still failed. is there anyway for me to manually update with the original rom again with an update.zip similar to the motorola cliq?

Reymer: I am sorry to know that.

Reymer: Are you referring to a bootloader screen?

James: not exactly. it acts like it's booting up as normal but keeps repeating the process. i help down the volume and pwr button to get to the other screen can't remember what it's called so i can attempt a factory wipe on the device.

Reymer: Can you please take out the battery, return it after a few seconds and turn the phone back on? Let's try to see then if the phone is still doing the same thing.

James: i tried that already. still the same thing.

Reymer: Were you able to use a different battery?

James : why would a different battery change anything if it's software related? i know from all the research i've done so far it's needs to software reloaded to it however i cannot find the software for this device on the motorola website. it's a tmobile usa phone.

Reymer: We need to determine first if it's a phone or battery issue.

James : okay but explain to me what the battery has to do with the phone software? that's like telling me to put gas in my car to fix a flat tire they have nothing to do with each other.

Reymer: How did you know if that's a software issue?

Reymer: We are doing every means to isolate the case.

James : because it powers on and starts to boot up but just boot loops it doesn't power off. the battery is brand new and has a full charge i got the battery today so i know it has nothing to do with the battery. i've also worked with android development and understand isolating the issue checking for hardware concerns first which i did prior to getting on this chat.

Reymer: I suggest that you send in your phone at our repair facility and have it evaluated by our repair technicians. If proven that it did not suffer physical or liquid damage, that will be repaired for free.

Let me just inform you of the repair time frame, it will be 5-7 business days from the date we receive your item before it will be sent back to you.

Reymer: All Motorola phones and accessories have a standard one year warranty barring physical or liquid damage from the date of purchase.

I ended the conversation after that
[Defy General] Higgsy:
Use my debranding/debricking guide in the dev section. If you are a US customer you will lose 3g and wifi calling as the US firmware is not available at present so you have to use UK - there are fixes for this about.
[Defy General] scrannel:
My first response to your phone call is... well, when I'm asked to do something absurd with my gear (and why would you have an exta battery anyway?) I always say, "yes, done that." "Have you tried jumping out the window with the phone up your ass singing "God Save the Queen?" "Yes, twice. No go."

However

... there do seem to be some whacko battery issues related to rebooting issues on Motorola phones. Example:

"I just got a new battery for my Droid, and the battery came 60% charged. So I did the battery drain until it powered off. I then put it on the dock to do a full charge, and now the phone is in a constant boot loop."

Same guy then:

"I just tried the old battery, and it does not go into the loop with the old one."

So..?
[Defy General] TPGamer:
As far as I know, Li-ion batteries hate depletion, they shouldn't be totally depleted.

"Depletion below the low-voltage threshold (2.4 to 2.8 V/cell, depending on chemistry) results in a dead battery which does not even appear to charge because the protection circuit (a type of electronic fuse) disables it." -

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Prolonging_battery_pack_life
[Defy General] scrannel:
Not sure what you mean. That a bad battery can cause problems? That IS the point, even if it's something produced by the user. It's probably not the cause, but it might be worth a try? This rebooting issue, though not tiny, does seem to be limited to some Euro (UK?) phones. Maybe a release of a bad batch of batteries? I realize that that poster probably should not have depleted his battery (though... don't we all once in a while?) maybe by crapping out his battery he induced his re-booting issue. But that still could be the cause of others' problems.
[Defy General] cis.snakeman:
Hi !

I have this problem too.

My Defy always reboot in loop :mad:

This is a french Vodafone branded phone with Blur_Version.2.21.0.MB525Blur.Vodafone.FR

The only thing I see is when I received the phone I started it without charging the battery.

I know that was noticed in big font but i was hurried and didn't think that can be a problem for the battery :confused:
[Defy General] boys666:
every body i need help.

i have somthing wrong with my cell phone motorola defy

my cell phone do not turn on, but when i conected to computer i could install new rom ,

and again do not work with new cell phone and do not turn on again
[Defy General] Skillganon:
Hi.

I have a Blur_Version.2.51.1.MB525,T-Mobile.en.GB is it rootable and is there a stable UK based custom rom?

Oyeah any Cynogen Mod 7 for the future?
[Defy General] Dewman4life:
I would love to see that also.
[Defy General] hackulous:
i have the same problem and tmobile is pretty much like screw you ive tried rsdlite and nothing all to no avail i think im just chalking 399.99$ and i promise im never buying another motorola product again
[Defy General] FL4M3K1NG:
that actually happened to me and i dont know what to do its really annoying.
[Desire HD General] tomegranate:
I was wondering this about the video files on the HD: With the stock HTC firmware, the video camera records as 3GP files, which seems to be an almost willfully obtuse choice to me. But I was wondering, is this set at a hardware level, or is the camera application just part of the stock firmware? When you replace it with another firmware, would there be a way to record into a different, better quality format, such as raw MPEG - like a digital compact might do? I know I'm not quite spot on with my technical terms but I'm sure you understand what I'm trying to ask.
[Desire HD General] noobdeagle:
the container is .3gp

the video format is x264 and audio format is AAC

x264 is the standard used for HD recording and is considered the best quality format to use for video in most areas also known as AVC1 its the same codec used for bluray discs

hence you will get zero benifit from changing recording format, container format well .mp4 or even .mkv would be nice but makes little differnce i think 3gp is just limited to 1 audo + video track with no subtitles.
[Desire HD General] tomegranate:
Right, so the format itself isn't the problem. I thought that might be the case. I just don't see the benefit of recording HD video into 3gp. It means extra software is needed for playing back recordings on your pc.

So, is there anyway, with a custom rom, to change the audio encoding? The main criticism I've seen is that the audio is needlessly low bitrate, how locked is this?
[Desire HD General] noobdeagle:
Can't help with that question, although it could be a limitation of the aac-lc audio codec (sample rate limitation)
[Galaxy Tab General] sstevens805:
I have had a problem streaming music over T-Mo 3g (about 3 bars) all day with Pandora, Slacker, WinAmp, and Double Twist all day. The music will play, but it seems like it needs to buffer for a long time before it will play, then it cuts out again. Has anyone experience this or have any advice? I don't know if I (or my wife) inadvertently messed with some sort of setting but it's annoying as hell.

Any help will be appreciated. Oh each time it's the ONLY app running.