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[Desire General] snakeeyes21:
I take it your using a normal app2sd rom, not the newer data2sd or data2ext.

where are you looking to find your stats? if its in settings/sd & phone storage these wont show the amount of the app2sd partition, but they will show the amount of a data2sd or data2ext partition, because the latter two fools the phone in to thinking its internal storage, the former just moves parts of an app to the ext partition on the sd card so isnt classed as internal storage.

If you download an app from the market called quick system info it will show you the size of your app2sd partition to see if its worked :)
[Vibrant General] dougstoner:
I've been having some weird issues trying to use ODIN to get back to stock. I've always gone back to odin before flashing new roms, and had a weird issue I thought I'd share in case anyone else has had a similar issue. I've used the same cable several times before, but when I would try to connect with ODIN in downloader mode, I could never get a com port to pop up. Weird, because I've used this cable before with no issues. I tried all sorts of different usb ports to see if it was the issue. No luck. It's strange too, because when I would connect the usb cable, it would show the connection in windows, and the phone would show the charger icon. It would also show new device connected and run through the normal xp setup. Well, I tried another cable, and VOILA! It works. Com port showed up, and I'm back to ODIN. NEver had a usb cable go bad on me, but it was driving me nuts trying to figure it all out.

Anyway, just thought I'd share just in case anyone was having similar issues.
[Wildfire General] phantom007:
i am using HTC wildfire with the original room (not rooted)

and recently whenever i open any application with and ads for Google the internet browser opens alone and shows the add...so i keep closing it but it reappears again...i simply cannot use any application because of this.....please help me!!!!
[Wildfire General] dannystppls:
Maybe u should make factory reset?

And if that doesnt work you should root ur phone and install a different ROM

Btw i have never heard of such an error before O.o
[Wildfire General] phantom007:
thanks...

i did reset the phone but it did not work..:(

do you recommend any room??
[Wildfire General] dannystppls:
I would recommend Cyanogenmod or Wildpuzzle cuz those roms are the most stable i think :P Or else just search the Htc wildfire forums for Roms u think are the best ;)
[Wildfire General] dolevt:
Or wait in a few days the froyo ota is arriving... Latest rumor says 13.12...
[Android Apps and Games] My1es:
I feel like I've got a million dollar idea and it doesn't look like there's anything out there similar to what I want. I'm just seeing if there's any Devs or programmers that are familiar with designing apps on all platforms that might want to take on this challenge. If you're interested please PM me and we can talk about it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Al-xmaniac:
Hi Guys,

I´ve a problem with my Nexus SLCD, I installed CM6.1 and then I note, taht my Cam and the LED Flashlight doesnt work. I reupdated the Radio to the latest Version, changed the recovery und changed the Rom to a Stock and the MiuiRom, but allways the same, No Cam and no LED light... Any Ideas.

Greetz Alex
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msnuser111:
try flashing a different kernel,its possible that you flashed a rom that included a kernel that had no camera support,and you havent been flashing the kernel with the roms you loaded after that.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Al-xmaniac:
Okay i try it.... can i flash the Kernel after the rom or have i do a Wipe or anything?

Greetz und thx

edit it doesnt work...how can remove the old kernel completly?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prettyboy85712:
Ask in the q&a section.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
by flashing a new kernel(wildmonks are great). or to get back the original kernel, reflash the rom. have you tried clearing the data/cache from the camera.apk? have you tried deleting the camera.apk then reinstalling it? also, have you tried doing a full data wipe then reflashing the rom(and gapps)? id redownload the rom also, you could have had a corrupted download.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Al-xmaniac:
a tryed all this but no working camera, i think, perhaps its a hardwareproblem. Sometimes the LED flash for a Moment, when I reboot the Phone.

greetz
[Vibrant General] rramey23:
I just restarted my phone and the market is now different. From what I understand it's the froyo version of market. Maybe a good sign for us?
[Vibrant General] android.vibrant:
same here...hope we'll get froyo soon.
[Vibrant General] Spuutnik:
Don't get too excited, every phone is getting that market update. You're right though, it is the froyo market-style.
[G Tablet Android Development] Bukem75:
Just noticed this over on Notion Ink's website...

Perhaps some one far smarter than me can make use of this info...
[G Tablet Android Development] rcgabriel:
I don't think the stock tegra kernel has all the drivers necessary for the G Tablet. Because I think people have known about that repository, and as far as I know, nobody's built their own kernel that's worked with the G Tablet, but rather have been using kernels pre-built for the G Tablet or the ZPad.

This is why people keep talking about wanting the source from Viewsonic.

But if somebody wants to try doing a kernel build and seeing what does or doesn't work, more power to you! :)
[G Tablet Android Development] cutterjohn:
This is actually only sort of related, but I noticed screenshots a few days ago of what was supposedly 2.3, but the about phone item show a 2.6.29 kernel version like 2.0 & 2.1 use, while 2.2 uses 2.6.32, and I knew that 2.3 was also getting a kernel update..

Oddly enough noone commented on that in the comment section on that site, and I just couldn't be bothered to create an acct to comment...
[G Tablet Android Development] markgolly:
I've searched nvidia's git repo for our touchscreen drivers and they are not there. Therefore, trying to build from nvidia's git for the gtab won't do us any good until Viewsonic (malata, etc.) posts the kernel source.
[G Tablet Android Development] babybacon:
this may sound silly. but can we somehow maybe get drivers from the touchscreen for the tegra? instead of looking for drivers from nvidia for the screen can we look for drivers from the screen maker for the tegra?
[G Tablet Android Development] aludal:
Their NI Adam is not coming with Android 2.3, it comes with the scandal or it's hardly coming in at all: http://fineoils.blogspot.com
[Nexus One General] ninjai117:
Hey all,

One thing I've always wanted on android is the ability to slide-unlock, THEN to enter pattern/passcode/whatever.

Is there any way to do this? I found no way to do it in CM6. I'm now running MIUI and there's no way in this ROM either.

Is there some hack or software out there that will do this that I don't know of?
[Nexus One General] player911:
Have you tried downloading Widget locker from the market? That seems to be the most popular lockscreen replacement
[Nexus One General] ninjai117:
No, there's no trial and I can't buy stuff off the market anyways. Does this allow for unlock->pass unlock?

From the screenshots it looks like it may.
[Nexus One General] b1337:
just curios why do you want to unlock your phone twice?? ocd?
[Nexus One General] ninjai117:
Haha no, I just like having a password on my phone and the lock screen with pattern lock is fugly. I don't want to see big dots all over my screen. I was able to fix this with CM6 by making it all invisible.

I sort of want it how the iphone does it, or how my buddies android 1.6 phone does it.
[Nexus One General] melder2011:
I actually really miss this function from my G1. Haha. I don't like the invisible buttons because it just makes the screen look absolutely empty. I would love a Unlock -> Password option.
[Nexus One General] sknoslo:
Uhm, am I missing something or isn't that how it works by default? When I have a password or pin setup, and go to unlock my phone, I get the unlock screen. Once I've swiped to unlock, then I get the password/pin prompt. The only time it doesn't behave like that is when a pattern-unlock is being used.
[Nexus One General] wdfowty:
I do believe he was talking about pattern-unlock
[Nexus One General] Smurfjet:
I was actually looking for a way to add a picture frame or somrthing similar to fill the empty space with.
[Nexus One General] ninjai117:
Yep, I was. Makes no sense why you can't have this for pattern unlock as well!
[Nexus One General] GlenH:
I can't understand why anyone would want that!

It's one of the main reasons I don't like HTC sense roms - you can't get rid of the stupid unlock slider even when you have the pattern unlock enabled.

Why would I want to unlock it twice?!?
[Nexus One General] ninjai117:
I want it because I frequently look at my phone for the time or for other various locked-screen uses, and it's aesthetically displeasing to look at it with the big bubbles all over the screen. Not to mention you lose the ability to slide to vibrate and that sorta stuff you get normally by default.
[Nexus One General] twolves14:
If you can't get WidgetLocker, try Simply Lockscreen. WidgetLocker looks way better, same with GoTo (but both are paid).
[Droid Pro General] @Class:
Hi,

How come there is no ROM sub-forum and chefs actively cooking up ROMs for this wonderful device that finally has a physical keyboard. I am getting over making a mistake very 4th or 5th word.
[Droid Pro General] phaim:
Probably because it's boring to make ROMs for a device you can't yet load them onto.
[Droid Pro General] jayhammy:
Do you mean because there's no custom recovery created yet?
[Droid Pro General] theimpaler747:
There's a sub-forum, just no developers to fill it yet :)
[Droid Pro General] @Class:
We have root! What else do we need?!

Chop chop!
[Droid Pro General] Jibreil:
Wait for a while till this phone becomes readily available and popular. We will soon find chef's cooking up ROM's. Patience has to be your virtue.
[Droid Pro General] @Class:
Patience? I have none! Desperate for this whole audio choppy / skipping/ stuttering problem :mad:
[Droid Pro General] Javi97100:
Probably because the phone just came out. Calm down and wait
[Droid Pro General] kjjb0204:
Lets take up a collection and get skyraider dude a droid pro so he'll build us some SR love.
[Droid Pro General] Jibreil:
If some of you personally know of good chefs @ the Motorola Droid sub-forums - invite them here.
[Droid Pro General] jayhammy:
Now that you can use Bootstrap Recovery for the Pro (use Droid 2 Bootstrap Recovery in the Market), the ROMs should be flowing hopefully in the near future.
[Droid Pro General] joeld82:
Can someone post a stock rom like its a custom rom so I can flash back to stock?
[Droid Pro General] mistarose:
It's great to hear that the Droid 2 bootstrap works for the Droid Pro. And I also would be very thankful if someone could provide a Droid Pro ROM which could possibly help me un-brick my Droid Pro.

Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] xzyyy:
i use a wm6.5 touch pro2 without manila and active windows default in today settings, i think it's such a cool theme, but there isn't a link about windows default tasks, which i can use it without "windows default"(maybe it's called chome?). is there any way to add it? i use cht editor, i know i can add a button to windows task, but there isn't any information can be displayed.

thanks a lot.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] husam666:
Look for CHome Editor, it has many functions, and the author made a weather plugin too :)
[Captivate General] disellusional:
So I got frustrated with the laggyness/rebooting gallery3D and wiped data and uninstalled using titanium backup. I also deleted the apk in system/app.

I'm trying to restore it again but it doesnt work. I placed the apk back in the system/app and tried installing to no avail. I also tried just installing the apk but i get this will replace current + application not installed.

Any suggestions?

Also, when an official FROYO comes out and i install that, will that replace the gallery?
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Just put the .apk back in /system/app from whatever ROM that's based on the same firmware.
[Captivate General] disellusional:
Ive tried. The gallery app doesnt show in the app drawer. I have rebooted as welll
[Captivate General] disellusional:
anyone????
[Captivate General] jwood55812:
Goto the Market and search for Gallery 3d, install from there, should work fine.
[Droid X General] hullie10:
Can I update ota if I rooted my phone, flashed a new rom, added a theme? Haven't messed with deleting bloatware.... if I can't update ota is the only way to update to .340 is downloading the update.zip right?
[Droid X General] milan616:
Root doesn't matter. The rom and theme are probably going to kill you. Try getting a stock odexed 2.3.15 rom from somewhere. I'm pretty sure you could get it from the TBH app. If that doesn't work and you really want to go the OTA method, you'll have to SBF back to 2.3.15.

The other method would be to get the 2.3.320 update.zip (for the bootloader+kernel) from TBH, and then flash their system only 2.3.340 SBF.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bosscrew:
Hi

i searched and found nothing that answer my question!

I would like to know how to update an Android Build without loosing sms or settings stuff like that. I got the MDJ FroYo HD v.4.3 on my

hd2 and since 2 days the MDJ FroYo HD v.4.4 is out so how update from 4.3 to 4.4 build? Is there a way?

Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Kailkti:
Simply go to your current android folder and take the data.img and move it to the mdj HD 4.4.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bosscrew:
easy going if you know how to :) Thanks
[Nook Color General] lbascones:
Anyone been able to use ActiveSync on the NC? I'm, trying Touchdown and can't get it to configure. It just "hangs" trying to initialize ActiveSync.

-LuisB
[Nook Color General] stwallman:
I know there's at least one other person that has reported getting Moxie Mail to work (another mail client that uses ActiveSync).
[Nook Color General] devis:
I got moxier to work on the first try. What I don't like about it is the inability to manipulate forwards or replies. You can only add to the existing message but not edit it. Which kinda sucks cause lots of times I have to send out the same info but with tiny variations. And the lack of copy/paste makes it kinda hard...
[Nook Color General] cal3thousand:
Would the stock mail apps from another ROM work?

Or has anyone tried RoadSync?
[Nook Color General] phinphan:
Apparently the problem with Touchdown is that it is trying to send the non-existent IMEI number to Activesync. Here is a thread from the Viewsonic G forum http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=851002. There is a link in there to a beta of touchdown that you can download (put up by the developer) that seems to work. Mine is syncing contacts as we speak.

Installed and works great. The download is a 30 day trial. I have no idea how you would buy it as I have not crossed that bridge yet.
[Nook Color General] lintmail:
I've been trying to get both exchange email and calendar to work. I was marginally successful with exchange email. I installed an email.apk for the Droid X (eclair 2.1) and that worked. But there are some glitchy items. (Menu brings up a "phone" menu with some text missing; it's usable but odd). I also don't like the hard cap of 1 months worth of email. The program would not work with yahoo but did work with gmail.

I failed getting improved email (which is what I use for my droid 2 and I really like the program) to work; it just doesn't show up as an apk that is "installable". I believe if this is because improved email is for Froyo only.

K-9 in theory handles some exchange email but I couldn't get it to work.

Calendar was a complete fail. I think this is because you need some system apps running (com. android.providers.calendar.apk and another one as well). I don't have the skillz to handle that.

EDIT: The Touchdown beta does work and includes calendar. Will have to test it out.
[Wildfire General] frkaman:
Purple spot appeared on screen few days ago and I don't know is this damaged digitizer or something else? Some advice?
[Wildfire General] Sympnotic:
I had something similar, it looked like my thumb touched the LCD screen, and left a round and transparent mark. It was green for me, with some small "black dots".

It went to aftersales service, and came back brand new, they changed the screen.
[Desire Android Development] melethron:
While messing around with ext2 and data2ext i noticed that android doesn't umount the sd-ext partition (Vold process unmounts the fat partition just fine as it can be seen with logcat). Also cyanogen states the same in this posting (Im wasn't sure on this but i don't doubt him ;) EDIT: i doubt him now ... ).

I wonder now why the recommended solution for file corruption issues is using ext3/4 (wich slows things down due to the journal and reduces the lifetime of flashdrives due to limited r/w cycles) instead of just make a shutdown script wich unmounts the ext partition? (About lifetime: I think 10.000-100.000 r/w cycles is a rather high value and lifetime is only a theoretical and not a practical issue - but im not sure on this)

Since i'm not really expirenced in scripting on either linux or android i wanted to ask if a script in "init.d/rc0.d" (+"init.d/rc6.d" for reboot) would be possible? I could write one but i don't know if this would be executed and i actually don't know how i could check if it works (i think logcat would be shutdown before this is done).

Edit: At least if rc0.d scripts are run BEFORE logcat stops it doesn't work. Logcat log is empty if i "grep test" an "echo "test"" script. :(

Need help. Someone ...
[Desire Android Development] coutts99:
Does /system/bin/shutdown get called to turn off the phone?

Logcat looks like its the last thing to stop
[Desire Android Development] melethron:
adb logcat | grep /system/bin/shutdown > ~/shutdowntest.log

Empty file :(

Although the file is present in ROM's so maybe it IS called after logcat stops. But i don't know if it's added to Custom ROMs and if it's also present in RUU's.

If it's not called do you see any possibility to use "Vold" process? Cause it does the unmounting:

I/Vold ( 145): /mnt/secure/staging/.android_secure sucessfully unmounted
I/Vold ( 145): /mnt/secure/asec sucessfully unmounted
I/Vold ( 145): /mnt/secure/staging sucessfully unmounted
I/Vold ( 145): /mnt/sdcard unmounted sucessfully
D/Vold ( 145): Volume sdcard state changing 5 (Unmounting) -> 1 (Idle-Unmounted)
[Desire Android Development] coutts99:
hmm, interesting. Maybe have to poke through the source and see what is called to shutdown the phone.
[Desire Android Development] melethron:
I think this would be a major improvement. Since journaling is actually bad for sd's. Im not sure on this, but the journal is in some specific area on the filesystem. If this is the case I'm not sure if algorithms used to distribute r/w on flash drives will help if the journal gets overwritten (as i understand it so far the r/w is distributet over FREE space but not if something gets overwriten). If this is the case the part of the SD with the journal will be stressed heavy.
[Desire Android Development] sibere:
I've been playing around with data2sd with ext2 for a few weeks now.

I might be wrong but I think that the system is unmounting cleanly /data (and not /dev/block/mtdblock5) because I always have a clean e2fsck log after rebooting the phone.

So basically if you mount something under the /data mountpoint, it won't be cleanly unmounted and you'll end-up with corrupted FS. That what happens for A2SD because /data is still /dev/block/mtdblock5. But if you mount straight over /data, like I do with DATA2SD, the system unmounts /data on shutdown, witch is now your ext partition (whether your ext partition or a file on ext partition mounted via a loop device) and your FS is not corrupted. In that case you don't need journaling and can stick with ext2.
[Desire Android Development] melethron:
Im pretty sure for 3 reasons that it doesnt unmount data:

1. Android unmounts "/sdcard" as it can be seen in logcat while other stuff isn't unmounted. It may be still that the other unmount stuff is not not by the "Vold" process. Sdcard needs to be able to get unmounted when the phone is plugged to usb.

2. I also did quite a lot testing with sd-ext directly mounted to /data and i did get quite a lot corruption. But it is situation depended. If my phone was "idle" i didn't get corruption (1 time in 20 reboots) with no corruption. Then to make absolutly sure that it works i shut it down right after it boots up. There is many stuff running then wich means there is a much higher chance that something is still written while it shutdowns. Doing this i had corruption every 3rd reboot.

3. And this is the most important reason why you didn't get corruption but i did : You use sync as a mount option so you there is no need to unmount it ^^ !!!!

Sync is not an option for me for some reason:

-No cache will slowdown write on small files heavily

-Without cache every other process has to wait if some writing is done (lags).

-Much more wear for the sd since small files aren't cached

Using ext2 with sync isn't an option for me. Either i get ext2 with a proper unmount to work or i'll use Ext4 with an "ordered" journal then (or maybe i give a s*** about data2ext then).
[Desire Android Development] sibere:
To me, the main purpose with data2Sd was to get more storage with at least the same amount of performances than the original NAND. I found that, on top of the extra space I have now, I also have a very good performance, roughly the same as NAND on small files and a much better one on bigger files. And I'm not thinking about quadrant score here :)

Talking about the unmount, if I run an e2fsck -n on the ext2 file while it's in use by the system, I have a report of a few errors (like deleted inode with nodtime, or wrong count of free blocks) But if I shut down the phone and turn in on again, the e2fsck I run at boot reports no errors at all. I might be wrong but my guess is that there is a clean umount done at some stage...

What I am going to do is an other test. You know that when an ext2 partition is not umounted properly, a flag is activated and this ext2 partition must be checked, regardless of the number of mounts done before running a check. This flag can be check by running a tune2fs -l on the partition before mounting it. It is reported as well by the system that the partition hasn't been unmounted properly when you try to mount it and that it should be checked .

So If i turn off my phone, restart in recovery mode, run a tune2fs -l on the ext2 file or mount it manually, I should be able to see if the partition has been unmounted by the system or not before the actual reboot.

I'll report the results and let you know if I'm wrong :)