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[Android Themes] neilbantoc:
FOR THE USERS WHO JUST WANT TO SEE THE VIDEO DEMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHIH7F0Z4g

Have you had an LG phone like the BL-40 Chocolate or the KP-500 cookie before with that cool 3d cube thingy, and wish you had the same for your android phone? Well, here's something that closely resembles that.

The chocolate had 2 home screens, and the wallpaper can be set differently for the two screens. When i bought the galaxy s, my very first android phone, i hoped that it had a similar thing, only now with 7 home screens to fill widgets with. Sadly, it didn't come with that feature (although the live wallpapers was a cool alternative).

And then i came across MultiPicture Live Wallpaper (free on the market) that let me set a different picture for each homescreen. AND it came with some AWESOME screen transitions. Also, you are not limited to just one picture, you can set a whole album to be shuffled for each homescreen. Cool yeah?

So i was impressed with that. Then I saw that launcher pro was having an update. In the newest version, Fede included some cool transition effects so I immediately updated and tried it out.

I don't know if it was fate or what, but the transition effects of the live wallpaper and launcher pro really work great together. Now my phone looks cooler than before! :D

Here's how to create the same setup

1. Download launcher pro. It's free and i believe the transition effects come with the free version.

2. Customize to your hearts content. Place widgets, shortcuts, etc just fill the homescreen with content so that you can see the effect.

3. Select transition effect. Press the context menu button while on your homescreen > preferences > homescreen settings > transition effect.

4. Download Multipicture Live Wallpaper and set it as your wallpaper

5. Set a picture for each homescreen. You can even set a whole folder to shuffle pictures from.

6. Set the transition effect that you want to go with your launcher pro transition effect. Press the context menu while on your homescreen>wallpaper>configure.

7. Enjoy!

Tip - go to launcher pro settings > advanced settings > minimum scrolling speed, then set it to 0.. it will slower the swipe speed (provided that you swiped your finger slowly as well)

Transition effects that go nicely with each other as shown in the video:

LP - Cube

MPLW - Cube

LP - Scale

MPLW - Swap

LP - Flip

MPLW - Swing
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IDtheTarget:
I don't want to run custom ROMs, I like the Gingerbread from Google and want to easily continue to receive updates.

That being said, I want to be able to run DroidWall and AdFree, and have to have root to do so.

Is there a way to get root, without installing a custom recovery or Clockwork or anything? And still easily receive updates to Gingerbread?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
I don't think you can apply the su zip file from the stock recovery, but you can try. If it were that easy, there'd be news of it all over the net!

I think you're going to have to unlock the bootloader and then do the fastboot install of CWM.

I'm on stock Gingerbread, but rooted. I prefer CWM to stock recovery...more options, and especially nandroid backup. I got my 2.3.2 update faster than most, because I was still able to push it manually rather than wait for OTA to someday show up, so no issue there, you just have to wait for someone to post its url.

The 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 updates have a script that rewrites stock recovery on top of CWM if you're on either of those, so you get back to stock with each reboot.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
If you're running Android 2.3.1 then use http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=882333 to root.

Android 2.3.0 will be GRH55. Paul hasn't updated SuperBoot for Android 2.3.2.

This method definitely works. I performed it while I was testing the device for any hardware defects. I was able to be rooted without changing the recovery. Make sure you have ADB drivers and 2.3 SDK for the Nexus S installed.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
First and foremost, you should understand that installing a custom recovery will do nothing to block your ability to receive updates from Google nor will it affect your system in anyway. However, if you follow one of the root methods like this one you will install the custom recovery needed to fix permissions to gain root access but if you ignore the step that has you change the name of a file through root explorer, the next time you reboot your custom recovery will be overwritten by the stock one and you will retain root.

Again, its important to know that having a custom recovery allows you to do a lot more than just flash roms. You can do back ups of your NAND memory that allow you to save all of your data, files, settings, et cetera in the case of catastrophic failures or the need to get a replacement handset. If you do a backup maybe once a month and keep them on your computer, you will always be able to restore your phone exactly back to how it was before issues arose.

There is really no downside to having a custom recovery like Clockwork Recovery Mod, but if you are really against it for moral reasons (that is literally the only reason you would not want to install it) then use the method I described and you will be rooted without CWM.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Agreed with what Kenvan said, the Nexus S is a 'unlocked' bootloader phone and considered a "developer phone." The phone is meant to be altered with a bunch of modifications and hacks.

Not sure why you want to cripple your phone by not flashing custom ROMs. They're created to fascinate the Android experience with improvements made to it. But everybody has their reasons, and are entitled to them right?

Just pointing out my 2 cents. Especially when you're on a forum where a large % of the community are here to modify their phones to the highest extent.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
LOL. Not flashing custom ROMs is hardly "crippling your phone". :D

That's like saying not installing a turbo-charger is crippling your porsche...

But I agree, once the custom stuff out there is into actual full public-release, I'll be testing it, but meanwhile a Nexus S on Gingerbread stock is a fine experience...BEST experience on any Android I've had, even supercharged Nexus One and Galaxy S i9000 ROMs.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
you both make good points. My point was that there its no reason not install a custom recovery, even if one is staying stock

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
I agree. No reason to not use CWM recovery. Google should buy rights to it from him.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrivelfig:
I'm wondering the same thing myself.

I just found out that it's possible to boot into the Clockwork recovery without flashing it first. I managed to do this by booting into fastboot mode (power + volume up) and then do

fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.5-crespo.img

This was on a stock but rooted 2.3.2, and the bootloader was locked. I didn't try to apply any update.zip, but nandroid backup seemed to work perfectly.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Highland3r:
If you don't remove/delete the "/etc/install-recovery.sh" file once you've flashed a new recovery then you *should* find that the default/stock bootloader is re-applied on the first reboot.

As others have mentioned though, there are plenty of benefits to applying a custom recovery although I do understand the reasons you may not want to.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IDtheTarget:
Thanks, all! Okay, maybe I *will* do the Clockwork Recovery then.

The reason I don't want custom ROMs: I had a Vibrant, and was using Team Whiskey's ROMs, and got "Compulsive ROM disorder". ;) Every TW ROM was better than the last, and I found myself flashing every time they came out with a new one.

I'm going to Afghanistan in a couple of months (leaving for some training on Tuesday), and if I can get Internet at all, I won't have the bandwidth to be constantly downloading the newest, coolest ROM. The stock Gingerbread is good enough for me, and I want to keep it. Plus, that way if my wife has problems with her Nexus S while I'm gone, I have another just like it with me to figure out what's wrong with hers.

I just need root to run DroidWall and AdFree so that if I *do* manage to get a data plan out there, I won't run up huge fees because somebody wants me to buy Viagra or something.

Thanks again!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Wow, that's a great find.

I fully understand that about the Compulsive ROM flashing disorder. I developed a bit of a case of it with the DocRambone ROMs on my Galaxy S i9000. It became a full time job just keeping up with the forum posts in the thread there. Hundreds of posts per day...ugh! But a sweet ROM.

As I'm sure you've ascertained by our other replies to you, having custom recovery is a benefit whether you flash roms constantly or not.

The ability to do a Nandroid and have a nice working backup of your entire system to fall back on is a major plus, as is the ability to wipe dalvik-cache if you're having issues.

Good luck in Afghanistan!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IDtheTarget:
Thanks!

Yes, I've decided to do the recovery for the Titanium backup as well.

Now if I can only get it to work!

I manually updated to 2.3.2 yesterday, then just now started to try rooting using the directions here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=895545

But I keep getting a signature error on the SuperUser flash. I'm guessing it has something to do with the new update. :(
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
No, the su file should flash just fine, many of us no problems with it rooting on 2.3.2.

Which version of clockwork recovery did you flash? That post was linking to 3.0.0.0, but that one is buggy, and you want to get 3.0.0.5.

Try this one: http://koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.5-crespo.img

Push via fastboot.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IDtheTarget:
No, the problem was that I'm an idiot who hasn't had enough sleep.

I'd flashed that image but wasn't getting into Clockwork recovery. I downloaded ROM Manager and flashed that recovery and was able to update Super User.

Now my problems are (1) I can't rename /etc/install-recovery.sh because it's a read-only file system, and (2) I can't re-install my Astro Pro file manager until Google fixes the market to recognize the new update... ;)

Thanks for the help!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Highland3r:
Try root explorer.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
You don't have Titanium Backup to restore Astro...? Every root user should grab that. ;)

You could rename it via adb shell.

Hook up to adb, connect.

run su

remount /system as writable.

use linux mv command to rename it.

I believe you can connect as su to the phone with adb while booted into CWM recovery. Then use CWM menu to mount /system, then do the commands from your computer's terminal or dos shell. Only advantage to this way is you don't have to figure out the proper syntax for remount of /system.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IDtheTarget:
Couldn't use Titanium backup until I rooted... ;)

Thanks! I used the following command to change permissions:

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Then I:

cd \etc

mv install-recovery.sh install-recovery.sh.000

Looks like I'm set! Although there are still those few apps that aren't showing up yet after the update. Updating the market should be part of Google's checklist when pushing updates...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] annndrewww:
I've used the SuperBoot method twice and it's exactly what you're looking for. Stock ROM, Stock Recovery, and a rooted device with superuser permission.
[Wildfire General] geordie 34:
After the release of the wildfire it took a unusual amount of time to root and now the hboot has been changed to prevent rooting I ask the question why the consumer should have the right to run roms that suits them best I refer to geohotz jailbreak with the iPhone
[Wildfire General] Alex_GP:
To sell newer products, thats why.
[Wildfire General] xynok:
yeah i agree, they want to sell you newer devices with new android versions. they must also be pretty mad about the hacked app markets
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
Its the solemn duty (:p) of a company to protect its products. No product I believe has a weak security system, and, its always a cat and mouse game between the devs and the company devs. Be it iOS, Symbian, Game Consoles.. etc.

No one likes to see their product "hacked" and to be used in a manner better than it was intended to. :p
[Wildfire General] elepton:
As far as I know the Nokia N900 and LiMo devices are very open to hacking, very much unlike Android, webOS and iOS phones.
[Wildfire General] kunleski:
Why would anyone protect their properties :confused:
[Wildfire General] Pawnbox:
Also maybe cos they were planning for Gingerbread release on the Wildfire, and by then they want all devices to be hackproof or something.. jus maybe..
[Wildfire General] Skye Menjou:
It's to keep idiots out.

Look around the forum and look at the amount of "OMG I BRICKD DAT WILDFIRE CUZ I FLASHED TEH ROMS PLZ HALP" posts.

Apple always try to find a way against jailbreaking aswell.
[Wildfire General] ChrisPNE:
Anyone who posts a reason other than this is very naive.
[Wildfire General] im_iceman:
I'll give you a reason.. It's because their support teams couldn't cope with the amount of idiots they'd get phoning them saying that their phone wasn't working anymore after they'd made a complete bodge of modding it.. Just like the guy above said..
[Wildfire General] Alex_GP:
Exactly, their cash flows in from the devices they sell. If they support old products, they won`t sell new devices, so no cash.
[Wildfire General] n!k:
Fair point.

:D
[Wildfire General] wocis:
but they knows that if device is such superb, someone sometime find the way to get in...

its all about offer and demand..

and yes - every year new toy.. forget to previous and go forward...

thats the consume way of life.
[Wildfire General] gzci:
I think so...
[Wildfire General] lzamel:
Second that. :D
[Wildfire General] Petem661:
People really ought to make sure they know what they are a\doing before they start messing around with technology and if they don't then they should leave it, the amount of posts i've seen on here about bricked wildfires is unreal
[Wildfire General] ErwinP:
But if they wouldn't lock the wildfire, the chance of getting your device bricked will be lower in my oppinion. The chance that a procedure fails is directly correlated with the amount of steps, and just because the phone is that locked, people have to do 1. a multitude of steps that 2. don't use software of the phone in the way its develloped to be used -> chance to brick your phone.

Compare it to a computer: ever bricked it because you wanted to install an new OS?

Erwin
[Wildfire General] yuanvn:
That is true

:confused:

Now, I want to change the phone, because I can't flash rom.

I think HD2 is a good.
[Wildfire General] xtam:
HTC is not protecting wildfire so much.

They just want to check, how good team UNREVOKED is.

Or if they are better than similar product cracking team -> greenpois0n on apple iphone 4.2.1.
[Wildfire General] yoshibz:
Me and my HTC:Wildfire "bee" xD trust in you UNREVOKED! :)

Is there any idea to downgrade?
[Wildfire General] xtam:
no there is not possible to downgrade hboot.
[Wildfire General] yoshibz:
So We trust in You UNREVOKED, even more than before! xD

I wish They could see this ;) <tits>
[Wildfire General] Supercluster:
Is there quite a lot of people that want to root Wildfire but they got the 2.2 OTA update?

I am one of the foolish people.
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
You are not alone. Besides, for all the new buyers of the Wildfire, it comes with 2.2.1 pre installed. So, its not as if they decided to get the OTA and lose root.
[Wildfire General] Supercluster:
Yeah. Hoping for something soon.
[Wildfire General] doomed151:
Or maybe HTC is just updating the HBOOT as usual, with no regards to protect against rooting.
[Wildfire General] Fyretb:
I don't think they 'try' too hard to protect it, just to sell other phones. The wildfire is marketed towards a specific consumer group, and just about any other phone is just as hard to hack.

As previous posters said, it shouldn't be to easy to mess with your phone and brick it. On the other hand, if you're determined enough to hack it, you can.
[Wildfire General] guus_1995:
it's gonna be alright

I know that every new device need some time to be hacked all codes are new.

scripts are new..

point is: the scripts will change and then you just need to re-do all this.

like the htc wildfire is just a new device.

This is how I think about it.

xD

p.s. srry for my english hope you guys understand....
[Wildfire General] SrKlein:
my wildfire came with 2.2.1 preinstalled T.T I just want to flash sooo badly!

I hope unrevoked make it again;)
[Wildfire General] Supercluster:
Mine came preinstalled too. Hopefully someone will figure it out.
[General Questions and Answers] tfranklin1788:
I just flashed my HTC HD2 to run Windows Phone 7.......:). However, there is NO memory on the phone. I sent a total of five text messages and the phone is stating that it needs more memory....I have a skandisk 16gb sd card but cant seem to get it to work. PLZ Help...Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] P4cha:
i have the same problem. I stick the memory in phone but he don´t recognize it and won´t use it.
[General Questions and Answers] struppi1963:
Same here. Is there a Problem with Sandisk SD cards and Win 7?
[General Questions and Answers] Yxiong06:
Same problem, anyone got answer for this?
[General Questions and Answers] WarByte:
Are wp7 phones not supposed to have external memory? I remember I read a LONG time ago wp7 devices were not going to support any sort of removable media. If this is true this might be what's happening to all of you. This is totally unconfirmed by me, I don't have an HD2 and I have never messed with wp7 ports so just sharing the very limited knowledge I have on this.
[General Questions and Answers] tfranklin1788:
I feel like there's a forum reg w/ the answer sitting back laughing their butts off.:D
[General Questions and Answers] NateMozart:
Lmao good intuition.

I searched and found this thread then 5 secs later I found the thread with the answers lol. Here it is for those who have not found it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=918993

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[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neilbantoc:
FOR THE USERS WHO JUST WANT TO SEE THE VIDEO DEMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHIH7F0Z4g

Have you had an LG phone like the BL-40 Chocolate or the KP-500 cookie before with that cool 3d cube thingy, and wish you had the same for your android phone? Well, here's something that closely resembles that.

The chocolate had 2 home screens, and the wallpaper can be set differently for the two screens. When i bought the galaxy s, my very first android phone, i hoped that it had a similar thing, only now with 7 home screens to fill widgets with. Sadly, it didn't come with that feature (although the live wallpapers was a cool alternative).

And then i came across MultiPicture Live Wallpaper (free on the market) that let me set a different picture for each homescreen. AND it came with some AWESOME screen transitions. Also, you are not limited to just one picture, you can set a whole album to be shuffled for each homescreen. Cool yeah?

So i was impressed with that. Then I saw that launcher pro was having an update. In the newest version, Fede included some cool transition effects so I immediately updated and tried it out.

I don't know if it was fate or what, but the transition effects of the live wallpaper and launcher pro really work great together. Now my phone looks cooler than before! :D

Here's how to create the same setup

1. Download launcher pro. It's free and i believe the transition effects come with the free version.

2. Customize to your hearts content. Place widgets, shortcuts, etc just fill the homescreen with content so that you can see the effect.

3. Select transition effect. Press the context menu button while on your homescreen > preferences > homescreen settings > transition effect.

4. Download Multipicture Live Wallpaper and set it as your wallpaper

5. Set a picture for each homescreen. You can even set a whole folder to shuffle pictures from.

6. Set the transition effect that you want to go with your launcher pro transition effect. Press the context menu while on your homescreen>wallpaper>configure.

7. Enjoy!

Tip - go to launcher pro settings > advanced settings > minimum scrolling speed, then set it to 0.. it will slower the swipe speed (provided that you swiped your finger slowly as well)

Transition effects that go nicely with each other as shown in the video:

LP - Cube

MPLW - Cube

LP - Scale

MPLW - Swap

LP - Flip

MPLW - Swing

Not shown in video:

LP - Cube

MPLW - Wipe

LP - Rotation

MPLW - Card
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cabessius:
Very nice effects. Thanks!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zolah:
Ok im using a galaxy S with darkyys rom 9.0 and Voodoo 5.2 kernel.

Im using the latest launcher pro plus 0.8.3.

I download the app and go into setings and set individual settings for each screen, but when i go back to the homescreen it says no picture available please set picture on a black screen.

I cant double tap any of the homescreens to set a picture either.

I have noticed from some looking around that you have to go into default settings and pick screen type... but i have no default settings on my app or i cant figure out how to get into it.

Please help me set this up properly!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neilbantoc:
Glad you liked it. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sedinix:
Nice FMA song in background :P

About Multiwallpaper just awesome
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neilbantoc:
I heard darky v9 was buggy, that's why I settled for v8.1 ay the moment.. Anyway, I'm just your average android user, not a dev or anything but I'll try to help you out as much as I can..

First, can you post screen shots of your multi picture live wallpaper settings screen? I'll try to find a back up of my old version of that wallpaper for you to try.. I think the transition effects were included in the old versions..

EDIT: The link to the old MPLW is in the first post.. try it!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neilbantoc:
Thanks.. Makes me want to watch fma all over again.. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sedinix:
FMA Is great :D

I'm buy donate version :) its cheap and I hope you make more good apps :P

I'm on darky 9,0 Voodoo same as you and all works perfect. Maybe You have some options on check LP>Appearance Settings> disable wallpaper scrolling I think that option must be unchecked

I have this on and MPLW dasn't work :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] uppon2:
*FYI* You can use this with other launchers or if you can't find the setting inside Launcher Pro to set the transition (I HAD THIS PROBLEM THE SECOND TIME AROUND) This guide will help you. If anybody is using a different launcher like me I use ADW EX you might not be able to see the transition setting inside the launcher settings. You can still set this transition. While setting multipicture live wallpaper you can go into the settings before you actually save the wallpaper, scroll down to Drawing Settings and select your desired transition under Transition Type.

Before exiting I go into each individual screen setting for example Screen 1 Settings and click on Type of Screen then select Single Picture, Select desired image from gallery and then continue to do the same for Screen 2 Settings untill I have done all of my home screen wallpapers :) *BE SURE TO HAVE SCROLLABLE WALLPAPER ACTIVE IN YOUR SETTINGS ELSE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO USE MULTIPICTURE WALLPAPER ****OP you might want to place all of this information in your 1st post***
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] androidindian:
Amazing! wow, thank you for sharing.. love it.. Thank you!