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[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasishta.sushant:
I am new owner of the Unlocked Streak. It came with the 2.2 and I am kinda loving it. Have already applied the performance pack and the quadrant scores have kind of doubled from stock ~800 to ~1450 with the performance pack.

Overall I am really loving this device.

Just need a little help in few lousy areas (have already tried searching the forum/web)

1) How do you edit stage UI widgets ? I need to bookmark my webpages on the Web widget but I dont see any option to add my own pages.

2) There seems to be some kind of issue with my Contact widget as well. I have like 150 contacts on my SIM card and I tried importing them to my phone. I could do that but when I get into the Contacts Widget/application, I am just not seeing anything there. Instead it tells me to do the same thing that I just did, that is to import contacts.

I used some other contacts application from the appstore and the other app can see those 150 contacts but again I am unsure if that app is seeing the SIM contacts or not.

3) On the same lines, can I bookmark my favorite music albums in the Music Widget ? Currently everything seems to be random in that widget.

I know I might look like a noob but for a while I am with this new possession of mine.

Looking forward for the help from you guys.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin02:
The widget reflects the favorites that you have saved in the browser. Edit and/or save favorites in the browser and they are reflected in the widget.

The contact widget displays the favorites you have set in your contacts list. When in the contacts app hit the menu key and select display options. My contacts all are from my Google account, you may have to select something there to show contacts that are only on the phone. Once you can see your contacts in the contact app tap one to display details and then tap the start in the upper right corner to add it to your favorites (and to the widget).

I don't see any way to create shortcuts on or customize the music widget. You can create shortcuts to a playlist. Hold you finger on an empty area of the screen until the menu pops up.Select Shortcuts and then scroll down to Music Playlist. Tap on that and you will get a list of your playlists to choose from. The shortcut created will open the music player with that playlist. You can put the shortcuts in a folder to keep from hitting them when you don't intend to.

Edit: I also see that the widget displays a quick link to all of your playlists.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasishta.sushant:
Thanks brother. Finally i was able to make the desired changes.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin02:
Glad you sorted it out.

FYI - there's a thanks button on posts. Click it when you get a helpful answer.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasishta.sushant:
Oops. Will take care of that next time. :) Thanks again.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin02:
The thanks button helps make the forum better.

It keeps a bunch of thank you posts from showing up in long threads. Sometimes the thanks post comes so far after the post it thanked you have no clue who the person is thanking.

A post with a LOT of thanks shows that it was useful and therefore the content might be given more weight.

A user with a lot of thanks show that the content they post is valued by others.

Users who use the thanks button contribute to the forum by making it known which posts are useful, which users are helpful and keeping threads shorter.

It's a very good system. And you're welcome - enjoy the Streak.
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
I have just bought an Archos 101 16gb and downloaded just a few small apps.

I got a "Low on Space" notification today....but i cant understand why. Under /settings/staorage in shows under "Internal Storage" total space 14.44GB and available space 14.15GB.

I dont have an SD card yet

On system storage it says Avaialable space 25.25MB

Can someone help me understand whats going on here. Whats the differnce between Internal Storage and System storage and where do apps get stored by default....

Many thanks
[Gen8 General] ExploreMN:
Hey Pete,

System Storage is storage for apps that you can't put on internal storage or and SD card. Now, in order for you to only have 25mb free, you must have put a lot of data on there as well. I have a whole boatload of apps on my system and still have 162mb free on system storage (most are not on the SD). If you were to think of system storage in computer terms, it would be like RAM memory.

Internal storage is the storage where you put your data. Think of this storage as your "hard drive."

The next storage is, of course, the SD card. This is another place to store your data.

Finally, there is external storage. This is for things like flash drives and external hard drives.

By default apps load to the system storage area. You can go into your system preferences and move some to SD once you get an SD...but seriously, something else is at work for you to only have 25mb free right now.
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
Thank you that. Really helpful. So on my internal storage or "Hard Drive" I just have two apps, Aldiko and World Newspapers, totally 9mb.....

I had a look under /manage applications/downloaded and their is the AppsLib icon with 120MB next to it. That cant be right surely. This is just the Archos AppsLib app..... The MArket app is only 2.89 MB. If I look at the Application Infor for AppsLib under storage it says Total 120MB, Application 1MB and Data 119MB. What is this 119MB???

Also how do I set up storage preferences and what should they be.

Many thanks
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
OK, sotday the problem has changed. The missing 119MB of System storage has re-appeared. It seems that the AppsLib app which had shown 119MB of data cleared itself before I could uninstall it. No Idea why it had created 119MB of data in the first place.

So, can someone explain this for me. Not sure Im upto spead with this whole storage regime yet :-(

under /settings/storage "System Storage" was showing 119MB available.

I then downloaded Angry Birds (1.87 MB) and Angry Birds Seasons (1.99MB). Then checking /settings/storage "System Storage" now shows 104MB.

Next checking /settings/applications/manage applications and then clicking the "On Internal Strorage" tab I see the two Angry Birds apps there on Internal Strorage.

So my question is how come my "System Storage" has gone down by 15MB when the two apps only add up to less than 4MB. But, as manage apps shows them on the internal storage i.e. my 16gb storage, why did my system storage available space change at all. I'm very confused........

Update. I just checed AppsLib under /settings/applications/manage applications and its showing under application infor "Stroage" Total 41.46MB, Appkication 1.0MB and Data 40.46 MB. Whats going on here. What is the 40.46MB of data made up of. Its eating my System Storage.....Why?
[Gen8 General] umberto.sulla:
have you installed Dolphin Browser HD or something similar?

In the options you can set cache to write into System Storage....

You should set the option to write cache into sdcard instead!!

Remember first to delete all caches...

I don't know if in the standard browser there is a similar option...
[Gen8 General] ExploreMN:
Honestly Pete, I have no idea what to tell you. I mean I'm not doing anything special and I have about 60 apps installed and still have 120mb of system storage, about 5gb of my 8gb internal storage and my 8gb SD card is maxed out with movies, music, documents, and some e-books I'm reading.

I have angry birds (not seasons...not feeling Christmas at the moment) and several other games as well.

I haven't done anything with the apps other than hit the "install" button. I know there are a lot I can move to SD, but since I don't need to I haven't.

The system memory does jump around though. As you use applications, load and unload, etc. Try using Archos's task manager to stop all apps, wait like 10 seconds (1 hippopotamus, 2 hippopotamus type 10 seconds...) , then check your storage. I bet that might be the issue. Hell, it almost has to be!
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
Thankyou. I think Im getting there. I noticed that in /settings/apps/manage apps the Archos AppsLib was showing 120MB. Weird I thought. So looking that the App Info for it said App 1MB data 119MB.

So I have uninstalled, re-booted and then sideloaded the latest build of AppsLib from Arcos. No App Info shows 1MB. Magically Angry Birds re-appeared too ...

This sounds like it has something to do with the problem and I now have to keep an eye on AppsLib to make sure it doesnt start eating System Storage Again.....

This seems very unusual to me. Maybe something is coded incorrectly by Archos in their latest release of AppsLib. Can others please tell me what amount of Data AppsLib has created on their devices? Thanks.

I havent got an external SD card yet, so I think that's going to be a must. Whats the biggest SD card that it can take? 32GB???

I should maybe also get Apps2SD. There seems a few versions out there. Who's the author of the one everyone here has loaded?
[Gen8 General] ExploreMN:
My appslib is 0.93mb of that, only .02mb is the data part.
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
Thanks. Mine is curretly 1.05MB. The data part being 0,05MB. I'll keep an eye on it now I have re-installed to make sure it doesnt creep up again. What version are you running?
[Gen8 General] ExploreMN:
the most recent one.
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
Im still having problems in thw whole storage and could do with some help.

The System Storage is listed as 299.44mb available when I look in App2sd. It shows I have 86.29mb available.

Using App 2 SD it shows the list of immovable apps on the System Storage. When I add up their indivdiual file sizes it comes to 65.919mb.

So where is the other 147.23mb gone?

Is System Storage where the Android OS sits? If so would that account for 147mb?

Many thanks Guys.
[Gen8 General] msticninja:
No, the OS is on a different partition, specifically a mounted squashfs. There will always be more data on the /data partition(System Storage) than is listed in the Applications menu. Keep in mind all the System Apps (ones you didn't install) will still need to store databases, settings, etc. on the /data partition, because the OS partition is read only.

147mb seems like alot, but my Archos has about the same amount of storage available(~86mb), and I have about the same amount of installed apps(~65mb), so I guess it's right.
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
Thank you for answering that. I thought i was going nuts loomlking fot the missing storage:eek:
[Gen8 General] msticninja:
No problem. I never really did the math, but it seems like an awful lot is used by non-download apps. I may have to do some crawling through the file system to see what's using so much.
[Gen8 General] Pete917:
If you discover anything please let me know. 147mb seems a lot to have gone missing :)

I contacted Archos support and they gave this answer:

"Dear Customer,

The information given by the 3thd party software is not correct, we do not support 3thrd part software.

Kind Regards,

Archos Technical Support"

So they are not helpful at all. Given the amount of money we pay for these devices you'd think they wouldnt just dissmiss my request for support and perhaps try and help even a little bit....:(
[Gen8 General] fzelle:
Do you both think that an operatingsystem can run without any memoryneeds?

Android is build for small memory devices but it still needs some memory or all that ui, threading, file and other services.

It is a bare Linux which consumes around 100MB depending on the features you have installed/switched on.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wadech:
I just downloaded the CM7 nightly #20, and after I rebooted to install it, my sd card is reading as unformatted. Is there anything I can do to fix this, or do I just need to bite the bullet and reformat it?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCRic:
No, don't reformat it. What exactly are you doing when it says it's not formatted? Can you browse your sdcard with a file manager? I know CM7 or rather CWM3 seems to have an issue with ext partitions on the sdcard since it always skips backing it up (no sd-ext found). I would say if it's all acting ok then don't worry about it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] azzledazzle:
does any one know a good TV app for android ??

i used to use beebplayer for BBC - but the arseholes over at BBC stopped it.

same goes for MyPlayer.

is there anything out there where we can stream TV from the main UK channels like ITV, Channel 4, Five or any other free to view channels

gets a bit boring searching youtube waiting for someone to upload last weeks TV shows...

theres gotta be something... Im desperate... Horrible nasty iphone users get these sort of things :( what about us...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] HarpingOn:
I use tvcatchup web site. Works very well on 2.2.1 at least
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] StormtrooprDave:
I also use the mobile tvcatchup site although I would like a dedicated app version better.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] milkybarkid:
Or just go to the main websites and view the episodes from there espically if your on 2.2.1.;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carols:
it only work's when iam connected to a wifi network for me
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] azzledazzle:
yes same for me thats the only downside.. when im out and about its forever buffering :( at home its great.... but im sat in front of the TV anyway lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Emexrulsier:
I created this post a few months back

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=847968

Fair enough you want an app but if you want decent quality its best via the sites. Sadly BBC you have to use tvcatchup which is a shame
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] azzledazzle:
tell me about it :( i can get in anywhere i want, tv , net, even on my ps3. if only they made an official app i would happily pay for it...

then again no doubt it would class as an extra tv and charge us for a tv license B***ARDS
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] JJEgan:
AS i understand it the pressure is coming from the networks they want BBC to pay some of the costs involved in transmitting the data stream .

Mplayer and Beebplayer two old apps still work but not as well as

IPlayer

jje
[myTouch 4G General] foxthemene:
my htc glacier cannot go into standby mode

the screen is always on and never turns off even after changing rom

plz help could it be hardware?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denis234:
I have been using leedroid for quite a while(got it when I bought it from someone) and I tried a month or two ago Insert coin and overs so now there are a lot of new HD roms so i wanted to know what is the most stable and fast?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
ROMs are best to try out for yourself. Just read each ROM and see if it is stable and fast. There is a problem with 720p recording but apart from that, they should be fine.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denis234:
actually the 720p porblem was fixed :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tlexul:
I still go with InsertCoin after two weeks of testing. It's as advertized: fast and stable.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCH0366:
Same thing for me : Insert Coin is fast and reliable.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
I tried Insert Coin and it is good, but for some reason RCSHD Mix is faster for me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikkis2k:
Insertcoin best.
[General Questions and Answers] cprstn54:
On my WM6.5 Samsung Jack (SGH-i637), when I enable Device Lock, holding the "phone down" key invokes Device Lock instead of Keypad Lock.

I can find no way to have both locks active at the same time. Device Lock keeps turning on the screen if any key is jostled in my pocket. Is there any way to have both?

Ken C
[G Tablet General] 6.055chevy:
Can i just put a avi move on the micro sd card and put it in my gtab?

It's running tntlite latest firmware.

I have loaded a avi movie on the card but tablet doesn't see it. Any help would be great. I have downloaded a app to play movies but it shows the card is blank but the movie is there.

thank you darrin
[G Tablet General] 6.055chevy:
Hey guy I got it. I had to change the root to sdcard2 to find the files.

What is the best player Rockplayer? Mine only works in Hardware mode.

thanks again
[G Tablet General] jwischka:
Try arcmedia. It's fairly highly regarded.
[G Tablet General] japhule:
Vitalplayer is my new default video player. Plays more formats that rockplayer for me and has brightness controls built in. Arcmedia for some reason will stretch your video full screen and will only zoom out to native size or stretched to fullscreen.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Bladergroen:
Hi, hopefully someone can help me with the following question :confused::

I just flashed my Polaris100 to Android 2.2, which works very good now. I'd like to use this device with the XCSoar navigation program, which normally gets its GPS data via the built in GPS.

During winter I'd like to connect my polaris to my Mac via Bluetooth using the serial port service, so that XCSoar can get it's NMEA data from my soaring simulator (SilentWings). So I need to transfer NMEA data

from

my Mac

to

my Polaris. This helps me to practice during the winter period. In WM6.1 this was easily done, because:

a) the serial service was build in

b) all used com-ports were shown in the settings menu or could be hacked to show/be edited.

So my questions are:

a) how can I activate the serial service in Android

b) how can I see which com-port is then used for my polaris BT connection (I need to set this port in XCSoar as external device)

I could not find a workable solution on the www or on this forum. I mean "workable", because most solutions or discussions are written in very technical terms and code, but I am an end-user and not familiar with all these terms. I do not know terminal commands as well...

Thanks for your help, Reno
[Touch Cruise Android Development] 我是春哥:
I've never used Bluetooth, I connected to the computer through USB:D
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Bladergroen:
Eh... what do you suggest by that? Although USB stands for Universal

Serial

Bus, it isn't recognized by the GPS app as a com-port. As I understood in that case I need a usb-serial service on both my mac as my android, right?

So can you be more specific and tell me how to do it with a usb connection?

Thanks, R.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] civicvx94:
I've seen the one development thread trying to get working Ubuntu on the gtab, but has anyone attempted to use the 'Linux Installer' app from the market? It doesn't get great reviews but I'm very curious if it would work..I'd love to get a full OS on the gtab.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] muqali:
I'd love to see someone lay out the exact boot order of these devices. Normal boot looks for this, recovery boot looks for these files on x,y, then z.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechKidTarek:
i know coding is hard but how come support for Samsung galaxy range is not finished like most phones is the hardware the problem or lack of source code to build up on
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=924400

Good things come to those who wait :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thetasigma2:
Hey guys, first time poster here and a bit of a newb to rooting, Android and smart-phones in general.

I've been hanging on these forums the past 3 months researching the rooting process for a Desire and all the relevant stuff that goes along with it. So please go easy on me. I've also read all the 'similar threads' suggested to me at post-time.

I'm almost ready to begin the process but there's a few bits of information that's got me pretty scared before I go ahead. I wasn't able to find much of a concrete answer/s to these questions, from Googling around.

Well without further ado.

What is the difference between GSM & CDMA and do I need to know which my phone is before proceeding?

If I DO need to know, how do I find this out?

My phone is branded (Orange splash-screen at boot) and locked to Orange network (Newly recieved contract phone).

I've heard that I may need a goldcard to proceed with the Unrevoked process due to the branding. Is this correct?

Another guide on the net (can provide link if necessary), mentions upgrading the radio on Orange phones can permanently break the wifi OR permanently simlock your phone.

Will I need to worry about this during the Unrevoked rooting process? And will this be avoidable after installing a custom rom. (If I get that far:p )

I read somewhere on these forums (I forgot where exactly), something about the newest Orange OTA update causing problems with the rooting process. Is this still the case or has Unrevoked been updated to avoid that now? Also, how can I check if I have that update?

I can provide all the information about my Hboot, radio and kernel versions etc, if you need it (I guess you will), but for some reason, I keep getting a spam warning as this is my first post. I can only assume the version numbers are being interpreted as IPs... :confused:

Well sorry for the wall of text, but I greatly appreciate any help I can get regarding these issues. I'm so scared of bricking my Desire and not being able to return it, if bricking does occur.

Yours a worried root newb!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
1. We use GSM phones in the UK as we use SIM cards. CDMA phones don't use SIM cards and are locked/released to one network

2. You don't need a gold card to root, no. As there isn't an Orange RUU available to go back to stock for warranty you will need one to flash a non-Orange RUU. Best to make one before starting

3. This was the case a while back but I'd wait for confirmation before changing it

4. No as the radio isn't flashed during a ROM (unless stated in the ROM thread that it does)

5. Shouldn't be an issue, just get the latest version of unrEVOked from their website before starting
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thetasigma2:
Great, that's most of my questions/concerns answered. Although the below answer has brought a new question to the front :p

Unfortunately my knowledge of RUU is almost non-existant, other than that it stands for Rom Upgrade Utility and is used to upgrade the software on my phone? Right?

And forgive me if I'm being dumb here but, if

and yet I

then how can I do this? Or am I totally misunderstanding you?

Do I somehow use an application without root permission to perform a procedure similar to hdd ghosting?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Basically, if you wanted to return to stock for any reason you wouldn't be able to go back to the Orange ROM as the RUU doesn't exist so you'd have to go to a generic ROM. To flash any ROM other than the originally on the phone you need a gold card

It's the same for me, if (for some strange reason) I'd want to flash a branded ROM on my Desire I'd need a gold card. Thankfully, I have an unbranded handset so I can get the stock RUU and use it without a gold card
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thetasigma2:
So basically if I were to screw it up, which I hopefully won't, I'm buggered as far as getting my phone fixed cos they'll see the Orange rom is no longer installed? Not too fussed about that, as I'm super-careful with my phone.

I guess my next issue would be, after rooting using Unrevoked, I'd need to gain S-OFF right? Which I understand is done via AlphaRev. Only issue there would be related to this

"Please revert to a rooted stock ROM if possible. Your /data partition is used for temporary storage of important files." If I'm reverting to a stock rom, while gaining S-OFF presumably there's a high chance that'd upgrade my radio - a potentially very bad thing.

THEN I go about choosing a rom to flash. Then Nandroid backup. Then flash the rom, hopefully love it and voila?

Also, what would you suggest as a good rom for someone like me just starting out with a fully rooted phone? I was thinking one of the official builds to lose all the crap, but then the above issue of the radio creeps up again...