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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paparasee:
Guys,

Got my phone a couple of days before ... no case yet ... hopefully the S case will be here tomorrow.

Have been playing with it most of the time since I got it and now have compiled a list of queries. Am sure the geeks out here will be able to help :)

a) Setup the VOIP ,,, no probs, works great. The problem is that well, every time I press call, I've got to choose between cell phone call and internet call. I live in Kuwait where all local calls are basically free or really cheap. I would like the popup to appear when it is an international call only. If that's not possible is there a way to switch it off (as I normally make local calls) and then have an easy way to switch the voip on?

b) I downloaded skype from one of these forums ... could not get it in the market. The problem I have with skype and one other program is that it has no "exit" option. Its on and running all the time even when I am done using it. Any way to have an option to exit? Is it only possible to use something like a tasker or something and force it to close/ end service?

c) I have my bookmarks at home/office in Google Chrome. I seriously thought since both Android and Chrome are Google products (just as Gmail) the bookmarks in my Google Chrome would have synced with my android browser just as Gmail dumped my contacts on to the phone (which by the way I did not want to happen). Is there some way I can get my chrome bookmarks show up in my browser?

More queries will follow once I play a lil more. Thanks for help received from various nice guys here while I was in the process of getting the NS and then splitting my head on which case to get.

Cheers
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paparasee:
Can someone please help me??

I have managed to find out that we can exit Skype. I however use a program called "Stock India" and can find no way out.

Would appreciate help with the rest of those queries too.

Thanks :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paparasee:
bump ... sorry :confused:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorak950:
I'd help you if I could.

Normally I try to avoid non-answers like this, but I was starting to feel bad for you getting no replies. >.>
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DKYang:
Alright, I just downloaded skype to see if I can answer your questions. :)

1. No clue. I don't use the voip feature. I looked under call settings and it has the options for when to use internet calling. Maybe that's it?

2. You can sign out when you're in the "My Info" tab. If you want to end the app then you got to do that manually or with tasker.

3. I'm asking myself the same question. There aren't any apps that make it easier either. I think there are apps that sync with google bookmarks, but that's totally different from chrome bookmarks.

Hope I helped you somewhat.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knytphal:
Not sure if these'll help you any but....

a. I've only messed around with the VOIP stuff for a couple of days, but there is an option in Settings->Call Settings->Internet Call Settings to let the phone know when you want to use it. Sounds like yours is set to ask for each call. Mine is set to 'For Internet Calls Only'. Try that.

b. Android - and Gingerbread in particular - is very good about managing memory and running apps. That said, if you really want to kill the skype process, look into downloading one of the many available task managers on the market. I can't suggest a good one for you, as I don't use one. Many people actually recommend against using one.

c. I wish. ;-) What I have found, though, and it's not a very good solution, is to use a different browser. I've been looking at Firefox for Android and it's actually pretty good. It also includes the ability to sync your desktop bookmarks to your mobile, which might make it worth the change for you.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paparasee:
Hey Zorak, not to worry ... guess I've got used to no replies :) Maybe the question was dumb and should have been found with a search (I normally search first) or maybe the guys genuinely don't know (in which case there is no point in blaming anyone).

Regards setting voip to "internet calls only", I did try that option. The result is that no calls are recognized as internet calls unless you copy and paste the number into a new field called "Internet Call" by editing the contact. Here, I've got a problem ... I use exchange for my contacts and if you use exchange, there is no option to add "Internet Call".

To test, I enabled my Gmail contacts and was able to enter the "Internet Call" and noticed that in gmail, the contact gets modified, the category being "Other:" followed by "sip:+9659935xxx". I copied pasted "sip:+9659935xxx" into one of the regular fields in exchange, but it does not work. The only option therefore seems to edit my entire Gmail contacts.

@DKYang & knytphal Yes, the now know that we can logout of skype ... thanks :)

Regarding android bookmarks, I found this solution ... guess there is nothing to worry about security. From whichever browser you use, 1) export the bookmarks to a html file.

2) Upload the html file to Rerware.

3) Install MyBookmarks from Appbrain

4) This software lets you overwrite your Android bookmarks with the one uploaded to the Rerware site.

This should help ... just not sure if after this is done if these new bookmarks would get saved on to our gmail or wherever in case we factory reset or change mobiles.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canus05:
Since dell and at&t seem to be supporting streak 7 and the new venue, can we take working features from those phones and port them to the streak 5? The big one is the front facing camera finally being recognized in so many apps. I am sure dj steve already has this idea. Donations help him work better people. Maybe he can buy more dell products to frankanstein a better streak experience.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canus05:
On that note, I just donated to steve. Hope it helps.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] heien:
Hi all.

I've been trying for some time now to get rid af this annoying bar. Eventually, i found out that i can't do it myself, and i need som help. :)

Objective: Removing the blue bar in the bottom of the screen, if you have changed your input method to another configuration than the roms.

Tries so far:

In system/usr/keyboard-config/layouts, i've tried to copy the settings from qwerty-no-dk.xml in to all other files (azerty.xlm, cyrillic.xml and so on). with this i managed to get every language selected to write the danish æåø, but when i deselect standard input, i stil get the original layout.

Tried to rename the Keyprint name: in the keyprint.xml - no effect.

Anyone wanna give it a try? :)

Regards, Heien.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] djx24:
The bar that has the time, date and signal?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] malawito:
I suposse that is the blue bar of the keyboard when opening the phisical keyboard. I also hates it
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Biodegradable:
yep me too.. it is annoying when browsing it covers the lower part of the page
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Mooozer:
the .png is located in the SuquashiInputMethod.apk & can be modified to have other colors, i'll try to make it transparent, but give it not more than a shot into the blue, i have done it once on 1.6 & no alphablending enabled, so may just result in grey/black bar at bottom.

what u need:

go find Theme Reference Thread in X10 Dev Forum, read the part with .xml decompilation & recompilation & then find the damn .xml blamable for the icon to be shown.

simply delete image call & bar is gone :p

edit: digged into it further & decompiled suquashi

xml blamable found in /res/layout-land/querty-statusbar.XML

trying to get rid of it now

hmm seems like my decompiled files already contained failures, fc after managing to get it installed

hmm seems working..??

still not wanted effect..

how to define transluscent background of a relative view, if view needs 1) background & 2) background is not shown only by changing backgroundimage to transluscent

seems also to be on same lvl as "real" screen content.. :(
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] sridharrn:
remove SuquashiInputMethod.apk

I don't use the se keyboard. I removed SuquashiInputMethod.apk.

I don't have that problem :) And Swype is wonderfull
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] spence91:
Yeah the easiest way to get rid of it is to use a different keyboard application.

I'm Currently using Swiftkey..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Mooozer:
when using different kb, do you have symbols dialog & the other features from hardware keyboard?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] sridharrn:
hmm

Numbers you can, Caps you can

no smilies,no ascented characters-from physical keyboard

Smiles and ascented character can be inputed from soft keyboard
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] heien:
I do not believe that we need to get rid of the bar by changing in the xml and image files, i believe that we somehow should be able to alter the default input somewhere (as we did to get out custom languages working) to support our native input method. When i recieved the phone from 3 (in denmark) the language bar was hidden, althrough my input was with danish characters, and this is the effect i'm trying to achieve. :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
I've been looking at the same issue, and is quite annoyed. I think you're right in your assumption with the xml files - apparently i can only find the apk unzippers not the decompilers (dont have computer). The keyboard asis should be capable of functioning in the way we are looking for - on my device when i run terminal emulator the keyboard essencially does what i want (though the cursor in the terminal doesn't show keyboard state - symbol/shifted), and have experinced other situations when this giant bar of blue death finally dissapeared :)

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
Guyz dnt worry I will make it.. just give me some time..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
That would make me one happy fan :)

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
i feeling i sloved the problem but now i can't install the apk... it says problem P***king problem! changed apk zipped signed. what's problem now?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
My APK manager screwed.. if anyone can sign apk.. the edit res/layout-land.xml file

and set these value to

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="0.0px"

please report!! somebody!!

Edit: I am getting few errors in compiling and recompiling... so i can't edit this! If anyone succeed in this! just do written above~
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
I gotta get myself a computer :/

I'll try to find an apk manager that can run on device.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
There is nothing like it... and I have found the solution to remove that bar.. we r unable to use it...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
What do you mean - unable to use it?

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
by using APK manager smhw i managed to decompile it... and edited the apk in the manner as it'll work our way! but now i can't recompile it as that APK Manager or the APK itself has some errors.. cz when i decompile i get some errors but it does decompile.. and when i recompile it.. it doesn't recompile.. it doesn't even recompile when i dnt edit anything! so after figuring out what is solution i can't make it usable! :(

i worked like a **** for 5-6 hrs.. just to recompile... cz the solution was so easy! :o dnt know! what to do now!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] <3D:
try this:

1) in your home folder in apktool/framework folder you will find 1.apk open it with 7 zip.

2) pull framework-res.apk file from /system/framework/ extract resources.arsc, replace it with one in 1.apk.

3) Now try decompiling/compiling.

PS: if may not find the apktool folder if you clean all projects, load the project try decompiling ( it will create the apktool folder in your home) now try decompiling again :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
which 1 APK?? i dnt find apktool/framework ...

don't understand what u r saying!! EXPLAIN PLS!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] <3D:
are you using windows or linux?

in linux you can find the folder in /home/<user>/apktool/framework/1.apk

(this folder is deleted when you clean you projects in apk manager and recreated when you try to decompile any apk) so if you can't find the folder try decompiling the apk ignore errors, and follow the instructions.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
Yeah I am on windows... I'll give it a last shot in linux... hope it'll work.. just give me a clear guideline abt wht u saying!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Ah okey - could you list the changes needed?

I've got a far out idea i want to test :)

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
i have posted it... few posts back! i m really fed up of posting everything all again! do some work!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Easy now - since you've done alot of work on this i had no way of knowing that was it. I weren't out to annoy you - just exiteted that you figured it out.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
edit res/layout-land.xml file

and set these value to

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="0.0px"
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
I've spendt most of last night and today, getting an overview of the compiled xml files of the SuquashiInputMethod.apk (in hex :s).

Just to share:

When i unpack the apk i get a somewhat different dir structure from what you describe - instead of a xml, i've got a layout_land folder, which contains xml's describing both soft and hard keyboard of the landscape view. Some of these files seem to have duplicates in res/layout/ folder.

Anyway - i found that the interesting of these xml's that describe the screen we want to change have a constant/label named "orientation" with a hex value of '00 00 00 0c' and i've got an idea of where these options are located.

I need the decimal (or hex) value of wrap_content to see if i can set it in the compiled version (i'm no wiz but it's worth a shot) - anyone?

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
Well... If u find layout-land.xml then only this gonna work.. my ubuntu doesn't have adb nd I dnt knw hw to install it.. can't use apk manager on it... plus owain left us.. so no multitouch.. feeling sad..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] blooddrinkindevil:
download the android-sdk-linux_x86 or 64 bit version depnd on ur architecture and jdk fr linux if u do then let me knw i wil pm u hw to setupt adb :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] jose1984:
mmm go to android settings --> language&keyboard--> uncheck default input settings and goodbye annoying bar, but you can only write with the keyboard :P
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Oh no - that is a huge loss to xda :(

Well - it might be a weak reason for some, but i'm interested in getting this statusbar thing working because this is the only keyboard that i've been able to find where i can edit and build the candidate lists for keys freely and directly on my device. In comparison to other keyboards the symkey candidate list really speeds things up - and with a little hacking all special chars are within quick and easy reach. Okey - the soft keyboard sucks big time, but i rarely use it. The only thing thats really annoying is that 24 out of 240px bluebar of useless info.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] styla84:
good tip, I tried that yesterday. a) The bar really is gone but you have to install a different on-screen keyboard if you want one. b) Also, the entry of accented Characters via the Symkey doesn't work. Sym becomes a second blue square... :-( So I'm back to square one, with the bar hiding a disproportionate part of the screen...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Yeah, i'm not sure but it seems to fallback on the stock android keyboard when killing of the default input method - which is pretty basic without the language feats and key candidate lists.

It will require a couple of changes in the keyboard setup xml's, and newtron_b1 found this to be a bit more complex than just de- and recompile.

So we're down two options:

- Find a way to decompile SuquashiInputMethod.apk WITHOUT errors - this should be a good steep towards actually get it compiling without errors.

- Find these options in the raw binary xml's and through HEX editing change to the desired behaviour.

Needless to say - it's getting a bit hairy :)

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
Yeah coz guys the soluion is just changing two words.. but the repacking apk I pain in ass... and I dnt find those hex values as I use eclipse... maybe owain can pack this apk cz he changed the color in v3.6 update.. don't knw how he does that bt if he can change the color he can surely edit this xml too... we should ask him!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
The color of the bar is actually easy enough - when you unzip an apk the graphicfiles are straight forward (.png's), it's only the java and xml parts that get precompiled.

Stericson made a really cool tool for theme modding on device - ninja morph - where you can open an apk that will get unzipped to a workspace on the sdcard, you can then just exit - play all you what with the content and then just slap it together again when you're done. Even applying zipalign if installed. I dont know why but the keyboard came out ~250kb smaller - only ~500kb.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] ruifung:
If you only use english, you could try sogou input (has chinese and english input) it has support for the sym key ( you have to choose X10 Mini Pro under Hardware Keyboard in its options ).
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Neo Cortex:
Thanks. This is brilliant.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Progress update:

Borrowing a computer over night, i successfully de- and recompiled the keyboard apk (thanks <3D for describtion on using SE's resourcefile - despite the language barriers ;)

The layout and code are apparently somewhat different on the version i've got than the one newtron_b1 describes. But next time i'll get a chance to actually take a look at it - can't say when though.

But this ain't dead yet x)

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24

>root,xrec,jit,link2sd,cus. key + bootanim
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
what layout-land file on ur side looks like? if possible post it here!! will tell u d modifications!!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] slade87:
i made a smaller version of the input bar

unzip and adb push over

trying to get rid of it completly fails unfortunately :(
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] slade87:
here is a 5 px smaller one

so now instead of 53px its 20 px

unzip and push with adb

disregard the post, i was wrong :) still the same size :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
I got fed up of working on dis ****ing thing... better way I'll make a new keyboard which will support the sym key and will have qwerty keyboard in portrait mode

Sent from my freaking Xperia X 10 mini pro CM6 v3.6
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Completely understandable newtron - the answer to your question is there are multiple files in both res/layout and res/layout_land named like qwerty-*.xml (alot noticable is the qwerty-statusbar.xml)

Nice one slade - you actually managed to make it less painfull - using it right now. Nice job. Though i can't help notice the huge size difference - seems almost twice the size?

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
How did you decompile and recompile the keyboard apk? Tell us and more eyeballs can help edit it :P

I presume that as a system app, it uses some SE resource apk as a framework, but I don't know where that resource is :(

It might be sufficient to simply make the blue bar disappear; we can always change the language in soft keyboard mode. :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
The trick is to have sdk (i think eclipse too) and apktool on a linux box (dunno windoze) and:

- Find '/home/youruser/apktool/framework/1.apk'. (if not there decompile something with 'apktool d [.apk]')

- Get '/system/framework/framework_res.apk' on the device and extract 'resources.arsc'

- Now just replace the 'resources.arsc' in 1.apk with the one extracted from 'framework_res.apk'

It should decompile without errors, else it could be packed wrong - i didn't bother finding out how to do that (just used ninjamorph).

When recompiled using 'apktool b' in project dir i had to run the new './dist/something.apk' through Signapktic, signing it with a testkey.

That did it - i gotta say though, it were <3D that came with the solution to the compile errors earlier this thread.

Both ninjamorph and signapktic are made by stericson for android.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] slade87:
I just decompiled using apk manager 4.9! Just make sure not to resign and. Not to zipaliagn.

Its fairly easy to compile again as system app also make sure to set compression to 0 otherwise its reallllly slow!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
Wait, should we resign the recompiled apk or not?

e: never mind, I think I am figuring it out...

e#2: scratch that, I still don't get it.

- Okay, I start with the stock APK, SuquashiInputMethod.apk

- decompile that, change nothing, then recompile it as SuquashiInputMethod.apk.new

- open SuquashiInputMethod.apk.new in 7zip and extract everything in /res/, classes.dex, and resources.arsc

- open SuquashiInputMethod.apk and add the extracted /res/ and classes.dex

- add resources.arsc to the (now-modified) SuquashiInputMethod.apk via 7zip's Add to Archive, using compression level: store.

- push the resulting SuquashiInputMethod.apk to /sdcard, start ADB shell and use busybox to push it to /system/app, chmod it 644 and reboot. Then watch it F/C or force a reboot.

??

e#3: got it. Moving all of /res/ seems to cause some kind of problem; I don't really have the patience to figure out exactly what so I'm sticking to copying all of the stock /res/ over and then re-copying the individual modded files back before pushing it. Seems to work. Results in the next post.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Exactly what i was aiming for - the same behavior as when using the terminal. Works perfectly btw - good job :)

slade's grey keyboard certainly was a great improvement but on this small screen it's really nice the keyboard doesn't steal space.

This proves once again the awesome power of xda-dev :)

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] myth999:
@porcupine

Great thing you did buddy.

But can i know how you edited the xml.

coz you didnt sign the app. It has SE signature :O

I really need to know how you added the edited xml to the apk.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
finally someone did that!! i was goin to suicide anyways coz i really screwed the original app !