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[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenglish:
I imagine quite a few people have set up multiple Android phones for their immediate family, and I'm looking for suggestions.

I have three myTouch 4Gs (one for each family member). We each have our own Google account and we also have a "family" Google account, which I am planning to use for shared contacts and calendars. Each person will also want their own calendar and contacts.

Should I first configure each phone to use the "family" account, and then add each person's "user" account to the phone for contacts and calendar? If I do this will each phone automatically sync the shared contacts & calendar and then the individual user's contacts & calendar?

Can Android handle this or is this a bad idea?

BTW I'm aware that one user can own the calendars and share them with the other users (that's what I do now for the iPhone), but I don't believe the same can be done for contacts, can it?

Thanks ... Mike
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borodin1:
Either way, Android can handle multiple Google accounts since 2.x update.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
You need to set them up using the one you want as default first. Theres no way to change this afterwards.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenglish:
@option94 - thanks. What would br the downside of having a particular account be the default? Would it only affect the Market? Or does Gmail always use the default account for sending, even if (say) you are replying to a message sent to your non-default account.

@borodin1 - thanks.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
I dont recall who, but someone had an issue with it. I believe it was something to do with calendar. And you are correct about the market.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenglish:
So one more thing occurred to me as I was playing around with these phones trying to get them set up "right" the first time. If all three have the same default Google account, what happens with the "Back up data with my Google Account" option? If enabled, would each phone clobber the others' backup? That wouldn't be good.

Thanks again.

Mike
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
Thats one that I haven't run into. I would hope that they would all sync with each other, but then you would be sharing contacts and such among all three phones.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenglish:
Thanks for the info. I'm going to set them up as follows and see how it goes:

All phones - set up "family" Google account first (which means they will all share the same Market account). Sync calendar only. Turn off "Back up data with my Google Account".

Individual phones - set up the individual's Google account second, and sync contacts and mail.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
Sounds good. Let us know how it goes.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenglish:
Is there a way to clear the Calendar cache without doing a Factory data reset?

I didn't like the idea of the other two family members being able to manage the calendars, so I decided to switch to the following setup (only tried on mine so far):

All phones - set up "family" Google account first (which means they will all share the same Market account). Sync none of calendar, contacts, and mail. Turn off "Back up data with my Google Account".

Individual phones - set up the individual's Google account second, and sync calendar, contacts, and mail.

However ... Even after forcing several syncs and a reboot, the built-in calendar still only lets me choose calendars from the "family" account, not from my individual account. CalWidget lets me choose from both sets of calendars (the "family" set and my individual set, but if I choose my individual set it doesn't display any entries. And Jorte doesn't tell me whether it's getting entries from the "family" or "individual" calendar.

Since the "Family" calendars are shared (read-only) to the individuals they have the same names in both "family" and "individual". I suspect I have confused Android, and am looking for a way to clear out whatever cached information it might have.

Suggestions appreciated.

Thanks ... Mike
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signal15:
I've been doing this for a few months. I don't sync anything with the family account though, I just use it for the Market. I would like to know if the Back Up data with my Google Account option will clobber or replicate settings among multiple phones, or if it's smart enough to store the settings and link them to the SIM card ID or something.

Otherwise, it works great.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenglish:
signal15 - I have run into a problem with the setup I described (and which you are also using I believe). Do you have multiple calendars owned by the "family" (shared) account? If so, are they still displaying OK?

In my case the "family" account has multiple calendars and shares them to the three family members' gmail accounts.

On phone 1 (mine) I am syncing only the calendars in my personal gmail account (which are shared out from the family calendar). Up to last night it worked OK (showing all the calendars), but as of last night all those calendars (except for the default calendar of my personal gmail account and the defaulty calendar of the family account) have disappeared from the phone - I can't see them listed in the settings where you get to see which calendars should be displayed.

Phones 2 and 3 are syncing the calendars in the family gmail account (which is the owner of the calendars), and they are working OK (so far).

One of the annoying aspects of all this is that you're never sure whether something went wrong on the phone, or at Google's end.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenglish:
I fixed the problem of disappearing calendars, by following steps from the Pimlical forum.

I needed to force stop Calendar Sync Adapter and clear data & force stop Calendar Storage, then do a sync all.

I have my calendars back, but I really don't want to have to be doing this periodically. I really expected better from Google (I'm particularly annoyed at them right now because I recently discovered there's a long-term "functional anomaly" that prevents appointments more than a couple of months old from syncing to the phone).
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] athakur999:
This won't help with contact syncing but you can share a calendar with full read write privileges with multiple accounts already in google calendar. I believe you have to set it up from the desktop version of the Google calendar website but after that it works perfectly with your phones.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigtomcat:
I was wondering my usb has gone bad so i can only flash via xrecovery this is a 2 part question ..i need to get rogers 2.2 back on my phone so i can take it in for warranty

question 1) can i flash a stock rogers rom back using xrecovery

question 2) if i can where is there a stock rogers rom i can use i must be missing it

thanks Tom :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigtomcat:
ok rogers stock rom and firmware

well i found the stock firmware and rom here i and going to link it here so if someone needs it they can find it linked here too thanks to who posted it

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9096976&postcount=673
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigtomcat:
hello n

if someone can just let me know if there is a way i can flash it on my phone without a usb min is stuck need to do it before it will now charge either

thanks all
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
This is the battery meter for steves rom for dell streak V 1.7 alone. Dont try it on any other roms..

REMEMBER THERE IS A THANKS BUTTON AT THE END.

( Thats ur donation for me :D )

Update 1

Theme 1.1 added

Changes

1- Changed notification bar color to make carrier logo visible

2-Changed color of battery meter no. so that its more visible between 75 and 10%

Update 2 - Feb 14

Theme 2.1 added

1- Changed notification bar color to make carrier logo visible

2 Edges are not round anymore.

3-Little bit more colorful taskbar :D ( valentine touch )

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=949756

Theme 1

link

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9D6B7CG4

Theme 1.1- Latest and preferred.

i have changed the battery and the taskbar based on the feed back

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MW8QBRXN

http://www.mediafire.com/?5rh11my8q7e67pr

Themes 2

Link

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DLNJ28KU

THeme 2.1

Link

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MO00XNFX

Screenshot of the taskbar alone.

Instructions

Flash your downloaded file in recovery:

1. reboot into recovery ( need clockwork recovery to work ) .

2. choose "install zip from sdcard"

3. choose "choose zip from sdcard"

4. locate your file Gopa battery ... .zip in SD

5. confirm "YES - install Battery ... .zip"

6. wait for script to finish

7. reboot phone

Donation

There is a similar thread in xda - you can run over there and click thanks... :D
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Foxhoundep3:
love the second theme with numbers!, excellent job
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] wrightc88:
Just flashed Theme 2 so far its working good, only thing I would suggest is to change the carrier to white letters when you drop the notification bar down.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Baldyl0cks:
I can confirm theme 2 works on 1.7

I dont like the colour of the bar (1.7 bar is straight black), and I dont like the curves at the edges:

I prefer 1.7 transparency and the network txt needs to be white here:

Weird bar before the battery icon on the stock lockscreen:

But overall who am I to complain? I didnt make it!

Nice work mate, if you can adjust the changes I suggestive I'll donate :E

Keep it up!
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
Thanks for the feedbacks

@Baldyl0cks - Work is totally free ;-) , except for the thanks button

I will try to work on the task bar... However the framework changes are very difficult to work on.. ( hopefully will find sometime to work on this during the weekend )
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] yungj:
Can I have another link for download? My region can't get into megauplode...
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
I get error cant open /sdcard/Gopa_battery_theme2.zip (bad)

installation aborted.

tried twice

will give it another try.

anone any ideas?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
Re download the file and try.

Are u using clockwork recovery ?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
redownloaded same error

im using streakmod recovery and have flashed your battery on 1.6 and 1.5.3

after extracting your .zip it looks empty
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] vlamers:
I installed with streakmod recovery and get a Boot loop. Had to install 1.70 again without resetting my streak.

Everyone else got this error?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Baldyl0cks:
Try reflashing 1.7 (dont worry about doing a factory reset) to fix your bootloop

then clear cache partition

go advanced and clear delivk cache (or however you spell it)

then flash battery file

first boot will take awhile
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
Please read the first post.. this will work only with 1.7
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
New theme 1.1 added.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Baldyl0cks:
oooo got screenshots for us?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] majik8ball:
Tried version 1.1 still getting boot loop... had to reflash 1.7 other than that looks good and can't wait for update to theme 2
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
O , I meant I have flashed your other themes previously in streakmod recovery and never had issues.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
Not much changes... Added darker numbers for batttery meter from 75 to 100%.

Changed the color of dropped down taskbar so that the carrier name is better seen .
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
Can u try to flash the battery meter soon after a fresh installation of the ROM..

I did not face the issue u mentioned..
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Baldyl0cks:
can you pretty pretty please do the same changes to theme 2?

I'll love you long time!
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
i can change the notification bar..

However UOT does not allow me to change the battery meter in theme 2
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] alperin1:
What Framework are you using. Are you just pulling the one from 1.7?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
had to put some effort into editing the farmework from steves rom.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RA0T5HYZ

This is the edited one.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] wollewolle:
Thank you

As I can not find a "Thank you" button, I just say it: "Thank you". Using theme 2.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
First post updated

new theme 2.1 added

Based on theme 2 with small changes in taskbar..
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] rsalib:
Is this your final edit to the 1.7 framework for theme 1.1?

I really just want the battery icons. I want to put them in a framework I am working on to make the vibrate icon into a white dell streak instead of the red one.

Do I need to modify anything else in the framework to get the battery icons to work?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Baldyl0cks:
hey mate, looks good, any chance you can make it with dark red instead of purple? :D
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] alperin1:
Dude, you are the man. I was able to use this framework and cook up my own battery and choose the icons and all.

Here are the icons, for my failing eyes.

Here are the battery icons:

Here is what it looks like on my phone. Notice the other icons too, they were part of my new build with the new framework.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] krazman325:
@alperin1

Looks Good! Are you going to share, PLEASE??

Also, did you keep DJ Steve's red streak vibrate icon?

Thanks!!!
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] alperin1:
When I return home, I will share.

No the vibrate icon did not stay. It is new with the new icons.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] alperin1:
OK, here is the file that I got from the kitchen.

FRAMEWORK FILE

This was pulled from the UOT Kitchen:

Flash your downloaded file in recovery:

1. reboot into recovery.

2. choose "install zip from sdcard"

3. choose "choose zip from sdcard"

4. locate your file UOT-... .zip in SD

5. confirm "YES - install UOT ... .zip"

6. wait for script to finish

7. reboot phone

Regards,

Alperin1
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] krazman325:
PERFECT!!! Thank you for sharing.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] MySeLfPT:
first of all, thanks! :) :eek:

and then... would you be kind enough to make a Themes 2 version with the 1.7 default black notification bar (wich is not purple and red as 2.1 and is transparent in the bottom when extended)?

oh, and with the red vibrate icon replaced please (yuuuck :p) if that isn't asking too much.

A good sugestion for a vibrate icon replacemente can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=953568

Or at least can point me in the right direction so I can do it myself?

Thanks in advance,

MySeLf
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] alperin1:
Grab the framework APK from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11340880&postcount=22

And then head over to the UOT Kitchen. you can cook a theme anyway your heart desires. :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] TheManii:
Hi, I noticed that you edited res\drawable\quickcontact_nobadge_*.9.png and that your edits made it work with UOT. What did you have to do to make the files work? Were the originals invalid 9.pngs?

(Finally was able to run it though UOT with your edited framework for the first time since 1.5.3, thanks a bunch!)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
had to manually edit the files as listed in the howto section of UOT to make it work
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] TheManii:
Have you suggested to djsteve to use your fixed pngs? The ones included in 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 all have the same problem with UOT
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] rsalib:
it seems when I change the icons to the battery that I want. It only reads the images from the drawable-mdpi folder.

Am I doing something wrong? I thought the streak was a mdpi device, but all the images sizes you guys provide match the drawable-hdpi folder.

I have changed images in both folders, so what do I do to get them to read the hpdi folder?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] MySeLfPT:
Thank you. This method did not work because UOT kitchen is extremly slow at the point of becoming unusable.

So what I did was take the rptw_battery_1.7.zip (thanks rptw) from other thread and replace the files from the Theme 2.1 (the png's). I didn't resign the apk / zip but it did work flashing it with streakmod recovery.

And here are the results:

So: Default 1.7 taskbar with replaced vibrate mode icon and gopa battery icons. Nothing else was changed.

If you like them and you want to use them remember I am an android noob and this was made on a trial / error basis. So you may experience problems. Anyway, they are attached to this post. Feel free to use and distribute.

1 Question though: Given that simple replacing the files with winrar in store mode without resigning the zip / apk worked for me, is there something that I should know about it? I looked in the device logs and couldnt find any errors related to that. Should I really care about this?

Thanks in advance,

MySeLf
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] alperin1:
I am kinda new at this too. That eing said, I think you are good with what you have done.

I have been messing with the png files too. Nothing bad has happened as of yet.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] defcon.666:
cool I will try this
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] vinokirk:
Anyone tried on 1.8?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] marvin02:
New versions for 1.8.0
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] TheManii:
What is the process you use to create your batts?

is it:

1. fix the broken 9.pngs

2. run though uot

3. flash?

Every time I try to run my fixed framework and flash it I keep getting reboot loops or the icons just dont work at all. The same process used to work on streakdroid 1.5. It's really frustrating that the only thing that's keeping my theme from being perfect is that it's impossible to make the batt the way I want it
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] rsalib:
Uot has autofix for.9.png and a new scripting option. Try again. It worked for me. Good luck.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] TheManii:
Thanks for pointing that out to me!

Hopefully patching new roms won't be such a headache now
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
Bla bla bla, I know, Magldr mass storage is faulty but I don't have any card readers around so it's my only option at the moment. Basically, I don't know what happened but when I connect my phone to my PC it makes the little sound to know it's recognized something but when I go to my computer my phone storage disk drive isn't there. Any help? Thanks. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tidus18:
Which version of MAGLDR are you using? I have used version 1.11 previously to partition my sdcard. It takes a few tries to get to work though, apply the changes step by step because its highly likely to fail (from my experience) if you perform all steps of partitioning at one go. YMMV
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
I'm using 1.13. I always used 1.12 to partition my SD cards and that worked fine but this just doesn't want to work for me. A bit like CWR too lol. The thing is, I tried on my sisters laptop and it recognized it, so it's a bit hit and miss I think. :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ClydeB1:
Don't use magldr mass storage. Boot into AD Recovery from maglgr (assuming you have one of the cwm 1.3 partitions installed) and then select mouts and storage and then usb mass storage from there. It doesn't have the bugs that magldr mass storage has.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thaBuzzed:
I've been absolutely loving the phone since I upgraded to Froyo and installed the speedmod kernel with EXT4 filesystem.

However over time I've found that the phone has become more and more laggy -especially over the last few weeks. Facebook for instance does a lot of FCs lately. Is there a way to 'clean up' the phone? Here's what I have tried so far;

1. I've been keeping up to date with the speedmod kernels and as a result have been wiping the cache partition and dalvik cache regularly.

2. Trimmed down my apps to bare minimum -91 total in the app drawer now. Uninstalled a few system apps with SGS tools -press reader, mini diary etc.

Currently on DXJPA base + speedmod kernel K13A + EXT4 filesystem conversion.

Any help would be most welcome!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rytkonen:
Disable lagfix and apply a cooked rom with newer 2.2.1 base from Doc's kitchen. JPA is old and slow.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yo_oY:
Well thé Best is to do a wipe cache factory fromage cmw
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thaBuzzed:
Well eventually I will have to do that, was wondering if there was a non-destructive way of fixing it meanwhile. I'm lazy to go backing up my smses etc! Thanks for dropping by anyway.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelvs:
I believe it has to do with your ROM.

JPY onwards have been the fastest ones (even just stock ones).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lcgmadeira:
I support that, JPA was very laggy for me, especially if you had a lot of apps syncking on the background, i use darkyys 9.2 with everything turned on and a launcher and i have no problems...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davith:
Yes, wipe everything and disable lagfix then make the swith to Android 2.2.1. I believe the easiest way to do this is using Doc's kitchen because it'll let you choose your country's CSC as well as a modem of your choice. The newest JS5 is also available now, and it seriously kicks ass.

Then you can reapply the Speedmod kernel with Ext4 lagfix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thaBuzzed:
Just flashed Doc Rom with JS5. So far pretty fast without lagfix. I'm getting some annoying Force Closes of the 'Phone' process though. Happens twice on startup. Is there any fix for this?

My Rom consisted of;

JS5 base v9_6_6 with WIPE

Hardcore Kernel

ZSJPE modem

XSP CSC

I was previously on stock DXJPA with the hardcore kernel.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umerch1981:
Hi there, how can I disable speed mod lag fix? i was thinking if you just uninstall it from the APPLICATIONS section, u disable it. I think i am not right.

Kindly guide me how to exactly disable it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
boot into recover go to advance speedmod features and select disable lagfix then reboot and job done
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umerch1981:
Hi there, thanks for the quick reply. would appreciate some more help, HOW TO DISABLE YA OK 1.5 one click installer lag fix ? if I try the same way as you wrote for speedmod, it does not give me the same options. I reboot and go to the recovery mode by pressing the VOODOO TOGGLE REBOOT, it goes in CWM. asking me again and again for the voodoo update.zip which i tried to install but did not succeed.

Kindly help me out!!!

Would dearly want to install voodoo but 1st i think i have to remove or disable YA OK 1.5 one click installer.

Thanks alot
[Droid Incredible General] silentronin:
Will the evo camera work on cyanogen? Not too crazy about stock camera, prefer one with touch to take pic. Any and all suggestions appreciated.
[Droid Incredible General] aostl:
Nope. If you want a different cam you either need a sense rom or miui
[Droid Incredible General] Gahh Its Lee:
Anyone wanna post the miui cam and save me from downloading the entire rom just for the cam?
[Droid Incredible General] silentronin:
cool. thanks bro.

I did have the miui camera in this reply but it didn't upload.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] aver2one:
Heres a short vid just to show the new interface of twitter 2.0 on the gtablet it looks pretty smooth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcAEdiraLPI
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dis7urb:
What about one app that combines an AMOLED flashlight with a silent front-side camera that is activated by touch screen or power button...?

Besides being a great solution for pitch black filming you could pretend you are just lighting up the dark but you are in fact recording the moment

i think its a fu****ng good idea, what u think? Can u make it? I would thank u a lot :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] xan:
Looks naughty ;d