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[Xoom General] harajuka:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...d-xoom-info-contract-requirements-costco.html

Looks like Costco will be selling the Xoom on Feb 24th and a little plus is that it will have a $35 mail in rebate to take care of the stupid 1 month data requirement...

Looks like I will be going to Costco on the 24th.. Great thing is Costco has a great return policy (90 days) so if price drops within that time period its definitely going back for price adjustment or just return and re buy...
[Xoom General] Sirchuk:
Wow, I'll bet BestBuy will match the activation fee now. Let the price wars begin!

With the activation fee waved, the first month of service is manageable. Or perhaps it can be canceled within 3 days as others have speculated for a refund.
[Xoom General] deadpixell:
Doubtful as Best Buy cannot do anything with your bill. They might be willing to take 35 dollars off the price of the thing, but very doubtful
[Xoom General] setite:
Is this true? If so I just jizzed in my pants. My family calls me a Costco Evangelist. I was all worried that I would have to return this tablet every 14 days at Best Buy until a wifi-only version came out.

With Costco I might keep it, or just return it once when the wifi-only version comes out. Costco is awesome, beyond their EPIC return window, they also have an almost unlimited return policy for things that stop working. I have returned things 12 months later with no problem.
[Xoom General] Badger2point0:
Were you seriously going to return and repurchase a xoom every 14 days just so you can say you have the thing first?

I'm not sure that that's something you should openly admit to, just seems sad.
[Xoom General] setite:
Sad, nah. Exploitive, yes. The problem is that I want a wifi-only version, but I need a tablet now. I have been needing one for a few months now, but was unhappy with all the options available. If they would do the wise thing and release the wifi-only version first or simultaneously, I wouldn't have to play games. Or if they didnt mark it up 250$
[Xoom General] StirCwazy:
Best Buy's pre-order just got pushed back to the 20th, I'd be interested to see if Costco's does as well.
[Xoom General] Sirchuk:
Costco is doing a sale, not a pre-order. BestBuy's sale time is still the 24th as far as I know.
[Xoom General] StirCwazy:
Heh, good point, my bad =)
[Xoom General] NeutronBomb:
Take this with a grain of salt but I spoke with one of the phone guys at costco on the 15th and he said they expected to have it for about $100 less than best buy and verizon just like they currently do on the galaxy tab. I tend to believe that considering marking a $500 item down to $400 is a lot bigger of a cut than knocking an $800 item down to $700 is.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
I talked to my buddy at the costco (yea i work there myself). The email said they will get the live demo starting on the 22nd. It also said starting the 24th they would get the actually product. It didn't say the price though. You WILL be required to get a month of service. The rumor is about $100 less just like the samsung tab. If i get anymore info, i'll keep this updated. I'm also waiting to get it myself.
[Xoom General] ma42091:
Now how about the Wifi version $100 less at $500!!! :D Oh, what joy that would bring!

I really want this soon, price is my only concern. They better announce the Wifi version next week and say it's coming in no more than 1-2 weeks, I've waited far too long...I can't stand it...
[Xoom General] Arcadia310:
So in order to buy anything from Costco you have to be a member right?
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
Correct $50 for the cheap one.
[Xoom General] mbh87:
Not sure about phones and tablets but non-members can order things from costco.com but they add a 5% fee.
[Xoom General] Arcadia310:
If I use my dads membership will they accept that even if our names are different? Or will my dad need to be there?
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
Policy says he has to be there. If you are paying cash, they usually don't even look.
[Xoom General] Arcadia310:
Alright, hopefully if I pay cash they don't look at the name lol.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
deleted :)
[Xoom General] setite:
Shhh. I was intentionally not telling anyone this. Costco is great... people should keep their memberships.
[Samsung Mesmerize] v_lestat:
ok i am going ballistic

wth is the deal, i cant get adb working for nothing.

it was working, then i flashed 2.2 and had to many FC's so went back to 2.1 update 1

and now i cant get adb to work for nothing.

what is the correct procedure here to connect with the phone.

usb debugging is typically on, but people say "choose usb storage" as the usb mode, well when doing that usb debug is disabled.

so i imagine that is why.

so what the hell is going on? i am so confused and about ready to smash the phone.
[Samsung Mesmerize] bdemartino:
As far as I know you don't mount the SD card at all when using ADB, so just enable USB debugging (i've noticed once you do this the usb setting seems to default to Kies, and if you try to change that it will disable the debug, so just select the debug and leave the usb setting alone) plug the phone in an when it asks you to mount the sd card, don't do it. Then, in theory, you should be able to use ADB. Sorry if you've already tried this....
[G Tablet General] TexanFW:
For the last week or so I have not been able to find Dolphin HD (browser all the add-ons show up) in the market. If I go to the web based market I can find it and it says it is installed (it isn't). This has happened on TNT lite, vegan and currently GAdam flashed to the tablet. All user data/cache have been cleared on each rom change. Is anyone else having this issue? Or know of a fix?
[G Tablet General] rickyt63:
With GAdam I can't find it in market neither ...

Went back to Vegan B511, it shows up ...
[G Tablet General] aaltieri:
Check out this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865245

Scroll down and read the Market fix and pay special attention to Step four:

Step 4.

Go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications - Market - Clear CACHE - Force Stop

(For TnT/TnT Lite... Settings - Applications - System Applications)

Don't clear the data, just the cache.

Now, all of this being said, I've run into numerous times when I'll have Dolphin HD in my market (Vegan 5.1) and then reboot and it's gone. And I have had to go through these steps multiple times on more than one occasion as well. But it does work.

Give that a shot and let us know.

--mop
[G Tablet General] TexanFW:
That was the first thing i tried. Several times. Angry Birds is showing up and as far as I can tell Dolphin HD is the only thing not. I side loaded the APK and got it installed that way. I am just wondering why its not showing in the market.
[G Tablet General] jhermit:
I had to clear the data. When I followed all the steps, it started showing up again:

Step 4.

Go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications - Market - Clear CACHE - Force Stop

(For TnT/TnT Lite... Settings - Applications - System Applications)

Step 5.

Press back once - Google Services Framework - Clear DATA - Force Stop

Step 6.

Go back to your home screen and open up the market. You should get an error. If not, redo steps 4 and 5 until you do. Note: It is also possible that you are required to partition your SD card in ClockworkMod as mentioned in the "If your tablet bootloops" part at the end of Part Two of this guide.

Step 7.

Reboot your device. After it starts back up let it sit for a minute or two to let things in the operating system normalize. Open the Market. Reboot your device.
[Desire HD Android Development] sparven89:
Hi folks!

I've been searching this section for an answer about editing the stock camera-app. Without any success at all (except by briefly sentences about this).

The goal with this is to make the flash to light up right before the application tries to focus. This will make it a alot easier to take photos in more dark places. (And for those with a past of nokia devices) you already experienced this function.

I've attached a .rar-file containing the following:

1. The original .apk file

2. The decomlied .jar file

3. A folder containing everything from inside the .apk (for those of you that haven't a clue at all how to extract files from a .apk file)

Date; 25th Apr 2011 Latest

Well if you are following this thread, you probably already know what's going on.

But for new visitors: I decided to change my approach to several problems I stumble upon. So I will more likely create a complete new camera app specific for the DHD. And yes, users to this forum will be the first to try it out. But I've haven't decided yet how I will distribute the app, if it will be through google marketplace, or just in here (or what ever it will be).

But if this project take up to much time, I would appreciate some kind of donations :) But of course after you folks seen some results ;)

So keep tuned for more news!

Date; 3rd Mar 2011

Still stuck at succeeding to complie back to ordinary apk-file again. So if there is someone with any kind of knowledge about this, please let me know.

Date; 17th Feb 2011

Well guys, I succeeded to change some values, but I still got some problems to complie it back to .dex

Maybe an update about this during the day

Date; 16th Feb 2011

I've succeeded to find the class containing all definitions (for an exapmle: how many seconds it will take for the timer to take a photo).

I will try to edit some values and the complie it back to .dex (in other words make it back to .apk).

I hope to update before the end of the day.

Cheers folks!

Date; 15th Feb 2011

I've manage to decomplie classes.dex in HTCCamera.apk to a .jar-file. So if you got a java complier it shouldn't be any problem to open up the file.

The main problem right now is to find which class that handles the actual moment when it tries to focus. So if any one with some sort of knowledge about programming have some time over, feel free to help me find this specific class.
[Desire HD Android Development] kamranh3:
While it's a good idea, what I do is extract the torch app from Cyanogen Mod, then put it on and go home, because the torch will stay on until you go back on the app and shut it off, so I use the torch and then I launch the camera, try it!
[Desire HD Android Development] mupet0000:
I don't use Cyanogen mod, can you upload that apk somewhere?
[Desire HD Android Development] Elemental_Fire:
A more pressing matter is that when a video is recorded, audio is compressed and encoded in such a low quality. As a result, the audio is very bad. Here are some ideas I can give you. Reroute the microphone input from back to front mic. In other words, the mic we use while talking. Increase quality to at least 128kbps and 44100Hz frequency. And disable ACG. I assure you, doing this will benefit the whole of the Desire HD community :D I'll gladly donate once my EMA comes in next week :)
[Desire HD Android Development] sparven89:
Well, it's a solution ^^

But not one I want to use. I don't want to luanch two applications just to take one picture.

But thanks for the suggestion :D

Elemental_Fire:

That is exactly the kind of things I want to change :D
[Desire HD Android Development] winwintoto1234:
Glad that someone is finally doing something about this.

I just don't understand why this function is not found in DHD.

Without it, most photos taken in the dark are blur as there is not sufficient time and light for it to focus correctly.

I personally don't like to use 3rd party application for camera. Therefore I hope that your work would interact with the phone camera and make the LED flash to bright up automatically without any additional application or with "one time setting" only.

Fingers crossed for this...
[Desire HD Android Development] kamranh3:
Any progress made? Maybe some ROM developers could take a look at it?
[Desire HD Android Development] sparven89:
Well, sorry guys for my inactivity. But I got som studies in the way, so I hope there will be som extra time over for this :D

So stay tune for more news
[Desire HD Android Development] MrYuiM:
Hmmm, loving the idea. I'm also wondering about pausing in video recording, like pause-continue recording-stop etc, like in nokia's too :)
[Desire HD Android Development] SupremeBeaver:
Looking forward to updates here. Hopefully you can do something about the god awful audio quality.

@Elemental Fire..as far as i know, there is only one mic on our DHDs, the mic you use to talk on phone calls at the bottom. There is no other mic.

edit: this thread should really be moved to the Development section. There would be a lot more activity there and more who could help.
[Desire HD Android Development] Aenima462:
Threes a mic right beside the flash leds... its also used to cancel out background noise during calls by using both mics
[Desire HD Android Development] SupremeBeaver:
My DHD has no such mic.
[Desire HD Android Development] Aenima462:
There's no hole right beside the flash leds of your DHD?

it's a second microphone for noise cancellation / video audio
[Desire HD Android Development] SupremeBeaver:
I believe that picture is from a prototype dhd before it was released. I was under the impression that it was canned for the final release? Mine doesnt have that hole. Am i the only one? Look here, there's no second mic

http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/15/hands-on-htc-desire-hd-tandroid-superphones/
[Desire HD Android Development] MrYuiM:
I have no such hole either :/
[Desire HD Android Development] override182:
Me neither.. i only have one mic.. asian set here
[Desire HD Android Development] Aenima462:
I have the hsdpa version of this phone from TELUS. The hole is visible and the otterbox even is routed around the hole.

Heres a picture from the excuse of a camera I have since I broke my other good one :(
[Desire HD Android Development] Diam@nt:
I am missing the possibility to set up image compression. Or it would be enough to change the jpeg compression forever. In my oppinion, the compression of pictures is too high and small details are lost.
[Desire HD Android Development] mattiadj:
I have opened a similar thread some times ago but was trashed without reason!

I think this is a very important issue of dhd. My nokia n79 has the ability to take wonderful photos in totally dark conditions!

I thinks became a trick to make an up that open flash and take it opened while launching camera app.

It's not automatic way but I think is a workaround until the solution!

Sent from future with my superfast desire hd with LeeDrOiD rom!
[Desire HD Android Development] kamranh3:
I believe that is the Inspire 4G, if you look at pictures you'll notice that the Desire HD does NOT have anything next to the Camera LEDs, while the Inspire does, but I haven't heard whether it's a real advantage or not.

Well replace the HTC logo with at&t and then yes, it's an Inspire 4G.
[Desire HD Android Development] Aenima462:
Hmm well this is the Canadian version of the Desire HD so I guess it does have its differences

I for one would like to see flash enabled during focus until it locks, then take the picture.
[Desire HD Android Development] sportedwood:
its not, inspire has a "brown" color to it as ATT calls it.
[Desire HD Android Development] mattiadj:
Up!

Sent from future with my superfast desire hd with LeeDrOiD rom!
[Desire HD Android Development] Chezbel:
My Desire HD looks exactly like the above pictures. It's definitely the Desire HD, not the Inspire.

FYI, I bought my phone in Taiwan.
[Desire HD Android Development] vxnice:
this camera is super gay has any one tried taken a camera shot at a night club it can't focus because of abit of movement. And plus is there a way to change the camera shoot button once I turn it over I keep pressing other buttons can't I change it to the power button instead of the red button on the screen I keep hitting the other buttons next to it when I'm drunk or straight lol
[Desire HD Android Development] :
me too i have only one mic. i have the me version
[Desire HD Android Development] SupremeBeaver:
Guys i think we should stop discussing the mic and try help out with development of the camera app (the purpose of this thread ;))
[Desire HD Android Development] mattiadj:
Yes! Please stop ot and try everyone to fix this terrible bug!

Sent from future with my superfast desire hd with LeeDrOiD rom!
[Desire HD Android Development] winwintoto1234:
Apart from the light issue, hope to see the setting for shutter's speed too.

I think DHD's camera is really lousy in capturing (not so fast) moving objects...
[Desire HD Android Development] sparven89:
I'm still trying to complie back to apk. But when this is done there shouldn't be a problem to edit settings for the shutterspeed.
[Desire HD Android Development] SupremeBeaver:
hi sparven.. do you think it would also be possible to increase the recording bitrate and sampling rate?
[Desire HD Android Development] CitizenLee:
Looking forward to this.... I always thought you couldn't polish a turd but in this case it appears you can! :D
[Desire HD Android Development] pinn___________:
You can't but you can roll it in glitter. ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] Dousan:
But you can, the 2 dudes from mythbusters did that in one show :rolleyes:

2 big round shiny polished turds :D

Anyway, am also looking forward to some tweaks and improvements in the camera department :)
[Desire HD Android Development] kuceens007:
for them who uses CM7 or 6!!

for them who uses CM7 or 6!! i m using torch + camera its purrrrfect then. :cool:
[Desire HD Android Development] winwintoto1234:
Fingers crossed for this...

My (not so) old and (not so) hi-tech Nokia E90 is having all these features, just don't understand why DHD omitted it out.:confused:
[Desire HD Android Development] coendeurloo:
Maybe you can be the first one that creates a HDR photo app on android? Somehow it's missing on Android...
[Desire HD Android Development] leppie:
What did you use to decompile it?

I tried apktool yesterday on Bluetooth.apk and it failed miserably.

Today I used the baksmali and smali combination, copied the output back into the apk, viola. No problems. Make sure you get the latest versions of smali/baksmali. I believe the ones in apktool is quite outdated.
[Desire HD Android Development] sparven89:
Thanks alot!

That was exactly the thing I was looking for. Right now I'm using an unsupported development application, and maybe that's why I can't complie it back...who knows!?

But I will check this out during this weekend and maybe there will be a first modification to the camera-app.

Also, I want to thank all those who are following this thread, apparently I'm not the only one unhappy about these problems.

And maybe in the future there will be an app for hdr-photos as well.
[Desire HD Android Development] winwintoto1234:
For me, I am not too greedy about "hdr-photo" stuffs as I always remind myself that this is only a "

cellphone

that can take photos" and not a "

camera

that can make calls" but it is of course good to have it too. :p

At the moment, I think the basic thing like lite up before capturing and able to capture moving object clearly is good enough for me...:D

Any latest development bro? Just can't wait to install a "new camera" on my DHD...:rolleyes:
[Desire HD Android Development] winwintoto1234:
Still have no news, bro?
[Desire HD Android Development] winwintoto1234:
Project abandoned?:confused:
[Desire HD Android Development] sparven89:
Well I don't know how to begin. But I'm sorry for not been updating you guys on how's it been going. But the project is not abandoned, only modified. I changed my mind on how to make the app better, because of the difficulties with compiling. So I've been trying to lean android development from the beginning. So in other words I am creating a new camera application from scratch, with a neat user interface and the possibility with different styles of flash.

But right now I don't know when it will be finished (most of my time goes to the university). But stay tuned in this thread. You will be the first to try the app ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] winwintoto1234:
:)

No hurry. Have to be happy with what I'm having at the moment.:(
[HTC Inspire 4G] derekroper:
EDIT: SORRY EVERYONE - IT SEEMS THAT FOR MOST PEOPLE THE BLOATWARE IS REPLACED UPON REBOOTING THE PHONE. I AM WORKING ON A SOLUTION FOR THIS.

So, I was playing around with the Ace Hack kit, and realized that when you get to step 2, you have temporary root access in the adb shell.

Note: I had to change the USB connection type from 'Charge Only' to 'Disk Drive' for this to work.

DISCAILMER: THIS IS PRETTY EASY, BUT I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU KILL YOUR PHONE :)

So, I mounted /system as rw and went to /system/app and removed all the bloatware apk's.

Here are the steps I followed:

Downloaded the ace hack kit found in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=952352

Extracted the files and opened the README-WNDOWS file.

I skipped over step 1, because just to get this level of access a gold card is not needed, I went to step 2, and did this:

* Make sure the phone is running and adb debugging is enabled.

* Open a command prompt as administrator and navigate to the location of the extracted ace hack kit

* Run hackerize-ace setup-downgrade

This should give you a # prompt (meaning you have temporary root access)

Next mount /system as rw by typing this at the # prompt:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

once that is done, go to the app folder by tpying:

cd /system/app

do a ls to see what APK's are installed, for the most part you should be able to identify which apks are bloatware. Instead of deleting them, I renamed them just to make sure I wasn't messing anything up by typing this:

mv filename.apk filename.old

you can instantly see the apps removed from the program list.

Once you have rebooted and made sure everything is working ok, and that you have not messed anything up, you can repeat this procedure to delete the .old files, but I just left them, as its not really necessary.

ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: ONCE YOU ARE DONE RENAMING OR DELETING THE APK FILES, DO NOT TYPE EXIT AS INSTRUCTED IN THE README-WINDOWS FILE. INSTEAD, CLOSE THE COMMAND PROMPT WINDOW SO THE BATCH FILE DOES NOT TRY TO CONTINUE TO ROOT THE PHONE :)

Once you reboot the phone, the temporary root access is gone, and the /system is mounted again as read only.

Hope this helps someone :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] 2udCrRAZdK:
You should also be able to "Add" apk's in this manner!
[HTC Inspire 4G] lrs421:
Awesome. I'm going to try this.
[HTC Inspire 4G] simulatordos:
Brilliant! I hope this works...
[HTC Inspire 4G] JaysFreaky:
I was going to try and use VISIONary when I get mine, but if this is a proven method, then I'll give it a shot.
[HTC Inspire 4G] lrs421:
These are the steps I'm not quite sure about. I've never used adb so..Once I open a cmd prompt in windows how exactly do I navigate to the folder, do I have to type something like:

c/documents/apps....

Just want to be sure.
[HTC Inspire 4G] JaysFreaky:
On your phone, go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and check USB debugging then plug your phone in and set it to charge only.

Find out where you have adb stored at (For me, it's C:\android\tools\adb.exe).

Open a command prompt and issue this command: cd C:\android\tools

Then you can type adb /? and it'll tell you all the available commands you can use. Push is to move files to the phone - pull is to move files to the computer.
[HTC Inspire 4G] derekroper:
Ok, so here:

* Make sure the phone is running and adb debugging is enabled.

(Do this on the phone by going to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> Check USB Debugging)

* Open a command prompt as administrator and navigate to the location of the extracted ace hack kit

(Depending on your OS, this is a little different, but in windows 7, click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Right click on command Prompt and click Run as Administrator, then change directory to the location that you extracted the files to, this is different depending on where you extracted them, but if you extracted them in c:\files then type cd \files)

* Run hackerize-ace setup-downgrade

(Do this by typing hackerize-ace setup-downgrade)