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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ahmadka:
Hi guys ... I have a really silly question .. I have an old Blackberry Curve 8700 which has some very important SMSs in it .. I would like to copy over all the SMS from this Blackberry Curve 8700 into my new HTC Desire Z ... Problem is I dont see any tool for the Blackberry which allows me to export SMS messages .. So my only option is to maybe somehow open up the SMS Database for my Android phone is some editor, and manually plant the SMSs from my blackberry by manually typing them in, and also setting the correct times as to when I received them, or when I sent them out .. There are only like 10-15 messages so I don't mind manually typing them in if I have to, but because they are so important, I have to somehow copy them over ..

Any suggestions ? Is there any tool available for the Androids which allows you to dissect and operate on the SMS database in an Android phone at low level ?

Any other suggestions are welcome too ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] deathsled:
What exactly is a "very important SMS" and why couldn't you simply just record the information in a text file or write it down somewhere? Email it to yourself? Why does it need to be loaded into the SMS database of another device? Why must it remain an SMS?

I hope that's not prying, but I just can't seem to understand why it would need to be kept in "sms format"
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ahmadka:
Its actually a business related thing .. I have talks with clients and its very important you have a complete chronological record of all discussions in your phone .. So I would really prefer to copy them over if I can as this would make my life a lot easier later when referring to these conversations ..
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] junkyhead:
By SQlite you can edit a sqlite file and put it back into
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] craagz:
take pictures with your new phone of all the SMSes.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] nick43137:
Use SMS Faker. It let's you put fake text messages on your phone at any time. To and from. :)
[Captivate General] BigGunn:
I've searched high and low and couldn't find an answer to help.

I rooted my Captivate successfully... installed Titanium Backup and ran a backup... removed the stock apps. Now I need to return my phone and I can't get the apps to reinstall. It's like Titanium Backup permanently deleted them instead of renaming or moving them.

So... is there anywhere to download the .apks for the stock apps?
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Look for a folder named TitaniumBackup on the internal or external SD card (if you had one). That's where your backups are stored. If it was on the external card and you removed it, TIBU won't be able to find it. If you deleted it, your SOL.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
You can flash stock with odin
[Captivate General] BigGunn:
Yay, thanks mcord! Odin did the trick!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movrshakr:
Stock Captivate 2.1 Éclair. ADW launcher.

I had an app freeze up the phone. Had to remove battery and restart. Now the Master Bar (or whatever it is called) at the bottom no longer has the Apps icon in it! The other two are still there.

I now have no way to get into the primary apps list--can run only those that have shortcuts on the home screens. I cannot find any way to get the Apps icon back.

Help, help help please. This is a major fail.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mengbo:
Make sure your desktop is unlocked first ...

tap the screen, hold, then select "launcher actions" -> open/close app drawer

you should have a link to open the apps.

then you can drag and drop the link to the dock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _NULL_:
Or enable the awesome option in adw settings that let's you swipe up anywhere on the screen to open the app drawer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _NULL_:
While on your homescreen press menu -> adw settings -> general behavior -> swipe up actions, and select open close app drawer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movrshakr:
OK. Cancel this question.

Out of the clear blue, it reappeared, but this really scares me. Had it not fixed itself, I would have had a serious deficiency in the phone.

except, previous shows a method (thanks) to recreate the icon, so it would not have been fatal.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movrshakr:
Ooooooo...I like this one. Thanks.

Any other nice tricks/settings?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Zambowie:
How can i tell if hard spl has been flashed on my touch pro 2? I bought it on ebay and dunno if its been hacked or not, but would like to flash an energy rom. I know it says Windows 6.5 Professional but i was wondering if that was an official update. Thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] F2504x4:
If you read this it will tell how the check the HRD-Spl ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=550131

and if you are not HRD-Spl'd , it will also guide you through the steps
[EVO Shift 4G General] griffindy:
Let me start by saying thank you to all the awesome people on XDA who have allowed me not to ask any questions so far! All the guides I've seen are very well written and easy to follow. But onto my problem:

I decided to flash the Evo(Shift)Nonsense ROM, and it works great. However, after I reboot the phone a second time, I get all sorts of random FC's including android.process.acore that all happen so continually it's impossible to use the phone. I tried flashing a few different kernels from BCnice, made sure to do full wipes and wiped the cache. I tried flashing it twice, and the second time I tried flashing Clockwordmod 2.5 told me that the verification had failed, so I toggled it off and flashed anyway and the problem kept occuring.

Sorry for the length, I just wanted to get all the info I could think of out there. Thank you so much in advance for any help you can give me!
[EVO Shift 4G General] BrandoKC:
When flashing a kernel wipe then flash your rom. Reboot into the rom then reboot in recovery. Only wipe dalvik and then flash the kernel.

Make sure you are flashing one of tbhe sense kernels.

Sent from my HTC Evo Shift 4G
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbshowtyme:
Every rom I try except Iced Glacier the " H " on the top bar switches to Edge several times over and over. Is there a fix for this? I searched everywhere without any luck its frastrating every rom I try I have this problem and I read everyone else say the roms are great or stable.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neidlinger:
The signal strength meter for every ROM might be more accurate then one or the other. I'd download a widget from the market and see if that equals to what the icon is showing @ the top of your screen.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jggimi:
Iced Glacier is based upon the stock ROM, which displays H for any 3G or better network.

Other ROMs may depict the connection more....accurately.

The one I'm using shows 3G for UMTS connections, and H for HSPDA and up.

HTC Glacier CM7 RC1
[Networking] heymeow:
I'm trying to set up some awesome "living in the future" automation with tasker / connectbot, but I'm having some trouble. Perhaps someone here might have an idea how to sort this out?

My situation and what I'm trying to do:

At my work, we have many (mac) computers connected to each other over our local (wired) LAN.

In the room where I work, one of these computers is a mac mini.

From my phone, I want to be able to connect to this mac mini over wifi via it's airport. Once connected, I want to be able to send an ssh command from my phone to the mac mini. This ssh command would trigger a script on the mac mini that would send multiple ssh commands to various computers on the local (wired) LAN.

Does that make sense what I am trying to do?

Here is my problem.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to ssh to the mac over the shared airport connection. On the mac I have enabled, "remote login" (ssh), "Internet sharing", and "personal web sharing".

I'm able to ssh to the mini from another computer over the local wired lan network.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
[Networking] heymeow:
Was able to get this working using an Ad-Hoc network created by the mini... Not ideal, but it works.
[General Questions and Answers] plaktoets:
I have a Parrot MKI9000 that i use with Spotify in my Car, on A2DP. My device is a Desire with 2.2

Problem is that when listening music it's not possible to anwer phonecalls handsfree.

When a call comes in, the music will stop playing but the call wont go through the car speakers.

Is there any workaround, for instance would it somehow be possible to redirect the call to the handsfree set?

Any ideas are appreciated!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] brockwitting:
Hello All,

I am going to purchase a Wi-Fi Motorola Xoom, and I would like to tether my Droid so it can have internet, however, there is a problem. The Droid Wireless Tether app from the market will only do ad-hoc on the Droid hardware, but Android devices cannon't connect to ad-hoc, so I was wondering if there was a hack to enable wifi infrastructure mode. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mmracing:
I have a Viewsonic GTablet and had the same problem using wireless tether with it and my Moto Droid. The fix was on the GTablet end so you will probably have to wait till the Xoom tablet is out before a fix/work around is developed.

-:Sent from my ViewSonic GTablet (VEGAn) using Tapatalk Pro:-
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] eNkrypt:
Like mmracing said you are probably going to have to wait for the xoom to actually come out, or wait for a root for the xoom and the devs to come up with a infrastructure hack that will allow ad-hoc :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] i3oomhower:
I would also like to broadcast non-adhoc wireless with my Motorola Droid (Gen 1 - Original). I just picked up the xoom, and cannot see my wireless. Any progress with this?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] scottsdca:
Guess we're going to have to wait for the bionic or thunderbolt to be able to tether?
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] reddinasty:
How can I ENLARGE the caller id Picture,on Mega.The pictures, when somebody from contacts calls,are to small,so my question is,if there is any way to enlarge it,like in the..let's say Htc Wildfire:P.
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] bilbaro:
Try to install S2U2 and then follow the way:

"Start - S2U2 folder - S2U2 settings - Phone" and change "Caller ID" in Full Screen, Thumbnail or Framed, just how do you like it.

In Full Sreen you will have a big caller ID Picture. Try and see.
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] reddinasty:
S2U2 is not my favorite but it's working.Thank you!Anyway if somebody has others ideas,feel free to share.
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] stefano2626:
you can try phonex but it's not free...another option will be to modify the dll files but to be onest it's a hard work ....
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] keko68:
Try this and more beautiful than that of Mega caller ID, just instal on sd.

I attach also the skin as in the screen.
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] reddinasty:
it works:P

It's working nice and smooth,fine dialer,very smooth with the contacts when you scroll down the list.Thanks
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] druoncul:
thxx

nice progrm and works wonderfull :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockey95:
Folks can anyone tell me if there is an alternative way to wake up your phone besides pushing the power button, i know there are alot of threads about it but havent been able to find the answer?

Any help would be appreciated

Rockey
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
You could try screaming at it or violently shaking it, or perhaps banging a loud drum in close proximity to it. No guarantees that those methods would work but they would sure wake me up in a jiff.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Not as far as I know.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacoballen22:
Myn's rom has a way you can put a sleep button in the notification bar. Edit: I just contradicted the question, idk of another way to wake it up. -_-
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RFrancis:
widgetlocker allows you to wake the phone with the volume keys
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidboyd:
Plug it into a power source...this brings up the unlock screen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phillysphinest1:
Simple answer is......................... No
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sekigah84:
Slap it's ass and then throw water on it. Works on my ex. LOL

Send yourself a text message, plug it into USB.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
Try this :-)

Proximity Screen Off

It uses the proximity sensor to turn your phone on and off without touching the phone. It takes a bit of work to set it up but it does what you want.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/proximity-screen-off/com.itsme4ucz.screenoff
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MauiKeitai:
If you turn off auto screen lock then you can wake up the phone with the volume buttons. There are several apps that turn ASL off. I only use screen lock when I go out and have my phone in its case. At home and more so when I'm tinkering around with the phone the screen lock can be a pain. Can I say screen lock more times or what? lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
download No Lock from the Market. Disable the lock screen, then you can use the power button, or the volume buttons to wake the phone
[XPERIA X8 General] vadexlux:
I have upgraded to 2.1, now sometimes I see an icon with an H, instead of 3G. What does it mean?

I have looked in the pdf manual I located but it's not there. BTW, is there any 2.1 pdf available?

thanks
[XPERIA X8 General] a-k-t-w:
The H is 3G but it's a bit faster.
[XPERIA X8 General] Annoymous Man:
Yeap, here you're an example link:

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/download/1/792/651/1274078571/E10__UG_EN_1238-6358_1.pdf

Try Google like this will do: "x10 mini pdf sonyericsson.com"

Hope this may help :)
[XPERIA X8 General] archanged:
The "H" is HSDPA or High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, it is an enhanced 3G or sometimes dubbed as 3.5G which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity. So having H is better than having 3G.. =)
[XPERIA X8 General] a-k-t-w:
Bias...

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[XPERIA X8 General] vadexlux:
thanks but this is a x10 mini manual, I am looking for the x8 (2.1) version
[XPERIA X8 General] Buddha:
This maybe?

http://www.distropdf.com/2010/09/sony-ericsson-xperia-x8-user-manual.html
[XPERIA X8 General] Annoymous Man:
Or this one:

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/download/1/890/089/1296821481/E15i__UG_EN_1245-0640_2.pdf
[XPERIA X8 General] vadexlux:
thanks!! this is it!
[Galaxy Tab General] alex2792:
Has anyone tried to activate a Verizon tab with cricket? I need to use 3g for a couple of weeks and Verizon plans are a huge rip off.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonez537:
If i dial out to a person.. lets say (516) 222 5555.... they call me back and it comes back as 1(516) 222 5555....

Back in the day there used to be a way on older phones to get rid of that 1 before the area code..

can we do that still on the my touch 4g.. and if so.. how..
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfadog77:
i see what you mean that only comes up if you dont have a ID for that number cause whenever my mum calls its shows up as "mom" instead 1(xxx)xxx-xxxx so if you find that annoying just ID that number and go on with your day :D
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonez537:
yeah i use the phone to call people with work.. and it screws up my call log.. I dont dial the 1.. .. and when i go to redial i can see that i called them already.. if they call back.. it puts the 1 infront. and messes me up big time..
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianphanz0r:
people still make phone calls?! lol jk that would be very annoying if i made phone calls lol
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aussiehairspray:
The beauty of the 4g, you can video call people instead of calling them normally ;)

Just like alfadog77 said, save it to your contacts. Use the incoming number for your contacts, the 1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx. It will just say the name you put in.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonez537:
Yeah but for work I make 200 calls a day.. those people call me back.. and that is where i see the 1.. on all the calls that come in That i do not want to save to my contacts..
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
Why exactly does this matter, and how does it "mess you up?"
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signal15:
The leading 1 *used* to denote a long distance call. This is no longer the case, the "1" you are seeing is a country code, and it's the standardized way of storing numbers which reside within the US. By putting your numbers in without the 1, you are the one that's actually breaking spec.

Does it matter? No, probably not. But if you travel internationally, it can matter when you try to use a phone contact to call back to the US. Technically, it should have a "+1" in front of it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acerunner:
Mine has no problems figuring out that the numbers belong too the same person. I am running stock rom.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonez537:
Well lets say I dial (555) 224 4433....

that number calls back...today..... we talk for a bit...

tomorrow I call the (555)224 4433 BUT it is not in my call history anymore because it was over written.. I forget I talked to them already. and go on from there..

if that one was not there when they call me back.. it would show the (555)224 4433. then when i call them back it will show up in call history..

The 1 is annoying .. need to get rid of it.. Im calling locally.. nothing long distance.. but here in Orlando we have to dial the area code and the number..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] S1GNZ:
Hi all,

The battery life of my 4month old SGS is becoming shorter every week! I can 'almost' last a work day (8 hours) with a fully charged battery and minimal use.

I had this problem also on the stock firmware, Darky's rom 8.x was a slight improvement (much faster tho!), Light-ning rom and Darky's rom 9.x.

Everyday I charge my battery untill it is full, when my alarm goes off it's already at 98% (it's still hooked up). When I'm in the train to school, my battery already dropped around 86% (being idle). I check some mobile websites, my e-mail and read some twitter messages.

Because I know services as Twitter (I'm using Tweetdeck) uses alot of resources and battery, so when I'm done looking I always shut down those programs. And I often do an 'end all' task in the 'System' app which I purchased from the market lately to monitor my battery.

During the day the only thing I do is check my mail and some websites, but not for long, mostly it would be around 5minutes or so. So WiFi is turned OFF, GPS is turned OFF, and only GMail synchronizes with default settings. So what's the deal? Is my battery slowly dieing because of oldness, or is there another problem?

Thanks in advance for helping me! You're doing a great job!

Sincerely yours,

S1GNZ
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cripez:
after flashing your custom roms of choice... did you ever do a battery calibration?

like let your phone drain till it dies on its own... turn it on againa nd let it die again to completely drain it to the point where u cant even turn it on.

Then plug your phone in to charge and let it charge to 100%. Keeping the phone plugged in turn on your phone into recovery. Then clear battery status.

Then reboot your phone into normal mode and let it continue charging till it says 100%. WHen you unplug your phone it SHOULD say 100% still.

This normally fix the problem but if you notice that your phone is dying quickly still then PM me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GreenSGS:
One small advice,try logging out google talk,of-course if you are not on it much,it will give you at least 2-3 hrs more.

Also,there is already a thread active on this forum 'dont kill your phone

,give it a life' give that a read.

Mainly this battery drains are there because of apps doing sync. or polling.identify them and adjust settings.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] S1GNZ:
I've been browsing these forums lately, and I've also come across a thread which advice is just the opposite and that you should NOT do this, any advice if that's true? And is it also true that deleting the batterystats helps?

Am I auto-logged in on Google talk? If so, how do I log myself out :$? So Google sync might drain it? (Mail, Agenda, Contacts?)

Thanks for the quick replies! I really appreciate it!

Sincerely yours,

S1GNZ
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GreenSGS:
I am not 100% sure if you auto logged or not.I believe not but if not so , then open app,press menu/setting button on phone,select logout.also if you not intending to use data network,press power key till you see a menu turn off,data network,turn it on when you need it.These small things saves some power.

If you dont want to mess around with this little twiks then 'juice plotter' is the app for you.it will manage lots of things and defi. saves battery.

BTW based on your usage desc., I think I use it in similar way ...almost and yet phone makes ~2 days.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cripez:
You of course wouldn't be doing this alot nor should you NEED to do this often. It's only something you do when you're experiencing what you currently are.

Personally I have no idea why anyone say u "Should NOT" do this.. it's not like you're altering anything hardware wise. It's mainly software and power usage aspects.

Like I said to each their own. Some people say custom roms are a "No-No" cuz it messes with the phone in more bads than good and some says stock roms are for noobs. You dont HAVE to try what I said, it's merely a suggestion of fix or methods that seems to solve the problems others have encountered.

Clearing the battery status pretty much resets it's counter to 100% and from there it will "calculate" the life of the battery from full to empty. It's a calibration thing.

Now on regards to usage, keep your data plan off and auto-sync off when you're not using it. Leave your wifi off and gps off as well.. pretty much keep anything you dont need off until you need it. Some samsung apps does a background run thing where it'll auto turn on and auto run in the background which drains ur battery quite badly. If you don't use goggle talk or samsung chat apps, there are many ways to remove them completely so it won't mess with your battery life
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
Simple you installed a rom with multiple posts on battery drain problem .

A rom that also tells you about battery drain problems /fix on its front page .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] S1GNZ:
Okay! And you're right, it logs me on when I start the app. But I logged me out, just to be sure. I know about turning of the mobile data traffic, I'll see how much it saves. I think I came across juice plotter, but I'll look into it. Thanks!

Don't be offended by what I said! ;). I only wanted to make sure I'm doing the right thing, I appreciate your criticism though. I did what you said and fully drained my battery yesterday, kept it charging overnight, cleared the batterystats through recovery mode and at the moment it's charging till 100%. I will see if it helps!

And according to my usage, I have Wifi and GPS turned of as default. And because I reinstalled a new ROM inclusive data wipe I don't have much chat apps installed, maybe there are some default apps that don't show up in the 'System panel' app though?

Care to explain a bit further?

FYI, I installed these ROMS:

past: Stock firmware 2.2.1

past: Darky's ROM v8.0 Gingerbread edition

past: Light-ning ROM 2.2 (if I'm correct, it's probably the latest)

current: Darky's ROM v9.2 Extreme edition (9.2 should've fixed the battery drain, am I right?)

Can't thank you enough for the replies!

Sincerely yours,

S1GNZ