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[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
root with unrevoked, you will be fine.

use RA recovery to backup your wimax partition then save that in multiple places, dropbox, safes, every hard drive you own, email it to yourself etc, then you can use any recovery

cwm recovery backs up wimax now too but I'm biased to RA fwiw

cm7 nightlies have 4g now btw, upgrade to them when you feel like change, you dont need to change your rom if you dont want to

flashing a rom won't make you lose your keys, but keep the backup safe anyways

flashing is only hard the first few times then you get comfortable, dont become an addict like me, dont worry about ruining your phone, think happy thoughts
[EVO 4G General] Scripted:
thanks for the advice. One question though, do nandroid backups keep wimax/rsa keys?

So instead of backing up the wimax/rsa individually, could I just do a nandroid backup and keep everything nice and safe as one big file?

If this is possible, is there a certain way that you have to do it?
[EVO 4G General] jstalford:
With Amon Ra you can choose what your backups include. Wimax is one of the options. Most people just back it up once and save a copy somewhere off the phone rather than choosing to back it up every time. Not sure about clockwork, never used it.
[EVO 4G General] cjh6386:
You already have the latest radios. You can't upgrade any further or get more speed out of them.

Here is another recommendation for using unevoked to un root. It works flawlessly.
[EVO 4G General] JosefCarlin:
So I am a newbie to the HTC EVO and Android, but I have flashed WM ROM's on the HTC Touch Pro and even the HTC 6700 Brick. I've read all 184 pages of posts of xHausx [ROOT] ~~~ HTC EVO - Universal Auto Root ~~~ v2.3 (works with all version)(2/13/11), ok so I skimmed some of the log files, but I did watch the youtube video three times.

So I decided to notify that developer I was about to run his script and list the various hardware and software versions and thank him for all his work, but this site REQUIRES 10 posts (no matter how inane those 10 post might be) as long as you wait 5 minutes between posts. I understand that you want to cut down on repeat questions, but surely there must be a better way to check for a minimum level of competence. Perhaps a quiz, where certain answers are in the various FAQ's.

All the current policy does is to encourage posting (10 to be exact) regardless of the quality of the content, the very behavior it is designed to reduce!

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[Atrix 4G General] Digicrat:
A coworker showed me earlier that he has an icon on the Droid to launch the car dock manually. There is no such launcher for the Atrix.

Is there a way of creating one?

Coming from wm I find it odd that there is no obvious way to create a shortcut in the filesystem and I gather that rooting it wont change that. Then again, if it was that easy we'd already know how to launch the Webtop mode without a dock...

It is frustrating seeing the car dock listed under running apps but notbeing unable to launch it. I already have a decent universal phone mount in my car (vent mounted) so I don't particularly care to purchase a new one which likely wouldn't be as convenient.

Note: this is my first android phone so treat any silly questions accordingly.
[Atrix 4G General] thecooperiii:
I know, my friends Droid X does this, and my atrix doesnt. Pretty lame!!! I'd rather not buy the car dock, but I want the car dock mode.
[Atrix 4G General] dragon19766:
I just bought the car dock for $30 at local retail store. To me, it seems pretty good. atrix has nice user interface when it is in car mode and has 3.5 mm jack which you can use car's aux port to use audio instead of phone's speaker. It just shame that dock does not include usb charger (usb cable is included with audio jack attached to it).
[Atrix 4G General] youareme7:
The easiest way to get the car dock (or desk dock) to work without actually using a dock is to use a 3rd party launcher (like ADW.Launcher or Launcher Pro).

Here's the steps for ADW.Launcher, I'm sure it's similar for Launcher Pro

1. Long press home screen and tap "custom shortcut"

2. Tap "Pick your activity"

3. Tap "activities"

4. Scroll down to "CarDock", tap to expand it and tap "CarDock(.main.CardockMainActivity)"

5. Rename the custom shortcut or just tap "ok"

Now you can launch the car dock from the homescreen. Like I said, it also works for the desk clock that is called "Desk Home".

Hope that helps!
[Atrix 4G General] gregh2000:
You can do it with Any Cut too. Just make a shortcut to the first car dock on the list under activities.
[Atrix 4G General] davewuvswaffles:
Awesome find. Now if only I could put these shortcuts in a folder...

I also got a shortcut for the alarm clock interface, might have to sit down and make myself a bedside charging/alarm clock dock.
[Atrix 4G General] [DT]:
No problem, just use Folder Organizer (combined with Launcher Pro or any other app that will make shortcuts from activities)

FO >> new Shortcut >> LP Activity >> CarDock.MainActivity

FO >> Tags >> Edit Items >> Add Shortcut >> [select previously created item]

From Home

Long Press >> Folder Org Item >> Tag containing the above

:)
[Atrix 4G General] fabrijack:
CAR MODE CONTROL app in market. It just adds a toggle to click car mode on. Works fine on my Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] jiggytom:
Installed the app, it puts it into carmode just fine. Issue is that everytime I leave car mode and then hit the HOME button, it takes me back to car mode instead of the home screen. Anyone else getting this? I needed a restart to put it back to normal. Tried killing the dock app and the car mode app
[Atrix 4G General] davewuvswaffles:
@DT

Actually found out about folder org in the post your homescreen thread and stumbled on this myself. Thanks for the tut though, definitely will help anyone trying to do this from now on.
[Atrix 4G General] Digicrat:
Thanks. Both the ADW.Launcher and the AnyCut methods mostly work for me.

One caveat with either method, which will get annoying if I want to listen to music and use the GPS at the same time, is that hitting the home button will exit the car dock mode. The back button will take you back into the car dock, but doing so forces the navigation application to close. Pressing the home dock does not close it, but returning is tricky. Launching the Nav app from my home screen shortcut takes it directly back to navigation mode, but the shortcut in the car dock asks for destination again which needs to be dismissed by pressing the tiny (defeating the purpose of cardock) map button to return to navigation.

I tried ADW.Launcher first, but uninstalled it after realizing I didn't care for it's Apps menu (I keep dragging icons to the home screen instead of scrolling...), though I do like it's ability to sort apps into groups. An App menu with a look like the stock one but that adds the ability to filter by category (preferably by swiping horizontally) would be ideal. I guess finding an alternative will be my next search .. and probably a discussion better suited for another thread.
[Atrix 4G General] Digicrat:
Update: I just tried the "Car Mode Control" application jiggytom suggested while writing the previous post.

Car Mode Control appears to be the best option for launching the car dock mode and remapping the home button.

To permanently exit the dock mode, you must select the "Car Mode" icon again. This can be done from the home screen after temporarily exiting the dock with the X, or within the dock by making "Car Mode" one of your shortcuts.
[Atrix 4G General] davewuvswaffles:
Hm, I don't seem to be having the same problems.

I typed in a location on my phone, Navigation opened up, got directions, and calculated my course.

I hit home, and it returned me to Car Dock mode. When I clicked on Nav, all I did was click my recent location, and it kept going where it left off.

After I posted this, I noticed my home button would keep taking me back into Car Dock mode. Strange.
[Atrix 4G General] FNugget:
Uninstalling AND rebooting will undo the Home button stuck to Car Dock
[Atrix 4G General] g4m30v3rm4n:
I'm posting in this thread to hopefully get an answer for organization later down the road... All the apps I assume are:

Widget Dock

Car Dock

Webtop Dock

Desk Dock (Home)

HD Entertainment

Quick Office

Am I leaving any out? Please continue to update on decent launchers or other workarounds.
[Xoom General] morbos:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2011/02/motorola-xoom-rooted.html
[Xoom General] IctinikeOH:
Yep was going to post this myself but didn't have enough posts to link outside XDA..

Grats Koush :D
[Xoom General] khov07:
That didn't take long. Of course, according to Koush, it isn't fully functional yet if you don't have a recovery or ROM manager support.

I wonder what the devs will unlock with root...
[Xoom General] Pazzu510:
Good news and good info. XD

But does this means that we are not getting the boot soon?
[Xoom General] setite:
Here's my question. Being a google experience device, does the xoom automatically install apps when you wipe the OS? The Nexus One did right, and all the CyanogenMods.
[Xoom General] KwestJones:
yes it does automatically installs apps
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] japher:
I've just tried transferring a file from my laptop (running Ubuntu) to my Nexus S via Bluetooth. The transfer rate started around ~10KB/s and got up to ~28Kb/s.

I've never really used Bluetooth to transfer files (other than small files from mobile to mobile). Is this rate normal? Is there anything I can do to speed this up?

Cheers
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MDAC3:
Just tried this and got a Max Transfer Rate of 18KB/s from my MacBook Pro to my Nexus S not sure what the tranfer rates are for Bluetooth.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it's slow but you should get at least around 1 Mbits in real life usage

here are details

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth

Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR

This version of the Bluetooth Core Specification was released in 2004 and is backward compatible with the previous version 1.2. The main difference is the introduction of an Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) for faster data transfer. The nominal rate of EDR is about 3 Mbit/s, although the practical data transfer rate is 2.1 Mbit/s.[23] EDR uses a combination of GFSK and Phase Shift Keying modulation (PSK) with two variants, π/4-DQPSK and 8DPSK.[25] EDR can provide a lower power consumption through a reduced duty cycle.

The specification is published as "Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR" which implies that EDR is an optional feature. Aside from EDR, there are other minor improvements to the 2.0 specification, and products may claim compliance to "Bluetooth v2.0" without supporting the higher data rate. At least one commercial device states "Bluetooth v2.0 without EDR" on its data sheet.[26]​
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] japher:
So you should expect around 125KB/s then?

Does anyone here get close to these rates when transferring files via Bluetooth?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nflnfl:
At a longer file my bluetooth speed climbs to 35KB/s, but that's way too slow. My Nokia E51 was several times faster. (I've already gifted it away, so I can't measure its speed currently.)

I'm also using Ubuntu to transfer files to my Nexus S, but I don't think it's the problem, because when I've sent files directly from the Nokia to the Nexus S, it was slow, too.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nflnfl:
OK, I've tested the speed of my old phone (Nokia E51). Interestingly, the transfer starts fast and becomes slower, but always stays above 120KB/s.

E51: Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Nexus S: Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

Probably my USB dongle is Bluetooth 2.0, too. The Wikipedia article is not clear, but I think 2.1 must be fully compatible with 2.0. Any idea why Nexus S is so slow?
[Xoom General] niiiick:
of the reviews i read, a lot of them said that video support was hit or miss, presumably on the stock video player. on my phone i use rockplayer, it can play everything i throw at it, without having to encode.

is rockplayer in the tablet market or can you sideload it?

if so, does it scale properly, and can it play most anything?
[Xoom General] khov07:
I played a few AVI's with no issue. Haven't tested mp4's, though I think the native player handles those.
[Xoom General] parrotheadmjb:
Downloaded fine for me, was really choppy so I enabled hardware decoding in the settings of rockplayer which made the video extremely smooth but the audio didn't work. I know it works fine on my computer in vlc. it was 720p MKV, high quality encode. That was all I tried, it didn't play the avi. Though I played an avi in another program and it played fine. But I assume since Rockplayer was able to play the video fine with hardware decoding enabled it should work good, not sure why the audio didn't work... could have just that one mkv but thats all I have tried.
[Xoom General] niiiick:
laaaavely.

i don't have too many mkvs, mostly avis, so yay.
[Xoom General] Dr.Preston:
The only thing I don't like is the inability to play high profile h.264 video and all my video is high profile.

There is no reason Tegra 2 shouldn't be able to play videos that my 3rd gen iPod Touch can handle without breaking a sweat.
[Xoom General] wwwhershcom:
I read all the comments about the bad quality, and them tried AVI on rocketplayer and it looks amazing. the only problem I'm running into is the volume not being able to change.
[Xoom General] Locarian:
I am not having any issues really playing movies with either the native player or Rockplayer. Though, most of mine are MP4 files.

If you bump into file type issues where you have one kind that works great, but another that does not I would recommend Tunebite. It can take any video and make anything out of it... as long as your PC can play it, it can convert it. DRM junk included.

I used to have an iPhone (hangs head in shame) and had taken a few movies from Blu Rays download copy thing and put them into iTunes (hangs head again in shame). When I went to Android (stands ups proudly) I needed to bring them over. So, Tunebite to the rescue.

-Loc
[Xoom General] keitht:
If you can't play a video on the Xoom, follow these instructions. Has worked 100% of the time for me using the Xoom stock player:

http://www.gigadroid.com/androidtalk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=21
[Xoom General] Phylar:
Well yeah that's transcoding the videos. Of course that works - it lowers the bit rate and takes hours to do. Its really sad that a 2 core CPU and a 8 corr gpu can't decode high profile 720p video. I can't get the zoom to play anything my Streak can't. Pretty sad and disappointed now. Some how the notion ink adam can though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
With all the talk about full HDMI out, I would like to know if my TV could do it. My TV does not have an actual HDMI port BUT I was wondering if there was some kind of converter to use HDMI with on of the other ports on my TV.

The ports above the AV ports are s video ports

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosympathy:
only way it is gonna happen is if you have a DVI port on your TV or a HDMI port.

component, composite, vga and s-video will not work.

I guess technically you could use VGA with a few adapters if you could find them.

edit: your picture is so large I can barley see what it is. resize it. I thought I saw a DVI port tho.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
The port on top is a dvi port

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
The HDMI on evo is mini HDMI right?

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosympathy:
yeah so you need a mini HDMI to HDMI cable and a HDMI to DVI adapter.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=mini_hdmi_to_hdmi-_-82-189-024-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=mini_hdmi_to_hdmi-_-82-189-023-_-Product

Are these two all I need?

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosympathy:
either one of those and this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9024&cm_re=dvi_to_hdmi-_-82-719-024-_-Product
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpatterson350:
Wow an active full hdmi thread?? I thought this would surely have been closed by now.... extream sarcasm.

To answer your question there are a couple micro hdmi to rca cables floating around on the net but I haven't actually tested them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosympathy:
oh hey look another super friendly helpful non-asshole of an XDA-Member!... extreme sarcasm.

those kinds of cables don't work with the evo...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
Haha wtf jamespatterson? Full HDMI? Did you hit your head too hard? And I didn't mean to put both mini to regular HDMI. I had the cable and adapter link open just didn't post correctly. Tyvm!

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruise350:
NO!!!!!!!!!!! Wrong cables do not buy!!!!! You need micro HDMI not mini. Mini is for hd camcorders not the Evo. MICRO MICRO MICRO!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
Haven't bought yet. Thanks for the save :D

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[Droid X General] brosenz:
I am using the latest Liberty ROM 1.5 with my Droid X, it's working fine, the only problem is that because I am using Corporate Email (Exchange Account) I had to setup a Lock Password and every time the Lock Screen gets active I have to enter the Password, with the Stock Verizon ROM I was able to setup a period of time (from 1 min to 15 min) for when the password will be active, I have not been able to find the same within Liberty ROM, please help will be appreciated, thanks
[Droid X General] EtherBoo:
Unless I'm mistaken, I'm pretty sure this was a Blur feature and was probably removed with a lot of the Blur.
[Droid X General] b3h3moth:
I've since switched over to Rubix, but I believe the screen timeout was under Settings>Display>Screen Timeout.
[Xoom General] MichaelWestin:
So far, everything seems to work pretty well. No force closes, the few games I have tried look great, everything is nice and smooth for the most part.

But god dammit, I just wanted one thing. ONE THING. To be able to play scene release 720p HD Tv shows, when I'm on the train every day, without having to re-encode. For years, there has been almost no solution to this. I consider it nothing short of a miracle that I can play the lower quality xvid rips on my Evo.

There are always other players like Archos that just play this stuff right out of the box. But I always wished that something I would carry anyway would play it, like my phone or tablet.

I downloaded every media player I could get a hold of with good reviews. Rock Player, VPlayer, qqplayer, arcmedia, mVideoplayer. No success. The best I could get was sound with choppy/lagging video, in Rock Player.

I know there are alternatives, but like I said, for this to be a feature on something I would be carrying on an every day basis for multipurpose use, instead of a dedicated media player is top feature to me.

I'm just trying to figure out if there is any hope of this eventually working on the current slew of Honeycomb Tablets with app optimization, or if the processor just can't handle it. Anyone have decent/extensive knowledge on that subject?
[Xoom General] muyoso:
The hardware is capable of it. You just need to stop buying devices that don't hardware accelerate mkv files. You need to look for something with divx certification. My epic4g plays ridiculously high bitrate 720P mkv files FLAWLESSLY, because Samsung went the extra mile and got hardware acceleration for avi and mkv files. The evo is a mess because its made by HTC and HTC doesn't give a crap about media capability. The evo stutters playing AVI files because it has to software decode them, which makes me laugh at my friend who owns it. That giant screen and it is useless for video. A tablet without divx certification is useless to me, which is one of the dozen or so reasons I will not be buying the Xoom.
[Xoom General] MichaelWestin:
Well if they do that for the new Tab, then the Xoom is going right back.. I have 90 days to find out :)
[Xoom General] parrotheadmjb:
Did you enable hardware decoding in the settings of RockPlayer?
[Xoom General] muyoso:
That only works if the hardware supports hardware acceleration of the filetype, right? Does the Xoom support playing MKV and AVI files in the stock video player?
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Thats what I am hoping for too. So far the entire line of Galaxy S phones and the Galaxy Tab was divx HD certified. I am hoping and praying that the delicious Galaxy Tab 10.1 with its giant 6860 mah battery has Divx HD certification as well. I can't imagine it wouldn't.
[Xoom General] MichaelWestin:
Software only. :-(
[Xoom General] parrotheadmjb:
Idk I turned on hardware decoding on RockPlayer in my Xoom and it started playing the 720P almost seamlessly, but no audio... weird
[Xoom General] JanetPanic:
It is hardware decoding my mkv's though I am hitting an annoying bug where sound stops. going to home and back restores sound though.

The m4v I put on is being decoded in software and it can't quite handle it smoothly.

I will have to try a couple of my mp4 rips.
[Xoom General] setite:
Yes they really should add more codecs to default Android. I bet they expected some 3rd party apps to arrive.
[Xoom General] Flaunt77:
A similar problem on the Tegra 2 Notion Ink adam was fixed with a software update or a custom rom.

When shipped, all the players etc, were choppy or desynced or had no audio - but running a custom rom fixed these problems. Additionally, shortly after shipping, Notion ink provided an update that fixed these problems on stock.

Its definetly a software issue - it will be fixed soon im sure.
[Xoom General] JanetPanic:
OK Rockplayer can not handle my default mp4 rips well. They are nothing particularly special though I don't use ... I can't remember the term. "simple mode" I use the higher modes to allow for better quality for size.

Ah well, most of my newer stuff I rip to mkv's anyway (subtitle and alternative audio support).
[Xoom General] almostinsane:
CODECs cost money to license them. Google leaves this up to the OEM's to pay the bill.
[Xoom General] warb:
This handbrake preset produces great videos for my evo...
[Xoom General] muyoso:
I'm sorry, not to use a Steve jobsism, but if you have to convert videos for your tablet you have failed. I think it's ridiculous to have to do it for phones, which is why i bought the epic4g. To have to do it on a tablet is ridiculous, especially one with a dual core processor and an eight core gpu. The freaking iPad can play 720p mkv files now with xbmc ported over.
[Xoom General] keitht:
Strange as I am reading this a Xoom commercial came on the TV saying that the Xoom is "everything a tablet should be" and even showing a video playing on the device. I hope they are not serious about this issue.
[Xoom General] knut150:
+1 thanks for Costco return window
[Xoom General] jparker36:
well I dont know what to say.. I tried two different formats (mp4 and mkv) 720p, and both worked just fine, all video and audio was perfect. These were top gear uk episodes. I'll try a dvd rip and see what happens now.
[Xoom General] galtom:
And.... any news in that regard?
[Xoom General] gogol:
If you own an iPad, how is this situation there?

I mean, can you just throw any video files and iPad will play it flawlessly?

I just want to know this comparison.

If VLC is available for Android, do you think this kind of issue will be solved?

I read this is caused by Google not investing on "codec" (licensing), neither does VLC.

If VLC can solve this, why Google does not want to use it :(

Sorry, if I got this all wrong. I am not an expert on video thing ...