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[Networking] fleurdelisxliv:
i had an at&t store tell me the other day they wldnt sell a smartphone off contract it really varies from one person to the next at at&t u can ask one person and they will say no move over 2 feet to the next person and they say yes so good luck just ask more than one person at at&t likely to get a yes :)
[Networking] mrphil101:
Don't get your hopes up. It isn't likely. I am a 20+ year customer, and the person on the other end just humphs at that. No, they don't care about customer loyalty at all. I went for a captivate in nov and wanted to stick with my unlimited plan. No way, forced me to take the plan( without telling me). I backed out, gave them the phone back, and reverted to my old plan. They would not give me the old unlimited plan back, and at that time only thing they were doing was the 2gb max + $10 for the next gig for overage. I told them to forget it, I was gonna switch to a competitor and they said ok. I thought that was real crappy. My phone was hurting and I needed to move, so I went with the Atrix last week. I regret my decision already, and can't give them the phone back without a 35% restock fee, per the in store salesrep.

Plus keep in mind that they deny throttling service on non-Iphone "4g". Liars.
[Networking] RMXO:
It varies on who you talk to IMHO. You might get lucky with a CS rep if you tell them you already have service with AT&T. Like I said YMMV. Good luck
[Networking] ceye:
Hello. I just felt the need to respond to this. I am a market manager for an authorized retailer of AT&T. I have five stores under my guidance. Yes, you can receive a discount because you have your home services with AT&T. To be quite honest though, it is not a steep discount, but it is a discount. If you combine the wireless and home services on the same bill, you will get a discount of $5 off each service. Also, depending on who you work for, you may be eligible for a discount as well off your rate plan, data plan and texting. For example...Bank of America employees receive 15% off of the primary line's rate plan, texting and data.

As for the cost of the phone, unfortunately no, the store you are dealing with will not match the $120 price for the Atrix. What I will caution you on is when dealing with purchasing a device outside of an AT&T store or the att.com site, you may (and I say may) end up with some weird things happening to your account. Also, be careful there is no fine print. For example...if you buy an AT&T phone on amazon.com and it is only an individual line...if you decide later you need a second line and try to do a family plan, well that doesn't fly with amazon.com. They will charge you an early termination fee because you got the phone at a much lower price through amazon.com then you would have at a store. Strange I know, but that's why I always give people this anology...would you go to a cell phone store to buy a car??? Then why go to somewhere that does not specialize in cellphones to buy one??? Just experience talking in this matter.
[Networking] ceye:
I will chime in on this post as well. The person you dealt with that took away your unlimited data was dead wrong. All the reps that work for me will tell you and have done it...if someone has unlimited data prior to the change last year and does an upgrade, there is the option to keep it. I take that as poor training from that reps manager. When we are going through our system to complete the upgrade, it will automatically try to change the unlimited $30 data to the 2gb $25 data. However, the rep has to hit "modify features" button and it gives them all the data plans. If the current plan has unlimited data, the unlimited data option appears. If the current plan does not have unlimited data, the option will not be present.
[Networking] gasolara2002:
I'm glad to be a college student. My bill is like 83 dollars with tax and all now with the student discount they have. Its basically 15% off of the monthly bill.
[Networking] mrphil101:
it's really swell that the reps say no it would not happen with them, I appreciate that you feel that way, so did the people I dealt as they really tried to put the unlimited plan back. It wasn't them, it was corporate crap. None of them could get it to come back up as an "option" when returning the phone and asking to be put back just like i was before the transaction. I talked to two reps online and then one at the B&M store. They were all miffed also, but the fact of the matter is AT&T burned me, and 20+ years didn't mean sqwat. I have to stop now, or I'll start with them crippling capabilities on the phone, or throttling data when you exceed their threshold, or...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
Set it to never sleep. This is a workaround for a few things.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mumu_li:
My WiFi sleep policy is already "Never". But such situation happens only after I set my phone to airplane mode and set back or I turn off my WiFi AP at night and there is no available AP in that area. Looks like some important processes are killed during that time frame. Actually I uninstalled all task managers and no app will be auto killed.

Luck thing is when I disable my WiFi and re-enable it, everything is ok. This is my workaround so far.

Besides, I checked the normal log when WiFi was connecting. Followed by "I/wpa_supplicant(16644): CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS� Ready" is a connection to known and remembered AP.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xeren:
Was the app built on top of open sourced code? Is it coming back? I've got a bad feeling, like we're not going to see a properly functioning HDMI app any time soon ... :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elapshtc:
not sure what the issue is but the official thread is here

http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc...llhdmi-official-fullhdmi-beta-discussion.html
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SSjon:
I have been following all of his work, and he did attempt to make the modified kernel drivers public to any kernel devs that wanted to use them and incorporate them into their kernels. Not realizing that it was a violation to modify without posting source code, he soon after voluntary removed the kernel link. He has been very busy developing his work and will release source code with all the new kernels in his next free public beta release due out very soon. If you want to know more you can read the op posted on A/C.

Sent from my mobile HDMI device
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] manikin13:
I love the game, but am concerned why Sliceit asks for SU privileges on startup, need less to say I do not allow it, but has any one else some across this issue?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] markymarc66:
yaaah i ran into this about a month ago, it still started up eventhou i hit no. dev has no answer to why the app was asking for SU. unistalled it from all my devices. kinda skitchy if you ask me
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] :
Yeah I agree totally sketchy. I hit deny and was able to play normally, as if it never came up. Try that hopefully it'll work or maybe I just got lucky. :D good luck
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] manikin13:
Oh I dont have any problem playing the game after the deny SU, however I was curious to see if it was my device specific or generic. There is no reason for a game to even ask for SU.

I think I am going to bug the devs to ans. why.
[Android Apps and Games] Step666:
I'm aware from this article/review on Engadget that live wallpapers can be designed to respond to touch input.

What I was wondering was whether they can be used to toggle controls such as bluetooth, wi-fi etc?

So you can basically embed the switches into the wallpaper itself instead of having them sat on top of the wallpaper and ruining the aesthetics of your home screen.

So, yeah, first question is whether or not it's possible. Second question is (if so), how do you do it?

I'm not at all familiar with live wallpapers or how to go about creating them, so if anyone could offer up any tips, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Also, apologies if this is the wrong section to post this in, it seems right but I could be wrong...
[Android Apps and Games] evilkorn:
There are a couple off the top of my head.

There is one that fits your description already. It looks like a motherboard and has some touch input spots that you press to disable certain things like data/wifi. I don't remember the name but it should be easy to find in the market.

There was also a live wallpaper builder that had tools to build the application from the PC and then you just have to install it on the phone.
[Android Apps and Games] Step666:
The article I linked to on Engadget is a circuitboard live wallpaper but I didn't think it controlled wi-fi etc (truth be told, it's a while since I watched the video but I don't remember it being able to do so). I'll have another look.

Then again, maybe the wallpaper's been updated since the review.

As for the live wallpaper creator, I did see a program like that on another site but it only seemed to allow you to string together multiple frames, no mention of touch input response.
[Android Apps and Games] Step666:
Ok, so I went back and watched the video review of aCircuit and there are/were LEDs that show the status of the handset's bluetooth, wi-fi etc but (at the time the review was written at least), they didn't act as controls.

As I said previously, it's possible the wallpaper has been updated to add that functionality but I can't find a definite answer either way and I'm loathed to buy it just to find out it's not possible...

Any other help/information would be greatly appreciated...
[Android Apps and Games] Step666:
I hate bumping my own threads but I'm having very little luck finding answers to my questions.

I've found some tutorials about how to create very basic live wallpapers but nothing that would lend itself to what I'm hoping to achieve.

As stated previously, any/all help and advice would be greatly appreciated.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoT_VtEc?:
Hey everyone I have a G2 running the Latest CM 7 build and for some reason out of no where my physical keyboard will open applications as if some of the keys were shortcuts to different applications. For instance when I press on the letter "e" it will open my email app and "b" for browser etc...I notice after a battery pull everything is back to normal and I am able to type as needed but after a few hours of the phone being on the problem comes back. Any ideas??

BTW this was happening even when I had CM 7 RC 1 as well.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xkonni:
this should just happen when you press search + BUTTON. map shortcuts in settings -> application -> quick launch.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoT_VtEc?:
Thanks it seems like me pressing the search button again made the problem stop...that's weird.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jam3l:
Hello I am a rooted evo user running CM7 RC1. I was wandering if it were possible to get the stock HTC keyboard and the Swype keyboard from 3.70 and if so how? Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jimdog420:
First of all plz post questions in q&a. Peeps around here like the forums to be in order as they should be, these are our forums so lets keep them str8.

And answer to your question is yes. Try swype website and dload the beta installer. Works fine for me. Also you'll find many HTC keyboards. Evan themed ones if u simply search

Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteelH:
Loads of keyboards listed HERE
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhilipPeake:
With official AT&T upgrade (2.2), I can connect to the phone from my Macbook Pro via Bluetooth, and browse.

I see all the directories, but no files at all.

Also, the "Send" button is grayed out, so I cant send files to my phone.

Is Bluetooth file transfer broken on this release?

Or am I just doing something wrong?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Get bluetooth file transfer app in market.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] byteme2008:
I haven't experienced any issues with bluetooth file transfer since the update. Running stock 2.2 Captivate, and a Windows 7 64 bit OS.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BillShepp:
I see the same thing on my Mac, has been the same across multiple Captivate ROMs. I presume it's a Mac / Galaxy compatibility issue.
[HTC Aria General] cjtulowiecki:
So I decided I'd give the new official update for the HTC aria a shot despite all the talk about not being able to root it yet. So far some pretty important things I've noticed is the fact that there is no sideloading. I saw someone on here say that it would be able to sideload - incorrect. The second big thing is the fact that it does not have the touchpad button wake. You have to use the power button which is a huge flaw for me. Someone also said that it would be capable of overclocking- as far as I know right now I don't think you can, but I can't be 100% sure yet because of the lack of sideloading and the 4.99 for setcpu. Some of the cool new features I do like is the mobile hotspot capabilities, live wallpapers, and the market update. So now I want to see what others have to say about it. Please come tell me what you've found!
[HTC Aria General] Tx Redneck:
Can you not sideload w/ this?

http://www.androidcentral.com/sideload-android-apps-all-you-want-sideload-wonder-machine
[HTC Aria General] cjtulowiecki:
Hmm ill try that today after school
[HTC Aria General] Tx Redneck:
That's what I used to sl when I first got this phone.
[HTC Aria General] Tx Redneck:
Did it work?
[HTC Aria General] havlaz:
I want to understand ..

The updates are made automatically?

If I purchased from ebay the device in 3 / 3 and it had not arrived yet, am I expected to see within 2.2 and unable to root?
[HTC Aria General] DanGeorges:
Did you purchase a used phone? Was it already rooted? Did the seller install the latest update from HTC/AT&T?

The 2.2 update from at&t is not an Over-the-air (OTA) update. It's offered by at&t via the HTC web site. The update, therefore, takes work on the user's part. It's not automatic.

That said, if you purchase a phone from eBay that is factory fresh from at&t, it's possible it already has the 2.2 update - I put the odds at 50%.

For what it's worth, the only thing wrong with the stock build of this device's ROM is the at&t bloatware/crapware. Other than that, it's a solid device, and there are ways to customize the phone to your liking.

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[HTC Aria General] DanGeorges:
don't worry about side-loading.

Use the stock HTC sync software that came with your Aria - when prompted to update, don't do it!
[HTC Aria General] havlaz:
i'm from israel, and i need RTL

i don't care about the rom,

and to change the framework.jar i need root...

here is the buy

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...DuFKhKg%3D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWNX:IT
[HTC Aria General] zyo:
I got an hk/tw region phone and sideload is enabled natively
[HTC Aria General] stone_ship:
If it is what it looks like, (US version/AT&T branded) then you should be able to root no problem with unrevoked

http://unrevoked.com/#aria

I'm not sure about enabling RTL support, but I think people have been talking about it on these forums.
[HTC Aria General] Call_er_Roxie:
At first my phone felt quick when it was processing, but initial response to screen presses felt slightly laggy. I was concerned. But after running it for a few weeks now, without a task killer, it feels like quite a quick more featured phone. Seems like there was a calibration and optimization duration there. Maybe it's in my head? Very happy with the upgrade, especially for apps to SD!

Oh, and add gingerbread keyboard from the market and the phone is twice as good!
[HTC Aria General] Theonew:
You can do side loading by using android injector. You can find it at at harmonyhollow or softpedia. Just type in Android Injector at google. It also allows you to install multiple apps at the same time.
[HTC Aria General] acimmarusti:
How do you get Apps to SD to work on this rom?

In the past I was using Darktremor's a2sd preinstalled on the Liberated Aria roms.

I am now on the Liberated version of the rom (thanks to Gene Poole - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=970272), but I don't know how to do apps2sd here. I have my sdcard partitioned with ext3 (512 Mb), but it's not getting used automatically.
[HTC Aria General] NBA Brawler:
This is what I use to sideload and it works perfectly
[HTC Aria General] d4redevil:
ROFL 2.2.2 STILL NO ROOT if I was the owner of this phone id sell it!crap
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Tribulattifather:
I've done a bit of searching for my answer, however, am not able to find the answer.

I am having a problem running a restore in AD Recovery in the Magldr (v1.13).

Let me explain the situation:

I wasn't able to get App2SDPro to carry over apps to my SD card. I was informed it was because it was that I did not have an EXT2 or EXT3 partition on my SD.

I did that and then my SD was erased, but luckily I make regular backups of my SD card.

So I put all the information back on my SD card. I then realized that my ROM was erased as well.

So I tried running the backup I made from the recovery and got the error mentioned in the title.

I then tried to reload a ROM that I have on my SD at all times and then tried to do an advanced restore of the data and system and cache while leaving the boot but nothing works..

Am I destined to start from scratch, lol? (I had 140 apps installed)(and I'll be using a different form of backup next time, lol)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stelioskal:
i have the same problem . while i was recovering from nand backup i have this notification 'Nand Kernel Open Failed'
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] clio94:
Just flash again the kernel of your rom or the rom without wipe
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stelioskal:
you have to flash your rom om the kernel again and hopefully the problem will be solved

CLIO94 sorry i just see your reply
[Fascinate General] Terror_1:
Okay so as I understand

[

su

hostname MyHost

echo $HOSTNAME

]

Should output MyHost? Brackets for emphasis. Am I missing something?
[Fascinate General] Terror_1:
Is there some other way to get my phone to appear in my router without a static IP then?
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Um, wait, what? There's no reason I know of why you would need to manually set a hostname anywhere. What exactly is the issue you're trying to resolve? Is your wifi router not seeing your phone, or not giving it an IP address?

Posted from my EB01 SuperClean Fascinate with Voodoo
[Fascinate General] mastamoon:
$ adb shell

$ su

# busybox hostname newhostname

done. Just did this yesterday for the same reason. Hostname was blank in my router. Did this and disconnect/reconnect to router. Worked.
[Fascinate General] Terror_1:
Yeah, I would like to have a hostname show in my router so I can access by name.

Do I have to use adb to do this?

I have tried with connectbot locally and the hostname changes but does not persist after a reboot.
[Fascinate General] mastamoon:
I did it with adb.

But I just double checked and like you, it didnt stick after reboot. Even though in my router it still shows the name, I think its just storing that info.

i checked by # busybox hostname -f

before reboot it showed hostname: fasc1nate, after reboote hostname: localhost

ah well.
[Fascinate General] Terror_1:
So that begs the question "how do you persist hostname variable after reboot? "
[Fascinate General] imnuts:
If you need to see a hostname on your router, why not set a static IP for your phone based on your phone's MAC address? I set static IPs for most things on my home network that way, so anytime a known MAC is seen by the router, it hands out the IP I assign. If your router firmware doesn't support doing this, look to see if there is a 3rd party firmware available that does support it.
[Fascinate General] Terror_1:
I run tomato on my router and can do that but didn't want to use a static from a management standpoint. I guess I will for now unril I find a better solution.
[Fascinate General] mastamoon:
Is it a big deal for wanting to have a host name associated with my phone? My buddies Dinc has one when connected to my router and is what got me looking for an answer. Why wouldnt our phones have a host name nor accept one when changed?

Sent from my superclean froyo'd fascinate.
[Fascinate General] Terror_1:
Kind of what I am wondering. You woukd think that if it was set it shoukd stay set not revert after reboot.
[Fascinate General] Terror_1:
Finally found the answer and made a script that does this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19786131#post19786131
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tjamscad:
This is on one of the new sense versions not sure which one i flash so many roms i can't keep track I think it was the Inc. S but i really like it if someone could create it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tjamscad:
is this not doable
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] trishuhh:
It most likely is doable. The problem is you are unlikely to get a dev to make anything for you because you haven't even taken the time to give ANY information about your phone. We all flash lots of roms here, it takes about 5 seconds to check what android version you have. You need to try searching first. Do some work. Try finding the original thread where you saw the theme and ask THEM your questions.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fp99:
What kind of device do you have??

Check out Warm Z TwoPointTwo By Incubus26Jc (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=901822). This is for the Droid Incredible and I know in this rom there is a Chalk theme available.

Edit: It is called 'Blackboard'. And you can find it under Personalize -> Skin
[Intercept General] eddiesr123:
I was just wondering what firmware would be I the intercept after flashing ubuntdroid 4.5?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davidsr1127:
Ok, so I was having an issue finishing a ROM I was trying to flash... It would get near the end of the installing process, than it would say done and pop the menu would pop up with the option to reboot or previous menu etc... Well that it would freeze and I would have to do a battery pull and nandroid back to previous ROM. And now most other ROM's I get a verification error. And I did full wipe, (data, cache, dalvik) and also flashed the formatall.zip... Any suggestions?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khilbron:
If you are getting verification errors you need to disable signature verification in your recovery.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] CB620:
Neat App I Found. Launcher 7. Look At The Screenshots. What Do You Think?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Serious_Beans:
This looks sweet, nice find! Thanks!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] CB620:
I'm over here customizing. This app is fun
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kaimyn:
Ha. I just found this as well. Combine this with widgetlocker and you have a pretty damn good set up.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] CB620:
everytime i use widget locker i get popups via browser
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tekkitan:
No thanks. I bought an Android phone, not a Windows Mobile 7 phone.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] CB620:
android functions are still the same its just a laucher
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] leyvatron:
I don't really like it.... No widgets.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
I gave this a shot a few months ago and it was laggy as hell. I'm always willing to try new things but it was just too much of a headache to use. Might be better now.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] gasparzim:
I am not much into the winphone 7 look, but you could also try Metro UI - https://market.android.com/details?id=chrisman.android.home.metroui&feature=search_result
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] AllGamer:
same here, the idea itself is hideous :p
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] MistaJae:
I've always preferred Android over other OS's, but this just shows the diversity of the platform. We have versions of iOS (miui on other devices) & Windows phone7 running on Android. How many iPhones or windows7 phones can mimic android OS successfully?

This is not a flame or a rant, i jus love the way I can change almost everything about how my android phone looks & works :-)

On Topic: I've tried this and its ok, but I quickly missed my widgets!