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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] for_ever:
Okay but I'm still worried about not being able to charge my phone while its off...

Will I still have this problem if I just convert it using the new oneclickroot and continue using stock eb13 deoxded and genocide kernel and I just want to double check... if I use the new bonsai 3.0 with clockwork 3.x and ext4, I won't have the same problem?

Sory for all of the stupid q's, I soft-bricked my phone and don't want to do it again...

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Just use bonsai 3.0.0 (maybe it is twilight kernal that causes the charging issues) if you want to charge while it is off.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] for_ever:
Thanks I'll try bonzai once I get done with my hw and report back in on my (hopefully) sucess!

In worse case sinenario, I made a nandroid backup so I can revert me back to rfs right?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Nandroid doesnt bring you back. Odin does and maybe if you use the 2.5.5 root it will fix your batter not charging if it doesnt.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] for_ever:
Well in that case I'll stay away from the twilight kernel to avoid using odin again... thanks for the heads up!

So, that means that the twilight kernel doesn't agree with ext4 and the new cwm, causing the battery bug...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] socos25:
I would say get one of those chargers off of ebay with two extra batteries for $10, it has worked great for me. No charging in the phone anymore.

I always worried about how hot the phone gets when the battery is charging.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yogi2010:
i believe, from what i've read in the Frozen thread, the battery does charge, even tho it doesn't look like it. unless i'm wrong...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Correct. It is a graphical glitch.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] for_ever:
Hey thanks for the tip... Im gonna try to orderone today... Thanks!

Ps. Anything that you guys may find useful, dont hesitate to tell me
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid newb:
So far the only issue I'm having with this ROM is a force close of the stock email app, which I prefer over the gmail app. Does anyone know of a fix for this?

Otherwise I am quite happy with this ROM...it's the first ROM that I flashed (second overall) that I could figure out!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] for_ever:
So I can still charge my phone on syndicate but I wont be able to tell if it fully charged?

(I can already forsee overheating issues and me messing up my battery due to leaving it charging over night)

Thanks for clarifying the battery problem...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid newb:
I just noticed another issue with this ROM. Words With Friends doesn't load when you open an ongoing game. The ad tries to load and then you get this:

http://twitpic.com/47c2c4
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animas1020:
Yeah you can. But you could also just leave your phone on and charge overnight if that worries you. Place the phone somewhere where it won't heat up easily, like a table or something that won't absorb heat. Only bugs with this ROM noted is the stock email app FCs when opening an unread email or marking an unread email to being "read," some people noted a few issues using dolphin browser and it loading pages, and the battery thing (but that is a CWM 3 issue). Concerning the Words with Friends bug, there was a fixed posted in the ROM thread, just do a search.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid newb:
Thank you! I found these instructions but I am very, very new to this and would need a step by step explanation as to how to do this. :(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animas1020:
You're welcome! You would need Root Explorer (or some other similar app) to rename the file. Just navigate to the root of the directory, find the folder called "etc," go there and find "hosts" and rename it to "hosts.bak." To be honest, I haven't done it myself, but I would assume that's all you would have to do lol. I've also heard that if you installed the AdFree app and then uninstall it, that would fix it too. Again, I haven't tried it before.

To be safe, make a nandroid backup in case anything goes wrong. Better safe than sorry :p
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid newb:
Thank you! I will give that a try tomorrow!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animas1020:
No prob :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] judoka209:
Hi, newb here. Will these instructions also apply to me? I bought a Samsung Epic 4G off of someone else and low and behold, its rooted. I've never rooted an Android device but I know that it is because its running Froyo. So my question if I want to go back to Stock or put a different ROM on my Epic, do I follow these steps as well?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid newb:
I tried this just a moment ago. I'm rooted & used Root Explorer to find /etc then found /hosts and tried to rename it. Error message is: Warning - hosts cannot be renamed because the file system is read only.

:(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greatlakesghost:
You need to click the mount button in the upper part named r/w do your thing then make sure to click it again as it should say r/o.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid newb:
I looked at that and wondered what it meant, but didn't try it since I've never used root explorer before.

Worked like a charm...thanks friend!
[Nook Color General] ben dover:
UPDATE: it seems that honeycomb has a different kind of odex'd files. it keeps throwing errors when I try to use baksmali to deoxed the music2.apk or gmail.apk

doing a little digging the creator of smali says he can't fix the issue until Honeycomb's source code is released.

Once Honeycomb's source code is release we'll have the missing apps anyway so for now I say this is a moot point.

Any actual devs have any insight on this? I only know the basics with android development so I could be doing something wrong

-------------------------------------------------------

I've searched around the forums and haven't seen anything posted on this but i'm kind of curious why apps like the finished version of the music.apk hasn't been pulled from the xoom and posted up here yet.

I'm going to try and find the xoom system dump and play around with it and see if I can find anything but i'm not the greatest with this stuff yet. :)

I've seen the leaked version of the hc music apk on xda but it doesn't have the 3d gallery flow like the one on the xoom.

I'll post back here if I find anything in my searching. Please post any leads or the links to apps from the xoom if you know something I don't :o

EDIT: this is posted in the nook forums because I'm running hc on my nook and want to add in the missing hc apps

UPDATE: got the apk files. now the fun of learning how to deodex the files :)
[Nook Color General] ben dover:
I know XDA was ordered to take the xoom system dump down. does that mean that the people who already downloaded the dump and post things like the music app or the new gmail app from it will still violate moto's order? could be why we haven't seen anything stripped out and posted...
[Nook Color General] ben dover:
op updated
[Android Software Development] nozerogravity:
Hi all,

Ok, what em I talking about? An idea for a widget that supports stock android music player, and some popular players, like PlayerPro. How it looks? Screens below.

This would be a great widget, and I'm 100% sure that it would enhance desktops, and lockscreens of thousands android devices. Please have the Idea in mind.

LINK: http://snowcover.me/

Credits:

http://hakeii.deviantart.com/art/My-SnowCover-Theme-199317958

http://junseba.deviantart.com/art/Ayle-SnowCover-167302751?q=boost:popular snowcover 4&qo=2

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=snowcover+4#/d39cswj
[Android Software Development] Artholic:
Fine idea! Too bad that i m not a dev :( But someone pls make this possible!
[Android Software Development] sageDieu:
Playerpro pretty much has this already.
[Android Software Development] shreyskywalker:
This is a start.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1223354
[Nook Color General] doncaruana:
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[Atrix 4G General] rogrand:
Hello,

Can anyone help before I have to reset to factory settings. I am not able to select any settings when in top part of screen while in portrait. For example if I go to:

settings > "wireless and networks"

settings > call settings > "fixed dialing numbers

I am able to do this function in landscape.

Please help.
[Atrix 4G General] blehke:
Possessed screen

Finally... someone else with the same problem as me! I thought I was going crazy - I would select similar items to what you said, and it either wouldn't register, or would think i selected the next item down. My phone also sometimes goes into possessed mode - registering screen touches without me touching it. Finally, with a slight twist of the case, it does the same thing. I got my wife the exact same phone, and it does none of these things.

I'm pretty convinced this is a hardware issue. I would have returned it by now, but I'm traveling and left the box and everything at home. The local AT&T store said that they could exchange it, but without packaging, it would count as my one-time chance to return / upgrade the phone within my 30 days... even though it's defective.

My suggestion... exchange it, if you haven't already. That's what I intend to do.
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
After bringing up the camera issues and being attacked by Faithful EVO Thumpers, I decided to do something about it and find some easy home made fixes so that people could get HD IN DEPTH photos with out switching to a phone with a much better camera (Samsung-Clears throat)

I found that the photos are naturally over exposed and over saturated. If you have bought a EVO and taken a picture you have probably scratched your head as many times as i did trying to figure out why the camera on your old phone was WAY better.

MAIN Problem - The Evo has 2 LED flashes. This is far more that the phone ever needed for photos.

I used the stock MIUI camera app for most of these pictures. My second go to app would be Camera 360 Ultimate. Which has stunning effects.

The photos i am posting were raw images. I adjusted the saturation and contrast to suit my taste. No effects were used. In some cases i made the photo black and white

I have had the best photos with the lates MIUI ROM. Only because the camera controls allow you to change a lot of dynamic properties that will provide you with all sorts of great photos.

This is a list of the settings that work best for me.

1. FOCUS MODE- TOUCH-- Works best for DEPTH OF FEILD

2. COLOR EFFECT- NONE- MONO FOR BACK AND WHITE

3. ISO- AUTO---- YOU WILL SEE WHY IN A SEC

4. METERING- CENTER WEIGHTED

5. ANTI BANDING - OFF -

6. STABLE SHOT- 1 SEC-

7. 8 MP

8.SUPER FINE QUALITY

9. BRIGHTNESS- -1.0 TO -05

10. Contrast and Saturation at 2- For those with a non miui rom. REDUCE THOSE UNTIL ALMOST ALL COLOR IS GONE. adjust back up to your liking

11. Sharpness is at max

12. White balance should always be INCANDESCENT if indoors unless you are going for a desired effect.

13. Flash is auto or ON

These settings are pretty much universal regardless of what camera app you use.

Camera 360 allows you to reduce the compression.

***** HERE IS THE TRICK*****

Go grab some REAL D 3d glasses. They are free and most people have them laying around the house from the last 3d film they went to.

Cut a small circle from the lense of the glasses---BIG ENOUGH TO COVER THE LED LIGHTS.

Mount it over the flashes with your own prefered method. Do not block the flash--Only cover it with the shaded Plastic lense.

THATS IT. Hope this will inspire some people to take creative photos and enjoy having a phone that also takes good photos.

I was tired of watching random people get jumped by Forum trolls who would rather defend the device instead of make it better.

THE PURPOSE IS TO CONTROL OR CONVERT THE LIGHT OF THE FLASH. I also had great photos by completely covering one LED with

I took these photos in a very dim room that has an old light. Conditions do not matter. The more natural light you have the better but be creative and let me know if you find something better to cover the flash with.

Download the zip for entire photoshoot and starting ideas
[EVO 4G General] Rydah:
That's awesome but I've gotten great quality pics just ad good ad those with no tricks. Obviously not straight from the camera app. With help from pic say pro. Are these in any way edited?

Support An Upcoming Artist, Buy My CD: xclusiverydah.blogspot.com/2011/02/phase-2-mixtape.html
[EVO 4G General] Rydah:
Also, I'm loving the music inspired pics. I'm addicted.

Support An Upcoming Artist, Buy My CD: xclusiverydah.blogspot.com/2011/02/phase-2-mixtape.html
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
Additional pictures

Remember to set your focus on touch or manual for depth of feild pictures like these
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
These are raw photos. The only edit i did was black and white

I found that adjusting the saturation all the way down makes awsome black and white. add contrast to darken the backround. I took these with horrible lighting indoors.

Im sure these pics will turn out great once i get em into PHOTOSHOP. Put the app on your phone and and you almost dont even need a 700$ camera----excluding the lenses-
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
More pics

These are the things that were next to me. Im sure with some time i will develope new ways to capture the world.

These photos have not been edited The color pics were taken with camera 360 ultimate which did have a light hdr setting. The best photos are toooo large to upload.
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
http://bigpoppaphat.deviantart.com/

Check out my deviant art page, all the pics were taken with my evo and edited using pic say pro, ill try your little trick also.
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
Will do

I have not tried pic say pro yet. Sounds popular....

Just checked out your pics and they are impressive.
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
This is the only light in my room

This is the only light i have in the room. I think this method works best for those with bad room conditions
[EVO 4G General] lowertar:
Works very well. I cut out a small piece of the 3d glasses, and put it over the flash, behind the phones' back cover, so the cover holds the plastic in place. Thanks for the tip, it took me like 3 minutes, and I can see the improvement in the flash.
[EVO 4G General] YoMaMa7467:
wow, i knew it had a good camera, but shots like these i may even use my evo as my only digital camera(not really) but still great. I hardly ever use the camera app but i think that may change.
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Hmm, great tip! I'm glad it has a better camera than we all thought, and I'd be all over this, but I just bought a d7000.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
thanks dude....

i dont have any issues with my camera...and pics..

but i am not that picky.

will give this a go.. and see.
[EVO 4G General] Compusmurf:
Cute trick, polarize the flash instead of the lens. :) I've done tricky stuff with gels with my nikon, never considered the evo to have a serious enough cam to bother, but I have a ton of these glasses lying around that I might have to try this with.
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
DUDE. THATS AWESOME. I feel like a stoner. I taped mine on like a dumbass. LMAO
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
Your going to love it more than you will know. Nothing can sub a d7000. Im not big into photography but do have a friend in that business. That camera is OUTRAGOUSLISHISHLY (Sound it out) Beautiful
[EVO 4G General] skim325:
awesome tips!

Thanks man!
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
Holy crap I have like 10 pairs of those. Definitely trying your tips out later today and see if I can get some good pics of my daughter

Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Thanks! I upgraded from a D40x, and so far, it's quite the upgrade. I'm loving it. :)
[EVO 4G General] rank78:
will this method/settings improve pictures in general or just closeups and depth-of-field shots in suboptimal lighting?
[EVO 4G General] HTCRALEIGHFAN:
posting to come back later and get tips
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
Well the Evo isnt meant to replace a real camera, and I find the two flashes are perfect for night shots.

This will work for most daytime outside shots, but for anything else you want to use manual ISO. Ask any real photographer, auto iso never works correctly.

No, metering should always be spot or manual. Reason being, if you are trying to frame something to the side of the frame, the camera will still meter off the center, and wont properly meter the object you are actually trying to shoot.

No, NEVER turn your sharpness all the way up. The same thing with people that buy a brand new flat panel tv, and crank the sharpness all the way up. It just makes it look horrible. All it does is digitally crank up the contrast and white levels, it doesnt actually make the image sharper. Focus makes the image sharp. If it wont get any sharper with focus, then its the lenses fault, and cranking up the sharpness will only make it worse.

Wrong again. If you are shooting in your house, yes, incandescent will usually work. If you are shooting in an office/store/school with flourescent lighting, that has a totally different color temperature, and will look horrible. White balance can usually just be left at auto, but if you want to truely take good pictures, scroll through every white balance option until the whites in the picture look truely white.

Yep, thats what saturation does, controls the amount of color.

HAHAHAA, i'm sorry, the evo's camera is good, but it will NEVER EVER replace a true SLR camera. It wont even replace a decent 100 dollar point and shoot.
[EVO 4G General] awesomecomb:
Hey guy, he is just trying to help out.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
+1

This person knows what he or she is talking about. It annoys me when people say they get pictures close to a dslr... cause thats never gonna happen... The sensor in a phone is just to small to compete. Ill stick with my d7000 for my pictures, thank you very much.
[EVO 4G General] vwlove09:
Wow thanks
[EVO 4G General] :
I tried this trick and these are the best quality pics I am able to get in the stock camera app on sense. I can't really get a in-depth photo at all.
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
I know those settings are not conventional. I am just sharing how i got those pics. I have a access to a d7000 and a phone will never compete. i am only trying to improve shots for those indoors with bad lighting and no d7000
[EVO 4G General] rhymestars:
what i did was put the lense level with the surface you put one object close to the lense and one object far away and focus on the far object manually. thats what i did to get those pics. try getting camera 360 ultimate for sense. i use the latest miui which has great camera firmware.
[EVO 4G General] GatoEnFuego:
Might want to clean the pubes off your board. :p

Thanks for the tips!
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
Finally did your "mod", the pictures using the flash do come out a lot better thanks.

I cut a little square out of the 3d glasses and taped it over the flash led's. Works great.
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
I totally one upped you on using the glasses over the led. I didn't understand how just polarizing the light would do anything, if the camera did have a way to filter out that light, so I cut out TWO pieces, one over the led, then I found the EXACT orientation needed to filter almost all polarized light going to the camera. I can take pictures in near zero light conditions with zero glare I also removed the protective film over the camera on my HC ballistics case and now you can't even tell anything is tapedto the phone.

(Uploaded from xda app so quality is reduced)

First picture is before, second is after

As you can see the flash is now little more than a dot.

Here's a little pic I took with very little light

this shot also had the filter slightly out of place yet there is still zero reflection. This is by far the greatest mod to the cameras quality.

(Edit) I've just read up on polarized photography, and what I've done is create a cross polarization filter to reduce the glare. The light from the flash is polarized one direction, and the filter on the lenses doesn't allow that polarized light to pass. On a side note, this is exactly how the real 3d lenses work to make only one eye see one frame and the other eye see the other frame

I really wanna take some day shots since I know polarizing the lenses can lead to interesting effects in sunlight. I have no idea to what degree my filters are set to currently

Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] fffourtwenty:
Wow the quote of the previous messages is so long, is that necessary my gosh of course the Supersonic camera is only designed for mobile use, the ccd in a dslr is much more dense and therefore will deliver a dramatically higher quality image, it's only a mobile-camera!
[EVO 4G General] OgremustCrush:
Actually, better sensors tend to be less dense, at least within a particular generation of sensor. The smaller each pixel the less light it can receive, and the higher the chance that pixels can interfere with each other causing noise. Which is one of the reasons even an inexpensive(at the time) 4 year old DSLR still tends to take better pictures than a current high MP point and shoot or phonecam. The other of course being the much higher quality of the optics, as the sensor can be the best thing in the world but the picture will still be bad if it has to go through an out of focus distortion causing lens with the aperture 10 f-stops below what it needs to be.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Not always true though, because there has been other advances in technology.
[EVO 4G General] babyschmoof:
Very nice pictures. I covered up one of the two LEDs and my pictures are much better. I also love the 360 app.

Thanks for sharing!
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
Here's a good example of low light levels.

First no flash, horrid lighting, second with flash, same lighting and settings

Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] dearmiju:
can you guys post a photo of your evo with the flash covered???

i dont have 3d glasses and never paid so much attention to them so no idea really to how it's going to look like

thanks
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
What do you mean by covered, like completely? Or do you mean just blocking one

Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
I just cut out a square and covered both led's, and taped it to the back of the phone under the battery cover. I might cover the lens too and see what that does.
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
I put one over the lens also, it didn't make any difference in night shots, but I did notice a difference with flaring and sunlight.

With:

Without:
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
You can't just pop it on the lenses in any direction. Hold two pieces over lapping to a light and start rotating one piece or turn it over. In one orientation you will get almost 100% light blockage, meaning no light will pass through the filters. This is how cross polarization works. It takes a lit of patience to do it. It makes low level lighting shots amazing since it lights up everything, yet the cameras lenses doesn't see the flash

This is what I accomplish with the filters

Http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2505/3899597492_694cce3f47_z.jpg

Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
I know what your talking about, thanks for the tip.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
so..you are suggesting..

put one over the LED

and one over the camera lens.

these 2 screens be in opposite phases..

one is vertical and the other is horizontal

to cancel each other out...

so it reduces the flash effect, but leaves the light.

is that correct?
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
Exactly. It also lets you filter out natural polarized light based off camera orientation