yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 2496007:
There is another way! If you are not determined to stick with sense, use Launcher Pro. See what you think. No rooting or flashing required. Just download from marketplace.

It has the option to rotate the home screens. Personally I also think it is also smoother and has more customizing options than sense.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swinster:
Cheers for that. Now we open a full Pandora's box. I didn't realise quite how the widgets are integrated with the launcher. I loose many of the sense widgets that i use to frequently such as currently appointment due, coming agenda, fully calendar email notification (not gmail but exchange, really miss this one), power bar etc.

I assume a lot of these could be added a separate downloads. I juts now have to start figureing out what they would be.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 2496007:
Lol. Sorry, should have made that clearer. There are plenty of choices for replacing the HTC widgets. The paid version of launcher pro has a tidy calendar, but if you are looking for free alternatives, I've found that the 'post your screen shots' thread in the 'themes and apps' section is a good way of seeing what other people are using...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=665991
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadrams:
Hello guys, I have a HTC hero from sprint which I intalled the 2.2 android version. I never notice this till today, for some reason when i try to open a picture sent to me via text, I press the play icon on the screen and just for less the a secon I can see the picture but it goes back to the message; it wont stay open. please help. :confused:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aqualls:
I always had that happen with stock messaging app. Try handcent or chomp.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laie1472:
If its a pic just long press and save or view attachment. Might work.

Yea its me again with the

Modified Hero
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oohaylima:
Yeah, it's a hit or miss for me. When I can't view it, I do what he said above me.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aqualls:
The only problem with saving is if it's an animated .gif file, it won't animate. And if I'm not mistaken, stock messaging won't animate either. Not 100% since I haven't used stock messaging for quite some time.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swinster:
[Q] Is it possible to get the "Chat Tab" into the contact for direct IM calling?

Hi All,

I'm using some apps (SipDriod, AntiSIP, Linphone) to make calls via SIP to a contact URI - essentially these URIs are the same as IM address and I store the URI in the IM field of the contact. On the various app dev forums they say that the SIP URI should be directly accessible from the contact info by use the "Chat" tab. However, I cannot see such a tab available to me on my HTC Desire.

I have had some info that this should be available using the standard Android contact manager, but the HTC Sense overly may be blocking this. Is there any way I can get the standard (or third party) contact manager specifically for this functionality without screwing up the HTC Sense People manager (as I quite like the normal search functionality)?

I can't root the phone and put a different ROM on for the moment as it is a brand new works phone from Orange, which means I can't go back to a stock image.

Cheers
[Droid 2 Global General] Avelnan:
I'm getting the Droid 2 Global, coming from a Samsung Fascinate, I was wondering if there were any issues with this phone that will dissapoint? (Last phone, GPS and 3G data failed to work for me at all, AND IT WAS MY 3RD REPLACEMENT!!)
[Droid 2 Global General] Avelnan:
Also, a couple more questions I forgot to ask.

1. I heard about the the bootloader...is it that bad?

2. How easy is it to get back to full stock?

3. How easy is it to flash roms and kernels to this phone?

4, How are you doing today?
[Droid 2 Global General] -Gilgamesh-:
I havnt really encountered any or heard about any major ones.

The bootloader is locked, which means you cant install custom kernels and such. However there are still quite a few fantastic roms that you can flash onto your device.

Very easy actually. SBF instructions in on here and many other sites, very easy to follow, takes maybe 20 min or so, most of which is install time. (Aka, you doing nothing)

Really easy, imo. Just look at any of the rom threads and it shows the instructions of how to install. (And typically the instructions will pretty much be the same from rom to rom.)

Horrible. But that's neither here nor there, as the saying goes. Thanks for asking though.
[Droid 2 Global General] Avelnan:
One more last question, I promise.

I was wondering if D2 roms are able to run on the D2G, is it possible to be ported?
[Droid 2 Global General] War-Rasta:
You can flash D2 roms but you will need to run Romer after that in order to make it work on the D2G. I believe that the SIM card slot doesn't work if you have a D2 rom flashed though but I could be wrong.
[Droid 2 Global General] Avelnan:
That's great! I don't think I will be using the sim card anytime soon, so I'm good.
[Droid 2 Global General] XtriFe:
Im guessing the battery life will dissapoint. The build quality, keyboard, processor and screen will not :P
[Droid 2 Global General] Avelnan:
I'm back, I received my droid but I noticed that they didn't send me a sim card with it, should they have?

I am very pleased with this phone, battery too soon to tell, but I hate the motoblur already.
[Droid 2 Global General] War-Rasta:
You don't really need a SIM card if you're going to be using CDMA. If you go abroad and SIM from a company wherever you're going so you don't need one right now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dockular:
I'm trying to win a bet; I just am looking for the simplest way to power on the phone, and have it not actually boot into the OS.

Is there a way I can disable the phone from booting into android manually, and then easily enable it later? Or perhaps, has anyone ever seen a rom that does nothing more than simulate a bricked device? As in, you flash the rom and until you flash to another rom, all you ever get is a white screen, a bricked screen, the evo splash screen... whatever?

Silly, I know but can someone help?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
my guess would be to root your phone then backup the kernel and make a zip to flash it back then delete the kernel... with the kernel deleted the phone will not boot then go to recovery and flash the kernel that you backed up earlier and it will boot again!!

Hope that this helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
So have it stuck at HTC evolution screen? Aren't there incompatible kernels out there? Try flashing snap on cm7 and if it works, enable turbo

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
Wipe your boot partition(Not hBoot) and it will go straight to the bootloader instead of the rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chuck6993:
I had my evo stuck at the HTC evo splash screen by flashing Myn's Warm Z over Myn's TwoPointTwo with out wiping cache or data.. I just booted into recovery and wiped everything then it booted.

Hope this helps

Sent from my Warm Evo using the XDA app.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarda42:
I think you can just flash calkulin's format all and it'll work.

Sent from my hand with XDA Premium installed
[Click Android Development] seb235:
Hi

I was tried to root my HTC Tatto in One Click method, but something goes wrong it means "Can not allocate memory adress ..." it happend a few time in a process, but Tattoo reboot just fine. My default rom works ok, I have recovery menu in my phone working (I think). What schould I do in this case? Can I use any .zip and put any room on my phone? Anyway I'm not sure is my default room is rooted, is that required to falsh any diffrent room from .zip?

My point is can I use any .zip file and put rooted rom without risk, or when I'll try to do this it will be brick?

I know how it works because I had my G1 rooted for myself (I rooted this twice because of warranty), and I changed room many times but now I'm confused :(

Please help.
[Click Android Development] telekenesis2011:
If you install a terminal emulator from the market you can test for root like this:

su
id

this should give you: uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

Its long time ago, that I rooted my phone so i cant help with more than that. I just forgot how to do it...
[Click Android Development] potattoo:
now im confused too ;)

but as i understand you got a custom recovery working, so you can flash any ROM you want (some roms only work with special recovery tho, like CM7 needs ClockworkMod 3.0.0.5)

this "can not allocate memory" is normal as i remember.
[Click Android Development] KrisInfinity:
Yeah its normal. Happened to me too, but no problem flashing any rom.
[Click Android Development] KalimochoAz:
If your device is rooted, just download ROMManager from marked and install recovery and ROM from there.

That's all
[Click Android Development] seb235:
Everythink works great, now I have 2.2.1 in future I think of 2.3 but I'll see :)

Thanks for help.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] henryr934:
Mod Edit: Official Netflix App can now be found in the Marketplace ~TheRomMistress

http://hotfile.com/dl/110390938/33710b8/Netflix.apk.html

is not working complete but better than nothing
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] pmcqueen:
not working on my G2. :(

edit:

I can log in, use the app and everything until I actually go to view a video.. upon which I get error 12007 and am asked to log back in. sniff. have tried both wifi & wwan
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Spastic909:
wlan...
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] captainreynolds:
Meaning?

Are you saying that we need to be on a local area network? Speak.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Spastic909:
Look at the post above mine smart guy...they mentioned wwan..so I was correcting with wlan..wireless local area network..jesus where you got lan from is beyond me.

Back to op topic..according to engadget and gizmodo this app only streams on a prototype lg android phone. Its a start as mentioned but not going to do what u want it to
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] henryr934:
I just try to help maybe some can fix it
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] pmcqueen:
chill bro. I apologize for my horrendous typo, even though it wasn't a typo.

wlan = local as in wifi

wwan = wide as in 3G/HSPA

but thanks again. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] pmcqueen:
and your attempt to help is much appreciated. :)

hopefully someone can get this working DZ/G2 users, I use queue manager right now and it's pretty slick but I still wish I could actually watch movies.. I have asked netflix to make streaming available for us since the G1 days but haven't had any luck.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] captainreynolds:
No he wasn't angry at you - it was me! No worries mate. I think he thought I was attacking his intelligence :)

Anyway - this is a really cool app. I'll try running some diagnostics and see why us G2 users are running into this 12007 error. I more than likely won't be able to do anything about it, but maybe having that info will make it easier for someone with greater programming intelligence than myself to remedy the issue.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] pmcqueen:
yeah I know he was snapping at you, I just thought it was funny that he "corrected" me in the first place when I hadn't even misspoken. I don't typically care, but e-know-it-alls especially get on my nerves when it's been a rough morning, hehe.

it's not going to work still... I knew there had been issues with DRM (you can almost assuredly thank the MPAA for that one), but I thought maybe someone found a work-around. just keep crossing your fingers, and if you're a paying Netflix customer, SEND ANGRY COMPLAINTS! certainly looks pretty, though!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] ihateusernames:
I don't get the 12007 error. I get 1005. Unable to locate server or something. I am a subscriber and was able to log in and see all my stuff but not watch. It is working fine for setting up my queue and what not. I will continue to use it in that capacity. Will look forward to this getting cracked.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] wtang:
Manage DVD queue?

Just like everyone else, I can't stream instant movies. But I already knew that before loading this apk.

What I really want is to manage my DVD queue and Instant queue. The problem is it looks like this apk can only manage my Instant queue. I don't see my DVD queue. Is it just me?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] pmcqueen:
Have you tried queue manager?

nice interface, requires adobe air to be installed but it's the best free netflix instant/disc queue manager I have found.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Seattleite:
I'm fairly certain the reason it doesn't work is because of a hardware lock. Netflix has come to an agreement, that because android is so open, there'd be no way to stop piracy, without a hardware prevention method. It will be usable starting with the "next-gen" qualcomm and others processors.

Not saying it can't be bypassed, but I'd bet its the hardware issue.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Seattleite:
Whoops! Maybe I shouldn't reply to an article while at work and I can't read the entire string of posts. Just read more carefully and saw that issue was already addressed.

My apologies, with my foot in my mouth!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] YaKillaCJ:
I think its funny netflix cares so much. I mean at this day in age, everythin streamed can be recorded no matter what. The file is hittin said comp, phone, tv, device. So all ya gotta do is find out where the file is or how to send the feed to somethin else that can copy it.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] veratrize9:
Same here.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] antbankz:
netflix

they need to flip the switch so we can start streaming video,hope the g2 is one of the few qualcomm snapdragon chips that will support netflix,if so i think i will max out my 5gb cap real quick!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] webs50:
Netflix

If you want Netflix and more just use Playon software works great.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Delta105RUS:
Link?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] captainreynolds:
I second this. Away from computer but will research "playon" when I can!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] wilnotdie:
Should be in the market, if not their official website. Works pretty good, once you have your computer setup.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] torvick12:
Doesnt work on my g2, when i press play gives me an error 12001, try again later can reach netflix service. Can wait till it gets fix, would be nice.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Delta105RUS:
Everyone has that. I think the dev abandoned this a long time ago.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] havikx:
it was working for a day or something a few weeks back. its on netflix side. the app totally worked on htc phones, Evo G2 etc, but only for a few hours. that proved its possible and thats its not a drm problem.

some people got a 3% discount or something cuz the service cut out while they were watching. netflix usually hooks you p with somehting if your movie crashes.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] khaosxiii:
PlayOn > this

:D
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Delta105RUS:
U have to pay for playon, I already have netflix account.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1107963:
can anybody tell me how to change the font of this great rom... i have tried with other font version that I use before with the mod sende roms but with this z rom it doesnt let me doit..

thanks in advance....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Newt:
Try these

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=801160
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1107963:
I try those and thats why I ask here in the forum cuz it wasnt working but I got the FontChanger from the market and it work just fine, I use one of the zip from that link to change it....

Thanks
[XPERIA X10 General] noonecanhide:
Hello,

i have a X8 and a X10i. Both of them use jerpelea's gingerbread 2.3.3 rom. i found something strange. the x8 is currently not used, so it has no sim card and is running in airplane mode, without gsm, wifi, bluetooth, gps.

i forgot to charge the x8 for 9 days, i expected the phone to be dead. but to my surprise it has not drained the battery completely, no, there are 72% capacity left.... after 8 days and 9 hours on battery!

i tried the same with the x10, sim inserted, airplane mode on, no wifi, bt or gps enabled. but the x10 looses 1-2% per hour, so the battery would be empty in less than 4 days. i expect the x8 to last around a month.

i am just wondering, why the x10 needs a lot more power when doing NOTHING than the x8 which has a smaller battery, too. power usage reports android system and phone inactive with 49% each. simply calculated, the x10 consumes roughly 7-10x more power than the x8...

test conditions: fresh installed J's 2.3.3 ROMs (x8: v003, x10: v008) - only difference: sim inserted @x10 (both devices in airplane mode).
[XPERIA X10 General] Crowds:
try do the test under the same conditions. no SIM.

that`s the only way to prove any theory and compare build.prop as-well.
[XPERIA X10 General] zjhjack123:
its not the same

you said you forget your x8 for 9 days

so you havent open the screen

the screen will use battery a lot

so if you open your x10 per hour

the screen will influence the test
[XPERIA X10 General] omnikam:
I owned an x8 before i got my x10 and yes the x8 has a better battery life in standby mode, of this i have no doubt, i believe the standby processor in the x8 goes down to 128mhz compared to the x10 245mhz although i no longer can confirm this as i sold my x8
[XPERIA X10 General] yii3:
Display Screen is the main effect the battery... X10 screen are 4" inch display which drain battery very fast....

I think the processor also is the main effect of the battery...

Correct me if I am wrong...

Sorry for bad english grammer...
[XPERIA X10 General] xtrmshadow:
Easy mate :

X10's screen is 4inch , the X8 is 3inch ,also X10 is 480x854 ,X8 is 320x480(x3 consumption)

X10's CPU is 1ghz,X8's 600mhz (x2 consumption)

X10's RAM is 280mb , X8's is 128mb (x2.3 consumption,and yes memory also needs electricity)

So far only those 3 reasons give you a reason why there is a 7x more power consumption.

The rest? Dont know,guess optimisation or some other reasons.

But basically ,you cant have Extreme Power and Extreme battery-life at the same time,and the X10 vs X8 tell you that.

So yep,its normal.

Respect
[XPERIA X10 General] :
That's obviously incorrect.

Screen off - no consumption difference

CPU - both run at 245MHz which is the minimal frequency in SE's frequency table

RAM - while that is true, your figures are incorrect. X10 - 384MB RAM. X8 - 192MB

Also, the battery usage is not directly proportional to the amount/frequency of components.

Try both on 2.1 stock ROM, otherwise it is an unfair test as jerpelea might have different hardware optimizations for both devices.
[XPERIA X10 General] stillka:
you must have some cpu consuming process running on your x10, my x10 actually have 67 percent of battery after 2 days, many phone calls, mails and sms.

on the screenshot is situation after first day of normal usage, some phonecalls and sms. it's my only phone so i can't do this 'total standby' test.
[XPERIA X10 General] xtrmshadow:
1)Okie i agree on the Screen-off no consumption difference,but take in fact that the phone STILL has to process the stuff in their resolution for when you turn on the screen,thus the 480x854 still affect it,which leads to :

2)Eventhough both run at 245mhz minimal frequency(which is not,as X8 runs at 125MHz when at minimal),they almost never achieve that as eventhought the screen is shut off the phone is still working in the background,or do you have to turn on the phone entirely each time you unlock it?So it still consumes x2 more power.

3)Yes the X10 has 384 and X8 192 of total RAM but im counting on USEFULL Ram,its like haveing a computer with 8gb but got a 32bit system which uses only 3.25Gb of ram,what do i care it has 8gb if i only use 3.25?

So there ya go.

Respect
[XPERIA X10 General] skynet77:
Something is eating your battery on X10.

Here's my example... I've used my X10 without SIM and without wifi and BT for two weeks untill i got it unlocked, and the battery have lasted about 8-9 days, with some playing with cam and listening some music. Now with normal use SIM, data connections, wifi and all the rest battery last about 2 days. :)
[XPERIA X10 General] jayman1986:
This is such an interesting debate...................

No actually it isn't. Who cares?
[XPERIA X10 General] skynet77:
You are such an interesting guy...................

No actually you aren't
[XPERIA X10 General] :
1. OP said he just left the devices :), proving point 1 yet again incorrect.

2. Maybe it is, yet 245Mhz will not use twice as much power as your so stated 125MHz

3. all 384mb and 192mb ram is usuable on the two devices. Maybe not to the user, but still usuable by the phone (radio).
[XPERIA X10 General] xtrmshadow:
Hehe we sure dont understand each other,but makes it more fun XD

1)Mate eventhought the screen is off the app's still are processed at X10's resolution ,thus the more resolution the more power consumption it has.Take in fact its like turning off the screen on your computer...Yes the screen doesnt take battery(electricity) but the GPU still has process the stuff in the resolution you had on your screen(for exemple 1920x1080),so maybe its not x3 as i said but it sure is 2x as the resolution is almost double.

2)245 will use 2x more power 125mhz (afaik,125x2 = 250 so :p) but thats not the fact mate,if the screen is off and a app really needs process power it will use all 995MHz instead of only 600MHz so that is a power consumption

3)Alright then,be it 384 and 192,it still is double so 2x power consumption ^^

(Its actually the same takeing 280/128 and 384/192,ratio is still x2 :p)

Respect
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
But when the screen is off it won't be processing anything to present to the screen....
[XPERIA X10 General] kunalgahlot:
Face recognition eats a lot of battery..i have disabled it..

and i keep processor 245 max when screen off

i get 2 days easily with 3 hrs music,moderate interent usage and some calls!!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willgill:
Does anyone know how to get the Contacts listed by Lastname, Firstname?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amnigo:
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, that isn't an option on this phone. I was trying to figure out a way, too.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viroid:
I'm finding this very troublesome as well; I don't know the first names of half my contacts.. ;)

I'd really like to be able to sort "(company) last, first" again. Someone else will probably provide a fix before I learn to program on the Android platform.

...v
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willgill:
The developer from Enhanced Mail (which I use) is thinking about tackling Contacts as well as email. He has done a great job making Exchange and IMAP and POP mail better. He says contacts are harder though.

It all makes me miss HTC Sense.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mister_al:
I started on this last night. Not sure when I can have an alpha ready, i'll aim for the weekend. there's certainly quite a bit around the contact api
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheCritic:
I'd love some choice as to which groups display too, all contacts vs unassigned (group) contacts vs this group/several groups...

Why can't Google just support the Display As field? And proper syncing with desktop Outlook!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Socrates:
import/export google contacts.

Export ur contacts from gmail, to file, then delete gmail contacts on google. Then Import file to gmail. When i did this for uploading contacts to gmail it sitch all "VIEW AS" to last,first