I'm not sure if the screen on the Droid is OLED or regular LCD. I know that leaving an LCD on for hours at a time can possibly shorten the life of the backlight... Anyone know what the case is here?
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So i really like the clock function and the ability to use it as an alarm clock next to my bed. I set it in the mode with the quarter moon and star. What m worried about is the effect on my LCD screen. It seems to be running all night but in a dimmer mode. Is it ok to use the feature every night? Will i end up ruining my LCD a lot faster?
View 24 Replies View RelatedBoth my wife and I have Desire HDs and we are both experiencing this same problem. We have our phones charging overnight on the bedside with the night clock activated, but after a random amount of time the phone starts going what I can only describe as 'wappy'. It's as if there is someone tapping the screen and selecting options, all manner of things are happening on the screen, apps are starting, search boxes opening. No clock though. I've made sure there is nothing touching the screen and then sat and waited for it, it just starts happening for no apparent reason. Any ideas? My logical mind has already ruled out paranormal activity.
View 2 Replies View Related-if you dont have dock here is solution to use night clock when plugged in free and awesome!!!-lots of features-took pics but when tried to upload cpu froze...guess I don't know how to? doesn't drain battery....has settings to turn on when plugged in/screen goes black can use custom alarm or stock I love it can be used while plugged in at work horizontal or verticalcan talk to you using text to speech a must have.I want to post pics so bad since I took the time to take them.
View 13 Replies View RelatedOn my old BB when the phone was off/died during the night, it would turn on and go off if the alarm was set.It doesn't seem like the INC does that. Is there an app or something that will turn the phone on so the alarm goes off if somehow the phone shuts down? I use my phone as my alarm every morning, and I need it to go off, even if the phone is off/battery dies during the night.
View 19 Replies View RelatedI use my android phone for a week now. Last night I noticed that the screens lights up for a few seconds. Is it because it wants to announce new mails or a callander item (without reminder!) ?
The flashing wakes me and uses battery. Can I turn it off?
I use Timeriffic and can turn down the brightness to 0% but I do not know if I want that. What if someone calls me and the brightness is 0%?
Why can't I change apps, night, peak, wifi, location? These options are grayed out. I would like to change these settings.
View 22 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to shorten a link with "#,&" character I get an exception. Is there a way to handle these character properly?
This is a sample code that works:
CODE:................
If I add for example '&' or '%25' to the string it will throw an exception:
CODE:.....................
The getShortUrl function from this Java class.
Is there any way to shorten the tap interval for the keyboard? For example, if I want to put a question mark at the end of a sentence, I can tap and hold "k" until the question mark appears, or, I can pres "12#" and tap "?"
Is there a way so that I can make the "tap and hold" shorter, so that the question mark will appear more quickly?
Currently my application allows the user to set the application to run in full screen. I than check in every activity at onCreate() if the user has set to make the app run in full screen. Is there a better way to do this? I have many other settings that I do and I find this method a little bad in terms of code design. Is there a way to set full screen for the lifetime of app or until I set it back to not full screen? One way to do it would be to have a custom Activity class that does these checks and all my activities can just implement it? would that be slow is it recommended?
View 10 Replies View RelatedThis might be a dumb question, but does powering the phone on and off shorten the life of the phone? I power it off completely every night and then power it back on the next morning to save some battery. I've always done this with my other phones and never had a problem, but this being a smart phone with so many applications running, it's like a computer so I wasn't sure if it's just better to leave it in sleep mode all night instead.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat is the lifetime of an app's global android.content.Context object? Does it last until the last component of the app is terminated by the Android runtime?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm extending ActivityGroup class and implemented a custom tabHost and widgets for my app. Can someone shed a light on how are the Activities fife-time inside an ActivityGroup?.
Im getting a weird behavior when using the following code to send a new intent to the current sub-activity, then change tab, and getting back to original tab. (TAB1 -> TAB2 -> TAB1)
CODE:.......
What i see from debug..
onSaveInstanceState() is called on TAB1, then TAB2 is current subActivity, but when going back to TAB1 onCreate() is called.
onCreate() is not called with the same test without using the onNewIntent() described above.
What is the lifetime of a ContentProvider in Android? After onCreate() is invoked, will the ContentProvider persist unconditionally for the lifetime of the process?
My ContentProvider manages a list of records, but only 1 is designated "active" and will be accessed by different applications a lot. I was wondering if it's safe to cache the index of this active record in memory as a member of my ContentProvider to speed up lookup.
I recently formatted my computer and updated to Windows 7. I backed up my keystore and tried to sign my apk with it but it gave me an error that said my certificate expires in 22yrs. which is just shy of what the market requires to upload the apk. So now I am stuck not being able to update my app... Is there a way to extend the lifetime of certificates so that I can update my app?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was attempting to send a video I took with the Droid to a friend via G mail but it wasn't allowing me to attach the file because it was over 10mb. I then was surprised to realize that you cant edit movies in the gallery, does anyone know of a way or a app to do this on the Droid? Is this something that Droid i Doesn't do that i Phone DOES?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have next problem, I have got parent activity and few sub- activities, if app goes to the background by pressed HOME button for long time, all children will be killed, and my app restart from parent activity.
For example: A1 - parent, A2,A3,A4 - sub-activities. A1-->A2-- >A3(top), from A3 I go to the background (HOME). wait 30-40 min and
Is there an exception in the lifetime rules for a parent activity that's in the background after invoking startActivityForResult()? From my understanding, in low memory scenarios, the background activities are killed before the foreground. Does this rule still apply even if the background activity started the foreground one for the purpose of obtaining some result?
In this case, I think it would make sense for the foreground child activity to get killed first or to equalize the lifetime of the parent and child.
Does the battery lifetime takes a hit if I let it charging after it's been fully charged? For example, letting the phone charging overnight...
View 7 Replies View RelatedI saw few of them on the market. Actually I didn't download any of them yet.(I'm not in the country that can access paid app) But I'm just curious so allow me to ask those have access to these alarm clock apps.
1. User can just turn off the phone. How did the developer prevent user from turning-off the device?
2. If the user CAN turn off the device, how did the developer schedule the 'math' activity to start next time the device is turned on?
I got my hands on a Sprint Samsung Moment couple of days ago and already am missing my little HTC Touch Vogue(Customized with Windows Mobile 6.5). I was always flashing all kinds of custom ROMs into the Vogue and realize it's not that easy on these android phones. Anyway, I would like to know if there are android apps that will display the Flip clock with the weather and also if there are widgets or apps which will display the email, text message and missed call count on the desktop. I don't care for the notification bar so much.
On another note, I am using K-9 Mail for email but now I get notification from both the stock email client as well as K-9. How does one make K-9 the default? The latest version of K-9 has taken out the Email frequency check from the settings so I'm not sure hot to set the interval for email check.
Does anyone know what clock app is in this screen shot?
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust caught wind of this and thought I'd pass it on. I can see some others have talked about the program and this article also includes instructions on how to securely install on a rooted phone. AndroidSPIN | You heard it here, first, on AndroidSPIN. Your No.1 source for Android news. Blog Archive Free lifetime Wave Secure accounts for Android users till 31 Jan 2010. Download from Market today!
View 19 Replies View RelatedWhat i am after is some suggestions for the best app in your opinion for these that i need ?
1 - The best Music App
2 - The best Radio App
3 - The best Alarm clock app that can wake you up with radio also
4 - The best Ring tone/email/voicemail/text, sounds alert app
5 - If you were stranded on a desert island with just your phone and 1 app which would it be?
It seems like everyone uses a home screen clock of some sorts, so I figured I was missing out. I tried a few, but can't get over how much screen real estate you lose! What's the point of losing 4 icons just to see the time, which is plainly displayed on the top of the screen already??? I have the stock Moto power bar up there, which is very helpful, but it takes up 4 spots too. Am I missing something, or do people just need to have the clock that big in their face all the time? BTW, I went from a Palm OS Tore to a Win Mo Treo (and i Pod touch) and then finally got the Droid back in January and I couldn't be happier!! Android is everything I thought it would be and then some.
View 32 Replies View RelatedCan anyone suggest a widget or something so that i can have a large clock on my home screen? I downloaded a digital widget but its not large enough. I want the time to be BIG on my home screen.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI trying to find a good clock/weather app for the top of my main home screen. I'm looking for something that will cover 1 layer, not 2.
View 1 Replies View Relatedmy boyfriend and i have identical droids...on the text messaging screen, where it shows the names of the people you have sent texts to, there is a green dot or a red clock beside the person's name on his but not on mine...it seems to be some sort of tracking because when i my phone is in use his phone shows a green dot beside my name, and when my phone is idle his phone shows a red clock beside my name...
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am new here and I came from Symbian and Linux, for all the phones I've used there are at least one application for screen capture and one for time clock synchronization, both are very useful and basic task we will do with a smartphone, but on the Android I found none that can work without a 'rooted' phone. I don't know how other phones do it, but I know the reason for a 'rooted' phone is to be able to access the framebuffer for screen capture for example and this may be risky, I suppose it is simply a sub-routine call to the BIOS will do without the need for a complete 'open access' system. I know there is a way to capture the screen without a rooted phone, but the phone must be connected to a PC and I feel this is dumb and inconvenient, I may be completely wrong about Android, please fill me in.
View 5 Replies View RelatedNew Nexus 5...I chose the option for the generic system sounds when first attempting to select an alarm sound. What was stupid is that I accidentally clicked the "Always" button. Now I can't access any of my sounds to use as alarms.
is there any way to unset this default? Clearing the cache and even disabling the app in Settings was no good. What is the path to the default sounds Clock uses, so I can add my files to that folder via a file manager?