HTC Droid Eris :: Deal With Weak Vib On This Phone
Apr 10, 2010
First of all, I'm a very happy Eris user. I've had the phone since January and have just decided to "put up with" the fact the vibration is too weak. But its starting to get rediculous. I miss calls, texts and emails constantly with this phone! And just yesterday, my Boss actually made a comment to me about it (something like "you need to start answering you damn phone!"). I had a BB for 5 years leading up to my getting the Eris in January and rarely missed a call or message.
I have Smart Vibrate loaded and have programmed distinct patterns, but it's not helping. If somebody doesn't have a good idea or remedy for this, I might be forced to go back to BB.
I've read posts like this before and everybody just seems to deal with this, but please tell me somebody has a trick they can share
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Dec 14, 2009
Anyone figured out a solution to the really weak vibrate on the Eris yet?
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Apr 20, 2010
In our alltel contract, all my family lines get unlimited data for $40 a month. My parents are looking to upgrade their regular phones (for free) and I was going to recommend the eris (from amazon) to them. I have heard some talk of not having very good signal and mention of some bugs and want to know how much truth there is behind these (especially signal) or if they were lemons, etc. if it matters all my parents would do is call/text (obviously), email sync, and maybe browse the web every once in a while. Bugs with, say face book, wouldn't matter.
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Nov 17, 2009
Wondering if there are any creative ideas/hacks/apps that can make the vibration on the Eris even a little more noticeable? I think it's fair to say this is a VERY weak vibration feature, and a lot of folks have a hard time feeling it vibrate when a call or notification comes in.
I'm assuming it's a hardware thing, but thought maybe there are some creative workarounds.
I really like most everything else about this phone, but I cannot feel it at all when it's set to vibrate, so I'll definitely be missing calls & texts when carrying it around on my belt (or even pocket) as it's usually in vibrate mode then.
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About the Eris. On version 2.1 does Beautiful Widgets (the app) show under "data" on your SD card? Should it? If it doesn't belong there should and I delete BW - will the clock/weather on the home screen still work? I expect the HTC / Android clock weather deal is a widget vs an app? Or is it an app and what is it called?'
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Nov 21, 2009
Anyone experience weak bluetooth connectivity with the Eris?My stereo bluetooth headset gets choppy even if it's a few feet from my phone.I don't know if it's the phone's bluetooth signal or the headset.If the phone is in my pocket and I'm walking the shake from my step causes the signal to cut out.I wanna ask others who use stereo bluetooth if they see this.
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Nov 19, 2009
New to Eris and have set up Wifi to connect to home router (Verizon FIOS Actiontec). Successfully connected (accepted WEP) but get very weak signal and then lose connection. I've turned off "Mobile Network" but still have this problem. I am one room away from router and receive full signal on iMac and printer but only a dot under the Wifi symbol on the Eris. Exchanged a Motorola Droid (which received and held full signal -- as did my prior iPhone)) for Eris. VZW tech support clueless and immediately sent me to HTC support. While they tried (had some not very good explanations -- battery not pushing enough power) still nothing working. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated -- this is the only downside right now.
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Jul 14, 2010
Just wondering...well first i should ask, what exactly is is mobi tv? is it like sprint tv? and would it come free of charge with the vibrant, like the sprint tv comes with the htc evo 4g?
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Jun 30, 2010
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I am trying to develop a Android Google Map application, which is basically Gmap with my own marker geo layer. Since android.com is banned in China, I have to search support from Google user groups. I have no idea which groups I should call for help, android group or google map group. Anyway here is my questions:
I am working on Android SDk1.5. I want to reproduce the floating buttons presented in android Google map, which stands for three buttons: ZoomControl (left), FocusChange (middle), and ListControl (right). (Pls check ref1. ) I checked some open source projects, if designer can place these controls in the layout.xml with relative layout, to place them over (on the top of) the mapview. It may solve some problem, however in the SDK1.5' add-on gmap jar, the getZoomControl is discarded. I can only setBuiltInZoomControl(true) to enable the builtin zoomcontrol. By default, the "BuiltIn" Zoom Control is placed at Bottom/Center. (Pls check ref 2.) I have no idea how to relocate the "BuiltIn" Zoom Control to the left as native GMAP does.
So: How to relocate the BuiltIn Zoom Control ? How to add addtional custom control (buttons/overlays) with BuiltInZoomControl ? What functions should be overriden for the detail implementaiton, Such as synhcorization with the visibility? I am appreciated if the answer can be offered with code snippet or references to any internet site.
Ref: 1) http://www.ennovation.org/pix/transit-android-google-maps.png 2) http://www.ennovation.org/pix/device005.png
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Nov 13, 2009
Are you guys experiencing any issues with the WIFI signal on the droid? I am not getting any signal in areas of my house where my iPhone and Droid Eris (exchanged Eris for Droid) had no problems.
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Apr 23, 2010
I am learning how to program on Android phone. However I am unsure how to make my application work for the different screen sizes and resolutions.
I read the tutorial on the android site and still unsure how to do it.
First I know there are different files so could make a layout for each of the sizes but my problem is most of the screen needs to be dynamically created so there would not be much to put in these files.
So I am not sure how to android to re size dynamic controls based on the screen size.
I have also read it is bad practice to make controls in anything but the xml file as it separates view logic and programming logic. However they never talk about if you need to make these controls dynamically what you should do.
So is there some other way to do it that is considered good practice?
Edit
I get this error when I try to run the switcher application.
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: Error type 2
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: Error: Unable to connect to activity manager; is the system running?
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: usage: am [start|broadcast|instrument|profile]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: am start [-D] INTENT
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: am broadcast INTENT
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: am instrument [-r] [-e <ARG_NAME> <ARG_VALUE>] [-p <PROF_FILE>]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: [-w] <COMPONENT>
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: am profile <PROCESS> [start <PROF_FILE>|stop]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: INTENT is described with:
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: [-a <ACTION>] [-d <DATA_URI>] [-t <MIME_TYPE>]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: [-c <CATEGORY> [-c <CATEGORY>] ...]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: [-e|--es <EXTRA_KEY> <EXTRA_STRING_VALUE> ...]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: [--ez <EXTRA_KEY> <EXTRA_BOOLEAN_VALUE> ...]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: [-e|--ei <EXTRA_KEY> <EXTRA_INT_VALUE> ...]
[2010-04-27 12:06:41 - ViewSwitcherTest] ActivityManager: [-n <COMPONENT>] [-f <FLAGS>] [<URI>]
To your question: It's dynamic because
the buttons in my example grow and
shrink depending on one of the 3
possibles sizes, because they use
scaled pixel (You probably know that
you don't have to deal with screen
sizes itself). So a scaled pixel
compared to a real a pixel has a size
of 0.75px, 1.0px or 1.5px. Android
automatically and dynamically adjusts
it to the actual size. So you don't
have to care about this in your code.
So if I use scaled pixels then I don't have to worry about different screen sizes?
At the moment I don't know an example
except in games where you have to deal
with "real" pixel. But if you want use
it, multiply it with the value of the
current density. This is your "ratio".
I don't have the example with the ball
anymore but I have another which uses
the same technics. You can run it on
different screen sizes and you will
see that the buttons will always fit
into the layout. You could use the
same technics for your intents. In
this example you can scroll with the
"Scrn" buttons from one view to
another of 4 views. (At the moment
they all have a black background so
you don't see that they are different
views). The "Enter" button exits the
test. It's an Eclipse project. You can
download
So if I want to deal with ratio then I use real pixels and not scaled pixels? What advantage does this give me?
will scaled pixels work with changing from portrait to landscape( ie will it fill up the new found space)?
Finally should I make the controls now through code or is there another way? As I said I am getting data from a webservice that must look like this
checkbox label label
It can be one record or 10,000 records I don't know so these have to be appended to something that is like a window panel( the controls in there get a scroll bar).
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Ok, now I've had time to listen to music on the Droid X and I ain't liking it. I'm comparing it to the iphone and it's so weak in comparison. Is it just me or do others feel the same way?
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However, there is a big issue using it on Android, 'cause of incomplete JNI support : 'Weak Global References' are missing. Unfortunatly, SWIG is waiting for a full compatible Oracle/Sun JVM, and use this feature with its 'director' option (for proxy class creation).
For now, I comment each time, in a (kind of) bad way, the use of weak global references in my generated C/C++ wrapper files (4 lines in my case). I think it is really a shame that we can't use (one of) the best wrapper with Android NDK just for one missing feature.
I read that Google Team will add it in future release : "NewWeakGlobalRef and DeleteWeakGlobalRef are not implemented. The VM supports weak references, but not JNI "weak global" references. These will be supported in a future release." (http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/ dalvik.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/jni-tips.html;hb=HEAD)
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