HTC EVO 4G :: Is There A Definitive Way To Prevent OTA Updates?
Nov 17, 2010
This is my first post on this board and I wanted to express a great deal of thanks to everyone for the wealth of information avaiable.I recently rooted my EVO and installed Myn's 2.2 ROM which I am extremely happy with.There is NO CHANCE I would have done this without all the great info here.I have looked for this information and am a bit overwhelmed - this is the first phone I've rooted, so I am proceeding extremely carefully with all the things I do with it.I can't seem to find a definitive answer how to prevent OTA updates entirely.I'm not even sure I have to worry about it since I have a new ROM installed.The last thing I want to have happen is to wake up some morning and suddenly my phone is unrooted with a new version of Sprint's ROM. I am perfectly happy waiting for custom ROMs to come out with feature changes (for example, Gingerbread). If I never see an OTA update prompt again, and I can be sure it won't apply itself without my intervention, I'll be happy as a clam.
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Sep 18, 2010
I'm rooted and I manually installed 2.2 a few weeks ago, but a couple times a week I get a notification I have a system update. If I hit install later, it keeps popping up like every hour or something like that. If I try to install it, it just says installation failed. Is there a way to completely block OTA updates so I don't have to be annoyed with this anymore?
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Nov 16, 2009
After searching their website, all of the message boards and googling it to death - I have formed only somewhat of an answer to the following...
1. How much does Ad Mob pull if a user simply loads your app
2. How much does it pay if they click an ad
3. What is an average Ad Mob income in a given month (for a single app)
4. Preferred method : (a) Ad Mob (b) Make it a paid app
Fully aware that Android apps aren't exactly cash-cows, but a little extra income never hurt anyone, trying to figure out a planned implementation to acquire such.
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Mar 31, 2010
I am looking for a tutorial that explains the logic for fast, robust location finding.Basically I am sick of Google Maps finding my location so incredibly fast and accurately while my own application struggles to get a location.I would be fine with pseudo code responses and I will explain what I am doing so maybe I can be shown what I am doing wrong.
1. Get the locationManager object.
2. Do a 'get best provider' call.
3. Get a list of all available providers.
4. lm.requestLocationUpdates(bestProvider, 0, 0, this); hit the location provider as much as I can to get my first signal
5. Send a delayed message.If a location cannot be found in 10 seconds, switch to a different provider and try again with lm.requestLocationUpdates(nextProvider, 0, 0, this);
6. Repeat step 5 until I have a location.
7. Once a location is found determine if it is the most accurate provider.If it is not try again with the most accurate provider on an 8 second delay.If it is the most accurate provider then set lm.requestLocationUpdates(currentProvider, 30000, 0, this); to conserve battery
8. Make sure to lm.removeUpdates(this); before changing the requestLocationUpdates
Now it occurs to me that it may be possible to iterate through my list of providers and do requestLocationUpdates for all providers at once.Is this a viable option or can you only listen to one provider at a time?I have seen that location from onLocationChanged has getProvider()to let you know who provided the location information so that I can know which provider is actually finding a signal and turn off the others.
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Feb 8, 2010
I decided to share the solution i found to the problem of Android not supporting real modal dialogs.The solution was to draw the dialog by myself. :-( Well, at least worked fine, besides the problem that its a bit ugly.
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Oct 6, 2010
I have had my Samsung Galaxy S for about a month now, and have just recently took the plunge and rooted it. I am now seeking a means of backing up my entire phone using a method that will essentially "freeze" my phone's current state, allowing me to restore to this exact state in the future, like an image of my phone. I want all apps, SMS messages, contacts, all settings, everything to be frozen in time as a backup.
I have searched these forums and through Google search results extensively and found a lot of information, most of it regarding Nandroid, Titanium Backup, SPRecovery, ClockworkMod Recovery etc. My understanding is this:
Titanium backup is more of a soft backup, it backs up your apps and settings and allows them to be reapplied.
Nandroid requires the recovery mode to be flashed using ClockworkMod Recovery
SPRecovery can be used instead of ClockworkMod Recovery, but they both have their own pros/cons.
Is there a definitive guide to achieve what I want?
Most of the guides I have read have been tailored to other devices such as the G1, HTC Hero, Droid etc.
TL;DR: I want to make a complete backup of everything on my phone, save it as an image, and be able to restore it later.
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Nov 29, 2009
Subject says it all.I've read posts here and other places regarding turning off "Enable 'always-on' mobile". I'm still unclear on exactly what this does. I guess I can figure it out by turning it off - and sending exchange and Gmail e-mails to myself to see if/when they arrive.
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Jun 11, 2009
so I'm curious if someone know what is exact folder structure, which should be used. My question is about phone memory and SD card as well.So far I suppose, these work:If you want phone to find new ringtones (and only, not have it listed in music player).
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Jul 26, 2010
Prevent vibration on startup. Is there a way to do it?
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Apr 23, 2010
I want to write an app that a parent can use to disable phone functionality to prevent their child from using it.One way the child could circumvent this is by uninstalling the app.Is there a way to prevent application uninstall on the Android?
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Apr 18, 2010
I really don't know why it's giving me this error... I load an ImageView with an image of 692kb .jpg, using scroll options, so you can scroll it around... the strange it's that when the mobile it's connected to the VM it's less possible to happen. So...how can I prevent this? is there anyway that I can free memory when starting the app? can I tell the system to free memory before loading the image?
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Sep 5, 2010
I 'm working with GPS in my application. When phone go to sleep, the GPS's data don't update. I want to stay phone screen wake up until my app will be close. How can I prevent sleeping in Android?
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Jun 30, 2010
Just got a lg eve for my wife and she is pisst at it for one reason..
the screen goes of when your in a call?so you need to activate the screen then press end call..is there something to prevent this?
is there a app?
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Apr 5, 2012
Is it possible to prevent a user from uninstalling an app and then re-installing it?
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Oct 2, 2012
There are a no. of apps out there for finding lost devices, but they would all prove useless if the thief disables the GPS.
So, is there any way to prevent GPS from being disabled?
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Aug 4, 2009
I want to prevent native application to receive message.I want that my application only receive message. Is it possible ? if yes then how ? can i access the received message and delete it ?
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Mar 17, 2009
I have created a multithreaded application but it still hangs if the server is unavailable.causes some delay and I believe this is the cause for hanging. But if the TCPClientService Service is executing in its own thread I don't know why this affects the timeout of the main activity.I would be very thankful if anyone could show how to prevent the application from hanging when the server is unavailable.
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Apr 27, 2010
I was wondering what the most effective way of preventing people from stealing my application (downloading a copy of the .apk online rather than buying it).I've spent a lot of time on one in particular (Droidbox) and won't be releasing Sync until I can guarantee that the people who are providing illegal copies of the pro version aren't able to.Anyone implemented this? I've tried checking my package signature verses an the signature of an unsigned copy but it appears to be the same - perhaps I'm doing something incorrectly here. I'm unsure whether people actually distribute the signed .apk in which case I don't think signature validation would work to begin with.Please note, this question is specific to Android Marketplace Applications - the difference being, application delivery is out of my hands and I have no way of linking between a legitimate purchase and an illegal download.
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Mar 12, 2009
How do i prevent the landscape modus? or how i can save the state of my app. without saving manual the data? rgds Mr.No
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Apr 22, 2010
Is there an app (or better, a way within Android) to prevent the same contact from showing the the call log more than once? I talk mainly to the same few people, with a few others scattered between, and it would be nice if I had the option to see each contact only once in the call log. (Maybe have the call times viewable if I open the contact's entry in the call log.)
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Nov 15, 2010
I got a call and while I was talking my cheek hit the "end call" button. I'm thinking this might start being an issue. I have my screen set to time out after 15 sec but that was apparently still enough time for my cheek to end the call lol. Is there a setting somewhere on the phone where I can change it to when I get a call the screen goes blank faster?
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Feb 15, 2010
How can we prevent an edittext from getting focus and displaying the soft keyboard. I have an searchbox which should not be focused by default and should have focus only when user clicks on it to enter something. But right now it takes focus and shows the keyoard as soon as I open the activity. Is this a bug or can this be changed to behave in the way we want?
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Aug 29, 2010
I have a static library that contains some JNICALL functions, i.e. they are expected to be called from the JVM and are never referenced by the shared library that links the static library. However, it seems like function stripping is exterminating the JNICALL function (it's not visible in arm-eabi-objdump -t). I'm working around it by adding a dummy function with an impossible condition that calls the JNICALL function, but that's dirty. I know that there is a link option to prevent certain modules from getting their unused data stripped, but what is it? And how do I specify that option in the .mk file? I didn't see anything immediately obvious in arm-eabi-ld. Incidentally, the function stripping doesn't strip out JNICALL functions in the shared library itself, but it will remove those from the static library that the shared library is linking. What's the reason for that?
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Mar 30, 2010
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May 12, 2009
I have set an activity containing a webview which loads a page from the network. Each time the orientation of the screen changes the oncreate(...) method is called and the webview reloads its content again. Is there a way to avoid the webview to reload the web page?
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Jun 21, 2010
I canceled my order for a seidio innocase II because of the thread that showed that the case caused scratches on the phone. I want to keep my evo in pristine condition and want something that won't scratch it and that I can get in less then a weak. I saw the active seidio case on amazon but shipping estimates are 3-4 weeks from now and that just won't happen. I know I will probably have to go with a silicon case and I'm ok with that.
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Nov 30, 2009
I have an Activity which is launched from a Service. This Activity can spawn other children Activities. Now under certain conditions (particularly related to using screen lock), I can end up with the Service starting a second copy of the Activity again. For reasons of performance, the Service is being started and stopped at various times, and cannot be relied on to hold state. What is the best way to prevent this second launch? Can I (for example) detect that the Activity is already running in the stack and do finish()?
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Sep 27, 2010
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Sep 29, 2010
How can I prevent this overlapping from occurring without reducing the font size? Here is my XML. code...
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Feb 18, 2010
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