I'm all new to this android stuff and i was wondering what the big deal of root is? like what can you do with root that you cant do before? Please don't comment if you have something bad to say as you were too once as new as me.
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holy cow, since 2.2, my battery drains in like 4 hours. even in standby. is there some setting i should turn off? whats the deal?
View 9 Replies View RelatedNo calDav support (and no, the free app Calendar syncing does not work with my company's iCal server) is a deal breaker for me, unless one of you guys can point me in the right direction, my iPhone 4 will have to come out of the drawer.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat's the deal with the Flickr integration?I thought I would transition over from Photobucket because it looked like it might make it easier to access and share photos.So I find out that I need a YahooID to sign up for Flickr.Why not something with Google (Picasa)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFirst 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
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
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?'
View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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).
Here is the scenario:
Motorola Droid - Original
1. Rooted 2.1, then
2. OTA Stock Update to 2.2, then
3. Seem to have lost root, However - I still have the Superuser Permissions Icon.
I use Barnacle for WiFi Tether - I get a "Permission Denied" error when I try to start the application. I also went into the terminal emulator and tried an "su" which also gave a permission denied response. I tried "sudo" and also got permission denied response. Others have told me this is common with this progression of events. However, How do I now ROOT 2.2 in this scenario?
I just rooted my stock froyo with it! If this has already been discussed.
View 42 Replies View RelatedI used DroidMod to root when I had 2.01. When 2.1 became available, I "un-rooted" then forced update to 2.1. Well to be honest, it is really slow and laggy. I now want to go back to DroidMod, but nothing I have tried seems to work.
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View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to gain root and having some problems...
I had my droid rooted for some time, running droid mod 1.0. All was well until recently the battery life turned to shit (followed all guides to resolve recent OTA update issues, but still shitty.) Because of this, I decided I would go back to stock, since I couldn't justify the rom's features if the battery would kick out after 16 hours. So I returned to stock no problem and received the OTA to upgrade to 2.1.
After getting the upgrade to 2.1, I wanted to at least have root access to run a few programs. I followed this guide:
http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-droid/63010-how-install-sprecovery-unrooted-2-1-ota.html
to get SPRecovery back on my phone. Everything went well, it all checked out. After that I used SPRecovery to install the root update.zip. This worked fine, the root access app is in my tray and everything seems to be fine... HOWEVER when opening programs that require root access (setcpu and adfree are the ones I've tried) they say I don't have root access. I have tried reinstalling the update.zip file to no luck. USB debugging is ON. Is there a special update.zip to gain root on 2.1 (I saw no posts about that)? Is there some setting I missed this time around that I didn't the first time I rooted?
I have the Droid should I wait for 2.1 and then root or root now?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just got my X a bit ago and was wondering if anyone had seen or tried this method. How To Root/Unroot Motorola Droid-X In One Simple Click?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI am essentially using a listview but am looking at providing a bookmark functionality. I am thinking that I should store the item attributes in a file when bookmarked and retrieve when required to populate a bookmark listview.
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I see that people here have walked out of mobile phone stores with some great bargains. I've been living off my wife's old contract phones for years and I always hated going into stores to look at phone as sales people always tried to sell me stuff I didn't want / need. I've now decided it's time to invest in a Desire with a contract (T-Mobile). Their �10 a month for 100 mins & txt (phone �164) is tempting but I probably prefer 600 mins & unlimited text for �21.35 (after redemption) from buymobilephones.net How's the best way to approach a sales person in a store bearing in mind that I'm a new customer? Are they fairly flexible when it comes to discussing contracts? I just fancy walking in and asking if they can match a certain contract deal on the internet!?
View 2 Replies View RelatedGoing from hero->evo means my mini usb cords are useless. I'm looking around but can't seem to find anyone selling a bundle of maybe 4-5 cords, they seem to all be selling individually along with car/wall chargers (which i won't need)
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been looking for a good deal on the Hero. I found the website mobilephonesdirect.co.uk, and they are offering the Hero at �25 for 24 months on Vodafone with 100 mins and 500 txts and unlimited internet. The phone is free and it looks like a great deal. Does anyone have any experience of comments on dealing with these guys?
View 20 Replies View RelatedI have these on my Blackberry and they are as good as any other Invisable Shield type protector at about half the cost. Glad to see they now have them for EVO.INVISIBLE HTC Evo 4G CLEAR Full Body Screen PROTECTOR - eBay (item 370390797766 end time Jul-02-10 16:28:11 PDT)
View 5 Replies View RelatedWe want to add below update sql into our content provider:We found current update of content provider does not support it, which would not recognize the "column1" of "column1 + 1" as column name. So we have to add execSQL method into ContentProvider and I think it is dirt. So I wonder if anyone know how to do such thing with ContentProvider or any more elegant way to achieve it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy application needs to intensively manipulate (read-write) on some structured text data.The size of the data is significant 1Mb. And there is initial data available for the user to start with.My idea is to put this data as a file in the .apk. Then, on initial application launch to read this data and populate Android SQLite database with it. Then just work with this database. But after the database is populated the data file is no longer needed. And I'd like to remove it to free some memory. Alternate approach is to work with this data file instead of SQLite database. But I assume SQLite would work a magnitude faster then i/o on my data file..
View 16 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone tried to use CursorAdapter with old and new api?
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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?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI write a listactivty,the item including a textview and a button，the data came from a sqlite。but in handling the clickevent , i meet some problem, in the CursorAdapter's bindView() function，i cann't get the current position。in log，i find position of Cursor is the position I last click the item of listview.
The code as follows: package miaozl.hello;
CODE:............................
I want to create an app widget that could take up a different number of "cells" on the home screen, but I don't think that the app widget framework easily supports this. I know that an app widget can have a configuration screen, and I'd like the user to be able select a sort of small, medium, or large size for the widget as part of my configuration activity. Unfortunately, I don't think that this is possible, correct? Based on the minWidth and minHeight properties, the Launcher app will assign a number of cells that I can't configure at run time.
For instance, if I want a weather widget that has a current, hourly and weekly format that take up 1, 2, and 4 cells respectively, I can't do this at run time. Instead, I believe my only option is to export 3 different widgets and have them all listed in the widget picker dialog as something like "Weather - current conditions", "Weather - hourly forcast", and "Weather - week long forcast".
I thought I would post something on how to get a good deal to help you people looking for one. The way I did it was find an offer on teh interwebs > Sony-ericsson X10 deals with Orange (I had to dig quite a lot and go through advanced search and select the free gift as free delivery) This is a good deal but I couldn't be bothered going through the whole thing of switching provider so...
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow To Root Your 2.1 Droid | Android Community. Anyone read this? Look accurate, before I dive in to this?
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