so i made a wonderful discovery this weekend that my phone will take a charge from my CD deck in my car that has a USB jack. my concern is, that it may end up damaging the phone somehow and i was beyond paranoid. does anyone know if it is a safe thing to do? Does the USB standard have a standard power output?
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I have looked there, and xda is my next stop, but I would like to ditch Sense and use the standard Android UI. Does anyone know if this is possible? I am not talking about flashing the ROM but rather stopping Sense and loading the normal UI. I am not having any real problems with the Sense UI per se but from playing with other Android devices I think I prefer the normal interface.
View 21 Replies View RelatedI'm running basic Sprint 2.1 rooted. I've removed all the bloatware, and wireless tether is working great. Pretty much everything is working great, actually, aside from the standard dialer and contact lag many people have reported, plus occasional lag in other areas.
So here's my question: Is there a custom ROM out there that solves the lagginess problem while leaving everything else basically functional and intact? I've been reading the threads around all the various ROMs, and while it seems that some offer real advantages in various areas, it also appears that each introduces its own new set of problems and dysfunctions. While I'd love a snappier phone, I don't want a bunch of new bugs, worse battery life, whatever. I mean, based on the threads here, the average custom ROM user's experience would seem to be slightly worse than my experience with the standard Sprint release.
My wife and I both have Hero's and after the recent updates our phone takes forever to dial a number. It was bad before going to 2.1 but now it's terrible. It takes about 10 to 15 seconds to actually dial out. Any suggestions? We both have Google Voice but it dials slow regardless if we're using Google Voice or the standard dialer.
View 49 Replies View RelatedDoes anybody know where to get the standard power control widget icons from?
View 8 Replies View RelatedNot sure how to do this. Unfortunately it's not as easy as erasing them from a my es file manager. I'm trying to get rid of the standard music player (Rock On from SlideMe is still a tad glitchy, but it's mostly fantastic for it's ineffable ability to land artwork for every album and the last.fm tour finder) and also Sprint Navigation (pointless with Google Maps).
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt is my understanding that the standard Android calendar has a week view.Does anyone know of a way to install this on an unrooted Hero?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow do I select the standard default greeting for my sprint voice mail? the standard greeting Im referring to is the default we always hear with the female electronic voice"...u have reached the voice mail box of ###-###-####.....". A couple of nights ago I was prompted to enter (record) my own "greeting" and now I cant find the option to revert back to the default one. I tried all the options after calling my own voice mail but cant seem to find the default greeting option. Also, I stopped receiving voice mail notification (the numerical number of voice mails I have next to the voicemail icon) after the software update. how do i get that to work again?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an Orange UK branded htc hero, I was wondering if its possible to just flash it with a standard un-branded rom? I don't want one of the various "custom" roms floating around as they all seem to have little bits and bobs that don't work properly. I have no issue with my phone i just don't really want to have to wait for Orange to (if ever) write their own versions of the 2 updates for the European hero.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhat are some good web browsers apps? & what makes them better than the standard browser?
View 5 Replies View RelatedLooking to beef up the battery in my Hero...but I am not keen to go "extended" (I am presuming an extended battery is a bulkier battery?). So wanting to know the largest capacity battery without physically going bigger
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have instaled Handcent and gone into my standard message settings and turned off all ntifications and reports but when I check my app killer it shows it as still running all the time. Really annoying as it's extra drain on the battery.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSorry, a bit general and probably another Dumpty question (bits covered in other threads)
I have a sim free Hero (now on O2). Was working ok, but now seems to be getting very slow. I think my ROM is very old:
Firmware Version: 1.5
Baseband Version: 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25
Kernel Version: 2.6.27-a5504199
Build Number: 1.76.405.6 146733
Software Version: 1.0.0.A6288
What's my best option? Upgrade to the standard HTC ROM or go with Modaco? Are there other options? Is the android version linked to the ROM upgrade and if so, worth waiting for 2.1?
If it helps, I don't really use the phone too advanced. Sync to google and yahoo mail, some internet, music and a few apps.
For one reason another it needs to go back to how it was as it came out of the factory !
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm finding that the standard browser is way slower when navigating than the Opera Mini beta.Same thing over wifi and mobile. We're talking about 30 seconds in standard browser compared to about 1 second in Opera.What's that about?Is everybody else finding the same thing? It's annoying that Opera isn't quite as complete as standard browser, coz otherwise I'd just use it all the time.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhat keyboard do you use, is there a keyboard that you find works better than the standard keyboard!
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of an App that you can use that allows more than the standard 160 ?
View 1 Replies View Related1st - what does this mean or showing me?
2nd, I am scoring 1290...which is below the Nexus One. What do I need to do to better this if what i'm getting is too low?
I've read a couple of posts about handling Eula's and was wondering: Is there a standard EULA for apps on the Android Marketplace? If not, can there be and should there be? (If I understand correctly) all apps for the i Phone are subject to a standard agreement (the iTunes EULA) found at (http://www.apple.com/ legal/i tunes/app store/dev/stdeula/). Crucially, this allows the buyer to know what they are agreeing to BEFORE purchasing the app. It seems that with the Android model, everyone is responsible for their own license and the buyer doesn't know what they're agreeing to until after paying. This would seem to be a shrink-wrap license which is questionable, at least in US courts. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ EULA) Certainly some cases may merit a non-standard EULA, but it seems like it would do developers a huge favor to offer a standard license for the 99% of apps/games that don't need anything special. At the same time, it would eliminate a confusing situation for consumers who don't know what they are agreeing to anyway.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there an app that lets you use non standard aspect ratio wallpapers? I have some wider pics that I'd like to use with out cropping them. I'd also like to be able to have the option to use different back grounds for different screens. Anything out there that can do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm new to Android, but have published iphone and bberry apps.I see that I have to create an emulator using the SDK, before I can write and test an app. Why are there no default emulators? Why not at least a Nexus one, or HTC hero emulator shipped with the product? Sure its supposed to be flexible, but why not make it easy to create hello world and play around with a virtual Android phone? Both blackberry and iphone come with default simulators when you download the sdk.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to find the standard Android image used in Android 1.6 for an SMS action. The one that can be seen under contact details that looks like a postcard.I noticed that there was a standard image "sys_action_sms" which looked like a chat bubble in Android 1.0, but apparently that was removed at some point.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI notice that most android apps have some sort of standard in that they all look similar. Most of them have some sort of list of Text that are click-able. It's somewhat hard to explain but they look really nice and I was wondering is there some sort of tool or api that allows me to change the look of an app to make it similar? Or do I have to specifically specify the different fonts and different graphics?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have just got the new Samsung Galaxy S phone, which after using Nokia N97 is a brilliant phone. My main issue is that it doesn't have standard phone profiles yet the function manual I downloaded from the Samsung site clearly says it does? Any ideas? Not a major issue but I guess I just got used to having profiles. Secondly, is there a way to sort the photos in the gallery into different folders? For example in months or tags?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI use hand cent but have been hearing there is a.bug in it to keep hour phone awake.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI just got a new HTC Evo with Froyo and downloaded the Quadrant Standard benchmarking app. I ran it around 5 times and averaged around 790, I don't understand why this is so low given that usually EVOs are up around 1200. I ran advanced task killer beforehand so there were no apps running either. Does anyone know what could be going on?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat are the implications for future Android device releases if we are using non-standard packages such as "com.google.android.maps"?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWith Sense UI? I like the refresh button and bookmarks much better than HTC's offering.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThere are two parts, the circular disc that sticks to the glass and then the actual holder which suctions against the disc. Do y'all leave the holder attached at all times? Even when you get out of the car? Or do you take it on and off as you use it? I'm just wondering how secure that disc is to the glass.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to listen the android standard exceptions to manage it. But I don't put try/cath in all my code. Anyone knows if i can redirect the error output to my code. I've seen this System.setErr method, but It doens't works for this purpouse.
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