Not been an XDA owner long and due to business I havent had much time to look at it. But now I am getting in to it but I still seem to be a little lost here....
When hit the X for closing an application (like explorer) the memory settings in the control panel list the application as still running. Is the correct? Am I not closing the application correctly or is this simply the way it should work...? If so is there a quicker way to close these buggers down instead of going into the control panel?
Next question is to do with the connection while the phone is in the cradle. In the settings it says PC Connection. But if I activate the explorer it jumps onto the GPRS network.
Next question - How can I monitor per month how much bandwidth I have used?
And last question - for the moment - anyone know of a good PDA enabled link site?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
You'll find answers to all of your questions (i think) by searching the forums.
The X-button does not exit a program by default. You need a third party application to make it work that way. There are plenty of those around, a lot of them free of charge. Have a look at www.freewareppc.com and you should find a couple.
You need to change a connection setting so that the XDA knows that the cradle does not only connect to work, but also to the internet. Can't remember exactly what setting, but search the forums or by all means read the fine manual that came with the device.
To monitor the GPRS usage you need a third party application. There might be a free one around somewhere, but otherwise SPB Software GPRS Monitor is a good choice.
www.google.com shows up just nicely on my device, give it a try.
For closing and switching applications, I use PocketNav. It's fantastic, give it a shot. You can find it here: http://www.scottandmichelle.net/scott/cestuff/pocketnav.zip
tnx for posting a copy of the software!
mate,
you can also try another freeware called systeminfo. it's a today plug-in; which shows you 3 types of information; battery charge (with a bar and %), memory use (also with a bar and %) and the running apps. the running apps has 4 small buttons; n, a, c, x. if you have multiple programs running; say word and then the second one is wmp, clicking on "n" will go to the second running program (which will show the running app's name on the small bar). clicking on "a" will open a new window which shows you all the running programs, clicking on "c" will click the present program seen on the indicator bar, clicking on x will close all your apps. btw; if the indicator bar shows that word is running; clicking on that bar will open the window where your word app is running.
here's the cab file...check it out...
cheers mate
I've searched around and couldn't find anything that does what I'm going to describe.... I think it would be usefull and if any programmer who can do it I would pay for a copy...
Is there a program or other method to put multiple display items on one line and have it scroll or flash between them... for example I bought a program called Hudson Phone dashboard... it flashes between displaying the various items I wanted status info on like minutes, used sms sent, last call..etc ...
I was wondering if you could have a line on the today screen that toggles between say messages... live messenger... e-mail... battery... memory.. or anything else I'd like to put in there... you know those items that you want to see but really don't want it to take up a line per item... this would save a ton of Today screen real estate.. and items would be selected like HTC PLUS! does...
Is this possible???
i think ive seen a today plugin that did all that and showed stock points too, it only took about 1 line on today screen and would run through all the stuff you mentioned...toobad i cant remember the name of the app
yeah and its called battery status. use the advanced version and it has basically endless capabilities.
thanks I'll look for it
I've noticed a lot of similar questions around these forums, so I decided to collect some in the same place. This is by no means an exhaustive list.
I can haz root/S-OFF?
There are options for unlocking your bootloader by changing your SuperCID, also there are options for obtaining S-OFF.
Thanks to Team Fireballas for the root method, and thanks to unlimited.io for S-OFF.
Now, please, don't talk like that anymore. Proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation help us understand the question or point you're trying to get across.
My FriendStream (or another HTC) app is missing
HTC decided to remove the FriendStream widget from view in an attempt to de-bloat Sense. On the stock ROM, you can still access it via the lockscreen and somewhat through the Social Clock.
Lockscreen: Settings -> Personalize -> Lock Screen Style -> Friend Stream
Social Clock: Widgets -> Clock -> Social Clock
On the stock ROM, there are several HTC apps missing from our phone, including the beloved flashlight. However, not all the apps are truly missing, just hidden. If you have root, you can re-enable it in the default.xml file located in the /system/customize/MNS/ folder. Remove the listing for FriendStream or whatever app you want to view in the app drawer from the "application_hide" function. FriendStream might also require the listing under "shortcut_hide" to be removed, as well. If you are rooted, a custom ROM may not have this problem.
Why do I have this annoying Wi-Fi icon?
For whatever reason, HTC or Verizon decided to add an annoying Wi-Fi nag icon in the notification bar telling you that you should turn on Wi-Fi. Why Verizon wouldn't want you to go over your data limit and owe them more money is beyond me. If you have root, there is a pretty simple fix for this, or try a custom ROM.
Can I use 64GB MicroSD cards?:
Our phone lists 32GB as the largest capacity microSD card it is capable of utilizing. However, that is the largest capacity allowed by the SD 2.0 standard, SDHC. SD 3.0 currently allows 64GB SDXC cards to be backwards compatible with SD 2.0 ports. Since every single 64GB card isn't necessarily going to work, it's best to read around and find the specific models which do.
Why do the official specs say our phone has 8GB of internal storage but I have less?:
Due to the controversial naming scheme of hard drives and other forms of data storage, companies actually give you less storage than you anticipated. 'Giga' is an SI decimal prefix meaning 10^9, or 1 billion bytes. Before hard drive capacities were in the gigabytes, hard drives used the IEC binary capacity for megabytes (2^20), albeit with the SI prefix. RAM is still calculated with the IEC value but with the SI prefix. So, when your internal storage is calculated to be 8GB, it's actually 8 x 10^9 rather than 8 x 2^30. Since Microsoft has been around since the other standard was set, Windows still displays storage capacity in the binary fashion and labels it with the decimal format.
On top of that, the Android system takes up a sizable amount of storage space, which is included in our phone's internal storage capacity, so you're only allowed 4.15GiB of data storage, which is 4.457GB. In short, you've got 8 billion bytes, but only 4.457 billion bytes usable, which is 4.15GiB. A similar capacity change will be noticed on your MicroSD card size. For example, I have a 32GB MicroSD card, which is actually 29.7GiB. I have a 2TB hard drive, but I only have 1.818TiB available. That's almost 200GiB "missing" because of the naming scheme.
What's the deal with the SD card naming scheme?:
Android 4.0 introduced a new way that SD cards are handled by the system. Previously, the eMMC internal storage of the phone was in the '/emmc/' folder, and the SD card was '/sdcard/'. Makes perfect sense, right? Way to screw it up, Google. Now, the internal storage is in the '/sdcard/' folder, and the real SD card is '/sdcard2/'. There's nothing you can do about this without serious modding to the system. It was changed because Google considers our phones to be high capacity now, so the need for microSD has passed. Yes, portable storage isn't necessary. If you have root, there's a mod that can switch it for you.
Can I install apps to the SD Card?:
Unfortunately, if you are unrooted and on the stock ROM, as per the SD card naming scheme change mentioned immediately above, apps can no longer be installed to the SD card. Like I mentioned above, if you have root, there's a mod for that. Otherwise, when saved in the 'Internal storage', apps are saved in the normal location of apps, '/data/app/'. When saved in the 'Phone storage', apps are saved in the eMMC internal storage partition '/sdcard/.android_secure/' as a '.asec' file.
Can I use Google Wallet?:
If you are rooted, then there's an experimental method that may let you successfully run Google Wallet.
Is our phone capable of being used globally?:
The latest 2.17.605.2 update enabled global phone on our phone. Go to Settings -> Call, and change Preferred Network to Global.
These have been the most common questions I have seen, and I'll be updating this list with more pertinent information when it arises. There are plenty of other questions that have been answered, even more which haven't. Look around for questions, and if there isn't an answer, don't be afraid to ask.
FYI the debugfs root method doesn't look to be working... not sure if you saw that in the other thread or not.
Had to throw up a pic...64GB....the only way to go
Card is a Sandisk 64GB micro.
Is there a patch available for that Wifi thing? I don't have much of a problem doing it manually through the APK, but if there's a faster way...
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Is there a patch available for that Wifi thing? I don't have much of a problem doing it manually through the APK, but if there's a faster way...
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Hey self, nevermind. If anyone else wants to just copy over the APK that you need to modify, just do what I said here -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30679535&postcount=40. You will need root, though, and I understand a lot of people don't. All it is is removing a few images that for some reason stops the notifications as well.
Platypus222 said:
Hey self, nevermind. If anyone else wants to just copy over the APK that you need to modify, just do what I said here -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30679535&postcount=40. You will need root, though, and I understand a lot of people don't. All it is is removing a few images that for some reason stops the notifications as well.
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lol. I appreciate you making it readily available for us, but most of us don't have root. Here's to hoping our spamming Verizon works quickly!
I added to and updated a few things on the list. Hopefully people will read it before asking the same things over and over.
IceDragon59 said:
Hopefully people will read it before asking the same things over and over.
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Ha ha. You funny guy...
Jafmf95 said:
Ha ha. You funny guy...
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I know. The likelihood of that, right?
Bump
Please add the DirtyRacun s-off method.
I'm sure there's other stuff, too. Lots had happened since we received s-off.
Thanks
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+1 sticky plz
IceDragon59, you've done a nice job with the FAQ, I wonder if you might also consider taking on the task of making an index post for ROMs, recoveries, unlock methods, scripts, themes, etc?
Oh, and it looks like you can remove the please sticky notice from the title.
mdmower said:
IceDragon59, you've done a nice job with the FAQ, I wonder if you might also consider taking on the task of making an index post for ROMs, recoveries, unlock methods, scripts, themes, etc?
Oh, and it looks like you can remove the please sticky notice from the title.
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That's not a bad idea. I'll make it my weekend project. And thanks for pointing out the fact that this thread finally got stickied after 5 months.
FYI, the direct link in the OP to the post with the .apk for killing the wifi nag is outdated. It takes you to post #40 in that thread, but that .apk may actually botch things up for folks running the latest stock Sense. There is a post a few posts later with an updated .apk to match the more recent Sense.
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Is this an hpdi/mdpi device? sorry for being ignorant...
Thanks in advanced to whoever can answer this!
mr_dr_parker said:
Is this an hpdi/mdpi device? sorry for being ignorant...
Thanks in advanced to whoever can answer this!
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hdpi
Thanks!
jose51197 said:
hdpi
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Thanks!
My incredible dont work with samsung USB cable (I hawe 2), but works with LG G2 USB. why is that?
kobebryant said:
My incredible dont work with samsung USB cable (I hawe 2), but works with LG G2 USB. why is that?
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Strange, my works with Samsung cable good, same like on original htc usb
Hi, guys!
Please don't lynch me for being a noob, I have used search button and I have looked in the threads the forum offered when I wrote in the title, and still found nothing that'll help me.
I recently bought a generic media streamer from DX.com (SKU 112201).
It's compact, light and runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz CPU, 256MB RAM and 2GB flash memory (though if I looked in the right place there are only about 200MB of storage space).
The little box is not only full of magic but also many chinese apps (some of which open up the same interface) that I have no use for, not to mention the whole OS is chinese/engrish with errors popping up every minute.
The streamer runs slow and often hangs and I can't for some reason find certain apps in the Play Store when they're on the top of the list on other devices (probably chinese censorship or something).
I can easily find a guide to reinstalling firmware on my htc sensation xe, but I got nothing on this device.
My question to you is: does anyone know how to install a clean-no-third-party-apps Android 2.2 on a streamer or knows where I can get the guide?
Also, do you think I should even bother getting this thing working at its optimal capacity given its specs?
Thanks in advance and again sorry for my noob!
Ok, nevermind rewriting the thing, I figured out it's just a weak mainboard that looks like it was taken from a phone and (poorly) molded into a Media Player interface. The programs that bug me I can remove or disable, all I have to do is find a proper TV app that would work on this hunk-a-junk.
I still have an issue though - the device is supposed to have a 2GB internal storage memory and indeed it says "2GB" under "FLASH Memory" in the storage settings, but I have absolutely no access to it?
Can anyone please help me with this?