Hi,
Having recently updated to 2.1 on my hero (not a moment too early I must say), I notice that the "Wallpaper Set and Save" App no longer sets wallpapers uncropped.
Do anyone know of a similar solution? The main minus on this phone as far as I'm concerned is that damn auto-cropping so I'd LOVE to be able to avoid that again
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I have a Moto Backflip atm but might upgrade to the x10. Now I can live with out Motoblur, but is there a similar feature on the x10? I was under the impression the motoblur type function of syncing contacts to social netowrking sites was only a motblur feature but my friend with a Samsung Epic said he can do the same thing and said he thought this was standard in android, or is this is a Samsung UI similar to Motoblur?
Another thing I love about the bflip is the ability to activate the camera LED as a flashlight. Is there an app to activate the light manually?
Also, with ATT locking down the backflip from installing apps directly from the SD card, I wondered if this lockdown applied to the x10 to? I know apps can be side loaded and this can be bypassed with software hacks, but just wondered.
What version of Android ships on the phone? What is the latest version available in a custom ROM that is actually stable?
TImescape will allow you to do the facebook-contacts thing. I do not activly use timescape but rather ran it thru the set up once and that was the link in the chain. Furthermore do not task kill timescape or freeze it with Titianium as this will break that chian.
Flashlight- http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/xperia-flashlight_gowc.html The widget even looks like a tiny X10, It's kinda funny. Press tiny xperia and bam light is on.
I have it on my home screen near the middle, I work nights so I use it every night to make my way to the bed and not wake up the wife with the real bedroom light.
We get 1.6 out of the box, We have a nice stable Global Generic firmware flash for 2.1 . I am an ATT customer in the USA and I use this FW with no problems.
There is a 2.2 out but I hear more bad than good so I'm gonna chill right here with my 2.1
I see timescape does facebook and twitter. I assume it does myspace as well? This looks like it is standard on the x10. Is that correct? I have found video of it on youtube but the one thing i cant find is what the screen looks like when you click a contacts name in your phone book except one, and that only showed twitter. Am I correct to assume it will show a tweet/status and the contacts phone number just like motoblur? Does it allow you to write some one on say facebook right from with in your phone book with out launching facebook? Again I can live with out the social networking stuff but just curious to see how it works and obviously do not feel comfortable putting my data in the demo phone at the store to test this aspect of the phone.
When you say global generic 2.1, I assume you mean just plain ol stock 2.1 with out any modification at all? I use the Preclair rom on my bflip so 2.1 is a must for me.
Last but not least, how are things coming in terms of kernals for the x10? Is the 2.1 rom still using the stock kernal from 1.6 or is it newer?
What about installing apps? Do we have to sideload like the backflip or is there already a patch to fix this?
Thanks for your time AKA_Rizzo. I apreciate it!
the 2.1 upgrade has as "social phonebook" which syncs with social networks. don't know about Myspace though.. never used it..
I use the Facebook app that comes preloaded on the phone as it's a richer, more complete solution.
not 100% on this but I think that the kernal we had on 1.6 was the 2.1 kernal.. and we're still on it..
Global generic is the SE global generic, without all of the networks own guff added on top..
I'm still very new to android but I wanted to know if anyone is experiencing this same problem. whenever i swipe left/right at home to back/forth between diff. desktops, the contacts and call button do not go away. It's particularly annoying... Has anyone else had to experience this? is it a general android problem? Is there a fix for it?
I have attached a screenshot. Look at the bottom how they are overlapping.
Are you sure they're not part of your wall paper?
codebyter said:
I'm still very new to android but I wanted to know if anyone is experiencing this same problem. whenever i swipe left/right at home to back/forth between diff. desktops, the contacts and call button do not go away. It's particularly annoying... Has anyone else had to experience this? is it a general android problem? Is there a fix for it?
I have attached a screenshot. Look at the bottom how they are overlapping.
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looks to me as tho you've installed launcher pro, and havent set it as the default home launcher, what u can do is download an app such as Home Switcher, and choose launcher pro as the default launcher for the phone, this should get rid of the default Blue launcher which is what you are seeing in the background
i installed launcher pro before and then restored the phone to factory settings because it happened a few days ago... so after that, i decided to stay away from launcher pro because i figured it might have had some bugs since the Atrix is brand new, blah blah blah.. Well, without touching launcher pro, it just happened again earlier today... I didn't install anything either. I might have unplugged the phone or something but other than that i have not installed any new apps today... I cannot remove it through the apps and it's not a part of the background... What can I do to fix this? There has to be some easier way than reseting to factory everytime? anyone else have any ideas? am i the only one experiencing this so far?
I still get the same problem... I find that when I go into the running application 'Home' and click clear data, the problem is solved. My icons and all my desktops are also cleared... Is there some sort of config file I could edit instead of losing my icons everytime this bug occurs? I also don't have launcher pro or any other launcher app installed atm.
i'd do another factory restore if not take it back to ATT if u bought it from them.
were you rooted before, and did you install the custom rom?
Both times it happened, I was rooted. I never installed the custom rom. I'm still trying to look into what's going on and see if I can find a config file that I can edit to change it.
Same problem with my new ATRIX
Hey everyone, I just bought the Atrix last week and had problems with it freezing right out of the box. The next day I noticed that the direction arrows that pop up when switching screens would pop up and overlap my call and contact buttons instead of them dissapearing just like he said. So I went and got it replaced yesterday and all last night and all today my phone was working flawlessly and I was very impressed and thought I must of had a dud until just now my phone froze while playing a game. GRRR not this again So I was forced to take out the battery to restart it and then I scrolled over to the next screen and the stupid arrows were overlapping the call and contact button again I think this must be a common problem. Two phones in a row this has happened. This is kind of pissing me off. Surely more than just the two of us must have this problem? And no I haven't done any of the things you guys said could have caused the problem. The first time it happened I hadn't downloaded anything other than facebook or ebuddy.
I was super excited for the atrix but now am wondering if I should have got something else.
So it turns out that it may have been a program called mixzing music player thatwas causing the problem. After having some problems with the app I removed it and reset my phone and the problem has resolved itself. If anyone with the same problem has mixzing on their phone I strongly recommend using something like winamp instead. My phone works great now and Bell finally released an update today aswell
Hey everyone, thought I'd post up a couple problems I've had since I got the tablet. Totally new to the whole android thing so bear with me if I am clueless.
I've read through every posting and haven't seen anyone describing the symptoms I'm experiencing. I'll describe symptoms, then steps that I've taken in hopes of answering all questions ahead of time.
First off, I saw the various wallpapers that were posted and followed the directions to use Wallpaper Wizardrii in order to make them work correctly. Initially the pictures take well and work however, after some time the image cuts off on the right 1/3ish of the screen. I also set the image to "exact" to see what would happen and after a bit of time the complete image moved all the way to the left of the screen - obviously in this case nothing got cutoff but it still moved.
*I've not been able to replicate this by doing anything in particular.
*I uninstalled and reinstalled Wallpaper Wizardrii thinking maybe something got f'd with the install. This had no effect.
*I've messed with locking the tablet in both horizontal and vertical orientation and this has had no effect either.
*If the wallpaper is at the point where it is "cut," (for lack of a better word) then switching to any other wallpapers (including the ones that came with the tablet) are also cut.
*If I open wallpaper wizardrii again and reset the image, the cut goes away and everything is back to normal.
*I've currently reset everything to an image that came with the tablet and uninstalled wizardrii. I'm not sure if that will resolve the issue but as yet it hasn't gotten screwed up. My friend who showed me his tablet and ultimately was responsible for my buying one has not had any of these problems using the same settings. Wizardrii settings were 100% compression and full screen image.
The other MAJOR problem that I just discovered relates to using Adobe Acrobat as a PDF reader. My primary reason for getting this tablet is for work. I plan on creating electronic records of all the journal articles I recieve. I've run out of physical real estate to keep these articles at home and I don't know where else to put them. The same for books. I was able to transfer some files to the tablet just today using windows explorer (couldn't get Kies to work) and several PDF's work fine and look great, but this particular one locked up the system and somehow restarted it. Can someone try it on their tablet and see if you have problems? Actually the file is too large to upload to the forum for me to post although it's less than 900k. Would anyone be willing to let me email it to them? It is called the Discordant Eardrum and is written by Fay and Puria through Stanford's depart of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Mechanical Engineering.
My tablet has been rooted - don't even know what that means in reality. My friend did it for me to get rid of advertisements. That is the only thing that has been done.
I appreciate any help in resolving these issues.
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Hi
I had exactly the same problem with the wallpapers. To fix this I've removed the Wizardrii and found the wallpaper i wanted in a higher resolution.
For PDF viewing try using ezPDF Reader - the best software ever -) i'm using it to view big PDF files like 1000-1500 pages. Size wise i was able to view 100-120MB files with no problems.
Use Aldiko premium book reader to view DRM PDF files. works really good.
cheers.
Im experiencing the same wallpaper problem with my tablet, and not sure how to fix it. I'm running stock 3.1 and sometimes the homescreen gets so laggy I have to restart it, and some of that lagging is because of honeycomb horrible wallpaper options.
I've been having a lot of issues with Genie Widget (running on Miui). 90% of the time when I open the News & Weather app, it will say "Sorry, weather currently unavailable." and refreshing it will give me the same message. This is a problem because the weather will rarely show up on my Miui lockscreen. I've noticed if I re-enter my set location again (not using GPS), it will sometimes work and bring back weather but it will return to the same "Sorry, weather currently unavailable." message shortly after.
Anyone else having this persistent issue and know of any fix?
All I can say is using several other Roms (Superclean3 and Geewiz etc...) I have been having the same issue for weeks now and can not seem to figure out what may be causing the problem.
I was having the same Issues until I switch my radio I was on dl9 switch to e09 and worked for me you could try that. Or switch to any radio
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
hmm I'm already on e09 but maybe I'll try reflashing it
I have tried several radio files and does not make a diff since I switched to a GB Mod. For what ever reason for me Genie does not want o play well anymore.
I'm bumbing this because out of the blue both my ray and sgs2 are currently not able to show the weather and it's been working fine since I got the phones.
Ray is running a aosp version ontop of a semc build and the sgs2 is running paranoid (cm9).
I think it's odd that both phones got the same issue and it's been like this a couple of days now
Although it seems that this problem is not entirely new, I just experienced today something really wierd. My phone is a huawei y330 with android 4.2.2. Suddenly I heard some sounds, like people speaking, coming out of my pocket and found that my phone was with display unlocked, dolphin browser was opened to a microsoft related webpage that run a video. closed the browser and discovered that my wallpaper was changed to a picture that i don't have on my phone (something with an asian woman sitting near a laptop). I checked the display settings and the live wallpaper was turned off; also in wallpaper settings there was my chosen wallpaper (that is the stock brown picture) labeled as Currrent. Could this happen because of a hijacking app or smthg?
Thank You