Right, ive had the x10 since launch, and finally my carrier has seen fit to upgrade to the latest firmware (just as i was about to do it myself and void warranty hurrah).
Theres one thing specifically thats really bugging me, i cant seem to find an easy solution to going straight to my pictures. A 1 click link to the gallery if you will. Have to mess around in media scape. Any ideas?
Secondly, i cant seem to select all my tracks to play on shuffle anymore, so either i forgot or they changed something with the update (i havnt used my phone in a few weeks as i have been out of the country).
Thirdly, is there anyway to force the camera to open the moment you push the camera button, rather than having to press it for a few seconds?
Finally, i used to have shapewriter, which i LOVE. I cant get it anymore because of the takeover. Its really infuriating, i would happily pay full whack for it but they dont sell it either! Does anyone know where i can get the non expiring apk?
Thanks.
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JamesBarnes said:
Thirdly, is there anyway to force the camera to open the moment you push the camera button, rather than having to press it for a few seconds?
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Put a Camera short cut on your home screen You've to just click once on Camera icon to start camera I do that.
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Any comments? i tried keeping my finger pressed on the icons but that opens the apps up...help! i am trying to remove some icons from the screens
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People please, 22 posts and no replies? I am certain some of you must have updated the firmware and found this bug. I tried searching for çustomization' and other words I could think of but could not find the correct threads on this. Please help, I cannot find any way to edit the screens (not even in settings).
Thanks a lot in advance for your inputs, really appreciate
I think HTC changed the delay when moving or removing widgets or shortcuts from Home pages.
Just needs a more accurate and slightly longer press and hold before it triggers the move.
I must admit, its not as easy as it was.
Just make sure you press the icons for long enough. I find it sometimes takes as long as 10 second for the remove option to come up. And also, its seems slightly tempremental sometimes. If it doesnt work after 10 seconds, try again.
Hold the icon only after the screen/scene is static
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It just opens the app up after 2 seconds, no matter how long i keep pressing it. I have tried multiple ways....has anyone reported this to HTC? any easier way around this? This is pissing me off!
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has anyone reported this to HTC?
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Given noone else has this problem, shouldn't you be the one reporting it?
I did, am just trying to find out if someone else already has a solution for it....anyone?
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I did, am just trying to find out if someone else already has a solution for it....anyone?
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I don't have the problem, it works just fine for me. I suggest you try doing a hard reset or something, sounds like something hasn't installed right on your system.
Have you tried long presses on other apps, like messages? Just to see if it recognises long presses at all...
Silly question...
Your not trying this in the applications list are you ?
You are trying this on the Home screens ??
Just want to clear that up
Yes I am trying on the homescreen, I even have tried changing the scenes to try it for the icons....does not work And yes I have tried it on all icons, apparently all the big icons (HTC ones) seem to work much better (though not always) whereas shotcuts to applications seem to be the worst. On a total average 98 out of 100 times the shortcuts open the application no matter how i try it....emailed HTC and they told me the same story of what is written in the manual even though I explained i already did that.....have emailed them again to see if they take it more seriously
anyone else have a solution?
umaronly said:
anyone else have a solution?
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I can only suggest that you either return the phone (if possible), or at least try rolling back the firmware to see if this fixes your issue.
As it stands, it looks like you are the only person in this community suffering from this, so it makes it very unlikely it is a "generic" firmware issue, and more likely that it has something to do with your physical device.
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Dave
Ok, so here goes..
Smart me decided to open up my phone to clean out all the grime and give a go at solving/fixing my headphone problem. Smart me also severed the touch screen connection to the LCD screen lol. Now, here's my few questions that I need help with.
1)Is there any way to enable Trackball Wake on CM7 w/o the touch screen? If I could enable that, I could use the phone no issue until I buy a new front plate. (I'm currently using GSB1.5)
2)How much is a replacement front plate for the eris?
Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this and drops some feedback or help!
PS- I DID fix my headphone issue, too bad it took breaking my damn screen!
$34 from Amazon
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$34 from Amazon
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I may try to find one already mounted in the front housing to make life easier, but thank you, that's exactly it
Also, I was wondering if a nandroid backup of the same cm7 ROM with Trackball wake enabled would work on my phone?? My recovery is still up and running and usb still works so I can use my bros Eris and copy his nand backup. Sound like it'd work?
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I may try to find one already mounted in the front housing to make life easier, but thank you, that's exactly it
Also, I was wondering if a nandroid backup of the same cm7 ROM with Trackball wake enabled would work on my phone?? My recovery is still up and running and usb still works so I can use my bros Eris and copy his nand backup. Sound like it'd work?
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It will work - but with his Gmail credentials - and his contacts, not yours - on your phone. There is a way to wipe those from an adb shell, but then how would you re-enter the values for your account?
I'm assuming that this temporary "touchless" phone you are proposing would be able to only answer in-bound calls, yes? Or maybe you are thinking that you will be able to bring up the dialer app by pressing Send, and then using the trackball to scroll through contacts to somehow dial that way?
Quick! Here's a different idea:
Edit and replace the XML file in your own ROM at
/data/data/com.cyanogenmod.cmparts/shared_prefs/com.cyanogenmod.cmparts_preferences.xml
look for the string:
<boolean name="pref_trackball_wake" value="true" />
You might want to do this in an offline mode (using Amon_RA), so you are sure the phone is picking up that setting during boot.
Alright, here's what I did..
1) Made a NAND on my phone and copied it into the nandroid folder on my bros phone (made a specific note on which folder to choose, so as not to confuse myself lol)
2) Made a NAND on his phone, then wiped data/dalvik, then NAND restored my backup onto his phone. Booted it up, changed the CM settings to trackball wake, booted back into recovery and made yet another NAND (also made a specific note on which folder to choose)
3) Copied that NAND to my phone again, did a full wipe and restored.
Eureka!...-ish :/
It works... I can now get past the lock-screen upon boot and access my phone/messages/app drawer/market/dolphin-browser.
Here's the problem now. I cant back out of anything lol, and its awful pesky (and prob not healthy) to have to reboot the phone every time I need to get back to the home-screen.
I tried looking in CM setting to see if there was a way to set up my volume up/down buttons as the home and back buttons but no luck.
Would anyone here happen to know if a button function re-routing is possible/fairly easy?
Thank all of you for the suggestions and help.
*Bftb0, thank you for your last post, I knew something like that was possible but I was already too deep into my NAND solution to attempt it. I appreciate the knowledge and help greatly
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It will work - but with his Gmail credentials - and his contacts, not yours - on your phone. There is a way to wipe those from an adb shell, but then how would you re-enter the values for your account?
I'm assuming that this temporary "touchless" phone you are proposing would be able to only answer in-bound calls, yes? Or maybe you are thinking that you will be able to bring up the dialer app by pressing Send, and then using the trackball to scroll through contacts to somehow dial that way?
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Most likely the latter. Pretty much the only useful function w/o the keyboard is the phone. I can access messages and pretty much anything else through the app drawer, but without the keyboard and back/home button, its all useless. I can dial and call/end with the trackball, that's now the ONLY useful function lol
Ok, so Spare Parts held the key. The End button now serves as the home button. I still can't type or do other various things but that's all I need now to use a few more features.
If you spend another 2 days tweaking it, the replacement parts could be at your door.
Here's an idea - we'll all get together and write an app with a "SHAKE KEYBOARD".
If you shake the phone just right, it will type whatever letter/digit you want. LOL
You'll only need to learn how to shake your handset in 128 different ways.
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If you spend another 2 days tweaking it, the replacement parts could be at your door.
Here's an idea - we'll all get together and write an app with a "SHAKE KEYBOARD".
If you shake the phone just right, it will type whatever letter/digit you want. LOL
You'll only need to learn how to shake your handset in 128 different ways.
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128? Bah! Why not set up the shakes in Morse Code format!?
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128? Bah! Why not set up the shakes in Morse Code format!?
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LOL .... .. ....... . . . .... ... .. ...... .... . . .....
^Not really Morse Code lol
lmao that's a terrific idea!
-/****/*-/-*/-*-
T/H/A/N/K
-*--/---/**-
Y/O/U
*-/*-**/*-**
A/L/L
!!!!!!!
On a side note though, can either three of you explain to me why we can't use the Eris trackball to access/type on the keyboard? I'm using GSB 1.5 atm, but I can swear that back in the days of Sense ROM's that the trackball worked on the keyboard...?
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lmao that's a terrific idea!
-/****/*-/-*/-*-
T/H/A/N/K
-*--/---/**-
Y/O/U
*-/*-**/*-**
A/L/L
!!!!!!!
On a side note though, can either three of you explain to me why we can't use the Eris trackball to access/type on the keyboard? I'm using GSB 1.5 atm, but I can swear that back in the days of Sense ROM's that the trackball worked on the keyboard...?
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I'm on xtrSENSE v4.6.5 right now. I tried all three of the keyboards that came with it just now, HTC_IME mod, Touch Input and Multi-touch keyboard, and the only aspect of any of them that I could control with the trackball was if it made a word or letter suggestion, then I could scroll between the suggestions. Otherwise the trackball only appeared to control the "Share" and "Cancel" buttons in the case of the Facebook app/widget's "What's on your mind?" text entry field.
Anyone else know anything about this?
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I'm on xtrSENSE v4.6.5 right now. I tried all three of the keyboards that came with it just now, HTC_IME mod, Touch Input and Multi-touch keyboard, and the only aspect of any of them that I could control with the trackball was if it made a word or letter suggestion, then I could scroll between the suggestions. Otherwise the trackball only appeared to control the "Share" and "Cancel" buttons in the case of the Facebook app/widget's "What's on your mind?" text entry field.
Anyone else know anything about this?
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Thank you for trying that out for me bro, I really appreciate it! It definitely wouldn't have been worth it for me to flash a 2.1 ROM to check for myself lol Especially since it's taken about 2 1/2 days to get my phone to a controllable setup using only hard buttons and logic.
So far I've been able to make due using a combo of the Button Re-mapper app and Spare parts. All of my hard buttons can now take me into and out of any app, the menus, home and sleep. I can use the trackball to dial on the phone, so that function is still useful, and I can view texts, just no reply lol
Back in the day I used Handcent SMS on 2.1 and 2.2, and that had an option to speak out your reply to texts... used to work like a charm for me. So I downloaded this onto my busted phone but for some reason it wont work. It keeps saying "Recognizer is not present" when I hit the speaker icon on the SMS popup. Is this a CM7/GB issue on the Eris? I already have Pico TTs (Duhh!) and downloaded another TTs app on the market, enabled it in the settings, and still no luck
If I could figure this out though, my phone would be tops again, even w/o any touchscreen capabilities. Texting and calling are all that really matter to me until I either upgrade/replace the broken part. I'm tight on cash (who isn't?) and won't be able to do either until next week at the very soonest.
Any ideas? Are any of you using GSB and having the same issue with voice input?
does this annoy anyone else?
if I take a photo, and I want to email it to someone.. there are a gazillion different 'share' options but none of them are gmail. yet if it recognises someones face (good luck with that), then I can gmail it.
does anyone know a way to reenable gmail sharing via the gallery?
I couldn't work it out either and it was really bugging me. I really don't know why it is not in the standard list, but this is how to do it:
Go to the thumbnail of the photo you wish to email and press and hold on it for a second or so. When it is highlighted you then press the "share' button up the top. Then you are able to email, MMS, etc.
I really don't like it, but that seems to be the way to do it from the gallery.
I hope this helps.
What are you firmware details?
Sounds like you really need to update to the latest firmware release.
You probably won't find anything by checking through KIES, so just flash through Odin manually. (Backup to PC before).
I've have that option (always had), and currently running ALFE6.
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I couldn't work it out either and it was really bugging me. I really don't know why it is not in the standard list, but this is how to do it:
Go to the thumbnail of the photo you wish to email and press and hold on it for a second or so. When it is highlighted you then press the "share' button up the top. Then you are able to email, MMS, etc.
I really don't like it, but that seems to be the way to do it from the gallery.
I hope this helps.
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Thanks! The share icon is so weird, for anyone else looking it's a icon with 3 dots and lines drawn between them.
Has anyone found how to remove face tags? I like the feature but I have an image with a bunch of yellow squares drawn over it and would only like the ones that actually have a face.
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I couldn't work it out either and it was really bugging me. I really don't know why it is not in the standard list, but this is how to do it:
Go to the thumbnail of the photo you wish to email and press and hold on it for a second or so. When it is highlighted you then press the "share' button up the top. Then you are able to email, MMS, etc.
I really don't like it, but that seems to be the way to do it from the gallery.
I hope this helps.
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thankyou sir. seems like a bug.
i guess you need to be in the 'grid view' of gallery for this to work. shame because that's not easy to get to if you just take a photo and review your shots and want to email it.
someone asked about firmware.. i'm on.. i don't even care. i spent two years pissing around with custom roms with an htc desire. i don't have time in my life for that anymore.. just need a very stable daily driver. will wait for kies..
I got the phone today. Set it up for my girlfriend who is going to use the device. Everything is working as it should except that every time she hits the power button or the phone sleeps automatically , a Sony Xperia logo appears and RESETS THE HOME SCREEN AND THE SETTINGS. I have no idea why its doing this and since its the first time in a long time that I had any kind of issue with a phones software, I don't know what to do.
I will be comfortable doing any kind of custom rom update if it's necessary and if there is a complete guide on how to do it. But I rather keep it stock for her.
There is a promo video playing over and over again after I press the power button....
I may got a display unit of some sort? I bought it off ebay so I don't know where it originally came from.
Thank you for the answers!
Sounds like the demo mode is enabled. You can delete the APK from system/app or system/app-private (or by using Titanium Backup). The APK is named "demomode.apk" or something like that, and it should in theory stop after a reboot.
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Sounds like the demo mode is enabled. You can delete the APK from system/app or system/app-private (or by using Titanium Backup). The APK is named "demomode.apk" or something like that, and it should in theory stop after a reboot.
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Yes it is definitely in demo mode but I didn't find any "demomode.apk" or anything resembling to that. I have been searching for hours on the internet and I have found a code that if you write it in the dial pad it "should turn off demo mode" (*#*#73556673#*#*)
The code works partially (and by partially I mean the promo video doesn't show up when in sleep ON BATTERY and as soon as I put on the charger, it automatically plays the video again no matter what I do.) and anything I found relating the code is that it works for Sony Xperia Z1 perfectly but it didn't say anything about the Ultra.
I am really getting fed up with this considering that it shouldn't be in such state and it's such a PAIN to remove.
Thank you for your suggestion by the way
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Yes it is definitely in demo mode but I didn't find any "demomode.apk" or anything resembling to that. I have been searching for hours on the internet and I have found a code that if you write it in the dial pad it "should turn off demo mode" (*#*#73556673#*#*)
The code works partially (and by partially I mean the promo video doesn't show up when in sleep ON BATTERY and as soon as I put on the charger, it automatically plays the video again no matter what I do.) and anything I found relating the code is that it works for Sony Xperia Z1 perfectly but it didn't say anything about the Ultra.
I am really getting fed up with this considering that it shouldn't be in such state and it's such a PAIN to remove.
Thank you for your suggestion by the way
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I found this thread over at the Sony forums. It's about the Z Tablet, but there are some useful suggestions there
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I found this thread over at the Sony forums. It's about the Z Tablet, but there are some useful suggestions there
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Thank you for your help.
I checket the thread out and several others and no matter how many code I entered I would get nothing done. So I installed the Sony PC Companion and did a "Reapair" which did a re-install of the current android, which also did nothing. I was on the edge of putting a custom rom on it entirely but I wanted to try something that is at least half decent or official. So I re-intsalled the stock firmware with flashtool. I don't wanna jinx it, but it seems to be working...
BTW. I got the links but I can't post them here since I don't have 10 post already
Every time I reboot phone, I notice this boost service for camera running.. I can stop it running in developer options but, Anyone know what that is for or does.. It just seems like an another unnecessary running process not needed unless you actually open the camera app.. Thanks all.
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Every time I reboot phone, I notice this boost service for camera running..
I can stop it running in developer options but, Anyone know what that is for or does..
It just seems like an another unnecessary running process not needed unless you actually open the camera app.. Thanks all.
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Where do you see it running and where in Developer Options can you stop it?
In developer options, under running services. When I click on the service, it opens the option to stop the service.. I haven't been able to find why the camera is starting this.. I don't know how to post screenshot or I'd post the screen shot of it.. Just baffles me.
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Where do you see it running and where in Developer Options can you stop it?
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In developer options, under running services. When I click on the service, it opens the option to stop the service.. I haven't been able to find why the camera is starting this.. I don't know how to post screenshot or I'd post the screen shot of it.. Just baffles me.
Just checked and it loads as a part of com.lge.camera ... So, if you want to keep the stock cam app, looks like you'd need something that stops the boost service after every time you use the stock camera app. Stopping it doesn't seem to affect anything, but it's running again after using stock camera app.
If you don't use the stock app, it could easily be de-bloated with adb commands. Boost service would obviously not start then.
What is it? I'd guess it's a kind of 'stub' for the app that helps it to start more quickly? Or it may be a service for (new) virtual reality applications? In any case, stopping it didn't seem to affect anything I use. So debloating it would probably be okay.
One thing to consider though - as far as usefulness of the stock cam app goes - with phone idle / screen off, dbl press down vol brings up cam app (stock). This, I consider, very convenient if you ever need to take a shot quickly. If the V30 is like the G6 (probably is), LG doesn't provide (easily) a way to change which cam app comes up with that dbl click. So for me, the stock app stays because of it's 'hard link' to that button and quick ability to get pic of car speeding away after it just side swiped my parked car!!
or you know, maybe an unexpected attractive person within camera range
Cheers