I was browsing through the mods on the M8 International forum when I came across the "Enable Music Channel" thread found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/general/enable-built-music-channelroot-t2818128. To make a long story short, you can enable this feature by navigating to system/customize/ACC/ and opening the default.xml file with a text editor. You basically just find the "support music channel" line of text at the bottom and change the value from false to true. As I was doing this, I noticed several other features that were disabled, including: support wifi offload, support fingerprint, support cb on dual, and others. My question is, has anybody messed around to see whether these features can be enabled, or what they actually do?
I suggest linking this post to that one. I just looked at my file and it has the sound channel in it and also all the features you mentioned (Stock AT&T)
I haven't rooted yet as I've had my phone less than a week and want to run it stock for a while. Saying that this is the kind of stuff I root (no pun intended) for.
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Hi,
It is good to be back on android, I was quite follower of it when I had hero, then came iPhone 4, now with one day of galaxy s 2--- I am admiring the handset & user interface as well( admiring both is quite rare in android world )
So back to question: Did any of you helpful people know what is this data encryption, when I used native samsung email client for my work email, it kinda asked me wheather I wanted to encrypt the internal memory, without looking much i just selected yes, but now when i wanted to find where these settings are, they are nowhere to be found, any ideas what this is about, i am kinda confused in here.
Can't find the promised encryption
I found that initramfs has quite a lot of code related to filesystem encryption of data usb and sdcard. I can't find where to enable it. Anyone knows anything about this? All product marketing PDFs talk about "Business Experience" that supposedly includes "H/W encryption".
Hello,
I'm practicably legally blind and reading emails/SMSs and text in games is damn near impossible for me.
I've got the Samsung Ace and I've found an app to switch the answer slider with a big-ass button, I'm using WP_Clock (Which was mentioned here, thanks!) to see the time and date.
I've rooted and tried a few font resizers but none worked and the ones that did only worked on the English font (most of my phone is in Hebrew).
Does anyone have any idea how can I deal with this, other than getting Android eyes
Oh, one more thing:
I've used Total Recall and CallRecorder to record my calls, both record me fine but the other side through the mic, any idea if there are other apps that can record both sides at the same quality?
May all who read this post be touched by his noodly appendage,
Sam.
EDIT:
Oh yeah, My doctors told me it'll be easier to read white text on a black background, so I downloaded a few of those modified apps (Gmail and DropBox). If you know of any others, I'd appreciate a mention.
Noob to android!!
On my Samsung GT 5570, there is an accessibility option under "options", with text to speech features. But looks like the phone has to download several components. Have not tried them, will try them out if you are interested.
Running Gingerbread 2.3.3 (but it was there in froyo 2.2.1 Africa version too).
Saw that option on my run-through of the device (saw isn't exactly the word...)
Not that comfortable using an actual magnifying glass on your cellphone.
Can't stand that thing, that's why I'm posting, looking for something a bit more comfortable like resized fonts and such.
Thanks for trying though, appreciate your assistance!
Using accessibility features in Android
Ok. I have a Samsung GT S5570, "mini".
I have upgraded from 2.2.1 Froyo to 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
To enable accessibility features, more specifically, text to speech, you need to go into two options,
1, Settings > Voice input and output
2. settings > accessibility
I cannot remember which one I opened first, but the phone asked me to enable data downloads / background sync as I entered both menus. ("Always on GPRS" - if you are new to android - especially were using Nokia phones so far).
Once the data is downloaded, go to #1. First entry is "Listen to an example". You can change the language and speed of text to speech engine in other menu options below. At the bottom, I have and entry, which says "engine" and underneath, "PicoTTS". This means required data and text speech engine are installed on the phone.
I guess the available languages are dependent on the ROM you use - you probably need to have the African ROM. (Hope somebody will correct me here).
Here is how to actually enable the phone to read the screen,
Settings > Accessibility > Talkback.
Just enable Talkback. That is it.
Again, I appreciate your help but as I've said, I'm not too comfortable with the TTS and prefer, as long as I have other options, not to use it.
If anyone has any other apps in mind, I'd love to know.
Otherwise, The built in TTS has been checked and discarded, thank you.
I thought I'd start a thread to post the top (best) things to do with your AT&T HOX+ on a stock ROM.
Unlock Bootloader, Install CWM Recovery & Root
In order to be able to do many of things listed here, you will need to have root access to your phone. Follow the following thread to unlock and root your phone. By unlocking your bootloader, you'll be able to install custom ROMS down the road if/and when you want.
How-To Thread - Credit goes to hasoon2000
Disable AT&T Crap-ware
The one and only time I'll give kudos to Apple is that they don't let the carriers load up their phones with preinstalled crap-ware. Sadly, not the case with Android. So, you're left with manually having to disable them. Luckily you only need to it once.
Below is the list of Apps to disable (unless you actually want to use any). Simply go the Settings > Apps > All and select Disable for each app.
AT&T Code Scanner
AT&T Family Map
AT&T Hot Spots
AT&T Locker
AT&T Messages
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Ready2Go
Device Help
Facebook (sorry, Google+ user)
Internet (if you use Chrome only)
Live TV
ME Infiltrator
NOOK
YPmobile
Enable Tether (on AT&T)
Obviously you should have a legit tethering plan with AT&T [chuckle], but you can easily bypass their check and enable it on your HOX+ utilizing the stock wifi tethering app (no need for 3rd party apps).
How-To Thread - Credit goes to 911jason
Disable AT&T ANNOYING Boot Animation
The AT&T boot animation is just annoying, loud and obnoxious. With this little tweak, you can disable it and just have the HTC stock boot animation enabled.
How-To Thread - Credit goes to sixcarnage
Disable Automatic AT&T WiFi Hotspot
Nothing annoys me more than being close to a Starbucks (or any AT&T Hotspot locations) and being forced to connect to their WiFi, only to get crap to zero connection and then having to disable WiFi on your phone and forgetting to turn it back on later. URGH. Not to mention LTE is blazing fast in comparison.
How-To Thread - Credit goes to spyz88
Use Google Voice for Voicemail
Whether you use Google Voice all the time or not, you can have your phone use its VM option instead of AT&T's. I prefer it because I have an easy archive of all my VMs, easier access from anywhere, and obviously having them transcribed for me.
Normally you can select your VM carrier through the Google Voice app on your phone, but obviously AT&T blocks this. Instead, all you have to do is dial the following:
Activate:**004*1XXXXXXXXXX#, where is Xs represent your 10-digit Google Voice number
Deactivate: ##004#
Replace Default Keypress Sounds
The stock HTC keyboard is decent, but fails horribly at swipe predictions and is very limiting. You have many options out there for 3rd party keyboards, and of course the stock Android JB 4.2 keyboard with swipe. For me, I found Swype Beta to be the best in terms of layout, swipe predictions and other cool little features.
The problem with Swype (or stock Android 4.2 keyboard) is that it uses the keypress sounds found under /media/ui which HTC never bothered to update from the days of Android 2.0. Needless to say they're horrid.
If you find yourself wanting to use either of these keyboards, you can easily extract the keypress sounds from the HTC keyboard APK and use them instead by copying them over to /media/ui.
What you'll notice is that Swype doesn't have a volume control for the keypress sounds, and they're set to UBER high. What I did is take the sounds from the HTC keyboard APK and then used Audacity to reduce the gain by -13 and that gives you a perfect level.
For Swiftkey fans, unfortunately the keypress sounds are stored inside of their APK, it doesn't use the system default.
I didn't post the sounds because I presume they're copyrighted by HTC, so you'll need to get them yourself...very easy.
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Got More?
Please add any other useful tweaks that I might have missed (or that I...or others...don't know about). Just keep in mind two things:
Tweaks must work on HOX+ STOCK AT&T ROM
and…tweaks only, no apps
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There are several threads asking how. I'm not going to do that, everyone who's tried so far has been pointlessly drowned out by "google is your friend" put-downs from those who lollingly claim to know but won't tell.
The stock ROM has no HID Bluetooth keyboard support. Something called a Bluetooth Stack has been reduced (or maybe Gingerbread was too early depending on which thread you read).
On the off-chance, I tried anything from Google Play claiming to enable an external Bluetooth keyboard just to see what they were about. It didn't take long, nothing did.
That leaves me thinking a custom ROM might have it enabled but I've failed to find one which mentions HID. Some appear to claim to be based on Android 3+ but I'm sceptical. The simple answer is to put this thread in place, with the following question, and hope the "google is your friend" fraternity choose not to engage in yet another demonstration of thread-wrecking.
Would anyone who has a S5830i running with an external keyboard like to reply here saying which ROM, App, keyboard and connection (USB, Bluetooth, WiFi) they employ?
First off, I apologize if this has been covered before in a thread. I spent about a half hour searching for my answer and was not able to either find it or understand which answer I was looking for.
I have in Taiwan a:
S3 GT-I9300
4.1.2
I9300XXELLA
3.0.31-899179
Rooted
No custom rom
(not sure what else you guys need to know)
I was simply curious if someone would point me in the right direction for the following problems. I use reverse tethering quite often with my smart phone as my office does not have WIFI and I enjoy watching sports games on my phone or listening to the radio broadcasts. I have a plan with a 5GB data limit and the video will eat that up pretty fast. So, whenever I use reverse tether, want to check for available wifi, or do any USB/Blue tooth tethering I have to go two or three menues deep into my settings and it's a tad annoying.
Is there a way I can customize the top drop down menu to replace some of the UI icons with ones that I actually want to use such as, "enable usb tether" or "see available wifi signals" or "turn on wifi hotspot?" I could remove Blocking Mode, or AllShare Cast as I never use them.
While I'm able to root phones (easy enough) I'm pretty clueless about custom Roms, how to use them, which ones are good, how to keep my phone protected when using them etc. There is such a huge amount of information about customizing the S3 on these forums, I just didn't know how to wade through it all to get the one customization that I want.
Again, sorry if I couldn't find the threat where this was discussed, and if there is a thread that answers this question well, I would appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.
Cheers!
Not 100% sure, but maybe have a look into JKay Delux (you have to find the version for your firmware though). Otherwise another option could be to create a shortcut for your home screen via tasker that brings you directly into that menu.
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Not 100% sure, but maybe have a look into JKay Delux (you have to find the version for your firmware though). Otherwise another option could be to create a shortcut for your home screen via tasker that brings you directly into that menu.
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Does tasker allow you to create shortcuts for any phone command? If so, that might be what I need.
Drschplatt said:
Does tasker allow you to create shortcuts for any phone command? If so, that might be what I need.
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if I am not wrong, most of them yes. At least it lets you control most of the functions (if you add Secure Settings PlugIn even more.)