I am looking for a Smartphone with a particular form factor, the form factor is shared by the P3600, the Aria & the HD Mini. I have the 3600 but it is time to upgrade
I’ll be honest I’d rather get a HD Mini than an Aria, but I want to stick with Tel$tra and Next G is on 850 Mhtz,
So Aria it is.
Now looking at the ups and downs of this proposition it looks like it will do everything I want out of the box (Give or take a bit) the only concern is the ability to run apps from the SD which doesn’t appear to be available until upgrading to 2.2.
If I want the phone unlocked and free to do as I say, I obviously can’t go downloading a carrier specific Rom, so need either a factory default or Home baked number.
So… What Android 2.2 ROM is available that is as close to the Unlocked factory default as possible? Or can you download the Unlocked Factory Default from HTC direct (I have tried and failed)
You're looking for gene Poole's liberated 2.2.2 or attn1 fr008.
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mtnlion said:
You're looking for gene Poole's liberated 2.2.2 or attn1 fr008.
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You want Gene Poole's Liberated 2.2.2
Also, how and where are you getting your phone?
Most of us (it seems) in this forum got our phones when they were running 2.1 and we were able to easily root them with unrevoked. People who have gotten the Gratia or warranty replacements recently with the official 2.2 system in place have not been able to root.
FALCON-LORD said:
I am looking for a Smartphone with a particular form factor, the form factor is shared by the P3600, the Aria & the HD Mini. I have the 3600 but it is time to upgrade
I’ll be honest I’d rather get a HD Mini than an Aria, but I want to stick with Tel$tra and Next G is on 850 Mhtz,
So Aria it is.
Now looking at the ups and downs of this proposition it looks like it will do everything I want out of the box (Give or take a bit) the only concern is the ability to run apps from the SD which doesn’t appear to be available until upgrading to 2.2.
If I want the phone unlocked and free to do as I say, I obviously can’t go downloading a carrier specific Rom, so need either a factory default or Home baked number.
So… What Android 2.2 ROM is available that is as close to the Unlocked factory default as possible? Or can you download the Unlocked Factory Default from HTC direct (I have tried and failed)
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Thanks for that mtnlion. I thought this was my last hurdle but then I considered the implications of syncing outlook contacts and calendars… It appears that you need a third part application to do that. FFS why can’t someone port WM6.5 to the Aria HW? It would make life so much easier.
Is it time for me to start learning to cook ROMs?
Thanks for the update stoneship. So it isn’t all as easy as it seems on the surface. SOD…
Maybe I just have to cross my fingers and hope that HTC keeps supporting the small form factor and wait for there next round of releases, and hope something fits.
I haven't used it in quite awhile but I'm pretty sure the HTC sync software will sync outlook and calendar when you plug in your phone.and there are apps on the market also.
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Thanks again mtnlion, but this still leaves me with the issue highlighted by stone ship that some systems won’t let you root break them and put on non official ROM images. The Aria as a solution is so close I can taste it… But I am just not confident it is going to be without issues.
Ahhh Screw it… I have bought one… How much trouble can it be???
Well... after rereading your post it seems that you may not be aware of this.
The phone you purchased will most likely (if new) come with software preinstalled from the factory that will prohibit you from rooting it via software methods.
You will need to send the phone to someone else to downgrade it for you. Then you can root it and install the software above.
Hope that made sense, I'm running on fumes... :-/
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Ahhh Screw it… I have bought one… How much trouble can it be???
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Cross your fingers that you got one with 2.1 on it so you can root it easily. If not I can point you to someone who can s-off it for you.
The Aria is a great little phone and once you get things sorted out I think you will find you can do what you need with it. Syncing outlook contacts and calendars should not be an issue either through activesync or HTC sync regardless of official or cooked rom.
You say Active sync or HTC sync??? Does that mean that M$ Active sync can sync with an Android device? That would be weird.
The device is advertised as unlocked and 2.1 As long as it is unlocked then I am good even if it is 2.2 I don’t expect to need it rooted in the immediate term, though I do expect I am going to have to hack around a little to get the Audio on my Cardo Scala headset sorted (it doesn’t support A2DP) so I may be eating those words in short order.
Though in the words of the great tosser Jeremy Clarkson… “How Hard can it be?”
Seeing I am asking these questions I may as well outline the Bluetooth issue I have and see if any one can shed any light on the Android solution.
As I said in my previous post my Bluetooth headset doesn’t support A2DP, so to get music playing on it (or get GPS spoken directions) I need to perform a couple of hacks
The first one is to combine the stereo channels so on my Windows mobile I do this by applying the following to the registry.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Bluetooth\A2DP\Settings]
"UseJointStereo"=dword:00000001
The second (And more important) is to change the Bluetooth channel behavior which is done by making the voice command attribute do nothing (remove the path of the executable) and keeping the channel open for an indefinite amount of time (VoiceCmdDuration being a large number)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\VoiceCommand]
"LaunchApEnable"=dWord:1
"VoiceCmdDuration"=dWord:15180
So… In Android, what files do I need to tweak, and how do I need to tweak them to achieve the same results?
Thanks
Well I now have my aria in my greasy little hands, and for better or worse… It has 2.2 loaded.
Starting to sort my way through the maze of setup now…
Patience.
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The Limitations of Android are really annoying. (Unrooted)
I can’t Leave the device Synchronizing and also copy files back and forth (I Can in WM5)
I can’t copy files directly to the device only to the SD Card (I Can in WM5)
I can’t access the SD card from the device while I am accessing it from the PC (I Can in WM5)
I can’t edit configuration files to alter how it interacts with things such as Bluetooth (I Can in WM5)
I can’t store resources such as ringtones on the device, only on the SD card (I Can in WM5)
I can’t control the phone from my desktop computer such as MyMobiler (I Can in WM5)
And these are just the limitations I have found in 3 days when comparing it to a 6 year old Operating system.
And because it came pre installed with 2.2 I can’t root it…
It really appears that if it isn’t rooted it is pretty F#$ked.
Android is not really designed to be synchronized over USB. Yes, you can do it, and HTC makes a program for it specifically, but I suggest abandoning that habit and getting used to wireless syncing instead. The only reason I ever connect my phone to a computer is to copy a file, and even then I sometimes choose to do it with Dropbox instead, or send the link to the phone through ChromeToPhone.
Even if you don't want to use Google Calendar/Contacts as your primary calendar/contacts manager, you should be able to set up Outlook on your computer to synchronize with them. I don't personally use Outlook so I can't say what the best method for doing this is, but perhaps someone else can chime in with a suggestion.
As for the SD card, I don't think there is really any significant disadvantage to storing files on the SD card. Assuming you just leave your SD card in the phone, what's the difference? Some Android phones do have internal memory you can use for copying files to though.
As for the bluetooth issue, yes, that sucks. Good luck finding a solution for that if one exists.
Well An Update…
My Blutooth issues are managed by this app
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bedoig.BTmono_Donate&feature=search_result
It is O.K. But does have a nasty habit of rebooting the device if you don’t shut it down properly before disconnecting the bluetooth connection.
It still doesn’t allow me to initiate actions from the headset other than picking up calls, but at the end of the day this is all I require.
After my torrent of negatives I have found a few starters for what Android is doing better…
When you mount the SD card to the computer it is fully available, you can read & edit files not just copy to and from (I Can’t in WM5)
Once you throw a file manager on the device it browses UNC paths well
Though It does appear I am getting some really weird $hit happening with my Outlook calendars.
And I have noted that I can’t have different screen timeout behavior dependent on weather it is plugged in or not.
If I could have the best of WM, and the best of Droid, I would be a happy little camper.
My Question has been asked, maybe in the wrong forum, maybe I didn't ask the right question.
I'll try my best.
I have developed an application, it's almost finished but I have one more feature.
Detect events from laptop/desktop (keyboard) on Android Smartphone
I have been trying bluetooth, USB, NFC etc... I just can't quite nail the solution. I've been trying now for around 5 days to solve this problem. When the smartphone is plugged into a laptop/desktop I'd like to be able to detect keyboard events (or any type of event) from the laptop/desktop in my android app. Android 4.2.2
The idea is to log events, as the android app (installed on a dedicated device) will always be connected to a laptop/desktop for usage. The events, considering what the are will trigger certain actions on the device and within the application. If that makes sense. So far all is going well... it's just this one feature which I cannot nail.
The phone is rooted, USB Host mode enabled, recognises that it has been connected using USB. But I can't for the life of me find the device (in my development example, a macbook pro) nor can I detect any type of event triggered from the laptop.
Is this possible? If so can anyone please help me by pointing me in the right direction, adding links to resources I can read up on.
Many thanks in advance.
This is a problem which is slowly becoming demoralizing as I cannot finish the app without this feature.
Again, many many thanks for anyone willing to share some light on a possible solution. USB would be perfect but am I missing something?
Regards
Anyone?
To end these endless, sleepless nights
Much appreciated guys!
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chronograff said:
My Question has been asked, maybe in the wrong forum, maybe I didn't ask the right question.
I'll try my best.
I have developed an application, it's almost finished but I have one more feature.
Detect events from laptop/desktop (keyboard) on Android Smartphone
I have been trying bluetooth, USB, NFC etc... I just can't quite nail the solution. I've been trying now for around 5 days to solve this problem. When the smartphone is plugged into a laptop/desktop I'd like to be able to detect keyboard events (or any type of event) from the laptop/desktop in my android app. Android 4.2.2
The idea is to log events, as the android app (installed on a dedicated device) will always be connected to a laptop/desktop for usage. The events, considering what the are will trigger certain actions on the device and within the application. If that makes sense. So far all is going well... it's just this one feature which I cannot nail.
The phone is rooted, USB Host mode enabled, recognises that it has been connected using USB. But I can't for the life of me find the device (in my development example, a macbook pro) nor can I detect any type of event triggered from the laptop.
Is this possible? If so can anyone please help me by pointing me in the right direction, adding links to resources I can read up on.
Many thanks in advance.
This is a problem which is slowly becoming demoralizing as I cannot finish the app without this feature.
Again, many many thanks for anyone willing to share some light on a possible solution. USB would be perfect but am I missing something?
Regards
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I got a Kaya Android tablet which was lock after the user entered wrong pattern several times. The tablet presents the unlock with gmail screen but, guess what!, it does not connect to any even public unencrypted WiFi so that it is impossible to unlock with gmail account.
I tried to connect to it from adb via USB but it does not recognized as ADB device, only as USB mass-storage.
And, finally, magic key combinations like power-volume-up does not give me any recovery or boot loader.
Is it the stage where I go and throw it to garbage or there is something else left?
Thanks.
So, there is NOT much documentation for your device (surprise! lol) but I if you have the Ktab Classic 7" as I am assuming/hoping (info found here: http://ankaka.en.alibaba.com/produc...Classic_7_Touch_Screen_tablet_pc_android.html) , then it runs the old WM8650 chip. There is a forum for these types of things here: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/wondermedia-wm8650-tablets/ Though nothing says it is specifically for you, I know that I have worked on a few of these before and used the Uberdroid rom to make it run a bit better. If your tablet is what I am thinking, there is some hope as the method to update the rom involves just copying the files to the storage, selecting which version to try on the PC, and rebooting and it does the rest. http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...repair-update-your-android-tablet-wm8650.html The downside to this, is that it is hard to know which tablet it shares the most with as the Uberdroid rom supports dozens of different ones and typically the only differences are screen size, touchscreen functionality, and maybe wifi, if I remember right. Just have to keep playing around with it till you find the right combo. If that isn't the particular version of the tablet you have, then some more research would be in order, but these things obviously aren't very popular and the less popular or supported, the harder it is to find anything worthwhile. As it is, you have to scour mostly foreign websites and use Google Translate to come close to figuring out what's going on. lol Good luck!
Greetings, all. I'm learning Android Development at the internship I'm doing, and my boss has provided me with a couple phones to work with. The only problem is that the first phone has a pattern key that my boss doesn't know the pattern to unlock, and the second phone has a faulty screen that doesn't allow me to turn on developer options so that I may view the screen using Vysor or another similar program.
So, my question is: what method would I use to access a phone that I haven't been able to pair with using my Google account and that I cannot see the screen?
Thank you.
I just activated a Nord N10 5G after a succession of Motorola phones. When I plug in my phone to my laptop to download images (for a phone that doesn't seem to get a lot of great reviews for its camera section, I've found its low-light capability for what I do, taking photos of cars to be outstanding) my laptop doesn't recognize the phone after giving me an audible notification. I'm sure it's something simple, but can anyone tell me what I should be doing? Swiping down from the top of the screen doesn't seem to work, as it's done on my Motorola phone.
Please post here a solution but also feel free to either direct me to an existing thread and send me an email direct to fmc2900r at gmail.
Thanks so much.
Simple things first, have you changed the setting to allow file transfers on the device? "MTP"
If you use Windows, its possible Windows Update has overwritten the drivers that your device seemed to work with.
I know whenever I got my phone I had to install the OnePlus usb drivers but Windows usually automatically installs the driver normally. You could try that, Google OnePlus USB Drivers.