its been extracting to HTML to save on my sdcard for the past 20 minutes and it says its still working on it....is it me or is everyone else also its working slow in exporting it to HTML to your sdcard?
hi there,
unless you have 1000000 messages, it should not take that long. it seems like the progress dialog is stuck. Try doing something else on the phone and get back to txtract later on. The progress bar should disappear. In a similar case I came across myself, the file was properly generated but only the progress bar was spinning.
1.5 release of Txtract hit a performance glitch (better coding vs. performance dilemma), and it's already pinpointed and fixed. I'm working on updated version as I type this post. It should be ready shortly.
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Hey guys,
Just wrote a little app overnight which gets the latest images from explodingdog.com and sets them as your wallpaper.
Check it out, called: explodingdog.
Best of all, it's FREE! haha.
Will post updates on my twitter when I get round to it (dazbradbury).
http://dazbradbury.googlepages.com/
Enjoy.
Daz.
Holy crap! Thanks!
v1.5.0 released: Option to have the latest explodingdog images automatically pushed to the phone...
v2.0.0 - Image previews and more...
Ok, was away for a few days, but just got back and implemented a few changes. Image previews, and background service improvements...
Try it out...
Daz.
Anyone on XDA using this?
Daz.
Fairly major design change... give it a go and let me know what you think.
Running JF 1.5 and after "updating wallpaper", working process just seems to keep going, doesn't back out of itself. Have to hit back button to go back to app mainscreen.
Is this app supposed to auto-set wallpaper with new images?
Are you on 3G/GPRS? Have you tried waiting 30 seconds or so? Perhaps I should revert back to the progress bar style...
If you're on 3G, the initial search should take less than 10 seconds, and setting the wallpaper, less than 5 seconds. On GPRS it can take anywhere up to a minute, and around 10-15 to set the wallpaper.
Am just going to release an update now which should improve things.
Cheers,
Daz.
Oh, just understood your comment. Managed to reproduce the bug once, so will work on what's causing it. The background updated correctly though right?
And yes, the app can auto-set wallpaper with new images if you set it to.
Enjoy. Daz.
Update posted. Made quite a big change to how the app works when you click an image. You should find it's actually nearly instant now.
Enjoy. Daz.
Thanks, I'll try new version. Where are the images stored on the phone?
At the moment, the explodingdog app stores only 1 image at a time in the phone's internal memory. If you check out my Flickr Droid app, that can save images to your SD card. At some point, I'll add that functionality to this....
I'm trying to find the thread for the flickr app. I for one would really appreciate it if you had the cached photos go to a hidden folder (starting with a period) so that they don't show up in the regular image browser?
Flickr Droid thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512601
I see your point, and my aim is that images don't appear in your image browser UNLESS, you select Set As/Save and View. If you simply browse images and select them (to be set to your wallpaper), you won't see any images appearing in the android image viewer. Or at least, you shouldn't be doing...!
If you still think somethings not right, I'll have a look at it, but I can't see the problem on my phone...
Thanks for the feedback, Daz.
Just made a big change to what goes on behind the scenes with explodingdog.
Made it possible to code in the Dog Hates ME sub-site in the future too...!
Enjoy!
explodingdog 2.0 just released including the ability to keep up to date with DogEatsME.com.
Hope you like it!
Daz.
Maybe im expecting too much:
When I press gallery, almost 1/3 of the time only 1 or 2 categories come up and no thumbnails. Then i exit and press again and a few more things show up. Then i exit again and usually the 3rd time or so the app opens properly.
Also, about once every 2 weeks i press an app and it opens a different app. And this happens with multiple apps. The only way to fix it is to reboot.
I dont use a task manager
I reboot the phone every couple of days
I wipe the phone about once every 1 or 2 months
Is one of the above practices ruining my device?
I bought the phone and i havent done anything custom to it. Why does my polished 2.1 firmware work like a 5th grade science experiment?
Have occasionally noticed that the gallery app does not pick up all images and categories... something with the media scanner... try using the media scanner in the dev tools app or unmount and remount ur sd card...
Never had any problems with apps opening wrong apps... this is very strange... I have no idea why this is happening and quite frankly, I can;t think of anything which would serve as a possible solution!
Occasionally I've had the latest picture taken not show up in the gallery, but that's it. Stock O/S is great.
Never had it open the wrong app.
I don't run a task killer, don't reboot & have never wiped.
About the app opening the wrong app thing I guess its good news if I'm the only one. Is it possible that I've downloaded an app that is causing it? Or is it more likely an OS issue? it seems a little cheesy that the phone does this, if I could fix it without rebooting that would be a step in the right direction...
Likely an app you downloaded, or just something a little off about the flashing of your update, or a bad RAM memory block at the wrong place.
As for the gallery, I thought I had that issue a bit too, but I noticed that more than anything it just takes a really long time to open fully if it has been kicked out of the cache.
As for the original question posed in the thread title, Android is still Beta in a lot of ways. 2.0/1 is a huge change in many ways from 1.6. It sounds like 2.2 is going to be a bit of a change as well, but instead of changing nearly everything, it is going to build of 2.0/1 plus add in some changes. I am willing to bet that until the release after Gingerbread (the OS after 2.2, aka FroYo), not sure what the "H" release will be codenamed will we see an OS that isn't "Beta" in enough ways for me to call it non-Beta personally... then again, so far Android is less buggy than windows mobile, better than Blackberry even, and on par with iPhone OS, if not better in these regards.
Just like an OS for a computer, same holds true for a smartphone, there are going to be bugs, there are going to be bad programs/apps, and so forth.
I think you should wait for FroYo, if Android still doesn't meet your standards, root and flash some of the custom ROMs. Enom is very stock like, but fixes many of the little bugs, as does Cyan, although with Cyan you do get a few more bugs in some of the development apps and what not.
Just a thought, but maybe you're suffering from the occasional wacky touchscreen issue?
So it's not that it's just opening the wrong app, but the screen is registering a touch in a different place, it's usually most noticable when typing. If it is that, then a simple lock/unlock will solve it, no need for a reboot.
Howdy folks, many thanks to all the devs who brought us CM7 and all things Android for the NC!
One problem I seem to notice on the internet browser (android browser) is that I can select a bookmark or manually type in the address and hit GO, and the new address shows in the address bar.....but it won't actually go out and download the data (no green loading bar). The same symptom can occur when selecting a link off of a page.....it recogizes that I touched the link, but it never actually loads.
I had to reboot last night to get the symptoms to go away....which seemed to work.
Maybe we all experience this, but even when it's operating normally, the browser will sometimes have a considerable delay from when choosing a link or bookmark, but eventually will start loading the page.....
Is this normal? I'm on CM7 running from SD card with no nightly builds....
Thanks folks
JP
you need to understand that even though you are running Cyanogen Mod's Stable build it's still built by a team of developers and might be buggy. It's RAW android. It's ever evolving, ever changing. With that being said. Try holding your finger on the link until a window pops up and select open or "open in new tab". I've always had that problem on Cyanogen Mod ROMs. But typically, as you mentioned, a soft reset will remedy the problem. But i don't find it worthy of discarding the ROM.
Thanks neidlinger, I will try holding the link to see if it will respond better....I agree, not worthy of discarding the ROM.
Okay. Please excuse me if this seems very rudimentary, or it's already been done, or anything else along those lines. I've done a lot of searching for any method to accomplish this, but haven't found anything.
So, this is in regards to that #$$&%!? ghost voicemail icon that shows up for sprint MIUI users who unwittingly transitioned from dumbphone to smartphone and left voice messages in the old inbox. If you do this, your phone will be stuck with a "new voicemail" notification that cannot be permanently cleared without swapping back to the dumbphone and clearing those VM's.
I understand that this method is *not* that difficult. Hell, I even have my old phone with which I could fix this. However, the issue for me is that this remains the only method of getting rid of this annoyance. I mean...come on. This is a hacked-out version of an open-source telephone software with a massive amount of community support. The only fix we've figured out involves two flashes and deactivating the phone?
So, I had the simple idea of just blanking out the damned icon.
I was due to install this week's build of MIUI anyway, so I downloaded the .zip onto my computer, and found framework-res.apk in system/framework/. Inside the res/drawable-hdpi/ folder is the file stat_notify_voicemail.png.
You then simply extract that file, open it in a photo editor, delete the contents, and save it again as blank .png file. Re-insert that into framework-res, stick that back into the MIUI .zip, copy it to the phone, and flash as usual.
This will take care of the icon for *most* themes.
However, I happened to be using the blackice theme, which has it's own themed icon.
In hunting for a working DL for my blackice theme (RIP Megaupload), I found that with one of the latest MIUI updates, the camera icon on the lockscreen broke because they switched .apk names. So, perfect time to update blackice too.
I downloaded ver 2.3 from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3j8i5ekpxmrek37 (credit to Cgvelmax)
Then did the same repack to the framework-res file inside the zip and stuck it in sdcard/miui/theme. Loaded the theme up, and viola...no more icon.
Now, obviously, this is an imperfect method. The notification is still in the noti area, and if you have other notifications, the space will be obvious. I'm just happy that I don't have to look at it every time I use my phone.
So, here is the modified version of Cgvelmax's edit of Blackice. I take absolutely no credit for doing anything other than swapping the one file out in the theme.
http://www.mediafire.com/?k85faok0ncrt3tx
If I have time, I'm going to try to get into the xml and see where the icon is called. Hopefully, I can modify it so that the entire notification takes up no space at all, or a 1x1 spot or something like that.
edit: thanks man!! worked perfectly!! i cant wait for you to find out how to remove it from the swipe down notification bar now. Thanks
so much!!!!!
I have lots of problems with the current Honeycomb (3.2) that I use. Mostly the music-player is the faulty one. I'm not sure, but please inform me if it can also be because of the device (DS7)?
To mention some problems...for example: when I wanna see the menu in the Albums's view it starts flashing, which is quite annoying. Or it sometimes just stops to play the music. And it has also frozen a couple of times and restarted. Hmm... I hope it can be fixed somehow.
And there's an other problem. I simply can't open files which have accents in the filename, so I have to rename all the Hungarian filenames to be able to be read.
So I was wondering if there's an update or something to fix these mistakes.