Right, got myself a galaxy, brilliant phone, battery life still appaling (just switched off of HTC Touch Pro ).
Now i dont have any illusions on running wm6 apps on android, but i'm pretty sure something can be done about j2me.
I have loads of games from my motorola razor times and would like to revisit them. Particularly DoomRPG and that other game with elves and orcs...
Tl;dr: Any way to run j2me stuff on android 2.1?
Yes, you actually can. There's a wrapper for JAVA applications. Not all of them work, but most games do.
It even has a virtual "keypad", but it's kinda buggy and you have to mess around in the options for it. There's multiple virtual controller options and some work better than others.
AFAIK, it's not available on the market, but you can download it from the official site: http://www.netmite.com/
How do you install your own midlets onto SGS ? the app only lets me dl it off the net... or is it just me ?
While it seems that the APP only allows you to play with games on their list, that's not the case.
I personally upload the .JAR to a website I own and then I select them browsing the internet on my phone. It downloads the game and installs automatically (like a regular .apk).
I don't know if you can just copy the .jar to the phone memory and run it from there. I believe you have to download from the Internet, as selecting it from a file browser simply says that there's nothing to open that filetype. When downloading from a homepage, the browser opens up the application and it auto-installs to you.
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Hello all, i just bought an android G1 from a friend, when it came it was already installed cyanogen mod, then i thought it should of rooted, (by the way i dont know how to root or how to check if its rooted) i am very new on this platform so i have many problems and questions but for now , i tried to change google account which was my frends account to use g1 with all 100 percenti but i couldnt find any proper way to switch my google account, then i finally found hard reset thing and did it, after all i could log on my google on my g1 and i felt a bit shocked with all those missing parts on the android platform as a winmo user before, even my HTC artemis had better skills on internet browsing such flash support over skyfire and easy wifi DNS change and have free web browsing without banned pages.. anyways i was trying to install some games and apps from the market till i got the notification of low memorry ohhh ****, its a nightmare to have hundreds of apps but no place to install, how stupid but then i found a solution on the net to help installin apps directly to your sd card, while i was following this steps on the xda forum pages, i restarted my fone again after having the img file launched with 1.4 version, then i realized all my installed apps icons were lost, then i saw they were gone from my g1 but when i go to app store, they are still on my downloaded programms list, but they are not in storage, thats becase now i cant install them again because they are seen already installed, how can i fix this problem guys , and thanks for the help already.!!!!!!1
Hey, thanks for steppin' up! No matter how snarky I get, or how nice I am, some people just don't get it. It's always great when someone does get it.
If you have a cyanogenmod, then you have root.
How can i get my apps back from the market when they show apps are already installed?
I guess I'd uninstall and reinstall from within the Market App. Open "Market," click on a listing of an app that says it's installed but you can't see in your app drawer (the program for the Home screen and app drawer is call Launcher.apk... apk is the equivalent of exe, more or less). on the bottom of the screen there should be two buttons, Open and Unistall. I'd uninstall and reinstall the ones you want that way.
Yeah, I miss WinMo, too. I still use PhatPad in my old phone and PC. But the capacitive screen really is nicer for fingers, and I'm more addicted to XDA and hacking phones than I am to having a hard-core useful phone (although the native ouTube App beats any I've found for WinMo, and I actually use the native contacts app). I got tired of the bugs, too, since they'd hose the whole OS and force you to decide to reboot. Android just blows past an error and lets it not work, but keeps the OS up. When I'd run out of memory or something in WinMo on an incoming call, the phone would freeze, and then there's a 3 minute reboot. In Android, it just slows down so I get less ring time to answer, but I can call back right away, and it boots in two minutes.
Java makes really nice interfaces and games, too.
I think it'll be about a year or so and Android will be running on par with WinMo (WinPh?) with Flash and alternative browsers apps, and has a few more things to offer that other smartphone OS's can't. It's fun finding them. It's been really exciting watching the progress, and how hard people work for little or no money, just because it's open source.
Oh, and PhatPad was $44. My current Note app, NoteEverything was $2. I miss the stylus and making animations, but that's it. I certainly don't miss Activesync.
yes you are right, but the buttons in the market of that application, are both missing, inactive, you cannot click both of them, thats why i cant uninstall or install or open the app.. i still wonder how to clear the app store cache without factory reset or hard reset which is a really long way to follow.
As topic.
5.0.6 via kang
Just did a full restart so I can get the full picture, this is what is open, sorted into categories of stuff which does have services (which im happy with), those with services (which i think ive dissabled and shouldnt be there), those with no services which shouldnt be there:
services and happy:
HTC IME mod
live wallpapers
email
calendar
auto memory manager
news and weather
google mail
music
setcpu
3g watchdog
juice defender + plotter
beautiful widgets
engaget
helixlauncher
taskiller [what im looking at it with]
services and not happy:
clock
bluetooth share
cm updater (ive turned it to manual only)
bluetooth file transfer
finance (ive told it NOT to update, i dont use it really)
camera (does it need to sit open in the background?)
notes
klaxon
cachemate
appbrain market sync
mp3 store
weatherbug elite
no service and dont want:
shopsavy
police stream
Does anyone know of any program i can use to directly stop these unwanted apps to stop running every time, or any individual information on the programs?
cheers
Why do you not want them preloaded?
The main reason im being such a memory whore is because my launcher lags like crazy under 70-80mb. I have 250ish apps, and see many people with a similar setup demonstrating on youtube, and theirs is instantly responsive, as is mine >120mb free. If I leave all these apps etc free, i end up on ~40mb which makes my old nokia 6300 looks like flash gordon compared to my launcher :/
Re: Apps seem to open themselve sin the background when they
Android preloads apps into its memory for fast load times.
Just because an app is loaded does not mean it is using any resources. They're usually just sitting there idle. Android also frees up memory as needed.
That said, I've seen apps that can control what apps you never want preloaded. Search around on the market.
Looks like the slowdowns from a lack of ram still exist. I hope froyo will help with this. This problem makes the lower end android phones run slow.
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With the inclusion of flash beta in froyo, is it possible to play a .swf movie or game outside the browser?
There are some flash games I'd like to play on the go without using data. I've tried downloading a particular game called Red Remover and opening through Astro, however I get the error saying "swf file type not found"
Any way around this?
if you were to try to create a shortcut in bettercut you would notice under Activities that there is a Flash 10.1 file selector activity of some sort
i haven't tried that out myself so perhaps you could give it a go and let us know
Hi,
Thanks a lot.
I made a shortcut to "Adobe flash expandable file Chooser" (the other one I chose fc'ed when I opened it.)
When I open this one, I'm given a bland menu of Audio files, Image files and Video files all as drop down folders.
It shows all my media of that type. I can't find my swf file though. It doesn't come under video, and I have too many songs and images to scroll through and find it (and I doubt it'll be in the other categories)
Any other suggestions?
you can publish the .swf to some server and navigate to it via the browser, there is a tedious workaround to play swfs locally (i remember doing it on the hero), i'll see if i can find it and let you know
dug through my past stuff and found this:
navigate to content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/example/file.html via your browser
see if it helps
Seems a bit too much work to play the one game.
I wouldn't have a clue on how to publish the game. My only guess would be to open the game in Flash Cs3 on my Mac and press F12. After that I'd be stuck.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Hopefully there's a simpler way to do it soon.
Perhaps Adobe air which is supposedly coming soon could do what I want to do.
i tried the above method, it works on the N1, but you have to use the browser as container. basicaly you are able to navigate to local swfs using this method
Could you give me some more details on how to do this?
I've type into my browser content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/apps/rr.swf
Yet I get errors.
What exactly file are you typing in, and what are you doing to the. Swf file? Is it just the raw file, or have you published it or something.
Because essentially I could make a shortcut to the URL and change the icon and basically have myself a flash game on the go.
Edit: sorry about that. Just realised I navigate to the raw file with a .Swf extension, not HTML.
Works well! I would've thought this game be perfect for mobile. Though I can't seem to interact with it past the menu screen. It's called Red Remover BTW.
if the folder containing the swf is "apps" on your sdcard and "rr.swf" the file that you want to play, it should actually work
oops, just saw that you problem got resolved good to hear
Forge94 said:
Works well! I would've thought this game be perfect for mobile. Though I can't seem to interact with it past the menu screen. It's called Red Remover BTW.
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you can use multitouch to enlarge the content, then you will be able to comfortable hit "ok" and proceed to the game. best to turn to landscape mode. double tapping adjusts the content optimally to the screen
Wow, thanks a lot man. Gotta try a few more games, see if they work.
One thing I'm frustrated with is that I can't make that URL into a bookmark shortcut on my homescreen. It comes up with " This application is not installed on your phone".
Thanks anyway again
Edit: for what you said above, I've already tried. Hitting OK is easy, then hitting new game is even easier(the same with selecting a level)
Although when selecting blocks, I have to wait about 30 secs to a minute to 1 minute for my touch to take any action.
yep, not being able to create a shortcut of the bookmark is a bummer. i haven't played the game, but i know that quite a few flash games work wonderfully on android. my favourite is the bloody penguin
Please, explain how to make html file for an swf?
im not sure if this is a repost but check out this app...it has over 300 free flash games you can download. For some reason google banned this app from the marketplace so you have to go download it from their website, google kongregate android.
Well, I've also been playing those games directly from my phone's browser (Miren) and it works!
Works great
Id find out why it was banned before installing it. Just my 2c
It's back on the market now.
Not on market
I run KAOS Froyo 2.2.1 and when I search the market, it is not there.
anyone have the original apk that allows to install flash games to sd card? or that one doesn't work anymore because they updated the app?
Just wait 5minutes, I'll post the original here.
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Okay you can download the original (January 18/v1.0.8) apk from this site:
http://www.getjar.com/mobile/53364/kongregate-arcade-for-samsung-gt-i9000-galaxy-s/?s=phones
It is completely free, and this is the version that got banned from the Android Market.
Google say it is like an AppStore within the Android Market and I agree, but it is an awesomely free one with great titles!
And I still stand behind my reasoning that this "App" or "AppStore" wasn't threatening/damaging the Market in any way ... infact it was doing the exact opposite by bringing more titles to the Android platform (and enticing iOS/WP7 customers).
Why this older version is better than the new one (on the Android Market) is because it has the "offline mode". It automatically downloaded the flash games to your internal/SD card ... thus you don't need to constantly waste your time, money and internet allowance on re-downloading it again and again.
The new one sucks because it has no "offline mode" instead it tries to save the games to your browsers cache. I've noticed from experience once you have about a dozen or more games cached, the performance of the Android browser becomes slower. In fact, it pretty much overloaded mine, and the froyo system "fixed" the problem by clearing it automatically; making me lose my previous data and the games. I also think by exhausting the cache, this might cause faster battery drain from your device.
Here's a quick note, try to run as few Apps as possible when trying to play these flash games. This thing will cripple older/slower devices, and will give newer ones a lot of stress. If you do not close all the Apps, that's fine it might run a little slower, but make sure you definitely close down any internet browsers or Apps that use/stress the Flash 10.1 resources. Also, you can control which directory the games will be downloaded to (either to internal or to SDcard), so choose depending on your personal space needs. (I'm using a Galaxy S I9000 with stock froyo)
If you download from another source and want to test if its the original (superior) version, you can do so by:
Downloading/Opening/Playing any game (eg Ink Ball). Then exited the app and disable any internet connections (switch on Flight mode). Re-open the App. Try playing the same game (eg Ink Ball) ... if it enters/resumes (congrats you have the original version) otherwise it will come with a note about getting an internet connection.
Go GameStop for making this available again!
ekin said:
Just wait 5minutes, I'll post the original here.
edit:
Okay you can download the original (January 18/v1.0.8) apk from this site:
http://www.getjar.com/mobile/53364/kongregate-arcade-for-samsung-gt-i9000-galaxy-s/?s=phones
It is completely free, and this is the version that got banned from the Android Market.
Google say it is like an AppStore within the Android Market and I agree, but it is an awesomely free one with great titles!
And I still stand behind my reasoning that this "App" or "AppStore" wasn't threatening/damaging the Market in any way ... infact it was doing the exact opposite by bringing more titles to the Android platform (and enticing iOS/WP7 customers).
Why this older version is better than the new one (on the Android Market) is because it has the "offline mode". It automatically downloaded the flash games to your internal/SD card ... thus you don't need to constantly waste your time, money and internet allowance on re-downloading it again and again.
The new one sucks because it has no "offline mode" instead it tries to save the games to your browsers cache. I've noticed from experience once you have about a dozen or more games cached, the performance of the Android browser becomes slower. In fact, it pretty much overloaded mine, and the froyo system "fixed" the problem by clearing it automatically; making me lose my previous data and the games. I also think by exhausting the cache, this might cause faster battery drain from your device.
Here's a quick note, try to run as few Apps as possible when trying to play these flash games. This thing will cripple older/slower devices, and will give newer ones a lot of stress. If you do not close all the Apps, that's fine it might run a little slower, but make sure you definitely close down any internet browsers or Apps that use/stress the Flash 10.1 resources. Also, you can control which directory the games will be downloaded to (either to internal or to SDcard), so choose depending on your personal space needs. (I'm using a Galaxy S I9000 with stock froyo)
If you download from another source and want to test if its the original (superior) version, you can do so by:
Downloading/Opening/Playing any game (eg Ink Ball). Then exited the app and disable any internet connections (switch on Flight mode). Re-open the App. Try playing the same game (eg Ink Ball) ... if it enters/resumes (congrats you have the original version) otherwise it will come with a note about getting an internet connection.
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does this older(original) version still gets updates? like new flash games and etc?
edwinlee90 said:
does this older(original) version still gets updates? like new flash games and etc?
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When I first installed it (after it was removed from Market), there was around ~320 games available.
I've checked today, and there is 338 games available.
So yes, and I hope they will keep it that way
Its not allowing to download for Captivate, does anybody has the apk or zip file, if so please share the link
aksma said:
Its not allowing to download for Captivate, does anybody has the apk or zip file, if so please share the link
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I found it fine with my cappy, running Andromeda 1.0. This is a OS 2.2 or higher since it uses flash.
get v1.0.8 here or here
Does any one have the old good one with offline mode?
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get v1.0.8 here or here
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Does any one have problems with the links from there phone? I downloaded 1.0.8 on win7 with out a problem but xscope and default bowser on my Epic running froyo would not download the file?
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Hello,
I have with me an app I would like to share with the HD2, and XDA community which I previously found on the Google Market which now doesnt exist anymore.
I managed to copy out the APK and I will attach below.
The app is good for
Listing all your installed apps quickly so you can remove them
Smooth scrolling
Sort by Name/Size/Last Installed/Install Location
Search
Just needs to build cache during first launch, and doesnt work on LANDSCAPE, which are the only disadvantages of it.
I personally use the Last Installed sorting mechanism, to view all the last installed and remove. I install quite a number of apps and usually when I found that it sucked, I enter this app quickly and remove them (latest apps appear on top of the list)
I have been using this since 2.2 FROYO and it doesnt seem to give errors back then. On GB 2.3, I noticed an occasional error message :
[Opps Sorry I got error ] but this doesnt stop it from uninstalling the application.
I have given this app rigorous testing and it has survived 2.2+ and 2.3+ Androids application removal, whether it produces errors or not.
I also noticed that this app has been removed from the Google Market, without reason from the developer / Google. Hence I would not mention anything about future release or support, neither do I know whether it would damage your device/ operating system but I certainly ONLY been using this app to remove applications and it has been TREMENDOUSLY awesome. Give it a try, and let me know whether you found similiar apps in terms of speed, features and outlook.
Credits to its developer, which I remember to be known as MINIGUY after a few Googles. I also couldnt find this application anymore hence I am posting it here
If this has been posted before I apologize.
Dont forget to click the THANKS button if you found this app useful
On another note, this applications is FREE and is not WAREZ
It sounds like appsaver.. is it better?
Hnktc said:
It sounds like appsaver.. is it better?
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i think ive tried appsaver but this is an app that lists out all your apps pretty quickly and lets u just choose to uninstall them
its like add/remove programs, but way way faster than anything ive tried especially 200 apps
default manage applications takes nearly 15 seconds to load, while this takes 1-2 seconds, tops
Thanks for the app. I will give it a try! :0)
I realized that this application was ripped and published as someone else's work as follow up
its called "Uninstaller" in market , which uses the same error message, logo, text, font, settings, buttons, icons
you are free to use both as they produce the same results and same settings