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New to rooting....got a few questions before I try.

I searched and did not find anything...sorry if i missed something...
Alright so I am looking at rooting and only thing that worries me is if i have to send the phone in. How can i make it look like I did not root it. Is there any downside to rooting and what can I do with a rooted phone. Thanks everyone

It's really simple to make it go back to stock, just use the Sprint RUU in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=608434
Downside to rooting might be if you don't have a permissions manager installed you could give root access to malicious program. Haven't heard of it happening yet, but it can.
As for what can be done with a rooted phone, the possibilities are endless...

once you root and flash a recovery rom your all set to go...also do a backup in case. there are a couple really good roms out there, i recommend fresh 1.1 and gumbo kernel. there are some really great themes out there as well. as the above poster said the possibilities are endless and in time we will have as many new roms and themes as the gsm users have.
most important, have fun!

Where can I get the ROMs? I can't seem to find them....and with my luck they are in some place obvious.

There is a sticky at the top of these forums which gives a nice link.
To make it easy, it takes you here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=CDMA Hero ROMs

there is a sticky at the top of the forum that has all of the ROMs in a Wiki site. look there

haha just like I thought...It was in plain sight. Well after trying a couple of ROMs i fell with Fresh....but i've noticed that my clock does not display the weather anymore...whats up with that?

ukn0wnscaa said:
haha just like I thought...It was in plain sight. Well after trying a couple of ROMs i fell with Fresh....but i've noticed that my clock does not display the weather anymore...whats up with that?
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Go into menu, weather, update and then give it a min. If it still doesnt refresh, put your phone in stand by and come back.

kbizzle said:
Go into menu, weather, update and then give it a min. If it still doesnt refresh, put your phone in stand by and come back.
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Nothing. The weather widget has no problems and syncs just fine and shows the correct weather but the clock refuses to. I think everything is set correctly yet it does not want to show.

ukn0wnscaa said:
Nothing. The weather widget has no problems and syncs just fine and shows the correct weather but the clock refuses to. I think everything is set correctly yet it does not want to show.
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Did you try soft resetting your phone or even removing the widget and adding it back to the homescreen?

both. Neither worked oddly. I dont know...ill mess with the GPS and wifi settings also and see if that fixes it. that isnt the biggest problem ever. If you have any idea on whats wrong though let me know.

I have rooted my phone and I am an addict. I am here everyday for about an hour. You will have fun with it. I recommend that before once you root it and get your first rom installed play with it for a while but dont get comfortable. I have used all the roms available for the hero except one of them. My advice to you is install one play with it them switch and use them all before you start installing all of your apps and customizing it. I have put three hours into customizing my phone with a rom and then Im like ooh a and install another rom and I have to start over LOL. You will have fun if you like to tinker I guarantee it. Have fun and good luck.

While I am thinking about it....can I make my lock screen any more useful. I find this so plain

sorry for the double post but I wanted this to bump up. Clock will not show the weather anymore...anyone have a fix? also any way to put something on the lock screen?

Desk clock application

In my job I have the opportunity to work with a large variety of phones that multiple carriers in the United States sell. One interesting feature I saw was on the Blackberry Curve 8500 series, in which when you plug your phone into a USB device, it automatically goes to an analog clock screen.
I know that in 2.1 ROMs for the Hero, we have a nice program called Desk clock, which shows a digital clock moving to random parts of the screen.
My question is, is there a way to configure Desk Clock so that it automatically turns on when I plug my phone into my computer?

+1. An application like this would be just awesome.

There you go
I built a little something for you.
For now, it is really just a prototype.
If installing works and you open it, it will show nothing. This is not a bug, there is just nothing to show. The service listening for power plugins is running in the background, so just hit home and ignore it.
It will try to launch the android 2.1 clock first and then the HTC one when you connect the power supply.
I'll try to give it some kind of UI later, but for now, I've got a train to catch. Have fun with it.

Thanks a lot, MrMooh! I'll test it once I get back from work and post the results.

It works like a charm. It seems it calls the HTC Clock application, not this dedicated 'Desk Clock' app from 2.1, but it's even better for me. Awesome work, thank you so very much, MrMooh.
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Is there a way to make this service run at startup in background?

I'll look into it. I already have an improved version, but it's not what I'd be proud to release. Perhaps at the end of this weekend I will have it finished.

Thanks. I'll be more than happy to do the beta-testing.
Sent from my Hero using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

I would be interested in this too. Seems like a fine idea. I can beta test if need be.
Sent from my Hero using the power of thought!

Alright guys, I quickly made a new version this morning.
It should actually start automatically after booting up and you have a button to manually start and stop the service.
Try it out and tell me the bugs

Works perfectly. If there are any bugs - I can't find them. Thanks, once again.

MrMooh said:
Alright guys, I quickly made a new version this morning.
It should actually start automatically after booting up and you have a button to manually start and stop the service.
Try it out and tell me the bugs
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Mr. Mooh, thank you for this!
Edit: Only thing I'm noticing is I can't change the weather to Fahrenheit, but that's excusable.

kyods said:
Works perfectly. If there are any bugs - I can't find them. Thanks, once again.
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samre here works a treat on villain 5.4. brings up the android clock on mine. but i like it! well done you!

or use tasker (tasker.dinglisch.net), there you can choose to start the app you want when usb / dock plugged and 1000 other features (location based, event based a.s.o...)

Its worked im my sapphire 32b with strokes 2.1 rom version 1.4.2. thx man.

Works great, this was one of the few things I missed about my BlackBerry! MyTouch 1.2 running Cyan 5.07 test 2.

Nice app! Is possible to start the real desk clock ( black screen with time in white ) ? The one that starts with the icon with the pc and the clock...

Great!
The app is for comfort! Great! Thanx!
But I have one comment:
It could be super when the screen goes back to main home screen (not deskclock) after unplugging. It`s just a thing of personal comfort, so maybe somebody can support this.
Thanx again!

thank you dev!
this is neat

New version
I just fired up eclipse and added a few lines. Plugging out the cable will now always get you back to the home screen, no matter what application is running, so don't update if you don't like that behavior.
I could theoretically start the "real" desk clock, but I don't really know what intent to start to make it work. If you find it out, tell me and I will add the option.
PS: Tasker looks like a really good app, thanks for showing me.

It doesn't works in 1.5 roms

Car Panel (navipanel) from Froyo 2.2 on 2.1 Slide

Team-
I have a STOCK MT3G Slide NOT rooted.
How can I get the Navipanel or Car Panel / dock that we see on later builds of android, is there a way someone can extract the APK or how can I get it installed onto my phone.....I figured I would let the pro's answer this one!
Thanks

Bb8900 said:
Team-
I have a STOCK MT3G Slide NOT rooted.
How can I get the Navipanel or Car Panel / dock that we see on later builds of android, is there a way someone can extract the APK or how can I get it installed onto my phone.....I figured I would let the pro's answer this one!
Thanks
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Car dock is included in the android sdk, however you can extract a working one for your slide from cr's addon pack for ota ver.blah blah, anyway goto this link he posted:http://www.4shared.com/file/F92A1Dcy/_2__MTM_Stock_Addon_191_LWP.html
Extract the zip and goto data/app in the folder, youll find the car dock and 2 other apps too..Navipanel is only featured on the eris(corr if wrong), you'll can probably google navipanel.apk or check the eris section.

or you could just get it from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6684984&postcount=4

Sweet this works, But how do I get the one that has more Eye candy....what I mean by that, I have been using android ROMS for my HTC HD2 and there is an icon that says "Car Home" and it looks really nice with the color icons, display and UI is nicer....How can I get that one?

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Sweet this works, But how do I get the one that has more Eye candy....what I mean by that, I have been using android ROMS for my HTC HD2 and there is an icon that says "Car Home" and it looks really nice with the color icons, display and UI is nicer....How can I get that one?
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Does the ui have multiple squares for the Ui?(froyo ver)

He's talking about the HTC sense car home
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

Ace42 said:
Does the ui have multiple squares for the Ui?(froyo ver)
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Yes, thats the one im looking for....Where can I get it from?

Bb8900 said:
Yes, thats the one im looking for....Where can I get it from?
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Yeah i was thinking that cause i thought the hd2 only had a froyo port not 2.1/1.6 . Give me a min to search my comp for it, no guarantees that it works on stock. Try the 3 attached files of my post.

I downloaded the files but I cannot instal them. I get a "Parse Error".....for all 3....any other ideas??
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

No idea, they all worked for me. I think that the car home and car home launcher is the set that I was looking for, thanks for that. the HTC included something called footprints - I have no idea what that is....
I emailed to myself and used gmail to install; how strange, I've not done that before. Astro is installed though, and of course install from untrusted is set. I'm running Eugene's last froyo w/o the OC'ed kernel.

[Rom][Port] xXBabiboi228Xx{Manila Carbon Fiber 2.2™} from EVO *UPDATED 1/21*

I'm making this thread to avoid confusion now that there is a working port.
Well just heard back from xxbabiboi228xx and trock79 apparently will be using parts of his rom in the future, but until then.
Here is my port, everything seems to work and I do not intend on maintaining this. Hope this works out for anyone who wants it.
This is a straight port of xxbabiboi228xx's rom! I did not have anything to do with the development of this rom and take no credit for doing so, only for making it work on the inc.
build 1
http://www.multiupload.com/JGRRQM38KZ
build 2
http://www.multiupload.com/8N9XY7CHPN
build 3
http://www.multiupload.com/FWNZYAQB6T
Changlog:
build 2:
Cleaned up the sprint stuff and added the gingerbread keyboard. Htc keyboard still there by default. Also added the htc lock screen back with an optional download for the vanilla lockscreen in the first post. You can try a flash over and it should work, but I recommend a full wipe, quite a bit was changed. Let me know if flash over works out if you try. Trimmed 10mb's off.
build 3:
Updated to new host rom (xxbabiboi228xx' 2.4) Changed battery indicator to vertical green with percentage (gingerbread style). Theme changed a little bit here and there.
Integrated rosie right key setting (internet icon still present after change) and notification toggle widget changer (PowerControl settings)
No more bootloop on first boot (you don't have to wait to see the lockscreen twice anymore)
New clean and simple bootanimation, very nice in my opinion
bugs known:
4g settings and sprint apps are still present
Other than that, nothing else that I know of
I have tested:
browser
phone
mms and sms
wifi
bluetooth
gps
market
camera with flash
camcorder (720)
mail and facebook sync
Just to be clear I do not intend to maintain this rom. If anyone else wants to take over from here, great! Its a really nice looking rom for sure. I only did this because it was requested and I liked the look of it. The rom runs great, check it out!
Here is the original EVO thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=808656
Vanilla lockscreen:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YVWIW11T
This is from the EVO thread and should work

Thanks br125 for all your efforts again!! Wanted to be the first one to thank you !
Now if we can get that haptic feedback in the dialer, the lock screen, and the GB keyboard, we'll be money, LOL!
Again, thank you so much for your hard work, and the hard work of BabiBoi! Also the upcoming support from trock79!
You guys are awesome, thank you again!

I will download and I would love to help by supporting this. Let me know what is needed and I am sure I can make it happen...

This ROM is very fast. Has anyone found a way to easily change the toggles in the power control pulldown?
Nice work babiboi and thanks for porting br125.

Unable to dl
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+1-download link is dead.

new link. No idea what happened to dropbox..
http://www.multiupload.com/JGRRQM38KZ

br125 said:
new link. No idea what happened to dropbox..
http://www.multiupload.com/JGRRQM38KZ
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Dropbox does not like high traffic.
Glad you guys got it to work.
Also check out this for your power control mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901540
Sent from my sexy assistant. (HTC Incredible)

aside from nice theming, any unique features in this rom?

khanam said:
aside from nice theming, any unique features in this rom?
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It's pretty much the theme that makes it what it is. I'd suggest checking out the evo thread for more information. Its a nice rom, runs smooth and looks great, everything is themed very nicely

Does it say sprint on your guys phones?
Sent from my sexy assistant. (HTC Incredible)

synisterwolf said:
Does it say sprint on your guys phones?
Sent from my sexy assistant. (HTC Incredible)
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No, everywhere that you see "sprint" will read "verizon wireless"

synisterwolf said:
Does it say sprint on your guys phones?
Sent from my sexy assistant. (HTC Incredible)
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Lsdozer said:
This ROM is very fast. Has anyone found a way to easily change the toggles in the power control pulldown?
Nice work babiboi and thanks for porting br125.
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@synisterwolf: Doesn't say Sprint for me, that is, if you meant the Operator Name/Logo. As br125 mentioned though, the Sprint apps should be present in the ROM. I hope that answers your question?
@Lsdozer: The easy answer to your question is, edit the file called, widget.txt, to your liking.
The file resides in system\customize I believe.
Unfortunately, the tool br125 posted, is only for the Cyanogen ROMs I think. And for the life me, I have been unable to effectively change that text file, using Root Explorer, ES Explorer, and SUManager. People swear that this is the easiest task to take care of, but for me, I have tried it all, when trying to edit from within the phone, and nothing has worked. If you consider editing the file on your computer and push it to your phone, one thing to consider is that I read somewhere that the file has to have a UNIX signature on it, for it to work. This is the reason why I was adamant to try to edit the file, while it was on my phone, well... that and because I have no idea how to push files using ADB or something to my phone... Hope this helps, please let me know if it works for you. If it does, please post what you did, thanks!
On separate notes guys, does anyone know how to restore haptic feedback to the lockscreen, when unlocking? The original ROM came with the Sense the lockscreen, as default, but I believe br125's port defaults to the Vanilla lockscreen.
Other things we can think about is:
1. Figuring out which kernels are working out well on the ROM, since it has now been ported to the Incredible.
2. Maybe getting that Gingerbread keyboard on here ?
Thanks once again to br125, Babiboi, and, trock79 as well!

I will take a look at gettin haptic working for you, i took out the htclockscreen when I ported it and forgot to add it back in. xxbabiboi228xx said that he will be releasing 2.4 tonight most likely and I'll have some free time tomorrow that I could possibly add in his changes/fixes.
As for kernels, any inc. sense kernel will (should) work. ie. incredikernel, heyitslou's kernel etc.
I've flashed Lou's kernel and it works great, I'm currently at 77% and been using it off the charger for about 7 hours or so
edit: the notification toggles shouldn't be hard to get the 4g outta there and add more useful things and I'll put the gingerbread keyboard in there if it works when I take a look at it. Basically I wanna clean up all the sprint leftovers and make it not seem like a port

br125 said:
I will take a look at gettin haptic working for you, i took out the htclockscreen when I ported it and forgot to add it back in. xxbabiboi228xx said that he will be releasing 2.4 tonight most likely and I'll have some free time tomorrow that I could possibly add in his changes/fixes.
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Sounds great Sir! You are the man !
BTW, I tried getting some of the GB keyboard flashed over into the ROM, from the forum. Maybe it's my luck, but I have never actually gotten a single keyboard flashed successfully through to recovery. Whether it was the EVO or the DInc, same results...
This was no exception of course ...

Much thanks to OP for download link fix. Playing with ROM and very nice. Only things so far unable to access photos, video or music on SD card. Am I missing something?
Thanks for the nice work!

Docarut said:
Much thanks to OP for download link fix. Playing with ROM and very nice. Only things so far unable to access photos, video or music on SD card. Am I missing something?
Thanks for the nice work!
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I recall having that happen on first boot, after reboot all worked well.

Docarut said:
Much thanks to OP for download link fix. Playing with ROM and very nice. Only things so far unable to access photos, video or music on SD card. Am I missing something?
Thanks for the nice work!
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Just reboot man, it should be fixed, when you return, hope this helps !

Docarut said:
Much thanks to OP for download link fix. Playing with ROM and very nice. Only things so far unable to access photos, video or music on SD card. Am I missing something?
Thanks for the nice work!
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Ran fix permissions and rebooted and fixed photos and videos but still music app does not pick up music on SD.
Edit: now picking up music! Guess needed to give it more time. Maybe that will get Navigation working. Maps work fine but Nav still not.

This ROM can works with Cricket?

Car Home APK

If your like me, and like old school droid programs but cant get them to install on new age devices here is one. This is the Car Home apk for anyone that would like to use it. Install as you would any apk. If you run into any problems side load it from something like dropbox or push via ADB. Once you install both the launcher and the car home apk then boot into clockwork recovery and fix permissions, reboot and you should be good.
If you use and like hit the thanks button!

Just Asking Whereabouts of APK
Where did you get these from? I had a version of Car Home 2.2.1, but the icon looks the same as the Car Home I've seen in other ROMs. The icon with the 2.2.1 you have is different. Though I found it funny the need for the launcher. Because up until now I never needed it before to get Car Home working, but now just installing Car Home is not enough to get an icon on the list. Weird, but go with what works. But I am also a man who likes to understand where things come from or to understand. I try not to just be a follower.
Thanks for the find though, always nice to have a trusted source like XDA to share or find wanted items like this!
~Max

I ripped one from a droid 1 and the other from a droid 2 that i had a while back just optimized the images inside so they would work on the TB and not force close, glad you like, that is what this community is all about.
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Where did you get these from? I had a version of Car Home 2.2.1, but the icon looks the same as the Car Home I've seen in other ROMs. The icon with the 2.2.1 you have is different. Though I found it funny the need for the launcher. Because up until now I never needed it before to get Car Home working, but now just installing Car Home is not enough to get an icon on the list. Weird, but go with what works. But I am also a man who likes to understand where things come from or to understand. I try not to just be a follower.
Thanks for the find though, always nice to have a trusted source like XDA to share or find wanted items like this!
~Max
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sweet
thanks for this

of course, thank you
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thanks for this
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camblue said:
If your like me, and like old school droid programs but cant get them to install on new age devices here is one. This is the Car Home apk for anyone that would like to use it. Install as you would any apk. If you run into any problems side load it from something like dropbox or push via ADB. Once you install both the launcher and the car home apk then boot into clockwork recovery and fix permissions, reboot and you should be good.
If you use and like hit the thanks button!
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Pardon, but what do you mean by "fix permissions"?

Sorry haven't been on this site for a while. In CWR there is an option to fix permission which aligns all the permissions for all apk in a rom, hope this helps.

Thanks for posting this. I had Car Home on my Nexus One, but it was absent from my Galaxy Nexus. Since I've packed up my Nexus One to sell, you saved me from having to pull it. ;-)

awesome glad you like. I ported over to the galaxy nexus too
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Yeah thanks for this man. Just loaded it on to my TB running Forever and it works great, I didn't even need to fix permissions or reboot.

Thanks always wanted to try using this
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thanks !!
strange, I can't install it from the Market, had to install from the APK.

Just want to say thanks. I've been using this link after every new rom flash. Probably downloaded them at least 50 times.
Thanks!

Is this the same one by Google, the one that came with the Nexus S 4G????? Reason I ask is because I liked that one, but because of carrier crap, I can't use it on my HTC Holiday...

Thanks! Works great...
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thank you, exactly what i wanted
htc desire hd revolution 7.0.0

Signed up just to be able to say Thank You!

Just installed on Liquid's ICS leak, works great.

I have a Nexus S, but I'm thinking that doesn't matter too much here. I am brand new to the root scene, so pardon my ignorance.
I have used ASTRO and ES file managers but cannot move the launcher.apk to /system/app/, I get an error. Unknown exception.
I tried going into CWM recovery and "fix permissions" but that didn't help... i was thinking it was a permissions thing with the directory i'm trying to move it to. Can anyone help?

camblue said:
If your like me, and like old school droid programs but cant get them to install on new age devices here is one. This is the Car Home apk for anyone that would like to use it. Install as you would any apk. If you run into any problems side load it from something like dropbox or push via ADB. Once you install both the launcher and the car home apk then boot into clockwork recovery and fix permissions, reboot and you should be good.
If you use and like hit the thanks button!
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The home button no longer returns my phone to Car Home when in car mode as of JB 4.2 for me. Anybody know of an update or fix?