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Hey guys, just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful information on here. I just received my G1 2 days ago and I'm loving it so far (had a wing), but there are 2 things that REALLY urk me about the G1.
1) Battery life
2) If I go to the pictures app (the stock one), it opens up every single one of my pictures on my phone
Now, regarding those 2 things, I've got a couple of questions. I did some research and am currently running the "close everything" app and wanted to get your thoughts on it. It seems to close things, but I can't really tell. Not being able to close apps has KILLED my battery life.
The other thing I wanted to know is, is there some kinda app that I can run that will open up the picture viewer in folder form? I have OI File Manager, and I know I can look at pics like that, but it's only one by one. Anybody have any clue?
Oh and one more thing, I'm running the "chomp" sms app, but I hate getting two sets of messages (one for chomp and one for the stock sms). Is there a way to stop getting both notifications? Can I delete the stock sms?
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
djwill13 said:
Now, regarding those 2 things, I've got a couple of questions. I did some research and am currently running the "close everything" app and wanted to get your thoughts on it. It seems to close things, but I can't really tell. Not being able to close apps has KILLED my battery life.
The other thing I wanted to know is, is there some kinda app that I can run that will open up the picture viewer in folder form? I have OI File Manager, and I know I can look at pics like that, but it's only one by one. Anybody have any clue?
Oh and one more thing, I'm running the "chomp" sms app, but I hate getting two sets of messages (one for chomp and one for the stock sms). Is there a way to stop getting both notifications? Can I delete the stock sms?
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
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1) The Close Everything app does not really "close" everything, so to speak. It does "kill" some processes, but since actually killing requires root, it does not do it completely. However (I do have it as well), what happens is, it kills necessary tasks that are running and will display what it had closed. From there, if Android needed something running, it'll display that.
2) If you want to view the pictures, you can download Android Gallery. It'll display the pictures side-by-side on the bottom, and large on the top (if that made any sense). As for viewing in folder form, OI is a good file manager. Personally, I have "Linda File Manager." With Linda, you can view all the running tasks, uninstall applications, and take a look at your phone and SD card's content.
3) To disable the stock SMS.. Go to Messaging > Menu > Settings and disable the notifications and [something along the lines of] disable auto retrieve. That should fix the problem for you so you have chompSMS running ONLY.
Hope it helped.
Hello,
i am using lately MIUI, and i am impressed basically with 2 features that i wished it would 've been in Android. Is it so difficult to implement these on Android?
1. Seeing the drawer with all apps, being able to create and put apps in folders and knowing which apps are not in folders.
Is it so difficult for this to be implemented in the drawer? And if you have a folder in the drawer just to drag it onto the desktop? So many times i am frustrated because i've created over 50 times folders, and they have been deleted (by mistake or intentionally). But if they are always in the drawer, i would just drag them on the desktop.
2. Dragging icons on the dock.
Again is this something so difficult to implement?
Fekish said:
1. Seeing the drawer with all apps, being able to create and put apps in folders and knowing which apps are not in folders.
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What for? There's lot of apps that do. Free Apps Organizer or its paid version Folder Organizer for 1.
2. Dragging icons on the dock.
Again is this something so difficult to implement?
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it's a question to your launcher developers. stock does not have that. Other might. No big deal though unless you spend your whole day dragging icons to the dock.
If you think these are essential components of the os then write it and send the changes to google. If they think it's important they will add your patch to the next update. But don't hope lot cause as I know they accepted only a few patches in the last years
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Screenshot ?
I am, currently running the leaked vivo ROM. Does anyone have screnshots of the MUi ROm ? I would love to load it on my milestone..
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What for? There's lot of apps that do. Free Apps Organizer or its paid version Folder Organizer for 1.
it's a question to your launcher developers. stock does not have that. Other might. No big deal though unless you spend your whole day dragging icons to the dock.
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I am definitely sure that it might be applied to Android 2.5 or 5.1 or 9.3, that at some point people would have the ability to create folders in the app drawer in order to have their programs a bit more tide up, thus why delaying things?
And about the dragging, why not simplifying the things and use dragging, rather than clicking on it, then waiting for another menu to come up then clicking to go in another menu, until you find hte app you want...
MIUI for the moment rocks, i even tried with Launcher Pro as home app and is super fast!
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I am definitely sure that it might be applied to Android 2.5 or 5.1 or 9.3, that at some point people would have the ability to create folders in the app drawer in order to have their programs a bit more tide up, thus why delaying things?
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Hopefuly it won't happen as Google announced all non core system components will be pushed out of system to allow users easily replace them
And about the dragging, why not simplifying the things and use dragging, rather than clicking on it, then waiting for another menu to come up then clicking to go in another menu, until you find hte app you want...
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Dont hold your breath. Default behaviour for drag&drop is element removal from home screen. Of course any home replaacement can do on its own, but never seen any (nor I miss that feature myself)
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and having an option to tide up your drawer would mess the system?
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Dont hold your breath. Default behaviour for drag&drop is element removal from home screen. Of course any home replaacement can do on its own, but never seen any (nor I miss that feature myself)
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Well, obviously you didnt use MIUI...
Hi,
Well we all know that the D3 doesn't have an amazing camera but it's really bad IMO????
Is there a fix ?? Is it software related??? I went to a custom rom but the camera remained the same.
One last question. I don't want the cardock software to start when I push it in. Any way to disable the carhome software or so???
Thanks in advance.
Mavrom is the best rom for camera. It critically improves the camera.
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Picture example?
Yes indoor pictures can be bad as most cellphone cameras struggle with low-light due to small sensors. Outdoor should be good enough though
It's rooted. I will go and make some example photo's and show you.
Mavrom will work on XT860??
Maybe you didn't get all of the same updates we did in the US, because this camera is fine now ever since we were updated to 5.6.890. As for the car dock, if you keep the Blur dock, you can press the back arrow to leave the dock, but hitting home at any time takes you back into it.
If you want to do a bit more, you can remove SmartCarDock or something like that from /system/app and drop in a version of Google car dock which engages immediately, but can be deactivated from the status bar and will remain inactive until selected again regardless of whether or not you hit the home key.
I'm on Liberty ROM. Guess it has the same updates as you guys have???
I also own a SGS2 and that one makes amazing pictures. So yeah it's a little sad.
For the cardock. You say I could disable the cardock completely by removing it from the /system/app . Cause Liberty let's you choose which one you want to use the stock or AOSP . I don't want any really
I will check out the status bar thing. That would be awesome.
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I'm on Liberty ROM. Guess it has the same updates as you guys have???
I also own a SGS2 and that one makes amazing pictures. So yeah it's a little sad.
For the cardock. You say I could disable the cardock completely by removing it from the /system/app . Cause Liberty let's you choose which one you want to use the stock or AOSP . I don't want any really
I will check out the status bar thing. That would be awesome.
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I believe it's Liberty that turned me onto Google Car Dock, so just try that one from the Liberty menus. When you disable it while docked, there is a persistent notification that says it's docked but disabled, but tapping this re-enabled car dock and it disappears once undocked.
I am considering to disable to cardock thing
If you are rooted, I believe that you can go /system/app and change the extension on SmartCarDock.apk to .bak and this should break the .apk without risking losing it in case something else is reliant upon it. If something else breaks as a consequence, you can change .bak back to .apk and we can try something else to disable it.
Ok very awesome. Gonna try it and get back to you.
Hello All,
I have just recently made the move from iphone 4 to Android. Galaxy Note is my first ever android phone and i must say i am impressed. Everything is working the way i want it to except one thing that just bugs the hell out of me.
I am still new to android so my phone is pretty default, meaning i have not modified any of the core things or in iphone terms, "jail-broken" it. I am currently on the 2.3.6 version of Android.
Now, the app that allows me to make phone calls, named "Phone" is giving me an inconvenience. The menu bar that has "Keypad", "Logs", "Contacts" and so forth is at the very top of the phone. The Galaxy Note being a rather big phone, requires me to stretch my thumb on either hand in order to reach it.
Is it possible to move that menu bar to the bottom of the phone instead of the top?
A friend of mine told me i'd be able to adjust it if i'm on ICS, can anyone who is currently running ICS confirm that?
Thank You In Advance,
Good Day
Yep, just be patient!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1052229&d=1336641225
A little background. I finally got PA rom on my phone and realized that I needed GPS and I wanted some of the feature on PACman. After about 4 hours with PA, I flashed PACman.
1st, This rom is awesome. It's very quick and seems stable. I've had one restart since using it (about 24hours now). I love all the features but I have a few questions.
1. How do you change the pie colors? Can you change the colors of the items in the notification bar without applying a theme?
2. I'd like the items on the screen: browser, keyboard, etc... to be a bit bigger. How do I do this?
3. I did a Titanium backup before flashing, but it doesn't say I have anything to restore. There is an option to extract from a nandroid backup, but that's with the paid version. Before I buy, does that work?
4. I used the Moto Smartactions app a lot. Is there a way to get that back?
5. I use gmail mostly, but still use the 'email' app. I guess I'm used to the Moto 'email' app, is there a way to get that back?
6. To pickup 4G lte, what's the correct APN?
7. With PIE controls, how do you access Google Now?
I'm hoping for a bluetooth fix too. I can find devices but can't connect to them.
Well your Titanium backup must have been deleted when you did a system wipe or factory reset during the PACman installation. The best full backup in my opinion is going to be CWM (nandroid). I don't know the answers to your other questions since I never use those features
1. Go into Settings, Hybrid Properties, swipe right to open the sidebar, go to Interface, uncheck "Enable per app color" (unless you want that), and change the colors to your liking (I can't seem to get them to stick. The bottom 2 are for the status bar.)
2. By bigger do you mean the address bar and such? Turn the 2 sliders in the Interface tab (directions above) to the far right and make sure it says phone in the box above it.
3. If you made a nandroid backup before flashing PAC, restore that, change the Titanium backup location to your external SD card, backup, then restore the backup of PAC.
4. Use Tasker or Llama or a similar app.
5. Use the one from the Gapps zip that you flashed (you did flash Gapps, right?).
6. Use the "ATT Phone" APN that comes already activated with the ROM. The signal bars will show 0 when using 4G on any 4.2.2 ROM.
7. You don't.
penser said:
1. Go into Settings, Hybrid Properties, swipe right to open the sidebar, go to Interface, uncheck "Enable per app color" (unless you want that), and change the colors to your liking (I can't seem to get them to stick. The bottom 2 are for the status bar.)
2. By bigger do you mean the address bar and such? Turn the 2 sliders in the Interface tab (directions above) to the far right and make sure it says phone in the box above it.
3. If you made a nandroid backup before flashing PAC, restore that, change the Titanium backup location to your external SD card, backup, then restore the backup of PAC.
4. Use Tasker or Llama or a similar app.
5. Use the one from the Gapps zip that you flashed (you did flash Gapps, right?).
6. Use the "ATT Phone" APN that comes already activated with the ROM. The signal bars will show 0 when using 4G on any 4.2.2 ROM.
7. You don't.
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1. That's what I was doing, but it doesn't stick for me either. I thought I was doing something wrong. Anyone know a fix ? @skeevydude ?
2. That's what I have my setting on, but it seems that, for example, when the keyboard comes up, it's much smaller than it used to be.
3. Ok, that was probably my problem, I should have backed it up to the SD. When you restore from TB, would it bring back all my text/other data?
4. I've heard Tasker is good, but I'll miss Smartaction
5. I did flash GApps, from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314604
6. That's what I'm on now, working good :good:
7. No way to access G now? I actually got used to using it to send text etc... when I'm in the car.
Example for #2, screen size. Here's a photo of my email. Everything seems so much smaller than it did on stock. Maybe my eyes are going bad.
You can access Google with the navigation ring or setting it as a long press on pie I believe.
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You're using phablet/tablet mode.
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Thanks for everyone's help.
I use Nova prime, so I used the swipe up gesture to access Google Now, works fine, problem solved
I made sure I was in stock phone UI, the keyboard is still small. I'll check around the swype keyboard options.
I changed the settings for Nova in the quick settings menu to 720p and adjust the size manually. This helps alot, but I have to do this for each app. I wish I could set it at one standard across the board.
I still can't seem to get the keyboard any bigger.
On that note. The ATT AHD had swype keyboard on it stock. Is there a way to get that back. I purchased swype for my Nexus 10, but I like the stock AHD version better because it doesn't have that 'dragon' feature. Is there a way to extract that keyboard from the stock version?
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I still can't seem to get the keyboard any bigger.
On that note. The ATT AHD had swype keyboard on it stock. Is there a way to get that back. I purchased swype for my Nexus 10, but I like the stock AHD version better because it doesn't have that 'dragon' feature. Is there a way to extract that keyboard from the stock version?
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yeah just download the stock files of I remember correctly a link to them can by found in skeevydudes fastboot thread in general
it will be under system/apps
I looked, but didn't see it, maybe I over looked it. @skeevydude, have a link to stock apps? I'd like to get the stock swype keyboard if possible.
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I looked, but didn't see it, maybe I over looked it. @skeevydude, have a link to stock apps? I'd like to get the stock swype keyboard if possible.
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From Stock JB ATT.
@skeevydude, Thanks a ton! Unfortunately, it didn't work. It installed but once I enabled it as the default keyboard I continually get a popup message saying Swype has stopped. Oh well, I still have the newer version, just really don't like that Dragon feature...it's overkill.
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@skeevydude, Thanks a ton! Unfortunately, it didn't work. It installed but once I enabled it as the default keyboard I continually get a popup message saying Swype has stopped. Oh well, I still have the newer version, just really don't like that Dragon feature...it's overkill.
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Try pushing or copying to /system and set the permissions the same as the other apps (644,rw-r-r). That was a system app. And uninstall any and all traces of swipe before doing this.
A few other questions (I don't want to whore up the PAC rom thread)
It may be a setting, but when I open most apps (chrome, play store, etc...) there is a bar of either color or white between the status bar and the window. I can't figure out how to get rid of that.
Also, on the pro version of ROM toolbox: Does the boot animation installer work on this phone?
@skeevydude,
Here's a screenshot of what I meant in the last post. The line between the Now header and the status bar. It is like this on nearly all apps. It's not a big deal, but I didn't know if there is a setting I'm missing to fix this.